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Rochester Public Library 64 Court St., CIVIC MEMORIM^SERVtCE /* George (Eastman in the EASTMAN THEATRE March 23, 1932, at 8:15 p.m.

JOSEPH T. ALLING Chairman of the Trustees of the University of Rochester, presiding

MusicGood Friday Music from Parsifal - Wagner Rochester Civic Orchestra

Address Mayor Charles S. Owen Speaking for the City

MusicCavatina from Quartette 13 Beethoven Kilbourn Quartette

Address - Roland B. Woodward Speaking for Rochester's Community Interests

Music Trauersymphonie Locatelli Organ and String Instrument-- Harold Gleason ami Eastman Student Orchestra

Address Rush Rhees Presenting Resolutions adopted by the Directors of the mi.hi Kodak Company and speaking for Rochester's Educational and Philanthropic interests.

Music Elegy for Orchestra and Chorus Hanson Howard Bassos conducting the Student Orchestra and Chorus of tin- Eastman School of Music.

/ Central Library of Rochester••••• and MonroeI County · Historic ScrapbookssssHH Collection V.mployes Benefit Most of Estate Goes Mrs. Ellen Andrus Dryden of t. cv-.-vx. Evanston, 111., Mr. Eastman's niece; her children, Ellen Maria Dryden f^/* and George Eastman Dryden, and To Institutiotr Aided Mr. Eastman's secretary, Mrs. Alice K. Hutchison, who had been with him since almost the begin- ] ning of his career, are the principal In Donor's Lifetimeindividua l beneficiaries under ijis "U. OF R. AcceptslGfeat Trust," will. Mrs. Hutchison was left $10^ read a headline ovw one news­ 000; Mrs. Dryden $200,000, half of Trust Acknowledged in Statements by Dr.whic h consists of a fund for up­ paper's account of the Eastman keep of "Oak Lodge," Mr. East­ will. Which is hardly our idea Rush Rhees, President, and Raymond I. man's hunting property in North ot a story. Really exciting would Carolina, which also was left to I have' been the line "U. of R. Re­ Mrs. Dryden. Her two children Thompson, Treasurer — Institution jects Great Trust." each receive the income from a , Will Receive About $15,000,000 fund of $100,000. Personal effect? of {t^F* g-«iZfeja^Lr> - University of Rochester officials today voiced determina­ the testator were left to Mrs. I Co&JnffefeVs a+eSliJe tlfofe w&' Dryden. had charge of the will if one of tion to fulfill the obligation imposed by the late George East­ Bequests to personal employes at | their dnties is the preservation of his home included a bequest to his j man in his final gift of some $15,000,000. secrecy. With all the speculation Raymond I. Thompson, treasurer housekeeper, Miss Marie Cherbu- To this institution, one of the regarding the magnate's disposi­ principal objects of his benefactions of the university, acknowledged liez, of $10,000; to his cook, Eliza during his lifetime, Mr. Eastman the institution's great debt to Mr. De Lea, of $3,000, and to his butler, tion of various funds and build- left the bulk of his estate, estimated Eastman on behalf of the trustees. Solomon C. Young of $3,000. ingB, it must have been difficult Twenty-three other employes were in excess of $17,000,000. His will He said: to hold back the word or two that "Tho University is deeply con­ left amounts ranging from $2,000 was admitted to probate yesterday would have spilled the beans. We without objection. scious of its obligation to carry on to $200, and there are also a num­ To the University, Mr. Eastman the trust and confidence placed in ber of bequests in the form of an­ can't imagine a more difficult left his palatial East Avenue it by Mr. Eastman. This deter­ nuities to certain distant relatives. task than keeping silent when [home and a fund of $2,000,000 to mination is best expressed by the To Dr. Harvey J. Burkhart, di­ one has information that others maintain it. He expresses desire trustees of the University in the rector of the Rochester Dental want. It's a strain to keep from that it be used as a home for resolution adopted Mar. 16, 1932, Dispensary and Mr. Eastman's University presidents but provides from which I quote as follows: personal representative in the es­ exhibiting one's superiority in tablishment of the dental dispens­ such a contingency. that the University trustees may Million for Dispensary make other disposition of both aries for children which he has Discreet as everyone was, how­ 'And now he tells his friends property and sum after 10 years, established abroad, Mr. Eastman ( ever, there are indications that a if they see fit. that "work is done." For him, as left the equivalent of life income few persons must have known Debt Acknowledged respects active participation, this I from a fund of $50,000. Dr. Burk- His principal gift to the Uni­ is sadly true. For us who carry hart, is at. present In Rome ar- the salient points of the will. As versity, totaling somewhat in ex- on what he has inspired, his work] ranging for Italy's acceptance of an instance, Dr. Rush Rhees was icess of $12,000,000 is proffered is only just begun. Only the future j Mr. Eastman's gift of $1,000,' ready with a statement despite iwithout restriction as to use of years will be able to measure the j for a dispensary in Rome. the fact he is several thousands principal or interest, except for greatness of that continuing work. certain restrictions hedging $2,500,- With us is left the task of grateful of miles away, and there was no 1000 of this directed to the Eastman determination to make that meas­ sign that he had resorted to School of Music. ure adequate.'" cable. Neither was there any Dr. Rush Rhees, who will be first The other largest single gift, was element of surprise in his care­ to occupy the Eastman home as one of a million dollars to the j president of the university, is in Rochester Dental Dispensary. fully worded comment. Europe with Mrs. Rhees. A state­ Eight other Rochester institutions ment on his behalf made public are given substantial bequests as The University of Rochester declared: follows: Rochester General Hospi­ now becomes one ot the wealthi­ "It is evident that Mr. Eastman tal, Genesee Hospital, Y. M. C. A., est in the country. With its en­ desired that the home, to whose Rochester Orphan Asylum, Door dowment, and the freedom the in­ comfort and beauty he gave sojof Hope Asso*ciation and Family c n nuc stitution has in handling the en­ ^ ^ | Welfare Society of Rochester, $50,- H*ni£?j£f.f-Vift .putstahamSSproN ter Community Home for Girls, dowment, it stands unique. Hasty after his death to be of service to"00 0 each; Peoples Rescue Mis- sions of the EasfmandkJA'fl).:»--,., Family Welfare Society, $50,000 computation ranks* this school the comumnity of Rochester. He sion, $25,000. chose to seek this end by giving The University of Rochester, *ech. People's Rescue Mission, lifth in th ec.ountry in size of Mr. Eastman's will provides for $25,000. endowment. Calculated on (he it to the university for an official carrying out of his existing un­ nearly $15,000,000—balk of the Dr. Harvey J. Burkhart, director basis of endowment per student, residence for its president. In ac­ paid subscriptions and commit- estate. of the dispensary and Mr. East­ it stands weii out in front. Harv­ cepting the trust the university has rrenta for educational institutions The Eastman residence and fur­ man's representative for dental ard and Yale possess more money confidence that throughout the and philanthropies. In addition, he , coming years its presidents will en­ nishings, No. 900 East Avenue, giv­ clinics, receives a $2,250 annuity. but, considering the number of gives to the Rochester Commu- students, those universities would deavor to realize Mr, Eastman'j Employes in the Eastman home, oily Chest $100,000 for the flr.^t year k en to the university as the home of have to be endowed for better desires." Miss Marie Cherbullez, housekeep­ following his death and $50,000 its president, together with a 12,- than a quarter of a billion dol­ i Ktmiwuig ins ufHin ana ^ou.um er, $10,000; Eliza DeLea, cook, 000,000 to provide for maintenance. lars each to be as wealthy as 1 for the second year. He also pro $3,000; Solomon C. Young, butler, City Hall Annex In Court Street, Rochester. j vided for continuance of his sup-1 $3,000. ! rort to the Bureau of Municipal • given to the university as part of • Perhaps It is not seemly for us Research of Rochester for one the residuary estate. Principal individual beneficlariea to boast of our university for its year beyond the present year. The Eastman School of Music of are his niece, Mrs. Ellen Andrus riches. Gloating over wealth Tn the codicil to his will, signed the university, a fund of about $2,- Dryden of Evanston, III., who gets j rarely pays. What we should March 14. the day of his death. 874,000 to insure uncurtailed op­ "Oak Lodge," the Eastman home consider is the fact that our Mr. Eastman revoked bequests to eration of the school. in North Carolina, worth $100,000, school has an opportunity un- and another $100,000 in securities; the Young Women's Christian As­ The Rochester Dental Dispen­ | equaled in this country. What it her two children each receive in­ sociation of Rochester, Cornell Un­ sary, 11,000,000. jis able to do with its wealth and comes frcm funds of $100,000 each. iversity and Massachusetts Insti­ General and Genesee Hospitals. its modern plant cannot really be tute of Technology. Between the Mrs. Alice K. Hutchinson, secre­ measured for ten years or more Y. M. C. A., Hillside Home for tary to Mr. Eastman, receives $100,- date of execution of his will and Children, Friendly Home, Roches­ when Rochester graduates, under that ot the codicil he had made 000. I the new dispensation, have begun substantial pledges to each of these to prove their worth outside the three institutions. walls. One of the n> Central Library of RochesterIssssssTsssss and lMonroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection lebrated will is he might "chip in." He "chipped the failure to provide tin- s thaowt n except on two occasions, which he anit dI sth a ecente experiencr of eculture shoul,d thaprovt Iet mentioned, he never had asked Mr. "We are "alf set rfcfw^to develop 6uoutr UhiversitUniversil y on th<5 broadest linesIS- in all of the fields which it has entered." valuablemusic, if, painful that .It wants noble Eastman for a penny. Except to irns for answer Mr. Eastman's question Quoting this statement of the late George Eastman, Dr, gr*at • •ommunliv project! So about the use of his home in 1925, Rush Rhees, president of the University of Rochester, yester­ long as these II re liven, he hsd not discussed with Mr. day recommended to the Board of Trustees that the princely there was no particular credit to Eastman the terms of his will, Doc- bequests to the University made by Mr. Eastman's will, add­ What city wouldn't ac- tor Rhees said. ing approximately $15,000,000 to the large gifts he previously M h *irt" Mr. Eastman's question in 1925 K« -hes»»T has a great reputa-, thought and had made, be set up as a University Endowment Fund without; sctarM Is. We prefer to think the wm %Btwtred after tlon throughout the country. N«* theconsultation expecten dwit thah tMrs the.y Rheesever ,woulj Docf - allocation to any of the schools of the University. hara. ponds lo th* Cthe world will aee what Its char- occupy the home, since they be­ Before any considerable allot- Possibility of a new trend in ed-j reputation It means careful liv­ tor Rb-M faJd> but neith#r of thtm lieved Mr. Eastman had many ments are made, Doctor Rhees sug- ucational methods at the Universityj ing and planning, self denial and years of life before him. Now that geated that each faculty be asked as a result of the 10-year plans was; antatM if the dty i« to prove the responsibility was theirs, he to prepare a 10-year plan for de­indicated by Doctor Rhees, who: l said, tbey would strive to give to sirable developments in its own said he is convinced the college the house the atmosphere of a school and submit such plan to curricula in the United States have! home and preserve its treasures as the trustees for consideration and fallen into serious error by multi­ thev believed its donor *ith«i such critical comment as may seem plying the number of things a stu­ Speaking about Mr. Eastmai called for. dent ia asked to do at the expense; largo bequesta In bis will to the Face Weighty Task of hia ability to do fewer things university. Doctor Rhees aald he "Then when any request for allot­ more adequately. (Doctor Rhees), was constitution ment of funds from the University I Favors Fewer Courses ally Incapable of diacuaslng with Endowment is received, it can be J "Unhappily," he said, "ws too any man his will and believed the considered in relation to the 10- persistently cling to the quantita- thoughts uppermost In Mr. East­ year plans, and so may be helped tiv«j requirement of many courses ? to use these new funds for a sym­ and 'hours.' What we lack the man a mind in making his large as yet gifts to the university ware bis metrical development in fulfillment courts** t to acknowledge is, latest in having his money con­ of Mr. Eastman's farsighted vision that attention to fewer courses, j tinue to be of benefit to Rochester. for our work," Doctor Rhees said in with much freer opportunity to de­ his report "Our weighty task now velop initiative and intelligent his home city, and his belief that Is to set forward the development! thought, would result in an in- educational institutions ware the llr. Eastman envisioned." crease in intellectual power far most stable institutions of The ground has been cleared for' more valuable than the scattered changing least with changi such a study of 10-year plans d#r- j courses, sacrificed for more leisure- tocial and pontics! Institutions. ing the year just ending, under the iy study, could possibly afford. Contributed In 1M pressure of necessity to cut the aev-; "To have received Mr. Eastman's '901. Doctor Rhees said. oral budgets to meet losses in marvelous gifts has been a great asked Mr, Eastman to contribu endowment income, already incur-! privilege. To have been shown the po <, R lJ?^• *• Pbrales bulldti red and inevitably introspect, the i confidence those gifts expressed has Mr. Eastman was reluctant to at tnittereportd continuedby the . financeThe budget committes sube- hencefortbeen a pricelesh is st ohonor justif. yOu irn tasthek •eying he had little interest in fullest measure possible those gifts •tltuuoos of higher learning. for approval of the board of UB n trustees, baaed on the pressure for and that confidence. *HL..^ * k****^ buildinr every possible economy, it pointed. "Mr. Eastman was singularly in­ was the result. In the Victor* out, may possibly need modification flexible in refusing to allow Us to |askedl Mr. Eaatmaa if he cared tot "in view of the relief of financial put his name in a place of signal il* and was told he dldn t honor on our River Campus." Doc­ wo at rain by Mr. Eastman's gifts." L «kl^sTlve anything more MM tor Rhees continued. "He had of Rochester, butt agreed after much hesitation ^ive his name To our Schoo Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection Music. To my urgent requesrst tro Tribute to their memory was J From the S use it also by the River, his almost paid by Doctor Rhees, Doctor ture Engineers Inc. $1,500 for a Men's College, a bronze tablet in Munn, former president of the ifellowship (given by George East- memory of Professor William Carey curt reply was, 'I am not interested Morey. in monuments.' Now that he is United States Life Insurance. Com- jjman) in the Institute of Applied with us no longer, however, I be- pany, graduate of the University foptics. From the Henry Lomb Camp of lieve that we may feel justified in in 1870, and member of the board I From the National Research the Sons of Veterans, a bronze naming the great quadrangle on for 45 years, died Aug. 15, 1931, in jcouncil $1,315.94 for research in tablet of Lincoln's Gettysburg ad­ the River Campus the Eastman New York. the effects of radiation on growth dress, erected in Morey Hall. Quadrangle, so setting the name of Albert Hall Harris, chairman of by Dr. Ethel Luce Clausen, Enrollment Grows our great patron at the heart of the finance committee and of the | Special* scholarship gifts for the Figures showing the largest de­ that new development in which he executive committee of the New JCollege of Arts and Science amounting to $3,934.69, from velopment upon which the Univer­ took delight. On the posts that York Central Railroad, and gradu- Francis R. Welles of the Class of sity has entered since the separa­ flank the broad steps leading up to t f the University in 1880, died a e 0 1875, Alumni Associations in New tion of the Men's and Women's Col­ that quadrangle, we can carve his j^ 1, 1931, in New York. ov 2 York and Buffalo, the University leges were shown in the report of name, ' with concise inscriptions David Jayne Hill, the second Alumnae Association, the Ameri­ William E. Weld, dean of the Col­ calling to memory his part in our president of the University, serv- can Association of University lege of Arts and Sciences. Between whole University development. i . f iggs to 1896, and later ng rom Women, the Italian Women's Civic the academic years 1925-26 and 1930- Suggests 'Eastman House' United States minister to Swltzer- MR. EASTMANV Club (the Dante Scholarship), the 31, the number of undergraduate KS . „ land, to the Netherlands and then Charles I. Travelli Foundation, the students in the College of Arts and "I also recommend that alter ny, died in ambassador to Germa Rochester Lodge of Elks, the Science has grown from 856 to 1.