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"While low salaries are helping to drive teachers out of the profession, McDonald feels that the initial cause goes back to the lack of recognition of teaching and the lack of demand for good schools which cause salaries to be low." Because of the fewer number in training the prospects for several years are disheartening.
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The Lincoln School Committee, after careful study of the entire question of salaries and salary policy, has recommended the adoption of a new salary schedule. This schedule in- creases the salaries of present staff members and sets up attainable maximum salaries based upon training and experi- ence. Copies of the new salary schedule are available to anyone interested.
It is with deep regret and sincere appreciation that we re- cord the retirement of Mrs. Josephine Doherty after twenty- three years' service to Lincoln, of Mrs. Villette B. Knowles who resigned after nine years' service, and of Mr. Thomas J. Dee after fifty-two years' service in the transportation of school children. The school staff for 1946-47 is shown in the directory preceding this report.
Safety
Care has been given to those areas in which precaution and checking are continuously necessary to insure safety of the children attending our schools. The operation of school busses for transportation requires constant vigilance; to assist the drivers in maintaining conditions which contribute to safety a school bus patrol has been organized, in which upper grade boys act as patrol officers in reminding and helping pupils to cooperate toward the achievement of safe practices. School bus rules designed to help all pupils have been dis- cussed and copies placed in the hands of all pupils.
The assistance of the Lincoln police in direction of traffic before and after the school session is of great importance in overseeing the general safety near the highway. Teachers are assigned to supervise the arrival and leaving of busses at the same time.
Regular fire drills are held when the weather permits and satisfactory records have been made for both management and time required to empty the building.
Community Relationships
During the past year the school department published three bulletins on its activities on June 8, August 28 and December 20. It is planned to continue the bulletins as they are the only printed means whereby Lincoln citizens can know some- thing about its schools, aside from the annual report.
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The annual Open House during American Education Week was held on November 14, 1946, with a very fine atten lance. An all school music concert was given in the spring and an informal Christmas Carol sing on December 17 at South School and December 19 at Center School. The graduating class published a class yearbook as part of its activities at the close of the school year.
The Parent Council has been organized and at its meetings has considered a number of problems, heard suggestions, in- formed itself, other parents and the school on issues which arose. On October 21 a general meeting of all parents was held under the direction of the council and representatives presented to parents attending a review of the activities of the council and asked for suggestions for future activities. The regulations under which the council shall function have been drawn up and adopted. The work of the council has been good and future meetings should continue to offer very real opportunities for the council to contribute toward the improvement of our schools.
A New England School Development Council has been organized to develop better understanding of good practices in education and to bring about improvements in education through cooperation in planning. The Lincoln Public Schools plan to participate in the Council, which already has more than twenty-five towns and cities as members.
Administration
The groundwork has been laid for a strong elementary program but there remains the continuing task of implement- ing that program in almost every way in which the school operates. It is in in-service improvement of our staff, in the development of promising educational practices, known to be productive and successful, and finally, in working for the facilities which are needed, that our chief efforts now lay.
The budget for 1947 was developed in even greater detail than for last year, because it represented a substantial in- crease which needed clear explanation and justification. The provision of a new salary schedule, the increases in our high school tuition and continuance of adequate supplies at in- creased prices, account for the increase. The school staff, the school committee and clerk have all helped in its prepara-
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tion. Copies of the budget are available for inspection by any interested citizen.
I should like to acknowledge with deep appreciation the fine work which a completely new staff has done during this school year, the cooperation of parents and townspeople in their regard for the welfare of the schools, the earnest study and time devoted to our school problems by the school com- mittee, the health services given us by the school nurse and the assistance given to us by town officials and employees. All have helped in our objective of working for the improve- ment of the schools.
Respectfully submitted,
F. H. McKELVEY, Superintendent of Schools.
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SUMMARY OF SCHOOL EXPENSES
General Control
Expended 1946
Requested 1947
Office Expenses and Clerk
$1,280 34
$1,436 30
Salaries - Supt.
4,184 84
4,543 70
Expenses - Supt.
199 01
200 00
Other Expenses
00 00
115 00
Instruction
Principal - Salaries
00 00
00 00
Teachers - Salaries
19,631 44
25,358 00
Textbooks - Elem.
1,187 50
1,079 81
Supplies - Elem.
