Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-11-23
Supt. Briscoe Opens
Y !. Business Mems Eyes

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During the past summer vacation
portion of the boys and girls of
the Ashland high school earned be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000" stated
Superintendent of Schools Briscoe
before the Ashland Commercial Club
last week. The business men in
the audience sat up Could an
amount like this be earned by boys
and girls between IA and IS years
of age? Mr.. Briscoe proceeded to
show that it could and why it could,
and by the time he had sat down to
hearty storm of applause the thirty
men in the room had totally diff
ferent understanding of the work
which the Ashland high school is
doing and of the part the citizens Of
Ashland can play in advancing this
work.
Mr.. Briscoe told of the things. ac-
complishcd by the employment bu-
reau organized by the Alumni Associ-
alton. How during the past summer
every boy from the high school who
wanted to work and did not find a
job himself, was placed by the bu-
reau in good job with good wages.
How letters and finally telephone
calls poured in from Hit, Weed,
Klamath Falls and scores of farms
and orchards until all the boys were
placed and still the calls came. How
many were permanently placed in
fine positions with good salaries.
He then told of the next aim of
the alumni bureau, which was to Sc
cure the odd job work throughout
the city for the boys and girls who
needed the money instead of allow
ing the cash to go to transients. He
made an appeal to the business men
to call up the high school when a
boy was needed and told of the sys-
TEN which was being evolved where
by the boys particularly suited for
various kinds of work would be sent
in answer to queries and how each
boy would be checked up and cut off
the employment list if his work was
not satisfactory. Even if the boys
have to miss a few lessons we will
send them out at any time" he re-
marked; some things are more i'm
portant than lessons, and enabling
the boy to stay in school is one of
them"
Mr.. Briscoe invited the citizens
generally to come out to the school,
get in touch with the practical work
being done, suggest changes to make
the work tend more toward con-
formity with the work which would
meet the graduate upon leaving
school and better prepare the stu
dent to meet the problems he will
meet after graduation.
The struggle to get an education
by boys and girls in the country dis
tricts around Ashland was pictured
by the school man. He told of let
ters received from teachers in the
county schools inquiring concerning
places where boys and girls could
work for their board and go to high
school in Ashland; boys and girls
whose parents are unable to pay
their board but to whom high
school education will be doubly valu-
able because of the steadfast purpose
which these students will bring with
them He urged that every resident
of Ashland who can make room for
q worker in his home communicate
with the high school and help some
boy or girl to an education,
Finally he told of the places
which high school graduates had
found in the world with the equip
ment which Ashland high had given
them. How one graduate of last
year took his mechanical drawings
to a firm of architects in Grand Rap
ids and was given a position at SIS
a month and has made fine record
with the company. How sixteen
graduates of the teachers training
class are teaching in Oregon today.
How a letter from the Weed Lumber
Company asks If the school has any
more young men graduating like the
highly satisfactory young fellow who
was placed there last year; and
numerous other instances. He then
made a plea for helping hand for
the graduates in the first year after
leaving school, and asked that the
business men give them every possi-
BILE aid in getting a foothold in the
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