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The Art History Lecture Program, which began as an experiment to see if Art History could effectively be in- troduced into secondary and elementary school education, has now moved out of the experimental phase. Many schools have come to depend on these lectures, and most schools pay for at least part of their cost. This is a pilot pro- gram which has proved itself locally and which could set an example nationally. In recognition of its present and potential significance, the Museum has recently been award- ed a grant of $2,600 to improve and broaden the program in 1964.
Art Teachers' Seminars
Meetings for Art Teachers and Supervisors were held at regular intervals during 1963 under the leadership of Linda Johnson of the Museum staff. Representatives from the Art Departments of fifteen different schools attended
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these meetings. They discussed their work, their common problems, and the exhibitions on view in the Museum. They heard gallery talks by members of the Museum staff and occasionally met with the exhibiting artists. After each meeting, many of them returned to tour the galleries with their students.
Adventures in Music
"Adventures in Music" is the organization which the Museum sponsors to bring live symphony concerts to children in the elementary grades in seven suburban towns. The concerts are presented in cooperation with school depart- ments in the participating towns, and music teachers in each school prepare their classes for the concerts with the help of program notes supplied by A. I. M.
The A. I. M. Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Kalman Novak, is now recognized as the best small pro- fessional orchestra in New England; in addition to its Museum-sponsored performances, the A. I. M. Chamber Orches- tra was invited last year to play at the Gardner Museum and for the Executives Club of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
The success which A. I. M. has enjoyed over the years is due in large part to the efficiency and dedication of a massive volunteer organization which handles ticket sales, transportation and liaison with schools in seven towns. The A. I. M. officers are listed elsewhere in this Report, and I am sincerely grateful to them all.
Concerts
The Museum's concert schedule is designed to provide varied and distinguished musical fare for our Associates. Concerts are selected on the recommendation of Kalman Novak, who serves the Museum as its musical advisor. In 1963, four concerts were presented at the Museum: a concert by Jeanne Stark, pianist; an "Evening of Baroque Chamber Music"; and two concerts by the Boston Fine Arts Woodwind Quintet. A Spring Concert was presented at Cary Hall in Lexington featuring the A. I. M. Chamber Orchestra with harpist Margaret White as guest soloist.
The Print Club
The DeCordova Print Club was formed in 1963 for Asso- ciates who are interested in purchasing prints and who wish to learn more about print-making and collecting. Member -
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ship in the Club is free and open to all Associates of the Museum; to join the Club it is necessary to own at least one print; members may renew their membership annually by purchasing one new print a year.
Thirty prints belonging to members of the Print Club were exhibited in a "Collectors' Show" at the Museum in January. This exhibition was so successful and there is apparently such a wealth of material available in local collections that the "Collectors' Show" is expected to be a recurring event.
During 1963 Print Club meetings were scheduled in con- junction with all print exhibits at the Museum. Guest speakers included Robert M. Light, noted authority on old master prints and drawings; George Lockwood, Boston print- maker, who conducted a demonstration in his own workshop; and Sinclair Hitchings, Curator of Prints at the Boston Public Library. Discussing American prints of the 1920's and 1930's, Mr. Hitchings spoke of the tremendous vogue which the graphic arts enjoyed in the pre-depression years and pointed out that in the 20's "when you asked someone to come up and see your etchings you weren't kidding". The widespread interest in the De Cordova Print Club sug- gests that a growing number of local collectors could ex- tend such an invitation in all sincerity. As of December, 1963, there were 102 members in the Club, and their collec- tive collections constitute an impressive store of etch- ings, engravings, woodcuts, lithographs and serigraphs.
Membership
The number of families enrolled as Museum Associates rose from 1,495 in December, 1962, to 1,752 in December, 1963. This continuing growth in membership may be attri- buted largely to the unremitting efforts of our Associate Council on several fronts. The Council has sponsored a succession of concerts, lectures, coffees, and gallery talks for members and prospective members. Local commit- tees have been organized in nearby towns to wage intensive campaigns to build membership in their communities. The three major benefit events sponsored by the Council were almost as effective in attracting new members as in raising funds.
The Associate Council
Under the Chairmanship of Mrs. Robert E. Grady, the Associate Council has in recent years become increasingly
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indispensable to our operation. Last year the Council conducted publicity, hospitality, membership campaigns, two film series and three successful benefits for the Museum. The three benefit events -- "Artists at Work Day", "Mardi Gras Festival", and "Silent Auction" - raised a to- tal of $13,135 for the Museum Building Fund. We are sin- cerely grateful to every one of the dedicated, imaginative and hard-working ladies who served on the Council in 1963.
