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ADDED SINCE DECEMBER 31, 1941
Abbie W. Sargent-A. Smart lot
225.00
2.62
227.62
Francis P. Clement
200.00
2.33
202.33
Wilbur Colby
200.00
2.00
202.00
Katherine McMasters
150.00
1.25
151.25
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CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS -- (Concluded)
NAME
Balance Original Dec. 31, 41 Amount
Interest
Balance drawals · Dec. 31, 42 With-
Louise A. Thacher
200.00
1.67
201.67
Walter Colby
100.00
.67
100.67
Walter Colby-W. H. Colby
100.00
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100.67
Alice Purdy
100.00
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100.67
John Poyen
500.00
3.33
503.33
Anna Bird
200.00
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200.33
Pearl Stevents
150.00
150.00
$ 27,947.74 $
575.86 |$
633.94|$ 30,064.66
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PUBLIC SERVICE ENTERPRISE FUNDS
Dec. 1,'42 Balance
Interest
Added since Balance Jan. 1'42
Dec. 1,'42
Merrimac Savings-Electric Light Depreciation Fund
$17,393.40
$344.79
$1,238.25
$18,976.44
Provident Institution-Electric Light-Depreciation Fund
2,880.18
72.45
2,952.63
Pentucket Savings Bank-Electric Light-Depreciation Fun
2,865.88
57.59
2,923.47
$23,139.46
$474.83
$24,852.54
KIMBALL PARK FUNDS
Original Amount
Dec. 31,41 Balance
Interest
With- Balance drawals Dec. 31,42
Amos Weed
$1,860.86
$2,002.51
$40.24
$40.00
$2,002.75
Judith Kimball
1,000.00
1,069.80
21.49
23.50
1,067.79
$2,860.86
$3,072.31
$61.73
$63.50
$3,070.54
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
Original Amount
Dec. 31,41 Balance
Interest
With- drawals
Balance Dec. 31,42
James Whittier
$487.07|
$633.22
$12.72
$645.94
D. J. Poore
500.00
601.45
12.08
613.53
A. E. Goodwin
200.00
246.68
4.95
251.63
Laura Patten
500.00
553.36
11.11
564.47
*Willie Colby
200.00
1.33
201.33
Thomas H. Hoyt
10,224.21
206.85
500.00
10,237.31
308.25
Balances shown in Merrimac Savings Bank Books
$12,258.92
$ 555.29
$ 500.00
$12,514.21
Haverhill Savings Bank T. H. Hoyt Fund
5,000.00
100.00
100.00
5,000.00
Danvers Savings Bank T. H. Hoyt Fund
7,500.00
206.25
206.25
7,500.00
$24,758.92
$861.54
$806.25
$25,014.21
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TOWN OF MERRIMAC
WARRANT FOR ANNUAL TOWN MEETING
ESSEX, ss.
To Leon L. Dow, one of the Constables of the Town of Merrimac,
GREETING:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the legal voters of the Town of Merrimac to meet in Sargent Hall on
MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1943
at six o'clock in the forenoon to act on the following articles, namely :-
Article 1. To elect a Moderator for one year, Town Clerk for one year, three Selectmen for one year, three Members of the Department of Public Welfare for one year, one Assessor for three years, Treasurer for one year, Collector of Taxes for one year, one Member of the School Committee for three years, one Trustee of Ceme- teries for three years, two Trustees of the Public Library for three years, one Trustee of the Public Library for one year, one Trustee of Kimball Park for three years, one Commissioner of Playground for five years, one Commissioner of Playground for two years, one Commis- sioner of Municipal Light for three years, one Water Commissioner for three years, three Constables for one year, three Surveyors of Lumber and Measurers of Wood and Bark for one year, and a Tree Warden for one year.
In voting under this article the Polls may be closed not earlier than four o'clock P. M.
Article 2. To fix the compensation of the Collector of Taxes.
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Article 3. To determine what sum of money shall be raised to defray the necessary and usual charges and expenses of the Town for the year 1943 and make ap- propiations for the same.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars for the Maintenance of Road Machinery to keep road machinery in operation, said amount to be transferred from the Road Machinery account.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1944 and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Sec- tion 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to fix the com- pensation of the members of the Merrimac Bureau of Old Age Assistance who may or may not be members of the Board of Public Welfare, said compensation to be paid from any available funds granted by the Federal Govern- ment for Administrative purposes.
