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On advice of the Tax Commissioner's Office of the Commonwealth, a separate valuation of all Real Estate and Personal Property located within said Water District was made and assessment levied in the usual manner. The total amount raised under this Levy amounting to Thirty- two Hundred and Twenty-one and 47-100 Dollars ($3,221.47), Warrant for same being committed to Franklin W. Freeman, Collector of Taxes.
Number of Residents Assessed 230
Number of Non-Residents Assessed
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Value of Personal Property
$ 120,860.00
Value of Buildings 751,350.00
Value of Land
278,060.00
Total Real Estate
$1,029,410.00
Total Value of Real and Personal
$1,150,270.00
Rate of Levy, $2.80 per $1,000.
Total Tax Real Estate
$ 2,883.35
Total Tax Personal
338.12
Total Tax
$ 3,221.47
Total sum to be raised
$ 3,200.00
Credit Balance
$ 21.47
TOWN SURVEY
Under the vote at the Annual Town Meeting appropriating $500 to start a survey of the town, to obtain suitable maps for the assessment of real estate, a joint meeting of the Board of Selectmen and Board of Assessors was held at the Town Hall, and it was decided to employ the firm of Morse & Dickinson (Civil Engineers), who were highly recom- mended in this particular kind of work, to make an examination of the situation, and lay out a certain area, as a starting point, using any ma- terial available in our own records and obtaining other information at the Registry of Deeds at Salem, in addition to the usual field work. It was decided to start the work in Precinct II, near the Peabody Town Line. All of the property from the junction of Salem and Broadway, in- cluding that portion on the east side of Grove Street to Suntaug Lake- through to the east side of Locust Street has been surveyed and mapped. Much valuable data has been obtained to continue the work in 1927 if a reasonable appropriation is granted, for the ensuing year.
BOARD OF ASSESSORS
George H. Bancroft, Clerk.
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ANNUAL REPORT
of the
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
and
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Town of Lynnfield
MASSACHUSETTS
Year Ending December 31, 1926
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE 1926
Norman B. Cawley, Chairman Martha D. Mansfield, Secretary Louis B. Tuck
Term expires 1928 Term expires 1927 Term expires 1929
FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Appropriation .
$30,375.00
Refunds
6.23
$30,381.23
$ 30,381.23
Expenditures :
School Committee
Salary
25.00
Other Expenses
132.73
$ 157.73
Superintendent
Salary
600.00
Clerk
143.40
Travel, Office Expense
75.31
818.71
Supervisors
526.00
Teachers' Salaries
10,160.00
Text Books
269.48
Supplies
.
316.29
Janitors
2,200.00
Fuel
1,063.10
Miscellaneous operating expenses
311.49
Repairs
314.77
Health
School physician
100.00
School nurse
305.85
405.85
Transportation
Elementary
1,155.25
High
3,284.36
Tuition
High
7,912.53
Evening School
7.50
7,920.03
Matrons, census, etc.
352.50
New Grounds (South)
493.03
New Equipment
381.97
Insurance
250.00
Total Payments to School Dept.
$30,380.56
Balance Dec. 31
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$30,381.23
$ 30,381.23
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Below we are giving you our estimate of needs of the school for the ming year :
School Committee, salary and expenses $ 150.00 Supt., salary, travel, clerk, office expense 950.00
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Supervisors
600.00
Teachers' salaries
11,300.00
Janitors
2,200.00
Text books and supplies
700.00
Fuel
1,000.00
Miscellaneous operating expense
250.00
Repairs
300.00
Health
500.00
Transportation
5,000.00
Tuition
9,000.00
Miscellaneous
(matrons, census)
350.00
Grounds
125.00
Equipment
100.00
Insurance
250.00
$ 32,775.00
We are placing an article in the warrant asking for an appropriation of $33,025.00 for the coming year.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE-1926-7
During this year the schools have moved forward, in attendance, in scholarship, in curriculum, and in physical equipment. Last year there were two hundred pupils in our town schools; this year there are two hundred eighteen; of high school pupils last year there were fifty-two, whereas, there are this year, sixty-three.
