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A class in home nursing for High School girls was planned, but we were unable to offer this work. Such a course of forty lessons will, however, be offered, beginning in September.
The courses as now arranged are as follows :
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
FIRST YEAR
Figures indicate number of 45-minute periods per week.
Required :
English
5 Sewing
Arithmetic
5
Shopwork
History-Geography
4 Music
Hygiene
1 Physical Education
Writing-Spelling
Drawing
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SECOND YEAR
Required :
Elect One :
English
4
Civics
2
Arithmetic
4
Printing
2
History-Geography
4
Special Shopwork
2
Hygiene
1
Special English
2
Writing-Spelling
2
Special Domestic Arts
2
Drawing
1
Music
1
Cooking
2
Shopwork
2
Physical Training
2
THIRD YEAR
Required :
English
5 Civies (unless elected second 1 year) 2
Music
Physical Education
1
Elective :
College Preparatory
General
Commercial
Latin
5 Algebra
5
Commercial Arith-
Algebra
5 Mechanical Drawing 2
metic 5
Ancient History or
Ancient History or
Penmanship CI
General Science
5 General Science 10
Woodwork and
Printing
5 Ancient History or General Science 5
Elective in all third-year courses:
Home Nursing
1 Woodwork 2
Cooking
?
Printing
2
Freehand Drawing
1
Mechanical Drawing
2
SPECIAL COURSE
Elements of English
4 Penmanship-Spelling 3
Social Science (Geography,
Physical Training
History, Civics)
4
Music
1
Elect ten points :
Sewing
1
Woodwork 6
Cooking
4
Printing
Household Management
1 Mechanical Drawing
Home Nursing
1
Commercial Geog- raphy 3
Practical Mathematics
1
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SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
College Preparatory
SOPHOMORE General
Commercial
English
English
English
Geometry
Geometry
Typewriting
Modern History
Modern History
Modern History
French I
French I
French I
Latin II
Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping
Biology
Biology
JUNIOR
English
English
English
French II
French II
French II
Science
Science
Science
Rev. Mathematics Latin III
Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping
Typewriting
SENIOR
English
English
English United States History and Government
Science
Science
Stenography
French III
French III
Typewriting
Latin IV
Commercial Law
Solid Geometry
Business Methods
Elective in all courses : Freehand Drawing
Music
Mechanical Drawing Domestic Arts
Manual Training
Four full-time subjects required each year.
The progress of the pupils in the High School is noticeably good. A change of teachers always means some loss, caused by readjustments to new conditions both by pupils and teachers. In our case, however, the changes have worked out with a minimum of loss. Teachers and pupils should receive credit for their fine spirit of cooperation and for the very creditable results so far attained.
In every high school pupils will from time to time drop out. This is deplorable from the standpoint of their own best interests.
Rev. Mathematics
Stenography
United States History and Government
United States History and Government
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A desire to become an earning power is in most cases responsible. This class of pupils have, however, lost nothing, but have gained much, even if they have attended high school but a year or two. The aim of a high school is "training and imparting knowledge," not simply the granting of diplomas.
There seems to be some uncertainty as to certifying pupils to college. Certification to college rests entirely on the rank of the pupil. An average of 80 per cent. in a subject is necessary before a pupil can be certified in that subject. Hamilton High School is rated by the state as an "A" school. It has all the privileges of certification to college enjoyed by any Massachusetts High School. While it is our intention to keep up the standing of the school, our principal efforts are and will be to give the boys and girls a train- ing that will develop their individual abilities that they may better serve their community and themselves.
I wish to call attention to the fact that our high school day is of less than five hours in length. No pupil can do creditable work even with good use of study periods unless he prepares some of his lessons at home. Parents should make sure that their chil- dren do at least two hours of studying at home.
ATTENDANCE
There has been a marked improvement in the attendance of pupils. Parents are, in most cases, cooperating in keeping their children in school every school day. There are yet some cases of tardiness and unnecessary absence. They are more often the fault of parents than of the pupils. We are much interested in attend- ance, not for a high record but that every boy and girl may receive the benefits of all that is being offered them in the way of an education.
