John A. Randall

John Arthur Randall (July 25, 1881 – June 9, 1968) was the fourth President of the Rochester Institute of Technology, succeeding Royal B. Farnum, from 1922 to 1936.

[1][2] Randall was born in Durham, Maine in 1881 and graduated from Wesleyan University, Phi Beta Kappa.

Mann developed the Army Alpha Intelligence Test, thought to be the first attempt of its kind to measure vocational and numerical ability.

In 1936, he left RIT to direct the Division of Educational Aids of the National Youth Administration.

He held memberships in many professional societies during his lifetime, including: He married the former Georgiana Waldron Hathaway in 1936.

Gravestone in Sweeney Rural Cemetery in North Tonawanda, New York