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ANNUAL REPORTS
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF
MIDDLEBORO, MASS.
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COUNTY
PLYMOU
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INCORPORATED
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FOR THE
Year Ending December 31, 1918
C. A. Hack & Son, Inc., Printers, Taunton, Mass.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
TOWN OFFICERS
OF
Middleboro, Mass.
for the
YEAR 1918
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TOWN OFFICERS 1918.
Town Clerk.
ALBERT A. THOMAS
Term expires 1921
Treasurer and Collector. ALBERT A. THOMAS. Selectmen.
BOURNE WOOD SYLVANUS T. LeBARON
Term expires 1919
EDWARD H. CROMWELL
Term expires 1920 Term expires 1921
Assessors.
BENJAMIN C. SHAW ALBERT T. SAVERY ALLERTON THOMPSON
Term expires 1919
Term expires 1920 Term expires 1921
Overseers of the Poor
CHARLES M. THATCHER
Term expires 1919
WILLIAM M. HASKINS ALLERTON THOMPSON
Term expires 1920 Term expires 1921
School Committee.
REGINALD W. DRAKE
E. T. PEIRCE JENKS
GRANVILLE E. TILLSON
JOHN V. SULLIVAN
GEORGE W. STETSON
Term expires 1921
THEODORE N. WOOD
Term expires 1919 Term expires 1919
Term expires 1920 Term expires 1920
Term expires 1921
Superintendent of Schools. CHARLES H. BATES. Municipal Light Board.
BURTON DINSMORE WILLIAM A. ANDREWS HARLAS L. CUSHMAN
Term expires 1919 Term expires 1920 Term expires 1921
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Board of Health.
CHARLES W. CLARK Term expires 1919
RICHARD P. BYRNES
DR. LEONARD A. BAKER
Term expires 1920 Term expires 1921
JOHN H. WHEELER, Health Officer and Agent of Board.
Superintendent of Streets. . V. A. MALM.
Registrars of Voters.
WILLIAM J. COUGHLIN Term expires 1919
WALTER M. CHIPMAN
Term expires 1920 Term expires 1921
LORENZO WOOD
Trustees of the Public Library.
ALLAN R. THATCHER
Term expires 1919
EDWARD'S. HATHAWAY
Term expires 1919
THEODORE N. WOOD
Term expires 1919
WALTER L. BEALS
Term expires 1920
WALTER SAMPSON
Term expires 1920
NATHAN WASHBURN
Term expires 1920
HENRY W. SEARS
Term expires 1921
GEORGE E. DOANE
Term expires 1921
KENELM WINSLOW
Term expires 1921
Constables.
WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN
FRANK W. HASTAY
G. LOUIS HATHAWAY
GEORGE H. MORSE FRED C. SPARROW
CHARLES M. THATCHER
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ICHABOD B. THOMAS CLARENCE E. THOMAS
Fish Wardens.
BOURNE WOOD EDWARD H. CROMWELL SYLVANUS T. LeBARON.
Tree Warden Auditor LUTHER S. BAILEY WILLIAM W. BRACKETT
Moth Superintendent. JOHN J. FOWLER, JR.
Forest Warden. JOHN J. FOWLER, JR.
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
SCHOOL COMMITTEE of
Middleboro, Mass.
for the
YEAR 1918
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
ORGANIZATION, 1918-1919.
GRANVILLE E. TILLSON, Chairman.
CHARLES H. BATES, Secretary.
MEMBERS.
Term Expires
E. T. PEIRCE JENKS, 26 No. Main St., 1919
REGINALD W. DRAKE, 45 Pierce St., 1919
GRANVILLE E. TILLSON, 141 So. Main St., 1920
JOHN V. SULLIVAN, 114 So. Main St., 1920
GEORGE W. STETSON, 118 So. Main St., 1921
THEODORE N. WOOD, 15 School St., 1921
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SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
CHARLES H. BATES, 32 Pearl St. Telephone 81-W. Office, Room 7, Town Hall. Telephone 81-R.
Office Hours, School Days: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 4 to 5 P. M., Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8 to 9 A. M.
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Regular meetings of the School Board are held in Room 7, Town Hall, on the first Thursday of each month, excepting July and August, at 7.30 P. M.
All bills against he School Department should be sent to the Secretary's office not later than the Wednesday pre- ceding the first Thursday of each month.
