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July marked also the retirement from our staff of five teachers, averaging among them some forty years in Swampscott classrooms. Three of them began their careers here during the years of World War I: Mrs. Elizabeth Wade of Ma- chon in 1914, Miss Jessie Martin of Stanley in 1915, and Miss Alice Durgin of Shaw in 1916. Mr. Crandall P. Nodwell of Shaw began in 1927, and Mrs. Maxine Boyd of Hadley in 1932. Frequent have been the occasions during these first months of the new school year when we realized how very greatly in the past we counted upon them. They are, all of them, greatly missed.
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Continuing the year-end toll, nine other teachers submitted resignations from their schools as listed below, some withdrawing from the profession, some taking positions elsewhere:
High School
Mr. Walter G. Drogue
Mrs. Olga Drougas
Junior High Machon Miss Phyllis Smith Miss Shirley Warren
Mr. Harris Jameson Mr. L. Joseph Roy
Miss Elizabeth Johnson
Mr. Joseph Miller Mrs. Carole Morgenstern Mrs. Lois Roy
Other losses, it is a relief to report, promise to be temporary, at most for a year only. Granted leaves of absence and expected back with us by September of 1962 were Mrs. Elsa Hopkins, remedial reading teacher at Hadley; Mrs. Eva Ladge, Hadley second grade; Mrs. Gloria Maifeld, teacher of vocal music in Clarke, Machon, and Stanley; and Mrs. Estelle Stilianos, Clarke third grade.
Dr. Forrest's assignment during his leave of absence brings no small honor tc Swampscott. He was elected by Harvard to be field coordinator of a study that the university is making of Boston school buildings for the Boston Redevelopment Authority. As busy as he has been with his new duties since the first of last July, he nevertheless remains very much on the Swampscott scene. He continues to be an indispensable source of information and wise counsel for the Acting Superin- tendent and also to administer the annual budget for our schools. We look forward to having him back with us on regular schedule before the close of the school year.
The foregoing personnel changes involved some twenty per cent of our total staff. Small wonder, then, that the second half of the year seemed in many ways like a different epoch in our Swampscott schools.
John I. Mclaughlin Becomes Principal
By unanimous vote of the School Committee in a special meeting on July 26th, John :I. Mclaughlin was named to succeed Mr. Dunn as High School principal. He assumed office immediately, working through the summer to get staff and pro- gram ready for the record number of pupils that would enroll in the fall.
Mr. Mclaughlin comes by no means as a stranger to his new position. He joined the Swampscott High School faculty in September of 1931; except for a tour of duty as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy from October 14, 1942, to January 26, 1948, he has served continuously, first as coach and teacher, then as head of the social studies department and vice principal.
Now, though principal, he still continues to direct the department of social studies. He is currently without a vice principal, the Committee having voted to leave that post for the present unassigned, but authorizing additional temporary secretarial help to free Mr. Mclaughlin of some portions of office routine.
He deserves the highest commendation for the vigor and success with which he has administered the first four months of the new school year. A later section of this report describes innovations he has effected to date in the High School pro- gram. Thus far, the school has met a succession of severe challenges and under
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his leadership has come through with distinction. The record, by any standards, is gratifying.
Staff Grows by Five
A total of twenty-five new teachers joined us in September. One of these, Mrs. Gertrude Lowe, has taught here from 1955 to 1959 and returned to replace Mrs. Stilianos at Clarke. Mrs. Ethel Schultz had been on a part-time assignment with us in 1958 and since then served intermittently as a substitute at Shaw and the High School. For the other twenty-three, however, this year was their intro- duction to Swampscott schools.
Seventeen of the twenty-five had previous teaching experience, averaging just over six years apiece. Six already held Master's degrees; three would finish up this stage of their graduate work within a very few months.
