Town annual report of the officers and committees of the town of Scituate 1925-1927, Part 7

Author: Scituate (Mass.)
Publication date: 1925-1927
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 588


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Extracts from "Training for Business" (The article referred to above).


"When fixing a minimum standard for promotion and graduation, I wrote to a number of schools near Scituate, but received replies from only two. I asked for their requirements and standards; and I found from these replies that we had a very much higher standard than


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The High School


they, so with a little revision, kept that which had been set.


"In order to get into the senior class, the juniors have to pass a complete theory test in shorthand, and they also must be able to write sixty words a minute for three minutes on new letters, and last year one junior won the sixty-word solid matter transcription certificate.


"In typewriting, each one must pass a ten-minute speed test on new matter, writing twenty-five words with no more than five errors.


"Besides the speed test, each one must transcribe satisfactorily the letter which he takes in shorthand at sixty words.


"In order to get a commercial diploma in stenog- raphy, the seniors must write at one hundred words a minute on new letter material and in typewriting do forty words a minute for fifteen minutes. As I have said be- fore, this is a minimum. We have had pupils who have written at sixty-five, seventy and ninety-five words for fifteen minutes on the typewriter. In shorthand our maximum has been 130 words on letters, while every one in last year's class won a transcription certificate on the 100-word test.


"If after taking the work for two years a pupil fails to reach the standards he gets credit towards a gen- eral diploma and he may graduate. We have held strictly to this plan of granting no commercial diplomas to those who fail to reach the minimum requirements. And since the pupil knows early in the senior year whether his work is qualifying, no one ever questions it when he receives a general diploma after taking com- mercial work for two years.


"All the results which I have given here are those which we can measure only by figures and certificates, but the biggest result which we see in Scituate under this new sytem is the increase in desire on the part of the


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Manual Training


pupils to do good work. When there was no standard, anything was good enough -- now only their best satisfies."


MANUAL TRAINING FOR BOYS


The plans proposed a year ago for offering instruc- tion for manual arts for boys were put into operation in September. We sought the advice of the Director of Training at Fitchburg Normal School as to the extent of the work to be undertaken and the instructor. On his recommendation we secured Mr. Stanley Kruszyna for instructor and planned for instruction in carpentry, sheet metal work and wood finishing. Mr. Kruszyna took his class into the basement of the old high school, into what was last year the coal bin. The basement is now a clean, attractive and usable shop. All of the work has been done by the boys. The benches are of approved models and are built at a saving of over fifty per cent in cost.


Now that the shop is equipped, work is begun on in- dividual projects. Before long the finished articles of furniture and cabinet work will be ready for exhibition. The interest and industry of the boys in this department is very gratifying. A visit to the shop during school hours should convince the most skeptical of the great educational value of this work.


The turnover in teachers is small. Our teachers stay with us. Breaks in organization and administration are injurious because they delay or prevent the comple- tion of any worthwhile undertaking in school organiza- tion and achievement. Adjustment of the curriculum is the problem of today. What shall we teach to best fit for living in our modern civilization ? The old education does not fit. It has served its time. A modified training must be provided if the expenditure for schools is to be justified. Our teachers are responsive to this problem


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Americanization


and are trying to contribute to its solution here in Scituate. We are revising our program in English in the high school and in geography and arithmetic in the grades. An equitable division of opportunity for the college-bound and the industrial-minded is being sought.


AMERICANIZATION


There is but one new phase of educational work pressing for attention. The foreign population is increas- ing and bringing to us here, as it has elsewhere, political and social problems. Opportunity should be given those of foreign birth to learn the English language, as well as the principles of our government. The Commonwealth bears half of the expense for the maintenance of evening classes for the education of adults of foreign birth. A small appropriation for this purpose should be made in this year's budget and plans made now for a session of evening classes to be conducted next fall and winter. Respectfully submitted,


FREDERICK E. BRAGDON,


Superintendent.


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REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC


Mr. F. E. Bragdon :


Superintendent of Schools:


Dear Sir:


In reporting some of the noteworthy efforts made in Scituate for the improvement and advancement of school music during the past year, I would mention the follow- ing general aims:


(a) To develop pleasure in song as a means of expression.


(b) To secure free and correct use of the voice in singing.


(c) To develop musical qualities of performance of songs.


(d) To develop a conception of music as something to be heard as well as something to be ex- pressed.


(e) Progressive development of power to use the printed language of music.


(f) Progressive extension of musi- cal experience beyond that pro- vided by singing.


