1976 year book photo

Grad of '76 lost her original 8x10 senior photo. Had to tell her I don't have the original negatives, but I could, and will, scan the yearbook image and send her as high quality image as I can get from that.

Radio Club

Radio has a long history at Brockport, going back into the 1950s when the "Radio Club" was formed. In 1964 the call letters WBSU were assigned, but it was still a closed circuit broadcast. The FM transmitter station started in 1981.


The station has a web page with a history section that was written by Warren Kozireski, who has been with the station in one way or another since his student days here! Below is the club from the 1964 Saga yearbook.

Drake/Allen in 1976

Allen and Drake were completed and occupied in the mid 1970s. This aerial shot shows some features no longer present. One example is the original pedestrian bridge over the tracks; that first bride was not covered, and more steeply pitched than the present covered bridge. It was a little treacherous in bad weather! Notice too the field on the east side of Drake being used as a parking lot, no Special Olympics fountain, no LAB...

New acquisition!

Just was given this postcard dated 1909. It is group shot of the school faculty on the steps of the old Normal school. The man on the left in the front is Charles MacFarlane, Principal 1901-1910. The younger man in the middle is Fred Belland perhaps, a teacher of physical education and other subjects. Much to determine, an exciting donation!

Hartwell & Tower

Since we have a new president at the college, it seems appropriate to look back at some of our previous presidents. Here are two who saw the college through some very challenging and interesting times. Ernest Hartwell, left, was the last principal of the old Normal school, and the first president of the Teachers College, a transformation in the school he was instrumental in achieving. He also successfully staved off the threat of closure of the school, something we can all be grateful for! He served here 1936-1944.

Donald Tower, right, was president of the college from 1944-1964. When he came here the school was a small institution with perhaps 300 students and 25 faculty, all in the one building, (which we now call Hartwell Hall.) The post WWII years radically transformed Brockport, like all higher education then. Tower was a founding member of the SUNY system in 1948, oversaw the expansion of the campus by a number of buildings, including Lathrop  on Kenyon, shown in this photo, and saw the enrollment grow from a few hundred to a few thousand students and a corresponding growth in staffing levels.

Hello Goodbye

This is just a charming picture, part of a set of slides Rosalie Mowers took of her kindergarten class in 1953. Part of a section labeled "Hello Goodbye" it shows these girls going home from the campus school!

Raye Conrad, disc jockey!

This slide is part of a set of recruitment photos taken c.1950. The slide shows Frank Lane, Education, left, then an unidentified woman, Wayne Dedman, History; Ray Conrad, Education, at the record player; and Pauline Haynes, Music, right.