learning to wait
TBHC60 years ago…
September 28, 1946 – The adult vocational department at Brewster Vocational School, which placed scores of Tampa girls and women in waitress jobs before World War II, announces plans for the organization of a hotel-waitress training course to be offered at the Floridan Hotel. L.J. Adams, principal of the adult program, said, “This is a course where the value of training afforded is clearly reflected in the satisfactory and permanent jobs obtained by the students taking these courses.” Registration cost $1 ($10.27 in today’s dollars) and would be taught by the dining room manager at the Floridan, William R. Fewer.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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October 1st, 2006 at 11:23 pm
All I hear people say is that we need technical training for our students. And I get so sad because somewhere we confirm that children should dream no hire than their social economic condition. I was dual track at Leto c/o 88. I did the Army / Health Dept thing and then did the College & University thing. I’m glad that my dual track was college prep. I tell my own children people will pay you to use one of these three things: your butt, your hand or your brain. Which one do you want to use for money?