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The number of high school pupils who had work done at the Clinic during the year was thirty-one (31).
The Public Health Nurse has given much of her time to the Clinic, examining the children, and teaching them the proper use of the tooth brush.
Through the generosity of the Scituate Nursing Service the Clinic has been equipped with an electric engine, and an electric sterilizer.
The Clinic is now well equipped with modern appliances.
I greatly appreciate the interest the Nursing Service continues to take in the clinic, and for the moral and financial support they have given I am most grateful.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK A. DERBY, D.M.D.
Practical Instruction with Professional Care of the Teeth
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The Real Teacher is an Artist
OUR SUPERVISORS
Teachers devoting their time and effort in limited spheres, with remarkable results.
Scituate supports five such; three on full time, two on half time, viz .:
Fine Arts (MRS.) DORIS A. WARD
Music JEANNE E. BRADFORD
Household Arts
OLIVE BARROWS
Physical Training
ANNE L. CUNNEEN
Penmanship
MAUDE M. SCOTT
The increasing varieties of instruction and of skill demanded in modern education, the nervous strains entailed in doing efficient teaching in many subjects, the imperative call for teachers of skill and effectiveness, call for more and more specialization.
We may well take pride in our support of a program of teaching of vital matters by skilled artists in each line. In a very real sense any teacher who devotes herself exclu- si vely to instruction in a limited field, like a kindergarten, or a first or a second grade, is a special teacher - a supervisor, if you please. We have such actually in Grade I and in Grade II at Jenkins School. We have other teachers who have the ability but physical conditions prevent this special- ization which is so desirable for our children, and force them to discount their service to the children sent to them, because of limited buildings.
We are moving toward the time when as parents we shall not be satisfied to have our children taught in masses; when we shall see to it that every instructor of our children is a specialist in her subject; when we shall not let our best teachers go to neighboring communities to save a few dollars. A really efficient teacher is a treasure to be jealously guarded.
Adequate Salaries Encourage Teachers to Specialize
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Knowledge of the Principles of Art
NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM THE ANNUAL STATE ART CONFERENCE
MASSACHUSETTS' STAND ON ART
Drawing is a required subject in Massachusetts Grade Schools.
In the new curriculum for High Schools, Art is no longer an "Extra " but ranks with the languages and sciences.
Citizenship - the objective of the School - has no greater medium than the Fine and Practical Arts.
School functions when school is out. Modern methods and inventions allow a great amount of spare time. Schools must train for a better use of spare time. In this training Art Education is of the greatest value.
The Practical and Household Arts are already taking care of themselves. Appreciation of the Fine Arts must be acknowledged as an important factor in the High School and should correlate closely with the Languages and History.
Art Appreciation may soon be a required subject.
WHAT DOES MODERN BUSINESS THINK OF ART EDUCATION?
Business long ago acknowledged the value of Art in Advertising. Now, thinking heads of large business concerns of New England are seeking general advice from the Massa- chusetts Normal Arts School, the center of Massachusetts Art Activities.
That their goods may best serve the public, Presidents and Boards of Directors are giving valuable hours to conferences with the State Director of Art.
Manufacturers are bringing their products to the State Art School, there to be studied and redesigned, that their sales may increase.
Advice is being sought even to choice of wrappers and cartons.
Department Stores have their Art Advisors. Business is thoroughly awake to the value of Art and is backing Art Education.
Contributes to Personal Enjoyment
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Many Can Learn to Enjoy Beauty
ART EDUCATION IN SCITUATE
Aims and methods have been given in previous reports. The kind of work being done can always be seen at the schoolroom or at the Art Room at High School and we are always glad to show and explain this work.
Throughout the schools a keen interest has been developed and there is a noticeable gain in hand control and in pictorial vocabulary with a beginning for creative work.
Appreciation, brought into all lessons, through the interest in Drawing is leading to an interest and under- standing of the beauty in Art and Nature.
