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S. J. Parkhill & Co., 3.00
Little, Brown & Co., 2.80
City Library Association,
2.80
Oliver Ditson Co., 2.40
Louis Nickerson,
2.05
Prang Educational Co.,
2.02
$559.82
SUPPLIES
J. L. Hammett Co.,
$172.87
E. E. Babb & Co,
33.19
F. S. Brightman,
29.98
Milton Bradley Co.,
23.62
Kenney Bros. & Walkins,
21.83
S. P. & S. H. Wilcox,
13.95
Bliss & Nye.
9.57
Ideal School Publishing Co.,
6.00
K. S. Swift,
4.27
Binney & Smith Co.,
4.00
A. F. Lewis Manufacturing Co.,
4.00
H. S. Hutchinson & Co.,
3.32
George L. Briggs,
3.30
Neostyle Co.,
2 65
F. T. Akin & Co.,
1.23
Olcott Manufacturing Co.,
1.09
W. P. Hayes,
.75
J. H. Stetson & Co.,
.75
De Wolf & Vincent,
.65
B. F. Stowell & Co.,
.20
#337.22
REPAIRS
C. F. Delano, *268.48
M. P. Whitfield, 83.46
Dodge & Grant, 76.96
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11. H. Hathaway,
57.82
Chamberlain Metal Weather Strip Co.,
28.80
Charles F. Wing,
14.50
. J. L. Hammett Co., 12.00
C. A. Hacker,
10.65
W. E. Deckrow,
10.00
Dalton Ingersoll Co.,
8.93
A. J. Wilkinson,
7.50
Edwin P. Holmes,
7.50
G. W. King,
3.85
W. S. Kelley,
3.50
E. W. Forrest,
3.64
B. F. Cottelle,
2.50
Babbitt, Wood & Co.,
2.06
J. B. Alton,
1.90
Fairhaven Iron Foundry,
1.00
Horace A. Fitch,
.85
De Wolf & Vincent,
.50
A. C. Smith,
.45
$606.85
MISCELLANEOUS
Fairhaven Water Co.,
$257.13
F. M. Marsh,
43.69
C. D. Waldron, 36.93
Hatch and Co.,
25.45
Edward Cummings,
27.75
E. G. Spooner,
16.90
Mrs. A. L. Mackie,
25.00
So. Mass. Telephone Co.,
26.16
Manuel Amaral,
17.71
Thomas Hersom & Co ..
15.00
Thomas A. Tripp,
12.65
A. J. Shooks,
10.00
Antone Sylvia,
10.00
G. H. Tripp,
9.72
Suffolk Engraving Co.,
9.60
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C. J. Becker,
9.45
W. F. Church,
8.13
HI. B. Copeland,
8.11
Anna B. Trowbridge.
7.80
J. H. Hanna,
7.80
J. B. Alton,
7.35
C. F. Wing,
7.08
Masury, Young & Co ..
6.25
Susan D. Bumpus.
5.00
Ethel R. Browne,
4.67
N. H. Buffington,
4.00
Ruggles & Ellison.
3.60
D. A. Regan,
3.46
Louis Nickerson,
3.35
Phaneuf & Sons,
1.85
L. M. Snow,
1.70
S. B. Knight,
1.50
G. L. Packard,
1.35
Waldo L. Rounsville,
1.35
A. I. Reccord,
1.16
Arthur Hammond,
1.00
E. N. Hammond,
1.00
Western Union Telegraph Co ..
.95
Steiger & Dudgeon,
.90
Briggs & Beckman, .52
$643.02
TABULATED STATEMENT - GRADES, TEACHERS, SALARIES, ATTENDANCE, ETC.
SCHOOL YEAR. SEPTEMBER 1904-JUNE 1905.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Salaries per
month.
Whole No. enrolled.
Average mem-
bership.
Average
Per cent.
Total days'
Cases of
No. weeks
in year.
High
10-13
Will A. Charles
$100
89
79.50
44.90
94
1876
206
40
..
Ruby L. Rich
58
66
Jessie M. Barbour
55
..
66
Margery C. Bruce
50.
Rogers
Marjorie Baker
40
44
39.71
36.89
517
12
39
4
M. Louise Norris
40
49
44.50
41.50
93
543
10
29
..
4
Effie B. Wallace
40)
50
41.00
38.50
94
432
12
39
..
