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In this report I should like to touch on each of these prob- lems.
I. PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE SCHOOLS
In the early days when this community was but an out- post of civilization at the edge of a wilderness, the formal school was established as the very substructure of a communal life that was itself a new adventure in education. As a result, continuously for nearly one hundred and fifty years before the United States of America was born, the Ipswich Grammar School had been preparing young men of this town for the University.
Its modern counterpart, The Ipswich High School, stems from it in devious but unbroken line of descent. Supported, as was the ancient school, in part by public funds and in small part by endowment which goes back to the year 1670, the Ipswich High School may in truth be said to be among the two or three oldest secondary schools in the nation.
To trace the steps by which the modern school evolved out of the ancient one would be in a measure to recapitulate the story of America. The larger theme of the story is how a pioneer people created and refined the principles of democracy and struggled to extend them in an increasingly complex culture; the lesser theme is how the school affected and reflected these changes and gradually came to serve, albeit imperfectly, the principles of democracy, of equality of opportunity, and of justice. Always, as now, the villain and frustrating circum- stance of the story has been the lowness of the level; the cor- responding search has been to rise. Inevitably, the hero of the search has been a people who pioneered together the fron- tiers of mind as well as geography, where few if any other people had ventured before.
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Certainly it is not by accident that the schools have grown from the half-dozen-scholar, two-subject-curriculum school of a century and a half ago to the universally attended school of today. It is the result, rather, of the resolve of each succeeding generation that their children shall have the greatest possible opportunity to grow. In the framework of our society that resolve implies that there shall be provided in the schools an education leading to personal self realization, to efficiency as a consumer or producer, to successful membership in a family group or community, and to acceptance of the responsibilities of citizenship. The methods of the school are as implicit in these ends as in our accumulated understandings of the ways in which people learn.
While, to be sure, other institutions and activities in the community contribute greatly to these ends, none other but the schools is purposed by and for all the people together for the attainment of those ends.
Il. CONSIDERATIONS OF STAFF
Of all the factors affecting the fulfillment of the purposes of the schools, none is more decisive than the quality of the teaching staff. If teaching were an operation in which anyone might acquire a modicum of proficiency with a few months' training in the use of gadgets and patented short cuts, it would not be such a significant consideration. But teaching, on any level, is no rule-of-the-thumb business: it is original, creative and inventive. More than most human activities, it demands the use of judgment, initiative, enthusiasm, and particularly the use of a freely working imagination. It necessitates a broad background of technological information, which can only be acquired through arduous and life-long continued study. It requires its practitioners to have not only fairly accurate insight
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into what goes on within a learner, but also equally keen per- ception into the effect of things and objects in the external environment in bringing about changes in the learner. Finally, it requires a belief in the democratic concept of the uniqueness of the individual and a desire to aid each to develop his capaci- ties, whatever they may be, toward socially desirable ends.
That a great majority of the teachers in our schools view teaching in this creative light is evidenced in their backgrounds and in their classroom performances. To encourage these peo- ple to develop their greatest potential and to attract into the schools other teachers who are capable of growth is among the most effective means of realizing the fulfillment of our purposes.
Staff-Salary Schedule
A gesture tending in this direction was made when the School Committee, in September, placed the salary schedule in operation. This schedule was printed in full and analyzed in the Report of 1947. It provided for a single scale of salaries for all teachers, regardless of sex or grade taught. Salary levels were made dependent only upon professional preparation and years of teaching experience. Progressive increments in salary were made conditional not only upon adjudged successful service but also upon continuing study for credit. Teachers in the system at the time of the acceptance of the schedule could advance in regular steps to the maximum in their preparation class. By engaging in approved current study, such teachers could advance to the maximum the more rapidly.
In 1948, twenty teachers received the normal increment of $100; while thirteen others received the "accelerated incre- ment" of $200 as a result of recent or current study.
The continuing operation of the schedule accounts for $7,000 of the increase in the budget for 1949. And yet, how woefully
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we miss having arrived at an adequate solution to our problem is indicated by the fact that the average budgeted salary for all instructional and supervising staff for the fiscal year 1949 is $2,550.
