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7,500.00
Expenditures
Chairs & Desk 1,358.50
Painting
3,330.00
Transfer
Dec. 3rd
2,811.50
7,500.00
Vocational Education
Appropriation
12,224.00
Expenditures
Tuition 10,281.31
Transportation 944.60
Transfer Dec.
3, 1963
998.09
12,224.00
National Defense Title V
Balance Jan. 1, 1963
3,722.93
Receipts 1963
196.40
3,919.33
Expenditures
Equipment 410.67
174
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Claims Dis-
allowed
26.48
Rail Gate
55.00
Tuition 3.40
Heating Repairs
394.08
889.63
Balance to be carried into 1964
3,029.70
School Athletics Revolving Fund
Balance Jan. 1, 1963
274.22
Receipts
2.195.95
2,470.17
Expenditures
Officials & Workers
1,784.96
Equipment
179.70
1,964.66
Balance to be carried into 1964
505.51
Drum Corp Revolving Fund
Balance Jan. 1, 1963
6.50
Appropriation
843.00
849.50
Transportation
118.60
First Aid
38.03
Janitor
9.62
Trophies
200.42
Dinner-Chadwick Diner
339.20
Illuminated Resolution
73.42
Flowers
10.00
Expenses
33.00
22.29
Balance to be carried into 1964
26.21
175
ANNUAL REPORT
School Band
Balance Jan. 1, 1963
64.60
Expenditures
NONE
Balance to be carried into 1964
64.60
Trust Fund-Southgate-Newhall Interest Fund
Balance Jan. 1, 1963
1,050.53
Receipts
220.32
1,270.85
Subscriptions & Books
880.30 .
Periodicals-Binders
14.41
Supplies
35.40
Furniture
14.15
944.26
Balance to be carried into 1964
325.59
Cafeteria-School Lunch Program
Balance Jan. 1, 1963
3,159.57
Appropriation Town Meeting
8,000.00
Receipts State & Town
74,868.75
Adjustment
2.20
86,030.52
Expenditures
Salaries
35,883.74
Accounting
662.50
Food
47,686.48
Supplies
1,185.16
Gas
5.2.60
School Travel
249.36
85,719.84
Balance to be carried into 1964
310.68
176
ANNUAL REPORT
Library
Appropriation
6,216.98
Dog Refund Library Aid Returned Check
1,036.77
2,044.25
4.00
9,302.00
Expenditures
Librarian
2,100.00
Assistant
Librarians
2,387.03
Janitors
780.00
5,267.03
Books & Periodicals
1,791.99
Binding Books
54.25
Fuels
713.66
Water-Light-Gas
466.97
Care of Grounds
27.50
Janitor Supplies
12.60
Stationery-Postage
154.40
Telephone
118,14
Dues
8.00
Balance to be carried into 1964
8,614.46
687.46
Interest Maturing Debt
Appropriation
36,253.75
Expenditures
Peter Salem Highway Garage
303.75
Memorial School
8,400.00
High School
26,800.00
Rochdale Fire Station
750.00
36,253.75
177
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Interest Temporary Loans
Appropriation
5,000.00
Expenditures
Interest
4,530.04
Transfer Dec 3, 1963
469.96 5,000.00
Reserve Fund
Appropriation
5,000.00
Transferred
Police
605.65
Forest Fire Dept.
