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We should strive through the use of corrective procedures to eliminate physical defects and produce a better physique in chil- who are thus handicapped, whether the defects be congenial or acquired. This can be accomplished through the services of well trained people working with proper facilities and equipment. The greatest emphasis on a prevention program should occur in the elementary school. This will permit the correction when the child's body is most susceptible and amenable to such correction, and it will also lesson the amount of work necessary in the secondary school. This prevention program can be effective only when "causes of defects" are found and steps taken to "eliminate" or "minimize" them. They may be organized in the classes under following headings
I. Postural conditions-Turn head round shoulders-hollow back and improper balance.
2. Foot conditions-Structural and postural.
3. Heart Conditions-Functional, minor lesions, organic lesions well compensated, organic lesions where compensation is poor.
4. Overweight.
5. Underweight.
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6. Nerves-Chorea, speech defects infantile and other type of paralysis.
Health is indispensable to success and enjoyment of life. Boys and girls have little interest in health for health's sake, but every girl desires to be beautiful and every boy desires to be strong and athletic. The wise teacher will build on these natural interests. The end to be attained is not alone information but action ; not alone knowledge but habitual maintenance of stand- ard in behavior according to health laws with respect to develop- mental activities, nutrition, sleep and rest, sanitation and avoid- ance of infection.
A consciousness of good posture should be inculated in the child at the earliest possible age and condition which cause poor posture should be eliminated. Posture is closely related to health and personality. It affects the circulation, respiration, digestion and elimination of the human body. Habitually poor posture indicates weakness of important muscles and faulty coordination between different groups of muscles. The most common faulty postural conditions among school children are foot conditions and the traditional "fatigue" posture. Improved position of the feet and legs, strengthening of the external abdominal muscles, con- trol of the tilt of the pelvis are important factors in securing cor- rect alignment of the body segments.
"The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain is at once the greatest earthly problem and the grandest hope of the race."-Die Lewis.
One week of each term is spent assisting the School Nurse, Mrs. Donovan in weighing and measuring the children.
For the assistance which the grade teachers have so willingly offered,-the interest of the School Committee, and the encourage- ment from you, Mr. Lambert, I am most appreciative.
Respectfully submitted,
CATHERINE R. GRIFFIN.
Report of Physical Education and Athletic Departments Junior and Senior High Schools
Mr. Jesse W. Lambert, Superintendent of Schools, Saugus, Mass.
DEAR SIR,-I submit herewith the report of the Physical Training and Athletic Departments of Saugus Senior and Junior High Schools.
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Physical Education in both the Senior and Junior High Schools is carried on by pupil leaders under the supervision of home room teachers.
The rooms have become more crowded each year with the result that a great variety of exercises is impossible. The nature of the clothing worn by students also prohibits any. intensive or extensive drill which could be carried on in modern gymnasiums.
Shortened hours at school and overlapping of duties have created a situation whereby the instructor does not have the opportunity to meet leaders as often and for as long a period as he should. In spite of this condition, the physical training leaders are carrying on courageously and well.
Both Mr. Evans and Mr. Young have lent their support and shown keen interest in the work.
Our aim has been to give the students better posture, better coordination between mind and muscle, greater health and body development.
Athletics at Saugus High School are on the up-grade. During the past two years your football teams have won twelve games while losing seven and tying two. In no game have your boys been badly beaten during the same period.
Our relations with other schools have been very friendly and our opponents have commended us on our clean and sportsmanlike play.
The baseball teams have shown improvement also. Saugus High hopes to be represented by a team in the North Shore league this spring-a team that should give a good account of itself.
Our needs are many and varied-first, lockers in which to keep individual equipment ; second, more showers to hasten the after- practice baths ; third, a stronger storage room for equipment ; fourth, a gymnasium.
In closing I wish to thank you, Mr. Lambert and members of the School Committee, for your interest and support.
Respectfully submitted,
A. R. RICE.
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Report on Opportunity Class
Mr. Jesse W. Lambert, Superintendent of Schools :
MY DEAR SIR,-I herewith submit my second annual report.
The enrollment in the Opportunity Class is practically the same as that of last year. A few changes have been made, how- ever, due to the shifting population.
Miss Vera Hanson is still in charge of the younger group of children, while I have the older group.
There is an advantage in being with the same class another year. We have become fully acquainted with the pupils' abili- ties and limitations in each subject and can proceed intelligently with the work to the greater benefit of the child.
This school is well named "Opportunity School" since it gives children who were failing in the grades the chance to suc- ceed, which is every child's right. Due to our intensive training, some children are able to return to regular grade work again. One such pupil was promoted to the fifth grade this year, and is doing creditable work.
