In Recognition of 40 Years of Service
Since 2013, the University of Rhode Island has been honoring individuals who have dedicated their work lives to serving URI. Each year, during a formal induction ceremony, the University congratulates and thanks its retiring staff and faculty members who have been employed at the University for 40 years or more. Each new member is recognized and commemorative bricks, engraved with the retiree’s name and years of service, are unveiled and then placed in the patio of the Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons.
Save the Date:
Friday, November 20, 2026
Robert J. Higgins Welcome Center, Kingston Campus
2026 Inductees (retired between July 2025 – June 2026)
Farhad Atash, Professor, Landscape Architecture • 41 years
Terrence Bradley, Professor, Aquaculture • 41 years
Mary R. Costa, Scientific Research Grant Assistant, Research Office • 46 years
Paul M. DePace, Director, Capital Construction •48 years
Robert L. Dufresne, Professor, College of Pharmacy • 45 years
Edmund A. Lamagna, Professor, Computer Science • 50 years
E. Paul Larrat, Professor and Former Dean, College of Pharmacy • 42 years
Theresa A. Nobile, Administrative Assistant, Sociology and Anthropology • 46 years
Peter F. Swaszek, Professor, Electrical, Computer and Bio Engineering • 42 years
Eileen (Susie) Tobin, Director, Sponsored and Cost Accounting • 46 years
2025 Inductees (retired between July 2024 – July 2025)
Susan Trostle Brand, Professor, College of Education • 40 years
John K. Dunn, Associate Professor, Business Instruction • 46 years
Katherine T. Favreau, Fiscal Clerk, College of the Environment and Life Sciences •46 years
David L. Freeman, Professor, Chemistry • 49 years
Gayla Gazerro, Assistant Director, Office of Strategic Initiatives • 40 years
Laura Kenerson, Assistant Vice President, Human Resource Administration •44 years
Ramdas Kumaresan, Professor, Electrical Computer & Biomedical Engineering • 42 years
Michael LaPointe*, Hall Director, Housing & Residential Life • 50 years
Maureen McDermott*, Director, Memorial Union and Student Involvement • 43 years
Richard McIntyre, Professor, Economics • 41 years
Arthur Mead, Professor, Economics • 49 years
Mary Jane Palm, Manager, Instructional Technology and Media Services • 42 years
Fred Forrest Pease, Captain, Research Vessel, Ocean Engineering • 45 years
Joseph S. Rossi, Professor, Psychology• 41 years
Linda Welters, Professor, Textiles, Fashion Merchandising & Design •45 years
*posthumous
2024 Inductees (retired between January 2023 – June 2024)
Richard E. Anderson, Maintenance Superintendent, Facilities Services • 45 years
William Euler, Professor, Chemistry, College of Arts and Science • 41 years
Heather Faubert, Research Associate II, Plant Sciences and Entomology, College of the Environment and Life Sciences • 42 years
Paul Florin, Professor, Psychology, College of Health Sciences • 42 years
Arthur J. Gold, Professor, Natural Resource Sciences, College of the Environment and Life Sciences Academic • 40 years
Joanne Lawrence, Specialist, Faculty Senate • 42 years
Craig Louzon, Grounds Superintendent, Landscape & Grounds Maintenance • 40 years
Jane S. Miner, Manager, NBC/Graduate School of Oceanography • 47 years
David R. Nelson, Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, College of the Environment and Life Sciences • 42 years
Peter Nightingale, Professor, Physics, College of Arts and Sciences • 40 years
Stuart Westin, Professor, Business Instruction, College of Business • 40 years
Past Inductees
David H. Abedon, 46 years
George Adams, 44 years
Sona Aronian, 40 years
Wendy G. Asting, 44 years
Nadine L. Baer, 50 years
John Barlow, 49 years
Stanley M. Barnett, 41 years
Judith Barnett, 47
Linda A. Barrett, 48 years
Shirley H. Barney, 43 years
Raymond A. Beauregard, 47 years
Wendy G. Belue-Brodeur, 40 years
Allan Berman, 41 years
Henry B. Biller, 42 years
Frank H. Bills, 45 years
Gary T. Boden*, 43 years
John Boulmetis, 41 years
Christopher W. Brown, 42 years
Richard Brown, 41 years
Winifred E. Brownell, 46 years
Harold Browning, 40 years
Lawrence F. Brusic, 43 years
Frank Budnick, 44 years
Robert C. Bullock, 40 years
Patricia Burbank, 40 years
Howland Burdick, 48 years
John Burkett, 40 years
Cheryl A. Burrell, 42 years
James F. Cacciola, 45 years
J. Allan Cain, 44 years
Viola B. Card, 42 years
Leo Carroll, 46 years
Richard A. Casagrande, 41 years
Everett P. Christopher, 43 years
Paul F. Cieurzo Jr., 40 years
Dorothy E. Clare, 44 years
Joel A. Cohen, 48 years
Paul S. Cohen, 49 years
