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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DUNSTAN SCHOOL .......-.....-..? 'WTF ' v Q OAK HILL GRAIVIMAR SCHOOL

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