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Average Cost per pupil in Middleboro
General Control
$2.29
$2.21
Salaries
65.10
51.75
Textbooks and Supplies
4.19
3.95
Operation of Plant
11.23
7.75
Repairs
3.18
1.22
Libraries
.20
.00
Health
1.45
.49
Transportation
3.39
7.11
Tuition
.10
.63
Miscellaneous
.74
.14
Total
$92.87
$75.25
It may be noted from the above table of cost that the only two items in which our town exceeds the average for the towns in the group is in tuition and transportation. Tuition expense cannot be controlled in that persons desiring to attend vocational schools may do so since our schools do not offer such training. Transportation expense is dictated largely by the geographical expanse of the town and the laws of the state controlling the transportation of school children. The total cost per pupil in Middleboro, as indicated in the table, is $17.62 less than the average amount spent per pupil in the eighty-three towns over 5,000 population in the state.
Conclusion
"The schools of our nation are inevitably of major concern at all times, and particularly now when democracy is challenged. The school is the chief instrumentality set up in America for the training of our citizens, for developing and maintaining thoughful patriotism, and for handing down the traditions of our American way of life to future generations."
It is my settled purpose and earnest desire through the co-operation of the School Committee, our admirable teaching force, and our interested citizens to carry out this aim that Middleboro may continue to have not good, but better schools.
In closing I wish to express my consciousness of the loyal co-operation of the supervisors, principals, teachers and all others connected with the department.
Respectfully submitted,
J. STEARNS CUSHING, Superintendent of Schools.
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STATISTICS AND INFORMATIONAL TABLES
SCHOOL CALENDAR
First Term, January 6-February 21
Second Term, March 3-April 18
Third Term, April 28-June 13, Elementary Schools April 28-June 20, High School
Fourth Term, September 8-December 23
No-School Days
May 30, October 13, November 11, November 27-28
FINANCIAL REPORT - DECEMBER 31, 1940
Receipts
Tuition, State and City Wards
$1,629.12
Other Tuition
12,162.68
General School Fund
15,900.00
All Other
10.00
George Deen Fund
1,230.00
$30,931.80
Disbursements
Salaries
Superintendent
$4,000.00
Teachers .
93,023.39
Janitors
7,795.92
All Other
2,987.02
Textbooks and Supplies
5,123.05
Transportation
13,148.40
Fuel, Light, Water
5,303.12
Maintenance Buildings and Grounds
1,321.11
Other Expenses
376.16
Tuition
1
1,424.98
Printing, Stationery, Postage
172.20
Telephone
240.71
Physical Education Equipment
498.97
George Deen Fund
602.70
Repairs
1,267.44 $137,285.17
Net cost of schools (disbursements less receipts)
$106,353.37
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STATISTICS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR, 1939 - 1940
SCHOOL
Number of
Teachers
Number of
Pupils
Enrolled
Non-resident
Pupils
Enrolled
Average
Daily
Attendance
Average
Daily
Yearly
Percent of
Attendance
Memorial High
22
566
103
521.5
563.6
95.9
Grade XII
111
Grade XI
117
....
Grade X
155
....
Grade IX
172
Post. Grad.
6
Bates
12
319
6
299.0
310.9
90.6
Grade VIII
127
Grade VII
157
Grade VI
24
Opp. Class
11
School Street
1
8
289
0
269.6
283.1
95.3
Grade VI
40
Grade VI
39
Grade VI
30
Grade V
40
Grade V
30
Grade V-IV
36
Grade IV
40
Grade IV
34
Union Street
9
261
6
234.2
254.2
92.2
Grade IV
31
Grade III
35
Grade III
34
Grade III
35
Grade II
31
Grade II
29
Grade I
35
...
Grade I
31
West Side
4
88
0
77.6
82.4
94.2
Grade 1V
18
Grade III
21
..
Grade 11
28
...
Grade I
21
Flora M. Clark
2
52
1
44.4
49.4
89.9
Grade II
22
Grade I
30
Pleasant Street
1
27
0
23.8
24.9
95.5
Plymouth Street
1
33
0
28.7
30.9
92.8
Pratt Free
1
11
0
9.7
10.0
96.8
Green
1
28
0
21.0
24.1
87.3
Soule
1
17
0
16.8
18.0
93.1
Waterville
1
18
1
15.5
16.6
92.9
Thomastown
1
21
1
16.5
18.]
90.8
Rock
1
20
0
13.1
14.7
89.0
So. Middleboro
1
37
4
33.6
36.1
93.1
...
