{"id":452,"date":"2012-07-20T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T09:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www5.milwaukee.k12.wi.us\/school\/bradleytech\/?page_id=452"},"modified":"2024-08-28T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:52:56","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mps.school\/bradleytech\/about\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; module_class=&#8221;page-intro&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.2&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]Lynde and Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School has known many names since it first opened its doors in Milwaukee\u2019s Walker\u2019s Point neighborhood in 1906: [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boys Technology and Trade School (1906-1976)<\/li>\n<li>Milwaukee Trade &amp; Technical High School (1976-2002)<\/li>\n<li>Lynde and Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School (2002-present)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_blurb image=&#8221;https:\/\/mpsschoolsites.wpenginepowered.com\/bradleytech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2024\/08\/BoysTech-Pre960.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Boys&#8217; Technical High School&#8221; content_max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;20px|20px|20px|20px|true|false&#8221; border_width_all=&#8221;1px&#8221; border_color_all=&#8221;#D6D6D6&#8243; border_width_all_image=&#8221;1px&#8221; border_color_all_image=&#8221;#D6D6D6&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Boys Technology and Trade School<br \/><em>Photo: Historic Photo Collection \/ Milwaukee Public Library.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Over the decades, the school \u2014 often referred to simply as \u201cTech\u201d \u2014 has maintained its commitment to providing a top-tier trade and technical education that prepares students for success in college, career, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents who come to Tech choose from trade, technical, and career-based educational programs that prepare them for impactful, family supporting career opportunities,\u201d says Principal Aaron Shapiro. \u201cWhether they enter the workforce immediately after graduation or take their Tech diploma to a college or university, our graduates are ready for what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Below is a brief timeline of the school.<\/p>\n<h2>2006<\/h2>\n<p>Using combined city and district funds, the former Boys Technology and Trade School building is demolished. The area is repurposed to become a park and athletic field for the Tech Trojans thanks in part to a donation from the National Football League. Notable alumni in attendance included Eric Ben\u00e9t (four-time Grammy-nominated musician) and Michael Bennett (2001 round-one draft pick for the NFL).<\/p>\n<h2>2002<\/h2>\n<p>Extensive renovations to the current Tech building are completed and the school is renamed Lynde and Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School following a generous donation from Jane Bradley Pettit.<\/p>\n<h2>1976<\/h2>\n<p>Women are admitted to the school, prompting a new name: Milwaukee Trade &amp; Technical High School.<\/p>\n<h2>1911-14<\/h2>\n<p>Construction of a new Boys Technology and Trade School campus is underway. The completed building on West Virginia Street includes shop areas dedicated to cabinetry, electricity, machines, patterns, plumbing, and student barracks.<\/p>\n<h2>1910<\/h2>\n<p>Just one year after completing his second term in the White House, Theodore Roosevelt visits Milwaukee on a goodwill tour and makes a stop at Boys Technology and Trade School.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering a speech at the Milwaukee Auditorium, Roosevelt applauds city leaders for their commitment to trade education. \u201cI wanted to see the trade schools because I regard you as having taken here in Milwaukee an all important first step in incorporating these trade schools into your common school system. Our republic has no meaning unless it is a genuine democracy, a democracy economically meaningless unless it is a genuine democracy, a democracy economically as well as politically, a democracy in which there is a really sincere and reasonable effort to realize the ideal of equality of opportunity for all men\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>1909<\/h2>\n<p>A fire destroys a portion of the school, and the Milwaukee Board of School Directors approves construction of a new building on West Virginia Street.<\/p>\n<h2>1907<\/h2>\n<p>William L. Pieplow introduces a resolution to the Milwaukee Board of School Directors proposing that the city\u2019s education department assume directorship of Boys Technology and Trade School. The resolution is amicable and successful.<\/p>\n<h2>1906<\/h2>\n<p>Boys Technology and Trade School opens at 156 Clinton Street. It becomes one of Wisconsin\u2019s largest high schools with an enrollment of 2,900 students, and among the nation\u2019s first schools to specialize in trade education, offering amenities that included machine, cabinet, and pattern shops, and warehouse space.