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

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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

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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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Lee Crabtree Tech Band Girls Chorus MUSIC Yes, our music department is developing. The Boys’ Chorus of sixty voices, heard at the P. T.A. Band and Chorus Night and in Tech Turns to Music, is Tech’s first such chorus in five years. Congratula- tions go to Mr. Crabtree and the chorus for an excellent performance. Another noteworthy group is our orchestra, an organization missing from Tech for many years. Start- ing in the 1950-1951 season with but eleven instru- mentalists, it now numbers some twenty members and is still growing. The Tech Band has been increasingly busy. In addition to the regular school activities, assemblies, special programs, games, etc., the band participated in such civic activities as parades and concerts. Noting the long after school hours of practice and drill, we don’t wonder that this forty piece group is one of the busiest and most popular local high school bands. The Tech Chorale, our largest musical group of one hundred voices, is admired for its fine renditions of both classiscal and popular choral arrangements. Starting three years ago as an after school organiza- tion, it is now an established class. Besides these groups there are the forty voices of the Girls’ Chorus which performs during special pro- grams, and the recreational music class which studies popular, semi-classical, and classical music from both recordings and sheet music. That Tech is progressing in the music field was evidenced by superior ratings at the Western Massachusetts Music Festival. Mr. Crabtree, who is essentially a musician, holds two degrees in music education and at one time directed the Wachogue Church choir. His fine work and genial personality have won the hearts and re- spect of both students and faculty. 22