The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27
VOCATIONAL IN NATURE
Many Who Attended School Last Year
Register for Entrance-varied Sub
jects to Meet New Demands-School
in Session Two Nights Each Week.

A night school, free to every man
and woman in Kenosha, will be open
ed Tuesday evening, October End, by
the Industrial Board of Education, in
continuance of the plan which was
found so successful last year. The
work, which is to be vocational in
nature, is to be under the direction of
Prof. Victor E. Thompson, director Of
the day continuation school, and will
employ about twenty five teachers,
most of them, selected from the regu-
lar corps of teachers Of the school, but
a few from the various industries Of
the city to specialize in instruction in
those lines. There will be a nominal
charge to insure the continuance of
students in the school but his will be
returned at the end Of the term. A
laboratory fee for such courses which
demand it will be the only other cost
outside OF text books which the stu
dent will be called upon to incur.
The courses offered by the school
cannot be announced until the organi-
cation has been perfected and the de-
mand for varied subjects is made clear
1t is certain, however that there VIII
be several classes for the teaching Of
English to aliens together with an all
vanced course in the use of business
English. IF there are as many as
fifteen pupils demanding the subject,
classes will be organized in history,
Spanish, French and other cultural
studies. There will be in addition the
regular courses in commercial work,
mathematics, cooking, mechanical draw
ing and in special lines, such as sign
writing and window decorating, if
enough pupils enroll and teachers can
be obtained in the city.
For the present the classes will all
be held in the high school building on
Tuesday and Thursday evenings; the
teachers will be in their rooms at
seven thirty for individual help to the
students and class work will begin at
eight and continue till nine-thirty. It
is hoped that those contemplating
entrance will Investigate Immediately
so that they can begin with the class
on next Tuesday evening.
The work Of the night school was
highly successful last year; more than
five hundred pupils were enrolled and
large percentage of these have signi-
fed their intention Of re-entering this
year. The school last year was started
in the Holy Rosary Hall, but it so
quickly outgrew these quarters that it
is deemed best this year to start it in
the larger building. The classes which
prepared for citizenship were especial
ly popular among the aliens last year
and will be continued with especial
attention paid to the question of patri
otism as demanded in the new crisis
Lists of aliens, who come to the city
will be regularly furnished to the
officials and an attempt will be made
to bring these into the schools so
that they will be fitted for citizen
ship as soon as possible.
The alien element made up about
fifty per cent of the school last year;
the remainder came from those who
were forced at an early age to quit
school to support themselves or of men
who had found themselves lacking in
some special line. The men and women
ranged all the way in age from seven
teen to fifty and less than ten per cent
failed to finish the courses. Definite
announcement of tn courses with which
the school will start will be made by
Superintendent Thompson later in the
week. The opening of the school is
welcomed by many young men and
women in Kenosha who have desire
to better their opportunities for ''get-
ting some place in the world