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Overset
The First Million the Hardest
The Country of the Dwarfs
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 2 vols. Taxation the Peoples' Business, Personal Relation in Industry The Tragedy of Hungary Juvenile Department
Mellon Presented Rockefeller Presented
Birinyi Presented
Alcott, L. M. Altsheler, Joseph Altsheler, Joseph Altsheler, Joseph Altsheler, Joseph Altsheler, Joseph
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Barbour, Ralph Brooks, Amy Brown, Edna Cable, Boyd Campbell, Ruth Canfield, Dorothy Carroll, Lewis
Margot Asquith Fife George Ade
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Chaffer, Allen Chandler, Anna Cobb, B. and E. Cobb, B. and E. Deland, Ellen Deland, Ellen Dowd, Emma Downes, Alfred Du Chaillu, Paul Fitzhugh, Percy
Forrester, I. L.
Gates, Eleanor Ginther, P. Green, Fitzhugh
Gre., Zane Hawkes, Clarence
Hawkes, Clarence
Heyliger, William Bartley
Heyliger, Wililam Bartley Holland, Rupert
Hume, Ethel Jacobs, Caroline Jacobs, Caroline
Kelland, Clarence B.
Kelland, Clarence B.
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Sharp, Evelyn Sidney, Margaret Smith, Mary P. W.
Taggart, Marion
Tappan, Eva M. Thackeray, Wm. Twain, Mark Twain, Mark
White, Steware Edward
Wiggin Kate D.
Bailey, Carolyn.
Bailey, Carolyn
Banta, N. M.
Banta, N. M.
Blaisdell, Blaisdell,
Blaisdell,
Blaisdell,
Blaisdell and Ball, Blaisdell and Ball,
Brooks, Dorothy
Brooks, Elbridge
Brooks, Elbridge
Burgess, Thornton
Byington, E.
Campbell, H. L.
Chaffee, Allen Chappell, L. (ed. by)
Chase, Annie
Children's Cherry Series Cowles, Julia
Cowles, Julia
Craik, Georgiana Deihl, Edna
Denton, Clara
Denton, Clara
Fox, Frances
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Children of Mother Goose Child's own Fairy Book Bow-wow and Mew-mew Flower and Berry Babies Open Air Stories Busy Little Birds Little Bear's Adventure
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Gray, Emily Hawkes, Ernest June, Caroline Klingensmith, A. Laboulaye's Lansing, Marion Lang, Andrew
Lang, Andrew
Lang, Andrew
Lang, Andrew Lang, Andrew
Lucia, Rose
Maguire, Emma
Merriam, Ida
Merriam, Ida
Mordaunt, Elinor
Mulock, Miss
Muller, Mary
Nida, W. L.
Norton, Charles Eliot
Orton, Helen
O'Shea, M. V.
Porter, Bertha
Pratt, Mira
Sawyer, Ruth
Simmerman, H. T.
Smith, Gertrude Smith, Gertrude
Smith, Laura Smith, Laura Smith, Laura
Smith, Laura
Smith, Laura Smith, Laura Smith, Laura Smith, Laura Smith, Laura
Pinocchio, a dramatic Reader Eskimo Land Rosy Face Twins Just Stories Fairy Book Quaint Old Stories Dick Whittington Princess on the Glass Hill Red True Story Book Blue Fairy Book Prince Darling Peter and Polly Books, 4 vols. Two Little Indians Washington's Boyhood Knowledge Primer Games Shoe and Stocking Stories Adventures of a Brownie Little People of the Snow Ab the Cave Man Heart of Oak Books, I, II Summer at Cloverfield Farm Six Nursery Classics Trudy and Timothy America's Story for America's Children Tale of the Enchanted Bunnies Story of Two Kittens The Roggie and Reggie Stories Tale of Janey, Josey and Joe Bunny and Bear. Book Brownie Mew Candy Shop Cottontails Cotton Tails in Toyland Fairy Babies Fifty Funny Animal Tales Little Bear Little Eskimo Merry Little Cottontails
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Smith, Laura
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Spyri, Johanna Snell, R. J.
Tappan, Eva
Welsh, Charles
Wright, Julia
Banta,
Blaisdell
Blodgett
Browne,
Cyr's
Davis,
Edson, Laing
Field
Free and Treadwell
Gordon,
Grover,
Haliburton,
Heath,
Holbrook
Jones Kendall
Magee,
Riverside,
Wade and Sylvester
Mother Goose Stories Roly Poly Book Runaway Bunnies Seventeen Little Bears Singing Twins Six Tiddly Winks Snubby Nose and Tippy Toes Tale of Bunny Cotton Tail Tale of Curly Tale Tiddly Winks Treasure Twins Heidi The Dinner that was always There Letters to Colonial Children A Book of Nursery Rhymes Seaside and Wayside
Readers
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
School Committee
OF THE
Town of Hatfield
FOR THE
Year Ending December 31, 1924
School Organization
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Adam J. Smith, Chairman
Trem expires 1925
Patrick W. Mullins, Secretary
Term expires 1926
Harry W. Marsh
Term expires 1927
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Orion A. Morton 177 Prospect St., Northampton Telephone 2103-M
SCHOOL PHYSICIANS
A. J. Bonneville, M. D. (Center and North Hatfield schools) C. A. Byrne, M. D. (Hill, Bradstreet, West Hatfield schools)
ATTENDANCE OFFICER
Chief Arthur R. Breor
SCHOOL CENSUS
April 1, 1924
Boys
Girls
Totals
Between 5 and 7
85
82
167
Between 7 and 14
278
244
522
Between 14 and 16
46
52
98
409
378
787
Total for 1923
388
351
739
63
SCHOOL CALENDAR
Elementary and Smith Academy
First Term-7 weeks
Opens December 29, 1924 Closes February 13, 1925
Second Term-8 weeks
Spring Term-8 weeks
Opens February 23, 1925 Closes April 17, 1925 Opens April 27, 1925 Closes June 19, 1925
Fall Term-15 weeks
Opens September 8, 1925 Closes December, 18. 1925
First Winter Term-
Opens January 4, 1926
No school on legal holidays and Good Friday.
Schools close Wednesday noon of Thanksgiving week and reopen the following Monday.
When a legal holiday occurs on Sunday the following Mon- day is observed as a holiday. Yegal holidays in Massachusetts include January first, February twenty-second, April nine- teenth, May thirtieth, July Fourth, the first Monday in Sep- tember, October twelfth Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Report of School Committee
When the census was taken last spring and the rearrange- ment of the children in grades for the opening of schools in September, it was found that grades 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 were over- crowded. It was necessary to open another room at the Cen- ter for second and third grade children and to provide a room for the fourth, fifth and sixth grades at the Center. An extra room was needed at Bradstreet for the third grado from the primary room and the fourth grade from the gram- mar room.
The small brick building on School Street was carefully examined. We were convinced that this building could be converted into an up-to-date two-room building for the first, second and third grades, using the first grade room in the main building for the overflow in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades.
The two upper rooms in the School Street building were thoroughly remodeled, new furniture and slate blackboards purchased, a new heating and ventilating plant installed and the roof repaired.
At Bradstreet the hall on the second floor was divided in- to two rooms-one for school purposes and the other as a hall. A partition was built, both rooms remodeled, new fur- niture and slate blackboards purchased, new ventilating sys- tem installed, roof thoroughly repaired and the two lower rooms put in first-class condition.
At North Hatfield some new furniture was purchased and such repairs made as seemed necessary for the present year.
All the work, except at North Hatfield, was done according to plans and specifications and under the supervision of Karl Scott Putnam, architect, Northampton.
A special appropriation of $8,000 was made to cover the cost of this work. When work was under way, certain things
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came to light that could not be fully determined in advance as the very poor condition of the slate roofs and other smaller items. We felt that it would be economical and much more satisfactory to make a thorough and complete job while the workmen were on the spot even if the appropriation were slightly exceeded. As it was difficult to tell accurately in ad- vance just what the excess on each unit would be, we complet- ed the work in each case satisfactorily at the least cost pos- sible which explains the overdraft.
As the School Street building is a part of the Center group, it seemed best to have one janitor responsible for the whole system. For this reason the salary was increased $180, mak- ing the total salary for the twelve months $1,950 for the jan- itor, his helper during the winter months including the extra work for the evening school and all the cleaning of the buildings during the year. There are 27 rooms, 7 large cor- ridos, 4 large hot air furnaces and 3 steam boilers. This figures about $57 per unit of area. The outlaying buildings cost about $117 per unit of area plus the cost of cleaning during the summer months.
As the sentiment at the special town meeting seemed to be to erect a new three-room building instead of remodeling the present one at North Hatfield, a plan for such a building has been drawn and a general estimate of the cost has been se- cured. The plan will be ready for inspection at the town meeting.
While over half the corps of teachers went to new positions during the year, the new teachers who took their positions have entered upon their work with enthusiasm and general satisfaction. We were sorry to lose our good teachers. As this seemed necessary, we feel that the town has been fortu- nate in the selection of those who have taken their places.
In closing, we wish to thank all the teachers and the super- intendent of the schools for their loyalty and hearty coopera- tion in all the work of the year.
ADAM J. SMITH PATRICK W. MULLINS HARRY W. MARSH
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Financial Statement December 31, 1924
RECEIPTS
Town Appropriation,
$36,000.00
All Other Sources, 13,300.88
$49,300.88
EXPENDITURES
School Committee.
$201.00
Superintendent of Schools and Attend- ance Officers,
1,700.00
Supervisors,
1,528.00
Teachers-High School,
10,885.43
Teachers-Elementary,
18,927.73
Teachers' Retirement Board,
1,292.60
School Nurse,
900.00
Janitors and Cleaning,
3,004.36
Fuel,
3,118.31
Repairs,
1,022.01
Books and Supplies,
3,543.27
Miscellaneous,
1,435.45
$47,558.16
Balance unexpended,
$1,742.72
SPECIAL REPAIRS RECEIPTS
Special Appropriation,
$8,000.00
EXPENDITURES
Bradstreet Building,
$2,151.28
School Street Building,
6,788.71
Architect,
288.00
$9,227.99
Overdraft,
$1,227.99
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Teachers and Enrollment, October 1924
SCHOOLS
TEACHERS
HOME ADDRESS
Salary
Smith Academy
Ralph W. Proctor
Hatfield
2400
Harry J. Talmage
Hatfield
2400
Frank H. Hale
East Fairfield, Vt.
1500
Hatfield
1400
Hadley
1350
Louise R. Frisbee
Roslindale
1200
Center School
Clarence J. Larkin
Haydenville
1800
10|17
27
Mrs. Mary B. Powers
Hatfield
1200
34
34
40
40
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Mrs. Grace W. Bardwell
Hatfield
1000
41
41
Helen F. O'Leary
Holyoke
900
11
7 17
35
·
Sarah C. Quinn
Portland, Me.
900
37
37
Rowena F. Damon
Chesterfield
900
35
35
Mildred A. Boyle
Hatfield
1000
37
37
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Hilda Gorman
Cochituate
900
16 |14
30
Mrs. Lena F. Fitzgerald
Hatfield
1000
43
43
Hill School
M. Elizabeth Boyle
Hatfield
1000
20 15
Hatfield
1000
10
West Hatfield Sch.
Northampton
1000
5 11
8
·1
Northampton
900
7
10
8 7 10
4
9
6
6
6.6
Mrs. Mary D. Donelson
North Hatfield
1000
15
11 11
6
4 7
4
21 19 33
Supr. Music
Maude E. Boyle
Hatfield
850
Supr. Draw. & Pen.
Bernice Bradley
Concord
850
School Nurse
Gertrude Phillips
Hadley
900
1-
2 345 6|7|8|9 1011|12
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-
-
Totals &
-
1
1
113 119,90 77 63 81 65 28 28 20 16| 20 720
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North Hatfield Sch. Rhena M. Mills
North Adams
950
35 37
Bradstreet School
Catherine B. Brace
South Lee
1100
Margaret M. Nolan
Northampton
900
7 12
Amherst
1000
18
15
Pupils by Grades
1 !
28 20 16| 20
Mary E. Ryan
Mae E. Toole
Margaret A. Ryan
Hatfield
1000
Sarah V. Kilcy
Hatfield
1000
Eleanor B. Whalen
30
35 40 25
Mi's. Harriet E. Jordan
Margaret B. Schmitter
Fredonna Leitch
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