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During the coming year the Authority plans to paint the exteriors of the three buildings comprising the twelve units in project 200-2. It is also planned to provide a sidewalk on Franklin Street for the safety of the chil- dren. Due to the inadequacy of the present outside lighting, the Authority is considering the installation of additional yard lights. Plans for this year also include a request to the State Housing Board for permission to tile the area around the bathtubs in project 200-1.
The Authority has just made a payment in lieu of taxes to the Town of Agawam under its newly increased rate. Payment was in the amount of $1,580.00, an increase of nearly one hundred per cent.
The meetings have been well attended and I wish to thank the mem- bers of the board for their cooperation during the year.
BALANCE SHEET AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 195-1 PROJECT 200-1-32 UNITS ASSETS
Administration Fund
$ 7,581.14
Petty Cash Fund
10.00
Accounts Receivable - Tenants
175.00
Accounts Receivable Sundry
112.26
Debt Service Fund
8,738.75
Investment - U. S. Treasury Bond
10,045.72
Development Costs
$331,000.00
Less: Development Cost Liquidation
18,000.00
313,000.00
Total Assets
$339,962.87
LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS
Accounts Payable
$ 113.97
Tenants Security Deposits
425.00
Accrued Liabilities
Insurance
$ 2.094.73
Payments in Lieu of Taxes
864.00
Matured Interest and Principal
8,738.75
11,697.48
Bonds Authorized
331,000.00
Less: Bonds Retired
18,000.00
313,000.00
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Reserves
Debt Service
4,025.84
Working Capital
1,237.72
Operating Reserve
6,491.32
11,754.88
Surplus
2,971.54
Total Liabilities and Surplus
$339,962.87
STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR Beginning October 1, 1953 and Ending September 30, 1954 PROJECT 200-1 -32 UNITS
INCOME
Dwelling Rent Schedule
$19,787.20
Miscellaneous Income
102.95
Commonwealth Contribution
8,275.00
Total Income
$28,165.15
EXPENSE
Management
$ 1,918.62
Operating Services
105.44
Utilities
5,430.87
Repairs, Maintenance and Replacements
1,879.65
Insurance
591.07
Payments in Lieu of Taxes
1,152.00
Provision for Operating Reserve
1,632.00
Provision for Debt Service Reserve
1,006.46
Debt Service Requirements
11,478.00
Total Expense
$25,193.61
Net Surplus
$ 2,971.54
BALANCE SHEET AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 1954 PROJECT 200-2 - 12 UNITS
ASSETS
Administration Fund
$ 10,076.51
Accounts Receivable - Tenants
53.00
Debt Service Fund
102.54
nvestment - Debt Service Fund
2,000.00
Debt Service Trust Fund
499.24
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Development Costs Less: Development Cost Liquidation
$140,000.00 4,000.00
136,000.00
Total Assets
$148,731.29
LIABILITIES AND DEFICIT
Accounts Payable - Administrative
$ 412.26
Tenants Security Deposits
350.00
Accrued Liabilities
Insurance $ 1,064.27
Payments in Lieu of Taxes
324.00
Matured Interest and Principal
1,271.00
2,659.27
Bonds Authorized
140,000.00
Less: Bonds Retired
4,000.00
136,000.00
Reserves
Debt Service
1,102.50
Unamortized Bond Premium
2,499.24
Contribution Reduction
1,123.18
Operating Reserve
4,787.28
9,512.20
Deficit .....
202.44
Total Liabilities and Deficit
$148,731.29
STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSE For the Period Ended September 30, 1954 PROJECT 200-2 - 12 UNITS
INCOME
Dwelling Rent Income
$1,875.75
Total Income
1,875.75
EXPENSE
Management Expenses
$ 189.60
Utilities
320.36
Repairs, Maintenance and Replacements
29.27
Insurance Expense
140.00
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Payments in Lieu of Taxes
108.00 Provision for Debt Service Reserve Debt Service Requirements
122.50 1,168.46
Total Expense
$2,078.19
Deficit
$ 202.44
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LIST OF JURORS
Haggerty, Walter A., 37 Bridge St. Desmarais, Emile, 85 Bridge St. Flynn, Thomas J., 2 Conte St. St. John, Edgar, 25 Cooley St. Parent, Paul J., 71 Cooley St. Desmarais, Edward J., 81 Cooley St. Cowan, Roy K. 43 Line St. Webler, Lillian A., 141 Maple St.
