Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Student Life.14 Sports.32 Clubs.96 Academics.118 Greeks.142 Events.174 Class of ' 83.196 Table of Contents • 3

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Dedication Dean William Grogan All of us know Dean William Robert Grogan. He has served WPI as a student, a professor, and a dean for nearly four decades. The list of his accomplishments, while at WPI, is indeed long and impressive. Perhaps anyone who dedicates his entire adult life to the education of youth could claim the same. Certainly most schools, businesses, and other institutions have one or two loyal people who have given exceptional service. In this respect, WPI has been very lucky. Students, faculty, and alumni have all taken active roles to develop WPI and educate its students. However, few have committed the time and energy of Dean Grogan. He has accrued scientific and service awards illustrating his extraordinary devotion to his profession and his school. He is a former national president of the brotherhood of Phi Kappa Theta. But perhaps most important of all, he was the single most influential person during the implementation of the Plan, and he has dynamically led a constant effort to retain the quality of the Plan ever since, including recommendations this past year to upgrade the Plan. His work has had such results that this very school is a tribute to him and his colleagues who set the Plan in motion. A good fifty years from now. Dean William Grogan will have faded into the relative obscurity of a Ralph Earle or an M. Lawrence Price, remembered perhaps only by a plaque on a wall or by a faint smile of a student ' s recollection. However, right now we have the opportunity to thank him for the time and devotion he has given to this school. With greatest admiration and love, this yearbook is dedicated to him, 2 • Dedication

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