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and described thus: Beginning at the northwesterly corner of the intersection of Whipple Road and Pine Street; thence westerly along Pine Street to land belonging to Eva R. Colby, Florence A. Colby and the estate of John A. Richardson, which last mentioned land is shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Land belonging to J. O. Richardson Heirs, Tewksbury, Mass., May 28, 1932, Robert M. Jacobs, Surveyor," thence northerly along said Colby-Richardson land nine hundred fifty-two 15/100 feet to an iron pipe at land conveyed to the Town of Tewksbury by deed of Edith A. Cole dated August 20, 1915, recorded in Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds book 543, page 244; thence easterly along said land of the Town of Tewksbury about 435 feet to said Whipple Road, thence southerly along said Whipple Road to the point of beginning. Said premises recorded in the Middlesex North District Registry of Deeds, Book 154, page 478. Bernard J. Dougherty
Recommend this be referred for further study to Committee appointed by Moderator.
ART. 53. To see if the town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of erecting and constructing an elementary school building on the southerly side of Shawsheen Street on a parcel of land containing 18.6 acres more or less as shown on a plan dated June 30, 1954, scale 1" - 100 feet, Dana F. Perkins & Son, Inc. Civil Engineers and Surveyors, Reading, Massachusetts, which plan is recorded at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds, Plan Book 84, Plan 89, and for originally equipping and furnishing the said school building; determine whether the money shall be provided for by appro- priation from available funds in the treasury including the postwar rehabilitation fund and/or the sale of real estate fund, by taxation, or by borrowing under the authority of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and Chapter 645 of the Acts of 1948, as amended by Chapter 528 of the Acts of 1950 and Chapter 447 of the Acts of 1951 and Chapter 329 of the Acts of 1954; or take any action in relation thereto.
School Building Committee
Recommend $780.000.00 with method of financing to be sub- mitted in motion by 1954 School Building Committee. - One dissent.
ART. 54. To see if the Town will vote to authorize and empower, Loella F. Dewing, Joseph A. Aubut, John P. Murphy, Jr., John J. Cooney, William B. Carter, O. Rex Read, John F. Gleason, Everett H. King and William J. Houlihan to continue as the 1954 School Building Committee, to carry out the school con- struction program as voted under Articles 60 and 61 of the
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Annual Town Meeting of 1954 and to further authorize said committee to supervise, execute, or perform any duties necessary or desirable to carry out the action voted by the town under the preceding article calling for the construction, equipping, and furnishing of a school building including the employment of professional services, technical advice, securing plans, specifi- cations and bids for the erection of said school and to accept in the name of the town the lowest responsible bid submitted and to execute all legal documents and contracts, approve all ex- penditures and vouchers for services rendered or material supplied in connection with the same or take any action in relation thereto. School Building Committee
ART. 55. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Article 60 of the 1954 Annual Town Meeting, providing for the employment of professional services necessary to proceed with a school facilities construction program under direction of said committee. School Building Committee
Recommend $15,000.00 in event Article 53 is defeated.
ART. 56. To see if the Town will appoint a committee or author- ize any existing committee to investigate further school accomo- dations and particularly the practicability of acquiring the
Bancroft building and the land thereon from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for such purposes, such committee to consist of not less than five persons and to report their findings and recommendations to the town at a special meeting to be held within four months from the date of the annual meeting, or take any other action relative thereto, and to see if the town will raise and appropriate a sum of money to prepare preliminary drawings showing a proposed design of the Bancroft Building for school purposes or take any other action relative thereto.
Lloyd A. Fosse
Recommend Indefinite Postponement.
ART. 57. To see if the Town will vote to accept Section 6B of Chapter 40 of the General Laws which reads: Section 6B - A city or town which accepts this section may appropriate money for the purchase of uniforms for members of its Police and Fire Departments, or do anything in relation thereto.
Police and Fire Departments
Recommend Indefinite Postponement.