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s modest tuition is described thusly in a 1905 prospectus: \u201cIt is not expected that the fees received will pay the expenses of operation, but the deficit will be made good by public spirited citizens who feel the need of such a school and appreciate the benefit to the city and its growth which will result from its maintenance.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>1905<\/h2>\n<p>A School of Trades Committee is formed by Frederick W. Sivyer and fellow Milwaukee industrialists and entrepreneurs: John I. Beggs, J.W.P. Lombard, Gardner Stickney, O.H. Falk, Louis Auer, A.J. Lindemann, E.G. Pratt, Chas, Quarles, Geo. H.D. Johnson, Carroll G. Pearse, T.L. Smith, Walter Read, H.H. Cutter, J.S. Church, Geo. B. Ferry, A.O. Smith, C.E. McLenegan, and Chas. D. Crane.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Harnischfeger of Pawling and Harnischfeger Co. donates a building at the northeast corner of South First and East Oregon streets.<\/p>\n<h2>1903<\/h2>\n<p>Merchants and Manufacturers Association figurehead Frederick W. Sivyer begins conversations and preparations with fellow industrialists to start a school that \u201cgives young men in Milwaukee an opportunity to learn a trade of their choice from skilled, able teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_toggle title=&#8221;An Original, Uncondensed History of Tech&#8221; closed_toggle_background_color=&#8221;#EEE9F2&#8243; icon_color=&#8221;#5D2C85&#8243; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;on&#8221; icon_font_size=&#8221;28px&#8221; open_icon_color=&#8221;#5D2C85&#8243; open_use_icon_font_size=&#8221;on&#8221; open_icon_font_size=&#8221;28px&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.2&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; title_level=&#8221;h2&#8243; border_color_all=&#8221;#5D2C85&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Below is an original and uncondensed history of the school as written by a group of alumni in the 1950s.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>The Artisan \u2013 1956<\/h3>\n<p>Two men stand out above all others in the history of Boys\u2019 Technical High School. One was responsible for the idea of a trade school, and he fostered that idea until it grew even beyond his dreams. The other was an internationally known figure who made our school exceedingly popular in Milwaukee while giving Tech a national reputation. The first man was Mr. Frederick W. Sivyer. As early as 1903, Mr. Sivyer was discussing the idea of a trade school with other industrialists of the time. As a prominent member of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, he felt it a duty of his organization to give young men in Milwaukee an opportunity to learn a trade of their choice from skilled, able teachers. In a comparatively short time, students, who otherwise would probably have become common laborers, could attain a skill and a well-rounded education and enter their field with a degree of confidence and success to the advantage of the individual, of industry, and, above all, of society.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take Mr. Sivyer long to convince others of the value of a trade school. But plans had to be worked out. Competent teachers had to be found and hired. A building had to be rented. Finances were a problem. But the Merchants and Manufacturers Association was interested in education then, just as industrialists today sponsor educational enterprises through their association of commerce, as it is now called.<\/p>\n<p>A school of Trades Committee was formed in 1905 with the following influential members: F.S. Sivyer, John I. Beggs, J.W.P. Lombard, Gardner Stickney, O.H. Falk, Louis Auer, A.J. Lindemann , E.G. Pratt, Chas, Quarles, Geo. H.D. Johnson, Carroll G. Pearse , T.L. Smith, Walter Read, H.H. Cutter, J.S. Church, Geo. B. Ferry, A.O. Smith, C.E. McLenegan, and Chas. D. Crane. These members had seen the City Hall grow from the small towered structure. They remembered the old Union Depot while viewing the new impressive depot of their day. They knew that if there was merit in a school of trades, any centrally located building they could find would grow along with the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Harnischfeger of Pawling and Harnischfeger Co. offered just the building to provide a humble beginning. It was located at 156 Clinton Street, now the northeast corner of South First and East Oregon Streets. Mr. Sivyer\u2019s idea was sound; for the School of Trades grew to an enrollment of 2900 pupils, the largest high school in the state.<\/p>\n<p>One year after its firm foundation was laid, the School of Trades was taken over by the Education Department of the City of Milwaukee. William L. Pieplow introduced a resolution to that effect to the School Board in 1907. As a member of that board and an advocate of trade education to help Milwaukee grow, Mr. Pieplow has been proud of his part in befriending Tech. William George Bruce, his lifelong friend, who, as Secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, wrote the minutes from which we gleaned our information, helped Mr. Sivyer immeasurably in sponsoring trade education and Tech in particular, lived only two blocks from Tech until he died in 1949, and was buried from Holy Trinity Church just across the street from our auditorium entrance. Mr. Pieplow chuckles with pride today in his office on National Avenue as he recounts how Mr. Bruce had both eyes on Boys\u2019 Tech as he watched industry and Milwaukee expand. Their picture was taken as they spoke at our graduation exercises in 1946.