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The Board's most time-consuming task was to push to com- pletion the design for and the means of paying for the long-sought classroom addition. Building plans were completed by the archi- tectural firm of Marvin E. Goody & John M. Clancy, Inc. A building contract was executed with the Hollett Building Corpora- tion for the erection of four studio-type buildings on the land ac- quired from the Weston estate. Work on the site is currently un- derway, and the addition is expected to be ready for occupancy in the Fall of 1966. Plans are now being made for utilization of the space in the main building that will be vacated when the school functions are transferred to the new campus.
Despite the continuous efforts of the Museum's officers and Executive Director and the generosity of a few substantial donors, considerably less progress has been made toward obtaining the rel- atively small sum now needed to meet building costs. At the close of 1965, only $25, 000 remained to be raised of the $150, 000 needed. Most disturbing is the fact that the smaller this balance becomes, the more difficult the effort to reduce it further. Unless hoped- for large donations materialize in the first half of 1966, a genuine crisis threatens.
That Lincoln's DeCordova Museum is a rare and unusually vital institution is now an established fact in the international world of art. The breadth and depth of its reputation sometimes comes as a surprise to residents of Lincoln. Credit for this must be divided among the Executive Director, his very competent staff, and the many volunteer Associates that contribute so much that the Museum could not otherwise obtain.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Frederick P. Walkey
Looking back, as one must in writing an annual report, is not a natural posture for any member of the DeCordova staff. There is always so much to be done in the immediate future that there is no time for reviewing the past. However, looking back to 1965 is very rewarding, because last year was the most import- ant single year in the Museum's history. -. We broke not one, but several mythical barriers, and with each breakthrough we reached
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a goal that had once seemed unattainable.
First, the Board of Directors signed a contract to build new classroom studios. Second, by November of 1965, we had reached the two thousand mark in numbers of Associates. Third and last, during the fourth quarter, right after the ground break- ing ceremonies, we began to receive financial support at a level not previously realized. The long unanswered question of De- Cordova's future had an answer: the Museum's loyal Associates would provide the financial support necessary to assure expansion in 1966. The assurance of this support is the most important goal yet attained by the Museum and makes 1965 an unparallelled suc- cess.
Success is not an accident. Last year's success can be traced to plans adopted over five years ago. That they came to fruition in 1965 is the result of the intensive action taken last year by the Board of Directors, by the Associate Council and by the Museum Staff. Victor A. Lutnicki, President of the Board, and Mrs. Everett Black, Chairman of the Associate Council, contri- buted significantly to the year's success, but they would not have been effective without the equally able people who served with them on the Board and on the Council.
It would be hard to exaggerate the importance of the con- tribution made by volunteers to the operation and growth of the Museum. In 1965 the scope and impact of volunteer activity was greater than in any previous year. Their jobs ranged from rou- tine office chores, to campaigning for new members, to master- minding such complex operations as the highly successful Silent Auction last spring and Artists at Work Day in September. On behalf of the Board of Directors and Staff, I extend sincere thanks to the ladies of the Associate Council and the Committees which served under them in 1965.
Finally, I thank the members of the Board and Staff for their continuing support and cooperation and for their unswerving dedication to the welfare of this institution.
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ASSOCIATE COUNCIL, DeCORDOVA MUSEUM December 31, 1965
Mrs. Everett Black, Chairman
Mrs. John P. Stevenson, Secretary
Mrs. Theodore Tucker, Membership Chairman
Mrs. Max Mason, Silent Auction Chairman Mrs. Chester d'Autremont, Hospitality Chairman
Mrs. Walter Salmon, Publicity Co-Chairman Mrs. Andrew Wales, Publicity Co-Chairman Mrs. J. J. Duane, Film Society Representative Mrs. David Miller, Adventures in Music Co-Chairman
Mrs. J. Alan Cooper, Adventures in Music Co-Chairman Mrs. Albert C. England, Jr., Music Chairman Mrs. Raymond Tunnell, Volunteers Chairman Mrs. Henry Hoover, Garden Club Representative Mrs. Robert Booth, Flower Arrangements Chairman
Mrs. Hugh Miser, Telephone Book Chairman
Mrs. Arthur Vershbow, Print Club Representative Mrs. Charles Crumm, Member-at-large Mrs. Robert Grady, Member-at-large
Mrs. Robert Niles, Member-at-large
Mrs. John Ehrenfeld, Acton Representative Mrs. Haig Tatosian, Bedford Representative Mrs. Robert King, Bedford Representative
Mrs. Herbert C. Lee, Belmont Representative
Mrs. Robert B. Woodward, Ass't. Belmont Representative Mrs. Edwin Campbell, Carlisle Representative Mrs. Richard Adler, Concord Representative
Mrs. James Skinner, Concord Representative Mrs. Robert Bunshaft, Newton Representative Mrs. Milton Collins, Lexington Representative Mrs. Robert B. Newman, Lexington Representative Mrs. E. Karl Bastress, Lincoln Representative Mrs. Harold Carter, Hanscom Representative
Mrs. Clarence G. Fauntleroy, Sudbury Representative Mrs. John Edwards, Ass't. Sudbury Representative Mrs. John Beard, Wayland Representative and Co-Chairman of Artists at Work Day Mrs. Hugh Leney, Ass't. Wayland Representative Mrs. G. Lane Johnson, Wellesley Representative Mrs. Joseph Gardella, Weston Representative and Co-Chairman of Artists at Work Day Mrs. Gordon Gauld, Ass't. Weston Representative
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DeCORDOVA MUSEUM December 31, 1965
Victor A. Lutnicki, President
Paul W. Cook, Jr., Vice President
Janet Daniels, Clerk Stanley Heck, Treasurer
Francis S. Andrews, Assistant Treasurer
Dana W. Atchley, Jr.
