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May 11, 1931
Meeting called to order by Town Clerk and Cecil F. Moore and Earl K. Horton appointed tellers and sworn by Town Clerk.
Article 1. Elected Ralph A. Chase, Moderator.
Article 2. Motion to build a plank walk from the park- ing space at the Nauset Coast Guard station to the top of the bank was lost by vote-18 in favor to 27 opposed.
Article 3. Voted to release all dishes and silverware now held by the Town of Eastham to the Eastham Grange for the sum of $1.00.
Article 4. Mr. Edward D. Penniman reported for the committee chosen at the Annual Town Meeting to investi-
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gate Motor Driven Fire Apparatus suitable for use in this town, specifications were read concerning two pieces of ap- paratus (both on Ford chassis) which, in the opinion of the said Committee were most adapted to local conditions. After a lengthy discussion, motion to buy the equipment was lost by vote. The motion as voted upon was: "That the Town purchase a Ford Pumping Engine as shown in specifications obtained by the committee and appropriate the sum of $3200.00 for the same.
Article 5. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 to cover the deficit in the Snow Removal Account.
Article 6. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $180.00 to pay for the snow-plough.
Article 7. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 for office supplies for the year 1931.
Article 8. Voted to elect a Moderator for the year in accordance with Chap. 39, Section 14 of the Gen. Laws.
Article 9. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $150.00 for Military Aid for the year 1931.
Voted that the Committee on Fire Fighting Apparatus be given a vote of thanks for their services.
Voted to pay the Moderator $5.00 for his services at this meeting.
LESLIE E. CHASE,
Town Clerk.
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Librarian's Report
January 1, 1931, Cash on hand
$21 73
Received from fines
48 85
Received from magazine
1 00
Total
$71 58
Paid treasurer from fines
68 61
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1932
$2 97
Total number books Jan. 1, 1931
6,669
Number discarded during year
85
6,584
Adult by purchase
119
Adult by gift
1
Juvenile by purchase
66
Total number books Jan. 1, 1932
6,770
Circulation :
Adult fiction
6,163
Adult non-fiction
210
Juvenile fiction
1,820
Juvenile non-fiction
406
Adult magazines
698
Juvenile magazines
88
Total for the year 9,385
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ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY, 1931
Adult
Call Her Fannie
Stars for Sale Honeymoon Trail "Big Fellah" Silvia Golden Key
L. Hauck
Last Shot
Four Blocks Apart
Silver Wings
Sunset Pass
H. Berger Thayer Roche (Lutz) Hill Grey Ruck (Onions) Wentworth Vanderbilt
Offer of Marriage
Beggar's Choice
Palm Beach
Cimarron
By Way of Cape Horn
Hopalong Cassidy, and the Eagles Brood
Doctor of Lonesome River
Ringer
Up the Ladder of Gold
Porcelain and Clay
Love of Julia Borel
