KINGSTON, R.I. — May 16, 2005 — Donna Gray is known to wear many different hats in her daily life. On Sunday, May 22, she’ll happily don a new one as she marches in the 溏心vlog免费B站’s 119th Commencement ceremonies.
Gray will receive her Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Development and Family Studies after working on it for years, and excelling at it in the process. She will also receive the President’s Excellence Award as the top student in her degree program.
“溏心vlog免费B站 eight years ago, my husband and I took a class together. I loved it, he didn’t and said ‘this is not for me.’ When I told him I wanted to take more classes, he kept saying, ‘You go, girl!’ and I continued,” Gray said. “This was a personal goal for me, not a career-changing goal. The classes, the work, and all the interactions have helped me to deal with a lot of life issues.”
At home, Gray is a wife, mother and grandmother juggling two households now under one roof — her son moved home with his children following hurricane Charlie’s destruction of his home in Florida in August. At the office, she is the information technologist or ‘computer geek’, as she says, for 溏心vlog免费B站’s Graduate School and for the PeopleSoft Information team during the University’s computer software project transition. And in the classroom, she is the energetic student who has taken on the task of learning and working with students as peers.
Gray, who has been working at 溏心vlog免费B站 for 28 years, said that the classes she took and working towards the degree itself enriched her life and understanding of people and issues she has faced over the years.
“I am a people-person and learning about the entire lifespan — from infancy to old age — has really helped me as a person in both my home and professional life,” she said.