Stiffy’s Timeline of Roger Milestones
March 1961 Initiated into Theta-Upsilon Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha ( Polytechnic University )
· Served as High Gamma, House Manager, Steward and Newsletter Editor
1964 Graduated with a B.S.E.E. in 1964, joins IBM Corporation
1967 Served as High Pi to Theta-Upsilon Zeta until 1969
1967 Led the formation of the Theta-Upsilon alumni chapter and he helped to bring the Housing Corporation back to life after former Grand High Alpha Elles M. Derby stepped down as their “one man House Corp”after 25 years.
· Held a variety of alumni offices including Senior High Alpha (Alumni Association President)
1978 M.S. in Computer Science, Union College
· Helped Theta-Upsilon win the Phoenix Award from Lambda Chi Alpha HQ, for “rising up from their own ashes”
1979 Theta-Upsilon Alumni Chapter and Theta-Upsilon House Corp merged under Roger’s leadership
1980 Roger was nominated for Lambda Chi Alpha’s prestigious Order of Merit
1984 Became an Adjunct Assistant Professor at RPI
1987 Achieved his Ph.D. in Communication & Rhetoric, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1988 Received IEEE Professional Communication Society’s Alfred N. Goldsmith Award
1992 Retired from IBM Corporation to become a private consultant
1995 Named Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication
· Served as Faculty Advisor to Epsilon-Eta Zeta, 1995 (up to Spring 2007)
1996 Became Clinical Assistant Professor at Rensselaer
1997 Served as High Pi at Epsilon-Eta Zeta (up to Spring 2007)
1998 Created Epsilon-Eta Zeta Alumni Advisory Board
· Roger became head of a Membership Review Committee that re-built Theta-Upsilon Zeta’s membership
1999 One of the first Lambda Chi Alpha Impact Leadership facilitators
2000 Member of the RPI Greek L.I.F.E. Task Force
· IEEE Third Millennium Medal recipient. Awarded by the Professional Communication Society
· Elected honorary member of Order of Omega, Greek honorary society ( April )
· Elected to Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity’s prestigious Order of Merit ( April )
· Rensselaer’s David M. Darrin Counseling Award; presented at Commencement ( May )
2001 Received the prestigious Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication.
· Received Rensselaer Greek Advisor of the Year Award for 2000-2001
2002 Became Clinical Associate Professor at Rensselaer
2003 Awarded Society for Technical Communication’s President’s Award in May
2007 Most Involved Alumni Award for Epsilon-Eta Zeta in March
· Elected President of the Alumni Inter-Greek Council after many years of service as Lambda Chi Alpha’s representative in April
· Became Clinical Professor at Rensselaer; May 2nd, 2007!! Congratulations Roger!