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The first of January a system of daily health inspection was introduced into the schools through the sixth grade. Daily morn- ing inspection is carried on concerning cleanliness habits in re- gard to teeth, hands, face, nails, open windows and hours of sleep, etc. In this way children are trained to give thought to these habits themselves. We need the co-operation of parents in keep- ing the percentage of defects down to a minimum.
Many defects of a correctible nature are vet evident and par- ents are urged to consult their family physician, or the school nurse, with the idea of having the defects remedied.
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The following statistics are available :
Elementary School (Grades 1-8) Approximate No. examined Defects
*Defects
Notices
corrected
Teeth
304
263
263
50
Tonsils
304
$26
26
13
Eyes
304
21
23
9
Ears
304
?
2
1
Posture defects
304
94
94
Glands
304
8
8
High School (Grades 9-12)
Heart
99
2
**
'Teeth
101
18
Pediculosis
104
4
1
1
* Record obtainable on children taken to hospital or dentist by school nurse. Many other children have been cared for privately by their parents.
** Condition already known to parents.
¿ Condition warranting reporting to parents.
In closing, I wish to thank the Superintendent, School Com- mittee, teachers, and all who have co-operated in maintaining the school health program.
Respectfuly submitted.
HELEN E. PURDY, School Nurse.
REPORT OF SUPERVISOR OF PHYSICAL TRAINING
To the Superintendent of Schools:
Dear Sir: The Department of Physical Training was intro- duced this year into your schools with bi-monthly visits from your supervisor.
This year's work may be considered as foundational.
We featured during the fall term playground work and calis- thenics, with special attention to corrective exercises for postural defects.
On the playground, our objective was not merely the playing of games. The mental and ethical training acquired during a properly conducted period of organized games is as valuable as the muscular training. Alertness, concentration, inhibition, quick re- action to stimulus, snap judgment and instant obedience to com- mand are essential to a successful period of organized play. These are mental qualities that are invaluable later in life.
We organize our group into squads with pupil leaders. Play- ing the games to win for the squad, or team. develops a group consciousness, a subordination of the individual interests to the good of the group. This group consciousness develops at the age when the old "gang spirit" once manifested itself, usually with a bully for a leader. The instinct of the gang required a leader. So the instinct of the group requires a leader from among its members. We recognize the hereditary instinct, and direct its activity. This group consciousness becomes in later life civic con- sciousness. Obedience to the rules of the games develops the mental habit which will later manifest itself in obedience to the laws of the land.
We have featured throughout the course corrective exercises for drooping head and round shoulders, the two prevailing types of faulty posture. We keep continually in their minds the desir-
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ability of good posture, from the aesthetic viewpoint, and from the viewpoint of physical efficiency.
. We have given gymnastic exercises as much as time allotted and floor space available would permit. Our aim is not to dash through a series of exercises. It is to perform each given exercise in proper form, that we get exactly the muscular reaction for which the exercise is planned, and that no faulty posture is as- sumed during the exercise. We vary the rhythm in which we give the exercises, as we strive for mental alertness during a gymnas- tic period. The power of concentration, inhibition. and instant response to stimuli will be developed in a good series of gymnastic lessons. This mental training is as valuable as the muscular exer- cise. We choose exercises for the big muscles of the trunk and legs, as our work follows protracted periods of sitting, and we wish to relieve the congested circulation in the tissues which have not been active.
We teach the simpler commands of Marching Tactics, as a class can be handled without loss of time, only if they can respond to marching commands.
During the winter term, we expect to feature Folk Dancing as much as floor space. the use of a piano, and time allotted will. permit.
Throughout our course, we try to inculcate in the pupils" minds the idea of the value of fresh air, sunshine, physical activity, good posture, hard play, fair play, and mental alertness.
The old slogan, "A sound mind in a sound body," seems to express most adequately our aim. We wish each pupil might de- velop a body that is a perfectly balanced machine which will re- spond efficiently to the control of a alert, well-balanced, well-in- hibited mind, which is the central controlling factor of a perfect mechanism.
Respectfully submitted, EDITH FOSTER,
Supervisor of Physical Training.
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT
THE
SENIOR CLASS OF THE HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL REQUESTS YOUR PRESENCE AT THE COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES Thursday evening, June 26, 1924, at 8 o'clock TOWN HALL
PROGRAM
March. HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA
Invocation REV. F. W. WERTS Salutatory -- "The Life of Woodrow Wilson". FREDERICK HOLLAND "Anchored"-Watson GLEE CLUB CHORUS Reading of Class History THELMA SMERAGE
"The Evening Wind"-C. Saint Saens . LORENA CASE
Prophecy of 1924. STANLEY ANDERSON Music. HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA Valedictory-"The Development of Office Routine". HOPE BUZZELL Presentation of Gifts by Class President. .. . STANLEY ANDERSON Class Ode-Helen Kerrigan. .. GRADUATING CLASS AND CHORUS
Presentation of Diplomas. ROBERT ROBERTSON, JR. Awarding of Washington and Franklin Medal
"Water Lilies"-Linder HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS
"Keep on Hopin' "-Maxwell HIGH SCHOOL CHORUS
Benediction
REV. F. W. WERTS
March.
. HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA
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CLASS ROLL
Stanley Gilman Anderson
Lydia Emma Jones
Peter Thomas Burns
Jennie Katz
Hope Buzzell
Helen Katherine Kerrigan
Lorena Mae Case
Francis Allen Newhall
Lewis Franklin Day
Horace Elmer Pope
Frederick Courtland Holland
Thelma Mae Smerage
Mabel Elizabeth Stillings
CLASS MOTTO "Excelsior"
CLASS COLORS Blue and White
CLASS FLOWER Yellow Tea Rose
MEMBERSHIP BY AGE AND GRADE, APRIL 1, 1924
AGES
Grades
51 6 7 8 9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18 19
Totals
% Re- tarded
1
27 |10 6 1 1
45
4
2
16 16 7 |
39
0
3
23 16 8 2 1
50
6
4
6 17 9 3
35
8
5
11 20 14
1
1
47
4
6
1 8 11 13 2
1
36
8
7
2 8121
14
21
8
2 6 15 9 |1
33
3
9
7 |17 8 1 1
34
5
10
5 10 8 3
26
11
11
8 13
-
24
0
12
4 10 1 1 16
6
Total for Grades 1 - 6 -
-
-
-
-
-
252
5
Total for Grades 7 - 12 -
-
-
-
147
6
Total for Grades 1 - 12 -
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1
-
- 399
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TEACHERS' DIRECTORY, JANUARY, 1925
NAME
SCHOOL
Subject or Grade
Salary
Appoint- ment Education Last School Attended
Howard W. Watson ...... High, Principal
Science and Math.
$2600
1923
Middlebury College
Florence B. Davey . .... .. High, Assistant
English and History
1250
1922
Trinity College
Catharine Cary ... . High, Assistant
French and Latin
1250
1923
University of Maine
Elizabeth C. Horan.
. High, Assistant
Commercial
1400
1921
Salem Normal
Grace E. McGinley ..
.. High, Assistant
Commercial
1400
1921
Salem Normal
Thomas Carr ... . High, Assistant
Manual Arts
1600
1924
Fitchburg Normal
Sara C. Leighton ........ High, Assistant
Domestic Arts
1400
1924
Farmington Normal
Edna F. Hurlburt, Mrs ...... Junior High
Lit. and History
1500
1915
Boston University
Hazel E. Ramer, Mrs ...
.. Junior High
Sci. and Geography
1500
1921
Salem Normal
Irma M. Bucklin.
. Junior High
English and Arith.
1350
1924
Brandon Training Class
Elsie F. Potter. .
.. South
Grade 6
1200
1924
Farmington Normal
Margaret K. Batchelder
.. South
Grade 5
1100
1920
Salem Normal
Marian C. Joseph.
. South
Grade 4
1100
1921
Salem Normal
Edith L. Fletcher.
.South
Grade 3
1300
1906
Salem Normal
Marion A. Smith.
. South
Grade 2
1250
1922
Hamilton High
Nelly G. Cutting.
. South
Grade 1
1400
1915
Salem Normal
Clyde J. Potter.
. East
Grades 4-6
1200
1923
Farmington Normal
Sarah Stevens .
. East
Grades 1-3
1150
1922
Salem Normal
Madeleine S. Hopkins. . All
Drawing
600
1923
Normal Art
Maude L. Thomas.
All
Music
565
1923
Boston University
Helen E. Purdy ..
. All
Nurse
720
1923
Mary Fletcher Hospital
*Edith Foster, Mrs.
. All Physical Training
100
1924
Harvard Summer
SCHOOL REPORT
* One day monthly.
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SCHOOL CALENDAR, YEAR 1925-1926
1925
January ?. Schools open
February 20. Schools close
March ?. Schools open
April 24. Schools close
May 4.
Schools open
Schools close June 26.
Summer Vacation
August 31. Schools open
September 7.
Holiday
October 12. Holiday
November 25. Close at noon
November 30. . Schools open
December 24. Close at noon
1926
January 4. Schools open
February 22.
Holiday
February 26. Schools close
March 8. Schools open
April 19 Holiday
April 30.
Schools close
May 10. Schools open
May 31.
Holiday
Schools close June 25.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF HAMILTON SCHOOLS
RESOURCES
Appropriation of Town
$45,880 00
Dog Tax 341 96
Total
$46,221 96
EXPENDITURES
GENERAL EXPENSES
Superintendence and Enforcement of Law:
Expense of School Committee $129 08
Superintendent of Schools :
Salary
1,190 00
Expense of travel
119 53
Clerk and Expense of Supt. Union
306 11
School census
30 00
Attendence offcer
100 00
Total
$1,874 72
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EXPENSE OF INSTRUCTION
Teachers' Salaries :
Principal $2,540
High School Assistants
6,115 00
Elementary
16,853 00
Supervisor of Music
550 00
Total
$26,058 00
Textbooks :
High School
$488 53
Elementary School
194 14
Total
682 67
Supplies :
High School
1,027 04
Elementary School
968 54
Total
1,995 58
28,736 25
EXPENSE OF OPERATION
Janitors' Salaries :
High School
$750 00
Elementary School
1,730 00
Total
2,480 00
Fuel :
High School
588 59
Elementary School Total
1,360 82
1,949 41
Janitors' supplies
356 15
Miscellaneous expense Total
338 07
5,123 63
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MAINTENANCE
Repairs : High School Elementary Echool Total
$884 42
1,821 31
2,705 73
AUXILIARY AGENCIES
School Library
$72 00
Physical Training Supervisor
35 00
Health :
Physician
$300 00
Nurse
648 00
Dental exam.
65 00
Miscellaneous supplies
43 34
1,056 34
Transportation of Children
3,950 00
Miscellaneous Total
485 95
5,599 49
OUTLAYS
New Equipment
$212 35
Boundary Fence Total
406 00
618 35
Total Expenditures Balance unexpended
$44,658 17
1,563 79
Appropriation
$46,221 96
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INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
Essex County Training School,
Beverly Industrial School :
Payments for Tuition $276 50
Balance unexpended 223 50
Appropriation $500 00
SCHOOL HOUSE INSURANCE
Payments on policies $449 67
Balance unexpended 33
Appropriation 450 00
Grand Total of Expenditures $45,384 34
Respectfully submitted,
ADELAIDE D. WALSH.
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