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THE VOL. 21 NO. 5 Summer 1990 SAL VE REGINA COLLEGE Salve Regina Holds Fortieth Commencement Exercises Students Receive Awards at Annual Salve Regina College held its fortieth commencement exercises Honors Convocation Sunday, May 20 at 10 a.m. on the Salve Regina College held its east lawn of the O'Hare Academic annual Honors Convocation on Center. Six hundred and fifty-nine Saturday, April 27 in the Spruance degrees were conferred under a tent Auditorium at the Naval War standing adjacent to Newport's College. The event recognizes and scenic Cliff Walk. honors students who have excelled Dr. Lucille McKillop, R.S.M., in scholarship, campus leadership President of Salve Regina, addressed and community service. Over 230 this year's graduating class with the .. students received honors. Commencement Message, and Dr. Among the most prestigious M. Therese Antone, R.S.M., Vice honors is the valedictory award . President for Institutional - Samir Uberoi, a financial Advancement, inducted the 1990 • management major from Bombay, graduates into the College's Alumni India, the College valedictorian this Association. U.S. Senator Claiborne year. Pell and U.S. Congressman Ronald The Salve Scholarship, a full Machtley also attended. scholarship for 1990-91, was awarded Samir Uberoi, a financial to three outstanding students: Marc management major from India, was The 1990 Honorary Degree recipients receive congratulations from Salve Regina Piers, a junior computer science this year's valedictorian. In all, 118 President Sister Lucille McKillop (center). Honorees are: (left to right) Sister Jeanne Perreault, Janice Cowsi/1, Eily O'Grady and Frank Patterson. major, Thomas Swierk, a junior students graduated with honors, accounting major and Cyril Gleiman, including 10 summa cum laude, 40 a sophomore politics and history magna cum laude and 68 cum laude. major. Two hundred and seventy-one highest honor the Vatican can students received master degrees, bestow on a layman when he was 378 received bachelor degrees and conferred with the Knighthood of St. 10 were awarded associate degrees. Gregory the Great. Four honorary degrees were Also receiving an honorary conferred upon recipients Frank E. Doctorate of Music was Eily Patterson and Eily O'Grady, O'Grady, a renowned pianist and internationally renowned musicians; Irish-harpist. O'Grady hails from a Sister Jeanne Perreault, President of well-known Irish musical family of Rivier College in Nashua, N.H.; and four sisters. Along with her sister, Janice Cowsill, former key Geraldine, Ireland's leading violinist, administrator in the Newport Public she has made five long-playing School Department who has greatly recordings. She is the first cousin of contributed to the academic the O'Cassidy family, also renowned development of Salve Regina College Irish musicians. She has been a over the past 30 years. prizewinner at Ireland's major music Frank E. Patterson, a native of festival, An Feis Ceoil, and she won Tipperary, Ireland, received an an Italian Government scholarship honorary Doctorate of Music. for advanced specialized studies in Acclaimed as Ireland's greatest living concert piano in Rome with Carlo Zecchi. In extensive world tours with tenor, he is an internationally known Katherine J. Miller (left), Assistant Professor of Information performer whose broad repertoire her husband, Frank Patterson, she Systems Science, and Dr. Lois Wims (right), Assistant Professor of ranges from classic masterpieces to has played at famous venues such as Administration of Justice, pause amid the bustle of students and traditional and contemporary New York's Carnegie Hall and faculty at Honors Convocation. favorites. Patterson's recordings in London's Royal Albert Hall. six languages on 28 long-playing (continued on page 4) albums have won him platinum, gold and silver awards. He played the pivotal role of the Irish tenor in John Huston's film version of the Joycean short story, "The Dead." Along with Anna Motto, Simon Estes and Robert Merrill, he inaugurated the restored Statue of Liberty in a televised celebration from St. Patrick's Cathedral. He has The proud moment of first holding a sung before presidents, at New college degree is enjoyed by Jennifer York's Carnegie Hall and at Minch, Julie Minte/1 and Andrew Moniz. London's Royal Albert Hall, but his most treasured public appearance is as cantor at the Papal Mass in Dublin's Phoenix Park, presided over by Pope John Paul II and attended by a congregation of over one million More Commencement photos people. In 1984, he received the on page 3 .. Faculty in the News Judge Murray Honored by National Judicial College Dr. M. Therese