ART. 58. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate the sum of $650.00 for uniforms for permanent members of the Police and
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Fire Departments under Chapter 40, Section 6B of the General Laws, or do anything in relation thereto.
Police and Fire Departments
Recommend Indefinite Postponement.
ART. 59. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $550.00 to purchase a whirlwind power lawn mower to take care of the town cemeteries and commons or take any other action relative thereto. Leslie Collins
Recommend $550.00.
ART. 60. To see if the Town will vote to change the fourth line of the second paragraph of Article 12 of the Town Building Law to read "upon undisturbed ground." Marion F. Marion
ART. 61. To see if the Town will vote to strike out paragraph 7 of Article 12 and instead insert the following paragraph, "All dwelling houses shall have cellars." Marion F. Marion
ART. 62. To see if the Town will add the following section under the Town Building Laws "Section 7A. All new materials, methods of construction, devices and equipment for use in buildings that are not covered by other provisions of the Build- ing Laws may be approved by the Building Inspector after receiving approval of a committee of three members to be ap- pointed by the Board of Selectmen. Marion F. Marion
ART. 63. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of Health to re-negotiate the contract for the collection of garbage and waste. Board of Health
Recommend Adoption.
ART. 64. To see what sum the Town will raise and appropriate to implement the previous article. Board of Health
Recommend $4,000.00 to renegotiate contract for one year. - One dissent.
ART. 65. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to appoint constables in lieu of the present system of electing them, said authority not to be exercised until the expiration of the terms of those constables elected at the 1955 town elections. Selecmen
ART. 66. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $1,186.00 for the purpose of improving the street lighting in Tewksbury center or take any other action relative thereto. Selectmen
Recommend Indefinite Postponement. - Two dissent.
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ART. 67. To see what sum of money the Town will vote to raise and appropriate to provide for a parking area in front of the Highway Department garage. Selectmen
Recommend $500.00 to be administered by Highway Dept. L
ART. 68. To see if the Town will vote to install the following street lights, said installations to take place only after proper investigation by the Selectmen:
1 Pole #6 - Dewey St. 3 #5,9, 13 - Sullivan Parkway
1 #9 - Patten Road 1 5 " #28, 31, 36, 40, 44 - Foster Rd. 2
" #95 & 102- East St.
" #2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 - Tanglewood Ave.
6 1
" #16 - Lowe St.
1
" #6 - Chandler St.
1 #11 - Shawsheen St.
3
" #3, 5, 9'- Chester St.
1
" #6 - Whited St.
3
" #1,4,9 - Amos St.
1
" #4 - Temple St.
Selectmen
ART. 69. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $525.00 for the purchase of 75 chairs for the Ameri- can Legion Hall, this money to be expended by the Board of Selectmen. Selectmen Recommend $225.00. - One dissent.
ART. 70. To see if the Town will vote to amend Section 15 of Article I of the By-Laws, by striking out "annual election of Town Officers" and substituting therefor "annual town meeting."
Selectmen
ART. 71. To see if the Town will vote to transfer into the General Fund $3,000.00 voted under Article 29 of the Warrant for the 1954 Annual Town Meeting. Selectmen
Recommend Adoption.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant, by posting up attested copies thereof upon the Town Hall and at each of the Post Offices and by leaving at least 500 copies at the Post Offices and at the Town Hall in said Town, seven (7) days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
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HEREOF FAIL NOT, and make due return 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 thirty-first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five.
JOSEPH J. WHELAN JOHN D. SULLIVAN VICTOR N. CLUFF Selectmen of Tewksbury, Mass.
A true copy, Attest:
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CONSTABLE
ATTENDANCE OF FINANCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
HEARING ON JANUARY 17, 1955
8 MEMBERS PRESENT
MEETING ON JANUARY 22, 1955
6 MEMBERS PRESENT
MEETING ON JANUARY 25, 1955
8 MEMBERS PRESENT
HEARING ON FEBRUARY 2, 1955 7 MEMBERS PRESENT
MEETING ON FEBRUARY 3, 1955
6 MEMBERS PRESENT
Respectfully submitted, THE FINANCE COMMITTEE
O. REX READ, Chairman JOHN F. GLEASON, Secretary
ANTHONY ANDERSON HERBERT L. MULNO
LESTER W. BELL
HAROLD J. PATTEN
JEAN DOUCETTE
ARTHUR W. WELLS, JR.
