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The School Committee reserves the right to determine who shall drive the busses, also to increase or decrease the length of the routes, in which case the recompense for "operating costs" shall be increased or decreased accordingly.
The School Committee further agrees to pay for use and operation of the busses for extra work at the "operating cost per mile" rate plus a labor charge of $1.00 per hour for time spent by each bus on such extra work.
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It is agreed that your signature and those of a majority of the School Committee to this proposal and the attached schedule causes this to become a binding contract." Attached schedule:
Route No. miles
A. Maker of Bus Date purchased Total cost
B. Depreciation previously charged off ( yrs. at_
C. Value at beginning of contract year .
D. Fixed costs for contract year.
1. 25% depreciation (25% of (A) until charged off)
2. 6% of value at beginning of year (6% of (C) )
3. Garage rent.
4. Excise tax (estimated).
5. Liability Insurance and Number Plates
6. Property Damage Insurance
7. Fire and Theft Insurance. Total
E. Labor charge on daily basis.
1. days at - per day .
2. Service charge (cleaning, polishing, etc.) days at per day Total
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F. Operating costs per mile.
1. Gasoline per mile
2. Tires per mile .
3. Grease, oil, etc. per mile .
4. Battery replacement per mile
5. Repairs per mile . Total cost per mile.
Days X miles per day X cost per mile. - Total operating cost.
G. Total (D)
Total (E)
Total (F)
10% D, E, F + D, E, F=
The Committee considers these contracts eminently fair in that they insure the bus owner will receive the compensation that is his due for properly furnishing the service. Moreover, the taxpayers can see exactly for what they are paying.
High School Tuition
The total of $6,734.78 includes a payment of $937.34 to the Town of Concord which was a lay over from 1933.
Lincoln is now paying tuition for 51 pupils.
The increased expenditures under this one item which is entirely beyond the Committee's control accounts for the whole excess of this year's school costs over the average costs for the past five years.
New Equipment
It has been possible to purchase new desks and seats for Grade 2 supplanting the unhygienic ones in use there for many
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years. New electric clocks have also been purchased and in- stalled in the South School. Seven teachers' dilapidated desk chairs have been replaced by new ones.
Vocational Education
This item must be appropriated and accounted for sepa- rately from the ordinary school expenses. One-half of charges for tuition and all spent for transportation is repaid to the Town. Tuition for 8 pupils amounted to $1,007.03 and $50.90 was spent for transportation.
Receipts
Receipts on Account of Schools from all sources were $6,729.21 thus making the net cost of all schools $33,235.38.
1935 Budget
The Committee estimates that the following amounts will be needed to carry on the school system in 1935:
1. Salaries. $19,875.00
2. Superintendent and Committee 133.00
3. Fuel 776.75
4. Books and Supplies 827.00
5. Health 702.00
6. Operating Expenses 417.62
7. Repairs. 731.40
8. Local Transportation 5,083.56
9. High School Transportation 2,757.10
10. High School Tuition 6,405.92
11. Playground 219.00
12. Reserve 71.65
Appropriation asked $38,000.00
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Vocational Education
Tuition
$1,309.80
Transportation 286.80 $1,596.60
Appropriation asked
1,600.00
A summary of School Expenditures and Receipts and the Superintendent's and School Nurse's Reports are appended to this Report.
GLADYS DEYONGH HERMAN, JAMES DENORMANDIE, ROLAND C. MACKENZIE.
Summary of Expenses of Lincoln Schools, 1934
Expenditures
Salaries
$18,944.70
Superintendent and Committee 151.53
Books and Supplies 830.41
Fuel
647.36
Health
610.56
Operating Expenses
492.88
Repairs
1,023.23
Local Transportation
5,875.93
High School Transportation
2,840.03
High School Tuition
6,747.93
New Equipment
487.10
Building Plans.
255.00
$38,906.66
Vocational Education
$ 1,057.93
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Receipts
Grammar School Fund $34.11
City of Boston, tuition city wards 284.00
Com. of Mass. Part I, Chapter 70
2,060.00
Com. of Mass. Part II, Chapter 70
1,010.37
Com. of Mass. Tuition state wards 201.40
Com of Mass. Transport High School 2,374.90
Miscellaneous 2.60
$5,967.38
Vocational Education
$761.83
1934 Appropriation
$39,300.00
1934 Expenditures. 38,906.66
Unexpended balance
$393.34
Vocational Education
1934 Appropriation
$1,200.00
1934 Expenditures 1,057.93
Unexpended balance $ 142.07
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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
To the School Committee of Lincoln:
My sixth annual report as Superintendent of Schools is sub- mitted herewith.
Plans for the school year 1934-1935 have been centered in three major objectives :
I. The introduction of longer periods in the junior high school.
The junior high school inherited from the senior high school the forty-five minute period and has clung to it tenaciously though there exists no justification for such an arbitrary time limit and there are good arguments for its discontinuance. A short period makes proper supervision of study practically im- possible. It entails unnecessary home study and gives the teacher scant time to help the individual pupil.
