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3.35
The Iroquois Publishing Co.
6.64
Ginn & Company
44.43
The Phonagraphic Institute
4.45
George Boonisar
.98
Marjorie A. Evans
1.05
American Water Supply Company
5.00
Benj. H. Sanborn & Co.
11.50
The McMillan Company
27.34
F. J. Barnard & Co.
51.27
$878.04
Fuel, Light and Power-
Dexter & Carpenter
$442.31
C. W. Fairbanks
95.00
Weston Coal Co.
110.80
156
Boston & Albany Railroad 142.35
Boston & Maine Railroad 188.40
Robinson & Jones Co.
33.50
A. W. Atwood 41.72
The Edison Elec. Ill. Co. of Boston 46.26
$1,100.34
Repairs-
T. Weld Frost
$325.00
Wayland Construction Co.
196.40
Morris & Mulqueeny
21.00
Rideout, Chandler & Joyce
11.82
Clement Downs
14.50
H. Barlow
2.50
J. C. Massie
53.28
The Fiske Corporation
30.51
Napoleon Perodeau
3.83
Remington Typewriter Co.
9.50
Henry G. Dudley
6.30
$614.70
Incidentals-
Henry G. Dudley
$20.00
A. W. Atwood
11.50
Cochituate Grange
8.00
J. C. Vincent
67.50
Boston & Maine Railroad
1.51
Thomas Metcalf
2.40
M. Shain
4.00
L. H. McManus
2.65
The Wayland Water Board
30.00
Howe & Co.
3.10
Fairbanks & Son
1.00
Louisa A. Nicholass
1.68
H. W. Flagg
6.50
N. E. Telephone & Tel. Co.
21.75
151
C. H. Batchelder & Co. 11.50
Agnes E. Boland
13.00
Ernest E. Sparks
11.00
The Fiske Corporation
22.06
The Suburban Press
23.60
Russell E. Tupper
2.30
G. D. Richert
1.13
F. R. Gladu
31.88
William S. Lovell
15.29
Martin Engraving Co.
.25
Prudential Trust Co.
5.90
Ethel M. Hamilton
4.09
Ofent H Benedict
55.22
Ro.nohla & Son
4.75
E. W, Tennison
2.26
T. C. Poano
1.55
Town of Framingham
5.98
IV. C. Rich
2.00
$419.31
Receipts-
Town Grant
$18,500.00
Donation Fund
8.00
Dog Fund
192.28
Tuition-
City of Boston
18.00
State
410.05
State-Account of Superintendent
625.00
F. H. Benedict-Damaged books,
glass, M. T. Sup. Refund. Car tickets 11.47
Balance 1917
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- $19.795.11
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RECAPITULATION
Salaries-
School Committee
$270.00
Superintendent
1,008.32
Teachers
11,023.83
Janitors
1,099.96
Transportation
3,265.75
Supplies
891.62
Fuel, light and power
1,100.34
Repairs
674.70
Incidentals
419.31
$19,753.83
Balance
$41.28
Receipts-
Massachusetts School Fund, 1918
$1,029.65
Total cash balance
$1,00.93
Medical Inspection-
Town Grant
$75.00
W. H. Sylvester, M. D.
$5.00
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee of the Town of Wayland,
Gentlemen :
My ninth report as your Superintendent of Schools-the twenty-second of such reports in Wayland-is respectfully submitted.
The current year has as is well known been one of inter- ruption after interruption. Your teachers find that in the time in which the schools have been in session more has been ac- complished than we should have thought possible without the experience of the past weeks. The year is well nigh half over and the classes are behind in their work. However, if there be no further interruptions, with the hard work your teachers are determined to do in the weeks ahead, I am con- fident that the work can be so intensified and speeded up as to find us approximately up to standard in June and the stu- dents will have acquired a vigor and celerity of activity that will be beneficial. The teachers have found the work of getting their schools down to business trying indeed and each week has called for an expenditure of energy in excess of the usual week's work.
Educationally this community has met with a loss that it will be difficult to remedy without much expenditure, and we should consider the situation most carefully. The suspension of car service to Wayland is indeed a hardship in the town in many ways, the least of which is not to your schools.
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Heretofore the high school students of the south part of the town have had cheap, comfortable, and adequate transporta- tion to our high school. The manual training classess of this same section have been able to go to the central plant for work. Our special teachers have had the same conveniences. Social life in connection with the high school has been a possibility. Without the car service things are very different and we must hereafter administer our school affairs upon another basis.