East Is Always East
Door Silver Key
Boy Today Ariel Dances
One Summer
Challenge of the Bush
Whispering Range Uncle Sam's Attic
Girl Must Marry
M. Edington R. Wright G. Pahlow R. Ayres
E. Ferber Villiers Mulford Marshall Wallace Oppenheim Martin K. Norris Wynne (Scott) Rinehart Robertson Abbott Eliot Ayers C. Cooper Наусосх M. Davis Greig
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Lucky Lawrences Beauty Mask Murder Big Money Sam Silver Flute
Long Loop
Man from Texas
Royal Road to Romance
Old Cape Cod
Cape Cod Mystery
New Dreams for Old
Sophie
Storm Drift
Windmill on the Dune
All Along Shore
Its What You Are
Log of "Bob" Bartlett
Ghosts of High Moon
Chance of a Life Time
Fair Tomorrow
Bayberry Lane
One Man Girl
Belle-Mere Kindled Flame
Ten Commandments
Little America
Lady Blanche Farm
Mornings at Seven
Just Folks Rosaleen Killers Dancing Dollars
Sea Devil's Fo'c'sle
Lacquer Lady
K. Norris Shore Wodehouse F. Lincoln Larrimore Bower E. Mann, Halliburton
Bangs Taylor M. Wilson F. Sterret E. Dell M. Waller Lincoln
M. Luther R. Bartlett C. Wells (Lutz) Hill Loring S. Bassett Greig K. Norris Pedler Deeping Byrd F. Keyes M. Jay E. Guest L. Hauck Baxter Wright Thomas Jesse
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Villa Jane Little Flat in the Temple Rainbow in the Spray Man in the Brown Suit Ladybird Secret Year
Singer in the Wilderness
Mary Faith
Raiders of the Deep
Alaska, the Great Bear's Cub
All the King's Horses
Anne Marries Again
Easy to Kill
Altar of Honor
Over the Hills
Gangster's Glory
Beyond the Rio Grand
Mystery Ranch
Dance Partner
Hilltop House
Windymere
Colver
Easy Street
Bound to Happen
Silver Key
Rhapsody in Gold
Rogue Herries
Gone North
Beggarman Gay Bandit of the Border
Fate is a Fool
French Leave
Old Bayberry Road
Seven Dials Mystery
Treasurer House of Martin Hews
Laing Wynne Wynne Christie (Lutz) Hill Warwick W. Morey M. Burton Thomas Davis Widdemer Hauck Footner
Dell Farnol Oppenheim Raine Brand Ruck Colver
Payne Thane Wallace Roche Walpole Seltzer Abbott Gill Comstock J. Gibbs L. Montgomery Christie Oppenheim
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War Paint and Rouge Gloucestermen
Danger Calling
Man Made Town Heroine of the Prairies
Roads to Roam
Havana Bound
Big Four
Other Passport
Golden Stream
Gringo Privateers
Bracelet Tiger ! Tiger !
Her Father's House
Murder of Hazelmore
Skyscraper
Silhouette of Mary Ann
Barb Wire
Winding Lane
America's Way Out
Spanish Lovers
Blanket of the Dark Dark Horse
Juvenile
Batter Up
Strike Three
Rival Pitchers
Girl from the Country
Curley of the Circle Bar
Sally in her Fur Coat Boarded Up House Queenie F-U-N Book
Chambers Connolly Wentworth Ayers Hargreaves Birney Roberts Christie H. Magrath F. Sterrett Kyne Hichens (Willsie) Morrow Vaughan Christie
F. Baldwin Buckrose W. Coburn Gibbs N. Thomas Spearman Buchan Grant
Heylinger Heylinger Chadwick Barton Ames White Seaman Orton LaRue
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Sunny Boy with the Circus Lad of Sunny Brook Kristy's Surprise Party Little Lucia
