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It is at this crucial stage of development that the art course, correlated with civic training help him to become the worth- while citizen his country needs.
It teaches him to appreciate his horne and school and at the same time seeks to improve them, if necessary. It calls his attention to the well built homes and public buildings of his town or appeals to his civic pride by pointing out the need of improving some slatternly section or building.
Making posters that sponser some worthy cause, or boost some school activity teaches him cooperation and makes him a better member of his town.
And the pupil himself - he finds there is no place for the un- tidy, dirty unsuitably dressed boy or girl, and he consciously or unconsciously accepts the new standard set for him.
He is stimulated to choose the best architecture and painting to make suitable designs when occasion demands either at school or at home and finally learns that in everything, "Noth- ing is beautiful that is not suitable."
We are trying to teach art, not as an isolated subject, but one that is closely interwoven with his home, school, work, sports, and surroundings.
The children are responsive and the work has taken on a vitality that is prompted by the keen interest they feel in the activities connected with their everyday life.
Respectfully submitted,
ESTHER LOVERING.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
1928]
Report of School Nurse Mr. Jesse W. Lambert, Superintendent of Schools, Saugus, Mass.
DEAR SIR,-I herewith submit my seventh annual report as school nurse for the year ending December 31, 1928.
Number of visits to schools, 598 ; home visits, 321 ; exclusion for pediculosis, 203 ; all pediculosis cases followed up, all cases returned. In addition to home visits for pediculosis, the home visits for other cases were as follows : Impetigo, 24; measles, 14 ; measles in family, 3 ; whooping cough, 9 ; whooping cough in family, 3; defective vision, 9; heart, 2; scarlet fever, 16; scarlet fever in family, 8; tonsilitis, 4 ; malnutrition, 2 ; mumps, 14; sore throat, 17; colds, 23; earache, 2; unclean, II ; mother sick, 3; not at home, 14; truancy, 6; grippe, 5 ; head- ache, 2 ; chicken pox, 21 ; poison ivy, 4 ; chicken pox in family, II ; no shoes, 3 ; diphtheria, 3; scabies, 11 ; boils, 3 ; swollen glands, II ; nervousness, 2; underweight, 14; infected finger, I; sick stomach, 2.
In September the children were given a physical examination by the school physicians, at which I assisted in checking up the physical record cards with the physicians. These physical record cards, which are required by the State, are extremely helpful in showing the physical condition and improvement of the child from one year to the next.
In November I assisted Dr. Davis and Dr. Furbish, school physicians, in giving toxin anti-toxin treatment for diphtheria prevention to 341 children.
I assisted Dr. Davis in taking culture of all the children in the Roby school in November, as we had had a few cases of diph- theria during the school year. Four carriers were found and excluded, given treatment and returned to school.
The children in the grade schools have been weighed and measured. Out of a total of 1,962 children, 103 were found to be 10 per cent underweight and 21 were 15 per cent underweight.
When any contagious disease is reported, all the children in that particular class room are examined and suspicious cases excluded from school. This is advised instead of closing the schools.
Dental clinic is still conducted on Tuesday and Thursday mornings at the Cliftondale school, at which I assist Dr. Beck- man. The number of children treated at the dental clinic will be found in the dental clinic report.
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Dec. 31
In closing, let me express my appreciation to you, Mr. Lambert, the School Committee, the school physicians and the teachers, for the encouragement and cooperation I have received in my work.
Respectfully submitted, MARY E. DONOVAN, R.N.
Report of Supervisor of Saugus Dental Clinic Mr. Jesse W. Lambert, Superintendent of Schools, Saugus, Mass.
DEAR SIR,-I herewith submit my annual report as Supervisor of the Dental Clinic.
As in previous years, the clinic is conducted on Tuesday and Thursday mornings in the Cliftondale School, where I am assisted by the school nurse, Mrs. Donovan, in treating the children from the various schools.
The school nurse examined all the children in the first and second grades and arranged clinics. The greater part of the work as in previous years, has been among the pupils of these two grades who are in need of dental work. After these chil- dren were cared for, prophylactic treatments were given wherever necessary to the pupils of the other grades.
