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STANDING RULES
Rule 1. Children shall not be admitted to the public schools until they are six years of age, excepting that children who are six by the first of January following opening of school in Sep- tember, may be admitted with the approval of the superintendent of schools.
Rule 2. Pupils shall be promoted from grade to grade and school to school according to merit. Thorough and satisfactory work will be required of pupils in a lower grade or school before entering a higher grade or school.
Rule 3. Children who have not . previously attended any school shall be admitted to the public schools only at the be- ginning of the fall term, unless qualified in the opinion of the teacher and superintendent of schools to do the work.
Rule 4. Pupils shall be held responsible for books loaned to them until returned to the teacher.
Rule 5. No repairs shall be made upon the public property in the care of the school committee except by their authorized agents.
Rule 6. There shall be no signal for "no School" on stormy or inclement days, but parents shall determine in their individual cases whether it is expedient to send their children to school or not.
Rule 7. Schools in the different Grade School Buildings shall be five and one quarter hours long, and in the High School Building shall be six hours long. In the High School Building the six hours shall include one five minute recess, one thirty minute recess for lunch and a compulsory tutoring period of thirty minutes for all students not receiving passing grades in any subject. Students in the High School Building, whose grades are above passing in all subjects may be excused from this com- pulsory tutoring period. Primary rooms in the Grade School Buildings shall have an outdoor recess each afternoon; other
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rooms shall have a recess of sufficient length to allow pupils to go to basements and outhouses. Deviation from these hours shall be made only with the consent of the Superintendent, and shall be reported by him to the School Committee at its next monthly meeting.
Rule 8. Doors shall not be opened before principals arrive. Pupils may be allowed to come to their rooms with the permis- sion of their room teachers. and pupils coming in barges may enter the basements, if weather conditions make it advisable.
Rule 9. The fire drill shall be given at least once in two weeks.
Teachers in Service, December 31, 1926
School Teacher
App. Where Educated Home Address
C'enter :
Martha F. Smith
1902 Lowell Normal
Acton
Marion L. Towne
1921 Smith Concord
South :
Molly Gilligan
1924
Lowell Normal
Concord Jet.
Elise Dickerman
1926 Fitchburg Normal Ayer
Helga Neilsen
1923 Fitchburg Normal Stow
Julia McCarthy
1906
Fitchburg Normal South Acton
West:
Maud B. Priest
1922
Fitchburg Normal West Acton
Mildred H. Moore
1925 Leslie Kinder. West Acton
Margery Stearns 1925
Fitchburg Normal West Acton
Acton High, Junior Section :
Ella L. Miller 1899
Framingham Nor. Acton
Mary Branley
1925 Hyannis Normal So. Braintree
Olive Valente 1925
Framingham No. Newton
Acton High School, Senior Section :
Charles W. Lawrance 1925 Mass. Inst. Tech. South Acton
Winifred Bruce
1925 Boston University W. Medford
William Felt
1926 Clark University Northboro
Hazel Murray
1925 Boston University W. Lynn
Mabel Noves
1925
Wellesley
Nashua, N.H.
L. Ashley Rich
1925 North University West Acton
E. Louise Turner
1926 1926 Chandler
Hanover
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Voters of Acton :
The year 1926 has certainly been one of progress for the School Department.
The state released Acton from the Littleton, Acton, Carlisle, union, allowing us to hire a much needed full time Superin- tendent. We were fortunate to procure Mr. Charles W. Lawrance, then with the Lexington High School, to be Principal of our High School, and Superintendent of Schools. Under his supervision marked improvement has been made in our entire system.
Repairs and replacements to buildings and equipment have been carefully considered and attended to. Where necessary, new text books have been purchased. In the grade buildings electric lights have been installed in the remaining used class rooms. The West building has been painted outside. New blackboards have been installed in a portion of the South building. At the Centre a section of the ceiling in Miss Towne's room fell and more of it was badly cracked and sagged. This was replaced with a meta! ceiling. New chairs and desk tops were put in our grade schools. These have been needed for several years.
At the High School a start has been made to remove the apple tree stumps between the building and Mrs. Kelley's prop- erty and eventually we will have an athletic and recreation grounds for the students.
Our two busses have been a success and have shown a marked saving in our transportation expense.
