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Through the kindness of the School Committee it was voted to award badges to children who had earned all three tags. There were about 350 children who earned these badges.
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.
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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 Super- visor of the Dental Clinic.
The clinic is conducted, as in previous years, on Tuesday and Thursday mornings in the Cliftondale School, where I am assisted by Mrs. Donovan the school nurse, in treating the chil- dren from the various schools.
The children in the first and second grades are examined by the school nurse and clinics arranged.
On Tuesday mornings I have clinics for the children in the first and second grades and on Thursday mornings prophylactic treatments are given to the children of the upper grades.
The children who had the work on their teeth completed at the clinic as part of the May Day Health Program were awarded tags and certificates which were provided by the State Board of Health and signed at the clinic.
The regular fee of twenty-five cents is charged for each visit. A detailed report follows :
Total number of patients treated . 699
Total number of deciduous extractions . ยท 290
Total number of prophylactic treatments . 263
Total number of fillings I38
Total number of treatments 3
Total number permanent extractions 3
Refused treatment
2
I am pleased to add that no time has been lost this year on account of a poorly heated room.
Respectfully submitted,
DR. ROGER P. BECKMAN.
Report of Supervisor of Physical Education
Mr. Jesse W. Lambert, Superintendent of Schools, Saugus, Mass.
DEAR SIR,-I herewith submit my third annual report as Supervisor of Physical Education in the Elementary Schools of Saugus, Mass.
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The past year has been one of the most successful years in the progress of the Physical Education program being carried out in the first six grades of the Saugus schools.
The pupil leadership has improved this year due to the teachers and pupils being accustomed to the system. This is carried out in the following manner. The leaders have com- plete charge of the class, giving all commands. They observe me the first lesson of the month, then take charge. I visit each room once a week observing the work and giving the necessary corrections. As in previous years, the leaders are changed each month when a new lesson is given.
Due to the contest offered by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, there has been a marked improvement in posture. Cards were given to all children having good posture, there were also cards for teeth and weight. If a pupil received the three cards he was awarded a ribbon badge for Child Health Day, that was held in May. There was keen competition in all the schools and there were very few of the children that did not win at least one of the cards. Posture has a very definite place in the school program not only in physical education but in every other subject. It has a great deal to do with the health and development of the school child and should be watched at all times.
In closing, let me thank you, Mr. Lambert, and all who have so willingly helped in the progress of physical education.
Respectfully submitted, SHIRLEY CLUCAS, Supervisor of Physical Education.
Report of Physical Director-High and Junior High Mr. Jesse W. Lambert, Superintendent of Schools,
Saugus, Mass.
DEAR SIR,-I submit herewith my annual report of the department of Athletics as well as the report of the department of Physical Education for the Junior and Senior High Schools.
Ten minutes each day is devoted to Physical Education, which is carried on in the class rooms by pupil leaders under the supervision of the home room teachers.
Weekly meetings are held by the supervisor and leaders at which time old exercises are analyzed and new exercises intro- duced.
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The drills are intended to give the pupil allround development of body and to correct physical defects.
The nature of the work is improving, although facing such handicaps as poor ventilation, obstructing seats, and clothing which is not suitable to the demands of exercising.
The Athletic Department is on the up-grade, but the progress is not rapid enough.
In many cases our athletics are competing against those of other schools who have had the benefit of Junior High School coaching and experience.
The Athletic Association must have more money in order that it may adequately finance the two major sports.
A gymnasium is the great need of our Athletic and Physical Education Departments.
I would suggest that athletics in the Junior High Schools be more thoroughly organized and funds raised for the equipment of teams.
I would also suggest that the girls of the Senior High School be given an opportunity to show their prowess at field hockey, or even baseball.
We need money, thorough organization and athletics for a much larger number.
In closing, I want to thank Mr. Webber and Mr. Young for their ever present help, the teachers who have given their hearty support, the leaders who are daily making the work a success and you, Mr. Lambert, for your interest and support.
