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6. RECONSTRUCTION OF EXISTING TOWN ROADS:
The final section of School Street from Loker Street to Main Street was completed including storm drainage, and base and finished courses of bituminous concrete. The Department has continued the street oiling maintenance program, road sweeping operations, roadside cleanup and brush control and general main- tenance along with the ice control and snow removal program. Inspections of road and drainage construction by sub-developers were made and reports were sent to the Planning Board.
Many meetings were held with the Personnel Board in regard to the hiring of a new Highway Superintendent.
The Road Commissioners obtained bids for two new dump trucks, an all wheel drive pickup truck, two snow plows and a new tractor front end shovel loader, the latter being purchased from the special account set up for replacement or purchasing of capital equipment in the Highway Department.
The Road Commissioners again wish to thank all Highway Depart- ment employees for their cooperation and diligence during the past year on all phases of our program. Our special thanks go to Mr. George Bowers and Mr. John McEwen who so efficiently handled the plowing of snow, sanding of streets and various other operations dur- ing the absence of Mr. Potvin.
We also appreciate the cooperation given us by all Town officials, Boards, and citizens on matters of mutual interest which makes Wayland
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a very desirable Town in which to live.
Respectfully submitted, ROBERT M. CARSON, Chairman HORACE MEGATHLIN, JR. THOMAS C. ROCHE, JR. Board of Road Commissioners
THE CITIZEN'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The Citizen's Advisory Committee, appointed by the Selectmen of the Town of Wayland, reports that their observations regarding Urban Renewal Activity in Wayland, concur with the results of a survey con- ducted by Mr. Harvey C. Newton, Chairman of the Wayland Redevelop- ment Authority, which indicated, almost unanimously, that property owners within the intended Urban Renewal Project Area, were not in accord with any renewal plan. Our own observations and personal interviews with these and other taxpayers and voters of the Town of Wayland, indicated strongly that Urban Renewal Activity was not wanted in the Town of Wayland.
The Selectmen of the Town of Wayland and the Condemnation Com- mittee have, for years, been conducting a community improvement program and intend to continue this program. This type of community improvement, though not as dynamic as an Urban Renewal Program, is less apt to produce social and economic disturbances, yet in the long run should produce the same results.
The Citizen's Advisory Committee is in accord with the desire of the Wayland Redevelopment Authority to dissolve itself in a proper legal manner for the purpose of abandoning Urban Renewal Activity within the boundaries of the Town of Wayland, and does hereby advise that this desire be executed.
Respectfully submitted, JOHN T. KARMAN, JOHN H. ROONEY, LEWIS S. RUSSELL, JR. JEAN F. CAUL Citizen's Advisory Committee
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WELFARE STATISTICS
OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
1961
1962
1963
Case Load January 1
49
39
31
Case Load December 31
40
31
27
Average Monthly Case Load
44. 6
35. 7
32. 5
Total Gross Expenditures
$45, 913. 72
$32, 031. 80
$27,576. 67
Average Monthly Cost per Case
$85. 82
$89. 72
$84. 85
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE AGED
Case Load January 1
16
16
16
Case Load December 31
16
17
16
Average Monthly Case Load
17. 8
13. 3
16. 6
Total Gross Expenditures
$41,956. 97
$31, 322. 95
$38, 408. 06
Average Monthly Cost per Case
$196. 98
$235. 50
$231. 37
AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Case Load January 1
10 Cases, 29 Persons
12 Cases, 41 Persons
11 Cases, 37 Persons
Case Load December 31
