A Rare Rutgers Vintage
October 9, 2025
Rich Moran RC’72, who has been a successful entrepreneur and served as a college president, today is a winemaker and prolific author.
For many of his generation in New Jersey, Rich Moran says the goal was to graduate from high school, get a good job with a pension, retire early, and move down the shore.
But at age 18, he knew he wanted more. Having shown promise as a runner in high school, he was recruited to run track and cross country on a scholarship at Rutgers–New Brunswick. Part of a big Irish Catholic family who lived in Rahway, New Jersey, Moran was the first in his family to go to college.