Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Board of Trustees The administration of the Institute is entrusted to a Corporation consisting of twenty-nine members. In the past year this Corporation established a development and fund-raising program at Worcester Tech under the direction of Dr. Van Arsdale, Vice President. The object of the development program is to improve the facilities at Tech through the constructing of a new dormitory and dining center, central library, field bouse, physics laboratory and classroom building, and the re¬ modeling of Salisbury and Atwater Kent laboratories. In conjunction with this, a fund-raising program was launched which, it is hoped, will facilitate the achievement of these objectives over a two-year period. The trustees are Philip M. Morgan, Chairman; Albert J. Gifford, Treasurer; Paris Fletcher, Secretary; Sidney W. Farns¬ worth, George F. Fuller, Maurice W. Heinritz, Milton P. Higgins, Archibald B. Hossack, Helge S. Johnson, Wayne E. Keith, Leonard M. Krull. Burton W. Marsh, Howard A. Mayo, Warren W. Parks, George I. Rockwood, Robert W. Stoddard, Samuel M. Stone, George A. Walker, James C. Walker, F. Harold Daniels, Phillip R. Delphos, Peter W. Brouwers, Earl C. Hughes, and Dwight E. Jones. The Ex-Officio members are Arthur B. Bronwell. Honorable James D. O’Brien, Reverend Oliver Powell, Francis W. Roys, Reverend Dr. Wallace W. Robbins, and Reverend George M. Torgensen. During this ear, the Trustees have initiated the Development Program which has objectives totaling five arid a half million dollars. In Februar . announcement of a gift of 250.000 from the George I. Alden Trust made possible realization of the first objective, a new dormitory and dining facility for 192 students. In March, announcement was made of a gift of 1,229.000 from the Olin Foundation, for construction and equipping of a new Physics Building to be located on West Street. [ 28 ]