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157.64
Mary B. Shepherd
171.08
Alexander A. Robbins
110.90
Chandler Holmes
102.05
Albert Lundgren
109.37
Ignatius F. Pierce
156.92
Lucy L. Hoxie
67.94
Harriet A. Shaw
106.22
Frank Ellis
157.40
Harriet A. Corey
133.37
John M. Kingsley
107.11
Helen H. Swanstrom
135.66
Edward Milburn
104.93
Robert C. Swift
228.85
Edward G. Ellis
118.68
Emily E. Campbell
157.89
Charlotte A. & Winslow Bradford
213.51
John A. Spooner
106.03
Warren L. Rich
114.82
Harrison C. Beckman
1,043.89
Gladys J. Campbell
167.96
Alexander Wasson
104.31
William Sargent Holmes
214.89
Annie C. Stoddard
324.49
Gannett Fund
213.00
Caroline B. Warren
313.66
Alice B. Ball
52.56
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 5
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Fannie T. Rowell
102.68
George Asa Whiting
103.15
George I. Hodgson
158.99
Rebecca B. Robbins
265.50
Lucia C. Freeman
219.98
William S. Robbins
580.00
Solomon E. Faunce
219.27
Hannah M. Jackson
101.23
Lydia G. Bradford
214.07
William Langford
265.16
William W. Brewster
323.50
Henry L. Sampson & Christiana R. Leland
333.41
Edwin L. Edes
519.76
Oliver Edes
510.13
Henry L. Stegmaier
204.17
George W. Bosworth
102.82
George H. Doten
134.19
Benjamin F. Raymond
104.59
Martha J. Clarke
100.76
Jessie F. B. Warren
209.24
Priscilla A. & William H. Barrows
157.07
Eva Bartlett Watson
218.00
Martin F. Benson
80.60
James Warren
170.96
George Edgar Smith
217.69
Charles B. Harlow
152.54
Adelbert L. Christie
222.35
Frances W. Harris
166.22
Charles T. Holmes
106.16
Myra W. Clark
220.28
Lillie M. Sherburne
102.37
Sarah H. Burr
106.00
Mary Cromwell
54.51
Abraham O. Brown
316.24
George Churchill
314.58
Judah Bartlett
104.31
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 6
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Ellen E. Sanderson
216.77
Jacob Reidenbach
214.75
Laura E. Jones
108.49
Lewis Sampson
106.69
Clara F. Robinson
56.23
Faustina M. Holmes
70.52
Mary B. Lanman
163.54
Warren R. Surpluss
102.36
Sarah E. Manter
208.47
Lumb & Garside
179.61
William H. Osmond
110.43
Lloyd C. & May E. Gould
143.54
Annie Holmes
221.98
Mary Deane Keith
103.77
Edward W. Belcher
102.75
Leander M. Vaughn
105.52
James H. Chapman
163.47
Emma A. Osborne
156.31
Eri C. Oakes
210.42
Calvin T. Howland
103.92
Harry A. Holmes
218.83
George F. Howard
215.31
Lucy E. Frasier
105.94
Peter Schneider
106.64
Mary E. Estes
157.37
Emma L. Churchill
156.85
Jennie F. Langford
200.09
George H. & Florence Blanchard
203.16
William F. & Martha A. Doten
152.91
Charles Hellstrom
100.01
Elizabeth C. Coupe
212.87
Warren S. Bumpus & Nathaniel T. Clark
154.30
Robert A. Brown
514.11
David Brown
311.55
Fred A. Jenks
214.05
Robert R. Bartlett
159.46
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 7
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Annie L. Jarvis
100.30
Tom Haigh
187.09
Julia M. Sampson
105.14
Stephen C. Nickerson
103.38
Carrie L. Frink
156.95
Mary E. Pierce
106.86
Julia A. Remington
104.71
Harriet J. Swan
111.17
Frederick Dittmar
190.94
Margaret M. Hill
161.43
Philip Dries
105.81
Isaac T. Holmes
542.29
Clara H. Hemmerly
103.64
James M. Cameron
164.13
James S. Clark
219.36
Robert B. Phillips
104.44
George H. Jackson
217.74
Catano Fratus
160.52
J. Hovey Harlow
150.24
Mary A. Sampson
102.35
Harriet E. Merriam
213.00
William S. Pratt
158.76
Henry P. Steidle
57.26
John Jordan
100.16
Mary E. Holmes
.36
Alice L. Lanman
211.85
Deborah Whitaker
128.85
Helen P. Whiting
156.80
Isabel H. Warren
316.52
Elijah H. Atwood
211.84
Wesley A. Kinzie
136.48
Helen M. Holmes
150.01
Joseph & Elizabeth C. Holmes
317.24