ALBERT GILLISSEN ALLEN C. WILSON
LENOX KARNER WALTER C. WILSON
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- Annual Report
OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Town of
TEWKSBURY
OF TEW
S
TOWN
URY
INCOR
1734.
0
RATED
also Report of SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31 1954
SCHOOL CALENDAR
-
Open January 3, 1955 Close February 18, 1955
Vacation One Week
Open February 28, 1955
Close April 15, 1955
Vacation One Week
Open April 25, 1955
(Elementary) Close June 17, 1955 (High) Close June 22, 1955
Summer Vacation
Open September 7, 1955 Close December 23, 1955
School Holidays
February 22 Good Friday May 30
October 12
November 11
November 24 and 25
(and such other days as the School Committee may designate) The School Calendar may be subject to change.
No School Signals
When school is called off because of severe weather conditions, the following system will be used:
Between 7:05 - 7:15 A. M.
a. 2-2-2 blast on the Tewksbury Fire Station Alarm
b. 2-2-2 blast on the Tewksbury State Hospital Alarm
Radio Stations WLLH, Lowell, and WNAC, Boston and Law- rence, will carry announcements on their regular no school broad- casts.
When school is held in inclement weather, the parent has the final say as to whether or not her child should attend school.
School Census
October 1, 1954
Age 5-7
Age 7-16 1602
Age 17-18
Total
521
82 2205
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
-
Term Expires
Mrs. Loella Dewing, James Street
1955
Joseph Aubut, Whipple Road
1956
John P. Murphy, Jr., Dudley Road
1957
ORGANIZATION
Mrs. Loella Dewing, Chairman Joseph Aubut, Secretary
Superintendent of Schools
Thomas L. Rivard, 83 Whipple Road Office: North Street School Office open from 9 A. M. to 4:00 P. M., except Saturday
The Superintendent may be seen at his office by appointment. Telephone ULysses 1-2431 Clerk: Mrs. Thelma Whitehouse
School Physicians
Herbert M. Larrabee, M. D., 9 Central St., Lowell Telephone: GLenview 2-4321
Morris Kelman, M. D., 2 Silver Lake Rd., N. Wilmington Telephone: OLiver 8-4531
School Nurse
Mrs. Ora Maclaren, R. N., 1928 Main St., Tewksbury Telephone: ULysses 1-2198
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
To the Citizens of Tewksbury:
Brevity is used here to avoid repetition to be found in the school departmental reports, being submitted by our supervisors.
"Nothing is so constant as change," a condition this Committee finds itself facing, at nearly every meeting, in the matter of bringing about necessary or proposed adjustments of curriculum, equipment, schedules, procedure, and classroom space.
This Committee has held two and very often three monthly meetings in addition to the weekly meetings of the School Building Committee of which Joseph Aubut, our secretary, had the honor to be elected chairman.
During 1954, our school enrollment jumped from 1470 students to 1860 students, a gain of 390 students, which would require a thirteen room school of thirty pupils each. As a result we now have six first grades whose enrollment varies from forty-five to forty-nine pupils each. Four rooms have been put into use at the Foster School, two basement rooms equipped at the old Shawsheen School, and nearly all classrooms are much overcrowded. Classes will soon be occupying the Ella Fleming School. Thus far double sessions have been avoided. The work of our teachers in carrying this extremely heavy pupil load is greatly appreciated.
