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$9,135.00
Elementary School Tuition
Town of East Longmeadow, $10.00
Town of Ludlow, Continuation
School, 790.20
$ 800.20
Miscellaneous Auxiliary Agencies
Sackett's Typewriter Exchange, letters, $ 10.03 R. L. Studor, lettering certificates, 5.75
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Mrs. Fannie R. Pease, ribbon, 2.75
Edith S. Feustel, ribbon, 3.00
$ 21.53
New Equipment
J. L. Hammett Co., maps, globes, $ 53.90
Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., filing cabinet, 26.78
Kenney Bros. & Wolkins, seats, desks, 159.20
$ 239.88
Total expenditures for school support in 1923, $40,752.87
Schick Test
Appropriation, $ 200.00
Amount Expended
Dr. A. L. Damon, $200.00
Toilets at Glendale Schoolhouse
Appropriation, $ 750.00
Amount Expended
Edward E. Babb & Co., Kaustine toilet, $ 198.00
C. W. Vinton, labor, 137.80
A. L. Boylan, labor, 133.88
Marcy Lumber Co.,
280.32
$ 750.00
Note .- The total expenditure at the Glendale school- house amounted to $1,041.69. Part of this was for the new fence, new blackboards, and other repairs that would have been necessary even though the toilets had not been in- stalled. . An estimate of the charges for labor that should be made for installing the closets indicates that the whole appropriation of $750 can fairly be charged up as having been expended.
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APPROPRIATIONS NEEDED FOR 1924
General Expenses :
School Committee, salaries,
$ 150.00
Expenses, 20.00
School Superintendence and En- forcement of Law :
Salary, 1,020.00
Travelling allowance,
150.00
Other expenses, 550.00
Expenses of Instruction :
Supervisors' salaries,
800.00
Teachers' salaries,
19,000.00
Textbooks,
600.00
Supplies,
₹700.00
Operating Expenses :
Janitors,
1,700.00
Fuel,
1,800.00
Miscellaneous,
150.00
Repairs,
2,000.00
Health,
1,400.00
Tuition,
10,500.00
Transportation,
4,000.00
Renewal of insurance,
300.00
$44,840.00
ESTIMATE OF CREDITS ON ACCOUNT OF EDUCATION FOR 1924
General School Fund, Part I,
$2,880.00
Superintendent's salary, 580.00
Tuition of State children, 300.00
$3,760.00
Respectfully Submitted, THOMAS S. BOWER, EVANORE O. BEEBE, H. W. CUTLER, School Committee of Wilbraham.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Committee of Wilbraham :
Herewith is submitted my report as superintendent of schools for the year ending December 31, 1923.
Schick Testing
Under the leadership and direction of Dr. Damon Wil- braham was one of the first towns in this vicinity to ad- minister to its school children the toxin-antitoxin treatment for diphtheria immunization. As stated in the doctor's report, 289 pupils and teachers have been given the treat- ment. This treatment is complette when three injections of toxin-antitoxin have been given, but about six months after the final injection on the child should be "Schick
tested." In rare instances the Schick test will discover a child who has received the toxin-antitoxin treatment but has not been made immune from diphtheria. Such a child can then be given the treatment a second time.
While the toxin-antitoxin treatment does not cause a child the discomfort that often comes after vaccination, it is more of a task for the doctor. In carrying out the vote of the town Dr. Damon has visited each schoolhouse eight times. He has had the assistance of Miss Polson, our school nurse, Mrs. Henry Heim and Miss Cormier, my clerk. Mrs. Heim prepared the arms, Miss Polson steril- ized the instruments, and Miss Cormier kept the records. No additions to the salaries of Miss Polson and Miss Cormier were made because of this work, but Mrs. Heim was paid for her services and there was a charge for print- ing letters and forms. The appropriations by the town for the purpose proved meagre even for the payment of Dr.
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Damon, so the other items named above were charged against the general appropriation for support of schools under the heading "Health."
By its appropriation of last year the town has expressed its approval of the diphtheria immunization work. While the treatment is entirely optional, the parents of over half the children in the schools have asked for it. Its use is extending over the state rapidly. The school committee of Wilbraham should now assume that the project has the approval of the voters, and in its school budget the committee should make provision to offer annually to the parents of all children in our schools who have not yet been given the treatment an opportunity to receive it. Diph- theria has been no infrequent visitor in Wilbraham. Last year one of the pupils of our schools died of it. The cost of the immunization treatment is not to be weighed against the protection to the children of the town that will come from its general use.
The Unsolved Problems at the Pines.
For several years each annual school report has called attention to the inadequate schooling facilities at the Pines. The matter has been under consideration in several town meetings and attempts to ease up the situation and to solve the problem have been made, first by buying portables, then by an appropriation of $32,000 for a new building. Doubt- less the building committee appointed at the last annual town meeting will report on their attempts to carry out the vote of the town regarding a new building.
The problem remains unsolved. The enrolment for this December is larger than that of a year ago, and it . seems probable that another year will see a further in- crease.
At present 235 of the 475 children in the public schools of the town are enrolled at The Pines. Of this number about 140 are on part time, each pupil attending
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during the forenoon for half of the school year and dur- ing the afternoon for the other half. This is a severe handicap. I believe that, on an average, the children in the part time schools will take three years to do the school work they otherwise would do in two years.
According to the census of 1920 the population of Wilbraham is 2,780. Of this number but 798 are native whites of native parentage. The rest are either foreign born or of foreign or mixed parentage. The old Yankee stock is being submerged. The responsibility of government is rapidly being transferred. Every effort amounting even to sacrifice should be made to give the children from non-English speaking homes an insight into the spirit of our institutions, a substantial education in the history of our country, and an appreciation of, and sense of responsibility for, the duties of citizenship. There is no other adequate agency for this task than the public schools.
In my opinion the only practicable plan for caring for these children is by puting up a schoolhouse at the Pines. The town has a fine schoolhouse lot there, but if any other project could be shown to be better, the lot might be disregarded. Any plan of consolidation that proposes transporting these children to North Wilbra- ham or Wilbraham Street, it seems to me, must fail to take into consideration their number, the tender age of most of them, the problem of the noon lunch, and the jump in the cost of school support it would bring about.
There are strong, well nigh conclusive, arguments for the principle of school consolidation, but these argu- ments are meant for one teacher schools, or for the higher grades, or for the strictly agricultural town- ships found in such numbers in the middle west. Consoli- dation already exists at The Pines. If the citizens of Wilbraham will provide the type of schoolhouse which all the arguments for consolidation assume, the school department can maintain as good a consolidated school
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there as one can ask for, - and that without paying a cent for transportation.
The Glendale School
The special appropriation by the town at its last annual town meeting for the Glendale school made possible a great improvement in that building. The old outhouses, often hard to reach because of mud and water, always hard to keep in decent condition, have been done away with. The new chemical toilets are easily kept clean and supervised, and make for good morals and dis- cipline.
In connection with the installation of the tourets, it seemed best to rearrange the cloakrooms and build a new woodshed. Slate blackboards were also put in. Would that every citizen of the town could visualize the school both before and after the changes were made.
Changes in the School Law
Attention may well be called to changes in the school laws which affect the finances of the town.
In accordance with the provisions of a law that went into effect in September, 1922, if minors between fourteen and sixteen living in a town that does not main- tain a continuation school are employed in a town in which such a school is conducted, then the former town shall pay the latter for their tuition in the continua- tion school at a rate fixed by the Commissioner of Education, payment being made at the close of the school year in June. Under this provision Wilbraham paid the town of Ludlow over $800 last July and will probably receive a bill next July for nearly $1.000.
Another law which went into effect last September, requires towns like Wilbraham to furnish transporta- tion for their vocational school pupils on the same basis as for their high school pupils. Unlike vocational school
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tution, the transportation of vocational school pupils is made a charge against the appropriation for school support. support.
An amendment to the General School Fund Law provides that for the purposes of Part II of that law "valuation" shall mean the town's valuation, as deter- mined by the last preceding valuation made for the purpose of apportioning the state tax. This is a valua- tion arrived at by the state commissioner of accounts, not by the local assessors. In the case of Wilbraham it now amounts to $2,823,344. As grants from the state treasury in accordance with Part II of the General School Fund Law are confined to towns having a valua- tion of less than $2,500.000, Wilbraham now loses the aid it has hitherto received from this source.
Respectfully submitted, FREDERIC. A. WHEELER.
Report of the School Physician
To the Superintendent of Schools and School Committee :-
I herewith submit my report as school physician for the year ending December 31, 1923.
I was asked to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- tion of Dr. H. G. Webber in November, 1922. The annual examination for that year had been made by Dr. Webber.
