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Spring 2004

features Farewell, Class of 2004 a sappy goodbye to the bicentennial class

New Tricks for Treat adding on for academics

Hebron Academy: 1885–1943 the second part of our historical timeline

Homecoming 2004 celebrate our past, present and future

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departments The H Club news, athletics, philanthropy, and more

Class Notes notes, new arrivals, weddings, obituaries

Hebroniana over one hundred and fifty years of service

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Celebrating 200 years of inspiring and guiding students to reach their highest potential in mind, body and spirit.

dialogue Editor’s Note

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ver the last 18 months we have had many opportunities to answer the question, “What’s the best thing about Hebron Academy?” The answer is almost always “The people, of course.” For 200 years, Hebron’s people have defined its essence. From the single-minded purpose of founder Deacon Barrows, whose impassioned “ewe lamb speech” prevented the school’s removal to Paris Hill in 1819; to Charlie Dwyer, class of 1904, who returned to teach and coach after graduating from Colby and sustained his Hebron career into the early sixties; to “local boy” John Slattery, class of 2004, whose love for Hebron—town and school—shone brightly in his Commencement address.

In our bicentennial year we are celebrating not only the Academy’s 200th birthday, but also the people who are Hebron. You are one of them. Visit our bicentennial web site (www.habicentennial.org) and tell us your Hebron story. Come to Homecoming in October when we will honor our past, celebrate our present, and toast our future. We look forward to seeing you.

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Jennifer F. Adams, Editor jadams@hebronacademy.org

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Bicentennial banner. Photo by Dennis Griggs.

The Semester is published twice each year by Hebron Academy, PO Box 309, Hebron ME 04238. 207-966-2100.

Issue No. 193 MISSION

The Semester magazine’s mission is to continue the Hebron family’s intellectual and emotional engagement with the Academy by conveying news, preserving the heritage and memories of the school and chronicling the accomplishments of its alumni/ae, faculty and students.

EDITOR

Jennifer F. Adams E D I T O R I A L A S S I S TA N C E

BICENTENNIAL

I was particularly interested in plans for campus changes, a new field house (certainly needed in Maine) and renovation of the gym for fine arts. It was a good fifty years ago that I started exploring the jungle of Collins orchards “down over the hill” for what eventually became the Dwyer fields. As Director of Athletics and track coach, the “Bowl” and its odd length, upand-down, four lane (here and there) cinder track simply had to be replaced. Running a good “athletics for all” program on one field was a challenge. When I started soccer (the first in Maine), we got permission to convert two

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cow pastures at the Western Maine Sanitarium to soccer fields.

They were beautiful—complete with view of the White Mountains. Teams went up and back in the old bus, known as the “Green Hornet.” That first team had four Spanish-speaking kids on it: Peter Giesemann, Johann Nottebohm, Pat Tracey, and Chris MacPherson, who had grown up with soccer. They shouted to each other in Spanish on the field and Evan West, the coach, never did know what they were talking about.

George L. Helwig Director of Athletics, Biology, Track and Skiing, 1948-1959

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You will hear from others re the Harmon Cup story on page 48 (Fall 2003), but I will add my two cents to the pot. Back row, second from the left, sure looks like the Coach: “Cappy” Hollis. He was the house master for Howe Cottage (excuse me while I shed a tear) where I resided in the back room 1938–39. The basketball team that year played the University of Maine frosh at Orono; as that was my home, Cappy asked me along as “road manager” for one game! Go Green!!

Talbot H. Crane ’39

Sara Armstrong Brian M. Cheek Kristin Cheek Robert M. Caldwell Leslie A. Guenther Patricia A. Hutter Beverly B. Leyden Bénédicte M. Méplain Beverly J. Roy David W. Stonebraker PHOTOGRAPHY

Jennifer F. Adams Julie A. Chabot William B. Chase Skip Churchill, Churchill Photography Dennis and Diana Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios, Inc. and friends Hebron Academy reaffirms its longstanding policy of nondiscriminatory admission of students on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation. We do not discriminate in the administration of our educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs and athletic or other school-administered programs. Hebron Academy is an equal opportunity employer. © 2004 by Hebron Academy.

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around the bowl Twelve Inducted Into Cum Laude Society

The White House Comes to Hebron

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n April 30, 2004, the Hebron Academy community celebrated academic achievement at its annual Cum Laude Society induction.

Sixteen students were honored at the ceremony, which included the induction of twelve new members and an address by guest speaker Margaret T. McFadden, assistant professor of American Studies at Colby College.

In her address, Dr. McFadden focussed on the pervasive nature of popular culture today and urged the audience to think critically about the messages contained in television, movies, popular music, magazines, video games, the internet and advertising. She argued that popular culture is important to analyze because the world is saturated in it and because our daily reality is increasingly defined by it.

Modeled after Phi Beta Kappa, the Cum Laude Society was

White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card was the keynote speaker at the Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner, held at Hebron Academy on Thursday, January 29. Secretary Card graciously carved some time out of his tightly-planned schedule to meet with Hebron students. His address to the sold-out crowd of more than 300 community members focused on his role as Chief of Staff, his experiences in the Bush administration, and his personal inspirations for involvement in politics. He emphasized the importance of citizen participation in democracy. Seen here are: Megan Irving ’04, Louise Roy ’05, Tina Voigt ’05, Cindy Lebel ’04, Secretary Card, Shauna Neary ’04, Jodie Simms ’05, Alex Chabot ’05 and Nina Planson ’05. founded in 1906 to recognize academic achievement in secondary schools. Cum Laude now consists of nearly 350 chapters, primarily in independent schools in the United

The Cum Laude Society, 2004. Front: Laura Fleck ’04, Jodie Simms ’05, Shauna Neary ’04 and Helen Unger-Clark ’04. Middle: Eri Miyauchi ’05, Carrie Curtis ’04, Chelsea Lipham ’04. Back: John Slattery ’04, Elizabeth Cole ’05, Taylor Lalemand ’04, Jamie Quinlan ’04, Kate Turner ’04, Jason Staats ’04, Devin Blais ’04, Cindy Lebel ’04 and Derek Miller ’04. Laura, Carrie, Jamie and Jason were inducted last year.

States. Membership in the Cum Laude Society is Hebron Academy’s highest academic honor.

Newly inducted this year were: Devin J. Blais ’04 of Damariscotta; Taylor A. Lalemand ’04 of Auburn; Cindy S. Lebel ’04 of Greenville; Chelsea L. Lipham ’04 of Buckfield; Derek N. Miller ’04 of Auburn; Shauna K. Neary ’04 of Antigonish, Nova Scotia; John W. Slattery ’04 of Minot; Kate A. Turner ’04 of Harrison; Helen Unger-Clark ’04 of Rindge, New Hampshire; Elizabeth M. Cole ’05 of New Gloucester; Eri Miyauchi ’05 of Ehime, Japan; and Jodie M. Simms ’05 of Auburn. The new members join four seniors inducted last year: Carolyn A. Curtis of Hebron, Laura E. Fleck of Auburn; A. James Quinlan of St. John’s, Newfoundland; and Jason E. Staats of Knoxville, Tenn.

Dueling Chefs!

A clash of culinary titans took place on Thursday, January 29, when “Chef Mike” Moody and “Chef Dave” Chisholm, the food service manager, squared off in a winner-take-all cook-off at supper. Mr. Moody and Mr. Chisholm prepared pasta to order for a large and enthusiastic crowd of students and teachers. What was at stake? Bragging rights and the big white hat. And who won? Chef Mike claimed victory, but we think he should remember who’s in charge!

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Happy Birthday Hebron Academy!

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he Hebron Academy community gathered on February 11 to celebrate Founders Day and officially begin its yearlong bicentennial celebration.

“Happy 200th birthday Hebron Academy!” Head of School John King exclaimed, as he welcomed guests to the event. “Today we begin the celebration of our school’s bicentennial and its future.”

Hebron was granted a charter in 1804 by the General Court of Massachusetts, 16 years before Maine became a state. To mark Founders Day and provide listeners with a sense of the school’s rich history, students read a former teacher’s diary entries, descriptions of school life in 1860, and original school rules and regulations. The program included a retelling of events in 1819, when the Academy’s only school building burned to the ground and

Founders Day program, February 11, 2004. This group of speakers included (from left): Gabe Rubinstein ’08, Del Hulbert ’10, Bum Seek Kim ’04 and Jamie Frederick ’05.

Students and faculty were treated to a surprise birthday party following the official Founders Day program on February 11. The dining room was decorated with party hats, noisemakers, piñatas, balloons, streamers and confetti; and the food service produced party subs and burgers with all kinds of toppings.

Food service staffers Barbara Martin, Jeanie Hall and Lu-Ann Hall prepare party subs for the surprise Founders Day party on February 11, 2004.

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how a stirring speech by one of its founders, Deacon William Barrows, thwarted an attempt to move the school from Hebron. At the program’s close, everyone was invited to sing the school hymn, a tradition at many events. The hymn was written in 1891 by Reverend Samuel F. Smith, author of the song “America.”

Although it is one of the nation’s oldest endowed boarding schools, Hebron’s mission and core values have remained consistent with the charge contained in the original charter: that students be taught liberal arts and sciences and educated to revere life and to respect and honor individuality.

Under Mr. King’s leadership, the Academy recently reaffirmed its

mission to inspire and guide students to reach their highest potential in mind, body, and spirit.

Students participating in the program included: Molly Curtis ‘06, Bum Seek Kim ‘04, John Slattery ‘04, Elizabeth Cole ‘05, Jamie Frederick ‘05, Ben Sukeforth ‘05, Algerson André ‘06, Amy Shackford ‘06, Sarah Irish ‘07, Noah Love ‘07, Gabe Rubenstein ‘08, Katherine Stewart ‘08, Kala Granger ‘09, Emma Roy 09, Delton Hulbert ‘10 and Jordan Ramharter ‘10. Teacher Cynthia Reedy, who organized the event, provided closing comments, telling the assembled community, “By being here, on this day, you are all a part of Hebron Academy’s history.”

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very ten years, Hebron Academy undergoes an accreditation review by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).

The goals of the accreditation program are school improvement and quality assurance. It is a three-part process: a self-study conducted by the school, a fourday visit by a committee of educators selected by NEASC’s Commission on Independent Schools, and a follow-up program supervised by the commission.

In addition to committing to continuous improvement, NEASC-accredited schools must demonstrate that they meet dozens of standards related to educational programming and nearly all aspects of school operation. The self-study involves students, faculty, staff,

parents and trustees, and usually takes 12 to 18 months to complete. Because Hebron is a boarding school, our self-study included a supplement for residential programs.

The first organizational meetings were held in November 2002 and were followed by workshops in the spring of 2003. In the fall, committees reviewed their work, and assembled the draft, which was reviewed by the Board of Trustees in January and sent to the visiting committee in February. In April, the visiting committee spent four days at Hebron talking to faculty, students, and staff. Their final report and recommendations will be available later this year.

In a letter to Hebron Academy, visiting committee chair Jeanine Norris stated that,

Head of School John King with committee chair Jeanine Norris, Head of School at Miss Hall’s. Other committee members came from Miss Hall’s School, North Yarmouth Academy, Providence Country Day School, Wilbraham & Monson Academy, Cambridge School of Weston, Lee Academy, and Tilton School.

“It was clear to all on the Committee that the adults who work with young people are professionals with big hearts and high aspirations for students… Each member of the Committee observed the sense of community all around us and saw evidence at every turn of the faculty’s dedication and commitment. That spirit, as you know, is the heart of the school.”

“We are proud of the work that we’re doing to put Hebron on a strong footing for the start of our third century,” said John King, Head of School. “And we are especially proud of our inclusive, supportive community that is a hallmark of Hebron Academy.”

Sturtevant Hall, a.k.a. the School Building, on a beautiful May afternoon.

The outcome of the process will be a set of activities to address recommendations from the Committee and from the selfstudy. Hebron Academy has already started work on expanding the integration of technology into its curriculum, modifying its student advising system, and enhancing the residential life program.

NEASC, founded in 1885, is the oldest of six regional accrediting associations in the U.S. It serves more than 1,800 public and independent schools, colleges, and universities in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. NEASC also consults with education ministries around the world to assist in the establishment of accreditation systems. Hebron Academy has been accredited by NEASC since 1946.

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around the bowl Report of Giving Update The following gifts were inadvertently omitted from the 2002–2003 Report of Giving, published in December 2003. We are most grateful to these donors for their thoughtful support of Hebron Academy and apologize for any inconvenience this oversight may have caused.

