McCann Technical School - Artisan Yearbook (North Adams, MA)

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1 ea- . 1 5' ln our Freshman year ld started 1D the Electronlcs course, and we be gan to learn how to make sparks fly charge capacltors blow breakers, and watch reslstors burst lnto flames Mr Hover Gave us the c1rcu1t for our flrst pro ject a slren, whlch turned out to be h1s first mlstake for two weeks the only sound 1D the shop We bullt electronlc megaphones our Sophomore year and the ln famous phrase, Tom Dean eats beans was the flrst message to be tf3HSm1tfGd over the megaphone During our Junlor year we spent half the t1me runnlng the AV room and the other half of our tlme worklng on the school phones job we stretched for any length of time 9 I 7 . I I D 3 was sirens blaring 6 hours a day. ' ' in , - J H - 9 . ,a ET' lst ROW: D. Dean, J. Sumner, D. Benoit, M. Slater, D. Spofford, E. Lindner, B. Lemere, 2nd ROW: R. Tatro, W. Dugal, J. Bishop, J. Gallese, K. Sprague, M. Lyons ,P. Burdick, B. Hurlbut, 3rd ROW: A. Martin, S. Whitney, M. Anderson, S. Garner, K. O'Keefe, M. Fitzpatrick, K. Lewis, D. Martin.

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Electronics TOHN ALIBOZEK I EDWARD IEdl Wojohoets DARRY Doc CLAIRNONT THOMA 'Tom' L BRAYNAN S DEAN ,f- Z 'v',,n

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f, fan: Q 113lll . ,NEB L e gay 5 s I I I I E In our Senior year we began work with the Heathkit Micro- computer Trainer and we also learned the principles of the binary number system and com- puter math With a Federal grant the school purchased something we d always dreamed ment After buying this equipment wild horses could not keep us away from the AV room We marvelled at all this new set Could do until we realized that our class would never get to use it I A ,. aug 'S lil K 'W ,mn ' I of having, color video equip- - my e x va i