The regular fee of twenty-five cents was charged for each visit.
A detailed report follows :
Total number of patients treated . 708 ·
Total number of deciduous extractions . 352
Total number of prophylactic treatments . 235
Total number of fillings .
113
Total number of treatments . .
3
Total number of permanent extractions ·
3
Refused treatments 2
The work this year has been greatly handicapped because of the unsatisfactory heating conditions in the Cliftondale school.
Respectfully submitted,
DR. ROGER P. BECKMAN.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
1928]
Report of Supervisor of Physical Education
Mr. Jesse W. Lambert, Superintendent of Schools,
Saugus, Mass.
DEAR SIR,-I herewith submit my second annual report as Supervisor of Physical Education in the Elementary Schools of Saugus, Mass.
The work has progressed and improved this year. The teachers and pupils accustomed to the system have handled it in a very excellent manner.
I have followed the same program as last year in visiting the elementary grades every week and the districts every two weeks. The exercises are harder requiring more muscular co-ordination, for which the pupils have been prepared in their work last year. The classes are held out doors when the weather and school ground conditions permit ; during the winter months the classes are held in the school room but we will return to out doors in the spring.
The pupil leadership, started last year and continued this, has proven a great success. The leaders are changed every month when a new lesson is presented, thus, giving an equal chance to each boy and girl.
A very successful Field Day was held in June, in which all of the grades, with the exception of the first and second, partici- pated. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the teachers for their splendid cooperation and help they gave me, to make this Field Day a success and all the pupils for their loyalty and faithful work.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is offering a contest for Child Health Day ; posture is one of the points on which the child will be judged. The posture has greatly improved since last year but the big task is good positions all the time not just during Physical Training period. I believe this contest will help the general posture of all the children, espe- cially in the school room.
In closing, I wish to thank you, Mr. Lambert, the members of the School Committee, and the teachers for their assistance and cooperation in my work.
Respectfully submitted,
SHIRLEY CLUCAS.
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Dec 31
Report of Physical Director - High and Junior High.
Mr. J. W. Lambert, Superintendent of Schools. Saugus, Mass.
DEAR MR. LAMBERT,-I am very pleased at this time to pre- sent to you my first annual report of the Department of Physical Training in the Senior and Junior High schools of this town of Saugus.
Physical Training is being carried on much after the system in vogue upon my taking over this work last September. A period of ten minutes duration is devoted daily to exercises in the class rooms by pupil leaders under the supervision of the home room teacher. Some new drills are gradually being in- troduced into the curriculum which will tend to improve the posture and general health development of our boys and girls.
I am very gratified with the hearty cooperation of all the teachers and pupils in both schools. Mr. Webber, Principal at the Senior High and Mr. Young, Principal at the Sweetser Junior High schools have proven valuable factors in the steady improvement in this Department.
Under the cooperation of Mr. Young at the Sweetser Junior High we are organizing a class or classes, according to response, for the instruction of Indian Club work for both boys and girls, also a class in rudimentary base ball for the boys. At the Senior High school we have inaugurated a class in elementary foot ball embodying the rules and strategy of football. All these classes are extra curricula, coming at the close of the school day, not interfering with daily class work and in no way compulsory. To date the response is very encouraging.
In this report on the Department of Physical Training I wish to call to your attention some needs as I view them, which if merged with the present system will help to make this work worth while and productive of the results we are all seeking.
Somewhere at some time it has been wisely quoted that "a healthy body makes for a healthy mind." I know of no better argument to present at this time than this same quotation to urge the wide-awake citizenry of this town to harken to the crying need of a fit place to carry on a program of sane physical educa- tion under experienced supervision. Until this place is pro- vided present methods of supervising this work can not be greatly improved upon.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
1928]
Athletics are in a very unhealthy condition. The spirit of students is reflected in the patronage at our home games. This spirit in our student body can, I believe, be traced to the fact that so few of them have breathed the atmosphere which gener- ally permeates a school where more of the student body take part in some form of athletics.
