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Plymouth Federal Savings & Loan Association
109.71
ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank 120.72
PHOEBE R. CLIFFORD FUND
Deposited with State Treasurer
200.00
Total, Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
$178,158.31
FRANCIS LeBARON POOR FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank $745.57
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $745.57
NATHANIEL MORTON PARK FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank
$2,000.00
MURDOCK POOR AND SCHOOL FUND Plymouth Savings Bank $730.00
CHARLES HOLMES POOR FUND
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank
$552.28
JULIA P. ROBINSON POOR FUND
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank
$300.00
WARREN BURIAL HILL CEMETERY FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank
$1,043.16
MARCIA E. JACKSON GATES PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank
$1,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $1,000.00
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ELLEN STODDARD DONNELLY FUND (Income to be used for needy families) U. S. Savings Bonds - Series G $2,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $205.88
ALICE SPOONER FUND (Income to be used for special comforts for the sick at the Town Infirmary)
U. S. Savings Bonds - Series G $1,500.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $154.39
POSTWAR REHABILITATION FUND
U. S. Savings Bonds - Series G
$110,000.00
Reserved for Harbor Dredging 52,500.00
Balance $57,500.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank
$8,994.75
PLYMOUTH NATIONAL BANK STOCK INVESTMENT FUND
Plymouth National Bank Stock $2,000.00
U. S. Savings Bonds - Series G $3,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $776.30
STABILIZATION FUND
U. S. Savings Bonds - Series G $30,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $1,006.26
Plymouth Savings Bank $5,000.00
South Weymouth Savings Bank $5,000.00
Danvers Savings Bank $5,000.00
Beverly Savings Bank $5,000.00
CONTRIBUTORY RETIREMENT SYSTEM FUNDS
Plymouth Savings Bank $5,247.69
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 4,059.63
Plymouth National Bank Deposit 750.99
35,039.84
U. S. Government Bonds Other Bonds Bank Stocks
73,619.33
10,920.00
$129,637.48
SCHEDULE J BORROWING CAPACITY, JAN. 1, 1949
Valuation for 1946, less abatements on $60,436.00
$21,815,939.00 Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1946, less abatements 503,532.00
Valuation for 1947, less abatements on $141,575.00 22,308,975.00
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1947, less abatements 952,061.00
Valuation for 1948, less abatements on $302,555.00
24,256,290.00
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1948, less abatements
1,240,140.00
Average
5%
$71,076,937.00 23,692,312.00 1,184,616.00
Total Debt Incurred and Outstanding
Less:
New High School Loan $36,000.00 Water Loan 120,000.00
156,000.00
Total Debt Within Debt Limit
Borrowing Capacity, January 1, 1949 Percentage of Total Bonded Debt to Valuation, .66%
$1,184.730.00
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$156,000.00
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REPAIRS TO SEA WALL
The repairs to the sea wall at Water Street, at the north span between the Town and State piers were completed in late 1948 at a cost of $45,000.00.
Through State and County help, the repair project cost the Town of Plymouth but $11,250.00, the County of Plymouth paying $11,250.00 and the State paying $22,500.00.
The sea wall was built in 1939 from W. P. A. Funds and a few years following, a portion of the wall, that at the north end, began to crumple due to the falling away of the sand and earth beneath.
The condition grew gradually worse and so serious was the hazard that the area was posted as dangerous to travel and a fence was erected.
At the annual Town Business Meeting in March 1948, the Town voted the repairs.
A rip-rap sea wall has now been erected at that portion which was in need of repairs and has proven most satisfactory to all.
Photos numbered 1 and 2 on the following pages show the condition of the wall prior to repairs.
Photo 3 shows the new rip-rap which has replaced the sea wall, a portion of the original wall showing at the left extreme.
Photo 4 is the completed job as seen from the road. Green grass, settees and a fence have resulted in a pic- turesque setting.
