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GIFTS DURING THE YEAR SPRUCE STREET SCHOOL
Large silk flag-by the Woman's Relief Corps-to grades 1, 2 and 4.
SOUTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Three silk American flags-by the Woman's Relief Corps-to rooms 2, 3 and 4.
PARK SCHOOL
Three silk American flags-by the Woman's Relief Corps.
Five Grey Gull records-by Mrs. A. A. McManus.
One Victor record-by Miss Mary Norma Murray.
HIGH SCHOOL
Marine picture by Alquist, value $40.00, hung in the assembly hall-Class of 1900.
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The sum of $177.05 to be used in completing the honor roll in the first corridor-Class of 1925. In this connection it gives us great pleasure to acknowledge the second annual dinner given to the football team by the Milford Lodge of Elks.
Mr. P. Eugene Casey has tendered to the school com- mittee the gift of a parcel of land near his Purchase Street development for the location of a school building. At a recent meeting of the board, a committee comprising the superintendent and two members of the board was ap- pointed to confer with Mr. Casey regarding the location of the proposed donation.
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Grace C. Walker.
Entered into rest August fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-five.
A few bright years to contend In earnest work with purpose sure; A spirit courageous to the end; In childhood's heart a place secure.
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CHANGE IN TEACHERS
HIGH SCHOOL-LEFT THE SERVICE
Miss Helen S. Miller, teacher of Science, to accept a position in the Waltham, Mass., High School.
HIGH SCHOOL-ENTERED THE SERVICE
Miss Marie Cenedella, M. H. S., 1920; St. Elizabeth's College, 1925-English.
Miss Rita M. Connors, St. Mary's Academy, 1921; A.B., Emmanuel College, 1925-History, English and Commercial Geography.
Miss Lillian E. Sweet, M. H. S., 1918; A.B., Radcliffe College, 1922-Latin and French.
Miss Catharine A. Somers, of Worcester, Mass., A.B., Trinity College, 1924-Algebra and Science.
GRADES-LEFT THE SERVICE
Mrs. Eileen A. Eckland, grade 6, South School-Re- signed April 3, 1925.
Miss Grace C. Walker, grade 2, Plains Primary School-Deceased, August 14, 1925.
Miss Catherine R. Conway, Geography, Stacy School -Resigned at the end of the summer term, 1925, to be- come assistant critic teacher at the Bridgewater Normal School. Miss Conway had been a teacher in the public schools since 1915, with constantly increasing effective- ness. Miss Conway brought to the school room a rare spirit of busyness and good cheer and won, energized and sent on their way hundreds of Milford young people, who will remember her as their true friend and whose lives are larger for her ministrations. It was inevitable that Miss Conway's work should attract the notice and win the recognition of educational authorities in the larger field.
Miss Gertrude E. Kirby, a teacher of Grade 3 in the Oliver Street School, a successful teacher in the Milford schools since 1916, resigned November 13, 1925, to become Mrs. James O'Grady.
Miss Eileen Loftus, teacher of Grade 5 in Stacy Por- table, resigned at the close of the summer vacation, 1925, to accept a position in the schools of Marlboro.
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ENTERED THE SERVICE
Miss Mary E. Mullane, of Worcester, Mass., late of the Worcester schools, a former teacher and principal in the Milford schools-assigned to the Stacy School.
Miss Rita Scully, St. Mary's Academy, 1922; West- field Normal School, 1924-assigned to grade 6, South School.
Miss Regina Swift, M. H. S., 1923; Framingham. Normal School, 1925-assigned to Bear Hill.
Miss Gertrude A. Wallace, M. H. S., 1923; Framing- ham Normal School, 1925-assigned to the Stacy Schocl.
Miss Alice Birmingham, M. H. S., 1923; Framing- ham Normal School, 1925-assigned to grades 5, 6, Plaing Primary School.
Miss Nina H. Mazzarelli, M. H. S., 1923; Framing- ham Normal School, 1925-assigned to Purchase Gram- mar School.
Miss Ruth M. Edwards, M. H. S., 1922; Miss Neil's Kindergarten Training School, 1925-assigned to special classes.
