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One Moderator for one year
One Town Clerk for one year
One Town Treasurer for one year
One Selectman for three years
One Assessor for three years One Assessor for one year
One School Committee for three years
One Constable for one year One Auditor for one year One Tree Warden for one year
One Collector of Taxes for one year
One Trustee Robertson Memorial Library for three years and fill any vacancies that may occur.
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ARTICLE 2. To see if the town will vote to author- ize the treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to bor- row money from time to time in anticipation of the revenue of the financial year beginning January 1, 1954 and to is- sue a note or notes therefor payable within one year and to renew any note or notes as may be given for a period of less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
ARTICLE 3. To see if the town will vote to accept the report of the Town Officers for the year 1953, or pass any vote or votes in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 4. To act on the list of Jurors as posted by the selectmen.
ARTICLE 5. To see if the town will vote to raise money for the necessary expenses of the town and appro- priate same, or pass any vote or votes in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 6. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate, or appropriate from the Quintus Allen money, any sum of money for the maintenance of schools during the current year.
ARTICLE 7. To see if the town will vote to fix the salary and compensation of all elective officers of the town as provided by Section 108 of Chapter 41, General Laws as amended :
Moderator $ 5.00 for each meeting
Town Clerk & Treasurer 400.00 and fees
Selectmen
Chairman 150.00
Second member 125.00
Third member
125.00
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$
School Committee
Chairman
60.00
Clerk
60.00
Third member 50.00
Assessors
Each member
90.00
Constable
25.00
Auditor
25.00
Collector of Taxes
200.00
Tree Warden Hourly wage of departmental supt.
Library Trustees 0.00
and raise and appropriate a sum of money therefor.
ARTICLE 8. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate any sum of money for the payment of com- pensation under provisions of Chapter 152 of the General Laws.
ARTICLE 9. To see if the town will vote to appro- priate from the overlay surplus the sum of $450.00 for a reserve fund as provided in Section 6, Chapter 40 of the General Laws.
ARTICLE 10. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $50.00 for the care of the East Hill Cemetery, or pass any vote or votes in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 11. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the care of the Beaver Meadow Cemetery, or pass any vote or votes in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 12. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for administration of the Northern Franklin Welfare District.
ARTICLE 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for Disability Assistance,
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or pass any vote or votes in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 14. To see if the town will vote to appro- priate $578.00 from the Machinery Fund to purchase a snowplow blade for the Oliver tractor, or pass any vote or votes in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 15. To see if the town will vote to appro- priate $1800.00 from the Machinery Fund and raise and appropriate $1700.00 for the Machinery Account, or pass any vote or votes in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 16. To see if the town will vote to pur- chase a new truck, appropriate money for same, and pass any vote or votes in relation thereto.
ARTICLE 17. To see if the town will vote to pay a member of the Board of Selectmen the sum of $50.00 for attending meetings of the Northern Franklin Welfare Dis- trict.
The polls will be opened at eleven o'clock in the fore- noon and will be closed at five o'clock in the afternoon.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof on the Town House, seven days at least before the time of said meeting as directed by vote of the town.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk at the time and place of said meeting.
Given under our hands this second day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty- three four
CASPER P. ZIMMERMAN, DAVID J. BAKER, RAY ROBERTSON,
Selectmen of Leyden
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Annual Report of the School Department
Leyden School Report
ORGANIZATION
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School Committee
William Barker, Chairman Jessie Glabach, Secretary Douglas Barton
Term expires 1955 Term expires 1954 Term expires 1953
Superintendent of Schools
F. Sumner Turner Dartmouth A. B., Harvard M. Ed. Boston University-University of Massachusetts Office, Center School, Tel. 757
Office Hours
School Days 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. School Vacations, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
School Physician
F. Wilton Dean, M.D. Northfield, Mass.
School Nurse
Bernice F. Berry, R. N. Tel. Greenfield 3411
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School Calendar 1954-1955
Schools Open January 4, 1954
Schools Open March 1, 1954
Schools Open April 26, 1954 Schools Open September 8, 1954
Schools Open January 3, 1955
Close February 19, 1954 Close April 15, 1954 Close June 18, 1954
Close December 22, 1954 Close February 18, 1955
Report of Superintendent of Schools
To the School Committee and Citizens of Leyden :
I am pleased to present herewith my sixth annual re- port as your Superintendent of Schools. This report covers the 182nd year of public education in the Town of Leyden.
