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George I. Hodgson
151.77
Mary B. Lanman
151.94
Rebecca B. Robbins
268.47
Warren R. Surpluss
101.18
Lucia C. Freeman
212.03
Sarah E. Manter
204.06
William S. Robbins
570.27
Lumb and Garside
302.17
Solomon E. Faunce
204.18
William H. Osmond
102.59
Hannah M. Jackson
159.77
Lloyd C. & May E.
Gould
128.86
Annie Holmes
214.26
Mary Deane Keith
100.39
Brewster
510.18
Edward W. Belcher
113.38
Henry L. Sampson &
Leander M. Vaughn
100.23
Christiana R. Leland
333.19
James H. Chapman
152.79
Edwin L. Edes
519.53
Emma A. Osborne
152.31
Oliver Edes
509.58
Eri C. Oakes
206.61
Henry L. Stegmaier
200.32
Calvin T. Howland
100.33
George W. Bosworth
101.58
Chas. T. 2nd and
413.42
Benjamin F. Raymond
100.70
George F. Howard
209.66
Martha J. Clarke
101.14
Lucy E. Frasier
101.83
Jessie F. B. Warren
205.67
Peter Schneider
101.01
Mary E. Estes
151.00
Lydia G. Bradford
211.83
William Langford
281.51
William Wethrell
George H. Doten
127.00
Harry A. Holmes
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 3
Charles T. Holmes
106.87
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Emma L. Churchill
$150.87 Helen M. Holmes
$151.60
Jennie F. Langford
207.36
Joseph & Elizabeth C. Holmes
302.09
Blanchard
209.04
Frank H. Lanman
101.80
William F. & Martha A. Doten
150.51
Sylvanus W. Rogers
136.80
Charles Hellstrom
100.25
Frederick H. Wilson
100.38
Elizabeth C. Coupe
204.83
M. F. & J. B. McHenry
101.64
Warren S. Bumpus & Nathaniel T. Clark
150.48
Nathaniel G. Lanman
101.65
Robert A. Brown
512.55
Isabella T. Whitman
207.90
David Brown
310.84
Thomas Shaw
152.21
Fred A. Jenks
416.66
Daniel W. Andrews
167.73
Robert R. Bartlett
152.52
Lucy M. Sherman
151.50
Annie L. Jarvis
100.29
Dexter H. Craig
202.66
Tom Haigh
185.67
Charles A. Bumpus
203.33
Julia M. Sampson
101.83
Minnie C. Caldwell
102.58
Stephen C. Nickerson
100.33
Nathaniel B. & Charles
Carrie L. Frink
151.51
Ellis 208.74
Mary E. Pierce
102.11
Harriet Bisbee Beytes
151.65
Julia A. Remington
101.42
Isaac T. Hall
151.37
Harriet J. Swan
101.50
Henry W. Barnes
209.36
Frederick Dittmar
169.82
William S. Kyle
218.56
Margaret M. Hill
170.13
Albert N. Fletcher
101.07
Philip Dries
101.45
Charles A. Wheeler
101.31
Isaac T. Holmes
552.12
Leidloff and Kunz
101.40
Clara H. Hemmerly
100.62
Flora L. Doten 309.67
James M. Cameron
155.79
Charles G. Welch
100.14
James S. Clark
205.58
Jessie F. B. Warren
208.17
Robert B. Phillips
101.31
Charlotte E. Lovering
156.47
George H. Jackson
206.60
Samuel W. Holmes
126.14
Catano Fratus
157.32
Goodwin & Nelson
211.96
J. Hovey Harlow
410.58
Henry F. Swift
195.54
Mary A. Sampson
101.07
John A. White
201.54
Harriet E. Merriam
210.34
Dora J. Ford
205.19
William S. Pratt
362.83
Jessie M. Pepper
127.00
Henry P. Steidle
57.29
Alden S. Bartlett
150.58
John Jordan
100.40
William A. Pratt
214.13
Alice L. Lanman
207.30
Jacob Ries
152.15
Deborah Whitaker
158.10
Lottie F. Dunton &
Helen P. Whiting
154.74
Alice L. Craig 208.01
Isabel H. Warren
312.34
Archie P. Eadie
208.12
Elijah H. Atwood
209.49
Estate of Frederick
Wesley A. Kinzie
132.96
I. Rich
208.60
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 4
George H. & Florence
Rogers-Hall
340.53
Alice D. Fuller
152.38
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Charles H. Morey $207.26
William H. Morse
$156.35
Ephraim D. Bartlett
151.15
Anna Spooner 212.51
Arthur & Finette S.