TRANSFERS
Miss Frances H. Kearnan-grade 3 to grade 4, Oliver Street School.
Miss Julia J. McCarthy-Purchase Grammar School to Fountain Street School.
Miss Evelyn M. Beckett-special classes to Plains. Primary, grade 2 ..
Miss Claire Hogan-Plains Primary, grade 1, to Oliver Street, grade 3.
Miss Mae K. Miller-grades 5, 6, Plains Primary, to grade 1.
Miss Mary Parks-Bear Hill to Stacy Portable.
CHANGES IN TEXT BOOKS
The following text books have been adopted during the year :
American Government in 1925, McGruder, Allyn & Bacon, Boston; First Latin Lessons, Scott; Junior Latin
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Reader, Sanford & Scott, Scott, Foresman & Co., New York; General Language, Leonard & Cox, McFadden English Series; The Thorndike Arithmetics, Rand, Mc- Nally & Co., Chicago; New Essentials of Business Arith- metic, Van Tuyl; Second Course in Algebra, Milne & Downey, American Book Co., Boston; Palgrove's Golden Treasury, Ginn & Co., Boston.
MILFORD TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION CALENDAR 1925-1926
September 24 Business Meeting
30 Social
October 5 Lecture-Recital
"Poetry and Patriotism" Denis A. McCarthy, LL.D.
13 Lecture, "Health Education" Miss Anna W. Johnson
14 Health Brownie
November 16 Concert, Musical Arts Duo
24 Plays
"Neighbors," "The Kleptomaniac"
December
14 Lecture, "Europe of Today"
D. Thomas Curtin
January 18 Professional Meeting
Frank W. Wright
28 Business Meeting
February
9 Stereopticon Lecture, "America" Frederick Vining Fisher
March April
Professional Meeting
May
13 Entertainment, "The Bird Man" Charles Crawford Gorst Social 27 Business Meeting
OFFICERS
President, Rita M. Daigle; Vice President, Catherine M. McNamara ; Secretary, Margaret E. Roche; Treasurer, Rose Bertorelli.
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STATISTICS OF THE WORK OF THE SCHOOL NURSE.
No. children examined with physicians 2919
No. children weighed twice during the year 2712
No. children 10% or more underweight 483
No. children having whooping cough 29
No. children having German measles 287
No. children having scarlet fever
7
No. children having diphtheria
2
No. children having impetigo
30
No. children having tuberculosis
2
No. children taken to Mass. General Hospital
5
No. children taken to Children's Hospital
3
No. children taken to Milford Hospital for X-ray
1
No. children taken to Wrentham State School for examination
4
No. children admitted to Wrentham State School for treatment
2
No. children examined at Eye Clinic at Stacy School
26
No. children fitted to glasses at Clinic
26
No. children taken to oculist in Boston
6
No. home calls
1823
No. children examined at underweight clinic at Town Hall, April 22, 1925
91
No. contacts examined
34
No. children given tuberculin test
89
No. children who reacted to tuberculin test
32
No. children having X-ray of chest
30
No. children found with enlarged or diseased tonsils and adenoids 38
No. children found in need of dentistry
37
No. cases classified as suspicious
12
No. cases of Hilum tuberculosis
1
No. cases of pulmonary tuberculosis
2
No. of the foregoing group having tonsils and ade- noids removed 16
No. having dental work done 20
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No. attending Southern Worcester County Health Camp at Sterling, Mass., for 2 weeks each No. attending Sharon Health Camp at Sharon, Mass. 4
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No. children admitted to Westfield State School 3
2
No. children returned from Westfield-cured No. children remaining at Westfield School, Jan. 1,1926
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ATTENDANCE.
The Attendance Officer's report follows : Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1925, calls from the Superinten- dent, including Continuation School, Evening School and working children 191
Calls from the Principal of the High School 69
Calls from the Principal of the Stacy School 155
Calls from teachers of grade schools 101
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Causes :
Truancy
114
Sickness
87
Carelessness of parents
23
Taken from street and home
16
Lack of clothing
10
Left school to work
33
Left town
3
Excusable
32
Pupils over 16 years of age
4
325
There have been five court cases, of which two were under 16 years of age, and three were in the Evening School, under 21 years of age; four cases were put on probation, and one case defaulted.