11 Cases, 33 Persons
12 Cases, 42 Persons
8 Cases, 28 Persons
Average Monthly Case Load
10. 6 Cases, 29. 8 Persons
11. 7 Cases, 39. 5 Persons
Total Gross Expenditures
$16,448. 65
$21,430. 20 $183. 16
10. 2 Cases, 40. 7 Persons $16, 347. 88 $160. 27
DISABILITY ASSISTANCE
Case Load January 1
0
1
2
Case Load December 31
1
2
3
Average Monthly Case Load
1. 7
2. 3
Total Gross Expenditures
$452. 34
$6,180. 74
$8,173. 23
Average Monthly Cost per Case
$363. 50
$ 355. 35
GENERAL RELIEF Case Load January 1
5 Cases, 17 Persons
5 Cases, 13 Persons
3 Cases, 8 Persons
Case Load December 31
2 Cases, 2 Persons
4 Cases, 4 Persons
6 Cases, 26 Persons
Average Monthly Case Load
Total Gross Expenditures
Average Monthly Cost per Case
4. 0 Cases, 9. 4 Persons $7,881. 99 $164. 22
4. 8 Cases, 8. 0 Persons $4, 863. 72 $ 101. 30
3. 3 Cases, 10. 8 Persons $5,320. 33 $161. 22
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Average Monthly Cost per Case $129. 52
SCHOOL ORGANIZATION, 1963 - 1964
School Committee
JOHN W. ARNOLD
. Term expires 1964
JOHN B. GREGORY, Chairman
Term expires 1964
BRUCE R. KINGSBURY
. Term expires 1966
JESSE F. SCOTT, Vice Chairman.
Term expires 1965
JOHN B. WILSON Term expires 1966
Superintendent of Schools
R. BRUCE MCGILL
Assistant Superintendent of Schools and
Secretary of the School Committee
RICHARD J. LAVIN
6 Principals
2 Assistant Principals
4 Guidance
2 Librarians
1 Audio Visual
168 Teachers
15 Secretaries
11 Teacher Aides
7 Interns
19 Custodians
1 Director of Cafeteria
268 TOTAL SCHOOL DEPT. PERSONNEL
SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS OCT. 1, 1963
ELEMENTARY (Grade 1-5)
1634
JUNIOR HIGH (Grade 6-8)
745
HIGH SCHOOL (Grade 9-12)
770
TOTAL SCHOOL ENROLLMENT 3149
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1963 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
During the last decade we have seen many of the newer ideas in teaching introduced in Wayland; ability grouping, team teaching, modern physics and mathematics, the use of language laboratories and advanced placement courses. We have seen our teacher salary schedule become competitive with the top 10% of the town in Massachusetts and all of our schools are now staffed with full time administrators and teacher aides. We have seen our school population increase from 1231 ten years ago to 3149 today and with the completion of our Senior High School, we have added the last major unit currently contemplated for housing Wayland students. We have also seen our per pupil cost reach $520. It is obvious that we need a period of consolidation during which we can evaluate the innovations to make certain they are doing what they are supposed to do-give us excellence in education with an individualized program at a minimum cost to the town.
We believe that in the choice of Mr. R. Bruce McGill as Superintendent, we have found a man who is able to achieve this ob- jective. One of Mr. McGill's first duties was to assist the Committee in the selection of the principal of our Senior High School. Our mutual choice was Mr. Raymond Hettler who came to us from Huntington, New York where he had experience both as assistant high school principal and junior high school principal. He has a B. A. and an M. A. from the University of Denver where he majored in history. The School Committee has a high regard for the professional abilities of both Mr. McGill and Mr. Hettler and we believe that parents, students, and staff share our confidence in them.
While we lost almost no teachers last year for other than unavoidable personal reasons, we had some difficulty in hiring the kind of teacher for whom we were looking. This problem will become more acute in the next few years because of the shortage of skilled teachers. As a result, we are making some revisions in our salary schedule particularly in the middle and upper brackets. These re- visions are in line with the recommendation of our Teacher's Salary Committee although they differ in the timing of the increments.
