Lowell Technological Institute - Pickout Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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President ' s Message It is entirely fitting that the 1952 PICKOUT be dedicated to the Air Force Reserve Officers ' Training Corps, which this year has become an integral part of the Institute. The PICKOUT, now publishing its forty-sixth edition, is one of the oldest traditions of L.T.I.; and it is most appropriate that it recognize the ROTC, which although still in its infancy has had a definite and beneficial effect upon undergraduate life at Lowell. The members of the Class of 1952 will soon leave the Institute to become part of an industry which is experiencing extensive and fundamental changes. During the past four years every effort has been made to ensure that the members of the class are adequately prepared to meet the needs of this industry. They have studied their course work in lecture halls and laboratories under the tutelage of men who are eminently qualified in their profession, and who have dedicated their lives to the cause of teaching their specialties. They have had an opportunity to study the fundamentals and refinements of their curricular specialties with the aid of some of the most modern scientific and technological equipment and ma- chinery available anywhere. They have experienced the beginnings of a new program to develop the ethical, moral, social, and cultural standards of under- graduates preparing for careers in a complex and transitional economy. The mem- bers of this class have had the privilege of attending the Institute during a period when it has undergone rapid and far-reaching changes— changes which duplicate in miniature the vicissitudes and vagaries of industry. In the years to come, I am sure that the members of the current graduating class will count among their blessings the adaptability to change and the ambition for progress which they learned as students at L.T.I. To the young men and young women of the Class of 1952, 1 extend my most sincere best wishes for a happy and successful future. You have done well during the course of your studies at the Institute and for the successful completion of these courses you have my heartiest congratulations. Your progress and growth here may be compared to the development of textiles from raw stock to finished product, and since you now constitute such a product, you will be subject to evaluation and appraisal by industry, government, and society. I have no doubt that your worth in all respects will always be rated high, and that you will be exemplary alumni of the Lowell Textile Institute. Yours is the opportunity to bring leadership to a restless and changing world. I know that you will supply this leadership and will meet the c hallenges of the future with courage, con- fidence, intelligence, and success. 4-u tz 0..

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WENTWORTH WILLIAMS, Dean of Sfudenis G. NATHAN REED, Dean of Faculty