In an attempt to correct these tendencies the longer period was introduced into our junior high school in September, 1934, and its reception has been gratifying. Teachers and pupils report favorably on it but it is too early to judge the results definitely.
II. The introduction of the Co-operative Group Plan in grades four, five, and six.
About five years ago there was set forth under the title "Co-operative Group Plan" a body of principles which hope- fully would assist in bringing about a better elementary school. Except in isolated instances the elementary school has clung to archaic methods and stood pat in the face of criticism and sug- gestions for reform. The Co-operative Group Plan is an at- tempt to bring into the public elementary school some of the newer practices in education.
When the elementary school curriculum contained only the barest rudiments of education it was quite possible for a teacher
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to be adept in all the subjects taught. With the rapid ex- pansion of the curriculum it becomes manifestly absurd to expect one person to be able to do justice to all subjects. The average layman would stand aghast at the materials which the teacher of any one grade in the elementary school is expected to master.
Under the Co-operative Group Plan the teacher prepares two or three subjects in two or three grades. Ideally she will be teaching those subjects she most enjoys or in which she is most proficient. This gives her an opportunity to develop scholar- ship in special fields, become more expert in them, and thus increase her value to the pupils she is teaching.
Under this plan a group of teachers is responsible for the educational guidance of a group of pupils. These teachers plan the work of the pupils co-operatively, making provision for cor- relation of materials and subject matter. They meet in con- ference to consider problems relating to the group of pupils. This is the heart of the plan. To these conferences each teacher brings her knowledge of the strengths, weaknesses, abilities, and skills of the various pupils and thus each teacher gains in her understanding of each pupil.
Obviously the pupil should receive more sympathetic treat- ment under such a regime than he would if only one teacher was considering his achievements.
Before introducing the plan we studied the writings of its sponsor and had conferences on them. Since early last spring we have considered the plan in detail. Outlines of materials to be studied were prepared and a new time schedule adopted which was better suited to the needs of the new arrangement.
During the fall three teachers and the Superintendent at- tended a course on the Co-operative Group Plan given at Boston University by James F. Hosic of Teachers College, Columbia University, sponsor of the Plan.
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III. The introduction of instrumental music.
It has long been a source of disappointment to us that more children in the community have not learned to play some musi- cal instrument. We have felt that an opportunity to receive instruction in the school during regular school hours would re- ceive support and such a plan was inaugurated in September. Sixteen pupils are now taking lessons on various instruments, including the clarinet, saxophone, drums, guitar, and violin. This instruction is provided for the nominal charge of twenty- five cents per lesson.
Piano instruction has not yet been started but we hope to have that soon.
The success of this experiment seems assured and we hope that more pupils will avail themselves of this opportunity.
One of the outstanding events of the past school year was the presentation of the operetta "Princess Chrysanthemum" in the Town Hall, February twelfth.
One hundred and twelve pupils took part in this perform- ance. Of this number fifty-two were from grades four and five. It was an outstanding piece of work and was a credit to the pupils who participated and to the teachers who coached it.
During the spring of 1934 CWA labor was used in laying new drains under the surface of the Center School playground. After seeding and rolling this area should be safer and of greater utility for play purposes.
Minor repairs on both schools were made possible through the use of ERA labor.
New furniture will be installed in grade two in the South School during the coming Christmas vacation. All classrooms in the Lincoln schools will then have modern furniture.
The first change in personnel in four years occurred in Sep- tember when Miss Bettina King was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Barbara Price. In December Miss Mary C. O'Connell was elected to fill the vacancy caused by Miss Boyce's resignation.
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Such recommendations as I have made you have received from time to time and there is no necessity to include them in this report. Your favorable action on them has been a source of gratification to me.
The advice, encouragement, and support of your Committee is gratefully acknowledged.
Respectfully submitted,
CARL F. HOLLORAN, Superintendent of Schools.
Graduates, June 1934
Emmons Bowles
George Mackenzie
Henry Butcher
Joseph Martella
Charles Copeland
Edward Murphy
James Cunningham
Emily Rand
James Doherty
Eleanor Rasmusson
Olive Foreman
Ruth Rice
Athlon Huntley
Charles Sloan
Florence MacDonald
Gordon Winchell
Membership by Age and Grade, October 1, 1934
BOYS
Age
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Totals
Grade 1
4
16
1
21
2
1
12
13
3
5
6
3
2
16
4
7
2
1
10
5
1
9
3
1
14
6
1
4
5
2
1
1
14
7
5
2
7
8
1
4
3
2
1
11
9
9
2
11
Totals
4
17
18
6
11
14
8
15
8
12
3
1
117
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Membership by Age and Grade, October 1, 1934 - Continued GIRLS
Age
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Totals
Grade
1
3
10
1
14
2
6
3
9
3
3
11
1
15
4
4
9
3
16
164
5
3
10
5
18
6
1
10
2
1
14
7
4
4
4
12
8
6
5
5
1
17
9
1
5
2
8
Totals
3
10
10
18
14
23
11
10
11
10
3
123
£
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REPORT OF SCHOOL NURSE
To the School Committee of Lincoln:
A report of School Nursing for the year ended December 31, 1934, is hereby submitted.
