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features Our Own Entertainments a look at the history of Hebron theater

by Jennifer F. Adams

A Symphony of Space making rooms for art

Seeds of Love and Light portrait of an organist, pomologist, educator

by David W. Stonebraker

Unconventional Diversity farewell to the class of 2009

by Elijah Hughes ’09 and Claire Cummings ’09

departments The Academy news, events, arts, athletics, and more

Alumni et Alumnae notes, unions, new arrivals, obituaries

Hebroniana centennial for Atwood

Seung Woo Kim ’10 as Agwe, god of water, in this winter’s production of Once On This Island.

Photograph by Tannery Hill Studios, Inc.

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the academy Editor’s Note: a man with a horse

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knew back in February that I wanted to feature this year’s musical, Once On This Island, on the cover of the spring issue. My favorite photographers, Dennis and Diane Griggs, came to shoot the next-to-last rehearsal with the sole direction from me: I need a cover.

Dennis surprised me, and the actors, by getting right up on stage and into the action. By the end of the day he had taken 300 photographs and I had plenty to choose from.

Why this one? Because I like the angle. Because I like the colors. But most of all because I love that Rob MacLellan, a member of the ensemble, was not Rob MacLellan in this scene.

He was a man with a horse.

Ensemble roles can be more difficult than starring ones. Often the ensemble players appear as different people in different scenes. They have to stay in character, even when they have nothing to do, or they will erode the illusion created on stage. A strong ensemble is vital to the success of the whole show.

This spring marks the tenth year of the most recent incarnation of the Semester magazine and my twentieth at Hebron. Every issue has a page that really sings to me. My favorite this time is the seventh graders working together to row a boat on page 8. The students in the foreground are very different from each other—Charlotte is artsy, Brooks is outdoorsy, Margaret is athletic—but they were pulling together and having a lot of fun doing it.

I love putting the magazine together, but I couldn’t do it without the colleagues and friends who make it possible. I am grateful to all of them for making my job easier every day. For me, the images of Rob and the seventh graders epitomize the best of Hebron: ensemble players, working together, to create something magical.

Jennifer F. Adams, Editor jadams@hebronacademy.org

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on the cover Rob MacLellan ’11 and his horse in a scene from Hebron Academy’s recent production of Once on This Island. Photo by Dennis Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios.

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

Issue No. 203 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, faculty and students. editor Jennifer F. Adams editorial assistance David W. Stonebraker contributing writers Susan R. Geismar Leslie A. Guenther Christine Hemmings David Inglehart production assistance Ellen L. Augusta ’75 Leslie A. Guenther Beverly J. Roy photography Jennifer F. Adams William B. Chase Dennis and Diana Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios, Inc. Cynthia Reedy and friends printing and mailing Maine Printing Company, Portland, Maine.

Hebron Academy reaffirms its long-standing 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. © 2009 by Hebron Academy. www.hebronacademy.org

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Bringing the arts to light H

ebron Academy has a long, proud tradition of excellence and creativity in the fine and performing arts, so it may seem ironic to claim that we are bringing the arts to light in 2009—but in the most literal sense we have done just that.

The two most cherished commodities on Hebron’s (or any other boarding school’s) campus are time and space. There is never enough of either to adequately serve all the wonderful activity and inspiration that percolates at our school. For years our magicians of creativity, Hebron’s dedicated art and music teachers, have inspired their students to create remarkable artworks and performances from their tight classroom studios, practice and performance spaces in the basements of Sturtevant and Atwood dormitories. Perhaps we have served our graduating arts students well by conditioning them to the stereotypic life of “the struggling artist” working in cramped garret studio or Spartan warehouse, but that is not Hebron’s mission—we seek to inspire and champion the arts!

Hebron arts, artists and art teachers are extraordinary and we are proud of their works and

performances in gallery shows, concerts, musicals and plays, dance, college admission to art and music specialties and professional accomplishments. In fact, just during the last two weeks of the school year Hebron celebrated the opening of a gallery show by renowned Maine land and seascape artist Tom Curry ’76 at a gallery in York, and the Middle School traveled to Rockland to tour the Farnsworth Museum exhibit of work by photographer Chris Pinchbeck ’87. At each event it was a thrill hearing the artists speak of their works and their Hebron experiences.

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o what of bringing the arts to light? We put a focus on finding more and new ways to give our arts and artists more visibility, out of the basements, with the direction of artistic director, and now incoming chair of the fine arts

Tree of Life photo illustration by Sophia Chen ’09.

department, Beth Barefoot. Every Monday morning school meeting became Musical Monday, featuring a different student or faculty musician vocalist or group performance before announcements.

Oh, what talent we discovered!

Later in the year accomplished cellist Mary Randall ’09 performed in a master class with the celebrated Yo-Yo Ma at Merrill Auditorium in Portland, and several of our top musicians shared master class instruction from the international performers brought to Hebron through the Saul ’51 and Naomi Cohen chamber music concerts. The a cappella Hebeegeebees were reborn, performing on campus, at alumni gatherings in Boston and Portland, and singing the national anthem for the Portland Seadogs. With inspiration from visiting a cappella groups from MIT and area schools on campus, the hills are alive with music.

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t is a wonderful irony that it is athletics—often the competitor with art activities for students’ time and attention—which opened the door for the arts. The much-heralded new athletic center, with its full-sized A scene from this year’s musical production of Once on This Island.

dance and aerobic training room, gave the arts their new home, The Lepage Center for the Arts, inside Sargent Gymnasium. Thanks to creative design sketches by architects Lynne Holler ’80 and Paul Lewandowski and the craftsmanship of our own maintenance artisans, we now have seven new art studio spaces for painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography and middle school art on the ground level of Sargent.

The bright, airy, big spaces are ­illuminated by the floor-to-ceiling windows looking out to the Bowl, Allen House and the hills beyond.

With hallway and studio partitions built of textured wall board, there is display space throughout for student art. Competition for rehearsal space is no more because the erstwhile basketball court has become the full-time Androscoggin Theater and school auditorium, with moveable seating on the flat floor until more extensive future renovations are executed. With the Dwyer Room and the athletic offices converted to music classroom spaces there is a new light on all the fine arts at Hebron, much sooner than we had expected.

Come for a visit to see and hear for yourself!

John King, Head of School

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Math team shines H

ebron Academy’s math team turned in their most successful season yet, taking the Class D title and placing seven students on the all-star state team.

During the regular season, schools are allowed to enter as many 10-person teams as they wish. Of the 140 teams competing statewide from October to March, Hebron finished first in Class D and a close second to Class A Bangor High overall. The team placed first in the Pi Cone North league, bringing home eleven of sixteen individual medals.

At the state meet, held in April at Bangor Auditorium, each school may enter only one team

of ten students. Hebron’s team won the meet, beating 90 other schools to take home the first place trophy.

Seven of Hebron’s “mathletes” finished the regular season in the top 36 out of nearly 1500 competitors statewide, thus qualifying them for a place on the Maine all-star team to compete at the American Regions Mathematics League’s national meet.

Because the ARML meet was held after graduation, seniors Jacky Chen, Joon Sung Lee, Albert Hsu and Xin Wang chose not to compete, but juniors Ho In Na, Seok Won Jee, and Seung Woo Kim accompanied the Maine all-stars to Penn State from May 28–31. Ho In was a member of the

Front Row: Yu Zhang ’09, Mengdong Zhuang ’12, Xi Chen ’11, Claire Cummings ’09, Chengmin Dong ’10, Dong Hee Lee ’12, Su Jung Hwang ’09, Seung Hee Lee ’11, Jai Kyeong Kim ’11. Middle Row: Mrs. Shore, Weichi Liu ’09, Weisun Jiang ’10, Jiyeon Ko ’10, Eun Young Sung ’11, Woon Son Kim’10, Seok-Won Jee ’10, Ho Hyung Choi’10, HoIn Na ’10, Mr. Cross. Back Row: Kun Yu Poon ’11, Jie Chen ’12, Albert Hsu ’09, Yi Hai Gu ’12, Seung Woo Kim ’10, Joo Won Jun ’09, Sun Woo Lee ’11, Sung Hyun Choi ’12, Ju Hwan Kim ’11, Joon Sung Lee ’09, Seung Yeon Kang ’11, Sang Il Min ’10. Missing: Xin Wang ’09, Bess Curtis ’10, Huanxi Wu ’11, Sung Hyuk Seo ’11.

first team, which finished seventh in the nation in Division B. He also tied for the second highest score on the Maine team. Seok Won and

Seung Woo were members of Maine’s second team.

Merry Shore, advisor

Celebrating academic achievement F

ormer ambassador Thomas N. Hull III ’64 spoke at this year’s Cum Laude Society induction. Mr. Hull is a graduate of Dickinson College and served in the Peace Corps before entering the foreign service. He is currently a professor of politics and international studies at Simmons College in Boston. During his talk, he reminded the audience of the larger challenges of life that lie beyond academic success.

Congratulations to the new and returning members of Hebron Academy’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society.

Front row: Sarah Fensore ’09*, Claire Cummings ’09*, Tina Hoelzer ’10, Ambassador Hull ’64, Seok Won Jee ’10 and Jeremy Kleven ’10. Middle row: Mary Randall ’09*, Ashley Waldron ’09*, Lydia Drown ’09*, Emma Leavitt ’10, Emily Powers ’10 and Brett Bisesti ’09.

Back row: Yu Zhang ’09, Katya Planson ’09, Emily Minigell ’09 and Brittany Toth ’09. Not pictured: Sang Il Min ’10. * Elected in 2008.

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the academy Building efficiently makes efficient buildings T his spring, Hebron Academy received funds from a Efficiency Maine grant to cover some of upfront costs of reducing operating and maintenance expenses in the new athletic center. The grant provided incentive for features ranging from energy-efficient light bulbs and motion-sensing switches to variable-speed fans and highefficiency boilers, all designed to limit routine energy consumption.

The funds themselves—some of which went to architectural firm SMRT for mandated reports on energy savings—represent a net reimbursement of $55,000, which will go toward the overall cost of the athletic facility.

In keeping with the campus master plan, construction of the athletic center enabled the initial phase of construction for the Lepage Center for the Arts to be located in Sargent Memorial Gymnasium.

Here too, efficiency was a hallmark of the construction process. Hebron Academy’s own staff planned and completed the renovation work, and,

according to Michael Hughes, Director of Building and Grounds, exercised considerable ingenuity in the process. Having compiled a number of ideas for the renovation of the old gymnasium, Mr. Hughes worked up a “paper-bag sketch” a year ago and ran his ideas by SMRT architect Paul Lewandowski.

“Paul made a few alterations,” Mr. Hughes said, “And with the talent we have on staff, we went to work as soon as the old gym was vacated. Brian O’Leary, our electrician, was in charge of expanding the fire alarm and revamping the heating system, which he started back in June.

Earl Futch, our carpenter, oversaw the layout, sizing and construction of the classrooms.

Brad Whittemore had the difficult job of replumbing a building with eleven distinct elevations.

“Because this is phase one of a larger project, we had to be careful that anything we did now wasn’t going to impact the long-term plan for the building. This meant that about two thirds of the work

School electrician Bryan O’Leary installs conduit in the new Lepage Center for the Arts, located in Sargent Memorial Gymnasium.

went to updating the building infrastructure and one third to actually creating new spaces.”

Mr. Hughes took on the mission of creating partitions to divide the old fitness center into studios; a floor-based heating system prohibited standard wall construction techniques.

While searching for construction materials, he happened upon a collection of wooden panels used as hockey boards before the construction of Robinson Arena. Now mounted on wheels,

The old fitness center is divided into three studios with these moveable panels, recycled out of old hockey boards. The dividers also provide instant gallery space to display work in progress or the final product.

the gently-S-curved panels can be moved around to create a variety of flexible studio spaces.

With phase one of the Sargent-to-Lepage renovation complete, the former pool remains to be redesigned. Here, the challenges of removing the old pool and converting three floors of space for use as additional classrooms are considerable, which only whets the appetite of the school’s inventive buildings manager.

“It’s my favorite building,” Mr. Hughes said, “One huge palette for the artist in me.”

David Inglehart

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Accident report I

t is a beautiful May morning. Students are listening to a driving safety presentation at Community Meeting. Suddenly, the stillness is broken— teachers Sarah Bryan and James LeBlanc ’02 are involved in a head-on collision on the campus loop. The 911 call goes out to the Oxford County dispatch center and moments later an ambulance crew is on the scene along with members of three local fire departments. Horrified students leave the church in time to witness the process of extricating their teachers from the car’s twisted wreckage.

As Hebron fire chief Jim Trundy coordinates the rescue effort, paramedics from PACE get into the back of the car to relay information to the victims and administer first aid.

The Hebron fire department stands by with hoses, ready to douse any fire that might start while Paris and Norway firefighters begin tearing the car apart with a hydraulic crowbar, also called the “jaws of life.”

First, the crews cover Ms. Bryan and Mr. LeBlanc with blankets as they break the windshield and pull it out of the car’s frame. Then they use the jaws to take the doors off the car. Ms.

Bryan, in the passenger seat, is easier to extricate. Once her door is removed, the team wraps a cervical collar around her neck, puts her on a backboard and carries her away from the scene. Because Mr. LeBlanc is pinned under the dash­board, the crew removes the roof of the car before stabilizing his neck in a cervical collar and sliding a backboard down behind him. Working together, six of them pull him straight up out of the seat onto the backboard and carry him away from the accident. From start to finish, the rescue takes about 25 minutes.

Master class On February 26, senior Mary Randall faced a dilemma.

That afternoon was dress rehearsal for the all-school musical in which she had the lead. Then renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma blew into town for a concert at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium, and Mary was one of only three Maine students invited to participate in a master class with him that same afternoon. We’ll let you guess what she decided to do.

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Rescue personnel Derek Tuttle, David Godin, Steve Witham (behind backboard), Darryl Rugg, Sally Lane, Marge Fletcher and Ben Conant work to free James LeBlanc ’02 from the wrecked car.

Ms. Bryan’s injuries are fairly minor and she is walking moments after she is pulled from the vehicle.

Although Mr. LeBlanc has a terrible abdominal wound he is able to eat lunch about half an hour later.

By now you have probably figured out that the accident was a staged training exercise. John Monahan of the Hebron fire department coordinated the

simulation. (His wife is Hebron nurse Arica Powers Monahan ’97.)

Mr. Monahan located a junk car and worked with PACE and the fire departments to schedule the exercise. About a dozen rescue personnel took part, including Hebron firefighters Chuck Hall ’80 and trainee Zac Creps ’10.

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the academy Students and staff plan 2009 Malawi trip

Hebron Academy faculty and students traveling to the Little Field Home in Malawi are: Ms. Katie Coyne, Mr. Ian Cross, Mario De La Isla (Texas), Geoff Bowen (Massachusetts), Camreé Thompson (York), Andy Churchill (Harrison), Charles Evans (Connecticut), Jordan Wade (New Hampshire), Emma Leavitt (Gray), Seung Hee Lee (Korea), Mr. Bill Flynn, Ms. Ashley Webb, and Ms. Janet Littlefield, Executive Director of the Little Field Home.

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ight Hebron Academy juniors will be traveling to the Little Field Home orphanage in Malawi for what has become an annual community service opportunity.

Andy Churchill, Emma Leavitt, Camreé Thompson, Geoff Bowen, Charles Evans, Jordan Wade, ­Seung Hee Lee, and Mario De La Isla, accompanied by Academy staffers Katie Coyne, Ian Cross, Bill Flynn, Janet Littlefield and Ashley Webb, will stay at the orphanage for one month, alongside the 72 children

Janet Littlefield, the executive director of the Home and dorm parent and coach at Hebron, is looking forward to seeing the students make connections with the children in Malawi. The students are expected to work hard at the Home and live like the Malawians, with no electricity or plumbing and few health or educational resources. The students will teach the children and will also gain a great deal of practical experience.

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preciate the work they do for the community and orphans over there, but as an educator to see these kids thinking and acting globally is fantastic! I hope what they learn will help shape their future," said Ms. Littlefield.

The students will conduct workshops on HIV/AIDS and malaria, two diseases that are rampant throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Malawi has over one million orphans and most of the population, especially in the

Little Field Home. Malawians rely on their short rainy season to harvest their crops for the year.

To help in this effort, students hosted a Walk-a-thon in May to raise funds to install a borehole/ well and solar-powered irrigation system at the Home. The project costs $14,000 and will allow crops to grow year round with multiple harvests and a high food production. This project will help reduce hunger in the area and create employment for the local Malawians.

and 14 workers who live there permanently. The Hebron group will conduct health, education and agriculture projects at the orphanage and with the greater community.

laboratively with the Malawians on projects to help alleviate poverty in the area and they will return to Maine global citizens with a better perspective. I ap-

district the orphanage is located in, is under 14 years of age.

One major project the students will participate in is building a sustainable farm at

If sufficient funds are raised, the Maine students will help install this system at the Home in July.

Susan R. Geismar

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Seventh graders pull together E

arly on a May morning, the seventh graders headed to Rockland, beginning their day with a visit to Station Maine, an organization of community members dedicated to offering boating opportunities to youth in mid-coast Maine.

The middle schoolers rowed as a team in an eight-person pulling boat, and also learned some traditional knot-tying and navigation skills. Station Maine’s mission, in part, is to encourage and stimulate teamwork, leadership, perseverance and self-reliance. As Station Maine director Muriel Curtis said, “The pulling boat is such a good educational vehicle. There are no committee meetings or discussions of how to proceed. Pull together and we go places. Don’t pull together and the oars clunk.”

