L c-5 ?.A 1 1 1 5 // OF THE | Annual Report 1 l OF THE t $ Svipt. of Schools s I * Town * of Caribou! h 1915-1916 I AROOSTOOK REPUBLICAN PRINT CARIBOU, MAINE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS : :;ved N0V141921 DOCUMENT., > - .^lON 1 \5l Report of Superintending School Committee. T< i i he ( !il izcns of < a i ib< >u: Your Superintending School t'omroitte wish fa take rhin opportunity tcj express I heir appre- ciation ol the support and consideration of I he citizens mid officials of Hie town during (he year just piM . As will he recalled n rote was passed at the last town meeting to authorize the opening of a school iii the Lewis district if it should be deemed wise I»v the school committee. In order to in- form themselves on th^ subject as fully as possi- ble a meeting was called and all the people inter- ested in the re-opening of the Lewis school were notified and at the appointed time most of them assembled at the High Street school building. At that time two petitions were presented to the Committee— one from four parents, representing twelve children, that the school be re-opened. The other from nine parents representing twen- ty three children, [t was a significant fact that t lie live parents living farthest from the village all were opposed to having a school in that dis- trict. For these reasons the commit tee did not consider that the conditions warranted the open- ing of a school. Just before the opening of the fall term we learned that two families, having in all seven children of school age, had moved into the vicini- ty of the St. Peter school house, which had been closed for some time. As this would give a school population of twenty we decided that it would be best to maintain a school thtre which we have done —thereby doing away with two conveyance teams. ANNUAL REPORT OK Your careful consideration ia invited to that portion of Superintendent's report which deals with the change to an eight grade plan in the elementary schools and suggests some advan- tages to the be derived from such a change. Your attention is also directed to the suggestion that increased funds will be needed for the com- ing year if this plan is to be followed. In closing we wish to submit for your consid- eration these facts— that Caribou has one of t he largest school enrollments in the state, that the school enrollment and the school census are entirely disproportionate as compared with other cities and towns of the state, and that consequently the amount of money received from the state is less than in any other town having nearly the same enrollment. The following* amounts represent the mini- mum amounts which in our judgment should be raised for the ensuing year: Common Schools $10000 00 High School 4500 00 Text books 1200 00 Insurances and Appliances 1500 00 Repairs and General Expenses 3000 00 The reports of the several school officials are herewith respectfully submitted and recommend- ed to your careful consideration. Frank Riley] J L Raymond }S S Committee B* Griffin I School Superintendent's Report To th" Superintending School Committee and Ci1 izena of Caribou I herewith submit my fifth annual report on Hie condition of the school system of the town ( >f ( Jnrilx m. The most important event in the present school year is the completion ol the change from t lie nine grade system under which we have been working to an eight grade system. This has been done without any of the disorganization which has marked a similar change in some localities. The work of the past two years has been planned with this in view; and we can defi- nitely statethat no pupil, who is to