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

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MESSAGE TO GRADUATES About the middle of January of this year, the director of vocational education in a large midwestern city telephoned to convey the information that we at Burgard had been recommended by the Federal Government's Bureau of Aeronautics as having one of the finest Aviation courses in the entire United States. He expressed a wish to visit here with a group of his associates to inspect the facilities and curriculum. Four of these men flew here in a chartered plane, spent the entire day and returned that night to their home city. In their bread and butter letters of appreciation, they were most thankful for the opportunity to visit a school of this type with its excellence of equip- ment, facilities and student body. Since the construction of Burgard in 1930, it has been the aim of the administrators and faculty here to keep current with industry so that our students may have the opportunities of being instructed by capable people with the best possible equipment and instructional material. Budget limitations from time to time have necessitated cutbacks and lack of needed equipment but by and large, particularly with the advent of federal and state supplemental aid, we have been able to modernize our whole program so that we can stand inspection on the basis of advanced equipment and procedures. Our yearbook theme stresses shop environment and shop equipment. Recognizing that all things needed cannot be done at once, we have progressed from course to course with emphasis up to the present having been placed on modernization of our Printing Department. Today our print shops can stand scrutiny by the most modern standards of industry for excellence of operation and finished product. The Automotive Division and Aviation Division have recently been given considerable sums of money to improve and to expand. We are at the moment conducting a series of conferences with department heads and leaders of industry, so that within the next few years these other departments of our school, we expect, will be considerably expanded, through enlargement of our building, construction on added land and complete modernization so that employers will be able to say that prospective employee graduates of Burgard will have been trained in modern business practices. We would be remiss in our duty to you the present students and to others who follow here, were we not to constantly seek funds, facilities and personnel so that you will not face your life's work under- privileged, undereducated or undertrained using inferior or obsolescent equipment. From the perusal of our yearbook, you and your parents and other members of the public at large, may have occasion to observe our book of which we are so justly proud. They may in turn recognize that we are a progressive unit and that our students' welfare is paramount. Benjamin Franklin is often quoted for his phrase, A man who has a trade hath an estate. Your education may be properly considered as money in your pocket, because you did leave here with tools for your livelihood. Your knowledge is a saleable product that employers should wish to acquire, because from your efforts they may accrue profits which in turn will permit them to advance successfully in their business, and, also provide opportunities for your promotion to better standards of living for yourself and eventually for your family and children. Your education here is not a momentary thing, but part of a long range plan for your life. For many, the completion of your four years here will be a terminal point of your education, but it need not be so. Go as far as you like, fly as high as you like, let your ambitions soar, your opportunities are unlimited, they are for you to take hold, hold on and never let go. Sincerely, Your Principal and Friend at-My