- your president takes up his resi- i Mar. 2. He was Washington ast Rochester Rotary Club, the Acorn 070; the number of teacher from dence in Mr. Eastman's home, tne fc member of the Board of Trus- LEAVES OPERA Society, the Renaissance Club, and 62 to 106, and the number of sem­ house be named Eastman House, t frQm lg9g to the time of hig an anonymous friend. ester courses from 277 to 404. The and the president's residence be aoi^^ From the Bausch and Lomb total University enrollment is 5,- called thereafter." Walter Sage Hubbell, a member Optical Company $500 for a fellow­ 339. Doctor Rhees quoted also Mr. . DI6ECWHIP lg large contributions to several o frof thmg Boarthe dUniversit from lg9y 5 idien 1871d Jan, stu ship in the Institute of Applied The year has been one of unusual Eastman's statement to his busi- ^ fter a I educational institutions, including Idie afcd hilawg Eag, ant Avenud afteer hombeineg a admitted Optics. pressure on many of the students ss associates at Uia ,Um» of; ma«> j| . iji . He was graduated Pressure of siness Given j the University of Rochester, in toftg„or« Com <7?B M his winter home, Enfield, N. C, a large undertakings for the uni-- awavs the elevers Jame. s C. Foley Fund, the AbboopticaUl laboratoryproperties .o f$700 Feldspars; Nationa. l for the past week and will remain erslty here. But for the fine re- incomFroem ttho eb eLaur loanea dSpelma to needn yFoun stu- ReaearcFrom h RaymonCoUncil d RadiatioN. Balnl Fundof th,e H there until Dee. 1. aponse of our citizena In the recent! dents... , withouNew York City arts center, with Eastma^cwSs* a trst^ wTll afferPt , to erect sponsored by the Rockefeller ciated, should hav^v\?eakl ceremonies attendant ^dedication j Foundation, when his portrait memorial to him at Ktidak Park. a in 12 of planus honbj pt George is placed on one of panels Todays-iris fefveiled, simple, yet solid Eastman tn the main fdjtelHtf Roch- in the lobby of the movie theater the: and enduring. Prntal Dispensary qptPuday. j the huge a Mr. Eastman's name is among Behind it stretches plant, Guests of honor at a batfqlul fol * a In "immortals" of r/emorial in the pinner tho exercises will inaJudc the first three much greater physical wilt ia, plaro Dr. the industry already chosen by Martin Dewey, president oftthe sensr. mi rnmpun *fth Radio executives for the an Dental Association: Mbr. City of all is the And most living lalo Thomm A. late Thomas A. important George Vanderpool, president of tho honor. /The of I ,o* w the combination intelligent Dental of New York Edison and Marcus Loew also organization, Stats Society r other and skilled workmanship, rod B. Howe, president-elect of | have been chosen. The management whose will from all this aggre tbe otato group, and Dr. Cheete- 1 nine portraits ap which produces results of the district aaso on the lobby panels are and ma Howe, president pear gate of brick and mortar, cement 'elation. expert rd tn he selected before at Kodak Park and the other the theflter ', chinery, Q^t, opens. ^ j*Q*4,fa sJsfcsUtf.'*! plants of the company. For in creating this organization, long directing its efforts and so far as possible making it self-renewing Mr. Ea; business genius found full scope. Eastman's "My work is done" were Mr. work it was. a last words. And truly a great imwwi — — Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection What these men and what other rich men and women have done and are doing will most certainly benefit your own children. Kodak are contained in a bronze In Reply to Southen Because you condemn mo for a gift to the people of Italy and urn within a steel box beneath the because you mention the fact that your own family needs "$200 dentist center of the central stone. They work," I want to acquaint you with a few facts that you do not have. were placed there last December, I regret that you did not seek to acquaint yourself with these facts just before the pillar was moved George Eastman Tells Why before you held your debate because you handicap yourself, your into position. children, and your community by disregarding them. Dr. Rush Rhees, president of the Inception of Dispensary University of Rochester and en in­ e Has Built Dispensaries About 15 years ago a man by the name of Forsythe In Boston j timate friend of the industrialist, conceived the idea of establishing a dental infirmary where the children I delivered the address of dedication of that city could obtain expert, dental treatment free of charge. The I which was carriedthrou gh loud idea appealed to me and I established a dental dispensary in Rochester p speakers and over the air by both Explanation in his own words of the reasons for his founding of Rochester's radio stations. dental dispensaries in Rochester and foreign capitals is given by George for all indigent children under 16 years of age. Since this dispensary M Eastman in a letter made public for the first time last night in a has been opened the children of this city have received more than one f; 4-Point Program million dental treatments free of charge. speech by Dean Carl W. Ackerman of the Columbia School of Journalism Doctor Rhees sketched the early in New York City. The success of this institution convinced me that there should be struggles of the young inventor to Mr. Ackerman, who Is the author of a biography of Mr. Eastman similar dispensaries throughout the United States and Europe, and I produce the best gelatine emulsion published two years ago, made the letter public in an address before decided to found one in London and one in Rome, because I was con­ photographic dry plate in the the Men's Class of the Riverside Church at the Commodore Hotel in vinced that as the idea spread, other men and women would udcrtake world. No trained chemist, the New York. It was written in response to a letter from a correspondent to build, equip, and endow dispensaries in other cities. Since then Mr. young Eastman preserved through ir. West Virginia, who criticized Mr. Eastman for not concentrating his Rosenwald has undertaken the work in Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. disappointments and failures, slow­ philanthropies on other causes. Murray Guggenheim in New York City. ly acquired the knowledge he West Virginian Asks Questions Now there should be such an institution in your community in sought and fought his way to ulti­ West Virginia, and in every city in this country. They should be built mate success, Doctor Rhees said. "In 1929," said Mr. Ackerman, "Mr. Eastman gave the City of Rome and operated by government money, but until that time comes when With the product the wanted in one million dollars for the establishment of a dental clinic for Italian the government can do the work, men and women of wealth must his hands by 1880, the young in­ children. It was one of several similar gifts to European communities. carry on. ventor adopted the four-point pro­ The publication of this item in the press of West Virginia caused a Recommends Constructive Policy gram which made his business a debate in the Men's Bible Class of a certain church and the secretary Therefore, instead of denouncing the building of dental dispen­ world-wide enterprise, according to and teacher wrote Mr. Eastman, as follows: saries I would recommend that your Bible class undertake the more Dr. Rhees. The result of this debate was that men like you and Mr. Blank are the constructive policy of striving for a similar agency in your community. This was the program: greatest stumbling block to a poor man living a Christian life. As to the religious questions in your letter, I should like to call j 1—Production in large quantities This church is made up of poor working men. I will cite myself as to your attention to the Constitution of your country, which guarantees } by machinery. what poor means. American—42 years old. Family of 6. Work 7 days per to every American citizen complete religious freedom, without being 2—Low prices to increase the use­ week, no vacation. $1,500 mortgage on home. $400 doctor bill. Wife and fulness of the product. part of children won't go to church on account of poor clothing. Three j """~*'IV'.V"7""""~" -___ _„ «-J~«Ki«~^«_ tnr an evninnnHnn nf hia 3—Foreign as well as domestic done, no money. Bills to pay, no money children need tonsils removed no monev. Family needs $200 dentist world accountable to any man or any Bible class for an explanation of his distribution. The questions T was requested to ask you are as follow?: 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. . . . Let us not Faith 4—Extensive advertising as we'.l If you were poor and saw a rich man throwing money away, would it be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint as selling by demonstration. make you doubt God's justice? not.' Are you a member of any church? (Let God decide the Christian part Yours very truly, In addition to the great factory of it.) GEORGE EASTMAN. and office buildings of rhe Kodak If you have money to give away, why not give it to the spreading of Company, Dr. Rhees pointed to the gospel of Christ? parks, hospitals, universities and Why not pay it to your workers in wages? dental dispensaries here and widely But if you cannot do either, why give it to a nation like you did? Why organization for many^years. direc­ distributed over our land and the not give it to your country where you made same? tors, officers ancl -Aujier^isors of world as abiding memorials tj I told the class you would not answer. Will you? the company, < representatives of George Eastman's judgment and Yours for America first the city, Ua*#er*2fy of Rochester, generosity. These, he said, repre­ (Signature) School c^M^rTt, Dental Dispens­ sent no indiscriminate scattering of P. S. Loan on this church of $8,000. ary AjSu Chamber of Commerce, wealth. and personal friends from Roch­ "This mmorial we arc dedicat­ Mr. Eastman Replies ester and other cities. ing," said Dr. Rhees, "will be in­ "Mr. Eastman," Mr. Ackerman said, "replied to this letter, not be­ Coming from foreign lands were adequately interpreted if it does cause of his own feelings, but because of his sense of social responsi­ Dr. and Mrs. August Nagel of not call to mind one of the most bility." His reply follows: Stuttgart, Germany; Nils Bouveng masterful administrative and finan­ Permit me to say that I can understand your present .anxiety and of Stockholm, Sweden, and Harry cial minds of our generation. In­ the problems which confront you'. I had to leave school before I was Tozler, assistant manager of the ventive genius often fails for lack 14 years old because I was the only wage earner in the family. When Kodak plant In Toronto. of ability to put invention to ef­ I was a young man I had to work 11 hours a day in a job which I' Others were Congressman and fective use. George Eastman d-i cinsidered drudgery. By the time I reached your age I had large Mrs. James L. Whitley, City Man­ not lack that ability. obligations and responsibilities because I felt a personal responsibility ager and Mrs. Harold W. Baker, "Nothing less massive than this for the welfare of thousands of families in this country and Europe of Manufacturer Mayor Charles Stanton, President maaslve marble pillar can fitly re­ who were dependent upon the success of this company for their •liveli­ Frank W. Lovejoy of Eastman mind ut> of the strength of hit hood and, in a measure perhaps, for their happiness. Philanthropist to Kodak Company, Dr. George E. combination of technical, business You state that you have four children. These children face an Norton of St. Paul's Episcopal and financial ability—all dedicated entirely different future from that which confronted the children of at Entrance to Church, Ralph Walker and Leo to the constant advancement of this country 60 or even 70 years ago when I was a boy. In those inter Friedlander, architect and sculptor Kodak as a service to science, art vening years we have had the telephone, the electric light, the si Great Industry Which j of The" memorial" and human pleasures." the motion picture, the automobile, free public libraries, cheap PulU Unveiling Cord ilroad transportation, excellent daily newspapers and the development He Founded and Built Mrs. George B. Dryden of public school, college, and university education which makes it Evanston, 111., a niece, pulled the ssible for every child to obtain an education. In the meantime, too, iPthWLo^W&lUtlSaA e progress of medical and dental science and the improvement in trial plant he created, the marble cord to unveil the central monu­ public health enable every citizen to benefit by the labor and the memorial pillar where the ashes of ment, a large cylindrical stone generosity of men and women who have thought more of their fellow George Eastman rest was dedicat­ carved with two symbolical figures citizens than of themselves. ed today. in bas-relief. On the side facing Children WW Benefit Gathered In the sunken plaza Lake Avenue the figure wa* a In the building of industry and transportation in this country some \ and its surrounding lawns at female one holding high the torch men have accumulated greet wealth. In most cases, these men have! Kodak Park were more than 1.000 of aspiration. On the opposite given to education, to the church or to some agency serving the public! men and women bound to him by side was a crouching male repre­ far greater proportion of their wealth than they ever used themselves.] ties of business association and senting physical science on which So that in addition to raising the economic standard of the country,• personal frlendahip. Mr. Eastman's life work in photog­ men like John D. Rockefeller, Cleveland H. Dodge, Jacob Schiff, Julius In the si lp were^iftraak raphy was based. The ashes ofthefounderof lRosenwald social life, o fAndre our countryw Carnegie. , and scores of others have improved the vorkedjvw'ith the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection Sculptured figures on the marble Memorial Takes block faces of the George Eastman Shape Memorial are rapidly taking shape to at the Lake Avenue entrance \-ca-^tf< and Kodak Park under the chisel New hammer of Charles Dirhan, York sculptor. The figure on the west face on the central block of the memorial Is suggestive of aspiration. On the opposite face is being carved a male figure symbolizing chemistry, the science on which Mr. Eastman based his life's work. Mr. Dirhan lo employed by the John Donnelly Company of New York and works on the pink Georgian marble from bas-relief figures, designed and carved by Leo Frledlander, sculp tor, of New York. Work has been progressing for tbe last six weeks and it is esti mated it will be completed in three months. A public unveiling of the monument will be held In summer after completion of the entire memorial. Tho memorial covers a large cir cular area and its paved floor is lower than the ground level. Three stairways descend to the memorial level. The roadway from Lake Avenue to the plant has been re placed by two roads, one for en trance and one exit. The inscrip tion on the memorial is "For George Eastman," with his life dates, 1854-1932 at the sides. The ashes of the Kodak founder were laid Dec. 2. 1933, in their last resting place, in an urn at the center of the memorial. The 40-ton marble stone, now being orna mented, was placed over the urn.

