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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2015

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

EXPRESSING PROFOUND SYMPATHY ON THE PASSING OF DR. STANLEY M.

ARONSON

     

     Introduced By: Representatives Regunberg, Ajello, Hearn, Ruggiero, and Solomon

     Date Introduced: February 05, 2015

     Referred To: House read and passed

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     WHEREAS, It is with great sadness that this House has learned of the passing of Dr.

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Stanley M. Aronson, an enormously respected neuropathologist and distinguished leader in global

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public health, the founding dean of Brown University School of Medicine, a weekly columnist for

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the Providence Journal, and a co-founder of Home and Hospice Care of Rhode Island; and

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     WHEREAS, Born in New York, Stanley Aronson was the son of the late Elihu and Lena

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Aronson. He was the beloved husband of Gale Aronson, father of Dr. Sarah Aronson, Susan

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Symons, and the late Lisa Aronson, and the grandfather of five grandchildren and six great-

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grandchildren; and

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     WHEREAS, Dr. Aronson was a graduate of City College of New York, and New York

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University's Medical School. In 1969, he moved to Rhode Island and helped launch Brown's

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medical school in 1972, serving as the school's dean from 1973 to 1981. He also co-founded

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Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island; and

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     WHEREAS, A prolific writer and an intellectually gifted man, Dr. Aronson was a

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researcher, scholar, and author of more than a dozen books and 400 articles for medical journals.

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In addition, he wrote a weekly column for the Providence Journal on a panoply of medical and

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scientific topics; and

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     WHEREAS, There is no doubt that Dr. Aronson, a brilliant yet humble man, an artist and

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a writer, and a caring humanitarian and educator, left the medical and literary communities and

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our state more informed and enlightened by his life’s endeavors. He enriched the lives of all who

 

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knew him and he will be dearly missed; now, therefore be it

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     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and

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Providence Plantations hereby expresses our deepest sympathies on the passing of Dr. Stanley M.

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Aronson; and be it further

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     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

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transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Mrs. Gale Aronson and Family.

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