After lunch at the Rockland Café, the seventh graders visited

the Farnsworth Museum to see the exhibit “Four in Maine” which featured the work of four Maine artists, including Hebron alumnus Chris Pinchbeck ’87. Mr. Pinchbeck is a photographer of note, and joined the Hebron group for discussion and a guided tour of his works. The Farnsworth exhibit displayed Mr. Pinchbeck’s large format pinhole camera images.

“The power of pinhole photography allowed me to capture nature in a way modern photography is

Visiting with photographer Chris Pinchbeck. Front: Jenny Walker, Kelcey Robichaud, Mr. Pinchbeck, Lindsey Keith and Paige Kenison. Back: Margaret Fogarty, Sam Wheeler, Sawyer Harkins, Ms. Guenther, Josh Theriault, Janelle Tardif, Brooks Layman, Charlotte Middleton, Jake Sclar and Julia Schneider

incapable of doing,” he said.

“Long exposure times (sometimes as much as six hours) and large print size, combined with sharpness unlimited by optics provides for a unique presence and layering. This medium is now a part of photographic history as the advent of digital photography

has made the paper, chemicals and machines used to process it obsolete.” His images are the world’s largest, one-of-a-kind direct positive pinhole images ever to be made.

The class finished off their day with a walk on the Rockland breakwater and a stop for ice cream before returning to campus.

Leslie Guenther

Under the guidance of a Station Maine staffer (furthest away), Charlotte Middleton, Brooks Layman, Jake Sclar, Kelcey Robichaud, Sawyer Harkins and Margaret Fogarty try rowing together in an eight-person pulling boat.

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Eighth grade leadership

Working together to cross the river, eighth graders Adria Hughes, Roz Moisan, Sydney Randall, Sam Futch, Kolby Robichaud, Brad Geismar, Quinn Fogarty and Pat Shelley take part in a team-building game.

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his year the Middle School faculty debuted a new eighth grade leadership program, mirroring the leadership training now done with upper schoolers.

“We started the leadership program with the goal of having the eighth grade students take more of a leadership role in all aspects of their middle school lives” said Middle School Director Paul Brouwer.

The eighth graders came for a day of team-building games and activities before the rest of the students. They also learned about the qualities of effective leaders, including honesty, tolerance and respect. Throughout the year, the students have used their advisory period time to learn about famous leaders and discuss what contributed to their success.

For his contribution to the “eighth grade reads” program, Pat Shelley reads Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” under the watchful eye of Hebron alumnus Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln’s first vice president.

These students have used their leadership skills to run morning meeting and plan middle school dances and events. This spring, as an introduction to public speaking, each member of the class read a favorite poem or story in front of the student body.

“We are very pleased with how well these students have responded to the added responsibility that has been given to them,” said eighth grade advisor Steve Middleton. “We look forward to this program helping to build confidence and self-esteem in the years to come.”

Sixth graders in the clock tower: Jack Bayley, Austin Smith, Sarah Brouwer, Caitlin Shelley, Mr. Middleton, Rachel Jurek, McCaela Prentice, Sabrina Maamouri-Cortez and Will Kannegieser.

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hat else is there to do on a cold, rainy spring day than fly paper airplanes outside? That’s exactly what Steve Middleton’s sixth grade English class did recently. Mr. Middleton is teaching his sixth graders how to write poetry using all their senses. He started off the class by reading the poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens. Concentrating on the smell, taste and feel of a piece of broccoli, each student wrote a stanza for a class poem naming it “Twelve Ways to Look at a Piece of Broccoli.”

At the end of class, the sixth graders made brightly colored paper airplanes and climbed the school building’s open clock tower. As with the broccoli, Mr. Middleton asked them to focus on what they were feeling and hearing. Then they flew the planes off the tower. The colors contrasted beautifully with the gray, gloomy day, and the kids whooped with pleasure.

Their final task was to write a poem based on that experience.

Christine Hemmings Clock Tower Planes Jack Bayley, sixth grade Walking up the small staircase With a bunch of holes in the wall Makes it feel like the 1900s By the time you're at the top Of the clock You can hear the shivers of sixth graders The damp rain coming from every direction The angry wind blows at a fast pace 12 colorful planes fly off the 3rd storey Big bird My plane soared into the clock and has been there ever since.

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Entrepreneurship challenges students

Entrepreneurship begins at home Former Red Sox minority partner and vice president Les ­Otten spoke to students during Community Meeting on April 22. Mr. Otten quoted former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling to inspire students to think “why not me” when imagining their own success. As a Maine-based entrepreneur, he challenged them to have a winning attitude and to build a strong and prosperous future right here in the Pine Tree State.

Most Fun Seok Won Jee ’10, Jai Kim ’11, Seung Woo Kim ’10, Seung Hee Lee ’11, Sang Min ’10 and Hoin Na ’10, as Merit Genesissor, sold anion bracelets and garnered top honors as the most profitable business.

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he 2009 edition of Hebron Academy’s Entrepreneurship Program came to a close on Thursday, April 30, when four teams of student entrepreneurs presented their businesses to a panel of judges. Throughout the year, students heard stories of success—and failure—from alumni, parents and friends who served as guest speakers and mentors. This spring they started their own campus-based businesses, responsible for planning, marketing, selling, and ultimately presenting their results. The judges chose the winning teams based on most profit, best plan and best presentation.

Most Profitable Merit Genesissor (Seok Won Jee ’10, Jai Kim ’11, Seung Woo Kim ’10, Seung Hee Lee ’11, Sang Min ’10 and Hoin Na ’10) who sold anion bracelets. Popularized by Team Korea in the World Baseball Classic, the bracelets— said to improve health and sports ability­­—were a big seller. The team, each of whose members will receive $500, plans to donate part of the profits to a church and part to the sophomore class.

As for the team name, it was an original coinage of the group.

Best Business Plan T&N Enterprises (Taylor Theriault ’11 and Natalia Peña

’11), who sold custom T-shirts in two styles, one listing the senior class. Taylor and Natalia will receive $250 each.

Best Presentation Prestige Enterprises (Andrew Burgess ’11, Kees van Haasteren ’09, Tom Pagnozzi ’11, Erika Thomas ’11, Jeff Morgan ’09), sellers of Andrew Burgess’s original music CDs. Team members will each receive $200.

Best Presentation honors went to Prestige Enterprises (Tom Pagnozzi ’11, Andrew Burgess ’11, Kees van Haasteren ’09 and Erika Thomas ’11) who marketed and sold CDs of Andrew’s original music.

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Jackie Chen Enterprises (Yu Zhang ’09 and Kai Chen ’09), who sold “fun” foods to dorm residents. The team will receive $100.

Hebron Academy trustees Bob Rich ’49 and Scott Nelson ’91, and local businessman Daryel Duhaime served as judges for the event, which marked the end of a year-long program involving sev-

eral guest speakers and regular Monday night sessions throughout the winter and spring led by faculty adviser Bob MacLellan.

“Despite interruptions in the form of three snow days,” said Mr. MacLellan, “The students did an amazing job, and I’m very proud of their accomplishments.”

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Allen Field dedicated O n Saturday, May 2, a group of students, trustees, faculty and alumni gathered for the dedication of Hebron’s new athletic field. Alumnus John McGonagle ’61 recommended that the field be named for Claude L. and Eleanor D. Allen, in honor of their 27 years of service to the school.

In 1945, Claude Allen was hired by Hebron’s board of trustees to reopen the school, which had been closed during World War II. He and Mrs. Allen moved to campus and spent a year coordinating building repair, hiring teachers and finding students. Hebron Academy reopened in the fall of 1946 with fourteen teachers and 125 boys.

The Allens retired in 1972 and moved to South Paris where they kept up a lively correspondence with former “Hebron boys” and visited campus for special events. Mr. Allen died in 1982 and Mrs. Allen eventually

Head of School John King addressed a crowd of students, alumni, parents and friends on the slope just above the field.

moved to Kennebunk to be closer to her daughter, Jane. She died the day after the field was dedicated (see page 43).

Dedication speakers included Head of School John King, Board Chair Reeve Bright ’66, Jane Allen Smith and John McGonagle. All the speakers talked about Claude Allen’s outsized personality, Eleanor

Allen’s tempering influence and the commitment of both to the school. Together, the Allens touched a generation of students and built a strong and lasting foundation for Hebron Academy.

Situated on cleared land below the new athletic center, Allen Field doubles as a boys’ lacrosse field. At 120 yards by

75 yards the playing surface is the optimum size for soccer as recommended by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

It also provides a large playing space for lacrosse, with ample overplay areas (i.e., the field is more than 20 yards longer and about 15 yards wider than required for lacrosse).

“Allen Field complements Dwyer Fields and gives some much-needed practice and play space for our six soccer teams who had been sharing two ‘real’ fields plus the Bowl,” said athletic director Leslie Guenther.

“It completes our complex of fields and is sited wonderfully.”

Stephanie Allen, board chair Reeve Bright ’66, John McGonagle ’61, Jane Allen Smith, David Smith, Peter Allen and Head of School John King by the boulder marking the Eleanor D. and Claude L. Allen, Jr. Field.

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Winter sports roundup

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inter 2008–2009 was another good season. Hebron skiers and snowboarders were able to hit the slopes regularly, and the weather rarely affected other teams’ schedules and travel plans. The ski team hosted the New England Class B Championship meet at Shawnee Peak in February, an event which included 150 racers from 15 different schools, and was wonderfully successful thanks to the tremendous support of Hebron faculty, staff and parents.

Though small in number, the girls’ hockey team experienced good success again this winter, winning the St. George’s Christmas tournament early in the season and earning their sixth New England tournament bid since the program began in 1999.

The boys’ junior varsity hockey team continued their fine play as well, finishing with an overall record of 14–6–1 and following up their inaugural win with a second JV Prep Tourney title in December.

Following suit, the boys’ varsity hockey team had one of its strongest seasons in recent years, winning the Holt Conference Championship and earning the #1 seed to the New England tournament where they had convincing wins in both the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds before falling one goal short in the championship game.

Hebron’s scores are listed first

Boys’ Varsity Basketball 12/5 Richmond 65 42 12/6 Gould 64 49 12/10 Kents Hill 67 41 12/13 St. Andrews 55 80 Lawrence/Groton Tournament 12/19 Holderness 57 54 12/19 Groton 73 75 12/20 Cushing 40 65 1/8 Hyde 57 64 1/9 St. Mark’s 37 83 1/14 New Hampton “B” 70 46 1/16 St. Andrews 61 94 1/17 Marianapolis 46 114 1/21 Brewster “B” 77 35 1/23 Putnam Sci. Acad.

1/24 Lee Academy 52 103 1/30 Exeter 81 99 1/31 Brimmer & May 56 74 2/4 Brewster “B” 65 50 2/13 Vermont 86 91 2/14 KUA 74 87 2/18 Kents Hill 75 57 2/25 Holderness 45 81 2/26 Tilton

Boys’ JV Basketball 12/9 12/10 12/13 1/8

Elan Buckfield Gould Richmond

37 43 27 42

48 28 35 45

1/10 Hyde 1/14 Merriconeag 9th Grade 1/16 Richmond 1/19 Kents Hill 1/24 Hyde 1/30 Berwick 1/31 Richmond 2/3 Elan 2/4 Merriconeag 9th Grade 2/5 Kents Hill 2/11 Gould

38 31 27 44 31 27 42 33 35

25 48 30 47 33 39 41

34 26 35 34

Girls’ Varsity Basketball 12/5 Richmond 12/8 Buckfield 12/9 Elan 12/13 Gould 1/6 NYA 1/10 Hyde 1/13 Seacoast 1/14 Gould 1/15 Grtr Prtlnd Chrstn 1/17 Proctor 1/19 Kents Hill 1/23 Seacoast 1/26 Hyde 1/30 Grtr Prtlnd Chrstn 1/31 Richmond 2/3 Elan 2/5 Kents Hill

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14 16 54 22 22 22 32 23 30 25 20 33 22 34 38 55 48

38 43 11 23 48 57 34 44 33 24 35 36 43 38 55 7 30

Captain Eric Rodriguez ’09 at a face off.

Boys’ Varsity Hockey Atlanta Showcase 11/28 Opponent TBA 11/29 Opponent TBA 11/30 Opponent TBA 12/3 Holderness 12/7 Worcester 12/12 Acad. St. Louis 12/13 Prtsmth Abbey BB&N Tournament 12/30 Proctor 12/31 Wllstn-Nrthmptn 12/31 Roxbury Latin 1/5 Boston Bulldogs 1/10 South Kent @BU 1/14 Proctor 1/16 Stanstead 1/17 Kents Hill 1/21 Pingree 1/24 Holderness 1/30 Hoosac 1/31 Brewster 2/4 NYA 2/5 Bridgton 2/6 Berwick 2/11 Berwick

8 7 11 5

0 1 2 0

4 6 4 2 5 6 2 3 10 4 9 6 7 4 5 7

2 5 0 6 6 4 4 0 1 5 2 1 3 5 2 0

2/13 Brunswick 2/18 New Hampton 2/20 Bstn Jr. Rangers 2/21 Kngswd Oxfrd 2/25 NYA 2/28 Holt Conf. playoff vs. Worcester New England Tournament 3/4 Vermont 3/7 NYA 3/8 New Hampton

5 5 6 3 2

3 3 2 0 3

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0

6 5 2

0 2 3

Congratulations to Chad Goodwin ’09 who was named to the NEPSIHA DII All-Star team.

Chad and teammate Chris Gacsy ’10 were also named to the Holt Tournament first team, and Bryan Felice ’10 to the second team.

Boys’ JV Hockey 12/6 New Hampton 6 0 12/10 Berwick 6 2 12/12 Acad. St. Louis 3 3 12/13 Acad. St. Louis 0 2 JV Prep School Tournament @NYA

the academy 12/19 12/19 12/20 12/20 1/9 1/10 1/14 1/17 1/23 1/24 1/30 1/31 2/4 2/5 2/13 2/18 2/20

KUA NYA Kents Hill NYA St. Dom’s Tilton Kents Hill ME Moose Elite Acad. St. Louis Acad. St. Louis NYA Maine Pre Preps Brewster St. Dom’s Holderness Kents Hill NYA

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

1 0 1 0 1 0 2 5 2 2 3 3 0 0 2 2 3

Girls’ Varsity Hockey 11/21 NEWHL 12/10 Governor’s Acad.

12/13 Gunnery St. George’s Tournament 12/19 St. George’s 12/20 Holderness Northwood Tournament 1/2 Northwood 1/3 Ont. Hock. Acad.

1/4 NJ Colonials 1/4 Boston Shamrocks 1/9 St. Mark’s 1/10 Stanstead 1/14 Kents Hill 1/16 BB&N 1/21 NYA 1/24 Proctor 1/30 Exeter 1/31 Brewster

6 3 3

0 5 2

3 2

1 1

4 1 4 2 3 5 2 0 0 8 1 2

3 9 1 5 6 2 0 5 2 2 5 8

Kaitlyn Paiton ’11 takes the ball while Emily Powers ’10 (#14), Laura Dow ’11 (#21) and Emma Leavitt ’10 (#20) follow.

2/4 Holderness 2/6 Middlesex 2/7 Rivers 2/14 Canterbury 2/15 Winchendon 2/18 Proctor 2/21 New Hampton 2/28 NYA New England Tournament 3/4 Dexter Southfield

3 6 1 3 3 4 3 5

2 3 8 2 6 4 0 2

0

1

Alpine Skiing 1/9 GS @Sunday Riv. 1/14 GS @Shawnee Pk 1/16 SL @Sunday Riv. 1/21 SL @Kents Hill 2/4 GS @Shawnee Pk 2/5 SL @Kents Hill 2/11 NE C’ship @Shawnee Pk. 2/16 MAISAD C’ship SL and GS @Kents Hill

Snowboarding 1/23 1/21 2/4 2/6 2/11 2/18

SS @Sunday Riv. SS @Sunday Riv. HP @Sunday Riv. HP @Sunday Riv. BA @Kents Hill BA @Kents Hill

Alumni/Parent hockey game draws crowd In January, nearly 30 players laced up their skates and joined the fun at the annual Alumni/ Parent Hockey game. The nonhitting, medium-paced play resulted in a well-fought tie.

Front: Dima Naida ’07, Dan Carpentier ’03, Laurent Marmo ’02, Chris Dyer ’02, Mike Hughes, George Dycio ’78, Rick Rigazio ’71, Craig Clark ’70, Marc Roy ’78 and Michael Blais.

Back: Jay Keough, Costa Tsitouras ’08, Matt St. Pierre ’07, Dave Woods ’08, Jason Goodman ’08, Jake Leyden ’99, James LeBlanc ’02, Kevin Osborne ’01, Pat Taylor ’00, Chris Nadeau ’04, Brendan Densmore ’00, Geoff Newitt ’08, Randy Morin ’04, John Slattery ’04, a mystery man and Bruce Canty.

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the academy

Spring sports roundup Kate Mingle ’10 and Claire Cummings ’09 lead a pack of runners at a Hebron track meet.

