HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 93-4644, by Representatives Flemming, Wang, Conway, Campbell, Roland, Eide, Hansen, R. Fisher and Talcott

            WHEREAS, Clover Park Technical College has been enriching and bolstering the economy of Washington state for fifty years, by offering technical and vocational training to the young people and workers of the state; and

            WHEREAS, Clover Park Technical College has been contributing to their students achieving self-sufficiency so they are able to provide for themselves and their families; and

            WHEREAS, Clover Park Technical College is a public job training institution located in the Lakewood area of southwest Tacoma, and traces its history to 1942-43 when the Clover Park School District began to provide civilian war production training for nearby military installations; and

            WHEREAS, In 1941 Mt. Rainier Ordinance Depot and McChord contracted with Clover Park High School to do war production training in the areas of aircraft service mechanics, auto mechanics, shipfitting, blueprint reading, and welding; and

            WHEREAS, In 1941 three bays and a hangar were built at the new Clover Park High School to house the machine shop and automotive shop, and an aviation air strip was cleared to allow aircraft to fly in for maintenance; and

            WHEREAS, During 1942 and 1943 war production training began and vocational training at Clover Park Vocational Technical Institute was born; and

            WHEREAS, During that time more than three thousand students were trained, many of them women whose husbands were overseas; and

            WHEREAS, In September 1991 Clover Park Vocational Technical Institute became Clover Park Technical College; and

            WHEREAS, Clover Park Technical College now offers seventy-three training programs; and

            WHEREAS, Over three thousand five hundred students attend full-time training programs annually and fifty thousand students attend part-time continuing education classes annually; and

            WHEREAS, On April 22, 1993, Clover Park Technical College will be celebrating "50 years of Quality Training";

            NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives recognize the 50th anniversary of Clover Park Technical College providing quality training for the workers of the state, and that the House of Representatives recognize the College's efforts to create a productive work force for a competitive economy.

                                           I hereby certify this to be a true and correct copy of

                                      Resolution 4644 adopted by the House of Representatives

                                                                       April 14, 1993.

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                                                            Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk