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The Town will be asked to rebuild the old road at a cost of $2,500. It never has been discontinued and part of it is to day in frequent use. The value of such action from a historical standpoint cannot be overstated. The compell ing reasons from a purely materialistic one, are apparent.
Respectfully submitted,
MARY E. WALBACH, Secretary.
Scituate. January 14, 1919.
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Report of Committee on Street Nomenclature
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON STREET NOMENCLATURE
To the Inhabitants of Scituate:
The Committee on Street Nomenclature being further continued for service from March, 1918, submits this, its third report:
With a portion of the Town appropriation, gifts from the Historical Society, the North Scituate Beach Improvement Association and individuals, the work of placing the signs on the highways named in our last report, which was de- layed through war employment by Mr. Jesse P. Litchfield who has it in charge will be completed and enlarged. The gifts above mentioned have made it possible to place signs, duplicates in color and design of those already erected, on Tilden Road (4); Captain Peirce Road (2); Damon Road (2); Surfside Road (1); Bailey's Causeway (2) and Grass- hopper Lane (2).
The Pilgrim Tercentenary Commissioners, who have already endorsed the work which Scituate is doing in this respect, have in the same spirit recommended that in all the town, through which the ancient highways of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies pass-The "Country Way," "Massachusetts Path," and the "Plym- outh and Bay Road" -- the location of the old milestones be ascertained and determined and replicas thereof be erected. This suggestion is seconded by the Committee of Muncipal Officers and others which organized at Quincy in 1917 and will be adopted, undoubtedly, as one of the minor features of the coming celebration of the landing of the Pilgrims.
The work which this Town begun is thus growing to wide
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proportions. The usual appropriation of $25 is recom- mended for the further continuance of the work.
Respectfully submitted,
MARY ANN FORD, JAMES W. TURNER, HARVEY H. PRATT, HENRY T. COLE.
Scituate, January 14, 1919.
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Report of Allen Memorial Library
REPORT OF ALLEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY
TREASURER'S REPORT For the Year Ending May 1, 1918
RECEIPTS
Cash on hand May 1, 1917
$153 22
From Town of Scituate
500 00
From bank.
70 00
From rent and fines
93 50
$816 72
PAYMENTS
Janitor .
$254 00
Librarian .
160 00
Electric lights.
14 30
Insurance ..
3 15
Books .
100 72
Fuel .
127 90
Rebinding
17 15
Water Company
16 00
Periodicals .
17 25
Repairs .
8 75
Incidentals .
76
Cash on hand May 1
96 74
$8 16 72
AMY F. FRYE, Treasurer.
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Report of the Peirce Memorial Library
REPORT OF THE PEIRCE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
TREASURER'S REPORT For the Year ending May 10, 1918
RECEIPTS
Cash on hand .
$74 77
Received from Town. 500 00
Received from members
47 00
Received from fines .
6 00
Received from gifts
9 47
Total
$637 24
PAYMENTS
Librarian
$125 00
Fuel .
78 60
Janitor
63 75
Periodici's
50 80
Books.
37 39
Binding books
66 58
Insurance
37 90
Water
6 00
Electric lights
23 30
Printing
7 50
Repairs.
24 92
Painting
25 00
Total
$546 74
Cash on hand May 10, 1918 .
90 50
$637 24
Permanent fund in Cohasset Savings
Bank
$333 92
FRANCIS B. LEE, Treasurer.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF SCITUATE
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31
1918
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School Department
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Mrs. Rena M. Cole, Chairman, term expires in 1920.
Mrs. Marion Collier Alexander, Secretary, term expires in 1921.
George F. Dwyer, term expires in 1919.
The regular meetings of the Committee are held at 2 P.M., on the first Wednesday of each month, at the High School.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Office in High School, Telephone 124
Frederick E. Bragdon, Post Office Address, Egypt, Mass. Telephone 306-13.
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN T. Branch Alexander, M.D. Scituate, Mass.
ATTENDANCE OFFICERS
John F. Turner
Elmer F. Burrows
CALENDAR 1919
Winter term opens January 6. Closes March 28.
Spring term opens April 7. Closes June 27.
Vacation nine weeks.
Fall term opens September 2. Closes December 19.
1920
Winter term opens January 5.
