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This has the effect of improving the financial, super- visory, and accounting aspects of school athletic programs. Acton school authorities have complied with the law by turn- ing over the "Athletic Association" balance and all receipts since the effective date of the law to the Town Treasurer. $500 represents the difference between anticipated revenues and expenses for the year 1951.
3. Special School Lunch Account $100
Summary of State Law-School Committees may use
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·funds disbursed to them under the provisions of the School Lunch act, gifts, and other funds received from sale of school lunches. Such contributions, fees, and state allotments shall be deposited with the Town Treasurer and held as a separate account, and expended by said committee without appropria- tion.
This has the effect of improving the financial, super- visory, and accounting aspects of school lunch programs.
4. High School Interior Refinishing $1,000
Rooms 10A, 11, 12, 14, and second floor locker room.
5. Center School Heating Unit $4,000
To be added to the $2,000 which was appropriated for " this purpose last year and not used.
MISCELLANEOUS
1. Class of 1950 trip to Washington under the direction of Miss Jacqueline Jeyes and Vice-Principal William O'Con- nell. Group was welcomed and entertained by Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers.
2. Special "School Activities" Exhibition held in April.
3. Junior Red Cross activities to aid the Bedford Hos- pital, Perkins Institute for the Blind, Emerson Hospital, Children's Hospital, and Save the Children Federation.
4. "Bundle Day" collection of 33 bags of clothing for needy children in this country and abroad.
5. Donation of two pianos to the School Department, one from Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stetson, and the other from Mr. and Mrs. Edward LeClerc of School Street, South Acton.
6. Introduction of Soccer as interscholastic fall sport.
7. Development of junior teams in all sports.
8. Establishment of Red Cross First Aid courses under direction of Instructors Irene Costello and John Winton, who hold Red Cross First Aid Instructors Certificates.
9. School Department sponsorship of Red Cross Water Safety program at Lake Walden.
10. Formation of special Town Committees to explore both the local and regional school building possibilities.
11. Donation of two hundred books, including valuable World War I reference works, to the Acton High School
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Library by Major Charles Coulter, former resident of Acton.
In conclusion I would like to express my gratitude to all of my fellow workers in the School Department and to the members of the School Committee who by their interest, understanding, and hard work have helped to improve Acton's schools during the past year.
Respectfully submitted,
WHITMAN PEARSON, Superintendent of Schools
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Name
Education
Grade Special
Dardana Berry
Framingham Normal School
5
Principal
Margaret Barrett
Lowell State Teachers College, Boston University
2
Romona Davis
Boston University
4
Celina MacLean
Perry Kindergarten School
1
Julia L. McCarthy
Fitchburg Normal School
3
Principal
Jessie E. Gemma
Fitchburg Normal School
6
Mary F. Lynch
Emmanuel College, Fitchburg State Teachers College
5
Florence A. Merriam
Fitchburg Normal School
1
Helen DeCoste
Lesley School 2
Carolyn Douglas
Fitchburg Teachers College
6
Acting Principal
Anne Welch
Fitchburg Teachers College
1
Catherine Evans
Bates College
4
Ann Derby
Lesley College
2
Joanne Mclaughlin
Regis College, Boston University
3
Alphonse J. Alminas
Suffolk Law School, Boston University
H.S.
Carl Bowman
Northeastern University, Fitchburg State Teachers
H.S.
College, Boston University.
Gregory Bowes
Mass. School of Art, Harvard University All
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Irene Costello Mary Emerson Dorothy Ferry Edward Ferry
John Haynes
Jeyes, Jacqueline (Mrs. E. Roberts) Evelyn Knowlton Albert Koch William O'Connell
Bradford College
Tufts College Boston University
Ruth Proctor Radcliffe College John Priske Truro College, N. E. Conservatory of Music
Mass. School of Art
Smith College
University of Massachusetts
University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, Cam- bridge University, University of Brussells, Uni- versity of Paris, Harvard
All Girls Coach
H.S. Cafeteria H.S. H.S. Jr. High Coach
H.S.
H.S. Publications
H.S. Cafeteria
H.S.
