Now, that young John was a huge baseball fan is not in question. Neither is the fact that through mismanagement and bad trades, he would drive this world championship team into utter mediocrity. However, in Taylor's first season as owner, Sai Young would pitch a perfect game. the first of only of the only ones ever pitched in the history of the game. Despite the first of many bad trades he would make, Taylor's Boston Americans shown playing here at the Huntington Avenue grounds would eventually win their pennant for the second year in a row. But there would be no World Series because despite the so-called peace treaty with the American League, John Brush, the owner of the National League pennant winning Giants, was so angry that the Baltimore team, that American Association Baltimore team, had been moved north into New York to compete with him, that he refused to allow his Giants to play.
And you can see Route 128 over on the side of the old Hojo's Blue Hill River Road continues to carry old 128 into Brainree and then a number of local roads carry it to Weimoth. We're looking east along Colombian Street in May of 1947 from a point near the Brainree border. Note another gas station once through Weaimoth. We use another collection of small streets to get to Hangingham. After which we finally end our journey in hull. I mean, I'm exhausted. I don't know about you. Look, this ad hoc circumferential route we drove actually worked pretty well for a while. This diagram, it's pretty clever, shows the volume of traffic flow on major roads in the Boston metropolitan area in 1927, including sections of the old ad hoc 128. Thinner the line, the less traffic. The thicker the line, the more traffic. And as we can see, most of our traffic is in and out radially into Boston, but circumferentially those smaller roads and streets were more than capable of handling the traffic.
Make sure you have copies. Make sure you're checking the numbers online. Um for the foyer request, you do have to create an account with USCIS. Um here we have some of the um apps that are available. This one here, if you put in your receipt number, you will see how your case is going. Whenever there's movement in your case, you're going to get a notification. This here, the immigration EOR case status will show you when your court date is. Um, it's going to show you where that court date is, the decision on your case. And here is just the same thing, but online. So, if you go on Google and put check immigration support, you can click on that second link that appears. When you do click on that second link, this is what you're going to see. You're going to um accept. And here you're going to put your A number.
One said potentially. We will see. Maybe. Still deciding. Okay. So, we have some updates. Uh, Dr. Lauren, I think, has just a little bit, right? Did you want to point something out to them on Google, a handout or something? Yeah. Um, there's only one update that I provided. Uh, so I don't know. Let me see if I can. It's the dance of the technology. Sorry. You know, while Joel is doing that, I'm thinking about the evaluation and comments. Um, you know, I tried to be prepared for this meeting, but um, I think that I've been pretty firm on actually the IBN process skills that we do each of those skills. But I do think I've been flexible and I know Daniel at times has said maybe we could do it this way even though I had planned to do it another way and I appreciated that um because I think it really helped our team.
Um and she's been at it not for just four years, she's been at it for 6 years. And it and it's every single day. Um it's not just practice. She goes from practice, she goes to the weight room afterwards, she goes and runs afterwards, then she sits up all night and does her homework. Um she is not a 4.0, right? What's your What's your GPA? Come on. 4.0. There we go. Right. So, she works not only hard in in the classroom, um she puts it out there in the wrestling mat and she leads by example. Um all the other girls follow her ripples that she puts out there and it's all by um her hard work and her success. Excellent. Bishop, this is yours. All right. Thank you. We Yeah, we were state runner up this year and in the last I'll brag on our program a little bit.
That team was eventually renamed the Yankees. So technically, we could say this was the first time that the Yankees prevented the Boston team from winning the World Series. Anyway, Taylor continued to trade away young prospects as his team aged and fell in hard times. In 1906, the team finished with the worst record in baseball. So Taylor's fix was to replace player manager Jimmy Collins with this fellow. His name was Chuck Stall. Now Chuck's great accomplishment in life, aside from being a pretty good baseball player, was his ability to arouse the strangest passion in women. One tried to stab him and another tried to shoot him. In late 1906, Stall would marry a young woman who left him when he signed on as manager for the Red Sox. Not saying that's the reason, but anyway. In the middle of spring training in 1907, tragically, Stall took his own life after another woman whom he had put in a family way, as they used to say, tried to blackmail him.