Article 7. To see what action the Town will take to provide a list of candidates for the 1944 Citizens Caucus, whose nominees shall be placed on the ballot as candi- dates at the Annual Town Meeting of 1944.
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropiate a sum of money to be placed at the disposal of the Playground Commission to be used at their discre- tion on the playground during the current year.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen
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to sell at public auction, after first giving notice of the time and place of sale by posting such notice of sale in some convenient and public place in the Town fourteen days at least before the sale, property heretofore taken or which may be taken by the Town under Tax Title procedure, provided that the Town Treasurer with ap- proval of the Selectmen or their authorized agent may at the time of such public auction reject any bid which they may deem inadequate, or may after such auction has been held sell such property provided that in their esti- mation an adequate offer may be made.
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of five hundred ($500.00) dollars to be expended on highway work on thickly settled streets.
Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of two hundred fifty ($250.00) dollars for the Board of Registrars Expense under Chapter 427 and Chapter 440 of the Acts and Resolves of the General Court for the year 1938, said appropriation being made for the year 1943.
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used under the super- vision of the Selectmen for any necessary repairs to Tax Title Possessions.
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two hundred and Thirty Dollars ($230.00) from the sale of Cemetery Lots, such sum or part thereof, to be expended under the direction of the Cemetery Trustees for the "care, improvement and em- bellishment" of said Cemetery, according to Section 15 and Section 25 of Chapter 114 of the General Laws.
Article 14. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient for the erection of a shed to be used by the Highway Department, or to take action relative thereto.
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Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to regulate the use of the Town Hall for basketball purposes or to take any other action relative thereto.
Article 16. On petition of Harriett F. Bigelow and twenty two others to see if the Town will vote to change to River Road the names of the streets along the Merri- mack River from the Haverhill line to the Amesbury line, streets which are now known as Bridge Street, that part of Merrimac Street lying between Water Street and Bridge Street and Water Street.
Article 17. To see if the Town will vote to borrow on account of tax titles under Chapter 49, Acts of 1933, as amended, to be used to meet appropriations for the year 1943, the amount so voted to be applied by the Assessors for the purpose of 1943 tax reductions.
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of Two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) to be expended under the supervision of the Local Rationing Board.
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended by the Merri- mac Committee on Public Safety for purpose of civilian defense activities, or take any other action relative thereto.
Article 20. To see if the Town will vote to appropri- ate the sum of three thousand six hundred sixty dollars and seventy five cents ($3,660.75) from the Electric Light Operating balance to be used by the Assessors with the estimated receipts to fix the tax rate for the year 1943.
Article 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of One thousand Dollars (1,000.00) to complete work at the playground.
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Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate by transfer from the unexpended balance of the W. P. A. account the sum of Five thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) to the following accounts :-
To the Welfare Department the sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00).
To the Soldiers Relief Account the sum of Two Thou- : sand Dollars ($2,000.00).
To the Aid to Dependent Children Account the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).
Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be expended for recrea- tional purposes for the young people of the town, or to take an other action relative thereto.
Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) from the surplus revenue account to the estimated receipts for the year 1943, for the purpose of reducing the 1943 tax levy, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation in accordance with Section 23, Chapter 59 of the General Laws, or to take any ac- tion thereon.
Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money sufficient to make necessary repairs in and on the Town Hall or take any action rela- tive thereto.
Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to be used to repair the Mill Street Bridge, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money to clean Stevens Pond so that it will be put in proper condition to flood for skat- ing, or take any action relative thereto.
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Article 28. To see what action, if any, the Town will take relative to authorizing the school board or school superintendent or other departmental heads to dispose of all standard typewriters not absolutely necessary to each said department.
Article 29. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropiate a sum of money sufficient to meet such legal expenses as may occur due to suits pending against the town, or take any action relative thereto.
Article 30 To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate, or to transfer from available funds in the treasury, a sum of money for the purchase of war bonds or other bonds that are legal investments for savings banks, in order to establish a post-war rehabilitation fund, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 3, Acts of 1943.
And you are hereby required to serve this warrant by posting attested copies thereof in seven public places in said Town of Merrimac, at least seven days before said time of meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands at Merrimac this second day of February 1943.
RALPH L. BUZZELL HAZEN M. EMERY ARTHUR D. LOCKWOOD Selectmen of Merrimac.
A true copy, attest.