Primer First Reader
Happy Tales for Story Time
Jones Second Reader
Roggie and Reggie Stories
Strawberry Girls
Duffus MacDonald
Windywhistle
Kidnapped by Air
Mary Jane in England
Crimson Flash
Blue Envelope
Bungalow Mystery
Keene Keene
Secret of the Old Clock
Merry Christmas Stories
Montgomery Wickes
Shanghai Passage
Pease
Sunny Boy and His Dog
White
Sunny Boy in the Snow
White
Tom Swift and His Talking Pictures
Appleton
Tom Swift and His House on Wheels
Appleton
Pop-over Family
Phillips
Sandman's Goodnight Stories
Walker
Brownie Primer
Banta Rice
Box in the Sand
Week with Andy
Pitman & Dearborn
Field Primer
Field Field
Field First Reader
Willson
Carol of Highland Camp
Silvers
Our Story Book
C. & M.
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White Terhune Miller Robinson Van Sickle Van Sickle Skinner Jones Smith
Tuffy Good Luck
Wallace Judson Snell Snell
Mystery of the Sun Dial
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Pickaninny Twins Journey to Health Land Gold Bug and Other Tales Roundabout Turn
Perkins Andress Poe R. Charles
Prancing Pat
Barnaby Lee
Orton Bennett Lawton
Poodle-oodle of Doodle Farm
Dutch Mother Goose
King
Swept from the Storm
Garis
Gypsy Camp
Garis
Baker's Dozen
Attic Child
Sea Dog
Patriot of Old Cape Cod
Davis Morrison Bartlett Carter Chadwick
Baseball Joe at Yale
Beyond the Dog's Nose
What Katy Did at School
Sherman Coolidge Meigs
Crooked Apple Tree
Janny
Abbott
Doris Decides
Blake
Pickaninny Twins
Perkins
Besides these new books added, there were twenty-two juvenile books replaced and twelve adult books replaced.
BLANCHE A. KEEFE,
Librarian.
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Report of Road Surveyor
ROADS
Chapter 81
Dr.
Cr.
To appropriation
$3,075 00
By payment
$7,175 00
By State
4,100 00
$7,175 00
$7,175 00
Labor and Material
Surveyor's Wages
$564 25
Trucks and Horse
1,257 00
Laborers
2,234 90
Tractor and Driver
355 00
Material and Supplies
2,763 85
$7,175 00
Road Equipment on Hand Jan. 1, 1932
1 road scraper
1 road drag
1 tar kettle
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1 dozen shovels
One-half dozen push brooms
1 axe
2 scythes
2 pitch forks
1 tamper
1 mixer
1 snow plow
2 bbls. A. binder
NATHAN A. NICKERSON,
Road Surveyor.
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Barnstable County Health Department
The following is a brief review of the work of the Barnstable County Health Department for 1931 :
The communicable disease which attracted most atten- tion during the year was acute anterio-poliomyelitis (infan- tile paralysis). There were in this County in the neighbor- hood of twenty-seven cases with four deaths. The majority of the cases were of a comparatively mild type, and in a large number no paralysis developed-these being as a rule the ones receiving early serum treatment. The work of the Harvard Medical School committee for infantile paralysis attracted a great deal of favorable comment in this County, and the citizens appreciated very much the prompt and effi- cient manner in which they treated all cases when they serv- ices were requested. The State Department of Public Health also, through its night service and otherwise, did everything in its power to help in this matter. The cases occurring in the County were distributed approximately as follows: Fal- mouth 5, Bourne 5, Barnstable 5, Sandwich 1, Yarmouth 1, Dennis 3, Chatham 1, Wellfleet 2, Provincetown 4. The physicians of the County deserve great credit for the manner in which they recognized and reported these cases. A certain number of cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever, usually in a mnild form, have been reported and quite a large amount of immunization against diphtheria has been accomplished. It might be mentioned that three cases of typhoid fever devel- oped in a construction camp in Dennisport. The cook upon examination was found to be a typhoid carrier, with a his- tory of having had the disease many years before. Several
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heads of dogs were found to be suspicious of rabies and per- sons who were bitten have in each case been given the pro- phylatic treatment against rabies. The Chadwick tubercul- osis clinics have been carried on successfully throughout Barnstable County.
The County Health Department has purchased an audio- meter for use in the schools of the County. The ordinary methods in use for testing the hearing of school children are not in every case entirely satisfactory and this instrument which has been purchased will, it is believed, prove to be of considerable value. The portable dental outfit has been in constant use as usual.
Representatives of the State Health Department and various others interested in health matters have visited the County during the year. The County Health Officer has spoken to various health organizations and other bodies, including the Southeastern Association of Boards of Health, Cape Cod Health Bureau Association, Woman's Clubs, Ro- tary, Kiwanis, Parent-Teachers Association, etc. Articles have been published weekly in local periodicals, and the willingness of these journals to publish these communica- tions is very greatly appreciated.
Uniform regulations for Boards of Health have been discussed and adopted at the meetings of the Cape Cod Health Bureau Associations. All towns are in favor of these regulations. Uniform regulations for control of communi- cable diseases have been in effect for some years.