H.S. Faculty Manager Vice Principal
H.S. Dramatics
All Assemblies
H.S. Visual Aids
H.S. Student Council
H.S. Boys Coach
All Superintendent-Principal
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Ralph Stetson
Marion Towne John Winton Whitman Pearson
Bridgewater State Teachers College New Hampshire University Radcliffe College, Boston University
Middlebury College, Syracuse University, Rutgers, Columbia University, University of Mass., Harvard University Boston University Salem Teachers College
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REPORT OF ACTON HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
At the start of the 1950-51 school year the Acton High Athletic Association had a deficit of $167. This was elimi- nated by the magazine drive, Athletic Association dance and Christmas card sales, so that the athletic fund now has a balance of over $100.00 to start the year 1951. The maga- ine drive was again a huge success with the gross sales go- ing over the $1000.00 goal for the second year in succession.
The new Law which went into effect on October 20, 1950, has been explained in detail by Mr. Pearson in his report, so I will not repeat it, except to say that the Town Treasurer now has control of all athletic receipts and ex- penditures.
A new varsity sport, soccer, was added to the athletic program last fall. The soccer team played eight games, win- ning two, tieing two and losing four.
Boys and girls basketball teams will be members of the Wachusett League again this year, although the League will be divided into two divisions, with Acton in the Eastern section. The League has been grouped in this manner to eliminate long trips and local teams will not travel more than nine miles from the high school.
The Acton boys played at the Boston Garden on Decem- ber 12, and enjoyed their greatest success in five years by downing Duxbury High, undefeated for four years by a score of 42-22.
We shall again have Junior High boys and girls teams, and the Junior High boys, under the direction of Coach Edward Ferry, will be members of the Middlesex Junior High League.
The cost of operating athletics at the high school is getting more expensive each year, especially the cost of equipment and its cleaning and storage. It is hoped that the town will appropriate $500.00 under the special article for this purpose at the town meeting in March to carry on the athletic program.
Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM O'CONNELL, Faculty Manager
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REPORT OF SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
Mr. Whitman Pearson Superintendent of Schools Acton, Massachusetts
Dear Mr. Pearson :
I herewith submit my annual report as school physician.
The usual physical examinations were completed in November.
Special examinations were given early in the year to those students engaging in competitive athletics.
In general the health of the school population is good.
In conjunction with the Board of Health, Schick Tests and inoculations of Diptheria Toxoid were given in May to the children of the lower grades and pre-school groups in the three precincts. The number of children not immune to diptheria is apparently decreasing.
I wish to thank the superintendent, townspeople, teach- ers, and school nurse for this cooperation.
Respectfully submitted,
PAUL P. GATES, M.D.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL NURSE
Mr. Whitman Pearson Superintendent of Schools
Acton, Massachusetts
Dear Sir:
Report for the school year ending December 31, 1950.
There were very few communicable diseases in the schools this past year.
Pre-School clinics for children entering school in Sep- tember for the first time were held in May, giving ample time for parents to have any defects found corrected before the child entered school in the fall.
The Diptheria Clinic followed the pre-school clinic. All children attending the clinic were given the Schick test and then necessary shots for protection were given.
The usual School Physicals were completed in November by Dr. Gates with the nurse present. Notices of defects and conditions needing attention were sent to the parents.
in June, 168 high school pupils were X-rayed by the State Department; of this number, only two were suspicious and these were later X-rayed and examined at the Middlesex Sanitorium and given a clean bill of health.
My thanks to the teachers and superintendent for co- operation.
LILLIAN F. TAYLOR, R.N.
AGE AND GRADE DISTRIBUTION
AGE
0-1
1-2
2-3
3-4
4-5
5-6 5-6
6-7 . 7-8
8-9 9-10
10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14
14-15
15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19
Totals
Pre 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950
School 61
62
92
91
104
65
Pre School Total
475
Grade I
12
61
9
82
II
8 56
7
1
72
IHI
15
40
5
60
IV
12
37
4
53
V
13
36
12
3
1
65
VI
10
26
8
3
1
48
Grade School Total
380
VII
8 24
5
37
VIII
9 19
8
36
IX
15
29
4
1
49
X
7
26
3
36
XI
1 12
19
5
1
38
XII
2
8
20
2
32
High School Total
228
61
62
92
91 104
65
12
69
80
59
56
50
46
44
43
46
44
31
25
3
1083
19
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GRADUATION, JUNE 9, 1950
Acton Center Woman's Club Scholarship of $50 Dawn Marilyn Richards
Acton High School Scholarship of $100 Elizabeth Jean Lee Constance Marie Barbara Tucker
National Honor Society Pins
The top 15 percent of the graduating class Robert Arthur Barnhart
Sylvia Mae Hope Irene Sylvia Lehtinen
Herbert Edward Schmitz
Dawn Marilyn Richards
Elizabeth Jean Lee
Constance Marie Barbara Tucker .