We recommend that toilets be installed in the West School to improve sanitary conditions.
We are pleased to state that 1926 bills are settled and that we are turning a good balance from our appropriation back to the Town Treasurer.
We wish to thank the Superintendent and Teachers for their co-operation throughout the year to raise the standard of our schools.
Respectfully submitted,
SPENCER HI. TAYLOR, Chairman.
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ESTIMATES FOR THE SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1927
Salaries and other expenses of School Committee $150.00
Salaries and other expenses of Supt.
and Enforcement of Law
2,500.00
Clerk of Superintendent 500.00
Salaries of Teachers
24,800.00
Text Books (High and Elementary)
2,000.00
Supplies (High and Elementary)
1,000.00
Janitor's wages, fuel and misc. operating expenses 7,100.00
Repairs
1,500.00
Health, Auxiliary Agencies
250.00
Transportation
3,000.00
New Equipment
200.00
Unclassified
1,000.00
$44,000.00
PAID OUT FOR SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS, YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1926
General Expenses
Expenses and salary of School Committee $135.79
Expenses and salary of Superintendent . 2,511.13
Expenses of Instruction
Salaries of Teachers, Principals and
Supervisors $22,904.18
Text Books (High)
750.12
Text Books (Elementary)
582.32
Stationery Supplies and Miscellaneous (High)
1,343.73
Stationery Supplies and Miscellaneous (Elementary ) 660.61
Operating Expenses (High)
3,046.05
Operating Expenses (Elementary) 4,112.06
Repairs (High) 213.41
Repairs (Elementary)
2,041.60
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Libraries and Health 200.00
Transportation
2,022.21
Special Allotment of Miscellaneous Expense 246.00
Outlays 30.00
New Equipment 552.45
Vocational Education
133.96
Balance returned to Treasurer
2,514.38
Total Appropriation for 1926 $44,000.00
Salaries of School Committee
Lulu L. Clark, Secretary $80.00
$80.00
Expenses of School Committee
Thomas Groom & Co., Committee Rec. Books $4.75
C. W. Lawrance, Reimburse for Grad. Expenses 36.00
Wright & Potter, New Account Book. Fillers 15.04
$55.79
Superintendent's Office, Salary and Travel Expenses and Enforcement of Law
Salary of Supt. Herman Knight. $79.17
Salary of Supt. C. W. Lawrance 1,625.02
Expenses of Supt. Travel, H. C. Knight ... 22.03
Expenses of Supt. Travel, C. W. Lawrance. 78.51
Miscel. Office Expenses, Reimbursement for
Stamps, Express, Freight
H. C. Knight 12.85
C. W. Lawrance 51.26
Lulu L. Clark, for special clerk hire (Town Report) 30.00
Student Clerk Hire
315.26
N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co.
139.88
Mrs. Nellie Stevens, Clerk Union 33
4.00
HI. S. Horne & Co., Fin. Report Forms 5.66
15.20
C. F. Williams & Sons, Application Forms.
26.00
W. B. Currier, Stamped Envelopes
34.64
Burroughs Add. Mach. Co., Ribbon
.75
J. L. Hammett & Co. 7.75
Yawman & Erbe Co., Filing Equip. Cards, Folders, Indexes . 21.15
Rand Kardex Co .. School Attendance
Forms, Elementary 5.00
$41,485.62
Hadley Press, Letter Heads .
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A. N. Hederstedt, Columbian Envelopes 3.00
Census Taking, Pet. 1, $12.00; Pet. 2,
$12.00 ; Pct. 3, $10.00 34.00
$2.511.13
Salaries of Supervisors and Teachers
Supervisors, Music and Drawing $455.00
High, Principal and Teachers 10,193.30
Elementary, Principal and Teachers 12.255.88
$22,904.18
Text Books (High)
Benj. Sanborn
$12.07
J. L. Hammett Co.
1.57
De Wolfe & Fiske
18.12
Macmillan & Co.
23.94
Allyn & Bacon
140.56
Old Corner Book Store
4.00
Ginn & Co. .
178.31
Harlow Publ. Co.
1.18
Edward E. Babb
112.51
D. C. Heath
45.05
Gregg Publishing Co. (Commercial Books)
27.33
Houghton Mifflin Co.
30.66
The Hadley Press
3.11
American Book Co.
