EXCELLENCE AWARDS: Those honored during the Alumni Awards Luncheon pose outside the Memorial Union. From left are: Marie Arnone Kurmin '85; Rudy Cheeks '72; Mark A. Ross '64; Robert S. Russell '75; Ernest R. Silva '71; Barbara Bateman; Mariann C. Hayward '87, '91; Leo F. DiMaio Jr. '80; and Lawrence M. Modder '94. Award winners not pictured are: Josepha Campinha-Bacote '74; Daniel Harple Jr. '86; Cuttino Mobley '98; and Craig Rosen '79.

Alums enjoy the Bay Queen Cruise on Narragansett Bay.

Clambake brings on smiles from John Medeiros '71 and his wife Kathleen Brennan.

Alumni and others enjoy the works of Ernest Silva '71, artist and professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego, who received an Alumni Award for his contribution to Arts this year.

CLASSMATES: Anna Ferreira Carrera '51 with Eleanor Porter '51.

Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty's Policy Assistant Jhomphy Ventura (URI 2000), right presented a proclamation to Retired Talent Development Director Leo DiMaio, during a ceremony to dedicate the "Leo F. DiMaio Student Conference Room" in Taft Hall.

Retired Rhode Island Superior Court Justice Alton Wiley '51 Hon. '83 and his wife Maryann Conlan enjoy the food and friends at the clambake.

Rhody joins with alums for the fun.

Class of 1943 alumni John Platt and his sister Louiseannette Platt Wright with Robert Beagle, vice president for University Advancement at the 1892 Reception.

Morton ('33, Hon. '82) Grossman and his wife, Ruth (Hon. '82), enjoy the 1892 Society Reception.