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Smiledge, Hattie E. 36.70
Smiley, Asa, bal. 2 07
Stocker. Frederick 791.93
Stocker, Louisa M. 89.30
Stohl, Hans J. 33.05
Slade, Horace L. 2.00
Smith, Henry G. 31.58
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306
LIST OF UNPAID TAXES.
Storey, William, heirs 15.52
Tribby, Louis 2.00
Trecartin, John H. 2.00
bal 40.00
Stuart, Ernest, bal. 66.04
Sullivan, Daniel
2.00
Sullivan, Elizabeth
17.31
Sullivan, Joseph J.
2.00
Surridge, Emma, bal. 33.37
Surridge, Stephen J., bal. 1.90
Sweezey, Archibald M. 2.00
Sweezey, Robert J. 2.00
Sweezey. Robert J. and Ellie B. 52.91
Sykes, Beaumont 66.17
Sylvester, Henry G. 60.68
Tanguay, Ella M.
90.23
Tanitzzi, Bruno
2.00
Tarr, Walter A.
2.00
Taylor, Walter J., bal.
9.80
Vassallo, Celestina
149.08
Terrill, Fred M. 2.00
Vatcher, Eugene
2.00
Thomas, Fred M. 2.00
Veazey, Nellie
59.00
Thomas, Nellie R. 41.92
Vernazza, Emanuel G. 48.18 Verrill, Carrie M. 47.55
Thomas, Ralph B. 2.00
Vollm, Lena 45.07
Thompson, J. Alfred 2.00
Walcott, Julia R. 38.15
Thornell, Percy C. 2.00
Walgreen, Robert J. 2.00
Tichy, Annie, bal. 54.63
Walker, Edward A. 66.05
Timson, Capitola 50.40
Walker, John H. 2.00
Walsh, Alfred E. 2.00
Walsh, David, bal. 12.64
Walsh, David J. 21.67
Walsh, Joseph F. 2.00
Walsh, Matthew F.
47.79
Walton, Emma 74.81
Trainor, Emma 15.24
Ward, Henry, bal. 60.39
Trautvetter, Carl and
Ward, Henry F. 2.00
Waring, James P. 26.84
Annie 42.44
Trefethen, Frederick A. 67.70
Trefethen, Frank L. 2.00
Trefethen, William A. 81.16 True, Harold E. 114.45
True, James B. 70.13
Trull, Silas, heirs 102.12
Tupper, William A. 10.23
Turcotte, Alphonse A. 2.00
Turner, Harry A. 2.00
Turner, Harry T. and Melville C. Howard 97.50
Turner, Mary E. 90.61
Twomey, Maurice N. 2.00
Upham, Florence and Charles R. 14.49
Upham, Hannah S. 19.29
Valiquet, Henry A. 2.00
Thomas, Otto W., bal. 2.95
Townsend, Anthony E. 2.00
Townsend, Charles H.
as occupant 6.86
Townsend, Winfred 2.00
Townsend, Winifred and C. H. Walker 6.21
Struthers, Lizzie M ..
307
LIST OF UNPAID TAXES.
Waring, William B. 2.00
Warren, Calvin E., bal. 36.02
Warren, Hadley P.
bal. 7.78
Watts, Amy C. 43.99
Webber, Mary 22.77
Weiner, Annie 17.60
Weiner, Harry 2.00
Welrasky, Isaac 2.00
Whitaker, William H. 61.41
Whitcomb, Abbie D. 131.50
White, Henry A. and
Ethel G. 49.16
White, Melbourne W. 63.79
Whiteside, Charles 2.00
Whitford, Frank L. 59.96
Whitford, William G. 2.00
Whittier, George 2.00
Whittier, Harriet 36.22
Wiggins, George G. 28.58
Wiley, Albert H., bal. 2.00 Wiley, Baxter I., heirs 10.85
Wiley, Charles A.
2.00
Wilkie, Lena N.
