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1,281.00
Ethelyn Morrill
1,301.57
Sulo A. Kempainen
1,150.00
Elizabeth Smith
1,305.00
Gertrude Macdonald
1,305.00
Julia B. Smith
585.00
Dorothy C. Sleeper
280.00
Doris Litchfield
729.50
Alice Ashley
801.50
Ernest W. Schleicher
360.00
Marguerite E. Peaslee
630.00
Mabel S. Draper
1,088.92
Dorothy Gallagher
24.00
Mabel M. Hammond
170.00
Elizabeth Partridge
24.00
Dorothy Sleeper
8.00
Edward Weiss
212.00
Frank H. Benedict
1,575.00
David J. Allen
2,700.00
A. Marion Simpson
1,530.00
Maude E. Merrithew
1,530.00
Mildred A. Henderson
1,522.00
Francis R. Gladu
1,800.00
Margaret C. Robbins
1,260.00
163
Janie C. Foster
1,485.00
Evelyn Martin
2.00
Mary McNeil
540.00
Thomas Metcalf
855.00
James Morton
855.00
Holland Gage
34.00
S. J. McDonnell
5.00
Mary E. McNeil
54.00
$33,609.59
Transportation
Blue Ribbon Garage
$5,600.03
George N. Sherman
1,182.00
Frank J. Bigwood
216.00
Everett Bigwood
126.00
Helen Carter Wheeler
380.00
William S. Lovell
61.20
Alfred L. LaCroix
12.00
Alfred L. LaCroix
65.00
George N. Sherman
50.00
7,692.23
Books
Wilcox & Follett Company
$ 2.26
D. C. Heath & Company
74.64
The Gregg Publishing Company
4.61
Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.
11.39
Ginn and Company
230.32
Hall & McCreary Company
17.59
Silver, Burdett and Company
42.89
Edward E. Babb and Company, Inc.
55.61
Benj. H. Sanborn and Company
31.38
Scott Foresman and Company
6.36
Henry Holt and Company
8.34
Houghton Mifflin and Company
16.36
Charles Scribner's Sons
24.32
The Arlo Publishing Company
2.76
American Book Company
49.90
Iroquois Publishing Company
11.66
Allyn and Bacon
39.00
The Macmillan Company
27.90
The John C. Winston Company
19.01
Charles M. Lamprey
20.25
696.55
164
Supplies
Boston Music Company
$21.93
J. N. Kimball
8.01
F. S. Webster Company
2.55
Windsor Pad and Paper Company
9.56
Wilbur D. Gilpatrick
27.47
The Follett Publishing Company
14.73
Gledhill Bros., Inc.
355.35
The A. B. Dick Company
36.68
The Horace K. Partridge Company
4.56
Ena Tillson
3.35
Harcourt, Brace and Company
10.02
J. L. Hammett Company
71.00
The Papercrafters, Inc.
4.10
Ginn and Company
45.33
Chicago Apparatus Company
30.71
Edward E. Babb and Company, Inc.
196.28
Benton Review Shop
9.60
Remington Rand, Inc.
3.80
John S. Cheever Company
22.58
World Book Company
25.13
Natick Printing Company
5.00
D. C. Heath and Company
4.20
Milton Bradley Company
3.80
The John C. Winston Company
16.08
931.82
Miscellaneous of Operation
The Edison Electric Illuminating
Company of Boston
$240.37
Boston Consolidated Gas Company
27.50
Philgas Company 15.00
New England Tel. & Tel. Company
51.82
Andrews Paper Company
59.90
J. L. Hammett Company
51.20
Repairs-Replacement-Upkeep
John C. Wright
$13.05
Remington Rand, Inc.
2.00
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
15.45
A. W. Ames
24.38
Boston Supply, Inc.
7.11
Natick Plumbing & Heating Company
44.44
445.79
165
J. C. Massie
40.25
Charles H. Smith
23.98
Underwood Elliott Fisher Company
3.61
Gledhill Bros., Inc.
2.50
C. Warren
6.25
Lockhart Hardware Company
16.90
Union Lumber Company
.91
D. W. Richardson
7.75
The Neighborly Craftsmen
5.00
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
11.10
Harold A. Wright
42.00
Royal Typewriter Company
30.00
Dura Binding Company
211.75
The Fiske Corporation
26.94
Wayland Lumber Company
1.94
L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriter Company
32.50
James Linnehan
44.25
H. L. MacDonald
22.26
Edward E. Babb & Company, Inc.
