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

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AN ANNUAL PUBLISHED BY THE SENIOR CLASS OF THE TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL SPRINGFIELD, MASS. JLINE, I94O X --f-1 TABLE or CONTENTS 'r' 'Eff 'Ia -it-'54, 1' Mostly Personci vm' Tech Tiger Stott I:-OTCWOTCI Dedication to Miss I'IiII I:ocuIty Pictures Apprecicition of Mr. Abbott Ionuory Seniors June Seniors Students ot Work More TI1c1n The Dc1y's Work Activities Clubs Sports Music Marginal I S

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FOREWORD As early as Biblical times, handwork and those who worked with their hands were praised. N Let us now praise famous men Even the artificer and the worlemaster. All these put their trust in their hands And without these shall not a city be inhabited, For these maintain the fabric of the world. America, two thousand years later, is the creation of pioneers who worked with their hands. George Washington was a hard-working sur- veyorg Beniamin Franklin was a journeyman printer and an inventorg Abraham Lincoln split rails, built and worked on flatboats. That these men worked with their hands no doubt contributed to their hard practical sense In a recent magazine the president of General Motors Corporation said lf I were twenty one l would work with my hands The best man is one who combines the learning of books with the learning which comes from doing things with the hands Technical High School recognizes the importance of handwork in our inheritance and future and offers the boys courses in drafting shopwork and design For the girls there is sewing art and cooking Everyone in this school at one time or another feels the exhiliration that comes only when the hands have created what the mind has dictated ln presenting the Tech Tiger of l94O we pay tribute to the beauty and satisfaction of handwork experienced in our classes at Technical High School .R Nw ms em