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112 Music is a very important part of a child's education and to take care of this need, Mr. James E. Gregg was hired as Music Director. He spends each Friday with the chil. dren of the Samuel G. Davis -School and the progress being made in this department is noteworthy. We are very proud of our young people attending High School in Falmouth and anxious to help them in every possible way. Many times they have expressed a wish to remain after school for make-up or extra help but had no way home from the Town line. This has been taken care of with the assignment of a school bus two afternoons each week to transport the High School pupils from the Town line to their respective homes in Mashpee. As Superintendent of Schools, I am disturbed that we do not have a Public Library in the Town of Mashpee. School children and also adults need this facility more to- day than every before for reference materials, research pro- jects .and general reading. A library is a storehouse of knowledge which should be available to everyone. Mr. George Green who served faithfully as chief cus todian of the school submitted his resignation in the late fall and was succeeded by his assistant, Mr. Edwin DeWillis, Mr. Leigh Potter was named the new assistant custodian. One hundred and ninety-three (193) pupils are now en- rolled in the Samuel G. Davis School and because of the growth pattern, I foresee the need of additional classrooms in the very near future to adequately house the YOM people of school age in the Town of Mashpee. The School Building Needs Committee which was appointed following the special Town meeting in the fall of 1963 is presently studying the school housing problem with the Superinten• dent of Schools and will eventually present a recommenda- tion to the citizens in regard to the necessary educational needs.