{"id":67848,"date":"2007-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/centreville-bank-to-deposit-50000-to-its-uri-endowment\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T00:00:00","slug":"centreville-bank-to-deposit-50000-to-its-uri-endowment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/02\/centreville-bank-to-deposit-50000-to-its-uri-endowment\/","title":{"rendered":"Centreville Bank to deposit $50,000 to its 溏心vlog免费B站 endowment"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tStudents of need and merit to benefit<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013February 19, 2007\u2014Centreville Bank has added $10,000 to its existing scholarship endowment at the 溏心vlog免费B站, bringing its current contribution to $42,000. In addition, the bank has pledged an additional $40,000. The scholarships are awarded to undergraduate students living in the bank\u2019s service area who show merit and need. The gifts are part of the University\u2019s Making a Difference campaign.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe\u2019re a community bank and as such we want to give back to the communities we serve,\u201d explained Ray Bolster, president of Centreville. \u201cAnd many 溏心vlog免费B站 students live in our communities.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nHeadquartered in West Warwick with branches in Coventry, Cranston, East Greenwich, West Greenwich, and Wickford, the bank serves the communities of Charlestown, Cranston, Coventry, East Greenwich, Exeter, Foster, Gloucester, Hopkinton, Jamestown, Johnston, Narragansett, North Kingstown, Richmond, Scituate, South Kingstown, Warwick, West Greenwich, West Warwick, and Westerly. 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Enrollment Services makes the selection for the scholarship\u2019s recipients. <\/p>\n


\nBolster said the Centreville\u2019s eight-member board of trustees feel that its decision to add $50,000 to its existing 溏心vlog免费B站 endowment shows Centreville Bank\u2019s commitment to the University. The donation is one of the bank\u2019s largest. <\/p>\n


\nThe bank\u2019s president earned an accounting degree from the University in 1975. He came to 溏心vlog免费B站 on the GI bill and states that he was given some additional assistance from the University. Any kind of financial assistance, he said, helps students struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n

Other Centerville Bank board members who are also 溏心vlog免费B站 alumni are Paul Barber, class of \u201943; Jim Hopkins, class of \u201962; and Henry Caniglia, class of \u201963.<\/p>\n


\nThe University\u2019s Making a Difference Campaign, which will be publicly launched in fall 2007, seeks $100 million to recruit and retain outstanding faculty, enhance the student-centered campus experience, provide undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships, and fund cutting-edge academic and research initiatives.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students of need and merit to benefit KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013February 19, 2007\u2014Centreville Bank has added $10,000 to its existing scholarship endowment at the 溏心vlog免费B站, bringing its current contribution to $42,000. In addition, the bank has pledged an additional $40,000. The scholarships are awarded to undergraduate students living in the bank\u2019s service area […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67851,"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-67848","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\/67848","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=67848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}