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The following pupils were perfect in attendance during the school year 1921-22 :
SOUTH SCHOOL
Albert W. Dodge Irene Pope
Evelyn Hatt Stanley Anderson
George Morrow Leroy Doucett
Harry Holmes Leslie Hatt
EAST SCHOOL Isabel Caverly Peter McCurrach
NORTH SCHOOL
Robert Foss : Ivy Gibson Harold McDonald
WEST SCHOOL Kathryn Lamson
CENTER SCHOOL Gordon Haraden Helen Harraden
HEALTH
We were most unfortunate in losing Miss Helen Grady, the school nurse, in June. Having three different nurses during the year has been a decided handicap to the health work. It is hoped we can retain Miss Foster and go forward with a constructive program.
The annual inspection of pupils showed a decrease of nearly 50 per cent. in the number of round shouldered, flat chested pupils. In the opinion of the school physician this improvement is due undoubtedly to the physical training introduced some over a year ago.
The work of the school physician and nurse shows the follow- ing results :
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Number of children examined . 396
Number found having defective tonsils 59
Number found having defective eyes 6
Number found having defective ears 1
Number of notices sent to parents or guardians . 59
Children's visits at the dentist
127
Children sent to the hospital
3
These statistics are incomplete as no records of the nurse's activities from September first to December first are available.
The Hamilton-Wenham Red Cross has again made possible the dental clinic and as in the past the accomplishment has been very creditable.
Many physical defects of a correctable nature are yet evident and parents are urged to confer with the school nurse with the idea of having the defects remedied.
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
Hamilton needs a new High School building. This matter was gone over in detail a few years ago. The need is even greater at this time, for the school is now larger. The Junior and Senior High Schools are working at a great disadvantage. Supervised study is impossible in the majority of classes, for study pupils have to occupy rooms where recitations are in progress. It is im- possible to arrange the work to fit the needs of the pupils, for we must fit the classes as best we can to the rooms available. As- sembly of all High School pupils is impossible, for they cannot be crowded into any one room. Chorus work in music is out of the question for the school as a whole, for the same reason. The domestic science, manual training and the laboratory are all in basement rooms never designed for and ill adapted to the pur- pose. This handicaps the work in these branches.
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SOME STATISTICS
Costs of food, fuel, clothing, in fact the cost of living in gen- eral has been on the increase for some seven or eight years. Costs of schools have, along with other expenditures, also increased. In some towns school costs have doubled or trebled in the last few years. The cost in Hamilton has not increased unduly as com- pared with other towns of the Commonwealth.
The following statistics are from the report of the State De- partment of Education : Expenditures for schools in Massachu- setts, including repairs, but not including new buildings, alterations and permanent repairs, increased during the school year 1920-1921, over the previous year, $9,164,393. For the same expenditures for the school year 1921-1922, the increase over 1920-1921 was $3,545,102. Expenditures for schools in this Commonwealth for the past two years have increased 34 percent or $12,709,495.
During the same period expenditures in Hamilton were, for the school years :
1919-1920
$32,360.25
1920-1921
39,889.66
1921-1922
40,579.78
Increase in two years, $7,949.53, or 24 percent. The average in- creased cost of schools in the state during the last two years has been 10 percent greater than in Hamilton.
Only 38 other towns of the state have as much assessed wealth in proportion to the number of school children as Hamil- ton. Hamilton's tax rate for schools was .00828, yet 226 towns paid a higher rate. The cost of schools per child was $107.92, 47 towns paying more. Shelburne, with a population of about 200 less people, an assessed valuation of only about half that of Hamilton and with 42 less children, paid $180.12 per pupil.
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The following table shows for what the fractional part of each dollar for schools in Hamilton is spent, and a like table for the state as a whole is given :
Where the Dollar for Schools in Massachusetts Went in 1921-1922
In Hamilton 1921-1922
Teachers
$ .710
$ .591
Operation of school plant-Janitors,
fuel, power, lights
.115
.128
Transportation
.021
.080
Supplies and equipment-General, Do-
mestic Science, Manual Training
.030
.040
Repairs and insurance
.048
.096
Supervisors and administration
.046
.028
Textbooks
.020
.018
Miscellaneous
.010
.019
$1.00
$1.00
IN CONCLUSION
I am grateful to the members of the committee for their de- voted interest to the school work and their helpful assistance in making the efforts of the Superintendent and of the teaching force effective. The teachers are serving skilfully, and their work merits the high regard of the committee and of the people.
Respectfully submitted,
A. B. LORD,
Superintendent of Schools.
Hamilton, Mass., January 18, 1923.
