Lowell Technological Institute - Pickout Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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9m Mem iiam Ensign Donald M. Adie ' 41 Lieutenant Joseph H. Berkowitz ' 44 Lieutenant Thomas W. Broderick ' 44 Lieutenant Thomas F. Cryan ' 42 Lieutenant H. Russell Cunningham ' 40 Lieutenant Philip C. Evans ' 42 Staff Sergeant Burgess C. Harpoot ' 38 Lieutenant Roger H. Kane ' 38 Lieutenant Edwin J. Kozera ' 46 Lieutenant Martin P. Murray ' 43 Private Walter H. Paige, Jr. ' 38 Private Richard I. Parthum ' 46 Lieutenant Samuel Pearsall ' 42 Private Kilburn G. Pease ' 38 Private Ernest M. Stromvall ' 44 Ensign Frederick L. Webster ' 43

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IbedicatiOH We respectfully dedicate this thirty-eighth edition of THE PICKOUT to those loyal sons of Textile who gave the last full measure of devotion to their country. God of our fathers , known of old — Lord of our far-flung battle line — Beneath Whose aweful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine- Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, — lest we forget! — Rudyard Kipling

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fyijftif, tyealA, fyauncf, On this, the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Lowell Textile Institute, it is well to pause for a while and con- sider more than the concrete fact that the Institute exists. Behind its existence is a story which is little known and less told. It is a story of dreams and ideas of many men which eventually came to life and which today are being con- stantly improved and expanded. Lowell, The Mother Textile City of America, gave birth to the ideas through some of her citizens. Mr. James T. Smith fathered and nour- ished many of these ideas and for his successful efforts in promoting them has come to be known as the Father of the Lowell Textile School. The background of the founding is best explained by Mr. Smith in his address at the dedication of the present buildings of the school. . . .The school did not originate in local pride but local need. . . Primar- ily, it was a business enterprise in which local manufacturers shared in hopes that training and education of their workers would give them a better chance of competing with cheaper Southern and Asiatic products. ...But such a school as was re- quired must necessarily embrace all textile fibers and processes and thor- ough instruction in the arts and sciences applied in textile manufacture. . . Mr. Smith failed to receive the desired cooperation from the Middlesex Me- chanics Association or the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, so in the Fall of 1894, he invited representatives of local mills to meet with him to hear his findings on the various aspects of founding a textile school. ... From the first the proposition was received fav- orably, almost with enthusiasm... In 1895, the Massachusetts legisla- ture authorized a corporation to be known as the Trustees of the Lowell Textile School, for the purpose of estab- lishing and maintaining a textile school for instruction in the theory and prac- tical art of textile and kindred branches of industry. . . The textile education idea was not new. In 1835, tne Middlesex Mechanics Association amended its charter to pro- vide for means of technical education, but nothing else was done about it. About 1870, Mr. Charles L. Hildreth of the Lowell Machine Shop, as chairman of the City Council Committee on lands and buildings in the construction of the Green grammar school, made pro- visions for a hall for mechanical draw- ing and a basement for textile machin- ery. Professor Channing Whitaker of his engineering staff developed an evening drawing school which became the fore- runner of the Evening Textile School. The original plant was begun on a modest scale in rented quarters on Middle Street in down-town Lowell. The twenty-seven Trustees represented Merrimack Valley mills valued at a total of $25,000, 000. Christopher P. Brooks was the first director of the school. He was chosen because of his large experience in Eng- lish schools and in both American and foreign mill installations. [8]