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ART. 20. To see if the Town will vote to accept an exten- sion on School Street, as laid out by the Road Commis- sioners, with the boundaries and measurements as shown on the plan on file with the Town Clerk.
ART. 21. To see if the Town will vote to accept Robinson Avenue, as laid out by the Road Commissioners, with the boundaries and measurements as shown on the plan on file with the Town Clerk.
ART. 22. To see if the Town will vote to transfer the sum of $1,058.00, balance of the Hurricane Relief Fund, which was alloted to the Highway Department in 1938, to. be used by the Highway Department for additional labor and materials on Chapter 81 streets.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $200.00 for the Highway Department, to provide Street Signs on various streets in South Tewks- bury, or take any action relative thereto.
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ART. 24. To see if the Town will vote to locate a light on Water Street, opposite Adelaide Road, and appropriate money for same, or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote to provide adequate street lighting along the new overpass at Wamesit, make appropriation for same; or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will vote to install electric lights on Foster Street to the residence of Arthur Bois- vert, and make appropriation for the same, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 27. To see if the Town will vote to install a street light on South Street, near the residence of Louis O'Con- nell, or take any action relative thereto.
ART. 28. To see if the Town will vote to install one light on Clark Road, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 29. To see if the Town will vote to provide adequate street lighting on Main Street, between Chandler Street and St. William's Church, and install one or more 1000 candle power lights in the immediate vicinity of the church, make appropriation for same; or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 30. To see if the Town will vote to install one light at the corner of Woburn and Park Streets, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 31. To see if the Town will vote to install one light on East Street, between the residence of Roland Robin- son and corner of East and Chandler Streets, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 32. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the repairing and drainage of Summer Street, install one light on same, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 33. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate $1,080.00 for maintaining the services of a police officer at each of the elementary schools, or take any other action relative thereto.
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ART. 34. To see if the Town will vote to have the Highway Department collect rubbish, garbage, or other refuse in various districts of the town on one day each week, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 35. To see if the voters will instruct the Board of Health to designate and provide one or more public dumps, if possible, on land now owned by the town, and prohibit dumping of rubbish along public roads; or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 36. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate $1,293.69 to pay bills of the State Department of Public Welfare, and cities and towns for welfare support of per- sons with Tewksbury settlements residing elsewhere.
ART. 37. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to be used in conjunction with Fed- eral Funds for Works Projects Administration expenses for the year 1940, or take any action relative to the same.
ART. 38. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $100.00 for the purpose of paying the 1938 salary as Road Commissioner of John T. Gale.
ART. 39. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse the treasurer for money spent in the Welfare Department under Chapter 44, Section 31, the sum of $3,877.46.
ART. 40. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse the treas- urer for money spent in the Aid To Dependent Children Account, under Chapter 44, Section 31, the sum of $205.50.
ART. 41. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse the treas- urer for money spent in the Police Department, under Chapter 44, Section 31, the sum of $137.66.
ART. 42. To see if the Town will vote to reimburse the treasurer for money spent in the Fire Department under Chapter 44, Section 31, the sum of $241.55.
ART. 43. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for a reserve fund, under Section 6 of Chapter 40 of the General Laws, Tercentenary Ed., or take any action relative thereto.
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ART. 44. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate for the purpose of paying the Town's share of the material cost on Sponsor's Project No. 41; being a project to establish sidewalks, on East, Chandler and Pleasant Streets, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 45. To see if the Town will vote that all Motor Ve- hicles, owned by the Town of Tewksbury, shall be let- tered with the name of Department to which the vehicle belongs, or take any action relative to same.
ART. 46. To see if the Town will vote to choose by ballot at the Annual Town Meeting in February, 1940 three Se- lectmen, three members of the Board of Public Welfare, and three members of the Board of Health, one to serve three years, one to serve two years, and one to serve one year, and each succeeding year to choose by ballot one Selectman, one member of the Board of Public Welfare, and one member of the Board of Health, to serve for the period of three years or to take any action relative to same.
ART. 47. To see if the Town will vote that the Highway Department, cut all brush on the highways of Tewksbury, or take any action relative to same.