<\/p>\n<p>What was there in the beginning of Tech that appealed to the civic leaders, industrialists, students, and the public so much that our school grew into national prominence? The Artisan Staff has found three things that attracted young men to Tech beside the genuine heartfelt support of Milwaukee\u2019s leaders. One was the very promising course of study; another was the popular support of the city\u2019s School Board; and last was the sincere boost given to Tech when the internationally famous speaker mentioned above convinced Milwaukee that Tech was a symbol of America\u2019s progress in the production field.<\/p>\n<p>In our first building, the Machine Shop was on the first floor, a Cabinet Shop in the second, Pattern Shop on the third, and Plumbing in the basement and rear of the left wing with a warehouse or storage space in the right wing. Offices were on the main floor of the left wing, and Drafting was taught on the second floor. The first instructors were completely qualified to teach. They were selected from industry by capable personnel men. The cost for attendance was at a minimum for, as a 1905 Prospectus says, \u201cIt is not expected that the fees received will pay the expenses of operation, but the deficit will be made good by public spirited citizens who feel the need of such a school and appreciate the benefit to the city and its growth which will result from its maintenance.\u201d Students were expected to have actual practice but \u201clearn the reason why\u201d in all courses. In this yearbook, the aims of all courses are written into the shop sections; Courses allied to the shops were Drawing and Mathematics just as they are today. Present day students merely add requirements for a high school diploma.<\/p>\n<p>After only one year of successful operation, the Milwaukee School Board saw the great value of a Trade School in the overall picture of a growing industrial city and decided to take over the administration of the enterprise. On July 1, 1907, Tech became part of the Public School System. But the trades were something new in schools. Trades had been learned by apprenticeships or from fathers or by trial and error. Probably in the minds of some people trade schools were established with misgivings. But by September 8, 1910, all doubts were dispelled, and Milwaukee was proud to be in the national picture educationally.<\/p>\n<h3>The Pioneer Trade School<\/h3>\n<p>Former President Theodore Roosevelt was on a goodwill tour of the nation. An entourage of newspaper men from all the leading cities in the country followed him and wrote up every word he said to be thought over by an eager reading public. In Milwaukee the whole city turned out to fill the streets on his itinerary. The picture below reflects his wholesome popularity as he stepped off the train to be greeted by the mayor and a newsboy on September 7, 1910.<\/p>\n<p>This world-renowned figure made two predetermined stops: one at Boys\u2019 Tech; the other at Girls\u2019 Tech. He was interested in this new thing: trades taught in schools. He stepped out of his car and into our Trade School office, then walked through the Drawing Department, where he shook hands with many of the students including Mr. Carl Schubert, one of our present instructors. He asked questions of the faculty and administrators. Next morning newspapers the country over had copies of his Milwaukee Auditorium speech of the day before. More than half of that speech was devoted to the good that Public Trade Schools can do for industry and for society. He said, \u201cI wanted to see the trade schools because I regard you as having taken here in Milwaukee an all important first step in incorporating these trade schools into your common school system. Our republic has no meaning unless it is a genuine democracy, a democracy economically meaning unless it is a genuine democracy, a democracy economically as well as politically, a democracy in which there is a really sincere and reasonable effort to realize the ideal of equality of opportunity for all men\u2026 That means that it is our duty to provide such means of education as will enable each man to become a self-sustaining, self-respecting unit in the community.\u201d The whole city applauded when he added, \u201cNow, the trade schools here mark the beginning of the effort to fit each man to do the very best that lies in him in the world \u2026 There is always a demand for the highly skilled worker in any walk of life and when you get our average laboring man, our average wage-earner, to be turned out of trade schools, that man will have gone a long way toward solving some of the most difficult questions with which this republic has to deal\u2026 You do not often find a man who is industrious, who has a habit of orderly work and who is able to do his work well, who is a lawless, violent character. He is pretty apt to be a decent law-abiding, self-respecting member of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee fed on these choice