Miss Peck

Last summer when I wrote about interesting RPI characters Pagie and Mrs. Warren, I intended to continue the series with a post about Miss Peck. Her bio file is a bit thin and I couldn’t find a student account of her, so I put the idea aside. I still think she was an interesting character [...]

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“Pagie”

The 87 Gymnasium opened its doors in 1912 and thus began an new era in athletics and physical education at Rensselaer (I’ll write more about this in a future blog post).  The new gym required a new custodian to take care of it and so Emil H. Page was hired to do the job. Emil [...]

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“The First Lady of RPI”

Once upon a time, in the land of geeks and nerds known as RPI, there was a very important position occupied by a well-known and revered woman.  Her name was Mrs. Warren a.k.a. Mrs. Walter Phelps Warren or Helen Liddle Warren.  Her title was the Director of Social Activities.  I don’t think I could sum [...]

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