4.80
Ryan & Buker (History Books)
4.34
Little Brown Co.
5.73
C. C. Birchard & Co. (Music Books)
134.40
Charles Homeyer (Music Books)
1.41
Oliver Ditson (Music Books)
1.03
$750.12
Text Books (Elementary)
C. H. Congdon
$1.89
De Wolfe & Fiske
.90
Wm. Thayer, atlas
13.14
Ginn & Co., music
112.39
Charles Scribners Sons
36.50
Scott Foresman & Co.
202.32
American Book Co.
141.10
Allyn & Bacon
66.00
The Macmillan Co.
8.08
$582.32
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Stationery Supplies and Miscellaneous (High)
Edward E. Babb $24.42
Ryan & Buker 14.19
J. L. Hammett & Co., from 1925, $218.20, paper, drawing supplies, pencils, ink, pens, etc. 819.56
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., laboratory note books 77.29
Emerson & Co., rubber stamps
6.12
J. S. Moore, lunch room equipment
1.65
A. W. Davis, express
12.65
Office Appliance Co., stencils
83.68
Ginn & Co., students' maps, etc. .
53.52
Cambridge Botanical Supply Co., rubber apron, chemistry .93
Jordan Marsh Co., graduation supplies
9.60
Finney & Hoit
7.60
Lexington Hardware Co., stainless knives . .
4.50
Vannah Lithograph Co., diploma plates and diplomas
155.00
L. A. Rich, reimbursement
4.19
Pierce's Express
1.75
Laffin's Bedford Express
6.00
The Hadley Press, report cards, study forms
58.25
Acton Drug Co. .
1.85
South Acton Woolen Co.
.58
$1,343.73
Stationery Supplies and Miscellaneous (Elementary)
Milton Bradley Co., paints
$63.06
World Book Co.
1.76
Dowling School Supply, pencils, primary
8.14
C. C. Birchard Co., music .
3.68
J. L. Hammett Co., composition paper, drawing paper, pencils, doormats
395.32
Fuller Brush Co., brushes, brooms
16.87
Hall Brothers
6.55
A. N. Hederstedt
.80
Frank Johnson, elementary report cards
10.23
A. W. Davis Co. 5.90
A. W. Davis (pers.), trucking 4.73
The Hadley Press, report cards
18.50
National Child Welfare Association, Inc.
10.00
Scott Foresman & Co. . 50.35
Ryan & Buker, wall map equipment
62.97
Acton Drug Co.
.25
$660.61
Finney & Hoit 1.50
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Operating Expenses (High School) Janitors and Fuel
Wages of Janitor and Expenses
South Acton Woolen Co., coal $968.26
2.00
A. W. Davis, trucking coal
81.19
John Pederson, trucking coal
25.50
Jesse A. Briggs, trueking coal 44.00
James Frence, cutting wood 25.00
Joseph Gagnon, cutting wood
31.50
Greenough Construction Co., hauling wood 12.00
H. Butler, sawing wood 11.88
('has. A. Durkee, kindling
10.00
$1.211.83
Miscellaneous Operating Expenses (High)
E. E. Gray, cleaning materials and lunch room supplies $4.93
A. W. Davis, trucking freight, January supplies 74.71
C. W. Lawrance, reimbursement for emer- gency labor, high school 4.00
Fuller Brush Co. broom and brushes 6.00
W. & S. Water Supply Districts, water 37.26
Wilkinson & Company, hardware 34.08
Claflin & Co., paper towels, toilet paper, fix- tures 77.20
Finney & Hoit, vacuum sweeper cord, cloth J. S. Moore .
3.50
Herbert M. Lawrance, rental waxer
2.00
George Richardson, reimbursement
2.75
American Woolen C'o., light, power
290.65
Fuelite Natural Gas Co.
99.00
L. M. Glover, floor oil and liquid soap.
32.50
Acton Drug Co.
1.55
Commissioner of Public Safety. inspecting boiler 5.00
Laffin's Bedford Express
.60
$767.90
Total High School Operating Expenses $3,046.05
Repairs (High)
Orson A. Balch, labor $57.20
Orville P. Tucker, shelves in closets
112.29
$1,066.32
Edgar Hall, demurrage
92.17
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George W. Jamison, painting shelves in closets . . 38.20
Allen Chair Co., repair parts, hinges, etc. .. 4.17
William B. Holt, plumbing 1.55
$213.41
Operating Expenses (Elementary)
Wages of Janitors Fuel :
$2,146.75
South Acton Coal and Lumber Co., coal ..
