Lawrence Technological University - L Book Yearbook (Southfield, MI)

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PROFESSOR IOHN S. RACKWAY Five

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DEDICATION Education must be lifelong is the motto of Professor Iohn S. Rackway, genial chairman of the Drawing Department. Always willing, always helpful, always considerate. and always conscientious is Uncle Iohn, under whose tutelage all students must directly or indirectly come. Ready to aid every student, Uncle Iohn carries an amazing assortment of knowledge and teaching experience under his portentious belt. Starting his teaching career at the Municipal Engineering School of Berlin. where he later occupied a professor's chair, Professor Rackway fled the inhumanities of the Nazi's to teach the refugee Chinese students in Shanghai. From China he was called in 1940 to teach at Lawrence Tech. Though amazingly versatile in his knowledge of Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Physics, Engineering Drawing, Music, and Architecture Cwhat he terms frozen music l, he still finds time to be an active member ot various engineering and educational societies in addition to collecting stamps, direct- ing a choir, translating technical German works, studying architectural history and remembering the first and last names of most of his past and present students.. For wit and wisdom, Uncle Iohn acknowledges no peer: for his untiring efforts in making us realize the importance of the dictum to learn is to learn thinking, we, the class of 1949, respectfully and gratefully dedicate this book to Professor Iohn S. Rackway. Four

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