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Peirce Memorial Library-Expense
4,665.04
235.02
1,680.00
1,680.00
Peirce Memorial Library-Cataloguing Books
1,680.00
727.99
Construction Wampatuck School
727.99
31.85
Regional School District Planning Committee
31.85
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
224
727.99 31.85
January 1, Appropri-
10,000.00 397.33 100,799.93 20,087.41
15,089.40
25,089.40 397.33
Regional School District
25,089.40
Town Office Bldg. Police & Fire Sta.
Construction Sr. High School
121,573.11
397.33 2,310.08
9,541.00
9,556.00
Alterations-Jr. High School
638.00
8,918.00
3,000.00
3,000.00
Wampatuck School Playground Hatherly School Playground
2,950.00
50.00
6,000.00
6,000.00
5,981.00
19.00
43,650.00
43,650.00
Additional Equipment-Sr. High School
36,432.23
7,217.77
35,000.00
35,000.00
Plans-Elementary School
12,359.67
22,640.33
27,275.00
27,275.00
Recreation-Labor
26,516.09
758.91
2,200.00
2,200.00
Recreation-Equipment, Operation Maint.
2,198.98
1.02
4,580.00
8.00
4,588.00
Recreation-Expense
4,579.36
8.64
975.00
975.00
Recreation-Rental of Equipment
972.00
3.00
6,400.00
6,400.00
Recreation-Lifeguards and Beaches
6,397.96
2.04
1,100.00
1,100.00
Recreation-Capital Expense
1,078.00
22.00
4,184.00
4,184.00
Town Reports
4,179.32
4.68
2,535.00
450.00
2,985.00
Public Buildings
2,967.61
17.39
500.00
500.00
Band Concerts
500.00
26,076.00
2,359.75
28,435.75
28,435.75
24,000.00
834.44
24,834.44
Contributory Group Insurance-Town
24,834.44
125.00
125.00
Channel Markings
125.00
100.00
100.00
County Aid to Agriculture
100.00
40.00
40.00
Veterans Day
36.80
3.20
1,075.00
1,075.00
Memorial Day
1,075.00
350.00
350.00
Quarters for Veterans' Foreign Wars
· 350.00
350.00
350.00
Quarters-American Legion
350.00
3,500.00
3,500.00
Control of Shellfish-Salary Clam Warden
.
3,500.00
700.00
700.00
Control of Shellfish-Expense
503.84
196.16
400.00
400.00
Fish and Game Conservation
400.00
43,560.60
43,560.60
Retirement System and Pensions
43,560.60
15,000.00 5,000.00
20,000.00
Reserve Fund
10,993.11
1,500.00
Bound Brook Stream Clearance
9,006.89 1,500.00
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
1,500.00
23,083.26 332.57 15.00
123,883.19
20,419.98
Const. Addition Jr. High School
10,135.12
10,284.86
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Insurance
SUMMARY-Continued
Balance
Receipts and
1961
ations 1961 Transfers
Totals
1961 Expendi- tures
Balance December 31, 1961
1.00
1.00
Land-John Reynolds Jr.
1.00
300.00
300.00
Development & Industrial Commission
300.00
300.00
300.00
Conservation Commission
111.32
188.68
3,500.00
3,500.00
Const. Minot Comfort Station
3,085.50
414.50
4,500.00
4,500.00
Municipal Consultant-Public Works
2,000.00
2,500.00
1,700.00
1,700.00
Land-William Curtis
1,700.00
$6,350.00
$6,350.00
Land-Leonard Backer
6,350.00
25.00
25.00
Land Damages-Shady Lane
25.00
1,150.00
1,150.00
Water Department-Salaries Commissioners
1,149.50
.50
6,695.00
6,695.00
Water Department-Salary Superintendent
6,695.00
5,793.00
24.56
5,817.56
Water Department-Salaries Clerical
5,817.56
750.00
750.00
Water Department-Expense Inspector
494.42
255.58
36,313.00
36,313.00
Water Department-Salaries Others
36,213.00
100.00
10,000.00
430.00
10,430.00
Water Department-Power, fuel and light
10,300.21
129.79
4,748.00
4,748.00
Water Department-Water Purchase
4,747.97
.03
20,000.00
20,000.00
Water Department-Service Supplies
19,082.89
917.11
12,960.00
12,960.00
Water Department-Main Supplies
12,049.88
910.12
2,440.00
2,440.00
Water Department-Property Maintenance
2,308.15
131.85
8,000.00
8,000.00
Water Department-Exploration
4,331.50
3,668.50
29,262.00
29,262.00
Water Department-Other Expense
27,508.99
1,753.01
13,796.05
13,796.05
Gravel Packed Well-Water Dept.
