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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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