The new faculty members were assigned as follows:
High School
Mrs. Marjorie Berg, remedial reading Mr. Seymour Hall, social studies Mrs. Katherine Holmes, French and English Miss Mary Watts, English Miss Mary White, mathematics
Clarke Mrs. Gertrude Lowe, third grade Mrs. Nancy Pocharski, first grade Machon Mrs. Joan Devlin, third grade Miss Ellen Cummings, fourth grade Mrs. Janet Nottingham, first grade
Junior High
Miss Rosemary Currier, homemaking Mr. James DiMento, mathematics Miss Sharon Huisman, mathematics Mr. Robert Mattson, mathematics
Mr. Philip Reddy, science
Mrs. Ethel Schultz, science Mr. Warren Stromberg, social studies
Mr. Dudley Wiegand, English and social studies
Hadley Miss Louise Brunberg, first grade Mrs. Meredith Eickelberger, remedial reading Miss Elizabeth Jackson, second grade
Miss Germaine Regan, third grade All Elementary Schools Miss Anne Haugen, vocal music Mr. Donald Hallett, physical education
In 1960 our total instructional staff was figured at 138. This year it has reached 143. One of the positions added is in the physical education program of the elementary schools: Mr. Hallett conducts classes at Clarke, Hadley, Machon, and Stanley and in the afternoon directs an athletic program for boys in the elemen- tary grades. Appointment of the other four teachers was necessitated by increased enrollments in crucial areas of the secondary program, especially in history, mathe- matics, and science.
Large Enrollments Pose Problems
It is at the High School that a steady rise in student population has out- stripped our resources. Elementary enrollments appear to have stabilized; it would seem that minor adjustments will take care of any problems we may have on that
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level. Though the Junior High's present enrollment is significantly beyond the 700 maximum for which it was planned, the 726 pupils it now houses would seem to represent a population peak; in subsequent years it is likely that the figure wil level off nearer the 700 mark. Actually, it is only at the High School that the problem is acute and immediate.
From a low of 336 in 1951, grades 10 through 12 have now iccreased to 609 Our most conservative estimates set a peak of 680 by 1964; other projections notably those of the State's School Building Assistance Commission, see 720 fo that same year and 742 by 1969. All these pupils in, at best, a 550-pupil building
The present structure, though well maintained and sound for its age, lack classrooms for the numbers it must serve. Mathematics, science, social studies - classes in all these subjects run too large. More teachers would reduce class size. Bu where are the rooms to make possible this most sensible of solutions? We lack spac also for language laboratories, which in good school systems have long sinc proved their worth; for proper guidance and health centers; for a standard librar of 10,000 to 15,000 volumes (present number: 6500) ; and for instruction il various types of music.
You, acting as the School Committee, took a major step in 1961 toward solving this problem, requesting and receiving Town Meeting approval for archi tectural studies to determine if the existing High School building in any way could be reorganized to make possible a greater utilization of available space. You then engaged the firm of Perley Gilbert Associates, which subsequently has com pleted work on preliminary sketches and cost estimates. Members of the faculty" especially the department heads, have had an opportunity to study these plans; Mr Ralph Earle of the industrial arts department has incorporated their suggestion and recommendations into drawings which have been submitted for your considera tion. Dr. Forrest has made additional studies of his own.
What becomes apparent from these preparatory investigations is that there are ways of adapting the High School building for 700 students. Whether we move towards satisfactory adaptation of one sort or another or hesitate and so perpetuate the present crisis will depend upon action taken at the 1962 Town Meeting.
Adjustments Are Made at the High School
We cannot leave all problems, however, to future solution. Where we could we took steps that promised a measure of immediate relief.
In the summer of 1961 we reclaimed, for mechanical drawing, ground-floor space near the shop, thus increasing the size of the school by one room. The former mechanical drawing room, on the opposite end of the building, could now be used for additional classes in remedial reading and remedial English.
Room 105, traditionally a study hall, became another classroom, though poorly qualified as one. Study periods descended again into the cafeteria, as they did ir the semi-platooned era of the four-year high school program, before 1958.
Back in the opening weeks of the fall term, Mr. Mclaughlin deployed mem- bers of his social studies department as a teaching team, each responsible for regu-
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larly scheduled lectures before combined classes in the auditorium during the activities period. This, in effect, added class hours to the social studies curriculum und freed regular periods for small-group work of the conference type. The new approach temporarily has eased pressure in one of the school's most severely crowded departments.
Curriculum Moves Forward
Many changes, though, have been made independently of population problems. Departments, groups of teachers, and entire schools have been in constant self- examination.
One cause of the increased population in history and related subjects at the High School is, in fact, our new policy that all students in grades nine through welve must take at least three years of social studies, this sequence to include civics or else a study of the early ages of man, modern history, and United States history. For honor students, we have provided also a senior-level seminar in world affairs.