HOLIDAYS
February 22, April 19, May 30, October 12, Thanksgiving Day and the day following.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Scituate:
The School Committee submits its report for the year 1918, together with the report of the Superintendent of Schools, the Supervisors, Principal of the High School, the School Physician and other officers of the Department.
The rapid growth of our Town in the past few years has . made it no easy proposition to keep school accommodations sufficient for the increasing numbers of children. The crowded condition made it necessary to separate the sixth and seventh grades at the Jenkins School. New seats were put in the exhibition room, a new teacher, Miss Margarette Reilly, procured, and now the seventh grade is doing good work in its new quarters.
Scituate is no longer a small village or distinctly a summer resort, but it is a home town where families are coming to live because of the comforts to be found here, in which our good schools have an influence. It is not always possible for a town of limited means to retain all of its good teachers. This and the unusual war conditions have been responsible for many changes during the year, but we are fortunate in starting the new year with a personnel of very high standard.
Mr. C. A. Crowell, Jr., from Marthas Vineyard, the superintendent chosen for the new term, was with us a very few months, when he resigned to take a position in the Government service, in the department of Rehabilitation of Wounded Soldiers. Mr. Frederick E. Bragdon, of West Brookfield, is his successor.
The number of pupils who would attend the High Street School this year was so small, it seemed an economy to close it for the present, and the children of that vicinity are trans- ported to the Hatherly School.
The Hatherly School and the fence around it needed some
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repairs. Sanitary arrangements at the Jenkins School were adjusted, and the resurfacing of desks at both schools was a great improvement. Our schools are well kept by the janitors and their services are much appreciated.
We now make our appeal to the parents. May we urge that you become acquainted with the teacher who is training your child. It will benefit both teacher and child.
It is with regret that we are obliged to show any deficit in our accounts, but we feel we should vindicate ourselves by stating that no one could have foreseen the unusual increase in price of everything during the war period. In order to retain teachers and, in fact, secure new ones, it was necessary to increase salaries that had formerly been paid. It seemed necessary to increase the amount of insurance on the build- ings, on account of increased cost to replace them. Most of the policy renewals came this year, which added to the de- pletion of the appropriations. Sixteen hundred dollars of this year's allowance had to be taken for bills contracted last year, and the additional expense of transportation was caused when, for lack of coal, the pupils of the Jenkins School were carried to the Hatherly School. We have indulged in no luxuries and our expenditures have been for the best protection of the schools, materially and educa- tionally.
Respectfully submitted,
RENA M. COLE, MARION COLLIER ALEXANDER, GEORGE F. DWYER,
School Committee.
January 9, 1919.
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Report of Superintendent of Schools
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee of Scituate:
Since it is impracticable for me to give any adequate historical report for the year, I beg leave to submit in place thereof a discussion of the condition of the schools of Scituate as I find them to-day, with some suggestions for a program for the next few years.
The consensus of opinion of educators of both high and low positions is that very marked changes in our system of edu- cation are about to be made. No one as yet has ventured to state definitely what those changes will be, though there is a very general agreement on some things. We feel sure that more attention will be given to teaching a genuine patriotism. The revelations of the draft are humiliating to American pride, and make imperative a more efficient physical training in the public schools. Physical exercise, supervised play, medical inspection, the professional nurse, are to become parts of the recognized daily program of every school.
The criticism of business men that our schools are not preparing our youth efficiently for earning a livelihood must be met by a more thorough drill in fundamentals and a more varied and practical program of studies. This means that the traditional courses of study, the schools our fathers said were " good enough for them," are to be changed for something that will afford more efficient preparation for living in the new democracy. Teachers must prepare to meet the new requirements or give place to those who can.
It is not to be expected that the new program of education is to be carried out without the expenditure of more money than heretofore. We may expect, citizens may rightly demand that, while we spend more dollars, we also give more returns for each dollar. In other words, as we revise our program to meet the demands of the age, we must also
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'make sure of a greater efficiency in all departments, both new and old. Achievements in scholarship in Scituate schools are not satisfactory. Standards do not seem to be uniform throughout the schools, as is shown by the too great differences in ability found in members of the entering class of the High School. I am unwilling to place the blame for so serious a condition on the teachers. A teacher's ability to sustain a standard is largely determined by such factors as material equipment, number of classes in the room, previous instruction of the pupils; and these factors are exactly what the public, the citizens of the community, decide are sufficient.
At the Jenkins School we found fifty-seven pupils in two grades, crowded into one room, to be taught by one teacher. This room has neither floor space nor ventilation for so many pupils. No teacher can accomplish the work with two such classes, that another teacher with half the number of pupils in a single class accomplishes. Low standards of scholarship are inevitable. We were compelled to separate these grades and employ another teacher. Fortunately an unused room was available.
Similar conditions prevail at the Hatherly School, where no room is available. Furthermore, no room is available for general assembly purposes, for the care of the sick in emergencies, for manual work of any sort, for physical train- ing or a supervised lunch. There are also other rooms than the one mentioned, containing two large grades to a teacher, which for efficiency require separate teachers and rooms. These facts, which any one may verify by a visit to the schools, have much to do with the unsatisfactory standards of scholarship. The criticism is in no way a reflection upon the children, nor necessarily upon the teachers. Both teachers and pupils are victims of circumstances which only the people have power to alter.
These facts indicate that we must consider the problems of reorganization and of more buildings together.
Our plan of organization today is the 9-4 plan, which is nearly. abandoned in Massachusetts in favor of the 8-4 plan.
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These terms mean eight or nine years in the primary school,. and four years in the High School. The 8-4 plan is now rapidly giving way to the 6-3-3 plan, meaning six years in the primary school, three years in the Junior High and three years in the Senior High School. We shall doubtless have to make choice between the 8-4 and the 6-3-3 plans for Scituate.
Some arguments for the 6-3-3 plan are:
1. The 6-3-3 plan will require no addition to the Hatherly School. It will require a central building for the Junior School.
2. That building should be located near the High School, so that certain teachers may be used in both buildings.
3. The athletic field and equipment will be available for both schools.
4. The problem of transportation will be more easily solved.
5. The old High School building can be made suitable for the Junior School for a few years at small expense, if moved to a suitable location.
6. Duplication of teachers for grades 7 and 8 will be avoided.
7. Boys of twelve and fifteen years will be brought under the control of male teachers.
8. Two primary schools of six grades each will have ample room for all desirable activities.
9. The pressure upon the High School teachers will be relieved by reducing the number of classes to three.
10. The transition from the grades to the High School will be less difficult.
11. Special teachers work with less loss of time, and better equipment, and may be secured and retained at less expense.
12. Transportation can be provided for all pupils if so voted by means of a few motor busses operating radially from the center, and serving both upper and lower schools at different hours.
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13. The whole number of teachers required will be the same as for the 8-4 plan.
14. The older pupils at Hatherly and Jenkins Schools will be separated from the younger ones, much to the advantage of the younger ones.
The old High School building can be fitted for beginning the Junior school at small expense. If it could be moved to its final resting place this spring, the 6-3-3 plan could be begun in September, to the very great advantage of the children of the upper grades. The addition of special departments of domestic science, physical training and the like need not necessarily be made at first. The expense for equipping these may be distributed through several years, and provide for a gradual development of the school program.
The following is an estimate of the cost of instruction per year under the 6-3-3 plan and under the 8-4 plan, based upon attendance this year, and salaries of this year.
The 6-3-3 plan will require five teachers for the High School and two for the Junior School. the French and science teachers serving in both schools.
Hatherly will have four teachers and a room available for manual acitivities or assembly purposes.
Jenkins will have four teachers and several rooms avail- able for departments.
Tre drawing and music teachers will serve both schools as heretofore.
A reasonable estimate for salaries is $13,850 for a year. In- asmuch as less than one-half a year will be chargeable to the appropriation for 1919, the estimate may be reduced for 1919 by one-half the total increase over salaries of 1918, or $600, leaving a net estimated cost for salaries for 1919 of $13,250.
The 8-4 plan will require $13,850 for retaining the same number of teachers as now employ d, to which should be added at least two other teachers to relieve the congestion in some grades, making a total of $14,250.
Here is a difference of $1000 in favor of the 6-3-3 plan
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on the financial side. In curriculum and adaptation of in- struction to pupils' needs the 6-3-3 plan even in a very modest beginning offers superior advantages. Practically the only absolutely necessary outlay for the first year is for moving the old building and fitting it up. Let it be placed reasonably near the new building and the small rooms en- larged a little and we shall have a very acceptable Junior School until such time as a new structure, in keeping with the general plan of development of the property, can be provided.
