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Name
Residence
June 19
Melrose .
Edward Wesley Edmands Jr
Wakefield
Helen Mildred Cook
Melrose
1
20 Wakefield .
Henry Joseph O'Neill
Wakefield
Julia Agnes Hourihan
Wakefield
21 Reading.
Emmett Frank Greenleaf
Wakefield
Mabel Esther Sherman Reading
23 Wakefield
Franklin Henley Manter
Philadelphia
Dorothy Carter. Wakefield
23
Milton
Junius Oliver Beebe.
Wakefield
Alice Rita Milliken Milton
25
Wakefield .
Arthur Elbert Whiton
Wakefield
Etta Marion Flint .
Wakefield
26 Wakefield
Frederick Havelock Byrnes
Wakefield
Hazel Emma Barstow Wakefield
27
Woburn.
Joseph Alexander Gutro
Wakefield
Mary Louise Kenney. Woburn
30 Wakefield Earl Robert Tarbell Malden
Maude Littlehale. Malden
30 Watertown
Fred Gavin Reid
Wakefield
Ruth Hazel Boudreau Melrose
July 2 Wakefield James Henry Hillsgrove Wakefield
Joanna Brown Smith. Wakefield
3 Lynn. Harry Ernest Whitford . Lynn
Mary Louise Smith Wakefield
4 Wakefield . Charles Keller Strong Wakefield
Alice Veronica Riley. Wakefield
4 Wakefield Michael Joseph Mulrey Boston
Delia Agnes Manning Wakefield
4 Wakefield. Giovanni Nevala. Wakefield
Margaret (Sava) Pizzuto Wakefield
5 Wakefield. Edward Eliot Northrup Wakefield
Alice Lura Kimball. Wakefield
5 Wakefield . John Rennie Muse' Reading Victoria Genevieve LaBlanc. Wakefield
5 Wakefield . Francis Jerome Deighan. New York Florence Mabel Hyacinth Gorman. Wakefield
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RECORD OF MARRIAGES
Date Place of Marriage Name Residence
July 13 Stoneham . Arthur Powell. Kanopolis, Kas.
Gladys May Hawkes. Wakefield
14 Wakefield Albert Joseph Smith. Reading
Mabelle Florence Foy Wakefield 1
17 Wakefield Milton Alenzo Pottle Branford, Conn. Essie Mabel (Kingman) Bloom Wakefield
18 Wakefield Daniel Earle Keoban Medford
Nora Theresa Regan. Wakefield
21 Wakefield Frank Edward Epolite Reading
Ella Frances Badger Reading
23 Wakefield . Charles Frederick Young Wakefield
Eunice Emma Trask. Melrose
24 Wakefield Loran Webster Gray Gloucester Annie Lila (Lassell) Palmer Wakefield
26 Wakefield .Nelson C. Barton Stoneham
Edith C. Mills Melrose
28 Wakefield . John Alpheus Hubbard. Wakefield Margaret Anne Surrette. Wakefield
31 Wakefield Henry George Hermann Wakefield
Esther Putnam. Wakefield
Aug.
1 Melrose. Thomas Joseph Talbot Wakefield
Grace Josephine Bower. Wakefield
3 Beverly . William Fred Andreason . Woburn®
Ruth Talbot Wakefield
4 South Boston Lawrence DePamphilis Wakefield
Ruth Nelson South Boston
7 Wakefield . Charles Ames Balch Lancaster, N. H.
Marion Poole Mansfield Wakefield
7 Wakefield. Paul Kimball Guillow. Wakefield
Lillian Elizabeth Moses. Wakefield
7 Everett George Edward Antunes. Wakefield
Maude Wheatley . Everett
7 Wakefield . Raymond Strong Hunt Stoneham
Sarah E. Logan. Stoneham
8
.Wakefield
.'Elpidio Gelsomini.
Wakefield
Filomena Del Rossi.
