Hadley Technical High School - Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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The following page attempt to present the role that votational edut 1 ion and Hadley Technical High School have played in the business and indu trial life of St Louis That role has been a ucee ful one The contri bution that our sehool has made to the eommunitx tan be under tood when tormer graduates tell their tories The responsible rob they now hold proxe the worth of votational education Hadley and Hadley griduates will no doubt eontinue to suceeed in the future The Hadley toiy begin in 1858 xxhen the O Fallon Polytechnit ln ti tute the first operating unit under the charter oi Vxfa hington University xxi e tabli hed xxith technit 11 in truttion for rourneymen and apprentices 1 it obleetixe ln 1868 the St Louis Board of Edueation purcha ed the building xx ith the privilege or u ing a S100 OOO bequest by Henry Ame for u ed in eomunetion with the publie exening school xxork The promise of an idequate voeational training program howexer xxas not fulfilled In 1890 the Board of Education luthorized the fir t manual training tla e With the igning of the Smith Hughe Lavx in 1917 Pre ident Wilson et 1 ide S12 O00 OOO annually to the states to support the vocational tram ing program By this time the need xx as keenly felt roi 1 ty pe of education in addition to that of aeademie classes This need was emphasized during World War I xx hen it was d1seox ered that many of our soldiers did not have the mechanical ti unmg e senti 11 to modern xx irfare lndustry found that the number of people who could manufatture munitions and war supplies was alarmmgly loxx As an answer to this situation vocational education was expanded In St Louis eontinuition ela ses were organized ind later eenter xx ere estab lished at the Henry leffer on and Franklin Schools i ' g g s' .gf . '. ' . 'zf S. . l , . S. is K s ' ' . ':. 5 1 s ' ss . V ' . ' 'Q . ' ' 1' ' e 's 3 ' ' . 3 ' s ' Q .3 ' s 'f ' ' ' ' . 1 a . : ' s ' ' s ' f ' . 'N s V t , 5 an ' ' . A .s ' ' , wsrs. 'sa V 'ra ' .A ' . . ' ': as ' s ' N W . . 'J 1 ' s . . y. x D, . . Q. Q w . , . . the purpose of furthering the program of the institute. This building was S . t . 5 . . .X I . ' 7 ' .S . . 1 s . u ' Q ' , 1 , ' Q . . ' 1 ' s . . ' ' ' ss s. ' s' ' ' f s . f ' s' sr .s' , , : , : ' ' f 1 7' .55 3. 'Q 5 ' ' ' ' 5 f . . 5 ' ' ' 'L ' ' si '1 12 . Q ' f. 5 . 3 'Q Q' . ' ' ' ' . . . ' ' z '. Q ' 1 'D s f 1 f , A s , . ' .