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Several changes have been made in the teaching force of the High School in the past year. The committee was pleased to advance Mr. Hough from his position as Assistant Principal of the High School to Principal and Superintend- ent of all schools. We were also fortunate in securing Mr. Henry Hopkinson as Assistant Principal of the High School. Other changes in the teaching force will be noted in the report of the superintendent.
The teachers in our High School are to be commended for the interest they have taken not only in the actual teaching of the students, but for the time taken and interest shown in sports and other school activities. The elementary teachers are also to be commended for their work and co- operation. Our schools are now rated Grade A, and the committee wishes at this time to thank all who have worked with them to bring the schools up to this high standard.
The committee would like to call your attention to the amount of work that has been accomplished in the way of
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repairs, upkeep and new equipment. With much planning of the finances we were able to purchase some new equip- ment for the auditorium as well as the necessary equipment for the new class in Manual Arts instituted shortly after the school opened in September. We were also able to install flush closets in the West Acton School. While some other repairs that seemed quite necessary were postponed the condition of the toilets at the West Acton School was such that all other repairs were put aside to meet the conditions there. In 1926 half the roof at the South Acton School was shingled and it was the intention of the committee to have this work completed this year, but the fear that we would exceed our budget made us hold up this work. This year it will be necessary to complete this work. It will also be necessary to shingle the West Acton school building. One building should be painted, and there will be the usual necessary repairs in all four buildings. You will note how- ever that $465.79 of this year's appropriation is being turned back to the treasury.
Mr. Davis has co-operated with the committee in trans- porting pupils from the southeast, east, and north ends of the town, and while our transportation of pupils continues to be a problem we hope that some improvement can be made in the near future, and Mr. Davis is working with us to bring this about.
Mr. Theron Newton, for many years janitor of the South Acton School, was compelled to resign in December on ac- count of poor health. Mr. Lewis Hastings was elected in his place.
In preparing our budget for the year 1931 we are asking for the smallest amount that we honestly think should be used to operate our schools efficiently-the same as was granted last year. We thank you.
Respectfully submitted,
LULU L. CLARK,
Chairman of School Committee.
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COMPARISON OF COST FOR OPERATING ACTON SCHOOIS
Mass. School Fund
1930
1929
1928
1927
Part I.
$3,610.00
$3,560.00
$3,740.00
$4,360.00
Part II.
none
none
2,978.41
1,227.92
State wards and mis-
cellaneous
151.76
131.25
276.43
439.62
Total from state, $3,761.76
$3,691.25
$6,994.84
$6,027.54
Out of town tuitions,
2,670.15
2,775.28
2,010.56
1,927.40
Grand total
$6,431.91
$6,466.53
$9,005.40
$7,954.94
Expended from ap-
propriation $44,534.21 $44,845.92 $43,984.70 $43,987.67
Net cost to town
(raised by
taxa-
tion)
38,102.30
38,379.39
34,979.30
36,032.73
Appropriations
45,000.00
45,000.00
44,000.00
44,000.00
Special
appropria-
tion
3,500.00
Total appropria- tion
$48,500.00
ESTIMATES FOR THE SUPPORT OF SCHOOIS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1931
Salary and other expenses of Superintendent .. $ 3,000.00 Expenses of instruction 28,000.00
Expenses of operation 6,500.00
Repairs
2,200.00
Auxiliary agencies 4,300.00
Outlays
1,000.00
Total
$45,000.00
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SUMMARY OF EXPENSES FOR SUPPORT FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1930
GENERAL CONTROL
Salaries and other expenses of superintendent and truant officers, clerk $3,008.28
Total control $3,008.28
EXPENSES OF INSTRUCTION
Salaries, Supervisors, Teachers :
High School and elementary
$26,595.13
Text books, high school
337.69
Text books, elementary
315.11
Stationery and supplies, high school 806.05
Stationery and supplies, elementary
482.42
Total instruction 28,536.40
EXPENSES OF OPERATION
Wages of janitor, high school building
$1,300.00
Fuel, high school
779.44
Miscellaneous
864.93
Total High School building
$2,944.37
Center
South
West
Janitor
$640.00
$760.00
$720.00
Fuel
309.01
460.13
316.62
Misc. Op.
