Special Meeting on Bus Problem in Bristol
A Bristol School Committee special committee on pupil transportation will hold an open meeting Thursday night at 7 30 in the Reynolds School Auditorium. T Thomas Balzano chairs. The discussion covers the 1956 57 pupil transport plan including adding a 60 passenger bus and a temporary bus schedule starting September 5. Residents from Metacom avenue and newly developed areas are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reynolds School
T. Thomas Balzano
Metacom Avenue
Hope Street
Bristol
Back to School as 1630 Pupils Return Soon
School preparations reveal 1630 children returning next Wednesday with 109 first timers. Oliver and Rockwell kindergartens welcome 91 pupils and 18 first graders. Parochial schools open Sept 5, with 474 at Guiteras Junior High and 420 at the high school, aided by a postwar birth boom. Extended bus routes and a new 60 passenger bus join five total. Lunch prices rise across levels, and maintenance work covers repairs and upgrades across multiple schools under Albert R. Pontes.
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Oliver and Rockwell
Oliver School
Rockwell
Oliver
Burton
Guiteras
Edward Knzgerald
Metacom Avenue
Fitzgerald
Tupelo Street
Hope Street
Albert R. Pontes
Colt
Reynolds
Valley School
Bradley
Walley
Andrews
Pontes
First Football Call Issued For Colt High
Ralph Nash issued the first football call for Colt High School as players and managers are asked to report at 9 am. The annual Round Robin will be Sept 8 at Freebody Stadium Newport with Bristolians facing Rogers in two ten minute periods. Phil Coen mentors the Vikings. Previous Colt records show football 2-6 in league, 0-2 non league, 8th in Suburban. basketball 11-3 league, 1-4 non league, 3rd in Class C. baseball 10-3, 3rd in Eastern Division.
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Colt Grid
Ralph Nash
Colt High School
Freebody
Newport
Colt
Bristolians
Rogers
Phil Coen
Vikings
Three New Teachers Begin Duties at Bristol Schools
Three new teachers join Bristol schools for the new term. Patricia Foster will lead fifth grade at Bristol Public School. Mary V Flanagan becomes commercial subjects teacher at Guiteras Junior High. Alphonso Almeida will teach Portuguese part time at the high school and Rogers High in Newport to share duties with Frank Canario. A substitute English head is expected as the district searches for a full appointee.
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Bristol
Patricia Foster
Union Street
Mary V Flanagan
Central Falls
Alphonso Almeida
Fall River
Foster
Bristol Senior
Rhode Island College of Education
Flanagan
Guiteras Junior High
Central Falls High School
Bryant Colege
RI Honor Society
Theta Tau
Almeida
Frank T Canario
Rogers High School
Newport
Edward J. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
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Colt Sports
Buster Brown
Edwards Sundial Simplex
HUB Shoe
Slades Ferry
Somerset
Johnnie
Mary
Town Finance Corp
State
Miss Mary Flanagan
Barrington Renan Ant
CNTR
Shor
van Heusen
Englishtowne
Esquire
Towne and King
SWANK
Paris
Buttonwood Dair
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