5/2 Gould 7 6 5/6 Hyde 5 14 5/13 MAISAD semifinal vs. Gould 13 7 5/16 MAISAD c’ship vs. Hyde 2 12

Girls’ Lacrosse Congratulations to USA Lacrosse New England All-Stars Maisie Metcalfe ’09 and Sarah Markey ’11

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he weather cooperated again for much of the spring season, and when it didn’t, our athletic center provided wonderful indoor practice spaces for many of our teams. Outdoors, our track, tennis courts, and field complex supported all of our teams well; we are fortunate to have such fine facilities. Congratulations to the varsity baseball team who capped off a 9–2–1 regular season with a solid win in the maisad championship game, and to the girls’ tennis team who are the maisad team champions for the first time since 2000. Congratulations, as well, to the track team as well on their fine showing in the New England Class C Championship meet. The boys’ team finished a respectable 12th out of 19 teams, while the girls team (only five strong!) finished a remarkable 6th out of 19 teams.

Hebron’s scores are listed first

Baseball 4/9 4/11 4/14 4/15 4/17 4/23 4/28 4/29 5/1 5/6

Bridgton Proctor Winthrop Berwick Telstar Gould Bridgton New Hampton Kents Hill Gould

3 23 15 5 5 1 6 6 8 0 11 0 1 3 14 6 15 5 17 1

5/8 Kents Hill 11 5/13 MAISAD semifinal 5/16 MAISAD c’ship vs. Gould 6

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JV Baseball 4/11 4/15 4/25 4/29 5/11

Gould Kents Hill Kents Hill Gould Buckfield

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9 16 7 4 16 14 2 12 3 2

4/4 Hyde @ Bowdoin 8 10 4/11 Gould 14 13 4/15 Proctor 7 6 4/22 New Hampton 4 14 4/24 NYA 14 4 4/25 Kents Hill 5 9 4/29 Tilton 7 6 5/2 Gould 8 9 5/6 Hyde 6 7 5/8 Kents Hill 7 10 5/9 Berwick 9 10 5/13 MAISAD semifinal vs. Kents Hill 3 8

Boys’ Lacrosse Congratulations to USA Lacrosse New England All-Star Derek Gilbreth ’09 4/4 Winchendon @ Gould 3 4/11 Proctor 2 4/15 Holderness 1 4/17 Gould 7 4/18 Kents Hill 0 4/21 NYA 8 4/22 New Hampton 7 4/24 Kents Hill 2 4/25 Brewster 3 4/29 Tilton 3 5/2 Gould 8 5/6 Hyde 8 5/7 Hyde 4 5/8 Berwick 0 5/13 MAISAD semifinal vs. Gould 10

6 16 13 15 8 7 4 10 16 16 16 3 8 14 21

Boys’ JV Lacrosse 4/11 4/16 4/18 4/22 4/25 5/1

Proctor Hyde Kents Hill Gould Kents Hill Berwick

6 16 6 11 8 2 7 8 7 8 4 2

Softball 4/14 Winthrop 1 15 4/15 Kents Hill 6 7 4/17 Telstar 4 11 4/18 Proctor 6 16 4/22 Exeter 5 14 4/24 Gould 17 0 4/29 Kents Hill 8 4 5/2 Kents Hill 12 13 5/9 Gould 16 2 5/13 MAISAD semifinal 5/16 MAISAD c’ship vs. Kents Hill 8 12

2008–2009 MAISAD Team Championships Field Hockey Boys’ JV Soccer Boys’ Varsity Soccer Baseball Girls’ Tennis

the academy Geoff Bowen ’10.

Boys’ Varsity Tennis 4/11 4/13 4/15 4/20 4/22 4/29 5/2 5/6 5/9 5/13 5/16

Hyde Bridgton Gould Bridgton Kents Hill Kents Hill Gould Hyde Exeter JV MAISAD singles MAISAD doubles

2 0 1 3 3 2 2 2 1

3 5 4 2 2 3 3 3 5

4 3 3 4 3 3

1 2 2 1 2 2

1 3 3 1 0 4 3

4 2 2 4 5 1 2

Boys’ JV Tennis 4/15 4/22 4/24 4/29 5/4 5/6

Berwick Gould Kents Hill Berwick Kents Hill Gould

Girls’ Varsity Tennis 4/8 4/15 4/22 4/25 4/29 5/1 5/9 5/13 5/16

Gould Kents Hill Gould Kents Hill Berwick Kents Hill Gould MAISAD singles MAISAD doubles

Kents Hill Oxford Hills Kents Hill Berwick Oxford Hills Berwick Kents Hill

4/11 4/18 4/25 5/9 5/16

Exeter Invitational Hebron Invitational Hyde Invitational MAISADs New Englands

Congratulations to the track team on their terrific showing at the New England Championship meet. Highlights listed below:

Girls’ JV Tennis 4/15 4/20 4/22 4/29 5/4 5/6 5/8

Track and Field

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Girls’ team: Finished 6th of 19 teams; only 4 points out of 4th place

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For the girls:

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Emma Leavitt ’10 —1st in the 400m; 2nd in the 200m; 2nd in the long jump

Claire Cummings ’09—2nd in 1500m Kate Mingle­’10—6th in the High Jump

Boys 4X100 relay (Aaron Paiton ’10, Seung Hee Lee ’11, Eric Rodriguez ’09, Colin Taylor ’10)—4th place

Girls 4X400 relay (Jenna Bosse ’12, Kate Mingle ’10, Claire Cummings ’09, Emma Leavitt ’10)—5th place

Boys 4X400 relay (Colin Taylor ’10, Andrew Bettencourt ’10, Andrew Churchill ’10, Eric Rodriguez ’09)—3rd place

Boys’ team: Finished a respectable 12th of 19 teams.

For the boys: Colin Taylor ’10—6th in the 100m; 5th in the 200m

MAISAD Academic All Conference Team

Aaron Paiton ’10—3rd in the high jump

This distinction recognizes varsity impact players who are juniors or seniors and who have distinguished themselves both academically and athletically throughout the school year.

Nick Stuer ’10—4th in the discus

2009 Hebron recipients Maisie Metcalfe ’09 Kailey Bubier ’09 Brian McDonald ’10 Emma Valli ’10

April showers couldn’t deter our spring athletes. Here, the tennis teams practice on the athletic center floor while runners train on the track above.

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This is one of the oldest documents in Hebron Academy’s Bell-Lipman Archives. The exhibition was probably sponsored by the Tyrocinic Adelphi Society, formed in 1802 by the town’s (male) schoolteachers. The Tyrocinic Adelphi became part of the Academy a few years later and eventually admitted women, for library privileges only.

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The Hebron Academy Lyceum Association grew out of the Tyrocinic Adelphi and was open to both boys and girls. The association held public lyceums—programs of music, declamations, readings and other entertainments—as well as serving a social function for its members.

Our Own Entertainments

by Jennifer F. Adams

Human beings are storytellers. We tell stories to explain mysteries beyond our comprehension or to point out great truths or to make each other laugh. In ancient times, storytellers were travelers, bringing tales of faraway lands, of gods and goddesses and of human nature to those who could not journey. Theater grew out of simple storytelling, and groups of actors took to the stage, engaging and entertaining their audiences.

In Hebron Academy’s earliest days, students and teachers alike took part in the honored tradition of storytelling and performance, “making their own entertainments” as isolated populations have always done. The Bell-Lipman Archives at Hebron are filled with ephemera relating to these entertainments, from “exhibitions” and prize speaking competitions to the literary societies that flourished in the late nineteenth century and the full theatrical productions of the twentieth and twenty-first.

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In 1802, before the school’s founding, the young male teachers in the town formed the Tyrocinic Adelphi Society, for the purpose of “introducing a uniformity of books and manners into their schools—and improving each other in pronunciation; English grammar and correct reading and speaking” (excerpt from a letter of William Barrows, Jr., North Yarmouth, dated March 1, 1815). The Tyrocinic began admitting Academy students in 1806 and was soon part of the school. They started a library and began admitting women, but for library privileges only. The Society organized annual “exhibitions” in addition to weekly debates and was the principal source of entertainment for many years.

The 1824 schedule of exercises shown on page 16 was probably arranged by the Tyrocinic Adelphi. Although we know the story of William Tell, we can only speculate about the subjects of the other named “dialogues” or the topics of the addresses.

It is interesting to note that both boys and girls took part in the group numbers but it appears that only the boys orated.

In the 1860s the male-only Tyrocinic was dropped in favor of the Hebron Academy Lyceum Association, open to both boys and girls. The program from the public lyceum of 1886, shown on page 17, includes musical numbers, readings and a debate, framed as “Discussion of Question: Resolved: That a College is better than a Business Education for an American Citizen.”

By the mid-1890s, the Lyceum had turned back into the Tyrocinic Adelphi, and was now the parent literary and forensic body of the Bellevue Debating Society,

formed by the boys living in the Bellevue boarding house, and the Percival Bonney Literary Society, named for a trustee. The two groups met weekly to prepare for public debates sponsored by the Tyrocinic.

Meanwhile the girls formed their own club, the Alpha Literary Society, which met bi-weekly in the girls’ parlor in Cook Gymnasium. The two programs shown above are charming examples from the Alpha Receptions of 1908 and 1909, both held in Sturtevant Home. The 1908 program included an orchestra, “statue posing” and a reading, followed by a banquet. The 1909 program also featured music, toasts and a banquet of sandwiches, salted nuts, olives, fancy crackers, candy, punch and ice cream.

The two Alpha Literary Society programs shown above, from 1908 and 1909, are among the most charming objects in the Archives. The printed pieces are hand-embellished with flowers and tied with ribbon.

The piece at left is from the prize speaking exhibition, held in 1912. The judges were Perley H. Ford, principal of Mechanic Falls High School; Ella J. Dwinal of Mechanic Falls; and Dr. W. M. Garrison, from the Maine Sanatorium in Hebron. John Matthews won first prize for the boys and Ralph Goodrich finished second. Girls’ honors went to Kathryne Sturtevant and Florence Adams.

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The early years of the twentieth century show how much Hebron Academy had grown during its first century. Principal William Sargent, who came to Hebron in 1885, transformed the Academy from a rural town school into a more formal educational institution. He oversaw the first real building boom, erecting Sturtevant Hall in 1891 and Sturtevant Home in 1900; Atwood Hall followed in 1909.

Prof. Sargent also worked diligently to upgrade the curriculum and provide wholesome social functions for the students.

In 1905 he hired Harold C. Newton to teach English. Mr. Newton had a passion for debate. Building on the foundations of the literary societies, he strengthened the students’ debate skills, leading eventually to interscholastic competitions under the guidance of Ernest C. Marriner who took over in 1912.

The program on page 18 shows the prize speaking exhibition of March 16, 1912, held in the Baptist Church. The speakers are divided almost evenly between boys and girls; several of the boys went on to regional contests. As in 1824, most of the selections are now obscure, wth the possible exception of Daniel Webster’s second Bunker Hill Address.

With the untimely death of Prof. Sargent in 1921, the school underwent another fundamental change, becoming boys-only.

Athletics grew in importance and the same competitive spirit took hold in performance opportunities. By the 1930s, the debate team competed against other high schools

and a thriving drama club entered one act competitions. The new Sargent Memorial Gymnasium included a stage, providing a real theater for the drama club’s shows. In 1933, the club’s production of “Submerged” won the one act competition preliminaries and finished second in the state finals. They went on to the New England contest, finishing third.

Although theater was thriving in the 1940s—the seniors mounted another production of “Submerged” in 1941—the Great Depression was putting pressure on the school’s finances. More and more masters and students were enlisting to fight in the war, and the trustees reluctantly concluded that the school should close for the duration.

When Claude Allen reopened the school in the fall of 1946, he chose to focus at first on academics and athletics. The arts were completely extra-curricular, with many musical groups complemented by art and book fairs.

According to the Winter 1962 Semester, “the art of the legitimate stage was effectively revived” when the Dramatics Club, under the direction of Dick Stratton, presented “Twelve Angry Men” in December 1961. The play was well-received and the group presented an equally fine production of “Stalag 17” in the spring. Drama was back.

The 1933 production of “Submerged” in which a submarine officer and five men are trapped on the ocean floor. Drawing lots to see who will be shot through the torpedo tube to attract the attention of rescuers, the hysterical cowardice of one of the men leads to the noble self-sacrifice of another.

A student-directed production of Bill Johnson’s melodrama Dirty Work at the Crossroads; or Tempted, Tried and True featuring Kim Kenway ’70 as Ida Rheingold, Peter Kimball ’70 as Nellie Lovelace, Doug Endreson ’72 as Widow Lovelace and Donald Baumer ’70 as Mookie Maguggins.

Over the next few years Mr. Stratton and others directed a variety of serious plays, such as Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, St. Joan, by George Bernard Shaw and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, leavened by an occasional lighter offering such as Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring.

In 1970, students staged a classic of a completely different kind: Bill Johnson’s melodrama Dirty Work at the Crossroads; or Tried, Tempted and True. A 1942 recreation of a classic melodrama, Dirty Work featured a mustachioed villain and pure-hearted (although thickheaded) hero among other standard characters.

Nineteen seventy-two brought another paradigm shift. Claude Allen retired and once again Hebron began to admit girls.

Although athletics and arts stayed strong, theater went on hiatus for a few years, coming back to the fore when English teacher Nick Durso directed a production of Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor in 1978. The success of that production inspired Mr. Durso to expand Hebron’s theater offerings and The Good Doctor was followed by extremely successful presentations of Godspell and Pippin and a staging of the difficult Equus.

From the seventies on, many shows were performed on the smaller stage of the 80-seat Lepage Lecture Hall in the Treat Science Building. Although “backstage”

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space had to be carved out of the lobby for each performance, smaller crews found the intimate lecture hall space to be more appropriate for smaller shows.

After piloting a run of intense productions, the charismatic but controversial Durso moved on from Hebron. Several faculty members stepped in to direct one or two shows a year, ranging from simple one acts to musicals like Little Shop of Horrors and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; from small casts to large; from drama to comedy. In 1983, Shakespeare returned to the Hebron boards when Helen Davidson directed The Taming of the Shrew. Seventeen years later, in 2000, senior Elizabeth Rozeboom did what she had always wanted to do, and directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, played to standing-room-only crowds in the lecture hall.

The newest chapter in Hebron drama began in 2001, when renovations to the stage house and upper gym, made possible by trustee emeritus Albert Lepage ’65, created the Androscoggin Theater. New curtains and lighting brought the unused theater space back to life, and with the arrival of Admission staffer Julie Middleton, a bright and vibrant life indeed.

Ms. Middleton had directed large musicals at her former school and decided that the Hebron community could rise to that challenge as well. From her first production, Working, chosen in large part because its vignette structure made scheduling easier, to this year’s beautiful yet heartbreakingly sad Once On This Island, Ms. Midd’s shows have increased in scope with each presentation.

Performance, by its very nature, is ephemeral. These printed programs and photographs cannot capture the excitement of live debate or theater. While we can only imagine what the performances of the nineteenth century were like, we do know this: some of the participants loved it, some were taking a chance on trying something new, and all of them learned from the experience. Ultimately, our own entertainments are the ones we remember in the stories we tell.

Left: John Philbrick ’80 and John Benbow ’78 in Godspell, one of a series of plays produced in the late 1970s that revitalized Hebron drama.

Top: Steve Baker ’88 (Seymour), Nicole Chase ’91 (Audrey) and Rob Burns ’89 (Mr. Mushnik) in the 1988 production of Little Shop of Horrors.

Right: storytellers Andrew Burgess ’11, Lydia Drown ’09, Sarah Fensore ’09 (hidden), Leah Schultz ’09, Kim Vigneau ’11, Jiyeon Ko ’11, Abbie Small ’12, Sophia Chen ’09 and Candace Woods ’10 surround Mary Randall ’09 (kneeling) and Bobby Morrill ’10 in a scene from Once On This Island.

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A Symphony of Space

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he art is everywhere. Finished sketches, paintings and photographs line the walls.

Works in progress cover the drawing tables like snowdrifts. Sculpture fills every flat surface (and some vertical ones). Carts of glazed pottery wait to be fired and tables groan from the weight of finished pieces. And all of the activity comes with a soundtrack of student ensembles and soloists.

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Fine arts have a long history at Hebron Academy. Students have been drawing, painting, sculpting and performing for as long as the school has been in existence.

For many years co-curricular, the arts became part of the curriculum in the late 1960s. From basement studios in Atwood, the School Building, and, more recently, Sturtevant Home, the arts faculty have been creative forces, training a generation of students in the techniques of visual and performance arts. In the last decade, rising numbers of students involved in arts put increasing pressure on the available space.

Clearly, the arts department needed a home of its own.

In 2001, trustee emeritus Albert R. Lepage ’65 initiated the first step of what would eventually become the Lepage Center for the Arts. His generous gift made possible renovations to the stage house and theater

space in Sargent Memorial Gymnasium, creating the Androscoggin Theater. Mr. Lepage came forward again in 2005, designating funds to convert the gym into a fine arts center when the time was right.

The time was right in December 2008 when the new athletic center opened, freeing Sargent gymnasium for remodeling.

The school’s own buildings and grounds staff swung into action. They upgraded infrastructure, reconfigured existing facilities, built new walls and creatively reused materials. With construction complete in March, the arts faculty moved into their new home over spring break, stretching out into a wealth of studio, classroom, practice and performance space, and filling the building with vivid color and joyous song.

Join us for a tour.

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e meet Beth Barefoot, incoming chair of the fine arts department, in the Dwyer Room. Until recently, the Dwyer Room was a meeting and gathering place with a large conference table, couches and armchairs, and a couple of display cases. It is now a student-friendly music classroom outfitted with desks, bookshelves, music files and, unexpectedly, a Smartboard.