Other areas, too, of the High School's program have responded to change. Mrs. Jennie McVey of the business department directed a survey of North Shore irms, then instituted curriculum changes designed to bring our commercial curricu- um more closely into line with prevailing personnel needs and requirements. New lasses in remedial reading and remedial English, taught by Mrs. Marjorie Berg, have been added to the course offerings. Biology and chemistry, incorporating new material as it becomes available, are reacting to changes similar to those effected our years ago in our Physical Science Study Committee physics program. And, for third time, Education Testing Service of Princeton, N. J., has chosen a group of en students from this PSSC physics class for experimental testing.
Modern mathematics has come to both junior and senior high school levels, nainly through the imaginative planning and preparation of Miss Marjorie White, department head, and Dr. Forrest. As an important part of this venture, the Public Schools of Swampscott are sponsoring for North Shore teachers of mathematics a ourse given each Monday afternoon at the Shaw Junior High School by Professor Franklin Fitzgerald of Boston University. We require this course of our own eachers and have paid their tuition fees out of our research and development ap- propriation in the 1961 budget. Teachers from other systems are admitted upon heir own arrangements with Boston University. The purpose of the course is to elp effect the transition of certain of our mathematics classes to the program worked out at Yale by the School Mathematics Study Group.
Currently we are thinking through procedures for teaching French at the anior high level. By September of 1962 we shall see entering the Shaw School group of seventh graders who have had three successive years of conversational rench in Swampscott elementary grades. We cannot allow this experience to be asted. Mr. Blossom, head of the language department, and Miss Eileen Soper, eacher of French at the High School, have already met with principals of ele- mentary schools and sixth grade teachers to consider the steps to be taken. One hing at this point seems certain; we shall need a full-time teacher of French in the all of 1962 if we are to make the best use of the work we began in our fourth rades back in 1959.
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In whatever program we establish for French, we shall draw heavily upo recommendations of Miss Soper, who for the past two summers has been selecte for government-sponsored institutes in the improvement of modern language ir struction. During the summer of 1961 she was one of eighty American teache. of French selected for advanced study at the University of Tours in France. Mi: Soper will observe our conversational work in grades four through six and serv as consultant in the setting up of the continuation program at the Junior Hig School.
There is still another area where elementary and secondary teachers hav pooled their thinking. During 1961, principals, sixth grade teachers, and sevent grade teachers of English, after a series of meetings, supplemented the Languag Arts Guide of 1955 with a statement of minimal requirements in written Englis for pupils entering the Shaw Junior High. The meetings encouraged an improve understanding by teachers on two different levels of the common core of the problems.
Another group of elementary teachers carried out a survey that inventorie texts, instructional materials, and goals in major areas of the curriculum at a levels in each of the four schools. The results, which will serve as points of de parture in subsequent curriculum work, were distributed in booklet form la September to all elementary staff members.
Two curriculum committees are currently active. One, now about to brin in a final report after more than a year of study, has concerned itself with specia consideration of the gifted or talented child in the elementary grades. The othe which began in December, will examine the entire social studies program throug the grades.
Guidance Initiates Ten-year Follow-up
Another survey currently under way, this one directed by Mrs. Mary Coope director of guidance, is a study of careers of Swampscott High graduates throug .the 1950-61 decade. A few of the findings to date may be summarized as follows
In 1961, 84% of the graduates continued their formal education beyond hig school; in 1951, 63%
An average of 36% of graduates over the ten-year period have gone on t four-year colleges.
Graduates of the last five years are now attending 101 different colleges, af proximate half of which are in New England.
Ivy League and Conference Schools account for some 6% of Swampsco graduates enrolled in four-year colleges.
Of the class of 1961,
-84% went on to further education
Of this group, 46% enrolled in four-year colleges ;
25% in junior colleges, including technical, art, and apprentice schools 3% in business schools 1% in nurses' training 9% in preparatory schools, including p.g. courses
-- 13% took immediate employment
-3% entered the U.S. Armed Forces
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Last June, Mrs. Cooper was awarded a Carnegie-Otis Five-year Educational Research Grant which provided funds for the publication of data gathered in this urvey.
School Committee has Unusual Year
During 1961, the School Committee met 31 times, a total representing 21 pecial sessions over and above the regular meetings held each month from Jan- ary through December.