1.35
Commonwealth Lock Company
1.50
Arthur Marston
10.50
649.67
Miscellaneous
Hercules Kalon Company
$10.00
Wayland Water Board
30.00
The Victor Press
10.00
Andrews Paper Company
30.10
William M. Horner
2.00
C. W. Fairbank
7.00
Howe and Company
3.35
Masury-Young Company
7.85
Payson Miller
10.00
Natick Printing Company
4.50
Dallmand Company
18.00
The Fiske Corporation
1.75
Edwin P. Kershaw
5.50
140.05
Fuel
City Fuel Company
814.42
New Equipment
Remington Rand, Inc.
3.90
166
Library
The Gregg Publishing Company
$1.15
Harvard University Press
2.00
Dura Binding Company
13.50
The John C. Winston Company
3.60
20.25
Administration
Frank H. Benedict
$121.16
David J. Allen
12.32
Wright and Potter Printing Company
4.18
Fairbanks and Son
.75
John S. Cheever Company
3.60
142.01
Health
Benj. W. Johnson, Jr.
3.40
Physical Education
Athletic Trainer's Supply Company
$ 6.91
Wayland Lumber Company
11.01
Lee & Febiger
2.25
Ena Tillson
5.38
Harold Fisher
18.00
Sports Specialty Company
24.19
Robinson and Jones Company
.60
68.34
New Buildings-Grounds
The Gow Company, Inc.
$85.00
J. R. Worcester and Company
35.00
Frank L. McEnroy
15.00
135.00
Grand Total
$45,353.02
Income
Town Grant
$45,000.00
Dog Fund
341.19
Refund-Dorothea Gallagher
4.00
Income of Donation Fund
8.00
$45,353.19
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Expenditures
Salaries
$33,609.59
Transportation
7,692.23
Books
696.55
Supplies
931.82
Miscellaneous of Operation
445.79
Repairs-Replacements-Upkeep
649.67
Miscellaneous
140.05
Fuel
814.42
New Equipment
3.90
Library
20.25
Administration
142.01
Health
3.40
Physical Education
68.34
· New Buildings-Grounds
135.00
45,353.02
Balance
$ .17
Bills reported as unpaid $118.81
Credit-Edward E. Babb & Company, Inc. 6.60
Special Appropriation
Income
Expenditures
Town Grant
$135.00
School Physician Ernest E. Sparks $135.00
Income on Account of the School Department Credited to Estimated Receipts
State-General School Fund, Part I $4,290.00
Tuition of State Wards and Transportation 396.50
Telephone-Toll Collections 1.95
Breakage-Glass
.14
$4,688.59
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the Wayland School Committee :
The thirty-eighth annual report of the Union Superin- tendent of Schools is presented. It is my twenty-fifth. Your attention is directed to the statistics, financial statement, and the reports of the High School Principal, School Nurse, School Physician, and Supervisor of Attendance.
In all small towns, or in towns with a widely distributed population and consolidated schools, the transporting of children to and from school is a very large item in the yearly cost of education. The constant request for extension of mileage covered and an increase in school population call for increases in conveyance expenditures. School Departments are often placed in an embarrassing position trying to meet the varied transportation needs of children and the desires of parents while endeavoring necessarily to keep transportation expenses as low as can be done with consistency, guarding, in the meantime, as a first care, the safety of the children on roads travelled by many automobiles, operating often times at high speed.
Bus owners are required by law and by regulations of the Registry of Motor Vehicles under the law to meet many require- ments designed for greater safety to the children not heretofore imposed. Bus owners must carry an insurance of $50,000 yearly. Busses must be inspected and approved by State Inspectors bi- monthly during the 10 months of the school year. School Com- mittees may not contract with a person to convey children unless the bus employed for the service meets all legal requirements.
A comparison of transportation costs in Wayland with several other towns near our population and similarly situated geographically indicates that our cost per pupil is normal. There is a probability that Wayland is transporting children more gen- erously than is done in some towns. The limits within which children must walk to school and those outside the walking distance should be determined from a careful study of roads, sidewalks, traffic, and hazards to children rather than by mileage standards.