be gradu- ated from the eighthgrnde next June, will be less thoroughly prepared to enter High school or to go out and earn hisliving than he would have been had the nine grade system remained in force. The eight grade plan necessitates the main- tainance of a school yniv of not less than thirty- six weeks; hut there are certain advantages ob- tained thereby which more than off-set the addi- tional cost. The child is kept in school for a larger proportion of the year, at a time when his earning capacity is practically nothing, and he is enabled to complete his elementary school work by the time he is fourteen years of age, provided he enters school in September after he is five and is promoted each year. Hav- ing completed his work in the grades he is much more likely to enter High school than he would be if he were one or two years older; so that, when he does leave school to go to work ANNUAL REPORT OF whether at graduation or during his course, his earning capacity will have be^n increased that much. And permit rae to say in passing that the investigations carried on by the Russell Sage Foundation, the U. S. Bureau of Education and others prove beyond a doubt that the boy who devotes four years to obtaining a secondary school education is making an investment that will bring him the very best returns. The efficiency of any school or any system must finally be measured in terms of the efficien- cy of the teacher and in filling such vacancies as have occurred we have striven to find the best teachers obtainable at thesalaries we could pay. The demand for trained teachers is greater than the supply and will continue to be; so long- as some conditions which prevail at the present time remain. We have on the whole been fortu- nate in our selections and we believe that the schools of Caribou are now doing the best work that has been done since we have known them. Jn the village the first and second grades have been on half time since the opening of the fall term because of lack of seating capacity. The work done has been very satisfactory for such conditions but we do not not believe that our children can do as good work in a long half-day session as they could do in two shorter sessions. In fact the few children in these grades that come in on the school teams and conse- quently are obliged to remain all day have demonstrated without any question that it is for our interest to supply sufficient school rooms to accommodate all our pupils all day. NEW RURAL SCHOOL BUILDINGS The condition of overcrowding is not confined to the village grades. One of the worst cases in town is in the Longlais school where the present enrollment is fifty-two and the seating capacity Hi PEIMNTfiA Dl \ I I >l Bf HOOL8 ly thirty eight. When I visited the school the smaller children were fitting three in a seal . Such condition* make it impossible for teacher ■>r pupils to do their best work and we would ommend thai some provision b< made for relieving this congeHt ion, •" the Green Itidge district the school house is located in the geographical center ofthedia- I rict but it bo happens that tin re is ao pupil living within lens than one-hall mile of the build- ing and that t bore are children living more than one and one-half miles away in three different direct ions. ^ It h;is h^n suggested that a new building be built near the Grange Hall bo that the stable there might be available Forthe use of pupils driving to school. We have the assurance of the |K?ople living on tln> road parallel to the river road that they will furnish conveyance for their children free of charge if this ranbedone. One team could convey