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Refunds and transfers on taxes
2,666.98
All other .
199.82
$45,249.17
Total Payments
$584,809.45
Balance January 1st 1920:
General .
$27,649.51
Electric Light Depart- ment
398.91
Water Department
7,924.39
$35,972.81
$620,782.26
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BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 31, 1919.
Assets.
Liabilities.
Cash-General.
$27,649.51
Cash-Special. .
7,565.83
Cash-Electric Light.
398.91
Cash-Water Department.
7,924. 39
$43,538. 64
Taxes
Levy of 1919.
$56,516.89
Levy of 1918.
17,523.67
Levy of 1917.
486.32
Tax Titles .
Trust Fund Income
School Fund ..
$317.86
French Fund. 40.00
Penniman Fund. 25.50
Electric Light Department:
Light.
$3,761.01
Power.
5,017.31
Miscellaneous .
76.00
Water Department:
Rates.
$2,033.76
Services .
279.37
Special Appropriations: Sewerage Committee .. $2,000.00
$2,313.13
Fire Alarm Whistle. 149.37
Middle Street Drain. 110.62
French Drain. 611.20
Relocation, Franklin and
Granite Streets. 805.01
1918.
57.58
High School Committee. 500.00
$25,000.00
Overlay, 1918. 3,051.61
$5,688.84
Reserve Fund. .
$950. 80
$74,526.88 616.21
State Aid.
60.00
0
Electric Light Depreciation
Electric Light Blaance.
$383. 36 $6,005.72 398. 91
Water Department Balance.
7,924.39
$8.854. 32
Overlay, 1917
. . $50.73
Loans, (Anticipation of Revenue. Overlay, 1919.
$2,637.23
$108. 31
Welcome Home Committee ..
257.46
Premiums. . 6. 83
Accrued Interest 170. 62
$4,611. 11
Electric Light Rrevenue.
8,854. 32
2,313.13
Water Revenue. Excess and Deficiency
$67,886. 91
$130,017.49
Cash and Securities.
$130,017.49 TRUST FUNDS $35,957.16
Braintree School Fund.
$8,849. 15
Charles Edward French Fund .. ..
2,000.00
N. H. Hunt Fund.
24,276. 99
Ann M. Penniman Fund.
500.00
Amelia C. Hanson Fund.
331. 02
$35,957.16 INDEBTEDNESS.
$35,957.16
Water Loan Sinking Fund :
$144,774. 81
Water Loan. .
$159,000.00
Town Hall Loan.
29,000. 00
General Loan.
8,750.00
School Loan
37,000.00
149,265.97
Playground Loan
1,000.00
117,984. 03
School Land.
16,000.00
Hospital. .
16,500. 00
267,250.00 PROPERTY ACCOUNT
$267,250. 60
Real Estate. . Personal Property . Water Works.
$461,927. 74
Town Property .. ..
$1,060,223.60
68,177.06
366,707. 64
Electric Light Plant.
163,411. 22
$1,060,223. 66
$1,060,223. 66
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1981 1896.
4,491. 16
Net Bonded Debt
AUDITORS' REPORT RECAPITULATION.
Bal. Jan. 1st. 1919
App.
