November 19, 2007

Men's Ice Hockey @ Princeton - 11/30/2007

Please join the Rensselaer Club of New Jersey (RCNJ) and the Delaware Valley Chapter for the Rensselaer vs Princeton Men’s Hockey game on Friday, November 30, 2007. The puck drops at 7 p.m., but before we head to the Baker Rink on the Princeton University campus please join us for an informal dinner at the Nassau Inn starting at 4:30 p.m. in the Yankee Doodle Tap Room.

Tickets

We offer tickets to our alumni at $8 each. Please contact John Cloninger '96 by email at jpcloninger@gmail.com or phone at 908-578-3673 to ensure that tickets are still available, and then mail your payment to:

Phil Lurie '74
Rensselaer Club of New Jersey
P.O. Box 461
Paramus, NJ 07653-0461

Make checks or money orders payable to the "Rensselaer Club of New Jersey”. Please include your name, class year, guest’s name (& class year), mailing address, daytime and evening phone numbers, email address, and number of tickets requested. Tickets will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis determined by receipt of payment. In the event that we run out of tickets and cannot obtain more your money will be refunded. Tickets will either be mailed to you or left at the Will Call Gate at the front of Baker Rink. If we notify you that your tickets will be left at Will Call, please bring a government-issued photo identification card to get your tickets.

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April 25, 2007

RCNJ Wins Chapter of the Year for Second Consecutive Time

The Rensselaer Alumni Association (RAA) announced that the Rensselaer Alumni Club of New Jersey (RCNJ) will be awarded the Craig W. Angell '35 Chapter of the Year Award for 2006-2007. The chapter will be recognized at the Annual RAA Awards dinner during Reunion Weekend June 8 in Troy with a formal presentation taking place in New Jersey sometime in the fall.

This is the second consecutive year that the RCNJ has won Chapter of the Year from the RAA. This is the third overall award for the RCNJ, with the first time in 2000-2001. The RCNJ now stands in second place behind the Boston Chapter (five-time winner) for overall Chapter of the Year awards. (See the list of previous Chapter of the Year winners for more information.)

RCNJ Chapter President Sandeep Nandy '94 said, "This is truly an honor to be recognized for the second consecutive year with this award. This recognition is symbolic of the efforts of our officers and each member of the Rensselaer Club of New Jersey Leadership Committee. A special round of thanks to Vice President John Cloninger '96, Vice President Steve Nudelman '90, Treasurer Phil Lurie '74, Chairman Ken DeGhetto '50, and Leadership Committee Members Dave Aiello '89, Dave Bressen '56, Jason Consoli '01, Betty Lurie '75, Yasmine McNellis '82, Joe Pilaro '55, Henry Rosenblatt '54, Harry Rosenthal '60, Dick Shive '54, and Gordon Snyder '66 for all their hard work and efforts on behalf of the RCNJ."

"I would also like to express my appreciation to all RCNJ event attendees throughout the year, as well as those who attend our monthly Leadership Committee meetings. The RCNJ looks forward to seeing everyone at all future events."

April 4, 2007

RCNJ Participates in the 2007 New Jersey Lymphomathon

Come join the RCNJ as we participate in a charity run/walk to benefit the Lymphoma Research Foundation!

On Sunday, May 6th, the 2007 New Jersey Lymphomathon will take place at the Boat Marina at Mercer County Park in West Windsor, NJ. The Lymphomathon is non-competitive 5K walk where survivors, family, friends, community and corporate teams walk in honor and in memory of those whose lives have been touched by lymphoma. All proceeds raised by participants will support the Foundation’s mission of eradicating lymphoma and serving those touched by this disease.

The event is scheduled from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with registration starting at 9:30 a.m. Please allow ample time for both parking and registration. There is no entry fee required.

If you would like to participate in this year's walk or make a donation on behalf of RCNJ, please contact team captain Jason Consoli '01 at jason_consoli@hotmail.com or click on the following link:

RCNJ 2007 Lymphomathon Headquarters

April 2, 2007

Rensselaer Men's Hockey Puts 22 Members on ECACHL All-Academic Team

The Times Union reported on Saturday that the RPI men's hockey team lead the ECAC Hockey League in number of members to make the All-Academic Team. According to the article:

RPI had 22 members of its roster named to the ECAC Hockey League All-Academic team, easily best of the 12 teams in the conference.... Brown was second with 20 members; Union had 12.

Seniors Kevin Broad and Oren Eizenman both made the team for the third consecutive season.

A player is eligible for the All-Academic Team if he has a cumulative grade-point-average of 3.0 or higher, or has achieved a 3.0 or higher grade-point-average for the past three semesters.