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IN LOYAL TRIBUTE
TO THE MEN OF PLYMOUTH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN WORLD WAR II IN DEFENSE OF THEIR COUNTRYMEN
HAROLD ANTHONY ERNEST E ARMES LOUIS D BABINI IDORE BENATI MARKS J BRENNER HOWARD CLEVELAND ANTONIO CRESCENZA EMORE P DALLASTA PHILIP DAVIS GUY J DETRANI ANTONE C DIAS MANUEL DIAS ALBERTO C EMERSON GEORGE J FRANCIS ROBERT J FRANCIS GILBERT FREEMAN HENRY FRY JR
THOMAS E FUCAZZI ALBERT F GILLI WILLIAM B GILMAN WILLIAM H GIVEN WILLIAM F GOODWIN JR ARIO R GOULD STEWART H HATCH ROBERT J HODGEN JR DONALD J HUGHES WILLIAM J KERRIGAN VERNON O KIRKEY FRANCIS KRITZMACHER BERNARD J. LAHEY WILLIAM R LEWIS PAUL E LOEBER JAMES F MANSFIELD HAROLD MORELLI ERECTED BY PLYMOUTH MEMORIAL POST NO.1822 VETERILS OF FOREIGN BARS
FRED E MORTON GEORGE A NICKERSON WILLIAM F O'CONNELL BERNARD R PARKER ALBERT E POIRIER JOHN D QUINN CEASAR REGGIANI AMERIGO SCAGLIARINI LEROY A SCHREIBER JOSEPH J SIRRICO ARTHUR A SOLIERI JOHN E SPURR WARREN P STR RONG JR ANTONE F SYLVA JR CHANDLER WEEKS RICHARD WEICHEL HENRY E WOOD
This plaque, located at the Plymouth Memorial Building is a gift to the town from the Memorial Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in memory of those who gave their lives in World War II, and was dedicated at public services held on Sunday, September 26, 1948.
This photograph is pub- lished in loving memory.
"May They Rest In Peace"
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
School Department
of the
Town of Plymouth
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For the Year Ending December 31, 1948
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Term Expires
Dr. E. Harold Donovan, Chairman
1951
Dr. William E. Curtin, Secretary
1949
William H. Armstrong
1950
Signe L. J. Borghesani, Mrs.
1951
David A. Cappannari 1949
Ralph C. Weaver 1950
ADMINISTRATION
Burr F. Jones, Superintendent of Schools
Office, Town Square, Telephone 600 Interviews by appointment
Secretary, Elinor B. Sanderson
Clerk, Barbara Gunther
Office hours: School Days-8 a.m. to 12 m. and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Saturdays-9 a.m. to 12 m. Vacations-9 a.m. to 12 m. and 1 to 4 p.m.
School Physicians: Dr. Frank J. Abate, Jr. Dr. Medora V. Eastwood
Office hour at School Department: 8:45 to 9:15 a.m. School Nurse, Hilda Swett
Interviews at School Department Office or at school buildings by appointment.
School Dentists: Dr. William O. Dyer Dr. James A. McDade
Dental Hygienist, Jane B. Bradford
Dental Clinic Office, Governor Bradford Building, Tele- phone 1255-M.
Custodian of Buildings, Thomas A. Bodell
Telephone 600
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SCHOOLS Senior High School-Telephone 26 Edgar J. Mongan, Principal Junior High School-Telephone 460 Mary M. Dolan, Principal Cornish-Burton School District Donald T. Welch, Principal
Cornish-Burton School-Telephone 933 Oak Street School-Telephone 1661-W Cold Spring School-Telephone 1018-M Hedge School-Telephone 1242-M Richard F. Smith, Principal
Mount Pleasant School-Telephone 1097 Mrs. Helen S. Manchester, Principal
Manomet School-Telephone, Manomet 3356 Mrs. Elouise E. Cashin, Principal
SCHOOL CALENDAR 1948 - 1949
Open: September 8, 1948
Close: December 23, 1948
January 3, 1949
February 18, 1949
February 28, 1949
April 25, 1949
April 14, 1949 June 17, 1949
School Holidays: Columbus Day, Oct. 12; Teachers' Con- vention Day, Oct. 22; Armistice Day, Nov. 11; Thanks- giving Recess, Nov. 25-26; Good Friday, April 15; Me- morial Day, May 30.