Frank H. Lanman
103.18
Rogers-Hall
351.80
Sylvanus W. Rogers
138.70
Frederick H. Wilson
100.14
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 8
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M. F. & J. B. McHenry
103.62
Alice D. Fuller
159.15
Nathaniel G. Lanman
108.49
Isabella T. Whitman
207.07
Thomas Shaw
157.65
Daniel W. Andrews
186.73
Lucy M. Sherman
160.54
Dexter H. Craig
205.25
Charles A. Bumpus
212.28
Minnie C. Caldwell
107.50
Nathaniel B. & Charles Ellis
211.69
Harriet Bisbee Beytes
163.69
Isaac T. Hall
123.40
Henry W. Barnes
213.16
William S. Kyle
220.89
Albert N. Fletcher
101.42
Charles A. Wheeler
103.73
Leidloff & Kunz
104.18
Flora L. Doten
318.10
Charles G. Welch
103.40
Jessie F. B. Warren
217.94
Charlotte E. Lovering
161.99
Samuel W. Holmes
128.03
Goodwin & Nelson
216.31
Henry F. Swift
116.94
John A. White
203.86
Dora J. Ford
212.84
Jessie M. Pepper
127.12
Alden S. Bartlett
150.02
William A. Pratt
220.63
Jacob Ries
157.17
Lottie F. Dunton and Alice L. Craig
216.31
Archie P. Eadie
213.49
Est. Frederick I. Rich
214.22
Charles H. Morey
207.38
Ephriam D. Bartlett
158.56
Arthur & Finette S. Robbins
106.95
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 9
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John A. & Frances Harris
215.56
William A. Morton
102.88
Julia E. Bramhall
157.23
William Wallace Brewster
107.19
William C. Axford
155.78
Arrah B. Eddy
211.77
Palmer E. Presbrey
257.36
Hannah E. Phillips
157.38
Henry F. Holmes
210.92
Edmund Robbins
106.19
Jacob Atwood
105.86
Roswell S. Douglass
341.08
George F. & Jessie B. Haigh
225.93
Anna J. Butler
105.00
Bartlett & Kingman
311.58
Stillman R. Sampson
212.67
William E. Rogers
213.27
Chester E. Rogers
213.46
William W. Fraser
114.31
Fowler-Rice
150.38
Ezra F. Benson
211.64
Elizabeth Bradford
103.45
Alice H. Harlow
154.96
Jennie R. Simmons
170.21
Ethel H. Churchill
214.65
Alfred T. Swift
210.93
Arthur H. Luce
323.96
Abby Manter
210.06
William G. & Thomas Russell
1,550.75
Louise McMurray & John Wood
100.06
G. Vernon Bennett
103.05
Isabella G. Harris
152.18
Margaret B. Cole
130.58
Helen L. Willard
160.85
Franklin Sherman
210.50
Dora Walton Russell
78.78
William H. Morse
159.66
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 10
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Anna Spooner
211.69
Charles A. Carlson
180.84
Russell lot
263.31
Beulah D. Harris
100.49
Lewis Weston
152.75
Elizabeth J. Hildreth
205.77
James H. D. Sanderson
206.00
Will C. Snell
260.23
Lewis & Annie A. Morton
106.26
John F. Lovell
150.00
Abbie P. Shaw
102.23
Arthur L. Morse
207.04
George R. Pierce
152.27
Howard M. Douglas
153.06
Rev. Ivory Hovey
100.02
Frances E. Hovey
100.02
Francis Burgess
201.12
Elide F. & Gladys L. Antoniotti
101.68
John Russell
307.53
Adaline F. Howard
100.41
Edgar W. Washburn
101.43
Helen W. & Francis C. Holmes
3,585.59
Joseph H. Schubert
253.22
Charles Moning
1,022.96
Frank Bull
151.86
Nelson M. Warner
150.06
Emma F. Thurston
150.01
Edwin H. & Junie W. Peterson
100.35
Charles D. Craig
203.45
James Collins
151.42
Edward J. & Agnes W. Carr
204.00
Frederick L. Courtney
100.00
Ida A. Palmberg
151.46
Walter D. Hall
203.10
Walter F. Gould
101.77
Phebe J. Raymond
153.09
Robert Burns
303.45
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 11
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Mabel D. Brown
201.22
Ellen J. Donnelly
204.02
Annice M. Stegmaier
201.00
Thomas Karle
102.01
Louise R. Warner
201.00
James E. Bartlett
152.25
Ruth A. Manter & Marion L. Currier
203.01
Nellie F. Clark
152.25
Mary Bragdon
150.00
Evelina P. Gould
203.01
Henry B. Howland
100.00
Alice Spooner
503.86
