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The usual activities of the department have continued. The Mid- morning Nutrition project has suffered this year, presumably from lack of funds to continue it to the extent that it is needed. For a period of time the High School teachers provided a fund which greatly assisted a number of undernourished pupils. The need in this direction is as great as ever and is deserving of more consideration. Beside the regular work of the department we have assisted during the past year with costume making for pageants, decorations for the Game Plan Exhibit, a special luncheon for the judges and guests of the Music Festival and several special luncheons for visitors at the High School. We have also organized a short course in Nutrition which is given to all sophomores as part of a course in General Health.
I wish to take this opportunity to express my appreciation of the excellent spirit and cooperation shown by all members of this department, to the clementary teachers and Principals and all who have worked for the ad- vancement and development of the department during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
AGNES M. BRIDGES,
Supervisor of Home Economics Education
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Mr. Leonard W. Grant,
Superintendent of Schools, Norwood, Massachusetts.
My dear Mr. Grant:
I herewith submit my ninth annual report as Supervisor of Adult Alien Education in Norwood.
The work during the past year has divided itself into three general divisions: taking charge of the evening sehool elasses, teaching the foreign women in the home, and assisting to relieve suffering and poverty in the homes by helping, jointly with the school nurses, to disburse the money contributed by the teachers.
Our evening school elasses meet at one eenter only this year, the Baleh School. Here we have seven classes with an enrollment of 118 pupils. When the elasses closed for the Christmas holiday our attendance was 89.7% of our enrollment. The people who are attending sehool are there for a purpose. Our attendance was never so high before.
The citizenship elass is smaller this year than usual. Many people would like to take out their papers to become citizens but in these times of shortened working hours they have no money to pay for them.
The advanced age of the pupils in our elasses is marked. Eight years ago the average age of the pupils in our beginner's elass was 33 years. Today it is 43 years. In one class this year where seventeen men are going to school for the first time, eleven of them were absolutely illiterate when school opened.
Our most advanced elass has a membership of 21 people. In this class we are trying to take eare of all types of pupils. Young people who have dropped out of both Junior and Senior High School have eomc to us and asked if there was not something we could do to help them. One member of this elass is a woman in middle life who was born in America but realizing her need for more cducation has joined this class and attends it faithfully. We are trying to give thesc students work in seienee, civics and arithmetie as well as in English and literature.
In March we held our evening school graduation in the Junior High School hall. The pupils of the school presented a program of musie and essays which was enjoyed by a large audience. Mr. Leonard W. Grant, our superintendent of schools, was the speaker of the evening.
There are 37 women divided into six groups meeting in the homes this year. The supervisor teaches five of these groups. Miss Margaret Curran is the teacher of the sixth. One of these groups consists of a elass of seven women representing five nationalities (Swedish, Finnish, Jewish, Italian and German). It is a great satisfaction to see the advance being made by the Syrian women both in the evening classes and the home classes.
The supervisor has had the splendid co-operation of Miss Ruth Gurney of the Norfolk Agricultural School who has opened extension classes in
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both sewing and cooking for the foreign women. The sewing groups meet at the homes and receive the expert assistance of Miss Gurney in making coats and dresses for children. The cooking class, through the kind co- operation of Miss Julia McCarthy, Principal of the Winslow School, has met at her school once each month. Women of eight nationalities meet together and are intensely interested to learn how to get the most value for their food dollar. Special attention is given to food values and how to fecd children. The attendance at these classes has averaged 25.
At the last meeting before Christmas it was an inspiring sight to see women representing so many nations of Europe gathered around the beautifully lighted Christmas tree in the hall of the Winslow School singing carols in English.
The relief work done by the supervisor has been in co-operation with the local welfare board, the school nurses and the Red Cross. This has been possible largely because of the voluntary contribution made by the Norwood teachers who come in contact with the children from the homes that are in want. Mention should be made of the Friday Club of Nor- wood, a group of ladies who has been most kind to the supervisor in pro- viding her with clothing and money to use in this work.
