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23.20
Alan Orde 27.00
$ 67.20
Vital Statistics Henry Hildreth, Town clerk $ 30.50
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Health Department
Victor Lussier Pharmacy, supplies
$ 18.49
Leslie B. Locke 25.00
Stewart V. McCormack
35.00
$78.49
Libraries
Library Treasurer
$503.75
E. H. Stratton, insurances
146.25
$650.00
Old Age Assistance
State Treasurer
$884.29
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Memorial Day
H. A. Wilson
$225.00
Return to Town
27.34
$197.66
Soldiers' Aid
Soldiers' Aid
$320.88
Parks and Playgrounds
Edwin Matott
$5.30
Edward Gray
34.19
Walter Dudley
5.40
W. W. Ladd
3.26
J. F. Woods
4.00
Davis & Goodwin Store, repairs
lawnmower
15.30
Wright Bros.
54.42
Collector of Internal Revenue
1.55
$123.42
Cemeteries
Edwin Matott
$120.88
Edward Gray
319.41
Walter Dudley
219.82
W. W. Ladd
8.27
Osgood Construction Co., cement
2.31
E. H. Stratton, repairs lawnmower
5.71
Charles Senter
27.00
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Collector of Internal Revenue 21.95
$725.35
Damages & Legal Expenses
Leonard G. Velishka, Bankowski suit $100.00
Ivory C. Eaton, Bankowski suit 50.00
$150.00
Taxes Bought By Town
E. H. Boulton
$334.19
$334.19
Miscellaneous
Police Dept. City of Nashua, Ambulance $ 60.00
Collector of Internal Revenue 12.20
Davis & Goodwin 1.00
- $ 73.20
County Treasurer
Hillsboro County Treasurer
$4833.30
$4833.30
State Treasurer
State Treasurer, special poll taxes
$1326.13
$1326.13
Town Dump
Wm. E. Bedders $ 40.00 $ 40.00
School District
H. A. Wilson, treasurer
$17,615.52
Dog Tax
298.86
$17,914.38
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REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF TRUST FUNDS
Date of Creation
TRUST FUNDS - Purpose of Creation
HOW INVESTED
Amount of
Principal
Rate of
Interest
Balance of
Income on Hand
First of Year
Income
During Year
Expended
During Year
Balance of
Income on Hand
at End of Year
1878
HIGH SCHOOL FUND Mary S. Farley, legacy
$9,246.44
Amoskeag S. Bk. $2,000.00 2
$45.00 $45.00
Merrimack C. S. Bk. 549.04 2
10.98
10.98
U. S. Def. Bonds 7,000.00 21/2
175.00 175.00
Loan & Trust S. Bk. 182.10 2
3.64
3.64
U. S. Def. Bonds
1,000.00 21/2
25.00
25.00
1916
Lucy E. Worcester, legacy
500.00
Loan & Trust S. Bk. 55.40 2
11.10
11.10
Hollis Sch. Dis., note 500.00 21/2
1916
Sarah Alice Worcester, legacy
500.00
Loan & Trust S. Bk. 555.40 2
11.10
11.10
1917
Franklin Worcester, legacy
25,000.00
N. H. Savings Bk. 1,000.00 2
35.00
35.00
Hollis S. Dis., note 1,000.00 21/2
Amoskeag S. Bk.
8,186.72 2
184.19 184.19
Hillsboro C. S. Bk. 2,000.00 21/2
50.00
50.00
U. S. Def. Bonds 13,500.00 21/2
337.50 337.50
Hollis Sch. Dis., note 500.00 21/2
10.00
10.00
1944 Emma F. Vandyke, legacy
3,000.00
U. S. Def. Bonds 3,000.00 21/2
75.00
75.00
$39,746.44
$41,028.66 $973.51 973.51
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1884
Samuel T. Worcester, legacy
1,000.00
1932 Clara E. Cutter, legacy
500.00
CEMETERY FUND - Perpetual Care of Lots 1894 - 1945 111 legacies and gifts
Loan & Trust S. B. 1,350.00 2
27.00
Mechanics S. Bk. 5,000.00 21/2
127.11 200.00
U. S. Def. Bonds 5,600.00 212
136.25
$11,950.00
346.36 290.36 200.00
436.72
SOCIAL LIBRARY FUND
1917
Sarah Alice Worcester, legacy
$ 250.00
Manchester S. Bk.
