Town annual report of Chelmsford 1930, Part 15

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Publication date: 1930
Publisher: Town of Chelmsford
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Respectfully submitted. R. A. LAFOUNTAIN.


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REPORT OF SCHOOL NURSE


Mr. George S. Wright,


Superintendent of Schools,


Chelmsford, Massachusetts.


The following is a general summary of work in school from January, 1930, to December 31, 1930 :


Number of pupils examined.


1,480


Defects found


622


Defective teeth


222


Defective tonsils


234


Defective heart


20


Cervical glands


72


Thyroid glands


4


Pediculosis


7


Acne


74


Posture


102


Defective eyes


29


Pupils inspected in school


3,092


Taken home by nurse for illness


84


Absentees visited in home ...


627


Excluded from school for suspected illness.


192


Excluded from school for ringworm, impetigo, and poison ivy.


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Individual instruction


618


Accidents to hospital


3


First aid


36


Dressings


720


Investigations


21


Instructive and advisory home visits ..


88


Personal hygiene and health talks to pupils.


166


Pupils sent or taken to family physician.


49


Pupils sent or taken to school physician ..


212


All pupils weighed and measured by nurse, assisted by school physician, with physical examination of all pupils ; also a complete physical examination of all boys who were candidates for our football team.


CORRECTIONS


Tonsils and adenoids 75


Glasses and lens.


104


Teeth treated


711


Filled, permanent


356


Filled, deciduous


341


Teeth cleaned


648


Extractions, permanent


82


Extractions, deciduous


278


Examined by dentists


525


Our rating on dental work by State Department Dental Hygiene was 63% in June, 1930. We certainly must have a higher per cent in June, 1931. Dr. Ritter has been working in Highland Avenue and Princeton School since September and is now working in Westland School.


Dr. Coughlin has been working in East School since October and at present is working in Centre at McFarlin School. We have 256 pupils on dental honor roll in High School, which proves we are going to have a very high per cent in 1931. A new dental chair was bought by Fast Fire Depart- ment Alumni boys and P. T. A. of East Chelmsford for East School.


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May health proved a great success, also our pre-school clinic, which was held in May. In one of our schools every child, who was to enter school in September, registered, and was examined by school physician, defects found and corrected before child entered in September. Also, vaccina- tions were well taken care of in this particular school. Not a child had to be sent home for vaccination, which proves to you the value of pre-school clinics. In all our schools we had only four certificates, which is a very small number compared with 1929.


Let us co-operate and not have any certificates in September, 1931. I want to see them all enter school physically fit.


Here is a list of our pupils as they are today, perfect and all, defects corrected :


High School 210


McFarlin


255


Princeton


160


Westlands


128


Highland Avenue


62


East


83


Quessy


39


South Chelmsford


35


South Row


11


Follow-up clinic held, also X-rays by St. Dept. Tuberculosis.


Pupils examined


10


Pupils absent


1


Pupils improved


8


Pupils well


1


Schick test given in May to children who were immunized October, 1929.


Negative


247


Positive 52


Absent 34


A number of children left town with their parents, hence our absentees.


All children who proved positive were re-immunized in October, when we held our Immunization Clinic for our first grades and pre-school children. We had 153 children who attended the clinic.


New England Food and Dairy Council gave our school children illus- trated lectures, spending three days visiting all schools, which seemed to be enjoyed by both pupils and teachers.


In December Dr. Paul Wakefield, Chief of Chadwick Clinics, gave talks in the High School and in all seventh and, eighth grades in regards to a clinic which was held here December 11th. There were 1,063 children and teachers who took the test; 255 were X-rayed, a great many by request of their parents.


It was a very interesting clinic. There were five doctors, four typists, two X-ray experts and two X-ray machines. About 55 pupils will be given a physical examination, which is a very low percentage compared with other towns. Nurse made 107 home visits in order to explain to parents who did not fully understand the value of this particular clinic. After talking with the parents, a number of pre-school children took the test.


