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NYEP Alumni PagesThis page contains our alumni information. Check out these quick links: CALENDAR | NEWLETTERS | ALUMNI WEEKEND | PHONATHON | RPI GREEK LIFE DIRECTIONS CALENDARAugust 23-28, 2009 - Work Week at the Chapter HouseOctober 16-18, 2009 - LAE/NYEP Alumni WeekendOctober 23-25, 2009 - RPI Family WeekendDecember 8, 2009 - LAE/NYEP Chartering AnniversaryFebruary 20, 2010 - Big Red FreakoutMarch 6 2010 - NYEP/SAE Hockey Night with Washington CapitalsMarch 2010 - LAE PhonathonMay 2010 - RPI GraduationNEWS 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. John Bogdan is organizing the Washington Capital NYEP hockey night agin. It will be March 6, 2010. Contact Johny B if you want to go. 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 NewslettersSeptember 2009 October 2009 - Alumni Weekend and LAE ElectionsWe had two 4 year terms and one 2 year term for LAE Board positions open for election theis year. Frank "Chip" Wood and Jonathan "Jerry" Witter '82 ran for the 4 year terms and John Bogdan '86 ran for a two year term vacancy created by Mark Murdoch as he takes on Treasurer duties. All were elected with a unanimous hand ballot (UHB). 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 alumni whoere were back and are some photos from this year Jim „Surf“ Owens 1968, Kevin Coons 1977, Bob Hammer 1977, Peter Siegel 1977, Richard Sherman 1977, Frank Strenk 1977, Jeff Hathaway 1978, Richard Pond 1978, Thomas Agnew 1979, Andy Karpowich 1979, Joe Potts 1979, Mark Stuhlmaker 1979, Brian Collins 1980, Dave Ho 1980, Jerry Witter 1982, Mark Murdoch 1984, Marc D’Amore 1986, Keith Dupont 1991, Matt Jeffers 1995, Mark Wilensky 1995, Rene Gonzalez 1996, James Joly 1998, Chuck Roth IV 1998, Matt Dodson 1999, Dan Folmsbee 1999, Justin Naughton 1999, Joe Pinheiro 1999, Dave Raphael 1999, Jake Skehan 1999, Mike Szczepanski 1999, Frank „Chip“ Wood 2001, John Thomas 2002, Mike Gilchrest 2007, Chris Petrino 2007, Dave Roberge 2007, Erik Saari 2007, Erik Swanson 2008, Ray Nassar 2009 January 2010 - Dennis Wassung 1994 Featured on CNBCCNBC has different analyst on to speak about economic trends and investment strategies. Our own Dennis Wassung (1994) has been featured several times. Checkout some of his video clips from 2009 and 2010:
Alumni Speakers Series a Success - Looking for MoreThis past year the undergraduates sponsered 3 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. Finally, 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. The chapter is looking for a new set of alumni to come back this year and visit. We hope to see Joe "JoJo" Mannino '91 Interim Associate Vice President, Capital Project Management at Columbia University to give the Archies a chance instead of all the engineers. April 2009 - Congratulations to John Dulchinos 1984
John Dulchinos '84 (on the far left) participates with other big wigs in April (view video, start at the 64:02 time mark point) As part of RPI's Mechanical Engineering Centennial Celebration, our own John "JD" Dulchinos will be back to speak at a symposium on the transformation of mechanical engineering. He is being recognized as one of the departments most successful alumni. Check out the news from his company below and a little news blurb from him about his family and brother Little George (1982). Sep 3, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) - (http://ir.adept.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=335762) LIVERMORE, Calif., - Adept Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADEP), a leading provider of intelligent automation software for motion and vision-guided robotics systems and services, today announced that John Dulchinos has been named chief executive officer to succeed Robert Bucher, who has been named executive chairman of the board of directors. Mr. Dulchinos remains president of Adept and has also been elected to serve as a member of the company's board.” JD wrote Jerry Witter: “Work has been very interesting. I can’t believe I am still at Adept. It has been a long and winding road. And yes I am running the company. We just introduced this really cool robot called Quattro that is used in high speed packaging and solar cell handling. Check it out on our website (www.adept.com). Very funky looking. Vicki and I are doing well as are the boys. Our family is pretty full with two boys, two dogs and two cats. Our boys are doing great. Ian is 11 and Evan 9. Ian got his black belt in Karate earlier this year and Evan should be getting his next month. I told them they still have a long ways to go to take on the old man. Ian reminds me of my brother George (LG, 1982) except a little more motivated. Evan is quite a little athlete playing soccer, baseball and basketball on top of Karate. He is Mr. Social and is always up for a party. We already have visions of him in college. We hope he goes somewhere with his older brother to get him home at night. Vicki has been staying home with the boys but she keeps herself busier than me with things she does with the school plus helping her mom out in her business. I am too busy myself although I did find a bit of time to squeeze in an Olympic Triathlon this summer. My brother George (1982) is just George. His boys are now in college at Universityof Chicago. He just remodeled his farmhouse last year. We were together last Thanksgiving and were just dying of laughter listening to George stories about what goes on at his house on a regular basis. He could write a book.” Washington, D.C. Hockey Night - January 17, 2009John (Johnny B) Bogdan class of 1986 and LAE Board member organized a NYEP Alumni night at the Washing Caps in On January 17th, while the US capital city was preparing for the inauguration, several NYEP alumni got together for an annual Capitals hockey game outing. This time the opponents were the Boston Bruins, and despite the attendance of Senator Kerry (who got booed by the Caps fans), the Caps won. Johnny “B” Bogdan 1986 organized the event and there was a good representation of the early 1980s. The crew is looking forward to next year’s hockey event, probably in the March 2010 timeframe. For those interested in attending, please contact John Bogdan (jbogdan@niaid.nih.gov) or 301-402-7372 to reserve your tickets.
