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Hugh Parsons, Custodian
ASSOCIATE COUNCIL, DECEMBER 1962
Mrs. Horatio Bacon
Mrs. Everett A. Black
Mrs. Charles A. Crumm, Jr.
Mrs. Zalman O. Davlin
Mrs. James J. Faran, Jr.
Mrs. Robert E. Grady
Mrs. James B. Greason
Mrs. Henry B. Hoover
Mrs. Victor A. Lutnicki
Mrs. Hayden Mason
Mrs. Leopold Peavy, Jr.
Mrs. John P. Stevenson
Mrs. Theodore W. Tucker
Mrs. Charles Y. Wadsworth
Mrs. Andrew M. Wales
Mrs. John Wallace
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ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM COLLECTION, 1962
"Night Light", watercolor by William Manning, Museum purchase.
"Grey Sea, Pemaquid", watercolor by John Muench, Museum purchase.
"Shepherd and Flock", etching by Gerson Leiber, Museum purchase.
"Milwaukee Shore", etching by Arthur Thrall, Museum purchase.
"The Game", watercolor by Sidney Hurwitz, Museum purchase. "Roman Arch", lithograph by Max Gunther, Museum purchase. "Snow Murmur", oil painting by Robert Eshoo, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Crapo.
"Venus Triptych", oil painting by William Christopher, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Crapo.
"The George Ortman Journal", lithograph by George Ortman, Museum purchase.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE DE CORDOVA MUSEUM IN 1962
January :
NEW ENGLAND WATERCOLORS
Feb. - March :
PHOTOGRAPHY, U. S. A. BAVARIAN GLASS TODAY.
March-April :
PRINTS & DRAWINGS BY PATRICIA DE GOGORZA PICASSO RETROSPECTIVE IN PRINTS
April-May :
LINCOLN HEIRLOOMS & ANTIQUES
May-June :
HUMMINGBIRDS (photographs by Crawford Greenewalt) ADULT STUDENT EXHIBITION
June-Sept :
NEW ENGLAND CRAFTS, 1962
October :
WORK BY ERNST BARLACH
Nov. - Dec :
PAINTINGS BY GEORGE DERGALIS AND DONALD STOLTENBERG
December :
WORKS FROM THE MUSEUM COLLECTION
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DE CORDOVA & DANA MUSEUM & PARK FINANCIAL REPORT, 1962
INCOME, 1962
Operating Income
Trusts
A Trust
B Trust
$ 9,900.00 63,880.65
Total Trust Income
$ 73,780.65 19,837.50
Associates
Tuition
Adult Classes $15,918.22
Childrens Classes 11,435,21
Total Tuition
27,353.43
Admissions
7,342.24
Miscellaneous contributions
1,161.33
Sale of art supplies
5,112.67
Sale of books, cards
2,811.70
Mailing service
246.50
Sale of wood
304.00
Sale of catalogues
793.17
Miscellaneous
4,472.11*
Interest on savings
2,902.10
Total Operating Income
$146,117.40
Other Income
Contributions to 2nd Decade Fund 13,870,25 $
Total Income All Sources, 1962
$159,987.65
EXPENSE, 1962
Operating Expense
Administrative Salaries
$ 51,426.18
Adult Class Salaries
12,944.00
Children's Class Salaries
7,882.70
School Expense
3,987.98
Administrative Expense
5,970.14
Education Department
325.96
New Equipment
3,436.78
Replacement Equipment
1,790.50
Maintenance Supplies
2,431.89 389.05
Office Supplies
Electricity
2,821.34
Telephone
1,209.07
Water
199.92
Fuel
1,528.04
Insurance & Taxes
4,841.35
Postage
3,015.80
(cont.)
