Maple Avenue Evening High School - Progress Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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The great gospel of service is being preachedg men are fast coming to realize that success is nothing but the attainment of happiness and there can be no truer happiness than that which comes through service to one's fellow man. He who is the most useful servant is the greatest man. A man must be measured, not by his Wealth, his learning or social position, but by the service he renders the World. The man Who is a good worker is invariably a good citizen. Good citizens make for good government. The place to train men and Women to become useful citizens is in the public schools. I believe the vocational system the most helpful and practical form of education because it equips men and Women with ability to create and initiate into every day life that which will benefit the peoples of every community. I can vision just a few years in the near future, When all schools Will send into the xi orld men and women who can do things - who can serve - and I am sure that the Maple Avenue Evening School, through the able guidance of the Principal and her corps of assistants, is contributing its full share to the great Work of providing that form of study which makes for success and happiness. Sheet Metal Pattern Drafting Page Sixty-one

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Training for Service By C. J. McCORMICK Former member of School Board HE right to receive an education is guaranteed to every child in the State of California. For the benefit of those adults who did not exercise that right, often thru conditions over which they had no control, and who later realized the need of education, ia new form of in- struction has been provided known as the Evening School which is especial- ly arranged for the benefit and convenience of those engaged during the day at their regular duties and who desire to improve themselves through study of the subjects pertaining to the work in which they are particularly interested. The idea proved a success, but there was still a need for a different form of class workg an extension of the methods of teachingg an addition of subjects - something that would bring to the student a thorough idea of practical service and afford opportunity to work with the hands as well as the head and thus attain a practical and technical knowledge of doing things that would assist him in his life work. Educators were quick to grasp the possibilities of such a system with the result that Vocational Training was added to the curriculum and has been extended until it is now possible for one to receive a course of in- struction in any trade or occupation that one may choose. The leading educators of the country fand the school system of Los Angeles was one of the first to realize the importance of such trainingj are fast coming to the belief of President Eliot of Harvard that all schools should teach pupils how to do things instead of how to talk about them . We have in this day advanced to the place where we look back in amuse- ment at the folks of the olden days who used to cover' their hands as a sign that they did no manual work. The man who does not work to-day - who does not render service to his fellow man - is looked upon as a para- sitei . .Page Sixty A i ' '

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here, she was active in civic, club and industrial affairs. One of the things Mrs. Houck most persistently advocated, particularly among the workers in the garment industry with whom she was directly connected in an official manner, was a system of training 'and better education both in trade operations and in the understanding of and loyalty to American institutions and the American flag and also a universal knowledge of the English language. 1 i 4 A F It was Mrs. Houck who made arrangements and secured class rooms and equipment for the first school classes held in the Labor Temple build- ing. From these classes sprung what later developed, through the recog- nition and favorable attitude of the school authorities into the present Maple Avenue High School. Early in the history of this school two classes in power machine oper- ation were inaugurated and they were carried on in two of the large local factories during the day. In this department Mrs. Houck's expert knowledge of power machine operation coupled with a wide and friendly acquaintanceship with the manufacturers, proved of value. She became certificated as a teacher and had charge of one of the classes during all the time they were under jurisdiction of this school. Miss Adele Sterling, also an expert power machine operator, taught the other class. The factory owners generously donated the use of machines for the classes and the space in which to house them. More than that-they donated material which was made by the classes into clothes for inmates of the County Hospital and Charities Department of the County, Mrs. Houck having held a conference with the head of those departments and made negotiations for doing this. e Naturally this service was highly appreciated by the heads of the County institutions as well as by those who got the new uniforms to wear, This practice is, we believe, still followed by the power machine depart- ments of the schools. Page Sixty-four