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

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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

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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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TH Pi ele AL Ds ie bel, Velie Mr. Albert M. Johnson Mr. Albert M. Johnson, who has been our Civics instructor for the past four years, has been transferred to the Forest Park Junior High School. While at Trade School, Mr. Johnson rendered great service to the school as Student Council Advisor for two years, and as Senior Class Advisor for the class of 1987. He is a golf enthusiast, and coached the Trade School golf team. Upon leaving Trade School, Mr. Johnson stated that he has known the school’s spirit and sportsmanship, in both the classroom and on the athletic field. Page Twelve