February 26, 2007

RPI Womens Team Makes ECAC Hockey League Playoffs in Their First Season

According to an article that appeared last week in The Times Union, the Rensselaer Womens' Hockey Team surprised the experts in its first year in the ECAC Hockey League by going 8-5-1 in its last 14 games and making the playoffs. The eighth-ranked Engineers faced off against the top-ranked Big Green of Dartmouth this past weekend in Hanover for a best-of-three game series.

RPI jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the game on Friday, only to later fall to Dartmouth 6-3. Dartmouth got a four goal performance from senior Katie Weatherston. Dartmouth extended their unbeaten streak to 11 straight by beating Rensselaer 3-1 in Game 2. Ashley Mayr stopped 74 of 81 shots she faced in the weekend, which is quite a bit of rubber to have to keep out of the net.

The womens' team had an outstanding year, particularly considering that they had only two seniors on the roster. Coach John Burke was quoted in the Times Union as saying, "We're a team; we don't have any one or two people that we rely on. We finished the regular season with 10 one-goal losses, so we're still trying to learn how to win those games. It's been a new experience for our kids."

The team finished with a 12-22-1 overall record, 8-15-1 in the ECACHL. On to bigger and better things next season.

RPI Mens Hockey Advances to Play Colgate in ECACHL Playoffs

The Rensselaer Mens' Hockey Team needed three points in the last weekend of the 2006-07 regular season to clinch home ice for the first round of the ECAC Hockey League playoffs. It managed to get two points through its thrilling 6-5 victory over Brown at Houston Field House on Friday night. However, the Engineers lost to Yale 4-3 on Senior Night, forcing them to go on the road next weekend at Colgate.

Rensselaer finishes the regular season with a 10-16-8 record, 6-11-5 in the ECACHL.

The playoff games will be Friday and Saturday at 7:00pm at Starr Rink on the Colgate campus in Hamilton, NY. A third game will be played, if necessary, on Sunday, March 4 at 7:00pm.

CollegeHockeyNews.com published an excellent analysis of the tiebreakers necessary to determine the RPI - Colgate matchup:

The ECAC had to use its "infinite loop fix" to break the fourth-place tie between Cornell and Quinnipiac (which went down to record vs. the top eight) and the eighth-place tie among Colgate, RPI, and Yale (which went down to record vs. the top four).

Read the analysis for yourself and see if it makes sense to you.

Best of luck to the Engineers this weekend. RPI split with Colgate in the regular season this year, with each team winning on its home ice. Hopefully we'll have better luck at Colgate this time around.

Update: Rensselaer was swept by Colgate in the first round of the ECAC playoffs on March 2 and 3. The final scores were 3-1 on Friday night and 4-1 on Saturday. The Men's Hockey Team ended the season with an overall record of 10-18-8, 6-11-5 in the ECACHL.

February 20, 2007

Rensselaer Receives Over 10,000 Applications for Class of 2011

Good news on the Freshman admissions front.

Campus.News reports that RPI received a record number of applications for the Class of 2011. According to the article:

As of Feb. 19, Rensselaer’s Office of Enrollment Management had received 10,100 total applications. This record number is a more than 46 percent increase over the previous year and represents a record growth of 81 percent in just two years.

Huge increases in applications from women, minorities, international students, and students interested in the arts, humanities, and social sciences took place.

February 18, 2007

RPI's Operations and Investment Policies Scrutinized by Endowment Research Group

A couple of weeks ago Joe Pilaro pointed out an article in The Times Union that we should have brought to your attention earlier. The article has the attention-grabbing headline RPI policies earn C- on green report card and goes on to point out that the school earned "mediocre marks for its environmental and investment policies...." The article doesn't really discuss what the study, called the College Sustainability Report Card published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, was or what the Rensselaer would have to do in order to achieve higher scores.

The Sustainable Endowment Institute focuses on encouraging policies that promote the notion of sustainability as defined by the United Nations World Commission on the Environment and Development. In other words, this is a report card that narrowly focuses on the following issues: "energy efficiency, renewable energy, species extinction, food security, international trade, managing the commons, {and} global poverty".

According to the portion of the report devoted to Rensselaer [ Adobe Acrobat / PDF document ], our worst performance is in "Endowment Transparency" and "Shareholder Engagement", where we received "F" grades. RPI received a "C" in "Investment Priorities" because "The Institute prioritizes investing to maximize profit and has not made any public statements about investigating or investing in renewable energy funds or community development loan funds."

President Jackson and other campus leaders have emphasized that Rensselaer needs to raise additional funds and seek high returns on its investments so that its endowment grows to a comparable level with its peer schools. Profit maximization is a logical investment strategy for situations like this. As for community development loan funds, isn't a commitment to this sort of thing self-evident in RPI's commitment to the redevelopment of Troy?

