OKTOBER 1953: KLÆDT I EGET SVENDESTYKKE "Håndværker- og Industriforeningens fest for de nybagte svende har fundet sin faste form, hvis program følges nøje år for år". Sådan indledte avisen for 50 år siden sin artikel om den årlige svendefest i Industripalæets festsal. Byens nye skoledirektør, Axel Gregersen, var aftenens hovedtaler og formanede blandt andet de nybagte svende til ikke at lade sig bluffe af egen dygtighed: "Vi kan aldrig blive dygtige nok, og vi skal huske på også at udvikle de gode menneskelige egenskaber ved siden af håndelaget", fastslog skoledirektøren. Otte af de nybagte svende vakte særlig opsigt. De kunne nemlig - netop udlært som dameskrædderinder - møde op til festen, iført deres egne svendestykker. (Stadsarkivet)

OCTOBER 1953: DRESSED IN OWN TEST PIECE "The Artisans and Industry celebration for newly hatched journeymen has taken an established shape, a program followed carefully from year to year". 50 years ago the newspaper thus began its article about the annual journeyman celebration in the Industrial Palace ceremonial hall. The city's new school superintendent, Axel Gregersen, was the evening's key note speaker and among other things admonished the new journeymen not to be deceived by their own skill: "We are never skilled enough, and we must be mindful to develop good human qualities in addition to skill", affirmed the superintendent. Eight newly hatched journeymen attracted special attention. Because they - having just finished their taylor apprenticeships - could show up to the party wearing their own test pieces. (National Archives)