Rhode Island College Digital Commons @ RIC What's News? Newspapers 1-12-2002 What's News At Rhode Island College Rhode Island College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/whats_news Recommended Citation Rhode Island College, "What's News At Rhode Island College" (2002). What's News?. 22. https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/whats_news/22 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Digital Commons @ RIC. It has been accepted for inclusion in What's News? by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ RIC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. What’s News at Rhode Island College Vol. 22 Issue 8 Circulation over 43,000 Jan. 28, 2002 W. Warwick’s Royal Mills subject of photo exhibit Highlights by RIC students, faculty and alumni Feb. 1-27 by Jane Fusco They came back with dramatically RIC alumnus and industrial archae- lit images of a striking example of ologist, Ned Connors ’79. All photo- Alumni What's News Editor industrial architecture,” said Paola graphs were taken by RIC students, Feature Story Ferrario, assistant professor of pho- faculty and alumni. hat began as a student pho- tography at RIC. The mill complex was originally RIC grad celebrates tography assignment has “Because the Mills are such an built in 1810 as the Greene 100th birthday Wturned into a mission to save important piece of the historical Manufacturing Company, a cotton a piece of Rhode Island’s history. identity of Rhode Island, I knew I spinning mill, by Dr. Stephen Harris The Royal Mills textile complex could find support for a project that and partners. In 1885, the Knight Feature Story on 125 Providence Street in West would help students to focus and family absorbed it into their textile Center for Management & Technology Speaker Series: Hasbro's Al Verrecchia Development Wireless phone plan offer Nominations sought for Alumni Awards/ Warwick, abandoned since the early have a sense of importance as pho- empire and expanded the property. Honor Roll 1970s and on a track of possible tographers.” In the early 1890s, they disbanded demolition, is the subject of a pho- The Royal Mills Project photo exhi- Harris’s original mill and trans- tography exhibition to be presented bition, presented by the College and formed portions of it into housing by some of Rhode Island College’s the Warwick Museum, in coopera- for the workers, then renamed it Sports students, faculty and alumni, as a tion with the West Warwick Fire “Royal” after their firstborn son. Wrestler Riley focuses documentation of its historical sig- Department, showcases about 50 At the time, the Knights controlled nificance, industrial archaeology, photographs from different stages 17 mills in Rhode Island and on New England prosperity, union disputes, and of the Mill’s history, and will run Massachusetts. championship desertion, all in testimony to its from Feb. 1-27. The surviving Royal Mills com- place as an historical landmark. A reception will be held on Sunday, plex is dominated by a five story, “I gave my students a technical Feb. 3 at the Warwick Museum, 3259 450-foot long structure of brick assignment to photograph a subject Post Road in Warwick, from 1-4 and granite. An overhead walkway Arts & of deep shadow and bright light. p.m., and will include a narrative by Continued on page 5 Entertainment Proposal to examine Art: Bannister Gallery Keep the Flame Burning College grounds — Exhibit Spotlight on Alumni Dig this for Theatre: Noel Coward's Scholarship Recipients “Present Laughter” College’s 150th Arthur E. Souza Center as a residential assistant and at Anniversary Northeast Beverage in Warwick where Class of 2002 he loads trucks and makes deliveries. A Index RIC Alumni Scholarship helps with his by George LaTour Recipient of: college expenses. What's News Associate Editor Way We Were; “I know it takes time and experience Focus on Faculty 2 Alumni to excel in teaching,” he says, “but I feel Scholarship Rhode Island College is doing a great here’s some interesting stuff Award job in preparing me for success.” underfoot on the Rhode Island Foundation & Upon graduation in May, he’d like to TCollege campus. Alumni Affairs 4 land a job as an elementary special edu- At least that’s what the “resident cation teacher in the Coventry school archaeologist” would have us system then work toward a master’s believe. Dean's List 6-7 The “most important goal right now” degree. Pierre Morenon, associate profes- in the life of Arthur E. Souza Jr. of These days he helps coach the sor of anthropology and director of the former Public Archeology Service Recognition Wyoming, R. I., is to graduate from Coventry wrestling team. If successful Rhode Island College “as the best in getting a teaching assignment in Program at RIC, feels a careful Day 8 teacher that I can be.” Coventry, he’d like nothing better than to examination of