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A quotation from the Statutes relative to transportation is given herewith in the hope that it may be read by all in town and a comparison made between Wayland transportation service and that required by law.
Acts of 1934-Chapter 97
"Be it enacted, etc., as follows :
"Section 1. Chapter seventy-one of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section sixty-eight, as appearing in the Tercentenary Edition thereof, and inserting in place thereof the following: Section 68. Every town shall provide and maintain a sufficient number of schoolhouses, properly fur- nished and conveniently situated for the accommodation of all children therein entitled to attend the public schools. If the distance between a child's residence and the school he is entitled to attend exceeds two miles, and the nearest school bus stop is more than one mile from such residence, and the school com- mittee declines to furnish transportation, the department, upon appeal of the parent or guardian of the child, may require the town to furnish the same for a part or for all of the distance between such residence and the school." . . "No school com- mittee shall be compelled to furnish transportation on a private way."
This year we celebrate the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of the first public high school in the United States, established in our own beloved Commonwealth. We are planning to make use of this anniversary as the central theme for our High School Graduation Exercises.
As a parent I am grateful for the high school: grateful for the pleasant atmosphere in which youth may pass four years of the growing period; grateful for the life long influence that books and teachers will have upon my children; grateful for the education that comes from association with other students, contending with them, dreaming with them, learning to live with them in the social atmosphere of a small but real republic. I am grateful to our forebears for the gift of the high school because the life therein gives an opportunity to start in the mastery of self, the mastery of Science, Language, Mathematics, and our great social and economic fabric. The high school is one of the stepping stones that helps a boy to find himself and then to make sure of himself. Therefore it is more as a parent than as a School Superintendent that I find great pleasure in recording in these annals my gratitude to our forefathers for the gift of the high school through these three hundred years.
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The State Department of Education with many workers in the field is making a very careful study of courses of study in the smaller high schools of the State in the hope that a reorgan- ization of high school offerings to students may be so modified and enriched and modernized, that the four years of high school life due in these times, as a matter of occupation if nothing more to all our youth may be more satisfactory to a larger number of students than at present. Colleges are demanding less Latin for entrance than heretofore, some none. A commercial course of vocational magnitude is not considered well for small high schools but one that is preparatory and explorative instead. So the study and criticism progresses. We are keeping in close touch with this Statewide intensive investigation.
We may view with satisfaction certain conditions and hap- penings in connection with our schools. Enumerated in the main they are : The prospect of better housing conditions in the near future for the High School and Center Elementary School; we have been able to carry on without the two platoon system, thus saving an expense of approximately $4,000 for the school year ; we have had a very successful high school football team; the victorious football squad has been honored by a banquet for which all are most grateful to the Girls' Cheering Squad and Mothers, the Sandy Burr Golf Club, and all who assisted in making the occasion one to be long remembered; the schools have not been interrupted by illness; a large percentage of the children have been immunized against diphtheria and the work goes on year by year under direction of the Board of Health; neighboring towns have begun to immunize against scarlet fever thus helping us and paving the way for this next step in the control of diseases from which children suffer most commonly in childhood.
Through Government Aid and direction for a second year, a Teacher-Nursery School is being maintained at the residence of Miss Emma M. Jones. Sixteen children are enrolled. This number is the limit permitted unless another teacher be employed. Our allotment of government funds is not sufficient for an ex- tension of this service to the children and aid to another unem- ployed teacher.
Respectfully submitted, FRANK H. BENEDICT, Superintendent of Schools.
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REPORT OF HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
Superintendent Frank H. Benedict,
Cochituate, Massachusetts.
Dear Mr. Benedict :
I herewith submit to you my seventeenth annual report as Principal of the Wayland High School.
The maximum enrollment of the school to date is 129 students. Of these 65 are boys and 64 are girls.
The enrollment January 2, 1935 is 118 students. Of these 56 are boys and 62 are girls.
The following tabulation shows the enrollment by classes :
Boys
Girls
Total
Freshman
21
18
39
Sophomore
17
17
34
Junior
10
14
24
Senior
8
10
18
Post graduate
3
3
Total
56
62
118
I find that the situation in the high school is just about what it was last year. The same teachers are with us this year ; the enrollment is very much the same and about the same num- ber of 8th grade students have to be taken care of on the second floor of the building. It has been fortunate that the enrollment of the high school remained as low as last year's figure for at that, the crowding has been very great.
