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

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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.

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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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All city field day. To keep our bodies fit for the long, three year trek in Tech, gym is a required subject. The classes are taught by two highly trained teachers, Mrs. Richardson and Miss Gray. Miss Gray received her Bachelor of Science at Sargent in Boston University, Master of Edu- cation at Springfield College, and has done graduate work at Smith. Her hobbies are photography, reading, gardening, most athle- tic sports, and traveling. Last summer she traveled all over Europe. Mrs. Richardson, the other instructor, has her Bachelor of Science from Russell Sage and enjoys music, sports, and her little girl. After school sports are divided between these two teachers. Squad leaders from the after school club help conduct the classes. Skills and calisthenics are a part of almost every lesson, but conduct as well as physical ability is believed an impor- tant factor in every class. In the fall, feminine tigers are seen trouping up to the Armory for field hockey. Games are played in the gym when the weather is bad and for a short while after cold weather sets in. During the winter months the girls have self- testing activities and the grades are kept and compared from year to year. Folk and square dancing follow, providing the girls with lots of fun and a chance to invite the boys for a hoe-down. Modern dancing rounds out the dancing program. Next come the favorites: basketball, apparatus, stunts and tumbling, and volleyball. By spring, when tigeresses start going out to play softball, they should be pretty muscular and have their bodies as well as minds improved by this part of Tech’s Trek. GIRLS’ PHYSICAL EDUCATION Mrs. Barbara Richardson, Miss Mary Gray. Standing, left to right: Mary Lou Burgess, Shirley Flint, Judy Clou- tier, Jean Zoller, Sandy Constantino, Sandra Koontz, Margaret Healy, Carol Smith, Roma Gans, Suzanne Deleporte. Kneeling, left to right: Marilyn Corbett, Carol Cleveland, Barbara Little, Jody Francis, Nelma Carlson, Elaine Austin, Martha Shylo, Bev- erly Filley.