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

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What Will The New Decade Bring? SAYS DAVID WEBB; DANA VETAL PREDICTS: People will turn to solar power when oil and gas get to be There will be more students in the school system who as high as two dollars a gallon and electricity skyrockets. will have more school spirit. As the economy decreases in the world people will become closer to each other than they ever have before. TODD CHAPIN COMMENTS; Ther e will be new drugs that will prolong life, and A home that will be completely full of push button school’s will be heated by solar energy. appliances that will do all the cleaning and cooking. The school system will go back to the basics of teaching reading, writing, and arithmatic. T.V.’s will not only be used for entertainment, but also A new car that will run on a new found energy source as a learning center, and you will be able to rent computer and have all the conveniences of technology with push time that will be patched into your T.V. set. buttons everywhere. ALVIN McKENJY SAYS; There will be cars that will get more than fifty miles to a gallon because gas will become scarce. People will handle the testing of chemicals much more More crime that will only add to the country’s steady carefully than ever before. destruction. People will revert back to the times when life was more down to earth-the simple life. PATRICIA PARKER SAYS; GREG TOPOLSKI COMMENTS: Family life will reconstruct. The moral concerns is that Many new scientific breakthroughs such as space explo- adults see themselves as the active agents responsible for ration of the planets surrounding earth looking for possible the development of the young generation who will one day life, natural resources, and places to start new colonies. assume political responsibility. The new decade will bring a World War III that will have nuclear missiles involved. RENEE SMITH PREDICTS; The youth of the world today will grow up to be some- thing and face the problems of the world logically. Scientists will find cures to diseases that have plagued the world for centuries. People will start taking buses to work just like they did a long time ago. SAYS RAY LEE: COMMENTS STEVE OLBRYCH; Man's exploration into space will become more and The school system will improve, drug problems in the more to our advantage for food, shelter, and fuel. world will become even more serious, and people will recycle more things.

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, MR. DUNN!!! On February 1, 1955 Mr. Thomas Dunn began teaching at Technical High School for what he thought would be a five month stint. However, having the luck of the Irish, Mr. Dunn remained for twenty-five years. Known for his quick, dry wit, Mr. Dunn is a popular Faculty member. Asked if he felt old, which is a very good question to ask of the Chairman of the History Department, Mr. Dunn quoted from Shakespeare's ‘‘A Winter’s Tale:’’ ‘““What’s past is prologue. Wellll!! Congratulations to you, Mr. Dunn! May the next 25 be just as much fun! yee 1. Mr. Dunn poses with one of his ‘‘model”’ students. 13

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The movie business will continue to grow and make People will become phanitics about their health and will more and more movies about sex, violence and crime. eat only health food, join health spas, and jog. Gasahol will be the number one best seller in car fuel because of its excellent performance in cars. A world’s record size diamond for the most karats will be Roller disco skating will continue to spread throughout found after a freak earthquake in the Rocky Mountains and the United States as more people look for an exercise that it will be auctioned to the highest bidder. is fun. Telephones will be invented with a screen so that people will be able to see each other while they talk. The new decade will bring a worldwide depression, and a A new type of transportation that will take you from one nuclear war that will destroy the world’s economy. part of the world to the other in only a few days. More wildlife areas as people realize that the animals are slowly becoming extinct species by species. More and more computers that will eventually run all A more leisure pace for the people of the world today in the different organizations in the world. order to keep this country together. Skyscrapers of astronomical heights that will be built all over the world to save space. JUAN GALINDE SAYS; Computers will be our prime source of information, and A generation of laser weapons that could transform this that hunger will increase and remain in this world for a world’s wars from the ground to outer space. long time to come. The population of the world will double in size causing people to think seriously about zero population. People will follow a totally different life-style where they Women will continue the relentless fight for equal rights will be at peace with themselves as well as others. but will never get them. Pollution will continue to increase as the world declines until the earth will eventually become unlivable. People will become more and more pessimistic and only The new decade will bring a world whose future is full of see the problems of the world instead of trying to find the hopes, dreams, fears, love, hate, and brighter days ..... solutions.