MEETINGS 1919-1920.
Jan. 2, Feb. 6, March 6, April 3, May 1, June 5, June 26, Sept. 4, Oct. 2, Nov. 6, Dec. 4.
1920.
Jan. 8, Feb. 5, March 4, April 1, May 6, June 3, June 24 .
SUB-COMMITTEES.
Thomastown, South Middleboro and Rock Schools, GRANVILLE E. TILLSON.
School Street, Fall Brook and Purchade Schools,
THEODORE N. WOOD.
High, Green and Waterville Schools,
E. T. PEIRCE JENKS.
Union Street, Town House and Wappanucket Schools, GEORGE W. STETSON. Forest Street, Pleasant Street and Plymouth Street Schools, REGINALD W. DRAKE. West Side, Soule and Thompsonville Schools, JOHN V. SULLIVAN.
SCHOOL PHYSICIANS.
DR. JAMES H. BURKHEAD, 11 Peirce Street. DR. A. VINCENT SMITH, 88 Centre Street.
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SCHOOL ATTENDANCE OFFICER.
SAMUEL S. LOVELL, 210 Centre Street
JANITORS OF CENTRAL BUILDINGS.
High School, CHARLES H. GOODWIN, Forest St. Extension Union Street and Town House Schools, HOMER CASWELL, 14 Pearl Street.
School Street School, THOMAS S. PHINNEY, 24 Pearl St. Forest Street School, MARTIN HANLEY, 85 Oak Street. West Side School, SAMUEL S. LOVELL, 210 Centre Street.
TOWN OF MIDDLEBORO.
In School Committee.
Jan. 2, 1919.
Voted: That the reports of the Secretary of the Board, Superintendent of Schools, Principal of the High School, Supervisors of Music and Drawing, School Physicians and School Attendance Officer be accepted and presented to the town by the School Board.
CHARLES H. BATES,
Secretary.
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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Middleboro, Mass., Jan. 2, 1919.
To the Citizens of Middleboro;
The following financial report of the School Board is respectfully submitted :
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
CURRENT EXPENSES.
DR.
Appropriation, 1918.
Salaries
$35,716.00
Janitors
2,900.00
Fuel
3,000.00
Books, Supplies and Printing
3,000.00
Rent of Town House Rooms
500.00
Water Supply
250.00
Tuition
250.00
Sundries
800.00
School Committee
150.00
School Physician
300.00
School Garden Work
50.00
$46,916.00
Less Estimated Income
6,906.26
$40,009.74
Less Deficit, 1917
195.02
$39,814.72
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Town of Lakeville, tuition
$3,037.61
66 " Plympton, tuition
438.75
66 Halifax, tuition
75.00
66
" Rochester, tuition
150.00
City of Boston, tuition
83.25
State Treasurer, tuition
692.25
Pierce Trustees, Commercial Course
2,515.00
Incidentals
61.30
Additional appropriation,
106.26
$7,159.42 $46,974.14
CR.
Salaries
$35,580.14
Janitors
2,864.46
Fuel
· 2,753.31
Books, Supplies and Printing
2,744.26
Rent of Town House Rooms
500.00
Water Supply
266.47
Tuition
309.86
Sundries
990.10
School Committee
150.00
School Physician
300.00
School Garden Work
50.00
$46,508.60
Balance
$465.54
TRANSPORTATION.
DR.
Appropriation Deficit, 1917
$3,600.00 157.74
$3,442.26
CR.
Expended Balance
$2,949.43 492.83
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REPAIRS.
DR.
Appropriation
Deficit, 1917
$1,200.00 254.19
$945.81
CR.
Expended
Deficit
$1,140.78 194.97
SUMMARY. .
Whole amount available for school
purposes
$51,362.21
Total expenditures
50,598.81
Balance
$763.40
DETAILED STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES
INSTRUCTION.
High School
$10,598.50
Town House School
1,400.00
School Street School
6,000.00
Union Street School
2,450.00
Forest Street School
1,210.00
West Side School
2,500.00
Pleasant Street School
600.00
Plymouth Street School
600.00
Purchade School
600.00
Thompsonville School
550.00
Soule School
527.50
Waterville School
550.00
Green School
650.00
Fall Brook School
650.00
Thomastown School
550.00
Rock School
650.00
South Middleboro School
600.00
Highland School
550.00
Wappanucket School
550.00
Student Teachers
39.14
$31,825.14
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SUPERVISORS.
