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MARRIAGES IN THE TOWN OF HARWICH - 1951
No. Date
Names
Age Residence
Place of Marriage
1. Jan. 8 Raymond C. Gomes Mary Phyllis Roderick
24 Harwich, Mass.
West Harwich, Mass.
25 Harwich, Mass.
2.
Jan. 12
Joseph Leo Duschene
47 Hudson, Mass.
Pawtucket, R. I.
Eliza Jordan Grant Bassett
42 Harwich Mass.
3. Jan. 13 Walter Luther Peck
May Atwood
48 Wellfleet, Mass.
76 Hyannis, Mass.
Harwich Port, Mass.
5.
Jan. 27 Edward Walter Hopkins
28 Chatham, Mass.
West Harwich, Mass.
Joan Constance Temple
21 Chatham, Mass.
6. Jan. 31 Richard F. Healy
35 Worcester, Mass.
West Harwich, Mass.
7.
Feb. 3
Richard E. Johnson Janet S. Kinsley
21 West Harwich, Mass.
26 Willimantic, Conn.
Windham, Conn.
8. Feb. 17 James Henry Gavigan Harriett Catherine Hall
26 Harwich, Mass.
29 West Barnstable, Mass.
Harwich, Mass.
9. Apr. 7
Albert R. Wiinikainen Dorothy L. Walker
30 Harwich, Mass.
10.
Apr. 14
Percy Benjamin Ellis Louise F. Magoon Fee
54 West Harwich, Mass.
22 South Carver, Mass.
Harwich, Mass.
11. Apr. 21 Matthew R. Lopes Jeanette M. Lopes Ramalho
22 Harwich, Mass.
25 Harwich, Mass.
Harwich, Mass.
12. Apr. 28 Roy H. Eldredge Clara M. Charbonneau
17 New Bedford, Mass.
25 Marion, Ohio
Harwich Port, Mass.
13. May 5 Thomas B. Hurst Sally Nye
22 Harwich Port, Mass.
26 Dennisport, Mass.
West Harwich, Mass.
14. May 6 Robert Ellis Briggs Virginia Marie Smith
30 Belmont, Mass.
55 Harwich, Mass.
Harwich, Mass.
15. May 13 Antonio Alves Silva Rosalie L. Galvin
21 Harwich, Mass.
Harwich, Mass.
66 Wellfleet, Mass.
4. Jan. 16 Israel Nickerson Paine Mary Ellen Brydges MacKelvey
68 Harwich Port, Mass.
27 West Harwich, Mass.
Anne M. Kennedy McCabe
26 North Harwich, Mass.
Harwich, Mass
61 Harwich, Mass.
Harwich, Mass
MARRIAGES - Continued
No. Date
Names
Age Residence
27 South Yarmouth, Mass.
20 West Dennis, Mass.
21 Falmouth, Mass.
Joan Melba Dube
20 Harwich, Mass.
29 Hyannis, Mass.
18 Harwich, Mass.
19.
June 17 Robert Francis Williams Ruth Alden Ryder
20 Pleasant Lake, Mass.
Harwich, Mass.
20.
Jul. 1 Melvin R. Thacher
Beverly Ann Armstrong
18 West Harwich, Mass.
38 Boston, Mass.
31 Harwich Port, Mass.
28 Deer Trail, Colo.
23.
Aug. 9 John Robinson Small Marion Macedo
38 Provincetown, Mass.
20 Falmouth, Mass.
24. Aug. 11 Robert Thomas Reagan Mary Elizabeth Holden
22 Boston, Mass.
27 Bass River, Mass.
22 Huntly, Va.
48 West Harwich, Mass.
49 West Harwich, Mass.
27.
Sept. 10 John Ferguson Usher, Jr. Margaret Mary Ann Sanborn
23 West Harwich, Mass.
20 East Harwich, Mass.
36 Harwich Port, Mass.
31 South Chatham, Mass.
East Harwich, Mass.
33 South Chatham, Mass.
23 Cranston, R. I.
23 Providence, R. I.
Place of Marriage West Harwich, Mass. Falmouth, Mass.
West Harwich, Mass. Harwich Port, Mass. West Harwich, Mass. West Harwich, Mass.
West Harwich, Mass. West Harwich, Mass. Harwich Port, Mass.