Jfrorfr/it of Eastman PdftyerrnlrTtfn* George Eastman was guest of honor last evening in New York City Pfa^efeW ^Theater at tbe 32nd annual dinner of the Society of the Genesee. j and by word of mouth for many Radio *Clty, Net *Ydrk*a?tlk years he has read and heard of center, sponsored *by the Rocke | the constantly ^growing affection and feller Foundation, will recognize esteem of his fellow citizens DECORATIONS of Rochester. George Eastman's position as a pioneer In the motion-picture Last night before a tremendous I Industry by placing his portrait gathering in which prominent on one of the 12 panels in the | names, not only in the Genesee of the BY but in the were the lobby theater BESTOWED Valley nation, picture Public Libj rule Warm toned brown-pink marble oo tbe faces of tha center block there. rather than the exception, that of fh# George Eastman Memorial at Kodak Park ia gradually j His name la among the first same esteem and affection were being abaped into two 6gure$ suggestive of aspiration and symbol. j three Immortals of the Industry proved to be not only local but national irmg chemistry. Above is Charles Dirhan. sculptor, shown with already chosen. Tbe others are 2C0UNT and International. ^ chisel and hammer in hand, chipping the Georgian marble on a the lata Thomas A. Edison and Kt(m The ambassadors of two great > Marcus the figure ot a woman holding a lighted torch, representing aspiration. Loew. Nine more arc nations, consul-general in New expected to be chosen before the Rochester's Foremost Citi- ! Yark City of y another, business theater and . . educational with opens. leaders joined Zen ReCClVeS Insignia Ot [ hundreds of Rochesterians in a . tt- i_ r\ j~ TA~mmaa spontaneous tribute to the modest. WorkNea^C^pfetion 01 r 1 anCe Orders High | retiring, rather shy man who more than anv other of his generation andonrl bweaen,^worlpn atut DinnPl*umnei On Sculptured Figures 8tands for the bMt that a buslneas Of Society Of Genesee. civilization can produce. The occasion of the tribute paid Paul Benton Of Eastman Monument By Rochester's leading citizen was the 0outgo Eastman knows what hlsj32d annual dinner of the Society native city thinks of him. In print (of the Genesee, held at the Hotel] Commodore in New York City last, Central Library of Rochester and Monroe mmmCounty · Historic Scrapbooks Collection night, at which Mr. Eastman was the dent in which Mr. Eastman I him on. What we really need is a the guest of honor. had placed his native country and flexible year. When business is b d let the year he n,y six Before the meeting adjourned adding that the crown prince of whe* -n prosperity i°.s here monthwe shouls d Sweden had expressed the senti- ihav e a year of 26 months or lonRcr. Eastman Is Lauded with a benediction by the Rt. Rev John Francis O'Hern, bishop of the ments of the Swedish nation better I If the 13-month calendar is en­ Roman Catholic diocese of Roch­ than he could in a letter thanking forced, the terms of our Senators r ester, Mr. Eastman had been dec­ Mr. Eastman for the gift of a den­ will seem even longer than they At the con For Many Gifts To oratethde witLegioh thn eo crosf Honos ofr abn voffice Paulr Cta-l dispensar• ,7 u y to Stockhol' m which do now. ofaudel ' . ambassador of France, and ^ e the£1n* readcon. 'Aerrt th!de thconclusioe °r<*ern o off Mr. Eastman's company uses one- CwitI h that of the order of St Olaf * ^.P°nth e R°cbester mag- tenth of all the silver mined in the m the name of the kin United States. The economists in­ -sadoby Wollmar of Swedenn Filip, Bostromboth o,f ambaswhom- SwedenT *, . S ot Living J£nricjiment WUey Duslnes dicate that the plight of silver is lauded his philanthropy and its ,u „ ' s manager of K the real reason for our depression. internationaall qualitaualitvy •a s7evidenced evidenced >%*ui. ,.?*W,* York limeTirme ss ananad oonn e of : 1 found ers of The Chinese have long been ap­ : 1/ ' '/ a / by the establishment of eleborate lrf}.e founder, s of ththee societSocietyy orf tnthe e pealed to add an inch to the length dental dispensaries in Paris and Genesee> had a little fun with the of their shirts and bring prosperity r. Rush Rhees Welcomes Opportunity to Stockholm, Mr. Eastman's most re- ^ceding speakers and brought his to the cotton-goods industry. Mr. cent gifts. audience several times to roars of Speak in 'Publicity-Evading Presence' of Eastman can add a dime's worth Italy's tribute to the great MSKS?' ******'** C°ncluded Mn of silver to each moving-picture dustrialist, who a year ago pre- Watson **ed 34 employes of the Honor Guest at Genesee Dinner, film and bring back prosperity to sented a dental dispensary to;Eastman Company whose total the world. Citing: His Benefactions. Rome, was paid by E. Grassl, con-' S.ervicc amo"nted to 1,500 years to The final speaker was Samuel Vision Has Been Guide sul-general of Italy in New York The address of Dr. Rush Rhees, president of the Uni- Wesley Stratton, chairman of the Mr. Eastman's benefactions hav The part which has been as­ choseCity, nwh wordo ins aexpresse few bried fth ane esteed welml ersity of Rochester, at the Society of the Genesee dinner felt for Mr. Eastman by the Italian board of the Massachusetts Insti- been between $75,000,000 and $100,- signed to me is one of the most people and read a warm tribute J"1® °f Technology, who declared r George Eastman in New York last night, follows: 000,000. Most of us find difficulty honorable as well as one of the ment of the same qualities in to his generosity and breadth of ^at through his gifts to education constant except for the expansion in writing such a sum, not to speak most embarrassing that has ever the effective organization which vision signed by Premier Benito . Eastman had made a technical of these assets by the experience of giving it away. But the raost come my way. For how is one your guest has gathered around Mussolini. scientific education of the type so of the years and the develop- significant part of Mr. Eastman's to tell you what Rochester thinks him for the conduct of this great Owen D. Young, chairman of the ,mu^ neede<* by industry and civi- fifts has been the high vision and of your guest of honor, when not business. Inasmuch as words board of the General Electric Com-1Izatlon today possible to thousands iscernment which have guided him. far from my side sits the most fail me. I must rely on your im­ pany and expected by many to be? ^J1""1 who otherwise would Education, music, health, the prog­ incorrigibly modest human being agination to picture what this the next presidential nominee of be barred fr°m it by high costs. A ress and happiness of mankind have that ever was born? Not that he Industry means in the life of our the Democratic party, one of the. Approximately 400 Rochesterians beert furthered by his high-minded always seeks to hide himself be­ city. Consider only if you will outstanding tycoons in America,Ieft her« Stmday night in a special generosity. International brother­ hind some mysterious "Mr. the constant stream of wealth calleeouslyd , upopaind thandsomo speak eextemporan- tribute toJ train on the New York Central hood has been fostered by this first Smith." For there are in Roch­ poured into our community in Mr. Eastman. which was moved in two sections. citizen of Rochester, for his bene­ ester as well as elsewhere build­ wages for those twelve thousand Thomas Watson Presides A considerable group returned last factions have reached across the ings which bear the name which workers and dividends for the The dinner was opened by the night, but even more remained in seas to Great l'ritain and Scan­ has made Kodak almost a com­ more than 10,000 Rochester own­ election of Thomas J. Watson of New York for several days. A dinavia. mon noun—or verb—in many ers ofResearc Kodak h stockLaborator. y New York City, former Rochester^ short concert by the Rochester No more inspiring example of the languages. Far more numerous the ian, as president of the society, Civic Orchestra, conducted by Guy But the consideration of fenius of American captains of in- in Rochester and elsewhere are wealth Kodak has brought and with an accompanying slate of Fraser Harrison, was one of the ustry combined with public-spirited Undertakings for the enrichment is bringing to Rochester does officers. Mr. Watson, taking charge) features of the dinner. generosity has been shown than the of life close to the foundations of not reveal anything like the full of the meeting, introduced M Prior to the dinner an invocation life of George Eastman. A restless which may be found the signa­ contribution of the Eastman Claude!, the French ambassador, was pronounced by the Rt. Rev, determination to perfect photog­ ture of George Eastman, but so Kodak to our life. One of the who was followed by Dr. Rush David Lincoln Ferris, Episcopal raphy, to make its pleasures univer­ hidden from the casual observer clearest marks of the kee'n sag­ Rhees, president of the University bishop of Western New York. sal, to make it useful In commerce that only he who seeks for it acity of the reticent man who of Rochester. and in science, drovJ him on to the can find it. M. Claudel invested Mr. Eastman has built up that business was NEWSPAPER'S world-wide success of the Eastman But the honor of speaking for his early call for the service of with the rank of officer of the Company. Research unfolded to him Rochester, the city that your Legion of Honor at the conclusion expert scientists to hel • in the daily new horizons and he shrewdly guest desires to be the finest solution of his problems. This of a brief address in which he chose the practical from the vision­ place In which to live and bring referred to the purpose of Na­ policy found its full development EXECUTIVE IS ary and bulided new successes. up children, far outweighs the In the organization of the Kodak poleon in establishing the Legion As a bachelor I am particularly embarrassment of speaking in Research Laboratory, which was of Honor as the organizing of an gratified that Mr Eastman stands his publicity-evading presence. order of knighthood, to be awarded Direct Descendant declared by Sir William Mc- so high as a ben*factor of mankind. Unlimited Ingenuity Cormick, chairman of the Uni­ for superior achievement in all SPEAKER, TOO MeOfn wh Col.o are thRochester« heads of familie At s Dominating the sky line of our fields of human endeavor and in­ versity Grants Committee of are likely to look upon bachelors as fair city Is a high building which Great Britain, to be, with the ternational in scope. Louis Witey Says Kodak incapablDinnere ofTo understandinEastmang the bears on its roof in neon-ray let­ Dr. Rhees' address, given else­ General Electric Laboratories at heart•v s Hsan d th7/e need/ a/vs o5f mankind/ . If ters the familiar word Kodak. Schenectady, the most outstand­ where in full, dealt with Mr. East­ Head 'Has Made Us Mr. AEastma direcnr hadescendand had ta s olargf Cole .a Towering equally over our in­ man's career and achievements, his ing scientific research enterprises See Ourselves as Oth­ menagNathaniee asl Solc^nonRochester, h,e focoulr whod nomt dustrial and commercial life is he had seen in America. That gifts to education, to science, to havthie ashow cityn Ias namedmore ,universa was onl esym of­ the business enterprise which be­ j music, to public health and to his ers See Us.' laboratory enables the Kodak paththye guestfor als l ajfortt lass tan night'd conditiona s gan a half century ago with a Company to possess the most ! often expressed ambition to make ! Louis Wiley, business manager of of nemenr ,o fwome then Societand childreny of th.e Gen­ handful of workers and resources ; Rochester the best "possible place the New York Times, paid tribute complete knowledge of the sci­ Thiesese Societin Neyw anYorkd ou. r guests here consisting of a very modest capi­ ence of photography to