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George A. Porter
North Saugus
1911
100
J. E. F. Marsh
High School
1906
1,000
James A. Marsland
Roby School, Manual
Training and Old School
1909
825
C. C. Merrithew
Felton School
1902
550
James W. Rea
Cliftondale, Lincoln and Emerson
1894
9,50
Charles B. Rhodes
Ballard and Mansfield
1911
850
A. G. Williams
Armitage
125
C. N. Wormstead, Jr. Lynnhurst
1900
IIO
*Graduate.
Name Alice L. Seaver
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
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Coach, Roby 1912
600
Mabel F. Rodowsky
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SAUGUS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Health Rules Governing the Attendance of School Children. (Approved by the Board of Health.)
RULE I. All children, or other persons exposed to the infection of the following diseases, shall be excluded from the public schools for the following periods, dating from the latest exposure to such infection, unless provided with a physician's certificate according to law :
Chicken pox, 14 days; diphtheria, 8 days ; measles, 12 days ; mumps, 14 days; scarlet fever, 8 days; whooping cough, 14 days, and in case of other diseases or defects, for which exclu- sion is provided by law (unless otherwise provided by regula- tion of the board) until such time as satisfies the school physi- cian that danger of infection is past.
RULE 2. A child from a family where typhoid fever, measles, cerebro spinal meningitis, whooping cough, German measles, chicken pox, mumps, or anterior poliomyelitis exists, but who has had the disease, may attend school, provided he or she presents a certificate from a practicing physician stating that in his opinion the child has had the disease.
RULE 3. Children with pediculi (lice) shall be excluded at once by the teacher or school physician, and provided with printed directions for the removal of the pediculi, and instructed to return at once after following the directions.
RULE 4. Children affected with ringworm, scabies, or impetigo contagiosa will be excluded from school by the school physician until such time as the disease is reported cured, or shows evidence thereof, and no longer liable to cause infection of other children. Cases so excluded should be re-admitted upon the written certificate of a school physician that these conditions have been fulfilled.
RULE 5. Children who have been ill with one or more of the diseases mentioned in Rule I, shall be excluded from the school until the teacher has been furnished with a certificate from the Board of Health or from the attending physician or from the school physician.
RULE 6. The minimum periods of isolation for the diseases specifically mentioned in Rule I shall be as follows :
(a) Chicken pox, 15 days and thereafter, until all scabs have fallen off.
(b) Diphtheria, after two successive negative cultures have been obtained from the site of the disease, secured at least three days apart.
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(c) Measles, 14 days and thereafter, until all catarrhal symp- toms have ceased.
(d) German measles, 7 days after disappearance of eruption.
(e) Mumps, 21 days and thereafter, until all glandular swellings have disappeared.
(1) Scarlet fever, 42 days and thereafter, until desquamation is complete, and all discharges from the mucous membrane and ears have stopped.
(g) Whooping cough, 42 days and thereafter, until all spasmodic cough and whooping have ceased.
RULE 7. Under no circumstances is a child who has been absent with one of the diseases named in Rule 6, to be admitted in less than the number of days given for that disease.
Report of Principal of High School
Mr. William Fisher Sims, Superintendent of Schools, Saugus, Mass.
MY DEAR MR. SIMS,-In this, my second annual report of the Saugus High School, I am pleased to state that our total enrollment since September to date has been 310. This is an increase of 21 over last year's registration and eclipses any enrollment in the history of the school.
The following enrollment table may be of interest :
Courses.
Classical.
English. Commercial.
Totals·
First year .
16
I 2
82
IIO
Second year
IO
32
73
II5
Third year
II
I7
25
53
Fourth year
7
9
16
32
Totals .
44
70
196
310
We are pursuing the same curriculum as that of a year ago. This curriculum was made out that our graduates might meet the requirements for admission to colleges, technical and normal schools, and that we might inaugurate a complete and efficient commercial course. The subject matter of the College and English courses was largely determined by the requirements for admission to higher institutions of learning. The number of- recitation periods per week for each subject was largely deter
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mined by the number of subjects absolutely necessary to teach, the length of the school day, and the number of teachers allowed to carry on the work of the school.
