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ALUMNI WEEKENDsApril 27-29, 2012 - Coincident with Relay For Life WeekendSpring Alumni weekend will be the end of April, There is a lot happeing this weekend with Relay For Life, RPI Greek Awards, AIGC meeting, and LAE Board meeting, but we'll have a fun end of the semester weekend planned. Spring came early this year with hitting the 80F temperature in March. We'll have some volleyball tourney and some send off for the graduating seniors. Please RSVP to let us know you are coming. - Steve Wood '13 Alumni Relations Chair.
October 5-7, 2012 - Coincident with RPI's HomecomingThis year we'll be holding our fall alumni weekend the same weekend as RPI as it provides us greater opportunities for them to help promote our weekend and to allow alumni to come back and have some to see some of their friends from other fraternities and sororities. Plus it provides some other events for the alumni and undergraduates to attend and relieve some burden on the house for holding events. There have been a lot of changes to and pressures from risk managmeent and social policies in Sigma Alpha Epsilon and RPI that require evolution from how some alumni weekends in the past may have gone. So we are requiring that you please respect that SAE and RPI Risk Management Policies demand that all events at the Chapter are BYOB with no kegs or other common containers, nor hard alcohol. Please Read this Open Letter to the Alumni and Undergraduates about the Social Rules that was put in place in 2011 for the chapter operations during the weekend. Read about the purchase of the Chapter House at 12 Myrtle Avenue 50 years ago by Dave Kendall '51 Read the latest newsletters from March 2012 and September 2011 Friday Evening
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NEWS and NOTICESHelp up find lost brothers. A listing of who we think is lost or misplaced is here. We have lots of the younger alumni still with their old home addresses from school. Use this update form Join the NYEP SAE facebook and linked-in groups, as we will be making more use of them this year. We have Facebook and Linked-In groups that you can join for keeping up to date. Contact John Thomas for the Facebook Group (Student Groups/Fraternities & Sororities/SAE RPI Alumni and Active) and Kurt Spiegel for the Linkedin Sigma Alpha Epsilon - New York Epsilon group. Archived NewslettersMarch 2012 October 2011 - Alumni Weekend and LAE ElectionsWe had two 4 year terms term for LAE Board positions open for election in 2011. Kurt Spiegel '01 and Jim Croke '10 won the elections in which we had several candidates. The meeting was held at the Crown Plaza and covered a lot of information for the alumni from many classes who attended. You can read the presentation here. We got a few stories from the first brothers living in the chapter house in the 1960's. We are seeking others for the board or helping with committees, so if anyone is interested in serving with the LAE Board or the financial advisory board to the Lion Fund let Jerry know. Check out the roster of the full board. Here is a list of the more than 100 alumni who were were back in 2011. Thanks to the great showing of the class of 1960's. Robert Fopeano 1951, Stephen Ruggles 1954(and Sherri), Arthur Mason 1961(and Joanne), Robert Athanasiou 1962(and Barb), James Mosteller 1962(and Sandy), John Busse 1963(and Maggie), Paul Kondrath 1963(and Lori), David Haviland 1964(and Kathleen), Christopher Roper 1964(and Kathy), Robert Shaffer 