Seneca Vocational School - Chieftain Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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E TAKE a few sheets of paper, write on them. place a cover over them and call it a book. Some hooks or booklets are scarcely opened before they become waste paperg others are read through and then discarded. The third class of books are read and reread, placed among our choicest possessions and kept forever. YVhy the difference? l have looked through this - a hook filled with pictures and articles - and I, at once, lecl an interest that leads me to want to keep it. Again l ask, why?'l XVould you agree with me when l say it is because of the human element that made it possible? Some boys said YVe want a year book and we will get it. They have succeeded. Then, too, l see pictures of students and reaql the articles written to accompany each cut and this leads my mind to the place where the pictures were takeng to the particular activity and then to the boys I have come to know so well. The invisible atmosphere enveloping the book arrests my interest and I want one to keep. l would be remiss it I did not mention the Senior boys and thank them for their untiring efforts, as I express my appreciation to all others who have helped to make the book what it is - a real credit to our school. ELMER S. Pinaciz OREWORD

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THE CHIEFTAI 19 Y 5363150 QK 3 7 'QW .A 'Q f opof Sig a. T.: ' 55' 5 f Q I. Published by the Students of the SENECA VOCATIGNAL HIGH SCI-IDOL 666 EAST DELAVAN AVE. BUFFALO, NEW YORK

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DR. ELMER PIERCE Our Prinrifvll Emma S. Piaaca, graduating from Alfred University in june 1908, with a degree of Bachelor of Science, was soon to assume the direction of the first voca- tional work in Buffalo. This venture was launched in September 1909 with a class of seventeen boys. From this small beginning he has guided the work until the present registration is 10735 from one room in an old building, to the present building which was erected in 19265 from Seneca Vocational School with its two-year course, to the Seneca Vocational High School which awards four-year State Industrial diplomas to its graduates. ln June, 1927, this son of Alfred was honored by his Alma Mater, in recognition of his work in vocational education, when the degree of Doctor of Pedagogy was conferred on him. The ambition of Ur. Pierce through all these years continues, as he strives for a bigger and better Seneca Voca- tional High School. DAVID NVARN HOFF ,41l1ninistr11ti'zw' Jssislznzt After spending twelve years in the electrical industry as wireman, armature winder, and railway signal electrician, he graduated from the Buffalo State Normal School in the class of 1913. In 1931 the degree of Bachelor of Science in Vocational Education was conferred by the University of Buffalo. lllr. VVarnhoff taught in the Peckham Vocational School for four years and for the past twenty-two years has been a member of the Seneca Vocational High School faculty as electrical instructor, head of the shop department and Admin- istrative Assistant.