ART. 48. To see if the Town will vote to abolish the Chief of Police, and the Board of Selectmen to appoint a Cap- tain temporarily, or take any action relative to same.
ART. 49. To see if the Town will vote that all Boards shall notify, in writing, of all meetings and no sealed bids shall be opened until all members are present, or take any other action on same.
ART. 50. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Se- lectmen, to meet with the Lowell Electric Light Corp; Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co., for lower rates, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 51. To see if the Town will vote that any Citizen of Tewksbury, receiving $25.00 or more per week, cannot collect for services in any other department, or take any other action relative thereto.
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ART. 52. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $800.00 for the purchasing of Stop Signs, No Parking Signs and other signs and the erecting of same as recommended by the Department of Public Works in a survey recently made by the Town Safety Committee and Engineers of the Department of Public Works, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 53. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $1,550.00 to purchase a General Motors Truck of one and one-half ton, 1311/8 inch wheel base, chassis and cab over, Model A. F. 312, a 350-gallon booster tank, and material for equipping same, or take any other action relative thereto. (Pump, Hose and other equipment to be taken off Number Four (4) Truck.
ART. 54. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of six hundred and one dollars ($601.00) to pay counsel fees and other expenses incurred in de- fending the case before the appellate Board of tax ap- peals of Blanche B. Ames against the Board of Assessors.
ART. 55. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $500.00, being the sum appropriated by the Town under Article 15 at the Annual Town Meeting held February 2, 1938 and omitted by the assessors in their levy of that year.
ART. 56. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appro- priate the sum of $50.00 in support of the Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture, through the Middlesex County Extension Service, and elect a director. Said money to be spent under the direction of the local director, or take any other action relative thereto.
ART. 57. To see if the Town will permit in accordance with Section 34 of Chapter 114 of the General Laws the use of the following described parcel of land in Tewksbury for the extension of the cemetery owned by the Tewksbury Cemetery Corporation .-
Said parcel is bounded and described as follows : Begin- ning at the southwesterly corner of the parcel on the northerly side of East Street; thence northerly along the stone wall and land of the Tewksbury Cemetery Corpora- tion about five hundred twenty (520) feet to land formerly
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of the Lowell and Lawrence Railroad; thence easterly three hundred thirty-four (334) feet to an iron pipe ; thence southerly about four hundred and twenty (420) feet to an iron pipe ; thence westerly ninety (90) feet, more or less, to the northeast corner of land of A. W. Pendle- ton ; thence still westerly along the northerly side of said Pendleton land one hundred (100) feet; thence still west- erly thirty (30) feet to an iron pipe; thence southerly one hundred (100) feet to East Street; thence westerly about one hundred fourteen (114) feet to the point of begin- ning. Being a part of the premises conveyed to Walter J. Robinson by deed of Albert S. Briggs dated July 9, 1912 and recorded in Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds, Book 490, Page 270.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting up attested copies thereof, one at each of the Public Meeting Houses, one at the Town Hall, one at each of the Post Offices and leave one hundred copies for the use of the citizens at the Post Offices in said Town, eight days at least and over two Sundays, before the time of said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due returns of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk at the time and place of Meeting as aforesaid :
Given under our hands, this seventeenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty.
IRVING F. FRENCH, EVERETT H. KING, BERNARD H. GREENE,
Selectmen of Tewksbury. A true copy attest :
CYRIL L. BARKER,
Constable of Tewksbury.
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN of TEWKSBURY
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Also Report of Superintendent of Schools
For the Year Ending Dec. 30, 1939
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Name
Address
Mrs. May L. Larrabee
1937-1940
Chairman
Tewksbury
J. Harper Gale
1938-1941
Tewksbury
Austin F. French
1939-1942
Secretary
Tewksbury
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Stephen G. Bean
Wilmington
SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
Herbert M. Larrabee Tewksbury
SCHOOL NURSE
Miss Edith E. Haines Tewksbury
ATTENDANCE OFFICER
Harry Wiley
Tewksbury
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
In accordance with a vote taken at the last town meeting a third school bus was put into operation as soon as possible. While this will materially increase our budget for 1940, all sections of the town are receiving better service than ever before.