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Publicity Catalogues Exhibitions
$ 6,087.69
900.00
4,357.95
Program (concerts, films, lectures, etc. )
5,714.57
Adventures in Music
2,350.34
Park
1,055.36
Jeep
319.04
Cottage
738.51
Books, cards for resale
2,095.43
Library
552.05
Slide Library
591.87
Art supplies for resale
5,677.53
Membership program
990.43
Refunds
395.80
Miscellaneous
625.97
Budgeted Allocations to Reserve
Funds
5,500.00
Loan repayment
1,020.91
Total Operating Expense, 1962
$143,174.15
Other Expense
Allocations to Reserve Funds from
Fund Raising activities in 1962 :
2nd Decade Campaign
( contributions & interest)
$ 14,869.11
House Tour profit
998.00
Benefit Concert profit
600.00
Phone Book profit
1,899.00
Concord Dance profit
530.00
Flower Show profit
763.32
Total Allocations
$ 19,659.43
Total Expense, 1962
Deficit, 1962
$162,833.58 $ 2,845.93
Miscellaneous income includes : Grants to "Adventures in Music" $2,000.00
Lincoln Phone Book Income 1,934.00
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DE CORDOVA & DANA MUSEUM & PARK
BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1962
ASSETS
Savings :
Cambridgeport Savings Bank
$ 11,316.40
Warren Institution
14,938.01
Cambridge Savings Bank
15,193.96
Middlesex Institution
33,215.04
Total Savings
$ 74,663.41
General Checking Account: Merchants National Bank
7,189.18
Payroll Account : Merchants National Bank
3,000.00
Imprest Accounts :
Post Office, Petty Cash
185.00
Total Assets
$ 85,037.59
LIABILITIES
Reserve Funds :
Corporate Reserve
$ 10,000.00
Accessions unrestricted
775.34
Accessions restricted
303.24
Building Fund
18,377.20
2nd Decade Fund
33,608.12
Exterior Equipment
4,281.41
Interior Equipment
811.70
Building Maintenance
4,730.21
Cottage Maintenance
352.70
Park Maintenance
1,536.01
Unallocated Reserve Fund
1,000.00
Total Reserves
$ 75,775.93
Imprest Funds : Payroll, Petty Cash, Post Office
3,185.00
Working Capital
6,076.66
Total Liabilities $ 85.037.59
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DE CORDOVA & DANA MUSEUM & PARK
ALLOCATED TO RESERVE FUNDS, 1962
Building Fund
House Tour Profit
$ 998.00
Benefit Concert Profit
600.00
Phone Book Profit
1,899.00
Concord Dance Profit
530.00
Total Allocated to Building Fund
$ 4,027.00
Second Decade Fund
Contributions
$13,870.25
Interest on savings
998.86
Total Allocated to 2nd Decade Fund
$14,869.11
Exterior Equipment Budgeted Allocation, 1962
$ 1,000.00
Interior Equipment Budgeted Allocation, 1962
$ 1,000.00
Building Maintenance Budgeted Allocation, 1962
$ 1,250.00
Cottage Maintenance Budgeted Allocation, 1962
$ 750.00
Park Maintenance
$ 500.00
Budgeted Allocation, 1962 Flower Show Profit
763.32
Unallocated Reserve Fund
Budgeted Allocation, 1962
$ 1,000.00
CHARGED TO RESERVE FUNDS, 1962
Accessions unrestricted
$ 1,121.44
Second Decade Fund
$ 727.15
Exterior Equipment
$ 83.60
Interior Equipment
$ 588.30
Building Maintenance
$ 398.00
Cottage Maintenance
$ 1,431.47
Park Maintenance
$ 5,487.94
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REPORT to the TOWN OF LINCOLN
FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1961-1962
SCHOOLS
SCHOOL CALENDAR 1963-1964
September 3
Tuesday
Teacher Orientation
September
4
Wednesday
Teacher Orientation
September 5
Thursday
Teacher Orientation
September
6
Friday
Students Report for Classes
November
11
Monday
Holiday
November
27
Wednesday
Vacation (Begins at Noon) Classes Resume
December
2 20
Friday
Vacation (Begins at Noon)
January
2 Thursday
Classes Resume
February
17
Monday
Vacation Week
April
20
Monday
Vacation
June
17
Wednesday
Classes End at Noon
Within the regular school year, classes are held a half day only on Wednesday to permit faculty meetings, private pupil lessons, den- tist and physician appointments, club meet- ings, etc.