1964, James Brown 1966(and Ea), Ronald La Pointe 1966(and Jan), Alan Lamson 1966(and Janet), John Doherty 1967, Charles Learoyd 1967(and Ann), Christos Pantos 1967(and Cheryl), John Pfeiffer 1967(and Dolores), David Bischoff 1968(and Nancy), David DeWitt 1968(and Judy), Joseph Gil 1968(and Laura), Charles Holt 1968(and Barbara), James Owens 1968(and Ann), George Sawyer 1968(and Barbara), Robert Thomas 1968, Kenneth Watson 1968(and Chuddy), Michael Fedak 1971(and Jean), Michael Jiminez 1972, Thomas Morgan 1972, Robert Vaughan 1972, Frederick Lichtenfels 1976(and Sheri), Leslie Mac Neil 1976(and Pat), Kenneth Moore 1976, J. Steven Paquette 1976(and Elise), Arthur Stefanelli 1976(and Laurie), Thomas Stumpf 1976(and Magdalena), W. Jeffrey Swan 1976, Joseph De Roy 1977(and Isabelle), Thomas Casey 1982, George Dulchinos 1982, George Earle 1982, Kevin Neumann 1982(and Carol), Jonathan Witter 1982, Mark Davis 1984(and Ines), Mark Murdoch 1984, Stanley Dahl 1985, John Bogdan 1986(and Valerie), Marc D'Amore 1987(and Lisa), Ivan Fernandez 1995, Matthew Jeffers 1995(and Brigid), Chris Bahner 1996(and April), Christopher Downey 1996, Rene Gonzalez 1996, James Kennedy 1996(and Wendy), John Oldi 1996(and Mary), Tito Toro 1996, Erik Anderson 1997(and Ania), George Hiltz 1997(and Jesslyn), Parag Patel 1998(and Viral), Charles Roth 1998, Anthony Lambrou 1999(and Beena), David Raphael 1999(and Emily), Michael Szczepanski 1999, Dave Johnson 2001, Nicholas Mandelenakis 2001, Peter Marafioti 2001, Bryan Swarthout 2001, Kristopher Wilburn 2001, Frank Wood 2001(and Courtney), Christopher Wright 2001, John Thomas 2002(and Taiane), Jared Ray 2004(and Reddy), Kurt Spiegel 2004(and Maura), Jason Gertler 2005(and Jessica), Richard Tavares 2006(and Shana), Michael Gilchrist 2007, Cary Klemm 2007, Chris Petrino 2007, Erik Saari 2007(and Jessica), Manuel Severino 2007, Rory Arredondo 2008, Erik Swanson 2008, Caleb Cammock 2009, Anthony Guidarelli 2009(and Alexia), Steve Hall 2009, Joseph Leeds 2009, Justin Metzger 2009(and Amelia), Bryan Michalis 2009, Ray Nassar 2009, Adam Rivard 2009, Daniel Van Blarcom 2009, Michael Walker 2009, Matthew Anderson 2010(and Amanda), Andrew Brooks 2010, Andrew Gudmendsen 2010(and Dee), Nick Profita 2010(and Christina), Ben Rosenthal 2010Evan Kenyon 2011(and Kelly), Charles Scheide 2011(and Kirsten)
The Classes of 1960 Alumni Speakers Series a Success - Looking for MoreIn 2009, the undergraduates started sponsered alumni speakers to talk about their time in the chapter and how the chapter influences their careers or what they wished they had done while an undergrad. Jeff Young '95, the CTO of Factset spoke to the pledges and brothers about EA, soccer, academics, and the fortuitiveness of his career choice. Mike Weiner '89, also of Factset came and talked about corporate recruitment, community involvement, and his times as an undergrad. John Dulchinos '84, President of Adept Technologies, stopped by the chapter house before the big 100th Anniversary of the Mech Eng Dept and spoke about soccer, partying, not winning EA and seeing the wisdom of leaderhip and followership. In 2011 they had George Earle '82, President of E-One talk about recruiting and interviewing as well as the chapter experience influencing his career. The chapter is looking for a new set of alumni to come back this year and visit. Contact Steve Wood if you would be interested in having a conversation with the undergraduate chapter or if you will be in the Troy area visiting RPI and have time for a side visit.
