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208.02
Wesley A. Kinzie
134.42
Helen M. Holmes
150.10
Joseph & Elizabeth C. Holmes
300.08
Frank H. Lanman
101.93
Rogers-Hall
335.18
Sylvanus W. Rogers
133.85
Frederick H. Wilson
100.21
M. F. & J. B. McHenry
100.64
Alice D. Fuller
154.55
Nathaniel G. Lanman
102.35
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 8
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Isabella T. Whitman
205.60
Thomas Shaw
152.89
Daniel W. Andrews
157.06
Lucy M. Sherman
151.08
Dexter H. Craig
203.04
Charles A. Bumpus
201.01
Minnie C. Caldwell
101.53
Nathaniel B. & Charles Ellis
207.96
Harriet Bisbee Beytes
152.93
Isaac T. Hall
141.76
Henry W. Barnes
208.97
William S. Kyle
221.69
Albert N. Fletcher
100.36
Charles A. Wheeler
101.17
Leidloff and Kunz
100.43
Flora L. Doten
305.67
Charles G. Welch
101.99
Jessie F. B. Warren
209.71
Charlotte E. Lovering
160.57
Samuel W. Holmes
125.31
Goodwin & Nelson
215.68
Henry F. Swift
134.35
John A. White
202.88
Dora J. Ford
207.08
Jessie M. Pepper
126.10
Alden S. Bartlett
150.09
William A. Pratt
218.41
Jacob Ries
152.83
Lottie F. Dunton & Alice L. Craig
210.48
Archie P. Eadie
206.74
Estate of Frederick I. Rich
211.01
Charles H. Morey
206.96
Ephraim D. Bartlett
151.60
Arthur & Finette S. Robbins
104.22
John A. & Francis Harris
212.32
William A. Morton
101.00
Julia E. Bramhall
153.98
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 9
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William Wallace Brewster
103.01
William C. Axford
152.22
Arrah B. Eddy
205.28
Palmer E. Presbrey
257.79
Hannah E. Phillips
153.53
Henry F. Holmes
211.41
Edmund Robbins
101.57
Jacob Atwood
104.28
Roswell S. Douglass
374.38
George F. & Jessie B. Haigh
223.72
Anna J. Butler
100.96
Bartlett & Kingman
306.37
Stillman R. Sampson
207.70
William E. Rogers
209.24
Chester E. Rogers
211.25
William W. Fraser
224.86
Fowler-Rice
150.71
Ezra F. Benson
209.84
Elizabeth Bradford
100.47
Alice H. Harlow
360.09
Jennie R. Simmons
195.57
Ethel H. Churchill
208.65
Alfred T. Swift
219.42
Arthur H. Luce
310.73
Abby Manter
204.67
William G. & Thomas Russell
1,540.50
Louise McMurray & John Wood
100.13
G. Vernon Bennett
102.96
Isabella G. Harris
152.21
Margaret B. Cole
158.06
Helen L. Willard
158.58
Franklin Sherman
209.67
Dora Walton Russell
75.22
William H. Morse
157.75
Anna Spooner
208.56
Charles A. Carlson
180.82
Russell lot
263.02
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 10
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Beulah D. Harris
100.76
Lewis Weston
153.20
Elizabeth J. Hildreth
204.38
James H. D. Sanderson
204.91
Will C. Snell
257.13
Lewis & Annie A. Morton
107.90
John F. Lovell
150.23
Abbie P. Shaw
100.20
Arthur L. Morse
212.45
George R. Pierce
152.92
Howard M. Douglas
154.51
Rev. Ivory Hovey
100.09
Frances E. Hovey
100.09
Francis Burgess
203.69
Elide F. & Gladys L. Antoniotti
103.81
John Russell
324.98
Adaline F. Howard
101.43
Edgar W. Washburn
100.42
Helen W. & Francis C. Holmes
3,694.74
Joseph H. Schubert
261.41
Charles Moning
1,000.81
Frank Bull
150.09
Nelson M. Warner
1,052.21
Emma F. Thurston
151.27
Edwin H. & Junie W. Peterson
102.44
Charles D. Craig
207.90
James Collins
154.47
Edward J. & Agnes W. Carr
203.97
Frederick L. Courtney
100.02
Ida A. Palmberg
364.81
Walter D. Hall
205.75
Walter F. Gould
206.63
Phebe J. Raymond
151.67
Robert Burns
313.29
Mabel D. Brown
205.33
Ellen J. Donnelly
208.97
Annice M. Stegmaier
209.30
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 11