Orleans, Mass. Orleans, Mass.
28. Sept. 12 Robert E. Higgins Marjorie I. Richardson Lawford
29. Sept. 15
Roger Eastman Hill Louise D. (St. Jacques) Hathaway
30.
Sept. 15
John Raymond Stone, Jr. Ethel Ellen Hammond
20 North Harwich, Mass.
20 South Dennis, Mass.
21. Jul. 7 Robert G. Woodsum Virginia Ladd Douglass
22. Jul. 28 Raymond J. Ritter Barbara Ann Doe
27 Denver, Colo.
24 Medford, Mass.
25. Sept. 8 Frederick Duarte King Wendy Howes
26. Sept. 9 Melvin von Rosenvinge Lisa Farham Hammond
24 West Harwich, Mass.
West Harwich, Masş.
16. May 26 Thomas A. Grew Virginia A. Johnson
17. June 9 Charles Miranda
Hyannis, Mass.
18. May 26 Joseph Manuel Lus Mary Ann Pena
MARRIAGES - Continued
No. Date
Names
Age Residence
Place of Marriage
31. Sept. 15
Carlton S. Josselyn Florence Louise Simpson
27 Bridgewater, Mass.
32. Sept. 22
Donald E. Durfor
26 Harwich Port, Mass
23 Harwich Port, Mass.
33. Sept. 22 Frederick D. Hannon
Meredith M. Arzt
22 Harwich Port, Mass.
34. Sept.
23 Augustine J. Proctor Broislava A. A. Petrus
29
Boston, Mass.
24 Dorchester, Mass.
35. Sept. 30 Frederick James Wahrenberger Esther Isabelle Larkin
20 Chatham, Mass.
36. Oct. 1 Allen' Phillip Hanson
Harriett Elizabeth Lema
29 Provincetown, Mass.
28 Yonkers, N. Y.
21 Yonkers, N. Y.
38. Oct. 12 Douglas Rockwood Linda Matson Perkins
46
Norfolk, Mass.
Harwich, Mass.
39 West Harwich, Mass.
39.
Oct. 12 Silas David Weeks Evelyn B. (Chase) Marchant
36 Hyannis, Mass.
23 Harwich, Mass.
West Harwich, Mass.
40. Oct. 13 George Gomes, Jr. Mary Elizabeth Lomba
20 South Dennis, Mass.
45
West Dennis, Mass.
West Harwich, Mass.
33 West Dennis, Mass.
27 North Harwich, Mass.
West Harwich, Mass.
42. Oct. 31 Roscoe C. Chase, Jr. Mary E. Winters
21 West Harwich, Mass.
20 West Dennis, Mass.
West Harwich, Mass.
16 West Dennis, Mass.
21 Waggoner, Ill.
West Harwich, Mass.
44. Nov. 3 Charles R. Morris Patricia A. Washburn
45. Nov. 11 Richard Styker Reed
22 Oklawaha, Fla.
Harwich, Mass.
Joan Priscilla Berger
45 Harwich, Mass.
Bridgewater, Mass.
Harwich Port, Mass. Harwich Port, Mass. West Harwich, Mass.
West Harwich, Mass.
Harwich Port, Mass. West Harwich, Mass.
37. Oct. 8 Edward E. Anderson Joan Thurston
28 Harwich Port, Mass.
Hyannis, Mass.
41. Oct. 27 Joseph D. Mullan Elisabeth Mullan
43.
Nov. 3 Thomas Hague Donna Coughlin
20 South Harwich, Mass.
22 Dennisport, Mass.
Marcia B. Duffie Berry
23 Arlington, Mass.
22 St. Petersburg, Fla.
28 Moretown, Vt.
MARRIAGES - Continued
No. Date Names
46.
Nov.
17
Robert Lewis Thayer
Priscilla Ann Gray
47. Nov. 21 Douglas F. Gray
Dolores D. Deatte
48. Dec. 8 J. Stanley Norton Kathleen V. Moore
49. Dec. 9 Walter W. Carter Beverly P. Grant
50. Dec. 16 Charles Martin Eva M. Taylor
51. Dec. 29 Keith Maurice Seegmiller Nancy Anne Russell
52. Dec. 29 Charles William Brown, 3rd
Mary Anne Susan Davis
53.
