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Hall, Wm. F.,
2.00
7.77
9.77
Harrison, David,
2.00
2.00
Hathaway, W. H.,
2.00
10.50
100.38
112.88
Hopkins, E. A.,
2.00
9.77
85.58
97.35
Horton, Wm.,
2.00
1.05
3.05
Howland, Lizzie,
11.13
193.20
204.33
Howland, Robert,
2.00
69.30
71.30
Howland Alonzo,
2.00
7.35
9.35
Hoxie, David,
3.15
83.69
86.84
Hall, Lydia D.,
4.73
4.73
Holmes, Warren,
2.00
3.68
3.15
8.83
Humphrey, Horrace,
2.00
2.00
Humphrey, Emma,
21.00
21.00
Hillman, Helen R.,
75.50
75.50
Hillman, Chas.,
2.00
Horton, Earl,
2.00
8.40
19.22
Hall, Lewis,
19.22
2.00
Hoxie, Ralph,
2.00
23.32
Isaac, Lewis,
2.00
21.32
2.00
Ireblla, Manuel, Jr.,
2.00
2.00
Hall, Herbert
2.00
2.00
10.40
45
ANNUAL REPORT
Poll Personal
Real
Moth
Total
Irablla, Manuel,
2.00
10.50
38.01
50.51
Irovoren, Seto,
2.00
.84
2.84
Jones, Benj. O.,
2.00
14.70
58.80
1.00
76.50
Jones, Daniel,
2.00
2.10
4.10
Jones, E. D.,
2.00
8.40
10.40
Jarvis, Enos,
2.00
2.00
Kelsey, Bertha L.,
29.40
29.40
Kelsey, John,
2.00
2.00
King, John E.,
2.00
8.40
10.40
Koscha, Jan & Melia,
2.00
11.66
43.05
56.71
King, Edward,
2.00
1.26
15.96
19.12
LaFrance, Lewis G. & wife,
2.00
37.17
94.92
134.09
LaFrance, Albert A.,
2.00
2.00
LaFrance, L. P.,
2.00
2.00
Longton, Mary,
6.42
13.65
20.07
Lima, Mary,
1.05
20.48
21.53
Lima, Jesse,
2.00
2.00
Lawrence, Wanda,
2.00
3.15
21.00
26.15
Leal, Manuel,
2.00
2.00
Macomber, C. H.,
2.00
63.00
102.90
167.90
Macomber, H. N.,
2.00
1.05
132.83
135.88
Macomber, H. N., 2nd,
2.00
25.73
27.73
Macomber, Clinton,
2.00
3.05
3.05
Macomber, Russel,
2.00
2.00
Macomber, Hollis,
2.00
2.00
Makepeace, Lester,
2.00
8.40
10.40
Mann, Arthur,
2.00
4.20
30.77
3.00
39.97
Mann, Julia,
4.41
4.41
Marques, Manuel,
2.00
4.94
29.40
36.34
Marshall, Joseph,
2.00
1.58
3.58
Martin, Wm. R.,
2.00
3.05
30.24
35.29
Martin, Frank,
2.00
2.00
McCall, James,
2.00
2.10
63.32
67.42
McCabe, Allen,
2.00
4.20
6.20
McCrady, James,
2.00
6.30
8.30
McCrady, Wilbur,
2.00
4.20
6.20
McCrady, Susie,
3.47
39.90
2.00
45.37
Mederios, Joseph F.,
2.00
25.20
27.20
Murphy, Cornelius,
2.00
1.47
53.13
56.60
46
ANNUAL REPORT
Poll Personal
Real
Moth
Total
Murphy, John C.,
2.00
3.15
5.15
Murphy, Wm.,
2.00
2.00
Murphy, Mitchell,
2.00
4.20
6.20
Mellon, Geo,
16.80
16.80
Melisky, Enos,
2.00
2.00
Marsh, Chas. L.,
2.00
2.00
Moranville, Richard,
2.00
2.00
Milton, R.,
2.00
6.30
8.30
Murphy, C. F.,
2.00
4.20
6.20
O'Connor, Thomas & wife,
2.00
1.05
18.27
1.00
22.92
Olson. Eric,
2.00
4.20
6.20
Olson, Harold J.,
2.00
12.60
14.60
Olson, Albert,
2.00
2.00
Olson, John,
4.00
4.00
Olson, Jennie,
4.83
43.58
48.41
O'Brine, Fennela,
1.37