compliments. Boys wanted to go to the Trade School. Fathers wanted their children to go there. Inquiries came to the principal and teachers from the city, the state, the country. Teachers still have letters from New York, Baltimore, and Seattle asking about the setup, the course of study, administration. Patriotic educators remembered Roosevelt\u2019s words, \u201cWe ought to do our best to see that reward and respect come in greater proportion that at present to the man who does the best form of manual labor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tech was made! And all this despite a fire that burned out the center section of the school on December 31, 1909. The three departments from that section were temporarily moved a block east to the southeast corner of Oregon and Barclay Streets. In the meantime, the School Board got busy on a new building on West Virginia Street. The two wings were built in 1911 and 1912. The wing on Third Street was to be occupied by the Plumbing Shop in the basement and first floor and Cabinet Shops on the second and third floors. The Fourth Street Wing contained the Machine Shop on the first floor, Pattern Shop on the second floor, and Electric Shop and offices on the third. In 1914, the entrance and academic classrooms were built. The rear part with the old boiler room was on College Place which is now occupied by an additional wing, barracks, and a new boiler room.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_toggle][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynde and Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School has known many names since it first opened its doors in Milwaukee\u2019s Walker\u2019s Point neighborhood in 1906: Boys Technology and Trade School (1906-1976) Milwaukee Trade &amp; Technical High School (1976-2002) Lynde and Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School (2002-present) Boys Technology and Trade SchoolPhoto: Historic Photo Collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":4769,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"The Lynde and Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School is a high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was founded in 1906 as Boys Technology and Trade School, and changed its name to Milwaukee Trade &amp; Technical High School in 1976, after women were admitted. The school's name was changed to its present one in 2002 following a donation by Jane Pettit. Local residents refer to it simply as \"Tech.\" Tech specialzies in Construction, Communications and Manufacturing. Renovations to the school were completed on November 11, 2002. The former Boys Tech building was removed in 2006 using Milwaukee City and MPS funds. The area is currently being converted to an athletic field and park thanks to a grant from the NFL and a local donation. Depending on the outcome of a further funding request to the NFL, the playing field may be changed from grass to artificial turf.\r\n\r\nTech has always done exceptionally well in sports especially basketball and football. On many occasions, Tech was named City Champions. Ladies volleyball did an outstanding 2005-2006 season, placing third in the city after Bay View and Riverside. As of 2006, the boys baseball team is undefeated. Girls softball is in fourth place in City. The school has paired with Rufus King High School, another high school in the city, to produce a FIRST robotics team, Team 1675, which attended many events over the last two years. Tech's long time rival is Bay View High School Red Cats. Tech's mascot is Tuffy the Trojan sporting purple and white. Eric Benet (singer) and Michael Bennett (NFL) attended Tech. Tech celebrates 100 years. The 2006 graduation ceremony was recorded live for the new channels broadcasting in Milwaukee. The class of 2006 was the first to complete all four years in the new building.\r\n<h2>The Artisan - 1956<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-738\" src=\"https:\/\/mpsschoolsites.wpenginepowered.com\/bradleytech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2012\/07\/Bradley-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"311\" \/>\r\n\r\nTwo men stand out above all others in the history of Boys' Technical High School . One was responsible for the idea of a Trade School, and he fostered that idea until it grew even beyond his dreams. The other was an internationally known figure who made our school exceedingly popular in Milwaukee while giving Tech a national reputation. The first man was Mr. Frederick W. Sivyer whose picture is below. As early as 1903, Mr. Sivyer was discussing the idea of a Trade School with other industrialists of the time. As a prominent member of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, he felt it a duty of his organization to give young men in Milwaukee an opportunity to learn a trade of their choice from skilled, able teachers. In a comparatively short time, students, who otherw ise would probably have become common laborers, could attain a skill and a well-rounded education and enter their field with a degree of confidence and success to the advantage of the individual, of industry, and, above all, of society.