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✓ OFF1CIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY VOLUME I ROCHESlER 8, N. Y., JUNE 15, 1951 NO.10 Institute Named For Scholarship Honoring Rogers Joseph Diringer Selected for FlrstAward By HENRY R. DYMENT RIT's Publishing and Printing Department has been selected to receive a $100 scholarship from The American Institute of Graphic Arts, in honor of Bruce Rogers, world famous book designer. VERNON WATSON . R'ALPB TUFl'8 Joseph R. Diringer, a senior in the P&P Department with empha- sis in layout and typography, will be awarded the scholarship to fur- ther his studies during the sum- mer course. Depth of interest in the field of typography led to his selection. Diringer is married, a World War II veteran and is a Rochester resident. Graphic Arts Division Staff Changes Effected Comparato Mentioned Honorable mention will go to Frank E. Comparato, also a senior in the Publishing and Printing Department. Bruce Rogers, in whose honor the award will be presented, is unquestionably one of the greatest book designers of our time. Roger's Record In more than 50 years in the graphic arts field Rogers has at- tained a world-wide renown in typography and design, as is at- tested in the more than 400 books he has designed, all of which are most eagerly sought by collectors. Bruce Rogers graduated from Purdue and then joined the River- side Press at Cambridge, Mass., in 1896. In 1900 when the Press com- menced issuing its limited editions, his work became recognized. In 12 years with Riverside he de- signed more than 100 books with a great variety of style. Unfailing fitness and beauty were to be found in all his works. Visits Europe During the year 1912 Rogers visited Europe and freelanced be- fore joining Carl P. Rollins of the Montague Press. Of the three books designed, Maurice Guerin's 'The Centaur\ is the most out- standing. The type he designed for / Continued on Page 8) During the last war the work of Vernon K. Watson, RIT's new research chemist in the Graphic Arts Research Division, -was known to millions. He was sta- tioned at the Chicago Quarter- master Research and Development Laboratory developing army ra- tions, among which were the fa- mous C, K, and D rations. (A most dangerous occupation were the threats of the GI consumers carried out.) Watson, who joined the Institute staff last month from Washington State College, where he was act- ing chairman of the Department of Experiment Station Chemistry, is a 1934 graduate of the University of Massachusetts where he earned B. S. and M. S. degrees. Graduate work at Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology followed graduation at the U. ofM. before he joined the research staff of Beechnut Packing Company. Following his discharge from the army he worked for Reynolds Met- als in their research department, and later for Washington State College. A resident of 9 Backus Street with his wife, Patricia, Vern's hob- bies are photography and cryptog- raphy. After living here for two months, he thinks Rochester is a wonderful place. He is especially happy that his life of commuting to work is over. Retailers Find New Classroom Yields Exceptional Results First step in remodeling the Retailing Department has had amazing results, according to Jean Stampe, Retailing instructor who designed the Department's new classroom. \It has encouraged the students into doing better work, is efficient and time saving to the instructor, and has lifted Ralph Tufts, manager of the Institute's Graphic Arts Research Division, leaves RIT this month to become the Director of Research for the Cornelius Printing Com- pany, publication and commercial printers of Indianapolis, Indiana. His duties there will be plant engineering and application of new developments in graphic arts for commercial use. Tufts, who came to RIT in Sep- tember of 1946 has taught platen press , hand composition, printing plant management, and letterpress printing plates. He has also served as commltant in plant layout and proc e ss mg. After coming to the Institute he designed and installed the photo- engraving laboratory. He is a 1940 graduate o~ the Publishing and Printing Department. His assign- ment to the managership of the Research Division was made in the early part of this year. A SALUTE To Aquinas Institute See Pages 5, 6, 7 faculty morale,\ she reports. The classroom is done in beau- rings to work with. Tables at the tifu1 blond wood with easy-on-the- ear of the room for working with eyes gr e en paint. Modern and ef- display material are conveniently fective lighting hangs from the stored behind sliding doors which ., attractive