The Committee is much pleased with the benefits and progress in Remedial Reading with Fred Burnaby; in the Elementary Physi- cal Education with Nicklos Andronikos; in the Choral and Orchestral Music with Edgar Beal. Progress in the Art Department under Roberta Thresher has been most satisfactory and many fine exhibits have been attractively displayed in all the schools. The Rinehart Writing Method continues to make a marked improvement in the students' handwriting.
The numerous duties required of a school nurse have been carried on with professional acumen by Ora Maclaren. We are also grateful to have the work of the dental clinic carried on without interruption as well as the services performed by Dr. Herbert M. Larrabee and Dr. Morris Kelman.
In carrying out a long range program a Vocational Guidance Director, Joseph Bastable, was added to the High School staff in September.
At the Foster School, four second story classrooms, closets, and halls were painted in pastel colors, floors re-sealed, new fluorescent lights installed throughout the entire building, new yellow window shades hung, windows weatherstripped, entire exterior shingled,
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seventy-eight window sashes painted, roof repaired, and the heating and plumbing systems overhauled. The cafeteria and kitchen were redecorated and equipped with proceeds from the School Lunch.
We are most grateful to all our janitors and several men teach- ers who worked so hard at a minimum wage to get the building ready for September. A large vacuum cleaner and some classroom furniture was also purchased.
New contracts were made with our drivers and seven new buses are now in use for transportation.
Many more students are enrolling in our athletic activities under Coach Charles Hazel. Two assistant coaching positions were created for two men teachers. Mrs. Mary Walsh was hired as our Girls Basketball Coach in addition to her teaching duties. Much equipment has been purchased: shoes, helmets, jerseys, balls, shoul- der pads and tape cost over $600; new baseball uniforms over $300; the cleaning and repair bills over $800. The fees of required officials and cost of transportation run high. However, the physical training and development with a few moral values thrown in and pride in one's school, would seem to justify these expenditures.
Numerous repairs have been made at the stadium. Many new lockers are needed. Our water bill here is over $75.
Many more students are attending Vocational Schools, the tuition and transportation being paid by the town.
At the High School, the major repairs on the roof were com- pleted. Several classrooms were redecorated in pastel colors. Re- pairs on our sewerage disposal system cost $900.
A set of Encyclopaedia Britannica was added to the library.
More space and equipment are needed in the Commercial, Manual Training, and Home Economic Departments.
The summer playground project was carried out again with success under the leadership of Margaret Keith and Nicklos Andronikos.
During the National Education Week in November, 1954, Open House was held in all our schools with a very large attendance.
Regulations regarding a greater public use of our school build- ings have been prepared. Scout troops, youth basketball teams and Parent-Teacher Associations are now using them.
Eighteen women are now regularly employed daily in our four cafeterias where Type A government lunches, at 20 cents each, are served, Jessie Winter being general manager, under Superintendent Rivard. Lunch figures are as follows:
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Type of Lunch High School
No. St. School Shawsheen School
Foster School
Complete A
35,251
76,070 298
52,102
16,591
Free
70
857
40
Cash Income .. $
7,243.19
$ 16,341.69
$ 10,899.15 $ 3,418.14
Lunches served teachers totaled 6,331.
Milk consumption without lunch 223,900 one-half pints.
Total number of lunches served were 180,014
Cash from lunches amounted to $37,902.17 Checks received from Federal Aid amounted to $17,667.60.
After much study a teachers' salary schedule was set up, with the minimum salary being raised to $2700, and the differential of $1500 being maintained. This has brought about a very large in- crease in our salary budget in addition to the necessity for hiring twenty teachers, a secretary, and a janitor in 1955.
The School Committee wishes to express its sincere thanks and appreciation to all members of the entire school system for their diligence and cooperation.
At our April meeting with the Middleton School Committee, Thomas L. Rivard was again elected, unanimously, as our Union Superintendent, for a term of three years. His innate honesty, friendliness, diligence, extensive business and technical experience, knowledge of his profession, and his dedication to service, have proven him to be of inestimable worth to both towns. Under Superintendent Rivard's leadership we have made great progress in education.
