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

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THE FOUR OORNERS 7 through the help of a 25? bonus from the state, and in turn. the teachers thus trained agreed to return to the rural schools. Among those sent were Bliss l.ena Sher- man, Catherine Bartlett, and Glennys Knapp. This was a great stimulus in bringing up rural schools. Mr. lleald has kept constantly in touch with all the trends in education, and has consistently taken advantage of every outside assistance to benefit our schools, such as the Smith- llughes Act, which provided Federal funds to assist in maintaining the Voca- tional Arts courses. When the superin- tendency was taken over by Mr. Heald only one elementary teacher was a gradu- ate of Normal School. Now at the conclu- sion of his career, the entire teaching staff has had either college or normal training, and ma11y, in addition, have earned extra degrees by taking summer school courses. The staff has increased from twelve ele- mentary and two high school teachers to twenty-one elementary, eight high school, and a music teacher. Several of his teachers have bee11 with him more than twenty-five years, certainly a tribute to the deep affection which his fellow workers bear him. ln turn, Mr. lleald has paid tribute repeatedly to the fine professional spirit of his teachers. A high spot in Mr. Heald's long career was the construction of our present high school, a building which is rapidly being outgrown by its student body. At the time the high school was built, it was far in ad- vance of the high school buildings of neighboring towns. Hy instituting their own building programs, they have now out- distanced us, and an examination of the prospective entering classes show us that a. new building program must be under- taken in the not remote future. lVe regret deeply that this could not have been started during Mr. Heald's superintcndency and thus cliniaxed his notable achievements in behalf of our schools. The new brick grade building at Oak llill originally was designed to provide four rooms, but the unusual growth of the elementary schools soon demonstrated the inadequacy of the building and two other rooms were fitted out in the basement to take care of the overflow. The building, however, made it possible to effect a further regrouping of classes at the Hwhite School and this building has also been re- modeled with an activity room and class room for sub-primary in the basement. The llunstan School, built in 19-15, is a splendid addition to our school buildings. It contains besides six class rooms. an auditorium, a cafeteria managed by the P. T. A., a large library, a large teachers' room, supply room and toilet facilities on each floor, a great improvement over the usual basement arrangement.. It is a school which should be the object, of the greatest possible pride to the citizens. The old school building and the police barracks are to be removed from the site, thus making possible further beautification of the grounds Hllll the development of a fine playground. All the building projects have resulted in rather an advanced centralization of the school system making better grading ar- rangements and decreasing the teacher- load by reducing the excessive number of classes the grade school teachers used to carry in the good old days. School buses have contributed greatly to the program. N ow only four rural primary schools are left. There are no grades above the fourth in any rural school. It has always been Mr. Heald's dream to have bus service pro- vided for high school students, a feature not compulsory at present under the school laws of the state. ln addition to Mr. Heald's years of service in Scarboro, he was also for seven- tee11 years, superintendent of Old Orchard as well. lVhen Dr. Thomas became State Superintendent, lllr. llcald was the first superintendent in the state to have a con- ference with him, this concerned the re- organization of schools in Old Orchard.

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THE FOUR CORNERS 9 This reorganization resulted 'in Old Orchard lu-ing the third town in tlu- state to adopt. the Junior-Senior high sc-hool plan, now almost universally :uloptf-d. Mr. Ileald was l'rt-side-ut ol' tlu- t'ounty 'I'eaelu-rs' Association, hy whom lu- was elected to serve as delegate to tlu- National il'ldneat.ional Association twice, om-e at VVashington, ll. V., and om-e at l'hila- delphia. Anotlu-r outstanding hram-h of Mr. H4-ald's activities aml om- 4-lost-ly hound up with education has lu-en tlu- -l--ll Ulnhs. M r. lleald has he-en proved lo he tlu- oldest elnb leader in tlu- whole l'nitrd States. from point of view ot' servlet-, and was tlu- tirst elnh lt-adm-r in tlu- state ol' Klaim-. il record oi' which our school .aml town is more than proml. Ilis hoys aml girls have pl'Ulilll'0li an impressive list ot' champions that are the envy of otlu-r leaders. Ilii- tirst eluh was organized in 151123 and had among its nu-iuhers, llic-hard l.ihhy, Joshua l.ihhy, ltilliott l'i-terson, Flu-ster Fogg, and Melville -lohusou. llii-hard Lihhy won tlu- first prize on his essay at the state contest aml it was rt-nd at tlu- pro- gram. Aroostook. as might he expet-ted, won the prize for at-tual potato prodm-tion. lleon l.ary, also, won tlu- state prize for his essay on the pig project, lu-sides win- ning national nu-ntion. Xlary Pederson fSkillingsi won douhle state prizes on lu-r pig' alul poultry projf-et, taking tlu- cham- pionships out from umler the noses ot' the hoys. Erm-st liowley, with l1is essay on his pig, heaping la-na, won wide-spread lnention. George Stanford, wimu-r in tlu- garden projeet, was awarded a trip to Washington, li. U. I lic-sides his educational activities, Xl r. l'leald's career in the town ol' his adoption has enihraced a great. variety ot' eivie serv- ices. Ile collected funds for the first. host- eompany at Oak llill and was its tirst il'reasurer. llie has he-en Treasurer oi' tlu- Searboro Branch of the American lied FINISH ever sim-e its organization and his at-eipunts have lu-en characterized by a me- tieulous eare aml accuracy that have dis- tinguislu-d all his doings. He has been a nu-mher ot' The Nenesneh Lodge, K. of P., 'tor thirty-tive years, aml during earlier years served as pianist for the degree team. lle was also Secretary of the Scarboro i:...u1..i of Trade, which was a large and in- fluential organization in the days just be- fore the first World VVar. He has served as Direetor of the County Y. M. C. A. and helped raise 'l'lllIlLlS to carry on its work. Mr. lic-ald's career has embraced two World XVars, in each of which he has played an aetive part. ln World Wvar I, lu- was chairman of all the bond drives and tlu-y always went over the top.'l He had eliarge of the thrift stamps for the schools and tlu- Vit-tory Gardens and took a praetieal interest in all the 'drives for spe- eial funds for the service men. In Yvorld War Il, he led the teachers in handling tlu- numerous rationing programs, and as- sisted in tlu- clothing collections. We are justly proud of his many and Q11-eat eontrihutions to the life of our schools aml our town. We honor him for his high- mimledm-ss in the faee of hostility- and opposition, and for his humility i11 the face ot' triumph. We love him for his unselfish devotion to us all, and now, as we take leave of him as our active superintendent, we want to assure him that we will strive to nu-et his high expectations for us. We want him to feel that no matter who takes his joh, no one can take his place. Sonu- nu-n's names have been written in samlg his has heen indelibly engraved on the lu-arts and lives of hundreds of young people and his fellow-citizens. Truly it 1-an he said of him as was said of the works of the great arehiteet, Sir Christopher Wren: Si nionumnetum requiris, respicef, lf you seek his monument, look about you.