10,953.56
2,842.49
12,000.00
12,000.00
Water Dept. Booster Sta. Mann Lot Road
11,743.43
256.57
3,000.00
3,000.00
Public Landings-Salary Harbormaster
3,000.00
3,189.00
3,189.00
Public Landings-Expense
3,020.91
168.09
1,000.00
1,000.00
Care Veterans' Graves
743.50
256.50
721.31
721.31
Repairs-Town Pier
721.31
117,818.00
117,818.00
Interest
117,817.50
.50
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226
January 1, Appropri-
2,637.00
2,637.00
Water Loan Interest
2,365.50
271.50
17,800.00
17,800.00
Interest Temporary Loans
10,910.45
6,889.55
279,000.00
279,000.00
Maturing Debt
279,000.00
37,000.00
37,000.00
Maturing Debt-Water
37,000.00
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
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TOWN OF SCITUATE BALANCE SHEET-December 31, 1961 General Accounts
ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND RESERVES
Cash:
In Banks
$549,063.25
Tailings:
Unclaimed Checks
1,409.70
Petty Cash Advances:
Collector
.. $
40.00
Due to the County:
Proceeds from Dog Licenses
24.50
Water Dept. 15.00
Trust Fund Income:
Income from Trust Funds
231.92
Sch. & Pub. Bldg. Comm. 25.00
School Dept.
20.00
Lunch Program 50.00
Zoning Bd. of
Appeals
25.00
Advisory
Committee 20.00
195.00
Assistance
9,772.71
Administration
2,369.18
Total Cash
$ 549,258.25
12,141.89
Accounts Receivable : Taxes:
Levy of 1957:
Poll®
12.00
Personal 198.75
Old Age Assistance:
Assistance .
. 53,641.89
Levy of 1958:
Administration
880.05
54,521.94
Personal 1,576.47
1,704.47
Levy of 1959: Poll
606.00
11,302.06
Personal 6,117.14
Real Estate 4,952.15
11,675.29
Vocational: Public Law 864, Title 3A 54.57
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
264.92
Refund Recoveries : Recoveries
5,586.18
Federal Grants: Medical Aid for the Aged:
Aid to Dependent Children:
Assistance
4,665.37
Administration 5,271.38
9,936.75
210.75
Poll 128.00
Disability Assistance:
Assistance
9,049.69
Administration 2,252.37
Income from Everett Torry
Park Fund
33.00
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Levy of 1960:
Poll
648.00
Personal 7,679.55
Real Estate 39,044.27 47,371.82
Levy of 1961:
Poll
2,422.00
Personal 18,240.22
Real Estate 130,259.62
150,921.84
Total Taxes Motor Vehicle Excise Tax:
$ 211,884.17
Levy of 1956 138.79
Levy of 1957
1,977.47
Levy of 1958
4,774.62
Levy of 1959
15,758.41
Levy of 1960
26,175.03
Levy. of 1961
73,977.99
Ambulance
12.97
Civilian Defense 1,274.19
Total Motor Vehicle Excise Tax
$
122,802.31
Special Assessments: Street Assessments :
Added to Taxes-1960. . 56.25
Added to Taxes-1961. .
126.93
Committed Interest-1960 6.76
Committed Interest-1961
36.91
Total Special Assessments Tax Titles & Possessions: Tax Titles
8,951.21
Tax Possessions
3,378.12
Total Tax Titles & Possessions 12,329.33
Public Law 864, Title 5 1,075.44 Public Law 874 502.32
1,632.33
Total Federal Grants
89,534.97
Revolving Funds : Lunch Programs Athletic Fund 3,547.85
16,724.23
Total Revolving Funds
20,272.08
Appropriation Balances:
Engineering
Assistance
800.00
Town Hall, Emergency
Generator
3,500.00
Police-Equip. Main.