Membership
GE 17:57
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LIST OF TEACHERS, DECEMBER 31, 1940 High School
*Lindsay J. March, 17 Barrows Street, Principal
*Leonard O. Tillson, 11 North Street, Sub-master, Science
* Walter G. Hicks, 44 School Street, Head of Commercial Department
*Ernest E. Thomas, 38 Pierce Street, Head of History Department
*Henry E. Battis, 31 School Street, Head of Physical Education Department * Herbert L. Wilbur, Wareham Street, Latin, History
* Joseph R. Hyman, 70 Bourne Street, Mathematics
* Roland C. MacGown, 295 Center Street, Abington, Science
* Alfred E. Farley, Washington Street, Abington, Social Studies, Physical Education
Thomas L. Maynard, 24 Rock Street, English Jack Sturtevant, 20 Pierce Street, Vocational Agriculture
* Mary Brier, 81 Pearl Street, French
*Mary F. Clutton, 257 North Main Street, English
* Anna C. Erickson, Wood Street, Mathematics
* Esther L. Moore, East Grove Street, Commercial
*Lillian M. O'Neil, 21 Pearl Street, Commercial
* Margaret H. Ryder, Main Street; Lakeville, English Arline Merrill, 79 Pearl Street, English
Virginia Cummings, 13 Everett Street, Social Studies
Eleanor L. Purkis, 13 Everett Street, Social Studies
*Evelyn F. Whitty, 11 Everett Street, Mathematics, Physical Education
Bates School
* Henry B. Burkland, 50 School Street, Principal, Social Studies, Music
* Norman W. Lindsay, 327 Wareham Street, Asst. Principal, Science
* Martinia K. Donahue, 6 Reland Street, English, Music Max A. Eaton, 25 North Street, Mathematics, Physical Training
*Lucy E. Merrihew, 22 East Grove Street, Mathematics
* Abby Rugg Field, 182 North Main Street, English, Home Economics, Crafts * Elizabeth H. Benson, 12 Benton Street, English
* Harriett M. Jones, 56 Everett Street, Social Studies
*Faye H. Deane, 63 Oak Street, English, Social Studies
* Effie D. Tucker, 28 Oak Street, Social Studies, Art Lois R. Wright, 63 Oak Street, Opportunity Class Mason H. Legee, 68 Glendale Street, Brockton, Handicraft
School Street School
*Donald T. Welch, 25 North Street, Principal, Grade VI
*M. Alice Jones, 66 School Street, Grade VI
* Edith Frost, Wood Street, Grade VI
* Alice R. Bagley, 7 Benton Street, Grade V
*Esther M. Spooner, 66 School Street, Grade V
* Marion L. Nutter, 40 Barden Hill Road, Grade V
*Leah M. Boutin, Wareham Street, Grade IV
*Rose Maley, 9 Reland Street, Grade IV
Union Street School
*Lottie N. Lang, 8 Pearl Street, Principal, Grade IV
*Bessie B. Bailey, 15 Forest Street, Grade III
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* Eleanor H. Thomas, Wareham Street, Grade III *Elsie A. Cahoon, 10 Courtland Street, Grade III
* Marjorie McClusky, 106 Pearl Street, Grade II * Evelyn Bailey Elliott, 30 Pearl Street, Grade II
*Sara E. Matheson, 66A Everett Street, Grade I
* Amelia L. Boutin, Wareham Street, Grade I
* Marianne Mederios, 30 West Grove Street, Grade I
West Side School
* Mary R. Hammond, 70 Barden Hill Road, Principal, Grade IV
* Margaret E. Peck, Main Street, Lakeville, Grade III
* Etta W. Toothaker, 20 Oak Street, Grade II
* Anne Lee Washburn, County Street, East Taunton, Grade I
Flora M. Clark School
*Raye F. Guidoboni, 14 Southwick Street, Principal, Grade II *Hilda G. MacKeen, Miller Street, Grade I
Suburban Schools
* Maude DeMaranville, Lakeville, Pleasant Street School
*Dorothy B. Robinson, 9 Warren Avenue, Plymouth Street School Jeanne H. Lockhart, 12 Court End Avenue, Green School
*Elsie LeBlanc, 107 North Street, Waterville School Nathalie T. Crowell, 14 Court End Avenue, Thomastown School
*Florence C. Giberti, 19 Hillside Avenue, Rock School Myra A. Shaw, 81 South Main Street, Pratt Free School
Supervisors
Luther Churchill, 59 Cottage Street, East Bridgewater, Music * Sylvia G. Matheson, 91 Oak Street, Art * On Tenure
LIST OF JANITORS, DECEMBER 31, 1940
Central Schools
Charles H. Goodwin, Memorial High School
John L. Luippold, Assistant, Memorial High School
Warren Jefferson, Bates School
Ernest S. Maxwell, School Street School
John J. Sullivan, Union Street School
Daniel F. McCarthy, West Side School
Frank M. Gibbs, Flora M. Clark School
Suburban Schools
James Brooks, Pleasant Street School Henry Zion, Plymouth Street School Edward W. Fessenden, Green School Mary T. Picone, Waterville School William Porell, Thomastown School Chester Vickery, Rock School Melville Matthews, South Middleboro, School
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LIST OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES 1940
1
Classical Course
Priscilla Marie Charbonneau William Dennis Osborne, Jr.