In the photo from left to right are: Jonathan “Jerry" Witter (1982) (current LAE Chairman, AREVA NP), Mark Berube (1984) (Northrup Grumman Space Defense), John Bogdan (1986) and wife Valerie (NIH), Mark Lepofsky (1985) and his wife Trish, back row Glenn Defriest (1983) and his son John (Discovery Channel), {missing from the photo Robert Mazzaferro (1967) (RegTech Solutions, LLC) and his son James from Va Tech} October 18, 2008 - Jim "Surf" Owens '68 Retires as LAE TreasurerJim "Surf" Owens, Class of 1968, has officially retired after 34 years as our LAE Treasuruer. Through his stewardship we've grown into an organization with many responsibilities for scholarships, big renovation projects, annual alumni donation program, and long term savings. At the fall alumni weekend we sent him off and thanked him for his years of service. Surf was awarded the Order or the Lion from SAE National and The Pride of SAE from Lambda Alpha Epsilon. We had a nice reception and dinner at the house where alumni, acitves, pledges, and many parents enjoyed the festivities. Surf provided a few thoughts on his experience and the history of the chapter. Please read them. We also have a few photos. The undergraduates setting up the dining tent. We needed seating insides and outside this year. Jim Croke's father came back again this year to cook an outstanding meal.
Jim "Surf" Owens says a few words after getting some awards at the reception.
Here is Surf with some classmates during the dinner.
Here is Surf and LAE Chairman "Jerry" Witter (1982) and ET Joe Leeds (2010) burning the mortgage papers. We are debt free (but spending like crazy to keep the house up).
Below is a photo of Surf from when he was an undergraduate and John Pfeiffer (1967) writes a little blurb,
"Do you know who all the brothers are in the picture on the last page of the newsletter? I can’t place them all, but I can give you a good start. On the extreme left with his tongue hanging out is Jim (Duey) Ducharme, next and slightly in front of Duey is Mark Wolski, I am tucked in next and behind Mark, the tall guy next to me is John Schneider and in front of John is Jayson (Jay) Lomberk. I’m not sure who is next to John, but next to Jay is Dave Hoffman…he was a class year ahead of the rest of us. The only other one I know for sure is the right end of the back row who is Christos Pantos. I’m sure Owens or Ken Watson can help with some of the others! -John Pfeiffer" Below that is a more current photo when Surf came to the 2004 annual LAE/EC retreat in Maine (to make sure we weree spending the money wisely and to catch a few holes of golf at another new course).
ALUMNI WEEKENDOctober 16-18, 2009 (annual 3rd weekend of Oct.)Please Note some H1N1 Swine Flu actions at RPI. Be careful this weekend. We'll have personal souvenier cups. RPI bans Beer Pong: Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 TROY -- Medical officials one area college want students to close the tap on drinking games to prevent the spread of swine flu. Officials at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy say several cases of the H1N1 infection have been linked to sharing cups during games such as beer pong. The director of the college's health center sent a message to RPI students and staff warning against playing drinking games after a group of students contracted swine flu during a weekend of socializing. RPI has reported 21 cases of swine flu, including seven students who are in isolation rooms on the school's campus. RPI officials say the college expects to offer swine flu vaccinations within the next few weeks. Friday
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PHONATHON2010 DatesWe'll be calling in March 2010 with follow up calls in April. You can use this generic pledge sheet to send donations to Mark Murdoch or donate on-line at our secure Omega Financial website link. 2009 ResultsWe had $19,500 in pledges from our April calling period. We've collected about $16,966 as of December 31, 2009. We still have some more outstanding pledges fom March, so we hope to received those donations before October. Last year, we surpassed our $20,000 goal for the fiirst time in many years and we'd like to repreat it this year. If we didn't reach you, you can send your donation to the new LAE Treasurer Mark Murdoch or donate on-line at our secure Omega Financial website link. The results and donor honor rolls for 2009 and past years are listed below Please use the pledge sheet and/or contact Mark Murdoch, 24 Gulf Road, Somers, CT 06071 to make your donations. The funds that you can donate to are:
Phonathon Donor Honor RollsCheck out the lists of our very supportive alumni donors from past phonathon: 2009 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. |
