If you haven't received a copy of the calendar of events and registration form for the 60th Anniversary Celebration October 17 and 18, please see the 60th Anniversary page for details and a copy of the form.

The Rensselaer Chapter of Acacia Fraternity will celebrate its 60th anniversary this fall. Please reserve the weekend of October 16-18 now. We hope to see as many Brothers as possible. The following is a list of proposed events/activities for the weekend. Please contact George Van Horne (contact info in the Directory) to RSVP or see how you can help with planning and organizing.

Friday, October 16

• Afternoon - Golf Tournament
• Evening - Meet & Greet party at the chapter house on Sunset Terrace

Saturday, October 17

• Check-in table where you pick up your nametag and commemorative clothing
• Say goodbye to your teenage sons as they disappear into the video game room!  Alternate activities for daughters and wives to be provided.
• Lunch, under tents in the backyard
• Opening remarks & awards presentation
• Open house & tour of campus
• 3 pm RPI women's hockey game--entertainment for wives & daughters
• Alumni Corporation meeting, all alumni and brothers are urged to attend
• Dinner in the backyard
• Video testimonials--if we can get 2-3 people to volunteer to organize, then we can have a professional video team interview each Acacian who is present.
• Evening entertainment for the whole family!  Volunteers will be recruited individually.

Babysitting available--volunteer needed to organize

Designated drivers provided by our own loveable, underage actives.  (Generous tipping will be expected!)

Sunday, October 18

• 10 AM brunch in the backyard

The Alumni Directory team is pleased to announce that we've integrated our own mailing lists with the Alumni Directory. We currently have email lists for Official News, Life Updates, Jobs (seeking employees or employment), the Housing Committee, and the Corporation Board. Subscription to these lists is controlled through your Alumni Directory account, so if you haven't already logged in, please head over to the Directory and sign up. Please note that all valid email addresses in the directory are automatically subscribed to the Official News list and that the Corporation Board list is open only to Board members. All lists are set up to allow posts only from valid subscriber addresses.

The email addresses to send to are as follows:

news@lists.rpi-acacia.org - Official News (for announcing official RAC and Acacia news)
life@lists.rpi-acacia.org - Chat about life (for announcing births, marriages, moves, etc)
jobs@lists.rpi-acacia.org - For job-related postings
houssing@lists.rpi-acacia.org - For the Housing Committee and other housing-related concerns

Again, you must subscribe to these lists in order to post to them, and your subscriptions are controlled through the Alumni Directory.

Thanks to much hard work by Chris Achille, #710, the first public version of our new Alumni Directory is up and running. You can login by clicking the Directory link at the top of the RAC website. Currently the database is only partially filled in; we have some basic info in there and limited functionality. As further iterations are put in place there will be more search options and increased capabilities, but for now we need, more than anything, help populating it with updated information.
 
Please visit the directory and create yourself an account. Once logged in you can update not only your own but also other brothers' info. We do have some roll numbers missing names, so please make sure to check the roll numbers you are familiar with and make sure you have filled in any missing spots. Updated contact info is also important, so if you see your own info or another brothers info is incomplete or out of date, please take the time to fill it in.

The website BitterOldMen.com was started by two early-2000s graduates a couple years ago as a way for alumni of that era to keep in touch as we disbursed across the country following graduation. The site has seen very limited activity lately, and we've decided to try to get more Rensselaer Acacians using it. We've started decade-specific forums and would love to see some of the older alumni sign up and keep in touch with their fellow Acacians. Visit BitterOldMen.com now and sign up for an account.

Please note that the dues payment address has been updated. Ian has moved and payments by check should be sent to the address in Summit, NJ now listed on the Alumni Dues page. Please remember that Paypal is also an option for those of you who don't want to use snail mail.