Duclos, Fred E., 158 Maple St. Letellier, Rose, 243 Maple St.
Hamel, Ernest F., 31 Norman Ter. Stanwell, Arthur E., 63 Norman Ter. Kerr, George, 63 Norman Ter. Gensheimer, Henry, 209 North St. Pisano, Lawrence, 83 Oak Hill Ave. Schneider, Anna V., 84 Oak Hill Ave. Swanson, Thomas, 46 Oak Lane Cebrelli, Richard, 31 Ottawa St. Lovotti, Peter, 16 River St.
Alvigini, Adrienne B., 56 River St. Jacques. Robert R., 23 Giffin Place Gibson, Ethel E., 56 Homer St.
Draghetti, Joseph, 120 Homer St. Carlisto, Steven Charles, 44 Line St. Gravel, Charles, 27 Norris St.
Granger, Sydney C .. 854 North St. Conkey, Florence M., 31 Northwood St. Halladay, Giles W., 327 N. Westfield St. Tompkins, Alfred L., 24 Park St.
Cooley, Ashley R. Jr., 52 Northwood St. Hawthorne, Robert D., 251 N. West St. Ferry, Rutherford H., 73 N. Westfield St. Jenks, Prentiss R., 478 N. Westfield St. McCobb, Perry A., 20 Ridgeway Dr. Rising, Leonard P., 942 Shoemaker Lane Spear, Arthur L., 335 S. West St.
Bailey, Gerald R., 98 Albert St.
Burgess, Andrew, 33 Anthony St. Rice, Thomas E., Circuit Place
Talmadge, George H., 527 Springfield St. Dame, Paul W., 102 Suffield St. Styner, George, 16 Walnut St. Provost, George A., 79 Walnut St. Daly, Raymond E., 260 Walnut St. Stuart, Joel C., 46 Washington Ave. Gibbs, Leslie H., 380 Springfield St. Norman, Joseph P., 582 Springfield St. Broz, Lillian P., 624 Springfield St.
Petersen, Arnold E. C., 122 Suffield St. Parent, John W., 69 Walnut St.
Coughlin, Patrick J., 104 Walnut St.
Bessette, Aldege J., 184 Walnut St.
Pomeroy, Ralph H., 347 N. Westfield St. Chmielewski, Michael F., 56 S. Westfield St. Harris, Robert A., 323 Southwick St.
Wood, Charles H., 1368 Springfield St.
Miller, George N., 68 Brookline Ave. Ferrari, Joseph J., 39 Garden St. Myers, William F., 17 Hall St. Giordano, Ralph, 28 Highland St. Myers, Harry H., 97 Homer St. Veronesi, Aldo, 20 Central St. Gensheimer, Elizabeth R., 13 Charles St. Carlson, Elsie C., 7 Cooper St.
Thorpe, Richard Allyn, 28 Corey St.
Toussaint, George A., 24 Elm St.
Hauser. John F., 111 Elm St. Twarog, Lottie B., 196 Elm St.
Southworth, Eugene E., 56 Lealand Ave. Hollister, Katherine I., 1157 Main St. Peterson, Milton Addison, 85 Monroe St. Vassallo, Patrick P., 11 Anthony St. Hodge. Aletha M., 70 Bailey St. Shaylor, Ruth R., 21 Central St. Hastings, Judson W .. 2 Colonial Avc. Cordes, Stella M., 63 Elbert Rd. Shields, Alice L., 139 Elm St.
Moran, Richard M., 43 Federal St. Ext. Webster, George, 137 Leonard St. Minor, Gertrude E., 15 Ley St.
Kibbe, Stuart A., 684 Main St. Pope, Charles H., 1169 River Road Hall, Ernest R., 106 Silver St.
