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CHAPTER 90
Appropriation Town
$1000.00
State 1000.00
County 1000.00
2100 ft. of Plymouth St. was widened to 23 ft. and sur- faced with Crushed Stone mixed in place.
The W. P. A. completed exavating and gravelling Mead- ow St.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK F. WESTON,
Highway Surveyor.
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FOREST WARDENS
FOREST WARDEN
John F. Tubman
Tel. Carver 37
DEPUTY FOREST WARDENS
1. Charles Cherry
Tel. Wareham 9323-12
2. Russell Appling
Tel. Carver 47-3
3. Earl Ware
Tel. Carver 50
4. Norman Holmes
Tel. Carver 10-4
5. Homer Weston
Tel. Carver 8-12
6. Arne Johnson
Tel. Carver 23-2
7. Everett Cassidy 8. Simon Majahad
Tel. Carver 1-2 Tel. Carver 65-11
9. Russell Holmes
Tel. Wareham 46W4 Tel. Carver 7-4
10. Thomas Kenney
Tel. Carver 28-2
11. Ellis Bumpus 12. H. W. Jordan Tel. Carver 38
13. John Morse
Tel. Carver 65-5
14. Frank Weston Tel. Carver 26-14
15. Stephen Gammons
16. Edward Adams
Tel. Wareham 9323-12 Tel. Carver 74-3
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REPORT OF TREASURER OF OLD HOME DAY ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT JANUARY 1, 1941
Receipts-1940
$1,421.60
Expenditures-1940
1,270.67
Balance-Savings Bank $150.93
Balance-Jan. 1, 1941
$150.93
Balance-Jan. 1, 1940
148.66
Net Profit-1940
$2.27
RECEIPTS
Balance Jan. 1, 1940-Checking
Account
$117.84
Balance Jan. 1, 1940-Savings Account
30.82
Savings Bank Interest-through 1940
.75
Town Appropriation
200.00
Dinner Tickets and bake remnants
837.90
Ice Cream
120.40
Tonic, hot dogs, candy, etc.
80.63
Collection from ball game
28.26
Fakirs, pony rides
5.00
Total Receipts
$1,421.60
EXPENDITURES
Cosmopolitan band, (includes
singer and reader)
$135.00
Alonzo F. Ryder, bunting, cloth
19.58
Memorial Press, posters
7.00
Shaw's Radio Service, amplifier
12.00
Stevens the Florist, wreath
1.50
Earl E. Boardway, show cases
5.20
Chilton Press, leaflets
7.95
$188.23
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Head waiters and assistants
$48.00
Fred E. Packard, corn
26.80
Holmes & Shurtleff Clambake Co., supplies H. W. Jordan, groceries
43.18
79.36
Jesse A. Holmes & Son, nails, lumber and supplies
19.15
Chilton Press, tickets, programs
19.25
E. Cavicchi, watermelons, onions, potatoes
58.70
Henry S. Pink, groceries
15.40
Joseph J. Wood, clams, fish
112.50
Walter R. Carmichael, groceries
61.00
Frank F. Weston, wood, truck
42.75
Services, labor and trucks, P. L.
shurtleff, et al.
361.90
Farrar, ice cream
$95.75
$95.75
Farrar, candy, cigars, etc.
13.77
Pine Grove Ice Co., ice
3.38
Plymouth Bottling Works, tonic
31.76
Danforth's Home Bakery, rolls
2.04
$50.95
Charles Dinnetti, umpire
$2.00
James E. Thomas, mowing ball field
8.25
Atwood A. A., baseballs
3.75
Homer Weston, wetting ball field
1.50
Roger Weston, services
4.00
Administrative Services, postage, supplies
$28.25
$28.25
Total Expenditures
$1,270.67
Respectfully submitted, THERON M. COLE,
Treasurer.
$887.99
$19.50
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REPORT OF COUNTY AID TO AGRICULTURE
The Plymouth County Extension Service
During 1940, the Plymouth County Extension Service has performed its usual function of helping rural, village, and city people with the problems of farming, home making, and 4-H club training. Each year ever-increasing demands are being made on this organization to organize, administer, and teach programs of national, state, county, and town importance.