be found in which to live and bring upi to George Eastman last night st this Hevenine is Edwarg ar»;d honored Fortesqu, Mre .Roch East­­ tal, but with unlimited Ingenuity, children." Dr. Rhees' address was; the annual dinner of the Society in the world. It is of particular maneste, ra to fhavin Arlingtong ha. dVt a. part in a patience, organizing ability and significance for Rochester in the j warmly applauded. of the Genesee in an address spiced tributAnothee to your gues. It apeawask Carfolr alAckl ­in uncanny financial genius. In the Mr. Young, when he rose, was! with sparkling humor. further fact that it has brought wishinermang .t o whyouo, • threcentle mosyt illustriouwrote s fifty years the handful of work­ to our city a group of keen, pro­ [greeted by a spontaneous burst ofj Mr. Wiley said: citizebiographn of thye Geneseeof Georg, ae worlEastmand bene,­ ers has grown to some twelve applause, the scope of which oc-j Mr. Eastman is the answer to ductive and enthusiastic scholars factorgues,t a obrillianf honort .leade r in industry thousand in Rochester and a whose Influence on the intellectual casioned a remarkable amount of Robert Burns* prayer. He has done and science, many happy years. similar number scattered all over icomment following the dinner. His more through the Kodak to make life of our community is con­ the earth. The financial re­ stantly growing. remarks were brief but effective. us see ourselves aa others see us sources have grown from their Speaks for Sweden than any one man in our time Industrial Relations dorimakt Mrwa,e .als s Bostromhipublio sspok privilegc e, acknowledgmen brieflySwedise an,d statinh pleasur ambassagt thate ofto­f]' whosmonthmontOureh , gues salarieancalendartd olandlordfs hono.ar erAs Hwantpai ardexecutivese s cheerinbthv eth l.'ieg, - hundrecordinmodespatiencebalancfinanciatge d l , beginnint sheetanoorganizingeniu da .sixtmos s gTh havytg t millionseoconservativeability ingenuityoveremainer, , anonace­d, policieindustriaEvens morldevelope relationse significand .b yI ntKoda 191are9k thMrine . Central Library of Rochesterchildren. Bu andt he Monroewas intereste Countyd ·H eHistoric assures uScrapbookss that he is havin Collectiong Eastman gave a large block of Dental Dispensary inmon stock from his more in developing a widespread great fun with his money. He holdings to be sold to In his ideal of Rochester as appreciation of what good music likes to see it work while he can Kodak employees at a price thefinest plac e in which to live has to offer to men and women enjoy the spectacle. That spec­ which was less than one-fifteenth and bring up children, the last and children in their leisure time. tacle is before his eyes, and all of the present market value of phraSe has always been heavily That explains why he made it eyes, on every hand in Rochester. the stock In our current de­ underscored. Some years ago he possible for the School of Music As already stated, we have pressed market conditions. He became sensible of the serious to loan musical instruments to several buildings which bear his l that the gift was made In handicap suffered by many chil­ the public high schools to en­ name. But that seems not to recognition of his "personal ob­ dren of the poor through neglect courage the development of interest him greatly. He tells us ligation to the loyal wage-earn­ of diseased teeth and other allied school bands and orchestras. that he is not interested in ing and salaried employees of the Ills. After having contributed for That explains also why he pro­ monuments. But he is deeply company who have helped to several years to a dental clinic vided that any net income avail­ interested in life. And on every make the business a success." conducted by public-spirited able to the school from the East­ hand in our good town he can That recognition of the co-opera­ Rochester dentists, he became man Theater should be used to see the living fruit of the seed tion of employers and employees convinced that such service did help in the support of a civic which he has planted and In a successful enterprise had not begin to meet the need. Ac­ orchestra, and why he furnished nurtured. found expression several years cordingly, en'latlng the co-opera­ radio receiving sets for all the For the Children earlier In the establishment of tion of a group of a dozen other schools so that the children I will now confess that despite the wage dividend policy, by cltlsens. he established the Roch­ might hear concerts by the Roch­ all embarrassment, it is great to which employees are given a ester Dental Dispensary, built ester Civic Orchestra. As co­ have him sitting here and to tell •hare In the profits of the com­ for it an Ideal building and en­ operation is Mr. Eastman's Ideal him to his face a little of what pany. It has had other recogni­ dowed It generously. Through policy, he has not endowed an Rochester thinks of him. Our tion In the maintenance of sick­ Its service to many thousands of orchestra. His gifts to the great ambition is that our co­ ness and disability benefit funds. children unable to command the School of Music have made pos- operation with him in his high and most recently In the estab­ care of a private dentist, this riblTra generous a contribution desire for Rochester * may con­ lishment of a comprehensive re­ Dlspen-:ury has materially al­ Jo the .Spport of an orchestra tribute in some measure to make tirement annuity and life insur­ tered the prospects for health that by the co-operation of other our city increasingly through the ance provision. All these are and rewarding employment of cVuzens our orchestra is in truth years "a fine place in which to supplementary to a thorough go­ multitudes of those who are now a civic enterprise. live and bring up children"—God ing provision for the safety, com­ growing up among us. One phase Mechanics Institute blesg them! fort, health, and recreation of of the dispensary's work In par­ In the world at large Mr. East­ employees while at work in the ticular Is most Impressive—the man's gifts to education have several plants of the company. correction of crooked teeth and neon recognized as of stupendous I hive In my possession an Km malformed jaws. Any one who significance. In those gifts Roch- 4 Rochesterians Honored once sees the casts and photo­ ester has shared richly. His r pee Guide Book issued by the I Kodak Company for the informa­ graphs which show conditions earliest large gift for eduratlon tion of ita employees. It con­ before and after such treatment provided In 1900 a new building By Election To Offices sists of twenty-three small pages. will be able to understand why for the Mechanics Institute and | The last two pages are devoted to Mr. Eastman seems to regard that Institute has repeatedly in ; Plant Rulea All the rest of the this work as the most satisfying succeeding years benefitedI by his In Society 7Of Genesee and rawardlns of his many con­ generosity. His gifts to the^Uni­ The complete slate of officers | book explains the company's pro­ Four Rochester men were hon­ tributions to community welfare. versity began with funds for a All W^< J m. slar* -of officers vision for the welfare of Its em­ ored at the election last night of elected follows: An allied service to the chil­ science laboratory giveni in 1903 ployees. That proportion Is an the Society of the Genesee In New President, Thomas J. Watson; eloquent exhibit of Mr. Eastman's dren of the poor Is the tonsil and Since that date up to 1924 he has vice-presidents, John Knight of Ar­ Y ty policies In Industrial relations. I adenoid clinic conducted by the repeatedly come to the Uni­ Frank E. Gannett, president ofcade , Abraham Benedict, J. C. dispensary, and slmllsr work ; versity's aid-in most instances call attention to this matter of the Gannett newspapers, was Kllnck, Frank E. Gannett of Roch­ industrial relations within the conducted under Mr. Eastman's without solicitation. The great named one of the five vice-presi- ester, and John J. Raskob; *f": Kodak Company, because It Inspiration by several of the | distribution of his wealth in vu* Sents the Rt. Rev. David Lincoln tary Isaac Joffe; treasurer. Charles throws much light on many of Rochester hospitals. It Is an- allotted more than 50 per cent. Ferrii bishop of the Protestant E^Meek; historian William_MJ Mr. Eastman's community In­ Othor contribution to Rochester to the University in his own city. F?pscoPafDiocese of Western New Butler; chaplain, Bishop David terests outside his business. M afine plac e In which to bring which already in all branches of York was chosen chaplain, and Lincoln Ferris of Rochester. Conference Board up children- Its wo'k had been marvelously Julian Wiley and Donald A Dajley Board of Governors, Louis W le>. One of the greatest problems Hospitals Helped helped by him. In explaining: his Rochester commissioner of public chairman; Dr. Murray Bartlett of Of our industrial life, even In The Rochester hospitals have final greatest gifts he attributed safety, were elected to the Board always been largely helped by Geneva. Edwin S. Friendly George times of normal activity. Is sea­ the decision to allot so large a of Governors. f W. Sweeney, Irving E. BurdicK, sonal unemployment. On the c .- Mr. Eastman. b%th in the matter share to Rochester to the fact Thomas J. Watson, president of Myron C Taylor. Dr. Clarence A. cation of a building trades dis­ of buildings and contributions for that over twelve thousand other the International Business Ma­ Barbour of Providence, Dr. Roo­ pute In Rochester In 1921. Mr. current support. When he was friends of the Universlty-mostly chines Corporation, was re-elected fer Johnson. C. Stanley Mitchell. Eastman was appealed to to help asked to participate In the citizens of Rochester-had co­ president of the society. William T. Dewart, James W Get reach an adjustment of the dis­ project to establish a school of operated to make possible the ard. Patrick E. Crowley. G. Willard pute. Expressing bit lack of medicine and dentistry In the new college development on the Rich. John North Willys. confidence in measures of concil- erslty of Rooeheeter. the banks of the Genesee, in, close John M. Davis, Dr. John P^ Munn, istion or arbitration, because tact that such a school would proximity to the recently estab­ j. R. Cominsky, Merle S. Clayton those words suggest antagonism hsve • wide and beneficent lnflu- lished School of Medicine and George N. Sage. Ellis U J™*£ In a field where there Is no rea­ naturslly Interested htm. Pentlstry. Please mark the note Leon J. Wehbring. J*™3?™*?