95.37
177.37
103.30
Bld. total $1044.38 $1397.50 $1139.92
Total Elementary operating $3,581.80
Total operating High school and elementary $6,526.17
Maintenance and repairs: High school $364.50
Center South
West
· Elem.
$158.01 $146.20
$1885.91
Total elementary repairs $2,190.12
Total repairs $2,554.62
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AUXILIARY
Health
$200.00
Transportation 3,450.00
Total
$3,650.00
NEW EQUIPMENT
Security Fence Company
$134.00
Horace Partridge Co.
89.74
Atlantic Motion Picture Co.
35.00
Total new equiment $258.74
Total expended
$44,534.21
Unexpended balance
465.79
$45,000.00
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION H. S. GROUNDS Greenough Construction Company $3,500.00
Grand total
$48,500.00
PAID OUT FOR SUPPORT FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1930
GENERAL CONTROL
Superintendent, salary
$2,006.92
Superintendent, clerk hire
795.00
Superintendent, travel expenses
30.07
Total
$2,831.99
OFFICE EXPENSES AND ENFORCEMENT OF LAW
New England Tel. & Tel. Co., telephones $47.24
The Hadley Press, Inc., letterhead paper 22.00
Walter Currier, envelopes and stamps 50.98
Yawman & Erbe, folders, office cards 8.15
Laffin's Bedford Express .35
Journal of Education, magazine
6.00
Wright & Potter, summary sheets
4.64
Thomas Groom & Company, minutes book
5.15
Daniel MacDougall, census
30.00
The MacMillan Co., office book
.88
Sanderson's, calendar pad
.90
$176.29
Total General control
$3,008.28
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EXPENSE OF INSTRUCTION
Supervisor's salary, music
$400.00
Supervisor's salary, drawing
280.00
Manual Training Supervisor
32.62
Total
$712.62
Principal's salary, High school
$1,312.51
Teachers salaries, High school:
John Hough
$1,260.00
Henry Hopkinson, four months
800.00
Robert Dolan, four months
480.00
Thelma Eaton, six months
780.00
Walter Holt
1,740.00
Elsie Bixby
1,700.00
Margaret Boornazian
1,340.00
Marion Fuller
1,440.00
Total High school teachers $9,540.00
Teachers salary, elementary :
Ella Miller .
$1,400.00
Helen Murray
1,240.00
Gyneth Prew, six months
660.00
Edith Ames
1,270.00
Marion Towne
1,320.00
Edith Taylor
1,220.00
Caroline Chase
970.00
Julia McCarthy
1,400.00
Florence Merriam
1,220.00
Jessie Kinnevan
1,020.00
Harriet Suchovsky
1,220.00
Madeline Allard
970.00
Elise Dickerman
1,120.00
Total elementary $15,030.00
Total expenses of Instruction
$26,595.13
EXPENSES OF INSTRUCTION TEXT BOOKS (HIGH)
Gregg Publishing Company, shorthand books $29.22
The Burnham Antique Book Store, geographic .58
2.00
C. C. Birchard & Company, music books .... Benj. H. Sanborn & Company, geometry books The John C. Winston Company
29.58
Ginn & Company, Business English, music
75.11
Allyn and Bacon
40.63
Scott, Foresman & Company
9.93
D. C. Heath & Company .
9.87
Teachers' College, Columbia University
2.75
57.01
books
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Charles Scribner Sons
1.68
World Book Company .
