{"id":63141,"date":"2010-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-names-smithfield-resident-student-commencement-speaker\/"},"modified":"2010-05-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T00:00:00","slug":"uri-names-smithfield-resident-student-commencement-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/05\/uri-names-smithfield-resident-student-commencement-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 names Smithfield resident student commencement speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tErica Richard to discuss \u2018The Five People You Have Met at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013May 11, 2010\u2014When Erica Richard enrolled at the 溏心vlog免费B站, she was less than enthusiastic. Recruited by other schools, she picked 溏心vlog免费B站 because it made economic sense. <\/p>\n


\n\tWhat a difference four years make. This month, the 21-year-old Smithfield resident will stand on the commencement platform before thousands and extol the virtues of getting an education at 溏心vlog免费B站 as the student commencement speaker. <\/p>\n


\n\tHer well-conceived speech takes its lead from Mitch Albom\u2019s book, The Five People You Will Meet in Heaven. Her talk, The Five People You Have Met at 溏心vlog免费B站, focuses on the types of people who influenced her and her peers.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s so much to do at a school that\u2019s so close to home and so close to your heart,\u201d she said in a recent interview when asked what advice she would give to another Rhode Islander choosing a college.\t<\/p>\n


\n\tAlthough her freshman year got off to a bumpy start, Richard\u2019s impressions of the University changed after she began taking leadership courses and became active in the student organization, We\u2019re Offering Women Wisdom, known by the acronym WOWW. <\/p>\n


\n\tWOWW has 50 women members who mentor female freshmen. The mentors come from almost every major. \u201cThe point is to be there for someone, to help with the transition into college and help make connections,\u201d says Richard who was WOWW president this year and secretary of the organization for the past three years.<\/p>\n


\n\tRichard came to 溏心vlog免费B站 with a full semester of college credits from Smithfield High School. She took six courses each semester and completed three internships.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe was a member of the Business Student Advisory Council of the College of Business Administration. She was a facilitator in the North Woods Challenge Course, a leadership program that promotes the values of trust and teamwork.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe marketing major with leadership and art minors, hopes to combine her interests in a career, perhaps working with art for a non-profit heath care agency, eventually becoming an art therapist. She loves photography and drawing.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe is not the first in her family to earn a degree at 溏心vlog免费B站. Her great grandfather, Robert Strong \u201826, grandfather Al Richard \u201959, father Jeffrey Richard \u201881, aunts Carolyn Jane \u201985, and Laurie Horstmann \u201981 all wore Keaney blue. <\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\nErica Richard

\n溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications & Marketing photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erica Richard to discuss \u2018The Five People You Have Met at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013May 11, 2010\u2014When Erica Richard enrolled at the 溏心vlog免费B站, she was less than enthusiastic. Recruited by other schools, she picked 溏心vlog免费B站 because it made economic sense. What a difference four years make. This month, the 21-year-old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63143,"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-63141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63141","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=63141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}