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There was more than the usual number of changes in teachers during the summer, but it is a pleasure to note that the work of the school did not suffer because of these changes and that the excellence of instruction has in no way been impaired.
The past year has been devoted to consolidating what has already been gained rather than making great advances in any particular line. Two departments, however, should, perhaps, receive some special mention: the Art Department and the Domestic Science Department. The former has been so conducted as to be of highest service to all other departments and to the various outside activities of the school. As an example of the efficiency of the pupils in this line of work, there was designed, in connection with the English Department, a school
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calendar which had a considerable sale among the pupils and friends of the school during the Christmas season.
The Domestic Science Department, which has charge of the school lunch counter, undertook in October the difficult task of furnishing luncheon to the delegates to the State Convention of Parent-Teachers' Association, which was held in the school hall. On the three days of the Convention, attractive and appetizing luncheons, similar to those usually provided for the pupils, were served to several hundred dele- gates, who gave ample evidence of their appreciation of the efforts in their behalf and highly commended the manner in which the school lunch counter is conducted.
The school has been able during the year to find employment for a large number of boys and girls in a variety of occupations. There have been constant calls for stenographers, bookkeepers, clerks, girls to take care of children, and the like, in such numbers that it has not been possible to provide pupils, either past or present, to meet the demand. Another year an attempt will be made to establish a school em- ployment bureau under the charge of one of the teachers which will find employment for pupils and fill positions of various kinds for employers.
There have been organized among the pupils of the two upper classes three clubs: namely, the Boys' Debating Club, the Thalia Club for girls and the German Club. These clubs are all under the supervision of designated teachers and the condition of membership is satisfactory scholarship. In the case of the German Club, excellence in that language is necessary for membership. A number of pupils have by these means an opportunity for social intercourse and at the same time a chance for extended development along the lines of debat- ing, literature, dramatics and conversation in at least one foreign language. The spirit of these clubs has been thoroughly democratic, so that they have been a help to the work of the school rather than a hindrance, as is often the case with pupils' clubs.
Each year it has been the custom of the managing board of the school paper, The Golden Rod, to hand to the Head Master the profits of the paper to use for the good of the school. With this money there has been purchased a projecting lantern with illuminating devices for both assembly hall and classroom, together with a valuable set of slides furnishing illustrative material for nearly every department of the school. Since they were purchased, the lantern and slides have been in constant use in a large number of classes and have proved them- selves to be a great help in presenting lessons, particularly in such subjects as English, history, and commercial geography.
During the year an Alumni Association was formed which has. shown a material interest in the welfare of the school. It has already presented a set of O. Henry's stories to the library and has given a considerable sum of money for the support of athletics. The school is also indebted to Mrs. F. B. Smith, who presented to the school library a complete set of Ridpath's Library of Universal Literature.
The Wollaston Woman's Club found a happy way of being of service to our young people by establishing a scholarship to be used in paying the tuition at college of some young woman residing in Wollaston who was maintaining a creditable standing and was to grad- uate either from Woodward Institute or the High School. After due consideration, this scholarship was awarded to Miss Alice Marion Simpson of the High School, who entered Boston University.
It would not be fitting to close this report without an acknowledge-
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ment of gratitude to you and the School Committee for your assistance and loyal support and to the inany friends of the school throughout the city who have never been weary in well-doing for the benefit of our boys and girls.
Respectfully submitted, ERNEST L .COLLINS, Head Master.
Home-Making School
For a long time I have had a feeling that there was a distinct field in this city for a school for girls which should prepare for the life which most of them are going to lead after they leave school, the life of the home. To a great many girls the High School course is a barren outlook; higher mathematics and foreign languages have little appeal to such girls and even less value. Many of them are g ing to stay in school only two or three years and can look forward only to a frag- mentary education.
With this in view, the plans for a Home-Making School have been prepared. Such a school will have a two-year course instead of four. It will specialize in the arts which go to make an efficient home and will ground them on a scientific basis. While the primary object of the school will be to prepare for the home and to teach the arts used in the home, the graduate will be sufficiently well grounded in cooking, dressmaking and millinery to turn her skill to profitable use in a com- mercial way if she so desires. In addition to the practical work, an equal amount of time will be devoted to academic work, with a view to developing culture and intelligence as well as domestic skill. Very opportunely, the city has acquired the Zenas Arnold house on Codding- ton Street, which provides us with a centrally located eight-room build- ing, exactly suited for our purpose the first year, and which lends itself very readily to a plan of future growth.