41.44
Herman Goldberger Agency, magazines 30.00
M. Witmark & Sons, music books ·5.00
Edward E. Babb Company
2.89
Total text books (High) $337.69
TEXTS BOOKS-ELEMENTARY
Scott, Foresman & Company
$33.44
F. A. Owen Publishing Company 24.22
Frank G. Carpenter Foundation, reference books
43.20
National Home & School Association, ref, books
43.50
D. C. Heath & Company
32.84
Silver Burdett Company
72.29
Charles Scribner & Sons
4.87
The MacMillan Company
13.80
Webster Publishing Company
30.83
Ginn & Company
11.60
Edward E. Babb
4.52
Total Textbooks, Elementary $315.11
Total Textbooks $652.80
STATIONERY AND SUPPLIES (HIGH)
Milton Bradley Company, paper, flags
$33.35
Ginn & Company, forms, class books 7.37
J. L. Hammett Company
270.17
C. C. Birchard, music
7.33
Underwood Typewriter Company, roll
4.00
Finney & Hoit
14.15
O. H. Howe, flowers
4.25
Bon Marche, ribbon for graduation
5.92
Vannah Lithograph Company
32.40
Laffin's Bedford Express
1.75
Kinney Brothers & Watkins
10.14
Wright & Potter Co., record cards
4.16
Murphy & Snyder, chemistry paper
4.25
Royal Typewriter Company, 3 typewriters
97.50
Central Scientific Co., chemicals
43.65
Keystone View Co., picture slides
31.45
Edward E. Babb Co., envelopes, ink
1.80
Atlantic Motion Picture Co., rules
1.40
Harter Publishing Co., maps
4.13
The John C. Winston Co., business forms
8.58
John C. Ruth Co.
68.53
The Traders Carbon Supply Co., paper, ribbons
10.42
Southwestern Publishing Co., bookkeeping forms
24.05
Pierce's Express
2.00
Yawman & Erbe Manufacturing Co.
10.80
Total Stationery and Supplies (High) $806.05
L. C. Smith & Corona Type Co., 3 typewriters
102.50
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STATIONERY AND SUPPLIES (ELEMENTARY)
Milton Bradley Company
$186.39
J. L. Hammett Company 168.14
World Book Company 24.59
Kenney Brothers & Watkins, pencils 10.15
Webster Publishing Company 30.83
Edward E. Babb 3.84
J. B. Lippincott Company
.28
Benj. H. Sanborn Company
22.50
John M: Ruth Company 19.83
Wilbur D. Gilpatrick
15.87
Total Stationery & Supplies (Elementary) . . $482.42
Total Instruction & Supplies $28,836.40
OPERATING EXPENSES-HIGH SCHOOL
Janitor, Fuel and Miscellaneous
Daniel MacDougall, Janitor
$1,300.00
South Acton Coal & Lumber Co. 779.44
Miscellaneous : 1
Albert E. Sims, wire brushes $ 1.50
A. W. Davis, supplies, seeds, steel wool 82.51
J. A. MacPherson, hardware 10.87
3.04
Fuelite Natural Gas Co.
112.00
Manufacturing Equipment & Engineering Co. 1.33
L. P. Boeske, cleaning cesspool
40.00
Strong & Tracey, floor mops
.90
George Gutteridge, thermometer
2.00
West and South Water Supply
39.48
Mrs. Julia Kelley
3.00
South Acton Coal and Lumber Co.
39.40
Masury- Young Co., soap, paper towels
68.63
Maydale Spring Water Co., distilled water
.75
C. B. Dodge Co., disinfectants
40.35
Dallman Company
36.50
J. S. Moore, cutter
1.25
Laffin's Bedford Express
6.45
Department of Correction, brushes
5.45
Dura Binding Co., rebinding books
58.45
West Disinfecting Company
22.97
Allen Chair Company
5.64
Cooper Radio Electric Company
4.50
Commissioner of Public Safety
5.00
Walter Holt, transportation and express
5.71
E. P. Gates, iron and bolts
3.00
Charles E. Smith, fixing net, bolts
24.77
William B. Holt, wire brushes
10.95
Atlantic Motion Picture Co.
6.30
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co.
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C. C. Cullinane, transportation, express
2.13
O. F. Nelson, iron works Power
104.13
Light
94.47
Total miscellaneous
$864.93
Total operating expense-High school
$2,944.37
Operating Expense-Elementary
Center
South
West
Janitors
$640.00
$760.00
$720.00
Fuel
309.01
460.13
316.62
$949.01
$1,220.13
$1,036.62
Total janitors and fuel
$3,205.76
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Miscellaneous Operating Expense-Elementary
Center
South $12.00
West $12.00
West and South Water Supply $19.81
South Acton Coal & Lumber Co.
