Burgard Vocational High School - Craftsman Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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in An early print shop tecture. It is 361 feet long and 200 feet wide and at the tower rises five stories. If ever a structure of stone and steel can be said to be the oifspring of man, Burgard can claim William B. Kamprath as its father. Without him not only this school but the whole system of voca- tional education would be far behind the demands made on it. Here is an institution Iilled both day and night with boys and young men-gathered from every elementary school district in the city, from 58 parochial schools and from 30 nearby towns and villages, and in the eve- ning, young men from almost every industrial plant on the Niagara Frontier. Here these boys and young men study and work and grow together until they are ready to go out into the world with the skills they have learned. In the five years preceding the construction of the new school a veritable military campaign was conducted with WBK as the field commander. Two inch type in 8-column headlines screamed that capital and labor were uniting in demanding this new school. The Board of Education and the Mayor vied with one another in proposing resolutions which would eventually culminate in the construction. Five hundred civic and industrial leaders stormed the City Hall to press the demand. It has been said by people who are familiar with activities of this type that no educational undertaking had such an absolute and unanimous backing of such a large part of the voting constituency. And behind all this tremendous drive to further the education of the youth of Buffalo stood one man, William B. Kamprath. All through the early years the faculty had been working to capitalize on the spirit, the momentum, and the dy- namic force of labor unionism, the civic and industrial leaders who had joined in backing education in its de- mand for a real school ofthe type they believed neces- sary. There hangs in the principalis office today a beau- tifully engrossed tribute of our indebtedness to these leaders of the world of labor, industry, and government We built our own hot rod

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WBK thanks Henry Burgard work and many other of our present faculty joined at Old Elm. Mr. Garcea saw to the physical well-being as gym teacher. And on the bookwork side we gained Mr. Wright, Mr. Roudenbush, Mr. Tilley, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Meinhold, Mr. Finley, Mr. Hague, Mr. Englund, and Mr. Helfrich. To these men the city owes much for it was their work under the drive and enthusiasm of Mr. Kamprath that eventually brought into being, BURGARD VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL. The many teachers who have joined our faculty since the old daysi' are often entertained and even inspired by some of the stories of the early days of vocational train- ing which are part of the lore and legend of Burgard Vocational. For the first quarter century of our existence we had only men instructors. The Pedagogicus Masculinus held away. But in recent years there have been assigned to us some outstanding women who hold forth in the lan- guage arts area. For a long time the faculty of Old Elm had dreamed and planned a new school building-a structure in keep- ing with the highest ideals of the skilled crafts to be taught therein. The campaign was tough and long. Many sites were examined and finally the present loca- tion was selected. A debt of gratitude beyond payment is owed to Mr. Henry P. Burgard for his wonderful contribution to the educational program of the City of Buffalo. In his letter transmitting the site to the city, Mr. Burgard wrote as follows: I have long sensed the need for vocational education, and I am pleased with the progress which our city is making toward education along these lines. And now, after many names, many buildings, but only one leader, BURGARD VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL is born. It is a beautiful building, mammoth and magnificent in its proportions, and intensely prac- tical in all its appointments. The design of the structure is a combination of modern factory and school archi- We had music even then.

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