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29.72
Hinds & Coon Co.
1.66
Sanderson Brothers
83.95
Edward C. Holmes, Register
62.35
Starkweather Engineering Co.
5.30
$14,143.17
121.00
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TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
2,826.40
Railway Express Agency
10.39
Thomas R. Stearns
48.00
William M. Wade
66.93
Walworth Co.
74.15
Stearns, Perry & Smith Co.
63.60
Addressograph Sales Agency
11.49
E. L. LeBaron Foundry Co.
28.20
Ludlow Valve Mfg. Co.
83.66
N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co
2.21
Eddy Valve Co.
313.71
Mueller Co.
2.91
Trs. N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co
5.00
Wallace & Tiernan Co., Inc.
22.00
A. P. Billings
2.00
Ross Valve Mfg. Co.
14.67
Dama B. Sherman
7.00
Builders Providence Inc.
65.40
Dyar Sales & Machinery Co.
44.10
A. L. Littlefield
46.92
Registry of Motor Vehicles
8.00
Boston Sand & Gravel Co.
93.34
Spaulding Moss
10.85
Eureka Pipe Co., Inc.
210.28
Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
8.80
Albert B. Ainslie
26.70
Edward P. Breen
430.35 ยท
Franklin Pub. Co.
36.75
Howe & French, Inc.
3.46
Snap-on Tools Corp.
52.21
J. F. McJennett
64.62
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.
35.03
Henry A. Litchfield
106.00
John L. Rothery Co.
212.62
Hancock Paint & Varnish Co.
3.48
Homelite Corporation
4.06
Ray's
.50
Priscilla Turner, P.M.
162.68
Town of Norwell
26.46
Philip L. Schuyler
5.50
The Seaverns Store
1.66
Marshfield Hills Garage
12.30
New England Transportation
2.14
Smith Appliance Co.
3.50
R. J. Wilder
26.82
W. S. Brown
4,276.75
S. C. Webster
20.70
North Scituate Post Office
.56
20,474.52
PUBLIC LANDINGS
Salary :
George W. Dwyer
$600.00
Expenses :
Town of Scituate
$16.00
Ray's
40.00
The Welch Co., Inc.
111.12
$34,738.69
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TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
Young's Shell Service Station
256.00
James A. McCarthy
88.80
Thomas R. Stearns
195.33
William Connors
60.90
W. P. Gannett
60.80
W. Prescott Gannett
6.00
Brockton Edison Co.
9.00
Franklin Publishing Co.
5.50
Peter S. Somers
7.86
857.31
$1,457.31
OLD CEMETERY-CUDWORTH ROAD
Expenses :
Frank T. Whittaker
$100.00
CARE OF SOLDIERS' GRAVES
Expenses :
Roy C. Merritt
$12.00
Groveland Cemetery Corp.
196.00
Charles F. Andrews
56.00
Union Cemetery Association
196.00
Frank T. Whittaker
56.00
St. Mary's Cemetery Association
80.00
Harry E. Bates
52.00
$648.00
INTEREST
Merchants National Bank
$40.00
Rockland Trust Co.
414.44
$454.44
INTEREST-WATER LOANS
Merchants National Bank
$19,146.25
MATURING DEBT
Merchants National Bank
$4,000.00
MATURING DEBT-WATER LOANS
Merchants National Bank
$33,000.00
TEMPORARY LOANS
Second National Bank
$150,000.00
STATE TAX
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$9,300.00
STATE PARKS AND RESERVATIONS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts $216.62
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AUDITING MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$697.96
COUNTY TAX
County of Plymouth $18,170.42
HOSPITAL OR HOME CARE FOR CIVIL WAR VETERANS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
$103.47
INCOME FROM TRUST FUNDS
Cash Aid
$360.32
PROCEEDS FROM DOG LICENSES
County of Plymouth
$936.60
VICTORY TAX DEDUCTIONS
Collector of Internal Revenue
$3,338.01
WITHHOLDING TAXES
Rockland Trust Co.
$6,202.78
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
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OF THE
TOWN OF SCITUATE
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SETTS
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SATUIT
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For the Year Ending December 31 1943
SCHOOL COMMITTEE REPORT
School Calendar - 1944
WINTER TERM-January 3 to February 18, inclusive.
One Week Vacation.
February 28 to April 14, inclusive.
One Week Vacation.
SPRING TERM-April 24 to June 21 *.
Holiday-May 30.
Summer Vacation.
FALL TERM-September 6 to December 22, inclusive.