14.11
9.23
Masury-Young Co., soap, oil towels
22.87
22.88
22.87
Dept. of Correction
3.62
3.62
3.62
Theron Newton, mowing
lawn, gravel
7.00
Larkin Lumber Co., lum- ber
25.14
Dura Binding Co.
8.86
8.86
8.88
O. F. Nelson
34.80
West Disinfecting Co.
8.77
8.78
8.76
George H. Reed
4.50
South Acton Coal & Lumber
22.13
2.25
A. W. Davis, supplies
8.46
M. E. Taylor, supplies
2.00
Edison Electric Illuminating
Company
20.98
13.55
28.98
$95.37
$177.37
$103.30
Total
$376.04
Total elementary operating expense $3,581.80
MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR-HIGH SCHOOL Oliver D. Wood, beading desks $6.90
R. A. Fife Corporation, chair braces 12.00
21.50
John Evans, supplies
6.71
Edward E. Babb Co.
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A. W. Davis, frosted glass
3.25
Burditt & Williams Co., locks repaired
3.93
Albert E. Sims, repairs
180.37
Charles C. Smith, repairs
48.95
R. H. Austin, repair on electric clock
19.50
L. T. Fullonton, setting glass
77.90
Robert E. Prentiss
11.70
Total maintenance and repairs-High
$364.50
MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR-ELEMENTARY
Center
South
West
E. Z. Stanley
$23.11
$16.05
$11.70
L. T. Fullonton, setting glass
120.90
1.00
31.40
Charles E. Smith
14.00
127.65
18.58
George Gutteridge
1.50
Albert E. Sims
8.18
E. H. Longley, cement floor
60.00
William B. Holt
1,701.60
Board of Water Commissioners
54.45
$158.01 $146.20 $1,885.91
Total Maintenance and repairs-Elementary
$2,190.12
Health
High School:
Doctor Mayell, school examinations $50.00
Elementary :
Doctor Mayell, school examinations
150.00
Total Health
$200.00
Transportation
A. W. Davis
$3,450.00
Outlays
Greenough
Construction
Co., high
school
grounds
3,500.00
New Equipment
Security Fench Company $134.00
Horace Partridge Company . 89.74
Atlantic Motion Picture, screen . . 35.00
Total new equipment
$258.74
Total expended during fiscal year $48,034.21
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SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
To the School Committee and voters of Acton:
I herewith offer my annual report.
During the past year there have been some changes in the teaching staff of the Acton Schools. The staff of the graded schools has remained intact, whereas two men have entered into the system at the High school in the places of Miss Eaton and Miss Prew, who left Acton for more advanced positions at the end of the last school year. One of these men, Mr. Hopkinson, has had years of experience preparing boys for college in a private school in Boston, and the other, Mr. Dolan, is a young man with much athletic ability, as his football team of last fall testified. Besides this, he is a good teacher. The older members of the teaching force have continued with their usual high grade of instruction, and I feel very much encouraged and inspired by the assistance and good counsel tendered to me on all sides since my rise from the ranks to that of leader here. It seems right and proper to take this opportunity of expressing appreciation for the confidence placed in me by the School Committee and other citizens and groups of Acton, and for the co-oper- ation they have all shown.
The curriculum of the school continues to offer the same high grade of instruction that it has in the past, preparing for college those who desire to go to college, and giving a very good commercial course. This year there is offered a course in commercial English apart from all other English classes, which emphasizes business letter writing and other features of the subject primarily for immediate use in busi- ness. This has made it possible to do more detailed and definite work with the college preparatory group, a class of fifteen to eighteen who are studying with a definite purpose to take college entrance examinations.
It should be borne constantly in mind that, although the school and its curriculum has to be governed mightily by that small percentage of its whole body who go to college, the greater part of young people terminate their schooling with their graduation from high school. Therefore, it should be the care and desire of supervisors and preceptors to offer an immediately useful and practicable curriculum for the majority.
We have always had a course in Household Arts for Junior High girls and this year we have instituted a course in Manual Arts for the boys. Although we are already crowded for room in the building we have found a corner where a bench has been set up and a miniature shop established. Thus, once a week, under the guidance of Mr. Steuer, a Fitchburg Normal School senior, Junior High boys meet and
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learn the use of tools, such as hammer, saw, and soldering iron. I hope that at some time we can make this a full time course, giving it to Junior High boys two or three times a week and offering it to at least the Freshman boys of the Senior High school.