Staff-In Service-Training Program
It is felt that improvement of classroom instruction depends, in some measure, upon the extent to which teachers participate continually in organized study of the process of education. ยท Stimulus for such study has been provided, as has been indi- cated, by the conditions of the salary schedule. However, the cost of taking a course in Boston, at the present time, more than cancels out any immediate salary advantage provided by the salary schedule.
To compensate for this difficulty and further to stimulate in-service study during the ensuing year, it is planned (1) to pay a teacher (not in excess of $50 and for this fiscal year only ) for an approved course taken at a university, and (2) to promote and assist in the financing of a local course or work- shops in educational problems.
This program accounts for an increase of $2,000 in the budget.
III. THE SCHOOL PLANT
A school building has but one function: to facilitate the purposes of an educational program. If that program envisages merely children sitting in immovable chairs and reading, writing, and ciphering within the confines of a classroom, the design of the building and its equipment is simply indicated. If, on the other hand, it is believed that people learn, in school as well as out of it, through participation in other activities than those performed sitting down; that real experiences with objects and persons and not alone with words and symbols are educative;
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that creative experiences in music and art and dramatics and dancing should be carried on where the tools of the arts are and where they can be used according to their function; that physical coordination and habits of health are learned by doing things in a proper setting; and if further it is believed that a library, a school health and guidance clinic, a lunchroom and adequate outdoor play facilities, and kindergarten and special classes are important; and if it is still further believed that the total educational program should encompass community services for all age and interest groups - if we believe any or all of these things, then the school plant takes on a far different aspect.
The inadequacies of our present total school plant, par- ticularly that part relating to the elementary schools, have been referred to in detail before, especially in the School Report for 1945. These schools have been occupied for from fifty-three to twenty-three years. On the average, they are thirty-four years old. Their fixtures, furniture, toilets, plumbing, and ventilating systems are of the vintage of 1920, more or less. All of the elementary school buildings were designed with a limited edu- cational purpose in view. At least one of them rises on an inadequate site.
In spite of these conditions, adaptations to the purposes of modern education, rightfully demanded by the people, have been made - but only with difficulty and never with complete success.
Plant-Maintenance and Modernization
And yet a realistic appraisal of the situation would lead us to conclude that the better part of these buildings will con- tinue to be used for a considerable time in future. Our first objective with reference to plant, therefore, continues to be to
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plan for its proper maintenance; the second, is to project a feasible and reasonable program of annual outlay expenditure to acquire lighting, furniture, fixtures, rudimentary provisions for health, and school playground facilities within a limited period of time - certainly not exceeding ten years; the third objective is the planning of a program for supplementing our present buildings with additional facilities necessary to serve broader purposes and an expanding school population.
The School Committee has worked out and put in operation a plan to attain to the first two of these objectives, maintenance and modernization. The cost of this plan is reflected in the Budget for 1949 under the items: Maintenance and Repair and Outlay. The increased cost of these items this year is attribu- table in large part to the decision of the Committee to under- take immediately to correct certain sanitary conditions at the Winthrop School. The toilets, presently in the dank and dun- geon-like basement of that school, will be removed, and new toilets and lavatories will be installed in a suitable place in the upper floor, where they can be supervised. That this is a project of some urgency will doubtless not be argued by any who know the situation.
Plant-Future Building
The third objective, the planning of new school building, was discussed in some detail in a previous report (1945). The considerations then prompting that discussion are no less perti- nent today. Lending the matter greater urgency, however, are two increasing sources of national news - babies and building. As this is being written the Associated Press carries a release of the National Industrial Conference stating that the current high birth rate will produce a population in the United States from ten to twenty millions higher than previous forecasts.
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This national baby boom, it now appears, is not passing Ipswich by. And while the Town Clerk reports an increase of forty percent in births during the past three years over the average for the previous twenty years, the Assessors' Report testifies to there being one hundred and forty-seven new build- ings added to the local lists in 1948.