Eliot Hubbard III
STAFF, DeCORDOVA MUSEUM December 31, 1965
Frederick P. Walkey, Director
Foster H. Nystrom, Assistant Director
Miriam H. Jagger, Assistant to the Director
Ann Alcott Lummus, Associate Secretary Cordelia Molloy, Bookkeeper
Corinne Conroy, School Registrar Nanette Hayes, Lecturer Joan Ash, Secretary
Karl Lahnstein, Building Superintendent
Floriy Campobasso, Caretaker
Hugh Parsons, Custodian Frank Balduf, Custodian
W. T. Cummings, Designer (part-time)
Richard Flanagan, weekend and evening security Sylvia Reed, Receptionist (part-time) Sheila Ruyle, Development Secretary (part-time)
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DeCORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM AND PARK
Statement of Income and Expense for the Year 1965
Income:
Trusts
$ 80, 137. 24
Associate Contributions
33,569. 90
Tuition from Art Classes
33,795.64
Receipts from concerts, films,
exhibitions, benefits, etc.
38,494. 43
Other Income (sales, services,
interest, miscellaneous)
17,068.80
Total Operating Income
$ 203, 066. 01
Contributions to Building Fund Campaign
29,841. 70
Special grant from Trust Funds designated for Park Development
9,362.19
Total income from all sources
$ 242, 269. 90
Expense:
Administrative Staff (salaries & benefits)
$ 82,263.41
School (salaries, supplies)
32,320. 91
Operating expense of Museum & Park
81, 187. 72
Total Operating Expense
$ 195, 772.04
Allocation to Park Development Fund (special grant from trust funds)
9, 362. 19
Allocations to Building Fund and 2nd Decade Fund
37, 135.67
Total Expense and Allocations to Reserves
$ 242, 269. 90
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DeCORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM AND PARK
Balance Sheet, December 31, 1965
Assets:
Savings Bank Accounts
$ 128, 001. 46
Checking Account
8,459.43
Payroll Account
5,494.96
Petty Cash
100. 00
Total Assets
$ 142, 055.85
Liabilities:
Corporate Reserve Fund
$ 10,000.00
Building Fund
9, 187.03
2nd Decade Fund
93, 747. 35
Depreciation Funds (reserves for
capital expenditures to replace
equipment and repair buildings and roads)
11,089. 15
Park Development Fund
7, 446. 72
Payroll & Petty Cash
5,100.00
Working Capital
5,485.60
Total Liabilities
$ 142,055.85
Total Allocations to Reserve Funds in 1965
$ 54,497.86
Total Expenditures from Reserve Funds in 1965
$ 26,069. 13
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SCHOOL CALENDAR 1966-1967
September 1
Thursday
Staff Orientation
September 2
Friday
Staff Orientation
September 5
Monday
Labor Day (Holiday)
September 6
Tuesday
Staff Orientation
September 7
Wednesday
Staff Orientation
September
8
Thursday
Students Report for Classes
October 12
Wednesday
Holiday - Columbus Day
November 11
Friday
Holiday - Veterans' Day
November 28
Monday
Classes Resume
January
3
Tuesday
Classes Resume
February
20
Monday
Vacation Week
February
27
Monday
Classes Resume
March
24
Friday
Classes end at Noon (1/2 day)
April
17
Monday
Vacation Week
April
24
Monday
Classes Resume
May
30
Tuesday
Holiday - Memorial Day
June
23
Friday
Classes end at Noontime
June
26
Monday
Closing of School Activities - Staff
June
27
Tuesday
Closing of School Activities - Staff
June
28
Wednesday
Closing of School Activities - Staff
N. B. Within the regular school year, classes end at noontime on Wed- nesdays with the exception of the weeks in which there are holi- days; in those instances, Wednesdays are full days of school.
