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The work of the County Health Department is increas- ing from year to year, and every effort will be made during the coming year to make the work more useful and efficient.
Respectfully, A. P. GOFF, M. D.,
County Health Officer.
Hyannis, Mass., Dec. 31, 1930.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Town of Eastham
FOR THE YEAR
1930
OF EAS
TOWN
INCO
AAUSET 1620
1651
Printed on Cape Cod By F. B. &º F. P. Goss, Hyannis
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Stanley M. Walker Mrs. Fred F. Dill
Mrs. James P. Knowles
Term expires 1931 Term expires 1932 Term expires 1933
UNION SUPERINTENDENT (Harwich, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham) Charles H. Pratt-Residence, Harwich
JANITOR George Hardwick
ATTENDANCE OFFICER
Walter F. Nickerson
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
Dr. A. P. Goff
SCHOOL NURSE
Bessie I. Armstrong
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SCHOOL CALENDAR, 1931
From September 2, 1930 to December 19, 1930-16 weeks.
From December 29, 1930 to February 20, 1931-8 weeks.
From March 2, 1931 to April 17, 1931-7 weeks.
From April 27, 1931 to June 19, 1931-8 weeks.
Total number of weeks-39.
From September 8, 1931 to December 24, 1931-16 weeks.
Schools open after Christmas on Monday, January 4, 1932. Graduation exercises will be held at Eastham Town hall on Wednesday evening, June 17, 1931 at 8 o'clock.
A meeting of the teachers of Chatham, Eastham, Har- wich and Orleans will be held at the Harwich High school on Tuesday, September 8 at 9 :30 a. m.
Schools will open on Wednesday, September 9, 1931.
There will be no session of school on the following days which fall during school weeks :
New Year's Day, Thursday, January 1, 1931; Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 1931; Columbus Day, Monday, October 12, 1931; Armistice Day, Wednesday, November 11, 1931; Thanksgiving Day, Friday following Thanksgiving Day, Thursday afternoon, December 24, 1931; Christmas, Friday, December 25, 1931; New Year's Day, Friday, Jan- uary 1, 1932. The day of the Barnstable County Teachers' Convention. Any day appointed for a Teachers' Instutute by the State Department of Education.
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PUPILS ATTENDING ORLEANS HIGH SCHOOL
September - December 1930
Class of 1931
Richard Gay William Knowles
Almond Nickerson Maude Rogers
Class of 1932
Delbert Johnson Raymond Nickerson
Emma Atwood Elizabeth Douglas
Class of 1933
Charles Campbell Herbert Fulcher Gordon Harris
Cyrus Campbell Marion Murphy Christine Crosby
Elizabeth Clark
Class of 1934
Aaron Chadbourn Ezekiel Fulcher Brooks Hurd Marie Knowles
Wilton Knowles Albert H. Nickerson Arthur Nickerson Richard Saunders
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Eastham School Committee
Expenditures for the Fiscal Year, January 1, 1930
to December 31, 1930
General Control
Expenditures 1930 Estimates 1931
Committee-salary
$200 00
-other expenses 3 70
Superintendent-salary
369 13
Clerk
89 50
Census
10 00
Supervisor of Attendance 20 00
Travel of Superintend- ent 120 91
Other expenses :
Office supplies
20 51
Office equipment
25 00
858 75 $890 20
Expenses of Instruction
Supervisors, Music and
Drawing
718 00
Principal and Teachers
4,480 00
Textbooks
129 46
Supplies
362 82
5,690 28 $5,923 00
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Expenses of Operation
Janitor
648 00
Fuel
203 25
Miscellaneous
18 33
869 58 $900 00
Maintenance
Insurance
86 36
Repairs
41 30
127 66
$100 00 $400 00
Auxiliary Agencies
Libraries
65 55
Health
254 65
Transportation
3,015 25
Tuition
2,651 32
Miscellaneous
46 70
6,033 47 $6,338 00
Outlays New Equipment 38 50
38 50
$150 00
Appropriation of 1930
$13,650 00
Expenditures as above Unexpended
13,618 00
$31 76
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SUMMARY FOR 1930
Expenditures
$13,618 24
Receipts :
State of Massachusetts H. S.