Rensselaer gets better grades on "Climate Change and Energy", but it deserves more credit for housing the Lighting Research Center than it received in this report. It should also receive more credit in the "Administration" section for recycling 25 tons of surplus electronics per year. Think of how many laptop and desktop computers that represents.

The schools that got the best grades in this report tended to be those with endowments that dwarf RPI's, or liberal arts schools that don't have to deal with the kind of complex environmental issues that come up every day at a technological university. Rensselaer seems to be focusing on cost-effective operational improvements that also help the environment while growing its endowment as fast as it can. In my opinion, it's doing pretty well when you consider the challenges it faces.

November 6, 2006

Meet Coach Appert before the Rensselaer-Princeton Hockey Game, Saturday, December 9, 2006

Please join the Rensselaer Club of New Jersey (RCNJ) and the Delaware Valley Chapter for the Rensselaer vs Princeton Men’s Hockey game on Saturday, December 9, 2006. The puck drops at 7 p.m., but before we head to the Baker Rink on the Princeton University campus please join us for a special gathering at the Nassau Inn starting at 4 p.m. in the Yankee Doodle Tap Room. Reservations are not accepted on a Saturday, so please plan to arrive early if you would like a table for dinner.

At about 5 p.m. we will welcome the new head coach of the Engineers, Seth Appert. Coach Appert will meet with the alumni present before heading to the game. Be sure to be there early! There will also be representatives from the Office of Alumni Relations with Rensselaer items to give away.

Directions to The Yankee Doodle Tap Room and Baker Rink ]

Tickets

We offer tickets to our alumni at face value, $9 each. Please contact John Cloninger '96 by email at jpcloninger@gmail.com or phone at 908-578-3673 to ensure that tickets are still available, and then mail your payment to:

Phil Lurie '74
Rensselaer Club of New Jersey
P.O. Box 461
Paramus, NJ 07653-0461

Make checks or money orders payable to the "Rensselaer Club of New Jersey”. Please include your name, class year, guest’s name (& class year), mailing address, daytime and evening phone numbers, email address, and number of tickets requested. Tickets will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis determined by receipt of payment. In the event that we run out of tickets and cannot obtain more your money will be refunded. Tickets will either be mailed to you or left at the Will Call Gate at the front of Baker Rink. If we notify you that your tickets will be left at Will Call, please bring a government-issued photo identification card to get your tickets.

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October 5, 2006

RCNJ Honored as 2005-06 RAA Chapter of the Year at Local Dinner

RCNJ Executive Committee Group Photo
RCNJ Executive Committee Shows Off
Chapter of the Year Award
at a dinner on October
4, 2006, at Ruth's Chris Steak House in Parsippany,
NJ. [ Photo: Jillian DiGregorio ]

The Rensselaer Club of New Jersey's Executive Committee was honored for winning the Craig W. Angell '35 Chapter of the Year Award for 2005-06 at a private dinner on October 4, 2006. The dinner took place at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse in Parsippany, NJ. Jeff Schanz, Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving at Rensselaer presented the Chapter of the Year plaque to RCNJ President Sandeep Nandy '94.

Sandeep Nandy stated, "This is truly an honor to be recognized with this award from the RAA. This recognition is symbolic of the efforts of our officers and each member of the Rensselaer Club of New Jersey Leadership Committee. A special round of thanks to Vice President John Cloninger '96, Treasurer Phil Lurie, '74, Chairman Ken DeGhetto '50, and Leadership Committee Members Dave Aiello '89, Joe Pilaro '55, Henry Rosenblatt '54, Gordon Snyder '66, Harry Rosenthal '60, Steve Nudelman '90, Richard Whipple '88, Dick Shive '54, Dave Bressen '56, and Howard Deutsch '69 for all their hard work and efforts on behalf of the RCNJ."

This is the second time that the RCNJ has won Chapter of the Year from the RAA. The first time was in 2000-01. With this recognition, the RCNJ joins an elite group of regional chapters to have won Chapter of the Year more than once since its inception in 1987. This group includes:

  • Boston, 5
  • Greater Hartford, 3
  • Baltimore, 2
  • New York City, 2
  • New Jersey, 2

The RCNJ now looks forward to the challenge of defending its Chapter of the Year Award against the other regional chapters of the RAA. The last regional chapter to repeat as Chapter of the Year was the Boston Chapter of the RAA which won the award in 2001-02 and 2002-03.

About the RCNJ

The Rensselaer Club of New Jersey (RCNJ) is a regional chapter of the Rensselaer Alumni Association that serves the State of New Jersey.

For More Information

For more information, contact Sandeep Nandy, RCNJ President, by email at sandeep.nandy [at] verizon.com.
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