all th children from the river road. In this way the expense of one convey- ance team could be s«ved and the children in that section of the town better housed. One of the oldest school houses in the town in in the Doyle district and although it has been kept painted and looks pretty well on the out- side it is one of the hardest buildings in town to keep warm in severely cold weather. \\> believe that this buildiug should he une of the first to be re-placed or thoroughly repaired. TBXT BOOKS The demands on i liisaccouut have been unusual- ly heavy this year but as there is no likelihood of any important changes in the texts in use it seems probable that the usual appropriation will be sufficient. INSURANCE AND APPLIANCES The appropriation in this account has been greatly overdrawn this year. The rate of insur- ance has been increased from ft 15 40 to $ 20 20 per thousand for three years so that when the ANNUAL KEPORT OF insiir;iii"(M)i) the several buildings in the village had been renewed, we had already overdrawn mil' appropriation by more than oi+e hundred dollars. The appliances, which include paper, maps, globes, chemical supplies. typewriters and supplies for same, telephone charges and cost of light ing, still had to be paid for to the amount of over nine hundred dollars. We won d suggest that not less than fifteen hundred dollars he raised for the ensuing year. KEPAIRS ANDGENliKAL EXPENSE ACCOUNT. No major repairs have been done during the past year, the largest piece of work being the cleaning and whitening of t he- walls and ceilings in the High Street building. The other work done has been that incident to keeping the rural buildings in ascomfortable condition as possible, building out-houses at the Lyndon Center and St. Peter schools and cleaning the several build- ings. The heaviest charges have been for rent of the o'd grange hall and for furniture forthe same This room is not entirely satisfactory bur it can be used if necessary. HK1II SCHOOL. An extended report on this school is not necessary from mens I am enclosing the report of the Principal, Mr. A W Boston, herewith, but it septus only just to state that the school has never been doing as efficient work as it is at the present since we have known it. At i he end of t he school year in June we lost by resignation, three of our leathers, Miss Bart- let t. Miss Spiller and Mr. Roberts. The vacancies were filled very acceptably and we have at the present tim^an efficient facul- ty devoted to the best interests of their pupils and the whole school. I would lespectfully request your careful eon- side? ation of the reports of the Principal and of the Director of Mumc which follow. Thanking your committee for the support which you have given unthrough-out our associ- tion. and teachers, pupils and parents for their hearty co-operation this report is respectfully submitted. Richard J Libby Supt. of Schools. Caribou, Maine March 1st, 191(5. School Superintendent's Reporl Common School Account Resources ' nexptnded h.il Feb 20,1915 $40 00 Appropriation 8000 00 Received from fcjtati (School fund mill tax) 7327 •_;•> Received from state common s.hoolfund 608157 Interest on school fund 85 00 Sale of wood l8 00 luition 4()() 121555 79 Expenditures Paid for Teaching, Village Schools J"£^ «radeVIII $458 00 , /,//^ ^;N w i l l i> . 