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Hebron Journeys
Tell a Friend Mike Turk ’06 Plymouth, Massachusetts Current Classes: English III, Honors PreCalculus, Honors Chemistry, U.S. History, Spanish III Hebron Activities: Soccer, ice hockey, baseball, Green Key, Cum Laude Society Awards: Rensselaer Medal, Dartmouth Book Award
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ebron Academy has small, challenging classes and a community where I feel comfortable trying new activities. My Precalculus teacher, Ms. Shore, has had a huge impact on me. She has taught me to utilize my abilities and apply them in all of her lessons. She is demanding, but fair. It has been a challenging class that will help me in the future.
Elizabeth Cole ’05 Sebastian Runschke ’06 Bochum, Germany Current Classes: English III, AP Calculus AB, Honors Chemistry, U.S. History, International Relations/Economics
New Gloucester, Maine Accepted Early Decision to Vassar College Current Classes: AP English IV, Physics, PreCalculus II, Psychology, Spanish IV/V, Independent Study (English/Drama)
Hebron Activities: Soccer, alpine skiing, track and field, drama, junior class vice president, Cum Laude Society
Hebron Activities: Cross-country, lacrosse, drama, student proctor, Green Key campus tour guide, Cum Laude Society
Awards: Academic Excellence in Mathematics; Friedman Mathematics Prize
Awards: Academic Excellence in English, Lorimer Scholarship Prize, Sherman Award
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aving classmates who are motivated and determined to succeed definitely inspires me to push myself. Every teacher is open, friendly and willing to help if you have a problem, not just in academics. My favorite memories of Hebron will be soccer games; there was always a sideline full of students and faculty cheering for my teammates and me. Hebron is such a supportive environment.
really love theater, and for three years I’ve been able to be part of a big musical production at Hebron. Singing is hard for me, and this year’s show was a real stretch, but it was worth all the hard work. Our director, Ms. Midd, was so dedicated to the show and all her hard work inspired me to work harder.
Hebron Academy is filled with diverse, interesting people: a soccer player from Massachusetts, a violinist from Korea, a National Merit scholar from Maine. At Hebron, we inspire our students to accept new challenges, to take risks, and to succeed in personal growth. Do you know a student who would be a good fit for Hebron Academy? Call or e-mail the Admissions Office today: 888-432-7664, admissions@hebronacademy.org.
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features Full Circle Hebronians living and working in Africa
A Dazzling Coat colorful threads weave a theater tradition
Commencement saying goodbye to the class of 2005
Hebron Routes a mental road trip in time and place
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The Academy news, athletics, philanthropy, and more
Alumni et Alumnae notes, unions, new arrivals, obituaries
Hebroniana encapsulated memories
Hebron Academy inspires and guides students to reach their highest potential in mind, body and spirit.
Piper Chris Pinchbeck ’87 leads the Class of 2005 and faculty across campus to the Commencement ceremony in Robinson Arena.
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t Hebron Academy, we urge our students to work hard and do their best, to take the foundation they build and work towards their highest potential. This issue of the Semester is filled with stories of growth. The Class of 2005 finished one journey and is poised to start the next. Mike Wright ’65 took a mental journey back to the Hebron of the 1960s. Tom Hull ’64 and other Hebronians traveled from the Maine woods to Africa and back again. There are journeys of self-discovery, journeys to the past and literal journeys to Quebec, to New York, to Boston. The journey that meant the most to me this year was watching the cast and crew of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat bring a show to life. In jeans and sweatshirts with scripts in hand, small groups practiced in empty classrooms during carvedout free time. They finished, Egypt-eyed in robes and sandals, singing and dancing together on the Androscoggin Theater stage. Along the way they transformed themselves from scattered individuals into a small community all working towards a common goal. They stretched and took a chance on trying something completely new. Meanwhile, faculty and parents supported their efforts. A teacher who couldn’t see the show came to the dress rehearsal instead. A father picked up a broom and swept the gym floor after Friday’s performance. Parents whose children weren’t in the play came up with costumes and props. I am impressed by every single student—actors and crew alike—but most of all by the committed adults who work so hard, literally behind the scenes, to make these experiences possible. It is what the Hebron community is all about. Jennifer F. Adams, Editor jadams@hebronacademy.org
homecoming 2005
ON THE COVER
The Stanley Building. Photograph by Dennis Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios, Inc. Watercolor by Photoshop. The Semester is published twice each year by Hebron Academy, PO Box 309, Hebron ME 04238. 207-966-2100. Issue No. 195 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
Brian L. Cheek Kristin Cheek Elizabeth M. Cole ’05 Robert M. Caldwell Leslie A. Guenther Beverly B. Leyden Julie M. Middleton Stephen P. Middleton Priscilla B. Potter Beverly J. Roy David W. Stonebraker PHOTOGRAPHY
Set a Course for Hebron Homecoming 2005 Friday, September 30 Saturday, October 1 Special Friday Night Program Athletic Competitions Reunions for classes ending in 0 and 5 2•
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Jennifer F. Adams William B. Chase Skip Churchill, Churchill Photography Dennis and Diana Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios, Inc. Jill Rundle 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. © 2005 by Hebron Academy.
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n Wednesday, June 8, when the sixth graders—the class of 2011—carefully lowered our time capsule into the ground, we officially closed and sealed Hebron Academy’s bicentennial year. My thanks to everyone who helped to make the bicentennial a success. To the hundreds of alumni, parents, friends who visited Hebron during our October event or came out to celebrate in the U.S. (Boston, New York, Chicago, Denver, D.C., San Francisco, Seattle and Portland) or abroad (Germany, Korea and Japan): we hope to see you again soon. You are always welcome here, at our “home” in Hebron. And to the students, faculty, staff, and volunteers who planned, organized and participated in numerous events on campus during the last several months: thank you for being a central part of this historic time. I hope that your experiences during our bicentennial will hold special memories for you. Throughout the bicentennial celebration, a lot of our focus has been on our school’s history— the unique events, people, traditions and landscape that comprise the Hebron Academy story. We know that there are elements in this story that have not—cannot—change. From the time that the founding trustees established the school’s charter, we have been an inclusive, supportive educational community. We value individuality and respect individual differences. We value the unique perspectives and experiences of our alumni, parents and friends. We treasure our friendly, supportive environment, where students are comfortable trying new things
and seeking out help and guidance from their teachers; where teachers encourage students to reach for something more than they thought possible; where everyone is encouraged to be actively involved in the school community; and where each person can and does make a difference. These are the things that we believe in and the things that we must uphold. These are the things that you told me, in many personal conversations and letters, are what matter most about Hebron Academy, and what make our school “uniquely Hebron.” Psychologist Carl Jung said, “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.” His words speak to our character, to our faculty and coaches’ genuine interest in seeing our students grow. We are proud of our students’ accomplishments in all aspects of their lives. The excellence of our top scholars in so many fields—history, mathematics, science, literature, writing, language; the creativity and performance of remarkable actors, painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians and singers; the improvement and motivation of so many young people who have climbed a hurdle, bested a challenge, or
Head of School John King congratulates Dwyer Award winner Matt Darrah.
discovered a new success in a class, on a playing field, stage, in the community, or on a mountain trail: those are the reasons for our school and why we are excited to teach. We also look to our school’s third century. We remain focused on Foundation for the Future, our strategic plan that includes five immediate priorities regarding finances, enrollment, faculty well-being, facilities and the Academy’s visibility and reputation. And we are putting fresh emphasis on innovation in the classroom, seeking new and forward-looking ways to deliver a highly individualized education in our small school. As for the present: thank you for being part of our Hebron Academy family. Thank you for teaching, attending, parenting, stewarding, donating, cheering, volunteering or otherwise participating in Academy life. We have many reasons to be proud and also to be grateful. As I sign off on this beautiful (though late to arrive) spring day, I will tell you what I plan
to do next. As I walk home, I will take in the view across the bowl, with the carefully tended rock garden in the foreground. Look to the paved senior path, rolling down the hill, where the class of 2005, 64 young men and women, proudly marched to their commencement. Walk across the bridge and think about the many people who have met, conversed, laughed, cried, and reminisced in the beautiful spaces on campus. Sit in front of Sturtevant Home on one of the new granite benches, gifts from the class of 2005. I will enjoy the quiet beauty of our campus—though it is not the same without its people. Tomorrow, I will return to the school building and to the task of building our Foundation for the Future, and I will look forward to when I see you again. My best to everyone in our Hebron family.
John King, Head of School
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Around the Bowl Photo by Aicha Nystrom
Funny in Hebron Last spring, Sara Armstrong’s senior English students read Firoozeh Dumas’s memoir Funny in Farsi as a part of a nonfiction seminar. During the unit, students engaged in discussions about family history and stories, the history of the U.S. and Iranian relations, stereotypes about Muslims, and the immigrant experience. As a final project, students emailed questions to the author, and an ongoing relationship was born. Upon receiving the e-mail, Ms. Dumas wrote back to the class and offered to participate in an hourlong telephone interview. During the interview, Ms. Dumas discussed her experiences as an IranianAmerican, including changes she has witnessed in the treatment of Middle Easterners in America since September 11, 2001, and talked about the process of writing and publishing a memoir. Since that initial contact, Ms. Dumas has been generous with her time with Hebron faculty and students. ESL teacher Randi Shol and her students read Funny in Farsi in the fall of 2004 and again, Ms. Dumas agreed to a telephone interview. Next year, everyone in the community will have an opportunity to read Funny in Farsi and meet Ms. Dumas. In September, as part of our own Community Read,
we will hold a series of special events, workshops and seminars inspired by themes from the book. In addition, Ms. Dumas will visit campus at the end of the month to speak to students, teachers, parents and alumni/ae. For more information, please e-mail Hebron Academy librarian Cilla Potter at ppotter@hebronacademy.org.
Gay/Straight Alliance Reaches Out to All Sparked by a visit from alumnus Gordon Smith ’57, Hebron students and faculty formed the school’s first Gay/Straight Alliance this winter. Like the 1990sera Diversity Committee, the GSA is working toward promoting diversity and tolerance throughout the community. The group is primarily student-organized and student-run, although there is a lot of support from faculty, and several teachers serve as advisors to the group.
Going Places Close to home or further flung, Hebron faculty members are tak-
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ing advantage of professional development opportunities this summer. Math teacher Heather Ferrenbach returns to her alma mater, the University of Maine at Farmington, for a look at learning styles, yearbook guru Bill Chase will delve into the mysteries of digital photography and new math teacher Denis Shubleka will explore AP calculus. Academic Support Center staffers Marcia King and the newly-hired Abby Koenig ‘00 are doing coursework at Landmark School in Massachusetts, and outdoor education teacher Paul Brouwer is going SOLO for Wilderness First Responder recertification. Trading rural Maine for city life, Carnie Burns is headed to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History at Yale and Peter Crumlish is taking on Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. College counselor and English teacher Brian Jurek will spend the summer in New York at the Klingenstein Center for
Independent School Education’s Leadership Academy. Heading east, west and south, Bruce and Betsy Found will explore ecosystems science on Kauai, and Shailer Barron will attend the Latin Institute of Notre Dame in Maryland. Robert Kaufman will immerse himself in a French course in France, and Spanish teachers Sarah Bryan and Randi Shol are bound for Peru and Mexico, respectively. We hope they’ll send us a postcard!
Moving Up, Moving On Every year, adult members of the community leave us. The reasons are many, and this year is no exception. Retirement calls Bob and Sharron Gunn and Carol Henrickson. Assistant librarian Jennifer Agelone is relocating to Portland and science teacher Sarah Twichell is headed for medical school. Larch Fidler will become English chair at Christ Church School in Virginia, and Lauren Rodier is moving into college admissions work. Dean of Students Jamie Roche ’95 and teacher Bob MacMannis are charting unknown waters. We thank them for their work on Hebron’s behalf, and we will miss them.
Philanthropy Brings Light to Campus New lighting was recently installed along the senior path. These handsome lights cast a downward glow, easing the post-study hall walk to the Student Union without filling the night sky with light. Hebron Academy is grateful to Susan Garner ’62H for her generous “gift of light.”
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Front: Jon Phillips ’06, Franco Reda ’05, Mr. Curtis ’91, Tina Voigt ’05, Allison Coombs ’06 and Eri Miyauchi ’05*. Middle: Vratko Strmen ’06, Mike Turk ’06, Molly Curtis ’06, Elizabeth Cole ’05*, Katrina Draper ’05 and Jodie Simms ’05*. Back: Ashkan Nowtash ’05, TJ Dorval ’05, Mike Sedgewick ’05, Toki Shirae ’05 and Basti Runschke ’06. * Inducted last year.
Book Notes Ever wonder about the Baccalaureate and Commencement book prizes? Here’s a little background information. • The presentation of prize books at Hebron is a long-standing tradition which reinforces a part of the mission of the Academy to inspire and guide students to a life-long love of learning. They are almost always hardbound presentation editions, usually “academic,” although occasionally novels are used, as Isabel Allende’s new novel, Zorro, for Bettina Voigt’s Spanish Prize. Sometimes, they are a bit “for fun” as in The Math Instinct for Sebastian Runschke, winner of the Friedman Prize in Mathematics, and occasionally personal and poignant, as in Lucky Every Day: The Wisdom of Diane Geppi-Aikens, advice of a championship lacrosse coach to her players. • For over twenty years, preparing the Commencement books was the personal task of librarian Charlotte
Stonebraker, who began the practice of wrapping each book in plain white paper with green ribbon. A bookplate gives the title and the citation of the prize won, together with the recipient’s name and class year. • The books reflect not only the students who have won the prizes but also, by tradition, the nature of some of the prizes. Although Ms. Guenther and Mr. Stonebraker are currently the ones who choose the titles, the faculty often make personal and topical suggestions for special books for particular recipients. • The Willard Prize is always poetry, often Robert Frost or Edwin Arlington Robinson, reflecting Ned’s passion for verse. This year Allison Coombs and Molly Curtis received An Invitation to Poetry and The Poetry of Robert Frost. • The Risman, Phemister and Sherman awards often come from political biography, biography and memoir, such as Jennet Conant’s 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos for the
ob Curtis, Hebron class of 1991, was the speaker at Hebron Academy’s annual Cum Laude Society induction ceremony on Friday, May 6. Rob presented a slide show of some of his work and spoke to the school community about his experiences as a photojournalist covering military operations in the Middle East and other places around the world. Rob works for the Military Times Media Group near Washington, D.C., where he supports seven weekly newspapers and three monthly magazines. He also contributes photos and stories to Gannett
News Service and USA Today. His first job after graduating from Boston University was at the Lewiston Sun Journal. His work includes reporting on all aspects of the U.S. military, from exercises and deployments to Capitol Hill hearings and defense contracts. Rob has traveled to more than 30 countries for assignments. He was in Kosovo in 1999 and Afghanistan in 2001. In 2003, he was embedded with the 2nd Brigade of the 101st in combat operations as the war in Iraq began. Rob maintains a portfolio of his photos on his website, www.robcurtis.com.
Wheeler Good Fellowship Award or Uta Hagen, A Challenge for the Actor, for the Sherman Award. • The Dwyer Award—which encompasses both scholarship and athletics—is often a most carefully selected book because it is not merely the world of sports or coaching, but the world of study and language as well. This year, George Plimpton’s On Sports represents the reflections of a master writer on a lifetime spent with sports. • Other books are current and topical, occasionally prize winners as well. The current Pulitzer Prize winning work in history, A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America, became this year’s history prize for Vratko Strmen. NPR commentator Terry Gross has collected a fascinating series of interviews in her current collection, All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists. • Two of the college book awards present unique collections. Harvard Observed compiles the writings of
Megan Irving and Drew Laurie, this year’s winners of the Reed Awards.
alumni reflecting upon the university and its place in American culture. Voices of Smith is a fascinating collection of the writing and art of Smith alumnae including pieces by Madeleine L’Engle, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Margaret Mitchell, Sylvia Plath and Gloria Steinem. For a complete list of this year’s books, please visit the Hebronian Online at www.hebronacademy.org.
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the academy Be a Proud Hebronian! Lobster Tales Tell them you’re from Hebron Academy! Are you… • Writing your professional biography? • Being interviewed by your local paper? • Sending out a press release about your business? Don't forget to mention Hebron Academy!
Da-Young Kuack ’07 shows Ji-Yun Seo ’08 how to tackle a lobster.
Middlers Tommy Cummings ’11, Mike Minigell ’11, Nick Roy ’10 and Lucas Schandelmeier ’10 with bottles they dug up near the Old Brick.
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iddle School teacher Steve Middleton recently brought history alive outside his classroom. He brought in some old bottles he found in Livermore Falls, and the kids were intrigued. Mr. Midd says, “We talked about how to find bottle dumps—the key is to look on the far side of stone walls and over embankments. People dumped anything that wouldn’t burn: metal, glass, even old shoes. Over time the metal ends up being the only sign on the surface. I found the Old Brick site, but during a recent outdoor skills expedition, Michael Minigell and Tommy Cummings found a bottle dump out beyond Long Cottage—they saw metal
and started to dig. The best finds at Old Brick were an aqua French Gloss shoe polish bottle from about 1910 and an old medicine bottle from F.A. Shurtleff of South Paris circa the same time period. The best finds at the Long Cottage dump were an old medicine bottle from Merrill and Denning Pharmacists of Mechanic Falls and an aqua bottle labeled Mullin’s Food which we looked up and learned it was the original baby formula. These bottles date to the 1920s. “It is a lot like fishing. There is a lot of excitement when you begin to see the bottles and the kids often cry out, ‘I got one!’”
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t’s a good day when you learn something new, and for Hebron Academy’s international students, May 10, 2005, was the day they learned about Maine lobster. International program coordinators Carnie Burns, Sara Armstrong and Bénédicte Méplain worked with food service manager David Chisholm to treat the students to a traditional feed of lobster, potatoes, corn and blueberry crumble. “This was the first time many of our kids had eaten a lobster, so there were plenty of
‘lobster eating tutorials’ going on,” said Ms. Armstrong. Mlle Méplain’s home-made lobster mayonnaise (the way the French eat lobster at home) was especially popular with Armelle Gueye ’05, originally from Côte d’Ivoire. The group finished the evening with a door prize drawing featuring lots of fun Maine treats including gummy lighthouses and a large inflatable lobster—something no dorm room should be without.
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obert Andrew McCormack ’62, by his friendship and inspiration, took people places they would never have ventured on their own. Most of us view distances and challenges as hurdles. “Bob saw these things in the world as opportunities,” according to Robert “Shell” Evans ’62. “People in Bob’s life have memories and experiences that would not have occurred if it weren’t for Bob’s spark; his initiative.” His interest in people and things he thought worthy was eclectic. In 2004, Shell Evans established The Robert Andrew McCormack Scholarship in memory of his classmate and friend who died instantly from a lightning strike on August 24, 2003, while participating in a 100th anniversary HarleyDavidson motorcycle ride. Shell feels Bob died far too soon, yet, as Dick Forté ’62 remarked at Bob’s memorial service, “We take comfort from the fact that
he couldn’t have chosen a better exit strategy—doing something he dearly loved. He left at the top of his game.” “Bob made people’s lives better,” says Shell, “And I wanted to do something for Hebron that perpetuated his support of the Academy. My wife, Susan, and I have seen how this sort of scholarship has helped other schools attract bright, capable student leaders
Robert Andrew McCormack ‘62 Bob McCormack was a committed trustee and benefactor of Hebron Academy who inspired the school to always stretch to higher achievement. Bob, known for his ability to enrich the lives of his family and friends, was instrumental in advancing technology and encouraging the current Campus Master Plan for Hebron—projects that he heartily supported and thought most worthy.
and we wanted to do this for Hebron in Bob’s memory. Bob was a very bright, very thoughtful and quiet man who loved an intellectual challenge. He loved to work out solutions to complex problems. He saw problems in a different way than most and he never walked away from tough situations.” “Bob was always the guy at important meetings who would listen for a long time, stand up and say, ‘you’re all forgetting about the elephant in the room,’” said Citibank CEO John Reed. “He knew what was important and what was not.”
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hether in the classroom, in the dormitory, or on the athletic field, leadership development is integral to the life at Hebron Academy. Recognizing the importance of leaders and their contributions to the campus community, the McCormack Scholarship offers awards to entering grade nine through twelve students each year. In order to keep the scholarship, student recipients must maintain an average grade point of 2.7, remain in strong
standing, continue participation in school activities, and demonstrate outstanding citizenship. In addition to the standard application, candidates must complete the leadership scholar essay and be interviewed in person before the application deadline. There are currently two scholarship recipients at Hebron, Tiffany Bichrest ’07 and KJ Forand ’08. Thanks to the generosity of Susan Garner ’62H, Bob’s widow, who added significantly to the McCormack Scholarship endowment, a third student recipient will be identified for the 2005–2006 academic year. John King, Head of School, recently reflected on how “the spirit of the McCormack scholars conveys the personality of Hebron and personifies Bob’s spirit and memory for the generations of students who will follow. The school, and all those who directly benefit, are grateful to those who have made this scholarship possible and for caring for Hebron and sharing a part of Bob’s life with us.”
Left: The 2004–2005 McCormack Scholars, KJ Forand ’08 and Tiffany Bichrest ’07 , with Shell Evans ’62 at the Hebron reception at the New York Yacht Club.