TRANSPORTATION
I wish to raise the question of a change of method of trans- portation from that of horse-drawn barges to motor bus, for these reasons:
1. The present system is slow and inadequate.
2. The present location of school population is not well served by present routes.
3. Other towns report better service at less expense, by letting the contract for all transportation to some one who will furnish motor trucks.
4. A lower price can be secured by arranging hours so that each bus performs double service daily.
5. If a Junior School were opened, it seems feasible to have several routes converge at the center and serve other schools en route.
Complaints which seem to be well sustained have been made concerning crowded barges, lack of discipline, in- equality of service and tardiness of arrival. The remedy lies either in more and better barges or in an entire re- arrangement of transportation. A carefully made census of school population is being plotted on a map so that the most satisfactory arrangement of routes may be seen. Any attempt to improve the situation by less than a general revision of the system will probably do little more than to shift the complaint from one point to another.
I judge that the demand for new books and for apparatus
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for the High School laboratory will require more funds than usual this year. Electric lights in the High School will enable us to use the property for educational gatherings in the evening and late afternoon.
Herewith are presented such reports as I have received from subordinate officers, and other statistical information. The financial statement is given in the form approved by the State Department.
Respectfully submitted,
FREDERICK E. BRAGDON, Superintendent.
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REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL
MR. F. E. BRAGDON.
Superintendent of Schools.
Dear Sir: Since my connection with the High School has been brief, and, in a sense, broken, I have little to report. I should like, however, to say a few words regarding the handicaps under which we at the High School have worked, as well as about the needs of the school and my ideas for fulfilling them.
When I came here about a week before the opening of school to make preparation, to my surprise I found that the Superintendent and two of the teachers had resigned, the Superintendent and one teacher to go into war work, the other teacher to take a position at a greatly increased salary. I told the School Committee, through its Chairman, that I thought it useless to open school under such circumstances . and that, in the absence of a Superintendent, I had better look for teachers at once. The Committee approved my suggestion, postponed the opening of school one week, and sent me in search of teachers. I secured two who proved to be excellent teachers, one of whom is still with us. Thus we had, with one exception, an entirely new corps of teachers.
After school had been in session one week, attendance became very poor on account of the epidemic of influenza. At the end of two and one-half weeks school was closed, and remained so twenty-five days. At the present writing we are having an extra week of vacation because of a new outbreak of influenza. How to make up the five and one- half weeks of work lost because of influenza and lack of teachers becomes a problem. We can, of course, gain some time by concentrating our efforts on the more important parts of our work.
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During the first outbreak of influenza Miss Fessenden resigned, and Miss Dorothy Sheehan was elected to take her place. Toward the last of November Mrs. Fowle resigned because her husband was released from the service. To complete the year in her place we were most fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Locke, pastor of the Scituate Unitarian Church, who is also an experienced teacher.
Changes in the course of study made by Mr. Crowell, while an improvement on the old course, involved adminis- trative difficulties, especially in his absence.
In spite of the resignation of the Superintendent and of four teachers, delay in opening, an almost entirely new teach- ing force, change of curriculum, loss of time because of epidemic, and in spite of shortage of books and supplies, the school has been moving along fairly well with, of course, the ordinary problems that must be met in the administration of a High School.
At the opening of school the enrollment was ninety-five. Since then seven pupils have entered and five have left, making a present enrollment of ninety-seven, and a total enrollment of one hundred and two, comparing favorably with an enrollment of one hundred and five last year.
Attendance, discipline and scholarship must be improved and the course of study made broader. It is certain that scholarship cannot be high when attendance and discipline are low.
Attendance is a problem and a burden that must, to a large extent, be solved and borne by the parents. Co-operation, however, of parents, teachers and school officers must be the watchword. To this end we hope to establish parent- teachers' meetings where parents may meet teachers and discuss with them the welfare of their children. We hope also that these meetings will develop into a strong, helpful parent-teachers' association.
Good discipline can be maintained only by strong teachers with the co-operation of parents and the help of school officers. The first and last of these we already have. What we now need is the hearty co-operation of parents; and,
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again, parent-teachers' meetings are the medium through which that co-operation can be obtained.
