Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Transit Yearbook (Troy, NY)

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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,

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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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ONE! f Q .iW. 11. ,I , CIVIL ENGINEERING The course in civil engineering, the first engineering curriculum to be given at the Institute, was the first to be founded in any English-speaking country and gave the first civil engineering degree in 183 5. At first a more gen- eral course, as other fields have been opened and new courses instituted, it has be- come basically a course in construction and surveying, but the undergraduates are given instruction in all the engineering departments so as to fit them for executive as Well as engineering positions. Its graduates are famous as bank presidents and geologists alike. THOMAS R. LAWSON, G. E., Head of Department of Civil Engineering, Professor of Rational and Technical M echanies. R. P. I., '98, 9122, TBH. Born Dec. 24, 1873, at Wheeling, W. Va. Wheeling Public Schools and Business College. Entered R. P. I. Faculty in 1898 as mechanics instructor. As- sistant professor, 1903, associate professor, 1906, professor, 1909, head of Civil Engineering Department, 1921, structural and sanitary consulting engineer. Past president, S.E.E.N.Y., member American Society of C.E., member, Ameri- can Welding Society, member, American Concrete Institute, president, Clay Products Institute, vice-president, A.S.T.M., member, Harbor and Dock Com- mission, Troy, member, A.S.C.E. Stress Committee of Elevated Temperatures Research. Author, Notes on Mechanics, Design of Plate Giwlers, Stresses in Bridges. Contributor to engineering periodicals.