In order that it may be understood exactly what this school will do, a fairly complete tentative outline of work is submitted.
Home-Making Course
Total number of hours - 44 per week.
Practical work (9 hours in the home, 13 hours in school, 6 hours of which can be used also for home work, if advisable), 50% - 22 hours. Related work, 30% - 12 hours.
Cultural, 20% - 712 hours.
Assembly (Music, Current Events); time, 212 hours.
Total 44 hours.
Home Project Work
Nine hours of definite home work will be assigned each week. The problems of the previous week in the classroom should be assigned as far as possible for home work. This is one good way to review and test. Teachers will be expected to visit from home to home during these periods of home work to see if work is being done as it should.
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Suggestions how time might be divided for home project work: *One hour, home cooking, between 4 and 7, Monday P.M.
*One hour, dressmaking, between 4 and 7, divided, Tuesday P.M.
*One hour, home cooking, between 4 and 7, Wednesday P.M.
*One hour, home dressmaking, between 4 and 7, Thursday P.M. *One hour, care of children at home, between 4 and 7, Friday P.M.
Note. Work can be assigned along the lines of any of the practical subjects during the periods between 8 and 12 o'clock Saturday A.M.
Practical, 50% - 22 Hours
Subject
I
II
1. Dressmaking
8
6
2. Millinery
2
2
3. Cooking.
8
6
4. Laundry.
1
1
5. The Care of Children.
1
1
6. Home Care of the Sick.
7. Housecleaning, Repairs and Minor Changes.
1
1
* Teacher assigns one hour some time between 4 and 7, to suit the conve- nience of the family in question.
Related Work, 30% - 12 Hours
Subject
I
II
Arithmetic.
2
2
English.
2
2
Textiles.
1
1
Hygiene (Household), (Personal).
11/2
1
Chemistry (Household), (Science).
1
1
Design.
11/2
1
History.
1
1
Geography.
1
1
Thrift, Savings, Insurance.
1
1
Cultural, 20% - 71/2 Hours
Subject
I
II
History
11/2
11/2
Literature, Lectures and Reading.
11/2
11/2
Art Appreciation.
11/2
11/2
Gymnasium.
1
1
Citizenship.
2
2
Music
Į 21/2 hours.
Current Events
3 (Assembly Time)
1
1
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Details of Subject
Cooking - first year, 8 hours.
1. To prepare and serve home breakfasts and lunches.
2. To prepare and serve school luncheons.
3. Use of cook-books, marketing, making out menus, care of supplies and left-overs and food values as far as it is necessary in prep- aration of home breakfasts and lunches, also school luncheons.
Cooking - second year, 6 hours.
1. Preserving and pickling.
2. Preparation and serving of home dinners.
3. Same points should be covered as in "3," first year outline.
Dressmaking - first year, 8 hours.
1. Hand sewing as applied in simple underwear, curtains, table covers and other household furnishings.
2. Middy blouse or simple wash dress.
3. A certain portion of the time should be given to mending clothing. (Pupils should bring a change of clothing each week to wash during the laundry period, and then mend the same.)
4. Use of commercial patterns, cutting, fitting and making should be taught as far as necessary in doing above work.
Dressmaking - second year, 6 hours.
1. Waists, tailored and lingerie.
2. Simple wash dress.
3. Wool skirt.
4. Woolen dress.
5. The same points should be covered as in "3" and "4" first year.
Millinery - first year, 2 hours.
Same as Worcester outline for second year.
Millinery - second year, 2 hours.
Same as Worcester outline for fourth year.
Laundry - first year, 1 hour.
Same as Worcester outline for first year, also washing pupils' own change of clothing.
Laundry - second year, 1 hour.
Same as Worcester outline for third year, also washing pupils' own change of clothing.
Home Care of Children - first year, 1 hour.
(a) Hygiene.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Exercise.
(e) Stories and games suitable for young children.
Note. This work should be taken up in connection with milk and baby stations, day nurseries and pupil's own home.
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Home Care of Children - second year, 1 hour.
All practical work. Pupil should be made responsible for some young child, preferably in her own home, for at least a one-hour period each week.
Home Care of the Sick - first year, 1 hour. Care of sick room:
(a) Ventilation.
(b) Heating.