The children who would be entirely submerged in the grades have shown a marked improvement in many subjects, and can progress only with the special type of attention that the Oppor- tunity Class gives.
An exhibition of the children's academic and handwork was held in the school last June, when examples of needlework, basketry, woodworking, and chair caning were on display. A visitor from the State House found ours the best conducted Op- portunity Class in this vicinity.
The children particularly enjoy the handwork, and derive many benefits from it. They make articles useful to their par- ents, and several children have earned money by caning chairs and by selling hot plate mats and baskets made here. Any extra material used is obtained by the pupils at cost.
The year just closed has been very successful in every respect, and I wish to thank Mr. Lambert and others who by their inter- est and cooperation have helped to make it so.
Respectfully submitted,
MARY P. MULLINS.
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GENERAL SCHOOL STATISTICS
Number of school buildings in town
13
Number of school buildings in use . ·
13
Number of resident minors October 1, 1931
3,941
Number between the ages of 5 and 7 years
595
Number between the ages of 7 and 14 years
1,915
Number between the ages of 14 and 16 years
542
Number between the ages of 16 and 21 years .
889
Average school membership for school year ending July 1, 1931 3,226
Average daily attendance for same period
3,068
Percentage of attendance for same period, based on membership 951
Enrollment fall term 1930
3,384
Population of Saugus
15,500
Assessed valuation of all taxable property including Dec- ember assessment and valuation of motor vehicles
$14,603,578.00
Amount appropriated for all purposes including motor excise commitment
601,385.51
Amount appropriated for school salaries
186,008.00
Amount appropriated for schools (general)
29,070.00
Total amount exclusive of repairs 215,078.00
Per cent of school appropriation to total appropriation .358
Amount appropriated for schoolhouse repairs.
8,605.00
Valuation of school property including equipment
947,275.00
Per cent of valuation used for repairs
.009
Appropriation for trade school tuition
1,500.00
The number of persons between 5 and 21 years of age is probably larger than is indicated above. It is well nigh impossible to get a complete census.
MEMBERSHIP BY GRADES AND BY SCHOOLS, JANUARY, 1932
SCHOOLS
GRADES
I
2
3
+
5
6
S
9
IO
II
12
Total
Armitage
40
37
36
30
31
29
Ballard
40
39
43
39
31
39
Ballard
37
39
Cliftondale
40
+3
32
35
Emerson
42
23
IO
33
26
Emerson
17
Felton
44
41
40
42
38
35
Lynnhurst
23
1 2
18
19
16
18
106
Mansfield
34
37
41
37
I 49
North Saugus
20
IS
1 6
17
22
19
Oaklandvale
16
19
1 3
15
I 5
17
Roby
29
3.5
33
40
21
22
Roby
28
30
40
Centre
31
28
59
Special Class (ungraded)
2 1
34
34
Sweetser (Grades)
14
33
136
Sweetser Junior High
2 1
139
J39
Central Junior High
156
299
455
High School
329
176
124
109-7
P.G.
745
356
335
327
337
285
346
295
299
329
176
124
109-7
3,346
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TOWN DOCUMENTS.
10
TOTAL
·
7
203
307
150
151
240
I 12
95
278
Sweetser (Grades)
-
1931]
REGISTRATION OF TEACHERS, SEPTEMBER, 1930
HIGH SCHOOL
Name and Residence
First Election
Subjects Telephone
Vernon W. Evans 88 Chestnut street
1921 Principal 805
Eleanor Batchelder
25 Summer street Walter D. Blossom
1930 Mathematics
1157-M
II Vine street
1930
Commercial Geography 1355-K
17 Lander street, Lynn 192 [ English XI
Breakers 4052-R
C. Carroll Cunningham 240 Lincoln avenue
1925
English X 1431
Ashton Davis 172 Essex street
1930 English IX
John Gifford
73 Chestnut street
1930
Physics
533-R
Harold Haley
II Franklin street
1929
Algebra I
Edward Hayes
369 Lincoln avenue
1925
Com. Law and Economics 841
Bernice Hayward
