Fairhaven High School showing addition and Henry Huttleston Rogers Monument Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https ://arch i ve .org/detai Is/ann ual reportofto 1 978fai r ANNUAL REPORT of The Town Offices of Fairhaven, Massachusetts R. E. SMITH PRINTING CO.. INC. FALL RIVER. MASS. 1979 Town of Fairhaven -• Settled 1653 Incorporated 1812 Population 15,973 — 1975 State Census Twelfth Congressional District First Councillor District Bristol and Plymouth Senatorial District Tenth Bristol Representative District ELECTION OF OFFICERS First Monday in April 2 1 Fairhaven, Massachusetts General Information About the Town Located On the Shore of Buzzards Bay 56 Miles from Boston 1 Mile from New Bedford Registered Voters — 9072 Tax Rate -$211.00 Valuation - $28,563,670.00 Area — 7,497 Acres Miles of Shore Property — 21 Miles of Streets and Roads — Approximately 91 Number of Dwellings — 5310 Churches — 1 Public Schools — 8 Private Schools — 1 Banks — 6 Principal Industries Ship Building Fishing Industry Winches and Fishing Machinery Fish Freezing Tack and Nail Making Loam Crank Shafts Oil Refinery Diesel Engine Repairing Benefactions of the Late Henry Huttleston Rogers Millicent Library Town Hall High School Rogers School Unitarian Memorial Church Fairhaven Water Works Masonic Building Cushman Park 3 RETIRED POLICE CHIEF ALFRED RAPHAEL Served the T own of Fairhaven in the Police Department from 1941 until his retirement November 16, 1978 “A dedicated public seivant!” 4 Directory of Town Officers (Elective Officials Designated by Capital Letters) BOARD OF SELECTMEN WALTER SILVEIRA, Chairman Term Expires 1979 ROLAND N. SEGUIN Term Expires 1980 EVERETT J. MACOMBER, JR. Term Expires 1981 Alice S. Torres Executive Secretary Doris P. Blanchard Principal Clerk Elsie B. Wilson Senior Clerk TOWN CLERK AND TREASURER JOSEPH A. SALADINO Term Expires 1980 Elaine Rocha Assistant Town Clerk and Treasurer Joan Benoit* Clerk Mary P. Manley* * Clerk *Mary Barrow, retired ** Marguerite L. Carroll, retired TAX COLLECTOR ALPHONSE S. BARANOWSKI Term Expires 1980 Anna R. Beadle Principal Clerk Barbara M. Laverdiere Senior Clerk Cecile A. Daley Clerk ASSESSORS MARJORIE J. SYLVIA Term Expires 1979 WILLIAM B. MACOMBER Term Expires 1980 GEORGE N. GAGNON, Chairman Term Expires 1981 Helen Francis Senior Clerk Katherine E. LaFountain* Clerk *Irene Harding, resigned MODERATOR KENT W. HEMINGWAY Term Expires 1979 5 COMMISSIONERS OF TRUST FUND DANIEL A. MELLO Term Expires 1979 RICHARD H. CARPENTER Term Expires 1980 WILLIAM F. ROGERS Term Expires 1981 BOARD OF HEALTH DR. EDWARD J. MEE (appointed )* Term Expires 1979 DR. GEORGE WALMSLEY Term Expires 1980 FRANK BARCELLOS, Chairman Term Expires 1981 Shirley M. Rose Board Secretary Antone P. Lopes Sanitarian Ada M. Macomber, R.N. Community Nurse Administrator John M. Frates, Jr. Animal Inspector John M. Frates, Jr. Burial of Animals *DR. MARK J. FITZPATRICK, resigned BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS JOSEPH A. SALADINO, JR., Chairman Term Expires 1979 MANUEL CORREIRA (appointed)* Term Expires 1979 ^ JOSEPH CATALDO, JR. Term Expires 1980 LAWRENCE B. MAXFIELD Term Expires 1981 JOHN MEDEIROS Term Expires 1983 Jeffrey W. Osuch** Public Works