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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., History of the Medford High School. (search)
of the school Friday, December 11, 1846, and continued therein till the close of the school year, June 30, 1876, at which time but one (James O. Curtis) of those who elected him was living. Mr. Cummings presented his resignation in May and the Committee enjoined secresy upon him in order that, without suffering the importunity of the unemployed, they might make quiet investigation among those in service and select the best man. In this they were eminently successful. The High School in Stoneham was robbed of its accomplished principal, Mr. Lorin L. Dame (Tufts, 1860), and he was duly installed in his present position in September, 1876. Assistants. The first assistant employed in the school was Miss Sarah E. Sparrell, who taught twenty-three weeks, from April 6 to September 28, 1839, at one dollar per week. The wages indicate that Miss Sparrell was but an Assistant pupil, though many a district school in the country was then being taught for a stipend equally or even more
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., Season of 1922-23. (search)
lf-hour of reminiscence which followed. The December meeting on the 18th was also held, for convenience, in the Mystic vestry. Prof. Arthur I. Andrews spoke on The Balkans and United States' Influence There, illustrating with views taken by himself,—a most excellent address but not largely attended. The annual meeting was held on January 15, 1923, in the slave quarters of the Royall house. It proved to be a very cold night and but few were present, some coming the long distance from Stoneham and Newton. The usual reports were made, but election of officers was postponed. February 19. Weather conditions bad and fuel conditions worse. A slight increase in attendance. Election of officers and interests of society discussed. The March meeting on evening of 19th was at the close of a rainy, dismal day. Fourteen (including three visitors from Somerville society) braved the sudden cold to attend. Miss Marion Hosmer, West Medford, read an interesting story of the old Wobur
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., The Medford High School under Lorin L. Dame (search)
he war, again teaching. With his red-lined army cape over his shoulders, the ex-lieutenant had applied for the principalship of the Lexington High School, and moved perhaps by the appearance of the handsome, ruddy-faced soldier as well as by his qualifications, the Lexington school board had accepted the applicant. And the Lexington school report of 1867 sounds the same note of enthusiastic self-congratulation at the close of the year. From Lexington he was called to Nantucket; next, to Stoneham, and finally, as the report puts it, the Stoneham High School was robbed of its accomplished principal, and the quarter-century's work in Medford was begun. There has been no source of information so valuable as that of the old school committee reports. From them one learns to respect anew the sense of civic responsibility, the sound scholarship and sounder judgment of the members of the old school board or the later school committee. In 1876 Mr. James A. Hervey was secretary and super