The agricultural department has a wide range of ser- vices for commodity groups in dairying, poultry husban- dry, fruit, and vegetable culture, cranberry growing, gen- eral livestock management, forestry, and many other sub- jects. In each of these, special emphasis has been placed on marketing in recognition of this need with production problems more completely solved than those of merchand- izing. ,
Close cooperation and collaboration have been main- tained with local organizations and other federal agencies. Some of these are as follows: Plymouth County Farm Bureau, Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' Association, Ply- mouth County Poultry Association, Bristol-Plymouth Fruit Growers' Association, Satucket Dairy Herd Im- provement Association, and Brockton Cooperative Egg Auction Association. The Federal Land Bank, Taunton Production Credit Association, Farm Security Admini- stration, and the Agricultural Conservation Program.
The Home Demonstration Department held meetings in every town in Plymouth County during the past year. Emphasis was placed on home beautification, food pres- ervation, nutrition, health and recreation. In addition to meetings, other help was given by letters, phone calls and home visits.
4-H club work not only develops agricultural and home- making ability among its boys and girls, but trains them
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also in self reliance, good sportsmanship and good citizen- ship. Clothing, home furnishing and food projects teach girls a greater appreciation of good home and community living, while in the stock and crop raising projects boys are shown the value of modern methods as well as getting a knowledge of business.
4-H club work is a truly American idea, for all of Ameri- ca's youth.
The course which the Extension Service follows is large- ly determined by local people. Your board of trustees, town directors, women's advisory council, and commodity committeemen, have by a majority approved these pro- grams. The service of all departments is available to everyone. The Extension Service has its place in bring- ing to the attention of Plymouth County people the princi- ples of good farming, good homemaking and good citizen- ship.
Briefly, some of the accomplishments for Plymouth County in 1940 which may be shown statistically, are as follows :
Number of meetings conducted 877
Attendance at these meetings 26,650
Farm and Home Visits made 2,233
Number of different circular letters 293
Total circulation of these circular letters
95,656
Number of 4-H clubs. 101
Number of 4-H members enrolled
1,881
No. Home Demonstration Clubs 115
No. women enrolled 2,171
The financial assistance and moral support of Carver is greatly appreciated by the people the Extension Service assists. A continuation of its support is justified on the record it has achieved. Its influence can not be measured by monetary values, but its educational programs and in- dividual assistance constitutes one measure in the first line of national defense.
ALMIRA C. HOLMES,
Town Director.
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
CARVER SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Winston B. Leach, Chairman, Carver Term expires 1942 Clyde D. Griffith, Secretary, Carver Term expires 1941
Bradford H. Cole, North Carver Term expires 1943
Donald P. Mattoon, Superintendent of Schools to December 15, 1940
George A. Austin, Superintendent of Schools from January 1, 1941. 10 Elm Street, Middleboro.
STAFF
Center School-Helen H. Griffith, Principal
Anne R. McFarlin
Marion L. Griffith
Henry M. Shaw
Dorothy W. Wilbur
E. Tillson Pratt School-Gladys E. Burgess, Principal Florence R. Kaski
Benjamin Ellis School-Florence L. Gordon, Principal Gertrude R. Currier
Music Supervisor-Marguary MacCleave, Hanson Manual Training-Arnold T. Telfer, North Carver School Physician-Dr. L. M. Chase, North Carver School Nurse-Mary E. Fuller, East Taunton, R. F. D.
SCHOOL CALENDAR
1940
Fall Term : Begins Wed., Sept. 4, Closes Fri., Dec. 20. Holidays : Oct. 25, Nov. 11, Nov. 28, Nov. 29.
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1941
Winter Term : Begins Monday, Jan. 6. Closes Fri., Apr. 18.
Holidays : Winter Vacation, Feb. 24-28; Spring Vaca- tion, April 21-25.
Spring Term: Begins Monday, April 28. Closes Friday, June 13.
Graduation : Thursday, June 12. Holidays : Memorial Day, May 30.
Schools close : Friday June, 13.
Middleboro and Plymouth High Schools close Friday, June 20.
Fall Term: Begins Monday, Sept., 8. Closes Tuesday, Dec. 23.
Holidays : Oct. 13, Columbus Day ; Oct. 31, Teachers' Con- vention; Nov. 11, Armistice Day ; Nov. 27-28, Thanks- giving.
1942
Winter Term : Begins, January 5.