277.70 21/2
7.04
7.04
1917 Franklin . Worcester, legacy
5,000.00
Manchester S. Bk. 1,575.00 21/2
39.28
39.28
U. S. Def. Bonds
3,500.00 21/2
87.50
87.50
1918
Charles M. Stratton, gift
100.00
Manchester S. Bk.
100.00 21/2
2.50
2,50
1927 Lillian Worcester, legacy
361.72
Manchester S. Bk.
361.72 21/2
9.04
9.04
1931 John H. Cutter and
Susan Pool Cutter, memorial
160.00
Manchester S. Bk.
160.00 21/2
4.00
4.00
1932 Clara E. Cutter, legacy
500.00
Manchester S. Bk.
500.00 212
12.50
12.50
1939
Joseph B. Parker, legacy
500.00
Manchester S. Bk.
500.00 21/2
12.50
12.50
1941
Emma F. Vandyke, legacy
3,000.00
U. S. Def. Bonds
3,000.00 21/2
75.00
75.00
$9,871.72
$9,974.42
$249.36 249.36
JESSIE RIDEOUT FUND - Help of Needy Poor 1906 Jessie Rideout, legacy $ 559.50
Amoskeag S. Bk.
559.50 2
12.58
12.58
1934 Delia M. Smith, legacy
100.00
Amoskeag S. Bk.
100.00 2
2.25
2.25
$ 659.50
$659.50
$14.83
14.83
NICHOLS FUND Care of Public Square
1929 Charles J. Nichols, legacy
$2,000.00
U. S. Def. Bonds
2,000.00 21/2 71.64
50.00
121.64
1944 Capital Reserve Fund, Hollis
Amoskeag S. Bk. 5,500.00
TOTALS
$71,112.58
418.00 1578.06 1437.70 558.36
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AUDITORS' REPORT OF THE TRUST FUNDS TOWN OF HOLLIS, N. H.
We have examined the securities of the Trustees of Trust Funds of the Town of Hollis and find the following: HIGH SCHOOL FUND
Amoskeag Savings, Bank $10,186.72
New Hampshire Savings Bank 1,000.00
Merrimack County Savings Bank 549.04
Hillsboro County Savings Bank
2,000.00
Loan and Trust Savings Bank 792.90
U. S. Defense Bonds 24,500.00
Hollis School District Notes
2,000.00
$41,028.66
SOCIAL LIBRARY FUND
Manchester Savings Bank
$3,474.42
U. S. Defense Bonds 6,500.00
9,974.42
CHARLES J. NICHOLS FUND
U. S. Defense Bonds
2,000.00
JESSIE RIDEOUT FUND
Amoskeag Savings Bank CEMETERY FUND
659.50
Loan & Trust Savings Bank $1,350.00
Mechanics Savings Bank 5,000.00
U. S. Defense Bonds 5,600.00
11,950.00
Total Trust Funds $65,612.58 Reserve Fund, Amoskeag Savings Bank 5,500.00
EDWIN H. STRATTON, HENRY A. WILSON, DANA E. GOODWIN, Trustees of Trust Funds.
W. H. TOWNE
A. G. DAVIS,
Auditors.
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MEMORIAL DAY REPORT
PAID
Paid Hollis Band
$125.00
Louis Lull, busses
10.00
Flags
38.25
Soldiers' Markers
1.40
Supplies
17.01
Janitor of Town Hall
6.00
197.66
Received from Town
$225.00
197.66
Returned to Town
27.34
H. A. WILSON, Treasurer Memorial Day.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE HOLLIS SOCIAL LIBRARY
RECEIPTS
Balance on hand February 1, 1944
$ 8.99
Trustees of Trust Funds
249.36
Town of Hollis
503.75
Library Fines
7.00
$769.10
EXPENDITURES
Books
$134.69
Magazines
82.65
Librarians' salaries
222.00
Electricity
14.60
Supplies
15.48
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Wood Janitor
67.50 93.50
$630.42
Balance on hand January 1, 1945 $138.68
HANNAH E. SPAULDING, Treasurer.