Visits to schools
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REPAIRS. PAINTING. West Street School :- Ceiling tinted in Miss Gil-
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EXHIBIT O1
WORCESTER COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICE
W. C.E.S .: FIRST Prize
SONGS P9 25
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Exhibits
ATIONAL APPU WEEKS
Sat plenty of them
OCT. 31-Nov. G
4 H CLUB EXHIBIT AT ANNUAL
MILFORD TRADE SHOW.
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more's room ; building and outbuilding, one coat outside- E. F. Porter, $156.00.
Oliver Street School :- North side walls of Miss Ken- ney's room redecorated ; teacher's desk and pupils' desks and chairs revarnished in all school rooms; all woodwork in building, above basement, revarnished; ceilings in up- per and lower halls retinted; boys' and girls' toilets re- painted-E. F. Porter, $293.35.
High School :- Outside trim painted; outside doors revarnished; ceiling in room 5 tinted; tops of pupils' desks and chairs revarnished-A. W. Mckinley, $487.85.
Park School :- Blackboards done over; basement whitened-A. W. Mckinley, $62.70.
Fountain Street, Purchase Grammar and Purchase Primary :- Blackboards done over-A. W. Mckinley, $7.65.
Stacy School :- Outside trim painted-T. E. Morse Co., $108.00.
Stacy Portables :- Outside walls repainted; roof treated with preservative paint ; blackboards done over- A. W. Mckinley, $129.00.
Spruce Street School :- Outside trim painted-A. W. Mckinley, $130.00.
Chapin Strcet School :- Building and outbuilding painted outside; fences painted-A. W. Mckinley, $162.50.
Hoboken School :- Building and outbuilding painted -E. F. Porter, $52.00.
Bear Hill :- Outbuilding painted-T. E. Morse Co., $15.08.
Plains Grammar and Annex :- Blackboards done over-A. W. Mckinley, $29.70.
Braggville :- Blackboards done over-A. W. McKin- ley, $5.00.
South School :- Fence painted; blackboards done over-A. W. Mckinley, $47.50.
CARPENTER WORK.
West Street School :- Windows tightened; new
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thresholds in boys' outbuilding; fence repaired-T. F. Maher, $70.00.
Oliver Street School :- New treads in basement stairs ; about 20 pupils' chairs repaired; new runs in win- dows as needed; new cords in windows-T. F. Maher, $424.00.
High School :- Floors repaired in main corridors- Waters & Hynes.
Chapin Street School :- Outbuildings reshingled and otherwise repaired; conductor pipes rehung; new fence in rear of building-Waters & Hynes, $160.00.
Plains Primary School :- Conductor pipes repaired -Waters & Hynes, $32.00.
South School: - Fence repaired; outbuildings shingled and repaired-T. F. Maher, $30.00.
PLUMBING AND HEATING.
There was the usual summer overhauling and repairs of stoves and furnaces.
SPECIAL REPAIRS.
High School boilers-J. F. Damon, $437.40. Claflin roof-W. J. Maguire Co., $365.70.
REPLACEMENTS.
Oliver Street steps-Peter Consigli, $290.00. New furnaces at West Street-F. A. Gould, $370.00. Inside stairs at West Street-Waters & Hynes, $116.33.
NEW EQUIPMENT.
Craigulators, Stacy boilers-Efficiency Engineering Corp., $280.00. New seats and desks at Stacy School- Kenney Bros. & Wolkins, $451.50. New seats and desks at West Street-Kenney Bros. & Wolkins, $481.60.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
MORE ROOM FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL.
In the High School, 330 pupils are on a shorter day in the morning and 160 pupils are on a shorter day in the afternoon. In the elementary schools, 227 pupils are on a shortened school day. This is the second year of short-
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ened sessions in the High School and the third consecutive year in one elementary school.
