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Nothing is more necessary to a school than an adequate library and adequate facilities for using it. At the present time we have neither. If the present assembly hall were to be remodeled as I suggested, the stage and the two ante
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rooms could very well be used for library rooms. If this were done the library would be accessible at all times to the students who wish to use it, as the students who wish to use it would naturally be in the study hall. Not only that, but if we had the proper facilities for arranging and handling the library books, we could reduce the whole to a definite system. By this means we could teach the pupils of the school the proper use of the library, help them to gain systematic habits in the handling of books, to say noth- ing of making accessible to them the reference works which are so much needed in school work. A fit place for handling the books we have would, no doubt, stimulate us in the task of acquiring more. We have, at the present time, not more than two hundred or two hundred and fifty volumes. That library we ought to be constantly increasing. If we had $50 each year to spend for reference works, we would in a few years have a splendid library. I would like to suggest that such an amount be put at the disposal of the High School for the purpose of buying reference books, the list of books purchased, of course, to be submitted to the Superintendent of Schools. It can be readily seen, that without an adequate school library, some of our school work is bound to suffer.
I have just made mention of the fact that we are obliged to use one room for Drawing, Physics and Chemistry, a situation altogether unsatisfactory. This situation is due to the fact that the Domestic Science department occupies one of our laboratories. The Domestic Science department should be taken out of this laboratory and put somewhere in the basement. It really should be put in the basement of the old building because the basement of the new build- ing is too far under ground. The only way to accomplish properly the transferring of the Domestic Science depart- ment to the basement is to remove the fire pots under the present building and tie up the old building with the heating plant of the addition. It will be almost impossible to provide the lunch necessary for the increased number of pupils we shall have next year unless the Domestic Science department is close to the lunch room. The lunch room will presumably be in the basement of the addition. It will not be possible to serve a hot lunch to the students unless we have some equipment for that purpose. We
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need at least two more gas stoves and should have in addi- tion half a dozen gas flats. We ought to have also a steam table so that we can keep the food prepared warm until it is to be used. There will be needed such partitions and counters as will make possible the serving of lunch in such a way that all the pupils will be accommodated. At the present time approximately half the students get their lunch at school. The Domestic Science department fur- nishes at various times the following foods at the prices indicated.
Prices of Food Sold at Lunch Counter
SOUPS:
Tomato with crackers $.05
Corn with crackers ... . 05
STEWS :
Oyster with crackers. . 05
CHOWDERS :
Corn with crackers ... . 05
Baked beans with bread
and butter sandwich . . 05
Marcaroni with tomato
sauce . .05
Marcaroni with cheese. . .05
Fish cakes .05
SANDWICHES :
Lettuce .02
Peanut butter .02
Jelly .02 Ham .05
Egg .05
Cheese and nut .05
Cheese and olive
.05
Raisin and nut
.05
Barberry tarts .02
Fruit shortcake with
whipped cream .. .05
Gingerbread with cream
.05
GELATINE:
Coffee with cream . .05
Lemon with cream .
.05
Chocolate pudding with
cream
.05
COOKIES:
Molasses . .01
Chocolate
.01
Peanut.
.01
Hermits
.02
Filled .
.02
DOUGHNUTS :
Plain . .01
Chocolate
.01
Cupcakes
.01
Lemon tarts
.03
PIES:
Squash .
.03
Apple
.03
Parker house rolls
.01
Cake per slice
.02
Cocoa
Chocolate
Walnut
Sponge
Cream cakes
.03
Eclairs .
.03
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It is our plan next year to have this menu somewhat more elaborate, if facilities are provided so that we can carry out our plans. Much credit is due to the Domestic Science department for the successful way in which it has served our needs in the matter of lunch.
For the Commercial Department we need a cabinet for the Commercial Georgaphy collection, pigeon holes for the purpose of handling the work of the pupils, and a bank built in a corner of one of the commercial rooms. We need also an adding machine.
It will be necessary to have next year in the office an additional letter file. There ought also to be a good book- case and some pigeon holes in order that the routine of the office may be handled with more facility. There ought also to be an extra room connected with the office where those who wish to see the Principal may wait. This could easily be done by taking out the partition in the end of supply closet A and removing the shelves of that closet.
