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Statistics indicate an ever increasing population in the sixties. This will mean more of everything - classrooms, teach- ers, materials of instruction, equipment, etc. Long range plan- ning for the use of school buildings and the selection of future school sites should require continuous study by the School Com- mittee, the Planning Board and the Finance Committee.
Many of the unsolved issues and problems of the fifties will be under renewed attack in the years ahead. These include the wider and more effective use of television as a teaching procedure. More experimenting is indicated in the use of tapes, recordings and films in selected areas of instruction. Class size
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will have a direct relationship to the successful use of these devices.
The education of the talented pupil will be another con- tinuing problem. Early admission to college or admission to advanced standing probably will be given further study and trial. Early identification of these students will be an important problem for guidance officers.
The use of electronic devices for individual study and im- provement may be regular fixtures in tomorrow's classrooms. The Fund for the Advancement of Education has made grants to Harvard University and Hamilton College for experimenta- tion with such machines.
There will be continued experimentation with the team approach in teaching and in the use of teacher aides. A typical teacher team includes an experienced professional teacher, at least one less experienced but fully qualified teacher, an appren- tice teacher and a teacher aide. The team approach permits the use of fewer professional teachers per pupil and gives them more time for planning instruction, preparing teaching mate- rials, and teaching.
Plans to make greater use of community talent will be em- ployed.
Summer programs with teachers employed on a twelve month basis may be organized using school facilities that would otherwise be idle during this period.
Curriculum improvements will not be limited to more ad- vanced courses and more time for these courses. In addition, there will be more attention to the importance of improving the content and quality of individual courses. The aim will be to improve a pupil's education not by just taking more science or
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more foreign language, but by improving the quality and effi- ciency of his learning each year. Perhaps this last thought is the most fundamental and promises most for the success of our schools in the years immediately ahead.
All of the above is not to say that such goals as good citi- zenship, esthetic appreciation through the study of art and music, and the strengthening of moral and spiritual values will receive less attention in the years ahead. These goals constitute some of the cornerstones of our culture. Rather, it will be the con- tinuing responsibility of the schools to improve and advance these areas of instruction whenever possible.
I wish to express my sincere appreciation to the Duxbury School Committee, the faculty, and all other school department personnel and to the various committees and organizations who have given of their time and energy to promote the welfare of our schools during 1959. We can all point with pride to the work of such out-of-school organizations as the Parent-Teacher Association the Boosters Club the Foreign Exchange Student Committee, the Fund Raising Committee for the Old Colony Mental Health Association, and to the many community organi- zations and groups which have provided scholarships for worthy Duxbury High School graduates.
EVERETT L. HANDY
Superintendent of Schools
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SPECIAL REPORTS
Cafeteria
The total receipts during the year 1959 in the school cafe- teria were $40,364.25. Of this amount $27,903.37 was received from the sale of luncheons. The Federal and State government contributed $11,460.88 in the form of subsidy checks, and the Town appropriated $1,000.00 from local funds. Expenditures for the year totaled $40,122.08. There were 106,452 meals served during the calendar year.
Adult Education
Classes in Clothing, Furniture Refinishing, Rug Braiding and Cake Decorating enrolled approximately eighty-one adult students in 1959. State approved instructors were employed to teach the above classes. Expenditures totaled $970.00. Of this amount $644.50 was reimbursed to the Town by the State.
Judge Stone Clinic
Another special activity during the year 1959 was the more extensive use of the Judge Stone Clinic in Brockton spon- sored by the Old Colony Mental Health Association. This Clinic provides direct consultation service in our schools as well as at the Clinic. The cost of this service is borne by the School De- partment on the basis of an assessment of fifty cents per pupil. In order to participate in the program at this rate each commu- nity was required to participate in a Capital Fund Drive for the organization headquarters building. Duxbury's share in this drive was $1800.00, which sum was successfully concluded in 1959 by a special committee headed by the Reverend David Cox.
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School Nurse's Report for 1959
Dr. Walter Deacon, the school physician, gave physical examination to the following: grades 1-3-5-7-9-11, all boys and girls participating in competitive sports and known chil- dren with a history of rheumatic fever or cardiac conditions. There were several referrals to Brockton Crippled Children's Clinic for probable functional disorders of the spine and pelvis. These are all under treatment and stem from faulty posture.
