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

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Health Counselor ‘““NursIE,” as she is favoritely and affectionately called, has boosted the morale of many a Techite who has had either physical or family troubles. Aside from being a nurse, Mrs. Parent has various hobbies and enjoys sports. She has made a collection of numerous sm all toy animals including the elephant, skunk (imagine), a few dogs, and some chickens. For sports, ““Nursie” enjoys a | good game of golf and when she goes at it, look out! (or speaking in terms WINIFRED M. of golf, ‘fore’!) PARENT Mechanical Drawing Harrop Brown, popular, jolly mechani cal drawing teacher, spends his outside time working for the Wico Electric Company as HAROLD P.. ALEXANDERD. ORLEY L. a draftsman. He has done this for two years. BRO Dats DUE In the summer, Mr. Brown has a garden in which he enjoys working. ALEXANDER Davis, who can be found in 317, is adviser of the junior class. His work is his sole source of pleasure according to Mr. Davis. Oddly enough, Orvey DuFFIn is not only interested in drawing, but spends much time in his summer garden. He also devotes much effort to the business man- agement of the Tech News. Burt Hitcucocx is the kindly gentleman who sees that we all get to school. He has charge of the bus tickets which the kids line up to buy each week. Mr. Hitchcock is a music fan and is interested in photography. We have an excellent bowler in Tech — Ray- MOND E. Mackenzigz. The caretaker of our school machines is RALPH O’RourkeE who keeps a steady, twinkling eye on them. Mr. O'Rourke spends much of his time collecting antiques. CHEsTER THORNDIKE has a good reason to be proud. He has three sons serving Uncle Sam: one in the Army, now a prisoner of war, one in the Marine Air Corps, and one in the Army Air Corps. As for his school activities, Mr. Thorndike is chairman of the Servicemen’s Honor Roll Committee, chairman of the mechanical drawing department, and senior class adviser. BUEL A. RAYMOND E. RALPH W. CHESTER L. HITCHCOCK MACKENZIE O’ROURKE THORNDIKE [ 19 }

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HOWARD F, REED he attains a good score. Tech has a grand music department with a versatile director who has “what it takes” to discover new talent and teach all of the music classes. He is none other than our own Max T. Ervin. Max, who always has a hand in the shows that Tech puts on, comes out every time with a new and better performance. Besides being able to per- form miracles with old tunes, Max also composes songs of his own to fit the shows. Max is very active in sports; his favorites are tennis and badminton at both of which ROLAND V. ELLAROY Shop Ro anp Firzroy has charge of the school gardens during the summer and he sees that weeds are eliminated and that the bugs find refreshment elsewhere. He had charge of planting the ivy which is so much admired at the Trade school. Mr. Fitzroy is working on the Servicemen’s Honor Roll with Mr. Winslow. Mr. Fitzroy enjoys refinishing an- tique furniture and he is an authority on antiques. Grorce Rerynoxps is the proud possessor of a horse. He is also a baseball enthusiast having played in the Triple A League. Now his interest centers on those two new additions to the family — the TWINS. Rosert SPENCE, who owns a motorboat on Cape Cod, is interested in coastal navigation. He was a licensed Fed- eral pilot until April, 1940, when the gov ernment took all licenses away from boat owners. Now he is interested in commercial fishing. He also has written many books on his work. Hunting and fishing are WALTER HanseEn’s favorite pastimes. Can he hold his own when it comes to telling fish stories! GEORGE L. REYNOLDS ROBERT J. SPENCE CHARLES S. WINSLOW — ewe WARREN E. LAWRENCE WALTER S. LAKE WALTER E. HANSEN CHarLes Wrnstow is a partner of George Reynolds in a rather unusual type of bust ness. They operate a Christmas toy shop in Feeding Hills during the summer. WARREN LawrENCeE is interested in the promotion of the machine shop work, stressing individual interests and mechanical skill among the boys. Having just become a brand new grandfather, a new hobby of his is making “little things.” Water Lake has organized a Freshman Hi-Y and is manager of the stage corps as well. To relax at home with a history book is his idea of leisure time put to good advan- tage. Water Woon, besides liking to put- ter around and get things done, appreciates getting away from the busy hum of the ma- chines to relax and enjoy the comforts of home. A few years ago Howarp REeEp used to arrange canoe trips in Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Sometimes it would be one or two months before he or the other campers with him would see another living person. Taking pictures of animals is one of his favorite pastimes and he has to his credit many clever deer pictures. WALTER G. WOOD [ 18 }

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BESSIE R. ALLEN Besste ALLEN has a varied art career. She teaches arts and crafts, designing, and interior decorating. Aside from these, Miss Allen enjoys painting at home. One of the proud accomplishments of the yearbook staff is the sketches drawn by the art staff of the Tiger. HELEN Norrcarp is adviser of this group and her other artistic talents are used towards serving on the Tech Tantrums Committee. Because of her weakness for things artistic, Miss Norrgard is hampered for lack of space to hold them all! Ipa Roy enjoys painting and sketching. Besides serving on the Servicemen’s Honor Roll Committee, Miss Roy has complete charge of display windows situated in the halls of this school. This modest artist is shy in accepting credit for many of her artistic accomplish- ments around the building. In fact she hides her light under a bushel basket. HELEN NORRGARD Social Studies Jesste M. Bourn is another faculty member who serves her community as well as her school. Miss Bourn is co-captain of the Community Chest Drive and serves on the Red Cross Drive for the school. She also finds time to serve on the Social Studies Curriculum Revision Committee. Tech is proud of Davin E. Greenaway, former faculty member of the Social DAVID E. Science department. After thirty years of devoted service to the school, GREERAW AX Mr. Greenaway has retired. To him we offer admiration and thanks. Another enthusiastic bridge player is ELEANOR REARDON. Miss Reardon also prepares the Tech Students for participation in the A. I. C. Model Congress. Sad to say, we have in this section a misogynist — womarvhater to you. Yes, he is Cart Stone who isn’t, believe it or not, a bachelor! Besides disliking women (we don’t believe it), Mr. Stone loves gardening and habitu- ally keeps up with the latest non-fiction. ScHUYLER VAN SICKLE’s high standards, which he sets for his pupils, bear fruit in that the pupils know their history when they pass his course. For relaxation after his strenuous efforts in their behalf, he enjoys golf, gardening, and bridge. ‘Join the Navy and see the world” is a popular expression, but Mary CLuNeE, who is in a teaching capacity, did not join the navy but, nevertheless, did see the world! Dr. Clune has always been interested in traveling and has brought back many interesting gifts from India and other far east ports. ELEANOR C. CARLR. SCHUYLER CG. REARDON STONE VAN SICKLE [ 20 ]