Approved: A. G. DAVIS,
W. H. TOWNE, Auditors
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF THE HOLLIS SOCIAL LIBRARY
Books added : By Purchase By Gift
136
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Total
174
Circulation :
Adult fiction
3,002
Adult non-fiction 1,347
Magazines
1,710
Juvenile fiction
1,143
Juvenile non-fiction
811
Total 8,013
M. LOUISE STRATTON, Librarian.
HOLLIS FIRE DEPT., TREASURER'S REPORT
Henry H. Hildreth, Treasurer HOLLIS, N. H.
January 2, 1945
To the Town of Hollis, N. H. Payroll for Fire Department, February 1, - Decem- ber 31, 1944 for the following members:
Salary Fires Total
Barnard, H
$11.00 $1.50 $12.50
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Marvell, Kenneth
11.00
8.25
19.25
Wright, A. Earl
11.00
5.50
16.50
Lund, W. E.
11.00
8.25
19.25
Guyette, P.
11.00
7.75
18.75
Bennett, Norman
11.00
7.25
18.25
Wright, M.
11.00
6.75
17.75
Audette, Wilfred
11.00
4.00
15.00
Howe, Kenneth
4.00
4.00
Stearns, Hobart
9.00
3.00
12.00
Brocklebank, D.
11.00
7.50
18.50
Reed, L.
11.00
8.25
19.25
Hills, J. C.
11.00
1.00
12.00
Stearns, Granville
11.00
7.75
18.75
Parkhurst, W.
6.00
4.50
10.50
Bell, Hartwell
6.00
1.50
7.50
Brown, Roscoe
12.50
9.75
22.25
Simonds, E.
11.00
4.75
15.75
Wright, W.
11.00
5.75
16.75
Warren, H.
11.00
10.75
21.75
Dow, C.
11.00
9.75
20.75
Worcester, F.
11.00
2.75
13.75
Bell, Woodbury
11.00
6.25
17.25
Hayden, R.
11.00
5.50
16.50
Sanders, D.
11.00
2.00
13.00
Bennett, K.
11.00
13.25
24.25
Lupien, W.
11.00
1.00
12.00
Hildreth, H.
11.00
7.75
18.75
Morrill, H.
11.00
3.50
14.50
Parkhurst, H.
11.00
2.75
13.75
Whitemore, F.
10.00
2.75
12.75
TOTAL
322.50
166.00
488.50
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Annual Reports of the Officers
of the
SCHOOL DISTRICT
For the year ending June 30, 1944
ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE OFFICERS OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT For the Year Ending June 30, 1944
SCHOOL. OFFICERS
Mrs. Ruth E. Wheeler, Chairman
Term expires 1945
Mr. Daniel Brocklebank, Secretary
Term expires 1946
Mr. Arthur Davis Term expires 1947
Mr. Harold C. Bowley, Milford, N. H. Superintendent
Mr. Henry A. Wilson Treasurer and Clerk
Mr. Warren Towne Moderator
Mr. Harold E. Hardy Auditor
Mr. Dana Goodwin Auditor
Mrs. Helen J. House, R. N., Hudson, N. H. Nurse
Dr. Abbott L. Winograd, Nashua, N. H. Physician
SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 1944 - 1945
Begin
Close
September 6, 1944
December 21, 1944
January 2, 1945
February 16, 1945
February 26, 1945
April 20, 1945
April 30, 1945
end of year
Holidays: Nov. 23, 24 - May 30
PROPOSED SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 1945 - 1946
September 5, 1945 January 2, 1946 February 25, 1946
December 21, 1945
February 15, 1946 April 19, 1946
April end of year
Holidays : Nov. 22, 23 - May 30
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1000, Sus 100. To Increase athi
SCHOOL WARRANT
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
To the inhabitants of the School district in the town of Hollis, N. H. qualified to vote in district affairs :
You are hereby notified to meet at the Lower Town Hall in said district on the twelfth day of March, 1945, at eight o'clock in the afternoon, to act upon the following subjects :
1. To choose a Moderator for the coming year. W. Towne
2. To choose a Clerk for the ensuing year. H. Wilson
3. To choose a Member of the School Board for the ensuing three years.
Beryl Orde
4. To choose a Treasurer for the ensuing year. H. Wilson
5. To determine and appoint the salaries of the School Board and Truant Officer, and fix the compensation of any other officers or agent of the district.