McGowan, Henry L., 111 Suffield St. Binns, Herbert. 46 Kensington St. Miner, William J., 22 Gale St.
Bouley, Francis Elroy, 19 Letendre Ave. Fuller, Guy, 347 N. Westfield St.
Austin, Charlotte H., 86 Witheridge St. Daigle, Albert H., 831 S. Westfield St. Atwater, Harold C., Jr., 28 Woodside Drive Reynolds, James N., Jr .. 670 Main St. Schwartz, Sumner C .. 639 River Road Warwood, G. S., 88 Riverview Ave. Ruckstuhl, Margaret M., 62 S. Park Ter. Fariole, Clement J., 336 Suffield St. Potter, Frederick W., 38 Valentine St.
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Agawam Public Schools
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
James Clark Telephone RE 9-1564 Address: 28 Reed Street
SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE
High School Building - 8:00 a.m. to 4 p.m., School Days Appointments should be arranged in advance.
SUPERINTENDENT'S SECRETARY
Barbara J. LaBranch
SCHOOL CALENDAR - 1955
Schools open - January 3
Schools close - February 18
Schools open - February 28
Schools close - April 15
Schools open - April 25
Elementary and Junior High Schools close - June 17
Senior High School closes - June 24
Schools open - September 7
Schools close - December 23
NO SCHOOL DAYS
April 8 - Good Friday
April 19 - Patriot's Day
May 30 - Memorial Day
October 12 - Columbus Day
October 21 - Hampden County Teachers' Association Convention
November 11 - Armistice Day
November 23 - 25 - Thanksgiving Recess
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HOURS OF SESSIONS
Senior High School
9:00 A.M. - 12:45 P.M. 1:15 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Junior High School 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon 12:45 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Elementary Schools 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon* 1:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M .*
*A few variations are made in the elementary hours in the individual schools in order to accommodate the children in the cafeterias and to fit bus schedules.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Your school committee reports another busy year in the educational program of Agawam. This year has been complicated by the use of double sessions in our Junior and Senior High School areas. The school committee recognizes the fact that double sessions have caused inconvenience to the parents of Agawam and that the education of the children suffers during this period of overcrowded conditions.
The construction of the new high school has made splendid progress on an excellent location. Survey of enrollment and location of school children in the Town of Agawam indicates that the site of the new high school was an excellent choice and will service a large number of students with a mini- mum of transportation. The architects and general contractor report that this new high school should be ready for occupancy in September of 1955.
We wish we could assure the people of Agawam that this one new build- ing will take care of our needs for a number of years. An increased birth rate, which has approximately doubled during the past ten years, the rapid increase in population and new homes in Agawam will again place the chil- dren within a period of two to three years in a school housing shortage.
The main pressure at this time seems to be in the elementary school field and your school committee requests that you firmly support an elementary school building program for the Town of Agawam. The school committee will use all the expert advice it can get to make a wise choice of sites for new elementary schools.
These thoughts may present a pessimistic future for the taxpayers of
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Agawam but perhaps the situation is not as bad as it seems. Forces in our state are at work to increase state aid for schools and there is heavy pres- sure on the National level to assist local committees in the construction of new school units for the expanding school population. It is worthy to note in this connection that the schools of our nation in the year 1939 received 3% of the national income for educational use. In 1954 the schools received approximately 11/2% of the national income for education. This perhaps is the reason why we are so far behind in meeting the educational needs throughout the country.
The average salary, the cost per pupil, the local tax rate for schools, the tax per head for schools in Agawam are still below the median of fifty- four towns in the ten thousand population range in the State of Massachu- setts.
The thoughts of your school committee in regard to the importance of education for the Town of Agawam, the state and the nation may best be summarized perhaps by a recent booklet entitled "Education-An Investment in People" compiled by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington, D. C. This organization at considerable expense and much re- search geographically portrays the value of education in these United States in the Following areas: Income and Education, Farm Production and Edu- cation, Education and Retail Sales, Magazine Circulation and Education, Education and Political Activity, Economic Attitude and Education, Educa- tion and Military Service, and Education Steps Up Living Standards.