Capital Gifts Sargent Gymnasium 2002-2003 gifts received: $258,925 Dr. & Mrs. J. Carlton Engel ’86 ⑤ Mr. Albert R. Lepage ’65 TE ⑤

Gifts in Kind Academy Memorabilia Mr. & Mrs. William Bennett Mrs. Della Klament Mr. Philip M. O’Hearn Dr. & Mrs. Michael Rifkin ⑤ Mr. C. Thomas Van Alen ’56 ⑤ Mr. Greg Wexelblat Dr. & Mrs. Maynard P. White, Jr. Mr. Jay L. Woolsey TT ⑤ Books and Magazines Miss Ellen L. Augusta ‘75 ⑤ Mr. & Mrs. William G. Becker, Jr. Mr. Barry Lupovich Mrs. Mary Rea TE ⑤ Mr. Peter H. Scholnick ’67 Miss Sarah K. Terwilliger Mr. Windsor D. Wood ’59 Athletics Mr. Manuel I. Plavin ’43 ⑤ Mr. & Mrs. James B. Roche Mr. Ralph Tedesco Services Mr. Addison A. Augusta Mr. Alfred Küchler Mr. & Mrs. John T. Leyden, Jr. ⑤ Mr. David W. Suitor Furnishings and Equipment Mrs. Rose H. Aikman Mr. & Mrs. William B. Chase ⑤ Mr. & Mrs. Clement S. Dwyer, Jr. ‘66 TT ⑤ Mr. & Mrs. Fred K. Greenwood Mr. & Mrs. Dana A. Stewart ⑤ Miss Sarah K. Terwilliger Mrs. Bette Thibeault Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Toole ⑤ Ms. Valli S. West Mr. Rupert B. White ’51 ⑤

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What’s on Your Nightstand?

We posed that question to our busy faculty and staff this spring and discovered that we are a community with eclectic taste. Here’s a sampling, in no particular order: Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier Reflections and Dreams, Nora Roberts Rowing to Latitude, Jill Fredston Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger On the Road, Jack Kerouac Saturn, Ben Bova Blessings, Anna Quindlen The Life of Pi, Yann Martel Mystic River, Dennis Lehane Bel Canto, Ann Patchett The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides Dreamland, Kevin Baker Once an Eagle, Anton Myrer Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav Memoir From Antproof Case, Mark Helprin House, Tracy Kidder Something from the Oven, Laura Shapiro Music and Silence, Rose Tremain Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace The World According to Garp, John Irving Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton Opinions of the United States Supreme Court them, Joyce Carol Oates Everest, Reinhold Messner Points Unknown, David Roberts, ed.

The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown Courage to Change, Dennis Wholey Ma Nanie, Alix de Saint-Andre The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay The Extravagant Universe, Robert Kirshner The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene The Princes of Ireland, Edward Rutherford Worlds Afire, Paul Janezcko Unearthing Atlantis, Charles Pellegrino

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Queen, Alex Haley Noah’s Flood, William Ryan and Walter Pitman Gettysburg, Stephen Sears A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson Paranoia, Joseph Finder Old School, Tobias Wolff If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Send Me Home, Tim O’Brien Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser Just One Look, Harlan Coben An Open Book, Michael Dirda Skeletons on the Zahara, Dean King They Marched Into Sunlight, David Maraniss The Known World, Edward P. Jones Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier A Star Called Henry, Roddy Doyle You Are Not a Stranger Here, Adam Haslett Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs Dry, Augusten Burroughs The Color of Water, James McBride She’s Not There, Jennifer Finney Boylan Deception Point, Dan Brown The History of God, Karen Armstrong Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer Stand into Danger, Alexander Kent Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America, Michael Dobbs The Piano Tuner, Daniel Mason Last Stand at Saber River, Elmore Leonard Things Seen and Unseen, Nora Gallagher Practicing Resurrection, Nora Gallagher Cicero, Anthony Everitt The English Reformation, A.G. Dickens

The Reformation and the English People, J.J. Scarisbrick On Guerrilla Warfare, Mao Tse Tung (translated by Samuel B. Griffith II) The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, Daniel Yergin

Kids Edition We are fortunate to have a large and active group of young faculty children on campus this year. Here is a list of favorites from the under-10 crowd.

Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling The Junie B. Jones series, Barbara Park A Story for Bear, Dennis Haseley and Jim LaMarche Brave Margaret, Robert D. San Souci The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis Who’s in the Sea?, Charles Reasoner The Foot Book, Dr. Seuss Jamberry, Bruce Degen The Family Book, Todd Parr You Are My I Love You, Marianne Cusimano and Satomi Ichikawa Hola Jalepeño! / Yum Yum Dim Sum, Amy Wilson Sanger What Do You Say?, Mandy Standley The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, Hildegarde H. Swift and Lynd Ward Love Song for a Baby, Marion Dane Bauer and Dan Andreasen Just Like You, Jan Fearnley What a Wonderful World, George David Weiss, Bob Thiele and Ashley Bryan The Daddy Book, Todd Parr The Brand New Kid, Katie Couric Frog and Toad Are Friends, Arnold Lobel The Amelia Bedelia series, Peggy Parish

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Seven Hebronians moved to France this spring. French teacher Bénédicte Méplain and science teacher Sarah Twichell traveled with Julian Flint ’06, Chris Nadeau ’04, Jamie Quinlan ’04, Louise Roy ’05 and Bo Warrick ’04 on a 12-day tour that allowed them to slip1 into French life. For most of their stay they were based in the Monnier family house in Dolde-Bretagne (1) where they cooked most of their own meals (5) and toured the surrounding 2 area. High points included visits to the War and Peace Museum and beaches at Normandy, the old town of Port de Dinan (2), St. Malo (4), and Mont-St. Michel (6); fitting all seven 3 into a French car; 1 and trying the croissants at every boulangerie they passed (3). The students spoke French every day, buying food and stamps, talking with people they met and asking for directions. They finished their trip in Paris, 4 2 strolling on the Champs Elysées, picnicking in the Tuileries, and visiting the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and the 5 Musée d’Orsay.

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academics Class of 2004 College Intentions Asher Anderson—postgraduate year Sto Austin—Mount Allison University Dave Barlam—Elmira College Brandon Bates—Hartwick College Caroline Bauer—Elmira College Devin Blais—Carnegie Mellon University Kyle Blouin—University of Northern Colorado Jeff Boudreau—American International College Ryan Close—undecided Brittany Crush—University of New England Carrie Curtis—Colby College Danielle Dawson—St. Francis Xavier University Laura Fleck—Wheaton College Brad Flynn—junior hockey Pete Gladstone—Lynn University Liam Gray—North Carolina State Caitlyn Hamel—Champlain College Casey Hilton—Lake Erie College Megan Irving—Postgraduate year at Hebron Matt Jellison—University of So. New Hampshire Garrick Johnson—Green Mountain College Shannon Kearney—Alfred University Bum Seek Kim—Purdue University Jason Knopp—Mount Allison University Michael Kravchuk—Salve Regina University Taylor Lalemand—University of Vermont Abby Lavigne—St. Thomas University Garrett Leavitt—Mount Allison University Cindy Lebel—Saint Anselm College Chelsea Lipham—Pratt Institute Lisa Lundstrom—University of New England Heidi Lurvey—Moravian University Dan McGinness—Salem State College Derek Miller—Tufts University Dai Miyajima—Bellerbys College Randy Morin—Assumption College

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Matt Morton—St. Michael’s College Christian Mosley—Connecticut College Andrew Moscowitz—Green Mountain College Al Munga—Dalhousie University Chris Nadeau—Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Shauna Neary—Mount Allison University Adam Nyitray—Manhattanville College (junior hockey) Deoksoo Park—Indiana University Arí Paschal—Virginia Wesleyan College Erin Plummer—St. Joseph’s College of Maine Elizabeth Potvin—Newbury College Andrew Price—Wesleyan University Jamie Quinlan—Queen’s University Connor Rasmussen—McDaniel College Kenneth Richard—Colorado State University Justin Richards—Elmira College Jeff Scammon—University of Southern Maine Ruth Scarpino—Antioch College Mio Shibazaki—Sophia University or Newbury College Mark Simms—St. Francis Xavier University John Slattery—St. Lawrence University Jeff Sloat—Assumption College Jason Staats—Ithaca College Kelly Stanley—New England Culinary Institute Ashley Sterling- University of Southern Maine Seung Hyae Tak—year abroad in France Kate Turner—gap year (University of Vermont) Helen Unger-Clark—Mount Allison University Bo Warrick—St. Lawrence University Elliot Watts—Hartwick College John Wilson—University of Northern Colorado

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Seniors Explore the Art of Personal Narratives

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n the winter and spring, Hebron Academy’s English IV teachers teach seminar courses on a variety of themes. This year Sara Armstrong offered a course that examined real people and real stories. “The reading list was all firstperson memoirs or third-person journalistic pieces telling another’s story,” Ms. Armstrong said. “We also included documentary film, approaching it analytically, as we would a piece of literature.”

Among the books Ms. Armstrong chose for her class was Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas. Ms. Dumas and her family moved from Iran to southern California in the early 1970s, when she was seven years old. Her memoir relates humorous and insightful stories about her family’s experiences in America.

After reading the book, students wrote questions to the author, who offered to talk with them by telephone. Ms. Dumas proved to be lively, interesting and

warm. She answered many questions about her memoir—telling the students “what happened next”— and then turned the tables, asking her interviewers about their lives and about life in Maine.

Other reading included Into the Wild by John Krakauer and Ron Suskind’s A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from Inner City to the Ivy League.

The class watched Daughter from Danang, in which an adopted Amerasian woman returns to Vietnam to be reunited with her birth mother after more than 20 years; and Hoop Dreams, which follows two basketball players through high school and beyond as they attempt to use their sport to “get out” of inner-city Chicago.

As a final project, the students interviewed a member of the community and prepared a presentation of some kind about that person. Projects included written articles, computer presentations, and an art project—painted tiles representing the person’s life.

Ms. Armstrong’s class. Seated: Al Munga (Abbotsford, BC), Andrew Moscowitz (Plainfield, NJ) and Justin Richards (Brooklyn, NY). Standing: Abby Lavigne (Franklin, NH), Ashley Sterling (Minot, ME), Shannon Kearney (Casper, WY), Bum Seek Kim (Seoul, Korea), Danielle Dawson (Elizabethtown, ON), Dai Miyajima (Tokyo, Japan), Heidi Lurvey (Raymond, ME), Michael Kravchuk (Peabody, MA) and Megan Irving (Cumberland, ME). Erin Plummer of Naples is not pictured.

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A Day in Middle School Life Join us for a peek into the busy lives of our Middle School teachers and students. These photos were taken over two days by Dennis Griggs of Tannery Hill Studios and will be used in a new Middle School viewbook.

Spring ritual: the Science Fair.

Grabbing a snack from the fruit basket.

Spanish with Mr. Leyden ’99 (left); math with Ms. Guenther (above).

Crossing the “acid pit” in outdoor skills.

The popular “flame test” lab in eighth grade science.

English with Mr. Gillies ’62.

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he winter and spring seasons can hold particular challenges for Hebron’s teams. December snow and bitter January cold forced the rescheduling of several winter contests; mid-April rains did the same in the spring. Our winter teams fared quite well: girls’ basketball was much improved; boys’ varsity basketball completed their most successful season in years; boys’ varsity hockey won 11 of their last 12 games, missing a New England play-off berth by only 1⁄2 point; and the girls’ hockey team made it to the first round of the New England tournament. The girls’ alpine finished second in maisads and sixth in nepsacs; the boys were third and eighth.

After a long winter, we started spring’s short season with modest expectations, yet ended with astounding success. In what may be a school record, no fewer than five teams earned maisad titles: baseball, softball, boys’ track and field, girls’ lacrosse and boys’ jv lacrosse.

Congratulations to all the athletes and their coaches— winter and spring—for their individual and team accomplishments.

Hebron’s scores are listed first

Alpine Skiing 1/21 1/28 1/30 2/4 2/6 2/13 2/21

GS @ Shawnee GS @ Shawnee GS @ Shawnee SL @ Kents Hill SL @ Sunday River MAISADs @ Sunday River New Englands @ Shawnee

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Boys’ JV Hockey 10 8 7 6 4 3 1 0 1 7 6 1 5 4 4 6 7 1 3 1 3 2

12/3 12/5 12/10 12/11 1/9 1/14 1/17 1/19 1/23 1/27 1/29 1/30 1/31 2/3 2/4 2/12 2/18

Cheverus NYA Kents Hill St. Dom's Patriotic Knights Oxford Hills Proctor St. Dom's Brewster Lewiston Patriotic Knights NYA Brewster Cheverus Berlin Berlin Kents Hill

Girls’ Hockey 11/16 Kents Hill scrim.

11/19 Tilton 12/3 Exeter

spring sports Anna Geismar ’05.

4/21 4/23 4/27 4/28 5/1 5/5 5/7 5/10 5/12 5/15

Gould Kents Hill Hyde Tilton Gould Maranacook Kents Hill Fryeburg JV MAISAD semis MAISAD finals

9 8 10 7 8 9 12 5 12

10 5 7 6 9 4 8 4 11

playdate / Nashua HS Winchendon 3 Cony High School 7 Oxford Hills 7 Gould 3 Fryeburg 7 New Hampton 5 Kents Hill 3 Berwick 0 Tilton 5 Gould 3 Hyde (OT) 2 NYA 1 Kents Hill 6 Hyde 4 MAISAD semis 6

9 0 5 2 2 4 10 7 4 1 3 12 7 2 7

Boys’ Lax 4/4 4/10 4/15 4/16 4/17 4/19 4/21 4/23 4/24 4/28 5/1 5/4 5/7 5/8 5/10 5/12

Boys’ JV Lax 12/13 12/19 12/20 1/11 1/14 1/17 1/21 1/24 1/28 1/31 2/4 2/14 2/17 2/18 2/20 2/21 2/25 3/3

ME Select Women St. George’s Trn St. George’s Trn NAHA Kents Hill Brewster Tilton Proctor New Hampton Proctor Holderness (OT) Brewster NYA Kents Hill Middlesex Maine Selects Exeter NEPSAC vs.