Mr. C. D. Kingsley, State Inspector of High Schools for the State Board of Education, and Mr. A. H. Sproul, head of the Commercial Department of Salem Normal School, made a thorough investigation of our work last fall. It was a simple matter for them to ascertain our total number of students and divide this by the number of pupils recommended per teacher for a " Class A" High School. Submitted to such a test in organization, we were found to be running with two teachers short of the number recommended for efficient work.
I am very glad, however, to further report that these two men, conducting the investigation, were good enough to look into the results we were getting and not condemn our work at once, because of this adverse circumstance in organization. At the end of their day's work, their conclusion was that we were getting the results that enabled them to give us the "Class A" rating.
Despite this good rating of our school, there are apparent weaknesses in the curriculum. These are particularly manifest in the fact that we require students to recite but four, instead of five times a week, in many subjects to which more time should be devoted, in order to cover the prescribed and required work. As a partial approach to what we should have, I recommend that our present curriculum be altered so that such subjects as beginner's Bookkeeping, beginner's French and German, some of the courses in Mathematics, and the first two years of work in English, require five recitations per week, instead of four as they now do, and that teaching force be provided which will be adequate to meet these needs.
I find a growing sentiment among educators to decry the amount of time spent on mathematics in our High School courses. I find among many men, in every locality where I have been, an ambition that high schools teach more in mathe- matics. To meet the demand of the employers of our graduates, we have so strengthened the work in our mathematics depart- ment that this year's graduates, who have elected this subject, will have completed, at the end of the year, Solid Geometry and Trigonometry. We hope next year to introduce into this depart- ment and correlate with the work in Manual Training, an ade- quate course in Mechanical Drawing and the use of the slide rule.
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At the beginning of the year, we had seventeen typewriters. There were one hundred and twenty-nine students to take this subject. Since there are but six recitation periods each day, the seventeen machines could accommodate only one hundred and two out of the one hundred and twenty-nine students electing this subject. Much impatience on the part of both parents and students was evidenced until the addition of three new machines to the original seventeen relieved the greatest part of the con- gestion. It took nearly six weeks to relieve this congestion, and then a number of students could have a machine but four instead of five times a week.
It is economy to buy more machines, beause a teacher of typewriting can have forty as well as twenty in one class. With forty machines, we could reduce a teacher's time on instruction in typewriting exactly one-half. This would allow her to instruct in other subjects and consequently save both time and salary.
I have known a good student, direct from High School, who has become a teacher of typewriting in Evening Commercial School, and eventually in High School. Under the supervision of a competent teacher, this method brings excellent results. Because we shall need an additional commercial teacher next year, I present this plan for additional teaching force for your consideration.
It has always seemed to me that better results could be obtained if we could increase our teaching time. The five-hour session is a result of the fact that five hours is the limit of time a person should go, during the day, without partaking of food. Hence, our present plan of one session. The long vacation was originally introduced so as to give boys an opportunity to work on the farm during its busiest season. The lunch counters, at nearly all schools, have done away with the reason for a five- hour session and the fact that the farm no longer demands the attention of so many of our students, does away with the reason for our long vacation. Why then does not our school session change in length of day and length of year? Surely, if a student can leave school at the age of fourteen and work eight hours a day, six days a week, he should be able to go to school more than five hours a day for five days a week. Superintendent Edson, of New York City, says the High School graduate of to-day has an education equal to the college gaaduate of his day. If this is so, I am sure some of the present cry that our schools
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are inefficient can be satisfied by letting us have our students long enough to teach them, requiring no home work from them, instead of persisting in the present method of having them so short a time in school, and expecting that they and their parents will see to it that at least two hours daily are devoted to home study.
We are still fostering and supervising athletics. Our football team did remarkably well last fall. This is due to the fact that the boys were ready to begin where they left off last year and to the enthusiasm they received from their new instructor. The prospects for a good baseball season are very bright. We have, to date, two victories in basketball, with prospects for an excellent season.