Compared with normal conditions and practice in the Milford High School, the students now attending are at a tremendous disadvantage; in fact, they are being woefully defrauded and for the following reasons: The morning periods are shortened six minutes-30 minutes for the whole morning session-and the afternoon pe- riods are shortened 9 minutes, or a total of 54 minutes for the entire session. These sessions were inadequate for work leading to college and normal schcol credits before the recent changs in such requirements and the present conditions are only tolerated by the State Board of Edu- cation, in a Class A High School, with the understanding that they were and are temporary and to be remedied as soon as possible With the school in session all day long, there is no opportunity for return assignments for either scholarship or discipline, thus putting a serious crimp in the scholastic efficiency and (potentially) in dis- ciplinary effectiveness. Moreover, there is no opportunity for conferences of principal and teachers or for extra- curricular activities of the pupils. Facts like these are apt to be lost sight of by the general public because it is a debt or charge against the future, but it is a debt none the less which these young people must pay all through their lives in decreased efficiency and earning power and the consequent PROPORTIONATE LOSS IN COURAGE AND SELF- RESPECT.
In any list of recommendations for the public schools of Milford, therefore, the most important place must be given to the need for more school room, especially in the High and Grammar grades. As has been said again and again elsewhere in this report and in reports of previous years, not only must large sums be expended for new High School accommodations, but such accommodations must be competently designed in the spirit, and from the viewpoint, of the most enlightened modern practice. It is not enough to provide school seatings and conveniences
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for a number of pupils, but all elements of the problem must be considered, and any decent, adequate solution must cover them all. A High School building is not a High School building, properly speaking, at all, unless it con- tains, in addition to the required number of school seat- ings and adequate conveniences : (1) an adequate assem- bly hall, properly equipped for social, rhetorical, musical and certain other extra-curricular activities; (2) a prop- erly equipped and lighted gymnasium; (3) well planned, lighted, furnished and equipped laboratory facilities ; (4) manual training rooms for both boys and girls; with adequate equipment; (5) room and equipment for school lunches; (6) study rooms; (7) a centrally located, ade- quately lighted and furnished library of sufficient size; (8) an up-to-date commercial section with sunny, attrac- tive rooms for typewriting, bookkeeping, banking and business practice ; (9) a drawing and art section of suf- ficient size and proper proportion, with correct lighting, and (10) (for Milford) decent administrative quarters for the School Department.
ATYPICAL CLASSES.
In previous reports, I have recommended atypical classes. Some progress has been made looking to the real- ization of this during the present year. It is expected that a clinic will be held in Milford the coming spring, as the result of which the actual number of cases will be deter- mined and the necessary steps can be taken to start such classes in Milford. The writer cannot stress too strongly the importance of suitable quarters, and, what is still more vital, adequately trained special teachers for this work.
MANUAL COURSES FOR BOYS.
The schools of Milford will never approximate their maximum efficiency until the long standing injustice whereby the boys in the middle grades have no hand training whatever, is removed and some adequate hand work is provided for them.
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AN ADDITIONAL MUSIC TEACHER.
Attention has been called in previous reports to the analogy in the departments of drawing and music. A second supervisor of drawing has been provided and a second supervisor of music should be forthcoming.
HEATING SYSTEMS.
Furnaces in the older part of the Plains Primary School may last until the end of the current school year, with temporary repairs, but they cannot serve longer. (These heaters are over 20 years old.) If feasible, I recommend that the small auxiliary boiler be removed and a second boiler of like size and capacity to that al- ready in operation there, be laid down in the boiler room in the new part of the building. It is thought that the two large boilers thus secured would heat the Primary building and the annex nearby. The two furnaces in the annex, which are nearly new, could then be taken down and reset in two rooms where there are still stoves. I further recommend that a new heating plant be installed in the Spruce Street School. These furnaces are over 20 years old and have reached the end of their usefulness.
In conclusion, I take this opportunity, from my heart to thank you, gentlemen of the committee, not only for the patience and consideration that I, as well as my fel- low-workers, have at all times received at your hands, but for the expression of sympathy from you to me and mine when I was forced out of the game and for many weeks occupied a stretcher on the sidelines. In this con- nection I wish in addition to thanking my associates for their continued co-operation, again most cordially to thank them for their manifold cheery words and kindly deeds during those slowly dragging days.
Respectfully submitted,
ALMORIN O. CASWELL, Superintendent of Schools.