A very definite program of intra-mural athletics for the girls . is just as essential as a foot ball schedule or base ball schedule for a boys' group representing the High school. During the past Fall about thirty boys took part in foot ball ; this Spring about twenty boys will benefit through a schedule of daily instructions in base ball, making a total of about fifty boys out of a student body numbering approximately one hundred and seventy boys. How about the other one hundred and twenty boys? and how about the girls ?
Should the School Committee or the proper committee vested with the power, set aside, each year an adequate sum of money for the purchase of equipment, many more boys would avail themselves of athletic instruction. Our greatest need, however, is a gymnasium for the proper development of the department.
Please accept my sincere thanks for your careful guidance in my duties to the parents of the boys and girls coming under my supervision in this town of Saugus.
Most respectfully submitted,
FREDERICK W. BERESFORD.
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Dec. 31
GENERAL SCHOOL STATISTICS
Number of school buildings in town
I3
Number of school buildings in use ·
13
Number resident minors October 1, 1928, estimated ·
4,000
Number between ages of 5 and 7
500
Number between ages of 7 and 14
1,900
Number between ages of 14 and 16
500
Number between ages of 16 and 21
1,100
Average school membership for school year closing June, 1928
2,914
Average daily attendance for same time
2,729
Percentage of attendance for same time based on membership .936
Enrollment fall term 1928
3,094
Population of Saugus*
14,269
Assessed valuation of all taxable property including Dec- ember assessment
$13,622,584.00
Amount appropriated for all purposes 566,205.46
Total amount appropriated for schools
190,230.00
Rate per cent of school appropriation (general expenses) to total appropriation .336
Total appropriation for school repairs $8,750.00
Valuation of school property including equipment 936,000.00
Rate per cent of school property valuation used for repairs
Appropriation for Trade School tuition .00935
1,300.00
Special appropriation for replacing heating plant at Clif- tondale school 5,250.00
Special appropriation for opening room at Oaklandvale school .
4,000.00
Special appropriation for opening room at No. Saugus
2,000.00
Special appropriation for opening room at Center 1,500.00
*Census incomplete
1928]
SCHOOLS
MEMBERSHIP BY GRADES AND BY SCHOOLS, JANUARY, 1929 GRADES
Total by Schools
Armitage
29
32
36
36
39
39
2II
Ballard
48
35
36
48
39
3I
237
Ballard
72
Cliftondale
38
42
39
40
159
Emerson
15*
27*
36
40
118
Emerson
30*
IO
40
Felton
39
41
46
42
47
42
257
Lynnhurst*
18
9
20
II
13
14
85
Mansfield
49
43
47
42
18I
North Saugus
15
19
22*
IO*
14*
29*
109
Oaklandvale
24
21 *
15*
19*
13*
12*
IO4
Oaklandvale
8*
8
Roby
34
36
42
42
4.2
44
Roby
33
7I
Center*
15
15
19
13
62
Sweetser Junior High
151
142
293
Central High and Junior High
1 58
129
25I
II6
71
71
796
Total by
Grades
357
318
353
309
315
302
309
271
251
116
71
71
3,043
* Two Grades in a room.
The two-platoon system is in operation in Grades I and IV at the Ballard School.
