Annie Morton

Annie Morton was a young teacher from Lawrence who taught the first and second grades in three Billerica schools from 1922 to 1925. She trained at the Lowell Normal School, and the teacher list of January 1924 credits her with one year of experience before she came to Billerica. The superintendent's report for 1922 records that "Miss Morton and Miss Gill" began service that autumn "at the new school at Pinehurst." The building was not ready for occupancy in September, which crowded the Pollard School in the Center, and the Pinehurst classes were taught for a time at the Old Howe building until they could be moved. By December 1922 she had 28 pupils in Grades I and II at Pinehurst.

In September 1923 she moved to the Pollard School in the Center, where, as the superintendent wrote, "Miss Annie Morton who had a year's experience in the Pinehurst School succeeded Miss Edith Smith," and Miss Arlene Carter of Woburn took her place at Pinehurst. At the Pollard she taught a combined second and first grade of 31 pupils. A year later the Talbot School in North Billerica lost seven of its nine teachers, and in September 1924 she was "transferred from the Pollard to care for the difficult two platoon system necessary in the first grade" there, under the new principal, Miss Hilda Holman. In December 1924 her first grade at the Talbot School numbered 63 pupils, taught in two sections.

She left Billerica in 1925. The superintendent's report for that year, listing the teachers who left during the year, noted that Miss Anne Morton had withdrawn "to teach in her home city." The town reports do not follow her after that.

References

1. Billerica Town Report 1922, Superintendent of Schools: Miss Morton and Miss Gill began service at the new school at Pinehurst
2. Billerica Town Report 1922, enrollment by grades Dec. 1, 1922: Pinehurst, Miss Morton, Grades I and II, 28 pupils
3. Billerica Town Report 1922, school organization January 1923: Annie Morton, appointed 1922, Lowell Normal, Grades I and II
4. Billerica Town Report 1923, corps of teachers January 1924: Annie Morton, Pollard School, appointed 1922, Lowell Normal, 1 year previous experience, home Lawrence
5. Billerica Town Report 1923, Superintendent of Schools: Miss Annie Morton succeeded Miss Edith Smith at the Pollard; Miss Arlene Carter took her place at Pinehurst
6. Billerica Town Report 1924, Superintendent of Schools: Miss Annie Morton transferred from the Pollard to the Talbot School for the two platoon first grade
7. Billerica Town Report 1924, enrollment by grades December 1924: Talbot, Miss Morton, Grade I (two sections), 63 pupils
8. Billerica Town Report 1925, Superintendent of Schools: Miss Anne Morton withdrew to teach in her home city