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ongratulations to Hebron Academy’s Upper School math team on their excellent showing at the state math meet on April 12. Hebron’s team placed seventh in the Class D division. In addition, Je Won Hong placed third overall among sophomores. Hebron’s team was one of 23 in the Class D division; 93 schools participated in the meet. Throughout the year, 13 different students competed in district meets, with ten participating in the state meet. The meet is divided into an individual competition and a team competition. The morning competition is comprised of six 12-minute individual rounds of three questions each. The questions
are worth 3, 4 and 5 points respectively. These rounds are the basis for individual scores and awards by grade level. After lunch, there are two relay rounds. Students work in teams of five, sitting one behind the other. The first row students are given an Algebra I question. The second row students get an Algebra I word problem. Seat C works on a geometry question. Seat D solves an Algebra II question, and seat E’s question could cover anything in high school math short of calculus. In six minutes, each student solves his own question and then does a separate calculation based on his answer and a number that he receives from the competitor in front of him. (The first stu-
dent is instructed to do a specific calculation with her answer and to pass back the result. The second student uses that number and his own answer to find a number to pass back to seat C, etc.) At the end of the six minutes, the person in seat E records the answer she got as a result of all the cumulative math as well as the answer to her original problem. She passes the answer sheet forward, and each of the other students records the answer to his or her individual problem. There are six answers to be corrected on each sheet. Since each school (except the very tiny ones) brings 10 competitors, there are two relays per round for a total of four relays per team. After the relays, there are two team rounds. These consist of 8 questions to be worked by the team as a whole. These are the only rounds during which students may talk and also use calculators. Each team of ten submits a single answer sheet for the group. The relay and team rounds count for the school’s score, but obviously not for individuals. In addition to the students shown here, other competitors include: Morgan Browne ’05, Sam Chandler ’06, Elizabeth Cole ’05, Katherine Cole ’07, Je Won Hong ’07, Ashkan Nowtash ’05, Andrew Rosen ’05 and Toki Shirae ’05.
Sung-Jae Chang ’06, Brian Choi ’07, Jon Phillips ’06, Molly Curtis ’06 and Kelley Hilton ’06 practice a math relay.
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Sample Relay Seat A
If 2x - 1 = —1 , find the value of 2 1 A, if A = (2x - 1) —— 2x-1 + x. Pass back: 8A A = your answer
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Chris has $3.15 in nickels, dimes and quarters. He has 2 more dimes than nickels and twice as many quarters as dimes. How many coins does Chris have all together? B+6
Pass back: —— X B = your answer X = the number you receive
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Given: BC = 10, AB = 8, DE = 7. Find AD. A B 8 C
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Find the numerical coefficient of the 3rd term in the 5 expansion of (2 - y) . Pass back: 2D - 5X D = your answer X = the number you receive
Seat E
Pat has 3 oranges, 2 pears and 5 apples in a crisper. He decides to take three for lunch, choosing them at random. What is the probability that he gets one of each kind? 1
Pass in: 8E + —5 X E = your answer X = The number you receive Stumped? You’ll find the answers on page 34.
the academy Pre-cip-i-ta-tion N either sleet, nor snow, nor rain (nor even more rain!), could keep the Hebron teams from playing out their winter and spring athletic schedules. The girls’ hockey team narrowly missed a New England tournament bid, while a young boys’ varsity basketball team improved tremendously. Zack Cavanaugh was the overall MAISAD snowboard points winner, while Vika Planson and TJ Thayer received All-New England ski team recognition. Indoors, swimmers Brandon Rolfe and Zach Mullin both qualified for the MPA state meet. Next, in a soggy spring which felt like late fall, goodhumored players and coaches worked hard at practice— indoors and out. Five teams ended with winning records; Kasey Boucher won the MAISAD singles tennis title; Elena Haynes was impressive at the New England track meet; and the boys’ varsity lacrosse team received a bid to New England small schools tourney. Finally, the girls’ lacrosse and softball teams successfully defended their MAISAD titles.
Winter Sports Hebron’s scores are listed first.
Boys’ Varsity Basketball 12/1 12/4 12/8 1/7 1/8 1/19 1/22 1/26 1/28 1/29 2/2 2/12 2/14 2/16 2/18 2/19
Tilton Nbls & Grngh Pingree St. Mark’s Kents Hill Brewster Hyde Kents Hill Berwick Exeter Brewster KUA @ Tilton Gould Gould BBN Middlesex
26 45 70 32 71 74 53 47 65 52 64 40 66 76 56 59
48 75 85 94 51 54 44 65 57 99 56 58 70 52 77 58
As the season progressed, this young, athletic group of players developed into a hustling, pressing, fast-paced team with several scoring threats. The boys finished the season on a high note, coming from behind to defeat Middlesex 59-58.
2/3 Hyde 21 53 2/9 Kents Hill 20 65 This young team had a challenging schedule that included the eventual western Maine Class D champion.
Boys’ JV Basketball 12/6 1/8 1/22 1/26 1/28 2/1 2/9 2/14
NYA Kents Hill Hyde Kents Hill Berwick Pine Tree Hyde Pine Tree
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48 27 46 42 58 44 45 34
Boys’ Varsity Hockey 11/17 Exeter 1 11/19 Proctor Scrim. @Civic Center 11/21 Worcester Jam. @ U Conn 11/28 Holderness Jam. 12/1 Hoosac@Prctr (OT) 3 12/4 Worcester (OT) 3 12/10 Bridgton 3 12/17 St. Mark’s Tourn. 12/18 St. Mark’s Tourn. 12/30 BBN Tourney 12/31 BBN Tourney 1/7 Proctor 2 1/15 Brewster 4 1/17 Kents Hill 4 1/19 Pingree (OT) 1 1/22 New Hampton 10 1/28 Berwick 4 1/31 NYA 8 2/3 Kents Hill (OT) 3
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2/11 NYA 8 0 2/12 Brewster 3 5 2/16 New Hampton 5 1 2/19 Proctor 5 7 2/20 Hoosac 0 1 2/23 Bridgton (OT) 3 2 2/26 Pingree 5 1 A rocky start led to a disappointing 10-14-2 season. With NEPSAC tourney hopes dashed, the Lumberjacks went out in style, capping the year with wins over Bridgton and Pingree.
Girls’ Varsity Hockey 12/1 Exeter 4 2 12/4 Dover U-16 7 0 12/8 Governor Dummer 1 4 12/11 Gunnery 2 3 12/13 NYA 7 1 12/17 St. George’s Trn. 12/18 St. George’s Trn. 1/8 KUA@Holderness 5 1 1/9 NAHA 2 0 1/15 Brewster 1 3 1/21 St. Mark’s 2 1 1/22 Proctor 2 0 1/24 Kents Hill 2 3 2/2 Holderness 7 1 2/4 Middlesex 3 1 2/9 NYA 10 2 2/12 Brewster 1 7 2/14 Kents Hill 1 3 2/16 Proctor 3 0 2/19 Maine Select U-16 2 1 2/23 Exeter (OT) 3 2 2/26 Kngswd-Oxfrd (OT) 3 2 Hebron’s team proved to be one of the youngest yet among the
Girls’ Varsity Basketball 12/10 12/11 1/7 1/13 1/14 1/15 1/18 1/22 1/27 1/29 2/1
Gould Kents Hill Kents Hill Pine Tree Grtr Ptlnd Chrstn Proctor Seacoast Hyde Pine Tree Gould Seacoast
25 14 20 20 18 7 23 20 17 22 22
54 63 54 37 39 25 33 40 27 63 47
MAISAD All-League Honors Basketball Greg Gumbs ‘06 Jose Gumbs ‘07 Steve Ramos ‘07 Emeka Uwasomba ‘06
Alpine Skiing Tyler Thayer ‘06 Vika Planson ‘07 Jamie Tyler ‘07
Snowboarding Zack Cavanaugh ‘05 Katherine Cole ‘07 Gabe Rubenstein ‘08 Ben Jessome ’06 scrambles for the puck during a tough Brewster game.
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the academy strongest this year. Although they missed the playoffs by one spot in the rankings, their final record of 17-6 bodes well for future success.
Boys’ JV Hockey 12/4 12/8 12/10 12/11 1/7 1/19 1/29 2/2 2/9 2/12 2/14 2/16 2/18
St. Dom’s Kents Hill Lewiston Falmouth Patriotic Knights Patriotic Knights Brewster (OT) St. Dom’s Proctor Brewster Berlin Kents Hill Lewiston
8 6 2 3 10 5 4 4 8 5 5 8 4
3 1 4 8 3 3 5 1 2 1 2 3 2
Led by Zack Cavenaugh and Katherine Cole, who each earned top honors at the league championships, the team consistently placed 3 competitors within the top 10 at most events.
Swimming 12/3 Relay Carnival 1/7 Lewiston 1/28 NYA 2/2 NYA/Hyde 2/21 MPA state meet 2/22 MPA state meet Our relatively small team swam hard and fast, setting personal and season best times at every meet. Team MVP Zack Mullin earned a 10th place state meet finish in the 200 individual medley.
Alpine Skiing 1/12 SL @ Kents Hill 1/19 GS @ Sugarloaf 1/26 GS @ Shawnee 2/2 SL @ Kents Hill 2/4 SL @ Sunday River 2/11 GS @ Sunday River 2/16 New Eng. C’ship 2/18 C’ship @ Shawnee Peak Individual efforts on behalf of the team gave the boys a runner-up MAISAD finish. Congratulations to Vika Planson and TJ Thayer, who were both named to the All-New England Class B team.
Snowboarding 1/12 1/19 1/26 2/4 2/11 2/18
SS @ Sunday River HP @ Sugarloaf BA @ Kents Hill HP @ Sunday River SS @ Sugarloaf BA @ Sunday River
Middle School Alpine 1/12 GS @ Sunday River 1/18 GS @ Black Mt. 1/28 SL @ Black Mt. 2/1 SL @ Lost Valley 2/2 SL @ Sunday River 2/8 GS @ Shawnee Peak 2/10 SL @ Lost Valley 2/15 SL @ Shawnee Peak 2/17 C’ship @ Shawnee Peak The Middle School capped a successful season with strong finishes at the state meet. On the girls’ side, Kelly Phillips finished 6th overall in the giant slalom and 7th in the slalom. For the boys, strong slalom runs gave them 3rd place overall, thanks to good times turned in by Lucas Schandelmeier, Jack Brink, Nick Roy and Devon Brown. Devon had an excellent day of racing, finishing 5th in the slalom and earning GS gold.
KJ Forand ’08 on offense.
Spring Sports Hebron’s scores are listed first. 4/13 Telstar 1 7 4/14 Bridgton 4 5 4/15 Fryeburg 2 9 4/20 Kents Hill 1 11 4/29 Pine Tree 6 5 4/30 Gould 1 3 5/3 Bridgton 6 14 5/4 New Hampton 5 11 5/11 Gould 15 0 5/13 Kents Hill 3 5 5/16 Pine Tree 18 0 5/18 MAISAD semis 7 8 The team began the year with wellplayed losses to Bridgton, Telstar and Fryeburg, but found their rhythm in an exciting come-frombehind win over Pine Tree. Although the offense caught up with the pitching late in the season, the team came up one run short against Gould in the MAISAD semis.
JV Baseball Poland 9th Grade 17 Poland 9th grade 13 Gould 4
Kents Hill Kents Hill
17 8
0 5
Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse
Baseball
4/19 5/5 5/11
5/12 5/20
5 10 1
4/2 playdate@Nashua HS 4/9 Winchendon 5 13 4/13 Oxford Hills 18 6 4/14 Cony 13 5 4/18 NYA 2 5 4/20 Hyde (OT) 6 7 4/23 Kents Hill 13 2 4/29 Kents Hill 12 1 4/30 Worcester 8 9 5/2 Kennett H.S. 13 2 5/3 Gould 12 2 5/4 Tilton 4 9 5/7 Gould 11 3 5/10 New Hampton 10 7 5/11 Hyde 8 12 5/13 Kennett H.S. 10 1 5/14 Nashua H.S. 7 14 5/18 MAISAD semis 12 2 5/20 Berwick 8 12 5/21 MAISAD finals 5 14 The boys’ lacrosse team continues to build on their past successes. This year’s team played nineteen games, finishing second in the MAISAD league with a tough loss in the finals.
Girls’ Varsity Lacrosse Devon Brown ’10 at the middle school state meet.
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4/13 4/18
Oxford Hills NYA JV
16 6
6 2
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MAISAD AllLeague Honors Baseball Brandon Rolfe ’07 Ryan Sheehan ’05 Lacrosse Maddy Campbell ’06 Taylor Fey ’07 Chris Hamilton ’05 Simon Parent ’05 Charlie Pens ’07 Stephanie Roy ’07
NYA 3 4 Berwick 2 9 Hyde 3 10 Kents Hill (OT) 6 5 Fryeburg 11 1 Berwick (OT) 6 7 Hyde 3 13 Gould 11 1 Kents Hill 5 4 Gould 7 6 MAISAD Tourney @ Gould 2 wins, 2 losses
Softball
Softball Tiffany Bichrest ’07 Katherine Cole ’07 Sarah Irish ’07 Megan Irving ’05 Tennis Kasey Boucher ’08
4/20 Proctor 7 12 4/23 Kents Hill 9 8 4/29 Hyde 8 5 4/30 Kents Hill 5 1 5/2 Fryeburg JV 12 1 5/4 Tilton 14 10 5/5 Maranacook 11 3 5/6 Gould 10 4 5/11 Hyde 10 8 5/12 Gould 8 13 5/13 Kennett H.S. 10 4 5/14 Berwick (OT) 8 7 5/16 Fryeburg JV 6 7 5/18 MAISAD semis 6 5 5/21 MAISAD finals (OT) 10 9 A nearly flawless early season led to a few bobbles as the playoffs approached, but the girls dug in. In an action-packed MAISAD final game, Hebron came from a fourgoal deficit to force the game into overtime. With only one minute remaining in overtime Hebron came up with the game ending goal to lead the team to their second consecutive championship.
4/13 Telstar 3 9 4/15 Fryeburg 15 4 4/19 Poland 9th Grade 19 6 4/20 Kents Hill 10 11 4/30 Gould 20 13 5/2 Pine Tree 13 1 5/6 Poland 9th Grade 10 7 5/9 Telstar 2 9 5/10 Kents Hill 17 8 5/11 NYA 8 3 5/14 Gould 10 8 5/18 MAISAD semis bye 5/19 NYA 10 8 5/21 MAISAD finals 14 2 The Hebron fourteen enjoyed a strong season with only three early losses. Season highlights included victories over Fryeburg and Gould, but the sweetest of all was a resounding 14–2 victory over Kents Hill to retain their MAISAD title for the second consecutive year.
perienced in match play, but more memorable than specific matches or scores were the friendships made among competitors and humor on the road. Although the team was winless, Tim Leness ’06 did advance beyond the league tournament’s first round.
Girls’ JV Tennis 4/20 4/27 5/4 5/10 5/11 5/14
Kents Hill Kents Hill Berwick Fryeburg Berwick Kents Hill
1 0 2 1 2 0
4 5 3 4 3 5
Track and Field
Girls’ Varsity Tennis 4/13 Fryeburg postponed 4/20 Gould 0 5 4/22 NYA 1 4 5/2 Gould 0 4 5/4 Berwick 1 4 5/6 Kents Hill 1 4 5/10 Fryeburg 1 4 5/14 Kents Hill 1 4 5/18 MAISAD Singles 5/21 MAISAD Doubles @ Gould Personal growth and improvement were the watchwords for girls’ tennis this year. Ninth grader Kasey Boucher was particularly strong, wowing those watching her as she captured the MAISAD singles title with excellent shots against her opponent.
4/16 Hyde @ Hyde 4/23 Hyde / Elan 5/3 Telstar 5/13 Oxford Hills 5/14 MAISAD’s @ Hyde 5/21 New Englands Wet, cold and windy conditions meant training was frequently limited to gym workouts and road running, and little time to practice the technical events. The meets were also wet and cold, but the athletes persevered and some earned #1 finishes in their events at the MAISAD meet: Elena Haynes ’05, pole vault and javelin; Katherine Stewart ’08, high jump; Henry Ndikum ’08, long jump; Jon Phillips ’06, triple jump.
Boys’ JV Tennis
Middle School Baseball
4/20 4/26 4/30 5/4 5/9 5/11 5/18
Berwick NYA Kents Hill Berwick Kents Hill Gould Gould
0 1 0 1 0 1 0
5 3 4 4 5 4 5
4/29 5/4 5/9 5/10 5/13 5/17 5/19
Richmond Buckfield Raymond St. Joes St. Johns Mechanic Falls Holy Cross
0 1 9 2 10 9 9
13 11 17 10 22 9 15
Boys’ Varsity Tennis 4/18 4/20 4/23 4/26 5/3 5/4 5/9 5/11 5/13 5/18
Bridgton 0 Gould 1 Hyde 2 NYA 0 Bridgton 0 Kents Hill 0 Gould 0 Hyde 1 Kents Hill 0 MAISAD Singles @ Kents Hill 5/21 MAISAD Doubles @ Hyde With only one repeat letterman, this year’s team was largely inex-
5 4 3 5 5 5 5 4 5
Boys’ JV Lacrosse 4/13 4/14
Oxford Hills Cony
8 7
0 0
Lucas Schandelmeier ’10 connects with the ball.
Check our web site for updated schedules and game reports.
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Making a Difference Just as Hebron Academy has made a difference in the lives of students for over 200 years, so can you make a difference for Hebron Academy and our students today.
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lumni, parents and friends contribute significantly to the Academy’s operations budget through gifts to the Hebron Annual Fund. These funds go to work in all areas of school life. Scholarships for students, classroom supplies, heating oil, athletic uniforms and faculty salaries are a few of the things supported by the generosity of our donors. Every donor makes a difference, no matter the size of the gift. One such donor is Bette Thibeault. A true friend of
Hebron, Bette has supported the school in many ways, but most prominently through her contributions to and love for the arts. Music in particular is her passion. Through her generosity, Bette has almost singlehandedly outfitted the music department with new instruments and equipment. She also helps sponsor the winter musical and school concerts through donations. Bette’s thoughtfulness and generosity is inspiring to students and faculty alike.
Make a gift, get a lift Now you can earn American Airlines Advantage® miles whenever you make a gift that is new or increased by $100 or more to the Hebron Annual Fund. With AAdvantage® miles, you can earn travel anywhere American Airlines or its partner airlines fly—in the U.S. or abroad—and help Hebron at the same time. Plus, AAdvantage miles can be redeemed for more than just air travel—go to www.aa.com for more information on AAdvantage miles redemption partners. For more information about how you can earn AAdvantage miles by supporting Hebron Academy, please call the Advancement Office at 207-966-5284. Thank you.
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Head of School John King thanks Bette Thibeault for her support of Hebron Academy arts at a presentation during the spring concert.
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ette is a single example of this generous spirit. Hundreds of people make a difference in the lives of our students and faculty every year. Many rearrange their busy schedules to donate time and energy. Others make gifts to the Hebron Annual Fund. Every one of them makes a difference. Whatever your connection with Hebron Academy—alumnus, alumna, parent or friend— you can make a difference. Please consider making Hebron Academy a philanthropic priority. Give to the Hebron Annual Fund and help make a difference in the lives of our students and faculty. For more information, please call or e-mail Brian Cheek, Hebron Annual Fund Director, at 207-966-5231, bcheek@hebronacademy.org.
How Your Gift Makes a Difference • $25 would cover the cost of transporting students to Lewiston to see a play • $50 might purchase music for the jazz band • $100 could buy new software for classroom and computer laboratory use • $250 would pay for a new athletic uniform • $500 might send one of our faculty members to a seminar • $1000 could help pay for new furniture in the library or a common room
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the academy Spring Travels Le Québec c’est chouette! In early April, Mlle Méplain, Ms. Reedy and Mr. Kaufman took 20 students across the border to Quebec for a long weekend of immersion in French Canadian culture. Group favorites included the Cabane à Sucre, Ste. Anne de Beaupré and Les Galeries de la Capitale (a “really big mall” in the words of Chris Roy ’07). Above: Sam Baril ’07 and Kainani Stevens ’07 were part of a group of 23 that visited Quebec in April. Here they are in front of Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City. Left: These eighth graders love New York: James Geismar, Starr St. James, Eve Miller, Emma Roy, Brianna Bisesti (top), Lisa Terkelson and Kala Granger.
If it’s April, it must be NYC Every spring, the eighth grade hits the streets of New York. Although the itinerary varies from year to year, it is bound to include a visit to the NBC studios, a ball game or show, a trip to the observation deck atop the Empire State building, and just simply taking in the
sights, sounds and tastes of the city that never sleeps. Following freedom’s trail The seventh grade took the Downeaster to Boston, where they toured Fenway Park, ate lunch at Faneuil Hall and strolled along parts of the Freedom Trail.
Above: The seventh grade in Boston. Front: Chloë Bergman-Ray, Charlie Dyche, Kurtis Stocker, Lucas Schandelmeier and Sarah Cramton. Back: Bess Curtis, Del Hulbert, Ben Blais, Devon Brown, Andy Churchill, Rachel Rogers, Jordan Ramharter, Nick Roy and Jack Brink. The guy on the horse is Paul Revere.
