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The teachers for this school were, James M. Nowland, principal, Thomas B. Pollard, Minnie E. Donovan, and Annie E. Burns.
The Willard school again had its usual bad fortune, for just as it was ready to do its best work, smallpox broke out in the vicinity and it became necessary to close the school for ten days. This seriously interfered with the interest and attend- ance. The whole number enrolled was 191-men, 175; women, 16. The average attendance was 49.5, which was somewhat larger than during the preceding year. Number of sessions, 41. Average number of teachers, 3.9.
The school was in charge of Austin W. Greene, principal, assisted by Frances C. Sullivan, Catherine C. McGovern and Ellen G. Haley.
In the Evening Drawing school there was one class in free- hand and one in mechanical drawing, three evenings a week being given to each class.
Charles C. Bryant, who for several years had had charge of this school, having tendered his resignation, Flora M. Shackley was elected to fill the vacancy. The total enrolment of the freehand class was 25-men 20; women, 5. The aver- age attendance was 8. Number of sessions, 42. The total number of the mechanical class was 59-all men. The aver- age attendance was 24.5. The attendance was considerably larger than in previous years and a good interest was main- tained throughout the season. The number of sessions was 45. At the close of the term three freehand certificates, eleven me- chanical certificates, and three diplomas were given out.
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Quincy Teachers' Association
Officers for 1902-1903.
President, John O. Hall, Jr., Adams Academy.
Vice-President, Mary W. Holden, John Hancock.
Secretary and Treasurer, Austin W. Greene, Gridley Bryant.
Executive Committee :
John O. Hall, Jr., Chairman, ex-officio.
Iola L. Pearl, High.
Ethel Rinn, Adams.
Jennie H. Holt, Coddington.
Mary A. Sayward, Cranch.
Austin W. Greene, Gridley Bryant.
Mary W. Holden, John Hancock.
Mary A. Days, Lincoln. Caro E. Wyman, Massachusetts Fields.
Charles Sampson, Quincy.
Thomas B. Pollard, Washington.
T. Desire Lewis, Willard.
Beatrice J. Smith, Wollaston.
Charlotte J. Burgess, Woodward Institute.
General meetings.
October 30, 1902. Social evening.
There will also be a second social evening and the busi- ness meeting, but the dates for these have not been fixed.
Entertainment Course :
November 13, 1902. Readings. Mr. George Riddle. December 11, 1902. Illustrated lecture on "Venice" by Prof. George N. Cross.
January 22, 1903. Concert by the Walter E. Loud Concert Company.
February 19, 1903. Lecture, on The Ethical Teaching of Browning, by Rev. Sarah A. Dixon, S. T. B.
March 19, 1903. Recital by Miss Lucie A. Tucker, Con- tralto.
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Whatever good work has been done or improvement made in our schools during the last year is due in large measure to the loyalty and devotion of the teachers, and to the intelligent and unanimous support of the members of the School Committee.
Respectfully submitted, 1
FRANK E. PARLIN.
December 30, 1902.
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Quincy Home Science Association
The Vacation Kindergarten and Sloyd class work of the Quincy Home Science Association was carried on during the past summer with satisfactory results.
The report presented at the annual meeting of the Associ- ation in November emphasized the growing appreciation of the educational value of the kindergartens on the part of Quincy parents as shown by the increase in the number of children sent, especially in the John Hancock and Adams districts- in the former seventy-five children having attended, in the latter the number of applicants being more than double that of last year. In the Gridley Bryant district an untimely epidemic of measles affected the attendance unfavorably. Excellent work was done at the Adams kindergarten by Miss Clara Merrill, assisted by Miss Elizabeth Kennedy of Braintree as second kindergartner- at the John Hancock by Miss Bertha Jameson of Wollaston with Miss Grace Coles of Atlantic as second kindergartner and Miss Lola West as assistant-and at the Gridley Bryant by Miss. . Bertha Waldron, Miss Breta F. Mitchell and Miss Mary E. Burns assisting.