I wish to take this opportunity to thank the evening school teachers for their faithful work which has kept the standard of our school so high.
My grateful appreciation is extended to the teachers of the day schools and to many other kind individuals of our town who have contributed both money and clothing for the help of people who are unfortunate.
Respectfully submitted,
WILDA L. VOSE, Supervisor of Adult Alien Education
Mr. Leonard W. Grant,
Superintendent of Schools,
Norwood, Massachusetts.
My dear Mr. Grant:
I herewith submit the annual report of the Art Departinent for the year ending December 31, 1932.
The content of our course of study has remained practically the same for the last two or three years. The basic principles of Art and Art Ap- preciation, as exemplified in Design, Representation, Color Harmony Perspective, etc., remain always the same, although they may be applied in new projects to meet certain conditions or occasions.
No general exhibition was held, but at various times, such as when Parent-Teacher meetings were held, representative displays of drawings were shown in the school rooms or on bulletin-boards in the corridors.
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Also a collection of drawings from Grades 1 through IX was mounted in a 12" x 18" booklet and sent to a school in Manila, in exchange for samples of their school work in various subjects, sent to the Winslow School.
The George Washington Bicentennial gave us opportunities for making many patriotic posters, designs, booklet covers, etc.
The "Co-operative Group Plan" as now carricd on in two of our ele- mentary schools, gives opportunity for more real "arts and crafts" work, since the periods are longer and the work is done by teachers who are specializing in that one subject rather than teaching many subjects.
The Junior and Senior High Art classes and Art clubs continue to show increased interest each year, as well as more creative ability and improved technique. The two latter qualities were well shown in the recent "Town Planning" contest and exhibition, where Norwood held three prize-winning places in the county contest. Both visitors at the exhibition and the contestants themselves cxpresscd the opinion that the background of drawing which they had had in their previous years of school had been of great assistance in their planning of maps of Norwood 100 years hence.
Classes in both schools have made designs for the school papers and posters for various activities and in Senior High designs were made for the cover of the annual state Music Festival held last May. The Junior High Art Club continued its study of modern design, applying original designs to various articles. The Senior High Art Club did figure posing, drawing each other or other members of the school, also out-door sketching in pencil, pastels and water colors, finding many spots of interest not far from the High School building as subjects. Five of last year's graduates are attending Art schools in Boston this year.
The following four aims of Art education, as stated in a recently published course of study in Art for New York City, express the aims of our Art teaching herc in Norwood, as well as in most communities at the present time:
1. "The development of youthful artistic talent by special training and stimulating guidance in order that ability may be made productive in the service of society."
2. "The development of good taste in the individual and the com- munity."
3. "The encouragement of creative expression which results in thic joy of accomplishment."
4. "The enrichment of life and the enjoyment of leisure through an appreciation of beauty in nature, in fine arts and in industrial productions."
Respectfully submitted,
HELEN L. ARNOLD,
Supervisor of Art
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Mr. L. W. Grant, Superintendent of Schools, Norwood, Massachusetts.
My dear Mr. Grant:
The following is the work done on school buildings during 1932. It does not include every day repairs, which all janitors are expected to do accord- ing to their ability.
Senior High School
Painted rooms 103 and 104, large and small administrative offices, offices of Physical Education department and walls in gymnasium. All window sashes in basement of south building painted.
Junior High School
Two rooms painted and ceilings whitened. Shed built for motor mower. Sections of cold and hot water pipes renewed.
Sash to be drawn on Junior High School building.
Balch School
Whitened walls in boys' toilet.
Renewed basement stair treads.
Sanded room 10.
Refinished rooms 12 and 13, and corridor in wing.
Whitened office ceiling.
Renovated four rooms.
Renovated boiler room.
Installed new hot water tank.
All doors put in good condition and given two coats of paint.
Lower hall repaired.
Shattuck School
Refinished 6 rooms and upper and lower halls.