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the academy One-Woman Tour de Force
Nellie Day 1887 Comes to Life S
pirits past and present came together on Friday, May 20th, as senior drama student Elizabeth Cole staged a onewoman show based upon the diary of a Hebron student from more than a hundred years ago. Nellie Day, Class of 1887, was the third of four children to attend the Academy and during her senior year she kept a diary of her activities and thoughts. Nellie Day’s diary was acquired through a chance encounter with a California antiquitarian who discovered
Hebron Academy’s website and contacted the school. The diary was shared, and copy made which has become a part of the Academy’s archives collection. Archivist and English teacher David Stonebraker felt that the diary offered a unique opportunity for study during the Academy’s bicentennial celebration. Elizabeth Cole took on the challenge of developing a play based on Nellie’s diary as a senior independent study project in English. Her work of the year culminated in a one-
woman show in which an elder Nellie engages an unseen listener in conversation about her time at Hebron, about the choices she made and the life she led. As Nellie composes her answers, Elizabeth fluidly moves in time and space to recreate the Nellie of Hebron, a young girl who traveled to the Academy from Turner and boarded at “Bailey Block,” a boarding house in the village which survives today as Barrows Lodge, a faculty home on the Hebron campus. Over the course of the project, Elizabeth found that while parts of Nellie Day’s experiences were very different from her own experience as a senior at Hebron, some portions of the Turner girl’s diary proved uncannily familiar. Studies for Nellie, particularly history, were at times impossible. Winter was long and the difficulty of travel made the campus seem a closed world. More universal were the uncertainties of life beyond graduation. Elizabeth also found major differences in the expectations of a young woman at Hebron at the close of the nineteenth century. Her research revealed that opportunities for a young woman were more limited than they are today. Fewer women prepared for college, and those who did were likely to study for
teaching or nursing. Nellie would leave Hebron to become an elementary school teacher. Elizabeth also found that Hebron was progressive for its time in offering the same curriculum to women and men. Classes were not separated by gender as at other schools, and a Hebron girl had access to traditional liberal arts courses. In the play, Nellie frets over her studies of Roman history, Latin and mathematics; but it is clear that she is consciously preparing for her future. Lighter moments occur as the “scholars” gossip after a weekend “sociable” or skirt with the discipline of Principal William Sargent for bringing boys into the boarding house or playing cards. Elizabeth presented her portrait of Nellie Day in a single performance in the Lepage Lecture Hall. The simple set enabled her to move from the adult Nellie’s parlor, where she reminisces with an unseen visitor; a schoolroom where Nellie struggles with Roman history and nods off during Latin recitation; and her room in Bailey Block, where “Prof” Sargent nearly catches her playing cards with boys. Elizabeth Cole graduated with the Class of 2005 and will enter Vassar College in the fall to study English and theater. David W. Stonebraker
The adult Nellie reminisces about her student days at Hebron with an unseen visitor.
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Full Circle From Maine to Africa and back again, alumni/ae, faculty and staff are thinking and working globally by Thomas N. Hull ’64
Elephants frolic in northern Botswana’s Chobe River. Photo by Rick Hulbert.
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he deserts and rainforests of Africa are far from the mountains and evergreens of Maine, but some Hebronians have made Africa a part of their lives and careers. As significant numbers of African refugees relocate to Maine, the connection is growing closer. In our shrinking world, Hebron’s students will increasingly have international dimensions to their lives. With that in mind, Hebron alumni/ae, faculty and staff shared their impressions of Africa and their thoughts on how Hebron Academy can prepare students to be global citizens.
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t least nine Hebronians have had professional contact with Africa to varying degrees, and all have found that their African experiences had significant impact on their lives. This number includes alumni, former teachers, and returned Peace Corps volunteer Sarah Hulbert (currently Director of Research at Hebron Academy), who says “The day I set foot in Botswana, my life changed forever.” These Hebronians stumbled upon Africa through chance contacts, career opportunities, study abroad, and, like Sarah, the Peace Corps. Other Peace Corps volunteers include former teacher Peter Dufour in Zimbabwe, Janna Rearick ’98 currently in Tanzania, and me in Sierra Leone. Janna first tasted Africa as a college student on a junior year abroad in Zanzibar. Alex Gilles ’96 went to Ghana on a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship and stayed to earn an M.A. in international relations at the University of Ghana. Former teacher Nicole Woodson taught in Senegal as an intern. Others have made the connection through their careers as well, including Martin Kuchler ’78 who is working on tourism development in South Africa, Sharon Lake Post ’83 who works on Save The Children’s African health programs from Connecticut, and Washington-
The day I set foot in Botswana, my life changed forever.
Top to bottom: Janna Rearick ’98 is a Peace Corps Volunteer at this school in Tanzania. The soccer team at Nicole Woodson’s school in Senegal. Alex Gillies ’96 and friends in Ghana. Tom Hull ’64 and his wife are presented with traditional dress in Sierra Leone.
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based Claudia Gray ’92 who manages an African health project for the Academy for Educational Development, and has traveled extensively in Africa. I have had the longest involvement in Africa; my career has made a full circle back to Sierra Leone where I am ambassador after having been nominated by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate last year. After teaching in the Peace Corps, I married a fellow Peace Corps volunteer, earned two masters degrees at Columbia University focusing on Africa, and joined the Foreign Service where my diplomatic career has included African assignments in Congo, South Africa (twice), Burkina Faso, Somalia, Nigeria, and Ethiopia and a tour as Africa director at the US Information Agency before its merger with the State Department. Among my accomplishments, I prize the establishment of the Fulbright Commission for Educational Exchange between the US and South Africa, after having founded similar commissions in the Czech Republic and Slovakia earlier in my career. Like Sarah, my life was profoundly affected by my introduction to Africa. Although I had studied some aspects of African history at Dickinson College, the destitution I found in Africa was unfathomable, and gave me an abiding appreciation for the privileged life we have in America. The experience made me even more self-reliant than I had become as a four-year boarder at Hebron Academy. I was also exhilarated by the difference that I could make in the individual lives of my students, some of whom I have become reacquainted with now that I am back in Sierra Leone. The deepest impression, however, came from impoverished villagers who generously gave of themselves to show their
appreciation for my living among them. As ambassador, one of my commitments is to continue that relationship by reciprocating with development assistance that can improve their lives.
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frica is a diverse continent in terms of people, culture, climate and topography, but most African countries have common problems: high unemployment, predominantly young populations, brain drain, widespread illiteracy, poor schools, food insecurity, low life expectancy, abysmal health services, corruption, mismanagement and inadequate infrastructure including limited electricity, non-potable water and neglected roads. Some countries, like Nigeria and Angola, are rich in natural resources, and some, like Somalia, have almost none. Some, like Ghana, Tanzania and Mozambique, have made significant progress in good governance, and others, like Liberia and Congo, are failed or fragile states dependent on United Nations peacekeepers. Even Africa’s best developed country, South Africa, has issues of education, health and employment for the majority of its people because of its apartheid past. War, disease, famine and corruption have taken their toll on Africa despite billions in foreign aid from around the world. The challenges which Africans face too often conceal the real progress that is being made by committed leaders and the contributions of concerned foreigners. The international community has constantly grappled with finding the right formula for developing Africa. Progress is frustratingly slow for reasons that are too complex to analyze here, but suffice it to say that more resources, more education, and more private sector investment are needed if Africa’s seemingly intractable problems are to be overcome. In the absence of a magic formula for developing Africa, however, the most visible and gratifying accomplishments, as Hebronians have learned, come from the contributions that they have made through their relationships with individuals and communities in Africa. Janna Rearick has found that in the Spartan conditions of her Tanzanian school, it is the inter-personal relationships that contribute to her effectiveness as a Peace Corps teacher. In this respect, she observes, “For those of you at Hebron, this sort of interaction is still a part of life there, too, so perhaps Tanzania and Hebron are more similar than one might
Current Students: Armelle Gueye ’05 and Henry Ndikum ’08 Imagine finding your way from Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire to the United States, Maine, and finally Hebron Academy. What a journey! Joining Hebron’s student body this year were Armelle Gueye ’05 from Côte d’Ivoire and Henry Ndikum ’08, from Cameroon. Armelle came to the United States three years ago. She and her family traveled around a little bit and eventually settled in California. Her mother discovered Hebron Academy on the internet and Armelle found herself in a school in New England—one of the few places she had not yet visited! Henry’s journey from Cameroon was more direct; a friend of his mother’s recommended Hebron Academy and Kents Hill, and Henry came here as a freshman. In Abidjan, Armelle went to a large private school; her freshman grade had eight classes of 35 students each. Henry’s school in Douala was equally big, and both schools are based on the French school system. Henry’s classes began at 7:45 a.m. and ended at 6:00 p.m., although there was a two hour break at lunch and usually a shorter break in the morning. Armelle’s school had about three hours of P.E. in the afternoon, usually swimming or “marican” (street soccer). Henry and his schoolmates played a lot of basketball. Henry and Armelle agreed that their former schools seemed much more difficult academically than Hebron. For example, math is not divided into units such as algebra and geometry as it is in the US. Instead there is more advanced and integrated math starting at an earlier age. In the freshman year
imagine.” Nicole Woodson, who is currently teaching and serving as Associate Director of Admissions at the Providence Country Day School in Rhode Island, found similar parallels when she taught in Yoff, Senegal. “I found Africa,” she says, “to be particularly unique because of its connection to and dependency on the earth and nature, its respect for family, community, tradition, faith and culture. The intensity of the expe-
students must choose to concentrate in a single subject such as math or science. The student bodies in their former schools are quite diverse. In Abidjan there are lots of French students— Bima—whose parents are in the French military as well as Lebanese and Vietnamese students. Henry’s school also had Korean students. Armelle commented that there were “more foreigners than African born” in her school. Although each country has good higher education, many students choose to attend university in France, Montreal or Quebec, and some in the United States. Socially, Hebron Academy is rather different from their previous schools. Armelle feels that Americans do not make as many noticeable distinctions between social classes as perhaps other cultures do. She was surprised to learn that at Hebron she would be expected to make her own bed. In a school such as Hebron, the lines of financial diversity are much less clear. Both Armelle and Henry like Hebron Academy and feel that they had a very good year. Armelle will be going off to college next year and plans to be a cardiologist. Henry is looking forward to three more years at Hebron and then going to college “where it’s warm”! Henry aspires to be Hebron’s first professional soccer player. From Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire, from the US and every other country, we are fortunate to have such great kids at Hebron Academy! Bev Leyden
rience and wonderful aspects left me longing for a community like Hebron where I could really connect with students and engage them in activities in depth. It was almost as if Yoff reinforced what I had experienced in Hebron on a larger scale and across cultures.” Hebronians have often worked in rural Africa where most people are subsistence farmers working with rudimentary imple-
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Notable Alumnus: John Brown Russwurm (ca.)1819 John Brown Russwurm was born in Jamaica in 1799, son of a wealthy Virginia planter named John Russwurm and his black housekeeper. He lived in Jamaica until he was eight, when his father sent him to school in Quebec. A few years later his father relocated to Portland and married a young widow with three children, Susan Blanchard. John and Susan added another child to their blended family. John Russwurm died in 1815, and although Susan married again, she made sure that her stepson was included in her new family. Although there is no primary evidence (the early treasurer’s records were lost in a fire in 1819), it is generally accepted that John Brown Russwurm attended Hebron Academy sometime between 1812 and 1819. He went to Boston and taught at Primus Hall, a free school for black children, but felt the need for a college education. His stepmother and her new hus-
ments and facing debilitating diseases. They make enormous sacrifices so that their children, who are needed on the farm, can go to school. Sarah Hulbert graphically describes the typical situation that she found in Botswana: “Students walked to school—anywhere from one hour to three hours every morning. Most arrived barefoot as they didn’t want to wear out their school shoes just ‘walking’. Aside from the government-issued uniform, children usually owned one shirt and one pair of pants which they wore until the clothes literally fell off their bodies. Most students looked to the lunch the school provided as their first meal of the day. Students had to pay to attend school and most families could not afford it. Those lucky students able to attend school were keenly aware of their status in the community and worked very hard to succeed in their education. Behavior problems did not exist. The students viewed their opportunity to be educated as a privilege and an honor.” As Peter Dufour discovered in Zimbabwe, “For the
band offered financial support, and he entered Bowdoin College in 1824. While at Bowdoin, John was invited to join the Athenaean Society. In 1826, was the second black man to graduate from an American college. Edward A. Jones of Amherst was the first by a mere 14 days. John moved to New York, where there was a community of educated black people. With others, he started a weekly newspaper, Freedom’s Journal, and was soon the sole editor. Eventually he emigrated to Liberia to become superintendent of education and editor of the Liberia Herald. He married Sarah McGill, daughter of a prominent colonist, and sent their sons back to Maine to be educated under the care of his stepmother. Around 1830 John left Monrovia and moved down the coast to Cape Palmas, where he became governor of the Maryland Colony. He visited Maine in the late 1840s and returned to Africa in 1850. His health was poor, however, and he died in June 1851.
rural poor in Africa, education is virtually the only portal to a better life.” The appreciation of education as a privilege, not an entitlement, has made a great impression on Hebronians, as has the comparative abundance of opportunities that we Americans take for granted. At the same time, the cross-cultural experience has often led to a reassessment and refocusing of their lives. Martin Kuchler now values the privilege of having a good education and being exposed to the global world. “The Africa experience has motivated me to promote international relations more,” he says. “I am uncomfortably aware of my own privilege,” says Alex Gillies when she sees the overwhelming number of young Africans with virtually no opportunity to create prosperous lives. “I worry about a world that contains these kinds of drastic disparities.” These disparities motivated Alex, who currently is assistant director of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, where she also coordinates the Consortium
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for Development Partnerships, a network of African, American, and European organizations that work collaboratively on projects related to democracy, good governance and conflict resolution in West Africa. Working in Africa gave Peter Dufour a tremendous appreciation for the unbelievably privileged lives that most Americans lead. “Many billions of people around the world still gather firewood to cook,” he says. “I think most Americans believe that most other people enjoy a standard of living similar to ours. That simply isn’t the case.” This revelation inspired Peter to develop legal and business skills to advise non-profit organizations on tax and operational issues in Maine, where, he notes, people are proportionally more generous than the rest of the country in charitable giving.
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hile several Hebronians have had the opportunity to experience Africa at the village level, others based in the United States are making meaningful contributions at the macro level. Non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) are the most common instrument of development in Africa. Coming from a family with an international background, Claudia Gray learned early to embrace diversity, and this, she says, has led to graduate studies and a career in international development. At the Academy for Educational Development (AED), Claudia provides financial and administrative management to projects for early childhood and maternal health, which are critical issues given Africa’s extremely high infant and maternal mortality rates, in Ethiopia, Madagascar, and Uganda. Claudia hopes one day to direct an AED office somewhere in Africa. Sharon Lake Post is also working on African child survival issues at Save The Children (SC) where, as an information and documentation specialist in the Office of Health, she researches and disseminates health information and provides other program support. She works most closely with child survival teams in Ethiopia, Guinea, Mali, Mozambique and Malawi. One of the SC projects that she is associated with in Mozambique has developed a fund for communities to equip bicycles with trailers to transport women in labor over unpaved roads to distant health clinics. Having lived for more than 20 years in every region of sub-Saharan Africa, I have
experienced both the micro level by teaching for two years in an isolated village, and the macro by helping a country develop its development strategy as a United States ambassador. In between, I have spent much of my career creating educational exchange opportunities that can benefit Africans and Americans through cross-cultural experiences and training in urgently needed skills for development. As ambassador, I oversee an Ambassador’s Self-Help Fund that finances small projects for which communities provide labor and the embassy provides material, such as food storage facilities, wells, school latrines, health clinics and bridges. I also supervise a Democracy and Human Rights Fund for those types of projects, and am about to launch a Girls’ Scholarship Fund to address gender disparities in school attendance. Despite the intractable challenges and slow progress of African development, I am optimistic about the continent’s prospects provided that African leaders persevere in their growing commitment to better governance and that the global community continues to increase its focus on Africa’s needs. That optimism is shared by other Hebronians. Sharon Lake Post tends to be very optimistic based on Save The Children’s programs and her contacts with Africa. While Alex Gilles believes that the developed world and the United States in particular could contribute much more to encouraging peace and prosperity, especially in Africa, she has found that “the vibrancy and perseverance that predominates in Africa permits me to be optimistic for the future.” Martin Kuchler, who came to South Africa’s Eastern Cape region to design and implement investment promotion programs and now advising enterprises and public-private partnerships through the Eastern Cape Development Corporation, believes that the positive attitudes that he has found will achieve results. “If mankind gets its act together,” he concludes, “even Africa and all our children have a chance to make a decent living.”
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he cross-cultural element has been the most enduring aspect of the African experience for Hebronians as they have become global citizens. As Janna Rearick points out, experience abroad can be life altering. Sarah Hulbert found that “living and immersing myself in a different culture; forming significant relationships with
Janna Rearick ’98 at her school in Tanzania.
people of various races; and struggling to learn to communicate in a different language, combined to give me the best education that I ever received. It gave me a sense of individual responsibility, opened up my consciousness and propels me, even now, to make my everyday work and lifestyle more meaningful than just a way to collect a paycheck and survive.” Claudia Gray has observed that international exposure has given her an open mind to diversity, cultural differences and appreciation for the “non-Western” way of living. “I can see the world now through the eyes of so many different people and that allows me to embrace differences rather than reject or be afraid of them.” The lesson that Peter Dufour has taken from Africa is that “People are exactly the same all over, regardless of color, culture or history. I believe that once the world comes to understand this basic truth, then, and only then will we have a chance at world peace.” In the same vein, Alex Gillies says, “I’ve learned a lot of humility. I think it is easy for
those of us from the richest and most powerful country to assume that we somehow know more than people from different, lessdeveloped places. My time in Africa has taught me that we can’t take our ideas about culture, society and politics, and apply them directly to other countries. Maintaining this humility is challenging, but I believe we would all be better off if we were more open-
I worry about a world that contains these kinds of drastic disparities minded about the differences that make this world so interesting.” None of these Hebronians connects their global consciousness directly to their Hebron experiences, although indirectly Hebron’s sense of community and high standards clearly have taught skills—to students and teachers alike—that relate to their work with Africa. With the benefit of their cross-cultural experiences, these Hebronians have ideas as to how Hebron
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Academy today can more consciously mold its students into global citizens. To Alex Gillies, Africa should not be an afterthought in educational institutions like Hebron. Martin Kuchler, who came to Hebron from Germany, recommends more exchange students like himself from throughout the world. As Sarah Hulbert observes, this can be a powerfully positive experience on both sides of the cultural divide because “change does indeed start with one person taking one step outside their circle of comfort.” She says that in Africa, “I went from thinking I had made the biggest mistake of my life in venturing to this third world country, to knowing that my life would have been sadly incomplete without my Botswana experience.”
It was almost as if Yoff reinforced what I had experienced in Hebron
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lthough educational exchange opportunities are increasing, study abroad is still beyond the reach of most secondary school students. Foreign students coming to Hebron can have a crosscultural multiplier effect across the student body, and other alternatives are available close to home. Alex Gillies contends that the greatest way to gain an appreciation for a place is to interact with its people. She points out that “Communities of African immigrants and refugees are coming to the US in record numbers, and have even found their way to Western Maine. If Hebron students interact with these communities, they would learn about other countries and, more importantly, gain a personal connection to a part of the world that often seems impossibly far removed from out daily lives.” Foreign students attending other Maine educational institutions could visit Hebron to talk to students formally as part of international curriculum modules or more informally as part of a speaker series. There are also many Americans living in or near Maine, including Hebronians, who would be more than willing to share their experiences Top to bottom: Martin Kuchler ’78 in South Africa. Alex Gillies ’96 at Bayero University. Tanzanian schoolchildren. Tom Hull ’64 cuts the ribbon at a food storage facility in Sierra Leone.
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of Africa or other continents with today’s students. Claudia Gray has also suggested that Hebron’s students would greatly benefit from having youth speakers from various other countries share their experiences with US youth. Teachers with international experience bring added value to their teaching and extra-curricular activities. Peter Dufour, Sarah Hulbert and Nicole Woodson have all used their African exposure to benefit Hebron students. Nicole recommends that Hebron Academy “enhance its preparation for young people in an increasingly global community by continuing to provide a solid base in the classroom and planning across the curriculum to incorporate various aspects of cultural diversity in classroom lessons, daily activities, and conversations with the community.” She also sees potential in new technologies to connect Hebron students with African student through the Internet and video conferencing, which are increasingly possible as the communications revolution spreads in Africa. These recommendations are shared by Sharon Lake Post who agrees that the best way to prepare Hebron students for the world is through increased coursework in African culture (and others), coupled with opportunities to really know people including peers from Africa. “I realize that this takes a huge commitment on Hebron’s part, but it would certainly be a valuable investment and would enhance Hebron’s visibility.” Those Hebronians who have enjoyed the opportunity to immerse themselves in foreign cultures would agree with Alex Gillies’ conclusion that “Hebron is uniquely poised to prepare students for a life in the global community. Exposure to different sorts of people, ideally first-hand, but also through literature and the arts, creates open-minded and curious individuals who will fit comfortably into any walk of life. Providing opportunities for that exposure should be Hebron’s goal.” Hebron’s greater awareness of the world and recognition of cross-cultural values are steps in the right direction, but need to be acted upon. Since our country is in many respects a microcosm of the world’s diversity, I believe that with commitment and creativity Hebron Academy should be able to build a global citizenship program using readily available educational resources to prepare students for the challenges of an increasingly interdependent global community.
Weaving the threads together
What do a senior hockey player from Canada, a sophomore violinist from Korea and a freshman thespian from Gray have in common? How about a city kid from New York, a down easter from Boothbay and a west coaster from Seattle? Or a postgraduate from Massachusetts and a ninth grader in his fourth year at Hebron? This winter, they were brothers. Mike Maguire ’05, Brian Phillips ’05, Jeremy Urquhart ’05, Sunny Jiles ’06, Matt Darrah ’05, Julian Flint ’06, Jamie Frederick ’05, Brooks Schandelmeier ’08, Hunter Lowell ’07, Silas Leavitt ’08 and Je Won Hong ’07.
oseph is staring into space. Issachar is pacing the locker room, practicing his solos. One of the Potiphar girls has lost her dress. Ms. Midd is counting berets and cowboy hats and kerchiefs and sunglasses and rasta hats. I am softly practicing my snake charmer riffs while Mr. Thibeault replaces batteries in the stand lights. On headsets, stage manager Noah Love ’07 and the light crew are cueing presets. The brothers are dancing in the empty pool. For the first time, all 51 members of the cast are together. It is opening night. Hebron Academy Semester • Spring 2005 • 21
It was red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and In my daily work at Hebron, I have little contact with students. I meet them at registration and I play in the orchestra, but for the most part I work with adults. This year’s winter musical had a full pit band score, and I decided to jump in. I had no idea what lay ahead. Julie Middleton, Hebron’s Associate Director of Admissions, loves theater. When she came to Hebron three years ago, she decided to direct an all-school musical as she had done at her previous school. She is committed to inviting everyone to participate, from teachers to athletes to experienced actors to middle schoolers to novices. “I think being in a play is an experience everyone should have,” she said. Every year, Ms. Midd looks for a positive, upbeat musical with parts for everyone from sixth graders to adults; something the students will like; and with music that is fairly accessible for untrained singers. This year, after discussion with musical director Paul Thibeault, she chose Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat. Based on the Biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors, the 1968 musical was originally
written by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber as a 20-minute cantata for a school choir. It is now one of the most-performed shows in the world. Joseph met most of Ms. Midd’s requirements, but because it is essentially an opera—there is no spoken dialogue—she knew it would be challenging. The lights go down and the audience quiets. Behind me, I hear Joseph start to sing the opening number as he walks from the back of the house. I am impressed by how solid he sounds, and his steadiness calms my own nerves. After auditions, it was clear that the musical is becoming an institution. Not only did Ms. Midd have plenty of would-be actors to choose from, she ended up with an extra brother. The 51-member cast included hockey players and skiers; boarders and day students; middle schoolers, upper schoolers and three adults. It is up to Ms. Midd, Mr. Thibeault and assistant director Shailer Barron to weave these very different threads into whole cloth. Working around Hebron’s already busy winter athletic schedule, Ms. Midd squeezed rehearsals into morning break, free periods and any available afternoons. Because drama productions have to share the gym’s theater space with the basketball team, many early rehearsals were held in classrooms, the Fine Arts Center, and even dormitory common rooms. Later on, as the winter weather took its toll on the athletic schedule, Ms. Midd added evening practices and actually held one rehearsal behind the curtain during a basketball game.
Clockwise from left: The Hairy Ishmaelites (Emma Janeczko ’08, right, and Katherine Stewart ’08) and their camel (Wes Graham ’07 and Basti Runschke ’07) take Joseph (Charlie Cummings ’07) away; Potiphar (Silas Leavitt ’08) lets out a mighty roar; narrator Liane Quenneville ’06; extra brother Sam Chandler ’06 was featured in “Benjamin Calypso”; the first act finale, “Go Go Go Joseph.”
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Clockwise from top: In an emotional and uplifiting finale, Joseph is reunited with his father Jacob (English teacher David Stonebraker); narrator Jen Duguay ’08; Pharoah (Kris Houle ’05) needs help interpreting some troubling dreams; Joseph unsuccessfully resists the advances of his master’s wife, Mrs. Potiphar (Sam Whitney ’06); the brothers and wives tackle the hoedown in “One More Angel in Heaven.”
The brothers sell Joseph into slavery but tell Jacob he has been killed. Consoling him, they sing “One More Angel in Heaven” which turns into a rip-roaring hoedown after Jacob leaves. I sneak a peek at the stage and see first-time actor Tina Voigt’s glowing face as she kicks off the dance with a loud “yee-haw!” Singing was hard enough for many of the students; then Ms. Midd asked them to dance. “It would have been easy to have some of them off on the side just clapping along,” she said. “But I really wanted everyone to dance.” With some student helpers, she and Ms. Barron choreographed several production numbers including a hoedown, a big go-go finale for the first act and a calypso in the second act. The first act ends with a ballad that turns into a highenergy go go dance. I don’t play this song, so am in charge of putting a spinning mirror ball on the front of the stage. I tell the front dancer that I will wink at her during the show; when I do, she grins right back at me. As the show slowly started to come together, Ms. Midd and Ms. Barron focused on sets and costumes. Ms. Midd found a camel head on the internet and parent Carolyn Fensore created a body to go with it. Cynthia Reedy—Joseph’s mother, Hebron teacher and experienced quilter—made the coat of many colors as well as a wonderful banner to hang over the stage. Parent Deb Campbell found dresses for the Potiphar girls. They rented the slave girl dresses, the brothers’ robes and Pharoah’s Elvis jumpsuit from the Community Little Theater in Auburn. Ms. Midd
turned to eBay for quite a few of the smaller things like cowboy hats, berets and tinsel wigs. Although her daughter wasn’t in the show, parent Laura Davis Irish offered to do the makeup. Pharoah hears about Joseph’s ability to interpret dreams and calls on him for help. Kris Houle ’05 comes to the front of the stage, snaps his fingers, and I hand him a microphone for his rock and roll number. We added this bit of business the day before and Kris handles it like a pro. A crew of “after school thespians” led by Diamond Duryea ’07, Allison Maidman ’07 and Elizabeth Cole ’05, with quiet support from teacher Steve Middleton, painted a bright and beautiful backdrop, built a tall bed for Pharoah, assembled Joseph’s chariot (which looked suspiciously like Sharron Gunn’s gardening cart), and pulled together all the smaller bits and pieces that add dimension to any production. As Joseph’s star rises in Egypt, the brothers are suffering back home. Sounding like Maurice Chevalier wannabes, they mourn the loss of better times in “Those Canaan
olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver
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Days.” I watch as Reuben steps forward to lead the brothers, and am awed by his confidence and strength. With one week to go, the cast began daily runthroughs of the show. Ms. Midd knew “we had a show,” but the actors hadn’t realized it yet. Rehearsals were chaotic, and one of the narrators came down with laryngitis. Not once were there the right number of brothers and wives for the hoedown. Then the brothers got their robes and sunglasses and cowboy hats and berets. Suddenly an unorganized mob of boys became a solid unit, a character unto themselves. The slave girls put on their tinsel wigs and sparkled through Pharoah’s song. Pharoah’s bodyguards turned into men in black and—with no lines—added some very humorous bits to the show. “The props, costumes and makeup change everything,” said Ms. Midd. “Each additional layer brings the show more into focus for the actors. The last piece is the audience.” Parents, teachers, students and people from the greater community packed the gym for both performances. The applause was thunderous, long and oh so sweet.
Top: Narrator Amy Shackford ’06. Bottom: Reuben (Matt Darrah ’05) begs Joseph to forgive Benjamin.
The brothers are forgiven, Jacob and Joseph are reunited, and the cast assembles onstage for the finale. I am so proud of all of them, including the crew, Ms. Midd, Ms. Barron and Mr. Thibeault, and I can’t believe this extraordinary and dazzling winter interlude is already over. This time I don’t have to look up; I can hear the joy in their voices.
Survey Says… After the show, we asked the cast and crew about the experience. Here are some of the responses. What did you like best? The audience response • The songs • The behindthe-scenes work • The costumes, the cool set and the fun we had on stage • How everyone was so into it • Making new friends • The organization of Ms. Midd, Mr. Thibeault and Noah • Having the spotlight • Working on it together • The energy and dedication • The feeling that everyone was welcome to do the play • The diversity of people in the show What was the biggest challenge? Singing, especially alone • Dancing • Singing and dancing • Getting over stage fright • Scheduling everything • Memorizing my lines • Staying on key and following the beat • The hoedown! • Sunday rehearsals • Making the set with so few people • Waiting ‘til opening night! What surprised you? How much work it was • How well I did singing • How easy it was the second night • How determined everyone was • How far everyone came • The skill of some of the singers • The difference between the final rehearsal and the first performance • People were on stage who I thought never would be • How beautiful it looked and sounded! • How fast the songs go • The brothers can sing!
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and rose and azure and lemon and russet and grey and purple and white and pink and orange and blue!
Cast, crew and pit band. Narrator Elizabeth Cole ’05 says, “It takes a community to put on a play, from the people who build the sets, to the designers, the crew, the director and the actors. We create our own world, a microcosism of society in which everyone has a specific role to play and job to do.”
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Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water
Harnessing Hebron’s Chi
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wrote this speech sitting outside in the rain under the cover of a porch ceiling and an L.L. Bean polar fleece blanket. According to Papa-John, my step-dad, there are three ways to collect your chi (your energy, spirit, soul): practice tai chi in the dark, climb a mountain in the wind, or read poetry in the rain. So I decided to harness my chi in the rain—which I think is what’s bringing the rain this spring—so we can all harness our chi together.
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like to believe that I’ve changed an incredible amount since I was a “young un,” but when I was going through old pictures for the “then and now” senior slide show, I saw the same silly-yetsincere smile, a pair of funky shoes and a supergirl outfit, which I was going to wear today, but unfortunately it was a little short. At Hebron, I’ve been able to break out of my shell. I’ve watched myself grow and I’ve seen everyone around me change. Everyone is weird, but showing that true face is never an easy task. During my
time at Hebron I have learned to welcome each new aspect of myself that I discovered on at least a weekly basis. Each one of you helped open up a part of me that I sensed existed, but that I could not fully understand or display. I’ve found love and friends in unlikely places and unexpected times. You can’t choose the people who will stand by you, but you can thank the almighty oneness for blessing you with friends and people who truly care.
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Baccalaureate Awards National Society of Women Engineers Molly Gail Curtis ’06 The MelMac Education Foundation of Maine (Maine Principals’ Association Award) Bettina Thea Irmgart Voigt ’05 Hebron Academy Parents’ Association Artist Recognition Timothy James Woodbrey ’05 Charlotte R. Stonebraker Community Scholarship Molly Gail Curtis ’06 Gregory Fernando Gumbs ’06 Emeka Ezenwa Uwasomba ’06 L. Edward Willard Prize in English Allison Marie Coombs ’06 Molly Gail Curtis ’06 Awards for Academic Excellence History ..........................Vratko Strmen ’06 Mathematics ........Sebastian Runschke ’06 Religion and Ethics.......Vratko Strmen ’06 Cum Laude Geometry Prize Jun Sik Park ’08 Dr. Louis Friedman Mathematics Prize Sebastian Runschke ’06 Renssaeler Polytechnic Institute Medal Michael Andrew Turk ’06 Smith Book Award Allison Marie Coombs ’06 Dartmouth Book Award Michael Andrew Turk ’06 Williams Book Award Jonathan Freestone Phillips ’06 Harvard Book Prizes Molly Gail Curtis ’06 Vratko Strmen ’06
ack on the first day of tenth grade I was new to Hebron. When we moved from Philly, I had lost my confident, cheerful and uppity childhood self. Negative thoughts surrounded my head and clouded the sunny beach day we were having. There I was, sitting alone, too scared to go up to anyone. I laid my towel on the beach and pretended to be really interested in the sand. Fascinating, I know. I drew pictures of the future in the sand, but to my dismay, I felt the familiar lump rise up in my throat. Just at that moment you came up to me and laid your towel down next to mine. Plop, you sat. You struck up a conversation with me and miraculously the lump disappeared and turned into laughter. I surprised myself, and you surprised me with your open and witty remarks. In a moment my visions of the future became positive and I was truly looking forward to being at Hebron, my new school. My new school. Thank you for making me feel like I belonged. Try as I might, I’ll never be able to explain how important that one tiny moment was for me—a reassurance that you gave me time and time again. In fact, about two minutes ago you said to me, “You’ll be great!”
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eing outside in the fresh Maine air is a great stress reliever. Just the other week I went for a walk outside at night and I ended up at the swing set by Atwood. I began to swing—something I haven’t done in years. Here I am turning into an adult on our graduation day, yet there I was, learning how to stay young,
Left: Nina Planson, Jodie Simms and Alex Chabot. Center: Frances Ramírez and Jade Furtado. Right: Sung Jae Chang ’06 and Ryan Sheehan.
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forever young. Nighttime brings out the reality and truth in the world—the perfect time to gather your energy, spirit and soul. Speaking of being outside, walking from the parking lot, the union or Halford to any other building is pleasant in three out of four seasons, but in the winter it’s like climbing a mountain in the wind. Hey! Another way to harness your chi here at Hebron.
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n all my schooling experience, I’ve never encountered faculty who even come close to the caliber of magnificence that Hebron teachers have. You’ve become my friend, my personal guidance counselor and my teacher, whether I had you in class or not. Before Hebron I never thought of teachers as people outside of school with actual lives. As it turns out they are full of life! Who knew? I don’t think there will be another place that will always have your back the way Hebron does. Every morning the library is stocked with animal crackers and M&Ms, providing a source of energy and nourishment that we teens so desperately need. In Mr. Perkins’s office you can satiate your caffeine addiction with a cuppa joe, along with some microwave popcorn and a witty comment.
Left: Andrew Rosen ’05. Center: LuraDeSorbo ’05 and Jamie Frederick ’05. Right: Randall Gienko, TJ Dorval and Joe King.
If you stop over in Sturtevant there is a hallway of offices where you’ll always find a myriad of friendly faces to say hello to— and perhaps get a mid-afternoon snack of candy. You could even get some college advice if you wander into the right office! Upstairs you’ll find the intellectuals of the English or history departments, or downstairs you can talk psychology with our one and only psych teacher. Over in the science building you’re always guaranteed a mathematical or scientific hello, or perhaps a joke. I don’t know how you did it Mr. Gunn, but every day in class we found something to laugh about. I was shocked to have such a fun math class! Then it’s lunch time and you go up to the dining room for some Hebron cuisine. When you put your dishes away you are in for a friendly hello from the always-reliable kitchen staff. If you’re nice, they’ll let you go in after breakfast to get some coffee. On the way out of the dining room, it’s fun to go the long way through the arts center, where you’ll get to see the musical and visual artists of Hebron, and where you’ll be sure to get an honest opinion. At the end of the day, students are most often found in the union getting a power snack before practice or chatting with the union ladies whose humor and patience never seem to wear thin!
Whether you’re a day student or a boarder or somewhere in between, the faculty is always accessible and willing to help. Thank you. I knew I could always count on my dorm parents to let me go down and make mac-and-cheese at eleven o’clock at night, and for that, I and we are forever grateful. You, the Hebron teachers, have encouraged me to find and be myself. When I was stressed, you were there for me with fantastic words of wisdom. When I was angry, which I assure you does happen, you were there to listen and rant with me or to be my voice of reason. When I was happy and joking, you were right there with me, smiling and appreciating my spontaneous and silly humor. You allowed me to collect and piece together my energy, spirit and soul. I know this discovery of chi is not yet complete, but you have been my catalyst. And we all know the best way to do something is to start it.
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keep thinking about my first day of kindergarten, which I vividly remember. Back in those days the fifth graders looked old and I couldn’t wait to grow up. I knew grade school would end, but I felt like it was the way life always was and always should be. I would like to give thanks and credit to everyone who has ever said hello to me, given me a smile, given me an honest opinion, made my cry, made me laugh, made me see clearly or allowed me to be myself one hundred percent. My experiences are who I have become and I wouldn’t change any of them—mostly because I know it’s not possible (unless that time
Commencement Awards Awards for Academic Excellence Art............................Katrina Claire Draper French .............Jeremy Constant Urquhart Latin ..........................Caitlin Mary Hulbert Music ...........................Elena Ruth Haynes Sciences....................Trennan Jerid Dorval Spanish ...........Bettina Thea Irmgart Voigt Morton Prize Elizabeth MacPherson Cole Outdoor Leadership Prize Trennan Jerid Dorval Reed Awards Megan Marie Irving Drew Emerson Laurie Bessie Fenn Award Antonina Planson Athletic Award Ryan Christopher Sheehan Bernat Memorial Award Katrina Claire Draper Senior Scholarship Prize Matthew Ryan Darrah Louise Lorimer Scholarship Prize Elizabeth MacPherson Cole Regis R. Lepage Scholarship Prize Lura Elaine DeSorbo Edward Tate II Green Key Award Jodie Michelle Simms Ernest Sherman Award Elizabeth MacPherson Cole Charles and Amy Dwyer Memorial Award Matthew Ryan Darrah Milton G. Wheeler Good Fellowship Award George Morgan Browne Phemister Award Bettina Thea Irmgart Voigt Risman Honor Award Fumitoki Shirae Hebron Academy Cup Kristopher Houle
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College Intentions Lindsay Brown, College of Charleston • Morgan Browne, Wheaton College • Lindsey Cain, University of San Diego • Zach Cavanaugh, Central Connecticut State University • Alex Chabot, Acadia University • Elizabeth Cole, Vassar College • Greg Cox, University of Southern Maine • Jon Curtiss, Franklin Pierce College • Matt Darrah, Acadia University • Lura DeSorbo, University of Maine-Farmington • Trennan Dorval, Unity College • Katrina Draper, University of King’s College • Heather Dyer, Culinary Institute • Alyson Fernberg, University of Delaware • Jamie Frederick, Elmira College • Jade Furtado, Laboratory Institute of Merchandising • Bill Galvin, Suffolk University • Anna Geismar, University of New England • Peter Giblin, Clarkson University • Randall Gienko, University of Massachusetts-Amherst • Matt Gilman, Wentworth Institute of Technology • Armelle Gueye, Santa Monica College • Elena Haynes, Manhattanville College • Dustin Hebert, Curry College • Seth Hedstrom, Babson College • Bill Hickey, Clemson University • Kris Houle, Concordia University • Caitlin Hulbert, Catholic University of America • Megan Irving, University of Southern Maine • Andrew Kennedy, University of Denver • Joey King, Memorial University of Newfoundland • Drew Laurie, Concordia University • Yoon Hyung Lee, University of Illinois • Max Lindstrom, St. Anselm College • Luke MacDonald, Concordia University • Mike Maguire, Lake Forest College • Brad Mann, Ohio Wesleyan University • Eri Miyauchi, University of Rochester • Ashkan Nowtash, Worcester Polytechnic University • Simon Parent, St. Francis-Xavier University • Dan Perrault, Carleton University • Dax Peters, Northeastern University • Nina Planson, Goucher College • Ani Post, Concordia College • Frances Ramirez, Mount Ida College • Franco Reda, McGill University • David Roden, University of Iowa • Andrew Rosen, Alfred University • Mike Sedgewick, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Taylor Sensecqua, Johnson and Wales University • Ryan Sheehan, Assumption College • Fumitoki Shirae, University of San Diego • Jodie Simms, Amherst College • Ben Sukeforth, Green Mountain College • Matt Tedesco, Green Mountain College • Jeremy Urquhart, Clark University • Tina Voigt, Clark University • Tim Woodbrey, School of the Art Institute of Chicago • William Worcester, Keene State College • Andrew Yoon, SUNY-Albany
machine is ready), but also because I know that life is learning. We all complain about life, but it’s only natural, it’s a part of growing up and living. Sometimes, things get rough and I get down, you get down, we all get down. But in the end, what is important is knowing that what you feel is true. Recognizing how and what you feel is the first step in effectively harnessing your chi. I’m not sure how many of us have practiced tai chi in the dark, but what about the time we had a blackout the night before exams?
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s senior class president, I feel it is my duty to wrap it up. Every small and wonderful moment has combined into one big ball of clay which I’ve molded into memories of my years at Hebron. Whether
it was a passing friendly hello, or a laugh in anatomy class, these small gestures are what has made my time at Hebron unforgettable. Next year when I’m off at university in the good ol’ city of Woostah, these are the things I will take with me, and I hope you will do the same. Endings always bring people closer together, as no doubt some of you, myself included, have discovered in these past few weeks or days or minutes. Through the dark, the wind and the rain, we’ve made it. So, keep in touch, don your supergirl, or boy, outfit, enjoy the rain, smell the fresh air, go for a swing, smile as much as possible and harness some chi! Bettina Thea Irmgart Voigt President, Class of 2005
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Hebron Routes
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t’s late on a beautiful January afternoon following two weeks of deep freeze. For the first time, my son Colin, 22, has taken my place driving home while Trevor, 20, is napping, his custom during our many years of marathon Sunday River day trips. I prompt Colin to take a right when we reach South Paris, following Route 26 down to Gray. Bearing left, I say, will take you to Hebron, but, as with all our previous trips, there’s no time to detour through my past and delay the return to our separate Boston lives. Yet as we take the right my mind bears left, following Route 119 back 40 years to Hebron.