6. To hear the reports of Agents, Auditors, Com- mittees, or Officers chosen, and pass any vote relating thereto.
7. To choose Agents, Auditors and Committees in H. Hardy relation to any subject embraced in this warrant. D. goodwin
8. To see if the district will vote to make any al- teration in the amount of money required to be assessed for the ensuing year for the support of public schools and the payment of the statutory obligations of the dis- trict, as determined by the school board in its annual report.
9. To see how much the district will appropriate for Insurance and New Equipment for Shop and Home Econ- omics.
10. To see if the district will authorize the School Board to enter into a new rental agreement with the
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Aurora Lodge, I. O. O. F.
11. To transact any other business that may legally come before said meeting.
Given under our hands at said Hollis, this thirteenth day of February, 1945.
RUTH E. WHEELER DANIEL BROCKLEBANK ARTHUR G. DAVIS School Board
A true copy of Warrant-Attest: RUTH E. WHEELER DANIEL BROCKLEBANK ARTHUR G. DAVIS School Board
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL BOARD
FINANCIAL REPORT OF HOLLIS SCHOOL DISTRICT
For the Fiscal Year July 1, 1943 to June 30, 1944
Total receipts .. $19,708.90 19,612.39
Total payments
Balance on hand June 30, 1944 $ 96.51
RECEIPTS
From States:
Smith Hughes & George Deen Fd. (Fed. Aid) $ 1,004.95
1017.97
Equalization fund (State Aid) 1,623.46
From Selectmen Raised by Taxation:
By appropriation voted March, 1943 15,500.00
From Sources Other Than Taxation: Dog Licenses 298.86
Trust Funds 1,003.98
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Rent of Hall to Odd Fellows Refunds
30.00 25.40
Total current receipts Cash on hand July 1, 1943
$ 19,486.65
222.25
Grand Total
$ 19,708.90
PAYMENTS July 1, 1943 to June 30, 1944 (Classification and numbering conform to State accounting system required in State-aided districts.) Administration :
1. Salaries of district officers $ 204.00
2. Superintendent's excess salary 266.00
3. Truant officer and school census 18.00
4. Expense of administration 49.95
--- $ 537.95
Instruction :
5. Teachers' salaries $ 11,541.31
6. Textbooks 327.15
7. Scholars' supplies 278.43
8. Flags and appurtenances 6.62
9. Other expenses of instruction 116.75
-$ 12,270.26
Operation and Maintenance of School Plant:
10. Janitor service $ 792.66
11. Fuel 489.77
12. Water, light & janitor's supplies 256.51
13. Minor repairs and expenses 703.25 -$ 2,242.19
read list.
Auxiliary Agencies and Special Activities:
14. Medical inspection and health supervision $ 250.00
15 Transportation of pupils 3,100.00
16. High School tuition
17. Elementary tuition
18. Other special activities 81.97 -- $ 3,431.97
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Fixed Charges: 19. State-wide supervision $ 388.00
20. Insurance
216.32
-$ 604.32
Outlay for Construction and Equipment :
21. Land and New Buildings
22. Alteration of Old buildings $ 209.99
23. New equipment 216.37 -$ 426.36
Electric
Debts, Interest and other Charges:
24. Payment of principal on debt
25. Payment of interest on debt
26. Payment of bills of previous year
3.55
27. O. S. Y. A.
19.26
28. Agriculture
21.58
29. Home Economics 54.95 $ 99.34
Total payments for all purposes $ 19,612.39
Total payments Distributed as Follows: Administration, fixed charges, interest, outlay and general expense $ 1,591.44
Support of High School 6,577.22
Support of Elementary School
11,443.73
$ 19,612.39
Respectively submitted, RUTH E. WHEELER DANIEL BROCKLEBANK ARTHUR DAVIS
School Board
AUDITORS' REPORT
July, 1944
We have examined the above and find same correct.
