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

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PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY 'See yourself as others see you” is the old quote—but we prefer to picture you as you appear in your most glamorous moments. The camera accents all the defects, while we try to eliminate them from the negative. It’s hard wrork, but we love it! The first year wre make pinhole cameras, and discover to our delight that those awrkwpard-looking boxes really take good snaps. We also get a taste of the all important composition and perspective which seems to be the aim of all good photographers. When we advance to more intricate cameras, there arises unlimited possibilities to display our photo-tech finesse—and our con- tinual question of where the next picture is coming from. As Seniors we spend most of our time looking for unused shots and appealing angles, or creeping up behind some unsuspecting bystander to catch a new facial expression. The practice house is our hangout now too-—fully equipped and ready for efforts at developing and printing. We trail from light to dark rooms, where anything might turn up and usually does. Salon, Camera Club, and Photo-Tech activities take up any spare time we might have. The fullest reward we find is the knowledge of the growing need for Photo-Tech skills in the Armed Services for reconnaisance and photographic mapping. WHITE, LESEUR, THRONSEN, COLTON, WILSON NEBLETTE, ALDRICH, STURGE, BREHM 15

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MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Modern design is our specialty, and that's exactly what counts in this individualized course. For here we proceed each according to his skill, guided of course by faculty advice. Looking back on our 3 years, we see them this way . . . The Freshman year is divided among mechanical, architectural, and free- hand drawing, mechanics, and heat courses, while as Juniors wFe proceed to surveying and strength of materials. The high point of the Senior year is our thesis, written about building—and this means from birdhouses up. We also get that all-important practical experience from such work at local plants as plant-operation, machine design, and instrument making. We have a head start on these positions due to the exceptionally fine equipment available in our ow n machine shop and mechanical lab. And now with a wrar to win wre’re doing the wrork that keeps our planes flying, our tanks rolling, our ships sailing to victory—whether the wrork be actual construction or instrument making. Due to circumstances beyond our control the photograph of the faculty of this Department teas unobtainable H

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PUBLISHING AND PRINTING DEPARTMENT Those ads you’ve taken so for granted in the morning papers—the books you’ve read with such enjoyment—and the magazines you’ve thumbed through to while away an hour—are our business to create and make available for public benefit and satisfaction. And we love it! We like the opportunity to sway the human mind with type, with pictures, woodcuts, line and half-tone drawings, and we begin to realize just how much can be accomplished with a well-worded line, a carefully drawn sketch. Although our department is the baby of the school, our faculty rates second to none. In our labs are facilities for hand composition, machine composition, stereotyping, material casting, pressroom work, and binding. The courses include writing, publishing, casting, lettering, and layout. Due to cooperation with New York State Publishing Association we are able to obtain excellent training from other sources in this industry. Unlike most other departments, our two years are full time and we are able to concentrate on becoming the best in our field—and a most satisfying one it is. SORACE, CULVER. DEWITT 16