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IN MEMORIAM No more dark, more dismal day of memory, saddened faculty, students and the Air Force ROTC in particular than Monday, April 28, 1952. On that spring day, tragically in the bloom of his own years, passed on to eternity ' Bernie ' Larkin, the founder and director of Lowell Textile Institute ' s AFROTC band. Director Larkin not only possesed within himself all that is defined of music in the Muses, but had the extraordinary gift of the youthful and affable viewpoint that became contagious to every musician in his charge. Laughter was often his most effective baton. Yet wherever his baton was raised, organization, harmony, and perfection grew, and developed, and lasted. And always, ' Bernie ' toiled hardest, wondering perhaps why his friendships multiplied with his boys ' progress. It was because ' Bernie ' loved his Lowell Textile Institute AFROTC band, and his boys loved him. He was director of St. John ' s church choir, director and founder of the Chelmsford High School band and director of a Hollis, N. H. band, as well as private teacher of all reed instruments. It was while soloing with the Ronny Weeks and Leo Reisman orchestras that he became inspired with the ambition to found and teach whole musical units under his own methods and often his own arrangements. There is no musical score to tone-picture the man and personality that was ' Bernie ' Larkin. Perhaps Elizabeth Barrett Browning poetically said it best . . . Guess now who holds thee? Death, I said. But there the silver answer rang, Not Death, But Love.
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DEDICATION Throughout the entire textile industry is seen an ever increasing desire on the part of management to employ scientific methods for the improvement of existing products and for the development of new products. Because of this demand by an industry which the Institute serves, the Lowell Textile Institute Research Foundation was established. The stated purpose of the Foundation is to encourage and administer re- search sponsored by industry and Government at Lowell Textile In- stitute. The activity of the Foundation has become much broader in scope than had ever been anticipated. The services to industry that the Founda- tion has performed have surpassed even the most optimistic expecta- tions of its creators. This yearbook, then, is dedi- cated to the Foundation in recogni- tion of the work which it has done and will do to effect a liaison between scientific research and the practical utilization of the new ideas and methods that the textile industry must, of necessity, adopt if it is to maintain its prominent place in 1 American industry. 4 r r 1 r ! r r r r U I r. ,
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