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

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Senior Testing Program ENGLISH As many teachers remind us, English is one subject we cannot drop. Thus, in Tech, from our entrance as freshmen until our graduation as seniors, we take English. As freshmen we read books like Silas Marner and The Yearling; we get acquainted with classmates and teach- ers through talks and compositions on our interests, hobbies, and personal experiences. Such compositions occur all Miss Hilliker and News writing class and LIBRARY three years, but in our freshman year are stressed. Always we learn rules of grammar and spelling to improve our speaking and writing. Junior year, our interests turn to literature and re- search. We progress from novels and autobiography to essays, poetry, and drama. Later in the year a research theme is due. After this workout, the teachers, feeling we have had enough, pass us on to our senior year of English. Left to Right: Mr. Black, Miss Whalen, Miss Carey, Mrs. Lemay, Mrs. Tabackman, Miss Hawkins, Miss Adams, Mr. Doane, Mr. Briggs Since our English faculty consists of human beings, not slave driving monsters, they have hobbies like normal people. These go from singing to painting; pho- tography to sailing; and include bird lore, collecting records and books, and seeing how people live throughout the world. The years they’ve taught at Tech range from one to fourteen. Their outside ac- tivities include teachers’ Hadassah, and Martha Washington Stamp Club. Class advising, drama club, and organizations, service on the yearbook are some of their extra-curricular activities.

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rk rig Left to Right: Melvin Lynch, Miriam Whittemore, Stanley Sprague GUIDANCE No matter what your problem is, Tech has just the people to solve it, Miss Whittemore, Dr. Theinert, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Sprague, and the school nurse. Popular Miss Whittemore, girls’ counsellor, helps girls choose courses, select colleges and careers wisely, find jobs, and solve their social problems, as part of her threefold educational, vocational, and social counselling job. Besides this she teaches a hygiene class. Holder of Bachelor of Science and Master of Education degrees, Tech’s friendly Red Cross advisor names her hobby as mountain climbing. Perhaps this stems from her former days as gym teacher. As for tests, Dr. Theinert can give you scho- lastic, mechanical, clerical, art, and music aptitude tests. In her finger dexterity test you fit pegs into holes. The “testingest woman in Springfield’ has this philosophy: “Every day is interesting and challenging.” Giving aid to technical and college prep boys in choosing courses and colleges intelligently, and in placing boys in jobs is part of Mr. Lynch’s work. This likeable man, who has thirty points toward a doctor’s degree, is Secretary of The Lions’ Club as one of many activities. Mr. Sprague, who tells us he “has the well being of the general students to worry about,” says he spends much time “changing diapers.’ Serious- ly though, he determines reasons for failures, balances programs, helps improve grades, and finds jobs for good general students. This versatile man, who is learning to play the piano at night school, has become Executive Secretary of the U. S. Re- volver Club through his hobby, shooting. So you see, together with our capable nurse, our guidance staff is well able to meet any situation. TA CADE ed Left to Right: Dr. Helen Theinert, Theodore DiMauro, Thaddeus Magiera, Arthur Serra, James Herbert. Seated: W. H. Thayer Geraldine McAuley, Edna Bowers

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As the library is the heart of the school, Mrs. Brazeau is the nucleus of this room. We all know her from our fresh- man year when she introduced us to the library, our junior year when she assisted us with material for our themes, and our senior year when we’re old friends. The spirit captured in our library is familiar, for it represents Tech. We con- gregate there realizing we have been given adult privileges and must live up to them. The library acts as a sounding board for grievances, a mixing place for homework and recreation, and liaison between teach- ers and pupils. Our library is a place to be proud of — we are. As seniors, one main project is to study the classics, including Milton and Shakespeare. We also study modern writers, and of course we continue supplementary reading. Although the English fundamentals continue in our senior year as they have throughout our course, something new is added in this last year. We gain experience in interviews and in writing business letters. Also we get practice in taking objective tests such as we encounter in applying for entrance to college, the armed services, or employment. After gathering all the knowledge we are capable of in high school, we are ready to pass on to loftier fields. Accordingly, with this knowledge well in hand, we leave, Left to Right: Sean Boardway, U. S. A.; Wong Lam, Toy Lam, Canton, China; Angelo Passidakis, Sparta, Greece | } 11 Mrs. Brazeau better equipped to use and understand the English language than when we entered. Co-operating with the English department is the library, which should be the heart of the school. Tech can proudly say, “Ours is”, for a student may go there any time of the school day and find a pleasant, well-lighted room suitable for studying or just browsing. There is an atmosphere in this room of capricious moods that encour- ages people to stop by, maybe to pick up the newest fiction, or to do some plain, old fashioned cramming for “the” test. In this welcoming atmosphere, the library habit creeps up on a Techite fast. Left to Right: William Fraser, David Wilson, Clifton Johnson at the mike, Curtis Wyler operating the machine ; a F 1 3 you? uunds naan UF be o Dv: ‘MIND READERS !? ferer or mumbler ? + Gre you o mul . 4 Gre you a fade-out + Cre you a hesilctor’ + Cre yous alloper ‘igue Cre you a eker gobbler A) (On end ANALYZE your