Official reports of the town of Wayland 1936-1938, Part 9

Author: Wayland (Mass.)
Publication date: 1936
Publisher: Printed at the Middlesex Freeman Office
Number of Pages: 678


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We are printing as a part of the School Report, the reports of the Superintendent and the heads of school departments. We hope that these reports will be read by our citizens. We feel that our schools are in excellent condition and merit the hearty endorsement of our citizens. We are anxious at all


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time to improve them and to that end we shall welcome suggestions.


Respectfully submitted, LLEWELLYN MILLS, Chairman, DOROTHY STONE, Vice Chairman, CORNELIUS J. MAGUIRE, Secretary.


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FINANCIAL STATEMENT 1936


Expenditures


Salaries


$32,307.17


Janitorial Service


2,862.00


Transportation


6,956.33


Repairs, replacements and upkeep


1,624.89


Fuel


1,773.05


Books


835.30


Supplies


1,321.53


Miscellaneous of Operation


867.37


Office Expenses-Principals


37.55


Miscellaneous


163.45


New equipment


1,024.76


Building alterations


443.53


Libraries


42.91


Physical Education


65.34


Health


548.04


Grounds


21.56


General Control


186.58


Office expense-School Committee


1.50


$51,082.86


Income


Town Grant


$50.770.00


Income-Donation Fund


6.04


1/2 Dog money


300.08


Refund-Sherman


6.00


51,082.12


Difference Transfer of funds


Specials


School Physician


$135.00


Town Grant


135.00


.74


.74


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Gymnasium equipment-Town Grant Expended


$300.00


297.00


Balance


$2.50


Dental Clinic-Town Grant


$350.00


Expended


349.26


Balance


$ .74


Gift of the Red Cross to the School Committee for the Dental Clinic


Gift


$75.00


Expended


75.00


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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS


To the Wayland School Committee :


The thirty-ninth report of the Superintendent of Schools, Superintendency Union, No. 30, is presented herewith. The usual statistics and other reports are included. It is my twenty-seventh.


One hundred years ago Horace Mann began his great work in education as Secretary of the State Board of Educa- tion. It is with a "kind of reverence" that the attention of our students will be directed to the great educational service rendered Massachusetts by our pioneer in educational advance- ment whose work here became world renowned. His work, his dreams, and his vision have helped in making the achieve- ments of the last century possible.


Horace Mann attended school for about ten weeks each year. The equipment was very meager but it furnished the incentive for study at the academy and the college. In a letter to his friend he said, "If my parents had not the means to give me knowledge, they intensified the love for it. They always spoke of learning and learned men with enthusiasm and a kind of reverence."


In grateful remembrance of Horace Mann and his great contributions to education I am incorporating in this report a few of his aphorisms.


"The Common School is the greatest discovery ever made by man."


"The Common School is the institution which can receive and train up children in the elements of all good knowledge, and of virtue, before they are subjected to the alienating competitions of life."


"All the blind, then, and all the ignorant,-that is, all the children,-must be educated to the point of perceiving and admitting truth, and acting according to its mandates."


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"When a teacher stimulates a child to the performance of actions, externally right, by appealing to motives intrinsically wrong, he sells that child into bondage to the wrong motive."


"Punishment should never be inflicted except in cases of the extremest necessity; while the experiment of sympathy, confidence, persuasion, encouragement, should be repeated, forever and ever."


"Teaching is the most difficult of all arts, and the pro- foundest of all sciences."


"The Highest service we can perform for others is to help them to help themselves."


"I hold treason against this goverment to be an enormous crime ; but great as it is, I hold treason against free speech to be incomparably greater."


"Every teacher ought to know vastly more than he is required to teach, so that he may be furnished on every subject with copious illustrations and instructive anecdote."


"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this art. all is deluge."


May the Wayland schools be maintained forever in the spirit of Horace Mann!


