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ALUMNI WEEKENDPlease RSVP to this event by August 29th.Registration has closed. See who has responded online so far. October 14-16, 2011 - 60th of NYEP and 50th of 12 Myrtle Avenue)Formal Invitations went out in early August. We're targetting <$100 per person for the weekend. We have a block of rooms set aside with free parking for $99 a night at the Crowne Plaza in Albany (518-462-6611, code CXB) and encourage your to stay there or in Albany as we plan events for the greater selection of locales around the hotel. (Please respect that SAE Risk Management Policies demand that all events at the Chapter are BYOB with no kegs or other common containers) Please Read this Open Letter to the Alumni and Undergraduates about the Social Rules in place for this weekend. Read about the purchase of the Chapter House at 12 Myrtle Avenue 50 years ago by Dave Kendall '51 Map of locations and route to the house from the Crown Plaza Read the latest newsletter from September 2011 Friday Evening
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Weekend coordinators: 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 John Bogdan is organizing the Washington Capital NYEP hockey night agin. It will be in the Spring of 2012. Contact Johny B if you want to go. He arranges a groups set of tickets each year, so if can't make this year, contact for next year. 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 NewslettersFebruary 2011 October 2010 - Alumni Weekend and LAE ElectionsWe had two 4 year terms and one 2 year term for LAE Board positions open for election in 2009. Nick Manelenakis '01 and Steve Knapp '10 ran for the 4 year terms. 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 the more than 50 alumni who were were back in 2010. Thanks to the great showing of the class of 1985. Bob Fopeano 1951, Dave Haviland 1964, Robert Schaeffer 1965, Jim Owens 1968, Bob Whitby 1969, Kevin Neuman 1982, Jerry Witter 1982, Stan Dahl 1985, Ted Feyler 1985, Louis Garcia 1985, Geoff Offerman 1985, Justin Purington 1985, Jeff Wilcox 1985, Russ Haynal 1986, Mark Lepofsky 1986, Don Birks 1987, Marc D'Amore 1987, Matt Jeffers 1995, Jame Joly 1998, Chip Wood 2001, John Thomas 2002, Kurt Spiegel 2004, Peter Baldwin 2006, Mike Campanelli 2006, Rylan Collins 2006, Ankit Narenchania 2006, Rich Tavares 2006, Sean Creeley 2007, Michael Gilchrist 2007, Scott Owens 2007, Chris Petrino 2007, Dave Roberge 2007, Erik Saari 2007, Sal Mangano 2008, Greg Posco 2008, Erik Swanson 2008, Caleb Cammock 2009, Greg Kaminsky 2009, Peter Murrer 2009, Ray Nassar 2009, Mike O'Shea 2009, Mike Pansa 2009, Adam Rivard 2009, Dan Van Blarcom 2009, Mike Walker 2009, Tim Wisner 2009, Andrew Brooks 2010, Andrew Gudmendsen 2010, Steve Knapp 2010, Nick Profita 2010
The Class of 1985 as Pledges on their walk out to pledge meeting
Jeff Wilcox ‘85, Mark Lepofsky ‘86, Geoff Offerman ‘85, Kevin Neuman ‘82, Don Birks ’87 remembering good times in the party room
July 2010 - Dennis Wassung 1994 Featured on CNBCCNBC has different analyst on to speak about economic trends and investment strategies. Our own Dennis Wassung (1994) of Cabot Money Management has been featured several times. Checkout some of his video clips from 2009 and 2010:
Alumni Speakers Series a Success - Looking for MoreIn 2009, 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) 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.
"Do you know who all the brothers are in this picturer? 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" PHONATHON2011 ResultsWe made our calls in April 2011 and have compiled the results so far this year. We've reached $34,270 in donations with some $18,600 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 current 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. |