69.88
Wilkie, Robert J., bal. 2.00 Wilkinson, Frank A., bal. 25.03
Williams, Abram G. 69.16
Williams, James H. 2.00
Williams, Mary C. 82.71
Williams, Samuel W. 2.00
Williamson, John N. 2.00
Wilson, Frank 4.07
Wilson, Harry O. 2.00
Wilson, Mary H. 117.51
Wilson, Percy M. 22.71
Winchinpaw, Scott R. 2.00
Winn, Dresser D. 2.00
Winslow, George W. 7.18 Wissman, Edward N. bal. IO 35
Woods, Airne 2.00
Wood, Milledge B. 8.48
Wood, Roxie 23.47
Woodbury, Charles W. bal. I 30.00
Woods, Edward M. 2.52
Woodward, Daniel C. 60.79 Wormstead, Charles N. 92.40 Wormstead, Charles N. Jr. 39.32 Wormstead, Harriet A. 56.20 Wormstead, Mary E. 21.07 Wormstead, William E.
16.20
Wormstead, William H. 4.07 Worthington, William 31.02 Wrench, Susan 61.64
Wright, Peter and Jeanie, bal. 8.68
Wry, Emily L. 37.53
Wyatt, Charles A. 2 00
Wyatt, Philip 2 00
Young, William H. Jr. 51.86 Zutell, Frank B. 2.00
Zwierzycki, Stanislaw 40.75
Pendleton, George
35.52
Lambert, Annie
14.49
Non- Resident.
Aechtler, William W. $87.97 Aldworth, Eliza A. 107.01
AAllen, Frank D. 2.59
Ames, W. Burton 28.98
308
LIST OF UNPAID TAXES.
Anderson, Charlotte 6.40
Anderson, Gustaf T. 10.04
Anderson, Lena M. 6.25
Ashley, Emma M. 3.II
Atwood, Francelia, A.,
Trustee 3.62
Ball, Edward J. & John Weingartner 20.70
Barber, James W. S ..
bal. 2.48
Barham, William T. 1.55
Barnes, Dora H.
7.47
Barnes, Harry R. 4.66
Biathrow, Nancy H. 45.67
Bishop, John O. 26.10
Bishop, Louisa M. 41.37
Blackwood, James, bal. 17.79
Blakeley, George C. 19.54
Blomquist, Caroline 9.58
Blomquist, O. P. -
8.57
Bonelli, Walter H., bal. 157.48
Bosworth, Fred M. 84.09
Boynton, Wells H. 12.42
Breen, James T. 8.57
Briggs, James F. 77.10
Broadbent, Samuel 60.13
Brown, Charles A. 7.33
Bunker, Thomas 7.76
Buonopane, Pasqualina 6.62
Burdett, J. Edwin, bal. 90.41
Burns, James, bal 46.35
Burroughs, Hiram H., bal. 4.33
Butterfield, Lucretia B. 2.07
Byrne Ephraim 3.97
Byrnes, Mary 5.18
Buxton, Mary E. 59.78
Cahill, Bertha B. 89.79
Cappuccio, Domenico 6 44
Carlson, John A. 1.66
Babbitt, Harry E. 62.41 Carpenter, L. M. Mrs. 8.05 Baird. Wallace H. 12.36 Casaletto, Joseph, bal. 1.00 Casparian Marsoop 5.18
Chadwick, Mary A. 3.02
Chisomalis Palologos 4.64
Clarey, James P. 2.36
Coburn, Marian L. 5.28
Cochrane, Caroline E. 23.81
Cohn, Louis 4.66
Colburn, Clifton 6.79
Coleman, Alice 101.16
Condon, John F., bal. 4.14
Connare, Mary A. 2.92
Connore, Mary A. 1.76
Conrad, Albert W. 59.20
Copozzi, Cosino and Asunta 13.46
Cornish, Alice A. 5.65
Costello, William H. 5.92
Coughlin, Agnes A. 293 72
Coughlin, Frank W. bal. 2,531.17
Craig, Charles 2.80
Cudworth, Charles E. bal. 21.85
Currier, Mary E. 3.56
Cutrumpes, Nicholas 3.17
Dacey, Frederick D. 5.18
Dacey, Mary 1 04
Davis, Ellen M. 3.1I
Davis, Rodney 17.68
309
LIST OF UNPAID TAXES.