The effect of these two incipient booms - babies and building - will not be felt in the local schools for another two or three years. The crest of the wave will come a few years after that, as the larger classes pass upward through the schools. Unlike many towns where schools are already overwhelmed with the increasing numbers of children, Ipswich still has time remaining in which to assess its total community needs and to map out a plan for satisfying them effectively and eco- nomically.
I strongly urge that the attention of the School Committee be focused particularly on this problem during the ensuing year and that a plan be authorized to solicit the participation in the study of as large and representative a group of people in the community as possible.
IV. FINANCE
Implications of State Aid
Few informed- people would maintain that Massachusetts is unable to support any reasonable program of education within the capacity of its people to desire. An inadequate program of education in any community in Massachusetts, therefore, probably results from one of three causes: either the schools are politics-ridden, or the people in that community place a low value on education, or the community simply does not have available adequate funds. In any community with low
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real estate valuation in Massachusetts, the latter is sure to be a condition. For funds for local educational expenditures in this state, unlike most states, have been derived almost wholly from a levy on local real estate. Apportionment of state taxes has been on the basis of the community's wealth rather than in relation to the community's inability to meet its educational obligations. As a result, wealthier towns have received the greater assistance. This has tended to accentuate already exist- ing inequalities of educational opportunity.
In 1948 the General Court of Massachusetts took its first step since 1919 to correct this condition. It passed the new state aid for education law, which provides for the distribution of fifteen million dollars annually to the towns and cities of the Commonwealth on the basis of their educational obligations and in inverse ratio to their abilities to meet these obligations.
In addition, the Legislature made provision for assisting towns and cities with outright grants in aid for construction of approved school buildings. It is estimated that, under the terms of this act, Ipswich would be eligible to receive up to 37% of the cost of constructing an approved school building. The provisions of this building act will continue to be operative only through the year 1951.
Efforts will be made in 1949 to increase state aid for educa- tion from fifteen million to forty million dollars. These efforts should be of far more than academic interest to the people of Ipswich and of towns like it, for on the success or failure of these efforts will depend, unquestionably, the quality of education which the current generation of children will receive.
The Budget
Attached to this report is the school budget for 1949 and a summary of expenditures for 1948. A comparison of the total figures in each of the columns in the budget will show that
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the requested appropriation for 1949 exceeds the expenditures for 1948 by nearly $19,300. A part of this increase, as has been explained, results from the operation of the salary schedule; another part, from the schedule of maintenance and modern- ization of plant; and a third part, from the increased cost of transporting pupils.
The increase in the overall appropriation, however, is more than offset by increased receipts which accrue to the General Revenue of the Town because of the operation of schools. Some of the increased revenue comes from increases in tuition from non-resident pupils, but the major portion of the increase comes from the distribution of monies from the State. It can, thus, in truth be said that despite the increased appropriation, the levy on local real estate because of schools should not be substantially greater in 1949 than it was in 1948.
CHANGES IN TEACHING PERSONNEL
The following changes in teaching personnel have occurred during the fiscal year 1948:
FREDERICK P. PICKARD's resignation, effective March 1, 1948, was reported in the Annual Report for 1947.
GEORGE OTIS MUDGE, graduate of Dartmouth, who be- sides having worked in fields other than education had served for three years as assistant to the director of the Golden Rule Farm Homes Association in Tilton, New Hamp- shire, was elected to teach in the Ipswich schools beginning September, 1948. He was assigned classes in Grade VIII in the High School.
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ROBERT W. MOORE, teacher of Science in the High School, resigned, April 12, 1948, to accept employment as a research metallurgist in Attleboro, Mass. A substitute was appointed to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the school year.
CARL ORCUTT, graduate of Harvard with a major in Science, was elected to teach, beginning in September, 1948. He was assigned to the Science department in the High School.
JOHN J. BOCHYNSKI, who had coached and taught Physical Education in Ipswich for two years, resigned in June to accept a position with the Commonwealth Fund.
ERNEST B. DORR, graduate of Boston University, who for two years had taught Physical Education in the Junior High School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was elected and assigned to teach Physical Education and coach sports at the High School.
