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GRADUATION
OF THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL June 26, 1928
Program
1. INVOCATION Rev. F. T. Kenyon
2. PIANO SELECTION, Charlotte Smith
3. RECITATION Seein' Things At Night
Arthur Brennan
4. RECITATION The House by the Side of the Road Evelyn Craton
5. RECITATION Plain Bob and a Job
George Greene
6. SONG The Long White Road
Graduating Class
7. RECITATION The Charge of the Light Brigade Henry Prisby
8. RECITATION The Wild White Rose
Evelyn Dodge
9. COMPOSITION The Man Without a Country
Douglas Wood +
10. SONG Under the Banner of Victory
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Graduating Class
11. RECITATION At Home to His Friends Eleanor King
12. RECITATION Somebody's Mother
Grover Bailey
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13. RECITATION® The Little One of the Army
Ida Wells
14. SONG Dream of the Bird's' Return: Graduating Class
15. COMPOSITION The Vision of Sir Launfaï Blanche Michon
16. RECITATION The Highwayman
Donald Wood
17. RECITATION Mrs. Churtsey and Her Courtsey Marjorie Dolan
18. SỐNG O Ship of State
Graduating Class
19. AWARDING OF DIPLOMAS
20. CLASS SÓNG
21. SONG
Star Spangled Banner
22. BENEDICTION Rev. J. C. Burns
BURLEY SCHOOL
To the Superintendent of Schools, Dear Sir :
Again I submit to you the yearly report of the Bur- ley School.
The total enrollment this year is three hundred eighty-six pupils, an increase of twelve pupils over last year. They are distributed in the following grades : Seventy-six pupils in grade one, forty-seven in grade two,
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sixty-nine in grade three, eighty-one in grade four, sixty- one in grade five, fifty-two in grade six.
The attendance has been very good. Both pupils and teachers have done their best to keep the percent of attendance high.
In our school work this year we have made Reading the study upon which most stress has been placed. We know that pupils are handicapped in all work if they are not able to read intelligently. The sixth grade pupils have earned three diplomas and sixteen certificates for completing a course of Reading outlined by the State.
The application of Spelling has had an important place in the curriculum from the second grade through the sixth grade. Every second Friday we have had com- petition in Dictation. The class having the highest rec- ord receives a banner as a reward. We found many children were apparently good spellers in the regular daily lesson, but in the application of the same words they were found wanting. This plan has helped a great deal to make better spellers.
The Franklin Course in Drawing still continues to be a very great asset to the curriculum. The pupils are able to see objects as they are and present individual interpretation more readily than in previous years.
We have tried to broaden the year's work by out- side study. Several of the classes under the supervision of the teachers have taken Nature and Bird walks. The fifth class visited Mr. Canney's lumber yard and through his courtesy received instruction in the different kinds of wood used for building purposes. The sixth grade made two trips to Salem to visit the Peabody Museum. These trips were very interesting to the children as well as instructive.
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We are fortunate in having our rooms fitted for the use of a lantern and screen. The fifth and sixth grades. have used the lantern one day each week in connection. with the study of Geography, History, Hygiene and Na- ture. Each child recites a topic describing a picture. This makes the work interesting and the pupils retain the subject matter much more easily.
We still continue the public speaking plan, which consists of reading, reciting poems and singing by the different pupils in the various rooms every alternate Fri- day afternoon.
The sixth grade has formed an Audubon Club in ad- dition to the Good Citizen Club, in which it has been do- ing good work.
We have had very few changes in teachers. Miss Gamboa was transferred to the Payne School and Miss Pickard was elected to take her place. At present we have Miss Mary Lucey observing in the lower grades, as a part of her training. She is a pupil of Miss Brooks's training school in Boston. This practical training, I con- sider a great help to any student preparing for a teacher and we find it no trouble as many times they can help in the class room. All our teachers are conscientious and co-operative. They are always willing to give children help after school as well as before school. Many chil- dren in the upper grades avail themselves of this oppor- tunity.
Some improvements have been made on the build- ing. The basement rooms have been made dry and new porches have been added to the back doors of these rooms. New curtains are needed in some of the rooms as the old ones have been ruined by water during heavy rain storms. The building is always clean, the floors being swept every day by the janitor.
