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Printing, Stationery and Postage
538.33
Telephone 560.64
Clerk hire 518.75
Duxbury Rural Society, rent
100.00
Insurance
145.97
Repairs to highway 180.00
All other administration costs 133.12
Trucks, maintenance and repairs 1,536.85 Pipe and Fittings 10,282.96
Equipment
2,839.14
Electric lights and power
5,821.77
Fuel
514.24
Buildings : maintenance and repairs 134.10
42,004.89
8-1-6 Water Reservoir - Repairs
Balance
2,480.01
Erkote, Inc., repairs
2,455.00
8-1-7 Water Priorities I to V
Balance
963.64
Angelo Nava, final payment
916.66
167
8-1-12
Water, Out of State Travel
Appropriation 200.00
Out of State Travel costs 140.99
8-1-13 1960 Water Dept., Motor Vehicle
Appropriation 3,000.00
Herrick Auto Sales, Truck 2,320.00
Duxbury Clipper, advertise bid
5.00
Herrick Auto Sales,
miscellaneous parts 85.05
V. W. Stewart, pipe rack, etc. 33.65
2,443.70
8-1-14 Water Mains, Autumn Avenue and Winter Street
Borrowed
Money 21,500.00
Labor
83.50
Pipe and fittings
13,319.42
Elmer T. Holman, laying pipe
3,189.60
Disinfecting
75.00
All other costs
56.50
16,724.02
8-2-2 Cemetery Department
Appropriation
18,420.00
Sale of Lots
175.00
Refund 8.46
Income, Perpetual
Care Funds 4,842.65
Salary Adjustment Section
452.50
23,898.61
Superintendent's Salary 4,985.04
13,014.65
Labor Loam 285.00
168
Wreaths and shrubs 28.00
Equipment and materials 2,093.89
Trucks and Mowers, maintenance and repairs 970.75
Office supplies 329.39
All other costs 289.84
21,996.56
8-2-4 Cemetery, Out of State Travel
Appropriation
75.00
Travel out of State 57.97
8-2-5 Cemetery, Pick-Up Truck
Appropriation
2,000.00
Herrick Auto Sales, Ford truck 1,910.00
8-2-6 Cemetery "Donna" Emergency
Legal Overdraft
3,700.00
Labor
1,465.37
Trucks, maintenance and repairs 138.38
Chain Saw 228.34
Minor equipment and materials
157.00
1,989.09
8-2-8 George Chandler Flower Fund
Fund Income
1.50
Flowers
1.50
8-2-9 George H. Wood Flower Fund
Fund Income
29.75
Flowers
29.75
8-2-10 F. & H. Partch Flower Fund
Fund Income
9.00
Flowers
9.00
(Total: Enterprise and Cemeteries - $91,129.13)
169
INTEREST AND MATURING DEBT
9-1-1
Interest on Temporary Loans
Appropriation 50.00 Interest paid 2.01
9-1-2
Interest on Water Debts
Appropriation 7,608.00 Interest paid 7,606.26
9-1-3 Interest - General Debt
Appropriation 8,108.00
Interest paid 7,307.50
9-1-4
Interest - Junior-Senior High School
Bond Issue
Appropriation
18,426.00
Interest paid 16,185.00
9-1-7
Unpaid Bills of 1959
Appropriation 2,128.44
R. C. Crocker, Fire Department invoice 30.58
Gulf Oil Products, Police Dept. 121.00
E. H. Whitney, Planning Board 51.04
R. C. Crocker, Town Office 24.50
Ella S. Donovan, Americanization
110.00 Plymouth County Electric, Town Hall Recreation 26.40
Welfare Department Invoice
275.00
Welfare Department Invoice
1,336.94
Welfare Department Invoice 84.00
Toabe's Duxbury Hardware,
Fire Department invoice 1.44
F. C. Ortolani, Health Dept. 65.00
2,125.90
170
9-2-1 Sea Wall Notes Appropriation 2,000.00
Notes paid in 1960 2,000.00
9-2-2
Water District Notes
Appropriation
8,500.00
Notes paid in 1960
8,500.00
9-2-3 West Duxbury Water Extension
Appropriation
5,000.00
Bonds retired in 1960 5,000.00
9-2-4
Water - Phase 1
Appropriation
20,000.00
Bonds retired in 1960 20,000.00
9-2-5 High School Wing Bonds
Appropriation
15,000.00
Bonds retired in 1960 15,000.00
9-2-8 Elementary School Wing