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Thomas Karle 113.10
Louise R. Warner
208.86
James E. Bartlett
150.25
Ruth A. Manter & Marion L. Currier
233.31
Nellie F. Clark
151.84
Mary Bragdon
154.84
Evelina P. Gould
215.69
Henry B. Howland
100.77
Alice Spooner
520.38
Arthur E. & Elizabeth Austin
522.88
Peter Wood
305.05
Walter B. Cobb
100.52
Bessie Duthie
153.03
Judith C. Skinner
212.39
Henry A. Jordan
150.23
Annie G. Anderson
75.28
Reuben H. Leach
265.28
Robert C. Swift
274.26
Willard C. Butler
152.49
Louis Profetty
100.63
George M. Swan
531.27
Manuel Fratus
202.59
Truman C. Holmes
437.97
Edgar F. Bliss
114.91
Nelson Robbins
156.48
Charles J. Stegmaier
201.86
Charles H. Sherman
257.10
Skillman & Tuttle
209.73
Carrie Lamond Brown
150.33
Ellen H. Kelley
205.78
Agnes Ray
156.61
Ethel Drew Borden
303.95
Gertrude E. Willard
210.37
Ella C. Tribble
203.73
Lizzie French Morton
255.47
Bertha M. Derby
205.02
Joseph J. Stone
309.54
Ebenezer Davie
200.41
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 12
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Anthony M. & Emeline Monish
155.53
Frederick W. Peck
209.99
Ira C. Ward
204.80
Walter H. Brown
307.93
Joseph A. Maybury
219.03
Bartlett-Collingwood
300.10
John L. Morton
203.69
Jennetta Urquhart
207.41
Mabelle J. Cowan
209.20
Otis N. Robbins
150.94
Virginia D. Kelling
201.10
Norman G. Cate & heirs
211.78
Guy C. Courtney
203.75
May Stoddard Yeomans
204.54
Ella J. Caswell
105.52
Matthias Grozinger
202.45
Charles E. Ainley
300.56
Cora L. Stevens
208.73
John L. & Mollie A. Karle
101.06
Herbert W. Holmes
112.05
Clark W. Holmes
150.06
Grace E. Jordan
150.17
Agnes R. Wood
206.29
Nicholas Gaspard, Sr.
206.15
Ida M. Douglas
200.35
Elizabeth Shea
203.03
Etta F. White
100.05
Warren S. Gale
201.61
Carrold D. Howland
328.11
Carrie A. Ripley
334.67
Percy H. Marsh
208.89
Mary Allen
110.95
William E. Wareham & Albert E. Caswell
150.46
Frederic L. Holmes heirs
200.43
Edith M. Adams
100.27
Ruth M. Adams
100.27
Lee Roane
204.05
James Bain
100.53
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 13
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John S. Gascoyne
154.24
Charles E. Stevens & George F. Wood
202.48
Etta Billingsley
102.03
Isabelle F. Nickerson
164.82
Mary Lehman
103.74
Anthony LoVerde
200.59
Charles E. Ames
218.72
Mary A. Dries
202.89
James W. Blackmer
203.18
Emma B. Church
150.60
Mrs. Harold E. Shurtleff
152.88
Edith M. Weston
108.78
Alfonsina Brini
153.63
Benjamin W. Leland
207.31
Edmund T. Morton
203.44
Perry-McGill
203.57
Cornelius Bartlett
203.39
Charles A. Dixon
150.04
Virginia Wright
201.41
James W. Tinkham
151.75
Ethel Dorr Mellor
505.75
Martha F. Paulding
152.54
Edwin F. Erland
105.52
Jabez B. Cole
302.09
Josiah Churchill
102.09
Elizabeth A. Dunlap
100.68
Celia G. Luther
215.49
Margaret Rossler
200.82
Holmes & Sears
204.45
Mary Elizabeth Holbrook
262.73
Ellen H. Getman
100.03
Addie R. & Ethel L. Haskins
203.34
Howland Davis
703.32
Bertha C. Paulding
252.15
Gertrude A. O'Brien
211.25
Rosalie Sauer
205.38
LeBaron R. Barker
2,577.12
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 14
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James E. Clark
159.99
Edgar W. Howland
100.74
Lewis H. Gould
100.74
Josiah A. Robbins
205.68
Frank W. Roberts
266.68
Gertrude L. Calloway
203.55
Benjamin D. Loring
203.89
Clark Finney
318.45
Hedda S. Anderson
257.92
Grace H. Manter
301.52
George L & Susan B. Paty
204.50
Stevens-Morton
103.93
George H. Hodges
406.99
Morey-Peterson
200.76
Guy H. Nason
105.60
Alice L. Wright
203.57
Howard W. Edwards, Jr.