“I use a lot of YouTube in my general music classes,” Ms. Barefoot said. “We can

project it right up there so everyone can see.

The Smartboard software includes ‘music teacher tools’ which allow us to put up music staves and either draw notes freehand or drag what we need from the toolbox.

[Instrumental music teacher] John Lawson is much more of a master of it than I am, but I love it and the kids love it too.”

Along with the stage, the Dwyer Room is used as a teaching studio for voice and instrumental music. The old girls’ locker room next to the stage is outfitted with a piano and whiteboard and although the room is long and narrow it works well for ensemble voice rehearsals.

“We do need more practice room space.”

Ms. Barefoot said as we entered the lobby.

“Fortunately, Maintenance is wonderful and they made a new practice room at the top of the stairs on the end of the balcony. It’s carpeted and has an electronic piano.”

Church pews and artwork transform the lobby into a welcoming space before entering the Androscoggin Theater. The theater chairs can be left in place now that the basketball court is no longer needed daily, and the entire main floor looks more and more like a performance space.

Opposite: the lobby sports artwork and pews from the old fine arts center (more pews line the downstairs hallway).

Above: acting department chair Beth Barefoot teaches middle school music in the Dwyer Room, now a music classroom.

Left: in a practice room located in the old girls’ basketball locker room, Mary Randall ’09 and Michael Zielski ’09 prepare an original composition of Michael’s for its premier at Baccalaureate.

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elementary, middle school and high school and I love the classic architecture and the arches in this building.”

The area in front of the trainer’s roomturned-kitchenette is now a student lounge.

Art students in the class of 2009 painted the floor as a farewell gift and there are plans for a mural on the wall. More practice rooms will be tucked into the storage areas around the lounge.

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e head down the main staircase and onto the ramp to the old lower gym.

Aside from a major refit of the bathrooms and artwork on the walls, this part of the building hasn’t changed much.

“I don’t want to wipe out all memory of the gym here,” Ms. Barefoot said. “It was a gym for 80 years and that history is important. I went to brand-new schools for

s we turn the corner into the old lower gym we find the biggest, brightest changes made in the building. New walls divide the area into four huge studio spaces and create a corridor around them. The walls go about three-quarters of the way to the ceiling, allowing natural light from the western windows to flood the space, and are covered with student work in an everchanging kaleidoscope of images and colors.

More church pews, and more artwork, line the old brick walls on the other side of the new corridor.

The first room is a bright and happy middle school art classroom with plenty of space for both instruction and display. A corner inset from the hallway is the perfect place for teacher Mary Anderson to project slides and presentations on the wall. Next in line is a photography room, divided into a digital studio and traditional darkroom.

Beyond photography is sculpture and finally pottery, with plenty of room for a kiln, six wheels, worktables and storage.

We continue around the far corner into the entrance to the old fitness center.

This soaring space is home to three studios, separated from each other by moveable partitions recycled out of hockey rink boards and flats from past drama productions. The large northwest-facing windows let in plenty of natural light for the drawing, painting, photography and design classes held here.

We thank Ms. Barefoot for the tour and go on our way, envying the students who are drawing, sculpting, singing and playing, just like they always have, in a new home just for them.

Top left: Alessandra Hankinson ’10 works on one of six wheels in a pottery studio three times larger than the old one.

Bottom left: Erika Thomas ’11 and Polly Drown ’11 tweak a floor painting done by members of the class of 2009 in the student lounge.

Above: Nat Blackford ’12 works on a drawing in one of three sudios located in the old fitness center area.

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Seeds of Love and Light

by David W. Stonebraker

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he hands move quietly, wrists gently arched, fingers softly extended and spread, their knuckles contracting slightly as the tips touch down to the keys, lift and move aside. Lifting from the wrists, fingers brushing back, the hands move to the right, fingers extending again to a higher range, brushing downward, pausing, extending, drifting, sliding onward, as the soft flow of notes gradually ascends. Beneath, obscured from immediate view, the shoes, soleless, worn from black to a faded gray, mirror the fingers above, rolling to the edge of the sole against a pedal, inclining backward on a heel to touch down one pedal to the right, pause, press, and now lift to roll again, back and forth, touching leather to worn wooden bars, first one soft press and then another.

Forest Perkins, hands and feet in gentle motion, plays a prelude of English plainsong on the Baldwin organ in the loft above the Hebron Community Church.

It is Friday of Baccalaureate. Another senior class is about to enter the church for a final time together, to gather as class and schoolmates for a last meeting of the year. Above incidental noise below—the rustling of programs, the soft creak of wood as the pews accommodate students, faculty, parents and friends, the slight bump of prizes and chairs being readied at the podium, the light fluttering chatter of small conversations in the aisle—drifting notes of plainsong rise in the air, hover for a moment in an upper register, diminish and recede, the sequence of elevated notes replaced for a time by a strong, vibrating bass, sustained and rumbling before the treble begins again, walking, pausing, quietly posing variations upon a simple melody line.

The moment has arrived. A rustle greets the Head of School as he steps to the platform. In the loft above, the left hand and a foot sustain a final chord, while with the right, a series of stops is bumped up or down to set the mood and tone for the coming procession. A final pause as a plainsong note lingers in the air, and then the burst of sound as hands and feet move together to form the opening chord and arpeggio of Jeremiah Clarke’s “Trumpet Voluntary”—known as the “Prince of Denmark’s March”—the opening

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processional on this day as it has been for over twenty-five years. Looking down, Forest Perkins sets the joyous mood for the entrance of the class with a tune that a generation of Hebron graduates would recognize, if not exactly remember. The seniors take their places in the front pews, the ceremony begins, and Forest shifts from the organ bench to a seat at the back of the loft, unseen but surveying and enjoying quietly all that happens on the floor below.

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ost know the punch line to that quintessential Maine story about the rustic accosted by the stuffy from away who asks, “Lived here all your life?” Asked that question about his home in Hebron, Forest Perkins twinkles as he quips, “Well, almost, but not quite.” For Forest arrived in Hebron when he was just four years old, moving from South Paris into the Melchor Cottage on the Station Road, the small cape that had been shifted from west to east in 1928 across the gravel road to make room for the construction of Sargent Gymnasium. He is rooted there still, in the family homestead where he has had a window on the comings and goings of the village for more than half a century, and where he now tends to his youthful apple trees, a selection of scions representing traditional, yet forgotten New England varieties—a Black Oxford, a Wolf River renowned as a baking apple, a traditional Northern Spy and its tart cousin, the Quebec Belle, a Red Astrakan, an English Russet— specimens all that Forest describes with enthusiasm, extolling the best properties of each, but noting as well that they will never produce marketable fruit, just the fine taste of a time gone by.

As a child, Forest went to school in the building recently renovated to be Hebron’s Town Office at a time when that structure comprised just one classroom, the domain of teacher Lucy Eurydice Sturtevant, together with dual outhouses for the children and an ample woodshed to provide fuel for the stove. Forest made up one half of his graduating class.

The necessity of working with skills for multiple grade levels in a single classroom meant that Ms. Sturtevant pressed the older students into service to tutor the younger

ones. Forest recalls that this practice meant that what was learned one year was reviewed the next and tutored a third, insuring mastery of a traditional curriculum of English, mathematics, history, geography, spelling and skills not often included today as standing routine: practice in singing and in cursive—the Palmer Method—to develop a pleasing hand.

When asked when he first remembers playing the organ, he pushes the question aside, “I can’t ever remember not playing one. I think I started as soon as I could reach the pedals. Many homes in the area had a pump organ in the front parlor.” But clearly, Forest was playing by the time he came to Hebron. His entry in the 1955 Spectator states briefly: Vespers Organist, 3; Church Organist, 4. Ms. Sturtevant, “Aunt Dicie” to her students, was responsible for sending Forest to Hebron. At the time, he might have attended high school in either Mechanic Falls or South Paris. School consolidation with attendant School Administrative Districts would not change the educational landscape of Maine for another decade. However, Aunt Dicie, herself a 1910 graduate of Hebron, would prevail with Mr. Allen to allow talented local boys to attend the Academy, and Forest welcomed the opportunity.

“I was like any regular freshie boy that first fall, being required to study each evening in Howe Cottage under the watchful eye of Mr. Willard.

We attended church twice on Sundays and meetings most evenings,” a regimen that many alumni of the time recall, “but I got to play the organ each Sunday and to have practice time for method. Like most organists, I started with piano, but loved to play organ whenever I could.”

His Hebron experience led Forest to Gordon College in Massachusetts, where he was admitted as a music major, one of three for organ, and to his first experiences with a master teacher and traditional repertory.

His roots of repertoire began with the organ method of Sir John Stainer, a traditional

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English method, then to the more expansive method of Harold Gleason as taught by his Gordon College mentor, Professor Nutting.

Early study pieces were a selection of the preludes and fugues of Bach and Beethoven followed by training in the nineteenth century English masters and then on further to the early twentieth century French composers.

During this time, Forest first studied the compositions of Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell, composers who pay a call each May on the occasion of the Baccalaureate. Always, when setting the program for the Baccalaureate, I will ask Forest if Henry and Jeremiah might be available, and, invariably, he will respond, “Yes, I think they may be persuaded once again.”

And so it is that the processional “Prince of Denmark’s March” of Jeremiah Clarke and the recessional “Trumpet Tune in D” of Henry Purcell appear each year on the Baccalaureate program to bracket the ceremony, stirring voluntaries from Forest’s early training at Gordon.

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ollowing college, Forest worked for a time as a retailer, employed by the Electronic Organ Company in Portland as salesman and installer of many different instruments large and small, those intended for the home as well as substantial installations in churches and auditoriums.

Such work added to his foundation in both repertoire and the practical mechanics of the instruments. He would describe or demonstrate the capabilities of the instruments in the showroom and then could be called upon to do the installation or, with larger pieces, to work with the company craftsmen who did. Occasionally, as part of a network of organists, he would be asked by the companies he represented to play concerts on their instruments, and so periods of travel from Maine to Florida and west to heartlands became part of the sales routine.

“Concertizing,” as Forest calls it, was not his heart’s delight, but it did serve to broaden his repertoire, for to truly demonstrate the power and versatility of an instrument required pieces that would highlight the particular capabilities of the model. Traditional pieces such as “Melody

for Organ,” a piece by Charles Dawes written in the time of Lincoln’s presidency, and “Dreams,” by Hugh McAnnis, would be typical of a demonstration concert, but also show tunes from “The Sound of Music” and the Irish standard, “Danny Boy,” could find their way into a demonstration program.

“It would depend in part on the audience and the instrument,” Forest says. “I would always play something from Bach’s Preludes and Fugues, and often an organ treatment of a familiar cantata. You had to be nimble, to have a lot of things under the fingers.”

Forest has been getting tunes under his fingers for decades. When he played a presentation concert for the Estes reed organ upon its installation at the Community Church, the program included “Fantasy on the Battle Hymn of the Republic,” a tour de force of melody and variation by American composer David Weir. The piece is in three parts with a concluding toccata that Forest describes as “fiendishly difficult, but what a showpiece!”

The flamboyant qualities remembered from the showpieces of exhibition concerts come, in part, from the particular stops present in some organs that are not typically used in ordinary playing. Forest calls such stops the “toy counter” of an instrument, and he will speak of esoteric stops included in the instruments he has played, the auxiliary manuals that contain the controls for the special sound effects these instruments can produce. Such stops are particularly associated with theater organs, instruments originally designed to accompany silent movies, but

now more commonly associated with concert venues such as Merrill Auditorium or Radio City Music Hall. Here, at the right hand, are the controls for exotic and most un-organ-like sounds: sleigh bells, tambourines, whistles, chimes, klaxon horns, timpani, glockenspiel, horses’ hooves, car horn, even the Acme Siren, a panoply of noisy effects.

Forest has concertized on the lovely Wurlitzer theater organ at North Yarmouth Academy, a small instrument “but a true theater organ full of sound effects and ‘gizmos,’ but usually when I play theater music, originally the sound tracks for films, the music itself is more likely to be softer, melodic, with lush themes but also the ever present ‘sound effects’ so often associated with these instruments. I had a great time once with the theater organ in the Strand Theater in Portland, before its restoration in the sixties. Now that is an instrument! The whole console was mounted on a lift so that when you began to play, the whole instrument rose up out of the orchestra pit!”

It would be a sight to test the limits of the imagination: Hebron’s beloved Mr. Perkins, adorned in a sequined dinner jacket, riding the keyboard console upward at the Strand, like Sir Elton John himself or perhaps the elusive Phantom, to appear high above the audience, stage right, head inclined to the keys, the right hand flicking to the “toy counter” for yet a more exotic combination of sounds. Now, that would be something!

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oncertizing was balanced by installations, another branch of the art of the organ. During the Portland years, Forest recalls, “I was lucky to be able to talk with and work with technicians on many sorts of instruments.” Always the instrument must be matched to its space, its installation taking into account the capabilities of the instrument together with an acoustic study and understanding of the geometry and angles of deflection present in the hall.

Installing a new organ becomes a marriage of sorts between the instrument and the physical space, and the master installer will understand intuitively the union of both in the sound produced.

For an installation in Bath, Maine, early in his career, Forest planned for the massive speaker box of a large electronic organ to be suspended from the ceiling, an unusual solution that ultimately provided an unparalleled sound to delight. More recently, he was instrumental in locating and installing a “new” organ for Christ Church in Norway.

The instrument, located through a national search, was an exemplary Wicks, an exquisite pipe organ from a traditional family company in Highland, IL. The instrument was located in Michigan, in a nunnery where it served as the instrument for the nuns’ private chapel, an ancillary function to the main church complex.

Forest notes that today, rededicating and rebuilding older instruments is as important as creating new instruments and installations. It is a mission of sorts: to protect older instruments from being destroyed as churches and halls where they were originally installed are put to other uses, to preserve instruments no longer in active use from deteriorating and to seek patronage such that an instrument no longer wanted in one location may find a new voice and a new audience somewhere else. Such was case with the Wicks from Michigan. Available and able to be saved from dismantling, the organ was purchased

by Christ Church, disassembled and crated by representatives of the Wicks Company, transported to Norway, Maine, and there reassembled and voiced under Forest’s eye and ear. It is the perfect instrument for the space, “three extended ranks. It feels like it Opposite page: Forest’s photo in the 1955 Spectator and Lucy Eurydice “Aunt Dicie” Sturtevant in 1910.

This page: Forest played for Hebron Academy’s 175th celebration in 1979.

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has always been there. Its voice is wonderful in the space. It is as if it has a new life.”

Even after the physical installation, “voicing” the instrument is what finally allows the instrument to perform at its finest in a particular space. Imagine the pennywhistle of a child. Blow through its mouthpiece. The sound produced is dependent on the volume and pressure of your breath and the particular physical geometry of the orifice through which the air passes.

Vary the pressure or the hole, or both, and the pitch and tonal quality of the sound will change. Simple. At the heart, an organ “voicer” does just that.

Like our pennywhistle, any given pipe in an organ delivered from its manufacturer will have a particular pitch and tone as determined by the size, thickness and materials of the pipe itself, the size and geometry of the hole, or “flute,” in the pipe and the constant pressure of the air provided to the reservoir of the instrument to serve it. An organ voicer may make subtle adjustments to the pipe by altering, however slightly, the flute of the pipe, or, in the case of a reed pipe, by altering the thickness or shape of the metal reed within the pipe. Air to a given pipe cannot be changed because the pressure in the reservoir remains constant for all. In this way, by “voicing the pipes,” the installer creates the unique sound of the instrument balanced for its space and thus, truly, “gives voice” to the instrument. Forest modestly acknowledges that while he has worked occasionally to voice individual pipes of an instrument under repair, he has not had call to voice an entire instrument nor would he feel confident to do so, for even a modest instrument may contain several hundred pipes and a large church or concert installation thousands.

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hen listening to Forest discuss organs and the craftsmen and artisans who build and maintain them, one begins to sense a large group, unseen but ever-present, standing behind, beside and within the instrument, responsible for its

metal work, its cabinet work, its fine work, and ultimately its installation and sound. It is an organization of sorts, a brotherhood, a fraternity, a guild, even perhaps an oddfellows society. It is all of these, but without emblem or a sign on the street, no sash, lapel pin or plume on the cap to distinguish its members or their rank. Yet the network exists, and as an ad for a current wireless telephone service suggests, when one is in the network and needs advice on an organ, “You’re good!”

There had been a call to Forest earlier in the spring from states away concerning an organ and the means to repair it, the need of a recommendation, perhaps, of a person capable. And the network hummed as the conversation touched first one colleague and then another. A consultation with the Register followed. Forest opens it to show me: David Fox. Guide to North American Organ Builders.

1991. Bound in sturdy red cloth, it might be a social register for Philadelphia or a family registry of a distinguished scion of America. But this guide is for organ people, and here they are listed: the brotherhood, mainly, and family lines of the great organ builders, Hook, Wicks or Skinner, their companies, their craftsmen, the “voicers” and repairers. And there is a listing, a brief one—Forest Perkins, Hebron, ME, SOP, CR—the abbreviations for “supplier of parts, capable of repair.”

