Town annual report of Chelmsford 1937, Part 10

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Publication date: 1937
Publisher: Town of Chelmsford
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Through athletics we aim to "train in citizenship" those pupils who are physically able and wish to participate.


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While we like to win (and do win our share of the games in which we play,) we emphasize good sportsmanship at all times to be of great- er importance in all contests. We believe the health and safety of our boys and girls to be of the first importance whether on the playground or in the classroom. This is our duty and we try to do it regardless of any temporary personal disfavor that we may incur because of it


Following are the functions of secondary education as given in a Report of the Committee on Orientation of the Department of Second- ary School Principals of the National Education Association. The "Functions of Secondary Education" is Bulletin 64, January, 1937.


1. To continue by a definite program, though in a diminishing de- gree, the integration of students. This should be on an increasing- ly intellectual level until the desired common knowledge, appreci- ations, ideals, attitudes, and practices are firmly fixed.


2. To satisfy the important, immediate, and probable future needs of the students insofar as the maturity of the learner permits, guid- ing the behavior of youth in the light of increasingly remote, but always clearly perceived and appreciated, social and personal values.


3. To reveal higher activities of an increasingly differential type in the major fields of the racial heritage of experience and culture, their significant values for social living, the problems in them of contemporary life, the privileges and duties of each person as an in- dividual and as a member of social groups; to make these fields sat- isfying and desired by those gifted for successful achievement and to give information as to requirements for success in these fields and information as to where further training may be secured.


4. To explore higher and increasingly specialized interests, aptitudes, and capacities of students, looking toward the direction of them into avenues of study and of work for which they have manifested peculiar fitness.


5. To systematize knowledge previously acquired or being acquired in course in such ways as to show the significance both of this knowledge and especially of the laws and principles, with under- standing of wider ranges of application than would otherwise be perceived.


6. To establish and to develop interests in the major fields of human activity as means to happiness, to social progress, and to continued growth.


7. To guide pupils, on the basis of exploratory and revealing courses and of other information gathered from personnel studies, as wisely


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as possible into wholesome and worthwhile social relationships, max- imum personality adjustment, and advanced study or vocations in which they are most likely to be successful and happy.


8. To use in all courses as largely as possible methods that demand independent thought, involve the elementary principles of research, and provide intelligent and somewhat self-directed practice, in- dividual and cooperative, in the appropriate desirable activities of the educated person.


9. To begin and gradually to increase differentiated education on the evidence of capacities, aptitudes, and interests demonstrated in earli- er years. Care must be taken to provide previous to and along with differentiation as balanced and extended a general education as is possible and profitable.


10. To retain each student until the law of diminishing returns be- gins to operate, or until he is ready for more independent study in a higher institution ; and when it is manifest that he cannot or will not materially profit from further study of what can be offered, to elim- inate him promptly, if possible directing him into some other school or into work for which he seems most fit.


A few parents have visited the school in the interests of their chil. dren. It seems to me that these pupils are benefited by these visits. It is a pleasure to us here to have you visit school and see for yourselves what we are trying to do for your boys and girls.


The report of the Chelmsford High School Students' Fund as tab- ulated by our vice-principal, Miss C. Edith McCarthy, is as follows :


