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

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LUNCHROOM AND RECREATION The cooks are bustling about making last minute preparations. The delicious aroma of hot food finds its way to the nose of every famished individual, making his stomach feel even emptier, and whetting his appetite in anticipation of the moment the lunch bell will ring. Then we Techites descend (if we can escape the teachers and student patrol) like a herd of wild buffalo — our hungry faces looking eagerly for the shortest lunch line. The once silent room is now bubbling over with excitement, and the wild babble of voices (Emily Post is forgotten for that joyous half hour) through mouthfuls of sandwiches and gulps of milk, can be heard. Here and there small groups gather to talk over the day's experi- ences and discuss the coming games and dances. Our lunchroom exemplifies the true spirit of democ- racy in this school and the happiness and content- ment of the students prove its value. 22 Freedom O

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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

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Gssembly ASSEMBLY AND LIBRARY When the notice goes out that an assembly has been scheduled, Techites rejoice. Here in our audi- torium, every aspect of school life is demonstrated by the students. Music, home economics, art, sci- ence, drama — all come to the stage and lecture platform to give new and richer experience to both participants and audience. The cumulation of all the years of man’s thought has been gathered into our school library and is available for every student not only during school time, but for outside reading, too. An outstanding collection of Technical books and catalogues and an ever-growing reference and leisure-reading ma- terial makes Tech's library a very center of the thought and purpose of the school. 23