2,790.60
Leicester Center School & Auditorium
500.00
Veterans Benefits
303.75
Interest Maturing Debt
5,000.00
Bonding & Insurance
Appropriation
32,775.83
Expenditures
Transferred Dec. 3rd
6,000.00
Insurance
26,114.21
Bonding
Treasurer
198.40
Tax Collector
362.15
Library Treasurer
12.50
Town Clerk
10.00
Deputy Tax
Collectors
40.00
Constable
10.00
633.05
To Close
28.57
32,775.83
178
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Leicester Center School & Town Auditorium
Appropriation
19,536.20
Expenditures
Janitor
5,140.20
Helpers
1,998.00
Fuel
2,634.11
Light
2,574.15
Gas-Water-Sewer
215.87
Janitor Supplies
610.62
Repairs Building
1,619.84
Heat Repairs
422.76
Plumbing Repairs
252.78
General Repairs
23.90
Desk-Chairs
963.06
Paint
914.93
Miscellaneous
190.90
New Lights
1,974.60
To Close
.48
19,536.20
Parks Department
Appropriation
3,300.00
Expenditures
Leicester
Salaries
563.75
Equipment
41.68
605.43
Rochdale
Salaries
899.02
1.369.61
Equipment
470.61
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Cherry Valley
Salaries 1,014.96
Equipment
297.49
ANNUAL REPORT
179
Lights
8.00
1,320.45
To Close
4.51
3,300.00
Leicester Recreation Committee-Dancing
Appropriation
800.00
Expenditures
Dancing
625.35
Radio Supplies
55.65
To Close
119.00
800.00
Leicester Recreation Committee
Appropriation
1,425.00
Expenditures
Projects
Swimming
47.00
Golf
37.60
Boys Basketball
312.21
Girls Basketball
139.05
Hockey
240.37
Tennis
88.30
Girls Softball
235.60
Clerical & Office supplies
56.98
Mileage
169.12
Miscellaneous
26.55
Snow Plow
64.00
To Close
8.22
1,425.00
Material to Construct Hockey Rink Under the Juris- diction of the Recreation Committee
Appropriation
673.85
180
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Expenditures
Lumber
529.12
Chicken Wire
105.00
Paint
39.65
To Close
.08
673.85
Life Guard & Equipment & Maintenance of Lake Sar- gent and Rochdale Lake and Transportation from Cherry Valley
Appropriation
3,730.00
Expenditures
Lifeguards
3,0544.65
Equipment
48.55
Maintenance Beach
221.80
Transportation
405.00
3,730.00
Memorial Day
Appropriation
500.00
Expenditures
Bus Transportation
250.00
Private Transportation
85.00
Wreaths
100.00
Sound Track
30.00
Signs Painted
10.00
Clerical & Labor
25.00
500.00
Veterans Graves Registration
Appropriation
Expenditures
350.00
181
ANNUAL REPORT
Labor
116.05
Flags
109.13
Supplies
13.80
Markers & Repairs to Markers
107.80
To Close
3.22
350.00
Land Purchase McCarthy Avenue & McCarthy Square
Appropriation
435.00
Walter Kotoski Land Purchase
350.00
Geo. E. Duffy Mfg. Co.
Land Purchase
85.00
435.00
Maintenance Veterans Squares Under Direction of Di- rector Edward Duane-Director for the Board of Selectmen
Appropriation 1,020.00
Labor
193.11
Clerk
9.00
Keenan Landscaping
599.30
Repairs Squares-Sugrue
70.00
Town Road Machinery
46.60
Curbs
95.68
To Ciose
6.31
1,020.00
Bathing Priveleges-So Called Nicas Property. M
Rental Summer Season
275.00
Appropriation
275.00
Advisory Committee
Appropriation 1,000.00
182
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Expenditures
Salary
308.45
Purchase of New Adding Machine
160.00
1 Carry Case for Machine
10.15
Rental of Adding Machine 1 month
30.00
Office Supplies
153.56
To Close
337.84
1,000.00
Planning Board
Appropriation
300.00
Expenditures
Clerk
206.25
Office Supplies
19.08
Subscriptions
40.00
Advertising
28.13
Book
5.10
To Close
1.44
300.00
Board of Appeals
............