Dr. Gillis Turner and Dr. Francis Ortolani, the school dentists, examined all the children, in all grades. It is still the opinion of both dentists that the children are receiving more and better care than in previous years. A limited number of children are being cared for, under the School Dental Clinic, according to the Board of Health policy.
Blood counts and urinalyses were completed in grades 1-4- 7-11. There were two referrals for traces of sugar in the urine and four referrals for low blood counts.
Home visits were made in regard to extended illnesses, injuries and to confer with parents. All school personnel x-ray records were checked and x-rays taken at Plymouth County Hospital for those due for routine check-ups.
In addition to the routine hearing and vision testing in grades 1 through 12, kindergarten was included. These young children were remarkably adaptable and cooperative in the testing procedures. There were no referrals to families for any hearing losses and only two referrals for vision failures. In both instances care has been undertaken by the family eye- doctor.
Volunteers who have so kindly and generously given of their time the past year are: Mrs. Robert Doherty, Mrs. Firmin Bishop, Mrs. Robert French, Mrs. Stanley Merry, Mrs. Wallace Ross and Mrs. Everett Handy.
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Report of the School Physician
I herewith submit my report as School Physician for the year 1959-1960.
In June, the children who were registered for the kinder- garten were given physical examinations. These examinations were thoroughly carried out because it was felt that a complete appraisal of the entire system was necessary at this time in order to evaluate defects and note improvement, as the case may be, in the future. Also, all children requiring immunization against smallpox were vaccinated at this time. Known cardiac children were given their bi-annual physical examination to note any change in their cardiac status. A few of these cases in which we had found a minimal type of heart murmur had completely cleared up during the year. This is quite common in younger children.
During the Fall semester, the regular physical examinations were carried out. Parents were informed of the date and time this procedure was to be done so that they might observe and note any defects or suggestions in their children.
Posture of the average school child is considered to be poor. The Department of Physical Education has been ac- quainted with the problems of poor posture and calisthenics designed to overcome some of these postural defects have been carried out.
The over all picture of the general health of the school child in Duxbury was considered to be good.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER E. DEACON, M.D.,
School Physician
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Dental Report
January 15, 1960
Gentlemen:
The Dental Program in our schools continues its efforts to further those principles of better supervision, education and treatment.
Your school dentists examined all pupils enrolled in our schools with mouth mirror, explorer and bright light. On the whole the pupils were found to be in good care.
All pupils treated under the dental program were first screened by the school nurse relative to their eligibility and were completed by the end of the school year.
An extensive dental health education program was car- ried out as usual with the help of the State Department of Public Health.
There is still room for improving our equipment and supplies although much progress has been made.
May we again urge the people of Duxbury to legislate the flouridation of the Duxbury water for the better dental health of our children.
Respectfully submitted, FRANCIS C. ORTOLANI, D.M.D., F.A.C.D.
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Achievement Test Results School Year 1958-59
The scores shown were obtained using the following stand- ardization achievement tests: grades 1, 2, and 3-Metropolitan Achievement Test; grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 8-S. R. A. Achievement Tests; grades 9, 10, 11, 12-Iowa Tests of Educational Devel- opment.
Grade
1
Expected Aver- age Achievement 1.8 grade equivalent
Actual Average Achievement 2.4 grade equivalent
3.8
66
66
4
4.8
66
66
5.5
66
66
6
6.8
66
7.8
66
66
7
7.8
66
66
8.8
8
8.8
66
66
10.3
66
66
Average Scores in Percentiles Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
99% ile
81 % ile
60% ile
66% ile
National Science Back- ground
87% ile
89% ile
50% ile
41 % ile
Written Expression
99 % ile
96% ile
96% ile 99% ile
Quantitative Thinking
98% ile
95% ile
67% ile 85% ile
Reading:
General Understand-
ing
98% ile
95% ile
85% ile
89% ile
Detail
81 % ile
64% ile
21 % ile
47 % ile
Appreciation
95% ile
87% ile
67% ile
82% ile
General Vocabulary
97% ile
96% ile
95% ile 99% ile
Sources of Information
99 % ile
96% ile
92% ile
93% ile
Composite Score
97% ile
93% ile
74% ile
85% ile
2
2.8
66
3
3.8
66
4.7
66
5
5.8
6.