Brewster

3 2 2 2 5 1 4 6 3 6 1 2 8 3 7 3 2

2 1 4 0 3 4 1 0 2 2 2 4 1 2 2 2 1

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Snowboarding 1/21 1/28 2/6 2/11 2/13 2/25

NYA Lewiston

Edward Little Hyde Boys’ MPA State Meet Girls’ MPA State Meet

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Baseball 4/8 4/10 4/17 4/19 4/21 4/23 4/27 4/28 5/1 5/5 5/8 5/10 5/12 5/15

Pine Tree New Hampton Kents Hill Telstar Gould Fryeburg Bridgton Pine Tree CVA Gould Kents Hill CVA MAISAD semis MAISAD finals

7 7 8 0 7 5 1 18 12 3 2 14 17 6

3 11 9 17 5 16 13 5 5 15 8 7 16 1

7 13 8 12

8 10 7 11

5 5 9

6 16 9

JV Baseball

SS @ Sunday River BA @ Kents Hill HP @ Sugarloaf HP @ Sunday River SS @ Sunday River SS @ Kents Hill

4/21 4/29 5/5 5/14

Gould Poland 9th Grade Gould Kents Hill

Girls’ Lax

Swimming 1/10 1/23

1/28 2/13 2/16 2/17

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4/12 4/14 4/17

Oxford Hills Proctor Hyde

4/13 4/14 4/17 4/19 4/21 4/24 4/28 5/1 5/4 5/7 5/8 5/15

Cony High School Oxford Hills Hyde Fryeburg Gould Kents Hill Berwick Gould Hyde NYA Kents Hill MAISAD Tourney

1 3 2 5 2 2 2 6 1 1 4

7 2 9 0 8 7 6 1 6 7 1

New Hampton Proctor Fryeburg Exeter NYA Poland 9th grade Gould Kents Hill Pine Tree Telstar Gould

Poland 9th grade 7 Kents Hill 5 Pine Tree 12 MAISAD Round Robin

15 10 6

Girls’ Tennis 4/7 4/17 4/19 4/21 4/28 4/30 5/5 5/7 5/12 5/15

Fryeburg Kents Hill NYA Gould Berwick Gould Fryeburg Kents Hill MAISAD Singles MAISAD Doubles

0 0 0 3 0 2 0 0

5 5 5 2 5 3 5 5

1 4 1 4

5 1 4 1

1 4 1 0 0 0 2 0 2

4 1 4 5 5 5 3 5 3

0 3 3 1 2 1

5 2 2 4 3 4

Girls’ JV Tennis 4/17 4/28 5/5 5/7

Kents Hill Berwick Berwick Kents Hill

Boys’ Tennis 4/7 4/15 4/17 4/21 4/23 4/28 5/1 5/3 5/5 5/12 5/15

Fryeburg Gould Hyde Kents Hill NYA Kents Hill Gould Kents Hill Hyde MAISAD Singles MAISAD Doubles

Boys’ JV Tennis 4/16 4/21 4/23 4/28 5/5 5/6

Kents Hill Gould NYA Berwick Gould Kents Hill

Track and Field

Softball 4/10 4/17 4/19 4/21 4/23 4/29 4/30 5/1 5/5 5/7 5/8

5/11 5/12 5/13 5/15

14 6 9 4 12 8 13 3 35 2 19

11 3 3 14 8 12 0 5 2 4 10

4/9 4/17 4/30 5/5 5/8 5/15

Poland High School Elan and NYA boys: 1 of 3, girls 3 of 3 Oxford Hills boys: 3 of 3, girls: 3 of 3 Telstar boys: 1, girls: 1 MAISADs boys: 1 of 4 ,girls: 3 of 4 New Englands boys: 3 of 17, girls: 8 of 16

For more on Hebron athletics, visit

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philanthropy

Hartgen Family Makes Gift of Art and Books to Hebron

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ike many parents who send their children to boarding school, Frances and Vincent Hartgen considered the issues carefully. They wanted more opportunities for their sons, David and Stephen, than were available in the Orono public school system. They researched independent schools, narrowing the choices to John Babst in Bangor, Hebron and Holderness, with Hebron as their preferred school. In a recently completed memoir, Frances Hartgen wrote that it was an agonizing decision, in which they weighed the pull

of family life against what Hebron had to offer as an educational environment. In the end, Claude Allen awarded scholarships to the boys and they entered Hebron in the fall of 1958. They were not quite 14 years old.

The boys were homesick at first but eventually settled in and came to realize that their parents were right to push them into this new academic environment.

“Hebron academics were not easy,” recalled Stephen Hartgen ’62. “We had three to five hours of homework daily (one hour of

homework for every hour of class), and evenings were spent at our desks in our rooms from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. or later.”

David Hartgen ’62 said that at first he questioned his parents’ motives, “but things began to change when I took William Ganter’s Latin I course and sent a halting letter home written in Latin. Recently Mom told me that sending us off to Hebron was one of the most difficult things they ever did, but she never regretted it, and seeing us now in our professions she would do it again without hesitation.”

David and Stephen both credit Hebron with instilling a sense of discipline in them that helped them do well in college and in their careers. “Without discipline nothing is possible, but with it all is possible.” David said. “The confidence I learned through discipline at Hebron was the primary force in my success in government and academics.”

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he Hartgen family has given generously to Hebron over the years.

Even before David and Stephen graduated in 1962, Frances and Vincent Hartgen made monetary gifts and contributions of art and reference materials to the school.

After they retired in the 1970s, the Hartgens determined that Hebron needed a better art collection for its library. They sent a carload of art books, reference

Stephen and David Hartgen in 1961.

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material and other library materials, intended, in part, as a “test case,” to see if Hebron would treat them well. “Of course they should not have worried,” David said.

On a visit to the library, Stephen and his wife, Linda, noticed one of Vincent’s paintings on the wall and several books on the shelves in the art section.

“They contained some nice book plates showing our dad’s name as the donor. So it seemed to me that Hebron was making use of the materials and giving appropriate recognition,” said Stephen.

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ollowing Vincent’s death in 2002, the Hartgen family decided to give a substantial part of his collection to Hebron Academy. The gift, consisting of two paintings and over 160 art books and reference materials, is intended to “round out” the Hupper Library art reference collection. The gift is consistent with the family’s wish “to express appreciation for the influences that Hebron has had on our lives over the years.”

“Dad was insistent that these books go to Hebron to add to previous gifts,” remarked David.

Through the Hartgen collection, Hebron students have access to materials that are not commonly available at secondary schools.

Forest Perkins ’55, Chair of Hebron’s Fine Arts department, recognizes the significant value of this gift for the Academy. “It’s an extensive collection and a wonderful, wonderful resource for the Academy to have,” he said.

philanthropy Shortly after David and Stephen graduated, French teacher George Freiday was helpful in stewarding the gift of two watercolors for the new science building. Some years later, Mr. Freiday proudly pointed them out to David, who was visiting. “We found them nicely placed, one in the entrance of the science hall and the other in the Sturtevant library.

Only one problem…the science hall painting was upside down!

With Dad’s ‘forest floor’ art it was sometimes hard to tell.” David quietly pointed this out to Mr. Freiday. “A pall of embarrassment washed over his face! He never, ever mentioned it again, but the last time I visited the painting was hung right! Dad loved this story, and retold it many times, often ending that from God’s perspective there was no ‘up’ to a forest floor so Mr. Freiday should have just left it alone!”

Stephen A. Hartgen ’62 graduated from Amherst College (1966) and later earned graduate degrees (MA, Brandeis, 1967; PhD, University of Minnesota, American History, 1976).

Stephen has been in newspaper journalism since his first job as an intern reporter at the Bangor Daily News.

In 2004, he was named a regional

publisher for Lee Enterprises, overseeing The Times-News and several other daily and weekly newspapers in Idaho and Nevada. In the 1970s, Stephen taught journalism at the University of Minnesota and Ohio State University as an assistant professor of journalism and was a coauthor of a leading journalism textbook, New Strategies for Public Affairs Reporting. He lives in Twin Falls, Idaho, with his wife, Linda, who is trialcourt administrator for the State of Idaho’s Fifth Judicial District.

David T. Hartgen ’62 is Professor of Transportation Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he established the Center for Interdisciplinary Transportation Studies and now teaches and conducts research on a wide variety of topics. He graduated from Duke University (1966) and Northwestern University (MS, 1967; PhD 1973) in civil engineering.

David is the author of about 320 articles and reports in transportation policy and planning, and is U.S. editor of the international journal Transportation. His comparative studies of transportation systems are covered widely in the US and state media. David has one daughter, Alice, and lives in Concord, North Carolina, with his wife (also named Linda), a former microbiology professor.

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incent Hartgen, father of Stephen ’62 and David ’62, studied architecture and fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania, and was curator for the Anna Hyatt Huntington Collection during its tour of the United States and Europe before World War II. In 1946, he became the first professor of art at the University of Maine, Orono. He remained at the University of Maine for more than 35 years, teaching over 10,000 students, and touching the lives of many more. For much of that time he was director of the University of Maine Art Museum. He established the university’s 1600-piece art collection, was a tireless advocate for arts education in Maine, and amassed an impressive collection of art books and reference materials.

Entranced by Maine’s spectacular beauty, he completed over 3,000 watercolors and drawings during his 56-year love affair with the state. He had a show on display at Aucocisco Gallery in Portland at the time of his death.

The Hartgen family has given the University of Maine a collection of Vincent’s artworks, papers, sketchbooks and other materials, to be known as the Vincent Hartgen Teaching Collection. In June 2004, the University of Maine will honor Vincent with a retrospective show. There will also be a groundbreaking ceremony for a new art education building in which a lecture hall will be named for him.

Frances Hartgen trained as a teacher at Syracuse University, and was the first of her family to go to college. She worked for a time teaching eighth grade English in Maine, then joined the University of Maine’s Fogler Library staff and became its first head of special collections.

Vincent, Stephen, David and Frances Hartgen, in Orono, around 1990.

Spring Along the Penobscot, 2002. Pen and ink. Vincent Hartgen.

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Farewell, Class of 2004

Led by piper Chris Pinchbeck ’87, the bicentennial class exits the commencement ceremony.

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oday I would like to speak to you about maple syrup and my fond memories of Hebron. The memories that I wish to share with you have much more to do with maple syrup than you may think. It takes many hours of work and nearly forty gallons of sap to create one pure, grade-A gallon of maple syrup. The fond memories and great achievements that I will share on this day are that gallon of sweet syrup, the hard work and refinement of all the other memories that have shaped our time here.

The hard work that it takes to make syrup is very similar to the work and endless hours spent to make this day possible. I know that when I’m out in the maple orchard putting up lines and taps or stacking the wood for the evaporator fire, it sure doesn’t feel like any progress is being made towards our goal of making syrup. However, without any lines, taps or firewood, none of the precious sap that we collect can be turned into golden maple syrup.

This is like staying up all night studying for a precal exam. In the end, all the exams, the papers and projects and the 2,000 days of school have led up to this great one and hopefully many more.

To the locals, Hebron is a town; to the students, Hebron is a school; but to me, the only real “townie,” if you will, it is a home. I have to honestly say that I take the label of “local boy” with pride; it has allowed me to bridge the gap between two communities in one town. Being the local boy, you are

assumed to be the resident hick, and to some extent that may be true. I do drive a truck that is older than I am. Yeah, it’s got a hemi, and it did come with gun rack. Yes, I do get the hunting and fishing combo license as a stocking stuffer at Christmas. On the other hand, I have tried sushi, and no, I didn’t buy it at the racetrack concession stand or the Village Trading Post. I can contribute to an in-depth conversation on the book Ishmael. Some of my best friends are from ten different states, five provinces and four countries.