Charles A. Carlson
182.25
Robbins
105.14
Russell lot
263.47
John A. & Francis Harris 209.73
Beulah D. Harris
100.53
William A. Morton
100.20
Lewis Weston
152.23
Julia E. Bramhall
153.38
Elizabeth J. Hildreth
205.99
William Wallace
204.01 James H. D. Sanderson
Brewster
102.02
Will C. Snell
258.54
William C. Axford
153.40
Lewis & Annie A. Morton 106.30
Arrah B. Eddy
205.90
John F. Lovell
152.12
Palmer E. Presbrey
259.91
Abbie P. Shaw
101.17
Hannah E. Phillips
152.63
Arthur L. Morse 212.73
Henry F. Holmes
217.09
George R. Pierce
151.51
Edmund Robbins
101.41
Howard M. Douglas 152.64
Jacob Atwood
102.16
Rev. Ivory Hovey
100.26
Roswell S. Douglass
366.64
Frances E. Hovey
100.26
George F. & Jessie
Francis Burgess
205.87
B. Haigh
227.25
Elide F. & Gladys L. Antoniotti 305.85
Anna J. Butler
101.98
Bartlett & Kingman
303.85
John Russell
329.65
Stillman R. Sampson
210.14
Adaline F. Howard
101.57
William E. Rogers
208.75
Edgar W. Washburn
101.39
Chester E. Rogers
208.60
Helen W. & Francis C.
William W. Fraser
223.84
Fowler-Rice
151.23
Ezra F. Benson
207.32
Charles Moning
1,010.02
Elizabeth Bradford
101.14
Frank Bull
150.58
Alice H. Harlow
364.76
Nelson M. Warner
1,055.80
Jennie R. Simmons
208.85
Emma F. Thurston
150.85
Ethel H. Churchill
207.81
Edwin H. & Junie W.
Alfred T. Swift
215.61
Peterson 101.01
Charles D. Craig 208.27
James Collins 154.20
Edward J. & Agnes W.
Carr 207.68
Frederick L. Courtney 100.76
Ida A. Palmberg
363.23
G. Vernon Bennett
102.26
Walter D. Hall
209.25
Isabella G. Harris
155.45
Walter F. Gould
208.99
Margaret B. Cole
160.08
Phebe J. Raymond
151.81
Helen L. Willard
155.17
Robert Burns
317.78
Franklin Sherman
209.20
Mabel D. Brown
207.02
Dora Walton Russell
75.41
Ellen J. Donnelly
207.59
Arthur H. Luce
313.79
Abby Manter
206.91
William G. & Thomas Russell
1,548.84
Louise McMurray & John Wood 200.83
Holmes 3,699.56
Joseph H. Schubert 261.79
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 5
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Annice M. Stegmaier
208.03
Ira C. Ward
$204.61
Thomas Karle
120.16
Walter H. Brown 308.22
Louise R. Warner
208.44
Joseph A. Maybury 443.69
James E. Bartlett
150.64
Bartlett-Collingwood 301.99
Ruth A. Manter & Marion
John L. Morton 203.40
L. Currier
249.17
Jennetta Urquhart
208.53
Nellie F. Clark
150.49
Mabelle J. Cowan
210.70
Mary Bragdon
153.99
Otis N. Robbins
151.65
Evelina P. Gould
213.73
Virginia D. Kelling
202.50
Henry B. Howland
100.54
Norman G. Cate & heirs
213.87
Alice Spooner
538.67
Guy C. Courtney
203.46
Arthur E. & Elizabeth Austin
529.76
Ella J. Caswell
102.67
Peter Wood
310.46
Matthias Grozinger
205.14
Walter B. Cobb
101.51
Charles E. Ainley
308.30
Bessie Duthie
152.38
Cora L. Stevens
213.03
Judith C. Skinner
226.83
John L. & Mollie A.