The Cochituate High School students have to accept the barge form of conveyance; the town is bearing the increased cost in transportation. The increase in cost of transportation cannot be measured by this year alone as the high school is somewhat smaller than usual. Should the return to normal business conditions increase the high school membership as much as may be expected the increase in cost of transportation will be in proportion as there is a limit to the number that can be conveved in one barge. Two conveyances will mean much more expense.
It was necessary to close the manual training shop last year on account of the shortage of men for this line of instruction. Ii seems unfortunate not to resume the instruction in hand- work in the near future. The work will be very costly on ac- count of the transportation problem unless a shop be fitted up in the Cochituate School. The initial cost here will be a considerable sum but will eliminate all transportation expense.
Sewing can no longer be given to the Wayland girls as in past years. The boys cannot be given employment without the woodworking courses during the sewing lessons. Then, too, the young women at the Normal School heretofore employed to give the sewing lessons cannot get to and from Wayland easily. The sewing situation is not entirely a misfortune as such training can be given more vigorously by a mature woman but of course with increased expenditure. The iu- creased cost will be well worth while if sewing is to be given
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to the girls of the grammar grades. It is indeed a topic worthy of consideration and we should include in the deliber- ations a study of the need to establish courses in domestic science in the high school.
The sums paid for instruction in music and drawing have been decreased in value to the teachers on account of the in- creased cost of transportation between the two buildings. You have seen fit to meet the expenses of your music teacher during that part of the year Miss Boland is unable to run her automobile. I have arranged the time of the drawing teacher so that Mrs. Blanchard gives a day every other week to the grades in each building . This cares for the transportation question for this year and I hope to be able to report at the close of the current school year that such an arrangement is not wasteful of the time of the students.
You will appreciate my own difficulties in the matter of transportation and the increased cost to me to do the work in Wayland. The changes in transportation have also increased the difficulty and cost in the performance of my duties in Dover and Sudbury in about the same proportion.
Heretofore we have had a union grammar school gradua- tion. Unless this function is omitted as other social occasions have been much increased cost for same must be added to the budget.
The following Act of legislation is of interest :
"On and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred nineteen, the compensation of every teacher employed in any public day school in the Commonwealth, except persons in training and those employed as temporary substitutes, shall be at the rate of not less than five hundred and fifty dollars for the school year in that school provided, however, that this act shall not apply to any town whose taxable valuation does not exceed one million dollars."
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The above quoted Act of the Legislature now in effect must tend to increase the salaries of all towns and cities of the State. Our former minimum of five hundred fifty dollars can- not induce an experienced teacher to come to us. Neither shall we be able to secure the choicest type of inexperienced teacher as heretofore. As other towns of necessity raise their minimum our maximum will become increasingly smaller and Wayland will be a good town for those seeking teachers of experience to visit. It is evident that salaries must be in- creased over the present rate or our teaching force will grad- ually decline from the present high standard of excellence as to type, training, and experience.
Aside from the regular school work certain projects have been forcefully prosecuted. Every member of the Cochituate and Center grammar schools enrolled in the Junior Red Cross during the last school year, also a large majority of the high school students and several were enrolled in the Senior Red Cross as well. We entered into the War Savings and Thrift Stamp Campaign and the following sum has been loaned the Government thereby: $1,689.50. The students pledged forty dollars to the United War Fund.
Especial stress has been placed upon the teaching of econ- omy and good citizenship. The schools have also made good records in Junior Red Cross work under the leadership of Mrs. Ames and Mrs. McNamara. I give herewith a brief of the reports submitted by these leaders.
Cochituate School.
The following work was completed and turned over to the Chapter :
8334
Gunwipes, dozen sets
74
Dominoes, sets
Puzzles, sets 28
Scrapbooks 12
163
Comfort Pillows
32
Swat Clubs
32
Button Bags
324
Joke Books
48
Weight Covers, sets of 50 each
3
Thread Winders
212
Afghans
2
Bloomers
21
Handerchiefs
34
Towels
32
Petticoats
10
Chemises
6
Cape, (bought with funds)
1
The work has been self supporting. The receipts were $18.49 obtained through an entertainment, sale, and the mite boxes. The balance November 1, 1918 is $39.12.
Center Grammar School
The boys and girls of the Center School devoted their energies to the knitting of articles for the Red Cross. The work of the boys is especially noteworthy.
The folowing articles were completed and shipped :
Sweaters
12
Baby Afghans
11
Socks. pair
67
Mufflers 29
Wristlets, pair
42
During nearly the whole history of the High School and for all but a few months since the building which now houses the children of the grades and high school has been in use Mr. J. Charles Vincent has acted as janitor. . Mr. Vincent has ac- cepted service with the Waltham Watch Factory and so sev- ered his connection with the school December 31. We shall miss one so long identified with the school.