Appropriation
15,000.00
Bonds retired in 1960 15,000.00
9-2-7 Elementary School Bonds
Appropriation
15,000.00
Bonds retired in 1960 15,000.00
9-2-17
Water Mains - Winter Street and
Autumn Avenue, Interest on Notes
Raised by
Assessors
397.75
Interest paid
397.75
(Total: Interest and Maturing Debt - $114,124.42)
171
REVOLVING FUNDS
Athletic Association
Balance of
1959 funds 157.43
1960 Receipts
512.30
669.73
Expenditures for miscellaneous equipment
37.44
Referees
510.64
Police protection
50.00
598.08
School Lunch Program
Balance of
1959 funds 1,643.06
1960 Receipts 41,332.95
42,976.01
Salaries
9,717.75
Food and provisions
28,846.93
Fuel
379.24
Telephone
142.80
Scavenger
474.00
Equipment
362.75
39,923.47
(Total: Revolving Funds - $40,521.55)
PETTY CASH ADVANCE
Petty Cash Advances : 116.65
(see refunds reported in Cash Receipts)
172
AGENCY, TRUST, INVESTMENT
State Withholding Taxes 5,322.07
Federal Withholding Taxes 69,370.71
County Retirement System 10,116.15
Group Hospital and Insurance 10,399.83
The Feinberg Fund, Principal Deposit
1,500.00
Liquor Ad Deposits 20.00
Standish Home Site, Principal Deposits 20.00
Stabilization Fund, Income Deposit 61.25
J. and R. Ford Fund, Income Deposit 690.00
Lucy Hathaway, Income Deposit 2,089.25 Purchase Share 17.22
State Audit of Municipal Accounts 2,148.31
Plymouth County Hospital 18,736.89
Plymouth County Tax 44,668.01
State Parks and Reservations 3,367.09
Sporting Licenses 1,095.50
Dog Licenses 1,335.75
Perpetual Care Funds (Cemetery) Principal Deposits 15,495.00
Grace and Gertrude Myrick
Flower Fund, Principal Deposit 150.00
Planning Board Deposits
39.93
186,642.96
173
REFUNDS
1958 Personal Property Tax 8.85
1959 Personal Property Tax
64.02
1959 Real Estate Tax 660.00
1960 Poll Taxes 10.00
1960 Personal Property Tax 149.82
1960 Real Estate Taxes 2,029.50
1958 Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes 4.76
1959 Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes 1,507.45
1960 Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes 3,757.40
Service Connections (Water) 100.82
Miscellaneous Estimated Receipts
36.00
Total Refunds 8,328.62
TOTAL EXPENDITURES :
$2,089,378.34
TOWN OF DUXBURY Balance Sheet - December 31, 1960 GENERAL ACCOUNTS
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
General
1,135,327.36
State Assessments, 1960: County Tax 32.26
32.26
Advances for Petty : Tax Collector School Lunch
250.00
Payroll Deductions :
State Taxes
1,523.73
255.00
County Retirement System 1,000.94
Group Insurance 2.54
Federal Taxes 6,563.14
9,090.35
174
Levy of 1958:
Planning Board
20.07
Personal Property
246.03
Agency :
County - Dog Licenses 10.50
Levy of 1959: Poll
10.00
Group Insurance, Retired Personnel 17.82
Levy of 1960: Poll
144.00
Personal Property
5,506.22
Real Estate
37,660.43
Tailings
1,053.60
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise:
Levy of 1958 358.98
Levy of 1959 1,892.36
Ship Weathervane Fund 60.50
74.65
16,360.78
Recoveries :
Veterans Benefits
1,678.75
Taxes :
Levy of 1957:
Personal Property
64.26
Deposits :
Personal Property
381.15
Excess, Sale of Land of
Low Value 464.06
492.38
44,012.09
Treasurer's Unidentified Receipts Gifts and Bequests : Eben Ellison Beach Funds 14.15
21.30
Levy of 1960
14,109.44
Special Assessments:
Cash :
5.00
Accounts Receivable :
Sea Wall: Levy of 1960 69.97 Committed Interest: Levy of 1960 39.10