150.24
Gustav W. Benson
200.04
Katherine J. Barnes
151.61
Ezra Pierce
209.16
Henry O. Whiting
252.47
John Durnion
151.21
Bradford & Burrowes
100.49
Alfred P. Richards
300.06
Lottie E. Drew
152.29
Mary J. Purrington
101.07
Harry L. Johnson
1,501.73
F. Roscoe Fletcher
151.66
Lyman A. Holmes
208.12
Albert G. Goodwin
405.45
Chase & Veasey
201.85
George E. Leach
150.38
George Atwell
200.32
Hedley C. Nickerson
301.07
Gertrude W. Babbitt
201.76
Anne Coombs
200.95
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 15
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Mary Alice Burns (William Burns lot)
201.41
Mary Alice Burns (Robert Brown lot)
201.41
John J. Briggs
202.23
Gustave, Johnson
300.05
Burton W. Smith
150.80
George H. Cochran
201.93
Leonard Bartlett
200.02
James Philip Bird
251.74
Kate & Bess Turner
200.52
Eugene B. Holmes
125.09
James B. Collingwood
241.58
Richard W. Arthur
202.33
Albert C. Chandler
300.00
Mary R. Hodge
500.00
Elmer L. Briggs
300.00
Theodore P. Adams
500.17
Alfred C. Finney
100.83
New funds established in 1950:
George Gooding
501.67
Charles C. Chandler
400.67
Mary Drew Gooding
250.41
Edith P. Hubbard
45.00
Herman & Alyson Dewhurst
200.00
Lemuel C. Howland
300.00
Total Plymouth Savings Bank 122,241.56
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 16
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Deposited in Plymouth Federal Savings and Loan Association:
Mary B. Dean
106.63
New funds established in 1950:
Mary Davis
200.00
Albert E. Collier
200.00
Emma Louisa Bradford
500.00
Frances R. Davis
400.00
Frederick A. Cook
350.00
John D. Brewer
300.00
Mary L. Eaton
200.00
Ralph Mellen
150.00
Total Plymouth Federal Savings and Loan Association 2,406.63
CHARLES E. HINCKLEY LOT IN CHILTONVILLE CEMETERY
Brockton Savings Bank .
1,000.00
ABNER & CHARLES H. LEONARD FUND
People's Savings Bank, Worcester, Mass. 148.43
ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank 125.60
PHOEBE R. CLIFFORD FUND
Deposited with State Treasurer
200.00
Total, Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds
$190,681.13
FRANCIS LeBARON POOR FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank
$775.83
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank
$776.79
NATHANIEL MORTON PARK FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank
$2,000.00
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MURDOCK POOR AND SCHOOL FUND Plymouth Savings Bank $730.00
CHARLES HOLMES POOR FUND +
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $575.40
JULIA P. ROBINSON POOR FUND
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $300.00
WARREN BURIAL HILL CEMETERY FUND Plymouth Savings Bank $1,074.76
MARCIA E. JACKSON GATES PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank
$1,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $1,000.00
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 $315.24
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 $236.41
POST-WAR REHABILITATION FUND
U. S. Savings Bonds - Series G $90,000.00
Reserved for Harbor Dredging $52,500.00
Reserved for New Elementary School 25,000.00
77,500.00
Balance
$12,500.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank
15,339.21
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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
1,211.04
STABILIZATION FUND
U. S. Savings Bonds - Series G $30,000.00
Reserved for New Elementary School 30,000.00
No balance
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank
$3,317.35
Plymouth Savings Bank
5,203.01
South Weymouth Savings Bank
5,276.60
Danvers Savings Bank
5,298.49
Beverly Savings Bank
5,335.70
U. S. Treasury Bonds, 21/2's of 1967/72
25,000.00
CONTRIBUTORY RETIREMENT SYSTEM FUNDS
Bonds
$127,910.34
Bank Stocks
11,250.00
Federal Savings and Loan Ass'n
5,020.83
Savings Banks
16,794.60
Plymouth National Bank
873.81
$161,849.58
SCHEDULE J
BORROWING CAPACITY, JAN. 1, 1951
Valuation for 1948, less abatements on $430,317
$24,128,528
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1948, less abatements
1,246,860
Valuation for 1949, less abatements on $540,903
25,409,232
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1949, less abatements
1,562,163
Valuation for 1950, less abatements on $418,257
26,565,548
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1950, less abatements
1,803,824
$80,716,155
26,905,385
Total Debt Incurred and Outstanding
$556,000
Less:
New High School Loan