Kindergarten morning and afternoon sessions will reverse on Monday, January 30, 1967.
SUMMER SCHOOL - 1967
July 5 July 28
Summer School Opens Summer School Ends
system
7:15 a. m. 7:30 a. m.
"NO SCHOOL" SIGNALS -- Local signals will be given on our fire alarm 3-3-3, repeated at 3-3-3
Radio 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 offic- ials and bus operators. (WCOP ... 1150K; WBZ ... 1030K; WEEI ... 590K; WNAC ... 680K; WHDH ... 850K; WEZE ... 1260K; WMEX ... 1510K) Announcements regarding "NO SCHOOL" are made by the Lincoln Super- intendent of Schools for the Lincoln Elementary Schools (Grades K-8 only). Announcements for the Regional High School are made by the Regional Sup- erintendent of Schools and will be designated "Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School".
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November 23
Wednesday
Vacation (Begins at Noontime)
December 21
Wednesday
Vacation (Begins at Noontime)
LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOL ORGANIZATION
Term Expires
School Committee
Perry J. Culver, M. D., Chairman
1967
(Mrs. ) Helen Gilfoy
1966
Charles H. Stevens
1968
Meetings: 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 Superintendent by 3:00 p.m. on the Thursday prior to the Monday meeting.
Superintendent of Schools
Robert L. Filbin
Center School 259-9400
Superintendent's Office Staff
(Mrs.) Mary Ann Wilson
Secretary
(Mrs.) Harriett Parks
Financial Secretary
(Mrs.) Mary Bufton
Clerk-Typist
(Mrs.) Solveig Parsons
Secretary
Hours: Office of the Superintendent - 8:30 a. m. - 4:30 p. m. Monday-Friday; Saturday and evenings by appointment.
Principal, Hartwell School
(Mrs.) Joan B. Warren
259-9404
Office Staff
(Mrs.) Doris Bardsley
Secretary, Hartwell School
(Mrs.) Kathryne Palmer
Principal, Smith School
Stefan Vogel
259-9403
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Office Staff
Secretary, Smith School Secretary, Smith School
*(Mrs. ) Solveig Parsons (Mrs.) Judith Nizza ** (Mrs. ) Ruth Gaynor
Principal, Brooks School
Timothy Rhodes
259-9408
Office Staff
(Mrs. ) Nella Perkins
Secretary, Brooks School
(Mrs. ) Hazel Smith
Principal, Hanscom Primary School
Timothy Graves 274-7721
Office Staff
(Mrs.) Nancy Cammarata Secretary, Hanscom Primary School
Principal, Hanscom Upper School
Robert A. Leach 274-7720
Office Staff
(Mrs. ) Lucille Needham Secretary, Hanscom Upper School
(Mrs. ) Lorraine Wells
* Re-assigned Superintendent's Office ** Resigned 1965
Hours - School Offices
8:15 a. m. - 4:15 p. m., Monday through Friday
Administrative Assistant
George Drake Center School 259-9401
School Nurses
(Mrs.) Alice E. Garrison, R. N.
259-9407
Hartwell, Smith and Brooks Schools
(Mrs.) Gladys Crumb, R. N. Hanscom School 274-7723
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Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds
John J. Carroll
Center School 259-9406
Custodians
Frank Amendolia
Center School
John Biondo
Brooks School
Chester Holt
Brooks School
Oscar De Conto
Smith School
Ralph Weatherbee
Smith School
Festus Armstrong
Hartwell School
Harold Cuttell
Hartwell School
Atwell Williams
Hartwell School
Albert J. Connors
Hanscom School
Daniel O'Leary
Hanscom School
Edward P. Menard
Hanscom School
Ralph H. Gilbert, Jr.
Hanscom School
Terminated employment in 1965:
Harold Swift
John Florio
Telephone Numbers
Office of the Superintendent
259-9400
Offices of the Principals:
Hartwell School
259-9404
Smith School
259-9403
Brooks School
259-9408
Hanscom Primary School
274-7721
Hanscom Upper School
274-7720
Administrative Assistant
259-9401
Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds
259-9406
Nurses:
Hartwell, Smith and Brooks Schools
(Mrs. Garrison)
259-9407
Hanscom School (Mrs. Crumb)
274-7723
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Perry J. Culver, M. D., Chairman Helen Gilfoy Charles H. Stevens
The year 1965 was another good year for the Lincoln Pub- lic Schools. The pursuit of excellence in education for our schools and children continued.
