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because trfr"Ford.¡s sertøices were not avæil"abLerhíe course
wae taken over by Dr"Maæehall of Acadiâ unlversfty"
Mean*'hiLerá,s may be readily irnægined., there w〠a
consideræble development of guid.ance offerlngs f.n the schooLs"
A conslderable part of the progress whlch has been nade in
$ova scotia toward.s the provlsion of vocatlonal guidance
servlces ln the echooLs had fte origln in the work of .tr[r"
g.K.Fordrwho ha,s succeeded MroAoT.Jewitt as director of the
torrespond.ence Study DÍvlsion, Mr"Ford. had had. conslderable
practlcal ex¡lerlence ln vocatlonal guidance work ln t]:e Sta=te
of lüew Jersey before returning to hls nattve pror¡ince in the
early thirtles. Before Joining the staff of the Technlca.L
Co11ege, hê was Inspector of Schools for Colchester County"
Mr"Ford. was active in Home and. school. .å.ssociaJion work a.ad
was appointed flrst ohstfman of the.flrst vocational
guld'ance co¡rnittee of the'isova scotia Federation of ïIome and
schooL, rn hls câpaclty a's cha,ü.rrnan of th!.e, comnl.tteerlfr"
Ford wás successful in stimuLatlng conslderabLe interest
a¡nong ths more active associati.ons throughout the provlnce,
to the extent that he wae asked to prepare a series of
discusslon aid.s for use by eùssoeiations wíshing to study the
princíp1es and technlques of guld.ance wotk, Rhese rrere fj.rst
dietributed in mimeographed. for¡n and they iv,ere eo welr.
reeeived. that Mr"Fo*J was asked to expand them lnto hand_
book form. Thfs handbook was publfshed in 1g4CI by the
Ryerson press and. seeme to have been the first publícation
of its kind in Canada"