NO-SCHOOL SIGNAL 2-2 Repeated on fire alarm
7:05 No school for Junior and Senior High Schools.
8:15 No morning session for Grades I to VI inclusive.
12:15 No afternoon session for Grades I to VI inclusive. Radio station WEEI broadcasts no-school signals shortly after 7:00 a.m.
Radio station WBZ broadcasts no-school signals during the following periods: 7:00-7:25 a.m., 7:30- 7:45 a.m., 8:30-8:45 a.m., 12 m .- 12:15 p.m.
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FINANCIAL REPORT
RECEIPTS
Appropriation, Salaries, March 1948 $315,195.00
PAYMENTS
Supt., Prins., Supvrs., Teachers
$266,453.18
Supv. of Attendance and Clerks
10,317.92
Americanization 625.00
Summer School
475.00
Janitors, Building Supervisor
24,141.21
School Physicians, Nurse and Asst.,
Dental Hygienist 9,385.63
Pensions for Retired School
Physician and Janitor
1,813.41
School Census 199.00
Total
313,410.35
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
$1,784.65
RECEIPTS
Appropriation, General, March 1948
$58,586.00
Trust Fund Income 7.33
Total
$58,593.33
PAYMENTS
General Expenses
Stationery, Postage, Printing
$454.92
Telephone
154.34
Travel expense in state
100.79
Automobile expense
400.00
Office supplies
43.06
$1,153.11
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Textbooks and Supplies
Text and reference books
$4,976.07
Paper, blank books and supplies
7,225.85
Manual training supplies
1,713.02
Domestic science supplies
675.53
Athletic supplies
941.17
Typewriters and supplies
529.07
Visual education supplies
461.98
16,522.69
Transportation
Pupils
$22,971.52
Supervisors, Principals
216.50
23,188.02
Tuition-Out-of-town Schools
Elementary and High
$904.12
Vocational
2,451.09
3,355.21
Maintenance
Repairs and improvements
$5,660.42
Janitors' supplies
1,493.39
Gas and electricity
3,581.73
Telephones
621.42
Ashes, etc. removed
213.75
11,570.71
Furniture and Furnishings
Desks and chairs
$355.42
Window shades
118.55
Filing equipment
44.60
Electric stove
160.04
Radio transmitter
15.00
Misc. radio equipment
48.00
741.61
Medical Inspection
Dental health
$725.53
Medical supplies
151.56
Nurse's car expense
516.08
1,393.17
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Diplomas and Graduation Rent of Memorial Hall
387.19
280.00
Total
$58,591.71
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
$1.62
RECEIPTS
Appropriation, Fuel, March 1948 $11,000.00
Transferred from Reserve Dec. 15 1,100.00
Total $12,100.00
PAYMENTS
Coal, wood, oil
11,914.46
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
$185.54
REIMBURSEMENTS AND RECEIPTS
From the State on account of:
Teachers' Salaries
$18,055.00
Americanization Salaries
220.00
Vocational Tuition
453.25
Vocational Pottery School
20.30
State Wards
2,400.44
Transportation
10,185.27
City of Boston Wards
139.00
Tuition, Out-of-town Pupils:
Carver (Town of)
9,308.84
Plympton (Town of)
6,770.75
Kingston (Residents of)
154.30
Middleboro (Residents of)
112.20
Miscellaneous Receipts
774.02
Total
$48,593.37
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Balance to Excess and
Appropriation Expenditures Deficiency
Salaries
$315,195.00 $313,410.35
$1,784.65
General (Including fuel) 70,693.33*
70,506.17
187.16
Totals
$385,888.33
$383,916.52
$1,971.81
Reimbursements and receipts account of schools
$48,593.37
Net expenditures for schools (from appropriations to School Dept. for salaries and general)
$335,323.15
*Including Trust Fund Income
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TRUST FUNDS, U. S. GRANTS
George-Deen Fund for Teaching Pottery Classes Balance from 1947 $680.00
Payments:
Salary of pottery instructor
594.00
Unexpended balance
$86.00
George-Barden Fund for Teaching
Pottery Classes
Receipts: Cash from State $500.00
Payments:
Salary of pottery instructor
324.00
Unexpended balance $176.00
NEW HEATING SYSTEM AT HEDGE SCHOOL
Balance from 1947
$5,612.19
Payments in 1948 3,708.06
Unexpended balance $1,904.13
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VOCATIONAL SCHOOL PLANS
Balance from 1947
$4,524.00
Payments:
Survey and plan $120.75
Architects' services 3,000.00
Total
3,120.75
Unexpended balance
$1,403.25
CORNISH-BURTON SCHOOL PLANS
Balance from 1947
$5,140.00
No payments in 1948
Unexpended balance
$5,140.00