Henry A. Jordan
150.43
Karle 107.93
Annie G. Anderson
75.48
Herbert W. Holmes
119.66
Reuben H. Leach
262.70
Clark W. Holmes
150.55
Robert C. Swift
267.59
Grace E. Jordan
151.44
Willard C. Butler
152.38
Agnes R. Wood
207.97
Louis Profetty
101.03
Nicholas Gaspard, Sr.
207.43
George M. Swan
536.99
Ida M. Douglas
201.19
Manuel Fratus
204.68
Elizabeth Shea
204.11
Truman C. Holmes
467.74
Etta F. White
100.22
Edgar F. Bliss
119.77
Warren S. Gale
203.64
Nelson Robbins
154.70
Carrold D. Howland
350.44
Charles J. Stegmaier
203.89
Carrie A. Ripley
547.46
Charles H. Sherman
255.46
Percy H. Marsh
208.64
Skillman & Tuttle
206.53
Mary Allen
118.47
Carrie Lamond Brown
150.83
William E. Wareham & Albert E. Caswell 151.05
Agnes Ray
155.58
Frederic L. Holmes heirs 202.31
Ethel Drew Borden
309.80
Edith M. Adams
100.04
Gertrude E. Willard
213.32
Ruth M. Adams
100.04
Ella C. Tribble 205.28
Lee Roane
206.26
Lizzie French Morton
257.16
James Bain
101.20
Bertha M. Derby
206.27
John S. Gascoyne
156.70
Joseph J. Stone
314.64
Ebenezer Davie
202.06
Charles E. Stevens & George F. Wood 204.25
Anthony M. & Emeline Monish
156.35
Isabelle F. Nickerson 176.00
Frederick W. Peck
211.50
Mary Lehman
103.40
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 6
Etta Billingsley 101.91
Ellen H. Kelly
201.41
May Stoddard Yeomans
207.66
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Anthony LoVerde
$201.43
George L. & Susan B. Paty
$208.10
Mary A. Dries
204.92
Stevens-Morton
102.38
James W. Blackmer
204.69
George H. Hodges 411.04
Emma B. Church
151.92
Morey-Peterson
201.81
Mrs. Harold E. Shurtleff
152.49
Guy H. Nason
112.76
Edith M. Weston
116.15
Alice L. Wright
204.55
Alfonsina Brini
153.89
Howard W. Edwards, Jr. 152.49
Benjamin W. Leland
207.55
Gustav W. Benson
200.61
Edmund T. Morton
201.22
Katherine J. Barnes
152.16
Perry-McGill
203.84
Ezra Pierce
216.01
Cornelius Bartlett
207.43
Henry O. Whiting
257.95
Charles A. Dixon
151.03
John Durnion
155.64
Virginia Wright
203.74
Bradford & Burrowes
100.88
James W. Tinkham
151.29
Alfred P. Richards
300.27
Ethel Dorr Mellor
508.06
Lottie E. Drew
152.81
Martha F. Paulding
152.33
Mary J. Purrington
101.51
Edwin F. Erland
104.40
Harry L. Johnson
1,530.77
Jabez B. Cole
305.12
F. Roscoe Fletcher
151.81
Josiah Churchill
101.35
Lyman A. Holmes
206.45
Elizabeth A. Dunlap
101.69
Albert G. Goodwin
409.29
Celia G. Luther
207.02
Chase & Veasey
203.88
Margaret Rossler
202.69
George E. Leach
151.98
Holmes & Sears
206.53
George Atwell
204.45
Mary Elizabeth Holbrook 268.28
Hedley C. Nickerson
309.74
Ellen H. Getman
100.45
Gertrude W. Babbitt 204.41
Addie R. & Ethel L.
Anne Coombs
203.53
Haskins
205.50
Mary Alice Burns (William Burns lot)
202.83
Bertha C. Paulding
251.14
Mary Alice Burns
(Robert Brown lot)
203.43
Rosalie Sauer
208.89
John J. Briggs
206.75
LeBaron R. Barker
2,637.26
Gustave Johnson
306.85
James E. Clark
170.85
Burton W. Smith
151.30
Edgar W. Howland
152.02
George H. Cochran
205.22
Lewis H. Gould
101.75
Leonard Bartlett
201.95
Josiah A. Robbins
207.91
James Philip Bird
256.19
Frank W. Roberts
284.82
Kate & Bess Turner
202.90
Gertrude L. Calloway
205.73
Eugene B. Holmes
125.69
Benjamin D. Loring
205.45
James B. Collingwood
299.19
Clark Finney, Jr.