& Repairs 110.00
Foreshore Protection . 18,887.50
Restoration of
North Scituate Beach 8,500.00
Sewerage Investi- gation Committee 557.22
Chapter 90-1958 5,828.21 Chapter 90-1960 Engineering .. 1,740.20
226.85
Chapter 90-1959-
1961 Constr. ... 20,000.00 Land Damage- Tilden Rd. to Hazel Avenue . . 30.50
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
229
BALANCE SHEET-continued
Departmental:
Disability Assistance
210.41
Old Age Assistance 1,036.55
Aid to Dependent Children
2,440.93
Public Welfare
1,621.21
Veterans' Benefits
1,315.99
Total Departmental
Aid to Highways: State
23,000.00
County
11,500.00
Total Aid to Highways
34,500.00
Water:
Levy of 1959 128.27
Levy of 1960
4,056.83
Levy of 1961 24,415.20
Liens Added to Taxes-1959 120.00
Liens Added to Taxes-1960 1,143.81
Liens Added to Taxes-1961 2,726.71
Total Water Unprovided For or Overdrawn Accounts: Town Meetings, Elections & Registrations 1,251.49
Storm Damage 10/22-25/61 2,457.50
Storm Damage 12/24-25/61 8,007.62
Total
11,716.61
Overlay Deficit:
Overlay of 1956
99.32
Overlay of 1960
1,953.55
Total Overlay Deficits Loans Authorized
2,052.87
19,500.00
Land Damage- Hazel Avenue to Front Street . . Chapter 718, Acts of 1956 388.09
225.60
Constr. & Land Damage Curtis & Nelson Roads 5.76
Constr. & Land Damage Porter & Harborview Rds. 20.60
Regional Sch. District Planning Committee 31.85
Wampatuck School Playground 50.00
Hatherly School
Playground 19.00
Plans-Elementary School 22,640.33
32,590.82
Add. Equipment Sr. High School 7,217.77 State Subsidy- Control of Shellfish 500.00
Bound Brook
Stream Clear. 1,500.00
Development & Ind. Commissioner 300.00
Conservation Committee 188.68
Constr. Minot
Comfort Station
414.50
Municipal Consultant Public Works .. 2,500.00
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230
6,625.09
231
Land Purchase- Leonard Backer 6,350.00 Gravel-packed Well-Water Dept. 2,842.49 Repairs-Town Pier 721.31
107,156.77
Non-Revenue (Loan Balances) : Constr. Wampatuck School 727.99
Town Off. Bldg., Police & Fire Stations 397.33
Constr. Sr. High School 2,310.08
Jr. High School
Add.
10,284.86
Jr. High School
Alterations
8,918.00
22,638.26
Total Appropriation Balances
129,795.03 13,812.75
Sale of Real Estate
Receipts Reserved for Appropriation: Road Machinery Fund Overestimates: County Tax-1961 4,387.75
3,355.98
State Tax-1961 586.83
Total Overestimates
4,974.58
Overlays Reserved for Abatements:
Overlay-1957 210.75
Overlay-1958
1,881.72
Overlay-1959
11,379.24
Overlay-1961
13,477.63
Total Overlays Reserve 26,949.34
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
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BALANCE SHEET-continued
Reserve Fund-Overlay Surplus
1,852.62
Revenue Reserved Until Collected: Motor Excise Revenue 122,802.31
Special Assessment Revenue 226.85
Departmental Revenue . .. 6,625.09
State and County Aid to Highways
34.500.00
Tax Title Revenue
8,951.21
Tax Possession Revenue
3,378.12
Water Revenue
32,590.82
Total Revenue Reserved
209,074.40
Reserve for Petty Cash Advances
195.00
Collector's Unidentified Receipts
100.45
Surplus Revenue-Excess and Deficiency .
476,783.80
Loans Authorized and Unissued
19,500.00
Deferred Revenue Account
Apportioned Street Assessments Not Due: Street Assessments 5,953.12
Apportioned Street Assessment Revenue:
Due in 1962
1,173.01
Due in 1963
532.81
Due in 1964
282.70
Due in 1965
282.70
Due 1966-1980
@ $245.46 per year
3,681.90
Total
5,953.12
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Debt Accounts
Net Funded or Fixed Debt .. 3,620,000.00
Serial Loans: General:
Central Elem. School . . 210,000.00
Remodel & Add .- High School 518,000.00
Jenkins School & Cafeteria 240,000.00
Wampatuck &
Jenkins
Schools
560,000.00
Town Off. Bldg., Police & Fire Stations .... 425,000.00
Sr. High & .Jr.
