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Francois Senez, an Engineer defenseman who is entering his junior year, was selected in the ninth round of the NHL Entry Draft by the Detroit Red Wings.

Senez has one goal and seven assists in 48 games played over two seasons with the Engineers. Senez is the 51st Engineer player ever selected in the NHL Entry Draft. He joins Marc Cavosie (Wild), Matt Murley (Penguins) and others as current team members that have been drafted.

Posted by Dave Aiello at 9:20 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

CTDATA, the company that operates RCNJ.org on behalf of the Rensselaer Club of New Jersey, is reporting that its ISP is currently under a denial of service attack. This is resulting in slow response to a number of Web Sites managed by CTDATA. This story on CTDATA.com provides a bit more detail, and will be updated as the situation warrants.

Update on 06/20: Although it is not clear that the situation has been completely resolved, the ISP has dramatically improved network response time since 7:00 pm Eastern Time last night. Any additional news on this subject will be posted in this article on CTDATA.com.

Posted by Dave Aiello at 9:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Henry Scheuer '69 phoned in and told us that the Montreal Canadiens announced the signing of Joé Juneau '91 to a three year contract. Juneau is originally from Pont Rouge, Quebec, a suburb of Quebec City. He was an All-American at Rensselaer, candidate for the Hobey Baker award in 1991, graduated with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering, and played for Canada in the 1992 Winter Olympics. This past season, Joé played with the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League. He has also played for the Ottawa Senators, Buffalo Sabres, Washington Capitals, and Boston Bruins.

Update: jpcloninger96 points out (correctly) that Montreal spells their team name "Canadiens" more often than "Canadians". This is the spelling used in French. Also, a subsequent Associated Press story values Juneau's contract at $1.8 million per year.

Posted by Dave Aiello at 8:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Dave Aiello wrote, "On Friday, the RCNJ was awarded the Craig W. Angell '35 Chapter of the Year Award for the first time in its history. The Chairman of the RAA's Regional Chapters Committee, Ray Weisner '75, presented the award."

"This picture shows my fiancee Kathleen Kuykendall and me, shortly after the award presentation."

"Sandeep Nandy '94, a member of the RCNJ Leadership Committee also received the RAA Director's Award from RAA Executive Director Dave Bohan '82."

"Read on for more pictures and descriptions of the event...."

Dave Aiello continued:

This is a picture of most of the members of the RCNJ Leadership Committee that attended the RAA Awards Dinner. From left to right: Howard Deutsch '69, Sandeep Nandy '94, Phil Lurie '74, Past President of the RCNJ, Dave Aiello '89, and Ken DeGhetto '50, Chairman of the Liberty Science Center Internship Committee. Phil and Ken are both prior recipients of the Alumni Key and the Albert Fox Demers Medal, two major RAA individual achievement awards. Dave Aiello has also won the Alumni Key. Dave Bressen '56 also attended the dinner, and has also won the Alumni Key and the Albert Fox Demers Medal. He is not pictured because he was seated at another table and we did not realize that he was present at the time of this photo.

Posted by Dave Aiello at 10:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Rensselaer Entrepreneurship Network is sponsoring another event in their regular series of quarterly meetings. This one is called Managing Through an Economic and Business Downturn, and it will take place on Wednesday, June 13, 6:00 pm, at the New York Athletic Club, 180 Central Park South in Manhattan.

The cost of the event is $20 per person. To reserve your place at the meeting, contact Kathy Kinsky at kinsek@rpi.edu.

Posted by Dave Aiello at 12:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)