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Friday Evening Dances
On each Friday evening of the year with the exception of the summer months, dances are held for the junior high school age young people at the Recreation Center under the supervision of members of the staff of the Recreation Depart- ment. Music for the dances is provided by a small orchestra with a token ad- mission charge being made. Dancing lessons are not given at these Friday Evening socials, but actually many a boy and girl learns to dance by attending. Boys and girls learn how to conduct themselves socially at these affairs, while at the same time enjoying an evening of wholesome fun under supervision.
Symphony Orchestra
The Norwood-Norfolk County Orchestra has continued to function over the past year under the direction of Mr. Raymond F. Fleck. The nucleus left after the big turnover of members in the previous year proved faithful in attendance, and with the addition of a few new members we are looking forward to continued expansion of the Orchestra in months to come. Membership in the Orchestra is open to residents of Norwood and surrounding towns, thereby giving us a more complete symphony orchestra. Rehearsals of the Orchestra are held each Tuesday evening from September through May at Memorial Hall of the Municipal Building.
Again in December of the past year, the Orchestra combined with the choirs of six Norwood churches to present the Christmas Festival of Music, a pro- gram designed to usher in the Christmas season in Norwood. Each participating choir presented a program of music from its own repetoire, the Orchestra played several selections, and the evening was climaxed by the Orchestra and combined choirs rendition of the Halleliuah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. The Festival was attended by a capacity audience at the Junior High School Auditorium. It is planned to make this Festival an annual feature of Norwood's observance of the Christmas season.
Fourth of July Celebration
Again in 1955 the Recreation Department cooperated in the conduct of the General Manager's Fourth of July Celebration. On the night before the Fourth, a concert of band music was played at the Recreation Center Field. Immediately after the concert, a display of fireworks was staged at Hartshorn's Swale off East Cross Street. Many thousands of children and adults attended the spectacular display.
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Golden Age Club
The Golden Age Club has continued to grow both in popularity and in mem- bership. Started in 1953 with 10 members, the Club now has a mailing list of some 85 men of Norwood in the age group of 65 and up. Monthly meetings of the Club are held except during the summer months, at which programs of various types are presented for the enjoyment of the member. Trips to ball games and other points of interest have been taken during the year. We are particularly grateful to the Norwood Lions Club for the kindness in providing bus transporta- tion for the members on their various trips out of Norwood. Through the generosity of the Norwood American Legion, Post #70, use of the Legion Quarters at the Recreation Center is granted for the Golden Age Club as a Lounge where they may gather on four afternoons of the week for card playing, checkers, tele- vision, reading, and socializing. This activity of the Recreation Department has filled a much needed void by providing activities for Norwood's Senior Citizens. We look for a continuing growth and expansion of this program in the years ahead.
Miscellaneous Activities
During 1955, the Recreation Department took part in several other com- munity activities. The Department cooperated with the Public Works Department in the matter of coasting and skating, and in maintaining and improving recrea- tional facilities. The Superintendent assisted the Norwood Women's Community Committee in their efforts to organize the Happy Hours Club,the female counter- part of our Golden Age Club for men. The Superintendent assisted the Town of Dover in organizing and staffing their first public playground. The Superintendent also served on various town committees and cooperated with numerous organiza- tions concerned with recreation and related fields. The Recreation Department was represented at conferences at the local and state level pertaining to recreation and to subjects directly or indirectly related to recreation.
Conclusion
We again are moved to express our sincere appreciation to all who helped us in our efforts during 1955 to provide a better and more well rounded recreation program for the citizens of Norwood. In particular we wish to mention the Board of Selectmen, the General Manager, and the Selectmen's Recreation Advisory Com- mittee for their cooperation. We are also grateful to other town departments and other community agencies who have been most helpful during the year just past.
Norwood's is a recreation program of which we can be rightfully proud. By no means do we intend however to rest on our laurels. We shall go forward with a determination to provide as good a program as possible for all citizens of Norwood - young and old alike. With each year individuals have more and more leisure time. It is our hope to be able to help individuals make constructive use of at least some of that leisure time. By so doing, we know we can contribute much to the physical and mental well being of the community and its citizens.