* son for it, he proposed the eetab- comment to me, of co-operation again—co-opera- worth. Jr.. of GeneseoJunanWley lishment of a Community Confer­ however, was. "this school wtll tton for a civic end. of Rochester. David Jaync Hill or ence Board, to be composed ot round out what I hsve had in Research Bureau Washington. Dr. Paul £ T tsworth representatives of the workers. mind for making Rochester the Time falls me to tell the whole of Cbestertown. Md .William K. the contractors, and the public. finest place to live In and bring story—of the Rochester Bureau Willcox. Shepard A. J»org*n^Ed- which could consider calmly the up children." of Munlclpsl Research. In which ward E Loomis. Charles D. Thorns Interests of all three parties con­ 8oho»t of Music co-operation Is carried to the aid Donald A. Dailey of Rochester. cerned, and find n fair and prac­ This same consideration was limit by giving the city govern­ tical basis of agreement That chiefly influential in leading him ment all the credit for improve­ Board has continued to render to establish, also In the Univer­ ments suggested by the bureau, 8) ducco-op*rainvaluablmunitretributionto__tAnothe tmentioh eey organisatio confidenctr eIo nIndicationservic s hhtheretowa> seeGmmrn*** n hiIntanno, so df communit ott leadershilateMrr. r Castcom liberaeony­p- l sityoustowwhicbuildinTheatermusieducatinn, yh c lifeth aendowedgh,e eg .sourc includinEastma provideanHmusiciansde e . wao whicnfdg sH Schoopleasur ewitthhIntereste , e hah lhespeciall Eastmade aoe nf founIgeneUratideand hiidnlysre opublicitwhicporterfocivitinuemunicipafr th thcthh edecenter ; e gift ttselyai oworl Chambefda s governmenfthtowar: ktmuc oeanshun Rochester'fodbuildinrh dr os sfo establishinsf ath tnitCommerce ges lonimprovesolprovidesligh parkaeg tsupcong o df­a; Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection have no age; they are always William C. Barry FranK S. McShane Dr. Murray Bartlett F. S. Macomber young, confident and brave. Edward Bausch Gifford Morgan Messages Pa ed' iributes ADOLPH S. OCHS, Publisher of Daniel M. Beach H. W. Morgan The New York Times—Yours has G. D. B. Bonbright Dr. A. G. Morris JAYNE HILL," WILBUR L. CROSS, Governor, John P. Boylan Ed, D. Mulligan been an inspiring career of use­ Herbert VV. Bramley W. T. Noonan dinner of the Society of the Gene- esteem for Mr Eastman and ap->- company with the members of the ful, humane, unselfish service, ex­ Dr. H. J. Burkhart Dr. O. W. Norton emplifying the heights to which Charles L. Cadle Bishop John Fran­ see last night in New York City, i preciation of what he has accom- Society of the Genesee extend to Dr. W. A. Callahan cis O'Hern were the following: | pHshed and his spirit of benefac-you my felicitations on the golden citizenship may be raised by one Judge George A. Oscar H. Pieper CALVIN COOLIDGE-About the || tion.^ only tor^ city and^ in-jubilee of yourfirst patent and in who combines industrial genius Carnahan J. Craig Powers stitutions of Rochester, but in a commemoration of the seventy- and sterling character with a sin­ George H. Clune Dean H. Quinby first time that I heard of you widerfield.- He has lived a great Wendell J. Curtis Thos. H. Remington directly was when Ifirst wen t to seventh year of your age? Your cere desire to serve his fellow- Warren J. Cutler Dr. Rush Rhees Washington. One day President life; and it gives us a higher esti­ great gifts to education, the arts man throughout the world. Rufus K. Dryer Edward Rosenberg Harding announced in the Cabinet mate of our human existence that and to the welfare of the people James P. B. Duffy H. Russell Samuel E. Durand Harper Sibley that you had brought in a check such a life can be. generally have conferred great P. S. DuPONT—Your many valu- H. M. Elsenhart William J. Simpson forepresentlnr a veryg largthe eentir sume profiof moneyt that, ! able contributions to society are honor and distinction on your Gustave Erbe Dr. S. R. Snow, Sr. name. Though I am sending you F.lmer E. Kairchild Col. O. N. Solbert had accrued to you for some ma- well known, and I doubt f any Bishop David Edwin A. Stebbins terials that you had furnished invention has had greater influence this greeting in my private capac­ Lincoln Ferris Judge J. B. M. during the war, as I now recall on society than has that of the ity, I know that I am speaking Thos. W. Finucane Stephens ROCHESTCRIANS Edwin A. Fisher Simon N. Stein the circumstances. It made a good development of thefilm, whic h of in general for the people of the George G. Ford Henry M. Stern deal of an impression on all of course has led to the enormous StatSIeR ofRONAL ConnecticutD C.. LINDSAY, British Ambassador to the United Louis S. Foulkes Stephen B. Story us, although we knew that it was industry now represented in "mo­ Frank E. Gannett A. F. Sulzer in entire harmony with the pat­ tion pictures." States—I am glad to add my Harry H. Garfield Joseph W. Taylor riotic and philanthropic spirit you GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING — 1 tribute to the many which you will AIDED TO PLAN Jamea E. Gleason George W. Todd have manifested on so many dif- shall ever recall with a sense of receive, for you have shown that Kdwin S. Gordon L. M. Todd Fred'k H. Gordon Douglas C. Townson ferent occasions. In consideration distinct pleasure and appreciation! charity can be world-wide. of them all and of the pleasure my delightful visit with you a fewj John H. Gregory Eugene Van Voorhis NOBILE GIACOMO DE MAR- E. A. Halblelb James W. Wads- of your personal friendship, I am years ago. It gave me a broader) TINO, Italian Ambassador to the DINNER IN N. Y,Willia m B. Hale worth, Jr. Carl 8. Hallauer glad of an opportunity to send you understanding of your contribu­ United States—Your personal ge­ James S. Watson this greeting on the occasion of tions to the progress of the world Dr. Howard Hanson Robert C. Watson nius, your steadfast effort and Large Delegation From Edward Harris Herbert S. Weet the honor that your neighbors and Permiman, tt om eexten in dthi ms yway mos, Mrt .cordia East-l! youcreatinr leadershig energyp, thdeservee wisdos gream otf George H. Hawks Edward Weeter friends are doing you on the eve- greetings with assurances of my praise, but greater still is your Here Included on Din­ Sol Heumann Chas. W. Weis, Jr. fning of Feb. 9. I trust the occasion J. G. Hlckey Dr. Geo. H. Whipple high regard and esteem. ' merit in making of all these gifts ner, Reception Groups Albert A. Hopeman Julius H. Wile may be one which may reveal td FRANK O. LOWDEN, Oregonji and talents an. enduring contribu- Wolcott Humphrey Herbert J. Winn you something of the high'regard* 111 former governor of Illinois- "on to public welfare, in making of Genesee Society. Chas. H. Hutchison E. I.. Woodward in which you are held by your fel­ Rochesterians had a big share Arthur H. Ingle R. B. Woodward It "gives me great pleasure to join worlyourd succesprogresss .serv e the success of Albert B. Eastwood Fred'k W. Zoller low citizens. With kindest re­ with many others in felicitations to in arranging the 32nd annual din­ RAY LYMAN WILBUR, Secre­ Meyer Jacobstein gards, I am, you in your seventy-seventh year. ner of the Society of the Genesee tary of Interior—Your skill and in­ WALTER LIPPMAN, editor of These years that lie behind have in New York last night. genuity, your ability in organiza­ j the New York World—You are one beenfilled wit h fine and construc­ Committee members were: tion, your trained imagination and of the prime movers in the revo­ tive work of immense benefit to the Reception Committee your good heart have permitted lutionizing of human communica world along a dozen lines, and I you to brighten the world In many J. M. Davis. Chairman; Rt. Rev. tion. Your fame is as wide todaj David Lincoln Ferris. Rt. Rev. John wish for you many and happy ways. I particularly appreciate as it is secure. With that fame Francis O'Hern. Mrs. J. M. Davis. years which.I know will continue what you have done for those in there is in your own country arj to be of great service to human­ Mrs. E. E. L-omis, David J. Hill, : need, for the training of youth, John N. Willys. Myron C. Taylor. affectionate appreciation of youl kind. for the protection of health and Mrs. Myron C. Taylor. Will H. Hays, constant philanthropies. BENITO MUSSOLINI, Premier for the appreciation of beauty. Miss Lillian D. Wald, Julian M. LORD RIDDELL, London. Eng* of Italy—Will Your Excellency ex- C. R. WILSON, The Senate, Ot- Gerard, Dr. Rossiter Johnson. Merle j —Heartjubilee.y Fegreetingw mens havon eyou sor changedjgolde j press my cordial adherence to the | tawa, Canada—You have contrib­ S. Clayton, Miss Carrie Wiley, Miss the world and few have done more! celebration in honor of George Belle Wiley, Mrs. Henry A. Strong, for others. Commerce, science,! Eastman on the occasion of his uted in so many ways to enrich Col. O. N. Solbert. Mrs. Thomas J. sport, music, philanthropy are all!; seventy-seventh year. Will Your the lives of the citizens, not only Watson. Horace F. Taylor. Charles indebted to you. I wish I could Excellency also be the interpreter of your own but of other coun­ B. Sears. Edward G. Miner. Mrs. Ed­ attend the dinner. As it is, I can,of my best wishes to the great in- tries, that words of commenda­ ward G. Miner, Meyer Jacobstein, only wish you from far away many j dustrialist who with noble gen- tion from me seem almost an im- Dr. L. Kauffman. Frank E. Gannett. | pertinence. Mrs. Frank E. Gannett. George W. happy years. j erosity willed to have erected in Todd. Mrs. George W. Todd. Dr. T»O ^ ,. -.-...^ ~ J Rome a great dental clinic for the THOMAS W. LAMONT — For Minn.—I am glad that your flowers George H. Whipple. DK. C. H. MAYO, Rochester, young . many years your achievements as are being presented you while you Dinner Committee inn.—I am glad that vourflowers i ! an inventor and manufacturer have G. Willard Rich, Chairman lean both see and smell them. My SIR JOSEPH STAMP, London— j been recognized the world over. Vice-Chairmen best wishes to you. Jacob C. Klinck Georga N. Sage The fruits that are already ripening | Because of the unselfish use you Col. Oscar N. Solbert DR. ABRAHAM FLEXNER — I upon the widespread tree which he | have made of your great capacity Gllbart J. C. McCurdylAlbert H. Harrla 'have in the course of my life been planted as a small shoot are bring­ I in business and science for the George W. Todd JBlOT H. Hooker fortunate in meeting and knowing '\ furtherance of public welfare and Edward Q. Miner IE. E. Loomla ing new happiness to the whole Frank W. I^.vrjoy Patrick E. Crowley most of the great American philan­ world. The influence of his work | happiness, it is only natural that Frank B. Gannett iGeorge W. Cobb thropists. It is an unalloyed pleas­ at this day can only be dimly you should have gained that uni­ C. ! Ames IGeome W. Sweeney C'harlea van Voorhia Charles D. Thorn* ure to bear testimony to the wis­ calculated, but it must necessarily versal respect, admiration and af­ dom, generosity and disinterested­ Douglaa C. TownsonAbraham Benedict be a primary agent in the civiliza­ fection of which this dinner is Herbert J. Winn [Clarence H. Fay ness of Mr. Eastman. tion of the whole world. a testimonial. James 8. Wataon {Julian M. Gerard DR. LIVINGSTON FA BRAND. MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Lewis B. Jones (Arthur W. Ixiaaby P. ORTIZ RUBIO, President of Roland B. Wood ward Murray Hutbert thalle civilizeUnited nationMexicas nan d States—Awith thins —Behind every achievement lies Ravmond N. Ball Uullan Wiley ' |even conceptiot of sucn Ih hastenaturn et oi sreques worthty tha oft the man; not who he Is but what Irving B. Burdlck |Frank Presbrey handed measure to so many activi­ he has done is vital. When, as Charlea E. Meek IDavId Hummel President of Come.. University— f yoj„uf „.„„pleasf et„ exten fh_ d -.^„to MrA~_„-f. Eastma. „#n ties that contribute to human wel­ in your case, he Is still looking J. R. Comlnsky IJame* J. Gallagher ( farv„„e thav,„„t „a n„«.. opportunit_ ^m y to expres...s ainterest youtr opportunitto the governmenty the congratus ot­ William R. Wlllcox |8hepard A. Morgan ' IOU have given of yourself and lation_,, _i_x«„s I sen* d hi*< m in__ thj e_.» namw e.m of. ahead and not back; still placing Genr/»ee Valley Hponnorlng Committee appreciation of your achievements Edward O. Miner. Chairman of your resources in such open ithe Mexican peopfe and myself per­ his ripe experience at the service and your example is very welcome of mankind; still hopeful of bet­ Isaac Adler I^-wls B. Jones to your fellow-citizens. sonally upon the celebration of has"never heard of, followers and Joseph T Ailing Roy C. Kate* such memorable days. | anreligious—hterinsupportersd courageous—ang things.e Fowil; rl stil havmindl eeved indomitabl friendann slightld spiris hyet KaymonWilliaMortimeWrxieDonalDr. (.hasydm drMS .P.N.R R .BarrowAngl. Barrow BalAnatlcBarbeel sse r JohHowarRoFranQDr..y n J k.CW d.Kitche. CW ..EJ McCann. . McCurdLovejonKldK . d eMeey y s Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection Speakers Before Society Of The Genesee z*\ * - / naiiiiiiiia ~~~Z .. / 7* smiiii.i.iiiwi'