The Phone Book
A Lincoln Telephone Directory, published in December, 1963, by the Museum is expected to net a profit of more than $2,000 for the Building Fund. This income is re- ceived from the sale of advertising -- the Directory is distributed without charge to the residents of the Town. Members of the Committee are listed at the end of this Re- port, and I salute them for the service they have rendered the Museum and the Town of Lincoln.
In conclusion, I wish to express my appreciation to members of the staff for their dedicated support and to the members of the Board of Directors for their purposeful commitment to the welfare of this institution.
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DeCORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM AND PARK OPERATING STATEMENT FOR 1963
Operating Income :
Trusts
$77,648.07
Associate Contributions
20,934.00
Tuition
29,672.92
Receipts from films, lectures,
concerts
3,423.08
Receipts from Benefits:
Festival, Silent Auction,
Artists at Work Day
19,497.00
Other ( sales, services,
miscellaneous ) 13,319.48
Total Operating Income
$164,494.55
Operating Expense :
Administrative Staff:
Salaries & Benefits
63,457.74
School :
Salaries & Expense
26,558.89
Operating Expense of Museum and Park 56,129.33
Expense charged to Benefit
Events 6,362.00
Total Operating Expense 152,507.96
Net Gain for 1963
$ 11,986.59
BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1963
Assets :
Savings Bank Accounts
$92,680.79
Checking Account 21,123.54
Imprest Accounts (petty cash,
post office, payroll) 3,185.00
Total Assets
$116,989.33
Liabilities: Corporate Reserve Fund 10,000.00
Accession Funds (reserved for purchase of works of art) 105.93 Building Fund (receipts from Benefit Events) 30,222.49 2nd Decade Fund (receipts from 2nd Decade Fund Campaign) 53,937.29
Depreciation Funds (reserved for capital expenditures required for replacement of equipment; repair of buildings, roads, parking lots) 14,569.96
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Imprest Funds
Working Capital
Total Liabilities
$ 3,185.00 4,968.66
$116,989.33
Allocations to and Expenditures from Reserve Funds in 1963
Balance 1/1/63
Allocated
Expended
Balance 12/31/63
Accession
Fund
$ 1.,078.58
$
--
$ 972.65
$ 105.93
Building
Fund
18,377.20
13,135.00*
3,348.13
30,222.49
2nd Decade
Fund
33,608.12
27,204.80
4,817.21
53,937.29
2,058.42*
Depreciation Funds
11,712.03
4,500.00
1,642.07
14,569.96
Profit from Benefit Events: - Festival
$5,217.00
Silent Auction
6,873.00
Artists at
Work Day
1,045.00
2,058.42 **
Transfer from 2nd Decade Fund to Building Fund (funds taken from Building Fund to launch 2nd Decade Fund Campaign in 1960)
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DeCORDOVA MUSEUM
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS IN 1963
January - February:
Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings by Robert Neuman
Exhibition of "Earrings from Five Con- tinents" (from the collection of Olga Pertzoff) Student Exhibition (Jan. 5-6) "Artists at Work Day" (Building Fund Benefit, Jan. 6) Winter Film Series (Jan. 18, Feb. 1, Feb. 15) Print Club meeting, talk by Robert M. Light (Jan. 21) "Lincoln Evening" (Feb. 9) Lincoln Players' production, "The Easy Chair" (Feb. 16)
February - March:
Exhibition of Sculpture & Drawings by Thomas Morin "13th National Print Exhibition" from the Brooklyn Museum, circulated by the American Federation of Arts "Sudbury Evening" (March 2) Print Club meeting, lecture by George Lockwood (March 5)
March - April :
"New Experiments in Art", exhibition of "pop" art, other new trends Spring Film Series (March 15, April 3, May 10) Spring Concert with A. I. M. Chamber Orchestra, harpist Margaret White ( March 22) Lincoln Historical Society Reception (April 19) Concert by the Boston Fine Arts Woodwind Quintet (April 26)
May - June :
"New England Art, Part I - Drawings", com- petitive exhibition, first in six part
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series on New England art "Bedford Morning" (May lo) "Lexington Evening" (May 25) "Mardi Gras" Festival & Jazz Evening ( June 8)
July - August - September :