Federal Grants: Disability Assistance : Assistance Administration
511.82
132.78
Tax Titles and Possessions: Tax Titles
2,383.88
Tax Possessions
160.31
2,544.19
Old Age Assistance: Assistance Administration
11,751.81
Aid to Highways:
State
1,000.00
County
1,000.00
School : Public Law, 874
6,694.29
Farm Animal Excise:
1960 Levy
27.12
27.12
School Lunch Program 3,052.54
Departmental :
Building Inspector
2.00
Town Clerk
14.15
Cemetery
663.00
Health
542.20
Water
2,059.26
Planning Board
17.04
Non-Revenue :
Old Age Assistance
510.91
Veterans Benefits
9,194.45
Aid to Dependent Children
1,787.87
General Relief
955.71
Reserve Fund - Overlay Surplus
13,687.33
Overlays reserved for Abatements : Levy of 1957
64.26
Meters
83.60
Levy of 1958
246.03
Service Connections
388.56
Levy of 1959
391.15
Water Rates
10,747.08
Levy of 1960
7,396.69
11,219.24
8,098.13
175
Appropriation Balances :
Revenue :
General
111,520.79
General 600,799.77
Water
4,787.98
719,167.80 51,977.65
Water:
109.07
Aid to Dependent Children : Assistance Administration
2,363.18
390.99
672.47
2,000.00
22,517.34
Revolving Funds:
Athletic Association 71.65
3,124.19
BALANCE SHEET - Continued
Underestimates, Cherry Sheet: State Parks and Reservations 725.27
725.27
Revenue Reserved Until Collected : Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise 16,360.78
Trust Fund Withdrawals Authorized: Stabilization Fund
18,000.00
Special Assessment 109.07
Tax Title and Possessions 2,544.19 Aid to Highways 2,000.00
Legal Overdrafts: Hurricane "Donna" Emergency 13,527.88
Farm Animal Excise 27.12
Departmental Water 11,219.24 13,687.33
23,451.40
Reserve for Petty Cash Advances Authorized Withdrawal from Trust Funds: Junior-Senior High School Stabilization Fund Surplus Revenue (E. & D.)
18,000.00 386,167.65
1,267,718.85
$1,267,718.85
176
45,947.73 255.00
Public Welfare Emergency (Medical Aid to Aged) 9,923.52
DEBT ACCOUNTS
Net Funded or Fixed Debt: Inside Debt Limit: General Outside Debt Limit: General Public Service Enterprise (Water)
Serial Loans: Inside Debt Limit:
1,280,000.00
Elementary School Loan
Elementary School Wing
94,000.00 175,000.00 15,000.00
4,000.00 245,500.00
High School Wing Junior-Senior High School Outside Debt Limit:
996,000.00
Sea Wall Construction
4,000.00
Water District Loans
19,000.00
Water Loan, Phase I
180,000.00
West Duxbury Water Loan
25,000.00
Autumn Ave., and Winter St., Water Mains 21,500.00
$1,529,500.00
$1,529,500.00
177
DEFERRED REVENUE SECTION
Sea Wall Assessments not Due (Accounts Receivable)
$3,888.25
Apportioned Sea Wall Assessments:
( Revenue)
Due in 1961
373.11
Due in 1962
350.89
Due in 1963
326.17
Due in 1964 320.67
Due in 1965
251.75
Due in 1966
251.75
Due in
1967
251.76
Due in
1968
251.76
Due in 1969
251.76
Due in 1970
251.76
Due in 1971
251.75
Due in 1972
251.70
Due in 1973
251.70
Due in 1974
251.72
$3,888.25
$3,888.25
178
TRUST AND INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS
Trust and Investment Funds Cash and Securities: $294,541.84
Thomas D. Hathaway Fund
2,017.99
Post War Rehabilitation Fund
8.83
F. and H. Partch Flower Fund
317.39
Agnes S. Ellison Fund
1,259.33
Lucy A. Ewell Cemetery Fund
540.23
J. and R. Ford Fund
29,176.79
William P. Harding Library Fund
1,296.33
Lucy Hathaway Fund
25,709.10
Stabilization Fund
*54,688.87
Charles R. Crocker Flower Fund
314.46
George H. Wood, Cemetery Fund
1,022.92
