Dr. Patrick T. Conley: Biographical Résumé (6)

• MISCELLANEOUS ACADEMIC or HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES:
• Delivered the David C. Adelman Memorial Lecture – Rhode Island Jewish Historical Society (1976).
• Delivered the Law Day Address to the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1976).
• Principal Speaker, George Washington Letter Observance, Touro Synagogue, Newport (1976).
• Grand Marshal of the Gaspee Days Parade (1977).
• Principal Centennial Speaker – Henry Barnard Club of Rhode Island (1977).
• Delivered the Constitution Bicentennial Address – Rhode Island Supreme Court (1987).
• Principal Speaker on the occasion of the visit of the Magna Carta to Rhode Island (State House, 1987).
• Delivered the Major Address to the Annual Spring Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association (1988).
• Principal Speaker, the Bicentennial Observance of George Washington’s Inauguration, Masonic Hall, New York City (1989).
• Co-Chairman with Justice Florence K. Murray of, “Forums for Freedom: Rhode Island Debates the Bill of Rights” (9 Forums – 1991).
• Principal Speaker, Congress Hall, Philadelphia, at the Bicentennial Observance of the Ratification of the Bill of Rights (December 15, 1991).
• Chairman, Dorr Sesquicentennial Committee of the Rhode Island Historical Society (1991–92).
• Co-Chairman, U.S. Information Agency’s advisory panel, which planned the Bill of Rights exhibit at the 1992 Seville World’s Fair.
• Delivered the Law Day Address to the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1993).
• Inducted into The Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame (May 7, 1995).
• Delivered the Law Day Address to the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1998).
• Board of Directors, Spanish-American War Centennial Committee of Rhode Island (1998).
• Principal Speaker, the Millennium Session of the Rhode Island General Assembly held at the Colony House, Newport (May 4, 2000).
• Principal Speaker, Warren Veterans’ Memorial Dedication (November 11, 2001).
• Principal Speaker, 200th Anniversary Observance of the founding of the Providence Marine Corps of Artillery (May 4, 2002).
• Inaugural address to the newly-constituted Rhode Island Senate (January, 2003).
• Principal Address, 325th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of Bristol, Rhode Island (2005).
• Principal Address, 225th Anniversary Observance of the Beginning of the Rochambeau March to Yorktown, PA, Providence (June, 2006).
• Patriotic Speaker, Bristol Fourth of July Celebration (2007).
• Principal Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Historical Society (2007).
• Speaker, Dedication of the Irish Famine Memorial, Providence (2007).
• Principal Speaker, Centennial Observance for the Varnum Continental, Rhode Island Militia (2007).
• Principal Speaker, The North Atlantic Regional Business Law Association (April, 2008).
• Principal Speaker, Dedication of Memorial Stone to John Gordon, St. Mary’s Cemetery, Pawtucket (2011).
• Appointed First-Ever Historian Laureate of Rhode Island (July, 2012).
• Principal Address, Governor’s Reception Room to pen the Centennial Year marking the birth of Congressman John E. Fogarty (January 10, 2013).
• Sponsor with Gail Conley of the annual Constitution Day observance at Gale Winds and Conley’s Wharf featuring lectures on the federal Constitution by nationally prominent scholars from 2000 through 2013.
• Inaugural Address, Rhode Island Statehood Day, May 29, 2018 sponsored by the Heritage Harbor Foundation with the Pawtuxet Rangers as part of Gaspee Days.
• Inaugural Address, Rhode Island Statehood Day, May 29, 2018 sponsored by the Heritage Harbor Foundation with the Pawtuxet Rangers as part of Gaspee Days.
• Welcoming Address, National Conference of the Speakers of the House of the American States, Newport (September (2019).
• Annual St. Patrick’s Day Address on Irish-American History for the Murphy-Healy Irish Studies Program at Providence College (May 16, 2023).
• Delivered hundreds of public lectures on various aspects of American History, government, and law to Rhode Island civic, cultural, political, and educational organizations.
• INDUCTED INTO THE RHODE ISLAND HERITAGE
  HALL OF FAME (MAY 7, 1995).
• APPOINTED FIRST-EVER HISTORIAN LAUREATE
  OF RHODE ISLAND (JULY 2012).
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