1,560.52
Hall Bros., wood
$150.00
Hall Bros., kindling
6.00
C. A. Durkee, kindling
20.00
H. Butler. sawing
27.50
Total Wood
203.50
Miscellaneous :
American Woolen Co., lights 62.98
Fred W. Green, cleaning vaults 11.00
J. W. Livermore, labor 1.50
J. M. Glover, floor oils and soap
32.14
American Radiator, brush
.61
Finney & Hoit
4.25
J. S. Moore .
1.00
Claflin & Co., paper towels and toilet paper
21.00
West and South Water Supply . 59.91
Fuller Brush Co.
6.90
Total Miscellaneous
201.29
Total Elementary Operating Expenses
$4,112.06
Repairs (Elementary)
E. Z. Stanley, repairs, boiler, center building $18.80
W. B. Holt, repairs, furnaces, center, south, west
146.28
Oliver D. Wood, flagpole, center
5.00
John S. Hoar, repairs, west
9.15
Theron Newton, summer labor, south
21.10
Noel Christion, labor, desks
10.00
John Ruble, labor, desks
10.00
Allen Chair Company, desk tops and labor
486.05
A. W. Davis, trucking
2.00
L. E. Heinze, clocks
7.00
L. T. Fullonton, painting west building ... Orvill P. Tucker, repairs, windows, doors, blackboards, south and west buildings 94.00
339.00
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George Jamison, painting and varnishing
south and west buildings . .... 61.35
South Acton Coal & Lumber Company 2.22
Charles E. Smith, new ceiling, center, paint- ing, carpentering, and repairs 212.09
B. A. King, electric lights, center, south, and west
305.00
M. E. Taylor, repair material, center 6.43
Wm. Thayer, blackboards, slatebestos . .
64.43
New England Slate Blackboard Company, cement 6.22
Greenough Construction Company, gravel, south
9.00
Kenney Bros. & Wolkins, new chair seats . 226.48
$2,041.60
Auxiliary Agencies
Health (Elementary) :
E. Mayell, M. D., medical inspection and supervision . $150.00
Health (High) :
E. Mayell, M. D., medical inspection and supervision 50.00
Total Health Supervision $200.00
Transportation
Lowell Bus Lines, balance from 1925 Bus, Precinct I :
$62.00
Wages of Drivers :
A. Christofferson $298.50
J. Briggs
222.00
$520.50
Storage :
A. Christofferson
$72.00
Mrs. I. MacGregor
24.00
96.00
Gas and Oil :
George L. Noyes
$98.38
A. W. Davis
62.27
160.65
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Repairs and Overhauling :
Gately Motor Co. . $36.90
Acton Motor Co. 31.20
68.10
Insurance and Registration :
Paul Hederstedt
167.30
Total for Routes I $1,012.55
Bus, Precinct II :
Wages of Driver :
Carl Christofferson
$520.50
Storage : A. Christofferson
96.00
Gas and Oil :
Highland Filling Station ... $87.11
Maynard & Acton Oil Co. . 25.00
Fletcher Corner Filling Sta- tion 11.30
123.41
Repairs and Overhauling :
Gately Motor Co.
36.90
Mayac Garage, emergency 1.00
J. S. Moore, paint .
2.20
Finney & Hoit, brush
.35
40.45
Insurance and Registration :
Paul Hederstedt
167.30
Total Routes II
$947.66
Total Transportation
$2,022.21'
Miscellaneous Expenses
Special Allotments-High School Expenses for Fall of 1925 : West Acton Baptist Church, repairs account $200.00
A. N. Hederstedt, rental of hall, store, and services 46.00
$246.00
Outlays-High School Grounds
V. T. Esten, blasting
$26.00
George Briggs, helper 4.00
$30.00
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New Equipment
Superintendent's Office :
Yawman & Erbe, shelves for safe $5.40
High School :
L. E. Knott Apparatus Co., geometrical models 12.60
L. C. Smith Co., typewriter
70.00
New England Slate Blackboard Co., room 13, high school
120.00
Allen Chair Co., desks, chairs for bookeep- ing and typing rooms
80.50
J. L. Hammett Co., bulletin boards Elementary Schools :
36.00
Allen Chair Co., tablet arm-chairs, primary chairs :
Precinct 1 48.00
Special Room. Precinct II 179.95
$552.45
Vocational Training®
Tuition, City of Lowell
$115.40
Transportation 18.56
$133.96
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT
To the School Committee,
Town of Acton, Mass.
Ladies and Gentlemen :
It is an honor to present herewith my first annual report as Superintendent of the schools of Acton, as well as the second an- nual report as Principal of the Acton High School.
My first duties as Superintendent were to become acquainted with the schools, their teachers, work and equipment, which had been added to my charge. I found that the buildings, though old, were still serviceable for a time to come, although they all will need extensive internal repairs in a very few years, if they are to be continued in service. Almost all of the desk tops were in very bad shape from years of marring and no repair. It was literally impossible on the majority of the desks for a child to write a line on a foolscap sheet without moving his paper to keep his pencil from slipping into the grooves. Many seats were broken. Many rooms had no electric lights.
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The School Committee adopted a policy of bringing these necessary school room fixtures and equipment up to a good state of repair, and at the same time not allowing the exterior repairs to be neglected. 282 new desk tops have been placed on the old boxes, at a cost which is a fraction of the cost of new desks. Every school room in common daily use has been equipped with electric lights, leaving only one, which is now a spare room, not equipped. Fourteen feet of slate blackboard 30 inch wide have been salvaged from discarded and unused slate sections and in- stalled in South building, together with over 126 square feet of new composition blackboard. One hundred new chair seats of comfortable and especially rugged design have been installed in the Center building and the South building. Other old seats have been repaired and put back in service. Further repairs of this sort are contemplated.
It is found that the teaching effort of the elementary schools can be made more effective immediately by revising our curricula, or plans of study in the three R's in all grades. A detailed study and plan for work in reading and language is being worked on, using the best material available. A good systematic series of readers and language books has been installed in certain grades. This should be followed by further new book equipment as the curriculum is developed towards a unified system. This kind of work demands and deserves the unremitting thought and care of every teacher and supervisor.
We have three school buildings housing Grades I to VI in- clusive, making a total of 18 small, more or less correctly graded units. There are nine teachers for these six grades, all of whom have to instruct two grades or three grades at the same time. Six teachers have charge of two grades, and two teachers have charge of three grades. This gives each teacher a roomful of children, but with a very wide age distribution. It is easy to see, that in a two-grade room one class can get at the most, only one-half of the teacher's time and effort; in a three-grade room only one- third. Because of these conditions and especially the large num- bers of pupils and relatively large age distribution in South School, an assistant has had to be employed in that building. She devotes her time each day to intensive work, part of the day with Grade II and the rest with Grade V. The employment of this assistant relieves one situation.
If these groups were gathered together there would be formed, six good sized graded classes, which for many years would be within the abilities of good teachers, one grade per teacher. The sizes of such classes can be gathered from the census of October 1, 1926, shown in the table below. The braces indicate the number of children now committed to the instruc- tion of each teacher. The approximate size of graded classes can be seen from the "total" column.
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Center School
South School
West School
Total
Grade I
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[23
19
53
Grade II
10
24
12
46
Grdae III
10
13
18
41
Grade IV
13
14
12
39
Grade V
11
21
14
46
Grade VI
10
17
14
41
Totals
65
112
89
266
Since early in March, 1926, the seventh and eighth grades have been moved from the three precinct schools to the rooms prepared for them in the High School building. Here the children are grouped together in single grades to a room under one teach- er, and much of their preparation has been evened up. These classes are being instructed, recite and study under undivided supervision of a teacher throughout the school day. They are being built into more compact units of a fully graded school system, and the results are well worth the change. Moreover they share the facilities of the assembly hall, the lunch and cook- ing rooms and the library and they associate with the students of the senior section of the High School. When properly used these are advantages of great value to the teachers who are guiding children through the troublesome years of adolescence.
The High School has steadily grown into a well-knit school. In spite of the handicaps under which pupils and teachers worked until the very end of June, 1926, the instruction of that year proved satisfactory.