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The evening session held during Educational Week was enjoyed by many parents and friends. As many of our, parents work during the day, they look forward to this evening as a chance to visit their children. Much is gained by parents visiting the schools. The teachers, by knowing the parents, better understand the children. I trust many more parents and friends will visit our school during the coming year, thereby giving encour- agement to pupils and teachers.
In closing I wish to thank you for the help received from your advice and also to thank the parents who have shown such a kindly interest in our school.
Respectfully submitted,
NELLIE T. SMITH.
SHATSWELL SCHOOL
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Joseph I. Horton,
Superintendent of Schools,
Ipswich, Mass.
Dear Sir :
As principal of the Shatswell School I herewith sub- mit my third annual report.
Owing to business conditions in Ipswich, the number of pupils enrolled is smaller than last year, the total being 335. There are nine classes and all of the rooms are full except the first and third grades. The attendance has been exceptionally good with few cases of tardiness.
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The pupils are striving to do well in their various studies and are keenly interested in all the activities of the school.
With one exception we have the same teachers as last year. Their loyal support, sincere co-operation and untiring efforts make an efficient corps.
In October all of the pupils joined the Junior Red Cross. The members of this organization pledge them- selves to serve their friends, neighbors, community and all mankind in general to the best of their abilities. Any work done for the Red Cross correlates with our lessons in citizenship and gives the children a broader outlook.
The boys of the sixth grade act as traffic officers on Green and County Streets at the opening and closing of each session. They are young and untrained, but realize the responsibility resting on them and do well in their respective positions. I have received many commenda- tory reports of their work. It would be very helpful if these boys could have some instructive talks about traf- fic rules and regulations and the duties of traffic officers.
Mr. Grant, the custodian, not only takes excellent care of the building, but acts as an instructor as well. Under his able leadership, a fife and drum corps has been formed. It is composed of boys from the fourth, fifth and sixth grades. Regular lessons are given each week, Mr. Grant teaching the fife class and Mr. Stone giving the lessons in drumming. Both classes are making good progress and will soon be heard on the street. These men give their lessons free of charge and spend much time with the boys. We thank them for wholehearted endeavor to help the youth of today.
School was in session one evening during Education Week. More than two hundred people improved the opportunity of seeing the pupils at their regular work.
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Nearly every day we have some visitors but we would like to have all of the parents come.
Miss Lovell, a student at the Wheelock School of Boston, is having her observation lessons in the first grade. She spends four mornings each week with us.
Last spring a large storeroom was built in the base- ment. This gives us a clean, dry place in which we can put a large quantity of supplies.
New desks and chairs are needed in the fourth grade room. Those now in use came from one of the old build- ings and have seen years of wear. Many of them are broken and but few are adjustable. We need a new desk in the office, also some chairs for visitors. Many of our text books are old and worn and new sets are needed in some of the rooms.
Again this year we thank all who helped with our Health Day program. In spite of inclement weather we cleared well over $100. This, with the money already earned, enabled us to buy a splendid piano, which is proving very helpful to both pupils and teachers. We wish to gratefully acknowledge the generous donations of Mrs. Robert Kimball and Mr. Arthur H. Tozer.
In closing I wish to thank you for your kind help- fulness.
Respectfully submitted,
AUGUSTA A. GRENACHE.
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To the Superintendent of Schools :
At the Payne School this year the work has pro- gressed in much the same manner as in previous years.
We have an enrollment of one hundred fourteen pupils.
The attendance has not been what we could have wished, owing to considerable illness.
In October at the beginning of her fourth year with us, we lost by death our second grade teacher, Miss Mar- ion Charles, and needless to say both teachers and pupils feel her loss keenly.
She was a young woman of unusual ability, who en- deared herself to all of us by her strength of character, by her lovable personality, and by her devotion to her work.
Miss Gamboa, who formerly taught at the Burley School, has come to us as teacher of the second grade.
Respectfully yours,
GRACE A. BOWLEN.
