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

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Left to Right: Helen Borrner, Beatrice Miller, Eugenia Wilson, Goldie Parks Left to Right: Kathleen Welch, Peggy Carlson, Jane Garnell, Betty Mercer, Betty Meyer, Joan Hodges. Standing: Loretta Moles, Helene Farrick “Um — smells good! What’s cooking?” “Got a thread and needle? I need repairs!” These are every day comments at the Home Econom- ics Department. This department includes clothing, home management, foods, and nutrition. We are fortunate to have a capable staff who make the subjects interesting. The teachers themselves comprise a fascinating group. They have taught in various places such as: Ohio, Seattle, Indiana, Connecticut, as well as in Springfield schools. Their hobbies mostly pertain to their type of work. There- fore they are dressmaking, cake decorating, and fancy work. They are all kept pretty busy here, and help make a good many activities run smoothly, such as serving teas and luncheons, and costuming Tantrums. The clothing department starts with easy projects such Mr. Nelson Blomfield of Mass. Mutual Insurance Co. talking to Miss Miller’s Home Management Class is J wl id ‘ Se HOME ECONOMICS as skirts and blouses and works up to winter coats in the senior year. The home mangement course gives the girls valuable help for their married lives. They discuss problems that arise and their solutions. Interesting notebooks are made on the subjects of a dream house, apartment, wedding, and nursery. The nutrition department teaches the girls how to plan well balanced meals. They make an interesting study during the year of various persons in different occupations. They take, for example, the working man, housewife, school child, and the baby to see their requirements. The food department turns out luscious morsels. The girls are taught the correc t way to bake and stew. When they come out of there, they certainly have very helpful knowledge for the rest of their lives. Left to Right, at Machines: Joyce Treat, Miss Borrner, Christine Stallone, Joan Milett, Priscilla Fay, Amy Lacey, Joyce Eastman, Connie Jeanotte. Shirley Harty, in foreground, working on coat

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SHOPS For interested students Tech offers machine, print, and auto shop. The students’ first assignment in the ma- chine shop is to learn the names and functions of the parts of the lathe. After becoming thoroughly familiar with the lathe and preparing their pieces for the lathe, the students learn simple operations on the lathe. They begin with projects such as screwdrivers, and progress to vises, gears, and clamps. Our print shop renders to Tech a very val- uable service by printing report cards, permanent record cards, and other forms used in running our school. Our auto shop endeavors to teach perserverance through the medium of an automobile motor. Automotive theory is also learned by the students through taking an engine, capable of running, completely apart and reassembling it again to running order. Under the guidance of well-trained and experienced shop teachers, schoolboys of today gather knowledge and experience — valuable in choosing the profession they will follow as citizens of tomorrow. Left to Right: Ronald Osley, Mr. Spence, Richard Musiak, Jesse Lyons, Edward Beaumier, Richard Forni, Robert Jordan, John Healey, Roger Giguere Robert Jordan, Mr. Spence Left to Right: James Burns, Ward Hartrandt, Joe Alissi, Thomas Barry, George Reynolds The teachers in our machine shops also are well- educated as shown by the degrees they have obtained. These include Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Arts, and Master of Education. They have taught in a good many schools such as Agawam High, Suffield High, Bellows Falls High (Vermont), Stratford High (Connecticut), and the University of Massachusetts. Our machine shop teachers are, however, not “book- worms”; they have many very interesting hobbies such as breeding and breaking Tennessee Walking Colts; mining, cutting, and mounting semi-precious stones; home work- shops; gardening; and outdoor life and hiking. They also participate in outside activities such as housebuilding, membership in the Connecticut Valley Mineral Club, and membership in the American Society of Tool Engineers. Left to Right: John Robinson, Robert Spence, George Reynolds, Howard Reed

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Working with line and color Well, here we are making out our program and stumped by the problem of which art course to take. Say, why not visit the art rooms and get a bird’s eye view of the situation. First, in 313 Miss Roy’s design class-is studying the use of color and lines and spaces in the advertising field. On the bulletin boards are some fascinating abstract designs. In the back room are two girls, one busy stenciling a bureau scarf, the other block printing a luncheon set. Whoops! There goes the bell; but here comes a free hand drawing class. In no time they start sketching a pose of Patty Bennett, using any medium, pencil, pen, lithograph pencil, water color, or crayon. Meanwhile Miss Roy shows us some sketches and explains that the class teaches the structural quality of objects. Pupils work out original Miss Norrgard’s Poster Class compositi ons which help prepare them for advertising, book illustration, and other fields. After lunch, we find in 312 Miss Norrgard’s costume design students engrossed in designing gowns for a prom. Everyone’s most careful to draw her figures proportionately and make her facial expressions alive. Fourth period a poster class is neatly lettering gay posters advertising Tan- trums. Wandering around, we notice brightly painted vic-lac trays made from old records, tiny dolls, attractive plaques, and small scale models from an interior decora- ting class. At least we know just what goes on in Tech’s art rooms, but now the trouble is we want to take all the courses. Preparing for art exhibit Front, Left to Right: Nancy Sears, Patty Black. Second Row: Lola Heartzell, Carol Danti