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

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Left to right, Mr. Winslow, Mr. Hansen, and Mr. Loiko. Tech in the past has produced many fine woodworking students. Many Ford Company awards have been presented to Tech students for their fine workmanship. Mr. Winslow, Mr. Loiko, and Mr. Hansen have done a marvelous job in teaching students thet art of working with wood. ‘They have such degrees as Bachelor of Science and Master of Education to show that they have furthered their education in order to become more pro- fessional in their field. They have also taught in other Springfield schools. In the woodturning shop students begin by learning how to set up a lathe. They then start to work and cut rough pieces of stock down to exact measurements and bead them according to a blueprint. Getting into the tougher part, they turn out beautiful inlaid bowls, small furniture, and lamps. Pattern making is another training course offered where students acquire the knowledge of the types and industrial uses of patterns. After mastering this, they start the actual shop practice. A third branch of woodshop is the foundry work. ‘There the students make castings from patterns. [he material used is aluminum. Items such as matching letter slot, door knock- ers, and bell buttons are made. Tech has indeed a shop program of which to be proud. Charles Wilson. Left to right, Bill Anthes, Robert Fraggio. Re one WE iy vy XEN EX) KORY XX ne mn We dgiroane Nie | x i AE Hoot Rs hoe x aK, Re Hit Ne) CRY feed oy hi aR Mead te non OR Mr ALK) OY RAS XARA Fs Wier Ra re he ONG 00 be 20

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} Ciel eevee!) Where will the future Rembrandts, Picassos, and Latrecs come from? Noone knows. But the art classes at Tech, under the able direction of Miss Ida B. Roy and Miss Helen Norrgard, are arranged so that future art talent in the fields of sculpture, interior decorating, dress designing, poster making, and portrait painting may get as much background and knowledge of fundamental color and design as will benefit them when they enter the art field. For those students in their first year of art in high school, there is the class of design. It furnishes them with information on the use of organization of color and shapes to make pleasing patterns as well as balanced paintings. It also introduces them to the use of different media such as watercolor, cut paper, and colored pencil. Left to right, around table, Nancy Bassett, Deanna Mote, Peggy Kenison, Carolyn Morse, Marguerite Kane, Barbara Muir, Carolyn Sampson, Jean Foster, Peggy Santaniello, Bob Maloney, and Sandra Gamble. Standing, left to right, Kathleen Brown, Thomas Walsh, Miss Roy, Everett Hahn, and James Stewart. Left to right, Miss Helen Norrgard, Miss Ida Roy. After students have taken the design course, they may take one of several advanced courses such as Freehand Drawing, Costume Design, Interior Decorating, Poster work, or Crafts. The Freehand Drawing class is one which develops the skills of sketching and painting from real life in pencil, charcoal, watercolor, and ink. Miss Norrgard and Miss Roy take their Freehand Drawing classes over to the museum or other interesting spots to sketch. The students in the Interior Decorating class design color schemes and furniture placing to create a well- balanced room, while those in the Costume Design class design clothes and paint them from their own ideas or ideas worked up from ancient styles. The Poster and Craft classes do work that is used around the school. Left to right, standing, Jean Merriman, Everett Hahn, Agnes Scordino. Seated, left to right, David Harscheid, Elaine Xides. 19

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Machine Shop a Left to right: Mr. Robinson, Mr. Reed, Mr. Henry, Mr. Reynolds. From the deep, dark, Elliot Street cor..dors come the rumble and whine of Tech’s machine shops. In these shops, under the supervision of such well-known instructors as Paul Henry, Howard Reed, George Reynolds, and John Robinson, freshmen, juniors and seniors toil at their lathes and various other equipment. Here the students start with a small product, usually a screwdriver, and work toward other more difficult projects. Mr. Robinson and others of the shop faculty hope to have some entries of unusual handiwork of the machinists for the Ford Motor Contest. More popular with the seniors is the Automotive training course to which Mr. Reynolds devotes much time. The mechanics in this class spend their time disassembling and assem- bling automobile engines. Mr. Reynolds also takes charge of the important shop service class. In this class, boys who have had experience in machine shop do important jobs for the maintenance of the school. ‘This year the boys are setting up a new shop in the basement. Besides teaching eleventh grade shop, Mr. Robinson also presides over the print shop. In this shop students begin by learning the fundamentals and printing report card blanks. The main purpose of all these shops is to introduce students to shopwork and teach them the fundamentals. Left to right: Tom Welch, Charles Choquette, Phil Maurice, Phil Kartschche, Ed McGrady, Bob Kuzon, Leonard Giannetti, Left to right: Mr. Henry, Stetson LaFleur. 21