Educator Profile

 

 

 

Vocational Education Board: Supervisor of Industrial Classes: 1940-1950 Assistant Regional Director, Canadian Vocational Training for New Brunswick: 1943-1945 Regional Director, Canadian Vocational Training for New Brunswick: 1945-1950 Director, New Brunswick Vocational Education Branch: 1950-1969

Born in 1904, J. Willard McNutt taught Industrial Education at Fredericton Composite High School in 1928 and between 1929-1933 and 1936-1939 he taught Industrial Education at the Newcastle Composite High School. In 1939 he was seconded to serve on the Vocational Education Board of the New Brunswick Department of Education. He played a key role in the field of Vocational Education as it related to the training of veterans of the Second World War, to the founding of the Provincial Technical Institute of New Brunswick in Moncton and to the advancement of Vocational Education at both the secondary and post-secondary levels of education in New Brunswick. He was a graduate of Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. He died in 1999.