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
To the Citizens of the Town of Carver:
This year the voters saw fit to elect Mr. Bradford Cole of North Carver to the school board. This is the second change in the membership of the committee during the last six years and another new member is expected in March as Mr. Clyde Griffith has served notice that he is not seeking reelection.
The School Department now has a new superintendent of Schools, Mr. Austin, formerly principal of the Dighton High School. Mr. Austin is highly recommended and it is the hope of this Board that he will carry on to comple- tion many liberal policies begun by his able predecessor, Mr. Donald Mattoon.
It was necessary to add another school bus to carry students to High School last September. It is expected that this will be discontinued as soon as all pupils are attending Plymouth High School.
The School Board was well pleased with the work of the committee in charge of improvements at the E. Till- son Pratt School and now plans to carry through and beautify the grounds. Plans are now being considered re- specting sanitary improvements at the Centre School.
It is unfortunate that the board cannot be constabat inter omnes, the only happy thought in this misfortune is the fact that up to now nothing has interfered with the welfare of the children in the schools, and for the follow- ing year we are not asking for any changes involving curricula or personnel but hope to maintain what we have.
Hot lunches are now being served in all of our schools : These are partially self supporting. It is not the policy
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of this board to deny lunches to any child and any deficit accrued is charged to the department.
The School board wishes to state that it received a check of $34.66 as an adjustment on insurance and this was turned over to the town treasurer.
Respectfully submitted
Winston Bradford Leach, Ch. Clyde D. Griffith, Sec.
MINORITY REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of the Town of Carver :
In view of the fact that I can not conscientiously agree with certain portions of the School Committee Report, and in view of the fact that there has been marked dissension among the members of the committee on various matters with respect to school policy, it would seem to me proper, even though somewhat unusual, that I present a brief statement for the purpose of calling to your attention one of the more chronic conditions about which the comittee and myself are in complete disagreement.
I have observed that there is an increasing tendency for the school department to squander Town monies under the insidious disguise that "it is for the welfare of the chil- dren." This condition should be eliminated as soon as is reasonably possible. To condone or to permit such a policy to continue would, in my opinion, be tantamount to pro- moting inefficiency, and would also undoubtedly act as an additional incentive for the committe to enlargen the scope of its extravagance beyond immediate comprehension.
Concrete examples which will tend to acquaint you with this "guess spending", and proposals of a remedial nature which will tend to curb further waste will be advocated at the next Town Meeting.
Respectfully submitted,
BRADFORD H. COLE.
FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1940
Appropriation
$33,252.40
Additional Appropriation for Fire Insurance
400.00
E. Tillson Pratt School Fund
113.00
Benjamin Ellis School Fund
572.66
$34,338.06
Expenditures
34,323.48
Balance Unexpended
$14.58
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SUPERVISION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
School Committee :
State Reimbursements 1940
Salaries
$424.00
Expense
224.67
Clerical Assistance
193.00
Superintendent :
Superintendent
$644.45
Salary
918.75
Travel
153.75
.
Expenses Clerical Assistance School Census Attendance Officer
50.15
33.40
25.00
20.00
$2,042.72
EXPENSES OF INSTRUCTION
Supervisors
$350.00
Teachers and Substitutes
10,195.72*
Textbooks
371.77
Supplies
416.76
$11,334.25
OPERATING EXPENSES
Janitors' Salaries
$1,365.50
Fuel
975.36
Cleaning, Lights, Tel., Jan. Supplies
616.48
$2,957.34
MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTY
Repairs and Miscellaneous
$840.30
Boiler Inspection
$840.30
Income Tax (undivided) $3,310.93 ‘Chap. 70, Part I, Teachers $1,579.00
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State Wards $841.52
Town of Middleboro $747.60
AUXILIARY AGENCIES
Transportation : High School Elementary
$5,187.68
4,709.09
Insurance on Buildings
572.20
Tuition : High School Health Misc. Aux. Agencies
5,874.45
290.10
131.29
$16,764.81
OUTLAYS
Equipment
$146.78
$146.78
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
Tuition
$237.28
$237.28
$34,323.48
Partial Reimbursement Vocational Education $6.75
1940 Unpaid Bills
$42.57 Spec. Article.
H. S. Transportation $4,597.31
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT
To the School Committee of Carver, Massachusetts :
I am pleased to present my third annual report as your superintendent of schools.