Refunds
Overdraft
Payments
Balance
Balances
General Government
Moderator
$25:00
1,960.00
Selectmen's Department
1,924.05
$35,95
$35.95
225.00
Auditors' Salaries
225.00
1,325. 00
Accounting Department
1,243. 63
81.37
81.37
795.00
Treasurer's Department
763.90
31.10
31.10
1,386. 00
Collector's Department
1,386.00
34.64
34.64
950.00
Town Clerk
943.61
6.39
6.39
750.00
Law
620.95
129.05
129.05
900.00
$1.00
$185. 68
Election and Registration
1,086.68
3,200. 00
33.94
Town Hall
3,233. 94
90
5,600.00
126.00
Police Salaries
5,726.00
1,425.00
2.90
Police Expense
1,421.17
6.73
6.73
5,220. 00
Pay of Firemen
5,157.83
62.17
62.17
500.00
163.25
Extra Pay of Firemen
663.25
5.80
5.80
800.00
New Hose
800.00
500.00
Hydrant Expenses
500.00
200.00
Repairs, Franklin St., House
200.00
30.00
Insurance
20.16
9.84
9.84
200.00
Fire Alarm
254.09
Box, Independence Avenue
120.97
123.26
123.26
Fire Alarm Whistle
2,591.73
149.37
600.00
Weights and Measures
591.60
8.40
8. 40
5,500.00
Gypsy and Brown Tail Moths
5,409.51
90.49
90. 49
500.00
Care of Trees
471.19
28.81
28.81
$.450.00
87.62
Forest Fires
537.62
3,418. 00
12.83
General Expenses
3,425.03
$244.23 2,681.71
59.39
54.09
Protection of Persons and Property
1,695.00
Assessors' Department
1,660.36
{ $25.00
1
Health and Sanitation.
1,175.00
Health Department Contagious Diseases
1,171.52
3. 48 . 16
3.48 . 16
Inspection of Plumbing Vital Statistics
55.85
44.15
44.15
Inspection of Animals
100.00
300.00
Inspector of Meats and Provisions Inspector of Milk
100.00
Committee on Sewerage
2,000.00
Middle Street Drain
662. 20
110.62
French Drain
388.80
611. 20
Norfolk County Hospital
16,717.56
Highways and Bridges.
$860.00
Administration
$860.00
General Repairs
34,300. 58
Snow
2,143.60
$356.40
$356. 40
6,633.00
Street Lights
6,633.00
2,000.00
Shaw Street
1,999.87
. 13
.13
State Highway
15,000.00
Quincy Avenue
10,000.00
State Highway Widening
1,046.69
93.16
93.16
Relocation, Hancock Street
334.81
Relocation, Washington Street
181. 19
805.01
Charities.
1,165.00
Administration
1,144.52
20.48
20.48
Braintree Home
7,258. 23
785.77
785.77
Insurance
143.00
Outside Relief
4,972.97
33.03
33.03
"763"
5,879.80
4,000.00
State Aid
2,489.17
1,510.83
1,510.83
900.00
Soldiers' Relief Education.
654. 53
245.47
245.47
General expenses
84,705.15
6.02
6.02
Insurance
2,154.30
20.70
20.70
3,000.00
66.00
Portable School
3,066. 00
.
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10,000.00
5,000.00
10,000.00
1,139.85 334. 81 986. 20
$4,544.00
3.00
5,000.00
6.00
5,000.00
879.80
.
84,681.00 2,100.00
30.17
75.00
2,000. 00 772.82
975.00
974.84
375. 24
375. 24
100.00
100.00
300.00
100.00
1,000.00
16,717.56
34,200.00
$100.58
2,500.00
3,500.00 140.00
3,050. 00
1,500.00 500.00
16,000.00
300.00
1,800. 00
150.00
2,000.00
2.53
2,500.00
200.00
1,185.00
1,000. 00
50.00
92
3,500.00
120.00
300.00
2.78
10,335.00
14,250. 00
$18,159.62
$289,215.80
$4,771.82
$1,702. 74
$313,849. 98
Monatiquot Repairs Hollis School Repairs High School Committee High School Land Library.
3,050.00 1,500.00
500.00
16,000.00
Janitor's Salary General expenses Distribution of books
150.00
Unclassified.
Miscellaneous expenses
1,823.22
179.31
179.31
Welcome Home Committee
2,242.54
257.46
Memorial Day
200.00
Employees' Compensation
1,182.58
2.42
2.42
District Nurse
1,000.00
41.62
41.62
Recreation.
Parks and Playgrounds Water Department.
$745.38
$92.62
$92. 62
Middle Street Extension
3,026. 91
473.09
473.09
Sinking Fund
120.00
Cemetery.
Plain Street
302. 78
Interest.
