Spokane Launches New Vocational School
A new institution aims to train the workforce in everything from steam engineering to business, complete with a student-led employment bureau.
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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. Eastberg, 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 while they are pursuing their studies.”
Vocational training is as essential today as it was in 1916. While we now call it workforce development, the challenge of helping students balance study with immediate self-support remains a persistent issue in Washington’s economy.
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