High Add. 1,595,000.00
3,548,000.00
Water Loans:
3-A to North Scituate
72,000.00
Total Loans Outstanding
3,620,000.00
Trust and Investment Accounts
Trust and Investment Funds: Cash and Securities: In Custody of Treasurer 29,082.33
In Custody of Treasurer: Welfare Funds: Eliza Jenkns .. 3,020.80 Lucy O. Thomas 1,000.00 Sarah J. Wheeler 988.22 Hannah Dean Millar .. 1,952.63 Cornelia M.
Allen . . 5,086.68
TOWN ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
BALANCE SHEET-continued
George O. Allen 524.71
Benjamin T. Ellms 4,000.00
Scituate Welfare
425.39
Ella Gertrude
Gardner
9,107.53
Total Welfare Funds
26,105.96
Park Funds: Everett Torrey 300.00
Cemetery Funds :
Clara T. Bates 348.71
Emeline A.
Jacobs 137.12
Total Cemetery Funds
485.83
Investment Funds :
Post War Saving 690.54
Scholarship Funds:
Benjamin Feinberg
1,500.00
Total Funds 29,082.33
$4,658,521.75
$4,658,521.75
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REGIONAL SCHOOL COMMITEE REPORT
REPORT OF THE REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL COMMITTEE TO MEMBER TOWNS
The construction of the vocational high school building is proceeding on schedule. It is hoped that the weather will permit pouring of the roof soon, so that inside work can proceed during cold and bad weather. There is no indication at the present time that the building will not be ready for oc- cupancy in September, 1962.
Some items of equipment have been obtained from the Department of Defense Machinery Reserve. These items have a value of about $50,000.00. Bids for other equipment items will be advertised as soon as the exact nature of these items and the surplus property items are known.
Applications for Director are now being reviewed and interviews will be held soon. It is hoped that an appointment will be made before March. As soon as the Director assumes his duties, pupils applications for admission and applications for instructorships will be processed. At the present time there are indications that the pupils applications will exceed the facilities in some courses.
Course descriptions and applications have been sent to the school departments of all member towns and some surrounding towns. Treasurer's Report for the year ending December 31, 1961 and the estimated budget for the year 1962 are in the hands of member town officials.
Respectfully submitted,
VALENTINE F. HARRINGTON, Chairman Regional Vocational School Committee CHARLES F. HOHMAN, Abington HENRY B. PERRY, Cohasset VALENTINE F. HARRINGTON, Hanover JOHN O'L. EDMONDS, Norwell ALBERT E. SULLIVAN, Rockland NELS H. SANDBERG, Scituate
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SCITUATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
School Committee OF THE
TOWN OF SCITUATE
636
SATUIT CORPORATED.I
For the Year Ending December 31
1961
SANDERSON BROTHERS NORTH ABINGTON, MASS.
REPORT OF THE SCITUATE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Scituate:
The Scituate School Committee realizes, as we start another year, that more and more we face difficult problems in providing for the education of our students. All these problems seem to be more or less directly related to our enormous population growth.
Our large numbers of children force us to plan constantly for new school buildings or additions to present schools simply to provide classroom space.
Along with new buildings our pupils require additional teachers, new textbooks, new supplies, new educational equip- ment plus additional expenditures to maintain and operate the schools.
The Committee is further concerned with maintaining and hopefully raising the level of educational opportunity for each student. Good teachers we have and good teachers we must continue to hold. Our children must be able to compete in the field of College Entrance and also in the world of industry.
Our problems would be far more difficult as we seek the finest schools possible for the Town of Scituate but for the splendid leadership of our School Administration. We are most grateful for the wonderful assistance provided by other Town Officials, the Youth Center, the PTA, the Scituate Boosters Club, the Kiwanis Club and the many other organizations and public-spirited citizens who support our aims with scholar- ships, activities, and enthusiasm.
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We are very proud of the academic, musical and athletic accomplishments of our students. As parents we owe much gratitude to the dedication and devotion of the teachers of the Scituate Public Schools.
