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B. Next Year's Work:
Much of the Superintendent's time is necessarily spent in the administrating of the work of the schools. Some time, how- ever, should be spent in progressive work along purely educa- tional lines. There should be a definite plan to follow and a definite piece of work to do. If this is done not so much time will be put into what seems important at the moment, but is really of secondary significance only. Unless a definite piece of work is insisted upon by the Committee, any Superintendent is under the temptation to nibble at many problems and solve none. We should not be working on too many different prob- lems at once, but attack one of them at a time and see that through before we turn to another. Besides the "business" end of the Superintendent, it seems wise to me that you insist that he spend his time next year on these four problems, leaving other problems for another year:
1. Work out a complete and detailed course of study for the first eight grades both as to content and method.
2. Find devices for increasing the co-operation between parents and teacher.
3. Increase the efficiency of the High School by helping to plan a new High School building.
4. Consolidate the 7th and 8th grades for departmental work.
If these four things can be done in twelve months, next year will be one of real accomplishment. Please note that in this work much time and thought on the part of the teachers will be necessary. You can feel safe. however, in counting upon their loyalty and interest in these matters.
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Section VI.
VI. The Russell Sage Foundation's Survey of the Schools as to Re- creation, Physical Training and Play.
The Russell Sage Foundation, at the invitation of the School Committee, sent one of their experts to study the needs of our children and our means of meetings those needs. The report by this expert will be published in separate form and a copy mailed to every voter.
Section VII.
VII. Summary of Report.
In conclusion let me emphasize aga'n the need of an exten- sion of School activities. We must clarify our aims and see that the Town votes sufficient funds to carry out those aims. We must keep our girls and boys in school longer; we must satisfy more of our customers. To hope to do this we need more Teachers and we must keep them longer. We must provide better quarters for the High School. : We must capitalize, not repress, the natural activity of the pupils by carrying out the rel- atively inexpensive recommendation of the Sage Report. All this calls for more money. This is no time to fail in supplying to our youth the needs of youth.
May I express my sincere appreciation of the kindliness and co-operation that the School Committee has shown toward me. It has been a very happy six months. I shall continue to give to you my best as long as I am in your service.
FREDERIC B. KNIGHT.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL PHYSICIAN.
To the School Committee and Superintendent of Schools:
The health of the school children has been excellent during the past year. Absences from school because of sickness have been few. There have been no epidemics of contagious dis- eases. Scarlet fever did occur in the Candlewood District, but the school was closed for two weeks, and there was no spread of the disease.
Inspection was made of all the school buildings before the beginning of the school year, and an improvement noted in san- itary and hygienic conditions in the Dennison and Manning buildings. In the former a system of sanitary plumbing and con- veniences had been installed, and in the latter renovations and additions had been made. These two buildings are now in an excellent sanitary condition so far as plumbing is concerned. I would recommend that sanitaries be provided for the Cogswell School this year, similar to those in the Dennison.
At the opening of the school year, a general inspection cf the school children was made. This was followed in the months of November, December and January by an examination carry- ing with it a tabulated health record of all the pupils in the eight grades who were present the days the examinations were made. Altogether 718 pupils were examined. I was assisted ยท in this work by Miss Stuart, of the Coburn Home, who rendered most valuable assistance. For the first time we have this year
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a card form of health record, upon which may be recorded the health and development of the child, as it shall be revealed by each year's examination. This card record covers the whole period of school life from the first grade through the last year in the High School, and will be of much value as time goes on in showing whether the growth and development of the child is what it ought to be.
Many interesting facts were revealed as a result of these ex- aminations, and several urgent needs shown to exist. I will mention two of them. First: A Dental Clinic, where the children who have defective teeth could receive much needed treatment. Second: A School Nurse, who could follow up at their homes such children as are shown to be undernourished, or who may be suffering from such ailments as call for the oversight that a school nurse could give. This is done in many places to the manifest benefit of the children's health. And I am much pleased to announce that, through the kindness of the Directors of the Coburn Charitable Society, the Coburn Home Nurses will follow up such cases during the coming year. Ips wich is indeed fortunate to have in prospect a year of this kind of service, which will involve no expense to the Town. I believe its value will be so demonstrated after one year of trial that the Town will see the wisdom of making it permanent, in the interest of good health and economy.
