2006 First Annual
Distinguished Achievement 
Awards & Gala

Saturday, October 14, 2006 ⋅ Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, R.I.

The Distinguished Achievement Awards honor
those who personify URI’s tradition of excellence
in achievement, leadership, and service.

2006 PRESIDENT’S AWARD RECIPIENTS

Bernard J. Beaudreau ’77
Bernard Beaudreau is a former executive director of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, has spent his career giving to others. From 1984 to 1995 he worked for Oxfam America; before that he worked for the Women’s Development Corp., a Rhode Island housing organization. During his 10 years as the head of the food bank, Beaudreau tripled food distributions, now up to 8.3 million pounds, and saw cash contributions increase from $1.4 million to $3.6 million. He also directed the agency’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Beaudreau is moving to Chicago to join a new organization called the Global FoodBanking Network that will promote food banks around the world. He is a Providence resident.

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Barbara A. Cardillo ’72
Barbara Cardillo is a technology marketing executive in California’s Silicon Valley, she has co-founded three successful high technology companies in the past 10 years. She recently retired from her latest company, Firetide, Inc., where she was vice president of marketing. From 1988 to 1997, Cardillo worked at Apple Computer where she was director of desktop product marketing and later served as president of marketing for the company’s PowerBook division. She has a master’s degree from Boston University and a doctorate in communications from Stanford University. Cardillo is a Los Gatos, Calif. resident.

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Thomas M. Ryan ’75, Hon. ’99
Tom Ryan ’75, Hon. ’99, is chairman, president, and CEO of CVS, a long-time supporter of the College of Pharmacy and Rhody athletics, and chair of the new $100 million URI capital campaign to bolster the University’s endowment. Ryan and former Gov. Lincoln Almond ’59, Hon. ’03, chaired the successful $15 million private fund-raising drive for the basketball and events venue that bears Ryan’s name. In addition, Ryan and CVS provided the majority of funding for the Thomas M. Ryan/CVS Chair in Community Pharmacy. Ryan is a Narragansett resident.

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Cynthia Sculco ’65
Cynthia Sculco is an adjunct associate professor of nursing at New York University, a member of the Alumni Council of Teachers College at Columbia University, and a trustee of the URI Foundation. Her impressive nursing and teaching credentials include work with Presbyterian Hospital, New York University, and Hunter College. She is president of the Nurse’s Educational Fund. At URI Sculco established a research endowment that provides seed money to nursing faculty and made a leadership gift to the student commons renovation project in White Hall. She serves on the College of Nursing Advisory Committee and was honorary chair of the Hart Garden Campaign and co-chair of the college’s 60th anniversary gala. Sculco is a Westerly, R.I. and New York City resident.

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2006 DEANS’ AWARD RECIPIENTS

ALAN SHAWN FEINSTEIN COLLEGE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION
Carol A. Corwin ’84
Joyce J. Dolbec ’95, M.A. ’01

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
The Honorable Mary M. Lisi ’72
Richard W. Petrocelli ’79
Robert R. Petrocelli ’88, M.S. ’92

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
David J. Buckanavage ’80
Mark E. Crevier ’72, M.S. ’78
Marianne Gattinella ’79

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Laurie E. Goodman ’86
Paul B. McGarty ’82
Peter A. Pelletier ’67

COLLEGE OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND LIFE SCIENCES
Paul J. Marangos, Ph.D. ’73
Diane Pennica, Ph.D. ’77
Norman G. Tashash ’77

COLLEGE OF HUMAN SCIENCE AND SERVICES
Kathryn R. Beaupre
NiCole R. Keith, M.S. ’94
Glenn S. Palmer ’75

COLLEGE OF NURSING
Esther Emard ’82, M.S. ’88
Mary Beth Esposito-Herr, Ph.D. ’98
Joyce Stamp Lilly ’75

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
Herbert S. Carlin ’54
Arthur G. Lipman ’67
Paul G. Pierpaoli ’60

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OCEANOGRAPHY
David L. Evans, Ph.D. ’75
John Farrington, Ph.D. ’72
Margaret S. Leinen, Ph.D. ’80