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However, If any positive reactors to the test are found they will be reported to the Public Health Nurse who will be responsible for me follow up of the reactor and all close contacts.
2. Dental Clinic
Due to the fact that the School Department employs three School Nurses, examination of the teeth of the pupils in grades one through five was done by the School Nurses.
It is my duty to transport those in need of dental care to and from the clinic. This clinic ts held every Tuesday and Thursday morning at the Cliftondale School, Earl E. Chadsey, D.M.D. is in charge of this clinic.
Total no. of pupils screened 2926
Total no. of visits 491
No. of new patients 112
No. of old patients 44
No. of extractions 174
No. of fillings 168
No. of cleanings 145
No. of treatments 4
3. Each month cards are sent out to parents of infants four months of age to remind them to have their children immunized against Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis.
No of cards sent out to date 430
4. Inspections
No. of Nursing Homes . 1
No. of Kindergartens 5
5. Well Child Conference
The Well Child Conference is conducted the first and third Wednes- days of each month at the Veterans' of Foreign Wars building at 190
Main Street. Walter V. Gilman, M.D. is in charge of this clinic. Total no. of visits 186
No. of new patients 22
No. of old patients 30
No. of patients immunized 52
No. of vaccinations 19
No. of revaccinations .4
No. of clinics held 20
6. Immunization Clinics
Clinics for immunization against Diphtheria, Tetanus and Per- tussis were held at the Board of Health Office on October 5th, No- vember 2nd and December 7th for the pupils of the first grades and kindergartens. This clinic is under the direction of Edwin B. Faulkner, M. D.
Total no. of inoculations given 134
A clinic for booster inoculations for students of the sixth and eleventh grades was held at the Board of Health Office on November 2nd.
Total no. of innoculations given 152
7. Premature Babies
The Premature Baby Law states that the Board of Health is liable for the care of premature infants weighing fivepounds or less at birth providing that the parents are unable to pay and application is made within thirty days after birth, and providing that the parents have a legal settlement in the Town.
No. of premature births 32
No. of applications made for assistance 6
No. of applicants assisted 2
Total amount spent for hospital care $492.00
Total number of days of hospital care paid for 41 8. Asiatic Flue Inoculations
A clinic was held in the Board of Health Office for the Town em- ployees requesting Asiatic Flue inoculations on October 11, 1963. Edwin B. Faulkner, M.D. was in charge of this clinic.
Total no. of inoculations given . .. 82
9. Polio Clinic - Sabin Oral Vaccine Type 1.
Clinics for the administration of this vaccine were held at the Board of Health Office in January.
Total no. of pre-school children given this vaccine , 164
Total no. of school children given this vaccine 83
Total no. of adults given this vaccine 1781
Clinics for the administration of Sabin Oral Vaccine Type Il were held at the Board of Health Office in March.
Total no. of pre-school children given this vaccine 1917
Total no. of school children given this vaccine 4381
Total no. of adults given this vaccine 2121
Clinics for the administration of Sabin Oral Vaccine Type III were held at the Board of Health Office in May.
Total no. of pre-school children given this vaccine . 302
1963 Report Superintendent Of Schools
LE ts with a profound sense of despondency that I submit this 1963 Annual School Report .* I am deeply troubled, not alone by the calamity of two school building fires,"* and their evil impact on the well-being of our young people, but also by the contentious spirit that has followed in the wake of these disasters. It is a time for the entire community to close ranks to resolve, with all speed, the almost bopeless situatioo which threatens to place the whole Saogus School System - which is to say the whole school populatioo - in limbo.
A gloomy situatioo before the fires; a black situation now.
To preview the immediate future:
There is little, if anything, that can now be dooe by the School Committee and the administration about the housing of elementary school pupils than to load the classrooms to the maximum; to juggle elementary school pupils among the classrooms that are available; to secure 'temporary' quarters for some or to arrange two platooning for them. This is the school year 1964-1965.
Meantime, the senior high school pupils must continue to attend school in two platoons .*** The junior high school pupils must now attend school in a building. that, despite every effort at par- titioning, will be completely bar- ren of facilities for carrying on an adequate junior high school program.
Under Chapter 17, the law governing the Town of Saugus, the School Committee bas abso- lutely no power over the construc-
tioo of school buildings and not power to correct and improve its school buildings and their mechanical equipment, except for very mioor repairs. This power is delegated to the Town Manager.