EXCEPTIONS : Within the regular school year, classes end noontime on Wednesdays with the exception of the weeks in which there are holidays or a half day of vacation; in those instances, Wednesdays are full days of school.
Kindergarten morning and afternoon sessions will reverse on January 27, 1964.
SUMMER SCHOOL, 1964
June June July
24
Wednesday
Teachers Report
25
Thursday
24
Friday
Students Report for Classes Summer School Ends
"NO SCHOOL" SIGNALS
Local signals will be given on our fire alarm system - 7:15 a.m. 3-3-3, repeated at
7:30 a.m. 3-3-3 Radio station announcements will be read between the period of 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Please refrain from tying up local phone lines to school officials and bus operators.
WHDH 850K WNAC 680K
WBZ
1030K
WEZE 1260K
WEE I 590K
Announcements regarding "NO SCHOOL" are made by the Lincoln Superintendent of Schools for the Lincoln Elementary Schools (grades K-8) only. Announcements for the Regional High School are made by the Regional Superintendent of Schools and will be designated "Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School".
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December
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LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOL ORGANIZATION
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Term Expires
(Mrs.) Helen Gilfoy C. DeWitt Smith
1963
1965
Perry J. Culver, M. D., Chairman
1964
Regular : First Monday of each month, 7:30 p.m., Office of the Superintendent. 259-9400.
Called : Third Monday of each month usually, and other meetings as stated. Time and place to be designated.
All regular meetings open. Items for the agenda must be in the Office of the Superin- tendent by 3:00 p.m. on the Thursday prior to the Monday meeting.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
John B. Davis, Jr. Center School 259-9400
SUPERINTENDENT 'S OFFICE STAFF
Frances R. Gardella
(Mrs. ) Harriett Parks
Secretary Financial Secretary
(Mrs.) Mary E. Bufton Clerk-Typist
Hours : Office of the Superintendent 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday Saturdays and evenings by appointment
PRINCIPAL, SMITH AND CENTER SCHOOLS
COORDINATOR OF INSTRUCTION, SMITH, CENTER AND HARTWELL SCHOOLS Robert L. Filbin 259-9402
OFFICE STAFF
(Mrs. ) Solveig Parsons
Secretary, Smith School Center School 259-9406
(Mrs.) Ruth Gaynor,
(8:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
PRINCIPAL, HANSCOM SCHOOL
Robert A. Leach
CR4-7720
OFFICE STAFF
(Mrs. ) Anne Whelan ( Mrs. ) Mary Bach
Secretary, Hanscom School Hanscom School
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SCHOOLS
ACTING PRINCIPAL, HARTWELL SCHOOL
Joan B. Warren
259-9404
( Mrs. ) Doris Bardsley Secretary, Hartwell School
Resigned in 1962: Mmes. : Sallie Jackson, Center School Billie Fabijan, Center School Mary Carrigan, Hartwell School Sally Banker, Hanscom School Nancy Barr, Hanscom School
HOURS ..... SCHOOL OFFICES
8 :15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Smith, Hartwell, Hanscom; Monday-Friday 8:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Center; Monday-Friday
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
George Drake Center School 259-9401
SCHOOL NURSES
(Mrs. ) Alice E. Garrison, R.N. Lincoln Schools
259-9407
(Mrs. ) Gladys Crumb, R. N. Hanscom School CR4-7723
SUPERVISOR OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
John J. Carroll
Center School 259-9401
CUSTODIANS
*Harold Cuttell
Center School
Frank Cole
Hanscom School
Daniel O'Leary
Hanscom School
Harold Swift
Hanscom School
** James Fox
Hartwell School
** Ralph Gilbert
Hartwell School
Nelson Palumbo
Hartwell School
Joan Biondo Oscar DeConto
Smith School
Smith School
Transferred to Hartwell School,12/62 Resigned in 1962
TELEPHONE NUMBERS
Office of Superintendent
259-9400
Offices of Principals :
Hartwell
259-9404
Hanscom
CR4-7720
Smith/Center
259-9402
Center School (8:15-11:30)
259-9406
Administrative Assistant
259-9401
Supervisor of Bldgs. & Grounds Nurses :
259-9401
Lincoln (Mrs. Garrison)
259-9407
Hanscom (Mrs. Crum)
CR4-7723
OFFICE STAFF
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Dr. Perry J. Culver, Chairman
Helen Gilfoy
C. DeWitt Smith
In 1962, a long-range plan for the overall development of the Lincoln School facilities became reality. Lincoln School Committees have discussed this problem for a number of years. A Long-Range-Planning Committee, chaired by Mr. Henry M. Morgan, was appointed in 1958 to make a more in- tensive study of future needs. The recommendations of this committee appeared in the Town Report for 1960. In 1961, professional counsel was obtained from Dr. E. Gil Boyer, Associate Commissioner of Education for the State of Rhode Island. His report confirmed and amplified