BETTE G. CHITTICK, teacher of Grade I at the Winthrop School, resigned in June to accept a teaching position in Hamilton, Mass.
DOROTHY A. RILEY, a graduate of Rhode Island State Uni- versity with a major in Elementary Education and a primary grade teacher for two years at Narragansett, Rhode Is- land, was elected to teach beginning in September, 1948. She was assigned to teach Grade I at the Winthrop School.
NELLIE T. SMITH, Principal of the Burley School, retired, December 31, 1948, after forty-seven years of devoted service to the schools of Ipswich. Mrs. Smith has left her mark on the community - not alone in the excellent organ- ization of the school over which she presided but also in
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the influence she brought to bear on the co-workers, chil- dren and parents whose lives she touched so intimately over the years. The gratitude and good wishes of all of these go out to her in her retirement. May her life be long and filled with joy.
OTHER CHANGES IN PERSONNEL
ARTHUR W. GRANT, janitor at the Burley School, retired because of illness on October 1, 1948.
LAWRENCE W. GWINN was elected to fill the vacancy.
Besides the Budget, there is included with this report the usual statistical data which should be made a part of the permanent record.
Submitted, January, 1949, by HARRY S. MERSON,
Superintendent of Schools
IPSWICH PUBLIC SCHOOLS - BUDGET, 1949 January 1, 1949 - December 31, 1949
On the basis of the following estimate of expenditures, the School Committee requests that the Annual Town Meeting appropriate the sum of $180,460.00 less $4,000.00 (the total amount presently credited to the schools and to be credited during the fiscal year by the Feoffees) for the support of education in Ipswich in 1949:
Item
1. GENERAL CONTROL (This item includes salaries of supt., clerk, truant officer, census taker, cost of telephone in all schools, and other administrative expenses)
2. EXPENSES OF INSTRUCTION
a. Teachers' Salaries (Item covers salaries of 41 teachers, principals, supervisors and sub- stitutes)
94,423.56
98,877.84
105,726.00
6,848.24
b. Texts and Supplies (Item covers all library and textbooks and general supplies and special supplies for art, domestic science, printing, industrial arts, physical education, science laboratories and commercial train- ing)
4,979.39
5,557.31
6,022.40
465.09
c. In-Service Training (Item covers part of cost of courses and local work shops for study of educational problems)
2,000.00
2,000.00
3. EXPENSE OF OPERATING PLANT
a. Janitors' Salaries (Item covers salaries of 6 janitors and a part-time substitute)
8,876.02
10,735.40
10,666.00
$
69.40
b. Fuel, Power, Gas, Water
6,657.14
8,208.15
8,195.00
13.15
c. Operating Supplies (Item covers cost of all supplies necessary to keeping the 6 build- ings open and fit for daily use)
1,199.05
1,550.82
1,700,00
149,18
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1
1947 Expense
1948 Expense
1949 Estimated
Over 1948
Under 1948
$
6,311.10 $
7,042.33 $ 7,346.00
$ 303.67
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Ipswich Public Schools - Budget, 1949 (Continued) Item
1947 Expense
1948 Expense
1949 Estimated
Over 1948
Under 1948
4. MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS (Item covers recurrent maintenance services. Projects contemplated for 1949 include pointing of High School, painting of High School, painting and pointing Burley School, some interior painting, Winthrop; curtain re- placements and new flag poles)
5. AUXILIARY AGENCIES
a. Health (Item includes salary of Nurse, Doctor, Dentist and expenses of operating health services)
2,525.08
3,235.56
3,590.00
354.48
b. Transportation (Contracts for transporta- tion of school children living more than a mile from school call for our expenditure of 75.20 per diem. There are 182 transpor- tation days in a fiscal year)
c. Tuition (51 people from Ipswich received vocational instruction in one of the state aided vocational schools. This items covers tuition charges) .
d. Americanization Classes
312.00
246.00
260.00
14.00
e. Miscellaneous and Insurance (Item covers cost of printing, express and trucking, di- plomas and expense of graduation, and in- surance on all buildings and contents)
1,861.98
1,854.50
1,357.00
497.50
6. OUTLAY (Item includes cost of alterations for new toilets at Winthrop; new lighting, two class rooms; modern furniture, three class rooms; playground fixtures)
3,328.46
11,560.00
8,231.54
Total Expenditure
159,724.28
159,162.53
180,460.00
21,297.47
Less Feoffees Payment
2,000.00
2,000.00
4,000.00
Appropriation . .