$12,000
Water Loans
225,000
237,000
Total Debt Within Debt Limit
319,000
Borrowing Capacity, January 1, 1951
$1,026,269
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Average 5%
1,345,269
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
School Department
OF THE
Town of Plymouth
Massachusetts
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FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31 1950
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Term Expires
Dr. E. Harold Donovan, Chairman
1951
Signe L. J. Borghesani, Mrs., Secretary
1951
William H. Armstrong
1953
Ralph C. Weaver
1953
David A. Cappannari 1952
Dr. William E. Curtin
1952
ADMINISTRATION
Burr F. Jones, Superintendent of Schools
Office, Town Square, Telephone 600
Interviews by appointment
Secretary, Elinor B. Sanderson
Clerk, Theresa A. Gallerani
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 Telephone 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 1140 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 1950 - 1951
Open: September 6, 1950
Close: December 21, 1950
January 2, 1951
February 16, 1951
February 26, 1951
April 18, 1951
April 30, 1951
June 22, 1951
School Holidays: Columbus Day, Oct. 12-13; Teachers' Convention Day, Oct. 25; Thanksgiving Recess, Nov. 23- 24; Good Friday, March 23; Memorial 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 1950 -
$365,145.00
PAYMENTS
Supt., Prins., Supvrs., Teachers
$314,361.86
Supvr. of Attendance, Noon Supvrs., Clerks
11,343.00
Americanization
668.00
Summer School
475.00
Janitors, Building Supervisor
24,633.25
School Physicians, Nurse and Asst.,
Dental Hygienist 9,406.38
Pensions for Retired School
Physician and Janitor
2,303.25
School Census
315.00
Total .
363,505.74
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
$1,639.26
RECEIPTS
Appropriation, General, March 1950
$42,205.00
Trust Fund Income 7.33
Total
$42,212.33
PAYMENTS
General Expenses
Stationery, postage, printing
$468.06
Telephone
256.20
Travel expense in State
124.56
Automobile expense in State
400.00
Office supplies
157.17
.
$1,405.99
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Expenses of Instruction
Text and reference books
$6,010.59
Paper, pencils, and supplies 7,895.70
Manual training supplies
1,633.40
Domestic science supplies
902.53
Athletic supplies
983.77
Typewriters and supplies
635.32
Visual education supplies
734.70
18,796.01
Tuition
Out-of-town schools
$916.02
Vocational education
2,751.30
3,667.32
Maintenance
Repairs and improvements
$7,656.57
Janitors' supplies
1,914.93
Gas and electricity
4,010.73
Telephones
876.85
Ashes, etc. removed
192.75
14,651.83
Furniture and Furnishings
Desks and chairs
$426.00
Window shades
363.35
Filing equipment
Safe for Hedge School
35.00
Misc. radio equipment
14.68
Domestic science equipment
61.17
2 Gas stoves for Jr. High
170.00
Motion Picture Projector, Sr. High
362.25
Medical Inspection
Dental health
$785.72
Medical supplies
117.31
Nurse's car expense
491.47
1,432.45
1,394.50
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Diplomas and Graduation Rent of Memorial Hall
528.68
280.00
Total
$42,156.78
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
$55.55
RECEIPTS
Appropriation, Fuel, March 1950
$10,500.00
PAYMENTS
Coal, wood, oil
10,455.66
Balance to Excess and Deficiency
$44.34
RECEIPTS
Appropriation, Transportation, March 1950
$26,560.00
From Reserve Fund
200.00
$26,760.00
PAYMENTS
Transportation of pupils
$26,644.76
Transportation of supvrs., prins. 59.49
Total
$26,704.25
Balance to Excess and Deficiency $55.75
RECEIPTS
Appropriation, Out-of-state travel, March 1950 $50.00
PAYMENTS
None
Balance to Excess and Deficiency $50.00
REIMBURSEMENTS AND RECEIPTS From the State on account of:
State Aid for Public Schools $35,857.39
Americanization Salaries 360.00
Vocational Tuition 1,240.44
Vocational Pottery School
23.76
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State Wards
2,451.88
Transportation
13,588.10
Tuition, Out-of-town Pupils:
Carver (Town of)
13,768.33
Plympton (Town of)
7,474.75
Summer School
6.00
Balance of Military Retirement Fund
366.52
Miscellaneous Receipts
923.22
Total
$76,060.39
FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Balance to Excess and
Appropriation Expenditures Deficiency
Salaries
$365,145.00
$363,505.74 $1,639.26
General Incl. fuel
and transportation
79,522.33*
79,316.69
205.64
Totals
$444,667.33
$442,822.43
$1,844.90