Wakefield
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TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Date
Place of Marriage
Name
Residence
Aug. 13 Wakefield.
Roger Alexander Durkee
Peabody
Ruth Marion Peabody
Lynnfield
- 14 Melrose
Walter Herbert Wells.
. Melrose
Grace Mary Ayscough.
Wakefield
22
Wakefield
John Alcide Meuse
Wakefield
Edith Naomi Cottreau
Wakefield
23 - Wakefield
Frank Reid
Wakefield
Elsie Louise Whitney.
Wakefield
25
Wakefield .
Arthur Ellison McAllister
Malden
Elizabeth Agnes Connell.
Wakefield
29 Woburn James Melvin Kelly Wakefield Mildred Burns. Woburn
29 Melrose
George Leland Waterhouse.
Wakefield
Gertrude Arabella Russell Melrose
31
Wakefield .
Jeremiah William Doucette
Wakefield
Eva Thornton. Wakefield
- Sept. 2 Wakefield .
Francis Jeremiah Lucey Wakefield
Helen Edith McGraham. Wakefield
4 Wakefield .
Jesse LeRoy Sargent.
Woburn
Bertha Gilbert Woburn
4 Wakefield Wilfred David Morgan Ipswich
Bessie Maude Byrnes . Wakefield
4 Wakefield .Perley Belding Wentworth Somerville
Marguerite Carter. Wakefield
1
4
Wakefield .
William Edward Scott
Wakefield
Ethel Marion Foote. Reading
4 Wakefield . .Carroll Freemont Philbrook. . Lynn Elizabeth Mariane Kondrup Wakefield
4
Melrose
Harold Francis Reynolds
Wakefield
Theresa Sava.
Wakefield
5 Wakefield . Patrick Edmond Loughlin Wakefield Mary Agnes Mullen. Wakefield
12 Boston. Michele DiTonno Wakefield
Elvira Presutto Everett
12
Revere.
Nicholas Malley
Wakefield
Adeline Melchionno
Revere
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RECORD OF MARRIAGES
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Date Place of Marriage Name Residence
Sept. 14 Wakefield .. Walter Ernest Merrill Wakefield
Adele Lillian Boaley Wakefield
16 Winchester Betram Heard Thistle. Wakefield
Jessie Ethel Delorey Winchester
16 Wakefield Walter Carlton Monegan Melrose
Eva Hopkinson Poland. Wakefield
18 Wakefield Guy Radcliffe Leman Nahant
Adelene Carolyn Burrill. Nahant
18 Wakefield William Charles Bennett. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Isabella Josephine Kenny New York, N. Y.
18 Wakefield Harry Sanford Brown. New York, N. Y Marjorie Carpenter Wakefield
22 Malden
Harry Lewis Philbrook Wakefield
Lillian Susie Talbot Wakefield
25 Malden Giovanni Venturo Wakefield
Barletta Giatana. Wakefield
25 Wakefield Ernest Raymond Eastman Wakefield
Ruth Colson Greene Wakefield
25 Wakefield
John Joseph Kirby. Wakefield
Evelyn Edith Fisher Wakefield
26 Wakefield
John Eugene Mahoney Stoneham
Edith Mabel Doucette Wakefield
27 Wakefield . Harry Walter Patch. Wakefield
Anna S. Moulaison Wakefield
28 Wakefield
Nathan Ellis Melendy Wakefield Annie Theresa Robbins Wakefield
29 Melrose
William Percy Davison. Melrose
Margaret Florence Stewart. Wakefield
Oct.
1 Wakefield .
Perley Monroe Bartlett Brookline
Paula Lang Clough Wakefield
3 Reading. John William Oldfield Wakefield
Mary Ursula Froten Reading
6 Wakefield . . Ambrose Doucette Wakefield
Nellie Muise Wakefield
9 Wakefield . Lyman Edgar Allen. . Wakefield Katherine Cronin Lenners. Wakefield
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TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
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Date
Place of Marriage
Name
Residence
Oct.
