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29 Annie, to Paul and Annie Harwith.
Feb. 10 Frances, to James and Mary O'Neil.
DEATHS IN 1910.
Yrs.
Mos. Dys.
Jan. 28 G. Dwight Fish,
75
7 14
Feb. 6 Edward Gripko
23
8 Michael Witka, 1
47
April 12 Margaret E. Walsh,
1
14
May 3 Mary Burek,
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13 Alden Wilder,
76
9
5
21 Richard Dombrowski,
1
29
June 26 Theodore L. Powers,
76
8
3
Aug. 9 Infant son of Josephine Courn,
24 Joseph Begos,
55
17
Oct.
7 Cornelius Gilman Trow,
63
7 7
29
Nov. 11 Rose H. Nugent, 92
22 Besse Petrowic, 1 27
23 Sarah E. Keyser, 61
26 Reuben Francis Bullis, 72
28 Blaidisco Skisbisci, 45
BAXTER N. FISH, Town Clerk.
Sunderland, Feb. 13, 1911.
BAXTER N. FISH, Town Clerk, in account with DOG TAXES.
Dr. To cash received for 40 dogs, $86 00 Cr. By clerk's fees, . $8 00 Paid County Treasurer, . 78 00
$86 00
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SCHOOL REPORT
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EXPENDITURES
FUEL.
Paid for coal.
$ 258 56
Wood and sawing
18 75
277 31
Paid for care of school building $ 306 00
Laundry work ..
11 45
$ 317 45
TRANSPORTATION.
Paid J. M. S. Leach. $ 118 00
A. D. Russ.
444 00
Henry Cook.
444 00
Chas. W. Robinson
216 00
F. D. Hubbard.
112 80
Holyoke Street Railway Co
330 00
Stanley Suckaki
33 60
High school transportation.
223 38 $
1,921 78
TEACHERS' SALARIES.
Paid Lillian H. Dill. $ 432 00 Mrs. Geo. B. Smith 414 00
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Paid Emma F. Smith
$396 00
May L. Crocker
396 00
Nellie Phelps
396 00
Belle Bullis, music.
108 00
Lucile Gravestine, drawing
36 00
Beatrice J. Hibbard, drawing
18 00
---- $ 2,196 00
Paid for books and express
$ 24 54
Supplies and express. 122 83
147 37
Paid for water rent Dec, 1. 1909 to Dec. 1, 1910
$25 00
Taking census.
8 00
Printing report cards and envelopes
5 43
Medical inspection.
12 00
Services truant officer
2 50
Half barrel dust-down
6 00
Five gallons disinfectant
6 65
Miscellaneous expenses
28 63
-$
94 21
Superintendent's salary
$
303 72
Paid for repairs.
$ 13 00
Desks and seats.
21 70
Three chairs
10 23
Repairs on furnace
-$
48 98
Paid high school tuition, town of Amherst. . $ 721 00
30 00
High school tuition, town of Greenfield High school tuition, city of Worcester Agricultural school tuition, town of Montague
30 00
222 00
- -- $ 1,003 00
$ 6,309 82
Total expenditures,
.
4 05
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RESOURCES.
Town appropriation for support of schools. $ 2,500 00
Town appropriation for music. 108 00
Town appropriation for books and supplies 200 00 Town appropriation for transportation high school pupils 250 00
-$3,058 00
Tuition state wards. .$ 36 00
Tuition Lyman school
32 50
Income Mass. school fund.
1,551 21 -$ 1,619 71
Town appropriation for superintendent's salary $ 165 00
State contribution towards superinten- dent's salary
235 62
Town appropriation for repairs.
100 00
High school tuition paid by state
81 00
One-half industrial school tuition paid by state 90 00
High school tuition to be paid by state, but not due. 30 00
Town appropriation for Montague in- dustrial school.