Deacon, Thomas C. 36.85
Dean, Ellen M. 13.74 Glass, Alexander 18.1I
DeMars, Leon A. .31
Devapoulos Denetrios 4.56
Di Meuto, Domenica 10.35
Downing, J. C. 7.95
Doyle, Robert A., bal. 5.75
Dwinell, Margaret 13.96
Earle, Eugene V., bal. 110.40
Edwards, Reitha 57.98
Elwell, A. Hudson 6.28
Emery, Josephine A. 2.07
Engerman, George H. 122.96
Engerman, William A.
and Warren S. Burt 517.50
Evans, Brice S. 179.97
Everton, Rupert E. 10.31
Farmer, Everett W. 4.14
Faust, Howard M., bal. 1.50
Fay, William A. 7.45
Ferguson, Malcolm 41.40
Fiske, Lucy J. 12.87
Flynn, Michael J. 5.46
Foley, William F. 28.15
Folsom, Guy P., bal. 28.35
Forest, Mina L. 7.39
Forsyth, William 9.32
Foss, Frank W.
54.05
Foster, James A. 12.94
Fowle, Leonard and
Richard Pierce, trustee 44.77
Foy, Sarah H.
3.54
Gannino, Angelo A. 5.18
Garfield, Joseph W. 19.54
Geyzer, Gertrude 3.1I
Gerry, Samuel 6.21
Gillan, James, estate,
Girard, Harry F. 3.75
Glidden, Alonzo W., trustee 81.03
Goneau, Louis 4.56
Goodrich, Lilla F. 8.80
Goodwin, Fred L. 7.25
Gordon, Ruby R. C. 70.55
Gough, Elizabeth 6.75
Gracobbi, Antonio 61.00
Grant, Emma M. 2.07
Graves, Montie M. 57.90
Gray, Eliza A. 45.54
Gray, Margaret A.
41.40
Green, C. Heywood 45.02
Gutholm, Frank O. 4.14
Halbich, Otto 6.62
Hall, Albert J. 5.49
Hall, Frederick S. 7.68
Haritos, John and Manuel Alexander 5.44
Harris, Charles E. 1.95
Henders, Helen F. 4.76
Herlihy, William R. 5.18
Herrick, Frank W. 18.71
Herzig, Pino 9.60
Higgins, Annie E. 4.14
Hillis, Annie J. 8.07
Hinston, John 5.18
Holbrook, William J. 17.39
Holden, Annie R. 2.80
Horan, Mary A., bal. 3.II
Howard, Edward E., bal. 51.69
Howard, Victoria A 4.56
Hoyle, William and Abbie 10.35
Hoyt, Joseph M., bal. 52.56 bal. 117.98
310
LIST OF UNPAID TAXES.
Hurd, Albert W. 13.17
Hurd, Sarah' R.
33.13
Hussey, Mary L. 40.10
Johnson, Henry M.
36.23
Johnson, Marion M. 38.23
Karlson, Gustaf 5.96
Keith, Ira B.
352.33
Kiernan, Patrick B. 60.03
Kilham, O. F.
16.56
Kimball, Annie M.,
bal. 116.19
Knudson, Claus and Gust
Linquest 7.29
Kochwas, Alexis and Trefton Pappas 5.30
Landry, Madelaine 3.73
Langley, Abbie, bal. 5.50
Langley, Laura F. 10.14
Lanzeire, Maurice J. 2.61
Lauricella, Guiseppe 4.18
Lavoie, Joseph O. 50.51
Lawson, Frederick J. 15.30
Leavitt, Lizzie J., bal. 13.63
Leslie, George M. 74.26
Lewis, Alvina W. $7.02
Littlefield, Fred 6.38
Loyte, Emma L. 39.12
Lynde, A. Selwin 21.99
Lynde, Alonzo V., heirs 30.23 Lynn Investment &
Security Co. 57.57
Maleti, Gartans 2.94
Mann, Ida 2.80
Mansfield, Wilbur F. 21.OI
Martinoli, Agastino 16.56
Martinoli, Joseph and Iride
9.40
Maynard, Frances E. 4.14
McCarthy, Elizabeth 1.55 McDowell, Thomas J., bal. 47.61
McGovern, Harriet 59.06
McKay, Thomas F., bal. 151.18
McKeen, James R. and A. R. Churchill 52.02
McKeen, Kenneth K. 54.34
McLearn, Genevieve 4.33
McMahon, May A. 42.97
McQuaig, Celia K. 3.23
Melrose Savings Bank 77.42 Merrill, Mervil S., heirs,
bal.
