Lowell Technological Institute - Pickout Yearbook (Lowell, MA)

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President Martin J. Lydon

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PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE An education that will help you to lead a rich, full, and successful life.-.-, .a sound, well-balanced program of interesting courses presented by a competent faculty. . .lasting friendships. . .extracurricular activities. . .a diverse and stimu- lating intellectual life. . .these are some of the goals which your college set out to provide for you, as you matriculated four years ago. Your career at Lowell Tech, since that time, has kept pace in expansion and maturity with the program of growth and diversification carried on by the Institute itself. Now, in a dynamic decade at LTI which has seen the crystallization of a broadly envisioned building plan, another milestone has heen marked by the strengthening of the curriculum. By the introduction of a course in general engi- neering next September, LTI adds to its justly-renowned curricula in specialized engineering training a new program which will provide specialists in diver- sification for the industry of the future. In addition, you have seen our technological and scientific curricula supple- mented by courses in the humanities for the development of the whole man in his moral, mental, social, and physical life. In the age of specialization in which we live, it is of the utmost importance to secure the integration of the human personality, so that man will remain constant in his over-all aims and purposes while meeting, at the same time, the vicissitudes of circumstance with an unshaken grasp on reality and with optimistic trust in their outcome. Today the Institute is called upon to play an even more difficult role-that of preparing men to meet the demands of expanding industries and the increa- singly complex challenge of the Age of Automation. It is the objective of the Institute to serve successive generations of young people as one of the leading engineering universities of the nation. Recalling our physical expansion from a single-to a ten-building campus within a few years, coupled with the great strides made in broadening and improving our academic program, it does not seem too immodest to hope that this achievement may be brought to complete fruition m the near future. My charge to you, as you leave the Institute where you have spent four de- manding but rewarding years, is to bring to your work, to your community, and to industry-at-large the qualities of leadership which we have sought to instill in you. The Institute has given its best efforts to creating in each one of you a pro- duct of which we are proud. I know that you will continue to uphold that pride and, in turn, will express your confidence and support in the progress and develop- ment of your Alma Mater. Graduate s of the Class of 1956, my sincere congratulations to you upon your accomplishment, and to each of you my very best wishes for your future success and happiness!