Respectfully yours,
ALBION R. RICE.
Report of Opportunity Class
To the Members of the School Committee and
Superintendent of Schools.
The Opportunity Class here in Saugus has been in operation two months, and I know you will be interested to hear of our progress.
As you probably realize, the problems of a Special Class teacher are many. The first that confront her are :
I. To awaken the child's interest in school.
2. To stimulate in him a love of school.
3. To rebuild the school foundation.
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Heretofore, school has had very little lure to the backward child. He has known nothing but failure. Just imagine him trudging off to school every day, knowing that he will not be able to answer the teacher's questions or to do any of the problems set before him, while around him the children perform the tasks easily. In the regular class room the backward child experiences nothing but confusion, worry and discouragement. All this has tended to produce in him attitudes against schools, teachers, and his brighter class mates. During the past month my efforts in trying to overcome these attitudes have been most gratifying. I feel that every member of the class, with one rather hopeless exception, enjoys coming to school.
One rainy morning some of the children told me that they cried until their mothers allowed them to come to school. In fact, to one of my boys, the class has become his idea of Paradise.
"I wish I could stay here for the rest of my life," he says, "and forever, and ever, and ever."
Each one is so interested and eager to start his handwork every morning. And it is a pleasure to see the delight ex- perienced by the child in the knowledge that he can create something beautiful with his hands. He is now living in a new world, experiencing the thrill of success perhaps for the first time.
And now as to the problem of rebuilding the school found- ation. In this regard, the first thing a Special Class teacher must do is to forget the printed course of study. The child represents the course of study.
In a recent book entitled "Teaching of the Dull and Retarded Child," by Annie Dolman Inskeep, Ph. D., of Berkeley, California, she says, "With retarded children it is not a question of emphasizing the three "R's," but of laying stress on the three "H's ;" hand, head and heart ; a trained hand, guided by a thinking head, and controlled by disciplined emotions."
So the Special Class teacher should not have any precon- ceived ideas of what the child ought to do. It is her job to dig down and find out where he is, and then gently lead him up the way to social adjustment and citizenship, if possible, always keeping in mind the inability of the child to concentrate, the short memory span, the clumsiness of hands and feet and the lack of muscular coordination.
And as many of these children may never be able to do more
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than third or fourth grade work, the teacher should have vision and aim to train the child for adult efficiency, at the same time keeping in mind his present abilities and disabilities. These children must learn in school how to meet the everyday experi- ences of life, such as making change, writing a letter, using a dictionary, looking up a telephone number, sending a telegram, making out a money order, etc.
In our elementary work, too, the children are experiencing joy of success. They are now doing work according to their mental ages. One of my girls was so overjoyed when I allowed her to read a story to the class that she just threw her arms around me and hugged me, saying she was never able to read like that before.
The reaction on the parents has been equally favorable. Several mothers have called and expressed approval. One mother, at first very much set against sending her child to the class, later told me that the improvement in the nervous condi- tion of her child was remarkable.
In starting this Opportunity Class it has been a great help, as well as pleasure for me to meet with so much cooperation from everyone, and I am sure that you, Mr. Lambert, and the members of the School Committee should take great satisfaction in knowing that in establishing this class you have made seven- teen children very happy.
"He who makes a child happy makes a child happy forty years hence, with the memory of that happiness."
MARY A. WALSH.
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GENERAL SCHOOL STATISTICS
Number of school buildings in town
I3
Number of school buildings in use
13
*Number resident minors October 1, 1929, (census returns)
3,360
Number between ages of 5 and 7 .
