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In June leave of absence was granted to Miss Rose Schifino of the Junior High School for about two and a half months in the fall term in order that she might take a trip to Europe. As a substitute for her, Miss Zella W. Hardy of Georgetown was secured.
The educational advantages of the present teaching force is worthy of a word of comment. No teacher above the sixth grade has had less than four years study beyond High School. The seven teach- ers in the Senior and Junior High Schools are from six different educational institutions as follows : Bates College, two; Colby College and Boston Uni- versity, one each; Salem Normal, Bridgewater Nor- mal and Colorado State Teachers College, all in four year courses, one each. The two Junior High teach- ers have visited Europe. Mr. Wickett has traveled more than most young men while getting his educa- tion. He has studied at the University of London and seen something of Europe. Miss Schifino this fall went on one of the American Legion trips to Europe.
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Of the seven teachers in the first six grades, five have completed two year normal courses as follows: Salem Normal, three teachers; Castine Normal and Lesley Normal one each. This makes twelve of the fourteen regular teachers who are Normal or Col- lege graduates.
The remaining two teachers are secondary school graduates with long teaching experience and with summer school attendance to their credit.
Improvements
The outstanding improvement is the installa- tion of first class toilets at the Junior High School in place of the old outdoor toilets which in past years have sometimes been in a condition to menace decency, health, and morals.
While the toilet was being put in, a cement floor was laid in the whole basement, which makes it possible to use space here for practical arts club work.
New Books
Several sets of new books have been bought especially for the Junior High School and the grade schools.
Music
The musical work has been continued under the direction of Mr. Douglas A. Porell. Excellent results are being obtained in all grades. The sing- ing at the graduating exercises and other public en- tertainments has been very creditable.
Drawing
The art work in the schools has been under the direction of Miss Annie A. Kelley. An interesting exhibition of her work was held in the Centre build- ing near the close of the school year last June which was very creditable to Miss Kelley and her pupils.
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Several sheets were selected from this exhibit and sent to the Topsfield Fair.
Attendance
The average membership for the school year was 415, which is about 15 less than for 1926. 69,- 840 days of schooling was furnished. The per cent of attendance was 95.6 which is the highest for many years. Forty-nine pupils were not absent during the school year ending last June. Of this number, three pupils had not been absent for five years, three more pupils had not been absent for three years and five other pupils had finished the second year without absence from school.
The Centre Fifth Grade had the highest per cent of attendance for the school year 97.3 while the Merrimacport and the J. H. S. Grade Eight were next to the highest with 97% attendance.
A list of pupils not absent over five days dur- ing the year has been made. This contains one hun- dred and forty names. Commendable Attendance is awarded to these pupils.
Statistical Data
The usual table of attendance, the lists of grad- uates and the lists of Honor and Commendable At- tendance pupils will be found after this report.
The report of the High School Principal is like- wise submitted for your consideration.
Respectfully submitted,
HERMAN N. KNOX, Superintendent of Schools.
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REPORT OF PRINCIPAL OF HIGH SCHOOL
Merrimac, Mass., January, 1928.
To Mr. H. N. Knox, Superintendent, and the Mem- bers of the School Board.
Dear Sirs :
'I present the following as my annual report of
the High School. The enrollment is as follows :
Girls
Boys
Totals
Freshmen
22
9
31
Sophomores
18
9
27
Juniors
12
11
23
Seniors
13
8
21
Totals
65
37
102
The attendance (96.4%) for the fall term is the second highest it has been for the same corre- sponding period in this decade. The school is in Class A, approved by the State Board of Education ; and our certificate is accepted by the New England Entrance Certificate Board.
Although we lost three weeks in the fall term on account of the infantile paralysis epidemic, sev- eral of the classes are as far advanced in their work as at this time of last year. This may be due to one or both of two things; better grouping in the classes or the study period which we have before school in the morning and at noon. This fact speaks well for both the teachers and the student body.
