Thank you for acknowledging the U of R. We've got a laser there that will burn your eyes out! Scott > From: ADavidhazy <andpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> > Reply-To: photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu > Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:53:50 -0500 (EST) > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> > Cc: andpph@vmsmail.rit.edu > Subject: Re: At least you still have a respectable Optics department > > Hi Greg, > >> I just read in the paper that one of your fellow RIT staff lounge lizards, >> Prof. Kockersberger ditched the Wright brothers replica in front of George W. >> Luckily RIT got its reputation from the optics department and not mechanical >> engineering eh? > > That was sooo funny! What were they thinking making the rail end at the top > end > of a mud puddle!!! I was told by someone that they actually flew the plane a > week ago so expected no glitches ... but serves 'em right for tring to make > the > try "on time". Mother nature does not always run an a human clock! > > One of our faculty members was asigned to "cover" the event for the school. I > wonder what he'll come back with. BTW, and this is a minor correction, but it > was not optics that fueled the reputation of RIT in the photography world but > rather something called "Photographic Science" and the large number of > professional photography graduates in the 60's, 70s and 80's. And, for Optics > excellence I'd go down the road over to the University of Rochester. > > :) > andy >