I am hoping that with new and better quarters in the new building better arrangements can be made for classes than have been possible in the present building.
Sincerely yours,
DAVID J. ALLEN, Principal.
Wayland, Mass., January 2, 1935.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
Mr. Frank H. Benedict,
Superintendent of Wayland Schools,
Cochituate, Massachusetts.
Dear Mr. Benedict :
I herewith have the honor of submitting to you my tenth report as Physician of the Wayland Schools.
My examination of the students in the grades disclosed the following defects :
Carious, stained and dirty teeth
172
Defective tonsils
170
Adenoids
68
Cervical glands
32
Poor posture
66
Skin disease
3
Heart murmur
1
In the High School :
Teeth
52
Tonsils
29
Adenoids
11
Glands
6
Poor posture
37
By order of the Board of Health a Toxin-antitoxin Clinic was held during May and June. The Schick Test was given December 10. Only one who had had the three regular toxin- antitoxin immunization treatments remained positive.
The general appearance of the school children as to dress, cleanliness and nutrition for which their home life is responsible is the best this year of any since I have been doing this work.
The discontinuance of the dental clinic is a sad blow to the care of the teeth.
May I once more extend my thanks to all who lent their cooperation in this work.
Respectfully submitted, ERNEST E. SPARKS.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE
Mr. Frank H. Benedict, Superintendent of Schools,
Wayland, Mass.
Dear Sir :
I hereby submit my fourteenth annual report for the year ending December 31, 1934.
As during the preceding years, I visited both buildings daily unless outside work prevented my doing so. Classroom inspec- tions were made at regular intervals. Sight and hearing tests were given. Children were weighed and measured every three months. The school physician was assisted in making the annual physical examination of pupils, and notices of defects signed by Dr. Sparks were sent to the parents.
In May the school physician was assisted in giving the Toxin Anti-Toxin treatment to pupils and to a small group of pre-school children. These same children were given the Schick test in December.
The majority of the children, who entered school in September, were examined in June at our pre-school conference, which was conducted during the year by a physician, nursing consultant, dietitian and dental hygienist from the State Depart- ment of Public Health.
The doctor and psychologists from the Worcester State Hospital were assisted in examining the three-year retarded group.
During the summer months a group of children needing tonsil and adenoid operations were cared for at the Framingham Hospital Clinic. This Clinic was sponsored by the District Nursing Association.
Several cases of infection among the children during the year were referred to Dr. Sparks.
Home visits to school children 264
Children accompanied home because of illness 15
Children excluded because of infection 47
First aid 21
Respectfully submitted,
MARY E. McNEIL.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF ATTENDANCE
Mr. Frank H. Benedict,
Superintendent of Schools,
Wayland, Mass.
Dear Sir :
During the past year I have had nineteen cases of absence reported to me.
Number having no excuse 19
Truants accompanied to school 3
Court Cases (finding made in favor of School Department ) 1
For my report of the School Census, I refer to the figures on the following page, prepared for the annual state returns.
Respectfully submitted,
MARY E. McNEIL.