THE DENTAL CLINIC


Dr. John V. Blasi of Boston has served as Dentist during the year with the exception of two days at which time Dr. Whitehead substituted for him. Dr. Blasi comes to the school for work usually Wednesday afternoons of each school week. Mrs. Jane Campbell and Mrs. Mary E. McNeil, School and Dis- trict Nurse, assist Dr. Blasi.


From Dr. Blasi's records-


Cochituate School :


Number of children examined


118


Extractions 93


Fillings 263


Center School :


Number of children examined


109


Extractions


78


Fillings 245


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The Red Cross gift of $75 and the Town Grant of $350 for each of the last two fiscal years have been expended we believe judiciously in order to care for as great a number of children with defective teeth as possible. Besides the dental work done as outlined from the records of Dr. Blasi an electric drill has been purchased, linoleum for the dental room floor at the Center Building has been laid, forceps and other dental in- struments have been added to the equipment, and a quantity of dental supplies in anticipation of future needs has been pur- chased.


DONATIONS


From time to time donations are made to schools by organizations and by individuals. It is my intention to take note of these in the annual report. None are ever purposely omitted and none should ever be inadvertently overlooked. I am sorry to have been guilty of omissions.


Miss Marie L. Leach gave the High School from her father's Library two sets of books. We thank her for this kindness. Mr. Leach was an honored citizen of the town many years and Miss Leach served as teacher in our schools.


The Cochituate Parent-Teacher Association placed in the Cochituate School last year a piano to be used by the school as well as by the Association.


A group of Cochituate women placed a piano on the stage at the Gymnasium of the High School for the use of the school and community.


The Red Cross gave the Dental Clinic $75. This has been used for dental work only.


The Center Parent-Teacher Association has paid the travelling expenses of a student teacher of Physical Education whose services were given the High School the last school year. The service is now devoted to the children of the Center Elementary School.


The combined effort of the Parent-Teacher Associations provides funds for the award of the Scholarship.


The Wayland Parent-Teacher Association has also given funds for the purchase of recreation equipment and has fur- nished mid-day refreshments for a few children.


Mr. Schleicher gave stock and labor that the stairs to the boys' locker room might be painted.


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Mr. Alan C. Bemis presented the trees, set out, for the High School grounds. Two could not be set on account of necessary grading.


The offers of individuals and organizations to con- tribute shrubs and so forth for the beautifying of the High School grounds could not be accepted for well-known reasons. This generosity toward the beautifying of the school sur- roundings is appreciated by all, I am sure.


Dr. John V. Blasi, Dental Surgeon, has given a number of much needed dental instruments to the school. He has also, after clinic hours and without charge to the clinic, treated a few adults. These may be classified as emergency treatments.


Mrs. Jane Noel Campbell has given time after school hours to assist Mrs. McNeil that transportation of children to and from the clinc and their homes might be cared for. This has made the dental service more efficient.


In order that our athletic teams may have after school practice and out of town games and in order that students may remain after school for work at the machines or to receive further instruction from our teachers Principal Allen and Coach Gladu have given many miles of transportation to our students this year as in past years.


Mr. Morrissey has arranged his day a good many times so as to send a machine after large groups of students who need to be at the school a longer time than the regular school day. He has also transported our people to out of town school games at a very low price.


Mr. Morrissey and Mr. Sherman favored the children with transportation from Wayland Center to the Christmas Party given the children by our American Legion and Auxilliary at Legion Hall.


Mrs. Dorothy C. Stone and Mr. C. J. Maguire have given the plate glass mirrors recently placed in the High School building.


We are indebted to the Dwight Heard estate for some very attractive Indian Pottery and some pictures. These will be used in our Art Classes.


Mrs. Janet M. McNamara, after many years of delightful and efficient service, resigned at the close of the last school year.


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Mr. James Morton left the service of the Cochituate School after eleven years of work at the school as janitor. This ser- vice was performed at all times efficiently and graciously.


