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Bryant University Bryant Digital Repository Douglas and Judith Krupp Library Special Bryant Review (1978-1997) Collections Spring 1986 volume 9, no. 2, April 1986 Bryant University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/bryant_review Recommended Citation Bryant University, "volume 9, no. 2, April 1986" (1986). Bryant Review (1978-1997). Paper 33. https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/bryant_review/33 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]. BRYANT REVIEW April, 1986 Volume 9, Number 2 Editor 10 BEYOND C. Ralph Adler TEACHING Associate Editors Elizabeth J. O'Neil The Presidential Perspective William Rupp on the "extra-curricular" work Alumni Association of Bryant's faculty Executive Board President Robert Danielson '67 MBA '80 First Vice-President Joseph Ravalese, Jr. '54 12 ENERGIZING Second Vice-President NEW ENGLAND Paula Iacono '69 BUSINESS Secretary Stephen Celona III '79 The Center for Management Development Treasurer at the forefront of Ernest Almonte '78 professional continuing education Immediate Past President David Wall MBA '74 Members-at-Large N. Richmond Alexander, Jr. '64, MBA '77 Scott Clark '74 15 ON TOP Alfred Corso '66 Thomas Davis '69 OF THE WORLD Doreen DeSanto '86 Nelson Gulski '26 Bryant's basketball team Patrick Keeley takes its game on the road - Alan lang '52 to Alaska Elizabeth Nawrocki '67 Audrey Pate MBA '82 Kelly Parkins '86 Arthur Rozzero '72 Michael Storti '64 3 LE1TERS Alumni Trustee Michael T. Martin '72 4 BRYANT BRIEFS 16 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS Alumni Relations Office (401) 232-6040 17 CLASS' NOTES Director of Alumni Relations 23 GRADUATE CLASS' NOTES Karen Randazzo 24 CALENDAR Assistant Director Mary A Dupre BRYANT REVIEW (USPS 462 ·970) is published four Secretary times a year in January, April , August, and Barbara Iasorsa November for the Bryant College communiry. Publication offices are located in the Publications Coordinator of and Advenising Office, Bryant Coll ege, 450 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, Rhode Island, 02917-1284. Second Alumni Information Systems class postage is paid at Providence, Rhode Island. Carla Dubey Postmaster: Send address changes to Bryant Review, Bryant College, 450 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, Rhode Island 02917-1284. Cover illustration by john Gamache ? E. Gardner Jacobs open door policy and students at Bryant never agement major at Central Connecticut State needed appointments. University in 1982, has done graduate work at Dear editor: My first impression upon meeting him Western Connecticut State University, and is was that he was very easy to talk to. Myexpec presently an MBA candidate of the University The demise of E. Gardner Jacobs has tation of a college preSident was that he of Connecticut. brought a note of sorrow. I had a great rela would be stiff and uncommunicative, some However, despite credentials that would tionship with him during the period of what aloof. serve her very well in the business world, she 1931-1933 (enrollment to graduation). During my four years at Bryant, I stopped left a position in banking to take a position at At the height of Depression during those in to see Dr. Jacobs often. Sometimes itwason Post in financial aid. She attended the Institute years, we of the Class of 1933, and especially my way out of Dean Fales' office after receiv in Financial Aid Administration, which is those who lived at the Halsey Hall dorm for ing a reprimand for driving our house mother sponsored by the College Board each the male students and Bryant Hall for the up the wall. Other times it was to thank summer, and is using her understanding of female students, knew "E. Gardner" (as he Dr. Jacobs for the receipt of an academic finance and accounting and organizational was popularly known) as being in charge of scholarship. But no matter what the occasion, skills in the handling of various federal and student welfare and activities. Many of us were he was always happy to see me and would talk state aid programs effiCiently and properly so able to get great part-time jobs to help finance about his favorite subject, Bryant College. that students whose families lack the financial our way through the two years. I was very Bryant had been accredited that year and he resources are able to receive a college educa· close to E. Gardner Jacobs since I was one of was happier than anyone could have ever tion at a small, personalized, private school. those at Halsey Hall on Halsey Street, imagined. I think he felt that at last Bryant was Providence. Whenever we had any kind