![]() ![]() Rollins worked closely with Professor Melville Munro who, on the side, worked as campus photographer for three decades. Over the years, Rollins, in addition to his academic and administrative activities, 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. In 1948 he received the alumni association's Distinguished Service Award. He served as acting dean of the engineering school from 1927 to 1929. He became assistant professor in 1910 and in 1928 was made full professor and chairman of the department of electrical engineering at Tufts. Upon graduation, Rollins joined Tufts' engineering faculty as an instructor of physics and electrical engineering. He earned fifteen cents per hour for the labor. While an undergraduate Rollins worked on campus assisting with the new electrical system on the campus, winding transformers and installing lights. He attended Tufts College and graduated in 1901. Rollins was born in Lewiston, Maine, on June 1, 1878. In addition he pursued his interests in photography and research into the history of the built environment of the Medford campus. Rollins (1878-1980), E1901, was professor of electrical engineering, chair of the department and acting dean of the College of Engineering. ![]()
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