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he first time I was ever on skis was at Sunday River. Ted White’s father had come up to Hebron and taken a few of us on a Sunday outing. With skis borrowed from one guy and boots from another, we took on Locke Mountain’s t-bars from what was, at that time, a small base lodge. They told me we were going to the top of the “bunny” slope to teach me how to ski. But either by mistake or design we ended up at the top of the mountain looking down a very steep slope with no apparent bottom. I can still remember the encouraging instructions. “It’s simple. Just point your skis diagonally across the slope, not down hill. When you get to the other side, turn (somehow?), and go diagonally back the other way.” This worked well until about half way through my first run across the slope, when my skis, with minds of their own, gradually pointed themselves more and more down hill. As I picked up speed and apprehension turned to terror, I somehow executed an ungainly turn that set me up for the next diagonal run, followed by the inexorable drift down hill and the next miraculous turn, repeated over and over again until I reached the bottom. A skier was born. My boys tell me that to this day I still ski pretty much the same way.
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ast South Paris and beyond Oxford is the crossroads where, leaving Hebron, we used to turn from the Mechanic Falls road onto Shaker Road, Route 26, which winds down to Gray and the turnpike. Several times a year, three rented buses took us from school to Boston along this
road. A lot of emotion accompanied the ritual of this drive past familiar landmarks. Going south brought anticipation, and going north anxiety, but at some point during my time at Hebron I was no longer sure which direction I was going when I was headed home. In a way I’m still not. At the crossroads, where signs told us how many miles to Norway, Paris, Poland or Sweden, the buses turned left from Mechanic Falls toward the little village of Poland. The road used to be rural with a few old houses and worn barns. Beyond Poland was Range Pond, dotted with ice fishing shacks in winter. The huge yellow Poland Spring Hotel crowned the hill above. A few hills away were the brick and clapboard Shaker Village and the apple orchard climbing the slope to the right. Beyond, we ran down the long hill through woods, past Sabbathday Lake’s little beach at the edge of the road and a few summer cottages opposite in the trees. And so on through Dry Mills until we reached the first clusters of houses in Gray. But it’s all changed now. Poland Spring Hotel burned down many years ago. Hundreds of small industries, housed in utilitarian structures and prefab homes, have sprouted up between the crossroads and Gray. It is a parody of the old road— familiar place names populated with unfamiliar scenes. Last year a new road was cut through the Shaker orchard, bypassing the village and lake. The new section of road is wider and faster and opens up pristine woods, but has no memories for me.
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left at that crossroad took us back to Hebron. Coasting through flat farmland we entered Mechanic Falls, where on Sundays all the Catholic boys rode the Yellow Hornet to Mass. We’d bear right at the fork in the road, keeping the gas station to our left. There was no mistaking the correct turn because there was a tiny sign here, nailed to the side of the station at the same height and in the same font usually used to indicate the location of the restrooms, pointing to Hebron Academy. More farmland and isolated houses brought us to West Minot and the little general store and single pump where all the Hebron vehicles gassed up. Turning left again, the buses whined in low gear as they climbed steadily up the narrow, winding, wooded road toward Hebron. We passed the dirt road on the left where Hummer Hall lived, as well as his neighbor Trouper Ladd—the father of Cindy Willard’s best friend—next to Pete McMillan. Around a sharp right was the Hebron Volunteer Fire House to which Giger, Golden, Bancroft and I, as volunteers, could escape on the first Monday of the month or whenever chance lightning hit the wires and set off the alarm. Up ahead on the right was the Tranfields’ house and the Gardners’ in the field behind. On the left was the Hebron Trading Post where you could get a cherry Coke for fifteen cents or a new pair of Weejuns for fifteen dollars.
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ext to the store was the Post Office and Mrs. Davis, who was adamant that she was the postmaster and not the postmistress. A warm and outgoing daily presence, she knew us all by our names, not just our box numbers. As we rushed in after class she’d announce cheerfully that the Playboys were in, or remark on the smell of perfume coming from the letter in my box. One day she called me over to the window to see if a postcard was intended for me. It was addressed simply “Me 04238”. On vacation I had convinced a girl that this was all that was needed to get to me, but had forgotten to alert Mrs. Davis. She said I was the first one to come to mind. Mrs. Davis was instrumental in changing Gordie Close’s love life. The object of
Gordie’s affection was Marnie Milliken from Clarendon Hills, Illinois, who had met Bob Kinney somewhere on vacation and fallen for him. Gordie lived in Hinsdale, the next town, but couldn’t seem to get Marnie’s interest. Conspiring to get Kinney out of the picture, we liberated a cinder block from Max Pulsifer, the head of maintenance, wrapped it in brown paper, addressed it to Marnie and forged Bob’s signature. Down at the Post Office Mrs. Davis suggested that there was a special rate for art work, so for four dollars and forty-one cents we sent a forty-two pound cinder block as sculpture to Illinois. Marnie broke up with Kinney but kept the cinder block and used it often to get to the top shelf of her bedroom closet.
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cross from the Post Office loomed Sargent Gymnasium, more or less the official entrance to the Hebron campus spread out behind it. My thoughts of the gym aren’t so much of the swim meets or the locker room smell of stale sweat and dirty clothes, but of Saturday night movies and a room full of teenage boys watching Ann Margaret dancing in tight fuscia Capri pants in Bye Bye Birdie, of the imaginative punishments inflicted if you were caught wearing Addison A. Augusta’s athletic socks in street clothes, or of misusing rolls of athletic tape. Hebron athletic tape was the true predecessor to duct tape and was used for all sorts of repairs. There was no embarrassment to three or four windings of tape holding one Weejun together, but it was unacceptable to tape both. Broken glasses required a thin winding around the bridge until your next trip home. Any damage to school property during the year resulted in a $10 charge per person. Five of us had been wrestling, sitting or lounging on Gordie Close’s bed, listening to reel-to-reel tapes of the Supremes on his Wallensak, when a leg of the bed broke. To admit what happened would have cost a total of $50 so Gordie pulled out the athletic tape and made a repair that lasted until the end of school. Another time, I accidentally put a hole in the wallboard in Ted White’s room in
Atwood Hall. It cost me $10. The next year I had a similar problem with a hole in Ned Waite’s wall. It was the walls, not me. Realizing that athletic tape wouldn’t save me $10 this time, we brought back a pancake from Sunday morning breakfast, the only day that special treats like that were served. Ned carefully shaped the pancake to fit the hole, we waited for it to get just as hard as the wallboard, and I applied my oil paints to match the wall color. If the building hadn’t been completely renovated it would be there still.
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n the left, between Packard (Mr. West’s house) and Mr. Allen’s house is the dirt road that becomes a logging road past Ben Clough’s barn and leads down to Marshall Pond. One warm spring Sunday a few of us explored this muddy road through woods laced with old stone walls and deer tracks. At the head of the pond, we emerged into a clearing with a small cabin and, off to the side, an outhouse. Out of the cabin stepped Mr. Ossman and Mr. Stratton, the school’s most famous and colorful drinking buddies. Mr. Ossman looked defensively suspicious and Mr. Stratton looked like a deer in headlights. Neither looked as if they could offer a plausible reason for being there other than a binge, but we all ignored the obvious and went inside and talked about
the need we all had to get away from school, even for a few hours, to decompress. It was the first time I realized that, isolated as we all were in the Oxford Hills, the bachelor masters had more in common with us boys than with the married masters. I had two years with Mr. Stratton as my English master and three years as my coach. Several of us agree that he was the finest teacher we ever had. A few years back, I wrote a note to him at Nichols School in Buffalo, New York, where he was teaching. In return he sent me a nice long letter filling me in on the intervening thirty years, the few classmates he’d run into, and mourning the loss of John Steinbeck VI. We tentatively set up a meeting for the next time he was in Boston, but it never happened. Can you imagine having a drink with Dick Stratton? The stories he could tell!
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ecollections come quickly as I picture the drive around the campus. Stearns: Stick Whittum, Mr. Watson. Notorious for his tough grading, Watson once gave me a B on a paper I had put everything into. Discouraged, I demanded to know why he had given me a B. He said, “Because I liked it.” Howe Cottage, the Red Lion, the Infirmary and the two nurses with their
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universal cure: “Aspirins are in the bowl, there’s gargle if you need it.” Sturtevant dorm: school meetings, “life is not a bowl of cherries”, 200 sardines squeezed into the common room, the rapid fire delivery of the alphabetical school list and the precise timing required to cover for a missing roommate. Ozzie’s VW in the lobby with a dollar on the windshield donated by Creeping Jesus the night watchman. Jack Sherman, Rupe, and the gees, especially George Washing Machine, “ya-knowwhat-I-mean?”, and the one who always put the meat on the platters licking his fingers each time. Ozzie’s dining room and his unforgiving bell that doomed you to Sunday morning waiting-on if you hadn’t finished tying your tie as you ran for the doorway. Tranfield’s table was always the last to leave. One lunchtime, Boyle and I gave up itching to get out of there and had a fishcake-eating contest. They went down OK as long as you soaked them in plenty of stewed tomato juice. Boyle quit at twenty. After my twenty-first I’ve never had another. Then there was David Emory’s doomed attempt to carry all the dishes from the furthest table on one tray; the momentum he was gaining as he realized he’d never make it; the hush that came over the room when everyone else realized it too; his amazing impact with the door at a full run followed by the huge crash as he dropped the load at George Washing Machine’s feet. “Ya-know-what-I-mean?” Around to the Bridge-with-no-holethrough-it, and the never-used clay tennis court that Triple A complained “some daffodil had waltzed across” in the mud. The School Building where each term Claude publicly tortured you in the stairwell with your grades. “We-e-e-e-ell, Mr. Wright. This isn’t very good, is it?”
The Science Building: I was there, taking a chemistry quiz with Mr. Fritz, that November morning when John Kennedy was assassinated. We forgot the quiz and filed into the auditorium to find out more on the only available television. While we sat numbly listening, Mr. Fox, realizing before the rest of us the enormity of what had happened, sat crying quietly into his hands. The Baptist Church with a Methodist minister serving a school that was statistically forty percent Episcopal, Vespers, “Sow ye beside all waters...” A left at the intersection took you past the Hebron Home Telephone Company, where the little old lady hand-connected each long distance call you placed. Further on was the Four Mile Loop, which, thankfully, I never had to run. But I’m turning to the right here, past the Gym, heading back toward Boston.
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s we drive, my mind wanders away to when my boys were small and to other winter trips back to Maine. During a cold snap in January 1987, my wife, Candy, the boys and I took a condo for a week on Penobscot Bay in Rockland, Maine. It was a crisp, clear dawn at 10 below zero. I left the family in the condo and took Candy’s wagon and my Nikon round to Owls Head to catch the morning light. I parked the car in an empty lot by the pier and walked out over the rocks at low tide. They were covered
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with ice-coated seaweed that squeaked and moaned under my feet. After a few shots my ears were getting painfully cold so I went back to the car. Between me and the car was a heavy-set man with short white hair sitting in a green pickup looking at me. As I approached he rolled down his window to talk in a thick Maine accent. “Massachusetts eh?” He’d seen my plate. “Yes. Left my family sleeping to take pictures of the lighthouse.” “Ayuh, lived in Massachusetts once for a couple of years during The War. Didn’t like it much.” “Well, you’d like it even less now,” I allowed, and told him, “I like to come back to Maine when I can get away. It’s like coming home. I used to go to Hebron Academy just outside Lewiston.” He said, “I used to go to Hebron Academy.” I thought he was playing with me as I stood there visibly shivering, until he said, “Yup, fellow named Hunt was Headmaster then and Charlie Dwyer played ball.” I told him I knew Charlie too. In his old age, he used to wander down to the athletic fields just to watch and remember while we practiced. I mentioned that at one time I’d roomed in Atwood Hall and he said with excitement, “I used to live in Atwood Hall too!” By then, this old man and I had become schoolmates and, to him, contemporaries. “Say, do you remember the new gym?” “New gym? There isn’t any new gym. We only had one gym and it’s old.” “Sure. It has a great dirt cage where Charlie and I would practice in bad weather.” I remembered the neglected pile of dirt below the stage in Sargent Gym and realized how different our perspectives were of Hebron. He went on, forgetting the years between us, “Charlie’s brother used to live
down to Tenant’s Harbor. Do you think he’s still there?” “I wouldn’t know,” I replied. With that he came back to the present and the spell was broken. “Say, you look like you’re getting cold standing there,” as the cold pinched my ears. “Well, you enjoy the rest of your stay,” and he drove off. I had passed his test and had been accepted, not as a true Mainer, but at least as a poor cousin. As he drove off, I realized I had forgotten to ask his name, so to me he’ll always be My Schoolmate.
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s they say, time is relentless. Change is inevitable. Aside from the obvious effects of gravity, I’ve also gained 40 pounds since I graduated. That’s just one pound a year, a little more than an ounce a month, for 40 years. From one day to the next the change was imperceptible, and from one year to the next seemed negligible. Now I look in the mir-
ror and promise myself to get in shape. Always there’s still time. I have a gym and a steam bath in my office but never find time to use them. Today I am—and so, I suspect, are my classmates—visibly a different person than I was in 1965. Same name, different person. I may have lost some skills, but I’ve compensated with new ones. Nostalgia and a sense of my own mortality might have it otherwise, but I accept that as I have changed, so inevitably has Hebron. My Schoolmate’s Hebron, 35 or so years before me; the Hebron of my youth; and the Hebron of today, 40 years after me, are entirely different places with different rhythms and cultures, sharing the same names, linked only by a common history and mission. While our memories of Hebron are timeless, the school itself is continually evolving and adapting. What is fixed in my memory is really only a snapshot in time. Teachers I never knew have had entire careers there and retired since my gradua-
tion. Seven years after my time, but 33 years ago now, Hebron went coed. It was such a radical change it still feels like it happened recently. Recalling pictures of that time in the Semester and Hebronian I have difficulty imagining that some of those girls could be grandmothers now. In actuality, Hebron was an all-boys school for only 50 years out of 200. I’m excited about the new plans for the campus in last fall’s Semester. New buildings, recycled buildings, rejuvenated spaces. Expansion, innovation, rebirth. I’m thrilled that the old school will continue to be a new school, its best possible chance to endure. This is my 40th year out of Hebron and, as we race down the Maine Turnpike back to Boston, I decide that this is the year I will adjust my fall schedule and find the time to go to my class reunion, find the time to visit with those schoolmates of my era who share the same memories of Hebron. Mike Wright ’65
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Our sympathies go to James Tweedie on the death of his wife in February.
Class Agent: Gene Smith
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1940 S I X T Y- F I F T H
REUNION
Class Agent: Gerry Tabenken
Class Agent: Ernest Rodrigues
1948 Class Agent Needed!
1941 Class Agent: John MacDonald Lt. Col. (ret.) Edward Drinkwater reports, “Spent 34 years in Army (18 active, 16 reserves), 8 years with GE (engineering management), 30 years in auto leasing. Retired at 81 years of age, VP and general manager, Penske Leasing.” ■ Richard Nickerson has moved to Rhode Island and sails an old trawler on Narraganset Bay.
1942 Class Agent: Norm Cole Ken Hendy reports, “Still travelling yearly! In 2004 did the Lewis and Clark Trail from St. Louis to Astoria, OR, by car. Roughed it by camping on Indian reservations and in National Parks and lecturing. 2005: resting up!” ■ Donald Lukens is taking his two grandsons to his Bowdoin reunion. ■ Although he loves New England, Dom Merloni has moved to California. ■ Wendell Wilson writes, “will be 82 this year and still playing golf in Florida in January, February and March, but not good. Have had two open heart surgeries and aortic valve replacement. Can’t keep an old Hebron swimmer down!”
Amory Houghton says he is aging gracefully and as far as he knows, nothing is catching up with him! ■ Cam Niven reports, “Our newspaper, the Times Record, is building a new production facility. I’m still involved with the local library and the Mid Coast Hospital. Betsy and I went to Mexico in February (Copper Canyon). Our train derailed en route! No injuries!” ■ Fred Webster writes, “I’m allergic to the aging process, but we are both well.”
1949 Class Agent: Bob Rich Our thoughts are with Frank Mulcahy on the loss of his wife in February.
1950 F I F T Y- F I F T H
REUNION
Class Agent Needed! Bill Kany says he retired in 1996, but he still seems pretty busy to us. He’s chair of the board at Saco and Biddeford Savings Institution, a trustee of the Maine Cancer Foundation, and a director of the York County Community College Foundation. ■
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Former teacher George Helwig sent this picture, and tells us: “I just uncovered this photo of Barney Williams taken in front of the Red Lion where he and Ida Frances lived. Typical ‘uniform of the day’—Harris tweed jacket, charcoal slacks, blue oxford buttondown, bow tie—and crew cut! And his shoes were polished daily. Forget the dog’s name, but it had to ‘go’ when caught chasing deer. Photo taken in the early ’50s.”
Richard Lancaster reports, “Sold our condo in Naples, FL, in 2004 but rented there in 2005. Am still very involved with food bank here in Brunswick. Spare time spent with grandchildren and their school and sports activities. Both staying in good health. “Enjoy” walking around golf course; plenty of exercise swinging at ball so often.” ■ Ralph Wells writes, “Come November 5, we will have been in this house 28 years. By then we hope to be moving into a new, maintenance-free villa with no steps. Nancy and I celebrated our 47th anniversary on April 5. I regret missing the 200th celebration. I thank God for those 200 years and praise the school staff for starting the next 100 strong and goal-oriented. My best to all.”
1951 Class Agent: Ted Ruegg Donald Rubin says that now that he’s retired he does “anything I wish! (Including some alcohol abuse counseling.)” ■ Selden Staples writes, “Enjoying life here in North Carolina (at least 6 months of the year); then in Maine for the summer.”
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Class Agent: Dean Ridlon
Class Agent Needed! Rev. Kenneth Boyle reports, “I am interim minister at First Federated Church in
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Hudson, MA. We have been busy having a chapel built in our Victorian carriage house. It will be called ‘Candleberry Chapel.’” ■ Phil Montgomery writes, “My wife, Alison, and I have been spending the winter months here in sunny Tucson, Arizona! Two years ago we bought a house here after renting for a number of years, replacing our skiing winters in Maine at Sugarloaf we enjoyed for so long..the knees and backs caught up with our age and skiing had to go. We will be returning to our Camden residence in May. It will be nice to get back to Maine for the summer and enjoy our sailing on Penobscot Bay and catch up with all our friends who endured the snowy winter you all had and those also returning from warmer climates.” ■ Dick Robbins says that he got bored after retiring in 1999 and began teaching parttime at a local high school. This year he began teaching English literature full-time to ninth and twelfth graders. “It is a great experience for me at 70,” he reports. “It is keeping me young! When I am able to reach a student it is a great feeling.” ■ Our sympathies go to James Rowse on the recent death of his father.
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Bernard Miller is still running Miller Drug in Bangor. He’s active in his synagogue and has been with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra for 47 years and the Bangor Band for 52. He also enjoys his 10 grandchildren! ■ Payson Perkins writes, “We are now Florida in the winter and Maine in the summer. Have just joined Portland Country Club, thanks to sponsorship of Ted Noyes ’58. Plan to play lots of golf and do some serious fly fishing.” ■ Our thoughts are with Dean Ridlon on the loss of his mother in March. ■ Nicholas Sewall says, “Still in the lobster and camping busi-
alumni et alumnae Notable Alumnus: Murray Black ’48
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ome people seem firmly planted. They live in one place. They work at one job for years. They find contentment in what some might consider monotonous, and they find adventures in their own backyards. Others seem destined to forever wander in search of new frontiers and buried treasures. Such was the destiny of Murray Black, Hebron Academy Class of 1948. “He set his course and sailed straight ahead—never looking back. He saw only possibilities and adventures in life’s challenges and passionately pursued each and every one. Dad didn’t just tread lightly where tigers feared to go; he charged ahead and seized every moment,” wrote Black’s oldest child, Katy Adams, in a tribute written after his death in March 2004. Those adventures carried him to places that can be hard to find on a map—Adak, Alaska; Monte Carlo, Monaco; The Xingu River in Brazil. In his lifetime, Black started several successful companies doing deep-sea diving all over the world, and later, blasting river beds and harbors. In between, he found time to work as an abalone diver, a cattleman, and a volunteer auxiliary police officer. He became friends with John Wayne. He successfully hunted the “Big Five”— elephant, cape buffalo, lion, leopard and rhinoceros. He was charged by a leopard with his gun’s safety still on, and lived to tell about it. “He always felt his life should be made into a movie. John Wayne was the only person who he would allow to ‘be’ him, but John was unavailable. He wrote a book instead. He called it [Between]The Devil and the Deep,” wrote Katy Adams. Murray Black seems to have lived three lifetimes’ worth of achievements and adventures in one. But, before he did any of that, he graduated from Hebron Academy, perhaps one of his greatest achievements. Before Hebron Academy, he was not a model student. “I was another story altogether: I kept running away from school,” he
wrote in his book. “One time I ran all the way to Little Rock, Arkansas [from New Jersey]. I was walking down the road and a policeman stopped me and asked, “What are you doing here?” I told him I was walking down the road. Then the cop asked my name. I felt sure Pop would have an APB out on me, so I said, ‘Patrick Hughes.’ They took me downtown and put me in jail. I wouldn’t tell them anything. “Well, it doesn’t take long when you’re 15 and sitting in a jail cell with no charges against you, before you change your mind about being incognito. Pop came to Little Rock to get me, bless his heart.… We had a little heart-to-heart talk, which turned out to be me listening and him talking…the odds of my ever finishing high school at that point were not good, and here was Pop telling me that I was going to graduate from college. Right! Well, Pop had a master plan: it began with enrolling me at Hebron Academy [near] Lewiston, Maine. The school had a reputation for being able to place most of its graduates in college, and they lived up to it. “The most valuable thing I got from Hebron was an appreciation for the English language. Our English instructor, Mr. Williams, felt I had some writing talent; he found this out because I spent a lot of time in detention writing essays. He taught me how to write a paper on any given subject—from beginning to middle to end—and he took the time to pull it out of me and gave me a lot of special attention. I didn’t make Valectorian, but I did graduate from Hebron and am forever in Mr. Williams’ debt.” With the help of Hebron’s headmaster, Claude Allen, Black was accepted
to college. After one semester that was more about parties than academics, however, he enlisted in the Navy. After a short stint in the Navy, Black went to Adak, in the Aleutian islands of Alaska, working in a mess hall for construction workers at a military site while he saved his money for deep-sea diving school. He started two deep-sea diving companies: Associated Divers and DIVCON. He and his divers dived for oil companies in California, Florida, Texas, Libya, Great Britain, Monaco, and Central and South America. Later in life, he started a blasting company that blasted rock out of river beds and harbor floors. He hunted all over the world— Alaska, Africa, South America, India. Hebron Academy gave Black the solid grounding and education he needed to go and literally explore the world, according to his widow, Mag Black. “I never suspected that he was a mere mortal, and I sincerely believed that everything happened just the way he said it did. The ordinary felt extraordinary when you were with him,” wrote his daughter. by Andrea Stone For a copy of Murray’s book, send your street and mailing address with a check for $35.00 to: M. Black, PO Box 18098, Beverly Hills, CA 90209 and one will be sent out via overnight mail.