TEACHERS
Mrs. Helen McCaughey, after a most successful year, resigned at the end of school to accept a position in Shel- burne Falls at an increased salary.
Mrs. Clara Cook resigned her position as Music Super- visor after more than ten years of most successful super- vision.
Mrs. Helen Smith, Westfield State Teachers' College, was appointed to teach the primary grades.
Mrs. Esther Galbraith, Springfield Conservatory of Music, was appointed Music Supervisor.
SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS
On December 18, 1953 the enrollment was as follows:
Grade 1
7
Grade 2
9
Grade 3
4
Grade 4
7
Total 27 Mrs. Helen Smith
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Grade 5
8 Grade 6
5
Grade 7
3
Grade 8
5
Total 21 Miss Pearl Rhodes
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
The new Elementary School has been completed and accepted by the Town and turned over to the School Com- mittee for operation. On November 10, 1953 a very suc- cessful Open House was held in the Elementary School. The pupils of each room demonstrated their school work. Senator Ralph C. Mahar of Orange was the speaker of the evening. The application for reimbursement for the cost of the building has been approved and the town is now re- ceiving this allotment each year.
VISUAL AIDS
Again I wish to thank the Parent-Teachers Associa- tion for its continued interest in our visual aid program by contributing money to purchase additional film.
SCHOOL LUNCH
The School Lunch program has completed a most suc- cessful year. Six thousand six hundred and ninety-five pu- pil and 370 adult meals or a total of 7,065 meals were served. The menus were well planned and most attractive- ly served. By close planning the low price of 20 cents per lunch was maintained. The lunch program continues to be self-supporting. Miss Leta Wood deserves tremendous credit for the success of the lunch program.
FINANCES
The appropriation of $23,400.00 as voted by the Town
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proved to be ample and $654.70 was turned back to the Town Treasury. In general, the bulk of the savings was made in tuition expenses and transportation. These items are most difficult to estimate. The changing of pupils from one course to another or from one school to another will make considerable difference in the amounts of money necessary. Also, pupils moving in or out of town make a great change in the amounts needed.
In studying the amounts asked for by the School Com- mittee for the coming year we find $2,240 for High School Tuition and $3,462.00 for Vocational Tuition or a total of $6,702.00. This is approximately 29 per cent of the total budget. The transportation of these pupils calls for $4,338.00 or approximately 19 per cent of the budget. To- gether these two items account for 48 per cent of the 1954 budget. At the present time there are 20 tuition pupils at- tending the schools of Shelburne and Greenfield.
It is to be noted that the total for transportation of all pupils is $7,758 or 33.7 per cent of the budget. The items of transportation and tuition account for $14,460.00 or 62.8 per cent of the budget. The School Committee must pay the rates set by the other towns and approved by the State Department of Education, and the transportation amounts as set by contract. Therefore, very little can be done at the moment to reduce these items.
The 1954 budget is $23,000.00 or $400.00 less than was asked for last year. Should changes occur that would in any way reduce the amount spent, the taxpayers of Leyden can rest assured that this will be done and the money thus saved returned to the Town Treasury.
The reimbursements from the State in 1954 under present laws should approximate the following : Chapter 70 as amended $6,424.63 Supt.'s Salary and Expenses 436.72
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Vocational Tuition
2,011.85
Vocational Transportation
1,094.54
Transportation
5,000.00
State Wards
400.00
Total
$15,367.74
As some items depend upon the amounts spent this total could vary.
