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Veterans Benefits
1,551.01
Welfare, Out of State Travel
100.00
School Department
6,383.81
Vocational and Americanization
1,170.00
Vocational Training, Adult
211.00
School, Out of State Travel
105.97
Fire Insurance Schedule
428.34
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
39.46
Group Insurance, Fire and Police
36.15
Parks and Playgrounds
23.11
Tarkiln Recreation Center
1,148.68
Old Town Hall Youth Center
2.02
Train Field Floodlights
113.21
Unclassified
446.78
Print and Deliver Town Reports
4.63
Cemetery Department
43.26
Cemetery, Out of State Travel
32.40
Boomer Square
10.41
Interest on Temporary Loans
146.89
Interest - Town
800.00
Water, M. and O.
991.55
Water, Out of State Travel
69.67
West Duxbury Water - Loan balance
51.06
Total $27,131.47
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PERSONNEL ADJUSTMENT RESERVE (So-Called Salary Adjustment Section)
Department
Selectmen's Department
Segregated Amount $ 92.00
Returned to Treasury $ 92.00
Accounting Department
309.00
309.00
Treasurer's Department
148.00
148.00
Assessors' Department
140.00
140.00
Town Clerk's Department
70.00
70.00
Police Department
896.40
896.40
Fire Department
609.00
609.00
Insect Pest Control
110.00
110.00
Control Dutch Elm Disease
210.00
210.00
Tree Department
112.00
112.00
Forest Fire Department
75.00
75.00
Building Inspector
153.00
153.00
Shellfish Department
150.00
150.00
Town Dump
10.00
10.00
Highway Department
823.00
823.00
Bridge Department
118.00
118.00
Town Landings
39.00
39.00
Veterans Benefits
100.00
100.00
Parks and Playgrounds
75.00
75.00
Water Department
764.00
764.00
Cemetery
600.00
600.00
Boomer Square
4.00
4.00
$5,607.40
$5,607.40
APPROPRIATION BALANCES OF 1957 - RETAINED:
Tree, Hathaway Fund
$ 10.36
Special Shellfish Account
1,731.99
Propagation of Shellfish
336.69
Civil Defense
20.70
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Well Child Clinics
227.66
Town Dump Survey
200.00
Poison Ivy Control (Contract)
92.80
Highway, Hathaway Fund
127.58
Bridge Department (Contract)
5,143.10
Bridge, Hathaway Fund
13.51
Town Landings, Hathaway Fund
.69
Old Colony Road
464.08
Midway and Elderberry Roads
304.54
Howland's Landing, Improvement
638.47
Temple and Winter Streets
6,680.94
D. A. Federal Grants
89.89
D.A. Federal Grants, Admin.
101.29
A.D.C. Federal Grants
2,051.62
A.D.C. Federal Grants, Admin. 148.42
O.A.A. Federal Grants
5,750.66
O.A.A. Federal Grants, Admin.
624.05
Public Law 874
3,916.16
Evening Vocational Arts
117.75
Elementary School, 2 room Addition 38,951.60
High School Committee Expenses
5,570.70
Job Evaluation Study
450.00
Pony League
51.93
Partridge Academy, Marker
82.44
Town Retirement, Admin.
440.97
Tax Titles - Expense
1,354.29
Land Purchase
1.00
Church and Tremont Sts., Awards
52.00
Autumn Avenue Awards
16.00
Bay Road Awards
15.00
Congress Streets, Awards
6.00
Valley and Franklin Awards
4.85
Tobey Garden St., Awards
115.00
Boat Mooring Basin Committee
200.00
Standish Home Site Improvement
429.12
204
Cleaning Mains, 1955 (Water) 996.40
Duck Hill Road, etc. (Water)
2,107.04
Engineering Services (Water)
2,515.82
Water System Expansion Survey
235.00
West Duxbury Water System Expansion
7,332.17
New Well and Equipment
4,206.49
Phase I, Water System Expansion
150,867.75
Water Storage Site, Birch St.
