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Show CUV School Head Explains Value of Vocational School dents, as well as adults, with the opportunity to train for a vocation in a school with adequate ade-quate ' facilities and well-train: ed technical teachers. High school students may enroll at the school and have the district dist-rict take care of the tuition. Mr. Sorensen pointed out that a cumulative total of around 1400 students were enrolled in night courses last year and some 450 day students. President Wilson Sorensen of the Central Utah Vocational Vocation-al School discussed the role the Vocational School plays in serving Utah county area as a trade school and told of its training value to new industries indus-tries at the regular dinner meeting of the Chamber of Commerce held Tuesday afternoon. after-noon. Robert Jenkins, president of the Chamber of Commerce was in charge of the meeting, to which all Chamber members were invited. Mr. Sorensen commended the group for the opportunity to meet in good fellowship as Chamber members mem-bers once each month. He pomted out the high quality of the Vocational School, its rapid ra-pid growth from a humble beginning be-ginning and its potential use in training men to be skilled tradesmen for new industries coming to a state. A survey showing the need for hundreds of skilled technicians, craftsmen crafts-men and trained personnel for new industries within the next two or three years in Utah was discussed by Mr. Sorensen, who was a member of the state committee appointed ap-pointed by the governor to make the survey. He further pointed out that the vocational vocation-al school is established to help those industries needing certain cer-tain types of skilled and trained train-ed men. It was established also al-so to provide high school stu- |