So they shortened the left field wall and they uh created a tall wall, but that left field would only be 300 feet away approximately. So since this was what they call the dead ball era when the baseballs were not stitched as tight and really didn't fly as far, nobody thought it was a problem. And so they proceeded with building the park with these dimensions. The park had several firsts, including an electric scoreboard. Now, before the 1912 season, John Taylor sold the Washington Senator's manager, a fellow named James Mleier, a half interest in the club. And he stopped meddling in what today would be a general manager's role, the acquiring and the trading and selling and buying of players. Instead, Taylor would run the ballpark and the real estate interests of the Taylor family in that part of the city. Mlealier, a real baseball man, would actually run the operations of the club.
So not able to sleep, he took out his family's camera, walked down the block, and snapped photographs like this one. on October 25th, 1936, showing us the forms and center span columns for the first overpass, Route 1 over Route 128. About a month later, Warren still having trouble sleeping, took out his camera and took this picture from the other direction, showing the Route One overpass. You can see the central peers have been poured and they're curing under layers of blankets that keep the wet concrete from freezing in the winter cold. By the way, if you look closely on the other side of Route 12 of Route One, we see a sign for the old Santo Lake Inn, then a popular restaurant and dance hall. Here is the almost completed Route One overpass. Uh you will note the sidewalks on the side of the road. It's a gorgeous art deco design.
It's very useful because it talks about a lot of things that most of us have questions when we arrive. we don't know how things work and this they do a great job explaining step by step about a lot of things here in the US um one thing that we offer at source hub um it's the IT is the individual tax identification number this is used for folks who don't have the social security number um that is used to file taxes and it also um is used for other things, but usually immigrants are the ones who apply to have an IT. You cannot file an IT on the year that you arrived. There's a lot of accountants that will not tell you that. Um, you're going to go in, you say, "I need an IT." They're going to file and they're going to use that you came here in another day in another year.
So, if that individual decides, yes, I do want to come back, they have to apply, reapply, okay, and go through that process. And that looks different at each campus. Most principles, it's a conversation. It's sort of an interview process and then they recommend and we'll just republish the contract mostly. Or if it's really late, then we might have to do a letter of intent. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Um when we were looking at employee data previously, like the separation data, it said that we had 365 certified employees and I'm seeing 274 contracts. So is that gap the difference? Like is that contractors um not renewals? Yep. Yep. That's where that gap comes from. Uh so this is just a couple of different looks. I thought it would be interesting to look and see by some sort of delineation of the longevity and the impact of longevity because I know that's been a conversation that we've had.
Then we're going to shift back to cheer. I didn't forget about you guys. You thought I did, didn't you? Here, you guys get in the middle. We'll get around you. You're probably gonna have to Y. There you go. [Music] Well done. [Applause] And we're going to mix it up a little bit. Now from Mosqu High, Coach Mia [Applause] Look at that. Isn't that great? Stand over here, coach. We all can see you. Do you want to bring uh your girls up? Oh, come on up. [Applause] Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the division three state champions in cheer from Mosqu High. Coach, you want to talk a little about your team and then we'll have them introduce themselves? Perfect. Hi. Um, my name is Coach Mia. Um, I've been at Mosquite for the last seven seasons. Um, this year we had a great in-state competition.
In other words, he would become the de facto general manager. Mleier began building a Red Sox team that would dominate baseball for seven years. They already had outfielder Harry Hooper who would join the club in 1909. Then there was Tris Speaker, another outstanding outfielder who like Hooper would make it to the Hall of Fame. Then there was that left field wall built higher because of its closest lands down street. Adding to the unique situation was a 10-foot slope. It's hard to see in this picture, but it was a 10-ft slope that ran along the wall, and it was put there so standing room only crowds could see over each other. Remember, this was the dead ball era, and not too many players were expected to be able to hit a ball anywhere near that fence. But the slope would gain fame thanks to the brilliant way that left fielder Duffy Lewis used to play and catch fly balls hit out there.
And it should be noted that Callahan uh deliberately had the various overpasses made in the style of the days and also made distinctive from each other because this is was the style of public work works projects back then. Any of you who've driven the Merit Parkway in Connecticut, at least on the portion closest to New York City, experienced the same thing. Those overpasses have all been individually designed. The initial stretch of Route 128. There's another gorgeous art deco overpass. Um, this is the sleek bridge that carried 128 over Walnut Street in Lynfield. Each overpass again unique to its intersection. Another three-mile stretch of the highway constructed in Danvers in 1941 just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Now, that brought all highway construction pretty much to an end, including that of Route 128. This, by the way, is the Summer Street overpass in Lynfield.
