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Strategic Planning from the Head of School Dan Marchetti
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Starting in the spring of 2017, Hebron Academy’s Board of Trustees, Faculty and Staff will begin the process of generating a new strategic plan. Our goal is to build a collective vision for the future of Hebron. As was done for Hebron’s last strategic plan, All Ahead, published in 2013, we will examine all aspects of the Hebron experience to construct the scaffolding of an aspirational and attainable strategic plan. Strategic plans serve as important road maps for schools. They allow for the opportunity to systematically examine areas of strength, as well as areas in need of growth and improvement. They provide the time and attention to consider and study opportunities yet to be explored or realized. Our strategic planning process at Hebron will be one that is collaborative, inclusive of a broad range of perspectives, and comprehensive in scope. It will be a process involving great reflection, as well as innovative thinking. It will honor the school’s institutional legacy, while considering today’s evolving educational landscape. It will encourage “blue sky” thinking, inviting us to dream big as we imagine the future of this school for which we all care so much. The process, in sum, will be exciting.
Harnessing the collective strength, passion, and energy of an organization as large and complex as Hebron is a wonderful challenge. To help facilitate this critical process, Hebron has retained the help of Bob Hallett of School Strategies and Solutions. A lifelong educator, Bob has had a decorated career in a variety of positions, including Head of School at St. Paul’s School in Baltimore and Executive Director of The Edward E. Ford Foundation. I have had the pleasure of getting to know Bob over the past two years as he ran the Head of School search for Hebron, and I am thrilled that he will be working with us throughout this strategic planning process. In June, I will be joined by various talented Faculty and Staff, as well as by our dedicated Board of Trustees, for a three-day strategic planning retreat in Bar Harbor. Prior to the retreat we will gather as much relevant data as possible to inform our work. Surveys and meetings have been planned for this spring that will help us cast as wide a net as possible to ensure that we hear from our committed and caring community members. As for the duration of time required to complete the process, strategic planning often takes a full 12-month cycle. I look forward to embarking on this journey with you as we partner to build a collective vision for Hebron’s future. Sincerely,
Daniel J. Marchetti Head of School
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LUMBERJACKS ATHLETIC HIGHLIGHTS
FALL 2016
Hebron had a terrific fall athletic season with many individual successes as well as important team wins. Nearly 80% of our student body enjoyed time on Hebron’s athletic teams. The Lumberjacks fared well in the season-ending MAISAD tournaments. The boys’ and girls’ varsity soccer, boys’ JV soccer, field hockey, and golf all earned MAISAD championship titles. The girls’ JV soccer team played a strong championship game but fell just short in their bid, while the boys’ thirds soccer team completed a very positive season with an overall record of 7-1-2. The cross country team posted several individual successes while the football team retained the “Headmaster’s Chair” with their win over rival Kents Hill in the traditional seasonending game. After falling to Gould Academy in the MAISAD championship game in each of the past three years, the girls on the varsity soccer team found themselves in a familiar position once more this fall. After a decisive semifinal win, Hebron traveled to Gould for the championship game. Both teams played with heart and emotion, battling to a 2-2 tie in regulation and overtime play. The game then went to penalty kicks where Hebron eventually earned the hard-fought championship win. Meanwhile, the undefeated boys’ varsity team played the same fine soccer that had distinguished their team all season, remaining undefeated and earning their MAISAD championship win by topping Kents Hill at home on the Allen Field.
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Thanks to their strong seasons and MAISAD tournament successes, both soccer teams were rewarded with bids to the New England tournament, and both teams advanced through quarterfinal and semifinal action to find themselves in the championship games. While the girls would fall just short in a very closely contested (0-1) game with Vermont Academy, the boys played with the teamwork and passion they had displayed all year to come out on top (1-0) over The Master’s School to complete their undefeated season and earn the New England Class C Championship title. It’s important to note that out of the 64 teams represented in the boys and girls New England tournaments, Hebron was one of only two schools whose teams advanced all the way to the championship games! Congratulations to all of our athletes and teams on a very positive and successful fall season.
FALL ATHLETIC AWARDS MVPs Varsity Golf Cross Country Cross Country Varsity Field Hockey Girls’ Varsity Soccer Boys’ Thirds Soccer Boys’ JV Soccer Girls’ JV Soccer
Matthew Meikle ‘17 Breac Baker ‘17 Summer Surgent-Gough ‘17 Lizz McKinnon ‘17 Eliza Beaudin ‘18 Oliver Jacques ‘20 Eijiro Saito ‘17 Reilly New ‘19
COACHES’ AWARDS Boys’ Varsity Soccer Girls’ Varsity Soccer Varsity Field Hockey Boys’ JV Soccer Girls’ JV Soccer Boys’ Thirds Soccer Cross Country
MOST IMPROVED PLAYER Girls’ JV Soccer Boys’ Thirds Soccer
Sara Younk ‘19 Jose Miguel Bello Paz ‘20
ADDITIONAL AWARDS Boys’ JV Soccer Leadership Award
Conrad Grimmer ‘17 & Joe Piroli ‘17
Victor Moller ‘18 & Rivers Hinson ‘17 Taylor Leech ‘17, Lauren Rousseau ‘17, Louisa Ellis ‘17 & Meaghan Donahue ‘17 Evelyn Turnbaugh ‘17 Bekarys Alimov ‘18 Xinyao Lily Xu ‘17 Josh Petrocelli ‘19 & Keonhwui Kim ‘18 Haomeng Hu ‘19 & Gabe Randall ‘20
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LUMBERJACKS ATHLETIC HIGHLIGHTS
WINTER 2017
Hebron’s winter athletic season included an impressive 140 games on the court and in the rink as well as snowboard slope-style events and Alpine slalom and giant slalom races. Nearly 70% of Hebron students participated on eight different athletic teams while other Hebron students were active in our personal fitness, winter pursuits, art and drama offerings, as all made the most of a snowy and exciting winter term.
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The girls’ varsity basketball team posted a winning season and earned a spot in the MPA Class C tournament preliminary round, hosting Mount Abram Regional High School before a packed crowd. Although the girls did not advance in the MPA tournament, the following week they matched up against Gould Academy, coming out on top of a close contest to win their second consecutive MAISAD title. The boys’ and girls’ varsity hockey teams played strong prep schedules against NEPSAC opponents, and each team earned a satisfying win against Maine rival Kents Hill in their final game of the season. The boys’ “B” hockey team completed their 10th consecutive season with a plus .500 record, while the boys’ JV basketball team showed improved ball movement and teamwork throughout the season. On the slopes, the Alpine ski team improved with each MAISAD event, and Joe Godomsky finished third in the overall league points standings among boys varsity skiers. Hebron snowboarders had success too, as Victoria Decoster, Josh Petrocelli, and Preston Fultz all earned top finishes in their weekly events.