HAROLD HARDY DANA GOODWIN Auditors
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REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF SCHOOL DISTRICT For the Fiscal Year July 1, 1943 to June 30, 1944
Cash on hand July 1, 1943
$
222.25
Received from Selectmen:
Appropriation
$ 15,500.00
Dog Tax
298.86
Received from State Treasurer:
State Aid
1,623.46
Federal Aid
1,017.97
1004, 95
Received from Trustees of Trust Funds 1,003.98
13.02
I. O. O. F. Rent
30.00
1017.97
Refund
12.38
$ 19,486.65
Total Amount received
$ 19,708.90
Less School Board Orders paid
19,612.39
Balance on hand June 30, 1944
$ 96.51
HENRY A. WILSON, Treasurer
AUDITORS' CERTIFICATE
This is to certify we have examined the books, vouchers, bank statements and other records of the Treas- urer of the School District of Hollis, of which the above is a true summary for the year ending June 30, 1944, and find them correct in all respects.
HAROLD E. HARDY DANA E. GOODWIN
July 13, 1944
Auditors
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BUDGET FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR 1945 - 1946
A. Required for Support of Schools
Voted for Proposed for
1944-45
1945-46
Teachers' Salaries
$ 12,300.00 $ 12,500.00 -
Textbooks
300.00
300.00
Scholars' Supplies
400.00
400.00
Flags and Appurtenances
10.00
10.00
Other Expenses of Instruction
190.00
190.00
Janitor Service
850.00
500.00 - 2 price
Water, Light and Janitor's Supplies
225.00
225.00
Minor Repairs and Expenses
300.00
300.00
Health Supervision
350.00
350.00
Transportation of Pupils
3,100.00
3,250.00
Other Special Activities
150.00
150.00
$ 18,675.00 $ 19,135.00
B. Other Statutory Requirements
District Debt
$1,080.00 - 80. u.t.
District Officers
$ 254.00
254.00
Truant Officer and School Census
20.00
20.00
Superintendent's salary
266.00
266.00
$2. per capita Tax
378.00
334.00
-
Other Obligations (Administration)
100.00
150.00
$ 1,018.00 $
2,104.00
C. Specials
Insurance $ 31.00 $ 300.00 - to be re
New Equipment for Shop & Home Econ. 200.00
Deficiency
1,112.00
$ 1,143.00 $
500.00
Estimated Income of the District
State Aid 1800, aqui. 800, Home &c. 200. $ 2,800.00
Dog Tax
200.00 - less by
960.00 - y basis
Fuel
500.00
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Income from Trust Funds
Rent from I. O. O. F.
950.00 30.00
$ 3,980.00
Summary of Recommendations for 1945-1946
A. Amount required for the support of schools $19,135.00
B. Amount required for statutory requirements 2,104.00
C. Specials 500.00
Totals A., B., and C. $
$ 21,739.00
4,080.00 -3980, Less estimated income 100 less
3980,00
Net assessment required for School Board's $ 17,659.00
17,759
Budget 1945 - 1946
17,759
1,100
(Voted March 14, 1944 for the School Year 1944 - 1945
was $17,615.52)
18,859
RUTH E. WHEELER DANIEL BROCKLEBANK ARTHUR DAVIS School Board of Hollis
February, 1945
Salaries
1943-44
1944-45
Teacher Grade 1 and 2
$ 1,100.00 $
1,200.00
Teacher Grade 3 and 4
1,100.00
1,200.00
Teacher Grade 5 and 6
1,100.00
1,250.00
Teacher Grade 7 and 8
1,250.00
1,300.00
Teacher Home Economics
1,150.00
1,250.00
Teacher Agriculture
1,950.00
2,050.00
Teacher Music
330.00
330.00
Headmaster
1,900.00
2,000.00
High School Teacher
1,450.00
1,600.00
School Board Members - each
50.00
50.00
School Board Secretary
25.00
50.00
School Board Treasurer and Clerk
50.00
50.00
usted 341.