The Register of North American Organ Builders may comprise the family tree of American organ, its history and genealogy; but the traditional companies themselves surely are the main limbs and branches. Like the uncommon apple trees in Forest’s yard, the names themselves evoke sound and history: Aeolian, Austin, Baldwin, Estes, E. & G. Hook, Hutchins, Johnson, Mathias Moeller, Rogers, Ernest M. Skinner, W. Wicks—these the craftsmen and their brands.

When Forest speaks of the positions that he has held, he remembers them by the instrument as well as the institution. His first position was at St. Lawrence in Portland, an Austin, followed by St. Peters, also in Portland, an Ernest M. Skinner. There

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then followed ten years playing a three manual Rogers electronic at the Church of the Nazarene in South Portland and a stint with another Rogers at Christ Church, Norway.

Next Forest spent eleven years at the bench of a classic E. & G. Hook organ at the Court Street Baptist Church in Auburn and, more recently, ten years with a wonderful M. P. Moeller instrument at the First Universalist Church, South Paris. And always, since the mid-1960’s, Forest has played for Wednesday Chapel, now Community Meeting, at the Hebron Community Church, his instruments an electronic Baldwin and a very fine Estes reed instrument, the gift of former trustee Mary Rea in memory of her husband Jim and daughter Charlotte.

Like the children of a family, Forest remembers each of the instruments fondly, appreciative of their various voices, but unwilling to distinguish any above the others­—fine traditional apples all and each distinctive in size, texture and taste.

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he speeches and prize giving of the Baccalaureate celebration nearing conclusion, Forest slips back to the bench, settles himself, and begins to follow the ceremony.

Two more organ pieces remain, Samuel Smith’s “Hebron Hymn” and Purcell’s “Trumpet Tune in D.” Samuel Smith, a retired professor at Colby wrote the hymn in response to a request from Percival Bonney for a song for the occasion of the dedication of Sturtevant Hall in 1891.

“The Hymn was written at a time when voices were different,” Forest remarks, “When singing was more universal and voices were accustomed to a higher range.”

Now, he pitches the hymn down a fourth from the B-flat key of the traditional tune, “Webb,” so that it may be more easily sung by students and faculty.

Forest has been on the Hebron faculty since 1982, the year that John Leyden approached him to replace then departing Fine Arts Chair, Tony Mollica. At that time, the arts were split between spaces in the basement of Atwood Hall and the lower level of Treat Science Building. The Atwood space hummed with activity as the ensemble groups rehearsed in the space that has more recently been devoted to Ms. Anderson’s art classes, and individual players found practice areas in the remaining nooks and crannies of the building.

A move to the lower level of Sturtevant Home soon followed, realizing Forest’s goal

Opposite page: from the 1984 yearbook.

This page: Center of the arts: Katherine Cole ’07, Brian Knopp ’06, Kelsey Jordan ’07, Sam Chandler ’06, Jon Phillips ’06, Mr. Perkins, Diamond Duryea ’07, Silas Leavitt ’08, Allison Maidman ’07, Morgan Browne ’05, Dave Patriquin ’06 (standing), Michael Simms ’08 and Elizabeth Cole ’05.

to bring studio arts and performance music together in the collection of rooms assembled from the expansive undercroft of the big dorm. Always, Forest has presided behind a simple desk in his office or teaching space with students arrayed around him, his manner seemingly unhurried by the detail of class preparation, quietly at the ready to reinforce points made in the conversation around him or to pose a question for reflection. The method has not changed, apparently, from Aunt Dicie’s gradual reinforcement through successive practice and tutoring.

Forest has taught Hebron’s music curriculum for more than twenty-five years: “Introduction to Music,” always, but electives as well in Theory and Composition, History of Music and Classic Jazz. There is always music playing in the office, a never ending variety of styles and periods—Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky to be balanced by Ray Lynch, George Benson, George Harrison, Bessie Smith, Winton Marsalis, George Winston.

“The music of the office is inclusive to all,” a student remarks, “but he has asked us to refrain from music with four letter words.” Another recalls, “He leans back when he begins to speak and closes his eyes before the words begin to flow. He clasps his hands on the desk in front of him, and flexes his thumbs skyward. Best of all, he needs no prompting to speak—you can sit and simply listen to his slow deliberate words.” A third extends the thought, “He is so calm; he always seems to just sit and listen and rarely comments on anything, but you know he hears every word of the students. When he does speak, it always seems deliberate, as though he knows exactly what he wants to say and is encouraging you to slow down for a moment and think as well.” Playing and teaching seem to become one.

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he Baccalaureate address concluded, Mr. King calls for the traditional “first and third” verses of the Academy Hymn.

Forest’s hands press a solid chord then move through a preliminary suggestion of the melody. A pause, leaning back, hands raised, and then the familiar tune begins, “Sow ye beside all waters, the seeds of love and light.”

How many times has Forest played these familiar notes, eyes closed, hearing Samuel Smith’s words flowing through his fingers?

Hundreds? More? Upward of a thousand would approximate the renditions of this most familiar tune that has been absolutely under his fingers. Forest’s music and his presence have sown the “seeds of love and light” for a generation of Hebron students, and he has modeled, steadfastly, a love of values and tradition, a genuineness with students that makes friends of many, a life of constancy and service to his calling as musician. “And train your sons and daughters to wisdom, truth and right.”

Baccalaureate is ending. Closing words offer up the future to the graduates this day.

The doors at the rear of the Chapel open.

Forest taps a sequence of stops to set the tone for the trumpets to follow, leans back a bit, hands poised, awaiting the final words.

Then a pause and it is come, the climax: Dum, dum, dum. . . Da dum, Da dum, Da dum, Dum. . . The transcendent opening notes of Henry Purcell once again fill the hall as the seniors, arm in arm, together, step off toward the door and toward the future to music measured triumphantly from the loft above.

The tune complete, Mr. Perkins will close the stops and the console, change from organ slippers to street shoes and descend the stairs to greet students and colleagues on the steps of the church.

“I always love seeing him walk across the campus, slowly, deliberately, with his black, worn, briefcase hanging from his hand, the oversized tan coat, making his solitary way across the campus. I love his suspenders and the moment of reflection he takes before every sentence.” Mr. Perkins he may be to his students, but in this community he is a very special apple indeed—organist, mentor, Yoda, a Hebron original—with tang and taste unique but never marketable.

Forest Perkins retires at the close of this year, but there is much music still to be played. “I have two new repertoire books at home awaiting me, and an organ that I would like to work on, a lovely piece to be preserved for the future.”

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Farewell, Class of 2009

Unconventional Diversity Elijah M. Hughes ’09, president Claire E. Cummings ’09, vice president

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s class officers representing the Class of 2009, we stand before you, together, to explore the relationship between diversity and conventionality, or in the case of our class, unconventionality. The Class of 2009 utilized such qualities to enrich and define themselves during their time at Hebron Academy. It is the purpose of this speech to recognize the diversity of successes and the unconventional accomplishments of the graduating students before you.

Diverse. Composed of distinct or unlike elements or qualities. The Class of 2009 embodies diversity. We have a diversity in motive, a diversity in ambition, a diversity in experience. Brought together in a great place of learning, we cultivate each other’s abilities.

Like any strong team, we have different people performing in different roles. There are the artists, whose physical works and live performances exhibit natural creativity and skill. There are the athletes: strong, competitive, and professionally exceptional in all regards. And then there are the academics, who take Advanced Placement courses as if they were medicine. Together we cover all the bases.

But our tight-knit group is worth more than our collective competence in the many disciplines. By being a diverse group, albeit small, we share our knowledge with each other. In a short time the artist learns, the

athlete creates, and the academic competes.

An equilibrium of opportunity is established in which an honors student can play first line and a varsity team can perform in the school musical.

This is the structure of the Class of 2009. This is the structure of Hebron.

By having this diversity, we have each as individuals learned to live our lives in a very well rounded way. The variety of qualities that we represent have made us stronger, now more ready than ever to move into the outside world.

Conventional. “According with, sanctioned by, or based on convention; lacking originality or individuality; ordinary, commonplace” The Class of 2009 exemplifies the antithesis of conventionality. With such a diverse group of individuals, it is virtually impossible to uphold the conventions of the typical high

school experience. While we undoubtedly associate with a certain group of friends, we do not succumb to the fickle nature of clubs and cliques that can often undermine a cohesive community. There is no ladder of social success; but rather an endless road upon which the Class of 2009 has walked, run, meandered, and scootered; catching up to friends, waiting for classmates, talking, laughing, and involving themselves in one another’s lives. We celebrate that which is surprising and unexpected in each individual: the hockey player’s love of classical music and the artist’s love for solving Rubik’s cube hold equal importance.

The variation of interests surpasses the conventions of high school because it creates a glue which binds us all together; rather than dividing us up into predetermined norms of what achieves popularity and social success. Similar to the concept of “Six

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Baccalaureate Awards American Classical League and National Junior Classical League Cum Laude certificates Rachel Beverly Anderson Rogers ’10, Latin I Candace Marie Woods ’10, Latin I Ashley Lauren Waldron ’09, Latin IV Magna Cum Laude certificate Abigail Ellen Small ’12, Latin I Maxima Cum Laude certificates and silver medals Scott Edward Higgins ’10, Latin I Seung Hee Lee ’11, Latin I Erika Lee Thomas ’11, Latin I Corrie Hansen Van Haasteren ’12, Latin I Lydia LaChapelle Drown ’09, Latin V Charlotte R. Stonebraker Community Scholarships Natalia Shanice Peña ’11 Brent Coy Landry ’10 Clebert Louis Marcelin, Jr. ’10 Robert Andrew Morrill ’10 Compton Prize in Languages Martina Sophia Hoelzer ’10 L. Edward Willard Prize in English Emma Larkin Leavitt ’10 Emily Rose Powers ’10 Academic Excellence in History Brent Coy Landry ’10 Cum Laude Prize in Geometry Allyson Janet Strachan ’12 Dr. Louis Friedman Mathematics Prize Ho In Na ’10 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal Yang Tian ’10 Colby Book Award Nicholas James Stuer ’10 Middlebury Book Award Seung Woo Kim ’10

Degrees of Separation,” we are each bound a personal story I will tell a little bit about to the others through shared experiences. my introduction to Architecture. Like any The predisposition to judge peers based on freshman I didn’t know what I was going to their activities and interests does not exist do with my life. In fact I didn’t really know within the web of this class, because for what I was going to do with my high school someone to judge another for a particular career. So I decided try what interested me interest would be an instance of hypocrisy most and that was architecture. At that as that person may be connected to that very interwe celebrate that which is surprising est through their web of connections. To emphasize and unexpected in each individual this point: imagine a line dividing the Bowl into two distinct sides. time there was a class for architecture here On one side, there is a list of all that is and I learned not only the subject matter of socially acceptable at Hebron Academy. On the art but the mindset of the art. I learned the other, a list of what is not. The Class of about the many connections between 2009 must now divide themselves based on architecture and society, such as design, the activities they pursue and the interests technology, and social behavior. I was in an they harbor. But herein lies the problem. environment where, despite being in a class Each and every student would be straddling of primarily juniors and seniors, I excelled. the line, their varying interests and achieve- From that launching point, from that first ments conflicting. For that is what makes blind attempt, I eventually concluded that the Class of 2009 so remarkable. No one architecture was what I wanted to study in seated before you associates with one and university. And all I did was try. only one interest. Their lives may be guided A further example of attempting someby a particular pursuit, but they always thing new were the spring 2009 studentprovide room for unexpected experiences directed one act plays performed just a few and surprising results. weeks ago. Both Claire and I came out to participate and the stage was filled with Hebron is the kind of place where a person many other first-time actors. According to can do stuff. With complete impunity a veterans of the One Act plays, this group student at Hebron Academy can try their of amateurs formed the strongest cast in hand at a new art or sport or subject. This memory. This is the kind of community experience teaches to a person a great deal in which our class has prospered. The risks about how to do things, but also what it is we have taken while at Hebron have been they want to do in the first place. To relate quickly and easily rewarded. We have been

Dartmouth Book Award Christopher James Gacsy ’10 Williams Book Award Emily Rose Powers ’10 Harvard Book Prizes Emma Larkin Leavitt ’10 Sang Il Min ’10

Right: Four children and twenty-seven years of tuition later, Hebron supermom Connie Justice and big sister Alisa celebrate with Katya Planson ’09 and siblings Vika ’07, Nina ’05 and Nick ’01.

Far right: Hebron’s newly-minted alumni ring the victory bell for the last time.

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able to enrich our experiences by trying our hands at new things.

These experiences broaden our horizons.

They enrich our lives and open our eyes to the possibilities which life holds. During our time at Hebron we have found that interests require dedication and tenacity. Each new experience is a seed which we plant hoping that in time success will blossom. We have found that it takes time, patience, and perseverance to cultivate these new talents. You can’t pick up a violin one day and assume you can immediately play a concerto just as you can’t walk into calculus class in September and expect to do a triple integration in cylindrical coordinates. Such pursuits take time. It takes time to write a 10-point lab report. It takes patience to build a fire in the rain. And it takes perseverance to condition a championship team.

When we reap the fruits of our labor, we find that these new interests have grown to

ambitions to new heights. The successes of our class have branched out and entwined themselves in each and every one of us, creating a richer, fuller, more complete group of individuals, a group not encumbered by social conventions.

The typical high school experience has never applied to the Class of 2009. For example there stand before you two speakers, speaking in tandem, who are working together in an attempt to best represent the diversity of this class: for this is what our class is made of. It is a widely diverse group, each member with specific strengths and ambitions. From the classroom, to the fields, to the bright lights of the stage we play off each other’s strengths and aid each other in overcoming our weaknesses. We have athletes who danced across the stage in our winter musical and artists who helped capture the state math championship. In his speech at the Cum Laude ceremony held three weeks ago, the inspiringly successful Ambassador Hull joked that the artist learns, the athlete during his time at Hebron he tended to “wallow in creates, the academic competes medocrity.” Observing this become just as important as those that pregraduating class, we would never use those ceded them. Instead of feeling torn between words. Each and every person who will cross old loves and new, our class has been able to this stage is an achiever, impressed with embrace a myriad of interests. We are not a Hebron mindset. Far from the notion of driven by a single pursuit, our goal being wallowing in mediocrity, these people flourinstead to establish firm ground in multiple ish in exceptionality, independently and as disciplines. We have generated success in part of the group, and today we mark that numerous ways, elevating our talents and achievement.

Commencement Awards Academic Excellence in Art Claire E. Cummings in English Mary McRae Randall Michael Joseph Zielski III in French Sarah Carolyn Fensore in Latin Ashley Lauren Waldron in Mathematics Kai Chen in Music Mary McRae Randall in Religion and Ethics Elijah Michael Hughes in the Sciences Yu Zhang in Spanish Katharine Judith Planson Senior Scholarship Prize Mary McRae Randall Excellence in Drama Sarah Carolyn Fensore Outdoor Leadership Prize Michael Joseph Zielski III Richard W. Tyler Scholarship Joshua Michael Mosher Bernat Memorial Award Michael Joseph Zielski III Lorimer Scholarship Prize Katharine Judith Planson Regis A. Lepage Scholarship Prize Lydia LaChapelle Drown Reed Awards Kelly C. Phillips Yu Zhang Bessie Fenn Award Meghan Elliott Munro Athletic Award Eric Rodriguez Leyden Award Timothy Laurence Smith Edward Tate II Green Key Award Mary McRae Randall Ernest Sherman Award Ye Chen Charles and Amy Dwyer Memorial Award Katharine Judith Planson Milton G. Wheeler Good Fellowship Award Brett Anthony Bisesti Phemister Award Elijah Michael Hughes Risman Honor Award Brittany Margarethe Toth Hebron Academy Cup Claire E. Cummings

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alumni et alumnae

2009 Reunions & Homecoming Friday, October 2 Saturday, October 3

Reunions for 1934 • 1939 • 1944 • 1949 1954 • 1959 • 1964 • 1969 1974 • 1979 • 1984 • 1989 1994 • 1999 • 2004 athletic center open house campus tours rainbow reunion road race and fun run convocation athletic competitions lepage center for the arts open house • Catch up with classmates and old friends • Cheer on Hebron’s teams • Take part in activities for the whole ­family For more information, please call or e-mail Danielle Proto at 207-966-5266, dproto@hebronacademy.org or visit our web site: www.hebronacademy.org

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alumni et alumnae

Class Notes With this issue we continue our Hebron Cup mini-feature. We asked Hebron Cup recipients to reflect on the role that Hebron Academy played in their lives and will share a few of these reminiscences in upcoming issues of the Semester.

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Harold Pearl writes, “Still pleasant memories of my four years at Hebron! At 93 still play some golf. Sixty-seven years married to same great lady.” n The Hebron Academy community mourns the loss of Marjorie Powell on April 16, 2009. Although not an alumna, Marge was a great friend and supporter of Hebron Academy. Until his death in 2000, she and her husband Jack were frequent campus visitors and strong advocates for Hebron hockey.

Class Agent: Norm Cole ncolseba@aol.com

1939 seventieth reunion

Paul Kerr enjoyed a recent visit from Assistant Head Tom Fogarty. Paul still plays a lot of golf and scores below his age (89) many times.

1941 Class Agent: John MacDonald judymacd@aol.com

1943 Class Agent: Gene Smith zachplum@aol.com Lester Bradford writes, “Still enjoying a number of volunteer activities such as Habitat for Humanity and two or three forestry projects—and teaching math to GED prospects—this includes Algebra I learned from profs. Kitchen and Hollis at Hebron.” n In the last issue of the Semester we mistakenly noted that Francis Chiros was an Air Force bombardier during World War II. Francis writes that although he was working to become a bombardier, the war ended before he completed his advanced training. We regret the error.