544.90
Richard W. Arthur
202.63
Hedda S. Anderson
262.47
Albert C. Chandler 302.45
Grace H. Manter
610.12
Mary R. Hodge
509.34
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 7
Charles E. Ames
336.54
Howland Davis
709.29
Gertrude A. O'Brien
225.61
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Elmer L. Briggs
$304.58
Lemuel C. Howland 315.49
Theodore P. Adams 500.09
Morton L. Robbins 512.02
Alfred C. Finney 107.66
Clarence E. Delano 256.74
George Gooding 535.80 New funds established in 1953:
Charles C. Chandler
414.64
George C. Peterson
$400.00
267.44
Philip Jackson
350.00
Edith P. Hubbard
32.68
Herman & Alyson
Total Plymouth Savings
Dewhurst
202.18
Bank
$127,842.66
Plymouth Savings Bank-Page 8
Deposited in Plymouth Federal Savings and Loan Association:
Mary B. Dean
$105.19
Florence L. Brewster 208.39
Mary Davis 205.51
Frederick N. Knapp 510.27
Albert E. Collier 206.20 Alice D. Hitchock 506.70
Emma Louisa Bradford 536.41 Henry W. Swift 201.24
Frances R. Davis
410.81
Louise B. Washburn 201.33
Frederick A. Cook
714.60
Elizabeth Kneeland
405.86
John D. Brewer
312.52
Octavius Reamy
305.14
Mary L. Eaton
204.25
Robert Astley
201.43
Ralph Mellen 160.56
Harry L. Sampson
(Chiltonville) 100.45
Mary F. Briggs
318.52
Harry L. Sampson
300.18
Daniel J. Robbins
310.60
Elroy T. Clark 303.18
John A. Beever
360.14
Elmer C. LeBaron
203.50
W. G. Howland &
William K. Dunham
200.60
Elias T. Averill 206.91
Fred S. Gray 202.50
Eunice C. Marrah
105.73
New funds established in 1953:
John C. Schubert
253.17
May H. Sears
$300.15
Edward A. Burnett
256.43
Elmer E. Sherman
300.75
William R. and Frances Sampson
414.68
Thaddeus F. Wasgatt
100.50
Henry J. Schira
211.02
William C. Chandler
303.72
Isaac N. Stoddard
412.41
George F. Bumpus
300.75
Helena & Joseph J.
Barzilla Holmes
200.50
Raymond
209.71
Charles E. Douglas
300.00
Charles S. Robbins
201.82
William L. French
200.00
Charles H. Robbins
524.34
Charles Mahler
200.00
Lemuel Leach
203.99
Alice B. Barnes 100.00
Henry E. Morrison
253.00
Gustave A. & Sarah Hager 200.00
Lawrence W. Churchill
256.88
Daniel W. Howard 200.00
George Fox
201.00
Thaddeus F. Wasgatt
(Mary A. Wasgatt lot) 100.50
Shaw and Fratus 237.94
Mary Drew Gooding
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Laurence B. Reed 400.00 Polydor H. Carlier 400.00
Samuel E. Franc
200.00
Anton & Frieda Schatz 300.00
Arthur Lord
500.00
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Florence M. Whitmore 200.00
Daniel Tong
100.00
Susan G. Howland
300.00
Lucy L. Nickerson
200.00
Anna M. Klingenhagen
150.00
Carmen L. Carr
200.00
Total Plymouth Federal Savings and Loan Association $17,401.98
CHARLES E. HINCKLEY LOT IN CHILTONVILLE CEMETERY Brockton Savings Bank $1,000.00
ABNER & CHARLES H. LEONARD FUND
People's Savings Bank, Worcester, Mass. 147.82
ST. JOSEPH'S CEMETERY FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank 134.12
PHOEBE R. CLIFFORD FUND
Deposited with State Treasurer
200.00
Total, Cemetery Perpetual Care Funds $216,985.46
FRANCIS LeBARON POOR FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank $828.64
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 844.69
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
$625.71
JULIA P. ROBINSON POOR FUND
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank $300.00
WARREN BURIAL HILL CEMETERY FUND
Plymouth Savings Bank $1,126.73
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 familes) U. S. Savings Bonds-Series G $2,000.00