.63
2.00
O'Brinc, Daniel,
2.00
2.00
O'Brine, Harry,
2.00
6.30
8.30
Pasternak, Julia,
8.40
56.70
65.10
Pasternak, Peter,
2.00
6.30
8.30
Parker, John E.,
2.00
2.00
Paull, T. P.,
2.00
6.30
8.30
Paull, James,
2.00
7.56
16.80
1.00
27.36
Paull, C. F.,
2.00
2.00
Paull Bro.,
7.88
93.97
4.00
105.85
Peterson, Irene,
2.73
2.73
Peterson, Chas.,
2.00
2.00
Pitsley, Elmer,
2.00
1.58
3.58
Pitsley, Clarence A.,
2.00
2.00
Pitsley, Wilbur T.,
2.00
.84
2.84
Phelan, Walter E.,
2.00
2.00
Phelan, Mitchal,
2.00
2.00
Pierce, Phoebe,
42.53
1.00
43.53
Pierce, Arthur T.,
2.00
1.47
47.30
30.77
Perry, Herbert,
2.00
11.87
88.20
102.07
Perry, Huntley,
2.00
2.00
Pinheiro, Binigo
2.00
3.15
32.55
2.00
39.70
Phillips, Clifford,
2.00
ยท1.58
3.58
Phillips, Edith,
38.43
38.43
47
ANNUAL REPORT
Poll Personal
Real
Moth
Total
Phillips, Hermon,
2.00
2.10
4.10
Plumb, Albert, Rev.,
2.00
2.00
Perreria, Alfred A.,
2.00
1.05
3.05
Phillips, Benj.,
2.00
2.00
Phillips, Bessie H.,
46.73
46.73
Phillips, E. O.,
2.00
2.10
4.10
Poole, Eimer V.,
2.00
16.80
50.40
69.20
Poole, Percy C.,
2.00
2.00
Poole, Flora,
61.43
61.43
Powlinck, John,
2.00
4.94
34.23
41.17
Pierce, C. IV.,
2.00
2.00
Pino, Ollympa,
5.25
2.00
7.25
Raymond, Emma P.,
7.56
44.10
51.66
Raymond, Ernest,
2.00
6.30
8.30
Reed, Alton W.,
2.00
16.80
19.43
38.23
Reed, Wm. V.,
2.00
2.10
23.10
27.20
Reed, Fred A.,
2.00
2.00
Reed, John,
2.00
2.00
Remy, Lewis,
2.00
5.25
7.25
Richmond, Caroline,
59.33
59.33
Richmond, Roy,
2.00
7.04
37.80
46.84
Robbins, Effie W.,
13.55
23.10
36.65
Robbins, Arthur E.,
2.00
2.00
Rose, Frank,
2.00
2.10
36.23
40.33
Rose, J. D.,
2.00
2.10
4.10
Rose, Manuel,
8.61
65.42
4.00
78.03
Rose, Clara S.,
22.05
3.00
25.05
Renches, Emma B.,
7.35
7.35
Renches, Emma & R. Babbitt,
& Chas.,
10.50
10.50
Rogers, Geo. W. & wife,
2.00
23.73
105.00
130.73
Rebella, Manuel,
2.00
38.01
40.01
Seamon, Harold & wife,
2.00
16.80
18.80
Sellers, F. L., Miss,
28.35
28.35
Shaw, C. E.,
2.00
1.58
61.43
65.01
Shaw, C. A.,
2.00
1.58
3.58
Sherman, Ira P.,
2.00
8.40
74.55
89.95
Shaw, C. F.,
2.00
2.00
Shaw, Bertha E.,
43.05
43.05
48
ANNUAL REPORT
Poll Personal
Real
Moth
Total
Silvan, Frans,
2.00
16.07
25.20
3.00
46.27
Silver, John & wife,
2.00
10.40
46.83
3.00
62.23
Slocum, Estella,
1.58
26.25
2.00
29.83
Slocum, Mathew,
2.00
7.88
54.60
5.00
69.48
Smith, Arthur,
2.00
27.30
29,30
Smith, E. L.,
2.00
16.70
63.53
82.23
Souza, Marion E.,
11.14
76.65
89.79
Smith, John,
23.10
23.10
Smith, Angeline R.,
2.10
2.10
Smith, Wm. H.,
1.05
18.90
19.95
Smith, Elmer E. & wife,
2.00
2.63
48.30
52.93
Schisvinski, Joseph,
2.00
4.10
44.10
50.20
Scciety, Cong.,
24.68
24.68
Staples, Calvin P.,
2.00
7.35
9.35
Staples, Fannie,
118.65
118.65
Staples, Sumner N.,
2.00
21.95
23.95
Storey, A. T.,
2.00
8.93
10.93
Storey, Annie E.,
64.05
64.05
Strange, N. H.,
2.00
3.68
79.80
85.48
Swift, L. B.,
2.00
3.47
25.52
30.99
Szpotowski, Frank, & wife,
2.00
3.78
42.53
48.31
Stetson, Geo. W.,
2.00
1.05
3.05
Silver, Quintine,
2.00
2.00
Soule, Alton,
2.00
2.00
Smith, Manuel,
2.00
2.00
Souza, Adaline,
2.00
2.00
Senschel, Adelard,
2.00
7.35
9.35
Silver, Frank,
2.00
10.50
12.50
Tavers, Antone & Joseph,
2.00
5.04
42.00
3.00
52.04
Travers, Manuel,
2.00
2.10
4.10
Terry, Leander,
43.05
43.05
Terry, Zebedee,
2.00
3.15
18.90
Talbot, Frank,
2.00
5.25
5.13
Terrell, Annie D.,
9.66
45.47
2.00
Terrell, Edwin F.,
2.00
48.42
Talley, & Tompins,
4.00
19.85
24.57
83.98
Tokaz, Tomasz,
2.00
9.35
71.92
6.30
Trenouth, Fannie,
6.30
5.15
Talbot, Ester,
18.90
7.25
49
ANNUAL REPORT
Poll Personal
Real
Moth
Total
Traveris, Marysouza,
40.22
40.22
Travers, Manuel,
2.00
2.10
3.00
7.10
Turcutt, Geo. A.,
2.00
32.03
34.03
Turner, H. B.,
2.00
2.00
4.00
Trond, Ludwig,
2.00
9.04
33.60
44.64
Taves, Manuel,
2.00
1.05
20.48
23.53
Theroux, Jos. A.,
2.00
3.15
5.15
Terry, F. B.,
2.00
2.00
Viall, Fannie,
29.93
29.93
Victorine, Manuel,
2.00
9.35
24.15
35.50
Victorine, Joseph,
2.00
1.58
18.90
22.48
Varia, Antone,
2.00
2.10
4.10
Wade, Chas. E.,
2.00
2.10
4.10
Washburn, Chas. F.,
2.00
3.98
34.65
40.64
Washburn, F. E.,
2.00
34.65
36.65
Westgate, D. A.,
2.00
2.10
12.60
16.70
Westgate, Geo. A.,
2.00
1.05
3.05
Westgate, S. E.,
2.00
9.45
11.45
Westgate, Geo. E.,
2.00
22.05
128.29
141.34
Westgate, Wm. F.,
2.00
1.58
20.48
24.06
White, Alfred L.,
2.00
5.25
7.25
White, Carrie L. B.,
42.00
42.00
White, Chester,
2.00
6.30
8.30
White, Joseph,
2.00
2.42
20.48
2.00
26.90
White, Manuel,
2.00
1.58
3.58
Whitaker, Fred A.,
2.00
43.68
45.68
Whitaker, Elmer,
2.00
6.30
8.30
Whitaker, L. C.,
2.00
6.09
3.78
11.87
Whitaker, Merle,
2.00
7.35
9.35
Whitaker, Norman,
2.00
6.30
8.30
Whitaker, E. E.,
2.00
2.21
63.42
67.63
Whitaker, Harry,
2.00
2.00
Wordell, Chas. B.,
2.00
10.50
12.50
Williams, Frank S.,
2.00
4.20
6.20
Williams, F. L.,
2.00
2.00
Williams, F. N.,
17.85
17.85
Winslow, Edward,
2.00
4.10
16.17
22.27
Winslow, Lena,
81.90
3.00
84.90
Wooley, Arthur,
2.00
14.50
74.03
90.53
50
ANNUAL REPORT
Poll Personal
Real
Moth
Total
Wooley, Walter,
2.00
5.04
7.04
Winchoba, Wincyntz, & wife 2.00
10.92
36.75
1.00
50.67
Welch, Geo.,
2.00
2.00
Wood, Henry E.,
2.00
3.15
5.15
Young, Maud,
7.30
17.85
26.15
Young, Hiram F.,
2.00
2.00
Yurgurtis, Adam,
2.00
19.75
42.42
64.17
51
ANNUAL REPORT
TAUNTON.
