Lenoir Rhyne College - Hacawa Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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DR. PLEASANT EDGAR MONROE President of Lenoir Rhyne College.

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The Senior Class of Lenoir Rhyne College dedi- cates this, the Hacawa of 1937 . to Doctor Pleasant Edgar Monroe, whom we esteem because of his quiet and modest manners, his true devotion to the highest aims in life, his fatherly advice, his sympathetic under- standing of human nature, his hearty co-operation, his earnest desire to aid all who are worthy, and his high value of honest labor which is crowned by his own administrative ability. For these and all the other noble qualities which we have found in him as he has aided us in making a life. this, our Hacawa, is dLcated ti

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THE COLLEGE The time elapsing between the discovery of intaglio printing and Its practical application stretched itself out over generations, for though the intaglio principle was revealed in 1452, no truly useful development came out of it until 1785, when Bell, an Englishman, patented a process for printing textiles from rollers cut in the intaglio manner. Then, more than one hundred years later, the Austrian, Karl Kleitsch. took Bell ' s textile printing machine and improved upon it by etching its rollers in accordance with the principles of halftone making which Fox Talbot had discovered in 1852. Kleitsch found that, from rollers prepared in this way, he could print strik- ingly beautiful reproductions of photographs. The next year he suc- ceeded in interesting Story Brothers of Lancaster. England, in his discovery. With their backing he established the Rembrandt Com- pany, the first commercial rotogravure plant in history, which devoted itself with great success to the reproductions of fine etchings and paintings.