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March 12, 2008

Former RWU chairman Papitto gives $1.63M in gifts

PROVIDENCE — A foundation created by the former board chairman at Roger Williams University has announced $1.63 million in gifts.

The Papitto Foundation, created by Ralph R. Papitto in 1986, will give $1.3 million to The Miriam Hospital in Providence to modernize the hospital’s heart surgery program. It also will give $300,000 to St. Mary Academy-Bay View, an all-girls Catholic prep school.

The remaining $30,000 will go to a memorial fund established by the Rhode Island Foundation.

Papitto resigned from the Roger Williams board last summer after admitting to using a racial slur at a board meeting. He apologized and his name was taken off the university’s law school, the only law school in Rhode Island.

-- The Associated Press

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