Personal
Real
Moth
Total
Amaral, Jos. & wife,
$1.05
$1.05
Admado, John D.,
8.40
8.40
Burt, Alexander, Miss,
1.58
1.58
Babbitt, J. P.,
31.50
31.50
Babbitt, R. H., Jr.,
2.52
2.52
Bellamy, Wm. A.,
10.71
10.71
Bettencourt, Frank & Markon,
24.47
$2.00
26.47
Benton, Henry,
4.20
4.20
Burt, W'm. A.,
2.63
2.63
Brownell, Brenton & L. E.,
72.45
72.45
Chase, Timothy,
.63
.63
Cantoreggi, Adolso,
35.70
35.70
Chapman, Fred, Mrs.,
6.30
6.30
Conaty, Emma,
9.98
9.98
Conaty, Robert,
8.82
8.82
Coombs, Joseph E.,
2.10
2.10
Cushing, Mary, Mrs.,
1.05
1.05
Clark, P. J.,
1.05
1.05
Correiro, Joe,
.53
.53
Dary, Flora, Mrs.,
25.20
25.20
Dean, Sarah E.,
.53
.53
Delano, Chas.,
.53
53
Dean, Lawrence,
1.58
1.58
Doyel, James F.,
5.25
5.25
Doel, Wm. R.,
24.15
24.15
Dumber, Helen,
.63
.63
Duquet, Alice,
14.18
14.18
Gracia, Manuel,
2.10
2.10
Gutholm, Geo.,
$2.73
21.00
23.73
Hall, Joseph C.,
5.04
5.04
Hall, Hannah F.,
3.36
3.36
52
ANNUAL REPORT
Personal
Real
Moth
Total
Hart, Chester, Mrs.,
35.18
35.18
Hart, Enos & Fred Austin,
18.90
18.90
Hart, John E.,
2.63
2.63
Hart, Wm. E.,
2.84
2.84
Hathaway, Chas. & Geo.,
23.21
23.21
Hathaway, Elizabeth,
10.50
10.50
Hill, Fred & F. W. Harrington,
7.88
7.88
Holloway, Benj. F.,
1.05
1.05
Hemmingway, F. S.,
1.05
1.05
Hemming, Eliza,
5.25
5.25
Hart, Frank W.,
1.58
1.58
Hoard, Luther B.,
7.56
7.56
Jack, Wm.,
9.45
9.45
Mozzone, Eugeno
2.63
2.63
Macomber, Nathan N.,
3.15
3.15
Macomber, Arthur,
4.20
4.20
Macomber, Clifford H.,
3.15
3.15
McCall, Chas.,
31.50
31.50
Medrior, Manuel & Fannie,
1.58
1.58
Nicholes, Adelade, Mrs.,
1.89
1.89
Parker, Hamilton,
1.58
1.58
Phillips, D. B.,
39.90
39.90
Pierce, C. D.,
.84
.84
Pierce, Bartlett,
.32
.32
Pierce, Sarah,
.32
.32
Reggett, Richard & Thomas,
4.20
4.20
Pierce, Byron,
16.80
16.80
Pitsley, Allen,
2.10
2.10
Rose, John D.,
4.20
4.20
Rose, Wm. C.