24.47
Messina, Michael 6.89
Miller, Julius 3.II
Molloy, John H. 2.84
Monk, Ella L.
30.13
Montemorra, Lorenzo 86.41 Moody, Henry S.,
Trustees 1,242 92
Moore, Henry H. 4.31
Moore, Luke S. 5.92
Morse, Annie G. 4.97
Morton, Anna M. 1.86
Mosher, James E. 4.80
Murphy, Richard E. 5.13
Murray, Wadleigh & Murray 4.1.4
Nagles, Deborah 8.53
Nelson, George 5.24
Nelson, Otto 6.13
Newth, Sarah J. 17.83
Norgren, Jacob 7.50
Nunn, Charles C 17.60
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LIST OF UNPAID TAXES.
O'Brien, Catherine 61.40 Romney, Susan A. 21.74
O'Brien, John 9.98
Rowe, Walter 4.47
O'Neil, Mary C. 3.83 Ryan, Jennie L. 6.01
Otis, J. Franklin 80.01 Santos, Cyrino T. 3.62
Ouimet, Ernest 10.80
Packard, Bertha M. 10.85
Palmer, Catherine F. 2.07
Parker, Katie 20.02
Parker, Sumner I., heirs 3.II
Parker, William P. 1.82
Parsons, James W. S. 64.19
Pendergrast, Esther W. 40.16
Perkins, Frank L. 1.04
Perry, William H. 51.29
Persson, Frithiof M., bal. 10.35
Petrucelli, Vincenzo 1.61
Pine River Club
7.45
Pitkins, Harry L. 4.28
Polanis, Martin
3.73
Pope, Edna N.
36.23
Porter, Lydia A. 41.II
Porter, Whitefield E.
130.69
Radosga, Vincenzo 3.73
Randall, Charles E.,
heirs 214.16
Raymond, Archie
2.19
Reed, Frank C. and Bertha J. K., bal. 22.02
Rice, Wilbur P.
9.32
Sullivan, Helen 18.09
Rizzo, Alphonso 6.69 Sullivan, Patrick 11.90
Robie, Adelbert H.
16.40
Symonds, John 5.18
Torelli, Luigi 69.03
Trask, Henry L. 51.63
Waldron, John E. 5.30
D. Giella
2.09
Saunders, Ada J. .52
Savage, Edith S., bal. 32.17 Savage, Henry H. and
others Trustees, bal. 132.43
Savoy, Eugene 3.87
Seabury, Rose 35.07
Secco, Peter and Nico- letta 3.13
Lemmon, James J. 30.84
Silva, Alfred 7.66
Smiledge, George W. 1.55
Smith, Elmer E. 3.66
Smith, Jacob 17.26
Smith, Jane 6.93
Smith, William 4.02
Sophia, Ross 3.48
Spencer, Thomas 10.35
Spinney Benjamin F. 4.14
Sprague, Franklin S., bal. 3.08
Stames, Emmanuel 4.31
Stevens, William 3.60
Stickney, Jessie A. 46.70
Stickney, Jessie A., Assignee 8.53
Stone, Mary E. 2.30
Rogers, Harlow H., bal. 198.84
Romano, Annina and
Wales, Edward C. 14.90
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LIST OF UNPAID TAXES.
Walker, Charles F. Jr. 36.97 Whorf, W. L. 4.14
Walker, Mary A. 12.63
Washburn, George F. 10.35
Waterhouse, Charles E. 4.51
Weddell, Eric N. 8.28
Wells, Lena C. 19.60
Welsh, Willard, bal. 73.26
Werda, Julian 1.72
Whall, William B. F.
3.83
Woodbridge, Charles G. trustee 16.27
Whittimore, Henry S. heirs 59 00
Woodill, George F. 10.08
Whittridge, Henry C. 5.43
Wright, Mary N. and
Whorf, John G. 60.86
F. S. Emory 96.46
Have collected since January 1, 1913, not included in the above list $9,071.88, leaving uncollected $48,556.83.