Conclusion
In the foregoing report, Mr. Superintendent, you notice that I mention very many things which the school needs and many things which form a problem different from the problems of many other schools. In what I have said, I do not wish to be misunderstood. I feel that the school is making decided progress and I mention those things to indicate to you and the School Board and the townspeople the things which would help us to make still more progress. In closing I wish to thank you for the hearty support which you have given to my endeavors and for the constant help which your encouragement has been to me. I wish to thank through you the School Board for the way which they have supported me in my work.
Respectfully submitted,
C. L. SMITH.
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Saugus High School
Requirements for Graduation
1. No pupil will be allowed to graduate from the Saugus High School whose average rank for the four years is less than seventy per cent.
2. No pupil will be allowed to graduate from the Saugus High School who has acquired less than sixteen diploma credits .*
3. No pupil will be allowed to graduate from the Saugus High School who has less than three diploma credits for any one year.
4. No pupil will be allowed to graduate from the Com- mercial Department who has spent less than one half of the senior year in attendance at the High School.
5. No pupil will be allowed to graduate from the Com- mercial Course who does not pass the entire work of the senior year in English. If absent for part of the year doing commercial work, the school work must be made up in a manner satisfactory to the Principal either by recitation or examination or both.
6. No pupil in the Commercial Department will be permitted to be absent from school for the purpose of doing commercial work whose class standing is less than B.
7. A pupil absent from school for the purpose of doing commercial work will be given a passing mark in book- keeping, if said pupil is doing work in book-keeping that is satisfactory to his employer. A pupil will be given a passing mark in stenography if doing stenographic work in a satis- factory manner for the employer, in type-writing, if doing satisfactory work in type-writing for the employer. In all other subjects which a pupil is taking at school, he when absent must make up the work as in English, that is, by oral recitation or examination, or both, in a manner satis- factory to the Principal.
Approved by the School Committee, April 17, 1916.
* A diploma credit is a unit for satisfactory work in any subject having not less than three prepared recitations per week throughout one year.
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Saugus High School
Program of Studies
The first column of figures indicates the number of reci- tations per week, the second the number of units of diploma credit. Twenty-four units are required for graduation with not less than three in any one of the last four years.
SEVENTH YEAR
ELECTIVE :
REQUIRED :
Take Two
English .
4
1
French
4
1
Arithmetic .
4
1
Science .
4
1
Geography 2 yr.
4
Domestic Arts
4
를
History 2 yr.
4
Manual Arts
4
글 .
Reading, Spelling, Penmanship
4
Music .
2
Drawing
2
1111
EIGHTH YEAR
REQUIRED
ELECTIVE Trke Two
English .
4
1
French
4
1
Arithmetic .
4
1
Latin .
4
1
Geography 2 yr.
4
Science
4
History 2 yr.
4
Domestic Arts
4
Reading, Spelling,
4
1
Manual Arts
4
Penmanship
Music .
2
Drawing
3
112
NOTE: The latter part of the period in grades seven and eight should be devoted to the study of the next day's lesson under the personal direc- tion of the teacher.
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NINTH YEAR
REQUIRED
ELECTIVE Take Three
English, Spelling .
5
1111
French
5
1
Music . .
Latin.
5
1
Drawing
2
Algebra
5
1
Science .
5
1
Bookkeeping
5
1
Phys. Geog. 2 yr.
5
Com. Geog. 2 yr.
5
Ancient History
5
1
Domestic Arts
8
1
Manual Arts
8
1
TENTH YEAR
REQUIRED
ELECTIVE Take Three
English, Spelling Music .
5
1
French .
5
1
1
1 4
Latin.
5
1
Geometry
5
1
Bookkeeping
Penmanship
Science, P, ZB
5
1
Med. and Mod. Hist.
5
1
Domestic Arts
8
1
Manual Arts
8
1
Drawing
2
1
Harmony
1
1
5
1
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Penmanship
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ELEVENTH YEAR
REQUIRED
ELECTIVE Take Three
English, Spelling.
5
1
French .
5
1
Latin .
5
1
Music
1
1
German
5
1
English History
5
1
Physics
6
1
Bookkeeping
5
1
Typewriting
5
Adv. Alg. and Re-
5
1
Arithmetic .
