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Vol. 19 Issue 14 Circulation over 42,000 April 26, 1999 Six to receive honorary degrees College to bestow over 1,000 degrees at 1999 commencement exercises
gram offered col later founded an Feinstein by Shelly Murphy laboratively by English school in International What's News Editor RIC and the Thailand. He Famine Center at University of authored a novel Tufts University, Rhode Island. and several ore than 1,000 Rhode Island the Youth Hunger (See story, p. 3.) books for chil College unqergraduate and Brigade pro- Feinstein is a dren. graduate students will receive gram, the nationally-known Entering the their diplomas during the 1999 Congressional M philanthropist world of business Hunger Center, commencement exercises. Once again and humanitarian and finance, he the Feinstein this year, the esplanade in front of the whose commit established a High School for New Building will burgeon with activity ment to positive financial advisory Community and and excitement as an anticipated change - partic JACK REED newsletter in DAVID CAPALDI Public Service in HELEN FORMAN 10,000 or more attendees - under u I a r I y with 197 4 with $500 Providence, the graduates, their friends and families, respect to service learning education in savings; this newsletter and other Enriching America Program, and the and faculty, staff and friends of the programs and the alleviation of world financial advisory publications became Feinstein Institute for Public Service, College - gather to celebrate the grad hunger - has become legendary. His among the most Widely circulated of among many others. Of special signifi uates' accomplishments. $500,000 contribution in 1994 provided their kind in the world, reaching a read cance to the College is his 1996 gift of Honorary degree recipient and the funding to establish the joint ership of over half a million. It is the rev $1 million to endow the College's staunch advocate for higher education, RIC/URI doctor enue derived School of Educa Sen. Jack F. Reed will deliver the under ate program in from these enter tion and Human graduate commencement address at education. prises, which he Development, the exercises which are scheduled for With an acad closed in 1996 to which was re Saturday, May 22, beginning at 9:30 emic background devote his full named to honor a.m. in both journal attention to phil About 300 graduate students its benefactor. and ism and educa anthropy, which their guests will listen to This gift remains remarks by tion with his serve as the Alan Shawn Feinstein who is receiving the largest pri bachelors basis of the vate contribution an Honorary Doctorate of Pedagogy degree from Feinstein and will deliver the address at the grad in the history of Boston Foundation. the institution. uate commencement exercises sched University and To date, it is uled for Thursday, May 20, beginning at Reed,the his masters estimated that he 5:30 p.m. in the New Building. ALAN SHAWN . OSCAR EUSTIS undergraduate GEORGE WEIN degree from has contributed speaker will Among the students accepting diplo Boston State FEINSTEIN more than $50 million to charitable mas at the graduate commencement receive a Honorary Doctorate of Public College, Feinstein began his career as causes. Some of his better-known ben Service. The product of a working class exercises will be the first two graduates a public school teacher in ef i c ia ri es include the World Hunger of the joint doctorate in education pro- Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Program at Brown University, the See Commencement, page 11 Retention Task Force shares Where are they no1111... ? strategy in Project REACH
that need implementation." "Diverse" is the only word to together in bronze-casting foU?-dries by Shelly Murphy The report includes nine specific describe the artwork of Dennis and and ceramics studios. What's News Editor recommendations and a host of ini J o a n n e Marrying tiatives to address the issue of reten (Crowell) in 1981, they tion. At a recent open forum for the DeLomba, lived in "the The Retention Task Force, com campus community, members of the missioned by Rhode Island College task force identified the top priorities Classes of student ghet President John Nazarian in 1997 to as: quality advising, course availabil 1976 and toes" on Federal and explore issues regarding student ity, and consistent campus-wide ded 1978 respec satisfaction and success at RIC, ication of efforts to help students Smith tively. hills. shared its findings and recommen achieve their potential. They met But in dations with the campus community "Perhaps the most telling and in the art 1984 they set recently. encouraging discovery about the cam classes of up their own The goal of the task force was two pus climate during the investigation their favorite business in a fold: to research current policies and was the high level of interest demon teachers: circa 1740 practices that would in some way strated by the entire campus commu RIC profes ("mildly impact student attrition; and to nity. Everyone showed interest in design, either trying to understand what sors Harriet haunted") plan, and develop an inte grated campus-wide program aimed contributes to a student's decision to Brisson, farmhouse in western at increasing student retention, drop out of college, or to help in iden Sam Ames strengthening student identification tifying what Cranston. best practices to imple and Henry with the College, and providing the ment in order to 'save' a student," Today, with Pinardi. tools and resources for faculty and writes Clare Eckert, Retention Task They ex sons Wes, 3, staff to successfully guide all stu Force chair. plored al and Wyatt, 6, dents toward graduation. ''We need to foster and sustain that most every they seem to The task force's report introduces level of commitment and enthusiasm offering of be living an Project REACH: Retention Efforts: in order to help our students succeed the depart artist's Advising, Communicating, Helping and to realize their potential," said Eckert special assistant ment: ceram dream. - "a comprehensive program writ to the presi ten strictly for Rhode Island College dent a~d director of news and public ics, textiles, sculpture, drawing, In a barn studio next to the house, they work on ceramics, and aimed at ·enhancing academic relations. painting. and administrative systems already After graduation they worke ,d See Where are they now?, page 8 in place, or developing new programs See Retention Task Force, page 8 Page 2- What's News , Monday, April 26 , 1999 The Way We Were .. . Focus on Faculty and Staff Th is pop ular item in What's N ews will continue this year in order for you to be ab le to revisi t your alma mater with a selection of photos from the past - the Terre n ce M. Ad am s , assista n t violent socia l in te ract ion and com (Rhode Island College) or past eras (Rhode College's p ast, whether the current era professor of mathematics, was munity. A c on ferenc e report with a Island College of Education or Rhode Island State Normal School) . We invite your reflecti on gr oup s ummary by each such a s involved in two theoretical presenta contr ibut ion of old ph otos, along with sufficient information about Woolman is p ublishe d on the web at who's in th e photo and what t hey are doing, t he year it was taken and J.,1 cce (if tions at t he American Mathematical possible). In the meantime, we'll continue searching our files for interestinP, pi c Society meeting at the University of http ://www. users. Bigpo nd .com/nick tures of past College life. Florida in March . His talk, baik/wef .h tml. Afte r the conference , "Finitary Reconstruction of a Woolman trave le d widely in Measure Preserving Transformation Au str ali a to st ud y curriculum devel - Preliminary Report," was written opment in Aborigina l st udies and jointly with Andrew B. Nobel of the press coverage of i ss ues in University of North Carolina at Australian education. Chapel Hill. Kristen K. Adams also co-authored "Infinite Sal e mi , direc- =~ Ergodic Index Does Not Imply Power tor of st ud ent Weak Mixing for Infinite Meas u re activities, ha d Preserving Transformations her article P reliminary Report" jointly with "Esta b Jishing Nathanie l F riedman of the S u ny an d Nur t u r in g Albany math department and Cesa r Partners hip s E. Silva of the W ill iams College in C ampus math department. Ac tiv itie s: Gu i del i nes David C. Woolman , professor i n fo r Student th e curriculum re s ourc es center , Programmer s" pre s ented a paper entitled published in the March issue "Schooling for Ci vility : Conflict of Campus Activiti-es Programming. Resolut ion P rograms as a Response Salemi has made a number of pre to Youth Violence " at the 40th inter sentations for National Association national conference of the World for Campus Activities and the Education Fellowship held at the National Association of Student University of Tasmania in Personnel Administrators and is also Launceston , Australia, Dec. 30 to affiliated with the College Personnel Jan. 4, 1999. The theme of the con Administrators of Rhode Island. ference, which was attended by 264 Richard Olmsted, professor of "':-r·.ft,£-:_ V~tE educators from 17 countries, was philosophy, presented a paper enti f EMPLOYMENT TRAINING: Lee Arnold , director of the R.I. Department of Labor and Training , looks over the shoulder of Richard Pistacchio a worker dislocated by the closing of Quebecor Federated in Providen~e. Arnold was one of several officials who visited the Center for Management an~ ~echnology on April 7 to observe the Electronic Pre-press Skills Trammg Program. Arnold helped design the program. (What's News Photo by Gordon E. Rowley) WHAT'S NEWS V(ALKING_A STRA_IGHT LINE: RIC Senior Ben Libbey tries to walk a straight lme wear,ng special goggles that make the wearer feel like he or she has a blood alcohol level of .08 to .1. Students tried the goggles in Donovan D_iningCenter on April 6 as part of National Alcohol Screening Day. In addi t~on,st!