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

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Administration p 2 if i a i 2 MR. DENNIS J. BRUNTON Assistant Principal MRS. TERESINA B. THOMPSON Assistant Principal

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FIFTIET: Two groups of boys, 25 each, were or- ganized; one in woodworking, the other in machine shop practices. These boys spent their regular school hours in the Howard Street School and the Chestnut Street School. After school hours, in the afternoon, they used the Technical High School shops. The year was 1909 and Dr. Wilbur F. Gordy was the Super- intendent of Schools in Springfield. Two years later, the School Board investi- gated the then new state laws regarding Voca- tional Education. State aid was offered to cities and towns of the Commonwealth who could and would meet the requirements set down. These requirements dealt with admin- istration, teaching staffs and the physical plants. On September 5, 1911, the Springfield Vocational infant was born, on the second floor of a factory building on Taylor Street. The staff worked hard to protect the new foundling. No fancy sterilized equipment pro- tected its health. No cure-all opiate was avail- able to protect the infant against the dread opinion of the populace. The School Board approved Mr. Egbert E. McNary as the infant's first principal; its first guardian of new ways and learning habits. He mother ed, and fathered his baby. He steered the infant away from harm and toward the good. He gave it Louis Albero ODM Ot ¥ Ay Mt wD) ) Class of 1912 Ralph Marshall Ernest Monahan Edward Ritter Edward Thompson F.- Warren Wells Raymond Woods Rupert Burnett Joseph Brown Earl Graves Harold Hitchcock Thomas Keating sound advice and taught it basic working habits, so that it may build for the future, when it could stand up and walk straight with the men of Commerce and Industry. But now, it was only creeping toward its objective and Mr. McNary favored his child with tender care and devotion. Soon, the child was a willowy sprig of a youth, who did not know which way to turn. He was getting out of sorts with his com- munity. His community did not know how to treat him. The war was on in Europe and Americans felt the need to do something. Our little infant of 1911 was pretty big now. He could move around a bit and with some skills. But he wanted to go work and his guardian allowed him. When the war was over, our youthful boy was assigned to Mr. George Burridge for guidance. The year—1919; the communities Mr. Egbert. E. McNary First Principal Mr. George A. Burridge Principal