6.8
Social Studies Back- ground
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College Applications
The 1959 graduating class this year is 40 in number. Of these 40, 22 were assisted in making application to a total of 48 institutions of higher learning. 33 of the 48 applications resulted in acceptances, 13 in rejections, and 2 were withdrawn following acceptance at another school. 20 of the 22 appli- cants were accepted at one or more schools of their choice; the 2 who were not accepted were marginal students and each has since joined the armed services. 16 of the 20 successful appli- cants were accepted by the schools they had indicated as their first choice.
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Colleges to which Duxbury High School Graduates were accepted in the "Fifties"
University of Massachusetts Northeastern University
Bridgewater State Teachers College Westminster College
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
North Adams State Teachers College
Rhode Island School of Design
Skidmore College
Bucknell University
University of Wisconsin
University of Alabama
William & Mary College
Mount Holyoke College McGill University
Springfield College
Arizona State College
Brown University
Babson Institute of Business Administration
Dartmouth College
Eastern Nazarene College
Jackson College
North Dakota Agricultural College
North Carolina State College
Wheelock College
Keene State Teachers College Lafayette College
Northwestern University
Texas Technological College
Lesley College
University of Miami
Vassar College Boston University
U. S. Military Academy Simmons College
Framingham State Teachers College
Smith College
Cornell University
Massachusetts School of Art
Bryn Mawr
Syracuse University
Amherst College
Tufts University
Bates College
Connecticut College for Women
Emerson College
Gordon College
Lowell State Teachers College
Pembroke College
University of Rochester
William Smith College Earlham College Harvard University Marietta College Renssalaer Polytechnic
Institute
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SCHOOL FINANCES
Summary Statement
Adjusted Anticipated
Original Allocation 1959
Allocation Expenditures Requested
1959
1959
1960
I. General Control $ 15,407.00
$ 15,407.00
$ 15,407.00
$ 18,499.00
II. Instruction
290,359.00
289,859.00
287,607.43
319,035.00
III. Operation
35,471.00
35,456.00
35,239.90
36,631.00
IV. Maintenance and
Repairs
11,214.00
11,214.00
11,100.00
8,620.00
V. Auxiliary
Agencies
43,022.33
43,022.33
43,119.69
45,896.00
VI. Capital Outlay
4,322.00
4,322.00
3,708.00
3,364.00
Totals
$399,795.33
$399,280.33
$396,182.02
$432,045.00
Less Dog Tax
992.38
Amount to be appropriated for 1960
$431,052.62
During the year 1959 the following cash reimbursements were received on account of schools:
General School Fund
$50,896.10
Vocational Education
2,893.89
Transportation
29,070.94
Tuition and Transportation of State Wards
1,031.52
Americanization Classes
255.00
Education of the Mentally Retarded
2,724.14
Miscellaneous Receipts
208.99
87,080.58
Net Cost to the Town
$343,972.04
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Statement - Public Law No. 874 (Federal Funds)
Balance as of January 1, 1959
$6,006.72
Receipts :
June 25, 1959 - Department of Health, Education and Welfare
$4,033.00
July 8, 1959 - Department of Health, Education and Welfare
1,377.45
5,410.45
Total Receipts
$11,417.17
