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

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max lowenthal. william f. peck, henry lomb CD co b T3 C D O in this century it was said that haft the rochester were connected with the insti- tute. whatever the number, the comment illus- trates how closely associated rrt has always been with its community. an example of this occurred in 1980 when the institute, being short of money, as usual, decided to hold a tag day. selling little red tags all across the city for whatever people would give, over a thousand young women spread through the city, under the watchful eye of male chaperones, and raised over S7QQQ in nickels, dimes, and quarters, several people gave dollar bills saying that they had been helped by the institute, or someone they knew had been helped, and they wanted to do something to show how they felt. in the first few years of this century almost all the home economics and mechanics arts teachers in the rochester public schools were graduates of the mechanics institute, some of the people associated with the institute were notable city leaders such as nathaniel rochester, after whom the city was named, the athenaeum's first presi- dent, henry lomb of bausch and lomb — he and his friend max lowenthal thought of the idea of a rochester mechanics institute — frank gannett of the gannett press, george eastman. who served as an institute trustee when kodak was a very young company. the institute has been fortunate in its own lead- ers, most notably dr, mark ellingson, president of the institute from 1936-1969, who guided the school from its position as a small local institution to the 1300 acre campus where it now is with an international reputation, from 1969-1979 dr. paul miller was president, he came just ahead of the anti-war disruptions and at the beginning of disen- chantment with higher education, by the end of his tenure the 'new' campus was just the campus with trees large enough to have been there forever, colonel nathoniel rochester captain henry fomb frank ritter

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Our president now is m, richard rose, working with him are hundreds of faculty and staff, those who have been with the institute a number of years notice that at the new faculty-staff meetings there are more people than the entire faculty and staff of twenty years ago. there has been a similar growth in the number of students, which has almost doubled in ten years. because of this the school has certainly changed, there used to be a central dining room in the basement of the eastman building, down- town, where students and faculty would meet and get to know one another, it was a pleasantly close relationship, now it is possible to spend a year without seeing someone whom you know works or studies there, but in another building, there is a greater variety of people, however, more students come from out of new york state, not many, but an increasing number from abroad, faculty come from denmark, holland, yugoslovia. england, italy. china, africa, india, latin america, Canada and other countries, giving a cosmopoli- tanism to the school which it did not have before. students presently are serious about their work, tuition is so high that college is a major investment, faculty who remember disrupted classrooms dur- ing the viet nam war, when many students were in college only to avoid the draft, are aware of the difference, it means that despite the increased numbers it is still possible for students and faculty to be together because of the concern with which students approach their studies. photo teacher 1980