Town of Agawam, Massachusetts annual report 1921-1925, Part 4

Author: Agawam (Mass. : Town)
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Agawam (Mass. : Town)
Number of Pages: 584


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As usual, we have to report crowded conditions in nearly all schools. Since our last report the congestion has become even more acute in certain parts of the town. At North Agawam we have been compelled to conduct a double session room, one class coming in the forenoon and another in the afternoon. At the Springfield Street School we had in September about 60 pupils more than we could seat. As a result, we had to take out the entire seventh grade, sending part of them to North Agawam and part to Feeding Hills. It was also necessary to remove a number from the lower grades there and divide them up as we did the seventh grade. At the present time that building is overcrowded with deskless pupils seated at tables in nearly every room. At Feeding Hills Center we were obliged to equip a temporary room in one end of the Town Hall to accommodate about 35 pupils. At the South School, Agawam, there was found to be only room enough for the first two grades. So grade three was sent to the Center School and some of the youngest in the beginning class had to be refused admission at all. A year ago we were confident


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that a Junior High School would, by the removal of the upper grades from our several center schools, provide additional room in the different sections of the town sufficient for our present de- mands and those of the more immediate future. At the present writing we fear that the Junior High can not handle to the best advantage all the upper grade pupils in town. If that should prove to be a fact, the question will then arise as to what shall be done with them. However, a Junior High department will not help the situation either at the Springfield Street School, Feeding Hills, or at the South School, Agawam. In the vicinity of the Plains School about 15 new houses have been built during the past few months, and it is expected that more than double that number will be erected this coming spring and summer. This building boom will necessitate additional school accommodations there to take care of the increased enrollment next September. We would urge upon the town the advisability of taking immediate steps towards the enlarging of that school by the addition of at least two rooms. The South School has been a subject of discussion for several years. We again suggest the erection of a new and larger modern school building near the site of the present struc- ture. With only two grades there is now quite a hardship for small children living near the State Line to attend the Center School. The section near Riverside Park is building up rapidly and something ought to be done at once to provide better school facilities there. The voters of the town may be surprised to lea.n that over one-fifth of the population of Agawam is made up of scl ool children. If you will bear that fact in mind you can readily see why our schools are overcrowded and why your com- mittee is always asking for more school room.


During the past year we adopted a new salary schedule for our teachers, in which we provided a certain definite increase for them each year until the maximum should be attained. With a more attractive salary scale, we hoped to retain our best teachers, or at least to be able to more readily obtain competent successors. However, such has not been the case always. In one of our Center schools we had five new teachers in September, and not all


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of them were teachers of experience. Four of our teaching force have resigned during the past few weeks and we are finding it almost impossible to secure capable candidates to fill the vacancies. With a teacher shortage in this country of about 75,000 teachers, and surrounding towns and cities paying higher salaries than we can afford, we hope every parent in town, who has the best interests of our schools at heart, will co-operate with us in main- taining a loyal and efficient teaching corps.


In our 1920 report we called to your attention the matter of more regular school attendance. Not wishing to leave this question entirely in the hands of the parents, we appointed a truant officer to have charge of all the schools in Agawam and Feeding Hills. We feel that the money so spent has been well invested, for a marked improvement along those lines has been shown in practically every school. We have found the present industrial and financial depression responsible for most of the flagrant violations of school attendance laws.


Under the supervision of our medical inspector, Dr. George B. Corcoran, we have been carrying out the provisions of the State Vaccination Law. By the close of the school year we expect to have the work completed. We urge the hearty co-operation of the parents with him in this matter.


In November last, the school committees of the Agawam and Ludlow School Superintendency District met in Springfield, and after a lengthy discussion voted to dissolve the present School Superintendency Union of the towns of Agawam and Ludlow. It was agreed that this dissolution should take effect at the close of the present school year, June 30, 1922. Your committee have as yet taken no decisive action upon this matter. The general opinion, in so far as we have heard any expressed, seems to favor a superintendent of marked ability and successful experience for this town. When we find such a man, will the taxpayers be will- ing to pay the price? That question can be answered better later on than now, perhaps. In passing, your committee would like to pay a word of tribute to our present superintendent, Mr. Gushee. During his twenty years of service in our town we feel


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that he has always been faithful to the best interests of our schools, that he has been patient and helpful in working with our teachers, that he has ever been ready and willing to carry out the instruc- tions of the committee, and that he has been most considerate and tactful in his relations with others. We congratulate him on his splendid record of service in educational work.