Transportation $1,385 92
State of Massachusetts Gen. School Fund Part I 641 15
State of Massachusetts Reimbursement
for Superintendent 173 49
- $2,198 56
Due from City of Boston, Tuition $622 36
Due from City of Boston, Transpor-
tation 58 30
$680 66.
Total outside resources
$2,879 22
Net cost
$13,618 24 less $2,879 22
$10,739 02.
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Report of the Superintendent of Schools
To the School Committee of the Town of Eastham :
I herewith present my first annual School Report for the year 1930.
During this, my first, year of association with the schools of Eastham it has been a joy to observe the coopera- tion between the school and the community.
Another outstanding feature is the earnestness and zeal of your corps of teachers. This school is particularly fortu- nate in retaining the services of the same teachers during a series of consecutive years. Education, experience and ap- titude are vital characteristics of a successful teacher. It is gratifying to see these qualities recognized and appreciated.
The objectives of an education have been formulated as -Health, Citizenship, Ethical Character, Worthy Home Membership, Mastery of the Fundamental Subjects, Voca- tional Training and Education in the Use of Leisure.
If we seek to justify our program in the light of these objectives we are guided in the choice of things worth while. Formerly the school was supposed to concern itself chiefly with the training in fundamental subject matter. In recent years increasing responsibilities have been delegated to the school. It is well to note that these added features have been brought in from without, not developed within the school. The program should be adjusted to meet conditions of life. It does not attempt to bring about the conditions.
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In the work of our school we find attention given to the mastery of fundamentals, to training in health and the for- mation of proper health habits. There is much interest in vocal and instrumental music, to drawing and to recreation- al activities. Training in character, citizenship and home membership is not expressed in separate courses but is taught in connection with the situations pertaining to daily activities in and outside of the school.
We may well take pride in the achievements in music and drawing. Interest in these subjects is very gratifying. Progress is due largely to the effort and cooperation of the teachers. We find the greatest appreciation of this coopera- tion shown by the Supervisors of these subjects.
I might say that the work in instrumental music has received rather unusual appreciation and support during the past year in this school. Results have been demonstrated in public on several occasions to the satisfaction of those assembled.
Credit should be given to Mr. Nassi in training the group and to the teachers who have so ably assisted children to secure the instruments needed. Much credit is due Miss Keith in training the rythm band of the first two grades. This work is enjoyed by the children and will prove of great benefit in the instrumental work of later years.
Programs inserted in later pages of this report indicate the work which has been done.
It is well to emphasize the accomplishment in instrumen- tal music. It has received much attention this year. I hope the work may continue. I would suggest, however, that
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while this phase is particularly suited to make appeal to the public, vocal music and drawing are not less valuable. They contribute quite as much to the life of an educated person. Work in these departments is creditable though somewhat less enthusiastic. I look for future growth and appreciation here.
BUILDING AND REPAIRS
You will note there is a slight increase in the enrollment this year over that of a year ago. This is most apparent in the room of grades III, IV and V. All rooms are now filled to capacity.
I ask you to consider the wisdom of expending any con- siderable sum of money on the present buildings.
A modern program and the needs of the community will soon make a new building necessary. Plans should be made for this in the immediate future.
SUPPLEMENTARY NEEDS
It is desirable that more attention be given to the needs ·of physical education. 'The playground is an important part of the school plant. It should be equipped with suitable ap- paratus and supplies for creating a recreational program of real merit.
More reference material and supplementary reading material should be supplied.
I trust that the coming year may see the installation of electric lights. At present there is much eye strain felt dur- ing cloudy weather by those who are not near a window.