My stand is that, while it is very desirable for boys and girls to go to college, in fact practically necessary for some, and a person never is sure that he has advised correctly. But it is becoming of just as great importance today to know when to advise boys and girls not to go to college as it is to help them get there. Many a good blacksmith has been spoiled by a college education, and there is just as much glory and honor in being a good blacksmith, carpenter, or farmer as there is in being a good doctor. lawyer, or teacher.
PHYSICAL TRAINING
According to the state laws relative to education there should be in every public high school a time set aside for definite physical training. Therefore in trying to fulfill the law, this year there has been put into the curriculum a speci- fied time for each pupil to have supervised physical training twice a week. This is a requirement of the school, and the only way that any one can avoid it is by a doctor's certificate or its equivalent. Since instituting such a course there has been noticed an improved attitude toward study and also a more rugged general health of the school.
And not only have we endeavored to give pupils the ad- vantage of physical exercise and the healthful attitude toward life that play gives, but we are also developing lead- ers. Two or three of the older girls have classes of younger girls and some of the older boys who have had the advan- tage of military training and athletics are taking over groups of the Junior High school boys.
Through the kindness of Mr. Blanchard and the School Committee a net and backboards have been provided for the auditorium, thus making it possible to carry on our phys- ical training periods throughout the winter. I voice the opinion of the whole school, I think, when I try to express appreciation for this movement. And I can assure all con- cerned that the advantages derived from that room will more than compensate any expense in fitting it out. Right here, I wish to make it known that the Edwards-Quimby Post of the American Legion has made a contribution of thirty dollars to be used for athletic purposes in the grade schools. And I am not forgetting all the contributions that were made last fall for the High School Athletic Association, including the supper tendered the football team by the Brotherhood of the Universalist church. These manifesta- tions of good will, faith, and interest in the school and its management has been a source of encouragement and in- spiration to your superintendent.
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Last year considerable money was spent in putting the grounds about the High School in condition. There should, however, be something done on the grounds each year. There is need for several loads of loam all over the playing field, but since there is so much to be spent in painting and shingling some of the other school buildings it does not seem justifiable to spend too much on other improvements this year. I should be glad to see one or two tennis courts made at the rear of the building at some future date, and some- thing done in the way of setting out trees on the side of the back road.
INSTRUCTION IN THE SCHOOLS
From my visits to grade schools and to the classes of the High schools, which have been made on an average of once a week, I am convinced that the instruction is good. Of course, all teachers make many mistakes, as do other people, and they would be the last to deny such a statement. Some- times their mistakes, even when trivial, are a source of an- noyance to them. They spend many hours trying to analyze and correct those mistakes. But it ought to be kept in mind that we as parents may have from one to four children in school; the teacher has from fifteen to thirty or thirty-five.
The greatest amount of good can come from teaching in proportion to the greatest amount of work teachers can do with individual pupils, but in the larger classes there is very little opportunity to teach children individually.
In cases where there is doubt in the parent's mind about the standing of a child or his treatment, the best and most satisfactory thing to do is to visit the room and teacher in her work with the class. Have a good talk with her in a friendly manner. You can tell her facts about your child that will be of great assistance to her, and she can tell you another point of view that you may not have been able to get in the home. Sometimes when children begin to go to school they develop, by their associations for a while, in a manner that parents had not expected. By confidential con- ferences with teachers very often a child may be saved, and such conferences about our children are worth all the time and effort they take.
Finally, children should be kept in school every day, ex- cept for sickness. It is the law and when parents keep their children out for prolonged periods it makes an unpleasant task for the superintendent, who is in duty bound to see that children are in school. And they should learn the habit of punctuality. A boy or girl who develops a habit of getting to school late is handicapped throughout life, for we are merely compositions of habits. The young mind is ordina- rily quick to grasp things, is pliable and easily worked upon. One thing that parents in every home can do for a child is to rouse him out of bed and get him to school on time. In
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after years he may be able to tell some news reporter that his extreme old age or his high position and success in life is due to the fact that his father or his mother made him get up in the morning and get to school on time.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN F. HOUGH, Superintendent.
