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44.37
State Road Sidewalk
2,300.00
1,211.98
1,502.72
2,009.26
Street Lighting
76.83
4,000.00
3,858.50
218.33
School Department
27.20
38,942.23
347.22
39,262.70
53.95
Library and Reading Room
5.57
3,300.00
1,450.42
4,742.11
13.88
Cemetery Accounts
374.74
163.50
445.55
92.69
North and Center Cemeteries
186.37
400.00
584.75
1.62
Lake View Cemetery
88.78
400.00
483.00
5.78
North Cemetery Fence
135.00
95.20
39.80
113
Cemetery Perpetual Care Interest
600.55
512.41
243.61
869.35
2,760.44
3,500.00
5,420.09
840.35
Tree Warden
51.10
150.00
93.60
107.50
Water Department
395.36
2,316.40
2,649.64
62.12
Revenue Account
9,503.62
9,143.71
359.91
Town Hall Repairs
133.15
49.98
83.17
Memorial Day
97.22
300.00
394.00
3.22
Inspection of Animals
150.00
150.00
Medical Inspection of Schools
75.00
75.00
Playground Notes
1,000.00
1,000.00
Fire Dept. Equipment Notes
1,000.00
1,000.00
School House Bonds
1,000.00
1,000.00
Aid to Agriculture
300.00
300.00
Printing Town Reports
24.36
400.00
420.00
4.36
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Park Commissioners
180.87
200.00
254.53
126.34
District Nurse
1,500.00
1,500.00
Soldiers' Relief
238.87
400.00
464.46
174.41
Repairs Town Clock
33.75
33.75
American Legion Lease
400.00
400.00
Legion Hall Sidewalk
400.00
400.00
* Denotes Overdraft
FRANK G. MacKENNA
Treasurer
ANNUAL REPORT
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TOWN OF WAYLAND
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1923
PRESS OF THE NATICK BULLETIN NATICK, MASS. 1924
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OFFICIALS
School Committee
Richard Ames Wayland
Ernest E. Sparks, Cochituate
Llewellyn Mills, Wayland
Term expires 1924
Term expires 1925 Term expires 1926
Organization
Ernest E. Sparks, Chairman Richard Ames, Secretary Frank H. Benedict, Superintendent Edward Dorsheimer, Attendance Officer W. H. Sylvester, M. D., Natick, School Physician Mrs. Mary E. McNeil, Wayland, District and School Nurse
CALENDAR, 1924
Winter Term Schools close Friday, March 21 Spring Term Schools reopen Monday, March 31
Grammar Schools close Friday, June 20
Grammar School Graduation, Wednesday Evening, June 18.
High School Graduation, Friday Evening, June 20. Fall Term
High School opens Tuesday, Sept. 2
Grammar Schools open Monday, Sept. 8
Grammar Schools close Friday, Dec. 19
High School closes Friday, Dec. 19 1925 Schools reopen Monday, Jan. 5
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Wayland:
The School Committee submits herewith its report for the year 1923.
During the past year the sewerage system at the High School, which for some time has been inadequate, has been made sanitary. This has been accomplished, after consultation with the engineers recommended by the State Board of Health, by the addition to the present cesspools of a trench one hundred and fifty feet in length, lined with tile with broken joints and filled in with sand and loam. The work has been approved by the State Board of Health, and an unsanitary condition has been eliminated.
Owing to the continual increase in the number of children using the school lunch, the lunch room has be- come inadequate for domestic science classes. To meet the situation, an unused room on the third floor of the High School building has been equipped with two electric stoves, tables, chairs, sink, kitchen utensils and two sew- ing machines. This will increase the effectiveness of the domestic science work and at the same time improve the lunch service.
