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Block scheduling continues for Teams Y, B, G and O in the morning. This means all Reading and Language Arts are taught for the first hour and one half and then Arithmetic for three quarters of an hour after recess. Children are grouped homogeneously for these subjects. The afternoon time is spent in homeroom groups. Social Studies, Science and special subjects are offered to these heterogeneously grouped children.
As a result of late spring planning and the Summer School In-Service Training Workshop, what was last year's fifth grade was organized into a teaching team. Because of the imminent grouping of the two age groups represented by Team O and the new Team N at Smith School (1963) it was felt that one team leader could be designated to coordinate the activities of these two teams and to be in a position
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to continue in-service education of the teaching staff of the new team. Mr. Stefan Vogel was appointed as the Team Leader for both teams and Mr. Joseph Lessard as Senior Teacher for the new Team N.
As has always been the case, the physical separation of Smith and Center Schools creates problems of scheduling but we have tried to minimize this as much as possible and still provide adequate library and physical education ser- vices for the children.
Smith School continues with its departmentalized organ- ization. There are Heads of Departments in English, His- tory, Science, Math and Physical Education. Generally, teachers at Smith School are teaching children in two or three different grades. There has already been some dis- cussion of organizing teachers of the various subjects to teach one age level of children. For example : one English teacher, one Math teacher, one Science teacher, one History teacher, could be assigned to one age group and work to- gether as a team using special teachers of Art, Music, Home Economics, etc., operating across the three grades. This is now possible since we have three teachers of each of the four major subjects.
One innovation in staff organization has been the form- ing of a cabinet consisting of Department Heads - Teachers of Special Subjects and the Team Leader and Senior Teacher of the newly formed teaching team. The cabinet has been meeting every other week to discuss matters of curriculum, school organization and mutual problems. One outcome of this cabinet has been the introduction of regular school assemblies every two weeks. Each assembly will be spon- sored by a department or special subject matter teacher. The plan is to bring in inspirational speakers as well as to present pupil panels, performances and demonstrations.
There are combined cabinet meetings with the Hartwell School cabinet consistingof Principals, Department Heads and Team Leaders. It is hoped that this group can meet at least once a month to discuss matters of curriculum and school organization related to the school system.
INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM
Three additions in Hartwell faculty have added to the growth of our instructional program. In January 1962, Mrs. Phebe Tonseth joined our staff as part-time librarian.
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Her services along with those of Mrs. Catherine Jones and devoted volunteer mothers have really contributed greatly to our reading program as well as to other areas of curri- culum. An Art Instructor began her duties in September 1962, thus providing Hartwell School with both an Art and Music supervisor on a full-time basis. Additional ser- vices are offered in the area of Science due to a part- time specialist in this field.
Dr. Robert B. Davis, Director of the Madison Project, is now officially connected with the in-service math edu- cation of teachers. He has been demonstrating in classes and conducting after-school training sessions for the staff Mrs. Marianne Ockerbloom and Mr. Donald Hubbard are the liaison people working with him in Smith and Center Schools. Both of these people are conducting classes at Hartwell School. Mr. Hubbard has begun in-service classes in the teaching of mathematics for the teachers in the pri- mary school. These will continue on a bi-monthly basis throughout the year. As it stands now, the Madison Pro- ject (mathematics) is taught the rest of the week.
The school camping program at Sargent Camp took place this year for sixth grade during the week of November 12th and Team N the week of January 25th. Sixth grade was con- ducted separately from Hanscom this year due to problems of scheduling and because of the increased numbers of children at Smith School.
FUTURE PLANS
With the completion of the new buildings in the fall of 1963, Hartwell School will house the five, six, seven and eight-year-old children. A new four-room unit at Hartwell will provide more multi-purpose space as well as two additional classrooms.
To meet the needs of the children from the primary and intermediate levels coming into the upper school, the faculty has made a study of the ways in which a non-graded team approach could be adopted in the Junior High level. Already the English and Math curricula have been ungraded and some aspects of team teaching begun. The new build- ing which is to be completed in 1963 will make it possible to continue with this plan of organization.