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HEALTH
I would recommend that the School Committee take such action as possible in connection with other towns of this section of the Cape to secure an audiometer to test the hear- ing of children in our schools. Present methods are quite unsatisfactory. Many children suffer from defective hear- ing who are unaware of their handicap. Teachers sometimes fail to recognize it and the child falls short of his best re- sults in school work.
Let us seek to stimulate a greater appreciation of the needs of health education. There often appears a surpris- ing lack of understanding of the motives behind this work as well as of benefits to be derived. Our Department of Pub- lic Health is doing splendid work. Let us cooperate in every way.
Respectfully Submitted,
C. H. PRATT,
Superintendent of Schools.
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Principal's Report
Our past school year has certainly not felt the depres- sion that has been prevalent in other lines of work. Much good work has been accomplished throughout the grades, and many new enterprises have taken root and made com- mendable growth.
Our instrumental music work has progressed well be- yond most of our expectations. This is in a large measure due to the unselfish and untiring efforts of Mr. Nassi. Those who attended our joint concert at Harwich last June could and did, I think, realize what this music is meaning to us. The bugle and drum corps organized by Mr. Nassi and as- sisted by Miss Keith and Mrs. Horton, is nearly ready to make its first public appearance.
The interior decorating done in the middle room during the summer by Miss Keith and Mrs. Horton and the new sheathing finished this fall make a music room which is much more attractive and comfortable than last year.
Miss Armstrong, our school nurse, has been very help- ful in investigating sickness and shows real interest in all health projects. The faithful milk drinkers in the Pri- mary school can well attest to this. We are now, with her assistance, planning a dental clinic for this spring.
Another wonderful opportunity has been opened to us, -that of the School Savings. Ninety-five per cent of our children have adopted this plan of real thrift and are fast
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forming the habit of adding to their accounts each week. The Intermediate school with practically 100 per cent each week was first given the Thrift Honor Banner and still con- tinues to hold it.
Besides our growth in knowledge, our school has grown greatly in numbers. Our present enrollment of 95 is a gain of about 50 per cent during the past five years. Each room is now practically filled to its capacity. Should the town continue to make this growth in the next five years, what is to be our recourse ?
Respectfully submitted,
OTTO E. NICKERSON,
Principal.
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Report of Music Supervisor
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
-Longfellow.
Music is God's greatest gift to mankind. It rules the Universe. Music, most divine of all the Arts, contributes directly to the three-fold training of the child-manual, mental, and moral development-because it, more than any other study, develops hand, head and heart, and body, mind and soul.
Like other educational studies, music is undergoing a constant change since new methods are gradually replacing the old ones. It has been the aim this year to have more concentrated and individual instruction, and to inculcate an appreciation and understanding of good music. Where the ability existed, classes were formed for special instructions -examples of this may be found in the Rhythm Band, and the Drum and Bugle Corps.
All assistance possible has been given Mr. Nassi while he has been conducting the Instrumental classes and the orchestra. With the help of Miss Keith and Mrs. Horton, a Drum and Bugle Corps has been organized. This group has made very rapid progress. Had it not been for the Instru- mental classes, many of the children who possessed musi- cal talent but could not afford the luxury of private lessons would have been compelled to go music-hungry through life.
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Music, properly presented to children, is one of the most fascinating and most enjoyable forms of self-entertainment, for music makes pleasure of leisure. When children can make music themselves, it is doubly valuable to them be- cause it becomes a means of self-expression. We are not concerned so much with what children will do in music as we are with what music may do in children.
"Music is the only Art that actually lives. Her elements, vibration and palpitation, are the elements of Life itself.
"Wherever Life is, Music is also; stealthy, inaudible, unrecognized, yet mighty."-Paderewski.
There's Music in the sighing of a reed ; There's Music in the gushing of a rill ; There's Music in all things, if men had ears : Their earth is but an echo of the sphere. -Byron.
Respectfully submitted,
SELMA I. NETTLE,
Supervisor of Music ..
