Bryant University

Team Day benefits area Boys & Girls Clubs: For more than 300 Bryant University faculty and staff, Friday, June 13, was all about the bike. Make that 60 bikes, assembled in 60 minutes as part of the university’s 11th annual Team Day, an event that unites the Bryant community to celebrate the accomplishments of the past academic year and offers good-natured competition through a team-based challenge.

The challenge presented to this year’s teams: Swap points — acquired by correctly answering trivia questions and brain teasers — for disassembled children’s bicycles, helmets and locks. Each team had an hour to amass points, assemble bikes and take them through a safety check.

The bikes were donated to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Cumberland-Lincoln, Woonsocket, Pawtucket, Newport, Warwick and East Providence. In addition, Team Day participants donated $100 and approximately 350 pounds of canned and dried goods to the Smithfield Food Bank.

Community College of Rhode Island

Honored: Several GED recipients, and those participating in classes to prepare to take the GED test, were honored at a recent celebration of achievement sponsored by the division for lifelong learning’s office of adult education and literacy. Two exemplary students, Victor De Jesus ,of North Providence, and Margarita Orsini, of Providence, were awarded $600 scholarships by The Providence Journal.

De Jesus said that he promised himself he would return to school after he dropped out in 1997 to work. But he soon landed a high-paying job and put school aside. He lost his job and, following the death of his grandmother, whom he called his “big supporter,” he decided to sign up for GED preparation classes at CCRI. “It was overwhelming, but in the end, going back to school was the best decision I made,” he said. He will use his scholarship to study computer science this fall. “I will work very hard to prove that they made a good investment.”

Orsini had been out of school for 26 years, after dropping out at age 16, when she came to CCRI to prepare for her GED. She had tried to obtain her GED several times in the past but didn’t find the support she needed. “It wasn’t until I came to CCRI and saw how much the staff cares that I knew I had come to the right place,” she said. She will use her scholarship to take general education classes, moving toward her goal of working in the medical field.

Facebook page: The college has launched an official page on Facebook for students, alumni and friends to stay in touch with the college and network with one another. The page includes photos and videos of recent college happenings, news stories and athletic results and lists upcoming events. Facebook users can become a “fan” of the site by typing the college’s name in the search box at www.facebook.com.

Many colleges and universities recently have started creating pages for their institutions on Facebook. Ohio State is the largest American university with the most “fans,” at 4,440. The Web site’s name links its origins to hard-copy facebooks that some colleges and universities give to incoming students, faculty and staff as way to get to know other people on campus.

Johnson & Wales University

Varsity coach heads Canadian team: Sean Moore ’08, an undergraduate assistant coach with the varsity baseball team, is working in Moncton, New Brunswick, as the head coach of the Moncton Mets. The Mets are a Canadian professional senior baseball team. Moore, a sports/entertainment/event management major, led the Mets to a second-place finish last season. He has served as an undergraduate assistant to Wildcat head coach John LaRose for the last three seasons. Former Red Sox and Phillies pitcher Rheal Cormier is currently a member of the Mets.

Providence College

New trustees: Four new members were elected to the Providence College Board of Trustees during its recent annual meeting on campus. Recommended by current board members, the four were unanimously elected by the Providence College Corporation and begin their three-year terms on Tuesday.

Thomas C. Boyan Jr. ’85, of Spring Lake, N.J., is a highly successful commodities trader. Self-employed, he traded the world’s busiest commodities for 20 years on the New York Mercantile Exchange, or NYMEX, and the New York Commodities Exchange, or COMEX. Those exchanges are the world’s largest venues for trading utilities (oil, gasoline, heating oil and natural gas) and metals, respectively. Boyan owns and operates the legendary New York City restaurant and bar P.J. Clarke’s, which he has expanded to two additional locations in Manhattan. He is a longtime supporter of the Friars’ men’s basketball program and PC athletics.

Maureen Davenport Corcoran, C.P.A. ’79, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., is an executive vice president of finance at State Street Corporation, in Boston, where she has worked since 1989. At State Street, she also has held positions in operations, sales and marketing, strategy development and client consulting. She previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and the John Hancock Property and Casualty Companies. Corcoran is a member of the Development and Alumni Affairs Committee of PC’s Board of Trustees and the Boston President’s Council. She received a Distinguished Service Award from the National Alumni Association last year.

Margaret McGetrick Horkings ’80, of South Dartmouth, Mass., is cofounder, managing partner and portfolio manager for Liberty Square Asset Management, in Boston. She concentrates on European markets, commodities, and emerging markets for Liberty Square, which manages more than $5 billion in equity strategies. Horkings, who cofounded Liberty Square in 1998, previously was a partner with Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo and Co., in Boston, and an analyst with The Common Fund, in Fairfield, Conn. She is a member of the PC trustees’ Investment Committee and the Boston President’s Council.

Edward W. O’Donnell ’71, of Westfield, N.J., is president of Tradelinks Transport Inc., of Westfield, N.J., where he provides transportation-related advisory and consulting services. During his 35-year career in international and domestic transportation, he has directed and built up several large transportation organizations and managed personnel in companies and overseas agencies across six continents. O’Donnell played a major role in the 1995 purchase and privatization of Navieras de Puerto Rico. He has served for six years as a member of the board of directors of Provident Financial Services Inc., a New Jersey-based bank.

Roger Williams University

Play: David Auburn’s 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Proof will prove itself yet again, on the university Performing Arts Center stage next month.

In Proof, Catherine grapples with the death of her mentally ill father, a mathematical genius who left behind numerous notebooks of work.

When Hal, her father’s ex-student, searches the notebooks for groundbreaking mathematical proofs over a long weekend, a romance ensues between the two.

After the play succeeded on Broadway, Auburn transformed it into a screenplay for the 2005 film Proof, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal. Performances will take place July 11, 12, 17, 18 and 19, at 8 p.m. The play — directed by Peter Wright, a professor of theater — will be held at the Performing Arts Center on the Bristol campus, at One Old Ferry Road. Tickets cost $10 for general admission and $5 for students and senior citizens. For reservations, call the theater box office at (401) 254-3626. For more information, visit the RWU theater Web site at http://departments.rwu.edu/theatre.