Notes and Bonds
9,058.67
1,276.33
1,276.33
Maturing Debt
14,250.00
Balances, Jan. 1, 1919
Appropriations
Refunds
Overdrafts
Totals
Payments
$303,577.15
$10,272.83
$313,849.98
$5,839.17
Hollis Fountain
8.38
$800.00
$38.00
Balance, Jan. 1, 1920 Totals Balances Transferred
300.00
1,800.00
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
OF THE
TOWN OF BRAINTREE
FOR
Year ending December 31, 1919
Printed by Order of the Town
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1920
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING BRAINTREE . MASS FEARE QUINER NEVIN AND CHICKERINGS
PROPOSED NEW HIGH SCHOOL FRONT ELEVATION
School Committee, 1919
George H. Weatherbee, Chairman, 105 Washington St., Braintree, Tel. 373-M.
Mrs. Carrie F. Loring, Rec. Secretary, 110 Front St., E. Braintree, Tel. 326-W.
Benjamin Hawes, 516 Middle St., E. Braintree
Franklin H. Merriam, M. D., 1000 Washington St., So. Braintree, Tel. 380.
Frank W. Couillard, West St., Braintree Tel. 262-W
Mrs. Alida N. Stevens, Tremont St. So. Braintree, Tel. 129-J
Superintendent.
Clarence N. Flood, 276 Washington St., Braintree, tel. 62. Office Hours: - On school days except Thursdays, from 8 to 9 a. m. in the Town House. Telephone 574-M.
Meetings of Committee.
Second Monday evening of each month at seven-thirty o'clock at the Town House, Washington Street, Brain- tree.
Janitors.
High School: J. H. Macandrew, 54 West Street.
Jonas Perkins: Edward C. Holyoke, 24 Liberty Street, Telephone 264-J.
Noah Torrey: F. F. Tupper, Central Ave., Telephone 83-W.
Penniman: Omer Hollis, Union Street.
Pond: James Dreghorn, South Braintree.
Southwest: N. E. Hayden.
South: Anthony O'Rourke.
Abraham Lincoln: Parker Brown, Willow Street.
Hollis: Frank Drake, 36 Central Ave., Telephone 83-M.
Attendance Officer.
C. S. Hannaford, South Braintree, Telephone 196-R.
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HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING BRAINTREE MASS
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CORRIDOR
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SHOWERS
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STORAGE ROOM
GILLS LUNCH ROOM
Boys LUNCH Loom
HALL
MANUAL TRAINING
STORE
KITCHEN
TAN ROOM
FRESH AIR ZOOM UNDER
BASEMENT FLOOR PLAN
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COOKING SCHOOL
SEWING ROOM
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
To the Citizens of the Town of Braintree:
Your Committee has held from one to two meetings per month during the past calendar year, and except upon a few occasions, these were attended by the full member- ship of the Board. Many difficult and perplexing problems, having largely to do with financial matters, have confronted your Committee during the past year. In passing, it is scarcely necessary to remark that in all expenditures, the payment of salaries to teachers, the increasing cost of labor, materials and coal having advanced the cost of the maintenance of the department, and in many particulars, especially in the matter of supplies, the purchasing power of the dollar has been enormously decreased.
The result of this situation is that in matters involving the expenditure of money, it has been necessary that the actions of the Committee be governed not by the standard of the reasonable requirements of the Department, but by the standard of the absolute necessities required to main- tain the school system. The problem of school expense will continue to mean an increasing burden for the citizens of the Town of Braintree.
Complaints are often made of the expense of the public schools in the Town of Braintree. Our large school appropriation and relatively large proportion of the assessed tax which is required for school purposes are due to two sources; first, the large percentage of the total population of the Town enrolled in our public schools; second, the low total valuation in the Town of Braintree as compared with other Towns similarly situated.
A glance at the table on Page 132 will, the Committee feels, enlighten the citizens of the Town somewhat upon the amounts of money spent for educational purposes in the school system of the Town of Braintree as compared with that spent in some other towns. The list includes all the Towns of the Commonwealth having a school popula- tion between 2,200 and 2,600 and two other Towns with much smaller population.
