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343.27
Revenue Reserved Until Collected: Motor Vehicle Excise Tax ... .. $330.50 Departmental .. . 7995.98
Interest Accrued on High School Bldg. Addition Notes ... 41.08 Premium on High School Bldg. Addition Notes .. 614.22
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Tax Titles. Tax Possessions ..
$ 7,490.86 Chapter 90, North Road, 1938 .. $ 61.62
Revenue 1939, to be raised in 1940.
2,123.05 3,725.00 Excess and Deficiency.
39,371.98
Accounts Overdrawn :
Overlay 1933.
.80
$ 158,749.29
0 erlay 1934.
17.70
Overlay 1935.
17.50
Overlay 1936.
16.90
Overlay 1937.
155.03
Interest.
285,89
*Chapter 90, Maintenance. .
1,515.40
*Chapter 90, North Road, 1937 ... .
62.51
* Chapter 90, Chelmsford Street ...
25.78
2,097.51 $ 158,749.29
.
*Due from State and County.
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DEBT ACCOUNTS January 1, 1940
Net Funded or Fixed Debt ..
$69,166.00
Centre Grade School Loan ..
$8,666.00
Middlesex County Sanatorium Loan .. 2,500.00
High School Building Loan .. 58,000.00
$69,166.00
$69,166.00
TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS
Trust and Investment Funds:
Cash and Securities:
Joseph Warren Library Fund. .
914.28
In Custody of Town Treasurer. $28,856.52
Adams Emerson Library Fund.
190.82
In Custody of Library Trustees. 15,445.10
Selina G. Richardson Library Fund.
511.34
In Custody of Insurance Fund
Aaron George Cemetery Fund ..
1,016.68
Commissioners ..
42,219.18
George Library Fund ... 2,210.62
A. F. Adams Library Fund ..
10,529.36
Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund.
28,685.24
Adams Emerson Cemetery Improvement Fund. 171.28
Insurance Investment Fund ..
42,291.18
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86,520.80
$86,520.80
WINTHROP A. PARKHURST,
Town Accountant.
PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS OF TOWN DEBT TO BE RAISED ANNUALLY BY TAXATION
Year
High School Building Ad- dition
New Grade School
at Center, 1925*
At Center, 1925
New Grade School
Middlesex County
Sanatorium Loan
Totals
Interest Rate
12/
4%
4%
6%
Jan. 1
June 1
June 1
Mar. 15
1940
$6,000.00
$6,666.00
$2,000.00
$2,500.00
$17,166.00
1941
6,000.00
6,000.00
1942
6,000.00
6,000.00
1943
6,000.00
6,000.00
1944
6,000.00
6,000.00
1945
6,000.00
6,000.00
1946
6,000.00
6,000.00
1947
6,000.00
6,000.00
1948
5,000.00
5,000.00
1949
5,000.00
5,000.00
$58,000.00
$6,666.00
$2,000.00
$2,500.00
$69,166.00
*Outside Debt Limit
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INTEREST PAYMENTS ON TOWN DEBT TO BE RAISED ANNUALLY BY TAXATION
Year
High School Building Addition
New, Grade School at Center, 1925
New Grade School
at Center, 1925
Middlesex County Sanatorium
Totals
1940
$ 870.00
$ 133.32
$ 40.00
75.00
$1,118.32
1941
780.00
780.00
1942
690.00
690.00
1943
600.00
600.00
1944
510.00
510.00
1945
420.00
420.00
1946
330.00
330.00
1947
240.00
240.00
1948
150.00
150.00
$4,590.00
$ 133.32
$ 40.00
$ 75.00
¥4,838.32
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the citizens of the Town of Chelmsford: .
We herewith submit the report of your school committee.
HIGH SCHOOL
The past year was marked particularly by the completion of the high school addition. The addition was ready for partial occupancy at the opening of school in September of 1939. Possession of the entire addition was officially turned over to this committee at exercises held in the new assembly hall on January 22, 1940.
With this excellent addition, the high school building now comprises 18 classrooms, an assembly hall seating 660 persons, and separate shower and dressing rooms for the boys and girls. The whole building affords an excellent school plant for the education of our high school students. If in the future more rooms are needed, they may be added to the addition above the rooms just built, or rooms may be added by building up from the ground level on one side, or on both sides of the assembly hall.
