Better Living Through Chemistry: 1948
Who's the young woman mixing it up in a chemistry
lab on the fourth floor of Richards Hall? None other than Emily Saltonstall-daughter
of former Massachusetts governor and U.S. senator Leverett Saltonstall.
In May 1948, this photo and several others illustrated a Boston Globe article
on the university's fiftieth anniversary, titled "Northeastern Grows
Up." The Globe noted that since Northeastern's founding in 1898 its
population of 40 students had increased to 10,000, its 5-person faculty
had grown to 355, and its assets had jumped from zero to $5.5 million.
Another photo showed Northeastern's original home at the old Back Bay YMCA
building. A third featured then president Carl S. Ell proudly pointing
to an artist's rendering of the proposed new Northeastern campus-all seven
buildings of it.
The Globe reported Emily was an engineering major who in addition to chemistry
studied English, algebra, physics, and-ah, the good old days-hygiene.