5
1
Household Economics
4
1
Manual Arts
4
Harmony
1
1
Drawing
2
TWELFTH YEAR
ELECTIVE
REQUIRED
Take Three
English, Spelling. . .
5
1
French
5
1
Latin
5
1
German
5
1
Music .
1
1
Chemistry
6
1
Com. Law 2 yr.
5
Business Cor. 2 yr. .
5
1 2
Typewriting .
5
Accountancy
5
1
Solid Geom. 2 yr. . . -
5
Trigonometry 2 yr.
5
American Hist. 2 yr.
5
1
n Civics 2 yr.
5
Household Sanitation
4
1
Science
5
1
Drawing
2
1 4
Music App.
1
1
4
W. F. SIMS, Supt., C. L. SMITH, Prin.
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Graduation Exercises
Graduation Exercises of the Ninth Grade, Town Hall, Saugus, Mass., June 22, 1916, at 2.20 P.M.
PROGRAM
March
School Orchestra
Venetian Summer Night
Chorus
Essay, A Little Journey with Cotton, (with Salutatory) Olive Bennett
Essay, A Little Journey to Shakespere's Home Helen Graves
Violin Solo, Humoresque Dvorak Margaret Neale
·
Latin Recitation, Horatius at the Bridge. Harry Wood
Essay, A Little Journey through the White Mountains . Marjorie Norris
Song, My Old Kentucky Home Chorus Foster
.
Essay, A Little Journey to the Haunts of King Alfred Edward Gallant .
Essay, A Little Journey into Days of Old Elizabeth Dennison
Song, Eventide Double Quartette Abt
Essay, A Little Journey with the Early Birds . Gertrude Bjornwall
Essay, A Little Journey to hear of King Richard (Valedictory) Hazel Kenerson
Song, Water Lilies Chorus . Linden
Presentation of Diplomas Dr. E. W. Homan, Member of School Committee The Ivy and the Rose Orchestra
Mozkowski
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GRADUATION LIST
Yvonne Adrian, Jessie Allard, Mabel E. Amery, Blanche Mildred Annas, Everett Ballard, Olive C. Bennett*, Charles H. Betts, Gertrude Bjornwall*, Charles Blake, Ethel V. Bloom, Edith M. Boyeson, Wendell L. Brown, Tony A. Bucchiere, Carrie Burrill, Irene D. Campbell, John A. Campbell, Lily E. M. Carlson, Margaret B. Carter, Mildred M. Carter, Harry A. Chapman, William G. Chapman*, Merle A. Chard*, Onslow C. Cochrane, Florence Day, James E. Deary, Elizabeth A. Dennison*, Elsie M. Derosier, Leo P. Des Rosiers, Estelle E. Dickinson, Marion H. Doherty*, Joseph Donahue, Mary M. Duffy, Elsie M. M. Ekstrand, Olive E. Elmer, Fred James England, Clara Fabiano, Michael Fabiano, Philip A. Farnham, Miriam I. Florence, . Paul W. Fox, James F. Furey, Edward F. Gallant*, Corinne Gautreau, Lillian M. Gillespie, Hazel B. Godfrey, Dorothy Estelle Gott, Helen Graves*, Blanche Hablitz*, Marie C. Hernas, Dorothy Herron, Acer N. Hilbourne, Katharine Hodgdon, Elsie Hoffman, Harry J. Jenkins, Edna S. Jones, David Johnson, Hazel E. Kenerson*, Douglas B. Kennedy, Wallace B. Kennedy*, Leah Koran, Ella Kudera, Barnard A. Ladijensky, John R. Larson, Chester A. Lavene, James A. Lehane, Sadie M. Leighton, Percy E. Littlefield, Edward H. Long, Walter W. Longfellow, Raymond H. Love, Wil- liam E. Ludden, Helen Lundholm, Dorothy C. Lynn*, Mary C. MacKay, Alice E. Marks*, Charles M. Marshall, Rex E. McDonald*, Edith McKenney, Charlotte Mckenzie, John A. McLean, Aubrey D. Meister, Miriam Metcalf*, Mildred Morse, Rena E. Moses*, Margaret W. Neale, Frances M. Nockles*, Marjorie A. Norris*, Olive H. Noseworthy, Elizabeth M. O'Brien, Francis Paige, Frederick A. Parker*, Oscar A. G. Pearson, Dorothy L. Pearce, Roy A. Peterson, Margaret Pope*, William Pilcher, Gertrude Platt*, Annie Powell, Hazel Ardena Pratt, Edward Price, Robert B. Remick*, Chester R. Richards, George A. Salvi. Clarence A. Sawyer, J. Harlan Sawyer, Gertrude L. Schaadt, Mary Silver*, Alfred E. M. Siteman, Thomas G. Skahan, Howard F. Smith, Edward F. Snow, Helen A. Snow, Earl Spred- bury, Ella Sproul, George F. Stacy, Irene M. Stinson, Helen Thompson, Grace Vallier, Annie Esther Walzer, Joseph A. Walzer, John E. Walters, Ellsworth H. Warren, Leo F. Weber, Robert R. Webber, Thelma R. White*, Phebe Willis, Hilda L. Wolf*, Harry M. Wood*, - 128.