10
Wakefield
. William James Hansell .
Stoneham
Mary Elizabeth Gates. Wakefield
10
Wakefield
.Edward Joseph Janssens
Wakefield
Flora Cecilia Beane. Wakefield
10
Wakefield
Robert Earle Johnson.
Wakefield
Anna Rita Beane. Wakefield
10
Wakefield
John Henry McGaffigan
Stoneham
Mary Margaret Collins. Wakefield
10 Wakefield .
Howard William Brosseau
Wakefield
Lunda Concetta DeRocco.
Wakefield
11
Wakefield
Louis Leone Muise
Reading
Helen Mary White.
Wakefield
12 Wakefield.
Walter Leonard Jones
Wakefield
Bessie Hosmel Greene Wakefield
12
Wakefield
Frank Constanzo Tavano.
Wakefield
Marion Christopher. Wakefield
16 Wakefield Sabino Evangelista. Wakefield
Metilda Spagnuolo. Wakefield
16 Wakefield .
Frederick Ray Meader
Wakefield
Catherine Monahan.
Wakefield
17
Wakefield.
John Joseph Mclaughlin
Wakefield
Annabel Elizabeth Glynn.
Wakefield
18 Somerville,
John Harold Bratton.
Wakefield
Rose Bertha Siciliano
Somerville
23
Malden .
Frederick Charles McKie
Wakefield
Della Evelyn Moore.
Wakefield
24 Wakefield .
Arthur Jeremiah Cratty
Waterville, Me.
Katherine Frances Sullivan
Wakefield
24 Boston.
Joseph Burwen. Wakefield
Rosa Levine Dorchester
24
Wakefield
George Francis Hanright
Wakefield
Helen Elizabeth Murphy
Wakefield
1
24 Wakefield
Thomas Roland Walsh .
Wakefield
Rena Gertrude Hanright
Wakefield
27
Wakefield
Charles Joseph Martin.
Wakefield
Margaret Mary McLaughlin
Wakefield
1
RECORD OF MARRIAGES
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Date Place of Marriage .
Name Residence
Oct.
28 Wakefield . : Edward Richard MacNeil Boston
Annie Laurie Waters Wakefield
31 Reading Albert Lloyd Hudson. Wakefield
Alma Cecilia Sullivan. Reading
31 Wakefield Alonzo Cutler Fawcett Everett Anna Catherine Gilligan. Wakefield
Nov. 7 Wakefield Thomas Joseph Lyons . Wakefield Margaret Elizabeth Connelly. Wakefield
11 Wakefield . Asaphy Judkins Walker Bridgton, Me.
Alice Isabelle Robinson Bridgton, Me.
14 Woburn. Thomas Francis Walsh . Wakefield
Elizabeth Delia Gilgun Woburn
14 Wakefield Frederick Francis Bradley Wakefield
Madeline Louise Walsh. Wakefield
15 Wakefield . Eugene Stanwood Jones. Wakefield
Blanche Velma Lawrence Malden
21 Wakefield John Blanchard Maguire. Wakefield Mary Josephine Connell. Wakefield
24 Wakefield James Ezra Gray Wakefield
Anna Elizabeth Hurley. Wakefield
25 Wakefield. Henry Laurence Parker. Wakefield Thelma Mildred Tibbetts. Wakefield
28 Wakefield Albert Campareri. Wakefield
Sophie Pucko. Wakefield
Dec.
4 Boston.
Domenico Benedetto Wakefield
Anna Maria Concessi. Wakefield
5 Wakefield . Sebastiano Serrentino Wakefield
Rosa Corindia. Wakefield
8 Wakefield. John William Aiken Wakefield
Florence Marceliene (Messier) Leach .. Wakefield
12 Wakefield Joseph Licurgo Bonsignor Malden
Concettina Giuffre Wakefield
17 Wakefield Anthony Rando. Wakefield
Josephine Giuffre Wakefield
21 Boston. Wilfred Godett. Wakefield Virginia Trask. Somerville
136
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Date Place of Marriage Name Residence
Dec. 21 Wakefield . Walter Boit Winship Wakefield
Priscilla Mary Doane
Wakefield
22 Wakefield
Robert Burns McKenna.