LINEBROOK SCHOOL
Superintendent of Schools,
Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Dear Sir :
I have an enrollment of 18 pupils, which includes
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all grades from the first to the seventh. My classes are small and it is difficut to awaken any great degree of en- thusiasm.
When the children have completed seven grades they are transferred to town for one year of departmen- tal work in the Junior High, before entering the High School.
The school building is in very good condition, but new blackboards would be greatly appreciated.
The spirit of the school is all that could be desired. The parents of this community are very co-operative, also our superintendent.
This school is thechief community center of Line- brook. All socials and "Parent-Teacher's" meetings are held here.
Respectfully submitted,
RUTH M. BROWN.
SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC
Mr. Joseph I. Horton,
Supt. of Schools.
My dear Sir:
May I submit the following report ?
The music in the grades is being carried on in the same manner as in the past few years. As many of the music readers have been in use for four years, it will be
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necessary to replace many of them in the fall. We are fortunate in having a corps of teachers who are very much interested in music. Consequently the results are. very satisfactory. As there is not even one assembly hall in our whole school system, chorus work must of course suffer. Groups of children are given an opportunity to sing with the piano by taking them class by class into the halls of the various buildings. You will admit that this condition is not exactly ideal. But it is the best that can be done at present.
It seems necessary that we have music with the Junior High graduation exercises. As the music in the readers is not always suitable for this particular occasion, may I suggest that the sum of $50 be appropriated for octavo music to be used at this graduation.
The various musical organizations in the Senior High School are the direct result of the music in the grades. At the present time we have a high school chorus, con- sisting of all the students in the school; a girls' glee club of 140 members (this is elective) ; a band of seventeen members; and an orchestra of fourteen members, which is just now in the making. But we have been greatly handicapped, as we have not always been able to get material when needed. We have a principal of the high school who is in hearty accord with all musical activities. In this, I feel that I am more than fortunate. But more important than all else is the fact that in order to get the best results, the interest of the pupil must be main- tained. This cannot be accomplished without the use of new music. No group of people, especially of high school age, can long be interested in singing the same song for weeks and months on end. A high school chorus should have at least five new choruses each year. A glee club should have at least ten. And the band and orchestra in
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proportion. Again I suggest that you budget the music for the high school and that the sum of $400 be appro- priated for this purpose.
May I say just a word in regard to the band. The instruments in most cases are owned by the town and loaned to the pupils. In order to pay for them, a letter was sent to all the alumni of the Manning High School, asking that the sum of one dollar or more be contributed for this purpose. We needed about $550. NOT TWEN- TY PERCENT OF THE ALUMNI RESPONDED. We still need nearly two hundred dollars. It would seem as though the alumni of the school were not willing to sup- port the present members, or the activities of the school. I sincerely trust that some arrangement may be made whereby these instruments may be paid for.
The Glee Club concert is an annual affair. It is an expensive concert. The opera house is the only place in Ipswich where 140 girls can be brought together upon one stage. And of course Mr. Bragdon has to cancel one show when we hire the house. May I hope that no one will refuse to help the girls this year when asked to buy a ticket for this concert.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your teachers for your hearty co-operation during the past year.
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR HAROLD TOZER,
Director of Music.
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DOMESTIC SCIENCE
To the Superintendent of Schools,
Dear Sir :
It is with pleasure that I submit my report of the Domestic Science department.
This past year has brought forth many changes, and although some of them may seem very minor, they have helped immensely.
At the beginning of the year the classes were not only numerous, but far too large to handle with any great success. With the taking away of the four fifth grades, it enabled us to divide some of the larger classes, thus allowing more time for each individual.
The installation of a new sewing machine is another improvement. The classes are so large that quite fre- quently a child will be held up on her work, because the machines are in use. Hence, the addition of the one ma- chine has made it possible to keep three or four children more busy during a class period. It seems fitting at this place to offer my sincere appreciation to those who made it possible for us to have this useful device.
Another interesting change was the division of the High School class. Last year there were only nine stu- dents from the High School who took the course in Domestic Arts, but this year the class has enlarged to the extent that it was necessary to divide the girls into two sections. One group of girls are studying Clothing, and the other group is studying Foods. At the beginning of the year these two groups organized into clubs with a common aim, that being, to improve the domestic science room by adding such equipment that would not only
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beautify, but that would prove useful in their work. They have already held a social, a food sale, and two sandwich sales to earn money to carry out their plans.