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It is some years since Wayland has had a share in the in- come of the Massachusetts School Fund. The last fiscal year we received from this income $1,029.65. Wayland is near the line as to valuation and we cannot depend upon a share yearly. Inquiry at the State House has not as yet elicited the informa- tion as to the sum we shall receive the current year as the method and date of distribution have been changed. As yet the compilation of data for the basis of the distribution is in- complete.
The stress and strain placed upon the high school last year was severe. It is a most unusual thing for a school so small to lose two of its teachers through the Supreme Harvester. Because of the prolonged illness of these two teachers several substitutes were employed. Thirteen different people worked with the classes in first year Latin and nearly as many with some of the other classes. This made the year especially try- ing for myself. Mr. Richert, and the students. We looked forward to this year with much anxiety lest we should find the classes taught by so many different persons very deficient It is a pleasure to report that not only has the morale of the school been maintained but that we find as well that these many changes in the teaching force did not leave the classes unduly prepared for the work of this year. The members of the different classes have the usual power to master the work of the current year.
Miss Elizabeth G. Hodge was an unusual woman and teacher. She was beloved by all who knew her and her loss to the teaching profession is indeed great and the loss to our school immeasurable. Those students who have met her in our school. who have 'enjoyed her sunny, cheerful and cheering nature, who have enjoyed the delights of her cultured master- ful mind have been blessed and they should never forget her or have her pass out of their lives as a strong and ennobling influence. Miss Hodge lives in the hearts and lives of her
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pupils.
Miss Katherine I. McGrath was with us but a few weeks but in that time she impressed us with her refined scholarly nature and she gave promise of developing into a strong and helpful teacher. Her untimely death is mourned in this com- munity.
It is with deep sorrow that the death of Mr. George D. Richert is recorded in this report. Mr. Richert was a teacher of stern and high ideals and a man of unimpeachable integrity. Mrs. Richert and the three young children merit our sincerest and tenderest sympathy.
America has always had faith in her public schools and has been generous to her youth in providing educational facilities. The Great Conflict has not lessened our faith in the education of the individual to make the most of himself, his type.
Hon. Frank A. Vanderlip, Chairman of the War Savings Committee says :
"The school teacher is the pioneer outpost of the Govern- ment, standing at the threshold of the Nation's homes.
"The schools of America are the single units where a national resolution can form and spread overnight into every household.
"The school teachers are the rallying ground for the best beloved possession of a country-its children. To the teachers belong the splendid privilege, the solemn duty, of rallying them around the flag and then implanting in their hearts and sending into the homes of America the message which will keep that flag flying high."
Dr. John H. Finley, New York State Commissioner of Edu- cation, says :
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"This is an adult's war, but the schoolhouse doors cannot shut its sounds away from the ears of our children. We must tell them what it means and guide their interest through tan- gible forms of service in the high cause to which we are com- mitted as a nation.
"More and more are we coming to think of the school as the community or neighborhood center. And more and more we are, in the schools. coming. I think, to regard our work as vol- unteer service rather than a means of livelihood.
"The school is the center for accurate information about the war, information about Government needs, information about opportunities and duties for personal patriotic service. No teacher or pupil can claim exemption from the obligation entailed on each partner of the nation in this war of civiliza- tion.
"For all this the school is the most available center that the nation has, and we must make it a potent one. The nation looks to the State for this particular service."
President Wilson says: "The war is bringing to the minds of our people a new appreciation of the problems of national life and a deeper understanding of the meaning and aims of democracy. Matters which hertofore have seemed common- place and trivial are seen in a truer light.
"These and other lessons of the war must be learned quickly if we are intelligently and successfully to defend our institu- tions. When the war is over we must apply the wisdom which we have acquired in purging and ennobling the life of the world. In these vital tasks of acquiring a broader view of human possibilities the common school must have a large part.
"I urge that teachers and other school officers increase materially the time and attention devoted to instruction bear- ing directly on the problems of community and national life.'|
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We are on the threshold of a period of peace. The prob- iems in business, social, and educational institutions are likely to be as severe as have been those of war time. They may be less in magnitude for any space of time but the grind and agony of the solution and the uncertainty of the final result are likely to be as severe a test as the war time problems. The work of the schools of the past has been and is to be severely examined and tested. The work of the schools of tomorrow must conform to the great needs of the future. The public will not fail to provide the means and make proper demand upon the schools. Teachers will be found with the vision and the specially created character for the great task.
