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We hope that our voters will realize that we are able to do this for one year, because we have looked ahead in purchasing supplies. books, etc. and feel that we have accomplished a maximum of results with the money entrusted to us for our schools.
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Respectfully submitted. LULU L. CLARK,
Chairman of School Committee.
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COMPARISON OF COST FOR OPERATING ACTON SCHOOLS
Massachusetts School Fund
1931 $3,736 00
1930
1929
1928
Part I
$3,610 00
$3,560 00
$3,740 00
Part II
1,565 07
1,909 84
2,978 41
State Wards,
580 58
151 76
131 25
276 43
Total from State,
$4,316 58
$5,326 83
$5,601 09
$6,994 84
Out of town tuitions,
$2,486 15
$2,670 15
$2,775 28
$2,010 56
Total,
$6,802 73
$7,996 98
$8,376 37
$9,005 40
Expended from appro- priation,
$44,863 47 $44,534 21 $44,845 92 $43,984 70
Net cost of town
(raised by taxation), $38,060 74 $36,537 23 $36,469 55 $34,979 30
Appropriations,
$45,000 00 $45,000 00 $45,000 00 $44,000 00
Special,
$3,500 00
$48,500 00
ESTIMATES FOR THE SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1932
Salary and other expenses of Superintendent,
$2,188 00
Expenses of Instruction,
28,060 00
Expenses of Operation,
5.165 00
Repairs,
1,000 00
Auxiliary Agencies (Transportation and Health),
4,200 00
Miscellaneous,
2.387 00
Total,
$43,000 00
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Summary of Expenses for Support for Year Ending December 31, 1931
GENERAL CONTROL
Salary and other expenses of Superintendent, $2,556 38
EXPENSES OF INSTRUCTION
Salaries of Teachers and Supervisors:
Elementary,
$13,061 25
High School,
11,441 84
Principal of High School,
1,045 83
Supervisors,
907 84
$26,456 76
High School Textbooks,
$446 36
Elementary Textbooks,
691 04
High School Stationery and Supplies,
817 94
Elementary Stationery and Supplies,
525 97
Total Expenses of Instruction,
$28,938 07
EXPENSES OF OPERATION
High School
Wages of Janitor,
$1,382 30
Fuel,
470 08
Miscellaneous,
717 23
$2,569 61
Elementary
South
West
Center
Wages of Janitor,
$780 00
$732 00
$640 00
$2,152 00
Fuel,
529 18
526 98
491 12
1.547 28
Miscellaneous,
55 01
38 14
50 66
143 81
$1,364 19 $1,297 12 $1,181 78
$3,843 09
Total High and Elementary Operating Expense,
$6,412 70
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MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS
High School,
$684 58
South West Center $725 71 $909 20 $197 35 $1,832 26
Elementary,
Total Maintenance and Repairs,
$2,516 84
AUXILIARY AGENCIES
High School:
Library,
$131 75
Miscellaneous,
483 62
Elementary:
Miscellaneous,
154 11
Transportation,
3,670 00
$4.439 48
Total Expended,
$44,863 47
Unexpended Balance,
136 53
$45.000 00
Special Appropriation for Insurance,
903 99
PAID FOR SUPPORT FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1931
GENERAL CONTROL
Superintendent, salary
$2,000 04
Clerk,
450 00
Superintendent, travel expenses,
10 00
$2.460 04
OFFICE EXPENSES
New England Tel. & Tel. Company,
$45 00
School Service Company, office cards,
3 70
Post Office, envelopes,
22 06
John M. Ruth & Company, desk blotters,
1 08