The Cizek Austrian Children's Art Exhibit now in this country gives new thought to the power of children from five to fifteen. Examples of the Cizek work will be shown teachers and to a certain extent similar work will be tried out.
HIGH SCHOOL
Free hand classes show a retaining of work done in the grades in larger vocabularies and more creative work.
The Pageantry Class organized for Costume and Scenery work has proved its worth in the recent High School productions and allows the Drawing classes to keep in regular work.
The Costume Design Class organized this year is another step in Scituate's progressive attitude toward Art and strongly connects the work with the Household Arts School.
Scituate received the first prizes for Primary, Ele- mentary and High School awards at Marshfield Fair. Of even greater note, however, is the interest the exhibit awakened in out-of-town parents and teachers with invita- tions to demonstrate our work in their home cities.
It is hoped that Art Appreciation can be introduced in High School next year, the course to be strongly correlated with the language and history classes.
In the Grade Schools the lower grade rooms especially need new pictures and new arrangement to make the classes more attractive to the children.
Some Can Learn to Create
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Music for Every Child-Every Child for Music
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HOW DOES MUSIC EDUCATE?
By stimulating mental alertness: reaching, awakening, and guiding the developing powers of the child's mind.
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By securing attention interest concentration discrimination
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By arousing the imagination the sense of beauty the joy of discovery the power of expression
The right sort of music teaching in the public schools improves the physical health, stimulates intellectual and emotional activity, and promotes social and civic welfare.
Knowledge of Music Gives a Richer Life
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Health-Prime Requisite for Efficiency
THE PROGRAM OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
OBJECTIVES:
1. Restoration to a normal physical condition.
2. Development of physical vigor.
3. Development of character.
4. Diversion and social enjoyment.
THE PROGRAM PROVIDES FOR:
1. Definite period each day for Physical Education, including gymnastics, folk-dancing, free play and games.
2. Corrective physical exercises.
3. Inter-school meets.
4. School physician, nurse and dentist.
5. First aid appliances.
6. Instruction in hygiene.
7. Series of physical and medical examinations.
8. Annual play festival whereby lessons of the school may be indirectly carried to parents and patrons, and ideals of health and bodily development may, through an exhibition of prowess among pupils, be spread among members of society at large.
Play is a Tonic for all Ages
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What's Right with Our Schools
During Education Week we stressed in various ways, fundamentally right practices, which citizens of Scituate approve and support - viz .:
IDEALS
High moral and scholastic ideals. Loyalty of teachers to God, Country and Youth. Actual achievements in scholarship.
PRACTICAL ARTS
Home making, theory and practice Decorative Arts. Appreciation of Beauty. Secretarial Training.
MUSIC
Singing. Instrumental. Appreciation.
ADMINISTRATION
Generous support of schools. Progressive policies. Varied activities.
Good Schools Attract Desirable Citizens
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The High School is the People's College
SCITUATE HIGH SCHOOL BUILT IN 1916
The Assembly Hall seats one hundred twenty-five. Present enrollment one hundred eighteen.
No study room has seating capacity for over half the . enrollment. This makes extra expense for teachers.
There are: 3 classrooms. 2 commercial rooms. 1 laboratory. 1 library and reference room. 1 art room (in basement).
