{"id":71180,"date":"2001-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/two-uri-alums-establish-engineering-scholarships\/"},"modified":"2001-10-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-22T00:00:00","slug":"two-uri-alums-establish-engineering-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2001\/10\/two-uri-alums-establish-engineering-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Two 溏心vlog免费B站 alums establish engineering scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — October 22, 2001 — Two business leaders in northern Rhode Island, both graduates of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Engineering, have established scholarships at the University to make sure that future students have the same chances for success that they did. <\/p>\n

\tWilliam R. Bisson of Lincoln, the retired president of Blackstone Valley Electric Co. and a 1949 graduate of 溏心vlog免费B站, and North Smithfield resident Gary S. Ezovski, president of Lincoln Environmental Inc. in Smithfield and a 1972 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate, endowed scholarships this fall.
\n\t“As a 溏心vlog免费B站 undergrad, I benefited from a scholarship without which I would never have made it through,” said Ezovski. “I funded my education myself, and I know how important it is to get any measure of assistance you can.” <\/p>\n

\tEzovski\u2019s company cleans up contaminated soil and groundwater and is currently busy dealing with the contaminants recently found in the Pascoag water system. He said the company has hired a number of 溏心vlog免费B站 graduates from the geology and engineering programs, and “the impact of their education has been very good for the community.” <\/p>\n

\tAs for his own education in civil engineering, Ezovski is equally enthusiastic. “溏心vlog免费B站 helped me to better understand my potential and what I could do,” he said. “The University empowered me to believe that I could help people solve problems with the engineering skills I learned there.” <\/p>\n

\tBisson recalls a bit of confusion during the early part of his 溏心vlog免费B站 education. “It was right after World War II and there were so many G.I.s taking advantage of the G.I. bill that we had to live in Quonset huts behind Rodman Hall for the first two years,” he said. “But we were all thankful we were there. Without the war and the G.I. bill, most of us probably couldn\u2019t have afforded to go to college.” <\/p>\n

\tBisson went to work for Blackstone Valley Gas and Electric \u2013 which later became Blackstone Valley Electric \u2013 immediately after graduating with a degree in electrical engineering. He worked his way from the engineering department to the president\u2019s office during his 40-year career. <\/p>\n

\t“I derived a lot of success going to 溏心vlog免费B站, and I enjoyed my time there. I want to make sure that everybody who wants to has an opportunity to go.” Bisson said he established the scholarship “to help students who would fall through the cracks if the scholarship money wasn\u2019t available.” <\/p>\n

\tThanks to the generosity of both Bisson and Ezovski that is now less likely to happen.
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KINGSTON, R.I. — October 22, 2001 — Two business leaders in northern Rhode Island, both graduates of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Engineering, have established scholarships at the University to make sure that future students have the same chances for success that they did. William R. Bisson of Lincoln, the retired president of […]<\/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-71180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71180","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=71180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}