What shall we say of scholarship? Again co-operation through the medium of parent-teachers' meetings. Good teachers backed up by the co-operation of parents and school officers, practical courses, well prepared pupils, high educational ideals and a good tradition are the forces that make for high scholarship.
A broader curiculum is largely a problem to be solved by school officers and the taxpayers. School officers can work out the needed courses, but only the taxpayers can pay the bills. Courses in domestic science for the girls and manual training and, possibly, agriculture, for the boys are those most needed at present.
As important aids to good attendance and discipline, and probably also to high scholarship, should be mentioned what might be termed the extra-school activities, such as supervised play, a school paper, a literary, public speaking or debating society, a school orchestra and a lunch counter.
There is little of the recognized play element in our school. We should have various sorts of games such as, for example, baseball, volley ball, track, hockey, etc., out of doors; basketball, indoor baseball, handball and many other games indoors. Especially should we have games in which all can participate. To this purpose there is an excellent place for an athletic field in the rear of the school building, and the old school building might easily be made into a playhouse.
Already plans are being put into operation for a weekly school paper, without expense to the school, in connection with the Scituate Herald. Such a paper should serve the double purpose of allowing the pupils a means of expressing themselves in a literary way and of forming a connecting link between the school and the community.
The pupils have expressed themselves almost unanimously in favor of a lunch counter. Many have said they would buy all their lunches at such a counter should it be established. Warm soup, stews and cocoa could be served, as well as
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other nourishing foods which cannot be taken from home in a lunch box.
To make our courses more valuable we should have more science laboratory equipment, such as more blackboard space, more cabinet space, more apparatus for chemistry and more chemicals. Our course in biology should be made stronger. For that end we should have a well equipped laboratory either in the basement of the new building or somewhere in the old.
In conclusion may I express the appreciation of the teachers to the people of Scituate for providing their sec- ondary school with so good a building and equipment. It shall be our ambition to make the school worthy of its environment.
WALDO V. ANDREWS, Principal.
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Report of Supervisor of Drawing
REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF DRAWING
MR. BRAGDON, Superintendent of Schools.
Dear Sir: Two exhibitions of drawings were given at the end of the spring term last year, one at the Jenkins School and one at the North Scituate Library. They proved to be quite the best demonstration of school drawing that we had given to date. The High School workers were well represented in many branches, namely, the human figure, portraits, floral groups, leaf sprays, lettering, animal studies, caricature and various other subjects; also many scale drawings of architectural subjects. All of this work was done with many mediums,-charcoal, paint, pencil, crayon, pen and ink being used in most cases.
The work done in the grammar grades for the most part was simple specimens of nature work or leaf studies and a few object drawings from · subjects on the blackboard, all of which were best calculated to develop the worker for the more difficult High School work to come later.
The easier preparatory work was done from simpler sub- jects on the blackboard for the primary grades, which was planned as a preparation for the more difficult grammar grade work. That the grammar and primary grade work did prepare the worker for difficult work in the High School was amply proved by the large amount of successful work put through at this school.
A most encouraging feature of the work done in the Scituate schools has been the vast amount of interest taken in the work on hand by the workers. Then the successful training of High School graduates by additional training in the Boston Art Schools, by those whose ability has warranted them in taking up the work as a vocation, has been very interesting to me as showing how far the worker can go when animated by tremendous interest and industry.
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The vast interest taken by the Committee, and the ex- cellent materials provided have contributed very much to the welfare of the work. The teachers, too, have done their part by contributing their best. As to the future we hope for better results even than in the past.
Respectfully yours, SAMUEL WARNER.
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Report of Supervisor of Music
REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC
MR. F. E. BRAGDON.
Dear Sir: I submit to you my annual report of the work in music in the public schools of Scituate.
Taking the year as a whole the work has shown develop- ment. We closed our work in June with a generous number of musical selections at the graduation exercises of both the High School and the Ninth Grades. The work was taken up again in a promising way in September. If re- sults have not been such as we expected, it is for reasons which have been entirely beyond our control, and while , we may be disappointed, we are in no wise discouraged.
One of the facts which the great war has brought out, is the great value of music, especially singing. All up-to- date communities have conceded that music has real educa- tional value. The war has demonstrated its great moral value. When our hard-headed military men demand song leaders and band masters to keep up the morale of their men, we cannot doubt they have a good reason for it. And if singing will keep up the morale of a fighting a my, why will it not benefit the rest of us in our every-day battles? It is a fact that music is no longer a fad. It is a great fundamental and is so recognized.