Whitewashed part of basement. Painted tin on roof. Painted doors on outside.
Put new gaskets in one boiler.
Built shed for motor mower.
West School
New furnace installed. Building painted and reshingled.
Winslow School
Teachers' room painted and refinished and ceiling whitened. Cold water pipes laid from main pipes to drinking fountain.
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Tin roof painted. Roof repaired. Ceiling in Miss Hunt's room whitened. The following is a list of work to be done during the year 1933:
Senior High School
Boiler repaired (fire box). Tower and columns painted.
Junior High School
Set brick work on boilers.
Paint as many rooms as possible.
All tin work and roof painted.
Paint sashes.
Balch School
New wing:
Window stools refinished.
Lower corridors painted.
Four rooms painted.
Teachers' desks refinished.
Brick on north outside wall to be pointed up.
East side, over easement, brick to be pointed up.
Main building:
No. 1 and No. 2 boilers to be lined with asbestos.
Replace siphon pump.
Refinish girls' basement lower walls and doors.
Refinish ceiling in upper corridor.
Replace stair treads.
Grounds -grade front lawn.
Shattuck School
Paint outside of building, 2 classrooms, 8 coat rooms and boiler room. 2 ceilings to be patched. 20 new toilet seats.
Weather strips.
West School
Paint and varnish woodwork in two rooms.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN P. OLDHAM, Supervisor of Buildings
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Mr. Leonard W. Grant, Superintendent of Schools, Norwood, Massachusetts.
My dear Mr. Grant:
I herewith submit my report as attendance officer for the year ending December 31, 1932. The total number of investigations made was 452.
To ascertain causes of Evening School absences . 3
To ascertain causes of Day School absences
449
To investigate cases where Home Permits were desired
8
To investigate cases of illness
162
Want of shoes and clothing
30
Assisting at home. 18
Permanently moved .
S
Pupils returned to school
29
Miscellaneous cases .
76
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY F. BREEN
Truancy . 147
MEMBERSHIP BY AGE AND GRADE, OCTOBER 1, 1932
Ages
Grades
5
6
1
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
Totals
1
73
160
14
2
249
216
2
54
136
21
4
1
234
3
55
130
31
12
6
4
63
127
22
7
1
220
5
65
118
30
13
2
228
6
2
73
125
33
14
2
249
61
152
30
26
4
1
1
275
7
2
65
135
62
20
6
1
291
8
3
55
178
69
19
5
329
9
7
135
96
29
12
279
10
20
134
90
34
3
1
282
11
10
100
37
11
1
159
12
3
6
5
3
9
10
1
1
42
Post Graduates
73
214
205
219
235
230
236
269
246
285
249
266
221
91
22
2
3
3066
285
1
3
6
3
13
Special
286
TOWN OFFICIALS For the Year Ending December 31, 1932
Selectmen: HERBERT A. BAKER, Chairman, 1930-1933; HAROLD W. BAKER, 1930-1933; PETER J. FEENEY, 1931-1934; JOHN M. MUTCH, 1932-1935; EUGENE L. MURPHY, 1932-1935.
Finance Commission: HERBERT G. JOHNSON, Chairman, 1930-1933; FRANCIS W. SMITH, 1931-1934; ARTHUR P. ALLEN, 1932- 1935.
Moderator: JAMES A. HALLORAN, 1932.
Town Counsel: JAMES A. HALLORAN.
Town Clerk and Accountant: JAMES E. PENDERGAST.
Assistant Town Clerk: CATHERINE M. MOHAN.
Assistant Accountant: WALTER A. BLASENAK.
Treasurer and Collector: EDMUND F. SULLIVAN, 1932. General Manager: CLARENCE A. BINGHAM.
Superintendent of Public Works: JOSEPH E. CONLEY.
Superintendent of Municipal Light: FRED S. BARTON.
Superintendent of Cemetery: GEORGE ALFRED SMITH.