COURSES OF STUDY OFFERED AND WHO TAKES EACH
College Course - First Year
Igenio Bongarzone
Velma Damon
Charles Chase
Anna Healy
Thomas Davy
Christine Jessome
Joseph Donald
Eleanor Ring
Charles Jones
Katherine Somers
Charles Mitchell
Mary Welch
Lester Smith Sarah Baker
Gertrude Wherrity
Dorothy Wilder
Priscilla Cole
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Second Year
Colton Morris Ruth Bean Lillian Delay
Bertha Roberts Miriam Tilden
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Scituate High School
Third Year
Harriet Alexander Alice Bragdon Anna Conant Winifred Elliott Ray Ellis
Helen Healy Sallie Murphy Lois Wilson James Driscoll John Prouty
Fourth Year
Margaret Cole Grace Towle Winifred Ward
Harold Dwyer Herbert Frye Leavitt Morris
General or Normal Course - First Year
Howard Biasey
Robert Bonney
Charles Curran
Harold Stonefield
Frank Dwyer
Stanley Turner
Raymond Gillis
Allen Vinal Elmer Vinton
Roger Kenney
Charles Lane
Robert Wheeler
George Merritt
John Young
Second Year
John Davy Sturgis Evans Karl Haartz William Jenkins Malcolm Merritt
Belangee Paulin Adelbert Rice Walter Stone Frank Whittaker
Paul Quinn
Third Year
Eleanor Cole Lydia Stearns Edgar Hyland
Louis Panetta Wallace Torrey Richard Wherrity
Fourth Year
Daniel Appleton Herbert Cole Louis Haartz
Edward McCarthy Ray Litchfield Alice Sexton
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Gretchen Schuyler
Stafford Short John Stanley
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Scituate High School
Household Arts Course - First Year
Velma Ainslie
Irma Champion
Gladys Dalby
Florence Fitts
Maude Hall Harriett Pepper Evelyn Sears Ruth Whitmarsh
Second Year
Evelyn Barry
Lydia Stearns
Doris Burbank
Ethel Stonefield
Glea Cole
Grace Ward
Irma Cole
Helen Webb
Ruth La Vange
Lauretta Wolfe
Commercial Course - First Year
Hazel Eaton
Catharine Murphy ·
Dorothy Hammond
Vivian Newcomb
Rose Hernan ·
Margaret O'Hern
Claire McDermott
Margaret Torrey
Mary Mitchell
Geraldine Ward
Bessie Monahan
Gladys Wheeler
Second Year
Elizabeth Scannell Harold Burbank Benjamin Curran John Ford
Velma Ainslie Alice Bragdon Igenio Bongarzone Harold Burbank Margaret Cole Elinor Cole Priscilla Cole Anna Conant Thomas Davy James Driscoll
Music Courses
Hazel Eaton Winifred Elliott Ray Ellis
Florence Fitts
Mae Ford Louis Haartz
Maud Hall
Helen Healey
Rose Hernan Edgar Hyland
Barbara Brown Marion Damon Mary Ford Velma Litchfield Eulalia Pinkham
Katrine Schuyler
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Scituate High School
Music Courses - Continued
Charles Jones
Charles Lane
Ruth Le Vange Ray Litchfield
Lydia Stearns
Malcolm Merritt
Wallace Torrey
Charles Mitchell
Winifred Ward
Bessie Monahan
Robert Wheeler
Colton Morris
Richard Wherrity
Leavitt Morris
Ruth Whitmarsh Frank Whittaker
Catharine Murphy Vivian Newcomb
Lois Wilson
Lauretta Wolfe
John Young
Art Courses
Katherine Somers
Velma Damon Priscilla Cole Anna Healey
Walter Stone
Betty Welch
Malcomb Merritt
Gertrude Wherity Glea Cole
Eulalia Pinkham
Mary Mitchell
Vivian Newcomb
Eleanore Ring
Eleanor Cole
Wallace Torrey
Catherine Murphy Rose Hernan Ruth La Vange
Ray Litchfield Gretchen Schuyler
Evelyn Barry Irma Hobson Bertha Roberts
Dorothy Wilder Sarah Baker
Charles Mitchell Igenio Bongarzone
Parker Chase John Young Robert Wheeler Joe Donlan
. Harriet Alexander Ray Ellis Gladys Wheeler Marguerite O'Hern
Thomas Davy Raymond Gillis Charles Jones Howard Biasey Charles Curran
Herbert Cole Sturgis Evans
Ruth Bean Stafford Short Paul Quinn
William Jenkins
Louis Panetta Harriet Pepper
John Prouty Gretchen Schuyler Lester Smith
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Scituate High School
OBJECTIVES
toward achieving which, our whole effort is directed:
1. Health.
2. Command of fundamental processes. .
3. Worthy home membership.
4. Vocation.
5. Citizenship.
6. Worthy use of leisure.
7. Ethical character.
A study of the opportunities offered through our public schools, with these objectives in mind, shows how practical and reasonable each several department really is.
