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

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Dr. Henry W. Eggers, Gerald Gillette, Donald Gavit, Superintendent L. L. Caldwell, Walter Thornton, Charles Scott, Archie Spoerner, and Columbus Smith. Technical Vocational High School Tech was founded in 1919 by Mr. F. S. Barrows, with one teacher, one pupil, and one classroom. The present building once stood on Hohman Avenue where it was occupied by Hammond High. It was later moved to where it now stands. It was then taken over by Tech. The school at the present time employes some fifty-five teachers and has an enrollment of slightly over one thousand. The new Tech school is being built at the North Civic Center Site. The new building will consist of four- teen shops and nineteen academic clas- ses. It will also have a large Gvmnas- ium that can be divided into two standard size basketball courts, one for the boys and one for the girls. There are standard classrooms that are soundproof, and its floors will be covered with either tiletex or linoleum. New subjects will be offered to the future Tech students. There will be a complete library and a room for visual education. The school will be able to accommodate fifteen hundred students. Tech will be one of the finest schools in this region. e the students of Tech wish to express our appreciation of the efforts that this Board of Education and Superintendent Caldwell have put forth in the planning and financing for the New Tech. All of us pledge ourselves to continue to do our best and show the citizens of Hammond that Tech is a worth while investment which will pay dividends for years to come. 8

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Jeanette Grabill, Miss London, Sue Etta Wilkinson, Miss Rybolt. Our Co-ordinators Need your program changed? Need a job? Need advice? If you have any problems such as these, go to see our co-ordinators, Miss Landon and Mr. Sampson, two understanding people who are willing to help anyone who has a problem. Miss Landon, girls’ co-ordinator, has been at Tech many years and has helped many girls to find jobs or to straighten out any difficulties they might have. Miss Rybolt, a new in- structor at Tech, helps Miss Landon with the programming and other special assignments. There are also several students chosen from the Introduction to Business classes to run errands and take care of routine duties. Mr. Sampson, boys’ co-ordinator, has enough patience and understanding to cope with the many problems that come before him. He has a sense of humor that makes him popular with both teacher and student. His desk is always piled high with work. Office- practice girls help him with this. Mr. Sampson wants to spend most his time in guidance work and complains that too large a part of his job now is attending to the boys that go A.W’.O.L. But. he even tackles this problem with tact and humor. Yes, we can be proud of our co- ordinators. They are two people who consistently turn in a good job, whether it be finding a job for a student or tactfully explaining why a student shouldn’t play hookey. 10