Holidays-October 12, Thanksgiving Day and day following.
*This date is tentative. The statutes require high schools to have one hundred eighty sessions a year.
"No School" Signal
The "No School" signal is 3-1-3, and will be sounded from the fire stations at North Scituate, Scituate Harbor and Greenbush at 7:20 a. m. to designate the omission of school sessions for the first six grades-e. g. the Hatherly and Jenkins Schools. If the signal is repeated at 7:30 a. m., it will indicate no school in the High School. It is, however, the general policy of the Committee to hold regular sessions whenever it is practicable to maintain transportation service.
Committee Meetings
The regular meetings of the Committee are held monthly, at the office of the Superintendent, Old High School Building, September to June, inclusive.
Appointments with the Superintendent may be made upon request.
The age of admission to Grade One of the Hatherly and Jenkins Schools is five years and four months on the day of the opening of school in September.
No child will be admitted to school for the first time after October 1, unless, before this date, permission has been granted by the Superin- tendent for a later entrance.
A vaccination certificate must be presented to the school when the pupil enters for the first time.
A birth certificate must be presented by those pupils whose births were recorded outside of Scituate.
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Directory of School Department SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Thomas W. Macy Fred T. Waterman Mrs. Emma L. Damon
Harold C. Wingate
Superintendent
HIGH SCHOOL
Wallace A. Parkhurst
Acting Principal
Edward L. Stewart
Athletics, Science
Nels H. Sandberg
Practical Arts
William R. Smith
Music, Mathematics
Erroll K. Wilcox
Science
Robert L. Douglas
Mathematics
Richard M. Rogers
Commercial Subjects
Bessie M. Dudley
Esther M. Harrington
Ruth E. Hawkes
Eleanor Gile
Mary S. Kingsbury
Virginia E. Vines
Doris M. Rowell
Ella L. Vinal
Aeronautics
English-Grades VII & VIII
History, Civics-Grades VII & VIII
Geography, Hygiene-Grades VII & VIII Math., Science-Grades VII & VIII
HATHERLY SCHOOL
Principal Grade VI
Grade V
Grade IV
Grade III
Grade II
Grade I
Assistant
LeRoy E. Fuller Mildred S. Young Grace E. Hague ** Marguerite I. O'Hern
JENKINS SCHOOL
Principal Grade VI Grade V Grade IV
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English
French, Latin
Commercial Subjects
English, History
Household Arts
Physical Education, History
Art
Anne L. Cunneen
Maud C. Williams
Dorothy L. Maxim
Elizabeth Giles
LeRoy E. Fuller
Vera L. Mitchell* Carol Vollmer Helen Pearl
Ruthe Hughes
Ruth E. Neville
Barbara O. Annis
Edna J. Locklin
Chairman Secretary
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Eunice M. Cole
Grade III
Rose M. Fisher
Grade II Grade I
Margaret P. Paul
Priscilla Kelley
Assistant
Winifred L. McAuliffe
Special Class
SUPERVISORS
Mrs. Doris D. Ward
Gertrude M. Reynolds
Art-Elementary Schools Music-Elementary Schools
HEALTH OFFICERS
Max D. Miles, M.D.
School Physician
W. B. Parsons, D.D.S.
School Dentist
Margaret J. O'Donnell, R.N. School Nurse
SUVERVISORS OF ATTENDANCE
Margaret J. O'Donnell
Elementary Schools
Joseph A. Dwyer
High School
William F. Kane
High School JANITORS
Louis H. Madore
High School
Augustus Abbott
High School
Charles Peirce
Hatherly School
Frank Young
Jenkins School
HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA
Ina L. Wilder
Manager
BUS CONTRACTORS
Mrs. Malvina H. Young
Route A
Prescott A. Damon
Route B
George Webb
Route C
Joseph W. Appleton
Route D
Wilson S. Brown
Route E
Robert E. Huntley
Route F
Harold C. Whittaker
Route G
*Substitute.
** Resigned in December.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Scituate:
In the past year our schools have functioned very efficiently, although we have lacked adequate room in our grade schools.
We have an enrollment in the Hatherly and Jenkins Schools of 488 pupils, the largest on record. There has been a steady growth of enrollment in these buildings over a period of years. Your committee feels that definite plans to relieve this situation must be formulated.
All necessary repairs have been made to the buildings and equip- ment.
We note that the service flag in our auditorium has 284 stars- six of them gold.
May we take this opportunity to thank the citizens of the town for their generous support.