Murray Black’s five steps to being fulfilled, successful and happy Number 1: Do what you want to do. A lot of people do what they feel they have to do; they feel forced by circumstance. Those aren’t real reasons; they’re just excuses for not doing what you really want to do. Number 2: Whatever it is you do, you’ve got to be good at it. A lot of people are doing what they want to do and they’re second rate. Pick something you can do well. Otherwise, you just lead a life of quiet desperation. Number 3: There’s got to be a need for it. No use being the best wagon-wheel maker in Butte, Montana—you make four wagon wheels, you’ve flooded the market for ten years! Number 4: Recognize the opportunity. Aye, there’s the rub! A lot of people wouldn’t recognize opportunity if it hit them in the face. The opportunities are every day and every way—they’re there. Number 5: is the big one: You have to have the guts to take advantage of the opportunity. Persistence and determination are the golden alloy that give form and substance to a stroke of luck.”
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alumni et alumnae 1957
Read With Us
Class Agent: Mason Pratt
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iroozeh Dumas grew up listening to her father, a former Fulbright Scholar, recount the many colorful stories of his life. In 2001, with no prior writing experience, she decided to write her stories as a gift for her two children. A quick and easy read, the book is a witty look at the immigrant experience. Next year, the school community will read Ms. Dumas’s memoir, Funny in Farsi. Ms. Dumas will visit Hebron Academy at the end of September and will participate in a variety of school activities inspired by themes in the book. On Friday, September 30, as part of our Homecoming celebration, Ms. Dumas will present a special evening program for alumni/ae (at press time we were still working out the details). We invite all of you to read Funny in Farsi and join in the fun! For more information about Hebron’s Community Read program, please e-mail librarian Cilla Potter (ppotter@hebronacademy.org).
ness. Trying to retire without much luck.” ■ Robert Shirley writes, “Just retired from practice of OB-gyn and assistant clinical professorship at Harvard Medical School. Busy now with Habitat for Humanity and grandchildren’s activities.”
1954 Class Agent Needed! Alan Boone writes, “Retired as chief of medicine at Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, in 2002, but stayed on part-time as director of medical education. Honored last month to have a new medical student residence named for me! Like the continuted contact but treasure my new leisure time.” ■ Demas (Dick) Jasper reports, “Fourteenth grandchild due in July and the kids are scattered from Maine to Florida to Utah to Washington to Okinawa. No plans to retire, but do plan to write more and be happy so these ‘golden years’ become bright with smiles!”
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REUNION
Class Agent: Richard Parker Bruce Conant writes, “Nancy and I have moved back to Hebron and are building a new home here.” ■ Bill Dockser shares the following with us from his Harvard alumni directory: “The journey has been fun and rewarding, and it is clear I am in transition to a new and very active phase of my life. Less involved with making money and creating companies, floating issues on Wall Street, and far more involved with the creative aspects of community and family.
Experiencing the wonderfulness of being with my grandkids, working on the boards of significant community non-profits and, just in case you think I’ve slowed down, large boat sailboat racing at a highly competitive level. In March 2004, the boat that I drove won the Rolex International Regatta in St. Thomas, USVI. I proudly wear a new commemorative Rolex watch that goes to the winner. I doubt if I will ever retire. I still love working and have a significant private business to run. The key is that it is private. I no longer chair or sit on the board of any publicly traded companies. I don’t miss it. Sonnie and I remain based out of Bethesda, but with our cruising sailboat summering in the Chesapeake and New England and being in the Caribbean in the winter, we get plenty of choices. With a residence in Aspen and a property in St. Barth’s, you get the picture. We have lots to do and great places to have fun doing it.” You can read a terrific article about Bill and his Rolex racing in the January 2005 issue of Oyster News. Find it online in the news archive section of www.oystermarine.com. ■ Ed Simpson is celebrating his 42nd year as a trial lawyer in San Francisco. He is senior parter at Simpson and Gigounas.
1956 Class Agent Needed! Our sympathy goes to Kenneth Mortimer on the loss of his wife in February. ■ William Patterson has retired after 42 years in independent schools and 26 as headmaster.
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1961 Acting Class Agent: Bernard Helm ’59
Hervey Connell writes, “Retirement to a 1/2 acre hamlet on the south shore of Long Island, NY, is a long way from NYC and a career in international business. Funny, though, more physical work on this place than ever in the big city!” ■ Peter Travis is in his “fifth and next-to-last year as chair of the English Department at Dartmouth College.”
Our condolences to John Frechette on the loss of his mother in April. ■ Dick Gellis is membership director at the Longfellow Club in Wayland, MA. He invites classmates to give him a call at 508-358-7355.
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Edward Caplan reports, “Diana and I have been married 41 years. Son Andy, an attorney, and his wife, Melissa, have two daughters: Lila, 3, and Louisa, 6 months. Our son David is an associate professor in English at Ohio Wesleyan University and the author of a recently-published book Questions of Possibility. After a long career at Polaroid I am now controller at Wakefield Management in Lynnfield, MA.” ■ Bruce MacDougal writes, “After practicing plastic and hand surgery for 30 years, I have retired back to the Maine coast. We live next door to our oldest daughter’s family, including two granddaughters. It’s nice to be back in Maine.”
Bill Allen writes, “Life is full and good! Though increasingly envious of retired friends, I still enjoy getting up to go to work—25 years at R.M. Davis Inc., managing, among other relationships, Hebron’s endowment funds. Enjoy homes in Yarmouth, ME, and Stony Creek,CT, island properties in Penobscot Bay and Bahamas, and far-ranging travel with my wife of 7 years, Shirley Martin. Always good to catch up with ’62 classmates.” ■ Jim Austin writes, “We finally ‘retired’ and sold our business in Maine and W. Palm, FL. However still very active with real estate involvements both in Maine and Florida. Our ‘baby’ graduates from Hebron this spring. He is the fifth child we have seen through Hebron! Life is great in Marathon, FL, in the winter, especially this last one!” ■ Edward Driscoll writes, “I am well; in the practice of internal medicine now for 25 years in Worcester, MA. Dianne and I have five children between us which seems a bit overwhelming, but they are great. I credit Hebron with giving me direction and great education.” ■ Dick Forté says his lifetime goals are to die with no money and lots of memories, and his recent family bareboating trip around Bora Bora advanced him toward both! ■ Denny Galvin reports, “We are readying to leave Punta Gorda for Pocasset/Cape Cod. It has been a long winter with the damage of Hurricane Charley. We just got a roof, although it failed the first stomr. We had an attractive waterfall. People have worked hard to return normalcy. Still much to be done.”
1960
1963
Class Agent: Leonard Lee James Chase writes, “I received a BS degree with a major in business technology and management from Vermont Technical College on May 14, 2005. You can rest in peace now, Claude!” ■ LTC Leonard Lee writes, “Left Embry-Riddle University in January. Working on spending all the social security income!” ■ Our thoughts are with Kennedy Crane and his children Jonathan Crane ‘86, Galen Crane ‘87 and Kimberly Housman ‘89 on the death of Ken’s mother in March.
1959 Acting Class Agent: Bernard Helm
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Class Agent: Dave Williams David Barbour writes, “I retired in march 2004 after 40 years with Barbour Bros. Steel Co., Inc., a family-owned metals service center in New Jersey. My wife and I are enjoying ourselves at our Langhorne, PA, home as well as at our second home on a lake in northeastern PA. We hope to do some travelling also.” ■ Robert Brown is keeping busy with home projects. He also volunteers for Habitat for Humanity doing office and construction work. He was sorry to hear of the passing of his Hebron roommate, Ralph “Bucky” Allen.
1962 Class Agent: Gordon Gillies
Class Agent: Will Harding Our thoughts are with David Ayres on the death of his mother in April.
1964 Class Agent: John Giger Walter Burden is involved with a new company, Bahari Enterprises. ■ Our thoughts are with Edward Gottlieb on the death of his mother in December.
1965 FORTIETH
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Class Agent: Greg Boardman
alumni et alumnae Notable Alumnus: Gordon Smith ’57
Diary of a Gay Man
On campus in May. Alex Dukas ’93, teacher Larch Fidler, Gordon Smith ’57 and Arthur Davey.
February 17, 2005 Arthur and I arrive this clear winter morning to see the inspiring beauty of snow-packed Mt. Washington against the blue sky to the west. I had forgotten. Magnificent! The view suggested the beauty of the day ahead. I had studied the Academy’s web site and found its mission statement riveting: Hebron Academy inspires and guides students to reach their highest potential in mind, body and spirit. Those excellent words created a platform for talks with John, Robert, and Bev. I am grateful for their hospitality, time, and openness. Our conversations have confirmed what Robert emailed me in the fall: “There definitely is a will to know and explore more about the gay issue and its possibilities for Hebron Academy.” I believe these fine administrators are sincere. But what about the students?
A meeting to remember August 26, 2004, e-mail overture Hello, Hebron—I’m one of those alums you rarely hear from…but I do think about those years—and what might have been. My partner and I will be in Maine in September. Is there a chance for a quick tour and chat? As you might imagine, Hebron’s commitment to diversity—especially gay students— is of special interest. There certainly was no outreach in the 50s (no surprise); I hope the climate is exemplary. Maybe now I could help. Thanks in advance for considering my request.
My phone rings It is Beverly Roy, Hebron’s alumni/ae guru, cordially inviting Arthur (my partner of sixteen years) and me to visit. campus and meet teacher Larch Fidler (English, Religion and Ethics), who, it turns out, is also gay. We negotiate schedules; we set a date to visit.
September 15, 2004 Arthur and I drive up the Maine Turnpike, exiting at Gray and traveling what for me is a memory lane through still-oh-so-rural Poland Springs and Mechanic Falls. Then onto Route 119 in West Minot (the General Store looks unchanged). And a few miles later (drum rolls), there it is: Sargent Gymnasium. It, too, looks unchanged. Beverly greets us warmly and points out much of what has changed (the girls’ dorm, the science and library buildings, Robinson Arena, playing fields…all very impressive. She escorts us to Dr. Fidler’s Honors English class. (Whoa, what’s this? No students in jacket and tie? Amazing.) I tell students why I’m here, and a lively discussion
follows. For the first time in a Hebron classroom, I feel relaxed and energized. A thank you note to the kids later explains why.
Yes, a few students had inquired about the possibility of a GSA, but it wasn’t until a couple of days before that a school-wide announcement was posted.
I send all of you heartfelt thanks and praise for the honor of being part of your class on September 15! The energy, focus, and just good ol’ love of learning in Room 202 that day greatly impressed Arthur and me. Seriously, society needs inquiring minds and a willingness to listen such as you showed. May your spirit and dedication to the give-and-take of life continue always! Thanks also for listening to and participating in my story, the telling of which was honestly unplanned. I returned to Hebron because, as a gay alumnus, I was eager to see if I could feel as fully welcome as my straight classmates. I wanted to see if the climate was enlightened or at least ripe for change. Talks with Mr. King, Mrs. Roy, Dr. Filder and you, students, were encouraging. I want to continue the conversation; I hope you do, too. Perhaps we’ll meet again. In the meantime, keep your wonderful energy glowing.
Gay/Straight Alliance Discussion with Gordon Smith ’57 Dr. Fidler’s Classroom, 9.45–10.30 a.m.
The conversation continues Dr. Fidler teaches an elective course, “Views from the Other Side,” in which diversity is explored through such topics as the Holocaust, homelessness, gender, and gay/lesbian issues. Several students have approached Larch and others about the possibility of starting a Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA) at Hebron. Arthur and I have been invited back by John King, Robert Caldwell (Advancement and External Relations), Beverly, and Larch. We are looking forward to a full day to “continue the conversation.”
This was during Break, a free period. Attendance, of course, would be voluntary. How many would show? A few? Maybe fifteen? No one?!? The answer came quickly. As Arthur and I walked up to the second floor classroom, students came streaming down the stairs: “The meeting’s been moved to the Reading Room; there’s not enough space in Dr. Fidler’s classroom.” About thirty-five students and five faculty rearranged furniture, as though preparing for a summit conference. I heard later that about fifteen other students,
as well as staff, had wanted to be there as well; but they had other commitments elsewhere on campus. Dr. Fidler introduced me as an alumnus, and Arthur as my life-partner. Fortyfive minutes of spirited, honest dialogue followed. The students wanted to meet again, soon. Something important happened in that room. Avanti!
February 18, 2005 At Upper School Morning Meeting, Dr. Fidler kindly reads the note I had written the previous night. A THANK YOU from Gordon Smith ’57 and his life partner, Arthur Davey. Hebron students, you are awesome! (Faculty and brass, take a bow, too.) Yesterday’s GLSBTQ discussion (as in Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Bisexual, Transgendered, Questioning—is that everyone?) attracted a huge crowd. You brought curiosity, energy, and the candor to speak out, as well as the will to continue the conversation. Congratulations on this important first step! From discussions yesterday with the staff, there is agreement that you, the students, must decide the purpose of a GSA at Hebron. Yes, there will be a faculty facilitator, but he or she should stay in the background. Hebron says it is celebrating 200 years of “inspiring and guiding students to reach their highest potential in mind, body, and spirit.” Well, when I was here in the 50s, I lived a lie and it hurt. Students, be proud that you have showed the will to explore what is a controversial issue and to make Hebron a model. Arthur and I thoroughly enjoyed the day and look forward to staying in touch. Again, thank you and good luck. Larch told me there was a round of applause!
Gay Alumni/ae, What Do You Think? Hebron says I’m the first alumnus to ask about its gay constituency. OK then, I hereby volunteer to help form a Hebron Alumni Gay/Straight Alliance along with Alex Dukas ’93. We envision a Rainbow Reunion at Homecoming this fall, gay and straight. Please be in touch! Gordon Smith ’57 401-434-0932, gordonpsmith1461@aol.com Alex Dukas ’93 617-610-7010, adukas@earthlink.net Beverly Roy, Director of Alumni Relations 207-966-2100, broy@hebronacademy.org
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alumni et alumnae 1966 Class Agent: Harvey Lowd Our thoughts are with Reeve Bright on the death of his mother in May. ■ Chris Buschmann writes, “Enjoyed bicentennial in October 2004. Class of ’66 getting too close to front of reunion lineup. Hot air balloon ride over ‘old’ athletic field gave great view of campus.” ■ Maine governor John Baldacci recently nominated Warren Silver for a post on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court , replacing the retiring Paul Rudman. ■ Our condolences to Ted White on the death of his father in November and to Philip Wysor who lost his mother in January.
1967 Class Agent Needed! David Kidder reports, “Both sons out of school and gainfully employed—yahoo! Elected to New Hampshire legislature in November. Great experience.” ■ Win Watts writes, “Win (23) graduated from the University of Michigan and is employed as a computer science engineer. Mike (20) is a junior at the University of Wisconsin, majoring in mechanical engineering. I am still at UMN department of mechanical engineering, doing engine research. Linda is an attorney at Thompson West. New toy in the garage is an MR-Z Spyder—great fun!”
1970 T H I R T Y- F I F T H
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Class Agent: Craig Clark Craig Clark writes, “Homecoming 2005 is September 30 and Oct 1. It will be our 35th reunion and I am personally asking you to make plans to come. I would love to have a large crowd there so we can reminisce about the past telling tall tales and stories that begin ‘you ain't going to believe this’ or ‘once upon a time.’ I am going to make reservations at the Inn Town in South Paris and hope many of you will too.” [Please note that the Inn Town fills up fast. Call 207-743-7706 to make your reservation.] ■ Henry Harding is sales manager at Fujifilm Electronic Materials USA, Inc. ■ John Priest writes, “I’m now teaching math in Northern Virginia where the ‘big bucks’ are. Son Daniel is with the Defense Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan and daughter Carrie is a sergeant with the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, SC.”
1971
1968
Class Agent: Harvey Lipman
Class Agent: Robert Lowenthal Barry Cooperstein writes, “After 20 years full time real estate broker, now municipal tax assessor. Fourteen-year member of school board. ‘Too soon old; too late smart.” ■ We hear that Oscar Look is a lobsterman in South Addison.
1969 Class Agent: Jonathan Moll Robin Symonds
years as a Roman ceramics specialist with the Museum of London, I have now become regional ceramics specialist for Burgundy, Franche-Comté and Alsace, based at Dijon, and employed by the French government service for archaeology, the Institut National des recherches archéologiques préventives.”
writes, “After 14
From Palmer, AK, Peter Hoople writes, “Any alum who’s planning an Alaskan adventure this summer is welcome to contact me about staying in my ‘guest house.’ Great fishing, hiking, etc.” ■ Arthur Pease writes, “One year after transferring from Siemens Corporate Communications to Siemens Corporate Research, I have been promoted from senior consultant to principal consultant for marketing. In addition, I continue to work as senior correspondent and editor of the company’s flagship magazine and to cover cutting-edge R&D stories in the U.S. and
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Europe. In addition to our home here in Munich, we have a lovely, 200-year-old, fully restored home in Tuscany, and are working on restoring yet another house down there at the moment. Needless to say, we spend a lot of time in Italy, and all of us speak Italian in addition to English and German.” ■ Paul Sheldon and his wife Patrice are the proud owners of a sailboat which they built in Sweden, and sailed to New York last summer. This year they plan to sail to Newfoundland and perhaps Labrador. Their two children are now in college, thus they expect to spend more time away from home. Paul still works at Citigroup in New York.
1972
Arthur Pease ’71 visited with classmate Harvey Lipman this winter.
Class Agent: Steve Gates Regis Lepage writes, “Carolyn and I spent an exciting year on the National Hot Rod Association drag racing tour. We won three events this year, not least of which was the national event in Gainesville, FL, in March. That win got us a spot in the “Faces in the Crowd” section of Sports Illustrated and an upcoming feature in Drag Racing Action magazine. Our consulting businesses are doing well-small business management for me and environmental geology for Carolyn— and we are spending as much time as possible at Sugarloaf where I continue to coach adult ski racing. Sorry to miss the group of ‘72 grads at the bicentennial weekend. Steve Gates sent me a picture and I want to know why you all look so much younger than me!”
1973 Class Agent: Gregory Burns Our sympathies go to Ann Alexander on the death of her mother in April, to Michael Mulcahy on the loss of his mother in February, to Jim Haugh on the loss of his father in March, and to Tom Lie-Nielsen on the death of his father in November 2004.
1974 Class Agent Needed! David Snider writes, “Still working at Microsoft, but finding time to go sailing with my family and to get in plenty of soccer, hockey and squash.” ■ ToniAnne Tillotson is enjoying learning American Sign Language and encourages everyone to give it a try. Her son loves Emerson College and Boston.
1975 THIRTIETH
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Class Agent: Ellen Augusta Our thoughts are with Gary Anderson, who lost his wife to cancer in May 2004. ■ Sharp-eared alumni/ae may have heard Jessica Feeley on the National Public Radio quiz show “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” back in February. Give her a call, and
you’ll hear her prize for answering three questions correctly: NPR’s Carl Kasell’s voice on her answering machine. ■ William Kaneb writes, “All is well. I’m owner and president of my own company. I’m still in touch with the Nadeaus on a regular basis.” ■ Our sympathies go to Patrick Mulcahy on the loss of his mother in February. ■ Ira Rubinstein writes, “Still working as a detective with the Broward County Sheriff’s Office in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Oldest son Jonathan is attending Embry Riddle College in Daytona Beach, and officer candidate school for the Marines. He was accepted into the fighter pilot program that starts in October 2005. I am coaching my youngest son Jarrod’s 13and-under travel baseball team that travels throughout Florida. The two boys, my wife Paula and I frequently scuba dive the vast amount of shipwrecks in the area and hunt for lobster in the Florida Keys. See everyone at the 30th reunion.”