1947 Class Agent: Ernest Rodrigues maryannrodrigues@yahoo.com

Reflections from the 1951 Hebron Cup Recipient

Saul B. Cohen ’51

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t Commencement 1951, I was awarded the Hebron Cup and­ —in truth—it was a commencement, for adult life started that day. I was stepping out of the intimate nurturing environment of Hebron and into mainstream life: well launched and equipped to cope.

The next steps were a BA from Harvard College, followed closely by travel abroad and then an MBA from Harvard Business School, marriage, the first job, and children. Thereafter, a career in real estate started; I built two major companies and sold them— the second one to GMAC—and most recently bought it back again for probably one final fling at large scale creativity before I let my garden take over my energies and focus.

Through all this, Hebron’s impact was huge. The experience still resonates more than 50 years later in ways small and large.

Claude Allen and his faculty remain a constant presence in my mind: their coaching, their expectations, and their confidence in me remain something I must live up to. The vision of what excellence looks like and the drive and skill to pursue it were nurtured at Hebron. Here intellectual curiosity was given wings and the passion to find far horizons was born. Lastly, friendships were formed which have lasted some sixty years and which bring the comfort of continuity.

In that microcosm of life which Hebron was, I learned to walk and how not to do it alone. The debt to Hebron is without limit, for Hebron made the man. At age 76, I am still one of Claude Allen’s boys.

Days of yore

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n June, alumnus Horace “Hockey” Field ’31 visited campus and regaled Steve Middleton’s eighth grade history class with stories of his Hebron days.

The students were fascinated by his tales of travel to and from Hebron and the various forms of entertainment available to the boys at the time.

After talking with students, Mr. Field toured the new athletic center. Interestingly, Sargent Gymnasium was brand new during his time at Hebron, eighty years ago.

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1954

Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class.

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fifty-fifth reunion

John Monks writes, “Retired from banking. My wife Linda (second marriage) and I have done extensive traveling. Three children and five granchildren. Still play a lot of tennis and paddle tennis. Enjoy life but not this economy!”

1949 sixtieth reunion

Class Agent: Bob Rich rprich@erlanger-inc.com

1950 Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class.

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1951 Class Agent: Ted Ruegg rueggnh@midcoast.com Saul Cohen writes, “Back at it, again, bucking the trend: just bought Hammond Residential Real Estate back after selling it to GMAC nine years ago.” n Norbert Lachmann reports, “Getting older is a bit of a nuisance—I can’t believe it actually happened—but my Hebron memories put the focus on youth. I have to say, we were good in those days! And now, looking around, most of us have turned out pretty well, and that’s a very nice thing.”

1952 Class Agent: Ken Boyle revken60@aol.com Margaret and Alan Booth’s daughter Grace will be attending Smith College in the fall. n Jim Kelley writes, “We visited Hebron for the Class of 2008 graduation when a relative received her diploma and again in September when we visited with our son who saw the school for the first time. Having grown up at Northfield Mount Hermon where I was on the faculty for 10 years, and graduated from Blair Academy (NJ) where I was headmaster for 13 years, he was duly impressed with Hebron!”

1953 Class Agent: Dean Ridlon deridlon@msn.com Our thoughts are with Bernard Miller on the loss of his mother in March.

Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class.

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org Dick Jasper writes, “October in Maine for Viola Jasper’s 100th birthday bash. My mom and dad (Rufus G. Jasper ’25) are staunch supporters of Hebron (dad passed away at 92). Great to see New England in the fall—though our Utah looks great now, too. Five children, 18 grandchildren, and still working full time for K-TEC/Blendtec, a $36 million company. Best to all.”

1955 Class Agent: Richard Parker rparker@promedicacrc.com Robert Raymond writes, “We have enjoyed the gatherings in Boston. I have had two papers published by the Aircraft Engine Historical Society.”

1956 Class Agent: Kenneth Mortimer 360-527-3584 kmortimer5@comcast.net John Hales is enjoying his six grandchildren!

1957 Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class.

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org Congratulations to Brownie Swartwood who was recently appointed to the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission by Governor Deval Patrick. Brownie, former Chief Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court, will serve as Chair of the Commission.

1958 Class Agent: Lennie Lee llclee@cableon.net Sue and Ken Crane enjoyed the fiftieth at Hebron and Sunday River.

1959 fiftieth reunion

Class Agent: Bernard Helm hebron59@aol.com Edward Caplan writes, “Retired from career in finance mainly at Polaroid. Wife Diana and I will be married 45 years and have two sons. Andy, a lawyer at Burns &

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Reflections from the 1960 Hebron Cup Recipient

William A. Weary ’60 Hebron has given me great appreciation for: • The nature of good teaching. Hebron’s faculty knew what I could do, and they didn’t leave me alone until I provided it.

Their consistent and insistent demands have been, for me, the basis of sound education. As professor, upper school head, and consultant (schools, universities and other nonprofits) I’ve tried to provide the same for the many kinds of “student” I’ve served.

• New England mountains (a trip up Mt. Chocorua Al Watson led for a group of us one glorious October Sunday).

• Western Maine (the Magic Mountain-esque sanatorium and view-filled soccer field up top).

• France (Bruce Gardner and George Freiday took special care of Mike Malm and me).

• History and the nature of institutional structure (Evan West).

• The transformative power of effective leadership in independent schools (Claude Allen, of course).

• A now-long-disappeared generation of crusty, idiosyncratic independent school teachers (frequently bachelors and once common throughout the country).

• The benefits and challenges of single-sex education (the research and literature on both boys’ and girls’ schools had yet to appear).

• The culture and inner workings of a small educational community off by itself.

• Nice machinery (Bill Keller’s Mercedes 300 four-door convertible, Al Watson’s Borgward Isabella, Chuck “The Big Eater” Achilles’ corn-popper Saab, Claude Allen’s BMW motorcycle).

The pleasure I took in these vehicles built on one of my earliest interests.

• The hard discipline of athletic training (Al Switzer’s swim team).

• The pleasures of physical labor that yields results (work squad).

• The way Hebron alumni once formed a hidden infrastructure among Maine’s professional, civic and business leaders.

• The beneficial consequences of being one’s self.

• The enduring context of friends and colleagues.

All remain valued parts of my life.

alumni et alumnae Levinson, Boston, is married to Melissa and has two daughters. Son David is married to Ana and is a professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan. He is author of two books, Questions of Possibility and Poetic Form: An Introduction.” n Liberty Hotel owner Dick Friedman and designer Alexandra Champalimaud recently received two Gold Key Awards for excellence in hospitality design. n John Redmond says he’ll be attending the 50th reunion in October.

1960 Class Agent: Dave Williams david.j2.williams@columbia management.com

1961 Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class.

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1962

1965 Class Agent: Allen Kennedy allen_kennedy@dalton.org Jeff Laughlin reports that he has retired after 25 years of teaching. He is reading, volunteering and golfing in Naples, FL, and southern Maine. Jeff sees Jim Cassidy frequently.

1966 Class Agent: Harvey Lowd hlowd@ksallc.com Chris Buschmann writes, “Celebrated 60 years by riding a bicycle across the USA in 2008. Started in redwoods of northern California, crossed Oregon, southeastern corner of Washington, into Idaho and then north in Montana to US Route 2. Just east of Rugby, ND, mechanical failure of a bicycle accessory led to a violent and very quick end to my trek, 2000 miles ridden, not quite half way home! Bike and I ready for 2009 Lung Association Trek Across Maine over Fathers Day weekend.”

Class Agent: Dick Forté dickforte7@gmail.com

1967

William Stocker writes, “After 4 years of retirement I returned to part time dermatology practice. Blessed with 3 grandchildren. Great to see squash courts in new gym! I have been playing for 40+ years.

Voted best sport for fitness by Forbes magazine.” n George Ugarte reports, “We live between Spain, Austin TX, Mexico and California. We also visit our 10 grandchildren throughout the US and overseas. As I write this, I’m optimistic that better times are around the corner.”

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1963 Class Agent: Will Harding 2ww@bellsouth.net

1964 forty-fifth reunion

Class Agent: John Giger john@cybergiger.com After 30 years with the Albany Medical College Department of Psychiatry, John Thibodeau has moved to Orlando FL to begin working as a senior psychologist for the Florida Department of Corrections.

Our thoughts are with Skip Wood on the death of his mother in October.

1968 Class Agent: Robert Lowenthal rlowenth@rochester.rr.com

1969 fortieth reunion

Class Agent: Jonathan Moll caribjon@aol.com Jim Brown writes, “Had a good time at Hebron’s new athletic center. Played some hoop with the basketball coach and players. Nice visit with Craig Clark ’70 and Tim Braddock ’70. Hope others from ’69 make it to the reunion in October. Be blessed out there. Look me up on Facebook.”

Reunions & Homecoming 2009 Friday, October 2 • Saturday, October 3 Reunions for Fours & Nines • Kids’ Activities • Road Race • ­Rainbow Reunion • Class Dinners • Much more!

Tom Curry ’76 with an exhibit of his work at the George Marshall Store Gallery in York, Maine. Photo by Henry Harding ’70, who, with his wife Mary, hosted a Hebron reception at the gallery in June.

1970

1971

Class Agent: Craig Clark jcclark@wildblue.net

Class Agent: Harvey Lipman harveylipman@hotmail.com

Peter Bancroft reports, “Daughter #1 graduated last week from John Scamman’s college. You would think that in 373 years they would figure out how to conduct a more efficient ceremony. It took three days. As always, hats off to Craig Clark for his unceasing efforts on behalf of the class and school.” n Jim Strathern writes, “I recently retired from HSBC after 32 years of service. HSBC is the third largest bank in the world with offices in 83 countries worldwide and is headquartered in London. One of the benefits of working for a multi-national corporation was that I’ve had the opportunity to travel to London. I’m now spending my time watching my two sons compete in high school track and gymnastics. My youngest son was ranked 30th in the nation in the all around competition at last years Junior Olympic Gymnastics Championships. I visited Hebron last summer and had the opportunity to see the new gymnasium. Too bad it wasn’t around when we were there.”

Peter Hoople writes, “As a public educator I am continually and significantly impressed by the quality of the education I received at Hebron.” n Doug Gordon is busy with one son in his second year of college at the University of Rochester and the second leaving for college next year.

1972 Class Agent: Steve Gates stephenrgates@msn.com Brad Parsons visited campus this fall and reports, “I was extremely impressed by the Athletic Center. It epitomizes the great progress Hebron has made in the last decade towards recovering from the challenging years of the late seventies and eighties. Viewing the center evoked feelings of both pride and optimism for Hebron’s future. Such a first class facility will maintain Hebron’s claim as a top ranking prep school and will certainly attract top academic and athletic talent.” Brad’s oldest son, Spencer, was recently accepted at Brown. Sons Cameron and Colby attend Milton Academy.

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Club events. She notes, “I’m a much better runner than when I was at Hebron, where I had to be on the boys’ team because there was no girls’ team back in those days…”

Friday, October 2 • Saturday, October 3 Reunions for Fours & Nines • Kids’ Activities • Road Race • ­Rainbow Reunion • Class Dinners • Much more!

1973 Class Agent: Gregory Burns gregmburns@aol.com Our thoughts are with Mark Mitchell on the loss of his mother in December and with Greg Burns on the death of his mother in January. n Rob Thompson’s oldest son was commissioned an ensign in the US Navy last May and is currently in flight training. He is the third generation naval aviator in the family. Rob has completed 10 years of flying for Delta Air Lines after retiring from the Navy in 1997. n Captain Stephen Wagner recently took command of NOAA Ship Delaware II in Woods Hole.

He is also master of NOAA Ship Albatross IV; the ships are not at sea concurrently.

1974 thirty-fifth reunion

Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class.

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org Our thoughts are with Roger Clark on the death of his father in February. Roger’s youngest son, Thomas, is a ninth grader at Hebron this year. n Alan Norris is living in New Zealand. He works as an events support manager and will be handling the

2010 World Rugby Cup. n Our sympathies go to David Pitt on the loss of his father in June.

1975 Class Agent: Ellen Augusta eaugusta@msn.com

1976 Class Agent: Reed Chapman creedclark@yahoo.com An exhibit of work by Tom Curry at George Marshall Store Gallery in York opened in June. n Mel Nadeau reports, “Enjoyed a great visit from Bev Leyden last summer. What a trouper she is to fly fish on a difficult river. Denise and I had the pleasure of visiting Bar Harbor and stopping to visit Hebron also. Great place, great memories, great people.” n Rebecca Webber writes, “I am still a civil rights lawyer in Maine, with an office in Auburn.

I remarried in August 2007 and now have four kids! I love the noise and energy. My big thrill this year was doing the opening speech for Anita Hill when she spoke at Bowdoin College in November.” Rebecca says she sees Dan Thayer a fair amount, doing community work and at Maine Track

Summer Stock Quite a few current and former Hebron thespians are in area community theater productions this summer. If you’re in Maine, keep an eye open for: • Calvin Moisan ’10 in Blood Brothers at Biddeford’s City Theater (July). citytheater.org • Mary Randall ’09 as Sandy in Community Little Theater’s production of Grease at the Lewiston Middle School auditorium (August). www.laclt.com • Brooks Schandelmeier ’08 in Once Upon a Pandora’s Box at the First Universalist Church in Auburn (August). www.auburnuu.org • Kees van Haasteren ’09 and Erika Thomas ’11 in a Shakespeare production at Schoolhouse Arts Center in Standish. schoolhousearts.org • Max Middleton ’12 in a constructed musical based on the Acts of the Apostles at Camp Mechuwana in Winthrop. www.mechuwana.org

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1977 Class Agent: Bob Hernon rhernon@gmail.com

1978 Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class.

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org Nancy Briggs Marshall writes, “Still doing PR for Maine Office of Tourism and other clients through my agency, Nancy Marshall Communications in Augusta. Son Craig was Maine Alpine Racing Association champion this year and went to JII national championships in Aspen, CO.” n Dana Shields Hubbell’s artwork was recently featured at Cafe Zoë in Menlo Park, CA.

1979 thirtieth reunion

Class Agent: Brian Cloherty mnclohertys@earthlink.net The Hebron Academy community joins Martin Küchler in mourning the loss of Gerry Lapierre, father of classmate Gerry who was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1981. n Charlie Watters reports that he’s moved around a lot in the last few years: Washington, California, Japan, Virginia and New Jersey. He has three children— 20, 18 and 12—and would love to hear from classmates.

1980 Class Agent: Betsy Siekman Graves betsy_graves@hotmail.com

1981 Class Agent: Jane Hepburn Fiore fancyjane@comcast.net

1982 Class Agent: Tucker Cutler tandgcutler@myfairpoint.net

1983 Class Agent: Debbie Beacham Bloomingdale dbbloomingdale@yahoo.com Judy Harris Osojnicki enjoyed the 25th and says it was great to see the people who came.

Find Hebron online Become a fan of Hebron Academy on Facebook (tinyurl. com/HebronFacebook), network with other alumni and friends through our LinkedIn group (www.linkedin.com/ groups?gid=1892134), keep up with campus happenings by following us on Twitter (twitter. com/HebronAcademy), or check out the videos at YouTube (www.youtube.com/ hebronacademy1804).

1984 twenty-fifth reunion

Class Agent: Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com

1985 Class Agent: Eric Shediac shediachouse@comcast.net Congratulations to Sean Elias, who recently successfully defended his PhD dissertation and will be teaching at Utah State University next year. n Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Bern (SC) recently announced that Amanda Williams Norwood has been chosen to receive the President’s Award for the Coastal Women’s Forum for outstanding service to her community.

1986 Class Agent: Scott Downs suffolkd@aol.com

1987 Class Agent: Kate Thoman Crowley thocro@comast.net Nathan Draper still enjoys living in San Francisco and teaching 7th grade science at an inner city school there. n Susan Hendrickson Walton lives in Marblehead MA with her husband and two daughters.

She works as a staff attorney at Bar/Bri Bar Review in Boston.

1988 Class Agent: Ann Snyder Mooradian mooradia@comcast.net

alumni et alumnae ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In November 2008, the Hebron community marked Veterans Day with a special program, “A Call to Remember.” Program coordinator Cynthia Reedy would like to invite a veteran who recently graduated from Hebron (classes of 1990–2008) to address the student body on Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2009. It would be a meaningful experience for our students to hear about service in today’s military from a fellow Hebronian. If you are interested, please call or e-mail Ms. Reedy at 207-966-5246, creedy@hebronacademy.org. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

1989

1992

1996 Lydia Pottle Currie and her family have relocated to South Carolina. They enjoyed a recent visit from Amanda Ring, who was escaping Washington’s inauguration chaos.

1997 Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class.

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Class Agent: Hayes McCarthy hayes@mccarthyvideo.net

Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class.

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Mark Desgrosseilliers recently joined the law firm Womble Carlyle in Wilmington, DE.

1993

Class Agent: Kirsten Ness kirsten_ness@hotmail.com

Class Agent: Marko Radosavljevic mradosav@alumni.bates.edu

Kirsten Ness spoke at the Women’s Literary Union Garden Club in Auburn in March.

twentieth reunion

1990

1994

Class Agent: Jim Hill james.hill@hillmech.com

1991 Class Agents: Scott Nelson scott.ryan.nelson@mac.com

fifteenth reunion

Unions

Class Agent: Devon Biondi dmbiondi@gmail.com

1998

1997

Nadia Jerraf and Riad Akkar, on March 21, 2009, in Casablanca, Morocco.

