Lowell Technological Institute - Pickout Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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Frederick Mason Abraham Grondin Charlotte Rich George McTeague Thus we reminisce, and as we do so, we remember that each year one of our greatest enjoyments was Upstream Day. Our mind, again pleasantly doing the usual trick scrambling up the order of events, causes this day to become not one to be remembered in four parts but rather as one enjoyable day — a few hours of which belongs to each of four years. We were introduced to Upstream Day as Freshmen, then it had to be sold to us, but after once going it was we ourselves who were selling it to the Freshmen who followed us. Upstream will always be one of our most pleasant memories of Textile. In our years here, those of us with his- trionic ability have done our best to make the presentation of the Textile Show each year as good as possible. As every show must have an audience, those of us who have not participated have given our support by our attendance each year. The show has always been for many the big social activity of the year to which we have been proud to bring our favorite companions. It was these activities which lightened our more serious moments and enabled us to take the hurdles in full stride — or at least to ride with the punches. Being a very honest class we will admit that we have always looked forward to vacations, and one of our first moves on returning from one vacation was to refer to the bulletin and to mark our calendar to indicate where the next vacation started. After Ju ne has come and gone, most of us will no longer bother to mark vacations for they will be too few. This June we are not looking forward to vaca- tion but to getting ourselves jobs — to continue toward the goal that began with enrollment at Textile in 1937. We have tried to do our part socially and have at- tempted to give Textile at least its share of school spirit and tradition. It is our hope that other classes will work internally within themselves, and external- ly with others in carrying on the work of developing at Textile a bit more of this spirit and cooperation. Any rereading of this, can not help but conjure in the individual reader ' s mind those happenings which were peculiar to him and to him alone during his college days. Perhaps more than anything this is the most important because it is an indi- vidual rather than a collective outlook that is the determining factor in the at- taining of personal success. So have come and gone our lives here and now it is over, next year another class will do all the planning that we thought was ours alone and to us Textile will be these reflections that have in part been expressed here. [27] P I C K O U T

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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]

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DONALD MILES ADIE K ; TES VI-W; Engineering Society; Interfraternity Council; Inter- fraternity Bowling; Class Football i, 2. GERARD ALEXANDER on VI-G; Engineering Society; Senior Executive Committee; Commencement Committee; Football 1,2. THADDEUS BARDZIK IV; A.A.T.C.C; Class Basketball 2, 3. BEN PITMAN BATCHELLER VI-W; Golf Team 2, 3, 4; Captain 2, Manager 3. THE 1941 [28]