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GEORGE V. HIGGINS, M. D.
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TOWN OF RANDOLPH, MASS.
STETSON SCHOOL FUND
To the Citizens of Randolph :
The investment of the Stetson School Fund is as follows:
9 American Tel. and Tel. Bonds $ 9,000.00
2 Boston and Maine Bonds 2,000.00
2 Liberty Bonds 2,000.00
Deposit in Randolph Savings Bank 2,764.63
Deposit in Randolph Trust Co.
2,071.88
8 Shares Webster & Atlas Bank 800.00
10 Shares Boylston National Bank 1,000.00
5 Shares Peoples National Bank 500.00
2 Shares Lawrence Gas 200.00
$20,336.51
Also a $1,000.00 deposit in Randolph Savings Bank, the investment for Turner Fund.
Respectfully submitted, EDMUND K. BELCHER, MARSHALL W. LEAVITT, JAMES F. KENNEDY,
Trustees.
The undersigned Selectmen have examined the above investment of Stetson School Fund and Turner Fund and find same correct.
ROBERT T. MCAULIFFE JOHN B. MAHONEY RICHARD F. FORREST.
The Trustees in account with the Stetson School Fund. 1921
Cr. Paid Brockton Gas. Co. 21.50
Randolph and Holbrook Light Co.
248.86
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Benj. Mann 469.31
M. E. Leahy
243.00
Bernard Moore 529.75
Frank Harris
30.00
R. E. O'Brian
207.66
Masury Young
10.00
Frank Diauto
170.80
Blue Line Express
1.56
Clarence L. White
6.00
F. A. Skillings
21.50
J. A. Milligan
26.00
Alfred Foote
2.00
Randolph Trust Company
3.00
J. B. McNeill, Refund
687.50
C. F. Lyons
6.51
Trustees
20.00
$ 2,704.95
Dr.
Balance
$ 29.03
N. P. & G. N. R. R. Bonds, Interest
280.00
Am. Tel. & Tel. Bonds, Interest
80.00
Peoples National Bank, Interest
52.50
Lawrence Gas, Interest
14.00
Webster & Atlas, Interest
80.00
Boylston National Bank, Interest
70.00
Liq. old Boston Bank, Interest 20.00
85.00
Liberty Bonds, Interest
80.00
Boston & Maine R .R. Bond, Interest
131.25
Randolph Savings Bank, Interest
65.64
Randolph Trust Co., Interest
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G. A. R. Hall Rent
10.00
Hall Rent 1,786.50
2,783.92
Balance Jan. 16, 1922
78.97
The undersigned have this day examined the accounts of the Treasurer of Stetson School Fund and find same ac- count correct with proper vouchers for all orders drawn.
ROBERT T. McAULLIFFE,
JOHN B. MAHONEY,
RICHARD F. FORREST,
Selectmen.
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Superintendent of Schools
1921
HONOR ROLL
GRADUATES AND FORMER PUPILS STETSON HIGH SCHOOL IN THE WORLD WAR; 1914~18
HAROLD W.ALDEN FRED. W. BANCROFT WALTER BILLINGHAM DWIGHT W. BOYD RALPH N.BOYD ARTHUR J. BRENNAN Wm. E. BRENNAN WALTER L. CARNEY RAYMOND E CARROLL WILLIAM E. CARROLE WILLIAM J CARROLL RALPH N.CARTWRIGHT LEVERETT CASS GILMAN CHASE HENRY T. CLARK JOHN J. COLLINS PETER J. COLLINS JAMES CONDON LEON CROTHERS CHAS CUNNINGHAM JOHN CUNNINGHAM Wm E.CUNNINGHAM TERRANCE DARGAN EMERY DELANO JOSEPH DENCH LEO DENCH
FRANCIS DESMOND * THOMAS DESMOND * CHARLES DEVINE HENRY DOLAN JAMES DONOVAN JAMES DOWD THOMAS DOWD
EDWARD FAHEY EDMUND FLAHERTY EDWARD FOLEY AUGUSTUS FORREST EDWARD FORREST ELMER FRENCH J.MILTON FRENCH DEWEY GENRAUX ROBERT GIBSON . JOHN GOOD LEO HAND OTTO HELLER NORMAN HENDERSON LUCIEN HOGAN VICTOR HOGAN THOS. HOLDEN Wm. HURLEY HARRY ISAAC WILLIAM JOHNSON HAROLD .KANE HAROLD KEITH LEO KELLIHER WALTER KELLIHER FORREST KEMP HOBART KEMP THOS. KENNEDY THOS. KENNEY CHAS. KILEY MARSHALL LEAVITT EDWARD LONERGAN Wht. LONERGAN EDWARD LONG MARY LONG
RAYMOND LONG
THEODORE LUDDINGTON ALOYSIUS MURPHY ARTHUR LYONS HARVEY LYONS THOS. LYONS
JOSEPH MURPHY JOHN O'BRIEN THOS. OKEEFE LAWRANCE MAHAN MICHAEL O'NEIL FRANCIS MAHONEY FRANCIS T. MAHONEY FRED MAHONEY GERALD MAHONEY JOS MAHONEY JAMES MALLEY MARY MALLEY DOUGLAS MANN HORACE MANN MARY MARCELLE RAYMOND MASON HENRY MEANEY WIL MEANEY HAROLD MELLON JAMES MELLON HARRY MESSIER GEORGE MCCABE JOHN MCGERIGLE HUGH M-MAHON JOS MCMAHON JOS. MCNEILL ** MALCOLM MCNEILL EDWARD MORGAN
. JAMES MULLIGAN THOS. MULLIGAN JOS. MULLIGAN HENRY MULLINS
THOS.MULLINS
CHESTER PAINE HENRY PINKERTON RICHARD PINKERTON CARLTON PIPER LEONARD PLUNKETT ALBERT POWDERLY HUBERT POWDERLY EDWARD RODDAN FLORENCE RODDAN JOHN ROONEY JOHN RUDDERHAM JOS. RUDDERHAM Wm RUDDERHAM RICHARD SCHAEFTER WALTER SHERWOOD CHARLES SPENCE EDWARD SULLIVAN HAROLD SOULE CARLTON TECCE Wm. TIERNEY CHESTER' WALLACE HAROLD WARD JOHN WALSH RODERICK WHITE J. RUSSELL WILLARD ROGER WILLARD MARTIN YOUNG
BOLL OF
HONOR
GRADUATES of STETSON HIGH SCHOOLInThe GREAT WAR 191/ 19
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JOSEPH W. MAHONEY MARY FRANGES MARLEY JEROLD GRAY SOULE ROGER BRYANT MAILLARD JOHN RUSSELL WILLARD EDWARD JOSEPH MORGAN JOHN HENRY RUDDERMAM MIGUEL J. 0NELL RALPH NICHOLAS 30YO
CHARLES GABRIEL DEVINE JOSEPH MICHAEL MURPHY FRED W. BANCROFT JA.
TERRANCE OARGAN R THOMAS WHITTY DESMOND
CHARLES RAY KILEY EDWARD A, FANSY MARSHALL WHITE LEAVNT ยท MARAN 3. YOUNS
HAROLD 3. WARD PETER J. COLLINS LEVERETT GASS JOSEPH JOHN DENCH AUGUSTUS J. FORREST RAYMOND LONG ARTHUR J, BRENNAN WALTER L.CARNEY CHARLES J. CONNINGHAM WALTER A KELLNER THOMAS & KENNEY
THOMAS E. LYONS HORACE A. MANIN
EDWARD LRODDAM
A CHESTER DA WALLASE EMBRY S. DELENO HAROLD SKANS EDWARD AKEITA RICHARD E. SCHAEFFER WILMAN JOHNSON
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TOWN OF RANDOLPH, MASS.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee of Randolph : :
In accordance with your request, I herewith submit my annual report of the public schools of Randolph.
I desire at the offset to express to you my appreciation of the trust and confidence placed in me by extending to me this opportunity of service as superintendent of your schools. Un- doubtedly the strongest and most effective way to express this gratitude is to translate it into faithful service and judicious actions. To every pupil, every teacher and school, there fore, this service is extended. This with your counsel and advice together with cooperation in and out of schools can react in no other way than for the benefits of the school chil- dren for which we all serve.
Enrollment
The enrollment this year was large and taxed our school capacity severely. The total for all schools was nine hundred eighty pupils distributed as follows :
Stetson High School 179
Prescott Grammar 273
Prescott Primary 143
Belcher
286
West Corners
53
Tower Hill 46
Total this year 980
Total last year 919
The annual increase in our school population points clearly to a time when the town must take come measure to release the congested conditions now existing. Aside from the over-crowded classes in the High School. 55 per cent of our grade teachers have classes each with an enrollment of
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forty-five pupils or more while five teachers alone are patient- ly yet energetically working with classes with individual en- rollments of fifty or more children. It is sincerely hoped that the citizens of Randolph will respond to your plea for better school accomodations so that both pupils and teachers alike may find better working conditions so essential to best educational results.
Survey
Owing to the short period of time with you, I have necessarily confined my work, at least in part, to a study of the conditions such as I have found them. Aside from the condition mentioned above, I am pleased to note what I choose to call a well defined educational or professional attitude among the teachers. It is in itself a product of service and thought, not complete nor perfect, but present and casting an influence which is being felt more and more every day. I have found strong traces and examples of work carried on by Mr. Quinn, your former superintendent. It was a great comfort to note the uniformity of work outlined, instruction in reading from books of known value, accomplishments in penmanship and playground supervision. These form a nucleus of attainments around which further work can be carried on.
Arithmetic
This subject is rich in content but lacking in aim for general use. There is by far too much material in the aver- age arithmetic for a teacher to cover in an allotted time and in a specified grade. In the faithful attempt to teach this mass of material, particularly in the four upper grades, teachers must necessarily hurry and cram despite educational objectives and theories to the contrary. Pupils do not "get" arithmetic under such conditions. Thinking is discouraged because of too many failures brought about by unassimilated
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facts. To overcome this, arithmetic must be simplied on the basis of what is most useful to the average person.
It is the purpose, therefore, to emphasize the four fun- damentals throughout the grades. Teach decimals; frac- tions. per cent and simple interest from the point of view of application with plenty of practice and drill in every day problems. Oral and sight arithmetic must be included in this for such is our conversational, street, and shopping arithmetic.
Spelling
Although the Boston word list acts as a key to our spell- ing attainment, it is the opinion of those who have watched the progress in spelling that something more tangible to the common use of words as found in books, conversations, etc., should be used by way of teaching spelling in the grades. A spelling list. as such and in its abstract form, can hardly fix the words in the minds of the pupils much less teach the use of words as related to and associated with other words to express thoughts. The Bo ton list like other lists was the result of a needed study in this subject. Excellent at the time but gradually diminishing in usefulness as we allow it to become static and do not incorporate the words in lan- guage form from which it was originally extracted. Read- ing, writing and spelling must necessarily run, in parallels.
Teachers
The disturbing factor found in the annual change of teachers is not so great here as in some towns. I am pleased to state that the new teachers have entered upon their work well and will produce results. Our staff, moreover has been strengthened this year by the addition of two new men teachers, Mr. Powderly of the High School and Mr .Ruddy as principal of the Prescott School.
Randolph, like any other city or town, posesses a group
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of teachers who, because of their professional training, ac- tivities, and love of service, are constantly contributing something of value and particular interest to their pupils whether in school or out. It is true, much of this activity and child-interest is never seen by the casual observer, never- theless it is present and faithfully carried on. To such teach- ers, therefore, who have the time and the desire to render such extra services or who may wish to pursue some special educational study during the year, some recognition in the form of an increase should be made. An expenditure in this direction would, I believe, be a distinct investment for every boy and girl in school.
Medical Inspection and School Nurse
The recent State law which made it obligatory on the part of the town to employ a school nurse will do much for the cause of health. Miss Dorr, the School nurse, has been of invaluable assistance to Dr. Higgins in the examination and care of our school children. Follow un work is neces- sary and a nurse is particularly adapted and fitted for that service. Parents have likewise given this their careful at- tention knowing well that the health of one child has much to do with the health of another.
Cooperating Organizations
The independability of the schools as something apart from the community is a thing impossible. To function with the community the schools must be a part of that com- munity and must in turn receive the sympathetic interest and sunport of its citizen members.
American Lerion-No organization today can speak with greater force and authority as to the value of an educa- tion than the men under this standard who, only recently in our great national emergency, underwent the severest educa- tional and physical strain known in historv. As a result of this experience, their faith in the public schools, the teaching
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of democratic ideals and true Americanism was manifested last December by their appeal through the American Com- mission to set aside each year a special Educational Week for the advancement, support and betterment of public schools.
Randolph Grange-We wish to extend our thanks to the members of the local Grange for the interest taken in the school garden project, for the creditable exhibit held last Fall and for the money prizes awarded a number of the children through the cooperation of the Randolph Trust Company.
Much credit is likewise due the Red Cross Organization and the Visiting Nurse Association for their sympathetic and cooperative interest shown in the schools.
Recommendations
Mindful of the ever increasing school bill and the town's taxing power to raise money, I hesitate to mention any new project save that which now forces itself upon us regardless of likes and dislikes :
Because of the crowded conditions in the High school and similar conditions in the Prescott and Belcher schools, it is only too aparent that the town now faces a necessary build- ing program or expansion somewhere in order to provide ade- quate accomodations for its school population. To add to the old grammar school buildings or to build another small elementary school in the center of the town does not appear to be economically sound or educationally wise. That more room must be provided is the underlying factor as an aid towards such a solution I am submitting the following plan for your consideration :
Project.
1. Build out in hack the two unfinished wings of the Stetson high school and extend the assembly hall correspondingly, adding thereby five or six class rooms ; a hall to seat three hundred and a space below it for gymnasium or other developments.
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2. Make the high school a six or even a five-year school unit by taking grades seven and eight from the two elementary schools and housing them in the enlarged high school, thus leaving plenty of room in the Prescott and Belcher schools for further growth.
3. Organize the High school on the basis of a Junior and Senior high school, each distinct by it- self and with its own staff of teachers but both func- tioning as a school unit under one principal.
Advantages.
1. A permanent school building which would not only relieve the congestion now and for the next eight to ten years but could at any time in the future be again turned over to a regular senior high school without alteration.
2. Both schools in the same building would be able to use certain units in common such as for example, the auditorium, science laboratories, apparatus, ath- letic field and gymnasium facilities.
3. It would provide superior instruction through departmental teaching. Your present seventh and eighth grade teacher can undertake the instruction with very little difficulty due to readjustment.
4. Promotion would be by subjects and not grades. Classification and grading of abilities would be for the benefit of the pupils.
5. The plan would hold and assist the pupils over that sudden and dreaded step between the grammar and the high school by introducing subjects now confined to the high school.
6. The hours of the school would be like those of the high school. More time could be given each
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pupil, more time to the arts, elementary sciences, clubs, and kindred subjects all of which are known to vitalize school work, and do more than the old plan toward making the pupil happy and more con- tented in school.
In closing my report I wish to reaffirm my previous statements, thanking the committee, parents, teachers and organizations for their assistance in this work.
Respectfully submitted,
A. O. CHRISTIANSEN.
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REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL
Stetson High School
Randolph, Mass., January 18, 1922 Trustees of Stetson High School and Superintendent of Schools,
Gentlemen :
It seems advisable to use the space assigned to the re- port of the principal of the high school for the insertion of the names of the graduates of the classes of 1919 and 1920 together with the graduation programs. For a considerable number of years these programs have been printed in the annual town report ; the list of graduates for the years 1919- 1920 and 1921 would in this way be brought to date. Each of these classes contributed a tablet to the school, and cuts of their gifts accompany the names of the graduates. The class of 1921 gave to the school a bronze tablet in honor of Amasa Stetson, the founder of Stetson School, and it is fitting that the cut of their tablet be preserved in the town report for the year 1921.
Our register since September shows a total of 186 pupils, a number much in excess of that for which the building was planned. The assembly Room is limited by the state in- spector to 115, so that it has been difficult for us this year to use this room for general assembly purposes. Our recitation rooms, always abnormally small, have been further crowded by using the remnants of floor space for additional desks. and by crowding two rows of desks together. We have been obliged to seat a considerable number of pupils in the labora- tory, a practice which is not at all desirable. Some relief, at
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least, from this crowded condition should be offered by the Trustees of the School. Any addition to the school should include a suitable room for the typewriting department, and, if possible, a good-sized store room should be provided for sup- plies. This is only a very general reference to the need for relief from the crowded condition of the school.