earlier recommendations. By action of the Annual Town Meeting, March 20, 1961, a School Building Needs Committee was authorized. This committee under the guidance of Mr. Winthrop B. Walker and in collaboration with architects Hoover & Hill exhaustively reviewed all previous recommen- dations. They then developed long-range plans for a school plant of sufficient size to accommodate eventually 1,800 pupils. It is believed that this approximates the number of students in kindergarten through the eighth grade who may live in Lincoln when the population of the Town reaches maximum.
The essential elements of this plan are in three groups : namely, a lower, a middle and an upper school cluster, cen- tered on a campus. Flexibility of architecture adaptable to any future evolution in educational techniques was the basic requirement in design of new buildings. Included in these plans are general teaching spaces of varying sizes, an enlarged library, auditorium, additional physical educa- tion facilities, and specialized areas for science, music and the arts.
A Special Town Meeting on June 4 voted to acquire a much needed 16.6 acres of land. With this addition, the total school property now comprises nearly 60 acres.
Pupil enrollment of 971 on October 1, 1962, crowded existing buildings and made it mandatory to undertake im- mediate construction. At the Special Town Meeting, June 4, it was voted to spend $905,000 to provide an auditorium, a music, an art and two science areas plus six general teaching spaces in a new cluster that will be the nucleus
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of an upper school. An additional building of two teach- ing areas and a multi-purpose room was authorized for the lower school (Hartwell) complex.
It is a tribute to the School Building Committee, mem- bers of the faculty and staff, and the architect that the plans for both immediate and long-range building were selected from several hundred entries by a national jury for one of twenty-five citations and exhibit at the annual meeting of the American Association of School Administrators in February, 1963.
Concurrent with this building program in Lincoln, the School Committee has been actively engaged in creating new teaching spaces at the Hanscom School. This third addi- tion in almost as many years was nearing completion by the end of 1962. The new and spacious library, a large and well designed art room, flexible teaching spaces providing five separate teaching areas and three teacher studies, combine to bring much needed relief to the crowding caused by 548 pupils at the Air Field.
Turning from bricks and mortar to people, it should be recorded, with regret, that Mr. Harry T. Burke, Principal of the Smith School since 1957, resigned in July, 1962, to return to his first love, the teaching of history at a private school in Tennessee. This change, along with plans for extending ungraded classes and team teaching to the middle and upper schools, occasioned a study of the admin- istrative organization of our schools. Aware of the needs of a larger system, it was decided to establish the post of Coordinator of Instruction. Mr. Robert L. Filbin was appointed to this position and also was made Principal of the Smith and Center Schools. Mrs. Joan Warren became Acting Principal of the Hartwell School,, and Mr. Robert A. Leach continued as Principal of the Hanscom School. An additional staff appointment was that of Mr. George Drake to part-time Administrative Assistant to the Superinten- dent.
During the past two years, there has been an increasing move to bring experts in specialized fields; such as, science, music, art, mathematics, testing and physical edu- cation to the lower school to supplement the regular in- struction at these levels. The quality of teaching in mathematics was recognized by a grant from the Madison Project which stimulated further development of education in modern mathematics. In line with the policy to provide
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optimum conditions for each child to realize his maximum potential, speech remediation was introduced this year. At the same time, it is a pleasure to report that the re- medial reading program has been so effective, the need for such help is gradually lessening. With better reading skills, the demands on the school library were so great that a specialized section had to be established at the Hartwell School.