1,500.00
1957 Police Cruiser
489.89
Fire Pumping Engine
5.00
1957 Tree Pickup Truck
5.55
Mosquito Control
150.00
Greenhead Fly Control
200.00
Highway - Sand Spreader
209.70
Highway - Sand Spreader
102.51
Lumber for Bridge Department
9.59
Ch. 90 Construction 1956
1.65
Ch. 90 Maintenance 1957
34.05
Ch. 90 Construction 1957
11.01
Winter, Temple and Autumn Ave.
.21
Eagles Nest, Construction
56.47
Brewster St., Improvements
4.75
Arrowhead Road, Improvements
.90
Elementary School, New Wing
985.54
Group Insurance and Hospital Plan
1,109.85
Little League Diamond
19.92
Memorial Day 4.60
$249,692.71
$249,692.71
TOWN OF DUXBURY Balance Sheet - December 31, 1957 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Cash:
Reserve: Petty Cash
$250.00
General
$547,074.78
Cash Invested
99,206.00
Revenue Reserved for Collection: Motor Vehicle Excise
16,255.49
Special Assessment
50.06
Tax Title Revenue
1,823.06
Aid to Highways
20,000.00
Levy of 1956:
Departmental
2,226.63
Poll
8.00
ยท Water Revenue
10,679.23
Personal
142.57
Farm Animal Revenue
64.99
Real Estate
310.11
460.68
Deposits:
Levy of 1957:
Beaver Brook
4.55
Poll
96.00
Planning Board
2.99
Personal
4,006.85
Real
42,478.67
Revolving Funds:
46,581.52
Athletic Association
220.36
Motor Vehicle Excise:
School Lunch Program
1,628.31
Levy of 1954
196.37
1,848.67
Levy of 1955
476.71
Sale of Real Estate Fund
8,989.20
Levy of 1956
2,506.30
Excess, Sale of Land of Low Value Gifts:
516.29
Levy of 1957
13,076.11
16,255.49
Eben Ellison Beach
18.65
$250.00
Petty Advance, Tax Collector
250.00
$646,530.78
Accounts Receivable:
Taxes:
205
51,099.46
7.54
ASSETS
Farm Animal Excise: Levy of 1957 Tax Titles Tax Possessions
64.99
79.15
1,710.48
Recoveries, reserved for distribution:
112.58
Old Age Assistance 802.21
1,823.06
Disability Assistance
351.07
Special Assessments:
1,153.28
Levy of 1957
Federal Grants:
Sea Wall Assessment
37.77
Disability Assistance
89.89
Committed Interest
12.29
D.A. Administration
101.29
50.06
Aid to Dependent Children
2,051.62
A.D.C. Administration
148.42
State
13,000.00
Old Age Assistance
5,750.66
County
7,000.00
O.A.A. Administration
624.05
206
12,682.09
Highway
6.00
Agency and Trust Accounts:
A.D.C.
836.49
Dog Licenses
10.00
Cemetery
515.00
Hospital and Insurance
16.10
Forest Fire
15.70
Tailings
1,042.89
Health
530.25
Standish Homesite, Temporary fund 19.49
O.A.A.