Superintendent Augustine A. Longo Highway Division Superintendent Louis J. Costa Sewer Division Superintendent Lucien E. Fortin Water Division Superintendent Frances Robillard Senior Clerk Claire Desrosiers Clerk Sheila-Rae Rodrigues Senior Clerk Joyce A. Lister*** Clerk * EVERETT J. MACOMBER, JR., resigned ** Albert A. Hammond, retired ***Alice Mahaney, resigned Grace Gobell, retired Raymond N. Hiller, retired 6 HOUSING AUTHORITY MALCOLM M. CUMMINGS, JR. Term Expires 1979 Expires 1980 WALTER J. BOROWICZ Term ROBERT J. NORRIS, Chairman Term Expires 1982 JAMES E. GREEN Term Expires 1983 Arnold Correia Term Expires 1980 Stanley A. Wojcik Director Adeline M. Grenon Board Secretary PLANNING BOARD RAYMOND FLEURENT Term Expires 1979 ALBERT RODERIQUES Term Expires 1979 CHANNING W. HAYWARD Term Expires 1980 ELMER M. RADCLIFFE, Chairman Term Expires 1980 ARNOLD CORREIA Term Expires 1981 MALCOLM R. SHURTLEFF Term Expires 1981 ALBERT BORGES, JR. Term Expires 1982 JOHN RODERIQUES, JR. Term Expires 1982 Joyce M. Lister Board Secretary Nicholas F. Tangney Planner SCHOOL COMMITTEE PETER BARCELLOS, Chairman Term Expires 1979 ELIZABETH I. HASTINGS Term Expires 1979 ROBERT W. FOSTER Term Expires 1980 WALTER SILVEIRA, JR. Term Expires 1980 ANTONE C. MARTIN, JR. Term Expires 1981 GILBERT VIEIRA Term Expires 1981 TREE WARDEN OMER BLANCHETTE Term Expires 1979 TOWN ACCOUNTANT Andrew J. Martin ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER John M. Frates, Jr. 7 ANIMAL CONTROL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Frank Adesso, associate Christine Paiva Joan G. Blair Stephen W. Rebello Lee Lopes Manuel Sylvia BOARD OF APPEALS Harvey C. Gobell Term Expires 1979 William C. Brennan, Secretary Term Expires 1980 Albert F. Benac (associate) Term Expires 1980 Edwin J. Marnik, Chairman Term Expires 1981 Robert A. Corbett (associate) Term Expires 1981 ;Rose L. Lawton Term Expires 1982 R. Bradley Carle Term Expires 1983 BUILDING DEPARTMENT John Oliveria* Acting Building Commissioner Shirley M. Rose Secretary Raymond A. Morse Gas Inspector Harry Whiting Gas Inspector Milton Delano Gas Inspector William Alphonse Associate Gas Inspector Joseph V. Cardoza Associate Gas Inspector William Alphonse Plumbing Inspector Joseph V. Cardoza Plumbing Inspector Enos E. Days Wire Inspector Carlton Davis Associate Wire Inspector Arthur L. Cushing Associate Wire Inspector * Edward Govoni, retired CIVIL DEFENSE Augustus Santos Acting Director Donna A. Guay Board Secretary 8 ) CONSERVATION COMMISSION Albert W. Guilmette Term Expires 1979 Mark Howland (associate Term Expires 1979 Albert M. Stevens (associate) Term Expires 1979 Expires 1980 John J. Norwood Term Noel Staples Term Expires 1980 Abel V. Victorino Term Expires 1980 Channing W. Hayward, Chairman Term Expires 1981 Bernard Roderick Term Expires 1981 George R. Souza Term Expires 1981 Carole A. Flood Board Secretary COUNCIL ON AGING Edith E. Rogers, Advisor Term Expires 1979 Eleanor R. Brault, (associate) Term Expires 1979 Charles Joseph, (associate) Term Expires 1979 Monica Belliveau Term Expires 1980 Virginia A. Carey Term Expires 1981 Kenneth Grace Term Expires 1981 John E. Keary Term Expires 1981 Elsie Thoits Term Expires 1981 Theresa Gold Term Expires 