The lockers installed at the High School for the girls, the change in the stairway to the boys' locker room, the building of closets for storage in the household arts room and the installa- tion of basketball equipment have added much to the service of the High School building.


The lights at the Center building are much appreciated.


If the WPA project for renovating the Center building and for painting at the Cochituate building come through, the elementary school buildings will be in the best condition we have ever seen them.


It is to be sincerely hoped that the project to drain the Cochituate school grounds and the vicinity may be perfected. This is the most needed improvement in town at this time. Grading at the High School is highly desirable but not necessary from a health point of view. It will remove an eye sore and make the Center of our Town much more attractive. Drain- age at the Cochituate School will serve as a protection to the building and assist in making the building more sanitary for the children.


If it be possible to re-organize the High School so that every pupil may be given physical education at least twice a week, it will be highly desirable. Credit toward gaining gradua- tion units will be given for these courses in due porportion to work required in other subjects. In order to make such courses possible further teaching hours are needed. Hence the recom- mendation for an additional teacher. If health education is to be extended to the elementary grades a teacher for this work will be needed.


It is a pleasure to report that our graduates from the commercial and college preparatory courses are making good records for the school in business and in college; others are doing equally well in selected lines of employment. Vigorous work on the part of teachers and students brings success.


Our relations with higher institutions of learning are very cordial. I am pleased to quote from a letter to Principal Allen from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.


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Quotation :


June 20, 1936.


Dear Mr. Allen :


I take pleasure in informing you that our Com- mittee on Certification of Preparatory Schools has voted to renew the certificate privilege of your school for three years, to January 1, 1939. I certainly enjoyed my visit at your fine new school last April. I have no doubt that any candidate whom you may send will come well prepared. If at any time we can be of assist- ance to you in your work, do not fail to call upon us freely.


With best wishes, I am, Yours cordially, (Signed) Z. W. COOMBS, Dean of Admissions.


I am very grateful to all who have worked with with me in the interest of our boys and girls. We can do our best educa- tional work when prosecuting our tasks cheerfully and har- moniously.


Respectfully submitted, FRANK H. BENEDICT.


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REPORT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL


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Superintendent Frank H. Benedict,


Cochituate, Mass.


Dear Mr. Benedict :


I herewith submit to you my nineteenth annual report as Principal of the Wayland High School.


The maximum enrollment of the school to date is 145 students. Of these 71 are boys and 74 are girls.


The following tabulation shows this enrollment by classes.


Class


Boys


Girls


Total


Freshman


28


23


51


Sophomore


18


21


39


Junior


14


14


28


Senior


11


15


26


Post Graduate


1


1


Totals


71


74


145


The enrollment January 12, 1937, is 133 students. Of these 65 are boys and 68 are girls.


The school is organized this year much as it has been in years past. This year I had to form a second class in Business Practice. This forced me to give up my free period that I had used to meet students. There is great need for this period. There are times when this one period is not enough.


I wish to call to your attention that Mr. Gladu teaches six periods per day and gives one period to the study hall work besides the long hours after school devoted to football and baseball coaching. Since the baskets have been put in place in the Gymnasium he has taken care of about twenty boys in basketball after school. It seems to me that some provision should be made to take care of a part of this teaching load.


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Miss Orlean Heald has come to work with the girls in the Gymnasium on Thursdays. The girls have enjoyed the work very much. If possible some provision should be made so that the fine room that the school has would be used more by the students. Both boys and girls should have regular work every day or as often as can be organized in the school schedule.


I see no way to carry out these suggestions except to increase the number of teachers employed.


Sincerely yours, DAVID J. ALLEN.


Wayland, Mass. Jan. 12, 1937.


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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL PHYSICIAN


Mr. Frank H. Benedict,


Superintendent of Wayland Schools,


Wyland, Massachusetts.


Dear Mr. Benedict :


I herewith have the honor of submitting to you my twelfth report as School Physician of the Wayland Schools.