I Russell street, Peabody
1929
French (Head of Dept. ) Dan. 62-43
Hazel Marison
19 First street
1921
Stenog-Type (Head of Dept.) 196-R
M. Blanche Milbery
57 Avon street
1927
Typewriting 1046-J
Helen Moore
188 Palfrey street, Watertown 1928 Latin Middlesex 3776-R
Ruth Motherwell
22 Warwick road, Melrose
1931
English (Head of Dept.) Mel. 0692
Thomas Perkins
39 Bailey avenue
1931
French
II71-W
Abraham Pinciss
125 Winter street
1930
Commercial Arithmetic 859-M
Harry Potts
So Western avenne
1931 Biology
Albion Rice
345 Salem street
1929
Algebra I and Coach
I197-M
Effie Stanhope
1926
English XII
1158-J
John Taylor
16 Fairview avenue
1931
Business Training
621-M
*Dorothy Thompson
39 Pearson street
1931 English IX
20 Summer street
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
41
Morelle Connell
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Name and Residence
First Election Subjects Telephone
Helen Towle
IO Blaisdell terrace, Lynn
1927 Spanish
Jackson 2039
Gladys Warren 2S Western avenue
1923 Ancient History
Harold Warren 2S Western avenue
1927
General Science
Elmer Watson 13 Baker street
1926
Mathematics
Delbert Wheeler
23 Jackson 192 I Chemistry (Head of Dept.) 441-M
Alice Willis 5 Willis street
1923 Civics 36
Mabel Willey
41 Vine street
1918 Bookkeeping 1151-M
Frank Gracey, submaster 14 Myrtle street Welcome W. Mccullough 280 Central street
1930 U. S. History 1386-J
1930 English IX 284
JANITORS
Andrew C. Lynn
17 East Denver street
364-J
Raymond D. Hatch
6 Avon street
493-R
Edgar MacDougall
Denver terrace
CENTRAL JUNIOR HIGH
Leon C. Young, Principal
5 Chestnut St., Woburn 1926
Woburn 0118-W
Paul Bund
33 Ashland St., Malden 1925 Manual Training Malden 1972-J
Beatrice Armstrong
S Palmer avenue
1929
French VIII 165
Sita Allen 19 Ernest street
1931
Arithmetic
Lillian Connell
43 Fairmount avenue 1930
Literature VIII
Ruth Douglass
35 Marlboro St., Belmont 1930 Sewing
Emma Hughes
16 Kent street
1914 English VIII
190-M
Bertha Morrison
46 Elaine avenue
1930
Mathematics 485
M. Eckless Nay
132 So. Common St., Lynn
1920 U. S. History VIII Breakers 10225
* Pearl Peterson
I Overlook terrace
1931 U. S. History VIII
518-M
*Eleanora Rice
123 Essex street
1931 Civics-Literature 569
1931]
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
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Name and Residence
First Election Subjects
Telephone
Mittie Smith
7 Centennail avenue
1919
Mathematics
326-W
Shirley Russell 224 Lincoln avenue
1931
English VIII
1005
Kathryn Staples
180 Summer street, Malden 1931 Literature and English
002 I
Elizabeth B. Taylor
II Granite road
1914 Geography VII
746
Gwendolyn Walters 16 Pleasant street
1928 English VII
1157-J
*Vera Wentworth 7 Lincoln court
1931 Mathematics VIII 90
SWEETSER GRADES V TO VIII INCLUSIVE
L. C. Young, Supervisory Principal, VII and VIII
Alfred Adams 17 Granite Road
1931 Principal V and VI also teacher of English
565-W
*Gladys Fox
13 Central place
1931 Spelling-Literature
787-W
Elizabeth Nelson 51 Essex street
1913
Mathematics
1350-R
* Mildred Willard
7 Lincoln court
193 1
Geography
90
Ella Bailey
34 Western avenue
1931
V and VI
465-M
Gertrude Chapman
17 Webster place, Malden
1912
V
4533-J
*Segrid Carlson 380 Broadway
1931
VI
Mae Priest
8 Stocker street
1930
VI
JANITOR
Frank Spencer
16 Jackson street
196
ARMITAGE SCHOOL
Lilla Quint, Principal
47 Essex street
IS98
VI
581-W
Harriet Mellen
26 Mt. Vernon street
1930
V
385
Hazel Adams
53 Summer street
1922
II
298-W
Elizabeth Mccullough 137 Main street
1929
III
617-M
Jeanette Nicholson 75 Clifton avenue
19II
I
758-M
Mary Walsh
132 Putnam street
1930
IV
1471-J
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JANITOR Joseph Quint
47 Essex street 581-W
BALLARD SCHOOL
Name and Residence
First Election Grades
Telephone
Pauline Peckham. Principal 329 Central street 1908
895
