Dorchester Illustration no. 2197
Irving Colpack
Caption on verso: Dorchester Yout Wins Newsboys Harvard Scholarship. Irving Colpack a newsboy of the Dorchester District of Boston was the winner of this year’s scholarship to Harvard University. The scholarship was founded in 1906 by the Boston Newsboys Protective Union and covers the cost of the first year’s tuition. It is awarded to the boy who passes the Harvard admission examinations with the highest percentage. Colpack is a graduate of the Boston Latin School. 9/10/25
The following is from:
from: http://cambridgehistoricaltours.org/about-us/our-guides/irving-kolpeck/
Irving Colpack , 1908-1930
Born in 1908, Irving Colpack lived in Dorchester, MA with his two older brothers. Like his brothers before him, he was a newsboy who delivered 200 newspapers on weekdays and 400 copies of the Sunday edition weekly. In 1925 he was accepted to Harvard and received the Boston News Protective Union’s Harvard Scholarship for being the newsboy in the Boston area with the highest marks on his Harvard entrance exam. He graduated from Harvard and went on to pursue his Masters at the University of Chicago. He passed away one year into his studies in Chicago.
_____
The Dorchester Illustration is sent occasionally. If you receive this e-mail by mistake, please reply to be taken off the e-mail list. If you know others who would like to receive the daily e-mail, please encourage them to join the group by going to http://groups.google.com/group/dorchester-historical-society. You may contact Earl Taylor at ERMMWWT@aol.com
If you value receiving the illustration, please express your appreciation by making a donation to the Dorchester Historical Society, either by regular mail at 195 Boston Street, Dorchester, MA 02125, or through the website at www.DorchesterHistoricalSociety.org