1,680 18
1,342 35
Operation
Janitors - Salaries
2,040 00
2,214 98
Fuel - Elem.
862 44
950 00
Miscellaneous - Elem.
866 09
944 07
Maintenance
Repairs and New Equipment
547 87
1,396 80
Auxiliary Agencies
Health - Elem.
615 85
735 00
Transportation - Local
1,980 87
1,418 70
Transportation - H.S.
8,802 48
8,790 29
Tuition
9,181 14
13,577 00
Totals
$53,060 05
$64,162 00
Appropriation
52,407 00
Deficit
653 05
Vocational Education
Tuition
$159 12
$270 00
Transportation .
25 00
64 00
Totals
$184 12
$334 00
Appropriation
858 00
Unexpended Balance
673 88
Summary
$53,244 17
$64,496 00
Accounts Receivable
Grammar School Fund
$24 41
Vocational Tuition
250 00
Vocational Transportation.
60 80
High School Transportation
4,193 39
Comm. of Mass., Part I, Ch. 70
1,970 00
City of Boston - Tuition
55 90
DeCordova Fund
236 58
Total
$6,791 08
Net Cost of Schools to Town
$46,453 09
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Membership by Age and Grade, October 1, 1946
Boys
Age
Grade Kdg.
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Totals
3 11
14
1
1 10
1
12
2
4
8
2
14
3
3
12
3
18
4
11
6
17
5
2
7
1
10
6
2
6
3
11
7
6
9
2
17
8
1
10
3
14
Totals
3 12 14
12
14
16
15
13
13
12
3
127
Girls
Age
Grade
4
5
6
7
8 9 10
11
12
13
14
Totals
Kdg.
6 15
21
1
3
16
19
2
4
8
12
3
7
8
15
4
2
12
2
16
5
5
11
16
6
1
13
2
16
7
4
1
5
8
1
9
1 11
Totals
6 18 20
17
11 17
14
13
7
10
1 131
25
Distribution of Minors October 1, 1946
5 yrs. or over and under 7
7 yrs. and under 16
A. In the registration of minors
Age as of October 1, 1946
25
122
Girls.
37
108
62
230
B. Distribution of above minors:
In public day schools
53
198
In vocational schools
. .
1
In private schools
7
29
Not enrolled in any school.
2
2
-
62
230
Boys
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Tuition Pupils Attending Secondary Schools Outside of Lincoln
October 1, 1946
Grade
9
10
11
12
Totals
Concord
17
8
13
17
55
Waltham .
1
1
2
Weston High School
7
7
2
4
20
25
16
15
21
77
Graduated from 8th Grade, June, 1946
John David Ballou
Alfred Manley Bartlett
Edgar Carpenter Browning, Jr. Robert James Browning
William Arthur Browning
Michael Ciraso, Jr.
Marjorie Pedersen
Nancy Jane Corrigan
James Ashmore Creelman Dana Durand
Jonathan Crabtree Robinson Martha Savage Parker Littlefield Spooner
George Richard Faulkner
Elizabeth Delia Stuart
Ann Farrar Giles
Rose Frances Umbrello
Charlotte Louise Giles
David Woodbury
Jeanne Elizabeth Kinsler Charles Soucek Kubik Helen Carlene Lucas Stanley John Moszka Elizabeth Johnson Page
Pauline Anne Gradeski
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REPORT OF SCHOOL NURSE
To the School Committee of Lincoln:
A report of school nursing for the year ending December 31, 1946, is hereby submitted:
Schools have been visited daily. There have been 332 office calls for first aid treatment on advice; 159 home visits have been made to check on absent pupils; 49 pupils have been taken home; and 7 visits with pupils have been made to hospitals.
I assisted Dr. Randolph Piper, school physician, with physical examinations. A report of any major defect was sent to the school superintendent and to the child's parents.
Each pupil was weighed and measured and received fre- quent scalp examination.
Children entering kindergarten attended the Well Child Conference. 98.08% were given a physical examination by Dr. John A. V. Davies of Boston. All defects discovered were corrected before September.
I have assisted Dr. Piper with his clinics held at the Center School in December to give "Booster" inoculations for diphtheria or diphtheria and tetanus combination. There is to be one more clinic held. 239 pupils have already re- ceived these inoculations.