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS W. MACY, Chairman FRED T. WATERMAN, Secretary MRS. EMMA L. DAMON School Committee.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee of Scituate:
I take pleasure in submitting my eighteenth annual report for your consideration.
The school year opened for the fall term of 1943 on September 8. The October 1 census showed a total enrollment of 828 pupils in the three schools, compared with 827 last year. While these two totals are almost identical, the distribution by schools changed considerably. This year the Hatherly School numbered 234; the Jenkins School, 254; and the High School, 340.
TEACHING STAFF CHANGES
During the year 1943, four teacher resignations and one request for a leave of absence were received. Two of these came from the High School staff, one from the Hatherly and two from the Jenkins.
At the High School, Miss Clare Walker, teacher of mathematics and science in the Junior High School grades since 1937, resigned during the winter term to take a similar position at Wellesley. This
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vacancy was not filled permanently until the beginning of the fall term, at which time Mrs. Maud C. Williams of Scituate was made a regular member of the Junior High School staff. Mrs. Williams is a graduate of Radcliffe College and before her marriage taught for six years in the Technical High School, Springfield, Mass.
At the end of the early winter term John T. Samuelson, teacher of music and mathematics at the high school for two and one-half years, resigned to take a position in the Hingham High School. Mr. Samuelson continued with the band and orchestra to the end of the year, and his other classes were carried on through June by substitute teachers. In September, Mr. William R. Smith of Somerville took over the duties of this position. Mr. Smith was a student for several years at the College of the Pacific and has taken advanced courses at several edu- cational institutions including the Conservatory of Music and Boston University.
At the beginning of the second half of the last school year a course in Pre-Flight Aeronautics was introduced and is being continued during the present year. Miss Ella L. Vinal of Scituate was engaged as a special teacher of this subject. Miss Vinal is a graduate of Colby College and has a master's degree from Clark University. During the summers of 1942 and 1943 she took a course on the Methods of Teach- ing Pre-Flight Aeronautics given under the direction of the Massachu- setts Department of Education, and War Training Courses on Mathe- matics and Physics authorized by the United States Office of Education and given at the Harvard Graduate School.
Just before the opening of the fall term the resignation of Robert L. Stevenson, for the past two years principal of the Hatherly School, was received to take effect early in October. Mr. Stevenson accepted a position in the high school at Hyannis. There was little prospect of securing a successor to Mr. Stevenson with the existing shortage of men teachers. After careful consideration it was decided to have LeRoy E. Fuller act as joint-principal of the two elementary schools, spending his time equally between them. Mrs. Vera L. Mitchell of Scituate has been teaching the sixth grade at the Hatherly School.
At the Jenkins School, in June, Miss Bessie M. Monahan resigned to enter the armed services of the United States as a member of the WACS. In re-organizing the staff, certain changes were made in teacher placement by grades, leaving a vacancy in Grade I. For this position, Miss Margaret Paul of Wakefield. N. H., a graduate of Gorhamn Normal School and the Boston University School of Education, was selected. Miss Paul has had 17 years of teaching experience, mostly in the first grade.
Miss Grace Hague, who has been teaching Grade V since the begin- ning of the fall term and has been a teacher at the Jenkins School for the past 14 years, resigned to be married about December 1. At the
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present time Mrs. Rose M. Trefrey is serving as a substitute teacher in this grade.
UPKEEP OF SCHOOL PROPERTY
There were no major repairs made at any of the school buildings during the year 1943. It had been planned to paint the outside of the Jenkins School during the summer vacation, but it was impossible to secure the services of a sufficient number of local painters to do the work.
On account of the expected very large entering class for the fall term at the Hatherly School, it was necessary to change the seats in two of the rooms. This further necessitated considerable floor repair. A primary reading table was made for Grade I and two benches for other grades. The front entrance to the building was painted and a larger electric cable, secured by priority rating, was run to the main fuse box of the building.
There were the usual routine repairs at the Jenkins School. Two new teachers' desks were purchased for this building.
At the High School, the front entrance to the building, as well as the two auditorium entrances, was painted. The desk tops of all the rooms in the east wing were refinished; the girls' and boys' toilet and locker rooms in the central part of the building were painted, and the electric lighting facilities of both were increased.
A radio code kit for teaching the international Morse code was purchased for use in pre-induction courses and a French horn was bought for the music department. Part of the cost of the new motion picture machine, mentioned later in Mr. Parkhurst's report, was paid from school funds. In addition to the above, the equipment for the new Massachusetts Vision Test was purchased for use in all schools.