CLASS OF 1930
What our graduates are doing:
Ruth Berglind
A. H. S. Post Graduate
Mildred Brill
A. H. S. Post Graduate
Roy Cann
At Home
Martin Duggan
At Home
Judith Dunn
At Home
Levi Dunivan
Amherst Agricultural College
James Edney
Amherst Agricultural College
Anna Flerra
Burdett College
Eva Flerra
Burdett College
Mildred Fullonton
Helen Grala
Connecticut Housekeeper
Sterling Hager
Northeastern University
Roland Johnson
Purdy's
Glenna Jones
At Home
Pauline Nelson
A. H. S. Post Graduate
Mildren Polep
Louise Richardson
University of Southern California Wilfred Academy
Dorothy Roche
Mt. Auburn Hospital
Gertrude Schnair
Edmund Shea Charles Sherry
Acton Motor Company Carney Hospital Surveying Dodson's Lunch
Helen Taylor
A. H. S. Post Graduate
Alberta Taylor John Whitcomb
Hope Whitney
A. H. S. Post Graduate Burbank Hospital
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Acton High School Commencement Program, June 19, 1930 Blanchard Hall
Entrance Marches
Invocation
Salutatorian
Mona Servais Rev. Arthur Jeffries Sterling Hager
Chorus : "Happy Days," "Lady June"
Chorus: Selection from Gilbert & Sullivan's Operettas
Speaker: Mr. Carl Schrader
Chorus : "A Moonlight Serenade" Von Blon
Solo: "Memories"
Ruth Berglind
Music: (a) "Pickininny Sandman"-Talbert
(b) "Tinkle-00"-Forman
Class History Pauline Nelson
Chorus : "Sympathy"-Friml "Fallen Leaf"-Logan
Music: Vocal solos Gertrude Schnair
"The End of a Perfect Day"-Bond
Chorus: "Pilgrims Chorus"-Wagner
Valedictory : Mildred Brill
Awarding of Prizes
Presentation of Diplomas Mrs. Charles Clark
Chairman of the School Committee
Reception to Seniors
REPORT OF THE TEACHER OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE
Mr. John Hough,
Superintendent of Schools, i Acton, Mass.
Dear Sir:
The eighth grade is the only class to have sewing this year because of an extra class in cooking.
The first half of the year the pupils were allowed to bring such garments as they wished to sew on, provided the gar- ment was such that they were capable of doing the work right. The last half of the year, along with their regular sewing, they are to make sample books, which include samples showing the use of machine attachments.
In the cooking classes very little time is given to discus- sion, as the classes are held the two periods preceding the lunch period. The first period and a half is given over to the cooking lesson, and the rest to luncheon preparation.
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Each pupil is responsible for some cleaning in the kitchen, and some part in the luncheon preparation, each week bringing her new and different duties.
The Cafeteria is now selling chocolate pasteurized milk in bottles, which is felt to be of much value to the pupils.
The Cafeteria has the following report to make:
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1930 $22.98
Total sales for fiscal year 1,563.99
Costs of supplies, cooking and sewing
$1,558.50
Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1930
28.47
$1,586.97
$1,586.97
Respectfully submitted,
EDITH M. AMES.
CAFETERIA REPORT January 1930-January 1931
Cash on hand January 1, 1930, $22.98.
Sales
Supplies
January
$153.15
$164.03
February
121.47
112.36
March
167.92
166.72
April
130.25
134.08
May
177.12
174.83
June
123.50
134.24
September
182.23
181.67
October
211.92
199.33
November
138.14
137.07
December
158.29
154.17
$1,563.99
$1,558.50
Cash on hand January 1, 1931, $28.47.
Respectfully submitted,
EDITH M. AMES.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC
Mr. John F. Hough, Superintendent of Schools, So. Acton, Mass.
Dear Mr. Hough: 1
There is a general improvement in the condition of music in the grades, both from the standpoint of the work done by the teachers and that as expressed by the rising standard of ability on the part of the pupils. A minimum of funda- mentals is taught and many of the teachers are able to give enough application to "set" the lessons. When this is ac- complished there is immediate application in songs.
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