We wish to thank the citizens of Agawam, members of the school staff, the children and the Town governing personnel for the excellent cooperation received during the past year. We have enjoyed your cooperation and solicit your advice and counsel for this coming school year.
Financial Statement
December 31, 1954
Town Appropriations
$553,791.90
EXPENDITURES
General Expense
$ 13,456.36
Salaries of Teachers, Supervisors and Principals $ 13,456.36
Textbooks 13,354.79
Stationery and Supplies
8,675.59
Wages of Janitors
33,055.83
Manual Arts
2,385.25
Fuel
10,872.72
Janitor's Supplies and Operating Expenses
11,956.24
Repairs and Replacements
11,686.15
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303.85
Health
6,706.54 16,761.52
Transportation
Tuition
Memorial Field
7,055.61 545.93
Insurance
5,626.01
Miscellaneous Expense
1,727.43
Outlay, New Equipment
6,046.75
High School Athletics
2,616.74
Agriculture
4,847.32
Vocational Household Arts
2,293.27
Adult Education
1,909.00
Travel Outside Commonwealth
246.00
1953 Carry Over Appropriation
1953 Bills Paid in 1954
422.
Paid by Federal Funds:
Smith-Hughes and George-Barden Funds for Agriculture 1,054.70
Total Expenditures from Town Appropriation
$552,733.20
COSTS OF SCHOOLS TO THE TOWN
Total Expenditures by the Town .....
.. .. . . .. . .. $553,787.9
Returns to the Town on account of schools, but not returnable to the School Department
From the State:
School Funds and State Aid for Public Schools ... $ 89,547.65*
For Transportation of Pupils 25,872.52 **
For Agricultural Instruction
2,524.97
For Voc. Household Arts Instruction
1,248.02
On account of Trade School Tuition 3,160.36
Tuition and Trans. of State Wards 833.14
Tuition received from other Towns 1,705.35
Rec'd from Manual Training Dept. 352.35
Rec'd from Rental of Schol Prop. 207.00
Miscellaneous Receipts 69.05
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$125,520.3
Amount paid for Schools from Local Taxation
$428,267.5
*$32,847.65 due from state and not yet received ** $25,872.42 due from state and not yet received
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$553,787. 422.
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REIMBURSEMENT BY COMMONWEALTH AND OTHER RECEIPTS
1953
1954
Chapter 70 (Teachers' Salaries )
$ 75,632.65
89,547.65
Chapter 71 (Transportation)
18,755.29
25,872.42
Agricultural Instruction
2,321.95
2,524.97
Vocational Household Arts
1,210.64
1,248.02
Trade School Tuition
2,500.51
3,160.36
Tuition & Trans., State Wards
2,215.36
833.14
Tuitions from other Towns
1,169.05
1,705.35
Manual Training Department
421.64
352.35
Rentals of School Property
185.00
207.00
Miscellaneous
81.68
69.06
$104,493.77 $125,520.32
Budget Total
468,502.55
553,787.90
Reimbursements
104,493.77
125,520.32
Cost of Schools to Town
$364,008.78 $428,267.58
School Superintendent
SCHOOL PLANT FACILITIES
The increase in population in the Town of Agawam has caused the double sessions which you are now experiencing in the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade areas. Double sessions will be discontinued in September of 1955 when the new high school opens. We wish we could say that the school plant needs would be taken care of for a number of years through the addition of this new high school, but such is not the case.
The building inspector of the Town of Agawam informs us that ap- proximately three hundred and ten homes will be completed in the year 1954. The three hundred and ten homes mean conservatively twelve more classrooms. The present economic predictions indicate that this situation will continue for a number of years. If this many homes are added in Agawam each year, the school plant facilities will have to be progressively ncreased through the years.
The school staff attempted to determine through an enrollment pro- jection what this increase would be. The projection indicated that by the school year 1964-65 you will need approximately double the plant facilities you now have due to the fact that the enrollment in your school system will double. These facts were checked by a formula used by the Federal Government and throughout the New England states; they further
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were checked through the State Building Commission office and were found to be accurate and perhaps a little conservative.