142,724.38
157,162.53
176,460.00
19,297.47
Less Receipts to General Revenue
17,839.66
20,548.56
43,065.00
22,516.54
Net Costs from Local Tax
124,884.72
136,613.97
133,395.00
3,218.97
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6,094.71
5,523.19
6,850.00
1,326.81
10,203.60
11,296.40
13,687.00
2,390.60
1,280.75
1,706.57
1,500.00
206.57
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RECEIPTS TO GENERAL REVENUE ON ACCOUNT OF EDUCATION
1947 Received $ 8.532.25
1948 Received $ 8,200.00
1949
Estimate $25,600.00
1949 Over 1948 $17,400.00
1949 Over
General State Aid to Education (Income Tax Distribution, result- ing from change in State Aid Formula)
Tuition - Rowley
3,600.00
5,984.00
7,900.00
1,916.00
Manning School Fund
Transportation - State Aid
4,560.77
5,367.30
8,340.00
2,972.70
Vocational Education
415.50
569.30
800.00
230.70
Americanization Classes
98.00
125.00
27.00
Sale of Supplies
356.14
188.46
150.00
38.46
Rental of Auditorium
375.00
130.00
150.00
20.00
Refund
11.50
11.50
$17,839.66
$20,548.56
$43,065.00
$22,516.54
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SUMMER PLAYGROUND PROGRAM BUDGET FOR 1949
1947
1948
1949 Over 1948
Salaries:
Director and
two Assistants
$1,260.00
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
Transportation:
Ipswich Beach, etc.
90.00
288.00
280.00
Supplies
4.23
70.00
Total Expenses
(Appropriation )
$1,350.00
$1,292.23
$1,350.00
$57.77
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MEMBERSHIP BY AGE AND GRADE October 1, 1948
Boys
21 and
Grade
Age | 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|Over |Total
I
|24|30| 2|
56
II
8|33| 9 2
52
III
11|30| 7|
1|
1
50
IV
11|25| 4| 7|
47
V
|10|22|13| 5|
50
VI
2 717 9 1 1
37
VII
3|24 6 7 1
41
VIII
4|24| 6| 1|
1
36
IX
6 25 9 5 3
48
X
1| 6|12|10| 1|
1
31
XI
8|15|
6|
3
32
XII
5|11| 5|
| 1|
1
23
P.G.
1
1
1
Total.
|24|38 46 50|46|33|41|42 39|45(31|35|23| 9| |1| 1 | 504
Girls
21 and
Grade
Age | 5| 6| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|Over |Total
I
|19|22| 1|
42
II
12|25| 3|
40
III
|12|29| 4|
45
IV
17|28| 3| 1|
49
V
14|13| 2| 1|
30
VI
7|17| 2| 1
27
VII
5|23| 6|
34
VIII
8|21| 3| 4| 1|
37
IX
16|24| 7| 2|
49
X
9|38| 6| 1|
54
XI
1 9|32| 1|
1
44
XII
6|19| 3| 1
29
P.G.
1|
1
Total.
|19|34|38|49|46|23|25|34|44|37|58|47|22| 3|1|1|
481
TOTAL MEMBERSHIP - 985
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DISTRIBUTION OF PUPILS BY SCHOOL AND GRADE October 1, 1948
Grade
Burley
Shatswell
Winthrop
High
Total
I
36
29
33
98
II
31
30
31
92
III
35
30
30
95
IV
32
32
32
96
V
28
20
32
80
VI
18
18
28
64
VII
24
25
26
75
VIII
73
73
IX
97
97
X
85
85
XI
76
76
XII
52
52
P.G.