A Girls' Athletic Association has been formed. Girls' classes in club swinging, wands and folk dancing are already continu- ing the work begun last year. To date, no arrangement has been made for basketball for the girls. The girls' game of basketfall is as beneficial for girls as the boys' game is for boys. I believe, however, that girls should play this game for the benefit, to themselves, derived from the game. I am opposed to all public exhibitions of girls' basketball.
Our newly-formed debating society bids fair to be a flourish- ing organization. The membership of this society is confined to members of the two upper classes and to those of the second year class who possess particular aptitude for the work. For a time, the debates are to be held before club members only. Later, it is hoped that at least one debate may be conducted which will be public and an exhibition of the year's work.
It is often remarked that girls ought to learn, at home, many of the things taught in our Domestic Science Department. We believe that this is so. They should. But they do not. This is because the very demand of modern times on the American woman's day is such that old-time instruction of home duties in the house is impossible. The children of foreign parentage do not always have, at home, Americanizing influences. How shall they be Americanized ? By the schools ? Yes, but principally through our instruction in Domestic Science. We claim, then, that this work is no luxury but a necessity both for the Ameri- can and foreign-born pupil. It is only one other necessity forced into our curriculum by the very circumstances of modern ways. A visit to our Domestic Science Department will prove to anyone its efficiency and worth.
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The work in Manual Training, under the new instructor, has been conducted according to methods differing from those employed last year. The interest of the boys in this work has doubled so that it is not infrequent to receive petitions from them to be allowed to do extra work on the pieces they are construct- ing. The new models being made, as samples for the boys to copy, are very attractive in design and finished in workmanship.
During the Christmas vacation, two of the girls in our Senior class were offered positions in Boston offices. These girls were students who had no conditions in any of their work. They were allowed to leave school on the condition that they should do the work prescribed for the class in Senior English and were assured if their office work was satisfactory to their employers, we would count their efforts as commercial work satisfactorily done at High School.
We are proud to report that both students are giving entire satisfaction and earning good salaries. The above policy is advocated for only those students who deserve special privilege on account of the excellence of the work they have done. It is also in line with the policy that we advocated last year, that the Commercial Department must turn out a "finished product," which is not true of the other two departments.
The school is very fortunate, because only three members of last year's faculty were induced to leave us for more lucrative positions. The faculty this year, I feel, is a very strong work- ing unit. It is hoped that every effort will be made to retain, as nearly as possible, a permanent teaching corps. Frequent changes in the teaching staff are disorganizing to a school and, in many cases, prove to be expensive.
Lists of all students who have attained a rank of "B" and have not been absent from school, except for sickness, during any one marking period, are being prepared. These are to be known as "honor lists." They will be posted, after each mark- ing period, on the bulletin boards and we hope will be an incentive toward better scholarship. A special honor list will be similarly prepared, containing the names of all students who attain a rank of "A" in all subjects.
The early morning session has brought with it difficulties, which were to be expected ; but I feel that, on the whole, less trouble has been met than was anticipated. Cases of tardiness seem to be less this year, instead of more as might naturally be expected, but the absence list is frightful. The greater part of
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absences has been during the past two months and has been due to the many prevalent epidemics. What we have been con- tending with, may be seen from the fact that on one day in a room, where there should have been thirty-three pupils, there were but sixteen. The others were out because of " measles."
We hope that the movement, started last year, for the pur- pose of obtaining a public playground and field for athletic con- tests, accomplishes its purpose this spring. The High School is particularly interested in the project of incorporating a gym- nasium in the proposed new school building.
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR L. WILLIAMS.
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Graduation Exercises
Graduation Exercises of the Class of 1915, Saugus High School, Town Hall, Friday evening, June 25, 1915, 8 o'clock. Motto : " Launched but not anchored."