Although the cost of our teaching staff will probably continue to rise, it appears that a leveling-off period is in sight for our school population. Present projections indicate that the number of elementary pupils has stabilized and that in about six to seven years the secondary school population will also level-off. By keeping the sixth grades in the elementary schools, the Junior High will be large enough for the next decade but some major repairs will be required. The elementary space needed for the sixth grades will be provided by the Happy Hollow addition for which the Town voted planning money last December. Space for about 500 more pupils will be needed eventually in the High School. Our administration is currently working on plans for a Senior High School addition to be ready in the fall of 1966. A second addition either to the High School or to the Junior High will be needed later in the decade. If this addition is
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to the Junior High the ninth grade would be moved to the Junior High School.
Because the town has paid for recent school additions with- out long term borrowing the amount of the tax rate resulting from the capital cost of school buildings has been steadily falling both because of the reduction in principal and interest as the debt is paid off and because of the rise in assessed valuation. The figure in 1963 is $7.22. We do not expect that the secondary school additions mentioned will cause the effect of this long term debt on the tax rate to exceed this figure.
The School Committee wishes to thank the Town and the parents for their enthusiastic support and commends the school admin- istration, the teaching staff, the custodial, secretarial and cafeterial workers for their hard work. We also wish to express our appreciation to the other town departments which do so much to help the schools.
Respectfully submitted,
John B. Gregory, Chairman
Jack W. Arnold Bruce R. Kingsbury Dr. Jesse Scott John B. Wilson
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee:
In this, the sixty-seventh Annual Report of the Superin- tendent of the Wayland Public Schools, the Superintendent wishes to outline some of the education developments in the schools during the past year.
Curriculum committees are organized in all departments and consist of team leaders, chairman, and principals. These committees are responsible for writing courses of study to cover all subjects in grades one through twelve. Such work is done to insure that students of all schools receive the same basic preparation as they move through the grades, and that the transition to various levels of demand are made as smoothly as possible. English composition, English grammar, foreign language, science, mathematics, social studies, music, art, and physical education courses have either been written or are in the process of being written.
Workshops have been designed to help these committees in their building of course studies. Such workshops have also been used to up-date teachers on the latest developments in reading, mathematics, biology, and testing. We consider the workshops an important element for the in-service preparation of the professional staff and the pro- gram for these training periods will continue to be expanded.
Ten teacher candidates were interviewed for every one in- vited to join the faculty. Notices of vacancies are sent to some sixty placement offices in all parts of the country. A preliminary screening takes place by reviewing credentials, after which candidates are interviewed by at least two administrators, and often by the appropriate team leader or chairman. The final two candidates for each position are then observed while teaching, and a final decision made after a personal conference is held with a person who best knows the candidate's work. Since the quality of instruction which students receive is directly attributable to the caliber of the teaching, the importance of the recruiting program cannot be overstressed.
A comprehensive testing program that reaches all academic areas from grades 1-12 has been instituted. The Wayland Schools have become affiliated with the Educational Records Bureau of New York, a non-profit test organization, which acts as an advisor on testing practices and analyzes test results so that comparisons with other top school systems can be made.
The Wayland Schools have also joined the National Registra- tion Office of Chicago, a non-profit institution, which follows secondary school graduates through the first year of college and com- pares grades, subject-by-subject, with the grades made by the students in the same secondary school subjects. These results, coupled with testing data, aid any system in evaluating the work being done in the
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schools and indicate areas that require study and improvement.
As a further step in evaluating the total program, the Junior High School and High School are preparing for a visiting team from the New England Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges during the Spring of 1965. Such an evaluation studies and reports on all courses taught in the school, student activity program, library and audio-visual, guidance services, health services, school plant, and school staff and administration. Since notifying the New England Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges of our intent, several of our teachers, and the two principals, have participated on teams evaluating other schools, and have had the advantage of observing and learning of the operation of other school systems, both public and private.
The reading program is undergoing a careful study which will carry into next year when a reading coordinator responsible for the overall program of reading will aid the existing staff.
