New member of the Class of 2020, University of Rochester, Eastman Quadrangle. Photos by David Kramer, 5/3/20 see An eerie quiet at the University of Rochester
University of Rochester, Saturday, April 18th, 2020. Amatuer photographer Joe and an empty Eastman Quadrangle. [Photo: David Kramer] from An eerie quiet at the University of Rochester
The Rochester Effect
Sunday, when returning to photograph The Rochester Effect banners, I met new members of the Class of 2020 gathered on the Eastman Quadrangle. The occasion — a mini-ceremony in advance of what will soon be their virtual graduation — was happy but bittersweet. The University’s on-campus commencement celebrations scheduled for later this month are cancelled.
Sans caps, gowns and hugs at the impromptu graduation ceremony. The grads looked more like players on a minimalist stage in a theater of the absurd.
According to Rochester.edu/commencement, “The College 2020 Commencement Planning Committee has begun the process of thinking creatively about how we celebrate class of 2020.” Doing so safely — beneath gorgeously sparkling skies that perhaps made the grads forget those occasional frozen tundra moments experienced over the last four years — the group found their own way to celebrate The Rochester Effect.
Presidents — Declaring an open mind for learning ever better
Declaring an open mind for learning ever better
Dale Rogers, Think And Be Free, 2012
A gift from University of Rochester Life Trustee, Martin E. Messinger ’49. See Satiating curiosity at the Martin E. Messinger Periodical Reading Room
First UR President Martin B. Anderson, Eastman Quadrangle
(right) from Anderson Hall in the Jackson Court
The Martin B. Anderson School # 1 on 85 Hillside Ave. near Cobb’s Hill. Now the The Children’s School of Rochester No. 15
Declaring an open mind for learning ever better
David Kramer (left) with UR President Joel Seligman. In the case behind is a daguerreotype recently taken of President Seligman by Irving Pobbaravsky [Photo: Katy Festa 12/14/15] from Bringing back the mid 19th Century at the University of Rochester. Nanotechnology meets local history and see Farewell, President Seligman: A friend of the magazine.
Plaque next the statue of Edward Hajim ’58 outside the Edmund A. Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
UR President Joel Seligman (left) with David Kramer at the reunion classes dinner, Robert B. Goergen Athletic Center, 10/08/16. From Score one for love at Meliora Weekend and see Farewell, President Seligman: A friend of the magazine.
Athletics — Serving up record seasons for competition ever better
Serving up record seasons for competition ever better
(left) The D & C chose a rare inglorious moment in Tom Havens’ career as the ball bounced off his head and into stands. Democrat and Chronicle, Apr 21, 1988; (right) University of Rochester’s John Ghyzel pitching in his freshman season, 2015. Photo provided by Dennis O’Donnell, University of Rochester Director of Athletic Communications. From The University of Rochester’s John Ghyzel follows in the footsteps of Tom Havens ‘ 91 (Madison Muskies, 1992)
Inside and outside the Robert B. Goergen Athletic Center. (left) From As the University of Rochester’s Fauver Stadium moves forward, its rich football tradition lives on; (right) From 2016 Rochester Open a smash hit at the Robert B. Goergen Athletic Center. And the debut of ZOOM. see An eerie quiet at the University of Rochester
Business — Educating the next generation of leaders for business ever better
Educating the next generation of leaders for business ever better
Commerce
The George Eastman statue on the Eastman Quadrangle. (left) Siobhan Seigne from We need you!, see also Fur is not yet dead at the University of Rochester, The sky announces the Moon Dress landing at Meliora Weekend and Envoyé de mon at Meliora Weekend; (right) Audrey Boyce from For you, Talker buys the D & C digital archives. And Noam Chomsky
Educating the next generation of leaders for business ever better
(left) Dean Tucker, UR’s Simon Business School, MBA ’88, Principal, Green Ray Consultants, Rochester, NY Metropolitan Area. The 10,001st fungo! Reifsteck Field, Brighton, Easter, 2016. From “An early-spring renewal of the spirit” over 10,000 fungos later; (right) Bradley Rosenbaum, Associate Director of Student Engagement, MBA Programs at Simon Business School, University of Rochester from The Jewish Sports Hall of Fame at the Jewish Community Center in Brighton
COMPUTING — Harnessing big data for an ecosystem ever better
Harnessing big data for an ecosystem ever better
Culture — Illuminating our community for culture ever better
Illuminating our community for culture ever better
ART
Sage Art Center in Sage Hall in the Jackson Court, 5/3/20
Head Librarian Stephanie Frontz (left) with David Kramer at the Art and Music Library, University of Rochester 1/6/16 [Photo: Marc Bollman] from From Daphne with love
Lindsay Cronk, Head of Collection Strategies, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries [Photo provided by Lindsay] From Satiating curiosity at the Martin E. Messinger Periodical Reading Room
Meredith Gozo, Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts of the History of Medicine Collection holding photographs of the Bergman family: caption: ’42 – ’43 Peta – Ingrid – Pia; (on the wall) a bust engraved with phrenological brain quadrants. [Photo: David Kramer] from Black History Month at the Corner
Rossell Hope Robbins Library. Tennyson, dour Victorian as ever, looks down upon those who meddle with language. Can’t you just use English? 2/25/16 [Photo: David Kramer] from Imaginary languages made real at the University of Rochester
Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library. Seated to the right, Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English James Longenbach who read Francis Ponge’s “Rain” (1982) Seated in front, University of Rochester President Joel Seligman and Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren who read Lucille Clifton’s “Won’t you celebrate with me” from Blessing the Boats. Speaking is Peter Connors, Publisher, Boa Editions, 4/6/16 from Blessing the Boats
