Research by Carl Westerdahl

Since its founding in 1824, Rensselaer has graduated alumni whose contributions to society—from the railroad and bridge builders of the 19th century to today’s entrepreneurs of information technology—have indeed changed the world.

In 1995, the Rensselaer Alumni Association established the Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame to preserve and celebrate the long and exceptional heritage of Rensselaer’s distinguished graduates. This year’s inductees to the Alumni Hall of Fame, announced at Reunion ’01 and on these pages, brings to 41 the total number of members to date. These newest members will be formally inducted at a ceremony on campus Sept. 21. The accomplishments of the members of the Hall of Fame are celebrated in etched windows that line Thomsen Hall in the Darrin Communications Center.

	Theodore Dehone Judah Transcontinental Railroad Visionary 1826-1863		Edwin Bryant Crocker, Class of 1833 Western Railroad Pioneer 1818-1875
	Eben N. Horsford, Class of 1838 Inventor, Educator, Chemist, 1818-1893		Frederick Grinnell, Class of 1855 Pioneer in Fire Safety 1836-1905
	John Flack Winslow Iron Manufacturer, Steel Pioneer 1810-1892		William H. Wiley, Class of 1866 Scientific and Technical Publisher 1842-1925
	Alan M. Voorhees, Class of 1947 Urban Planner and Traffic Forecaster 1922 -		Raymond S. Tomlinson, Class of 1963 Inventor of E-mail 1941 -

All present and past inductees are featured in Rensselaer's updated Alumni Hall of Fame Web site, located at: