is located in Houghton, Michigan. In 1936, Theodore Rozsa received his degree in geophysical engineering from "Tech". Always grateful for the education he received, Theodore initially endowed a million dollar scholarship fund to help promising students attend the school, as he himself had been helped.

When Tech broadened their curriculum, they needed a building to house the Performing Arts. The President of Tech had been to Calgary and was impressed with the new Rozsa Centre at the University of Calgary. Once again, Theodore and Lola pioneered the capital project by providing seed funding for the Center in Michigan.

The result of the campaign was a twenty-two million dollar facility described as  "the best and the biggest complex of its kind in the upper Michigan peninsula and northern Wisconsin". The Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts houses a spacious 1200 seat performance hall fully fitted for theatre and orchestra, a recording studio and media lab, classrooms, rehearsal space and offices.

At the grand opening of the Center, Theodore and Lola concluded the event by saying, "Our hopes and wishes are that the Center will enrich the students in their academic and professional careers, bring enjoyment to the audiences of northern Michigan and encourage support of the Arts by all."

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