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REPORT OF HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
MR. ARTHUR B. LORD, Superintendent of Schools, South Hamilton, Mass.
Dear Sir: I herewith present my second annual report as principal of the Hamilton Junior-Senior High School.
The school has enrolled this year 164 pupils.
REGISTRATION BY CLASSES
Class
Boys
Girls
Total
Loss
Senior III
4
11
15
0
Senior II
6
10
16
0
Senior I
11
16
27
3
Junior III
12
19
31
2
Junior II
15
20
35
1
Junior I
11
29
40
1
Total
59
104
164
7
The loss of seven pupils since the beginning of the fall term has been due to various reasons, which are as follows :
Moving out of town
2
Ill health
2
To go to work
.
1
To go to Industrial school
.
2
·
You will note that very few pupils left school because of failure to do High School work. We feel that this good record is due in no small way to the very close method by which pupils are checked up, preventing for the most part the failure of a pupil for a short time from becoming permanent. Our percentage of fail-
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ures is very low at present ; however, the scholarship of a great many of our pupils would be improved if the pupils would devote more time to home study.
SCHOOL AND HOME STUDY
The High School session is from 8.30 to 12.10 and from 12.55 to 2.30. We have seven forty-minute periods in our school day. Pupils are required to take at least four subjects. This means that pupils with four subjects have three study periods in school, pupils with five subjects have two study periods. Teachers assign lessons which require at least one hour of outside preparation for each lesson assigned. This means that the pupil who has four sub- jects will be obliged to study for two hours at home each day. The cooperation of the parents is very essential in this matter of home study. All parents must realize that during the high school course pupils should have the opportunity for much home study. Every teacher spends four afternoons a week at the school for the purpose of helping their pupils. All omitted lessons must be made up after school hours, as soon as possible after the pupil's return to school.
STANDING OF THE HIGH SCHOOL
The High School is a Class A school as ranked by the State Department of Education. Graduates who obtain the rank of 80 percent are admitted to normal schools and colleges without exam- inations. The continuance of this privilege depends on the record made in the college during the freshman year of our graduates.
ATTENDANCE
Good attendance depends to a certain degree upon good health. Our attendance is very poor, but no doubt we have avoidable ab- sences. If parents would remember that Saturdays are the proper times for trips out of town, many days at school would be saved.
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FACULTY
Our present corps of teachers is cooperating for the best in- terests of the school. Teachers are teaching six and seven periods per day, and then find time for extra-curriculum work.
EXTRA-CURRICULUM WORK
The school has the following organizations : Debating Club, Glee Club, Dramatic Club, Literary Club, Athletic Association, and Commercial Club. Each club has a member of the faculty as an adviser. Pupils are allowed to do extra-curriculum work if their classroom work is satisfactory; if the classroom work is unsatis- factory, pupils are not eligible for outside work.
In October the Hamilton Junior High School and the Wenham Junior High School held a field day at Wenham. Hamilton won the meet by nine points.
The basketball season opened after Christmas. No school games are to be played. A series of class games are to be played. We hope to develop material for a school team next year.
We have three debates scheduled for the winter months, with Topsfield, Essex and Manchester. The pupils are taking a great interest in debating. We expect to use a different team for each debate and thereby give the greatest possible number of pupils an opportunity to gain experience in speaking before the public.
The Girls' Glee Club is doing more work this year. There are forty pupils registered in the club. We hope the club will give several selections on the night of the school play, April 6.
WORK IN THE CLASSROOM
We are doing a little more this year in the classroom to place more responsibility on the pupils themselves. We aim to develop in the pupil greater interest in the subjects that he studies. So-
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cialized recitations, project work, investigations of original sources, and group forums are made a part of the classroom period. Such work, however, is successful only when the proper preparation has been made by both pupils and teachers. We must think more of the boy and girl and less of subject matter, more of mental growth than of the accumulation of statistical information.
The efficiency of the High School could be greatly increased by bringing supervised study into the classroom work. Some of the important reasons are :
The undirected pupil often acquires wasteful methods of studying.
Parents and fellow pupils often give the pupil unwise aid at home. It often happens that the helper does the work in whole or in part for the pupil. Pupils who rely on others to do their work for them are cultivating wrong habits.
Individual differences in abilities demand individual methods of help. In supervised study the teacher has the opportunity of helping the individual.