SOUTH SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS
The school grounds, which were an eyesore, have been graded and pulverized stone worked into the playing areas and the walks; while the remainder has been plowed and filled with a rich loam, ready for seeding to lawn grass in the spring. A large tree, branches and foliage of which shaded the windows of classrooms making the light poor and the rooms dull, has been cut down, and the children appreciate the brighter rooms. During the vacation all desks and interior woodwork were varnished. At this school soft coal was tried for fuel this year, has been found satis- factory, and a saving of nearly fifty per cent in the usual coal bill has been effected.
CENTER SCHOOL CHANGES
Because of an unforseen influx of twenty-three first-year pupils at the Center School, last September, we were compelled to open another room, engage another teacher, and concentrate the classes; so that each teacher now has two grades. This fourth room had to be equipped with desks, etc .; radiation increased by two hundred feet and the windows window-stripped, for it was impossible to heat the room adequately on a
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cold day without shutting off the heat from some other room. It also 16- quired the building of a large storage lock-up cupboard for school sup- plies; and in the basement we added one more long table and seat to accommodate the large increase of children who take their lunches at school.
The Committee wishes to call attention to the fact that there is a school session every day of the school year. There is no "no school" sig- nal for stormy days. Such signal has been tried several years but without satisfaction to parents or school officers. However, parents may keep their children at home if it seems wise, on very stormy days, and if a note be sent by the parents to the teacher the next day stating the fact, the child will not then be counted "absent". He will simply have lost that, day at school.
RECOMMENDATIONS
That the schools be painted. The woodwork at both schools is ex- posed to the destructive elements.
That a central heating plant be installed at the Center school to burn soft coal, eliminating four of the present five fires, and economizing on coal, as at the South School.
That our townsfolk recognize the principle that teachers are engaged to give the longest continuous service possible; on the basis that con- stantly changing teachers invites inefficiency in both pupil and teacher, while permanency of service ensures growing efficiency. It is better in every way to keep a good teacher year after year, than to let slip such a person and make unnecessary and unsettling change.
APPRECIATION
We thank the P .- T. A's and the Chapters of the Red Cross for their excellent support of the schools in health work, and recreation. Respectfully submitted,
NORMAN B. CAWLEY, Chairman.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee,
Madam and Gentlemen :- I herewith submit my fourth annual report as superintendent of your schools.
The specific points on which I report to you are as follows:
ENROLLMENT
During the school year closing June 30, 1926, there were enrolled in the public schools, two hundred pupils. The town paid tuition to high school for fifty-two pupils, who were in attendance at least one- half year. At the close of schools in December, there were enrolled in the Center School, one hundred and sixteen pupils and at the South
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School one hundred and two pupils while sixty-six pupils were in attend- ance at high schools.
While the number of pupils at the Center School only increased six from September to June, it was very evident that the enrollment would materially increase in the following September and that it would be necessary to employ an additional teacher. When the school opened in September there were enrolled, one hundred fifteen pupils under the instruction of four teachers. This increase in school attendance, which could not be anticipated when the School Budget was made in January, has necessitated the expenditure of considerable money for providing an extra teacher and for equipping the room for use.
ATTENDANCE
A special report on "Percentage of Attendance" issued by the State Department of Education for the school year ending June 30, 1925, showed that the state average was 93.3 per cent while that for Lynnfield was 94.5 per cent. Reports from teachers for the year ending June 30, 1926, showed that the average per cent of attendance for Lynnfield during said year was 95 per cent. This high per cent of attendance is due to the fact that the children are interested in their school work and that parents keep them regular in attendance at school when possible.
PROMOTIONS
At the close of schools in June one hundred and sixty-seven pupils received full promotions to the next higher grade. Twelve were condi- tioned in one or more subjects and seventeen were not promoted. These conditioned either made up their work by examinations or were allowed to continue in the next grade subject to be demoted as rank might necessi- tate. Of the seventeen not promoted, three were in the first grade, four in the second grade, two in the third grade, two in the fourth grade, two in the fifth grade, three in the sixth grade and one in the eighth grade. These pupils were unable to do the year's work even though given much individual instruction.