417
Number between ages of 7 and 14
1,755
Number between ages 14 and 16
430
Number between ages of 16 and 21
758
Average school membership for school year ending June 1, 1929, 3,005
Average daily attendance for same period
2,812
Percentage of attendance for same period based on membership, 935
Enrollment fall term 1928 3,164
Population of Saugus
14,457
Assessed valuation of all taxable property including Dec- ember assessment . $14,712,529.00
Amount appropriated for all purposes
585,012.09
Total amount appropriated for schools (general) 197,600.00
Rate per cent of school appropriation (general expenses) to total appropriation .336
Total appropriation for school repairs
7,000.00
Valuation of school property including equipment 936,000.00
Rate per cent of valuation used for repairs .748
Appropriation for Trade School tuition
1,300.00 -
* This item shows aggregate of figures returned by the census enumer- ators. It seems impossible to secure names of all residents between ages of 5 and 21 years. They certainly earned their money, but it is quite evident that there are more persons of the various ages than returned figures show. A twenty per cent increase would be a fair estimate.
1928]
MEMBERSHIP BY GRADES AND BY SCHOOLS, JANUARY, 1930
SCHOOLS
GRADES
I
2
3
4
5
6
8
9
IO
II
12
Armitage
32
28
33
36
40
49
Ballard
41
42
42
40
40
3.5
Ballard
40
35
Cliftondale
39
40
41
45
Emerson
1 5
28
25
2I
42
Emerson
29*
IO*
39
Felton
46
42
46
47
47
44
Mansfield
39
42
37
45
163
Lynnhurst
IO*
18*
12*
23*
13*
15*
North Saugus*
16
15
18
19
16
12
Oaklandvale
24
20
19*
16*
16*
12*
Roby
36
42
43
45
42
38
246
Roby
48
48
Center*
14*
18*
32
64
Sweetser Junior
303
High School and
150
146
270
134
84
84
868
Junior High
Total by Grades
360
314
333
359
307
282
302
297
270
I34
84
84
3,126
* Two Grades in a room.