Town Engineer: ALBERT W. THOMPSON.
Chief of Police: WILLIAM H. SULLIVAN.
School Board: GLADWIN M. NEAD, Chairman, 1930-1933; JOHN J. CONLEY, 1930-1933; EUGENE L. CONNOLLY, 1931-1934; HAROLD E. SHAW, 1931-1934; JOSEPHINE A. CHANDLER, 1932-1935; CHRISTINE L. PROBERT, 1932-1935.
Superintendent of Schools: LEONARD W. GRANT.
Sealer of Weights and Measures: HARRY M. KING.
Building Inspector: FORREST M. DOUGLASS.
Board of Public Welfare: JENNIE F. FALES, Chairman; MARY G. MILLETT (resigned May 9, 1932); ARTHUR B. RODGERS, (appointed May 17, 1932) (resigned December 1, 1932); PAUL I. BERNIER (appointed December 6, 1932); DOROTHY L. BEMIS, Clerk.
Board of Assessors: PATRICK J. LYDON, Chairman; KENNETH McKENZIE (deceased January 7, 1932); WILLIAM J. DALTON (appointed February 9, 1932) to fill vacancy; EDWARD A. FLA- HERTY; AGNES M. COUGHLIN, Clerk.
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Board of Health: HAROLD L. ALDEN, Chairman, 1931-1934; CHARLES L. LYNCH, M.D., 1932-1935; WILLIAM P. NICK- ERSON, 1930-1933; DOROTHY L. BEMIS, Clerk.
Town Physician: GEORGE KLEIN, M. D.
Agent and Inspector of Milk and Inspector of Slaughtering: JAMES J. MULVEHILL, M. D. V. (Sept. 16, 1932); WILLIS H. HOYT, October 29, 1932.
Inspector of Plumbing: JOHN A. SHANNON.
Public Health Nurse: KATHERINE KINGMAN.
Chief of Fire Department: JOHN J. HANNIGAN, September 30, 1932.
Inspector of Animals: ALBERT FALES.
Board of Trustees of Morrill Memorial Library: WILLARD W. EVERETT, 1932-1935; A. MARION SWAIN, 1931-1934; MAUDE A. SHAT- TUCK, 1932-1935; MARY E. WILLIAMS, 1930-1933; RALPH W. TAYLOR, 1931-1934; RICHARD D. NORTHRUP, 1932-1933 (to fill vacancy).
Librarian: JANE A. HEWITT.
Registrars of Voters: JOHN P. CURRAN, Chairman; JOHN P. CROWLEY (Pro Tem); STEPHEN R. GOOGINS, R. KENNETH MORROW and JAMES E. PENDERGAST.
Fence Viewers: JOHN J. FLAHERTY, AUSTIN L. MADDOX and GUIDO A. STUNTZNER.
Superintendent of Moth Suppression: CLARENCE A. BINGHAM.
Planning Board: CHARLES E. HOUGHTON, Chairman, 1930-1933; EDWARD L. THOMPSON, 1932-1935; THOMAS U. MAHONY, , 1932-1935; CHARLES A. NICHOLSON, 1930-1933; CHARLES J. WEISUL, 1931-1934.
Town Game Warden: ALBERT L. MURRAY.
Carillon Committee: WALTER F. TILTON, FRANCIS J. FOLEY and ANDREW C. MORROW.
Constables. JOHN S. CONROY, CHARLES R. DONNELL, JOSEPH T. FLOOD, JOHN H .. KELLEY, RICHARD A. MURPHY, and J. IRVING REID.
PUBLIC LIFE
Who enters public service expecting appreciation will be disappointed. The mother does not expect from the two-year- old whom she spanks, to keep from running into the street, an engraved vote of thanks for her services. She expects the small howls of rage which are the natural reaction at having liberty restricted. She hardly hears them, and feels well rewarded if the child learns the lesson of safe bounds.