It should be kept in mind that as the enrollment in- creases in the Junior High School, some consideration
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should be given to appropriate guidance and counselling services. Further consideration should also be given to additional personnel for Home Economics, Art, Music and Physical Education. With children from Teams O and N be- coming a part of the Smith School complex, the population of this school will increase from its present 276 to over 500 pupils beginning in 1963.
PRINCIPAL, HANSCOM SCHOOL
Robert A. Leach
Following a very productive summer workshop, Hanscom School opened in September with a staff of thirty-three classroom and special. teachers .. Five hundred and forty- eight students were enrolled as of October 1, 1962. This figure represents a gain of some thirty students over the closing enrollment in June. It is predicted that the en- rollment at Hanscom will follow a similar pattern of growth for the next few years, unless further expansion takes place in the base housing facilities.
The physical plant has reached maximum size in respect to site accommodation this year with the completion of a new addition, consisting of an art room, enlarged library, and instructional spaces for the equivalent of four class- rooms. In view of our increasing enrollment this addition is most desirable, particularly because of its flexible classroom design. We are currently developing a program to utilize this new section as a learning center for our upper level students. Attendant with this building ex- pansion is a growing need for additional playing field areas. We hope to resolve this situation at some future time.
Our in-service training program has been expanded and built around a very effective educational technique, that of teachers teaching other teachers. Essentially, this approach was developed in our summer workshop where a se- lected group of experienced teachers developed a series of lessons in modern mathematics.
These lessons are given on Wednesday afternoons to all teachers who teach math at the middle and primary levels. In a similar manner, new teachers in our school have received excellent help and guidance in the teaching of the alphabetic-phonetic ap- proach which characterizes the Spalding method of teaching
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children to read. The reading classes are conducted by the cluster chairmen, who function as team leaders, under the immediate supervision of our remedial reading instruc- tor.
This year, for the first time since our school opened, children at all instructional levels are meeting in class- rooms within this building. Previously, because of a con- tinuing building program, some sections of our Hanscom stu- dents have attended school at the Smith School in Lincoln and in buildings adjacent to the school grounds. This arrangement was necessary as the enrollment increased be- fore additional classrooms could be built. For a period of time this year we have had to improvise to some extent by utilizing part of our lobby area and the library for classrooms until completion of the new addition. However, it is felt that this temporary inconvenience has been more than justified by the fact that the physical continuum of instructional levels has remained intact, thus allowing our children to move at their individual rates from level to level, in the course of their educational experiences at Hanscom School.
The opportunity for teachers to teach subjects in which they are especially well qualified, by reason of background and interest, has been provided for this year by the organ- ization of our middle level teachers into a departmental- ized approach to subject areas. This, again, is an out- growth of planning sessions in our summer workshop. For example, the team of three teachers who teach our nine- year-old children specialize in one subject area. One teacher teaches all language arts classes, another meets with all science groups at this age level, while another teaches history to all sections of this age group. We feel that this is an effective way of enabling teachers who have strengths and interests in these areas to come in contact with many children rather than with a single con- ventional-sized classroom group of twenty or thirty young- sters.
Hanscom enjoys a rather unique position as a receiving school for youngsters from school systems all over the country. In a sense, this provides a vantage point from which we can evaluate, to some extent, the impact of many new educational programs now being introduced in school systems throughout the nation. Of interest is the fact that the Lincoln school system has been using many of these techniques for the past several years. Specifically,
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we note that the introduction of French in the lower ele- mentary levels is becoming more and more a practice in many schools. Emphasis on new approaches in math and science, and a definite embracing of phonics in the teaching of reading are becoming evident in the schools sending child- ren to us. However, there are still many exceptions to this, and our non-graded flexibility continues to help us in providing for the many children whose wide range in abilities and backgrounds must be provided for upon trans- fer to Hanscom.
