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I feel that physical training has done much for our boys and girls, and it is in that field that we may confidently look for greater results in building up good physiques for our children. Splendid work has been done there and it should be more in- tensively developed. I hope everyone will read carefully and ponder upon the report of Mr. Hermann, the physical director. Ipswich is most fortunate in having this work done under his direction.
Governor Coolidge in his last message to the legislature, recognizing the general prevalence of this minimum standard of health among the children in this Commonwealth, points out what he believes to be the duty of the public schools. Here is what he says:
"Along with economy of resources should go conservation of the public health. The physical well-being of a people is the foundation of all advancement. Lack of bodily vigor is the beginning of a State's decadence in all things. With a people in a sound physical condition, all things are possible. Great progress has been made in medical science and skill, and relief has been found from many of the terrors of disease. But too
little attention has been given to full bodily development, which after all is not a matter of accident, of heredity or environment, but of intelligent training. This work should be attacked with great vigor in all our schools. We cannot breed a race of weak- lings and hope to survive in any of the world competitions.
"It has, besides, a moral aspect. The unsound social and economic theories which deluge the earth from time to time are not the progeny of stalwart men and women. Sound bodies do not breed that kind of unsound doctrines. Along with a vigor- ous training for physical development should go a teaching to think healthful thoughts. For, after all, it must be remembered that 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.'"
The suggestions contained in the above, coming from such
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a source, should receive the careful consideration of all our people, and the school authorities should take measures to see that the children receive the instruction and training in health promotion to which they are entitled.
On the whole the health of the children has been good. I fail to find in the death returns for the year the names of any children registered in our schools. This shows that the children who are underweight and undernourished may be built up in health and vigor by intelligent training and health supervision. Something of this kind was evidently in the Governor's mind when he pointed out in his message what he conceived to be the duty of the public schools.
The report of the school nurse shows that she did a vast amount of work which involved an immense amount of detail, and I know that she worked on this detail a great many hours that for her own good she should have devoted to recreation. I hope the public will appreciate as it should, this important vol- untary service. Had it not been rendered, the deductions I have made for this department would not have been possible. I shall not discuss these deductions in this report but shall try to point out to the school authorities what they show to me with the hope that larger results will be obtained the coming year.
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE E. MacARTHUR, School Physician.
Ipswich, February 1, 1920.
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INDEX.
Organization of School Committee Page 3
Financial Statement
4
Report of School Committee
5
Report of Superintendent
9
Domestic Science Department
14
Manual Training
15
Underweight Pupils
15
School Exhibition
17
Field Day
18
Rural Schools
19
Night School
19
Repairs and Improvements
21
Salaries
22
Recommendations
23
Penny Savings
24
General
25
Abstract of School Laws
27
Budget
31
Acknowledgments
32
Junior High School
34
Domestic Science:
Cooking
37
Sewing
39
Music
41
Drawing
43
Manual Training
45
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Physical Education
47
School Nurse
53
Attendance Report
54
School Calendar
55
No School Signals
56
Vital Statistics
57
Commencement Exercises
58
Distribution of Pupils
60
List of Teachers
61
Auditor's Report
63
Heard Fund
64
Treadwell Fund
65
Thomas H Lord Fund
66
Brown School Fund
67
Burley Education Fund
68
Feoffees' Report
69
Repor of School Physician
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WARRANT FOR
CH MASS
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1634
THE BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 1687
Annual Town Meeting
Essex, ss. To Clifford C. Boylan, Constable of the Town of Ipswich, in said County, Greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby directed to notify the inhabitants of the Town of Ipswich, qualified to vote in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Ipswich, on
Monday, the First Day of March, 1920,
at 7.30 o'clock in the evening, then and there to act upon the following articles, viz:
Article 1. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting
Article 2. To fix the compensation of Town Officers.
Article 3. To choose the following officers, viz: One Selectman for three years.
One Assessor of Taxes for three years.
One Overseer of the Poor for three years. Town Clerk for three years.
