NOAH LOVE ’07

New board member Noah Love ’07 arrived on the Hebron campus as a sixth grader in 2000. He loves the sense of community that Hebron offers and treasures his seven-year educational experience.

Noah is a Senior Director for People at Wonder and serves as an advisor for early start-up businesses, including Bandit and Hive Brands. Before Wonder, Noah worked for Jet, which was acquired by Walmart Inc., and he helped lead a change in management practice for eCommerce mergers and acquisitions.

Noah received his undergraduate degree from Eckerd College and his MBA from Norwich University. After graduation he returned to Hebron and worked in the Admissions Office, leading international student recruitment.

Noah’s favorite memories of Hebron are the winter musicals—as an 8th grader, he was in the ’02 performance of Working, selling lemonade and in ’07, he played the Wizard in The Wiz—thanks Mrs. Middleton!

Noah lives in New York City with his husband Jonathan and their two dogs.

Doug has been married to his wife Judy for 40 years. They have three daughters, each of them married with families of their own. Doug and Judy just welcomed their 8th grandchild to the family. In his open time now, Doug enjoys boating and visiting with friends and family.

“My time at Hebron was formative in my life. While I was reluctant at first to attend, I quickly made lifelong friends, many who I still regularly communicate with. Hebron taught me how to focus on my studies, broadened my horizons and was instrumental in guiding me to be successful in life. The opportunity to serve Hebron as a Trustee completes a full circle. I look forward to sharing my insights and ideas with the Hebron trustees and community in the years to come.”

He’s had one office overlooking a dormant volcano and another tucked inside an Italian villa. Now he’s at home among 1,500 acres of trails and green space, working in a school building whose clock tower has an unbeatable view of the White Mountains. Patrick Phillips has followed his curiosity about people and ideas around the world, with leadership roles in schools in Switzerland, England, and Hawaii—and now Hebron, where he became the 55th Head of School this past July.

When he moved into Allen House with wife Ainslie and their four children during the summer of 2022, Phillips looked around with deep respect for the traditions and history that the Hebron community holds dear. “One of the things that I always remind myself is that the school existed before I arrived and will exist well after I’m gone,” he noted. “You have to take time to breathe and to understand what has happened, not just in the one year before you got there, but, in Hebron’s case, the 200 years before. So I strive to make sure that I’m stepping in with the flow of the school, not trying to divert the flow.”

A firm believer in the power of community and its positive impact on learning, Phillips finds it crucial to connect with students “wherever they are,” whether skiing with them at Mountain Day, listening to them recite Shakespeare at Sonnet Café, or grilling after a football game. He sees the Hebron community as most vibrant when everyone–students, faculty, and staff–feels accepted among “a group of real people who love to be together.” Phillips mused: “When you can share your whole self with others who are doing the same, you’re going to find you’re interested in new things that you’re learning from the people around you. Then this something new starts to tickle your brain, and you have to scratch that itch a little bit. And that’s how you grow.”

As he works with stakeholders to chart Hebron’s best path forward, Phillips, an avid reader, has been intrigued by Jane McGonigal’s book Imaginable. McGonigal writes of “urgent optimism,” a belief that we must tackle problems immediately while feeling confident of our chances for success–a mindset which resonates with Phillips: “You think about the possible futures out there,” he says, and then make deliberate plans to “move toward those futures in a way that feels good but that is never just making progress for progress’s sake. You’re always making progress towards something concrete and important.”

He recognizes that moving toward a strong future for Hebron requires cherishing, and strengthening, connections to Hebron’s past. Phillips has been energized by his conversations with alumni; it’s vital to open our doors wide for alums, he says, and to offer opportunities of all sorts to connect with the school community and discover how that same spirit alumni encountered at Hebron thrives among our students today.

The community-building attitude runs in the Phillips family. Ainslie has taken the lead in fostering collegiality among faculty and staff, leading game nights and snowshoe adventures, for instance, while also teaching middle-school math and hosting the Hebron Historical Society at Allen House. And while children Grayson and Taylor are already high school graduates, the alumni network Phillips values will one day include their two youngest: Cooper (Class of 2024) and Riley (Class of 2027).

At his installation ceremony this past fall, Phillips spoke directly to current students, but with words that speak just as powerfully to all who have a connection to Hebron: “My hope for you is that here at Hebron you will find who you are, that you will discover and strengthen your own principles, and that by remaining true to yourself you can move through your life with honor, with curiosity, with kindness, and with pride in both yourself and your school.”

All School Awards

Hebron Cup: Julia Marie Gregory

Riseman Award: Calvin Kenjiro Grover

Phemister Award: Frederic Essiembre

Wheeler Award: Lili-Marie Schmidt

Sherman Award: Emma Elizabeth Newell

Leyden Award: Jackson Dakota O’Brien

Tate Award: Frankie Nicholas Majkowski

Academic Excellence Awards

Music: Carlos Tadeo Lopez Garcia

Spanish: Megan Jane Seipp

Art: Galia Braun Frydman

Mathematics: Sean Daniel Gleason

English: Nicholas Vito DeMarco

History/Soc Science: Lili-Marie Schmidt

Sciences: Julia Marie Gregory (Life Sciences)

Calvin Kenjiro Grover (Physical Sciences)

Athletic Award

Dwyer Award: Daniel Kral

Athletic Prize: Nicholas Robert Cantalupo

Bessie Fenn: Julia Marie Gregory

Reed Award: Luke Ryan Festa

Reed Award: Linn Luisa Haefele

Special Senior Awards

Senior Scholarship Prize: Calvin Kenjiro Grover

Lepage Scholarship: Jack Michael Madden

Tyler/Grandmaison MELMAC Scholarship: Jasper Alley Curtis

Bernat Award: Sean Daniel Gleason

Lorimer Prize: Lillybeth Kaley Randall

Social Justice: Carlos Tadeo Lopez Garcia