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

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+ a : 2 4 TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL From the music department we hear the rumble of drums, blaring of brass, and the soaring of high voices drawing everyone to future entertainment and excitement. Looking in on this class we find a mass rehearsal in progress for one of Tech’s big shows. To the left we see the Boys’ Chorus numbering sixty voices, and the Girls’ Chorus of eighty, who perform for the P. T. A., in Tantrums, and in Tech Turns to Music. In the middle, getting ready for the grand finale, is our orchestra, grown in the last three years from eleven to thirty instrumentalists. Here too is the band of forty-two pieces which in addition to regular school activities as assemblies, games, etc. also played during President Truman’s visit and in various parades and outside concerts. Our band owes much of its city-wide popularity to long hours of after school practice and drill. The Tech Swing- sters, who are a selected sixteen piece dance band are also the backbone of Tantrums. Moving to the right we notice the Tech Chorale, our largest selected musical group of one hundred voices, which presents many fine renditions of classical and popular arrange- ments for the Christmas Assembly, Holy Week, and Graduation. In front is the Tech Choralette, a selected group chosen to participate in both school and community Christmas programs, and to sing for such organizations as the Motion Picture Council. At the tap of a baton, all is quiet, and Mr. Lee Crabtree, the guide and director, steps forward. An all-round musician, Mr. Crabtree not only holds two degrees in music education but also has worked under Fred Waring and directs the Nurses’ Chorus at Springfield Hospital. Frequently, he can be seen playing any instrument from the clarinet to the piano, or heard singing any part from bass to soprano. We salute this exceptionally fine, hard worker with the genial personality. All City Orchestra Tech Band and Majorettes at Pynchon Park

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Sy fours ee, ® z 5 aN ce . in i 6 | ooe {..!lG(Uae ‘ an Aw : — © : i 2 ; : 2G wn? — . Class in design with Miss Roy. In the lodgings of the art department, we find facilities for classes in poster, crafts, design, freehand drawing, interior decoration, and fashion drawing. Under the able guidance of Miss Ida Roy and Miss Helen Norrgard, Tech’s maestros of brush and paint, students have the opportunity to develop talent along varied lines. Materials are available for instruction and experimentation with every medium within reach and reason. Those who are design-minded can create design masterpieces to their heart’s content. Into their schedule come block printing, textile work, abstracts, geometric shapes, and all sorts of imaginative crea- tions. For anyone talented in poster work, there is plenty of room for ingenious advertisement for the many and varied Tech activities. We are conscious of this group’s work on many occasions throughout the year. Looking to the future, some students prefer to plan interior decorations or to design ravishing outfits to dazzle any interested males. Planning to remodel your room? Or to create a wardrobe? You know where to apply. For any Techites who just plain like to draw, freehand drawing class is just the thing. Field trips out on the trail and an exhibition of monthly ‘‘bests’’, judged and shown publicly, are part of the regular schedule of this class. The crafts class offers students talented with their hands a good chance to prove their ability. Into this field come metalwork, leathercraft, weaving, and a variety of other crafts. In any predicament with yearbook, dance decorations, poster designs, or wardrobe planning, a helping hand will be gladly and expertly extended by either Miss Norrgard or Miss Roy. Miss Roy, as an artist herself, has excellent theories which help her students to master tech niques of brush, pen, paint, pencil, and ink. Her skill is an incentive toward improvement in student work. Miss Norrgard is well known for her prowess with materials for posters and displays, and stunning scenery for Tantrums. Class in Costume Design with Miss Norrgard. Patricia Hanson

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BOYS (gage PHYSICAL jy, gen EDUCATION peeaer a Mexican Football The gym teachers all have degrees of which they are proud. Bachelor of Science and Master of Education are the most prominent. One Bachelor of Arts degree belongs to Tom Carey. These expert guides also have num- erous interests in other activities than their teaching and coaching. Although spending much of their own time on teams and on building a good name for the school, they also find time for enjoyment of other things without com- pletely disrupting their personal lives. John Kalloch likes genealogy; Bill Lawler enjoys golf, tennis, hunting, and fishing; Milt Orcutt hunts, fishes, works in his garden, and directs a day camp; Tom Carey is active in the Ameri- can Legion. When the period terminates, the gym is ee evacuated with a general feeling of discontent Milton Orcutt, John Kalloch, Thomas Carey, William Lawler. because it is hard to leave something enjoyable. As our journey winds its way, we come to a large clearing known as the gym. Here an Class doing Apparatus work informal group, including the novices, experi- enced hunters, and experts, gathers to enjoy a change from ordinary classes. A varied program of indoor as well as outdoor, weather permitting, ar el me @ activities is offered. Good use is made of the ‘al si hte Armory grounds which are opened to us without rap ah om “Se a charge. Activities on these premises include Th Pia i ; beled ‘ Bw u é i = softball, volleyball, and football. During the months unfavorable for the outdoors, apparatus, same i 4 ee basketball, volleyball, war with soft balls, and my a 0 - taee hyd 2 a | many other games have eager participants WN, BO Pi ABR 17 indoors. Good material is often found for one -- Leaituaemmmaaiaiinn ips of the many school teams through this medium. This year, the expeditions to this clearing are longer than in previous years because of a change in the entire system of the school program and time schedules.