BUILDINGS
The North Carver school building has needed recon- ditioning for many years. During 1940, the structure has been completely renovated. A new heating system, oil burner and furnace, with ventilating apparatus, has been installed. Modern toilet facilities connected to a new water supply have been put in the rear room. Enlarged windows replace the small ones. The whole structure, both inside and out, has been redecorated in attractive colors. Only the landscaping of grounds remains to be done. The special appropriation of $4,700 was used to make these changes which give to pupils in North Carver excellent school facilities. The school is now called the "Tillson Pratt School."
TEACHERS
The School Committee placed Miss Florence R. Kaski in a primary position in the North Carver School last March and Miss Gertrude R. Currier was transferred to the Center School, teaching seventh and eighth grade pupils during Mrs. McFarlin's half-year absence. In September, Mrs. McFarlin returned and Miss Currier was employed as a teacher in grades one and two at the Ben- jamin Ellis School, replacing Miss Nellie Squire.
Miss Nellie Squire who has been an excellent teacher at the Benjamin Ellis School for the last two years, secured a position near her home and started to teach there in September.
Mr. Arnold Telfer was permitted to accept temporary employment at Camp Edwards and other work was pro- vided for the boys in manual training.
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Fortunately for the pupils of Carver, we are able to re- tain our most experienced teachers. Even with their best efforts it is difficult at times of community unrest for even our strongest teachers to maintain the fine type of instruc- tion and training in studies and habits to which we hold. Townspeople should do all in their power to provide the best working conditions for their conscientious and ex- perienced teachers.
STUDIES
The new reading system is proving its worth. All teachers are using it and the results they are obtaining are encouraging.
A handwriting system was installed this fall and we hope to train good writers through its methods.
Teachers are now studying the arithmetic situation and should participate in selecting much needed books next spring.
HEALTH
The School Nurse is continuing her visits to the homes of pre-school children, with the result that all pupils who entered grade one had fine preliminary attention.
An audiometer to test the hearing of pupils was pur- chased by the several towns in the School Superintendency Union. First-grade children were tested. Pupils with de- fective hearing have been given special seats in the room, where they may more readily hear the spoken directions of the teacher. If only one child with defective hearing is discovered so that, for him, there is no loss in instruction, the cost of Carver's share of this expense for testing ap- paratus is well justified. As it is, all pupils will benefit. -
The school children of Carver have had the benefit of dental service in their school buildings during 1939 and 1940. Dr. Edmund F. Tobin, the School Dentist, has per- formed the various dental operations and has been assisted by Mrs. Mary E. Fuller, School Nurse.
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The cost has been borne by parents and by the Town. Parents have contributed fifty or sixty cents towards the charge of sixty cents per dental operation. In some cases, pupils whose parents have had limited funds have been assisted by allotments from the Town Appropriation for Dental Clinic.
Parents have paid for 138 dental operations and the Town, through Dental Clinic funds, has paid for the rest. A total of 337 dental operations have been performed in the two years for 191 pupils, and by sharing the expen- ses, there is a balance of about $20 in the 1940 account for dental clinic.
It appears that the Town is receiving excellent returns from its annual appropriation for Dental Clinic in that the school children are actually having their teeth cared for. It is a good investment of limited amounts of public funds.
MEETINGS
Meetings at which experts have discussed phases of arithmetic and handwriting have been held this fall. The handwriting meeting was held at the Center School, with teachers of the Union in attendance for the full day. Ele- mentary schools were closed for that time. Later, portions of the school day were taken on three occasions for teach- ers' meetings in South Middleboro, at which arithmetic experts explained some of the problems incident to the selection of content and materials for primary, intermedi- ate, and junior high grades.
At the E. Tillson Pratt School, Mr. Henry M. Shaw gave some excellent demonstrations on the use of visual and musical equipment in teaching. This was presented before the members of the Union Committee in November.
SCHOOL SAVINGS SYSTEM
In February 1940, The Plymouth Savings Bank and the Plymouth Five Cent Savings Bank cooperated with the
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Carver School Department in establishing a plan by which pupils might open savings accounts through weekly or oc- casional deposits at the schools. A partial report of the success of this follows. It will give some idea of the number and size of savings accounts held by pupils though the plan has been in operation only eight school months and the returns are not complete.