Reading
Gertrude Victoria Lofstrom
Wakefield
22 Wakefield . Cyrus Albert Little . Wakefield
Eva Ruth Morrison. Wakefield
27 Wakefield . Simon Edmund Muise. Wakefield
Edith Margaret Froutten
Wakefield
28
Wakefield.
William Henry Woof
South Boston
Ethel Holden Perry.
Wakefield
137
RECORD OF DEATHS
Record of Deaths
Any errors or omissions noted in these records should be reported to the Town Clerk at once.
Date of
Death
Yrs.
Age Mos. Days
Jan.
1. Harry Haywood.
76
7 30
5 Sarah Coughlin Cook Parsons.
85
6
17
5 Mary E. Hanright.
47
6
14
7 Julia A. Donovan .
68
4
4
12 Abbie Meltha Cook.
9
5
2
14 Stillbirth .
0
0
0
17 Ella Francis Kimball.
64
10
12
20
Naomi McMaster
60
5
17
20 Merton R. Johnson.
49
3
28
23 Willard L. Tibbetts
47
0
0
24
Rosorio Zammitti .
3
0
25
25
Lorenzo Gilpatrick .
85
10
1
26
Edwin C. Miller.
62
1
25
27
John M. O'Hea
62
0
0
27 Andrew J. McFadden.
35
10
0
Feb.
3 Thomas E. Callahan.
35
2
10
3 George E. Donald .
76
4
15
6 Elizabeth Pendelton
88
7
15
7 Lucy Ellen Doe Oliver
71
2
17
9 Hannah Hennessey
60
0
0
12 Charles McCaully
34
0
0
12 Agnes M. Walsh .
23
0
11
12 Thomas B. Reed
78
4
16
12 Stillbirth .
0
0
0
14 William R. McKim.
1
9
9
16 Alice Mabel Perkins
35
7
24
17 Jerry A. Cavalier.
1
0
28
17 Richard William Pauley.
0
0
15h.
18 Elizabeth Moss.
56
7
17
20
Laura Isobel Haskins
24
7
24
20 Jeremiah J. Sullivan.
71
0
0
24 Marjorie Phyllis Steeves.
2
5
11
25 Gladys L. Coffin .
2
0
20
27 Mathew Joy.
75
6
12
29 Richard M. Coffin.
3
7
12
29 William Robert Robinson
89
9
5
138
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Date of Death
Yrs.
Age Mos.
Days
Mar.
2 Henry W. Taylor.
.53
0
29
3 Agnes M. Murphy
47
0
0
5 Margaret Muse.
89
0
0
6 Ernest Colantuonio.
0
5
16
15 Asa L. Lane.
80
0
0
19 Annetta Daisy Spafford
32
9
2
19 Otis E. Sheldon
80
1
27
20
William Thomas Muise .
0
8
21
23
Jeannette Philbrook
79
3
1
23 Annie A. Devlin.
67
5
27
24
Martin Romocki
30
5
13
25 Hannah Loughlin.
75
0
0
April
4 Sarah E. Fuller
77
6
6
6 Muriel L. West
11
11
9
9 Ella Lillian Porteus
29
1
25
13 Ferdinand Miezuk.
10
11
1*
15 Pauline Miezuk.
32
2
0
15
Lois J. Sheldon.
67
9
13
16
Sarah E. Burbank.
66
0
0
18
Hannah E. Emerson
86
8
7
18
Concettina Sardella.
0
0
8
20
Louisa Maria Simpson
69
11
7
20
William Henry Harrison Wall.
