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DEAR SIR-I herewith submit my first report as Instruc- tor of Agriculture covering the period from April 15 to December 10, 1915.
The first two weeks were spent in getting the necessary working material together and inspecting the home farm equipment of the boys who had applied for admission to the course. Class-room instruction began on May 3 with twenty- one boys in attendance. During the next two weeks this number was increased to twenty-eight regular pupils and and five part-time pupils. The State Board of Education limits the number of boys in Agriculture to twenty for a single instructor, but it was deemed wise to admit the above number since it was certain that some were temporarily attracted because of the newness of the work. Thirty-two boys carried on projects during the spring and summer, but owing to graduation in June and other causes twenty-three continued the work in September. This number held until November when two members went into active farm work. In;December the sad accident to Bertram Riessle removed a much interested and earnest worker.
The enrollment by ages is as follows :
14-15
7
15-16 16-17
9
11
17-18 18-19
3
19-20
1
Total
33
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2
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The enrollment by subjects is as follows :
Kitchen and Market Gardening, in- cluding intensive study of at least thirteen vegetables .
Poultry culture
.
10
Orcharding
4
Swine management
4
Small fruits .
3
Sheep husbandry
26
Dairying
.
4
·
.
Instruction is carried on in two divisions, the first occu- pying the first half of each day while the remainder of the time is taken by the second division. This gives each boy three hours a day for the study of agriculture. The first hour is taken for a report on assigned text-book work on general agriculture. The second and third hours are spent in intensive individual study of the home project. To aid in this a reference library of one hundred and twenty stan- dard books, and approximately two thousand selected bulle- tins have been accumulated. These bulletins are arranged in filing cases under forty titles. Daily use of these mate- rials teaches the boy how and where to find any information and prevents that narrowness of view often so plainly evi- dent when but one text is followed.
Each boy with the advice of the instructor chooses a project which fits his inclinations and home equipment. The variety and scope of these projects may be interesting. The individual garden projects varied in size from one- twentieth acre to an area of nearly three acres in sweet corn, muskmelons and tomatoes. The potato areas were from one-eighth to one-quarter acre. The poultry projects consisted of from ten to seventy birds. One young man had twelve sheep. The swine project boys had from two to eight pigs. Three dairy projects included four cows in each, the
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entire production and even the retail delivery of the milk being under the charge of these boys. Seven boys perform- ed regular farm work besides carrying on a project. One young man obtained very valuable training as retailing salesman for his father's market gardening business.
Each boy looks up references on his project, studies and discusses them with the teacher, the conclusion is drawn by the boy and recorded in mind and notebook. Thus, for two hours each pupil really becomes a class of one conning, it may be, the work of ten different experts to get information in every phase of his particular business. Principles and practices are then selected which he can and will put into actual operation. After a subject has been satisfactorily completed each pupil reports his work to the class.
Since bookkeeping has so much to do with profitable farming, pupils are early taught to keep records. This is made comparatively easy by the use of a time-sheet on which are kept a daily record of the weather, temperature, project sales, project expenses, hours of labor, and all other data necessary to a cost-accounting of the project. Owing to the unfavorable growing season, the cost of production of vegetables this year was high. Twelve flocks of poultry and three dairy herds are being cost-accounted by the boys.
The agricultural room is finely equipped along practical lines which makes it ideal for its purposes. It is provided with thirteen business desks, a card index and filing systems, seventy-five square feet of laboratory table, gas, hot and cold water, acid-proof sink, standard outfits for testing : seeds for germination and viability, milk and its products for butter-fat, soils for acidity and alkalinity, and other small apparatus necessary to the study of soil physics and chem- istry. That present-day problems may not be overlooked the following papers are received regularly : "Gleanings in Bee Culture," "Hoard's Dairyman," "New England Home- stead," "Better Fruit," "Garden Magazine," "Market Growers' Journal" and "Breeder's Gazette." Through the
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kindness of Mr. John H. Robinson the department receives "Farm Poultry," a publication of recognized merit in poul- trydom. Members of the class also present "Farm and Fire- side." "Country Gentleman" and "Farm Journal."
