Macomber Vocational High School - Craftsman Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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H N T N D E N f. I MR. E. L. HOWSHER Nearly twenty thousand young people will graduate from the high schools of Ohio this year Xlany of these lwoys and girls will enter college and the university, others will go directly from high school into the yarious fields of industry. 'lihe people of 'l'oledo have estahlished Vocational High School hetter to prepare the youth who are plan- ning to go from school into industry. lfrom this group will come the social and industrial leaders and followers of tomorrow. 'lihey are going into a rapidly changing social situation. llihe solution of yestertlayfs prohlems will not work today' hecause the prohlems are different. 'lihe picture of tomorrow will undouhtedly he different from that of yes- terday and today. Ciyilized peoples are on the moye. Democratic government in most countries is on the rocks. Strange philosophies of government are in the saddle among the older nations and are knocking at our yery' door. llihe adult citizen of this country is homharded from all sides hy' new and conflicting ideas concerning all our funda- mental social institutions. He must he equipped to find a way out. 'lihe curriculum of the puhlic schools and the organization of its materials are under most careful scrutiny. 'lihe high schools of yesterday enrolled the select few. ilihey' were the pupils interested in an academic type of train- ing, desirous of preparing for the learned professions. lluring the past twenty five years high school attendance has increased nine hundred per cent. 'lihe student hody of the high school is no longer limited to the select few. lhey' are all there. l'rohahly eighty per cent of the present high school pupils are not interested in academic training, and for that reason, vocational courses and vocational high schools for hoys azid girls haye heen estahlished. Beginning next fall with the opening of new Vocational High School a wider range of opportunity for yoca tional training will he opened to the youth of our city. My congratulations are extended to the N38 graduates of Yocational High School. Xlay every success in the world accompany' their efforts, for it is through this success that the people of 'l'oledo are compensated for what they have done in the cause of education. l.. Hot:e.fArr Superintendent of Schools

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H D E D 1 C A T 1 , O I 1 N MR. JOHN C. TAYLOR As the last class to be graduated from our historic old building, ufe take pleasure in dedicating our yearbook to Mr. Taylor, member of the Board ry? Education for three years and President ay' the Board for the school year 1937-38. He is a man who has done much for Vocational Education in Toledo, one who has given a great deal if his own time and ejort to the understanding of the fundamental philosophy and guiding principles of Vocational Training. Mr. Taylor is truly interested in this type if education, as applying to both boys and girls, and he has made numerous special trips to Washington, D. C., to aid in secur- ing Federal jinancial aid in building the new .Vocational High School. Since that time he has kept in close contact with the original plans, actual construction, selection of equip- ment and other phases of the erection of the new Vocational building. He senses most keenly the ever increasing need for the Vocational type of educational program in train- ing good citizens for the Toledo of the future.

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D I R E C T O R MR. CARL T. COTTER TWO MAJOR OBJECTIVES: Wfith the opening of the New Vocational High School in the Fall of this year, there will have been achieved the first major objective in the Vocational Educational program for Toledo - that of providing a modern building in which to house a progressive vocational program for boys. The building, which is plain but modern in design, substantial in construction, and well adapted to the pur- pose, is now in the last stages of completion. Located as it is, on Nlonroe Street at l6th, it will serv e well the needs of the community for many years to come as a central school. The interior arrangement of shops and laboratories is designed for flexibility which will permit future adjustment of the Hoot space to changing educational conditions without seriously affecting the service features of the building, such as power, light, plumbing, etc. The building will serve NUI only the All-Day Trade students, but also the .Iourneymen and Apprentice work- ers as well. This will be accomplished by the use of the building and equipment late afternoons, evenings, and Satur- day mornings for Trade-Extension and Apprentice programs. Our next objective will be to provide new building facilities for an Equivalent program for girls and women in the field of occupational training. To this end, the State Board for Vocational Education, cooperating with the Toledo Board of Education, is making a scientific survey of the occupational situation and conditions relative to female employment in Toledo, as a basis on which to formulate an definite program. ln the meantime, the girls' program will continue to be developed in the present Vocational High School. VVith the aggresive and favorable attitude of our present Board of Education and Administrative staff toward Vocational Education, and backed by a sympathetic public opinion, this second objective is most certain of attainment just as soon as the financial position of the Board of Education will permit. When these two objectives have been realized, Toledo will have facilities for a well balanced and effective vocational set-up. Car! T. Calffr Director, Vocational SL Industrial Education