A group portrait including Roy J. Fister, New York State College for Teachers, Class of 1956, as he receives the Bertha E. Brimmer Medal on behalf of Julia A. Fister Rector, his aunt, member of the New York State College for Teachers, Class of 1932, and former Chair of the English Department. With Fister and Brimmer (second from viewer's left, New York State Normal College, Class of 1900) are Frances Gaynor Hartigan, New York State Normal College, Class of 1934 (viewer's far left) and Dr. Susan Seabury Smith, New York State College for Teachers, Class of 1935 and 1937.