SCHOOL BUILDING NEEDS (a) School Enrollment
The school census is taken as of October 1 each year. The follow- ing table gives the enrollment for the last ten-year period.
Hatherly
Jenkins
Combined Elementary
High School
Total
1934
190
250
440
333
773
1935
168
232
400
341
741
1936
192
220
412
356
768
1937
184
204
388
358
746
1938
192
217
409
357
766
1939
186
225
411
368
779
1940
198
217
415
359
774
1941
214
235
449
375
824
1942
212
242
454
373
827
1943
234
254
488
340
828
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These figures show that, notwithstanding a drop of 33 in the high school enrollment this year, the total enrollment continues to increase slightly. As soon as peace-time conditions are restored, there is every reason to believe that the high school enrollment will increase even beyond the high mark of 375 reached in 1941. You will note the large increase in the elementary enrollment since 1940. There has been a gain of 100 pupils since the low mark of 388 was made in 1937.
(b) The High School
When the additions to the high school were completed in 1930, the enrollment in this building was 221. For the next seven years the in- crease was rapid and reached its peak in 1941 when 375 were enrolled. Several years previously your attention was called to the need of more class-rooms. and plans were considered for an addition to meet these needs. The School Committee placed an article in the Warrant for the 1940 Town Meeting to see if the Town would vote to authorize the School Committee to secure detailed plans and specifications for an addition to the high school building. This article was indefinitely post- poned by the Town Meeting.
As stated previously, due to war conditions the high school enroll- ment dropped sharply this year and this has somewhat relieved the crowded condition of the building. This decrease is temporary, how- ever, and when peace-time conditions return, the need for aditional class-rooms and added laboratory and shop space is likely to become acute.
(c) The Elementary Schools
As previously stated, the enrollment in both the Hatherly and Jenkins Schools is very large, in fact the largest in the history of these schools. The increase has been very rapid in the past three years and is expected to continue next year. While a portion of this growth is doubtless due to our proximity to the various defense industries in this locality, a substantial part of it is probably permanent.
This large enrollment places a strain upon the capacity of the ele- mentary buildings. There are six regular classrooms in each school and a small special classroom in the Jenkins building. Nine of these rooms are large, and, used to capacity, could accommodate at least fifty pupil stations. The other three rooms, two at the Hatherly School and one at the Jenkins, are smaller and limited to a capacity of about forty pupils.
Subtracting the special class enrollment from the total elementary enrollment and dividing this figure by 12. the number of regular class- rooms, we have an average room membership of forty. However, since we cannot exactly equalize the enrollment between the two schools and as there must be differences in the sizes of grades, it is inevitable that some rooms must accommodate more than forty pupils. To illustrate.
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on October 1 the first grade at the Hatherly School had 47 pupils and the third grade at the Jenkins School numbered 48.
These large grades make it necessary to use assistant teachers. We have a full-time assistant in Grade I of the Hatherly School, a full-time assistant whose time is divided between Grades I and II at the Jenkins School, and a part-time assistant in Grade III at the Jenkins School. If there were extra classrooms we should prefer to divide the largest grades.
Both schools are of wooden construction, built over forty years ago, and are consequently lacking in many up-to-date school house facilities. It would be unwise to consider any enlargement of these buildings to provide extra classrooms or special facilities.
The annual Town Meeting of 1939 appointed a special committee to investigate the housing facilities and future requirements of these two schools and to make recommendations. At the time this committee made a study of these buildings, the combined enrollment was 411, only slightly above the low point of our elementary enrollment. It was partly due to this fact that the committee recommended that no building for elementary school purposes be undertaken at that time.
With a present enrollment of 488, however, it is important that the housing needs of the elementary schools should be further con- sidered. While we realize that a large building program cannot be carried out during the period of the war emergency, plans should be formulated to care for our needs as soon as it is possible to meet them. There are likely to be federal funds available for post-war construction and we should be ready to take advantage of this aid.
The seriousness of the emergency through which our country is passing becomes apparent with the knowledge that our school service flag contains 284 stars, and we feel deep concern when we realize that six of these are gold stars. Chase Abbott graduated with the Class of 1936, Robert William Fleming with the Class of 1939, Chester Rains- ford Gurney with the Class of 1939, Nelson Kindlund with the Class of 1938, Edward Allen Nichols with the Class of 1938 and Wilfred Elmer Appleton was a member of the Class of 1933 for two years. Our sympathy is extended to the families of these boys.
