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The attendance of the third grade was particularly affected both by whooping cough and by mumps.
In the fall the District Health Officer, Dr. Robert E. Archibald, returned from his year's leave of absence.
A feature during the year was the tuberculosis survey under the Chadwick Clinic, made through the state department of health. This will have an annual follow-up through a series of years. The survey included both the Von Pirquet and the X-ray tests. Full reports of findings were sent to the superintendent. Through the school nurse, parents have been notified in the hilum cases.
Herewith follows the 1933 school report of Mrs. Jean Badashaw, Public Health Nurse :
Number school visits 399
Number pupils enrolled in four schools 478
Number children visited in their homes 652
Number pupils examined by Doctor, Nurse assisting
83
Number pupils examined by Nurse 476
Pupils having defects corrected :
Teeth 163
Vision 10
Pupils having tonsils and adenoids removed 10
Through the Red Cross fund milk was given to the Centre and Merrimacport school children, also several pairs of glasses were procured through this fund.
The Diphtheria Prevention Clinic was continued this year by Dr. Henry N. DeWolfe of Malden, (substituting for Dr. Robert E. Archibald) and Dr. Sweetsir, on May 2, 9, 23, giving toxin anti-toxin to 51 children.
Owing to an epidemic of whooping cough I made home visits and gave the treatments to 8 children.
The pre-school clinic was held on July 1 by Dr. Sweetsir, giving a physical examination to 17 children.
Last year an application for the Chadwick Clinic was signed by the School Committee and the Board of Health sponsored by a state fund. Dr. Gill of the Public Health, Boston, visited and spoke to teachers and pupils of the Senior and Junior High Schools about tuberculosis and the work of the Chadwick Clinic.
Miss Knight, also of this work in Boston, visited October 3 and 19 to help make arrangements for the clinics, as a result Dr. Ramin gave 313 pupils the tuber- culin test, in the four schools, on October 6.
Mr. Steele x-rayed 68 pupils on Oct. 10 setting up the x-ray machine in the High and Centre schools.
Dr. Reddy gave a physical examination to 16 pupils on Oct. 24, each pupil was accompanied by a parent or older member of the family.
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We have been most unfortunate this year having three contagious diseases. In the spring a great many children had the whooping cough. In the fall we have been having both chicken-pox and mumps.
TRANSPORTATION
Throughout 1933 Merrimac pupils have been transported by the Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railway Company. The service has been very satisfactory.
Of the 470 pupils enrolled in the Merrimac schools at the beginning of October (the date that official fall census is taken annually), 103, or nearly 22%, were transported regularly by school bus,-20 from Birchmeadow district, 40 from Bear Hill and Lake Attitash, and 43 from Merrimacport.
Doctor J. C. Page, Superintendent of Schools, and Members of the School Board Gentlemen :
Herewith I submit the annual report of the Merrimac High School for the year 1933.
At the beginning of school in September, the total enrollment was 123, the largest for many years. There were nine Post Graduates. The freshmen class, numbering fifty, is the largest for many years past. It is startling to note, that of the total enrollment, there are almost twice as many girls as there are boys.
The distribution of the students by classes and courses pursued follows :
Total No.
Enrollment
Gen.
Col. Prep.
Sc. Prep.
Norm. Comm.'
Total Girls
Total Boys
ents
Post Grads.
Girls
6
6
Boys
3
3 O
Seniors
Girls
6
1
1
5
13
Boys
4
1
2
7 20
Juniors
Girls
3
10
13
Boys
6
1
7 20
Sophomores
Girls
4
3
2
6
15
Boys
5
2
2
9 24
Freshmen
Girls
7
3
23
. 33
Boys
7
·
7
3
17
50
51
7
10
3
52
80
43
123
Stud-
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The General Course, one of the Courses indicated in the above table, is com- posed of subjects chosen from other courses. All of the fifty-one students who have elected this course are therefore taking subjects which are part of the College Preparatory, Scientific Preparatory, Normal, and Commercial Courses. These courses were so separated and named that the students might have suggested to them a definite plan for each year of high school work leading to a particular field of endeavor.
We welcome to our faculty Mr. Charles O. Wettergreen, who succeeds Miss MacDuffee as head of the English Department. Mr. Wettergreen also coaches Boys' athletics.