1.26
1.26
Sayles, J. B. Dr.,
1.05
1.05
Scanlon, Patrick,
1.05
1.05
Schein, Joseph,
1.05
1.05
Soper, Geo. O.
5.25
5.25
Staples, Fannie B.,
10.50
10.50
Short, Waldemar I.,
1.47
1.47
Swift, Warren,
2.10
2.10
Strange, Walter,
2.10
2.10
Stiles & Hart,
12.94
102.69
115.63
Stone, Florence,
59.85
59.85
53
ANNUAL REPORT
Personal
Real
Moth
Total
Silvia, Manuel, Mrs.,
3.15
3.15
White, Robert,
16.80
16.80
Taunton, City of,
82.32
82.32
Tew, Frank E.,
.84
.84
Taunton Gas Co.,
21.00
21.00
Webster, Joseph & wife,
26.46
26.46
White, Geo. E.,
2.10
2.10
William, Alex H.,
1.26
1.26
Williams, Flora, Mrs.,
4.20
4.20
Williams, Hannah S.,
6.30
6.30
Williams, Hattie,
6.30
6.30
Shove, Henry,
2.10
2.10
Consalves, Frank J., & Wm. D.
Richardson,
12.60
12.60
DIGHTON.
Carr, Chas. E.,
30.45
30.45
Gracia, Antone F.,
6.83
6.83
Goff, Albert N.,
2.10
2.10
Simmons, C. W., Mrs. & others,
2.63
2.63
White, Lewis M.,
3.15
3.15
FREETOWN.
Webster, Andrew J.,
70.46
70.46
Gurney, Chas., Clifford, Mass.,
.84
.84
Hanson, Oscar,
2.63.
2.63
Haskins, Samuel A.,
2.10
2.10
Hathaway, J. D. & Geo.,
25.83
25.83
Hathaway, Levi M.,
2.63
2.63
Nichols, G. M. & John,
15.34
15.34
Nichols, G. M.,
7.35
7.35
Pierce, Henry J.,
3.68
3.68
Raynold, Wallace & wife,
58.38
58.38
Pierce, J. H. & Geo.,
3.68
3.68
Rezendes, Joanquin,
3.36
3.68
7.04
54
ANNUAL REPORT
LAKEVILLE.
Personal
Real
Moth
Total
Canedy, Zebulon,
36.75
$6.75
Chapman, Geo.,
2.10
2.10
Murphy, Geo. B.,
33.60
33.60
Pierce, Eathon A.,
10.61
10.61
Murphy, Jeremiah & other,
3.15
3.15
Pierce, W. C. & E. A.,
1.05
1.05
Pierce, W. C.,
27.83
27.83
Pierce, Wm. C. & Z. Canedy,
6.30
6.30
Staples, Lucy & Hattie,
.32
.32
Staples, Amey P. & Percival,
4.20
4.20
MISCELLANEOUS.
Blinn, Edward, Fall River, Mass.,
10.50
10.50
Burt, Chas. D.,
1.05
1.05
Gertrude R. Smith, 245 Workington Ave., N. Y.
Brownell, Harry C., Turner St.,
Fall River,
1.79
42.53
44.32
Cobin, Mona, 64 Maple St.,
16.80
16.80
Delabar, Dorothea, 9 Arlington
Ave., Providence, R. I.
57.44
57.44
Drew, Sarah E., Frank Drew, High St., Boston,
8.40
8.40
Edward, Annie B., Providence, R. I.,
22.58
22.58
Edwards, Kelber & Annie., Prov., R. I.
