Town annual report of the officers and committees of the town of Scituate 1949-1951, Part 39

Author: Scituate (Mass.)
Publication date: 1949-1951
Publisher: The Town
Number of Pages: 744


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The classroom is not the only place where learning takes place. A modern school program makes provision for field trips or excur- sions of an educational nature. Several such trips were taken during the past year by various classes, namely, a visit to the new Science Museum in Boston, a tour of historical Scituate, visits to the Chase Animal Farm, to the fire station, to the police station, to the library, to the telephone office, and to a farm. Excursions such as these provide excellent learning situations for children.


During the year the School Department purchased a film strip and slide projector to add to our visual aids equipment. We already have acquired some film strips and hope gradually to increase the size of our film strip library. Film strip machines and moving pic- ture projectors are recognized as necessary equipment in a modern school program.


Mention was made earlier in this report of the appointment of Miss Bates as reading consultant in the Scituate School System. The following paragraphs are taken from a report prepared by Miss Bates:


"The work of a Reading Consultant consists of working with teachers to help them plan their reading programs. It is a part of her work to analyze the reading difficulties of pupils and to suggest ways to overcome them.


"There are many causes of reading retardation. The chief causes in Scituate seem to be overcrowded classrooms in lower


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grades and the fact that we must expect the pupils who have had no kindergarten to be a year behind those who have had the benefit of an extra year of schooling.


"Many aspects of reading have been considered as we have launched our program of reading improvement. Consideration has been given as to how teachers can take care of various reading levels within a classroom. Pupils who needed help have been given an individual reading analysis, their difficulties diagnosed, and plans for remedial measures discussed with teachers. Material adjusted to the grade level where they can read well and exercises to help them overcome their difficulties have been used and are being developed.


"Pupils with similar reading difficulties are taken from various classrooms and taught in a group. Attention is also given to indi- viduals. Exercises and reading skills taught in these groups depend on what difficulties are discovered. Among the many things taught are the following: phonetic analysis, silent reading, oral reading, and comprehension. Many skills are included under each of these headings.


"Demonstration reading lessons have been taught in all ele- mentary grades. These were to show ways that certain phases of reading could be taught.


"Meetings with teachers of several grades and by single grades have helped us to work for the same purpose in teaching reading which correlates with every subject. Many individual conferences with parents, teachers, and pupils have helped everyone to adjust to procedures to help individual children.


"Sixteen per cent of the pupils in grades three, four, five, and six are being taken from classrooms for help. This is a very normal situation. All pupils do not progress at the same rate. Let us remem- ber that adults do not progress at the same rate if they are learning a new skill.


"The splendid cooperation of administrators, parents, teachers, and pupils has helped immensely in starting this new program."


HATHERLY KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL


With the reassignment of classes in the Central Elementary School it became necessary to reactivate Hatherly School in order to provide for four kindergarten classes. The four rooms on the first floor were reconditioned; two rooms were painted, new floors were laid in two rooms while other floors were sanded and refin-


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ished. In addition to this interior work the exterior was given two coats of white paint.


Enrollment in the kindergarten as of October 1, 1951 was 125, divided into four classes with Miss Marion Fleck, Mrs. Florence O'Hern, Mrs. Mary Heffernan, and Mrs. Edna Locklin as teachers.


Since the opening of school in September there have been two open house days and on each occasion more than one hundred par- ents took advantage of the opportunity to visit school. This response was greatly appreciated. During book week all four groups paid a visit to the Peirce Memorial Library.


There is increased recognition of the kindergarten as an integral unit of the elementary school set up. W. A. Saucier, in his book "Theory and Practice in the Elementary School" writes the follow- ing: "During the year children spend in the kindergarten they engage in play and various child activities. Prominent features of these activities are freedom, interest, thinking, purposeful activity, and a community spirit. The pupils develop in thinking as they choose and plan: in doing, as they construct and perform; and in living with others, as they converse and cooperate. Thus the kinder- garten aims at the complete development of the child, emotionally, socially, and intellectually."


In closing I should like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for your support and that of the School Committee and to thank the teachers for their cooperation during the year.


Respectfully submitted,


LEROY E. FULLER,


Principal.


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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL PHYSICIAN


Mr. Edward K. Chace Superintendent of Schools Scituate, Massachusetts


Dear Sir:


The pupils have had their regular physical examinations this year and where defects calling for further attention were found the persons concerned were notified. The home football games have been attended, to provide first aid for injured players. And there have been a few visits to school to attend children hurt in minor accidents.


But for every case I was called to see there were probably three hundred or more with lesser injury, or illness, which the School Nurse took care of. And the time is at hand when we should have an additional nurse because of the rapidly increasing school popu- lation and the popularity of the Health Unit at the new Elementary School.