J. L. Hammett Company, report card envelopes,
1 67
Mrs. Charles Clark, telephone and stamps,
1 57
Murphy & Snyder, warrants,
6 50
John F. Hough, postage and saws filed,
2 48
D. C. Heath & Company, office book,
1 71
Wright & Potter Printing Company, office supplies,
4 15
Remington Rand Business Service, office cards,
2 44
Lillian Frost, envelopes,
90
Finney & Hoit, tablet and ink,
35
7
Silver Burdett & Company, office book, The MacMillan Company, office book,
1 69
1 04
Total,
$96 34
Total General Control,
$2,556 38
EXPENSES OF INSTRUCTION
Supervisor's Salary, Music,
$400 00
Supervisor's Salary, Drawing,
280 00
Supervisor's Salary, Manual Training,
227 84
Total Supervisors' Salaries,
$907 84
Principal's Salary, High School,
$1,045 83
Teachers' Salaries:
Henry Hopkinson,
$2,000 00
Walter Holt,
1.800 00
Robert Dolan,
1.280 00
Elsie Bixby,
1.700 00
Margaret Boornazian,
1,440 00
Barbara Douglass, four months,
440 00
Marion Towne, four months,
540 00
Marjorie Jones, four months,
381 84
Mary Stolte, four months,
400 00
Edith Ames, four months,
560 00
Marion Fuller, six months,
900 00
Total High School Teachers' Salaries,
$11,441 84
Elementary Teachers' Salaries:
Ella Miller,
$1,400 00
Helen Murray, six months,
780 00
Edith Ames, six months,
780 00
Marion Towne, six months,
780 00
Edith Taylor, six months,
750 00
Caroline Chase, six months,
626 25
Ruth Brennan, four months,
375 00
Gertrude Puhakka, four months,
360 00
Julia McCarthy,
1.400 00
Jessie Kinnevan,
1,070 00
Florence Merriam,
1,250 00
Harriet Suchovsky,
1,270 00
Elise Dickerman,
1.152 50
Madeline Allard,
1,020 00
Mrs. Minetta Lee, substitute,
17 50
Mrs. Arthur Nelson, substitute,
30 00
Total Elementary Teachers' Salaries,
$13,061 25
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HIGH SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS
$36 74
The MacMillan Company,
67 73
Manual Arts Press, 15 09
Silver, Burdett & Company,
1 63
Ginn & Company,
41 71
College Entrance Book Company,
2 63
M. Witmark & Sons,
10 00
Edward E. Babb & Company, Inc ..
16 79
Houghton Mifflin Company,
7 95
Southwestern Publishing Company.
12 63
Dura Binding Company,
21 35
The John C. Winston Company,
39 27
Charles Scribner's Sons,
6 56
World Book Company,
56 95
American Book Company,
22 50
G. P. Milne,
1 82
Regents Publishing Company,
45
Iroquois Publishing Company,
1 26
Benj. H. Sanborn & Company,
3 61
Chappell-Harms, Inc.,
3 86
D. C. Heath & Company,
26 59
Gregg Publishing Company,
15 25
Lyons & Carnahan,
2 00
Oliver Ditson Company,
15 95
Yawman & Erbe Manufacturing Company,
9 60
F. A. Owen Publishing Company,
1 56
Boston Music Company,
4 88
Total,
$446 36
ELEMENTARY TEXT BOOKS
The Arlo Publishing Company,
$7 40
The MacMillan Company,
116 89
Benjamin H. Sanborn & Company
21 70
Silver. Burdett & Company,
140 58
World Book Company,
1 35
D. C. Heath & Company,
13 94
Webster Publishing Company,
2 27
Laurel Book Company,
4 65
Ginn & Company,
79 00
Scott. Foresman & Company,
223 42
Dura Binding Company,
48 30
Iroquois Publishing Company,
12 10
Campbell & Leunig, Inc.,
16 18
American Book Company,
3 26
Total Elementary Textbooks,
$691 04
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Allyn and Bacon.