Cemetery, General Care and Improvement Fund
2,686.31
George Chandler Flower Fund
103.35
Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
171,884.30
Standish Home Site Fund
1,865.64
The Feinberg Fund
1,500.00
G. and G. Myrick Flower Fund
150.00
$294,541.84
$294,541.84
*See Authorization for Withdrawal reported on Balance Sheet
179
180
SALARY ADJUSTMENT SECTION
Departmental segregations :
Public Welfare
277.00
Selectmen's Department
90.00
Accounting Department
400.00
Treasurer's Department
72.00
Tax Collector's Department
141.00
Highway Department
824.00
Bridge Department
125.00
Town Landings
40.00
Assessors' Department
250.00
Town Clerk's Department
48.00
Police Department
1,200.00
Fire Department
700.00
Forest Fire Department
41.15
Building Inspector
172.00
Parks and Playgrounds
83.00
Insect Pest Control
186.00
Control Dutch Elm Disease
345.00
Tree Department
123.00
Shellfish Constable
114.00
Harbor Master
108.00
Veterans Benefits
115.00
Water Department
617.00
Cemetery Department
500.00
Correction
147.86
Total amount segregated
for Salary Adjustment
$6,719.01
Transfer from Salary Adjustment Section :
To Departments :
Correction :
Forest Fire 41.15
Assessors' 25.00
181
Cemetery Department 169.46
Cemetery Department 283.04
Tax Collector's Department
141.00
Water Department
395.00
Highway Department
359.96
Town Landing
29.85
Fire Department
282.51
Snow and Ice
147.86
Balance closed to Revenue Account
4,844.18
$6,719.01
RESERVE FUND
1960 Appropriation 10,000.00
Transfers by Finance Committee :
Fire and Police Group Insurance 210.85
Unclassified (Dog Pound) 140.00
Fire Insurance Schedule 93.09
Shellfish Constable 315.00
Public Welfare, Out of State Travel 75.00
Forest Fire Department 900.00
Veterans Benefits
3,000.00
Group Insurance - General
230.26
Treasurer's Department
129.00
Town Clerk's Department
147.00
Building Inspector
80.00
Election and Registration
300.00
Snow and Ice Removal
3,500.00
9,120.20
879.80
Unexpended balances of Transfers Refunded by Departments :
Treasurer's Department 6.71
Town Clerk's Department 2.02
182
Election and Registration
8.39
Forest Fire Department 44.94
Building Inspector
10.83
Snow and Ice Removal
38.08
Welfare Dept., Out of State Travel
5.54
Veterans Benefits
310.54
Fire Insurance Schedule
52.75
479.80
1,359.60
Balance of Reserve, transferred
to Overlay Reserve
1,359.60
1960 APPROPRIATION BALANCES RETURNED TO THE TREASURY
Selectmen's Department
223.82
Accounting Department
194.92
Accounting, Out of State Travel
26.65
Town Treasurer's Salary
47.17
Town Collector's Department
158.27
Assessors' Salaries
100.08
Assessors' Department
10.00
Assessors' Map
500.00
Law Department
1,072.20
Town Clerk's Salary
47.17
Planning Board
989.66
Appeal Board
121.72
Personnel Board
32.50
Town Historian
32.40
Town Office
2,168.10
Police Department
3,516.09
Fire Department
313.19
Fire, Out of State Travel
4.84
Insect Pest Control
1,778.12
Dutch Elm Disease Control
1,116.95
Tree Department
152.72
183
Sealer of Weights and Measures
75.99
Duxbury Beach Lifeguard
98.50
Health Department
1,225.33
Town Dump
548.18
Greenhead Fly Control
1,500.00
Vital Statistics
15.00
Shellfish Constable
211.78
Highway Department
3.98
Bridge Department
387.72
Town Landings
.10
Street Lights
243.55
Blue Fish Tidegates
155.52
Harbor Master
26.58
Public Welfare, Control Account
464.91
School Department
3,099.32
School -- Public Use
1.88