Your attention is called to the following reports of school officers and teachers, together with the various statistical tables and to the Financial Statement for 1943.
Respectfully submitted,
HAROLD C. WINGATE, Superintendent of Schools.
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REPORT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
Mr. Harold C. Wingate, Superintendent of Schools, Scituate, Massachusetts.
Dear Sir:
I herewith present my second annual report as acting principal of the Scituate High School.
School opened in September with an enrolment of 336 pupils. This is a decrease of 38 below the average of the past two years and represents a slight decrease in the average for all classes but is sub- stantially due to a drop of 22 pupils in the entering seventh grade as compared with last year's record number of 88.
With the nation entering its third year of the War Scituate High School has retained a much higher percentage of enrolment than most schools and must be considered most fortunate in having been able to retain the greater part of its regular teaching force despite losses to the Armed Forces and the lure of high wages in war industries. Experi- enced teachers have ably filled the places of those who have gone into the service or to other schools.
The school has tried in several ways to make available to present and past students all information and tests relating to the V-5, V-12, and other college and service training programs which today present the only opportunity for advanced education to the majority of the boys.
Industry and business continue to present to the girl graduates more opportunity than ever before but there is no radical change in college entrance requirements or opportunity of attendance from those of recent years.
All pupils and parents are urged to note and plan courses of in- struction which will best prepare the pupil for induction, college en- trance, or industry. Diligent study, good school citizenship and a high school diploma were never of more vital importance to the individual's and the nation's welfare.
Two new courses of study have been added to the curriculum to supplement the increased emphasis on scientific subjects. The courses, Pre-Flight Aeronautics and Military Surveying, are available. to the upper class pupils and are designed to give instruction in the funda- mentals of aeronautics, meteorology. mapping. navigation and sur- veving.
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Emphasis must continue to be placed upon our Practical and Household Arts, Physical Education and Business Training courses as well as upon those basic subjects of language and mathematics.
Scituate High School continues to maintain a Class "A" rating with the State Department of Secondary Education and has certificate privileges under the New England College Entrance Certificate Board. The satisfactory records achieved by our graduates attending college help the school in maintaining its fine standing and are a source of satisfaction to the school and community.
The drastic changes of the past year brought on by war conditions caused a serious curtailment in the school's extra-curricular activities of both a social and athletic nature. Regular interscholastic athletic schedules were curtailed or cancelled. Several entertainments, social activities, and Senior class events had to be dropped temporarily. It is hoped that with more settled conditions prevailing we will be able to carry out a near normal program throughout this year.
We have had championship teams in football, girls' basketball, and field hockey, and have had organized this fall an unusually good cheer- leading group. The All-School Play, "Anne of Green Gables" was ably presented to a large and appreciative audience and the class socials have been well attended.
It has been difficult to carry on as varied an assembly program as in the past but an interesting and full program for the last half of the year is being planned. The acquisition of a new motion picture machine, complete with sound equipment, for which we have been waiting since last year's magazine subscription campaign, is making available to us the very latest and best films for both entertainment and class-room instruction.
The teaching force has been called upon to assist in several of the national rationing programs and several students have aided local farmers during the planting and harvesting seasons. These programs have been carried out and so planned as to provide a minimum of lost time from regular class work.
I wish to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to all those teachers, members of the school department, and townspeople, who have in any manner helped to carry the high school through a year of the most rapid and drastic change in the history of American education.
Respectfully submitted, WALLACE A. PARKHURST, Acting Principal.
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PRE-FLIGHT AERONAUTICS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Ella L. Vinal Special Teacher, High School
This Global War in which we are engaged, has precipitated the Air-Age. Our physical world has shrunk, its distances now being meas- ured in hours instead of miles. Our economic and social worlds have expanded, demanding a wide cultural background to appreciate these new contacts. There is no subject taught in the schools which does not feel the impact of this situation.
Our very environment has been extended and new basic knowledge is required with which to face it. Previously we moved about, to and fro, at the bottom of an ocean of air. Now we move out, into and upon that fluid and we must thoroughly comprehend the laws which govern our new medium of travel.
Pre-Flight Aeronautics has recently been introduced into the cur- riculum of our secondary schools at the suggestion of the U. S. Com- missioner of Education and the C. A. A. following a request from the Air Forces of the War Department. They recognized that this service of the schools is of prime importance in building up and maintaining our airpower. The move was based upon two premises: first, the immediate relationship of aviation education to wartime needs and second, the relationship of aviation education to the post war world.
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