WINTER ATHLETIC AWARDS MVPs
MOST IMPROVED PLAYER
Girls’ Varsity Basketball Madeline New ‘18 & Franceska Halloran ‘19 Boys’ Varsity Basketball LJ Lucas ‘17 & Ryan Sullivan ‘17 Girls’ Varsity Hockey Eliza Beaudin ‘18 Boys’ Varsity Hockey Philippe Gilmour ‘17 Alpine Skiing Joe Godomsky ‘20 Varsity “B” Hockey Philip Agius ‘19 Boys’ JV Basketball Rui Sun ‘19
Varsity “B” Hockey: Keith Mank ‘19 Boys’ JV Basketball: Jun Jie Zheng ‘18 Snowboarding: Wenkang Zhang ‘17 Boys’ Varsity Hockey: Teagan Poliseno ‘17
COACHES’ AWARDS: Varsity “B” Hockey Tristen Chan ‘17 Alpine Skiing Ruth Cetina Jimenez ‘19, Carlo Kobe ‘19 & Addy Mainville ‘17 Boys’ JV Basketball Alexandre Renaud ‘17 Boys’ Varsity Basketball Ben English ‘18 & Jack Morton ‘17 Girls’ Varsity Basketball Eliza Quinones ‘19 Girls’ Varsity Hockey Lauren Rousseau ‘17 & Taylor Leech ‘17
ADDITIONAL AWARDS Boys’ Varsity Ice Hockey: Scott Smith Memorial Award; Sean Kimura ‘18 Hard Hat Award: Zachary Barnes ‘17 Top Scholastic Award: Philippe Gilmour ‘17
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Sustained EXCELLENCE A Hebron Soccer Retrospective by David Stonebraker
The goal came in the 83rd minute of a tightly contested game with The Masters School of New York. Michael Tahiru ‘18 collected a back pass from Justin Bell ‘18 in the Masters goal area, pivoted to elude a defender, drove toward the penalty area and struck a swerving ball that caught the upper left of the net, the 93rd goal of a magical season for the Boys’ Varsity team and the marker that gained Hebron a first New England Championship. Sixty miles from the boys’ championship game at Deerfield Academy, the Hebron Girls’ Varsity team was locked in an equally tight duel against Vermont Academy for their NEPSAC Soccer Championship. While the outcome for the girls would be defeat by a single goal in the waning moments of their game, it is remarkable to note that Hebron should reach the final game of the NEPSAC tournament for both boys and girls. It is a tournament that featured the 64 best independent school teams from the New England states and Hudson Valley region of New York. It is also fitting as the school celebrates the outstanding 2016 season to survey the decades of excellence, sportsmanship, and fair play that have characterized Hebron’s soccer teams since the opening seasons of 1956 for the boys and 1981 for the girls, a total of 97 seasons of play for the two teams. Beyond the 750 games that the girls’ and boys’ teams have won during that time, beyond the many players who have developed their skills, learned tactics, and sportsmanship to meld into competitive teams, and beyond the special poignancy of particular games lie several enduring threads that, woven together, have created a special bond surrounding soccer at Hebron. One thread from the beginning has been the presence of international students who have contributed to the success of their teams. Another important thread is the influence of dedicated and long-tenured coaches who established a standard of hard work and dedication to the sport. And beyond lies the enduring thread of commitment to excellence by players and coaches who have fostered spirited competition and respect for the game. 6 • HEBRON • SPRING 2017
Soccer at Hebron began in the fall of 1956 as an alternative competitive sport choice to the Football and Cross Country teams. The Hebronian staff offered a photo of English soccer with the headline, “Soccer Swells Hebron’s Fall Sports Program—Mr. West to Coach Charter Team.” Evan West coached the soccer team for nine seasons, and his “Westmen,” as they were called, compiled a record of 52 wins against 35 losses and 2 ties. Soccer in Maine was not yet organized into leagues in those early years, so West’s teams competed against a mix of prep schools, state high schools, and colleges. It is interesting to note that the only loss in an otherwise undefeated season for Hebron’s inaugural team was by a single goal to Colby College’s “Varsity Club.” In West’s first years, international players lifted the team: among them the brothers Dieter ‘57 and Carlos Nottebohm ‘60, Peter Giesemann ‘57, Rudy von der Goltz ‘59, and Lazlo Dudas ‘58, a student who had recently escaped political turmoil in Hungary. One sophomore made West’s first team in 1956 and competed for three years. Jim Harberson ‘59 became a captain and stalwart defender who carried his love of soccer and kicking football field goals “soccer style” forward to a lifetime in sport that was recognized by his induction into Hebron’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009. West’s 1962 varsity team, the first of four undefeated Hebron teams, recorded twelve wins, no losses, and two ties. It was the last year that soccer was played on the wind-swept expanse of Greenwood Mountain at the fields of the Maine Sanitarium. Upon completion of the Dwyer Fields the next year, Hebron’s soccer program gained a permanent home on campus. For the decade from 1965–1975, John Lunt, Vernon Wood, and Michael Tatistcheff coached the Hebron varsity team. Lunt’s 1968 team won Hebron’s first Maine Prep Championship. Another group of international players made their marks for Mike Tatistcheff’s teams. Hebron Trustee, the Rev. Robert Bryan’s Quebec-Labrador Foundation helped
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promising students from Quebec’s North Shore come to Hebron. Brothers and cousins Melvin ‘76, Kirby ‘77 and Tim Nadeau ‘77, as well as Bryce Fequet ‘77 turned their hockey skills and great work ethic to the soccer pitch. In 1976, new Hebron English teacher and coach Dave Stonebraker began with the team and posted Hebron’s second undefeated season (12-0-0) and second Maine Prep title. Kirby Nadeau, captain of the 1976 team was inducted into Hebron’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012. Interestingly, the Guatemalan connection of Evan West’s first teams appeared again in the late 1970s as the Minondo brothers, Martin ‘78 and Antonio ‘79, and Peter Giesemann’s sons— Chris ‘82, Peter ‘83 and Diego ‘88—came to Hebron. From 1976 to 1985, Stonebraker’s teams recorded more than 100 wins and claimed a second Maine Prep title as well as the first two MAISAD (Maine Association of Independent School Athletic Directors) championships when the Maine independent schools organized into a formal league. Randy Granger and Ken Craig both came to Hebron as inspiring teachers and coaches who led Hebron’s soccer teams for the next twelve years from 1987 to 1999. Their teams won more than 60% of their games, claiming six MAISAD Championships and making four NEPSAC Tournament appearances. Ken Craig’s 1994 team won a MAISAD Championship and reached the NEPSAC Tournament final game as another band of Canadians— Jamie Roche ‘95, Aaron Park ‘95, Jean Labbe ‘95, and Pierre Leroux ‘95—joined the school. Following college, Roche returned to Hebron to teach and coach soccer and hockey, and his former coach, Dave Stonebraker, became his assistant as he had been for Granger and Craig. Roche’s teams from 2001–2004 posted four winning seasons and an appearance in the NEPSAC Tournament. Roche was succeeded in 2005 by Jay Keough, a talented three-season coach of soccer, hockey, and lacrosse. Keough’s first team in 2005 celebrated 50 years of Hebron soccer with a 10-6-0 record, and two of his next three teams would earn MAISAD Championships and NEPSAC bids, reaching both the semi-final and the final game. Coach Kurt Swanbeck has directed the Hebron team since 2010, and his teams have continued Hebron’s impressive tradition, winning 75 games in seven years as well as earning four MAISAD Championships and five New England appearances, highlighted by this year’s NEPSAC Championship win, Hebron’s first ever. Themes of “family” and “inclusiveness” mark Swanbeck’s coaching style that is, in the words of Assistant Coach Casey Ftorek, “holistic, meaning his primary focus is fostering growth in each individual on the team as a person and a player—tactics are often secondary. He capitalizes on every teaching moment on the field, whether it is a life lesson or a soccer lesson, with the same level of concern. It has been a tremendously successful coaching philosophy.”