The hard year's work was capped by the graduation of Acton's first class from the new High School, the first for years. The exercises that celebrated this first graduation had a beauty which lingers long as a pleasant memory. Great credit is due to the students and their faculty advisors, for the speech- es, to Miss Albrecht and her assistants for the delightful music. and to Mr. Gardner, the speaker of the evening. The graduation program and list of graduates follows :
Commencement Program
1. March
2. Senior Class Greetings
3. "Carmena"
4. Address
High School Orchestra Marion S. Fobes Double Quartet Mr. Harry Gardner, Deputy Commissioner of Education, State of Massachusetts
5. "Landing of the Pilgrims"
"Oh, Miss Hannah"
6. Class History
Double Quartet Sumner J. Teele
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7. Vocal Solo
8. Warrior Bold Alice Where Art Thou Two Grenadiers
9. Valedictory
10. Moonlight Serenade La Spagnola
11. Presentation of Diplomas
High School Chorus
Mr. Spencer Taylor,
Chairman of School Committee
Reception by Seniors to Parents and Friends (In Rear of the Auditorium)
Graduating Class of 1926
Post Graduates
Dorothy Mabel Jones
Viola Isabel Merriam
Thomas Joseph Shea Virginia Swift
Grace Eleanor Chickering
Seniors Alberta Augusta Agnes Hodgen
John Henry Ingman
Charles Bradford Howe
John Francis Enneguess
Florence Arlene Jones
Marion Sturtevant Fobes
Richard Joseph O'Neil
Ruth Billings Fullonton
Summer Joseph Teele
Ethel Olive Granberg Mildred Harris Tuttle
Albert Thompson Grimes William Davis Tuttle
Ruth Christine VanWinkle
The High School reopened in September, 1926, with the addition of fifteen students from Boxboro, with an unusually large entering class and with many others moving to town, car- rying the registration to 135, as compared with 102 for the opening of school in September, 1925. Every effort was made to see that the new members were welcomed to the school and made to feel at home as soon as possible. The work this year has been of a much harder grade than the year before and ap- proaches more nearly the standards accepted for the better grade of High School. Disappointment has been expressed at times that student's marks are not always high, which would show, perhaps that the school is not doing its full part by the student. In reality the standards are stiffened, and more and better work than ever before is being demanded. The quality of work is approaching the standards required to successfully meet the College Entrance Board Examinations. The work of the Com- mercial Department is of a grade practically parallel to the College Course. It is the duty of the teachers and the Super- intendent to maintain the highest standards of work, in order to justify the existence of this school.
The work in Domestic Science has been begun with classes in cooking. Classes in sewing will be started at a very early
Leona B. Albrecht
High School Chorus A. A. Hodgen
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date. Other classes relating to home planning and manage- ment will be given later. A teacher has been engaged to organ- ize the work and to teach these classes. The instruction is given mostly to girls of the 7th, 8th, and 9th grades, with a class from the rest of the senior High School. It is not the aim to give a complete Domestic Science course for all years in the High School, but one which will give the younger girls thorough in- struction in the basic work of housekeeping.
The High School lacks proper athletic facilities for its teams and school games. Last Spring a West Acton citizen courteous- ly and generously allowed the boys and girls of the High School to use his fields by his home for practice and games. This enabled the school to put a baseball team on the field. The season was reasonably successful and it showed a high promise of what can be done with proper facilities in the future. A levelled and properly equipped field, suitable for baseball, field hockey and football should be provided for Spring and Fall sports. The present field, which is next to the High School building and which is partially cleared, is a good beginning. Some gymnasium or large hall should also be provided for basketball and other intramural, competitive sports, as well as corrective gymnastics and athletic drills during the long winter months. The students are providing their own personal team equipments, but are not able to provide the bigger facilities of field and hall.
Every school consists of the three essential parts, the pupils, the buildings and equipment, and the teachers. The pupils are the sole reasons for the schools, although they often consider themselves the most hardly used factor of the three. Buildings and equipment which are in a high degree of repair. inspire and make good work possible in place of mediocre work. To the teachers of every school and grade therefore, it is an honor to express my appreciation for the high professional spirit they have shown in their work this past year. This ap- preciation is shared by the persons who know their work and achievements intimately.
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