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Boys. 278
Girls 294
Total 572
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Number enrolled in all schools:
Boys 387
Girls 375
Total 762
Average membership 706
Average attendance 671
Per cent. of attendance based on average membership 95
Number of pupils under 5 years of age.
9
Number of pupils between 5 and 15
709
Number of pupils between 7 and 14 512
Number of pupils over 15
51
Number not absent, tardy or dismissed
35
Number not absent or tardy (exclusive of preceding item)
8
Number of grade promotions 626
Number of school buildings 6
Number of schools keeping separate registers
16
Number of regular teachers
18
Number of special teachers :
(a) Drawing-1. (b) Music-1. (c) Stenography and Typewriting-1. Total 3
Number of teachers who have graduated from college 3 Number of teachers who have graduated from Normal School 7
Number who have attended Normal School without graduating 1
Number of different pupils attending High School dur- ing the year 1908-1909 123
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Number graduated from High School in June, 1909:
Boys, 7. Girls, 6. Total 13
Number admitted to High School in September, 1908:
Boys, 22. Girls, 27. Total. 49
Number graduated from the eighth grade in June, 1909 57
ANNUAL ENROLLMENT FOR EIGHT YEARS
Year ending June 30, 1902. 715
Year ending June 30, 1903. 695
Year ending June 30, 1904. 712
Year ending June 30, 1905. 699
Year ending June 30, 1906. 726
Year ending June 30, 1907 729
Year ending June 30, 1908. 716
Year ending June 30, 1909. 762
The enrollment in the High School for 1908-1909 amounted to 16.1 per cent. of the total school enrollment.
The total High School enrollment for the state, according to the latest report, was 10.7 per cent. of the total public school enrollment.
ATTENDANCE
The per cent. of attendance is 95, the same as last year. The average daily attendance for the past three years has been 623, 640 and 670 respectively. The increase is due in some measure to the opening of the new High School, but not all
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of it can be thus accounted for. The grade attendance is growing as well.
SIGHT AND HEARING TESTS, 1909
The tests by teachers required by law have been made as usual, and the records show that the warnings sent to parents have been very generally heeded.
A summary for the past three years follows :
Years
Number of pupils enrolled
Number with defective eyesight
Number wite defective hearing
Number of parents and guardians notified
1909
732
137
32
113
1908
748
125
38
94
1907
697
122
25
74
The above figures show, as do those for both Holbrook and Avon, an increase in defects last year over the preceding years.
SEWING AND WHITTLING
The town is this year again indebted to the generosity and public spirit of the Ladies' Library Association of Randolph, for the teaching of sewing in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. Great credit is due to these ladies who have spent their time and money to introduce the subject in our schools. It is too much to expect, however, that this work is to con- tinue indefinitely on a volunteer basis. Provision should be
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made by the town for continuance of the work by a regular teacher of sewing.
Last year much interest was shown at the North School in knife work. This year some suitable knives have been pur- chased with a view to carrying on the work in whittling on Fridays, while the girls are sewing.
INSTRUCTION IN HYGIENE
The new state requirement for "instruction as to tuberculosis and its prevention" was well carried out last year. The final tests showed that the pupils had taken great interest in the subject.
It is proposed this year to teach the subject of personal and household hygiene, also public hygiene in a more effective way. Part of the books necessary for this purpose have al- ready been secured.
SCHOOL NEEDS
It is not to be expected that all of the following can be supplied at once. They can and should be secured gradually.
(a) Age of admission to grade l raised to six years, or next year to five and a half, and the following year to six.
(b) A simple treatment of civics in the grammar grades. Not all children go to the high school and still fewer reach the subject of advanced American history and civics in the last
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year of the course. The majority should not thus be made to lose all chance of acquiring an elementary knowledge of the actual working of American government and its present great problems.
(c) Small and inexpensive collections of books, carefully selected for their bearing on the ordinary school subjects should be placed on a shelf in each school room. The public library, while much drawn upon for fiction and other books suitable for children, cannot do this special work.
(d) The fitting up of an additional room at Prescott Primary building to relieve the overcrowded first and second grades.
(e) The appointment of a school physician.
(f) New and modern sanitaries at the Prescott Primary School to replace the present filthy and indecent accommo- dations. The one hundred and more little children now enrolled at this building are as much entitled to fair treatment in this respect as the older children.