The School Committee has again had the supervision of the work of the School and District Nurse and sub- mits an account of receipts and expenditures :
Receipts
Unexpended Balance
$44.70
Nurse's fees
185.00
Total
$229.95
Expenditures
Surgical supplies
$15.63
Telephone service
48.80
241 gallons gasolene
63.29
14 quarts oil
3.45
118
Repairs Insurance
27.53
38.50
Battery
18.00
Total
$215.20
Balance on hand
14.75
Total
$229.95
The spirit of work in the High School is still not what it should be. There are altogether too many pupils who have no interest in their work and whose sole ambi- tion seems to be to do as little work as possible and remain in school. They seem to have the idea that they will be passed along automatically whether their work is good or not and that they may therefore just as well take it easy. The elimination recently of two pupils who failed to do satisfactory work or even to make an effort to do so has had a wholesome effect. It will, however, be necessary to adopt a still more severe standard and to be rigid in preventing admission to the High School of any pupil whose marks have not been satisfactory, and in dropping out any pupil who can not or will not keep up with the class.
It would undoubtedly help in stimulating the inter- est of the pupils if the program of study could be en- riched for those who are not taking the college course or who are not especially interested in commercial work. Whether the new courses should be cultural or vocational would have to be carefully considered. The plan would of course mean an additional teacher. In view, how- ever, of the growth of the school in recent years, an addition to the teaching force is almost a necessity, as the present teachers are now carrying a heavier load than they should be expected to without impairing the effectiveness of their work. If the new teacher could combine with his other courses a course in physical training and could direct athletic activities, much would be accomplished toward improving the morale of the school.
LLEWELLYN MILLS ERNEST E. SPARKS RICHARD AMES
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Salaries
David J. Allen
*$2,357.50
Beatrice E. Bowler
507.50
Helen Clift Benedict
450.00
Nathalie M. Gifford
618.75
Josepha M. Perry
1,575.00
Maude E. Merrithew
*1,691.25
Frank H. Benedict
1,449.96
Mary Kerr
1,650.00
Margaret B. Fiske
961.75
Sylvia S. Prescott
1,411.90
Eleanor Partridge
441.00
Janet M. MacNamara
1,450.00
Jane Noel
1,450.00
Ethelyn Morrill
1,419.25
Athena J. Lee
1,232.75
Mabel S. Draper
1,336.75
Alice C. Molloy
916.25
Ruth E. Dowd
440.75
Mabel C. Whitten
1,450.00
Margaret T. Forbush
3.50
Agnes E. Boland
351.00
J. Olive Allison
*1,522.50
Mary P. Sayward
600.00
Richard B. Oliver
87.80
$25,375.16
Janitors
Thomas Metcalf
*$840.00
James Ferguson
*840.00
1,680.00
Transportation
James Ferguson $1,219.10
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Alexander W. Holmes
570.00
George Sherman
1,260.00
Alexander Sauer
1,140.00
F. J. Bigwood
342.00
Fred J. Wheeler
274.00
Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Company J. A. Morrill
808.40
20.00
5,633.50
* The school and fiscal years are not for the same period of time. Payment in excess of salary per school year.
Repairs
James Linnehan
$9.10
Remington Typewriter Company
3.75
Martin Coffey
378.25
James H. Whitehead
9.40
C. A. Lockhart
9.90
C. Warren
3.50
John E. Palmer
464.40
The Fiske Corporation
18.27
E. L. Shay
20.97
Weston and Simpson
75.77
Northeastern Metal Company, Inc.
300.00
Albert Bond
15.73
F. J. Barnard & Company, Inc.
39.26
D. W. Richardson
13.85
Harry Gleason
26.00
C. R. Cole
2.15
$1,390.30
Incidentals
Hopkinson and Holden
$5.25
Thomas Metcalf
7.52
N. E. Telephone and Telegraph Co.
34.90
Howe and Co.
1.00
The Fiske Corporation
42.41
The Bulletin
18.00
H. W. Flagg
6.00
Andrews Paper Co.
