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

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American Craftsmen

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LENA KARKER Nurse HOWARD SIMMONS Aufotant lo Registrar LAURENCE LIPSETT Educational Research LEO SMITH Eduationnl Research DR. VICTOR MURPHY Physician MARION STEIN MAN Librarian LOUISE FINDER Residence Halls BURTON STRATTON Alumni Association HARRY RIDER, SR. Buiklinjt and Grounds WILLIAM TOPORCER Assistant to Registrar MARY ROBSON Director, Residence Halls JAMES WILSON, JR. Educational Research War II she was hovering over the womens dorm and helping the youthful student government to do its daily chores. Now Mary will help her husband to rip apart (presumably only to put back together again) their recently-acquired farmhouse in the village of Scottsville. Miss Marian Behr has spent her five years next to the phonograph guarding the records and keeping a spare eye trained on the calendar and social activities of Clark Union. Instead of ripping apart or building anything, she is going to Florida to lie in the sun. Meanwhile, back in the Institute house, Dr. Ellingson will still greet his guests at the front door, whisk them through the rooms and out the hack door, proud of the housekeeping that he sees. Comptroller Fred Kolb and his staff grow blearv-eyed over the budget envelopes, as they switch money back and forth to see that everything comes out in the black. In the library Mrs. Marion Steinmann seeks out an obscure publication with all the avidity that she does a Patula warbler. While Registrar A1 Johns meets the mail- man at the door and holds him upside down by the ankles to shake loose every possible student application. Buried in newspaper clippings, letters to the editor, and photographs, Al Davis, Director of Public Relations, and publicity man Al Booth, sit in front of a TV set, so that they will not miss checking any of their story of the happy RIT home. Off in a den Dr, Leo Smith and his Counseling Center group study the latest in educational developments from other homes of learning. Just down the hall, Nurse Mrs. Lena Karker and Dr. Victor Murphy check the medicine cabinet for some relief for student ills. Mrs. Robson and Harry Rider arc going to their domes- tic chores with a lot of experience in a bigger, more complicated, and noisier abode, while Miss Behr turns her key in the lock and heads for Florida, Operating telephone switchboard Twelve

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HAROLD J. BRENNAN' GEHOLFIJNE VSCHOLD ERNEST BRACE LAWRENCE COPELAND The story of the School for American Craftsmen would make a fascinating sound movie on the theme of modem design and craftsmanship in furniture, fabrics, metals and ceramics. Reel I: The camera’s lens frames a criss-cross of hairy woolen threads inside the flat, rubbed wood of the loom, and glides through to record rows of wooden looms and cupboards filled with yarns, linen, wool, rayon, cotton, metallic. , a myriad of textures and hues. With bobbins heaped high about them, the weavers begin designing as warp and weft threads combine in a counterpoint of colors and woven textures. Slowly a fabric appears for a chair covering or a window drapery. Reel II: The eye of the camera sweeps in past the bal- anced curves of a pewter pitcher, focuses on a bright flare of reflected light, and spins as the sound track picks up the incessant tattoo of metal striking metal that an- nounces the creation of a bronze bowl, a silver pitcher, or a copper lamp. The forge tempers the metalsmiths material and his arm and hammer shape it until the polished, shining object delights his eye. Muscles and patience make the metalsmiths art your pleasure. Reel III: Mud splats across the picture area, but as the moving picture frames Hick by globs of the earthy stuff slither off to reveal the Pot Shop amidst spinning potters wheels and wet clay. We watch with fascination as the potters deft fingers fashion cups, plates, bowls and pitchers from lumps of plastic clay. With amazing speed, these pots take shape, but constant practice is the HOBART COWLES TAGE Fit ID FRED MEYER ANN MARIE JOl IN PR I ]» VOX S FROCK EWST It OM FR A NS W1LDEN H AIN Fourteen