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

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Un November 29 1930 Mr T E Spencer conceded hrs talk whrch rs prrnlerl rn the Hrstorrcal Sectron wrth lhrs paragraph Once 41.31111 1 noble hurldlng rs under electron dexotcd to tl unrn xoulh tor occupatrondl actrxrtres The fLlUl1C of the Hxdlcv X on 11101111 School rs rn thc hands of the Instructxon 11 Depfniment the Supcuntendent and hw dssrstants puncrpals and teachers If they haxe xmon to plan and msdom to execute the Hddlew Xocatronal cnool xx ll ,o forward to become rn rnstnutron worthy of Ihrb great nrlw of St Lomb md xxorthx of the dratm urshed c1t17cn whose name rt bcars lv ' , , . . . r , , . H f rig ' Z 1 ' ' Q - 1 ' x '1 l ' ,, . , . H . . rr V . i w ' . r . v. . W , V c 5 L , c , ' . I v U . ' , . 1 . I . c N 4 c . - ' 1 , . . W 3 .' ' f. , . . ' ' , ' c c ' . v 7 ' . .' . , X f . ' ' . . 1 , t P' ,V .' . .- . f ' -. ' ' V D . 1 Y Q ' T c . e ' 1, ., .' Y ' N ' - , . . - ' ' A, c U . . , c A . ' Q' f .X ' .' c xx '. .

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planned and by November 29 1930 the cornerstone was lald Fourteen months later onFebruary10 1932,the Hadley Bulldmg was dedl cated The public toured the five story bulldmg and the new tea room served 1ts first dlnner to Board mem bers officers and prmclpals In September 1940 the name was changed to the Herbert S Hadley Techmcal Hlgh School By thls tlme Hadley had become embedded ln the educatlonal program of St Louxs And fortunately so for xts buxldlng and currlcu lum offered the cxty and natxon a ready to use plan for the early defense and war tralmng programs that were so xmportant to the free thlnklng world durmg the years 1941 to 1946 Then before the last of the war ley served returmng veter ans who had earned the rlght to pursue thelr own ducatxon wh1ch had been mterrupted by the call to arms In 1949 the overcrowd ed condltlons 1n the cltys two vocatlonal schools caus ed the Board to begln plans for a new technlcal hlgh school After many contro versles ln regard to the ex pense and worth of vocatlon al educatxon lts past record spoke for itself and plans progressed unt11 on Septem ber 24 1954 one hundred years after the real begin nmg of vocational educatlon ln St Louls the cornerstone for the new techmcal hlgh school was laxd and a new era for educatxon started 7 7 l I Y . . ' Y 9 ' 1 training was completed Had- S . . . . . . , 7 1 ' I I

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The true relatlonshlp of objects or events to one csdents of the past year IH perspective I PERSPECTIVE another, as, to see the in-