Vocational and Americanization
339.68
Vocational Training-Adult
395.40
School, Out of State Travel
146.72
Train Field Floodlights
2.35
Unclassified
153.77
Workmen's Compensation Insurance
.80
Tarkiln Youth Center
367.38
Parks and Playgrounds
112.52
Town Hall Recreation
75.04
Water Department
37.11
Water Department, Out of State Travel
59.01
Cemetery Department
1,402.05
Cemetery, Out of State Travel
17.03
Interest-Water
1.74
Interest-Town
800.50
Interest -- Temporary Loans
47.99
Interest-Jr .- Sr. High School
2,241.00
$26,865.00
184
OUTSTANDING APPROPRIATION BALANCES December 31, 1960
1960 Police Cruiser 271.25
Tree Dept., Hathaway Fund
407.86
Special Shellfish Account
640.87
Propagation of Shellfish
336.69
Plastic Screening Account
20.00
Oyster Seeding
100.00
Civil Defense
982.00
Well Child Clinic
121.76
New Town Dump Survey
200.00
Highway-Tree Barn
2.23
Highway-Hathaway Fund
13.93
Bridges-Hathaway Fund
306.27
Sand Spreading Attachments
237.90
Town Landings-Hathaway Fund
464.12
1960 Ch. 90 Maintenance
.08
1960 Ch. 90 Construction
23,659.92
Beaverbrook Lane, Repairs
157.66
Mullins Avenue, Construction .32
Town Pier and Floats
1,916.99
Temple Street, Construction
2,292.69
Howland's Landing, Improvement
229.03
Autumn Avenue, Damage Awards
16.00
Church and Tremont Streets,
Damages 52.00
Chandler Street, Damages
131.00
Bay Road, Damages
15.00
Tobey Garden Street, Damages
15.00
Valley and Franklin Streets, Damages 4.85
Congress Streets, Damage Awards
6.00
School Department
(1960 contract)
531.24
Smith-Barden Funds
280.00
School Dept., Hathaway Fund
183.50
185
Junior-Senior High School :
Balance, Proceeds
Bond Issue
600,799.77
Balance, Available Funds
73,226.14
(See also Authorized With- drawal Stabilization Fund)
Town Retirement 440.87
Memorial Day
31.88
Standish Cellar Lot, Improvement
208.85
Job Evaluation 450.00
Purchase Price, McNeil Land 1.00
Tax Title Foreclosures
1,891.83
Fireproof Vault at Town Office
96.02
Indian Trail, Water Mains, (Borrowed Money)
12.00
Water Reservoir, Repairs
25.01
Water Priorities I to V
46.98
Engineering Services- Water Dept. 434.57
1960 Water Dept., Vehicle
556.30
Cleaning Water Mains
996.40
Autumn Ave., and Winter St. (Borrowed money,
for water mains) 4,775.98
Cemetery Dept., Hathaway Funds
101.06
Cemetery, Pick-up Truck 90.00
Unpaid Bills of 1959
2.54
Premium on Junior-Senior
High School Loan 1,384.44
$719,167.80
Legal Overdrafts :
(Deficit Spending)
"Donna" Hurricane Emergency : Police Department 118.30
Fire Department 1,283.92
Town Dump 1,666.40
186
Tree Department
3,150.82
Highway Department
5,117.35
Town Landings
202.00
Cemetery Department
1,989.09
Medical Aid to the Aged
9,923.52
Total Deficit Spending 23,451.40
Outstanding Appropriation
Balances as per
Accountant's Ledger $695,716.40
WATER DEPARTMENT
Town Accountant's Report for 1960
For detailed schedules of expenditures by the Water Department please refer to the "Enterprise" section of the Town Accountant's Report.
Herewith submitted is a statement of the 1960 activity in the Water Department's accounts receivable. The sizeable balance outstanding is the result of a commitment of bills in excess of $33,000. to the Collector on and after November 1, 1960.
Also submitted is a recapitulation of the Water Department's appropriation accounts, showing an out- standing balance of $6,847.24 available for future ex- penditures or for transfer.