LEON L. DOW
Constable.
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By virtue of the above warrant to me directed, I hereby notify and warn the legal voters of the Town of Merrimac to meet at the time and place and for the pur- pose therein expressed.
LEON L. DOW Constable.
Merrimac, Mass., February 2, 1943.
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REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of the Town of Merrimac:
In accordance with the By-Laws of the Town of Merrimac and the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Finance Committee recommend the following appropriations to be made for the year 1943:
Moderator $ 12.00
Selectmen, Chairman Salary $ 450.00
Selectmen, Clerk Salary 125.00
Selectmen, other Member Salary
100.00
675.00
Selectmens Departmental Expenses
400.00
Public Welfare, Chairman, Salary
200.00
Public Welfare, Clerk, Salary 200.00
Public Welfare, Other Member, Salary
100.00
500.00
Town Accountant, Salary
1,820.00
Town Accountant, Expenses
125.00
Treasurer, Salary
450.00
Treasurers Expenses
800.00
Tax Collector, Salary
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Tax Collector, Expenses
900.00
Assessors, Chairman, Salary $ 275.00 I
Assessors, Other Two
375.00
650.00
Assessors, Expenses
200.00
Town Clerk, Salary
225.00
Town Clerk, Expenses 1
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143.50 310.00 100.00
3,900.00
375.00
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1,025.00
500.00
400.00
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1,250.00
1,200.00
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2,000.00 4,800.00
100.00 1,175.00
3,854.24
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10,000.00 3,600.00
2,500.00
29,000.00
TOWN OF MERRIMAC
Town Hall Maintenance:
Salary of Janitor of Town Offices $ 240.00 Maintenance
Town Hall Repairs
Bonding Town Officers Election Officers
Fire Engineers Salary Chief
Fire Engineers, Salary Clerk Fire Engineers, Salary Other
Fire Department
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Salary
Sealer of Weights and Measures, Expenses
Inspector of Wiring
Inspector of Wiring, Expenses
Dog Officer (To cover fees)
Moth Department
Tree Warden
Town Forest
Public Health Nurse, and Expenses Board of Health
Inspector of Animals, Salary Inspector of Slaughtering, Salary
Inspector of Milk, Salary
Essex County T. B. Hospital
Highway and Chapter 81
Sidewalks, Railings and Bridges Snow and Washouts
Rocks Bridge Street Lights
Public Welfare State Aid
Soldiers Relief
Aid to Dependent Children
Old Age Assistance
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3,500.00
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School Committee, Salary Chairman _$ 50.00
School Committee, Salary Clerk 75.00
School Committee, Salary Other 50.00
175.00
School Department
29,100.00
Public Library
1,000.00
Memorial Day
150.00
Vocational Aid
300.00
Lighting Town Buildings I
406.76
Insurance
2,300.00
Reserve Fund
500.00
Interest
500.00
Cemeteries
1,000.00
Vital Statistics
90.00
Water in Town Buildings
243.17
Printing Town Reports
230.00
$116,763.88
JOHN K. SARGENT,
WM. H. FRANKLIN,
HARRY A. PEASE, JAMES T. COLGAN, HERMAN F. DAVIS,
Merrimac Finance Committee.
VOTE FOR OFFICERS, ANNUAL ELECTION
March 2, 1942
Votes Cast (403 Men, 359 Women), Total 762.
Moderator, for one year,
Clifford R. Howe, Forest Street
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Blanks 151
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George S. Gulezian, Main Street Clifford R. Howe, Forest Street
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Treasurer, for one year:
Roy G. Journeay, Prospect Street
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Collector of Taxes, for one year: Norman E. Taylor, School Street Fred C. Twombly, Grove Street
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School Committee, for three years: Melissa W. Buzzell, School Street Annie L, Tucker, Locust Street
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Selectmen, for one year:
Ralph L. Buzzell, School Street
Hazen M. Emery, Judkins Court
Arthur D. Lockwood, Main Street Almore I. Nash, Merrimac Street Frederick A. Small, Church Street Blanks
Board of Public Welfare, for one year: Lillian M. Chase, Church Street Hazen M. Emery, Judkins Court Almore I. Nash, Merrimac Street Frederick A. Small, Church Street Ellen M. Wallace, Central Street
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Assessor, for three years:
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Town Clerk, for one year, C. Howard Phillips, Church Street
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Water Commissioner, for three years:
Dale W. Blackden, Sawyer Street
Charles A. Lancaster, Locust Street
Constables, for one year:
James P. Donahue, Lincoln Street Leon L. Dow, Mechanic Street
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Trustee of Public Library ---- for the unexpired term of John B. Judkins, for one year:
Gertrude L. Kelly, Birch Meadow Road
Chester E. Whiting, Main Street
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Library Trustees, for three years:
Grace F. Gibbs, Locust Street
Cary A. Reynolds, Sawyer Street Abbie W. Sargent, School Street
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Light Commissioner, for three years:
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Trustee of Cemeteries, for three years: E. Clifton Hargraves, Currier Avenue Cecil E. Welch, Middle Street Blanks
Trustee of Kimball Park, for three years: Herbert C. McIlvin, Main Street Richard A. Sargent, Main Street Blanks
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Tree Warden, for one year:
Samuel C. Doust, Church Street
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Playground Commission, for five years.