Before my time at Hebron, people were sharing many of the same experiences that the Class of 2004 has. The classes before us have strived and struggled through the examinations, papers and projects that we have and as many future classes will. Many of the alumni/ae have experienced the same great rivalries with Kents Hill and Gould. At Homecoming last fall I met Mr. Payson Perkins, an alum-

Baccalaureate Awards National Society of Women Engineers Jodie Michelle Simms ’05 The MelMac Education Foundation of Maine Cindy Susan Lebel ’04 Hebron Academy Parents’ Association Artist Recognition Kelly Ann Stanley ’04 Megan Marie Irving ’04 Charlotte R. Stonebraker Community Scholarship Gregory Fernando Gumbs ’06 Trennan Jerid Dorval ’05 L. Edward Willard Prize in English Elizabeth MacPherson Cole ’05 Cum Laude Geometry Prize Andrew Lawrence Kary ’07 Dr. Louis Friedman Mathematics Prize Kristopher Houle ’05 Renssaeler Polytechnic Institute Medal Michael Keefe Sedgewick ’05 Smith Book Prize Eri Miyauchi ’05 Dartmouth Book Prize George Morgan Browne ’05 Williams Book Prize Kristopher Houle ’05 Harvard Book Prizes Jodie Michelle Simms ’05 Elizabeth MacPherson Cole ’05

Math teacher Andy Stephenson ’96 delivered the Baccalaureate address, urging the class to make good choices as they go forward in life.

Elliott Watts, Chelsea Lipham, Taylor Lalemand, Garrick Johnson, Laura Fleck and Asher Anderson.

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Chemistry teacher Moose Curtis, Carrie Curtis ’04, Trish Curtis and Katie Curtis ’02, at Baccalaureate.

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s there anyone in this audience who does not know that Hebron Academy is 200 years old this year and that this class of 2004 is the bicentennial class?

But why the big deal? Why are we asking you seniors to mark this milestone with a time capsule to capture this place in history?

It’s because right now, you are at the head of a long line of young people who have traveled here and moved on, somehow different and stronger than when you came, whether you have been here for twelve years or one. You are part of a line, a continuum that started 200 years ago and will move on into the next hundred years as the juniors and underclassmen and women step up to take your place.

But what is it that’s lasted for 200 years? It’s not a building; there’s no building on this campus that’s close to 200 years old. And there’s no person who’s been with Hebron for 200 years, although some of you suspect Mr. Perkins or Mr. Chase as qualifying. It’s Hebron—a spirit, an understanding, an experience—that comes from being here with the people who are here with you, learning with them and from them.

nus and former trustee. Through our several letters and conversation on that day I learned that we have much in common. For starters, we are both Mainers and even if he doesn’t get the hunting and fishing combination license as a stocking stuffer I know he gets it because he is an avid hunter and fisherman.

However there is a bond far deeper that all students share with Mr. Perkins—we have all attended Hebron and will soon be graduating from here. We all share this same great bond with Mr. Roscoe Hupper as well. Mr. Hupper gave the centennial speech of 1904 here at Hebron Academy 100 years ago, and the Hupper Library is part of our beautiful campus. Who knows—someday graduation may be held in the Slattery Auditorium, if the weather doesn’t want to cooperate.

In my first experience at Hebron I wasn’t a student, but an outsider

John King Head of School Class president John Slattery won the Hebron Cup.

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looking in. I didn’t believe my mother when driving by that this place was a school because it looked far too nice. From that point on I knew I wanted to go here based on the physical beauty alone. I soon learned that Hebron offered more than beauty. As a small child I skated on the outdoor rink that sits where we are today in Robinson Arena. I would drive my ten-speed bike around the old green track long before I got hemi power. Then to my delight, my best friend’s father became the headmaster here at Hebron. When they moved into Allen House I spent a lot of time here. At the ripe old age of nine I watched a boy by the name of Jamie Roche, who ten years later became my hockey coach, dean of students, mentor and friend.

Commencement Awards Awards for Academic Excellence Art .........................Chelsea Lynn Lipham English ....................Carolyn Anne Curtis History........................Devin James Blais Latin ......................Samuel Storer Austin Mathematics...........Derek Nathan Miller Music...........Charles Connor Rasmussen Religion & Ethics...Samuel Storer Austin Sciences .....................Devin James Blais and Carolyn Anne Curtis Spanish.......................Devin James Blais Special Award for Excellence in Languages Helen Lydia Unger-Clark Morton Prize Samuel Storer Austin Outdoor Leadership Prize Andrew Michael Moscowitz Above: Deoksoo Park, Seung Hyae Tak, Dai Miyajima, Mio Shibazaki and Bum Seek Kim. Top right: Jamie Quinlan ’04 and Cathie Quinlan ’01.

Bottom right: Dick Potvin ’73 and Beth Potvin ’04.

Reed Awards John William Slattery Carolyn Anne Curtis Bessie Fenn Award Cindy Susan Lebel Athletic Award Christian Emmanuel Mosley

Who would have thought in the cold month of March that many talented athletes would be getting a standing ovation alongside the many skilled dramatists for their part in “Grease.” I can honestly say that the “Greased Lightning” number and great ovation after the musical will be forever etched in my memory as will the strong feelings and the love that I have for this place and the people here.

Hebron is where my heart has been for the last four years.

Now that you have heard me talk, you may be thinking, “That is an awful big gallon of syrup,” but it’s hard for me to talk about Hebron without a little sap.

Bernat Memorial Award Jason Edward Staats Senior Scholarship Prize Cindy Susan Lebel Louise Lorimer Scholarship Prize Laura Elizabeth Fleck Taylor A. Lalemand Regis R. Lepage Scholarship Prize Heidi Lillian Lurvey Edward Tate II Green Key Award Brittany Marie Crush Ernest Sherman Award Charles Connor Rasmussen Charles and Amy Dwyer Memorial Award Shauna Katherine Neary Milton G. Wheeler Good Fellowship Award Christopher Joseph Nadeau Phemister Award Helen Lydia Unger-Clark Risman Honor Award Carolyn Anne Curtis Hebron Academy Cup John William Slattery

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Campus Master Plan

As Hebron Academy’s population grows and the needs of the school change, it is clear that we need more classroom space, a modern athletic facility and a fine arts center. Harriman Associates, a local architecture and engineering firm, conducted a series of meetings and interviews with members of the community and did an assessment of the physical plant. Presented on this page is an overview of their recommendations. The following page offers a closer look at the proposed science building addition. [Please note that these plans are not architectural renderings.]

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Key to Site Plan Overview 1. New field house addition to Robinson Arena.

2. Sargent Gymnasium becomes arts center and possibly the student center.

3. Addition to Treat Science Building would provide four labs, clearing four classroom spaces, possibly for Middle School use.

4. Two classrooms could replace the gallery (relocated to arts center) in lower level of Hupper Library.

5. A student center addition could be made to either Sturtevant Home or Sargent Gym 6. Sturtevant dining facilities could expand to the east or west of the existing building.

7. Possible addition to Atwood Dormitory.

Possible future dormitory.

8. New vehicular circulation creating two loop roads; potential area for new playing fields and possible septic field, pending soil tests.

New Tricks for Treat

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lthough hardly geriatric at the age of 34, the Treat Science Building certainly isn’t a kid any more either. Its large lecture hall, library, modern classrooms and laboratories were a welcome addition to the campus in 1960 and have been put to steadily increasing use ever since.

Part of the academic core of the campus (with the school building and library), the science building is used by all disciplines today. The 76-seat lecture hall is the site for full faculty/staff meetings, lectures, presentations, movies and small drama productions. The math department calls it home, and a double classroom houses the hightraffic computer center. The lobby provides a place for between-class study or a quick check of meteorological conditions at the electronic weather station. Mr. Chase’s year-

A rear elevation showing the existing building on the left, with the proposed addition on the right.

book photos draw clusters of students eager to see the latest candids posted on his bulletin boards.

Charged with finding a way to ease congestion and update the classroom and laboratory facilities, Harriman Associates came up with an elegant solution: the classic New England “ell.” The addition will greatly increase the available teaching space, encompassing labs for earth science, biology, chemistry and physics as well as a classroom, conference room and study area for students. The old labs will become gen-

Ground Floor

eral-purpose classrooms and studio space for Middle School art classes. There will also be room to expand the computer center.

No, the Science Building isn’t a kid any more, but this well-deserved extension will bring it new vitality.

For more information about Hebron Academy’s campus master plan, please contact Robert M. Caldwell, Director for Advancement and External Relations, at 207-966-2100, ext.

285, or rcaldwell@hebronacademy.org.

First Floor

new construction

new construction

unchanged

unchanged

renovated

renovated

These floor plans show possible uses for the existing space, as well as the proposed addition on the rear of the building. New construction is shown in white, renovated areas in dark gray and unchanged areas in light gray.

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Hebron Academy: 1885–1943

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his is the second installment of a timeline of Hebron Academy history, covering the period from 1885, when William Sargent became principal, through the closing of the school during World War II. “Prof” Sargent’s tenure was marked by a huge period of growth for the school and the development of the campus as we know it today.

His successor, Ralph “Buster” Hunt, oversaw the change to boys-only; shepherded the school through the Depression; and, as boys and masters alike enlisted in the armed forces, closed the doors in 1943 for the duration of the war.

This photograph shows the campus in 1885, the year that William Sargent became principal. Note that the Academy building faced east, not south as it does today. The stone wall runs along what is now the Hebron Station Road. The building on the left is Trustee House, the first school-owned boarding house which burned in October 1899 and stood a little south of where Atwood Hall is now located. In the center are the 1847 Academy building and the school chapel, which was later turned about 90° and became Cook Gymnasium. At the far right is the church.

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1897

Twenty-eight-year-old William E. Sargent becomes principal, ushering in a time of growth for the school

Sturtevant Hall dedicated

Tuition is $8.00 (penmanship lessons are $1.00 extra); board at Trustee House or the Bellevue is $2.25 per week, $2.00 if student goes home on Fridays

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1895

1885

1890

1885

1886

1889

1893

Fund raising begins for new Academy building

The modern campus takes shape with Edward Dunham’s donation of the “bog” and land to the north; and trustees’ purchase of two additional parcels

Foot ball begins

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➹ 1899 The Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. enhance the school’s spiritual and social life

1900

1910

Sturtevant Home dedicated

Atwood Hall dedicated

1906

1910

1905

1900

Curriculum reorganized to offer three tracks: college, scientific and English

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1904

ca. 1908

1914

Centennial celebrated at Commencement

Leslie Cameron ’08 publishes a fictionalized account of A Year at Hebron Academy

Freelan O. Stanley 1873 elected president of Board of Trustees

1915

1921 Prof.

Sargent suffers a debilitating stroke on January 19; Mr. Stanley takes over, appoints James Howlett

Ralph L. “Buster” Hunt becomes principal

1915

1925

1929

1920

Nellie Whitman retires after 39 years at Hebron during which she served as preceptress and math teacher

1922

1918

1922

Three faculty men resign to enter the war

The Board of Trustees votes to make Hebron boys-only; Mr. Howlett leaves after one year as principal

Sargent Memorial Gymnasium dedicated

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1923

1926

Hebron’s Cum Laude Society chapter chartered

Stanley Arena dedicated

1933 1937

1943

Tuition rates range from $575 for a room in Atwood to $750 for a room in Sturtevant

The Board of Trustees suspends the activities of the Academy “due to the exigencies of the war situation”

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1930

1935

In the fourth year of the depression, Principal Hunt appeals to alumni/ae, asking them to refer students

ca. 1934

1940

The chemistry lab

Enrollment of 193 includes boys from Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Washington

➸ to be continued…

The next timeline will take us from the school’s reopening in 1946 to the present day. See the first installment at www.habicentennial.org

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Celebrate Hebron’s 200th Birthday Friday, October 8 8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

Bicentennial Headquarters and Registration Open Stop by to register for the weekend; see displays of Hebron’s past, present and future; visit with classmates; have a quick snack; or just rest your feet. Open all day.

Sargent Gymnasium

11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.

Lunch History Fair Middle Schoolers present displays on historical topics.

1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.

Historical Vignettes Students will re-enact important moments in Academy history.

8:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.

Morning Meeting We start our day together.

8:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

Bicentennial Activities A full slate of activities, from hands-on historical demonstrations by Norlands Living History Center to presentations by Maine historians to a panel discussion by Hebron’s senior faculty members.

Dining Room, ca. 1937.

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3:00 p.m.

Outdoor Activities Hike Mt. Marie or paddle Marshall Pond with our Outdoor Education group.

Hardy alumni/ae can participate in a cross-country run.

5:30 p.m.

Evening Program We will sit down together for a fall harvest meal and

words from special guest speaker, George Mitchell.

This sounds great! How do I sign up?

Visit our bicentennial web site at www.habicentennial.org or watch your mail for the official bicentennial and homecoming flyer.

Saturday, October 9 7:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Bicentennial Headquarters and Registration Stop by to register for the weekend; see displays of Hebron’s past, present and future; visit with classmates; have a quick snack; or just rest your feet. Open all day.

Sargent Gymnasium

7:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

Class of 1893.

1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

Bicentennial Luncheon and Entertainment Catch up with classmates at our luncheon and enjoy some bicentennial entertainment before the games.

3:00 p.m.

Athletic Competitions

Stop by for a breakfast treat!

12:00 p.m.–12:30 p.m.

Third Century Celebration

9:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

Bicentennial Activities

We pause together to mark our 200th year as we begin our third century.

5:00 p.m.

Evening Program

Activities for all ages and energy levels: Middle School History Fair display, Archives display, Stanley Steamer, hot air balloon rides, cross-country fun run

Parade to Dwyer Fields Fall in by class behind the piper for our parade to the fields and a well-deserved bicentennial lunch!

