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

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jk? WQBLJA j'6L6!Q6 mepdftment . Q 'vw v -fm' gf gm-. t imwl 1 we . .,., . . , ,- C - f 4... .. The development of modern industry gave rise to the need for vocational training for boys and girls. Our school, developed by Miss Grace Dodge and Mrs. Mary Schenck Woolman, was the first of its kind. Its earliest curriculum offered training in hand sewing, designing, lampshade making, millinery, and sample garments. In 1902, the Manhattan Trade School was founded as a private institution. ln 1910, this became part of the city Board of Education. The girls were tried out for a month, under factory conditions. lf successful, they were given further training and placed. Diplomas were not awarded until after three months satisfactory work in industry. When our school became part of the New York City Board of Education, the head of the Boston Trade School for Girls, Miss Florence Marshall, was its 'first principal. ln 1919 our present building was opened, known as Manhattan Trade School for Girls. Training in other trades and academic subiects was soon introduced. Credit for our school's position in the field of vocational education belongs :o Miss Dodge, Mrs. Woolman, Miss Marshall, Miss Violet Coen, who was for a time head of the trade department, to Miss Beatrice Ohayon, our present First Assistant in Needle Trades, and to Mrs. Mary Q. Cassidy, who has been our principal since 1938. From 1937 to 1948 our school was known as the Manhattan High School of Women's Garment Trades, and in January 1949 we received our present name in honor of Mrs. Rogers H. Bacon, an active worker in the field of education and welfare. At present, the Needle Trades department has twenty-seven teachers, and offers courses here and at our annex in custom dressmaking, ready to wear, special machine operating, trade millinery, novelty and artificial flower making. 12

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eruice ju ed THE BEAUTY CULTURE DEPARTMENT The Beauty Culture Department trains about 250 girls. It is a three year course, starting in third term. First of all a girl has to get the necessary tools and get accustomed to our school. ln third term you are taught the fundamentals of the trade such as manicures, shampoos, and scalp treatments. ln fourth and fifth terms you review the previous term's work with, of course, additional training. If in your previous terms your work has been exceptionally good, in sixth term you are sent down to the school beauty shop. ln seventh term all girls are expert workers and are assigned customers in the school shop. While in the shop the girl attains the assurance needed to work on customers in her chosen profes- sion and becomes familiar with the routine of a shop in the business world. Every girl gets the opportunity of being manager and clerk. Since they must know the science of the trade, they are taught cosmetology. In eighth term the girls take courses in hair dyeing and tinting. They also attend the beauty culture convention which is held semi-annually. One hundred per cent of our girls taking the state board examination for their licenses have successfully passed. The placement office has placed a number of the girls in some of the best salons in the city, and many of the girls become teachers in their turn. CAFETERIA TRAINING Mabel Dean Bacon Vocational High School gives girls experience for the future. One of the most practical courses is cafeteria training which gives students practice in the preparation, cooking and serving of meals and enables girls to continue their studies as dietitians in college. Cafeteria training begins in the students' cafeteria where all the girls of the school have lunch. There the girls learn the fundamentals. They do not actually cook, but they prepare the recipes. These are in family size for six servings. For larger quantities they learn to multiply the recipes. After this training comes the advanced course in the first floor Tea Room where the girls do the actual cooking and managing of the entire kitchen. They learn to run a kitchen as in the finer New York restaurants. The Tea Room is open to the public and caters to at least a hundred people daily. This gives experience in serving at the counter. Some of the girls are placed in the best restaurants in New York as salad makers, pastry bakers, cooks, and other kitchen workers. Some girls work in hospital tray rooms in responsible positions. Still others marry soon after school. Their husbands are sure of excellent meals because of this fine training. Girls that have taken this course have never regretted their choice. They have found it valuable training and a practical vocational COUl'Se. I4