RIT Founders Awards, 1935-2006.

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RIT Founders Awards, 1935-2006.

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RIT Founders Awards contains certificates for three past honorees: Carl F. Lomb (1935), Mark Ellingson (1972), and Arthur L. Stern (1982). There is also coverage for other honorees in the form of press releases, programs, and clippings. These include: M. Herbert Eisenhart (1971), Ralph W. Tyler (1974), F. Ritter Shumway and Burton S. August (1990), James and Janis Gleason (1999), Albert J. and Carolie R. Simone (2002), and Alfred L. Davis (2006). Collection contains RIT Founders Awards certificates, press releases, and programs.

3.0 folder(s) (1 oversize framed piece, 1 oversize folder, 1 folder)

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8161065

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Rochester Institute of Technology. Founders Award.

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Ellingson, Mark, 1904-1993.

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Rochester Institute of Technology. Board of Trustees. Executive Committee.

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Lomb, Carl F. (Ferdinand)

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Stern, Arthur L.

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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...