This year, for the first time, we are affiliating with the Harvard University Graduate School teacher interne pro- gram. Under the direction of a cooperating, or master teacher, two graduate students have joined our staff for one semester of actual teaching experience (with responsi- bility, under their supervisors, for classes taught). Four sections of seventh and eighth grade history classes are presently being taught by these graduate students. In this connection, it is interesting to note that state and national junior high principals' associations are in unanimous agreement that this is the most effective method of training teachers to work with, and to understand, pre- adolescent and early adolescent children prior to accepting full-time positions in our upper or junior high schools.
Our eighth grade graduates are now attending Bedford High School, having been transferred from Concord-Carlisle Regional High School at the beginning of this school year. We are maintaining close liaison with the staff of Bedford High School in much the same manner that contact was main- tained in previous years with Concord-Carlisle Regional High School. It is our expectation that Hanscom students will continue the excellent scholastic achievement record compiled while attending school in Concord.
While our physical plant has been expanded to capacity this year, we look forward to the unique possibilities offered by the flexible classroom spaces available in our new wing. In our fourth year of operation we now have staff and student body size, along with classroom space, to move forward with concepts of large and small group in- struction which are becoming a part of the educational picture in many public school systems as well as in Lincoln.
As Hanscom School grows in physical size and as our staff gains valuable experience in working with children whose educational backgrounds are so varied, we are devel-
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oping a flexible and vigorous program. This in turn, re- flects a forward-looking and professionally well-qualified staff, typical of our Lincoln school system.
SCHOOL NURSE
Alice E. Garrison, R. N.
In September, all children were weighed and measured with the assistance of Mrs. Iosue, Mrs. Torode and Mr. Reed. Children entering kindergarten had the State re- quired physical examination, including small pox vaccina- tion. The great majority were seen by their own doctor. Twenty-four kindergarten and school physicals were com- pleted by Dr. Davies at the Well Child Conference.
During October, school-wide dental screening was com- pleted by Dr. William H. Tingey, our school dentist. 976 children were examined. This included two 6th grade classes from the Hanscom School which had over-flowed into the Smith School last year. 391 children were referred for dental treatment or orthodontia.
In January, all grades, except kindergarten, had the annual vision screening test. There were 41 failures. Parents were notified and advised to have children seen by an eye specialist. The initial testing, as in the hear- ing program, is done by volunteers trained by the Depart- ment of Public Health. The failures are then retested by Mrs. Garrison, and in the case of final failure, the par- ents are notified.
In February, in line with the recommendations of the Division of Tuberculosis Control, we performed tuberculin tests on all 6-year-olds, and plan to do this every year. There were three reactors. These children were seen for health appraisal and chest-x-ray at the Middlesex Sana- torium, and follow up was done on close contacts. The tuberculin (Mantoux) test is also offered to all school personnel, including bus drivers, so that they can comply with the State regulation by having either a negative tu- berculin test or chest x-ray every three years.
In March and April, our hearing testing program ran a somewhat uneven course after we got to the Hartwell School because of the measles epidemic. Over a period of a month
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or so there was a high absentee record, and the measles seemed to be a severe form of the disease with temperature frequently as high as 104°, and requiring a longer con- valescence than is usual. As a result, hearing tests were being administered right up to the last week of school. There were 34 failures. Several of these were children with known hearing disabilities and the new cases were dis- cussed with the parents.
The Sabin Oral Polio vaccine clinics took place in May and June. Type I was given to all school children in May; Type III in June. Clinics were also held for pre- school children and adults.
Mr. Reed, Mrs. Iosue and Mrs. Torode have an excellent after-school sports program several days each week and the children are enthusiastic. Mrs. Iosue has continued her interest in good posture with special emphasis on 7th and 8th grade girls and they show obvious improvement.
The mental health program has continued under the direction of Miss Mary Kearney from the Walden Clinic in Concord. This professional advice has been of definite value to the principals and teachers of the three Lincoln Schools and the Hanscom School.
Three health films were shown during the year: "How to Catch a Cold", at Hartwell School; "It's Your Health", at Center; and a special film for girls, "You're a Young Lady Now", at Smith.