"Art of Indonesia", exhibition of Indo- nesian arts and crafts Exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture from the Museum Collection through the summer
October - November :
"New England Art, Part II - Paintings", 2nd in New England Art Series "Artists Talk About Art", series of four lectures by exhibiting artists (Oct. 15, Oct. 22, Oct. 29 and Nov. 5) Concert by Boston Fine Arts Woodwind Quintet (Nov. 9) "Silent Auction", Building Fund Benefit (Nov. 15 - 16 - 17)
November - December :
Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of William H. Lane
Exhibition of American Prints of the 1920's and 1930's (from the Wiggin Collection of the Boston Public Library)
Print Club Meeting, Alfred Hitchings, speak- er (Nov. 26) "Concord Morning" (Dec. 4) "Sudbury Evening" (Dec. 7) Baroque Concert (Dec. 15)
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DeCORDOVA MUSEUM December, 1963
Dana W. Atchley, Jr., President
Paul W. Cook, Jr., Vice President
Janet Daniels, Clerk
Stanley Heck, Treasurer
Eliot Hubbard, III
John W. Lincoln
Victor A. Lutnicki
MUSEUM STAFF December, 1963
Frederick P. Walkey, Director
Foster H. Nystrom, Assistant Director
Miriam H. Jagger, Assistant to the Director
Ann Alcott Lummus, Associate Secretary Diane Nixon, Registrar
Linda Johnson, Staff Lecturer
Ruthann Lehrer, Curatorial Assistant
Cordelia Molloy, Bookkeeper
Arthur Mazmanian, Graphic Designer
Karl Lahnstein, Building Superintendent
Floriy Campobasso, Caretaker
Hugh Parsons, Custodian
DeCORDOVA MUSEUM, ASSOCIATE COUNCIL
Chairman Mrs. Robert E. Grady
Secretary
Mrs. John P. Stevenson
Membership Chairman
Mrs. Everett Black
Publicity Chairman
Mrs. Andrew Wales
Hospitality Chairman
Mrs. Charles Wadsworth
Mrs. Leopold Peavy
Fund Raising Chairman Adventures in Music Representative Film Advisory Chairman
Mrs. Hayden Mason
Mrs. John W. White
Festival Chairman
Mrs. Theodore Tucker
Silent Auction Chairman
Mrs. Charles Crumm
Music Chairman
Mrs. Albert England
Flower Arrangements Chairman Lincoln Garden Club Representative Lincoln Chairman
Mrs. Robert Booth
Mrs. Henry Hoover
Mrs. Robert L. Moore
Concord Chairman
Mrs. Richard Adler
Mrs. John R. Ehrenfeld
Acton Chairman Arlington Chairman
Mrs. Denis Robinson
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Belmont Chairman
Carlisle Chairman
Lexington Chairman
Sudbury Chairman
Wayland Chairman
Weston Chairman
Mrs. Herbert C. Lee
Mrs. Edwin Campbell
Mrs. John Wallace
Mrs. William Stenzel
Mrs. John Beard
Mrs. Joseph Gardella
DeCORDOVA MUSEUM, CAPITAL GIFTS CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
A. Bradlee Emmons, Chairman
Polly Hedge, Executive Secretary
Harry Healey
Sumner Smith
DeCORDOVA MUSEUM, BUILDING COMMITTEE
John Pike, Chairman
John Haartz
Andrew Wales
Stanley Heck
Frederick Walkey (ex officio)
DeCORDOVA PHONE BOOK COMMITTEE
Mrs. Hugh J. Miser, Chairman
Mrs. William B. Butler
Mrs. Paul B. Cook, Jr.
Mrs. William R. Barker
Mrs. Leo Barnecut
Mrs. Archer desCognets
Mrs. Barbara C. Dexter
Mrs. Martin L. Ernst
Mrs. George H. Fernald, Jr.
Mrs. Charles E. Jennings
Mrs. Robert Jevon
Mrs. David W. Kirkpatrick
Mrs. Richard Lang
Mrs. Dunbar Lockwood
Mrs. L. Bruce Long Mrs. W. Robert Pearmain
Mrs. Walter J. Salmon
Mrs. Clement C. Sawtell
Mrs. Robert R. Smyth
Mrs. Werner Willmann
Mrs. Dick Wollmar
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REPORT to the
TOWN OF LINCOLN
FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1962-1963
SCHOOLS
SCHOOL CALENDAR 1964-65
September 8
Tuesday
September 9
Wednesday
September 10 Thursday
September 11
Friday
October
12
Monday
November 11
Wednesday
November
25
Wednesday
November
30
Monday
December 23
Wednesday
January
4
Monday
February
22
Monday
March
1 Monday
April
19
Monday
April
26
Monday
May
31
Monday
June
23
Wednesday
Teacher Orientation Teacher Orientation Teacher Orientation Students Report for Classes Holiday Holiday Vacation (Begins at Noontime) Classes Resume Vacation ( Begins at Noontime) Classes Resume Vacation Week Classes Resume Vacation Week Classes Resume Holiday Classes End at Noontime
N. B. : Within the regular school year, classes end noon- time on Wednesdays with the exception of the weeks in which there are holidays; in those instances, Wednesdays are full days.