All the students were carefully examined and any defects in connection with the head, neck and chest were noted.


I shall omit the results of the high school examinations and report the defects of the grades only.


There has been an improvement of conditions since last year in all respects as may be seen by comparison of the fol- lowing figures :


Comparing the years


1935 and 1936


Defective tonsils


177


150


Adenoids


83


47


Glands-defective


37


28


Defective teeth


234


174


Defective posture


140


84


Defective heart


5


3


The common skin diseases incident to school infection such as pediculosis, scabies and impetigo contagiosa have been less prevalent than in past years.


Working in conjunction with the Board of Health a Toxin- anti-toxin clinic was held.


The dental clinic needs to be mentioned only by compar- ing the decrease in the number of defective teeth noted in this year's record with that of last year's as reported in these notes.


Tonsil and adenoid cases should be referred to the family physician for further advice.


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Considerable improvement in posture can be developed by correcting the above mentioned defects plus proper exercises and natural development.


I wish again as I have in former years to express my sin- cere appreciation for the co-operation I always receive in this work.


Respectfully submitted, ERNEST E. SPARKS, School Physician.


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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE


Mr. Frank H. Benedict, Superintendent of Schools, Wayland, Mass.


Dear Sir.


I hereby submit my sixteenth annual report for the year ending December 31, 1936.


Usually I have visited both school buildings daily, doing classroom inspection. Sight and hearing tests were given the children ; weighing and measuring were done every three months.


I assisted Dr. Sparks in the annual physical examinations and sent notices to the parents of the defects found by him. In June I aided the school physician in giving the Toxin-Anti- toxin treatment to the grade pupils and to a few pre-school children. This treatment is sponsored by the Board of Health.


Again this year I have helped Dr. John Vincent Blasi at our Dental Clinic, which is conducted one half day each week.


Last May the students of the seventh, ninth and eleventh grades, whose parents were willing, were given the Tuberculin Test by a physician from the Middlesex County Sanatorium in Waltham. Those who had a positive reaction were X-rayed, and some of this group had a physical examination.


During the year several cases of infection among the pupils were referred to Dr. Sparks.


Home visits to school children 256


Children accompanied home because of illness 33


Children accompanied home from dental clinic 71


Children excluded because of infection 41


First Aid 19


Social service visits 10


Respectfully submitted,


MARY E. McNEIL, School Nurse.


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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 fifteen cases of absence reported to me.


Number having no excuse 9


Truants accompanied to school 3


On the following page you will find the figures I have prepared for the School Census Report.


Respectfully submitted,


MARY E. McNEIL, Supervisor of Attendance.


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CENSUS RETURNS


October 1, 1936


Number of boys five years of age and under seven 69


Number of girls five years of age and under seven 66


Total 125


Number of boys seven years of age and under fourteen 238


Number of girls seven years of age and under fourteen 188


Total 426


Number of boys fourteen years of age and under sixteen 47 Nunmber of girls fourteen years of age and under sixteen 41


Total 88


Number of Children Not Attending School Five years old and under seven years of age : Boys 25


Girls 14


Total 39


Number of Children Attending Local Private Schools Five years old and under seven: Boys 2


Girls 2


Total 4


Seven years old and under fourteen :


Boys Girls 0


0


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Number Attending the Nursery School Supported by Federal Government


12


Number of Children Attending Private or Out of Town Public Schools


Five years old and under seven: Boys Girls


1 0


Total 1


Seven years old and under fourteen :


8


Boys Girls


5


Total 13


Fourteen years old and under sixteen :