The Distinguished Visitors Series which began in 1961, and which proved so valuable to the growth of the faculty, was continued this year. We were fortunate to have a day each with Dr. John W. Lederle, President of the University of Massachusetts; Dr. Henry S. Dyer, Vice President of Educational Testing Service, and Dr. J. Roswell Gallagher, Chief, The Adolescent Unit, The Children's Hospital Medi- cal Center.
The budget for 1963, presented in detail in the finan- cial section of the Town Report, calls for an expenditure of $591,810. An increase of $67,000 over the 1962 budget is due chiefly to two items: teachers' salaries and trans- portation. Thanks to the prudent stewardship of adminis- tration and staff and to a rigid cost control system, the per pupil cost for the remainder of the budget has been
constant for the last four years. More pupils require an additional bus and it is anticipated that the cost per mile of bus travel will go up. Allocation for teachers' salaries is greater because of additional teachers and also to provide increments in salaries commensurate with the quality of the faculty.
In conclusion, the School Committee would like to note that its work has been made much easier by the whole- hearted cooperation of the Air Force personnel at the Laurence G. Hanscom Field and of the officials and boards of the Town of Lincoln.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
John B. Davis, Jr.
The official October enrollment for the school year 1962-1963 is detailed elsewhere in this report, but it may be helpful to record here the totals in each of our buildings : Hanscom, 548; Hartwell, 577; Center, 117; and Smith, 277, for a total of 1519. These totals represent
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a decrease over our estimates but not of sufficient magni- tude to bring comfort to those who hope for the end of school building programs!
In June, Harry Burke, successively history teacher, department head and principal, Smith School, resigned to return to the South. It is difficult always to adjust to change but this is a condition of life, individual and in- stitutional, which must be reckoned with. After careful study, the School Committee elected Robert Filbin to the principalship at Smith, and Joan Warren to the acting principalship at Hartwell School. In addition Mr. Filbin was given the title of Coordinator of Instruction for the Hartwell, Center and Smith Schools, a responsibility he will give increasing attention to in the years ahead. The enthusiasm of the past has been maintained and is re- flected in the continuing effort of staff and faculty to make more effective educational experiences for children at the several age levels. It is appropriate at this point to refer to the work of Robert Leach, a onetime teacher at Smith School, who since 1959 has been principal of the Hanscom School. In these four years he and the members of the faculty and staff have developed a remarka- ble and unusually effective program and curriculum for the children of air-force personnel at L. G. Hanscom Field.
The combined educational enterprise for which the Lincoln School Committee is called upon to establish poli- cy now numbers approximately 126 full and part time employ- ees and a combined operating budget of almost one million dollars.
Teachers continue to be central to the quality of our educational processes. Selection and retention of com- petent teachers continues to be a primary task of adminis- trators. In the course of conversation with a member of the faculty earlier this year, the statement was made, "It is easy to teach day by day - but it is difficult to teach when each day's lesson has its antecedents in the previous day's activity and the close of each class period antici- pates, by well drawn plan, the lesson for tomorrow."
In Lincoln, teachers take into account the particular needs and abilities of each student and within reason at- tempt to build into the lesson and the homework tasks, material which has relevance for each learner. This is what we have come to refer to as "articulation"; it is a concept broader than day to day, week to week, teacher to
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class - it embraces the whole spectrum of the school pro- gram and requires for greatest efficiency that every thing we are able to learn about a child is effectively utilized in planning his work at each successive grade or level. It presupposes an orderly framework for everything we do in the schools, team to team, cluster to cluster, depart- ment to department. Ideally this type of well planned educational experience should be a continuous process devoid of repetition and interruptions.