HIGH SCHOOL STATIONERY AND SUPPLIES
John M. Ruth & Company, pencils and desk blotters, $10 04
Taylor Instrument Company, charts, 4 63
South Acton Coal and Lumber Company, board, 1 16
Webber Lumber & Supply Company, Manual Training,
19 43
J. L. Hammett Company, pencils, paper, envelopes,
374 86
Atlantic Motion Picture Corp., base lamp,
3 75
Boston Music Company,
10 16
Office Appliance Company, stencils,
38 96
Vannah Lithograph Company,
35 30
The Bon Marche, ribbon,
2 80
The Papercrafters, Inc.,
69 29
Murphy & Snyder, paper and programs,
10 75
Wilbur D. Gilpatric, paper,
18 63
The Traders Carbon Paper Company, type ribbons,
10 63
Central Scientific Company, laboratory supplies,
14 85
Edward E. Babb & Company, Inc., workbooks and paper,
92 84
Palmer & Parker Company, wood,
3 80
Sears, Roebuck & Company, laboratory supplies,
8 66
Finney & Hoit,
1 77
J. A. MacPherson, laboratory and manual training supplies,
4 93
Ginn & Company, teachers' class books,
11 57
John M. Woods & Company,
11 66
Cambosco Scientific Company, laboratory supplies,
6 27
A. W. Davis Company,
30 20
Chamber of Commerce of United States, Nation's Business,
3 00
Walter Holt, popular music,
10 00
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Le Petit Journal,
8 00
Total
$817 94
ELEMENTARY STATIONERY AND SUPPLIES
John C. Winston Company, $1 98
3 29
Frank C. Johnson, Elementary Record Cards,
4 13
Edward E. Babb & Company, Inc.,
25 38
Milton Bradley Company, drawing supplies,
274 42
J. L. Hammett Company,
206 52
Herman Goldberger Agency, magazines,
5 55
Alfred F. Gruener,
4 70
Total, $525 97
HIGH SCHOOL OPERATING EXPENSE
Daniel MacDougall, janitor,
$1,382 30
Webber Lumber & Supply Company,
3 42
Fuelite Natural Gas Company,
168 00
Edison Electric Illuminating Company,
237 36
New England Tel. & Tel. Company,
8 81
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O. H. Toothaker, Primary tests,
A. W. Davis & Company, snow pusher, coal, glass,
328 75
J. L. Hammett Company,
4 11
Strong & Tracy, soda.
98
West & South Water Supply Company,
36 51
South Acton Coal & Lumber Company, coal,
174 20
Edward E. Babb & Company, mop wringer
4 22
West Disinfecting Company, soap, dispensers, towels,
150 60
The Holmerden Company,
17 20
Lloyd Priest, recharging chemicals,
2 50
John Dunivan, recharging chemicals,
2 50
Masury-Young,
39 75
Fullton & Hayward. repair floor oiler,
3 10
George Coombs, sawing wood,
1 40
Forrest Bean, sawing wood,
1 40
Acton Motor Company, welding,
50
O. H. Howe, plants,
2 00
Total High School Operating Expense,
$2,569 61
ELEMENTARY OPERATING EXPENSE
South
West
Center
Janitor
$780 00
$732 00
$640 00
$2.152 00
Fuel,
529 18
526 98
491 12
1.547 28
Totals,
$1,309 18
$1.258 98
$1,131 12
$3,699 28
MISCELLANEOUS
South
West
Center
West & South Water Supply Co.,
$12 00
$17 02
$21 12
Edison Electric Ill. Company,
38 55
18 30
20 10
Byron Lumber Co.,
56
L. C. Hastings, Supplies,
90
W. J. Costello, Signs,
2 00
South Acton Coal & Lumber Co.,
1 00
J. L. Hammet:, clock,
7 35
M. E. Taylor & Company, rope,
2 09
Edward E. Babb & Company, Inc., duster,
82
Fritz Oelschlegel, chopping block,
2 00
Totals,
$55 01
$38 14
$50 66
Total Elementary Miscellaneous,
$143 81
Total Elementary Operating Expense,
$3,843 09
HIGH SCHOOL MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS
Albert E. Sims,
$4 00
Pratt & Forrest Company, lumber,
3 78
C. M. White Iron Works, window guards,
166 00
Boston Consolidated Gas Company,
37 95
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Edward E. Babb & Company, braces, B. A. King,
12 97
10 25
L. T. Fullonton & Company,
115 00
South Acton Coal & Lumber Company,
4 82
Charles E. Smith,
9 26
Albert E. Sims, hot water showers,
232 95
Taylor Instrument Company, repair stormograph,
9 00
Kenney Bros. & Wolkins, shades, etc.,
38 60
Diebold Safe & Lock Company, repair safe,
40 00
Total,
$684 58
ELEMENTARY MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS
South
West
Center
Albert E. Sims,
$11 13
$12 56
$28 70
George Hayward, shingling,
391 70
4 80
J. N. Berry & H. Hale, shingling,
456 00
L. T. Fullonton & Co.,
71 56
173 50
C. H. Schnair & Son,
210 57
220 58
N. H. Tenney,
39 76
George H. Gutteridge,
2 00
George H. Whitney, fire extinguishers,
30 00
William B. Holt,
10 75
O. D. Wood,
97 00
South Acton Coal & Lumber Co.,
6 36
Larkin Lumber Company,
15 25
Edwin A. Phelan,
15 98
E. Z. Stanely,
34 06
$727 71
$907 20 $197 35
