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Benny Goodman receiving the IIT Hall of Fame medal and plaque from IIT Provost Sidney Guralnick, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1980
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1980
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Photograph of Provost Sidney Guralnick presenting the IIT Hall of Fame medal and plaque to Benny Goodman. Goodman attended Lewis Institute in 1923 as a high school sophomore while also playing the clarinet in a dance hall band. The legendary orchestra conductor and jazz musician received an honorary LL.D. degree from IIT in 1968. Photographer unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Mollie Cohen, ca 1960s
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1960 to 1968
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Photograph of Mollie Cohen, a 1924 graduate of the Lewis Institute, and former professor of English at Lewis and, later, Illinois Institute of Technology. At the time of her retirement in 1965, Cohen initiated the student poetry prize, which is now named in her honor. Cohen was honored at the 1968 convocation, which celebrated Illinois Tech's 75th anniversary. This photograph was used in… more
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The Blue Flame, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, 1970
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1970
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Transparency depicting the car known as the Blue Flame that set the land speed record on October 23, 1970 at Bonneville Flats, Utah. Powered by ignited liquefied natural gas, the car was conceived by Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute colleagues Dick Keller and Ray Dausman and constructed by Reaction Dynamics, Inc. in Milwaukee. Henry R. Linden, then President of the Institute of… more
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