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Blue: You couldn't have found my GMAT scores with an electron microscope! However, I finished no. 1 in the business school and was in athletics, campus activities and honor societies so that helped to offset the crappy board scores. I applied to Wharton, Columbia, Chicago and Harvard. Dr. Rayack was...

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After we got the kids educated both my wife and I maxed our IRA contributions every year until we retired. They were invested in a mixed stock portfolio that probably returned a solid 8% per year. Also we didn"t retire until our 70's allowing us to make contributions up to 70 1/2 years old. By ...

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In 1964 we beat UCONN by 1 point at Keaney and lost by 1 point at Storrs. We enede up tied. The AD;s met at Voluntown CT and flipped a coin. URI won the toss and Keaney was split down the middle half URI fans and half UCONN. RI state police were stationed on both sides. Unfortunately UCONN and with ...

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Hey Blue take a calming pill. We also spent a few years on probation for all the violations during the era.

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Know it will piss everyone off but I've always thought we sold our soul to the Devil during the Herrick years and Lamar Odom was the poster child. I will duck and cover while the rocks fly!

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Back home in Maine after a delightful day in Kingston ( basketball excepted ). Went with my daughter via bus and Amtrak. Very stress free. Transportation to and from the station is quite good with either bus or uber. Got a chance to walk the campus and visit the bookstore. I was a guest in the Presi...

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Heading down to Kingston with my daughter today. Have invitation to President's box so good food and a couple of beers. Being lazy am taking bus to Boston and train to Kingston. Last year was a treat as I ran into one of my Cross Country team members and never watched much of the game. Looking forwa...

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Maine continues to improve and is well coached by Amy Vachon. Also the Pit is one of the tougher places to play. I actually was not surprised with the outcome.

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Ramster: Apparently a lot of Bates College students found their way into the fight and were the ones yelling fix. You are correct about the attendence. The place was set up for about 4500. Howard Cosell who was ringside was pretty convinced that the punch was real and thar Liston was leaning the wro...

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Ramster: Thanks for a bit of levity about the Liston-clay fight. I was a junior at URI the bight of the fight. Liston trained at the Poland Spring hotel, I lalked to the owners daughter a while back and she told me about Sonny visiting her son's elementary school class. Also told me about the limo r...

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A real sad day up here in Maine. Most of the area on lock down. I grew up in Auburn across the river and it's a very tight knit area. I'm sure at the end of the day that I will have connections to some of the victims. Many schools in Maine including our town are closed. Maine is a close knit state a...

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Good idea about hightailing it out of Orono. That area is expected to get 60 MPH winds and a lot of rain. We're going to get 55 MPH winds and 15 ft waves here in the Portland area. Buttoning up the boat tomorrow. Many boats being hauled or heading to hurricane holes. Hoping we might get the game on ...

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I live just north of Portland and once rain stops will head out to my sailboat in Casco Bay and bring in my dingy. Will deal with canvas later in week depending on forecast. Came down to URI in the fall of 1962 from Maine as a freshman. The first year I often hitchhiked back to Maine for holiday bre...

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Originally the Quad was surrounded by elm trees which were felled by Dutch Elm Disease. The current trees were planted in either the late 50's or early 60's. They were quite small when I attended in the early to mid 60's and the Quad had a bare feeling. I agree with the previous posters that the Qua...

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Just a heads up. Anna Dewolfe, a three year All A10 guard from Fordham has entered the Transfer Portal as a Grad Transfer. Have heard that she has already been approached by Illinois, Wisconsin and Villanova.

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Back home home my trip to Kingston yesterday with my son in law. Was a guest in the presidents suite. Had a nice long chat with the president and am really impressed with what he's trying to do especially with the budget. Also had a chance to spend some time with Lillian O"Rourke. My highlight ...

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Heading down to Kingston today with my son in law as a guest in the President's box. Hope I don't jinx the team. Last year I was at the GW game when they couldn't shoot free throws and blew a huge lead which started their downfall. Always nice to get back to the campus. My grand daughter has been ac...

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Don was my fraternity brother and was a truly nice guy.. Always enjoyed his presence every year at both the Phi Mu Delta golf outing and the TKE-Phi Mu June gathering. A real sad day for the Phi Mu Brothers. I had a chance to spend a lot of time with Caroline during the planning of our 50th reunion ...

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I need to step up and take responsibility for the crappy season. I attended the George Washington game in January when this whole mess started and they blew their first 14 point lead. I'll stay in Maine next year and maybe that will bring them better luck!

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I remember when GW and Fordham were the teams to beat in the A10 women. Or am I making that up? Fordham is still quite good... a clear 4th in the conference behind URI, Dayton, and UMass, but they're top-65 NET. Would love for URI's game at Fordham to get rescheduled because it's an opportunity for...