Total Elementary Maintenance and Repairs,
$1,832 26
HEALTH
Dr. Ernest Mayell, examinations in High & Elementary Schools, $200 00
TRANSPORTATION
A. W. Davis,
$3,670 00
LIBRARIES
H. W. Wilson Company, Readers' Guide, Desmond Publishing Company,
$7 00
Carpenter's Travels and Winston Encyclopedia,
74 00
Gaylord Bros., Inc., book cards and shelf holders,
21 30
Herman Goldberger Agency,
14 45
Welles Publishing Company,
15 00
Total,
$131 75
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NEW EQUIPMENT
Allen Chair Company, chairs for Center School, 19 50
Massachusetts Reformatory, desks and chairs, 66 75
20 71
Kenney Bros. & Wolkins, desk stands, Woodstock Typewriter Company,
160 00
Total,
$266 96
TUITION
City of Worcester,
$10 40
City of Lowell,
71 84
City of Somerville,
19 23
Total,
$101 47
MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSE
Bostitch Sales Company, stapler,
$4 50
Dallman Company, mops,
4 50
Royal Typewriter Company, repairs,
2 00
L. C. Smith Typewriter Company,
5 10
W. W. Holt, express on motion picture films,
3 40
C. C. Cullinane, trucking,
5 95
Commissioner of Public Safety, boiler inspection,
5 00
Laffin's Bedford Express,
35
Daniel MacDougall, school census,
30 00
Ralph Jones, sand and gravel,
6 50
George Coombs, trucking,
2 00
Total Miscellaneous Expense,
$69 30
Total expended during fiscal year,
$44,863 47
By Special Appropriation for Insurance,
$903 99
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Report of School Superintendent
To the School Committee and Voters of Acton:
I, herewith, offer my second annual report as Superintendent of Schools of Acton and Principal of the Acton High School.
The period of depression which has seemed to become so popular throughout the world has had its effect upon institutions of learning of all kinds. In some communities the result has been that the attendance in high and elementary schools has increased. This has not been noticeably so in Acton, however. The number enrolled in all our schools is 500. This is somewhat larger than the enrollment of last year but the same as the enrollment of 1926 and about 11 less than the enrollment of 1928. The number of pupils in the high school building is 225. Although the number attending school has not materially increased, the distribution seems to be different from that of previous years. For instance, the Sophomore room is overcrowded, while the seventh grade is much smaller than usual.
Last year, we started a class in manual training for the boys in the Junior High School. Mr. Steuer, a senior of the Fitchburg Normal School, came to Acton every Friday to teach this subject as a project in connection with his course at Normal School. Some tools were purchased, and the room formerly used for sewing was taken over for this course. The sewing tables and other materials were moved to another room for the purpose. The course continues this year under the instruction of James Smith, another senior at the Fitchburg Normal School. Besides being an in- structor for the Junior High boys once a week, he also has a class in mechanical drawing for the boys in the Senior High School. The boys. who take this course seem to be very much interested in it. For the mechanical drawing, they are given 1 point toward graduation.
Pupils are also given 1 point toward graduation for Physical Training if they pursue the course regularly and industriously.
There seems to have been some misunderstanding about this subject of Physical Training. As has been previously stated, it is a State require- ment for all schools in Massachusetts and here it has been placed in the schedule just the same as any other subject. It is given twice a week. The aim is to provide each pupil with some means of play and physical exercise. They are taught considerable about different games. Sometimes they have a few calisthenics and some marching. It is not the intention of any of us on the teaching staff to teach military drill or military tactics. When boys are asked to do any military drill, it is only a little marching or facing to teach them to act in co-ordination with others and learn to respond to suggestions readily and cheerfully. Any pupil who goes into any of our physical training classes with the proper spirit, to have good clean fun and invigorate the body, will find that he gets out of it all that it costs him to lose in individuality for a short while.