TOTAL
218
315
165
131
272
16
96
107
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
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7
152
151
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
[Dec. 31
REGISTRATION OF TEACHERS, SEPTEMBER, 1929
HIGH SCHOOL
Name and Residence
First Election
Subjects
Telephone
Harold J. Adlington 3 Pleasant street
1929
English and Civics 470-J
Eleanor Batchelder
5 Round Hill road
1929 Mathematics 138-R
Morelle Connell
17 Lander street, Lynn 192 I English
Breakers 4052-R
C. Carroll Cunningham
240 Lincoln avenue
1925 English
1267-W
Vernon W. Evans
61 Lincoln avenue
192 1
History
273-J
*Dorothy J. Eyre 29 Vincent street
1929
French and Latin
307-R
Harold E. Haley
II Franklin street
1929
Algebra and Science
617-J
Edward Hayes
295 Lincoln avenue
1925
Civics and Commercial Law
Bernice I .. Hayward
I Russell street, Peabody
1929
French
Danvers 62-43
Hazel C. Marison 19 First street
1921
Typewriting and Stenog. 186-R
M. Blanche Milbery 37 Avon street
1927
Typewriting 1046-J
Helen Moore
188 Palfrey St., Watertown
1928
Latin
Middlesex 0658-M
Albion Rice
93 Vine street
1929 Algebra I and Coach
363-M
Effie Stanhope
20 Summer street
1926
English
1158-J
Helen Towle
IO Blaisdell terrace, Lynn
1927
Latin and Spanish
Jackson 2039
Gladys Warren
27 Summer street 1923 History
456-M
Harold Warren
27 Summer street
1927 Physics
456-M
Elmer Watson
60 Summer street
1926 Mathematics
886-R
Robert R. Webber 60 Summer street 1922 Principal
886-R
Delbert A. Wheeler
192 I Chemistry and Biology
441-M
23 Jackson street Mabel C. Willey .
1918 Com'l Geography and Bus. Training
1151-M
Mabel Williams 62 Jasper street
41 Vine street
1918 English
176-R
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Name and Residence First Election Subjects Telephone
Amy Wiggin 2 Berry place, Peabody 1922 Bookkeeping and Com'l Arith. Peabody 1056-W
JANITORS
Andrew C. Lynn Edgar McDougall Raymond D. Hatch
17 E. Denver street II2-M
Denver terrace Avon street
CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH
*Esther Lovering 47 Birch street 1929 Reading and Spelling $46-R
Emma Hughes 16 Kent street
1914 English S 190-M
Evelyn Matthews
27 Clifton avenue 1926 Sewing 7 and 8
831-W
M. Eckles Nay
Io Centennial avenue 1920 History 8
Mittie J. Smith
Io Centennial avenue 1919 Arithmetic 8
Elizabeth B. Taylor
II Granite road
1914 Geography 746
Gwendolyn Walters 16 Pleasant street
1928 English 7 470-MI
Alice Willis
5 Willis street
1923 Arithmetic 7 365
Paul Bund
33 Ashland street
1925 Manual Training 7 and S
Malden 1972-J
Beatrice Armstrong
8 Palmer avenue
1929 French and Latin 165
SWEETSER JUNIOR HIGH
Lillian Connell
145 Lewis street, Lynn
1922 English S
Breakers 961-M
Helen Cunningham 240 Lincoln avenue
1929 French and Latin S 1267-W
Elizabeth Nelson
51 Essex street 1913 Arithmetic 7 207 -R
Alta Patten
42 Clifton avenue
1924 English 7 38S-M
M. Pearl Peterson
I Overlook terrace
1928 History S 518-M
Eleanor Rice
1921
Civics 56g
123 Lincoln avenue Vera Wentworth
7 Lincoln court
1929
Arithmetic S 90
D
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Name and Residence First Election Grade
Telephone
*Mildred Willard 7 Lincoln court Leon C. Young 8 Castle street
1929 Geography 7
90
1926 Principal 18-M
JANITOR
Frank Spencer
16 Jackson street
196-W
ARMITAGE SCHOOL
Lilla Quint, Principal
47 Essex street
1898
6
581-W
*Gertrude Chapman
17 Webster place, Malden
1929 5
Malden 4533-J
Elizabeth Mccullough
137 Main street
1929
3
617-M
Violet Martin 5 First street
1926
4
481-M
Jeannette Nicholson 31 Stone street
19II
I
502-M
Hazel Williams
13 Park street
1922
2
218-W
JANITOR
Joseph Quint
47 Essex street
581-W
BALLARD SCHOOL
Pauline Peckham, Principal
329 Central street
1908
6
895
Josephine Chadbourne
