Spaulding High School - Our Echo Yearbook (Barre, VT)

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The Vocational-Technical Center Opens This year the doors of the million-dollar Regional Vocational-Technical Center swung open for students. In the fall we were excited by our first look at the addition to the existing Spaulding High School. This entire wing was constructed with state and federal funds at no direct cost to the city of Barre. When adults visited the new building during a special open house, we heard comments like, “Now we know what a really comprehensive school looks like,” and “There’s no better place to spend a million dollars than on a school like this.” Visitors could readily see where a million dollars was spent — rows and rows of technical equipment in the electronics department, printing presses and similar equipment in the printing and graphics division, plumb- ing and heating equipment, along with sheet metal train- ing equipment in the building trades division, profession- al hotel and restaurant equipment in the food trades lab- oratory, the extensive health occupations center, the highly mechanized automotive mechanics shop, and of course, the miniature stone shed. We are proud of the several firsts in the Vocational- Technical Center the stone trades course is the first one of its kind in the entire United States, while the di- versified occupations program is the first in Vermont. And we must mention the first school store at Spaulding, operated by students in the distributive education program. Brick by brick the new Vocational-Technical Center becomes a reality.

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1970 MARKS OPENING OF REGIONAL VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL CENTER 15 COURSES OFFERED The Barre Regional Vocational-Technical Center begins to take shape as the steel framework appears. The architect’s drawing shows the final design of the new wing-

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PAUL W NUTTER Director Barre Regional Vocational-Technical Center with David Flint MR. LESLEY BELL Freshman Sophomore Guidance Counselor NELDA BERINATO Bookkeeper Brian Sargent presents a special VICA Award to Mr. Nutter. 6