CHELMSFORD HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' FUNDS


1. GENERAL FUND


Balance, Jan. 1, 1937 $ 444.52


Receipts, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937 205.35


649.87


Less : Payments, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937


195.27


Balance, Dec. 31, 1937 $ 454.60


2. MUSIC FUND


Receipts, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937 $ 116.09


Less : Deficit, Jan. 1, 1937 30.36


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85.73


Less Payments, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937


73.65


Balance, Dec. 31, 1937 $ 12.08


3. Blue MOON


Balance, Jan. 1, 1937 $ 175.76


4. HEALTH CLUB


Receipts, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937


$ 5.80


Less : Payments, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937 5.80


5. CHEMISTRY CLUB


Balance, Jan. 1, 1937 $ 11.06


Receipts, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937 3.25


Balance, Dec. 31, 1937 $ 14.31


6. MAGAZINE FUND-(Gift of Class of 1934)


Balance, Jan. 1, 1937 $ 50.95


Less : Payments, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937 3.00


Balance, Dec. 31, 1937 $ 47.95


7. FENCE FUND-(Gift of Class of 1935)


Receipts-June 1935 $ 50.00 $


50.00


8. PROJECTOR FUND-(Gift of Class of 1936)


Receipts, June 1936 $ 40.00 $ 40.00


9. DUNIGAN AND GAY MEMORIAL FUND-(Gift of Class of 1937)


50.00 Receipts, June 1937 $ 50.00 $


10 DEBATING SOCIETY


Balance, Jan. 1, 1937 $ 1.08 $


1.08


11. DRAMATIC CLUB


Balance, Jan. 1, 1937 $ .45 $


.45


12. LATIN CLUB


Balance, Jan. 1, 1937 $ .50 $


.50


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13. CLASS OF 1937


Receipts, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937 $ 326.58


Less : Deficit, Jan. 1, 1937


17.36


309.22


Less : Payments, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937


309.22


14. CLASS OF 1938


Balance, Jan. 1, 1937


$ 4.18


Receipts, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937


544.10


548.28


Less : Payments, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937


522.19


Balance, Dec. 31, 1937 $ 26.09


15. CLASS OF 1939


Balance, Jan. 1, 1937 $ 5.76 $ 5.76


16. ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION


Balance, Jan. 1, 1937 $ 328.23


Receipts, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937 $ 1190.31


1518.54


Less Payments, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937


1417.26


Balance, Dec. 31, 1937 $ 101.28


17. YEAR BOOK OF 1937


Receipts, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937 $ 634.44


Less : Payments, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937 634.44


TOTAL BALANCES $ 979.86


18. CLASS OF 1940


Deficit, Jan. 1, 1937 $ 6.05


Less : Receipts, Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1937 3.15


Balance, Deficit, Dec. 31, 1937


2.90


NET BALANCE IN ALL FUNDS $ 976.96


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Distribution of Money-Dec. 31, 1937


In checking account-Union Old Lowell National Bank $ 422.43


Less : Outstanding checks


7.50


414.93


On Interest-Lowell Institution for Savings


499.36


914.29


Cash on hand


62.67


TOTAL CASH $ 976.96


I sincerely acknowledge with many thanks the kind help and hearty cooperation that I have received from you, Mr. Wright, the School Committee, the faculty, parents, and the entire student body, in trying to make Chelmsford High School fit the needs of the boys and girls of. Chelmsford.


Respectfully submitted,


LUCIAN H. BURNS.


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REPORT OF SCHOOL NURSE


Mr. Georgs S. Wright Superintendent of Schools


Dear Sir :


Following is a summary of my activities as school nurse for the year ending December, 1937 :--


Number of visits to classrooms 496


Personal hygiene and health talks to pupils 221


Sanitary inspection in schools 68


Individual instruction in schools 321


Consultation with parents 284


Consultation with pupils


310


Consultation with teachers


94


Consultation with others 86


Pupils sent or taken to school physician 243


Pupils advised to see family physician 182


First aid 51


Dressings 804


Transported to hospital 101


Absentees visited at home-instruction given 310


Excluded from school for suspected illnesses 341


Excluded from school for impetigo, ringworm, pediculosis 94


Pupils with illness taken home by nurse 194


Assisted by the nurse the school physician, Dr. Arthur Scoboria and Dr. George Carriel completed the physical examinations of high school and grammar school pupils in November. Candidates for athletic teams were given thorough examinations before the sport season opened. All pupils have been weighed and measured, underweights checked, and milk suggested or given to those not able to pay for it.