Deposits
Pupil Accounts
.01 to
.10
9
.11 to
.20
10
.21 to
.30
13
.31 to
.40
6
.41 to
.50
10
.51 to
.60
6
.61 to
.70
1
.71 to
.80
5
.81 to
.90
1
.91 to
$1
8
$1.00 and under,
69 Accounts
$1.01 to
2
42
2.01 to
3
21
3.01 to
4
12
4.01 to
5
7
$1.01 to $5.00,
-82 Accounts
5.01 to
6
3
6.01 to
7
5
7.01 to
8
1
9.01 to
10
2
$5.01 to $10.00,
11 Accounts
10.01 to
20
7
20.01 to
30
1
$30.00 to $40
1
$10.01 and over,
9 Accounts
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SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE HOURS
For the convenience of parents, the Superintendent of Schools has designated office hours in the School Com- mittee room from 3:00-5:15 p. m. on the following dates : 1940 1941 Winter and Spring Fall Monday, January 6 Monday, September 8
February 3
66 October 6
March 10
November 3
66
April 7
December 8 1942
66
May 5
66 June 2
Winter
Monday, January 5 66
February 2
Any additional dates will appear on notices on the office door.
CONCLUSION
We have tried to make noticeable improvement in the School Department during the year. Teachers have been very cooperative and have given their best efforts. Carver has good buildings, a fine corps of teachers, and satisfac- tory equipment, and I am grateful for having had the chance to be a working member of the School Department.
To all those who have tried to share in our endeavors, to accomplish the educational goals which we set, I offer my sincere thanks. There is much to be done by those who have the welfare of the School Department at heart. The training of children is a never-ending job and it is best accomplished by those who are patient, sympathetic, and experienced. The power to build a strong school depart- ment rests in the hands of the citizens who through their elected representatives, give expression to the kind of schools they wish to maintain.
Respectfully submitted,
DONALD P. MATTOON,
Superintendent.
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REPORT OF HEALTH SUPERVISION
SCHOOL NURSE : Mrs. Mary E. Fuller, East Taunton
Number of school visits : 131
Number of home visits : 127
Number of pre-school visits in August : 29
Number of trips with children to school physician: 0
Number of trips with children to dentist : 5
Number of trips with children to their homes : 20
ANNUAL EXAMINATION BY SCHOOL
PHYSICIAN: Dr. L. M. Chase, North Carver
Number of children examined in Grades I-VIII
157
Number of pupils with physical defects : 50
Number of notices sent home for vision defects : 0
Number of notices sent home for tonsils and adenoids : 38
Number of pupils with physical defects corrected : 2
DENTAL CLINIC: Dr. E. F. Tobin, Brookline
Number of pupils examined : 194
Number of pupils with dental defects : 177
Number of dental defects: 717
DIPHTHERIA PREVENTION CLINIC :
Conducted by Board of Health, Dr. L. M. Chase, in charge.
Number of pre-school children immunized 3
Number of children in school immunized 9
PULMONARY TUBERCULAR CLINIC
Staff of Plymouth County Hospital
Skin tests 139
Reactors 12
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Negative
127
X-rayed chests
18
Negative 12
Referred for examination
6
Physical examinations
6
Total number of children for follow-up
9
GENERAL HEALTH EDUCATION
Study meetings attended by nurse, mental hygiene 10
Professional meetings attended 12
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AGE-GRADE DISTRIBUTION-OCTOBER 1, 1940
Ages
5-7 7-14
14-16
16-21
yrs.
yrs.
yrs.
yrs.