Boys Girls


4


3


Total


7


Number of illiterate minors


0


Number of Physically Handicapped Children Instructed at Home


0


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CURRENT REGISTRATION


School


Room


Grade


Number in Grade


Number in Room


Total


Cochituate


1


I


40


40


2


II


38


38


3


III


25


IV


12


37


4


IV


36


36


5


V


40


40


6


VI


35


35


7


VII


38


38


8


VIII


30


30


294


Center


1


I


36


36


2


II


35


35


3


III


33


33


4


IV


32


32


5


V


23


23


6


VI


23


23


7


VII


28


VIII


22


50


232


Total in Elementary Schools


526


High School Freshmen


50


Sophomores


39


Juniors


28


Seniors


25


Post Graduates


1


143


Total Registration


669


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MEMBERSHIP BY AGE AND GRADE OCTOBER 1, 1936


BOYS


Age


Grade


5


6


7 8 9 10


11


12


13


14 15


16 17 18 Totals


1


12 19


7


38


2


9


24 4


2


39


3


1


8 19


6


1


35


4


23


16


8


3


50


5


10


16


6 2


1


35


6


7


7


10


1


1


26


7


11


11


4


6


1


33


8


11


12


7


4


34


9


1


7


8


6


5


27


10


9


7


1 2


2


14


12


5


4


2


11


Total


12


29


39


46


41


31


31


26


24


22


24


23


7


4


359


GIRLS


Age


Grade 5


6


7


8


9 10


11


12


13


14 15 16 17 18 19 Totals


1


9 25


2


36


2


9


19


3


31


3


8


12


20


4


10


14


5


29


5


4


17


7 2


30


6


1


7


14


5


1


28


7


8


22


2


1


33


8


5


12


17


9


1


6


8


6


21


10


2


8


5


2


1


2


20


11


1


3


7


1


1


13


12


5


6


2


1


14


13


1


1


Total 9 34


29


25


19


29


29


35


23


18 14 14


9


5


1


293


17


11


4


6


212


GRADUATES 1936 --- HIGH SCHOOL


Lloyd George Bustin


Alice Morse Cowern Ruth Mildred Davieau


Ruth Elisabeth Decatur


Barbara Lucille Fuller


Marian Amy Gaffey


Frederick John Kneeland, Jr. Allen Pius Leonard John E. McGilvray Mary Marjorie Mclellan Lawrence Carlton Neale Mary Imogene Steele


Helen Marie Sullivan


ELEMENTARY CLASS ROLL


David Ketcham Allen Barbara Bernice Bagster Natalie Jean Bergin


Mary Elizabeth Campbell Harry Waldron Crooker Ruth Gloria Crooker Lillian Mae Davieau Henry Howard Fairclough Leo Peter Fallon Richard Bowles Flynn Alice Marie Forbes Ruth Olive French George William Fullick, Jr. John Winthrop Furbush Alfred Joseph Gelinas, Jr. Theresa Francoise Gladu Winifred Eleanor Hallenbrook Edwin LeForest Hutchings Henry Francis Lee Marie Rita McCaffery Francis Luke McEnroy Lester Paul McGilvray


Bruce Elliot Morrell Mary Phyllis Noonan George Thomas Palmer Herbert Henry Palmer Lillian Ann Palmer Patricia Parkes Roger Aldrich Pierce Marion Orabelle Place Florence Ethelyn Reid Raymond Vellmore Rodier Herbert Ernest Schleicher William Jewett Scotland, Jr. Albert Freeman Smith Charles Smith George Craig Snow Gilbert Charles Stevens George Capen Stevenson Muriel Louise Taylor Phyllis June Tobin George Robert Toohill Herbert Thurston Tufts Richard Paulfry White


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ROLL OF STUDENTS PERFECT IN ATTENDANCE 1935-1936


Baker, Donald


Mathews, Maurice


Bemis, Eleanore


Mattfield, Gladys


Brown, Sherman


McGilvray, Lester Paul


xCarter, Frances Madeline Moran, Russell


xCarter, Mary Kathleen


******* Neale, Lawrence


xxDavieau, Lillian Mae xxxO'Connell, John Dunham, Lilla *Parkes, Patricia


Fullick, George


** Reid, Barbara


Gallagher, Vincent


** Reid, Florence Ethelyn


**** ** Gerald, Lester


Steele, Dorothy


Loker, Robert


Therrien, Rita


Tillson, Robert


+Dudley, Barbara


ยก Omitted from the 1935 list on account of a possible error in the records as kept in the registers required by the State.