At the web site you can see the updated schedule, find out who else is coming, register for Homecoming, explore Hebron history and submit your own Hebron stories.

We return to the Arena for a reception and dinner, with remarks from Maine humorist and raconteur Tim Sample ’69.

register online now at www.habicentennial.org

2004 BICENTENNIAL

October 8–9, 2004

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Building the Future Anonymous (2) Mr. Bill Allen ’62 Mr. David L. Babson* Mr. Donald E. Bates ’62 Mr. Albert R. Blacky ’39 Mr. Peter B. Boody ’69 Mr. J. Reeve Bright ’66 Mr. Philip H. Chadbourne ’20* Mr. David Christison ’38 F. Davis Clark, Esq. ’34* Mr. Keith Clark ’58 Mr. Ralph A. Corbett ’25* Mrs. Henrietta P. Crane Mr. Kennedy Crane, III ’58 Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred S. Davis ’28* Mrs. Maida Demos Ms. Sarah C. Desotell Mr. T. Neil Divine ’55* Mr. Paul F. Drouin ’56 Mr. Blaine E. Eynon, Jr. ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Lester E. Forbes ’38 Mrs. Alice W. Forester* Mr. Richard S. Forté ’62 Mrs. Elizabeth Friend* Mr. John R. Giger ’64 Gordon M. Gillies, Esq. ’62 Mr. James A. Gillies, III ’55 Mr. Richard W. Goode ’35* Mr. Paul S. Goodof ’67 Mr. Robert W. Goodwin* Mr. Ralph A. Gould, Jr. ’41 Mrs. Nellie Pottle Hankins ’21* and Mr. John Hankins* Mr. William L. Hathorne ’77 Mr. Stephen E. Hawkes ’57* Mr. Willis Hay ’32* Mr. James B. Hill ’90 Dr. William C. Hiss Mr. Joseph F. Holman ’43 Mr. George S. Hosmer, Jr. ’39 Ms. Kimberly C. Housman ’89 Dr. Edgar A. Hultgren ’39* Mr. Stephen B. Jeffries ’79 Mr. Edward A. Johnson ’49 Mrs. Rosamond Lownes Mrs. Marjorie L. MacMillan C. Michael Malm, Esq. ’60 C. Arthur Mayo ’32* Mr. Robert W. Messer ’05* Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Mintz ’53 Miss Helen Morton Mr. Karl-Heinz Nottebohm* Mr. Edward D. Noyes, III ’58 Dr. Philip B. Norton Mr. John W. Powell ’35* Mrs. Marjorie Powell ’35H Mr. Walter M. Ray Mrs. Mary C. Rea Mr. Robert P. Rich ’49 Mr. Dean E. Ridlon ’53 Mr. and Mrs. James E. Salisbury Mrs. Myrtle M. Sherman* Mrs. Vera Simmons* Mr. Richard H. Sprince ’43 Mr. Roger F. Stacey ’61 and Dr. Maureen Lynch Mr. Warren W. Stearns ’28* Mr. and Mrs. Ken C. Sweezey ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Vail ’26* Mr. Paul M. Wagner, Jr. Mr. Robert E. Waite, Jr. ’68 Mr. David J. Williams ’60 Mr. William P. Witter ’82 Mr. Jay L. Woolsey Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Wright ’26* * Deceased

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Dorothy and Bob Rich ’49 make arrangements for Hebron Academy in their estate planning

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n 1947, I was a below-average student stumbling along in public high school without any real focus except that I wanted to be a dairy farmer! This all changed in September, when my parents dropped me off for a twoyear immersion course with Claude Allen, Barney Williams, Ned Willard and the rest of Hebron’s capable faculty and staff. My life was transformed during those two years and has never been the same since.

I never became a dairy farmer, but I did have a rewarding career in international agricultural business management—a career made possible by the writing skills and personal confidence I developed at Hebron. Furthermore, I sent my three children to good colleges and they are all now successfully developing their own careers and families. My daughter, Roxanne, is a Hebron alumna from the class of 1983.

I wanted to help Hebron perpetuate its mission of helping students reach their highest potential. Dorothy and I decided to establish a bequest provision for the Academy in our estate plans. We simply named Hebron Academy as a beneficiary for a specific sum of money, payable at my death. (I would hope later for me, but sooner for Hebron; however, the timing of either is not in our hands!)

Hebron Academy is a school with a proud 200 year heritage and a great future. I hope my annual support and this bequest, along with those of others, will help ensure Hebron’s future as it enters its third century of developing and educating our capable young people.

Membership in The Franklin Society is extended to those individuals who have included Hebron Academy in their estate plans, either through an outright bequest intention or by making a life-income gift. Established by unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees on September 30, 1994, The Franklin Society pays tribute to the thoughtful gift intentions of Hebron’s most loyal supporters. Current members of Hebron Academy’s Franklin Society are listed at left.

For more information, please contact Robert M. Caldwell, Director of Advancement and External Relations, P.O. Box 309, Hebron, Maine 04238 (207) 966-2100 ext 285, Fax (207) 966-2004 or email at rcaldwell@hebronacademy.org

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class notes Notable Alumna: Florence Allen Keene ’19 In May, Bev Leyden, International Alumni/ae Coordinator, and Beverly Roy, Director of Alumni/ae Relations, visited with Florence Allen Keene, of the Class of 1919, at her home in Auburn.

Mrs. Keene fondly remembers her student days at Hebron, and still has many of her books and papers from those days.

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lorence Allen Keene ’19 remembers the fall of 1915, when she first came to Hebron Academy. The 35 members of the freshman class were an anxious and energetic bunch and wanted to make their mark at Hebron Academy. As a class, they chose their colors—green and white—and their motto—“Semper Idem” (always the same).

Florence Allen was the only girl in the scientific program, but it never bothered her, she never even considered it an issue. She was active in the Y.W.C.A., spent four years on the debate team, enjoyed dinners at the Poland Spring Inn and wrote the class history for the senior banquet. She was a teacher until her marriage to Raymond Keene in 1920.

For Florence, the day that stands out more than any other was November 11, 1918, Armistice Day. She noted that the students and teachers gathered in a large circle around the flag pole—just as the Hebron community did this year in remembering September 11. In the class history, Florence wrote, “One of the wonderful events was the Victory Celebration of November 11. On that memorable day we forgot our cloak of dignity and rejoiced with the rest of the world that the armistice terms had been signed, that it meant a probable peace, and that our boys were likely to return.”

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Honorary member Viola Jasper writes, “At 95, I am still living in my own home. My daughter, Mary, is making her home with me. Son, Demas (Richard) ‘54, lives in Lindon, UT. I have five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.”

James Chute reports that he hunts a lot. ■ Don Lukens would love to hear from classmates. ■ William Sprole writes, “My wife Carol and I just celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary. It should be noted that she was my date at the class of ‘42 winter carnival. Our son Bill and his wife just have built a new home in Bulverde, TX, where we spent our Christmas holiday.”

1926 Roger Milton and his wife have been married for 72 years. Roger says that they “started out in life in Andover, MA, in the first grade.” Althea is now in 24-hour care at Seville Park Plaza, but Roger is able to visit every afternoon. He says he’s proud to be a little part of Hebron.

1930 Harry Jackson reports that he and his twin brother, Franklyn, are both fine and keeping active. Harry lives in Larchmont, NY. Franklyn and his wife, Suzanne, live in Alamagordo, NM.

1937 Bruce Van Fleet writes, “My dear wife of 60 wonderful years passed away April 2001.

I have three children, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. I will be 88 in December.”

1943 David Cates writes, “Still enjoying California even though we have earthquakes, fires, a new governor and taxes.

Hope to get back to New England this fall.” ■ In 2002, Joseph Holman retired from his law practice of fifty years. He reports that he goes to Alaska for rainbow trout fishing. This summer he and his wife will visit Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Russia.” ■ John Lawry reports, “We just took a three-week cruise on the new Queen Mary 2 from Ft. Lauderdale to Rio de Janeiro and return. It’s quite a ship— over 300 yards long!” ■ Manny Plavin writes, “Enjoying the great Florida winter weather. Play golf 3–4 times weekly and teach a course in classic jazz at Palm Beach Community College.”

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Morton Buckley retired from the New England Electric system in 1981. He has fond memories of his hockey coach, Dr. Charles “Hafey” Arthur ’30. ■ Max Talbot reports, “Enjoying life of retirement in southwest Florida. Beach, fishing and travel use up what energy this 83+ has.

Health is good!” ■ Joe Wallace writes, “Most of my activities are tied into golf. I play quite frequently and officiate in many state tournaments and a few USGA regional events played in Massachusetts.”

1941 George Brown is recovering from congestive heart failure. A leaky heart valve caused fluid in his left lung. He reports that after three draining procedures the fluid is now in his legs, but is being controlled. ■ John MacDonald lives in a condo in Yarmouth. He reports that Ian and Lori have two children, 7 and 10, and are moving to Albany, NY; Melissa has a new baby in Arlington, MA; and Dougald and Chris live near Boulder, CO. ■ Robert Sanders says, “Be of good cheer!”

Class of 1919. Florence Allen is the girl on the far right in the second row.

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Bradford Turner writes, “Semi-retired.

Play golf as often as I can, travel, go to the symphony, ballet and theater.”

Eugene Chandler retired from Raymond Funeral Home in 1989. He lives at WestonChandler Funeral Home in Mechanic Falls and still fills in when needed. ■ Robert McLandress continues to practice architecture in Prescott, AZ. ■ Payson Perkins writes, “In 2003 sold our home in Maine and bought in Hampton, NH. Also sold our condo in Florida and purchased a home in Palm City, FL. In February 2004 became legal residents of Florida. Will visit NH only a few months in the summer for golf and fishing. Planning to attend Hebron’s bicentennial this fall.” ■ Dr. Charles Simpkinson writes, “Still in private practice as a clinical psychologist. Sorry to miss 50th reunion.”

1948 Danforth Beal writes, “Enjoying retirement in south Arizona. One granddaughter and hopefully many more to come. Go Boston Bruins!” ■ John Monks is retired.

He has three children and reports that he plays a lot of tennis. ■ Although Cam Niven is retired, he keeps busy in the community. He is on the Curtis Library board as well as the board of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science in Boothbay.

He also serves on three committees at Mid Coast Hospital and was a member of a committee that erected a statue of Joshua Chamberlain in Brunswick.

1954 FIFTIETH

1949 F I F T Y- F I F T H

REUNION

Richard Levinson reports, “I continue to actively try cases with the firm of Levinson Axelrod. My wife, Susan, is an adjunct professor at Rutgers and has written 12 books, the latest of which is Nobody’s Baby Now. My son, Andrew, will graduate from Union College in June.”

1950 Lincoln Blake retired in 1999 from teaching English at Earlham College. ■ Ralph Wells writes, “Recovering well from major back surgery in January. Otherwise all is well here. Hoping to get back to Hebron in September.”

1951 Saul Cohen reports that his son Barry is an actor, his son David is a composer and stock market trader, and his daughter Ann ’87 is a nutritionist and model. ■ Ted Ruegg writes, “Arizona winter has been delightful! In spite of hip replacement last fall, golf has been resumed and handicap is coming down. Hope to see as many of you as possible at the bicentennial celebration in October!”

1952 Peter Jeffries writes, “Enjoying retirement. Gardening in the spring and summer and skiing in the winter, and family gettogethers whenever. Three grandchildren.”

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Charles Huestis is retired and watching over eight grandchildren. He keeps busy with volunteer work and home projects. ■ J. Michael Maher writes, “Hebron made a great contribution to my life through the headmaster, Claude Allen, and all of the teachers. Hope to attend the 50th reunion of my class this autumn.” ■ LTC Radcliffe Mitchell enjoyed watching his grandchildren play youth hockey this winter. ■ Llewellyn Ross manages money for high net worth individuals and families at Merrill Lynch.

1955 Allan Brown writes, “I have retired as a teacher at the Wm. Penn Charter after 41 years, though I continue working at the school half-time as director of financial aid and in creating an archive of the school.”

■ Richard G. Briggs writes, “It is probably 45 years since you last heard from me. My life has been irregular and even chaotic but improved several orders of magnitude when I became a Christian some 20 years ago. It was like lowering the centerboard and tightening the sheets on a sail boat; steerability and better control resulted from my conversion. I am now retired on Social Security and a job at Wal-Mart, not your usual success story. Nonetheless, I am deeply satisfied with my present and future life because each day I live by the fruit of the Spirit outlined in Galations 5:22.