Twenty-three diplomas were issued in June to pupils having com- pleted the eighth grade work at the Center and South Schools. Twenty of these pupils entered high school in September.
TEACHERS
At the close of schools in June, Mrs. Sleeper resigned her position as teacher of grades five and six at South Lynnfield. This vacancy was filled by the election of Mrs. Marjorie P. Goudey. All other teachers at the South and Center Schools returned to their former positions in September.
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PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT
Teachers have been enrolled in courses for professional improvement as follows, since January 1, 1926:
Teacher School
Elizabeth Deans
Boston University
Althea M. Robinson
Boston University
Course The Individual Child Teaching Arithemetic in Elementary and Junior High Schools Administration
Una K. Ridley Boston University of Ele- mentary School
On September twentieth and November fifth, the schools of the town were closed that the teachers might attend institutes for the professional improvement of teachers. The first of these was held at South Hamilton and the second at Boston.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
We are indebted to the State Department of Education for its co-operation in providing a most excellent one day's program with speakers for our Annual Teachers' Institute held at South Hamilton, September twentieth. Without exception teachers and others in at- tendance have stated that this was the most inspiring and helpful Insti- tute they have attended. The program follows:
Chairman: BURR F. JONES, Supervisor of Elementary Education, State Department of Education.
Assembly
Opening Exercises "Calm as the Night"
Bohme Giesse
"Forget Me Not"
Music by Hamilton Glee Club Chorus
Address, "The Technique of Teaching"
Professor Guy M. Wilson, Boston University
Departmental Meetings:
Grades I-III.
"Geography in the Primary Grades-What and How Much!" Miss Louie G. Ramsdell, State Normal School, Framingham
"Reading and Its Relation to Other Subjects" Miss Mary E. James, State Normal School, Salem Grades IV-VI
"The Library and the Public Schools" Miss E. Kathleen Jones, Division of Public Libraries, State Department of Education
"Geography-Content and Method" Miss Louie G. Ramsdell
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Senior and Junior High School
"Some Suggestions for Classroom Procedure"
Frank P. Morse, Supervisor of Secondary Education, State Department of Education
"Physical Education in High Schools" Carl L. Schrader, Supervisor of Physical Education, State Department of Education
AFTERNOON SESSION Assembly
Address: "Art Instruction in the Public Schools"
Royal B. Farnum, Director of Art Education
Vocal Solos. "Moonlight, Starlight"
"The Gift"
Gilberte Brown
Miss Maude L. Thomas, Supervisor of Music, Essex-Hamilton-Lynnfield
Address: "The Creative Element in Education"
Frank W. Wright, Director, Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and Normal Schools, State Department of Education
VISITORS' DAY
A large number of parents and interested citizens visited the schools on November tenth to observe the work of pupils and teachers.
HEALTH
The school physician has given physical examinations to all children. By the time this report is printed the Dental Hygienist will have examined the teeth of all children. The school nurse has endeavored to have cor- rected all physical defects as found by the physician and hygienist.
A pre-school medical examination was given many of the children who were to enter the schools in September. Parents were advised to have children vaccinated and to carry out recommendations of the examining physician that the children might enter school physically fit.
The daily health inspection by teachers, the weekly inspection by the school nurse and personal hygiene talks to pupils by both have contributed to inspire in our pupils pride in their own physical well being.
We are indebted to the American Red Cross Chapters and the Parent-Teacher Associations for generous financial aid given to promote the dental hygiene work.
TESTING
Sufficient testing of pupils by Standard Achievement, Diagnostic, and Intelligence Tests is resorted to to keep teachers informed as to the abilities and needs of the children. Following all these examinations reports are issued by my office by which comparisons of standings may be
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made among the several schools under my supervision, as well as the standings of other school systems. Emphasis in the teaching of the several subjects is varied from time to time according to the results of these examinations.