-'dents could also attend an educational presentation, fill out a ques t1onna,re and talk to a health professional about alcohol misuse. (What's News Photo by Gordon E. Rowley) What's News, Monday, April 26, 1999 - Page 3 by Shelly Murphy their living and have to give up the What's News Editor college education they yearn for. They have to start right in training for their life work. Those to whom this a necessity go to the Normal n the final calendar year of the School. But now they will have a 20th century, What's News is real college where they can get the providing a glimpse of the equivalent of a college education I College from each decade. This presented from teachers viewpoint," is the third installment. Ranger said. The 1920s were a time of regroup Tuition for the four-year program ing and rebuilding for the country was free, even for non-residents of and the world following the War the state, providing the students Years with high hopes for the future. taught in Rhode Island schools for a The first year of the decade marked minimum of two years after gradua a new era in Rhode Island too, specif tion. The change also elevated the ically in regards to education. head of the Normal School, John L. In April 1920, the state General Alger 1 from Principal Alger to Assembly acted to change the name President Alger. of the Rhode Island Normal School Other milestones for the College to the Rhode Island College of in the 1920s included: Education (RICE). It was more than • the opening of the new Henry just a name change; it was a recogni Barnard School in 1928. Among the tion of the school's record of work features of the new $600,000 school and of the importance of higher edu STUDENT COUNCIL FROM 1929 was a unique demonstration room - cation for teachers that is taught a classroom with balconies for stu from the teaching viewpoint, accord dent teachers to sit in and observe ing to an article in The Providence the availability of a higher education month. I have noticed that the the class and instruction methods Journal dated May 2, 1920. for teachers would help attract more higher the call for service, the less with minimal disruption for the stu The elevation of the institution qualified students to the profession, pay there is for it. The teacher's ser dents. from a normal school to a college, which was in the midst of a major vice is one of them. The teachers are • the official launching of the stu enabled the College to expand its shortage yet still paid salaries that serving the cause of making our dent newspaper, The Anchor. program from the two and a half in many cases did not keep up with future citizens the kind the country year teaching certificate program to the rising cost of living. needs," Ranger said. Research materials and pho a four -year college degree program "The teacher follows a calling just He added, "There is a growing tographs furnished from the Rhode and to eventually serve a greater as the soldier who went to war fol desire among teachers for higher Island College archives with the number of students. In the Journal lowed a calling. Those men left good education. Many who leave high assistance and guidance of Marlene article, Commissioner of Public paying jobs to answer the call that school have to think about earning Lopes, special collections librarian. Schools Walter E. Ranger noted that brought them, in money, only $30 a Joint RIC/URI PhD in Education - First two graduates of program to receive degrees at RIC passed all the curriculum commit daughters, Erica and Alison. She to the dean. by George LaTour tees •at both institutions "but didn't received her bachelors degree in After receiving her PhD, Hird will What's News Associate Editor have the money to start" until American civilization from Brown be looking for employment in acad Feinstein's generous grant in 1994. University in 1981 and her masters emics and technology and looking at in library and information science some alternative options in non-tra "I'm very proud of the students The institutions agreed to pick up at Simmons College in Boston in ditional areas in the K-12 arena. we have in the program. I think the cost of the program after that One could say it's been a long run they will make excellent educa initial grant. 1991. She taught in for Anne Hird, but she's used to tors," says Joan I. Glazer, professor The program is run by a commit the Providence that. In 1984 she crossed the finish of elementary education and co tee comprised of four RIC and four line as the first American female director of the joint Rhode Island URI faculty with a co-director from elementary and • middle school runner in the Boston Marathon, College/ University of Rhode Island each institu levels for coming in fourth place overall. In PhD in Education program. tion. The co three and half years; both 1980 and '84 she was a U.S. She is talking about the 32 active director at was -director of Olympic Trials qualifier. program participants in general URI is Louis a $1.1 million Barboza and her husband, and the first two graduates of the Heifetz. grant from the Benjamin, have two grown daugh three-year program in particular. In all Dewitt-Wallace ters, both married: Wendy They are Anne Hird of respects, it Readers Digest Middendorf of Cincinnati and Providence and Helen "Tina" functions as a Fund to revital- HELEN BARBOZA Sharon Whitehead of New York. Barboza of Bristol. single degree ize Providence public school She received her bachelors degree Both have completed the three program with libraries, and was director of part in history education at the years of study and one year for joint and equal nerships for the Public Education University of New Hampshire and preparation of their dissertation program and Fund in which she coordinated 40 her masters degree in reading at and have opted to receive their doc administrative ANNE HIRD school-business partnerships RIC. toral degrees at the RIC graduate handling on the designed to promote each school's A classroom teacher for 20 years commencement Thursday, May 20. part of the two institutions. educational goals. in Warren and Barrington and prin "The program is designed for Students submit one application, "I began to feel like I needed a cipal in Barrington for six, she just scholar-practitioners, people who pay one fee, file one set of materials for- a program of study and one set stronger foundation in education," started a new position as assistant can do research and theory in edu of materials for taking the qualify says Hird about her decision to get superintendent at the Bristol cation and apply it to solving real her PhD. "I didn't want to get to the Warren Regional Schools. problems in real settings," Glazer ing examination. The equal partnership of the point where my work responsibili Feeling the RIC/URI doctorate in says about the joint program which institutions is to be reflected on the ties were out-distancing my educa education program is a strong one, was initially agreed upon in 1991 tion." Barboza says the "thing that made by RIC President John Nazarian diploma. In the space for the name of the institutions of higher educa As part of her studies toward the it the strongest was the cohort and URI President Robert L. tion it proclaims: "The University PhD, she took "specialization approach." Carothers. of Rhode Island and Rhode Island . courses" at MIT and the Harvard As full and equal partners, their University Graduate School of In other words, she explains, the institutions would offer the first College." The degree ordinarily will be con Education "which was one of the same group of students moved doctoral degree in education in the ferred at the graduation ceremony things I liked ... the flexibility of the together through the core courses, state. at the institution of the student's RIC/URI program." "so we have a real group identity." . It got under way in 1995 after major professor, according to the She has been working part-time There were nine PhD candidates receiving funding of $500,000 from agreement. since 1997 in the RIC Feinstein in her group, a group which started Rhode Island philanthropist