Arthur E. & Elizabeth Austin
507.52
Peter Wood
300.00
Walter B. Cobb
100.35
New funds established in 1943:
Bessie Duthie
150.75
Judith C. Skinner
201.00
Henry A. Jordan
150.75
Annie G. Anderson
75.38
Reuben H. Leach
252.50
Robert D. Swift
252.50
Willard C. Butler
150.00
Louis Proffetty
100.00
George M. Swan
500.00
Manuel Fratus
200.00
Truman D. Holmes
200.00
Edgar F. Bliss
100.00
Nelson Robbins
150.00
Charles J. Stegmaier
200.00
Charles H. Sherman
250.00
Skillman and Tuttle
200.00
Carrie Lamond Brown
150.00
Ellen H. Kelley
200.00
Agnes Ray
100.00
Ethel Drew Borden
300.00
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 12
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Gertrude E. Willard Ella C. Tribble
200.00
200.00
Lizzie French Morton
250.00
Total Plymouth Savings Bank $85,983.81
DEPOSITED IN BROCKTON SAVINGS BANK Charles E. Hinckley lot in Chiltonville Cemetery $1,000.00
DEPOSITED IN PEOPLE'S SAVINGS BANK WORCESTER, MASS.
Abner & Charles H. Leonard $154.33
ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY FUND
Deposited in Plymouth Savings Bank $109.33
DEPOSITED WITH STATE TREASURER Phoebe R. Clifford Fund $200.00
Total, Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
$144,616.02
NATHANIEL MORTON PARK FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank $2,000.00
MURDOCK POOR AND SCHOOL FUND Plymouth Savings Bank $730.00
FRANCIS LeBARON POOR FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank $675.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $675.00
CHARLES HOLMES POOR FUND
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $500.00
JULIA P. ROBINSON POOR FUND
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $300.00
WARREN BURIAL HILL CEMETERY FUND Plymouth Savings Bank $1,067.75
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $181.14
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MARCIA E. JACKSON GATES PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank $1,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $1,000.00
ELLEN STODDARD DONNELLY FUND (Income to be used for needy families)
U. S. Savings Bonds, Series G., 21/2% $2,000.00
ALICE SPOONER FUND (Income to be used for special comforts for the sick at the Town Infirmary)
U. S. Savings Bonds, Series G., 21/2% $1,500.00
TOWN OF PLYMOUTH (Under Chapter 4, Acts of 1942)
U. S. Bonds Investment $20,000.00
TOWN OF PLYMOUTH (Under Chapter 5, Acts of 1943)
U. S. Bonds Investment $20,000.00
RETIREMENT SYSTEM FUNDS
Plymouth Savings Bank $5,692.76
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 3,675.17
Plymouth National Bank deposit 9,152.41
U. S. Government Bonds 6,068.52
Other Bonds 21,806.88
Bank Stocks
8,078.75
$54,474.49
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SCHEDULE J
BORROWING CAPACITY, JAN. 1, 1944
Valuation for 1941, less abatements on $184,800.00 $21,566,875.00
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1941, less abatements 869,500.00
Valuation for 1942, less abatements on $170,500.00 21,638,675.00
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1942, less abatements 743,675.00
Valuation for 1943, less abatements on $80,600.00 21,598,500.00
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1943, less abatements 501,900.00
Average 3%
$66,919,125.00
$22,306,375.00 $669,190.00
Total Debt Incurred and Outstanding $112,500.00
Less:
New High School Loan
98,000.00
Total Debt, Within Debt Limit $14,500.00
Borrowing Capacity, January 1, 1944
$654,690.00
Percentage of Total Bonded Debt to Valuation, 0.5+%
PART III
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
School Department
of the
Town of Plymouth
1820.