Manual Arts Music Stamp Saving System
$600.00
725.00
30.00
$1,355.00
JANITORS.
High School
$570.00
Union Street and Town House Schools
560.00
School Street School
632.74
Forest Street School
200.00
West Side School
260.00
Pleasant Street School
72.60
Plymouth Street School
84.17
Purchade School
73.20
Thomsonville School
26.25
Soule School
54.00
Waterville School
27.00
Fall Brook School
36.00
South Middleboro School
48.00
Rock School
60.50
Thomastown School
36.00
Green School
54.00
Highland School
36.00
Wappanucket School
34.00
$2,864.46
FUEL.
J. L. Jenney
$1,913.18
B. C. Shaw
108.50
T. D. Creedon
79.75
Joseph B. Thomas '
75.50
Albert Deane
61.00
T. C. Savery
69.22
C. N. Atwood & Son
98.25
A. W. Miller
56.16
Washburn & Soule
10.00
E. Van Steenburg
5.00
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N. W. Shurtleff
11.50
Chas. E. Hunt
7.00
George R. Sampson
62.00
C. F. Anderson
16.75
George E. Deane
39.50
B. Cushman
140.00
$2,753.31
SUNDRIES.
Eagle Express Co., express
$4.87
Elias Marchant, sundries
5.22
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co., telephone rentals
87.68
Mid. Gas & Electric Plant, light
82.10
William Egger, sundries
5.40
Geo. E. Doane, sundries
224.17
Adams Express Co., express
15.62
C. H. Bates, sundries and expenses
39.50
Remington Typewriting Co., sundries
7.01
Underwood Typewriting Co., sundries
1.85
F. N. Whitman, sundries
24.86
Alger Paper Box Co., sundries
.70
T. W. Pierce Co., sundries
18.40
Lucas & Thomas, sundries
14.81
J. C. Boynton & Son, sundries
2.59
H. B. Wentworth, tuning pianos
6.00
E. E. Sawyer, sundries
10.14
Alice Denison, sundries
.25
E. F. Tinkham, repairing clocks
7.00 .
J. R. McGrady, removing ashes
33.25
Jesse F. Morse, sundries
3.50
E. H. Blake, repairing locks
3.95
Walter Sampson, traveling expenses and sundries 34.67
Laura B. Hudson, monitor service 8.00
Carrie L. Jones, taking school census 75.00
S. S. Lovell, salary attendance officer 50.00
A. A. Thomas, making out labor certificates 50.00 M. L. Hinkley, repairing clocks · 1.50
F. W. Martin Co., engrossing diplomas 18.20
Town of Middleboro, oil for floors 30.00
A. W. Fuller, making signs 1.00
T. S. Phinney, cleaning suburban buildings 37.44
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L. O. Tillson, sundries 16.97
R. S. Dower, filling in certificates 12.45
Thos. Westgate, water for Rock School 5.00
T. G. Sisson, cartage and freight 39.20
Geo. W. Perkins, sharpening lawn mower
2.00
A. R. Owens, cartage 9.50
A. R. Glidden & Son, sundries .30
$990.10
BOOKS, SUPPLIES AND PRINTING.
E. E. Babb & Co., books and supplies $1,497.34
D. C. Heath & Co., books 39.95
American Book Co., books
95.76
Riverside Press Co., books 33.75
Century Co., books
2.36
Houghton, Mifflin Co., books
3.96
J. L. Hammett Co., supplies
170.41
Alger Paper Box Co., supplies
3.25
Zaner, Bloser Co., supplies
2.40
T. F. Boucher, supplies
. 65
Ames & Rollinson Co., diplomas
43.00
White Son Co., supplies
1.33
Allyn & Bacon, books
52.47
Ginn & Co., books
2.72
D. F. Munroe Co., supplies
5.00
Oliver Ditson Co., books
32.11
Namaskett Press, supplies and printing
88.05
B. H. Sanborn & Co., books
42.28
David Farquhar, binding books
47.60
P. W. Keith, supplies
17.90
H. L. Thatcher & Co., supplies and printing 144.34
F. J. Barnard & Co., binding books 13.25
Underwood Typewriter Co., supplies 350.00
Silver, Burdett & Co., books 20.16
Irquois Pub. Co., books
34.22
$2,744.26
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TRANSPORTATION. School Teams.