79
7
15
21 Etta Wing.
52
4
27
22
David Lowe
71
3
2
23
Sarah I. White.
78
3
18
26
May Edith Middlebrook
58
0
8
26
Charles F. Mansfield.
71
7
28
27
Dennis Driscoll
64
0
0
28
Ruth E. Smith.
8
0
3
28
William Albert Prescott
63
7
9
28
Catherine Collins.
69
0
0
29
Stillbirth .
0
0
0
30
Thomas F. Kelly
74
3
27
30
Elizabeth Arabella Moses.
83
1
11
May
1 Rosina Filoramo
63
0
0
7 George Warren Oliver.
82
10
7
8 Annie J. M'Donald
29
5
0
12
Louise Maude Farrell Dalrymple.
39
3
29
12
Annie Maria Evans
68
4
27
14 William P. Brooks.
73
7
10
20
Lilla Wiley Bumpus.
52
4
1
22 Giovanni Evangelista .
3
9
10
23
Charles Edward Kimball
60
9
14
23
Mary Henrietta Pratt
79
5
3
139
RECORD OF DEATHS
Date of Death
Yrs.
Age Mos.
Days
May 24 Jessie F. Smalley .
57
10
29
24 Mary Annie Warren
69
6
22
25 Roland Mills Sunman.
0
0
5-D
26 Cornelius Lennon
0
0
10-M
31 Christina E. Lee.
65
2
16
June
1 Carmine Raffaele.
62
0
0
2
Douglass Russell Millett
0
2
4
2
Helen I. V. Eldredge
76
8
29
4 Benedicta Dulong
1
1
14
4 Jane Knight. .
86
3
3
6
Charles Jordan.
91
1
5
19
6 Sadie Whitten Brownell.
66
1
26
11
Alfred Cardillo.
0
6
27
14
Hannah Osborne Neagles.
82
6
24
16
Eva Bell Thompson
37
0
20
24
Lincoln Brown.
57
1
26
24
Mary Jane Ducette.
42
10
7
27
Maurice Heywood.
65
0
0
28
Eunice Sarepta Porter.
68
11
5
29
Clara Eliza Emerson.
67
1
24
1 Catherine M. Murphy .
75
6
9
5 Caroline Sanborn Goodhue
67
9
22
5 William F. Muse Jr
0
1
18
5 John Callan
67
11
25
6 William Lahey
73
1
5
10
Margaret Hollander
19
6
10
14 Leroy Everett Howlett
68
4
22
15 Edith L. Everett
59
7
3
16 Sarah M. Young. .
78
8
29
19
Louisa Elizabeth Atkins.
83
10
7
26 Arthur L. Kimball.
45
11
4
27
Concetta Cucurullo.
52
7
19
28
Martin Torigian.
16
10
26
Aug.
1
Agnes N. Murphy .
21
2
24
1 Frances Ellen Lord .
84
8
21
2 Giovannia D'Olimpio
30
0
0
4 Stillbirth.
0
0
0
6
Walter Mayo.
62
0
0
7
Stillbirth .
0
0
0
19
Lauretta H. Meader
33
7
18
20 Mary Doucette
0
0
6
22 Mary A. Wall.
77
4
8
25 Elizabeth Blake Wetherbee.
81
4
29
25
Edward Vigue Jr
0
5
14
Sept. 1 Stillbirth.
0
0
0
July
140
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
1
1
Date of Death
Yrs.
Age Mos.
Days
Sept. 4 Zenna Belle Linscott Auld.
52
3
28
6 Addie Ena Sweetser
68
7
6
7 George H. S. Driver
78
7
3
7 Zachraie LeBlance.
84
8
6
8 Giovannina D'Olimpio
0
1
6
9 Julia Publicover.
85
0
0
12
William Biggs.
69
6
23
13
Mary Nichols.
92
4
17
15
George Batchelder.
71
4
4
17
Francis Richard Burrage.
4
8
21
18
Joseph A. Cowan.
62
0
0
23
Herbert Sawyer Clark Jr ..
18
9
9
27
Arthur Livermore Gardner Jr .
0
0
16
27 Stillbirth
0
0
0
29
Joseph M. Hurton.
0
7
25
Oct.
5 Stillbirth
0
0
0
7
Corroda Guiliano.
34
9
1
7
Annie Isabel Parlee.
51
4
16
11
George H. Philbrook.
93
9
2
13
Eliza Signett Lund Carter
88
7
28
21
Clarence D. Harris .
50
1
12
24
Mary Jane Horne Gowen.
74
10
18
26
Francis J. Melonson
0
9
6
30
James M. Harper.
65
9
11
31
Daniel Cadivalington Evans
78
8
24
31 Horace Kerr .
1
7
21
Nov.
1
Helen Louise Berry
57
10
26
4
Stillbirth .
0
0
0
4
Emil Swinnch.
0
4
2
5
Mary J. Heningar
54
0
0
10
Stillbirth
0
0
0
10
George H. Philbrook.
20
0
30
12
Sara Frances Sinnett.
71
7
27
13
Rose A. Meuse.
52
3
26
14
Soloman Collins.
47
7
13
14
Monique White.
57
0
0
18
Marion A. Caswell.
75
5
0
19
Mary F. Blodgett.
52
7
9
19
William Stover Simpson.
43
2
3
24 John Sliney.
59
8
0
26
William Edward Cade
61
9
20
28
Mary Suza .
24
7
12
28
Dorothy Suza.
1
4
28
Dec.
1 Margeret E. Hubbard.
0
0
1
2 Barbara Sweeney.
0
4
8
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RECORD OF DEATHS
Date Death
Yrs.
Age Mos.
Days
Dec. 3 Margaret Bingham Green
29
10
19
5 Joseph Hurton.
0
0
20
6 Katherine M. Doucette.
0
10
10
14 Frederick P. Knight .
66
1
1
14 Ralph Edward Stewart.
0
0
4
14 Sophronia Adeliade Swett.
82
6
15
17 Mary A. Kelloway
49
4
0
20
Harry J. Creagh ..
41
10
5
21
Albert Henry Johnson
49
2
0
21
Stillbirth .
0
0
0
22
Faustina Salvati.
77
0
0
24
May Belle Nute.
59
0
24
25 Louisa Theresa Slocum.
74
8
23
25 Prudent M. Blanchette.
80
11
24
28 Stillborth
0
0
0
DOG LICENSES
Number of licenses issued .
469
Males.
388
Females.
80
Breed.
1
Tax on 388 males at $2.00.
$776.00
Tax on 80 Females at $5.00.
400.00
One breed
25.00
$1,201.00
Deduct Clerk's Fees.
93.80
,
$1,107.20
Cash paid County Treasurer.
$1,107.20
.
HUNTERS' LICENSES
Licenses issued to resident hunters. 287 Fishing licenses issued. 126
FREDERIC S. HARTSHORNE
Town Clerk.
.
142
TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
1
Report of Overseers of the Poor
The Overseers of the Poor herewith submit their report.
At the Home there are seven inmates, six men and one woman, also two women and one man boarders. There has been one death at Home the past year.
The Spring and Summer of 1920 the calls for assistance were light. But as Fall and Winter came on with the general depression in business, the calls are numerous and costly on account of this added expense and the increased call for Mother's Aid will necessitate the calling for a much larger appropriation for 1921.
Respectfully submitted,
HUGH ·CONNELL, Chairman, ALBERT D. CATE, Secretary, GEORGE ZWICKER.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Report of School Committee
SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR 1920-1921
J. Lowe McMahon, Chairman, Prospect St Term expires 1922
Mrs. Ida Farr Miller, Sec., 21 Richardson Ave.