PUBLIC SPEAKING CONTEST
This year the pupils of grades seven and eight participated in Prize Speaking Contests. A local contest was held at South Lynnfield from which group of speakers two were chosen to take part in a Union Contest held at Topsfield. Those participating did most satisfactory work considering it was their first year in training for such work.
This year an American Statesman Essay Contest is being promoted. among the eighth grade pupils. The topics upon which they will write and deliver essays are as follows: States Rights, Fugitive Slave Law, Missouri Compromise, Western Expansion and Slavery, Lincoln-Douglas. Debate, Reconstruction Period, Influence of Prominent Leaders, Biography of one or More Leaders of the Civil War Period, Origin and Rise of the Republican Party, the Abolition of Slavery, Secession.
Pupils will participate in a Town and Union Contest at which time. the essays will be given before audiences. Essays will be judged seven points on content and three points on delivery.
CLUBS
During the past year clubs have been organized in several of the- grades in which pupils participate in electing officers, making programs and in conducting the club meetings. It is the purpose of these clubs to teach the children to become acquainted with certain parliamentary laws and to assume the responsibility. which might be necessary if an officer or member of any club. The officers of the clubs arrange weekly programs of about fifteen minutes' duration. The topics about which the. programs have been built are: Health, Athletics, English, Music, Nature Study and Stamp Study. The teacher participates in the preparation of the program and in conducting the club meetings only to act as adviser and critic in order that each meeting may be an improvement upon the preceding one.
It is fully expected to increase the number of clubs until every room or grade has one.
AWARDS
It is not possible for all pupils to excell in any one school activity. Realizing this it is for the best interests of the pupils that special awards be made for excellence in a variety of school activities.
Awards are made as follows: Monthly in school attendance, bi- monthly in general scholarship, and annually in penmanship, spelling, music appreciation, posture, reading and attendance.
A complete list of those receiving the several awards is made a part ..
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of this report. No pupil needs go through the schools without, at some time during his school career, receiving one or more awards.
HIGH SCHOOL
The pupils of this town are extremely fortunate in having the privilege of attending Wakefield High School or any of the other high schools in which they are enrolled. All these schools offer a variety of courses taught by able instructors.
The Annual Report of the Department of Education for the school year 1924-1925 states that Lynnfield paid tuition and transportation charges to high school for sixty-one pupils at an average cost of $95.30, while for the school year 1925-1926 tuition and transportation charges were paid for fifty-two pupils at an average cost of $268.82. During these two years $19,792.39 was paid for the instruction of one hundred thirteen pupils or an average cost annually per pupil of $175.15.
This average is found over a two-year period for the reason that after June 30, 1925, much of the high school tuition due that date was paid, making the state reports show tuition and transportation costs low one year but extremely high the following year.
Over fifty per cent of the towns of Group IV (towns of less than 5,000 population and not maintaining High Schools) paid higher costs per pupil for transportation and high school tuition during these two years than did Lynnfield.
Taxpayers will feel justified in making the above expenditures for the benefit of the pupils if they know that the pupils have endeavored to profit by the advantages offered.
During this school year there have been enrolled at Wakefield High School, sixty-three pupils. Seventy-four per cent of them passed all subjects during September and October, while sixty-one per cent passed all subjects during November and December.
Ten per cent of all ranks recorded for these four months were below the passing mark of 70, while fifty-five per cent were 80 or better.
A large number of these failures were recorded against a few pupils, which proves that they are either not capable of doing high school work or not putting forth the necessary effort.
It seems that the large number of pupils having passed all subjects and the large number ranking above eighty per cent, justifies the expendi- ture for the tuition and transportation of high school pupils.
RECOMMENDATIONS
That the pre-school medical examination of children to enter the first grade of school in September be held annually in May or June.
That a course in citizenship through character development be given in the schools.
That Dental Hygiene work be continued with the aid of local organizations.