A Dental Clinic was started in December with Dr. Joseph Barron of Boston as dentist. I am assisting him with his examinations. Clinics are held each Wednesday, 9:00 - 12:00 A.M., at the dental office, Center School. Actual dental work will follow the dental examination of all pupils.
The general health of our pupils has been very good, except for many cases of chicken-pox and a few cases of measles.
Respectfully submitted,
MARIAN N. OBER, R. N., School Nurse.
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NOTICE Business Meeting, Monday, March 3, 1947, at 7:30 P.M.
WARRANT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS MIDDLESEX, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Lincoln in said County: GREETING:
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 third day of March next at 7:30 o'clock P.M., then and there to act on the following articles except Article 1 and also to meet in said Town Hall on Saturday the eighth day of March next, at 12 o'clock Noon, then and there to act on the following Article 1, 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 third day of March next:
The polls for voting the Australian ballot on Saturday, March eighth, will be open at 12 o'clock Noon, and may be closed at 7 o'clock P.M.
Article 1. 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 Treasurer for one year.
One Collector of Taxes for three years.
One Auditor for one year.
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One member of the School Committee for three years.
One member of the Board of Water Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Board of Water Commissioners for one year.
One member of the Board of Health for three years.
One Tree Warden for one year.
One member of the Trust Fund Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Trustees of the Bemis Fund for Free Public Lectures for three years.
One member of the Board of Cemetery Commissioners for three years.
One member of the Planning Board for five years.
and also the question:
"Shall the provisions of section forty of chapter seventy-one of the General Laws, as amended, relative to equal pay for men and women teachers be in force in this town?" Yes. No.
Article 2. To bring in their votes for any committees, commissioners, trustees and other officers, required by law to be elected by ballot or otherwise.
Selectmen
Article 3. To hear and act upon the reports of Town Officers, Committees, Commissioners and Trustees.
Selectmen
Article 4. To fix the salaries and compensation of the several elective officers of the Town and to determine whether any Department, Board or Committee shall be authorized to employ for additional compensation any of its members and to fix the additional compensation of such members.
Selectmen
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Article 5. To raise and appropriate money for the neces- sary and expedient purposes of the Town, and enact anything in relation to the same.
Selectmen
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to bor- row money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1947, 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
Article 7. To see if the Town will rescind the vote adopted at the special meeting in June, 1946, appropriating the sum of $3,250.00 for the use of the Committee for the Ice Hockey and Skating Rink, or take any other action relative thereto.
Finance Committee
Article 8. To see if the Town will direct that the sum of $5,000.00 voted for the School Building Committee at the Special Town Meeting in June, 1946, be raised from taxation in 1947, or take any other action relative thereto.
Finance Committee
Article 9. To see if the Town will appropriate $750.00 for the purchase of a sand spreader and $45.00 for the deficiency in the appropriation in 1946 for a sickle mower, or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
Article 10. To see if the Town will vote that the moderator be elected for a three-year term, or take any action relative thereto.
Selectmen
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Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sufficient sum of money to pay the following un- paid 1946 bills.
Fire Department, Fire Engineers $75 56
Doherty's Garage 11 25
Playground,
Horace Partridge. 12 50
School Site,
A. A. and S. N. Shurcliff
466 34
School Dept., Philips Paper Co. 29 85
$595 50
or take any action relative thereto.
Treasurer
Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $200.00 to employ an engineer to draw up specifications for heating the upper hall or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
Article 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of $300.00 to repair the copper gutters and conductors on the Town Hall or take any other action relative thereto.
Selectmen
Article 14. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to register its complaints to our representative in the General Court about the nuisance caused by noises from overhead planes and that he proceed to file a bill in the Legislature to curtail said nuisance, or take any other action on the question.
Selectmen
Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate the sum of one hundred and sixty dollars to place street lights on Concord Road from Baker Bridge northerly to
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the Concord Town Line, or take any other action relative thereto.