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The history of the girls’ soccer program is similar in terms of the great commitment of the players and special inspiration of their coaches. Indeed, Hebron girls’ soccer owes part of its identity to Sarah Rundquist ‘80 and Laurie Pinchbeck (Whitsel) ‘83. These two women so loved the game that they first pushed to be allowed to play with the boys at a time when Field Hockey and Cross Country were the only available fall teams for girls. Laurie was instrumental in organizing her classmates to form a first girls’ soccer team in the fall of 1981. Athletic Director Nat Harris stepped in to coach the girls, and Laurie became captain. Her 1982 team won a first MAISAD Championship, and after graduation Laurie went on to play for Bates College and to coach. She has devoted much of her career to the game, becoming the president of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and representing the organization at the men’s and women’s World Cup and the Olympics. In 2008 she was among the first inductees to Hebron’s Athletic Hall of Fame.
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This championship season for Kurt Swanbeck’s team was also the 61st season of boys’ soccer at Hebron. Together, Swanbeck, Ken Craig, Dave Stonebraker and Evan West have coached more than half of Hebron’s 61 soccer teams, and of the 857 games played by Hebron, these four were on the sideline for 473 of them, winning a remarkable 300, or roughly 2 of every 3 contested. Their teams represent 12 of 18 Maine Prep or MAISAD Championships and 8 of 12 NEPSAC bids.
For the first 10 years of their program, the girls’ teams won 60% of their games with six coaches, including back-to-back MAISAD Championships in 1984 and 1985 with coach and Fine Arts Chairman Tony Mollica. In the second decade of the program, Jennifer Craig coached the team for seven years, from 1993–1999, posting 57 wins and a MAISAD title. Canadian Audra Sherman ‘98 scored 38 goals for the 1997 team. She then played at Clemson and Hofstra Universities and with professional clubs for five years after college before she became a coach for the Ottawa Fury FC Elite Girls Academy. During those years, Craig shared the Dwyer Fields with her husband Ken, coach of the boys’ varsity team. Together, they were a formidable and inspiring coaching pair, their teams wonderfully successful as together they won 125 of 211 games, four MAISAD Championships, and received two NEPSAC bids. More recently, the girls have had another very successful seven year run, coached by Colin Griggs to 50 wins, two MAISAD Championships, and their wonderful success in this year’s season. Sarah Markey ‘11 was a dominant player on Griggs’ first team, and Emily Wyman ‘13 became a starter for the Maine Maritime Academy. On November 20, 2016, the Hebron girls were dueling for the NEPSAC champsionship with Vermont Academy, a perennial opponent. The first half was a stalemate as the play was concentrated in the midfield where Lauren Rousseau ‘17 and Morgan Prentice ‘19 supported Sophie List ‘19 and Eliza Beaudin ‘18 as they pressed for an advantage. In the second half, Hebron’s back line of Avery Jurek ‘18, Meaghan Donahue ‘17, Catherine Miles ‘19, and goalkeeper Taylor Leech ‘17 kept the Vermont team at bay, but gradually Vermont was able to push further and their championship goal came in the final minutes of play. With this NEPSAC Tournament finals appearance by both teams, Hebron can celebrate nearly 100 seasons of fine soccer by its boys’ and girls’ teams. Together they have played over 1300 games and have won 750 of them. The consistency of the play and the coaching have set a standard for determination, development of skills, fair play and an abiding appreciation for the game. The heritage of soccer at Hebron has always been, and continues to be, defined by the shared opportunity of players and their coaches striving together for common goals and growing by the experience.
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Sustainable H E B RO N “Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.” — Paul Hawken Environmentalist, entrepreneur, & activist
Hebron is now under new leadership, ushering in a new era of growth for the school in a society that calls on every citizen to make a contribution for the future. While traditions have laid the foundation for a Hebron that has educated generations of innovative and thoughtful scholars, brave and powerful athletes, it is no longer enough. The Academy has embarked on new initiatives this year to reinforce that foundation, and allow for building up and forward towards a future that will keep pace and remain relevant in this new era. We are, and will be, a sustainable fixture in Maine, helping students from around the world to learn, live, and lead. Workers from ReVision Energy Company installing the 970 solar panel array on the roof of the south side of the Hebron Athletic Center.
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Planting the Seeds COMMUNITY GARDEN
In the spring of 2009, three intrepid gardeners began a project that has become an annual community effort. Leading the way was Jeanine Eschenbach who was driven by a personal passion for gardening and a love of working in the dirt, to make things grow and create something that gives back season after season. Jeanine recruited Jennifer Godomsky and then Head of School John King to help her clear the small patch of garden tucked behind Allen House. Together they increased the overall square footage to 1500 feet, and the garden now includes fruit bushes along with rows of flowers and vegetables. The number of faculty invested in the Community Garden has grown as well. Now the rows are planted, tended and weeded by the additional hands of Emily Bonis as well as Head of School Dan Marchetti and his wife Courtney. The gardeners harvest an abundance of vegetables and fruit throughout the summer for personal consumption and preserving. Then, in the fall, the garden supplements fresh produce in the Hebron dining hall with zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and whatever else is available. It has also become a communal meeting spot for families on campus in the summer months. Faculty children have been found roaming the rows, snatching fresh tomatoes from the vine to pop in their mouths or helping to pick the most ripened zucchini for their dinner. Each season the garden provides the next year’s heirloom seeds, as the original plan was—and continues to be - to maintain a sustainable, non-GMO planting practice. This commitment adds to the element of sustainability in the garden as it gives back to itself year after year.
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Members of Dr. Swenton’s Climate Change and Agriculture class add compost to the cold frame boxes in preparation for the first plantings.