The most signal individual honor of the year went to Committeeman Theodore C. Sargent, who, at the annual convention of the National School Boards Associa- ion in Philadelphia last spring, was elected as that organization's president. No ther single event has ever brought to the Swampscott School Committee comparable nationwide prestige and recognition. By virtue of this distinction, Mr. Sargent is, nd will remain until the 1962 annual convention to be held next April in St. ouis, the number one school committeeman in the United States.
The School Committee as a group was pleased to work out with the Swamp- cott Council for Public Schools a set of principles to govern their cooperative ndeavors. It was pleased, also, to be able to co-sponsor, along with the Teachers' Association and the PTA Council, the Swampscott Council's outstanding successful workshop at the Shaw School on November 7.
The Council's workshop program succeeded in drawing some seven hundred eople. About half this number had the good fortune to attend the dinner meet- ng and hear the address of Dean Francis Keppel of the Harvard Graduate School f Education. Nearly all attended evening panel discussions on team teaching, (lay eaders in English, standardized testing, and other topics equally timely in their Importance to (education. Mr. John Lilly, president of the Swampscott Council, nd Mrs. Ralph Earle, general workshop chairman, deserve our praise for the truly nique success of this enterprise.
Members of the School Committee, individually, have been active with at ast two groups. Mr. Chadwell worked with the Machon Study Committee and ith Messrs. Buckland and Shactman served on the Salary Study Committee, elping to bring to completion its year and a half of work.
alary Study Committee Recommends Incentive System
The (Salary Study Committee, under the chairmanship of School Committeeman Charles F. Buckland, completed on November 6, 1961, the work it had undertaken 1 June of 1960. The nine-member body recommended an improved basic (salary chedule and the addition of a new program to provide special rewards for teachers rho may qualify, after evaluation, for leadership roles in Swampscott's school sys- em. These recommendations received unanimous School Committee approval on November 21.
Known as the Swampscott Professional Advancement Plan, the proposal em- races both the increased basic schedule and the incentive features. The former rovides a Bachelor's degree minimum of $4500 that advances by five steps of 300, one of $250, and five of $200 to a maximum of $7250. The Master's ;sched-
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ule is $400 higher at each of the twelve ;steps. The Salary Committee felt that a sound basic schedule, reasonably competitive with any in comparable communities, must be a prerequisite for the entire phase of the proposal.
This latter part of the plan establishes the rank of Career Teacher, which any faculty member may volunteer for after one year in our system and may qualify for after an evaluation covering one complete school year. In the interests of objectivity, this evaluation is to be carried out by three or four administrators, never by one, in accordance with a point system based on a standard position analysis. The Career Teacher, once selected, plays a key role in curriculum development, in-service train- ing programs, student teacher supervision, and other professional needs within our schools. As long as he fulfills the terms of appraisal, he may advance by double increments to the top of the salary schedule in eight years rather than the usual twelve, and then even go on to a point $1600 beyond the maximum possible for others.
Believing that teacher acceptance of the Professional Advancement Plan is essential to its success, the Salary Study Committee made as part of its proposal that the final evaluation procedure be worked out cooperatively by faculty, adminis- tration, and the School Committee, but that an appraisal method similar to that in effect in the schools of Summit, New Jersey, be provisionally employed at the outset. The Teachers' Association, through its president, Mr. Donald C. Hammond, has indicated its acceptance of the total plan as recommended and is now engaged in studying various approaches to reliable evaluation of teacher performance.
As adopted by the School Committee, the new basic schedule goes partially into effect in January and fully so in September of 1962. Evaluations under the career program may begin at any time after January 1, 1962, but incentive increases will be possible only after evaluations have been carried throughout one complete school year. Thus, the first double increments could become effective in September of 1963.
In the final stages of its work, the Salary Study Committee comprised the following representation :
School Committee Charles F. Buckland, George A. Chadwell, Jacob Shactman
Swampscott Teachers' Association Mrs. Ruth Nickerson, Francis Chiary PTA Council Clarence T. Grogan
Swampscott Council for Puplic Schools
Victor Cohen
Finance Committee
Dr. Howell E. Estey
General Public
O. Robert Coe, Roger Skinner
Two changes had been made during the lifetime of the committee. When Mrs. Beatrice Hutchinson found it necessary to resign in the spring of 1961, the Teach- ers' Association named Mrs. Ruth Nickerson to succeed her. Mr. Shactman, after his election to the School Committee in March, became that group's third repre- sentative in the salary study, and Mr. Victor Cohen replaced him as delegate of the Swampscott Council for Public Schools.
