WPI's 136th Commencement

Robert P. Moses, left, a key organizer in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement and, more recently, the founder of The Algebra Project, a national mathematics literacy program that seeks to prepare middle school students for college preparatory math and college study in science and technology, addressed about 700 graduates and their families and friends at WPI's 136th Commencement on May 22. Rain threatened all morning, but the audience stayed dry, though the cold air (the temperature never reached 50 degrees) sent many scrambling for coats and blankets. Honorary degrees were awarded to Eugene M. Lang, founder of the national "I Have a Dream" Foundation, Sheila E. Widnall, Institute Professor at MIT and former Secretary of the Air Force, and R. Kingman Webster '54, retired executive vice president and treasurer of H. K. Webster Company and founder of "I Have a Dream-Lawrence."

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