Southern Maine Community College - TEKS Yearbook (South Portland, ME)

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If loyalty to an ideal, tenacity of purpose, de- votion to a worthy cause, and unfalte ring effort may be counted as worship - then the work Morris did to further the worth of Maine Vocational-Tech- nical Institute may truly be acceptable as such, IH IHEIHURIHIH MORRIS P. CATES Born at Skowhegan, Maine, Septem- ber 11, 1907, son of Tracy M. and Lottie Moore Cates. A graduate of Skowhegan High School. A graduate of Valparaiso University, Indiana. Taught Industrial Arts at Harrison, Ohio, and Portland, Maine. Entered the Maine State Department of Education as Assistant Director of the War Production Training Board. Became Director of Trade and In- dustrial Education. Granted a leave of absence to orga- nize and direct the Maine Vocational- Technical Institute. The initial suc- cess of the Institute was due alrnost wholly to his interest and impetus. Appointed Deputy Commissioner of Education by the late Harland A. Ladd. Died May 28, 1953.

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To EARL. HUTCHINSON Cur Friend and Principal, Educator and Humanist, A True Son of Sober-Suited Wisdom, Who Always Speaks the Thing He Will, This Book is Respectfully Dedicated, 1954 I Our Principal, Earl Hutchinson, was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, and is augraduate of Lynn Classical High School and Bates College, continuing with graduate study at the University of Vermont and Harvard University. He was teacher-coach at Barre High School, Barre, Vermont, 1929-32 and served as hi h school principa at South Bristol, Maine, 1926-283 Wash burn, Maine, 1952-38, Brewer, Maine, 1938-42. From 1942 to 1947 Mr. Hutchinson served as State Director of Secondary Education with the State Department of Education at Augusta, Maine, and became affiliated with the U. S. Department of Education at Washington, D. C. as a Field Represent- ative in 1947, rernaininfg in this capacity until he was assigned overseas in 1951 as an Education O ficer with the Mutual Security Agency at Bangkok, Thailand, where his services and assistance in the establishment of the first Technical Institute in Thailand were appropriately recognized by the Department of Vocational Education at Bangkok prior to his return to this country and Maine in the summer of 1953, We were happy and feel very fozgtunate in having Mr. Hutchinson join us as our principal in the fall of 19 3.