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BREAKING NEWS: New Presidential Home to Be Constructed

December 7th, 2009

The email below was just sent to the Rensselaer Community at approximately 4 PM today.  The President will be getting a new home as a result of personal gifts from members of the Board of Trustees to put on more university events.  The funds would not have been available for any other purpose, so no “we could have spent it on” from students, please!

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To:   The Rensselaer Community
From: William N. Walker, Vice President
Strategic Communications and External Relations
Date: December 7, 2009
Re:   Gift from the Board of Trustees

The following article, describing a commitment made by the Board of
Trustees at its meeting in Troy December 4, has been prepared for the
December 11 issue of Inside Rensselaer. I am sharing it in advance with
the Rensselaer community at the request of Samuel Heffner, Chairman of
the Board of Trustees.

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The members of the Rensselaer Board of Trustees have made a commitment
of their personal resources to construct a new building that will serve
as a space for entertaining visitors to the university, and as a
residence for the president.

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