The School Committee recommends that the following budget be adopted:
General Expense
Superintendent's Salary $ 6,100.00
Superintendent's Expense
425.00
Out of State Travel
100.00
Clerk's Salary
1,864.00
Office Supplies
300.00
Attendance Officer
300.00
Census
300.00
School Committee Expense
150.00
Expense of Instruction
Salaries
Supervisors $ 31,866.69
High School Principal
5,000.00
Elementary Principals
8,966.71
Elementary Teachers
131,678.85
High School Teachers
55,666.63
Substitutes-High
800.00
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Substitutes-Elem.
3,500.00
Home Tutoring
3,000.00
Textbooks-High
3,000.00
Supplies-High
3,000.00
Textbooks-Elem.
7,000.00
Supplies-Elem.
8,000.00
Operating Expenses
Janitors-High
6,725.34
Janitors-Elem.
13,450.68
Fuel-High
2,400.00
Fuel-Elem.
8,000.00
Miscellaneous-High
3,500.00
Miscellaneous-Elem.
8,500.00
Capital Outlay
New Equipment
5,125.00
Permanent Improvement
1,000.00
Maintenance of Plant
Repairs-High
2,500.00
Repairs-Elem.
2,500.00
Auxiliary Agencies
School Physician
866.67
Health
3,533.34
Physical Education and Athletics
4,000.00
Library
600.00
Elementary Physical Education
1,100.00
Transportation
High
24,000.00
Elementary
36,000.00
School Lunch
5,000.00
$399,818.91
Estimated Reimbursement for 1955
Chapter 70
$ 89,345.26
Transportation
50,000.00
State Wards
5,800.00
Vocatioanl Household Arts
2,100.00
$147,245.26
Net Estimated School Budget for 1955
252,573.65
This 1955 net budget of $252,573,65 divided by the October 1st enrollment figure of 1763 gives us a net per pupil cost of $143.26. If this budget were divided by the actual enrollment figure now of 1860 the net per pupil cost would be $135.79.
Respectfully submitted, LOELLA F. DEWING Chairman
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the Tewksbury School Committee:
I herewith submit my fourth annual report as Superintendent of the Tewksbury Public Schools .
"Rapid Growth" is the keynote of our school system today. Yet Tewksbury is no exception as the problem of rapid growth is common throughout the nation. Free public school education is one of the basic tenets of American Democracy. Continued progress of our educational system here in Tewksbury depends upon the ability and willingness of the citizens of the town to provide for this fast growing school pupulation.
Rate of Growth
Our rate of growth is reflected by the following table:
Year
Number of Pupils
1949 - As of Oct. 1st
863
1950 --
"
983
1951 - " " " "
1055
1952 " "
"
1164
1953 "
" "
„
1425
1954 - "
"
1763
1954 - As of Dec. 31st
1860
The present building boom has made it impossible to predict future enrollment. The estimate of two years ago indicated that our present enrollment would not be reached until some time in 1957. Until there is a leveling off in the current building projects it will virtually be impossible to accurately predict school enroll- ment. Nevertheless, an attempted estimate for the next three years is as follows:
1955
2257
1956
2593
1957
2876
School Facilities
This rapid growth of school population is indicative of the serious housing problem that faces the town of Tewksbury. A minimum of 48 classroms will be needed next September to house the first 8 grades. To date we have a total of 38 classrooms avail- able (Foster 8, North Street 14, Shawsheen 14, Ella Fleming 2). Thus we will be short 10 classrooms for the pupils of the first eight
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grades. Double sessions are inevitable. If the Ella Fleming School is used to house the special classes which are now required by law, the total minimum classrooms needed will be 12. The high school will have a tight schedule next year but the present facilities will suffice. The following year, however, a definite shortage of rooms will exist in the high school building. Already the present Gym, Household Arts, Industrial Arts, Science and Commercial Depart- ments are inadequate.
At the coming annual Town Meeting in February the citizens should give serious thought to the school building program. The proposed new school facilities are essential to the continuing high standards of education which have been an earmark of Tewksbury for the past few years.