Appropriation
300.00
Expenditures
Clerical
178.81
Mileage
53.90
Typewriter
20.00
Dues
15.00
Book
4.00
Stationery
28.29
300.00
Miscellaneous
Appropriation
1,400.00
Expenditures
183
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Miscellaneous
29.40
Town Reports
1,128.00
Stenotyper
20.00
Advertising
27.00
Transfer Town Meeting
100.00
To Close
95.60
1,400.00
Retirement Fund Assessment
Appropriation
14,773.32
Assessment
14,773.32
Bills too Late for Payment 1961-62
Appropriation Balance 1963
60.00
Appropriation
718.24
778.24
Expenditures
Bills too Late for Payment
Fire Dept.
15.50
Health
91.50
Hydrant Repair C. Valley
325.04
Life Guard ! Main.
8.00
School Department
11.75
Welfare
34.00
Health
150.00
Highway
111.00
Fire
31.45
778.24
Civil Defense
Appropriation
3,900.00
184
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Expenditures
Salaries
400.00
Clerical
100.00
Telephone
200.00
Gas & Oil
200.00
Repairs to Truck & Radio
500.00
Police & Fire Equipment
2,178.00
Schooling & Miscellaneous
322.00
. 3,900.00
Travel Expenses
High School Building Construction
Appropriation Balance
1,483.43
Expenditures
Bronze Plaque
259.20
Equipment
905.91
1,165.11
Balance to be carried into 1964 318.32
Del Signori Construction Corp Award American Ar- bitration Assoc. Award Appropriaton
Del Signori Award 7,348.68
American Arbitration Assoc. 235.13
7,583.81
Expenditures
Full Awards Each
7,583.81
Conservation Committee
Appropriation 50.00
To Close 50.00
185
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Water Storage Investigation Committee
Appropriation
640.00
Sanitary Engineering Assoc. Contract
640.00
Raze or Demolish Building at Corner of Mill & Dale Street
Appropriation
400.00
Labor
220.00
Transferred
180.00
400.00
Indemnify Fireman Paul Dorr for Injury
Appropriation
878.98
Expenditures
Hospital Care
318.98
Doctors Care
160.00
Reimburse for lost salary
400.00
878.98
Refunds
Real & Personal Taxes
4,442.06
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes
3,216.47
Maturing Debt.
Memorial Elementary School
35,000.00
High School
40,000.00
Fire Station-Rochdale
5,000.00
Temporary Loans
186
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580,000.00
Dog Licenses
1,468.75
Worcester County Retirement
System 12,373.08
Withheld Taxes-Federal
117,014.50
Withheld Taxes -- Comm. of Mass. 10,545.99
Blue Cross-Blue Shield Reimburse-
ment to Subscriber 620.00
State Parks & Reservation 3,791.61
County Tax 21,615.30
Worcester County Hospital Assessment 7,026.62
State Audit Municipal
Account 93.04
Total Disbursements
2,486,891.10
187
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Town of Leicester - Balance Sheet
ASSETS
For Year Ending December 31, 1963
Cash
65,679,35
Uncollected taxes
Levy 1960
Real Estate
412.15
Personal Property
25.20
437.35
Levy 1961
Poll Taxes
2.00
Levy 1962
Poll Taxes
2.00
Personal Property
197.12
Real Estate
19,093.06
19,292.18
Levy 1963
Poll Taxes
232.00
Personal Property
1,738.40
Real Estate
114,952.97
116,923.37
Motor Vehicle Excise
188
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Town of Leicester --- Balance Sheet
LIABILITIES
For Year Ending December 31, 1963
Overestimate-Taxes
Levy 1959
Real Estate 35.26
Levy 1961
Real Estate 195.94 231.20
Sale Land-Low Value
429.04
Excess Sale Land Low Value 156.50
Departmental Revenue-Overestimate Welfare
192.30
Worcester County Retirement System
21.65
Tailings
225.65
Deposit Bond-Garbage Contract
225.00
Departmental Revenue to be Collected
Motor Vehicle Excise Taxes 57,844.61
Tax Title Revenue 28,000.29
Departmental Revenue 22,027.86
Aid to Highway Revenue
29,184.78
137,057.54
Federal Grants-Balances of Monies Received from the Federal Government Unexpended Balances
Old Age Assistance-Aid 4,444.53
Old Age Assistance -
Administration 1,138.92
5,583.45
Medical Aid to the Aged-Administration 822.07
189
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Town of Leicester - Balance Sheet ASSETS
For Year Ending December 31, 1963
Levy 1955
22.84
Levy 1960
1,351.02
Levy 1961
860.74
Levy 1962
