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Salve Elects Three New Trustees

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CONTACT: Robert J. McI

RELEASE: Tuesday , September 18, 1973

SALVE ELECTS 'J1HREE NEW TRUSTEES

The Board of •rrustees of Salve Regina College , Newport,

Rhode Island, elected three new members during its first

meeting of the 1973-74 acade mic year last night. The new

board me mbers are: Felix DeWeldon of Newport, R. I. , and

Washinc:_rton , D. C.; Sister Mary Therese Antone, R. S . M. , of

Cuniberland, R. I.; and Mr. Willard H. Gage , J r., o f Barring­

ton, R. I.

Mr. DeWeldon is an internationally known sculptor .

Among his more famous works are tJ1e World War I monument,

Belleau Wood , France ; the U. S. Marine Co:rps Memorial o f

the Iwo Jirna Flag Raising , Washington, D. C. ; a bronze of

Sgt. Al vin York, Nashville , Tennessee ; a bronze of Presi­

~ient Ke nne dy and a gold me da.l o f President Johnson on, dis­

play in the White House , Wa s hington, D. C .

A native of Austria , Mr . DeWeldon became a n aturalized

U. S. citizen in 1945. He holds an A. B. from Marchetti

College , Vienna, Aus tria, and a M.A. , M. S. and Ph. D. from

the University of Vie nna, Acade my of Creative Ar ts , School

of Architectu ~e.

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Sister Antone is a staff member of

in Cumberland, R. I. She is also Provincial Councilor

of the and a member of the Board of

Trustees of the Bishop Feehan High School Foundation.

Formerly the principal of Bishop Feehan High School,

Attleboro, Massachusetts, Sister Antone has served on the

accrediting team of the New England Association of Schools

and Colleges, the Board of Governors of the Southeastern

Massachusetts Conference of High Schools and the Advisory

School Board of the Fall River Diocese. Sister Antone is

a graduate of Salve Regina College and Villanova University

where she received her Master's degree.

Mr. Willard H. Gage, Jr., is an assistant vice president

of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank. He is a

graduate of the Williams College School of Banking and the

Rutgers University Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

Past president of the Providence Chapter of the American

Institute of Bankers, Mr. Gage is a member of the Greater

Provide nce Chamber of Commerce, the Rhode Island His~orical I Society, Special Gifts Chairman of the United Way, a member

of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Business

Opportunities, Inc., a member of Robert Morris Associates

and a trustee of Alpan, Inc.

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