Fall 2001
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Alumni Center
The Alumni Association Welcomes President Lincoln Almond
And Miles To Go Before We Sleep
A Fruitful Future For PhytoCeuticals
From Marine Disaster to Cancer Cure
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Alumni Weekend 2001
Alumni Golf Tournament
Departments
Class Acts Profiles
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Profile in Giving
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BackpageWith students dressed in period costumes and top tunes from the '30s and '40s filling the air, the University launched the $6 million restoration of Green Hall on May 31. The event officially concluded the private fund drive that raised $1 million of the $6 million projected cost. The remaining funds are coming from state obligation bonds and the Rhode Island Capital Fund.  | Waiting for the festivities to begin.
|  | Rhode Island State freshmen from 1934 (theatre students, left to right, Heidi Beckmann, Adam Crowe, and Betsy Eyring) struggle to master the lyrics of the Rhode Island State song.
|  | Dean Helen Peck (Provost M. Beverly Swan '63, M.A. '66) has some words of advice for the new students.
|  | Green Hall Revival Committee Chair Henry J. Nardone '43, Hon. '93, holds the framed 1936 campus map he received in recognition of his leader-ship of the campaign. With him are, left to right, his grandson, Henry J. Nardone III '90; his wife, Mary Frances "Boots" Nardone; Robert M. Beagle, vice president for University Advancement; Paul Witham, associate vice president for development; and Alan Axelrod, assistant director, planned giving.
|  | University officials enjoying the celebration include, left to right, URI President Robert L. Carothers; Paul DePace '66, M.B.A. '75, associate director, capital projects; Vice President Robert M. Beagle of University Advancement.
|  | The Lavallee family, left to right, Irene, Roger '48, and Dave '79, M.P.A. '87, look over a copy of the map from Roger's 1936 Freshman Bible. Green Hall Campaign Chair Henry Nardone now has a framed copy of this map.
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