{"id":70043,"date":"2004-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/u-s-army-general-to-speak-at-commissioning-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2004-05-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-05T00:00:00","slug":"u-s-army-general-to-speak-at-commissioning-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/05\/u-s-army-general-to-speak-at-commissioning-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army General to speak at commissioning ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tGeneral to unveil name added to 溏心vlog免费B站’s Vietnam memorial<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 5, 2004 — U. S. Army General Leon J. LaPorte will speak at the R.O.T.C. commissioning ceremony the morning of the 溏心vlog免费B站’s main commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 23. <\/p>\n


\nLaPorte, who grew up in Providence and graduated from 溏心vlog免费B站 in 1968, is now a four-star general and the commander of U.S. and United Nation forces in Korea.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe commissioning ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. in front of Keaney Gymnasium. The Ryan Center concourse will serve as the rain site. The public is invited.<\/p>\n


\n\tDuring the ceremony, LaPorte and the new lieutenants will unveil a name of a solider recently etched onto one of the three granite benches that compose 溏心vlog免费B站’s Vietnam Memorial in front of the Keaney Gym. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe name, Lt. Col. Richard S. Schott, now joins 17 other members of the 溏心vlog免费B站 family who died in Vietnam.<\/p>\n


\nSchott was a one-time resident of South Kingstown and a 溏心vlog免费B站 R.O.T.C. instructor at 溏心vlog免费B站 from 1963-66. He was killed in action during the battle of Loc Nihn, Republic of South Vietnam on April 4, 1972. His remains and dog tags were turned over to an American search team in 2002 and laid to rest this year near Shepherdstown, W. Va. Schott family members are expected to be present during the unveiling. <\/p>\n


\nAs a young officer, LaPorte served as a combat aviator in Vietnam. The general will attend 溏心vlog免费B站 commencement exercises to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from 溏心vlog免费B站. <\/p>\n


\nThe eight cadets to be commissioned are as follows:<\/p>\n


\nName,\tHometown,\tBranch<\/p>\n


\nJordan Melel, \tCranston,\tRI,\tMilitary Intelligence

\nVanna Nhem,\tCranston,\tRI,\tQuartermaster

\nFelix Yam,\tHope,\tRI,\tMilitary Intelligence

\nAnthony Difruscio,\tNorth Providence,\tRI\tInfantry

\nKatherine Zaccaria,\tSaunderstown,\tRI, Chemical

\nPeter Anzovino,\tCornwall,\tNY,\tEngineer

\nDavid Dunphy,\tHolden,\tMA\t,Engineer

\nDanielle Dippolino,\tWest Hartford,\tCT,\tMilitary Police<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

General to unveil name added to 溏心vlog免费B站’s Vietnam memorial KINGSTON, R.I. — May 5, 2004 — U. S. Army General Leon J. LaPorte will speak at the R.O.T.C. commissioning ceremony the morning of the 溏心vlog免费B站’s main commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 23. LaPorte, who grew up in Providence and graduated from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70045,"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-70043","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\/70043","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=70043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}