Antone, R.S.M., Brother Michael Reis, Instructor Vice President for Institutional in Administration of Justice, was Advancement, has accepted an Staff Army Commendation for her recently honored by the Travelers invitation to join the Board of the outstanding performance in the Aid Society, which sponsors MIT Society of Senior Executives. military. community help projects, at a The Society of Senior Executives She founded the Newport Girl's reception held at its new Providence provides a forum for the graduates of Club and was the founder and first headquarters. Brother Michael is a the Senior Executive Program. The chair of the Rhode Island Committee volunteer with the Travelers Aid Board is made up of executives from for the Humanities. Runaway Project. several major international She was the only woman in the Dr. Thomas Svogun, Assistant corporations. Rhode Island State Senate during her Professor of Administration of eight-year term of office, and she Justice, lectured to the Rhode Island became the first woman in New Mr. Ronald Atkins, Director of Philosophical Society on "Law's England appointed to a Superior Residential Life, has accepted a full­ Virtue." He criticized currently Court Judgeship in 1956. In 1979, time faculty appointment in the dominant positivistic legal theories Judge Murray became the first Management Department. During that produce inadequate accounts of woman elected to sit on the State the past five years, Atkins has served legal practice. Dr. Svogun proposed Supreme Court. as Assistant Director of Residential a theory of law as an interpretation Life, Director of the Wakehurst underwritten by a conception of Judge Murray has served on the Campus Center, Director of College justice. The Honorable Florence K. Newport School Committee, the Murray, Supreme Court Judge and Activities and Director of Residential Arlene Woods, R.S.M., Rhode Island Committee on Youth member of the Board of Trustees of Life. Associate Professor of Art, displayed and Children and the Governor's Salve Regina College, has been Pisanki, traditional Polish Easter Advisory Committee on Revision of appointed Chair (emeritus) of the eggs, in the O'Hare Academic Election Laws. She was awarded Board of Directors of the National Dr. Arthur Frankel, Professor of Center. Sr. Arlene also presented a honorary degrees from Salve Regina Judicial College in Reno, Nevada. Psychology, will present a paper lecture in May on Oriental art titled College, Suffolk University, Rhode Associated with the National Judicial along with Judy Malo ('91) and Beth "Beneath the Mystery: An Island College of Education, Bryant College since its inception, Judge MacAleese ('90) at the New England Introduction to Eastern Art" at the College, the University of Rhode Murray has been a member of the Psychological Association meeting in Lifetime Learning Center in Fall Island and Johnson & Wales Board of Directors since 1975, and October at Holy Cross College in River, Mass. College. Her numerous awards Worcester, Mass. The paper, entitled she served as Chairperson of that include the Silver Shingle "College Student and Faculty Board from 1980-1987. Distinguished Alumni Award from Impressions of Black and White Judge Murray will also be honored Boston University School of Law Transgressors," describes research Parents Weekend '90 locally when the newly-renovated (1977) and the National Association conducted by Frankel, Malo and Newport Courthouse is renamed for of Women Judges "Judge of the MacAleese. Students and faculty her. At the upcoming dedication Year" Award (1984). In 1980, she were given a case study in which a ceremony, the building will be named was inducted into the Rhode Island student reacted negatively toward a the Florence Kerins Murray Judicial Heritage Hall of Fame. She is listed teacher. The only difference in the Complex in recognition of the many in Who's Who of American Women, case was the race of the student. "firsts" which highlight her career. Who's Who in Government and The authors of the paper found no A native Newporter, Judge Murray Who's Who in Education. racial prejudice, but they discovered was the only woman to graduate with An Associate Justice on the Rhode that college seniors were significantly the class of 1942 at Boston Island Supreme Court, Judge more critical of a transgressor than University Law School. She later Murray received her AB. degree college freshmen and faculty. served in the U.S. Army attaining the from Syracuse University and her rank of lieutenant colonel, the LLB. from Boston University. She Dr. Elaine N. Mayer, Professor youngest woman to achieve that has continued her studies at Rhode of Anthropology, recently attended rank up to that time.