The reimbursement for vocational expenses which lag in payment by eighteen months are now beginning to re- flect the heavy expenditures that the town has been making for such items the past two years. In 1954 the reimburse- ment should total $15,367.74, the greatest amount paid to Leyden from the state. Assuming the proposed budget as ample, the net cost to the taxpayer for the coming year would be $7,632.26.
Once again, as our schools face the new year with many grave problems yet to be solved, I sincerely invite you to visit our schools in action. In that way, you can ob- serve first hand our achievements, our shortcomings, our handicaps and our perplexing problems. Your suggestions, based on that knowledge, will prove of great help to us. I feel that this quotation from the School Executive Maga- zine expresses this situation. "Working with others, you will not only learn how good your schools are, but you will discover how good you want your schools to become."
I wish to thank the School Committee, Principal, teachers, Secretarial Staff and workers of our schools for their continued cooperation and assistance. Likewise, I thank the parents, town departments, pupils and civic or- ganizations for helping to make 1953 a most successful school year.
Respectfully submitted,
F. Sumner Turner, Superintendent of Schools
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LEYDEN SCHOOL LUNCH
Cash Balance January 1, 1953 Sale of Lunches Government Reimbursement Other
$113.31
1,376.84
584.46
185:00
$2,074.61
Expenses :
2209.61
Food
$2,206.88.
Salaries
688.00
Other
175.80
$2,070.68.
Balance, December 31, 1953
$3.93
3070.68
Government Reimbursement Due
122.49
Inventory
24.78
$151.20
$151.20
Liabilities :
State of Mass.
$4.00
Lindell
6.00
Food
8.00
$18.00
$18.00
Net Worth December 31, 1953
$133.20
Lunches Served 7065
Pupils
6695
Adults
370
LEYDEN CENSUS REPORT
Boys
Girls 20
Total
Between ages birth to 5 years
21
41
Between ages 5 to 7
6
9
15
Between ages 7 and 16
22
15
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Total
49
44
93
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SCHOOL ORGANIZATION
Name
School
Where Educated Date
Amer'c'n Interna'l
College, A.B.
1946
Westfield State
Teachers Col.
1953
Esther Galbraith Music Supervisor
W. L. Rinehart Penm'ns'p Sup'r
Jeannette L. Rich Art Supervisor
Mass. Sch. of Art B. S. in Ed., Booth
Bay Summer School 1953
ENROLLMENT, OCTOBER 1, 1953
Leyden Elementary
Grades
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Total
Boys
2
7
4
3
3
4
3
3
29
Girls
5
3
0
4
5
1
0
2
20
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Totals
7 10
4
7
8
5
3
5
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High School Pupils
Boys
Girls
Total
Greenfield Junior High School
0
2
2
Greenfield Senior High School
0
6
6
Greenfield Vocational School Shelburne Falls Vocational School
9
1
10
3
1
4
Total
12
10
22
Total Registration 1953
71
Total Registration 1952
71
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Pearl E. Rhodes Leyden Elem't'y
Helen Smith
Leyden Elem't'y
Spfld. Conservatory of Music 1953
1942
State Aid and Net Cost of Education 1943-1953
Year
Total Expended
State Aid and Other Receipts $ 4,829.51
Percent of State Aid 54.6
Net Cost Education
1943
$ 8,849.52
$ 4,019.11
1944
8,916.54
6,575.46
73.7
2,341.08
1945
9,400.00
4,959.71
52.8
4,440.29
1946
10,107.77
4,782.22
47.4
5,282.22
1947
13,905.88
8,992.83
64.7
4,913.05
1948
15,601.64
10,345.72
66.3
5,255.92
1949
16,403.91
8,635.10
52.0
7,743.05
1950
18,071.81
10,528.76
58.2
7,543.05
1951
18,999.91
11,922.16
62.7
7,077.75
1952
21,696.82
14,000.61
64.1
7,696.21
1953
22,745.30
13,669.97
60.9
9,075.33
Net Cost of Schools for 1953
Expended by the School Department 1953 : Regular Appropriation
$22,745.30
State of Massachusetts Reimbursement :
Chapter 70 as amended 1948 C-643
6,424.63
Vocational Tuition
975.90
Vocational Transportation
431.86
Transportation
5,000.80
Superintendent's Salary and Travel
436.72
State Wards
400.06
Total
$13,669.97
Net Cost of Public Education 1953
$9,075.33
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Budget Summary 1953
Approp.
