Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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The President’s Message A fine expression of one of life’s most important spiritual realities is found in the Gospel verse: ‘‘But seek ye first the Kingdom of God ,and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.’’ Not only in our spiritual development is it necessary to choose proper goals and concentrate on them, but in the development of our careers it is equally important. Today engineers are being urged to become everything but good engineers. This is part of a trend. All too many people are so absorbed in trying to get ahead that they neglect to do their work thoroughly and well. For that reason the man who puts the quality of his professional engineering work first will stand out and he will find that the other satisfactions and rewards of life will be “added unto him”. This homely advice your father heard and his father before him, no doubt, but unfortunately guiding principles tend to retain their validity through succeeding generations. Your training has been designed to help you follow this pattern. Worcester Tech has always concentrated on turning out good engineers. It has always stood for a conservative New England engineering education with an emphasis on practical resourcefulness. If you will practice your profession in the manner in which you have been trained, inevitably your efforts will be crowned with success—in the world of today and tomorrow more than ever before. Alvin Elmore Cormeny Page T ineteen

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