263.19
Selectmen
60.00
Overlays, Reserved for Abatements:
2,226.63
Levy of 1956
460.68
Water Department:
Levy of 1957
9,608.80
Meter Removals
68.00
Service Connections
262.62
Sale of Cemetery Lots
10,069.48 180.00
20,000.00
Public Law No. 874
3,916.16
Departmental:
1,088.48
BALANCE SHEET -Cont'd. Cable Office Flagpole 60.50
Aid to Highways:
21.30
BALANCE SHEET -Cont'd. 10,348.61
Water Rates
10,679.23
Unidentified Cash Appropriation Balances: Revenue: General
33,116.10
Water
14,646.73
Plymouth County Hospital
1,468.23
Non-Revenue:
County Tax
6,901.51
Elementary School Addition
34,133.85
8,457.27
Water Extensions
155,113.94
Overlay Deficits:
237,010.62
Levy of 1952
1.38
Reserve Fund -- Overlay Surplus Surplus Revenue:
50,038.93
Levy of 1953
1.38
Levy of 1954
1.43
General
379,931.79
Levy of 1955
1.57
Water
8.02
379,939.81
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Legal Overdraft: Plymouth Fire Emergency
1,838.83
$754,974.30
$754,974.30
5.76
Unprovided for Accounts: Underestimates of 1957 State Parks and Reservations
87.53
DEFERRED REVENUE ACCOUNTS
Apportioned Sea Wall Assessments not Due $5,423.66
Apportioned Sea Wall Assessment:
Due in 1958
$578.81
Due in 1959
573.02
Due in 1960
378.34
Due in 1961
378.35
Due in 1962
350.89
Due in 1963
326.17
Due in 1964
320.67
Due in 1965
251.75
Due in 1966
251.75
Due in 1967
251.76
Due in 1968
251.76
Due in 1969
251.76
Due in 1970
251.76
Due in 1971
251.75
Due in 1972
251.70
Due in 1973
251.70
Due in 1974
251.72
$5,423.66
$5,423.66
$5,423.66
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DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt: Inside Debt Limit: General Outside Debt Limit: General Public Service Enterprise (Water) 324,500.00
Serial Loans:
Inside Debt Limit:
$419,000.00
Elementary School Construction $139,000.00 High School Wing Construction 60,000.00 Elementary School Wing 220,000.00
$10,000.00
$419,000.00
Outside Debt Limit:
334,500.00
Sea Wall Construction
10,000.00
West Duxbury Water Loan 40,000.00
Water Loan - Phase I
240,000.00
Water District Loans 44,500.00
334,500.00
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$753,500.00
$753,500.00
TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS
Trust and Investment Funds: Cash and Securities
$261,931.78
George Chandler Flower Fund $ 100.75
Stabilization Fund 57,290.14
Lucy A. Ewell Cemetery Funds 509.61
William Penn Harding Library Fund
1,182.68
Post War Rehabilitation Fund
143.28
Myles Standish Cellar Fund
1,474.19
Thomas D. Hathaway Fund
3,177.76
Forest and Helen Partch Flower Fund
312.66
George H. Wood Cemetery Fund
1,033.51
Agnes S. Ellison Trust Fund
1,126.43
Lucy Hathaway Trust Fund
24,079.56
J. and R. Ford Fund
28,969.49
Mayflower Cemetery General Care Fund
1,804.76
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
140,586.96
$261,791.78
Temporary Fund: Standish Home site (Donations from Various Persons)
140.00
King Caesar Hospital Fund In custody of Massachusetts Life Fund *
Feinberg Fund (will of Benjamin M. Feinberg) No receipts to date
$261,931.78
$261,931.78
* The King Caesar Poor and Hospital Funds were reported to have a book value of $37,773.04 as of January 1, 1957.
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF DUXBURY
AS
37
TANDIS
ED.
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31 1957
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Year Ending December 31, 1957
SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Term Expires
Earle C. Grenquist, Chairman
1958
Walter B. Collins, Secretary
1960
Mrs. Elizabeth U. Nickerson
1959
Mr. Edward L. Butler
1959
Mr. Herbert R. Nelson
1960
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Everett L. Handy
SECRETARY TO THE SUPERINTENDENT
Miss Helen F. Hanigan
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REPORT OF THE DUXBURY SCHOOL COMMITTEE
For the Calendar Year - 1957
To the Citizens of Duxbury:
Many aspects of education have been in the limelight dur- ing the past year. People have been concerned more than ever about such matters as competence in the fundamentals, prob- lems of preparation for college, the need for increased emphasis on instruction in science and mathematics, special help for the gifted as well as for the handicapped, providing more class- rooms, finding and holding well qualified teachers, and the ever present problem of increased costs. These have not been matters of immediate concern only, for people have been looking ahead and developing long range plans for the solution of these prob- lems. Duxbury citizens can be proud that what is happening nationally is also a matter of concern in their town. All of these problems have been under study by the School Com- mittee and the school personnel. Evidence of this is shown in the recent reports of the Superintendent of Schools. Admin- istrators, teachers, and parents have been working together for steady progress in the education of their children.