I have visited all school buildings, made a physical examination of 489 pupils, vaccinated 80 and made two special visits at the request of teachers, one for illness, one for accident. In May and June, 1923, immunization of school children for diphtheria was taken up as voted at the annual town meeting. 185 pupils were im- munized. Of these 104 were Schick tested in November, 1923. In December, 1923, immunization was taken by 104 pupils and teachers. These will be Schick tested in
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June, 1924. I wish to acknowledge the hearty co-opera- tion of parents, superintendent of schools, school com- mittee and teachers in this work; also the efficient aid of Dr. H. E. Miner, Miss Polson, Mrs. Henry Heim and Miss Cormier.
Respectfully submitted, A. L. DAMON, M. D.
December 28, 1923.
TABLES OF STATISTICS
School Calendar, 1924
Winter Term: Wednesday, January 2 to Thursday, February 21.
Spring Term: Monday, March 3 to Friday, April 25.
Summer Term: Monday, May 5 to Thursday, June 26.
Fall Term: Tuesday, September 2 to Friday, December 19.
Holidays :-
May 30, Memorial Day.
Monday, October 13, Columbus Day.
Wednesday noon, November 26 to Monday, December 1, Thanksgiving Day recess.
School Census, April 1, 1923.
Boys
Girls
Total
Persons 5 to " years old,
60
53
113
Persons 7 to 14 years old,
283
277
560
Persons 14 to 16 years old,
46
43
89
389
373
762
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NUMBER OF PUPILS IN HIGH SCHOOL DECEMBER, 1923
Buckingham Junior High,
4
Myrtle Street Junior High,
8
State Street Junior High,
9
High School of Commerce,
11
Central High,
6
Technical High,
15
Ludlow High,
Total,
60
Vocational School,
4
Grand Total,
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HONOR ROLL
On Honor Roll of Springfield High Schools During 1923.
Lawrence Beebe
Helena Driscoll.
Mary Boden.
Helen Dickenson.
Harry Foxhall. Lorna Genge. Leda Kennedy.
Ruth Dickenson.
Edith Kittredge.
Perfect Attendance 1922 - 1923
Wilbur Barnes.
Jean MacDowell.
Clifford Rogers. Elsie Rogers. Kenneth Rogers.
Stanley Opalinski.
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GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRADUATES, JUNE, 1923
Mary A. Backus.
Myron F. Hithchcock.
Rachel Lula Bliss.
Francis Kane.
Irving Charles Clark.
Roy C. Lamotte.
Walter Hayden Clark.
Susan M. Lynch.
Lucille Robbins Crossett.
Rose Clair Meher.
Carl G. Dawson.
Malcolm W. Metcalf.
Hazel Eaton.
Wallace H. Metcalf.
Mary B. Foxhall.
Blanche E. Orpin.
Kenneth L. Gurney. Helen Leake.
Raymond A. Patnaude.
Dwight Phillips.
SCHOOL MEMBERSHIP AND ATTENDANCE
1922 - 1923
Aggregate
Attendance
Average
Attendance
Total
Membership
Average
Membership
Per Cent of
Attendance
Cases of
Tardiness
Cases of
Dismissal
Name of School
Stony Hill,
2342.5
12.66
19
14.24
89.
15
4
The Pines
Mrs. Burroughs
3800.5
21.86
29
23.95
90.41
23
4
Miss Schweppe
6058.
32.31
38
34.69
92.40
9.2
9
Mrs. Welch
6733.5
36.20
49
39.79
90.96
158
11
Miss Holland
6103.5
33.31
40
36.87
90.92
14
0
Miss Cronin
6352.
34.59
41
36.65
94.43
19
3
Miss Shea
6842.5
37.18
44
39.93
92.9
98
3
Edward F. Powers
1533.
8.26
11
8.97
92.08
2
3
Wilbraham Street,
Mrs. Pease
5798.5
31.17
40
36.
86
91
7
Mrs. Green
4547.
24.48
33
27.59
88.3
228
7
Mountain
3169.5
17.32
21
18.92
91.54
93
39
East Wilbraham
3628.
20.04
37
21.09
95.
13
0
Glendale
2618.5
14.32
20
15.29
93.33
8
4
North Wilbraham,
Miss Feustel
3840.
20.91
27
23.55
80.87
185
24
Miss Amiot
5708.5
31.19
41
35.03
89.03
41
50
Miss Connelly
5231.5
28.66
53
32.8
87.
38
30
74,307.
404.46
543 445.36
90.25 1,118
198
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MEMBERSHIP BY SCHOOLS AND GRADES December, 1923
Name of School.