Many made favorable comments concerning the Graduation Exercises of the Class of 1933. A splendid program in which the high school orchestra took part vas further supplemented by the usual class parts, which in order of the honor they represented were: Valedictory-Jennie Joudrey, Salutatory-Iva Sylvester, Class History-Arthur Hoyt, Class Will-Evelyn Gilmore, Class Prophecy-Elsie Pease, Class Gifts-Alice Thorne, Class Poem-Norman Kelly. Prof. Milton J. Schlagenhauf of Northeastern University gave an appropriate address and Colonel Frederick A. Estes, representing the Mass. Society Sons of the American Revolu- ton, presented the Washington and Franklin Medal. The school chorus, under the able direction of Mrs. Doris Currier, sang a number of selections.
Examples of the many extra-curriculum activities were the "Gipsy Rover", an operetta on February 14, 1933, directed by Mrs. Currier; the Senior Class Play, "The Mysterious Mrs. Updyke" given May 12, 1933, coached by Miss MacDuffee; the Junior Promenade; the Senior Dance; Memorial Day Exercises, in which all the Merrimac Schools took part; the very popular Reception to the Freshmen early in October 1933, and the class play of the class of 1934, "The Big Cheese", coached by Miss Roberta Annon and Mr. Charles O. Wettergreen.
The high school was represented by the usual athletic teams in girls' basket- ball, boys' basketball, baseball and football, and made favorable showing in each of these sports.
The school paper, the Jamaco Journal, is being printed by a selected staff of high school girls, on the school mimeograph. This is a radical departure from the past method of having the paper printed outside the school. It is now possible to sell the paper for one cent a copy and thus enables every student to purchase one. A mimeoscope, an instrument to aid in drawing cartoons and designs on the sten -. cils from which the paper is printed, makes it possible to publish a very creditable appearing paper.
At one of the early meetings of the Parent-Teachers' Association, the principals of the various schools were asked to state some of the things which that organiza- tion might help in obtaining. As a result of this the P. T. A. have up to the writ- ing of this report, chosen a committee to decide upon the purchase of radios for use in the schools. A generous gift of this nature is to be heartily commended.
A set of twenty-seven volumes of the New International Encyclopedia is a most welcome and useful addition to the high school library. A number of home
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reading books have been purchased for the library for use in book reports by the students. Several pieces of Physics Apparatus among which are glass-enclosed bal- ances and an instrument for demonstrating experiments with lenses and mirrors, will help to make science more interesting to the students.
Appended to this report are the following: High School Graduates 1933, Junior High School Graduates 1933, High School Scholarship Honors, Athletic Data, and the High School Curriculum.
I thank Doctor Page and the School Committee for their kind consideration and for the many ways in which they have thoughtfully co-operated.
Respectfully submitted,
C. D. MacKay, Principal.
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES 1933
Course
1. Mary Elizabeth Bacon Commercial
2. Irving Alexander Blake General
3. Everett Worcester Carroll General
4. John Bernard Casazza General
5. Donna Louisa Franklin
Commercial
6. Margaret Susan Franklin
Commercial
7. Evelyn Marion Gilmore
Commercial
8. Florence Mae Hutchins
Commercial
9. Edward Rodolphe Larivee
General
10. Arthur Wells Hoyt
General
11. Jennie Arline Joudrey
General
12. Norman Maurice Kelly
General
13. Andrew Sinclair Marshall
Scientific Preparatory
14. Beatrice Marguerite McCarron
General
15. Elizabeth Margaret Metcalf
Commercial
16. Jeanette Frances Odiorne
Commercial
17. Elsie Maude Pease
General
18. Rowena Etta Purdy
General
19. Myrtle Claire Reynolds General
20. Ruth Elizabeth Sheldon
General
2.1. Alegra Thelma Spinney
Commercial
22. Iva Willis Sylvester College Preparatory
23. Alice Estella Thorne Commercial
24 . Ellwood Mitchell Thornton General
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JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES 1933
Robert H. Adams
Eleanor Frances Bacon
Rita Frances Hume
Shirley Ellen Berube
Frances Theresa Hutchins
Caryl Edward Brown
Evelyn Blanche Jenks
Robert Charles Calnan
Myron Vernon Kelly Raymond Wilfred Lavalley Shirley Hamlin Lord Raymond Laurence McConnell Leona Frances Noone
Sylva Pearl Clark
Melnott Agustine Connor, Jr.
