Lowell Technological Institute - Pickout Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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taken from our backs . . . We actually could sleep later . . . There wasn ' t much work . . . There were no lab reports to speak of . . . but we were really finished in Finishing . . . Have a dot, anyone? . . . We thought of the Army . . . jobs . . . the Army . . . graduate school . . . the Army . . . placement . . . draft status, please? . . . we ' ll call you, don ' t you call us. And thus our four years at Tech have drawn to a close; and looking them over now, one really can ' t find a bad moment lingering in his memory. In later years, we ' ll find that each memory of LTI will increase in value and appreciation; and that there will be a longing for our days at LTI ... yet these days will only be available ... IN RETROSPECT. Our seat for an 8:00 A.M . lecture The fraternities meet to discuss policy (.!■. ' Ill ' .1 I 22

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who took great pleasure in leaving the corps of cadets, and looking on as interested spectators as the boys in blue breezed by. Yet there were those among us who were — in two words — Gung Ho! In February, the ROTC graduated its first com- missioned officer ... A student questionnaire by the Student Council put student complaints where they could be filed for future reference. An issue of the Text printed on pink paper proclaimed there was to be no pink issue . . . and that that color paper had to be used up somehow. After the events of the previous year, some of us wondered; but the tradition was up- held ... It was to Atlantic City that we all nocked for the Machinery Show in late April. As those who shortly were to be out in industry , we were eager to see all — and we did — the 500 Club . . . Club Tropi- cana . . . Jockey Club . . . Yacht Club . . . the Monkey Bar . . . the Bamboo Club . . . What hangovers we had for the alumni banquet at Hadden Hall the next day. And then it was back to LTI to end the year. A plan for the establishment of hazing for next year was accepted by President Lydon . . . Prof. Elmer Fickett retired at the age of seventy, and was feted at a testi- monial dinner ... A new course in Textile Manufac- turing was set up, designed to eliminate much of the duplication and repetition throughout all the textile courses . . . Oh? . . . The Tech Players presented Remains To Be Seen . . . The Class of 1954 was graduated in outdoor ceremonies during our final period. We could almost taste our degrees. The summer came and went . . . for the first time not as fast as we wanted, because we were to be seniors. And when we returned to Lowell, we again saw some- thing new. Cumnock Hall was open, and we said this is for my graduation . . . We found disgusting freshmen parading about in little red caps. Mighty seniors that we were, we stood aloof from this non- sense . . . There was a TV set in Eames Lounge, ful- filling a campaign promise of an unsuccessful candi- date in our freshman year . . . Things were looking up . . . even a field house was being planned. Vice-President Nixon came to LTI for an honorary degree at the dedication of Cumnock Hall. Ed Hayes gave him a beanie, a picture which made many news- papers, and evoked many snide comments during the election year . . . To no one ' s surprise, the Frosh were the winners at Field Day; and they discarded their beanies at a school wide banquet in Cumnock Hall . . . The first IFC Weekend was held with a skit night pre- ceding the dance. The Military Ball followed shortly thereafter . . . The Tech Formal engaged Claude Thorn- hill to make with the music ... A Slight Case of Murder was the Players ' offering. And now as seniors we felt as if a burden had been Who ' s taking notes? . . . and then we ' ll see if Cumnock burns - » ■ ■ ■ J w J K ' v i J V ' 1 ► B H - n ■ iS w . : - 21

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