Respectfully submitted,
RICHARD E. READY
Superintendent of Recreation
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REPORT OF NORWOOD HOUSING AUTHORITY
REPORT OF NORWOOD HOUSING AUTHORITY
Mr. John B. Kennedy, Gen. Mgr. Town of Norwood Municipal Building Norwood, Mass.
Dear Sir,
Enclosed is a copy of the Annual Report of the Norwood Housing Authority for the year 1955.
Very truly yours,
LAWRENCE J. O'BRIEN Executive Director
ANNUAL REPORT OF NORWOOD HOUSING AUTHORITY 1955
Meetings: First and third Wednesdays in Room 24 of the Municipal Building.
Members: Chairman - Daniel Collins, Vice Chairman - John J. Mulvehill, Treasurer - John E. Bamber, Asst. Treasurer - Roger J. Connolly, Anthony F. Turinese.
Personnel: Executive Director and Secretary (ex-officio) Lawrence J. O'Brien, Manager Accountant - Arnold S. Donovan, Legal Representative - Dennis P. O'Leary, Insurance Representative - John C. Metters.
The Norwood Housing Authority has jurisdiction over Washington Heights, a 75 unit Veterans Housing Development erected in 1950 under Chapter 200 of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Housing Laws. It was erected to accomodate Veterans of low-income with minor dependents and dependent parents, who were unable to purchase homes or procure rentals because of their economic situation. All tenants pay rentals in proportion to their incomes and number of dependents. The demand for this type of housing is still great but diminishing somewhat. In 1954 there were 115 applications on file; this year there were 76. Several Tenants were given Notices To Vacate as their incomes exceeded the Maximum Continued Occupancy Limit. As their economic condition improved, several of these Tenants purchased homes. This is the purpose and the aim of the State Housing Program -- to provide decent and suitable housing for persons of low-income until such time as they are able to buy or rent.
The members of the Norwood Housing Authority take this opportunity to thank all Town Departments and Officials for their cooperation during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
THE NORWOOD HOUSING AUTHORITY DANIEL COLLINS, Chairman JOHN J. MULVEHILL JOHN E. BAMBER ROGER J. CONNOLLY ANTHONY F. TURINESE
L. J. O'BRIEN Secretary
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts - State Housing Board
OPERATING STATEMENT
For Period Ending December 31, 1955
PROJECT NO. 200-1 - NORWOOD HOUSING AUTHORITY
Current Quarter 10-1-55 to 12-31-55
Cumulative-Fiscal Year to Date 4-1-55 to 12-31-55 Budget Pum Actual Amt.
Actual Amt. Budget 225 225
Classification
Number of Unit Months
675
675
INCOME
9,181.00
9,225.00 3100 Dwelling Rent Schedule
..
27,675.00
41.00
27,682.50
9,181.00
9,225.00
TOTAL INCOME
27,675.00
41.00
27,682.50
EXPENSE
855.00
855.00
4100
Adm. Salaries & Ser.
2,565.00
4.10
2,565.00
850.65
228.75
4102
Other Adm. Expense
686.25
2.20
1,376.90
88.95
92.25
4104
Comp. to Auth. Members
276.75
0.44
275.74
441.75
400.00
4310
Utilities
1,200.00
1.80
1,146.25
111.36
75.00
4402
Materials & Supplies
225.00
0.29
183.21
750.95
940.00
4403
Contractural Services
2,820.00
3.00
1,880.96
117.00
117.00
4711
Insurance
1,317.00
1.46
1,317.00
675.00
675.00
4740
Pymt. in Lieu of Taxes
2,025.00
3.00
2,025.00
633.80
633.75
4794
Prov. for Debt Ser. Res.