At the opening of schools in September it was found that the Shaw- sheen School could not accommodate all the pupils from the south section. A room was therefore opened at the Spaulding school for the center first grade pupils and the eighth grade from the Shawsheen was transported to the Foster School.
If the enrollment continues to increase in the south section we feel that it would be economy for the town to build an addition to the Shawsheen school.
The High School was painted and in all of the schools some of the class rooms were painted.
Lockers for the High School are ordered and will be installed soon, so that every student will have one. As thefts of clothing have been reported in the past, parents are urged to see that their children are provided with locks and keys and that these lockers are kept locked.
The School committee recommend the sum of $59,769.00 be appro- priated for the schools for 1940 based upon the following budget:
Elementary Schools
Superintendent
$ 877.00
Supervisors
1,020.00
Teachers
16,950.00
Janitors
3,292.00
Transportation
6,000.00
Fuel
1,200.00
Books & Supplies
1,400.00
Health
1,500.00
Insurance
660.00
District
150.00
Miscellaneous
600.00
Repairs
1,000.00
$ 34,649.00
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High School
Teachers
$ 15,000.00
Janitor
1,300.00
Transportation
2,900.00
Fuel
700.00
Supervisors
720.00
Books & Supplies
1,500.00
Miscellaneous
2,000.00
Equipment & Repairs
1,000.00
$ 25,120.00
$ 59,769.00
Respectfully submitted,
MAY J. LARRABEE, Chairman J. HARPER GALE AUSTIN F. FRENCH, Secretary
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Madam and Gentlemen:
Subscribed please find my tenth annual report as Superintendent of Schools for Tewksbury.
By request my personal contribution to this report is reduced to a minimum. The reports of my associates, principals and supervisors of various departments including the School Physician and School Nurse are offered as presented to me.
The general condition of the school system, judged by results se- cured by teachers, is excellent. We have maintained our already well established high level of attainment and have exhibited improvement in some elements.
In the elementary schools in particular I feel that the town is get- ting a larger return on a small investment in salaries than is true of many towns. I recommend heartily that the town support your com- mittee in an endeavor to raise the salary level of teachers in the lower pay schedules. Nine of the sixteen elementary grade teachers are being paid less than a thousand dollars a year. All of these have been teaching for four or more years and some for nearly ten years. Most of these are receiving $950 a year. This means that for each week of actual teaching, allowing 38 weeks to the year, each teacher is paid $25.00 a week. The fact is however that they have to live during the enforced vacation periods so that the earning capacity, on an annual basis of 52 weeks is but $18.27 a week. A good office worker or clerk can command, even in these days, better compensation.
There has been practically no change in the entire teaching corp during the fiscal year. One teacher, Miss Carboine, who was employed for one year as an assistant to Miss Reynolds in the Shawsheen primary grades, left at the close of the school year in June. She later secured a position in Medford. No teacher was elected to this position. At the very end of the year Mr. Frank Maria of the high school staff accepted a position in the Lowell school system. Mr. Maria was an excellent teacher and a very successful coach of basketball. It seems a pity that our salary schedule makes it impossible to hold valuable teachers.
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The most serious problem of the year resulted from an unexpected increase in enrollment in the Shawsheen school. We were fortunate to have available the primary room in the Spaulding school. The problem was solved by moving the first grade of more than forty pupils from the Foster to the Spaulding school. This left available room for the eighth grade from the Shawsheen school, which in turn allowed a redistribution of pupils in the Shawsheen building creating a new class to be taught by Miss Katherina who last year served as an assistant in the Foster school.
The health program in the schools continues to improve. By virtue of the excellent teamwork between Dr. Larrabee and Miss Haynes, the children, especially the under privileged, are getting preventive and remedial treatment which will prove of boundless value to them in the immediate and remote future. Advantage is being taken of the various clinics for prevention and cure of the more serious diseases.
To be sure we have had one of those periodic epidemics of the so called childhood diseases. Mumps, whooping cough and measles will get a start occasionally. They are all caught somewhere where people are crowded together and frequently are not recognized in time to prevent spreading. In too many cases the disease is not reported in time to seg- regate those not immune. Many parents assume the attitude that these diseases are inevitable and do not take measures to protect from them. This may be good reasoning but it does not seem necessary to risk some of the things which result from some of these childhood diseases by carelessly allowing children to contact other children while capable of spreading disease. I am told by the nurse that some children receive no medical attention during the run of the disease and would not be segregated at all but for our watchfulness in school.
