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BEVERLY INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
To the Honorable,
the City Council of Beverly:
GENTLEMEN: I herewith present to you the annual report of the Trustees of
the Beverly Independent Industrial School.
As this is the first report of this School, it is perhaps proper to recall
a few facts relating to its origin. For several years past, instruction in
mechanical drawing has been given in Beverly in evening classes. On October
21, 1907, the Massachusetts Commission on Industrial Education, co-operating
with the Beverly School Committee, established an Independent Evening Industrial
School with courses in machine drawing, architectural drawing and engineering
mathematics.
Under the direction of the Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Adelbert L. Safford,
assisted by the advice of Mr. Charles H. Morse, Secretary of the Massachusetts
Commission on Industrial Education and Mr. Frank Turner, Inspector of Evening
Schools, for the commission, the work of the Beverly Evening Industrial School
was systematized and developed so that in October, 1908, the School opened
under the principal ship of Mr. Walter H. Naylor, with largely increased attendance
and classes in machine drawing, freehand industries design, architectural
drawing, gas engines, engineering mathematics, shop mathematics, and industrial
applied science. The quality of the work in this school was highly commenced
by all who examined it. In the meantime, through the effort! Of Mr. Safford,
Mr. Morse and Mr. Turner, a local COmmiSSiOl1 on Industrial Education to study
the needs of Beverly in this direction was appointed by the Massachusetts
Commission on Industrial Education. This commission was composed of Mr. George
H. Vose, Assistant Superintendent in the Beverly factory of the United Shoe
Machinery Company, representing manufacturers of machinery; Senator Clifford
B. Bray, of the firm of Bray & Stanley, representing shoe manufacturers;
Mr. Albert W. Dodge, treasurer of the Carpenters' Local Union, representing
organized labor; Mr. James B. Dow, landscape gardener, representing the various
industries allied to agriculture; Miss Annie M. Kilham, representing industrial
occupations for women; Mr. Charles A. King, publisher of the Beverly Citizen
and secretary of the Beverly Board of Trade, representing the commercial interests
of Beverly; Honorable Samuel Cole, member of the Governor's Council, representing
as former member of the School Committee, mayor, representative and senator,
various interests to be allied and harmonized in the promotion of the purposes
of the commission; Mr. Walter H. Naylor, principal of the Beverly Evening
Industrial School and Supervisor of Manual Training; and Mr. Adelbert L. Safford,
Superintendent of the Beverly Public Schools. Mr. Safford acted as Secretary
of the commission. This commission reported to the Massachusetts Commission
on Industrial Education on May 10, 1909, as follows: