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TOWN OF RANDOLPH, MASS. HONOR ROLL FOR PERFECT ATTENDANCE
Junior High School
Virginia Bunnell 1
Chester Gardner 1
Anna Ginnetty 1 Albin Johnson 1
Elizabeth Jones 1 Eugenia Kasey 2 Annie Saunders 1 George Young 1
Prescott School
Arthur Anderson 1
Everett Hoeg 2
Arvid Anderson 1
Harry Johnson 1
Wendall Bears 1
Eda Kaspar 2
Harry Beers 1
Catherine Kelley 1
Mildred Bolin 1
Mary Kelliher 1
Clara Boothby 1 Walter Burchell 1 Theodore Bussey 1
Virginia Kelliher 1 Katharine Lyons 1
David Chaplin 1
Helen Colivita 1
Stella Mazur 1
Marie Collins 2
Helen McCarty 1
Anna Condon 1
Earl McDonald 2
Edward Connolly 2
Amelia McLean 1
Ernest Crockett 1
Eber Crummett 1
Teresa Ferrara 2
Leonard Merchant 1
David Fitzgerald 1
Arlene Moody 1
Eleanor Mulvey 1
Gerald O'Leary 1
Anna Sullivan 1
Mary Sullivan 1
Marion Tower 1
Elena Travaglia 1
Robert Vaughn 2
Belcher School
Thomas Brennan 2
Eustace Driscoll 1
Robert Burns 1
Lloyd French 2
Ida Cameron 1
Josephine Gurnis 1
Wilma Cameron 2
Joseph Harris 1
Louise Carroll 1
Robert Hess 1
Fred Hollis 1
Paul MacCalder 1
Stephen MacCalder 1
Emma Mann 1
George Mann 1
Marjorie Churchill 1 Mildred Condon 1 John Dempsey 2 Mary Derocher 1 Esther Devine 1
John Mellon 1 Alice Merchant 2
Mary Fregean 1 Francis Gaynor 1 Randolph Gibson 2
James Ginity 2 Grace Guinnitty 1
Lawrence Haskell 1 Edna Hoak 1
Robert Madan 1 Gregory Malloy 1
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June McDonald 2 John Pace 1 Howard Robbins 1
Hattie Saunders 1 Clara Schultz 1 Gladys Yates 2
North Randolph
Marjorie Bowley 1
Edna Jope 1
Priscilla Bowley 1
Mable Jope 2 Mable Porter 1
George Condon 1
Clinton Dempsey 1
The number following the names indicates one or both school terms.
GRADUATES JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
June 18, 1926
Josiah Baker John Joseph Baldner Yvonne Lillian Bossi
Alice Teresa Brennan Virginia Kent Burrell Merle Cecelia Carroll Arthur Henry Corrigan Ruth Pauline Diauto Mary Gladys Doyle
Robert George Elliot
Glenda Gertrude Gavin
Anna Elizabeth Ginnetty Vincent Hayes Walter Edward Henry Thomas Joseph Hoye Elizabeth Marion Jones
Harold Walter Ledig Irene Helen McDowell John Richard Mulvey Paul Francis Murphy Francis Raphael Murphy Agnes Christine Nilsen Joseph Dennis O'Kane William Patrick O'Sullivan Virginia Brown Pierce Eugene Joseph Pignatelli Evelyn Louise Purcell
Ruth Carolyn Tower Phyllis Aikley Wales George Elmore Young Ameda Violet Zigler
Eleanor Allouise Atkinson Ruth Mable Ayers
Sidney Herbert Beck
Audrey Lena Bettle
Arthur Edward Brewster
Robert Lawrence Burchell Ralph Philip Condlin Ethel Florence Crayton Elizabeth Mary Dorothy Richard Prescott Elms Elvira Mae Ferraro Chester Marshall Gardner Mary Elizabeth Gibson Albert Douglas Godfrey Marie Jessie Granger Eugenia Anna Kasey Arlene Louise Libby Edward Patrick McEleney Ralph Joseph McKenna Martha Melotta Getrtrude Olive Poore Alice Marie Powers
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Ethel May Robertson Annie Katherine Saunders Dagma Juliana Swanson Marion Christine Wilbur Paul Sumner Winch
John Michael Benjamino Mary Anna Camelio
George Ernest Cochrane
Marie Agnes Crowe
Andrew Diauto
Arthur Paul Franke
George Herbert Foley
Joseph Arthur Frusciente
Mary Clara V. Gray
Roy Charles Jones Albin Johnson
Mary Katherine Mahoney
Joseph Robert McDermont
Marie Isabelle Murphy
Chester Harvey Nairne
James Joseph Truelson Arthur Benjamin Zecchini
LIST OF TEACHERS, JAN. 1, 1927
Position
Educated at
Year App.
A. O. Christiansen
Superintendent Brown, A.B., Harvard, A.M. 1921
High School
Frederick Chapin
Principal
Dartmouth, A. B. 1898
Hubert Powderly
History
Holy Cross, A. B. 1921
Marshall Leavitt Latin
Dartmouth, A. B. 1923
Winifred Brennan
Commercial Burdett
1918
Jane C. Good Margarita Glancy English
C. of New Rochell, A. B. 1926
Margaret Banigan
English
Brown, A. B. 1926
Mariam Hays
Science
Mt. Holyoke, A. B. 1926
Catherine Black
Mathematics Acadia University, A. B. 1926
Evelyn Goodwin
French
Newcomb C., A. B. 1925
Junior High School
Mrs.Sarah Powderly English
Bridgewater
1914
Hanna F. Hoye
English and Music
Quincy Tr. School
1888
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Helen Marie Norman Ruth Mary Porter Marion Ethel Rodd
Gilbert Frederick Shaw
Alice Gertrude Stalliday
Grace Elizabeth Taylor
Commercial Burdett 1925
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Position
Educated at
Year App.
Martha Parshley
Arithmetic
Fitchburg
1926
Drawing
Anna Good
History
Bridgewater
1924
Teresa Carlin
Science, Spelling Lowell
1926
Helen Kelliher
Arith., History Hyannis
1926
Physical Train.
Prescott School
Mrs. Marie Cormey Principal
Framingham
1925
Grade 6
Elizabeth Condon
Grade 6
Bridgewater
1926
Margaret Donavan
Grade 5
Bridgewater
1924
Grace Murphy
Grade 5
Bridgewater
1926
Mary O'Brien
Grade 4
Bridgewater
1921
Rachael McMahon Grade 4
Bridgewater
1916
Ellen Mclaughlin
Grade 3
Bridgewater
1901
Mary Mullen
Grade 3-2
Simmons
1923
Fannie Campbell
Grade 2
Notre Dame Ac.
1898
Elizabeth Griffin
Grade 1
Bridgewater
1925
Belcher School
Mrs. Walter BurbankPrincipal
Worcester 1926
Grade 6
Dorothy Carney
Grade 5
Bridgewater 1923
Catherine Riley
Grade 4
Bridgewater
1926
Pauline Goss
Grade 3
Castine, Me.
1926
Clara Tolman
Grade 2
Bridgewater
1888
Grace Gilgan
Grade 1
Bridgewater
1917
North Randolph
Mrs. Florence CaplesPrincipal
Bridgewater
1922
Grades 1-2
Mrs.Ellen McGerigleGrades 3-4
Bridgewater
1923
Tower Hill
Mrs.Elizabeth Lyons Principal
Quincy Tr. Sch.
1920
Grades 1-2-3
Mrs. Alice Belcher Grades 4-5-6
Quincy Tr. Sch.
1923
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Geography
Geography
TOWN OF RANDOLPH, MASS.
Position Educated at Year App.
West Corner
Nettie M. Day Grades 1-3
Gorham 1925
Drawing Supervisor
Dorothy Gribbin All Grades N. E. Sch. of Design
1926
Music Supervisor
Rose Hand
All Grades
School Nurse
Mrs. Anne Kiley
All Grades R. N.
1925
School Physician
George V. Higgins, M. D.
REPORT OF PRINCIPAL OF STETSON HIGH SCHOOL
The seating capacity of that part of our building as- signed to the junior high school is 208. The total num- ber of junior pupils this year has been 227; not all of these pupils have been in the school at any one date, but there has been in attendance at all times a greater num- ber than is taken care of by the normal seating plan. We have placed some of our junior pupils in the drawing room where they do not have the advantage of a home- room teacher. It is probable that a greater number of pupils will be enrolled in the near future. Mr. Morse, Supervisor of secondary education of Mass. advises that the seventh grade be taken from the building and given
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quarters elsewhere. This would involve other problems among which is doing away with the unity of the junior high school.
The total number of pupils enrolled in the senior high school has been 239. The seating capacity of our rooms is 225. We have had an overflow into parts of the build- ing not intended as home rooms. These figures argue a change such as would give the senior school at least one room now used by the pupils of the junior school. It is highly undesirable to crowd a room beyond its normal seating capacity. The large room designed as a study room on the upper floor, north side, namely room 27, is a very poorly adjusted room for recitations. There must nearly always be present some thirty-five pupils who are study pupils while thirty more are reciting in the front part of the room. It is very difficult to see work on the black-board from any point back of the center of the room. The room ought never to have over fifty pupils; It would be desirable to use this room, number 27, as it was intended to be used, namely a study room for high school pupils.
The class of 1927 at present numbers 47 members and is the largest senior class in the history of the school. We were hoping to attain a total of fifty, but will have to leave that ideal for the future.
In the annual report of the Mass. Department of Edu- cation for the year ending November, 1926, Randolph is in Group II with 79 towns of 5,000 population or over and ranks 27 in that list on the basis of "Expenditure for School Support from local taxation for the year ending December 31, 1925 per $1,000.00 valuation. The amount is $11.37. That is if Randolph's tax rate for that year was $34 then $11.37 of this was given to education.
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The town of Dracut ranks first with $17.67 per pupil per $1,000. Among these 79 towns Randolph ranks 78 on the basis of the average amount expended per pupil from all sources. That is, if you divide the $63,476.75 expended by Randolph that year by the net average membership; the quotent is $57.86 or the figure next to the smallest of the towns in Group II. The town report for that year gives the total amount for schools $73,110. This total would improve our rating. It is interesting to note that Brockton expends $80.10 per pupil and $11.59 per $1,000 valuation. Brockton ranks 22 in the 39 cities on the $80 and 3 on the $11. In the list of 39 cities of Massachusetts the city of Somerville ranks 39 or last, in the average amount per pupil from all sources, and 26 in 39 on the $1,000 valuation basis; and yet Somerville is among the leaders educationally. These rankings mean very little, or nothing, as related to the efficiency of the schools. They have a certain interest, but are in the main fortuitous.
Mr. Stephen Hart is doing exceptionally good work as truant and attendance officer. From a rather high num- ber of absences and tardinesses we have now reached a very satisfactory basis of attendance. Tardiness is a great handicap to the school, and is a habit detrimental to success in after life. For the most part the home peo- ple have co-operated with us in our crusade against tar- diness.
The class of 1926 has presented to the school a Mass. flag for the stage in the assembly room. This was a very appropriate and acceptable gift, one which ought to inspire loyalty to the Commonwealth. It balances the U. S. Flag on the left of the stage and puts the assembly
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room in line with other schools which display these two flags in the Assembly Room.
The Massachusetts State Board of Education has pub- lished a list of books for high school libraries. The list contains the titles of over 2,500 books, with the names of the publishers and the prices. The books are variously classified as 1. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Atlasses; 2. General Reference Books; 3. Conduct of Life; 4. Myth- ology, Folk Lore, Legends; 5. Politics and Government ; 6. Immigration; 7. Economics; 8. Labor and Capital; 9. Finance; 10. Vocational Guidance; 11. Commence, Com- mercial Geography; 12. General Science; 13. Mathe- matics; 14. Astronomy; 15. Physics; 16. Chemistry; 17. Geology; 18. Home Economics; 19. Agriculture; 20. Home Management. These are a few of the general sub- jects. The usual rule in regard to the number of vol- umes needed for a high school library is four volumes for each pupil or for a school of 500 pupils about 2,000 books of reference ; for each additional pupil in excess of 500, one volume should be added. It is recommended that the library have a seating capacity for 5% to 10% of the total enrollment of the school. A trained librarian is employed in many schools. In others certain teachers give part of their time; if one teacher could give half of her time to the management of the library; and also act as dean for girls for the other half she would find full employment in a school of 500 pupils.
Certain subjects as History, English, social studies and science must have a well-equipped library at hand to furnish material. The project method of teaching de- mands a good school library and any form of directed learning must have good reference books. Certain maga- zines and periodicals ought to be found in the school
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library. Familiarity with such leading periodicals is essential if our boys and girls are to be ready to meet the problems of life. Our books were badly damaged by the fire of 1924. The insurance was $900 of which $540 or 60% was paid to the town, since the insurance adjustor allowed a total loss. By very careful drying many of the books were saved in a badly damaged condition, and at present constitute our school library. Mr. Frank Morse, Supervisor of Secondary Education in Massachusetts, has advised that more books are needed in our reference room.
The more progressive high schools of the state are re- quiring those pupils who fit for college to take a five year course. Requirements for admission to college are con- stantly being raised, and it is practically impossible for a public high school to prepare the average boy or girl in four years. The blanks issued by the colleges for a sum- mary of the school ranks have provision for five years. Now if five years is coming to be recognized as necessary for college preparation, how are the four-year smaller high schools to continue to send their graduates to col- lege either on certificate or by examinations? The prin- cipal of a Massachusetts high school recently told me that his school committee insisted that their high school could prepare pupils for college in four years and that there was something wrong if a pupil failed to meet the entrance requirements. This principal said that the col- lege entrance requirements were such at present that he could not guarantee preparation in four years. Stetson High School ought to have five years for college prepara- tion. We sent two graduates of the class of 1926 to Bos- ton University and eleven to Normal Schools. This is a very fair showing.
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A vacuum pump made by the Young Company of Michigan City, Indiana, was installed during the Christ- mas vacation. Since this change was made there has been no trouble with the heating. The basic idea of the pump is to draw the cold water from the pipes so that hot water may replace it. At a much lower steam pres- sure and with much less coal the building is heated so well that in most of the rooms the heat has to be turned off daily.
Some of our needs may be stated as follow:
Program Bells which will ring so that the signals for passing may be rung automatically by the master clock in the school office.
A curtain to darken the assembly room when it is de- sired to throw pictures on the screen.
A curtain for the assembly room stage.
Room telephones connected with the school office.
Relocation of the tennis courts.
The principal of a junior and senior high school finds an immense amount of administrative detail awaiting him each day; no matter how efficient and conscientious teachers may be, no matter how well the daily program is laid out, he is sure to find that his time is all too short to meet the demands made upon it. The introduction of room telephones would save much time; a teacher who could give part time to office work would help solve the problem. Each day brings from one to ten talks with people who represent among other things book-publish- ing houses or firms which have school supplies; there are many telephone calls; many cases of petty infraction of school discipline; many sets of ranks to be made out for
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graduates and former pupils. It has been claimed that all this office work can be done by older pupils ; some of it may be so done and is now done by our pupils; beyond a certain point, however, the principal or some teacher must attend to these matters.
The teachers of the school have been especially faith- ful during the past year. The junior high school teach- ers have worked hard to adapt the school to the new con- ditions ; the work of our teachers has been of a very high order in point of efficiency. The discipline in the rooms has been surprisingly good, the quality of instruction excellent. We made out a blue print program for both schools in April 1926. The senior program has continued in use with very little change, partly because the num- ber of teachers remains constant. The program of the junior school has been revised four times, and has been blue-printed each time.
It appears that a considerable proportion of the pupils in the seventh grade find the work too difficult. These pupils ought not to have been promoted, or, if promoted and found deficient, they ought for their own best inter- ests, to be sent back to the sixth grade where they might have a better chance to do the work.
The plan of giving one teacher charge of the physical education of the pupils with frequent periods when pupils are brought together for outdoor exercises is in line with the best educational ideas. Miss Kelleher has made a success of this work; It would be worth while to have a man-teacher take charge of the boys in a similar way. This is the only good solution of the problem; the regular teachers can do a certain amount of coaching and gymnastic leadership, but there must be a man who
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makes it his special duty to look after the boys in the games and exercises.
Our lunch room has been a success financially and in the quality of service. Mrs. Connors and her assistant, Mrs. O'Gorman, deserve the highest commendation. We have had a total expense weekly of about 110 dollars, of which five is sent to the lunch counter at the Prescott School. A small surplus has accumulated and at the present time is a little over 50 dollars. The food is sold for $.05 per serve, a very low figure; many of the pupils bring their lunch which is eaten in the lunch room. Total receipts from March 1926 to June 1926 were $1,900.
New up-to-date locks should be put on all the doors in the old parts of the building, because these old locks are so worn that they cannot be operated satisfactorily. The principal of the school has visited locksmiths in Brock- ton and Boston fifteen times in an attempt to put the locks into condition for service. As yet, the locks are not giving satisfaction.
We have as many kinds of time as there are clocks. The building ought to be wired again for the clocks even if outside wiring is necessary.
FREDERICK E. CHAPIN.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE
Mr. A. O. Christiansen,
Superintendent of Schools.
Dear Sir:
Annual report of school from February 1 to December 31, 1926 :
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All pupils weighed and measured.
Pupils 10% or more underweight 91
Pupils examined at clinic (State Doctors) 66
Pupils who had Von Pirquet test 66
Pupils who reacted to Von Pirquet test 25
Pupils X-rayed 25
Pupils sent to Braintree Highlands camp
2
Pupils sent to Foxboro 1
Pupils sent home with Impetigo
15
Pupils sent home with Pediculosis
90
Home visits
250
Pupils sent to Dr. Higgins' Office 40
The generosity of our townspeople in buying the Christmas seals and help from the Red Cross enables us to send some of our boys and girls to summer camp.
All our boys and girls are very much interested in health work. They have made books, diaries, and posters, and some of the teachers have had health plays which were very instructive.
It is my pleasure at this time to thank Dr. Higgins, the Ladies' Library Association, for the use of their rooms for our clinic, all the organizations in town who helped toward our Milk Fund, the parents, pupils, and all our teachers for their co-operation and interest in health work.
Respectfully submitted,
ANNE L. KILEY, R. N., School Nurse.
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REPORT OF THE DRAWING SUPERVISOR
Mr. A. O. Christiansen,
Superintendent of Schools.
My dear Mr. Christiansen :
I herewith submit my report of the drawing work in the schools of Randolph.
The drawing is progressing satisfactorily in all the grades and in the High School.
The grade schools are visited, and an outline issued, every two weeks. The problems include free hand cut- ting, illustrative drawing, representation, and color.
Drawing in the High School is elective and divided into two kinds: freehand and mechanical. In freehand, con- sidering the fact that the individual spends but one or two periods a week in class work, the course of study is arranged to broaden students in as many branches of de- sign as possible. The problem consists of a thorough knowledge of composition, textile and wall-paper design, poster work, interior decoration, and harmony in color. In mechanical drawing, the outline includes the making and reading of any simple mechanical problem such as the working drawing of a bookrack or table.
The cordial co-operation of the Superintendent and the teachers, in carrying out the drawing outline, is greatly appreciated.
Respectfully submitted, DOROTHY A. GRIBBEN, Supervisor of Drawing.
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REPORT OF THE MUSIC SUPERVISOR
Mr. A. O. Christiansen, Superintendent of Schools, Randolph, Mass.
Dear Sir:
Music in the schools is progressing very favorably. The children and teachers taking a keen interest in the work.
The creation of Harmonica Classes in many of the schools in our large cities and towns has proven a great success along the lines of training the children in con- certed instrumental work. Harmonica bands have been organized and have produced music of wonderful tone quality. Therefore, after a conference with the teachers in the class rooms where the children were found eligible for such work, we decided to form Harmonica classes in the fifth and sixth grades of the Prescott and Belcher schools.
We find that the children have done fairly well consid- ering the short space of time given that line of work, and only hope that with the co-operation of the parents we may be able to accomplish the work we have started in a creditable manner.
Respectfully submitted,
ROSE G. HAND, Supervisor of Music.
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REPORT OF THE
Highway Surveyor
To the Citizens of Randolph:
I herewith present my report for 1926.
Owing to the extremely hard winter and the late spring, work was late in being started.
We commenced on the usual spring repairs which are necessary each year.
Having completed these repairs, new work was begun in June on Howard Street, where for a distance of one thousand feet the Street was turned over and re-built into a water bound road. Four hundred and eighty-four feet of drain pipe were laid, and five catch basins were installed in this street.
Wales Avenue and Cross Street jointly were re-built, also Mill Street for a distance of two thousand feet and Lafayette Street for a distance of twelve hundred feet.
We were fortunate in sucuring a contribution of $2,500. from the State and $2,500. from the County for rebuilding Canton Street, these amounts were added to the $2,500. appropriated by the Town. Work on this street has progressed under the supervision of the State officials.
During the year a gasoline roller was purchased at a cost of $5,000. which has proved very effective.
I wish to thank the citizens for the co-operation they have given and the assistance they have rendered when called upon.
JAMES LYNCH.
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Report of the Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor
To the Citizens of Randolph :
Your Selectmen in submitting their annual report for the year 1926 congratulate the Town on having enjoyed another year of competent police protection. For de- tails of what has been done we respectfully refer to the Report of the Police Department. To increase the effi- ciency of this department we suggest the purchase of a side-car for the police motor-cycle for use in winter, not to mention also the desirability of purchasing a Ford car for the transportation of prisoners at all seasons.
Had the Town voted affirmatively, at the 1926 annual town meeting, on article 34 asking for a reserve fund, the overdrafts would have been properly taken care of. This proposal was voted down, but the Commonwealth now demands the creation of such a fund.
In obedience to a vote* of the Town, the Common- wealth was petitioned to install its accounting system. This required first of all a State audit. Accordingly the State examiners have been going over the Town's books since November and we understand that the State system will require another by-law, another town offi- cial (bookkeeper or Town Accountant) to be appointed
*On March 5, 1923, the Town voted affirmatively on the question, submitted on the ballot, "Shall the Town petition for the installation of an accounting system by the Commonwealth."
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by the Selectmen, a Reserve Fund, a Finance Committee to administer the fund, changes in the warrants for annual town meetings and a different routine for the payment of bills. This system will automatically pre- vent overdrafts on appropriations.
The Town Farm has been unfortunate this year in losing some of its crops and livestock, so has not made as good a showing as usual. We believe, that money could be saved by dispensing with all the animals there and purchasing milk and the use of a team as needed.
During the course of the year 17 persons were cared for at the Almshouse, of whom four persons paid for their board, leaving 13 persons supported by the Town, a total of 500 1-7 weeks.
RICHARD F. FORREST, ERSKINE H. COX, JAMES H. HURLEY,
Board of Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor.
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