HUS
NA
For the Year Ending December 31, 1943
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Term Expires
Dr. E. Harold Donovan, Chairman
1945
Fannie T. Rowell, Secretary
1945
Dr. Francis LeBaron
1944*
J. Frankland Miller
1944
David A. Cappannari 1946
Dr. William E. Curtin
1946
ADMINISTRATION
Burr F. Jones, Superintendent of Schools Office, Town Square, Telephone 600 Interviews by appointment.
Secretary, Mrs. Ruth F. Trask Office hours : School Days-8:00 a. m. to 12:00 m. and
1:00 to 4:30 p. m. Saturdays-9:00 a. m. to 12:00 m.
Vacations-9:00 a. m. to 12:00 m. and 1:00 to 4:00 p. m.
School Physicians: Dr. Frank J. Abate, Jr. Dr. Medora V. Eastwood
Office hour at School Department: 8:45 to 9:15 a. m.
School Nurse: Miss Hilda Swett
Interviews at School Department Office or at school buildings by appointment.
School Dentists: Dr. E. Harold Donovan Dr. William O. Dyer
Dental Hygienist : Miss Jane B. Bradford
Dental Clinic Office, Governor Bradford Building
Supervisor of Attendance: Ralph F. Matinzi, Telephone 1152
Custodian of Buildings : Thomas A. Bodell, Telephone 600 *On military leave.
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SCHOOLS
Senior High School-Telephone 26 Edgar J. Mongan, Principal
Junior High School-Telephone 460 Mary M. Dolan, Principal
Cornish-Burton School District-Telephone 1275-M Franklyn O. White, Principal
Cold Spring School-Telephone 1018-M
Oak Street School-Telephone 301-J
Hedge School-Telephone 1242-M William I. Whitney, Principal
Mount Pleasant School-Telephone 1291-M
Mrs. Helen S. Manchester, Principal
Manomet School-Manomet 72 Mrs. Elouise E. Cashin, Principal
SCHOOL CALENDAR
Open
Close
September 8, 1943
November 23, 1943
November 29, 1943
December 23, 1943
January 3, 1944
February 18, 1944
February 28, 1944
April 14, 1944
April 24, 1944 June 16, 1944
September 6, 1944
November 28, 1944
December 4, 1944
December 22, 1944
School Holidays: Columbus Day, Armistice Day, Thanks- giving, Teachers' Convention Day, Memorial Day.
NO-SCHOOL SIGNAL 2-2 repeated on fire alarm
7:05 No school for Junior and Senior High Schools.
8:15 No morning session for Grades I to VI inclusive.
12:30 No afternoon session for Grades I to VI inclusive. Radio station WEEI broadcasts no-school signals shortly after 7:00 a. m. and again a little later.
