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office 2 0 0 2 — D L E I F E K A W F O N W O T WARREN SCHOOL The Warren School, whose lower two floors have been transformed into a modem Senior Center, which opened June 23, 2002, began its career of nearly 85 years as a school building on Wednesday, November 11, 1896, and remained in service until several schools were closed in 1981 for financial reasons. The year 1896 (the town’s fiscal year and town financial report went to January 31, 1897) was a very important one as the town’s third and fourth brick school buildings^ were erected. In 1847 the town, then known as South Reading, had gone on a building spree with four two room schools (only the historic West Ward still is in existence). Two years earlier a high school was started which in 1871 got its own new building, the present Town Hall at Lafayette and Common Streets. Then with a burgeoning population to serve Wakefield turned to brick schools, beginning with the four room Hamilton School at Albion and Lake Streets in 1883, a lot eventually surrounded on the east and south by the Harvard Mills complex. Then came the Lincoln School in 1892 on what was once called Academy Hill. By 1896 both the Warren and Greenwood Schools were built. The Greenwood School replaced a six room school as the seventh and eighth graders were being sent uptown. The Warren was double the size of the Hamilton and the Greenwood originally, although the Greenwood later was expanded in 1902 and again in 1924. Both the original name and the original site of the Warren were changed. The School Committee originally voted to call the new eight-room school the Highland School, although its site was really just below the higher ground of Jordan Avenue and the Converse Street hill. But the Grand Army of the Republic still was a potent force and its H.M. Warren Post 12 sponsored Article 9 of the May 12, 1896 Town Meeting, which unanimously agreed to name the school the “H. M. Warren School.” The original motion was for the “Horace M. Warren School” but apparently it was decided to have the shorter form to save money on the granite lettering over the three door front entrance (as a Senior Center the entrance is at the rear). Major Horace M. Warren was Wakefield’s most famous Civil War casualty. At a time when Northern soldiers enlisted for specific periods of time he enlisted four times, was wounded several times, and died August 27, 1864 at the age of 23 of wounds suffered at the battle of Reames Station eight days earlier. The site originally purchased from the town’s top real estate group was practically underneath Jordan Avenue, blocking out the sun from the lower floor, but there was much opposition to it (had the school been build where originally planned there would be no room today for a roadway at the west end of the building). The most vocal opposition at Town Meetings seems to have come from Michael Holden of Bartley Street and Jacob Hartshome who, with their allies, wanted the school to be built further east, apparently near Gould Street and what in the late 1930s would become the Moulton Playground. All the opposition succeeded in doing was to push the town into buying two lots rather than one, moving the school further away from Jordan Avenue and allowing more sun to shine on the classrooms at the west end of the building. Apparently the town had good credit as the school opened November 11, but the Town Meeting did not vote a $1200 appropriation to furnish five rooms until Monday, November 30 (the actual expenditure was $1038.95 by January 31). Only five classrooms were used originally for grades 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7 and 