The High School pupils have not yet been examined. There are also in the grades, counting Linebrcok and Candlewood and also those who were absent when the examinations were made, about 50 more to be examined. The per centage of adenoids and enlarged tonsils is less this year than usual. This is ac- counted for by two facts. First: That quite a number of chil- dren have received operative treatment; and Second: That chil- dren of Polish, Greek and Italian parentage who are increasing in numbers in our schools every year, are freer from these con-
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ditions than are children of American parentage. They also have much better teeth, upon the average. Why this is so I do not know. It is stated as a clinical fact revealed by these exam- inations. The result of the examinations was as follows:
Enlarged Tonsils. 120
Defective Teeth 102
Catarrhal Throats 24
Adenoids . 16
Impaired Nutrition 44
Examinations for Labor Certificates 55
Examinations at Schools by Request of Teachers. . 64
A recreation survey has been made by the Russell Sage Foundation, of New York, at the request of the School Commit- tee. This is soon to be published, and the recommendations in the report if carried out will do more to help develope sound bodies and good health for the children than any one thing that has ever been done for them. No less an authority than the re- search department of the American Medical Association places the highest value upon scientific management of school recrea- tion and physical training in the development of sound bodies and minds as the primary foundation upon which worth-vh e education must be built.
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE E. MACARTHUR, M.D.,
School Physician.
Ipswich, February 1 st, 1915.
LIST OF TEACHERS FOR 1914-1915.
Superintendent:
Frederic B. Knight Office, Town Hall, Room 9
Office Hours, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 9-10 a.m.
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Supervisors:
W. W. Lunt,
Manual Training
Elizabeth Nutter Domestic Science
Arthur H. Tozer Music.
Franklin B. Mitchell Drawing
High School:
John P. Marston, Principal. Science
Emma G. Gardner `. French and German
Frederick W. Porter Mathematics, Athletics
Ruth Mobley .
English
Dorothy Rand .
History
Ralph Westcott
Latin and Physiology
Winthrop School:
S. Isabelle Arthur, Principal VIII. Grade
Bertha I. Porter VII. Grade
Alice Maguire VI. Grade
Alice Lyons
V. Grade
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Burley School:
Katharine F. Sullivan, Principal. VIII. Grade
Nellie T. Sullivan V. Grade
Ruth M. Carens
III. and IV. Grade
Lydia S. Harris I. Grade
Payne School:
Augusta N. Appleton, Principal. V. Grade
Martina E. O'Neil. III. and IV. Grade
Winifred M. Fleming I. and II. Grade
Warren Street School:
Anna R. Hartford, Principal. VII. Grade
Eva A. Willcomb. V. Grade
Cogswell School:
Mary E. Jordan; Principal .
III. and IV. Grade - Elsie C. Green . I. and II. Grade
Dennison School:
Annie P. Wade, Principal.
III. and IV Grade
Marion Huff I. and II. Grade
Portable School:
Kathleen Broderick II. Grade
Carrie Bowman I. Grade
Wainwright School:
Hilda M. Joyce .. . . I. and II. Grade
Linebrook School:
Esther L. Tenney, I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII., VIII. Grade Candlewood Schoo !:
Eva Russell
. I., II., III., IV. Grade
Grape Island School:
Cora H. Jewett. Ungraded .
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AUDITOR'S REPORT.
To the Citizens of Ipswich:
I submit the Annual Report of the Manning School, R. H. Manning, Heard & Treadwell Funds as compiled from the books of their respective Treasurers.
I have found receipts for all bills paid.
At the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. I found and exam- ined the various Stocks and Bonds of which these various funds are composed and find them to agree with the report sub- mitted.
ARTHUR H. WALTON, Auditor.
February 3, 1915.
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MANNING SCHOOL FUND.
Receipts:
Cash on hand January 1, 1914 $ 464.63
Income from investments. 1373.73
1837.63
Expenditures:
Salaries . $ 150.00
Taxes, coal and miscellaneous expenses 562.33
Balance on hand January 1, 1915. 1125.30
1837.63
SECURITIES COMPRISING MANNING SCHOOL FUND.
5 $1000. 4 p.c. Detroit So. R. 1st mtg bon's $5000.
12000. 12 " Peoria & Eastern 66
66 66 5000. 5 " Nat. R. Mexico
2 5 p.c. N. E. Brick Co. bonds. . 2000.
. . 1 Passaic Steel Co. bond 1000.
Invested in Master's House 7000.
Invested in Colonial Building 18000.
Less cash from R. H. Manning Fund .
50,000.
7000.
43,000.
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R. H. MANNING FUND.
Receipts:
Income. $ 75.00
Interest from Savings Bank
167.84
242.84
Expenditures:
Books.
88.36
88.36
SECURITIES COMPRISING R. H. MANNING FUND.
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank .. .. .. $4315.82
3 $1000. 5 per cent. Chicago & Northern Michigan bonds. 3000.00
4 $1000. 5 per cent. Passaic Steel Co.
bonds. .
