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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-
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