WESTLANDS
Previous reports of this committee have mentioned the crowded conditions at the Westlands school. The number of pupils increased so rapidly this year that it was necessary for the committee to provide additional classroom space. The Westlands Improvement Association, which owns the building used years ago as a one room school in this section of the town, very graciously offered the use of that building for a school room without charge to the town. The town will pay for heating the building and will provide janitor service when the building is in use by this department. The janitor's work will be done by Mr. Berg, the regular janitor at the Westlands School. On January 17, 1940, the building was opened as a first grade classroom in charge of Rita Foley, a newly elected teacher.
PLAYGROUNDS
Adequate school. playgrounds are provided in every section of the town ex- cept West and South Chelmsford.
The latest playground to be constructed was obtained through the generosity of Frederick B. Edwards, a native of North Chelmsford, who died in California.
In accordance with the provisions of the will of Mr. Edwards, the Cali- fornia court turned over to Rev. T. J. Donovan, Rev. Herman Van Lunen and James P. Cassidy, as trustees, the sum of $7166.97 with instructions to spend "not less than three thousand dollars in purchasing and equipping a playground near the Highland Avenue School in the village of North Chelmsford, and the balance of the said fund to be used in connection with the Varney Playground in the village of North Chelmsford either in the building of a field house or in the construction and improving of a bathing beach, in the discretion of the said trustees. "
In accordance with these instructions, the trustees purchased approximately three acres of land in the rear of the Highland Avenue School for the sum of $300. The Federal government approved a WPA project for the improvement of this land and work was started in May of 1939. In doing the work, 11, 750 cubic yards of fill were moved and spread; 1200 tons of field stone were hauled and used in riprapping banks and the construction of a stone wall; 1000 yards of loam were hauled and spread; a baseball diamond was constructed; the whole field was finished, graded and seeded; a chain link fence 650 feet long was erected; 800 square yards of masonry was laid in concrete walks and drips around the school building; and 600 yards of cinders were used as a foundation for a tennis court.
The project is now completed with the exception of a permanent surface for the tennis court which is expected to be laid in the Spring of 1940. The whole
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project affords an excellent playground for the children of that section of the town. The people of Chelmsford are deeply grateful for the generosity of Frederick B. Edwards which made this playground possible.
ANNEXED REPORTS
The reports of the superintendent of schools and the heads of the various departments are hereto appended. We respectfully request you to study these reports as they set forth in some detail the work that comes under the direc- tion of this committee.
IN CONCLUSION
The operation of our public school system is the most important business that our town can be engaged in. It is the constant endeavor of your commit- tee to carry out this work in a diligent and efficient manner. We are grateful for your constant cooperation in providing us with the means to carry on this work. You may justly feel proud of the facilities which this town affords for the education of its youth.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES P. CASSIDY
JOHN A. MCADAMS
WENDELL P. HARVEY
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT
To the School Committee:
My twelfth annual report is hereby submitted through you to the citizens of Chelmsford.
TEACHERS
The usual table gives names of teachers, their preparation, and date of beginning service. Few changes have occured during the year. Miss H. Jean Rafuse, Principal of the Westlands School since it was opened in 1922 and teacher of grades VII and VIII, resigned on March 3d, a few days before her marriage. This position was filled by transferring Mr. Rikkola from the Quessy School. For the Quessy principalship Mr. Walter L. Hannan, Jr. of Medford was chosen. He is a graduate of Tufts College, B.S. in 1937 and Ed. M. in 1938, and had had practice teaching in the Medford schools.
At Highland Ave., Miss Gertrude P. Henderson, teacher of grades I and II, resigned in June, to be married. For this position Miss Veronica McTeague was transferred from South Chelmsford. Miss Ruth M. Rothwell, a graduate of Lowell Teachers College, with a B.S.E. degree, who had substitute experience in our schools for several years, was elected to the South Chelmsford position. Otherwise there were no changes in the elementary schools.
In the High School no change of teachers occurred, but two additional ones were engaged to meet state requirements. Last year's report explained the classifying of high schools as A or B. Chelmsford has had a class A rating since it was opened in 1917, but owing to the excessively high ratio of pupils to teachers in 1938 the State Supervisor wrote: "It is obvious that the rating of Chelmsford High School should be placed in jeopardy". Ile recommended en- gazing three additional teachers.
