A sepia picture of the teachers in Maynard, MA in 1914.
Left to right:
Front: Mary Finn, Emma Jordon, Ellen Leonard, Gladys Daggett, Francis Brick (Superintendent of Schools), Edna Locke, Veronica Burdo, Lola Carter
(l to r)
Top: Ruth Bradley, Gert Weaving, __Nelson
2nd: Edith Colombo, __Bariline, Mary Weston, Doris Prescott
3rd: ___?, Howard King, Edna Paine
4th: Vieno Soliti, Leo To__, Mike DeGrappo,…
A sepia collage of individual student pictures from a fourth grade class in 1900. Children named on the back of the picture are (in no particular order): John Novick, William Ledger, Leona Howard, Barbara Masson, Mary Downey, Myrna Geottler, Ruth…
RIGHT to LEFT
Top: Elma Salster, Marion King, Ida Carbone
2nd: Helegar Saisa, Ernest Jarvi, Mary Kane
3rd: Leo Holt, Aili Aunela, Lulu Hekkala,
4th: Elsa Mark, Bernard Green, Esther Katvala
5th: Impi Sneck, Tyyne…
In the early years of transporting students the town had only one bus. You had to live on the outskirts of town. Mr. White was the owner and driver, and all grades were picked up on the same run.
The typical “letter sweater” was awarded to seniors who played enough to earn their letter. Through the 1960s, for boys it was football, basketball, and baseball. For girls, it was field hockey, basketball, and cheerleading.
The report is a summation of a possible regionalization of the Maynard Schools District with the Acton and Boxborough School Districts. The unification effort began in 1989 and ended in 1991. see PDF file for entire report
Historically housed pumps that moved water from tanks at the rear of the building. Water flowed from White Pond into the tanks and was pumped up to the reservoir on Summer Hill.
Survey from January 1960, conducted by the Board of Trustees, Maynard Public Library - "The Library will be grateful for your help through this questionnaire in determining how closely its services meet the needs of its readers".
A Maynard Public Library card for Helmi Nyholm of 20 Driscoll Ave., Maynard, MA, issued in March 1981. The envelopes for the Library cards were compliments of Assabet Savings Bank, Acton & Maynard.