66
1921
Harry B. Allman, Treas., 55 Greenwood Ave.
66 1921
Mrs. Eva Gowing Ripley, 40 Emerson St.
66
66 1922
John B. Sawyer, Summit Ave.
66
66 1923
Leo Rogers, Stedman St ..
66
66 1923
SUB-COMMITTEES
1
Public Property Mr. Allman
Mr: McMahon
Finance and Accounts
Mr. Al.man
Mr. Rogers
Mr. McMahon
Mrs. Miller
Teachers and Salaries Mrs. Ripley
Mr. Sawyer
Courses of Study
Mrs. Ripley
Mrs. Miller Mr. Sawyer
-
Text Books and Supplies Mrs. Ripley Mr. McMahon
Mr. Sawyer
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Willard B. Atwell, 20 Stedman Street.
OFFICE HOURS
Mondays, 7 to 8 p. m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8 to 8.30 a. m. Wednes- days and Fridays, 4 to 5.30 p. m.
Office, Odd Fellows Building.
Telephone, Office, 122. Residence, 363-M.
Clerks, Gertrude McKenna, Telephone, 645-W. Margaret Anderson, Tele- phone 571-J. Hours, 8 to 12 and 1.30 to 5 on school days, and 8 to 12 on Satur- day.
REGULAR MEETING OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Second and fourth Fridays of each month at 8 p. m., at Committee Rooms Odd Fellows Building.
-
Mr. Rogers
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TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
Report of School Committee
Education is the great interest of the American people. The time is at hand when the rating of a town or city may justly be based upon its provisions for education and its willingness to pay for the proper maintenance of its schools.
The teacher must be taken for what he or she is-a public servant perform- ing a task of unsurpassed importance to the nation and so entitled to an adequate compensation.
In times like these, when the very foundations of Government are being under- mined by false ideals due to ignorance, more than ever must it become clear that education is the only effective weapon of defense, the only hope of building for the future.
Public education is a public responsibility and can be provided for in no other way than by public taxation. This is the problem that has confronted your School Committee this year. It has been very difficult to secure efficient teachers for the salaries we have been able to pay and in a number of instances, when looking for new teachers, we have been unable to meet the market owing to our inability to pay salaries to compete with other towns and cities of our size. The Committee has given a great deal of study to the question of salaries and recom- mend that the town appropriate sufficient money to make the maximum salaries of women teachers in the High School excepting women heads of departments, $1,550.00 and to the women teachers in the grades, $1,350.00.
INDUCEMENTS TO PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT
Desiring to recognize professional growth by additional compensation, the Committee has adopted a set of regulations, effective in September 1920, whereby a teacher may participate and if her work is satisfactory, thereby receive additional compensation amounting to $75.00 per annum. To become eligible, a teacher must have had five years' experience, three of which shall have been continuous service in Wakefield.
The teachers are to submit in advance to the Superintendent for his approval outlines of special work or advanced study which they contemplate taking.,
REPAIRS
While the Committee contemplated making many necessary repairs in a number of the School Buildings last year, this work had to be postponed on account of the expense entailed in installing a new heating and ventilating plant in the Warren Building, repairing heaters at the Franklin School, as well as unforeseen expenditures in the High School not covered by the special appro- priation of last year. At least a part of these repairs will have to be done this year. New electric lights have been installed throughout the Warren School, and additions made to the lighting systems at the Franklin and Greenwood Schools.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
The Committee gave special attention to the repairs at the High School as covered by the special appropriation of the town for that work. The School Building has been painted thoroughly inside and out, the floors have been re- placed where necessary, new stair treads installed and an additional heater together with drinking fountains put in. All plaster has been repaired and new metal ceilings have been installed in the two large assembly halls and in a number of the class rooms. The building is now equipped with electric lights throughout. The teachers' room has been enlarged and individual metal lockers have have been furnished for each teacher. In the laboratories, it was necessary to replace a considerable amount of plaster. Both the chemical and physical laboratories have been thoroughly renovated, new cabinets in- stalled and the experimental tables refinished. Necessary repairs to the roof and chimneys have also been attended to. The Paul Revere bell, which has not been in use for many years, has been put into service and rings mornings and at recess. The concrete walks around the school have been repaired.
