Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Transit Yearbook (Troy, NY)

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n as 9 g A ,- 1 6 I -- aillllllfs I-IARRIET R. PECK, B.L., L.L.S., Libwzifirwz Born at Gloversville, N. Y. Prepared at Gloversville High School, N. Y., and Mt. Holyoke College, receiving the degree of B.L. In 1904 she received the degree of B.L.S. from the New York State Library School. Assistant Branch Librarian of the Carnegie Library at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1905-1906. Since that time she has been instructor in the Summer Library Schools of Chautauqua as Well as in McGill University and Simmons College. In 1912 she Was appointed librarian for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which position she now holds. Associate Professor of Library Methods, University of Michigan, Summer Ses- sion, 1922. Columbia University, Summer Session, 1924. JANE DERMITT SPOORE, B.A., Assistant to the Lib7'6l1'i6l7Z MARY LEONA BURKE, Registrczr Born at Brooklyn, N. Y. Prepared at the Vermont Normal School and the Teachers, Training School at Castleton, Vt. Principal Hydeville Graded School, 1905-I9IO. Secretarial Work, 1910-1916. Appointed registrar of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, September, 1916. ELMER WILLIAM SIPLE, Head of fbe Dcpezrtnzevzzf of Publications JOHN W. NUGENT, C0l7ZPf7'0II61' CHARLOTTE I-I. BIGELMAN HELEN BOUNDS MARY GERMAIN LULU STILLMAN GERTRUDE HICKEY ISABEL LAPD ALMA LEE FLORENCE LEE MILDRED LUCEY MAR JORIE PATRIE 7 l f A ' 4 51 ' '- ,..

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THE DIRECTUR MESSAGE March 15, 1934 The Editor of the 1935 TRANSIT: Each year THE TRANSIT has something new to tell its readers about the Institute, and in this short article I must do my share to help you. The various new buildings we have erected during the past few years, Eaton Hall for the library and auditorium, the Greene Building for the Department of Architecture, the six Church Dormitories, and the Club House are now more or less old stories. So to keep up our record we have deter- mined to erect a new building of whichI must tell you. It will be one of the most important on the Campus and one of the largest, housing the laboratories for aeronautical, metallurgical, and chemical engineering. The last will replace the line chemical engineering laboratory now in the Walker Building and will be a much better one, the metallurgical laboratory will replace the several laboratories now in various departments, and the aeronautical laboratory will be of great value for our new course in aeronautical engineering. The building will be situated between the Troy Building and the ,87 Gymnasium on the north side of the Campus along Sage Avenue. It will be one hundred and eighty-four feet long by fifty-nine feet wide, five stories in height, fireproof, of Georgian type, built of Harvard brick with limestone trimming like most of the other buildings on the Campus. The wind tunnel and the engine testing room of the aeronautical department will be in the basement, with the rigging room on the first floor. One floor will contain a large lecture hall and various recitation rooms. The metallurgical department will occupy the fourth floor and half of the fifth. The work will be begun in May and will be finished next year. This building will make, of course, a valuable addition to our facilities, as are all those used for purposes of instruction, but naturally the content and the character of our courses are of the most vital importance, are the things which make the school. The three new engineering courses, aeronautical, metallurgical, and industrial, will be of the same high character as the four older ones. These, with the business administration, the architectural, and the courses in physics, in chemistry, and in botany, make the twelve different undergraduate courses leading to degrees. Of course, the new laboratory will be very valuable for the research work of our undergraduate and graduate students as well. The latter are provided with advanced courses leading to Masters' and Doctors' degrees. We had a successful year in athletics, both intercollegiate and intramural, and our musical and dramatic clubs are doing work of high character. The times are trying, but in every phase of our Institute life scholastic and extracurriculum we are doing better work than ever before. 6K! I Q li shnmnunu Illllllllilillllll H 11111111111 . ---.., 'iff . , - - - .' - ' - v.- '- n- A ' 'vi ' ' i l

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PREHDENTS 1824 REV. SAMUEL BAGHFORD, D.D. , , . Ist President 1828- REV. JOHN CHESTER, D.D. ,... . . 2nd President 1829- ELIPHALET NOTT, D.D., LL.D. . . . . . . 3rd President 1845- NATHAN S. S. BEMAN, D.D. , . . . . . 4th President 1865- HON. JOHN F. NVINSLOXV ,,., . . . 5th President 1868- THOMAS C. BRINSIVIADE, M.D. . , . . . 6th President 1868- HON. JAIVIES FORSYTH, LL.D. ...,..,.. , . . 7th President I888-OI JOHN HUDSON PEGR, LL.D. ,...,.....,. , . . 8th President I9OI- PALMER C. RIGRETTS, C.E., E.D., LL.D. , , . . . , 9th President TRUSTEES EDWARD C. GALE, C.E. HENRY COLVIN, ESQ. HORACE G. YOUNG, C.E. LIVINGSTON W. HOUSTON, C.E. ALFRED H. RENSHAW, C.E. JOHN W. DOTY, C.E. STEWART JOHNSTON, C.E. EDWIN S. JARRETT, C.E. GEORGE S. DAVISON, C.E. PERCIVAL SAX, C.E. PHILIP W. HENRY, C.E. GEORGE T. HORTON, C.E. C. W. T. BARKER, C.E. ROYAL G. FINCH, C.E. SANFORD L. CLUETT, C.E. ALLAN D. COLVIN, C.E. DOCTOR BEN J. W. ARNOLD THOMAS EARLE, C.E. JOHN M. SHANNAI-IAN, C.E. ALUMNI MORRIS R. SHERRERD, C.E. WM. P. GREAGER, C.E. SENIOR PROFESSORS AND DIRECTORS 1824- AMOS EATON, A.M. ........,.....,.......,.. Senior Professor 1842-46 GEORGE H. COOK, C.E., Ph.D. ,........, . . . Senior Professor 1847-59 B. FRANKLIN GREENE, C.E., B.N.S., A.M. , , ....... Director 1859-60 NATHAN S. S. BEMAN, D.D. .......... .... D irector 1860-76 CHARLES BROWNE, C.E., E.D., LL.D. . . . .... Director 1876-78 WILLIAM L. ADAMS, C.E. ..,....,.,, .... D irector 1878-91 DAVID M. GREENE, C.E. .........,...., .... D irector I892- PALMER C. RICKETTS, C.E., E.D., LL.D. . . .... Director fi, lgllgllglijfu .In ge arg-EF,