North Central Philadelphia

Murrell Dobbins Vocational-Technical School

22nd St & Lehigh Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19132
215-227-4421

Here is Dobbins Randolph Home Page

Here's some info from Univ of Penna library about Dobbins

A group of teachers from Dobbins is attending a series of six weekly Internet classes sponsored by the Bridge Project, a collaboration which includes LibertyNet and Nonprofit Technology Resources.

Lawrence Cook from Dobbins is listed at the Bloomsburg Huskies NCAA Division II Men's Track & Field 1996 Athletes page

A student savings plan at Welsh was featured in an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Business section 10/13/96. If you visit, be sure to check out the search tool and browse 15 years of archives.

If you'd like to see a street map showing Dobbins' location, try sending this address (2200 Lehigh Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19132) to a map-generating site:

• MapIt -- be sure to scroll down, zoom in, zoom out & zoom around

Is your home or work address within the Empowerment Zone?
Try this search tool to find out. If you are a Zone resident or are part of a Zone organization, check out the About the Bridge Project Page which includes this:
`Through a network of public access sites, residents of the Zone will be able to learn about the Internet and e-mail and sign up for free e-mail accounts. Zone organizations will be provided with Internet accounts at little or no cost.'

Leading the Saturday morning class of public school teachers at Workforce 2000 is Dave Butler, a Computer Learning Center student who has been an NTR volunteer since June. Assisting is Lee McGuire, also a CLC student and NTR volunteer. Leading the Tuesday afternoon class of public school teachers is Nick Sanders, an NTR board member. Nick also leads classes for literacy tutors. Assisting in Tuesday's class is Dave Butler. NTR's Director, Stan Pokras, also assists in preparing for this class, and leads classes for job counselors. Assisting in Stan's classes is Clara Wimbro-Lewis. Other assistants at these classes have included Burina Barksdale, Billy Smith, and Robert Sawyer, all CLC students and NTR volunteers.

Minnie Mitchum, Dobbins graduate and staff member in 1940s, is featured in one of the student papers in Class Act vol 4, a publication of Philadelphia's Shaw Middle School

Philadelphia's John Welsh Elementary School Teachers and Murrell Dobbins Vocational-Technical School Teachers Surf the Net!

Volunteer Coordinator, Nonprofit Technology Resources
http://libertynet.org/~pokras/vol_opps.html