Kindergarten morning and afternoon sessions will reverse on Monday, January 25, 1965.
SUMMER SCHOOL - 1965
June
30
Wednesday
July
30
Friday *****
School Opens School Ends
Local signals will be given on our fire alarm system - 7:15 a.m. 3-3-3, repeated at 3-3-3
7:30 a.m.
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. WCOP 1150K
WNAC 680K WBZ
WHDH 850K WEE I · . 1030K
590K
WEZE 1260K
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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LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOL ORGANIZATION
Term Expires
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Perry J. Culver, M. D., Chairman C. DeWitt Smith 1965
1964
(Mrs. ) Helen Gilfoy
1966
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
Frances R. Gardella Secretary
(Mrs. ) Harriett Parks
Financial Secretary
(Mrs.) Mary 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 SCHOOL
Stefan Vogel OFFICE STAFF
259-9403
( Mrs.) Solveig Parsons
Secretary,
Smith School
( Mrs. ) Ruth Gaynor
PRINCIPAL, HANSCOM SCHOOL
Robert A. Leach
274-7720
OFFICE STAFF
( Mrs.) Lucile Needham
Secretary, Hanscom School
(Mrs.) Mary Bach
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PRINCIPAL, HARTWELL SCHOOL
(Mrs. ) Joan B. Warren
259-9404
OFFICE STAFF
(Mrs. ) Doris Bardsley Secretary,
Hartwell School
(Mrs.) Kathryne Palmer
Resigned in 1963: (Mrs. ) Anne Whelan, Hanscom School
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.
Lincoln Schools
259-9407
(Mrs. ) Gladys Crumb, R. N. - Hanscom School 274-7723
SUPERVISOR OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
John J. Carroll
Center School 259-9401
CUSTODIANS
Ralph Weatherbee
Center School
Harold Cuttell
Hartwell School
Nelson Palumbo
Hartwell School
Frank Cole
Hanscom School
Daniel O'Leary
Hanscom School
Harold Swift
Hanscom School
John Biondo
Smith School
Oscar DeConto
Smith School
TELEPHONE NUMBERS
Office of the Superintendent
259-9400
Offices of Principals :
Hartwell
259-9404
Hanscom Smith
259-9403
Administrative Assistant
259-9401
Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds Nurses :
259-9401
Lincoln (Mrs. Garrison)
259-9407
Hanscom (Mrs. Crumb)
274-7723
274-7720
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Perry J. Culver, M. D., Chairman Helen Gilfoy
C. DeWitt Smith
In its report for 1963, the School Committee is pleased to record continued satisfaction with the total effort of the faculty and the administration of the Lin- coln Elementary Schools in our quest for quality education. The needs of each individual student rather than that of a class as a whole have been the main considerations in de- veloping new educational methods and curricular materials. Details of some of these improvements are ably presented in the report of the Superintendent.
Increasing recognition by educators throughout the land of the pioneering leadership of the Lincoln School System is evidence of the value of team teaching, non- graded classes, the reading program, flexible teaching spaces and the policy of a merit system for faculty salar- ies. The Lincoln School System was one of twelve in the United States selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for initiation of a new science curriculum in the primary schools. Our participation con- tinues in the Madison Project for the teaching of mathe- matics.
Our contributions of distinguished visitors and con- sultants have been of immeasurable value to the faculty as it continues to plan for further improvements. For 1963, the school was pleased to have days with Dr. Don Orton, President, Lesley College, in the Distinguished Visitors Series; Dr. David V. Tiedeman, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education, consultant in the field of guidance; Dr. Nelson Brooks, Associate Professor of French, Yale University and Miss Lillian Adams of the Glastonbury, Con- necticut, School System, consultants in the teaching of French; Dr. Dorothea Hinman, reading consultant; Dr. Rob- ert Davis, Director, Madison Project, consultant in modern mathematics, and Joseph Grannis, Instructor in Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, consultant in the teaching of social studies.
This year saw changes in administrative personnel and in the physical plant. Dr. John B. Davis, Jr., resigned as Superintendent to assume the challenging post of Super- intendent of Public Schools, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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The School Committee was most pleased to have Mr. Robert L. Filbin accept appointment as Superintendent. Mr. Fil - bin, previously Principal and Co-ordinator of Instruction, has been closely associated with all of the recent growth and development of the Lincoln Elementary Schools. Mr. Stefan Vogel, team leader in the middle school, was ap- pointed Principal of the Smith/Center schools.