The Winning Fight .- (March) . Manola Orchestra
Holzmann
Invocation
Rev. Alfred Woods
Salutatory .- The Importance of a High School
Education Miss Edith M. Allen
Chorus .- On to Victory . ·
Reeves
Oration .- Lauched but not Anchored Horace E. Brown
Class Prophecy .- Louis O. Gray
Venetian Nights (Barcarolle) O'Shea
Class Will
.
Manola Orchestra
Ellery Metcalf
Chorus (b) (a) The Lotus Flower Schumann
Class History
Earle H. Macleod
Presentation of Gifts . Miss Effie Brown
Monckton
The Quaker Girl (Waltz) . Manola Orchestra
Essay .- America the Exponent of Peace Percy G. Evans
Presentation of Class Gift to the School George W. Sprague Acceptance of Class Gift for the School Harold Reddish
Chorus .- My Dream Waldtenfel
Valedictory .- The United States and Germany . Chester W. Smith Un peu d'Amour (Melodie) Manola Orchestra Selesu
Presentation of Diplomas Mr. Joseph G. Bryer, Chairman of School Committee Singing of Class Ode Class.
Three Fishers . Hullah
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CLASS ODE Words and Music by E. A. Musick
Tonight, dear classmates, we are leaving, Our happy High School days are o'er. Launched on life's journey we're beginning, Those scenes we'll cherish ever more.
Though life's long battle is a hard one, Yet we must work with might and main ; And with the teachings of our High School, Success we surely will attain.
Our class of Nineteen Fifteen e'er has tried To hold and keep the standard high.
Our motto : " Launched, but not yet anchored," Will guide us on as years roll by.
1 Tonight our time has come for parting.
Press onward, then, my classmates, dear,
And may we ever keep in mem'ry
The many ties we've cherished here.
GRADUATES. Commercial Course
Alice Grace Blood i Justina Nora Lehane
Elsie Adelaide White
Victoria Lodge Barber
fEthel Alice Musick +Violet May Barber
Marie Agnes Skahan Mildred Evelyn Borland
Elva Lillian Annas Elizabeth Teresa Higgins
Classical Course
+Chester Warren Smith *Percy Griffith Evans Edna Haywood Staples
¡Edith May Allen
tEffie Louise Brown Alice Maude Willis
t Bessie Churbuck Griswold
English and Scientific Courses
Charles Edward Flynn Richard Gordon Williams
¡Lewis Oscar Gray Willo Frank Blossom
Florence Gertrude Hussey
¡Earle Harvey Macleod Mildred Irene Flockton ¡Ellery Emerson Metcalf ¡Horace Edward Brown
*Clara Virginia Day
* Esther Maude Henderson Raymond Phillips Clark Arthur Lupton Reddish
*George Elmer Sprague * Leonilda Miriam Hicks
tHonor Pupils.
*Courses irregular, diplomas granted on credit from different courses.
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Graduation Exercises
Graduation Exercises of the Ninth Grade, Town Hall, Saugus, Mass., June 24, 1915, two o'clock. Motto : "Let Cheerfulness Abound with Industry."
PROGRAM
" Marathon " March J. Wallace Stasia Zveare
Class led by Donald Taylor, Class President
Music, " Call to Arms " Veazie
Prayer .
Rev. Charles W. Lyon
Saluatory .
Irene Gillespie.
Sextet, " Where Go the Boats " Stevenson-Mac Donald E. Rice, G. Auger, V. Stillings, M. Popp, M Wilson, M. Tucker Reading, "It is not Yours " · Stevenson Frederick S. Sampson
Music, "Fairyland Waltz . Veazie Life of Stevenson
Solo, " The Wind " . Mildred C. Bee
DeKoven Harold Adlington
Reading, "Keepsake Mill " Wilbur T. Beane
Stevenson
Music, "The Armourer" . Nevin
Glimpses of " Treasure Island " Mabel Wilson
Sextet, " Northwest Passage " . . Stevenson-MacDonald M. Nelson, J. Dunton, D. Hunt, M. Bee, W. Beane, W. Whittredge
Reading, "We Have Come the Primrose Way" . Stevenson
Amy Hanson
Music, "Magnolia of Old Tennessee "
Girls of the Ninth Grade Bray
Presentation of Diplomas
Mr. Joseph G. Bryer, Chairman of School Committee Music, " The Lost Chord " Sullivan
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GRADUATION LIST.