2
2
Total
204
184
212
385
985
ENROLLMENT STATISTICS
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
Enrollment - High School
291
295
324
320
312
Enrollment - Grade VIII
87
88
73
69
73
Enrollment - Elementary
552
560
560
583
Total
930
943
957
972
985
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SCHOOL CALENDAR 1948 - 1949
School opens - Wednesday, September 8, 1948.
School closes - Wednesday afternoon, December 22, 1948, to Monday morning, January 3, 1949 - Christmas holidays.
School closes - Friday afternoon, February 18, 1949, to Monday morning, February 28, 1949.
School closes - Thursday afternoon, April 14, 1949, to Mon- day morning, April 25.
Elementary School closes for Summer - Friday, June 17. High School closes for Summer - Thursday, June 23.
High School Graduation - Thursday, June 16, 1949.
HOLIDAYS
Tuesday, October 12, 1948 - Columbus Day.
Friday, November 5, 1948 - Essex County Teachers' Con- vention.
Thursday, November 11, 1948 - Armistice Day.
Thursday and Friday, November 25 and 26, 1948 - Thanks- giving.
Friday, April 15, 1949 - Good Friday.
Monday, May 30, 1949 - Memorial Day.
RANKING PERIODS
First Quarter begins Wednesday, September 8, 1948; ends Friday, November 12, 1948 (45 days).
Second Quarter begins Monday, November 15, 1948; ends Friday, January 28, 1949 (46 days).
Third Quarter begins Monday, January 31, 1949; ends April 8, 1949 (45 days).
Fourth Quarter begins Monday, April 11, 1949; ends, Ele- mentary School, Friday, June 17, 1949 (43 days); ends, High School, Thursday, June 23 (47 days).
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EMPLOYMENT CERTIFICATES ISSUED TO MINORS
1943
Age 14-16 .36
16-18 56
18-21
Total
Boys
39
131
Girls
19
113
61
193
Total
55
169
100
324
1944
Boys
42
82
19
143
Girls
40
66
33
139
Total
82
148
52
282
1945
Boys
29
44
12
85
Girls
16
40
60
116
Total
45
84
72
201
1946
Boys
14
44
34
92
Girls
7
38
92
137
Total
21
82
126
229
1947
Boys
6
14
33
53
Girls
7
30
59
96
Total
13
44
92
149
1948
Boys
2
22
16
40
Girls
6
29
39
74
Total
8
51
55
114
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GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Meetings of the Committee:
Regular meetings of the School Committee are held on the first Friday of each month at the Office of the Superin- tendent - Ipswich High School at 7:30 p.m.
Entrance Age:
No child shall be admitted to school in September unless he has reached the age of six on or before the thirty-first of December following the opening of school. Any child who will be six during the period January 1 through March 31 following the opening of school will be admitted to Grade I if special qualifying tests administered by an impartial agency are passed.
Birth Certificates:
A birth certificate is required for entrance to the first grade.
Vaccination:
No child shall be allowed to enter the first grade without a certificate of successful vaccination. Quotation from State Law, Chapter 76, Section 16: "An unvaccinated child shall not be admitted to a public school except upon presentation of a certificate like the physician's certificate required by Section 182, of Chapter 3."
Employment Certificates:
No child may be employed in any mercantile occupation until he has reached the age of sixteen years. All minors be- tween the ages of sixteen and twenty-one must procure an Employment Certificate before accepting a job in a mercantile occupation.
The employment certificates are issued every week-day at the office of the Superintendent of Schools.