At the last annual town meeting the voters of the town, by a unanimous vote, appropriated the sum of $250,000 for the pur- pose of acquiring land and the constructing, furnishing and equip- ping of a High School building thereon. Your building commit- tee, consisting of the Selectmen and the School Board, have been busy for months with the difficult and complex problems arising from such a tremendous undertaking. Expert advice has been sought whenever it was needed, and everything possible has been done to make this a thoroughly modern and efficient school build- ing. The ceremony of laying the corner stone took place on Agawam Day, September 9th, 1921. Many of the residents of the town were present and a very interesting program was carried out. Short and stirring addresses were made by Rev. John G. Dutton, Town Clerk and Treasurer Henry E. Bodurtha, Rev. George E. Mayer, Superintendent of Schools Walter E. Gushee, and Clarence D. Kingsley of the Massachusetts State Board of Education. Architect Wallace E. Dibble read a brief history of the events which had made possible the erection of the building. The exercises closed with the laying of the corner stone by John R. Lloyd, chairman of the building committee. From that time the work has advanced steadily until the contractor is now about ready to proceed with the lath and plaster work.


As the chairman of the building committee will probably make a comprehensive report on the project up to date, we will not need to enter further into a discussion of this side of the High School proposition.


Since last September the School Board have been working on the educational problems involved in the organization and es- tablishment of the Agawam High School. Some of the matters in question have been settled, while others are still under discus-


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sion. As briefly as possible, we will try to explain what we have done, and what yet remains to be accomplished.


The first thing of importance that we did was to secure an able and experienced principal. In our opinion, the success of our High School, for the first few years, will depend, in a large measure, upon the man at the head of it. We sought a man of thorough training, of broad scholarship, of proven ability, and of strong personality. After a careful investigation of his past record and several personal interviews, we selected for our prin- cipal Benjamin J. Phelps. Mr. Phelps is a graduate of Yale and has a master's degree from Columbia Teachers' College. He has had 19 years of successful experience in secondary school work, 14 years of which he spent as principal in the High Schools of New Jersey. Mr. Phelps is heartily interested in boys and girls, and all their school activities, and he will, we feel, build up a High School that every one of us can be proud of. Though he is now taking graduate work at Yale, he is able to meet with us when- ever his advice and experience are needed.


Your committee have decided to offer no Senior course in the High School the first year, feeling that it would be poor policy for us both educationally and financially. That of course, means that those who are now classed as Juniors in other High Schools will be allowed to remain another year for graduation.


A Senior course next year would mean numerous small classes and that would necessitate several additional teachers, causing a considerable extra expense for the instruction of a comparatively few students.


As you all know we are planning to have a Junior High de- partment in our High School building. For several years we have been looking forward to a High School of our own, and promis- ing ourselves an 8 grade system when that should be built. So two questions have arisen at once. First, how many grades shall we put into our Junior High ? Second, how can we reduce our pres- ent 9 grade system to an 8 grade one without working an injustice to any group of pupils ? Of course these two propositions are more or less dependent one upon the other. Although there are now


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over 90 cities and towns in our state with a nine grade system, the eight grade course seems to be more popular. Those who advo- cate the latter system cite its economy in the saving of a year, while its opponents argue that there is but little financial gain because it makes more "flunkers." A state expert tells us that the nine grade system is the ideal, but that the eight grade system is more practi- cal today. With such a difference of opinion at hand we have been slow to take definite action. However, we are all convinced that the change from our present course to an eight grade one cannot be accomplished successfully in a short space of time. Consequent- ly, we have authorized our advisors to formulate and present to us a plan whereby we may take the first steps along that line when our schools open in September, 1922. The rooms available for our Junior High classes in the high school and their respective seating capacities, will have to determine in a large degree the an- swer to our first question. A very careful tabulation of the num- ber of pupils promoted in the upper grades this school year will be necessary before a final solution of this problem can be reached.


Our Superintendents together with Mr. Phelps have been drawing up a program of studies for our High School. Though these outlines of courses have not yet been definitely adopted we are all practically agreed upon the tentative curriculum as sub- mitted by them. We plan to offer three courses, a College Pre- paratory, a Commercial and a General, and in connection with the last mentioned, such electives that anyone so desiring can by a proper selection prepare for a technical or scientific school.


The School Board are, as part of the Building Committee, now at work getting a line on the equipment needed for the build- ing. When it comes to a final decision on the matter of equipment we are expecting the advice and assistance of some member of the State Board of Education.


We have already received several applications for the posi- tion of janitor at the new school. These have been placed on file and action will be taken on that matter at an early date.


The most important task left confronting the committee in connection with the High School is the securing of capable instruc-


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tors for all departments of the school. So far as possible, we in- tend to engage men and women of college training and successful experience. Our ability to do this depends entirely upon the tax- payers of the town. With your cordial support we believe we can organize and maintain a High School that shall have a standard of scholarship among its students and instructors equal to that of any similar school in our state.


