Mabel Dean Bacon Vocational High School - Torch Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Wage! lean acon ucafionaf 3400! The change of name of one of our country,s oldest vocational high schools from the Nlanhattan High School of VVomen's Garment Trades to the Mabel Dean Bacon Vocational High School is a tribute to the accomplishments of an outstand- ing humanitarian. Mabel Dean Bacon held office in many civic and welfare organizations. She was active in the Vanderbilt Clinic Auxiliary, the Day Camp, the Social Service Committee of Presbyterian Hospital, the New York Tuberculosis and Health Asso- ciation, and the Social Service of St. 1..ulce's Hospital. In 1916 lxflrs. Bacon was appointed to the Board of Child Welfare by Mayor Mitchell. She served with the American Red Cross overseas during and after the first World Vvar. Mrs. Bacon served with distinction as a member of the Advisory Board of the Board of Educa- tion of the City of New Yorlc, the Public Education Association, and the Depart- ment of Health Committee, which initiated, sponsored and carried to a successful conclusion the health demonstration conducted in the West Side Continuation School from 1926 to 1929. This led to the development of health techniques and services, later installed and successfully operated in all vocational schools. In the course of her service as a member of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Advisory Board on Vocational Education, Mrs. Bacon worlced continuously until the time of her death to promote the health of school children. Her interest resulted in the development of health services by which very child in the vocational schools is given a complete physical examination annually, an important aid to proper vocational placement of pupils on the basis of physical capacity or handicaps. As chairman of the Joint Committee on Education, Mrs. Bacon was a prime mover in the survey made of the continuation schools. She was instrumental, too, in securing approval by the Instructional Affairs Committee of the Board of Educa- tion for the course in nursery education. Nlrs. Bacon's devotion to educational and welfare causes was ever an incentive to her colleagues. Her contributions in civic and community worlc are among the most valuable recorded in the history of the Vocational Division. The example of service set by Mabel Dean Bacon provides an inspiration for students and teachers of the school now honoring her memory. The exercises in honor of the new name of our school toolc place in our own newly painted building on January 19, 1949. First lcnown as the Manhattan High School of VVomen,s Garment Trades, and now as the Mabel Dean Bacon Voca- tional High School, our school has had a unique history. In November 1902, the Manhattan Trade School for Girls, the first trade school 20