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GRADUATES OF IPSWICH HIGH SCHOOL, 1948
College Course
Elaine Stacia Adams * Adam Fred Andrewskiewicz *Donald Edward Bowen *Mary Ellen Boylan Armand Richard Brouillette Joyce Sally Caldarone John Francis Comeau Catherine Marie Cookson Mary Virginia Cunningham Charles Wellington Dort
"Mary Caroline Felsing Mathilda Mellon Hills
Virginia Melvina Lezon Christine Annabelle Macleod Barbara Ann Nash
Nicholas Pappalimberis
Dorothy Pappamihiel
Florence Mary Ann Pietrowicz *Esther Eleanor Rambo *Audrey Frances Rose *Maxine Fay Smith Robert Dean Turner
*Winthrop Burnham Wade Marie Ann Ward
Commercial Course
Clara Marie Belanger Mildred Regina Benjamin
Stella Alice Buturla
Stella Rose Owsiak Constance Pappalimberis Betty Ann Sheppard
Sophie Leona Rygielski
Domestic Arts Course
Priscilla Ann Burns Janice Lorraine Mackenzie
Louise Mildred Mallard Lucille Lillian Marcorelle
General Course
Evelyn Benjamin Richard Henry Benoit
Barbara Louise Budzianowski
Richard John Burke
Gervazio Canejo Ernest Eugene de Grandpre
Daniel Arthur Markos Louis George Markos Ellen Irene Marshall Mary Ilean Marshall Teddy Stanley Murawski
Elizabeth Amy Nitardy Charles John Pappas Audrey Carol Perkins
James Geanakakis
Janice Elizabeth Homans
Robert Francis Horsman
Milton Fredrick Poirier
Jean Ellen Knowles
Howard Merton Rodger
Ethel Mary Leavitt Lorraine Frances MacDonald
Alberta Gianefa Smorczewski Sophie Eva Speliotes
Steven John Szaryc
*Honor Group
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LIST OF TEACHERS IN IPSWICH
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
HARRY S. MERSON, Superintendent
High
Ralph C. Whipple, Principal
E. Margaret Allen
Helen J. Blodgett
Helen M. Brown
Robert D. Burgess
Frances D. Cogswell
Ernest B. Dorr
Lucy A. Hill
Ruth A. Lord
Victoria A. Machaj
Hazel E. Manzer
George O. Mudge
Elizabeth G. Nitardy
Carl L. Orcutt, Jr.
Joseph V. Riley
Marion F. Whitney
Miriam R. Woolley
Burley
Nellie T. Smith, Principal
Ruth M. Brown
Margaret I. Chisholm
Anne E. Friend
Ruth Gilday
Cecilia Z. Mackenzie
Elizabeth C. Weare
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Shatswell
Augusta A. Grenache, Principal
Ethel M. Archer Mary L. Bamford Mary Bond
Ruth F. Joyce Blanche L. Oxner Hilda J. Schofield
Winthrop
Lena J. Atherley, Principal
Grace A. Bowlen
Blanche E. J. Leighton
Jennie A. Moutevelis
Josephine T. Moyer Margaret M. Phelan Dorothy A. Riley
Amy Stanford
Frank H. Chadbourne, Art Supervisor Arthur H. Tozer, Music Supervisor Frank L. Collins, M.D., School Physician Rose Naves, R.N., School Nurse Frederick C. Wilder, D.M.D., School Dentist Thomas G. Gauld, Attendance Supervisor
Janitors
Albert G. Waite High School
Mary W. Scott
High School
J. Francis Perkins Winthrop School
Lawrence R. Gwinn
Burley School
Warren E. Grant Shatswell School
INDEX
PART I: - TOWN REPORT
Town Officers Elected 13
Town Officers appointed 15
21
Receipts
21 29
General Government
32
Accountant 33. Aid to Dependent Children Aid 51 Appointed Officials 15 Assessors 34 B. S. Cable Memorial Hospital. 54 Balance Sheet 78 46
Bounty on Seals
Cemeteries
64
Chapter 90, Construction 1947 Contract 48
Chapter 90, Construction 1948 Contract
Chapter 90, Maintenance
48 48
Charities and Veterans Services
50
Clam Commissioner
42
Contributory Pension System
60
Cowles, E. C. Scholarship
56
Cowles, H. A., Memorial Cemetery 64
Crane, R. T. Jr., Picnic Fund Adm. 62
Crane, R. T. Jr., Picnic Fund Picnic 62
Debt Accounts 69-81
Education 54