HENRY A. PARKER,
Tax Collector.
Wilson, Charles W. heirs 127 28
Wilson, Herbert W. 38.32 Winkeller, Samuel and Eli 6.71
Woodbridge, Charles G.
57.30
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
AND
Superintendent of Schools
OF THE
TOWN OF SAUGUS
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1912
F . SAUG
TO
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1629
1815.
LYNN, MASS. FRANK S. WHITTEN, PRINTER 1913.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
HARRY T. TURNER, Chairman Term expires 1913 JOSEPH L. MCCULLOUGH, Secretary, Term expires 1914 HORACE H. ATHERTON, JR. Term expires 1915
Bills must be presented not later than 5 P. M. of the date they are to be considered by the Committee.
Assignment of Schools.
To Mr. Turner - Felton, Lincoln, Cliftondale, Armitage, Emerson.
To Mr. Mccullough-High, Roby, North Saugus, Lynnhurst, Oaklandvale.
To Mr. Atherton-Ballard, Mansfield.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
WILLIAM F. SIMS.
Office in Town Hall.
Office Hours : 4 to 5 P. M. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. 8 to 9 A. M. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.
8 30 to 9 A. M. Wednesday at Cliftondale Brick School.
Residence, 15 Emory Street.
SCHOOL CALENDAR.
Winter term (8 weeks), December 30-February 21, 1913. Spring term (8 weeks), March 3-April 25, 1913. Summer term (7 weeks), May 5-June 20, 1913. Grammar School graduation Monday, June 23, 1913. High School graduation Tuesday, June 24, 1913.
Fall term (16 weeks), September 3-December 19, 1913. Thanksgiving recess, 22 days, beginning at noon Wednesday.
NO SCHOOL SIGNAL.
2-2-2-2 on the fire alarm.
7.45 A. M. means that the High School session for that day will begin at 9 o'clock.
8.15 A. M., means no morning session in any school whether the previous signal was given or not.
11.30 A. M. or at 12.45 P. M., no afternoon sessions.
Report of the School Committee.
Your School Committee has held some twenty-five meetings during the year and its problems have been many and varied. At the March meeting Harry T. Turner was elected Chairman and .Joseph L. Mccullough Secretary. Our sessions have been in many instances prolonged though entirely harmonious, and we have no hesitancy in saying that thanks to our efficient Super- intendent and his painstaking corps of teachers the public schools of Saugus are in excellent condition and performing their full duty to the children, whose complete and satisfactory education must always be the Town's best asset and which means so much to our future welfare as a community and an integral part of the great State of which we are a component part.
Increase of Salaries for Teachers.
We favor granting a substantial increase of salary to every school teacher in Town. We think this increase is well merited as we know of no class in the community which deserves to be adequately compensated more than that of the efficient school teacher, engaged in the noble and glorious work of fundamen- tally training the young in the ways they should go to become useful men and women in the locality in which they are destined to become the future hope of the State, which must crumble and fall if its citizenship is not of the highest possible standard attainable, because, as Pope says, in his Moral Essays :
" 'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
We have lost several good teachers during the year, due prima- rily, as in other years, to the fact that adjacent cities and towns
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pay higher salaries for the same grade of work than we do. Increasing the salaries of our teachers will tend to obviate and lessen this paramount difficulty, with which Saugus has long been confronted, and also give them a higher wage which, we think, they all deserve and ought to have, provided the Town's financial condition warrants it.
Retirement of Teachers.
The Board also favors a retirement system for teachers of thirty-five years' service in the public schools, and quite agrees with the State Board of Education when it says :
" The enactment of legislation providing for the payment of retirement allowances to public school teachers after specified terms of service would tend, in the opinion of the Board, to pro- mote the efficiency of the teaching force of the public schools and to improve public education for the following reasons : (a) persons of superior ability would be encouraged to enter, and to remain in, the profession of teaching ; (6) teachers, during their terms of service would have a greater feeling of security with regard to the future; (c) school authorities would be enabled to retire without hardship, teachers who, on account of age, became incapacitated.