Dec. 29 Isaiah Kelley
Margaret Irene Kelley
19
North Harwich, Mass.
Place of Marriage
29 Harwich, Mass.
21
Harwich, Mass.
19
Harwich, Mass.
16 Harwich, Mass.
43 Milton, Mass.
38 Cambridge, Mass.
24 Sarasota, Fla.
· Harwich, Mass.
20 Harwich, Mass.
56 Dennisport, Mass.
Harwich, Mass.
68 South Dennis, Mass
21 Washington, D. C.
Harwich, Mass.
22 Medford, Mass.
23 Newton, Mass.
Orleans, Mass.
18 Harwich Port, Mass.
23 Dennisport, Mass.
Harwich Port, Mass.
Age
Residence
West Harwich, Mass. Harwich Port, Mass. Harwich, Mass.
DEATHS RECORDED IN THE TOWN OF HARWICH - 1951
No. Date
Name
Age
Disease
Place of Death
1. Jan. 7 Anna C. Bennett
70
Cardiac decompensation
West Harwich
2. Jan. 10 David Thomas Richards
84
Arteriosclerosis
West Harwich
3. Jan. 21 Jonas Edward Olsson
61
Coronary Thrombosis
Harwich Port
Jan. 22 Antonio DeBurgo
71 Infraction Myocardium
Boston, Mass.
5. Jan. 24 Benjamin Baker Phillips
81 Coronary occlusion
Harwich Port
6. Jan. 31 Helen Gertrude Josselyn
47
Cholelithiasis
Barnstable
7. Feb. 9 Muriel Sherman Goss
65 Cancer of Breast
Harwich Port
8. Feb. 22 Clarissa Doane Walker
89 Bronchopneumonia
Barnstable
9. Feb. 26 Florence Damon
70 Cerebral Thrombosis
Taunton, Mass.
10. Mar. 7 - Nichols
Stillborn
Barnstable
11. Mar. 8 Susan Marion Smith
66 Coronary occlusion
Barnstable
13. Mar. 27 Evelyn Elizabeth Wright
61 Coronary Sclerosis
West Harwich
14. Apr. 3 Susan Winslow Sawyer
90
Myocarditis
South Harwich
15. Mar. 1 Constantina Perry
32 Pulmonary tuberculosis
Taunton, Mass.
16. Mar. 2 Inez M. Shaw
71 Heart disease
Taunton, Mass.
17. Apr. 13 John Theodore Wood
82 Coronary thrombosis
West Harwich
18. Apr. 18 Mary Land Klockner
76 Cerebral hemorrhage
Barnstable
19. Apr. 29 Amos Francis Wixon
88 Cerebral thrombosis
Harwich Center
20. Apr. 10 Sara E. Chase
75 Bronchopneumonia
Taunton, Mass.
21. May 4 Anna Marion Bennett
70 Chronic Nephritus
Barnstable
22. May 11 Fred W. Pease
77 Coronary thrombosis
Barnstable.
23. June 5 Lula McGill Cahoon
64
Coronary occlusion
North Harwich
24. June 7 Bailey
11 hrs.