long-ago artifacts The elementary special education someday serve as head wrestling coach buried beneath the campus grounds would offer an “in-depth interdis- Sports 9 major is well on his way to achieving there. that goal. Now a senior, he has been a But his goals aren’t limited to that. ciplinary examination of the place Dean’s List student ever since coming to Someday, Souza would like to teach where we all work” to say the least. Arts/Entertainment 10-11 RIC from Coventry High School where education students at RIC as a faculty It also would offer an eye-open- he was a state champion wrestler in the member and coach the RIC wrestlers. ing experience of the rich history 135 lb. class. “I would have wrestled for RIC, but I that belongs to RIC and its expand- RIC Calendar 12 Now living with his grandmother cannot afford to wrestle, work and go to ing campus, which includes the for- since his parents’ divorce, he makes school at the same time. I also have to mer state Department of Children, ends meet with a job at the Trudeau help my mother,” says Souza. Continued on page 5 Page 2– What’s News, Monday, Jan. 28, 2002 The Way We Were… Focus on the Faculty and Staff Faculty and staff are encouraged to submit items of information about This popular item in What’s News continues so you can revisit your their professional endeavors to What’s News, Office of News and Public alma mater with a selection of photos from the College’s past, whether Relations, 300 Roberts Hall or e-mail them to [email protected]. the current era (Rhode Island College) or past eras (Rhode Island College of Education or Rhode Island State Normal School). We invite Professor cil is comprised of legislators and your contribution of old photos, along with sufficient information Mariano health care experts who conduct about each, such as who’s in the photo and what they are doing, the Rodrigues and a comprehensive annual review of year it was taken and place (if possible). In the meantime, we’ll con- Assistant the organization, financing, and tinue searching our files for interesting pictures of past College life. Professor delivery trends of health care ser- Kathryn vices in Rhode Island and publish Sanders, their findings in the form of an Mathematics annual report. and Computer Tomoji Shogenji, associate pro- Science fessor of philosophy, presented Department, a paper titled “Beliefs and are pleased to Appearances in Coherentist MARIANO RODRIGUES announce that Justification” at a symposium on Rhode Island Coherentism in Epistemology held College will host the April, 2003 con- in Ottawa, Canada. The paper argues ference for the that coherence of beliefs does not Consortium for indicate their truth because beliefs Computing in are formed under the coherence Small Colleges, constraint. The paper will be pub- Northeast lished in the proceedings of the Section. The symposium. conference Assistant Professor of draws together Mathematics Chris Teixeira was more than 200 recently appointed Rhode Island computer sci- State Director for the American ence educators Mathematics Competition. This for the competition, sponsored by the exchange of KATHRYN SANDERS Mathematics Association of ideas and infor- America, the American mation about undergraduate com- Mathematical Society, Society for puting programs and 12 student Industrial and Applied Mathematics, programming teams. Rodrigues has and others, is the first in a series been named program chair and RIC of competitions leading to the for- alumnus Frank Ford, professor of mation of the United States team mathematics at Providence College, that competes in the International will co-chair the conference Mathematics Olympiad. Last year, Patricia A. Molloy, assistant over 1,000 Rhode Island high school professor in the Department of students participated. Nursing, has been appointed to Gale Goodwin Gomez, chair the Governor’s Advisory Council of the anthropology department, on Health representing the Rhode recently presented a paper entitled, Island State Nurses Association “Yanomami Literacy: Defending (RISNA). Gov. Almond formed the their Land,” at the 100th meeting Council in 1997 to provide the leg- of the American Anthropological islature with information regard- Association held in Washington, ing Rhode Island’s rapidly changing D.C. Goodwin Gomez also assumed health care system and the implica- position on the association's com- tions of changes upon public policy mittee on ethics to which she was and the state’s economy. The coun- elected in spring 2001. BASKETBALL STAR: In this photo from the 1971 yearbook we see Rick Wilson scoring a basket over a headline that read, “Rick Wilson Hits Over 2,000.” RIC faculty part of statewide project Wilson, Class of ‘72 and member of the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame, is still RIC’s all-time leading scorer with a total of 2,653 points.