Disbursements :
Improvement of Industrial Arts
$3,925.30
Improvement of Audio-Visual
1,068.40
Applied to Reduce Current Budget
3,803.63
8,797.33
Balance as of December 31, 1959
$2,619.84
National Defense Education Act - 1959 (Federal Funds)
Receipts :
June 2, 1959 - Department of Education
$ 99.75
June 29, 1959 - Department of Education 368.70
Dec. 23, 1959 - Approved future payments Department of Education
1,456.50
Available from local matching funds
1,466.50
3,391.45
Disbursements :
Improvement of Guidance Services
$ 468.45
Improvement of Science Instruction
2,377.50
Improvement of Foreign Language Teaching
545.50
3,391.45
NOTE: The above money was used to purchase microscopes, portable laboratory tables, and a tape recorder.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Requested
Adjusted Allocation Allocation Expenditures for 1960
GENERAL CONTROL
$15,185.00
$15,185.00
$15,175.51 $18,499.00
School Committee Expense
250.00
199.00
198.82
250.00
Expense of Office
14,935.00
14,986.00 289,789.00
14,976.69 288,229.48
319,035.00
Salaries, Elementary School
125,805.00
125,369.00
125,129.86
136,998.00
Salaries, High School
106,188.00
105,607.00
105,579.35
122,746.00
Supervisors and Special Instructors
38,353.00
38,353.00
37,116.52
39,968.00
Classroom Supplies,
Elementary School
5,970.00
5,780.00
5,778.82
6,022.00
Textbooks, Elementary School
2,437.00
2,677.00
2,655.67
2,745.00
Classroom Supplies,
High School
7,815.00
8,822.00
8,815.53
7,956.00
Textbooks, High School
3,291.00
3,181.00
3,153.73
2,600.00
OPERATION
35,471.00
35,471.00
34,999.89
36,631.00
Salaries, Janitors
19,901.00
19,691.00
19,629.38
21,036.00
Other Expenses of Operation
15,570.00
15,780.00
15,370.51
15,595.00
MAINTENANCE AND
REPAIRS
11,214.00
11,184.00
11,145.18
8,620.00
Elementary School
6,800.00
6,695.00
6,656.80
3,860.00
High School
4,414.00
4,489.00
4,488.38
4,760.00
AUXILIARY AGENCIES
43,022.00
43,102.00
43,095.11
45,896.00
Libraries
1,000.00
989.84
987.64
1,000.00
Health
4,485.00
4,610.00
4,608.60
5,487.00
Transportation
34,833.00
34,864.33
34,864.50
37,944.00
Graduation
250.00
161.83
161.83
250.00
Insurance
1,454.00
1,475.00
1,475.33
215.00
Lunchroom
1,000.00
1,000.00
997.21
1,000.00
OUTLAY
4,322.00
4,342.00
4,327.00
3,364.00
Elementary School
1,662.50
1,682.50
1,678.20
1,129.00
High School
2,659.50
2,659.50
2,648.80
2,235.00
TOTALS
$399,073.00 $399,073.00 $396,972.17 $432,045.00
18,249.00
INSTRUCTION
289,859.00
School Appropriations Compared for the Years 1956 - 1960
1956
%
1957
%
1958
%
1959
%
1960
%
General Control
$ 12,468.00
4
13,769.00
4 $ 14,462.00
4 $ 15,185.00
4 $ 18,499.00
4
Instruction
207,775.00
69
240,049.00
71 262,435.00
72
289,859.00
72
319,035.00
74
Operation
28,056.00
9
30,343.00
9 32,915.00
9 35,471.00
9
36,631.00
8
Maintenance and Repairs
9,785.00
4
11,364.00
3 9,033.00
3 11,214.00
3
8,620.00
2
Auxiliary Agencies
38,351.00
13
39,499.00
12
40,319.00
11
43,022.00
11
45,896.00
11
Capital Outlay
3,447.00
1
3,059.00
1
2,956.00
1
4,322.00
1
3,364.00
1
Totals $299,912.00 100 $338,083.00 100 $362,120.00 100 $399,073.00 100 $432,045.00 100
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SCHOOL PERSONNEL
Distribution of School Department Personnel 1959-1960
Elementary School Teachers
25
High School Teachers
22
Supervisors and Special Instructors
7
Superintendents
1
Principals
2
Special Instructors - part-time
5
Evening School Teachers
3
Janitors
5
Clerks
3
Dentists