During 1957, particular attention was given to such areas of the curriculum as reading, arithmetic, and English. Ways of improving our methods of teaching physical education were studied by elementary school teachers under the direction of Dr. Thompson of Boston University. The organization of grade six was changed to provide for departmental teaching. These and other matters are discussed in detail in the report of the Super- intendent.
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The Committee is not unmindful of the possible new town expenditures for more school housing, and the 1958 budget reflects the Committee's efforts to keep current expenditures to a minimum. No changes have been made in the existing salary schedule, and expenditures for non-salary items have been re- duced as much as possible. The 1958 budget represents an increase of 7.1 per cent over the amount requested for 1957. Last year the request was 13.7 per cent over the previous year.
We strongly recommend your careful study of the prob- lem of future school building needs. Your School Committee has worked closely with the High School Building Study Com- mittee and recommends your support of their proposed solution to our school building problem.
It is stimulating to all concerned to see the increased inter- est by parents in their schools. The Committee is also pleased to observe the high morale among all school personnel, and is grateful to the teachers and staff for the advances they have made in their work. Under the excellent guidance of our Superintendent, Dr. Handy, all have worked together to keep our schools among the best.
In closing we ask your continued cooperation and help so that now, and in the years ahead, our schools will measure up to the needs of our young people.
EARLE C. GRENQUIST, Chairman WALTER B. COLLINS, Secretary MRS. ELIZABETH U. NICKERSON EDWARD L. BUTLER
HERBERT R. NELSON
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Honorable School Committee Duxbury, Massachusetts
Gentlemen:
The two most significant problems in our schools today are obtaining enough well qualified teachers, and determining the nature and scope of our school curriculum. The manpower shortage coupled with fast growing school enrollments makes the problem of teacher supply a difficult one. The educational requirements of today's world along with the pressing demands for more school buildings, points up the urgency of doing some- thing about the curriculum now, lest we build new buildings for an outmoded school program.
Here in Duxbury we have been solving our teacher supply problem by seeking out well qualified candidates from other geographical areas. We have widened our area of search in the hope of meeting our requirements as to numbers and training. This year we employed one teacher from as far away as North Dakota. In addition, we have encouraged mar- ried women who were formerly teachers to return to the class- room.
Our new salary plan which provides special increases for excellent teaching has been an incentive and will, I think, tend to attract as well as hold good teachers.
This year, and in the years immediately ahead, we shall investigate and keep abreast of all new developments in the use of teaching aids, such as radio and television for classroom use. Instruction by television will bring outstanding teachers to large numbers of pupils. It is adaptable to teaching literature, some phases of science, health, citizenship, and the social studies.
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Adjusting the curriculum to meet modern conditions calls for an analysis of present day social changes and a determina- tion of their implications for the future, as well as a study of the effectiveness of our present school program. Present day social changes indicate the need for more science instruction. Because of the advances in communication, greater stress will need to be placed on a study of the history and culture of people of other lands. This in turn will point up the need for more study of foreign language. These and other changes are described in some detail in the remainder of this report.
Closely related to the nature of the curriculum are such matters as the length of the school day and year. For a long time now we have been adding subjects to the program of our schools without taking much of anything out. This has made it difficult for pupils to go deeply into important subject fields. More could be accomplished with a longer school day. More time would be available if the school year could be lengthened.
Your superintendent and faculty have these matters under consideration. I expect that our first recommendations for changes will be in science and mathematics.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all faculty and staff members and the people of the community for the excellent help and cooperation they have given in 1957. I would like to thank Mrs. Robert French and the Parent-Teacher Association officers and committee members for their work in behalf of our schools. Finally, I would like especially to express my appreciation to Mr. Earle Grenquist, Chairman, and to members of the School Committee for their leadership and service to the schools of the community.