PRACTICAL ARTS (For Boys)
(Proposed Course for September, 1925, subject to action of voters at Town Meeting, March, 1925.)
It is proposed to offer instruction in civic and social activities through manual activities and allied academic studies, such as woodworking and finishing, sheet metal work, printing, mechanical drawing, and drafting.
It is to be organized on a fifty per cent time basis as is the Household Arts School for girls, with extension of opportunity downward as soon as feasible, to seventh and eighth grade boys. See page 31.
The School Offers the Opportunity, the Pupil must Make the Effort
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Business Demands Training
GO TO COMMERCIAL SCHOOL WITH US
To Get In: Two years of High School Work.
To Get Out: 1. Two years of Secretarial or Accounting Study.
2. Period of actual service satisfactorily performed.
After Getting Out: A position.
OUR RECORD
Year
Graduates
At Work
Continuing Education
1923
6
5
,
1
1924
8
6
2
This
Awards for Speed and Accuracy
Year
Members
1925
7
20
(First Semester)
Enroll in Our School
We Train for Business
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Home-Making is an Art
THE HOUSEHOLD ARTS SCHOOL
The old High School was removed to its present location in 1920. It is now used as a home making school. It contains a large kitchen, a laundry, a dining room, a bedroom and a sewing room, all in constant use.
The Household Arts School is under supervision of the State Department which guarantees one-half the cost of maintenance.
The total cost last year was. $3,259 57 Received from the State treasury 1,517 29
Organization
Director, F. E. BRAGDON
Assistant, ELLEN W. HOWE Principal, OLIVE BARROWS Instructor in Art, (MRS.) DORIS A. WARD
Advisory Board
(MRS.) LOUIS E. COLE (MRS.) ELLSWORTH CURTIS (MRS.) WARREN H. STEARNS (MRS.) FRED W. WOLFE
For enrollment of pupils see page 22.
This school is affiliated with the High School. Pupils are required to devote half of the school day to vocational and allied subjects. The course is open to all girls, and we strongly advise all parents to include some of this training in the education of their daughters. For those who wish to make it so, the course is really vocational and fits for renumerative positions after graduation.
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Books are not the only Instruments of Education
In addition to vocational courses, a course dealing with the selection, design and construction of clothing has been offered to Juniors and Seniors. The enrollment in this class is :
Barbara Brown
Bessie Monahan
Margaret Cole
Bessie Scannell
Dorothy Hammond
Katherine Murphy
Rose Hernan
Sallie Murphy
Priscilla Fish
Grace Towle
Claire McDermott
Winifred Ward
Mary Mitchell
Alice Sexton
The instruction has been extended this year to Grades VII and VIII, the former receiving instruction in sewing at the grade schools, and the latter cooking lessons at the Household Arts Kitchen.
See page 31 for proposed Manual Training Courses for boys.
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Do not Leave the Avenue too Soon
Educational Service
Church - Law Doctor Dentist
etc.
Agriculture Forestry Chemistry Architecture Engineering etc.
Frrrr
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r
Dormo! School
College or
Technical School
Carpentry Electrician machinist
Home
University
Pattern- maker Foundry Droughting Sheet Metal Contractor ek.
4 th year
Typist - Stenographer Book-Keeper Business- Manager Banker Civil Service
3rd year
2nd year
Industrial
Dight on
Durse
1st year High School
School
Keeper
Special School
8th year
Catering Cooking Sewing millinery Sales manship
7th year
Dress making etc.
6th year
Reading - Writing - Geog. Arith. - History - Drowing
Road to
5th year
4th year
3rd year
2nd year
Various Forms of Unskilled Labor
First year School
Avenue for Training toward Service + Life
There is Room at the Top
House-
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The Primary School is of Great Importance
THE HATHERLY SCHOOL
BUILT IN 1896. CAPACITY, 200.
