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

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26 FOODS When twenty freshmen girls pour into Room 324 to learn how to cook, Miss Ruth Gabler has more than a job on her hands! First, these eager students must have a firm foundation on which to base their work in ‘home ec.’’ Most important for making good cooks is providing good recipes. They are given practical, mouth-watering. recipes that are guaranteed to make anyone sit up and say ‘‘more’’. Of course, war times make things a lot different from the steak and butter days. So, the would-be chefs learn how to use rationed foods economically. Non-rationed foods come into their own in the field of culinary art when the girls are shown how to make them appe- tizing. Our freshmen girls will never have an untidy table after Foods I! All details of service and dining-room courtesy are fully explained, demonstrated and employed. With very little space in which to work, as compared with actual kitchens, it takes some imagination and skill to turn the unit into a home. By having a special place for each spoon and pan and by keeping everything immaculate, Miss Techite becomes an efficient, neat housewife. Further household habits are developed to make each freshman girl practically perfect in the kitchen. Dishwashing is not drudgery; it is an art which, once mastered, is invalua ble to busy people. We might call our freshman girls ‘twenty week wonders! ’ After this course, they'll be queens in any kitchen.

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the world and the possibilities of every promising idea with new and revealing instruments. They will want to make ideas of proven worth into useful things with workshops and materials, tools and machinery, intelligent labor, and abundant power. They will want to distribute new knowl- edge and products widely and know how to use them well. They will want more wealth and better services. Young men and young women who are to be ready for the great projects in transporta- tion, communication, industrial production and social improvement will want a vision of the world transformed by sound ideas used with technical skill and understanding. “The elements of technical instruction which cultivate this vision are: learning by doing, accu- rate reporting of observations, experience with precision instruments, drill in scientific method, applied mathematics, reading and writing, me- chanical drawing to get ideas made into things, use of hand-operated and power-driven ma- chines, the incorporation of beauty into products, and the adoption of improved methods and ma- terials for meeting ordinary needs. “Technical High School hopes that every boy and girl will have the ideals, the strength and the competence not only to live righteously, but to prosper by serving well in a nation of free enterprise.” Wer

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CLOTHING ‘Miss Swenson, where are the common pins?” “Miss Swenson, does this dress hang evenly?’’ ‘Miss Swenson, would light green go with my eyes?” These questions and a hundred more greet Miss Sadie Swenson and all clothing teachers each day as girls enter clothing classes. No, these girls are not trying to bother the teacher. They want her honest opinion on their projects. They want to make and to be able to wear smart clothes. Everyone knows that it is not easy these days to get smart looking clothes from the materials that are being made in war time. Therefore, the selection and construction of problems is largely determined by the durability of the material and the amount that it costs. Each girl learns to make selections of patterns that will fit her personal needs and abilities. She considers style and fabric, becomingness of colors and textures, and, of course, economy. To help the girls, trips are made to downtown stores to study the new fabric qualities and fashion trends before purchases are made. Now, each girl knows that no matter how nice her garment may be, she cannot look really smart if she walks with a debutante slouch. She, therefore, applies the fundamentals of good posture to give her a better appearance. A girl gets little satisfaction out of her problem if she cannot exhibit it. Show- cases, and style shows, therefore, are provided that each girl may have some recogni- tion for her handiwork. 27