1982 Doris Green Term Expires 1982 Alice Mahaney Term Expires 1982 Harold Pierce Term Expires 1982 Louise Walters Term Expires 1982 J. Richard Early Term Expires 1983 Elmira McKenzie Term Expires 1983 Nellie Sala Term Expires 1983 Anna Tomke Term Expires 1983 Malcolm M. Cummings, Jr. Director Sylvia A. Gaucher Clerk 9 FINANCE COMMITTEE William R. Markey, Chairman Member At Large Precinct 1 Rudolph Rebello Term Expires 1980 Precinct 2 Norma Gulecas Term Expires 1979 Albert Labrie Term Expires 1980 Precinct 3 David Rebello Term Expires 1979 Clifford C. Howcroft Term Expires 1979 Precinct 4 Patricia M. Robitaille Term Expires 1979 Earle M. Larkin Term Expires 1980 Precinct 5 Louis Badwey Term Expires 1980 Precinct 6 Bradford Paiva Term Expires 1979 Joan Mello Term Expires 1980 E. Sandra Crane Board Secretary Fire Department Arthur C. Paquette, Jr. Chief of Fire Department Board of Fire Engineers Richard H. Carpenter Arthur C. Paquette, Jr. Wilfred Fletcher Roland N. Seguin Walter Silveira Everett J. Macomber, Jr. 10 Harbormaster Joseph F. Pauline Acting Harbormaster Historical Commission Walter Silveira Term Expires 1979 Chairman, Board of Selectmen Rita E. Steele Term Expires 1979 Louis A. Veilleux, Jr. Term Expires 1979 Helen Bryant (associate) Term Expires 1979 Helen S. Freitas (associate) Term Expires 1979 (associate) Edwin J. McQuillan Term Expires 1979 Mary Morris (associate) Term Expires 1979 Nicholas F. Tangney, Advisor Term Expires 1979 Diane Ashley Term Expires 1980 Donald R. Bernard Term Expires 1980 Elizabeth I. Hastings Term Expires 1980 Milton Delano Term Expires 1981 Inspector of Petroleum Harold U. Pierce Measurer of Wood and Bark Antone Medeiros Millicent Library Trustees Everett S. Allen Dennis A. Duval F. Eben Brown James P. Honohan James B. Buckley Marion N. Lewin George A. Bunnell, Jr. Raymond McK. Mitchell Jean Campbell John D. Moore Virginia A. Carey Paul Peralta-Ramos Florence R. Carpenter Walter Silveira Robert D. Coe Alice S. Torres Irma V. Darwin Pearl E. Wilbor Earl J. Dias Rita E. Steele, Secretary Moth Superintendent Omer Blanchette 11 Personnel Board John F. Morgan, Jr., Chairman Term Expires 1979 Mathew J. Donovan, Jr. Term Expires 1979 Dante Vena Term Expires 1980 Robert Corriea Term Expires 1981 Ernest Tripanier, Jr. Term Expires 1981 Martha L. Crowley Board Secretary Police Department Peter Barcellos* Acting Police Chief *Alfred Raphael, retired Public Weigher John Gracia Thomas R. Thomas Public Weigher of Fish Joseph E. Amaral Wilfred Benjamin (deputy) Carl G. Bissonnette (deputy) Recreation Commission Frank Avila, Jr. Antone Medeiros Peter Barcellos* David Ponte Edward Ferland Gilbert Viera, Jr. Sal Lombardo, Chairman ^Walter Silveira, Jr., resigned Registrars of Voters Delphine B. Lanagan, Chairman Term Expires 1979 Anson W. Paine Term Expires 1980 Dorothy S. Kearns Term Expires 1981 Joseph A. Saladino Clerk Elaine Rocha (associate) Joan Benoit (associate) Mary P. Manley (associate) Eleanor Young (associate) 12 Retirement Board Earl M. Faunce, Chairman James F. Murphy* Cummings, Clerk Andrew J. Martin Constance *Louis A. Veilleux, Jr., resigned Safety Council Randall Durrigan Alfred Raphael John Medeiros Edward Silva Raymond Morrow John V. Sylvia