The Mothers Meetings, three held in connection with each kindergarden, were unusually well attended and enjoyable, thanks to ladies of the several committees and musical friends who provided the flowers, light refreshments and music so much enjoyed at each meeting-thanks also to the practical talks on "The Care and Feeding of Young Children" by Dr. J. A. Gordon, Dr. N. S. Hunting and Dr. Johnson of Wollaston, and on 'Children's Dress" and "Food for School Children" by Mrs. A. F. Schenkelberger and Mrs. M. L. Wade of Altantic-all most. cordially appreciated and applauded.
The Mothers Meetings have been a recent and interesting development of the Quincy summer kindergarten work, and their success, by affording opportunity for bringing parents into closer touch with the kindergarten teachers and managers has been gratifying.
Some seventy boys from the different school districts
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received free Sloyd instruction during the summer under the able direction of Mr. J. M. Nowland. Much creditable work was done, and the six weeks' course closed with an exhibition of work in the Adams school on the evening of August fifteenth when the Master's room was filled with visitors coming and going from seven until nine o'clock. The interest and industry of the boys and the visits of the many friends who came to see them at work in the cool and commodious basement of the Cranch schoolhouse where the Sloyd classes were held, was most encouraging. It is however to be regretted that few of the boys or their parents realize the value of the opportunity offered this winter, as it was last winter, to boys who had already com- pleted one course of lessons in the free summer classes, of re- ceiving additional Sloyd instruction at the merely nominal sum of ten cents a lesson-some ten or twelve boys only, out of the seventy who worked in the summer classes, responding to the invitation extended to them last November to join the ten cent classes to be conducted during the winter by the Home Science Association.
All pupils who have taken one course in Sloyd should take a second if possible. In the first course taken the work is nec- essarily elementary and the articles made plain in appearance and construction. After the first course the work grows con- stantly more interesting and less laborious. With mental per- . ception and powers of eye and hand more developed, the advanced pupil works faster, with less effort, and requires less supervision-and with each succeeding lesson is able to make articles more attractive and of more permanent use. It is per- haps unnecessary to call attention to the fact that the price at which the Home Science Association offers the second Sloyd course to those who have been pupils in the summer classes, is so small compared with regular prices for Sloyd instruction as to make it practically a free one.
Dealing with children of quite different ages, the respec- tive values of kindergartens and Sloyd classes can not be com- pared. Both are "educational" in the broadest, most common- sense meaning of the word-both, if rightly conducted, ensure
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results to individual children and to the community equally to be desired and equally far reaching. The Home Science Asso- ciation, while unable to work otherwise in a small way, desir- ing that work done shall be as effective and practical as possible, at all times welcomes and invites investigation of its methods.
ELIZABETH JOHNSON,
President.
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Quincy high School
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Mr. Frank E. Parlin, Superintendent of Schools :
In accordance with custom, it gives me pleasure to submit the following report of the Quincy High School for the year ending December 31, 1902.
No radical changes have been made in the organization and administration of the school. The year has been devoted to the study and advancement of the interests of the individual. The pupils have worked hard and made good progress. The teachers have been faithful, patient and efficient. The spirit of the school is excellent. The large number of changes among the teachers during the fall term greatly retarded the work.
The number of pupils who continue their education in higher institutions of learning or return to the High School for graduate work is increasing. In September, eight pupils entered Simmons College ; two, Dr. Sargent's Normal School of Gymnastics ; one, Boston College ; two, Radcliffe College ; one, Dartmouth ; six, Bridgewater Normal School ; two, Boston Uni- versity ; one, Dr. Ring's School for Nurses ; one, Tufts Medical School ; one, Boston Cooking School; two, Brown University ; one, Harvard ; two, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; and eleven returned for graduate work.
The number of pupils per teacher, in our school, is still about ten larger than the average throughout the State. An additional teacher would make it possible to establish closer relations between teachers and pupils, to provide periods for consultation and for making up lost work, to introduce more individual teaching and to improve in other directions.
