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

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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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r if if FOREWORD Within the old secluded Walls of Vocational, many students are looking forward to the day when they can complete their task of learning their chosen vocation by exchanging practice for actual experience. Now they want excitement, social activi- ties, and novelty. For the last time in the history of the old Vocational, the daringtruth of the concealed facts about the Vocationalites, is revealed in this yearbook. ln the coming years, when they turn the pages of this Craftsman, they will recall the fond memories and strong friendships of plea- sant days spent at Vocational. fn fl . f fQL2ill?NNfl l l K 71, X? 7? 'l cvs ff Q f'lQf: 4 3 ar 70 X ill,

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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