It will also be seen that the Town of Braintree, with one exception among those enumerated above, spends the least amount for teachers' salaries: has the largest number of pupils per teacher, pays the lowest average salary per teacher, and has the lowest total cost per year per pupil, and it is appropriating the smallest amount of money for school purposes.
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HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING BRAINTREE MASS
PEARE QUINER NEVIN & CHICKERING ARCHITECTS 6 BEACON STREET BOSTON MASS
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We believe that the educational system of the Town is the most important enterprise in which the Town is concerned and it should see to it that everything possible is done to the end that its sons and daughters may have equal opportunities and advantages from the education which they obtain in its schools with those that boys and girls in other towns are privileged to enjoy.
A perusal of the following tables, we believe will convince the citizens of the Town that its Committee during the past school year have exercised the closest scrutiny of its expenditures in order to be able to keep the expense of the schools at as low a level as they have, and we feel that the showing which has been made is evidence of the honest efforts and fullest co-operation of those connected with the School Department.
After a careful study of the plans and specifications of the proposed new high school building as recommended by the building committee, your committee unanimously approved and adopted them as the best designed building not only for the present needs but also the future. Your Committee is also convinced that the building plans will meet the ideas of the best educators of today.
The Salary Increase.
The question of salary increases for those engaged in Public School work has been considered by your Committee. The teaching profession is very much underpaid. This point is conceded by all who have studied comparative salary schedules. One dollar in July 1919 purchased only as much as forty-five cents bought in January, 1907. Few wage or salary schedules have been increased at this rate - least of all the salaries of teachers. The School Board, therefore, has felt justified in increasing salaries approxi- mately 25%, the advance to take effect Jan. 1920. This was in response to a petition signed by the entire teaching force, asking for a much larger increase.
We renew our recommendation that immediate steps be taken toward the erection on the site of the recently purchased Hollis Lot, of a central school building ample enough to accommodate not only the present High School but to relieve the crowded conditions of the other Grammar Schools in the district, whose lot is bound to be more and more unbearable as the population becomes, as it is daily becoming, more congested.
The following list gives the alterations and repairs necessary throughout the entire school system:
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Pond School - Installation of modern toilets, desks revarnished, inside glass door, new fence around the lot.
South School - Outside and interior painted.
Abraham Lincoln - Many minor repairs needed.
Union School - This building put in temporary con- dition for use as an overflow building until a new building may be erected or the purchase of a two room portable.
Jonas Perkins - Boilers retubed, electric lights, en- larging of coal pocket, cesspool drained properly, and out- side conductors repaired.
High School - Repairing of outside conductors, and repairing the drain to outside conductors.
Quincy Avenue District - A lot purchased, and a new grade building erected to take care of the large number of children in this part of the town.
At the meeting of Committee held January 19, 1920, the following budget was adopted for the year 1920. This budget has been prepared with great care and study. It shows you as near as can be estimated the amount needed to carry on the work of the School Department and main- tain the efficiency of the system.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT - EDUCATION
School Department.
General expenses:
Superintendent's salary
$2,620.00
Clerk .
260.00
Attendance officers. 600.00
Nurse . 890.00
Printing, stationery, postage.
300.00
Traveling expense.
50.00
Advertising .
30.00
Census 80.00
Emergency room and Dental clinic 200.00
All other. 25.00
$5,055.00
Teachers' Salaries :
High .
15,725.00
Elementary .
59,027.00
Music, Drawing, Domestic science. 3,490.00
78,242.00
Text Books and Supplies:
High :
Books
800.00
Supplies
1,000.00
1,800.00
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Elementary :
Books .
1,200.00
Supplies
2,000.00
3,200.00
Commercial Department:
5 new typewriters and 5 old re- constructed .
475.00
475.00
Domestic Science:
Equipment, refrigerator, etc. .
85.00
85.00
Tuition : Tuition .
1,800.00
1,800.00
Transportation :
Electrics .
800.00
School Barges
2,070.00
2,870.00
Support of Truants: Norfolk County
120.00
120.00
Janitors' Service :
High
1,100.00
Other
6,021.00
7,121.00
Fuel and Light-High:
Coal and wood .