The results from this line of work are many. The boy is taught to produce, he early becomes motor-minded and learns how and why to do things. As some one put it, an agricultural education enables one always to land on one's feet with the confidence that a comfortable living can always be got from the earth under any circumstances. The unfav- orable growing season of 1915 with its abnormal rainfall affected the projects of practically every boy, ranging from the loss of a single crop to the entire garden project. The following figures are taken from the record of employment of the twenty-eight members of the department for five and one-half months' project work in 1915. These figures are not guess work but are taken from true records vouched for by parents and instructor. The grand totals from all work in cash and credit amounts to the sum of $2150.27, or an average per boy of 876.79. The ten leaders earned in cash or credit the following amounts :
1st
$355 37
2nd
180 00
8th 9th 10th 6th 7th
$113 56 111 87
Brd
179 13
104 26
4th
172 09
88 95
5th
164 74
86 83
An interesting feature of the work has been the Instruc- tor's frequent inspection of the home project work, of which upwards of three hundred were made during the year. A single round of inspection covers more than fifty miles in the towns of North Reading, Wilmington, Stoneham, Wake- field and Reading. This work has also been inspected by Mr. Rufus W. Stimson of the State Board of Education, Pro- fessor Works of Cornell University, Mr. Walter S. Parker, Chairman of the Reading School Committee, Mr. Guss of the
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Essex County Agricultural School, and Mr. Bronson of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The visitors at the agri- cultural room have been many.
The Instructor in turn has spent two weeks at the Mas- sachusetts Agricultural College and has inspected the work being done in agriculture at the Concord High School, Bris- tol County School at Segregansett and the Essex County School at Hathorne.
I wish to thank you for the splendid interest and hearty support you have given this work. Keen appreciation is also felt for the close co-operation of teachers, parents and pupils during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN G. POWERS,
Instructor in Agriculture.
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READING HIGH SCHOOL
Graduation Exercises
CLASS OF . . 1915 . .
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE TWENTY - THIRD SEVEN-THIRTY O'CLOCK
High School Hall
283 PROGRAM Prayer by Rev. J. J. Cogan
Overture ORCHESTRA
1 National Preparedness
. (Salutatory) *RUTH O. ROBERTS
2 Paying Their Debt İ HAROLD V. WILLIAMS
Music-The Clang of the Forge . · THE CHORUS
3 Piracy, New and Old # DOROTHY F. MORSE
Violin Duet RENA MICHELINI, CHARLES CROWHURST
4 Through Memory's Glass " L'Allegro " Revised and Improved by # MALCOLM O. DAVIS 5 The New England Farmer-Past, Present and Future İ STEWART P. BATCHELDER
Music (a) Flow Gently, Sweet Afton (b) My Old Kentucky Home
THE CHORUS .
6 Edward McDowell (Valedictory ) HAZEL M. WHITE
7 Valedictory Address * HELEN L. BAILEY
Music THE CHORUS (a) Love's Old Sweet Song (b) Out on the Deep
Conferring of Diplomas
WALTER S. PARKER, Chairman of School Committee Benediction by Rev. D. Augustine Newton
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC ARTHUR HAROLD TOZER
ACCOMPANIST
*Scholarship Honors +Class Honors .
HAZEL M. WHITE
#Faculty Honors
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OLASS OF 1915
Gracie Mills Atkinson Helen Livingstone Bailey Stewart Putnam Batchelder Frank Travers Berry Herman Edward Brown Thomas R. Burns Madeline Bertha Clark Charles Crowhurst
Dorothy Mildred Ourrell Philip Arthur Damon John Chandler Dane Malcolm Carter Davis Frances Elizabeth Doucette Mary Agnes Fay Stanley Roland Gerard Chester Gould
Horace Graham Hall
Irene Gentle Hall
Edith Helena Heselton Perley Oliver Judkins Mary Margaret Kennedy Gladys Miller Kinsman Viola Angele Lang Clifton E. Mack Lena Catherine Marchetti Sybil Ramona Marshall Paul Gordon Mackenzie Rena Juliette Michelini Gladys Evelyn Milbury Donald Howard Morse Dorothy Francene Morse
