User:Realet

Hi, I'm Tom Reale. You may remember me from such intriguing and outstanding Wikis as Wikipedia and CHNWiki.

My first RPI hockey game I ever attended was on November 20, 1982. I don't remember it at all, I was about five months old at the time. I'm told there is a picture of me at 2 1/2 two seasons later on George Servinis' shoulders when the team returned from Detroit with the national title.

I attended the Institute from 2000 to 2004 and was a trumpet for the most part. My membership in Lambda Chi Alpha often saw me sitting in Section 22 rather than on the stage at hockey games but I was always game for road trips and football games. The year after I graduated I filled in on bass drum on occasion, and on one sad night tried to roll the snare drum for the anthems and failed miserably.

I was also the one who made wearing a hard hat cool again - this was apparently in vogue in the 1980s but died out prior to around 2002 or so when I bought mine and slapped a bullet on it. However, I did not invent the hard hat salute. My hard hat, the original, was often used as a percussion instrument for 033 - El Cumbanchero, always while still on my head.

I am still scheduled to have Sarah Toner's children, although I am currently living in St. Cloud, MN covering the St. Cloud State Huskies (can't spell sucks without SCSU, aka one-and-done university) for USCHO.