* Honor pupils.
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Graduation Exercises
Graduation Exercises of the Class of 1916, Saugus High School, Town Hall, Friday Evening, June 23, 1916, at eight o'clock. Motto: "Out of School Life into Life's School."
PROGRAM
March Orchestra
Prayer
Rev. James G. Cairns
Salutatory - Effect of the War on U. S. Commerce
Marion Kimball
Class History
Priscilla Flockton
Selection
School Chorus
Essay - The Red Cross'
Class Oration .
Ethel Pearl England Harold Theodore Reddish
Selection Orchestra
Presentation of Class Gift to School Ruth Vivian T. Smith
Acceptance of Gift for School
. Carl Penny Class Prophecy Doris Evelyn Neale Selection School Chorus
Presentation of Class Gifts Bertha Brown Forristall Essay - Our Debt to the Immigrant, Paul Edward Thissell Class Will Helen Dorothy Nickerson
Selection . School Chorus
Valedictory - Readings from Shakespere
Adeline Jane Kellough
Class Ode (Tune of America the Beautiful) The Class Presentation of Diplomas Joseph G. Bryer
(Chairman of School Committee)
Selection . Orchestra
CLASS ODE (Tune of " America the Beautiful ") Our happy High School days are o'er; Tonight we bid farewell; For Class Sixteen shall go before, In other things excel. A noble battle we have won Our High School shall teach
Us to endure, and e'er press on Until the goal we reach. We bid farewell to Saugus High, Farewell to High School days.
* Excused.
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From school life to life's school we go, A harder journey, too, But we'll remember what we learned Dear Saugus High, from you. Through failures we attain success, If we but struggle on To gain a place in life's great march And call it all our own. We bid farewell to Saugus High, Farewell to High School days.
Into a larger school we go - Life's school, with lessons hard, So let us work with might and main, To gain a just reward. We shall not fear the passes steep, Nor rocky roads so long;
We'll think of what our school days taught To keep us from all wrong. We bid farewell to Saugus High, Farewell to High School days.
R. VIVIAN T. SMITH.
SAUGUS PUBLIC LIBRARY 295 Central St. Saugus, MA 01906
GRADUATES
College Course
Beatrice Blossom
Adeline Jane Kellough
John Adams Carter
Doris Evelyn Neale
*Priscilla Flockton
Helen Dorothy Nickerson
Carl Henry Haskell Harold Theodore Reddish
Edwart Wesley Hilbourne, Jr. Ruth Vivian T. Smith
Paul Edward Thissell
English Scientific Course
Perla Weare Ames
Carl Lundholm
Ethel Pearl England
Roland Edwin Mansfield
Helen Melba Flockton
Marion Pauline Meader
Bertha Brown Forristall
Harold Irvine Wilkinson
Commercial Course
Annie May Austin Ethel Milbery
Dorothy Owen Healey
John James O'Brien +Edith Beatrice Pilling
Marion Kimball
Martha Chadwick Mackay Frances Mary Price
Dorothy Latham Shirley
* Completed the course in three years.
+ Honorable mention for unusual progress in stenography.
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