The class of 1924 have presented to the school a settle of antique design which has proved a very acceptable addition to our school furnishings. Books have been added to the School Library from the Seth Turner Reference Fund, so that our facilities for general reference are really very satisfactory.
The lists of names, programs, and cuts referred to above are appended.
FREDERIC E. CHAPIN.
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Class of Nineteen Hundred Nineteen
Stetson High Orange and Black
Class Motto: "Nothing But the Best".
Class Flower: American Beauty Rose.
Class Officers : President, Lawrence Edmund Crovo; Vice President, Dorothy Mary Carney ; Secretary, Michael Joseph Diauto; Treasurer, Blanche Mary LeRoy.
Latin Conise: Alice Elizabeth MeEntee, Raymond James McGerrigle, Mary Rose O'Brien.
English Course: Michael Joseph Diauto, Reginald Charles Hogan, Richard Edward Schaeffer, Ruth Beatrice Squire, George Norman Wilbur.
Commercial Course: Dorothy Mary Carney, Gladys Mae Champion, Helen Frances Conlon, Lawrence Edmund Crovo, Kathryn Mary Kelliher, Blanche Mary LeRoy, Mabel Treadwell Mann, Joseph Leo McDonald, Frank Joseph Mor- gan, William Francis Moore, Blanche Louise Saunders.
Trustees of Stetson High School: Edward Long, George V. Higgins, M. D., Edmund K. Belcher.
Program
March : School. Gladys Mae Champion, Marshall. Kath- ryn Mary Kelliher at piano.
Invocation : Rev. Archibald McCord.
Salute to Flag: School. Leader, Ruth B. Squire.
Chorus "Columbia Beloved". Donizetti.
Class History : Mary Rose O'Brien.
Recitation, "Biff Perkins' Toboggan Slide", Pauline Phelps: Dorothy Mary Carney.
Chorus, "The Skaters' Waltz", Emile Waldteufel: School.
Debate, "Resolved : that the League of Nations as formed at Paris by the Great Powers will benefit the United States":
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Affirmative, Frank Joseph Morgan; Negative, Raymond James McGerrigle.
Trees as Memorials : Blanche Mary LeRoy.
Cornet Solo, "American Cadet Polka", Burwil: George Norman Wilbur.
Travel Picture, "Grand Canyon of the Colorado": Helen Frances Conlon.
Scene from "Ingomar" Act III: Ingomar, (a tribal chief- tan) Richard Edward Schaeffer; Parthenia, (a Greek cap- tive) Mabel Treadwell Mann.
Class Gift to School: Alice Elizabeth McEntee.
Girls' Chorus, "The Angel's Serenade", Gaetano Braga.
Presentation of Diplomas: Superintendent of Schools, James J. Quinn.
America, Smith : Schol and Audience.
Class of Ninteen Hundred Twenty
Red and Gold.
Class Motto: "Semper Fidelis".
Class Flower: Carnation.
Class Officers : President, Daniel G. Donovan ; Vice Presi- dent, Olga C. Lundberg; Secretary, Catherine M. McGau- ghey ; Treasurer, Raymond J. Purcell.
Latin Course : Anna Katherine Good, Anna May Lyons.
English Course : Maurice Benson Elliott, Florence Made- line Gaffey, Robert George Isaac, Olga Christine Lundberg, Eldon Drake Taber.
Commercial Course : Rosella Gustava Anderson, Mildred Colburn Bailey, Francis Norton Belcher, Arthur John Crim- mins. Daniel Gibbons Donovan, John Joseph Lynch, Gath- erine Mary McGaughey, Alice Mary O'Brien, Raymond Jos-
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eph Purcell, Margaret Elizabeth Randall, Francis McLean Rudderham, Marion Genevieve Toomey.
Program
March: Catherine Mary McGaughey, Marshal; Anna Katherine Good at piano.
Invocation : Rev. Eugene S. Philbrook.
Salute to Flag: Leader, Florence Madeline Gaffey.
Chorus, "Daybreak", G. F. Wilson.
Class History : Daniel Gibbons Donovan.
Woman Suffrage: Marion Genevieve Toomey.
Vocal Solo, "When My Ships Come Sailing Home", Reg- inald Stewart: Mary Catherine Green.