The work in the lower grades is progressing rapidly.
The girls in the eighth grades are having cooking, and although some of the classes are a trifle large for the amount of space we have, they are doing very well.
The pupils in the four seventh grades are making their cooking uniforms for the coming year. Through this project they have had an opportunity to study the use of the sewing machines along with the cutting and general construction of garments.
The work carried on in the sixth grade also covers the use of the sewing machines. However, the problems are much more simple and require a greater amount of hand work. The reason for this is to give the girls an opportunity to learn how to handle material with the care that is necessary to have neat and attractive results. Poor sewing technique produces not only untidy work but in- accurate work as well.
In closing I wish to say that this year has been a very happy one, and I wish to thank Miss Sullivan, Mr. Whip- ple, and you, for your kind co-operation.
Respectfully submitted,
GLADYS E. GRAHAM.
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MANUAL ARTS.
Mr. Joseph I. Horton,
Superintendent of Schools,
Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Dear Sir:
The work in the Manual Arts Department has made a change this year. It has started a Household Mechan- ics course to correlate with the Woodworking and Elec- trical courses.
The aim of the Manual Arts Department for the year 1929 is to serve the boy and his home.
There is no justification for confining the shop work to woodwork of a manual training nature nor assuming that all boys will be interested in woodwork. The va- riety of shop problems available in a well conducted Household Mechanics course, not only offers the boys an opportunity for learning many useful operations and for becoming more or less skillful in doing a large number of repair jobs necessary about a home, but it offers an opportunity for vocational guidance. Such a course will interest most boys and will be looked upon with favor by their parents.
In summing up, the advantages of the Household Mechanics course in the Manual Arts curriculum are :-
1. It provides an opportunity for diversified shop work.
2. It provides an opportunity for vocational guid- ance.
3. It provides an avocational interest which makes for a more worthy use of leisure time.
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4. It is an economic value to the boys. Such a knowledge often saves the time and money involved in calling a repair man for such jobs.
5. Parents look with favor upon such instruction, which they can see is valuable to the boys.
6. Boys gain self-respect; it makes them more self- reliant.
7. It is a civic value; trains for better citizenship.
8. It is an economical shop for the school as repair- ing projects cost less than making new projects, when time devoted is figured as education.
9. It trains for definite future values. The training will be capitalized throughout the boy's life, because practically every man needs to know how to do these things or to know how they are done.
10. It interests the boys-makes for worthy home membership.
Some of the needs of the Department are a few power machines,-a wood turning lathe, band saw and a power drill. These three machines would make it pos- sible to enlarge the scope of the Household Mechanics course. A lathe would make it possible to repair any kind of furniture, to turn chair legs and rungs, floor and table lamps, handles, etc. The electric drill would make it possible to do more work in metals in the Junior High School.
This school year we have already made about two dozen electric wood and iron floor and bridge lamps. With the aid of a power drill we could improve the work- manship and increase the production.
The condition of the class room and basement is the same as it was last year. Wooden floors would improve the condition of the basement and Manual Arts class room to a great extent.
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This report gives me an opportunity to ask the par- ents to allow their boys to bring articles from their own homes to the Manual Arts Department for repairs. It may be repairs in woodwork, iron work, electrical work or refinishing.
Respectfully submitted,
M. D. FREEDMAN,
DEPARTMENT OF HYGIENE AND MEDICAL INSPECTION
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
Mr. Joseph I. Horton, Superintendent of Schools, Ipswich, Massachusetts,
Dear Sir:
Nineteen hundred and twenty-eight was a busy year for the School Physician and the School Nurse. With the passing of each year the volume of work increases. New requirements are constantly being made by State author- ity which add to the details of the work that must be done in order that data may be available to answer promptly inquiries that come from the Department of Health and Education. Of our own initiative we started a line of work about a year and a half ago by requesting all of the teachers to send to the office each morning for inspection any and all pupils who did not seem to the teachers to be quite up to standard. This is one of the new ideas taken from the domain of Preventive Medicine
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which is now doing much work in many lines. It is not a state requirement, but is bound to become one in the future, judging by the experiences of the past. When it does come, Ipswich will be found there, as she has through her Health Department, which in several in- stances anticipated and adopted measures that were af- terwards made laws by legislation.