A conference is being scheduled, by the counselors of the Junior High School and High School, with each student, and the parents, in grades eight, eleven and twelve. These individual con- ferences give an opportunity for an exchange of information between the school and home that will include a review of the pupil's grades, test data, personal information, along with both immediate and long- range educational planning.
As a means of grounding students in reading, mathematics, and English as completely as possible before entering the High School, selected pupils in the Junior High School will receive three additional periods per week of small-group instruction in reading and/ or English, and mathematics. The plan behind such groups is not to provide instruction just in content covered by the regular class, but to also diagnose those parts of the student's background that require direction and build an individual program to meet his needs.
The emphasis on English will continue into the High School where pupils will meet five periods per week rather than the present four. The five periods will consist of one large-group, three medium- groups, and one small-group period per week; thus the strong features of the variable groupings can be coupled with increased instructional time in the classroom.
Foreign languages will meet five periods per week in small- medium groups. Large groups will be scheduled only as lessons of a sufficiently general nature warrant them. Oral-aural methods of teaching the romance languages will be extended.
A new science program consisting of geology and oceanography will be introduced in grade nine, biology will be moved to the tenth grade, chemistry to eleven, and physics to the twelfth. The shift is being made to provide for more mathematics training and the advantages
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of more maturity prior to the scheduling of the senior sciences. Students headed for advanced placement will take an accelerated program beginning with BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study) biology in grade nine.
If a school system is to provide the community with educational unity of high quality, that system must have a prevailing direction to its development. Studies are underway in virtually all areas to see where we now are, where we want to be, and how we get there. Our position can perhaps be best characterized as a reaching out for the most promising of the newer concepts in education and a solid rooting of them in the best of that which is traditional.
Respectfully submitted,
R. BRUCE MCGILL
Superintendent
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REPORT OF WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS To the School Committee:
It is with pleasure that I herewith submit my fourth annual report since joining the Wayland Public Schools in September, 1959.
Inherent in the school department operations has been the necessity of providing for the increased enrollments that are preva- lent each September. In 1963, 177 more pupils enrolled in the school system, contributing to a total enrollment of 3,147 in grades 1 to 12. It is further expected that this enrollment figure will rise to an estimated 3303 by September of 1964. Encouraging, however, is the fact that enrollment increases are now averaging approximately 5% as compared to previous increases of 13% and 14%.
During the past year, the Loker Elementary 8 room school addition was completed and operating as of September 1963. Plans were also started on a similar 8 room addition to the Happy Hollow Elementary School to be ready for September 1965.
The School Department was administered under a budget encumberance system for the first time in 1963 and enabled better controls of the various accounts.
In preparations of the 1964 School Budget, per capita norms were utilized initially in the school system for purposes of equali- zation and consistency as it relates to amounts of money spent per pupil in the various schools. Per capita norms pertain to allocating a specific amount of money for a pupil in the various instructional areas of textbooks, art, music, physical education, etc. Norms are established from a study of past history and a review of comparable school districts and their expenditures.
In 1963, school libraries were examined closely and or- ganized to become more effective in the educational program. In the elementary schools, library aides were employed on a part time basis to improve library operations at this level. Through the cooperation of the full time librarians at the high school and junior high the school libraries are being reviewed through meetings, evaluations and studies of other libraries to become more effective as carriers of knowledge.
The audio-visual program in the Wayland Public Schools in 1963 operated as separate instructional service centers in each of the various schools. Through scheduled meetings and planned agendas, studies were initiated into making better uses of our audio-visual personnel, equipment and techniques. As part of this study there will be an examination of the role of audio-visual as it relates to library.
The non-instructional staff including the school secretaries, school custodians, cafeteria personnel and school bus drivers all
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contributed as in the past in making the best climate possible by which the educational program could progress.
The school budget which necessitates the translating of the educational program into an estimate of expenditures requires also the forecasting of plans for the future.
In 1964 materials, technology and space, as it relates to the educational program, will be examined. Each school building will be provided with improved instructional resource facilities consisting of at least a library and audio-visual center. Audio- Visual will be coordinated system-wide by reassignment of the audio- visual person presently at the high school so that his services will be available to all schools.