Barbara R. Dow
40
28
21.31
19.99
94
241
16
39
Florence B. Fitz
40
47
43.42
40.58
93
515
20
39
Mary P. Story
40
51
43.10
40.30
94
503
38
39
Rogers Annex
2
Lucie A. Metcalf
40
41
35.22
33.61
95
293
15
39
2
Grace D. Wixon
40
39
34.88
32.98
95
345
8
39
1
Florence M. Moore
40
41
36.92
34.24
93
480
23
39
..
1
Mary A. S. Sale
40
43
37.50
34.20
91
603
39
Oxford
5-6
Myra D. Crowell
50
40
30.60
29.01
95
290
32
39
65
39
36.39
34.68
95
6
39
Tryphena M. Butterfield
40
50
46.50
44.30
95
428
6
..
Grace M. Ricker
40
51
43.96
41.93
95
368
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absence.
tardiness.
Grades.
attendance.
attendance.
Sara B. Clarke
Oxford .. ..
2
Clara E. Wellman
40
41
34.04
31.40
92
1
Sarah L. Burleigh
40
36
26.56
23.30
583
38
39
New Boston
1-4
Elsie M. Pope
40
27
21.70
20.00
92
310
54
39
Music
Anna B. Trowbridge
40
Drawing
Ethel R. Browne
3.
Cooking
Mary St. John Wilcox
*50
Manual Training
Alfred C. Cobb
Totals 1905.
1093
860
740.
693.
94
8,734
682
742
Totals 1904.
1053
858
714.
653.
92
10,956
701
703
Totals 1903.
961
813
682.
619.
90
11,068
949
664
Totals 1902,
912
688
604.
541.
90
10,864
1169
Totals-1901.
673
579.
518.
90
10.215
1086
*Salaries paid by Mr. H. H. Rogers.
Highest per cent. of attendance, 95 1
( Grades 9. 7, 5, Rogers School
2, 2, Rogers Annex
.. 5 and 6, Oxford.
25
1
50 1
3-4 Ilda_T. Pope
40
54
43.60
40.50
93
1 568 506
118
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TABULATED STATEMENT-GRADES, TEACHERS, SALARIES, ATTENDANCE, ETC.
FALL TERM, SEPTEMBER 11, 1905-DECEMBER 21, 1905.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Salaries per
month.
Whole No. enrolled.
Average
membership.
Average
attendance.
Per cent.
attendance.
Total days'
absence.
Cases of
tardiness.
No. weeks in term.
High
10-13
W. A. Charles
$100
89
85.80
82.40
97
245
64
16
26
:
Margery C. Bruce
55
Rogers
Marjorie Baker
40
42
41.07
39.75
97
93
2
16
66
T. M. Butterfield
40
41
40.08
39.13
98
87
16
Maud B. Priest
40
48
46.30
44.07
95
156
2
16
Helen E. Howe
40
34
31.22
30.35
97
61
10
Harriet E. Mitchell
40
39
38.38
36.81
96
110
0)
16
1
M. Louise Norris
40
36
31.95
30.95
97
72
16
4
Barbara R. Dow
40
44
41.84
40.53
97
91
6
16
..
3
Florence B. Fitz
40
38
36.30
35.40
98
61
2
16
Rogers Annex
2
Lucie A. Metcalf
40)
37
37.00
36.07
97
(.)
3
16
2
Clara E. Wellman
40
26
34.41
32.85
95
109
4
16
1
Florence M. Moore
40
41
34.67
33.15
96
108
8
16
..
..
1
Mary A. S. Sale
40
39
36.69
35.23
96
102
16
Ruby L. Rich
58
Jessie M. Barbour
55
Sara B. Clarke
70
39
37.28
35.17
94
148
16
:7 % -1.00
Mary P. Story
40
39
37.09
35.99
97
1
16
..
Grades.
Oxford
5-6 Myra D. Crowell
55
45
40.15
38.97
97
83
12
16
Inez J. Howes
40
47
41.90
39.70
9.
156
27
16
Ilda T. Pope
OF
32
37.00
34.60
+6
175
17
16
..
Ethel Faulkner
40
31.35
28.84
92
179
26
16
New Boston
Grace S. Dixon
32
22
20.60
19.40
94
115
10
16
Music
Anna B. Trowbridge
40
Drawing
Ethel R. Browne
3.
Cooking
Mary St. J. Wilcox
*50
Manual Training
Alfred C. Cobb
*50
Totals 1905,
$1140
821
781.
149.
96
2,293
208
320
Totals 1904,
1089
831
762.
721.
95
2.980
277
304
Totals 1903,
109
810
747.
679.
92
4,018
337
Totals 1902,
935
761
706.