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Louis Veteran Friends Dr. Samuel W. Stratton Paul Claudel W oilman Filip Bostrom Wiley Enfployes, To Atrend to the United States; Mr. Bostrom, Swedish Ceremony Mr Wiley, business manager of tbe New York Times; M. Claudel, French ambassador of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were among the minister to tbe United States; and Dr. Stratton. chairman of tbe board Saji/rday Morning apeakers last nigbt at the J2nd annual dinner of the Society of the Genesee in New York Citvt

' The memorial" to George Eastman in Kodak Park, completed after a year, will be dedicated Saturday morning at 11 o'clock in the pres-; RITES MEMORIAL ence of veteran employes of the SIMPLE /FOR EASTMAN company, associates and personal friends of Mr. Eastman and repre sentatives of the city administra Niece To Unveil Monument tion. were mailed Rhees Invitations yesterday- At Kodak Park; Dr. to Kodak employes who have for 25 To Make Address served with the company , years or more and to others who ; had close contact with Mr. East- j ceremonies will mark Simple man. Twenty-five-year employes | the dedication at 11 a. m. tomor who have retired are among those row of the Kodak Park memorial receiving invitations^ The has not to the late Oeorge Eastman. dedication program been announced, but it is under Mrs. B. of Oeorge Dryden stood simplicity will prevail, in j t Evan:Evanston. III. niece and closest accord with* Mr. Eastman's tastes relatlve of the late philanthropist and with- the nature of the memorial. is comingeoi to Rochester to un Most of the time required fori I theth* monument.* completing the memorial wa3 taken ; Dr. Rush Rhees, president of by the sculptor's assistants in carv the University of Rochester and ing the figures on two sides of the block. The a dote friend of Mr. Eastman. hard central marble ashes of Mr. Eastman were laid in wll give the only address on the a recess of the base early in Decem program, which will be broadcast ber and the 40-ton block was moved from both Stations WHAM and over them. WHEC from 11:15 to 11:30. Work of the design of m December. ashe of Mr. East applying the Leo Friedlander, has man were laid in a recess at the sculptor, that time. base of the forty-ton marble continued since block. Since then Leo Friedlandrr. sculptor, and his assistants have been at work carving figures on Here it the architects drawing of the memorial to the late the atone. George Eastman at Kodak Park which will be dedicated at formal Ouests invited to attend the un exercises tomorrow morning. Mr. Eastman's ashes rest in the ceremonies include em veiling memorial which took several month for a sculptor to complete. ployes who have worked with the Kodak Company twenty-five years city officials, and directors of the. the Lake Avenue entrance to the or more, Mr. Eastmans associates comnanv. nvr* and is **encircled bvoy a roadroad- ia civic and cultural activities,! THe memorial is located Inside way. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection if J'. I Rochester's Tribute

