Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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BOARD ARTHUR w. BEALE President and Treasurer, Beale Construction Co., Inc. JOHN P. BOYLAN Chairman, Board of Directors, Rochester Telephone COTPOYOEIOU THEODORE C. BRIGGST n President, The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co. KENDALL B. CASTLE Attorney, Castle, Fitch, Swan 8: Jefferson ALBERT K. CHAPMAN? Secretary, Rochester Institute of Technology Vice-President and General Manager, Eastman Kodak Co. BRACKETT H. CLARK President, Pulver Co., lnc. GEORGE H. CLARK? Treasurer, Rochester lnstitute of Technology Director, Eastman Kodak Co. W. DEWEY CRITTENDEN Chairman, Board of Directors Genesee Valley Trust Co. A. EDWIN CROCKETT Manager, Industrial Management Council of Rochester MRS. C. SCHUYLER DAVIS Director, Visiting Nurse Association M. HERBERT EISENHARTT President, Bausch 8: Lomb Optical Co. MARK ELLINGSONX President, Rochester lnstitute of Technology CHARLES K. FLINT Vice-President, Eastman Kodak Co. and General Manager, Kodak Park Works FRANK E. GANNETT President, Gannett Co., Inc. and Publisher, The Gannett Newspapers JAMES E. GLEASONJF Chairman, Board ol Trustees Rochester lnstitute of Technology Chairman, Board of Directors, The Gleason Works 0F TRUSTEES EDWARD A. HALBLEIDt First Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, Rochester Institute of Technology General Manager, Delco Appliance Division General Motors Corporation ZRA A HALE ' E . Executive Vice-President, The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co. CARL S. HALLAUER Vice-President, Bausch 81 Lomb Optical Co. MRS. ALFRED HART Vice-President, Hart's Food Stores, lnc. President, Jewish Children's Home SOL HEUMANN Chairman, Board of Directors, Timely Clothes, Inc. ARTHUR H. INGLET President, Consolidated Machine Tool Corp. P. RICHARD JAMESON Vice-President, Taylor lnstrument Companies VERNER C. KREUTER Vice-President, American Laundry Machinery Co. - I MRS. WILLIAM BREWSTER LEE Board of Education, Rochester Public Schools FRANK W. MOFFETT Vice-President, General Railway Signal Co. GILBERT E. MOSHER Honorary Chairman of the Board, Haloid Co. JOHN D. PIKE President, John B. Pike 8: Son, lnc. EDWARD J. RIEST President, Ritter Company, lnc. HERMAN RUSSELLX Second Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, Rochester Institute of Technology President, Rochester Gas 8s Electric Corp. BENJAMIN G. STALLMAN General Contractor, l'l. Stallmqn Son RAYMOND L. THOMPSON Treasurer, University of Rochester NELSON L. WHITAKERT President and General Manager, Graflex, lnc. TMEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 8 X prog'

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The first lnstitute's class in meCl1C1f1lCUl drawing was held in this building November 23, 1885. The Rochester Board of Educa- tion extended the use of the UPPQV Hoo' of this building to the Rochester Athenaeum istorical reference and Mechanics institute. H to George Wilson l lol4e. RI T -A History lt was 1812. The American Revolution was fast becoming an unpleasantbmemolry ' ' i t e h were at war--the latter doing their best to em ro and the French and Britis Americans-sinlcing their ships and impressing their seamen. But far from these scenes, on the site of what is now Rochester, there was great ' ' lc om for their activity. Surveyors laid their boundaries, men cleared trees to ma e ro homes and sawmills filled the days and nights with their screaming as the owners I f 't h to lceep up with the demand for lumber worlced at ever pr c - With the coming of the white man, the lndians moved still farther west and began to feel an uneasiness over the intruding palefaces -a well-yustified uneasiness. ' ' d l d t still This was Rochesterville, 1812, the embryo of a city now well eve ope , ye growing. Growing in foresight-in pace with the world-growing in size and methods and culture. A paragon of cities. Ten years later, in 1822, the Rochester Literary Company was organized. A library in the beginning and a small one, it was a portent of things to come, for seven years later it became a part of the Rochester Athenaeum which was housed in the old Reynolds Arcade on Main Street. lt was founded primarily to inject culture into the lives of its members through meetings, lectures and what might now be called open forums at which current events were discussed and debated. ln 1833, an organization lcnown as the Young Men's Society was formed to deal with the morals and conduct of the young men of that period. This was followed five years later by the Young Men's Association, another group concerned with the activities of the youth of Rochesterville. These two organizations were shortly absorbed by the Athenaeum, and the name was changed to The Rochester Athe- naeum and Young Men's Association. ln .1836,.the Mechanics Literary Association came into being, replaced the Franklin lnstitute established ten years prior, and concentrated on more practical worlc in the form of science, technology and public speaking, Thus the 9ml9fYO began to talce shape, with these major changes providing the groundworlc for our present-day lnstitute. to Filivegeyfgzclwater inA1E47, the Athenaeum and Mechanics Association merged . h . es er t enaeum and Mechanics Association and devoted itself to its libraries, lectures and concerts. 10 Nnln' ,adlrndd hik- Tw., lhiggu M.. hw!