For one of the new positions Mr. George W. Boyce of Lexington was engaged. He is a graduate of Tufts in 1939, with a B.A. degree. Miss Beatrice T. Hoar of Lowell, a graduate of Boston University in 1934, B.A. degree, was engaged for the second position. She had had considerable substitute experience in Lowell.
Mr. George R. Knightly, who had been teacher in the High School and coach of the boys athletic teams for nine years, requested in June that he be reliev- ed of all coaching duties. He had made a similar request the previous year. After careful consideration of all factors in the case it was decided to di- vide up the coaching work, assigning one major sport to each of three men and appointing a fourth faculty manager of athletics, each to receive an increase of $100 in salary. Mr. Knightly is to continue as coach of baseball, Mr. MacLaughlan became coach of basketball, Mr. Watt faculty manager, and the new man, Mr. Boyce, was engaged to take the football. By this arrangement the school gives extra duties to four men who are teachers first of all, instead of a single man, primarily a coach, who does some teaching. The change was made on the urgent request of Mr. Knightly, and was not in any degree the re- sult of any dissatisfaction with his work as a teacher or as a coach.
ENROLLMENT
A table at the end of the report shows the enrollment by grades and by buildings on October 1, 1939, and also the enrollment in the elementary schools and in the High School for the last ten years. The peak of enrollment was reached in 1934, when the elementary schools had 1242 and the High School had 408, a total of 1650. Now the elementary have 1140, and the High School has increased to 502, a total of 1642. The High School will undoubtedly be some- what larger next year, as the class to graduate numbers 86 and the 8th grade has 161. Unless the number of families in town increases largely, however, it is probable that the limit has been nearly reached.
The first and second grade room at the Westlands has been badly over- crowded since September. At the present time there are 50 pupils in the room,
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which has seats for only 42. The condition is undoubtedly a permanent one, not a temporary, since home-building is continuing in that section of the town and new families are coming in each month. As the large classes in the primary grades advance, the other rooms will be unable to seat all the pupils entitled to attend. A remedy for the time being has been found by trans- ferring the first grade pupils to the Westlands Community Building, but in the near future some other solution must be found.
TRANSPORTATION
A total of 671 pupils are being transported this year, 330 to the High School, 170 to McFarlin, 86 to Princeton St., 54 to Quessy, and 31 to South. The table shows the changes in the last three years.
1937
1938
1939
High School
297
329
330
McFarlin
157
168
170
Princeton St.
70
80
86
Quessy
60
52
54
South
35
40
31
Total
619
669
671
Roughly two-thirds of the pupils attending South Chelmsford School are being carried, the majority of them from Littleton Road or roads leading into Littleton Road. We now have two vacant rooms in the McFarlin School, previous- ly used by the High School. From an educational viewpoint the pupils now at South Chelmsford could be better cared for at McFarlin. In many cases parents would like their children to be carried to the McFarlin School. The matter is worth careful consideration.
THE HIGH SCHOOL
The addition to the High School building fills a need that has been manifest for many years. The original building, designed for a school of 225 pupils, was being used to capacity according to state standards ten years ago. As the school has grown from year to year since 1930, basement rooms not de- signed for classrooms have been put into use, more seats crowded into the old classrooms without regard for seating regulations, and finally two rooms used in the McFarlin School. Now the school has six new classrooms, toilet facili- ties adequate for a school of 600 pupils, larger rooms for commercial work and for science, and an assembly hall which will seat the entire school, fitted out with stage, curtains, and equipment for school exercises and entertainments. Without undue crowding the building will provide for a school somewhat larger than the present one, and the design of the addition is such that four more classrooms can be added, if needed, at a minimum cost.
The school system does not provide for any type of vocational education. As stated in last year's report, Chelmsford is offering much less in this line than other towns in its class. True, some boys and some girls have attended Lowell Vocational School, and with the opening of the new Lowell Trade School it is probable that an increased number will apply for admission there. There is need of more hand-work in our schools, or courses in practical arts, both in the upper grades and in the High School. The trend of the times in educa- tion is away from the formal, book-study type toward broader courses which aim to meet the peculiar needs of a greater number of students and to prepare for more lines of work. Stated in another way the trend is away from preparation chiefly for "white collar" jobs to an education which will prepare equally well for skilled trades.