" The Board, therefore, recommends the enactment of legisla- tion establishing an old age retirement system for teachers in publicly supported schools, membership in which shall be com- pulsory upon all persons who shall, after July 1, 1914, begin to teach in schools supported by public taxation, and membership in which shall be voluntary for teachers now in service.
" Teachers in the public schools and schools established under the provisions of Chapter 471 of the Acts of 1911, are technically the employees of the cities and towns in which they teach, but in many respects their services may be regarded as being ren- dered to the Commonwealth as a whole, since educational stand- ards are in general prescribed by State laws and because the State Board of Education is authorized in part to supervise such education and to promote its efficiciency.
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Concern of State.
" Public education is, in large degree, the concern of the Commonwealth as a whole. Local retirement systems are not, and, in the opinion of the Board, cannot be effective except in large cities. The Board is of the opinion that an adequate retire- ment system for the public school teachers of Massachusetts would necessarily operate uniformly throughout the State as a whole. For these reasons it is expedient and desirable that the cost of maintaining a retirement system for teachers should be met in part out of the State treasury. Such a retirement system should, furthermore, be administered under the supervision of the Commonwealth.
" A retirement system, designed to advance the efficiency of teaching, while at the same time preserving to the utmost as far as possible the self respect on the part of those participating therein, should be supported in part by contributions from the prospective beneficiaries. Such a system then becomes in effect a form of compulsive insurance against loss of earning power due to old age, towards the cost of which the State makes partial contributions. The Board, therefore, recommends that in any legislation providing for retirement allowances for teachers there be included a provision to the effect that from the salaries of teachers who are to benefit from such allowances there shall regularly be deducted such a percentage as will provide substan- tially one-half the retirement allowances called for."
New School at Cliftondale.
The school population at Cliftondale is so large and is grow- ing so rapidly that it will not be long before a new school building will be required for that section of our Town. We trust that when the time for its authorization and actual construction arrives that the Town will not make the mistake which so often obtains in connection with the erection of public buildings. Saugus should build for the boundless and inevitable future, not for the mere small, narrow and pressing present, a policy which town, State and nation have found, in the long run, to be expen-
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sive, senseless, and a source of deep and lasting regret. An eight- room, brick schoolhouse at Cliftondale would be a matter of good judgment and economy for the Town at present, or in the immediate future, and give that part of the Town what it so much needs in its educational equipment there, namely, a school center.
Competitive Bids for Supplies.
The Committee feels that competitive bidding should be intro- duced in the matter of the purchase of its supplies, which cost- approximately $2,500 every year. The expenditure of this amount of money might result in economy and better service, if subject to competitive bidding, and beginning with the new fiscal year your Committee intends to make a trial of that policy, to see if the same is feasible and desirable.
Conclusion.
For a detailed account of the operations of the schools of Saugus, citizens are respectfully referred to the very complete and exhaustive report of the Superintendent, with its accom- panying statistics and observations, appended herewith.
Respectfully submitted,
HARRY T. TURNER, JOSEPH MCCULLONGH, HORACE H. ATHERTON, JR.,
School Committee.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
RECEIPTS.
Town appropriation, March, 1912 .
$44,700 00
Superintendent 1,800 00
Tuition of Boston pupils 158 50
Tuition of Forrest Faulkner 6 25
Sale of paper and books to pupils 27 23
Jan. 2, 1913, from Library Trustees,
28 38
$46,720 36
EXPENDITURES.
General expenses $2, 177 64.
Expenses of instruction
33,263 93
Operating expenses
9,097 69
Auxiliary agencies .
519 26
Miscellaneous expenses
672 81
Outlays .
959 74
46,691 07
Unexpended balance $29 29
Detail of Expenditures. GENERAL EXPENSES.
Taking census
$73 16
Truant officers .
175 00
Telephone, carfares, office supplies, etc.
129 48
Superintendent
1, 800 00
$2,177 64
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Expenses of Instruction.
Music, Drawing, Sewing and Mannal Training
teachers .
$1,276 75
High School Principal
1,700 00
Other Principals
3,873 40
High School teachers
4,800 00
Other teachers
17,928 70
Books for High School
517 81
Books for other schools
1,194 23
Supplies for High School
326 85
Supplies for other schools
1,646 19
$33,263 93
Operating Expenses.