29.00
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A. W. Atwood
41.21
Wayland Water Board
22.50
C. S. Williams
9.89
The Geo. T. Johnson Company
8.00
E. W. Jennison
1.70
The Suburban Press
31.00
F. H. Benedict
133.56
Athena J. Lee
2.16
Martin Diploma Company
22.00
C. A. Lockhart & Son
3.65
Mary Kerr
3.80
Llewellyn Mills, Jr.
15.00
Jane Noel
15.00
Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Company
.80
Hercules Kalon Company
10.00
H. I. Dallman
18.20
J. F. Burke
3.75
American Legion, Post 133
6.00
Natick Printing Co.
7.25
Philip Connelley
15.00
D. J. Allen
10.46
525.01
Supplies
The Office Appliance Company
$9.12
Cambridge Botanical Supply Company
79.70
J. L. Hammett Company
195,37
The Phonographic Institute
3.95
Oliver Ditson Company
52.22
Benj. H. Sanborn Company
33.42
The Macmillan Company
107.16
Edward E. Babb & Company
223.00
Mass. League of Woman Voters
2.00
Southwestern Publishing Co.
45.00
Ginn and Company
57.62
Kenney Brothers and Wolkins
73.64
The Literary Digest
7.93
D. C. Heath & Company
45.96
Allyn and Bacon
23.17
Houghton, Mifflin & Company
3.64
Remington Typewriter Company
.75
122
Standard Book Company
1.45
Natick Printing Company
2.00
Ryan and Buker
43.45
The Abbott Educational Company
1.28
The Bruce Publishing Company
4.64
The American Book Company
1.32
Charles E. Merrill Company
2.47
1,020.25
Fuel, Light, Power
A. W. Atwood
$391.54
F. Diehl & Son
108.10
William A. Jepson Corporation
876.45
Boston & Maine Railroad
779.53
Robinson & Jones
79.65
Maritime Coaling Company
207.08
The Edison Electric Illuminating Com-
pany of Boston
103.90
2,546.25
Receipts
Balance, 1922
$27.20
Donation Fund
8.00
Refunds
41.63
Sale: Books, Paper Tickets
14.00
Half of Dog Fund
283.59
Appropriation: Unpaid Bills, 1922
942.23
Appropriation, 1923
38,000.00
$39,316.65
Recapitulation
Salaries
$25,731.82
Janitors
1,680.00
Transportation
5,683.50
Supplies
1,056.14
Fuel, Light, Power
2,774.93
Repairs
1,458.89
Incidentals
577.42
School Committee, 1922
150.00
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School Committee 150.00
$39,262.70
Balance
$35.95
Unpaid Bills, 1922
Frank H. Benedict
$241.66
David J. Allen
115.00
Railway Company
50.00
Milton Bradley Company
3.13
The Office Appliance Company
13.16
Underwood Typewriter Company
.50
Cambridge Botanical Supply Company
19.10
Wayland Grain Company
92.56
A. W. Atwood 106.54
The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston
29.58
C. S. Wright & Son
10.37
James Linnehan
13.22
Royal Typewriter Company
45.00
C. A. Benson, Estate
.90
Thomas Metcalf
1.60
N. E. Telephone and Telegraph Co.
3.15
C. W. Fairbank
24.00
F. H. Thomas Company
5.78
The Fiske Corporation
16.98
School Committee
150.00
942.23
The receipts on account of the School Department reverting to the Treasury are:
General School Fund
$3,120.00
Middlesex County Extension Bureau
43.90
State Wards
422.40
Tuition
65.10
Sale of Radiators
4.00
Tuition, Natick Children
27.50
$3,682.90
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the Wayland School Committee:
Gentlemen-
The twenty-seventh annual report of the Superin- tendent of Schools is submitted. Your attention is directed to the reports of the School Nurse, School Physi- cian, Supervisor of Household Arts, and High School Principal.
Retrospective
Since the last report was made several things have taken place in connection with the school work that are worthy of comment in this report.