Respectfully yours,
EVERETT L. HANDY
Superintendent of Schools
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PERSONNEL
Teacher Experience and Teacher Turnover
Obtaining experienced teachers and keeping teacher turn- over as low as possible tends to strengthen the instructional program of a school system. Because of the teacher shortage it has been not only difficult to find well qualified and ex- perienced teachers, but it has been hard to hold those we have secured. That we are meeting this problem with considerable success, however, is shown by the following record.
Experience of Duxbury Teachers Compared Over a Five Year Period
Average teaching experience in Dux- bury of all full-time teachers, prin- cipals and supervisors including the current year
1953-54 1957-58
Average teaching experience elsewhere of all full-time teachers, principals and supervisors
3.2 years 4.7 years
Average total teaching experience in Duxbury and elsewhere of all full-time teachers, principals and supervisors including the current year
3.9 years 3.7 years
6.9 years 8.3 years
The following table shows the change in the amount of training held by Duxbury teachers during the past five years. An examination of these data shows a steady improvement in this respect.
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Training of Duxbury Teachers 1953-54 through 1957-58
1953-54
1957-58
Percent of teachers with bachelor's degree only 45
50
Percent of teachers with bachelor's and master's degrees 23
33
Percent of teachers with no degree 32 17
DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONNEL
The six special instructors and supervisors listed in the following chart include: a librarian, supervisor of music, supervisor of art, supervisor of physical education, teacher of remedial reading, and teacher of the special class. Part-time special instructors include one for each of the following areas: music, art, handwriting, Audubon program, tutoring home- bound children, and teaching Americanization classes. The time spent by part-time teachers ranges from once each month to two days each week. The chart showing the distribution of personnel follows:
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Distribution of School Department Personnel 1957-1958
Elementary School Teachers
25
High School Teachers
19
Supervisors and Special Instructors
6
Superintendents
1
Principals
2
Special Instructors - part-time
6
Evening School Teachers
4
Janitors
5
Clerks
3
Dentists
2
Physician
1
Nurse
1
Attendance Officer
1
Lunchroom Staff
7
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Total
83
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS
Telephone 581
Years of Service in Duxbury
Name
Position
Training
Mr. James M. Cain, Jr.
Principal Kindergarten
A.B. and M.A. Tufts Perry Kindergarten School
5
Mrs. Dorothy J. Scott
Kindergarten
New England Conservatory of Music; Curtis Institute of Music
5
A.B., Tufts College
9
Mrs. Mildred E. Glass
Kindergarten Grade One
Bridgewater Normal School; Bridgewater State Teachers College 7
Mrs. Lena A. Macomber
Grade One
Salem Normal School; Bridgewater State Teachers College 16
5
Mrs. Virginia G. Craig
Grade One
B.A., Mt. Holyoke College; Wheelock College
0
Mrs. M. Abbie Peckham
Grade Two
Partridge Academy; Hyannis Normal
47
Mrs. Clare D. Wadsworth
Grade Two
B.S., Lesley College
3
Mrs. Marilyn Z. Berg
Grade Two
B.S. in Ed., Lesley College; University of Maine
2
Mrs. Genevieve A. Keenan Mrs. Emily P. Loring
Grade Two
Bridgewater State Teachers College
5
Mrs. Dilla J. Battista
Grade Three
B.S., Bridgewater State Teachers College
2
Miss Marjorie C. McNulty
Grade Three
B.S., Simmons College
0
Mrs. Helen L. DeWolf
Grade Three
B.S., Bridgewater State Teachers College
3
Mrs. Barbara P. Cooper
Grade Four
B.S., Salem State Teachers College
3
Mrs. Priscilla D. Morton
Grade Four
B.S., Bridgewater State Teachers College 2
1
Mr. Kenneth W. Lovejoy
Grade Five
A.B., University of Massachusetts; M. Ed.,
3
Mrs. Lucy E. Ellis
Grade Five
B.S., Maryland State Teachers College
3
Mr. Richard E. Woodsum
Grade Five
A.B., Brown University
1
Mrs. Beatrice A. Chase
Grade Five
B.S., Lesley College; Boston University
6
Mrs. Alice L. O'Neil
Grade Six
No. Adams Normal School; Bridgewater State Teachers College
17
...