(c) Dusting, sweeping, lighting, etc.
(d) Care of bed.
Second year, 1 hour.
(a) First aid to the injured.
(b) Care of children and adults during convalescence, which will necessarily mean a review of the first year's work.
The development of the school system on the side of industrial education is discussed in full on another page as apart from the common school system.
It only remains to be said that from the whole broad standpoint of public education the situation in this city is most healthy. Not only do the city authorities and the citizens at large meet the demands for new schoolhouses and increased school budgets as they gradually appear, but there appears a constant readiness to recognize real value in new ideas and a willingness to test them out. To this community spirit we may attribute our public playgrounds, our school nurse, our industrial schools, both day and evening, and the extension of the evening school system. To this spirit we may look later for the intro- duction of the kindergarten, and the development of correspondence school work to be offered by the State.
This type of work last named is one which has been exploited and developed very widely by corporations organized for that purpose and to this type of instruction many of the young folks of this city owe much. The State is now undertaking to do this same work with- out cost except the necessary incidental expenses. If it is able to do it with the skill and aggressive power that commercial organizations have shown, then it will prove a great boon to the young folks of all our communities and the School Department will do its best to bring this work to the attention of the community.
The School Department has as its main function, leadership in all educational matters of general interest. As Superintendent, I have endeavored to point and urge the way wherever the educational interests of the city could be advanced. Such measure of success and promise as we have been able to obtain has been due to the co-opera- tion of the members of the School Committee and the teaching force with whom it is my great pleasure to be working.
Respectfully submitted,
ALBERT L. BARBOUR, Superintendent of Schools.
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REPORT OF THE QUINCY INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
The Industrial Schools of the city, both day and evening, have made steady progress this past year. The report of the Principal of the Day Industrial School gives some idea of what has been done there. The advisability of opening a machinists' department which he touches upon in his report deserves emphasis in view of the fact that the dom- inant industrial interest in this city at the present time is without question mechanical. Undoubtedly this department would have been opened earlier had it not been for the fact that it is the most expensive of all to equip for our purpose, on account of the number and price of machines needed. In this connection should be recorded the fact that the Fore River Company has given to the schools a number of machines worth several hundred dollars, which will be of great service to the department when opened. Mention should be made of the fact that to offset the cost of the school, its several departments are now doing a considerable amount of the city's repairing on public school buildings and in the future can go much further in this direction than they have thus far gone. The public in general, I believe, has little conception of the scope of this school and frequently tends to confuse it with a manual training school. It needs to be emphasized that in this school the boys are always working on a product of com- mercial value and so far as possible under shop conditions.
The Evening School classes both for men and women have gained over last year in enrollment, average attendance and quality of work done. At no time has the school taken any pupils who were not strictly eligible; the past year we have had not only eligibility but sustained interest. The classes for women in dressmaking and mil- linery have been unusually successful, having an enrollemnt of unusually fine type. Throughout the fall, five such classes have met regularly twice a week for ten weeks, and a second unit of ten weeks was begun in December with an increase in members.
If the city should establish its Home-Making School, which is referred to in the Public School report, it would then have the nucleus of a well-rounded vocational school system second to none in this State.
The report of Mr. J. G. Spofford, Principal of the Industrial School, is appended.
ALBERT L. BARBOUR, Superintendent of Schools.
Quincy Industrial School, Quincy, Mass., January 1, 1916.
MR. ALBERT L. BARBOUR,
Superintendent of Schools, Quincy, Mass.
I have the honor and pleasure herewith to submit my fourth annual report of the work in the Quincy Industrial Schools.
The co-operative school began the year with an attendance of forty-eight pupils, alternating each week between school and factory.
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This number gradually grew less until we had forty in attendance when school closed in July. The reason for this decrease was on account of several of the boys from the Fore River starting on their fourth year of apprenticeship, and the failure of said company to fill the vacancies thus made.
The school has endeavored to co-operate with the industries in every way possible. The past year, at the request of the industries, the school was conducted on a five and one-half day week and was prepared to run on a fifty-two week year. The longer year, however, was not necessary as the industries requested that the boys work in the shops during the summer vacation.