Acton Variety Club Award Doris Eleanor Morse
American Legion Medals
To the best all around boy and girl in the senior class as judged for scholarship, loyalty, and achievement.
1949-Joan Cooke, Robert Frost
1950-Doris Morse, Robert Barnhart
Washington and Franklin Meda!
Awarded by the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution for excellence in the study of United States History Julia Ellen Barry
Good Citizenship Certificate
Awarded by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution to a Good Citizen of Acton High School for the current year, who has demonstrated through her entire course qualities of dependability, leadership, service and patriotism to an outstanding degree Elizabeth Jean Lee
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Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award Medal For achieving the highest scholastic record in science course during high school Robert Arthur Barnhart Renssalaer Medal for excellence in Science and Mathematics Robert Arthur Barnhart
GRADUATES, 1950
Robert Arthur Barnhart Barbara Ann Bartlett
David Boyd Byers
Jean Livingston Cameron Dorothy Francis DeSouza Ethel Warrene Davis Gerald Allan Frizzle Eleanor Furbush
Alice Rose Page Shirley Maud Pellett
Ruth Hilda Pinolehto
Dawn Marilyn Richards
Gertrude Edna Gates
Phillip Noel Rimbach
Marguerite Ann Goldthwaite Avis Mabel Gravlin
Herbert Edward Schmitz Carl Simeone
Donald Alvah Spinney
Frank Oswald Towne
Constance Marie Barbara
Tucker
Edward Frank Weatherby
Elizabeth Ann Harper Richard Thomas Herrick Sylvia Mae Hope Kenneth Karl Kienow Elizabeth Jean Lee Irene Sylvia Lehtinen
Frederick Hadley MacIntyre Robert Roland Major Donald Cobleigh Morse
Doris Eleanor Morse
INDEX
First Section
Assessors
98
Board of Health
155
By-Laws Committee, Report of
163
Cemetery Commissioners
149
Dog Officer
66
Earth Removal By-Law
168
Elizabeth White Fund
116
Fence Viewers, Report of
64
Finance Committee
2
Fire Department
57
Fire House Committee
162
Forest Warden
58
Inspector of Animals
69
Inspector of Milk and Food
159
Inspector of Sanitation
159
Inspector of Slaughtering
158
Inspector of Wires
66
Librarian's Report
153
Middlesex County Extension Service
151
Moth Superintendent
67
Police Department
59
Playground Site Committee
69
Regional School District Planning Board
173
School Building Committee, Special
171
Sealer of Weights and Measures
64
Selectmen's Report
55
State Audit
91
State Elections Nov. 7, 1950
44
Superintendent of Streets
67
Tax Collector
99
Town Accountant
117
Balance Sheet December 31, 1950
145
Town By-Laws, Amendment to
164
Town Clerk's Report
70
Births
72
Marriages
76
Deaths
80
Non-Resident Burials
81
Dog Licenses
83
Jury List (Revised) 1950
89
Town Forest Committee
68
Town Meeting (Abstract) March 13, 1950
21
Town Nurse
158
Town Officers
49
Appointments by Selectmen
51
Treasurer's Report
105
Tree Warden
148
Trustees of Goodnow Fund
116
Veterans Services
65
Welfare Department 160
4
Workmen's Compensation Agent
66
Second Section
Schools :
Calendar - 1951-1952 3
Budgets for 1951
6
Financial Report
5
Explanation of Special School Articles in Warrant
11
Graduation Awards
20
Graduates - Class of 1950
21 16
High School Athletic Association
Organization
2
School Committee
4
School Nurse
18
School Physician
17
Statistics
6
Superintendent
7
Warrant, Monday, March 5, 1951
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