The twelve Woman's Clubs of Barnstable County made a very commendable study of "Health Conditions and Needs in Barnstable County" during the year. This was sponsor-
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ed by the the Committee on Public Health of the State Fed- eration of Women's Clubs. This study created very favor- able comment in many quarters throughout the State and elsewhere, and the clubs deserve great credit for their work. Each club took a certain subject and considered it in as much detail and as thoroughly as possible, and these studies were then combined.
Increasing effort is being made to correct defects in school children and conditions in the schools continue to im- prove from year to year. The nurses throughout the County deserve particular mention for their work in the schools and elsewhere.
All regular medical and sanitary inspections and routine work have been carried on as usual, and all employees have performed their duties in a satisfactory manner.
The cooperation of all federal, state, county and town officials and the citizens of Barnstable County in general, in connection with the work of the County Health Department is hereby gratefully acknowledged, and it is hoped that the work for the coming year may be carried on with increasing efficiency.
Respectfully,
A. P. GOFF, M. D.
County Health Officer.
December 31, 1931.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Town of Eastham
FOR THE YEAR
1931
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Printed on Cape Cod By F. B. &9 F. P. Goss, Hyannis
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Mrs. Fred F. Dill Mrs. James P. Knowles Stanley M. Walker
Term expires 1932 Term expires 1933 Term expires 1934
UNION SUPERINTENDENT Charles H. Pratt, Harwich
JANITOR George Hardwick
ATTENDANCE OFFICER
Walter Nickerson
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN Dr. A. P. Goff
SCHOOL NURSE
Bessie I. Armstrong
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
General Control
1931
1932 needed
School committee-
salary
$200 00
-other expenses
12 50
Supt. of schools-salary
390 00
Att. officer
20 00
Clerk
68 01
Census
10 00
Other : Supt. travel
100 08
Office equipment
12 92
Office supplies
7 12
820 63
$820 00
Instruction
Supervisors
702 35
Principal and teachers
4,625 00
Textbooks
192 31
Supplies
396 37
5,916 03 $5,883 00
Expenses of Operation
Fuel
197 33
Miscellaneous
107 09
304 42
$300 00
Maintenance
Repairs
294 57
294 57 $400 00
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Auxiliary Agencies
Health
236 84
Transportation
3,125 00
Tuition
3,771 38
Miscellaneous
76 30
7,209 52 $9,236 00
Outlay
New equipment
86 26
86 26
$150 00
Totals
$14,665 36 $14,631 43 $16,789 00
School appropriation plus dog tax
13,965 40
Expended
$14,631 43
Overdrawn
$666 03
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NET EXPENDITURE FROM LOCAL TAXATION
Expended in 1931
$14,631 43
Received :
City of Boston Tuition & Trans- portation
(due in 1930 but received in 1931) $693 58
City of Boston Tuition & Transportation
Commonwealth of Mass. High School Trans. 1,522 50
Commonwealth of Mass.
Part I School Funds 650 00
Commonwealth of Mass.
Superintendent of Schools 220 31
County dog tax 113 40
3,199 79
Net expenditure from local taxation
$11,431 64
City of Boston Tuition & Transportation due in 1931
but not received $1,107 48
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Report of Superintendent of Schools
To the School Committee of the Town of Eastham :
Herewith I submit my second annual report as your Superintendent of Schools.
During the past year we have been fortunate in the con- tinuance of the same teachers. We are consequently fortu- nate in that the quality of school work has remained of the same high order. I feel that the instruction received by the children at the Eastham school is decidedly satisfactory so far as the teachers are able to make it so.
There are, notwithstanding the best efforts of all con- cerned, some pressing problems, confronting us, also some very great opportunities for improvement.
In the statistical table of membership by grades as of October 1, 1931, you will observe that our school has reach- ed the limit of its present capacity. On October first there were twenty-nine enrolled in the first two grades. Forty-two were in the third, fourth and fifth grades, and thirty in grades six, seven and eight.