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And while we are speaking of individuality, this might be a good place to face a fact that is unavoidable. In a public school of 200 pupils, it is impossible for a child to exert his individuality. We teachers all realize that the more individual attention we can give to pupils, the more successful we will be as teachers and those of us who look upon our pupils as human beings try to study each separate case. But the number we have to teach and the time we have to do it in does not permit us to take over the job that should be done by the parent who has the greatest opportunity to study the child as an individual. Therefore, when a parent complains that the teachers do not understand her child, she is not taking cognizance of the fact that the most valuable lesson that the child can learn while going to school is to adjust himself to conditions about him. Regardless of what modern psychologists and behaviorists say we are still slaves of circumstance and as long as we live in a democracy that supports public schools, our regulations must be primarily uniform. A new rule cannot be made for each one who does not like the existing one or who has diffi- culty in adapting himself to it. I am not recommending as perfect this situation where man is a slave to circumstance. I am just stating a fact, and if some strong soul like Emerson or Thoreau wishes to face the world alone and independently aloof. I admire him, but the place for him is not in the public schools of America.
To this end, all pupils should bring written excuses to school for absences. All pupils should pay a penalty for whispering or throwing paper wads. All pupils should stand in danger of expulsion for refusing to abide by the reasonable rules of the school or for saying flatly, "I won't." That is one thing that cannot be tolerated in a public school. What value would be attached to a diploma received from a school where that was customary? And what value can be attached to a diploma received from a school where pupils are not required to reach a certain degree of profi- ciency in the subjects taught each school day? Our regulations ought to be still more strict and ought to be enforced by every teacher and every supervisor who in turn ought to be backed up by every last adult in Acton. Then it would mean something for a boy or girl to say, "I graduated from Acton High School." All teachers are here for the welfare of the pupils who attend the schools. They realize that. And all punishments are for the good of the pupils. They are not vindictive. They are for the purpose of trying to get them to have better scholarship or better character.
Another thing that parents should be appraised of is the matter of dropping subjects or courses while in high school. Of course, we want the child to do what he is most interested in if it is possible, but how many of us have not had many regrets in our adult lives because we were not made to take certain subjects we thought we did not like while we were in school? A pupil who starts with the college course and then finds that he has no chance of going to college would be better off probably to change to other subjects, although there is some argument against this. But there is no argument for a pupil who tries to change his course because it is too hard or because he does not like the teacher. What will happen to him in later years, when he has only himself to assist him, if he shifts from this to that ever seeking the easiest way through life?
It has been said that a person might much better fail by trying the
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hard things in life than to succeed by the easiest methods but I don't sup- pose modernists would agree with any such statement. A parent, however, should give the matter careful consideration before he gives his consent to changing a subject in his child's High School Course.
Last year, the rate of tardiness to school became much improved as I think did also that of absences. There are, however, a few cases that give trouble, and these will be attended to. It does not seem to be gen- erally understood that a parent has no right to keep his child out of school. Now, it seems on the face of it rather high-handed for any one to tell me what I can do or cannot do with my own child. Nevertheless. it is the law, and appears in General Laws Relating To Education, Chapter 76, Section 2:
"Every person in control of a child described in the preceding section shall cause him to attend school as therein required and if he fails so to do for seven days session or 14 half days session within any period of six months, he shall on complaint of an attendance officer be punished by a fine of not more than $20.00. No physical or mental condition capable of correction. or rendering the child a fit subject for special instruction at public charge in institutions other than public day schools, shall avail as a defense unless it ap- pears that the defendant has employed all reasonable measures for the correction of the condition and the suitable instruction of the child."
In simple language, the above means that boys and girls should never be allowed to absent themselves from school for such purposes as attending motion picture theatres, or for a day's hunting or fishing. Going to school should be the first business of everyone attending. All other work and amusements should be secondary during the years of going to school.
All schools, as well as other institutions, have their weak points and places. But it is my firm belief that by and large the schools of Acton give as good instruction as those of any other town. It is the concensus of opinion of the teachers in the grades that no pupil has ever been trans- ferred from another town to Acton with a record of achievement advanced beyond those pupils in the grade to which he has been transferred in Acton. And in most cases they have not been so far advanced.
There is every reason to believe that a child can get as good educa- tion in Acton as elsewhere. Our books are modern and sensible. The first and second grades have been equipped this year with the New Elson Readers and supplementary material for the primary work. These new books are somewhat simpler in approach than the older ones, and build up a working vocabulary a little more gradually. There is some fault to find with the Elson system, but I have come to the conclusion that they who master it from the first to the seventh grades are good readers.