MUSIC — Mastering the music that unites us for a harmony ever better
Mastering the music that unites us for a harmony ever better
Rush Rhees Library. (left) David Kramer and music students playing the Hopeman Carillon in the dome [Photo: Doris Aman]; (right) View of bells inside the bell lantern [Photo owned by Doris Aman] from “Ring out, Wild Bells”
The George W. Todd Union. (left) October 2016 from Red Ryder, The Stockholm Syndrome and a glimpse inside the University of Rochester Theater Community; (right) 4/18/20, the cancelled spring performance series from An eerie quiet at the University of Rochester
Illuminating our community for culture ever better
Education — Sparking change for school ever better and Transforming school-based primary care for outcomes ever better
(left) Sparking change for school ever better; (right) Transforming school-based primary care for outcomes ever better
East High School Superintendent, Dr. Shaun Nelms, E.D.D from the UR’s Warner School of Education. (left) Soon-to-be East High School Deputy Superintendent, Warner School Adjunct Professor Dr. Shaun Nelms. May 5th, 2015, Great Schools for All Conference, Mt. Olivet Baptist Church from What the new East will and will not be; (center) Catching football tossed by former NFL player Roland Williams, East High ’93, from “Team Eagle” set to open a new field of dreams at East. Roland Williams ’93 drops by for final summer tune up.; (right) With Robert Benz of the Frederick Douglass Family Initiative from The Legacy Project: The Eyes of Our Ancestors: A shared vision made real at East High School
Sparking change for school ever better
Co-founders of East High School’s Teaching and Learning Institute, Laura and Daniel Delahanty hold Master’s Degrees in Education from UR’s Warner School of Education. (left) Rochester Education Foundation Partnership Awards Dinner, October 9th, 2013. Laura, center. (right) Democrat and Chronicle columnist Erica Bryant with Dan, 5/5/15 Great Schools for All Conference (Mt. Olivet Baptist Church) from If your children want to be teachers, send them to East
Engineering — Delivering 40,000 joules per billionth of a second for energy ever better
Outside Edmund A. Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
ENGINEERING AND MUSIC — Engineering a 48-fret, 14-string guitar for riffs ever better
Engineering a 48-fret, 14-string guitar for riff ever better
John Covach, Director of the University of Rochester Institute for Popular Music, Professor of Music in the College Music Department, and Professor of Theory at the Eastman School of Music, jamming at the 2/6/16 Progressive Rock in the 1970s:
A Far Out, Groovy Celebration in Strong Auditorium from In search of “Progressive Rock” in the mid-70s at Brighton High School with the University of Rochester’s John Covach
History — Unlocking the letters of suffragists for history ever better
Unlocking the letters of suffragists for history ever better
Susan B. Anthony Residence Halls
MEDICINE — Detecting autism for treatment ever better
Detecting autism for treatment ever better
(Above) From The inscribed brick pavers at Buckland Park in Brighton; (Below) Dr. Ruth Lawrence and Dr. David Kramer in the George W. Corner Reading Room at the School of Medicine from A personal tour of the URMC during Meliora Weekend with Dr. Ruth Lawrence, URMS ’49. And still on the active faculty
MEDICINE — Collaborating on the first cancer vaccine for prevention ever better
Collaborating on the first cancer vaccine for prevention ever better
Lemuel Rogers and Dr. Morris Shapiro, Section V Wrestling Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, February 10th, 2016. [Photo provided by Tim Herman] from In Memoriam: Morris Shapiro 1913 – 2016
Genesee Valley Park near the University of Rochester. Edward Mott Moore (1814–1902) served as president of the American Medical Association and as president of the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester.
Physics — Peering deeper into space for discoveries ever better
Peering deeper into space for discoveries ever better
(left) Strasenburgh Planetarium. Director at Rochester Museum & Science Center Steve Fentress; (right) David Kramer with 3-D glasses used in the Star Chamber [Photo: Planetarium staff] Steve often collaborates with the University of Rochester. From 47 years ago when The Eagle landed. What July 20th, 1969 has meant over the decades with Strasenburgh Planetarium’s Steve Fentress
Banners on the Genesee River side of campus
Foreground: Delivering 40,000 joules per billionth of a second for energy ever better; Background: Illuminating our community for culture ever better
Foreground: Illuminating our community for culture ever better; Background: Peering deeper into space for discoveries ever better
Foreground: Educating the next generation of leaders for business ever better; Background; Mastering the music that unites us for a harmony ever better
ON THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Satiating curiosity at the Martin E. Messinger Periodical Reading Room
Celebrating 1396 and the University of Rochester’s Persian Club
2016 Rochester Open a smash hit at the Robert B. Goergen Athletic Center. And the debut of ZOOM.
Red Ryder, The Stockholm Syndrome and a glimpse inside the University of Rochester Theater Community
Talker invited to the University of Rochester to talk about Talker
I.M. Pei’s Wilson Commons Building: A Contemporary Mastery of Method
As the University of Rochester’s Fauver Stadium moves forward, its rich football tradition lives on
For you, Talker buys the D & C digital archives. And Noam Chomsky
Imaginary languages made real at the University of Rochester
Blessing the Boats and a statue where history was made at Edgerton Park
In search of Julie Andrews at the George Hoyt Whipple Museum