The table below shows the enrollment of Chelmsford pupils in Lowell Vocational School for the last five years.
100
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
Boys
19
27
10
6
10
Girls
4
5
5
6
10
Total
23
32
15
12
20
The State reimburses the town for one-half the tuition paid, which is at the rate of $150 per pupil. This reimbursement for the year ending August 31,
1938 was
$1586.95. The amount paid for the year 1939 was $1952.79.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
An itemized statement of school expenditures is given in the report of the Town Accountant. In the summary below the appropriations are those of the annual town meeting, as amended by the special meeting of December 19, 1939.
Appropriated
Expended
Administration
$ 3,950.00
$ 3,946.39
Instruction
73,400.00
73,377.16
Operation and Maintenance
17,730.00
17,717.14
Auxiliary Agencies
11,365.00
11,349.68
New Equipment
50.00
44.63
Care of Playgrounds
200.00
200.00
Total
$106,695.00
$106,635.00
Receipts and Credits on School Account
Reimbursement for teachers' salaries
$ 16,660.00
Tuition of state wards
3,096.51
Tuition charged towns and individuals
622.98
Sale of water tanks
20.00
Sale of waste paper
2.00
Total
$ 20,401.49
Total expenditures in 1939
$106,635.00
Total receipts and credits
20,401.49
Net cost of schools met by local taxes
$ 86,233.51
Vocational School tuition for 1939
$
1,952.79
Reimbursement from State, for year ending August 31, 1938
1,586.95
Net Cost of Vocational Education for 1939
$ 365.84
In conclusion I wish to express hearty appreciation for the fine coopera- tion of the many citizens and organizations whose willingness to assist teachers and pupils makes the administration of schools in Chelmsford a pleas- ure. As in the past, the parent-teacher associations have provided services which the town could not furnish, and have brought school and home into closer cooperation. The scout troops, 4-H clubs, and the American Legion have supple- mented the schools in many ways. Mr. Marinel has furnished transportation be- yond the terms of his contract, and the Police Department has rendered valuable assistance at games and at other times. The Lions' Club made possible for the second year the baseball league of the grammar schools, and furnished equipment and caps and sweaters. Seven citizens working untiringly with the School Com- mittee brought the project of building an addition to the High School to a successful conclusion. Members of the business practice class in the High School have done much clerical work, and in particular were of assistance in preparing the many duplicate copies of equipment specifications which were
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necessary for the new building. The work of typewriting this school report was done by a member of this class. To these and to all others who have been of assistance, and to you, the members of the School Committee, in behalf of the teachers and pupils I express deep appreciation.
Respectfully submitted,
George S. Wright Superintendent of Schools
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
JAMES P. CASSIDY, Chairman North Chelmsford
Term expires 1940
JOHN A. MCADAMS Westlands
Term expires 1941
WENDELL P. HARVEY, Secretary Chelmsford
Term expires 1942
SUPERINTENDENT
GEORGE S. WRIGHT, A. B. Office in McFarlin School Chelmsford
SCHOOL PHYSICIANS
ARTHUR G. SCOBORIA, M. D. Chelmsford
GEORGE E. CARRIEL, M. D.
North Chelmsford
SCHOOL NURSE
CHRISTINA SIMPSON, R. N. Office in McFarlin School
ATTENDANCE OFFICERS
WINSLOW P. GEORGE
Westlands
RALPH G. HULSLANDER
North Chelmsford
NO SCHOOL SIGNAL
In case of extremely bad storms or of roads dangerous because of ice, a signal for no school all day is given at 7.15 on the fire alarms, three blasts repeated three times. Notice is also broadcast by Station WLLH.
LIST OF TEACHERS, SCHOOL YEAR BEGINNING SEPTEMBER, 1939
NAME
WHERE EDUCATED
POSITION
APPOINTED
HIGH SCHOOL
Lucian H. Burns
Univ. of N.H., B.S.
Principal
Sept. 1930
Columbia, M.A.
C. Edith Mccarthy
Salem, B.S.E.
Vice-Prin.
Sept. 1923
Commercial
.
F. Christine Booth
Colby, B.A.
Latin, Math.
Sept. 1927
Daisy B. MacBrayne
B.U., A.M.