Napoleon J. Dion, Locust Street George D. Currier, East Main Street
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Surveyors of Lumber and Measurers of
Wood and Bark, for one year:
Richard E. Sargent, Bear Hill Road Ralph L. Buzzell, School Street
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
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TOWN OF MERRIMAC 105
SCHOOL REPORT
In accordance with custom and with the Acts of the General Court, 1859, Chapter 57, we herewith submit to you the seventy-third annual printed school report.
WILLARD T. KELLY, Chairman ANNIE L. TUCKER, Secretary HOWARD L. DELONG
School Committee.
SCHOOL CALENDAR
(Continued from 1941 Town Report)
All Dates Inclusive
Winter Term:
January 4, 1943 to February 19, 1943 7 weeks
Third Term:
March 1, 1943 to April 16, 1943 7 weeks
Spring Term: April 26, 1943 to June 18, 1943
(Centre & Port) 8 weeks
April 26, 1943 to graduation (High &
Prospect St.) 9 weeks
Tuesday evening, June 22, 1943, Prospect Street School graduation.
Thursday evening, June 24, 1943, High School graduation.
September 7, 1943 - Registration Day for all entering pupils.
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Fall Term:
September 8, 1943 to December 17, 1943 (Centre & Port) 15 weeks
September 8, 1943 to December 22, 1943 (High & Prospect Street) 16 weeks
Winter Term:
January 3, 1944 to February 18, 1944 7 weeks
Schools also will close on the following days: Memorial Day, observed, May 31; Columbus Day, October 12; Essex County Teachers' Association, : November 5; Armistice Day, November 11; Thanksgiving recess, November 25 and 26.
NO SCHOOL SIGNAL
7:15 a.m. 11-11-long pause-1 7:15 a.m. 11-11-11
No school in grades only. No school in all schools.
11:20 a.m. Same signals One session.
12:30 p.m. Same signals
No school in afternoon.
SCHOOL OFFICERS
John C. Page, Ed. D., Superintendent of Schools West Newbury Tel. W. N. 52
Margaret R. Sawyer, Secretary
West Newbury
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Howard L. DeLong, Supervisor of Attendance 7 Pine Street.
A. Frances Davis, M. D., School Physician 16 Main Street
Ramona H. Hewson, R. N., School Nurse 10 Woodland Street
DIRECTORY OF SCHOOL STAFF - OCTOBER 1942
Position
Training
Total Years experience
Years in Merrimac
High School
Prin., science, math.
Chauncey D. MacKay
B.S.E., Boston University, 1924
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English
Isaiah Chase
A.B. 1930, A.M. 1932, Harvard
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A.B., Bates, 1912
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French and Latin
Mary A. Cummings Roberta C. Annon
B.S., University of N.H., 1931
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History
Jeannette E. Bedard
B.S., in Ed., Salem Teachers, 1942
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Prin., Grade 8
Bridgewater Normal, 1929
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Grade 7
B.S., in Ed., Salem Teachers, 1941
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Centre School
Prin., Grade 6
Angeline C. Shaheen
North Adams Normal, 1926
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Grade 5
Marion E. Journeay
Portsmouth Training School, 1912
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Grade 4
Edith A. Gillen
Bridgewater Teachers, 1934
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Grade 3
Sarah B. Titcomb
Salem Normal, 1905
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Grade 2
Helen K. Manning
Bridgewater Normal, 1918
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Grade 1
Elaine W. Blackden
Aroostook State Normal, 1923
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Merrimacport School
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Special Class
Howard C. Patchett
B.A., Union, 1914; M.A. Clark, 1926
Drawing Teacher
Annie A. Kelly
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Music Teacher
Doris C. Currier
Mass. School of Art, 1906 Institute of Music Pedagogy
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Commercial
Helen H. Donaghue Louise E. Anzuoni
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BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
In addition to the usual minor repairs, new cement steps were built during the summer on the south side of Centre School, to replace the wooden steps which had rotted. These new steps still need a railing. At the Prospect Street School the ceiling and walls of the hall were washed and finished in buff and white, and a table was built for the seventh grade room. Early in the year a room was built at the high school in the lower hall for a Red Cross class in Home Nursing. At the Port School the basement was given Cellotex winter protection.
