Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Other events of the Diamond Anniversary celebration includ- ed the minting of a sterling sil- ver commemorative plate by the Franklin Mint. For $150, alum- ni were offered the opportunity to purchase one of a limited edi- tion of the plate, which con- tained the Northeastern Uni- versity seal with the words 75th Anniversary replacing Boston, Massachusetts as it appears on the ordinary seal. The plates were minted in sterling silver, with the seal in- laid in gold. After the October 3 deadline for orders had passed, the plates were minted and the dies were destroyed, thus pre- serving their exclusive com- memorative value. In the first major expansion project since the completion of the Criminal Justice building in 1969, the Diamond Anniversa- ry year saw the groundbreaking for an addition to the Mugar building. To be called the Ame- lia Peabody Allied Health Pro- fessional Center, named after a member of the Board of Trus- tees, the five-story building was scheduled for completion in Fall, 1974. To be used by members of the colleges of Criminal Justice, Liberal Arts, and Pharmacy and Allied Health, the addition was planned to include medical and dental facilities, biology labora- tories, and research areas.

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The most crucial responsi- bility of Northeastern and other universities in the future may be to educate students not so much as specialists, not only for economic gain, but as citi- zens who remain firm in their insistence that not government, not the experts, not the ma- chine, nor the indefinable God we have called progress — but man, the individual, be the measure of all things. — Edward Brooke Convocation Address October 3, 1973 Distinguished Alumni Citation Recipients Sister Anne Marie Bickerstaff Class of 1940 — Boston-Bouve William H. Bruce Class of 1930 — Engineering Edward Creiger Class of 1929 — Business Administration Alfred di Scipio Class of 1950 — Engineering Joseph F. Gallison Class of 1958 - Liberal Arts Constance K. Greene Class of 1916 — Boston-Bouve Nathan I. Hentoff Class of 1944 — Liberal Arts Coleman F. Hogan Class of 1943 — Business Harvey C. Krentman Class of 1949 — Engineering Peter A. Lance Class of 1971 - Liberal Arts Maurice Mann Class of 1951 — Liberal Arts John T. MacDonald Class of 1958 — Education Walter E, Mattson, Jr. Class of 1959 — Lincoln Institute Nicholas v. Petrou Class of 1940 — Engineering Herbert A. Philbrick Class of 1938 — Lincoln Institute Irving H. Shames Class of 1948 — Engineering W. Armstrong Smith Class of 1936 — Engineering

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Just what were they celebrating anyway? The University ' s History 1898-1974 In 1898, what was to become Northeastern University was embod- ied in a series of night courses in law sponsored by the Boston Young Men ' s Christian Association and Lowell Institute; and in the person of Frank Palmer Speare. Head of the YMCA ' s education division since 1896, it was Speare whose imagina- tion, perseverance, and work enlarged the scope of course offerings and di- rected the organizational development which culminated in the incorporation of Northeastern College in 1916. Frank Palmer Speare Speare ' s major objective was the promotion of unique educational op- portunities for young men. Beginning at the YMCA, and later as Northeast- ern ' s first president, he guided the institution through its early years of growth and experimentation. Northeastern is not an old institu- tion. Many of the men who have de- voted their lives to helping the univer- sity get off the ground are still alive. The university represents the at- tempts and failures, the strengths and weaknesses which result in any effort conceived and nurtured by a group of Carl Stephens Ell men. The ideas of men sometimes require many tests and much use be- fore they can be recognized as either successful or unsuccessful. Many of the things the university does now may prove in time to have been based on faulty reasoning. Then improve- ments will follow. No one is omniscient enough to in- stitute a program secure in the knowl- edge that it will succeed and continue to be relevant forever. In spite of occa- sional failures, in specific situations, the basic philosophy and structure of the institution as established by Speare seem to be stable. The university ' s three presidents have carried the institution through different phases. Speare ' s era was one of experimentation and formulation. Ell ' s administration was one of per- sonal rule in spite of the rapid growth of the campus and the ever- Asa Smallidge Knowles increasing size of the student body. During his tenure President Knowles has had to respond to the monumental pressures exerted by the sixties, with more students than ever, and with the impending Diamond Anniversary dawning over a cramped and suddenly inadequate campus .