The memorandum account of the Water Depart- ment's "Surplus" has been examined by Col. Leonard Gallagher, Water Commissioner, who found no errors in the items or in the method of computation.
I wish to express my appreciation of the assistance which I have received from the Water Superintendent and from the Board of Water Commissioners.
Respectfully submitted, ISABELLE V. FREEMAN
Town Accountant
187
WATER DEPARTMENT-APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS
Water Department, M & O, 1960
1960 Town Meeting Appropriation 42,264.00
Salary Adjustment Section, released 395.00 42,659.00
Expenditures (for breakdown see
Town Accountant's report)
42,004.89
Salary Adjustment Section, encumbered 617.00
Balance closed to Revenue (town) 37.11
42,659.00
Water Commissioners' Salaries
1960 Town Meeting Appropriation
450.00
Commissioners' Salaries 450.00
Indian Trail Water Mains
January 1, 1960,
Balance-Borrowed Money
12.00
December 31, 1960, Balance 12.00
Water Reservoir - Repairs
January 1, 1960, Balance
2,480.01
Expenditures in 1960 2,455.00
December 31, 1960, Balance 25.01
Water Priorities I to V
January 1, 1960, Balance
963.64
Expenditures in. 1960 916.66
December 31, 1960, Balance 46.98
Engineering Services - Water
January 1, 1960, Balance
434.57
December 31, 1960, Balance 434.57
Water, Out of State Travel
1960 Town Meeting Appropriation
200.00
Expenditures in 1960 140.99
Balance closed to Revenue (town) 59.01
200.00
1960 Water Department Motor Vehicle
1960 Town Meeting Appropriation
3,000.00
Purchase of vehicle and equipment 2,443.70
December 31, 1960, Balance 556.30
Cleaning Water Mains
January 1, 1960, Balance
996.40
December 31, 1960, Balance 996.40
Autumn Avenue and Winter Street Water Mains
May 2, 1960, Proceeds of Loan 21,500.00
Expenditures in 1960 16,724.02
December 31, 1960, Balance 4,775.98 Appropriation Balances December 31, 1960 $6,847.24
188
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE Water Department
Accounts Receivable :
(Unclassified)
Jan. 1, 1960 Balance outstanding 176.60
1960 Commitments 415.67 Cash Receipts
592.27
Hydrant Rental :
The Water Department billed the Fire Department for $28,770.00 Hydrant Rental, but made no formal commitment to the Town Collector for this item.
The Fire Department paid the Water Department $28,770.00 on December 20, 1960.
Meter Resettings:
January 1, 1960
Balance Outstanding
80.00
1960 Commitments
1,393.60
1,473.60
Abatements authorized
Cash Receipts
December 31, 1960
Balance due 83.60
Service Connections :
January 1, 1960
Balance Outstanding 1,062.21
1960 Commitments 5,069.05
Refunds 100.82
6,232.08
Abatements authorized 99.00
Audit adjustments
by Town Accountant
334.75
Cash Receipts
5,409.77
5,843.52
December 31, 1960
Balance due 388.56
Water Rates:
January 1, 1960
Balance Outstanding 9,011.84
1960 Commitments 51,825.94
60,837.78
Abatements authorized 139.35
Audit adjustment
by Town Accountant
25.21
Cash Receipts
49,926.14
50,090.70
December 31, 1960 Balance due 10,747.08
Water Department, Accounts Receivable Outstanding December 31, 1960
11,219.24
none 1,390.00
189
MEMORANDUM ACCOUNT Water Department "Surplus"
January 1, 1960-Balance-
(see 1959 Town Report)
3,235.75
Hydrant Rental
28,770.00
Income-Meter Resettings
1,390.00
Income-Service Connections
5,409.77
Income-Water Rates (metered, etc.)
