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Attorney General Brooke Graduation Speaker ises June 11, 1965 years during World War II as a captain In the 366th Infantry Regiment in Europe. When his tour was over, he studied law at Boston University and received a bachelor of law degree In 1944 and a master of laws in 1948.
The speaker at the ninetyseventh commencement of Worcester Tech will be Attorney General of the Commonwea lth ol Massachusetts, Edward W. Brooke. He will give his talk in Worcester Memorial Auditorium on Friday, June 11 at 3 P.M. Atty. Gen. Brooke, a native of Washington, D.C., graduated from Howard University in 1941, afterwhich he enlisted, spending five
R.O.T.C. Dept. Offers New Scholarships The Department of the Army has announced a new program of two and four year scholarships for students in the Reserve Officer Training Corps. The program has been instituted in view of tbe Increased demand on the R.O.T.C. program for new ofiicers and serves <as an indication of the Importance of the program to the Army. The scholarships provide for run tuition, books, and laboratory lees plus fifty dollars a month for students. Th e participating monthly alottments are year round except !or the slx week period when the cadet Is in summer camp. At this time the student receives the standard $120.60 for the duration of camp, The Army has created 400 four Year scholarships and 600 two Year grants. The two year grants are given to current sophomores In the Basic R.O.T .C. program. The four year recipient .nray attend any school that has the Army program and must go for a Baccalaureate degree. Worcester Tech has been alotled three two-year grants. A acholarshlp board is deciding on six candidates for a preferential list from thirty-eight applicants, on Wednesday, April 28. The baard includes Captain Young, Colonel Pierce, Dean Van de Vlsse, Professor van Alstyne, and Cadet Colonel Czarnelckl. The ftrst three names w111 be the recipients, subject to Department of the Army approval , and the secOnd tnree will be alternates In the c se of unforseen circumstances llminatlng the preferred tand1 lates. Tb recipients of these scbolar(Continued on , . . . 3)
During his early years he was National Judge Advocate and Massachusetts Dept. Commander of the American Veterans of World War ll. In 1952, along with J ohn F. Kennedy, he was named "One of the Ten Outst anding Y'oung Men of Greater Boston", by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. In 1960, he was nominated for secretary of state but was unsuccessful. However Senator SaltonstalJ and Governor Volpe were the only Republicans to top his tally. He began his career as Q public servant in 1961 when he became chairman of the Boston Finance Commission. He became well known through his investigation of corruption, graft, and conflict of interest by public officials. In 1962, he won a stunning and dramatic vletory In hls flnJt statew ide eleclion to became the thlrty-fi!tb Atty. General for the state, being the only Republican to survive a Democratic sweep. Since Ibis re-election last N~ vember, he has been consider ed a national political figure and Is regarded as a spokesman of Republican views. Now 45, he is being mentioned, In speculative news stories, as a potential candidate for the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination.
'The Highwaymen' to Appear At Centennial Parents' Day This year Parents' Day will be presented in conjunctton with an open house, as part of the Centennial celebration. May Sth is the day set and it promises to be an excl.tlng and entertaining time for all. As a highlight of the day WPI will be presenting the Highwaymen. Registration for parents will begin at nine on Saturday morning. Because classes have been cancelled for the day, students will be able to accompany their parents throughout the day. Together wlt!h the parents, many guests will be here on that day to take a look at WPI. In particular, it is hoped that our neighbors in Worcester will drive in and that prospective high school students will come to take a look at the school and what it has to offer. At nine, dislays of the degreegranting departments will be held In the respective buildings. The ROTC department, along with many of Tech's clubs will have displays set up in Alden Memorial. These will be set up to give parents and guests a good look at life here on the Hill, both acadernlc and extra-curricular. They will remain open !or the enUre day. A luncheon will be held In Morgan Hall at 12:15 p.m., with PTesi-
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dent 'Starke giving a welcoming address. Applications for tickets have been sent out to the parents and should be returned as soon as possible. After the luncheon a Society of Families meeting will be held, about one-thirty. Horne sporting events on the eighth will include a lacr osse game with Wesleyan, a tennis match with Lowell Tech, and a triangular track meet with RPI and Amherest. After the games, at about
Archibald Macleish Pulitzer Prize Poet
Speaks At Assembly
New Library Is Started Ground was broken last Thursday for the new ,George C. Gordon Library as a crowd of nearly two hundred students, faculty members and friends looked on. P resident Harry P . Storke officiated over the ceremonies and offered introductory and closinl remarks. Mr. Fred L. Ball, Director of the Park Drop Forge Company and Mr. George Gund, chairman of the board of the C leveland Trust Company, both friends and business tassociates of George Gordon, commented on Mr. Gordon's character as an Industrialist and as a man. Professor Albert G. Anderson Jr., head librarian, spoke on the "Significance of the New Library". In his talk he outlined the necessity of the bullding and the essential services which it will provide to the Institute.