But then something happened in the 1930s. Despite the Great Depression, the bypass began to cause more headaches than it was solving. The downtowns of Wuburn, Lexington, and Waltham, as I've discussed, they were being so badly inundated with traffic, even more so on weekends and holidays. And Boston, traffic was getting even worse between North and South Shores. It was a lose-lose situation. And then in 1934, a guy named William Callahan was appointed the commissioner of the Department of Public Works. And he brought to the table a proposal, an idea for a sixlane highway to be built in a semicircle about 15 miles from Boston. Now critics immediately in and out of the government jumped on this proposal as a road to nowhere and they derided the plan as a boondoggle and a make works project for the depression. Their skepticism was in part based on a study performed by Robert Whitten.
And remember, your A number never changes. Once you have an A number, it's always going to be your A number. Um so, you're going to put that in. Submit. And here you're going to see all your court information. So I just put the yellow squares on top of the personal information from the client, but right here you can see that they have a court date on May 25th. It says the judge um right here decision emotion information. And just so you know, this um here is in Boston, Mass. But if you have a case in another state, you need to file a change of value. That change of value is going to allow immigration to move your case from one court to another court in the state that you're residing. In case you can't do that and your court is at current to be, we just had a client that um his partner was in Ohio.
So yes, are there times that we change it up? Yes. And that's okay. So sometimes we are going to be um firm, sometimes we are going to be flexible. Right? So I shared this in the chat, so maybe you've already had a chance to take a look. Um this is the aggregate data from the certified contract returns uh across several different looks. Uh this is linked in that spreadsheet as well. So, if you're looking at the meet and confer request for information, that's where it's linked. It's the very last item on that link on that spreadsheet. Um, so this is looking at a total certified RN, SLPA, and COOTA and special services, which includes psychologists. And please note, the psychologists have until today to decide whether or not to sign their contracts. That's by statute. I don't know why they're different. You You looked like you had something.
In the last 14 years, we've been the top eight every single year and always meddling a handful of kids. I think we're up to about 75 state places in that 14 years and and 10 state champions. Let me introduce everybody. Um right here, this is Trey Kessinger and he had a dominant year. Uh he was a state champion for us. uh 38 38 wins and zero losses. Um he's our first lightweight state champion that we've had and he's he's only a junior. Uh the max amount of points you can score at the state tournament is 30 and this guy scored 28 and a half and he took us from sixth place into second place just by his points alone. Um this about a month ago he wrestled in a national tournament was this close to being all-American. And in a in a year we'll be talking about him being a two-time state champion and all-American.
So with a new manager, without a manager, um John Taylor decided that he himself would manage the club, but Ban Johnson quickly stepped in and said, "Not that." And he was forced to hire uh an actual manager. So now it's the end of the 1907 season, and John Taylor made the decision for which he is perhaps best remembered. He ordered new uniforms for his team. A gray trimmed in red with blue socks at home and bright red socks on the road. To celebrate the change, he renamed his club the Red Sox. Now, with his lease on the Huntington Avenue grounds expiring in 1911, John Taylor began searching for a site for a brand new ballpark. several other wooden ballparks had burned down and insurance costs were far too high to stay at the Huntington grounds. Anyway, now the fact that his father owned a large chunk of property near the fence and fen and Kenmore Square might have had something to do with the fact that he took a large undeveloped site near Kenmore Square and built a ballpark.
He was a nationally recognized pioneer in the field of transportation planning. In 1930, Mr. Whitten produced this map which shows the projected flow of traffic according to him in 1965 which was then 35 years in the future. Again the thin lines all the lines show volume of traffic. Thin lines not a lot of traffic. Look what he's projecting on 128 or where 128 would be today. He's figuring 10 maybe 20,000 vehicles a day. He still saw most of the need in our region as being radial in and out of Boston. So with estimates for traffic low in the Great Depression at its height, William Callahan had quite a battle to get funding for his highway. And when he succeeded, it was only enough to build that small portion north of the city, and it would only be four lanes wide. But Callahan believed, he was utterly convinced that traffic estimates were far too low.
He came to us with just a week and immigration does ask for at least 3 months um in advance to do all the change. So when our client came to us and it was on Friday like last Friday, we filed that but we also went online um it's the webex website and we put webax and the judge's name and it appears on Google. It's the first link and you're able to log in and see the judge online. It's not recommended that you do that. You have to keep track of your stuff. Do the change the menu. But in case if you didn't know and you have a port coming up, please log on at least online so you don't miss out on an important port. So a lot of folks they get confused with the chain of address and the chain of venue. um change of address.