COLD FRAME GARDENS Good ideas can plant the seeds for great ideas to grow. This can be said of the current cold frame gardens on the lawn outside Treat Science Center. The 2014–15 curriculum included a class on Environmental Science taught by Dr. Daniella Swenton. Always looking to innovate and stay relevant, Dr. Swenton realized that for this particular class to continue as part of Hebron’s curriculum, it needed to be more experiential. “I challenged students to create proposals for how we could initiate projects that incorporated the class’s subject matter. I called it the Great Green Proposal.” The winning entry that year was a project for a greenhouse that included a full design, budget and supply list. “The next year, we built on this idea and incorporated a grant writing experience to make the entire process even more real.” It was so real that the students came up with a strong farm-to-table initiative that Dr. Swenton then encouraged them to take to the Board of Trustees. The idea was well received by the Board, and fundraising began. Though the original scale of the project was downsized, Dr. Swenton and her students were able to build the current cold frame boxes, which allow for growing and harvesting microgreens throughout the Maine winter. Choosing the crop, planting the seeds, and nurturing their growth are all parts of the class now. Students will have the opportunity to make the first harvest early in the spring. Their experience can continue to grow with additional classes under Dr. Swenton’s guidance.
Harnessing the Sun SOLAR ENERGY COMES TO HEBRON
Last fall, Hebron launched an ambitious project. In partnership with ReVision Energy, the school installed 970 solar electric panels on the rooftop of the Athletic Center, an array that will generate more than 300,000 kilowatt hours of emission-free electricity annually while eliminating more than 280,000 pounds of carbon pollution. Over the 40-year expected lifespan of the panels, Hebron's array will prevent more than 10 million pounds of carbon pollution from entering the atmosphere. It is the largest rooftop array in the state of Maine.
L to R: Matthew Johnson ‘93, Trustee; David Prout ‘83, Trustee; Robert J. Ryan ‘77, Trustee; Phil Coupe, Co-Founder, ReVision Energy; Wallace Higgins, Assistant Secretary of the Board of Trustees; Daniel J. Marchetti, Head of School; Judah Sommer, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
“Hebron Academy's array and leadership in the clean energy transition are powerful examples of renewable energy's tremendous potential to reduce energy costs and protect the pristine natural environment of Maine for present and future generations,” said Phil Coupe, Co-Founder of ReVision Energy. “Hebron is now the rooftop solar leader in Maine and we at ReVision Energy look forward to building more solar projects that will eventually make the Academy one of the first net zero schools in New England.” Hebron has been reducing its carbon footprint for quite some time. The Athletic Center on which the solar array sits was constructed with the most efficient heating, cooling and lighting systems available. Across campus, multiple initiatives—LED lighting, state of the art heating plants, environmental sustainability projects and more—are now commonplace and ingrained into how Hebron responsibly consumes energy. "This latest project is a giant step forward, providing roughly a quarter of the Academy's electricity,” said Paul S. Goodof ‘67, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. “We're immensely grateful to our partners in the array, ReVision Energy, and we look forward to doing more with them in the future."
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The completed solar array on the roof of the Athletic Center.
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Sustainability
Fueled by the energy of new school leadership, strong enrollment growth, and successful fundraising momentum, Hebron Academy stands at a transformational turning point. This is a defining moment in which the Academy’s endowment has the potential to see significant growth, growth that will enable Hebron to sustain its mission and provide opportunity to advance the aspirations of the Academy. Endowment growth has long been the goal for Hebron as it is for all independent schools to remain sustainable. Hebron set a course on a recent endeavor to increase endowment by $10 million and we are well on our way. A larger endowment will allow the Academy to remain affordable to qualified prospective and current students; to develop and enhance innovative programs that enrich the student experience; to grow and strengthen Hebron’s boarding and day enrollment, forming and maintaining unique global connections between students from the United States and around the world; to provide campus facilities that allow for innovative teaching methods as well as progressive new programs; and to attract and hire talented teachers who are essential to Hebron’s caring, intellectual, and life-changing educational experience.
Presently, Hebron has reached 75 percent of the aforementioned $10 million endowment goal. Among alumni, parents, trustees, friends, and an anonymous matching challenge pledge, Hebron has received $7.5 million in commitments. With the imminent success of this $10 million goal, Hebron’s endowment will essentially be doubled. In addition to the endowment activity, Hebron recently received a $10 million commitment from the Albert Lepage Foundation. The tremendous generosity of Mr. Lepage ‘65 represents the largest gift in the Academy’s history and will fund renovations to the Lepage Center for the Arts and endow a commitment to diversity—two very important aspects of a Hebron education. The arts at Hebron are a great source of pride. Hebron students who have focused on art have gone on to some of the most highly competitive college programs in the country. Further, Hebron has grown significantly more diverse over the past decade. Today, Hebron has students representing 25 different countries and 15 states. As the demographics of our school continue to change, so too does the need and strategy for education around philanthropy. For it is Hebron’s recent graduates and the students of today who will play a large part in stewarding and fostering the long-term growth of Hebron’s endowment to ensure a vibrant and diverse Hebron Academy for future generations.
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THE ROBERT J. RYAN ‘77
Career Connection Seminars REBECCA WEBBER ‘76
TIM MURNANE ‘86
“Take a look around the room. These are the people, the friends, you will know the longest in your life. The connections you make in high school are some of the most important ones you’ll ever make.” Robert J. Ryan ‘77
Every spring, the Alumni Office hosts a program for the graduating class that shepherds their first connections to the greater Hebron community. Sponsored by Robert J. Ryan, ‘77, the Career Connection Seminars is a half-day event that provides students with an opportunity to meet alumni and parents in a formal, business-like setting. There are multiple sessions in which students hear the professional background stories of the presenters and have the chance to ask them questions on topics that are relevant to them. The day concludes with a dinner for all participants during which they continue to interact and forge new connections within the Hebron network. Our goal for the day is to help start a conversation that will continue for years to come.
CYRUS HAGGE ‘71
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Sustainability
by Julie Middleton
Diversity in enrollment is a hot topic among admissions professionals. From independent day schools to boarding schools to colleges and universities, the makeup of an institution says a great deal about its community and the value placed on learning in a diversified environment. Enrollment diversity is vitally important because it impacts the student experience in ways that cannot be achieved through class work alone. In our school, diversity speaks to every student and employee on campus: where we are from, how we identify politically, socially and racially; what kind of learners we are, our family makeup, our gender, our economic background, and so on. Most important, it speaks to how we come together as learners and as members of a community.
George Borokov from Bulgaria proudly displays his class year sweater in 1901.