\r\n\r\nIt didn't take Mr. Sivyer long to convince others of the value of a Trade School. But plans had to be worked out. Competent teachers had to be found and hired. A building had to be rented. Finances were a problem. But the Merchants and Manufacturers Association was interested in education then, just as industrialists today sponsor educational enterprises through their Association of commerce, as it is now called.\r\n\r\nA school of Trades Committee was formed in 1905 with the following influential members: F.S. Sivyer, John I. Beggs , J.W.P. Lombard, Gardner Stickney, O.H. Falk, Louis Auer, A.J. Lindemann , E.G. Pratt, Chas, Quarles, Geo. H.D. Johnson, Carroll G. Pearse , T.L. Smith, Walter Read, H.H. Cutter, J.S. Church, Geo. B. Ferry, A.O. Smith, C.E. McLenegan , and Chas. D. Crane. These members had seen the City Hall grow from the small towered structure. They remembered the old Union Depot while viewing the new impressive depot of their day. They knew that if there was merit in a School of Trades , any centrally located building they could find would grow along with the idea.\r\n\r\nHenry Harnischfeger of Pawling and Harnischfeger Co. offered just the building to provide a humble beginning. It was located at 156 Clinton Street , now the northeast corner of South First and East Oregon Streets. Mr. Sivyer's idea was sound; for the School of Trades grew to an enrollment of 2900 pupils, the largest high school in the state.\r\n\r\nOne year after its firm foundation was laid, the School of Trades was taken over by the Education Department of the City of Milwaukee . William L. Pieplow introduced a resolution to that effect to the School Board in 1907. As a member of that board and an advocate of trade education to help Milwaukee grow, Mr. Pieplow has been proud of his part in befriending Tech. William George Bruce, his lifelong friend, who, as Secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, wrote the minutes from which we gleaned our information, helped Mr. Sivyer immeasurably in sponsoring trade education and Tech in particular, lived only two blocks from Tech until he died in 1949, and was buried from Holy Trinity Church just across the street from our auditorium entrance. Mr. Pieplow chuckles with pride today in his office on National Avenue as he recounts how Mr. Bruce had both eyes on Boys' Tech as he watched industry and Milwaukee expand. Their picture was taken as they spoke at our graduation exercises in 1946.\r\n\r\nWhat was there in the beginning of Tech that appealed to the civic leaders, industrialists, students, and the public so much that our school grew into national prominence? The Artisan Staff has found three things that attracted young men to Tech beside the genuine heartfelt support of Milwaukee 's leaders. One was the very promising course of study; another was the popular support of the city's School Board; and last was the sincere boost given to Tech when the internationally famous speaker mentioned above convinced Milwaukee that Tech was a symbol of America 's progress in the production field.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-737\" src=\"https:\/\/mpsschoolsites.wpenginepowered.com\/bradleytech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2012\/07\/Bradley-1.1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"158\" \/>In our first building, the Machine Shop was on the first floor, a Cabinet Shop in the second, Pattern Shop on the third, and Plumbing in the basement and rear of the left wing with a warehouse or storage space in the right wing. Offices wee on the main floor of the left wing, and Drafting was taught on the second floor. The first instructors were completely qualified to teach. They were selected from industry by capable personnel men. The cost for attendance was at a minimum for, as a 1905 Prospectus says, \u201cIt is not expected that the fees received will pay the expenses of operation, but the deficit will be made good by public spirited citizens who feel the need of such a school and appreciate the benefit to the city and its growth which will result from its maintenance.\u201d Students were expected to have actual practice but \u201clearn the reason why\u201d in all courses. In this yearbook, the aims of all courses are written into the shop sections; Courses allied to the shops were Drawing and Mathematics just as they are today. Present day students merely add requirements for a high school diploma.\r\n\r\nAfter only one year of successful operation, the Milwaukee School Board saw the great value of a Trade School in the overall picture of a growing industrial city and decided to take over the administration of the enterprise. On July 1, 1907, Tech became part of the Public School System. But the trades were something new in schools. Trades had been learned by apprenticeships or from fathers or by trial and error. Probably in the minds of some people trade schools were established with misgivings. But by September 8, 1910 all doubts were dispelled, and Milwaukee was proud to be in the national picture educationally.