Technical High School - Tech Tiger Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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The place was a large study room at Technical. The time was the beginning of a study period. All of the students had settled down to study, except for a group in the far corner. Miss Hill, singling outa boy whose position was not the orthodox one for study, inquired, John, lust what are you doing? I No-o-thing, muttered John as he sat up and reached for his boolcs. Well, be sure you do it very well, was her quiclc advice. He had been a very ambitious student having finished what was then a four-year course in three years at Technical. Several years later he came baclc to pay his respects to his former teachers. Seeking out Miss Madge Richmond, at that time head of the mathematics department he tried to tell her what she as a teacher had done for him. Ar the end of a very eloquent speech he asserted And there is another teacher here who did a lot for me That teacher is Miss Richmond He had crossed our names but remembered our faces and personalities explained Miss Hill her eyes a twinlcle as she told about this left handed compliment to herself Two teachers were having tea with Miss Hill at her home on St ames Ave not so long ago and much of the tallc was about Technical What l lilce about Technical said one of them is that it is a school in which every pupil can find something he lllfes Yes if It s only tatting replied MISS Hill There was who was such a trial to me She would not conform to any of our rules l never worlced harder with a girl than l did with her but when she left my room at the end of the year l felt l had done nothing for her One day meeting her in the corridor l as e if she was still tattrng Yes and l want to lcnow howto do the double stitch Drop in some afternoon and l II show you She learned the stitch very quiclcly Miss Hill added and to this day sends me a card every Christmas A curtain stirs A hand moves Another person roms the first lt is evident that the ladies inside that substantial white house in the village of Hanover Mass are much interested in some one in the street The cause of this discreet flutter is a slender, young girl whois going to college lust lilce any man Salces alive if she isn t out in the street with all those railroad men loolcing in their glass and waving her arms so unladylilce The Hanover ladies would not understand even rf they were told the facts The girl in question has lust finished a course in surveying in Boston Univeristy where she had talcen all of the mathematics the college offers Now she rs having a first chance to put that lcnowledge to practical use The men have let her place their surveyor s transit and level It Now she s sighting and signaling to them where to place the red markers for the new railroad So unladylil4e ln summing up the qualities of Miss Hill that are outstand ing, you will naturally note her generous worlc with the slow pupil as well as her marlced success with the boy who is going to college You will find also that she is a great favorite with her fellow teachers Not only is she admired by them for her unusual ability as a teacher but She is enloyed because of her kindly wit and ready reloinder lt is Miss Hill who supplies the anecdote or recites the ap proprrate poem or gives an apt quotation or even tells the iolce often on herself that enlivens any group of teachers in which she finds herself Madge E Richmond Mathematics Department 1911 1936 -xxx Qcxngcx qw 1,91 fffi ,fy ,1 0 rd' - if y Ho , ,--f 0 . I . . 4 . ' I . i I I D l I c ' ' , - 9. , .X H7 'V gr, ijt, I , ,

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ENGNEERING DRAWM l ca f 5. fe- v , , h . is x ' 2 321.19 'rf r - - K X Mr. Dufhn, Mr. Brown, Mr. Thorndike, Mr. George Reed, Mr, Hitchcock, Mr. Mr S Richardson. gnc, Unborn, M, Bock Pow Mr, Davis, Mr. Mockenzie Dresenfj. SS ROY, Miss AH efl First Row Mr. Henson, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Lake, Mr. Fitzroy. H Abbort, Mr. Reed, Second Row Mr. Mr. Spence, Mr, Lynch, Mr. Lowrence. No1Presen1 'W Mr. Wood. SHOPWORK Mr. Spencer. MUS! N f. B vns, M , urr, Mr. Vvolmenfss Whrrremcref Mr Miss M- M. rllerl M. E Svxlir, SWen5Of1,'ssM':?,esQrQ2iSS Wilson Our, MW' XQ , .. :'j ' -Wsiffki W