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FINANCIAL REPORT
RECEIPTS SALARY APPROPRIATION, March 1943 $217,475.00
PAYMENTS
Supt., Principals, Supervisors,
Teachers, Clerks
$182,624.81
Americanization
1,827.30
Summer School
369.60
Janitors, Building Supervisor
17,037.17
School Physicians, School Nurse,
Asst. to Nurse, Dental Hygienist
6,594.58
Pension for Retired School
Physician
900.00
School Census
143.60
Total
209,497.06
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
$7,977.49
RECEIPTS
GENERAL APPROPRIATION, March 1943
$53,300.00
Trust Fund Income 7.34
Total
$53,307.34
PAYMENTS
General Expenses
Stationery, Postage, Printing
$394.71
Telephone
148.15
Travel expense in state
34.36
Automobile expense
400.00
Office supplies
25.00
1,002.22
Text Books and Supplies
Text and reference books
$6,123.55
Paper, blank books, etc.
4,952.75
Manual training supplies
1,002.39
Domestic science supplies
577.05
Athletic supplies
403.13
Typewriters and supplies
194.43
Visual education supplies
202.52
13,455.82
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Transportation
Pupils
$15,547.37 168.57
Supervisors, Principals
15,715.94
Tuition-Out-of-town Schools
Elementary and high
$892.04
Vocational
200.16
1,092.20
Fuel and Light
Coal and wood
$8,532.69
Gas and electricity
2,163.20
Maintenance
Repairs and improvements
$5,797.81
Janitors' supplies
1,206.43
Telephones
438.11
Ashes, etc. removed
129.59
Furniture and Furnishings
Desks and chairs
$274.63
Window shades
56.65
Other equipment
462.76
794.04
Medical Inspection
Dental Health
$619.18
Medical supplies
152.87
Nurse's car expense
821.87
1,593.92
Diplomas and Graduation
297.61
Total
$52,219.58
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
$1,087.76
REIMBURSEMENTS AND RECEIPTS
From the State for:
Teachers' Salaries
$16,842.50
Americanization Salaries
916.80
Vocational Tuition 147.90
Vocational Household Arts
958.55
State Wards
997.32
10,695.89
7,571.94
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City of Boston Wards 172.50
Tuition Out-of-town Pupils :
Carver
5,018.10
Plympton
2,614.20
Kingston
112.50
Miscellaneous Receipts
489.03
Total
$28,269.40
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Appropriation March, 1943
Expenditures
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
Salaries
$217,475.00
$209,497.06
$7,977.94
General
53,307.34*
52,219.58
1,087.76
Totals
$270,782.34
$261,716.64
$9,065.70
Reimbursements and Receipts Account of Schools $28,269.40
Net cost of schools for 1943
$233,447.24
*Including Trust Fund Income
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TRUST FUND FEDERAL GRANT-GEORGE DEEN
Teaching Pottery Classes Receipts :
Balance from 1942
$112.00
Cash from State 959.00
$1,071.00
Payments :
Salary of Pottery Instructor
846.00
Unexpended Balance $225.00
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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TRUST FUND FEDERAL GRANT-SMITH-HUGHES Day Household Arts
Receipts :
Balance from 1942
Cash from State
$331.25
Payments :
Salary of Domestic Science Teacher
$331.25
RECEIPTS
SCHOOL LUNCH APPROPRIATIONS, SALARIES, March 1943 $1,900.00
PAYMENTS
Labor
$1,283.50
Balance to Excess and Deficiency $616.50
RECEIPTS
SCHOOL LUNCH APPROPRIATION,
GENERAL, March 1943
$2,600.00
PAYMENTS
Provisions
$1,458.56
Ice
12.28
Gas
49.51
Delivering lunches
13.00
$1,533.35
Balance to Excess and Deficiency $1,066.65
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LUNCH ACCOUNT April 12, 1943-December 31, 1943
SCHOOL LUNCH RECEIPTS
Sale of Lunches
$1,990.87
From Federal Grants
932.25
Total
$2,923.12
SCHOOL LUNCH PAYMENTS
Salaries
$1,283.50
General
1,533.35
$2,816.85
Total
$197.74 133.51
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
As a result of the favorable action of the last annual town meeting in regard to the appropriations for public education, we have been able to conduct the schools with- out curtailment in necessary teaching service or in essen- tial equipment.
