Farish leaves legacy of inclusion and value of education in R.I.

SPREADING OPPORTUNITY: Donald J. Farish succeeded in expanding the benefits of higher education to an increasingly diverse student population. 
 / PBN FILE PHOTO/­RUPERT WHITELEY
SPREADING OPPORTUNITY: Donald J. Farish succeeded in expanding the benefits of higher education to an increasingly diverse student population. 
 / PBN FILE PHOTO/­RUPERT WHITELEY

Rhode Island lost more than a passionate and articulate advocate for the value of higher education when Donald J. Farish died recently at the age of 75. As president of Roger Williams University, he brought a powerful sense of the uplifting effects that a college education could provide and of how important that would be

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