The Women’s American ORT announced today that a new 2,000-student ORT apprenticeship center in Jerusalem will be named in memory of the late President Kennedy.
Mrs. Sidney Senzer, national vice-president and school building project chairman, said the school had been so named in response to requests from thousands of Women’s ORT members. She said the center would be located in Bocca, in northern Jerusalem, where inhabitants are mainly new immigrants and where there is considerable industrial development. Completion of the center is expected in September 1965, she added.
A wide variety of vocational courses will be offered for both boy and girl students in six workshops, seven laboratories and six classrooms. Courses offered to boys will include mechanics, auto electricity, electromechanics, electricity, radio electricity, graphic arts, locksmith, tinsmith, woodwork, and house painting. Girls’ courses will be dressmaking, graphic arts, window dressing, photography, secretarial work, and laboratory techniques.
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