5 Round Hill road 1926
2
I38-R
Gladys Fox
13 Central place
1929
5 and 6
787-W
Dorothy Meeker
18 Highland avenue
1928
3
381-R
*Janet Tarbox
14 Nowell street
1929
5
603-R
Leora Tomlinson 15 Hillside avenue
1926
5
1067-W
Marjorie Wiggin
104 Ballard street
1927 I
352-W
Mary Wood
88 Chestnut street
1929
4
JANITOR
Daniel Radford
51 Lincoln avenue
794-M
1929]
CLIFTONDALE SCHOOL
Name and Residence
First Election Grade
Telephone
Myra Beckman, Principal 14 Essex street 1913
4 0505
Constance Putnam
117 Essex street
1929 I
-
8
Florence Stone
213 Lincoln avenue
1922
3
884-R
Clara Trowbridge
216 W. Foster street, Melrose 1892 2
Melrose 2618-W
JANITOR Maurice O'Neil
27 Birch street
421
EMERSON SCHOOL
*Ella Blaisdell, Principal
9 Emory street
1929
6
6
Gertrude Allen
62 Lincoln avenue
1929
4
529-M
Ruth Emery
94 Adams avenue
1929
4 and 5
393
Edith Russell
224 Lincoln avenue
1929
I and 2
1005
Mary H. Walsh
132 Putnam street
1928
2 and 3
219-J
JANITOR
Daniel Radford
51 Lincoln avenue
794-M
FELTON SCHOOL
Maria E. Smith, Principal
51 Essex street
1 892 6
207-R
Virginia Nason
7 Central place
1925
5
476
Cordelia Townsend
7 Central place
1925
3
476
Christina Bradley
31 Stone street
1929
4
502-M
Florence Gibson Birchwood avenue
1928
I
756-W
Doris Grant
31 Stone street
1926
2
JANITOR
Maurice O'Neil
27 Birch street
421
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LYNNHURST SCHOOL
Name and Residence First Election
Grade
Telephone
Mary Bridgham, Principal
54 Hanover street, Lynn
1921
5 and 6
Breakers 8483-MK
Blanche Love
Hargraves court
1927
3 and 4
Marie Reynolds
59 Pine street, Swampscott
192 I
I and 2
Breakers 422
JANITRESS
Mrs. Bert Pooler 75 Fairmount avenue
338-4
MANSFIELD SCHOOL
Alice L. Seaver, Principal
38 Chestnut street
1911
4
547-W
Hazel Lindsey
(Leave of absence)
1925
I
Marleah Graves
18 First street
1928 3
433-W
Marah Stebbins
1907 2
1084-R
JANITOR
Johnston Montgomery 26 Johnson road
151-W
NORTH SAUGUS SCHOOL
Sarah Curtis, Principal
43 Mount Vernon street
1923
5 and 6
688-M
Katherine Campbell
132 Walnut street
1927
3 and 4
998-5
Lillian Pooler
75 Fairmount avenue
1928
I and 2
338-R
JANITRESS
Sarah Porter
Broadway 274-W
OAKLANDVALE SCHOOL
* Mabelle Edmands, Principal
26 Jackson street
1929
3 and 4 IIO
Vida Norton
Broadway
1927
5 and 6
39-M
Florence Evans
14 Walden avenue
1929
2 and 3
Mary Cassidy
23 Woodbury avenue
1928
I
842-M
JANITOR
Joseph Quint 47 Essex street
581-W
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1929]
ROBY SCHOOL
Name and Residence
First Election Grades Telephone
Archibald Coldwell 30 Main street
1929
6
Elsie Anderson
33 Auburn street
1928
6
349-R
Rosa Bannon
21 Woodbury avenue
1927
3 and 4
842-M
Mae Butler
433 Central street
1926
I and 2
466-J
Catherine Cassey
5 Round Hill road
1928
5
138-R
Ethel Dorr
5 Round Hill road
1929
5
138-R
Elsie Foster
9 Foster street
1929
3
727-W
Esther McCarrier
29 Mountain avenue
1923
4
634-W
Julia Nourse
15 Pleasant street
1917
I
281-W
Myra Webber
20 Summer street
1927
2
1158-J
JANITOR
Louis Sylvester
50 Vine street
406-J
OPPORTUNITY CLASS
Mary Walsh
1929
Woburn 0637-R
SPECIALS
Shirley Clucas
7 Putnam street
1927
Physical Training
1069-J
Ethel Edwards
22 Summer street
1927
Music Supervisor
651-W
Gertrude Hickey
26 Summer street
1929
Asst. Music Supervisor 1157-M
Anstrice Kellogg
332 Lincoln avenue
1923
Drawing Supervisor
718-M
*Mabel Nelson
37 Spencer avenue
1929
Penmanship Supervisor 644-J
Arline Packard
43 Fairmount avenue
1929
Asst. Draw. Supervisor 892-J
*Teachers elected previous to 1929 but transferred :
Gertrude Chapman
1912
Mabelle Edmands 1923
Esther Lovering
1927
Elsie Foster
1920
Mildred Willard
1917
Mabel Nelson
1923
Ella Blaisdell
1925
Janet Tarbox 1928
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