Warren Leroy Moulton Wendell Bancroft Newell Clifton Staniford Nichols Catherine Eva Parks Catherine Jeanette Pheney Edward Gerard Quinlan Blanche Elizabeth Rich Elmer Hanley Richardson Delma Frances Riley Ruth Cummings Roberts Channing Folsom Savage Robert Batchelder Shepardson Ethel Julia Squires Chester Dillingham Stevens Milton Warren Symonds Mermet Victoria Townsend Raymond Leavitt Turner
Richard Goodwin Walsh
Eva Mira Webb Hazel Melville White Harold Vanderelst Williams
AVERAGE RANK OVER 90 Helen Livingstone Bailey Stewart Putnam Batchelder Frank Travers Berry Ruth Cummings Roberts Channing Folsom Savage Hazel Melville White Harold Vanderelst Williams
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READING HIGH SCHOOL IVY DAY EXERCISES CLASS OF 1915 High School Hall, Tuesday Afternoon, June Twenty-second AT THREE O'CLOCK
CLASS MOTTO-"Not failure, but low aim is crime"
PROGRAM
1 Address of Welcome and Presentation of Class Gift *MILTON W. SYMONDS
2 Announcement of Class Elections
1 Most Popular Girl 13 Class Cut-up
2 Most Popular Boy 14 Class Flirt
3 Prettiest Girl 15 Most Fickle
4 Handsomest Boy 16 Greatest Talker
5 Cutest Girl 17 Most Dignified
6 Neatest Girl 18 Faculty Pet
7 Neatest Boy 19 Jolliest Girl
8 Class Athlete 20 Jolliest Boy
9 Most Bashful Girl 21 Most likely to succeed
10 Most Bashful Boy
22 Class Grind
11 Wittiest Girl 23 Greatest Worker
12 Wittiest Boy
24 Greatest Bluffer
* BLANCHE E. RICH
Double Quartette "Anchored" 3
Paul Mackenzie, Edward Quinlan, Louis Whit- church, Herbert McLeod, Philip Damon, Chas. Crowhurst, Warren Moulton, Robert Shepard- son.
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4 Class Prophecy
+ DOROTHY M. OURRELL t EDWARD G. QUINLAN
5 Presentation of Athletic Medals
Stewart P. Batchelder
Paul G. Mackenzie
Frank T. Berry
Donald H. Morse
Thomas R. Burns
Warren L. Moulton
Philip A. Damon Clifton S. Nichols
Perley O. Judkins
Milton W. Symonds
6 Awarding of Prizes
A. E. O. & N.
O. E. E. B. P. F. L.
2:10 B-to-B.
A. M. B. M.
H. W. E. W. E. A.
Ph. D.
L. M.
+ ROBERT B. SHEPARDSON
7 Class Will
* DONALD H. MORSE
8 School Song
The audience will please adjourn to the Linden Street side of the building for the
PLANTING OF THE IVY
9 Ivy Oration
THOMAS R. BURNS
10 Acceptance of the Spade
MELVIN L. PARSONS, President of 1916
Informal Reception in the Hall after the Exercises
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CLASS OFFICERS
Thomas R. Burns, President Frank T. Berry, Vice President Hazel M. White, Treasurer Ruth C. Roberts, Secretary
OLASS DAY COMMITTEE Philip A. Damon, Chairman
Perley O. Judkins
Clifton S. Nichols
Gracie M. Atkinson Madeleine B. Clark
* Faculty Honor ¡ Class Honor
ANNUAL CONCERT
READING HIGH SCHOOL, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1915
PART I
Overture
R. Gruenwald R. H. S. ORCHESTRA
Reading-How the Larue Stakes were Lost MISS IRMA MODAVITT
The Jolly Blacksmith's Lay Giebel
BOYS' GLEE CLUB
The Isle of Nid-Nod Marzo
GIRL'S GLEE CLUB
Reading-Over the Baluster MISS IRMA MCDAVITT
Violin Obligato RENA MICHELINI
Overture
R. H. S. ORCHESTRA
Schlepegrell
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PART II "THE ERL-KING'S DAUGHTER" ASSISTED BY
MR. NELSON H. RAYMOND, Baritone MISS FANNIE LOTT, Soprano
Prologue
PART I The Sun in Ocean Sinks to Rest CHORUS When Through the Meadows of Tender Green MR. RAYMOND
Bring Forth My Fleet, Sure-Footed Steed MR. RAYMOND, MISS LOTT AND CHORUS PART II
Night, Thou Art Silent MR. RAYMOND
Lightly Through the Wood
MR. RAYMOND AND GLEE CLUB Oh, Welcome
MISS LOTT, MR. RAYMOND AND GLEE CLUB
PART III I Watched Before the Castle Gate MISS LOTT AND CHORUS
Hear Me, My Son
MISS LOTT. MR. RAYMOND AND CHORUS
Epilogue
CHORUS
ARTHUR HAROLD TOZER, Musical Director MISS GLADYS MILBURY, Accompanist, Glee Clubs MISS HAZEL WHITE, Accompanist, Chorus
289 HIGH SCHOOL MINSTREL SHOW MARCH 5, 1915
We are pleased to print the program of the minstrells hear
Now LISTEN !