Janitors, High School
$787 86
Janitors, other schools
3,127 19
Fuel, High School
936 89
Fuel, other schools
3,637 11
Janitor's supplies, etc., High School, water, light,
gas
·
96 30
Janitor's supplies, etc., other sehools ·
512 34
$9,097 69
Auxiliary Agencies.
Extra janitor service for Town Library
$50 76
Medical inspection ·
151 50
Transportation of pupils
317 00
$519 26
Miscellaneous Expenses.
Tuition
$185 00
Sundries
.
.
487 81
$672 SI
.
.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
OUTLAYS.
Ladles and shrink rules .
$4 41
Files .
85
Moulding outfit
12 67
Reflectoscope
153 20
Lathes
750 00
Turning tools
38 61
$959 74 A further detail of sundries under Miscellaneous expenses.
Printing
$121 17
Typewriter . 70 00
Safe for School Department
135 00
Bookcase for North Saugus
14 25
Ninth grade graduation address
10 00
Tables for Ballard School
7 20
Express
32 80
Miscellaneous .
97 39
$487 81
Inside Repairs.
Appropriation .
$1,000 00
Expenditures (see Auditor's report) 961 81
Balance
$38 19
Mansfield Toilets.
Appropriation
$300 00
Expenditures
.
164 50
Balance
$135 50
Additional Heat for High School Laboratories. Appropriation $433 00
Jan. 13, 1913, paid for extra boiler power and radia- tion
394 00
Balance
$39 00
.
Report of Superintendent of Schools.
To the School Committee of the Town of Saugus :
The Twentieth Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools is herewith presented. It includes the usual reports, tables and statistics. It is not an educational essay, but a report upon some of our school conditions, needs and activities.
Teachers.
The number of new teachers on our force for the present school year is fully as large as ever. We have become accus- tomed to expect to retain from year to year only about two- thirds of our previous year's force. The extent of this change may be ascertained by comparing the two lists of teachers given later on in this report. For many years this unusually large change in the teaching force has been an annual lament of our school report.
Teachers' Salaries.
This constant changing of teachers is generally explained by the lack of sufficient remuneration to retain the services of efficient teachers. Our geographic location is both fortunate and unfortunate. The case with which school officials from communities of greater wealth can visit our schools makes Saugus an easy and rapid route to more desirable positions. For this reason the quality of our teaching force is somewhat better than the same salaries can secure in some other places. We are fortunate then in being able to get a better quality of service than we actually pay for and unfortunate in not being able to keep this service at a time when it is approaching its maximum efficiency.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT.
Minimum Time for Maximum Efficiency.
Our citizens usually agree that three years is as little time as we ought to expect from our teachers if they are to render their best possible service to our schools. We keep them one year, generally, because we will not engage them without their agree- ing to stay that length of time. After a year's teaching here the teacher may leave us at the end of any term by giving us a four weeks' notice. Such leaving generally comes at a time when it is most difficult to find a worthy successor.
The Remedy.
This unfortunate situation may be relieved somewhat by the adoption of an elastic schedule of salaries providing for an increase of fifty dollars per year until a three years' service has been completed. The minimum of this schedule should be not less than five hundred dollars except in rare instances. The conditions here are such that require a five hundred dollar teacher. That sum is needed by the teacher to maintain her position with proper dignity and respect. My observation of our teachers leads to the conclusion that even five hundred dol- lars when the teacher has no free home in which to live during vacations is insufficient. The teacher's vacation should be one of rest, recreation and professional study. The good of our schools demands this. When a teacher's nervous energy has been exhausted by worry, care and toil her efficiency in the schoolroom is greatly lessened.
Some one has asked, why not start with a salary of four hun- dred dollars and by a yearly increase of fifty dollars keep the teacher three years? First, the average four hundred dollar teacher is incapable of satisfying our local expectations. Nine- tenths of such teachers would be a failure from the start. It would require years to regain the loss effected by such a course in one year. In many cases the teacher would recognize her inability to meet the situation and resign, thus defeating our desire for a longer period of service. The loss to the schools by such a course would be too large for estimation.
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