Number of pupils examined by physicians 1886


Number of pupils examined by dentist 1289


Estimates of dental work sent home 941


Children not needing dntal care 382


Defects found-notices sent to parents when necessary :


Teeth 941


Tonsils and adenoids


26


22


Defective heart


18


Defective eyes


87


Defective ears


6


Cerrical glands


134


Thyroid glands


3


Anemia


Acne


22


Poor posture


43


Bronchitis


2


Nasal obstruction


4


Spinal curvature


1


Pediculosis


12


Underweight


60


Corrections :


Glasses


48


Lenses changed


23


Tonsils and adenoids removed


86


Teeth treated


386


Teeth filled-permanent


945


Teeth filled-temporary


604


Teeth extracted-permanent


35


Teeth extracted-temporary


408


Teeth cleaned


964


For the eighth consecutive year Dr. Ritter has continued his excel- lent service as school dentist; he is in some school every Wednesday from 9 until 3 during the entire school year. It is with his help and con- tributions from various Parent-Teacher Associations that Chelmsford is rated second among Massachusetts towns with a record of 93% of its children having all the work that necessarily had to be done at that time.


As is customary, free clinics were held in the spring for immuniza- tion against Diphtheria. Parents must realize more than ever the need of such treatment, for only recently three deaths resulted from not tak- ing advantage of the opportunity to escape this dread disease. An- nouncement of time and place of clinics is made in local newspapers and in all schools; free transportation is provided by buses.


With parents' permission, immunization is carried out as follows . Diphtheria toxoid is given to children over six months and under twelve years of age; the older ones receive toxin anti-toxin. The formr group does not require the Schick test, nevertheless plans are being made to give it to every child in early spring to determine whether immunity pre- vails. In spite of the extra work entailed, we think it is worthwhile, for our aim is to obliterate Diphtheria. I cannot urge parents too strong- ly to help us protect their children's health. In October, 1937 toxoid was given to 189 children; toxin anti-toxin, to 9; 7 were reimmunized.


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Dr Martin, the County school clinic doctor, was here in October to give the tuberculin test to the high school students and to contact pupils whose parents are either confined to a sanitorium or home. Fifty-four calls were made by your nurse to obtain parents' consent to have the test made.


The report is as follows :


Children Tuberculin Tested :


School population-High


466


Children tested for first time 222


Children previously tested 44 266


% tested


59.5


Children reacting to test :


New Group


96


Previously tested group 37


133


% Reacting 50.0


Children X-Rayed :


Children X-Rayed for first time 95


Re-X-Ray Group


11 106


Children recommended for examination


16


Children examined


15


Observation cases 10


Negative cases (discharged)


6


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X-Ray is given in the McFarlin Gym., but your nurse made sev- eral trips to Waltham with pupils who were absent. Several children, mostly underweights who have been examined by the State in previous years, are carried over for further examination. These were given examination by a State doctor and were discharged with instructions in regards to rest and diet, provided they were up to standard.


As always the pre-school clinic in May was well attended. This clinic gives the parents time to correct defects found, before the child enters school in the fall.


Few people realize that a nurse is not allowed to diagnose a case- diagnosis must come from a physician. If a parent sees that a child has a cold he or she should keep the pupil home and in bed, calling the physician if no improvement is seen within a day or two. So many diseases start with "just a simple cold," while not only the ill child but


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all others with whom he is in contact are in danger of becoming sick. The family physician must give the child a certificate to return to school after an absence of more than five days. Children with con- tagious diseases are excluded from school immediately, being advised to consult a physician. After diagnosis the house is carded; instruction given about care of the patient, and fumigation of books is carried on. In severe cases, books are destroyed. Children exposed to contagion are excluded from school for at least seven days and must continue to live away from home if they wish to return after being examined by the family physician. The school doctors immediately examine all pupils in a room where a contagion disease has been found, and exclude any child about whom there is a question.