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I
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
IO
II
12
39
33
240
20*
18*
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Dec. 31
· REGISTRATION OF TEACHERS SEPTEMBER 5, 1928
Name and Residence
First Election Subjects Telephone
Ruth Anthony
35 Adams avenue
1928 Algebra and Geometry 172-M
Morelle M. Connell
17 Lander street, Lynn
1921 English
Breakers 4052-R
Frederick W. Beresford
35 Elizabeth street, Lynn
1928 Algebra I and Coach
C. Carroll Cunningham 240 Lincoln avenue
1925 English
677-M
Vernon W. Evans
88 Chestnut street
1921 History 805
Edward Hayes
249 Lincoln avenue
1925 English and Civics
Hazel C. Marrison
19 First street
192 I Typewriting and Stenog. I 86-R
Helen A. McDuffee
IO Essex street
1926 French and Latin
347-W
M. Blanche Milberry Avon street
1927 Type and Arithmetic
302-J
Helen L. Moore
134 Main street
1928
Latin
Fannie M. Spinney
84 Charles street, Boston
1925
French
Effie M. Stanhope
26 Summer street
1926 English
646-M
Helen F. Towle
IO Blaisdell terrace, E. Lynn 1927 Spanish, Latin
Jackson 2039
Gladys H. Warren 27 Summer street 1923 History and Civics 646-M
Harold H. Warren
27 Summer street
1927 Physics and Gen. Science 456-M
Elmer H. Watson
60 Summer street
1926 Mathematics 59-R
Robert R. Webber
60 Summer street 1922 Principal
59-R
D. A. Wheeler
23 Jackson street
192 1 Chem. El. Sci., Biology
Amy Wiggin
Essex street
1922 Com'l Arith. and Bus. Train.
562-WK
Mabel C. Willey
41 Vine street
1918 Com'l Geog. and Bookkeeping II
106-M
Mabel E. Williams
62 Jasper street
1918 English
176-R
JANITORS
Mr. Andrew C. Lynn Mr. Edgar McDougall
17 E. Denver Street
112-M
Denver terrace
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
1928]
CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH
Name and Residence First Election Subjects Telephone
Paul Bund, 16 Upham terrace, Malden, Mass. 1925 Manual Training Malden, 3501-R
Emma B. Hughes 16 Kent street
1914 English 8
1087-W
Evelyn Matthews 27 Clifton avenue I 926
Sewing 7 and 7
Mary Eckless Nay
IO Centennial avenue
1920 History 8
Mittie J. Smith
9 Foster street 1919 Math. 8, Read. and Spell. 7 727-W
Elizabeth B. Taylor
II Granite road
1914 Geography 7 746
Gwendolyn Walters*
1928 English 7
470-M
16 Pleasant street Alice M. Willis 5 Willis street
1923 Mathematics 7 365
SWEETSER JUNIOR HIGH
Lillian R. Connell
32 Magnolia avenue
E. Lynn, Mass.
1922 English 8
Dorothy J. Eyre
29 Vincent street
1928 French and Latin, 7 and 8
Elizabeth E. Nelson
51 Essex street
1913 Arith. 7 and Com'l Arith. 207-R
Mabel I. Nelson
37 Spencer avenue 1923 Geography 7 644-J
Alta M. Patten
42 Clifton avenue
1924 English 7 388-M
M. Pearl Peterson*
I Overlook terrace
1928 History 8 518-M
Elsie.D. Phillips 18 Granite road
1920 Mathematics 8
812-M
Elenora Rice
123 Essex street
1921 Lit. and Civics 8
569-R
Leon C. Young
8 Castle street
1926 Principal 18-M
JANITOR
Frank Spencer 16 Jackson street 196-W
ARMITAGE SCHOOL
Mabelle Edmands 26 Jackson street
1923
3 IIO
Violet Martin
5 First street
1926 4 481-M
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Dec. 31
Name and Residence
First Election Grade Telephone
Jeanette Nicholson 32 Avon street
1911
I
302-M
Lilla G. Quint, Principal 47 Essex street
1898
6
581-W
A. Janet W. Tarbox 14 Nowell street
1928
5
603-R
Hazel A. Williams 13 Park street
1922
2
218-W
JANITOR
Joseph Quint 47 Essex street
581-W
BALLARD SCHOOL
Ella Blaisdell
32 Pearson street
1925
5a and 6b
138-M
Josephine C. Chadbourne 132 Ballard street
1926
2
Jeanette Johnson
37 Birch street
1926
4 and 5b
520
Dorothy Meeker