Pleasant Street School
Arthur F. Straffin
Oscar G. Mostrom
$513.00 50.00
$563.00
Thompsonville School David N. Wetherbee $215.25
Thomastown School W. A. Shaw
$326.00
South Middleboro School
M. P. Azevedo
$378.00
Wappanucket School
C. W. Barrows
$420.00
$1,902.25
HIGH SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION.
Winter term
$265.37
Spring term
260.11
Fall term
322.16
$847.64
TOWN HOUSE SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION.
Winter term
$11.64 24.00
Spring term
$35.64
SCHOOL STREET SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION.
Winter term
$20.58
Spring term
51.84
Fall term
41.96
$114.38
SOULE SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION.
C. B. Farnum $5.00
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WEST SIDE SCHOOL.
Mary Gomes $19.50
W. B. Munroe 24.25
$43.75
SUPERVISORS' TRANSPORTATION.
Mary L. Cook .77
REPAIRS.
F. C. Sparrow, repairs 2.95
R. N. Bassett, material and repairs School St. and Town House Schools 51.48
Lloyd Perkins, repairs High School,
Union St. and West Side buildings
176.93
Irene J. Hatch, cash paid for labor South Middleboro School 1.50
Thomas & Benn, repairs School Street, Rock and West Side buildings 57.09
F. A. Johnson, material and labor Cen- tral buildings, repairing blackboards
160.80
A. W. Miller, repairs at Fall Brook building 8.00
J. T. Carver, repairs at Pleasant Street building 8.02
George A. Shurtleff, labor
4.20
T. S. Phinney, repairs on suburban buildings 75.71
C. M. Ellis, labor
3.66
Sears Lumber Co., material Union St. and Green Schools 93.59
F. G. Matthews, labor
4.75
Albino Faiette, labor at Forest Street building 67.20
Middleboro Fire District, repairs
2.05
Elliott W. Harlow, building steps at Union Street building 274.63
Zenas E. Phinney, repairs at West Side Town House, School St. and Subur- ban buildings 106.67
F. Scanlon, repairs in buildings
18.40
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D. T. Weston, repairs at Thomastown building 9.99
C. F. Gay, labor Forest Street and West Side buildings 6.52
Town of Middleboro, labor on West Side yard 6.64
$1,140.78
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COMPARATIVE TABLE. 1917-1918.
Appropriation
Expenditures
Salaries
1917 $34,100.00
1918 $35,716.00
1917 $34,782.62
1918 $35,580.14
Janitors
2,750.00
2,900.00
2,786.11
2,864.46
Fuel
2,400.00
3,000.00
2,568.81
2,753.31
Books, supplies
and printing
2,900.00
3,000.00
2,794.11
2,744.26
Sundries
915.40
800.00
1,289.55
990.10
Rent
500.00
500.00
500.00
500.00
School committee
150.00
150.00
150.00
150.00
School physician
300.00
300.00
300.00
300.00
Water supply
250.00
250.00
230.98
266.47
Home garden work
25.00
50.00
25.00
50.00
Tuition
50.00
250.00
218.50
309.86
Transportation
3,000.00
3,600.00
3,406. 14
2,949.43
Repairs
1,500.00
1,200.00
2,118.61
1,140.78
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES H. BATES,
Secretary of School Board.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Middleboro, Mass., Jan. 2, 1919.
To the School Board of Middleboro :-
The attendance during the past year was more irregular, as a whole, than for many years.
This was especially so during the past term when the influenza epidemic caused a closure for three weeks in Octo- ber, and a recurrence of the epidemic in November and December interfered seriously with the work in many of the schools, owing to the large number of pupils absent either because of sickness or the enforcement of a quaran- tine, as well as the fact that during December more teachers were unable to attend to their school duties owing to sick- ness than at any one time since my supervision of the schools. The fuel situation in the winter, while so serious as to make it necessary to close the schools in many places, fortunately did not effect our schools to any extent, although by extend- ing the February vacation one week it was made less acute.
And if nothing occurs to cause another enforced closure, by having but one week's vacation in March and by extend- ing the school year to June 27, the elementary schools will keep the usual school year of 38 weeks, although the length of the High School year will be two weeks less than usual.
With the attending conditions of sickness and the many changes in the teaching corps the work of the schools has been somewhat handicapped, but still progress has been made. It is hoped the coming year will be more normal in health conditions and permanency of the teaching force.