It is a source of great regret that we were unable to retain the services of Miss Vittoria Rosatto as Art Supervisor. She is an unusually gifted and capable leader in this field and was doing an excellent ser- vice for the school children. Her successor is Miss Margaret Mercier, a young lady of excellent scholarship and preparation in this field. We expect this new teacher will maintain the high standards already achieved.
The work in the field of Music in the high school has continued under the capable direction of Miss Angelica Carabello. The concert presented early in the year gave evidence that our confidence in Miss Carabello was not misplaced. The quality of work done by the choruses in that concert and at the Belmont Festival was extremely encouraging.
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Music in the elementary grades has continued under the direction of Mrs. Alice Sturtevant. Under her guidance the schools are gradually approaching a normal grading so that each class is doing the type of work best fitted for its needs. This is also helped by the fact that we now have four multiple grade rooms.
Progress is being maintained in the high school according to the same standards in force since its inception. The report of the head- master is recommended to your careful consideration. I feel that Mr. Pearson is untiring in his efforts to make this school the great commu- nity asset for which it was created. There are some fine young people on the faculty and a good student body, all taking pride in Tewksbury High School.
The town owes your Committee a debt of gratitude for the most superior manner in which you have maintained the building and its surroundings.
The usual statistical tables will be found appended to this report. From these can be seen the present somewhat crowded condition of the school plant as a whole and should lead to some consideration of the need of planning for expansion in the near future.
Thanks are offered to all my associates for such loyal support as they have rendered. To the members of the Committee I offer my ap- preciation of all the support that they have given my efforts.
Respectfully submitted,
STEPHEN G. BEAN,
Wilmington, Mass. January 10, 1940.
Superintendent of Schools.
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REPORT OF THE HEADMASTER Tewksbury High School - January 1940
To the School Committe of the Town of Tewksbury:
Tewksbury High School began its fifth year in September 1939, and during the first term had a record enrollment of 246 students. This represents an increase of 6 over the registration during the first term of 1938, and an increase of 11 over the registration for the same period in 1937. When the school started in 1935, the registration totalled 203, so that there has been an increase of 43 students-over 25%- during the five-year period. At this rate the school will have over 250 students during the fall term of 1940.
The number of students who have registered so far this year is divided by classes as follows:
Freshmen
86
Juniors
61
Sophomores
55
Seniors
38
Post Graduates
6
Total
246
The division of students according to the courses for which they registered was as follows:
Commercial
71
College 50
General
49
Manual Training 26
Nurse's Training
24
Teacher's College 10
Home Economics
10 Post Graduate 6
During the summer of 1939 it was necessary to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Vittoria Rosatto, Art Supervisor, and the position was taken by Miss Margaret Mercier, a graduate of Ohio State University. Miss Rosatto is now Art Supervisor in Burlington. Miss Elizabeth Trickey, who served as a cadet teacher during the year, also left Tewksbury to accept a position in the Burlington schools. There was no other change in the high school teaching force during the summer of 1939, and the school started in September with the members of the faculty teaching the following subjects and extra- curricular activities :
HEADMASTER WHITMAN PEARSON-Business Law, World History, Problems of Democracy, Social Conduct.
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FRANK MARIA-English, Social Conduct, Basketball.
CATHERINE MAGUIRE-Latin, French, English, "Hi-Lights."
MARJORIE SCOBORIA-Junior Business Training, Algebra, Ge- ometry, General Mathematics, College Mathematics, Basketball.
KATHRYN CHANDLER-Office Training, Typewriting, Account- ing, Basketball.
PHYLLIS MORAN-English, Typewriting, Stenography, General Mathematics, Field Hockey, Public Speaking.
DONALD McSHEEHY-United States History, Biology, General Science, Chemistry, Algebra, Health, Hockey.
ROLAND BOURDON-Manual Training, Mechanical Drawing, Shop Mathematics, Ancient History, Dramatics.