Further study will be made into the relatively new fields of Educational Television and programmed instruction and to include a vigorous program of evaluation in its use.
Within the school buildings, space will be examined for maximum use through minor renovations and partitioning. In 1964 space requirements and educational specifications will be drawn up for an addition to the high school due in 1966. Concepts of space will permit and encourage flexibility and provide for a changing educational curriculum.
Respectfully submitted,
RICHARD J. LAVIN
Assistant Superintendent of Schools
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CLASS OF 1963
OFFICERS
President, Joan Patrice Donahue
Secretary, Joan Patricia Lucey
Vice President, Gordon Brenton Hazard
Treasurer, James A. Avard
GRADUATES
Guida Catherine Abruzzi Victoria Rosalind Alla
Richard Charles Ames
James Francis LaFemina
Edward Lawrence Langley
Susan Ann Leahy
Lamar Vern LeMonte
Sandra Ann Lindbohm
Gary James Anthony Longtine
Cheryl Ruth Lorentzen
Joan Patricia Lucey
Carol Jane Luukkonen
William F. Marston, Jr.
Samuel Martin
William Alardice McElwee
Karen Elizabeth McEwan
Sandra Lee McNally
Daniel James McNeill
Donna Louise Mackenzie
Elizabeth Louise Marsh
William James Meek
Karen Linda Merrell
John E. Myers
Edith Ann Norris
Carol Lee Nulter
John T. O'Keefe
Michael F. Daly
Dorothy Paradis
Robert Paul Deacon
Ronald Parker
Thomas Charles DeMartini
James Ray Densmore
Rocco A. Pompeo
Stephen James Dicks
David Scott Dinsmore
Joan Patrice Donahue Christine Dunham Judith Ann Dyer
Ronald B. Kuzoian
Barry Bradford Baker
Edward Francis Barclay, Jr.
Robert J. Barker
Carol Ann Bigwood
Elsie Jean Bigwood
Linda Hamel Bonney
Anthony Francis Bova, Jr.
Joyce Marie Bregoli Gail Theresa Brosseau
Roger David Brown
Sandra Marie Brown
Joseph Elywin Browning
Robert W. Burgett
Dianne Patricia Capello Jeanne Carolyn Carlson
Donald Lange Cassidy
David Peirce Charnock
Helmut George Colbath Nancy Jane Cook Gordon W. Cormack Suzanne Crowell
Henry Wallace Plump, Jr.
Judith Stevens Pratt
Diane Lynne Purdy
Leah Gay Ramsey Carol Anne Reese
Ronald R. Reeves
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GRADUATES
Norman Even Eggert Catherine Stanley Ellis
Nancy Ellen Ferguson
David Glenn Fine
Peter Mylott Fink
Francis L. Fisher, Jr.
John P. Flanagan
David Edward Flanders Ronald E. Foley, Jr.
