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Bryant University Bryant Digital Repository Douglas and Judith Krupp Library Special Bryant Review (1978-1997) Collections 11-1983 volume 6, no. 4, November 1983 Bryant University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/bryant_review Recommended Citation Bryant University, "volume 6, no. 4, November 1983" (1983). Bryant Review (1978-1997). Paper 13. https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/bryant_review/13 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Douglas and Judith Krupp Library Special Collections at Bryant Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bryant Review (1978-1997) by an authorized administrator of Bryant Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. L heating oil November 1983 Volume 6 Number 4 EDITOR Joan W. Sorensen ASSOCIATE EDITOR 11 C. Ralph Adler Why do they choose Bryant? ASSISTAN The Presidential Perspective Janet E. Chaput Elizabeth L. O 'Neil Sueann Daugherty CONTRIBUTING WR R 12 Katherine M . Hillas Entrepreneur in her eighties PHOTOGRAPHER The life and times of Etta Steere Wood '15 Ann Mackinlay Steven H . Townsend '76, MBA '80 President 14 Wayne Byers '72 Vice-President Profiting from the humanities Marilyn Furtado '70 Bryant aims for the "total person" Vice-President Anthony D'Adamo '52 Secretary Catherine M . Parente '78 Treasurer MEMBER5-AT-LARGE 17 Ernest A . Almonte '78 Break point: Robert E. Danielson '67 MBA '80 Ellen Griffin '82 Dr. Nelson J. Gulski '26 Charlie Swanson '35 Roger Jorgensen '77 MBA '80 Patrick Keeley John Kempf '85 Timothy Scanlon '72 Susan E. Sharp '67 .: DEPARTMENTS Lori Utter '85 David F. Wall MBA '74 3 Readers Write 4 Bryant Briefs John S. Renza, Jr. '70 9 Alumni Clubs 10 Alumni Update Peter G . Barilla '58 18 Class Notes Charles E. Bradley '69 Philip H . Hayden '59 21 Graduate Class Notes Donald A . Lopes '58 24 Coming Up Michael T . Martin '72 Gary Remley '58 BRYANT REVIEW (USPS 462-970) is published four times a year in January, April, John S. Renza, Jr. '70 August, and November for the Bryant College community. Publication offices are Daniel F. Schmitt '73 located in the Joseph Mowry Alumni House, Bryant College, Smithfield, Rhode Island Louise R. Scott '65 02917. Second class postage is paid at Providence, Rhode Island and additional entry Thomas J. Westgate '72 post offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to Bryant Review, Bryant College, Joseph S. Wesolowski '72 Smithfield, Rhode Island 02917. 2 READERS w R I T E marketing research firm in the Hartfo rd commitment both this year and in the Contagious enthusiasm area. In view of the tight job market, I future. was impressed with both their ambition Keep up the fine work! Dear Editor: and their obvious perseverance in locating David E. Gordon I am a Bryant alumnus (Class of work so closely allied with their area of Executive Vice President 1967), and recently had the occasion to study. B. Ange ll & Associates, Inc., meet two current Bryant students. More importantly, I was thoroughly Chicago, Illinois Residing in the Chicago area, I don't often impressed with their ability, maturity and Editor's r1Ote : Jodie Ann Cianci is the have the opportunity to encounter Bryant professionalism . During the course of the daughter of Jo seph P. Cianci '52 . students, and I wish to share my observa study, I had several opportunities to talk tions with you. with Jodie and Wade about their activities Well-planned giving As part of a national marketing at Bryant. The enthusiasm they had about research survey my company was im their Bryant experience was contagious An open letter to alumni: plementing on behalf of a client, I had the and truly heart-warming to this alumnus. The most recent fiscal year of the occasion to visit Hartford, CT, one of the I have always felt close to Bryant Bryant Fund has ended in a most suc cities being used in the survey. While College and attribute much of my success cessful manner. You and I contributed to briefing the interviewers for this project, I to the excellent preparation I received Bryant and what it stands for at a record learned that two of the five interviewers there. If Jodie and Wade are at all in pace. I gave my first gift to Bryant in were marketing majors at Bryant about to dicative of the caliber of students you are December, 1982. This gift was hastily enter their senior year; Jodie Ann Cianci turning out these days, I truly salute you made to qualify for a 1982 income tax of New Britain and Wade Seward of and your entire staff for vastly improving deduction and was given without much Tolland. an already fine program. prior thought. Both were summer employees of the My recent experience has renewed In February, I began to think more interviewing