National Science Foundation chairman Arden Bement Jr., President Shirley Ann Jackson, chairman of the Rensselaer Board of Trustees Samuel Heffner Jr. ’56
We have heard a few sources say that Samuel Heffner ‘56, Chariman of the Board of Trustees, will be retiring sometime this year. Heffner, who has been Chairman since before Dr. Jackson joined the Institute (and, we assume, must have helped to name her as president) has been instrumental in assisting Jackson with fulfilling the Rensselaer Plan.
We’re still waiting on Strategic Communications and External Relations to confirm this; we’ll keep you posted.
No idea yet about how this will affect the way things run at the Institute, since none of us has been around for such a changing of the guard, but it’ll be interesting to see how things play out!
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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!
Feel free to post a comment with your thoughts!
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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