INSTILL IN YOUR STUDENTS PROPER BEHAVIOR ON PUBLIC VEHICLES TO AND FROM SCHOOL. INFRACTIONS OF COMMON COURTESY IN OR AROUND THE VICINITY OF THE SCHOOL, REFLECT ON CALVIN COOLIDGE AND DISTORT OUR PUBLIC IMAGE.
NO WRITTEN PASSES ARE TO BE ISSUED TO LAVATORIES, SINCE THEY ARE EASILY DUPLICATED BY THE STUDENTS. ONLY WOODEN LAVATORY PASSES ARE TO BE HONORED.
JAMES J. MCHABE, ADM. ASST.
Miss Barrett
Joseph Ferone disrupted my 5th period math class through the door. He belonged in your English class that period but left your room without a pass.
Edward Williams of your homeroom talked in Assembly this morning.
Please take appropriate measures.
Frederick Loomis
Dear Mrs. Barnet, He said to apologize in writing but I didn't even talk in assembly today, teachers have it in for me because I am color. Loomis flunked me in math last term, it's not fair because I was in class a lot. He flunked me in hist. too even though it's not his subject. Teachers give the subject a bad name. He said he'll report me because he's prejudice.
Edward Williams, Esq.
FROM: JAMES MCHABE, ADM. ASST.
TO: ALL TEACHERS
AT THE END OF THE HOMEROOM PERIOD, PLEASE SEND TO ME THOSE STUDENTS WHO HAVE FAILED TO REPORT FOR CHECK-OUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING.
JJ McH
Bea As for above I'd like to oblige him, but how do I send him kids who aren't there?
Puzzled
INTRASCHOOL COMMUNICATION
FROM: 508
TO: 304
Dear Puzzled
Let it be a challenge to you.
Bea
FROM: JAMES J. MCHABE, ADM. ASST.
TO: ALL TEACHERS
DUE BEFORE THREE
Please fill out and send to 211 before 3 today the enclosed report on Physical Condition of Room. This is done monthly to insure the safety of all students. Check defects, if any, and name specifically any deviations or hazards.
JJ McH
ROOM: 304
TEACHER: S. BARRETT, SEPTEMBER 9
Door off hinges & banging hazard!
Sliding wardrobe panel doesn't close; side blackboard is on it and cannot be used. Deviation.
Book case in back of room missing 1/2 its door; can't be closed. Also, shelf splintered. Deviation and hazard.
Teacher's desk missing two drawers. Deviation.
Window in back of room broken; scattered glass hazard.
S. Barrett
TO: ALL TEACHERS
Disregard Bells.
Sadie Finch
Chief Clerk
FROM: JAMES J. MCHABE, ADM. ASST.
TO: ALL TEACHERS
THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL AND NO OTHER IS TO BE PLACED IN THE CENTER DRAWER OF YOUR DESK IN THE ROOM WHERE YOUR OFFICIAL CLASS MEETS AND LOCKED UP WITH KEY PROVIDED FOR THE PURPOSE. THIS MATERIAL IS TO BE KEPT LOCKED UP AT ALL TIMES EXCEPT WHEN IN USE BY TEACHER OR OTHER AUTHORIZED AGENT: ROLL BOOK, ATTENDANCE PADS, ABSENTEE POSTAL CARDS, SEATING PLAN, EMERGENCY SLIPS, EXCUSE SLIPS, TRANSCRIPT SHEETS, PROGRAM CARDS (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER), CONSENT SLIPS, TRUANT SLIPS (BLUE), PARENT LETTERS #1 (YELLOW), PARENT LETTERS #2 (PINK), EXTRACURRICULAR CREDIT CARDS, AND LUNCH PERMITS.
JJ McH
Dear Mr. McHabe
My problem is: I've got the material all right, and the key, but no center drawer. As a matter of fact, two whole drawers are missing from my desk. Please advise.
S. Barrett
ADDENDUM TO CIRCULAR # 108 ON SHELTER AREA DRILLS:
AT SIGNAL (THREE BELLS REPEATED THREE TIMES) FOLLOW EXITS AND CONVERGE INTO CENTER AREA BETWEEN PARALLEL BARS IN BASEMENT GYM. TO INSURE MAXIMUM SAFETY, ABSOLUTE SILENCE IS TO BE MAINTAINED AT ALL TIMES DURING THIS IMPORTANT DRILL. DO NOT LEAN ON HORSES.
JAMES J. MCHABE
ADM. ASST.
FROM: S. Barrett, 304
TO: Mr. Grayson, Custodian, Basement
Dear Mr. Grayson,
I need 11 additional chairs for 304, and someone to repair broken window and clean up scattered glass health hazard!
S. Barrett
No one down here.
INTRASCHOOL COMMUNICATION
FROM: 304
TO: 508
Dear Bea
What a curious place this is, where bells are rung to be ignored, where children are safe from atomic annihilation if they do not lean on gym horses, where a cry in the wilderness remains unheard. Is there "no one down there," ever?
Syl
COPY TO: Dr. Clarke Dr. Bester Mrs. Egan
Dear Miss Barrett,
It has come to my attention that you have neglected to fill out a Form B221 Accident Report of a fall from a chair incurred by a student in your official class. Such negligence may result in serious consequences. The safety of the students in our charge is paramount at all times. Before leaving the building today, you will please make out this report in triplicate, signed by the witnesses who witnessed the above accident.
JAMES J. MCHABE
ADM. ASST.
(No purpose is served in blaming defective equipment for failure to comply with instructions on locking up confidential records.)
JJ McH
Miss Barrett,
The theft of a valuable wallet from a student's unlocked locker on or about the 5th period today has just been reported to me. One of your students was observed loitering in the vicinity without a pass and is a strong suspect.
See me at the end of the afternoon homeroom.
JJ McH
Adm. Asst.
TO: ALL TEACHERS
Please ascertain and send to me before three o'clock today the number of students in your homeroom who have not had a hot breakfast this morning. POOR NUTRITION IS FREQUENTLY THE CAUSE OF POOR MARKS.
Frances Egan
School Nurse
7. And Gladly Teche # 2
Sept. 7
Dear Ellen,
I had begun a letter to you this morning but was interrupted, and now I can't find it in the flood of papers in which I am drowning.
Perhaps it's just as well; I couldn't possibly succeed in describing this place to you: the homeroom, the Assembly, the chaos of clerical work, the kids whom I had come to guide and "gladly teche."
I've been here less than a day, and already I'm in hot water. A boy had "incurred a fall" in class, and I failed to report it on the proper form. Another left the room without a pass and is suspected of stealing a wallet from a locker which wasn't locked because I had neglected to inspect it. This was Joe Ferone, the problem-boy of Calvin Coolidge, who earlier, in homeroom, had been flagrantly rude to me, and insolent, and contemptuous.
While I was writing you the other letter (Where can it be? Among the Circulars? Directives? Faculty Mimeos? Department Notices? In the right-hand desk drawer? Left-hand? In my wastebasket, perhaps?), during what was presumably my lunch period, Admiral Ass (a Mr. McHabe, who signs himself Adm. Asst.) appeared in my room with Joe Ferone.