Show The Good Old Days on Campus The opening of the he schools school's new campus at S. S Redwood Road stirred memories among faculty members of how hov things were way back in 1948 when 1948 when the schools school's history began It all started on the old campus campus campus cam cam- pus at South East The building was then the Troy Laundry and the classes moved right in with all the clothes cleaning cleaning cleaning clean clean- ing machinery As students learned shorthand on the second floor laundry em em- were pressing shirts one floor below Students often brought their cleaning to school with them and left it downstairs do with the laundry people said Mrs Harriet Vigen the first instructor hired by the school I Five other persons who came to work york for the school that first year I are still here They are President I Jay L. L Nelson Florence Flonence ence registrar Barbering Instructor Instructor Mart Knuteson Welding Instructor tor Don Wellard and Commercial Art Instructor Evan Jensen I In the early days the parking lot wasn't there e. e In its place were sever several l homes and a patio where whereas as many as third one-third of the students students students stu stu- dents would congregate for lunch During the early days school I was often a blast The furnace blew up one day Mrs tIrs Vigen said It happened at the end of the school year and didn't get repaired during the summer That year Salt Lake City had an early nearly fall We Ve had to move rolling space heaters up and down the hall to warm the classrooms recalled Mr Jensen The heaters made a like jet-like roar but the students were used to noise We had partitions between each classroom but they were only about eight feet high said Mr l Knutson Students could hear the lecturers from several different classrooms They could hear other things too Sometimes we vie w v would o 0 u l 1 d get squawking children in the barbershop barber barbershop barbershop shop and this would add to the confusion said Mr Knuteson The school didn't have enough maintenance personnel in the early days so students and faculty members members mem mem- bers bels did their own o sweeping Plumbing problems frequently I plagued the school and on several I occasions the basement was flood flood- ed The roof was as leaky as the pipes Sometimes said Mrs 1 Vigen we would have several pails in the classrooms catching the water vater that leaked through the roof The roof was troublesome for another another another an an- other reason too It was tar cov ered and this made the classrooms hot during the summer I remember one period of 10 or 12 days when the temperature in inthe inthe inthe the barber shop was vas over degrees degrees degrees de de- grees every single day said Mr Knuteson and we had no fan Students who are using the Auto Mechanics Welding and Repair shop may not realize it but when the school was vas started in 1948 their shop area was a stable The name of the school in those days was Salt Lake Area V Vocational Vocation Vocation- al School and the state did not then own the building When the building was bought in 1951 a mortgage burning ceremony ceremony ceremony cere cere- mony was held and it too was a blast The dignitary who burned the mortgage dropped it into a laundry vat and immediately a whistling sound began Then Then Then-a a loud boom Somebody had planted a firecracker fire firecracker firecracker cracker in the vat |