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 496.22
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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
372.12
POST-WAR REHABILITATION FUND
Plymouth Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
$10,425.96
Plymouth Five Cents Savings Bank 2,545.06
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
2,047.69
STABILIZATION FUND
Plymouth Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
$5,058.47
Dedham Institution for Savings
10,125.00
Danvers Savings Bank
10,100.00
PHILIP JACKSON FUND (Income to be expended by Inland Fisheries Committee)
Plymouth Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n $1,000.00
UNCLE THOMAS JACKSON PARK FUND
Plymouth Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n $800.00
CONTRIBUTORY RETIREMENT SYSTEM FUNDS
Bonds
$172,797.70
Bank Stocks
18,051.00
Federal Savings and Loan Association
10,617.53
Savings Banks
15,653.66
Plymouth National Bank
3,681.49
$220,801.38
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SCHEDULE J
BORROWING CAPACITY, JAN. 1, 1954
Valuation for 1951, less abatements on $728,197
$27,698,803
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1951, less abatements
1,984,162
Valuation for 1952, less abatements on $607,299
29,131,851
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1952, less abatements
1,879,144
Valuation for 1953, less abatements on $531,370
30,582,605
Valuation of Motor Vehicles for 1953, less abatements
1,739,234
$93,015,799
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Average
31,005,266
5%
1,550,263
Total Debt Incurred and Outstanding Less: Water Loans
$906,500
267,500
Total Debt Within Debt Limit
639,000
Borrowing Capacity, January 1, 1954
$911,263
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
School Department
OF THE
Town of Plymouth MASSACHUSETTS
1820
M NOL
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31 1953
:
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Term Expires
Ralph C. Weaver, Chairman
1956
Mauro J. Canevazzi
1956
Robert B. Bowler
1955
Spencer H. Brewster
1955
Signe L. J. Borghesani, Mrs., Secretary
1954
Joseph S. Contente
1954
ADMINISTRATION
Donald T. Welch, Superintendent of Schools
Office, Lincoln Street, Telephone 600 Interviews by appointment
Secretary, Elinor B. Sanderson
Clerk, Betty-Ann Travers
Office hours: School Days-8 a.m. to 12 m. and 1 to 5 p.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 Dyer Dr. Francis C. Ortolani
Dental Hygienist, Jane B. Bradford
Dental Clinic Office, Governor Bradford Building Telephone 1255
Custodian of Buildings, John J. McCarthy 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 and Oak Street Schools Mrs. Eleanor L. White, Principal Cornish-Burton School - Telephone 933 Oak Street School - Telephone 1661
Hedge and Cold Spring Schools Emmett B. Finck, Principal Hedge School - Telephone 1140 Cold Spring School - Telephone 708
Mount Pleasant School - Telephone 1097 Mrs. Helen S. Manchester, Principal
Manomet Elementary School - Telephone Manomet 3356 Mrs. Elouise E. Cashin, Principal
SCHOOL CALENDAR 1954-1955
Open: Close:
September 8, 1954
December 23, 1954
January 3, 1955
February 28, 1955
April 25, 1955
February 18, 1955
April 15, 1955
June 22, 1955
School Holidays: Columbus Day, Oct. 12; Teachers' Con- vention, Oct. 22; Armistice Day, Nov. 11; Thanksgiving Recess, Nov. 25-26; Good Friday, April 8; Memorial Day, May 30.
