Ronald M. Berardino ’57

RONALD M. BERARDINO, Southbury, CT, died November 24, 2022. After graduation, Ron served in the U.S. Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserves as a second lieutenant. He had a successful career as a stockbroker in New York City. He and his wife Jane met in Burlington, VT, where she was born and raised. They were both avid golfers and active members of their Garden City, NY, community, patrons of the arts and musical theater. Ron and Jane established the Berardino & Viau Family Scholarship at Saint Michael’s for first-generation college students from Vermont. They were loved and will be missed by their extended family and community of friends for their reliability, kindness, strength, humor, appreciation for life, and generosity. Ron was predeceased by his wife and his brother Joseph Berardino ’43. He is survived by his and Jane’s three children, including daughter Diane Baker ’84; four grandchildren; and extended family, including Michael Berardino ’73, Daniel Baker ’84, Joanne Polanshek M’95, and Natalie Handy ’13.