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October 27, 2006

RIC announces largest gift to R.I. public college

Rhode Island College says it has received the largest single gift ever donated to a Rhode Island public college.

Helen Ginsberg Forman, a special education teacher who graduated in 1934 from what was then Rhode Island College of Education, now Rhode Island College, has left $5.1 million to the college, the college has announced.

Forman died August 14, 2005 at the age of 93.

An official announcement of the gift will be made on November 4 in a tribute to Forman in RIC’s Nazarian Center.

Forman wanted the money be used to endow scholarships for students of music, theatre and dance, and special education. She also designated a portion of her bequest to support an endowment for the James P. Adams Library and the President’s Music Series. A theatre in the Nazarian Center was named in her honor in 2000.

RIC describes Forman was "a middle-class woman with no inherited wealth." She and her husband, Sylvan, a railway and postal worker, lived modestly and invested wisely in the stock market, according to RIC.

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