During the year a number of doctors visited our schools. Dr. Welling- ton, Department of Mental Hygiene, Dr. Knowlton and Dr. Archibald, all from State Department Public Health, and Miss Anna M. Martin, R.N., State Consultant.


I wish to thank the P.T.A. in all sections of the town for their generous help and co-operation in every respect. I certainly have had wonderful co-operation from everyone.


Very respectfully, MAE S. LEWIS, R.N. Chelmsford, Mass.


December 31, 1930.


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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL HOUSE CONDITIONS


To the Citizens of Chelmsford:


Your committee appointed at the last annual town meeting to investigate the crowded conditions in school buildings and to make recommendations submits the following report :


1. Two school buildings are badly overcrowded, the Westlands and the High School.


2. The situation at the High School should be met first. If it becomes necessary, upper grade pupils from the Westlands can be transported to the McFarlin School until the Town is ready to enlarge the Westlands School.


3. In considering the situation at the High School these facts should be kept in mind :


(a) The building was erected in 1916-17 and was first occupied in the fall of 1917, when the enrollment was 161. It was designed to accommodate 225. With the present enrollment of 305 it is crowded to its utmost capacity, and in some cases far beyond the limit of safety. The building is of first class construction throughout and is in a very fine state of repair. Besides the overcrowded condition, it is now inade- quate in that it has no room large enough for school assemblies, no gymnasium with the necessary dressing and wash rooms, and no room of adequate size for the noon lunch hour.


(b) At the present time the playroom in the McFarlin School is used by the High School classes in physical education and for basket ball games. This means that the students, both boys and girls, must go from the High School to the McFarlin School in all sorts of weather, and in their heated condition after 40 minutes of exercise return to the High School. The danger to their health from such exposure should be removed at the earliest possible date. Moreover, the playroom is very unsatisfactory as a gymnasium for the reason that two iron posts, supporting the main girders of the building, stand in the center of the floor. In basket ball games these posts are a positive danger of an extreme type.


(c) The sanitary arrangements of the High School are not adapted to a modern school. The boys' and the girls' locker rooms are in the basement, but there are no toilets in the basement, nor any place for students to wash. The lack of these facilities after physical exercises and after games is seriously felt.


(e) Lack of room prevents making such improvements in the High School courses as all progressive towns are making. The courses of study have not been materially changed since the school was opened. There is a college preparatory course, a commercial course, and a general course. The first two meet the needs of students who have either higher education in mind, or office work, but less than half of the graduates of the college course go on to college or other institutions, and less than half of the commercial course graduates secure office positions. The general course is too narrow to meet the varying needs and capacities of other students. Modern high schools everywhere have courses in practical arts.


4. The present crowded condition of the High School, the lack of a room in which the entire school can be seated for general exercises, the lack of a gymnasium with the necessary facilities, the impossibility of


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improving the courses in the present building, together with the dangers attending the use of the playroom in the McFarlin School, are urgent reasons for making an addition to the building.


5. It is merely a matter of good business judgment when this is done to build for the future by providing rooms both for a larger school and for improved courses.


We therefore recommend that the Town at the earliest possible date provide an addition to the High School to include :


(a) Six additional classrooms.


(b) A lunch room of adequate size.


(c) An assembly room.


(d) A gymnasium with the necessary dressing and wash rooms.


Respectfully submitted,


NELLIE R. PICKEN.


LOREN J. ELLINWOOD.


WARREN WRIGHT.


JOHN A. McADAMS. J. EARL WOTTON. EDWARD B. RUSSELL.


HENRY C. SHEDD.


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ENROLLMENT-OCTOBER 1, 1930


ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS I


II III


IV


V


VI VII VIII Tot.


