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

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FOREWCJRD Forty-three years ago, when our school was known as the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute, and the yearbook was called The Ramikin, graduates were admonished to keep . . . the name and fame of' June, '16, forever . . . in the eyes ofthe world? Today we assume that May '59 will remain important only to the members of' this graduating class and the Alumni Association. Each individual of this group has absorbed something of vocational techniques, academic knowledge, and social skills which will better enable him to take his place as a single producing element in our society. By the time of graduation he should also have developed a maturity and a perspective towards life which will enable him to formulate his own code ofliving. Wherever his interests, abilities and goals lie, his first obligation is to be as complete a human being as possible, expending as much energy upon his inner development as he expends upon his social development. He travels either up or down on the arbitrary scale of personal integrity. There can be no standing still. Each concession he makes to demands which are in confiict with his personal standard of values must lower his self-esteem. Every stand he maintains against pressures for action or thought which he feels to be personally degrading strengthens him internally and helps him to live more closely and easily with the code he has chosen for himself.

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PRE IDE T' SSAGE It is a pleasure to join the editors of Techmila in paying tribute to the Class of '59 and in recounting the story of Institute progress. Yours has been a memorable Class, for great progress has been made during the three to tive years you have been with us. You have seen a strengthening of our academic program. The baccalaureate degree has been added. Recognition of the Institute by the Middle States Association has been achieved. Increased amounts of scholarship funds have been received. Thousands of dollars have been spent for new classrooms, laboratories, and equipment. A gymnasium and ice rink have provided a new home for our sports and recreational programs. High-quality housing for men has been added. Property for further expansion has been acquired. These are tangible evidences of progress here and now during your brief years on campus. Yet this is really only the beginning. Our projections for the future include a new student union, a library of adequate size, new classrooms and laboratory facilities, housing for women, and an expanding enrollment and educational program. These will come as we meet the demands which will be imposed upon the Institute. With your support of the Institute and the Alumni Association, many of these dreams will become realities for future generations of students. On behalf of the faculty and staff I extend best wishes to you, the Class of 1959. Om