Okay? So, they're lying and they're not letting you know, but they want to get paid for the service. um through IRS rules, you can only apply for the exim of the p um when you've been here for over 6 months, okay? For the prior year. So with VIT, you can open a bank account in most banks. You can apply for a mortgage or other loans. Um it's very useful to show immigration that you're finding your taxes. So that does help you and also establish a credit history or open a company. So when you open a company with the IT, you can also apply for the EIN which is the employer identification number. And another thing is so important for you guys to know what's going on with your credit social with the social security numbers or with the IT. We have a lot of scams.
So I was able to pull out teachers that are three, five, 10, 15 year longevity receiving people, right? So, this is these are the rates of return for those groups. Um the 15 plus, if there's something that they didn't accept, then chances are they're retiring, right? So, that's where that comes from. Um and then teachers who receive longevity contract acceptance and then by division. You could only have teachers in this district that's been here 10 plus years that have contracts. Yeah. Yeah. We also have a lot that are on ESI return to work. Okay. And they're not indicated here, but it's still it's still not a lot. But when you're talking about 300 teachers, 50 teachers is pretty good chunk. really I don't know how we compare but so majority of our teachers are in the before year three uh yeah if you look at the numbers so 138 so yeah majority of them are up to three year three or three this is a a very young teaching population.
We placed top two at every single competition that we went to throughout the season, including runner-ups for game day as state as well. Um, we did go to UCA this year and we did place ninth place ninth in the nation at our first time at UCA Nationals with I think 72 teams in our division. So, that's super great for our kids. Um, our kids, we have a very small program. I think we're the smallest cheer program in GPS. But, our kids come in, they work hard. If I told them to run through a wall, they would. So that is why they have been so successful this season. Great. Well done. If everybody can introduce themselves, your name, what grade you're in, that'd be great. You can introduce yourself. Come on, Cara. Super senior. I'm Cara. I'm the assistant coach. Um, my name is Henny Vital and I am a junior.
It became known as Duffy's Cliff. The Socks also had pitcher Smokeoky Joe Wood who compiled the greatest record of any Red Sox pitcher in 1912. He won 34 games and lost only five. And with these and other great players, the Socks took their first pennant since 1904 and again would be scheduled to play the Giants in the World Series. a World Series that would get played. However, it was supposed to be a best of seven, but there was a tie due to darkness and so it became a best of eight, which Boston won for its second world championship. That's Mayor and Royal Rooter Honey Fitz with Jake Stall, a different Jake Stall of course, and Smoky Joe Wood in a car during the Red Sox victory parade. Sorry folks, no duck votes back then. But even then, being a Red Sox fan meant you were riding a roller coaster.
Now, after the war, automobile ownership skyrocketed and more and more people began moving out into the suburbs surrounding Boston. It was a massive migration with veterans taking advantage of the GI Bill, and highway construction became an easier cell. One of the first post-war projects was this short portion of 128 in Beverly, shown in yellow. But because highway funds were so still so limited, only about a 3/4 mile stretch of the road could be built at first. This section would cut through the triangle formed by Dodge, Cabat, and Conan Streets. Here in the winter of 1945, looking north, we see behind the dump truck the green houses of the old Cwells farm. To build Route 128, the topology of many towns had to be altered. Here in Beverly, thousands of yards of gravel and dirt had to be trucked into the area to raise the grade of 128 so it could vault over cabin and Dodge streets.
I've seen um people purchasing cars and then they don't give you the car but they don't cancel the loan. So, I had recently as well a client who came in and she had uh she was trying to buy a car and they're like, "No, you're not approved because of this." And she was like, "I had no idea. I was never um given the car." But the car dealership never cancelled the loan that was given to her. So, she was being charged but never notified. No letters were writing in her mail in her address. Um so, there's a called Credit Karma. If you have a social security number, you can keep track of your credit score like that. Okay? If you don't, you can either um get a copy of your credit report by mail or sign on to Equifax. Um here I just go over briefly on what makes your credit grow.
Well, can I want to bring us to a reminder of this? It may not necessarily have to do with age or years of experience. It's how many years they've been in the district. So, I've had like I can speak on my side. I have several teachers that have many years of experience but are new to our district. Right. So, they are represented in that large group too. So basically, we're just, oh my goodness, how do you move forward as a district when you're constantly so much turnover? Like, how do you because I was, you know, I was um in my room working in boxing on my classroom. And I picked up a piece of paper from years ago that had to do with success criteria back when we were teaching online. And I was I picked up paper said, "Why is the district still harping on success criterias?
