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

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Democracy et Wore If you happen to peek into any math class at Tech, you will see our potential Ein- steins nervously chewing their pencils over a knotty problem. Algebraic functions are being discussed at the board, while at their seats the mathematicians are either trying to prove to the weary teacher (who has just spent hectic days making out pro- grams) that the textbook is wrong or busily evolving a new method for solving the cube root of the fourth term of a geometric pro- gression. Our English classes of today use modern equipment to improve the speaking habits of students. A microphone is used to give the speaker poise and self-confidence and speech recording machines, to show prog- ress in ability between the first recording and the succeeding ones. This modern training should develop in each pupil a social attitude which should be of great value to him in his future vocation as well as in his associations with others. Dr. Theinert explains ‘two and two ra Arise. ao forlh 4 i % € A ronqite us a i 20

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Our Day in Tech HOME ROOM SALUTE As we honor our flag each morning, memories of former Techites, who are now gallantly fighting and dying with the same banner as their inspiration, come to our minds. We experience a mixed feeling of pride and love for our nation. We are given the courage and the faith to push on through the maze of tasks that lie ahead. We work and learn as much as possible so that we may be better fitted to serve our nation in the future. What an inspiring start for the work that must be done if the privileges we so dearly cherish are to survive and the United Nations, to win the peace. Entering School — Another day, more knowledge. It’s 8:55 and the wide halls of Tech are again filled with familiar sounds and faces — the steady hum of voices, laughter, snatches of stories, meek, bewildered freshmen wan-. dering aimlessly, proud seniors strutting by with tilted noses, eager 12B’s awaiting the day they can take over, friendly greetings, occasional whistles from the sidelines, deeply-smitten couples strolling dreamy- eyed until the bell cuts short their dreams, sudden rumble when a herd of Techites clamors down stairs, occasional mishaps at crowded corners — the beginning of a typical day at Tech. 19

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ot CU Free World Hard at work in the science labs, we find the chemists, biologists, and physicists of tomorrow busily tearing apart com- pounds, juggling atoms of one substance, and rearranging them so as to produce an entirely different material; mixing strange potions, which occasionally turn out to emit a rather peculiar odor, asphyxiating the class and driving half the school out of the building. There are, of course, occa- sional mishaps when a vigorously bubbling solution suddenly lets go ‘‘scaring the daylights’’ out of the student body, but that has to be expected from a volatile group of Techites. An ever-growing interest in history has become very evident in Tech as we discuss present-day problems which will be history to the student of tomorrow. This objective study gives us a better understanding of our American way of life and an appreciation of the privileges we experience in our great nation so that in the future we will become more intelligent students of a better world. Miss McCleary elucidates on ‘‘why a frog kicks” 21