With grateful acknowledgment of kind treatment from citizens, and of co-operation by the committee and teachers, this report is
Respectfully submitted,
WATSON C. LEA.
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Superintendent of Schools OF
TABULAR STATEMENT, 1908-1909
Schools
Grades
Teachers
Total enrollment
Boys
Girls [
Average membership
Average attendance
Per cent of
Pupils not absent,
tardy, or dismissed
Grade promotions
Stetson High
XII XI
Nellie M. Stearns
16
4
12
111.7
107.39
06.1
9
22
IX
G. S. Jennison
59
27
32
36.16
35.14
97.16
5
30
VII
Katherine A. Kiley
39
15
24
37.66
35.58
94.4
1
37
VI
Hannah F. Hoye.
49
26
23
46.54
44.29
95.11
3
43
V
Katherine E. Sheridan
46
29
17
44.78
42.33
94
4
42
IV
Mary E. Wren
42
21
21
40.60
38.28
93.97
37
III
Ellen E. Mclaughlin
45
24
21
41.09
38.31
93.35
34
II
Fannie A. Campbell
49
30
19
44.5
41.73
93.84
1
40
I
Kittie R. Molloy
56
28
28
54
52
96.3
43
North
VIII
Joseph Belcher
30
17
13
50.5
48.75
06.53
10
18
31
13
18
33.18
30.77
92.78
30
44
26
18
36.72
34.91
95.07
34
IV
Fannie M. Devine
27
14
13
44.13
41.48
94.02
1
16
II
Clara A. Tolman
18
7
11
39.63 '
35.99
90.81
1
20
Tower Hill
IV
Katherine J. Riley
3
1
2
3
III
Katherine J. Riley
6
3
3
17.25
16.24
04.14
4
West Corner
III
Ina L. Parlin
8
4
4
1
7
II
Ina L. Parlin
4
27.5
27.4
94.
I
Ina L. Parlin
15
11
4
10
.
Totals
762
387
375
705.94
670.59
95
35
626
.
13
7
6
13
14
X
M. M. Cassidy
35
15
20
42
Prescott
VIII
Nelson Freeman
39
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5
3
2
I
Katherine J. Riley
0
7
2
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VII
Joseph Belcher
24
11
13
VI
Ellen P. Henry
V
Sarah C. Belcher
24
21
10
11
I
Clara A. Tolman
24
11
13
5
II
Katherine J. Riley
5
Fannie M. Devine
17
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27
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20
F. E. Chapin, Principal.
Attendanee
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Roll of Honor, 1908-1909
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NOT ABSENT, TARDY OR DISMISSED
(Figures at right of each name show the number of terms perfect.)
STETSON HIGH SCHOOL
Richard Adams Barrett, 2 Mary Lorretta Barry, 2 Alberta Eliza Bustard, 2 Hazel Beatrice Champion, 1 William Francis Cunningham, 2 Anna Vivian Morgan, 1 Terence Dargan, 1 Leo Edward Dench, 3 Charles Gabriel Devine, 1 Madeleine Catherine Dillon, 1 Alice Elizabeth Dowd, 2. Rosamond Elleanor Hagney, 2 Alice Marie Hayden, 2 Ella Josephine Heney, 1 Lucien Marion Hogan, 3
Blanche Celina Marcelle, 2 Alice Margaret McAuliffe, 1 Joseph McMahon, 3 Marion Clare Meaney, 1
Edward Joseph Morgan, 1 Joseph Michael Murphy, 3 Elizabeth O'Neil, 1 Michael Joseph O'Neil, 2 Richard Churchill Pinkerton, 1 Roy Arthur Robbins, 1 John Henry Rudderham, 1 Ruth Marie Rudderham, 1 Mabel Louise Scott, 2
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Rhea Beatrice Hogan, 1 Svea Marie Johnson, 1 Norman Ellsworth Jones, 3 Emma Cornelia Kelley, 2 Thomas Aloysius Kennedy, 1 Charles Ray Kiley, 1 Mary Leahy. 3 Abbie Mercedes Aloysia Lyons, 1 Almira May White, 1 Ellis Hall Mann, 2 Wilma Jennie Mann, 1
William Sewall, 2 Elizabeth Margaret Sheehan,3 Charles Andrew Spence, 3 Marie Elizabeth Sullivan, 1 Herbert Augustus Towns, 3 Anna Louise Walsh, 1 Florence Rathburn Webster, 2
Ella Marie White, 1 Granville Hasler Wright, 2
PRESCOTT VIII
Muriel T. Bailey, 1
Mary Hagney, 2
Grace Brennan, 1
Leo Kelliher, 1
Willie Brennan, 1 Evelyn C. Carney, 1
Mary J. Long, 2
Ralph W. Cartwright, 3
Annie Lyons, 3
Katherine M. Curran, 2
Rachel C. McMahon, 2
Mary E. Desmond, 1 George T. Dolan, 3
Henry Mullins, 1
Agnes O'Neil, 3
Harry A. Dolan, 1
Mary A. O'Neil, 1
Kathleen Donovan, 1
Elva L. Plunkett, 1
Edward F. Foley, 2 Grace Foley, 2
Albert G. Powderley, 2 Joseph Rudderham, 1
Martin E. Young, 2
PRESCOTT VII
John Walsh, 3.
Mae Morgan, 2
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Marshall W. Leavitt, 3
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Esther Vaughn, 2 Gertrude Sullivan, 1 Helen Roddan, 1
Thomas Dowd, 2 Samuel Abrams, 2 William Leahy, 2
Peter Collins, 1
PRESCOTT VI
Dwight Boyd, 2
Joseph McNeill, 1
Arthur Curtis, 2
Timothy O'Neill, 1
Mary Danto, 1 Henry Dillon, 3 Paul Faxon, 2
Hubert Powderly, 1 Edith Simmons, 3
Mabel Good, 1
James Dowd, 1
David Good, 1
Mary Rae, 1
Fabian Hogan, 3
Ruth Abrams, 1
Barbara Hoye, 2
John N. Kiley, 1
Adele Jones, 1
Mary Loughlin, 1
Alice Marcille, 2
William Lonergan, 1
Walter McCabe, 2
Harold McDonald, 1
Malcolm McNeill, 1 Edward Sullivan, 1
PRESCOTT V
Sigfrid Bohn, 2
John O'Brien, 3
Arthur Brennan, 1
Earl Crond, 2
Leona Hogan, 3
Edward Johnson, 2
Marion Leavitt, 1
Walter Kelliher, 2 Walter O'Leary, 1
Bertram Kenyon, 1
Mary Sheridan, 3 Frank Bump, 2 James Donovan, 1
Leonard Plunkett, 1
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Ethel Pettee, 2
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Thomas Lyons, 2 Russell Towns, 2 Henry Morgan, 1
John Purcell, 2 Marjorie Sullivan, 3 Letitia Scannell, 2
Viola Wood, 2
PRESCOTT 1V
Albert Bolin, 1
Mary Clark, 1
Harold Kane, 1
Elsie Rae, 1
Harold Keith, 1 Joseph Condon, 1 Walter Good, 1
Margaret Foley, 1
Annie Mulligan, 1
Emery Delano, 1
Marion Williams, 1
George McCabe, 1
Hattie Neary, 2
Frank Mahoney, 1
Anna Brown, 2
Fred Mahoney, 1
Alice Desmond, 2
William Rooney, 1
Anna Brady, 2
Ralph Walsh, 1 Kenneth Hutchinson, 1
Isabel Dolan, 2
Mary O'Leary, 2
David Abrams, 2
PRESCOTT I11
Morgan Baxter, 1
Lillian Purcell, 2
William Condon, 2
Allan Bump, 1
Vincent Dolan, 1
Chas. Marcille, 1
John Dowd, 1
Francis McNeill, 1
Richard Walsh, 1
Daniel McCue, 1
Agnes Britton, 1
Elizabeth Good, 1
Genevieve Dolan, 2
Mary Heney, 1
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Anna Leahy, 1
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Grace Donovan, 2 May Griffin, 1 Katherine Madigan, 2
Blanche Leroy, 1 Aurora Nelson, 1 Marie Guidice, 1
PRESCOTT II :
Helen Conlon, 1
John Moore, 1
Dorothy Carney, 2
Alice Guild, 2
Elizabeth Hand, 1
Mary Purcell, 3
Lawrence Crovo, 1
Edward Brennan, 2
Louis DaCota, 1
Louis Crovo, 2
William Flavell, 1
Reginald Hogan, 2
Harold Harrison, 1
Arthur Kane, 2
Edward Lonergan, 1 Raymond McGorigle, 1