A widespread epidemic of grippe-like nature in late winter and early spring seriously reduced attendance, and many cases of measles in April and May also caused much time to be lost from classes.


I am very grateful to the School Staff, and to the parents, for their co-operation.


Respectfully submitted,


M. D. MILES, M.D., School Physician.


January 14, 1952


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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE


Mr. Edward K. Chace Superintendent of Schools Scituate, Massachusetts


Dear Sir:


This 1951 report could be summed up briefly: The pupils in the Scituate Schools received health services of inestimable value. However, it is necessary to relate to the misinformed, the uninformed and our newcomers, some of the details of our Health Program in the Schools.


Periodically the Public Health Nurse, specializing in School Health Service, must analyze her program and evaluate the results to see if she really has been doing the things which will accomplish her objectives. Even the best of programs is apt to be in need of changes.


Our program has undergone changes from time to time, but the primary objective remains unchanged; THE EDUCATION FOR HEALTHFUL LIVING OF THOSE ENTRUSTED TO OUR CARE. Emphasis being placed on the need for various habits to be established early and maintained throughout their lives to insure a maximum of GOOD HEALTH.


Scituate is indeed fortunate in being able to provide a health- ful school environment and the facilities for the practice and teaching of high standards of health so essential for the promotion of good health in a community.


The program for the Hatherly School has been more or less of a supervisory nature. It consisted mainly of periodic inspections, transportation to and from dental clinic, as well as to the homes when illness occurred during the school sessions. The teachers at the Hatherly have shown excellent judgment and ability in coping with minor health problems, thus permitting the nurse to make the best use of her time working with the larger group of over seven hundred pupils in the Central Elementary School. Like the prin- cipal's office and the cafeteria at meal time, the health unit is just about the busiest place in ten counties. Here we have emergencies by the score. The children have much to learn in regard to the pre- vention of accidents and it is my sincere hope that the home and school put greater effort into teaching children to work and play so as to avoid injury to themselves and others.


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In the Elementary School, the services consisted of routine inspections, first aid treatment, use of available clinics for speech and guidance problems, dental clinic, pre-school clinic, vision and hearing tests, health instruction, transportation, follow-up, and inspection for communicable disease control, and home visiting.


Services to the High School pupils had to be limited to assisting the school physician at the time of physical examinations, first aid, checking on referrals, follow-up, transportation, vision and hearing tests, and home visits in known and suspected cases of truancy.


The school must continue to encourage frequent parent-nurse, teacher-nurse, and pupil-nurse conferences. Many problems could be brought to a successful conclusion by this very simple device.


By law, the examination of vision and hearing is supposed to be done by the teacher, but it may be checked by the physician or nurse. This phase of the program would lag were it not for the fact that Mrs. Ann Freeman was assigned to part-time duty for this work. These tests require certain favorable conditions, and since the nurse has many interruptions in her line of duties she could not do justice to this part of the program. As always, the nurse has been subject to many emergency calls from other schools which re- ceived attention irrespective of regular schedule.


My sincere thanks to all the school personnel and others who have been most cooperative at all times.


Respectfully submitted,


MARGARET J. O'DONNELL, R.N., School Nurse.


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FINANCIAL STATEMENT - 1951


RECEIPTS


Regular Appropriation


$254,380.00 137.06


From Federal Funds - Smith Hughes


$254.517.06


EXPENDITURES


General Expenses


School Committee Expenses


$482.61


Superintendent Salary


6,158.39


Superintendent Travel


341.14


Clerk


1,861.47


Truant Officer's Salary


100.00


Other Expenses of Administration


249.82


$9.193.43


Expenses of Instruction


Salaries, Principal, Teachers, High


$63.669.55


Salaries, Principal, Suprs., Teachers, Elem.


88,916.15


Clerical Services and Expenses, High and Elem.


1.900.23


Textbooks and Supplies, High


6,690.81


Textbooks and Supplies, Elem.


4,905.22


$166,081.96


Operation and Maintenance of School Plant


Janitors, High


82.08


Janitors, Elem.


8.325.76


Fuel, Elem.


2,015.89


Fuel, Elem.


2,930.38


Upkeep and Replacement, High


5,415.40


Upkeep and Replacement, Elem.


4,958.69


Miscellaneous, High


2,848.38


Miscellaneous, Elem.