3,080.57
Levy 1963
52,529.44
57,844.61
Tax Title Redemptions
23,857.18
Tax Possessions
4,143.11
28,000.29
Departmental Charges Accounts Receivables
Highways
52.00
Police
195.00
Aid to Dependent Children Families
3,859.92
Old Age Assistance
1,619.13
Veterans Benefits
15,861.49
Schools
632.62
22,220.16
Aid to Highway Revenue
Chapter 81
4,784.78
Chapter 90 Maintenance State
3,200.00
Chapter 90 Maintenance
County
3,200.00
Chapter 90 Construction
State 12,000.00
190
ANNUAL REPORT
Town of Leicester - Balance Sheet
LIABILITIES
Disability Assistance-Aid
.02
Disability Assistance -
Administration 544.86
544.88
Aid to Dependent Children -
Aid
855.73
Aid to Dependent Children-
Administration 776.56
1,632.29
Overestimates-Overlays reserved for Assessors Abatements
Overlay 1962 1,866.74
Overlay 1963 164.39
2,031.13
Overestimate- County Tax 403.45
Surplus Revenue-Excess and Deficiency 213,731.80
Overlay Surplus 2,947.96
Appropriation Accounts to be transferred to working accounts at Town Meeting
Reimbursement Town of Oxford to
Leicester Fire Dept. 400.00
Road Machinery Rental to their Maintenance Account 567.84
Unexpended Balances Town Appropriation Accounts
Southgate-Newhall Interest Fund 326.59
School Band Revolving Account 64.60
Drum Corp. Revolving Account 27.21
School Athletics Revolving Account 505.51
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191
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Town of Leicester - Balance Sheet
ASSETS
Chapter 90 Construction
County
6,000.00
29,184.78
Overlay Defecits-Reserved for Abatement by Assessors
Levy 1959
12.13
Levy 1960
246.20
Levy 1961
177.62
435.95
Withhold State Tax
33.10
State Parks and Reservations
416.19
Chapter 44-Section 31-Legal Overdrafts
Veterans Benefits
7,548.71
Snow & Ice
4,207.76
11,756.47
Illegal Overdrafts
Police Department
171.70
Chapter 81
62.42
Chap. 90 Construction 1962
76.39
Temporary Aid-Welfare
774.86
Vacation and Holiday Pay
33.80
1,119.17
Revenue 1963
To be raised by Assesors in 1964 tax rate
19,400.95
Total 372,746.37
Net Funded Debt
1.030,000.00
192
ANNUAL REPORT
Town of Leicester - Balance Sheet
LIABILITIES
National Defense School Purposes
Title V
3,029.70
School Lunch Fund-Cafeteria 310.68
Library 687.46
Rochdale Fire Station-Town of Oxford
Reimbursement-working Ac-
count 108.89
Fire Department
114.18
Road Machinery Rental
49.48
High School Building Project
318.32
5,542.62
Total
372,746.37
Memorial School
385,000.00
Leicester High School
630,000.00
Rochdale Fire Station
15,000.00
1,030,000.00
Total Funded Debt
ANNA R. CURRAN,
Town Accountant
193
ANNUAL REPORT
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
of the
Town of Leicester
MASSACHUSETTS
For the Financial Year Ending December 31
194
ANNUAL REPORT
Report of the School Committee
To the Citizens of Leicester:
The School Committee has voted unanimously to accept the report of the Superintendent of Schools and to adopt it as its general report.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK O. JOHNSON, Chairman
WILLIAM A. CAMPBELL, Vice Chairman
MRS. MARY E. COMERFORD, Secretary
WEBB N. ROWDEN, Auditor
EVERETT G. O'KEEFE
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195
ANNUAL REPORT
School Department Personnel
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Mr. Frank O. Johnson, Chairman Term expires 1964
1710 Main Street, Leicester Telephone TWinoaks 5-4091
Mr. William A. Campbell, Vice Chairman
Term expires 1966
73 Will Hill Road, Cherry Valley Telephone TWinoaks 2-4164
Mrs. Mary E. Comerford, Secretary 1020 Stafford Street, Rochdale Telephone TWinoaks 2-3449
Term expires 1966
Mr. Everet G. O'Keefe 87 McCarthy Avenue, Cherry Valley Telephone TWinoaks 2-2901
Term expires 1965
Mr. Webb N. Rowden, Auditor 19 Brookside Drive, Leicester Telephone TWinoaks 2-4326
Term expires 1965
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Edmund F. Tierney
Office: 1205 Main Street, Leicester
Telephone TWinoaks 5-5111
Hours: 9:30 a.m. and by appointment
Residence : 10 Ruth Street, Worcester, Mass.
