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

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THE FOUR CORNERS 7 “Betsy, throw down niy boots, rve got to go to Boston and help William King make a state. ’ Thus was Blaine founded. And among the first towns to be incorpo¬ rated was Scarboro. Since tlien Scarboro has grown and flourished. ' riie town now boasts four widely-known summer resorts, Higgins J3each, Scarboro Beach, Pine Point, and Prout’s Neck. People from all parts of the country come to the summer colonies at these places, where long shelving beaches combine to offer sun bathing and surf bathing. The scenery around the town is pleasing to the most casual eye, but it is the source of inspiration to many well-known artists who have exhibited Scarboro scenes in nationally prominent galleries. The town is ideally situated for truck gardening and dairying because of its near¬ ness to markets; five neighboring cities and the summer resorts are within a radius of ten miles. Good schools also add an attractive fea¬ ture for the prospective resident of Scar¬ boro, for in addition to well-equipped and efficient elementary schools, Scarboro has one of the finest high school buildings in the State. To the person, therefore, seeking rural, recreational, or suburban advantages, Scarboro offers an ideal location.

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6 THE FOUR CORNERS This would probably lead to a hockey league similar to our present basketball league. A winter sports team could be formed as well. This would give us three main sports for the winter season instead of one. With basketball our only sport activity during the winter, we have no opportunity to spend much time out of doors. Every school should have an out-of-door sport for the benefit of the health of the pupils. Winter sports would also increase the in¬ terest of the pupils in the school, because it would give more the opportunity to rep¬ resent the school in some way. SCARBORO SHOULD ADVERTISE By Shirley Knight, ’36 Because of the fact that at least one- half of the population of Scarboro is af¬ fected directly or indirectly by the summer tourist business, we think that Scarboro, as a town, should advertise. Our town offers distinct advantages in entertainment. There are sandy bathing beaches, golf courses, tennis courts, shuffle- board courts, a riding club, and opportuni¬ ties for fishing and sailing. Tennis, golf, and bridge tournaments are annual events. The fact that Scarboro can accommo¬ date the summer tourist satisfactorily has been proved in previous years. But we also realize that our tow could accommodate more tourists than it does at the present time. Therefore, as advertising would bring the eyes of the motoring public to rest on Scarboro and increase the patron¬ age of local resorts, we feel it the duty of the town to help in making Scarboro a better known stopping-place for suininer visitors. It is worth while to work to increase the summer tourist business for several dis¬ tinct reasons. First, approximately twenty per cent of the taxes paid to the town ot‘ Scarboro comes from the property of those who are engaged in catering to the summer visitor. The value of this property de¬ pends upon the business transacted there and not upon the actual value of the land. Secondly, not only the owners of hotels, tourist homes, cabins, shore dinner houses, and filling stations depend, for the most part, on the summer tourist for their liv¬ ings, but also a gi eat number of the other townspeople. Tlie aboved-named businesses employ many citizens of this town. In many homes the sole income of the family depends upon the volume of summer tour¬ ist business. Thirdly, the shore dinner houses buy all Pine Point clams and some Pine Point lobsters. Those visitors who rent cottages and do their own housekeeping buy gro¬ ceries at local stores and fresh vegetables from Scarboro farmers. Some of the hotels also buy fresh vegetables from the farmers. As an increase in the summer tourist business would be beneficial to the town as a whole, we are convinced that Scarboro should advertise. OUR TOWN By Harriet Snow, ’38 One hundred and sixteen years ago, an old country squire in Woolwich, Maine, called upstairs one cold winter morning,

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in iHcmnrtam nf iBortar Benjamin 2F. M ntuiortly Chairman of the School Board, Superintendent of Schools, and Head of the Health Department of Scarboro for many years. It was due largely to his efforts in 1926 that our new high school was built. A tire¬ less worker for public benefits at all times, he was a true friend of everyone.