Concrete evidence of much needed additions to the school plant appeared with ground breaking in the fall of 1963 for the new auditorium, science, music and art com- plex, and additional general teaching spaces at Smith and Hartwell schools. Construction of these buildings was delayed for a year because of initial bids which exceeded the voted appropriation. Heroic and untiring efforts of the School Building Committee achieved success when their presentation of the building problem to a Special Town Meeting on June 3 resulted in a strongly favorable vote for the additional needed money.
Quality education costs money. The following table shows the budgeted per pupil cost for instructional sala- ries, transportation, and all other operating expenses for the years 1961 through 1964.
Year
1961
1962
1963
1964
No. Pupils
894
920
971
974
Instruction Salaries
298,350.00
343,360.00
400,200.00 426,000.00
Per Pupil Cost
333.72
373.22
412.15
437.37
Transporta- tion
32,700.00
34,500.00
40,800.00
42,462.00
Per Pupil Cost
36.58
37.50
42.02
43.59
All Other
138,450.00
146,915.00
152,066.00 159,157.00
Per Pupil
Cost
154.87
159.69
156.61
163.41
Grand Total
469,500.00
524,775.00
593,066.00 627,619.00
Per Pupil
Cost
525.17
570.41
610.78
644.37
The per pupil cost for each school year is based on the enrollment as of October 1 of the preceding year.
The
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major factor in increasing per pupil cost is that for in- structional salaries. Nevertheless, the average faculty salary for 1964 stands at $6,591. This relatively low figure is due in a large part to the youth of the faculty. The total per pupil cost is as much as 50% less than that of comparable quality school systems in other parts of the United States.
In conclusion, we would be most remiss if we did not record, with gratitude, the support and advice of other Town committees and individual citizens.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Robert L. Filbin
In the past six years much has happened to change the course of education in the United States. Much of this change took place as a result of the Russian Sputnick. A great deal more has been the result of a new awareness of the importance of education. In fifty years, the United States has moved from the standard of a grammar school education for the majority of its people to that of a high school education for all plus a college education for as many as possible. For many, this latter includes not just · four years of college but graduate school and beyond.
With these objectives in mind, it becomes apparent that an educational system geared to a grammar school edu- cation for the majority is simply inadequate to perform this kind of job.
The school committees of the Town of Lincoln, past and present, have been well aware of this and during the past six years many changes have taken place in the schools which mark Lincoln as a prime mover in the develop- ment of many educational ideas. These ideas are current- ly being accepted as standard practice in forward-looking school systems throughout the country.
It seems appropriate in this report to review the innovations that have taken place and to indicate the effect they have had on shaping the schools.
The most important part of any school system is the teaching staff. Lincoln, during the past six years, has sought out the best and most promising teachers it could
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find to do the teaching job. Almost fifty per cent of the present staff holds a master's degree. One staff mem- ber holds a doctorate degree. People are selected not only for their educational training, but for their general background as well. There has been a trend towards hir- ing more teachers with prior experience before employment
in the Lincoln schools. The average age of the faculty is twenty-nine which means that it is a lively and ener- getic faculty which has a great deal to offer the children and the community. The schools have had a merit salary program since the 1950's which is a great incentive to the teachers. Merit salary really works in Lincoln to the point that the faculty unanimously vote to continue it each year. Many school systems, tired of the annual stan- dard increment for all teachers whether they have done a good job or not, have made inquiries into how the Lincoln system works. There is a growing trend towards this kind of salary policy and Dean Mark Shibles of the University of Maine recently predicted that by 1970 the majority of school systems in the United States will have moved towards adopting such a policy.
In the Lincoln schools, another innovation made six years ago which has borne fruit is the introduction of an alphabetic-phonetic approach to reading, spelling and writ- ing. The reading program has recently been written up in a book published by the New England School Development Council (NESDEC ) entitled : Focus on Reading. This re- port was written by a team of specialists from the New England Reading Association who observed the reading pro- gram in action in the schools through a series of visits.
More important is the effect the reading program has had on children. The Director of Testing, in her 1962-63 annual report to the School Committee, states that there has been a very distinct upward trend over the past four years in reading medians as the children progress. In spelling, she reports that the scores reflect a steady gain over the original starting point providing ample proof that the spelling program in Lincoln really works. Children
in the nine-year-old group after having had this approach for four years scored seventy-four per cent in the top ten per cent of the nation, and none below average on the Iowa Achievement Tests. As both school and Town librarians can affirm, the children as a result are reading more ex- tensively than ever before. This, in itself, is of major importance.
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