It is a pleasure to work with the boys and girls of this town. The spirit is excellent in general. We should be pleased to have more home study and reading in a general way. Reading is a most fruitful occupation and one that gives great pleasure if the choice of material is of proper character.
I wish to thank you for your vigorous interest in everything pertaining to the schools and to thank the community for the courtesies extended to our teachers and for the kindly patient support given the administration.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK H. BENEDICT.
IN MEMORIAM
MR. GEORGE D. RICHERT MISS ELIZABETH G. HODGE MISS KATHERINE I. MCGRATH
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HIGH SCHOOL REPORT
Mr. Frank H. Benedict,
Superintendent of Schools, Wayland, Mass.
My dear Mr. Benedict :
ยท I herewith submit to you my first report as Principal of the Wayland High School.
The total number of students attending the school since September 9, 1918 is 54. The present enrollment is 51, of which 28 are girls and 23 are boys. The four classes number as follows : Freshmen 20, Sophomores 13, Juniors 7, and Sen- iors 11.
As in the past, the class work is in the hands of four full- time teachers: Miss Helena Lyons, who is the only member of the faculty remaining from last year's corps, is in charge of the Commercial Department; Miss Gladys MacMillan has charge of the work in English and History; Miss Ruth Ranger has the work in Latin and French and I have Science and Mathematics. Then there are two part-time teachers meeting classes. Miss Agnes Boland meets the students one period Mondays for chorus work and Mrs. Blanchard is with us Fridays for drawing and art-metal work.
The daily routine for the students is similar to that of last year. The school day is divided into seven periods of about 42 minutes each, with a half-hour intermission at noon. Stu- dents not assigned to classes spend their study time in the
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large home room in which a minimum number of recitations are held. A part of the short intermision between the second and third periods is devoted to Calisthenic exercises.
The spirit of the school is good. I find that the students are willing to co-operate with me and my assistants to obtain proper conditionsfor work and play. In most schools "school spirit" centers about games, contests, and plays. I regret that our students have no time at the close of school in which to get together to prepare for such events. We have had no foot- ball this fall, but it is my wish that we may have baseball and tennis in the Spring.
The work of the school has been interfered with very much by the interruption caused by sickness. Soon after the open- ing of school in September the school was closed for four weeks. Students have been ill and out of school for a week or more at a time. I note that during the early part of December 13 students were out one or more weeks at a time. These absences seriously disrupt the school work. The teachers are willing to spend time and energy in aiding students to make up this lost work but at the very best the work suffers because of these interruptions. Because of this loss whenever a stu- dent is absent, parents and guardians should be unwilling to permit a student's absence from school except for sickness of the student or some member of the family.
In closing. I wish to thank you, the committee and my as- sistants for aid in doing the work of the school.
Respectfully submitted, DAVID J. ALLEN.
Wayland. Mass., December 30, 191S.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
To F. H. Benedict,
Superintendent of Wayland Schools.
I have the honor to present you herewith my report of the medical supervision of the schools of Wayland.
I have found the schools this year in a good average condi- tion. The sanitation of all the rooms is excellent. I fail to see how one could suggest much improvement. I want to call the attention of all who are not in the habit of visiting the schools to the unusual cheerfulness of the rooms. The school life in both buildings in town ought to be something to be looked back to in after life, for it seems as if every one in authority from the Superintendent down is trying to do some- thing for the children's pleasure and well being.
I have been much pleased to see the improvement in the children's teeth, showing the good of medical inspection, by having the matter of diseased teeth brought to the attention of the parents year by year. Many of the children will bless us who insist on the repair of their teeth in twenty years from now. What wil they say about parents who neglect all warn- ings and allow the teeth to be lost ?
I have had unusual difficulty in making my examinations this year on account of the schools being more or less broken up by the epidemic. However, by persistence I have recorded all but a very few.
I have found a good many cases of enlarged tonsils. For- tunately the most of these will take care of themselves.
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Theschools are now almost free of contagious diseases ; even head troubles, with which we had so much bother two years ago, with very few exceptions are not now present.
I have recorded examinations as follows :
Pupils examined
No. marked perfect
Diseased teeth
Wayland-
Mr. Allen's room
48
34
24
Miss Hamilton's room 17
11
10
Miss O'Hare's room
26
Miss Winslow's room
24
3
Miss Whitten's room
26
5
93
Total in Wayland
141
60
254
Cochituate Schools-
Mr. Tupper's room
26
14
32
Miss Cann's room
21
6
23
Miss Noel's room
21
80
Mrs. McNamara's room
26
5
101
Miss Prescott's room
31
S
80
Miss Reeves' room
25
14
32
Total in Cochituate
150
52
398
Totals for the town
291
11?
