LET NOBELISTS INSPIRE, MENINO SAYS
Author: By Victoria Benning, Globe Staff
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1993
Page: 9
Section: METRO
Acting Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday proposed naming science
laboratories and classrooms in Boston schools after Nobel laureates from the
region.
Menino, in a letter to Superintendent Lois Harrison-Jones, cites Phillip
A. Sharp and Richard J. Roberts as "real heroes" whom children should know
about.
Sharp, a professor who heads the biology department at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and Roberts, research director at New England Biolabs
in Beverly, share this year's Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries in
gene-splicing.
"Year after year, people who live and work in the Boston metropolitan area
are given this, the highest recognition of scientific, cultural and literary
achievement," Menino wrote in the letter dated yesterday. "These people are
living monuments to the value and success of a strong education. Perhaps no
individuals can better serve as role models to the kids in our school system
than these award winners."
"Their work will change the lives of million of people in this country and
throughout the world," he wrote. "We cannot let their contributions be lost to
our kids as a one-day story.
Menino proposed naming labs and classrooms in honor of current and past
Nobel laureates from the area, and he said designation ceremonies should be
followed by events that day focusing on the work of the honorees and their
contributions.
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