The key that will unlock the rusted school bousing padlock ts the immediate construction of the new junior high school building that the School Committee mem- bers have beeo attempting to se- cure since the Special Town Meet- ing of June 1, 1959 -- the junior high school building that should have been ready for occupancy last September - September 1963.
* This is the seventy-first An- nual Saugus School Report, and my seveoth Annual Report in the series.
** On October first, 1963, fire destroyed the junior high school building, but did not damage the three-story Central Elementary School section of the complex.
On October 22, 1963, fire de- stroyed three classrooms and the corridor of the 'East Wing' of the Saugus High School building and completely immobilized this sec- tion of the building for school use.
*** The Saugus High School building (when the East Wing ts repaired) has secondary school facilities to schedule between 1250. and 1300 pupils. The enrollment predicted for the next school year is between 1475 and 1500 pupils. Possibly by the continued use of the noisy, partitioned spaces - which immobilize use of the cafe- teria, library and "all-purpose" room - two platooning might be eliminated for one year. However,
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Total no. of school children given this vaccine 716
Total no. of adults given this vaccine 1058
A Make Up Clinic for the administration of Sabin Oral Vaccine Type I was held at the Board of Health Office in June.
Total no. of pre-school children given this vaccine 59 Total no. of school children given this vaccine . . 12 Total no. of adults given this vaccine . 101 Total number of doses of Sabin Oral Vaccine given (Types 1, II and III) 12,695
10. Contagious Diseases reported to the Board of Health. Disease No. of cases 27
Chicken Pox
German Measles 9
Measles 5
Mumps 93
Salmonellosis
Scarletina 6
Tuberculosis (all forms)
3
Whooping Cough
1
146
The number of cases reported above is not an accurate figure. This was the number of cases reported to the Health Department but there were many more cases not reported as many parents do not call a physician for measles, chicken pox, etc. and do not under- stand that they should report it to the Board of Health even if they do not call a Doctor.
Reportable non-catagious Dog bites . 137
11. House calls made for contagious diseases and other miscellane- ous complaints . 121
1 have attended classes in Mental Health, conferences on Tuber- culosis and an all day institute on Day Care Centers.
The State Department of Public Health is now supplying tubercu- lostatic drugs free of charge. It is my responsibility to pick up these drugs and distribute them to the patients.
At this time 1 wish to express my most sincere gratitude to the Graduate Nurses, Mrs. Herbert Amidon and her volunteer workers who gave so generously of their valuable time and assistance to the various clinics conducted.
I am deeply indebted to the members of the Board of Health, the Agent and Clerk, Doctors and the School Department for their ex- cellent cooperation and assistance in carrying out the various pro- iects for the year.
Respectfully submitted, Mildred H. Derrah R.N. Public Health Nurse Board of Health
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IN-SERVICE ACTIVITIES OF THE EDUCATIONAL STAFF
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
In capsule form, there is pre- sented below in the PREFACE and in my FOREWORD, a des- cription of the Language Arts. Study Guide developed by the elementary school staff during the school year 1962-1963. PREFACE
Under the direction of Drs. B. Alice Crossley and J. Richard Chambers as consultants from Boston University, the following teachers and principals develop- ed this guide for the teaching of the Language Arts in the Saugus Public Schools:
Althea Adelhelm, Charles J. Aftosmes, Muriel Bacon, Alice - Bennett, Eleanor R. Burbank, Josephine Chadbourne, Garnet Cos. Marleah Graves, Joan J. Hanlon, Dorothy E. Hart, Doro- thea Hawkins, Leonora Jervis, Mary T. Lavin, Doris Lennox, Faith Mead, Sophie Melewski, Ruth Menko, Crace L. Myers, Joanne Nugent, Marilyn Partiss, Mary R. Powers, Irene Reardon, Evelyn L. Rich, Helen Rippon, 5elma D. Rosenfield, Horace Shuff, Mary H, Walsh, Phyllis Wheeler, Emogene Wilhelm, Marjorie Wil- kinson, Gertrude Wirling.
An editorial committee, consist- ing of the following persons, edited submitted manuscripts:
Josephine Chadbourne, Mary R. Powers, Marleah Graves, Helen Rippon, Dorothy E. Hart, Certrude Wirling.
FORWARD
Throughout the school year 1962- 1963, the Saugus elementary school staff devoted itself to an intensive study of the language arts offer- ing - jis content, its teaching techniques and its specific objec- tives, The work culminated in the preparation of this 'Language Arts Study Guide for the Saugus Public Schools'. The entire project rep- resents a determined professional effort by the staff - first to dis- cover, and then toutilize, effective procedures for helping children to acquire a lively interest in the skillful use and substantial com- prehension of their mother tongue.
