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

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General Education

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T we i ve o'clock in the cafeteria anti hungry pledge Today's salad in the process of being expertly prepared elementary or complicated and mysterious, these ma- chines must be mastered by those who will produce those miracles of mass food cookery. The choice of food, its preparation and its preserva- tion are not merely, however, matters for arms-—right or left, strong or weak, many or few. For the Food Ad- ministration graduate to succeed as a dietician or food institution manager, he or she must have wide exper- ience and a firm and intelligently applied knowledge of chemistry and nutrition, among other things. The student gains her experience in hospital or other large food institution kitchens. There she soon learns the problems she will later face as a supervisor. Further- more, she encounters these problems during the work blocks of her school career, so it is possible for her to find or work out the solutions she needs when she re- turns to R-I.T. classes between her weeks of on-the- job education. Her knowledge of chemistry and nu- trition she finds in the bubbling test tubes and the colored charts of her Jabs and classes. But should she fail to absorb everything that the program offers, the Foods student still has many oppor- tunities. As we leave the kitchen to take our place in the long lunch line of hungry students and faculty, we overhear a comment by one of the freshmen, bent over a sinkful of soiled pots and pans. Oh, well, if I don’t pass that Chem test this afternoon, 1 can always get a job as a dishwasher.” Behind the scenes in the cafeteria kitchen Time out for lunch in the cafeteria Thirty

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D. Hugh Albee Murray A, Cayley Warren C, Davis Earl W, Fuller Ralph L. Gray Vernon R. Titus Psychology of Human Relations, English Communica- tions, Social Problems—these and many more arc the various subjects which go together to make up the General Education Department. Rut wait! Is this really a separate department? Is it a definite division of the Institute that can be classified in a particular category, just like the Chemistry, Re- tailing, Commerce, or any of the other departments? No, the General Education “Department” is a part of all the departments. Just walk into an Economics or a Social Problems class early some morning and you’re likely to find a group made up of Photo Tech, P P and Commerce students. The General Education Department is the backbone of the Institute. For it is here that the basic principles of learning are taught. And with these principles it is possible to acquire the knowledge that is necessary in some single field of education—be it Printing. Photog- raphy, Chemistry, or Electrical. The GE department has its offices in the Eastman Building. It is composed of eleven different courses of instruction, including anything from “Art Apprecia- tion” and “Effective Speaking” to “Physical Educa- tion” and “Social Problems.” Each of the ten departments of the Institute is re- Geraldine W. Atkinson Harold M. Kentner Marie S. Kin near Robert G. Koch Thomas J. O'Brien Robert D. Pease Thirty-two