Number of Grade
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Total
Stony Hill
6
1
4
2
7
20
The Pines
102
38
17
15
23
18
15
7
235
Edward F. Powers
2
3
5
1
1
12
Wilbraham Street
2
6
8
8
10
10
10
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East Wilbraham
5
1
4
4
2
1
2
19
Glendale
2
2
3
6
2
2
17
No. Wilbraham
20
11
9
14
16
6
14
15
105
139
62
41
51
58
43
47
34
475
CORPS OF TEACHERS, JANUARY 1, 1924
Number One, Stony Hill
Ruth M. Mason, 116 Florence St., Springfield.
Number Two, The Pines
Mrs. Ellen M. Burroughs, Prin., 37 Highland St., Springfield, Grades 7 and 8.
Florence I. Schweppe, 162 Westminster St., Springfield, Grades 5 and 6.
Mrs. Mabel E. Welch, 24 Alden St., Springfield, Grades 3 and 4.
Mary E. R. Sullivan, 119 Elm St., Holyoke, Grade 2.
Elizabeth F. Cronin, 88 Prospect St., Springfield, Grade 1.
Marian L. Holland, 218 Pearl St., Springfield, Grade 1.
Eleanor D. Shea, 889 Worthington St., Springfield, Grade 1.
Number Three, Edw. F. Powers Alice N. May, R. F. D. No. 2, Ludlow.
Number Four, Wilbraham Street
Mrs. Fannie R. Pease, R. F. D. No. 2, Ludlow, Grades 5 to 8.
Mrs. Millicent G. Green, Wilbraham, Grades 1 to 4.
Number Five, Mountain
Susie R. McCorrison, 151 Sherman St., Springfield.
Number Six, East Wilbraham
Mrs. Stella M. Warriner, 569 Main St., Palmer.
Number Seven, Glendale
Mrs. Minnie M. Sanders-n, North Wilbraham.
4
1
2
4
13
Mountain
2
-
-
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Number Eight, North Wilbraham
Edith M. Feustel, Prin., North Wilbraham, Grades 7 and 8.
Eleanor A. Whelan, 47 Huntington St., Springfield, Grades 4, 5 and 6. Mildred E. Connelly, 1108 State St., Springfield, Grades 1, 2 and 3.
Supervisor of Music
Mrs. Ethel C. Morse, 79 Leete St., Springfield.
Supervisor of Drawing Helen P. Bartlett, 128 Cambridge St., Springfield.
School Nurse
Signe L. Polson, 128 Middlesex St., Springfield.
Superintendent of Schools Frederic A. Wheeler, East Longmeadow.
REPORT OF TRUSTEES FOR COUNTY AID TO AGRICULTURE 1923
Together With Report of Hampden County Improvement League
Report of Hampden County Imprivement League, 1923 January 9, 1923. To the Voters of Wilbraham. --
Seventy-one boys and girls enrolled in bee, baby beef, canning, garden, poultry, home economics, dairy and fruit clubs; practically every poultryman in town co-operating with the county agricultural agent in eradicating disease ; orchardists getting service worth many dollars to them from the horticultural agent; and 24 women enrolled in clothing, nutrition and canning projects - these are some of the results of the past year's work in Wilbraham by the Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture and the Hampden County League.
This is but a small part of the service of the Trustees to Wilbraham farmers, home-makers and boys and girls. More than 30 days were spent by agents of the Trustees in the town working for better farm and orchard practices, time, labor and money savings in the home, and in the de- velopment of the youth of the town. Farmers benefited from the co-operative purchase of certified seed potatoes which increased their income $1500 ; orchardists grew bet- ter fruit, and B. B. Walker sold his crop through the centra! agency of the Hampden County Apple Growers' Associa- tion; poultrymen benefitted directly by the economic
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studies of the industry made by Samuel C. Hood at the re- quest of the Trustees; dairymen increased the value and health of their herds by tuberculosis eradication.
The Wilbraham town appropriation to the Trustees for 1923 was $150. Expenditures for boy and girl club leader- ship during the year have already totalled $125. Further expenditures for the same purpose are expected to use the balance before the 1924 appropriation becomes available. For the continuance of club work it is necessary that the appropriation be continued at the same rate as in 1923.
The League director for Wilbraham is F. A. Warren.
Respectfully Submitted, ROSCOE C. EDLUND, Managing Director.
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TOWN WARRANT
Article 1. To choose a moderator to preside in said meeting.
Art. 2. To choose a Town Clerk and Treasurer, one Selectman for three years, who shall be Overseer of the Poor, one Assessor for three years, five Constables, one Auditor for the ensuing year, one School Committee for three years, Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year, one Library Trustee for three years, one Tree Warden for the ensuing year, one Cemetery Commissioner for three years, all on one ballot.