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Report of Instrumental Music Instructor
The instrumental class this year has been making very good progress. The number of pupils taking instrumental in- struction totals forty-six, classified as follows :
Elementary-bugles and drums 19
Beginners on orchestral instruments 11
Advanced pupils 16
The advanced players form the school orchestra, which played last year for the graduation exercises and in many other community affairs. The orchestra was also featured as a unit, and also as a part in last year's Monomausett or- chestra, when one hundred players gave a notable concert at Harwich.
The sextette, which is formed from members of the string section of the orchestra has also played in many school and community entertainments very successfully.
Plans have already been made for the local concert and for the Monomausett annual concert to be given sometime in May by members of the school orchestras of the district, an event most successfully given last year.
The greatest musical event of the year on Cape Cod will be the Cape Cod Symphony orchestra concerts to be giv- en at Hyannis, Falmouth, Sandwich and Harwich success- ively, in which the cream of the school musicians of the
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Cape will be represented. The orchestra will have eighty- five players, and Eastham is represented by nine members, of which four are from the Eastham school and five attend the Orleans high school.
These results were realized by the sincere cooperation of Mr. Nickerson, the principal and of Mrs. Horton and Miss Keith without which I would not be able to obtain such sat- isfactory results and I take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to them.
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS NASSI.
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Report of the Supervisor of Drawing
PERSEVERANCE
We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And watered the furrows with tears.
It's not just as we take it, This mysterical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
J. W. G.
Drawing is as we all know a required part of the school curriculum through the eighth year, then those who have ability or a liking for the subject continue, hoping some day to become artists or art teachers.
In the scribble stage, the child is learning to manipu- late his pencil or crayon. The child's first attempts are gen- erally very crude and one needs to have an explanation of the symbol to know what the child is trying to tell. In most cases, a circle with a few lines attached represents a person. Animals, birds, and plants are represented in much the same way. From this stage the child passes into the truth telling period, where he tries to draw things as he sees them. In this he can be assisted by being asked questions as to the size, color and proportions of the object.
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In general, we can divide drawing into three classes as design, representation and construction.
The aim of design is to have the child see and feel the difference between order and disorder, and appreciate the value and importance of order, and so far as possible, the sense of beauty.
To develop visual discrimination, memory and imagina- tion, together with an ability to describe visual experience and to express visual knowledge and ideas is the aim of re- presentation.
In construction, the aim is to have the child learn how to follow given dimensions or directions and to use his hands.
Every year the Massachusetts Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals has a poster contest and the awards for best work consist of a blue ribbon for first, and a red ribbon for second prize attached to a bronze medal. The third prize or honorable mention award is one year's subscription to "Our Dumb Animals", which is a magazine published by the Society. Many awards were won by the pupils last spring. I hope that there will be an equal amount of interest and talent shown in the coming contest and that we may have an even greater number of prizes.
I wish to express my appreciation for the co-operation I have received from all teachers.
Respectfully submitted,
LOIS GEBHARD,
Supervisor of Drawing.
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Report of School Nurse
REPORT OF SCHOOL WORK FOR 1930
Number of school visited
1
Number of individual children inspected
579
Number of skin diseases
6
Number weighed and measured 547
Number 10% or more underweight
6
Number 20% or more overweight
3
Number of teachers consultations (each visit)
Number of home visits
28
Number of children reported to clinic
1
Scarlet fever
4
German measles
59
Number of school visits
36
Notice of unvaccinated with no excuse
6
Commonwealth of Massachusetts school clinic
1
Tuberculin skin test
1
Positive test
1
Follow-up cases
2
Notification dental defects
72
Summer camp at Pocasset
3
Assisted health officer when making physical examination 88
Respectfully submitted,
BESSIE I. ARMSTRONG,
School Nurse.
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Barnstable County Health Department
To the Superintendent of Schools :
The condition of school children has in general improv- ed during the year. The question of proper diet is con- stantly receiving more attention and special effort is being made to furnish milk to the young children.