McFarlin


37


30


41


43


40


34


39


305


East


23


17


20


15


13


15


10


133


Highland Avenue


19


17


14


25


11


18


16


14


27


272


Quessy


16


18


12


18


31 16


9


11


10


110


South


8


10


9


13


9


49


South Row


6


5


8


5


24


Westlands


25


19


16


23


17


23


11


21


155


Total


176


154


151


174


137


147


122


121


1182


HIGH SCHOOL


Freshmen


100


Sophomores


85


Juniors


83


Seniors


37


Total


305


Total Enrollment


1,487


ENROLLMENT FOR TEN YEARS


Elementary


High


Total


1921, Fall Term


1,007


181


1,188


1923, April 1


1,090


184


1,274


1923, Fall Term


1,064


203


1,267


1924, October 30


1,128


221


1,394


1925, October 30


1,122


194


1,316


1926, October 1


1,166


216


1,382


1927, October 1


1,162


224


1,386


1928, October 1


1,148


266


1,414


1929, October 1


1,179


306


1,485


1930, October 1


1,182


305


1,487


SCHOOL CENSUS-October 1, 1930


REGISTRATION OF MINORS :


5-7 yr.


7-14 yr.


14-16 yr.


Boys


144


520


125


Girls


125


469


134


Total


269


989


259


DISTRIBUTION OF MINORS :


In Public Schools


207


966


214


In Vocational School


6


In Private Schools


18


4


Not in School


62


5


35


Total


269


989


259


42


38


31


32


36


35


134


Princeton Street


41 20


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FINANCIAL SUMMARY


Total costs of schools for 1930, including expendi- tures by school committee from regular and special appropriations, and tuition to Lowell Vocational School, as itemized by Town Accountant on pages ,


$107,467.05


RECEIPTS OF THE TOWN ON SCHOOL ACCOUNT


From State for teachers' salaries


$ 9,020.00


From State, tuition of state wards.


2,003.72


From State, Lowell Vocational School.


1,632.25


Tuition from other towns.


741.66


Rent of school garage ..


180.00


Sale of old books, waste paper, etc ..


16.31


Total receipts on accounts of schools.


$ 13,593.94


Net cost of schools to Town for 1930


$ 93,873.11


SCHOOL BUDGET


Appropriation for 1930


Expenditures


Proposed for 1931


Administration


$ 4,500.00


$ 4,274.14


$ 4,450.00


Instruction


69,230.00


69,200.13


70,600.00


Operation and Maintenance ..


18,400.00


18,390.77


18,200.00


Auxiliary Agencies


11,325.00


11,308.20


11,400.00


New Equipment


1,000.00


919.30


500.00


Total


$104,455.00


$104,092.54


$105,150.00


Special Appropriation


150.00


143.00


Lowell Vocational School


3,231.51


$107,467.05


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GRADUATES OF HIGH SCHOOL June 25, 1930


Abigail Scott Beattie Grace Elizabeth Bridgeford Ernest Edward Brotz Anna Louisa Calder Katherine Della Clark Alice Agnes Clarke


Eleanor Louise Kilburn


Martha Ethel Linstad Anna Margaret Lund


Elizabeth Antoinette Lyman John Joseph McEnaney Russell James McEnaney Marie Doris McMullen


Clara Wonson Dexter


Mary Gertrude Doherty


Edward Francis Miner


William Wright Edge


Charles Clarence Emery Alice Mae Fisher


Thelma Ferne Paignon Edna Maria Palm Donald Alonzo Parker


Harriet Frances Flemings


Alice Mary Patenaude


Madeline Cleveland Freeman


Bertha Mary Patenaude


Raymond Merrill Gauthier


Esther Elizabeth A. Petterson'


Lillian Mary Pinel


Maurice Henry Joseph Cornellier di Grandchamp Barbara Catherine Greene Aime Bernard Hamel


Irene May Pratt Harry Brendan Quinn


George Lincoln Reis


Ralph Albert Harmon


Bernice Loretta Rutner


Francis Joseph Safford Wendell Kimball Simpson


Dorothy Helen Harrington Edna Hoyt Ruby Clara Hutchinson


Rachel Elsie Jones Olga Josephine Kempe Allan Kidder


Donald Eugene Smith Josephine Helen Smith Alice Mary St. Onge William Henry Thayer


