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

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FOOD ADMINISTRATION

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Code practice Checking electron tubes Starling auxiliary D.C. generator What is RJ.T. to an Electrical student? To him it is, among other things, about 30 hours of class attendance each week. At the beginning of his career it is a place where he can get frank and helpful answers to his questions about the Institute from the head of his department, Mr. More- cock; a place where he can tinker with electrical circuits and motors with other juice-bugs before he goes out during his cooperative work-blocks to work on the real stuff, R.LT. is 8 o’clock classes, but Saturdays off: Friday night dances in the Eastman Lounge and more fun at Jake's around the corner. For an Electrical lad, R ET. may be going to a baseball game at Genesee Valley Park, bowling at Webber’s, trek- king off to the Natatorium, several downtow n blocks aw ay, or even farther to the distant slopes at Turin, New York. Each activity, though far away in space, brings him closer to his fellow students from the other departments. He is both an electrical and an RJ.T. student when he walks into the First Presbyterian Church for an assembly; or into the barracks and the Clark Dorm, where he lives: and Kate Gleason Hall, where they live. RJ.T. may be an early-morning hike from the parking lot or pinochle at noon in the Eastman Lounge. But R.l.T. for the juice-bug means repairing a neighbor's electrical gadget, or putting the Clark Union juke box back into shape. The electrical course here is learning the theory and practice from “the man who wrote the book ' Noon hour jam sessions in Clark Union, Kappa Sig's Sweetheart Ball, our “boys in blue” with no team name, Cayley’s Corner, the student directory, the BIG Spring Week End, Tuesday noon movies, the new globe on the main floor, chemistry demonstrations “w hich never come out right when you electrical students are around ' the Koch's open house, and the K.G. curfew—it is from these that the Electrical student goes back to filing through cata- logs of solenoids and tubes. RJ.T. for the Electrical student represents ten weeks on and ten weeks off for the next two years, at least for those with perseverance and or luck. It holds for each an amount of work, a measure of fun, some lasting friendships—from both the student body and the faculty, and a chance to ob- tain the license to place an A.A.S. after his handle. Synchronizing alternators Current and power measurement in A-C resonant circuit Twenty-three

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Patricia Lindsay Georgic C Hoke Carol A. Merkel Feme King You, student and faculty, look at us on the business side of the cafeteria line where our stiff whiteness is silhouetted against the scrubbed floors and walls but reflects off the polished glass and steel of the steam-trays and refrigerated counters. But we see you also, out there between the rail and our counter. We see the gesturing with trays, the smuggling of extra napkins, the squinting appraisal of the salad and dessert list that deploys its wh i te symbols against the black background, You pause coyly before the pies and cakes and wait for some uncalculating soul to take the infinitely smaller slice up front, so that you can have that seeming-giant piece that is second in row. We notice that measuring glance that scans your neighbor’s ice cream scoop and your own. At times we almost see the prick points of your mental micrometers as you size up the rolls in their pairs or alone. As you round the corner of the counter, your eye probes the depths of the soup containers—do clams sink to the bottom or have they all been dispensed? you ask yourself You plunge with wild abandon into hastily calculated con- glomerations of steam-tray items, fumble for your lunch ticket or cash, tilt a cup of coffee to the tray. You, student and faculty—wre notice you also. Preparing sandwiches Recording cafeteria inventory Twenty-five