I am at present taking a course in Public Health Nursing given by Prof. Brase; I take every opportunity to attend whatever evening lec- tures possible. Dr. Archibald, State Health Officer, Miss Martin, State Consultant, and Dr. Wellington, doctor of mental diseases, were here several times.


I wish to thank the School Committee, School Physicians, Parents, Teachers, Parent-Teacher Associations, and you, Mr. Wright, for such wonderful co-operation and support during the school year.


Respectfully submitted,


MAE S. LEWIS, R. N.,


School Nurse.


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FINANCIAL SUMMARY


As itemized statment of school department expenditures is given in the report of the Town Accountant.


Appropriation for 1937


Expended


Budget for 1938


Administration


$ 3,950.00


$ 3,942.40


$ 3,950.00


Instruction


71,000.00


70,988.55


71,930.00


Operation and Maintenance.


16,000.00


15,998.43


16,500.00


Auxiliary Agencies


11,750.00


11,738.61


11,350.00


New Equipment


250.00


145.65


250.00


Total


$102,950.00


$102,813.64


$103,980.00


SCHOOL CENSUS-October 1, 1937


Registration of Minors :


5-7 Years


7-14 Years 512


150


Girls


98


475


131


Total


244


987


281


Distribution of Minors :


In Public Schools


199


960


259


In Vocational School


9


In Private Schools


1


20


6


Not in School


44


7


7


Total


244


987


281


ENROLLMENT-October 1, 1937


I


II


III


IV


V


VI


VII 36)


VIII 38)


Total


McFarlin


45


41


39


36)


33


36)


10)


10)


14)


East


17


21


18


15


17


22


17


19


146


Highland Ave.


16


10


13


12


17


13


16


23


120


Princeton St.


33


23


34


25


29


35


37


27


243


Quessy


7


10


15


14


18


11


13


16


104


South


10


5


4


8


9


9


45


Westlands


25


20


17


21


20


13


19


19


154


Total


153


130


140


139


143


149


148


156


1158


14-16 Years


Boys


146


346


8)


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HIGH SCHOOL


IX


131


X


119


XI


110


XII


83


P. G.


2


445


Total enrollment, all schools


1603


ENROLLMENT FOR LAST TEN YEARS


(Taken on October 1st of each year)


Elementary


High


Total


1928


1148


266


1414


1929


1179


306


1485


1930


1182


305


1487


1931


1227


345


1572


1932


1258


376


1634


1933


1265


382


1647


1934


1242


408


1650


1935


1203


436


1639


1936


1193


434


1627


1937


1158


445


1603


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GRADUATES OF EIGHTH GRADE


Chelmsford, June 16, 1937


McFARLIN SCHOOL


Robert McNair Angus


Sheppard Bartlett


Robert Sawyer Ludwig


Herbert Beaubien


Avis Gwendolyn Marshall


Ruth Irene Butters


Peter Joseph McHugh, Jr.


Gordon Sullivan Cochrane


Dorothy Elizabeth Moorehouse


Constance Beverly Dane


Thomas Francis Morrissey


James Edward Doole, Jr.


Virginia Eleanor Mortham


Norman Frances Dows


Arthur Richard Palm


Paul Carl Fazel


Edward Gordon Parlee


Jane Gertrude Garrow


Ralph Joseph Pedersen, Jr.


George Giras


Marion Mckinnon Pickles


James Giras Steve Giras


Charlotte Irma Rediker


Arthur Clegg Greenwood


David Ernest Rooney


Eileen Kathryn Greenwood


Chester Cambridge Russell


Raymond Joseph Greenwood, Jr.


Shirley Barbara Smith


Emile Raymond Halentic, Jr.