4000.00
Loaned to Manning School Fund
7000.00
18315.82
HEARD FUND OF IPSWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Income: Balance on hand January 1, 1914 $492.92 Received from investments. . 875.90 Received from Treadwell Fund 1124.34
2493.16
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Expenditures:
Salaries .$1123.00
Insurance and miscellaneous expenses ...
863.33
Balance January 1, 1915 506.83
2493.16
SECURITIES COMRRISING HEARD FUND.
33 shares B. &. L. R. preferred stock. .... $5846.00 35 shares B. & M. R. preferred stock . 1050.00
10 shares Fitchburg R. preferred stock . . 900.00
1 C. B. & O. R. 312 per cent. bond
945.00
1 Union Electric & Power bond ..
950.00
3 Northern Pacific Great Northern R. 4 per cent. bond . 2830.00
1 Duluth, Rainy Lake & Winnipeg R. bond 1025.00
3 Canton Electric Light bonds
2855.00
1 Aurora, Elgin & Chicago bond
1000.00
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
192.40
17598.40
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TREADWELL FUND.
Cash on hand January 1, 1914. $ 896.50
Received from investments. 1938.16
2834.66
Expenditures:
Salaries . $ 50.00
Miscellaneous expenses. 804.89
Paid Heard Fund 1124.34
Balance on hand January 1, 1915
855.43
2834.66
SECURITIES COMPRISING TREADWELL FUND.
50 shares Fitchburg R. preferred stock ... $4500.00 30 shares Old Colony R. preferred stock. 5215.00 25 shares B. & P. R. preferred stock ..... 6300.00 25 shares M. Central R. preferred stock .. 3080.00 25 shares Vermont & Massachusetts R. preferred stock. 3460.00 25 shares B. & A. R. preferred stock . . . 3990.00
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1 County Commanche, Kansas, 6 per cent. bond . $1000.00
1 City of Fostoria, Ohio, 4 per cent. bond 530.00
1 American Telegraph & Telephone Com- pany 4 per cent. bond. 1000.00
1 Duluth, Rainy Lake & Winnipeg 5 per cent. bond. 1000.00
1 Central Branch R. 4 per cent. bond. . 975.00
1 Aurora, Elgin & Chicago R. 5 per cent. bond . . 1000.00
1 Kansas Gas & Electric 5 per cent. bond 1000.00
1 Quincy Gas & Electric Heating 5 per cent. bond 950.00
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank.
2223.38
36,223.38
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BROWN SCHOOL FUND.
The Trustees of the Brown School Fund present the fol- lowing report for the year 1914.
The Funds are as follows:
Deposited in the Ipswich Savings Bank
$1352.52
Deposited in the Salem Five Cent Savings Bank
1097.90
Cash on hand
10.00
2460.42
Income since last report : Dividend from Ipswich Savings Bank
$52.52
Dividend from Salem Five Cent Savings Bank
42.62
95.14
Expenditures for the year: Salary of Candlewood Teacher, three months
$80.00
Balance in treasury
15.14
Respectfully submitted.
A. STORY BROWN CHARLES G. BROWN BENJAMIN R. HORTON Trustees
I have examined the report of the Trustees of the Brown School Fund and find it correct.
ARTHUR H. WALTON, Auditor.
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BURLEY EDUCATION FUND.
The Trustees of the Burley Education Fund present this their Eighty-Ninth Annual Report.
The funds in their hands are as follows:
15 shares B. & M. R. stock $ 500.00
5 notes of the Town of Ipswich 3500.00
Deposits in Ipswich Savings Bank 2788.51
Deposits in Salem Five Cent Savings Bank 991.85
Caldwell Fund, Ipswich Savings Bank
1084.89
8865.25
Income since the last report i as follows: Interest on Town Note
$175.00
Dividends from Ipswich Savings Bank 108.20
Dividends from Salem Five Cent Savings Bank 29.98
Dividends from Caldwell Fund
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355.14
In November, 1914, the note of $3500., which was given by the Town in 1883, was exchanged for five notes of $700. each, one of which is to be paid each year, beginning with 1915. No dividend has been paid on the Railroad Stock.
FRANK T. GOODHUE JOHN W. NOURSE A. STORY BROWN JOSEPH T. MORTON
Ipswich, Jan. 1, 1915. Trustees Burley Education Fund
I have examined the report of the Trustees of the Burley Education Fund and find them correct. I have also exam- ined the stocks and bank books and find them to agree with the report submitted.
ARTHUR H. WALTON. Auditor.
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