240 00
Town appropriation for medical inspection 25 00
$ 1,666 62
$ 6,344 33 Number of boys in town Sept. 1, 1910, between 5 and 15 years of age, 98; of girls, 78.
Number of boys in town Sept. 1, 1910, between 7 and 14 years of age 64; of girls, 54.
The schools will have been in session thirty-six weeks March 4, and this report is made out to that date.
We recommend the following appropriations:
Support of schools $ 3,000 00
108 00
Teaching of music
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Books and supplies
$200 00
Superintendent's salary 165 00
Repairs
300 00
CYRUS M. HUBBARD, ALBERT I. MONTAGUE, School 1 Committee.
F. L. WHITMORE,
After examination of their accounts, I find the above report a correct and complete statement of the financial transactions of the school committee of the town of Sunderland for the year ending March 1, 1910.
J. M. S. LEACH, Auditor.
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Sunderland, Mass., Feb. 17, 19I1.
At a meeting of the School Board held today, the following resolutions were adopted :
Whereas; the active connection of Dr. Cornelius Gilman Trow with the School Board of Sunderland has been severed by death, and
Whereas; the present members of the Board, in their own behalf and in behalf of the citizens whom they represent, desire to place on record their high appreciation of the service which he unfailingly rendered for many years ;- now therefore be it
Resolved: that we, by this testimonial, do pay sincere and merited tribute to the faithfulness with which his duties as Chairman of the Board were consistently performed, that we deplore the loss of his wise counsel, his kindly interest, his devotion to every task; and that we hold in sacred memory his steadfast aim to do for all our schools the very best he could. And be it further
Resolved: that a copy of these resolution be inscribed upon the minutes of the Board and be incorporated in our annual report to the Town.
CYRUS M. HUBBARD, ALBERT I. MONTAGUE, School
F. L. WHITMORE. Committee
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Superintendent's Report
GENTLEMEN OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE :-
In accordance with your request I submit herewith my second annual report as Superintendent of the Sunderland public schools.
In my last report mention was made of instruction in domestic science, some form of manual training and physical training. Nothing has been done to make a beginning of these subjects look any less remote than it did a year ago. In the traditional arts, reading, writing and arithmetic, we are doing excellent work, but we are not keeping pace with even our less progressive neighbors in adopting something in our curriculum of the later phases of public education. These are not fads nor are they experimental. They have come to stay. In communities where these subjects have been introduced the universal testimony is that it has not been to the detriment of the other subjects.
The suggestion of last year that one of the present force might take up some of this work by being relieved by a substitute has not produced any results.
I am convinced that the employment of a utility teacher would prove a decided advantage. Such teachers should be a graduate of Pratt Institute or a similar institution, where she has had preparation in manual training, sewing, etc., so that she could cover the broad field of work that will be necessary in Sun- derland. Since the work is confined to one building such a teacher would be able to assist in the lower grades for part of the time. The results of one year's work placed on exhibition at the end of a year's time would, I am positive, convince the mnost skeptical that the introduction of sewing, cooking, manual training, etc., was one of the most important steps ever taken in our schools.
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There has been some discussion over the situation in the south part of the town. Three teams are now necessary to trans- port the 74 pupils from that section to the center. And there is bound to be some complaint made regarding the conduct of the pupils en route. Men in charge of these teams should have plenty of authority and know how and when to make use of it. Young people are quick to see an opportunity to take advantage of insufficient authority, but generally respect the right without much complaint when they are given to understand what the right is. Serious violations of order or propriety should be re- ferred to the superintendent or committee.