Okay. All right. Um, so what I did was I kind of broke it down. So this is the number of contracts that we issued. And remember, we have more teachers than 274, but not all teachers are issued contracts because they might be non-renewals due to being emergency certified on a subsert or um being a return to work rehire from retirement. So those are categories that are not automatically renewed. In fact, uh annually they are sent to the board as non-renewals. They do have the option to reapply. Uh and that's a process that the schools take care of. So if there's an interest in having that retiree come back or there's an interest in having that emergency certified teacher come back, there's an option for that to happen. They're not represented in this number though. So that's why 274 might seem low. Um because we do have around [Music] teachers.
And thank you. This this is Trey Clarkson. He's also a junior. And as a sophomore, he was uh fifth place, I believe. And then this year, he was a state runner up. And it was a really really close match. It could have gone either way. And again, in in a year, we're going to be celebrating him being a state champion in one year. Micah Serrano, he's he's right here. He's a senior for us. He was a he was a two-time uh state champion for us and and a great leader in our program that we're really going to miss. Tristan Terza was four years football and four years wrestling on our campus and coach Ragazel started this. It was called the tough guy club. It's amongst those are the toughest kids in the history of our of our school. We've had about 30 of them and he's a tough one.
The elder saw that the ballpark was a great way to increase the value of his family's holdings. He was quite right because as soon as the ballpark began to go up, the city began to plan to extend trolley lines into the area to support all of the fans. So, in late 1911, with only a few months to go before opening day, construction began on what he would call Fenway Park. John Taylor gave it that name because, as he put it, hey, it's in the Fenway, isn't it? Now, the new ballpark would be oriented with respect to the sun the same way as the Huntington Avenue grounds, which meant that the third baseline basically pointed north. But that street that ran behind the ballpark, behind that left field uh side of the ballpark, was too valuable for the elder, the big real estate developer to give up.
And he designed into Route 128, something you don't see very often on a highway, sidewalks, which were planned for either side of the road. That would give him the extra space he needed when he knew they would want to expand the highway. So now we can start building. Now I'll tell you the story. This is one of the fun things about doing research on books like this. I I met a gentleman named Warren Falls. He lives still lives in the same home where he grew up in Lynfield. Back in 1936, Warren had just graduated from Northeastern University, had a degree in electrical engineering, but it's the depression. Didn't have a lot of job opportunities. So he worked overnight at a switchboard at Lynn Hospital. So sleeping during the day so he could work at night. Warren had trouble getting to getting to bed because just down the block from him, the Route 128 and Route One overpass had begun construction.
When you go on the website, it only notifies the court that your address is now somewhere else. It does not change your case from a court to another. Um what is important for you to have access to if you don't have your I94 is to go online and pull that up. Um have a copy in hand, have those informations in the folder. Um so people if anything happens to you somebody else has that information has the A number and um this I'm going to go through them briefly. Um everybody like most people already know about the emergency planning guides for families. It's on the state's website. It has in different languages and it's a nice tool to have because it has all the links. It has a space for you to write down your children's information, doctors, um the school they go to, and on the USCIS uh page, they also have this welcome to the US to be immigrants.
Um yes. What was the unpublished? Is that when people don't accept or decline? That's right. Yes. Thank you for the question. Uh so the category unpublished is if they don't do anything, it just expires basically. So they they have the option to go in and reject it or accept it or not do anything. So, if they published it, published means Oh, I'm sorry. That's I I mixed it up. Published is what I just said. Unpublished is if there was someone whose contract was not supposed to be issued and we had to unpublish it, right? Yeah. So, it was it was an error. So, that was one contract, I think. But, sorry, I have another question. If they if it's published and the deadline has passed, which is the case right now, then then it's rejected, right? Essentially, yeah. So, if it's if it's not accepted and there's a position that's vacant because that person did not accept their contract, then the schools post the position and they hire that position.
He was a state runner up for us and as a heavyweight and he was a blast to coach this year. We loved coaching him. [Applause] And the last one is Wyatt Bergs here. He was a varsity wrestler for us and wrestled for us at sectionals and he's going to be wrestle at the next level as well. So you're a senior. Yep. And you've wrestled for how long? Six years. Six years. You've been in high school for six years. I'm just kidding. Just kidding. Just kidding. So, why wrestling? Why do you like wrestling? Um, I like wrestling so much because it teaches me a lot about our brotherhood and leadership and just gets me closer to people. Literally closer to people. Congratulations to all of you. Congrats. Please give them a hand. you shake hands with the board. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. And then we'll take a picture.