Alan Hird and her husband, Jonathan, School of Education and Human out with 14, "and Anne and I are Shawn Feinstein. are the parents of 13-year-old twin Development as a special assistant the first two to graduate." Glazer says the proposal had Page 4- What's News, Monday, April 26, 1999 Private Support Margue rite M. Brown, Director Gala raises $20,000; Alumni schedules class reunions; Phonathon continues Kudos to this year's Rhode Island -growth over the past three decades . cheon on Friday, June 4, at the College. If you have not received College Foundation Gala Committee President's House on campus. your copy, or find that we made an led by Secretary of State James R. Class Reunions scheduled The reunion classes of "fours and error, please contact the Alumni Langevin, Class of 1990, honorary Ellie O'Neill, director of alumni nines" - 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, Office. Corrections will appear in the chair; Corrine Calise Russo, Class affairs, next issue of the of 1985, chair; Theresa Howe, co announces that Alumni Magazine, chair; and Lou Marciano, Class of there will be a currently under 1960, auction chair, on a festive and total of 18 class production. successful evening April 9 at the reunions held Providence Biltmore. between now and Alumni Honorees The 230 guests, entertained by the the end of the You should also Ray Edwards Orchestra, gathered to year. These have received the pay tribute to Foundation honoree, include: four-panel brochure Joseph A. Neri Jr., Class of 1969, • Class of 1932- highlighting this who was also marking his retire May 4, Wanna year's alumni hon ment after 30 years of service with moisett Country orees. Reserve the the Johnston School Department. Club evening of May 12 Neri received citations from Gov. • Class of 1935- for this central Lincoln A. Almond, Lt. Gov. Charles May 11, Ramada event of our year. Fogarty, U.S. Rep. Robert Weygand, Inn, Seekonk Tickets ($30 per the Rhode Island House of • Class of 1938- person) may be Representatives and Senate, and May 11, Larch reserved by contact Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci. wood Inn, ing the Alumni Lively bidding on over 100 Wakefield Office by phone at donated auction items contributed to • Class of 1949- 456-8086; fax at a record breaking $20,000 in net Golden Anni 456-8851; or via proceeds to support honors scholar versary Class, email at ships at the College. May 21-22 [email protected]. These scholarships are awarded to • Class of 1943- College President John Nazarian, Audrey Baptista and Ronald A. Baptista, Reminder: The incoming freshmen, transfer .<1tµ7 J.une 3, Pres Class of 1988, president of Rhode Island Blue Cross Blue Shield converse spring Annual Q-€/.TI,t~,. i,tnd. µp_p_e_icla ,s,sme p,_who a re ident 's House, ·. at the 10th annual RIC Foundation Gala. (What 's News Photo by Gordon E. Fund phone-a-thon enrolled in the honors program and on campus Rowley) continues through continue to meet high academic • Class of 1940- May 6. standards during their tenure at the Sept. 10, Providence Marriott 1974, 1979, 1984, and 1989-will be An open invitation: The campus College. · • Class of 1934-Oct. 14, Crown holding reunions on Homecoming is in full bloom, and construction Support from the Gala and the Plaza Hotel (this is an additional Weekend, Oct. 1 and 2. and renovations are proceeding at a Annual Golf Tournament, scheduled reunion for this class) Information for all reunion cele rapid pace. Take a few moments to for Aug. 10, 1999 at the Warwick In addition, the Alumni Office has brations may be obtained by contact visit the campus, and enjoy the Country Club, assist the Foundation organized a special celebration on ing the Alumni House at 456-8086. ambience of the commencement sea- in making $45,000 in grants for campus for three of our most "senior" son. · these scholarships during the acade- reunion classes. College President Annual Report of Gifts Stop by Alumni House or the mic year. John Nazarian, Class of 1954, and By now you should have all Development Office. We'd be happy Next year marks the 35th anniver the Alumni Association will host the received your copy of the 1998 to arrange a tour. sary of the Foundation. The Gala in members of the Class of 1934 (65th Annual Report of Gifts. We are very 2000 will honor all of those individu Reunion), the Class of 1939 (60th proud of this 52-page publication This is our last Private Support als who have contributed to the Reunion), and the Class of 1944 that highlights the generosity of our column for the current academic Foundation's development and (55th Reunion), at a combined lun- . alumni and friends in support of the year. See you in September! 10th Annual Foundation Gala memories SILENT AUCTION: Considering a bid for a Degas print are (from left) TAKING A BREAK: Lou Marciano, a Foundation board Corinne Calise Russo, Class of 1985 and gala chair; and committee mem member and the chair of the auction committee for the bers Mary Juskalian and Jeanne Aubin Rose, Class of 1962. (What's News Gala , enjoys the festivities with his wife Gloria. (What's Photo by Gordon E. Rowley) News Photo by Gordon E. Rowley) What's News, Monday, April 26, 1999 - Page 5 Rose Butler Browne Award winner - Social work grad overcomes obstacles for herself, others in social work, and her late grand Downing started off last by George LaTour mother, Angie Hayden with whom What's News Associate Editor September as an intern at Dorcas she "spent a lot of time." Place, an adult literacy center in A. John Roche "At one point I was ready to give Providence whose clients have a low A 34-year-old African-American level of literacy, and shortly there Memorial lecture woman, a senior majoring in social after was hired as a full-time Prof. Lawrence Buell of Harvard work at Rhode Island College, employee in support services. University will deliver the inau believes - as did the late Rose A majority of the women are lower gural A. John Roche Memorial Butler Browne - that she must income and get some form of govern Lecture Tuesday, April 27, at 12:30 overcome obstacles to better herself ment assistance. p.m. in Alumni Lounge, Roberts and her family. "We support them and help them Hall. Angela A. Downing of Fall River, a get through any blockers they face The lecture honors A. John Roche, single mother of three young chil in the community or in their per essayist and award-winning profes dren who has worked to better her sonal lives so they can continue sor of English at Rhode Island and her children's lives as well as their education," Downing explains. College until his death March 9. the lives of scores of lower-income Some of them are in abusive rela The College community also is women at Dorcas Place, has been tionships as well and "we try to help invited to a memorial service for named the winner of this year's Rose them overcome that. They learn Roche Friday, May 7, at 2 p.m. in Butler Browne Award at RIC. how to problem-solve and move on." Gaige Hall auditorium. She will receive the award at the Downing says she plans to con Buell, a distinguished scholar of annual Cap and Gown Convocation tinue to work at Dorcas Place after American literature, will speak on her RIC graduation while pursuing May 5 and with it a stipend to help the topic of claims about U.S. poetic a masters degree in social work at further her education. distinctiveness with special refer The award is named after Browne, RIC. After earning a masters ence to Whitman, Dickinson and who demonstrated outstanding lead degree, she would like to be an advo Gwendolyn Brooks. cate for women in her home state of ership in professional and commu The lecture is being sponsored by Massachusetts. nity affairs during her lifetime. She the English department with sup earned a masters degree in 1919 "I always wanted to be in a posi port from the College Lectures from the Rhode Island State Normal tion to advocate for people in my Committee. For more information, School, now Rhode Island College, ANGELA A. DOWNING community," she says. call 456-8028. and went on to obtain a doctoral Her family, assures Downing, is degree in education from Harvard up and she encouraged me to go on," very proud of her and her sister University in 1939, becoming the attests Downing, who felt discour Marla for having successfully com Master planner aged in high school to the point that first African-American women to do pleted their college studies. to present so. she quit. She later obtained her On commencement day Saturday, General Equivalency Diploma In her autobiography, Love My May 22, when Downing marches (GED) and then enrolled in a local Rhode Island College has engaged Children, Browne attributed her across the stage to receive her community college and "found little the services of a campus master belief that she "must overcome diploma from College President support there." planner to make recommendations obstacles to better herself and her John Nazarian, she would like noth regarding the integration of the family" to her great-grandmother, She terms the obstacles (and those ing