Lawrence Technological University - L Book Yearbook (Southfield, MI)

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Earl W. Pellerin, Chairman Architectural Engineering Department It was a golden autumn during our very first semester. Total enrollment in our department had closed at five, all were good workers. Of that five, Victor Basso was a prolific worker, organizer, and Student Council President. Ernest Brown, George Wright, Joseph Dworski, and Stan April were others in that merry group. All have been successful and many times outstanding in their field. Time passed swiftly with many student accomplishments and stimulating activities in the A.l.A. student chapter. Among the faculty who stayed to provide a long and dedicated per- formance were George Bery, James Hughes, Maxwell Wright, Doris Smith, and Fritz Kramrisch. Through the years a host of distinguished professionals lectured and participated in seminars for the department. Our shining hour occured on one May evening in 1951 when, as our guest speaker, the brilliant Master Architect Frank Lloyd Wright lectured to a colorful audience of more than 1800 people. John Amarantides, one of our outstanding stu- dents, received a scholarship from Frank Lloyd Wright that fall and is now in his fifth year of work and study at Taliesin. After a siege of day and night work in February 1953, our students and faculty presented our college with a handsome, exciting model of our new building at the State Fair Collo- seum Kick Off. In 1954, Edward Kovack won first prize in the state-wide Builders Association home competition. Over a four year period, sixteen prizes and honorable mentions were won by our students. In 1955, Joseph Dworski won an A.I.A. honor award for his work on the Benson Ford residence. For his courthouse design for Condon, Oregon, Murdo Morrison won a national award in 1956. As our Commencement Speaker for 1956, we were honored to have Mr. Clair Ditchy, the immediate past president of the American Institute of Architects. We were also honored this year to have three of the four officers elected by the Detroit chapter A.I.A., from our former students, among them Gerald Diehl the President. So these days as we enjoy our beautiful campus, we reflect and deeply appreciate the vision and encouragement of the administration and of all the wonderful people with whom we have been privileged to work and the guidance and strength endowed to this college, far beyond the realm of man's own potential on this good earth.

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