香港六合彩开奖资料 Remembers Former President Natale A. Sicuro
Sicuro, who died Dec. 20, served as president of Roger Williams College from 1989-1993, leading name change to Roger Williams University and helping to launch law school
BRISTOL, R.I. 颅颅鈥 Natale A. Sicuro, the Roger Williams College president who led the name change to Roger Williams University and helped launch the 香港六合彩开奖资料 law school, died on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, in Seattle after a brief illness. He was 83.
Sicuro served as Roger Williams president from 1989-1993. In 1989, he initiated the Roger Williams Plan for the 90s. He appointed a blue-ribbon exploratory committee that in 1991 recommended the establishment of Roger Williams law school, which had its first students convene in fall 1993. And in 1992, he led the name change of Roger Williams College to Roger Williams University.
鈥淓very president is responsible for advancing the interests of the institution and improving its reputation, and President Sicuro did that by overseeing the development of the law school and converting the institutional status from college to university,鈥 香港六合彩开奖资料 President Donald J. Farish said.
鈥淧resident Sicuro was an important member of the group that had the vision to imagine a law school in Rhode Island and the talent to make it a reality,鈥 香港六合彩开奖资料 School of Law Dean Michael J. Yelnosky said. 鈥淢y colleagues and I are grateful for that work and hopeful that he was proud of what the law school has become.鈥
Sicuro was born in 1934 in Warren, Ohio, according to an obituary in the Jan. 7 . He received a bachelor鈥檚 degree from Kent State University, a master鈥檚 degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the first-ever doctoral degree awarded by Kent State University. He served as president of Southern Oregon University and Portland State University before coming to Roger Williams in 1989.