Assembling a Jeep Program

1980-02-28

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Boys Town
Monsanto Fund
Jeep
Vocational Educational Program

St. James (Mo.)

1980-1989

Building a jeep from a pile of scrap as a vocational education program at Boys Town of Missouri. Boys Town development coordinator Mrs. Gwen Myers said that many of the boys "read two years or further below normal levels" so such a program vocational educational program helps improve their reading skills by having them learn to use tools by reading about them and then using them. The Monsanto Fund gave Boys Town $13,000 to buy tools so such programs could be expanded.

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