In addition to meeting all expenses including the pur- chase in advance of fuel for the heating season from Jan- uary 1, 1943 to June, 1944 we are able to return a sub- stantial balance to the excess and deficiency funds of the town treasury. This returned balance together with bal- ances from other departments serves to reduce the amount of funds necessary to be raised by taxation in subsequent years. As a long-run policy it seems wise to the School Committee to forecast as accurately as possible the amount of money necessary to run our schools efficiently and to ask the town to appropriate this amount. During the course of the year it will be our effort to save as much money as circumstances permit without detri- ment to our educational services and turn this back to the town treasury as a balance. Such a procedure should in the long run beget mutual confidence between the school officials and the citizens of the town in the matter of appropriating and expending money for the support of schools.
The budget for 1944 calls for appropriations as follows : salaries $220,800 and general purposes $53,300. It will be noted that the budget for general purposes is the same amount as appropriated last year. The salary budget on the other hand is larger than for last year, the chief reasons being the ten per cent cost of living increase granted as of April 1, 1943 and which is expected to be effective for twelve months in 1944 against nine months in 1943 and second, the salary increments that are granted annually to teachers who have not reached the maximum on the salary schedule.
The sum of the two major items in the budget for 1944,
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namely, salaries and general purposes, is $274,100. Atten- tion is called to the fact that these two major items totalled $227,225 for 1941, the year preceding the war. This comparison makes it clear that the 1944 budget is 21% larger than the 1941 budget, which is almost exactly the same percentage increase that has taken place in the general cost of living during the war period.
We are glad to report that the elementary school lunch which was taken over by the school department on the termination of the W. P. A. activities last April, has been in successful operation at the Cornish School serving about 125 children, most of whom are transported from the outlying sections of the town. In 1943 the receipts from this project turned into the town treasury have exceeded expenditures. This will doubtless continue to be a self-supporting project as long as parents are earn- ing good wages and the federal government continues its cash subsidy of nine cents per meal. The total appropri- ation needed for the elementary school lunch for 1944 is $5,900, this to cover the full school year whereas the 1943 appropriation of $4,500 covered three-fourths of the school year only.
One new item appears in the school budget this year, namely, an amount to cover one-half the retirement fund assessments that would have been paid by those of our teachers who went into the armed forces. We have eleven such teachers. One-half the amount they would have paid to the retirement fund from the time of entry into the armed forces to December 31, 1943 amounts to $767.22. The appropriation of this amount by Plymouth is made obligatory by Chapter 419 of the Acts of 1943. Indeed, it seems most fitting that the retirement allow- ance of these teachers should not be allowed to suffer from their absence in war service.
Any extensive improvements of school property have been out of the question during the past year. The task of waterproofing the easterly side of the High School building which was begun several years ago was com-
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pleted this year. Other improvements at the High School included : the partitioning off of a corner of the cafeteria for a workroom on elementary machines; and the installa- tion of a soundproof ceiling in the typewriting room. At the Cornish School the southern and easterly expos- ures of the roof on the main building were reshingled and interior painting was done in the stair halls, corridors, and lavatories. At the Hedge School painting was done in the auditorium, two classrooms, corridors, and coat halls. Considerable preservative work was done on the exterior of the Mount Pleasant building. This included repainting all washed out and open mortar joints in the brickwork, caulking around all windows and doors, and applying two coats of waterproof treatment to all brick- work and stone trim.
An opportunity has now arisen to enlarge the play- ground area at the Hedge School through the purchase of the lot which immediately adjoins the Hedge School grounds on the north. The Hedge School is our best ele- mentary school plant. The building is adequate, well constructed, and attractive. The present playgrounds, however, are so limited that the benefits to be derived from a well developed program of organized play cannot be realized. The addition of the aforesaid adjoining lot would double the playground area. This lot would require some grading and fencing improvements that could not well be undertaken until after the war. The land can now be bought at a reasonable figure and it would seem alto- gether wise not to let this opportunity pass.