Telephone PLeasant 4-7731
196
ANNUAL REPORT
SCHOOL PHYSICIANS
Melvin S. Martinson, M.D. 98 Pleasant Street Leicester, Massachusetts Telephone TWinoaks 5-5351
Joseph E. Coleman, M.D. Stafford Street
Rochdale, Massachusetts Telephone TWinoaks 5-3501
SCHOOL NURSE
Mrs. Matilda S. Jubinville, R.N. Res. Gerald Court, Cherry Valley, Mass. Telephone TWinoaks. 2-2261
SCHOOL SECRETARY
Miss Helen E. McPartland Res. 34 Pine Street, Leicester
CLERKS
Mrs. Helen L. Mullett 75 Lake Avenue, Leicester
Mrs. Elaine R. Lyon West Main Street, Leicester
Miss Patricia Lipinski 41 Lake Sargent Drive Leicester
FACULTY
197
ANNUAL REPORT
HIGH SCHOOL
Name
Prepared Position Appointment
Edward L. Skelley
A.B., Holy Cross College Principal B.S.E., Ed.M. Fitchburg State Teachers' Col- lege
1940
Edward J. Boule
A.B. St. Anselm College Vice Principal Ed.M. Calvin Coolidge College
1942
Esther D. Avedian
B.S.E. Worcester State English 1962
Teachers' College
Valentine Baziliauskas B.A. Wayne State Univ. Spanish 1963
Detroit, Michigan
Irma K. Bosse
A.B. Emerson College French 1958
Ed. M. Worcester State Teachers' College
Joseph M. Carlomagno
B.S.E. Fitchburg State Science Teachers', Ed.M. Fitch- burg State Teachers' College
1960
John E. Comer
B.S., Holy Cross College Mathematics Ed.M. Fitchburg State Teacher' College
1950
A. Virginia Emerson
A.B. Univ. of Maine History 1957
Marjorie E. Frye
A.B. Middlebury College English M.A. Bread Loaf School of English, Northwest- ern Univ.
1933
Edward F. Gallagher
B.S.E. Worcester State English Teachers' College
1962
Eloise C. Gallagher
A. B., B.S. Lib. Science Librarian 1961
College of St. Catherine St. Paul, Minn.
William J. Gannon B.S.E. Holy Cross Col- Guidance lege M. A. Assumption College
1961
198
ANNUAL REPORT
Norman W. Hamley B.S.E. Worcester State History 1963
Teachers' College
Norman E. Houle A.B. St. Anselm College Mathematics 1962
Barbara A. Kane
B.S.E. Worcester State Girls' Phys. Ed.
Teachers' College; Ed.