Raymond Kiley, 1
Russel Leavitt, 2
John Sullivan, 1
Timothy Lyons, 2
Frank Moore, 2
Eustace Scannel, 1 Charles Williams, 1
NORTH VII-VIII
Wilson S. Chase, 1
Arthur C. Roel, 2
John F. Carroll, 2
William H. Carroll, 1
Helen L. Allison, 1 M. Alice O'Connell, 1 Lillian W. Converse, 2
Harold H. Eddy, 1
Sumner L. Eddy, 1
Dorothy Dee, 1
Viola B. Holbrook, 1
Frank C. Fischer, 1 J. Clifford Henderson, 1
Gertrude E. Kelley, 3
Frank Morgan, 2 Raymond Purcell, 1 Ruth Stone, 1
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Earl V. Hinckley, 3
Earl E. MacCannell, 1
C. Herman McGrath, 3 Raymond L. Mason, 1
Ervenia L. Rhodes, 3
Roger Niles, 1
Henry W. Pinkerton, 3
Henry N. Schultz, 1
Norman Smith, 2 Fenwick W. Wright, 1
Rena J. Wrisley, 3 Jennie L. Preble. 3
NORTH VI
Ethel W. Parker, 2
Vivian Shurtleff, 2
Rose L. Meaney, 2 Franklin Porter, 2
Rudolph Sitcavitch, 2 James A. Condon, 1 Gladys Harris, 1
Marie Larsen, 1
Chester W. Payne, 1 Walter Washburn, 1 Lawrence Davis, 1
Laura Holbrook, 1
Ruth L. Mann, 1 Hazel Hewins, 1
NORTH V
Dale N. Allen, 2
John F. Bustard, 2 George Beane, 2 John Curry, 2 Gladys De Forrest, 2
Hazel M. Jones, 1 Thomas Kenney, 2
Marion S. Mann, 1
Arthur R. Macombe, 1 Mary Patten, 1 Jennie A. Schultz, 1 Martha J. Smith, 1 Rosella R. Stetson, 1 Walter A. Sherwood, 1
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Olive B. Mann, 3
Alta N. Payne, 3 Gertrude Gaffey, 1
Elinor E. Smith, 2 Marion Truelson, 1
Ruth Walsh, 3
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Harold K. Eddy, 2 John P. Lyons, 1
Charles Truelson, 1 Elberta B. White, 1
NORTH III-IV
Inez Abbott, 2
Seth Mann, 2
Florence Pinkerton, 2
Lovell Pulson, 2
Helen Foster, 1
Russell Niles, 1
Ida Greenberg, 1
Carlton McGrath, 1 Alfred Paquette, 1
Ruth Brennan, 1
Mabel Mann, 1
Fred Dee, 1
Chester Claff, 3
Herman Greenberg, 1
Carl Bustard, 2
Rodney Dee, 2
Errold Grasse, 1 Charles Burrell, 1
NORTH 1-II
Mildred Bailey, 1
Ray Converse, 2
Walter Stevens, 1 Muriel Shurtleff, 1
Carlton Wrisley, 1 Dwight Scott, 3
Ruth Harris, 1
Helen Matherson, 1 Blanche Packard, 1 Reginald Pulson, 1 John Sullivan, 1
TOWER HILL I-IV
Thomas G. Bates, 1 Anna Carroll, 1
Eugene Dickey, 2
Gertrude Erisman, 2 Francis Lyons, 1 Karl L. Macauley, 1
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NOT ABSENT OR TARDY
(Figures at right of each name show number of terms perfect.)
STETSON HIGH SCHOOL
Richard A. Barrett, 3
Blanche C. Marcelle, 3
Alice E. Dowd, 3
Michael J. O'Neil, 3
William Sewall, 3
Florence R. Webster, 3
Almira M. White, 3 -
Charles G. Devine, 2
Madeleine C. Dillon, 2
Svea M. Johnson, 2
Anna V. Morgan, 2
Roy A. Robbins, 2
Anna L. Walsh, 2
Corinne F. Tileston, 1
Zula A. Hogsett, 1
Anna M. Decota, 1
James McDonald, 1
Mary L. Mahan, 1
Alden W. Howard, 1
Emilie P. Reynolds, 1 Ellen C. Stanton, 1
Gladys M. Porter, 1
Evelyn M. Mahan, 1
PRESCOTT VIII
James G. Condon, 2 Harry A. Dolan, 1
Kathleen Donovan, 1 Leo Kelliher, 1
PRESCOTT VII
Frances Brady, 1 Lillian McAuliffe, 1 Grace Scannell, 2
Helen Decota, 1 Helen Roddan, 1 Alberta Wales, 1
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Helen Brady, 1 Elizabeth Luddington, 1
Alice Keith, 1 Aloysius Murphy, 1
PRESCOTT V
Henry Morgan, 2 Russell Towns, 3 James Donovan, 2
PRESCOTT III
Morgan Baxter, 1
Lillian Purcell, 2
William Condon, 2
Allan Bump, 1
Vincent Dolan, 1 John Dowd, 1
Francis McNeill, 1
Richard Walsh, 1
Daniel McCue, 1
Agnes Britton, 1
Elizabeth Good, 1 Mary Heney, 1
Genevieve Dolan, 2
Grace Donovan, 2
Blanche Leroy, 1
Aurora Nelson, 1
Marie Guidice, 1
PRESCOTT I
James Bradley, 1
James Conlan, 1
James Clark, 1 Richard Condon, 1
Dan'l Donovan, 1
Edw. Flannery, 1
John O'Brien, 1
Alice O'Brien, 1
Marion Toomey, 1 Elizabeth Kiley, 1 Ruth Vaughn, 1 Mary Conroy, 1
Wendell Hutchinson, 1
Amy Campbell, 1
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May Griffin, 1 Katherine Madigan, 2
Chas. Marcille, 1
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Kenneth Robbins, 1
Katherine Crowd, 2
Edw. Shepard, 1
Frances Good, 1 Ruth Luddington, 1
Mary Leroy, 2 Crofton Keith, 2 Minnie Cantwell, 2
Russell Kiley, 2
NORTH 1II-1V
Inez Abbott, 1
Seth Mann, 2
Florence Pinkerton, 2
Lovell Pulson, 2
Helen Foster, 1
Russell Niles, 1
Ida Greenberg, 1
Carleton McGrath, 1
Ruth Brennan, 1
Alfred Paquette, 1
Mabel Mann, 1
Fred Dee, 1
Horace Mann, 1
Heiman Greenberg, 1
Carl Bustard, 2
Errold Grasse, 1
Rodney Dee, 2
Charles Burrell, 1
TOWER HILL I-II-III-IV
Marion A. Webster, 1
Total names on Roll of Honor, 403.
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Report of the Principal of the High School
MR. WATSON C. LEA,
Superintendent of Schools :
During the past year numerous gifts have been made to Stetson High School; for the purpose of making acknowledg- ment of these donations, and thus expressing, in some measure, the gratitude which they deserve, the list is here given in detail.
The class of 1909 presented a Krakauer piano selected especially for them by the Old Colony Piano Company of. Brockton. The instrument was purchased at a cost of $400, and is the most valuable gift made by any class to the school. The piano bears the inscription "Class of 1909."
A flagpole 45 feet in height has been placed in front of the main entrance of the High School building. With the gift of the flagpole was included a beautiful flag 20 feet by 12 feet. The donors of the pole and flag were Miss Abby W. Turner, Mrs. Alice M. Beach, and Mrs. Harrison H. Rountree.
The Ladies' Library Association gave a large photograph 64 feet by 2} feet, "Washington laying his Commission at the feet of Columbia." This picture hangs in the lower main
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corridor; it is inscribed "Presented by the Ladies' Library Association, April, 1909." The original of this photograph is a mural painting by E. H. Blashfield, in the Court House at Baltimore, Maryland.
The class of 1912 gave a reading desk which is in constant use in the Assembly room. The desk is inscribed "1912"; the cost of this desk was $20.
Captain Horace Niles Post No. 110, G. A. R., gave a flag and staff which have a conspicuous position on the stage of the Assembly Room.
The Ladies' Relief Corps presented to the school a beautiful silk flag and staff which have been placed at the left of the Assembly Room stage.
The penny collection fund amounted at the end of the Fall term to $21.50; this money was used by the subscribers to the fund to purchase a table and a chair for the teachers' room.
A large and attractive roll-top desk was purchased by the class of 1910 and placed in the office of the principal. The desk was furnished by the Derby Desk Co., whose catalogue price for the desk was $15S.
The class of 1913 purchased a chair for the teachers' room, at a cost of $10.