Questions concerning the correction of defects also are receiving more attention, especially as regards teeth. The portable dental outfit has been in constant use during the year and apparently will be for the year to come. It has been particularly useful in those towns where no other fa- cilities are available.
The law regarding vaccination is pretty well complied with at present in this County, and it is especially recom- mended that all children be successfully vaccinated against smallpox before entering school. The law regarding this matter is plain.
A considerable amount of immunization against diph- theria has been, and is being done in the majority of the towns of the County, and it is strongly recommended that all children in the lower grades, that is under ten years, be im- munized. Pre-school immunization is being done in many cases.
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I wish to express my appreciation of the aid which has uniformly been given by the Superintendent, School Com- mittee, teachers and nurses in all matters concerning the health of school children.
Of course in all matters pertaining to school children, the home influence and assistance are the paramount con- siderations, and this is especially true as regards matters pertaining to health. Parents are usually found willing to co-operate in all legitimate efforts.
Respectfully,
A. P. GOFF, M. D.,
County Health Officer.
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ATTENDANCE
Year Ending June, 1930
Aggregate attendance
13,307
Average daily attendance
73
Percentage of attendance
.91
Average membership
80
Total number of days in session
183
Pupils in Orleans High school
23
FAITHFUL ATTENDANCE RECORD
(Not more than 3 days' absence)
Name
School
Grade
Age
Term of Years
Olive Clark
Inter.
5
10
1
Irene Nickerson
Inter.
3
8
1
Wilbur Sparrow
Grammar
7
12
1
Mathel Turner
Grammar
7
12
2
Edward Clark
Grammar
6
13
1
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SCHOOL CENSUS (As of October 1, 1930)
5 yrs. or 7 yrs. or 14 yrs. or over and over and over and under 7 under 14 under 16
Illiterate minors 16 yrs. or over and under 21
Boys
13
37
12
0
Girls
12
30
4
0
-
-
-
Total
25
67
16
0
Distribution of above :
In Public Day School
membership Oct. 1 20
66
16
Not enrolled in any school
5
1
0
Total
25
67
16
ENROLLMENT BY GRADES
October 1, 1930
School
Grade VIII
Boys
Girls
Totals
Grand Total
Grammar
5
5
10
VII
9
3
12
VI
4
3
7
29
Intermediate
V
4
3
IV
2
7
9
III
9
5
14
30
Primary
II
7
6
13
I
8
8
16
29
Totals
48
40
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-
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CORPS OF TEACHERS, JANUARY, 1931
NAME
SCHOOL
PREPARATION
Date of
Appointment
Experience
prior to
Sept. 1930
Salary
Home Address
Otto E. Nickerson
Grammar
Hyannis Normal
1924
11 years
$1,700
Orleans
Virginia N. Horton
Intermediate
Bridgewater Normal
1925
years
1,450
Eastham
Florence W. Keith
Primary
Bridgewater Normal
1906
31 years
1,450
Eastham
Lois Gebhard
Drawing
Mass. School of Art
1928
2 years
150
Quincy
Selma I. Nettle
Music
Lowell Normal
1930
165
Haverhill
121
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SCHOOL MUSIC FESTIVAL
School Music Festival given by the Chatham, Eastham, Harwich and Orleans School Orchestras-100 players. Thomas Nassi, conductor, assisted by Harwich School Chor- us, Eastham Rhythm Band, the Nassi Ensemble and the Monomauset Band, Tuesday, June 3, 1930, 8 p. m., at Ex- change Hall, Harwich, Sponsored by the Monomauset Teachers' Association.
Music's Influence
Music is the tonic of the gods. It has a strange power over all of us. We love to hear it, to feel it, to have it about us. No man, or woman, who cultivates his natural tenden- cies and listens to good music, can hate his neighbor or be- moan the fate this life metes out. Music has the power to drain one's system of all the low, despicable traits of human nature. Its influence cannot be measured. It belongs to an
intangible, yet very potent sphere, more powerful than all the influences we sometimes consider so important.