ENROLLMENT, 145. NUMBER OF ROOMS, 5. DENTAL ROOM AND OFFICE 1
Very much needed:
For assembly purposes, physical training, music and public exercises - An Assembly Hall.
Organization by grades and teachers:
Principal, Carlton A. Burney, Grades VII, VIII . . 32 pupils Assistant, Anne L. Cunneen, Grades VII, VIII 32 pupils Mary E. Mills, Grade VI 26 pupils
Hilda L. Feener, Grade V. 29 pupils
Sara A. Kane, Grade III, Grade IV 32 pupils
Doris A. Tobey, Grades I, II . 26 pupils®
High Spots for 1924
Story telling to lower grades as motive for study. Accomplishments in music.
Morale - Better attitude toward group activities.
A Poor Start in Education is a Handicap
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Beautiful for Situation
THE JENKINS SCHOOL
The Building - Erected in 1902,
Contains an Assembly Hall, six classrooms, Library, Dental Room. Capacity, 225 pupils. Present enrollment, 192.
Organization by grades and teachers:
Principal, Clarence B. Washburn, Grades VII, VIII 34 pupils
Assistant, Maude M. Scott, Grades VII, VIII. 34 pupils
Marion A. Stevens, Grade VI. 22 pupils
Marguerite I. Blue, Grade V.
36 pupils
Alice G. Longley, Grades III, IV 45 pupils
E. Gertrude Gardner, Grade II 28 pupils
Lillian M. Weeden, Grade I. 27 pupils
High Spots for 1924
Assembly programs by grades in turn, in operation.
Improved morale of pupils, evident.
Initiative and cooperation of teachers, splendid.
Improvement of underweight children, good.
Public Buildings Advertise a Town
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" Let Us Make the Good Better"
RECOMMENDATIONS
Balance brought over from last year:
Contributions to our School Libraries will be appreciated.
Grade I should be sub-divided into sub-primary and first grade, because of differences in development of entering pupils.
The surface of the playground near the Jenkins building is very sticky in wet weather. It should be coated with fine gravel.
Manual training for boys should come soon.
The athletic field should be surfaced.
Also:
A course in Household Mechanics for boys seems to be both feasible and extremely valuable as an introduction to Vocational Training. See also page 24.
Not only should the athletic field be surfaced, but further work in beautifying the grounds about the High School building should be undertaken. It would seem that the action proposed by the Civic Center Committee shou d have the unanimous support of those interested, not only in the schools, but in beautifying the community and providing the much needed athletic grounds for the Town.
The increasing number of adult aliens makes it desirable to provide Americanization Classes. The State reimburses towns for one-half of the expense of such schools. A small appropriation for these classes should be included in the budget for 1925.
The Next Step- Adult Alien Education
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A Good Janitor is a Rare Creature
In testimony of appreciation of
OUR JANITORS
employees whose services do not bring them into the lime- light, but who make a great contribution to the success of the schools.
WALTER NEWCOMB 25 years
FRANK YOUNG. 11 years
CHARLES EVERETT
5 years
Scituate is Thrice Happy
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Report of Attendance Officer
REPORT OF THE ATTENDANCE OFFICER
To the School Board of Scituate:
All absences brought to my attention have been attended to.
There have been five cases of actual truancy, but less children kept at home for slight causes.
There were no contagious cases this year.
Respectfully submitted,
ANNIE M. S. LITCHFIELD.
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Appendix - School Statistics
STATISTICS FROM LATEST AVAILABLE COMPILATIONS
SCITUATE
1921-1922
1922-1923
Population (census of 1920)
2,534
2,534
School enrollment.
488
511
Valuation per pupil .
$17,789 00
$19,147 00
Rank in the State (under 5,000 population)
10
8
Expenditure from local taxa- tion for schools .
$49,477 07
$55,091 61
Expenditures per $1,000 of valu- ation (school tax rate)
6.15
6.21
Rank in the State.
324
329
Per capita cost from taxation .
local
$109 40
$118 99
Rank in the State.
7
7
State reimbursements on sala- ries to be applied to reduction of tax rate.
$4,793 31
$5,118 14
Valuation .
$8,040,486 00 $8,865,191 00
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Appendix - Financial Statement
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
RECEIPTS
Appropriation
$61,600 00
Dog Tax .. . .
545 40
Smith-Hughes
152 77
$62,308 17
EXPENDITURES
School Committee:
Salaries
$300 00
300 00
Superintendent:
Salary and Expenses .
$1,473 90
1,473 90
Supervisors
2,615 75
'2,615 75
High School:
Principal .
$2,540 00
Teachers .
9,920 00
12,460 00
Elementary Teachers
16,447 70
16,447 70
Textbooks:
High .
$404 62
Elementary
227 61
632 23
Supplies :
High .
$458 43
Elementary
800 07
Janitors :
High
$1,525 40
Elementary .
1,999 92
1,258 50
3,525 32
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Appendix - Financial Statement
Fuel :
High .
$842 30
Elementary
2,121 29
$2,963 59
Miscellaneous :
High .
$76 68
Elementary
383 06
461 74
Repairs :
High
$1,157 61
Elementary
1,655 30
2,812 91
Health .
1,343 78
Vocational .
466 76
Equipment
2,910 63
Libraries
39 50
Sundries .
737 96
Transportation
$11,049 85
Tuition .
100 00
Total.
$61,600 12
Unexpended Balance
708 05
$62,308 17
Appropriation for equipping Town Hall for athletic uses . $200 00
Expended . 126 50
Balance $73 50
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Appendix - School Statistics
ENROLLMENT MEMBERSHIP, ATTENDANCE, TARDINESS .
FOR THE TERMS ENDING DECEMBER 19, 1924
Enrollment
Membership
Attendance
Per cent of
Attendance
Tardiness
No. Pupils
Tardy
No. Pupils
Transported
No. Pupils
Carrying Lunch
High School .
123
118
113
94
102
40
113
113
Jenkins School :
Grades VII, VIII.
36
34
34
97
8
8
12
15
Grade VI
26
22
23
94
8
6
10
12
Grade V.
40
36
37
96
12
7
18
20
Grades III, IV
47
45
43
96
28
13
22
18
Grade II.
28
28
26
96
4
1
19
17
Grade I.
31
27
25
90
8
7
10
16
Hatherly School:
Grades VII, VIII .
34
32
32
96
8
6
20
22
Grade VI
27
26
24
95
12
6
16
16
Grade V
31
29
29
97
8
5
19
19
Grades III, IV
32
32
31
96
2
2
21
22
Grades I, II
32
26
26
91
10
9
20
20
Totals .
487
455
443
210
110
300
310
MEMBERSHIP BY GRADES DECEMBER 19, 1924
HIGH SCHOOL
Grades
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
I
II
III
IV
High School
42|31
29
22 124
Jenkins School .
14 14 20
12|29
26 20
12
147
Hatherly School
27 28 22
23 36
24 20
15
195
Totals .
41 42 42 35 65 50 40
27 42 31 29 22 466
Total
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Appendix - Graduating Class
SCITUATE HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF 1924 Graduated June 26
Name Course
JAMES ANTHONY DWYER. General
GEORGE WILLIAM MURPHY Commercial
FRANKLIN THADDEUS SHARP General
JOHN WILLIAM STONEFIELD General
EVELYN BONNEY Commercial
ELEANOR ADAIR DWYER
Commercial
PRISCILLA LIZETTE FISH
Commercial
MARY ELLEN FLAHERTY
Commercial
AMY CORNELIA FRYE. General
HELEN WYCOFF JELLOWS
Commercial
MARTHA KATHLEEN LINCOLN Commercial
GERTRUDE BERNARDINE STANLEY Commercial
RUTH COLLIER WELCH . College
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