Totals®
Elementary Boys-Girls
E. Tillson Pratt School
Grade I 10-4
Benjamin Ellis School
Elementary
Grade
1 6-9
1-1
31
II
6-2
2-1
4-6
21
III
13-3
22
IV
11-2
4-10
27
Center School
V
13-13
1-0
27
VI
18-10
1-1
30
VII
14-6
2-0
22
VIII
7-4
4-3
18 94
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Middleboro High School
IX
1-0
X
0-1
XI
3-0
6-2
XII
5-5
P. G.
0-1
Plymouth High School
High Schools
IX
1-3
7-6
5-0
23
X
3-5
3-1
13
XI
0-4
1-4
20
XII
1-4
15
P. G.
1
72
Pre School Pupils (Probably enter in September, 1941)
10-12
2-1
48-49
100
In other schools
3-1
4
In military training
6-0 6
Out of school
3-3
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GRADUATION EXERCISES CARVER GRAMMAR SCHOOL Class of 1940
WE THE PEOPLE
Prologue
Zach
Spike
John Agnone Eino Laine
Egypt-A court of Pharaoh
SCENE 1
King
Fan Bearers
Lawyer Smith Francis Silva Dorothy Silva
Old Man
Scribe
Two Men
Anibel Thimas Ernest Gomes Ronald Garnett Arthur Shaw
Captains of the Gaurd
Four Women
Roy Silva Franklin Costa Margaret Santos Rose Thatcher Frances Fernandes Eva Fernanderz
Envoy
Zach (in the dream)
Joseph Silva Robert Agnone
The Magna Charta
SCENE 2
Barons
Boy Zach (in the dream)
Harry Morris Louis Bryant John Pignataro Leslie Ronni Kenneth Telfer Robert Agnone
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English Prison-1600
SCENE 3
Guard Prisoner Women Prisoners
Lawyer Smith
Ronald Garnett
Elsie Pratt Verna Shaw
Mary Salmi
Zach (in the dream)
Robert Agnone
Banishment of Ann Hutchingson
SCENE 4
Mrs. Hope Allerton
Mr. William Allerton
Julia
Bessie Braddock Gordon Dempsey Rose Majahad
Faith
Mrs. Hutchinson
Elder
Friends of Ann Hutchinson
Frances Fernandes Helen Gustavson Robert Griffith Eva Fernanderz Robert Bolduc Ralph Linton
Patience Dame School
Margaret Santos Rose Thatcher Enid Wainio Virginia Corshia Ian McClure
David Vaughn Howard Silva Ruth Laine Miriam Jokinen Robert Agnone
Zach (in the dream)
Program
Pageant Intermission March
We the People
Invocation
Mrs. Marjorie Telfer Rev. Orville D. Ullom
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Music Silver Streams Lullaby Opposite Winds
School Chorus P. DeFaye Bianchi Spencer
Presentation of Diplomas
Mr. Winsor Bradford Leach, Chairman of School Board
Music
School Chorus
To a Wild Rose
Mac Dowell
Sweet Miss Mary
Neidlinger
Four Leaf Clover
Leavitt
Benediction
Rev. Orville D. Ullom
GRADUATES
Robert Agnone
Lawyer Smith
Louis Bryant
Anibel Thimas
Franklin Costa
Bessie Braddock
Cazemira Cruz
Eva Fernanderz
Ronald Garnett
Frances Fernandes
Ernest Gomes
Helen Gustavson
Eino Laine
Rose Majahad
Harry Morris
Elsie Pratt
Leslie Ronni
Margaret Santos
Francis Silva
Verna Shaw
Roy Silva
Rose Thatcher
Joseph Silva
Enid Wainio
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SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENCY UNION NO. 47
Report of the Secretary
On April 12, 1940, the School Superintendency Union No. 47, including the school committees of Carver, Lake- ville and Rochester, held its annual meeting at the Pierce- ville School in Rochester. Pupils of the fifth and sixth grades of the Waterman School, Rochester, gave an inter- esting puppet show for which they had made all of the properties under the direction of their teacher, Mrs. Gerrish. The Pierceville pupils under Mrs. Hartley, gave a demonstration of 4-H Club work in woodcraft and in lunch preparation.
Following the program, the meeting was called to order and the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year :
Chairman, Mr. Samuel H. Corse Secretary, Mrs. Marian N. Pierce
A written report was then submitted by the Superin- endent, Mr. Mattoon. After discussing the items in this report the Union Committee voted to act jointly in making the suggested changes in the Arithmetic program. This was to follow the plan of last year in selecting a Reading system, and was discussed in the last town report.
The question of purchasing an Audiometer for the use of the Union was discussed and was later voted on favor- ably by each committee separately. The Audiometer has since been purchased jointly by the three towns and is now in use in the schools of the Union.
On November 14, 1940, the Fall meeting of the Union was held at the E. Tillson Pratt School in North Carver. Following an inspection of the recently renovated school building there, Mr. Henry M. Shaw of the Center School, Carver, gave an interesting demonstration of modern visual and musical aids to instruction.
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