652
Respectfully presented,
W. H. SYLVESTER, M. D., School Physician.
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TRUANT OFFICER'S REPORT
Wayland, Mass., January 1, 1919. Mr. F. H. Benedict,
Superintendent of Schools,
Dear Sir :
During the past year I have had two cases of absences to investigate and have found no cases of truancy.
Respectfully, J. C. VINCENT.
Wayland, Mass., January 1, 1919. Mr. F. H. Benedict,
Superintendent of Schools,
Dear Sir:
Several cases of absences have been reported to me which I have,investigated. There have been no cases of truancy during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY G. DUDLEY.
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CHART 1
Registration, December 21, 1918
School
Room
Grade No. in grade Total
Wayland Center
1
I
II
20
27
2
III
10
IV
16
26
3
V
17
VI
13
30
4
VII
6
Cochituate
1
Sub-I
23
23
2
I
18
II
25
3
II
13
III
19
32
4
IV
11
5
VI
30
30
6
VII
12
VIII
17
29
High
Freshman
21
Sophomore
15
Junior
6
Senior
13
55
Total registration Center
101
Total registration Cochituate
115
Total registration Grades
216
High School registration
55
Registration in all schools
331
18
VIII
12
19
36
177
CHART 2
Eye and Ear Tests
Number of children examined 302
Number found defective in vision 15
Number found defective in hearing
1
Number of parents notified 10
Number of children wearing glasses
23
CHART 3
Roll of Students Perfect in Attendance, 1917-1918
Name
Grade
Francis K. Ervin
IV
Kenneth Lawson Atwell
IV
Arline Emma Perry
Bessie Beatrice Perry
IV
Hubert Francis Hayward
Kenneth Edwin Hayward
Robert Dolan
VII
John Foley
VII
Hester D. Mudge
VIII
Martin A. Holmes
IX
CHART 4
Roll of Graduates
Wayland Grammar
Cochituate Grammar
Hester Doliver Mudge
Beatrice Rose Allaire
Patience Mary Ide Willabey Putnam Lyford Mary Mills Davis Mary Alice Conway Thomas Francis Linnehan Laurence Patrick Foley Alfred Woodruff Carter Marian Esther Sewall Elizabeth Stearns Russell Lillian Day Moyse George Edward Moyse Catherine Coolidge Tatnall
Doris Allegra Bond Robert Joseph Bourette Hilda Veronica Corman George Waldo Dean Frances Catherine Donahue Bertha Clifford Loker Marion Morton Fiske Leo Ambrose Jones Muriel Margaret Perry Albert Edwin Potvin Gladys Mary Thompson Minnie Frances Yeager
High School
Katherine Marie Jones Anna Frances Magorty William Joseph McSweeney
CHART 5 Organization of Teaching Staff January 6, 1918
Name
School
Department
Elected Salary
Education
David J. Allen
Prin. High
Math., Sci., Hist.
1918
$1,250
Brown University
Ruth L. Ranger
High
Latin, French
1918
800
Boston University
Gladys MacMillan High
English, Ger., Hist.
1918
220
Boston University
M. Helena Lyons
High
Commercial
1918
680
Dorchester High Train'g
Ethel M. Hamilton Wayland
Grades VIII-VII
1912
722
Goddard Seminary
Helen C. O'Hare Wayland
Grades VI-V
1918
616
Lowell Normal
Mildred A. Winslow Wayland
Grades IV-III
1918
646
Framingham Normal
Mabel C. Whitten Wayland
Grades II-I
1910
:03
Johnson Normal
Russell E. Tupper, Pr. Cochituate
Grades V-IV
1914
1,102
Hyannis Normal
Jane E. Oakes
Cochituate
Grades VIII-VII
1919
627
Framingham Normal
Sylvia E. Prescott
Cochituate
Grade VI
1911
203
Quincy Training School
Janet M. McNamara
Cochituate
Grades III-TI
1914
680
NorthAdams Normal
Jane Noel
Cochituate
Grades II-I
1916
919
Framingham Normal
Gladys Cann
Cochituate
Sub-Primary
1918
551
Lesley Normal
Agnes E. Boland
Supervisor
Music
1904
240
N. F. Conserv. of Music
Marjorie A. Blanchard Supervisor
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