Lowell Technological Institute - Pickout Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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SENIORS

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In Memoriam WILLIAM GINIVAN 1918 1940

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How well we remember wondering what to do with ourselves over that first ClttSS of 194il weekend in a new place where we knew no one. The result was an excellent op- portunity to become acquainted with one another. WHEN the race is run, when a part of Soon after, we had the pleasure of life is over, there is no more to do beating the Sophomores on Field Day, but to look back, in order that we may in a very vigorous game which featured live again in our memories those occur- Okun ' s vicious tackle and a loss of trousers rences that were our lives at Textile. to one of the Sophomore players. Where- in our first year, all of us looked ahead with, twenty-one men grouped around to the time when we would be Seniors, while the gentleman put his pants that coveted goal which seemed to be in back on. the dim, dark, future. How we envied One fine moonlight night equipped those who were Seniors then, as they with chalk, brushes, and red and black talked of theses, or commencement activi- paint, we carefully marked and then ties, or how to plan the Pickout. How we painted an imposing ' 41 in the shadow regarded them as distinctly above us — of the archway. The next morning we as the near great. But now it is tomorrow, quivered in our boots when one professor now we are they, and now we feel as they said, Someone will pay for this. did— not a bit different than when we or When our first five week marks came they were Freshmen. And yet our lives at out back in October 1937, many a teacher Textile are over. Looking ahead four was of the opinion that this class was the years seemed forever; looking back it was poorest in this or that, that he had only yesterday. Time for us has gone ever seen. After four years however, we quickly or slowly depending on the per- overhear much more complimentary sonal traits or thoughts of each of us, sim- remarks. Now when our scholastic ability ply because time in a person ' s mind is but is questioned, we are able to say that our relative to his thoughts of it, whether record has been good, and back up our his thinking be conscious or subconscious, statement by pointing with pride to In our mind ' s eye we see again, our those class members who have made orientation period as Freshmen. We re- Tau Epsilon Sigma, the honorary society, member the mental examinations, the Several activities have been repeated color blind test, and the physical examin- each year; so that as we look back the ation, in the course of which, we were happenings of each year blend into one weighed in for our four year fight. Then another in such a way that in the haze of came the awful waiting for the dread time we lose the detail that enables us to Sophomores who would get us on separate each year into those activities Monday. When they did get us we which are distinctly its own. Thus, while remember running to the town hall with several features of our Freshman Year our pants legs rolled up, taking off our stand out because of the natural strength shoes, and using them to decorate the of first impressions, much of this same monument, while we were forced through clarity in remembrance is lost in the other various antics, during which the mayor years, although individual chronologically poured water on the head of one of our unplaceable happenings still remain to speechmakers. remind us of other pleasant times. THE1941 [26]