University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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onrmsTCMD — STANDS THE SNUFF MILL WHERE WAS BORN DECEMBER 3, I7S5 GILBERT STUART AMERICA’S FOREMOST PORTRAIT PAINTER ERECTED BY THE STATE OF RHODE ' SLAND 1933 Changes. Building upon foundations laid by others. Reaping harvests in fields that other hands have sown. Certain ideas have grown from seedlings into tall sturdy trees. By counting the rings around historical figures we can discern their influence. Weathering many severe struggles, the principles of Roger Williams have endured long enough to be reaffirmed during our nation’s bicentennial. A tree is known by the fruit it bears. Of the several distinctive features that made the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations different from its contemporaries, the focal points B Murray

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The Bicentennial landmarks our nation’s accomplishments and past struggles. URI is also a landmark in its own right. URI has been our home base for the past four years. It ' s a place where we’ve grown into individuals, sharpened our skills in relationships, learned the importance of an education, and where we ' ve raised hell. We look to ourselves to search out and sort out what we’ve accomplished. Each of us has goals and URI served many of us well in formulating these objectives. We leave behind us a part of ourselves but ahead of us we bring the things that we ' ve discovered and fostered that make us what we are today. LMN Egg Grading 1900 (Library Archives)

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were the political, military, commercial, agricultural, religious, social diversity that continues to shape the uncertain destiny of the colony on the shores of Narragansett Bay. The historic buildings in this area remain the scene of an intriguing drama of contrasts, reminders of a climactic phase of the social, economic, cultural evolution that was and is still taking place in America. 5