~w \ :>: T* /sT""? tfl :.t* Eastman's Ash^s to Rest In PermanentI^n^m^nt To Kodak Park Founder toud to ua~ have ^liared The omestct; pur A permanent monument to^ inscription will be "For Eastman Eastman" with { George will stand at George hie life Kodak Park, directors of the East dates, 1854-1932, at the sides. man Kodak have an Jfscm$^ benefited fbm Company Public Unveiling nounced. William G. Stuber, of r Placed at the Lake Avenue en president to the Eastman said your xjtuaiuely genetotiS gijb, .app^ emmtyou trance to Kodak Park, the memor Company, yester day that a public will be ial will be in the form of a massive unveHing a unahbor, greets and earnest tribute to held, although no date has yet been -you, set on a concrete you pay$ sculptured block, named. Kodak Park was closer to tv \i>ltk tfie c base, in a paved circular area below the heart of the founder than any ! wur of his 5even|KSevedii year>foVmt\g. Society the ground level. other projects, Mr. Stuber I eaid, and it was deemed fitting that m to a . Ashes' Plate tfie enesee regard Resting his ashes should And their last rest ^ivmg exprc55um rtigia will be , Ashes of Mr. Eastman ing place there. contained in a funeral urn at the Plans for the memorial have been ' heart of monument, beneath the completed by Ralph Walker of ' Gmelin & our.' i.VZ- carved block. Voorhees, Walker of c < trw , dc \himh\ atksti ui'uici'iiqned I Work on the memorial is already New York. The design is to be j well along. The roadway from the carried out by Leo Friedlander, j plant to Lake Avenue has been re sculptor. i placed by two roads, one for exi jand another for entrance. The monument will be In the center. I with three broad stairways leading 7r,fi>t'^f^. down from the street level. On the massive block will be two sculptured figures, one symbolizing This illuminated plaque, signed by officers of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce and many leading j while the other portrays professional and business men of the city, was presented to George Eastman at the annual dinner of aspiration, chemistry, science in which Mr. the Society of the Genesee in New York last night. Presentation was made by Dr. Rush Rhees, pres career was based. ident of the of one of the TIA .'Eastman's University Rochester, banquet speakers. si 7 /jm* f\/yi to He ureciea to Kodak Founder Y>. . i* l- //< i.

