Croom, Neil,

Neil Croom was born in Detroit in 1914. He graduated from the New York State College of Forestry and Syracuse University. From 1956 to 1978 he taught nature photography and cinema arts in the Fine Arts Department and School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at RIT, and was instrumental in shaping the program. Croom served in the Army Corps of Engineers, and was an active member of the World Wildlife Federation, Audubon Society, Sierra Club, and in particular, the Cumming Nature Center (a division of the Rochester Museum and Science Center). Neil Croom died in January 2008 at the age of 93.