I
Opening Chorus
II Novelty Song HERBERT ESTERBERG "At the Vedding Jubilee"
III End Song EDWARD QUINLAN "100 Years From Now"
IV Selections by High School Quartet BURNS, QUINLAN, WHITCHURCH AND MOULTON
V End Song . RUBY FORBES "There's a little spark of love still burning"
VI Harry Lauder THOMAS BURNS "She's the lass for me"
VII Moving Picture "Shirtless Homes Captures a Murderer"
VIII Harry Lauder THOMAS BURNS "Its nice to get up in the morning"
IX Bert Williams . DOROTHY CURRELL "Woodman, Woodman, Spare that Tree"
X Duet RUBY FORBES AND THOMAS BURNS Selected
XI Local Parodies BOB MCKENNA Sung with apologies
XII Finale
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GIRLS' GLEE CLUB CONCERT
R. H. S. HALL MAY 28,1915
The Shepherd Lady
Bendemeer's Stream
GLEE CLUB
The Sweetest Story Ever Told
MISS RUBY FORBES
Reading
MISS DOROTHY OURRELL
Messidor
R. H. S. ORCHESTRA
Come Back to Erin
Little Orphant Annie GLEE CLUB
Love is the Light of the World
MISS VIOLA A. LANG
Hesitation-Piano Solo
MISS GLADYS MILBURY
Spirit of Independence
R. H. S. ORCHESTRA
The Moon Hangs Low Juanita
GLEE CLUB
MR. ARTHUR HAROLD TOZER, Director
MISS GLADYS MILBURY, Accompanist
291 CHRISTMAS CHAPEL
DECEMBER 23, 1915
1 Doxology
2 Responsive Reading. Ps.
3 Hymn-"Away in a Manger"
4 The Lord's Prayer
5 Gloria
6 Stille Nacht
Julia Culp (Victrola)
7 Carols : a Good King Wenceslas
b God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen GIRLS' GLEE CLUB
8 Recitation-Christmas Revels MISS VIRGINIA RHEIN
9 Christmas Cradle Song . MISS RUBY FORBES
10 The Mediator . . . HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA
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HIGHLAND SCHOOL CONCERT
TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1915 GIVEN BY CLASS OF 1915
MR. ARTHUR HAROLD TOZER Director
MASTER ALBION METCALF
Accompanist
PART ONE
Boys' Drill SIXTEEN BOYS IN GRADE EIGHT
Recitation-"Pro Patria" DORIS CUTCLIFFE
Piano-Selections from "The White Lady" Boieldieu LAWRENCE COPELAND
Folk Dance-"The Grapevine" SIXTEEN GIRLS GRADE EIGHT
Recitation-"Angela's Mission Box" DORIS CUTCLIFFE
Piano-"Wood Nymphs" Trygve Torjussen
"Valse Chromatique" Benjamin Godard
ALBION METCALF
Fancy Dance DORIS CUTCLIFFE
PART TWO A CANTATA-"THE BELLS OF ELFARNIE" Words by Arthur J. Godden Music by Hugh Blair
Story of the Cantata
TOLD BY LEANDER POOR
CHORUSES by the Graduating Class
SoLos by Miss Ruby Forbes and Miss Viola Lang
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PUPILS GRADUATING FROM HIGHLAND SCHOOL JUNE 24, 1915
BOYS
GIRLS
Atkinson, George H.
Bancroft, Sarah
Bent, Dana P.
Bell, L. Katherine
Berry, Paul R.
Bennett, Mildred
Blood, Roger M.
Berry, Ruth E.
Bond, William H.
Brown, Vivian
Briggs, Norman E.
Butters, Louisa
Brogan, Roy J.
Cummings, Mary H.
Brown, Ernest E.
Curtis, Ruth E.
Burbank, Arthur G.
Doucette, Grace L.
Cahill, Thomas E.
Ellis, Marion F.
Canty, Elliott J.
Esner, Ida R.
Olough, Robert M.
Florence, Mildred E.
Cook, A. Douglass
Gauthier, Eva A.
