Photos: Arthur & Patricia Ryan Center for Business Studies Groundbreaking

Providence College officially broke ground Friday, Oct. 2, on the Arthur F. and Patricia Ryan Center for Business Studies, the new home for PC’s School of Business.

The ceremony was held in the Ryan Concert Hall in the Smith Center for the Arts — a hall also named for the the Ryans, who pledged $1 million for construction of the Smith Center in 2005.

Wearing white hard hats and holding shiny silver shovels with black and white bows on the handles, Arthur F. Ryan ’63 & ’90Hon. and 13 other dignitaries scooped dirt from a row arrayed neatly on a green carpet on the stage. The group included College administrators and benefactors.

Read more from Providence College News here.

The following photos were taken at the groundbreaking ceremony and reception:

Three shovels with construction helmets stuck into dirt

Sylvia Maxfield speaking at podium, two men seated to her left

Audience members smiling

Father Shanley speaking at a podium

Two people sitting in chairs smiling

Entire audience of people smiling

A man and women shaking hands

Group of people posing behind shovels in their hard hats

Two men shaking hands.

group of children putting hard hats on their heads

6 children in hard hats posing behind shovels

Four men in suits holding construction hard hats

Father Shanley in a group of three women talking

Two men and women posing for photo smiling

Father Sicard taking a photo on a phone of four people

A man and women posing for photo smiling

six children in construction hardhats smiling