The minimum State requirement for physical examination of school children in Massachusetts is that the child have such an examination at least every three years after en- trance to school. However, our response to requests for periodic health appraisals is not as good as it should be. Parents frequently put off making an appointment with their doctor, and some forget altogether. Since we have Dr. Sisson available to do these check ups at the school, and Dr. Davies at the Well Child Conference for the younger children, our score in Lincoln should be 100% in this area.
This report would be incomplete if I did not say a few words of heartfelt appreciation for the work done all through the year by my corps of skillful and enthusiastic volunteers. Mrs. Stanley Tead works at the Hartwell School three mornings a week. Mrs. Tead keeps all the
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medical files in order, and has done all the bookkeeping for the Sabin Polio clinics. Mrs. David Ammen, Mrs. Stuart Avery, Mrs. Gordon Donaldson, and Mrs. Ralph Ruocco help with the vision and hearing programs and with the Various Town clinics.
In the course of the year, I have frequent conferences with the principals and teachers in the various schools and find them to be invariably pleasant and helpful, and wish to take this opportunity to thank them.
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GRADUATING CLASS OF 1962
Susan Louise Allen
Margaret Bouton Barnaby
Frank R. Bockoven
Philip Brown
Dorothy Ruth Buerger
Peter Joseph Campobasso
Noelle Caskey
Duncan W. Cate
William Joseph McCune
Carolann Elizabeth Messina
Marley Gail Meyer
Sheldon Williamson Culver
Patricia Burton Davis
Geraldine Ann DeCilio
Donna Speed Dustin
Ellen Edgell
Albert Charles England, III
Andrea Michele Ericson
Rosemary Farley
Eunice Amanda Faunce
Carolyn Leland Filbin
David Bruce Fillmore
Frances Rhoades Fleck, II
Barbara Ann Gajewski
Edith Garrison Joseph .D. Gentile Peter G. Gilfoy
William Dwight Goodwin
Kathryn Janine Grason
Robert Brian Hagmann
Charles Richard Hagopian
Thomas Montague Hall Henry A. Haroian Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, III Ann Teresa Iantosca
Lee Kendall Jensen
Glenn Derr Kasparian
Christopher Gale Langton Peter McClure Light
Karen Jean Linstrom
Karen Eileen Lyons Judith Anne Malloy
John Manzelli James Christopher Mar Barbara Lynn Martini Eliza McClennen
Janet Alice Chisholm
Marlene Conroy
Laura Militzer
Myra Jeannette Millard
Newell Davenport Miller
David Pickering Palmer James Lawrence Park
Christine Pino
Susan Elizabeth Rice
Judith Craig Rogers
Susan B. Sharpe
Wayne Shurling
Mitchell Prescott Steege
Elisabeth Harding Sturgis George G. Tarbell, III Peter Tlumacki
Rosalie Michelle Tlumacki Peter W. Torode
Linda Victoria Troisi
Gregory B. Turner
Walter L. Van Wart, Jr. Anne D. Wadsworth
Pamela Carol Warner Edward Castle Wells Paul Channing Welz Janet Frances Whalen Richard Alan Wilfert John Paul Williams Hobart Oakes Winchell
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SCHOOL EXPENDITURES AND PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 1963
Classification
1962 Town Appropriation
1962 Town Expenditure
1963 Town Budget Requested
GENERAL CONTROL
School Committee Exp. $
1,700.00
$ 1,013.52
$ 1,300.00
Salaries, Sup't. &
Secretaries
18,645.00
18,352.89
20,100.00
Office & Sup't Exp.