Mae Alice Cunneen
George Stanley Odiorne
Susan Emma Eaton
Frances Gertrude Plona
Marjorie Isabel Emery
Gladys Georgianna Robinson
Horace Albert Fairbanks
Jennie Lillian Sande
Mary Frances Fairbanks
Thelma Helen Sande
Anna Marie Foster Helen Carrie Foster
Edwin Martin Tammik
John Thomas Franklin
Natalie Tarbox
Richard Arnold Hadd
Evelyn Lane Travers
Marion Ruth Harvey
Dorothy Ellena Urquhart
Arlene Emma Hazeltine
Muriel Louise Wallace
Robert Carroll Young
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HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP HONORS, 1932 - 33
High Honor
Leonora Child
94.25
Charlotte Franklin 94
Helen Sanuk 93.8
Phyllis Colby
93
Norma Goodwin
92.25
Jennie Joudrey
91
Paul Morgan
Virginia Harrison
90.8
Honor
Howard Delong
89.6
Marie Busch
89.16
Iva Sylvester
89
Lester Sweeney
·
Ada Lawrence
88.6
Evelyn Gilmore
88
Mary Waterhouse 87.25
Elsie Pease
87
Irene Hargraves
86.5
Arthur Hoyt
86
Andrew Marshall
Margaret Dow
84.6
Helen Elizabeth Carter William E. Casazza
Thelma Elizabeth Hughes
James Edward Smith
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PRIZES AWARDED AT COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Washington-Franklin Medal Jennie Joudrey (Awarded for excellence in the study of American History)
Balfour Award Iva Sylvester (Given to student highest in scholarship, loyalty and achievement)
GIRLS WHO EARNED A LETTER IN BASKETBALL
Janice Howe Ada Lawrence Ruth Sheldon Natalie Carroll
Ubell Darbe Virginia Streeter Elsie Pease, Manager
Helen How, Cheer Leader
BOYS WHO EARNED A LETTER IN BASKETBALL
Bernard Casazza, Captain Harold Smith Eugene Deminie Leon Dow
George Bacon John Sloban Evald Magi Clarence Darbe
Everett Carroll, Manager
BOYS WHO EARNED A LETTER IN FOOTBALL
Harold Smith, Captain
George Bacon
Eugene Deminie
Ernest Preble
Carey Reynolds
John McCarron
Daniel Hargraves
Howard DeLong
John Sloban
Lester Sweeney
Arnold Hargraves Paul Morgan
Raymond Lavalley Richard Calnan
Francis Bailey, Manager
BOYS WHO EARNED A LETTER IN BASEBALL
Leon Dow, Captain Eugene Deminie Harold Smith George Bacon Bernard Casazza
Arthur Hoyt William Casazza Paul Metcalf John Sloban Robert Carter
Daniel Hargraves, Manager
MERRIMAC TOWN REPORT ATTENDANCE HONOR ROLL
Not Absent for 6 Years, September 1927 to June 1933 Margaret Dow
Not Absent for 4 Years, September 1929 to June 1933 George Clark, Jr.