Students and families who choose Hebron Academy are thrilled with the makeup of our community, although the full impact of an environment like ours is difficult to measure or succinctly describe. Appreciation for the experience is more common and reinforced regularly. For example, Luke Zarzecki ‘17 spoke in his Last Word about the amazing benefit of relationships with students from other countries. “In one cross-country practice, running with my friend Zhihao, my notions about Chinese government and culture were completely debunked and likewise Zhihao now knows about life in the city of Chicago.” Through such exposure, students expand their life-views, and all have the opportunity to open their minds and hearts to a better understanding of humanity. The importance of international and cultural diversity is especially true for a liberal arts school located in the foothills of western Maine, where the nearest “big” city is roughly an hour away and where many of our native Mainers—students, faculty or staff—are several generations deep in living in this great state. However, even in Maine, we benefit from a diversity of experience from family makeup, educational backgrounds, and industry/ economic influences as diverse as coastal tourism to agricultural heritage to entrepreneurial technology. For Hebron Academy, being the chosen school for a wide range of students, including international students, has been a source of pride for much of our 213-year history. One early and unique Hebron student was John Brown Russworm. An American abolitionist born in Jamaica, Russworm was raised in Quebec and spent time at Hebron before entering Bowdoin College, where he graduated with the class of 1826. Russworm was the first African American to graduate from Bowdoin College and third African American to graduate from an American college. There is no direct record of how Russworm came to Hebron or how long he stayed, but his story is likely similar to that of many international students for whom the school was recommended by family friends or patrons. 14 • HEBRON • SPRING 2017
THE REGISTER OF HEBRON WITH STUDENT ADDRESSES FROM SWEDEN, CUBA, & SPAIN IN THE MIDST OF FAMILIAR MAINE TOWNS.
A visitor to the Bell-Lipman Archives at Hebron may examine the leather bound Register of Hebron Academy. Beginning in 1887, newly enrolled students wrote their names and addresses in the book, just as students continue to do today. Along with expected entries for Maine and Massachusetts—Lewiston, Portland or Boston—were entries from places in Maine that we might not think of: Upper Dam, Flagstaff, the Forks, or Matinicus. In 1893, brothers John and William Hale enrolled from Shivegyin, Burma, and in the following decades students would enroll from Bohemia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Japan, Macedonia, Norway, Panama, Siam, Sweden, Trinidad, and Turkey. They wrote their names next to local boarders from Paris, Sweden, or Mexico, Maine. Indeed, in 1901, Nicholas Katsannoff of Sophia, Bulgaria, would write his name next to that of Roscoe Hupper of Martinsville, Maine. Hebron continues to embrace and actively support a wonderfully diverse and increasingly international student population. This is evidenced in the curriculum—many courses are offered in ESL (English as a Second Language)—and in the dining hall where the flags of all 26 international students’ countries are on display. This array of country representation is, remarkably and proudly, more than most other northern New England boarding schools can boast. As is human nature, these things become routine, and sometimes diversity at Hebron can be taken for granted; but sometimes it becomes extraordinary. Speaking the universal language of sport and H O M ECO M I N G/ RE U N I O N O C TO B E R 2 0 –21 , 2 017
including players from eight different countries, the 2017 Boys’ Varsity Soccer Team won a first New England Championship for Hebron. In the art world, I remember being so moved as the drama director of Hebron’s Fiddler on the Roof in 2008. The Russian soldiers of the story who were displacing the Russian Jews were played by Hebron boys from Canada, South Korea, Maine, and the Ukraine. Our Ukrainian students’ grandparents remembered the forced exodus at the heart of the play, and the boys performing in the play helped convey the impact of that event on their families. For all of us on the stage, this made the finale that much more personal and real. Hebron has had a Diversity Club or GSTA (Gay, Straight, Transgender Alliance) for more than 20 years. Activities range from celebrating the Day of Silence to attending events such as The Laramie Project at Bates College and promoting No Name Calling Week. Many families ask about our club, and the national buzz around equality issues has reaffirmed the importance of such a presence. In the fall, Hebron people participated in the Women’s March in Washington, DC, and the Maine march at the capitol in Augusta. There was a great deal of campus awareness around these events. Diversity brings unity to our school. Diversity at Hebron is a tradition, a goal in admissions, and a banner to celebrate: we continue to embrace it and to learn from it. WWW.HEBRONACADEMY.ORG
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by David Stonebraker
“Currently we have 15 acres in cultivation with more than 20 crops rotating seasonally on land in Wayne, Maine, that I have farmed since 2010 with my wife and brother.” So Trent Emery, Class of 2000, begins to describe the business model for Emery Farm, his passion and his calling. “Over the years, we have bought back parcels, putting together this farm on land that had been a 19th-century homestead in my wife’s family and also a parcel that abutted where I grew up. My wife and I, together with my brother, manage two hundred plus acres as croplands, fields, and woodlots.” It is a striking setting for a farm, an easterly facing hilltop and adjoining bottom land that otherwise might have been subdivided into view lots and country homes. 16 • HEBRON • SPRING 2017
However different these two Hebron alumni may seem— one an academic with global interests and credentials and the other a gifted schoolboy athlete and college art major turned farmer—they both epitomize bold yet thoughtful decisions made to shape a present life of fulfilling contributions to their communities—both global and local. Tad continues, “After college at the University of Vermont, I spent a couple of years in the west working as a climbing guide. I was very involved with mountaineering, rock and ice climbing and had the opportunity to become a professional climber, but I
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“I had advantages as well as some clear disadvantages growing up,” Tad Pfeffer, Class of 1970, begins to recount how he “got here from there.” “From an early age, I was fascinated with snow and ice, with cold.” Here, for Pfeffer, is the University of Colorado where he is a distinguished glaciologist with a special interest in how the effect of climate change on glacial regions is affecting the world’s oceans. “I was only at Hebron for one year, in 1967–68. I was a classic ADD kid who found it very difficult to focus at the time on the things that were set before me; I just didn’t know how to sit down. That year was a snowy New England winter; the snow came at Thanksgiving and stayed until March. I loved it.” Hebron wasn’t the right fit for Tad, and yet a passing conversation with Headmaster Claude Allen left a lasting impression. “When Mr. Allen took me aside to talk about the future, he said that he expected that some day he would hear from me on stationery from the Harvard Business School.” Business school was not, in fact, part of Tad’s future, but what did happen “is that I learned to follow my own passions, focusing eventually solely on what I was interested in.”
realized that I was spending all my free time reading mathematics books which suggested to me that maybe I should be back in school.” A Master’s Degree in Geology from the University of Maine and a doctorate in Glaciology from the University of Washington followed, as did research opportunities in the glacial regions of the world. Pfeffer has worked on projects in Antarctica, Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, and Alaska, as well as the Himalayas and Mount Kilimanjaro. While on assignment in 1978 at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Pfeffer wrote to his former headmaster, Claude Allen, on stationery of the United States Antarctic Research Station explaining what he had been up to. And Pfeffer received Mr. Allen’s reply, “That letter from Claude meant a lot to me. It’s extraordinary how personally invested he was in all of us as individuals, something that was very difficult for us to understand at the time.”