Instruction
Teachers and administrators are working together on the modernization and improving of the educational system. During the past four years all basic textbook series have been replaced; a standardized system of handwriting, a new report card, and a cumulative record system adopted; an elementary physical educa- tion supervisor, a remedial reading supervisor and a guidance director hired; and the music department reorganized and in- creased with the hiring of two additional supervisors.
The next phase in this modernization program is an evaluation of the entire educational system and the writing of courses of study and handbooks of duties from the level of the School Committee down to the custodians democratically arrived at.
Any further discussion of our school system would would be a duplication of the reports of our Supervisors and Principals which are appended to this report.
I take this opportunity to thank the members of the school department and all departments of the town for their help and co- operation during the past school year.
Respectfully submitted, THOMAS L. RIVARD Superintendent of Schools
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AGE - GRADE DISTRIBUTION October 1, 1954
Gr./Age | 5 | 6 |7 | 8 | 9 |10 |11 |12|13| 14 | 15 |16|17|18|19|Total
1
107|149| 10 |
1
266
2
89|152
16
2|
1 |
260
3
86 114
13
5
218
4
40
82
15
4|
141
5
41
82
23| 2|
148
6
51
82|20| 6|
1
160
7
48|57|10|
9
1
125
8
1|17|53|
27
14
112
9
2|24|
48|
36| 6|
116
10
1 |
22
40|
5| 5| 2|
75
11
37|27|11| 3|1
79
12
12|30| 8| 3|
53
Sp. Cl.
11|1|5|
1| 1|
10
Total
107 238|248 |170|138|154|159|99|95|112|129|51|46|13| 4|1763
SCHOOL - GRADE DISTRIBUTION
Grade
1 |2 |3
4 |5 | 6 |7 |8 | 9 |10|11|12|SC|Total
Shawsheen
|133|132|110|
66|
75
516
North St.
133|128|108|
75|
73
42
559
Foster
118|125|
73
316
Total
266|260 218|141|148|160|125| 73
1391
High
39|116|75|79|53|10| 372
Grand Total
266|260|218|141|148|160|125|112|116|75|79|53|10|1763
Educational and Employment Certificates
Every person from 14-16 years of age must have an employment certificate or permit, and those between 16-21 years of age must have an educational certificate before starting work. These certifi- cates and permits may be obtained from the offices of the Superin- tendent of Schools, the High School Principal, and the Chairman of the School Committee. When one makes application for a certificate (or "working card"), he must apply in person and bring birth certificate and report of last grade attended.
Age of Admission to School
All children born previous to April 1, 1950 are eligible to attend school in the coming fall term. No entrance tests for children under the age requirement will be given.
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Changes in school personnel during the year were as follows: Resigned:
Margaret Keith - High School
Hamlin Smith - High School Andrew Melnicki - High School Helen Hunter - North St. School Marie Lapniewski - North St. School Ellen Kennerly - North St. School Marie Torpey - Shawsheen School Mary Shelvey - Shawsheen School Barbara Hill - Shawsheen School Thea Dantos - Shawsheen School Mary Rock - Shawsheen School
Appointed:
Mary Walsh - High School Ruth O'Connor - High School William Campbell - High School Norma Simard - North St. School Alice Mercier - North St. School Edward Pelletier - Foster School Ruth Cullinan - Foster School George Abodeely - Foster School Virginia Gauthier - Foster School Richard Gesner - Foster School Harold Hershfield - Principal of Shawsheen School Ruth Alward - Shawsheen School Miriam O'Heir - Shawsheen School Mary Coughlin - Shawseen School Jane Keddie - Shawsheen School Alice McGrath - Shawsheen School Veronica Hansbury - Shawsheen School Helen Reardon - Shawsheen School Virginia Quinn - Shawsheen School Clifton Symonds - Supervisor of Instrumental Music Joseph Bastable - Guidance Director
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