Former Faculty Liz Fey and Ivan Adames, on July 20, 2009, in Baltimore.

New Arrivals 1981

To Nicole and Ed Stebbins, a daughter, Sarah Ann Stebbins, on June 1, 2009.

1985

To Kathryn Gardner and Michael Newsom, a daughter, Olivia Grace Gardner Newsom, on April 21, 2009.

1988

1999

To Sarah and Matt McDonough, a son, Luke James McDonough, on May 18, 2009.

tenth reunion

Class Agent: Erica Litchfield ericalitchfield@yahoo.com

1995

Marcus De Costa marcus.decosta@trinityschoolnyc.org

Class Agent: Jessie Maher jm4lfclvr@yahoo.com Isabelle Steimer lives in Frankfurt and works in the field of development cooperation.

Lost your yearbook?

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ou may be in luck.

Yearbook advisor Bill

Chase has some back issues available for $95.

E-mail him at wchase@ hebronacademy.org to see if he has a copy of your year.

Class Agent: Joe Patry joseph.patry@gmail.com Jake Leyden is headed to graduate school in Miami next year.

2000 Class Agent: Cori Hartman-Frey corinnahf@gmail.com Sara Simard is the asistant women’s hockey coach at the University of Maine and will be trying out for the Swiss national team in July.

2001 Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class.

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org Nick Bradley is in graduate school at Dalhousie, specializing in physiotherapy, and is also assistant lacrosse coach. n Nick Leyden will be teaching in Portugal next year. n Suzan Tug has finished her cancer therapy studies. She traveled to New York in March and met up with Katie Curtis ‘02 there.

2002 Class Agent: Katie Curtis katie.curtis@gmail.com Chris Dyer graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in December.

1996

To Zachary and Laura Greenwood Hughes, a son, Luke Arthur Hughes, on December 6, 2008.

Former Faculty

To Kathryn Gardner and Michael Newsom, a daughter, Olivia Grace Gardner Newsom, on April 21, 2009.

To Sarah Terwilliger McDonough and Matt McDonough, a son, Luke James McDonough, on May 18, 2009.

2003 Class Agent: Sara Marquis saramarquis@hotmail.com Sara Marquis is working for Spirit Products in Haverhill, MA.

2004 fifth reunion

Class Agent: John Slattery johns@phg.com.au Ryan Close graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in December. n Lisa Lundstrom was named to the spring deans list at the University of New England, where she is majoring in occupational therapy and taking graduate classes as well. n Philipp Quante is studying in Karlsruhe. n Ruth Scarpino is studying in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship this

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alumni et alumnae Find Hebron online Become a fan of Hebron Academy on Facebook (tinyurl.com/ HebronFacebook), network with other alumni and friends through our LinkedIn group (www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1892134), keep up with campus happenings by following us on Twitter (twitter.com/ HebronAcademy), or check out the videos at YouTube (www.youtube. com/hebronacademy1804).

Katie Curtis ’02, Verena Ganske ’01 and Suzan Tug ’01 in Cologne. year. n Kate Turner graduated magna cum laude from USM in 2008. She earned a BS in health sciences with a minor in integrative and holistic health. She plans to eventually become a physician’s assistant but first will be in a surgical technology program to gain patient care experience.

She is still biking and running as well as riding and owning horses. n Helen UngerClark is teaching in Cantabria, Spain, near the Basque country.

2005

cross. n Uta Schulz writes, “Last summer I came back from France to Germany.

During the summer vacation I moved to Freiburg that is a city close to the Black Forest in the south of Germany. It is also not very far from Switzerland and France.

We call it the border triangle. Freiburg is a real student city with a lot of young people. I am attending the vocational college for socials, which means I visit the College for two days and the other days of the week I work in the Hospital. It is a lot of fun but working shifts can make you very tired as well and it is a really full time job.”

Class Agent: Tina Voigt tinafish33@aol.com

2007

Liz Cole graduated from Vassar this spring. n Jamie Frederick earned recognition as a Cowles Honor Scholar at Elmira College and was also named to the dean’s list. n Seth Hedstrom recently joined the management information services group of Berry Dunn McNeil & Parker in Portland. n Jodie Simms graduated from Amherst and will be working in Alabama. n Tina Voigt graduated from UMO.

Class Agent: Noah Love nlove88@gmail.com

2006 Class Agent: Allison Coombs mustangsally2010@hotmail.com Julia Nyitray is trying her feet at a new sport—crashed ice—a combination of hockey, downhill skiing and boarder-

Congratulations to Sara Powers who was named a Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar at Bowdoin College. n Miriam Scarpino finished her sophomore year at Hofstra where she is studying creative writing.

2008 Class Agents: Jen Duguay duguay@neu.edu Annie Hart Congratulations to CJ Estes who was named Empire 8 League rookie of the year.

Kevin DeSorbo ’03 at the Golden Gate Bridge in California. Kevin took a whirlwind solo tour of the United States early this summer, putting several thousand miles on his motorcycle and visiting friends along the way.

CJ is playing lacrosse at Nazareth. n And congratulations to KJ Forand, who was named women’s lacrosse rookie of the year for The Commonwealth Coast Conference. n Marty Gallipeau participated in the Division I club national championships in Denver. Marty plays lacrosse at Florida State University. n Ben Nadeau was named to the fall dean’s list at Wentworth. n Brooks Schandelmeier will appear in a production of Once Upon a Pandora’s Box at the First Universalist Church in Auburn in August.

2009 Reunions & Homecoming 2009

Class Agents: Claire Cummings

Friday, October 2 • Saturday, October 3

Sophia Chen sophia_chen917@hotmail.com

Reunions for Fours & Nines • Kids’ Activities • Road Race • ­Rainbow Reunion • Class Dinners • Much more!

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Mary Randall will play Sandy in Auburn’s Community Little Theatre production of Grease in August. n Kees van Haasteren

will be in a Shakespeare production at Schoolhouse Arts Center in Standish, also in August.

Former Faculty and Staff Betsy Loyd is living in Bethlehem, NH and working on her PhD dissertation. She also works at Garnet Hill, the catalog company. n Paul Nemetz-Carlson is back at Yale as assistant coach for the women’s hockey team. n Congratulations to Richard Stratton who will return to Nichols School (Buffalo, NY) in 2009–2010 for his 50th year of prep school teaching (13 at Hebron, 37 at Nichols).

alumni et alumnae Alumni (and Friends) Bookshelf Frances Hartgen (mother of Stephen Hartgen ’62 and David Hartgen ’62) A Maine Passage: Two Memoirs January 2006

From the book: Frances Caroline Hartgen’s life has spanned most of the 20th century and now into the 21st. Often less visible than her Orono artist and professor husband, Vincent Hartgen, Frances has been a creative person in her own right. These two memoirs, written in 1977 and 2003, show a gift for description, a love of Maine and a wealth of insights and wisdom.

Susie Yovic Hoeller (sister of James Yovic ‘76) Impasse: Border Walls or “Welcome the Stranger” Booklocker.com, Inc., June 2008 From Booklocker.com: IMPASSE: Border Walls or “Welcome the Stranger” is a book targeted for policymakers and citizens who wish to repair our broken immigration system. Unlike many others writing on immigration issues, the author rejects the extremist and divisive rhetoric which has helped sustain the policy impasse in Congress. Ms. Hoeller presents an innovative twelve step program for immigration reform and she analyzes the issues logically, holistically and with Christian empathy.

Kelly Doughty McKinnon ‘86 Social Skills Solutions, a hands-on guide for treating children with autism DRL Books, July 2005

From the author: Social Skills Solutions is the result of working with children for many years and searching for a tool that assesses and provides baseline social skills that meet all of the specific social skills needs for children with autism, as well as providing teaching strategies in a comprehensive process.

The Social Skills Checklist (assessment tool) and module system (teaching methods) were developed with feedback from parents, children and school professionals. Without their help, this manual would not have been possible. After I finished it, I sent a copy to Dr. Davidson, to thank him for his inspiration.

Alan Brightman ‘65 DisabilityLand Select Books (NY) (March 2008)

From Amazon.com: DisabilityLand is the place where people with disabilities live, work, play, fret, hope and succeed. Or not. And where everyone else may or may not know—or care—who they are. This collection of observations, anecdotes and questions are drawn from Dr. Alan Brightman’s singular experiences in the field of disabilities for more than 3 decades. Together, Brightman’s writings provide the kind of insight into the disabled experience that only someone intimately familiar with the territory and endlessly curious about its inhabitants could provide. DisabilityLand is not about the subject of disability; it’s not a study. It is instead about the unvarnished everyday-ness of disability; it’s a series of rich, human, ordinary, and surprising encounters.

Written a book? Released an album?

Let us know and we’ll feature it here on our Alumni Bookshelf. Send your announcement to Semester editor Jenny Adams at jadams@hebronacademy.org

Obituaries 1922

Esther Mitchell Cutter died on December 28, 2008, in New Hampshire. She was born Brunswick to Wilmot Brookings and Alice (Merrill) Mitchell. She was a resident of Nashua since the 1930s, when she moved here with her late husband. She was the widow of Charles Nelson Cutter, who died in 1971. Mrs. Cutter had been a homemaker. She is remembered as a loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She was a member of the King’s Daughters, the Nashua Historical Society and the Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Auxiliary.

She attended Wheaton College and The Boston Museum School. She was a member of the First Church (Congregational) U.C.C. in Nashua. Mrs. Cutter is survived by two daughters, Joann Van Stone and Priscilla Lynch; a son, Richard M. Cutter ‘56; nine grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

1933

★ Dr. Robert Marston (Bob) Porter died on January 14, 2009, at his home. He was born in North Anson in 1915, the son of the late Gould and Mary Porter. He obtained a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College, a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in education from Trinity College. He was captain of the Bowdoin track team and the best one-mile runner in New England. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was an intern in the office of Congressman Ralph Brewster in Washington, D.C. Dr. Porter served in the U.S. Army as First Lieutenant from 1945 to 1946 in the Military Intelligence Service at the Pentagon in Virginia and Tokyo, Japan.

In 1955, he married Mary C. Walker. Dr. Porter taught at Germantown Academy in Philadelphia for eight years and then moved to Oneonta, where he was a professor at State University College at Oneonta for 30 years (1955 to 1985). He organized the Saturday seminars at SUNY Oneonta in chemistry, computers and psychology. High school students took these classes voluntarily. He wrote for the Daily Mail newspaper, giving a course on how to write well. Dr. Porter visited 30 countries; the largest being Canada and the smallest being the Vatican, and climbed a 13,000-foot mountain in Japan. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and was asked to give a Sunday sermon. He was predeceased by his wife and his daughter, Mary (Molly) Finley-Porter Bennett.

1936

★ Earle A. Kimball died June 27, 2008.

He was born in Augusta in 1916, the son of Earle C. and Beulah A. Kimball. He was a life-long member of the Green Street United Methodist Church, but his allegiance was to the Manchester Community Church. He was employed by the M.U.C.

Commission prior to accepting employment as an IBM business machine operator for the Social Security office in Baltimore.

He returned home to accept a position with the Augusta Post Office, retiring in 1976. Mr. Kimball enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was an avid brook fisherman, a member of the Maine Biggest Buck Club, charter member of the West Gardiner Rod and Gun Club, and a former member of the Massachusetts Striped Bass Association. He was charter member #3 of the Maine-A-Bagos, a club for the owners of Winnebago-Itaska motor homes, and twice past president of the Maine State Club. He was a WWII Navy veteran, serving as a First Class Petty Officer aboard P.T. Boat #78 of the M.T.B. Squadron 13, stationed in the South Pacific. He was also a life member of the V.F.W. post 14000.

Mr. Kimball was predeceased by a brother Arnold A. Kimball and his life partner Elloween E. “Pat” Piper. He is survived by a son Deane C. Kimball; daughters Sheila E. Kimball and Nancy Bonenfant; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

★ Kenneth M. Leighton died January 11, 2007 from natural causes. He served in the Navy from 1942–1948. He was the beloved husband of the late Barbara (Brown) Leighton; dear father of Marty Schilling, Kenneth B. Leighton and Deborah Leighton; loving grandfather 8 grandchildren and a great-granchild. One grandson predeceased him.

1938

★ Richard Z. Cottrill died on November 29, 2008 at home with his loving family at his side. Mr. Cottrill was born in Hampden, Connecticut, in 1919, the son of Melville and Mae (Talcott) Cottrill. As a captain in the US Army Air Corps, he served in World War II with the 97th Bomb Group in England, North Africa and Italy. He retired from the Air Reserve in 1979 as a major.

He was an avid alumnus of Saint Lawrence University, and attended his 65th reunion last year. While at St. Lawrence, he was captain of the Saints hockey team. A lifelong lover of all things sports, he sailed, skied and played tennis. Until age 83, he played ice hockey with the Rhody Oldies.

He proudly subscribed to Brown football for 51 seasons and was a member of the Brown Sports Foundation. During his professional career he was associated with General Insulated Wire Works, Plastic Wire and Cable and the Gerard Forman Co. He was a member of Trinity Church in Pawtuxet Village. He is survived by his wife Patricia (O’Neil) Cottrill with whom he celebrated sixty years of marriage last May, their four children, Patricia Jacobs, Nancy Cottrill, Richard Cottrill and Sara Cottrill; five grandchildren; a brother, John T. Cottrill and a nephew.

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★ Dr. George W. Banton, D.M.D. died on March 28, 2009, in Dade City, Fla. He was born in Bangor in 1921, to Dr. Leon and Mrs. Lyda Banton and they moved to Island Falls that same year. Dr. Banton received his early education at Island Falls High School and Hebron Academy. He then went on to the University of Maine at Orono, before attending Tufts Dental School, graduating in 1945. He married his wife, Marie E. Martin that same year.

Dr. Banton served in the U.S. Navy as a dentist and was honorably discharged at the end of World War II. After the completion of his time in the Navy, he opened his dental practice in Island Falls and Patten in 1946, where he practiced for 37 years.

He retired in 1983 and spent his winters in Zephyrhills, Fla. Dr. Banton greatly enjoyed his time outdoors. He spent many hours on the golf course and especially enjoyed time spent at his hunting camp surrounded by friends and family. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Marie Banton; a sister, Gail Banton Sleeper; a son, Craig; two daughters, Martha Murray and Suzanne Cates; two granddaughters; three great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Charles (Gus) Hurley Jr.; a granddaughter; a grandson; and two great-grandchildren.

He is also survived by loved nieces, nephews and extended family.

★ Frederick “Ted” L. Rolfe died March 20, 2009 in Northborough, Massachusetts, after a long illness. He was born in Marlborough, son of Frederick L. and Mary (Cutler) Rolfe, Sr. Mr. Rolfe graduated from Boston University in 1953. He was best known as head coach of the Northborough and Marlborough American Legion baseball teams from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s.

Over that time he developed a reputation as a strong competitor and respected coach. He was also one of the founding members of the Marlboro Youth Hockey program and coached several hockey teams from the 1950s through the 1980s.

He was a veteran of the US Coast Guard and served during World War II. Mr. Rolfe is survived by his wife of 63 years, Elaine (Alden) Rolfe and leaves five children, Priscilla Madden, Stephen Rolfe, Susan Howes, Nancy Proctor and Peter Rolfe; ten grandchildren; two great-grandsons; and several nieces and nephews.

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★ John Anderson Pidgeon died May 12,

1942

★ LCDR Charles (Chuck) P. Hurley died on March 20, 2009, in Augusta. He was born to Jeremiah Francis Hurley and Augusta Louise Hanouseck Hurley in 1923.

He had a close relationship with his sister Margaret Hurley Bailey who passed away five days earlier. He was married to Marjorie May Grey Hurley for 58 years; he was widowed in 2003. After graduating from Hebron, Mr. Hurley volunteered to assist in the efforts of World War II. He joined the Navy and was deployed to Japan with VT88 aboard the Yorktown, where he piloted torpedo bombers. After the war ended he continued his military service with tours of naval duty both as a carrier pilot and an intelligence officer. Through the mid 1960s, he was the Basic Courses Branch Chief at the U.S. Armed Forces Air Intelligence Training Center. His last duty station was Brunswick Naval Air Base were he was the Wing Intelligence Officer until he retired in 1969 as a Lieutenant Commander. The last plane he flew during the last mission of World War II was used in the Inaugural Parade for President George H.W. Bush. His awards and decorations include the Air Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, Navy Unit Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and the WWII Victory Medal, and the Asiatic-Pacific Theater Medal. In 1970, LCDR Hurley became the vice president of administrative services for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine. He retired in 1979 in order to pursue his true passion of sailing. He and his wife enjoyed cruising up and down the Maine coast. He earned the prestigious title of vice commodore of the Mere Point Yacht Club. On April 3, 2009, he was to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award issued by the governor. He is survived by his daughter Debbie Hurley Wright, his son

2008. He was born in 1924 in Lawrence, Massachussetts, the son of Nora Regan Pidgeon and Alfred Pidgeon. Mr. Pidgeon graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was decorated for service and injuries incurred in the North Atlantic. At Bowdoin, he graduated with a degree in German and earned a chance to participate in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials. Upon his graduation from Bowdoin, he served for a short time with U.S. Steel Corporation but left a lucrative position to pursue teaching—a career that became his passion and entire life. His first teaching position was at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, where he taught German and Latin and coached swimming and football. He eventually was named assistant headmaster. In 1957, he was appointed headmaster of Kiski School in Saltsburg. He served in that position for forty-seven years until his retirement in 2004.