2,020.00
1,667.43
2,020.00
$
22,365.00
$ 21,033.84
$ 23,420.00
OUT OF STATE TRAVEL
$ 1,050.00
$ 752.40
$ 1,050.00
INSTRUCTION
Salaries
$ 343,360.00
$345,316.39
$400,200.00
Summer Workshop
See Below - P. L. 874
Textbooks Elementary
5,450.00
4,727.09
5,300.00
Supplies Elementary & Other Expenses
17,240,00
15,377.39
18,820.00
$
366,050.00
$365,420.87
$424,320.00
OPERATION
Custodial Salaries
$ 29,510.00
$ 27,333.43
$ 29,550.00
Fuel & Utilities
24,280.00
22,361.90
25,180.00
Supplies & Drayage
4,320.00
4,253.94
4,320.00
$
58,110.00
$ 53,949.27
$ 59,050.00
MAINTENANCE
$ 15,920.00
$ 15,905.52
$ 13,200.00
AUXILIARY AGENCIES
Library
$ 7,000.00
$ 6,980.25
$ 7,350.00
Health, Elementary
80.00
96.88
100.00
Transportation
35,200.00
35,100.14
42,500.00
Tuition
600.00
500.00
600.00
Other Expenses
760.00
687.07
840.00
$
43,640.00
$ 43,364.34
$ 51,390.00
OUTLAY
$ 8,140.00
$ 8,054.39
$ 9,880.00
TOWN TOTAL
$
515,275.00
$508,480.63
$582,310.00
PUBLIC LAW 874
$ 9,500.00
$ 10,499.11
$_ 9,500.00*
GRAND TOTAL
$ 524,775.00
$518,979.74
$591,810.00
Summer Workshop to be financed from Public Law 874 funds.
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STAFF ROSTER, JANUARY 1, 1963
Name
Position
Appointed
John B. Davis, Jr.
Superintendent of Schools 1959
*Harry T. Burke
Principal 1953
Robert L. Filbin
Principal; Coordinator of Instruction 1958
Robert A. Leach
Principal
1954
Joan B. Warren
Acting Principal
1951
George Drake
Administrative Assistant; History; Math 1953
Phyllis Johnson
Team B, Senior Teacher 1946
Augusta Sisk
Director of Testing
1946
Ann Paranya
English, Department Head
19 49
-Irma Florio
Grade 5
1950
Albert S. Reed
Director of Physical Education
1951
Julia Cole
Team B, Team Leader
1955
Mary Salvucci
Home Economics
1955
=Diane Furber
Team O
1956
Marianne Heidt Ockerbloom
Math, Department Head
1957
Phyllis McKenney
Team N
1957
Barbara Bennett
Director of Music
1958
*Robert Bunnell
Team O
1958
*R. J. Caton
Social Studies
1958
*Ellen Dukeshire Ruth Mahoney
English, 7th Grade Advisor
1958
English, Math, Science
1958
Team G, Team Leader
1959
*Lesley Browder, Jr.
Social Studies 1959
1959
Frances Doughty
Librarian
1959
* John Eliot
Social Studies
1959
Donald Ford
Science, Department Head
1959
Persis Goodnow
Grade 1
1959
Kenneth Greenblatt
Science, Math
1959
Emmy Groeneveld
Grade 3
1959
Ronald Hadge
Math
1959
Helen Horn
Director of Art
1959
*Elizabeth Grimm Hoskins
Grade 5
1959
Fred Iosue
Physical Education
1959
Nancy Lloyd Iosue
Physical Education
1959
Catherine Jones
Librarian
1959
*Susan Kaplan
Kindergarten
1959
=Elizabeth Morin
Grade 5
1959
*Mildred Nighswander Larson Ann Lessard
French
1959
Team Y, Team Leader
1959
Marguerite Maloney
Team O, Senior Teacher
1959
Barbara Morris
Grade 5
1959
Wanda Osinski Pearle
English, History
1959
-Adrienne Rubin
Remedial Reading
1959
Doris Salak
Grade 1
1959
Richard Salinger
Team N
1959
*Winifred Wightman Webster Elizabeth Bjork
Math, Language Arts
* Marilyn Browder Alfred Callahan
Manual Arts
1959
Team G 1958
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Name
Position
Appointed
Ruth Sundberg
English, Social Studies
1959
Stefan Vogel
Teams O and N, Leader
1959
Ruth Zollinger