Respectfully submitted,


JEANNE BRADFORD,


Supervisor of Music ..


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PHYSICAL EDUCATION Supervisor : Anne L. Cuneen


Scene-Scituate schoolrooms and playgrounds.


Time-Fifteen minutes per day.


Important characters :


Teachers, school nurse, school dentist, school physician and the children.


Chief Events :


Grade 1-3


Games Story Plays Rhythmic plays


Grade 4


L Introduction of formal gymnastics Games Folk dances


Grade 5-8


Formal gymnastics Games Folk dances Athletics


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DOES SUPERVISION OF PENMANSHIP PRODUCE RESULTS?


There are some features of school work that are utilized to a large extent after leaving the grades, whether we continue on in study or go at once to work. A good legible hand-writing is something that proves "worth-while" whatever one may do.


My "objective" as a supervisor is to outline some special phase of work and to emphasize those principles that will develop the individual along my line.


A grade teacher of a necessity sees mainly the work done day by day in her own room, but the supervisor passes from grade to grade and thus has the opportunity to make helpful suggestions and offer guidance from the beginning of letter formation up to the point where it is possible to accomplish a finishing process and evolve a "style" for the individual pupil.


Teachers also discover means of getting the penman- ship lessons "across" to their particular grade - this a supervisor is quick to note and can pass on the helpful ideas to others whom she may visit in the course of her work.


MAUDE M. SCOTT, Supervisor of Penmanship, Scituate, Massachusetts.


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SCITUATE HOUSEHOLD ARTS SCHOOL


Olive Barrows, Principal Ellen M. Howe, Assistant


To build better homes for future citizens. Four out of five girls will have charge of a home.


CHART


COST


RELATED


PSYCHOLOGY


SCIENCE


ART


CHEMISTRY


SOCIAL SCIENCE


RELATED


SANITATION


PHYSICS


DECORATING


FURNISHING


CARING.


THE SICK


CARE OF


HI


FEEDING OF


COST


HYGIENE


DIETETICS


PLANNING


SHELTER


FAMILY


TRAINING OF


CARING


CLOTHING


FOOD


PRESERVING


DESIGN


COST


CLEANING


MAKING


BUYING


BUYING


PREPARING


RELATED ART .


DIETETICS


AND


OF


SCIENCE


RELATED COLOR


TEXTILES


COST


This chart shows how the related work is grouped around the practical work.


REPAIRING


RELATED SCIENCE


SERVING


EN CARE AND CHILDREN


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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL PHYSICIAN


To the School Committee,


Scituate, Mass.


In this report the improvement in the physical con- dition of those pupils who are 10% or more underweight is very gratifying.


The general health of the School pupils has been satisfactory. There were a few cases of Scarlet Fever, but no other contageous diseases.


I have inspected the buildings from time to time and have always found everything clean and sanitary.


Examination of pupils has been made with the fol- lowing result:


HATHERLY SCHOOL


Pupils examined 168


Adenoids


8


Tonsils


30


Glands


18


Underweight 24


There are only seven who are still over 10%


underweight.


Corrections made 7


JENKINS SCHOOL


Pupils examined


176


Tonsils


29


Adenoids 6


Glands


12


Underweight


41


Still underweight over 10% 14


Corrections made


8


Respectfully submitted,


T. B. ALEXANDER M. D., School Physician.


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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE


Number of visits to schools. 273


(Includes visits made with school physician)


Number of children inspected . 344


Number of inspections (sanitary) 63


Number of inspections (skin, scalp, hair, teeth, throat) 170


Number of children excluded during year 12


6 with empetigo


3 with pediculosis


1 with scarlet fever


2 with scarlet fever contacts


Number of visits made to dental clinic with children 54


Number of children carried home ill . 7


Number of children carried to physician . 2


Number of visits made to homes. 113


Number of children 10% underweight. 65


Number of underweight children gaining 64


Number still 10% underweight. 21


Number of children having defects to be corrected 59


Number of corrections made. 15


Again I wish to thank everyone connected with the schools, the children and the parents for their co-opera- tion.


Respectfully submitted,


ALICE M. GAFFNEY, R. N.


