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Campus.News reports that Rensselaer senior Meghan Hartman won the 200M breaststroke at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championship in St. Louis two weeks ago. According to the article:

This is the fourth straight year Hartman, a native of Seattle, Wash., has qualified for the NCAAs. She is now a seven-time National All-American, including twice as a junior. The civil engineering major has earned the honor in the 200-individual medley (twice), the 400-IM (three times), and in the 200 breaststroke.

Meghan is the first national champion that Rensselaer has had in swimming.

Posted by Dave Aiello at 8:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Rensselaer Club of New Jersey and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are pleased to announce that a dinner honoring Howard P. Isermann '42 will be held on Thursday, June 17, 2004. Howard is a member of the RCNJ of long standing and was recently inducted into the Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame.

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will be the keynote speaker.

Further details about the time and location will be announced here on this website. For the moment, please save the date.

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

Joe Pilaro wrote: "Spring training is underway in Florida and the Trenton Thunder, double A affiliate of the New York Yankees, will head north in two weeks to start their season. The RCNJ is planning an outing on Sunday, July 18 to watch the Thunder play Portland (Red Sox affiliation) at 1:30pm at the Waterfront Stadium in Trenton. Tickets are available at $7.00 each for very good seats in Section J behind home plate. I have bought some tickets to start the ball rolling, more tickets may be available if needed. My rule is 'first come, first served'."

"To get in on this family fun RCNJ event, send your check for $7.00 per ticket to:"

Joe Pilaro
PO Box 7463
Princeton, NJ 08543-7463

"Include your address and I will mail tickets to you promptly. The first five reservations will get a complimentary $1.00 'Boomer Buck' to spend at the Waterfront Stadium."

"Information about the Thunder and directions to the Waterfront Stadium is available on the Thunder website: www.trentonthunder.com."

Posted by Dave Aiello at 8:03 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Earlier this week, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced that it is making five books of great historic value available on-line. The books:

• The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Its Reorganization in 1849-50, Its Condition at the Present Time, Its Plans and Hopes for the Future (1855), Benjamin Franklin Greene.
• Biographical Record of the Officers and Graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1886 (1887), Henry B. Nason.
• A Chapter in American Education: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1924 (1925), Ray Palmer Baker.
• History of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1824-1934 (Third Edition, 1934), Palmer C. Ricketts.
• Education for a Technological Society; A Sesquicentennial History of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1968), Samuel Rezneck.

... provide a great deal of historical information about RPI, and technological education through the ninteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Access to these books is available in the Digitized Institute Publications of the Institute Archives and Special Collections Website. The books were digitized by OCLC Preservation Resources in Bethlehem, PA.

Posted by Dave Aiello at 6:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Rensselaer Men's Hockey Team's season ended Sunday night with a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Dartmouth. It's kind of hard to believe that the outcome would be so close in this game, after RPI won Game 1 by a 3-1 score and Dartmouth came back to blow out the Engineers 6-0 in Game 2.

These teams are probably as evenly matched as they can be, if they are playing on neutral ice. But, RPI has had real difficulty winning in Hanover for the past several years (one win in the past eight games played). As the Times Union article correctly concluded, Rensselaer's regular season head-to-head record against Dartmouth made a big difference in the outcome of the series.

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Dave Aiello wrote, "No time to do the weekend series between RPI and Princeton justice. If I get time later this week, I will add details. In the meantime, here are links to the USCHO recaps:"

• Friday night, RPI 5 - Princeton 4
• Saturday night, RPI 3 - Princeton 2 in OT

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