Copeland, Lawrence A.
Gaw, Ella E.
Cowles, Sidney M.
Hill, Doris M.
Cox, Allan M.
Hunt, Gertrude E.
Dow, John A.
Hutchinson, M. Eleanor
Dulong, Henry J.
Ingalls, May E.
DuPont, Foster J.
Kinney, Margaret
Ells, D. Archie
Kinsman, Viola
Fife, G. Donald
Lowell, Bernice
Galvin, J. Leo
Mansfield, Jennie A.
Geary, Paul J. Gibbons, A. Edward
Moore, Pearl E. Morse, Myrtle L.
Granfield, Robert S.
O'Brien, Mary E.
Graves, Wellman A.
Putnam, Gertrude D.
Hardy, Harold W.
Quinlan, Genevieve
Harvey, Irving A.
Reeves, Ruth L.
Johnson, Oscar H. Keith, Charles
Richardson, Muriel
Magnus, Ludwig R.
Robinson, Edith L.
Metcalf, Albion E.
Robinson, Lucille
Michelini, Ralph A.
Richards, Margaret A.
Saunders, Esther M.
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BOYS
Nowell, Bartlett Perry, Elwyn
Poor, Leander H. Putnam, James T.
Quillen, William D.
Quimby, Carlyle F.
Riessle, Herman L.
Riley, Martin P. Robinson, Henry E.
Sawyer, Russell L.
Sewell, Robert R.
Sheehan, Daniel C.
Smith, Fred J. Spillane, Patrick
Squires, George D.
Storey, Sidney I.
Tasney, Charles E.
Ticknor, Arthur R. Wade. Alfred P.
White, Clarence J.
White, Walter E.
Wichland, George A.
GIRLS Schwarz, Katherine L. Sheldon, Aileen F. Stafford, Marjorie F. Trevor, Gladys Wendall, Wanda E. Williams, Alice Wilson, Vera E.
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STATISTICS OF SCHOOL CENSUS
NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN TOWN BETWEEN 5 AND 15 YEARS September, 1889
832
1900
853
1901
.
890
1902
915
66
1903
967
1904
938
66
1905
·
972
1906
1022
1907
997
1908
1005
66
1909
1029
66
1910
1030
1911
1013
1912
1048
66
1913
1121
66
1914
1059
1915
1142
NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN TOWN BETWEEN 7 AND 14 YEARS
September, 1899
648
1900
.
680
6 6
1902
636
1903
682
1904
758.
6 6
1905
759
.6
1908
695
،،
1909
737
6 6
1911
784
1912
745
1913
778
1914
771
...
1915
.
791
.
·
.
.
648
1901
.
698
1906
1907
723
1910
708
296
Length of school year, 1914-1915
14 days
Actual length of school year
9 mo. 1-2 day
Number of different pupils enrolled for the year ending June, 1915
1355
AVERAGE NUMBER IN EACH OF THE TWELVE GRADES FOR THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF THE SCHOOL YEAR
YEAR
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII SP. TOTAL
1899
120
103
102
87
108
75
93
68
56
46
17
23
5 903
1900
127
136
66
107
89
98
66
82
49
37
36
14
0 907
1901
177
102
108
77
105
87
97
64
61
42
28
34
21 4 1008
1903
127
114
103
104
86
109
97
93
63
61
53
31
9
1050
1904
129
131
116
116
95
91
109
86
79
61
53
54 4
1124
1905
129
118
130
124
105
104
88
100
85
76
45
48 4
1156
1906
118
129
109
127
120
100
93
100
88
72
63
42 5
1166
1907
120
110
150
114
123
109
96
110
78
82
58
50 6 1206
1908
123
111
120
128
97
138
97
118 108
110
79
68
62
7
1250
1910
119
116
105
121
120
109
88
108
116
98
75
53 9 1237
1911
112
113
114
103
127
97
125
100 126
99
78
69
66
63
5
1228
1913
155
130
110
94
120
130
115
99
117
72
64
56
4 1266
1914
169
132
130
109
88
128
130
124
97
78
65
53
7 1310
1915
210
134
136
138
120
97
124
149
118
76
75
54
8 1439
1902
142
126
90
86
117
98
100
70
56
64
75
47 5
1226
1909
133
113
118
124
119
93
116
1912
134
111
109
111
116
129
87
87
84
58 6 1201
92
75
25 5 978
9 mo. 3 wks. Number of days lost from stormy days, etc.