Election and Registration 36
Federal Housing Project 62
Federal Works Agency Survey and Plans 60
Fire 39
Town Accountant's Report
Payments
Fire Alarm System North Bridge Road
40
Fire Damage Manual Training School 55
Forest Warden 42
General Accounts Balance Sheet
66-78
Health 44
Health and Sanitation 44 Highways 46
Honor Roll 61
Interest and Maturing Debt
65 62
Ipswich Housing Authority
Junior Aerial Ladder
Law
Library
Maturing Debt
Memorial Building
Memorial Day
Moderator
Mosquito Control
Moth
Newman, Abby L., Fund
North Ridge Road
Old Age Assistance Administration
51
Old Age Assistance Assistance
51
Parks
57
Pensions
59 57 58
Playgrounds
Playground Equipment and Improvement
Playground Recreation Project 58 38
Police
Premium on Loans 61
Protection of Persons and Property 38
Public Welfare 50
Repairs, Town Scales 37
Reserve Fund 63
Safford Street 49
Schools and Libraries 54
40 35 56 65 59 60 32 46 41 56 49
Selectmen 32
Sewer Committee 45
Sewerage Survey and Plans 46 43
Shellfish Benefits
Shellfish Reimbursement
Snow Removal
Soldiers' Graves
Street Lighting
Town Ambulance
Town Clerk
Town Clock
Town Dump
Town Dump Construction
Town Hall
Town Hall Improvements
Town Manager Committee
Town Wharf Float
61
Treasurer and Collector 33
Tree Warden 42
Trust and Investment Accounts
70-82
Unpaid Bills 1947 63
U. S. Grant Aid to Dependent Children, Adm. 52
U. S. Grant Aid to Dependent Children, Aid 52
U. S. Grant Old Age Assistance, Adm. 53
U. S. Grant Old Age Assistance, Assistance 53
Veterans Services 53
Walters Snow Fighter 40
Weights and Measures 40
Wildlife Refuge Project 27
Report of State Audit 73
DEPARTMENT REPORTS :
Assessor's Report 147
Board of Health 183
Cemetery Commissioners 212
43 47 65 50 39 35 60 45 56 36 37 63
Clam Commissioner 180 Communicable Disease Reporter 189 Fire Department 164 Forest Warden 167
Inspector of Animals 197
Inspector of Slaughtering 196
Inspector of Wires 134
Inventory of the Cemetery Department
215
Jurors, List of 217
Milk Inspector 195
Moth Superintendent 168
Park Commissioners 172
Playground Committee 175
Police Department 157
Recapitulation 1948 147
Reconciliation of Treasurer's Cash 135
Rubbish Collection 188
Sanitary Agent 191
Sealer of Weights and Measures 177
Selectmen's Report 125
Superintendent of Streets 198
Superintendent of Cemeteries 214
Table of Aggregates 149
Tax Collector's Report 139
Town Accountant's Statement 135
Town Clerk and Vital Statistics 151
Town Counsel 132
Town Forest Committee 174
Town Property, 1948 216
Town Treasurer 137
Tree Warden 170
Trust Fund Commissioners 83
Trustees of Memorial Building 210
Veterans Service 208
Welfare Board 205
FUNDS, TRUSTS, TRUSTEES' AND
FEOFFEES' REPORTS
Town Accountant's Report 85
Cemetery Trust Funds 94
Augustine Heard Fund of Ipswich Public Library 118
Treadwell Fund of Ipswich Public Library 116
George Spiller Fund of Ipswich Public Library 120
Feoffees of Grammar School 112
Burley Education Fund 109
Mrs. William G. Brown Fund
88
John C. Kimball Fund
89
Richard T. Crane, Jr., Picnic Fund
90
Eunice Caldwell Cowles Fund 87
Marianna T. Jones Fund 89
Martha I. Savory Fund
92
Dow Boulder Memorial Fund
88
Elizabeth R. Lathrop Fund
119
Manning School Fund
110
Mark Newman Memorial Fund 90
Post War Rehabilitation Fund 92
Abby Newman Fund of Ipswich Public Library 121
Stabilization Fund 93
Brown School Fund 108
R. H. Manning Fund . 111
Trust Fund Commissioners 86
PART II.
Water and Light Report
PART III.
School Report
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