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CENSUS RETURNS October 1, 1934
Number of boys five years of age and under seven 62
Number of girls five years of age and under seven 65
Total 127
Number of boys seven years of age and under fourteen 226
Number of girls seven years of age and under fourteen 181
Total
407
Number of boys fourteen years of age and under sixteen 55
Number of girls fourteen years of age and under sixteen 34
Total 89
Number of Children Not Attending School Five years old and under seven years of age :
Boys 19
Girls 19
38
Number of Children Attending Local Private Schools or At Home
Five years old and under seven :
Boys
2
Girls
3
- 5
Seven years old and under fourteen :
Boys 0
Girls 2
2
Number Attending the Nursery School
Five years old and under seven :
Boys Girls 5
1
6
176
Number of Children Attending Private or Out of Town Public Schools
Five years old and under seven :
Boys Girls
1
1
2
Seven years old and under fourteen :
Boys
11
Girls
5
16
Fourteen years old and under sixteen :
Boys
5
Girls
2
7
Number of illiterate minors
0
-
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MEMBERSHIP BY AGE AND GRADE OCTOBER 1, 1934
BOYS
Age
Grade 5 6 7 8 9
10 11
12 13 14
15 16
17 18 Total
1
8 21
2
31
2
15 21 6
1
43
3
9 23
6
3
1
42
4
5 17
5
27
5
2
5
4 2
1
14
6
6
6 8 10
6
5
4
33
8
1 13
8
22
9
4
7
7
6
1
25
10
8
7
4
1
1
21
11
7
2
1
10
12
3
2
3
8
Subnormal
1
1
1
1
1
5
Total
8
36
32
34
26
20
19
17
26
29
19
21
6
5
298
10
11
12
13
14
15 16
17
18 Total
1
9 17
2
28
2
12
15
3
30
3
8
18
5
31
4
8
16
9
33
5
6
9
15
6
3
2
5
7
7
12
3
22
8
8
10
5
2
25
9
2
2
11
2
1
18
10
1
5
8
2
1
17
11
1
6
5
3
15
12
2
8
1
11
13
1
2
3
Total
9
29 25
35
30
19
22
16
7
19
16
11
14
1
253
3
2
17
7
-
GIRLS
Age
Grade
5 6 7 8 9
178
CURRENT REGISTRATION
School
Room
Grade in Grade in Room
Total
Cochituate
1
I
27
42
II
15
2
II
33
42
III
9
3
III
41
41
4
IV
37
37
5
V
37
37
6
VI
37
37
7
VII
37
37
8
VIII
33
33
306
Center
1
I
33
62
II
29
2
III
26
50
3
V
30
41
4
VI
11
33
VII
22
Principal's Office
VIII
16
16
202
Six students transferred from Wayland.
Total in Elementary Schools
508
High School Freshmen
44
Sophomores
38
Juniors
25
Seniors
19
Post Graduates
3
130
Total Registration
638
IV
24
VI
11
179
ROLL OF STUDENTS PERFECT IN ATTENDANCE 1933-1934
Barbara Bagster
Paul Benedict
Mary Elizabeth Bond
Ruth Davieau
Rita Ploss
Dorothea Dooley
Barbara H. Reid
Charles D. Reid
Florence Reid
Maurice Robinson Ervin Schleicher
** Bernard Gallagher Mary Ann Gallagher Vincent Gallagher *Lester Gerald
*Robert Scotland Benjamin Sleeper *** Jean Sleeper Charles Smith
Richard Groton
Kathleen Hammond
Marie Hammond William Hardy ** E. Louise Hutchings * *Dorothy Kneeland *Joseph McEnroy Rita McGee
*Mary Steele Muriel Taylor
*Robert Tillson Helen Tufts John Warner William Wesneska George Wheeler
*Perfect in attendance for two years
** Perfect in attendance for three years
** Perfect in attendance for four years * *Perfect in attendance for five years
*** Perfect in attendance for six years
180
*
Lawrence Neale Bernice Palmer Eunice Peck
** Florence Dunham Lilla Dunham *Edith Forbes
GRADUATES 1934-HIGH SCHOOL
College Course
Dorothy Mary Decatur Orlaine Heald Mary Jane MacMeeken
Edward Francis McGee, Jr. Rita Celeste Ploss Zelia O. Wright
Commercial Course
Gladys Mabel Davieau Dorothea Elizabeth Dooley Catherine Leona Reimer General Course Daphne C. Bergin Dorothy Marianne Cameron
ELEMENTARY CLASS ROLL
Frances Elizabeth Adams
George Stewart Adams
Roy Ernest Ames
William Alfred Bagster
Paul Lincoln Benedict
Dorothy Alice Bergin Mary Elizabeth Bond Peter Cain
Charles Campbell
George Angus Campbell
Mildred Louise Carter
Emma Cline Alice Eisan
Edith Elizabeth Forbes Anne Gladu
Norma Jean Gladu
Stanley Field Goodwin, Jr. Marie Hammond
Irene Elizabeth Harris
William Russell Hartin
Annie Barbara Hersey
Dorothy Ada Hiltz Gertrude Isabella Hunt Lucille LaFrance Ralph Robert LeMay George Litchfield Julia Natalie Moran William Roscoe Moran Kenneth Ellsworth Morrell, Jr. Thomas O'Day Dorothy Ethel Palmer Benjamin Joseph Perry Charles Reid Marion Sheffield Warren Sherman Harry Franklin Smith William Brasley Thomas, Jr. Norman Walker John Russell Warner Ralph Irving Wilbur Howard Wilmot
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ORGANIZATION OF TEACHING STAFF, JANUARY 3, 1935
Names
School
Department
Elected
Education
David J. Allen, Prin.