8. The principal, who had already taught in the local. Public schools for about a quarter century, was Miss M. Annie Warren, sister of Horace M. Warren. Out of the $36,000 authorized for the school, the records show $34,916.47 was spent. In 1896 the Superintendent of Schools was Charles F. Hussey. The six member School Committee consisted of Melvin J. Hill, Ashton H. Thayer, William B. Daniel, Mrs. Ida F. Carlisle, Selim S. White and Miss Eliza M. Greenwood. School Committee and Overseers of the Poor were the only two boards women could run for before 1920. The School Committee report in the 1896-7 Town Report stated “The years 1896- 7 mark another point in the school history of this town. The erection of two brick school houses and the removal of the Advanced Grammar School from its old quarters in the High School building owing to the steadily increasing numbers in the High School, are matters of considerable importance.” The reference to the Advanced Grammar School deals with its move on Monday, December 14, 1896, from the High School at Common and Lafayette Streets to the Lincoln School. The High School was growing in size and had graduated 20 in June, 1896. For a period in the 1990s, the building came alive as it was used by local cable television, which now has a permanent place at WHS. Today the bottom two floors are a place where the town’s 5000 senior citizens are welcome to pursue their interests. Robert D. Keohan Cover Photo Courtesy of Courtesy of Wakefield Daily Item Donald T. Young Town of WAKEFIELD STREET LIST A List of Persons, Male and Female, Residing in Wakefield, Massachusetts, 17 years of age and over, as canvassed by the Board of Registrars as of January 2002 Also including Emergency and Town Government telephone listing and Fire Alarm Chart Any errors or omissions should be reported to the Registrars of Voters promptly, as the data herein produced are as recorded on their office records. LOU ANN BUMSTEAD, CHAIRMAN JANE GOOD ALBERT R. McMENIMEN VIRGINIA M. ZINGARELLI, CLERK r • - •. ■ : ■ ■ ■ ' r ■5 ' ..... .. . : ■ ' ? . ■ . i" • b • •. • . ti ■ • . EMERGENCY NUMBERS POLICE or Ambulance .911 FIRE and Rescue.911 Your Town Government (All offices located in Town Hall 1 Lafayette St. unless otherwise noted.) Assessors .246-6380 Board of Health.246-6375 Board of Selectmen.246-6390 Building Inspector.246-6388 Civil Defense .246-6430 Collector of Taxes.246-6386 Dog Officer.231-0474 Fire Department, Crescent St. (Non-Emergency).246-6432 Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Main St.246-6334 Municipal Light Dept., 9 Albion St.246-6363 Police Department, 1 Union St. (Non-Emergency) ..246-6321 Public Works Dept.246-6300 Emergency Water & Sewer .246-6318 Retirement Board . 246-6396 Superintendent of Schools, 60 Farm St.246-6400 Town Accountant .246-6395 Town Clerk.246-6383 Town Counsel, 4 Avon St.246-6343 Town Treasurer, 11 Albion St.246-6340 Veterans Services .246-6377 Wire, Plumbing, Gas Inspectors .246-6388 TOWN OF WAKEFIELD POPULATION OF 2002 CENSUS 24,201 PRECINCT NUMBERS AND POLLING PLACES PRECINCT 1 MASONIC BUILDING SALEM STREET PRECINCT 2 CRYSTAL COMMUNITY CLUB PRESTON STREET PRECINCT 3 FRANKLIN SCHOOL NAHANT STREET PRECINCT 4 BLESSED SACREMENT CHURCH HALL MAIN STREET PRECINCT 5 & 6 WEST SIDE SOCIAL CLUB HARRINGTON COURT PRECINCT 7 MASONIC BUILDING SALEM STREET TOWN OFFICERS BOARD OF SELECTMEN* JOHN -M. GALLUCCI - 2003 KEVIN T. HAGGERTY - 2003 JOHN B. ENCARNACAO - 2004 ROGER G. MALONEY - 2004 PAULA M. PENNELL - 2004 AMOROSO CEFALO - 2005 STEPHEN P. MAIO - 2005 TOWN CLERK* VIRGINIA M. ZINGARELLI - 2005 MODERATOR* WILLIAM HARBISON CARROLL - 2003 TREASURER* PAUL LAZZARO - 2004 TAX COLLECTOR* KATHLEEN M. KELLY - 2003 TOWN ACCOUNTANT** KEVIN M. GILL - 2005 TOWN ADMINISTRATOR** THOMAS P. BUTLER - 2005 TOWN COUNSEL** THOMAS A. MULLEN, ESQ. - 2003 TOWN GOVERNMENT BOARD OF ASSESSORS* HOUSING AUTHORITY* EDWARD H. STONE, 2003 BETSY SHEERAN, 2004 MICHAEL J. MCLANE, 2004 ARTHUR J. ROTONDI, JR., 2005 DAVID A. LEDONNE, 2005 EUGENE N. RUGGIERO, 2006 ALFRED S. CONFALONE, 2007 ADVISORY BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS** MARK W. TARPEY, STATE APP., 2002 SEAN J. HURTON, 2002 MUNICIPAL GAS AND LIGHT COMMISSIONERS DENNIS M. OATES, 2003 ROBERT P. CURRAN, 2004 KENNETH J. CHASE, JR., 2003 MICHAEL P. MCCARTHY, 2003 BOARD OF HEALTH* GILBERT J. MCCARTHY, 2004 EUGENE J. SULLIVAN, JR., 2004 ANNE MARIE MITCHELL, 2003 JAMES H. MURPHY, 2005 PATRICIA A. ZINGARIELLO, 2005 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES* PLANNING BOARD* ARTHUR J. BEEBE, III, 2003 MICHAEL E. MCLAUGHLIN, 2003 CINDY A. SCHATZ, 2003 TIMOTHY J. CULLEN, 2004 PETER J. SCOTT, 2003 PAUL R. DINOCCO, 2005 DONNA WEST CONLON, 2004 PAUL J. SIMENZA, ESQ., 2006 JOHN HAVELICK, JR., 2004 MICHAEL A. STORELLA, 2007 TIMOTHY F. HEALY, 2004 FRED EMILIANOWICZ, JR., KRISTINA A CARRICK, 2005 ASSOC. MEMBER, 2003 NANCY C. DELANEY, 2005 HAROLD D. REGAN, 2005 TOWN GOVERNMENT - CONTINUED SCHOOL COMMITTEE* CONSTABLES* PATRICIA HAFNER BUKER, 2003 GERARD S. ALTERIO, JR., 2004 CHRISTOPHER M. LENNERS, 2003 RICHARD 0. BAYRD, 2004 CYRIL R. BODE, 2004 KEVIN J. LOPES, 2005 JOHN BOGHOS, 2004 MARY T. TECCE, 2004 COUNCIL ON AGING** WILLIAM E. CHETWYND, 2003 ELAINE M. MELANSON, 2002 JANET E. FILORAMO, 2005 JANET K. MIRANDA, 2002 HAROLD F. CROUSE, 2003 N.E. METROPOLITAN REGIONAL VOCATIONAL DELIA M. GIUFFRE, 2003 SCHOOL DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE* VIOLA S. SIMEOLA, 2003 VINCENT J. CARISELLA, 2004 ROBERT F. TIERNEY, 2003 GENEVIEVE T. HOWARD, 2004 BOARD OF APPEALS** FENCE VIEWERS** CHARLES L. TARBELL, 2002 RICHARD 0. BAYRD, 2003 RICHARD D. CARDILLO, 2002 JAMES H. MCBAIN, AIA, 2003 VINCENT J. CARISELLA, 2002 MICHAEL L. PIERCE, ESQ., 2003 THOMAS E. HUMPHREYS, 2002 MARGERY J. ERAMO, ESQ., 2004 FINANCE COMMITTEE** BOARD OF APPEALS - ALTERNATES** MICHELLE L. CRESTA, 2002 BRIAN E. FALVEY, 2002 QUIRINO M. IANNAZZO, 2002 PATRICK S. GLYNN, 2003 MARC LUCA, 2002 JAMES VALERIANI, 2003 ALFRED A. PALMERINO, 2002 KATHLEEN M. BEAULIEU, 2003 BOARD OF REGISTRARS** DENNIS P. HOGAN, JR., 2003 PHILIP F. MCCARTY, 2003 LOU ANN BUMSTEAD, 2002 J. EDWARD SURETTE, III, 2003 ALBERT R. MCMENIMEN, 2002 JOSEPH B. BERTRAND, 2004 VIRGINIA M. ZINGARELLI, 2005 KATHLEEN K. CRANLEY, 2004 JANE GOOD, 2003 WILLIAM F. CURRY, 2004 ROYAL H. EVANS, JR., 2004 CATV ADVISORY COMMITTEE** MURIEL M. MCCONVILLE, 2004 BRENDAN CONNELL, 2002 STEVE ZOLUD, 2002 HISTORICAL COMMISSION** JOHN M. GALLUCCI, 2004 NANCY L. BERTRAND, 2002 JULIANE M. GERACE, 2002 COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES** GENE A. MOULTON, 2002 HARRY S. KASBARIAN, 2002 MARCIA J. PHINNEY, 2002 WARREN W. MAGOON, 2002 JAMES E. CAFFREY, ESQ., 2003 RECREATION COMMISSION** LARRY A. HARDACKER, 2003 STEVEN CARR, 2002 KRISTEN A. NOREN, 2003 DANIEL P. CROWLEY, 2002 CONCETTO FERRARA, 2004 CHRISTINE M. GARGANO, 2002 THOMAS LUCEY, 2003 CONSERVATION COMMISSION** FRANK A. MICELLI, 2003 JANE GEHRON, 2002 ROBERT D. ROMANO, 2003 ROBERT J. ROMANO, 2002 SUSAN HICKEY, 2004 JOHN J. RUEHRWEIN, 2002 RICHARD STEVENS, 2004 SALLY T. GREEN, 2003 MICHAEL L. MERCURIO, ASSOC. MEMBER, 2003 FRANK J. LUCIANI, JR., 2003 JAMES CRONIN, ASSOC. MEMBER, 2004 DAVID M. SULLIVAN, 2003 PAUL DICKEY, ASSOC. MEMBER, 2004 MARSHA F. HORNE, 2004 FRANK CALANDRA, ASSOC. MEMBER, 2003 SEAN B. LEONARD, ASSOC. MEMBER, 2003 DAVID N. PETERSON, ASSOC. MEMBER, 2004 MATTHEW E. ROBBINS, ASSOC. MEMBER, 2005