In view of this fact, should we not put our music in the schools on a level with other studies, requiring a certain amount done in each grade, and marking the child accord- ingly, for promotion? Of course there are some children who cannot sing, but if these are attentive and learn the theory of music with the others, they should receive as much credit as if they could sing. And then again, we are demonstrating more and more each year that most children can sing if given time and attention in the lower grades.
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If results are meagre it is because we are handicapped by lack of time.
In closing my report I wish to thank the teachers who have worked with me during the past year, for their help and co-operation.
Yours sincerely, ANGIE M. FAUNCE, Supervisor of Music.
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Report of School Physician
REPORT OF SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
To the Scituate School Committee:
I have examined the pupils of the several schools and notification cards have been sent to parents of those physi- cally deficient. The buildings have been examined with reference to their upkeep and sanitation and some recom- mendations made and accepted.
The change in location of drinking fountains in the base- ment of the Jenkins School from their too close proximity to the water closets into the large rooms has been arranged an'd sanitary soap containers and towels added. The janitors have been urged to every effort to keep the closets clean and free from odor.
The sanitation and upkeep of the school buildings as a whole is excellent and the co-operation of the teachers, School Committee and Superintendent very helpful and encouraging.
It was necessary to close the schools for a period on account of the influenza epidemic. Vaccination is an ac- complished fact and will be enforced in the future. The co-operation of parents in this particular has been most gratifying.
Respectfully submitted,
T. B. ALEXANDER, M.D., School Physician.
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Report of Attendance Officers
REPORT OF ATTENDANCE OFFICERS
To the Superintendent of Schools:
We wish to report that we have attended to all cases of truancy which have been called to our attention during the year.
JOHN F. TURNER, ELMER F. BURROWS, Attendance Oficers.
Scituate, December 31, 1918.
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Graduating Exercises
PAR EPREUVES A TRIOMPHE
GRADUATING EXERCISES
OF THE CLASS OF 1918 SCITUATE HIGH SCHOOL TOWN HALL Friday Evening, June 21 At 8 o'clock
PROGRAM
MUSIC
Ruth Ricketts
INVOCATION Rev. William W. Locke
SALUTATORY . Leona Seaverns
MUSIC. 'Star-Spangled Banner"
A JUST AND GENEROU'S PEACE. President Wilson
Leslie Grace Bonney
POET-INTERPRETERS OF THE WAR:
"The Kaiser and Belgium" Stephen Philips
Grace Day Waterman
"For All We Have and Are"
Rudyard Kipling
Leona Seaverns
"The Name of France" Henry van Dyke
Clara Alice Crane
"Qui Vive?" Grace Ellery Channing
Norma Morris
"Langemarck at Ypres"
Wilfred Campbell
Merriel Damon
"A Prayer in Time of War"
Alfred Noyes
Frederica Winchester Wade
"The Red Cross Spirit Speaks"
John Finley
Alice Emeline Jenkins
"The White Comrade" Robert Haren Schauffler Grace Mildred Hunt
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MUSIC, "The Marseillaise" Rouget de L'Isle "The Flag We Follow" President Wilson Bernice Lillian Tufts
MUSIC, "Moonlit Meadows" . Czibulka
Girls' Chorus
PRESENTATION OF CLASS GIFT. . . Frederick Hermann Haartz
PROPHECY . Hazel Winifred Ramsdell
MUSIC, "Damascus Triumphal March" . Costa
AWARDING OF DIPLOMAS.
Mrs. Rena M. Cole
Chairman of School Committee
VALEDICTORY Alice Emeline Jenkins
MUSIC.
