David drove from his home in Madison, Wisconsin, and the two transported the items to Linderman Library. Lehigh staf directed them to a loading dock. “There was someone there with a little library cart you might put a tea set on,” Chris said. “David and I looked at each other and just kind of smiled. It was like that scene in ‘Jaws’: You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” Library staf were eager to receive the delivery and meet the brothers in person after months of preparation and discussions. “We knew to expect several trunks of materials, but we didn’t realize how big they would be," said Nadav Manes. “We quickly adjusted our expectations.” A Remarkable Life Rock was born in 1840 in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, and eventually attended Franklin & Marshall College in nearby Lancaster, leaving in 1861 to serve the Union Army for three years during the Civil War, according to an obituary published in the June 21, 1901, edition of Science magazine. “... Love of country and the trend of public spirit at the time prompted him to join the Pennsylvania Volunteers and proceed to the seat of war,” the obituary said. After the war, Rock decided to study civil engineering and enSCAN TO HEAR WHAT MILES ROCK WROTE ON THE DAY LINCOLN DIED. rolled in Lehigh as a sophomore in 1866. As noted in Rock’s journals, he and Drinker would walk every week from the Asa Packer Campus to the Friedensville Zinc Mine in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, near where the Penn State Lehigh Valley campus stands today. Rock spent his senior year at Lehigh surveying and creating extensive maps of the mines. A year after graduating, in 1870, Rock married Susan Clarkson, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and accepted a position as an assistant to B.A. Gould, the United States' frst Ph.D. in astronomy and director of the Argentine National Observatory in Cordoba. There Rock helped map out “the multitude of star observations in the southern hemisphere,” according to his obituary in Science. Still true to his alma mater, he became the frst president of the newly formed Lehigh Alumni Association that same year. A few years later, he was appointed an honorary alumni trustee. In 1874, Rock worked with Commander F.M. Green of the U.S. Navy in determining latitudes and longitudes by means of submarine cables in the West Indies and Central America. He also served as a feld astronomer in the U.S. geographical surveys west of the 100thmeridian under Lt. GeorgeM. Wheeler of the U.S. Engineers and determined latitudes and longitudes in several western states and territories. FA L L 2 0 2 2 | 3 3
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