Blanche Nechanicky, second daughter of Frank and Agnes (Benda) Nechanicky, was born March 16, 1907, on a farm near Toledo, IA. She graduated from elementary school in Clutier, high school in Toledo, and college at Iowa State University at Ames, IA.
For one year, 1929-30, she taught home economics sewing in the junior high schools of Mason City, IA., after which she left for a three month trip to Europe. On her return to the U.S. she worked in commercial dressmaking and design establishments for seven years in New York City and San Francisco.
In 1937 she taught trade dressmaking and design in Sarah J. Hale Vocational High School in Brooklyn, N. Y.; and in 1938 she was appointed State Supervisor of Trade and Industrial Education in the New York State Education Dept., Albany, N. Y.; a position she held until retirement in 1969.
She earned a Masters Degree in Industrial Education from Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., in 1945. Throughout her professional life she was very active in professional associations and served on many committees, in offices as secretary, and as president of several State and National vocational and practical arts associations. She received an Outstanding Service Award from the New York State Vocational and Practical Arts Association in 1954 and one from the American Vocational Association in 1969.
Blanche has traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, South America, Japan, and the Holy Land. On two of her eight trips to Europe she acted as organizer and leader of an educational tour.
Since retirement she has been very active in organizations that promote a higher quality of life for the elderly, such as AARP and other retiree and senior citizen organizations. This includes serving on committees and in offices to plan programs, improve housing, transportation, recreation, economic security, and physical and mental health for older people. Blanche resides in Albany, New York.
by Mike Rudbeck
Clutier Girl Has New Job With New York City Firm
Miss Blanche Nechanicky, well-known former Clutier girl, continues to advance steadily in the profession which she has elected to follow at widely-distant points during the last two or three years.
Miss Nechanicky, a sister of Miss Felecia Nechanicky here, was employed for a time by the Brooklyn Edison company in Brooklyn, N.Y., at the conclusion of an extended European tour which she took after leaving Clutier, and for the last two years has held a good position with an exclusive dress shop in San Francisco, Cal. Returning to New York City a short time ago, she was soon successful in obtaining employment there as a dressmaking expert for the Butterick Pattern company.
Under the name of Blanche Bonnell, Miss Nechanicky now is traveling through New England states, contacting large department stores and schools and doing educational work for the pattern corporation. Spending a few days in each city which she visits, she conducts dressmaking clinics at which she gives personal cutting and pin-fitting demonstrations with a view of stimulating home dress-making and hence boosting the sales of the patterns of the Butterick company. Each of the clinics is widely advertised, and like the cooking schools which are conducted along the same lines but are much better known in towns and cities of this area, they are always well attended.
[Traer Star Clipper 5 October 1934]
Visits Here From New York
Miss Blanche Nechanicky, former Clutier girl who now holds the position of state supervisor of trade and industrial education with the New York state education department at Albany, New York, was a visitor here from Sunday to Wednesday at the F. E. Caslavka and Harry Kosnar homes. She left for Michigan to visit her sister, Felicia. Other weekend visitors at the Caslavka and Kosnar homes and at the T. E. Wright home near Traer were the Misses Jessie Boxwell and Ava Hoffman, of Martelle, Ia., where Mrs. Kosnar was formerly a teacher.
[Traer Star Clipper 19 August 1938
For one year, 1929-30, she taught home economics sewing in the junior high schools of Mason City, IA., after which she left for a three month trip to Europe. On her return to the U.S. she worked in commercial dressmaking and design establishments for seven years in New York City and San Francisco.
In 1937 she taught trade dressmaking and design in Sarah J. Hale Vocational High School in Brooklyn, N. Y.; and in 1938 she was appointed State Supervisor of Trade and Industrial Education in the New York State Education Dept., Albany, N. Y.; a position she held until retirement in 1969.
She earned a Masters Degree in Industrial Education from Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., in 1945. Throughout her professional life she was very active in professional associations and served on many committees, in offices as secretary, and as president of several State and National vocational and practical arts associations. She received an Outstanding Service Award from the New York State Vocational and Practical Arts Association in 1954 and one from the American Vocational Association in 1969.
Blanche has traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, South America, Japan, and the Holy Land. On two of her eight trips to Europe she acted as organizer and leader of an educational tour.
