Springfield Trade High School - Beaver Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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THE A Walco wea D3, BEAVER 29 The girls engaged in many extra-curricula activities also. Many were chosen for the Student Council while others for the Traffic Squad and Dramatic Clubs. There were also many girls in the school play who helped. In their third year the girls realized how hard work on their part had helped them along in their studies. They saw how they had to pro- duce and show actual results if they were to succeed in their shop classes. They were taught wnat should be put into practice and in their shop time did it. They tried to live up to the Trade School standards of pa- tience, industry and integrity. Also they heard ‘‘Order and system is heaven’s first law’’, stressed so much that they never forgot it. They also learned the fundamental qualities of success—punctuality, dependability (Completing the task started), courtesy, personal appearance (‘‘Cleaniness is next to Godliness’), honesty and consideration for fellow workers had become a part of every girl whose history is recorded here in Trade School. Their ranks diminished with every passing year as several girls had left to go to work. The girls who did go through are among the first girls ever to graduate from Trade School; just twenty-five years! after the first graduation exercises. They are looking forward to graduation day with gladness in the thought of completing their three years’ work but with sadness at the thought of leaving Trade. The boys, meanwhile, didn’t slow down when they returned for the third term, although they realized that this was their final year at Trade. They buckled down to add the finishing touches to a well-rounded education. This year found ‘Trade predominating in athletics, with champion teams in football and basketball who rightfully bore the name of “Fighting Beavers”. Many seniors who were in the lineups broke into the lime- light by appearing on all-city lists. Another school play was presented and this was even a greater success than the first. “It’s a Knockout” had over a hundred boys and girls participating; many of whom were seniors. The Student Council organized late and so didn’t start to work until half of the school term was over. In the short time it did work it covered a great deal of ground due to the yeoman efforts of the senior members. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Jensen were chosen as class advisors and Mr. Schuler was chosen to direct music of which many girls and boys took advantage. Mr. Schuler was rightfully chosen for this position as he is a very talented young man. In summing up the third year of the boys, they were, everyone, hard-working young men. It is with lumps in their throats and tears in their eyes that the Class of 1937 bids farewell to Trade School. They shall help to celebrate the Twenty-Fifth Anni- versary of Trade School. These three long hard years had not been for naught. The history of this class shall be writen indelibly in the records of Trade and so it is hoped that future graduating classes will be inspired to reach the great heights attained by the Class of 1937. The work of these boys and girls shall long remain as memories to the faculty members of Trade School. They hope that they shall be remembered as a class who stood by and for the standards of Trade School and also that they may serve as inspirations to future graduating classes of Trade.

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bo [o.0} TEE PRA Da BEAVER URS S, [FISITCI. On the cold morning of January 29, 1934 a small group of girls were on hand to take advantage of a long looked for opportunity. For years girls had been looking forward to the time when they would be given trade training to fit them for places in the industrial world. In a new endeavor, as usual, there were not many willing to start. The majority preferred to wait and see how a Trade School for girls would be conducted, but there were a few daring ones who were on hand to take advantage of this new type of training. They started their work in the old Hooker School. The building was old, but there was a homey air about it, and a hustle and bustle of business in getting organized. Meanwhile on a sunny day in September, 1934, there stepped into the corridors of Trade School a group of boys that in three years would be the graduating class of 19387. They were bewildered at first, at the fast clip which the school activities were moving. Changing classes, strange groupings, shops, in fact an entirely new atmosphere. In their first yea r, these intelligent hard working boys did not do much by the way of spectacular achievements. They didn’t seek after extra- curricular activities for they were unacquainted with the school and its work. However, a few with outstanding ability proved themselves in sports, shop and class work. In this year Trade also welcomed into its fold a new sports mentor,“Ted” Plumb. He found many good athletes among these boys. The girls also, in their first year found things quite different from those in other schools. Here they had the actual experience of doing things while in other schools they were just told what todo. For example, if they were sent out to do the buying for their luncheons, they had to buy. the right foods and not be content with just being told what to buy. Thus they put everything they were taught into practice. Assemblies have been part of their school program, and they had looked forward to them, as they were usually presided over by members of the Student Council, or the different departments took charge. They had some splendid speakers, business men and women of Springfield, who brought inspiring messages that the girls never forgot. Meanwhile the boys, back in the fall of 1935, set out to prove them- selves worthy of the honor of being the hardest working class in Trade School. They made themselves conspicuous in their studies and with a year of learning stowed away proved themselves worthy members of Trade School. During this term there was a sorrowful period, for on December 21, 1935, Mr. Hermon R. Clark, beloved teacher of related subjects in the electrical department, passed away. Two new teachers Mr. Johnson and Mr. Jensen, took the places of Mr. Cutler and Mr. Cramer. These two men instantly became all-round friends to the boys. The boys participated in many extra-curricula activities; some to the Student Council while many took part in the school play, “Forward Pass”, which was the first of yearly plays ever to be produced by Trade. Many girls also helped make this play a great success. The floods interrupted the school program for a while but, after a week’s layoff, they swung back into full schedule.

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30 THE BEAVER Did Most For His Class Class Chisler Class Baby (Boy) Class Baby (Girl) Class Sissy Class Strong Man Class Dunce Class Bully Hungriest Boy Huneriest Girl Class Musician (Boy) Class Musician (Girl) Class Dancer (Boy) Class Dancer (Girl) Class Gloomiest Boy Most Cheerful Boy Most Cheerful Girl Handsomest Boy Most Beautiful Girl Spirit of Youth Class Hater (Boy) Class Hater (Girl) Class Salesman (Boy) Class Salesman (Girl) Teachers’ Delight (Boy) Teachers’ Delight (Girl) Class Grouch (Boy) Class Grouch (Girl) Class Artist (Boy) Class Artist (Girl) Laziest Boy Class Business Man Class Business Girl Class Shortest Boy Quietest Boy Quietest Girl GEASSePAEE@T Edward Kuczynski Michael Borazna Wilfred Lemieux Helen Moran Walter Tokarski Joe Koretz Abe Lotterman Lawrence Scyocurka Michael Borazna Yvonne Carrigan Heinz Strassberger Evelyn Skorupski Edward Kuczynski Evelyn Skorupski Eugene Szmela Frank Moraweic Anna Robideau Edward Skiba Yvonne Carrigan James Templeman Harry Kipetz Amelia Costarakis James Templeman Beatrice Coulombe Thomas Schlosser Anna Robideau Eugene Szmela Stephanie Labaj Leon Kubicz Evelyn Skorupski Alfred Pezzini Donald Case Yvonne Carrigan Wilfred Lemieux Ralph Keyes Emily Konieezna