English, French
1959
* Jane Crawford Davis
Physical Education
1960
*Barbara Davenport Roberta Goldman
Team B
1960
Grade 4
1960
*Dianne Herrick
Team Y
1960
Grade 4
1960
Team R, Senior Teacher
1960
Patsy Lamb
Team G, Senior Teacher
1960
*Elaine LaRue
Team O
1960
Joseph Lessard
Team N, Senior Teacher
1960
Betty Pearle
Team Y
1960
*Susan Pond
Team Y
1960
Marion Remer
Team O
1960
Charlotte Rothstein
Remedial Reading
1960
*Priscilla Sagansky
Grade 2
1960
-Jane H. Stewart Lorraine Torode
Team R
1960
Physical Education
1961
Joan Bennert
Team G
1961
Carole Bungay
Team Y
1961
*Barbara Conklin
Team B
1961
Eleanor Davies
Grade 4
1961
Lynn Burrows Donaldson
Team N
1961
Ellen Tague Dwinell
Grade 3
1961
+-Roberta Flexer
Math
1961
*Carole Gordon
French
1961
*Helen Grush
Remedial Reading
1961
W. Donald Hubbard
Math
1961
Pauline Ittner
Team O
1961
Neil Jorgensen
Science
1961
Susan Clark Jorgensen
Team G
1961
Carol Moss
Grade 1
1961
Sheila Robbins
Music
1961
Sally Stephenson
Grade 3
1961
Evelyn Stevenson
Kindergarten
1961
Adelaide Sugarman
Team Y, Senior Teacher
1961
Ann Sutherland
French
1961
Sally Todd
Grade 2
1961
-Phebe Tonseth
Librarian
1961
-Geneva Torrey
Remedial Reading
1961
Ronald Trudeau
Music
1961
Elena Werlin
· Grade 1
1961
+Charles Janes
Math
1962
Priscilla Allen
History, English
1962
Carol Bacon
Team B
1962
-Rita Blackburn
Team R
1962
Dorothy Clawson
History
1962
David Conrad
English
1962
Richard Cowell
History
1962
Robert Cummings
Team O
1962
Diane Furber
Team O
1962
Christopher Hale
Science
1962
Virginia Judson
Team G
1962
*Joyce Horne Marian Hume
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SCHOOLS
Name
Position
Appointed
Barbara Marley
Team B
1962
Sarah Ott
Team Y
1962
Diana Peabody
Team B
1962
Janet Perlmuter
Team R
1.962
Mary Pierce
Team N
1962
-John Reed
Science
1962
Esther Rosenthal
French
1962
Key :
Resigned June 1962
Resigned during school year '61-'62
Resigned school year '62-'63
Part-Time
=
Returned to Lincoln School System 9/62
+
Employed during school year '61-'62
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LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AGE-GRADE TABLE AS OF OCTOBER 1, 1962
UPPER SCHOOL (SMITH-CENTER)
B G 9
B
G B
G
B
G B
G B
G B
G
Grade/Team
Team N
11
14
39
44
6
1
2
Grade 6
10
15
38
31
2
4
Grade 7
1
13
12
36
27
3
2
1
Grade 8
6
14
32
27
2
1
1
11
14 49
60
57
44
46
45
35
29
3
1
1
Team N
117
Grade 6
100
Boys :
202
Grade 7
95
Girls:
193
Grade 8
83
395
Total Enrollment, Upper School
HARTWELL NON-GRADED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
B G 4
B
G
B
G B
G
B
G
B
G B
G
5
6
7
8
9
10
22
20
50
49
46
51
64
60
61
45
57
45
7
577
Total Enrollment, Hartwell Non-Graded
Elementary School
Boys :
307
Girls: 270
SCHOOLS, LIBRARY AND RECREATION
10
11
12
13
14
15
*
*
*
REGIONAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE REPORT
to the
TOWN OF LINCOLN
FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1961-1962
SCHOOLS, LIBRARY AND RECREATION
LINCOLN-SUDBURY REGIONAL DISTRICT SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Howard W. Emmons, Chairman
Ellen DeN. Cannon, Vice Chairman
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