TEACHERS IN SERVICE, DEC. 31, 1915, WHERE EDUCATED, YEAR WHEN APPOINTED ALSO ENROLLMENT FOR FOUR MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER 23, 1915
School
Grade
Teachers
Where Educated
Year When
Appointed
Salary
Total
Enrollment
Membership
Average
Attendance
Per cent. of
Attendance
High
IX-XII
A. L. Safford, Principal and Supt ..
Bates College. .
1913
$2800
335
329.
308.3
93.7
Harry R. Howe, Sub-Master
Harvard University
1914
1200
Agnes M. Gilmore, Asst. Prin.
Boston University ..
1910
1200
Helen R. Abbott
Mt. Holyoke College ...
1915
1000
'Tufts College ..
1914
650
Frances M. Brooks
Rochester Business Institute
1915
850
Marion Corliss . .
Wellesley College .
1913
750
E. Frances Greenhalgh
Bay Path Institute.
1914
650
Alice M. Lombard .
Bay Path Institute.
1907
1000
Josephine M. Minihan
Radcliffe College
1913
700
Vassar College ..
1915
700
Mt. Holyoke College.
1915
650
..
Anita A. Vale
Mt. Holyoke College
1915
750
Highland
..
Alice Barrows, Principal .
Bridgewater Normal
1880
1200
50
46.5
43.3
93.1
Alice E. Hood
Concord Training School .
1902
725
50
48.
45.6
95.
..
Fannie C. Whittemore
N. H. State Normal, Hyannis
1905
725
49
48.1
45.9
95.4
Lowell Normal
1911
675
43
37.6
34.6
92.1
Sadie V. Johnstone.
Farmington, Me., Normal
1913
625
43
41.9
39.3
93.8
L. Evelyn Williams.
Lowell Normal ..
1914
650
38
37.4
34.9
93.3
Farmington, Me., Normal.
1913
600
48
47.6
44.6
93.7
Fitchburg Normal
1912
625
49
45.8
42.8
93.5
..
V .
Marjorie O. Symmes
Boston Normal ..
1913
600
46
44.1
41.9
94.8
V .
Dorothy M. Carlisle
Concord Training School
1911
600
43
39.1
36.4
93.1
Centre.
III.
M. Grace Wakefield, Principal
Salem Normal.
1890
700
46
44.8
42.1
93.9
Vera Buckle
Boston University .
1915
500
46
41.2
38.8
94.1
Alda L. Parker.
Westfield Normal .
1914
625
32
29.4
27.5
93.5
IV.
Emily Searway
Washington, Me., Normal ...
1913
575
40
38.2
35.9
93.7
Salem Normal
1913
550
49
44.9
41.6
92.7
Salem Normal
1908
625
46
43.8
41.6
94.3
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Sen. Inter.
Emma S. Page, Assistant
N. H. State Normal ..
1899
775
Jun. Inter.
Mabel P. Williams
V1
Ethel M. Reed .
VI
Mabel I. Mathewson
IV
Phoebe M. Doran.
IV-V
Joyce L. Fielder
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Louise A. Berthold .
Helen M. Purnell
Vera Young.
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III ..
.
Average
TEACHERS IN SERVICE, DEC. 31, 1915, WHERE EDUCATED, YEAR WHEN APPOINTED ALSO ENROLLMENT FOR FOUR MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER 23, 1915- (CONTINUED)
School
Grade
Teachers
Where Educated
Year When
Appointed
Salary
Total
Enrollment
Average
Average
Attendance
Per cent. of
Attendance
Union St.
I .. ..
Anna P. Reid, Principal.
Reading High
1884
$700
41
34.6
32.2
91.
II . .
Ethel J. Bent
Conn. Normal, E. Greenwich
1911
625
41
39.1
36.
92.2
I ..
Marion H. Morgan
Bridgewater Normal.
1904
650
63
55.1
50.7
91.7
Mabel A. Porter
Rust Kindergarten
1911
625
62
54.1
47.1
86.7
Prospect St. ....
I-II .
Ada E. Dow, Principal.
Lowell Norma !.
1909
700
53
51.2
50.1
95.6
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III-IV ...
Eleanor F. Emerson
Salem Normal .
1915
650
47
46.1
44.5
96.4
Lowell St. ....
III-IV
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Hannah B. Sargent, Principal
Castine Normal
1914
650
35
35.