These repairs and improvements in our buildings and grounds are being made from year to year in the belief that the school plant as a whole should not only be kept in good condition but should show continuous improve- ment in its adaptibility to meet our educational needs.
E. HAROLD DONOVAN, Chairman, FANNIE T. ROWELL, Secretary, DAVID A. CAPPANNARI, WILLIAM E. CURTIN, M. D., J. FRANKLAND MILLER.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee:
May I submit the following concise statement of cer- tain changes made, of certain measures adopted, and of certain results secured in the Plymouth schools in 1943. As was true of the year 1942 the past year has been one of continued adjustment to the changing conditions and needs that appear in a period of war. Meeting emergen- cies as they arise, improving our numerous ways and means of contributing to the war effort, and earnestly endeavoring to guide and stimulate our boys and girls as they engage in the process of acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitudes, ideals, and purposes that make for happy and useful living are objectives that have guided the efforts of the school department.
CHANGES IN PERSONNEL
The loss of staff members continues to cause anxiety. During the past two years thirty teachers comprising over one-third of the entire staff have left their positions in the Plymouth schools, either permanently or tempo- rarily. Fortunately the rate of loss in 1943 was notice- ably less than in 1942. In the latter year twenty vacated their positions whereas in 1943 ten vacancies arose, two of which were of a temporary nature. Two members were granted leave of absence: Beatrice A. Hunt, Music Supervisor, in order to study at Teachers College, Colum- bia University; and Phyllis Johnson, Junior High School, social studies, in order to join the Women's Auxiliary Corps of the United States Army. Of the eight who re- signed, four were married, namely, Barbara Perrier Ayles, Hedge School-Grade 5, Elinor Brown Erickson, Senior High School-English, Alice Turner Francis, Senior High School-social studies, and Eleanor Testoni White, Cor- nish School-Grade 5. The following resigned to teach elsewhere: Dorris Moore, Senior High School-English, Carleton F. Rose, Junior High School-science, and Max-
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ine Swett, Mount Pleasant School-Grade 4. Miss Chris- tine Haeussler, who was appointed interim supervisor of music, resigned early in the fall because of ill health.
Owing to the fact that the ninth grade for the year 1943-1944 was considerably smaller than the same grade for the preceding year, two teaching positions were dis- continued for that year, thus leaving eight vacancies to be filled on a permanent or temporary basis.
In the light of the widespread scarcity of available and well-qualified teachers the school department of Ply- mouth was fortunate to be able to secure capable replace- ments within our own boundaries. These include: Miss Sarah S. Bent, formerly a teacher in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Mrs. Madeline S. Corey, formerly a teacher in Norton, Miss Helen H. Linnell, formerly principal of the Mount Pleasant School, Mrs. Mary G. Perkins, formerly a teacher at the Hedge School, Mrs. Irene Rowley, former- ly a teacher in Taunton High School, Mrs. Alice F. Urann, formerly a teacher in Stoneham. Mrs. Louise Humphrey Bearse was formerly an instructor in Plymouth High School. Miss Marian LaFountain, formerly supervisor of music in Adams, New York was secured to fill out the year as interim music supervisor. Miss Carolyn Parren of Franklin, Mass., was appointed to the restored posi- tion of Supervisor of Physical Education in the Elemen- tary Schools.
The names, training, experience, and assignments of all newly employed members of the staff are to be found in the statistical section of this report.
SCHOOLS AND THE WAR
1. Pre-induction Training
As outlined in the following report of the Principal of the High School, six pre-induction courses are being con- tinued for older boys in the Senior High School in order that they may have the background of elementary knowl- edge and the contacts needed for technical training in the armed forces. In addition to these courses guidance conferences on the opportunities and requirements of
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