University of Massachusetts Lowell - Sojourn / Knoll Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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(which team?) to the short side of a 139-30 verdict. (During senior year this same organization became one of the best known of the school, having been more carefully organized, and being coached by one of the best of the area.) And then, the Junior Prom. How can I describe it? From the initiaal cocktail party in Westford, through the elegant dinner-dance, the delightful atmosphere of the Bradford roof, the grand march, to the breakfast party in Methuen, that evening was the greatest! It was while I was student teaching that word came of the fire at the college. By the strange working of fate, a spark ignited while workmen were installing a new fire-proofing system in one of the stairways. People throughout the state praised the quick-thinking, quick- acting students and faculty of L.T.C. at this time of need. I visited members of the faculty and student body who were confiend briefly to the hospital and was thank- ful to God that worse results had not occurred. The college went into ' exile ' as Dr. O ' Leary put it, at our sister college across the river, Lowell Technolog- ical Institute, where every convenience was afforded us in that school ' s new building. The girl students soon took on a new veneer, which afforded many of them 16

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invitations to ' Club Eames ' , a one-nighter sponsored by the gracious L. T. I. men, who were so very, very numerous. One thing which we missed out on that year was the spaghetti dinner which had become a custom with our class, The chief chef had always planned such a delectable Italian menu, we found it difficult to picture ourselves living on a plain diet . . . An event which was not cancelled was ' Beach Week ' , I was unduly nattered by being made an honorary member of the ' D.C.D. ' club, and participated in that group ' s surprise encounter with Charlie Parker. Parties were the order 18