Ritter-Clark Rink

The Ritter-Clark Rink was an indoor rink located on the then-campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. The arena was home to the RIT Tigers men's ice hockey team from 1962 to 1968 when the university relocated to suburban Henrietta, New York and started playing in the Frank Ritter Memorial Ice Arena. Frank Ritter, a furniture maker famous for his dental chairs, helped found the Mechanics Institute, a forerunner of the Rochester Institute of Technology, in 1885. The Ritter-Clark Rink on the downtown campus had previously been named in part for Frank Ritter. Frank Ritter Shumway, Ritter's grandson and a major figure in U.S. Figure Skating, was a generous benefactor of RIT, and he ensured that the ice rink on the new campus was named for his grandfather.