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

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ER me noni: 1 Members of the Tech News Editorial Staff meet with Mr. DiDomenico, who is the Printing Advisor for the group. 2 Carole Theberge works very carefully on the typesetting machine. 3 Carole Theberge and Brenda Crowley type the news that's fit to print. We regret that no photo was available of Tech News Business Staff members Jay Bryant and Barbara Popowski and their Advisor, Mr. Wallace.

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EXTRA EXTRA ! Your Tech News Editorial Staff, and Mrs. Heyl, editorial advisor, is probably the only high school news staff in the state that gathers the news, writes it, makes the paste-up, and then, under the direction of Mr. DiDomenico, makes the negative, the picture halftones, the gold- enrod, does the opaquing, makes the printing plate, does the printing, and, finally the distributing. And then it starts all over again. The News Staff does the news from beginning to end — and it freely admits that it is only with the printing and set-up help of Mr. DiDomenico that it has been able to meet its goal of getting out a Tech News once a month. His instruction and support have been invalu- able. The business people, Mr. Wallace and his staff of two, have kept the paper well supplied with ads. This is the staff's first year and members do the work together as they learn. They have no specific editors. As one staff member said, “We stick together’. Because of a break in the school’s compugraphic machine, the type was set by typewriter on the first issues. It is the staff's hope that the larger printing press will be ready before the year ends so they can have a folded newspaper. Innovations this year have been a comic strip and word search games. The News Staff has tried to keep the student body aware of school activities and even world issues that affect us. Pictures have added to the interest of the news. Colored ink also helps. The Christ- mas issue was printed in red and green. They have encouraged contributions from students, editorials, news items, pictures, sports items, poetry, cartoons, The staff consid- ers Tech News to be your paper and will give credit for all contribu- tions. The importance of getting a paper out every month puts pressure on the staff at deadline time. Anyone who ever edited a newspaper is aware of this. It is at this time that the decisions have to be made about what goes in, what stays out, and what changes have to be made, because it all has to fit. Then the scissors and paste come out and the paper is readied for printing. Putting the headlines on the columns is an important function at this time. The News Staff is experimenting on this, but mostly rely on the rub-off letters They hope eventually to have a headline machine. This year there has been no charge for the paper and the News Staff has tried to make a copy available to all students. va Ne are soa — 1 Ted Brozowski types up the latest news. 2 Maureen Francis and Jeff Weller get it all togeth- er. 3 The Tech News Staff members meet with Edito- rial Advisor Mrs. Heyl. Left to Right: Brenda Crow- ley, Jeff Weller, Carole Theberge, Ted Brozowski, Maureen Francis and Mrs. Heyl.

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LENDING A HELPING HAND During the month of December Student Council initi- ated and ran a Toys For Tots drive for needy children. Tech was one of the fifteen high schools that participat- ed in a contest to find creative ways to collect toys for needy children. Students arranged for drop off centers at different places such as Kings, McCorys, all the Big Y stores in the area, Sixteen Acres Garden Center, and many more. Tech students were given an hour off detention for every toy brought in. A free box of popcorn was given if a toy was brought in. All overdue book charges were erased if a toy was brought in to the city library. These are only a few of the many different creative ideas that were done. At the end of the Toys for Tots drive a scrapbook of all the things Tech did was put together. Every high school passed one in and all these books were judged. Cash awards were given and after five hard, long years, Tech won first place! The amount was $750.00 and will be used for activities for the school. We would like to congratulate everyone on an excellent job. 1 Linda Matthews, Scott Sanderson, Kendra Edmunds, Jim Sweeney, Paul Richard, Sandy Callahan and Mike Brunt carry the Tech Toys for Tots banner in the parade to City Hall. 2 Santa (Chuck Kennedy) and our Tech Tiger (Frank Field) lead the parade. 3 Students wrap toys brought in for needy children. 4 Santa carries a toy for a tot. 5 Linda Matthews meets with Mayor DiMauro at City Hall where toys were accepted by the Mayor.