33.60
33.60
Eastern Mass. R. R. Co.,
243.71
243.71
Crane, A. B., Scarsdale, N. Y.,
47.46
47.46
French Telegraph Cable Co.,
11.55
11.55
E. E. Sweeney, 25 Broad St., N. Y.
Haskins, Wm. A., Ottawa, Ill.,
4.20
4.20
- -
L'Bua, Lillian B., Fall River, Mass.,
24.47
24.47
Brighton, Herbert N., 266 Pine St., Fall River, Mass.,
67.94
4.00
71.94
Grinnell, Frank O., Middleboro, Mass.,
11.87
11.87
Letinder, Chas., Fall River,
5.78
5.78
Marble, Robert, Somerset,
.53
.53
New Britain, Conn.,
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Personal
Real
Moth
Total
Mosher, Addie, Rockdale Ave., N. B.,
7.35
7.35
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.,
13.02
13.02
E. W. Longley, 50 Oliver St., Boston
Nichols, Emma, Milwaukee, Wis., 122 Cudaley St.,
11.55
5.00
16.55
Nichols, Emma & others, Milwaukee, Wis., 122 Cudaley St.,
70.35
70.35
69.30
69.30
N. Y. N. H. H. R. R. Co., South Station, Boston,
Read, Otis E., Providence, R. I.,
6.30
6.30
Pierce, Ella, Whitman, Mass.,
8.93
8.93
Hall, Lewis L., Brighton, Mass.,
20.27
20.27
Tipling, Harry J., Boston,
44.22
44.42
Western Union Telegraph Co.,
36.16
36.16
F. W. Whitney, 195 Broadway, N. Y.
.53
.53
Halkajarvi, Marie, Milton, Mass.,
79.17
79.17
Pitsley, Myron, Cushnet, Mass.,
12.60
12.60
DECEMBER ASSESSMENT
Reynold, Wallace,
2.63
2.63
Marknes, Manuel,
2.00
1.05
3.05
Souza, Adlina,
17.33
17.33
Wade, Chas. Mrs., & others,
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
School Committee
OF THE
TOWN OF BERKLEY
FOR THE
Year Ending December 31, 1924
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Mrs. Laura Swift, Taunton, R. D. Term expires 1925 Stephen A. Dow, East Taunton R. D. Term expires 1926 Term expires 1927
Noah H. Strange, Taunton, R. D.
Organization
Stephen A. Dow, Chairman Mrs. Laura Swift, Secretary
Superintendent of Schools
E. L. Hill, No. Dighton Telephone Taunton 3128-\V
School Physician Dr. Charles Briggs Telephone Assonet 1
School Nurse
Alice B. MacIntosh, 390 Cohannet St., Taunton, Mass. Telephone, Taunton 697-R
School Calendar 1925
Winter term, 10 weeks, January 5 to March 13.
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Spring term, 10 weeks, March 30 to June 5.
Fall term, 15 weeks, September 8, to December 18.
Holidays
New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, Patriot's Day, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving Day and the day following.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
The School Committee recommends that the Town ap- propriate the sum of $15,805 to run the schools for the year 1925.
We have itemized the above amount as follows :-
High School: Tuition, $3,200.00; Transportation $1,700.00
Elementary Schools: Teachers, $7,200.00; Supt. salary and expenses, $700.00; books and supplies, $900.00; janitors, $450; fuel, $425; repairs, $500.00; School Nurse, $380.00; School physician, $100.00; home transportation, $125.00; continuation school, $25.00; attendance officer, $25.00; census officer, $25.00; expenses of committee $50.00.
Teacher's Names and Salaries
No. 1
Anna Gleason, Jan. to June,
Salary per year, $950.00
Helyn Harkins, Sept. to Jan. Salary per year, 850.00
No. 2
Annie Birks, Jan. to June
Salary per year 1,000.00
Louise Merriam, Sept. to Jan.
Salary per year, 1,000.00
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No. 3
Katherine McAloon, Sept. to Jan.
