34th Annual ICENAE Reunion, 2008.

Another Great Event! The '08 Reunion was held for the second year at the Crowne Plaza in Lake Placid, upstate New York. The autumn colours were utterly awesome. As in previous years the group got together on the Friday night at a Bungalow on the property on a BYOB basis with the Stukee and wife providing finger food. This was followed by a communal meal at the " Boat House " one of the hotel's restaurants but off-premises. Saturday, historically, was spent with the golfers golfing, the hikers hiking and the do-nothing-ers doing nothing; but doing it very well! This year I tried something different. A Treasure Hunt! I split the party into five groups of eight and with a list of requirements sent them off into the environs of Lake Placid. Initially there were some concerns, followed by some complaints, finishing up with some criticisms! All that in the first half-hour! SEVEN, yes 7 Hours later we reassembled in the Bungalow for the evaluation and some well earned drinks. It would fill volumes to describe that evaluation. Suffice to say there was a winning team and EVERYBODY had fun. We followed this with Dinner in a cozy nook called the Library. The winning team having free wine with their meals. The evening ended back at the Bungalow for more libations. Michael Barron

And again next year! Since 1975, IC Alumni (and their families) living in Ontario and Quebec and the north-eastern States of the US (Imperial College Exiles North America East) have gathered annually for a weekend of informal, social activities that promote new friendships as well as renewing old ones. Michael Barron has volunteered to be "stuckee" again and says, "Next year will see us back for our 35th at the Crowne Plaza. My "challenge" is to repeat or improve on this years activities. My scheming mind is thinking about a Triathletic Event! Including Train, Boat and 1932 Olympic sled races." People would like to start the weekend earlier. So the plan is to reach the hotel Thursday afternoon. Spend Friday golfing, hiking or do-nothingering. Saturday would be the " Event ". The dinner next year will be a Black Tie and Evening Dress function to celebrate our 35th year in style. So pencil-in the last week end of September. We will try and avoid religious holiday conflicts. Now get ready for some more "Michael Madness"! Contact Information: For Registration Information, contact Michael Barron

For more information about the resort: Crowne Plaza, Lake Placid *ICENAE stands for Imperial College Exiles North America East, and has been a much enjoyed reunion of IC graduates and spouses/friends for the last 31 years, meeting annually over a weekend in upstate New York and more recently in Canada. It is open to any ICSTM alumni, especially those that reduce the average age of the group. Toronto Monthly. ICENAE also holds an informal pub lunch on the last Friday of every month in Toronto. This takes place at the Jason George Pub, 100 Front St. East (east of the St. Lawrence Market), starting at noon. For further information contact Harry Burgess, 416 362 5135. All alumni and friends are welcome. ICENAE HISTORY        ICENAE's roots extend back to a reunion dinner for engineering alumni, organized by some eccentrics in 1974 at a hostelry in Niagara Falls. The late Alan Kitchener (Kitch), who lived in New Jersey, studied the map and decided that 440 miles each way was just too far for one evening out, and wrote suggesting that next year the reunion should be a full weekend and held in the Adirondack Mountains, approximately equidistant from Toronto, New York and Boston.      This idea was acclaimed at the Niagara Falls dinner and in October, 1975, a weekend reunion was held at a mountain resort at Inlet, NY, which was enjoyed so much by the 23 participants that it has been repeated every year since. It was soon extended to all alumni of I.C. and acquired the name ICENAE - Imperial College Exiles North America East - based loosely by classics scholar Bill McAuley on Queen Boadicea's formidable ICENI tribe.      The old resort at Inlet has long disappeared, and in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, Sagamore Great Camp, our seventh location,  hosted  the 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th gatherings. All alumni of I.C. and their families are welcome - we would particularly like to be joined by alumni of the medical schools that are now a part of ICSTM. We also welcome any passing alumni or staff of the college. Return to top of ICENAE page   IMPERIAL COLLEGE ALUMNI in North America (and further afield)         Other Imperial College groups and activities in North America can be accessed by using the web browsing links here: California  who have their own website. Doug St Pierre acts as a contact for   "ICSTM Alumni, Midwest Cyber Chapter", who says: The hoped for Fall meeting never took place... insufficient interest. My feeling now is to try to expand the Cyber concept. For those of us spread in the middle of the continent there are not enough alumni to gather up into a critical mass. That is to say, my experience, and that of others, is that you can only get out about 25% of the membership of any voluntary organization to a meeting. When there are only 20 or so in the whole chapter and they are spread over a large area it is seemingly impossible to arouse interest in getting people to spend a day traveling to get to a meeting... I doubt that I could even get them out for a Second Coming! Even though I ask for ideas I never get any and trying to get something for IC Matters is like pulling teeth. Thus, I think that we must move to criticality by expanding the scope of the cyber chapter to the whole country. We must try to find out what alumni want, if anything. I plan to round up email addresses through the college alumni relations office just as I did for the Midwest group. Your website would be useful, if you could put a note in it* to the effect that if alumni would like to join they should contact me at pspierre@sbcglobal.net . They should also offer suggestions as to what they would like to see in such a cybergoup eg an address book of alumni with brief bios... useful for job seekers, discounts for flights to London, etc. * here it is! MJMcC. Jonathan Spatz, at Carnegie Mellon also has links to the IC Foundation. We have contact with an IC group in Japan. Mr Shigetoshi YANASE says  "Our alumni society in Japan is called South Kensington Kai, SKK, which has 400 members and holds a meeting and party every year. In the meeting of  November (1999), it was decided to to create a website and have a trial for the SKK in order to simulate activities of the SKK and to promote the interaction between IC alumni in other countries and in Japan." Their website can be found at: SKK website : http://www.rt.sakura.ne.jp/~skk/index-e.html

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