By Petition
Article 16. To determine whether the Town shall au- thorize the Selectmen to employ counsel in all matters relating to the deCordova-Dana Museum and Park with instructions to take such steps either in the legislature or in a court of com- petent jurisdiction, or both, as such counsel may determine to be necessary to bring about to the maximum practicable extent the full intended purposes of the late Julian deCordova as evidenced by the terms of the deed of the said deCordova to the Town dated November 29, 1940, and by the terms of his will and codicil, and to modify such terms insofar as they are impracticable and unworkable including any one or more of the following or other steps as such counsel may deem advisable: (1) by providing that all the annual income from both the trusts created by the will and codicil of the said deCordova, or such amounts thereof as may be lawfully allowed, shall be currently disbursed to the Town for the benefit of said Museum and Park; (2) by obtaining a determination and definition of the rights, duties, powers and responsibilities of the respective parties interested in the upkeep, maintenance and improve- ment of said Museum and Park in the administration thereof and in the promotion of educational and recreational purposes which will fulfill the main purposes expressed by the said deCordova in the aforesaid deed, will and codicil; and (3) by forming a corporation under the provisions of G.L. (Ter. Ed.) Ch. 180, as amended or any other act now in force or hereafter enacted, for the purpose of receiving and expending the monies to be paid from time to time to the Town for the benefit of said Museum and Park and managing and operating said Museum and Park; and to determine whether the Town shall take any other action in relation thereto.
Selectmen
Article 17. To determine whether the Town shall au- thorize the Selectmen upon advice of counsel employed by them to execute, acknowledge and deliver proper instruments
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of conveyance and transfer of all property of the deCordova- Dana Museum and Park held by the Town to a corporation organized under the provisions of G.L. (Ter. Ed.) Ch. 180 as amended or any other act now in force or hereafter enacted for the purpose among other things of holding all the properties comprising said Museum and Park and operating the same, or take any other action in relation thereto.
Selectmen
Article 18. To see if the Town will vote to reconsider, rescind, or alter in any way the vote or the plan passed under Article 12, at a Special Town Meeting held June 28, 1946, or take any other action on the question.
By Petition
Article 19. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate money to acquire land for a new school house and, or, other public buildings, or take any other action on the question.
By Petition
Article 20. To determine whether the Town shall au- thorize the Selectmen to employ counsel to take such steps as may be necessary to enable the Town to erect a school building upon the land owned by the Town by virtue of the will of John H. Pierce, and to use the balance of said land for school, play- ground, educational and recreational purposes, and further to take such steps as may be necessary to enable the Town to use so much of the annual income bequeathed to it by the wills of the said John H. Pierce and Elsie Pierce, including income accumulated thereon, as the Selectmen in their discretion shall consider advisable for the foregoing purposes, the balance, if any, of said income to be used for hospital treatment by such inhabitants of the Town as in the opinion of the Selectmen should be in financial need thereof; and further to take such steps as may be necessary to permit the Town to use the sum bequeathed to the Town by the will of Charles S. Smith to-
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wards the construction of a school house upon said land devised to the Town by said will of said John H. Pierce, or to take any other action in relation to any one or more of the foregoing matters.
By Petition
Article 21. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen in whole or in part as follows and appropriate money therefor or take any action relative thereto: To take such action as may be necessary, by litigation, by petition for legislation or by other lawful means, (unless legal advice which they shall first secure shall be to the effect that there is no reasonable chance of such action's being successful) to enable the Town to use the annual income under the wills of John H. Pierce and Elsie Pierce and under the decree of the Supreme Judicial Court dated March 8, 1930, and income accumulated thereon to pro- vide (1) medical and hospital care and treatment for such in- habitants of the Town as the Selectmen or the Board of Health may deem to be deserving, (2) such dental care and treatment for inhabitants of the Town of high school age and under as the Board of Health may deem to be reasonable, (3) such other facilities and services as the Board of Health may deem suitable generally to maintain, improve, or maintain and improve, the health of the inhabitants of the Town or a substantial number thereof, and (4) for maintenance of the property as a park, as in their discretion the Selectmen shall consider advisable.
Board of Health
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 meeting aforesaid. Given under our hands this 10th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.
SUMNER SMITH, H. BIGELOW HILLS, Selectmen of Lincoln.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page 55
Assessors, Report of
Auditor, Report of
84
Board of Appeals, Report of
139
Building Inspector, Report of
150
Cemetery Commissioners, Report of 129
Collector of Taxes, Report of
74
Co-operative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics . 147
deCordova and Dana Museum Advisory Committee, Report of 41 44
Finance Committee, Report of
Fire Engineers, Report of
131
Health, Board of, Report of
126
Inspector of Animals, Report of
136
Jury List for 1947
27
Library, Report of Trustees of Statistics
134
Lincoln School Building Committee, Report of
165
Nursing Committee, Report of
132
Old Age Assistance, Report of
53
Overlay Account
52
Planning Board, Report of
137
Planning Board on Housing of Highway Equipment, Report of 151
Playground Committee, Report of 149 175
190
Graduating Class of 1947
192
School Calendar
177
School Committee, Report of
178
School Enrollment.