My name is Jasmine Parker and I'm a junior. My name is Madison Rodriguez and I'm a sophomore. My name is Brinkley Bills and I'm a senior. My name is Maline Stevens and I'm a senior. My name is Madison McKinley and I'm a senior. My name is London Davis and I'm a freshman. My name is Britain Arenbez and I'm a freshman. My name is Delila Elder and I'm a freshman. My name is Emry Carter and I'm a sophomore. My name is Aaliyah Hampton and I'm a freshman. Yeah. My name is Macy Baldwin and I'm a senior. My name is Carson Glasco and I'm a senior. My name is Scarlett Wilson and I'm a senior. Well done, Mosqu High cheer state champions. If you guys would shake hands and we'll take a picture. Thank you. Congratulations. [Music] Well done, guys. Yeah, just Yeah, you can. I don't know how they can bend down or on their knees.
And as great as the 1912 season was, the 1913 season was disappointing. And the Socks were out of contention early. Now, we're going to talk about another kids game, dominoes. And you know how you like to line dominoes up and you push that one domino at the end and dink dink dink dink dink all the dominoes start to fall. Well, now we're going to talk about the first domino. In 1914, it was announced that the Midwestern Federal League, which was a minor league, was going to turn pro. And they just like Ban Johnson had done back in 1903 with his brand new American League. Well, the Midwestern Federal League began raiding both American and National Leagues for players and Red Sox owner Mleier saw the rising salary request from his players and and he was done. He wanted out. So he sold his share of the team to a guy named Joe Lannon, a real estate mogul who was a minority owner of the Boston Braves.
Many homes were moved to make way for 128. Here in Beverly, we have this fantastic photograph capturing the moment where both the home and barn belonging to one Harry Woodbury were being moved several hundred feet down Cabbat Street and is actually crossing the front lawn of his neighbor, Mr. Lewis Sims, who was at 620 Cabbat Street. Isn't that I I that's just a fantastic picture. Now, William Callahan, who had left to um uh join the service during the war, was reappointed to his old post of commissioner of the DPW by Paul De, governor, in 1949. and he made the completion of the new Route 128 and the building of that elevated central artery in downtown Boston his top priorities under a new highway program. But it was going to be pretty expensive. Get ready. Was going to cost a whole $200 million. I'm pausing for laughter.
A lot of us we apply for credit card but we don't know uh what we have to do with it in order to get a good credit history. Um so 30% is how much credit you use. I'm just going to go to the other slides here. Um for example if your credit limit is a th00and you have to spend about 100 to 300 only 30% and make the full payment every month. Um, it shows that you're a responsible person, that you're paying your bills, you're not going over your limit, and the payment history as well 35% of your credit score. Um, then it has only 10% the types of credits you have. It's a loan, personal loan, um, credit cards, and then the credit score. Um, When you look up your credit, this is something you can look up on Google and get the other graph as well.
Why haven't we moved on from this yet?" But now it kind of like makes sense because there's really not you have a consistency of maybe like 50 teachers year after year. Yeah. You also I think you could also connect to student outcomes focus governance, right? The goals and the guardrails that are in place that how we're moving the district forward is how we move teachers forward, right? And how we support teachers in in improving their craft and not draining those groups, right? So, one of the options I think that we had on the list for today was the moving to uh from row A to row B for teachers who are after their first year. Um, which could be one way to kind of help fill that gap until they qualify for the longevity. So, um I'm going to pause because Vanessa is on vacation, but she's going to join us remotely.
We'll fit in. You guys just There you go. [Music] Think that works. Yeah, you're good. Yeah. Well done, Mosquite. Thank you guys. And now back to wrestling. Desert Ridge High Coach Travis Jackson, can you and your wrestlers come up? Hello. How are you? Good to see you. So, Desert Ridge High Wrestling, um they took fourth place in the boys division. And coach, would you like to talk a little about your wrestlers and let them introduce themselves? Yep. First up is Dallas Robinson. He's a three-time state placer. Really has only wrestled four years. So he's he's only a junior state runnerup. To him is Remington Jud. He's a freshman. Took third at state. None of these kids but maybe Aaron at the end are satisfied. So they probably don't even want to be up here honestly too much. They have Valenuela. She's a junior. She's a three-time state placer, two-time runner up.