In the whole realm of elementary school education, this interest and these abilities are of first import- ance to the pupil, for facility in the use of his language is a faculty that is imperative in the process of acquiring an ever-filling reser- voir of knowledge and the con- stant attainment of higher plateaus of intellectuality.
But these attributes have so- cial as well as individual value; indeed they are demanded by the increasing complexity of our so- ciety. Peter Drucker has said, "Since we (now) live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare man for work that does not yet exist and can not be clearly defined, He must acquire basic tools of analysis, of expres- sion, of understanding." * Another Writer says, "Tomorrow requires something the world has never seen - masses of intellectuals .** **
This *Study Cuide", then, and the staff understandings that were en- larged in its making, contribute 10 an area of elementary school instruction that holds incalculable values for every 5augus pupil. Rhoden B. Eddy
Superintendent of Schools
September 10, 1963
* Peter F. Drucker - 'Land- marks of Tomorrow'.
** Charles E. Silberman - 'The Remaking of American Educa- tion', Fortune Magazine - April 1, 1961.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS
During the school year 1963-
1964, the elementary school teachers are carrying on a study of a modern mathematics pro- gram with Mr. James Henkelman, who is with us; for this year only (1963-1964), in the capacity of a teacher and supervisor of the Mo- dern Mathematics program -throughout the whole school sys- tem.
Secondary Schools
Throughout the school year 1962- 1963 the secondary school mathe- matics teachers studied inten- sively with Mr. Henkelman the concepts, the materials and the techniques of teaching a Modern Mathematics program. The course with Mr. Henkelman was com- pleted in June, but Mr. Henkel- .man was employed for the present school year (1963-1964) to teach a pilot program in the secondary schooi grades, to assist the teach- ers in establishing firmly the Mo- dern Mathematics program at the secondary school level, and, as re- ported above, to work with the ele- mentary school in
teachers establishing those elements of Modern Mathematics applicable to elementary school arithmatic.
5AUCUS HICH 5CHOOL
Below is the Report of Mr. Ash- ton Davis, Saugus High School Principal; I am incorporating Mr. Davis'es Report within the body of my report.
I hope that this Report will be read by every citizen, not only because it details the serious difficulties that have beset the senior high school population dur- ing the past school year, but also becuase it is so revealing of the accomplishments of the staff and the administration,
While the population of Saugus High School numbers approxi- mately 1500 pupils, it is a well staffed school with a Principal, two Vice Principals, a Dean of Girls, a Guidance Staff of four "full-time people, Department Heads for each major subject mat- ter field and a relatively ample secretarial and clerical staff of four people. Civen this staff an appropriate facilities, Saugus High 5chool is in a position 10 do an outstanding comprehensive High School job. This is exactly the goal being attempted so success- fully.
Mr. Davis'es Report follows: January, 1964
REPORT OF THE
HICH 5CHOOL PRINCIPAL
In writing of the disastrous events that plaqued the City of London in 1666, John Dryden des- cribed that year as the annus mirabilis. The year 1963 surely the annus mirabilis of the Saugus school system. The Junior High School fire on October first and the High School fire three weeks later were so catastrophic that all of our resources and ingen- uity have been taxed in our at- tempts to maintain a sound curri- cular program. To those of us whose energies have been direct- ed toward the development and improvement of 5augus High "School, the experiences of the last few months have been frustrating, to say the least.
„ The High School had begun the current school year with confi- dence that Improvements were In the making. Although we were on a two-platoon scheduie with 1150 pupils of grades 10, 11 and 12 going 10 school in the morning and the 350 freshmen attending in the afternoon, we were coming close to preserving our curricular standards and a major portion of our co-curricular program. The heavy turnover of teachers that had afflicted the School for the Jast seven years appeared to have
been in check, when, in Septem- ber all but five teachers of a staff of eighty returned.
On the fifth school day after the first fire, pupils of grades seven and eight, numbering over 800, began holding afternoon class- es with our freshmen in the High School. To help accomplish this move, the High School adminis- tration found it necessary to pro- vide twenty-eight ciassrooms, and several offices, storerooms, and other facitilies for the Junior High School. We re-scheduled some of our own classes; canceled tem- porarily make-up sessions and after-school classes in typewrit- ing, French, Russian and drIving; and eliminated assemblies and all meetings of our twenty-five clubs and the student council. Facili- ties had to be taken away from our guidance and office personnel to meet the needs of the Junior High School. Eventually we were forced to revise our bell schedule. further shortening our already abreviated classroom periods.