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REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
To the School Board and Citizens of Hollis:
I herewith present my 6th annual report, the 26th in the Series. I shall discuss but two topics: Teachers and Recommendations.
TEACHERS
All I seem to do is to find some new teacher, either regular or substitute. I cannot be free to attend to the duties I would like to, and should, perform. In the search for teachers, I need not remind you that the supply is limited. There are many reasons why teachers are reluctant to accept positions in a small town. These reasons are salary, living conditions, transportation, and too many grades or subjects to teach. The school board and the writer have experienced all these problems in trying to man the staff in Hollis. Many a school has had to close due to the lack of teachers. We do not wish this to happen here. Therefore, it is imperative that we appreciate the faithfulness of the present teachers and we consider it fortunate that other arrangements for schooling have not been made, that this opportunity has been accomplished at home.
The present staff is :-
Stewart V. McCormack
Headmaster, Mathematics
Edward V. Comerford
Agriculture, Science
Pearl Rideout
Social Subjects, Language
Mrs. Edith Batchelder
Home Economics, Civics
Mrs. Grace Lull
Grades 7 and 8
Mrs. Madeline Denault
Grades 5 and 6
Lucinda Read
Grades 3 and 4
Mrs. Helen Denault Ethelyn Edwards Music
Grades 1 and 2
The need for people to train as teachers is very great. War-time birth rates are high. These children will soon be old enough for school. What, with more children and a smaller number of teachers, will be the result? Now is an excellent time for a young lady to train for an
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important post-war job, which gives security of employ- ment at a more adequate salary than ever before. I urge you, perhaps in your own interests, to have your young people consider a teaching career.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. In order to attract teachers or even to pay them when they do become available, an adequate salary level should be developed. Build up a reputation for paying well long before the need arises for replacements. For your study, I suggest the following:
Training 1st yr.
2nd yr.
3rd yr.
3 yrs.
$1,200
$1,300
$1,400
4 yrs.
1,300
1,400
1,500
5 yrs.
1,400
1,500
1,600
It should be recalled that the average salary of elementary women teachers last year was $1,244.56; of secondary women teachers $1,586.03. These figures will, without doubt, be more this year and still higher next.
2. You have been very generous in providing for repairs, for insulating, and other similar items, that one hesitates to mention major items. However, to save expense in future years, the building should be painted. Exteriors should be painted regularly every five or six years.
I am very appreciative of the cooperation of the School Board and citizens of Hollis, and the faithful efforts of the teachers.
Very respectfully, HAROLD C. BOWLEY Supt. of Schools
February 3, 1945
Credits for Men in the Service
(These are approved for students from Hollis High School)
1. Credit may be earned for certain types of ex- periences in the armed forces and for correspondence courses provided the reports of such experiences and courses are made by the United States Armed Forces Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, with which we have been cooperating from the first.
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2. A maximum of two credits may be allowed for basic training in the Army; one unit for basic training in the Navy.
3. One who was a senior when he left high school will not be denied a diploma if he has not had U. S. Constitutional History and a fourth year of English.
4. One who rated lower than a senior when he left high school to enter the armed forces should plan on taking a year's course in U. S. History by correspondence. He should be advised to take additional courses in English by correspondence. If further courses are to be taken by correspondence, they should be selected on the basis of the young man's interests and needs and the value of the course in terms of high school standards.
GENERAL STATISTICS FOR SCHOOL YEAR, 1943-44
Number of different pupils enrolled
Boys 95 Girls 71
Total 166
Average Elementary Membership 106.77
Average High School Membership 44.98
Per Cent of Attendance for year 93.67
Number days schools were in session
176
Number cases of tardiness 123 -
Number not absent nor tardy 6
Visits by School Board members
51-
Visits by Superintendent 150
Visits by Citizens 359
Number School Board meetings held
13
Perfect Attendance, 1943-44
Thelma Glover, Margaret Small, Ernest Wildman, Frances Wright, Fred Nichols, Peter Roberts.
