Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Members of the Board of Trustees are: PARIS FLETCHER Partner, June, Fletcher and Whipple JOHN W. COGHLIN President, Coghlin Electric Company PHILIP M. MORGAN, CHAIRMAN President, Morgan Construction Company ARTHUR B. BRONWELL President of the Institute JAMES C. WALKER Executive Vice President, W.P.I. ROBERT D. HARRINGTON Vice President and Treasurer, Mass. Protective Assn., Inc. DWIGHT E. JONES Executive Vice President, E.D. Jones Corp. THOMAS L. CONNIHAN Chief Metallurgist, Hyatt Bearings Div., General Motors Corp. EARL C. HUGHES Formerly President, Bay State Abrasive Products Company GEORGE W. SMITH, JR. Formerly Chairman, DeLaval Steam Turbine Company BURTON W. MARSH Director, Traffic Eng ' g and Safety Dept., A.A.A. ARCHIBALD B. HOSSACK Chairman, The American Appraisal Company ARTHUR W. KNIGHT General Manager, Allen Div., O. C. Kelley Company WILLIAM E. HANSON Administrative Fellow, Mellon Institute of Industrial Research J. NORMAN ALBERTI Manager, General Electric Company CHARLES R. MICHEL Asst. to Vice President, Atlantic Refining Company WAYNE E. KEITH General Employment Training Supervisor, New England Tel. Tel. Company PETER W. BROUWERS Formerly Engineer, New England Tel. Tel. Company CHANDLER W. JONES Vice President, New England Power Company FRANCIS W. ROYS Vice President and Dean Emeritus, W.P.I. PHILIP R. DELPHOS New England District Manager, Riley Stoker Corp. SIDNEY W. FA RNS WORTH Chairman, Torrington Manufacturing Company 10 MILTON P. HIGGINS Chairman. Norton Company

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■ A The new dormitory nvsacGUsvssss , vj«5W ' «« ' ni- When one is looking back on his four years at Tech there are many things that will be recalled. Some may be pleasant while others may be in the I ' m glad it ' s over category. In retrospect, however, all experiences have had a good effect on us (I guess.). We all will realize as we read this ten years from now that the years at Worcester Tech are truly irreplacable in our hearts. Some of those memories will be accounted herein. We arrived on campus in September 1958. We ar- rived at our home for the next four years. For some this took form in the Alumni Gymnasium, which for some sixty-five of us on our first time away from home didn ' t quite look like what the catalogue had described. Anyhow it lent itself to fast friendships and was only a temporary set-up. Morgan Hall was finally completed. Its bold design was highly representative of the mid- 20th century pre-fab concrete era. It was quite different than the ivy-covered Gothic architecture elsewhere. Well, it takes time for trees to grow. The orientation being over we had our first contact with real live upperclass- men. This was done through rushing or hazing (it was hard to tell which was which). We did the class-rivalry bit to the hilt. Who could forget the daily bow-tie, sign and beanie routine at the bridge every morning? We won our share of class contests including the rope- pull probably because there was a practical incentive involved, that of NOT doing water at 20 degrees. We survived such traditions as Hell Week, hygiene lectures (sleep 101 ;, Doc Heller ' s red pencil, the morning after Tau Beta Pi outing, Worcester weather, water-bags and even Kelly ' s food. It was a year that the football team missed a perfect record by a 14-13 decision to Middle- bury. We elected, as our class officers, Al Hadley, Chair- man; Bill Fado and Vic Castellani as Tech Senate repre- sentatives. Somehow we made it to Sophomore year and it was our turn to harass the Freshmen. It was also our first term living in fraternity houses and finding out about all the good things in life (Bridge games, Friendly ' s, Becker, bull-sessions, weekends, the Boynton, etc.). It was a year for gung-ho rushing and the study-potential curve was really dropping off. But those that were to survive dropped this attitude and altered our program. There were such fun-things as Daddy Locke, K. G. organic, P-4 and ho-hum history. We were also the guinea pigs for a new marking system and to this day we are glad there was a little bit of initial flexibility. It was the year Olin Hall was finished, Fred DiPippo set a new scoring record in basketball and who could forget the first Military Ball? ( A lot of people try to. ) And we won the Goat ' s Head or something. We did a new slate of Class Officers in- cluding Bruce Bazeley, President; Bill Fado, Vice-Presi- dent; Al Hadley, Secretary; Brian O ' Connell, Treasurer; and Andy Edelman and Vic Castellani, Tech Senate. As it is to be recalled, Junior year was the one where we theoretically pulled up our average to compensate for the sophomore year, but somehow it was also the hardest year It was the year to be aspirant in campus life also. Under the direction of Paul Sharon we held a most successful Junior Prom featuring Woody Herman. Our Weavers and Chris Barber program set a new precedent for J.P. ' s to come. 12