I think that the standard of work in the various classes is superior to last year. The pupils are realizing more and more that the schoolroom is a place of business, where hard work is necessary for success.
In closing, I wish to express my thanks to the teachers for their fine spirit of cooperation. I also appreciate the advice of the Superintendent and the support of the School Committee.
Respectfully submitted,
ELWOOD S. FRASER.
Principal.
Hamilton, Mass., January 30, 1923.
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APPENDIX CALENDAR YEAR 1923-1924 1923
Feb. 22 .
Holiday
Feb. 23 .
Schools close
Mar. 5 .
Apr. 19 .
Schools open . Holiday
Apr. 27
Schools close
May 7 .
.
Schools open
May 30 .
. Holiday
June 29 .
Schools close
SUMMER VACATION
Sept. 4 .
Teachers' meeting
Sept. 5 Schools open .
Oct. 12 .
. Holiday Nov. 28 .
Schools close at noon
Dec. 3 .
Schools open
Dec. 21 .
. Schools close
Dec. 31 .
. Schools open
1924
Schools close Feb. 21 .
AGE OF ADMISSION
No child will be admitted to the first grade at the opening of school in September who will not be five years of age by the first day of October.
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Pupils are admitted to this grade only during the first two weeks of school in September, unless they have attended school in some other town.
VACCINATION
Children who have not been vaccinated will not be admitted to school in September unless they present a certificate from a regular practicing physician stating that they are not fit subjects for vaccination. Parents are requested to attend to this matter during the summer vacation, as certificates of exemption must be presented at the opening of school to entitle children to admission.
RESULT OF SIGHT AND HEARING TESTS
Number of pupils examined
396
Number found defective in eyesight
6
Number found defective in hearing
1
Number of parents or guardians notified
1
SCHOOL CENSUS
AS OF APRIL, 1922
Boys
Girls
Number between five and seven years of age
34
45
Number between seven and fourteen years of age
116
121
Number between fourteen and sixteen years of age 30
35
Totals
180
201
Total census
381
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REPORT ON SCHOOL SAVINGS
Balance in Salem Savings Bank on January 1, 1922 $ 90.86
Deposited during year ending January, 1923 126.94
Total $217.80
Withdrawn during year for deposit to individual ac- counts and other reasons 16.33
Balance in bank to credit of school, January 1. 1923 $204.47
Total number of depositors as of January, 1923 168
DIRECTORY OF TEACHERS, JANUARY, 1923
Name
School
Subjects or Grade
Salary
Appoint- ment
Education
Elwood S. Fraser
High Principal High Assistant
Math. and Sci.
$2,500
1921
University of Maine
Florence B. Davey
66
Latin and Hist.
1,300
1922
Grace E. McGinley
Commercial
1,250
1921
Salem Normal
Elizabeth C. Horan
Commercial
1,250
1921
Salem Normal
Leon J. Weymouth
Manual Training
1,300
1922
Gorham Normal
Clara M. Waldie
Junior High High
Household Arts
780
1921
Columbia University
Edna F. Hurlburt (Mrs.)
Junior High
Hist., Civ., Eng.
1,500
1915
Hyannis Summer
Hazel E. Ramer (Mrs.)
Geog., Arith., Sci.
1,500
1921
Salem Normal
Clara P. Mann
South School
Grade VI
1,200
1922
Yale Summer
Margaret K. Batchelder
Grade V
1,000
1920
Salem Normal
Marion C. Joseph
Grade IV
1,000
1921
Salem Normal
Edith L. Fletcher
66
Grade III
1,200
1906
Salem Normal
Marion A. Smith
Grade II
1,100
1922
Hyannis Summer
Nellie G. Cutting
Grade I
1,300
1915
Salem Normal
Edith M. Anderson
Center School East School
Grades I-V
1,100
1915
Salem Normal
Beatrice W. Holmes (Mrs.)
Grades V-VI
1,100
1921
Salem Normal
Sarah Stevens
Grades I-IV
1,100
1922
Salem Normal
Blanche E. Leighton (Mrs.)
North School
Grades I-IV
1,100
1922
Salem Normal
Mary M. Tierney
West School
Grades I-V
1,100
1921
Salem Normal
Alice M. Genthner
All Schools
Music
540
1920
N. E. Conservatory
Elizabeth H. Foster
Nurse
200
1922
Beverly Hospital
Eng. and French
1,100
1922
Trinity College
Colby College
Catherine D. Larrabee
Draw. and Eng.
