{"id":69294,"date":"2005-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/hbo-executive-j-p-morgan-official-named-parents-fund-chairs\/"},"modified":"2005-11-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-23T00:00:00","slug":"hbo-executive-j-p-morgan-official-named-parents-fund-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/11\/hbo-executive-j-p-morgan-official-named-parents-fund-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO executive, J.P. Morgan official named Parents Fund chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tHusband-and-wife team head effort to boost component of Annual Fund<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — November 23, 2005 — The University of Rhode Island has named a couple with outstanding business careers and a strong record of service to chair its Parents Fund for the 2005-2006 academic year.<\/p>\n


\n\tTom Cerio, executive vice president of program distribution at HBO, and his wife Donna Arnold, a former vice president at J.P. Morgan, will chair the fund, which is part of the Annual Fund, the University\u2019s premiere annual unrestricted giving program.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOne of the philosophies my husband and I have always had is to give back,\u201d said Arnold. \u201cWe had a great experience at URI, and it prepared us in so many ways for our careers. Chairing the Parents Fund is a great opportunity, and it\u2019s even more meaningful because our son is a student here.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tCerio, a 1976 graduate of URI\u2019s College of the Environment and Life Sciences and Arnold, a 1976 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, have a vested interest in the fund: their son Dominic is a freshman at URI.<\/p>\n


\n\tA few years ago, Arnold and Cerio moved to Connecticut from the West Coast where Cerio was an executive vice president and national sales manager for Buena Vista Television, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Co. The couple lost no time in reconnecting to URI. They chaired one of the University\u2019s biggest fund raisers, the 2004 Winter Gala.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThey were very involved in the Winter Gala and we wanted to keep such committed, energetic people involved in the University,\u201d said Annual Fund Director Sarah Howard. \u201cThey are generous donors and have been very supportive of campus beautification efforts.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tArnold is also an adviser to the Ram Fund, an investment program established by the Alumni Association that gives URI students real experience managing investments in the stock market, and a member of the URI Communications Advisory Council.<\/p>\n


\nURI News Bureau photo by Nora Lewis<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Husband-and-wife team head effort to boost component of Annual Fund KINGSTON, R.I. — November 23, 2005 — The University of Rhode Island has named a couple with outstanding business careers and a strong record of service to chair its Parents Fund for the 2005-2006 academic year. Tom Cerio, executive vice president of program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}