"America"
BENEDICTION . Rev. Harvey E. Dorr
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CLASS OFFICERS President, Frederick Hermann Haartz Vice-President, Harold Lester Bates Secretary, Mary Elizabeth Stanley Treasurer, Leona Seaverns
THE CLASS
CLASSICAL COURSE
CLARA ALICE CRANE
ALICE EMELINE JENKINS MERRIEL DAMON LEONA SEAVERNS GRACE DAY WATERMAN
GENERAL COURSE
FREDERICK HERMANN HAARTZ PHILIP PUTNEY NEWCOMB GRACE MILDRED HUNT DOROTHY GODFREY SIMPSON NORMA MORRIS KARL HOFFMAN. STENBECK
COMMERCIAL COURSE
HAROLD LESTER BATES HAZEL WINIFRED RAMSDELL LESLIE GRACE BONNEY MARY ELIZABETH STANLEY IRLENE MAY DALBY BERNICE LILLIAN TUFTS CLINTON W. MERRITT FREDERICA. WINCHESTER WADE
CLASS COLORS Black and Gold
TEACHERS
ADDRESSES
PREPARATION
YEAR OF SERVICE IN THIS POSITION
SALARIES
HIGH SCHOOL Waldo V. Andrews, Principal Jennie E. Pierce Mildred E. Hastings Dorothy Sheehan William W. Locke,Substitute
HATHERLY SCHOOL Lenora Coombs, Principal Beulah C. Stanton Josephine G. Ward Sara M. Kane Maud F. Damon
North Scituate North Scituate
Castine, Me., Normal Lancaster Normal Hyannis Normal
First
1,100 00
First
750 00
Scituate
Fifth
700 00
Greenbush
Fourteenth
700 00
Marshfield Hills
Miss Symonds' Train- ing School
Fifth
600 00
JENKINS SCHOOL Nathaniel Phillips, Principal Eunice Cahoon
Marshfield Hills
Bates College
First
900 00
Scituate
Bridgewater Normal
First 750 00
Margarette Reilly
Scituate
¿First 600.00
Anna Elizabeth Murphy
Scituate
First
600.00
Scituate
Thirty-seventh
700 00
Scituate
Third
625 00
North Abington
225 00
North Pembroke
550 00
.
1,050 00
First
900 00
First
750 00
Scituate
Bates College
First
$1,800 00
Scituate Center Scituate Center Scituate Center Scituate
Framingham Normal
850 00
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Angie M. Faunce, Music Samuel Warner, Drawing
Bridgewater Normal Bridgewater Normal
E. Gertrude Gardner Anastasia C. McCarthy
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Appendix - School Statistics
ENROLLMENT, MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE FOR THE FALL TERM, 1918 .
School
Enrolled
Membership Average
Average
Attendance
Per Cent.
Tardinesses
No. of
Tardy
High School
101
97
85
84
54
24
Hatherly School:
Grade I. .
27
27
21
87
3
2
Grades II, III
43
35
34
92
2
2
Grades IV, V
37
37
34
89
11
8
Grades VI, VII.
52
49
44
89
10
9
Grades VIII, IX .
40
40
33
80
0
0
Total
199
188
166
87
26
21
Jenkins School :
Grade I.
35
26
23
88
11
7
Grades II, III.
53
43
39
90
12
7
Grades IV, V
41
33
31
94
13
9
Grades VI, VII.
57
57
53
89
16
8
Grades VIII, IX .
35
29
26
90
17
13
Total
227
188
172
90
69
44
Grand Totals .
527
473
423
87%
149
89
MEMBERSHIP BY GRADES ON DECEMBER 20, 1918
GRADE
HIGH SCHOOL
SCHOOL
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
I
II
III
IV
Total
High .
29
34
21
13
97
Hatherly .
27
15
20 22
18
19 19
24 36
25 21
24 18
11
188
Totals .
53
36
44
32
38
60
46 .
42
27
29
34
21
13
473
Appendix -School Statistics
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118
Jenkins .
26
21
14
141
142
Appendix - Financial Statement
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
EDUCATION
SUFPORT OF SCHOOLS
Appropriation .
$21,800 00
Transportation .
6,000 00
School Committee's salaries
250 00
Received from Dog Fund .
415 28
Reimbursements on telephones .
29 27
Reimbursements from State Treasurer
54 00
Payments:
Superintendent of Schools
$779 98
School Physician .
75 00
Administrative expense
70 74
School Committee's salaries
250 00
Teachers' salaries
12,671 50
Transportation .
6,632 95
Janitors
2,199 79
Textbooks and supplies
1,822 89
Tuition
87 00
Fuel .
2,276 95
Building maintenance
1,436 73
Truant officers .
51 00
Other expenses .
1,012 92
Exceeded .
818 90
$29,367 45 $29,367 45
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