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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2015

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

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

ARONSON

     Introduced By: Senators Goldin, Paiva Weed, Nesselbush, P Fogarty, and Miller

     Date Introduced: February 24, 2015

     Referred To: Recommended for Immediate Consideration

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

grandchildren; and

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

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

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

Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island; and

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

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

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

scientific topics; and

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

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

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

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

     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

hereby expresses our deepest sympathies on the passing of Dr. Stanley M. Aronson; and be it

further

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

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

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