While inadequate for ideal High School requirements, the Committee feel that the Building has been improved so far as it is possible until such time as we have our new High School Building which we hope, will be at no distant date. Should building conditions warrant and the price of labor and material decline to a point at or around pre-war prices, in all probability, the Building Com- mittee will see their way clear to ask again for bids on the new School.
WOODVILLE SCHOOL
The new School in the Woodville district has been completed since our last report. The old Schoolhouse has been removed and the lot around the Build- ing graded. Seven grades are being taught in this Building with a force of one principal and five teachers. The Building is proving very satisfactory and seems to meet all educational requirements.
MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT
Provision has been made for additional equipment for the Manual Train- ing Department at the Lincoln School, as also, apparatus for the physical and chemical laboratories in the High School.
RECOMMENDATIONS
We would recommend appropriations as follows:
Salaries
$162,300.00
Fuel
13,000.00
Contingent
15,000.00
Books and Supplies.
7,500.00
Evening School .
4,300.00
Practical Arts.
1,000.00
Excess on Contract for coal.
1,300.00
$204,400.00
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TOWN OF WAKEFIELD
The tuitions and receipts are estimated to be $21,500.00.
J. LOWE McMAHON, IDA FARR MILLER, HARRY B. ALLMAN, EVA GOWING RIPLEY,
JOHN B. SAWYER, LEO A. ROGERS.
Report of Superintendent
To the School Committee :-
· Ladies and Gentlemen :- I herewith submit my annual report of the School Department, at the same time making some recommendations which I think will be for the benefit of the pupils.
SUPPLY OF TEACHERS
We were very fortunate indeed in losing so few teachers during the summer vacation. I found it extremely difficult to fill the vacancies we did have. Many people have maintained that with a lull in business there would be a general turn towards teaching. This has not proved to be true. When a firm has to cut down the number of employees it usually retains the best and lets the poorest go. One man who works for a large corporation told me that it let the "dubs" go. Are these the girls that we want to teach our sons and daughters ?
The normal schools in Massachusetts when filled to capacity cannot fur- nish the number of teachers necessary each year to fill the positions where new teachers are needed. What, then, is the result when the normal schools are only about three-fourths full? The colleges are not preparing the necessary number of teachers each year for secondary work. I do not see how there can possibly be a return to normal conditions under four or five years. The "law of supply and demand" seems still to be at work. In general those towns which pay the best salaries will get the best teachers. Towns and cities about us seem to be raising salaries and if we do not I plainly see that we shall find it hard to secure the kind of teachers that Wakefield wants. The best students fresh from normal school get very little less than the maximum we pay our grade teachers. The best college graduates taking positions immediately upon gradu- ation receive' about the maximum we pay our high school teachers. The out- look seems dark to me if we do not keep our salary schedule somewhere near the surrounding towns.
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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT
At the last Town Meeting the Committee asked for enough money to be able to grant each teacher an increase of four hundred dollars in salary. The money was granted, and then a resolution was passed to the effect that the School Committtee should consider a merit system for increasing salaries. The Committee granted an increase of three hundred and fifty dollars after the Town Meeting, retaining the other fifty dollars while they studied the merit plan. After much careful study and research they were of the opinion that a merit system was not for the best interest of the schools. The results of the study and research convinced them that something should be held up before the teachers above the maximum salary. They have, therefore, devised a plan for granting an increase to those teachers who do advanced studying, and thus qualify themselves for better service. They do not claim that the scheme is ideal, but that it is really a step forward in recognizing professional growth in the teachers.
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