At Edward Williams College, Dr. Sammartino wanted each room to be like a little art gallery. The furniture was different in each room, there was wall-to-wall carpeting and, of course, the paintings on the walls. He even designed a special high swivel chair so that students would look up to the instructor for better attention
The first honorary degree to be conferred by Fairleigh Dickinson University at Edward Williams College was to Governor Richard N. Hughes, Mr. Edward T. T. Williams (after whom the college was named) and Dr. Sammartino.
This addition to Robison Hall was intended as the second two-year college, following the establishment of Edward Williams College. It was intended as a 400-student college for mathematics and science majors. After Dr. Sammartino retired in 1967, the plans for changing over the first two years into separate small colleges were aborted.
The Muscarelle building as it is seen from the Hackensack River.
Dr. Joseph L. Muscarelle, one of the nation's greatest builders gave $1,500,000 to Fairleigh Dickinson University because of his admiration for what Dr. Sammartino had accomplished. The Muscarelle building on the Teaneck campus flanks Robison Hall and houses the Building Construction curriculum.
After we acquired the Teaneck campus, the growth in Teaneck soon made it evident that we would need more space. Directly, we acquired a large area across the river in Hackensack. The first building was the Edward Williams College. Soon thereafter, we moved the School of Dentistry to a new $9,500,000 building in Hackensack made possible by a large government grant and a $2,000,000 gift by Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr.
One of the clinical rooms in the new dentistry building in Hackensack. One of the things Dr. Sammartino insisted on when the school of dentistry was established in 1955 was that students be taught to practice dentistry in a sitting position. He had seen too many dentists broken by bad backs bending over. He also insisted on a nutrition course because he felt that generally, dentists could spot malnutrition before a doctor could.
This concludes the Pictorial History of Fairleigh Dickinson University.
All pictures and captions seen here were taken from "Fairleigh Dickinson University: A Pictorial History, 1942-1967," by Helen L. Warren and Richard W, Holub, pages 48-55.