The crowd always turns against its benefactors. Jesus was tempted to "sell himself," but did not stop his work because of it, nor though he knew the bitter end. Washington was abused without measure by his contemporaries. So was Lincoln. Nor did they resign in fits of temper before their work was done.
The man who would truly serve the public must realize in the beginning that "the road winds uphill all the way," that its only joy lies in the consciousness of renunciation of self for the common good, its only reward the knowledge of some small good accomplished.
Seeking this only, he sticks .- Anonymous.
INDEX
Department or Division
Report
Receipts
Expenses
Accountant.
164
96
Agency Trust and Investment
95
120
Assistance to Aged Citizens
225
91. 109
Ash Removal
90 104
Assessors. . 228
97
Balance Sheet
137
Births
44.
Building Inspector
206
102
Cemetery
209
93 118
Cemetery Trust Fund
145
145
Certification of Notes
98
Commercial Revenue
87
Deaths. .67
Dental Clinic
222
90
103
Departmental Revenue
88
Education .
92.
110
Election and Registration
97
Electric Light Department
159-203
115
93
Engineering Department
201
73
98
Finance Commission
235
98
Fincs and Forfeits.
86.
Fire Alarm
101
Fire Department
193
89
101
Forestry Department .
200
S7-89 102
Gasolene Tax .
86
Gasolene Tax Refund
91
General Manager
185
SS 96
Gencral Revenue
S6.
Health .
221
90
103
Highway Division
91
106
Indebtedness, Limitations of
.84
Indebtedness, Municipal
75-83
94
119
Intercst .
94
119
Jury List
181
Library .
210
92
113
Licenses and Permits
S6
Marriages.
56
88.
Memorial Office Building
88. 99
Milk Inspector
222
27 103
Moth Suppression
87 102
II
Department or Division Report Receipts
Expenses
Pensions .
106
Parks Division
113
Planning Board .
83
Playgrounds, Public
226
92.
113
Police .
192
89
100
Public Property Account .
136
Public Works
195
108
Recapitulations of Expenditures and Receipts
Refunds
94
121
Sanitation
90
103
School Committee .
239
Superintendent of Schools
246
Sealer Weights and Measures
207
89 102
Selectmen .
166
96
Sewer and Drains.
90 104
Sewer Construction
87 105-157
Sewer Maintenance
104
Soldiers' Benefits
94.
109
Statement of Borrowed Money 82
Street Lighting
102
Tax Titles 143
Town Clerk .
88.
96
Town Counsel
214
94. 98
Town Debt, Classified Statement of
75
Town Meeting Records 1-43
Town Physician
109
Town Reports, Printing of
114
Trial Balance.
147
Trust Funds:
Alice H. Plimpton
Library Trust Fund 143
Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund. 154
Electric Consumers' Deposit . 146
High School English Prize Fund .
145
Warren H. Cudworth Library Fund. 145
Treasurer and Collector 231-234 88. 97
Tuberculosis Clinic 221 103
Unclassified 114
Water Works
153-199 93. 116
Welfare
224 91 109
122
123
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TAXES
Copyright, 1927, by Edgar A. Guest
When they come due I don't like them at all, 'Taxes look large be they ever so small, Taxes are debts which I venture to say No man or no woman is happy to pay; I grumble about them, as most of us do, For it seems that with taxes I never am through.
But when I reflect on the city I love, With its sewers below and its pavement above, And its schools and its parks where the children may play, I can see what I get for the money I pay, And I say to myself: "Little joy would be known If we kept all our money and spent it alone.".
I couldn't build streets and I couldn't fight fire, Policemen to guard us I never could hire; A water department I couldn't maintain; Instead of a city we'd still have a plain; Then I look at the bill for the taxes they charge, And I say to myself: "Well, that isn't so large."
I walk through a hospital thronged with the ill And I find that it shrivels the size of my bill; As in beauty and splendor my home city grows, It is easy to see where my tax money goes, And I say to myself : "If we lived hit and miss And gave up our taxes, we couldn't do this!"
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