of on the academic map, so to speak. Prior to problem, particularly relating to personal that, the College was viewed as a small, Uoyd J. Buzzell welfare, E. Gardner always had an open door privately-owned learning institution, but with Director, Financial Air for us. I had arranged with him to organize a accreditation we were no longer that little Post College Phi Sigma Nu fraternity with the nucleus school next to Brown University. We were an coming out of a dormitory group. With his entity unto ourselves. help, I researched the names of three frater I kept in touch with Gardner over the nities from which to choose. years. Several years ago we planned to drive to Serving justice He was very sports-minded, arranging Manli us for its centennial celebration the popular bowling league within the stu together. As recently as last year I wrote him Dear editor: dent body, as well as varsity baseball and just to say hello. As always, he responded with basketball programs. We played the junior a very kind and thoughtful letter. The article entitled "Serving Justice" by varSity teams from Harvard, Brown, and I've met some very big people since Professor James Estey (November, 1985) cer Connecticut University. As long as I can graduating from Bryant in 1965, but few were tainly was an important, up-to-date education remember, his most outstanding trait in our more genuine and had more warmth than on justice in Rhode Island from a personal student relationships was his solicitous nature Gardner Jacobs. I will miss him. perspective. His explanation on how a juror with us. His office door was always open, and acts against the evils of our times in the he had an open mind with a promise to do Steve Kelly '65 Providence County Grand Jury is well written. whatever was needed. Those two years were San jose, C4. His words, to share with others this experi not only crucial to the students who managed ence, should help the reader understand his to graduate but enhanced the image of Bryant The Non-Profit Motive purpose when called to serve as a juror. for the many students who enrolled the In October, 1985, I served as a petit juror in the Superior Court in Providence County follOWing years. This enabled the College to Dear editor: expand from Fountain Street to a campus site Courthouse, where I served on a civil case. on Hope Street near Brown University. This is the second time I served as a petit I want to congratulate you on the article juror. I was also a witness before the Grand I particularly remember when the by Elizabeth O'Neil, "The Non-Profit Motive," College was running into difficulty with the Jury. in the November issue of the Bryant Review. A Participation in such experiences en Board of Accreditation for Teachers in number of colleagues have read it and re Connecticut. E. Gardner went to bat and cut riched my life in various new and traditional sponded very favorably. The article prompted ways. the red tape. a phone call to me from a fellow alumnus When all of us graduated, we knew that whom I haven't spoken to in 15 years. Bryant College would be a successful institu Alice Brickach '43 Pawtucket, Rl tion because E. Gardner put in his whole heart Elliott M. Strick '69 and soul for his students. Hartford, CT Santino M. Vasques '33 Santa Monica, C4. Dear editor: Better and better I read with interest "The Non-Profit Dear editor: Dear editor: Motive" about Bryant alumni who employ their business skills in the non-profit sector. I The Bryant Review just keeps getting I was saddened to read about Dr. Jacobs' am writing because Post College's Assistant better and better. I Sincerely look forward to passing. He was a very warm and giving man. Director of Financial Aid is a Bryant alumna each issue. I enjoyed the Gardner Jacobs I first met Dr. Jacobs in 1961 when I who is doing that precise thing - and doing it article Oanuary, 1986) ... classic lead-in became aware that we were both alumni of very well. paragraph. the Manlius Military Academy. I called his laurie Benson received her associate office for an appointment to introduce myself degree in secretarial science in 1977, com Benjamin Edwards '83 and a secretary said that Dr. Jacobs had an pleted her bachelor degree as a business man- Prospect, CT 3 QUickly · .. President William T O'Hara has been re·elected to the President's Com· Fifth SBDC satellite mission of the National Collegiate Athletic Associa opens in Woonsocket tion (NCAA). The com mission has been studying February 5 marked the opening of the fifth satel ethics and conduct in inter lite of the Rhode Island Small Business Develop coll egiate athletics since ment Center, operated by Bryant Coll ege, The new 1984.