service in Hartford and each and reinforced my feelings about Bryant seriously about meaningful charitable giv- was also working part-time with another and will positively influence my financial Continued on page 10 HELP BRYANT STUDENTS MAKE ENDS MEET • Consider this great deal: • The jobs can be skilled or • The next time you're How would you like to give unskilled, blue collar or thinking of hiring part-time, a Bryant student a chance white collar, from remember Bryant College to complete his or her accounting to and the students who could degree in exchange for landscaping . any position use that extra boost. It's a talent, intelligence, drive where you can use great way to help everyone and energy? Bryant someone you can trust to make ends meet! students are willing and do the job well. available for part-time jobs that can help them earn their ways through college. Call David R. Brooks, Coordinator, Job Location and Development. Bryant College. Smithfield, RI 02917 • (401) 231-1200, ext. 522 3 BRYANT B R I E F 5 Closing the computer gap f you have suddenly realized that the CRT your neighbor has been talking I about is not a new luxury edition car, or that computers are playing a larger and more confusing role in your life, then Saturday, January 21, 1984, is a date you will want to circle on your calendar. The Office of Alumni Relations and the Center for Management Development, with the support of the Southeastern New England Alumni chapter, are again spon soring an Alumni Continuing Education program at Bryant College. The day-long program titled "Closing the Computer Gap" will concentrate on making you more comfortable with both main frame and personal computers and will focus on both personal and business applications. Douglas fabling, Participants will be able to choose the Director of the Small topics of greatest interest to them during Business Development the morning and afternoon workshops Center, and George and will have an opportunity for hands de Tarnowsky, Dean on interaction with their own computers. of the Graduate A keynote speaker will be featured at School, at Bryant's lunch and the day's program will "log off" new Providence office with a wine and cheese reception. on Weybosset Street. Final details and registration informa tion will be forthcoming in early December. Watch your mail for further Bryant is back downtown again information or call the Office of Alumni n one sense completing a circle which started in 1863, Bryant College is back in Relations at 401-231-1200, ext. 415. downtown Providence again. No, Bryant hasn't abandoned its Smithfield campus. I But in light of the anticipated resurgence of Providence as the heart of Rhode Island's business community, some of Bryant's programs geared to people in business Freshman class and industry are now being held in the capital city. "sneak preview" The Small Business Development Center's (SBDC) Providence satellite is the main component of Bryant's Providence venture, which is located at 270 Weybosset t a freshman send-off party held in Street (near the Providence Performing Arts Center.) The satellite offers one-on-one August in Branford, Connecticut, consultation for SBDC clients who live or work in the city. Training programs, work A area alumni were able to get a shops, seminars and classes sponsored by SBDC are also planned for the satellite, ac sneak preview of some members of the cording to Douglas Jobling, SBDC director. The satellite is "a most beneficial service class of '87 and to wish them well. to small businesses in Providence, providing one-stop assistance in all phases of Richard Capobianco '53, a New Haven business development and improvement," Jobling said. SBDC programs are offered area resident, hosted the event at the In free of charge. dian Point Beach Club, and expressed his Beginning September 6, the Master of Science in Taxation courses offered by pleasure with the caliber of the new Bryant's Graduate School were transferred to the Providence campus. George de Tar Bryant students. "These kids are great," nowsky, dean of the Graduate School, said that most of Bryant's MST students work he said. "I am very proud that this is the downtown. Twelve classes are taught there weekly, on a Monday through Thursday type of student who is attending Bryant schedule, said de Tarnowsky. During spring semester, he added, it is likely that more College." of the Graduate School courses will be held in Providence. The New Haven area freshmen were Finally, Timothy Sullivan, director of the Center for Management Development, just part of what is Bryant's largest fresh said that there is a strong likelihood that the Center will sponsor special programs at man class in its history, with 875 new the Providence location beginning in January.