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STATISTICS FROM LATEST AVAILABLE COMPILATIONS


SCITUATE


1922-1923


1923-1924


1924-1925


Population (census of 1920)


2,534


2,534


2,534


School enrollment


484


511


508


Valuation


$8,040,486.00


$8,865,191.00


$10,081,792.00


Valuation per pupil


$17,789.00


$19,147.00


$22,109.00


Rank in the State (under 5,000 population)


10


8


1


Expenditure from local


taxation for schools


$49,477.07


$55,091.61


$54,236.55


Rank in the State


324


329


343


Expenditures per $1,000


of valuation (school tax rate)


6.15


6.21


5.38


Per capita cost from local taxation


$109.40


$118.99


$114.66


Rank of the State


7


7


8


State reimbursements on


salaries to be applied to


reduction of tax rate


$4,793.31


$5,118.14


$5,735.94


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ENROLLMENT MEMBERSHIP, ATTEND- ANCE, TARDINESS For the Terms Ending December 23, 1925


Enrolment


Membership


Attendance


Membership Percent on


Tardiness


co Different


p Pupils Tardy


112


113


130


Hatherly


Grade I


24


23


20


89


6


4


16


18


24


Grade II, III


27


25


24


94


1


1


18


19


42


Grade IV, V


38


35


33


96


25


12


24


26


41


Grade VI


37


37


35


96


9


8


29


29


42


Grade VII, VIII


42


41


39


97


11


4


24


23


42


Total


168


161


151


52


29


111


115


191


Jenkins


Grade I


31


28


25


86


5


4


15


20


35


Grade II


22


21


19


95


2


2


10


13


29


Grade III


29


28


26


94


6


5


15


18


28


Grade IV


26


24


23


94


22


6


12


14


24


Grade V


28


26


24


94


5


3


14


21


26


Grade VI


39


36


33


91


65


16


19


19


38


Grade VII, VIII


44


41


40


92


11


11


11


17


42


Total


219


204


190


116


47


96


122


222


Totals


387


365


340


168


76


207


237


413


High School


121


115


114


92


38


112


113


130


Grand Total


508


480


454


260


114


319


350


543


Transported


Carrying Lunch


Available Seats


High School


121


115


114


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MEMBERSHIP BY GRADES


December 23, 1925


Grades


I


II


III


IV V VI


VII VIII


IX


x 28


25


29 115


Hatherly


23


13


12


21


14


37


24


17


161


Jenkins


28


21


28


24


26


36


20


21


204


51


34


40


45


40


73


44


38


33


28


25


29


480


Increase


10


10


23


4


11


7 65


Decrease ..


S


2


9


3


4


51


Net Increase


14


Number of Pupils Repeating in each Grade


High School


3


1


2


5 11


Hatherly


6


5


0


0


1


3


3


1


19


Jenkins


7


0


0


0


2


2


0


0


11


13


5


0


0


3


5


3


1


3


1


2


5


41


XI XII


Tot.


High School


33


-


·


-


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FINANCIAL STATEMENT RECEIPTS


Appropriation


$61,500 00


Dog Tax 660 33


Smith-Hughes


150 66


$62,310 99


EXPENDITURES


School Committee :


Salaries $121 75


121 75


Superintendent :


Salary and Expenses


$1,557 22


1,557 22


Supervisors


2,760 00


2,760 00


High School :


Principal


$2,610 00


Teachers


10,887 17


13,497 17


Elementary Teachers


18,015 00


18,015 00


Textbooks :


High


$229 56


Elementary


596 06


825 62


Supplies :


High


$1,498 22


Elementary


673 98


2,172 20


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Financial Statement


Janitors :


High


$1,529 52


Elementary


2,042 14


3,571 66


Fuel :


High


$353 82


Elementary


1,676 07


$2,029 89


Miscellaneous :


High


$60 12


Elementary


411 13


471 25


Repairs :


High ·


$668 04


Elementary


1,509 90


2,177 94


Health


1,205 03


Vocational


401 02


Equipment


1,841 40


Libraries


Sundries


402 81


Transportation


$11,240 00


Tuition


Total


$62,289 96


Unexpended Balance 21 03


$62,310 99


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GRADUATING EXERCISES Scituate High School June 22, 1925


March and Overture "Home Circle"


High School Orchestra


Invocation . Rev. Carl Knudsen


Class History Margaret L. Cole


Chorus "May the Maiden" (Part I)


Boys' and Girls' Glee Clubs


Class Will. Velma H. Litchfield


Class Prophecy . Mary M. Ford


Chorus "May the Maiden" (Part II) Boys' and Girls' Glee Clubs


Class Oration "The Immigration Problem"