Also all other Town Officers.
Art. 3. To hear and act on the reports of the Select- men, Overseers of the Poor, Treasurer, School Committee, and other officers.
Art. 4. To fix the compensation of the Collector of Taxes for the ensuing year.
Art. 5. To determine the manner of repairing the highways and bridges for the ensuing year.
Art. 6. To raise such sums of money as may be deem- ed necessary for defraying the expenses of the Town for the ensuing year and appropriate the same and vote how the same shall be raised.
Art. 7. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Treasurer, with the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money in anticipation of the revenue of the current financial year.
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Art. 8. To see if the Town will instruct the Selectmen to prosecute any persons selling or transporting intoxicat- ing liquors in this Town contrary to the laws of the Com- monwealth, or take any action in regard to the same.
Art. 9. To see what disposition the Town will make of the Dog Tax of 1923.
Art. 10. To see if the Town will grant money for the' observance of Memorial Day.
Art. 11. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) to be expended by the Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture for the County of Hampden in accordance with the pro- visions of Chapter 273 of the Acts of 1918. the same to be applied for the purpose of teaching and demonstrating better practice in Agriculture and Home Making.
Art. 12. To see if the Town will authorize the School Committee to equip the Wilbraham Street schoolhouse with sanitary toilets similar to those now in use at the North Wilbraham schoolhouse, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 13. To see if the Town will vote to raise a sum of money for the improvement and repairs on highways, under Chapter 81 of the General Laws.
Art. 14. To see if the Town will vote :
A. To enter into a contract with the City of Springfield Mass., to supply water to the Town of Wilbraham.
B. To authorize the Board of Selectmen to employ a · competent engineer to lay out a water system to supply the districts of North Wilbraham and Wilbraham with water.
C. To authorize the Board of Selectmen to install or cause to be installed such system, the same to be in-
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stalled under the law authorizing the assessment of betterments.
D. To issue notes or bonds of the Town to provide the necessary money to pay the costs of said system.
Art. 15. To see if the Town will have installed electric lights at suitable intervals on Maple street from E. W. Jones' corner to O'Leary's corner, then on Tinkham Road to the State Game Farm, and raise and appropriate money for the same.
Art. 16. To see whether the Town will authorize and direct the Selectmen to sign, acknowledge, and deliver in the name of and on behalf of the Inhabitants of the Town of Wilbraham, to William G. Rogers of Wilbraham, Mass., a warranty deed of the premises formerly known as the Schoolhouse and lot in District No. 4, said deed to be given to correct a former defective deed to said Rogers, executed July 26, 1911, and recorded in the Hampden County Regis- try of Deeds in Book 819 on Page 416, said deed to be de- livered without the payment of any money by the grantee in addition to that heretofore paid.
Art. 17. To see if the Town will indemnify the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims for land, grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or result from the laying out, construction or reconstruc- tion of any State Highway in the Town during the present year, and will authorize the Board of Selectmen to sign an indemnity agreement in behalf of the Town.
Art. 18. To see if the Town will vote to build, furnish and equip a new school building, on land recently acquired by purchase from the Ludlow Manufacturing Associates in the northwesterly part of the Town, on the easterly side of the highway leading from the Ludlow Bridge to Stony Hill and appropriate and raise money for the same by taxation or by an issue of bonds or notes, or script.
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Art. 19. To see if the Town will vote to divide the Township into two voting precincts to be used in all elec- tions directly pertaining to State and Federal affairs.
Art. 20. To see if the Town will build, furnish and equip a school building at North Wilbraham, to accommo- date the pupils above the third grade at the Pines, and the Plains and also to serve as a Junior High School and ap- propriate and raise money not to exceed $100,000.00 for the same by taxation or by an issue of bonds, notes, or script or take any action.
Art. 21. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate ($500) Five Hundred Dollars, for the use of the Wilbraham Post of the American Legion in carrying out the following purposes :
A. The proper observance of Memorial Day.
B. The collection and compilation of all data con- cerning the records of the men from Wilbraham who served during the World war.
C. The care of the Memorial lots at North Wilbraham and Wilbraham.
Art. 22. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate money to establish an electric light on Maiden Lane between the residence of Thomas Smiddy and the State road, the same being a dark and dangerous corner.
Art. 23. To see if the Town will appoint a Town Forest Committee to investigate and determine the avail- able land suitable for reforestration, and raise and appro- priate the sum of fifty dollars for the same.
WIL. COLLI
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