* Perfect in attendance for two years


*


Perfect in attendance for three years


* Perfect in attendance for six years


* **


Perfect in attendance for eight years


x Absent one-half day for Confirmation


xx Excused at 1.30 P. M. for Confirmation


Xxx Twice tardy because of being altar boy


By vote of the Wayland School Committee, "The Roll of Students Perfect in Attendance" will be omitted from future School Committee Reports. The Committee believes that chil- dren attend school to maintain their perfect record when their health demands that they remain at home. Attendance of chil- dren at school when ill exposes other children to infection or contagion. Perfect attendance at school for a year or a term of years is a worthy ambition but needs to be pursued with care and moderation.


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ORGANIZATION OF TEACHING STAFF, JANUARY 4, 1937


Names


School Department Elected


David J. Allen, Prin.


High Mathematics, Science


1918


Maude E. Merrithew


High Commercial


1921


A. Marion Simpson


High Latin, French 1924


Mildred A. Henderson


High English, History


1925


Francis R. Gladu


High Mathematics, Law, Business Training, Athletics


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


Edith Lindsay


Cochituate


Grade IV


1934


State College, Framingham


Marjorie M. Lareau


Cochituate


Grade III-IV


1933


State College, Framingham


Jane Noel Campbell


Cochituate


Grade II


1916


State College, Framingham


Education *Brown University State College, Salem Columbia University * Boston University *Boston University *Columbia University State College, Worcester *Boston University *Clark University


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Organization of Teaching Staff (Continued)


Names


School


Department


Elected


Education


Ethel Morrill


Cochituate Grade I 1920


Sulo A. Kempainen, Prin.


Center (Grades 1930


Alice Ashley


Center ( VIII, VII, VI


1933


Mabel S. Draper


Center


Grade V


1921


State College, Framingham


Elizabeth Smith


Center


Grade IV


1926


State College, Lowell


Dorothy C. Sleeper


Center


Grade III


1934


State College, Framingham


Gertrude Macdonald


Center


Grade II


1926


Lesley Normal School


Doris E. Litchfield


Center


Grade I


1933


State College, Framingham


Marguerite E. Peaslee


Supervisor


Drawing


1926


Portland Art, State College, Hyannis, Keene Normal Private Study


Ernest W. Schleicher


Supervisor Music High


1929


Janie C. Foster


Household Arts, Luncheon, Teachers' Lodge 1929


State College, Framingham


Farmington Normal School *State College, Fitchburg *Radcliffe College


* Institutions that have granted degrees.


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REPORT OF THE LIBRARY TRUSTEES


The annual report of the Librarian to the Trustees is herewith presented, showing the statistics for the past year. The report shows fewer books issued both from the Main Library and from the Cochituate Branch. That is a favorable indication of the better condition of our people. Abnormal unemployment sends people to libraries for books with which to pass time. Return of employment reduces the unusual de- mand on libraries.


The purchase of new books has continued to the limit of available funds. However, necessary economy of present years too nearly limits such purchases to popular books to meet the ever present popular demand. Non-fiction, for which there is limited call, is not duplicated for the Cochituate Branch, but is available to Cochituate people on request at their local Branch.


The problem of a suitable home for the Cochituate Branch becomes more and more pressing with the passing years. How- ever, the Trustees await better times to present it to our citizens as a problem for solution.


AMOS I. HADLEY, Chairman, J. SIDNEY STONE, JOHN H. KNAPP, GEORGE G. BOGREN, ARTHUR C. K. HALLOCK, JAMES R. MARTIN, Secretary.


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Treasurer's Report


January 13, 1937.


Total Appropriation


One-half dog licenses


$3,000.00 300.08




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