English
Sept. 1929
Procter P. Wilson
M. I .T. , B. S.
Science
Feb. 1930
George R. Knightly
Aurora, A.B.
Soc. Science
Sept. 1930
Morris L. Budnick
Tufts, A.B.
Math., Science
Sept. 1930
John J. MacLaughlan
Holy Cross, Ph.B.
History
Nov. 1933
Boston Univ., A.M.
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NAME
WHERE EDUCATED
POSITION
APPOINTED
Ernestine E. Maynard
Salem, B.S.E.
Commercial
Sept. 1934
Earl J. Watt
Harvard, A.M.
French
Nov. 1934
Catherine W. Mooney
Salem, B.S.E.
Commercial
Sept. 1936
M. Rita Ryan
Emmanuel, A.B.
English
Jan. 1936
Helen R. Poland
Boston Univ., A.B.
Math., Science
Sept. 1927
Emile Paul Gauthier
Harvard, A.B.
French, English
Sept. 1938
George W. Boyce
Tufts, B.A.
Math.
Sept. 1939
Beatrice T. Hoar
Boston Univ., A. B.
English
Sept. 1939
McFARLIN
Louis 0. Forrest
Fitchburg, B.S.E.
Prin., VIII
Sept. 1926
(Mrs.) Eva L. Dobson
Plymouth Normal
VII
Nov. 1919
Esther M. Thayer
Boston Univ., B. S.E.
VI-VIII
Jan. 1926
M. Beryl Rafuse
Truro Normal
VI
Sept. 1920
Helena B. Lyon
North Adams Normal
V
Oct. 1911
Emily Hehir
Lowell Normal
IV
Sept. 1928
Mayme G. Trefry
Truro Normal
III
Sept. 1921
Charlotte L. Lyons
Plymouth Normal
II
Sept. 1935
B. Muriel Bridges
Lowell, B.S.E.
I
Sept. 1937
Edna Hoyt
Lowell, B.S.E.
I-II
Sept. 1937
EAST
Harry Y. Hilyard
Fitchburg, B.S.E.
Prin., VII-VIII
Sept. 1930
(Mrs.) Jessie F. Brown
Boston Univ.
V-VI
April 1930
Mildred G. Perry
Lowell Normal
III-IV
Sept. 1931
Fitchburg, B.S.E.
Jane E. McEnaney
Lowell Normal
I-II
Sept. 1936
HIGHLAND AVENUE
Gerald A. Ivers
Lowell Textile Inst.
Prin., VII-VIII
Sept. 1936
B. Chem.
Mary II. Ryan
Lowell Normal
V-VI
Sept. 1930
Lottie A. Agnew
Lowell Normal
III-IV
Sept. 1923
Veronica M. McTeague
Lowell, B.S.E.
I-II
Jan. 1936
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NAME
WHERE EDUCATED POSITION
APPOINTED
PRINCETON STREET
Genevieve E. Jantzen
Lowell Normal
Prin., III
Sept. 1911
Sally T. Conlon
Lowell, B.S.E.
VIII
Sept. 1937
(Mrs.) Elsa Reid
Lowell Normal
VII
Sept. 1922
Roberta M. Small
Lowell, B.S.E.
VI
Sept. 1935
Gladys Harrington
Lowell Normal
V
Sept. 1931
(Mrs.) Lilla B. McPherson
Framingham Normal
IV
Sept. 1920
Helen C. Osgood
Lowell Normal
II
Sept. 1921
Ann E. Hehir
Lowell, B.S.E.
I
Sept. 1935
QUESSY
Walter L. Hannan, Jr.
Tufts, Ed. M.
Prin., VII-VIII
March 1939
Isabel M. Doyle
Boston Univ., B.S.
V-VI
Sept. 1936
Josephine M. Quigley
Lowell, B.S.E.
III-IV
Sept. 1934
Alice P. McEnaney
Lowell Normal
I-II
Jan. 1936
SOUTH
Nora E. Miskell
Lowell, B.S.E.
IV-VI
Sept. 1937
Ruth M. Rothwell
Lowell, B.S.E.
I-III
Sept. 1939
WESTLANDS
V. John Rikkola
Salem, B.S.E.
