A few teachers are leaving us students and staff this year at Hingham High School. Among them, is Mr. Faherty, the woodworking, autoshop, and technical drawing teacher here at HHS. As an educator of mechanics, Mr. Faherty enjoys teaching students the rewards of learning creative skills in technology and construction.

Industrial technology is a very important class to be taught in high school. Tech classes, “give a creative break for the students during the day, and uses the importance of hands-on learning,” Mr Faherty says. They give students flooded with math problems and history timelines a break to be creative and use hands-on approaches to challenges. The lessons learned in class trigger cognitive skills and creative thinking that can be used in the shop, in other classes, and outside of school.

Mr. Faherty has great praise for the industrial technology program at HHS. “It’s a great program;” he says, “if a student wants to be a mechanic his or her first taste is here”. He teaches students the skills needed to break into the field of machinery.

Ever since he was in seventh grade, Mr. Faherty knew he wanted to teach industrial technology. As a student he was very interested in machinery, and he hopes that by teaching industrial technology he can inspire that same love to craft in other students.

Faherty has been teaching for 30 years, and working at Hingham High School for 15. So much has changed in the world and at HHS in that time. Although some technologies he teaches remains the same, a lot of them have changed. Additionally, the biggest difference between now and 15 years ago at HHS is that kids don’t write notes anymore, they just text, notes Mr. Faherty.

According to Mr. Faherty, he has loved his experience here. Although he feels that it is, “not time to go”, his retirement his kicked in and he is ready to leave with great memories. Mr. Faherty will be deeply missed, but remembered by his great love for teaching what it means to be truly creative.