One thing not foreseen at the time this work was started has been the development of a clinic at which first-aid is rendered in all injuries, and it is rarely that a morning occurs in which there is not from one to several minor injuries requiring first-aid. This has enormously increased the amount of work performed by the Nurse. To carry on this work certain supplies are necessary, and I believe the School Department should provide them. The expense for such supplies would be small.
The whole number of pupils examined in the High School and in the Grades was 1475, as compared with 1608 last year. The loss was almost wholly in the Grades, there being only two less in the High School than last year.
The general health of the pupils shows an improve- ment each year. The percentage of underweights is less, and the benefits of physical training and athletics are more and more in evidence as time goes on.
Much credit is due the teachers for the spirit of co-operation they have shown in sending the children for examination.
I wish to extend my thanks to you, Mr. Superinten- dent, and to all others for courtesies shown, and assist- ance rendered.
Respectfully submitted, GEORGE E. MacARTHUR, M.D. Ipswich, January 30, 1929.
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SCHOOL NURSE'S REPORT
Mr. Joseph I. Horton,
Supt. of Schools,
Ipswich, Mass.
Dear Mr. Horton :
Please find below a brief report of my work for the 1928 school year.
The duties of the School Nurse are the same from year to year and comprise :
Hygiene room talks.
Clinics (eye and dental).
Consultations with parents.
Assistance at examination made of all school chil- dren by School Physician.
Weighing and measuring quarterly the school enroll- ment other than the High School department.
Clerical work attached to above schedule and re- quired by law.
Home visits concerning absences on account of ill- ness and physical defects.
Emergency treatments at office.
Respectfully submitted,
MARTHA T. STEWART, R. N.
Underweight Children
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Winthrop School :
7 p.c. 10 p.c. 15 p.c. 20 p.c.
or more
Grade IV 14 4 5 1 1 14
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Grade V
15
5
8
.....
2
15
Grade VI
20
9
6
2
3
20
Grade VII
45
14
18
6
7
45
Grade VIII
41
8
15
8
10
41
40
52
20
23
135
Burley School :
7 p.c. 10 p.c. 15 p.c. 20 p.c. or more
8
Grade I
8
4
3
1
......
Grade II
5
1
3
1
......
Grade III
18
4
10
4
18
Grade IV
11
2
5
3
1
11
Grade V
10
4
5
1
10
Grade VI
9
2
5
2
9
17
31
12
1
61
Shatswell School :
7 p.c. 10 p.c. 15 p.c. 20 p.c. or more
2
Grade II
4
4
4
Grade III
5
1
3
1
......
5
Grade IV
10
2
6
2
.....
10
Grade V
10
2
6
1
1
10
Grade VI
5
1
2
1
1
5
-
-
-
12
17
5
2
36
Payne School:
7 p.c. 10 p.c. 15 p.c. 20 p.c. or more
Grade I
14
7
5
2
......
14
Grade II
9
1
4
1
3
9
-
-
-
Grade I
2
2
......
......
......
5
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Grade III 18
5
7
1
18
13
14
10
4
41
Linebrook School :
7 p.c. 10 p.c. 15 p.c. 20 p.c.
or more
Grade II 3
·2
1
3
7 p.c. 10 p.c. 15 p.c. 20 p.c.
or more
Winthrop School
40
52
20
23
135
Burley School
17
31
12
1
61
Shatswell School
12
17
2
36
Payne School
13
14
10
1
41
Linebrook School
2
1
-
-
-
84
115
47
30
276
Children weighed and measured, 1495.
Number Pupils Examined
Vaccin-
Absent
ated Exempt.