PHONATHON2012 April 1-3, 2012We will be calling the first week in April 2012 with some follow-ups later that month. We have a goal of $25,000 this year and hope to increase the number of donors. We'll try to keep the pledge tallies up each night and will track participation on the Phonathon 2012 webpage. There you will find other links to our donation funds and paypal if you would like to donate online. 2011 ResultsWe made our calls in April 2011 and have compiled the results so far this year. We've reached $49,880 in donations with some $28,400 in extra donations for the establishment of the James Micheal Joly Zeal Fund for National Leadership School scholarships and educational grants for chapter and campus leadership training. Check out the list of donors of 2011. Please use the pledge sheet and/or contact Mark Murdoch, 24 Gulf Road, Somers, CT 06071 to make your donations or donate online with our PayPal option (a 3% surcharge). The funds to which you can donate are:
Phonathon Donor Honor RollsCheck out the lists of our very supportive alumni donors from past phonathon: 2011 Phonathon Donors
Donation GiftsWe still have some of these and lithographs of the chapter house available. Contact Matt Jeffers if you want something.
RPI GREEK LIFE DIRECTIONSOn April 12, 2006 RPI Dean of Students Office announced new policies and faced an uproar from alumni and undergraduates alike. Much work has been done to repair the damaged relations, but there is still quite and way to go. The AIGC website has a compilation of the efforts since the spring of 2006. In the fall of 2007 a new campus alcohol social policy was instituted which brough the IFC party policymore formally under the auspices of the Student Handbook. It is meant to keep some autonomy of control to the chapters, but also more stricly enforce and encourage less risky alcohol use and curb undrage drinking. For these reasons, our alumni weekend activities will be reviewed and better control of alcohol be put in place for controlled BYOB. A brief overview of the policy is in this promotional handout and details are at the AIGC website. Jerry Witter issued a summary report about the status of Greek Life at RPI and some views for potential more benficial relations for the school, alumni, and undergraduates for Greek Life and the Undergraduate Plan by which the school is moving along. In 2008 things have stabilized a little, but a Relationship Statement revision and talk about a sophomore housing requirement and sending all the junior class abroad is keeping the Greek community on its toes. In 2008-2009 more changes for student life have happened at RPI that affect the Greek system. Sophomores are required to live in campus housing, but Greeks are considered part of that housing mix. The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs will be transitioning to the Division of Residence Life, but in the meantime the Dean for Greek Life was laid off in December 2008 and RPI continues with no Dean for Greek Life until at least 2010 - so don't believe all the "RPI supports Greek Life" hype. As part of the financial aid packages, Housing Grant form significant portion of the aid and RPI needs good reporting of how that money is used for IRS purposes, hence a current mandate to use RPI Bursar to do the room and board billing. The AIGC is working to establish a means to allow chapters to keep their current billing and accounting practices, so we'll follow how that moves along. RPI didn't fully realize the impact of having given out so many housing grants (except to create the artificial need for more student housing and ease the sophomore housing requirement) nor the impact of them do the billing with no good way to handle the diverse methods of the individual chapters. Fall 2009 - RPI is moving ahead with the Greek Commons as part of the CLASS residential college model (a.k.a by a few as the Hogwarts on the Hudson). We may be forced to use the bursar for billing purposes and sign an agreement in order to allow sophomores to live in our independent living group facility. We'll see how it all plays out. Spring 2010 - RPI instituted a contracct known as the "Greek Life Commons Agreement." We had little input and received news in the form of a series of information meeting at the end of the term. We will need to sign this agreement in order to house Sophomores in the Fall of 2010. Most things are the same as the Relationship Statement, though more inspections and commitments to participate in CLASS programs now supercede the Relationship Statement. The RPI Dorm Lottery system and financial aid packages are also shifting, so it may actually help keep house live-in numbers higher. We'll see how it all works out. Fall 2010 - This will be the first semester under the Greek Life Commons. The chapter signed on to allow sophomores to live in the chapter house and continue getting their housing grant money. We are using the Bursar to do the room and board and dues billing, so we'll see how the cash flow works out on that. A new Dean of Greek Life was announced late August and he will start Sept 7th (after nearly two years with out any administration support). On November 6th the Archer Center is facilitating a workshop to define what Greek Life Commons will mean to undergraduates and alumni. The AIGC website has more information about the trends and happenings in Greek Life at RPI. |