Reimbursements and receipts account of schools
76,060.39
$366,762.04
Net expenditures for schools (from appropriations to School Dept. for salaries and general) *Including Trust Fund Income
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TRUST FUNDS U. S. GRANTS
George-Deen Fund for Teaching Pottery Classes
Balance from 1949
$86.00
Payments:
Salary of pottery instructor
86.00
Unexpended Balance
None
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George-Barden Fund for Teaching Pottery Classes Balance from 1949
$176.00
Cash from State
332.00
Total
$508.00
Payments:
Salary of pottery instructor
$508.00
Unexpended Balance None
IMPROVEMENTS TO HEDGE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND
Appropriation, 1950
$6,500.00
Payments:
Loaming and seeding
$3,085.00
Drainage and hard surfacing
3,415.00
Total
$6,500.00
REPAIRS TO CORNISH-BURTON SCHOOL
Appropriation, 1950
$20,000.00
Payments:
Plumbing
$4,184.80
Painting
4,015.00
Carpentry Work
8,798.50
Finishing Floors
335.94
Insulating Roofs
720.00
Wiring
137.25
Window Shades
321.37
General Labor
933.80
Miscellaneous
240.41
Total $19,687.07
Unexpended Balance
$312.93
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
During 1950 much attention has been paid by the Com- mittee to the two major problems in school administra- tion, namely, that of maintaining a competent teaching staff and that of providing adequate housing for the schools.
TEACHERS' SALARIES
One prerequisite to maintaining a competent staff is a salary schedule that will enable Plymouth to compete successfully with other communities for qualified teach- ing service. We are glad to report that the improvement in the Plymouth salary schedule made by the appropria- tion of 1950 brought the average salary of teachers in Plymouth up to the average paid in Massachusetts towns of our class as of October last.
The Korean war and the over-all defense program on which the nation has recently embarked are again de- preciating the purchasing power of the dollar. We are observing again a resulting wide-spread movement to improve teachers' salary schedules to meet the increased living costs in the hope that teachers in service and pro- spective teachers will not again in large numbers turn to other employments more lucrative than teaching though less important to our future well-being.
Our Committee is therefore asking again this year for an increased appropriation that will enable us to make an average increase of about 10% in the pay of our teaching staff as of January 1. From all that we can learn of what other Massachusetts School Committees are re- questing, this increase will be necessary if we are to retain our competitive position-not with the larger city school systems but with towns in our general classifica- tion. We feel also that it is very important to the morale
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of teachers that they find themselves able to meet the increasing living costs.
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
The voting of a new elementary building to accom- modate pupils of grades 1-6 in the Cold Spring area at the annual Town Meeting of 1950 will give much needed relief to the overcrowded conditions in the Cornish- Burton, Hedge, and Cold Spring schools.
This new building is now about half completed and is being constructed on a seven-acre lot lying between Court Street and Standish Avenue and fronting on Alden Street. The situation is almost equidistant from the Cornish and Hedge schools. The building is of masonry brick construction having a front section of two floors, a right wing of two floors, and a left wing of one story. On the ground floor at the front are located a combina- tion playroom and assembly hall and a kitchen with a lunch or general-purpose room adjoining. On the upper floor at the front are the administrative offices, the health room, and the first-grade room. In the right wing are three classrooms for pupils in grades 5, 6, and the prac- tical arts class. In the left wing are classrooms for grades 1 to 4. The building will accommodate a normal enroll- ment of about 225 pupils and is so designed as to be read- ily enlarged when necessary. It is anticipated that this new school will be ready prior to the fall opening. The architects are the J. William Beal, Sons Company of Boston and the contractor is the L. C. Blake Construction Company of Milton.