We were forced to take the sixth grades from four elementary schools in September of 1954. We find that we will have to take five of the fifth grades out of these same buildings in order to get the first through fourth grades in these four elementary schools. This results in an overloading of the junior high area which has to send eighth and ninth grade children to the new high school, which will probably overload by 1957-58.
If the new high school were permitted to accommodate the upper three grades, it would be adequate through the year 1965. If the junior high were able to take its normal load it would be adequate through the school year 1959. The elementary schools are inadequate at the present time in number of classrooms to accommodate the load.
Your school committee, on the basis of the survey performed by the staff, recommends the start of an elementary school program and further suggests that a site be purchased and the building committee appointed for a fourteen to sixteen room elementary school located on the axis of school population to relieve the pressure on four of the elementary schools.
If steps are not taken by the taxpayers to provide more elementary school facilities, double sessions will probably be on us again by the school year 1956-57 or 1957-58 at the latest. The research performed upon the results of double sessions indicates that a child in the elementary school loses approximately two months of schooling due to double sessions. The parents of Agawam will certify to the inconvenience caused in the home through double sessions.
The shortage of school plant facilities further endangers the education of the children due to the fact that classes have to be overloaded to ac- commodate them. We, in education, and you as parents will probably agree that there is no finer investment we can make than in the education of our children. We urge you to support the school program both on the local and the state level. Your support on the state level may result in some relief to the property taxpayers in the local community.
The superintendent wishes to thank the school committee, the town officers, the school staff and the taxpayers for their fine cooperation.
High School Principal
Herein is my seventeenth annual report on the senior high school. GENERAL COMMENT
Currently, secondary education is faced with the problem of organizing an educational program to insure the adequate preparation of boys and
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girls to meet contemporary eventualities and, in addition, later adulthood situations. Toward this aim all curricular commitments and teaching prac- tices are focused. A technological age is dynamic in nature and requires constant curricular revision and scrutinization of teaching practices and includes occasional experimental procedures.
Consideration must be given to the degree and way pupils may differ from one another in their personality, traits, potential abilities, home and community environment, and aptitudes and skills. Class presentations must include functional experiences pertinent to the responsibilities of citizens and in the development of behavior patterns for everyday living. A program must be flexible enough to include all children.
This school attempts to organize its facilities to meet the foregoing challenges and hopes with the more modern and complete physical equip- ment of the new building to surpass the successes of past years.
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
Membership in the Pro Merito Society is the highest academic honor bestowed by the school. It signifies that the pupil earned grades averaging 85 percent or over for four years. Twenty-seven of the last graduating class were so honored. Their names follow:
Lucia Alfano
Anthony Liquori
Henry Anderson Jr.
Theresa Morassi
Lois Bontempo
Shirley Mutti
Sandra Channell
Carol Pallo
Barbara Cheney
Kay Parent
Ralph D'Amato Jr.
Judith Peterson
Cecily Danforth
Mary Pond
Joan DeMars
Frances Radwilowicz
Doris Grant
Nancy Richardson
Adrienne Grasso
Donaldine Roos
Florence Greco
John Spineti
Nancy Hallock
Mathew Sulborski
Elaine Jones
Ann Zucco
Lois Lindblad
Periodic honor rolls contained a large number of names also. There is still a burning desire for academic achievement.