18 Highland avenue 1928
3
381-R
Pauline R. Peckham, Principal
329 Central street
1908
6
895
Leonor M. Rich 17 Emory street
1926
4
1039-M
Leora H. Tomlinson 15 Hillside avenue
1926
5b
1067-M
Marjorie E. Wiggin
12 Whitney street
1927
I
618-M
JANITOR
Daniel Radford
Lincoln avenue, E. Saugus
794-M
CLIFTONDALE SCHOOL
Myra W. Beckman, Principal
14 Essex street
1913
3 505
Florence L. Stone
14 Clifton street
1922
2
531-M
Clara Trowbridge
216 W. Foster street
Melrose
1892
I
Mildred A. Wright
17 Jackson street
1927
4
354-W
JANITOR
Raymond D. Hatch
Avon street
1928]
EMERSON SCHOOL
Name and Residence
First Election
Grades
Telephone
Evelyn M. Allen 67 Lincoln avenue
1927
I and 2
237-J
Gertrude Chapman
119 Salem street, Malden
1912
5
Malden, 0979-J
Mary H. Walsh
13} Putnam street
1928
2 and 3
219-J
Mildred A. Willard, Principal*
15 Myrtle street 1928
6
90
FELTON SCHOOL
Hilda L. Cole
5 Round Hill road
1926
4
I 38-R
Florence C. Gibson
87 Woodlawn street, Lynn
1928
I
Breakers 1095-M
Doris Grant
27 Clifton avenue
1926
2
Virginia Nason
7 Central place
1925
5 476
Maria E. Smith, Principal 51 Essex street
1892
6
207-R
S. Cordelia Townsend
7 Central place
1925
3
476
JANITOR Raymond D. Hatch
Avon street
LYNNHURST. SCHOOL
Mary Bridgham, Principal
30 Beacon Hill avenue
192 1
5-6
Breakers 675-M
Blanche M. Love
Hargraves court
1927 3-4
Marie Reynolds
59 Pine street
1921
I-2
JANITOR
Bert Pooler 75.Fairmount avenue
NORTH SAUGUS SCHOOL
Lillian E. Pooler
75 Fairmount avenue
1928 2
338-R
Katherine B. Campbell
Walnut street
1927
3-4
998-5
Inez Richards Martin Walnut street
1927 I
998-5
Sarah A. Curtis, Principal
43 Mt. Vernon street 1923
5-6
1
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
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50
TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Dec. 31 .
JANITOR
Sarah Porter
Broadway, North Saugus
MANSFIELD SCHOOL
Name and Residence
First Election
Grades
Telephone
Marleah E. Graves 18 First street
1928
3
433-W
Hazel V. Lindsey
13 Wakefield avenue
1925
I
762-J
Alice L. Seaver, Principal 38 Chestnut street
19II
4
547-W
Marah Stebbins
9 Myrtle street
1907
2
207-M
JANITOR
Johnston Montgomery Johnson Terrace
OAKLANDVALE SCHOOL
Susie M. Baggs
23 Intervale avenue
1928
2-3
419-R
Mary M. Cassidy
17 Mt. Vernon street
1928 I
Elsie P. Foster
9 Foster street
1920
3a-4
727-W
Vida E. Norton
Broadway, No. Saugus
1927
5-6
39-M
JANITOR
Joseph Quint
47 Essex street
ROBY SCHOOL
Elsie V. Anderson
33 Auburn street
1928
5 and 6
349-R
Rosa A. Bannon, Old Center
21 Woodbury avenue
1927
3 and 4
Mae W. Butler
433 Central street
1926
I and 2
466-J
Frances M. Hoff
123 Essex street
1925
3
569-R
Esther McCarrier
15 Jackson street
1923
4
286-W
Dorothy E. Merrill
5 Round Hill road
1926
5
138-R
Julia J. Nourse 15 Pleasant street
1917
I
28I-W
Myra L. Webber
20 Summer street
1927
2
264-J
Clara D. Clark, Substitute
1928
6
Catherine Cassey, Old Center
1928
4 and 5
I38-R
4
1928]
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
5I
JANITOR Lewis Sylvester
Vine street
SPECIALS
Name and Residence
First Election
Grades
Telephone
Mrs. Marian Bartlett
765 Broadway, So. Boston
1928
Music, grades 1-6
Miss Ethel M. Edwards
22 Summer street
1927
Music, grades 7-12
Mrs. Anstrice Kellogg 332 Lincoln avenue
1923
Drawing, grades 1-6
Miss Shirley Clucas 7 Putnam street
1927 Physical Training, grades 1-6
Mrs. Esther Lovering
Birch street
1927
Drawing, grades 7-8
Teachers elected previous to 1928 but transferred.
Mildred Willard
1917
Pearl Peterson
1919
A. Janet W. Tarbox
January, 1928
Gwendolyn Walters
1926
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