You will see that the capacity of the room for the mid- dle grades is taxed to the limit. Probabilities of promotion indicate that there will be approximately fifty in those grades another year. It is important that the primary room be allowed to continue with two grades only. In these grades the children build the foundation for all future
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school work. The business of learning to read is perhaps the most important, not to say the most taxing work of the school course. On the ability gained in these grades de- pends the success of all future effort to gain knowledge from books. It is highly important, therefore, that nothing be allowed to stand in the way of thoroughness in these grades. In these early years also are formed the likes or dislikes for the whole school program. Thus the importance that these be happy and successful years.
Each of the other rooms at present seats three grades. The room of the middle grades can not, in all probability, continue to hold those three classes another year. Moreover three grades of this size will make a group too large for effi- ciency even though a single room were large enough to hold them all.
It is well known that the unsanitary outbuildings are a source of much annoyance at the school. It seems that a satisfactory disposal of the problem is not feasible except with running water. This in turn is impossible without pro- vision for heat. The lack of sufficient light in the music room coupled with its proximity to the above outbuildings prohibits its use for a classroom.
It is not the purpose of this report to recount the unsat- isfactory features of our quarters in detail. You who are fa- miliar with it will be able to supply omissions. Let us rather turn our attention to the educational possibilities of a new four-room building equipped for our school needs.
In addition to the regular academic work, we now have a course in drawing, instrumental music and vocal music. We have teaching resources in these special departments which are thus far not capitalized.
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Our supervisors of music and drawing spend one half day per week in this school. The drawing department could be readily expanded to include not only drawing but mod- eling, designing, craft work and some household arts work for the girls. The vocal and instrumental music could be carried on in even more detail if the extra teacher were pro- vided.
An assembly-indoor play room would allow the much needed physical education work to be carried on during the winter in an acceptable manner.
The craft work and household arts work of the girls could be balanced by manual training for the boys.
In connection with the household arts class there would be the possibility of the lunch room service where all could be provided with a warm dish for noon lunch or have a place in which to eat the lunch which is brought from home.
A building of this kind can not be built without some logical planning. The program outlined can not be provid- ed without such a building. The details require time. Is it not already time that constructive planning for this purpose be begun ?
Children pass on with the years. They can not wait. Opportunity lost is gone forever. Less important things might await another day. This problem is ours for today. Let me urge that we meet it now.
Respectfully submitted,
C. H. PRATT,
Superintendent of Schools.
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Report of Principal
To the Superintendent of Schools :
Our school has made very satisfactory progress along all lines during the past year. Some of these deserve spe- cial commendation.
Our music work has advanced almost unbelievably. Most of the credit for this is due to our clever instructor, Mr. Nassi. Other agencies which have helped to give a strong foundation to this are: Miss Keith's untiring ef- forts with the rhythm bands, Mrs. Horton's and Miss Keith's valuable time and help with the bugle and drum corps, Miss Patch's regular good work as well as her extra help with the orchestra after school, Mrs. Nassi's private in- struction for many of the beginners, and Miss Sullivan's piano class work at her home each week.
The thrift of the coming generation seems to be a well established habit. Each week Mr. Lake comes to collect our savings and it is a pleasant surprise to see how fast the school deposit book is filled. The much coveted thrift ban- ner given to the room having the highest per cent of deposit- ors for the week was very often captured and held by Mrs. Horton's room last year. This term the Grammar grades, stimulated by the Boy and Girl Scouts to some extent, have held the banner for several weeks. And lately, the Primary people have taken more interest and won the prize banner for one week.
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Much thought is being given to citizenship and devices are being tried for more help in that field of education. Dur- ing the late spring term the outline written by Mr. Dunn and used in and around Boston, was followed with a fair de- gree of satisfaction. Our new report cards help us to check up certain factors along this line.
Miss Armstrong's watchful care of our health habits has given us its reward in general good physical fitness. Very little sickness has prevailed and our attendance has been very good. The Primary room had the highest per cent of attendance of any school in our district for the month of November.