The usual activities have been carried on dur- ing the past year. For one week in November, the school put through, quite successfully, a magazine campaign, initiated by the Crowell Publishing Co.
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The money obtained was divided (1-3 and 2-3) be- tween purchasing victrola records for Mr. Porell's history and appreciation of music course in the school and for the athletic association.
The $15.00 given to the school by the class of 1926 has been used as a part payment on a dupli- cator. Thanks to the School Board, the balance has been received and forwarded to the A. B. Dick Company. This duplicator can be used for print- ing tickets, programs, miscellaneous notices and papers used in the routine of the school, and pos- sibly for the publishing of the school paper.
I extend my thanks and appreciation to the Su- perintendent and the Members of the School Board for their co-operation in the administration of the High School.
Respectfully submitted,
AUBREY W. TABOR, Principal of the High School.
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SENIOR HIGH CLASS OF 1927
Hazel Lucy Bishop
Shirley George Condon Helen Ruth Hargraves Elsie Laura Meagher
Richard L. Trefthen
Everett Tracy Wheeler
Walter David Calnan
Mytrle Irene Earle Russell C. Harrington
Enola Daisy Stanton
Henry Philip Walker
JUNIOR HIGH CLASS OF 1927
* Evelyn Beloff
*Ruth Burnham
*Grace Chaput
*Edith Crofut
* Alice Doust
* Dorothy Eastman
*Frances Gilmore
Dorothy Monroe Florence Olson
*Pearl Morgan
* Helen Peaslee
*Nordis Sande
*Kenneth Fowle
*Reginald Hardy
*Bernard Hume
* Henry McCarron
*Paul Schultz
*Evelyn Bourgeois
* Linna Carroll
*Irma Corney
* Marion Howe
*Lucille Godin
*Gertrude McCarron
* Helen Russell Elizabeth Tankuns
*Grace Worcester
*Ernest Frye
*Wilfred Journeay Albert Quinney
*George Trefethen
Entered Merrimac High in September.
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HONOR ATTENDANCE
PUPILS NOT ABSENT
From September 1922-June 1927 Five Years
Arthur E. Carroll Grace Chaput
Donna Hall
From September 1924-June 1927 Three Years Charlotte Franklin Frances L. Gilmore
Phyllis Harvey
. From September 1925-June 1927
Two Years
M. Jean MacDougall Florence Hutchins
Hortense G. Sande Reginald Hardy Rita Hardy
From September 1926-June 1927 One Year
Lillian Clark Mary Sutherland
George Hoyt
Donald Delong
Evelyn Beloff
Frances Hutchins
Marion Howe
Mildred Wood
Charlotte Sande
Florence Olson Kenneth Fowle Brooks Gilmore George Trefethen Lois E. Schultz Linna Carroll
Constanti Sanuk
Pearl Morgan
Louise Franklin Jennie Joudrey Eugene Deminie Helen A. Sanuk Howard Delong John Sloban
Grace Worcester Paul Schultz Robert Carter Thelma Dimick Georgine Smith
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Ruth Sheldon
Frederick Bailey
Janice E. Howe
Florabelle Joudrey
Lorin G. Clark
Leona Noone
James Liberty
George Ray Clark Jr.
Margaret Hardy
Lillian Sande
COMMENDABLE ATTENDANCE
Pupils Not Absent Over Five Days from September 1926 to June 1927
Frances Todd
Harold Smith
Bertha Clark
Melvin Webster
Geraldine Douglas
Irving Blake
William Howe
John Fitzgerald
Arlene Webster
Ernest Hughes
Dana Colby
Hepke Kotzebue
George Odiorne
Edward Larivee
Ralph Bowser
Donald MacDougall
Marjorie Foule
Francis Sloban
Mary Hutchins
George Sutherland
Margaret Manning
John Walker
Marjorie Smith
Helen Earle
William Casazza
Ruth Eastman
Everett Eaton
Charlotte Haskell
Myron Kelley
Rose Mader
George Sargent
Arlene Smith
Reginald Tabor
Irma Corney Antonia Godin
Shirley Lord
Gertrude McCarron
Marvis Prescott
Dorothy Monroe
Berdina Schiavoni
Elizabeth Tankuns
Alice Titcomb ,
Ernest Frye Wilfred Journeay
Harold Fitzgerald Clyde Frost.