In closing we wish to thank the citizens of the town for their courtesy and co-operation in the past, and we hope we may deserve a continuance of the same during the year 1922.


CLIFFORD M. GRANGER, J. A. ROY, PERCIVAL V. HASTINGS.


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Financial Statement of Schools


GENERAL EXPENSE


C. M. Granger $ 100.00


J. A. Roy


100.00


P. V. Hastings 175.00 1


W. E. Gushee 1,080.00 I I


J. R. Burgesss 1,200.00


Wright & Potter Printing Co., supplies 7.82


Daniel Cesan, attendance officer 238.00


W. E. Gushee, postage, telephone and expenses 66.12


J. R. Burgess, postage, telephone and expenses 54.12


A. H. Bartlett, Inc., supplies 29.56


William De Forge, attendance officer 10.00


Town of Ludlow, telephone


P. V. Hastings, postage and telephone 18.15


2.38


C. M. Granger, postage, telephone and expenses 7.13


$ 3,008.28


EXPENSE OF INSTRUCTION


1 Lulu E. S. Treichler $ 117.88


Helen Arnold


761.05


Alice Powers


820.00


Kate Adams


1,740.00


Viola W. Phillips


1,290.00


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680.00


770.00


1,290.00


1,166:84


1,190.00 1,131.72


680.00


1,140.00


1,820.00


1,226.84 1,126.31


1,255.79


1,240.00


1,068.94


617.36


1,330.00


1,040.00


710.00 1,290.00


1,240.00


1,690.00


1,084.79


680.00 1,277.38 1,190.00 I


1,117.38


435.00


640.60


67.50


460.00


440.00


440.00


600.00


440.00


440.00


480.00


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Anna Dresser


Dagma Fant


Lena Collis


Edith R. Barr


Elinor Gibney


Minnetta M. Jurgenson Myrtle I. Moore Gertrude C. Lawrence Katherine G. Danahy


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Lucy E. Carver


Edna B. Harmon Hazel M. Sullivan


Elizabeth M. Hammond


Lulu M. Ventres


Mrs. J. R. Burgess Mrs. Welch


Minta R. Locke


Mildred E. Simpson


Annette E. Deely


Beryl W. Stodden W. J. Burke


Bessie E. Sprowl Clara S. Johnson


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Olive A. Fox


Nellie T. Granfield


Mary J. Kelly


Lillian M. Kelliher


Jennie M. Lucas


Madeline L. Wood


Rhoda H. Bolton Cora E. Halladay


Olive C. Duguid


Faolin M. Peirce


Harriet D. Peirce


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Mae Lynch


Catherine Powers


Viola Hopkins


453.95


Anna M. Giblin


480.00


$39,171.34


STATIONERY AND SUPPLIES


Milton Bradley Co. :


$ 453.31


Boston & Springfield Desp., express


63.13


Edward E. Babb


238.10


Reformatory for Women


19.50


. R. H. Smith Mfg. Co.


11.IO


J. L. Hammett Co. 228.32 1 I


Ryan and Buker 78.93 1 1


Meekins, Packard & Wheat


11.00


Geo. T. Johnson Co.


42.25


Oliver Ditson Co.


3.76


George H. Blackburn


5.18


A. N. Palmer Co.


28.00


American Fixture Co. 1


5.10


Helen L. Arnold


8.55


A. H. Bartlett, Inc.,


10.95


K. G. Danahy


11.38


1 Denoyer Geppert Co. 12.60 1


A. A. Meissner, express


8.15


Frank L. Warren, express


3.16


Johnson's Bookstore


16.45.


E. H. Hubbard, express


1.95


H. W. Cowles, express


9.01


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1


$ 1,269.88


TEXT BOOKS


Edward E. Babb & Co.


$ 194.68


Houghton, Mifflin Co.


7.22


Ginn & Co.


465.72


Benjamin H. Sanborn & Co.


2.90


The A. S. Barnes Co.


8.50


C. C. Birchard & Co


102.61


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Silver Burdett & Co.


197.67


American Book Co.


57.34


The John Church Co.


1.67


G. & C. Merriam Co.


15.00


D. C. Heath & Co.


60.80


The John C. Winston Co.


91.93


The World Book Co.