1 1 Hi s VII & VIII 216 00^^ .J^^L^. + rc-o - Julia McLaughlin *dn \V HI wan -V#*=¥#t Beatrice Parsons Annie J Bishop Katherine Wilder son irts VII VI VI & VI V V IV IV III II I&II I I 192 00 492 00 216 00 192 00 180 00X£ 425 00 192 00 f&L 216 00 9-/^, 432 00 408 00 9** 408 00 408 00 ?U~ 216 00 168 00 *m^s wr£L~ 2 ANNUAL REPORT OF Florence Tibbetts III & IV 21(5 00 Kathleen Connolly III & IV 11)2 00 Killa Ramsay III & IV 216 00 Katherine Ilea ley III & IV 102 00 Lottie L Dunn I & II 102 00 Agnes A Long I & II 408 00 Teaching, Rural Schools Marie Hupp Albert School $330 00 Ola . Knowlton Bowles " 102 00 EvaPrue " " 110 00 GlennaDow " " 20 00 J Henry Castonguay Brissette school 196 00 Victoria Bouthot Brissette school 156 00 Anna Bouchard Belanger school 200 00 Elsie L'Abbe Belanger school 156 00 Herraon E Henry Chapel " 525 00 Catherine Daigle '• " 408 00 Lois Candage Doe school 363 00 Katherine Healy Doyle " 240 00 Modeste E Dubay " " 156 00 Florence Mann Green Ridge " 100 00 Gladys McCubrey " " 120 00 Catherine Morrison " "156 00 Alice V Russell Grimes " 363 00 Rose McLaughlin Harmon " 363 00 Ethel Frost Holmes " 341 00 Eva Prue " " 20 00 Maude E Scott Hardison "240 00 June E Nadeau " " 156 00 Velma Norton Lister " 130 00 Celia Wright " " 104 00 JHRobichaud Longlais " 408 00 Madeline Long Lyndon Ctr " 200 00 $6340 00 >i i'i:i;i\ f ENDENT OF SCHOOLS Maude Bailey Lyndon Center school s] 80 00 Martha Meagher Farn Bworl l school 372 00 • Georgia A vcHll Madawaaka school 240 00 A^ncs Hulhcrt . school 150 00 Kat hleen ( 'onnollv Pa mer Bebool 240 00 Jennie B Shea 4 * s< hool 1 .-)() 00 Levi Marl in St Peter 1:50 00 Jennie Shea Varnam a 144 00 Jennie Doyle . V 48 00 Li 11 wood ( hase k ' !< 50 00 Maria Rogers " 1 < 150 00 Maude Bailey Vance i ( 200 00 Madeline Long " (1 130 00 (Henna Dow Wright ( ( 200 00 Eva McShea (( 1 56 00 Substitute Teachers 11 00 $7266 00 Supervisor • of Music Ella M Wall 510 00 510 00 • 115125 00 Paid for Janitor, Village Schools J B Pike High St bldgs $615 00 Peter Page High school buildings 162 00 N P LeVasseur High St Primary buildings - 55 00 Philip Roach " " buildings 20 00 Ellsworth Trask " " " 25 00 Arthur Ouillette French " 55 00 Leo Parady " " 45 00 Donald Sampson Sincock " 87 50 ANNUAL REPORT OF Albert Smith Grange 4. - ) 00 -$1100 00 Albeit Belanger Bowles Brissette Chapel Doe Doyle Farnsworth Grimes Green Ridge Harmon Iiardison Holmes Lister Lougiais Lyndon Center Madawaska Palmer St Peter Vance Varna m Wright Paid Janitors, Rural School K a u (. (I Schools $16 50 16 50 1 6 50 16 00 87 50 16 50 16 50 24 50 16 50 16 50 16 50 2100 16 50 1100 16 00 16 50 17 50 16 50 «50 44 75 17 50 16 50 $460 75 $1570 25 Paid for Fuel, Village Schools Fred Forbes $1311 36 Ernest Hammond ? 7 50 Chas Bartlett °1 o0 E M Weller M uu Chas Kelley 25 50 Edgar Gary 2 50 C F Roberts ^ < ,)U SUPERINTENDENT 01 B HOOl - 8 Vt Collins & Son , (M) Fuel, Rural Schools Fied Paradj | 72 John Forbts 32 <„, Angus I f'Neal ; , M , R A MeDoU] ] ( ;| QQ nj Parady 79 ()0 GtO W Tracy 1( ; ()() Jennie Shea 3 ~ () Edgar Thompson 9 QO Frank E Langley j 50 Louis Viblette 12 00 Madeline Long 10 50 Xavier Belanger 4 00 Mrs Alice Hairy f; qq Willie Durepo 5 75 Alice Russell 2 50 Joseph Ouillette 4.3 oo J II Castonguaj :> 00 B E Benry l0 0() Lois fandage g qq Ltelor Cleavette 3 00 Fred Tracy 4 50 J II Robichaud 2 n0 B Griffin 45 50 CWPage 4550 John Meagher 3 75 Donald Sampson 15 00 J H Pike 1 25 Dennis Martin 475 50 Joshua O'Nea] 3 50 Xavier Bouchard 34 33 Joseph Prescott 33 00 Samuel Moj-in 99.r>0 Maude Bailey 3 00 J IJ. Hall 33.00 11827 B6 6 ANNUAL REPORT OF J. ('. Mc Dougall 2.00 812*4 63 13112 49 Conveyance, Village Schools James Don- $105 00 Mrs Eva Holmes 11000 Alex Cochran 168 00 C R I nomas 163 50 A J MeDougal 120 00 Joseph Forgue 2:54 00 Edward Cote 53 20 Mack Ouillette 86 40 $1040 10 Conveyance, , Rural Schools Felix St Peter |62 50 Octave Corriyeau 48 50 Carl Whittier 22 50 Benj LeVasseur 