Prin., VII-VIII
Sept. 1930
Vera G. Rafuse
Truro Normal
V-VI
Sept. 1921
(Mrs. ) Charlotte K. Duffy
Lowell Normal
III-IV
Sept. 1932
(Mrs. ) Marion S. Adams
Lowell Normal
I-II
Jan. 1928
SUPERVISOR
M. Marion Adams
Lowell Normal
Music
Feb. 1938
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TRANSPORTATION
NAME
George W. Marinel
RESIDENCE
North Chelmsford
JANITORS
SCHOOL
NAME
RESIDENCE
High School
Bernard McLoughlin Leslie J. Reid
East Chelmsford Chelmsford
McFarlin
Otis Brown
South Chelmsford
East
Joseph F. Morris
East Chelmsford
Highland Avenue
Edward Brick
North Chelmsford
Princeton Street
Patrick Cassidy
North Chelmsford
Quessy
John Boutilier
West Chelmsford
South
George Burton
South Chelmsford
Westlands
E. Berg
Westlands
SCHOOL CENSUS -- OCTOBER 1, 1939
Registration of Minors:
5-7 Years
7-14 Years
14-16 Years
Boys
102
520
177
Girls.
113
472
149
Total
215
992
326
Distribution of Minors:
In Public Schools 179
975
294
In Vocational School
0
8
In Private Schools 1
14
14
In Institutions
2
Not in School
35
3
-
-
Total 215
992
326
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ENROLLMENT OCTOBER 1, 1939
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
Total
McFarlin
40
47
39
35
37
46
38
56
338
East
11
17
17
19
17
19
15
19
134
Highland Ave.
14
17
13
10
12
14
12
23
115
Princeton St.
37
28
31
28
37
28
28
33
250
Quessy
8
14
10
12
14
10
19
15
102
South
8
11
8
6
6
48
Westlands
25
23
15
25
17
19
14
15
153
143
157
133
135
140
145
126
161
1140
High School:
IX
160
X
140
XI
118
XII
86
P.G.
8
512
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1652
ENROLLMENT FOR LAST TEN YEARS (Taken on October 1st of each year)
Elementary
High
Total
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
1938
1158
485
1643
193
1140
512
1652
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January 12, 1940
Mr. George S. Wright Superintendent of Schools Chelmsford, Massachusetts
My dear Mr. Wright:
I am pleased to submit herewith my tenth annual report as principal of Chelmsford High School. It is impossible to relate everything that happened here during the past year. Perhaps the record of a few of the events will be of such interest to parents and other taxpayers that they will wish to visit the school and see for themselves what their children are doing.
The total enrollment up to January 1, 1940 is as follows:
Class
Number of Boys
Number of Girls
Total
Post Graduate
1
7
8
Senior
44
42
86
Junior
56
55
Sophomore
75
68
143
Freshman
82
77
159
Total
258
249
507
This total of 507 is twelve more than the high record of January 1939. This table shows that there have been nine more boys than girls here this year.
The work since September has been very difficult for the pupils and the teachers because of the many irregularities and uncertainties due to the con- struction of the addition. All have been very patient, however, and much credit is due them for the excellent work done in spite of the many handicaps.
The excellent assembly room in the addition is a wonderful improvement over our former facilities. The assembly programs are made possible by the cooperation of pupils and teachers. The three principal objectives of these assemblies are to instruct the pupils, to entertain them, and to give them training and experience in talking before an audience. Parents and other citizens who are interested are welcome to attend any of these assemblies. They are held each Wednesday when school is in session from 8:30 to 9:15 A.M.
Indoor athletics and physical education are being carried on in the new hall with shower and dressing room facilities for both boys and girls, in a very much safer and healthier manner than has been possible heretofore.
The six new class rooms, the extra corridors, toilet rooms, lockers, teachers' rooms, and clinic for pupils who are taken ill in school all help the pupils and teachers to do more and better work than has been possible before. Every one is indeed grateful to the taxpayers for the very much im- proved school plant.
There are a few unsatisfactory conditions yet to be corrected. There is no lunch room in the building. We feel that each pupil should have a clean' sanitary place where he can sit down and eat his lunch. The lighting conditions are very poor in some of the rooms in the old building. There are a few other defects the school authorities are working on that we expect to be remedied. I mention these conditions not in a spirit of finding fault but that the parents and taxpayers may know more about the conditions here in the high school.
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