56.61


The Charles Scribner Sons


137.60


$1,400.25


OPERATING


Janitors


Charles H. Wood


$1,067.50


James Jasmin


740.00


Karl Birk


387.50


D. J. Bloom


1,000.00


W. A. Fairbanks


55.20


Myrtle I. Moore, care of room


22.00


Gertrude C. Lawrence, care of room


38.00


Eliabeth M. Hammond, care of room


38.00


Mildred E. Simpson, care of room


16.00


Charles H. Wyman


46.50


William Bagley


53.00


Andrew J. Grimes


40.00


$ 3,503.70


Fuel


Springfield Gas Light Co.


$ 22.88


Charles D. Farnsworth, Inc.


2,639.20


Frank Boule


23.00


Lee Jenks


42.00


H. C. Puffer Co.


843.95


Amedee Jasmin


9.00


Wallace Hastings


21.00


T. M. Walker Co.


11.35


$ 3,612.38


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39.05


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8.19


16.00


8.10


5.77


33.00


2.50


7.25


8.00


5.36


10.00


39.23


2.00


40.00


132.59


56.69


39.40


63.89


10.50


26.46


12.55


5.00


31.84


1.88


3.50


39.15


16.18


3.50


30.45


MAINTENANCE


R. M. Mansfield


Lona Bros.


J. L. Burke


T. M. Walker Co.


The Lincoln Co.


Arsen Davignon


A. H. Rowley J. A. Roy


Mandrine Wood


E. M. White


Fred Dumond


James Jasmin, Jr.


E. J. Demars


John McCleary & Sons


Otto Baab


Stone Underhill Heating & Ventilat-


ing Co.


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Agawam Electric Co.


Alling Rubber Co.


C. W. Hegeman


Carlisle Hardware Co.


Alfred F. Foote,, commissioner Meekins Packard & Wheat


Joseph J. Borgatti & Co.


West Disinfecting Co., Inc.


William T. Bagley


Geo. T. Johnson Co.


Mrs. Geo. D. Cooley


E. A. Kellogg & Sons


The Tuohey Co.


Masury Young Co.


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Meekins, Packard & Wheat, Inc.


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183.71


$


City of Springfield


3,545.13


$ 1,769.00


2,800.00


I36.00


48.00


144.00


232.00


188.50


348.00


246.50


197.75


104.00


106.00


214.00


106.00


203.00


300.00


20.00


55.99


3.43


5.78


2.50


32.25


2.00


106.48


14.31


6.00 5.75


$


City of Springfield George B. Corcoran


O. C. Call Fred C. McClean


True Bros. Geo. H. McClean Co.


Edwin S. Decker


Arthur Miller


Forbes & Wallace


Charles H. Wood


James Jasmin


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City of Springfield, vocational


Springfield Street Railway Co.


J. C. Wright


Fred Dudley Abe Labowitz


C. D. Bailey


George Statkum


R. Chamberlain A. Grasso


F. Copiuski


W. Kryhoski


Daniel Cesan


A. Mercadante Louis De Palma


TRANSPORTATION


320.00


750.07


HEALTH


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B. D. Nims


$ 5,073.75


Town of West Springfield


8,049.99


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$13,364.12


SUNDRIES


Martin Diploma Co. $ 34.50


O. E. Hovis and Clifford Hunt


10.00


$


44.50


OUTLAY


Meekins, Packard & Wheat


$ 61.65


$ 61.65


SUMMARY


General expense


$ 3,088.28


Instruction


39,171.34


Text books


1,400.25


Stationery


1,269.88


Operating


7,299.79


Maintenance


750.07


Health


320.00


Transportation I


5,073.75


Tuition


13,364.12


Sundries


44.50


Outlay


61.65


$71,843.63


AVAILABLE


Appropriation


$72,000.00


City of Springfield, refund


66.50


Town of Ludlow, refund


10.44


Johnson's Bookstore, refund


6.60


State of Mass., vocational school


234.00


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Superintendent's Report


School Committee of Agawam :


Gentlemen: During the last year Mr. Joseph Burgess, as- sistant superintendent of schools, has assumed a large part of the responsibility of supervision in the Agawam schools. In view of this fact, I am asking Mr. Burgess to submit the usual annual report of the schools. For twenty years I have been privileged to submit this report. I feel that your committee and the people of Agawam will be pleased to hear from the new man in the field.


I commend to your careful consideration the report submitted by Mr. Burgess.


The recent action of the joint school committee of the super- vision union of Agawam and Ludlow dissolving the Union, auto- matically brings to a close my term of service as your superinten- dent of schools.


During the 21 years of my service I have tried to be progressive without being radical, conservative without being averse to change when the best interests of the school seem to demand it. I have always recognized the school committee as the authority in all local school matters, and have always believed that the only way to serve the people of Agawam in the administration of their schools was to work directly through and under their legally authorized officials, the school committee.


