About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Alfred University alumni, Alfred University faculty, Creig Flessel, Steven Pressman, Rufus Mallory, Kenneth Price, Tom Reed, Tony Marsh, Daniel Rhodes, Robert Kalfin, Robert Klein, Walter McConnell, Wayne Higby, Marvin Bell, Maija Grotell, Powe v. Miles, Cathy Bissoon, Philip T. Van Zile, Francis Marion McDowell, Julia Galloway, Annabeth Rosen, Stull Observatory, Steve Heineman, Jae Won Lee, C. Scott Vanderhoef, Andrew Deutsch, Sarah Lindley, Ben Howard, Steve Skeates, Robert Littell, Richard M. Dolan, Pat Cougevan, William Wallace Brown, New York State College of Ceramics, Chagmion Antoine, Stanley Moskowitz, Peter Jenkins, Allen Steinheim Museum, J. Hale Sypher, Mark Cesark, William Cleaveland, WALF, Robert C. Turner, Arnold Zimmerman, Alumni Hall, Horace Billings Packer, John Bisbee, Timothy Z. Keith, George P. Darrow, Choichir Yatani, Sean Healy, Albert Cole Hopkins, Mortimer Fitzland Elliott, Linda Underhill, Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Clarence W. Spicer, Kim Dickey, Chuck Stenzel. Excerpt: Alfred University is a small, comprehensive university in the Village of Alfred in Western New York, USA, an hour and a half south of Rochester and two hours southeast of Buffalo. Alfred has an undergraduate population of around 2,000, and approximately 300 graduate students. Though the institution has five separate schools and colleges, the institution's reputation is grounded in the arts and engineering. Alfred was founded in 1836 as the Select School by Seventh Day Baptists as a non-sectarian institution. Unusual for the time, the school was co-educational. It was also racially integrated, and enrolled its first African-American student and two Native American students in the 1850s, becoming the second college in the nation to do so. The origin of the name "Alfred" is uncertain. Residents of the t...
