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

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New Promise Mr. Willard J. Wright Principal TO THE CLASS OF 1980: This has been a class of many accomplishments and achievements. This has been a class of scholarship, dignity, spirit, and above all, pride. My congratulations to you for your cooperation and for your part in helping us to regain for Tech, a positive image in the community. We have worked together and played together, and out of this togetherness and out of this mutual effort has sprung the “phoenix from the ashes.” | am proud to have been able to serve as your Principal. Some of you have been accepted into the best colleges academies in the country; some will enter various areas of the armed forces; some will enter the employment market; others will become homemakers. Whatever your plans are, may | congratulate you on your graduation and wish you the very best that life has to offer. Willard J. Wright Principal Technical High School

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1980: New Decade Dr. John E. Deady Superintendent of Schools TO THE CLASS OF 1980: The time has come for you to leave the hallowed halls of Technical High School. You are about to go forth into a demanding and confusing world. Whether you plan to continue your education, or go to work, the perspectives and values which have been learned as members of the Technical High School family, will guide your actions each day of your lives. Your school has taught you the meaning of truth, honesty, decency and the personal worth of each human being. I urge you to maintain these concepts as a part of your personal Code of Ethics in your work, your homes and your personal lives. Without them, the human experience has little meaning. As you leave Technical High School, I wish you good fortune. May you have the strength and fortitude to cope successfully with the challenges which await you. John E. Deady Superintendent of Schools. Springfield Public Schools

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Old Ways Cease To Exist, During this past year, three women of the Technical High School Staff retired. Each woman represents a different part of Tech life-Administration, Faculty, Office Staff. Though each was involved in the Springfield School System for several years prior to coming to Tech, their combined years spent at Tech total to over 50. Miss Marion B. Hoar, Assistant Principal of Tech from 1966 to 1978, retired in June, 1979. Having graduated from College of Our Lady of the Elms and Fordham University, Miss Hoar joines the Springfield School System in 1953. Assigned to Tech as a member of the Mathematics Department in March, 1958, she eventually was to know all facets of secondary education. Miss Hoar became a member of the Guidance Department in 1959. She was appointed Acting Vice Principal in May, 1966. This position was made permanent that September. After having considered the thought for some time, Miss Hoar took a Leave of Absence for the 1978-79 school year to attend Western New England Law School. Becoming enthusiastic by what she encountered, she decided to retire from the School System and to pursue a Law Degree full time. The Tech family expresses appreciation to Miss Hoar for her devotion to the education of the students. We wish her much success in her new venture. Mrs. Betty Sambor, a member of the Home Economics Department, retired in June, 1979. Mrs. Sambor received her Bachelor's Degree from Western Illinois University. She taught in the Ware and Springfield School Systems. After leaving teaching to raise her six children, Mrs. Sambor returned to Tech in 1965. Mrs. Sambor now resides in Maine. In October, 1979, Mrs. Rita Lantaigne of the Office Staff retired. Mrs. Lantaigne was transferred to Tech from Central Office in August, 1963. The following year she took a seat at the desk in the Guidance Office and remained there for 15 years. Although removed from much of the activity, Mrs. Lantaigne played an impor- tant part in the Tech scene. Until three years ago, she handled all transcripts that left the building, not only for recent graduates, but for all Tech grads. A major job in itself, it was only one of her many duties. As she reflected upon the past years, Mrs. Lantaigne catagorized every day as being ‘‘exciting.” We wish our retirees well. May they enjoy the future and think of us as fondly as we shall think of them.