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

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-1 E 5 r are conducted, OCCUP S RI T A History E r The Bevier Building, in which art classes ies a site upon wl'IiCh tood the home of Nathaniel Rochester. qContinuedJ The Mechanics lnstitute, in 1885, accented slcills in industrial arts and home- malcing and in the year 1891, the Athenaeum and Mechanics lnstitute combined ' l Th R hester Athenaeum and Mechanics both culture and slulls under the name o e OC lnstitute. During this period, one ol the outstanding figures in the history of Rochester, Captain l'lenry Lomb, co-lounder ol the Bausch 8m Lomb Optical Company, QOVG lireely ol his time and money in the guidance ol the lnstitute. ln the early years oi the 20th century, Captain Lomb saw a program ol cooperative education set an . . . . dl example for industrial schools in this country and abroa The student ol 1947 would not have recognized the RIT ol the Gay Ninetiesfi h sed by the A l ortion ol the west hall ol the present site had just been purc a arge p lnstitute board and the Perkins home, one oi several which stood on the ground now b h Clarlc building was bought and fitted out tor classes in coo mg. occupied yt e new , When this building was entirely occupied, the Strong house to the north and the Buell house on the edge ol the old Erie canal, the towpath oi which is now the side- ' d 1 l alla running east and west on Broad Street, were remodeled and equrppe or c asses. w The Nathaniel Rochester home, which occupied the ground on which the Bevier building now stands, was also altered to luliill the needs ot the growing lnstitute. At the turn ol the century, George Eastman, founder ol the Eastman Kodalc Com- pany and another oi Rochester's industrial pioneers, made a gilt to the school oi the land and building which bear his name. V From this point on, the lnstitute expanded rapidly in size and in reputation. Stu- dents irom not only this country, but ol countries all over the world, sought their edu- cation in this lnstitute with the new policy-that ol: cooperative learning. lnstitute President Randall, predecessor to Dr. Ellingson and lormer executive secretary oi the Committee on Education and Special Training ol the War Department General Stott, did much toward shaping the course of the lnstitute with a program ot research and development, a program constituting a series oi conferences with com- munity leaders Um'-l TOP-YOl1l4ing educators ol other colleges and universities. Dr. W. W- Charters Gnd DV- Rfllph W. Tyler were, as a result of these conferences, retained to develop techniques lor curriculum construction and objective tests. 19 mf' 1 fe' 59' 1945. Baci-utr i A in .QU ti My

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was named places cement for the laying of the corner- I George H. Clark, after whom the buildin9 stone at Cornerstone Ceremony MGY 18, 1949- RI History QContinuedj , D . Marla Ellingson became president of the institute in 1936, after six yeags GS l' head of the new Department of Photographic Technology. ln 1937, the Empire tate t f Publishing and S h l f Printin was absorbed and became the Departmen o c oo o 9 . Printing which, to date, is the last to be added to the long list of comprehensive courses presented at RIT. ln the year 1946, the greatest project undertalcen by the institute was successfully l d d 'th the erection of the million-dollar George l'l. Clarlc building. This concu e wi magnificent edifice became reality, for the most part, through the efforts of one of test benefactors, Mr. George l-l. Clark who, for the past 35 years, has been the institute treasurer Three departments which now occupy this building, the Mechanical, Publishing i h ld' and Printing and Photographic Technology departments, malce use of t e wor s most comprehensive facilities for the teaching of the graphic arts. Space formerly allotted to these departments has been tripled, marlcing a most important milestone in the history of the Rochester institute of Technology. Thus from its modest beginning as the Rochester Literary Company, founded in 1822, the Rochester institute of Technology in 1947 is lcnown and respected the world over as one of the finest in existence. It now has an endowment of S3,500,00, a magnificent sum when one conjures a picture of that first little building with its few the lnstitute's grea shelves of boolcs. . There can be no better proof than this brief history, of the unselfishness of those men and women who, over the years, conceived and carried out the policies of the Rochester lnstituteof Technology. For their painstalting planning and labor there comes, not monetary reward, but the quiet satisfaction that is derived from giving part of one's attributes to one's fellow men and to posterity. Those who have gone before have served their fellow citizens, their city, and their country well. And if they were not venerated in their time, they shall be in ours. 14 It 1 i 1 l 3 i l i l L 1 2 in 5 i till? lim