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=
B.S. in Ed., Bridgewater State Teachers College
0
Grade Three
Miss Beverley Garten
Grade Four
B.F.A., Massachusetts School of Art
Fitchburg State Teachers College
0
Mrs. Marion K. Baker
Mrs. Flora Ann Wood
Grade One
B.S. in Ed., Ohio State University
Mrs. Caroline L. Fife
Years of Service in Duxbury
Name Mr. John J. Staples
Mr. James F. Queeny Mrs. Marjorie H. Jarvis
Position Grade Six Grade Six Music
Training B.S., Ed., M. Ed., Boston State Teachers College 0 B.A., Harvard University; M.A. Trinity College, Dublin 4 B.M., Ed., Westminster College 0
IIIGHI SCHOOL TEACHERS
Telephone 346
Mr. Rodney R. Wood Mr. Robert B. Mendenhall
Mr. Ralph N. Blakeman
Mathematics and Driver Training
B.S. in Ed., M. Ed., Boston University; Bloomsburg State Teachers College 18
Mr. Hugh M. Cronister
English
B.A., Earlham College; M.A., Columbia University 2
B.A., M. Ed., University of Maine 2
12
Mr. Donald G. Fowke
Mrs. Florence J. Harrison Languages
A.B., Maturite Real, College DeGeneve; A.M., Middlebury College 6
Mrs. Ruth W. Hendrick Household Arts
B.S., Russell Sage College
2
Mr. Fred W. Hill, Jr.
Industrial Arts
B.A., Keene Teachers College
0
Mr. Walter T. Kennedy
Social Studies
B.S., Providence College
5
Mr. Myles A. Kiberd
Science
B.S., Ed., Boston University
1
Mr. Ralph H. Long, Jr.
Biology Chemistry and General Science
B.S., Cornell University
1
Mr. Ralph H. Long, Sr.
Mathematics
B.S., Bates College 0
Mr. Geoffrey Mattocks
Social Studies
B.S., Boston University 0
Miss Ellen Powers
English
B.S., Iowa State College 0
Mrs. James C. Pye
Latin and English
B.S., Ed., Bridgewater State Teachers College; Mt. Holyoke
B.S., Boston University
000 02
Mrs. Agnes Reed
Commercial Subjects
A.B., M. Ed., M.A., Tufts 8
Principal
Assistant Principal, Guidance Director
B.S. in Ed., Boston University; M. in Ed., Boston University 5
Mr. Lawrence R. Dunn
Mathematics, Science, Driver Training Commercial Subjects
B.S., M. Ed., Boston University 2
Years of Service in Duxbury
Mr. George E. Teravainen
Miss Barbara J. Wesslen
Mrs. Frances R. Wolfe
Position Head of English Department, English and Social Studies Science and Physical Education English Art
Training B.A., University of New Hampshire; M.A., Columbia University 3
B.S., Ed., Boston University; M. Ed., Springfield College 0 B.A., University of Massachusetts Boston University 0
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SUPERVISORS AND SPECIAL INSTRUCTORS
Mrs. Elesebeth B. Bencordo Librarian
Mrs. Josephine L. Bush
Remedial Reading
Mrs. Lauretta M. Cushing Special Class
A.B., University of Washington; A.M., Teachers College, Columbia University 7 A.B., Fitchburg Teachers College; M. Ed., Boston University 0
13
Miss Anna Bigelow Davis Art
B.S., Art Ed., Rhode Island School of Design
3
Mrs. Ella S. Donovan Americanization Classes
Lesley College; Hyannis Teachers College; Boston Teachers College; Boston University 11
4
Mrs. Emily G. McWade
Mrs. Gertrude Maurer
Tutor of Physically Handicapped Children Science, Elementary, Audubon Society Physical Education
0
Mrs. Mary E. Stott
Miss Ardelle Wilbur Handwriting
Mrs. Muriel O. Ferrell
Miss Helen F. Hanigan
Mrs. Margery S. Trout
High School Superintendent's Office Elementary School
Partridge Academy 12
Mr. Roger E. Jarvis Music