1959
roster
State
Teachers'
Robert G. Kane
B.A. Holy Cross College History M.Ed. Worcester State Teachers'
1960
Jacqueline A. Langlois B.A. Anna Maria College English 1963
Edward H. Lucier
B.S.E. Worcester State Science 1959
Teachers' College
Elizabeth A. Ludy A.B. Anna Maria College Latin 1963
Frances E. Madden
B.S. Regis College Commercial 1955
Ed.M. Calvin Coolidge College
John F. Madden
B.S. Holy Cross College Commercial Ed.M. Boston Univer- sity
1949
Francis L. McGrath
B.S.E. Fitchburg State Technical Drawing
Teachers' College 1960
Vite J. Pigaga
B.S. Boston University History 1957
Ed.M. Worcester State Teachers' College
Robert P. Rochette
B.A. Clark University Science 1961
Paige Rowden
B.S.E. Worcester State Boys' Phys. Ed. Teachers' College; Ed. M. Worcester State
1954
Teachers'
John J. Savage
Ph.B. Holy Cross College Mathematics 1959
Pauline M. Shea B.S.E. Worcester State English 1963
Teachers' College
William J. Shilale
B.S.E. Fitchburg State Ind. Arts 1961
John M. Sullivan
Teachers' College A.B. St. Anselm College English 1962
199
ANNUAL REPORT
James A. Tivnan
A.B. Holy Cross College History Ed.M. Worcester State Teachers' College
1955
Rosemary E. Toomey B. S. E. Framingham Homemaking State Teachers' College
1963
Richard Yucatonis B.M. Boston University Music 1961
1961
Paul Zambarano B.B.A. Clark University Commercial Ed.M. Worcester State Teachers' College
MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
James G. Reidy
A.B. Holy Cross College Principal Ed.M. Fitchburg State Teachers' College
1946
John H. English, Jr. B.S.E. Fitchburg State Vice Principal 1955 Teachers' College; Ed. Industrial Arts M. Worcester State Teachers'
Mary M. Beauregard
B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 1 Teachers' College; Ed. M. Worcester State
1960
Teachers'
Nancy DiStefano B.S. Framingham State Grade 2 Teachers' College
1961
Patricia R. Kilmonis
B.S. Anna Maria College Grade 3 1963
Eva B. Hurd
BS.E. Worcester State Grade 4 1960
Teachers' College
Dorothy W. Butler
A.B. Earlham College Grade 5 Columbia University
1953
Joseph J. Rollins
A.B. Clark University Grade 5 Ed.M. Worcester State Teachers' College
1954
Lillian R. Chaffee
A.B. Worcester State Grade 5 1959
Teachers' College
Joseph J. Monfredo
B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 5 Teachers' College
1961
John F. Bowler
B.B.A. Nichols College Grade 6- Geography 1962
200
ANNUAL REPORT
William J. Jerome Ph.B. Holy Cross College Grade 6- Science 1961
Harry R. Blaisdell, Jr. B.S. Worcester State Grade 6-
Teachers' College History 1963
Richard L. Rydent B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 6,- Teachers' College Literature 1963
Catherine M. Carey B. S. E. Worcester State Grade 7- Teachers' College English 1959
Normand W. LaPlante B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 7
Teachers' College Geography 1961
Robert C. Young B.A. Univ. of Mass. Grade 7- Science 1962
Ronald W. Hurd B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 8- Teachers' College; Ed. History M. Worcester State
1959
Teachers'
Lucinda W. Stockwell B.S. Clark University Grade 7- Mathematics 1963
Robert F. McGrail B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 8-
Teachers' College
Literature 1963
John E. King
B.S. Worcester Tech.
Grade 8- Mathematics 1963
Joan Allard
A.B. Clark University Grade 8- English 1962
1956
Mary C. Monahan B.S.E. Worcester State Special Class Teachers' College Kathleen McGrail B.A. Anna Maria College Special Class
1963
Richard Brierly
B.S.E. Worcester State Physical Ed. 1961
Barbara E. Hicks
B. S. E. Framingham Household Arts 1962 State Teachers' College
CENTER SCHOOL
Bernard D. Clifford
B.S. Holy Cross College Principal Ed.M. Worcester State Teachers'
1955
Mary A. McDonough
B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 1
Teachers' College; M.