Prematurity
Barnstable
25. June 16 Lizzie M. Barstow
81 Arterio sclerosis
Taunton
26. July 1 Craffey
24 hrs. Interoranial hemorrhage
Barnstable
27. July 13 John Joseph Cody
81 Coronary thrombosis
Barnstable
28. July 3 Alice Norwood Young
65 Coronary occlusion
Barnstable
29. July 17 Joseph Linwood Crabe
88 Carcinoma prostrate
Brewster Barnstable
30. July 22 James Aloysius Cotter
62 Cerebral hemorrhage
Barnstable
12. Mar. 15 Emogen Pearl Nickerson
76 Intestinal Obstruction
DEATHS - Continued
No. Date Name
Age
Disease
Place of Death
31. July 26 Henry Vincent Kenney
58
Coronary thrombosis
32. July 27 Zella Byron Willson
95
Myocarditus
33. Aug. 4 Margaret Atkinson Manson
73 Coronary thrombosis
34. Aug. 4 Mary Horneus Moore
75
Cerebral hemorrhage
35. Aug 20. Alice R. Doane Keach
82 Arterio sclerosis
36. Sept. 25 Julia L. Chase
84 Bronchitus
37. Sept. 7 Andrade
6 hrs. Prematurity
38. Oct. 15 Agnes Brown Hoag
78 Coronary thrombosis
39. Oct. 18 Alice Winthrop Orchard
85 Cerebral hemorrhage
40. Oct. 19 William M. Gorham
58
Suicide
41. Oct. 18 Jessie F. Walch
88
Bronchopneumonia
42. Nov. 18 Raymond Lowe Rich
67
Coronary thrombosis
43. Nov. 21 Ralph Weston Eldredge
73 Coronary thrombosis
Harwich Port West Harwich
45. Nov. 9 Marie Lilla Nadeau
74 Hemorrhage
46. Nov. 25 Eva F. Gould
73 Arteriosclerosis
47. Dec. 7 Henry Neval
69 Arteriosclerosis
72 Arterio sclerioic nephritis
Bourne
49. Dec. 13 Axel Leo Youngren
50 Coronary occlusion Stillborn
50. Dec. 17 Baby Girl Meyer
51. Dec. 20 Emilie Ensign Sumner
67 Inhalation of fumes and burns
52. Dec. 14 Harriet S. Goss
74 Bronco pneumonia
53. Dec. 10 Gertrude Wise
82 Uremia
54. Dec. 23 Etta Williams
77 Pneumonia
90 Arterio Sclerotic heart disease
55. Dec. 23 Charles D. Cahoon
Barnstable West Harwich Harwich Port West Harwich Taunton, Mass. Yarmouth, Mass.
Barnstable Harwich Port West Harwich South Harwich Barnstable Harwich Port
44. Nov. 28 Louis Franklin Jones
60 Coronary occlusion
Barnstable Barnstable Harwich Port
48. Dec. 9 Leonard Sears
Harwich, Mass. Harwich, Mass. South Harwich Taunton, Mass.
Barnstable, Mass. Barnstable, Mass. Taunton, Mass.
BODIES BROUGHT TO HARWICH FOR INTERMENT - 1951
No. Date
Name
Age
Disease
Place of Burial
1.
Jan.
26
Francis Hillhouse
91
Arterio sclerosis
(Cremation) Mt. Pleasant H.P.
2.
Jan.
18
Alton K. Bassett
58
Acute myocarditis
3.
Feb.
13
Ernest Kendrick Eldredge
69
Coronary occlusion
4.
Feb.
20 Albert C. Kelley
64
5.
Feb.
28 Catherine J. Fleming
54
Lobar pneumonia
6.
Mar.
2 Edward P. Bassett
39
Pulmonary tuberculosis
7.
Mar.
5 Fred A. Hopkins
83
Uremia
8.
Mar. 9 Woodbury Wallace Smith
76
Coronary occlusion
9.
Mar. 10
Ralph Bradbury Elliott
55
Uremia
: Evergreen E. H.
10
Mar.
18 Beatrice O'Keefe Mercer
74 Arterio sclerosis
11.
Mar.
17 Bartlett Ellsworth Bassett
12.
Apr.
10 Emeline B. Nickerson
13.
Apr.
10 Sara E. Chase
75 Broncho pneumonia
14.
May
20 Lucinda Cahoon Handy
96 Caricinoma of Cervix
15.
Jun. 6 Ermond
G. Gerauld
79 Arterio sclerosis
16.
Sept.
1 Charles Lippincott Smith
64 Coronary thrombosis
17. Sept.
15 Eveline Weeks Cole
71
Carcinoma of Breast
South Harwich Cemetery South Harwich Cemetery Mt. Pleasant H.P.
18.
Dec.
4. William H. Rigby
59
--
East Harwich Cemetery East Harwich Cemetery Mt. Pleasant H.P. Pine Grove W.H.
Island Pond H. C. Evergreen E.H.
South Harwich Cemetery
89 Terminal Uremia 87 Embolism
Pine Grove W.H. Evergreen E.H. Pine Grove W.H. Pine Grove W. H. Island Pond H. C. Evergreen E. H.
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Report of School Committee and Superintendent of Schools
For The Year Ending December 31, 1951
ORGANIZATION FOR THE YEAR 1951
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Channing N. Baker, Chairman Term expires 1954
Mrs. Margaret Leonard, Secretary
Term expires 1952
E. Gorham Nickerson Term expires 1953
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Herbert E. Hoyt, A. M.
