Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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

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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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in iHemoriam GEORGE WESLEY TOWLE June 10, 1889 — July 26, 1957 Professor George Towle, recently retired from the Department of Co-operative Work, faithfully served Northeastern University for thirty-one years. Joining the Northeastern family in 1923, Professor Towle saw a total of fifty co-operative employing firms rise to more than six hundred. He was a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, class of 1912. He was associated with the Roxbury Boys ' Club from 1917-1919. A member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the Engineering Societies of New England, Society for the Advancement of Management, Professor Towle also served as faculty adviser to Nu Epsilon Zeta fraternity. A man of genial personal qualities and great ca- pacity for friendships, he was much beloved by the hundreds of students who came under his counselling as undergraduates on the co- operative plan. Even though retired, Professor George Wesley Towle ' s presence from the Northeastern family will be sorely missed. Requiescat in pace.