To Professor C.B. Neblette, who in 1927 had a dream that photography should be part of a college curriculum. He saw his dream come true when in 1936 he became the director of a fledgling photographic program. With support from the Eastman Kodak Company, he developed the program into the largest in the nation. It is now called the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Richard D. Zakia

To Duke University’s matriarch, Mary D.B.T. Semans, who for decades has been the guiding force behind the Visual and Performing Arts at Duke University and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Duke’s first digital imaging computer, a Mac 660AV in 1993, was funded by her, which ushered in the digital photography age on campus. She also supported and funded many other photographic efforts and activities at Duke.

David A. Page