EVELYN DUTTON-Home Economics, Interior Decorating, Boys' Cooking.
LAWRENCE McGOWAN-General Science, United States His- tory, Physical Education, Commercial Mathematics, Citizenship, Health, Football, Baseball.
Mr. Frank Maria resigned from the high school faculty early in January to accept a position at the Lowell Vocational School. His successor has not yet been named but the position is being held tem- porarily by Miss Elizabeth Mulry of Lowell.
In June 1939 the high school held its Fourth annual commence- ment exercises and forty-seven young graduates, attired in the tradi- tional caps and gowns, were awarded their diplomas. A complete list of the 1939 graduates follows:
Barbara Alexander
Virginia Scammell
Gerald Keough
Dorothy Bolton
Helen Simonitz
Allan MacLellan
Grace Campbell Rita Sullivan
Elias McCormack
Constance Currier
Antonia Zygelis Delbert Nash
Rose DiPalma Carolina Fantini
Gerald Barker William Bennett
James O'Rourke
Helen Gelinas
Warren Osterman
Elizabeth Gillissen Harry Blair
Albert Pestana
Helen Haas Margaret Kelly Athena Liakos
George Bowden
Ernest Broadbent
Albert Fisher
Frank Stanton George Tareila William Thompson
Tessie Liegakos Louise Marion Marjorie Martel Arlene Olson Mary Petraitis
Kenneth Fitzgerald
Thornton Gay
Lewis Tremblay Llewellyn Webster Louis Haas
Roland Gray Walter Jamieson Mike Katherina
Proctor Ransden
Louis Amiot
William Noll
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Special Honors
Valedictory, Rita Sullivan
Salutatory, Helen Gelinas
The May L. Larrabee Scholarship Awards RITA SULLIVAN, WILLIAM NOLL The Balfour Award HELEN GELINAS
The Melvin Rogers Baseball Award ALLAN MacLELLAN
The Melvin Rogers Football Award KENNETH FITZGERALD
The Sons of the American Revolution History Medal THORTON GAY
The Faculty Leadership Award MARGARET KELLY
The Parent-Teachers' Association Medal RITA SULLIVAN
Class President, William Thompson Class Marshall, Allan MacLellan JUNIOR USHERS
Theresa Mackey, Violet Bekshaw, John Cooney, Joseph Hughes Mr. Henry Harris, retired Headmaster of the Lowell High School,
was the guest speaker, and the diplomas were presented by Mrs. May L. Larrabee, Chairman of the School Committee.
As a constant incentive toward good scholarship, the school re- quires that a student earn 80 credit points before he is eligible for a diploma, and 70% is maintained as a passing mark in all subjects. No student is allowed to participate in school athletics unless he or she is passing three major subjects.
Every six weeks, in addition to the regular Honor Roll, a special High Honors list is made up including those students whose marks have averaged over 90%. Worthy of special mention are the follow- ing students who were consistent members of the High Honors group:
George Liegakos Eleanor Fitzgerald William Noll
Rita Sullivan
Martin Haas
In June of 1939 Tewksbury High School was awarded for the fourth time the Class A certificate issued by the State Department of Education.
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The sports high-light of the school year 1938-39 was the winning for the second time of the Suburban Championship by the boy's basketball team.
A Public Speaking contest was conducted last April under the direction of Miss Moran and was so successful that it is planned to continue this event as an annual feature. The winners of the first contest were Etta Huddell and Allan Osterman.
In May the three Tewksbury High School Glee Clubs, under the direction of Miss Angelica Carabello, presented the first concert in the school's history, and the same month made a creditable showing at the state-wide Music Festival in Belmont.
A special Monday schedule was inaugurated with the beginning of the new school year which allows every student to avail himself of the following special subjects:
Art
Public Speaking
Social Conduct
Music
Health
Dramatics
Boys' Cooking Class
Tennis is becoming a popular activity at the school, and many students have learned this sport, which has more carry-over value than any other athletic activity sponsored by the school. The third annual tournament was contested during the fall, with the boy's championship going to Fred Dorsch and the girl's championship to Violet Bekshaw.
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