In my first report to the town I stated that we had moved rapidly and on many fronts in terms of curriculum and organization and that we were in need of time to con- solidate gains. We are in the period of consolidation at the present moment. It is not an easy period. It is generally agreed that there are certain basic essentials in each area of the curriculum that all children should be expected to comprehend and master. It is easy to get agreement on the generalization - difficult to get consen- sus on what constitutes the basic essentials and the iden- tification of the appropriate time in the school experience that they should be introduced for particular boys and girls. This matter is the more complicated because we are concurrently increasing our knowledge and understand- ing of how children learn and respond to teacher directed activity. It is contended that we will have reached our first bench mark in this undertaking when a written state- ment, ringing in its clarity, is produced describing our total program of studies from the Kindergarten through the eighth grade. Such syllabi, some of which have been pre- pared, should not be viewed as limitations on individual teacher freedom. John Gardner has recently suggested that one of the sure signs of a dying institution is the release of a new set of rules and regulations. It is well estab- lished that our faculty is too intelligent and too creative to accept a rigid operating manual. There is in Lincoln a strong disinclination to limit the freedom or the indiv- iduality of a teacher; on the other hand it is agreed that the absence of well defined goals and descriptions of edu- cational processes can be dangerous. We are seeking that circumstance wherein teachers operating within a well de- fined framework will be free to stretch out in many direc- tions according to the capability of the student once the agreed upon prescribed essentials of the course have been accomplished. The importance of this effort can be under- stood by taking into account the fact that additional stu- dents and an enlarged faculty tend to minimize the con- fidence that can be attached to the informal structure of
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communication and understanding. It is expected that we shall accomplish our goal, but, once accomplished, it will require constant reshaping and readjustment. In my last report reference was made to the continuing study of more effective ways to organize for instruction at the upper school levels. This search continues and next year in the new flexible teaching spaces at Smith and Hanscom care- fully devised methods of grouping and faculty organization will be undertaken. The expectation of Lincoln and Han- scom citizens is high with regard to public education. The School Committee implements with wise policy. The response on the part of school administrators is the re- cruitment of staff capable of handling the processes of education with classroom leadership which is demanding, stretching yet understanding of childrens' capabilities. This makes a teaching or administrative assignment in Lin- coln rigorous, searching, interesting and rewarding and brings both professional and personal satisfaction.
PRINCIPALS, SMITH, CENTER AND HARTWELL SCHOOLS
Robert L. Filbin, Principal, Smith-Center Schools Mrs. Joan B. Warren, Acting Principal, Hartwell School
UTILIZATION OF BUILDINGS
The Hartwell School complex is currently housing all but one section of 5-year-olds presently at Smith School. Of the 577 pupils enrolled, 30 are new residents of Lin- coln. There are 320 pupils housed in the main building of Hartwell, 110 pupils housed in Unit A and 124 pupils housed in Unit B (which, it should be noted, is really bulging at the seams).
The Multi-Purpose Room continues to be just that, with a reading group (and possibly a second small group) using it each morning until 10:20. Physical Education and three lunch periods keep it constantly in use. Both the Audio-Visual Room and the Remedial Reading Office are used as offices for Art, Music, Reading and Science specialists and for pupils receiving individual tutoring in reading, speech therapy in small groups and special small group science classes.
Approximately 297 children are housed at Smith School (Grades 6, 7 and 8) and 115 children at Center School (10- year-olds).
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STAFF
The present staff of Hartwell School consists of thirty-one full or part-time teachers. Eight of these are replacements for teachers who left in June; three are new positions with one due to increased enrollment and two filling new positions in Art and Science.
At Smith and Center Schools with a teaching staff of twenty-eight, there are only six new teachers this year. There is a completely new three-member History Department Staff, one addition to the English Department, an addition to the Science Department, and one new member of the teach- ing team at Center School. Mr. George Drake who was a full-time teacher now teaches part-time and is assigned to the Superintendent's Office as an Administrative Assistant. In addition, a part-time Speech Therapist has been assigned to the school.
SCHOOL PROGRAM AND ORGANIZATION
Hartwell School continues with its non-graded team teaching approach. This organization provides the flexi- bility in grouping within a team and between teams and, therefore, enables us to work with both large and small groups. The enthusiasm on the part of the children, teachers and parents in general, on the basis of our pre- vious school year, was most exciting. The Summer School provided the opportunity to evaluate this organization and to work on curriculum during July and helped insure a smooth opening in September.
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