650.
92
Totals 1901.
912
683
628.
574.
92
*Salaries paid by Mr. H. II. Rogers.
Highest per cent. of attendance 98, grades 7 and 3 Rogers School.
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..
3-4 2-3 1 1-4
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ROLL OF HONOR.
*
Pupils neither absent nor tardy for the year 1904-1906 :
Blumers Delano,
Benjamin Luther,
Howard Wilson,
Mary Kennitzer,
Wilhelmina Franklin,
Anna Ollson,
Madge Westgate,
Eva Card,
He'en Delano,
Emma Oliver,
Wayne Slater, Arthur Studley,
Lizzie Ellis,
Harold Card,
Ezra Hawkins,
Clayton Westgate,
Irene Gray,
Madeline Corson,
Herbert Barney,
Ruth Fitzimmons.
Madeline Bradshaw Sylvester,
Jessie Hawkins,
Harold Walker
Bessie A. Betagh,
Marion A. H. Wells.
Carlton A. Brown,
John Hagen, Edna F. Shores,
Sarah I. Maker,
Marian A. Dillingham,
Charles L. Lester,
Clara G. E. Weldon, Stanley Kendrick,
George W. Maker,
Fred A. Watson,
Henry H. Crossman.
Charles Franklin, Leonard Everett, Gertrude Carrie, Kenneth Brown, Ellen Lowney,
Richard Delano,
Mary Lowney,
Allen Stillman,
Percy W. Packard,
The original design for cover of this report is the work of Gladys Cummings, a first year pupil in the High School.
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PRIZES.
The prizes offered by the High School Alumni As- sociation for excellence in Composition were awarded as follows :
First Prize $10.00, Mildred E. Gray Subject: Should Birds Be Killed For Their Plumage ?
Second Prize $5.00, Anne H. Gillingham Subject : A Local Myth.
Third Prize $5.00, Margaret Noland Subject : The Life of a Dandelion.
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RECENT GRADUATES
CLASS of 1902.
Alice Lilly Alice E. Marra
Samuel F. Bumpus
Edwin A. Kelley
Frederick K. Lawrence
Mae Delano
Bessie L. Ellis
Susan A. Babbitt
Alberta F. Kempton Charles Lilley
Bertha T. Pardee
Vance A. Wanner
Teacher in Acushnet Married Y. M. C. A. work, New Bedford Brown University (Senior) Business, Derby, Ct. Bookkeeper, New Bedford Student of Domestic Science New Bedford Art School
Bookkeeper Printer Cashier, New Bedford Business
CLASS OF 1903.
Lillie B. Allen
Lizzie A. Blackburn
Gladys B. Goodnow Ida M. Grimshaw
Clara M. Howland
Mary Corey Tabor
Helen L. Thrasher Everett R. Cowen
Grace P. Dillingham
Wallace G: Hathaway James H. C. Marston Bessie L. Pardee
Winifred S. Baker
George F. Braley Clayton W. Carpenter Hubert R. Ede
Adelaide M. Howard
Florence W. Nickerson Grace E. Slocum
Bridgewater Normal Brown University Framingham Normal School Brown University Domestic Art School At home Boston University M. I. Technology Cashier New Bedford Postoffice Musician Clerk
Bookkeeper Clerk Clerk
Brown University Bookkeeper Music Teacher Insurace office
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CLASS OF 1904.
Gertrude M. Ellis
Ella F. Sherman
Grace C. Tripp
Grace E. Ball
Bertha Crafts
Louvisa H. Hawkins
Helen L. Lawrence
Lotta C. Warner
Emily Bearse Austin
Grace 1. Babbitt
Brown University Bridgewater Normal School Kindergarten Training School Married Stenographer Bridgewater Normal School Boston Art School Telephone Exchange Tack Factory At Home
CLASS OF 1905.
Anne II. Kempton
Chas. T. Lincoln
('laudia B. Willis Elsie M. Westgate
Dorothy A. Stoddard Henry T. Howard, Jr. Anne Il. Gillingham
Ernest W. Dean Ethel I. Chandler Bessie M. Brown
Bookkeeper and Stenographer Bookkeeper Stenographer At Home Kindergarten Training School Bookkeeper Quinsy Mansion School Clark College Clerk At Home
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GRADUATING EXERCISES CLASS 1905.
FAIRHAVEN HIGH SCHOOL FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1905, AT 2 P. M. MOTTO: SCIENTIA VENIT, SAPIENTIA MANET C'OLORS: OLD ROSE AND GOLD PROGRAM
Prayer.