Henry McCarron
Fred Kennett
Albert Quinney
Leon Smith
Robert Casazza
Donald Sutherland
Grace Clark
John Thornton
Harold Clark
.
Mary Boudeau
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Millard Titcomb
Mythel Collins
Eleanor Gannon
Theron Condon
Marion Perkins
Marguerite Deminie
Thomas Mann
Mildred Deminie
Donald Webster
Alice Doust Myrtle Earle
Natalie Carroll
Anna Eaton
Margaret Dow
Rosamond Foster
Arlene Hirst Mary Manning
Ethel Golden
Marjorie Odiorne Alice Sande
Evelyn Pettigrew
Alice Webster
Maude Robinson Helen Rogers Marjorie Sargent
Irene Hargraves Helen How
Theresa Sloban
Margaret Hoyt' Eleanor Stanley Ida Thornton
Beatrice Smith
Lloyd Stanley
Charlotte Staples
Beatrice Hazeltine
Richard Trefethen Mura Trenholm
Henry Whitcomb
Isabel Wright Dorothy Hale
Florence Hargraves
Mae Harrington Frank Haskell Evelyn Hirst
Hilda Kidston
Margery Kidston Edith Kierstead Dorethea Larivee
Waldo Lehto Elizabeth MacTaggart Andrew Mader
Richard Calnan Leon Dow Daniel Hargraves Willard Kelley John McCarron William McCarron Corey Reynolds Edward Stanley Chester Streeter Evelyn Gilmore Florence Hume Estelle Isaacs Ida Legault Jeanett Odiorne Allegra Spinney
Lawrence Colman Shirley Condon
Jane Byard
Edith Gillen
Virginia Goodwin
Hazel Zinck
Lois A. Clark
Raymond Sawyer
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Anna Tamnick
Allen Manning
Myrtle Reynolds
Sherman Mccutcheon
Ernest Messier
Roy E. Morgan
Paul Metcalf
Raymond Odiorne
Ernest Rogers
Ruth Odiorne
SCHOOL YEAR 1926-1927
Attendance Data
Total
Average
Percent of
Days
School Membership Membership Attendance Attendance
Merrimacport
28
19.7
97.0
3,329 1/2
Centre I
46
35.7
93.2
5,7781/2
Centre II
42
37.9
93.6
6,2081/2
Centre III
46
42.6
94.4
7,0061/2
Centre IV
45
41.3
96.3
6,9331/2
Centre V
34
30.6
97.3
5,2281/2
Centre VI
42
38.5
95.7
6,3721/2
J. H. S. VII
43
36.9
96.3
6,216
J. H. S. VIII
35
33.3
97.0
5,619
Total
Elementary 361
316.5
95.5
52,6921/2
Senior High
103
ยท98.8
95.9
17,1471/2
Town Total 464
415.3
95.6
69,840
CONTENTS
Page
Appropriations Made in 1927
5
Appropriations Recommended for 1928
8
Balance Sheet 1927 41
Cemetery Trust Funds 37
43
Jury List
44
Town Officers
2
Report: Assessors
61
Fire Engineers
56
Janitor Town Hall
46
Municipal Light Board
71
Police Department 50
49
Public Library
59
Sealer of Weights and Measures
67
Selectmen and Overseers of Poor 10
74
Town Accountant
13
Town Clerk 45
Town Forest 63
Town Treasurer 48
Trustees Kimball Park 47
68
Water Commissioners
SCHOOL REPORT
Attendance Data 20
6
Financial Report
High School Graduates 16
High School Principal's Report
14
Honor Roll of Attendance
17
School Committee's Report for 1927
3
Supt. of Schools Report 10
7
Liabilities
Public Health Nurse
Tax Collector
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