Tradition of Giving

Tradition of Giving Links Past, Present, Future

By Head of School Tim Seeley

For me, some of the best parts of working at George Stevens Academy are our rich heritage and long history. Town academies go back well before Maine became a state in 1820. The school we know as GSA started as Bluehill Academy and has been part of education on the peninsula since 1803. That heritage is noble and important.

Picture all the students who have passed through our doors and everything that has happened on our campus and in our communities since the Academy Building opened in 1898. Now imagine the students we will serve and everything that will happen here going forward. In many ways, I stand at the fulcrum between the past and the future. My job is to make sure that the present honors that past, provides the best possible experience for the students we have right now, and enables a dynamic future.

This "Celebration of Giving" by our generous community is a reflection of that nexus. After all, people give to GSA for three reasons: in recognition of and gratitude for their experience here in the past, or the experience of people they care about; to support the good work we do with our current students; and to enable us to become something more and better in the future.

I think GSA’s future is bright, the brightest it has ever been. We have only just begun to tap the potential of what it means to be a town academy: a private school, and all the advantages that status entails, with a public purpose, and the responsibility for strong community relations that accompanies that purpose.

Thank you to all who support our work here at 23 Union Street. It is because of you that we are able to honor GSA’s legacy best by serving our current students well, and it is because of you that we will be able to best serve our students of tomorrow.

Timothy J. Seeley Head of School