CONTACTS WITH THE WAR EFFORT
Merrimac High School, like all other high schools, is facing the problem of what to do about the diploma of the boy who leaves high school to join the armed forces somewhat before he has completed his full four years of high school work. Already the state department has re- commended that three and one-half years or more of creditable work be accepted if the boy begins active duty thereafter. A boy who expects to receive his diploma should stay at school until actually called by active duty. No. promise of a diploma can be made until the work has been done satisfactorily up to the point of leaving. The boy's record must indicate that he had every expectation of a diploma if he had stayed through June. In event of less than three and one-half years, each case will have to be taken up individually, in view of the promise of the record up to the time of leaving for active duty. A boy who has been granted a high school diploma on the basis of the promise of his record up to the time of: leaving for active duty will receive his diploma in absentia at the time of the graduation of his class in June.
Throughout 1942, courses at the high school, and teacher and pupil activities within and without all schools, have related themselves to the war effort. At
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the high school a course beginning September in Pre- Flight Aviation enrolling twelve boys and one girl has been given by Mr. Mackay (and reference and text books have been added), a Red Cross course in First Aid (Res- cue Squad) three times a week beginning March 30 and enrolling twenty boys and girls was given by Mr. Isaiah Chase, and a Red Cross course in Home Nursing for senior girls in the new home nursing room was given once a week by Mrs. Ramona H. Hewson beginning February 5 (eight certificates given) and was organized again be- gining in September the last period on Thursday (four enrolled). Each week for the social science department the well-illustrated World News Map of the Week has been brought by the superintendent, and a chart of de- mocracy was added to the school equipment.
Throughout the schools the war effort has included in current events and other subjects, discussions of the issues involved. Government literature to teachers, and posters, have been distributed or posted, in large quanti- ties. Children from fourteen to sixteen years of age whose parents consented were allowed working certifi- cates for part-time harvesting or apple picking when no serious scholastic handicap seemed to be involved. The commercial department at the high school as far as pos- sible has made stencils needed for mimeographing ma- terials for Civilian Defense. Teachers have helped when needed in draft registration and have (with the added help of many public-spirited citizens) initiated several rationing programs including sugar (trade) on April 28 and 29 and (consumer) on May 4, 5, 6, and 7, gasoline on July 9, 10, and 11, and fuel oil registration on October 28, 29, and 30, tailoring of fuel books on November 16 and 17 and delivery of fuel oil books on November 18 and 19. Further volunteer help in tabulating on December 15 and 16. Direct sales of war stamps and bonds through the schools was started at Centre School early in the year and was later extended to all schools, with monthly reports to the Treasury. In Centre School alone the sales
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from January 19 to June 12 were $610.95. Interruption of the school program has necessarily been considerable, but all schools were in session the first three days of Christmas week, to make up part of the time lost.
ENROLLMENT
On the first of October the enrollment of the Merri- mac public schools was 402, distributed as follows: At Centre 216, at Prospect Street 68, at Merrimacport (spe- cial) 23, at High School 95. Further distribution was: At Centre, Mrs. Blackden (Grade I) 39, Mrs. Manning (Grade II) 35, Miss Titcomb (Grade III) 37, Miss Gillen (Grade IV) 37, Mrs. Journeay (Grade V) 32, Mrs. Sha- heen (Grade VI) 36. At Prospect Street, Miss Anzuoni (Grade VII) 38, Mrs. Donaghue (Grade VIII) 30. At High School, (Grade IX) 30, (X) 25, (XI) 14, (XII) 25, ' (P. G.) 1.
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