1,100.00
Gas and electricity
200.00
1,300.00
Other:
Coal and wood .
4,985.00
Gas and electricity
400.00
5,385.00
Buildings and Grounds. Interior repairs :
Carpentry and painting.
500.00
Plumbing
1,000.00
Masonry.
275.00
Electric Lights.
600.00
Glass, shades, etc ..
100.00
Other.
100.00
2,575.00
Outside Repairs :
Carpentry and painting.
600.00
Masonry .
50.00
Other.
200.00
850.00
.
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Janitors' Supplies :
High
Other
50.00 250.00
300.00
Other Expenses. Incidentals:
Diplomas, Graduation exercises.
75.00
Water and removal of ashes.
400.00
Disinfectant.
25.00
Express .
100.00
Paper Towels.
90.00
Batteries.
60.00
Fixing Clocks.
50.00
Trucking.
100.00
Toilet Paper.
50.00
Cleaning vaults.
25.00
Tuning pianos
20.00
Telephones.
300.00
Electric transformers, installed.
100.00
School Desks
200.00
All other.
125.00
1,720.00
Continuation School.
5,000.00
Total expense, estimated $117,898.00
Estimated Receipts.
Mass. School Fund $12,200.00
Dog Tax .
675.00
Reimbursement Tuition
900.00
Estimated Tuition .
200.00
Continuation School, one half expend- 2,000.00 ed 15,975.00
Estimated expense 1920
$117,898.00
Estimated credits 1920
15,975.00
Total needed for the year 1920 . .. $101,923.00
Respectfully submitted, GEORGE H. WEATHERBEE, Chairman. CARRIE F. LORING, Rec. Secretary. FRANKLIN H. MERRIAM, BENJAMIN HAWES,
ALIDA N. STEVENS,
FRANK W. COUILLARD,
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
To the School Committee of Braintree:
The following report of the public schools of the town is respectfully submitted for your consideration. This is the thirty-fourth in the series of annual reports by the Superintendent of Schools, and the second by the present incumbent of that office.
It is my desire to present very briefly at this time, a general summary of educational tendencies, and their bearing and influence upon certain phases of our own system.
The past few years have seen the beginning of great educational changes. The next few years undoubtedly will see such further progress as will amount to a revolution in popular education in the United States.
Courses in practical arts, in home-making and manage- ment for girls - vocational and pre-vocational training along many lines for both boys and girls, - rational physical training for all, close medical inspection, dental clinics, open-air schools, continuation and part-time schools, training in thrift, evening courses for adults along the line of their occupations, special classes for immigrants, a longer school day, the use of school buildings ten or twelve hours a day, for forty-eight or fifty weeks in the year for the benefit of the whole community, these are some of the steps which have been definitely taken in many cities and towns.
Out of the mass of studies, investigation and experi- ments, certain readjustments apparently have become so well established that they will be generally accepted with- in a very short time.
A few of these must soon be considered seriously by our own town. Among them are the following:
1. A readjustment of the twelve years of school work so that instead of an eight year elementary course and four years of High School work, we shall have an elementary course of seven years and a High School course of five years, subdivided into a Junior High School and a Senior High School.
2. A rearrangement of the course of study in accord- ance with above plan. This means the teaching of essen- tials in the first seven years, much more thoroughly and definitely among schools than ever before, - opportunity for a choice among several courses in the Junior High School, which will receive children at about the age of twelve, - and a highly specialized Senior High School, for those who
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will take advanced work for the purpose of real preparation, either directly for practical life, or to enter higher institutions of learning.
Central High School.
The need of a 2-3 High School organization as an educational measure was set forth by your superintendent in his report of a year ago. I shall not repeat here the points made in that report. I earnestly submit to you the plan of co-ordinating the pupils of the eighth grades and organizing them into a single school unit in the new pro- posed high school building is a measure which should appeal to every one as an economic one. Already our elementary Schools are crowded and our teachers are working with classes which are too large for the most efficient instruction. At present the girls and boys of the eighth grades have no instruction in domestic and manual arts. A closer con- nection between the eighth grade and the high school, and its location in the new high school building will produce a situation nearly ideal. All of the pupils will then be able to do their work in the Manual Arts. We could offer in its curriculum for the first year all of the features of depart- mental and differentiated work which are properly found in a full-fledged Junior High. It is feasible however, and, I believe entirely advisable that we at least make a beginning as soon as the proposed new building is erected.
