Western Technical College - Latech Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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Forward 1978 is the year to discover you in us here at Western Wisconsin Technical Institute. Whether you are a student in a careertraining program or partofthe educational teaching staff you are important to us. In the pages that follow, through photos and written words the La Tech Staff will try to capture you in the classroom, in the shop, on campus and in community life. The pages will stress the importance ofyou as an integral part of this vocational, technical institute. Like the sparkling droplets of a fountain make upthe total form - you help to make up the total WWTI educational realm. The pages of this La Tech are yours...turn them and discover you in us . by Sharon Pionkc La 'I'cth Aduisor

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1710 La Tech Staff wishes to croditjames O. Holmlimd, LaCrosse historical researcher and writer, for lu'x work in rewarching infor- mation on retired Staffmembvrs andfor photographs $11 0w 7;. N THE 7977-78 LA ?ECH IS DEDICA TED T0 ...... The Old Team You've come a long way, baby! is a popular theme today in advertising. It refersprimarily to the changing roles of women in American society . .. but we would like take the liberty of using the same theme in dedicating the 1978 uLa Tech Yearbook ofWestern Wisconsin Technical Institute to our teachers in vocational, technical and adult education . . . they've come a long way, but they have always been a special breed ofeducators . . . far ahead of their time with unique teaching methods and advanced educational philosophies . . . yet, so committed to their students and to the basic principles of pratical education and to personal discipline. Teaching has come a long way in the 65 years that Western Wisconsin Technical Institute has been in existence, since it wasfirststarted in 1912 as the La Crosse Continuation School , and .soon thereafter the La Crosse Vocational and Adult School. ttLa Tech was dedicated in 1976 to Iong-time La Crosse Vocational School Director John B. Colemen, who came to the school in 1916 and retired in 1962. Mr. Coleman was one of the pioneers in vocational education in the United States, but as he said himself, I couldn't have done the job I got all the credit for without the loyal support of my whole team! We've come a long way from the old days of vocational education under Mr. Coleman, but the work he started was carried on by his team - and though many ofthem are now retired, they are still active in promoting the basic concepts of their old stlye of vocational education which is proving more and more importanttoday as we return to the basics. The staff of La Tech is proud to dedicate the 1978 edition of the Western Wisconsin Technical Institute to those mem bers of the team that started our school, and who are primarily responsible for its continuing excellence and success today. La Tech salutes THE OLD TEAM ..... MISS GENEVIEVE COX, BUSINESS EDUCATION INSTRUCTOR t1933-1955t Genevieve Cox, 3 La Crosse native and graduate of Jefferson Grade School and Central High School, received her undergraduate training at La Crosse Normal School tnow University of Wis- consin - La Crosset. She went on to Columbia University, New York City, for her Master of Science degree in Business Education. Her first teaching job was at Hancockt High School in Waushara County where she started the school's Commercial Department, remaining two years. In 1933, she joined the La Crosse Vocational School as an instructor in business subjects, remaining until June, DOROTHY A. STROMSTAD, BUSINESS OFFICE 1955, when she resigned. She taught in the eveningschool as well as day school and placed business graduates. She was ad- visor to the school newspaper and the Social Club. Through the.years, Miss Cox held several business jobs, including work for the federal government in Washington, D. C. Of her early teaching years at La Crosse Vocational School, she is most proud of not only the quality and preparation of beginning students she encountered in the classroom, but also of the general at- titude and humility of purpose of enrollees. This attitude changed in later years, she recalls, to one where students expected more from prospective employ ers atan earlier degree of experience. Once quite a traveler, accompanying a married sister and her husband, Miss Cox is now more content to readand to reflect on life from her comforatable Northside apartment. She is still active in her daily routine and is in excellent health. ACCOUNTANT t1944 - 197D Dorothy A. Stromstad, as a La Crosse Central High School, student for three years, worked for her board and room in a home which, no doubt, provided a rare orientation for course for 33 years of service later at the La Crosse Vocational School and Western Wisconsin Technical Institute. Mrs. Stromstad, who retired in 1977 was W.W.T.I. office manager and ac- countant, lived in the home oer. and Mrs. John B. Coleman,theformerschooldirec- tor. She was born July28, 1915 to Will and Lena Kumlin on the family farm near De Soto, Wisconsin. Following high school, she was enrolled one year in the newly - developed business education division, the College of Commerce, at the La Crosse.Vocational School. In 1934, she took a job as general office secretary.at the La Crosse Lutheran