1,911.25
3.00
1,901.41
7,542.81
7,518.00
5100
Debt Service Expense
22,554.00
36.00
22,530.00
7,542.00
7,518.00
5100
Debt Service Expense
22,534.00
36.00
22,530.00
12,967.22
12,434.75
TOTAL EXPENSES
38,280.25
59.29
37,901.47
Prepared By:
ARNOLD S. DONOVAN
Manager-Accountant
Approved By:
ANTHONY F. TURINESE
Treasurer
REPORT OF NORWOOD HOUSING AUTHORITY
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BALANCE SHEET
December 31, 1955
ASSETS
Cash
1111A
Appropriation Fund
634.66
1112
Administration Fund
46,498.49
47,133.15
Accounts Receivable
1122 Tenants
1,745.00
1500B
Incompleted Contracts
244.00
1,989.00
Fixed Assets
1170-1
Investments
2,000.00
1170-2
Investments - Co-Op Shares
6,228.41
1181
Debt Service Trust Fund
332.38
1400
Development Cost
800,000.00
2323
Bonds Retired
39,000.00
4101
Administrative Salaries & Services
2,565.00
4102
Other Administrative Expense
1,376.90
4103
Compensation to Authority Members
275.74
4310
Water
1,146.25
4402
Materials & Supplies
183.21
4403
Contractural Services
1,880.96
4711
Insurance
1,317.00
4740
Payments in Lieu of Taxes
2,025.00
4790
Provision for Operating Reserves
2,700.00
4794
Provision for Debt Service Reserve
1,901.41
5100
Debt Service Expense
22,530.44
885,462.70
Total Assets
934,584.85
LIABILITIES & CAPITAL
Accounts Payable
2400B £ Contract Awards
244.00
244.00
Accrued Liabilities
2137
Accrued Payment in Lieu of Taxes
2,700.00
2,700.00
Fixed Liabilities
2321
Bonds Authorized
800,000.00
800,000.00
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Undistributed Credits
2140 Matured Interest & Principal
14,539.01 760.00
2210
Tenants Security Deposits
15,299.01
Reserves
1151
Debt Service Fund
7,991.43
2136
Reserve for Insurance
6,079.00
2540
Development Cost Liquidation
39,000.00
2550
Debt Service Reserve
9,507.04
2551
Unamortized Bond Premium
2,332.38
2570
Reduction of Annual Contribution
8,271.32
2590
Operating Reserve
14,340.10
2630
Capital Donations
1,000.00
3105
Shelter Rent
27,682.50
3500
Misc. Project Income
138.07
116,341.84
Total Liabilities & Capital
934,584.85
Prepared By: ARNOLD S. DONOVAN Manager-Accountant
Approved By: ANTHONY F. TURINESE Treasurer
REPORT OF ANIMAL INSPECTOR
The Honorable Board of Selectmen
Gentlemen:
I submit herewith my report as Inspector of Animals for the year 1955.
I quarantined 39 dogs for biting. All were released at the end of the quarantine period legally required and none showed any signs of Rabies at any time.
The annual inspection of livestock required by the Massachusetts Division of Livestock Disease Control was made and it revealed the following: 112 cows, 22 heifers, 55 hogs, 21 steers, 3 horses, 32 sheep, 7 bulls, 20 calves.
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS U. MAHONEY
Inspector of Animals
REPORT OF VETERANS' HOUSING BOARD
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REPORT OF VETERANS' HOUSING BOARD
To The Citizens of Norwood:
The Norwood Veterans' Housing Board is pleased to submit it's audited yearly statement covering the operation of the temporary housing project for World War II Veterans.
