2026 Reunion Year Alumni Profiles
Bob Linden ’71 (BA), ’75 (MD) Major: BiologyHometown (during college): Rye, NYCurrent Home: Niantic, CTEmployer: Retired physicianCareer: Thirty-year career in internal medicine and geriatrics in southeastern Connecticut. Retired from the office at the end of 2007, wrote an award-winning book, The Rise & Fall of the American Medical Empire, and then was asked to join […]
2025 Reunion Year Alumni Profiles
Jim Van Buren ’55 (Cornell Med ’59) Major: SociologyHometown: Atlanta, GACurrent Home: Atlanta, GAEmployer: RetiredCareer: Jim had a long career in internal medicine in the Atlanta area, retiring in 2009, including as a member of the clinical faculty at Emory School of Medicine.Family: Jim and wife Mary Martin Van Buren (’56) have five children, seven […]
2024 Reunion Year Alumni Profiles
Rob “RT” Williams ’79 Major: Mechanical EngineeringHometown (during college): Edison, NJCurrent town and State: Wayne, PAEmployer: Boeing (retired 2018 after 29 years), Fox School of Business, Temple University, 5 yearsJob Title: Program Manager at Boeing, Adjunct Professor at TempleJob Responsibilities: Boeing, international marketing, R&D, new product development; innovation; Temple Fox: teaching innovation management to MBAs.Most […]
Snakes, Memes, and MuskBy Alex Krakoski ’16, Vice President, GTPA
For the last two years, Max Tave ’15 and I have been working part-time with Dot Capital, a NYC-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies globally. Dot Capital’s founder and managing partner Joe Saviano, father of Brett Saviano ’17, launched the firm in 2012 after previously serving as a partner at Baker […]
2023 Reunion Year Alumni Profiles
Ken Kunken ’73 Major: Industrial Engineering, then remained at Cornell for my Master of Education degree in Counseling and Student Personnel AdministrationHometown: Oceanside, NYCurrent Home: Rockville Centre, NYEmployer: Nassau County District AttorneyJob Title: Deputy Bureau Chief of the County Court Trial BureauJob Responsibilities: Supervised Assistant District Attorneys prosecuting felonies. Retired in 2016, but have continued […]
2022 Reunion Year Alumni Profiles
Ron Chretien ’72 Major: College of Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringHometown: Grew up in Wollaston, MA, but spent most of my life in Union Springs, NY, just up Cayuga Lake from Ithaca with my wife Nancy (former Pin-mate) and sons Tim and Kevin. We celebrated 50 years of marriage this past January.Current Home: The Villages, […]
In Memory of Arthur Wolcott ’49
We are saddened to inform you of the passing of Arthur Wolcott ’49. The Wolcott family’s ties to Sigma Nu extend back nearly 100 years, as Arthur’s older brothers Jerome ’29 and Sam ’36 were also Sigma Nus (Sam was the one who built the walk-in cooler in the kitchen). Son Mark ’83 is a […]
2021 Reunion Year Alumni Profiles
Jack Reardon ’96 Major: PsychologyHometown: Falmouth, MACurrent Home: West Springfield, VA (we’ve been in the D.C. area for six years now)Employer: US Navy (25 years and counting…)Job Title: Still active duty and currently hold the rank of captain. Current job title is Deputy Chief of Congressional Affairs, Office of Corporate Communication at the National Geospatial-Intelligence […]
In Memory of Charlie Moore ’51: a Cornell, Sigma Nu, and Olympic Legend
Sigma Nu lost one of its most beloved brothers when Charlie Moore ’51 passed away on October 8, 2020. As noted on the Cornell Athletics website, “the impact on his family, the Big Red, and the sporting and business worlds will long be told.” The same is true of his impact on our chapter, because […]
Remembering Tom Paddrik ’77
Sigma Nu lost a brother to COVID-19 on May 26, 2020, when Tom Paddrik passed away in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Tom was born on May 5, 1955, and was one of the “Jamestown 5,” five high school friends from Jamestown, New York, who all went to Cornell’s engineering school as freshmen members of the class […]