The Weekly Readers, a child's weekly newspaper, is proving of excellent value in teaching the every day hap- penings throughout the world. The upper grades have had the paper, Current Events, for a number of years. This is a more advanced paper but following the same ideas as the Weekly Readers, and should be enjoyed by parents as well as pupils for it makes much of the big, clean things of life in our world today.
The electric lights installed late last year have lessened many an eye-strain during a number of our dark fall days. Now that we have the electric current, we are hoping that some day we may have a school radio which will bring to us, as it has to many other schools, some of the popular, nation- wide, educational programs.
The most serious problem facing our school is the mat- ter of overcrowding, particularly in the Intermediate room. At present there are over forty in the room, and according to the number entering it next year, there will be a total of about fifty. The other rooms are as full as they can be to
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allow for proper health conditions. Just what is to be the remedy for this is worth considerable thought on the part of all of us.
Those who were fortunate enough to get into the Town Hall for the graduation of 1931, realized, I think, what a fine group of young citizens left our school system. Though their places have been capably filled we feel that some years will elapse before we shall send on a more promising class. Let us, as older citizens, show more interest in their future school life so that they may always stand as high in our es- teem as they did last June !
Many schools have boasted of special visiting days or weeks of late. We boast of no "specials" but will welcome you to visit us at any hour of any school day.
Respectfully submitted,
OTTO E. NICKERSON,
Principal.
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Report of Supervisor of Art
To the Superintendent of Schools:
I submit herewith a brief report of the work accom- plished in the Art Department in the school of the Town of Eastham for the year 1931.
The grades in the Elementary school are visited by the supervisor once a week; plans for the following lessons are left with the grade teachers and with their hearty coopera- tion, commendable work has been accomplished. Much of the work done has been correlated with their reading, lan- guage, history, geography and other studies. The principles of Art are brought out, also, through the teaching of color, design, cut paper work, pen and ink, charcoal and painting, and the making of simple gifts for the holiday seasons. We also offer a course in Mechanical drawing for the seventh and eighth grades.
In November 1931, we held an Art exhibit in which it was our aim to have every pupil who has drawing in the Eastham school participate.
I find that the teachers are very willing to cooperate and their attitude toward a new teacher is most cordial, I therefore, am enjoying my work with them.
Respectfully submitted,
MYRTLE E. KENNEDY,
Supervisor of Art.
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Report of Supervisor of Instrumental Music
To the Superintendent of Schools:
Another successful year has been concluded in the in- strumental department of the Eastham school and the re- sults are more apparent as time goes on. The instrumental classes as they stand at present are as folows :
School orchestra
16 members
Beginners' class
13 members
Bugles and drums
24 members
Advanced students attending Orleans High school
14 members
The school orchestra had to be reorganized this year owing to the fact that only five of the old members were left as the majority of them graduated. However, the or- chestra is making good progress and has already made its appearance before the public.
A new String sextet was organized this year and is do- ing good work.
The Drum and Bugle Corps this year is taken care of by Miss Keith after school hours and with the help I am giving her she is making fine progress.
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Mrs. Nassi is taking care of the beginners' class this year with gratifying results. She is giving each beginner individual attention which insures greater progress. Mrs. Nassi has been assisting me in the instrumental work for four years and she is well qualified for the work.
Mr. Nickerson, Mrs. Horton and Miss Keith as usual have given me all the needed assistance which, coupled with the interest of Superintendent Pratt, makes my work a pleasure.
Coming events of school music organizations in which a large percentage are Eastham children, include concerts by the Cape Cod School Music association to be given at Harwich, Hyannis, Falmouth and Onset. Concerts by the John R. McKay school band composed entirely of pupils from our district who did such splendid work last Memorial day as well as giving concerts during the summer. This band is now being reorganized on a broader basis. Another organization worthy of note is the newly organized Cape Cod Philharmonic Society composed of the most talented school musicians of our district and a number of experien- ced musicians who come from Provincetown to Falmouth, many of them professionals. The purpose of this society is to give an opportunity to music loving people to get to- gether and play the best there is in music and broaden their music education. So far there are 70 members in this or- chestra.
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