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

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Why We Go CHOOL isn’t what it used to be; neither is the world. Everything has been changed by the war, and Tech is no exception. But there are still the things that make school life as full as it has ever been before. We should like to tell you about a few of them. lea A EAR We go for the spirit we have at Tech. It’s a proud, democratic spirit, the kind that “March of Time” came here to photograph; the kind that Liberty and The New York Times have written about. It’s a spirit that makes you feel as big as the next fellow, regardless of your race or color. It gives you pride and confidence because you know there is something behind it. We go for the spirit we find on the football field amidst the cheers and yells. We like to-see the Tiger on the march and hear the band beating it out with all its heart. We like the way the fellows fight and win, and the way they fight and lose, as they did this year to Cathedral by only one point. We like the way the kids stick with the team and fight to the very end, even though the going gets rough. That’s the spirit that sends a shiver up your spine and changes defeat into victory. We go for the spirit of codperation between the stu- dents and the teachers; the way they all pitch in and work together for the success of a common project. We like the way the S$. A. Dance was planned with enter- tainment by Franky McMahan, Max Ervin, and Big Boy Sprague; and we like the way “Plane Crazy” was staged with Bob Meister, Doc Theinert, and Mel Lynch in his famous clinch with Miss Hilliker. We might look ahead to 1975 and see Don Gifford and Milt Orcutt dusting and sweeping the Tech Roof Garden as they did in Tech Tantrums back in 1944. It’s the spirit at Tech that really makes you hate to leave the place. ©: PiP.O-RSE UN Te Teles We go for the opportunities we've got at Tech. We like the opportunity we have to learn. The courses here will stack up with the best of them, but there is some- thing else that makes our school unique. It is the shops and drawing rooms, the engines, automobiles, and air- planes. It’s the opportunity we have to do advanced work p-Puieeirs