better than to have her 9-year who put them there) in her life and -East Campus, pedestrian and vehic Charlette Ann Lindsay, who worked old daughter, Julia, walk with her in the lives of others she helps as ular traffic, location of academic six years to buy the freedom of a on stage. ''blockers." She'll not be discouraged, and administrative functions, land Southern slave whom she had mar You see, explains Downing, little scaping, and campus signage. The she insists. Julia feels that all the while her ried, and then moved the family to She came to RIC, an institution planner, - Gootly; , Clancy- , ,'ahd Boston for a chance to better them Mom was at college she-and her. ~is she found "culturally diverse and ,Associates, has eond,ucted an ini-tial selves. ter and brother waited. It was as if analysis df the is 'sues, talkea to a .very accommodating." "we went to school, too!" Downing attributes much of her "It (RIC) really helped me to sur number of people on campus, and own success to the support of her After commencement, Downing's vive and thrive," she says. Instead of has made some preliminary recom mother, Sondra Yarbough, her sister, brother, Curtis Lopes, will drive the mendations. blockers, she found people anxious family in a limo from RIC to his Marla Valois, who also is graduating to help. Representatives from Goody, this spring from RIC with a degree house and a celebration, of course. Clancy and members of the admin istration will be sharing these rec o mmen da tions with the campus community on Thursday, April 29 Marketing professor follows his dream from 10 a.m. to ·noon in Whipple 102. They will be seeking comments and suggestions as well as answer t's difficult to tell whether it's Ramocki not only wrote and per inescapable self confrontation .... " ing questions. the product of a mid-life crisis or formed the songs for "Feeling • In style the songs are reminiscent an ingenious way of giving his Footsteps in the Snow," he accompa of the folk songs of the 1960s and Istudents a practical lesson, but nies himself on guitar, took the cover '70s. Titles include "Struggling to National certification Prof. Stephen Ramocki has just photographs and acted as his own Stay Glued, "The Honest Man," and released a CD on which he sings 10 producer, enlisting Mesiti, a senior "Life's a Word Game of the Mind." for teachers of his own songs. and the owner It's little won Informational meetings regarding "It's something I've wanted to do of Music City der that National Board for Professional since I finished my PhD in 1979," Records, and Ramocki cred Teaching Standards Certification for says Ramocki, who teaches in the Charlie its the influ teachers will be held Thursday, May Department of Management and Allsworth of ence of Bob 6, at 4 p.m. in the Forman Center at Technology. He has dabbled in free the publica • Dylan and Rhode Island College and verse since his own college days. tions office who Maine folk Wednesday, May 12, at 4 p.m. in the When he was about 32, he tried to volunteered singer Gordon Galanti Lounge in the University of find a musician or group to perform his time to Bok. Rhode Island library. his songs, with no success. design the Ramockihas Attendees will gain information on "I didn't know the difference cover and liner offered the national board certification itself and between a C and an F sharp myself, " notes. album to the funding and support that is available Ramocki admits. So he took guitar After the College's chap for teachers interested in pursuing and voice lessons and practiced album was ter of the this professional development oppor "thousands of hours." Then, at 52, he recorded, American tunity. went into the Johnston recording Ramocki sent Marketing A statewide initiative will provide studio of one of his student's, Ben the tape to Association, as funding to pay the application fee for Mesiti, and cut the album. Europadisk, a fund raiser. a limited number of teachers in the "I figured it was now or never ... I Ltd. in New He is advisor 1999-2000 school year. Information think almost everyone has some York to have to the club, on a course designed for teachers thing he or she always wanted to the disks which cur interested in national board certifi do- a dream-that is outside their made. rently has about 34 members. The cation will also be available. The normal sphere of activities, but many Most of the songs were composed album will be modestly priced at $5. course will be held June 5, 12 & 19 never act on it," muses Ramocki , from 1976 to 1992. He describes them The club will keep 50% of sales from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. through who emphasizes the power of cre as "dee p" with a strong existential receipts , while the rest will go to the RIC office of continuing educa ativity in his marketing and con bent, the result of his own philoso cover Ramocki's costs. He admits tion. The fee for the course, which sumer behavior courses. phy which, he says, was strongly that he has broken a primary rule of offers one graduate credit, is $75. "Creativity always contains the ele influenced by writers such as Albert marketing: that one first identifies For more information, contact ment of risk, the risk of failure," he Camus and John Updike. In the the market then supplies the product . Kathleen Swann, facilitator for adds. But Ramocki isn't hoping to hit album's liner notes Ramocki writes: But he demonstrates another National Board Certification at 401- the Top Ten. Success for him will be " ... The songs reflect behavioral reali valuable lesson, sometimes you just 222-4600, ext. 2215 or via email at "breaking even" by recouping the ties that occur in the mundane have to follow your dream. [email protected]. money he spent to produce 1,000 CDs. affair.s of man, with lyrics that force Page 6- What's News, Monday, April 26, 1999 What's News, Monday, April 26, 1999 - Page 7 There was a fiesta on April 4 at Rhode Island College. It was the Admissions Office's "Spring Party for Accepted Students" and about 700 people turned out for the event. The South-of-the-Border theme was carried through the decorations and food (make-your-own-tacos) in Donovan Dining Center and even to the T shirts worn by the student guides. For most of the high school seniors in attendance, it was a second look at the College; many had also visited during the College's Open House last fall. It was another opportunity to see the facilities and talk with RIC students, faculty and staff members before making that all-important final decision on which college to attend. A number of visitors elected to pay their deposits and get an immediate RIC I.D. and, as a bonus, a "fiesta" T-shirt. Here is a look at some of the activities. Above: RIC SOPHOMORE Michael Waterman, a member of the Outdoor Activities Adventure Club, who lives on cam Photos and text by pus, urges potential students to get involved in non-academic student activities. At left: Gordon E. Rowley THE FINANCES: An unidentified parent talks to Janet O'Connor, associate director of the Office of Financial Aid. Left: SHOPPING STOP: Erin Quinlan, a senior at Pilgrim High School in Warwick, visits the Campus Store with her mother, Judi, RIC Class of 1968. •►10::n cot L .c. A MEXICAN SMORGASBORD: Framed by a basket of corn chips, Jennifer Lora {left) and Maghnee Charles, seniors at Mt. Pleasant High School In Providence, design their own tacos. Above: IN THE MOOD: Cara Richeal tries on a som brero charro to get in the fiesta spirit. At left: ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Kevin Clarke, a resident assis tant in Thorp Hall, takes visitors on a campus tour. At right: MAKING THE DECISION: Accepted stu dents line up at the table of admissions graduate aide Jarso Jal/ah, Class of 1998, to pay their deposits. Page 8- What's News,Monday, April 26, 1999 Retention Task Force report identifies opportunities Continued from page 1 At the campus forum, Nazarian Nonetheless, these numbers reveal summarized the issue: "The College Retention Task Force recommendations areas of opportunity, Eckert observ~d. has to be consumer-friendly to stu The report provided the followmg dents .... freshmen, transfer ~tu observations: • We recommend that the College administration identify and support , • The retention and graduation rates dents, all students. That is not through example, an on-going retention effort as a top priority in the always the case. Not everybody is for RIC students entering as freshmen management of the life of the College. And that a structure be estab over the last several years are between going to graduate. There are some lished to guide the process and implementation of retention efforts. students who .just can't make it for 45 and 50 percent. whatever reason. But other students • We recommend that the Creating a New Service Agenda workshops, • Most take more than four years to leave because they think no one started in the fall of 1997, be enhanced through further programming receive undergraduate degrees. cares. and training of campus personnel. (16 percent of freshman entering in "Retention