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

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Electrical

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Students studying the details of various filing systems The complicated keyboard of the comptometer is made simple by one who knows the Institute offered. A map of the layout of the build- ings was used to explain where our classes would be held. It was all so entirely different that we were sure that we would never find those classrooms. A tour of the school to view its different departments surprised us further with the complexity of the Institute, But some- how, by memory, by asking, and by just plain explor- ing, we did find our classrooms. Furthermore, we im- mediately liked the atmosphere and somehow knew we would be happy here. Then they had another surprise for us! Rooms in what had been the machine labs in the Eastman Annex Building had been transformed for us. Mechanical department graduates of a few years ago wouldn't recognize their oil and steel-tilled rooms, with their new green, yellow, and pink walls and ceilings. We went home at the end of our first day at R.l.T. ex- hausted and happy with the feeling of being at home at school. In those early weeks, as we settled down to work, we discovered more about school each day: that the gar- bage truck comes every morning about 8:30. the sun shines in the windows facing the boys’ dorm, the scen- ery is very nice, and that we are living in a fish bowl. It seemed that every time we looked out the window we found a group of boys, sometimes laughing, staring in the window at us. We'll never forget those first few ex- citing and happy days, because they've led to so many more. Then we were swept into the R.I.T.-tide of social events: Spring Weekend, with its big carnival and Tony Pastor’s band; sorority and fraternity dances; meetings of choir, play and athletic clubs, and social and religious clubs; and the thousand other activities that come and go. We joined several of the organiza- tions and proceeded to make ourselves useful, and in return through this medium we all made more and more friends. Of course wre all have memories, too, of working from eight in the morning until five at night and then going home to finish some more work, of sometimes not understanding accounting, of the rush of work in our secretarial course, of learning to divide and multi- ply on the comptometers, and of many other activities that would fit us for the serious business of Business. But we wouldn't trade any of these activities—work or play! Only the steady click-click of the keys breaks the silence of an early morning typing class T wenty-four

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Earl M. Moreoock Irene Pawlish If old Ben Franklin could only take a gander at the Electrical department at R.I.T. and see all that has come about since that stormy night many years ago when he first found electricity flying higher even than his kite, he would be a mighty astonished man. But he would be interested in pulling a switch here and twirl- ing a dial there, when confronted with the impressive panel and switchboards of today. Generator, oscillator, lag and lead, resistance and inductance—all of these have definite meanings for the typical electrical student of today. For it is with these words that he is filling the gaps in a vocabulary that he will probably use for the rest of his life. He will need these meanings at the drafting board and out with his telephone line crewr, in his reports to the power station service chief and maybe to buy a switch for his home Wherever he is on his job, he will use terms for parts, concepts, and functionings which he is learning now. To those with a hankering for electrical things, R.LT, offers the first and perhaps the biggest step towards a future in a field that is crowded with count- less new wonders and old, old mysteries fast being solved. From the Institute’s drawing boards and labs many young men step directly into good jobs in many fields of manufacture and service in electricity, elec- tronics, and power. At the present time many R.l.T. electrical grads are serving in posts vital to the ad- vancement and defense of our country. For the Electrical student the slide-rule and the vacuum-tube voltmeter are friendly standbys, along with the ever-available instructors’ help and advice. Often it is the impish square-root of three, used in three phase systems, that plagues him throughout his school career and causes his answers to be off, when he sometimes forgets to incorporate this all-impor- tant factor. When the newly arrived freshman takes his first look into the Electrical department he is usually amazed at the countless meters, regulators, and alter- nators that decorate the walls and shelves. And when he is confronted with the problem of why such and Bernard A. Logan Austin E. Frounce Farl C. Karkf.r Kenneth W. Kjmpton Franklin A. Puff Clarence E. Tlites T wenty-six