Salary per year, 750.00
No. 4
Mrs. Edith Chew Salary.per year Jan. to June Sept. to June
750.00
850.00
No. 5
Mildred Ashley, Jan. to June, Salary per year, Louise Eddy, Sept. to Jan. Salary per year,
$850.00
750.00
No. 6
Sybil Cushman, Jan. to June Salary per year, $800.00
Mrs. Ruth Marshall, June to Sept. Salary per year,
800.00
10. 7
Grammar
Addie Blood, Salary per year,
$1,000.00
Primary
May McLear, Jan. to June Salary per year 850.00
Mildred Ashley, Salary per year 850.00
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High School Pupils Jan. to June
Gertrude Andrews, Kathryn Andrews, Bertha Ashley, Milton Babbitt, Russell Babbitt, Earland Brailey, Evelyn Brown, Hazel Campbell, Verne Colpitt, Blanche Comstock, Carlton Cummings, Beatrice Delano, Leslie Ferrier, Marion French, Kenneth Graham, Miriam Graham, Beatrice Haskell, Viola Parris, William Parris, Wallace Robbins.
Sept. to Jan.
Dorothy Andrews, Gertrude Andrews, Kathryn Andrews, Bertha Ashley, Russell Babbitt, Richard Babbitt, William Babbitt, Earland Brailey, Evelyn Brown, Myrtle Chase, Minnie Clark, Verne Colpitt, Frank Sybulski, David Dean, Marion French, Alice Gagnon, Kenneth Graham, Miriam Graham, Beatrice Haskell, Otis Haskell, Peter Murphy, Howard Parris, Viola Parris, William Parris, Michael Pasternak, Wallace Robbins, Ruby Winslow, Rita York, Leslie Ferrier, Stanley Ferrier, Concord Gagnon.
Town appropriation for schools
$14,725.00
Total expended for schools, 14,086.38
638.62
Balance
Received from State
$5,433.54
Received from City of Taunton, tuition,
66.66
Total
$5,500.20
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REPORT OF ATTENDANCE OFFICER
During 1924 I was called to investigate non-attendance, four times at No. 1, three times at No. 6, three times at No. 7.
Respectfully submitted,
STEPHEN A. DOW.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee of Berkley:
I have the honor of submitting to you this my first report as your Superintendent of Schools.
While I have been in contact with your schools but a short while, certain features are so obvious that a very brief period of observation is sufficient to justify a positive state- ment regarding them. I may also say that some recent observations by members of the State Department of Educa- tion, coincide with my own. The statement that follows is, therefore in respect to the condition of the buildings somewhat more than an individual opinion, although it is my own personal statement and commits no one else.
The schools of Berkley do not provide the children of the town with educational advantages equal to the average for the State. The specific ways in which the schools do not equal average conditions will constitute bulk of this report.
The school furniture in Berkley is decidedly poor. Some of it is of an ancient type unseen so far as I know anywhere else in this State. These seats, and others less archaic, are not adjustable. The result is that the larger portion of the children in town are in seats that do not fit them and can not be made to fit them. As sizes run, moreover, there is no way of changing the pupils around to remedy this condition. This means that school attendance is, at present producing actual physical damage to the children. A school condition that is a menace to the health of the child- ren should not be tolerated.
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The schools of Berkley are not properly lighted. No school room in town fully meets present legal requirements in this respect. Four schools have one half or less the amount of window area called for by their floor space. The remaining schools have less than three fourths the proper window area. In almost every case pupils face a light. We have here a condition the result of general practice when the present buildings were erected, but one never the less as bad as could be devised. No child can possibly escape some degree of eye strain and with many children this can not fail to have serious results. Here, as in the case of furniture we have a situation that really amounts to cruelty to children, unintended of course, and generally unrealized, but actual just the same. As in the case of furniture the same consideration determines proper procedure. A school condition that is a menace to the health of the children should not be tolerated. Only two buildings in Berkley have proper heating and ventilation. Proper heating means an even temperature throughout the room. Proper ventilation means a constant supply of fresh air, sufficient for each pupil, entering the room without draft or lowering the temperature, and the continuous removal from the room of enough used air to keep the room healthful. Except at Myricks and the Common there is no positive ventilation when the windows are closed and the heating is of the old stove type that makes parts of the room unbearably hot while other portions of the room are not comfortably warm. This is not what the children of Berkley deserve. Rooms so unevenly heated and entirely without positive ventilation do not meet standard health requirements and, as in the case of seats and lighting, the proper procedure is clear. A school condition that is a menace to the health of the children should not be tolerated.