Much of Tad’s research has focused on the glaciers of Alaska, which contribute about 20% of the amount of freshwater presently flowing into the world’s oceans. While it may seem like a modest amount when compared to the potential flowage from Antarctica or Greenland, he argues that understanding “the importance of Alaska to sea level rise is much greater than the attention that is being given to it by researchers. . . . The vast majority
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While the threads of Tad’s experience intertwine with snow and cold, with rock and ice, his present thinking and teaching seek to make assessments of change and to chart the future. He outlines two areas of concern in his research: “One is very large-scale and process oriented: to make accurate and appropriate forecasts of sea-level rise as it applies to climate change. Equally
important is to ask and understand the right questions from the perspective of the people who actually use the scientific knowledge to make decisions.” Conjoined with these two ideas is a concern with scale. “The scientific community is generally motivated in their research to go as far as possible in a particular direction, to turn the best and brightest people loose on the most interesting problems. But what if the most interesting problems have little if any immediate relevancy?” That is the challenge: how to bring the best scientific knowledge to bear in the real time in which policy-makers and planners must work. “That’s the scale I am working on—trying to get my colleagues to understand the balance between intellectually fascinating problems and problems that are actually most important for sustaining the future. And that is actually really hard to do.”
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of [the water] goes into the Gulf of Alaska, the northern Pacific, and because of the way the currents run, gets pushed up along the south coast of Alaska and through a gap in the Aleutian Peninsula into the Arctic Basin. These areas are major fishing regions for the world, and it’s a very large quantity of fresh water. Is it enough to change the salinity of the Arctic Basin, enough to affect the quality of the fishery going forward? We really don’t know, and that’s a question that should be answered.” To Pfeffer, this is the sort of question that begs for research and monitoring, the sort of question that can have major impact on international relations and environmental policy in the near term.
At St. Lawrence University, Emery majored in art and anthropology but was very interested in what was then a new program, Outdoor Studies. Trent continues to describe his growing relationship with the land, finding it important first “and informally because it was where I played; more formally because my father’s sensitivity to the natural world rubbed off on me. When I was at St. Lawrence, it [a relationship with the land] progressed in terms of my hiking. I found it contemplative. It was where I could think things through, and then it became an academic pursuit for me. I was educated in outdoor philosophy, outdoor recreation, and the ecology of New England and New York.” Following graduation, Emery first became a teacher and coach, but he developed a
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Trent Emery has an equally direct relationship with the environment, but on a much different scale, and his story of “getting here from there” is equally compelling. “The outdoors has always been important to me,” Emery recalls. “It was where I played; the woods and fields were my home, and my father was my first teacher. My first memories are of being with him watching and observing the woods around us as we walked and talked. Later I found the outdoors to be contemplative. At Hebron, I didn’t have much time because of sports, but I liked to
trek down to Marshall Pond just to get away, to take the tonic of wildness. At Hebron, I learned independence and commitment. It was good to be away from family, to become more self-reliant. I was an athlete and really identified with the commitment necessary to the team.” A three-year varsity athlete, Emery was both Captain and MVP of Soccer, Alpine Skiing and Baseball in his senior year and won the Dwyer Award and the Athletic Prize for the Class of 2000.
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crops and the ability to produce them efficiently. “If you are going to grow only one crop, you can be incredibly efficient, but you also become vulnerable to the marketplace and production problems. But if you have some diversity, then you spread the risk, provide more variety and make the whole process more interesting. Efficiency and diversity . . . pretty contradictory words, perhaps, and that is where the stress of it all comes. As much as you try to prepare and plan in an unpredictable business, you have to have the ability to respond, to make things happen. You have to have the commitment. For me, the only way that I could commit to farming, the only way to do it sincerely, was to fully immerse; there could be no other way. I am getting more comfortable with the stress. A bad day of farming must be better than a good day in an office cubicle. As much as there is the physical connection with the earth, there is a spiritual connection as well, a seasonal connectedness.
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Just as Pfeffer weighs the potential benefits when considering decisions to be made for research, Emery also feels there is a balancing act necessary between what one might want to do philosophically when creating a sustainable agriculture model and what one must do to remain financially viable. “I like the idea of conservation, but I think there must be a balance of purposefulness that can also embrace conservation— conservation from a real hard use kind of philosophy, but also the conservation of community and locality as well as land. We run a diversified produce farm here with target markets for cafeterias, schools, colleges, hospitals, and assisted-living facilities. Our marketing plan has evolved greatly, somewhat by necessity. When I began, we did farmers’ markets and farm stands. The business was purely seasonal but not sustainable.” With a half acre presently under plastic, Emery Farm now produces green vegetables year-round, balancing the ability to supply produce with the ebb and flow of markets, seeking a balance between the diversity of
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growing sense that the first subject of learning must be the natural world and sustaining the land we use. “While teaching, I didn’t feel that I was contributing [to my community] sustainably: I didn’t feel that my personal contribution as a teacher was as effective as it could be in farming, where I would be doing something so personal, direct and concrete. When you hike into the backcountry, you bring Snickers and Ramen noodles, but here on the farm, I grow the food for my family and share with the community. Some of what I had been experiencing began to feel a little selfish in my own pursuit.”
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As one listens to both Pfeffer and Emery, their passion for what they do is clear, as is their commitment to community and the importance of their tasks to the future. While neither points back directly to Hebron as the source of their inspiration—that would come later— both do speak personally of early experiences in the out of doors, of gaining independence in their school years and of following their passions beyond the ordinary. And both can speak of their influence in their communities. Pfeffer has published two major books on the findings of glacial research and has most recently spent a year as a Jefferson Fellow in Washington, DC, advising the State Department on matters of assessment and policy. “The entire world is local somewhere,” he says. The solutions to our great environmental questions must come from individuals who are learning to ask the right questions, apply critical thinking to the evidence and can communicate effectively for policymakers.
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We may try to control everything we can—the water, the sun, the temperature—we may try to reduce risk, but ultimately we are subject to the natural order, the sun, and the seasons, and for me that becomes an important part of the groundedness I feel in this somewhat anxious world.”
Emery picks up this theme when he speaks of the potential for his farm. “It is important for everyone today to know where food comes from. A community becomes a collaborative effort where business and philosophy come together. It is important for me to be connected to the agricultural network in this state as well as to the land. It is important for business, yes, but also important because the network is a way to ask questions, gather information and communicate findings.” In addition to managing his business, Trent Emery is active in the agricultural network of Maine and has recently become a selectman for Wayne, Maine, and participant on its Lands Committee.
