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

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TYPING Typing must be popular! Over two hundred students are taking it this year. Miss Shea, who has her Bachelor of Science and Master of Education Degrees, is our regular typing teacher. She has had secretarial experience at Perkins Machine and Gear Company and has taught typing at Evening Adult School at Com- merce. In the first months of the school semester, Mrs. Murphy substituted. She has taught night and day school at Commerce, and she has been in Springfield for five years. Both Miss Shea and Mrs. Murphy willingly help their students understand how to apply typing to school, business, and everyday life. One of Tech’s Typing Classes in action. Front row, left to right: Pat Graves, Wong Lam, Letitia Graves, Elaine Austin. Second row: Joan Trombley, Pat English, Claire Trombley, Charles Ehrenberg. Back row: 5 Joe Cafasso. DRIVER’S EDUCATION Both junior boys and girls have their gym periods interrupted for about four weeks to take a pre-drivers’ course. T he Physical Education teachers provide the instructions. After completing the pre-driver course by passing a written examination, the pupils are ready for training in the operation of a motor vehicle in their senior year. Chief Walmer is one of the driving instructors for Springfield schools. When the students have become accustomed to the car, an official state examiner comes to the school. If the students have passed their written examination, the road test is given. Left to right: Chief Walmer, Pat Fiske, Ann Leavenworth, Joan Riendeau, Teresa Raffaele. PA ee rare sae CITY oF SPRING BH SCHOOL DRIVER £ Cound AUTOMOBILE 5, Left to right: Frank Magani, Priscilla Fay, Chief Walmer. 23

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PHYSICAL er | gy 40s BOYS’ ia 'HYSICRL EQUCATIN€ — FRLL «=WiMTER SPP From the regular routine aboard ship the Technical sailors file into the gym for a varied program of indoor and outdoor sports, weather permitting. The gym classes vary with the season. Among others they play baseball and basketball. All Seamen entering this class are taken to the Y.M.C.A. swimming pool for a complete screening as to swimming ability. : m «$54 : The amiable leaders of our gym classes are a 13 : John Kalloch, department head, Bill Lawler, ar “ef ion — Milt Orcutt, and Russ Peterson. i Left to right: Mr. Peterson, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Orcutt, Mr. Kalloch. Roger Willis. EDUCATION GIRLS ee A well-rounded athletic program is furnished by Navigators Mary Gray and Joan Kohn, who, with the help of specially trained student squad leaders, guide our Tech girls in their favorite sports. Such sports as basketball, volley ball, apparatus, and stunts are played indoors; other- wise, field hockey and softball are played outside at the Armory on nicer days. All girls on the U.S.S Technical are strong boosters for this recreation-centered program. Left to right: Mrs. Kohn, Miss Gray. Lefito right: Janet Andrews and Trade opponent. 22

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Left to right, seated: Misses Nellie Connors, Birdie L. Aiken, Mary Feriola. Standing: John Atherton, David Duncan, William LaVallee, James Crowley, Vernoll Bigelow, Gerald McCarthy, Francis Sears. Shipshape! That’s the word for Tech. The man in charge of seeing that it is kept that way is Mr. John Atherton, head of the custodial staff. The faces of many of his crew are familiar to us on our cruise through Tech. The women on the staff are: Birdie Aiken, Nellie Connors, and Mary Feriola. The men are: Dominick Bianchi, Vernoll Bigelow, David Duncan, William LaVallee, James Crowley, Gerald McCarthy, Thomas O’Connor, Carl Persson, and Francis Sears. Some of the best years of our lives are spent at Tech, and we are grateful to the people who keep it a pleasant place. Unlike a navy ship, our galley crew is ‘““manned”’ by women. Mrs. Elin Tillan is head cook of the dietitic staff. The other members of the mess crew are: Mrs. Ida Bolduc, Mrs. Goldie Deyo, Mrs Mildred Hannigan, Mrs. Mary Lura, Mrs. Hilda McCombe and Mrs. Josephine Saracino. The people who keep the records straight are a necessary part of the mess department. The office crew are: Mrs. Lena Cessarini, Mrs. Mabel Davis, Miss Lillian O’Connor, Mrs. Isabella Ouimet and Mrs. Alice Vail. All of these people work toward making Tech’s lunches the best possible for us. Left to right: Mildred Hannigan, Hilda McCombe, Ida Bolduc, Elin Tillan, Mary Lura, Josephine Saracino, Goldie Deyo.