To honor the 250th Anniversary of the founding of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 1766, Rutgers Magazine has compiled this special 80-page commemorative issue, which traces the early decades of Rutgers, when it was known as Queen’s College, a seminary for the Dutch Reformed Church, to its preeminence today as one of the nation’s top public research universities. The issue also celebrates the students, alumni, and faculty who have lent Rutgers its unique character.
Rutgers Magazine—which highlights the research, teaching, and service missions of Rutgers as well as the achievements of its alumni—is published three times a year, in February, June, and October, by the Department of University Communications and Marketing and the Rutgers University Alumni Association at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. It is distributed to nearly 450,000 alumni and friends as well as Rutgers faculty and staff, legislators, local government officials, and high school counselors around the state. The magazine, founded in 1914 as Rutgers Alumni Quarterly, became Rutgers Monthly in 1921 and Rutgers Alumni Magazine in 1969.
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Publishers
Kim Manning GSM’89
Donna K. Thornton
Editor
David W. Major
Art Director
John VanCleaf
Creative Director of Commemorative Issue
Nina Ovryn Design
Assistant Editor
Wendy Plump
Contributing Writers
Robert Barchi, Aimee Eng RC’92, ENG’93, Scott Fogdall, Alan Hoffman, Karen Imperiale RC’79, SCILS’81, Richard L. McCormick, Cindy Paul RC’81, Amy Reilly, Jeffrey Wechsler GSNB’76
Copy Editors
Daryl Brower RC’88
Lisa Elwood DC’86
Karen Imperiale RC’79, SCILS’81
Staff Photographer
Nick Romanenko
Alumni Editor
Laura Stanik GSN’10
Associate Alumni Editor
Lara De Meo Hoyt RC’97
Editorial Assistants
Scott Fogdall
Amy Vames
Designer
Michelle Cody
Senior Director, Creative Services
Joanne Dus-Zastrow
Editorial Director
Jeanne M. Weber UCNB’00, SCILS’00
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All Rutgers alumni receive the magazine. Donors who contribute at least $100 annually to the university also receive the magazine.
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