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Ground Broken For Union Special's Technical Training
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Union Special's New Training Center in
Huntley, Illinois, Heralds A New Era of Service Union Special's new training center in Huntley, Illinois, heralds a new era of service for the needle trades. Ground was broken November 13th for the Union Special Technical Training Center to be located 45 miles northwest of Chicago in Huntley, Illinois. This facility, next to Union Special's main manufacturing plant will be headed by Tom Pinto and Wyatt Longacre, Union Special's training experts. Its twelve thousand square feet of space will be devoted to training technical and management personnel from all areas of the needle trades. Union Special recently conducted an extensive survey on the training needs of the apparel industry. The results of that survey are being reflected in this new facility. Applications for enrollment will soon be available, with the first class scheduled for April, 1973. The training center staff will instruct both the novice and the experienced mechanic. The professionally taught stitchology programs will welcome foreladies, engineers, quality control personnel, plant managers, presidents, and owners of apparel firms. The Director of the training facility will be Thomas W. Pinto. Mr. Pinto has 31 years of active service embracing the entire scope of the apparel field. He is well known from the many Union Special training seminars he has conducted in the United States, Canada, and abroad. The Assistant Director, Wyatt Longacre, has eleven years' experience in the sewing industry and is acutely aware of the mechanical and technical problems facing the man in the field. All the instructors for the center are highly experienced professionals from the needle trades industry. Three distinct programs are being offered: PROGRAM I is designed for the MECHANIC / TECHNICIAN. This course is a ten-week comprehensive program conducted in two five-week sessions. The main objective of the course is to develop an individual into a confident, productive mechanic / technician. The applicant should have a good mechanical aptitude and a high school diploma or the equivalent. This course is primarily for the novice. |
The individual in the course will receive 25% class room instruction using manuals, audio-visual aids, and discussion groups. The other 75% of the instruction will be in the lab, covering assembly, adjustment, sew-off, and trouble shooting. There will be written and oral quizzes covering the entire course. A certificate of accomplishment will be awarded to those who finish both sessions. After the first 5-week session, the student will be able to analyze problems involving chain stitch, lockstitch and double-locked stitch equipment. He will learn systematic procedures to correct most problems in a minimum amount of time without disassembling unnecessary parts. After the second session, the student will analyze problems involving overedge (serging and overseaming) cover stitch, special equipment, and learn to correct them in a systematic procedure in a minimum of time. PROGRAM II is designed for SPECIFIC STITCH CLASS MACHINES.
The person with two or more years
mechanical experience PROGRAM III will be STITCHOLOGY.
This one-week course will
welcome any person in the needle or
textile trades desiring to increase their
knowledge in identifying, applying,
and evaluating stitches, seams and
stitching. This course is open to semi
or experienced personnel. They could
be instructors, supervisors, engineers,
salesmen, managers or executives. Pictured Above: |
