SpiRIT Leaving a Party

Title: SpiRIT Leaving a Party
Description: This page from RIT’s 1964 Techmila depicts a unique aspect of campus life, in which students were able to interact with a tiger, SpiRIT, at Christmas parties on campus. The bottom photo on the page shows SpiRIT as he’s leaving a party with handlers Jim Black and Roger Kramer, who also served on the Tiger Committee which organized the school’s acquisition of the mascot. The accompanying text points out that while the symbol of the tiger was only recently adopted by RIT, it is possible for it to become associated with the school, in this case through the use of a live mascot.
Subject: SpiRIT
Creator: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: 1964
Rights: RIT Archive Collections
Format: Yearbook
Language: English
Source: Collection on Spirit (Tiger)