49,926.14
Miscellaneous accounts receivable
592.27
Salary Adjustment Section (balance of
encumbrance closed to Town's Revenue) 222.00
Balance of general M & O appropriation, closed to Town's Revenue 37.11
Balance of Out of State Travel, closed to Town's Revenue
59.01
Balance of Water Department Interest, closed to Town's Revenue
1.74
89,643.79
Appropriations by the Town, M & O 42,264.00
Appropriation for Out of State Travel
200.00
Interest
7,608.00
Water District Notes
8,500.00
West Duxbury Water Loan
5,000.00
Water Loan, Phase I
20,000.00
1960 Motor Vehicle appropriation
3,000.00
Service connection charges
refunded 100.82
Appropriation for
Commissioners' Salaries 450.00
87,122.82
"Surplus" December 31, 1960
2,520.97
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF DUXBURY
537
JU
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31
1960
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE Year Ending December 31, 1960
SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Term Expires
Mr. Edward L. Butler, Chairman
1962
Mrs. George G. Palfrey, Secretary
1962
Mr. John A. Brock, Jr.
1961
Mr. Walter B. Collins 1963
Mr. Herbert R. Nelson
1963
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Everett L. Handy
SECRETARY TO THE SUPERINTENDENT Miss Helen F. Hanigan
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REPORT OF THE DUXBURY SCHOOL COMMITTEE
For the Calendar Year 1960
To the Citizens of Duxbury :
Because it would be very difficult to add much to what the Superintendent of Schools has said in his com- prehensive report, we will content ourselves with some general comments.
We believe that 1960 finds the Duxbury School Sys- tem in good condition. We have a hard working and able Superintendent who continues to keep himself and his Committee informed on current educational ideas and opinions, as well as to conduct an efficient adminis- tration. Our principals and department heads are doing a fine job, and, because their work is so important to the success of a good school system, we feel most fortu- nate to have excellent classroom teachers. We also ap- preciate the work being done by our faithful and loyal non-teaching personnel.
Whenever new educational ideas come along, we try to use those which seem worthwhile and practical for Duxbury. We might note that this year we have revised our science program in conformity with the recommendations of the Physical Science Study Com- mittee headed by Dr. Zacharias of M. I. T., have added a practical electronics course to our shop program, and have raised the passing grade in our High School from D to C. Our school supervision has been strengthened by the appointment of two additional department heads.
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We are keenly aware of the importance of good guidance services for our students and commend Mr. Mendenhall for his initiation of evening programs where students and parents have had an opportunity to talk with the representatives of junior colleges, colleges, teachers colleges, vocational colleges and representatives from various industries.
Next fall will find our new junior-senior high school ready for occupancy, thus removing the hindrance caused our program due to lack of space. We feel sure Duxbury will have every reason to take pride in this building, and a special debt of gratitude is owed to Dr. Handy and Mr. Howard Clark, Chairman of the Building Committee, who have given so much of themselves to bring this project to a successful conclusion.
Again this year the Massachusetts Legislature has raised the minimum starting salary for teachers, and quite likely will raise it again for next year. This Com- mittee continues to feel that a merit program represents the best way to insure good teachers for Duxbury. Our teachers have accepted the principle of merit pay, and while we will continue to strengthen our basic salary schedule, we do not contemplate an across the board increase as such.
As more fully outlined in the Superintendent's re- port, our year has been saddened by the passing of three members of our school community. Their contribu- tions to our school life were many, and we are richer for having had them with us.
In conclusion we thank the many organizations and individuals who by their interest and efforts have helped our schools in so many different ways. Once again our
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sincere thanks and deep appreciation go to Dr. Handy for his tireless and capable leadership, which is doing so much to make our school system a good one.
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD L. BUTLER, Chairman MARTHA M. PALFREY, Secretary JOHN A. BROCK, JR. WALTER B. COLLINS HERBERT R. NELSON
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
This report marks a year of great losses as well as a time of advance for the Duxbury schools. On July 7, 1960, Frances Redlon Wolfe died. She was a long time resident of Duxbury, and a member of our high school faculty for the last three years. Later, on Sep- tember 11, Mr. T. Waldo Herrick, who transported Dux- bury children for nearly thirty-five years, passed away. On December 27, Mrs. M. Abbie Peckham, a teacher in the Duxbury schools for more than fifty years, died at the Brae Burn Nursing Home in Whitman. Their influ- ence for good in the Duxbury schools will be hard to replace. Their passing is noted further in another part of this report.
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