Charles E. Collyer, 40 years
Robert A. Comerford, 42 years
Peter Cornillon, 47 years
William Croasdale, 41 years
Jeannette E. Crooker, 40 years
Joel A. Dain, 53 years
Albert J. Della Bitta, 47 years
Frank J. DeLuise, 45 years
Dorothy F. Donnelly, 47 years
Agnes G. Doody, 45 years
Kathleen A. Durand, 42 years
Edward G. Durbin, 40 years
Wayne K. Durfee, 40 years
Wilfred P. Dvorak, 44 years
Mabel DeWitt Eldred, 42 years
Larry Englander, 49 years
Cynthia Yemma Faria, 41 years
William R. Ferrante, 41 years
Peter A. Ferrara Jr., 45 years
Norman J. Finizio, 55 years
Howard H. Foster, 40 years
Anthony J. Frias, 42 years
Robert H. Fuquea*, 45 years
Deborah Gardiner, 41 years
John M. Grandin, 40 years
Stephen L. Granger, 40 years
Deborah A. Grant, 40 years
Lawrence C. Grebstein, 42 years
Thomas A. Grigalunas, 40 years
Edward A. Grove, 42 years
Linda Taylor Green, 42 years
Thomas Guglielmetti, 42 years
Robert S. Haas, 40 years
Warren M. Hagist, 40 years
Carolyn C. Hames, 45 years
R. Choudary Hanumara, 43 years
Alan Haskins, 45 years
Frank H. Heppner, 41 years
O. Don Hermes, 40 years
Sara C. Hickox, 42 years
Michael Honhart, 51 years
Linda A. Hufnagel, 42 years
Thomas P. Husband, 40 years
Kerwin E. Hyland, 43 years
Jeffrey E/ Jarrett, 49 years
Galen A. Johnson, 44 years
Gabriele Kass-Simon, 43 years
Charles Kaufman, 56 years
Steven M. Kay, 40 years
Mimi Keefe, 50 years, posthumous
George E. Kent, 48 years
Albert L. Kenyon, 40 years
M. Thelma Kenyon, 45 years
Alfred G. Killilea, 43 years
Thomas J. Kim, 41 years
Richard H. Kingsley, 41 years
Maury N. Klein, 44 years
William C. Klenk, 52 years
Eric Klos, 43 years
Sharon R. Kirk, 40 years
Louis J. Kirschenbaum, 49 years
Harold N. Knickle, 42 years
James G. Kowalski, 40 years
Gerasimos Ladas, 43 years
Amar K. Lahiri, 47 years
Phyllis J. Lamidi, 42 years
Joan M. Lausier, 40 years
Roger A. Lebrun, 43 years
Helen M. Leeming, 43 years
Stephen V. Letcher, 40 years
James T. Lewis, 42 years
Surendra S. Malik, 56 years
Shmuel Mardix, 49 years
Kenneth T. Mars Jr., 40 years
Albert D. Martin, 42 years
Spencer J. Martin, 45 years
David C. Maslyn, 40 years
Joseph P. Matoney, 42 years
William R. Matteson, 44 years
W. Lynn McKinney, 40 years
Shashanka S. Mitra, 41 years
Cindy Moreau, 43 years
Joseph G. Morello, 45 years
Thomas D. Morin*, 43 years
Marcia A. Morreira, 48 years
Joseph Mulcahey, 40 years
Wilfred H. Nelson, 40 years
Richard T. Neuse, 47 years
Theresa H. Newton, 54 years
Dennis W. Nixon, 44 years
Scott W. Nixon, 42 years
Jan A. Northby, 42 years
William J. Ohley, 42 years
John L. O’Leary, 41 years
Stephen B. Olsen, 41 years
William T. O’Malley, 42 years
Ronald J. Onorato, 44 years
James J. Opaluch, 40 years
Candace A. Oviatt, 46 years
William J. Palm, 44 years
Elmer A. Palmatier, 40 years
Martha S. Patnoad, 40 years
John F. Peterson, 52 years
Tommaso Pitassi, 43 years
Lori F. Pivarnik, 42 years
John J. Poggie Jr., 49 years
Gene Pollart, 46 years
Nancy A. Potter, 42 years
William Henry Potter, 53 years
Sheldon D. Pratt, 40 years
Dianne L. Preble, 40 years
James O. Prochaska, PhD, 51 years
Richard F. Purnell, 40 years
Glenworth A. Ramsay, 41 years
Barbara J. Ray, 45 years
Donald D. Robadue Jr., 41 years
Vincent C. Rose, 41 years
William Rosen, 45 years
Lawrence Rothstein, 40 years
Charles T. Schifino*, 49 years
Stephen D. Schwarz, 44 years
Antonio J. Sciola, 70 years
Henry R. Schwarzbach, 42 years
Donna Schwartz-Barcott, 46 years
Robert Schwegler, 44 years
Linda Sebelia, 43 years
Lawrence W. Sherman, 46 years
Norman B. Sherman, 43 years
Roger Allen Sherman, 48 years
Wayne B. Sherman, 40 years
Albert Silverstein, 41 years
Jay Singer, 42 years
James L. Starkey, 41 years
Arthur B. Stein, 42 years
Karen F. Stein, 49 years
Malcolm E. Stone, 54 years
Sharon H. Strom, 41 years
E. R. Suryanarayan, 41 years
Judith Swift, 51 years
David E. Tetreault, 47 years
Gary J. Thurston, 45 years
Timothy W. Tierney, 41 years
Earl J. Travers, 43 years
Richard V. Travisano, 45 years
Mario Trubiano, 40 years
Lucy Comins Tucker, 49 years
Nancy A. Tucker, 54 years
Donald W. Tufts, 41years
Gerry S. Tyler, 45 years
Marshall H. Tyler, 44 years
John F. Vanner, 40 years
Wayne F. Velicer*, 42 years
James F. Vincent, Jr., 49 years
Bruno M. Vittimberga, 47 years
Jerry Walmsley, 45 years
Robert G. Weisbord, 46 years
Fritz K. Wenisch*, 48 years
George H. Willis, 45 years
John F. Wills ll, 41 years
Joyce Winn, 47 years
Karen F. Wishner, 41 years
Raymond M. Wright, 40 years
J. Vernon Wyman, 40 years
Sze C. Yang, 40 years
Donald J. Zeyl, 40 years
Norman l. Zucker, 42 years