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My schedule as per the "academic" curriculum, had me attending "shop" classes half the day, and academic classes the other half. The few in my category are the one's I remember - notably - Kramer, Motherway, Ray, Johson, Heinz, and Lovell. The others in the Vocational, or "Trade" category, stayed on the ship the entire day...what they studied, I don't know. However, my schedule had me running between four places at times - three buildings, and one Liberty ship - the S. S. John W. Brown.
Ashore, Metropolitan Vocational H. S. had it's main building on Oliver, Oak, and James Streets, two other annexes - one on Madison Ave, called the "Madison Building", and the other - the Monroe Building...being it was on Monroe Street...all in Lower East Side Manhattan - "the Ghetto".
Afloat, Metropolitan had it's school ship - the "Brown" tied up at Pier Four, East River...that's was at first. About half way through my time there - '48 to '51, the "Brown" was moved to Pier Fifty-Four, East River, at the foot of 25th street.
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