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lech ' s vocational training kept Tech ' s Founder, Fred S. Barrows, believed that training students to be lathe operators or typists for jobs in industry and business was a major need in education. Even when Tech’s first teacher, Mary Dwyer, instructed Max Demps, Tech’s first student, in 1919, the aim was to help this part- time student take his place in an industrial community. Hammond Tech was first housed in the Central School building, then located at the corner of Fayette street and Hohman avenue, where the Calumet National Bank now stands. As a part-time school, Tech had the attic and shared the basement with the school kindergarten. When full-time training did become firmly established a few years later and industry needed more and more trained workers, there was rapid addition of one new class or shop after another. Such courses as shorthand, bookkeeping, filing, office practice, and comptometer were quickly made available to girls. Likewise, boys shops, be they forge, wood, electric, or drafting, were made available. All the while, a program of related academic classes, sports, and activities was developed to broaden the outlook of future workers. The Central School building was moved to 231 Russell street in 1923. By that time Tech had taken over the entire building. Increased enroll- ment, however, soon necessitated construction of an adjoining building the next year. Thus the old” Tech stood for years as a symbol of vocational education in Hammond — even while the need grew and grew. M MISS DENSMORE ' S OFFICE MACHINES CLASS. Typing and Comptometry were one class in the early days of Tech.
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MRS. GERTRUDE KREY- SCHER headed the bond drive that eventually brought the new Tech into being. istant search for more space for house shops and gym facilities : 5727 Sohl avenue, ave his guidance and support opment. Mr. Fred S. Barrows is director of Tech. Mr. F. E. Wilson succeeded him. nded Tech, was of great help ot only worked with the school but she also headed the bond ivit, business manager of Ham- Dieted by 1950 to permit the t and its annexes to classrooms training, mainly for vocational It school.
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