Then occurred the fire in our east wing, as a result of which we lost the use of fourteen class- rooms, including all of our science laboratories, Furthermore, for a period of two months we were also deprived of the use of our language laboratory because of water damage,
Another four-day-no-school period ensued after the second fire, this time for both the junior and senior high schools, while temporary partitions were erected in the multi-purpose room, gym- nasium, cafeteria, and library, and classes were rescheduled. Lockers and desks and other fur- niture salvaged from the junior high school fire were brought in; additional desks were transferred -from the east wing.
Conditions in these temporary rooms are deplorabie. Rooms are essentially noisy, since all con- versation is audible from adjacent rooms, Teachers lack sufficient chalkboard and bulletin board space. Heating in some areas has been inadequate on very cold days.
Corridors are jammed to the extent that five minutes is re- quired between periods for pass- . ing. Each locker is being used by at least two and sometimes tbree pupils. With our multi- purpose room and gymnasium sec- tioned into classrooms, we were forced to substitute health instruc- tion for our physical education program. Our - intramural sports program that was very successful in preceding years has been aban- doned,
In recounting the hardships Im- posed upon the school, I would be remiss If 1 were not to make it clear that the loyalty, coopera- tion, and forbearanceof our faculty and students have been most com- mendable. Their resourcefulness in bettering conditions whereposs- ible and thelr cheerfulness in ac- cepting adversity over which we have no control have been magni- ficent.
When It became impossible for pupils to perform experiments be- cause of the loss of the science laboratories, teachers of biology and chemistry conducted dernon- strations through the use of port- able laboratories. Fortunately, the PSSC physics course makes mucb use of kits and simple home- made apparatus which students have been abie to furnish. The science department teachers have continued to provide students with encouragement and often with equipment to do creditable indi- vidual work on special projects
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PROJECTED 5CHOOL ENROLLMENTS as of December, 1963
Actual
Enrollments 1962 - 1963 GRADE 1963 1964
Estimated Enrollments
1967 1968 1969
1970
1965
1966 1967
1968 1969 1970
1971
I
498
527
530
530
530
540
540
540
550
11
457
496
527
530
530
530
540
540
540
III
492
472
496
527
530
530
530
540
540
1V
464
502
472
496
527
530
530
530
540
V
460
447
502
472
496
527
530
530
530
VI
449
462
447
502
472
496
527
530
530
Speclal
27
26
26
26
26
26
26
26
26
ELEM.
TOT.
2847 2932
3000
3083 3111
3179 3223 3236
3256
VII
385
437
462
447
502
472
496
527
530
VIII
412
373
437
462
447
502
472
496
527
JHS. TOT.
797
810
899
909
949
974
968 1023
1057
IX
416
376
373
437
462
447
502
472
496
X
369
425
376
373
437
462
447
502
472
X1
383
347
425
376
373
437
462
502
XII
275
358
347
425
376
373
437
462 437
462
.
(1521)*(1611/1648 ) 1719 1848 1873 1475
1667 1793 1817
1874
Totals 5087 5248
5820 5984 6076 6187
* Includes P.C.'s and Specials
** This adjusted total used in town total.
1963 ANNUAL TOWN REPORT
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use of the partitioned spaces and. the larger number of pupils in the building must be approved(and allowed) by the Massachusetts De- partment of Public Safety.
Elementary School Crade and Classroom Statistics It is important that the citizens understand the difficult problems of housing the elementary school boys and girls in the years ahead. The statistics that follow should be enlightening:
SCHOOL CLASSROOMS GRADE5 Armitage 8 8
Ballard
6
6
Cliftondale
4
4
4
4
6
3
10
North Saugus
4
4
4
4
12
8
8
Centre
4
4
5weetser
9
9
Veterans Memorial
25
24
Central Elementary
12
10
Totals 119 94
(1963-1964)
When the junior high school (grades 7 & 8) preempt the pupils at Veterans Memorial 5chool, there will be 25 fewer elemen- tary school ciassrooms available, or exactly 94. The number of elementary school grades to be housed for the remainder of the school year 1963-1964 is 94. The reader will note that the count includes the available rooms in the OLD Oaklandvale, OLD Lynn- hurst, and OLD Centre 5chool buildings.