SUPERVISOR OF ATTENDANCE Edward E. Taylor
SCHOOL PHYSICIANS
Arthur J. D'Elia, M. D. Norris G. Orchard, M. D.
SCHOOL NURSE
Adelyn J. Peabody, R. N.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Expended 1951
Needed 1952
General Control:
Superintendent of School
$ 3,940.00
Enforcement of Law -- Salaries
Other expenses of General Control
753.30
$4,693.30
$4,710.00
Instruction :
Supervisors
5,246.96
Principals and Teachers
70,433.85
Textbooks
1,717.83
Supplies
3,029.70
80,428.34
89,110.00
Operation :
Janitors
7,623.66
Fuel
2,776.81
Miscellaneous (Electricity,
Gas, Janitor supplies)
4,415.16
14,815.63
18,925.00
Maintenance:
Repairs, Replacement and Upkeep
4,761.54
4,761.54
8,000.00
Auxiliary Agencies:
Libraries
659.28
Health-Nurse, Physician & Supplies
773.37
Transportation
9,457.50
Miscellaneous: (Graduation,
Telephone, Carting, Films)
1,040.11 11,930.26 12,085.00
Outlay: New Grounds and Buildings
New Equipment
1,178.09
1,178.09
3,700.00
$117,807.16 $136,530.00
1951 Appropriation
$117,942.00
Refunds
6.17
117,948.17
1951 Expenditure
117,807.16
Unexpended
$ 141.01
NET COST OF SCHOOLS - 1951
Expenditure
$117,807.16
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Accounts Receivable : School Funds and State Aid Chapter 70
$10,588.66
City of Boston:
Tuition and Transportation
641.77
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Tuition and Transportation
210.33
School Transportation Chapter 71
5,618.16
Rental of High School Auditorium
12.50
Shop material to pupils
73.85
Telephone (High School Collections)
2.71
Mimeographing
4.35
Telephone refunds:
Town of Chatham
61.60
Town of Eastham
21.04
Town of Orleans
71.77
17,306.74
Net Cost of Schools
1951
$100,500.42
SPECIAL SCHOOL LUNCH ACCOUNT HIGH SCHOOL
Available Funds:
Carried forward from December
31, 1950 to available funds for 1951
* $ 1,990.30
* Includes $304.75 claimed for November and December 1950 - not received December 31, 1950. Appropriation - 1951
1,000.00 $ 2,990.30
Sale of lunches for 1951
6,168.36
Federal subsidies - 1951
* * 1,766.42
7,934.78
** Does not include $304.75 re- ceived for November and December 1950 not received un-
til 1951. Does include $332.05 claimed for November and December 1951 NOT re- ceived December 31, 1951.
Total available funds *** $10,925.08
** * Includes $332.05 claimed for November and December 1951 not received De- cember 31, 1951. Total available funds Expended
$10,925.08 8,159.81
$ 2,765.27 Carried forward to available funds 1952.
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Balance Sheet for High School Hot Lunch Program for the year ending December 31, 1951
Receipts:
Sale of lunches
$ 6,168.36
Federal funds
1,766.42
Increase in Inventory
5.00
Appropriation
1,000.00
$ 8,939.78
Expenditures: Services
2,435.00
Operation
5,724.81
$ 8,159.81
Increase in surplus
779.97
$ 8,939.78
Funds requested for 1952 for High School Lunch - None
Elementary School :
Available Funds:
Carried forward from December 31,
1950 to available funds for 1951. * $ 3,119.85
* Includes $1,026.44 Federal Subsidies received for months of October, November, December 1950 not received
until 1951. Includes $11.20 from Town
of Harwich claimed for De- cember 1950 but not received until 1951.