191 193
School Personnel
176
School Superintendent, Report of
180 37
State Auditor, Report of
108
State of Town
34 123
Town Clerk, Report of
8
Annual Meeting, March 3, Proceedings at
15
Annual Meeting, March 3, Warrant of
8
Births
29
Deaths.
33 28
Juror List for 1947
27
Marriages
31
Sporting Licenses
28
Town Election, March 8
25
Town Officers, List of
4
Treasurer, Report of
76
Tree Warden, Report of .
148
Trust Funds Commissioners, Report of
114
Warrant of 1948 195
Water Commissioners, Report of
124
School Committee, Report of
Expenditures and Receipts
School Nurse, Report of.
Selectmen, Report of
Streets, Superintendent of, Report of
Dog Licenses
135
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TOWN OF LINCOLN
TOWN OFFICERS FOR 1947
Moderator DONALD P. DONALDSON
Town Clerk WILLIAM H. DAVIS
Selectmen and Board of Public Welfare
SUMNER SMITH (Chairman) Term expires 1949
H. BIGELOW HILLS Term expires 1948
JOHN TODD Term expires 1950 .
Regular meeting second and fourth Mondays of each month, at 8 p.m., at the Town Hall office.
Assessors
PHILIP R. SNELLING (Chairman) Term expires 1950
D. EVERETT SHERMAN, JR. Term expires 1949
CYRUS W. MURPHY .
Term expires 1948
Treasurer FREDERICK B. TAYLOR
Collector of Taxes WILLIAM H. DAVIS
Auditor JAMES W. LENNON
School Committee
JOHN W. CARMAN (Chairman) Term expires 1949
HELEN P. WILEY . Term expires 1948
MALCOLM L. DONALDSON
Term expires 1950
Water Commissioners
SUMNER SMITH (Chairman)
Term expires 1950
JOHN J. KELLIHER Term expires 1949
ROBERT W. SCOTT
Term expires 1948
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Board of Health
ROBERT L. DENORMANDIE (Chairman) . Term expires 1948
ROBERT L. BRINKERHOFF, resigned
GEORGE WELLS, appointed .
Term expires 1948
PAUL L. NORTON
Term expires 1950
Commissioners of Trust Funds
LEONARD C. LARRABEE (Chairman)
Term expires 1948
HENRY DEC. WARD .
Term expires 1950
CLEMENT C. SAWTELL
Term expires 1949
Trustees of Bemis Fund for Free Public Lectures
MABEL H. TODD (Chairman)
Term expires 1950
CHARLES V. BRIGGS
Term expires 1949
LEONARD C. LARRABEE
Term expires 1948
Cemetery Commissioners
JOHN F. PETERSON (Chairman) Term expires 1949
GEORGE E. CUNNINGHAM
Term expires 1950
ROBERT D. DONALDSON
Term expires 1948
Planning Board
HAYWARD PEIRCE (Chairman)
Term expires 1949
JOHN O. WILSON
Term expires 1948
WILLIAM DEFORD
Term expires 1950
LAWRENCE B. ANDERSON
Term expires 1951
EVELETH R. TODD
Term expires 1952
Board of Appeals Appointed by Selectmen
HARLAND B. NEWTON (Chairman) Term expires 1948
D. EVERETT SHERMAN, JR. .
Term expires 1952
ANTHONY J. DOHERTY (Secretary)
Term expires 1949
JAMES DENORMANDIE Term expires 1950
RICHARD S. MERIAM
Term expires 1951
Associate Members
HENRY B. HOOVER . Term expires 1948
WALTER E. LOVEJOY
Term expires 1949
Measurers of Wood and Bark HAROLD S. COUSINS JOSEPH R. TRACEY
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Trustees of Grammar School Fund
CLEMENT C. SAWTELL HENRY DEC. WARD LEONARD C. LARRABEE
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