2,941.35


$35,130.93


Auxiliary Agencies


Library


$291.25


Health


3,919.72


Transportation


25,036.84


Misc. Auxiliary


5.524.38


$34,772.19


Outlay


New Equipment


$5.503.76


$5,503.76


Special Items


Tuition and Transportation


$2,698.84


Overlay for Public Use of Auditorium


272.30


Payment to Mass. Teachers' Retirement Board


400.00


Summer Recreational Program


400.00


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$5.613.00


Janitors Mileage, High


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Vocational Evening School


63.50


$3,834.64


Total Expenditures


$254,516.91


School Department Credits


$42,708.74


From Federal Funds - Smith Hughes


137.06


Total Receipts


$42,845.80


NET COST OF SCHOOLS TO TOWN


$211,671.11


SCHOOL DEPARTMENT CREDITS


(Not available for use of School Department)


From State Funds:


School Construction Grant, Central Elementary School


$7,704.20


State Aid, Chapter 70 16,323.37


Transportation of Pupils


16,129.24


Maintenance of Household Arts Classes


2,182.11


Trade School Tuition


397.79


Miscellaneous Collections


109.09


Total Credits


$42,845.80


FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAFETERIA For the School Year Ending August 31, 1951


Receipts:


Cash on hand September 1, 1950


$941.64


Cafeteria sales


16,368.14


Government subsidy


5,537.02


Other sources


219.18


Total Receipts


$23,065.98


Expenditures:


Food


$16,517.55


Labor


2,905.50


Equipment and supplies


857.56


Total Expenditures


$20,280.61


Balance on hand August 31, 1951


$2,785.37


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FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE SCITUATE HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA For the Year Ending September 1, 1951


Balance on hand, September 1, 1950


$108.45


Receipts:


Cafeteria sales


$10,555.34


Government subsidy


2,100.27


Special dinners, Election Day


190.75


$12,846.36


Total Receipts


$12,954.81


Expenditures:


Food


$11,132.29


Labor


996.85


Equipment and miscellaneous


317.19


(Laundry, express, service charges on surplus foods, etc.)


Total Expenditures


$12,446.33


Balance on hand, September 7, 1951


$508.48


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MEMBERSHIP BY GRADES


October 1, 1951


Kindergarten


(four sections)


125


Grade I


(four sections)


124


Grade II


(four sections)


136


Grade III


(four sections)


130


Grade IV


(four sections)


130


Grade V


(three sections)


96


Grade VI


(three sections)


Opportunity


Total - Elementary School


844


Grade VII


115


Grade VIII


74


Grade IX


68


Total - Junior High School


..... 257


Grade X


63


Grade XI


55


Grade XII


55


Total - Senior High School


173


Grand Total


1274


ENROLLMENT, MEMBERSHIP, ATTENDANCE For the School Year Ending June 30, 1951


ELEMENTARY


Including


Total Membership


Average Membership


KINDERGARTEN


795


769


JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL


229


219


SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL


179


169


Totals


1203


1157


88


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ATTENDANCE HONOR ROLL (Pupils neither absent nor tardy) For the School Year Ending June 30, 1951


CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL


Name


Grade


Name


Grade


Charles Thayer


I


James Hill


V


David Durant


IV


Jane Sylvester


V


Eric Turner


IV


Frances Blanchard


VI


Jean Curran


V


Paul Brigham


VI


Stephen Galbreath


V


Nancy Cole


VI


HIGH SCHOOL


Manuel Fontes


VII


Ruth Mitchell


IX


Pauline Jacobucci


VII


Richard Prouty


IX


Maredith Webb


VII


Edgar Locklin


X


Allen Bates


VIII


Judith Bernard


XI


Adele Galbreath


VIII


John Kettell


XI


Carol Merritt


VIII


Robert Mitchell


XI


Richard Mitchell


VIII


David Stone


XI


Katherine Andrews


IX


Roxanna Turner


XI


Priscilla Clapp


IX


John Davis


XII


Betty Foster


IX


Charles Mitchell


XII


HONOR PUPILS AT SCITUATE HIGH SCHOOL School Year 1950-1951


High Honors (A's in All Subjects)


Sophomore Class


Judith Lawson


Seventh Grade


Roberta Palmer


Charles Rodgers Beryl Sylvester


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Honors (A's and B's in Major subjects)


Senior Class


Eugene Cohen


Jeanne Dwyer


Geraldine Gleason


Mary Jane Stewart


Pauline Hunter


Peter Virtue


James Milroy


Fannie Whorf


Charles Mitchell


Bruce Wyman


Junior Class


Barbara Hunter Evelyn Jenney John Kettell Barbara Prouty


Edward Stewart


Sophomore Class


Neil Murphy Neil Towle Richard Wiley


Freshman Class ยท


Mary Marsh Ruth Mitchell Yvonne Mongeau Sara Paul Diane Prouty


Dianne Sherman Maureen Stark Mildred Sylvester


Thomas Whittaker


Eighth Grade


Carolyn Bamber Paul Berg


Lilla Fleming Lillian Galbreath


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Joyce Bamber Judith Bernard Richard Clapp Ann Dacey


Elizabeth Grassie Donald Jenney


Phyllis Cahoon Gladys Clapp James Denker Fred Gleason Charles Goddard Richard Green Jane Graham John Locke