High School
273
4
256
21
Shatswell School
315
9
295
29
Winthrop School
412
1
393
20
Burley School
356
1
356
4
Payne School
107
5
101
11
Linebrook School
12
1
13
1475
24
1414
85
Notices Sent
Tonsils
Teeth
Eyes
Ears
High School
85
20
78
7
Shatswell School
173
53
157
7
1
3
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Winthrop School
240
64
219
12
Burley School
261
81
221
35
2
Payne School
71
18
66
9
Linebrook School
12
..
12
-
842
236
753
70
3
The work of the School Nurse has been greatly en- larged in its scope during the last few years in order to keep pace with the progress made along hygienic lines. This has become necessary by reason of the changed pub- lic attitude toward the discovery and treatment of dis- eases themselves and also by the shift of emphasis from curative to preventive measures. The development of the whole boy, body, mind and soul, is now considered as the objective in educational effort and with the co-operation of the home and other welfare organizations should be realized in this generation of school children. No phase of educational work is more deserving of a practical and scientific consideration and treatment from both a social and an economic point of view.
Therefore a closer scrutiny and inspection of home and school conditions must be observed and maintained. The recreational as well as the working conditions come in for a larger share of attention and these must be fol- lowed up by suggestions and improvements wherever pos- sible. In a word, education, in its newer and larger as- pects and conception has become a work of great moral obligation and responsibility to the end that individual happiness and national security may thereby be pro- moted.
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In this connection I wish to call attention to the work that is being done by the local branch of the S. P. C. C. Few of our people realize the amount of misery, moral delinquency that exists in our midst, and fewer still are aware of the amount of work that is being quietly under- taken and accomplished conjointly by this society and the School Nurse to relieve and correct these many un- wholesome social and moral conditions.
Mention must be made of splendid co-operation along all lines of relief work undertaken by the Superin- tendent of the Cable Memorial Hospital. Clinics of va- rious kinds have been established, and the time is not far distant when we as a community may look to this hospi- tal as the place for the scientific and skillful treatment of every physical ill.
Much has already been accomplished. The agent of this society has been instrumental in bringing to notice many a case that has been relieved by surgical treatment.
A clinic has been given for those suffering from dis- eases of mouth and throat. The removal of tonsils and adenoids has furnished relief to many of our school chil- dren, and placed their feet once more upon the road to health and happiness. Five children were recently taken to Beverly for treatment of eye defects. They were ex- amined and fitted with glasses and the society paid the bill. This work, I understand, is to be done at our hos- pital in the future and the necessity and inconvenience of going out of town for such service will no longer exist.
I hold no brief for this society, but the many chari- table acts with which it should be credited have con- tinued many a child in school and brought comfort and self-respect into many a home. It is exceedingly worthy of your respect and continued support.
J. I. H.
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ATTENDANCE REPORT
To the Superintendent of Schools :
I herewith submit my report as attendance officer for the year 1928. I have investigated two hundred six- ty-four cases of absence and have returned to school fifty-three and satisfactorily accounted for the remain- der. One case was brought before the court. I have is- sued 229 labor certificates.
Respectfully, GEO. W. TOZER, Supervisor of Attendance.
SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 1928.
TERM
BEGINS
CLOSES
Winter
January 2
February 21
Spring
March 4
Summer
May 6
Fall
September 4
April 26 Undecided December 24
Teachers must report for duty on Tuesday, September 3, at 9 A. M., one day previous to the opening of school for the Fall Term. Examination of pupils who failed of promotion in June will also take place on that day.
HOLIDAYS.
Every Saturday; Columbus Day, October 12; Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving Week, Jan- uary 1; February 22; April 19; Memorial Day.
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NO SCHOOL SIGNALS OF THE IPSWICH PUBLIC SCHOOLS
4 BLASTS AT 7.30-No Morning Session in ANY SCHOOL.
4 BLASTS AT 8.00-No Morning Session in the FIRST SIX GRADES.
4 BLASTS AT 11.30-No Afternoon Session in the FIRST SIX GRADES.
In the absence of any signal at 11.30, the afternoon session will be held as usual. Teachers and pupils must be present at such sessions as on other days.
All should bear in mind that the 7.30 and 8.00 o'clock signals do NOT EXCUSE FOR THE ENTIRE DAY.