*Harold J. Adlington, George A. Aiken, Ebba H. Anderson, *Ruth C. Anderson, Violet L. Anderson, Hammond Annis, *Gladys Auger, *Wilbur J. Beane, John J. Beauchain, Gertrude S. Beckford, *Lewis Bee, *Mildred C. Bee, Howard F. Belli- veau, Roger C. Berry, Ernest H. Blood, *Erwin H. Bowley, *Lillian E. Bradbury, Edna M. Bright, A. P. Francis Burke, Rachel C. Burdett, *Elsie L. Butler, Arthur P. Cahill, William Campbell, *Mable F. Cheever, Arthur W. Chisholm, Marion I. Choate, Bresci Citera, Harold H. Cohen, Frank J. Collins, Frances V. Constantino, Victor D. Cox, *Rea L. Craig, Catherine T. Crudden, Roland R. Davis, Hazel M. Dexter, * Josephine Dunton, Ralph E. Eckhardt, Francis L. Fox, *Inez M. Gamble, Lawrence A. Gibbs, *Irene M. Gillespie, Delmont E. Goding, *H. Norman Greenlay, Ella A. Gunnison, Bessie L. Hain, Mildred Hanright *Amy L. Hanson, Carl A. Hanson, *George Hanson, *Sidney H. Hastings, *Mildred G. Heredeen, John H. Hobbs, Hall W. Hodgdon, Henry M. Hodgkins, *Doris Hunt, Nellie M. Jenkins, Bessie E. Johnson, Gladys A. Kalloch, Homer D. Kenerson, Meyer Koran, Lewis P. Langton, Leslie L. Leighton, *Madeline C. Littlefield, Victor E. Lus- comb, Charles L. Lynn, Harold T. MacDonald, Mary A. Mackenzie, Annie C. Macleod, James Maher, Charles H. Mansfield, *Lillian M. Martin, *Beatrice H. McKenney, Etta F. McKenney, *Gordon W. Meister, Gladys M. Morine, Mabel C. Morrison, *Edith E. Murray, Agnes C. Nason, *Mildred L. Nelson, Walter R. Packard, Chester Parks, Grace T. Parsons, Tillman G. Parsons, *Lurline M. Perkins, Ernest A. Peterson Stephen J. Pettito, *Marian E. Phinney, *Mary A. Pike, Gertrude E. Piper, Alfred T. Pitman, Marion G. Popp, *Lawrence E. Price, Evelyn G. Rice, Leonard Richard, Hazel E. Richardson, Lucille M. Riley, *Forest Robinson, *Clementina G. Rodger, *Helen H. Rodger, Pippino Rosetti, Mildred E. Russell, *Helen A. Russell, *Frederick S. Sampson, Edward A. Scott, Mabel G. Sears, *Ernest L. Shapiro, Edmond J. Shields, Henry W. Shields, Walter J. Snow, Wilfred Stidstone, Veneita M. Stillings, *Audrey M. Sullivan, Ella F. Sutherland, Elsie J. Sverker *Donald K. Taylor, *Dorothy Tibbetts, Leonore M. Tennant, Arthur J. Trahan, Helen L. Trainor, *Albert N. Trautvetter, *Roy M. Trautvetter, *Edna Trigg, Mabel A. Tucker, *Thelma E. Turner, Caroline M. Twomey, *Frederick Vatcher, *Olive E. Wakefield, Edward D. Walls, John N. Weber, *Warren D. Whittredge, *Annie I. Wilson, *Mabel P. Wilson, Sarah C. Woodward, Clarence Winsby, *Stasia V. Zveare .-- 135.
*Honor Pupils.
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