Hammond Technical Vocational High School - Chart Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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FREDERICK E. BENSON Business Training A. VERA EASTWOOD Shorthand Senior Class Sponsor R. MILTON WILSON Athletic Director Football Coach MARIE LANDON Co-ordinator JAMES B. CAMPBELL Plumbing ANNA MOENGEN Geography OLIVE S. BYERS Social Sciences NILO W. HOVEY Band Director GEORGE K. WELLS Delated Technical and Trade Training JOSEPHINE READ Cafeteria Director ALBERT J. PASCHBN English BLA NCH E KANSFIBLD Office Secretary WILHELM ENA HEBNBR Bookkeeping ERSKIN E CROMWELL if at hematics Senior Class Sponsor FLORENCE LAW LEI l Mathematics H. J. ASKREN Delated Science Page Eight

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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION recognized principle of education, that without interest learning ceases, and since these boys and girls are interested in some trades, we make use of that in- terest by directing and training along the lines of the trade which appeals to them. The boy in auto mechanics, who may have shown no interest in learning arith- metic in the past, will now take an inter- est when he finds that a knowledge of that subject is necessary for the repair of a gas engine. The girl who is taking shorthand will be interested in and learn her English because that English is a tool of her trade — the stenographer. If a boy is working in the electrical shop here, it is because he expressed a desire to become an electrician, or if he is in the plumbing shop, it is because the plumbing trade appealed to him, but do not think that our objective is to make one of these boys an electrician and the other a plumber. We must put him in the shop he desires and likes to work in, in order to maintain that interest which is so essential for learning any trade, and we do it also to arouse greater interest in the academic subjects which apply to the trade, but he is constantly reminded that the world is over supplied with elec- tricians and plumbers, and that when ha goes out to find work it may l e a long time before he can get a job in this par- ticular trade. We show him how the knowledge and the training he is gaining can be applied to other trades — the new trades that are coming in with the new world of today and tomorrow — work in television, the radio, air conditioning, the aeroplanes and many others. It is also impressed upon him that his training here will prepare him for civil service ex- aminations for the many government jobs which will open under the plans of the “New Deal.” We cannot over em- phasize the fact that Vocational Educa- tion is not training to increase the over- supply of labor, but training for the future. We are making good citizens. We do not have to worry about the over-supply of labor in training our girls. They present an entirely different prob- lem. No amount of home training in the school will bring an over-supply of home- makers among the women. Neither will the training of stenographers. Hammond Tech trains its girls to become stenogra- phers, and it trains them to be good ste- nographers, but we know that any busi- ness or professional man will tell you that there is not now, and never has been, an over-supply of good stenographers. Cooking and sewing are also taught and sometimes these subjects are criti- cized as frills in the school system, and the claim made that this training in homemaking should be done by the mother and in the home. That was true in pioneer days, but the average mother of today is not training to teach, and further, the home conditions of many of the pupils in our public schools are not the home conditions of the average American home. These girls recognize that fact, and they demand the right to that training. Remember that the envi- ronment which shapes the lives of the children of Hammond, and the methods of training which are considered the best for others may be entirely unsuited for the children who are to become your future neighbors. Your school authori- ties here saw this to be true and that is one reason, one justification, for the ex- istence of Hammond Tech. Radio Speech Delivered by Director F. S. Barrows Pune Seven

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LUCILLE A. WHITEHEAD English MARY F. SCOTT Music H. H. WILSON Mathematics MARY LOU ROGERS Foods VENGE BKROAL Secretary to Mr. Barrowt RICHARD A. SAMPSON English MARY K. REEVES English GEORGIA M. RICHMOND Typing ARNOLD F. ROBINSON Orchestra Director EDYTHE A. SINDKN So ial Science RUTH E. PURDY Health Department HAROLD E. HALLOWAY Electric HENRY F. CALLENTINE Social Sr-ienrc CARL H. NIEMANN Drairing and Sketching CHESTER J. KESSLER iasketball and Baseball Coach ELEANOR SCHAFER Clerk Page Nine w HrCr! ,T i