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pled On anuary 29 follovung rt was formally dedicated as the lVlcK1nley Manual Tramlng Hrgh School and the keys were presented to Mr Gardner The school s popularlty was so marked that rt soon became evldent that steps would have to be taken to prevent the enrollment from growing wrth greater rapldrty than the building Itself By l906 the attendance had Increased to such an extent that the Board of Education Issued orders to the teachers of the grammar schools not to encourage students to come to Tech ln l908 Congress convlnced that the bulldmg must be enlarged appropriated enough money to mal-Le the first addxtlon which conslsted of the assembly hall pattern shop drawing and cookmg departments and the south stairway ln 191 I the section which orlgmally ended wlth room I I2 on the Rhode Island Avenue side was extended to Marlon Street For eight years the bulldmg remained unchanged untll ln I9l9 the mould shop xx as added completlng the lVlcK1nley Technical Hugh School The need for a larger school stlll persisted so ln October l92l a Greater Tech Commlttee was formed and rn l923 the present sxte of the school was purchased I l925 Congress passed the Fnve Year Bulldlng Program which provrded for the appro prlatlon of S12 500 000 to be used rn constructmg and equxppmg Washlngton schools Out of thls fund a new Tech was authorlzed at a cost not to exceed S2 250 000 exclusive of grounds and equipment On une Z3 l926 ground was broken for the erection of the new school The excavatlon began ln the following uly and ln a comparatively short tnme the foundatron was lard Two years of contlnuous labor completed a great monument of education known as the new McKinley Hrgh School if' ,,:,, 'R et 1 X .1 v A' g . h J , Y. , . . . . . ' . I n , . J , , ' . J . . ,iisxh 72 at I N, W OL K 4 4.5 t X -O. 4,
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he it-Irstnrg nf erh The hlstory of Tech may be sald to date as far back as l885 when Professor C H Koyl an lnstructor of physrcs at Central Hugh School secured a work bench and a few tools and gave mstructlons ln shop practrce to those of hrs puprls who were wrllmg to devote some of their tlme to thls purpose The success of thls course of mstructlon was so marked that the followmg year Mr W C. Wesson a graduate of the Worchester Polytechnlc lnstltute was appolnted as Instructor The mnovatron of a manual trammg course contmued to attract students untll the peo ple of Washington reahzed that a hugh school provrdmg a manual tralnmg course was of vrtal lmportance to the community Therefore ln 1887 a larger shop was organlzecl at 62.4 O Street under the dlrectlon of Mr J A Chamberlain and at the same trme lVlrss E S Jacobs organized the hrst cool-ung classes As the number of students contlnued to ln crease the bulldmg next door at 626 O street was leased to provlde more room The next step ln the progress of manual tramlng was the organrzatlon of a regular technical course at Central Hlgh School ln September 1893 Previous to this time the manual tramrng course had been elective but rt was now xntroduced as a requrred subject To make room for the manual trammg course history was dropped Unlike the manual tralnrng plan of several years ago the shop courses were to be taken for four years The shop and mechanlcal dramng thrrd year mould shop and mechanical drawing and the fourth year chemlstry and any other shop Whlle the students were bemg instructed rn a very madequate fashlon ln these rented burldrngs VBIIOUS groups of CIIIZCDS undertook the task of obtammg from Congress the mon ey for erectmg a suitable bulldmg so that a technlcal course could be taught ln one burldlng lnstead of the wrdely separated shops then used The attempts of these people to prove the necssrty of havmg a new burldrng were not lh valn for between IB97 and l899 Con gress approprlated a total of SI95 000 for the constructron of a technical high school However the actual building of the school drd not begm untrl October l900 When the school year began m September l9Ol the bulldlng had not yet been com pleted so lt was decrded to orgamze a manual tralnmg hugh school at Central as an independent rnstltutlon Thrs was to have a separate prlnclpal and faculty from that of Central Mr A l Gardner was appointed prlncrpal and remained ln that ofhce untll l906 The school had not yet received its ofhclal name but was designated as Manual Tramlng School No l About two hundred and forty students were assigned to the rooms at Central and fifteen students were graduated that year The only teachers of the present faculty who taught at Central are Mr White and Mr Mattern ln September l902 the burldlng at Seventh and Rhode Island Avenue was occu 0 shops offered the first year were pattern shop and mechanical drawingg second year, forge
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