Thanks to our policy of merit salaries, the faculty has grown in quality, enthusiasm and satisfaction with the Lincoln Schools. The Lincoln Teachers' Association has expressed a desire not to consider negotiations for salary increases. In- formal conferences between the faculty and the School Committee have promoted a beneficial exchange of ideas, clarified the roles of the school committee, the administration and the directors of the various departments and has stimulated a mutual exploration of curriculum development. Committees of teachers in the vari- ous areas of study from Hanscom and Lincoln have been meeting regularly to discuss curriculum. In addition they have met with their colleagues from the Sudbury Elementary Schools and the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School to develop an orderly con- tinuum from kindergarten through the twelfth grade. In the area of mathematics Lincoln and Sudbury elementary teachers have also visited each others' classrooms. Our teachers have been encouraged to visit other school systems and to attend state and national meetings so that professional growth and development will prevail.
With the election of Mr. Timothy Rhodes as principal of the Brooks School, the administrative organization for a lower, a middle, and an upper school at the Ballfield Road Campus has been achieved.
At the Hanscom School, Mr. Timothy Graves was appoint- ed principal of the primary school. An increase in the number of students is a never ending phenomenon. With the addition of new housing at the Air Base, the Hanscom School population has almost doubled. As invariably happens, the school house build- ing lags behind the population increase. Some students from the
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Hanscom School have had to attend classes in temporary build- ings at the Air Base and in the Center School while awaiting the availability of extensive new facilities at the Hanscom School.
An event of considerable importance for both the schools and the Town of Lincoln was the completion and dedication of the multi- purpose auditorium at the Brooks School. It is the cultur- al center of the campus and has permitted flexibility and creativ- ity of unusual dimensions. Steady use by pupils, teachers and citizens of Lincoln has left barely time between the changing acts for scheduled cleanings.
With the maturing stature of the Lincoln Schools and a "house in order", your School Committee felt that it was time to be heard elsewhere in the State. We have made our views known to the appropriate members of the General Court on leg- islation affecting education. Both the Willis Report on Educa - tion in Massachusetts and Governor Volpe's tax bills were act- ively supported in the belief that educationally substandard cit- ies and towns must offer an education comparable to that which the citizens of Lincoln feel is so vital to the well-being of their children.
Dr. Culver accepted an appointment from the Massachu- setts Association of School Committees to its committee on "Teacher Education". A first report of this committee was pre- sented to the Fall joint conference of Massachusetts Superinten- dents and School Committees and was published in the January 1966 "News Letter", official journal of the Massachusetts Asso- ciation of School Committees. All three committee members from Lincoln and Mr. Filbin attended this conference and Mr. Stevens was the voting representative at the annual business meeting. In April of 1965, the National School Boards Conven- tion was held in Boston and offered an opportunity for all of us to attend meetings of interest. Mrs. Gilfoy worked with the National Committee on Advance Regis tration and Mrs. Gilfoy and Mr. Filbin participated in a panel discussion on the non- graded school.
As always, your school committee is deeply indebted to the various Town Boards and citizens who have made our work easier and more effective.
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SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Robert L. Filbin
The passing of a year can be marked in many ways. In a public school system which is part of a changing society per - haps it can best be marked in terms of how much the children have learned, grown and changed during this time. Education, of course, is a process of change and it is the hope of the staff that each child in some way has come through this past year ex- periencing the kind of change which will help him best as he moves along the educational process and in life itself.
Several other events marked the year. Among these was the appointment of two new principals, Mr. Timothy Rhodes as head of Brooks Upper School and Mr. Timothy Graves as head of Hanscom Primary School. Both of these men bring an excel- lent background of training and experience to the schools and are a welcome addition to the staff.
Due largely to the increase of pupil enrollment at Hans- com School the total professional staff has increased to one hun- dred and twenty-eight and the non-teaching staff to thirty-four; a total of one hundred and sixty-two as compared with last year's one hundred and thirty-five. Details of teacher changes are given in the principal's reports which follow.
Pupil enrollment at the present writing is up to 1884; 1041 on the Lincoln Center Campus and 843 at Hanscom. This latter enrollment is expected to go up after January 1, 1966.
With the continued upheaval in education and with the im- pact of the Federal government on financing certain aspects of education, 1965 has been a year filled with thoughtful considera- tion and appraisal on the part of the administration and staff.