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That Manual Training for the boys and Sewing for the girls be made a part of the requirements for grades seven and eight.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion I thank the School Committee, the teachers and super- visors, and patrons of the school for their support throughout the year. Respectfully submitted, JOHN D. WHITTIER, Supt. of Schools.
PUPILS ATTENDING HIGH SCHOOL OUT OF TOWN WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN CLASS
Norman Balcolm
Richard Mansfield
Harry Baldwin
Judith Pelley
Marcia Carter
Mildred Raymond
Arthur Dewing
Ireta Russell
Lawrence Doore
Helen Richards
Ruth Doremus
Hawley Russell
Joseph Duverger
Lillian Sayers
Elbridge Gerry
Anna Sparkes
Clara Hodsdon
Robert Sparkes
Elizabeth Kallenberg
James Stokes
Margaret Leichner
Elizabeth Swain
Donald McDavitt
Mildred Tuttle
Chester Melanson
Freda Winchester
Gladys Woodbury
SOPHOMORE CLASS
Florence Boudreau Joseph Cole Gertrude Dewing Mary Kelleher
Mabelle Nute
James Ridley Caroline, Stokes
Florence Tuttle
Horace Pratt
JUNIOR CLASS
Nishen Berberian
Lowell Looke
Sanborn Caldwell
Eleanor MacIntosh
Emily Chadbourne
Harry Maynard
Robert de Masellis
Florence McManus
Florence O'Brien
Alice Fletcher Grace Hayward Lois Lane Milledge Crouse
Rachel Olmsted
Alice Sargent Edna Sayers
Lester Simpson
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SENIOR CLASS
Victor McDavitt Rutlı Ober Walter Ober
Ruth Russell Esther Sayers Hazel Schefisch Jessie Wilkinson
POST GRADUATES AND SPECIALS
Helen Milligan
Donald Smith Oscar Swain
LYNN CLASSICAL HIGH
Douglas Pelton Katherine Walsh
MELROSE HIGH SCHOOL Constance de Masselis
PERFECT ATTENDANCE
The following pupils were perfect in their attendance during the school year 1925-1926:
SOUTH SCHOOL
Warren Falls Roger Mansfield
Evelyn Hilton Barbara Barry
Lillian Sayers
Florence Harvey Mark Newbegin Robert Shaw
Norma Lundholm
James Dalton
Andrew Mansfield
CENTER SCHOOL
Julius Rombult
Carl Olsson
PENMANSHIP CERTIFICATES
The following pupils received certificates for improvement in Pen- manship during the school year 1925-1926:
SOUTH SCHOOL
Marcia Carter Janice Ridley William Sparkes
Thomas Pyburn Daniel Leichner Nathalie Poor
GRADUATES OF LYNNFIELD CENTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Ireta Russell Helen M. Richards Gladys A. Woodbury Mildred E. Tuttle
Ruth Doremus Elbridge F. Gerry Gertrude E. Pratt Lillian R. Pratt
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GRADUATES OF LYNNFIELD GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Anna Sparkes
Freda Winchester
Marcia Carter
Elizabeth Kallenberg
Margaret Leichner
Virginia Pelley
Lillian Sayers
Joseph Duverger
Robert Bryant
Chester Melanson
Robert Sparkes
Richard Mansfield
James Stokes
Arthur Dewing
Donald McDavitt
GRADUATES OF WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
Elmer Rutherford Flannigan
Mary Louise Gilbo
Helen I. Milligan
Robert Lufkin Moulton
Franklin E. Neat
Philip Rodney Nute
Elva Frances Richards
Edna Muriel Smith
Charles Wesley Tuttle
G. Ellen Whittemore
Isabel Lenore Winchester
HONOR ROLL
The following pupils were on the Honor Roll for the entire school year 1925-1926 :
CENTER SCHOOL
Helen Richards
Gladys Woodbury "
SOUTH SCHOOL
Janice Ridley Margaret Leichner
Freda Winchester Anna Sparkes
The following pupils were on the Honor Roll for September and October, 1926 :