The industries were visited during the summer to see if there was any change that could be made to better the relations between the factory organization and the school. The superintendent of the Gear Works asked that the boys in his plant be permitted to alternate on a three-month-about basis, and the superintendent of the Couch Tele- phone Company requested that his boys alternate on a two-week-about basis. Both of these requests have been granted and seem to be working very satisfactorily. It is to be regretted that the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation have not felt disposed to co-operate with us since September. However, we stand ready and willing to co-operate with them on any basis that will meet with State approval. .
The Full-Time School
The Full-Time School began the year with thirty-six pupils en- rolled in the woodworking and electrical trades. This number remained the same until September, when, on account of the failure of the Fore River to come in on the co-operative basis, the number in the wood- working department was increased from eighteen to twenty-six; also in September, the sheet metal, coppersmithing and plumbing trade were opened with an enrollment of twenty-six. To get ready for the incoming class, the pupils in the woodworking and electrical depart- ments laid new hardwood floors, made work benches, put in new electric light system, whitewashed the ceiling, tinted the walls, etc., so that when school opened in September, everything was ready and the work started in perfect harmony with the rest of the school organ- ization.
An itemized list of products made by the school would take too much space for this report, therefore I will briefly state that the wood- working department has completed twelve quartered oak library tables, four quartered oak teachers' desks, with double banks of drawers, two quartered oak sectional filing cabinets, and a great deal more material of similar nature.
The sheet metal department has completed seventy-two galvan- ized ash cans, thirty-six garbage pails, several pieces of tin furnace pipe, several pieces of galvanized furnace pipe, gasoline tanks for motor boats, etc.
The electrical department has installed fire gongs in the following schools: Willard, John Hancock, Lincoln, Cranch, and Coddington. This department has also thoroughly gone over the electric wiring in the Industrial School.
The electro plating department has done a considerable work in nickel plating and is in a position to do work in copper, nickel and the several oxidized finishes.
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The product of the various departments has been of very high standard and nearly every piece made has been sold, and we have large orders waiting.
The actual cash received from all departments for products to date is $712.85.
Distribution of Pupils
Co-operative School,
10
Full-Time School, woodworking department, 26
Full-Time School, sheetmetal department, 26
Full-Time School, electrical department, 18
Number on waiting list,
42
Tuition Pupils
Towns Represented
Co-operative department,
3
Cohasset, 1
Braintree, 1
Weymouth, 1
Full-time department,
12
Weymouth, 4
Braintree, 3
Bridgewater, 5
I would state relative to the out-of-town pupils that the Quincy boys have always been given preference in filling every vacancy.
On account of having a large number of electrical jobs outside of the school, we have found it necessary to add an electrical instructor to our teaching force. Mr. Russell Parker, of Quincy, has been ap- pointed to this position and begins work on January 1, 1916. For the past two years we have postponed adding a course in machine shop practice on account of the expense of equipment. As the machine industry employs the largest number of men of any industry in this city, I feel that the time has come for us to establish a course to train boys for this industry
I have been called upon in the past year by the president of one of our industries to furnish him boys who have had some experience on machine tools. As we did not have a course in machine shop prac- tice, I found it necessary to call upon the directors of other schools in the Metropolitan District to furnish boys with the desired shop ex- perience. These boys have made good, but these positions should have been filled by Quincy boys, and could have had we maintained a course in machine work. This same manufacturer has visited the school several times and is very eager to have a machine course started in this school. I would, therefore, most earnestly recommend that we establish a course in machine shop practice to begin in September, 1916.
In closing, I wish to express my gratitude to you for your helpful advice and co-operation in the past year, and thank my instructors for the hearty co-operation which they have given me.
I would also express my sincere appreciation and thanks to the several managers and superintendents for their help and co-operation,_ and especially would I thank the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation
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for their donation of five machines for the machine shop, the Couch Telephone Company for their kind donation of seven intercommunicat- ing telephone sets, and the Boston Gear Works and the Couch Tele- phone Company for the loan of apparatus which was used in connection with the photographic exhibit of this school at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Respectfully submitted,
J. GOULD SPOFFORD,
Director.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
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For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1915
Appropriated by the City Council
$204,451.73
Received from tuition, rent of halls, etc. 1,138.69
Total
$205,590.42
Transfer to Industrial Schools
1,274.73
$204,315.69
Expended
Administration
$6,602.35
Instruction
153,212.50
Textbooks
6,156.85
Stationery
6,928.24
Operation of plant
23,932.68
Maintenance
299.42
Miscellaneous
3,227.52
Evening schools
2,848.72
203,208.28
Unexpended balance
*$1,107.41
ADMINISTRATION
Barbour, Albert L., salary
$3,000.00
Barbour, Albert L., care of rooms, travel
outside city, etc. . 88.74
Johnson, Charles H., salary
1,200.00
Johnson, Charles H., expenses
7.01
Hallowell, Lucy M.
