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

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GENERAL EDUCATION

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Bernice Skinner Eunice Strickland Dorothy Symonds Hertlia Thurber Viola Wilson Our fingers arrange the salad plate; our ears detect the snap of the celery stalk; our noses give us warning of the burning soup; our palates set their critical stamp on the whole meal. We are Food students and food is the object of our studies, from its arrival at the loading door in cartons or cans, to its transformation into energy in our bodies. We know that chunk of apple pie as few others do. We know the lineage of that apple, its properties, its prices. The changes that take place as the rosy fruit travels the long journey from the limb of the tree to an obscure place in the middle of a crate or until it is sectioned and forever separated into numerous tin cans—all this we know. Nor are we strangers to the flour and shortening, the mixing and rolling that result in a blanket for the crescent apple slices. We know the heal of the oven, its temperment and timing. But slicing, pricing, and serving draws our attention next. Even then, we do not cease our consideration of the apple pie, for we know the place that it can occupy in the diet. The customers for whom we prepare our foods and our- selves are numerous. In our co-op jobs we have seen the worn-down and unresisting bodies and spirits that our food can help the hospitals to repair. In restaurant and catering work we have seen our food serve as center-pieces for pleasant social intercourse. Some of us may win our way to a man’s heart with the cupid-arrow of eream-checsc- stulfed celery stalk The ways of food are many. Weighing meringue Getting supplies from the storeroom Removing the dinner rolls Food production for lunch Twenty-six Chefs test

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Frank A. Clement We meet our Gen. Ed. teachers in many different rooms of the many different buildings in which they discuss many types of ideas and problems. In the psychology case discussion we see ourselves and know why we kick the flivver when it fails to bow to our commands. Wc learn that all of life is adjustment. Gur philosophy wrestles with problems of the high or the low, right or wrong, and who-says-so or give-me-three- reasons-why. “Mr, Chairman, ladies and gentlemen,” the effective speaker starts, as he sorts out his vowels and consonants, his p’s and q’s before his audience of fellow-speakers. English communication is always interaction between two or more people; but how cloudy can a crystal-clear thought get? In economics we see supply and demand (You’ve got it; I wrant it.) ruling the flow of materials. Each day the current events class follows the changing fortunes of floods. Senators, investigations, Generals, and battles. Whom do wc appreciate in art and music? Braque or Breughel? Schoenberg or Schubert? Roualt or Rembrandt? Gershwin or Gregorian Chant? Outside our classrooms we meet informally with our Gen. Ed. teachers and may have interesting discussions about American literature and other subjects. This versatile department helps us to form our own opinions and to respect those of others. Mary Ann Marshall William Casement Murray Cayley Warren Davis Ear! Fuller Ralph Gray Donald Jardine Twenty-eight