6/13/2023 0 Comments Hurricane island outward bound![]() ![]() ![]() The 1973 alumni numbered 814, including forty-five Maine residents. In 1974, 948 people took part in Maine's Outward Bound sixty-three were Maine residents. ![]() Students at Outward Bound must be at least 16 1/2 years old and in good health. As an educational facility, Outward Bound employs seventy-five instructors on a part-time basis, many of whom hold college degrees and have had substantial teaching experience. We are not a survival school, a summer camp, or outdoor skills school.' Through the medium of nature, the 'laboratory' at Outward Bound, each student is asked to 'risk the difficult and unfamiliar in search of a better understanding of (one's) own resources and capabilities.' As part of the program at Hurricane Island, students participate in first aid training, seamanship, navigation, rock climbing, community service, and an island solo. Our purpose is self-discovery through shared adventure. Outward Bound is organized to 'provide an opportunity for students to develop their own self-concept and heighten their awareness for other people. Only the property owned by Outward Bound at Hurricane Island is involved in this dispute. It operates facilities on Hurricane Island in the summer, and at Greenville during the winter. It is conceded that Outward Bound is a nonstock, nonprofit corporation organized in accordance with 13 M.R.S.A. We reach only the first issue and we sustain the appeal. Two principal issues are canvassed by counsel: (1) whether the court erred in exempting Outward Bound as a 'scientific' institution and (2) whether the presiding Justice erred in admitting prejudicial evidence. J., and WEATHERBEE, WERNICK, ARCHIBALD and DELAHANTY, JJ.ĭefendants, Town of Vinalhaven and Board of Assessors, appeal from a declaratory judgment holding that plaintiff Hurricane Island Outward Bound (Outward Bound) is a 'scientific institution' entitled to property tax exemption by 36 M.R.S.A. Dawson, Sanborn, Moreshead, Schade & Dawson, Augusta, for defendant.īefore DUFRESNE, C. 3 372 A.2d 1043 HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND ![]()
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