Milford, Mass., January 15, 1926.
Report of the School Physicians.
To the School Committee :.
The following tables show the results of our inspec- tion of the Milford schools for the year 1925.
Table I-Showing the Grade of the Defects :
·Percent-
Prim. Gram. High Total
age
Whole number of pu-
pils inspected. ..... 1288
977
·480
2745
No. having no notice- able defects. 249
298
221
768
28%
No. having only slight defects
326
275
140
741
27%
No. having serious de- fects
731 404
119
1236
45%
This is the most satisfactory showing made in any yqear since the beginning of school inspection in 1909. In that year the proportion of pupils having no noticeable defects was 9 per cent. From 1911 to 1922, inclusive, it it was 12 per cent. In 1923 it rose to 14%; in 1924 to 22% ; and this year it reaches 28%, a most gratifying im- provement. Let it be noted that the most notable im- provement is coincident with the development of the work of the school nurse and the Dental Clinic.
Table II-Showing the Nature of the Defeats :
Percent-
Prim. Gram. High Total
age
Whole number of pu-
pils inspected . . . . .1288
977
480
2745
No. having mouth and teeth defects. 811
526
124
1461
53%
No. having nose and throat defects. 288
350
101
789
27%
No. having miscellane-
ous defects : ... 30
37
58
125
5%
Here again we find evidence of improvement in the
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smaller than usual proportion of defects of the various kinds; and this is especially evident in the eighth grade, though this is not shown in the tables as given.
Table III-Showing the Comparative Weights of the Pupils :
Whole number of pupils weighed . 2612
Number of pupils 10% below the average. 483
Number of these having special examination at underweight clinic 195
Number of the 195 having X-rays of the chest. .. 40
School inspection reveals facts which are somewhat surprising, and it may interest the commtitee to know some of them as well as their bearing on the health, the efficiency, and the achievements of the pupils; also the relation which they bear to the teachers' labors and their results.
So far as we have completed the weighing of the chil- dren, we have found 483 out of 2,112 who were at least 10% under the average weight of their age and height. That is, nearly 23% of the school children are so far under average weight as to excite grave fear that they may be suffering from a serious health defect, possibly tuber- culosis in an incipient stage, perhaps diseased tonsils or teeth, insufficient food, improper diet, or bad hygiene in the home or in the school.
Whatever the cause, the effect is appalling-nearly one-fourth of the pupils below the High School in such poor physical condition that their weight is 10% or more below normal. Without doubt, this condition is causing failure in studies and failure of promotion. It is a matter of some cost to the Town when a child is compelled to spend two years in one grade; but it is a much greater expense to the parents, and an inestimable expense to the child.
We have found so many instances of close parallelism between poor physical condition and poor mental attain -. ments that we feel very sure that in most cases, correction of one would be followed by great improvement in the
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other. If parents could be induced to consult their physi- cian at regular intervals, rather than wait until actual sickness compels, they would learn the value of preven- tion and the proper way of ensuring the health of their children.
The good results of school inspection are much more apparent today than they were ten years ago. Parents are more interested in the notices which the children bring home after examination by the school physician. It would seem almost unbelievable that there should still be some whose apprehension is not aroused nor their curi- osity excited even after they have been notified three or four successive years that their child is suffering from adenoids and diseased or abnormally enlarged tonsils, and this, perhaps, in the face of the fact that he or she has had to repeat one, two or even three years of school work. Such cases do occur; our school nurse is continually fol- lowing them up, tirelessly preaching to them the gospel of health ; but there are still too many who fail to respond to her preaching.
This year we have enrolled in our first grades throughout the Town 280 pupils. Of these, 44 are repeat- ers (spending their second or third year in the first grade)-over 15%. It would seem that the cause of fail- ure might be easily determined in the low classes. The excuse of too many out-of-school attractions would have . less weight in the cases of these six-year-old children. Is it la k of mental ability? Probably not; if it were we ought to find the same proportion of failures throughout the upper grades. Is it poor teaching? No; our best and most conscientious teachers have many failures. The cause seems to lie within the child, and it is probably phy- sical rather than mental. Many of them enter the first grade too young. They are not sufficiently developed to grasp what is being offered them, and they waste a year without much intellectual gain and with a distinct physi- cal loss. The year would have done them much more real good if it had been spent in the open air and sunlight.
