Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Technique Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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10 TECHNIQUE Vol. XXVII gresses at home and abroad, and with him she shared that special prominence in American science which fell to the lot of Professor Rogers through his own investigations and teach- ing and through those of his three brothers, — scientists all. And when it became apparent that there was need and room in Boston for an Institute of Technology, Mrs. Rogers entered with keenest interest and enthusiasm into her husband ' s plans for its foundation and development. Then came our bloody Civil War, in which, and in the Vir- ginia she knew so well, she lost her only brother, Captain James Savage. But hardly had the smoke of battle lifted when the Institute was opened, — in April, 1865, — and Mrs. Rogers, as the wife of its Founder and first President forthwith assumed that queenly relation to it which she held for all of us until her death and will always hold. This is not the place to dwell upon Mrs. Rogers ' complete devotion to her husband in his strength and in his weakness, — for in 1870 illness compelled him to resign the Presidency and to retire into almost absolute seclusion for eight long years; or to tell of her gracious hospitality to hundreds of Institute ofhcers and students at her winter home on Marlborough Street or at her summer home — Morningside — at Newport; or of her in- sistence that the Institute should keej) inviolate its essential independence, avoiding entangling alliances with other Insti- tutions; or of her love and abiding admiration for President Walker, her husband ' s chosen successor; or of her last great work for the Institute — her own and her beloved husband ' s onlv child — in bestowing upon it after her death her ample fortune. Here is no word of sorrow — but only of rejoicing, for the noble and gracious and devoted life of the first lady of Tech- nology. Here is only a humble tribute from the students of her cherished Institute, laid lovingly upon the altar of her memory. Here is only their i)arting token of admiration and affection and farewell!

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V-ir » ' Tr President RICHARD C. MACLAURIX Secretary JAMES P. MUNROE Treasurer WILLIAM B. THURBER Life Members WILLIAM HOWARD FRANCIS JAMES P. HOWARD HIRAM F. EXDICOTT A. CARSON H. WILLIAMS TOLMAN STOCKTON MILLS PERCIVAL LOWELL CHARLES C. JACKSON SAMUEL M. FELTON DESMOND FITZGERALD CHARLES W. HUBBARD THOMAS L. LIVERMORE A. LAWRENCE ROTCH GEORGE WIGGLESWORTH JOHN R. FREEMAN WILLIAM H. LINCOLN J. B. SEWALL ERNEST W. BOWDITCH A. LAWRENCE LOWELL JAMES P. MUNROE WILLIAM L. PUTNAM EBEN S. DRAPER ROBERT S. PEABODY ELIHU THOMSON ELLIOT C. LEE JAMES P. STEARNS LUCIUS TUTTLE FREDERICK P. FISH FRANCIS L. HIGGINSON CHARLES A. STONE W. MURRAY CRANE FRANCIS R. HART T. COLEMAN DU PONT ARTHUR F. ESTABROOK JOHN M. LONGYEAR Term Members Term expires March, 1912 GEORGE W. KITTREDGE FRANK G. STANTIAL GEORGE E. HALE Tcrni expires March, 1914 WALTER B. SNOW THEODORE W. ROBINSON CHARLES R. RICHARDS ARTHUR WINSLOW Term expires March, 191G HENRY A. MORSS Tcr n expires March, 1913 JAMES W. ROLLINS EVERETT MORSS ARTHUR T. BRADLEE Term expires March, 1915 FRANK W. ROLLINS EDWIN S. WEBSTER EDWARD CUNNINGHAM HENRY HOWARD Representatives of the Commonwealth His F xrELLKX( y, El ' (iENE N. FOSS, Governor Hon. ARTHUR P. RUGG, Chief Jusiicc of th e Supreme Court DAVID SNEDDEN, Covimissioner of Education [ 12]