This memorial will be placed near the entrance to Kodak Park in Lake Avenue in tribute to George Eastman. Tbe urn holding the ashes of Mr. Eastman will be placed inside. Tbe sketch was prepared by architects. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection A Great Industry Honors Its' Founder

in late Eastman that will be dedicated tomorrow at 11:15 at ceremonies Here is an artist's drawing of the memorial to the George Kodak Park.

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Rochester will hava an oppor The wooden house that has cov tunity to listen by radio to the ered the central monument of tha dedication of a memorial at memorial during the months of Is be Kodak Park tomorrow for George work on It by tha sculptors Eastman. ing removed today, but the monu- 1 For 15 minutes, beginning at ment remains shrouded In cloth./ 1115 In the morning, both Roch which will not be taken off until; ester station*, WHEC and WHAM. Mrs. Dryden performs the with tha of unveil-j will be connected site ing. I the memorial just Inaide the Lake Mr. Eastman's ashes will rest entrance to Kodak Park, Inj (Avenue the memorial. where more than 1.000 persons The guests Invited to assemble | connected with Mr. Eastman by jj at the memorial for the dedica ties of and personal | association, tion Include ail employes who have I ! friendship will be gathered. worked with tbe Kodak company The broadcast wiU carry the j 25 years or more, Mr. Eastman's dedication address Dr. Rush j I fay associates In many civic and cul- I I Rhees. of the University president tural activities, hli' closest friends n' Rochester, member of the and his relatives, and represent*- j i Kodak board of directors, and Uvea of the city government. The close friend of Mr. Eastman; and directors of the Eastman Kodak th* moment will he marked when } Company, in whote name the in- I l the cord Is drawn by unveiling vitatlons were will also of Evans- issued, :| Mrs. George B. Dryden attend. 111., Mr. Eastman's niece and .jton, The director* sre James Sibley i relative. j closest Watson. Daniel E Evarts, Frank j Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1934 Friends Dedicate New Memorial to George Eastman

Official and private Rochester gathered yesterday to dedicate a memorial to the late George Eastman, industrialist and philanthropist. From high on one of the buildings of Kodak Park, which Mr. Eastman founded, the Democrat and Chronicle photographer pictures the crowd listening to Dr. Rush Rhees making the dedicatory address. Below, the memorial itself, in which rest the ashes of Mr. Eastman. 0 Eastman Lauded for Vision At Dedication of Memoria / Contlnned from rage IB *~. n this day the directors of the Eastman Kodak Company have in of aspiration. On the opposite face mind the thousands throughout the a crouching male figure represents world who own allegiance to Ko the science on which Mr. East dak. In the principal office of each man's work in photography was Kodak abroad a fine based. great plant bronze bas-relief of Mr. The central monument ls set In portrait Eastman is being erected as a per a round unken plaza paved with petual reminder of the man who marble of a darker tint, brownish- made that development pink. The marble disc on which possible. "At the same a bronze med the sculptured stone stands bears time, al with Eastman's on one edge the inscription, George portrait on the face, and on the back the "For George Eastman, 1854-1932." name of the Urn Holds Remains recipient, Is being giv en each Beneath the great central stone employe who has been in the the the ashes of Mr. Eastman rest in service of company for 'IS or as a bronze urn within a steel box. years more, a constant re The bank sloping upward from minder of Eastman's recognition the edges of the plaza Is over of the part played In Kodak's suc cess the grown with myrtle, fringed with by whole body of loyal low evergreens. A circle of trees colleagues in the factories, business shades the memorial. offices and sales centers through For the dedication the sunken out the world." plaza was occupied by those pres Distribution of the medals will ent. Directors and executives re extend throughout the United sponsible, for carrying on the man States and Canada, as well aa in agement of the Eastman company Rochester, it was announced. were present. From the Kodak European or ganization Dr. August Nagel, man Works ager of the Doctor Nagel of Kodak A G. In Germany with Mrs. Nagel and their daughter, and Nils Bouveng of Stockholm, Sweden, had come. Stephen B. Cornell, George M. Snowball and Henry H. Tozier, all of Toronto, represented the Canadian Kodak Company. Jules Brulatour, long associated with Mr. Eastman in connection with the motion-picture industry, came from New York. Employes Present Veteran Kodak employes com posed part of the group. Mayor Charles Stanton and City Manager Harold W. Baker represented the City of Rochester. Dr. Howard Hanson from the Eastman School of Mumc, Dr. George H. Whipple r- from the Medical School, Dr. Har vey J. Burkhart from the Roches ter Dental Dispensary. George E. Francis and Roland Woodward of of Commerce, repres- the Chamber / H ted Institutions that had command ed Mr. Eastmans interest. \*\ Among many close friends In Rochester who had gathered were *\ Mr. and Mrs. F. Hutchison, Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Eastwood. Mrs. Robert Rev. George E. Ranlet, a i Norton. S. T. D., and Judge George A. Carnahan. The architect of the memorial. Ralph Walker, and the sculptor, Leo Friedlander. had come from New York for the dedication. The contractor. Albert A. Hopeman, jNw. also was present. Ceremonies Bnmdoast Loud-speakers hidden In trees carried Doctor Rhees's voice to all fM"d in the plaza, and beyond to i '-*-; those on the lawn at the rim. Both Rochester radio stations made the ceremony audible to additional K

thousands. t 1 Setting forth action taken to commemorate the dedication, Doc- or Rhees said: Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection

N. Y. . 3TER. TIHKSDAY, OCTOBER 2. 193^TXL- 'WonShwnt WiJT^taiut lb Memory ofKodak Founder

.rchttect s of memorial to Eastnfen drawing proposed George which will be erected in Kodak Park and in which his ashes will'bewil| be placed. tr- George Eastman Memorial To Be Built at Kodak Park a " 3 Stairways Will Descend to Circular Area Near Entrance Where Ashes Will Rest

Directors of thl Eastman Kodak ona for entrance and one for exit. 1 Company yesterday announced Stuber Announce* Plans plans for the erection of a memor- In announcing that plans for the 1 ial to George Eastman at the Lake I rial are virtually complete. William G. Stuber. president of the j Avenue entrance to Kodak Park. company, yesterday Issued the An urn containing hla ashes will I following formal statement: be in memorial. ^ placed the "Work is progressing at Kodak To prepare for tha memorial the j Park on tha foundation for the - ' ' memorial M roadway leading to the plant from to George Eastman, but as yet the time for the Lake unveiling H Avenue has been relald. ex- the of monument has not been set I cavatton haa been and completed more than 40 years before tha his tJM concrete base Is well under demise. Kodak Park, a creation of his I way. mind, had also been close Tha memorial wilt cover a large fnnMnwed a Page .Hlxteea * * circular area and its paved floor will be lower thau the ground level. Three stairways wilt descend to tha memorial ltvri. Will Have S Stairways The inscription. ^For George Eastman," will face the st.v leading Into the memorial from > Lake Avenue. The stairway visible * 4 In tha reproduction the archl- tact's drawing will at tha left and toward tha rea nf the me* mortal as one faces from Lake at Avenue. The third >t airway, oa tha tight, will be opposite the en trance to tha Kodak Research RjH Laboratories building. The dates of Mr. Eastman's life tfj 1M4 ad 1882will be carved at the I aides of the Inscription. The sculptured figure on the face of the Hundr. I ^H >>** H|of the central block will be sug- |Dgestivt of aspiration. On tha op- poette face will be carved a mala I figure symbolising ehanatstry. tl.a Outstandir\ V |aclnce on which Mr. Eastmans k life work waa baaed. The urn containing Mr. East man's ashes will be placed at the pse4-^ r'^'skr^ center of the memorial, beneath tha carved block. In providing space for gfca me morial, the original roadway h*k been removed and two other Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection

New to Public Plaque GeoS^e Eastman jrj,, iiixMUMtermx*^ Library wt- .MemorialMemorial t6cEatt man Recalls Gifts to Massachusetts Tech D. trr-Wr-&&m* A new memorial to George East S' man, whose Larsen' of-rare-mould generosity made pos the,neJ,b//;chief ^Sgestlng sible Interests and activities of erection of Massacnusetts In Mr Eastman's career. stitute of They repre Technology on its present sent fine-grained ({ photography, 1 site in has been big game hunt- Cambridge, placed ing. music, in the foyer of the chemistry, drama and ) SENSITIVE -TO George East medicine. man research laboratories for Plans are under physics and way to set up chemistry of th* in in the BEAUTY* RESPONSIVE stitute. foyer beneath the memorial a series of permanent Long known as scientific only the myster exhibits of TO -TRUTH- CONSERVER ious historical and mode-n benefactor, "Mr. Smith." Mr. interest. Eastman over a period of years The memorial is OF contributed almost largely the con -HUMAN -VALUES $20,000,000 to and the ception work of Prof. Freder institute's endowment. ick G. Keyes, head of On a travertine the depart PIONEER- IN -THE panel facing the ment of main entrance chemistry at the institute. to the laboratories Prof. Harry W. Gardner of the has been placed a bronze SUSTAINED -APPLICATION bas re department of lief of Mr. architecture and Eastman, modeled J. A. by| Harry Carlson, life member of Lukeman. Grouped about it I the corporation, assisted OF-SCIENTIFIC-RESEAiCH are six small bronze in its plan plaques, de- and art!Mr TO -INDUSTRY ({ r.omoosltion

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