There seems to me, after a careful study of the records of the town, to be no immediate need of more room for the school. The birth rate has been fairly uniform with the exception of last year, which will not be felt in the school until 1915 or 1916. The better equipment of the rooms we have deserves some thought. Adjustable desks, new floors, new blackboards and a motor driven fan for ventilating would be acceptable additions for the coming summer. Many children in school today are occupying desks that are wholly unfitted to them. You will find some where the feet do not rest firmly on the floor, if they touch it at all. The exercises in writing are made less beneficial to some pupils whose desks are too high or too low. Nervousness, re- sulting from continued restlessness, may often be traced to im- proper seating. New floors are not absolutely necessary, but they would do much toward making the school rooms more
sanitary and attractive. The system of forced ventilation would do much toward safeguarding the pupils health by furnish- ing them sufficient volume of fresh air. In winter when the windows and doors cannot be kept open without exposing the children to draughts, the air in all the rooms becomes impure to the extent that it is depressing to teachers and pupils alike. This is a condition that would not exist if a motor driven fan were installed. The expense would not be heavy as the present ven- tilating flues could be used.
The question of teachers' salaries is also an important one. Our neighboring cities have adopted a system of a regular increase for teachers, besides having made arbitrary advances in salaries
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within the past five years. The effect of this is felt in the smaller towns where the salaries of teachers are smaller. The city rarely ever takes a teacher direct from the normal school into its corps of teachers. By reason of the advance in salary they are able to attract those of experience, who are teaching in our smaller towns, so that when the city loses a teacher, two or more schools must be disturbed to supply that loss. To compel the cities to go to that source of teachers to which we go when we are in want, we must increase the pay of our teachers. It need not equal the city teachers' salary, as there is a difference in the cost of living, but it should be high enough so that the teacher is not constantly realizing that she is teaching in the smaller place at a sacrifice to herself.
An evening school is being conducted this winter under the direction of Amherst students. This school meets in the 6-7 grade room and has a regular attendance of 5 with occasional increases. The fact that five are anxious to learn to read and write is sufficient argument for the continuance of the school. Another year ought to see an increased enrolment and attendance with a corresponding increase in results. Though the opportunity offered in such a school, the public is able to discharge one of the duties it owes to the new accessions to its population. These duties are manifold and the bulk of them will eventually fall to the public school. Anything that will tend to improve the social condition of our town, anything that will make for better citizen- ship, and in fact, anything that responds to the incentive to apply the golden rule collectively as well as individually will react favorably upon the welfare of the town.
The attendance in our school is satisfactory with an average of over 90 per cent. This is not high. With the adequate transportation facilities which we have, an average of 95 per cent ought to be maintained barring an epidemic, which partly accounts for the average of the past year. The installation of the new drinking fountains ought to be an important element in the prevention of another general epidemic. Analysis of the public drinking cup question has presented such an array of enemies to the public health, that the surprise is that it was not legally abolished years ago.
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In conclusion I wish to add a word of tribute to that member of the school committee who passed away during the year. His long term of service in the interests of the schools made him an invaluable coworker and advisor in school affairs. As such I have been much indebted to him and join in the general senti- ment of a personal and community loss. I wish also to express my own satisfaction at the spirit of cooperation and zeal on the part of committee and teachers, a spirit which augurs well for the schools of the town. Your attention is also called to the reports of the supervisors and the medical inspector which follow.
Respectfully submitted,
CHESTER D. STILES, Supt.
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MR. C. D. STILES, SUPT. OF SCHOOLS:
In making out my outline of work in drawing it has been my endeavor to introduce those things, which will most interest and help the pupils in the schools and which they will retain and make practical use of in their lives.
In the lower grades it is difficult to teach the children set principles belonging to art education. Therefore simple little studies in observation of things around and in touch with us have been given them.
In the intermediate grades the children become old enough to understand somewhat that in correct representation of objects and our surroundings certain principles must be adhered to. Therefore objects in perspective, the figure in action and right proportions, color harmony, and design with its practical applica- tion, have all been brought before the scholars and in an interesting manner.
This same line of work has been carried on in the grammar grade, but with much more detail and with a greater idea of its practical use in daily life. In order to bring this about, more construction work of different kinds has been planned, with
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original designs from various motives and good color schemes applied.