2
Physicians
1
Nurse
1
Attendance Officer
1
Lunchroom Staff
7
Total
85
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS
Telephone Wellington 4-5321
Name
Position
Training
Principal
A.B. and M.A., Tufts College 2
Mr. James M. Cain, Jr. Mrs. Marion K. Baker
Kindergarten
Perry Kindergarten School 7
Mrs. Dorothy J. Scott
Kindergarten
N. E. Conservatory of Music; Curtis Institute of Music 7
Mrs. Martha L. Wyllie
Kindergarten
B.S., Lesley College
0
Mrs. Lena A. Macomber
Grade One
Salem Normal School; Bridgewater State Teachers College 18
Mrs. Mildred E. Glass
Grade One
Bridgewater Normal School; Bridgewater State Teachers College 9
Mrs. Caroline L. Fife
Grade One
B.S. in Ed., Ohio State University 6
Mrs. Virginia G. Craig
Grade One
B.A., Mt. Holyoke College; Wheelock College
2
Mrs. M. Abbie Peckham
Grade Two
Partridge Academy; Hyannis Normal
49
Mrs. Clare D. Wadsworth
Grade Two
B.S., Lesley College
5
Mrs. Genevieve A. Keenan Miss Mary J. Smith
Grade Two
B.Mus., Boston University College of Music; Hyannis Teachers College 1
Mrs. Emily P. Loring
Grade Three
Bridgewater State Teachers College
7
Mrs. Helen L. De Wolf
Grade Three
B.S. Ed., Bridgewater State Teachers College
5
Mrs. M. Patricia Binyon
Grade Three
B.S. Ed., Westfield State Teachers College
0
Miss Maureen M. Ingoldsby Grade Three
B.S. Ed., Lesley College
0
Grade Four
B.S., Salem State Teachers College
5
B.S., Bridgewater State Teachers College
4
Miss Joan C. Petraglia
Grade Four
B.S. Ed., Lesley College
0
Mrs. Priscilla S. Miles
Grade Four
Perry Kindergarten School; Boston University
0
Mr. Kenneth W. Lovejoy
Grade Five
A.B. University of Massachusetts; M.Ed., Fitchburg State Teachers College
5
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Grade Two
B.S. in Ed., Bridgewater State Teachers College
2
Mrs. Barbara P. Cooper Mrs. Priscilla D. Morton Grade Four
Years of Service in Duxbury
Years of Service in Duxbury
Name
Position
Mrs. Lucy E. Ellis
Grade Five
Grade Five
Grade Six
North Adams Normal School; Bridgewater State Teachers College 19
Mr. Richard E. Woodsum Mr. James F. Queeny
Grade Six
A.B., Brown University
3
Grade Six
Mrs. Marjorie H. Jarvis
Music
French
B.F.A., Beaver College 0
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS Telephone Wellington 4-2951
Mr. Harry B. McCormick Mr. Robert B. Mendenhall
Principal
B.S., M.Ed., Springfield College 0
Assistant Principal
B.S. in Ed., M. in Ed., Boston University
Guidance Director
Mr. Robert A. Anderson
English
A.B., Upsala College; A.M., Colorado State College 0
Mr. Robert H. Backus
Mathematics
A.B., Tufts College 0
Mr. Ralph N. Blakeman
Mathematics B.S. in Ed., M.Ed., Boston University; Blomsburg State Teachers College 20
Driver Training
English and Social Studies B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's College; M.A., Emory University 0
Mr. Robert G. Demers
Biology
B.S., Stonehill College; M.S., Boston College 0
Mr. Lawrence R. Dunn
Mathematics, Science,
B.A., M.Ed., University of Maine 4.
Mr. Edwin T. Greene, Jr.
Industrial Arts
B.Ed., Keene Teachers College 1
Mr. Raymond N. Jenness, Jr. English
A.B., Brown University
1
Mr. Walter T. Kennedy
Social Studies
B.S., Providence College
7
Mr. Geoffrey Mattocks
Social Studies
B.S., Boston University 2
Mr. David R. Murphy
General Science
B.S. in Ed., Boston University
1
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or 7
Miss Sheila Carson
Driver Training
.