The school ought to present larger opportunities for pupils
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to acquire power of expressing themselves by other means than the tongue and pen. Manual training, which requires mental as well as physical activity, which calls into play originality and individuality, and which develops manual expression, ought to be introduced. Needle-work, wood-carving, modeling, mould- ing, forging and other forms of manual training, which demand the use of tools and instruments, yield the largest educational results. These require accuracy in observation ; train to repre- sent or express things simply, truthfully and beautifully ; teach proportion, contrast and system ; and develop an appreciation of color, of light and shade, and of the beauties of the natural world. During the year, systematic, progressive courses in freehand and mechanical drawing have been established in each of the four years. If a regular teacher, who could give her whole attention to the High School, could be engaged for this department, it would be possible, then, to give drawing an equal time allowance with the other subjects and to introduce some of the simple forms of manual training. The expenditure of a large sum of money for apparatus would not be necessary. Such broadening of the work of the drawing department would provide another way of preparing pupils, who end their school- ing at graduation, for self-support, self-improvement and intelli- gent, helpful activity in and for society. The following outline shows the courses which have been arranged for each year and which are now taught in a modified form. They also indicate what could be done, in this department, if a regular teacher were employed.
FIRST YEAR.
Freehand. Color-
Painting of plant forms. Scales of five tones.
Object Drawing- Charcoal studies of casts and of simple groups in light and shade.
Constructive Design-Calendar, magazine cover, frame etc.
Mechanical. Practice in proper care and use of drawing instruments. Geometric problems. Lettering.
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SECOND YEAR.
Freehand. Color- Representation of plant life. Composition.
Landscape work-
Simple landscape forms in flat tones.
Object Drawing -- Still life groups in charcoal. Constructive Design-Table cover, paper knife,. program cover etc.
Mechanical. Inking drawings. Projection of lines and surfaces in simple positions. Plans, elevations.
THIRD YEAR.
Freehand. Color- Landscape Sketching.
Single objects in color.
Charcoal Drawing- Still life groups and figure drawing.
Constructive Design-Glove box, screen, shirt waist. set etc.
Mechanical. Projection of lines and surfaces at angles with planes of projection. Projection of solids.
Architectural. Tinting.
Floor plans, elevations, sections of house drawn to scale from actual measurements. Freehand sketches and finished drawings.
FOURTH YEAR.
Freehand. Color- Still life groups in color. Advanced Charcoal- Sketching from life. Study of art history and historic ornament. Collections.
Constructive Design-Tray, lace collar etc. Mechanical. Projection of solids. Isometric projection. Simple assembly and detail machine drawings.
Architectural. Study of leading features of principal historic. styles. Study of details of buildings. Sketches made in pen and ink.
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The importance of health can not be over emphasized. To teach the care of the body is as much the duty of the school as to train the mind. Physical culture and skillfully directed sports ought to be provided for all pupils. It would be directly in the line of progress, if the city should employ, in the High School, a teacher to examine the physical condition of the pupils ; to prescribe corrective and constructive exercises, wherever they are needed ; to direct all forms of outdoor recrea- tion ; and to determine who ought to refrain from athletics. For the majority of pupils, free, spontaneous, whole hearted exercise in the open air is better than formal gymnastics. The latter are needed mostly for those who have some physical weakness. If the grounds back of the building were leveled off and equipped with simple apparatus ; if the pupils could use these during intermissions for recreation, for sports and for physical exercise ; and if games and pupils were under the direc- tion of a skillful supervisor, the work of the school and the health of the pupils would be greatly improved. During such intermissions, pupils would receive excellent phys- ical, mental and moral training; teachers could study pupils free from the reserve of the school room-gaining a deeper in- sight into their characteristics and tendencies ; and both would be refreshed and invigorated for another period of work. To provide some physical exercise, in the school, sports and ath- letics have been supported and encouraged by pupils and teachers. During the past year, fields for the girls as well as for the boys have been provided by the athletic association. All have had an opportunity to engage in football, basket-ball baseball, tether-ball, tennis and track athletics. But, until a competent director is employed, only a small part of the bene- fits possible can be realized.