The High School at the present time has a smaller enroll- ment than for several years due mainly to the large number of pupils leaving school to go to work.
The teaching force in this school has been affected the past two years by the many changes due mainly to resigna- tions to accept better paying positions in other high schools.
It is evident that if we wish to retain teachers in the High School for any length of service much higher salaries
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must be paid to meet the salaries now paid in high schools of the same standard.
The most serious problem in the Central Schools at the present time is the matter of better school accommodations. Many of these schools, especially those in some of the rooms of the School Street building, are too large for securing the best results. The past term the enrollment in these rooms has been from 50 to 54 pupils. To require a teacher to teach such a school places too great a tax upon her strength, makes the discipline in the school harder, and does not give her the time or opportunity for individual work to keep her school up to the required standard.
As has been stated for several years a new High School building seems the best solution of this important matter.
The action of the Board in fixing the age of admission to the first grade in the future by requiring that any child applying for admission to that grade must attain the age of six years during the calendar year has had the tendency to reduce the number in the first grade this year, but next year it is probable that the first grade will be as large as in former years. And the adoption of the eight grade system to begin with the first grade this year so that those now entering that grade this year and in subsequent years will be able, if regularly promoted, to reach the High School at the same age as at present, while it may in time affect the enrollment in the elementary schools will have no great affect on the matter of school accommodations for several years.
These two actions, however, will do much to raise the standard of school work.
I have referred to the number of changes in the teaching force the past year.
There have been four in the High School, seven in the Central Elementary Schools and nine in the Suburban Schools,
We have lost one teacher by death. Miss Irene J. Hatch who had taught in our suburban schools for several years, having been teacher in the Highland and South Middleboro schools and at the time of her death teacher at the Purchade school died Dec. 18.
She was a faithful and painstaking instructor and her death is a great loss to our schoolv.
Miss Mary L. Cook, who had been supervisor of drawing in our schools for twelve years, resigned her position in June
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after a successful term of service to take up another line of work.
This makes 21 changes out of a force 46 teachers, nearly half the teaching corps. In the School Street building alone there have been five different principals in the last three years.
To retain our capable teachers has been a difficult task when other places are paying much higher salaries for similar service.
I am glad to record the action of the Board at the Decem- ber meeting in this matter of salaries when it was the unani- mous opinion of the Board that a substantial increase for the elementary teachers next year and a readjustment of the salaries of the High School positions should be recommended in their annual estimates to be presented to the committee on appropriations. Considering the high cost of living and the small chance of any material reduction as a whole for some time to come and the lower salaries paid in Middleboro at the present time compared with other places of the same population, it is only a matter of justice that such increases should be given.
I am also pleased to record as a part of my report the action of the Board in allowing a total of ten day's absence from duty for each teacher in case of sickness during each fiscal year without loss of pay.
This is a step in the right direction for maintaining the efficiency of the teacher's work, for no teacher can do her best work if she is not physically fit to do so, neither should she feel that she should attend to her school work when not able because she could ill afford to lose her day's pay. Noth- ing is ever lost by any municipality in treating employes in an appreciable manner.
In addition to the matter of more school accommodations the regrading of the Central Schools next September, the employment of an additional teacher to assist in individual instruction in the more congested schools at the Centre the consideration of the opening of a school in the Redding district at North Middleboro in response to a petition for the same from the residents of that district, the opening of an evening school for non-speaking English residents and the consolidation of the Highland and South Middleboro schools are some of the educational problems for the con- sideration of the Board the present year.
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Among the changes in school work the past year may b e enumerated the following: The dropping of the study of
f the German language from the High School course of study' the holding of graduation exercises of the elementary schools in the school rooms instead of union exercises in Town Hall, the giving up of the Stamp Saving System which had been in successful operation for 15 years to devote the time and money to the War Saving Stamp work, the transfer of the sixth grade of the Plymouth Street and Pleasant Street schools to the Pratt Free school thereby relieving the con- gestion at the Pleasant Street school, the adoption of the full day plan for grade one of Union Street school, and the extension of the student teacher plan to the School Street school so that assistance can be given in the large inter- mediate grades in that building.
