The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1935-10-24
Natl OccupatiOnaI Meet
Scheduled, Nov. 1928

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pose of stimulating greater inter-
est and increased activity in the
training of Negroes for specialized
technical jobs and in the placing
of trained young people in busin-
ess and industry, the National Oc-
cupational Conference will hold a
regional conference at Atlanta
University during the week of No
vember Is, at which the whole
problem of the training and the
placement of colored youth viii be
considered. To this conference has
been invited a representative group
of educators, placement and guild
ance officers, personnel workers in
Industry, and industrialists from
all parts of the South. About six
ty persons are expected to partici-
pate in the proceedings.
Arrangements for the meeting
are in the hands of local COM
mittee of which President John
Hope of Atlanta University is the
chairman, and DR.. Harold H. Blk
Ter, director of research and guild
ance in the Atlanta Public Schools,
is secretary. The local committee
is made up of more than a score
of educators, personnel officers,
and employers.
DR.. Franklin Keller of New York
City, director Of the National Oc-
cupational Conference, viii be pre-
sent to direct the Atlanta meeting.
Sessions will begin on Monday,
November IL, and continue thru
satu day, November %. These
will be held in the Atlanta Univer-
sity Library and adjacent build
ings. The program will consist of
open meetings for general state
ment of the occupational problems
to be considered, series Of three
panel discussions dealing with per-
sonnet work in industry, economics
and vocational guidance, and the
programs of the governmental ag-
encies that deal with occupational
problems, and of series of group
discussions. These group meetings,
in which more specialized problems
will be considered, will be organ
lied along two lines: first, by re-
representatives. of high schools, col
leges, and of industry, and second,
by groups of guidance teachers,
vocational guidance officers, place
ment workers, and other function
al groups.
The detectives of the Atlanta
conference were defined by the To-
cal committee as being five-fold in
character: to encourage Negro and
white employers to utilize Negroes
by showing how young people are
being trained for specialized tech
meal jobs; to open up new and
wider opportunities; to develop the
right attitudes toward all honor
able work; to disseminate oceupa-
tional information; to stimulate
further local occupational confer
ences with definite concrete per-
posals as a result.
The program of the National
Occupational Conference is being
carried on over a period of years
through funds provided for its
work by the Carnegie Corporation.
In addition to it's work of holding
regional conferences, the confer
ence has prepared a series Of alb
stracts on occupations and other
publications for use by schools and
personnel workers, and has issued
a monthly magazine, Occupation"
dealing with contemporary devel-
opments in the field of occupation
al guidance, training, and place
ment. It's director, Dr. Keller, is
best known for his work as prin-
cipal of the East Side Continue
ton School, New York City, which
has been a pioneer in the field of
post-sehool training.