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.

Parking

Parking is available at meters on the street or at one of the garages in Palmer Square that adjoin the Nassau Inn. The Nassau Inn is a five minute walk from Baker Rink if you want to park your car and leave it in one place. (Please confirm that the parking facility that you use will be open until at least 10:30 p.m. if you leave your car in Downtown Princeton before the game.)

Directions to Baker Rink

For those of you not joining us for dinner, driving directions to Baker Rink may be found at RinkAtlas.com.

Mass Transit

Alumni coming directly from New York City or Philadelphia can travel by train. Take New Jersey Transit or Amtrak from New York Penn Station, Newark Penn Station, or 30th Street Station in Philadelphia to Princeton Junction via The Northeast Corridor Line. Once at Princeton Junction, change to the shuttle for the Princeton Station. Passengers connecting from Amtrak will probably be required to pay an additional fare. Ticket vending machines are available. The Princeton Station is within walking distance of The Nassau Inn and Baker Rink. (Train station is labeled as "Dinky Station").

For further information contact:

John Cloninger '96 of the RCNJ by email at jpcloninger@gmail.com or phone at 908-578-3673.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Parking

Parking is available at meters on the street or at one of the garages in Palmer Square that adjoin the Nassau Inn. The Nassau Inn is a five minute walk from Baker Rink if you want to park your car and leave it in one place. (Please confirm that the parking facility that you use will be open until at least 10:30 p.m. if you leave your car in Downtown Princeton before the game.)

Directions to Baker Rink

For those of you not joining us for dinner, driving directions to Baker Rink may be found at RinkAtlas.com.

Mass Transit

Alumni coming directly from New York City or Philadelphia can travel by train. Take New Jersey Transit or Amtrak from New York Penn Station, Newark Penn Station, or 30th Street Station in Philadelphia to Princeton Junction via The Northeast Corridor Line. Once at Princeton Junction, change to the shuttle for the Princeton Station. Passengers connecting from Amtrak will probably be required to pay an additional fare. Ticket vending machines are available. The Princeton Station is within walking distance of The Nassau Inn and Baker Rink. Consult a street map of Princeton (PDF format) for directions. (Train station is labeled as "Dinky Station").

For further information contact:

John Cloninger '96 of the RCNJ by email at jpcloninger@gmail.com or phone at 908-578-3673.

If you are interested in getting more details about the show, please visit www.jerseyboysbroadway.com.

The show is playing at the August Wilson Theatre, located at 245 West 52nd Street (between Broadway and 8th Avenue) in Manhattan, New York City.

RCNJ Leadership Committee member Henry Rosenblatt ’54 will be arranging a pre-show dinner at a location TBA. If you are interested in more details about this dinner, please contact Henry Rosenblatt ’54 at jvr3nj@worldnet.att.net or (201) 615-1554.

A limited number of tickets, priced at $100.25 each and located in the orchestra, have been purchased for this show. Show time is 8 pm. Ticket requests will be handled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please act quickly to reserve your spot as this event will sell-out quickly.

If you are interested in getting tickets for this show or have any questions, please contact RCNJ President Sandeep Nandy ’94 immediately at NJ_Chapter@alum.rpi.edu or (201) 967-7271.

Tickets will not be mailed to you until receipt of payment. Nandy will respond to you with payment instructions upon receipt of your e-mail indicating interest in tickets.

I visited with Cricket Hill's owner Rick Reed on Friday evening, and he had some very good news. His distributor in Pennsylvania needed a large amount of beer in short order to satisfy his customers. Unfortunately, it did not mesh with our original plans for the brewery tour.

Given this news, we have rescheduled this event for Wednesday, August 9th at 6pm, when weekly bottling will take place. Feel free to join us on Wednesday at 24 Kulick Road in Fairfield, or visit the brewery's website. Contact me if you need directions or have any other questions.

Mr. Reed gives a fine talk about his beer, and the beer and snacks are free. Do join us if you have the opportunity to do so!

Update: As a result of the cancellation of the picnic, the election scheduled for June 24 has been postponed and will take place at our next club meeting. That meeting will be a dinner meeting on Tuesday, June 27 at Mastoris' Diner-Restaurant, 144 US Highway 130 (at the Junction of Highways 130 and 206), Bordentown. [ Directions ] The meeting will start at 7:00pm.

The RCNJ will also hold elections for its officers for 2006-07 at that time, see the article explaining the election process for more details.

The cost to attend the picnic will be $9.00 per family. Please contact RCNJ President Sandeep Nandy '94 by email at NJ_Chapter [at] alum.rpi.edu or by phone at 201-967-7271 for more information.

Update: This event has been cancelled. For more information, see RCNJ Summer Picnic at Tourne Park Cancelled.