Veronica Arlene Welch


GRADUATES OF EIGHTH GRADE


June 19, 1930, at Chelmsford Center McFARLIN SCHOOL


Evelyn Beckvold Evelyn Barbara Bliss Ronald Roadman Boyd Helen Mildred Brotz Frank Arthur Burton Dorothy Mae Butters


Ralph Earnest House Laurence Joseph Judge Fred Emil Kemp Ralph Jean L'Heureux Russell Hendrick Linstad Henry Arthur Loiselle Ellen Marie Lundstrom


Donald Charles Calder Roger Thomas Calder Phyllis Capone Howard Carter


Helen Vivian MacNeill Dorothy Elizabeth Murphy Catherine Helen Niemaszyk


Blanch Evelyn Clough


Delphina Lillian DeCosta


Evelyn Louise Flemings Allan Grant Fletcher John Bernard Gallagher Marguerite Lee Hannaford Harold Raymond Hansen


Herbert Page John Pierro Mildred Lauretta Purcell George Edmund Rondeau Adaline Amelia Simpson Gertrude Marie Tremblay Elizabeth Waite


WESTLANDS SCHOOL


Mary Annie Angus Priscilla Wintie Burdick Edith Virginia Dickinson James Francis Fagan Louise Fitzpatrick Harvey Fuller Lena Mary Jacob Allston Warren Lemey


Raymond Marchand Barbara Varetta Olsson Hazel Frances Royce Gertrude Sofia Sargent Marjorie Viola Slade Louis Waite Stearns Anthony Albert Such Monica Todd


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EAST SCHOOL


Thure Harold Bloomgren


Mary Louise Dow


Mary Louise Gustafson


Albert Robert Hedlund


Sarah Millicent Hill


Lena Beatrice Medeiros


Peter John Pavelka


Eliot Birtwell Quinn


Rosa Santos


Mary Lea Scobie


Albert Sousa


Napoleon Joseph Valentine


PRINCETON STREET SCHOOL June 20, 1930, at North Chelmsford


Walter Belida


Winfield Hersey Howard


Cecile Cornellier Bigfield


Ernest Janulis


Margaret Rita Christoun


Earl John Lee


Mary Dorothy De Amicis


Joshua Le Masurier


George Richard Dixon


Roland Marcel McEnaney


Robert Elliot Donaldson


Hazel Rita McMullen


Myrtle Yvonne Ferron


Julia Roberta Mikulis


Alma Grace Gaudette


Bernice Arlene Mills


Raymond Oliver Gaudette


Mary Elizabeth Miskell


Rosanne Flora Gosselin


Marion Janet Plein


Mary Louise Guyette


Matthew William Plein


Milton Weldon Haire


James Arthur Potter


Helen Grace Stephens


HIGHLAND AVENUE SCHOOL


Blanche Deputat


Emile P. Gauthier


Bruno J. Greska


Rita M. Hines


Alfred F. McSheehy Beatrice R. Mercier Claire Molloy Barbara J. Nath


Antony W. Shacka


QUESSY SCHOOL


Phyllis Marjorie Berubee


Walter Edgar Bill


Kenneth Clifford Clement Peter De Rubbo


Raymond Ducharme


George Ezerskey George Roland Leedberg Elizabeth Agnes Leslie Helen Louise Pevey Halvar Peterson


Eunice Moore Richardson


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INDEX OF SCHOOL REPORT


Enrollment by Grades, Fall Term, 1930. 25


Graduates of High School, 1930. 27


Graduates of Eighth Grade, 1930 27


Reports of :


Committee on School House Conditions 23


Financial Summary 26


High School Funds


17


High School Principal


15


School Budget


26


School Census


25


School Committee


5


School Nurse


21


Superintendent


7


Supervisor of Music


19


Supervisor of Physical Education.


20


School Calendar


2


School Officials


2


Signal for No School 2


Teachers


3


29


Memorandum


30


Memorandum


31


Memorandum


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