Spent 1953
Estimated 1954
Superintendent's Salary
$615.00
$602.46
$655.00
Out-of-State Travel
10.00
8.36
10.00
Travel
198.00
212.49
237.00
Salaries, Teacher
5,500.00
5,523.75
5,600.00
Textbook
100.00
124.07
50.00
Supplies, Student
100.00
253.98
150.00
Supplies, Janitor
175.00
163.45
150.00
Salaries, Janitor
480.00
442.50
550.00
Fuel
450.00
519.32
450.00
Water and Current
240.00
230.84
240.00
Clerk
210.00
209.97
235.00
Repairs
20.00
17.15
50.00
New Equipment
50.00
54.71
75.00
Physician
25.00
50.00
50.00
Nurse
110.00
110.00
110.00
Tuition : High School
2,506.24
2,450.47
2,240.00
Vocational
4,061.49
3,746.56
3,462.00
Transportation :
4,300.27
4,047.53
4,338.00
High School Local
3,344.00
3,249.00
3,420.00
Sundry Education
175.00
153.91
150.00
Music
375.00
267.66
430.00
Art Supervisor
175.00
127.12
18 168.00
Penmanship Supervisor
180.00
180.00
180.00
$23,400.00 $22,745.30 $23,000.00
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Report of the Supervisor of Art
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To the Superintendent of Schools and the School Commit- tee :
I herewith submit this, my first report on the art edu- cation in the schools of Leyden.
It has been my policy to make the art program as flexible as possible and adaptable to the individual interests and needs of each pupil.
The basic fundamentals of drawing have been com- bined with the development of the creative abilities and skills to build in the child a sense of appreciation and dis- crimination in art as well as increased skill in drawing.
The program has been shaped to include interest both in the child who merely enjoys expressing himself graphi- cally and the child who is already an embryo artist.
Whenever the occasion has presented itself, I have en- joyed collaborating with the teachers on class projects cor- relating art with the academic subjects. This has also in- cluded pupil participation in the making of posters, pro- grams and decorations for school functions.
It has been a pleasure to work with a group of teach- ers who have shown such a friendly spirit of cooperation as well as individual initiative in helping to carry out the art program.
Respectfully submitted,
JEANETTE LORING RICH
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Report of the School Nurse
To the School Committee of Leyden:
All the children have been weighed and height taken in the spring and fall. Ears and eyes have been tested. Dr. Dean examined all the children and all defects have been reported to the parents.
In December the Patch Test was given to 40 children. Any positive reactions will be referred by Doctor Dean to the T.B. Clinic at the Hospital for X-rays.
A well-child clinic was held in June with very good at- tendance.
Regular visits have been made to the school through the year.
BERNICE F. BERRY,
School Nurse
Report of the School Physician for 1953
To the Superintendent of Schools :
During the fall, all pupils were given physical examin- ations in the usual manner. Out of 49 examinations, only 21 defects were noted-17 cases of defective teeth, and 4 of flat feet.
Later in the fall tuberculin (Patch) tests were carried out on the majority of the children in an attempt to screen the school for possible cases of tuberculosis. Only one re- actor was found, and this case is being X-rayed at the clinic in Greenfield.
I wish to thank Mrs. Berry, the school nurse, and the teachers for their cooperation this year.
Respectfully submitted,
F. WILTON DEAN, M. D. School Physician
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