Return of School Census - Sept. 1944 Number enumerated 5 to 16 years of age Boys 81 Girls 56 Total 137
Number of children 5 to 16 in local schools 130
Number of children 5 to 8 not in school 5
Number of children 14 to 16 not in school 1
Number of children 5 to 16 attending schools outside 1
Number of children over 16 attending school 24
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REPORT OF HEADMASTER
Mr. Harold C. Bowley Superintendent of Schools
An administrator's task is largely determined by the policies which he is trying to carry out and which must be determined by a composite study of all local and other philosophies of education consistently interpreted in terms of the regulations presented to him.
In a "people's war", victory depends upon the efforts , of a united people able and willing to give their best to the common cause. How much of himself a person is willing to give depends upon his interest in the objective and is a measure of his morale. This morale may be simply the will to live, but it is in action that morale reaches its height. In action, in doing something, we express our belief and our wish to help in the common cause, and we find the best antidote against fear, useless talk, suspicion, the subtleties of propaganda, destructive criticism, defeatism, and all the other signs and symptoms of poisoned morale.
The morale of school has been the morale of action, of work for a specific purpose, of youth, eager and strong and daring, with all the world before it. To the schools of America the country turns for the training of its boys and girls in essential wartime skills; for the toughening of their moral, mental and physical fiber; and for the strengthening of their devotions to the cause of democracy. Many of our young people have gone or may go fresh from school to places which are nothing now but names on a war map, with the destiny of their country committed into their hands. Before all of them lies a world in ruins, to be built again, in freedom and in mutual trust, when the war is over.
It is essential for these young people to be conditioned mentally and emotionally to changes war will bring into the stable, secure life to which they have become accus- tomed. Such adaptability is the human capacity to change the environment to suit one's self or to change one's self
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to fit the environment. In this sense, adaptability is a quality of the intelligence. It is not the granite or oaken quality that makes an obstinate person prefer to be pul- verized rather than to admit that changed conditions call for changed methods of attack or defense. The most important adjustments which our pupils will be called upon to make are occasioned by the drastic upsets which war has brought into their lives. The fact that the growing-up process has been tremendously accelerated does not mean that the old problems of childhood have all been solved. The conflicting desires of wanting to be adult in outlook and achievement on the one hand and secretly wishing for the dependence and security of childhood on the other, will continue to bother many young people and will even be accentuated by the great things we now expect of them.
Parents and teachers who unite their youths in worth-while activities related to the new enthusiasms created by the war can do a great deal to help young people keep their balance in these troubled times. Like most educators, we are making a real attempt to adapt the curriculum to meet the challenge which is uppermost in the minds of youth-to promote opportunities for the acquisition of specific skills necessary for the war effort to give the training in mathematics, sciences, and foreign languages for which the armed services and the govern- ment are clamoring and at the same time to equip our pupils with the initiative, open-mindedness, stability, capacity for teamwork and leadership, and the physical and mental health and vitality that will be essential in the post-war period.
Under physical health I refer you to the health report which follows on another page. Mrs. House and Dr. Winograd should be commended for their intimate knowl- edge of the local problems and the constant follow-ups by Mrs. House. There are available valuable clinical facilities in Nashua which are not adequately used by Hollis residents although benefits would result from their use. The noon-lunch problem has been solved by the use of the public cannery in the basement of the school.
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Menus edited by Mrs. Edith Batchelder, Home Economics Instructor, are ably prepared in the well equipped cannery. We generally serve over one hundred pupils daily. Much food has been donated and this has contributed materially to the success of the program.
Physical exercise for the younger pupils is continually dictated by the weather. We tried having high school pupils supervise recess periods of games for the elemen- tary pupils and perhaps this program can be extended because there is a definite need for such a program. For the grades 7 - 12 we have curtailed most Fall and Spring activities leaving only basketball for the winter season. Membership on both boys' and girls' squads has been exceptionally good. Success as measured by games won has been negligible. Next year will find two full squads of boys with one season of competitive experience and a very strong girls' team. Perhaps the boys and girls of Hollis deserve more direct support of their health program. It is hoped that the prospective Recreation Council will be liberally minded and active enough to foster better financial and physical facilities for these youngsters. Most schools now promote informal gym training from the lowest grades. Our boys and girls are of the best calibre and should not lack for an adequate plant in which to operate.
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