Greetings and Blessings to you.” ■ Bill Dockser writes, “I got to live my dream and accomplish my dream by competing in the three day International Rolex Regatta March 26-28, 2004, in St. Thomas, winning first place in class and The Governor’s Cup for the best foreign yacht. Skippering Team Atlantic on our chartered Formula One Farr 65, we won four out of four line-honor wins and four wins on corrected time in the

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spinnaker racer/cruiser 1 class. Enthusiasm and skill came together in the crew, made up of family, friends, crew from my Oyster 70 cruising yacht and a few all-star professional sailors. Caribbean racing has whetted my appetite for more competitive racing. My next race is scheduled in the BVI for the UBS Oyster Regatta April 5-10 on my own Oyster 70 Ravenous.” ■ Our sympathies go to Goody Gilman, who lost his wife Sheila in March. ■ Barry Schwartz writes, “Gave Boston mayor Tom Menino land in Mattapan to build a middle school and community center—in September 678 kids walked to school for the first time. It’s great when you ‘do the right thing’ (name of my foundation).” ■ Charlie Sprague spends nine months in Ft. Myers and three months in New England.

1956 Our sympathies go to Peter Brown on the death of his father, William ‘30, in February. ■ Philip Brown retired five years ago. He’s living in The Villages, FL, and spends the summers in southern Maine. ■ Tom Van Alen writes, “In spite of the drug dealing and related killings in the District of Columbia, life in many parts of the city is very much like living in a small town with neighborhood associations, civic pride and cultural awareness and opportunities.”

CT. Keeping very busy with family, projects around the house and staying in shape.” ■ Our sympathies go to Frank Kibbe on the loss of his father in April.

1961 John Frechette retired from Owens Illinois in October 2000. He and Pat moved to Cape Cod and have their primary residence in Naples, FL. John says he’s enjoying golf and the Naples “winter.” ■ Zandy Gray writes, “Lila and I enjoy our work in RI—she as a bilingual teacher in Providence and me directing the RSVP program in Kent County. We get to Maine a couple of times every summer. Daughter Claudia ‘92 loves her work at the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, DC. She just returned from their program in Ghana.” ■ Bruce Maxwell writes, “Still alive, to the surprise of many, including myself. Retired.”

1962 Jim Austin writes, “Now finally retired (but still busy). We are enjoying our new winter home in Marathon, FL. Weather is great in the Keys and the fishing fantastic.” ■ Dick Forté writes, “Just retired, much to my wife’s dismay. Hoping to do a lot more sailing with my old pal Shell. Looking forward to seeing many classmates this October.”

1957 Honorary member Cam Benson writes, “Dean loved his year at Hebron (1951), playing hockey, outing club, etc. and the wonderful friendships of all his classConnell reports, mates.” ■ Hervey “Retired and busy in a small (pop. 3,000) town on Long Island, NY, near the ocean.

Busy as editor of our historical society newsletter but slowing down after one lifetime in Hebron and another in NYC. Regards to all and happy 200th!” ■ James Kaplan is president and CEO of Falcon International Airlines. He is retired from the USAF reserves and races a Datsun 260Z in sports car races.

1958 Richard Bowman writes, “Semi-retired.

Finishing a condo project, then fully retired. Striped bass beware!”

1959 F O R T Y- F I F T H

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1960 Robert Brown reports, “I retired from Sears after 37 1⁄2 years with the last 12 years being store manager at Sears in Waterbury,

Grandpa Steve Lane ’62 holds Jocelyn Vo Eyres, daughter of Jacqui Vo ’89 (right) and Paul Eyres.

1964 FORTIETH

REUNION

Dean Barner is enjoying his third year of retirement. He reports that his first and second grandchildren were born this year. ■ Ray Bradford writes, “I’m alive and well here in Bangor, ME, where I practice law. I am active and past chair of the trust estates section of the Maine Bar Association. In January, I was elected to be a director of Eastern Maine Healthcare, the regional hospital system in eastern Maine. I’m also

class notes Scholnick writes, “Following employment with the Bcon Corp at Rowes Wharf in Boston, I established my own real estate development firm, the Follen Corp. We renovate South End townhouses and sell the units as condominiums.”

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October 8 & 9 2004 an active 33° mason. Forty years since graduation—how time flies!” ■ Jim deRevere is coordination and planning logistics chief for the Department of Homeland Security in Guam. ■ In March, President Bush designated Thomas Hull to be ambassador to Sierra Leone. ■ Henry Ullman writes, “Have been selling long term care insurance for G.E. Capital for five years. I am in the top 20 agents nationally and leaving for Australia with my wife, who is also an agent. The trip is free, which makes it more fun!”

1965 Allen Kennedy writes, “Twelve years as head of theater at Dalton! Oldest son Ian heads to college. James in sixth grade.

Call if you’re in NYC.”

1966 Our thoughts are with Clem Dwyer on the loss of his mother in March. ■ Philip Wysor is living in Marblehead and practicing law in Beverly. He sees Bill Golden regularly. Philip’s children all graduated from college with honors: Adam from Colby in 1995, Nat from Bowdoin in 1997 and Jessica from Colby in 2003.

1967 John Meserve recently accepted a position as president and CEO of Merrimac Savings Bank in Merrimac, MA. ■ Peter

Jim Cram reports, “I have been with Deck House & Acorn for 20 years now. Since 1990 as the export manager and this has given me many memorable adventures around the world, most notably in Japan, Albania, Russia, Germany and Israel. These days I am spending a great deal of time in the United Kingdom and while busy, it remains exciting and pleasureable. I also serve on numerous town and community committees, usually relating to architectural preservation. Anne and I had our 30th wedding anniversary last fall and our three children are doing great. Nathaniel (26) is getting his master’s in architecture at U.Penn in Philadelphia. Rachel (23) is in an environmental education masters program at the Teton Science School in Jackson, WY. Emilie (15) is a freshman at our local high school and actively competes in equestrian three-phase eventing. Hebron is never too far from my mind as Michael Harris ‘69 is the president of Deck House!

Wonderful to have Hebron make it to its 200th anniversary!” ■ Bob Lowenthal writes, “My office at Canandaigua National Bank is now in Canandaigua, NY. I am still lending money to small businesses in our area.” ■ Dan Steinway recently joined the firm of Baker Botts LLP in Washington, DC, as a partner.

1969 T H I R T Y- F I F T H

REUNION

Ed Gagnon is a facilities manager for Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, MA. An avid sailor, he completed a charter expedition sailing around Cape Horn in January 2004. This adventure fulfilled a lifelong dream!

1970 Henry Harding has been with Arch Chemicals for 23 years, servicing the microelectronic materials industry. ■ Peter Mix writes, “Since 1997, I have been a part of Rigel Instruments Ltd., building some of the finest mandolins in the world. www.rigelmandolin.com.” ■ Cliff OwensLeech writes, “My career since 1991 has been to help people make smart choices about their money, including life insurance you don’t have to die to use. For those of you who can remember, I still get to play tennis year round for the outdoor ALTA league. Most importantly, Wendy and I celebrated our 19th anniversary in February. I

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pray that all your work is performed in the spirit of service which Baha’u’llah says such is exalted to the rank of worship.” ■ Ron Sklar is head of the neonatology unit at Saint Vincent Hospital in Portland, OR, the largest in the state. Twice a year he goes to Guatemala to arrange immunizations for children through UNICEF.

New Arrivals 1979 To Karen Holler, a son, Pascal.

1981 To Eileen Gillespie and Tim Fahey, a son, George Thomas Fahey, on March 4, 2004.

1971 Doug Gordon reports, “My family and I packed up our belongings in Mt. Kisco last July and headed out on the Oregon Trail, about 120 years after most Oregon Trail people—I have always been a little cautious about being the first to do anything.

We went east first for a week on the Atlantic at Martha’s Vineyard then started on our trip with stops in Boston; Niagara Falls; Chicago; the Mississippi River, where we drove through a “storm” that turned out to be a swarm of insects thicker than a torrential rain; the Badlands; Mount Rushmore; then on to Yellowstone by way of Beartooth Pass—absolutely breathtaking—had a snowball fight on the top of the pass, about 10,000 feet, then we got stuck for over an hour in a traffic jam in Yellowstone caused by a herd (hundreds) of buffalo; then on into Idaho and finally Oregon. We stopped in Portland to unpack the car and to check the rest of our household belongings that had arrived before us, then headed on to the coast to set foot in the Pacific. A spectacular trip.

We are getting settled in and would enjoy entertaining my Hebron schoolmates who want to come and explore the region that some describe as the land of caffeine and rain. My office is in downtown Portland and there are four different coffee company outlets within a few feet of the office front door.” ■ Harvey Lipman writes, “In 2003, I purchased a home in the lower village of Kennebunk, the only fixer-upper in town. I spent the summer learning skills of trade— drywall, painting and general carpentry.

Dave Gould, who lives around the corner, provided encouragement and cold refreshment. My son Ben is a freshman at Ipswich High. This winter, he lettered on the swim team. My daughter, Sasha, is in the eighth grade. She is active in drama.” ■ Henry Wise reports, “My daughter Lena is graduating this year from high school and is going to go to Texas A&M. She’s looking forward to eventually becoming a veterinarian and A&M is one of the top schools in the country for veterinary medicine. In Texas the top 10% of each graduating class is automatically accepted to whatever state school they want to go to, A&M included.

Lena worked very hard and wound up just missing the top 10% by one person! My son Jason is a freshman in high school and is very interested in the theater, specifically, lighting. He’s already run the lights for the play ‘Damn Yankees’ and is getting rave reviews of his skills in both lighting the

1985 To Sulan and Eric Shediac, a son, Frank Louis, on April 10, 2004.

1986 To Holly and Peter Hill, a daughter, Lucy Winslow Hill, on February 13, 2004.

To Jim and Carrie McGeough Burns, a son, William Joseph, on March 31, 2004.

1987 To Crystal and Jason Found, a daughter, Maren Lord, on April 28, 2004.

To Meike Hebestreit and her husband Frank, a daughter, Fiene, on July 24, 2003.

1989 To Beth and Greg Honey, a daughter, Abigail Grace, on January 10, 2004.

To David and Susan McGlauflin Simpson, a son, Konnor David, born May 22, 2003.

1990 To Deanna and Chris Simmons, a daughter, Rebecca Katherine, on August 24, 2003.

1995 To Cara Gardner and Sean Morey, a daughter, Devan Lynn, in 2003.

Faculty and Staff To Jennifer and Alex Godomsky, a son, Daniel James, born May 2, 2004.

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1972 Our sympathies go to Steve Gates on the loss of his father in January.

1973 Our sympathies go to David Flanders on the loss of his father in April. ■ Sam Hoopes writes, “Retired from the paper business. Too busy to work anyway. On local zoning board of appeals and paper mill board of directors. Very lofty stuff. Also in real estate scam with Mike Mulcahy ’73.”

1975 Our thoughts are with Lynn Kamm on the death of her father in March.

1976 Mary Brennan Charest is still working as a nurse in Portland and doing occasional modeling for local advertisers. Her daughter is a freshman at Connecticut College and her son is a freshman in high school.

She reports that she recently subscribed to AARP and wonders, “Can it really be 30 years!!” ■ Robert Eames writes, “Fiveplus years in San Diego now—love the weather and geography, but miss the real architecture and friends in New England.”

■ LTC Hugh Van Roosen is now in Iraq with the 402nd CA Battalion. ■ Petra Wedel is leader and owner of a marketing and corporate publishing company. She has a 23-year-old son and lives in Darmstadt, Germany.

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1977

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Our sympathies go to Scott Flanders on the loss of his father in April. ■ William Linnell writes, “Lobstering and running a boat towing service out of Portland Harbor this summer. Hope to see friends at Homecoming.” ■ George Stone is owner of Maine Goodies, a web site offering Maine gourmet and specialty foods and gifts since 2001.

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Robert Ryan writes, “As a sideline to a legal career, I’ve started a corporation with a few friends to promote live professional boxing in the San Francisco Bay area.”

1978 Peter Webber writes, “Youngest son (John) just turned 1. I am staying home with him and his 6 1⁄2 year old brother, Sam. Working part time as executive director of the Golf Maine Association, a joint marketing initiative involving over 40 of Maine’s public access golf courses. I get paid in golf.”

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1989 Susan McGlauflin and David Simpson, in August 2003.

1992 Barbara Rasco and Scott McConnell, on April 26, 2003, in Kalispell, Montana.

1980 Peter Emerson writes, “After 41 years in New England, I have followed a new love (met and married on a cruise) into the desert—Scottsdale, AZ.”

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1994 Jill Hardy and James Clancy, on August 9, 2003, in Falmouth.

Heather Roseberry and Nathan Ohler, on September 13, 2003, in Boothbay Harbor.

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Michael Britt writes, “Sorry I missed our last reunion. I won’t let that happen again.

Please join me in giving as much as you can to Hebron this year to celebrate the 200th anniversary. I miss our days at Hebron and hope that we can meet there soon!” ■ Nancy Galos-Stafford reports, “Still living in Ft. Myers, FL, after 17 years! We have two beautiful little boys, three dogs and a crazy cat. Would love to do a Hebron gettogether in Maine this summer. Any tak-

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Alumni/ae Hockey 2004. This intrepid band of alumni/ae, parents and faculty gathered on February 21 to notch another alumni/ae win.

Front: Mike Nadeau, Marc Roy ’78, George Dycio ’78, Fred Carpentier and Ted Warner ’70.

