Earliest report of a sporting event - Football game against Canandaigua High School (Can 10 RAMI 0).

More female students than male enrolled at RAMI.

Evening sewing class offered to assist women who wanted to make their own clothes.

The Question, the student newspaper begins.

Publication of a booklet, Mechanics Institute Songs many of them by Ellen Putnam, editor-in-chief of the 1915 Ramikin.

Miss Winifred Gibbs, Head of the Dept. of Household arts daily column “ Home Menus at Moderate Costs”, made her an authority on cost saving across the nation. Three meals of day for a family of six could be prepared for $1.84.

The student newspaper, The Reporter began.

College Union Board began.

Football resumed on a club basis after an absence of 46 years.

Students at RIT join in a national Vietnam Moratorium – a nation wide anti-war boycott and march in Washington. Some students boycott classes on October 15.

Residence hall advisors installed.

ROTC comes to RIT.

Students collect pumpkins for Rochester Third Ward children.

NTID Drama Club stages first performance.

Students jump in jello one spring day.

Cross Country Runners part of RIT 150th Anniversary celebration. 12 students and their coach, Prof. Peter J. Todd, run a 3,600 mile relay across the United States.

McClure scholarships offered to 150 babies born on June 12, 1979 the 150th anniversary of the date of the founding of the Rochester Athenaeum. Al Davis thought of the idea and Mr. and Mrs. Warren McClure donated $250,000 for the scholarships.

First annual Love day. Students from neighboring elementary schools spend the day with RIT students.

RIT community participates in Hands Across America with their own version on campus. A human chain began in front of the SAU and extended along the quarter mile.

Special program of the RIT Community for Nuclear Awareness and the Rochester Vietnam veterans takes place on campus. The groups play a game to stop a nuclear war using role-playing to explore diplomatic strategies.

Student commissioned Bengal tiger statue dedicated.

Students publish the first issue of ESPRIT, a full color electronically produced magazine using the newest in digital technologies.

Men’s basketball: first ECAC title.

RIT community attempts to set the Guinness Word Record for the longest fire bucket brigade.

1997 A team of students working together remotely through RIT distance learning program produce a magazine online. Both print and electronic copies were created. www.rit.edu/~paradigm.

McClure scholars arrive. 10 out of the original 150 attend RIT.

Lech Walesa lectures on campus.

The Names Project AIDS Quilt commemorating World AIDS Day comes to RIT.

Pillsbury Doughboy made an appearance at RIT, greeting customers at Shumway Dining Commons.

Second-year physician assistant students took up residence in cardboard boxes on the grass near Greek row. The sleepout, a community service project for their Early Clinical Experience III course, was intended to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless. Students also collected donations of cash, food and clothing to distribute to homeless shelters.

RIT imaging scientists Robert Johnston and Roger Easton Jr. use imaging technology to reveal an a transcription of Greek mathematician Archimedes, hidden under a later manuscript using ultraviolet, visible and infrared wavelengths to separate the faint script and 55 geometric drawings from liturgical writings made over original writing.

Opening of a new boat house for RIT’s crew team. The team started as a club sport in 1994 and achieved varsity status in 1997.

A new cross disciplinary course, Analogy, Mathematics, and Poetry is developed and team-taught by Professor Marcia Birken of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (College of Science) and by Professor Anne Coon of the Department of Language and Literature (College of Liberal Arts). The course explores analogy as the “glue” that links math and poetry.