650.00
Nilsen, Marion
135.00
Adams Express Company .
.29
Adams Market
.50
American School Board Journal
10.50
*This balance was nominal only, as bills outstanding, but not properly verified, were practically equal to the balance shown.
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Angel Guardian Press
$14.00
Atwood, Fred
2.25
Babb, Edward E., & Co.
38.89
Bay State Paper Company
21.26
Bay State Street Railway Company
90.00
Blake, Arthur H.
12.00
Bobbs-Merrill Co.
8.00
Brown & Company
1.35
Brown, Howland Co.
4.58
Canty, Helen A.
15.30
Carter's Ink Company
.38
Citizens' Gas Light Company
1.98
Crane, Richard Z.
9.75
Danielson, Elsie C.
11.30
DeBoer, Mildred
7.60
Doran, George H. Co.
1.08
Fallon, Herbert
12.00
Frontier Press Co.
17.25
Garrity, Joseph I.
30.20
Ginn & Company
1.02
Gray, Edna L.
7.60
Granite City Press
3.00
Greenough, W. A., & Co.
3.00
Houghton, Mifflin Company
26.66
Kendall, William T.
28.70
Kerner, Jennie
7.00
Library Bureau
68.56
L:kander, Edward
16.13
Manifold Manufacturing Company
5.23
Murray and Emery Co.
135.98
Miller, Bert's, Express
.65
Nash, W. G.
1.00
Norling, Agnes H.
5.40
New England Tel. & Tel. Co.
375.57
Pratt Company
23.50
Prescott, George W., Publishing Co.
55.55
Quincy Electric Light and Power Co.
22.79
Quincy Industrial School
75.20
Quincy Telegram
16.20
Quincy Real Estate Trust
360.00
Russell Sage Foundation
5.62
Teachers College
2.25
Thorp & Martin Co.
5.85
Tracy, Elizabeth F.
6.70
United States Post Office
111.93
University of Chicago Press
.83
Waddell, Euphemia
7.00
Warwick and York
1.75
Willard Press
103.90
Yawman & Erbe Manufacturing Co
26.57
Total
$6,902.35
Administration expenses charged Industrial Schools
300.00
$6,602.35
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INSTRUCTION - SALARIES
High School
Ernest L. Collins
$2,440.00
Frank L. Mansur
1,440.00
John F. Roache
1,100.00
Robert F. Aschenbach
1,040.00
Harry W. French
1,540.00
Edward H. Fuller
1,040.00
George W. Paulsen
1,500.00
Charles B. Thomson
1,140.00
Clara E. Thompson
1,000.00
Grace A. Howe
895.50
Harriet B. Whitaker
900.00
Elizabeth M. Douglas
980.00
Victoria M. H. Zeller
900.00
Agnes G. Donovan
420.00
Elizabeth I. O'Neill
900.00
Pearl N. Perry
940.00
Lucy H. Atwood
900.00
Alice D. Brooks
840.00
Esther G. Anderson J. Marjorie Bailey
736.50
Margaret Seymour
900.00
Maude P. Thayer
895.50
Isabel McMurtry
730.00
Elizabeth G. Anderson
840.00
Enor E. Lundin
810.00
Juliette C. Bostwick
789.75
Mary N. Whitcomb
540.00
Frances M. Whitcomb
540.00
William B. Pierce .
540.00
John G. Grainger
540.00
Louisa R. Holt
535.50
Mildred H. Allen
480.00
F. Loring Churchill
400.00
Edith L. Abbott .
360.00
Vivian Taber
360.00
Ada R. Rounds
355.50
Elinor Furber
351.00
Katherine Bickford
340.00
Pauline M. Brandt
280.00
E. Hazel Fallis
280.00
Edith Cochran
280.00
Roland Kinder
270.00
Hazel H. Wavle
206.00
Clara V. Bushnell
112.00
Elizabeth W. Paige
80.00
Amy C. Guilford
20.00
Raymond E. Fenner
110.00
Grace E. Ryan
96.00
Edith A. Grant
67.50
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