1976 Class Agent: Reed Chapman Congratulations to Dan Thayer, who completed his fourth Boston marathon in April. ■ After 6 years teaching in Sweden as a professor at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Ralph Shroeder and his family have returned to the UK, where he is a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University.
1977 Class Agent: Carolyn Adams Tony Dunn will read from his poetry at the first annual Belfast Poetry Festival in October. The festival will be held at the University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast. ■ Our thoughts are with Ted Hunter on the death of his mother in May. ■ William Koelle recently had dinner with Arthur Kettle, brother of Jennifer Kettle ’79, in Shemya Island, AK, where he was on assignment. He reports a new addition to his family: Snowy, a west highland terrier. ■ Susan Shaver Loyd writes, “I am in my fourth year teaching Spanish at Westover School in Middlebury, CT. My daughter
alumni et alumnae 1980 T W E N T Y- F I F T H
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Class Agent: Todd Danforth
Bert Babcock ’61, Kim Kenway ’70 and David Stonebraker catch up at the May 12 reception at the Portland Country Club. Carrie is a senior there and was just admitted early decision to Wheelock College in Boston! My son Colin is in seventh grade. We recently visited with Sarah Hughes Sigel ‘76 and her family in NH. It was great to catch up with her!” ■ Our condolences go to James Tweedie on the loss of his mother in February.
1978 Nancy Briggs Marshall and her family (husband Jay and sons Craig and Jamie) spent every weekend and school vacation day skiing at Sugarloaf/USA this past winter. They enjoyed seeing Dave Stonebraker and his son Austin ‘97, who coaches in the weekend program with Jay. Nancy’s business, Nancy Marshall Communications, continues to promote the State of Maine’s tourism and economic development offices. Nancy enjoyed spending a day with Peter Webber (who works for Golf Maine) promoting Maine tourism at a fancy event at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City. ■ Martin Kuchler is currently working in South Africa as a project manager in investment and trade promotion under the so-called “Integrated Experts” program of the German government. His company GTZ places experts in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Martin works with South African development corporations to coordinate their respective investment promotion programs, marketing and cooperate consulting for enterprises and public-private-partnerships. As an individual expert he has extensively worked in the field of destination marketing, tourism investment promotion and transport development planning. He continues to be involved in several donor-funded projects, such as the South African urban renewal programs and the bilateral cooperation between Germany and the Republic of South Africa. ■ Our thoughts are with Timothy Mulcahy and Linda MulcahyGiampa on the death of their mother in February. ■ Stephen Russell writes, “After six years with Morgan Stanley, I have spent the last two as a retirement specialist with AIG Valic serving Maine state employees, school teachers and administrators, nonprofit organizations and private individuals.”
Class Agent Todd Danforth writes, “Wherever you are reading this Semester note, I hope you and those you love are well. This is a friendly reminder that our twentyfifth Hebron reunion is this fall and an encouragement to attend. Twenty-five years?!! Some bureaucratic blunder, you ask, like a typo or a misplaced file. They must have meant the class of 70’s 25th reunion? Perhaps there’s been a warp in the ‘space time continuum’, you know like on Star Trek? Sorry, there has been no mistake. I’ve checked the calculations—actually I had Andrew Smith check them as it took me 2 years to get out of Algebra I (I and Ib). Sure, my math problems remain, but, like you, much else has changed. I hope you can make the reunion and catch up with old friends, help fact-check our recollections of the past, and enjoy Maine in the fall.” ■ Martin McLellan writes, “Working as software integration manager at Maine General Health and working to complete my solo CD. Wife Michelle likes to make quilts. Patric is captain of LHS football team. Terrance plays basketball and lacrosse.” ■ Dave Palmer reports, “Divorced a year+ ago; happily remarried and relocated to beautiful southern Maine. Teaching computer at Gorham School, coaching lacrosse. Found my sense of humor and charm again.”
1981 Class Agent: Mark Stevens Dan Gardiner reports, “My wife and I have three kids—Marie is 10, Colby is 7 and Adam is 4. We are still in Virginia. I work for MacGregor golf as a sales rep and I am still playing hockey twice a week.” ■ Robert Morrissey writes, “Retiring from NYPD in July as lieutenant in counter terrorism. Twenty years have gone by fast. Will start looking for new career in September.” ■ Mark Stevens writes, “Moved the family to the heartland last summer. I’m now a Yankee in a cornfield. Colby, Rye and Kendall enjoy their new school, but especially their new big backyard. Karen continues to work for her Boston employer, but has joined the ranks of the telecommuters. I am teaching computer networking courses in the School of Computer Studies at Indiana Tech and working as the IT director at Hyndman Industrial Products, Inc. I still love New England, but I don’t miss the Boston traffic.”
1982 Class Agent: Joy Dubin Grossman Tucker Cutler says he and Gina love life in Harrisville, NH. “All are welcome for a snowshoe, kayak, or a hike up Mt. Monadnock.” ■ Kitty and Evan Dockser live in Chevy Chase, MD, with their children Samantha
and Drew. Evan is in the real estate business and enjoys sailing in his free time. ■ Michelle Lenoue is in grad school at San Diego State University in the Latin American Studies department. After she finishes her last semester of classes she’ll head to Chiapas, Mexico, to finish her research and write her thesis. Her focus in on indigenous women living in the autonomous communities in Chiapas and how their rights and lives have changed since the Zapatista uprising in 1994. ■ Jon Rising is a captain for JetBlue Airways. He writes, “We’re living on an airpark in Florida. We have 2 cats and 2 airplanes. What a great country!” ■ Bill Witter writes, “My five-year-old son, Teal, entered kindergarten this fall at a local Waldorf school. He is eagerly awaiting first grade, so he can learn Spanish, and teach me how to order his meals in Spanish. He also is exercising so that he will be stronger than Lance Armstrong. It is amazing to watch him learn and grow, whether it’s a sport (skiing and bicycling), academics (reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) or social development—all the growth is inspiring.”
1983 Class Agent: Deb Beacham Bloomingdale Kimi Kanda writes, “I’ve left Santa Cruz, CA, again to travel with my husband and son to parts known and unknown. After a brief stay in the metro DC area, we’re heading to Dakar, Senegal—my husband’s first post as a U.S. foreign service officer. I’m looking forward to learning Wolof and deepening my practice of Mandingue music.” ■ Our thoughts are with Scott O’Halloran on the loss of his mother in April.
You’re Invited… John Donahue ’84 invites everyone to join him at Hurricane O’Reilly’s in Boston on Saturday, July 23, 2005, from 5:00 p.m. to closing. Rumor has it that John may be nearing one of those birthdays ending in zero…
1984 Class Agent: Deb Schiavi Cote Chris Eldredge is living in Dallas, where he is a regional manager for Liberty Mutual. He and his wife have three children (Alex, Chris and Katie) and ski in Colorado a few times a year. ■ Bruce Hartley would love to get in touch with George Perry, Thomas Seydoux and Jeff Folb. ■ Gary Rabinowitz coached the Hoosac School men’s varsity hockey team to the NEPSAC division II finals. ■ John Saunders is playing Detroit league lacrosse and coaching a middle school team. He took a trip to Deer Isle in July and watched the Red Sox take on the Yankees. ■ Kristin Pflumm Silverman says, “I miss Hebron, believe it or not.” ■ John Thompson writes, “Still skiing every weekend at the loaf. Sailing in Marblehead. I occasionally see Ingrid Wilbur ’85 at Sugarloaf and Jenna Ray Slattery ’85 around Marblehead. Busy with coaching of my two oldest in lacrosse and baseball.”
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iroozeh Dumas grew up listening to her father, a former Fulbright Scholar, recount the many colorful stories of his life. In 2001, with no prior writing experience, she decided to write her stories as a gift for her two children. A quick and easy read, the book is a witty look at the immigrant experience. Next year, the school community will read Ms. Dumas’s memoir, Funny in Farsi. Ms. Dumas will visit Hebron Academy at the end of September and will participate in a variety of school activities inspired by themes in the book. On Friday, September 30, as part of our Homecoming celebration, Ms. Dumas will present a special evening program for alumni/ae (at press time we were still working out the details). We invite all of you to read Funny in Farsi and join in the fun! For more information about Hebron’s Community Read program, please e-mail librarian Cilla Potter (ppotter@hebronacademy.org).
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alumni et alumnae 1985 TWENTIETH
we’re living in Santa Fe, NM. I would love to hear from classmates.”
REUNION
Class Agent: Eric Shediac Ian Swanbeck reports, “2005 has found our family in Nigeria. We are on a one-year assignment here, and then hopefully back to Australia in 2006. Best wishes and good luck to all.” ■ Sterling Rome writes, “No longer at Luna Vox—accepted a writer/producer/talent position at AMC network.”
1986 Class Agent: Carl Engel Our sympathies go to Tony Cox on the death of his father in November 2004, and to Rob Kinasewich on the loss of his father in February. Tony reports that he and Heather just purchased Casco Bay Frames, a custom picture frame gallery in Portland. He’d love to see anyone who stops by, and he’s looking forward to the 20th in 2006. ■ Christian McGinn writes, “No children, no wife, just a long-time girlfriend. Still working on getting heating business really successful.” ■ Harper Ingram Wong writes, “Can’t wait for our 20th—can’t believe it’s been so long! The boys are handsome and smart as ever—and there’s never a dull moment!. Still at MGIC as lead account manager.”
1987 Class Agent: Kate Thoman Crowley Eric Dupuis lives in northern California and works as a mechanical engineer at an engineering consulting firm. He works mostly on biotech, laboratory and pharmaceutical building design. ■ Sean Moore is loving life in Colorado. He will begin a new position with AG Edwards in July. ■ Hilary Weinberg writes, “I graduated from Southwest Acupuncture College with my masters in oriental medicine. I had a baby girl the day before graduation (not bad for great and timing). She’s doing
1988 Class Agent Needed!
1989
New Arrivals 1975
1989
>> To Lisa and Erik Bateman, a daughter, Natalia May, on January 29, 2005.
<< To Molly and Stephen Collins, a daughter, Sally Bowden Collins, on February 8, 2005.
1978
Class Agent: Hayes McCarthy
<< To Dee Van der Byl and Martin Kuchler, a daughter, Anna Christina, on April 4, 2005.
James Roche is a lawyer in Wells, focusing on insurance law. He says he keeps in touch with Tim Cassidy, Maren Haskell ’90 and a few other Hebron alums.
1990 FIFTEENTH
REUNION
Class Agent: Jim Hill Jen Walker and her husband Gaurav Shah have moved to Sharon, MA. They are thrilled to be new parents.
1991 Class Agent Needed! Rob Curtis was the featured speaker at Hebron’s Cum Laude Society induction in early May. ■ Mark Theriault is head lacrosse coach at Keene State College and also runs a web site focused on New England lacrosse: www.nelax.com.
1992
1990 To Jen Walker and Gaurav Shah, a son, Akash Walker Shah, on December 26, 2004.
1991
1979 >> To Dana Shields and Bob Hubbell, a son, Charles Shields Hubbell, on December 30, 2004.
1982 To Brian Malone and Lea Heidman, a son, Carter, in July 2004.
1984 To Maria and Bruce Hartley, a son, James, in August 2004. To Kim and John Saunders, a son, Evan Joseph, on February 13, 2005.
To Peter and Deborah Elwell Hanney, a son, Will, on March 7, 2005.
1992 >> To Tobias and Sonja Reckling Gehlhaar, a daughter, Fiona Sophie, on March 3, 2005. To Liz and Lauren (Peterson) RoseCohen, a daughter, Willa Rose-Cohen.
1998 To Christopher and Carolyn Greenwood Kennison, a daughter, Mallory, on December 15, 2004.
1987 To Scott Skibicki and Hillary Weinberg, a daughter, Sylvie Storm Skibicki.
Class Agent Needed! Matt Arsenault writes, “Working as a research assistant in a trace gas chemistry lab, mostly greenhouse gases in ice cores from the Arctic and Antarctic. Leaving for five weeks in Greenland to retrieve 10 to 12,000-year-old ice. Should be fun!” ■ Chris Lane is an associate at the law firm Clifford Chance, US, LLP, in Washington, DC. ■ Ethan Loiselle writes, “Sarah
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(Randall), our 2 kids and I have been living in Connecticut for the past 6 years. Life is good, and we are looking to come back and visit the Hebron campus in the next few months.” ■ Dr. Ross H. Talarico is currently in surgical residency in San Francisco, California with Kaiser Permanente. Ross specializes in all aspect of foot and ankle surgery including pediatrics, trauma, reconstruction, and diabetic limb salvage. He has recently become a member of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. Ross lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Amy, who is an attorney with Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius.
1993 Class Agent: Marko Radosavljevic Faith Damon Sykes is working as an accountant in Portland and living in South Portland. ■ Alex Dukas writes, “After six long and arduous years, I completed my master's program at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and graduated in June 2004. My thesis was entitled ‘The Anatomy of Love, Marriage, Reproduction, and Self-Help.’ I am currently working as group facilitator/educator at South Bay Mental Health Center and also host per-
sonal development workshops on strategic lifespan management, relationships, and self-esteem. I am active in Boston’s gay community and am presently working with fellow Hebron alumnus Gordon Smith ’57 to reach out to Hebron’s LGBT alumni and strengthen the alumni’s ties with Hebron’s newly formed Gay/Straight Alliance.”
1994 Class Agent Needed! Fulbright scholar Emily Harvey is in Paraguay to study the forest with Paraguayan and Brazilian environmental groups.
1995 TENTH
REUNION
Class Agent Needed! Jason Fickett is living in Lewiston with his wife Christine and her daughter McKayla. They both work at National Semiconductor. ■ Leigh Stevens and his family are living in Newcastle. Leigh is working as a herdsman on a 250-cow dairy farm. “We have 18 cows of our own and are working towards a farm of our own. All is well,” he reports.
alumni et alumnae Unions 1996 Joy Britting and Alexander Pufhal, on October 9, 2004, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
1998 Carolyn Greenwood and Chris Kennison, on July 25, 2004, in Bethel.
2002 Emmy Andersson and Zakk Maher, on January 1, 2005, in East Poland.
Former Faculty Jessica Truslow and Arthur Trapotsis, on August 28, 2004, in Surry, New Hampshire.
1996 Class Agent: Irakly Areshidze Tomoki Ito ran in his first marathon—in New York last November. ■ Tara Langelier writes, “I just moved back to Maine from Bedford, MA, where I was a live-in nanny for a wonderful family with three young girls. A few months after starting with them I found out that I had cancer and needed to have surgery. After a lot of heartache and thought, I decided it would be best for the family and me if I were to move back home with my parents while going through everything. So now exactly a year later I’m back home in Maine and cancer free. I have recently moved to the place where I love to play and have managed to land a great job there as well. I’m living and working in Bethel as the international and domestic tour and travel manager at Sunday River. It’s been so great, what more could I ask for? Not many people have the luxury of being able to work where they love to play. On a side note I’ve been trying to start up my freelance photography business (which is slow coming with everything that’s happened over the last year). I do landscape photography and am looking to branch into extreme sports photography as well in the next year.” ■ Raja Jethwani reports that all is well with him in Lagos, Nigeria. He is working with his father, producing PVC pipes and wire mesh.
1997 Class Agent: Kelly LaBrecque Austin Stonebraker will be heading to UNH in the fall to work on a master’s in natural resources. ■ Ryan Vachon writes, “I’m still working in a military forensic DNA lab just outside of DC. I completed my master’s degree in forensics last summer and am now looking forward to digging out from underneath my crushing, crushing debt. Awesome!”
1998 Class Agent: Brian Toole Rachael Peterson writes, “I have earned my masters and license to teach special education emotional disturbances (ED), learning disabilities (LD) and mental retardation (MR). I currently work with students with autism at Annandale (VA) High School.” ■ Allison Sánchez is finishing her first academic year at a home birth midwifery school in Maine and looking forward to a summer filled with ultimate frisbee. ■ From California, Michelle Turgeon writes, “Working as a counselor at Department of Corrections. Trying to obtain my license as a mental health counselor.”
1999 Class Agent: Joe Patry Heather Grindle is a nursing student and is working in an emergency room at Morton Hospital in Taunton, MA. ■ Jurga Paskeviciute has finished her law studies and is now on the assistant advocates list. She says that she has 18 months to go until she becomes an advocate (attorney-at-law). She is also taking dance and French classes.
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Class Agent: Cori Hartman-Frey Todd O’Neil is on the hockey team at American International College. ■ Catherine Paganucci writes, “Just went to the southwest and fell in love with Zion National Park, where I hiked many of the trails and took lots of pictures! Am working in Maine but I hope to travel more in the summer or fall.”
2001 Class Agents: Nick Leyden and Shy Laliberte Robin Charest was named to the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association all-academic team. Robin is at Lake Forest College. ■ Scott Hersom was captain of the hockey team at Assumption College. ■ Maxime Isabel is on the hockey team at Concordia University. ■ Brigita Jasiunaite is preparing for the humanitarian law competition held in France in April. ■ Frank Laviolette is wokring in Montreal for a company that sells aircraft parts to the military across the world. ■ David Lisnik is working as a surveyor in Colorado and hopes to go to Alaska when the pipeline gets started. He graduated from college in March. ■ Our
thoughts are with Bob Zarella on the loss of his mother in February.
2002 Class Agents: Katie Curtis, Chris Dyer, Emily Geismar and James LeBlanc Morgan Dorsey is on the swim team at Clark University. ■ Jamie Fey is on the track and field team at Middlebury. ■ James LeBlanc is assistant captain of the hockey team at USM. ■ Collin Orcutt was one of three members of the Bard College basketball team named to the Academic Honor Roll by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. ■ Chris Rogers is playing soccer at Hobart. ■ Chris Stewart is at Embry-Riddle studying aeronautical engineering and minoring in math. ■ Kyle Van Dingstee is on the hockey team at Plymouth State. ■ Maren Worley is playing scocer, hockey and lacrosse at New England College. ■ Danielle Wysomierski is on the hockey team at Elmira.
2003 Class Agent: Sara Marquis Mallory Berman in playing hockey at New England College. ■ Troy Bryant is a sophomore at Maine Maritime Academy and getting ready to ship out for the summer. ■ Chris Dyer is on the hockey team at USM. ■ Meghan Gillis was named to the NESCAC all-conference first team. ■ Nathan Harmon writes, “Halfway through university already; how is that possible? At home, I’ve moved next door into an old farmhouse which I’m helping my parents renovate. Looks like this summer will be work from all sides!” ■ Sara Marquis is packing her bags and heading to Athens, Greece, for her junior year abroad. Sara just finished serving on the Presidential Commission for a Diverse Community, a 18month long commission set up to examine how diversity is addressed on the Mt. Holyoke campus. ■ Marissa Stewart will be teaching therapeutic riding lessons for the disabled this summer. In the fall she’ll be riding on the dressage equestrian team at UVM where she is studying animal science. ■ Jameson Wheatley and Brett Bilodeau are hockey teammates and roommates at Franklin Pierce. Jamie is majoring in business with an emphasis on sports manage-
ment. ■ Arlee Woodworth was one of 17 Bates College women’s ice hockey team members to represent the United States at the Baltic Blast and Thanksgiving Day Tournament on November 27 and 28 in Tallinn, Estonia. The tournament was organized by the Estonian Hockey Federation and included teams from Great Britain, Latvia, Estonia, Germany, Japan, Finland and Sweden. The team finished second, beating two teams from Estonia and one from the United Kingdom. Arlee is a studio art major with a focus on photography and drawing, with a minor in women and gender studies.
2004 Devin Blais was on the fall high honors dean’s list at Carnegie Mellon. ■ Garrick Johnson is playing soccer at Green Mountain College. ■ Cindy Lebel is second in points for the hockey team at Saint Anselm. ■ Lisa Lundstrom was named to the fall dean’s list at the University of New England. ■ Christian Mosley played basketball at Connecticut College. ■ Arí Paschal played basektball at Virginia Wesleyan. ■ Shauna Neary was named rookie of the year at Mount Allison and was also selected to the Atlantic University Sport rookie all-star squad. ■ Helen Unger-Clark was elected dorm president at Mt. Allison.
Former Faculty Sally and George Helwig will celebrate their 56th anniversary in September. George reports that they are both in excellent health, travel a lot and enjoy life. They keep in touch with Sally and Evan West. ■ Congratulations to Viola and John Hyman, who celebrated their 50th anniversary in January. This fall, Hymans are going to travel across the country in the motor home. ■ Stephan Pratt exhibit of recent work, “Red Sox Nation,” featured paintings inspired by the Red Sox and Stephan’s childhood in Portland. This summer, the Pratts will pack up and head west to Stevenson School, where Stephan will teach art. ■ Peter Travis is in his “fifth and next-to-last year as chair of the English Department at Dartmouth College.” ■ Jessica Truslow is working in Concord, MA, as assistant principal of the high school. ■ Our sympathies go to Donna Wallace on the loss of her mother in April.
