Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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MECHANHHU.AND GUNSTRUCTTUN INCE Mechanics Institute was founded in 1885, the Mechanical Department has been one of its important divisions. From the early days of industrial Rochester, this de- partment has been supplying the community with technically trained men and has main- tained a co-operative relationship with the industries that has been benehcial to its graduates and their employers alike. The 1 department has kept pace with technical ad- vances in the industrial world and aims to use teaching methods that serve its students best. The Construction Department is an out- growth ofthe courses in Architecture that were given at the Institute prior to 1919. A committee of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce suggested at that time that the Institute consider giving a course in construction. When a survey disclosed that a greater number of the Institute's graduates were engaged in the building field than in architecture, a decision was reached to offer a basic curriculum for the building field. The course of study was prepared through the co-operation of the Rochester Builders' Exchange with the Institute faculty. Graduates from this course have already proved the soundness of the venture. HERMAN MARTIN Coumelor 025.

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GENEI'iAL HUME ECONOMICS N IJENERAL Home Economics girls study the job of home management for the purpose of developing competency in solving the many problems of the homemaker. Money management in the home is a fas- cinating problem involving the training of the homemaker in how to plan before spend- ing, how to make wise judgments in purchas- ing for the household, and how to apply fundamental principles in the use of income Whether small or large. Budget technique and problems in personal adjustments consistent with successful living on changing income levels add to the value of this training. Skills of the home manager in household production of food and food service, of clothing for the family, and of house furnishings are developed to give personal competency and as a possible means of extending the family income through substitu- tion of home production for cost of production outside home. Conservation of the time and energy of the homemaker is studied as a means of freeing time for leisure to use in solving problems of the family groups and for raising the standards of living. To give understanding in building physical and mental health and happy human relationships, a study is made of hygiene, applied psychology, child development, and family relationships. MAY D. BENEDICT Counselor .24-

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i l'HUTUGPiAPH.lC TECHNOLOGY WHILE the Institute has offered work in photography for more than a quarter of a century, it was not until 1930 that the De- partment of Photographic Technology was organized at the suggestion of, and with the co-operation of, the photographic industry. It was organized to provide training for posi- tions in the photographic industry and vari- ous branches of professional photography and these are its primary objectives today. Dr. Ellingson was Supervisor of the depart- ment from its organization until 1936 when he assumed the Presidency of the Institute. In that year the course was extended from two to three years. The department is now recognized as one of the leading schools of photography in the United States and is the only one with a three year course. During the year 1938-39 ninety students were enrolled from 16 states and two Canadian Provinces. In the nine years of its existence it has graduated 70 men and women nearly all of whom are employed in the photographic industry or in professional photography. In this year of 1939-the centennial year of photography-we look back upon nine years of progress in pioneering in a new field and we look forward to the second century of photography confident that in training ambitious men and women for careers in professional photography and the photographic industry we can contribute much towards its advancement in the years that lie ahead. C. B. NEBLETTE Coumelor .26-