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

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TH TienTACD Ue els ASV at re Miss Josephine L. Di Pasqua Miss Lena M. Vernaglia graduated from the Girls’ English High School in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1921. The same year she became connected with the firm of Theodore, Inc., of Boston. During the summer of 19380 and 1931 Miss Vernaglia attended the Fitchburg Normal School. From 1930 to 1935 she was a temporary Trade Assistant at the Boston Trade School, and from 1934 to 1938 she was a member of the Medford, Mass. Evening High School faculty. In a recent interview she said, “I feel very fortunate to be connected with the Springfield Trade School. My associates have been very helpful and the girls very anxious to recieve training in the dressmaking’ field.” Josephine L. Di Pasqua was educat- ed in the Springfield Schools and is a graduate of the Technical High School. She receive a B. S. degree from Fram- ingham Teachers’ College, in the course in Househould Arts. She worked inthe field of nutrition for one year and taught Foods and Nutrition to adult classes in the evening school for three years. She was a substitute in the junior and senior high schools of the city and for one sem- ester at the Girls’ Trade School. On December 20, 1987 she was appointed teacher of Foods and Homemaking at the Girls’ Trade School. Miss Lena M. Vernaglia Page Ten

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ieee lelpAs Heeb fh AyVi hah Mr. Kramer joined the faculty in 19388, and became a mechanical drawing in- structor in the general department of Trade School. After graduating from Technical High School he went to Pratt Institute where he studied architecture. He also attend- ed The American International College. For many years he had been employed by a general contractor in this city, and as building superintendent helped to erect many a large building. For the past year and a half he has been prin- cipal of the Connecticut Junior Republic, a private trade school in Litchfield, Connecticut. Hermann A. Persson Mr. Vincent Kramer Mr. Persson is a firm believer in Trade Cooperative Education and is now the head of the cooperative department in our Trade School. Mr. Persson was born in Soderham, Sweden in 1887. His primary educa- tion was received in Australia. In the year 1910 he came to America where he was employed by the Pittsfield Magnet Company and later the General Electric Company. For twenty years he was an employee of the Indian Motocycle Co. He has attended the Fitchburg State Teachers’ College and enrolled for an extension course at Boston University. Mr. Persson has been an instructor at the Westfield Trade School, and the Southbridge Cooperative Trade School. Page Nine

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De iiehiae lehieArl i bel As Veloele Mrs. Blanche J. Burke Mrs. Blanche J. Burke, though only recently appointed a regular teacher in our school, has been a part-time instructor in the Continuation and Girl’s Division since 1926. She received her general education in England and her specialized nursing train- ing in America, being a graduate of the Eastern Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases, Ontario, Canada; Mount Sinai Hospital School for Nursing, and Sloan Maternity Hospital, New York, N. Y.- She has held executive positions:--in New York City as supervisor in Mt. Sinai Hospital; in Hartford, Conn., in charge of the Maternity Hospital; in Canada during the World War commissioned a ist Lieutenant; and in France with the American Expeditionary, Chief Nurse of Camp Hospital No. 33, Pontanezen. Mrs. Burke made an enviable record during the World War. The U. S. Army orders of 1919 show that she was cited by General John J. Pershing for “Outstanding and Meritorious Service’ and she also received the Purple Heart Medal. Page Eleven