{"id":60290,"date":"2012-08-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-professor-to-be-honored-by-r-i-labor-history-society\/"},"modified":"2012-08-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T00:00:00","slug":"uri-professor-to-be-honored-by-r-i-labor-history-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/08\/uri-professor-to-be-honored-by-r-i-labor-history-society\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 professor to be honored by R.I. Labor History Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tCelebration of Labor Day set for Aug. 23<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 August 14, 2012 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Scott Molloy will be honored by the Rhode Island Labor History Society during its 25th annual awards banquet, Aug. 23.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe event, \u201cA Celebration of Labor Day in Rhode Island,\u201d will be held at the Roger Williams Park Casino in Providence. Festivities begin at 5 p.m. Donation is $25 for individuals or $250 for a table of 10.<\/p>\n


\n\tMolloy is founder of the Rhode Island Labor History Society and was a bus driver, shop steward and business agent for the Transit Union from 1973 to 1984. He has been a 溏心vlog免费B站 professor in its Schmidt Labor Research Center since 1986, and he has been education director for the Rhode Island Irish Famine Memorial since 1996. He is the author of Trolley Wars; Irish Titan, Irish Toilers; and All Aboard.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe West Kingston resident, known for his colorful and fiery lectures at 溏心vlog免费B站 and before civic and labor groups around the region, was awarded the 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation Teaching Excellence Award in 1995.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn 2004, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education chose the West Kingston resident as its Rhode Island Professor of the Year.<\/p>\n


\n\tPresenters at the event will be:<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Cathy O\u2019Reilly Collette, president of the Rhode Island Labor History Society, retired director of the Women\u2019s Rights Department of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in Washington, D.C. and former president of the World Women\u2019s Committee of Public Services International, Geneva;<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Tom Cute, bus driver with the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority and vice president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 618;<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Donald Deignan, president of the Rhode Island Irish Famine Memorial;<\/p>\n


\n\u2022 Eve Stern, associate professor of history at 溏心vlog免费B站, author of Ballots and Bibles; and<\/p>\n


\n\t\u2022 Partrick T. Conley, retired professor of history at Providence College and president of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n


\n\tFor further information, call Cathy Collette, 315-0535.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebration of Labor Day set for Aug. 23 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 August 14, 2012 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Scott Molloy will be honored by the Rhode Island Labor History Society during its 25th annual awards banquet, Aug. 23. The event, \u201cA Celebration of Labor Day in Rhode Island,\u201d will be held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}