\r\n<h2>The Pioneer Trade School<\/h2>\r\n<h2><img class=\"alignright wp-image-740\" src=\"https:\/\/mpsschoolsites.wpenginepowered.com\/bradleytech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2012\/07\/Bradley4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"278\" \/><\/h2>\r\nFormer President Theodore Roosevelt was on a goodwill tour of the nation. An entourage of newspaper men from all the leading cities in the country followed him and wrote up every word he said to be thought over by an eager reading public. In Milwaukee the whole city turned out to fill the streets on his itinerary. The picture below reflects his wholesome popularity as he stepped off the train to be greeted by the mayor and a newsboy on September 7, 1910.\r\n\r\nThis world-renowned figure made two predetermined stops:\u00a0 one at Boys' Tech; the other at Girls' Tech.\u00a0 He was interested in this new thing:\u00a0 trades taught in schools.\u00a0 He stepped out of his car and into our Trade School office, then walked through the Drawing Department, where he shook hands with many of the students including Mr. Carl Schubert, one of our present instructors.\u00a0 He asked questions of the faculty and administrators.\u00a0 Next morning newspapers the country over had copes of his Milwaukee Auditorium speech of the day before.\u00a0 More than half of that speech was devoted to the good that Public Trade Schools can do for industry and for society.\u00a0 He said, \u201cI wanted to see the trade schools because I regard you as having taken here in Milwaukee an all important first step in incorporating these trade schools into your common school system.\u00a0 Our republic has no meaning unless it is a genuine democracy, a democracy economically meaning unless it is a genu9ine democracy, a democracy economically as well as politically, a democracy in which there is a really sincere and reasonable effort to realize the ideal of equality of opportunity for all men\u2026 That means that it is our duty to provide such means of education as will enable each man to become a self-sustaining, self-respecting unit in the community.\u201d\u00a0 The whole city applauded when he added, \u201cNow, the trade schools here mark the beginning of the effort to fit each man to do the very best that lies in him in the world \u2026 There is always a demand for the highly skilled worker in any walk of life and when you get our average laboring man, our average wage-earner, to be turned out of trade schools, that man will have gone a long way toward solving some of the most difficult questions with which this republic has to deal\u2026 You do not often find a man who is industrious, who has a habit of orderly work and who is able to do his work well, who is a lawless, violent character.\u00a0 He is pretty apt to be a decent law-abiding, self-respecting member of the community.\u201d\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-741\" src=\"https:\/\/mpsschoolsites.wpenginepowered.com\/bradleytech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2012\/07\/Bradley6.1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"315\" \/>Milwaukee fed on these choice compliments.\u00a0 Boys wanted to go to the Trade School.\u00a0 Fathers wanted their children to go there.\u00a0 Inquiries came to the principal and teachers from the city, the state, the country.\u00a0 Teachers still have letters from New York, Baltimore, and Seattle asking about the setup, the course of study, administration.\u00a0 Patriotic educators remembered Roosevelt 's words, \u201cWe ought to do our best to see that reward and respect come in greater proportion that at present to the man who does the best form of manual labor.\u201d\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-742\" src=\"https:\/\/mpsschoolsites.wpenginepowered.com\/bradleytech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2012\/07\/Bradley5.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"236\" \/>Tech was made!\u00a0 And all this despite a fire that burned out the center section of the school on December 31, 1909. The three departments from that section were temporarily moved a block east to the southeast corner of Oregon and Barclay Streets.\u00a0 In the meantime, the School Board got busy on a new building on West Virginia Street .\u00a0 Its progress is shown in pictures below.\u00a0 The two wings were built in 1911 and 1912.\u00a0 The wing on Third Street was to be occupied by the Plumbing Shop in the basement and first floor and Cabinet Shops on the second and third floors.\u00a0 The Fourth Street Wing contained the Machine Shop on the first floor, Pattern Shop on the second floor, and Electric Shop and offices on the third.\u00a0 In 1914, the entrance and academic classrooms were built.\u00a0 Scenes here show that addition from the front and the rear.\u00a0 The rear part with the old boiler room was on College Place which is now occupied by an additional wing, barracks, and a new boiler room.","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-452","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/bradleytech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/bradleytech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/bradleytech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/bradleytech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/bradleytech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/bradleytech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/452\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/bradleytech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/bradleytech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}