For the third successive year the schools have been surveyed by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. On this recent occasion a more extensive study of our children was made. The carpall bones of the wrist were x-rayed, weights and measurements made.
The report indicates that our children are on the whole in normal physical condition and that the work of the schools is in general normal or above the median.
We may, at first thought, object to the scope of the recent survey. After mature consideration we should decide that these studies cannot harm the boys and girls in any way, that the time thus spent is very small, that studies as to the growth of children and the relationship ot school work is new, that we ought to be very glad to be in the ranks of the pioneers along this very scientific and advance investigation in the interests of boys and girls, in the interest of more powerful men and women. Such investigations are largely carried on in the more populous centers. Wayland should be pleased to be one of the few small towns to benefit Vy `and to give to this pioneer study.
The American Legion Auxiliary, Charles H. Alward
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Post, No. 133, gave the school children an opportunity to exhibit their work at a function in connection there- with in the early part of the current school year. Every child in the grammar grades of both schools exhibited work. Prizes were given to children in every room and ribbons to those awarded second place. I am sure all appreciate this stimulating influence for better work among the children.
The Library Trustees and Librarians have come to the school children in a spirit of helpfulness. Through the State Library Bureau the children who had read five books during the summer and early fall and those who had read twenty, these books to be selected from lists approved by the Library Bureau, were presented certifi- cates. A goodly number of children qualified for both forms of certificate. Our home people invited the chil- dren of the three upper rooms in the Center School and the four upper rooms of the Cochituate School to the Wayland Library, the children going in two groups. An educational programme was given the children, with a little good time thereafter. This activity on the part of Librarians and Library Trustees is helpful and I am confident is duly appreciated by all.
The Parent-Teacher Associations have been active throughout the year. The Scholarship was awarded to Mr. Joseph W. Hammond, who I am very glad to report is doing good work in college. Several small gifts have been made the schools by these Associations and both contributed to the Christmas parties given the children, the Wayland Association giving the Center children a happy afternoon, the Cochituate Association entering into the Community Christmas Party at Cochituate, thus giving the Cochituate children a wonderful evening.
You will note that the School Nurse reports that a Health Clinic was held in December in connection with the State Department of Health. Twenty-five children ten per cent or more under weight were examined. While it was not a pleasure to have two of my own children in this class I assure you that it is a great privilege for us to have such an examination by specialists and a great satisfaction to know that nothing serious causes the under weight and it is also of value to us to be instructed
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as to means to bring the children to normal weight. Anxiety in regard to the physical development of chil- dren no doubt should be avoided but thought and care are truly commendable.
Buildings
The registration at the Cochituate School indicates that we are approaching quite rapidly the time when further rooms must be provided to accommodate the school population in this section of Wayland.
The Center building needs a thorough renovation inside. Walls and ceilings should be cleaned and re- finished. All wood work in the building should be var- nished. Many of the desks should be scraped and re- paired. Renewal of some desk boxes and chair saddles is desirable.
The building at the Center also begins to show the need of an outside coat of paint. Will it not be well to investigate giving the building the stucco treatment in place of paint? This may be found in the long run less expensive than frequent painting and it should add to the warmth of the building.
The new switchboard in the Center building is a gratifying improvement. The additional room and equip- ment for the course in Household Arts and the relief the room will give to the kitchen where the very large luncheons are prepared are steps along the right road for better service in the school.
The Wayland building does not serve efficiently all the activities connected with the grammar and high schools. Additional room should be provided for the luncheon service, the household arts courses, the courses in physics and chemistry, and for such health and athletic activities as may be supported in the near future.
The Wayland boys are much interested in foot ball and base ball. They have no lockers for their clothing or for the possessions of visiting teams. We have no provision for baths after the strenuous activities of practice or of games. The boys uncomplainingly take a cold shower in the toilet by means of a garden hose and an old lawn sprinkler. Such a condition is not con-
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ducive to a real good school spirit, since the boys find very much better conditions in other towns.