195 00 Frank Thompson 73 00 Chas Mooers 52 50 F E Kierstead 196 00 J C MeDougal 105 00 Louis Violette 110 00 Maxime Blanchette 97 50 C W Page 94 50 Ernest Hammond $10.00 Albert Holmes 15.00 James Argraves 35.00 F. W. Buzzell 52.50 *1 1 fiQ ^O •pi 1 l to. OKI $2209.60 Tuition Town oi' New Sweden $52.50 Total expenditures for Common Schools Exceeded appropriation $52.50 $22,069.84 $514.05 -in i;i\ I I \ DENT 01 P< HOOL8 High School Account Rea< >ui I fn expended balance 2 s - lieoeived From State 500.00 for tuition 590.00 Appropria t i i > 1 1 Teaching A. VV, Boston M. P. Roberts K. A. Stineon I lelen l\ Worster Emily M. Bartletl " Koxanna E. Spiller " Flora Billington Estelle I. Beaupre u Elizabeth Hanly " Agnes Shelton " 4200.00 Expenditui $1599.50 t99.96 450.00 850.04 293.15 275.00 574.76 325.08 325.08 27.1.04 Unexpended balance Feb. 20 1916 Text-book Account Resources Unexpended 1915 $155 40 Appropriation 1200 00 Sale of books 8 15 Expendi lures Allyn & Bacon $45.19 Atkinson Mentzer & Co. 31.90 Arthur J. Barnes Co. 18.05 A. S. Barnes Co. 4.89 Edward K. Babb&Co. 105.79 G. C Birehard& Co. 42. 16 Boylston Publishing Co. 21.00 Cressy & Allen 1.53 Oliver Ditson Co. 1.20 Ginn & Co. 451.36 15822.82 -$5467.81 $355.01 $1368 55 8 ANNUAL REPORT OP Gregg Publishing Co. 11.80 Houghton Mifflin Co 1 2.06 R H Hinkley Co 37 60 D C Heath & Co 23010 Luck hard t & Belder 2 38 Loring Short & Harmon 24 11 ■ Q Hariri Co 7 20 ('has Scribners Sons 171 Silver Burdett & Co 218 05 A M Palmer Co 8 44 liand McNally Co 81 Beni H Sanborn Co 55 58 $1337 91 Unexpended balance 25 64 $1363 55 Insurance and Appliances Account Resources Appropriation $ 1000 00 Sale of supplies 46 18 $1046 18 Exper iditures Insurance:— J B Roberts $316 20 W R Lumbert 210 24 W P Hamilton 192 80 A A Garden 420 96 $1140 20 Appliance*:— David DcMerchant freight and trucking $17 53 Aroostook Telephone Co 59 91 L C Smith Bros Typewriter Co 38 7o U L Wardwell Co 26 40 W P Hamilton 6 00 K -I Libby 45 24 Iloulton Business College 11(50 Royal Typewriter Co 30 00 Caribou W L& PCo 75 80 8UPERIN1 l \i>i.\ l OF SCHOOLS 9 T F M.mt, r 1 ;:. A W Boston 50 00 B \ t< in i > Xdvcs 4 50 BdwarJ E Babb & Co 306 30 Leslie 1" Jones g 00 Underwood Typewriter 1 '<> 20 00 Geo A Wright 1 9 7.', Smiley & Brown 1 7 57 .1 1. Ham met t <\> 119 47 Havey'a Pharmacy 1 7 62 Milton Bradley Co 89 42 LJ Pendell 5a 30 91010 95 2151 15 Exceeded appropriation $1074 97 Repairs Account Resources Appropriation f 2800 00 Overcharge Freight 90 $2800 90 Expend tures Edward E Babb & Co $40 00 A W Boston 56 10 MrsT B Brown 5 (»0 J B Bell 37 75 Maxime Blanehette 2 00 HC Bell 3 00 Briggs Hardware Co 39 30 Mrs X Bouchard 6 50 " X BHnnger 10 50 Mrs Jane Albert 10 00 Herbert Allen 12 00 American Heating Co 8 19 X A Cyr 6 68 J H Cnstonguay 1 66 Wilson Collins 15 75 Caribou W L & P Co 125 82 S W Collins & Son 21 16 10 ANNUAL REPORT OF Mrs Robert Colpitt 7 00 •• Allen Drake 5 00 " A Drost •"> 00 Dennis Deveau 1 6 00 Maria Doody 5 00 Newman Doyle 7 00 Mrs Frank Dube 12 00 David DeMerehant 62 10 Eugene Ellingwood 6 00 F Forbes High School Fuel 857 50 U A Gammon 22 80 A A Garden 25 00 EL Gary 8 75 Edward Giggey 14 00 H L Griffin 4 00 (iB Griffin 7 69 Orange Corporation 150 00 James H Glenn 4 90 W P Hamilton 5 00 C P Hussey 5 00 Chae V Howard 6 00 Highf&Page 13 89 Mrs Levi Lovley 2 00 Napoleon LeVasseur 11 00 F E Logan 10 50 R J Libby 40 00 Milwaukee Brush Co 34 00 Olaf Nylander 4 00 Mrs Wyman O'Neal 5 00 MEO' Regan 8 20 Arthur Ouillette 5 50 Ransford Maskell 50 00 Orient Spray Co 92 83 Knox Bros 8 75 Dennis Martin 32 80 J B Pike 250 50 Peter Page 535 50 Geo Putra 10 00 Frank Riley 5 09 John