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

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en Y Gordon Comstock, Bruce Kibbe, George Lewis, and Joel Bolshaw service an in- jection nozzle. DIESEL In September the Diesel Shop received five more diesel engines which bring its total to seven. They came just in time for incoming students to acquire experience in disassembling and moving the machines from outside, and then in setting them up in Room 5. The fuel injection laboratory had to be moved from Room 5 to 6 to allow more space for the expansion of the department. eae William Broadbent, Donald Roberge, and Douglas Roncarati are calibrating This picture was taken in the diesel en- a fuel injection pump. gine room where Charles Oliver, Richard Mundell, Kenneth Gregory (kneeling), and Stanley Witkop were servicing an International diesel engine. Rae vr FF

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« These are two of the Medical Assistants. Alice Tarpinian, assisted by Patricia Clark, is pouring urine for centrifuging. ee Margaret Snyder is taking blood for a blood count on Gayle Holden. MEDICAL ASSISTANTS DEPARTMENT The one-year course for Medical Assistants was started at the request of the local Medical Academy. High school graduates, who take this course with Miss Gracey and a laboratory techniques instructor, are qualified to work in doctors’ offices. While their duties are primarily to assist with the medical services, they are also required to look after office routine. During February girls are often placed in doctors’ offices for part-time work. Laboratory work is given in co-operation with the Wesson Memorial Hospital, Springfield Hospital and Westfield Sanatorium. A rotating daily schedule permits two girls to spend the day working in the laboratory. Other practical experiences include that of assisting the school doctor with the physical examinations given to the freshman girls each fall, of helping with first aid in the school, and of arranging the chest X-ray schedule for the Hampden County Tuberculosis Association. Freda Lammer and Nicie Norman examine blood smears.