1,040
1918
Boston Normal Arts
Janet L. Spencer
TWELFTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT
THE SENIOR CLASS OF THE
HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL
REQUESTS YOUR PRESENCE AT THE
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE TWENTY-SECOND
AT EIGHT O'CLOCK at the TOWN HALL .
CLASS MOTTO : Quid agas, agere bene
CLASS COLORS : Green and Gold CLASS FLOWER : Yellow Tea Rose
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CLASS ROLL
Bertha Huntington Ayers
*Mary Ethel Burns John Vincent Deneen Mary Louise Duran Agnes Pearle Foss
Helen Knowlton Gorman
*Nora Louise Gorman *Minnie Laurence Gould John Michael Kerrigan Nathalie Elizabeth Lovering
*Primrose Mason
Philip Robert Smith *Clara Jane Trainor
Francis Henry Whipple Raymond Arthur Whipple
CLASS OFFICERS
John M. Kerrigan
President
Raymond A. Whipple
Vice President
Primrose Mason
Secretary
John V. Deneen
Treasurer
Miss Isabella F. Morrison
Faculty Advisor
Harry F. Holmes, 1923
Marshal
* Honor Student
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PROGRAM
CANTATA, "Columbus"
HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS
INVOCATION, REV. CHARLES T. SKINNER
SALUTATORY, Essay, "Meaning of Americanization," MARY BURNS
"CARMENA" Wilson SPECIAL GLEE CLUB CHORUS
CLASS HISTORY,
CLARA TRAINOR
"DREAMY TOWN"
Chambers
SPECIAL CHORUS
CLASS PROPHECY,
MINNIE GOULD
PRESENTATION OF GIFTS, NORA GORMAN
VALEDICTORY, Essay, "Amateur Radio," PRIMROSE MASON
PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS,
ROBERT ROBERTSON, JR.
Awarding Washington and Jefferson Medal
(a) "MOONLIGHT SERENADE" F. Von Blon
(b) "A NIGHT IN JUNE" Arthur B. Targett
BENEDICTION
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT RESOURCES
Appropriation of town
Dog tax
$41.000.00 324.57
Total
$41,324.57
EXPENDITURES
GENERAL EXPENSE
Superintendence and Enforcement of Law: Superintendent of Schools :
Salary $1,125.00
Traveling expense 132.53
Clerk and office expense 275.52
Census 30.00
Attendance officer
100.00
Total $1,663.05
EXPENSE OF INSTRUCTION
Teachers' Salaries :
Principal
$ 2,500.00
High School Assistants
9,220.00
Elementary 13,299.75
Supervisor of Music
485.00
Total 25.504.75
Textbooks :
High School
$501.14
Elementary
753.44
Total 1,254.58
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Supplies : High School
$1,204.98
Elementary
1,427.55
Total
2,632.53
EXPENSE OF OPERATION
Janitors' Salaries : High School
$ 750.00
Elementary
1,750.00
Total
2,500.00
Fuel :
High School
$ 639.40
Elementary
1,582.59
Total 2,221.99
Miscellaneous :
Telephone
$ 70.18
Janitors' supplies
248.37
Power and lights
109.62
Total 428.17
MAINTENANCE
Repairs :
High School
$ 685.78
Elementary
1,001.61
Total 1,687.39
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AUXILIARY AGENCIES
Health
$ 176.70
Transportation
3,155.50
New equipment
125.54
Miscellaneous
172.70
Total
3,630.44
Total expenditures
$41,522.90
Reimbursement from state on teachers' salaries received
from income tax 3.706.00
Total cost of schools from general appropriations
$37,816.90
WEST SCHOOL
RESOURCES
Appropriation
$1,500.00
EXPENDITURES
Expense of Instruction
Salaries :
Teacher $1,100.00
Supervisor of music
55.00
Total $1,155.00
Textbooks and supplies
72.64
Total
$1,227.64
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Expense of Operation
· Janitor Fuel
$100.00 73.51
Total
173.51
Maintenance
Repairs
$16.40
Janitor's supplies
7.45
Total 23.85
Auxiliary Agencies
Health
75.00
Total expenditures
1,500.00
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS LAWRENCE TRAINING SCHOOL BEVERLY INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Payments for tuition 395.25
Insurance-payments on policies
241.10
Entire cost of schools $43,659.25
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