Spokane's New Vocational Training Center Opens
Promoters establish a trade school offering civil service, engineering, and automotive training with a promise to help students find work while they study.
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A new vocational school has been started in Spokane, in which will be offered instruction in business branches, college preparatory, civil service, steam and gas engineering, automobile, applied electricity, manual training and wood craft. The promoters of the new school are E. A. Potter and L. J. Rastberg, who had charge for four years of the college preparatory department of the Spokane Y. M. C. A. school. The new school will be co-educational, girls being admitted to any department they may wish to enter. An employment bureau is also to be opened, through which assistance will be given students to become self-supporting while they are pursuing their studies. The new enterprise will be backed by an advisory board of Spokane business men.
“An employment bureau is also to be opened, through which assistance will be given students to become self-supporting.”
Vocational training remains a cornerstone of the Inland Empire's economy today. This 1916 initiative mirrors modern regional workforce development efforts, emphasizing the same dual goal of practical education paired with pathways to immediate employment.
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