Scarborough High School - Four Corners Yearbook (Scarborough, ME)

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FOUR CORNERS NORMAN WEBSTKR LAUGHTON tad of ours, von have gone from 11 s, With a smile and a wave of the hand : She gulf that bridges the Great Unknown llour strong, brave soul has spanned. Had of ours, you have gone from us, IHith your cheery jest and fun : (find spoke, and you turned to answer Him, And your life’s short tale was done. Had of ours, tho’ you’ve gone from us, lion have found the shining way Shat leads past the cloud-rimmed Western gates So the golden Land of Day. Shrough fields of Life, untouched by pain, 3n lairer paths untrod: Unfettered in Eternity, llour soul walks on with God. F. V. 13.

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Jffour (Enntprs Vol. X May, 1921 No. 1 Jffantltu Elwood G. Bessey, A. B., Principal Science, Mathematics Miss Frances V. Bryant, A. B., Mrs. Arthur Stevens, A. B., Latin, History, English French, English, Ancient History Agnes Skavey ’21 Clarence Larv ' 21 Albert Libby ’21 Helen Libby ’22 Stoarii nf iEbttnru Editor-in-chief Norman Laughton ’21 Acting Editor-in-Chief R. Leon Lary ’21 Easiness Manager R. Leon Lary ’21 Literary Editors Aurelia Wentworth ’22 Gladys Higgins, ’23 foke Editors Ruth Heald ’22 Harold Bennett ’23 Hazel Merry ’23 Stephen Larrabee 24 Alumni Editor , Elizabeth Newcomb ’20 Exchange Editor , Harriett Knight ’21 Athletic Editor, Clarence Lary ’21 Artistic Editor, Ruth Sherwood’22 Isocal Editor , Violet Roberts ’22 (Elam refitbrntfi 1021 Clarence A. Lary 1923 Hazel B. Merry 1922 Leonard II. Emmons 1924 J. Ross Sherwood

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FOUR CORNERS NORMAN WEBSTER LAUGHTON On May 3, 1921, the student body and community at large were saddened to learn of the death o( Norman Webster Laughton, President of the Senior class at Scarborough High School. Seldom has the death of a student meant so much to the school or been so deeply mourned as the passing of this brilliant student, genial personality, and upright, splendid, young manhood. Norman Webster Laughton was born in Portland, Maine, May 30, 1903, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Laughton. His early education was obtained in the grammar school at Dunstan where his parents had made their residence. Graduating from that school with high rank and the love of all his schoolmates, he entered Scarborough High School in the fall of 1017. In high school, as in the grades, his scholarship was undis¬ puted and his popularity unquestioned. Compelled by the handicap of a frail body to forego the sports which he gladly would have entered, he devoted his talents to the maintenance of a high grade of scholarship, winning the valedictory with an average of over ninety-one despite many days of enforced absence. Even when obliged to leave school about two months ago on account of fast failing health, he kept up his studies until no longer able to do so. During his Junior year he developed into an orator of surprising ability, winning a bronze medal in the preliminary contest at Scarborough, and getting a unanimous decision for the silver medal at Cape Elizabeth High School in the final event, thus doing a large share in securing the coveted trophy. In his Senior year he showed the public another side of his exceedingly versatile ability by doing one of the cleverest bits of amateur comedy acting ever seen in any high school play. As the “Bashful Mr. Bobbs” he scored a decided hit. His whimsical interpretation of the lines is a memory that will never be forgotten by those who heard the play. As the readers of this paper, of which Norman was the editor-in-chief, turn the pages, may they think of him whose life work was scarcely begun, but so well done that it leaves the impression of completeness rarely attained by those who have journeyed longer on the highway of life. Of such youth has the poet written: “These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene That men call age.”