Louis O. Haartz


Class Gift to School Herbert A. Frye


Presentation of Woman's Club Scholarship


Mrs. Martha Mitchell President, Scituate Woman's Club


Presentation of Diplomas Supt. F. E. Bragdon


Graduating Class


Name Course


Daniel Frederick Appleton . General


Harold Raymond Burbank. . General


Herbert Elmer Cole. General


Benjamin Frederick Curran . General


John William Ford. Commercial Herbert Allen Frye General


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Graduating Exercises


Louis Otto Haartz. General


Edward Barry McCarthy General


Leavitt Fuller Morris. . General


Barbara Brown Commercial


Margaret Lois Cole. College Marion Drusilla Damon Commercial


Winifred Elliott. College Mary Margaret Ford . Commercial


Velma Holbrook Litchfield Commercial


Eulaila Aurice Pinkham Commercial Elizabeth Frances Scannell. Commercial


Alice Elizabeth Sexton General


Grace Ella Towle. College


Winifred Lee Ward College


REPORT OF THE ADVISORY BOARD


For the Town of Scituate upon the Warrant for the Annual Meeting to be held March 2, 1925


To the Voters of Scituate:


The Advisory Board is pleased to make the following recom- mendations on the various Articles in the Town Warrant, and is gratified at the prospect it presents if these recommendations are adopted at the Annual Meeting.


The Warrant calls for appropriations of nearly $400,000. The total sum recommended by the Advisory Board is $352,937.56, of which $30,000 can be taken from the " Excess and Deficiency Account."* $5,000 can be taken from the " Overlay Surplus " and $317,937.56 will be raised from the tax levy. This, less the usual credits due the Town, together with the average increase in valuation, should bring the tax rate well within $28 per thousand.


The success of the Road Committee working in co-operation with the Highway Surveyor has been so complete the Board strongly advises a continuance of this policy. We therefore recommend the adoption of Article 17.


The various Articles calling for appropriations for roads have been treated as in the past two years. A lump sum of $30,000 has been recommended to care for all the new work .under Articles 17 and 18. Should these Articles be acted on favorably, all the Articles calling for appropriations for new road construction can be cared for out of this sum under the direction of the Road Committee.


If Articles 17 and 18 are adopted, Articles 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 41 should be indefinitely postponed.


The following are our recommendations :


In the estimated expenses we recommend an increase in General Government from $12,300 to $12,500. We also recommend an increase in Hydrant Rental from $16,800 to $16,900 to provide for Article 56.


*The "Excess and Deficiency Account" is a fund which has been accu- mulating over a period of years; is made up of various surpluses and now amounts to some $58,000.00


Estimated Expenses for 1925 As Approved by the Advisory Board


General Government $12,500.00


Support of Schools


61,500.00


Libraries


1,600.00


Police .


9,500.00


Fire Department


10,000.00


Forest Fires


1,000.00


Hydrant Rental .


16,900.00


Support of Poor


10,000.00


Mothers' Aid


500.00


Soldiers' Relief


1,800.00


State Aid .


1,000.00


Board of Health .


4,000.00


Plymouth County Hospital Assessment .


2,387.04


Park Commission


2,000.00


Public Landing.


300.00


Moth . .


3,150.24


Owners' Liability


1,500.00


Tree Warden .


1,000.00


Elm Tree Beetle


300.00


Care of Roads .


40,000.00


Snow Removal


4,000.00


Sidewalks .


1,000.00


Repair of Bridges


500.00


Guard Rails .


500.00


Employers' Liability


500.00


Fore River Bridge.


400.00


Maintenance of Public Buildings


1,000.00


Reduction of Debt .


21,150.00


Interest .


11,000.00


State Tax .


15,000.00


State Highway Tax.


2,700.00


County Tax.


16,187.78


Memorial Day


500.00


Sealer of Weights and Measures


500.00


Street Lighting


6,300.00


Bounties


100.00


Unclassified


1,200.00


Refunds .


250.00


Signboards


250.00


. $263,975.06


Article 10. We recommend $1,200.


Article 11. We recommend salaries, as follows:


Selectmen, $200 for each member and legitimate expenses, and $100 addition for Chairman.


Overseers of the Poor: $125 for each member and legitimate expenses.


Assessors, $500 for each member and legitimate expenses, $1,000 addition for Chairman and $500 addition for clerical assistance.


Highway Surveyor, $2,400, he to furnish his own conveyance while in the performance of his duties and bear the expense of same.


School Committee, $100.00 for each member and legitimate expenses.


Town Clerk, $800 and legitimate expenses.


Tax Collector, $1,800 and legitimate expenses.


Treasurer, $1,200 and legitimate expenses.


Tree Warden, $300.