High
Mathematics, Science Commercial
1918
Maude E. Merrithew
High
1921
A. Marion Simpson
High Latin, French
1924
Mildred A. Henderson
High English, History 1925
High Mathematics, Law, Busi- ness Training, Athletics, Mathematics-Grade VIII 1928
+Tufts College
Margaret C. Robbins
High Commercial, French, English 1929
Boston University
Mary Kerr, Prin.
Cochituate
Grade VIII
1920
State College, Framingham
Eleanor C. Partridge
Cochituate
Grade VII
1923
Robinson Seminary
Ena Tillson
Cochituate Grade VI
1934
¡Boston University
Doris Currier
Cochituate
Grade V
1934
State College, Framingham
*Janet M. MacNamara
Cochituate
Grade IV
1913
State College, North Adams
Edith Lindsay
Cochituate
Grade IV
1934
State College, Framingham
Marjorie M. Lareau
Cochituate
Grade III
1933
State College, Framingham
+Brown University State College, Salem Columbia University ¿Boston University ¿Boston University ¿Columbia University State College, Worcester +Boston University +Clark University
Francis R. Gladu
Jane Noel Campbell Ethel Morrill
Cochituate Grades III-II 1916
Cochituate Grades II-1 1920
Alice Ashley
Center-High Grade VIII, English 1933
Sulo A. Kempainen
Center Grades VII-VI 1930
State College, Fitchburg
Mabel S. Draper
Center
Grades VI-V
1921
State College, Framingham
Elizabeth Smith
Center
Grades IV-III
1926
State College, Lowell
Gertrude Macdonald
Center
Grades II-I
1926
Lesley Normal School
*Julia B. Smith
Center
Assistant, Grades IV-III 1928
State College, Lowell
Dorothy C. Sleeper
Center Assistant, Grades IV-III
1934
State College, Framingham
Doris E. Litchfield
Center
Assistant, Grades II-I 1933
State College, Framingham
Marguerite E. Peaslee
Supervisor
Drawing
1926
Portland Art, State College, Hyannis, Keene Normal
Ernest W. Schleicher
Supervisor
Music 1929
Private Study
Janie C. Foster
High-Center
Household Arts, Luncheon, Teachers' Lodge
1929
State College, Framingham
+ Institutions that have granted degrees.
* Teachers who are on leave of absence.
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State College, Framingham Farmington Normal School +Radcliffe College
REPORT OF THE LIBRARY TRUSTEES
The annual report of the Librarian to the Trustees, here- with presented, shows the continued large use of their library made by the people of the town. It is natural that the chief service should be in supplying fiction, but the steady demand for books of non-fiction character is always gratifying.
The policy of the Trustees is to practice the strictest economy which allows a proper service to the public, and which maintains the property under their care in suitable condition. This past year no repairs have been needed on the building of the Main Library, but this is an economy which should not continue for the proper upkeep of such a structure. Either the appropriation must allow for repairs, or other services rendered by the library must be reduced.
The Branch Library at Cochituate is out-growing its quarters-shelving must soon be installed which will require space which is needed for other purposes; the location in a store building means a fire risk which is not good; the Branch Library has no reading room which is attractive to adults; the constant payment of rent is a drain on funds which should be used for buying books. The Trustees recognize the need of a proper small building to house the branch, but they know that the present is not the time for this project. They look into the future when improved conditions will permit such an undertaking.
AMOS I. HADLEY, Chairman, ALFRED W. CUTTING, J. SIDNEY STONE, NELLIE RICE FISKE, JOHN H. KNAPP, JAMES R. MARTIN, Secretary.
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Treasurer's Report
Total appropriation
One-half Dog Licenses
$3,000.00 341.18
$3,341.18
Expenditures from Appropriation
Main Library
$2,086.76
Cochituate Branch
1,242.30
$3,329.06
Balance of Appropriation Unexpended
12.12
$3,341.18
Statement of Expenses for Main Library
Salaries :
Margaret E. Wheeler, Librarian
$1,080.00
Thomas Metcalf
378.00
Helen C. Wheeler
37.00
$1,495.00
Fuel and Light :
A. W. Atwood, coal and wood
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