For the next school year, 1964- 1965, present estimates indicate that 101 elementary school grades 'must be housed - that is, that 101 elementary school classrooms will be needed. In other words, 5EVEN elementary school grades will have to be housed in some sort of 'tem- porary' quarters if the estimate is correct.
It should be noted, further, that
every 5augus 5chool Building Sur- vey, beginning with the excellent Survey prepared by Mr. Patrick Cusick* and dated JANUARY 31, 1950, has recommended abandon- ment, at the earliest time possible, of the following old scool build- ings:
Oaklandvale - Centre - Lynn- hurst - North 5augus - Emerson- Felton.
Quite obviously none of these buildings can be abandoned now, despite the construction of the new Oaklandvale and Lynnhurst 5chool buildings. When the Veter- ans Memorial 5chool building is returned for use as an elemen- tary school building, the total count of elementary school class- rooms would be, again, 119. In this event. abandoning the OLD Oaklandvale, OLD Lynnhurst and OLD Centre 5chool buildings, hav- ing a total of 11 classrooms, would leave 108 elementary school classrooms. This number of elem- tary school classrooms should house the boys and girls for some years to come (assuming an aver- age grade size of 30 pupils, and providing for three 'special' classes of smaller enrollment). However, there is no possibility of abandoning the North 5augus, Emerson or Felton 5chool build- ings in the forseable future un- iess there is new elementary school building construction.
It is understood, of course, that the construction of the NEW THREE YEAR JUNIOR HIGH 5CHOOL BUILDING controls the validity of the foregoing calcula- tions -- just as it. controls the elimination of two-platooning at the senior high school within the time period indicated.
(1) Assisted by a 5chool Facili- ties Committee and the 5augus Planning Board.
(2) The second 5chool Facili- ties Committee Report (the fre- quently designated Ossinger Re- port) dated March, 1957.
(3) The section on schools in the Nord Davis Report of 1958. (4) The Saugus 5chool 5tud y. made by Dr. John E. Marshall dated March, 1959.
(5) 5augus Citizens School Housing Investigating Committee- 1959.
1964
1965 1966
5 HS. TOT.
1443 1506
5374
5554 5659
1562 1599
1 **
(1932)
Emerson Felton Old Lynnhurst New Lynnhurst
6 3
Old Oaklandvale New Oaklandvaie Roby
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(Continued from Page 17) so that they will be able to com- pete in regional and state science fairs.
An interesting and successful experiment is being carried on in our French 1 classes. Teach- ing is achieved primarily through the media of film strips and re- cordings. No printed word is seen by the students until the class has completed sixty hours of audio- visual instruction. This method, called "Method of Teaching French by Voix and Images," was de -- veloped at St. Cloud, France, It is patterned after the way a child learns to speak and read. The program, distributed in North America by the Chilton Book Com- pany of Philadelphia, is subsidi- zed by the French government so that the company is enabled. to give special workshop train- ing to every teacher without cost to him or his school.
The modern mathematics pro- gram was instituted in the High School last September with ap- proximately 180 pupils enrolled in the new elementary alegebra. Teachers report very satisfactory pupil interest and achievement in these classes.
Next fall we expect not only to expand the offering of the SMSG algebra, but also to carry the :program partially into the tenth grade geometry level. In prepara- tion for this transition our mathe- matics teachers are continuing to take for the second year an in- service course, which is being taught by James Henkelman, our consultant from Harvard.
· After careful consideration our Social Studies Department, under the direction of Miss Louise Solo- nita, restored in September two courses that had been dropped from the curriculum some years ago. The first, Ancient History, is heing offered to qualified ninth grade pupils and the second, Economics, is being taught tosen- iors.
Twelve of our advanced ninth grade science students took the six-week physiology laboratory- course which was given for the second consecutive year during the summer.
It is the intention of Edward Chamberlain, Science Department head, to replace ninth grade Gen- eral Science next year with the course, Earth and Space Science, since most of the units of the former course are now adequately covered in the earlier grades. Two other courses are strongly recom- mended. Jolm Burns, head of the English Department, asks that con- sideratioo be given to offering a course in remedial reading to those pupils who have reading difficulties. Arthur Strout, Indus- trial Arts Department head, notes an everincreasing interest in and need for instruction in electronics.
Some parents have expressed to me concern about the standards and rating of Saugus High School in consideration of the losses in time and facilities hrooght about by the fires and the two-platoon system. Of course, it is evident that pupils stand to lose academi- cally because of the unsatisfactory temporary rooms, the lack of lahoratories, and the lack of time in school.
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