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There can be little doubt but that a large number of the failures in the first grade are due to physical defects which might be readily corrected but are not corrected until the child has shown by its slow mental and physical growth, its frequent failures and repeated illnesses that something is radically wrong. By this time, he or she has left the first grade and may have reached the second, third or fourth, after surmounting difficulties which never should have been allowed to obstruct his progress.
These facts as well as the observations of several years in the work of the school inspection lead us to be- lieve that there would be some advantage in raising the age of school entrance to six years.
JOHN M. FRENCH, M.D., JOHN V. GALLAGHER, M.D., School Physicians.
EYE and EAR TESTS.
School.
Number
Enrolled.
Defective
Eyesight.
Defective
in
Hearing.
Parents
and
Guardians
Notified.
High
492
46
3
31
Stacy
574
61
1
45
Spruce Street
179
17
1
13
Park
150
12
4
16
South
151
9
4
11
Plains Grammar and Annex
246
30
1
29
Plains Primary
342
21
6
19
Purchase Grammar
39
0
0
0
Purchase Primary
37
2
2
4
Claflin
229
11
3
14
Chapin Street
102
4
0
3
Oliver Street
189
8
2
10
West Street
75
5
0
3
Hoboken
28
0
0
0
Fountain Street
54
3
0
3
Bear Hill
13
0
0
0
Braggville
14
0
0
0
Total
2914
229
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June 24 1925
Allan A. Fastman.
TOWN HALL,
Wednesday Evening, June 24, 1925.
PROGRAM.
March
Orchestra. William M. Marcus, Leader.
Entrance of Senior Class escorted by Junior Class
Selection
Orchestra.
Over the Foaming Wave (Introducing "Home, Sweet
Home")
Wilson
M. H. S. Glee Club. ·
Our Yesterdays Leslie
Where, O Where
College Song
William Francis Broderick,
Allan Arthur Eastman
Charles William Gilmore.
Address-The Importance of Education
Professor Zelotes W. Coombs,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Keep on Hopin' Goodbye
Maxwell
Tosti
M. H. S. Glee Club.
Piano Solo-Prelude (E Sharp Minor)
Rachmaninoff
Beatrice Anna Egan.
Presentation of Diplomas Hon. John C. Lynch, Member of School Committee.
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Class Ode
Award of Prizes
American Legion School Awards Past Commander William G. Pond, Sergt. Powers Post 59, A. L.
Selection
Orchestra.
CLASS OF 1925.
Raymond Rockwood Adams Robert Harold Ambler Elizabeth Jessie Angus Lillian Gertrude Bagley Theresa Amelia Balconi Dorothy Mae Batchelor Lillian Anna Bellofatto Amelia Florence Bodio Florence Louise Bourcier William Francis Broderick Vivienne Mae Bruce Edward Vincent Burns Josephine Marguerite Calarese Harvey Morgan Clough Nicholas George Colantonio Francis William Collins Laura Rita Consoletti Mary Lucy Consoletti Frank Bernard Copeland Thomas Francis Davoren Esther Marie DeSantis Allan Arthur Eastman Beatrice Anna Egan Helen Mary Feeley Mary Jeanette Fisher Grace Beryl Flemming Anna Doris Fletcher
Sarah Ellen Ford Henry Joseph Frascotti George Richard Gagliardi Charles William Gilmore Elmer Prescott Griswold Mary Frances Ianzito Ruth Georgia Ingalls Dorothy Harriet King Marion Ellis King Sylvia Dorothy Kurlan Ida Ruth Kurlansky Patrick Wallace Larkin Mary Dorcas Magurn William Melvin Marcus Mary Avis Moran Helen Elizabeth Morgan Geraldine Rita Murphy Anna Lucille Neistein Zarookie Miriam Noorjanian Clarence Frederic O'Connell John Francis O'Neill Dorothy Edith Peterson Lillian Mollie Rice Harry Rosenfeld Joseph Rosenfeld Saul Rosenthal Albin Bertel Seastrom
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