Dorothea Rose Huxley
* Barbara Otto
Doris Lida Jackson
** Phyllis Roberta Powell
*Francis Lovell Keith Sylvia LeBaron
* Anna Roberts *** George Harold Sampson
Dorothy Jane White
Scientific Course
Harold Ashley Atkis Arthur Minot Aubray
*Richard Thompson Brown William Frank Croutworst
John Browning Lynde Roger Edwin Soule Ellsworth Blanchard Standish
William Thomas Stohn
Robert Thomas Westgate
Commercial Course
Laura Arline Anderson Ruth June Andrews
Elwyn Gardner Atwood
William Stewart Bell Jeanette Eileen Breivogel
*Doris Marguerite Murtsell *Ruth Helen Carey Mae Carroll Deane Carolyn Elizabeth DeArruda Stella Alice Dudley +Constance Swift Fish Ulanda Martha Garofalo Lillian Gertrude Gauthier Carolyn Constance Gomes Mildred Frances Hall Margaret Sarah Hill Vincent Patsy Iampietro Elizabeth Kinsman
Roger Angus McAulay Antoinette Delina Marra Mildred Alice Moody
Sarah Isabelle Moquin
Gladys Elvira Newcomb Lloyd Wilson Raymond Felexine Louise Savard Freeman Alden Shaw Bernard John Sheehan Wasyly Walter Sowyrda Madeleine Charlotte Sturgis Anna Louise Thomas
* Marjorie Thelma Vigers Shirley Elizabeth Waters Victoria Gladys Wolska Jeanne Shirley Wood
*Felix Yarusites Gairad Hiram Young
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General Course
Melvin Edwin Babcock Adam Bagdon
*Evelyn Mary Baker Betty Lee Barnett Alice Evelyn Beech
Howard Holmes Marshall
Marjorie Louise Matthews
Barbara Maynard
Thelma Marjorie Berry Giovanni Bena Arsene Julien Berube, Jr.
James Raymond Meehan
Madeline Panesis
Virginia Burnett Sestilia Evelyn Cardini
Russell Winsor Perkins
Anais Marie Chausse
Lillian Agnes Remillard Ethel Martha Rogers
Howard Joseph Coman Kenneth Edward Cowan
+Nelson Francis Russell Kathreen Salminen Ellen May Salley
Roger Byron Dempsey
Robert Bridge Sargent
Eleanor May Sewall
Howard Park Sewall
Kathleen Elizabeth Shaw
Lucy Rosella Taylor
David Alden Ward
Ruth Lillian Grossman
Elliott Gilman Whitney
Carol Trescott Holden
Velma Irene Erna Witherell
Valedictorian ** Salutatorian
*Pro Merito 1 Incomplete (Illness)
*Edgar William Dodenhoff Gladys Gardner Eaton John Howard Ferraguto Helen Pearl Ferguson Flora Jane Garofalo
Edward Kingsley Cromwell
Leonard Alden Pratt
Nellie May Clark
Rita Marcella Leary
Helen Mildred Logan John Louis Magri
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INDEX
Appointments by the Selectmen
6
Assessors
97
Election Officers
46
Financial Report-Town Accountant
68
Balance Sheet
85
Gas and Electric Department
89
Balance Sheet
93
Statement of Accounts
95
Jury List
44
Librarian, Public Library
57
Planning Board
55
Plymouth County Extension Service
56
Registrars' Report
43
School Committee
105
Tax Collector's Report
99
Town Clerk 7-43
Town Manager
46
Town Officers
3
Town Treasurer's Report 102
Treasurer, Public Library 61
Trustees under the Will of Thomas S. Peirce. 100
Water Department 63
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