CENTER SCHOOL
Clarence Doore
Mary Gaston
Lois Huff
Edward Connors
Edith Matson Ivy Frost ,
Robert Caldwell
John Cromidas
Lillian Sellon
Gordon Tuttle
SOUTH SCHOOL
Ruth Kallenberg Janice Ridley Eunice Pelley
Geraldine Gilbo Byron Stokes
The following pupils were on the Honor Roll for November and December, 1926 :
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CENTER SCHOOL
Lois Huff Edith Matson Ivy Frost Edward Connors
Mary Gaston Lillian Sellon John Cromidas Edward Stritter
Virginia Woodbury
SOUTH SCHOOL
Byron Stokes Edna Hayward
Elizabeth Cole
Ruth Kallenberg
Geraldine Gilbo Eunice Pelley Janice Ridley Clifford Mansfield
HOME READING WITH SCHOOL CREDIT Public Library and Public Schools Co-operating The following pupils received Reading Certificates for having read ten or more books from the approved list :
CENTER SCHOOL
Grade III Margaret Cawley
Grade IV
*Ruth Nute ** Leighton Tuck
John Boudreau Phyllis Olmsted
*** Julius Rombult
Grade T
Caroline Wallace Dorothy Lambert William Grace
Maybelle Tornberg Leonard Smith *Edith Doremus
*Elbridge Russell
Grade VI
Roger Gerry Florence Pratt
** Donald Huff
*Pearl Savage
John Caldwell ** Ainslee Simpson
** James Savage
*Mary Gaston Edith Matson
Dorothy Nesbitt *Francis Payzant
** Carl Olsson *Virginia Woodbury
Grade VII
****** Robert Caldwell Beatrice Savage ** Ivy Frost Lois Huff Chilton Hastings
Catherine Kelleher
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Grade VIII
Elbridge Gerry Lillian Pratt
SOUTH SCHOOL
Grades III and IV
** Barbara Studley
*Barbara Elder
*Ivy Baldwin Ruth Pelley
*Evelyn Hilton
Nathalie Poor
** Nathalie McNamara Jane Kenney Vivian Smith
Lucy Benoit
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*Robert Shaw
** Francis Dalton John Keefe
Dana Page
* Daniel Leichner
** Dwight Ayers
Raymond Borbourn
*** John Ross
*Howard Crafts
Grades V and VI
Eleanor McNamara *** Florence Harvey Charles Lane
** Catherine Ross
*Roscoe Delamater
*Eleanor Sargent Thomas Pyburn Mark Newbegin
*Thomas Dalton
*Richard Pyburn Eunice Pelley
*Marjorie Messer Grace Griffith Byron Stokes
*Pearl Griffith
Arthur Sayers
Warren Falls
** Edna Hayward
William Sparkes
Grades VII and VIII
** James Dalton
** Raymond Hayward
** Janice Ridley
*Clifford Mansfield Gertrude Schefisch Helen Newbegin Ruth Kallenberg
Margaret Leichner
Marcia Carter
*Elizabeth Cole Anna Dalton John Gilbo Andrew Mansfield Freda Winchester Donald McDavitt Lillian Sayers
Elizabeth Kallenberg Anna Sparkes
* Arthur Dewing James Stokes Robert Sparkes
*Joseph Duverger Richard Mansfield Robert Bryant
Virginia Pelley
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** Mildred Tuttle
Gordon Kallenberg Doris Hayward Geraldine Gilbo
** Lois Hayward Russell Hampe Roger Mansfield
* Received one gold star for having read five additional books.
** Received two gold stars for having read ten additional books.
Received three gold stars for having read fifteen additional books.
Received four gold stars for having read twenty additional books.
Received five gold stars for having read twenty-five additional books.
Received six gold stars for having read thirty additional books.
SPELLING
The following pupils represented their grade in the Town Spelling Contest held in April, 1926:
CENTER SCHOOL
Grade 3
Margaret Cawley
Grade 4
Julius Rombult
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