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pieces of stainless steel along with forming
processes; Illinois Fabricators, who donated
materials and powder-coating process of letters;
Peddinghause Corporation, who donated steel;
KACC Collision Repair Class & Chris Morse,
Instructor, who painted all the longitude and
latitude markers; Nucor Steel (Chuck Nowack)

JAMES WASSER LIGHTS Michael Spangler’s welding class at Kankakee Area Career Center

THE WAY TO KACC
and Carroll Distributing (Rob Strand) for the donation of
James R. Wasser contacted the school and wanted to donate, re-bar for the base; Alexander Equipment Rental (Jerry
purchase and install an outdoor flood lamp to fully illuminate Alexander) for lending us the crane; Kankakee Community
our beautiful globe. James is a retired member of the IBEW College - Highway Construction Careers Training Program
Local 176 out of Joliet, Illinois. He has over 40 years of service I.D.O.T. (John Willard - Program Coordinator, Tony Cooper –
and experience with Local 176 and has enjoyed his career and Instructor, and Curt Rolston – Instructor); and all the students
his fellow members. who dug, formed and paved the concrete base and installed
the globe.
To give you a little idea of how Mr. Wasser has being lighting
the way to KACC, a little history seems in order. Mr. Wasser
started his very first year of apprenticeship working on the DO YOUR OWN TESTING
construction of the Kankakee Area Career Center with Zaborac
Electric in the early 1970’s. Having a passion for education,
Mr. Wasser served on the Kankakee District 111 school board wBend Testers wBend Specimen Cutters
from 1993 until 2005.
wTest Materials (Coupons)
The region-wide entity overseeing career and technical wTensile Testers
education is KARVES. Mr. Wasser joined the KARVES
Advisory Committee in 1993 and remained an active member, • Train welders
serving first as co-chairman and then as chairman from 1993 •
until 2005. Even after Mr. Wasser stepped down from the • Qualify welders
KARVES Advisory Committee, he continued to play an active • Qualify procedures
role, periodically helping with KACC’s Construction Program in BT1D Meet ASME, AWS,
API, MIL codes
the area of conduit bending and electrical items. TT1
Mr. Wasser has also been a return guest speaker at KARVES’
annual 8th Grade Career Days – A Career Exploration
Opportunity typically attended by around 1,400 eighth graders
from as far north as Beecher and as far south as Watseka. He BSC-1PLT
is one of our favorite speakers and addresses the 8th graders Home of
in an honest, adult manner, offering great insight into the Visit our website the
“Super
general skills needed to succeed in any career. for all sizes and Coupon”
models available.
As anyone can see, Mr. Wasser’s roots run deep when it comes
to vocational education and the important parts it plays out with Helping industry meet
young men and women’s careers. He says the “Kankakee welding codes and
Area Career Center is the best kept secret in Kankakee BT1C standards for 36 years!
County.” He believes the “Perception that the Career Center is TT2
for young men and women who cannot succeed other places
is absolutely false!”
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