Statement of Cash Receipts and Disbursements For the Year ended June 30, 1955
Cash Receipts:
Rent Income
$9,689.90
Security Deposits
60.00
Total Cash Received
$9,749.90
Cash Disbursements:
Repair, maintenance and replacement:
Grounds
$ 20.00
Structures
273.56
Plumbing & Gas
478.39
Electrical
12.87
Ranges
122.90
$ 907.72
Management
1,318.50
Operating Services
330.00
Dwelling Utilities, water
480.00
Insurance
23.75
Rent of Land
600.00
Furniture allowance, heaters
196.80
Taxes
2,937.88
Sundry
23.71
Security Deposit Refund
230.00
Payment to United States Government for the year ended June 30, 1954
4,180.62
Total Cash Disbursements
$11,228.98
Net decrease in cash for year ended June 30, 1955
(1,479.08)
Cash in bank, June 30, 1954
10,443.58
$8,964.50
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Disposition of Cash in Bank
Due United States Government
$ 724.87
Reserve for repairs and maintenance
9,172.94
Security deposits
140.00
Collection losses
(813.60)
Rent receivable
(236.00)
Other receivables
(23.71)
$8,964.50
The unfavorable operating statement is due to the closing down of the project. In fact only six tenants were left in the project at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1955. As soon as the remaining apartments are vacant, this temporary project will be demolished.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANCIS W. SMITH, Chairman
THOMAS A. RORKE JOSEPH V. NUTTALL WALTER A. BLASENAK JOSEPH LONG
Veterans' Housing Board
REPORT OF FISH AND GAME WARDEN
Total miles traveled in car 1685 miles
Total hours spent on law enforcement 965 hours
Complaints
4
Complaints investigated 2
Prosecutions resulting none
Licenses checked 64
Respectfully submitted, JAMES E. BUNNEY
Town Fish and Game Warden
INSTRUCTION IN THE USE OF LIBRARY RESOURCES
FALL HARVEST OF BOOKS
MORRILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY
BURRAGE
LIBRARY DISPLAY IN A BANK WINDOW
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REPORT OF MORRILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY
REPORT OF MORRILL MEMORIAL LIBRARY
To the Citizens of Norwood:
We transmit herewith the annual narrative and statistical reports of the Morrill Memorial Library for the year ending December 31, 1955.
Respectfully submitted.
RACHEL P. MARTIN Chairman, Board of Trustees
EUGENE A. NELSON
VERN H. RICHARDS
RACHEL P. MARTIN
MAUDE A. SHATTUCK
MARTIN B. CURRAN
per E. P.
MARY L. DUNN per E. P.
YOUR LIBRARY -YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW HOW IT STARTED AND GREW
The Library was founded in 1790 by the Reverend Jabez Chickering, by lending his own books. In 1873, it was taken over by the new Town of Norwood.
It was called the Morrill Memorial Library when in 1898 the present building was given to the Town by George Morrill in memory of his daughter, Sarah Bond Morrill. The Plimpton Wing was added in 1928, and the Intermediate Room in 1934, a bequest of Alice Morrill Plimpton.
The Library's first full-time librarian was Jane Atherton Hewett, who served from the opening of the Library until 1939 (42 years) and then as Librarian Emeritus.
The South Norwood Branch was established in 1941, and moved to larger quarters in 1945.
Weekly Library Service at the Norwood Hospital was started in 1943 with library staff service and a permanent book collection. Nurses in training are regularly instructed in the use of the Main Library.
The Library has within the last fifteen years greatly increased its services to schools, now offering library instruction to all grades and strong reference and readers' consultation service to faculty and students, schools and colleges; as well as to general readers.
In 1951 a Record-Lending Service was started, together with acquisition of a Webster-Chicago record player; implemented by the Women's Community Con- mittee, and proving so popular the expenses were soon taken over by the Town.
The Library's work in the field of public relations and of inter-cultural action
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has had national recognition. There has been a steady growth in professional standards, salary scale, and the part the Librarian and Staff have taken in pro- fessional life - regional, state, and national.
CONTINUED GROWTH OF THE LIBRARY AND THE TOWN
Population
Books owned
Books lent
1945
16,508
32,086
90,158
1950
16,636
38,655
117,868
1955
21,108
46,619
138,525
South Norwood Branch
Doris Allen, Branch Librarian, reports that space is filled to capacity and 1,422 more books were borrowed than last year, including a record day of 262. The increase was in books for boys and girls.