Wayland may well consider erecting an addition to the Wayland building or another building on the grounds that will provide a good sized kitchen for the luncheon service a serving room that can also be used for sewing and millinery studies, a laboratory for chemistry, a laboratory for physics, and an assembly room in which physical education may be given together with indoor athletic contests, supplied with lockers and facilities for shower baths.
Prospective
If we look toward the very near future in the light of advancement along education lines in order to keep in step with the best practice of progressive communities, as Wayland has done in the past, we must expect to make provision for a more diversified late grammar school and high school training.
Wayland established a high school in the early days of maintaining high schools in small towns, almost be- fore there was real need of so doing. Wayland was a pioneer in the then very advance movement of consoli- dating schools. Wayland was early in the field to employ a superintendent of schools. Wayland saw fit early in the history of commercial courses in high schools to establish such a course. The salaries of teachers have been advanced in these later years to a point equal to those of many larger communities and so that Wayland ranks high in the scale of towns of her size. Wayland employed a school nurse before the law required her so to do. Wayland early in the game established a Teach- ers' Lodge and set about serving luncheons to her school children. Wayland has been willing to take advantage of recent and very advance investigations as to physical and mental growth of children. Wayland now has two large playgrounds, one in each village. Our school finds no better field for athletic contests at any of the schools visited than our own at Wayland. Doubtless there are other advance movements which Wayland has espoused early in the game of which I am not acquainted or do not recall at this time.
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So we may look forward with confidence to an early movement whereby our very excellent playgrounds may be of larger service to the school population as well as to the adult population; to steps that shall be taken to in- crease and to enlarge our quarters sufficiently to carry on far better than at present activities already in the school and to establish and to maintain physical education and some form of vocational education for the considerable group of boys and girls who do not plan to enter college, normal school, or to enter offices.
I believe that the teachers and others who hold views as outlined herein as to the need of extending our quar- ters and of broadening our work are unselfish in main- taining them. Our interest is in the young people of Wayland. Can the Town afford to enrich her educational activities ? Can the Town afford not so to do?
I am sure that all who are connected with the school and all who know of the activities of the Rev. Ralph W. Minker with our boys in their athletic interests are truly appreciative of his generosity and that all are also duly grateful to him.
The teachers appreciate a School Committee that is always ready to respond willingly, sympathetically, un- derstandingly, and decisively to every demand of the schools, no matter how perplexing and trying, and at all times in the interests of the boys and girls.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK H. BENEDICT
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REPORT OF HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
Mr. Frank H. Benedict,
Cochituate, Mass.
Dear Mr. Benedict :
I herewith submit to you my sixth annual report as Principal of the Wayland High School.
Maximum enrollment for the school to date
81
Present enrollment, boys 36, girls 36, total
74
Present enrollment by classes
Boys
Girls
Total
Freshmen
11
13
24
Sophomores
14
10
24
Juniors
7
9
16
Seniors
4
6
10
Present enrollment by courses
College Course
Freshmen
13
Sophomore
11
Junior
4
Senior
5
Science
Freshmen
1
Sophomore
1
Junior
4
Senior
1
Commercial
Freshmen
10
Sophomore
12
Junior
8
Senior
4
Distribution of students to subjects
Freshmen
English I
24
130
Algebra I
23
Latin I
13
Science I
18
Arithmatic I
10
Penmanship I
9
Drawing, Mechanical for boys
9
Drawing, Freehand for girls
13
Sophomore
English II
24
Geometry II
22
French II
17
Latin II
8
Latin I
5
Bookkeeping II
13
Penmanship II
10
Arithmatic I
1
Algebra I
1
Juniors
English III
16
History III-IV
15
French III
9
Latin III-IV (Cicero)
4
Typewriting III
8
Stenography III
8
Bookkeeping III
7
Physics III-IV
6
French II
1
English II
I
Seniors IV
10
History III-IV
9
Latin III-IV (Cicero)
3
Latin II
1
French IV
5
Physics III-IV
4
Typewriting IV
IV
Stenography IV
IV
Commercial Law IV
4
Bookkeeping II
1