PROGRAM OF REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS OF ELEMENTARY BUILDINGS
Cornish-Burton School
The growth that will soon take place in the number of elementary school pupils, if the young families with pre- school children now living in Plymouth remain here,
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promises to be such as to require 20 to 24 more classrooms than we now have by the time the peak enrollment has passed in 1959 or 1960. The new Cold Spring School will furnish eight of these, thus leaving 12 to 16 still to be supplied.
The immediate replacement of the Cornish - Burton with a new building-a plan earlier considered-would have added 14 more rooms. However, in view of all the other building needs of the Town, including the costly change in the sewage disposal system, it seemed wise to your Committee to continue the use of the Cornish- Burton buildings at least until the peak of the increased enrollment is passed. In continuing the use of these buildings, repairs and improvements were imperative to make them safe, sanitary, and attractive. Such a program was carried out during the past summer. New floors were laid in classrooms and corridors; interiors were repainted in attractive colors; new sanitaries were installed in the Burton; additional safety exits were provided; and the attic floors of both buildings were insulated. The ex- terior of the Burton was painted to match the Cornish. These repairs and improvements were made within the appropriation of $20,000. For detailed information on expenditures incurred in this project, see our preceding financial report.
Mt. Pleasant and Oak Street Schools
We strongly recommend that the program of repairs and improvements in our present buildings be continued. We are asking the Town to make special appropriations this year for a similar program in the Mt. Pleasant and Oak Street buildings. A new oil-burning furnace is a necessity at Oak Street; and new floors in classrooms and corridors as well as new fixtures in the boys' toilet are much needed. At Mt. Pleasant floors should be refinished, the interior redecorated, and new fixtures installed in the boys' toilet. The cost of this program of repairs in the two buildings will approximate $11,000.
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NEW MANOMET SCHOOL NEEDED
For years past, it has been the established policy to house in the Manomet School building all elementary pupils living along the shore from Rocky Hill Road on the north to the Bourne line on the south. For the past several years the school population in this large area has grown substantially making it necessary to use a small room on the second floor of the school as an overflow room for the primary grades. Last fall the numbers of pupils had so increased as to make it necessary to trans- port 9 pupils in grades three and four to the Hedge School.
The Committee appointed at the last annual meeting to make a study of Manomet School building needs have made a comprehensive investigation and recommend the immediate construction of a one-story building contain- ing six classrooms and general-purpose room to be located on a spacious, level site of nearly eight acres on the easterly side of Strand Avenue on land formerly known as the Porter Harlow lot. The cost of land and building will approximate $250,000. The School Committee unan- imously agrees with the recommendations of said com- mittee and hopes that the Town will see fit to endorse this project as the second major step in the school build- ing program. For more detailed information on this project, see the report of the Superintendent of Schools, which follows.
Respectfully submitted,
E. HAROLD DONOVAN, Chairman SIGNE L. J. BORGHESANI, Secretary WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG DAVID A. CAPPANNARI WILLIAM E. CURTIN RALPH C. WEAVER
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To Members of the School Committee:
The year 1950 has been a notable one in that it has marked the beginning of our elementary school building program. As Secretary of the Building Committee for the new Cold Spring School, I have necessarily devoted much time to this project as the construction of the building has gone forward and as various types of equip- ment and costs have been studied. To meet these addi- tional demands, however, has afforded much satisfaction in that this project marks real progress on the part of our Town in meeting the needs for more adequate hous- ing of the elementary school children. The opening of the new school of eight classrooms in the Cold Spring area in September will measurably relieve the heretofore crowded condition both in the Hedge and Cornish districts.
MANOMET SCHOOL BUILDING NEEDS
Our experience in 1950 has shown even more clearly than before the need for a new building in the Manomet area. From the school enrollment in the spring term and the prospective numbers to enter grade one in the fall, it became clear that we were faced with one of three methods of relief: (1) transferring children from Cedar- ville to the Bourne Schools, if possible; (2) placing certain grades on a half-time basis; (3) transporting a number of pupils to the Plymouth village schools. After con- siderable investigation, the last course was decided upon and the 9 third and fourth grade pupils living in the Beaver Dam and Rocky Hill sections have been trans- ported by taxi to the Hedge School. It now seems prob- able that it will be necessary to transport a larger number during the coming school year.
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