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

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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.

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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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Front row, left to right: Gail Galvin, Rita Frazier, Antonina Bourys. Second row: William Neal, Donald Allen, John Stoval, Robert Carroll. Third row: William Gamelli. Fourth row: Ralph Albano. TY p | N G To help us keep our maps and notes neat and helpful, typewriting is taught by Miss Shea the typing guide of Tech. Miss Shea who has her Bachelor of Science and Master of Education degrees, last summer took a refresher course at Boston University. She has previously worked at Perkins Machine and Gear Company and taught evening school at Commerce. All this puts her in an excellent position to help her students understand how to apply typing to business, school, and everyday life. The course is designed to make the typewriter so familar that it can be used more quickly than a pencil or a pen. The mechanics of the machine itself are learned along with speed in the operation of it. Speed, rhythm, accuracy, and arrangement are learned by typing actual themes, notes, etc. Front row, left to right: Shirley Harty, Arthur Gaskins, Angelo Spanos, James Tranghese. Second row: Alvin Cook, Percy Pel- ton, Richard Buffum, Felix Valetti, Frank Bennett. Third row: Gerald Sanderson, Paul Sears, Ernest Barbutti. HIGH SCHOOL DRIVER EDUC Counte4y) ° AUTOMOBILE SALE 3 | Left to right: Shirley Flint, Shirley Harty, Gini Mould, Mr DRIVER ED. Every year the Juniors, both boys and girls, have their regular Gym periods interrupted for about four weeks to take a pre-driver course. In these classes the gym teachers provide instruction on the rules of the road and the mechanics of a car. After successfully completing the pre-driyer course by passing the written examination, these pupils are ready, in their Senior year, for training given in actual road operation of a car by ‘‘Chief”’ Walmer, driving instructor for the Springfield schools. When they have overcome their ‘‘shakes’’ and have become accustomed to the car, Mr. Walmer sends them on to the official state examiners. As the written exams have been passed before these pupils go to the Registry of Motor Vehicles, only a road test is given by the officials from that depart- ment. Graduates of Tech’s ‘‘drivers’ trek’’ pass. Left to right: Raymond Broboski, a) he BD Cowley AUTOMOBILE SALES Ce : ke . . Walmer.