Annually at the commencement exercises awards for achievement beyond the ordinary in the several subjects are distributed. The winners of prizes last year follow:
Agriculture - American Agriculturist Foundation - Scroll Ralph D'Amato Art - Agawam Women's Club - $5 Cecily Danforth History Award - Veterans of Foreign Wars - $10 and
Certificate Mary Pond
Citizenship - Daughters of American Revolution Carol Pallo
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Industrial Arts Award - Veterans of Foreign Wars $5 and Certificate Donald Marsiar English Awards - Anonymous Donors:
Excellence in Writing - $5 Cecily Danforth
Appreciation of Literature - $5 Carol Pallc
Literature Award - Agawam Women's Club - $5 Nancy Richardsor. International Relations Prize - Agawam Women's Club - $5 .... Ann Zuccc Julian Magiera Student Council Award - Class of 1943 - $5 Raymond Saracinc Commercial - Agawam Women's Club - Stenography - $5 .... Carol Pallc Commercial Award - Becker Junior College - Bookkeeping
- Key Carol Pallc
Latin Award - Benjamin J. Phelps - Agawam Lions Club - $5 Judith Petersor Mathematics & Science - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute .... John Spinet. Music Award - Agawam Women's Club: - $2.50 Judith Petersor - $2.50 Vaughan Kelley Music Award - Band Fund:
Barbara Cheney - $2.50
- $2.50
Elizabeth Langlois
Personality Club Award - $5 Shirley Mutt
Science - Bausch & Lomb Mathew Sulborsk
Valedictorian Prize - Reader's Digest Carol Pallo
Vocational Household Arts - American Agriculturist Foundation - Scroll Rosemarie Baggett?
Following is the list of scholarship winners and the respective awards Benjamin J. Phelps Scholarship - West Springfield -
Agawam P.T.A. - $100 each:
Lucia Alfano
Elliot Blackburn
Elizabeth Langlois John Spineti Marilyn Wilson
Lions Club Scholarship - $100 each:
Mary Pond John Spineti
Auxiliary of the Wilson-Thompson Post #185 - $50 Nancy Hallocl Student Council Scholarship - $100 Theresa Morass Teachers' Club Scholarship - $100 Ann Zucc Webber-Fiske Scholarship - State P.T.A. - $100 Judith Peterso!
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Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cataldo - Agawam Food
Mart - highest academic average - $50 each:
Carol Pallo John Spineti
Many generous individuals and organizations are interested in this school, and their interest is manifested by the donation of scholarships and prizes. The school is humbly grateful to them. Often the receiving of a scholarship is the deciding factor in the enrollment of the recipient in a chool of higher education.
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
These activities are valuable because certain educational opportunities annot be offered otherwise and a program can be presented wherein punils on all levels may compete equally.
The school's success last year was based on your friendly interest, Mr. Clark, the sincerity of the pupils, the intense zeal of the faculty, and he sympathetic interest of the School Committee. All may be proud of heir individual parts.
Junior High School Principal
This year my report will concern the Guidance Department activities nd also the Junior High School.
For two years I had urged the school department to buy additional ypewriters to care for the increasing demands on the Commercial Depart- nent. It is a pleasure to report that this condition has been taken care of, nd all students who desire typewriting have been able to take this course. fifteen new typewriters were added, and Mrs. Gleason was appointed a ull-time typing teacher for this assignment.
As the Town of Agawam grows, quite naturally more opportunities or placement arise. The fast-growing shopping center and new industries re now calling our Placement Department for boys and girls on both a part-time and a full-time basis.
The Class of 1954 is well placed. A breakdown will show you where ur boys and girls are. It is interesting to note that over forty percent of he class is either attending college, preparatory schools, or is training for he nursing profession. Thirty have excellent office positions, and from follow-up reports it appears that they are doing well in their respective positions. The balance of this class has either entered the service, gone nto farming, or has gone into the labor market for a variety of occupations.
We are proud of our Agawam boys and girls who have been accepted t some of the finest colleges in the East. Several of them have received
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excellent scholarships. The most noteworthy case is that of John Spineti, who has received a four-year full tuition scholarship to Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology.
The Guidance Department has cooperated with the superintendent and the principals of all of our schools by setting up a definite testing program for the whole school system. It has been decided that we shall administer annually an intelligence test to the second, fifth, eighth, and eleventh grades. In the elementary grades we shall continue to administer the Stanford Achievement Tests from grades 2 through 6. With these testing results entered on the permanent record cards, we have a very effective means of guiding and counseling students as well as parents.
It is needless to say that double sessions have not been ideal; however, it is most gratifying to see how well the boys and girls have taken hold under these difficult conditions. Approximately 1200 pupils a day are attending classes in this one building, over 500 in the morning and well over 600 in the afternoon. Between the hours of 12:20 and 12:30 all of the high school pupils are leaving the building, while 660 are entering for the afternoon program.
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