Appropriation - 1951
1,000.00 $ 4,119.85
Sale of lunches for 1951 Federal Subsidies for 1951
9,428.96
3,314.85
** Includes $580.45 claimed for November and December 1951 but was not received December 31, 1951. Does not include $1,026.44 ac- tually received for October, No- vember, December 1950 but not received until 1951. Town of Harwich *** 43.35
*** Includes $12.50 claimed for No- vember and December 1951 not re- ceived in 1951. Does not include $11.20 claimed in 1950 but re- ceived in 1951. Harwich Visiting Nurse Association 282.40
$17,189.41
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Available funds 1951 $17,189.41 Expenditures - 1951 13,599.39
$ 3,590.02
Carried forward to 1952 available funds
Balance sheet for Elementary Hot Lunch Program for the year ending December 31, 1951
Receipts:
Sale of School lunches
$ 9,428.96
Federal funds
245.85
Increase in inventory Appropriation
1,000.00
$13,989.66
Expenditures: Services
3,693.34
Operation
9,390.36
Equipment
515.69
$13,599.39
Increase in surplus
390.27
$13,989.66
Funds requested for 1952
None
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION - 1951
1951 Appropriation
$ 1,050.00
Expended
Trade School Tuition
$117.11
Practical Arts Classes
448.75
565.86
Unexpended
$ 484.14
Funds requested for 1952
$ 1,000.00
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ACCOUNT
Appropriation 1951 Receipts
$ 500.00
696.75
Available funds
$ 1,196.75
Expended
$690.40
Adjustment
99.61
790.01
Carried to 1952 available funds
$ 406.74
3,314.85
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REPORT OF THE JOHNSON-ULM MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Financial Statement
Total of Fund
$35,000.00
Working Fund Jan. 1, 1951
$ 656.72
March dividend
437.50
April bank interest
2.88
September dividend
437.50
October bank interest
4.03
$1,538.63
36,538.63 775.00
Expended for Scholarships
Statement of account as of Dec. 31, 1951
$35,763.63
Tuition scholarships have been granted to the following persons for the school year of 1951 - 1952.
Frances Baker Antioch College
Marilyn Hanson
Framingham College
Elaine Hopkins
University of Pennsylvania
Deborah Knox
Boston University
Ann Laidlaw
Bryn Mawr College
Marjorie Leonard
Bridgewater College
Jane Tobey
Bates College
Patricia Washburn
Boston University
PAUL A. MORRIS, Chairman
CHANNING N. BAKER
MRS. E. JAMES LEONARD
E. GORHAM NICKERSON HERBERT E. HOYT, Secretary
Committee
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Harwich :
After the town elections last February, the Harwich School Committee organized with Mr. Channing Baker as Chairman of the Committee and Mrs. Margaret Leonard as Secretary. School Committee meetings have been held twice each month during the year.
Among the many problems under consideration by your School Committee, the most serious have stemmed from the rapid growth in our school population. In our report of last year, the problem was considered at the elementary level only, but it is now evident that the space needs at both our schools must be given our careful attention at once. For a full discussion of these needs, we refer you to the reports of the superintendent and of the principals. In our section of the report, we shall attempt to explain our recommended solution for these problems of space needs.
SHORT RANGE SOLUTION. You will remember that last year, the School Committee asked that the Brooks Building be returned to the School Department for use until such time as a building program could be completed at the site of our present buildings. Our reasoning was premised on the facts that unsettled world conditions made it impos- sible to predict future school populations on Cape Cod; that building materials were difficult to obtain and costs very high; and that the Brooks Building as distinguished from the old elementary building, was suitable for our purposes. Since the citizens, however, voted to retain the building, it became necessary to solve our problem of the necessity for another classroom by some other means. Various temporary expedients were considered, including the possibility of dual sessions at the first grade level. Finally we decided that the best solution was to divide the special purpose room into two classrooms. We were thus able to employ another teacher and divide all our large classes into two sections.
As we approach town meeting this year, we find the same conditions existing in the schools, but aggravated by the fact that in September we shall have a very large first grade which must be divided into three groups, plus the possibility of the need of more space at the high school level. In other words, we must find more space before another fall,
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and we are again recommending the return of the Brooks Building for school purposes. We see no reason why this building should not serve to fill our needs during the period of planning and building for the permanent solution of our problems.
LONG RANGE PLANNING. Reference to the other portions of the school reports will show that all indications point to the fact that although our present need is for two additional rooms at the elementary level, our eventual need is almost certainly for an elementary school of 18 rooms. It would also be most helpful if we could have the small audi- torium originally planned for this building. The high school will need four more classrooms, an art room, a library, and an adequate auditorium-gymnasium with corresponding shower room facilities.
