Lowell Technological Institute - Pickout Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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THE 1958 PICKOUT EXECUTIVE BOARD MORTON SCHNEIDER JOSEPH FRIEDRICH ROBERT KRIEGEL CLAIRE VERVAERT GERALD SAVARESSE JACK RAYMOND

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PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE DR. MARTIN J. LYDON, PRESIDENT Today, the commencement of your professional career, graduates of 1958, is a most serious affair, occurring in perhaps the most -significant year of our century. Since you began your final academic year at Lowell last Sep- tember, the launching of two Russian satellites and attendant scientific developments of the International Geo- physical Year have changed the face of American education. New emphasis was placed by educators and by all thinking people, besides the scientists themselves, upon the importance of science and technology in the Nuclear Age. Increasingly, in the past six months, we have looked with intensified perception to the education of our youth in these fields to provide the basis of our economic, political, and social survival. Technological institutions have become the front-line soldiers in the life-and-death struggle with the Soviet for technological supremacy and world leadership, and this nation has more fully recognized its responsibility in affording opportunities for the young blood who will push it ever farther into the forefront of spiritual, industrial, and economic progress and prosperity. But while we laud the institutions which have invested in education by broadening their scientific curricu- lum, improving their instructional techniques, and promoting financial aid to education, we must heap the high- est praise upon the inspired men who make possible the intellectual and moral development of our young people. Such men of the calibre of Professor Gelinas, to whom this Pickout is fittingly dedicated, have borne the torch of tempered counsel, sage guidance, and sound teaching to their charges, unsparing of individual effort. To such faculty members is owed a tremendous debt of gratitude, which can be repaid only by understanding their dreams, adopting their precepts, acting upon their ideals. You graduates, as mature citizens of the future, must acknowledge the ethical obligations imposed by new scientific developments. You must explore the deeper meanings and implications of your actions, for what you achieve now in engineering and technology will determine the ultimate scientific elite of the world. You men and women are the personnel earmarked by fate to make efficient use of the jet engines, guided missiles, nuclear pow- er, and satellites resulting from our national research. You are the product of a scientific education and, as such, are the cynosure of public observance, the guardians of public trust. By further diversifying our curriculum to embrace the vital area of nuclear engineering this year, L.T.I. was in the vanguard of the caravan toward freedom through education. Educational institutions such as your Al- ma Mater, by experimenting in new teaching patterns and procedures, must point the way in which free men should meet the changing issues of their times. Free men, well trained in the technology of the future, are not merely the neccessary means to industrial prosperity and national security; they are the only means. You of the Class of 1958 are the embodiment of this expressed aim. I congratulate you, wish you happiness and success in your personal lives, and prayerfully hope that the future you carve out in your professional under- takings may be a sound and productive one, rich in the fruitful blessings of peace. %aa£ VvW -

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ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY 6 SENIORS 18 SENIOR SCRAPBOOK 48 CLASSES 66 FRATERNITIES 78 ORGANIZATIONS 104 SPORTS 168