Essex County Vocational Technical High School - Athena Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

Text from Pages 1 - 36 of the 1923 volume:

P EN ЕА : REFLECTOR am, 2n nd D chan qo ah ope dh de ge Mer eS gr е SEN ETE NS MAY-1923 е RLS’ VOCATIONAL SCHOOL | WASHINGTON AND LINDEN STREETS NEWARK, N. J. THE REFLECTOR Girls Vocational School uj ш ш m uiu uu e, А, “М TS, NNT IS how girls of our be our privilege, tell of the work we do and prove the value of such trai THE REFLECTOR is yours : therefore looks to you for loya support. Read it, talk it, and be equally generous with your contribu 15 and constructive criticisms. THE REFLECTOR The Girls’ Vocational School ГҺе Girls’ Vocational School was opened on September four teenth, nineteen fourteen, in the old Normal School building, with forty students enrolled. Most of these students were girls from the different grammar schools. During the first month the enrollment increased until there were about ninety pupils. During the early, days there was rather а general feeling that the rls’ Vocational School wa ve pl: for any girl who was unsuccessful in academic work and who could not learn orammar and arithmetic. While it is true to some extent that technical skill requires a different type of ability; it is also 11; + | true that dull, uninte gent girls are no more likely to succeed in industrial work. A large number of these girls, who were sent to the school as a last resort, dropped outa few weeks or months after their admission to take up some line of unskilled labor. At the opening of the school, the enrollment was small, due to the problems of the “hard times,” when the wages of the four- teen year old girl were needed at home, as well as because the aims and purposes of the school were not known to the public. The majority of the students had completed only the fifth or sixth grade and were young and immature. During the last year or two, the age and grade of the pupils have changed so that they come from the seventh and eighth grade; many of them graduated from the eighth grade and even the high o 5 =: schools. The enrollment has grown until there are three hun now bein dred and fifty students in the school and a waiting list of more than sixty. When the school opened we had a faculty of six people. We now have a faculty of nineteen. In the beginning, courses were offered in dressmaking, de- sign, cooking, and power machine operating. As they grew and the demand increased, millinery was added. Duringthe war, when women took up the work that men had left, a course in draft- ing was added to supply the demand. Since then office prac- [OR'S STAFF Г� е Charm of Newark wonderful Textile Department In the textile work it is our object to have the studen familiar with different materials as to the fibers knowledge of their uses and quality as well as prices and widths. E the th AE kino of the thin In order to do this, they must know something of the things to consider in making the decision. The following compositions il illustrate i ai the work which ia now baing done in will illustrate some of the work which is now being done in the beginning classes. Cotton ULA COUNTRYMON “Well, here I am a nice white piece of cotton growing on the islands off the coast of the Carolinas. I have many broth and sisters in the Carolinas and other states bordering them. 1 also have some in Tes “The climate here is deli ul, it warm and moist and | grow very well. I have buds near my feet an find they keep growing up to my head. My I I woke up and found in place fluffy one. How proud I feel. Why he has picked me wonder what he is going to do Where am I? Look at those saws! D she said. After she had gone through the saw gin where the seeds were taken out, she cried out in despair, “Му goodness, but they are rough, now they are combing and pulling те: = pieces. But how white and clean I am? I am in another room now and they have put me on a different kind of a machine. How dizzy I am, around and around 1 go, and my, it pulls and twists me so. It has made me so very thin. I think they call that a spinning machine. “Now what are they doing to me? They have put me on a machine. I heard a man over there say that it was a loom. They Mercerization r of Fabrics Dyeing dved material is a materia before it was woven. А pic has been dyed after it was wow ways best to buy because it Materials may be dyed eitl different methods of dveing by being pressed on the goods. The discharge is done on a 1 N colorea chemicals put on it to draw the « ls. Sometimes the chemicals which are usec Embarrassing Moments 1] 14 fac} ali old fas Аз One Might Have Expected As One Might Have Expected--continued A Black Taffeta Dress The Ghost Noise Shave me,’ Cy, , walked closer to the window, the spooky sound became louder. | j Gathering more courage, he opened the window but t noise A Y s rl +] tert - › closed the window and the noise started again. Be- ing puzzled and afraid, he opened the window, again and a branch from the tree swished across his face. Becoming angry 1 £ +] � wl ] | $ el а ] Ia ER m he broke off the branch and shut the window. The travele: ; gh« ise but the queer noise had ceased when he broke off the branch. So ended the legend of waited and waited for the the haunted room. Dressmaking Office Practice 2A Dressmaking D Design Design Mary B Helen Bur Helen ( Honor Roll--continued er M inch Millinery-2 B Office Practice Ba Costume Design and Illustration The study of design is one of the most practical of all eourses open for girls and women. It de velops a taste for good things, viz: proper clothes, colors, lines, house furnishing arrange ments, etc. If rightly trained, she may use this knowledge asa means of livelihood and at the same time be lappier in her home. She saves money in the purchasing of her clothes for the simple reason that she is sure of herself anc buys the cor rect garment at once. Students who have gone out from this department during the past year have been successful. Never before has there been a greater demand for women who have been trained to do pen and ink work, to know good color and combinations of color, to know the human figure and its construction lines, not only artistic but appropriate. This demand comes from the commercial field, catalogue houses, department stores, new spapers, fashion magazines, dress making establishments, millinery houses, etc. There is nothing manufactured which does not develope in the hands of the designer and artist. The study produces harmony as well as a means of earn- ing a livelihood. Millinery Notes nave gol Office Practice | ahle 2f al Je us to operate in our отс positi phone, addi! dictaphone, gelatin ing and nonlist After becoming acquainted with the proble ms for practical experience such as going out о! C errands for the school and making deposits for the We are taught to make out 1 | 7 | money orders, and checks. We learn à AME 1 н А : time drafts, and travelers checks. 'Thines taught are: be Ing system: alert. Neatness, courtesy, and enthusiasm are also im If you keep your mind on these things which I have men tioned and work accurately, you will be the kind of a girl that is wanted in an office. Penmanship Notes Kathryne Azzara Josephine Puglisi Marie Reilly Helen Gaal Angelina Ricigliano Victoria Dam Remodeling a B lack Crepe de Chine Dress [he Cooking Department Cooking Department--continued + our gra sprinkled English, Chinese, and out covering 1 people he re, n very beautiful. Corrective Gymnastics--continued With Apologies to Our Textiles Teacher үу � о spin. i line on our General Notes Theatre Party. saw Ed. Wy nn, General Notes Ihe School House Committee. Girl Wanted xperience ambition , ret. She is wanted 1n reat and good; that 1s long endure and what home Girls that express eagerness in their can th stability and lovaltv are girls worth something +] - le +) Трк жик 7 to humanity. Allthese fine qualities are the result of ambition. It is often very hard to acquire these characteristics at first, but perseverance ha helped many a girl through various dif jure the long and yet far-