Treasurer and Collector of Taxes for one year.
Auditor for one year.
One Water and Electric Lighting Commissioner for three years.
Two members of the School Committee for three years.
One member of the Board of Health for three years.
Constable for one year.
One Superintendent of Cemeteries for three years.
One Park Commissioner for three years.
One Clam Commissioner for three years.
Also to vote YES or NO upon the following question:
"Shall license be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town?"
The above named officers and question to be voted for upon one ballot on MONDAY, the EIGHTH DAY of MARCH, 1920.
The polls will be open at 6-15 o'clock A.M. and may be closed at 4-45 o'clock P.M.
Article 4. To choose all other necessary Town Officers.
Article 5. To hear and act upon the report of the Finance Committee, and raise and appropriate money for town charges for the ensuing year.
Article 6. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Treas- urer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
Article 7, To see if the town will appoint the Collector of taxes an agent of the town to collect all bills due the town.
Article 8. To hear and act upon the reports of Trustees, Com- mittees and Town Officers.
Article 9. To see if the town will authorize the Water and Electric Lighting Commissioners to extend the water system to such parts of the town as may be desired, and provide for the payment thereof.
Article 10. To see if the town will authorize the Water and Electric Lighting Commissioners to extend either the street or commercial lighting, and provide for the payment thereof.
Article 11. To see if the town will fix the date when taxes shall become due and payable.
Article 12. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money not to exceed 5 per cent. of the tax levy of the year 1919, to be known as the Reserve Fund.
Article 13. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money for the observance of Memorial Day, and provide for the payment thereof.
Article 14. To see if the town will set apart a-plot of land in Highland Cemetery to be laid out for a lot for the burial of Sol- diers, Marines and Sailors of the United States Army and Navy.
Article 15. To see what action the town will take to improve the sanitary conditions of the Payne and Cogswell Schools, and provide for the payment thereof.
Article 16. To see if the town will take any action in regard to providing transportation facilities by means of Street Rail- ways or otherwise.
Article 17. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to provide band concerts, and provide for the payment thereof.
Article 18. To see if the town will appoint a committee to investigate the vault conditions in Town Hall.
Article 19. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money to build a new road bed the entire length of Argilla Road, and provide for the payment thereof.
Article 20. To see if the town will appoint a Committee to consider the possibility of acquiring the top of Town Hill for a public park.
Article 21. To see if the town will accept the provisions of Chapter 23, General Acts of 1917, which provides for the li- censing of Coffee Houses, so-called.
Article 22. To see what compensation will be allowed the members of the Fire Department for the ensuing year.
Article 23. To see if the town will purchase an auto pump- ing engine or make changes in our present equipment and pro- vide for the payment of the same.
Article 24. To see if the town will purchase and install ad- ditional machinery and generating equipment for the Electric Light Department and provide for the payment of the same.
Article 25. To see if the town will extend the water system through Blaisdell Ave. and provide for the payment of the same.
Article 26. To see if the town will extend the electric light- ing system through Blaisdell Ave. and provide for the payment of the same ..
Article 27. To see if the town will appropriate a sum of money for maintaining the Playground for the ensuing year, and provide for the payment thereof.
Article 28. To ses if the town will appoint a committee to look into the matter of road construction, with the idea of ac- quiring the services of an expert if necessary, and provide for the payment thereof.
Article 29. To see if the town will take any action on a bill before the Legislature which provides for a Public Reservation on Plum Island and the establishment of the Plum Island Res- ervation Commission.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting up at- tested copies thereof, one at the Town House, one at the Post Office, and one at each of the Public Meeting Houses in said town, seven days at least before the time of said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this eighteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty.
FRANK W. KYES EBEN B. MOULTON JOHN A. BROWN 1 Ipswich.
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Selectmen
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A True Copy. Attest: Constable
Ipswich, Mass., February 18, 1920.
T OF IPSWICH ROOM Ipswich Public Library Ipswich, Massachusetts
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