Classes assigned to teachers
Miss Perry
English I
24
131
English II
25
English III
16
English IV
10
U. S. History III-IV
24
Miss Gifford
Latin I
18
Latin II
9
Latin III-IV
7
French II
18
French III
9
French IV
5
Miss Merrithew
Commercial Arithmatic I
11
Bookkeeping II
14
Bookkeeping III
7
Penmanship I
9
Penmanship II
10
Typewriting III
8
Typewriting IV
4
Stenography III
8
Stenography IV
4
Commercial Law IV
4
Mr. Allen
Algebra I
24
Geometry II
22
Science I
18
Physics III-IV
4
Mrs. Sayward
Boy's Drawing
9
Girl's Drawing
13
Miss Boland
Music to all students
Each year the entering class at Wayland High School is from 20 to 25 students. Of these about 15 start the college and 10 the commercial course. From such a class about 10 or 12 graduate. Much of this mortality might have been avoided had the students giv- en positive effort to accomplish results. Very few stu- dents have come to Wayland High in the past six years who could not do high school work. It is true that many
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did not obtain satisfactory results and dropped out. Most of these did poor work because they did not put the proper effort into preparation for class work. No rule can be given as to the length of time needed for the pre- paration of the several assignments that a student has, for it is needless to say that a slow student will not learn a lesson as quickly as a brighter one. Every student must put the time upon an assignment that his ability requires of him. It is safe to say that the study time in school is not enough for a student to prepare his work and that students should use from two to three hours in intensive study at home a day. This does not mean from two to three hours sitting with the book or other material at hand, but this time used in accomplishment.
The study should be measured in accomplishment rather than in hours. My observation shows me that most of the failures come to students who give very poor attention in class. If a student is constantly making the statement at home that he cannot prepare his work there because he does not know how to go about it, he prob- ably does not know because he made no effort to follow the instruction given him in class. As parents insist that your children accomplish results; insist that they make proper preparation.
For students who are planning to continue study af- ter graduation there can be no easing in the quality and quantity of work required. The higher institutions are having requests for admission in many cases beyond the number that can be admitted. They select the best of the students offering themselves for admission, of course This causes a high entrance standard which only those who are best prepared can meet. Many students who enter these colleges from the large high schools of the State have studied five or more years by way of prepar- ation for entrance. It is common for a student to go from high school to a college with low entrance require- ments and after a year transfer to one of higher require- ments with the standing of a freshman. A student of good ability may enter college after four years of inten- sive work at high school. Those of less ability and those who do less intensive work will have to attend high school more than four years to prepare for college.
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Last year I called attention to the fact that pro- vision should be made for instruction of vocational stu- dents. At present these students are studying subjects for which they are either poorly fitted or for which they have little interest. This is so because with our present teaching force no more subjects can be offered.
Sincerely yours, DAVID J. ALLEN
Wayland, Mass., Jan. 26, 1924.
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REPORT OF COOKERY CLASSES AND LUNCHROOM
Mr. Benedict:
I hereby submit a report of the lunch room and of the work in Home Economics classes.
The lunch room has increased to such an extent that it has become necessary to give the entire morning to the preparation of the lunch, and has made it impossible to use the room for classes. Last June it was decided to equip a room on the third floor for a class room. Owing to delays in the installation of the electric service, it has not been possible to have cookery classes. It is hoped that classes in cookery may be started next week for first year High School girls and 7th and 8th Grade pupils. Sewing classes have been held each week for 7th and 8th Grade girls.
The equipment for preparing and serving lunches is very inadequate, limiting the variety of food that may be served. An additional building which would incorporate a lunch room as well as many other much-needed class rooms is greatly to be desired.
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