The influence for good exerted upon character by daily contact with a beautiful, harmonious environment is not gen- erally appreciated. Orderly rooms and artistic furnishings, well kept yards and lawns, shrubs and beds of beautiful flowers, at- tractive buildings, each and all excite and strengthen good emo- tions, develop higher ideals, arouse a desire to realize them, and
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result in lives of greater culture and refinement. For the past two years, earnest efforts have been made to decorate the walls and improve the grounds of the school. To raise money, two entertainments have been given. With this money, three sec- tions of the Northern Frieze of the Parthenon and three of the Western have been purchased and placed in the study hall. The "Golden Rod" managers of 1902 have presented an excel- lent picture of the Arch of Constantine. The Class of 1902 has proved its generosity and its appreciation of the education- al advantages it enjoyed, by planting six ivies about the build- ing, by setting out ten shade trees along Hancock Street and by making a bed and filling it with shrubs. Several friends have promised flowers and money to be used in carrying on this work next year. It is hoped that many more will follow their example. The city should do its part by finishing the grading begun nearly eight years ago. The condition of the grounds at the sides and rear of the building is not a credit to the city.
At present it is necessary to require pupils to prepare half of their work outside of school hours. The following difficul- ties arise in enforcing and securing effective home study :- (1) Many homes lack proper facilities for quiet, earnest regular study. (2) Pupils sometimes receive injudicious aid from well in- tentioned friends. (3)Some pupils study because of the school requirement and not for the love of study or of work. (4)The minds and bodies of those who devote their afternoons to sports, to work in stores and offices, or to home duties, are sometimes too exhausted for profitable evening study. (5) Music, art, dancing, social functions, church and home ought to play an important part in the lives of young men and women ; yet, they ought not to interfere with the hours for home study. (6) Pu- pils have little time for outside reading and for acquiring gen- eral information. (7)Pupils of good ability, who attend school from necessity and not from choice, sometimes fail because they neglect home study. (8)Freshness and interest are states of mind necessary for satisfactory results. Home study is done by some pupils at times, when they are least capable of accurate thought and work, and when, perhaps, they ought to be sleep-
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ing. (9)The health of some pupils will not permit of much home study.
The greatest and most urgent need of the High School contin- ues to be ample accommodations for even the proper housing and seating of the pupils. The facts and arguments presented in my last three reports explain why immediate action should be taken. The old building, used for the overflow, ought to be abandoned. It is poorly heated, unventilated, and unhygienic. Parents naturally and rightfully object to sending their boys and girls to such a poor building not only on account of its condition, but, because others, in the same city, have the priv- ilege of attending school in a newer and much better one. It is necessary to use all sorts of unhealthful and unsatisfactory makeshifts for recitation purposes. Until more room is provid- ed, it will not be possible to relieve and improve these over- crowded conditions.
During this year, the school has again received the benefit of the Rock Island Fund, the money having been expended for reference books.
In closing, I wish to thank the members of the Committee, the Superintendent and my assistants for their hearty support and cooperation which have made possible whatever good re- sults the year has produced.
Respectfully submitted, CHARLES F. HARPER, Head Master.
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Report of Truant Officer
To Frank E. Parlin, Superintendent.
I herewith submit my fifth annual report as Truant officer. The past year has been a busy one. The rapid growth of our city and a changing population requires diligence on the part of the principals of the schools and the Truant officer to see that all children of school age are attending. A glance at the following table will show an increase in the number of cases investigated, also the number found to be truants. The great- er part of my work has been with children between twelve and fourteen years of age. Only a vigorous enforcement of the curfew law and also the laws governing pool and billiard rooms will reach many of the boys. Some parents seem to turn their children loose upon the community and I find them upon the street. It would surprise many people if they knew the atti- tude taken by these parents in regard to the attendence of their children at school. Because of the folly of such parents I am obliged as a last resort to enforce the compulsory attendance laws.
I have been able through the help of charitable citizens to assist many deserving families with shoes and clothes so the children could attend school.
I desire to thank the School Committee, Superintendent and teachers for the many acts of courtesy shown to me in the discharge of my official duties.
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The following table shows in detail my work during the past year.