is not just a matter of • We recommend that annual programs and program reviews, and the fall of 1990 graduated in four numbers, of students who graduate or other means of tracking student satisfaction and success be instituted years; 37 percent graduated in five do not," he added. "It's a matter of as a priority within the retention effort. years, and 45 percent took six or seven whether we are being successful in • We recommend that an "office of' College Ombudsman be established, years. The national average for stu motivating and guiding these stu either through a new position or an add-on to the duties of an already dents in like institutions is about 45 dents to get an education and to existing position, and that the "charge" of the job be widely publicized percent by the sixth year.) become contributing citizens." · to provide a place of action for problem-solving, both academically • At face value, this means that for In introducing the report and its and administratively. every 10 students entering the recommendations, Nazarian com College, only about five will walk away mended the diligent work of the mem • We recommend that new software and technology ,:useful in the work with a degree from RIC and it will bers of the task force. Task force mem of retention and student satisfaction be supported. probably take six or more years. bers were Sandra Enos, assistant pro • We recommend that an extensive review of course s~heduling and • About 25 percent of RIC's matricu fessor of sociology; Ava Gist, recorder; course availability commence immediately. lating freshmen students do not return Joan Glazer, professor of elementary • We recommend that a thorough review of the transfer student experi for their sophomore year. education; Christopher Greene, ele ence be initiated and be integrated as soon as possible into the full • About 63 percent of the respondents mentary education; Robert Hogan, retention effort. to the direct mail and telephone sur professor of English; Eleanor ONeill, • We recommend that the College Student Handbook be updated on vey reported that they dropped out director of alumni affairs; Charles a more regular basis. Further, that all form letters sent to student sometime within four semesters at Owens, assistant professor of biology; by various offices be reviewed for clarity, courtesy of tone, RIC, the crucial freshman/sophomore Dolores Passarelli, director of acade and consistency. timeframe. mic support and information services and of career development; Richard • We recommend that the development of retention programs fall under Building community Prull, director of institutional research the following areas to ensure integration, organization and coordina tion of efforts across campus: "What we discovered during this and planning; and Holly Shadoian, intensive project is that the reasons director of admissions. Terry Riley - Training and Information for leaving are as diverse as our stu Wilcox, recorder/advisor in the - Course Clustering dent population. Some of the rea Records Office, served as a vital - Freshman Experience sons, such as family commitments resource for the task force. - Senior Experience and the like, are out of the control of - Quality Service A matter of priorities the College, but common themes - Campus Communications around which we can focus our Looking toward implementation - Advising and Mentoring (Academic Team Mentors) efforts did emerge," Eckert said. and in response to concerns regarding These themes are: related costs from participants at the • Communications - how we deliver forum, Nazarian noted, "There are simple or immediate, the pursuit of RIG. Findings included: and receive information; some (recommendations) that don't solutions is vital to the College. • 84 percent of the students did not • Culture - how we treat each other , cost .additronal mone.y 1 but that we "Addressing retention concerns is key seek advice from faculty or staff or • Connections - how we interrelate 'Just aren't doing. Some things in there to fulfilling our mission to helping bring their concerns officially to the academically with students. may cost money, but it's not necessar any qualified Rhode Island resident attention of College administration "The focus of our recommendations ily a matter of additional resources. who can benefit from our offerings to before leaving. is to build a sense of community at It's a question of where you put your achieve his or her potential. If stu Rhode Island College which maintains priorities." • 37 percent of the respondents had dents are lost along the way because achieved upper class status before students' individuality, yet links the For example, he said, they don't receive ade campus through intellectual growth, "Advising is part of every dropping out, demonstrating their aca quate guidance or demic ability to be successful at college common values, and strong interper one's job. Some do it very don't feel con sonal relationships," the report states well; others don't. work. nected to the in introducing the recommendations. People who advise • 84 percent reported that they were College, we (See listing of recommendatio:i .1s on need to know the not involved with any extracurricular have not this page .) facts . and be able activity, a critical, yet overlooked ele achieved ment to student success. The 1998 Retention Task F<'rce to give advice report provides a guide to increasing that is helpful_ ATM our mis "Certainly, there are good reasons (Academic sion or the number of students who dete ·r to the student. why students drop out, but lack of Team Mentors) served knowledge about College procedures mine - once enrolled - that the We hear too experience they have here is success often that a those as to exiting the institution, better individ access to faculty advisement, and iden ful and worthwhile. student In conclusion the report notes, doesn't even uals," tifying early warning signs of disen Eckert "Across the country, college and uni think he or gagement of students with the College said. versity leaders report that if retention she has an are within the College's control," the To ob coordination and collaboration advisor." report states. tain a com processes, procedures, and programs Advising is just The retention and graduation rates prehensive are perceived by the community as one of the areas for RIC students are consistent with understand directed, important, and crucial, then identified by the task national trends, based on the student ing of the they work." force. "It was apparent population the College serves, which retention issue, from the onset that there includes a large numbers of students the task force talked who attend part-time while they jug For more information or to obtain a is no single or simple solution to to and surveyed students, copy of the report, contact Eckert at this issue," Eckert said, gle family and work responsibilities or faculty and staff. Initial findings are first generation college students. 401-456-8090. noting that the task force wholeheart included: edly concurs with the sentiment • Generally, students hold faculty in expressed by others who have studied high regard in the classroom. They this complex issue, such as the Where are they now?------ report that faculty are engaging in authors of the 1997 book, Policies and the classroom and that they chal continued from page 1 Practices: A Focus on Higher lenge students in course content. Education Retention, published by sculpture, drawing and painting. • Faculty report that they don't birch log as well as spirals and a The American Association of State always have the information they They display their work at majors checkerboard pattern. Colleges and Universities. need to advise students and often venues such as the New York Gift What's in store for the future? In They concluded that..."Any campus feel uncomfortable in that setting. Show and the Buyers' Market of the near future, the DeLombas will wishing to improve its performance in • Staff report problems of communi American Crafts , held in student retention must make a long represent Rhode Island at the "Big cation within their individual Philadelphia, and sell their work term commitment to the endeavor E" -a.k.a . the Springfield (Mass.) departments and divisions and note through and be prepared to change the cam 200 galleries and shops Fair -in September. Then there are that they feel a general lack of pus climate and services to be respon throughout the country. editions of prints and paintings to knowledge about the work of other It difficult to categorize their style. sive to its students' needs. There is no departments that affect them. attend to. And of course ceramic quick fix, nor is there any universal In fact, they make a point of having orders to fill. To gain understanding from the what Dennis calls "multi-layers of fix in student retention. Each institu students' perspective , the task force In fact , their artworks are ·selling tion must address its own special con styles" going at the 'same time . When conducted face-to-face interviews , so