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LUNCH RECEIPTS
Appropriation, Salaries, March 1948 $5,480.00
PAYMENTS
Salaries
5,476.21
Balance to excess and deficiency
$3.79
RECEIPTS
Appropriation, General, March 1948
$12,650.00
PAYMENTS
Provisions
$8,868.98
Transportation
712.00
Gas
388.13
Equipment:
4 Vacuum Containers $80.82
Used Hobart Mixer 250.00
Misc. equipment 75.99
406.81
Total
10,375.92
Balance to excess and deficiency $2,274.08
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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LUNCH ACCOUNT
SCHOOL LUNCH RECEIPTS-To Town Treasurer
Sale of Lunches
$11,450.69
From Federal Grants
4,168.33
Total
$15,619.02
SCHOOL LUNCH PAYMENTS
Salaries
$ 5,476.21
General
10,375.92
Total
$15,852.13
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of the Town of Plymouth:
Our annual reports to you for the past several years have emphasized two conditions growing out of World War II that are bringing about a most critical situation in our public schools. The first of these conditions is the shortage of qualified teachers. This was manifested in certain areas of the country while the war was still in progress and has now overspread the whole country. The second condition is the impending rise in our school population due to the marked increase in the birth rate during and since the war years. This condition will not only greatly accentuate the teacher shortage but will bring about in the next few years an extraordinary need for new elementary school buildings.
CRISIS IN EDUCATION
The shortage of school teachers - particularly in the elementary grades - has already become critical. Stu- dents of the teacher supply problem in Massachusetts predict that the school enrollment in grades 1-8 will show an increase of more than 120,000 pupils or 31% by the school year 1954-55. This will require an increase of 5,000 teachers in these grades by September 1954 judged on the present basis of 24.6 pupils per teacher. For the past four years, our Massachusetts teachers' colleges have graduated approximately 400 students on the aver- age. This number would have to be doubled during the next six-year period to supply the number of new teachers needed - not to mention the replacements re- quired from year to year because of retirements and res- ignations for other reasons. Though present enrollments at our teachers' colleges indicate a substantial increase
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in the number of graduates over the next several years, it is highly improbable that this increase can meet our teacher requirements.
TEACHERS' SALARIES
Clearly there will be the keenest kind of competition among our towns and cities in Massachusetts for quali- fied teachers during the years ahead. Indeed, it is al- ready manifesting itself in the demand for teachers on the lower grade levels. The salaries paid our teachers in Plymouth ought to be such as to enable them to meet living costs as well as to enable us to hold those teachers we have and to secure qualified replacements for those who retire or resign for other reasons.
The new salary schedule adopted in 1947 was designed to accomplish those results. We could not hope, how- ever, to make the transfer in one year of all teachers from the former schedule to their proper places on the new schedule. This would have been financially imprac- ticable. The plan adopted therefore requires several years to complete the transfer from the old schedule to the new. The increases granted in 1947 and 1948, when taken together, ranged from a minimum of $300 to a maximum of $500. In the face of these increases, we still find that the median salaries paid teachers in towns of our class in October 1948, were higher than Plymouth salaries in nearly all groups.
The further increases in the cost of living during the past two or three years have increased the need for addi- tional compensation. Since June 1946, the cost of living index has risen much more rapidly than the salaries of certain groups of our teachers - particularly the men teachers whose salaries are adjusted to the new schedule and therefore normally receive a step rate increase of $100 annually to the maximum.