Summer School and Adult Education Increase Scope
Our adult education program, now in its fifth year, and our summer school,
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in its second, have both moved significantly ahead, with new courses and additional registrations.
The following sets of figures show the summer school gains:
1960
1961
Pupils
110
145
Registrations
130
172
Courses
8
9
Classes
9
11
Teachers
7
7
The 1961 summer curriculum included typing, algebra, geometry, remedial reading, developmental reading, improvement of study skills, history, conversa- tional French, and art. Student questionnaires revealed an interest for next year in English, Russian, German, current events, and meteorology.
Again, the summer program was entirely self-sufficient, tuitions from students carrying all operating costs.
The adult education program, this year under the direction of Mr. Harold I. Power of the High School faculty, started off with sixty more registrations than the total for 1960. It added courses in vocabulary building, Russian, and foods and also instituted a lecture series devoted to local town government and a Great Books discussion group.
Repeated from previous years were classes in music appreciation, world and domestic issues, art, furniture refinishing, typing, knitting, rug hooking and rug braiding, and clothing.
Approximately one half the adult evening program is carried by the School Committee's budget, the remainder by registration fees and by state and federal reimbursement.
Machon Study Committee Continues Its Work
The Machon School, as well as the High School, has a space problem. It is perhaps less a matter of housing pupils, though, than of providing room for a program.
Machon is the only elementary school in town without a full-size kindergarten room, an indoor recreational area, a kitchen, or adequate administrative quarters.
A building committee was authorized by the Town Meeting of 1959 and has been in existence since then. Upon further authorization in 1961, it signed an agreement with the architectural firm of Harvey and Provost for preliminary sketches and for cost estimates covering an addition to the present structure. These, it is anticipated, will be presented at the Town Meeting in 1962.
Serving on this committee, with Mr. Selden D. Hulquist as chairman, are Messrs. Sidney A. Simmons, George A. Chadwell, Michael A. Palleschi, and Donald Goss.
Our Library Services Expand
In the first full year of its operation our new Junior High library showed con- spicuous growth. Figures submitted by Mrs. Priscilla Moulton, Shaw librarian, are enlightening:
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September 1960
September 1961
Inventory Volumes per student Budget
917 titles 1.3 $2300 (School Dept. $1500;
1983 titles* 2.6 $5075
gifts $800)
(School Dept. $5000 gifts $75) $6.80
Expenditure per student
$2.11
Average daily attendance
50
190
Average daily circulation Student assistants
85
230
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* Approximately $1250 of budget allowance had not been expended at time of th report. Some 400 additional volumes are being purchased with the remaining balan
Mrs. Moulton and Miss Trickey, head librarian in the Public Schools Swampscott, have together appeared before the School Committee to report their collective needs and to urge strongly the initiation in 1962 of an elementa school library program, starting perhaps with a central library at Hadley, staff professionally and serving all four schools. This same need has also been stress repeatedly this past fall and winter in presentations to the School Committee teachers of reading and by principals. The new library program for our elementa schools would work jointly with the Swampscott Public Library in serving t rapidly growing reading needs of children in the grades.
In Conclusion
It would be remiss indeed if I brought this report to a close without mentic of David Coughlin, whose death on Monday, September 25th, left us stunned ar grieved. Here was a boy who symbolized the very finest qualities in all phases · his well-rounded character. He was a splendid young citizen, athlete, ar gentleman.
This was a sudden and sobering experience in the daily round of our scho life. That we came through it without complete shattering of morale is due in large part to the innate strength and great natural dignity and decency of tl student body. It is due, also, to the deep humanity and firm leadership displaye in that very sad hour by Principal John I. Mclaughlin and Athletic Director Sta Bondelevitch. It is due, also, and in very large measure, to the heartening examp of fortitude set by David's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Coughlin. There cou never be two more devoted friends of the boys and girls of Swampscott Hig School.
I should not conclude, either, without a heartfelt word of thanks to the mar colleagues who have been most helpful to me personally. I am grateful to all sta members, not only the principals and teachers, but all employees - and especial Miss Gertrude Donlon, whose ready fund of information and whose alert goc judgment have kept the Superintendent's office on even keel at times when it cou easily have foundered. There is much, too, that I owe members of the School Cor mittee, individually and collectively - for their patient indulgence and unde standing and for their willingness at a moment's notice to give time and effort the cause of Swampscott's schools. To all, my most sincere appreciation.