well, they are looking into turn stituency and its special needs effec pressed, they describe their work as ing much of the production over to tively." focus groups, and telephone and direct mail su,rveys of students who a blend of traditional and contempo others and concentrating on design. Although the ans ·wer may not be had not completed their studies at rary. For example, ·one of their "We.don't want to turn into a fac teap?ts · incorporates a faux white . tory," said Den,nis. ' What's News, Monday,April 26, 1999 - Page 9 RIC Athletics DONALD E. TENCHER Sports Roundup BASEBALL director of intercollegiate athletics, The RIC baseball team is 5-14 overall and 1-4 in the Little East intramurals and recreation 456-8007 CoI).ference. Head Coach Scott Perry's team picked up its first LEC win of the year with a 7-6 vic tory over UMASS-Dartmouth on April 15. Dave Walsh is leading the club with 17 RBI on the year. The first Space still available in summer camps baseman/designated hitter is bat ting .358 with 13 runs scored, seven doubles, two triples and two Sports camps offered for the third Rhode Island College student-ath each participant receives a Rhode home runs on the year. Second straight year by the Department of letes. College facilities are used for Island College T-shirt. During the baseman Andy Barron is batting .349 with seven runs scored and Intercollegiate Athletics, Intra all of the activities. Participants can week, guest speakers from the colle six RBI. murals and Recreation have become bring . their own lunch or purchase giate and professional ranks partici extremely popular. To dat,e applica Keith Croft and Dennis Soito are their lunch in the College's dining pate in the instructional program. each 2-1 to lead the pitching staff. tions are w~ll ahead of last year but center. Camps scheduled for this summer it's not too late to sign-up. Camps A typical day features a morning include basketball, baseball/softball, SOFTBALL will commence on June 28 and run filled with instruction. Afternoons gymnastics, soccer, cheerleading, The softball team is 13-15 over through Aug. 13. include competitive events as well all and 2-4 in the Little East track and field, football and tennis. The goal of the camp program is as swimming. The camp activities Conference. Head Coach Maria The cost for a week is $11~ to provide a structured instruc start at 9 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. Morin's team has earned confer tional environment that is competi However, supervisors are on site For additional information or to ence wins over Eastern tive and most importantly, fun! The starting at 8:30 a.m., and the staff is obtain a brochure, please contact Connecticut State (5-1) and Southern Maine (11-3) in the early staff is comprised of local college available until 4:30 p.m. the intercollegiate athletic office at coaches, interscholasttc coaches and going. In addition to quality instruction, 401-456-8007 . First ba·seman Rachel Medeiros is having an outstanding season. She leads the team with a .408 batting average, and is also tops on the squad with 22 runs scored Ben Libbey paces RIC Baseball and 22 RBI. First baseman/desig nated hitter Christie Moreira is batting .360 with eight runs scored underwent off-season surgery to by Scott Gibbons sive catalyst, he led the team with a and eight RBI on the year. repair the damaged rotat-or cuff in Sports Information Director .,3.63 batting average, 45,.4its, 65 Pitcher L~a ,Wigginsj_s 6,-8 with his right shoulder. "I injured my total bases and 10 steals on the year. a 2.17 earried Tli.n ave ,rage "and ' a shoulder sliding into second base He was second on the team with 25 team-high 44 strikeouts in 106.1 against Daniel Webster last season. runs scored. Libbey added 18 RBI on innings. enior Ben Libbey is the piston I missed five games, then came back the year. · in the engine that drives the for the LEC Tournament. I didn't One of his most memorable MEN'S TENNIS Rhode Island College baseball know I partially tore my rotator cuff moments came in the team's 8-7 win The men's tennis team is 3-5 Steam. In the field, he plays until after the season." After the over Southern Maine, the defending overall and is 1-1 against .Little centerfield, covering a lot of ground Dhrysion III National Champions at East Conference opposition. Head to shut down opponents' scoring the time, last April. He doubled in Coach Dick Ernst's troops picked chances. At the plate, he bats leadoff, the tying run and scored the winning up a pair of 9-0 wins over setting the table for RIC's power hit run in the bottom of the ninth Bridgewater State on April 6 and ters to knock in runs. inning. Southern Maine on Apr. 8. RIC Head Baseball Coach Scott Libbey didn't play in the spring of Paul Perry leads the team with Perry says, "Ben is one of the most '97, but did well in his .first season at 8.5 poin .ts. Perry is 6-2 in singles important players on ·our team. He's RIC in 1996. He played in _30 games, and 5-3 in doubles action. Pat a hard-nosed batter at the plate who batting .313 with a team-high 27 Prendergast has been impressive uses his speed to his advantage. He runs scored. He added 14 RBI, four at :qumber two singles, posting a 5- stretches a lot of singles into doubles doubles, two triples and two home 3 mark in eight matches. and can steal bases with regularity. runs oh the year. He also led the In the field, he can run down a lot of team with nine stolen bases. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S hits and cut them off, holding run Prior to coming to RIC, Libbey TRACK AND FIELD ners to only one or two bases." originally attended Arizona State The men's and women's track The Cranston resident is off to the University. "Someone gave me a and field team put forth an out best season of his career, batting .432 [Arizona State] hat when I was a kid standing effort in their first action through the club's first 19 games. He and I just started following their of the season at Wesleyan is one of only two players on the teams." Upon arriving in Tempe as a University on March 27. The squad to have started and played in freshman, Libbey joined the Sun Anchorwomen placed first out of 14 each of the team's 19 contests this Devils' baseball team during the fall schools with 124 points on the day. spring. season in. 1994. "The baseball pro Melinda Roczynski, who hails The 5'8", 150 pound Libbey has gram there was top-notch," he from East Providence, has quali scored a-team-high 16 runs and has remembers. "It was really a profes fied for the Division III NCAA compiled eight RBI on the year. sional atmosphere." National Championships in the Libbey has eight extra base hits on However, the distance from his high jump. The championships will the year, leading the Anchormen home state was a drawback. Libbey be held at Baldwin-Wallace College with three triples. He has also stolen returned home after Christmas and in Berea, Ohio, in May. Roczynski a team-high six bases. With 35 hits began taking classes at RIC in the broke the school record in the high so far, he has a chance to br~ak the surgery last June, Libbey underwent spring of 1995. jump with a 5'5" effort at the RIC school record for the most hits in a the painful process of rehabilitation Libbey starred for four years as an Invitational on April 3. season (55). There are 13 games left for three months. "I give a lot of outfielder at Cranston East High The women's team has done so in the regular season, not including credit to my physical therapist, Terry School from 1990-94. The team made well that several student-athletes the post-season Moreno," Libbey says. "She kept me it to the final four of the Rhode have qualified for the New England Although RIC is off to a 5-14 start, in the right frame of mind and eased Island State Baseball Cham Division III Championships, which Libbey is optimistic about the team's my frustrations." Despite not swing pionships during his sophomore year will be held at Springfield College chances. "We began the year with ing a bat, or picking up a ball all in 1992. Growing up as a youth in on April 29-30: Crisolita daCruz high expectations," he says. summer, Libbey had a solid fall sea Cranston, Libbey played with cur in the hammer, J oyelle Galli in "Although we've been in almost every son which has carried over into the rent RIC teammate Jay Pilderian both the long and triple jumps, game, we haven't come through in spring. "My shoulder is a little stiff and against teammate Keith Croft. Crissy McCullah in the javelin, key situations. I'm confident, once we from time to time, but there isn't any Roczynski in the high jump, start getting key hits, we'll turn it pain." Libbey is an elementary education Angelina Stewart in both the long around heading into the Little East Despite the injury late in the sea major who plans to graduate in May, and triple jumps, and Keely Subin Conference Tournament ." son, Libbey had an outstanding year 2000. He hopes to begin a career in in the 200 meter dash. Libbey's success this spring is even as a junior in 1998. He played in 29 teaching and coaching baseball after more remarkable considering he games, starting all of them. An offen- graduatio:J?