Rev. F. E. Brooks
Chorus. Yachting Glee. Culbertson
Salutatory with Essay. Famous Women of History. Bessie Maria Brown Essay with Valedictory. Was Casabianca Truly Wise ? Ernest Woodward Dean.
Semi-Chorus. Calm is the Sea. From Rubinstein.
Announcement of Winners of Prize Essays.
Reading of First Prize Essay.
Address.
Rev. Edward Cummings, Boston, Mass.
Gloria. Bordese.
Award of Diplomas.
Thomas A. Tripp, Chairman School Committee. Chorus. Columbia. Hadley.
GRADUATES LATIN COURSE Anne Humphrey Gillingham ENGLISH COURSE
Ernest Woodward Dean Dorothy Athalia Stoddard Elsie May Westgate COMMERCIAL COURSE Bessie Maria Brown Ethel Irene Chandler
Henry Thomas Howard, Jr. Annie Howard Kempton Charles Justin Lincoln Claudia Church Willis
Report of the Supervisor of Music
FAIRHAVEN, 1906
Mr. F. M. Marsh: In compliance with your request, I submit to you the following report:
The past year has been a successful one in the study of vocal music in the various grades. We have deviated very little, if any, from our regular plan of work adopted some few years ago, so I will refrain from alluding to the course of study, but will give a brief resume of the work which is now carried on at the present time of writing.
In Grades I and II we have given up the use of any music reader. We have found from experience that the little people gain more from the use of the chart, from exercise on the blackboard and from individnal singing than from text books. We are striving to gain independent thought and to establish tone relations as far as possible. Aside from a knowledge of pitch-names, no technicalities are taught in these classes. Seasonable rote songs are used, the songs of winter absorbing our attention just now.
The third grade is doing admirable work in the new First Reader of the Educational Musie Course. Many dainty songs, varied in character, have been learned. besides intelligent work carried on in time and tune in the various keys.
Grade IV is striving to complete the text book above mentioned. This means that the line of work is upon sharp four and flat seven, also the divided beat. Individ- ual singing aids in the work, the timid gaining confidence and the confident gaining accuracy.
The fifth grade is carrying ou two.part work with very good results. The unusual size of this grade at the Rogers School makes a pretty large class of immature
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voices to handle at one time. While there is enthusiasm in large numbers we like to feel that each and every pupil is deriving benefit from the lesson, and this result, by the unwearied vigilance of the regular teachers and the visits from the supervisor, is being brought about.
The seventh and eighth grades are doing strong chorus work in three-part music, working with exercises as well as with songs.
While Grade IX has not the leading voices that some grades carry, yet expressive, tuneful work is being accomplished.
The High School has an unusually strong chorus this year, boys' voices predominating. A willing spirit is in evidence among the pupils and our periods for music on Wednesday morning are profitably spent. A short time each week is devoted to theory, thus reviewing some of the technicalities of music.
The successful results, in music today in our schools, are largely due to the untiring efforts of the faithful corps of teachers, and I commend each and all for their hearty co-operation and sympathy.
Very respectfully, ANNA BAILEY TROWBRIDGE. Feb. 14, 1906.
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Report of the Supervisor of Drawing and Sewing
To Mr. Frank M. Marsh, Superintendent of Schools :
What is the main purpose of the teaching of drawing in our public schools ? For the cultivation of good taste, for the appreciation of works of art,and for the strengthen- ing of the creative power.
Pres. Eliot says the main object in every school should be to provide the children not only with means of earning a livelihood, but to show them how to live a happy and worthy life, inspired by ideals which exalt and dignify both love and labor.
Many of the examples which the children see, do not tend to promote good taste. . The colored pages for instance, accompanying many of the Sunday newspapers are doing an immeasurable amount of harm, children must have fun, and we want to encourage the love for it, but along other lines than these. In the papers we find not only careless- ness in drawing, but coloring of the poorest kind. Some of the beautiful illustrated books at the Millicient Library are to be placed on the teachers desks used by the children in the spare moment. The grade teacher can show in her regular school work that a useful thing can be beautiful and a beautiful thing useful : In the compositions, in the spelling and arithmetic papers, and in all that go to make up the day's work. With the parent rests a part of this anty, by encouraging the children and by showing an inter- est in that work brought from school which shows care, neatness and order. In the past the drawing papers have been given back at the end of each year, but beginning with this month all result lessons will be returned to the owners at the end of each month. The teachers in the four lower grades meet me every two weeks, we look over all the work, mark with a red star any exceptionally
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good drawing, and mark the four next in rank with blue stars, we are also exchanging work in the different schools.