Truant Statistics
1902
No. of absences reported
46
43
3
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
February
88
86
7
2
1
1
2
1
2
1
0
March
27
25
6
1
0
2
1
0
1 0
0
0
0
April
52
50
9
3
2
4
1
1
1
0
5
1
1
0
1 0
0
September
29
27
6
2
4
2
4
2
2
0
0
0
October
90
88
17
5
2
3
1
0
3
1
0
1
November
58
57
1
0
7
2
3
4
6
0
0
0
December
14
13
4
0
1
4
2
1
1
0
0
0
Totals, 514 495 78
19
18
15
16
8
22
3
1 2
to
to
returned
returned
school from street.
Tardiness investigated.
No. of manufactories or
stores visited.
No. of children found em-
ployed contrary to law.
employers
No. of children placed
before the court.
No. of children sent to truant school.
No. placed on probation.
May
5.2
50
18
56
7
1
0
0
1
0
June
58
No. of parents or guar-
dians notified.
Truancies determined by
investigation.
Truants
school on day of truancy.
Children
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Respectfully submitted, CHARLES H. JOHNSON,
Truant Officer.
January
by teachers.
No. of
fied.
noti-
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APPENDIX
FINANCIAL REPORT
ATTENDANCE
TEACHERS
RESIGNATIONS
GRADUATIONS
SCHOOL BOARD OF 1903
CALENDAR FOR 1903
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Financial Report
Salaries
HIGH SCHOOL.
Charles F. Harper .
$2,200 00
Maurice B. Smith .
1,100 00
Arthur F. Campbell
900 00
Elizabeth A. Souther
850 00
Madeleine Fish
800 00
H. Annie Kennedy
750 00
Clara E. Thompson
700 00
Iola L. Pearl .
685 00
Florence L. Hayes
446 25
Charles P. Slade
420 00
Janie C. Michaels
652 25
Stacy B. Southworth
490 00
L. Frances Tucker
670 00
Martha L. Desmond
670 00
Adah M. Tasker
390 00
Ruth Tousey .
360 00
Eleanor W. Guild
260 00
Walter T. Bryant .
120 00
George W. Hinman
105 00
Martha F. Sawyer
211 25
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Katharine W. Hall
8180 00
Samuel D. Thompson
105 00
Harry A. Blake
112 50
Mary L. Wade
100 00
Elizabeth B. Hall
118 50
Anna Diebner
72 00
Eleanor W. Doran
33 00
Julia Evans
12 00
Sarah L. Bird
18 00
Mary B. Finch
3 00
$13,533 75
ADAMS SCHOOL.
James M. Nowland*
$700 00
Jean B. Tucker
525 00
Eliza C. Sheahan
550 00
Ethel Rinn
410 00
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Jennie F. Griffin
500 00
Eliza F. Dolan
550 00
Annie W. Miller
455 00
Beatrice H. Rothwell
455 00
Charlotte F. Donovan
500 00
Euphrasia Hernan .
542 50
Elsie E. Turner
170 00
Annie L. Libby
270 00
Annie J. O'Connor
104 00
Margaret E. O'Brien
30 00
Annie L. Roche
7 50
Elsie Martin .
3 75
Agnes M. Burns
1 25
$5,774 00
*See Cranch.
.
A
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CODDINGTON SCHOOL
Mary E. Dearborn .
$1,400 00
Jennie H. Whitcher
200 00
Margaret E. Olmsted
296 25
Ruth A. Taylor
170 00
Grace E. Lingham .
255 00
Jennie H. Holt
475 00
Alice F. Sampson
499 38
Freda Salfisberg
422 50
Mary E. Costello
450 00
Julia E. Underwood
550 00
E. Belle Forsaith
180 00
Alice T. Kelly
330 00
Annie P. Hall
500 00
Sara J. Collagan
200 00
Grace E. Patterson
144 00
Louise M. Cook
115 00
Margaret E. O'Brien
27 50
Grace B. Orne
15 00
$6,229 63
CRANCH SCHOOL.