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In the light of these conditions, our Committee is under the necessity of asking an increased appropriation to enable us to go forward with the schedule adopted in 1947.
To all those who are familiar with the teacher situa- tion in Massachusetts and can foresee the difficulties we shall face in the years just ahead, the necessity for pro- ceeding with our schedule is beyond question.
· SCHOOL BUILDINGS
All indications are that the shortage in schoolhousing facilities following World War II will exceed the shortage after World War I. In the decade 1920 to 1930, Massachu- setts invested about $100,000,000 in new school buildings. Estimates of the markedly increased enrollments that will appear in the elementary schools in the next few years were set forth in the school reports of 1947 and 1948. These increases are already beginning to be felt in Plymouth and the situation will soon become acute unless early action is taken to provide additional elemen- tary school buildings.
Our local problem is increased by the fact that three buildings now in use, namely the Cornish-Burton and the Cold Spring call for replacement by modern struc- tures. We feel sure that there is general agreement on this point. The two Cornish-Burton buildings and the Cold Spring building together house thirteen classrooms.
The new St. Mary's Parochial School, which will open in September, should relieve somewhat the over-size classes in our elementary schools. Making due allowance for this factor, it seems probable that we shall need one new building of not less than eight rooms by September 1950 if we should provide new accommodations for the pupils now housed in the present two-room Cold Spring
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school plus the increased enrollment we expect by that time. By 1953, the indications are that we shall need eight more classrooms. These predictions are based on the assumption that families having school children who move out of our community will be matched by those having school children moving in. It is impossible to determine in advance how these respective groups will balance.
In considering the replacement of the Cornish-Burton School, the matter of location has given the Committee much concern. The present site is high, attractive, and central to the school population it now serves. The area of the land now owned together with adjacent areas available seems quite limited for a large elementary school of twelve to fifteen classrooms. Conferences with the Town Survey and Co-ordinating Committee have revealed that the location of a new Cornish-Burton School on the present site would not permit the carrying out of plans to be presented by that Committee and looking toward the further beautification of Burial Hill and the construction of a highway around it.
The School Committee with the assistance of the archi- tects J. Williams Beal, Sons and Prof. Herbert Blair, for- merly of Boston University, have studied the general area of the Cornish-Burton district with reference to possible school sites and have carefully examined four such possibilities. In two cases, the cost of necessary grading seemed very high, and in two others the probable cost of real-estate takings necessary for clearing a suit- able area likewise seemed very high. Under these cir- cumstances, our Committee finds it necessary to take further time for a study of the problem presented in the Cornish-Burton District. In the meantime, since the need for additional elementary accommodations will soon be in evidence, it seems necessary to give immediate con-
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sideration to the plan of meeting these needs through the construction of new housing in the Cold Spring and Mt. Pleasant areas.
Our Committee had earlier planned to request the Town for an appropriation at the forthcoming annual meeting to provide one new elementary building and to announce plans for other units to be constructed later. The difficulty of locating a site for the proposed new Cornish-Burton School that might meet with general satisfaction, the prospect of there being some school- building aid available from the Federal Government in the near future, and the possibility of a further down- ward trend in building costs as recently indicated, are factors in the Committee's decision to defer bringing the matter before the Town until a later meeting when it is hoped many of these uncertain factors may be partially or wholly resolved.
We would call your attention to the fact that there is definite assurance of state aid toward new schoolhouse construction by legislation enacted in 1948. This provision together with new state aid for other phases of our edu- cational program will be described in the following re- port of the Superintendent of Schools, to which we ask your attention.
Respectfully submitted,
E. HAROLD DONOVAN, Chairman WILLIAM E. CURTIN, Secretary WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG SIGNE L. J. BORGHESANI DAVID A. CAPPANNARI RALPH C. WEAVER
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
It is a privilege, indeed, to submit herewith my eighth annual report, which will briefly allude to indications of progress in certain phases of our program, as well as refer to some of the problems that call for solution if we are to sustain present standards and make further progress in adapting the school program to the needs of the boys and girls whom we serve.