During that time the school’s physical plant and reputation grew significantly, but he always felt his greatest reward was the growth of his students. While serving as headmaster, he continued to teach senior English and coach various sports. He was instrumental in establishing the Interstate Prep School League, which allowed students at private preparatory schools in several states to compete against each other. From the late 1970s through the 1990s, he coached numerous All-American swimmers. In 1993, a newly constructed library at Kiski was named in his honor. Students who had his class remember writing thousand-word themes, reading Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays and novels by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Mr. Pidgeon received honorary doctoral degrees from Bethany College and Washington and Jefferson College. After retirement, he moved to Indiana and spent several years as a volunteer coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and assisted with the establish-

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ment of a club team for younger swimmers.

He established the first scholarship for swimmers at the university. He was inducted as an honorary member of the IUP Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005. Mr. Pidgeon is survived by his wife of 22 years, Barbara Hafer; his sons, John A. Pidgeon Jr. and Kelly C. Pidgeon; his daughters, Regan Houser and Beth Hafer; and four grandchildren.

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★ Carl John Swenson Jr. died May 4, 2009, in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was born in Cambridge in 1930 to Carl and Elinor (Potter) Swenson, and raised in Wellesley. He attended Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y. and Northeastern University in Boston. He was a corporal in the Army, having served in Korea. He was actively involved in the 1st district North Regional, Division III, Flotilla 7 of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary for approximately 25 years. He was a longtime and active member of First Congregational Church in Hamilton, and member of Crossroads Baptist Church in Pelham, N.H. He enjoyed involvement in church choirs over the years, golfing, and an avid Red Sox fan. Mr. Swenson is survived by Rosemary (Meehan) Swenson, his wife of 48 years; one sister, Jean Thorkildsen; three children, Kristin Lyons, Karen Guay and Carl Swenson III; five grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

1950

Robert Earle Cleaves III died on February 26, 2009, in Portland after a brief illness. He was born in Portland in 1931, the son of Robert Earle Cleaves Jr. and Mary Stearns Cleaves. He was introduced early to the lumber business, working summers grading and piling lumber for his father’s lumber company, R.E. Cleaves & Son Co., lumber wholesalers. Upon graduation from Bowdoin College in 1954, he entered the business full time and became president upon the death of his father in 1966 and enjoyed a successful career for many years.

Mr. Cleaves was a director of the Northeast Lumber Manufacturers Association and the New England Lumbermens’ Association. He was also a member of the North American Wholesale Lumber Association. During his career in the lumber industry, he owned the Stillwater Lumber Company in Stillwater, and a lumber distribution yard in Watertown, N.Y. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and was especially proud of his 50 years of membership in the Shrine. His greatest pleasure was sponsoring children who needed orthopedic care at the Shriner’s Hospital and seeing the miraculous impact the hospital has on its young patients’ lives. He enjoyed skiing and spending weekends at the family’s lodge in Naples with his family. Music was a central part of his life. One of the highlights of his music career was performing at the Bohemian Grove in California. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Helen; and his three children and their spouses, Pamela Cleaves Devine, Robert E. Cleaves IV and Harry J. Cleaves; his sister Dorothy Jordan; and five grandchildren. He was predeceased by his sister Bernice Lovejoy.

1951

Charles Shelton Mulhern died peacefully at home on October 15, 2008, with his wife of 53 years by his side. His passing marks the end of a long, bravely fought battle with chronic occlusive pulmonary disease during which he defied medical predictions by living a productive, joy-filled five years past the time his doctors had expected. This he always attributed to the love and devoted care he received from his wife, Alice, the constant and loving presence of three generations of his family, and the unflagging support of his friends in the community who brought the world to him. Mr. Mulhern was born and raised on the East Coast, but his greatest joy was the summers he spent in Nova Scotia on the remote family farm with his grandmother, Mary Ann, and Uncle Huey.

He majored in Greek classics and drama at Tufts University where he met his wife, Alice.

They were married shortly after graduation in 1955. Mr. Mulhern made a career in sales, relocating to the West Coast in 1960 to take over management of the western states for Starkist Tuna. In later years, he partnered with his father-in-law to run a distributorship for Meguiar’s, later taking over the business and setting new records for sales with the company. An intensely intelligent, passionate and involved man, his primary concern was always his family. His love was unconditional and constant, and he offered support, wisdom, and guidance whenever it was needed. He is survived by his wife Alice Hodge Mulhern; his daughter, Shelley Kathryn Mulhern; a grandson; and two greatgranddaughters. He is also survived by his older brother, Dr. John Edward Mulhern, Jr. and three nieces and nephews.

★ Normand Donald St. Hilaire died May 21, 2009, in West Columbia, South Carolina, following a long illness. He was born to Robert St. Hilaire and Laura Daniel St. Hilaire in Auburn. Mr. St. Hilaire was a sergeant in the United States Army from 1953 to 1962, serving overseas, and was decorated with the Korean Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Metal and the United Nations Service Medal. He shared his great love of the outdoors and enjoyed spending time with family and friends skiing, boating, catching catfish at night and bonfires. He followed his father’s footsteps and was a craftsman in the masonry and roofing business, having restored many historical buildings throughout the Central Maine area. Mr. St. Hilaire was married to his childhood sweetheart, Joanne Boulay St. Hilaire, who passed away in 2005. They were happily married for 53 years and were long-time residents of the Twin Cities. The last four years Normand resided in Zephyrhills, Fla., where he worked for Busch Gardens. He will be lovingly remembered for his warm and generous heart. He was a loving and devoted husband and father who opened his home and life to many. He was a good friend and role model. Mr. St. Hilaire is survived by his brother, Robert St. Hilaire; five children, Lorrie Young, Cheryl Dubois, Deborah St. Hilaire, Normand C. “Chuck” St. Hilaire and Cathy Bridgers.

He has 11 grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren who brought him much joy.

alumni et alumnae Eleanor Davy Allen died on May 3, 2009, at The Barron Center in Portland. Her family had recently celebrated her 100th birthday with her. She was the daughter of Josephine Hutchins Davy and Harry George Davy, and the wife of Claude L. Allen Jr., who was headmaster of Hebron Academy from 1945 to 1972. She was the mother of Connie Allen Eastburn, Peter Allen and Jane Allen Smith. She was the sister of Constance Davy and Harry G. Davy Jr., who died in World War II. She was the grandmother to 13 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. Mrs. Allen attended The Buckingham School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harcum Junior College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and Wheelock College in Brookline, Massachussets. On June 28, 1933, she married Claude and spent 12 years in Deerfield, Massaschusetts, where he was on the faculty of Deerfield Academy and she became actively involved in the role of faculty wife. In 1945, they moved to Hebron, where Claude was given one year to reopen Hebron Academy, which had been closed during World War II. It happened with Mrs. Allen’s participation in many ways in spite of the loss of her brother in April of that year and the birth of her youngest child in July. She was an outstanding headmaster's wife who was involved in many facets of the school. She had a very comfortable relationship with the students. One graduate of Hebron shared publicly at her honorary induction into the Hebron Academy Board of Trustees that he had lost his mother just prior to his entering the school, and she had served as a surrogate mother to him—a sentiment echoing the personal feelings of many young men and a witness to her warmth and compassion. For the 27 years that Mr. Allen was headmaster, she was expected to have dinner every night with the students and gladly did. For many of those years of her tenure in Hebron, she was the librarian of Hebron Academy which was a position that she enjoyed immensely. Mrs. Allen enjoyed many hobbies and activities throughout her life. She gardened with enthusiasm, read widely and was particularly fond of non-fiction, appreciated music and theater, and took many trips with her sister and friends. She accomplished extensive research into the genealogies of both the Allen and Davy families. She was also very adept at needlepoint.

She truly loved animals great and small, especially dogs. She was a skilled and avid bridge player into her late 80s as well as a tireless volunteer for the Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway. She was a member of the Hebron Baptist Church for more than 50 years.

1953

John Young Loungway died on February 25, 2009, in Napa, California. He was born in Boston in 1935, to the Reverend Ferdinand and Margaret Loungway, Mr. Loungway received his bachelor of science degree in business from Boston University.

His work career spanned several decades in the field of insurance, specializing in workers’ compensation, reinsurance and medical malpractice. He is survived by his wife, Lorna Danford Loungway; children Deirdre Loungway and Patrick Loungway; three grandchildren; a brother Duncan Loungway; and several nieces and nephews. Mr. Loungway will be remembered by his family as a man of integrity with a sharp wit and a love of jazz and classical music, gardening and tennis.

1956

Pierre E. Provost IV, M.D.died suddenly at home in Westwood, Massachusetts, on June 2, 2009. He was born in Boston in 1937, the son of Pierre E. Provost III, MD, and Helen Curtis Provost, MD. He graduated from Cornell University in 1960. After receiving his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine, class of 1964, he practiced otolaryngology at the Lahey Clinic in Boston and in 1975 joined ENT Specialists Inc. in Dedham and Brockton, practicing otolaryngology and head and neck surgery. He retired in 1999.

Dedicated to medical education, he served as assistant clinical professor of otolaryngology at Boston University School of Medicine

from 1973 until 1999. Dr. Provost’s military appointments included serving as Director of the Rosebud Indian Health Hospital on the Sioux Indian reservation in the Division of Indian Health in Rosebud, S.D. from 1966 until 1968 and serving as attending physician for the U.S. Coast Guard. He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, and the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery. He was also elected to the Boston Surgical Society.

He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the National Board of Medical Examiners, the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society, and he served as chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Medico-Legal Investigation from 1985–1990. He also served as the medical examiner for Norfolk County. He was a longstanding member of the Dedham Country and Polo Club and the Norfolk Trout Club. A man of many interests and pursuits, Pierre Provost had great love for his family and was deeply committed to the environment. Dr. Provost is survived by his wife of 38 years, Lura McCready Swift Provost and three sons, Pierre E. Provost V, N. Thomas Provost, and Paul R. Provost.

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Edwin Hall Green III died on January 29, 2009, after a long illness. He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1944. He was predeceased by his parents, Edwin Hall Green Jr. and Mardianne Dinkey Green,

and his sister, Virginia Green. Mr. Green was an avid sailor and lived for several years on his sailboat in South Portland and Mystic, Conn. He was an accomplished skier and pianist. During his years at Hebron Academy, he was a successful ski jumper. He graduated from Columbia University and taught math at a private high school before running Bullock Marine Sales in Brookfield, Connecticut with his father. He was a kind, gentle person who loved animals and always had a dog by his side. He cherished his daughters, Rachael and Jessica. He will be dearly missed by his family. Mr. Green is survived by his beloved daughters Jessica Green and Rachael Justis; four grandsons; two sisters, Helen Hurgin and Mardi Reed; and a brother, George Green.

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Patty McKenzie-Baril died unexpectedly on March 16, 2009, with her family by her side. She was born in Lewiston in 1962, the daughter of Robert E. and Ethel (Dyer) McKenzie Sr. She attended Auburn schools, and was a 1980 graduate of Edward Little High School. She then went on to further her education at Mid-State College. She was a financial administrator at Hebron Academy. In 2006, she became a self-employed personal administrator and ran her own business: “Monhegan Moment” which was an online sales company of her art and keepsakes representing her great love for Monhegan Island. The No. 1 focus of her life was her daughter, Samantha ‘06, who recently finished her junior year at Pace University. Ms. McKenzie-Baril is survived by her mother, Ethel McKenzie; her daughter, Samantha Baril; two brothers, Jeff McKenzie and Rodney McKenzie; three sisters, Cindy Jordan, Sheila Morrison and Pam Cyr; and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her father, Robert E. McKenzie Sr.; and two brothers, Robert E. McKenzie Jr. and Timothy McKenzie Sr.

★ Mary Margaret Timpany died July 1, 2007, in Lewiston. She was born in Boston in 1923, a daughter of John J. and Margaret Shorther Hynes. She attended Bangor schools and graduated from Bangor High School. She married Donald R. Timpany in 1946. He passed in 1990. Mrs. Timpany served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II as a surgical technician. She received an honorable discharge in 1946.

Later, she and her husband ran the Hebron Academy Store. After working for Pineland Hospital for 20 years, she retired in 1984.

She was a member of St. Gregory Church in Gray, the Maine Crafting Guild, the American Legion Post in Gray, and the American Red Cross. She enjoyed camping, doing crafts, and gardening. She had a passion for reading, crossword puzzles and crocheting. Most of all, she enjoyed spending time with her family and friends. Mrs. Timpany is survived by a son, Donald M. Timpany; two granddaughters; a great-grandson; and her brothers, John, Joseph and Michael Hynes.

★ Evan R. West died March 16, 2009 at home. He was the husband of Sally Ann (Burtch) West. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, a son of the late Roscoe and Edith (Richard-

son) West, Mr. West graduated from Brown University after serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was a member of Delta Phi at Brown. He received a master’s degree in teaching from Harvard in 1948 and spent the first 17 years of his professional career as a teacher, coach, and administrator at Hebron Academy. In 1965 he became headmaster at Providence Country Day School.

During his twenty years at PCD, enrollment steadily increased and a new campus was built on the east side of Pawtucket Avenue— an academic building, a library and a field house, the latter named for him. He was a member of the Headmasters Association and the Country Day School Headmasters Association of the United States, serving as its treasurer for five years. After his retirement, he became an associate director of admission at Brown for four years. In 1993 he became the founding director of Brown’s Alumni College Advising Program. He was active in the affairs of the Brown class of 1945, serving at various times as its president, treasurer, and reunion chair. He received the Brown Alumni Service Award in 2000. A member of Central Congregational Church, Mr. West was a deacon and past chairman of the permanent Deaconate. He was a past chairman of the Lifetime Learning program for seniors based at the church and a past member of the Board of Directors of the Genesis Center and The Rhode Island Lung Association. In addition to his wife, Sally West, he leaves two daughters, Elizabeth West and Ann West; a brother, Richard West; a sister, Janet Williams; and three grandchildren.

Trustee Emerita Bettina Wyman Emmons died June 12, 2009, in Exeter, New Hampshire. She was born in 1918, in Fairmont, West Virginia, the daughter of Ernest and Ola Lee Bell. Mrs. Emmons attended Sweet Briar College for two years and graduated from Duke University and The Katherine Gibbs School in Boston.

She worked for TIME, Inc. in both Boston and New York. She was active in the Junior League of Boston, the Vincent Club and the Junior League Garden Club. She was married in 1942 to Richard M. Wyman Jr. ‘35.

They lived in Wellesley, Massachusetts, for many years, and summered at Wings Neck on Cape Cod for more than 30 years. Mr. Wyman died in 1976, and in 1984, she married J. Grey Emmons. He died in 1985. Mrs. Emmons moved to the New Hampshire Seacoast area in 1988. She is survived by three daughters, Annie Wyman, Sally Graves and Jane Wyman; and three grandchildren, including Nathan Bertland ’92.

Other Deaths Watner Bracken ‘37, on January 6, 2009.

Howard “Howie” C. Barber, Jr. ‘41.

Edward A. Johnson ‘49 on February 6, 2009.

Bruce Murray ‘59, on March 8, 2009.

Eve Wood, former staff, on October 21, 2008.

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hebroniana Happy Birthday, Atwood!

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n Sunday, May 17, Atwood Hall faculty and students celebrated the building’s centennial with a cookout. Dormitory supervisor Kathy GerritsLeyden and resident faculty members Eliza Tobin, Nate Twichell and Jon Pritchard also recognized Atwood’s four proctors who graduated in May. Designed by John Calvin Stevens, architect of many campus buildings, Atwood was completed in the fall of 1909 and dedicated at commencement in 1910. It was named for William H. Atwood, a former trustee of the school and father of George M. Atwood, class of 1883.

Although 63 boys lived in Atwood during that first year, interior remodeling to expand a faculty apartment, create

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a third apartment and provide storage reduced the dorm’s capacity to its current maximum of 26.

The smallest of Hebron’s three residence halls, Atwood has served several purposes during its first century.

Although most often home to boys, it housed senior girls and freshman boys for a brief time in the early 1980s when large numbers of boarding students led to a space crunch.

Atwood closed briefly when boarding enrollment declined sharply ten years later, then reopened for use as classroom space and administrative offices.

In the early 1990s, the fine arts center relocated from Atwood’s basement to Sturtevant Home, freeing the area for the Lower School. An expanding boarding population began moving back into the dorm in the late-1990s with the closure of the Lower School. Today, in the “Rat’s” second century, boys again fill the rooms and clatter up and down the stairs.

If the boys of 1909 were to return to Hebron today they would find that Atwood Hall is virtually unchanged, at least on the outside. This photo from Atwood’s first decade shows dark shutters (they are now white) and a different rooftop ventilator. The interior layout now includes faculty apartments on each floor; unheard of in 1909.

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Congratulations to the Class of 2009 Scenes from the first commencement held in the new athletic center. Clockwise from bottom left: piper Chris Pinchbeck ’87 leads the graduates out; WenHao Li, Joo Won Jun and Tatsumi Watanabe; the exchange of greetings between seniors and faculty on the elevated track; Hebron Cup winner Claire Cummings; graduates Brianna and Brett Bisesti with their mother, Nancy; Sarah Fensore and English teacher Carnie Burns.