At the Hebron gathering hosted by Bill Golden ’66 aboard his Nantucket Lightship in February: Kate Thoman Crowley ’87, John Donahue ’84, Scott Downs ’86, Megan Brooks ’89, Kate Littlefield Keizler ’87 and Bev Leyden.
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alumni et alumnae Obituaries 1919
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Florence Bernice Allen Keene died quietly at her home on May 3, 2005. She was born on the home farm in Hebron in 1902, the daughter of George and Bernice Berry Allen. She married Raymond E. Keene in 1920; he died in 1979. Following her graduation from Hebron Academy she taught at rural one-room schools in Buckfield and Hartford. Mrs. Keene was a member of the West Minot Union Church, the Auburn United Methodist Church, the West Minot Grange, the Maine and Twin County Extension Association, the East Auburn Sewing Circle and the Martha Circle at the Auburn United Methodist Church. She served as treasurer and tax collector in Hebron and for many years was organist at the West Minot Union Church, where she also taught Sunday school. Mrs. Keene enjoyed gardening and quilting. She is survived by her son, Maurice Keene; one grandson; three granddaughters; five greatgrandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; and three sisters-in-law. She was predeceased by her husband, Raymond Keene; two brothers, Wilbur Allen and Henry Allen; and a great-grandson.
Lawrence Darr Chapman died January 15, 2005, in Falmouth, following a lengthy illness. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Charles and Marguerite Rumery Chapman, Jr. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1935. For more than 40 years he was president and treasurer of Noyes and Chapman Insurance Company of Portland. Mr. Chapman was a member and past president of the Animal Refuge League. He was also a member of the Cumberland Club, the Portland Club, Portland Country Club and the First Parish Church of Portland. Mr. Chapman enjoyed the theater, duplicate bridge, golf and followed the Boston Red Sox. He was predeceased by his first wife, Jean Voorhis Chapman, mother of his children; his second wife, Elizabeth Thomas Soule Chapman; and his older brother, Charles Jarvis Chapman, III. He is survived by his wife, Jean McAllaster Baker Chapman; three daughters, Margo Pearson, Lindsay Henderson and Gail Close; and six grandchildren.
1926 Frederick Roger Milton died May 8, 2005, in Auburn. He was born in Andover, the son of Frederick and Agnes Talbot Milton. He married Althea Frances Poor in 1932. The Miltons worked together for 11 years at Camp Bellevue on Upper Richardson Lake. Mr. Milton served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He and his wife moved to South Paris after the war. Mr. Milton worked as a purchasing agent for Paris Manufacturing until his retirement in the 1970s. He and his wife wintered in Florida, where he enjoyed playing golf. Mr. Milton is precedeased by his wife. He is survived by many nieces and nephews.
1928 Charles Paul Swan died October 20, 2004, in Hartford, Connecticut. He was born in 1908, son of Dr. Horace and Bertha Koenig Swan. A graduate of Bates College, Mr. Swan was a life-long learner. He loved opera and the music of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was passionate about architecture and historic preservation, and was a member or founding member of several societies, including the Ocean Park (Maine) Historical Society, the Ocean Park Education Bureau, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Jefferson County Historical Society (Washington) and the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport. He was a family historian, and traced his family back to the 17th century. Mr. Swan is survived by his niece, Jean Perkins Eddy; two grand-nieces, a grand-nephew and their children; and several cousins in Germany. He was predeceased by his sister, Priscilla Swan Eddy, and a nephew.
Donald Edward York died on January 8, 2005, in Florida. He was born in Howland, the son of Fred and Minnie Pelkey-Lovejoy York. He attended the Maine School of Commerce and in 1934 was employed by Great Northern Paper Co. in Millinocket as an accountant, rising to the position of controller and treasurer of the corporation. In 1937 Mr. York married Clarice Louise Coon, who died in 1986. In 1968, he joined Fraser Paper Co. Ltd. of Edmunston, New Brunswick. Mr. York was a member of the First Congregational Church in Millinocket, serving on many of its governing committees. He was involved in local scouting and was an active participant in Millinocket civic affairs. He was a founding member and past president of the Hillcrest Golf Club, and a former member of the Siwanoy Country Club of Bronxville. Among Mr. York’s proudest achievements was his 65year association with the masons. He became master of Nollesemic Lodge No. 205 in 1950 and high priest of Mt. Katahdin R.A.C. No. 60 in 1951, and a noble of Anah Temple in 1952. Mr. York is survived by a son, Donald York; a daughter Sara Ellen Jenkins; a granddaughter; two great-grandchildren; a sister, Lillian Marquis; several nieces and nephews; and many friends. A brother and sister predeceased him.
1934 Elwood “Tarz” Legard died February 3, 2005. He was born in Bath, a son of Ralph and Affie Rooke Legard. He entered the Army during World War II. In 1946 he married Jennie Trail. Mr. Legard worked as a clerk for 17 years at the post office and retired in 1981. He also ran the family taxi business for several years. He was a member of the Bath Lodge of Elks, the Masons in Bath, the SmithTobey Post American Legion in Bath and was chairman of the board of voter registration for 15 years. He was a member of the Downeast Yacht Club and a member of the United Church of Christ Congregational in Bath. Mr. Legard is survived by his wife,
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Jennie; a son, E. Sargent Legard; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Archibald M. Main, Jr. died October 21, 2004, in Brunswick. He was born in 1914, a son of Archibald M. and Mary Jane Avery Main. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a naval architect for Gibbs and Cox in New York City. He served in the Navy during World War II and subsequently moved to Bath, where he worked as a naval architect at Bath Iron Works, retiring in 1978. He was a member of the Society of Naval Architects, the Society of Naval Engineers, Phi Kappa Sig fraternity, Bath Lodge of Elks and the Small Point Baptist Church. He was a director and past president of the Bath YMCA, a member of Bath Rotary, Colonial Club and the Bath City Council. Mr. Main enjoyed his family and friends foremost. His interests included golf, swimming, sailing, traveling, cooking, painting and drawing. He was predeceased by his first wife, Beatrice Talcott Main, who died in 1974; his second wife, Marion Murphy Main, who died in 1996; a brother, James Avery Main; and three sisters, Ellen Caldwell, Flora Gallup and Julia Whitehurst. He is survived by two sons, Archibald M. Main, III ‘65 and Charles Main; three daughters, Eleanor Quigley, Beatrice Dalsass and Jeanette Main; 12 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
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last 11 years of his employment. He also served in executive positions with the National Association of Cost Accountants, the Council of Defense and Space Industry Associations, the Bath Savings Institution and the Bath National Bank. In 1959, Mr. Mussenden served as chairman of the Sagadahoc County Republican Finance Committee, followed by chairman of the Maine Republican Finance Committee. He was one of the founders of the Bath Marine Museum, serving as president and director. His involvement in the seafaring history of both Bath and the state of Maine was a logical extension of his love of boating. He also enjoyed raising and training dogs, hunting, golf, billiards and harness racing. Mr. Mussenden is survived by his wife, Mary Ellen Mussenden; his sons William, Christopher and Edward; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. James L. Ward died February 3, 2005, in Kennebunk. He was born in Kennebunk in 1916, a son of Harold E. and Irma Lavin Ward. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps for four years, first in England, then in the invasion of Italy. He was stationed on an air base there and drove an ambulance helping crash victims. After the war he worked for 32 years at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. Mr. Ward is survived by two nephews and two nieces.
Lt. Col. Tedford M. “Ted” Blaisdell died February 22, 2005, in Bangor. He was born in Newport, the son of C. Carroll and Edith Bragdon Blaisdell. After graduating from Hebron, he attended the University of Maine. His first love was flying and he earned his pilot’s license at 16. On leaving college, he worked in Boston charter flying and instructing. Pan American Airlines hired him to fly land base combat aircraft to the mid and Far East by way of South America and Africa. As an Army Air Corps first lieutenant during World War II, he ferried bombers to theaters of war from bases in England. Following World War II, he stayed in the Air Force and was stationed in Alaska, Greenland, Japan and New England. He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1970 and returned to West Gouldsboro to live in the family homestead. He was active in village affairs, serving as a trustee of the Eleanor Widener Dixon Memorial Clinic and serving the Village of West Gouldsboro as a member of the Village Improvement Association. He was a member of the Winter Harbor Masonic Lodge and he joined the Anah Temple Mystic Shrine Band and dance band in 1980. He was also band leader of the “Brow of the Hill” dance band for 20 years. He is survived by eight nieces and nephews; his wife, Margaret Ashe Blaisdell, predeceased him.
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Eugene Rowe died of cancer on December 13, 2004, in Lewiston. He was born in Minot, the son of Merton and Etta Hodges Rowe. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines during World War II, he attended the University of Maine. Mr. Rowe worked as a mechanical engineer on precision inspection of government contracts at various locations in Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut. After retirement, he and his wife traveled briefly throughout the United States. He was a former president of the
William Frederick Mussenden died November 13, 2004. He was born in 1918, son of William B. and Margaret Metcaff Mussenden. He graduated from Babson College in 1940. He began working at Bath Iron Works in 1939 with a summer position as a pipe fitter’s helper. Following his college years, he returned to BIW as transportation inspector, and eventually rose to vice president. He retired in 1982, and served on the BIW board of directors for the
William Wills Gotherman died at his home on March 16, 2005, of complications due to Parkinson’s disease. He was born in East Orange, New Jersey, son of Charles and Virginia McNair Wills Gotherman. He grew up in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, where he became active in scouting and received his town’s first Eagle Scout award. Mr. Gotherman graduated from Penn State University where he was president of TKE. A day after graduating, he volunteered for the Navy in World War II, serving in the South Pacific; he then returned to Penn State and completed his graduate degree in chemical engineering. He was the founder and CEO of Interstate Utility Sales. He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Professional Engineers of North Carolina and a lifetime member of American Water Works Association. He was an inventor and was granted patents in his field. He was an admiral in the North Carolina Navy, a member of Quail Hollow Country Club, a past president of the Horseless Carriage Club of North Carolina, and a member of Christ Episcopal Church. Mr. Gotherman is survived by his wife of 56 years, Barbara Jane Jeffreys Gotherman; two daughters, Virginia Negrelli and Susan Hortman; two sons, Robert Gotherman and William Gotherman, and many nieces and nephews.
alumni et alumnae New England Astrological Society. Mr. Rowe is survived by Susie Giddinge Rowe, his wife of 64 years; three daughters, Beverly Spofford, Frances Lodge and Sally Joy; one son, Theodore; nine grandchildren and nineteen great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his sister, Mary Johnson, and an infant sister, Sadie Rowe. John Lewis “Jack” Savage died December 10, 2004, in Asheville, North Carolina, following a brief illness. He was born in Brewer, a son of Lewis and Beryl Spencer Savage. Mr. Savage graduated from the University of Maine at Orono. An Army Air Corps veteran, he served in the European Theater during World War II. The former owner and operator of Hawthorn Manufacturing in Brewer, he later incorporated Hackett Machine Shop into his business. He retired as a tax collector for the state of Maine, and was a director of the Penobscot Salmon Club. He moved to Henderson County, North Carolina, in 1991. Mr. Savage is survived by his wife of 54 years, Martha VanDyk Savage; four sons, Richard, Mark, David and Eric; seven grandchildren and one great-grandson.
1942 Edwin C. “Ed” Thurston died March 12, 2005, in Ludlow, Massachusetts. He was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, the son of Edwin C. and Alma Goudreau Thurston. Mr. Thurston served as an aviation radioman second class during World War II, receiving the World War II victory medal and the American Theater campaign ribbon. After returning home, he worked as a Manchester police officer, and then as the district sales manager for Sunshine Biscuits before retiring in 1985. Mr. Thurston coached Little League and American Legion baseball and high school baseball for St. Michael’s High School in Northampton. He was a life member of the Northampton Lodge of Elks and a member of the Masons. He owned a hunting camp in Parkman and spent much time there with his children, grandchildren and hunting buddies. From his marriage to the late Anne Barry Thurston, he is survived by three children, Donna Thurston, Dianne Thurston and Edwin F. Thurston. From his marriage to Carol Nelson Thurston, he is survived by two children, Edwin “Chip” Thurston and Julie McKown. He also leaves four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren as well as many nieces and nephews.
1943 Richard Sprince died on April 11, 2005, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was born in Lewiston, son of Henry and Norma Sprince. He went to Bates College, but received a congressional appointment to the Naval Academy, graduating with a degree in electrical engineering. Mr. Sprince served as an officer of the deck on the battleship USS Missouri during the Korean campaign. He was also an aerial gunfire spotter during the Inchon landing and received the air medal for locating enemy targets from an unarmed helicopter. After service on the minesweeper USS Wheatear, he entered and was graduated from Navy Submarine School. He served as a submarine officer on the USS Carbonero and the USS Jalleo. Lt. Sprince was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1958. Upon enter-
ing civilian life, he worked for General Electric. He returned to government service in 1966 as NASA’s director of resources management for the Apollo space program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mr. Sprince was appointed the on-site director and NASA project manager for TEKTITE, a multi-agency undersea habitat program. In 1979, he was appointed to the presidential commission to investigate the accident at Three Mile Island. Likewise, in 1980, he was appointed as FEMA’s satellite communications manager for the Mount Saint Helens disaster. He retired in 1987 from TRW. Mr. Sprince was a member of numerous service organizations, including the National Eagle Scout Association, the Naval Submarine League, the Tri-State Submarine Veterans, the SubVets WWII and the NASA Alumni League. He was a member of the Interfaith Prayer Group, a trustee of the Eisenhower Society, and the past exalted ruler of Gettysburg Elks Lodge 1045. He was also a member of the Lions Club, the American Legion, the AmVets, the VFW Post 15, the A.F. & A.M. Masonic Lodge, the Scottish Rite and the Adams County Bicentennial Committee. Mr. Sprince is survived by his wife, Jean Scott Sprince; three daughters, Susan Poteet, Joan Sostek and Julie Stiles; two sons, Richard Sprince and Stephen Sprince; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
1947 Thomas Raymond York, Jr. died February 6, 2005, in Presque Isle. He was born in Mars Hill, the son of Thomas and Dawn Brown York. He attended the University of Maine at Brunswick and the Aroostook School of Commerce. Mr. York was a well-known potato grower in the area for more than 37 years. He was involved in several farmrelated organizations such as the Aroostook County Farm Bureau, of which he was a past president. He served on the Mars Hill Town Council and the S.A.D. #42 board for several years. He was a member of Aroostook Lodge No. 197 AF & AM. Mr. York loved golfing at the Mars Hill Country Club, where he was a member, as well as hunting, fishing and spending time at his camp on East Grand Lake with family and friends. Surviving him are his wife of more than 55 years, Laurine Thompson York; sons John, Thomas and Robert; daughters Susan Stevenson, Mary Fletcher, Jane LaBounty, and Joan Carlson; a sister, Phyllis Brownyork; 14 grandchildren; 4 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
1948 John A. Hixon died March 10, 2005, surrounded by family members at his home in Round Pond. He was born in 1929, the only son of Ruth and Reginald Hixon. He was a bosun’s mate, 3rd class, in the U.S. Navy and fought in the Korean War until his honorable discharge in 1952. He graduated from Tufts University and was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. During his business career, Mr. Hixon became the vice president of Bird & Son, a national roofing company headquartered in Walpole, Massachusetts, where he was a devoted and integral part of the company for 32 years. In the 1980s and 1990s he was a member of the Duxbury Yacht Club and enjoyed spirited tennis matches with his friends. In his later years he
enjoyed traveling and antiquing with his wife Joy, reading and boating. Mr. Hixon is survived by his wife; his children, Candace Quinlan, Pamela LeBaron, Jonathan Hixon and Meredith Collier; their mother, Joan Ross; and stepdaughters, Holly Pierce, Wendy Pierce and Laurie Pierce.
1950 William F. Erickson died October 21, 2004, in Boston. He was born in 1931, the son of Winfred and Dorothy Longstaff Erickson. He graduated from Boston University and worked most of his life in the trucking industry. During his career he was the general sales manager for O’Donnell’s Express, a national accouns executive for Sanborn Motor Express, and terminal manager for Brookville Transport. He is survived by his mother; his wife of 35 years, Phyllis Frederico Erickson; a daughter, Jennifer; and Phyllis’s children Steven Panora and Esta Panora. Brian K. Simm died of cancer on September 22, 2004. He was a New Hampshire state forester for 35 years, artist and conservationist. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1954. Mr. Simm is survived by his wife, Priscilla, and two sons, Scott and Stephen.
woodcraftsman in his basement workshop. Mr. Clark will be missed by his grandmother, Mildred Clark; his parents, Ruth Clark and Donald Clark; his brothers, Craig, Bradford and Matthew; his sons Alex and Sam; and their mother Sara Morris. He will also be missed by his uncle and aunt, Thomas and Alison Schneider.
Former Staff Harold Eugene Thorpe died Monday, May 2, at Stephens Memorial Hospital. He was born in 1928, the son of Ruby and Harold Thorpe. He married Marion Bonney on Sept. 30, 1960. Mr. Thorpe was a sergeant in the National Guard for several years before serving as constable for Hebron, and later a police officer for the town of South Paris and the sheriff’s department. He retired from the Hebron Academy maintenance department. He was active in the snowmobile club and various other clubs over the years. He was one of the first members of the volunteer rescue squad in Hebron. Mr. Thorpe is survived by his wife of 44 years; three sons, James Thorpe, Stephen Thorpe and Jeff Thorpe; three daughters, Gail Castonguay, Jo Neal and Pat Wheeler; six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a sister, Alberta Jones of Minot.
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1951 LaFayette “Lafe” Page III, died February 29, 2004. He is survived by his wife, Patricia; his three children, Michael, Timothy and Sarah; and eight grandchildren.
1960 Ralph Allen died of a heart attack on March 22, 2005. Mr. Allen was a teacher at Germantown Academy for 33 years and a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the civilrights movement. He was arrested several times for participating in civil-rights actions. Mr. Allen’s commitment to education, civil rights and the environment were driving forces in his life. Mr. Allen taught English at William Penn Charter School from 1965 to 1972. He taught at Germantown Academy since 1972. Starting in 1972, Mr. Allen bicycled from his home to school, a 14-mile round trip. For the last five years, he rode in the Atlantic City Multiple Sclerosis Society’s 150-mile bike ride. In 1965, he married Sara Moody, a teacher at Abington Friends School. In addition to his wife, Mr. Allen is survived by his son, Ralph Allen IV; his daughter, Elizabeth Allen; one brother; and one sister.
Ruth L. O’Halloran died of cancer on April 12, 2005, at her home in Portland. Mrs. O’Halloran completed her B.A. at Trinity College in Washington, DC, and took her M.A. in medieval history from University College, Dublin. Her doctorate in church history was completed at Catholic University of America. For more than 50 years she taught English and history at schools in Massachusetts, California and Ireland, as well as at Maine’s St. Joseph’s, Andover, Westbrook and Husson colleges. She was interested in restoring old houses, horticulture, and historical research and writing. She traveled extensively, and visited over 50 countries. Mrs. O’Halloran is survived by her daughters, Kate, Margaret, Jane and Beth; her son, Scott ‘83; two sisters; two brothers; three granddaughters and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Fionán Finbarr O’Halloran in 1969, and by her daughter, Máire, in 1982.
Other Deaths John Gardiner Bridge ‘28, on January 28, 2005. Horace D. Sheesley ’31, in October 2002. Neal L. Whitman ‘39, on October 27, 2004. W. Harris Graf ‘40, on December 8, 2004.
1978 Geoffrey Judson Clark died at his home in Portland on January 19, 2005. He was an avid sailor on Casco Bay, a highly disciplined ultra-marathon runner, and he loved his regular visits to the gym to exercise body and mind. He went to Ithaca College, where he rowed crew, served as president of his fraternity and worked as a bartender. Mr. Clark worked in several Portland banking and investment institutions, including H.M. Payson, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and BankNorth. He may have been happiest during the years he worked as a full-time, stay-at-home dad, writing a newsletter for stay-at-home dads and becoming a master
Warren Nute ’40, on April 14, 2005. John L. Savage December 10, 2004.
’40,
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George Griffin Brown, Jr. ‘41, in 2004. Lon K. Savage ’47, on July 27, 2004. Mitchell V. Green ’48, on September 5, 2003. Theodore A. Holland, Jr. ‘48, on January 29, 2005. Anne Crosson Ferneding November 7, 2004.
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hebroniana our past, our present, our future Gathered at the heart of our campus, near the doorstep of the 1847 Academy building, we marked the end of our bicentennial celebration. Together, the sixth graders carefully lowered the school time capsule into the ground. Our past, our present and our future mingled together in this place at this time. We hope that some of these sixth graders will be on hand in 50 years to help uncover the time capsule and recall the events and people of this historic year.
Sixth graders Cameron Thurston, A.J. Keith, Caela Waite, Polly Drown, Tommy Cummings, Michael Minigell and Tif Levesque (hidden) lower the time capsule into its vault with help from Archivist David Stonebraker and their teacher, Steve Middleton. Not pictured: Elise Berry.
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We’re not saying that Pharoah (Kris Houle ’05, center) is stupid, but he needs a little help from slave girls Kelsey Jordan ’07 and Allison Coombs ’06, Narrator Elizabeth Cole ’05 (in black) and Joseph (Charlie Cummings ’07, right) to choose just the right man to guide Egypt through hard times ahead in this year’s winter musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat. Photograph by Bill Chase
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