SCHOOL SERVICES EXTENDED
The appropriation for 1948 provided for strengthening our program in certain respects. In the Junior High School, where we faced an increased enrollment, two teachers and the part-time of a third were added to the staff, thus enabling us to meet the situation effectively. One of the additional teachers, William Tedeschi, was put in charge of the music, thus releasing the supervisor of vocal music from class teaching in the Junior High and giving her more time for the elementary schools as well as time for teaching a course in music in the Senior High. Prior to this change, the Senior High could offer no class instruction in music, the work being limited to girls' glee clubs, octets, and to the band and orchestra. The new course in music literature fills a long-felt need.
The second new teacher added to the Junior High staff, Antone Spath, together with David Barlow, a re- placement, were assigned the intramural athletic pro- gram as extra-classroom duty and enable us to provide the benefits of organized athletics for a large number of boys who could not otherwise have this privilege.
In another respect our services to the children have been extended, namely, through the employment of an
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art supervisor for the elementary schools. This not only provides more services for the younger pupils in this enriching subject of the curriculum, but also allows the full-time of Miss Bates to be added to the Junior High School staff.
PERSONNEL CHANGES
Resignations
The past year has seen more than the usual number of changes in our staff. Franklyn White, who had been principal of the Cornish-Burton School since 1941 and also of the Hedge School since 1945, resigned to accept the principalship of the new Julian Curtiss School in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Ten teachers submitted resignations. These included the following: Bertha E. McNaught, who resigned to be married after teaching a total of thirty-nine years in Plymouth schools including Manomet, Spooner Street, Hedge, Cornish-Burton, and the Junior High School; Evelyn Peck, who was on a year's leave of absence for advance study during 1947-48 and who had taught for twenty years in Plymouth; Mrs. Dolores G. Cappannari, teacher of grade three at Hedge, and for a number of years of grade two at Mount Pleasant, who resigned because of family duties; Virginia Pekarski, teacher of social studies in the Junior High School for the past six years, who resigned to teach in her home city of Brock- ton; Frances Donahoe, teacher of the practical arts class at Hedge School for the past six years, who resigned to take a similar position at Woburn; Madeline Johnson, teacher of grade five at Hedge School for the past four years, who resigned to teach in New Bedford; Mrs. Selma Arruda, teacher of grades three and four at Manomet for two years, who resigned because of home duties; Maxine Swett, teacher of grade three at Hedge for 1947-
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48 and previously teacher at Mount Pleasant, who re- signed to be married; Ann McNamara, teacher of grades one and two at Manomet, who resigned to take a position in her home city of Haverhill; and Mrs. Jeanette Shaw, teacher of grade four at Hedge, who resigned in Feb- ruary because of family duties.
Others whose temporary appointments terminated during 1948 included: Jeanne Fabian, substitute physical director for girls; Mrs. Jeanette Holmes, substitute in the elementary practical arts room at Hedge; and Mrs. Frances Picard, on temporary appointment as supervisor of vocal music.
Phyllis M. Johnson, teacher of social studies in the Junior High School, was granted a leave of absence for advanced study at Northwestern University. Mrs. Pris- cilla Post, assistant to the nurse, was granted a leave of absence because of home duties. Mrs. Barbara Bisson- nette, clerk at the Cornish-Burton, resigned.
Appointments
To fill the vacancy in the principalship of the Cornish- Burton School, Donald T. Welch, Principal of the McEl- wain School of Bridgewater, was selected. Mr. Welch is a graduate of the Bridgewater State Teachers College and holds a master's degree from Boston University. Prior to coming to Plymouth, he had taught for several years in Middleboro, becoming principal of the School Street School there. He then became assistant principal in the Junior High School at Bridgewater and later principal of the McElwain Elementary School.
For the vacancy in the principalship of the Hedge School, Richard F. Smith, principal of the Rogers School, Fairhaven, was selected. Mr. Smith is a graduate of Cal- vin Coolidge College and has taken graduate work in
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