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

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Guidance MRS. RITA TRIGGS Girl's Counselor William Barry and Mr. Pellegrini 12

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FIFTIETS ANNIVERSARY STILL IN USE er In 1921 this building on 32 Spring Street was erected as the new Trade School, but a growing enrollment soon made it inade- quate. It is now used as the administration offices of the School ‘Department. NOW TORN DOWN = Chl The Old Hooker, School on North Main Street served as the Continuation School and Trade School. Later it became the Girls Division of the Trade School. It was occupied until 1940 when the new school was completed. Grade Schonl Code Grade, you are a heritage laden with opportunities that are legion, and our responsibilities are correspondingly great. Bu every public and private raparity may it be our supreme desire to serve, honor, and obey our highest ideals and striue to uphold the right; and by our example may we incite in others a like respert and reverence. fay we achieve high standards of workmanship, worthy habits, honorable manhood, wholesome personalities, and noble chararter. (Ou the field, in the shop, in the class, and in years tn come, grant that we shall bring glory to our School, City, State, and Nation. 11

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You have completed your training in good citizenship at the Springfield Trade High School. The habits that you have developed in your trade will determine success or failure in your future. The good will of your faculty, your principal, and your superin- tendent goes with you and much of their spiritual power goes with you too. You have had the advantages of many years of experience of the people of Springfield, who had the foresight 50 years ago to establish a school designed specifically to train citizens such as yourself—in a vocation which would make available to the graduate, the skills of the teacher, the resources of the community and an opportunity to begin a full life immediately in a field chosen in advance. It is not chance that made Vocational Education an extremely important factor in the overall picture of education, but the dream of a few citizens with the courage to publicize its need to their fellow citizens of the Commonwealth; the fortitude to nurture its growth and development; and the humility to offer more of themselves for its future plans. More specifically, in your own city of Springfield, you have been most fortunate to have had dedicated men and women act on behalf of Vocational Educa- tion. They gave of themselves physically and spiritually over the years, and to their credit, Springfield has acted as a well-informed city. So, on this, your Golden Anni- versary, remember them in what they gave. All their efforts are symbolized in your present director, Mr. Edmond P. Garvey, your splendid school building and your hospitable city. As they have given, so now you must give of yourself in the democratic way in which you have learned and observed. As you add to the habits of good citizenship and skills of your trade, you must be critical of yourself and your associates in such a way that the laws and regulations of good practice are observed. Upon this depends your future, the future of your com- munity and the future of your country. You then, on the Golden Anniversary of your school have a galden opportunity to shine brilliantly in the test of your skills in a world full of skills. Be fair with yourself, GIVE your best. WALTER J. MARKHAM DIRECTOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS 13