34.
97.
I-II . ..
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Caryl M Porter . ..
Rust Normal Kindergarten . .
1911
625
42
41.
39.1
94.
Chestnut Hill .. ..
I-II-III . ..
A. Isabelle Parker ..
Dean Academy .
1911
625
31
27.3
26.9
98.5
Annie B. Parker, Drawing.
Prang's Normal Art
1892
500
Eunice N. Bancroft, Sewing
1908
525
Arthur H. Tozer, Music.
1910
600
Ernest M. Leland, Manual Training
1915
1000
H. Shirlie Martin, Domestic Science ...
1915
600
Florence Nichols, Physical Culture ...
1915
500
John G. Powers, Agriculture ..
1915
2100
Myrtle D. Wells, Clerk .,
1910
450
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Assistant.
Helen G. Quinlan
Salem Normal
1915
500
Membership
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REPORT OF TRUANT OFFICER
1915
Number of absences reported to me . 119
Number found to be truancy
62
Number reported by parents as ill
14
Number reported insufficiently clad .
18
Number kept out by parents to work or otherwise . .
23
Number put on probation
1
Number sent to Truant School
.
2
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM KIDDER, Truant Officer.
LIST OF JANITORS WITH THEIR SALARIES, DECEMBER 31, 1915
(Per week)
Clement Gleason
$18 00
$936 00
William Kidder
16 25
845 00
Jesse N. Hutchinson
17 00 .
884 00
Mrs. Ara A. Pratt
8 50
442 00
Sylvanus L. Thompson
192 00
Timothy Cummings
144 00
Daniel Sewell
72 00
Charles H. Stinchfield
75 00
OTHER SALARIES
E. Dalton Richmond, M. D., Medical Inspector William Kidder, Truant Officer
$200 00
104 00
William H. Killam, Census Enumerator .
50 00
299
SCHOOL COMMITTEE FINANCIAL STATEMENT, 1915
RECEIPTS
GENERAL SCHOOL ACCOUNT :
Appropriation from tax levy
$43,000 00
Tuition from North Reading
2,382 00
Tuition from Middleton
24 00
Tuition of State Minor Wards
130 50
Tuition of Boston Minor Wards
108 00
Reimbursement of Industrial Schools tuition
163 35
Rent of John St. Schoolhouse
36 00
Sale of Prospect St. Building
.
25 00
Telephone tolls and sundries
14 25
Refund on freight
6 20
$45,889 30
SPECIAL ACCOUNTS :
Appropriation from tax levy :
For typewriters
$500 00.
For grounds
600 00
For retopping High School chimneys
400 00
For industrial schools tuition
500 00
Union Street School, balance from 1914 .
487 19
AGRICULTURE :
Appropriated from tax levy ·
$2000 00
Tuition received :
From North Reading, May 1-Sept. 1 168 00
From Stoneham, May 1-Sept. 1 · 280 00
From North Reading, Sept. 1-Dec. 1 154 00
300
301
From Stoneham, Sept. 1-Dec. 1 $154 00 From Wakefield, Sept. 1-Dec. 1 14 00
$2,770 00
$51,146 49
EXPENDITURES
Amount expended 1914
Amount expended 1915
Teachers' and Superin-
tendent's salaries
$28,463 70
$30,989 43
Janitors' salaries
3,474 50
3,540 00
Other salaries :
Truant Officer . $104 00
$104 00
Medical Inspector . 200 00
200 00
Census Enumerator 65 00
50 00
369 00
354 00
Transportation of pupils
850 00
1,046 25
Books .
1,291 17
1,353 20
Supplies for pupils
1,771 34
2,354 40
Apparatus for teach-
ing
290 00
190 71
GENERAL EXPENSE :
Printing and adver-
tising
157 51
185 74
Office supplies and stationery
40 39
90 47
Telephones
124 46
138 13
School Committee
expenses
30 80
23 96
Superintendent's ex-
penses
4 65
Lectures and public meetings
10 00
Insurance
193 00
·
357 81
641 30
Fuel
3,153 74
3,108 99
Tuition paid
408 50
14 14
302
BUILDING MAINTENANCE :
Light
$147 06
$215 95
Water
·
291 76
275 38
Removal of ashes .
122 01
93 25
Janitors' supplies
397 24
422 99
958 07
$1,007 57
REPAIRS :
Buildings
. 813 08
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