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Robert E. Charron, 72, of Shrewsbury, formerly of Worcester, passed away very peacefully on Thursday, November 16, 2023, surrounded by his loving family at Memorial Hospital in Worcester.
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Then & Now: Worcester Industrial Technical Institute, 26 Salisbury St., Worcester
And for those who roamed the halls, perhaps the prefered reference is WITI.
Opened in 1960, the post-secondary career training school at the time was called by the Worcester school district’s vocational education head “the first completely technical institute in the state.”
Students there, who were high school graduates from all across the state, learned trades like metal technology, data processing, and machine and tool drafting, before being scooped up by eager employers in the region, as the Telegram & Gazette put it back then.
The program was extremely popular at one point. In 1963, for example, the district had to turn away 300 applicants due to a lack of space, which is not unlike the situation today at Worcester Technical High School, the city’s remaining career training school that routinely has a waiting list.