H Robichaud 7 50 SUPEMNTErs DENT OF s< HOOLfl 11 \Y ( ' SpHulding Geo Smith Alice Russell Searn & Koebuok A E Sum ere Standard Oil Co W II Theriaull Mis C E Wright 11 II Whitney II II Wood worth ( Overdrawn 298 13 5 1 10 8 00 17.", (in 8 75 13 54 6 50 10 00 46 l<> 5 l-~> -$3420 70 |619 80 I'J ANNUA] j KE PORT ( >F ENROLLMENT BY GRADES To;^l I II III IV V VI VII VIII High S.. Primar) Ku mi I 11 54 60 54 35 25 III 53 53 IV 49 49 H gh St. School •• I II 59 53 59 53 III 48 48 IV 47 47 High School Bldg. •• I 11 45 53 20 25 53 Old Grange Hall 43 43 Sincock School " 1 II 55 43 34 21 24 19 French School " ] II 42 33 22 20 2! 12 Albert School 13 3 2 2 1 3 2 Bowles 15 1 1 4 4 1 2 2 Belinger 22 13 2 2 1 1 1 2 Brissett 18 5 2 2 4 2 3 1 Chapel 61 14 13 12 6 3 8 4 5 Doe 13 1 3 4 2 Djyle 23 4 4 4 1 6 2 2 Farnsworth 30 6 5 5 6 2 2 2 Green Ridge " 27 10 3 3 5 3 3 5 Grimes 32 6 4 4 8 1 4 Harmon 12 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 Hardison 24 2 4 1 5 5 4 2 2 Holmes 30 8 6 2 5 7 1 Lister 15 4 3 2 3 2 2 Longlais 46 16 7 7 7 2 7 Lyndon Center School 29 8 2 4 2 5 5 3 Madawaska Bridge " 26 5 3 1 5 7 1 2 2 Palmer School 28 8 1 7 6 4 2 St. Peter " 20 6 2 3 5 2 2 Varnam 19 4 6 2 1 3 1 2 Vance 19 4 6 2 2 2 3 Wright 28 7 2 4 1 5 7 2 Total enrollment 1307 292 187 181 164 159 1 12 120 92 Whole number of persons between 5 and 21 years of s ige April I, 1915 2121 Number of above enrolled in elementary schools 1307 " High School 141 1448 Number of tuition pupils in Hig 'h Scl Tool 32 Total number enrolled in all schools 1480 SUPERIN'J KNDENT 01 8( ll"' 'I - 13 COMPARATIVE TABLE OF ENROLLMENTS VILLAGE SCHOOLS 19101916 Grade I II ' III IV V VI VII VIII IX Total 1910-11 120 12.5 65 54 56 51 50 35 II 595 1911-12 134 70 90 77 66 58 35 42 38 61(1 1912-13 119 104 69 76 72 55 45 35 11 616 1913-14 163 96 88 70 61 60 41 :{9 32 660 1914-15 160 114 86 94 69 59 51 47 39 717 1915-16 145 119 94 90 96 68 72 53 737 Increased enrollment in village schools 1910-16 142 '• rural " 1910-16 15 Total increase in six rears 187 Principal's Report To the Superintendent of Schools, Superintend- ing School Committee and ( it izens of Caribou, Gentlemen:— It is with pleasure that I submit my third annual report, 1 can justly claim that a gain has been made in several respects and while the results permit little boasting they do show that three years of hard work have not been wasted and indicate that even greater gains are possible in thefuture. The largest attendance in the history of the school gieeted the faculty when the fall term opened in September, the enrollment being 187. Since that time several have dropped out leav- ing a present attendance of 173. Taking t lie Superintendent's estimate of the number to enter next fall, it is more than probable that our school will considerably exceed 200. The gain referred to does not consider number en- rolled but the fact that the average attendance is improving and a laiger number of those at- tending are beginning to realize that successful school attendance means work— not only in school but at home. Parents, too, are awaken- ing to the fact that a high school student can- not prepare his lessons in less time than is al- lotted for recitation, which is the plan followed when home stu \y is not faithfully carried on. COMMEUC1AL EDUCATION I wish to explain certain conditions with reference to work in the Commercial Department. At present such demands are made on the de- partmem for opportunity to take commercial work that one teacher will not beable to furnish instruction. Two kinds of work are carried on rupemntbmdknt of schools 15 al the sa me time and continued every nigh 