Respectfully yours,
ELLEN M. SIDES, Chairman ROBERT C. MacARTHUR, JR., Secretary JOHN Y. BRADY EDWIN P. GUNN GEORGE C. YOUNG
SPECIAL REPORT BY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE REGARDING SCHOOL SITES
Those of you who read this section of the Town Report last year will recall that it was devoted largely to a detailed description of the history of school construction in Scituate since World War II and a completely revised analysis of expected school population through 1965. As a result of this projection of future school enrollment it was predicted that Scituate will need two additional elementary schools by 1964, as well as more housing space for the secondary schools by 1965. The first portion of this report, therefore, will be de- voted to a discussion of that enrollment projection, in light of the present actual student population, to see how accurate the prediction proved to be and what revision the new figures may dictate.
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1. The enrollment projection made a year ago can now be compared with the actual figures of October 1961. They are as follows :
Predicted
Actual
% Error
Grades 1-6
1850
1859
.5
7-8
490
500
2.0
9-12
720
725
.7
-
3060
3084
.7
While this would seem to be a rather respectable result, pre- dicting growth in Scituate is a tricky business. Within those figures is a sizeable error. The projection for grade 1, which had grown during five years from 210 to 242 to 258 to 316 to 320 was calculated to be 355 this year. The actual result: 391!
The 1961 figures have now been added to (and the 1956 figures removed from) the five year experience tabulation and a new projection, revised somewhat upward and carrying through 1966, has been prepared. This indicates the need for a third new elementary school by 1966. Also, it suggests that the additional housing for the junior high grades should take the form of a wing on the new high school in 1965, to permit the ninth grade to be retained in that building, where it is now.
Again next October the 1962 enrollment, with its grade to grade growths, will be tabulated, the results inserted in the five year experience figures in place of those of the oldest year and a new enrollment projection through 1967 prepared. By doing this regularly the town will be able to determine realistically each year its school housing obligations for five years ahead.
2. In last year's report it was pointed out that the School Committee recognized the wisdom of the suggestion by the Planning Board that sites for all future schools be obtained as quickly as possible, while appropriate land was still available. Accordingly, the Committee revived in September the informal Site Committee which was described in the 1960 Report. Its first steps were to bring up to date all figures used a year ago
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and to review the Planning Board's latest ideas and estimates of the town's growth.
The next step was to attempt a master plan for Scituate's schools when it reaches maximum population, estimated by the Benjamin Report to be about 31,000. This report had di- vided the town into eight parts (without counting Humarock), with maximum potential population estimated for each. By using these it is possible to estimate how many elementary school children each may eventually contain and how many elementary schools will be required. The result is as follows: At maximum population :
Students
Section
Description
Population
1-12
1-6
540 Student Schools Now Future
I
West End
4,000
1,000
550
1.02
1.00
II
Old Oaken Bucket
2,000
500
275
.51
1.00
III Greenbush
2,000
500
275
.51
IV No. Scituate
4,000
1,000
550
1.02
1.00
V
Center
4,000
1,000
550
1.02
1.00
VI
Minot
3,000
750
410
.76
.77
VII Sand Hills Shore Acres
7,000
1,750
960
1.76
1.83
VIII
Harbor & Cliffs
5,000
1,250
685
1.27
.83
.61
Humarock
75
.14
31,000
7,750
4,330
8.01
3.66
4.38
Note that it has been assumed that 25% of the town's popula- tion will be in the public schools. This is high for a mature town but lower than the present proportion of over 26%. Also, there are people highly knowledgeable about Scituate who believe that 31,000 will prove to be conservative as an estimate of maximum population. Thus, 25% hedges against that possibility.
Note, too, that it has been assumed that the population in the elementary schools will be about 55% of total enroll- ment. Presently, due to the town's rapid and steady growth, the figure is over 60% but it should decline as the town matures.
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A 540 student school is defined as one having the equiva- lent of 18 thirty-student classrooms, plus kindergarten rooms, probably as large as an elementary school should be. The Central is such a school and the new Hatherly has been so designed. Jenkins and Wampatuck are smaller. Thus, for our purposes here, the first two are 1.00 school each, the other two are .83 of a school.
At present, then, the table shows that Section V (the Center) has its one school and, when the new Hatherly School is built, Section VII (bounded by the ocean, Mushquashicut Pond, the railroad tracks on the west and Jericho Road on the south) will have its proper quota. This leaves one standard school each needed for the West End, the Old Oaken Bucket- Greenbush area and North Scituate village, with "fractions" of a school needed near the Harbor and in Minot (defined as everything from Border Street east and Gannett Road north).