Back: Jake Leyden ’99, Jenny Agnew ’99, Brandon Russell ’98, Jay Keough, Pat Taylor ’00, Bob Fey, Andy Stephenson ’96, Jamie Roche ’95, Ricky Draleau ’02, Jameson Wheatley ’03, Laurent Marmo ’02, Brian Cheek and Brett Bilodeau ’03.

Cheering them on from the bench: David Lyons ’71 and Laura Meyer ’03. ers?” ■ Bobby Quarles writes, “My wife Linda and I celebrated our second annniversary in October. We are still singing together in a 100-voice choir. I’ve caught hockey fever with the Lightning in the hunt for the Stanley Cup. I’ve joined a 35+ hockey league at a local rink. We play Sunday nights. I scored my first goal last week!” ■ Laurie Veayo McGhee writes, “I have five children, four still living at home. I went through the Maine State Fire Academy in 1999, graduating as a lieutenant. I worked in Portland and Mechanic Falls until having my last two children. I’m now attending nursing school and taking flying lessons with my daughter!

1982 Robert Greaves writes, “My wife Ronda and I are enjoying life in northwest NJ. I’d love to hear from some of my classmates. greavesrc@aol.com.” ■ Beth Johnson says her three kids keep her busy and on the run but she still finds time to ride. ■ Tucker Cutler and his wife built a new home in Harrisville, NH. He reports that they weathered the winter and now have spring projects to do! ■ Bill Witter writes, “Our son Teal continues to grow and amaze us. He’s currently convinced that he’s an undercover policeman who tickets thieves and rescues people. He’ll start kindergarten in the fall of 2004 at a nearby Waldorf school.”

1983 Peter Bradshaw reports, “Mary Carter started kindergarten at Dad’s school.

Coached “Hartford FoxForce” of world team tennis pro league last summer.” ■ Chuck Pratt writes, “Still working with fish, raising brood stock—char, grayling and rainbow trout—for the state’s fish stocking program. Canoeing and traveling in a VW camper is how I spend the summers with my daughters. In 2003 completed a marathon in 3:45 and am training for another one.”

1984 TWENTIETH

REUNION

John Suitor writes, “Two years ago I assumed the position of Academic Dean/ Dean of Faculty at Foxcroft School, an independent girls boarding school in Middleburg, Virginia. My wife, Gail, and I have two girls, Elizabeth, 9, and Madison, 3. We make it to Maine every summer, and we enjoy driving by campus. I look forward to my 20th reunion this September.”

1985 Julie Cunningham writes, “I’m working in California as an auditor for the Department of Defense. The west isn’t the east, but you can’t fault the weather here. A big hello to Kathryn Gardner and Ashley Hodgdon!”

■ Jim Goss and his wife Julia (daughter of

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October 8 & 9 2004 Ted Noyes ‘58) are living in Falmouth with their two children, Harry (4) and Kate (2). ■ Sterling Rome is senior producer at Luna Vox Productions, an Emmy-winning animation and live-action production company based in New York with shows currently running on HBO and Nickelodeon. Sterling also writes a weekly editorial column for newspapers throughout CT—syndicated via www.cnsnews.com. Sterling and his wife, Beth Chandler, live in Danbury, CT and will celebrate their fifth anniversary later this year. He is still in touch with former Dean Jack Suitor ‘62, whom he credits for any current and future success. ■ Amanda Williams Norwood and her family have moved into a new home in New Bern, NC. She is very busy with her husband Tony and two boys, Alexander (6) and Benjamin (2). Amanda is also a consultant for “Southern Living at Home.” She sends best regards to her classmates. You can reach her at tnorwood1@cox.net.

1986 Heather Griffin Piper writes, “We are finishing the renovations on our first apartment building and are getting ready to purchase the next one. I am entering my tenth year as a massage therapist in Kennbunk, ME. We just returned from a trip to New Zealand.” ■ Peter Hill is still playing drums. Visit www.icarusjones.com to hear his latest work. ■ Tyler Hinrichs writes, Tony Cox ’86 (left) and Jon Crane ’86, with Anna Cox and True Crane, potential members of the class of 2020!

“Aloha! I have been living in Hawaii since 1990, and loving life! My wife Kilia and I were married in 2001 with several Hebronians making the big trip from the east coast to the islands for a week-long adventure: Tony Cox, Rob Kinasewich, Peter Fallon and Matt Cassidy ‘88. Lots of hiking, ocean kayaking, surfing, volleyball and mai-tais, followed by a barefoot wedding on the beach. It was great to have so many Hebron friends here for our celebration. Kilia is a science teacher and I am a 737 pilot for Aloha Airlines, and would love to hear from any Hebron friends who are headed our way!” ■ Joe Libby is now with CitiStreet LLC. ■ Amy Marier Adams writes, “I recently moved to Washington, DC. The city is great…a big change from sunny south Florida! Hi to all! ■ Christian McGinn has left the park system and is now repairing and installing oil and gas heating systems as well as surveying boats. He is also enjoying Maine hiking and fishing! ■ Mike Moore writes, “I am in medical sales with Seneca Medical, living in Hendersonville, TN, with my wife, Jill, and daughters Kennedy (born August 2001) and Riley (born January 2003).” ■ Ed Sutkowski and his wife opened a Cookies by Design franchise last year in Bloomington, IN. He says to check out www.cookiesbydesign.com. ■ Christi Warder Bland writes, “I’m planning to attend Homecoming on October 8 and 9, all the way from VA! I hope to see old friends! I’m a teacher and a single mother of four beautiful, sweet girls. I’m very blessed.

I still swim, run, play soccer and paddle. I remember Hebron fondly and would enjoy seeing it again after all these years!”

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Jacqueline (4) and Peter (2). Currently cofounder and vice president of marketing at BladeLogic software in Waltham, MA.”

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Our thoughts are with Christina Bournakel who lost her brother Stefan in February. ■ Mark Desgrosseilliers is an associate at Skadeen, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Floom LLP in Wilmington, DE. He and his wife Kelly have two children, Gregory and Taylor. ■ Tim Kelly writes, “I have a wonderful wife and I am blessed with two beautiful boys. I work as a physician assistant at CMMC, emergency department.”

■ Dr. Duke Lovetere was voted chiropractor of the year in seacoast New Hampshire.

He runs a private practice in Portsmouth, NH. ■ Susan McGlauflin Simpson is working in Portland. She hears from Windi Bowditch and Tracey Campbell regularly.

1990 Mark Bisson (below) writes, “I am currently in Iraq. Once you get used to the bombs, bullets and lack of beer it’s really not that bad.” ■ Anthony Geraci is president and executive director of San Christobal Ranch Academy. ■ Sybil Newton King is the athletic trainer at Wells High School.

1987 Stacie Arnold Wilson writes, “I am working for Syngenta Crop Protection as a global supply chain planner. Living outside Greensboro, NC, with my two boys and husband. Would love to hear from classmates in the Triad, Triangle or Charlotte areas.”

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Beth Hackett Sutherland writes, “I’ve moved and lost track of Amie Goodwin.

Would also love to hear from Nikki Drouin, Cricket Damon ‘89 and Terry Malloy. Call or e-mail any time! newlife273@earthlink .net. ■ Vance Loiselle reports, “Married 9 years to wife Carolyn with two children,

Catherine Bagley recently participated in the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine’s “White Coat Ceremony” which formally recognizes the transition students make from lay persons to those assuming the responsibility of physicians.

Small World Department Hebron Reunion in Fallujah!

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o I am out on a night mission with some guys from Charlie Co., 1-504th PIR, 82nd Airborne, to clear a warehouse complex of looters.

I start talking to this guy who has a very familiar voice, but it’s night time and the dude has night vision goggles on, and is loaded with so much combat gear that it could have been Gandhi and I wouldn’t have recognized him.

We are talking a little about life in New England and then some Haji in a truck with no brakes and no clutch tries to sneak into the complex.

Things got exciting and they ended up pulling the guy out of the truck and setting it on fire. Needless to say, the conversation was lost during the events. Until the next morning.

I am sitting in the DFAC eating my breakfast when I turn around and get a good look at Staff Sgt. Gammon. I am practically staring him down across the room while I am racking through the thousands of mental headshots I have in my head. He maybe thought I was looking for a fight when I finally came over and asked him where we may have met.

It took about 10 seconds before we realized that we first met on the playing fields at Hebron, learning to play soccer from Herr Woolsey on the JV “B” soccer team! Too funny!

Jonathan Gammon, Staff Sgt. in the US Army’s elite paratrooper division, meets Rob Curtis, world traveling military photojournalist, at FOB St. Mare in Fallujah, Iraq. Small World.

Rob Curtis ‘91

1992 Matt Arsenault returned to Nepal last year to retrieve 25 seismology stations. He and his team moved them into Tibet and during some free time, Matt hiked up to the Everest base camp. ■ Jennifer Clifton is has worked for DaimlerChrysler for 7 years.

She is currently a senior credit analyst for Chrysler Financial. In August 2003 she

Jonathan Gammon ’90 and Rob Curtis ’91, in Fallujah, Iraq.

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H received her M.B.A. from Pepperdine University. ■ Eva Fleige is an assistant doctor in a pediatrics hospital. She is planning to move to New Zealand next year. ■ Claudia Gray writes, “Work has been keeping me busy, lots of travel in Europe and Africa, but with positive rewards in the areas of women’s and children’s health and nutrition. I‘m looking forward to getting in touch with Sonja Reckling and Lynn Holabird ’91. Was recently in Germany with Eva Fleige and Tom Reiter, but still trying to track down Asuka Yoshioka ’93.”

■ Barbara Rasco McConnell is working with Northwestern Mutual financial network and her husband is a police officer. They live in Kalispell, MT, and are planning to build a house this spring. ■ Ross Talarico continues to live in San Francisco, CA, with his wife Amy. Ross graduated from the California School of Podiatric Medicine in May and will begin a three year residency in reconstructive foot and ankle surgery at the San Francisco Bay Area Foot and Ankle Residency. Amy works as an attorney at Morgan Lewis & Bockius in San Francisco.

1993 Melissa May-Downer works as a potter for Unity Pond Pottery.

has a degree in computer science and is working as a system administrator in the oil and gas industry. He is married and has a little boy. ■ Soo Shin stopped by to visit campus last fall.

1997 Katerina Cermakova recently received her master’s in political science from Miami University of Ohio. She is back in the Czech Republic working towards her second master’s degree! ■ Christiane Wiederhold spent the winter working at a hotel in Arose, Switzerland.

1999 FIFTH

Megan Boyd writes, “I am currently employed at Central Maine Medical Center as the hospital’s referral specialist. I bought a home in Poland, ME, but am looking to build a log home somewhere in Maine. I recently went to Dublin, Ireland, with classmate Meg Muller. Life is great.” ■ Emir Gokcen is back in Turkey and will be entering the Turkish military. ■ Chad Lauze was named captain of the USM men’s hockey team.

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Dan Rausch writes, “I will graduate from Tufts University School of Medicine in May and pursue a residency in internal medicine. Jed Kutzen and I are no longer living together, but still keep in touch.” Dan and Jed were members of Nathan Ohler’s wedding party in September.

1995 Paul Donovan writes, “I have been retained

by Donald J. Trump as a pilot of his corporate aircraft.” ■ Sean Morey was named special teams MVP by his teammates on the Philadelphia Eagles. ■ Isabelle Steimer is living and working in Vietnam for eight months, in the field of corporate social responsibility and sustainability.

1996 Irakly Areshidze writes, “I am still living in DC, but have been spending a lot of time in Georgia over the last 11 months or so. I worked on a campaign for one of the political parties, doing strategy work, which was fun, and am doing that now as well, for the upcoming rescheduled parliamentary elections.” ■ Sgt. Matt Blondin has just returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.

■ Patrick Grunau is working for the Swiss investment bank UBS, one of the largest private banks in the world. ■ Max Korshunov

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Ben Krauter graduated from Tulane this spring. ■ Sara Simard was named to the ECAC All-Academic team.

2001 Robin Charest was named NCHA player of the week in February and was named to the 2004 All-NCHA team. ■ David Lisnik writes, “Attending Westwood College in Denver, CO. Made the dean’s list. Taking a two-year course in surveying. Spent Christmas working in Alaska.” ■ Arias Wan was named to the fall semester dean’s list at Boston University. ■ Meghan Webster was named to the dean’s list at Union College. Meghan is majoring in biology and psychology.

2002 Providence College goalkeeper Jana Bugden was named to the Hockey East All-Tournament team. ■ Emily Geismar was named to the fall dean’s list at USM. ■ James LeBlanc was named ECAC coplayer of the week in December.

2003 Meghan Gillis was named outstanding first year female athlete at Bowdoin. ■ Sara Marquis writes, “I’ve been picked to be a mentor next fall for a program working with high school juniors through the Center for Leadership here on campus.”

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Hebron gathering in Seoul. Dohyung Kim ’03, Joong Ho Kwan ’98, Nam Moon ’99, Wan Taek Hong ’99, Jay Lee ’99, Sung Il Hong ’99, Sang Hyun Ryer ’00, Jee Hong Park ’04 and Jack Leyden, who visited Korea and Japan with Head of School John King in January.