Since retirement she has been very active in organizations that promote a higher quality of life for the elderly, such as AARP and other retiree and senior citizen organizations. This includes serving on committees and in offices to plan programs, improve housing, transportation, recreation, economic security, and physical and mental health for older people. Blanche resides in Albany, New York.
by Mike Rudbeck
Clutier Girl Has New Job With New York City Firm
Miss Blanche Nechanicky, well-known former Clutier girl, continues to advance steadily in the profession which she has elected to follow at widely-distant points during the last two or three years.
Miss Nechanicky, a sister of Miss Felecia Nechanicky here, was employed for a time by the Brooklyn Edison company in Brooklyn, N.Y., at the conclusion of an extended European tour which she took after leaving Clutier, and for the last two years has held a good position with an exclusive dress shop in San Francisco, Cal. Returning to New York City a short time ago, she was soon successful in obtaining employment there as a dressmaking expert for the Butterick Pattern company.
Under the name of Blanche Bonnell, Miss Nechanicky now is traveling through New England states, contacting large department stores and schools and doing educational work for the pattern corporation. Spending a few days in each city which she visits, she conducts dressmaking clinics at which she gives personal cutting and pin-fitting demonstrations with a view of stimulating home dress-making and hence boosting the sales of the patterns of the Butterick company. Each of the clinics is widely advertised, and like the cooking schools which are conducted along the same lines but are much better known in towns and cities of this area, they are always well attended.
[Traer Star Clipper 5 October 1934]
Visits Here From New York
Miss Blanche Nechanicky, former Clutier girl who now holds the position of state supervisor of trade and industrial education with the New York state education department at Albany, New York, was a visitor here from Sunday to Wednesday at the F. E. Caslavka and Harry Kosnar homes. She left for Michigan to visit her sister, Felicia. Other weekend visitors at the Caslavka and Kosnar homes and at the T. E. Wright home near Traer were the Misses Jessie Boxwell and Ava Hoffman, of Martelle, Ia., where Mrs. Kosnar was formerly a teacher.
[Traer Star Clipper 19 August 1938
Blanche Nechanicky, second daughter of Frank and Agnes (Benda) Nechanicky, was born March 16, 1907, on a farm near Toledo, IA. She graduated from elementary school in Clutier, high school in Toledo, and college at Iowa State University at Ames, IA.
For one year, 1929-30, she taught home economics sewing in the junior high schools of Mason City, IA., after which she left for a three month trip to Europe. On her return to the U.S. she worked in commercial dressmaking and design establishments for seven years in New York City and San Francisco.
In 1937 she taught trade dressmaking and design in Sarah J. Hale Vocational High School in Brooklyn, N. Y.; and in 1938 she was appointed State Supervisor of Trade and Industrial Education in the New York State Education Dept., Albany, N. Y.; a position she held until retirement in 1969.
She earned a Masters Degree in Industrial Education from Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., in 1945. Throughout her professional life she was very active in professional associations and served on many committees, in offices as secretary, and as president of several State and National vocational and practical arts associations. She received an Outstanding Service Award from the New York State Vocational and Practical Arts Association in 1954 and one from the American Vocational Association in 1969.
Blanche has traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, South America, Japan, and the Holy Land. On two of her eight trips to Europe she acted as organizer and leader of an educational tour.
Since retirement she has been very active in organizations that promote a higher quality of life for the elderly, such as AARP and other retiree and senior citizen organizations. This includes serving on committees and in offices to plan programs, improve housing, transportation, recreation, economic security, and physical and mental health for older people. Blanche resides in Albany, New York.
by Mike Rudbeck
Clutier Girl Has New Job With New York City Firm
Miss Blanche Nechanicky, well-known former Clutier girl, continues to advance steadily in the profession which she has elected to follow at widely-distant points during the last two or three years.
Miss Nechanicky, a sister of Miss Felecia Nechanicky here, was employed for a time by the Brooklyn Edison company in Brooklyn, N.Y., at the conclusion of an extended European tour which she took after leaving Clutier, and for the last two years has held a good position with an exclusive dress shop in San Francisco, Cal. Returning to New York City a short time ago, she was soon successful in obtaining employment there as a dressmaking expert for the Butterick Pattern company.