Mr. H. Bingley Alden, of Dorchester, presented a copy of the "Magna Charta" and another of the "Declaration of In- dependence." These are beautifully framed, and form an attractive feature of the furnishing of the Assembly Room.
The Alumni of the school have given a master-clock made by the Blodgett Clock Co., of Boston. The clock is inscribed "Given by Graduates of Stetson High School." This clock
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has a special case, much more costly and attractive than the cases usually furnished for such clocks, with a single beveled plate glass front.
For secretarial work done in connection with the collection of funds for the master-clock the Alumni have placed the in- scription "Class of 1910" on one of the secondary clocks, and on another of the secondary clocks they have placed the inscrip- tion "Class of 1911."
The class of 1912 have given a secondary clock inscribed "Class of 1912."
From the class of 1913 was received a secondary clock in- scribed "Class of 1913."
"Alumni of S. H. S." is the inscription on another of the secondary clocks.
In the Assembly Room has been placed a secondary clock inscribed "Seth Turner Medal Fund." This clock has a fifteen-inch dial, and was obtained in connection with the fund raised by the Alumni for the purchase of clocks for the school. The cost of this clock was $22.
The total number of clocks given to the school, as a result of the efforts of the graduates to equip the school with clocks, is seven-one master-clock and six secondary clocks. Four more secondary clocks will complete the clock equipment of the school, and these undoubtedly will be obtained in the near future.
In connection with the contributions to the Alumni Clock Fund the generous donation of Mrs. Annie Tower Tarbell and Mrs. Abby T. Tower, of Boston, deserves especial mention.
F. E. CHAPIN.
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GRADUATION EXERCISES
CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED NINE STETSON HIGH SCHOOL
Stetson Hall, Randolph, Wednesday Evening, June 24, 1909
PROGRAM
OPENING MARCH
INVOCATION . Rev. Christopher R. Hamlin CHORUS-"To Thee, O Country,". Arr. by Julius Eichberg SALUTATORY Norman E. Jones
THE VALUE OF SHORTHAND S. Agnes Heney
PROGRESS OF AERIAL NAVIGATION John H. Rudderham
MERITS OF THE CHANDLER SYSTEM OF SHORTHAND
Marion C. Meaney
CHORUS-"Fairyland Waltz" Arr. by G. A. Veazie, Jr TRADE SCHOOLS OF MASSACHUSETTS. Francis B. McAuliffe RECITATION-"The Swan-Song" Katherine R. Brooks Gladys C. Vaughn
THE SUGAR TRUST SCANDAL Joseph H. McMahon
CHORUS-"Forget-Me-Not" Arr. by Victor Baier
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WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY Alden W. Howard
SHORTHAND EXERCISE :
Gladys Vaughn, Dictator; Francis B. McAuliffe, Stenog- rapher; Marion C. Meaney, Reader
WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN William F. McAuliffe
CHORUS-"Oh, Hail Us, Ye Free!" Arr. by Guiseppe Verdi
RECITATION-"The Historic Codfish" Irwin Edward J. Morgan
CORNET SOLO-"Siegmund's Leibesleid" R. Wagner
Christine H. Denham
PRESENTATION OF CLASS GIFT Marion L. Bailey
CLASS PROPHECY Ellen R. Henderson
VALEDICTORY Geraldine B. Kennedy
CHORUS-"Come, Gentle Sleep" Arr. from Mendelssohn By Geo. L. Tracy
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS AND TURNER MEDALS Superintendent Watson C. Lea
"AMERICA" School and Audience
CLASS OF 1909 STETSON HIGH SCHOOL Motto-" Magna est veritas, et prevalebit" Colors-Green and White
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LATIN COURSE
Norman Ellsworth Jones Geraldine Beatrice Kennedy Joseph H. McMahon
ENGLISH COURSE
Marion Lucy Bailey
Ellen Revie Henderson
Sarah Agnes Heney
Alden Waite Howard
Francis Basil McAuliffe
William Francis McAuliffe
Marion Claire Meaney
Edward Joseph Morgan
John Henry Rudderham
Gladys Cecilia Vaughn
CLASS OFFICERS
President, John Henry Rudderham Vice-President, Norman Ellsworth Jones Treasurer, Geraldine Beatrice Kennedy Secretary, Marion Claire Meaney
Executive Committee-Marion Lucy Bailey, Ellen Revie Hen- derson, Sarah Agnes Heney, Alden Waite Howard, Francis Basil McAuliffe, William Francis McAuliffe, Joseph H. McMahon, Edward Joseph Morgan, Gladys Cecilia Vaughn
TRUSTEES OF STETSON HIGH SCHOOL
Redmond P. Barrett, Jeremiah J. Desmond, Edward Long, Secretary of Board, Fred M. French
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Watson Clark Lea
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REPORTS OF TRUANT OFFICERS
RANDOLPH. January 25, 1910.