Both Tad Pfeffer and Trent Emery attended Hebron at a time when environmental awareness was hardly the watchword it has become. Yet both, in their different ways, can point to influences of the time that emerged much later. Both speak of learning independence and of finding passion and commitment to ideas. Both speak of having a need to strike out on one’s own and the persistence to follow through on a course laid out. However different their paths have been, both Pfeffer and Emery exemplify our current need to conserve and sustain our common world.
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H E B RON C O N N ECT IONS FALL/WINTER RECEPTIONS Boston, The Union Club November 1, 2016 Hosted by Kimberlea & Stephen B. Jeffries ‘79
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Portland, Victoria Mansion December 7, 2016 Hosted by Tom Johnson ‘73 & Mary & Henry Harding ‘70
MARY HARDING, TOM JOHNSON ‘73 & HENRY HARDING ‘70
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LEE BEARSE & BILL BEARSE ‘59, HEATHER PIPER ‘86 & RICH PIPER, SUSAN GEISMAR P’02, ‘05, ‘09, ‘13 , TRUSTEE EMERITUS & MARCIA CLARK
DANIEL TAGGART ‘73 & ROGER CLARK ‘74
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GOODY GILMAN ‘55, BILL ALLEN ‘62 & MAL DAVIS ‘58
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Back Row L to R: Erik Rousseau ‘06, Adam Rousseau ‘03, Patrick Gilmour, Louis Gilmour, Chris Tanis P‘19, Ed Tobin P’18, Brian Turgeon ‘98, Dima Naida ‘07, Austin Smith ‘15, Colin McKay ‘16, Ryan Boucher ‘16, James LeBlanc ‘02, Doug Kimura P’18, Gary Rousseau P’03, ‘06, ‘17, Tim Mailloux ‘99 Front Row L to R: Louise Roy ‘05, Michel Gilmour P’17, Vaughn Brennan P‘17, Myles Horn ‘15, George Dycio ‘78, Emerick Faubert-Philipe ‘16, Dom Derosa ‘16, Mitch Spurr ‘16, Sam Kinasewich ‘13, Rob Kinasewich ‘86, Paul Jacques P’20, Meghan Irving Vaughn ‘05
ALUMNI/PARENT HOCKEY GAME JANUARY 14, 2017
Clockwise from top left: George Dycio ‘78 in goal, sporting his vintage Hebron equipment; Sam Kinasewich ‘13 and Myles Horn ‘15; Louise Roy ‘05; Tim Mailloux ‘99; Jon Crane ‘86 and Pat Kersey ‘86, cheering the teams on.
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C L A SS OF ‘66 PHIL WYSOR; BILL GOLDEN, FORMER TRUSTEE; REEVE BRIGHT, DEACON WILLIAM BARROWS DISTINGUISHED TRUSTEE EMERITUS; & PETER LARSEN
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50th Reunion BILL GOLDEN, FORMER TRUSTEE; PETER LARSEN; PHIL WYSOR; REEVE BRIGHT, DEACON WILLIAM BARROWS DISTINGUISHED TRUSTEE EMERITUS; & ED HINKLEMAN
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CLASS OF 1996: ANDY STEPHENSON, DEVON BIONDI, SARAH KUTZEN & BEN RIFKIN
CLASS OF 1986: ROB KINASEWICH; PAT KERSEY; BILL SKELTON; FERN SEIDEN; JON CRANE; HESTER MISHKIN; SCOTT DOWNS; EDDIE MILLER; HARPER WONG; CHRISTIAN MCGINN; CHRISTINE CHANDLER; ROSS PETERS; TONY COX; RICH PSCHIRRER; PETER FALLON; BEV LEYDEN; SEATED
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For many years I have supported Hebron Academy through the Annual Fund. In addition I have a scholarship fund which helps to defray the cost of attending this fine school. My estate plan contains a provision to add funds to the scholarship. By doing so I will continue providing a student with the “Hebron Experience.” — Dean Ridlon ‘53
Including Hebron Academy in your charitable estate planning is one of the most personal ways to express your philanthropy. We honor those who remember the Academy in this way by recognizing them as members of The Franklin Society. The society celebrates Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s estimable qualities of foresight, prudent financial management, and intellectual achievement. Dr. Franklin serves as a symbol of building up the past for the benefit of the future. For more information about how you can become a member, contact: Pat Layman Director of Advancement & External Affairs (207)966-5236 • playman@hebronacademy.org 34 • HEBRON • SPRING 2017
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Forrest Taylor was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, France’s highest distinction, for his personal contributions to its liberation during World War ll. A ceremony to present this award to American veterans on behalf of the President of the French Republic took place in November, 2016, at the French Embassy.
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Class Agent: Dr. Kenneth P. Mortimer kmortimer5@gmail.com
Saul Cohen writes, “Approaching my 85th birthday, it seemed to be prudent to sell my company, Hammond Residential Real Estate, which I did last summer. But no time for rocking chairs yet!”
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Class Agent: Rev. Kenneth A. Boyle revken60@aol.com
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James Gillies writes, “Retired from the lumber business and living in Bath, ME, raising Christmas trees. Five children and twelve grandkids!”
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in a family of their peers. Often, these campers had never paddled a canoe, camped in the deep woods, prepared meals over an open fire or lived cooperatively with a group of strangers.
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1954 Class Agent: Michael Maher holland1936@hotmail.com
John Merz writes, “Carole and I celebrated our 60th anniversary with family and friends in August. Tom Greenwood and I exchange e-mails and are tuned into the same wavelength. It must be that old training from Claude and Barney. Hope this finds the balance of 1954 well and taking nourishment”.
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We offer David Maidman our condolences on the passing of his brother, Richard.
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Class Agent: Richard J. Parker rparker72@comcast.net
Samuel Dibbins writes, “The Marchetti family will take Hebron in a wonderful and exciting direction. While Dan was a NOLS stalwart, I was a bottom-of-thepile assistant at the Outward Bound program (mid-60s). I have been in education ever since. Now, I am a full time tennis pro teaching a game wearing little boy clothes to work! What’s not to like!!”
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Class Agent: Bernard L. Helm hebron59@aol.com
1960 Class Agent: David J. Williams djwill1942@yahoo.com
1961 ECOME THE AGENT FOR YOUR CLASS!
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1962 Class Agent: Richard S. Forte rsforte@mac.com
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Amory Houghton writes, “Still hanging on! We should look ahead to 2018!”
1949 Class Agent: Robert P. Rich, Jr. rprich@erlanger-inc.com
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Excerpted from the Franklin Journal: Gardner Defoe, a master Maine guide, was honored at the premiere of Defoe’s Way, a short film produced by O’Maine Studios in Portland, in collaboration with L.L. Bean. After graduating from Dartmouth College, Defoe bought a camp in the Jackman area. He began to lead six-week trips that took young people out of their day-to-day world and put them
Members of the Class of 1962 got together to play some golf last summer. Bill Allen, Fred Friedman, Dick Forte, and Don Bates.