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First Blue Man , thanks for starting this most interesting discussion. 1. Orono - The state flagship university does have a geographic problem. It does have a pretty campus but it is two hours away from the southern Maine population center in greater Portland. As a result they don't get the support ...

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Dr. Dooley was an excellent president and we were damn lucky to have him. When we had our 50th reunion, many classmates had not been back to campus either since graduation or at least several years. They were amazed at what was accomplished and what was on the drawing board. Gave us all a renewed pr...

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I did a 7 hour round trip Saturday from the greater Portland area with my daughter and grand daughter and was a guest in the President's suite. I did get to show my grand daughter who is a high school junior part of the campus. We also hit the bookstore for a Rhody ski hat. We had a great time in th...

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Heading down to Kingston today with my daughter and grand daughter as guests in the President's box. Plan to arrive early so I can show my grand daughter, who is a junior in high school, the campus. Hopefully I'll run into a couple of fraternity brothers as I did at Homecoming last fall.

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Going to try to get down to Kingston for the Fordham game. Anna DeWolfe was all everything leading our local Greely High School girls team to two state championships. I've kidded her during the summer that the Rhody Rams were going to ear their lunch. She's a great person and a total team player.

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Nice gathering after the game yesterday for the coach. Billed as an alumni Cross Country and Field Reunion , over 113 turned out for a well deserved tribute. Members as far back as the class of 1964 attended.

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Very sad to report that Art Sherman passed away on August 28 at the age of 96. He was a native son of Rhode Island and a World War II severely wounded combat veteran. After the war he went to URI on the GI Bill. Under the coaching of Fred Tootell he became an All American pole vaulter. He also paint...

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A lot of older alumni raised some serious hell on this issue. Art Sherman was my coach and has been a life long friend. Too nice a person to have to deal with that crap at his advanced age. He did find out in this whole process that he had a lot of friends.

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Just picked up this thread. In the years I was there from 1962-1966 and on the X country and track teams there was a board track beside Rodman Hall and an elongated red Quonset hut behind that. The vaulters, high jumpers, throwers and hurdlers trained in the hut. Us runners would warm up in our swea...

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Enjoyed your comments on the economics professors OBRAM. I was a Business Economics major when the Business School was in Independence Hall across from what is now the Alumni Center. Two of the professors Dr. Rayack and Dr. Derlim would probably be classified as radicals but they were outstanding te...

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In the mid 60's Giro's in Peacedale was our go to place as was the original Iggy's which was in the same neighborhood. Still remember those dime beers!They eventually built a new place near the campus but it was never the same. Later in that era Kenny Carters became more of the "in" place....

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Fordham's Anna DeWolfe is from our town in Maine. Think she scored 27 at the game in Kingston and was the leading scorer yesterday. As a sophomore she is playing 40 minutes a game and I believe is the leading scorer in the A10. She lead our team (Greely) to two straight state championships. A true t...

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Their property taxes are quite a bit higher but not high enough to offset the lower sales and income tax effect. Also they realize a substantial amount of revenue from booze sales - especially close to the Mass. border and on I 95. I always make a stop anytime I'm heading down from Maine. Also huge ...

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I took my kids for their first trip to URI for the Akron playoff game. They liked Zippy their mascot. Remember that they threw all passes in the first half and then in the third quarter ran a draw play that went for 80 yards. We had a fun time. Brought all of them back to the Ryan Center in my reuni...

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Obram: Have you thought about heat pumps? The more modern technology has greatly increased their efficiency. We have a 250 year old house and one part just never got comfortable. We installed one three years ago and it's made a huge difference. Also the state gives a substantial rebate. (between $50...

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OBRAM I don't think there will be a significant decrease in the short term as most of the Quebec power is going to Mass. Right now around 1/3 of electricity costs are in the regulated delivery charge. The rest is the power itself. Every year, I think, the state puts out a standard offer bid and most...

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McRam: Steve Chubin, Mike Fitzgerald and Don Kaul were my fraternity brothers as were Frank Nightengale and Ron Rothtsein on teams prior to 65-66. Henry Carey and Jim Cymbala might as well have been as they came to all our parties. Henry used to put on a pregame show with his dunks. It was a fun tim...

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There are significant tax incentives for investors in solar installations. Our town put a solar farm on top of our former land fill. It was through Revision energy. Basically, our energy costs are the same or slightly below what they were previously. Performance of the system has exceeded expectatio...

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I was at the 1966 game. They split the UCONN fieldhouse in half with a side and end for each school. When the fight started the Connecticut state troopers lined the court. Amazing energy level. Another note on the 65-66 season, we had not beaten PC in the four years I was there and remember we playe...

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Well, as a former co captain of both cross country and indoor track in 1965-1966, I'm damn proud of our guys! We won YC titles in cross country in 1964 and indoor track in 1965. Our era had three hall of famers, Clate Clater, John Gonsalves, and Charlie McGinnis and probably a couple more. Tom Russe...

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