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By ignoring these conditions a tax payer might save some money in case he is not a parent. If he is a parent he is certain to pay much more for attempts to cure the injuries his child receives in school than it would cost him to remove the causes of the trouble. This is all aside, moreover, from considerations of kindness which would not willingly permit helpless children to suffer needless injury.
The schools of Berkley are not, on the whole, giving the education that they should. This is shown in a variety of ways to those familiar with school standards, One test generally understood by all, is preparation for High School. A recent investigation of those who had lately entered High School from this town showed two perfectly distinct groups, those clearly prepared, and those just as clearly not pre- pared. Looking up the schools from which the pupils came showed that every properly prepared pupil came either from a Taunton Grammar School to which his parents had sent him because of full understanding of the local situation, or from Myricks School. No pupil from any other Berkley School was fully prepared. The later class of pupils do as a rule finally become adjusted and go along in High School but it is due to their native ability, persistence of purpose and special attention in High School, and it is in spite of rather than because of their previous preparation. Un- doubtedly more than one cause is operating in this situation, but it should be noted that the two classes of pupils are per- fectly determined on the one basis of entering from un- graded one teacher schools or entering from schools at least somewhat graded. As a matter of fact-it is useless to expect the one teacher schools to give the same preparation as a graded school. It can not be done.
In the situation just discussed we find the great fund- amental weakness of Berkley Schools. The children of
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Berkley are at a most extreme disadvantage in being re- quired to attend one-teacher-schools having all grades. Of such schools there are now but 151 left in the entire State. There are 682 such buildings in use, but they are largely used for certain grades only and are thus units in a system of graded schools. In fact, but one child in 200 in Massachusetts attends the type of school that is usual here. When 9912% of all the children of the state are in a School organization better than the local one, the parents of Berk- ley have cause for serious thought regarding the futures of their children and no resident of the town can find in the situation any basis for pride or satisfaction.
The schools of Berkley receive much less than the average amount of financial support. In the local elementary schools during the year ending Dec. 31, 1923, the amount spent per pupil for support exclusive of general control was $53.03. The State Average was $81.63. Since school management is rarely extravagant, and all places get about what they pay for this difference of $28.60 between local support per pupil and the State Average represents very exactly the relative disadvantage of Berkley children as compared with children elsewhere. This shows about how much children at large in the State get that Berkley children do not get. Berkley buys about 60% of the average amount of Education for its children.
An analysis of the items that make up school costs shows that the deficiency lies very distinctly in the cost of teach- ing. $36.31 per pupil in Berkley against $58.29 State Average. The remaining $6.62 is made up from relatively low costs in janitor service, fuel, repairs and upkeep. These items in fact run over $8.50 less per pupil than State Average but a relatively high transportation cost brings the net figure to $6.62. It should also be noted that in the financial
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year used for this report there was spent throughout the State for permanent repairs, alterations, new buildings and new equipment, and average of $18.12 per pupil. In that year, Berkley, for these items, spent nothing. The particul- ar ways, therefore, in which Berkley falls under the average are in providing cheaper instruction, contentment with present low standard school premises and facilities. poor attention to cleanliness in the schools, and not the best upkeep of the buildings. In regard to the last item however it should be pointed out that none of the buildings are leaky, dilapidated or in a tumble down condition. The de-
fects are found in the condition of the interiors of the buildings. These conditions mentioned are clearly not the fault of the School Committee, they are providing the children with all that they can pay for out of the money provided them.
In connection with school costs it should be noted to what a large extent the education of Berkley children is paid for by State aid rather than by local taxes. As is the case with smaller towns generally, State reimbursement takes care of nearly all the cost of High School education. The average cost of $149.00 for each of the 20 High School scholars of the town was reduced by State reimbursement to a net cost of but $29.03 per pupil to the town. For all pupils -High and Elementary the average expenditure was $70.69 a piece of which $39.10 was derived from local taxa- tion and $31.59 from State funds. The value to the children of the town of this aid is shown by the fact that while only 25 of the 355 towns in the State raise by taxation less per pupil than Berkley does there are 76 towns in the State in which the entire expenditure per pupil from all sources is less. State aid therefore raises the relative educational
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