On April 14-16, we held our first-ever Virtual Reunion & Homecoming celebration! Participants were able to virtually experience the campus through the Passport to Rensselaer, an interactive online showcase featuring updates, information, and more than 120 videos from our schools and research center. Signature live programs included a Presidential Global Game Changers Panel featuring our innovative and dynamic alumnae, a Presidential State of the Institute Address and CLASS Alive! Online with three exceptional current students.
A Class Connections page allowed classmates to connect with one another throughout Virtual Reunion & Homecoming.
We encourage all to leave a message or memory on the whiteboard on the Class Connections page, peruse the Passport and view a recording of each of the three live signature events through the links provided below.
And Save the Date – social distancing protocols permitting, we will be celebrating Reunion & Homecoming on campus, featuring classes ending in 1, 6, 0 and 5, in person October 8 – 10. Stay tuned for more details!
Passport to Rensselaer
Class Connections
Signature Live Events
The Changing Nature of Work, and of Leadership
Presidential State of the Institute Address
<em>CLASS Alive!</em> Online
RPI Memories
Which toilet paper?
After 2020, we can all relate better to this story.
I was a B-school graduate student living in RHAP at 22 Colvin Circle with 3 undergraduate roommates, Deborah Grimstead (Comms), Mary Ellen Payne (CE) and Shelly Trow (Math). We shared costs for toilet paper among other items. We were concerned about not running out of toilet paper but we were also concerned about reducing the cost while choosing a brand we felt was acceptable to us all.
To solve this most important of issues, we commenced a toilet paper study, dutifully tracking our usage on a pad of paper kept near the toilet, store receipts and noted CSAT with each brand we tried during a period of a several weeks.
We discussed our results as a group, cost calculations in hand and debated the merits of aspects such as thickness, softness, #sheets/roll, scent, “feel” and how many sheets we used depending on the brand for #1 or #2.
I can’t remember exactly everyone’s preferences but I do remember that Mary Ellen insisted that she like to smell the scented toilet paper. After considering all these factors and “olfactors” our compromise was the economical Scott 1000 sheets/roll, a choice that is popular in the Norton household to this day. 😀
Memories circa 1984
Spontaneous snowball fight in main quad, running laps on the wooden track of the ’87 gym, iced teas at Elda’s, pizza bagels at Coffee Tyme, being inside a chapel (Voorhees), Billy Idol at the CSNY Albany gym, hockey games, parts of GM week, burgers at Sutter’s, …
Re: Student Clubs and Organizations
Your photo of the Poly office asks the question “Do you recognize anyone?” Yes I do. That’s me in the back standing next to the bulletin board. I can certainly identify everyone else in the picture. The photo is from an article I wrote for the alumni magazine, August 1982 issue, on the history of the Poly newspaper. I was editor-in-chief in 1981-82. Fun fact: I painted the logo on the back wall.
Class of 1955
I remember all those reunions: 1960, 65, 70, etc. up through 2015. Are you going to come to our delayed 65th reunion in October? Send an email to carrollz@umich.edu