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

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WILLIAM CASEMENT MURRAY CAYLEY WAHHEX DAVIS EARL FULLER RALPH GRA Y DONALD JARDINE FRANK A. CLEMENT GERALDINE ATKINSON Picture an old elephant and the General Education faculty gathered at his feet. In a sense this group of 15 instructors spend their time at RIT feeling the legs, trunk, and tail of that long-memoried elephant. Mankind's knowledge about himself. These teachers are responsible for the general education of technical students. To avoid the faulty descriptions of the blind-folded philosophers of old, this RIT staff pool their information at one general and three or four committee meetings every week. Pachydermia peculiarities are examined and answers are carried hack to students who are often see- ing the old elephant for the first time. The Freshman backbone of this lumbering giant is the human interaction that involves knowledge of Psychol- ogy of Human Relations and man’s Communication by means of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. A large part of the torso of human self-knowledge in- cludes the study of the Economics that governs the win- ning of his daily bread (or hay). HAROLD KENTNER MARIE KlNNEAR ROBERT KOCH THOMAS O'BRIEN ROBERT TEASE VERNON TITUS Twenty-nine

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General Education T wenty-eigbt

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Discussion in psychology class Introduction to literature Nearby, trying to get the latest good word from the pachyderm’s month are the General Education instruc- tors in Effective Speaking. Down around the elephant’s legs instructors in Social Problems check the knee action of the venerable old beast as he side-steps, breaks through, or backs away from some of the vital modern problems. These teachers try to put the old fellow’s big flat feet onto a promising trail. Sometimes the giant of the jungle will be observed holding modern paintings by Picasso up to his watery little optics, or cocking an umbrella-like ear to music by Howard Hanson, in the Art Appreciation course. What to do with the tail? Industrial Organization in- structors have charted even that remote part, and they have made it function in true organizational form. The Introduction to Literature instructors have got the old boy to balance a great novel on his tusks, as he races across pages of human travail with his little blood-shot eyes. The ring master of this elephantine effort is Frank Clement, who rides on top, climbs under, or just puffs alongside his overgrown pet. Viewing films on social problems Economies class studying world problems Thirty