A few years after graduating from Ferris State University as valedictorian of his class in 1959, James Rhodes moved to California and was hired at CBS in the mailroom, charged with operating the multi-lift offset printing press.
Matthew Nawrocki graduated in 1995 from Ferris College of Engineering Technology. He is the CEO and president of Vectors Inc., a Trimble global positioning system product dealership, of Denver, Colorado, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
When NASCAR driver Tony Stewart struck and killed an up-and-coming competitor on a rural dirt track, local police ruled it an accident. Several years after the tragic encounter, the incident was re-analyzed by several leading forensic engineers, including RIT Professor Martin Gordon.