Not Absent for 3 Years, September 1930 to June 1933 Harrison L. DeLong Helen How Flora Joudrey
Not Absent for 2 Years, September 1931 to June 1933
Jennie Bushong
Bertha Clark
James Clark Sylva Clark Nellie Durgin
Alcha Huntress Jean Manning Francis Noone Elsie O'Keefe Ethel Tarbox
Dora Urquhart
Not Absent for 1 Year, September 1932 to June 1933
High School
Lois Clark
Eugene Deminie
Mythel Collins Mae Cunneen
Lillian Sande
Centre School
Grade VI
Philip Earle James Tsibidas
Forrest Lavalley Frank Merritt
Stanley Whiting
Grade V
Norman Deminie
Thomas Jones
Marcellus Nason
Mary Fortin
Estelle Nelson
Julia Raymond
Robert Jones
Roland Spinney
Grade I
Lilly Raymond
Gordon Spinney
Merrimacport School
Grade II Louis Familia
101
Junior High School
Melnott Connor Shirley Lord
Grade IV
Grade III
Grade II
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MEMBERSHIP DATA
School and Grade
Average membership for school year ending June 1933
Membership October 2, 1933
HIGH SCHOOL :
Post Graduates
4
9
Grade 12
22
20
Grade 11
26
20
Grade 10
22
24
Grade 9
32
50
Total High School
106
123
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL :
Grade 8
46
37
Grade 7
36
41
Total Junior High School
82
78
CENTRE SCHOOL :
Grade 6
41
33
Grade 5
38
44
Grade 4
47
53
Grade 3
49
39
Grade 2
37
37
Grade 1
38
40
Total Centre School
250
246
MERRIMACPORT SCHOOL :
Grade 3
6
9
Grade 2
9
6
Grade 1
5
8
Total Merrimacport School
20
23
Total for Town
458
470
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1933 FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Regular school Appropriation $27,735.00
Refunded dog tax
128.08
Total amount available for schools
$27,863.08
Total expenditures
27.674.88
Balance
$188.20
Reimbursements :
Supt. Schools $480.78
General School Fund, Part I (Income Tax) 4,512.50
General School Fund, Part II 3,601.86
Tuition & Transportation State Wards
627.22
Telephone calls
8.30
Transportation, pupil to H. S.
4.50
Total reimbursements
$9,235.16
Total expenditures $27,674.88
Total reimbursements 9,235.16
Total expended from local taxation, including refunded dog tax, 1933 $18,439.72
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SUMMARY 1933 EXPENSES
General Control:
School committee expenses
$35.00
Supt. Schools salary
850.00
Secretary salary
250.00
Supt.'s travel expenses & office supplies
180.84
Law enforcement
79.75
$1,395.59
Cost of Instruction :
Teachers' salaries
$17,510.00
Substitutes
192.25
Supervisors' salaries
800.00
Text books
629.41
Supplies
683.10
$19,814.76
Cost of Operation :
Janitors' salaries
$1,369.22
Fuel
1,682.08
Janitors' supplies, etc.
188.45
$3,239.75
Repairs
$359.15
Library books and reference books
171.96
Health
252.46
School physician
45.00
Transportation
1,875.25
Tuition
156.00
New equipment
327.25
Miscellaneous
37.71
Total
$27,674.88
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1933 FINANCIAL ESTIMATES
General Control :
School committee expenses
$25.00
Supt. schools' salary
850.00
Secretary's salary
250.00
Supt.'s travel expenses & office supplies
150.00
Law enforcement
85.00
$1,360.00
Cost of Instruction :
. Teachers' salaries
$17,550.00
Substitutes
200.00
Supervisors' salaries
800.00
Text books
600.00
Supplies
900.00
20,050.00
Cost of Operation :
Janitors' salaries
$1,200.00
Fuel
1,600.00
Janitors' supplies, etc.
225.00
$3,025.00
Repairs
475.00
Health
275.00
School physician
50.00
Transportation
2,100.00
Tuition
160.00
New equipment
200.00
Miscellaneous
40.00
Total estimated expenses
$27,735.00
Estimated 1934 reimbursements :
Supt. Schools
$483.34
General School Fund, Part I (Income tax)
4,612.50
General School Fund, Part II
2,623.55
Tuition & Transportation State Wards
625.56
Tuition to local High School
95.00
Due, from sale unused school properties
20.00
Total estimated reimbursements $8,459.95
Total estimated expenses from local taxation, 1934
$19,275.05
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Appropriations Made in 1933 6
Appropriations Recommended for 1934 10
Jury List 15
Town Officers
3
Reports of-
Assessors
25
Cemetery Trustees 31
Fire Engineers
20
Inspector of Wires
32
Janitor of Sargent Hall
34
Municipal Light Board
21
Playground Commissioners
33
Police Department
17
Public Health Nurse
35
Public Library
29
School Committee
83
Sealer of Weights and Measures
27
Selectmen and Overseers of Poor
13
Tax Collector
79
Town Accountant
36
16
Town Clerk
Town Forest
28
Town Treasurer
78
Trustees Kimball Park
30
Water Commissioners
23
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