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What's News at Rhode Island College Rhode Island College Digital Commons @ RIC What's News? Newspapers 6-14-1999 What's News At Rhode Island College Rhode Island College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/whats_news Recommended Citation Rhode Island College, "What's News At Rhode Island College" (1999). What's News?. 559. https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/whats_news/559 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Digital Commons @ RIC. It has been accepted for inclusion in What's News? by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ RIC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WHAT'S NEWS AT RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE Vol. 19 Issue 16 Circulation over 42,000 Summer Issue June 14, 1999 KITES gets Iift from donated RIC commencements send 1,000 sails on Aurora students off to create bright future by George LaTour by Shelly Murphy What's News Associate Editor What's News Editor ea of white and pUTple As any teacher can attest, the alloons proclaiming higher the outdoor temperature and Congratulations the more brilliant the sun, the more raduates" wafted in the students tend to drift out of the warm spring air Saturday, May classroom - in mind, if not in body. 22, as Rhode Island College In May, with spring fever well bestowed degrees on the Class of entrenched and summer vacation 1999 in its annual commencement just weeks away, keeping elemen­ ceremonies on the campus tary school students interested in esplanade. · science can tax even the most experi­ Thousands of family members enced and enthusiastic teacher. and friends, faculty members, Fortunately, an innovative busi­ College administrators, alumni, ness and education partnership friends of the College and distin­ between Island Development Corp. guished guests, including of Newport and the Rhode Island Congressman Robert Weygand, College-based KITES - Kits in Secretary of State James Langevin Teaching Elementary Science - pro­ and state Treasurer Paul Tavates, vides an ideal solution for teachers joined the festivities for the and students alike. JDC, which owns approximately 700 seniors who several properties in Newport received diplomas. including the Marina Grill on Goat Earlier in the week, some 300 Island and Ocean Cliff, has donated graduate students had received the services of the Aurora and her masters degrees in ceremonies in crew to provide about 50 educational the New Building. cruises for more than 2,000 elemen­ Among them were the first two tary students from across the state students to complete a new doc­ in the coming weeks. The donation is toral program in education offered valued at more than $150,000. jointly by RIC and the University The sailing program is part of the of Rhode Island. They are Anne science education reform initiative Hird of Providence and Helen "Tina" Barboza of Bristol. See KITES, page 14 "This evening is a celebration of accomplishment," said Barboza, Poverty Institute speaking for both. She thanked their families, friends, College at RIC receives administrators and faculty "for $56,000 from BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE: Melissa Guillet wears one of RIC the high standards to which they Commencement's most elaborate mortarboard decorations: a huge, have held us" and philanthropist RI Foundation blue butterfly. Why? "A symbol of freedom,,. she says. For more pho­ Alan Shawn Feinstein whose 1994 tos of Commencement '99, see pages 8 & 9. (What's News Photo by See Commencement, page 8 Gordon E. Rowley) by Shelly Murphy What's News Editor Naming performing The Poverty Institute at the Rhode Where are they notN ... ? arts facility for Island College School of Social Work Nazarian approved has been awarded $56,000 by the In January of 1986, What's News ran an the hoopla about Rhode Island Foundation to provide It's official! The new performing "capacity-building" funds. The article about Alfred Niquette, Class of 1985, the resume he who gained momentary fame as the "T-Shirt accepted a job with arts facility adjacent to Rhode Island Institute, which was created in 1998, College's Roberts Hall will be named is the only organization in the state Guy." the same public Niquette's degree was in communications relations firm, the John Nazarian Center for the whose mission is to effect systemic and public relations, so when it came time Ducharme Performing Arts. change by providing policy analysis, to look for a job, he used his imagination Associates in East The state General Assembly education and advocacy statewide on and printed his resume on 25 T-shirts and Greenwich, at passed the measure which the issues affecting the well-being of all sent them out to prospective employers. which he had Council of Rhode Island College had low-income Rhode Islanders. With the shirt was a card which read: "Try interned as a stu­ urged in a resolution honoring RIC's The grant will enable