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

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STANDING: Mr. Case, Mr. Snow, Mr. Cur- ran, Mr. Shea, Mr. Wiatrowski, Mr. Romano, Mr. Northrup. SEATED: Miss Barton, Miss Porter, Mr. Allan, Miss Martin, Mr. O’Keefe. Ronald Stearns, Mr. Shea, Carol Sharon, Judy Carey. Electronics is the most increasingly popular subject. It has increased from about twenty students of last year to over one hundred and twenty students this year. Many other subjects such as Science Survey, Physiography, and Physiology are offered to the students as a part of the science program. Advanced Physics is about the only subject solely for the Sen- iors and is for most people the toughest. Mr. Allen, also the department head and Mr. Snow are present to help those who struggled through this subject. This year the Science Department may be congratulated for an excellent job.

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Joyce, Barkett, Linda Rugani, Sally Senf, Mary Lind, Joyce Ryan, Joanne Johnson, June Sample, Beverly Bullions, Barbara Thompson, Joan Tunnington, Lerna Mackay, Joyce Jodion. The curriculum of this year’s Science Department is both vari- ed and interesting. Here, in this school, science is one of the most heavily stressed subjects. College Preparatory boys are re- quired to have two years of Physics, a year of Chemistry and, if possible, a year of Electronics. Only fifty per cent of all high schools even offer these courses. To meet these standards, Tech has an excellent scienc staff. Upon entering Tech, the freshman physics student will in- variably be taught by Mr. Case. Awaiting him is a vast store of knowledge of Navy life as well as information about forces and motion. If, on the other hand, the student is interested in biology, it is very possible that he will be under the direction of Miss Barton or Mr. Curran. In the student’s junior year, it is possible that he will have a course in Chemistry. If he does not have this course in his yunior year he will have to take it in his last year. In either case he will have the guidance of such teachers as Mr. Northrup, Miss Martin, Mr. Romano, or Mr. Curran. This is the staff that works many hours to drill the knowledge of atoms and molecules into our heads. Joan Voelker, Delores Twarog, Ron Robi- taille, Jim Stassen. Robert St. Jean, Bob Kane, Stephan Romanoff.

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Mr. Duffin, Lee Dufault Left to Right: Mr. Lennon, Mr. Duffin, Mr. Loiko, and Mr. Biscaldi. MECHANICAL DRAWIN Left to Right: John Jorczak, Albert Iefevre, Karl Winckel, Robert McColy, Mr. Biscaldi. As you’ve passed through the corridors, you may have looked into a room and have seen boys busily working over drawing boards. As you must know, they are studying me- chanical drawing. Tech provides its students with one of the best mechanical drawing pro- grams in the country. This is a result of having such excellent teachers as Mr. Biscaldi, Mr. Duffin, Mr. Loiko, and Mr. Lennon. In these classes we learn how to construct views of three-dimensional objects. We learn how to use the T-square, triangles, dividers, French curves, and other equipment. We are taught projection and isometric drawing, using machine parts as models most of the time. A course in architectural or machine drawing is available to senior boys. Here stu- dents are taught how to design buildings or parts of machines. This year Tech made an improvement in the drawing department. We purchased a printing and developing machine which can print and develop a blueprint in less than a minute. You can see that we here at Tech have a mechanical drawing program of which we can be proud.