Edmund Lyon Memorial Lectureship collection 1957-1986

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Edmund Lyon Memorial Lectureship collection 1957-1986

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Contains materials related to the Edmund Lyon Memorial Lectureship series, held annually at the National Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology. The collection includes lecture typescripts and professional writings of two speakers: Donald Ballantyne, Ph.D. and Frank Peter Hochman, M.D. The Edmund Lyon Memorial Lectureship collection contains materials relating to two past speakers: Donald Ballantyne, Ph.D. and Frank Peter Hochman, M.D. Documentation for Ballantyne includes his professional writing (one book: "Experimental Skin Grafts and Transplantation Immunity", and several articles), biography, and a lecture typescript: The Young Deaf Professional at Work, the Start of the Career. Ballantyne was the first speaker in the series, in 1981. Records for Frank Peter Hochman include a lecture typescript: "Chutzpah, as a Requirement for Success: Medicine and Surgery as a Career for the Hearing Impaired." Hochman's lecture was in April 1986.

0.75 linear feet (1 clamshell box)

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Rochester institute of technology

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It is unclear when the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) first admitted minority students. However, it appears as though the first African American students entered the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (renamed RIT in 1944) during the early 1900s. For instance, in 1906 Fredericka Sprague, the granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, took classes at the Institute. There are several other instances of African American students attending the school during the early 20th century as well...

Ballantyne, Donald L.

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Edmund Lyon Memorial Lectureship.

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Lyon, Edmund 1855-1920.

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Hochman, Frank Peter.

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National Technical Institute for the Deaf

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