There is a community of interest and enthusiasm among pupils of a class who are all doing their work under the same roof which cannot be secured when they are working in separate units. It would also be possible for one teacher to handle not more than two subjects and thus develop greater efficiency in these subjects than if this teacher were required to handle all the subjects in the curriculum as under the present system.
It would also be possible for us to bring the teachers of the High School faculty and the teachers of the eighth grade into closer co-operation with their respective subjects and thus make possible a more direct and thorough prepar- tion of the pupil for his high school work. This would also reduce to a minimum the gap between the grammar school and the high school which we have always found to be one of the most stubborn problems of a school curri- culum which we have had to solve.
The question to ask as to school accommodations this year, is not what would be desirable and important for relieving the situation, but rather, what is absolutely necessary as a measure to provide sittings for all the children of the town.
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The problem in accommodations at present is confined to the entire town.
I wish to present an outline of accommodations and needs that the subject may be kept alive in the public mind.
Under present conditions we expect a good increase in the size of the High School. The increase will certainly come, and we should be prepared for it. In view of this and of the handicaps under which we are now working there is every reason why a new building should be con- structed immediately.
School Accommodations.
High School:
Practical working capacity for 225.
Present enrollment 301.
School work and administration seriously hampered in
the following particulars:
Lack of assembly room.
Lack of library.
Inadequate space for lunch room.
Inadequate space for Science.
Inadequate space for Latin Department.
Inadequate space for Commercial Department.
Inadequate Physical facilities.
Inadequate space for Mechanical Drawing.
Defective building for use on entire North side.
To meet the present day demands the school should be provided with the following extra accommodations:
Manual Arts room.
Sewing room.
Gymnasium.
Chemical laboratory.
Physical laboratory.
General Science.
Study Hall.
Stenography room.
Free Hand drawing.
Grammar Schools:
All full to capacity, with portables to relieve the crowded condition.
All assembly halls, except the Penniman and Abraham Lincoln have been taken for classrooms. This prevents any general assembling of pupils and is a handicap in teach- ing music, and in making examinations of sight and hearing. All indications point to overcrowding of practically all the school rooms of the town.
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A Central High School built on the present Hollis lot and housing the eighth grades, (as the congestion in all the buildings requires it) would relieve overcrowding in both the High and Grammar Schools.
A new building for the present school and eighth grade should be equipped with some special features now lacking in our present building. These special accommodations could be economically used by both schools. Room Needed :
Enrollment Grade VIII. .205 December 1919.
Enrollment Grade IX 105 December 1919.
Enrollment Grade X . 90 December 1919.
Enrollment Grade XI .
56 December 1919.
Enrollment Grade XII
48 December 1919.
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Taking the total into account we should need to provide for more than 500 in a new building. Reckoning the average enrollment in a room as ranging between 25 and 30 pupils, the new building should contain 20 class rooms besides other special features as already indicated, in plans submitted by your Building Committee.
CHANGES IN THE TEACHING CORPS, 1919.
Resignations
Name
Position
Month
Alexander Thomson
Hollis School, Principal
May
Clara C. Hoopes
Hollis School, Grade V
June
Isabel Brooks
Noah Torrey, Assistant
March
Marjorie G. Cummings
Hollis School, Grade 1 to IV
June
T. Isabel Carmichael
Penniman School, Grade III and IV
June
Rachel Beverly
Hollis School, Grade III
June
Mabel L. Bates
Hollis School, Grade I August
Almira E. Fuller
Abraham Lincoln, Grade II June
Abraham Lincoln, Principal November
June
Frances Close
Noah Torrey, Grade VI, A
June
Edna M. Robinson
Noah Torrey, Grade IV June
Marion Callanan
Noah Torrey, Assistant
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