Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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%e iccCe(i Tfte e To the Class of 1957: I am happy to have the opportunity through the pages ot the Cauldron to congratulate each of you upon the completion of your college work and t o wish for you a bright future filled with happiness and achievement. As I write this message, the Commencement Exercises yesterday in the Boston Garden are very clear in my mind. You, like other classes which have gone out from Northeastern University, reached your goal through diligent hours of study, varied experience in Co-operative Work assignments, and, on many occasions, great personal sacrifice. In this general pattern of college life, you have shared with those classes which have gone before and the many which will follow you, but as members of the Class of 1957 you are as unique in the life of your Alma Mater as are the individuals which make up any family group. You will find recorded in this Cauldron the history of your undergraduate life — incidents and experiences which will mean much to you in the years to come and which will enrich your memories as the years move on. Those of us at the University who remain as faculty members or in other capacities bid you farewell now and will welcome you back as you return to visit Northeastern. We are especially happy to welcome you into the larger University relationship where, as alumni, you will give Northeastern its continuity. You will represent N.U. everywhere in the land; you will mark the standard of conduct and the level of achievement of the University. One of our contemporary poets has written the lines: Lend me the stone strength of the past, and I will lend you the wings of the future. Northeastern, standing on the foundation stone of the past, will continue to grow as its physical needs are met and its ideals achieved. It must certainly grow in endowment and continue to improve its educational standards and its service to youth and to the community. My wish for you, the members of the Class of 1957, is that the education and experience which you have already gained may mark the starting point from which the wings of the future will carry you to heights far beyond your fondest dreams.

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jZL W4i. ' T HIRTY-EIGHT years ago Joseph Spear came to - - the New England Co-operative College of Engineer- ing, which consisted of three small rooms in the YMCA, as an assistant professor of mathematics. One year later, in 1920, he became the Chairman of the Department. This year he retired from that capacity at the same school, but now called Northeastern University. Joe Spear has been described by many of his col- leagues as a mathematical hurricane who can make even a backward student pay attention and learn to like his class. He loves teaching, mathematics, and people, and found all three of them here. Prof. Spear, now living in Brighton, was born in Boston ' s West End in 1891. He went to grammar school at Phillips on Beacon Hill until his family moved to Maiden. He graduated from Maiden High School in 1909 and went on to receive his AB degree from Har- vard in 1913, and did graduate work at Harvard and Boston University. In 1933 he received his master ' s degree from Boston University. He found his home among the students at the University. He was made the first Director of Student Activities and used the position to establish extra-cur- ricular aaivities on a sound basis. The Northeastern Band, a number of other musical organizations, and several of the first fraternities were products of his versatile mind. Athletics at the school have always been a major in- terest to the busy math professor. He has seldom, if ever, missed a Husky football game. Track and field are his main interests in the athletic field, however. For several years he has been the clerk at both the BAA and K of C track meets in Boston Garden. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Society of America, the Amer- ican Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New Eng- land, the American Society of Engineering Education, and the 301st Field Artillery Association. To Joe Spear, and a strong nucleus of loyal faculty members like him who have remained at the University through the years and are still teaching today, belongs much of the credit for the true spirit of Northeastern — a spirit not only symbolic of the rapid growth of the college, but to a large extent, also responsible for it. ' ' ' ' Those having torches will pass them on to others. — Plato JOSEPH SPEAR

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CARL STEPHENS ELL A.B., M.S., Ed.M., Sc.D., LL.D., L.H.D. PRESIDENT OF NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY