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Moth Work
250.00
250.00
Civilian Defense
200.00
92.13
107.87
Sealer Weights & Measures, Salary
132.00
132.00
Sealer Weights & Measures, Expense
50.00
50.00
Public Health
1,500.00
1,456.28
43.72
School Physician
200.00
200.00
Inspection of Animals
240.00
240.00
Inspection Children-Pre-School
50.00
50.00
Inspection Children-Tuberculosis
150.00
150.00
Highway-General
3,300.00
3,255.37
44.63
Highway-Chapter 81:
Town
7,050.00
7,047.76
2.24
State
5,875.00
5,875.00
Highway-Chapter 90:
Town
800.00
500.04
299.96
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Appropriated or Available
Disbursed
To Revenue
Balance Carried Forward
County
500.00
500.00
State
500.00
500.00
Road Machinery Oper. & Rep.
2,500.00
1,772.08
727.92 **
Street Lights
2,400.00
2,379.69
20.31
Drain-M. Dulaski Road
250.00
231.67
18.33
Dike Repairs
108.59
49.12
59.47
Town Barn Repairs
456.78
.24
456.54
Sand Bins
600.00
. 600.00
Machinery & Equipment Purchase
5,000.00
590.33 (a)
4,409.67
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School Committee Expense
200.00
200.00
Schools
47,200.00
46,934.14
265.86
Schools-Smith-Hughes
471.45
22.66 .
448.79
Schools-Geo. Deen
189.28
189.28
Schools-Voc. Educ. Def. Workers
227.80
166.36
61.44
Schools-Landscaping
100.00
100.00
School Lunch
7,310.00
4,709.48
2,600.52
School Lunch U. S. D. A.
194.94
194.94
School Lunch Comm. Dist. Fund
3,257.16
3,257.16
Industrial School Tuition
1,300.00
824.12
475.88
Library Library Building Repairs Public Welfare Aid to Dependent Children:
1,857.83
1,856.21
1.62
200.00
195.87
4.13
4,500.00
3,924.80
575.20
Town
1,500.00
1,456.42
43.58
Federal Grant
720.50
685.80
34.70
Federal Grant Admn.
27.91
26.16
1.75
Old Age Assistance:
Town
7,100.00
7,082.02
17.98*
Federal Grant
5,441.42
5,441.42
Federal Grant Admn.
182.49
182.49
Soldiers' Benefits
500.00
125.63
374.37
Memorial Day
500.00
150.00
350.00 (b)
Care of Town Clock
25.00
25.00
Honor Roll Const. & Dedication
350.00
350.00
Print and Deliver Town Reports
250.00
239.50
10.50
Telephone
75.00
48.36
26.64
Unclassified
25.00
20.00
5.00
Binding Town Records
50.00
15.00
35.00
Insurance
2,500.00
1,973.72
526.28
Tax Title Expense
200.00
91.55
108.45
Unpaid Bills, 1943
493.55
493.55
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Appropriated or Available Disbursed
To Revenue
Balance Carried Forward
Unpaid Bills, Chap. 179 Acts '41
51.41
51.41
Reserve Fund
3,000.00
775.00
2,225.00*
Water Commissioners' Salaries
200.00
200.00
Water Department
2,000.00
1,969.50
30.50
Purchase and Install Chlorinator
4,000.00
3,990.33
9.67 ***
Purchase Land of Evelyn Gore
150.00
150.00
Cemeteries
450.62
445.62
5.00
Interest on Loans and Notes
50.00
50.00
$145,230.86
$128,712.82
$ 10,012.09
$ 6,505.95
(a)-Transferred to Chlorinator Purchase and Installation.
(b)-Transferred to Honor Roll Construction and Dedication. *- To Overlay Surplus
**- To Road Machinery Earnings Fund
*** To Machinery and Equipment Purchase.
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TOWN OF HATFIELD BALANCE SHEET-DECEMBER 31, 1944
Assets
Cash
$55,146.57
Accounts Receivable :
Taxes:
Levy of 1939 $ 34.00
Levy of 1940
54.00
Levy of 1941
34.00
Levy of 1942
952.45
Levy of 1943 3,156.90
Levy of 1944
21,500.35
Total Taxes
25,731.70
Motor Vehicle Excise:
Levy of 1940 $ 6.00
Levy of 1941 18.62
Levy of 1942 12,92
Levy of 1943 38.35
Levy of 1944 338.71
Total Motor Vehicle Excise
414.60
Liabilities and Reserves
Road Machinery Earnings Fund $ 2,557.47
School Lunch Reserve 8,646.45
Sale of Real Estate 4,350.00
Tailings 3.70
O. A. A. Recovery 60.00
Unexpended Balances :
Town Hall Landscaping $32.00
Fire Protection- Runways 307.13
Dike Repairs 59.47
Town Barn Repairs 456.54
Sand Bins 600.00
Machinery & Equipment Purchase 4,409.67
Schools-Landscaping
100.00
Library Building Repairs 4.13
Total Unexpended Balances 5,968.94
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Federal Grants:
Schools :
Smith-Hughes
$448.79
Voc. Edu. Def. W'k'rs 61.44
Aid to Dependent Children 34.70
Aid to Dependent
Children-Adm.
1.75
Total Federal Grants 546.68
Reserved Until Collected :
Motor Veh. Tax Rev. $414.60 58
Water Revenue
1,172.13
State and County Aid
to Highways Rev.
710.74
Total Reserved Until Collected 2,297.47
Water Available Surplus
7,406.84
Reserve Fund
3,194.75
Overlay Reserved for Abatements:
Levy of 1940
$
54.00
Levy of 1941
34.00
Water Rents
1,172.13
Levy of 1942 651.83
Levy of 1943
835.18
State Aid to Highways
710.74
Levy of 1944
1,582.29
Total Overlays
3,157.30
Overlay 1939-Overdrawn
37.86
Surplus Revenue
45,024.00
Total Assets
$83,213.60
Total Liabilities and Reserves $83,213.60
TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds $10,214.67
Firemen's Relief Fund 124.99
Hatfield Library Fund 656.41
Trust and Investment Funds : Cash and Securities $37,550.90
Water Construction Fund 16,429.42
Rehabilitation Fund 10,125.41
Total
$37,550.90
Total $37,550.90
Respectfully submitted,
GERTRUDE B. ROGALESKI.
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
School Committee
OF THE
TOWN OF HATFIELD
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1944
School Organization
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Alex E. Celatka, Chairman Stanley Ziezulewicz, Secretary George H. Howard
Term expires 1945
Term expires 1946 Term expires 1947
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Gilbert D. Bristol 64 Main Street, Hatfield Telephone 3871
SUPERVISOR OF SECONDARY EDUCATION Clarence J. Larkin
SUPERVISOR OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION Raymond N. Jenness
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN Robert C. Byrne, M. D.
SCHOOL NURSE Marion Holmes, R. N. 82 Harrison Avenue, Northampton Telephone-Northampton 25
ATTENDANCE OFFICER
Thomas Breor
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SCHOOL CENSUS As of October 1, 1944
From 5 to 7
29
25
54
From 7 to 16
139
126
265
168
151
319
COMPARATIVE TOTALS
1944
1943
1942
1941
1940
From 5 to 7
54
55
56
47
57
From 7 to 16
265
280
286
308
312
319
335
342
355
369
School Committee
January 24, 1945.
To the citizens of the Town of Hatfield :
Your School Committee submits herewith the an- nual report for the year ending December 31, 1944. Ten regular meetings were held during the year.
About Physical Education
The School Committee has for many years appreci- ated the excellent cooperation of the Board of Selectmen in matters relating to the operation of the Hatfield Schools. Their generous cooperation in allowing the schools the use of the town-hall basement to house the school lunch facilities is indeed a fine gesture.
For the purposes of a school lunch, the town hall basement offers unexcelled quarters. These quarters are clean and light. They are also adequately heated during those periods of the year when heating is necessary. Furthermore, the space is given over wholly to the activ- ities of the school lunch, therefore, there is no conflict regarding the privilege of the schools to use this space when they need to use it.
But the use of the town hall facilities for a regular program of physical education cannot be considered on the same basis as the use of the town hall basement for school lunch purposes.
A regular program of school physical education means that one teacher would handle the supervision of instruction in physical education from grade one through grade twelve. A regular program of physical education means that certain regular hours must be scheduled for the use of the building in which these classes would be held. It is not fair to assume the schools would mono-
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polize a town-hall building for this purpose. Other citi- zens of the town enjoy dances, and rightly so, for dances are indeed an integral part of community recreation. But a good dance floor demands wax, and wax on a floor makes a dangerous surface on which to operate a pro- gram of gym classes. Nor is it fair to assume that the selectmen should attempt to maintain the floor in a con- stant condition of readiness for the school physical pro- gram. This is next to impossible for the materials that are used to remove wax from a floor also remove the special varnish that is applied for basketball or gym classes.
Then the town-hall janitor is hired and paid by the board of selectmen, and he should receive his work orders from them. The school committee controls the school physical program, and we or our designated agents must make certain requests of the town hall janitor. It is not fair to ask him to accept orders from more than one source of authority.
Clearly the conflicts, appearing in the use of the town-hall as a gymnasium for the purposes of physical education, render practically impossible the planning for a good program. Other small towns around us appear to be highly successful in athletics because they have their own gymnasium facilities which they can use when they choose.
Your school committee sincerely believes that the time has come when serious consideration should be given to the matter of planning for a small gymnasium to be built in connection with or adjacent to one of our present school buildings. We realize that the building could not be erected now, but a reserve fund could be used to earmark money for this purpose.
This matter is vital to the future health and wel- fare of our children, and we believe that each and every citizen should give serious thought to it.
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When the citizens of the town choose to provide adequate quarters for a program of physical education, your school committee promises you that an adequate instructional program in health and physical education will be immediately provided for our children.
Changes in the Teaching Staff
On May 1, 1944, Mr. Joseph Bart was elected to be teacher of agriculture in the high school. Mr. Bart, a graduate of the Massachusetts State College, came to us from the Bristol County Agricultural School where he had taught for two years.
The resignation of Miss Marie Proulx, teacher of the first grade, was regretfully accepted by the commit- tee on October 10, 1944. Miss Proulx had completed an excellent term of superior service in the Public Schools of Hatfield, having completed at the time of her resigna- tion a total of fifteen years of teaching here.
Mrs. Lena Fitzgerald was subsequently transferred from the Center School to the first grade in the School St. School. This was a fortunate move because Mrs. Fitz- gerald had taught the first grade for many years, and was fully qualified to take Miss Proulx's place.
Mrs. Avis Jenness was appointed as a part-time as- sistant to carry on the work formerly done by Mrs. Fitz- gerald at the Center School.
At the December 5, 1944 meeting, the committee voted to introduce into the fifth grade the conservation and naturelore work sponsored by the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Under this plan, a specially trained teacher of nature study is sent into the fifth grade twice each month to give instruction in nature and conserva- tion studies.
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Repairs to Buildings
Repairs by the Trustees to the Smith Academy-
1. Eight new four-tube fluorescent lighting units provided in one of the large study halls.
2. New lighting fixtures in the girls' cloak room, and new fluorescent lighting units in the house- hold arts laboratory.
3. Replacement of a heavy safety plate glass win- dow in a basement door.
4. Overhauled and replaced parts on the large coal stoker.
Repairs to the Center Elementary School-
1. Principal's office and committee room painted.
2. Classroom desks sanded and sealed.
3. Fluorescent lighting is to be provided for the rest of the classrooms where such lights are not now installed.
4. New lights to replace old, unsafe fixtures in the halls.
Repairs to school lunch equipment-
1. New tables and benches made for the school lunch room.
2. Electric mixer added to kitchen equipment.
Repairs to the school shop-
1. New 110V and 220V power circuits added to supply the power-driven machines now in the shop.
2. Small industrial fluorescent lignts installed to provide better conditions for night work.
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Budget
The budget for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1945 is submitted for examination.
BUDGET OUTLINE FOR 1945
1944
Forecast
Cost
1945 Forecast
Administration
$ 2,800.00 $ 2,033.36
Supt. of Schools $ 2,800.00
150.00
93.12
Travel expenses 100.00
120.00
139.39
Telephone services 120.00
35.00
63.74
Printing and Postage
35.00
25.00
25.00
Census taking
25.00
50.00
69.00
Attendance Officer
75.00
75.00
Office Equipment
44.25
All Other
$ 3,180.00 $ 2,542.86
$ 3,155.00
Instruction, Teaching Staff
$10,950.00 $14,079.90
H. S .- Academic 10,950.00
3,800.00
H. S .- Vocational 3,850.00
15,600.00 15,538.82
Elementary 15,700.00
1,150.00 1,111.96 Music & Drawing Instr. 1,470.00 Audubon Science T'r 50.00
$31,500.00 $30,730.68
$32,020.00
Instruction, Books and Supplies
$ 1,000.00 $
828.51 H. S .- Academic $ 1,000.00
350.00 295.20 H. S .- Vocational 350.00
1,200.00
1,350.38 Elementary 1,200.00
$ 2,550.00 $ 2,474.09
$ 2,550.00
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Janitor Service
$ 1,323.00 $ 1,323.12 High School
$ 1,440.00
1,220.00 1,262.76
Elementary 1,440.00
$ 2,543.00 $ 2,585.88 $ 2,880.00
Transportation
$ 2,160.00 $ 2,175.85 180 days @ $12.00
$ 2,160.00
Heat, Light, Power
$
900.00
1,074.81
High School
$ 1,150.00
1,950.00
1,530.99
Elementary schools 1,700.00
$ 2,850.00 $ 2,605.80
$ 2,850.00
Plant Maintenance
$
200.00 $
491.50
Janitor's supplies $ 200.00
800.00
2,062.26
Elem. school repairs
800.00
150.00
105.89
Playground upkeep
150.00
53.50
Vacant school lawns
50.00
25.00
.71
All Other Expense
$ 1,175.00 $ 2,713.86
$ 1,200.00
School Health
$ 1,000.00
999.96
Salary of nurse
$ 1,000.00
200.00
21.27
Healt hand Phys.
Edu. Supplies 200.00
$ 1,200.00
1,021.23
$ 1,200.00
Miscellaneous Expense
$ 80.39 Graduation Expense
10.25 All Other Expense
$ 90.64
$47,158.00 $46,940.89 Grand Totals $48,015.00
Industrial Education-Tuitions
$ 1,300.00 $ 824.12 Trade School, Estimate 10 boys @ $150.00 $ 1,500.00
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School Lunch Project Account
$ 7,310.00 $ 8,161.58
To equal the receipts from an average of 215 pupils for 170 days @ .18 per day $ 6,579.00
Conclusion
Your school committee has constantly sought after ways and means to improve the physical plant facilities and the instructional program of the Public Schools of Hatfield. With the continued support and cooperation of the citizens of Hatfield, we expect to be in a position to make continued improvement in our town schools.
Respectfully submitted,
ALEX E. CELATKA, Chairman, STANLEY ZIEZULEWICZ, GEORGE H. HOWARD,
Hatfield School Committee.
Teaching Staff
Hatfield High School
Total and in
Experience Hatfield
Clarence J. Larkin, A.B., Amherst College, Principal, Harvard (2), Hyannis (2), Westfield (2), Mass. State (10) John C. Jakobek, A.B., M. S. in Ed., Massachusetts State College
25
22
2
2
Joseph Bart, B.S., Massachusetts State College, Massachusetts State (1)
3
0
Mary E. Ryan, A.B., Smith College, North Adams Teachers' College (1) 25 Florence Muller, A.B., Wheaton College, B. U. Extension Course (2) 10
24
Bridget O'Neil, Northampton Commercial College, New York University (5)
17
2
Margaret E. Pruzynski, McCarthy's Business College
8
8
Margaret L. Connelly,, Worcester Domes- tic School, and correlated commercial business, 12 years, Massachusetts State College (1) 7 2
Elementary Schools
Raymond N. Jenness, B.S. in Ed., Bridge- water Teachers' College, M.S. in Ed., Massachusetts State College, Adult Education Extension Courses (Principal) 13 8
Sarah V. Kiley, Westfield Normal School, North Adams Normal (1), Extension Courses (6) 37
37
2
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Lena P. Fitzgerald, North Adams Normal
School, Extension Courses (3) 30
30
Mary D. Donelson, Framingham Normal School, Extension Courses (3)
29
27
Constance B. Mullaney, Smith Academy, Extension Courses (11), Northamp- ton Business College 28
28
Katherine I. Hayes, North Adams Normal School, North Adams (1), Extension Courses (7)
16
16
Martha P. Boyle, North Adams Normal School, North Adams (1), Extension Courses (1)
16
7
Jean T. Kempisty, B.S. in Ed., Westfield State Teachers' College, Extension Courses (1)
6
6
Helen J. Donnis, B. S. in Ed., North Adams State Teachers' College, Ex- tension Courses (1)
4
4
Dorothy B. Breor, B.S. in Ed., Bridge- water State Teachers' College, Ex- tension Courses (11)
4
4
Avis D. Jenness, Bridgewater State Teachers' College, B.U. Extension (1) Maude E. Boyle, Northampton School of Music, Skidmore (1), summer
1
0
courses and private study 18
17
Stephen G. Maniatty, Massachusetts School of Art 10
5
Superintendent of Schools
January 18, 1945
To the School Committee of Hatfield:
It is again my privilege to submit the annual report concerning the Public Schools of Hatfield.
Education for Permanent Peace
There can be no permanent peace in the world until there is permanent peace in the hearts and minds of individual men.
In writing, the foregoing idea presents an easy, understandable, logical statement of fact, but in actual practice neither individual nor collective peace is easy to secure. Each can be won only by hard work on the part of citizens, churchmen, statesmen, and educators.
Individual citizens must be at peace with God and their fellow men; they must harbor no hatred toward others because of the color of their skin, their national background, their religious conviction, or their economic status.
Churchmen must find constant means for laymen to practice the principles of brotherly love and coopera- tion. Statesmen and diplomats must understand that permanent peace on the basis of brotherly love has be- come one of the obsessions of the citizenry, that treaties and trade agreements must be made on the basis of humanitarian, not economic principles, and that the ap- proach to the maintenance of permanent peace must be international and cosmopolitan rather than national and isolationist.
Educators, because of their influence upon youth, are charged with the responsibility of seeing to it that the school program is built around the idea that the fu- ture citizens, the future churchmen and the future
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statesmen are now in school. In this regard, there must be a more careful selection of subject matter, and an emphasis upon developing in pupils the power to relate facts as they bear upon the actual interests of the entire world.
Speaking in the terms of education, I say that this whole program in the schools must be very carefully motivated. First, there must be a careful outlining of the ultimate goal, and then the means of arriving close to this goal must be laid down as a series of immediate steps or objectives that will point toward the final terminus.
'The ultimate goal which is to be so clearly visual- ized is a world in which all nations are working together intelligently, wisely and harmoniously toward higher physical, intellectual, and moral standards with equal opportunity for all." (1)
A Smaller World
Our world, which we have in the past thought of as a place of vast distances, suddenly appears to be grow- ing smaller. We begin to talk about Libya, Egypt, Tur- key, and Russia more often than we mention Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont.
We are told that by commercial transport plane, (average speed 200 m.p.h.) no spot on the earth is more than 621/2 hours flying time from the local airport. An air trip from New York to Moscow takes less time than a train trip from New York to Miami.
Because of our new proximity to other nations, we find ourselves in need of a more far-reaching good-neigh- bor policy. Obviously, we who live in these United States must learn to extend to the peoples of all nations the hand of consistent good fellowship. And the place to
(1) Dr. Alice D. Porter, "What the Schools Are Doing Toward Permanent Peace."
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begin to practice the good neighbor policy is toward minority groups among the population of cities and towns in our own country.
Immediate Objectives
Objectives pointing to the ultimate goal have been outlined by the U. S. Office of Education, the National Education Association, the Educational Policies Commis- sion and by state and local superintendents. They are:
1. Knowledge of other peoples, their ideals, tra- ditions, religion, education, government, indus- tries, home life, their needs, desires, rights, aspirations, and problems.
2. Closely connected with the accumulation of knowledge is the development of esteem for all that is best in any nation and a lively apprecia- tion of interdependence, not only in matters of physical necessities, but in education, art, science and all matters of intellectual and moral culture.