The course in picture study is proving most successful. In the primary grades pictures were chosen representing life and action. and the more advanced grades, those masters with whose lives and pictures we wished the children to become familiar. Great assistance has been given us at the library-references hunted up, books reserved, and large copies of all the pictures placed at the disposal of the teachers to be used in class work. The course is frequently correlated with the language work. Ahnost every child in the town brings the penny each month to pay for his picture, which is mounted and kept in a port- folio with his other pictures together with his written papers. Asthe study is to be continued. not only through this year but through the nine years, every pupil will at the end have made a splendid collection of pictures.
The Imaginative drawing continues to be a source of satisfaction as well as help. We are apt to think that children are original, but at times they are most mechanical. We have not yet attained the results that we wish. In but few cases do we find the imagination strongly developed. Original work is our aim, and with the hearty co-operation which the teachers give, we hope soon to raise the standard. In the fifth grade, the boys working at their cardboard models are learning not only accurate measure- ments and knife cutting but are also planning and con- structive the models at home.
The course in sewing is similar to that of last year. The work is begun in the fifth grade and continues through the seventh. The principle work of this course is the cap and apron to be worn in the cooking school. the remainder
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of the work is mounted on paper and placed within covers.
This year's work has been one of the most pleasant during five years of teaching in Fairhaven, and I wish to express my sincere gratitude to all who have helped in the work.
Respectfully submitted, ETHEL ROGERS BROWNE.
Feb. 12, 1906.
38 Report of Cooking Teacher
Mr. Frank M. Marsh, Superintendent of Schools :
In accordance with your request, I submit my second annual report of the work done in cooking in the Fairhaven schools. During the year 1905-06, sixty-five girls have received instruction in cooking for two hours each week -- the courses followed have been the same as those given last year. The results in the classes have been most satisfactory-the pupils evidencing a keen interest in the work, and a comprehension of the underlying principles.
In April, 1905 the classes combined to prepare a dinner for the school committee and their guests from Acushnet and Mattapoiset. The tables were decorated and set by the pupils, and the girls served a six course dinner which was prepared by them in the school kitchen. A dinner of this sort serves two purposes -- first, to bring the cooking school into touch with all the members of the committee, some of whom cannot frequently find time to visit us, and second, to encourage the girls in work of the best and most practical kind.
Many of the pupils are permitted to practice at home the dishes which they are taught to prepare in class. I would like to urge the mothers to advance this home work as much as possible. If the girls are really to learn to make better, more healthful, and therefore happier homes, the more practical application they can have the more surely will our end be accomplished. Visitors are cordially welcomed at the cooking school, at any of our sessions.
Respectfully yours, MARY ST. JOHN WILCOX.
Feb. 14, 1906.
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MANUAL TRAINING RESULTS
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Report of Manual Training Teacher
Fairhaven, Mass.,
Feb. 15, '06.
Frank M. Marsh, Supt. of Schools, Fairhaven, Mass.
Dear Sir: I submit to yon the following annual report of the Manual Training work.
The seventh grade this year numbers twenty-six boys, or two more than for whom benches are provided. This is a necessary though unfortunate arrangement, necessi- tating, as it does, putting two boys on the same bench. It also makes too large a class and the instructor is always unable to give the individual attention necessary to real careful work on the part of the boys. Notwithstanding this drawback the class has accomplished the usual amount of work in a very satisfactory manner.
The eighth grade has pursued the usual course and is producing some good work. A great deal of improvement is noticeable in this grade since the first of the year.
The ninth grade has taken, so far this year, the work originally laid out for the last part of the eighth grade year. This is by reason of the work having been put into the seventh grade last year. It is hoped now to take up the work regularly intended for this grade later in the year. The work already done by these boys is entirely satisfactory.
The Freshmen of the High school have taken the work this year by giving them first a course in making
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some of the simpler carpentery joints, such as middle and end half lap, mortices and tenons and mitres. These are followed by the regular models, knife tray, book rack, etc. The work of this class is good.
Of the other high school boys, 18 wished at the beginning of the year to take up special work. As there was room for but 12, those boys were selected whose work the previous year had been most satisfactory.
These advanced pupils are at work on tables, um- brella racks and taborettes, and will produce some very creditable pieces of work. Pupils who have now completed the regular models show considerable interest and skill in doing individual work of a larger character.
Respectfully submitted, ALFRED C. COBB,
Instructor.
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