School-wide faculty committees in the areas of Mathe- matics, Social Studies and English have been at work during the year and many of the questions raised in committees were being raised nationally. The National Convention of Teachers of Eng- lish, which took place in Boston during November was given over
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to heated discussion concerning the teaching of linguistics. The Lincoln English Committee had resolved during the spring of 1965 to conduct an in-service education program in the teaching of lin- guistics commencing in the fall. With the cooperation of Boston University, Dr. Thomas Devine, a national authority on linguis- tics and Head of the English Department at the Boston University School of Education was secured to conduct an in-service educa - tion program for the teaching staff concerned with the teaching of reading, writing and grammar.
A similar experience occurred with the elementary Social Studies Committee working with Dr. Gil Wilson of the Boston Uni- versity School of Education. In examining the new social studies materials it was agreed that the social studies program developed by Dr. Lawrence Senish, dynamic Purdue University professor, which stresses the teaching of economics at an early level was the best program available. It was tried out with six year olds and found to be successful, and it is being continued with seven year olds. This program received national attention this fall in a feature article appearing in a November issue of the Christian Science Monitor.
Through a University - School arrangement the Lincoln Schools now have a full time supervisor of student teachers from the Boston University staff. Students are assigned full time for a period of sixteen weeks. The supervisor is available to meet with regular faculty as well as to supervise the students. The Lincoln Schools have long recognized the need of training pros- pective teachers on the job and believe the student teaching pro- gram to be mutually beneficial to the student teachers and the school system as well.
The University - School program brings in addition the consultant services of the Boston University staff to the school system. These services are available to the school system with- out charge because of the agreement to train and supervise stu- dent teachers.
On the recommendation of the superintendent a survey team of Harvard University graduate students under the direction of Dr. Robert Anderson of the University staff are conducting a
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survey of the schools K-5 to evaluate the team teaching, non- graded program. The purpose of the evaluation is to secure an objective opinion of the various practices in team teaching and non-grading which are taking place in the schools. Dr. Anderson is co-author of the book "The Non-Graded Elementary School" and has directed the Harvard Lexington and Harvard Boston Summer Programs.
The beginning of September marked the establishing on the central school campus of three principalships, the Primary School (Teams R, Y, B, G), Middle School (Teams O & N), and Upper School (6-8), and two principalships, Primary School (Team K-3) and Upper School (Teams 4-8) at the Hanscom School Campus. This brings in line a more even distribution of children and staff for each principal which hopefully means better supervision and more opportunities for principals to be involved in the instructional program and in counselling child= ren and teachers.
Five teachers, Mrs. Ruth Mahoney, Mrs. Julia Cole, Mrs. Phyllis McKenney, Mrs. Eleanor Bowden and Mrs. Jos- ephine Alward were invited to participate in the Harvard Univ- ersity Institute in Supervision. This is another example of Lincoln's participation in a University - School program which is aimed at the improvement of instruction. Each participant took part in a seminar on supervision which had as a basis practical demonstration of supervision in actual school systems including Newton, Wellesley, Lincoln and others. Further work of this nature is to be carried on in the schools during the year with the teachers above taking an active leadership role.
In further cooperation with Harvard University the Lin- coln Schools opened their doors this fall for two days of observa- tion in classrooms by some 150 students from the Harvard Grad- uate School of Education. This was part of the Graduate School's new program of acquainting prospective students with the way a school system and classroom functions.
In its endeavors to find ways to meet the individual tal- ents and needs of children the staff has been examining the idea of multi-age grouping. In addition to visiting schools where
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this kind of program is going on various committees have been studying the literature and current research on this approach. It appears promising as a means of improving the idea of con- tinuous progress for all children and in all probability will be initiated in some form at the primary and intermediate levels at Hartwell, Hanscom and Smith Schools sometime next fall.
Another avenue which is being explored to provide for the initiation and development of good education is a cooperate effort with the towns of Concord, Sudbury, Acton, Boxboro, Bedford and Maynard to help identify those areas of concern whose solutions require or can benefit from the use of the pro- ducts of research in education or related fields. This is being accomplished through an organization called B. R. I. D. G. E., a service of the New England School Development Council. On
behalf of the group of towns involved, B. R. I. D. G. E. will main- tain a network of relationships with college and university staffs, in and near New England, with researchers experienced in a wide variety of fields who may be of service to the school sys- tems concerned, with the staffs of the region's state departments of education and of the U. S. Office of Education. B.R.I.D. G. E. will be linked to the extensive series of research and develop- ment centers being established throughout the country. In add- ition this cooperative effort will take advantage of the expanding and diverse federal and state programs providing assistance to local school systems which develop well-conceived plans and pro- posals, and can show that these will be carried out with compet- ent professional assistance.
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