Our teaching staff has undergone a few changes this year. At Acton Centre all teachers are new to the building. Miss Brennan of Lowell has taken the place of Miss Chase who has gone to New Bedford. Miss Puhakka has taken the place vacated by Miss Taylor who resigned last June to become Mrs. Henry Engman. Miss Towne and Miss Miller have
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exchanged places, Miss Miller now being principal of the Acton Centre School, which is nearer her home, and Miss Towne taking over the seventh grade in the high school building. The staffs in the other two grade build- ings remain the same.
In the high school building Miss Fuller, last June, accepted an offer from the Wakefield Superintendent and Miss Murray moved on to the Oliver Ames High School in North Easton. Miss Barbara Douglass, a graduate of the University of Vermont and living in Winchester, New Hampshire, has been very capably filling the place vacated by Miss Fuller, and Miss Mary Stolte, a graduate of Middlebury and living in Brattleboro, Vermont, has taken over the work previously done by Miss Murray, in- cluding girls' basketball. We also lost our drawing supervisor, Miss Elizabeth Farmer, this year. The new one, Miss Phyllis Darch, is a very conscientious and capable girl besides being a talented artist. Mr. Smith, the manual training supervisor, is a Fitchburg Normal Senior. Under his supervision, the Junior High School boys are making some benches for their own use, and the Manual Training Room commences to look more like a shop.
With this corps of teachers Acton Schools are equipped to give children of Acton excellent instruction both practical and academical. New hot showers for both boys and girls help to make our physical train- ing department more efficient.
Mr. Hopkinson this year has been acting as advisor to all pupils in the three upper classes of high school. He has had personal talks with each one and has advised about college and business and what courses to take for the remaining year in High School.
Parents are invited to communicate with him or with the Superin- tendent or both at any time concerning their children. Miss Bixby is the advisor for the Freshmen. Any pupil attending Acton High School can well feel that an active individual interest is being taken in his welfare in the present and for the future.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN F. HOUGH, Superintendent.
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What the Graduates of 1931 are Doing
Batchelder. Beulah,
Housekeeper
Callahan, Grace,
Fitchburg Normal
Coombs, Marjorie.
Brookline Trust Co.
Condon, John,
John Hancock Insurance Co.
Costello, Eleanor,
Post Graduate
Cunningham, Carroll,
Chauffeur
Duggan, Peter,
Carney Hospital
Flagg, Alden,
Lawrence Academy
Freeman, Edna,
At Home
Granberg, Madeline,
At Home
Hagen, Gladys,
Burdett
Hagen, Robert,
Post Graduate
Holland, Elaine,
Cambridge Hospital
Hudgins, Cecil,
Jones, Edna,
Post Graduate
Kelley, Mary,
At Home
Mason, Rena,
At Home
Mclaughlin, Ruth,
Housekeeper
Mekkelsen, Margaret,
Married
Perkins, Norman,
At Home
Sanborn, Russell,
A. & P. Lexington
Servais, Mona,
At Home
Teele, Ruth,
At Home
Tompkins, Ruoff,
Acton Drug Co.
Turner, Hope,
Gift Shop, Concord
Ward, Catherine,
Webbing Factory, Concord
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Acton High School
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM BLANCHARD HALL THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1931
Entrance March of Seniors
Invocation
The Reverend Howard A. Long
Salutatory Address
Robert Hagen
Chorus: "We Meet Again Tonight" "Nightfall in Granada"
L. Bueno
Commencement Speaker
Professor H. R. Phelan, Columbia University
Chorus: "Wi' a Hundred Pipers"
William J. Samsel
Girls' Glee Club: "Will o' the Wisp" "Partners"
Chorus: "Deep River" "Bendemeer's Stream"
Valedictory Address
Gladys Hagen
Song
Senior Class
Presentation of Diplomas Finale March
Reception to Seniors
HONOR PUPILS
Gladys Hagen
Robert Hagen
Beulah Batchelder Grace Callanan
Edna Jones
Pupil chosen for best rank in scholarship, loyalty, and achievement: Eleanor Costello
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Report of Domestic Science Teacher
Mr. John Hough,
Superintendent of Schools, Acton, Massachusetts.
DEAR SIR:
In the Sewing Course of the Eighth Grade the class has been divided so as to give more attention to individual work. Aprons were the first garment made, but not entirely by hand, as it has been found that the pupils become too discouraged by the slow process thus made necessary to finish the garment. Other garments follow in order of advancement. Knitting is taught to those without any sewing, thus providing dish cloths for the kitchen. Twenty-six garments have been made thus far.
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