Manual High School - Builder Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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A l ix X-Z, l N4 Manual High and Vocational School is a unique institution builded upon the foundations of three separate schools. Many successful citizens of Kansas City speak with pride and appreciation of the training which they received as students in these schools. We, the faculty of the new and enlarged institution, feel keenly our responsibilities for making even a larger contribution to the students with Whom We Work. On all sides We hear about the results of the depression, unemploy- ment and lack of opportunity for youth. In my position as industrial co-ordinator, I come in close Contact with employees, and I feel that our Students need feel no fear of the future if they apply themselves to the training program which is offered at Manual High and Vocational School. My chief difficulties lie, not in finding jobs for boys and girls, but rather in finding boys and girls who have applied themselves seriously to the task of preparing themselves for employment. Hardly a Week goes by that some employer does not telephone me that he has one or more of our graduates in his employ, and that they are so satisfactory that he wants another boy or girl whom We can recommend. I look forward to the coming years with the utmost confidence for the success of Manual High and Vocational School, as I have faith to believe that our students will rise to the occasion, prepare themselves Well in their chosen vocations, and then go out to reflect glory and credit to the institution which trained them. Sincerely, H. H. COXEN, Co-ordinator Page Ninn

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As a greeting to you, the student body of this fine new school, where your opportunities for an education are unique and broader in scope than in any other high school in the city, may I express a few of my wishes for you and for the school? May your training here help you to develop alert minds, strong bodies and skillful hands, and may you strive always toward a high quality of citi- zenship and leadership. For our school, we hope to develop an institution, not only outstanding in the type of training available, but also ranking high in good discipline, punctuality and regularity in attendance, and whose students respect the rights and privileges of their classmates, qualities so necessary in the development of good citizens. We hope you will always be proud to claim Manual High and Vocational School as your school and be as glad to return to it in the years to come as you would to your own home. We also hope to train you here so that you will feel toward your daily tasks as expressed in Henry Van Dyke's little poem, The Task : Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, This is my work, my blessing, not my doom, Of all who live I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way. J. J. ELLIS, Vice-principal, Boy's Vocational Department -Y ,T ,A Iillgl' High!

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RUSS I ., 0 In Tm-if Miss Nanozi L. Curt A V J. J. H. ANDERSEN Junior Auto Mechanics EILEEN ANDERSON F0mlsfR. T. I. CHAS. A. BARRETT Printing-Mathematics C. FRANK BEVANS Social Science JOHN BOOY Sheet Metal EDWARDELNE BRACK- ' ' ENBURY Secretary to H. H. Coxen WALLACE BRINTON Carpentry MAYNOR D. BROCK Chemistry-Botany HARVEY A. BROWN Band-Orchestra CALLIE B. CAMPBELL Textiles-R. T. I,-Needle work H. B. CAMPBELL Drafting I HERBERT V. C M - BELL Metal R. T. I. ELENORE K. CANNY Physical Education NANON L. CARR English LLOYD H. CHANCEL- LOR R. T. I,-Comnuwcial Art 'Y Page 'TH'