Very respectfully yours, PHILIP A. JENKIN,
Acting Superintendent of Schoo
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Total Appropriation
$1,199,372.00
Expenditures:
Salaries
$1,004,633.42
Office Expense
16,615.67
Travel Expense
1,675.64
Building Expense
70,338.80
Insurance
1,411.23
Miscellaneous
87,507.48
Out-of-State Travel
923.23
Federal-aided Projects
4,306.72
1,187,412.19
Balance at Close of Year
11,959.81
Receipts Deposited with Town Treasurer
State Aid, General School Fund
65,272.71
State Aid, Special Services
9,949.00
Tuition Received
225.00
Summer School Fees
3,479.35
Adult Education Fees
1,232.00
Other Receipts
469.42
80,627.48
Net Cost to Town
$1,106,784.71
PUPILS ENROLLED - OCTOBER 1, 1961
Elementary
Kind.
1
2
3
4
5
6
Sp.
Total
Clarke
50
53
51
57
64
63
48
386
Hadley
44
53
61
58
56
51
72
395
Machon
24
40
23
43
28
31
18
207
Stanley
54
60
59
61
75
58
68
12
447
172
206
194
219
223
203
206
12
1435
Grade 7
Grade 8
Grade 9
Sp.
Shaw Junior High
237
236
239
14
726
Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
P.G.
High
.......
232
199
176
2
609
Total 1435
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In Memoriam
HERBERT R. ANDERSON School Department 1947-1950 Died December 24, 1961
JOHN A. BOSTON Provisional Fireman 1943-1945 Dog Officer 1950-1956 Died May 17, 1961
FRANK BUONANDUCI
Public Works Department 1931-1961 Died May 5, 1961
EDGAR U. BURDETT
Selectman 1947-1950
Died November 17, 1961
PETER CASSIDY
Public Works Department 1933-1954 Died February 26, 1961
JAMES H. DUNN
School Department 1929-1961 Died July 3, 1961
THOMAS HANDLEY
Cemetery Superintendent 1916-1946 Died October 16, 1961
FRANK E. MORRISON Selectman 1924-1926
Board of Assessors 1935 through 1952 Died August 24, 1961
FRANK W. OULTON Fire Department 1904-1949 Died December 5, 1961
ANNA F. WILLEY School Department 1902-1948 Died August 30, 1961
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General Information
Swampscott was incorporated as a Town on May 21, 1852.
Situation: About 15 miles northeast of Boston.
Population: 13,294.
Area: 3.05 square miles.
Assessed Valuation : $34,754,740.00.
Tax Rate: $69.00.
Form of Government: Representative Town Meeting (accepted May 17, 1927. First Meeting held February 27, 1928) .
Governing body of Town: Board of Selectmen.
Administration Building: 22 Monument Avenue.
Senators in Congress: Leverett Saltonstall and Benjamin A. Smith, II.
State Senator: Charles V. Hogan of Lynn (1st Essex District) .
Representative in Congress: William H. Bates of Salem (6th Congressional District) .
Representatives in General Court: George B. Thomson of Swampscott; Auville W. Putnam of Marblehead; and Thomas M. Newth of Swampscott (14th Essex District) .
Member of Governor's Council: John Joseph Buckley of Essex (5th District) .
Qualifications of Voters: Must be 21 years of age, born in United States or fully naturalized; a resident of Massachusetts one year and Swampscott six months. Registration Monday through Friday, 9-12 A.M., 1-5 P.M. Special sessions held preceding elections.
WHERE TO VOTE:
Precinct 1-Machon School on Burpee Road.
Precinct 2-Clarke School on Norfolk Avenue side adjoining Abbott Park.
Precinct 3-Central Fire Station, Burrill Street.
Precinct 4-Hadley School on Redington Street.
Precinct 5-Essex Oil Filling Station, 638 Humphrey Street.
Precinct 6-Phillips Beach Fire Engine House, Phillips Avenue.
Tax Bills: Due and payable on or before October 1. Law provides for addi- tion of interest from October 1 on bills unpaid after November 1. Poll and motor excise taxes are payable 30 days and water bills are payable 60 days from date of issue.
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