3. Training to look fairly on all sides of every question and to insist as stubbornly on the rights of others as on our own.
4. Make clear that sacrifice of immediate personal or national advantage for the general good of the world is a profitable investment for ourselves; that world friendship and cooperation is the best method of conducting world affairs for the good of each nation.
5. Development of a sense of responsibility as world citizens.
The validity of this or any other educational pro- gram aimed at permanent peace is tested by an answer to the following question: "Will these future American citizens stand as a solid block for democratic opportunity at home and for real international cooperation over the world ?"
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Where Does Hatfield Fit in the Picture?
The backbone of the national and international plans for permanent peace is found in the individual commu- nity. Hatfield, as an individual community, must enliven itself to the necessity for re-education and education to the fundamental principles of international cooperation.
We can not only study the broad bases of permanent international peace, but also we can begin in Hatfield to put our own little household in order. In national and religious background, we citizens of Hatfield are a motley group, and we need to understand and appreciate the cul- tural contributions of each minority group to the civic welfare of our town. To arrive at such understanding and appreciation, we must bury all mistrust of one an- other; we must tend to mix freely together in civic proj- ects instead of segregating ourselves into little "branded" groups. Only when Hatfield itself crusades for racial and religious tolerance may good will among men once more be the community watchwords.
The Bridgewater Conference
Under the able leadership of Dr. Julius E. Warren, Commissioner of Education, the thirtieth annual con- ference of superintendents of schools was held at the Bridgewater State Teachers' College on April 20 and 21, 1944. The theme of the conference was "Improving Racial Understanding and Respect for Religious Differ- ences Through Education."
This is a particularly timely topic, for I reiterate that only in the degree that we put our own household in order can we expect to put the world household in order.
In his letter addressed to "Members of the Thirtieth Annual Conference," Commissioner Warren had the fol- lowing to say in part: ... "We are glad to note your reference to the fact that the schools, lacking commu-
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nity cooperation and support, cannot be expected to make America socially democratic. Each group has a part to play in this benevolent conspiracy. This means, among other things, that just as teachers should engage in a candid appraisal of their own prejudices, so, too, community groups should be encouraged to diagnose their own merits and defects to the end that they try to eliminate those manifestations of untoward behavior which some members of every group display, and which, make for much intergroup ill will. Adult Education is here indicated of a kind and of a magnitude that we have not yet contemplated except in rare and isolated communities" . .. (2)
To me this conference was a thrilling experience for it involved much active participation. Such conferences should form the basis for a better democratic participa- tion. Such conferences should form the basis for a better democratic tomorrow, and, in the instance of the Bridge- water Conference, a high degree of success was achieved because of the necessity for some sound thinking on the part of each superintendent who attended.
I sincerely hope that the outcome of the Bridge- water Conference may help to bear good fruit in Hatfield as well as in the other cities and towns of the Common- wealth.
School Enrollment
Center Elementary Schools-By Grades
I II III
V VI VII VIII
1943
32
27
24
33
23
38
32
36
1944 27
27
32
27
25
32 27 36
Comparative Totals for Center Schools
Year
1944
1943
1942
1941
Total Enrollment 233
245
264
279
(2) Commissioner Julius E. Warren, Foreword of Pamphlet, "Im- proving Racial Understanding and Respect for Religious Dif- ferences Through Education."
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Smith Academy Enrollment-By Classes
Freshmen Sophomores Juniors
Seniors
Total
1943
35 26
27
15 103
1944
36
26
22
20 104
Totals for Hatfield Public Schools
1943 - 348 pupils
1944 - 337 pupils
Community School Lunch Program
Shortly before the opening of the school year, Mrs. Dorothy B. Godin, who had supervised the school lunch for several years, submitted her resignation. The school committee accepted her resignation with reluctance for Mrs. Godin had been an exceedingly efficient and capable manager
To Mrs. Godin we owe our excellent school lunch program, for she pioneered in the days when the going was rough and when the outcome was very often in doubt. But she persevered, nothwithstanding the diffic- ulties, and today we have a school lunch program that has been used as an example for other towns of the Commonwealth to follow.
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