Board of Health. We recommend that the sum of $1,000 be paid to the Board of Health for the full salary for all the members of the Board, and this sum shall include their charges for all services performed by them or either of them, other than inspection of plumbing, inspection of meat and inspection of cattle from appropriation for Board of Health.


Moderator, $10 each meeting.


Article 12. We recommend the sum of $25,000, this sum to be taken out of the " Excess and Deficiency Account."


Article 13. We recommend $50.


Article 14. We recommend $200.


Article 16.


We recommend $500.


Article 17.


We recommend retaining this Committee.


Article 18. We recommend $30,000.


Article 19. Articles 17 and 18 should provide for this Article.


Article 20. Articles 17 and 18 should provide for this Article.


Article 21. Articles 17 and 18 should provide for this Article.


Article 22. We recommend $5,500.


Article 23. We recommend $450.


Article 24. Articles 17 and 18 should provide for this Article.


Article 25. Articles 17 and 18 should provide for this Article.


Article 26. Articles 17 and 18 should provide for this Article.


Article 27. We recommend $5,800, of which $5,000 be taken from the " Excess and Deficiency Account."


Article 28. We recommend $500.


Article 29. We recommend $6,000.


Article 30. We recommend $200.


Article 32. We have no recommendation to make.


Article 33. We recommend $200.


Article 36.


Articles 17 and 18 should provide for this Article.


Article 37.


Articles 17 and 18 should provide for this Article.


Article 38. Articles 17 and 18 should provide for this Article.


Article 40.


Articles 17 and 18 should provide for this Article. We recommend $500.


Article 44.


We do not recommend the taking.


Article 45.


We do not recommend the taking.


Article 48.


We recommend $600.


Article 49.


We recommend $2,062.50.


Article 50.


We do not recommend any appropriation.


Article 51.


We do not recommend any appropriation.


Article 52.


We have no recommendation to make.


Article 53. We have no recommendation to make.


Article 54. We recommend $300.


Article 56. We recommend $100 to be taken from the " Hydrant Rental."


Article 57. We do not recommend any appropriation.


Article 58. We do not recommend any appropriation.


Article 59. We do not recommend any appropriation.


Article 61. We do not recommend any appropriation.


Article 62. We recommend this Article.


Article 64. We recommend $1,900.


Article 67. We recommend $5,000 and that it be taken from


" Overlay Surplus."


Article 68. We recommend $2,000.


Respectfully submitted,


WALTER HAYNES, Chairman S. A. AGNEW, Secretary WILLIAM E. SUPPLE W. W. WADE


WILLIAM O. CLAPP


DONALD S. PITKIN J. EDWARD HARNEY HAROLD W. POLAND


Scituate, March 2, 1925.


Article 39. Articles 17 and 18 should provide for this Article. We have no recommendation to make.


Article 41.


Should be provided for out of Police Department.


Article 42.


Article 43.


We recommend $1,000.


Article 46.


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ANNUAL REPORT of the OFFICERS of the Town of Scituate


MASSACHUSETTS


For the Year Ending December 31 1926


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INDEX


PAGE


TOWN OFFICERS.


5


SELECTMEN'S REPORT


8


AUDITOR'S REPORT


9


ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT


TREASURER'S REPORT


ASSESSORS' REPORT .


TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT


OVERSEERS OF THE POOR REPORT


TRUST FUNDS REPORT


TOWN CLERK'S REPORT


JUROR LIST


POLICE DEPARTMENT


FIRE DEPARTMENT


FOREST WARDEN


ADMINISTRATION BUILDING


HIGHWAY SURVEYOR


NURSING SERVICE


BOARD OF HEALTH


Plumbing


Milk


Slaughtering.


CLEAN-UP COMMITTEE


122 123


TOWN FORESTRY COMMITTEE


125


WATER COMPANY


126


LIBRARY .


127


PARK COMMISSION


128


SPECIAL ROAD COMMITTEE


130 132


LIGHT COMMITTEE


TREE WARDEN 134


MOTH DEPARTMENT


135


PLYMOUTH COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICE


136


SCHOOL COMMITTEE Appendix


25 51 54 57 59


60 61 98


101 105 109 110 113 115


118 119 120 121


SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES


TOWN OF SCITUATE Incorporated 1636


Population 1925, 2,713 Sixteenth Congressional District First Councilor District


Norfolk and Plymouth Senatorial District Second Plymouth Representative District Income Tax Division, Norfolk-Plymouth District


Annual Town Meeting First Monday in March


Election of Officers Second Monday in March




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