Page Twelve - Highacres Collegian, Feb. 17, 1977
COLLEGIAN PERSONALITY:
What type of man would
you expect to drive a jet
propelled Fiat, with "somadar?"
Only Physics instructor, M.
Leonard Shaevel, would dream
up such a device to illustrate
Physics principles to his
classes.
Shaevel was born and
raised in the Boston area,
and graduated from Brookline
High School outside of Bos
ton. He attended Temple Uni
versity of Philadelphia as a
pre-law major and "essentially
flunked out" after his second
semster. Shaevel remarked, "I
wasn’t ready for college at
the time. It was great —one
party after another, but that
wasn't what I was there for."
He then, "spent a year in
Florida, kicking around,"
and decided to join the ser
vice.
During his three years
in the service, Shaevel spent
two terms in training, "get
ting involved with guided mis
siles and radar simulation
systems." He spent his remain
ing year at the U.S. Army-Air
Defense School in Texas, which
was "my_first experience at
teaching."
After coming out of the
service, he went into indus
try for aboulothree years with
International Telephone and
Telegraph. "Covering an East
Coast area," he serviced mis
sile site for I.T.T. Shaevel
quit his job after seeing a
co-worker with fifteen years
experience get fired. He was
convinced, "There was no future
without a college degree."
He returned to the Boston
area to go back toschool.
Shaevel found out that, "Once
you flunk out it isn’t too
easy to get back in."
He was turned down at four
schools in the Boston area
by Doug Heller
LEONARD SHAEVEL
because of his previous aca
demic record. At Lowell
Technical Institute he, lit
erally, "begged to get in."
He told them, "After a few
years in the service and in
dustry it wasn't the same
kid that flunked out of Tem
ple." Shaevel told the Dean
of Students at Lowell that
if he did not make the Dean's
list his first semester, they
could ask him to leave. After
an agreement was typed up and
signed, Shaevel was admitted.
"I don't think I ever work
ed harder in all my life,
because I was now ready to
go back to school and I
made it!"
Starting as an electri
cal engineering major, Shaevel
moved to Physics and gradu
ated with a B.S. and M.S. in
Physics from Lowell.
When he first came here,
Shaevel said, "I t was perfect
—a fantastic atmosphere."
There was, "No where near
the bureaucracy of today. The
paperwork was one-tenth of
what it is today. There
weren't as many administrative
levels as today, and I think
we were better off because
of it. What we should do
now is weed out some of the
administrative levels."
Music has always been
Shaevel's favorite pastime.
He plays the piano frequent
ly and did a good part of
financing himself through
school by, "playing at bar
rooms at one in the morning."
There was many a night that
I would sit at a piano in a
bar at Lowell with a Physics
book on the bench beside me."
Shaevel is "not. research
oriented," and has no plans
to go on with his education.
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David made other comments
relating to the Physical Ed
ucation Building and it's use.
"I am hoping to have the Build
ing dedicated in mid-May and
expecting that at that time we
will have it decently equipped,
so we can bring the world in
to see it."
"I hope we can go on to a
steady diet of major events
of that kind," David said ref
fing to the Mark Lane lecture.
"We could have a yearly series
of these. A series of major
events with well-known per
sonalities. It's exciting!"