The Highwaymen
'Mr. Archibald Maclelsh
for the stage "J. B.: a Play in Verse." This play, philosophically based on the Story of Job in the Bible, is an allegory of a modern man who has the courage to persevere through a long-drawn ord eal of personal calamity and heartache which would make survival dif!i· cut for most men. Being a Pulitter Prize winner was not a new experience for Mr. MacLeish. In a different category twenty-seven years befor e, 1n 1932, he had won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for "Conquistadors" an epic poem which recreates the story of the attempted conquest of the Az· tees by the Spaniards under Cortes in Mexico in the early sixteenth centur y. MacLeish won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry a second time in 1953 for an anthology of his verse, "Collected Poems: 1917-1952." Th at same year, he also won the Bolllngen Prize in Poetry and the Na· tiona! Book Award in Poetry.
To celebrate its participation in the Centennial Year, the English Department presented the famed poet, playwright, teacher and pub· lie servant Archibald MacLeish. Mr. MacLeish spoke at the regular assembly period at eleven o'clock 1\lr. MacLelsh has been a prolion Thursday, April 29, 1965 in Alfic poet all his life. Even while he den Memorial Auditorium. was a student at Harvard Law On e of the finest writers that School, to which he had gone after America has produced, a man graduating from Yale in 1915, two whose works rank high among the volumes of his verse were pubachievements of American authors usned. His law school study was in the twentieth century, Mr. Mac- interrupted by the First World War Leish's most recent literary distinc· in which he served in France, ris· tion was his winning the Pulitzer ing from the r ank of enlisted priPrize in Drama in 1959 for his vate to that of Artillery Captain highly successful and popular work before he was discharged. For his
6:00 PM. buffets will be served in the various fraternity houses. Because of the very poor turnouts in the last couple of years, a buffet will not be held in Morgan Hall, ln the evening. To end the evening, in spectacular fashion , The ffighwaymen, will be presented by the school. Their performance begins at 8:00 P.M. and, weather permitting, will be held on the football field. In case of fo ul weather, the concert will be held at the Worcester Memorial Auditorium. Tickets will be given free to Tech students and parents who wish to attend, and also to members of other schools In the area. This is an all time first at Worcester Tech and it Is hoped that many will take advantage of this and other centermlal affairs. twelve months in France, the F rench government made him a commander in the French Legion of Honor. After the war, MacLeish completed his work at the Harvard Law School from which he graduated in 1919. He practiced law in Boston for three years. But a career as a lawyer soon proved too restrictlve for this natural born poet and scholar. Thus, in 1923, he took his young family to Paris to devote his time to study and to creative writing. During the five years he was in Paris, he wrote five volumes of verse. In 1928 Macl.eish returned to the United States. Never one to separate himself from the mainstream of We around him, from 1929 to 1937 he was on the staff of " For· tune" magazine. There his research for his work and his sensitive perception of conditions in his society and in the world produced a vital social and political awareness which is reflected in his creative work of this period. Some of his themes, which were published in a number of volumes of prose, were satires on the irresponsible attitudes of men in public life and in business, and warnings t.o his fellow Americans of the dangers of fascism and the possibility of dic(Contlnuecl on P1. . S)