It is my desire to express gratitude for the deep interest taken by the grade teachers in the work of drawing and the children have certainly done well by means of their co-operation. Also I wish to mention the fact that through the interest, and in con- ference with, the superintendent, all mediums that have been necessary for the work, such as water colors, which the children greatly enjoy, have been readily supplied, and material as well for the construction of certain problems.
Respectfully submitted, BEATRICE J. HIBBARD, Supervisor of Drawing.
REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC.
There have been no changes of importance in my work during the past year, the plan of the preceding year having been followed with a few adaptations to fit more nearly the conditions of these particular schools.
Individual singing is given more prominence in all grades· Careful and thorough drill with the younger pupils being of particu- lar importance as a foundation for work later on. How to give this side of the subject all the attention it deserves, without neglecting chorus singing is one of our problems.
Twice in the past year, once in June for graduating exercises, and again at Christmas time, choruses have been prepared by the four upper grades. A cantata, "The Birth of Christ," was studied for a number of weeks, affording both an opportunity for chorus drill and a pleasant Christmas exercise for closing day. All grades met in the hall, the younger children singing some of heir Christmas songs as their share of the entertainment. t
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Interest and enthusiasm on the part of both teachers and pupils have given us a pleasant and successful year's work.
Respectfully submitted,
BELLE BULLIS,
Supervisor of Music.
EYE AND EAR REPORT.
Number examined 130
Defective eyesight 9
Defective hearing .6
Number of parents notified . 3
ROLL OF HONOR.
Harlan K. Dill 2
Mary D. Hull . 2
Stanislava V. Zaluska 1
Ralph Fairchild
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Attendance Report for Year Ending June, 1910
TEACHERS
Schools
Grades
Number of Weeks
Total Enrolment
Average Membership
Average Attendance
Per Cent. of Attendance
Days Absence
Cases of Tardiness
Mrs. W. H. Dill
Sunderland
8-9
36
17
16.96
15.83
93.35
199
8
Mrs. Nellie J. Phelps
Sunderland
6-7
36
33
30.05
27.62
90.06
247
14
May Crocker
Sunderland
4-5
36
31
26.78
24.63
91.
371}
18
Mrs. E. F. Smith
Sunderland
2-3
36
48
45.58
41.47
90.90
625
20
Mrs. G. B. Smith
Sunderland
1
36
31
24.97
21.70
86.
563
47
Totals
160
144.34 131.25
450.31 90.03
2053
107
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Attendance Report for 5 Months of Currant Year
TEACHERS
Schools
Grades
Number of Weeks
Total Enrolment
Average Membership
Average Attendance
Per Cent. of Attendance
Days Absence
Cases of Tardiness
Mrs. W. H. Dill
Center
8-9
20
23
22.65
21.22
93.68
1312
6
Mrs. Nellie J. Phelps
Center
6-7
20
27
24.41
22.93
93.94
1462
7
May Crocker
Center
4-5
20
33
31.98
29.85
93.
204
13
Mrs. E. F. Smith
Center
2-3
20
48
47.29
44.99
95.
2032
10
Mrs G. B. Smith
Center
1
20
34
31.49
28.86
91.
255
13
Totals
165
157.72 147.85
93.11
9402
49
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School Calendar
Winter term, Nov. 28, 1910, to Mar. 10, 1911, 13 weeks. Spring term, April 3, 1911, to June 16, 1911, 11 weeks. Fall term, Sept. 4, 1911, to Nov. 24, 1911, 12 weeks. Winter term, Nov. 27, 1911, to Mar. 8, 1912, 13 weeks.
HOLIDAYS
Feb. 22, 1911, Washington's Birthday.
April 19, 1911, Patriot's Day.
May 30, 1911, Decoration Day.
Sept. 4, 1911, Labor Day.
Thursday of Greenfield Fair.
Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving week.
Christmas vacation begins Dec. 22, 1911, and school re- opens January 8, 1912.
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