B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Trinity College, Dublin 6 B.M. in Ed., Westminster College 2
Mrs. Liliane B. Peters
Training 5 B.S., Maryland State Teachers College B.S., Lesley College; Boston University 8
Mrs. Beatrice A. Chase Mrs. Alice L. O'Neil
Years of Service in Duxbury
Name Miss Mary E. Murrill
Miss Janice G. Pearson Mrs. James C. Pye
Mrs. Agnes Reed Mr. Abbott E. Rice
Mrs. Irene W. Sherwood
Mr. Reed F. Stewart
Mr. Robert J. Sullivan
Mr. George E. Teravainen
Miss Celeste A. Travers
Mrs. Frances R. Wolfe Art
Position
Training
0 A.B., Radcliffe College; A.M., Yale University B.S. Ed., Framingham State Teachers College 0
B.S. in Ed., Bridgewater State Teachers College; M !. Holyoke 2
B.S., Boston University 4
A.B., Colby College; M. of Ed., Boston University
0
B.A., University of New Hampshire; M.A., Columbia University 5
Social Studies
Mathematics and Science General Science and
B.S., Boston College; M.S., Fordham University 0
B.S. in Ed., Boston University ; M.Ed., Springfield College 4
Physical Education
English
B.A., Colby College 2
2 Boston University 30
SUPERVISORS AND SPECIAL INSTRUCTORS
Mrs. Elisabeth B. Bencordo Mrs. Josephine L. Bush
Librarian
Partridge Academy 14
Remedial Reading
A.B., University of Washington; A.M., Teachers College, Columbia University 9
Mrs. Lauretta M. Cushing
Special Class
A.B., Fitchburg Teachers College; M.Ed., Boston University 2
5
Miss Anna Bigelow Davis Mrs. Ella S. Donovan
Art
Americanization Classes
Lesley College; Hyannis State Teachers College; Boston Teachers College; Boston University 13
Mr. Roger E. Jarvis
Music
B.M., Ed., Westminster College 6
Tutor of Physically Handi- Boston University; Hyannis Teachers College
7
Mrs. Emily P. McWade
Mrs. Mary E. Stott
capped Children Physical Education
Posse, Bouve, Tufts
4
French
Household Arts Latin
Commercial Subjects Commercial Subjects Head of English Dept., English
B.A., Amherst College; Clark University 0
B.S., Art Ed., Rhode Island School of Design
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FLORENCE M. JEHEBER HARRISON
The faculty, students and many friends of Florence M. Jeheber Harrison were saddened by her untimely death on April 10, 1959. Mrs. Harrison was born in Switzerland and was graduated from the College of Geneva in Switzerland before coming to the United States in 1919. She was awarded the Masters degree from Middlebury College and taught in various private schools before beginning her teaching in Duxbury in 1951. She was an outstanding teacher of foreign languages and kept abreast of the latest developments in her field. She was instrumental in founding the South Shore Language Association. For many years she was an active and faithful member of the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mrs. Harrison will be remembered for her generosity, for her scholarship, for her integrity, and for her devotion to teach- ing and to young people.
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JANITORS
Name
Mr. Charles W. Schwab
Mr. Frederick L. Rauh
Mr. James E. Walke
Mr. Michael J. Sheehan
Mr. Russell W. Edwards
High School Janitor
5
HEALTH AND SPECIAL SERVICES
Mrs. Carol T. Colburn R. N.
School Nurse
4
Dr. Walter E. Deacon
School Physician 12
Dr. Francis C. Ortolani
School Denist 6
Dr. Gillis K. Turner
School Dentist
10
Mr. Earl W. Chandler
Attendance Officer 24
Mr. T. Waldo Herrick
Transportation 34
LUNCHROOM STAFF
Mr. Thelma P. Redlon
Manager
11
Mr. Marie Caron
Cook
13
Mr. Gladys MacKeown
Assistant
17
Mrs. Verna Schwab
Assistant
5
Miss Doris Viall
Assistant
5
Mrs. Ruth LaFleur
Assistant
4
Mrs. Frances Sollis
Assistant
4
Mrs. Helen Kehoe
Assistant
0
EVENING PRATICAL ARTS
Mrs. Phyllis Gray
Tailoring 3
Mrs. Margaret Brunette
Rug Braiding 1
Mr. Daniel H. May, Sr.
Furniture Refinishing 2
CLERKS
Mrs. Muriel O. Ferrell, High School, Partridge Academy; Bryant & Stratton, years in service - 14.
Miss Helen F. Hanigan, Superintendent's Office, Norwich Academy; Packard Commercial, years in service - 5.
Mrs. Margery S. Trout, Elementary School, Quincy High School; Boston Commercial, years in service - 3.
Years of Service in Duxbury
Position
Head Janitor, Elementary
14
Elementary School Janitor 5
Elementary School Janitor 3
Head Janitor, High School 8
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RETIREMENT
Mrs. Gladys MacKeown a long time member of the school cafeteria staff retired as of the end of school in June 1959. Mrs. MacKeown began her services with the lunch program when this plan had its start in Duxbury seventeen years ago. The first kitchen was located in the police station building and was sponsored by the W. P. A. A short time later it was moved to a basement room in the high school building. Again, with the construction of the new elementary school in 1949 Mrs. MacKeown and the cafeteria moved to the present location. Mrs. MacKeown served the longest period of time of anyone connected with this organization in Duxbury, and served as head cook for many years. She was always sincerely concerned about providing the best food service possible for the young people who came to the cafeteria. Her conscientious efforts and pleasant personality will be long remembered by teachers and pupils.
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