William James Spaulding


Catherine Claire Hazeltine


Frances Alvona Stanton


Arthur Karafelis Mabel Karafelis


John Arthur Swenson Alan Willard Symmes


Arthur James Kinney


Herbert William Lane


Janet Symmes


Frances May Leslie


Annabelle Taintor


Randolph Parker Leslic


Evelyn Mae Taintor


Karl Edward Linstad


Alfred Edward Woodman


Charles Zouzas


WESTLANDS SCHOOL


Mildred Estelle Adanıs


Constance Louise Hill


Roger P. Angers


Shirley Wheeler Lawson


Fred Hollis Barton, Jr.


Ruth Patricia McLellan


Virginia Marie Benoit Gertrude May Bicknell


Mary Theresa Messier


Arlene Esther Smith


Doris Anne Bowen


Francis John Sullivan


Robert Earl DeKalb


Edward Joseph Taff


Winslow Parker George, Jr.


Edmund Roy Zabierek


North Chelmsford, June 17, 1937


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Wolfram George Locher


Dorothy Pond


Marie Jeannette Straughan


HIGHLAND AVENUE SCHOOL


Mary Theresa Barron


Charles Joseph Campbell, Jr.


Charlotte Louise Duffy


John Joseph Dunigan, Jr. Ellen Mary Jeanette Gauthier Melvin William Jones Mary Louise Kinch


Frank Victor McEnaney


Anna Alica McGeown


James Francis O'Donnell


Elizabeth Annie Palmer


George Sereduk


Harold Mathew Tucke, Jr.


GEORGE R. QUESSY SCHOOL


Robert Manfred Abrahamson


Rodney Alfred Berubee


Robert Reginald Gorton


Wayne Roland Berubee


Astrid Viola Johnson


Stuart Chandler Bickford


Natalie Vivian Johnson


Lucille Farrington Bill


Alice Virginia Miller


Mary Thompson Boutilier


Frances Trull


Stanley Gilbert Winters


PRINCETON STREET SCHOOL


Paul Francis Adle


Betty Lucille Armitage


Ada Babcock


Barbara Marporie Kiberd


Eric Marinel Babcock


Corine Ann Knox


Raymond Arthur Beauregard


Charles Francis LeCourt


Frederick Carl Blodgett Vera Butko


Mary Mozol


Walter Lea Davidson


Eleanor Florence Quimby


Leland Arthur DeBow


Shirley Ann Reeves


Gloria Estelle Donovan


James Eugene Fantozzi


Marion Ruth Foster Virginia Elaine Foster Ethel Louise Fremeau


Raymond Roderick Ruth Slater Pauline Ethel Stephens Alton Clay Trubey


Marshall Quentin Trubey


Shirley Mabel Gale


Helen Olive Tsagaris


Mary Luenna Vondal


Estella May Wright


East Chelmsford, June 18, 1937


John Joseph Arnold Harold Everett Barelle Rufus Edward Carlsen William Henry Dickey


Armand Wilfred LeBourdais Florence Mae Moss Lona Rose Mueller Mildred Rita Silva


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Lucille Louise Gaudette Silas Lawrence Gauthier, Jr. Francis Andrew Greska


Ernest Alexander Hoey


Frederick Jamros


Mary Josephine Miner


George Arthur Ducharme


John Ezerskey


Bernard Francis Hunt Agnes Stella Hydusko Gerald Leon Lantagne


Norman Stanley Smith Anthony Lawrence Sousa Emma Florence Young


GRADUATES OF HIGH SCHOOL


Alcorn, Edith Celia


Angus, Esther MacNair


Archibald, Loretta Z. T.


Bachelder, Donald


Batchelder, Robert M.


Belleville, Walter Brown, Jr.


Bickford, Norman Everett


Birtwell, James William


Borrows, Brendan Murtaugh


Boyd, Charlton Philips


Bray, William James


Brennan, Josephine Frances


Brotz, John H.


Brown, Carl James


Burns, Rachel Margaret


Burton, Mildred


Butterfield, Shirley Louise


Calder, John Edward


Capuano, Nicholas Phillip


Clough, Roy Farrar, Jr.