1955
201
ANNUAL REPORT
Ed. Worc. State Teach- ers' College
Elizabeth C. Murphy
Worcester State Teach- Grade 1 ers' College
1960
Pearl Stuart A.B. Atlantic Union Col- Grade 1 lege M. Ed. Worcester State Teachers'
1961
Ann M. Richmond
A.B. Newton College of Grade 2
1961
the Sacred Heart
Dorothy A. Brosnan A.B. Our Lady of the Grade 2 Elms Ed. M. Worcester State Teachers'
1960
Ruth Emmett Worcester State Teach- Grade 2 ers' College
1945
Ruth H. Sprague
B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 3
1953
Teachers' College
Eva T. Doyle
B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 3 Teachers' College
1957
Judith E. Dowd
B.A. Anna Marie College Grade 3
1962
Ann S. Brooks
A.B. Tufts College Grade 4
1954
Lucia J. Holdroyd
A.B. Mt Holyoke Col- Grade 4 lege, Columbia Univer- sity
1948
Mary E. Styren
B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 4
1948
Teachers' College
Gertrude M. Miller A.B. Emmanuel College Special Class 1958
CHERRY VALLEY SCHOOL
Ruth M. McDermott
Worcester State Normal Principal School; Worc. State Grade 1
1928
Teachers' College
Frances M. Conway
Worcester State Normal Grade 2
1945
School; Worc. State
Teachers' College
Anne M. Thompson
Perry - Kindergarten Grade 3
1944
Normal School
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ANNUAL REPORT
Ellen E. Blanchard B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 4 Teachers' College
1962
Anne L. McDonough
B.S. Clark University Grade 5 1962
John F. Oliva B.S.E. Fitchburg State Grade 6 Teachers' College
1963
Ernest S. Pantos
B.B.A. Clark Unversity Grade 7 1961
ROCHDALE SCHOOL
Ireen B. O'Connell
B.S.E. Boston University Principal Ed.M. Worcester State Grade 4 Teachers' College
1955
Mildred I. Gedrites B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 1 1963
Teachers' College
Mary G. Bergin B.S.E. Worcester State Grade 2 1945
Teachers' College
Agnes M. Toomey
A.B. Emmanuel College Grade 3 1953
SPECIAL TEACHERS
M. Christine McPartland
Worcester Art Museum Art Supervisor 1940
High School Art
Mary E. Miller Worcester Art Museum Elementary Art A.B. Clark University 1959
Katherine H. Glennon B.A. Salve Regina, Col- Elementary Art lege 1963
Laura M. Marble B.S.E. Worcester State Elementary Music N.Y. Teachers' College 1962
Gerald F. Campbell B. Mus. Houghoton Col- Elementary Music lege 1963
William A. Sipos
B.S. Holy Cross College Elementary
M.A. Assumption Col- Guidance
lege
1961
CAFETERIA
Jean Melendy Helen Fox Dora Culver
Supervisor
Manager
Worker
High School High School
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ANNUAL REPORT
Edna Spinney Irene Marsh
Worker
Part-time regular worker
High School High School
Dora Anderson
Manager
Memorial School
Albina Kovaleski
Baker
Memorial School
Mary A. Donahue
Assistant Cook
Memorial School
Eleanor M. Jordan
Worker
Memorial School
Lois Boullie
Worker
Memorial School
Loretta Neiderer
Manager
Center School
Rita Margadonna
Worker
Center School
Eleanor Drohan
Worker
Center School
Gertrude M. Desautels Manager
Cherry Valley School
Leah Nelson
Worker
Cherry Valley School
Winifred Weir
Manager
Rochdale School
Elsie Harbester
Worker
Rochdale School
MAINTENANCE
George P. O'Donnell Kenneth Culver
1955
1952
CUTODIAN
Samuel Best
High School
1952
J. Herbert Williamson
High School
1958
Robert J. O'Hare
High School
1961
John G. Wright
High School
1962
Albert R. Melendy
Memorial School
1955
Leo A. Cormier
Memorial School
1961
Norman Bergeron
Memorial School
1961
Ernest S. Finney
Cherry Valley School 1959
Robert L. Perry
Rochdale School
1958
ATTENDANCE OFFICE
Frederick B. Cunningham
BUS CONTRACTORS
Francis Dube L. Hugh Dykas Roger Hunt Forrest Irish, Jr.
