1954-1972

Louisville Business Men's Club. O. L. Newell, director of the program at the college, is shown at right: - Photo by Joe T. Cook. Vo-Tech Work Is Explained

THANKS FOR COMING - Grady Jolly, center, thanks Dr. Ch a r 1 es Wright, president of E. C. J. C., for presenting the program on vocation– al-technical training- at the weekly

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was begun as the result of an appeal in 1960 by then Gov. Paul B. Johnson who ask~ the junior colleges of Mis– sissippi to expedite a program of vocational and technical training. He said that the five counties, of which Winst()n is one, supporting E. C. J. C. co-operated in establishing the new curriculm and the buildings and fa<'i1 Hi~s oo~essary for it. .He said that the counties pledge . 1/4 mill tax for three years to e:et it started. "We have invested $680,000 in one building and $155 000 ·in another to set up ' the program," he concluded. Director Newell told the club (Continued on Page 8)

"W ;:) cannot meet the demands for our graduates in our new vocational-technical training at East . Central Junior College," Dr. Charles Wright, president of E. C. J. c., told members of the Louisville Business Men's Club at their Tuesday noon luncheon. Dr. Wright and 0. L. Newell, director of the vocational-technical training, wpre pr 0 sent.cd by Grady .folly, program chairman. "We are': offering training to people that the junior college has never reached before and we are also serving the dis- . advantaged and school drop– outs," the President Wright said. He told of how the program

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