Recitation, "Sally Ann's Experience": Olga Christine Lundberg.
Chorus, "There's Nothing So Gay", Arr. by Holcomb: S. H. S. Glee Club.
Presentation of Class Tree, Dedicated to Thomas W. Desmond Post 169, American Legion : Francis McLean Rud- derham.
Travel Picture, Plymouth : Rosella Gustava Anderson.
Medley, "Old Times".
Recitation, "The Littlest Rebel", Peple: Margaret Eliza- beth Randall.
The Value of Latin in a High School Course: Anna Mae J.vono.
Scene from "The Taming of the Shrew" Act 2. Shake- sneare : Petrucio, Raymond Joseph Purcell : Katherina, Alice May O'Brien : Baptista, Francis Norton Belcher.
Presentation of Class Gift: John Joseph Lynch.
Class Poem: Mildred Colburn Bailey.
Girls' Chorus, "Moonlight Senerade". Arr. by Sewall Day.
Presentation of Diplomas: Superintendent of Schools, James J. Quinn.
"America", Smith.
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Class of Nineteen Hundred Twenty-One Blue and White
Class Motto : "En Avant".
Class Flower: Carnation. .
Class Officers : President, Charles H. Forrest ; Vice Presi- dent, Frances C. Good; Secretary, Mary M. Brennan ; Treas- urer, Walter C. Kane.
Latin Course : Marjorie C. Crimmins.
English Course : Emery C. W. Nordahl, Charles H. For- rest, Herbert E. Mann.
Commercial Course : : James D. Bradley, Mary M. Bren- nan, Frances C. Good, Mildred A. Goody, Walter C. Kane, Francis J. Kelliher, Mary C. Kenney, Jennie M. Lynch, Mary L. Moore, Rose J. O'Keefe, Barbara T. Purcell, Beatrice V. Scannell.
Program
March: School. Mary Catherine Kenney, Marshal. Mildred Adams Goody at piano.
Invocation : Rev. Melbourne C. Baltzer.
Salute to Flag: School. Leader, Marjorie Claire Crim- mins.
Chorus. "June Song". King: School.
Class History : Marv Madeline Brennan.
Recitation. "Soren'een". Tarkington : Frances Catherine Good.
Class Poem: Walter Charles Kane.
Presentation of Class Chair : Charles Henry Forrest.
A Little Trip in Japan, Travel Picture: Francis Joseph Kelliher.
Act III, Scene III from "The Rivals", Sheridan : Mrs. Malaprop, Rose Josephine O'Keefe; Miss Languish, Barbara Teresa Purcell ; Captain, Emery Carl Nordhal.
Boy's Chorus. "Out on the Deep", Lohr.
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Recitation, "A Voice from a Far Country", Scudder: Jennie Mary Lynch.
Vocal Solo, "When May is Turning to June", Penn : Catherine Green.
Girls' Chorus, "Beauteous Night", Offenbach.
Recitation, "A Poor Old Maid", Ely : Beatrice Veronica Scannell.
Presentation of Tablet in Honor of Amasa Stetson, Mary Loretta Moore.
"Waltz from Faust" Gounod : School.
Presentation of Diplomas : Supt. of Schools.
" America", Smith : School and Audience.
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REPORT OF THIE DRAWNING SUPERVISOR
Mr. Adolph O. Christiansen, Superintendent of Schools:
I hereby submit my report as supervisor of drawing, covering the work for the year in the schools of Randolph:
The chief aim of the work in drawing in the public schools is not, as some people think, to make artists of chil- dren. but to help them see things clearly, to use their hands skillfully. to give another language in which to express their ideas and to develop the power to appreciate a piece of fine work and the ability to discriminate between good and bad designs.
To develop this taste for art ha been my particular de- sire and with that in mind I have from time to time taken groups of high school students into the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The work in the High School is progressing both in freehand and mechanical drawing. In freehand drawing considerable has been done with color and design, which has been applied in stencil form to materials such as table run- ners, bags, dresses, etc.
The drawing in the grades shows a great improvement over last year, especially in construction work and in the conception of form and color.
Other work has been accomplished in printing, object and perspective drawing and measuring.
Whenever possible I have tried to correlate the work in drawing with other school work.
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