Notable Alumna: Sarah Katz ‘93

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fter working for local television station WGME for two years, recently I joined the staff of Lone Wolf Documentary Group in South Portland, Maine.

When I first started working there the company was producing a documentary for the History Channel based on Failure is Not An Option, the best selling book by Gene Kranz, the first flight director at nasa’s Mission Control.

That show aired over the summer. My job is to find and license film footage and photographs that illustrate scripts of our different shows. Our biggest client right now is the History Channel, and since June I have been working on a series called, “Deep Sea Detectives.” The hosts are scuba divers who dive shipwrecks and investigate how they sank.

The first four shows were about the cruise liner Andrea Doria that sank in 1956, a B-29 plane, a German U-boat, and the S-5 submarine that sank off Cape May, New Jersey in 1920.

I have traveled to Washington, DC and Ottawa, Ontario, to research film footage. In November I accompanied a crew to Quebec to work on a show about the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Ireland. That show is titled, “Sinking on the St. Lawrence” and aired on the History Channel on April 20. The fact that I studied French (at Hebron and then at Hamilton College) gave me a leg up on getting to go on that trip.

Because the topics of our shows are so varied and the wrecks are linked to people in different countries, on almost a daily basis I communicate with people from Germany, England, France, Canada, and even Norway. Being around people from so many different countries at Hebron and majoring in French has really helped me feel more comfortable communicating with the people I do at my job.

class notes Obituaries 1930 William Alden Brown died February 19, 2004, at his home in Camden. Mr. Brown attended Lowell Textile Institute before entering the steel industry. He married Barbara Zurbach in 1932. Mr. Brown served as president and owner of Zurbach Steel Company with plants in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and California. In the 1950s he owned and managed several wood lots and the Knox Lumber Company in Rockport and Camden. Mr. Brown was a Registered Maine Guide and enjoyed bow hunting, fly fishing and cruising the waters of Maine and the northeast. He is survived by a son, Peter Brown ‘56; daughters Bethany Stevens, Susan Ayer and Kathie Brown; 11 grandchildren and 10 great-granchildren.

He was predeceased by his wife; his good friend and companion Louise Jones; and his two brothers, John and Alvin, who died of childhood diseases.

1931 Edward Walton “Walt” Russell, Jr. died November 15, 2003. Mr. Russell wore number 6 for the Hershey B’ars hockey team, the Eastern Amateur League predecessor to the Hershey Bears. Also a hockey referee for many years, he was honored in 2001 at Hersheypark Arena for his hockey career. Mr. Russell retired in 1978 from the finance department of Sutcliffe Chevrolet in Harrisburg, and he was a Navy veteran of World War II. He was a member of the Areba Club of Hershey, and he enjoyed football, golf, baseball, travel and dancing.

Mr. Russell is survived by his wife, Mamie “Libby” Salmon Bross Russell; a sister, Miriam Newman; and nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by two sisters and two brothers.

Burton Varney died April 13, 2000. He is survived by his wife, Ruth “Bickie” Varney; two sons, Peter Varney and Michael Varney; a daughter Melissa Lloyd; and three grandchildren.

1934 Joseph A. Arnold III died April 6, 2004, in Rumford. He was born in West Peru, a son of Joseph A. and Daisy Dwinal Arnold Jr. He married Geraldine Hall in 1943. Mr. Arnold was employed at Boise Cascade in Rumford for 44 years. He was an outdoorsman who enjoyed camping, hiking and gardening. He also enjoyed motorcycle riding and snowmobiling. Mr. Arnold was a member of the Dixfield Historical Society, the North America Family Campers Association, the Dixfield Congregational Church, the Good Sam Campers Association, and was an 18-year member

of the Penobscot Valley Acres Campground. He is survived by his wife; three sons, Joseph, William and Peter; eight grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by a sister, Verna Arnold.

1938 Thomas Collins Rice died February 27, 2004. Mr. Collins graduated from Husson College and served in the Navy in Okinawa during World War II. He retired from the advertising department of Laverdier’s drug store. He had worked for the family business, C.H. Rice Meat Packing Co., and owned the Winslow IGA store. Mr. Collins is survived by his wife, Edie; daughers Pam Rogers, Cheryle Nason and Gennie Hammond; a sister, Sally Palmer; seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

1939 James W. Moriarty died December 11, 2003, in Westwood, Massachusetts. Mr. Moriarty earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Colby College in 1942. After graduating from Colby he entered officer candidate training at Notre Dame and was commissioned a Navy ensign in 1943. He served in landings at Anzio and Normandy and received three battle stars and a ship’s citation for landing at Salerno. In 1945, Mr. Moriarty began working at the John Hancock Life Insurance Co. He retired in 1985 as executive vice president of group operations. He developed the Armed Forces Benefit Association for John Hancock, which became their largest group account. He continued through his retirement to serve as a member emeritus of the AFBA board of directors and received a special citation for 50 years of service in 2000. Mr. Moriarty is survived by his wife, Evelyn; two sons, Richard and David; two daughters, Cheryl Higgins and Kathy Silvia; and 11 grandchildren.

1948 Murray D. Black died March 21, 2004, in Holmby Hills, California. Mr. Black was a pioneer in the deep sea diving industry and set many world records in the course of his work. He was an explosives expert in the marine environment and author of Between the Devil and the Deep. He dedicated his time as a volunteer to the Jacksonville sheriff’s office, where he was appointed auxiliary officer of the year for his community involvement. He was a member of the Explorers Club. Mr. Black is survived by his wife, Margaret; children Katherine, Daniel, Jessica and Charles; his sister, Judith; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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1958 Stephen H. Clark died March 26, 2004, in East Falmouth, Massachusetts, after a long illness. He was the husband of Lynda Clark, who died March 12. They had been married since 1965. After graduating from Hebron Academy, Mr. Clark served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, 325th Infantry Battalion, and attained the rank of corporal. Following military service, he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in wildlife science from the University of Maine, and continued his studies at the University of Miami, earning a doctorate in fisheries. Mr. Clark was an assistant professor of biology at Grand Valley State College in Michigan. He also worked as a fisheries biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Galveston, Texas, before transferring to the Woods Hole laboratory. He retired in 2001. Throughout his career, Mr. Clark wrote many peer-reviewed articles relating to fisheries. He enjoyed fishing, kayaking and travel. In Falmouth, he was a member of the 300 Committee, John Wesley United Methodist Church, Ashumet Valley Property Owners Association, and was a volunteer for the Red Cross. Mr. Clark is survived by two daughters, Janet Kueny and Karen Anderson; and three grandchildren.

Christopher “Kit” Nissen died December 3, 2003, after a lengthy and valiant battle with lymphoma. He is survived by his wife, three children and five grandchildren, including a little Christopher Nissen.

1962 George Harmon Tulloch died January 31, 2004, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, from cancer complications. Mr. Tulloch was coleader of five expeditions to recover artifacts from the wrecksite of the Titanic which sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912. He was an original investor in Titanic Ventures Limited Partnership, the group that mounted the first salvage expedition in 1987. Titanic International Society served as historical consultant to several expeditions. Under Mr. Tulloch’s leadership, the company exhibited artifacts from the ship at museums around the world. He had recently become involved, along with his long-time friend Captain P.H. Nargeolet, in a project to locate the legendary lost city of Atlantis. Mr. Tulloch was born in Syracuse, New York, son of Donald and Caroline Harmon Tulloch. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Early in his career he worked for Chrysler Corporation in White Plains and Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1974 Tulloch established Competition & Sports Cars, Ltd., an automobile dealership which for several years was the highest-volume BMW dealership in the United States. Mr. Tulloch is survived by his wife, Cindy Briggs Tulloch; sons Tim and Matt; and daughter Caroline. He was predeceased by a brother

Robert, and sisters Mary Alice and Carol Ann. He is survived by sister Jean Griffith and brother Donald.

1965 Walter Clifford Ladd, II died January 3, 2004, in Portland after a brief illness. Mr. Ladd was a veteran of the Vietnam era, having served in the U.S. Navy as a photographer’s mate on the USS Wasp, CVS18.

For 12 years he lived in Orange, California, working for the King Bearing Co. in inventory control for industrial products. He moved back to Maine in 1990 and attended SMTC, graduating with honors in respiratory therapy. He worked at various hospitals in Maine including Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport. Mr. Ladd was active in the Red Cross chapter in Portland. He was qualified for disaster services, damage assessment, emergency family services and mass care. He enjoyed a variety of interests, including being a holder of HAM radio license KB1HNW, model trains and restoring antique cars.

Mr. Ladd is survived by his mother, Mary Emma Small Ladd; a sister, Mary Harriet Ladd; and uncle, Edward R. Ladd; a niece; a nephew; five grandnieces and grandnephews; and several cousins.

1983 Mark Burton Strack died of natural causes on February 2, 2004, at his home in Miami Lakes, Florida. Mr. Strack attended Plymouth State College and graduated from the University of Arizona in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in business. He was an advertising salesman for Clear Channel, Inc. in Florida. Mr. Strack was an avid golfer, enjoyed spending time with his family, loved Lake Placid in the summer, and attended many professional sporting events in Florida. He is survived by his parents, John and Marty Strack; his maternal grandmother, Audrey Woodell; two sisters, Kate Strack and Mary Beth Brossart; a brother, Mike Strack; and many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.

Other Deaths Maine Hills, Jr. ‘35, on March 17, 2004.

Lyndon J. Grant ‘36, on December 11, 2003.

Robert A. Strickland ‘40, on March 6, 2003.

Howard Mayhew ‘41.

Elton J. Hill ’42, on December 18, 2002.

James G. Kingsley, Jr. ‘49, on March 15, 2003, after a three-year battle with lung cancer.

Charles Glenn Nicolls ’53, on November 25, 2003.

James Peter Holihan ’63, on May 23, 2004.

Perry M. Saunders ’63, on January 2, 2004.

Reese S. Lowell ’70, on March 13, 2003, unexpectedly, of a heart attack.

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hebroniana Marking Milestones

The group shown here has over 150 years of combined service to Hebron A c a d e m y, and it was hard to get them all in the same place at the same time. Jane Williams is usually “on the road,” taking students to doctor’s appointments, handling Health Center errands and organizing vacation travel. Stephanie Walker is wearing two hats this year. She continues her housekeeping work and also drives a bus for Hebron. Working first as the school receptionist and now in the Admissions Office,

Judy Chase has interacted with every student who has passed through Hebron since 1978.

In addition to his teaching and coaching duties, Bruce Found keeps the science department running smoothly. We would be cold, wet and lonely without Brad Whittemore’s heating, plumbing and telephone expertise. Teacher and coach Gino Valeriani took a quick break from his physics class rocket launch to be a part of this photo. Busy folks all, and we are indebted to them for all they do for us.

Front: Jane Williams (25 years), Stephanie Walker (26) and Judy Chase (26). Back: Bruce Found (25), Brad Whittemore (24) and Gino Valeriani (25).

Grease!

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im Jacob’s and Warren Casey’s 1950s musical comedy came alive with fast and fun-filled performances in this year’s all-school musical production. “The music and story are familiar to most of the students, which made our limited rehearsal time more productive,” said director Julie Middleton. “In addition to a hard-working cast, it was wonderful to have a crew that stepped up to manage every facet of production, from promotion to set design. We had a blast!”

Pink Ladies. Sandy (Julia Nyitray ’06) and Frenchie (Amy Shackford ’06) with Marie (Monet Fournier-Brazier ’06), Ronda (Vika Planson ’07), Darleen (Kate Turner ’04), Jan (Kelsey Jordan ’07), Lorraine (Lura DeSorbo ’05) and Marty (Ashley Sterling ’04).

Drive In. Sandy (Julia Nyitray ’06) and Danny (Matt Darrah ’05).

Greased Lightning. Rocko (Jason Staats ’04), Roger (Charlie Cummings ’07), Danny (Matt Darrah ’05) Johnny Casino (Kris Houle ’05), Kenickie (Sto Austin ’04), Arnie (Kirk Turner ’07), Sonny (Ryan Close ’04) and Doody (John Slattery ’04).

Go Rydell! Cheerleaders Sarah Cramton ’10, Katya Planson ’09, Claire Cummings ’09, Sara Kerney ’09 and Rosa Van Wie ’08.

At right: Ruth Scarpino ’04 as Rizzo (top) and Noah Love ’07 as Eugene.

At left: Elizabeth Cole ’05 as Patty (top) and Sto Austin ’04 as Kenickie.

Go Back to High School

Guidance counselors. Frenchie (Amy Shackford ’06) gets some valuable advice from her guardian angels (Mr. King, Mr. Stonebraker, Mr. Suydam, Mr. Roche, Miss Loyd, Mrs. Minigell and Ms. Lalemand) in this year’s all-school production of the musical Grease!

You can go back to high school as well.

Help us celebrate Hebron Academy’s 200th birthday at Homecoming, October 8–9, 2004.

Register online at www.habicentennial.org

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