So far as Minot is concerned, this presents a difficult problem which has not yet been resolved. There is little suitable land there and the large amount of ledge throughout the area is apt to make school construction rather expensive. The Harbor area, similarly, has little or no land available, except for a piece behind Greenfield Lane near Kent Street, now owned by the town and presently used by the Highway Depart- ment as a gravel pit. If this eventually proves to be needed, when its present use is exhausted, the problem will be very simple, since we already own it. The thinly populated West End, of course, contains a large amount of available land and it is our opinion that action in this area can be deferred for two or three years.
This leaves the Old Oaken Bucket-Greenbush area and North Scituate village to be considered presently. The School Committee recommends that a site be purchased in each area this year. Articles for them have been inserted in the warrant for the March Town Meeting. One of them (for O.O.B .- Green- bush) will be accompanied by an Article requesting funds for plans and specifications for the 1964 school, which means that this is just normal timing, to fit the thirty month schedule for school construction.
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The second article represents an advance purchase, for a sixth elementary school at North Scituate, by current esti- mates, in 1966. Please note that this parcel is largely in the 20,000' zone portion of a large tract of land now in the estate of its deceased owner, which portion is expected to be sub- divided promptly into house lots. This probably will be our only opportunity to obtain the only really desirable school site in the North Scituate village area. By another year it is likely to be gone and the next most desirable site is considerably in- ferior to it, in size, access and location.
Finally, Scituate will eventually need a second junior high school, probably about 1970. In view of the conclusions of the study described above, the School Committe has decided that it would best be located on the additional land owned by the Town behind the new high school. There are several reasons for this decision. The first is that the land falls within Section V and the Center already has the one elementary school it will need. Second, the area of the land is larger than is necessary for an elementary school. Third, its topography is better suited than the other potential sites examined by the Site Committee for the more extensive playing fields required by a junior high school. Fourth, it will permit helpful integration with the playing fields of the high school (both for use and mainten- ance) and with its interior educational facilities. Finally, though we shall never need more than one high school, its maximum capacity of 1,200 will one day become severely strained, even with only three grades. An adjacent building properly designed, particularly with adequate gymnasium facilities, can provide valuable assistance to the high school.
These advantages will be purchased at the cost of one logistic disadvantage, a minor one, in the view of the Com- mittee ; it will be less than a mile from the present junior high school. This means that somewhat more students will be transported over somewhat longer distances than if, let us say, the second building were placed where the new Hatherly school is to be built. Even so, however, by grouping the three secondary schools the busing operation may well be more efficient. Also, many profound changes are beginning to take
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place in the patterns of education. Most of them tend to have the effect of breaking down the barriers between grades. As a conference we may stand to gain a substantial advantage educationally, with two of our secondary schools cheek by jowl, the third just up the road.
The members of the Site Committee urge their fellow citizens to accept the two Articles in the warrant for school site purchase. With those behind us we shall then need to make only two more purchases, one in the West End and one in or near Minot, at which time we shall have sufficient land for Scituate's entire future educational needs. Each year we wait will see the best sites covered with houses. Each year we wait will see the remaining sites become more expensive to buy, more expensive to build on. By acting, on the other hand, we shall save money in purchase outlay and building outlay, we shall have land where schools should be and of sufficient size to hold both the buildings themselves and some of the recreational facilities that a growing town needs in growing quantities.
Respectfully,
School Committee
ROBERT H. TILDEN,
Board of Selectmen
ELLEN M. SIDES, Chairman JOHN Y. BRADY EDWIN P. GUNN Planning Board
JOHN D. McPHERSON,
ROBERT C. MacARTHUR, JR. J. ARTHUR MONTGOMERY GEORGE C. YOUNG Board of Assessors WALTER SCOTT, Architect
DANIEL L. HOLMES, Superintendent of Schools
JUDSON R. MERRILL, Administrative Assistant
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THE SCITUATE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Mrs. Ellen M. Sides, Chairman 1962
102 Glades Road, Minot-LInden 5-1125
Robert C. MacArthur, Jr., Secretary 1963 305 Country Way, Scituate-LInden 5-2883 John Y. Brady 1962
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