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
Hebron Academy Spring 2004 • Semester
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.