Robert Morrow


Anne Nitzsche


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Letitia Bernard Gail Brazilian Phyllis Clark Sue Delano


Carol Merritt Joyce Petrie Robert Stewart Marilyn Svenson Norman Walker


Seventh Grade


Joan Barry Deborah Brigham


Patricia Green


Lawrence Mayo


Susan Cole


Addison Pratt


Mary Susan Curran


Gail Roberts


Lola Essery Marilyn Garrity


Susan Stanley


Joan Turner


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GRADUATION EXERCISES Class of 1951 Scituate High School WEDNESDAY, JUNE THE SIXTH 8:00 P. M. HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM


PROGRAM


Processional: "Pomp and Circumstance" Elgar-Glenn High School Orchestra


Invocation Rev. Austin Rice Address of Welcome Eugene George Cohen


Presentation of Prizes and Scholarships


Presentation of Class Gift President of Senior Class


Selection: "Sylvia" Speaks


Combined Glee Clubs


Address: "Standing On The Threshold" Mildred Buchanan Flagg


Conferring of Diplomas


Mr. Samuel J. Tilden Chairman, School Committee


Class Ode Geraldine Gleason, '51; Joseph Cerilli, '51 Graduating Class


Recessional: "War March of the Priests" Mendelssohn-Lake


High School Orchestra


ges CLASS OFFICERS


President, Eugene George Cohen Vice-President, Walter Scott Roberts Secretary, Mary Jane Stewart Treasurer, Joseph Laurence Cerilli


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ROLL OF CLASS MEMBERS


COLLEGE PREPARATORY COURSE


*Mary Susan Anderson


*Sheila Anne Brigham


*Eugene George Cohen Arthur Leonard Dunphy


Richardson Metcalf Johnson


*Lois Irene Merritt


* Muriel Louise Nichols


*Anne Elsie Nitzsche


*Walter Scott Roberts


*Peter Virtue


SCIENTIFIC PREPARATORY COURSE


* Harold Gerard McAvenia


* James Clark Milroy


*Robert Choate Morrow Richard Waterman Vines


*Charles Howard Mitchell * Bruce Tappan Wyman


*Robert Arthur Burbank


SECRETARIAL COURSE


*Mary Louise Brow Jean Elizabeth Carlson


Glea Cole


*Roseanne Bernadette Kane


*Virginia Ann Cole


* Marlene Ann Lopes Ellen Louise O'Neil


* Barbara Irene Crowell Marion Louise Damon


Jean Marie Dwyer


* Mary Jane Stewart Geraldine Louise Veiga


*Fannie Louise Whorf


COMMERCIAL COURSE


George Ellsworth Bearce Nancy Dwight


Richard Mayhew Brebner Robert Neal Fraser


William Andrew Clapp * Elsie Pauline Hunter


PRACTICAL ARTS COURSE


Joseph Edward Fitzsimmons Joseph Mari Lopes John Joseph Stark, Jr. GENERAL COURSE


John Joseph Cahir Joseph Laurence Cerilli Barbara Ann Connolly


Donald William Ford


Helen Patricia Fortman


Anna Louise Garland


John Wilson Davis


Richard William Levangie


*Mary Elva Fisher


Richard Paul Preston


Jane Ellen Flaherty


Glenn Wilder


*Pro Merito - four-year average of 85 percent or better.


CLASS MOTTO "Success Is the Reward of Toil"


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*Jeanne Ethel Dwyer


*Geraldine Gleason


INDEX


Accountant's Report


117


Summary


138


Balance Sheet


142


Assessors' Report


73


Board of Health


93


Building Board of Appeals


109


Building Commissioner


100


Civil Defense


110


Clam Warden


90


Dental Hygienist


96


Engineering Department


71


Fire Department


60


Forest Warden


62


Highway Department


63


Inspector of Animals


98


Inspector of Meat and Slaughtering


98


Inspector of Milk


99


Inspector of Plumbing


97


Juror List


79


Libraries


101


Park Commissioners


76


Planning Board


106


Plymouth County Aid to Agriculture


112


Police Department


58


Public Health Nursing Service:


Report of President 91


Report of Treasurer 92


94


Public Welfare 67


Registrars' Report


57


School Building Committee, High


111


School Committee


Appendix


School Dentist


95


Sealer of Weights and Measures


68


Selectmen's Report


10


State Audit of Accounts


114


Supervisor-Care of Veterans' Graves


77


Town Clerk's Report


13


Births


42


Marriages


37


Deaths


49


Town Collector's Report


104


Town Counsel


69


Town Forest Committee


89


Town Officers


3


Treasurer's Report


103


Tree Warden


78


Veterans' Service Officer


108


Water Department


82


Zoning Board of Appeals


108


Public Health Nurse Report


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