1 lonu < r l he closing hour of school. This is a i er« plexing question for, practical as this course is, we can educate more students in commercial work than <;in obtain employ ment. Aga n there is a prevailing idea that little preparation is needed for entrance to this work. This is n great mistake, it a two.vears commercial course could properly begin with the first year in high school we should certainly have it begin there. We have no desire to waste the student's nnd teacher's time or town money. A request that h student he allowed to take this work from the start must he denied tor the reasons already givpn. This is not a theory, it has been tried and found to he impract ieahle. FACULTY POLICY It has been my privilege the past year to he associated with a hard-working corps of teachers, who have directed ev< rv effort towards promoting the welfare of the students. They have kept in mind the general purposes and needs of t he school, in fact, there has been no waste of effort due to lark of co-operation. Out- side activities controlled by the school have been few, at no time numerous enough to inter- fere with the school woi k. Two musical elubs, tie 1 School Orchestra and the Girls' Mandolin Hub promise to be helpful organizations, ever t>ein^ willing to play at exhibitions, graduations, etc., free of charge. Concluding I will say that we have no other motive than togiva your children a sound High school education, in the usual time, four years. This in a tew cusps may besecured in three years, in others Ave may be necessary. I know of no Sadder thing in school work than to s<'(> a pupil lea ve school because preparation for a definite thing takes five years instead of four. No pupil 16 ANNUAL REPORT OF is served so poorly by our schools as the one who receives a diploma without that which it signifies. As this is written, one position on the Facul- ty is vacant, Mr. Stinson, the Sub-Principal, having resigned to accept a business position in Ohio. His successor has not been engaged. The names of the Faculty follow: A W BOSTON, B L Mathematics BOY A STINSON, A B Sciences and Economics HELEN C WOBSTEB, A B A M English ELIZABETH F HANLY A B English and History ESTELLE I BEAUPRE, A B Latin and French AGNES L SHELTON, A B Latin and History FLORA M BILLINGTON Commercial Branches Respectfully submitted, A W BOSTON Report of the Supervisor of Music To the Superintending School Committee and Superintendent of Schools, (Jen1 lemen:— The following report of the music in the schools is respectfully submitted. The teachers and pupils have done their best and we think have made marked progress the part year. We have bden greatly pleased with the work done in the rural schools. We find a steady progress in musical interest . In all our class room work in singing, from the third grad up, we insist upon the children knowing all the technical facts involved in each Bong that comes before them for study. In each case the key is named, the location of tin 1 key- note is learned, the time is named and under- stood, etc. A child should be taught to rend music as he is taught to read books, for his own individual delight. We have had two concerts this year in which classes from all grades of the primary and gram- mar schools took parr. Also a concert by the High school chorus and soloists. New books were bought for three rooms this year. The books in the other rooms are in good condition. Thanks are clue to the superintendent, teach- ers and pupils for their help in my work. Yours respectfully, Ella M Wall. Supervisor of Music. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS £ 020 950 981 7