James M. Nowland*
$700 00
Carrie A. Crane
563 62
Cora M. Hutchinson
170 00
Mary A. Sayward
410 00
Minnie E. Welsh
500 00
Annie S. Keenan
450 00
Grace E. Perry
425 00
Elizabeth H. Poland
450 00
Anna G. Cochrane
180 00
Lucy J. Mitchell
270 00
Kathryn G. Meaney
25 50
Frances J. Elcock
16 00
*See Adams.
$4,160 12
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GRIDLEY BRYANT SCHOOL.
Austin W. Greene .
$1,400 00
Elizabeth B. Thomas
495 00
Mary H. Atkins
500 00
Anna E. Burns
500 00
Gertrude A. Boyd
498 75
Margaret F. Talbot
500 00
Augusta E. Dell
500 00
Catherine C. McGovern
500 00
Margaret E. O'Brien
$4,897 50
JOHN HANCOCK SCHOOL.
Robert S. Atkins*
$700 00
Mary W. Holden
600 00
Mabel G. Drake
170 00
Bessie L. Twiss
285 00
Annie R. Black
180 00
Jennie N. Whitcher
298 75
Mary C. Parker
160 00
Josephine T. Collagan
220 00
Minnie G. Robbins
500 00
Helen M. West
493 75
Isabel Moir
500 00
Helen F. Boyd
550 00
L. Jeanette Sanders
40 00
May C. Melzard
392 50
Emily M. Rogers
60 00
Nellie McNeally
23 50
Agnes M. Burns
28 50
Margaret E. O'Brien
36 25
*see Lincoln.
.
$5,788 25
550 00
Mary P. Underwood
3 75
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LINCOLN SCHOOL.
Robert S. Atkins*
$700 .00
Bessie G. Nicholson
570 00
Mary A. Days
382 50
Elizabeth M. Forrest
240 00
Minnie E. Donovan
500 00
Elizabeth Sullivan
500 00
Inez L. Nutting
300 00
Marion I. Bailey
292 50
Abbie A. Seyser
180 00
Agnes M. Burns
162 50
Kathryn G. Meaney
160 00
Elsie B. Martin
160 00
Mary M. McNally
150 00
Frances J. Elcock
128 00
Clara Merrill
127 25
Nancy E. Woy
120 00
Mary Egan
106 50
Harriet E. Benson
47 50
Edith Howe
33 33
Florenee M. Howe
40 00
Lucy B. Page
24 00
Mary B. Monahan
22 00
Annie L. Roche
20 00
Marion L. Barker
15 00
$4,981 08
*See John Hancock.
MASSACHUSETTS FIELDS SCHOOL.
Charles E. Finch*
$700 00
Caro E. Wyman
520 00
Zulma E. Lunt
180 00
Millie A. Damon
300 00
S. Jean Smith
. 190 00
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Lena Pfaffmann
$285 00
Cassendana Thayer
500 00
Lillian Waterhouse
500 00
Grace M. Spinney .
485 00
Florence C. Gammons
442 50
Olive V. Bicknell .
427 19
Annie M. Bennett .
500 00
Mary B. Finch
17 50
*See Wollaston.
$5,047 19
QUINCY SCHOOL.
Charles Sampson
$1,400 00
Elizabeth R. Gillette
435 00
Amalie Knobel
160 00
Mabel G. Hathaway
300 00
E. Gertrude Ward
425 00
Evelyn G. McGinley
500 00
Josephine L. Kelley
435 00
Ellen D. Granahan
500 00
Christina McPherson
160 00
Annie T. Jones
277 50
Delia E. Burke
410 00
Grace Eaton
400 50
Florence L. Howe
128 50
Emily M. Rogers
64 00
Grace G. Coles
35 00
Agnes M. Burns
12 50
$5,643 00
WASHINGTON SCHOOL.
Thomas B. Pollard
$1,400 00
Mary Marden
.
550 00
Alice S. Hatch
500 00
Bessie L. Drew .
500 00
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Mary F. Sampson .
$485 00
Il. Frances Cannon
500 00
Ida F. Humphrey
500 00
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