526 reference questions were answered. Forty-three window displays were ar- ranged, including those by the Camp Fire Girls and the Girl Scouts. 1,800 volumes were borrowed on temporary loan from the Main Library and fifteen Balch School classes from the second through the sixth grade were given library instruction.
A new low bookcase, and benches for tots add to our equipment.
Library Service at the Norwood Hospital
Another of the library's newer services is the one-day-a-week at the Norwood Hospital. Esther C. Hallet, Circulation Librarian, is in charge, aided by Bettina Cottrell, Substitute.
Due to shortened post-surgical stays of patients and longer stays of non-reading elderly patients now aided by Blue Cross, libraries find that hospital reading by patients is less than it was. Despite this, we circulated 8,217 books to patients and personnel - which is considered high for a town-sized library.
JOHNNY AND JILL READ 3,043 MORE BOOKS THIS YEAR
Quality, Quantity, and Fun for the Boys and Girls
N. Dorothy Shumaker, Junior Department Librarian, says this is our answer to the comics.
2,861 books were sent in classroom collections, with 190 trips up our two flights of stairs by the school driver and his boy helpers!
Sixth grade classes from all schools and most of the earlier grades froin nearby schools came for library instruction and practice. Ninth graders all came for instruction by the Reference Librarian and others in the use of the Adult De- partment.
Reading clinics at two schools have 100 per cent library registration and received Certificates of Honor.
The A. B. Stanley Company, "New Life Library Furniture" was awarded the contract for a five-section charging desk, with corner unit. Construction has started.
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To Dramatize Reading
Eighty members of the "Pocket Club" - a summer adventure in books - read 900 books.
Twenty-three story hours were held with average attendance of 28. The problem is, we have no place for story hours apart from regular service areas and they are mutually disadvantageous.
The growing use of the Junior Department necessitated adding a new member to the staff: Senior Page. It is filled by Ida Ross, whose coming aids very much.
Miss Shumaker is often asked to act as Boy Scout counsellor in reading; and to supervise Scout's work at the library. Cub Scout leaders regularly use the Library as do Camp Fire Girls.
THE LIBRARY AS PART OF TOWN AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE
The Librarian, Edna Phillips, led a book panel at a general meeting of the Norwood Woman's Club on "The Many Lives of Modern Woman" and two "Coffee Hour" book reviews, as Chairman of the Club's Literature Committee. She serves as a board member of the Norwood Community Council, of the Nor- wood Hospital Corporation and as a Town Meeting member. She served as Secre- tary, Massachusetts Library Association, and as their representative at a Boston observance of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations; and reviewed briefly some books on the arts for the Old Colony Library Club. She and Mrs. Hallet attended the Philadelphia Conference of the American Library Association. Mrs. Hallet has completed two terms as Secretary, Old Colony Library Club.
Miss Shumaker has completed a two-year term as Chairman of the Round Table of Children's Librarians which included serving on the M. L. A's Executive Board. She spoke to playground leaders, to local church groups, and together with a children's Librarian from Quincy, started an Old Colony regional group for in- formal discussion of library service to children. One meeting of the group was held at this library.
Mrs. Allen was a member of a committee of the Massachusetts Round Table of Librarians for Young Adults issuing a booklist of moment, for teenagers.
Librarians and trustees from five communities have come to Norwood for special observation of various features of our work.
BOOKS - USE, ACQUISITION, AND MAINTENANCE
The reference and informational services at the library, adult, junior, and branch, may have a greater social value to the town than that part of our circulation having to do with lighter books; and just one reference question could make use of several hundred dollars' worth of books. Mary E. Locke, Reference Librarian and Readers' Consultant finds that 3,079 reference questions were answered; a gain of 581.
Robert W. Sillen, Miss Locke's predecessor, left to our great regret, for a head librarianship. Miss Locke comes to us with excellent training and experience.
Much of Miss Phillips' time has had to be used in securing three people for the staff. This included Dorothy C. Folan, Records Assistant, a graduate of the business course, Peabody School. Her predecessor, Patricia Whelan, went to an industrial position.