Josephine Chadbourne
5 Round Hill road
1926
I-II
138-R
Phyllis Specht
6 Winter street
1931
IV
1184-M
*Evelyn Fenna
5 Round Hill road
1931
III
138-R
Janet Tarbox
14 Nowel street
1928
V
603-R
Leora Tomlinson
12 Hillside avenue
1926
VI
1067-W
Marjorie Wiggin
104 Ballard street
1927
I
1205-W
Mary Wood
S2 Chestnut street
1929
V
JANITOR Daniel Radford
51 Lincoln avenue
794-M
CLIFTONDALE SCHOOL
Myra Beckman, Principal
14 Essex street
1913 IV 595
Marleah Graves
18 First street
1928 II
433-W
Constance Putnam 117 Essex street 1929 I
8
Florence Stone
213 Lincoln avenue
1922 III
884-R
JANITOR
Maurice O'Neil
25 Birch street 421
EMERSON SCHOOL
Name and Residence
First Election Grades
Telephone
Ella Blaisdell, Principal
IO1 Summer street, Malden
1925 V
Malden 4525-M
Charlotte Laurence
31 Stone street
1930
II-III
502-M
Edith Russell
224 Lincoln avenue
1929 I 1105
Gertrude Allen
5 Round Hill road 1929
III-IV
138-R
VI
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1931]
JANITOR
Daniel Radford
51 Lincoln avenue
Tel. 794-M
FELTON SCHOOL
Name and Residence
First Election
Grades
Telephone
Maria Smith, Principal 51 Essex street
1892
VI
1350-R
Christina Bradley
31 Stone street
1929
IV
502-M
Florence Gibson
Birchwood avenue
1928
I
756-W
Virginia Nason
7 Central place
1925
V
476
S. Cordelia Townsend 7 Central place
1925
III
476
Evelyn Ward
7 Garfield avenue
1931
II
429-R
JANITOR
Maurice O'Neil
25 Birch street
421
LYNNHURST SCHOOL
Mary Bridgham, Principal
54 Hanover street, Lynn
1921
V-VI
Blanche Love
Hargraves court
1927
III-IV
1378-W
Marie Reynolds
59 Pine street, Swampscott
1921
I-II
Breakers 422
JANITRESS Mrs. Elizabeth Pooler
75 Fairmount avenue
892-J
MANSFIELD SCHOOL
Alice Seaver, Principal
38 Chestnut street
1911 IV
309-W
Hazel Lindsey
13 Wakefield avenue
1925
I
672-J
Bernice Seigle
16 Clifton street
1931
III
1327
Marah Stebbins
16 Smith road
1907
II
299-R
JANITOR
Johnston Montgomery
26 Johnson road
151-W
16
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NORTH SAUGUS SCHOOL
Name and Residence
First Election Grades
Telephone
Sarah Curtis, Principal
43 Mt. Vernon street
1923
V-VI
688-M
Dorothy Mason
132 Walnut street
1930
JII-IV
988-5
Vivian Smith
132 Walnut street
1931
I-II
988-5
JANITRESS
Mrs. Sarah Porter
Broadway
274-W
OAKLANDVALE SCHOOL
Elsie Foster, Principal
38 Chestnut street
1920 III and IV
727-W
Florence Evans
11 Walden avenue
1929 I and II
416-W
Vida Norton
Broadway
1927 V and VI
823-R
JANITOR
Joseph Quint 47 Essex street
581-W
ROBY SCHOOL
Archibald Coldwell, Principal
66 Summer street
1929
VI
59-W
Rosa Bannon
53 Summer street
1927
II
298-W
Mae Butler
433 Central street
1926
III
Katherine Casey
5 Round Hill road
1928 V
138-R
Esther McCarrier
29 Mountain avenue
1923
IV
634-W
Myra Webber
20 Summer street
1927
II
1158-J
Julia Nourse
15 Pleasant street
1917 I
1275
*Dorothy Meeker
18 Highland avenue
1931
III
381-R
Ethel Dorr
5 Round Hill road
1929 V and VI 138-R
Helen Everett
37 Harrison avenue
1931 I
658-R
JANITOR
Louis Sylvestor 50 Vine street
380
1931]
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SPECIALS
Name and Residence
First Election Grades Telephone
Ethel Edwards
39 Summer street
1927 Music
I281
Gertrude Hickey 26 Summer street
1929
Music
1157-M
Anstrice Kellogg
332 Lincoln avenue
1923
Drawing
234-J
Mabel Nelson
37 Spencer avenue
1929
Penmanship
644-J
Arline Packard
43 Fairmount avenue
1929 Drawing
Catherine Griffin
I Central place
1931 Physical Training
787-M
OPPORTUNITY CLASS
Mary Mullins
22 Summer street
1930
651-W
Vera Hanson
28 Pearson street
1930
* Teachers elected previous to 1931 but transferred :
Dorothy Thompson
1930
Mildred Willard 1917
Pearl Peterson
1928
Segrid Carlson
1930
Eleanora Rice 192 I
Evelyn Fenna 1930
Vera Wentworth 1929
Dorothy Meeker
1928
Gladys Fox 1929
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