sound-proof ceiling. also hide the room's radiators. . In every instance throughout the t the he ad of the classroom lS room, visitors are impressed with a private office where the instruc- the functional design for all activi- r can meet visitors or do work ties which take place there. Behin without disturbing the activity go- this design are many hours of g on in th e classroom proper. work by Miss Stampe who meas- t the right front of the room ured every piece of equipment and is a long cork bulletin and display material which was to be stored board for notices and exhibition of in the 80 drawers and the many current work. cabinets which line the sides of the One of the most unique features room. Classes in interior decora- fthe room, an original idea of • tion, costum e coordination, and Mis s Stamp e , are th e display niches display, w o rk which requires re ams which serve a double purpose. On of material and display parapher- e reverse side of panels which nalia are taught in the mode flank the student displays are new room which affords each stu - irrors used for instruction in the dent plenty of room for his work. use of cosmetics. T his cosmetic in- Recognition Awarded Dr. Mark Ellingson As Educational Leader Recognition of leadership through a period of steady grovvth by the Rochester Institute of Technology was accorded Dr. Mark Ellingson, RIT's president when he received a Doctor of Laws degree at the University of Roch- ester's 101 st convocation. Dr. Ellingson's leadership at RIT evinced itself before he became president in 1936when<> ______________ _ he organized and began the Pho- and Photographic Technology de- tographic Technology Department partments in the new building, the in 1930. This department has since other five departments were ab l e to gained international fame, and is expand in the Eastman and Screw the reader in its field. Machine buildings. In/ 1937 an eighth department The most recent addition to the was added to the growing Institute Institute is the School for Ameri- when the Empire State School of can Craftsmen which moved to Printing was moved to the RIT to RIT from Alfred University in become the Department of Publish- June of 1950. ing and Printing. This department was the core of the expanding graphic arts research center at the Institute, which last February was formally organized as the In- stitute's Graphic Arts Research Division and is now housed in the Burke Building. The erection of the million dollar George H. Clark Building in 1946 gave the growing Institute much needed additional facilities and el- bow room. By setting up the Me- chanical, Publishing and Printing Whitney Fellowship Given to Loloma Charles Loloma (49), School for American Craftsmen, has been awarded a Whitney Fund Fellow- ship of $2,000 for the purpose of exploring and cataloguing the min- eral and clay resources of the Hopi Indian Reservation. C harles and his wife O ttolie, who were both students in the ceramics department of the school, are themselves Hopi Indians, and the present award crowns their long efforts to pr e serve and develop Hopi culture and to encourage contemporary Hopis to continue producing their long outstanding ceramic wares. This School, famous before com- ing to the Institute, has drawn words of praise from the citizens of Rochester and from all who visit it from all over the world. In addition to the expanded fa- cilities, the Institute has increased its endowment and assets cont i nu- ally since 1936 and has operated without a deficit since Dr. Elling- son became president. It has be- come increasingly a school which is a service to Rochester, through the Evening and Extension Di- vision, and to the industrial fields both through training and re- search. A graduate of Gooding College in 1926, Dr. Ellingson came to R1T in 1 926 , received his master's de- gree at the University of Rochester in 1930, and his Ph. D. degree at Ohio State University in 1936. A member ofthe Chamber of Com- merce, he served as its president in 1 946. He is a trustee of the Commu- nity Savings Bank, and a member of the Community Chest, Roches- t e r Museum Ass'n, Rochester Engineering Society, Rotary Club, American Society for Engineering Education, the National Society for the Study of Education, the Ameri- can Society for the Study of Edu- cation and the American Educa- tional Research Association. Annchair desks easily handle th struction niche is supplemented by large s ize material each student ( Con1inued on Page 8) This modern - looking classroom is one designed for use by Retailing students. The functional design makes it the outstanding classroom in the Eastman Building.