Schools have been visited daily. Four hundred ninety-eight office calls of pupils treated or advised, eighty-eight pupils taken home from school. One hundred ten home visits have been made to check on absent pupils and forty-two visits with pupils to a doctor's office or hospital clinic.
In March the toxin-anti-toxin was given by Dr. Wood, to 6 teachers, 18 pupils, 9 pre-school children, and the Schick test to 32 pupils.
During March close check-up was made daily on condition of throats, and cultures were taken in a few cases upon recom- mendation of the Board of Health to prevent the spread of scarlet fever.
On May 16 was held the Summer Round Up attended by twenty-eight pre-school children who were weighed and meas- ured then given a physical examination by Dr. Wood.
In September I assisted Dr. Wood with the yearly physical examination of all pupils. During the school year all pupils were weighed and measured four times and received frequent examinations of the skin and scalp.
The Lincoln Dental Committee, of which Mrs. Robert Loring is chairman, conducted a very successful dental clinic. I assisted Dr. William Cosgrove of Lexington two mornings each week from 9 to 12.
Two hundred fourteen children received dental certificates.
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The Lincoln Tuberculosis Committee purchased from funds received from sale of Christmas seals, eye glasses for one child and paid for dental work for nine children.
The pupils have been fortunate in escaping communicable diseases. There was one case of measles, one of lobar pneu- monia and two of scarlet fever.
Respectfully submitted,
MARION N. OBER, R. N., School Nurse.
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NOTICE :
Business Meeting, Monday, March 4, at 7.30 P.M.
WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
MIDDLESEX, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln in said County: GREETINGS:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify the legal voters of said Town of Lincoln, qualified to vote in Town Meeting for the transaction of Town affairs, to meet in the Town Hall in said Lincoln on Monday, the fourth day of March next at 7.30 o'clock P.M., then and there to act on all of the following Articles, except Article 2, and also to meet in said Town Hall on Saturday, the ninth day of March next, at 12 o'clock Noon, then and there to act on the following Article 2, by posting a copy of this Warrant, by you attested, in each of the Post Offices and in some other public place in said Town seven days at least before the fourth day of March next:
The polls for voting the Australian ballot on Saturday, March 9th, will be open at 12.00 o'clock Noon, and may be closed at 7.00 o'clock P.M.
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Article 1. To choose a Moderator.
Article 2. To bring in their votes for the following Town Officers and any other Officers required by law, to be elected by Australian Ballot, viz .:
One Moderator for one year.
One Town Clerk for one year.
One member of the Board of Selectmen for three years.
One member of the Board of Assessors for three years.
One member of the Board of Health for three years.
One Treasurer for one year.
One Collector for one year.
One Auditor for one year.
Two Constables for one year.
One Tree Warden for one year.
One member of the Trust Fund Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Trustees for Free Public Lectures for three years.
One member of the School Committee for three years.
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One member of the Board of Water Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners for three years.
Also to vote "Yes" or "No" on the following questions:
Shall the operation of Section 105B of Chapter 131 of the General Laws, requiring for the taking of fur-bearing animals the use of traps that kill at once or take such YES animals alive unharmed, be suspended within this Town? NO
Article 3. To bring in their votes for any committees, com- missioners, trustees and other officers, required by law to be elected by ballot or otherwise.
Selectmen
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Article 4. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers, Committees, Commissioners and, Trustees.
Selectmen
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Article 5. To appropriate money for the necessary and expedient purposes of the Town and enact anything in relation to the same.
Selectmen
Article 6. To determine the manner of collecting taxes for the ensuing year.
Selectmen
Article 7. To determine the compensation of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
Selectmen
Aricle 8. 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, 1935, 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 Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Selectmen
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Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum sufficient to pay the County of Middlesex, as required by law, the Town's share of the net cost of the care, main- tenance, and repair of the Middlesex County Tuberculosis Hospital, as assessed in accordance with the provisions of Chapter III of the General Laws and Acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto or take any action in relation thereto.
Selectmen
Article 10. To determine the wishes and attitude of the Town of Lincoln with respect to certain tax adjustments and abatements demanded of the Town by Julian De Cordova, Esq. in connection with the Trust Agreement created by said De Cordova on November 29, 1930, for the benefit of said Town, and to pass any vote or votes necessary and proper in the premises.
Selectmen
Article 11. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of One hundred and seventy-five Dollars ($175.00) to extend the street lights on Tower Road from the South Great Road to the Weston town line.
By Request
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Article 12. To see if the Town will extend the street lights along the Old County Road, so-called, from the junc- tion of that road with Winter Street to a point where it inter- cepts Trapelo Road, a distance of approximately three-fourths of a mile, and appropriate money for the same.
By Request
HEREOF FAIL NOT
And make due return of this WARRANT with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at or before the time for the meet- ing aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 14th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four.
SUMNER SMITH, ROBERT D. DONALDSON, HERBERT G. FARRAR, Selectmen of Lincoln.
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