B.M., Ed., Westminster College Boston University; Hyannis Teachers College
5
Posse, Bouve, Tufts Rhode Island School of Design
CLERKS
Partridge Academy; Bryant and Stratton 12
Norwich Academy; Packard Commercial School 3 Quincy High School; Boston Secretarial 2
Name Mrs. Irene W. Sherwood
14
JANITORS
Name
Mr. Charles W. Schwab
Mr. Frederick L. Rauh
Mr. James E. Walke
Mr. Michael J. Sheehan
Mr. Russell W. Edwards
Position
Years of Service in Duxbury
Head Janitor, Elementary 12
Elementary School Janitor 3
Elementary School Janitor
1
Head Janitor, High School 6
High School Janitor 3
HEALTH AND SPECIAL SERVICES
Mrs. Carol T. Colburn, R.N.
Dr. Walter E. Deacon
School Physician, Tel. 84-W 10
Dr. Francis C. Ortolani
School Dentist 4
Dr. Gillis K. Turner
School Dentist 8
Attendance Officer 22
Transportation 32
LUNCHROOM STAFF
Mrs. Thelma P. Redlon
Manager 9
Mrs. Marie Caron
Cook
11
Mrs. Gladys MacKeown
Assistant 15
Mrs. Verna Schwab
Assistant
3
Miss Doris Viall
Assistant
3
Mrs. Ruth LaFleur Assistant
2
Mrs. Frances Sollis
Assistant 2
EVENING PRACTICAL ARTS
Mrs. Phyllis Gray
Mrs. Eunice W. Spring
Mrs. Louise Snell
Mr. Daniel H. May, Sr.
Tailoring Slip Covering and Drapery Making Cake Decoration and Party Refreshments
Furniture Refinishing
Mr. Earl W. Chandler
Mr. T. Waldo Herrick
School Nurse, Tel. 175 or 465 2
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CURRICULUM
Each year some phase of the school curriculum has been reviewed in the annual report. This year I should like first to review for you our program in the fields of science and mathematics. The list of courses offered follows:
Science Courses
Grades 7, 8 and 9 - General Science
(This is a general course which in content cuts across several fields of science, and is required of all students.)
Grade 10 - Biology (Required of all students. )
Grade 11 - Chemistry (Elective)
Grade 12 - Physics (Elective)
Mathematics Courses
Grade 7 and 8 - General Mathematics
(This course includes basic arithmetic and intuitive geometry and trigonometry. It is required of all students.)
Grade 9 - Algebra I
(College and Technical Students.)
Business Mathematics, (For students in the commercial program.)
Grade 10 - Plane Geometry
Grade 11 - Algebra II
Grade 12 - Solid Geometry and Trigonometry
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Senior Mathematics, (This is an advanced course and in- cludes a half year of beginning calculus.)
NOTE: All mathematics courses are elective beginning in grade 9.
Because of recent scientific developments in relation to the exploration and control of outer space, new attention is being given to the amount and scope of the science and mathematics training of high school graduates. Statistics are being published comparing the scientific training of our high school graduates with the training given in Russian schools. A recent report to the President stated that only one out of three graduates of our high schools had as much as one year of chemistry. Only one out of four of our graduates had a year of physics, the report stated. The report went on to point out that only one out of three graduates had more than a year of algebra. In addition, in the year 1955, only one in every five high school students was taking a course in any foreign language.
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