Our discussions of these problems have brought out suggestions for a number of possible solutions such as :
1. The addition of the necessary rooms and the small audi- torium at the elementary school.
2. Division of the present high school auditorium-gymnas- ium into classrooms and building an adequate auditorium- gymnasium as a separate wing to solve the present high school needs.
3. Use of the present high school auditorium-gymnasium as a separate auditorium with fixed seats, and the building of a separate junior high wing with a gymnasium. This wing could be large enough to care for the needs of both buildings.
4. Construction of a third building between the present two schools to be used as an overflow for both as a junior high program.
We feel that these suggestions and others which will undoubtedly be made, should be carefully studied, both from the point of view of what is educationally sound and from the point of view of what the town can afford. There- fore, we are recommending that a committee be formed that shall have the power to study our school needs in detail and bring them to the attention of the town as soon as pos- sible.
Other actions taken by the School Committee include :
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The Health program has been continued with Dr. Or- chard, examing each child in Elementary Schools, with a parent in attendance. These examinations have revealed de- fects that can be easily corrected when noted.
Signs for the Elementary and High Schools were order- ed and installed in March.
In April a salary adjustment was granted to all teach- ers, retroactive to February 1st., thereby bringing our sat- ary scale in line with other towns in the vicinity.
An outside basketball court was constructed at the High School and has been in use for several months.
In October the Committee met with a teacher's Commit- tee to discuss a proposed salary schedule. A schedule has been drawn up and is under consideration at the present time.
All rooms on the second floor of the High School have been painted, the colors chosen by the teachers. The Com- mittee is desireous of keeping the school buildings in good repair at all times, and plans to take care of necessary paint- ing and repairs as the need arises.
A hot top mix surface walk has been constructed at the Elementary school, with suitable drainage. This has proven satisfactory in keeping sand and gravel carried into school to a minimum.
In closing, may we express the hope that reports of all school personnel and the statistical reports will be read with great care by the citizens of Harwich, because we feel that they reflect a fair and accurate analysis of our Harwich schools. Despite our space problems, we have been making progress each year in developing our school program. This progress will continue as long as we continue to have the cooperation of both parents and school personnel.
Respectfully submitted, CHANNING N. BAKER MARGARET E. LEONARD E. GORHAM NICKERSON
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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
To The School Committee and Citizens of Harwich :
This section of the 1950 report contained the observation that present chaotic world conditions made long-range edu- cational planning impossible. Since that time, no percepti- ble change for the better has taken place, although we have become somewhat accustomed to the continued pressures throughout the world. We have tried to keep these stresses and tensions out of the classroom, and we feel that we have had a successful school year.
SCHOOL POPULATION
The school reports of the last several years have stres- sed the unexpectedly rapid growth of the school population and the space problems which are developing because of this growth. I refer you to the current reports of the prin- cipals of both our schools. In the following paragraphs, I shall attempt to supplement these reports in an effort to demonstrate how rapidly this problem is becoming critical.
(1) Elementary School. The school report of 1950 gave a complete report of space needs at the elementary level. That the problem has merely become more pressing is wit- nessed by the following table of births and first grade en- rollment for the last ten years :
YEAR
'41
'42
'43
'44
'45
'46
'47
'48
'49
'50
'51
BIRTHS
34
43
33
31
34
55
55
59
67
59
1st Grade
36
37
32
45
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Most of the children entering our first grade each fall were born six years previous to the date of entering school. For instance, the children entering school last September were born in 1945. In that year 34 children were born in the town of Harwich, and yet we entered a class of 64 which is an 88% increase over the number we could normally have expected. This indicates how rapidly young families are moving to Harwich. You will note that this increase of school enrollment over birth rate has been going on for several years-that it has, in fact, averaged 64% for the last five years. Now if you will observe the rising birth rate since 1945 and keep in mind the fact that we have been receiving an average of 64% more children than could have been anticipated from the actual births registered for Harwich,
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you will see that beginning next fall, our space problem will be really acute. Applying our 64% average increase to our known births, we would have entering first grades of 88 in 1952, 88 in 1953, and 96 in 1954. However, we have taken a careful census this fall and we feel sure that our entering grade next fall will number 70-75 children. This will mean grade enrollments and room requirements as follows:
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