Forrest Irish, Sr. Kenneth Lemerise
Robert Lyon C. Harold Patricks Francis L. Patricks Laurence St. Denis William Sielis, Jr. Donald Varney Doris Lemerise, Special Class
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ANNUAL REPORT
LEFT EMPLOY
Carol A. Harding
High School
Resigned June 1963
Edward E. Hippert
High School
Resigned June 1963
Dorothy O. Johnson
High School
Resigned June 1963
Mary B. O'Neil
High School
Resigned June 1963
Clyde A. Ross
High School
Resigned June 1963
E. Jay Tierney Patricia Potter
High School Guidance Resigned June 1963 Memorial School Resigned Jan. 1963
William H. Nicholson Guy P. Smith
Memorial School
Resigned June 1963
Memorial School
Resigned June 1963
Daniel G. Gearin
Memorial School
Resigned June 1963
William J. Reidy
Memorial School
Resigned June 1963
Rita S. Creen
Rochdale School
Resigned April 1963
Joseph Oneschuk
Music Supervisor
Resigned June 1963
Ruth B. Wentworth
Elementary Art
Rorigned June 1963
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ANNUAL REPORT
Report of the Superintendent of Schools
To the School Committee of Leicester :
Herewith, I submit my eighteenth annual report as Super- intendent of Schools of Leicester, Massachusetts; it is the seventy- first in a series of similar reports.
HIGH SCHOOL
June 5, 1963 saw sixty seniors receiving diplomas in the following program:
Processional: "Pomp and Circumstance"
National Anthem
Invocation Reverend Willard L. Mckinstry
Salutatory Address Cornelia Ann Salminen
Chorus: "Once To Every Man and Nation"
Class Oration Ann Elizabeth Toomey
Chorus: "Medley from 'West Side Story','
Valedictory Address Judith Ann Shepard
Chorus: "Calm as the Night'
Presentation of Awards Mr. Edward L. Skelley, Principal Chorus: "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor"
Presentation of Diplomas Mr. Everett G. O'Keefe School Committee
"Leicester High School Alma Mater" Senior Class and Chorus Benediction
Recessional : "Connecticut March"
Reverend Jeremiah M. Reardon Accompanists
Class Marshal
Nancy Niedrialkoski '64 Sharon LaTour '65 John Curran '64
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CLASS OF 1963
William Joseph Hennessey, Jr. President
William Robert Avedian
. Judith Ann Shepard
Ann Elizabeth Toomey
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Liberal Arts Diploma
James Daniel Barrett ** Jo Anne Marie Beck Dennis Edward Blanchard *Jane Ann Chad Carol Ann Cote George Randolph Creswell, Jr. Patricia Marie Emerson Kathleen Mary Fitts Lynda Mae Gustafson William Joseph Hennessey, Jr. Carole Mary Huntoon
*Susan Elizabeth Lennerton Ronald George Manion *Joyce Mary Martin Carol. Ann Nash *Kathleen Margaret O'Connor *Lynda-Helen Demuth Plante
** Cornelia Ann Salminen Tanda Marie Sandstrom Janice Mary Scott ** Judith Ann Shepard * Roderick Malcolm Stuart Ann Elizabeth Toomey *Florence Anita Valukas * Leonora Marie Van Hook
Secretarial Diplomas
*Jane Rita Anger Kathleen Agnes Hennessy Diane Lillian Klocek Priscilla Joyce Kurtz
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