Corr, Clara Elizabeth


Corr, Thelma Gertrude Davis, Hazel Rita Fadden, Helen May


Ferron, Wilbur Lawrence


Fielding, Hope Eleanor Foote, Doris Forgays, Lorraine Marie George, Edgar Parker Golubisky, William Joseph


Goodwin, Barbara Virginia Gorham, Althea Marie Hill, John A., Jr. Hill, William John Hines, William Leo, Jr.


House, Eunice Louise


Hulick, Archie George Johnson, Betty Louise Johnson, Eric Herbert Jones, Dorothy Irene Kelley, Florence Marie Kelly, Jeanette Frances Kisley, Eugenia


Krasnecki, Magan Samuel


Kropp, Dagny Louise Laferriere, Paul Alfred


Lantagne, Raymond Paul LeClair, Dorothy Elizabeth Lewis, Dorothy Elaine Lundberg, Edith Pauline MacLean, Shirley Louise Makey, Peter Antonio Marinel, Alix Isabelle


McNulty, Gertrude Rita Mello, Anna Espinola Millman, Chester John Mills, Helen Louise Murphy, Pheobe Frances O'Brien, William Francis Olsen, Alberton Vinal Olsson, Betty Virginia O'Neil, Edward James O'Neil, Joseph Francis Pearson, Richard Paignon Pelton, Mills Cecil Peterson, Evelyn Emma Pettazoni, Gene Victoria Polley, Walter Ervin, Jr. Pope, Mildred Esther Putnam, Clarissa Marian Rich, Lillian Genevieve Santos, Emily Clara Saunders, Arnold E. Scollan, Mary Margaret Sheehan, Timothy Francis Shepherd, Gertrude Lillian Shugrue, Leon Theodore Sleeper, Nedra Lorraine Smith, Esther Louise Sousa, Aurellia Jeanne Stanchfield, Anna Gorden Swanson, Barbara Elizabeth Trubey, Katherine Ellen Woodhead, Frank A., Jr. Wright, Norman O. Zabierek, Stephanie S.


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INDEX


Accountant's Report Page


Appropriations and Transfers


139


Balance Sheet


148


Payments 121


Payments of Interest


152


Payments of Principal


151


Receipts


115


Trust Funds


138


Reports of-


Agent of Board of Health 107


Assessors


82


Board of Fire Engineers


90


Board of Health 105


Cemetery Commissioners 95


Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds


57


Fish and Game Warden


114


Forest Warden


99


Inspector of Animals


103


Inspector of Meat


110


Inspector of Slaughtering


110


Inspector of Plumbing


111


Librarian Adams Library


98


Middlesex County Extension Service


101


Milk Inspector


112


North Chelmsford Library Corporation


96


Police Department


92


Police Woman 94


Tax Collector 70


Tax Collector of East Chelmsford Water District 74


Tax Collector of North Chelmsford Fire District 73


Town Treasurer 56


Treasurer of Adams Library 97


Trustees of Adams Library 97


Welfare Agent 87


W. P. A. for 1937 77


Town Clerk's Report-


Births Recorded


40


Business Meeting, March 8, 1937 21


Deaths Recorded


47 18


Financial Report


55


List of Jurors


53


Marriages Recorded 42


3


Special Town Meeting Oct. 7, 1937


37


Vital Statistics


40


Warrant for Annual Town Meeting, 1937


10


Warrant for Annual Town Meeting, 1938 153


Warrant for Special Town Meeting Oct. 7, 1937


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INDEX OF SCHOOL REPORT


Enrollment by Grades, Fall Term, 1937 26


Graduates of High School, 1937 30


Graduates of Eighth Grade, 1937 28


Reports of-


Enrollment for Last 10 Years 27


Financial Summary 26


High School Funds 18


High School Principal 16


School Census


26


School Committee


5


School Nurse


22


Superintendent


8


School Officials 2


Signal for No School


2


Teachers


2


Election of Officers


Officers Elected and Appointed


Memorandum





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