Springfield Trade High School - Beaver Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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Me Meh Ve OAR IN REID) Ase AY ag in 9 John Granrud Suverintendent of Schools “The industries of Springfield no longer train their workers through the system of apprenticeship. The problem of preparing boys and girls for vocational pursuits which are just as honorable, just as respectable, and often more renumerative than the professions is being solved by the unusually efficient faculty of Trade School. A new building large enough to accommodate the large number of pupils who should have this type of training is urgently needed.”

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Teh Heel UReASD hae BA Ve ie kh [e ) Our Vocational School in the Early Days. Mr. Egbert E. McNary First Principal Here were true high lights in the early days of the Vocational School. First, only the Machine department, in the Technical High School Building. Next, in a Taylor Street loft, Woodwork and Machine—rats among the feet of the students— the first graduates and their jobs. State and city co-operation came. The school grew and was moved to Pynchon Street where Printing was added and Related Work seriously begun. Soon civic need forced the moving of the school and steps were taken to provide the present building. Growth goes on and more boys, and girls as well, are learning trades. How many foresaw this growth in the old days? Egbert E. McNary

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10 Ts Eee els Abe Lene ons Vat Mr. Robert 0. Small State Director of Vocational Education “Upon this twenty-fifth anniversary of the first graduating class in the Springfield Trade School, I come to you bearing personal and professional greetings from the Commissioner of Education and the Division of Vocational Education. Well do I remember the difficult conditions, the curtailed opportunity, and the meager enrollment of those first years. The professional zeal of your teachers has been equalled by the hearty enthusiasm of the pupils graduated and the results they have achieved. I have seen this school, waxing strong and prospering, come to the threshold of a much wider expansion and much better housing. Words of mine can not adequately set forth the degree of commendation the success of the school warrants. It gives me great pleasure to express these sentiments and to close by wishing it an ever broadening usefulness and an increasing measure of the type of success achieved in the last twenty-five years.”