-. Page 10- What's News, Monday, April 26, 1999 RIC Wind Ensenible, Jazz . Band concert 21st annual features tronibonist Mark Lusk April 30 Bicho Memorial Concert May 3 Rhode Island College Wind The band, conducted by senior a recording and performance in Ensemble and Jazz Band will share Don Dupre of Lincoln, an assistant Carnegie Hall with that ensemble. Rhode Island College Chorus and the Roberts Hall auditorium stage to director George Goneconto, will Lusk holds undergraduate and Symphony Orchestra, conducted Friday, April 30, for an 8:15 p.m. perform "April in Paris," "Deadly graduate degrees from The Eastman respectively by William Jones and Schmedly," "Spain," "Caravan," School of Music and a performance Edward Markward, will present t!3-e "Sing, Sing, Sing," "Milestones" and certificate from Northwestern 21st annual Rita V. Bicho Memonal "Wind Machine." University. He is a clinician for the Scholarship Concert Monday, May 3, Lusk, a professor of trombone at Selmer Instrument Company and is at 8:15 p.m. in Roberts Hall Penn State University, is equally at published by Lyceum Press, includ auditorium. home in the classical and jazz ing the recent Trombonists Guide to In the first half of the program, worlds. Prior to his appointment at the Unaccompanied Cello Suite of the chorus will perform Renaissance Penn State, he performed and J.S. Bach. motets by Palestrina, Hassler and recorded with the Chicago Support for the concert is provided Victoria. According to Jones, "the Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman by the RIC Performing and Fine Arts choral motet is one of the glories of Wind Ensemble, the Chicago Commission. Lusk appears through Renaissance Europe." · Two American spirituals also will Contemporary Chamber Players, the assistance of The Selmer be performed as well as Randall Chuck Mangione, and the Woody Instrument Company and Roberts Herman Thundering Herd. Thompson's well known "Frostiana" Music Company. and seven settings of poems by More recently he has toured exten General admission tickets are $7 Robert Frost. sively throughout the United States with discounts for senior citizens and Following an intermission, the and performed at the International non-RIC students. RIC students traditional presentation of the Bicho Trombone Workshop. admitted free. scholarship(s) will be made. The He continues to have an active winner(s) each year are selected by playing career as a soloist, clinician Trombone workshop the music faculty on the basis of tal concert entitled "Passages" which and freelance musician. He has per Lusk will conduct the Southeast ent and contribution to the will feature guest trombone artist formed in New York on such New England Trombone Choir Department of Music, Theatre Mark Lusk. Broadway shows as Phantom of the Workshop from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Dance. The ensemble program, conducted Opera, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Thursday, April 29, in Roberts Hall Bicho served on the music faculty by Rob Franzblau, will include works Victor I Victoria, and Beauty and the auditorium. It is open free of charge for 30 years until her retirement in by Mozart (Serenade No. 10 in B Beast. to all high school and college trom 1979 when she was named professor flat), Malcom Arnold (Four Scottish As a member of the Woody bonists. emerita. The scholarship was ~stab Dances), Frigyes Hidas (Rhapsody Herman Alumni Band, he has per For more information, call Rob lished in her name in honor of her for Bass Trombone and Wind formed throughout the eastern Franzblau, director the RIC Wind lifelong dedication to teaching Ensemble) and the Beatles. United States and Europe, including Ensemble, at 456-9514. and music. The RIC Symphony will then per form Beethoven's mighty Symphony No. 5 in C Minor which, according to Soprano Diana McVey in Chamber Music Series April 28 Markward, "is arguably the most famous symphonic work ever penned." Soprano Diana McVey, who twice · the Bel Canto Opera Company, and · Leonard Bernstein and Richard A donation of $10 is requested for won the coveted Rita V. Bicho has appeared as Cumming. She has general admission; $5 for senior citi Memorial Scholarship for excellence soloist with the RIC performed the orato zens and non-RIC students. RIC stu in v.c;,~3:clperf(!-r-Il}.anc;e ,wb;ile a stu Philharmonic, the rios of Handel, dents admitted free. dent at Rhode Island College, will RIC Chorus and Mozart and Bach. All proceeds go to support the perform in the last entry in this sea Orchestra, the Rhode McVey also is well Bicho scholarship fund. son's RIC Chamber Music Series Island Civic Chorale known for her por Wednesday, April 28, at 1 p.m. in and Orchestra, the trayal of leading roles Roberts Hall 138 (recital hall). West Bay Chorale in the operettas of STRIC to present The program will include works and the American Gilbert and Sullivan by Strauss, Schubert, Berg, Band. and recently sang the 'El Medio Pelo/ Rachmaninoff, Mozart and Her roles and role of Anna in Bernstein. Elizabeth Dean Gates repertoire have Cumming's opera The The Ordinary Man' will accompany her on horn for a ranged from Picnic at Trinity Schubert piece. Adalgisa in Bellini's Repertory Theatre. The recital is free and open to the Norma and Laetitia Spanish Theatre of Rhode Island For more informa- College (STRIC) will present its public. in · Gian-Carlo tion, call John Mc Vey has sung leading roles with Menotti's The Old Maid and the 19th annual spring Spanish drama, Pellegrino, series coordinator, at 456- El Media Pelo .(The Ordinary Man), the Ocean State Light Opera and Thief to the works of Carl Orff, 8244. Saturday, May 1, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 2, at 3 p.m. in Gaige Hall auditorium. Nursing students A special performance for high school students of Spanish will be elected to honor given Thursday, April 29, at 9 a.m. The play, by the acclaimed society Mexican playwright Antonio Gonzalez Caballero, takes place in Fifty nursing students from RIC Apaseo, described as a "one-horse" have been elected to membership in town. Sigma Theta Tau International The female protagonist, Paz, who Honor Society of Nursing. once had money and is considered The students will be inducted as part of the upper class, is forced to undergraduate students from RIC work outside the home due to the through the local chapter Delta debts of her father and the unti;mely Upsilon Chapter-at-Large. death of her husband. Guadalupe The induction ceremony will be Marcial, the "ordinary man" declares his love for Paz and it goes held on Sunday, May 2, at 12:30 p.m. on from there. at the Quonset 'O' Club in North Cast members and their home Kingston. towns are: Carla Cuellar, Cranston; Sigma Theta Tau International is Frances Cruz, Maria Lancellotta an organization of nurse leaders, Yovanny Pena, Steve Russillo' scholars, and researchers. The honor Rosemary Moronta and Robert~ society, founded at Indiana Taboada, all of Providence; Luis University in 1922, currently has Escobar, Pawtucket; Leslie chapters at more than 400 college Rodriguez, Woonsocket; Cristina and university campuses worldwide. James, West Warwick. Membership in the society is M. Francis Taylor, associate pro f~ssor of modern languages, is the awarded to bachelors, masters and director. doctoral nursing candidates for Tickets -are $4 in advance and scholastic achievement and to grad may be purchased in Craig-Lee Hall uate of nursing programs who have THORP LECTURER: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, professor of anthropology, 141, or $5 at the door ($4 for RIC made outstanding contributions to prepares for her Mary Tucker Thorp Lecture on "Scholarly Humanism" students with I.D.) For more infor nursing. April 16 in the Faculty Center. (What's News Photo by Gordon E. Rowley) mation, call 456-8029. l 1 ! 1 1 l 1, l I\ I What's News, Monday,April 26, 1999 - Page 11 Sigma Xi dinner April 30 The annual Sigma Xi Honors Undergraduate Research Sym posium, at which students who have done research at Rhode Island College during the past year will give oral presentations, will be held Friday, April 30, in Clarke Science 106 from 2-4 p.m. A public scientific poster session will be held in the Faculty Center from 4:30-5:30. It will include work by undergraduate and graduate stu dents, faculty and other members of the community. It will be accompa nied by a reception. Sigma Xi's annual dinner and ini tiation of newly elected students will follow. Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, recognizes research accom plishment in any field of pure or applied science. Kenneth Miller, author, award winning teacher and distinguished professor of biology at Brown University, will give the annual RIC ISLAND MOVING COMPANY dancers Michael Bolger and Eva Marie Pacheco perform in Miki Ohlsen's Absence of Chapter of Sigma Xi's public lecture Lavender which will be part of the dance concert at Rhode Island College's Roberts Hall auditorium at 7 p.m. entitled "Science and Human s_unday,May 9. The company will present a program perfectfor a Mother's Day outing, performing dances roman Values: What Can the Larger tic, humorous and engaging. The concert is sponsored in part by RIC's Department of Music, Theatre and Dance. Culture Learn from Science?" at Tickets are $15 ($8 for senior citizens, students and children under 12). Also, the company will perform the pro 7:30 p.m. in Fogarty Life Science gram Monday, May 10, at 10 a.m. for school groups. Tickets are $4 per student. For tickets or information on both Building 050. performances call 847-4470. (Photo by Nadia Toulouse) j rating on a conference to promote eco cultural crown. He will assist in the - her late husband Sylvan was a postal Commencement _nomic opportunity for women. hooding of MFA degree recipients. Born worker - Helen Ginsburg Forman's Continued from page 1 Other honorary degree recipients for in Minnesota in 1958, Eustis began his contributions to the College in all their the 1999 commencement season are: career as a child actor. In 1976 he forms demonstrate a remarkable com David Arthu ·r Capaldi, Oskar Eustis, moved to New York City and founded mitment to the College and to its future family, Reed was born in Providence on Helen Ginsburg Forman, and George the Red Wing Theatre Company. He students. Nov. 12, 1949 and grew up in Cranston. Theodore Wein. has won numerous awards for his work, He attended St. Matthew's Elementary George Theodore Wein David Arthur Capaldi including six Los Angeles Drama Critics Doctor of Fine Arts School, graduated from LaSalle Circle Awards and 11 Drama-Logue Doctorate of Pedagogy Jazz impresario George Wein, con Academy, earned a bachelors degree Awards for his LA production of Angels sidered to be the "father'' of the music from the United States Military Capaldi, Class of 1964, earned his in America. His commitment to new play festival format, has had an enormous Academy at West Point in 1971 and a bachelors of education in mathematics development has taken him to Utah's , and physical science and also earned impacl on the national and international masters of public_policy from Harvard in Sundance lns!itute _a,n9 thl:! Nip ,Y{~st 1973. his MAT and his CAGS in mathem_atics Playlabs in Minnesota. - - musie sce'Fre' by' pk>neeriflgcth~ •assooia tio n of corporate sponsors ~with rhu~ic From 1973 through 1977, Reed, a and m·athematics education at the Eustis' service to the theater commu events, thereby vastly extending the paratrooper, served as Infantry Platoon College. President of the Rhode Island nity includes a long association with the reach of such festivals to large numbers Leader, Company Commander, and College Alumni Association during National Endowment for the Arts and in of people. Forever known as the founder Battalion Staff Officer in the 82nd 1972-73, Capaldi was also named to 1988 he served as a judge for the of the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 - Airborne Division while stationed at the 1992 RIC Alumni Honor Roll for Fulbright Fellowship. A member of the Fort Bragg, N.C. He then returned to Mathematics. Capaldi, who is retiring the world's first all-jazz music festival - Rhode lslqXl?J;±IJ&l:,,~qmmission, Eustis Wein's company, Festival Productions, West Point where he joined the faculty as head of the mathematics depart is · e"M1V'~rif~~ ""a?:tffint}Jt!?culties of Inc., maintains offices in six cities. It as associate professor in the depart ment at Toll Gate High School in · ~·,n 'ivl•h"'slltrt!trrd,rih ''!i> s I and 1 produces some 1,000 music events ment of social sciences. Warwick after a 35-year career as a ' where he was in'ltr in annually, including the JVC Jazz In 1979 Reed left the army to attend teacher in that system, is considered establ. e Colleg Harvard Law School, where he received many to be an unofficial ambass Festival in New York City and Newport, his degree in 1982. He practiced law in for mathematics education in R . the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Washington, D.C. before returning to Island. He has served as pre estival, Ben & Jerry's Newport Folk Rhode Island where he joined Edwarcis chair or member of numerous st tival, and N·ewport Jazz Festivals in and Angell, one of New England's lead and national mathematics an~ff , . ,ch cities as Sarasota, Fla., and in ing law firms. He was elected to the tion organizations. ii rf1 Tuesdays 28 Wednesday 1 Saturday 5 Wednesday Noon to 1 p.m. - Bible Study in 8:30 a.m. to noon :.._C onference: RIC .Trip : Canoe Trip to Wood River. RIC Sports Memorabilia Auction at the Chaplains' Office, SU 300. The Gerontology Club is sponsoring Bus leaves SU at 10 a .m. and the Providence Marriott (6:30 p.m. Conducted by Larry Nichols. a Oonference entitled ''Quality of returns ·at 5 p.m. $7 tic ke ts for stu preview; 7 p.m.-reception). There Life in Long-Term Care Settings: dents at SU Info Desk (includes bus, will be over 200 silent auction items Ombudsmen Make a Difference." ln lunch and all gea'r). For further and, at least, 35 live auction items Wednesdays the South Dining Room , DDC to det ails, call 456-8045 for details. along with food, door prizes, a jazz examine issues rela t ed to the over band, and a cash bar. Tickets are 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. - Catholic sigb t of long-term care for older . $10 and will be available at the door Student Association meets in the adults. The conference is free and "' ,.;;,...3 ______M_o_n_d_a_.y._____ or by calling Ll,56-8007. All proceeds Chaplains' Office, SU 300. open to the public. will benefit §tudent athlete support B:15 ·p.m.-Music: RIC Symphony programs. Orchestra and Chorus in Roberts 12:45 p.m.-Lecture: "Using 27 Tuesday Auditorium. 21st Annual RitaV. Fractals and Chaos in Ion Channel Bicho Memorial S,cholarship 12:30 p.m. - A. John Roche Proteins" in Gaige Hall 373. Part of Concert. General admission $10; 7 Friday Memorial Lecture in the Alumni Math >Awareness Month. students free. Call 45:6-8244 for 2 p.m.-Memorial service for A. Lounge, Roberts Hall. Prof. more information. John Roche in Gaige Auditorium. Lawrence Buell of Harvard 1 p.~.-Mq;sic : }3lackgtone Chamber For further information, call the University will deliver the inaugurnl Players in Roberts Hall. Part of the Department of English, 456-8028. lecture. Chamber Music Series. 8 p.m. - Theatre: Ken Ruta as 4 to 5 p.m.-Lecture: "Lessons about Oscar Wilde - "Diversions and Mathematics from the Timing of Delights" in Roberts Auditorium. Heart A.{tacks" in the Faculty Reserved seating $18. Part of the Center. Part of Math AwarenesS' Special Olympics training Performing Arts Series. Month. 29-2 Thurs.-Sun. Spanish Theatre ofRIC JSTRIC):1]Jol medio pelo (The Ordinary Man ) will be presented on the following dates in Gaige I-la1Lauditoriu:rn: Thursda~ April .29 at 9 a,:m:.;Saturday, May 1 at 8 p.m.; and Sunday; May 2 at 3 p.:tn.. Tickets :may be purchased in advan £~ in Cr gi g -~e @...~:t4if9:t - M .. · Tliey 'Willb e $.5 atd the oor. For fur~ ther information, call 456-8029. Sports Events Baseball April 29 FITCHBURG STATE 3:30 p.m. Mayl at Western Connecticut State (2-9) * Noon May3 JO:aNSON AND WALES 3:30p,m. May5 CONNECTICUT COLLEGE 3:30p.m. May8 EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE (2-9) * Noon Softball April26 JOHNSON AND WALES (2-7) 3:30 p.m. ' Apri:127 at UMASS-Dartmouth (2 ..7) * ,8;30 p.m. Mayl at UMASS-Boston (2-7) * " 1 p,m. May5 Little East Confeteµce Playoffs (Round On~ ) · TBA May7 Little East Conference Playoffs tRo:undJPwo) ,TBA May8 Little East Confel'enc~ Championships TB.A; JMen,s Tennis Apr. 28 .ROGER WILLIAMS 3:S0 'p.m. Apr. 29 at Salve -Regina 3:3gp.m. May5 at UMASS-Boston * 3:0~p.m. Men's .and Women's Track and Field Mayl 'at New England. Div. III Cha:inpionships # 10:30 a.,m. May8 at ECAC\Division III Champiouships A TBA HOME GAMES/MEETS IN CAPITAL -LETTERS A HELPING HAND: Amy Andrews, a RIC junior, guides Colton Beaudry, 9, over the low balance beam during the R.J; Special Olympics motor actJ,vl ties training day, April 9, in the New Building. The event was sponsored by * Denotes Little East Conference opponent the Department of Healtb and Physical Education and run by students in # Denotes ·hosted by Springfield College the Adapted Physicill Education· course. (What's News Photo .by Gordon E. , A Denotes hosted by Williams College Rowley) ' Notice ofAffir,native Action anaNondiscrimin.ati<,n O< Rhode ltJland Collegeis committed ta,et;u,al,opportunit_y and affirmative action. No student, employee, or applicµJit w'ill be tlenred 'iulniission, em/ploy1J1;ent, or O::cess to programs and actfoities because of'race, s~ r£ligipn, age, cQlor,natwnalcrigin, haruJ,icr,,p/disabilj.ty smtus, sexual orien:t.ztipnIpreferenee , or veteran status, This Cdlleg<;J1olic;Yis in concert uiith state and federal nondWcrimination.law s. Inquiriel{ concerning the College's administ,:_a, tion of the nondiscrimin.ation,.lr:iws phould be a.Mress¢ to thi! Collegedirecter of affirmq,tiueqc tion. Reasomtbli acf/Om11Jodation, upon requ.est. " -~--•,=-._~