Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History

Sauer, Anne

Branco, Jessica

Bennett, John

Crowley, Zachary

2000

Rollins, Edwin B., 1878-1980

 

Edwin B. Rollins (1878-1980), E1901, was professor of electrical engineering, chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering, and acting dean of the College of Engineering. In addition to his academic and administrative responsibilities, Rollinspursued an interest in both photography and in research about the history of the architectual environment of the Medford campus.

Rollins was born in Lewiston, Maine, on June 1, 1878. Rollins joined Tufts' engineering faculty as an instructor of physics and electrical engineering upon his graduation from the college in 1901. He became assistant professor in 1910 andwas made full professor and chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tufts in 1928.He served as acting dean of the engineering school from 1927 to 1929, and received the alumni association's Distinguished Service Award in 1948.

As an undergraduate at Tufts College, Rollins worked on campus assisting with the school's new electrical system, winding transformers and installing lights. He earned fifteen cents per hour for his labor.

Throughout his tenure at Tufts, Rollins built a full-scale model telephone office, a collection of lamps, wrote a history of the first forty years of electrical engineering at Tufts, and compiled in notebooks a history of buildings and gates on the Medford campus.

Rollins worked closely with Professor Melville Munro in his activities as campus photographer. Rollins, only a few years Munro's senior, sparked Munro's interest in photography, encouraging him to embark on what was to become an exhaustive photographic history of the college, spanning the entirety of Munro's years at Tufts. Rollins assisted Munro in assembling the scrapbooks and taking photographs.

Rollins and his wife, Mabel, resided at 84 Packard Avenue for the majority of his years at Tufts. He died in Rockland, Maine, on December 17, 1980, at the age of 102.

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Dame, Lorin Low, 1838-1903
Dana, Charles A., 1881-1975
Dana Laboratory, 1963
Daniel Ounjian Prize in Economics,
Davies, Caroline Stodder, 1864-1939
Davies House, 1894
De Florez Prize in Human Engineering, 1964
de Pacheco, Kaye MacKinnon, ca. 1910-ca. 1985
Dean Hall, 1887-1963
Dean, Oliver, 1783-1871
Dearborn, Heman Allen, 1831-1897
Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, 1893
Department of Anesthesia, 1970
Department of Art and Art History, 1930
Department of Biochemistry, 1893
Department of Chemistry, 1882
Department of Community Health, 1930
Department of Dermatology, 1897
The Department of Economics, 1946
Department of Medicine, 1893
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology
Department of Neurology, 1893
Department of Neuroscience, 1983
Department of Neurosurgery, 1951
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1893
Department of Ophthamology, 1893
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 1906
Department of Otolaryngology, 1895
Department of Pathology, 1893
Department of Pediatrics, 1930
Department of Pharmacology, 1915
Department of Physics and Astronomy, 1854
Department of Physiology, 1893
Department of Psychiatry, 1928
Department of Radiation Oncology, 1968
Department of Radiology, 1915
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, 1955
Department of Surgery, 1893
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy, 1973
Department of Urology, 1910
Dental Health Sciences Building, 1969
Dewick, Cora Alma (Polk), 1875-1977
Dewick/MacPhie Dining Hall, 1959
Dickson Professorship of English and American History, 1913
Dirlam, Arland A., 1905-1979
Dog Cart, 1900
Dolbear, Amos Emerson, 1837-1910
Donald A. Cowdery Memorial Scholarship, 1946
Dr. Benjamin Andrews Professorship of Surgery, 1987
Dr. Philip E. A. Sheridan Prize, 1977
The Drug Bust, 1970
Dudley, Henry Watson, 1831-1906
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