Under the name of Blanche Bonnell, Miss Nechanicky now is traveling through New England states, contacting large department stores and schools and doing educational work for the pattern corporation. Spending a few days in each city which she visits, she conducts dressmaking clinics at which she gives personal cutting and pin-fitting demonstrations with a view of stimulating home dress-making and hence boosting the sales of the patterns of the Butterick company. Each of the clinics is widely advertised, and like the cooking schools which are conducted along the same lines but are much better known in towns and cities of this area, they are always well attended.
[Traer Star Clipper 5 October 1934]
Visits Here From New York
Miss Blanche Nechanicky, former Clutier girl who now holds the position of state supervisor of trade and industrial education with the New York state education department at Albany, New York, was a visitor here from Sunday to Wednesday at the F. E. Caslavka and Harry Kosnar homes. She left for Michigan to visit her sister, Felicia. Other weekend visitors at the Caslavka and Kosnar homes and at the T. E. Wright home near Traer were the Misses Jessie Boxwell and Ava Hoffman, of Martelle, Ia., where Mrs. Kosnar was formerly a teacher.
[Traer Star Clipper 19 August 1938
For one year, 1929-30, she taught home economics sewing in the junior high schools of Mason City, IA., after which she left for a three month trip to Europe. On her return to the U.S. she worked in commercial dressmaking and design establishments for seven years in New York City and San Francisco.
In 1937 she taught trade dressmaking and design in Sarah J. Hale Vocational High School in Brooklyn, N. Y.; and in 1938 she was appointed State Supervisor of Trade and Industrial Education in the New York State Education Dept., Albany, N. Y.; a position she held until retirement in 1969.
She earned a Masters Degree in Industrial Education from Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., in 1945. Throughout her professional life she was very active in professional associations and served on many committees, in offices as secretary, and as president of several State and National vocational and practical arts associations. She received an Outstanding Service Award from the New York State Vocational and Practical Arts Association in 1954 and one from the American Vocational Association in 1969.
Blanche has traveled extensively in the United States, Europe, South America, Japan, and the Holy Land. On two of her eight trips to Europe she acted as organizer and leader of an educational tour.
Since retirement she has been very active in organizations that promote a higher quality of life for the elderly, such as AARP and other retiree and senior citizen organizations. This includes serving on committees and in offices to plan programs, improve housing, transportation, recreation, economic security, and physical and mental health for older people. Blanche resides in Albany, New York.
by Mike Rudbeck
Clutier Girl Has New Job With New York City Firm
Miss Blanche Nechanicky, well-known former Clutier girl, continues to advance steadily in the profession which she has elected to follow at widely-distant points during the last two or three years.
Miss Nechanicky, a sister of Miss Felecia Nechanicky here, was employed for a time by the Brooklyn Edison company in Brooklyn, N.Y., at the conclusion of an extended European tour which she took after leaving Clutier, and for the last two years has held a good position with an exclusive dress shop in San Francisco, Cal. Returning to New York City a short time ago, she was soon successful in obtaining employment there as a dressmaking expert for the Butterick Pattern company.
Under the name of Blanche Bonnell, Miss Nechanicky now is traveling through New England states, contacting large department stores and schools and doing educational work for the pattern corporation. Spending a few days in each city which she visits, she conducts dressmaking clinics at which she gives personal cutting and pin-fitting demonstrations with a view of stimulating home dress-making and hence boosting the sales of the patterns of the Butterick company. Each of the clinics is widely advertised, and like the cooking schools which are conducted along the same lines but are much better known in towns and cities of this area, they are always well attended.
[Traer Star Clipper 5 October 1934]
Visits Here From New York
Miss Blanche Nechanicky, former Clutier girl who now holds the position of state supervisor of trade and industrial education with the New York state education department at Albany, New York, was a visitor here from Sunday to Wednesday at the F. E. Caslavka and Harry Kosnar homes. She left for Michigan to visit her sister, Felicia. Other weekend visitors at the Caslavka and Kosnar homes and at the T. E. Wright home near Traer were the Misses Jessie Boxwell and Ava Hoffman, of Martelle, Ia., where Mrs. Kosnar was formerly a teacher.
[Traer Star Clipper 19 August 1938
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