It is noteworthy that during my twenty-one years of service only seven different men have served on the school committee of Agawam. Permit me at this time to express my grateful apprecia- tion of the friendly attitude of all these men toward me. Not al- ways have we thought alike, but never has there been anything but friendly relations. It has been a great pleasure to me to know and work of these men.


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I regret that it has not been possible for me to know more intimately the people of Agawam, to enter more actively into the social life of the town. My residence being outside made this im- possible. In the earlier days while residing in Agawam we knew each other better. I wish to thank all these friends and those that I have come to know later for all they have done to make my work here a pleasure.


The construction of the new high school is well under way. In the securing of Benjamin Phelps as principal of this school I believe your committee has been fortunate. Plans for the organi- zation of the new school, with his assistance, are well under way. Before the close of my term in June, I believe plans will be quite definitely shaped up for the opening in the fall.


With the opening of this splendid school, and the employ- ment of a full time resident superintendent, Agawam will enter upon a new era of school development. The prospect for the future is bright.


Nothing of a startling or spectacular nature has been accom- plished or undertaken during my period of service. Uniformly good, thorough and efficient work has been done as evidenced by the standing taken by our pupils entering the high schools of West Springfield and Springfield. Credit for this is due to the conscientious and efficient service rendered by the teachers. In the last analysis, results obtained depend upon the teaching force.


In concluding this, in all probability my last official report to your committee and the people of Agawam, I wish to testify to the excellent work being done by the teachers of Agawam, and to express to them my grateful appreciation of their loyalty and splendid co-operation to the end that Agawam schools shall rank high as to efficiency and progressiveness.


Respectfully submitted,


Feb. 4, 1922.


WALTER E. GUSHEE.


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ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT


School Committee of Agawam:


Gentlemen: I hereby submit my annual report as Assistant Superintendent of Schools for the year ending December 31, 1921. TEACHERS


The following changes have been made in the teaching force. during the past year.


RESIGNATIONS


Helen L. Arnold, Supervisor of Drawing.


Lulu Treichler, Teacher of Elocution.


Madrine Wood, Principal, Feeding Hills.


Hattie Bolton, Feeding Hills, Grades VI and VII.


Lucy E. Carver, Springfield Street, Grades VI and VII.


Lillian Kelliher, North Agawam, Principal's Assistant and Grade I.


Dagma Fant, Agawam Center, Grades VI and VII.


Anna W. Dresser, Agawam Center, Grades V and VI.


Edith R. Barr, Agawam Center, Grade IV.


Myrtle I. Moore, South Street School.


TRANSFERS


Cora Halladay, from Feeding Hills, Grades IV, V, to Aga- wam Center, Grade VI.


Olive C. Duguid, Feeding Hills, from Grades II and III to Grades V and VI.


Hazel Sullivan, Springfield Street, from Grades III and IV to Grades V and VI.


Gertrude Lawrence, from Suffield Street to South School.


APPOINTMENTS


William J. Burke, Jr., Feeding Hills, Principal.


Beryl W. Stodden, Feeding Hills, Grade VIII.


Anna M. Giblin, Feeding Hills, Grades III and IV.


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Clara Johnson, Feeding Hills, Grades II and III. Bessie Sprowl, Feeding Hills, Grade I. Annette Deeley, North Agawam, Grade V. Minta A. Locke, Agawam Center, Grades VI and VII. Idelle M. Beebe, Substitute, Agawam Center, Grade IV. Mildred E. Simpson, Suffield Street.


ENROLLMENT


Pupils Attending Public High Schools


West Springfield


1 76


Springfield Technical High


II


Springfield High School of Commerce


4


Springfield Central High


7


Chestnut Street Junior High


4


Total in Public High Schools


1 1


1


1 1 102


Attending Public Grade Schools


1 II32


Attending Springfield Vocational School


II


Total in Public Schools


1245


Increase during the year in Public Grade Schools


124


Increase in High School


7


High School Enrollment by Precincts and by Classes


I


II


III


IV


Total


Feeding Hills


6


II


4


6


27


North Agawam


IO·


9


3


3


25


Agawam Center


16


18


14


2


50


32


38


2I


II


102


I


1


1 1


1 1


1


1


1


1


1 1 1


1 1


1


1


1


1 1 1 1 1


1 1 1


1


1 1


I


1


1 1


1


1


1 1


1 1


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GRADUATON


The sixth annual graduation of the Grammar School pupils of Agawam was held at the North Agawam Town Hall, June 9, 1921. The program was in charge of Miss Katherine G. Dan- ahy, Principal of the North Agawam School, assisted by Miss Wood and Miss Adams and by Miss Powers, Supervisor of Music. The program is printed below :




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