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Martha C. Eaton, Assistant Librarian and Cataloger, aided by Helen Fraser, Assistant, ordered and cataloged 2,684 books and 109 recordings. Miss Shumaker classifies the Junior Departinent books. Under Mrs. Hallet's supervision, books and periodicals are physically processed by the Pages. With good planning, adequate help, printed catalog cards, and modern methods of acquisition Miss Eaton reports that most books are ready for circulation within a week of their receipt. She also reports that a final check of books missing in 1951 inventory (taken at five-year periods) shows 461 still missing, now counted as lost.
In May, we started having the "Norwood Messenger" indexed. This is valuable in connection with local history in the making.
THE ARTS, MUSIC, AND OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS
"Communiciation" is the modern library's field, whether of materials in print - our primary function - or in presenting the arts, music, or group discussions.
The library had the privilege of again sponsoring a one-man show of the portrait and landscape work of George V. Augusta, Jr. of Norwood and Kennebunk- port.
The Junior Department had an important exhibit of dolls in handmade costumes lent by Miss Frieda Balduf.
Kenneth Bonney, Interior Decorator, lent an exhibit of the new fabrics designed by Frank Lloyd Wright called the "Taliesin Line". William Pudsey had a showing of dolls in Philippine costume; and the Art Committee of the Norwood Woman's Club arranged an exhibit of animal paintings by Henry Patnaude.
Much artistic skill, imagination, and alertness to pubilic affairs, goes into the Lobby exhibits of books and bulletin board displays arranged by Miss Locke, in charge, and Mrs. Fraser. One exhibit, "A Fall Harvest of Books", was set up in the Union Savings Bank window, thus reaching non-borrowers as well as those already library patrons.
Occasional recorded music is enjoyed in the Adult Lobby and as part of story hours, Junior Department and South Norwood Branch. The response to a series of recorded concerts was given a test in May and found not to meet a need in our Town.
A LOOK AHEAD
The Facts
"No place to park at the Library" is already being heard. Nor is any adequate parking space available at the present location. And yet a place for parking is an essential of good planning for the modern library.
The Main Library is now at capacity in some ways; almost at capacity in more. Its many levels, stairways, and halls are not planned for efficiency. It's distance from the street, the incline and the outside stairs are a detriment to full usefulness.
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Standards
Seating Capacity
Standard
For 21,000
For 35,000
population
population
Main Library
73
Five seats
Branch
15
per 1,000
105
175
population
Total
88
Floor space
Main Library
11,693 sq. ft.
.70 sq. ft.
14,700 sq. ft.
24,500 sq.
Branch
640
per capita
feet
Total
12,333
We are a growing library, in a growing town, in a Commonwealth having a very strong movement to the suburbs already in effect.
The South Norwood Branch is now at capacity.
Proposals Considered on Ways We Might Expand
1943 - The possibility was explored for using the present library as an administra- tion building, for housing special collections, for garaging and loading a bookmobile and for book and periodical storage. Through erecting a new Main Library with direct access to a street, adequate off-street parking, a functionally planned build- ing with great future saving in personnel expense. This project was not then deemed possible.
A bookmobile was foreseen as a coming need.
Mr. Harry Korslund made a blueprint for an addition at the back of the Library, adjoining the Reference Room. The plan was filed with the United States Works Progress Administration Office in Boston, which was then inviting plans for post-war construction with contemplated government help, which did not later prove to be available.
1944 - The Board of Trustees made the request of the Board of Selectmen and of Town Meeting that the entire corner lot, Bullard and Beacon Streets, be reserved for future library use.
Five libraries in the United States and Canada having separate libraries for boys and girls were consulted on the practicality of such a house for boys and girls being erected on Beacon Street. This was found prohibitively high compared with the cost of an addition; and less easy of access for those using both buildings. 1953 - March 10, 1953 the Board of Selectmen voted to grant the Board of Library Trustees care, custody, and control of the Beacon Street lot.
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