All of which leads us to ask the really important ques- tions : Do you have good music in your home ? What have you done to secure its influence for your family ?
-The richest child is poor without musical education-
-Hear music, make music, enjoy music-
-If music be the food of love, give me excess of it-
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-O music, thy celestial claim Is still resistless, still the same !
-When on Music's mighty pinions Souls of men to Heaven rise ; Then doth perish Earth's dominion, Man is native to the skies !-
PROGRAM
A
1. America, the Beautiful Samuel Ward
2. March-To Arms Ortlep
Monomauset Orchestra -
B
1. Soldier Song
Schuman
2. Jump, Jim Crow
Folk Tune
Class One-Eastham Rhythm Band
3. Dorothy Smith
4. Andante, Surprise Symphony Hayden
5. Santa Lucia Baccalari
Class Two-Eastham Rhythm Band, acc. by
Mrs. Sidney Osborne
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C
1. A Waltz Medley Ascher
2. New York Life-March Ascher
Harwich School Orchestra
D
1. Lullaby V. H. Rogers
2. Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes Harp Solos-Carmen Nassi
Mozart
E
1. Waltz Pomone Waldteufel
2. Minuet in G Beethoven
Chatham School Orchestra
F
1. Concerto in A Minor J. B. Accolay
2. Perpetuo-The Humming Bird F. Drdla
Violin Solos-Albert Nassi, acc. by Madeline Nassi
G
1. The Heavens Resound Beethoven
2. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Bland
Eastham Orchestra and String Quartet
H Remarks, Florence W. Keith, President Monomausett Club (Intermission)
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I
1. Marche Militaire
Schubert
2. Petite Fugue
Handel
Orleans School Orchestra
J
1. Waltz-IL Bacio Arditi
2. Serenade Titl
The Nassi Trio
K
1. March-Our Heroes F. Sordillo
2. Overture-On the Volga I. Akimenko
Monomauset Band
L
1. Monomauset March Thomas Nassi
(Dedicated to the Monomauset Club)
2. Star Spangled Banner
Monomauset Orchestra
(Harwich High School Chorus trained by Mrs. Sidney Osborne)
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Chatham Orchestra
Violins-
Marjory Kendrick
David Ryder
Esther Eldredge
Harry Small
Mary Eldredge
Harriet Nickerson
Trumpets-
Carl Woodwood
Norman Jones
Albert Long
Weston Nickerson
Vivian Nickerson
Phyllis Sampson
Clarinets- Joseph Nickerson Edith Nickerson
Saxophones- Louis Satcher Frances Crowell Natalie Sherman
Trombone- William Ryder
Bass-
Leslie Brown
Piano- Virginia Conroy
Drums- Earle Saley
Eastham Orchestra
Violins-
Miriam Knowles
Mathel Turner
Ralph Saunders
Dorothy Horton
Frederick Chadbourn
George Nickerson
Carlton Mayo
Viola- George Rongner
Cello- Barbara Atwood
Bass- Charles Campbell
Horns-
Henry Nickerson Wilton Knowles James Knowles
Trumpets- Ezekiel Fulcher
Richard Saunders Arthur Benner
Clarinet- Marie Knowles
Drums- Wesley Moore
Piano-
Aaron Chadbourn
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Harwich Orchestra
Violins -
Doris Bassett
Rose Fortes
Madeline Bassett
Clifton Nickerson
Meyer Greenburgh Carlton White
Saxophones- Richard Long Irving Gardner Lester Hart
Trombones-
Harold Eldridge Emily Nickerson
Cello- Lorraine Crowell
Clarinets-
Violet Saley
Ida Poucher
Jean Eldridge
Robert Paine
Drums- William Chase
Piano- Caroline Crosby
Orleans Orchestra
Violins-
Sallie Hopkins
Viola- Gordon White
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