In addition to the warning given by the whistle, the street lights will be turned on for five minutes after the signal is given in each case.
In all cases parents are expected to exercise their judgment as to permitting their children to attend school during stormy weather.
On stormy days when the FIRST SIX GRADES are excused for the day by the 8 and 11.30 o'clock signals, the Junior and Senior High Schools will each have a sin- gle session closing at 1.30 P. M. The 11.30 o'clock sig- nal will give parents ample warning for postponing the dinner hour.
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MISS BESSIE B. DAMON In account with SCHOOL GROUNDS IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
1928
Jan. 1. Balance in Savings Bank $272.09
July 30. Dividends on de- posits 12,38
1928 Sept. 10. Paid Mr. Smith, weeding hedge $ 8.00 Dec. 31. Balance in Savings Bank 276.47
284.47
284.47
1929
Jan. 1. Balance ín Savings
Bank 276.47
Respectfully submitted,
MRS. BESSIE B. DAMON, Treas.
NOTE: Owing to an epidemic of infantile paralysis, there were no Field Day exercises in 1928,
IPSWICH SCHOOL REPORT
JOSEPH I. HORTON In account with FREE MILK FUND
IPSWICH SCHOOL REPORT
1928
DR.
1928
CR.
Jan. 1. Bal in bank $ 4.06
Feb. 20. Pd J, E. Lombard $15,60
Jan. 29. Mrs. Waters, Christ-
Mar. 8. Pd J. E. Lombard 15.12
mas seals 25.00
Dec. 31. Bal. in Sav. Bank 22.59
Jan. 19. Dividend on deposits .09
Mar. 2. Burley School 16.00
Mar. 9. Unknown Friends 3.16
Mar. 16. Catholic Woman's Club 5.00
53.31
53.31
1929
Jan. 1. Balance in Savings
Bank 22.59
Respectfully submitted,
JOSEPH 1. HORTON
NOTE: By means of sandwich sales, etc., the schools meet the major part of the expenses of this project.
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IPSWICH SCHOOL REPORT
LIST OF TEACHERS IN IPSWICH PUBLIC SCHOOLS
JOSEPH I. HORTON, Superintendent
Ralph C. Whipple Robert D. Conary E. Margaret Allen Helen J. Blodgett Helen M. Streeter Ruth Duffet
M. Katherine Blood Mrs. Ruth A. Lord
Beatrice Copeland Mary E. Sweet
Mrs. Augusta A. Grenache
Ethel M. Archer
Ruth F. Joyce
Amy Stanford
Althea Hayes
Alena F. Wilson
Mrs. Hilda J. Schofield
Laurinda Parkhurst
Mary A. Nourse
Norma Page
Mrs. Nellie T. Smith
Anne E. Friend
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Weare
A. Pauline Charles
Mrs. Margaret Howard
Louise C. Norcross Ruby N. Freethy
Blanche L. Oxner Violet L. Hawkins Mrs. Blanche E. J. Leighton Ruth Gilday
Anna F. Kinsella
Mrs. Alice D. Moran
Hazelle J. Merrill
Hortense Knowlen
Rosamond Reilly
Ruth M. Brown
Muriel Russell
Grace A. Bowlen
Zella Zuoski
Lucy Ardell Kimball
Martha J. Stewart
Barbara Pickard
Max D. Freedman
Arthur H. Tozer
Evelyn Ventress Gladys E. Graham
Katherine F. Sullivan
Mrs. Belle D. Rogers
Mrs. Lena J. Atherley
Angelica Gamboa Zelda Hayes
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Index.
Organization of Committee:
Page 3'
Distribution of Pupils
4:
Enrollment of Pupils
5
Committee's Report
6
Superintendent's Report
8
High School
37
Winthrop School
48,
Burley School
54
Shatswell School
57
Payne School
60
Linebrook School
60
Music Report
61
Domestic Science
64
Manual Arts
66
School Physician
68
School Nurse
70
Attendance Report
75
Calendar
75
No School Signal
76
School Grounds Improvement Report
77
Milk Fund Account
78
List of Teachers
79
C. Hu.Bay 352.100 V DSC)ich 1928
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