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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

EXPRESSING DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE

HENRY JOSEPH NARDONE, SR.

     Introduced By: Representatives Azzinaro, Kennedy, Filippi, Edwards, Shekarchi,
Blazejewski, Ajello, Serpa, Tanzi, and Fogarty

     Date Introduced: March 22, 2022

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, It is with deep sadness that this House has learned of the passing of Henry

Joseph Nardone, Sr., the devoted husband for seventy years to the late Mary Frances Nardone;

and

     WHEREAS, Mr. Nardone was a graduate of the Immaculate Conception School and

Westerly High School. He attended the University of Rhode Island, then proceeded to join the

United States Navy. He completed Naval Studies at Yale University, earned his Bachelor of

Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from URI, and completed Midshipman’s School at

Columbia University. He was a United States Navy Veteran of World War II, who served our

nation with honor and distinction and earned the rank of Lieutenant; and

     WHEREAS, After World War II, Mr. Nardone served as head of the Physics Department

at the Naval Preparatory School in Annapolis. He later moved to Boston with his wife, and

attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning an advanced professional degree in

Naval Engineering. He subsequently moved back to Westerly and began his distinguished 37 year

career with Electric Boat, where he served in numerous important positions, including as the

Project Officer of the Nautilus, the first nuclear powered submarine, and as the Manager of the

Quonset Point Facility; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. Nardone was very active in civic and community affairs throughout his

life. He served as a member of the Westerly School Committee for 17 years, serving as Vice

Chairman and later as Chairman. In 1972, he was appointed to the Rhode Island State Board of

Regents for Education and remained a member of that committee when it was renamed the Rhode

Island Board of Governors for Education, retiring as the Board’s Vice Chairman; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. Nardone’s lengthy charitable endeavors include his long association

with Westerly Hospital, where he served on the Board of Trustees for more than thirty years and

had the Henry J. Nardone Community Center named in his honor. He also served on the Boards

of the Westerly Pawcatuck YMCA, the Chamber of Commerce, the American Red Cross, and

was a member of the Dante Society. He maintained a lifetime association with URI, serving as a

member of the Engineering Advisory Council, the URI Foundation, and endowed the Henry J.

Nardone Family Scholarship in Mechanical Engineering. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate

of Laws from URI and an honorary Doctorate of Public Service from Rhode Island College; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. Nardone was a man of deep faith. He helped to establish the CCD

program at the Immaculate Conception Parish and he and his wife were both awarded the St.

Edmund’s Medal of Honor for living lives of virtue in the spirit of St. Edmund; and

     WHEREAS, Mr. Nardone leaves behind his children, Henry Nardone, Jr., and his wife,

Barbara, Michael Nardone, William Nardone, Esq., and his wife, Diane, Robert Nardone and his

wife, Patricia, and Andrea Frances Nardone, along with his eleven grandchildren, Henry

Nardone, III, and his wife, Linda, Jennifer McDonald and her husband, Brian, Zenia Morrone and

her husband, Brian, Heather Pescatello and her husband, Mark Zagol, Michaela Miceli and her

husband, Anthony, Alexandra Nardone, Robert Nardone, Jr., Christopher Nardone, Nicholas

Nardone, Madison Nardone and Wm. Chase Nardone. He also leaves behind ten great-

grandchildren, Angela Nardone, Dominic Morrone, Alec Morrone, Jack Henry McDonald,

McKenzie McDonald, Mia Miceli, Bennet Miceli, Mason Zagol, Ainslie Zagol, and Callen Zagol,

and is survived by many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. He was predeceased

by his brothers Gerard, Thomas and Joseph Nardone and his sisters Sarah Cardinal, Theresa

Ballato, Mary Kathrine Burdick, Lena Robinson, Beatrice Smith, and Anne Nardone; now,

therefore be it

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

expresses its deepest condolences on the passing of Henry Joseph Nardone, Sr., and be it further

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

transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to Henry Nardone, Jr., Michael Nardone, William

Nardone, Esq., Robert Nardone, and Andrea Frances Nardone.

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