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Anthony t. RinAldi, ME

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Early Life and Education

Rinaldi was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and he is the only child and son of the late Anthony T. Rinaldi,
II, a highly decorated and hall of fame police captain and 30-year veteran of the Hoboken Police
Department, Hoboken, New Jersey and Mary Rinaldi, nee Visaggio, an amateur bowling champion who
competed throughout Hudson County, New Jersey, and who is also a hall of fame amateur bowler who’s
stature has been immortalized in the National Bowling Museum & Hall of Fame, located in St. Louis,
Missouri. Rinaldi’s father was a World War II veteran and Seabee, a member of the United States Navy
Construction Battalion with the word “Seabee” coming from the initials “CB”. He was a significant figure in
Rinaldi’s life and bloodline of construction, although he died when Rinaldi was only 19 and a freshman in
college.

Rinaldi attended Secaucus High School in Secaucus, New Jersey and was a K-12 graduate of the Secaucus
Public School System, where he excelled both academically as well as athletically. Having graduated with
honors and a 3.4 out of 4.0 GPA (A-) and named to the Star Ledger’s 1st-Team All-State Honors in 1983, he
was named twice to Who’s Who Among American High School Students both in 1981-82 and in 1982-
83. Rinaldi received numerous athletic scholarships to play college baseball and was considered one of
the top professional catching prospects in the nation, landing tryouts with the then California Angels, the
Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cleveland Indians. Given the strict upbringing and influence of his father,
Rinaldi chose the path of college and an engineering degree first, over a professional career in baseball,
an opportunity that would not come again with the passing of his father and his having to work to support
both himself and his mother.

In 1983 Rinaldi accepted a scholarship1 to play Division I baseball at Lehigh University, Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, where he majored in Mechanical Engineering and he received his Bachelor of Science in
Mechanical Engineering in 1988, having taken time away from college when his father passed of colon
cancer in 1984, just after Rinaldi and Lehigh came off of one of the university’s most successful baseball
seasons in the school’s history, winning the ECC (East Coast Conference) division and just missing a trip to
Omaha, Nebraska to compete in the College World Series. In his sophomore year following his passing,
Rinaldi dedicated the season to his father and was, thereafter, always found wearing a long, black wrist-
band midway up the length of his left-forearm. He proceeded to be one of the nation’s leading hitters
that year, finishing #5 in the ECC with a .393 batting average, just under the elusive .400 mark. In his
following two (2) seasons, Rinaldi was named team captain and finished .375 and .354, in his junior and
senior seasons, respectively, and was named the team’s Most Valuable Player as a senior in 1987. Years
later, Rinaldi would be honored with the distinction of being named to the Secaucus High School Athletic
Hall of Fame in March 2002.

Although Rinaldi had a rather illustrious baseball career at Lehigh, his focus and interest had always
been engineering and construction and following his father’s death in 1984, he lost the luxury to pursue
a professional career in baseball and remained ever so focused on his professional career as an engineer
and builder. In 1988, Rinaldi turned down offers with Fortune 500 companies such as Consolidated Rail
Corporation aka Conrail, Hess Corporation and First Brands Corporation (manufacturer of STP Motor Fluid,
among other major retail products) to join HRH Construction, then one of New York City’s and the nation’s
largest commercial builders and the construction division of Starrett Corporation, the entity that built the
Empire State Building in 1929. There, he was involved in building several high-profile projects, among

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