the Institute me on. I guarantee I'll fit." He got 20 inter­ dent . president who has been part of the to increase its efforts in expanding views. In 1987 he College since his undergraduate economic opportunities for low­ "Some of the people;' Niquette related at moved to Florida days starting in 1950. income families. The funds will help the time, "didn't even have job openings, but to work for a healthcare company. Although Gov. Lincoln Almond has signed support the Institute's first full-time they said they had to meet this 'T-shirt-guy' . the company has been through many acqui­ the measure even as construction of paid staff position and expand the Even the receptionists were looking for me ." sitions and name changes, he is still with the the 45,000-square-foot $9.5 million advocacy and education efforts, News of the innovative resume appeared firm, now called McKesson/ HBOC. It's a performing arts classroom facility a according to Nancy Gewirtz, profes­ in The Providence Journal,was picked up by large healthcare information software com­ continues. was reprinted all over the pany, Niquette says, and his position is in sor of social work and director of the wire service and Completion date for the classroom country. It also appeared in Readers Digest, sales. Part of the job requires stand-up pre­ Institute. wing of the facility is expected by "We are very excited about the then in the March 25 issue of The New Yorker, sentations and Niquette credits much of his as the "most fascinating news story of the success to the preparation he had at RIC. mid-August as is the renovated "old" grant from the Rhode Island music wing in Roberts Hall, reports Foundation. Our work has been on a week ." "Marketing, creative writing, speech ...it was We caught up with Niquette recently. all an awesome start;' he says. Lenore A. DeLucia, vice president He's married now, with two children and for administration and finance. See Poverty Institute, page 14 lives in Lake Mary, Fla. He says that after all Photo and text by Gordon E. Rowley See Naming, page 16 Page 2- What's News, Monday, June 14, 1999 The Way We Were ... Focus on Faculty and Staff This popular item in What's News will continue this year in order for you to be able to revisit your alma mater with a selection of photos from the past - the College's past, whether the current era (Rhode Island College) or past e~as _(Rhode Stev.en King, the Curriculum Resources Center, Island College of Education or Rhode Island State Normal School). We invite your assistant profes­ attended the 1999 conference of the contribution of old photos, along with sufficient information about each ~i:,ch a_s sor of industrial Comparative an? Intern~tio~al who's in the photo and what they ?'re doing, t~e year it_was ta~en and place _(if possi­ technology, .suc­ Education Society m Toronto m m1d­ ble). In the meantime, we'll continue searching our files for interesting pictures of cessfully April. He chaired a session of four past College life. defended his papers on the theme? "The Me~ia, PhD dissertation Culture and Education: Jamaica, at the University Japan, Korea and Australia" and ~re­ of Connecticut sented a research paper, "Australian on April 29. His Press Coverage of Curriculum and research study, School Reform Issues," which exam­ e n - t i t 1 e d ined the role of media in reflecting and "Organizational shaping policy debates in cases where Capabilities and Competitive pressure for social change has caused Advantage: Senior Managers' conflicting priorities. Woolman pre­ Perceptions of Past Use, Past Payoff, sented a second paper, "Understanding and Future Use," investigated senior the Modern ,World," in a panel presen­ managers' perceptions of four proposi­ t~tion by The Society for Educational tions related to how a company devel­ Reconstruction, which examined some ops competitive advantage. The final positive and negative aspects of study sample CQnsisted of senior man­ "Modernism in the Global Age ." The agers from five New England manufac­ Toronto conference was attended by turing companies. The study produced nearly 900 educators from over 60 three new propositions that have impli­ countries. While in Toronto, he also cations for the focus of management visite'd elementary and secondary education programs. schools to observe multicultural cur­ Michael S. Casey, assistant profes­ riculum and community-school part­ sor of management, presented a paper nerships. entitled "Principal Component Several faculty members and about Analyses of AMT Transfer 30 students from the Health, Physical Characteristics: Results from · Education and Dance department Advanced Manufacturing Centers" at recently atten~ed the 1999 American the 28th annual conference of the Alliance for Health, Physical Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Education, Recreation and Dance COMMENCEMENT IN THE 1960s: For this Commencement '99 issue recently in Newport.
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