Among the many activities connected with the school work the past year brief mention may be made of the suc- cessful season of the different Mothers' Clubs, of the excel- lent work done in many of the schools by the Junior Red Cross Society organized in March, of the large amount of War Saving Stamps purchased by the pupils, many schools making an excellent showing, of the interest taken by many pupils in the Home Garden work and the creditable private exhibition of their products in September in Town Hall, unfortunately not open to the public owing to the quarantine due to the influenza epidemic, and of the part our boys and girls have taken in the different patriotic observances, espec- ially the creditable appearance in the Red Cross parade May 18 and the "Peace Parades" in November, both of which made a deep impression on their young minds, and they may well be given credit in their several war activities for doing their bit in the great world war.
It is pleasing to record in this report in connection with the war work in our schools that one of the members of the School Board, Mr. Reginald W. Drake, responded to the call to the colors and entered the naval service in the summer term. In the fall term Dr. James A. Burkhead, the school physician, entered the medical corps of the Army and is still in service. His duties have been attended to during his absence by Dr. C. Vincent Smith.
Respectfully submitted, CHARLES H. BATES,
Superintendent of Schools.
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REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL.
Mr. Charles H. Bates, Superintendent of Schools :-
Dear Sir :- I offer the following brief report of the High School for the past year. There were four changes in teachers at the beginning of the fall term, the same number as last year. Resignations were received from Mr. Raymond S. Dower, Miss Sadie H. Pickard, Miss Mildred E. Rackliffe and Miss Agnes L. Shelton. They are receiving substantial increases in other cities and towns. Mr. David Hamblen, Jr., Miss Lillian M. Philpot, Miss Flora B. Lyons and Miss Pauline Holmes were elected to fill these vacancies. Taking into consideration the high cost of living it seems to me not only fair but necessary that there should be quite an increase in the salaries of the teachers of the school.
By vote of the School Board the study of German was omitted from the school curriculum. I would recommend that the study of Spanish be substituted for it. Owing to our increasing trade relations with the South American republics the study of this language is gaining rapidly in secondary schools.
There has been a decrease in our enrollment this year. The total enrollment last year was 288. This year up to the present time it has been 232. This decrease, however, has not been as marked as that of many of the High Schools in the State. The unusual war conditions and the unpre- cedented demand for labor have caused a substantial decrease in attendance in the secondary schools throughout the country.
The graduating class last June numbered 52, the largest in the history of the school. Of these, 16 are attending higher institutions of learning. The total number of grad- uates from the High School is now 855.
Last June the senior class, moved by a patriotic spirit presented a service flag to the school subject to the follow- ing regulations: Each graduate of the school and each pupil of the school entering the service should be entitled to a star on the flag. The flag has 101 stars, 97 graduates of the school and 4 students were in the service of their country in the late war. A very creditable percentage of these received commissions.
It is to be lamented that two of our graduates died in the service-Nina L. Seymour, 1910, and Charles E. Reed
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1907. The service flag is hung in a conspicuous place, in the assembly hall to be a patriotic incentive to present and future pupils of the school. A star has been placed on the flag for each of the following
HONOR ROLL.
1892 John H. H. Alden.
John Coolidge.
1898 William O. Eddy.
Arthur H. Dunham.
1901 Harold C. Eddy.
Herbert C. Godfrey, Jr.
1906 Bartlett E. Cushing.
Parker H. Kennedy,
1907 Ralph H. Blanchard.
Alden G. Vaughan. Albert W. Ward.
L. Sumner Eaton. Louis T. Perkins. Charles E. Reed.
1914 Leon V. Alden. Mendall L. Boehme.
Earle E. Caswell.
Everett L. Caswell.
Henry M. Cushing.
Josiah M. DeMaranville.
1909 Orton C. Newhall. Ernest E. Thomas. Leslie M. Thomas.
William A. Lewis. John J. Martin. Clifton A. McCrillis.
1910 Malcolm C. Drake.
Ralph J. McQuade.
Arthur H. Leonard, Jr.
Neal R. O'Hara. Emil B. Perry. Kendrick H. Washburn. Nina L. Seymour.
Clarence E. Soule. Alfred F. Tinkham.
1911 Merton L. Braley. William A. Lang. Edward A. Ramsey. Lysander Richmond.
1912 Herbert W. Ellis.
Benjamin K. Glidden.
Theophilus L. Bearse. Cecil H. Deane. Andrew J. Decker.
Darragh L. Higgins. Francis J. Mahoney. Ralph B. Mendall.
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