Description

Black and white portrait photograph of Ralph Lowell.

Original captions: "Corporation Elections // Elected to life membership at the Institute Corporation are Robert T. Haslam, chemical engineer with W. R. Grace and Company, and Ralph Lowell, President of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Theodore V. Houser, Vice - chairman of Sears Roebuck and Company, was elected for a five-year special term."

Original caption 2: "Corporation Term Member 1949 - 1954 // The election of Ralph Lowell, President and chairman of the Board of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company to term membership for five years on the Corporation of M.I.T., has been announced by Dr. Killian, President of the Institute. Mr. Lowell who was graduated from Harvard University in 1912, has long been associated with the financial life of Boston. He is sole trustee of the Lowell Institute of which the Lowell Institute School, conducted under the auspices of M.I.T., is one of its many educational activities. He is also a trustee and director of many educational, philanthropical and charitable organizations including the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the Massachusetts General Hospital, the McLean Hospital, Vincent Hospital, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts."

Used in: Technology Review December, 1949 p.99; Technology Review July 1954, p.48.