To MR. WATSON C. LEA,
Superintendent of Schools :
DEAR SIR :- 1 would respectfully submit the following report as Truant Officer of the town of Randolph. During the past year I have been called upon to investigate nine cases of absentees, all of whom were kept at home by their parents or guardians. In one of the cases the guardian of one of the boys wanted to know what I would do about it if he kept the boy at home. I told him that if he persisted in keep- ing the boy from school I would have him in court. 1 have had no more complaint about that boy. In conversation with some of the teachers they told me the attendance the past year was very good.
Yours respectfully,
FRANK J. DONAHOE, Truant Officer.
RANDOLPH, January 28, 1910.
PROFESSOR WATSON C. LEA.
DEAR SIR :- I would respectfully submit the following as my report for the year 1909:
During the year I have been called upon to investigate five cases, most of which were truancy; this is a small comparison as to former years. 1 attribute this small per cent of complaint
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to the fact that I have been very particular in making all children give a good account of themselves when seen upon the street during school hours, and I also think the parents have educated themselves to the fact that the children must go to school or give the best of reasons for their absence.
One of the worst things to contend with is the boy between the age of 14 and 16, who will not go to school, and just out of reach of the truant officer. 1 have been called two or three times in cases of this kind and been obliged to threaten with prosecution if they did not keep away from school buildings.
Most respectfully,
E. LAWRENCE PAYNE, Truant Officer.
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GRADUATES OF GRAMMAR SCHOOLS, JUNE, 1909
PRESCOTT SCHOOL
Kathleen Donovan
Mary Hagney
Rachel C. McMahon
George T. Dolan
Marshall W. Leavitt
Grace Foley
Agnes O'Neil
Muriel T. Bailey
Martin E. Young
Harry A. Dolan
Eva M. Luddington
Grace Brennan
Mary A. O'Neil
Catherine M. Curran
Albert G. Powderlee
Henry Mullins
Elva L. Plunkett.
James G. Condon
Evelyn C. Carney
Annie Lyons
James H. Mellon
Ralph W. Cartwright
Doris H. Burrell
Esther M. Sullivan
Edward F. Foley
Mary J. Long
Mary E. Desmond
Willie Brennan
Joseph Rudderham
Doris Perkins
NORTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Ruth Walsh
Sumner L. Eddy
Henry W. Pinkerton
Elinor E. Smith
Gertrude E. Kelley
John F. Carroll Edith Mahan
Florence M. White
Henry N. Schultz
Wilson S. Chase
Viola B. Holbrook
Arthur H. Lyons
J. Clifford Henderson Earl E. MacCarrnell
Norman Smith
Florence L. Bates
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Lillian W. Converse Gladys H. Thomas M. Alice O'Connell
Earl V. Hinckley Hazel M. Bates
Olive B. Mann J. Elon Mason Earl C. Harris
Rena M. Libby
Frank A. Fischer
Harold H. Eddy
Total, 57
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Report of Fire Department
Randolph, Mass., December 31, 1909.
To the Board of Selectmen :
Gentlemen .- The following is submitted as the report of the Board of Engineers :
The department was organized May 1st, 1909, as follows:
BOARD OF ENGINEERS
C. A. Wales, Chief; J. E. Blanche, M. F. Sullivan, G. A. Roel, W. A. Croak, Assistants; W. A. Croak, Clerk.
APPARATUS AND COMPANIES
Hose Wagon 1-Frank Harris, Driver.
Hose Reel 2-J. Joseph Riley, Driver.
Ladder Truck 1-George Canaway, Driver. Chemical Engine 1-J. E. Blanche, Driver. Hose Co. 1-12 men, John P. Rooney, Foreman.
Hose Co. 2-12 men, George L. Stetson, Foreman. Ladder Co. 1-12 men, Charles S. Dolan, Foreman. Chemical Co. 1-12 men, Edward F. Meany, Foreman.
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