Stephen Lee Garry Judith Kneeland Gerrie Marlene Marie Gibbons Gregory C. Goodwin Virgil Ross Griffin
Marie F. Ham Alden Charles Harrington
Karen Clark Heald
John Cutter Hearsey
Nancy Wallace Heilmann
John Gardiner Holmes
Mary L. Holmes Margaret Elizabeth Howard
Edward Dominic Regan Nancy Louise Rizzo Carolyn Mary Rodes
Charles S. Roehrig Stephen Fline Rowan
Elsie C. Schneider
Frederick William Schnepel
Susan Alexander Seeley
Paul Wilmot Scovill
William L. Shannon, Jr. Sharon Elizabeth Shepard Edwin Charles Sloper Beverly Smith
Lawrence Albert Smith
Kerry Ann Stockbridge
Elizabeth Ann Sullivan
Patrice Swift
Paul V. Thorp
Judith F. Walsh
Paul Edward Watkins
Mary E. Welch
Cynthia Whipple
William Wesley White
Patricia Lesley Jenks
Deborah Rose Winsor
Joyce Haggart Young
THE FRANCIS WAYLAND CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
Scholarship, Leadership, Service, Character
CLASS OF 1963
Victoria Rosalind Alla Gail Theresa Brosseau
Susan Ann Leahy
Joan Patricia Lucey
Carol Jane Luukkonen
Samuel Martin
Karen Elizabeth McEwan
Judith Stevens Pratt
Elsie C. Schneider
Marlene Marie Gibbons Patricia Lesley Jenks
Paul Wilmot Scovill Elizabeth Ann Sullivan
Cynthia Whipple
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Lydia Ann Karpinol
Bernard Rushe Krongard
Valerie Lynne Kurth
Donald Lange Cassidy Suzanne Crowell Joan Patrice Donahue Norman Even Eggert Judith Kneeland Gerrie
CLASS OF 1964
Robert Hawthorne Davis Roger Disken
Agnes McCann
Judith Mosedale
Peter Neuendorffer
Marilyn Pultz
Bruce Eliot Fredrickson
Sandra Ruggiero
Karen Fritz
Donna Schultz
Eleanor Fullerton
Judith Seeley
Beth Statton
Charles Henderson Deann Keller Norman MacNeill
Janet Stevens
Anna Laura Strow
AWARDS ASSEMBLY
OPENING EXERCISES
JUDITH MOSEDALE
BAND SELECTION : Air for Band
Erickson
Presentation of Awards
MR. RAYMOND A. HETTLER
1. Phi Beta Kappa Award
DONALD LANGE CASSIDY Valedictorian
2. Principal's Awards
1. Donald Lange Cassidy
2. Suzanne Crowell
3. Judith Kneeland Gerrie
4. Gregory C. Goodwin
5. Nancy Wallace Heilmann
6. Patricia Lesley Jenks
7. Joan Patricia Lucey
8. Karen Elizabeth McEwan
9. Edith Ann Norris
10. Judith Stevens Pratt
11. Charles S. Roehrig
12. Paul Wilmot Scovill
13. Elizabeth Ann Sullivan
3. Departmental Awards
Art
Jeanne Carolyn Carlson
English
Short Story Award
Suzanne Crowell Karen Elizabeth McEwan
Industrial Arts
Edward Lawrence Langley
Language
French III
Latin Spanish
Suzanne Crowell Karen Elizabeth McEwan Susan Ann Leahy Joan Patricia Lucey
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Margery Paxon Dik Sharon Foley
Mathematics
Donald Lange Cassidy
Music
Donald Lange Cassidy
Physical Education
Sandra Lee McNally
Science
Biology II Susan Ann Leahy and Stephen Lee Garry
Chemistry II Joan Patricia Lucey
Physics II Gregory C. Goodwin
Bausch and Lomb Joan Patricia Lucey
Science Fair Winner Paul V. Thorp Bi-Phy-Chem Award
Gregory C. Goodwin
Social Studies
Charles H. Alward Social Studies Award from the American Legion Post No. 133 Women Auxiliary
Donald Lange Cassidy
4. Community Chorus Linda Hamel Bonney
5. Elmira Key
Judith Mosedale (Junior Girl)
6. Harvard Book Award Bruce Fredrickson (Junior Boy)
7. Good Citizenship Award ---
Sponsored by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Joan Patricia Lucey Donald Lange Cassidy
8. Special Award
Suzanne Crowell National Merit Finalist
9. Leadership Award Joan Donahue Asian Study Group, Thayer Academy
CHORUS SELECTION "Ave Maria" Arrangement-Donald Bravo
SCHOLARSHIPS
Organization Presenter
1. American Legion Mr. Stanley Johnson
Recipient-Barry Bradford Baker
2. Art Scholarship Mr. Raymond A. Hettler Recipient-Joan Patricia Lucey
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