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NO-SCHOOL SIGNAL
2-2 Repeated on Fire Alarm
7:05 a.m. No school for Junior and Senior High Schools 8:15 a.m. No morning session for Grades 1 to 6, inclusive 12: 15 p.m. No afternoon session for Grades 1 to 6, in- clusive
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.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT REIMBURSEMENTS AND RECEIPTS
From the Commonwealth:
1. General aid for public schools
$39,497.39
2. Aid for specific purposes
(1) Transportation
17,085.00
(2) Vocational Tuition
1,135.18
(3) Vocational Transportation
1,155.81
(4) Salaries of teachers of retarded children
2,000.00
(5) Americanization salaries
322.50
3. Tuition, State Wards
1,926.54
From Other Sources:
1. Tuition, Out-of-town Pupils
(1) Carver (Town of)
18,915.11
(2) Plympton (Town of)
11,016.09
2. Miscellaneous Receipts
898.02
Total
$93,951.64
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY
Balance to Excess and Balance Appropriations Expenditures Deficiency On Hand
Salaries
$471,051.00 $468,496.73 $2,554.27 107,170.82* 100,408.75 6,762.07
General
Playground Equipment
1,000.00
1,000.00
None
Gutter Repairs at Jr .- Sr. High School
1,100.00
1,056.00
44.00
Interior Painting at Hedge School
4,200.00
4,085.00
115.00
Repairs to Toilets at Hedge School
3,300.00
2,904.10
$395.90
Repairs to Elementary School Roofs
5,800.00
5,530.60
269.40
Improvements to Jr .- Sr. High School Playground
1,852.16
1,752.00
100.16
(from 1952)
$595,473.98 $585,233.18 $9,575.50 $665.30
Reimbursements and receipts, account of schools 93,951.64
Net expenditures for schools
$491,281.54
Includes $925 from Reserve Fund and $8.72 from Trust Fund Income
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ANNUAL REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND SUPERINTENDENT
TO THE CITIZENS OF PLYMOUTH
This report will point out some of the problems fac- ing the public schools in the next few years, will indicate areas where improvements have been made during the past year, and will list some of the major improvements needed in the immediate future.
SCHOOL PLANT IMPROVEMENTS
During the year 1953 the following major repairs and improvements were made on the school buildings:
New roof on the Mt. Pleasant School.
Extensive repairs to roofs of Hedge and Cornish- Burton Schools.
Gutters repaired on the Junior-Senior High School.
Modernizing of boys' and girls' toilet rooms at the Hedge School, by replacing outmoded fixtures, and im- proving lighting and ventilation.
Painting interior of auditorium and north wing of Hedge School. This included eight classrooms, dental clinic, teachers' room, corridors and cloak rooms.
Creation of a temporary classroom for the Practical Arts Class from a large store room at the Cold Spring School.
Completion of work on playground at Junior-Senior High School, with entire area including older section be- ing graded and seeded. A chain link fence was installed along the boundaries of the new section of the play- ground.
Your School Committee is asking for appropriations to continue the work of improving the School plant in 1954. Included in the planned projects are:
1. New window drapes in the High School auditorium -$1100.
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2. Soundproofing the ceilings of the High School gym -$1900.
3. Painting approximately half of the interior of the Senior High School-$10,000.
4. Emergency battery lights to replace the emergency gas lights in the Senior High School-$1200.
5. Filling and grading of parking and play area in rear of Junior High School with cement curb along edge of bank to prevent washouts-$4900.
ENROLLMENT TRENDS
Transfers of pupils from overcrowded schools to less crowded buildings have been continued and increased. Twenty-four Chiltonville pupils, normally enrolled in the Cornish-Burton School are now being transported to the new Manomet School. Carver Road pupils, who were transferred in September, 1952 from the Cornish-Burton School to the Hedge School, have remained at the latter school for another year. For a second year, a number of the forty-four first grade pupils in the Mt. Pleasant Dis- trict were transferred to the Cold Spring School. There are now 21 pupils from the Mt. Pleasant District attend- ing the Cold Spring School. Because the classroom made from the store room at the Cold Spring School is a tem- porary one, we now are one classroom short in that building. Present figures indicate that we will be three or four classrooms short in September, 1954. Plans are now being made to use the auditorium at the Cold Spring School to house some of the pupils.
The School Committee has been working closely with the State Buildings Assistance Commission in at- tempting to predict future enrollments in the Plymouth Schools so that plans can be made to adequately accom- modate the influx of students expected in the immediate future, and at the same time to plan an ultimate school plant which will be well balanced and educationally sound. As a basis for making comparisons of births and
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school enrollments, a graph is included which shows the number of births to residents of Plymouth each year from 1935 through 1953, and indicating the numbers of children who appeared in the first grades in the Plym- outh Public Schools six years later.
PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS BIRTHS by YEARS to PARENTS RESIDING IN PLYMOUTH and
SUBSEQUENT FIRST GRADE ENROLMENTS
100
150
200
250
300
350
1935 - Births
1941 - Farolment
- 226
1936 - Birthe 1942 - Enrolment
- 227
1937 - Birthe 1943 - Enrolment
- 226
1938 - Births
- 187
1944 - Eurolment
- 216
1939 - Births
- 174
1945 - Enrolment
- 228
1940 - Births
- 199
1946 - Enrolment
- 218
1942 - Birthe 1947 - Enrolment
246
1942 - Births
- 218
1948 - Enrolment
- 229
1943 - Births 1949 - Enrolment
265
1944 - Births 1950 - Enrolment
236
1945 - Birthe
- 182
1951 - Farolment
- 208
1946 - Births
1- 269
1952 - Imrolment
- 256
WITHIT - 31
1947 - Births 1953 - Enrolment
- 310
1948 - Births
1 - 285
1954 - Enrolment
1949 - Births
04 - 279
1955 - Enrolment
1950 - Births
HVA- 207
1956 - Enrolment
1951 - Births
1957 - Enrolment
1952 - Births
- 272
1958 - Enrolment
1953 - Births
230
100
150
200
250
330
350
-185
- 202
-186
.
- 200
- 250
220
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On October 1, 1953 there were 1342 pupils enrolled in our elementary schools, 83 more than were enrolled on October 1, 1952. According to figures submitted to us by the Buildings Assistance Commission, figures which that agency states are probably too low, we will have the following enrollments in our elementary schools in the next 6 years:
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1,430
1,469
1,442
1,502
1,546
1,451
Forecasts of Junior High enrollments show a prob- able pupil total of 821 in 1961 in grades seven through nine as against a present enrollment of 611. Enrollments in the Senior High will probably reach 643 by 1964, up 171 from the present enrollment of 472.
All of the figures used above are based on records of births to Plymouth residents over an 18 year period, and the 16 year survival pattern, showing the number of these children who reach the various grade levels in the public schools of Plymouth. What will happen beyond these years is pure conjecture and will be dependent on future births as well as the shift of population in and out of town.
To ease the pressure of larger enrollments already. resulting in over-size classes in our secondary schools, the Plymouth School Committee has asked the School Committees of Carver and Plympton to withdraw all of their students from the Plymouth schools by June, 1955.
SCHOOL LUNCHES
The lunch programs in the Junior-Senior High and elementary schools continue to expand. In the past four years the total income in the secondary school lunch program has increased from $24,363 to $26,768. In the elementary schools, the lunch room income has increased from less than $16,000 in 1948 to $27,490 in the last school year. The Junior-Senior High lunch room sold 43,260
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type A lunches and 27,290 type C lunches (milk only) during the last school year. The federal reimbursement on the program totaled $4439.20. In the same year the elementary program sold 79,966 type A and 33,005 type C lunches and received federal reimbursements of $7857.04.
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
During 1953 several professional courses were of- fered to the Plymouth teachers and a number of con- sultants on reading and handwriting came here to lecture and work with the teachers. A Harvard-B. U. Extension course in science, started in the fall of 1952, was com- pleted early in 1953. A course in Reading in the Elemen- tary School sponsored by the same extension service was taken by thirty-four Plymouth teachers during the year. A workshop in Guidance for teachers in the Plymouth Junior-Senior High Schools was carried on during the fall term. Credits earned in all of these courses are ac- cepted by most colleges toward bachelor's or master's degrees. The expenses of these courses are borne en- tirely by those teachers who enroll. A fifteen hour art Workshop offered to the Plymouth teachers by Binney and Smith, manufacturers of art supplies, was taken by most of the elementary school teachers as well as the art teachers in the Junior and Senior High Schools. Plym- outh teachers have also taken advanced educational courses during the year at Boston University, Bridgewa- ter State Teachers College, and other colleges.
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