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1963 Class Agent: William C. Harding, Jr. 2ndwavewill@gmail.com
Michael Bergamini writes, “Still enjoying my roles as Chief Scientific Officer/Executive VP of Nicox SA and Ophthalmics, Inc. and as Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Nicox’s Research is in Bresso (Milan), Italy and Development is in SophiaAntipolis (Nice), France, so I spend a lot of time in airplanes. Harli and I became empty nesters this year with all three kids in college or graduated. Do what you love, love what you do, life is good!”
2010 my wife, Anne, published a travel guide to World War II sites in Italy. She (we) have been working on a revision (longer and better) for several years now, and it has just become available on Amazon.” A note from his wife Anne states that Rick took all the photos and drove to the numerous WWII memorials, museums, and battle sites that stand throughout Italy. He also was one of the book’s editors.
Class Agent: Robert L. Lowenthal, Jr. rlowenth@rochester.rr.com
Class Agent: Jonathan G. Moll jonathangmoll@gmail.com
William Burke shares, “Just finished my 26th year as Headmaster of St. Sebastian’s School in Needham, MA.”
Class Agent: John R. Giger john@cybergiger.com
Richard Waxman says he is “enjoying life dividing time between home office in Sonoma and downtown San Francisco. Entering my 15th year as a business broker, I finished 3rd out of 68 brokers in my company in 2016 production. Making six cases of pinot noir from my backyard vineyard as a ‘gentleman farmer’. Classmates are welcome to come visit if ever in wine country.”
1968
1969
1964 John Thibodeau shared, “Though retired from my medical school job, I am still working full time as a mental health consultant for State of Florida. I have continued in teaching with workshop presentations on psychopharmacology and death anxiety, the latter being of real interest in the land of retirees and social security (Florida). I married very late so had children very late. Last just graduated college. Hope I’m around for grandchildren.”
Elizabeth and I are back in Hawaii (where we have lived since the ‘70s). I am a Construction and EHS Manager for Lendlease, a large real estate development and property management company based in Sydney, Australia.”
Jeffrey Laughlin writes, “Many thanks to Evan Mahaney for his dedicated effort toward keeping our class of ‘65 vibrant. Kudos to my former roommate, Albert Lepage, for his generous support— always a true Hebron benefactor.”
1973 Class Agent: James Moulton jrmoulton@gmail.com
1974 Class Agent: Roger T. Clark rclark@lcpgroup.com
1975 Class Agent: Ellen L. Augusta eaugusta@msn.com
1970
1976
Class Agent: Craig Clark jcclark@myfairpoint.net
Class Agent: C. Reed Chapman creedclark@yahoo.com
1971 Travel guide to WWII sites in Italy, published by Anne and Richard Saunders ‘65. This is the second edition of the book, expanded from the original, published in 2010.
with Jim Plavin, Judd Lowe, and Bob Reid. We have spent time with new head of school Dan Marchetti and his wife Courtney and must say the school is in very good hands. Hope to see many classmates at our 45th reunion.”
Class Agent: Harvey A. Lipman harveylipman@hotmail.com
1972 Class Agent: Stephen R. Gates stephenrgates@msn.com
Regis Lepage writes, “Carolyn and I continue to enjoy retirement. Have enjoyed seeing old friends at Hebron events in Portland and Sugarloaf. Staying in touch
Reed Chapman writes, “It was so great to see so many of our classmates back at Reunion/ Homecoming this year. Everyone looked great and I know I certainly had a fantastic time reconnecting. Thank you all for making the effort to return and support our class. Hope to see you all again soon!”
1966 Class Agent: Harvey L. Lowd hlowd@hotmail.com
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1965 Class Agent: Evan E. Mahaney evmo321@gmail.com
Richard Saunders shared the following: “Esteemed classmates, some of you may know that in
Contact Beverly Roy at 207-966-5251 or broy@hebronacademy.org.
Bob McFarland writes, “After an 8 year stint building 4500 homes at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina for the Marine Corps, My wife
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MAKING HEADWAY
- Bear Holiday Reaches the Gulf
Season Two of Gerry ‘68 and Bear Thompson’s adventure as “Loopers,” circumnavigating the Eastern U.S on their 41’ trawler, Bear Holiday, is complete.
1977
1982
Class Agent: Robert M. Hernon robert_hernon@yahoo.com
Class Agent: Tucker Cutler tandgcutler@myfairpoint.net
Kirby Nadeau writes, “Life is great! Hoping to return to Hebron for Homecoming this fall. Cheers, Kirby.”
Tucker Cutler sends this message: “Would be great to have as many classmates as possible for our 35th!”
1978
Todd Harmon says “Hello” to all his peeps from class of 1982!
Class Agent: George M. Dycio gcldycio@roadrunner.com
Gerry ‘68 & Bear Thompson with their dogs Lisbon & Azore In late spring, the couple commissioned their boat for the season in Little Traverse Bay, MI, and set out for Georgian Bay in Lake Huron, cruising north into Canada and continuing their explorations. Gerry reported, “In July we went along the North Channel from Georgian Bay through beautiful cruising grounds to Sault St. Marie, Canada. After a brief trip into Lake Superior we cleared customs back into the US at Sault St. Marie, MI. In late August, we crossed southern Lake Michigan from St. Joseph, MI to Chicago. What a beautiful city and very boater friendly! A week at a city marina gave us the time to explore and enjoy the waterfront.” They left Chicago by way of passage through downtown, passing under 20 bridges with just inches of clearance, and then on into the Illinois River and the Mississippi. Navigating on the Mississippi proved challenging. Gerry recalled, “September 2016 was a flood time. Fast current and lots of debris made our passage stressful and dangerous. Navigation buoys were either swept away or pulled under the surface by the strong current. We needed to be vigilant for the entire 180 miles to Cairo, IL, where we turned into the more peaceful Ohio River.” The river system of mid-America is vital to commerce for the country. As they moved south on the Cumberland, Tennessee, Black Warrior, and Mobile Rivers, they shared the water with large commercial tows of barges, night and day. Gerry noted, “Wood chips, coal, grains, gravel, fuel, and many more products were continually in motion on these waterborne highways, and although passing one of these large tows in a narrow channel was always a concern, good communications with the tug captains made these encounters a routine event. The ease and cost effectiveness with which commodities are moved in this part of the country was a revelation to us! The lock system is efficiently managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers and modern in design. Although recreational traffic has the lowest priority, the lock masters normally tried to get us through their locks quickly.” Mobile Bay, AL marked the end of their passage. They had logged 2500 miles through the heart of America. In 2017, the Thompsons will begin the final leg of their journey. Their route will take them along the Florida Panhandle and through the Okeechobee Canal to the Intra Coastal Waterway and then up the east coast to Chesapeake Bay. After a stay in Washington, DC, they will head north to New York City, Long Island Sound, the Cape Cod Canal, across •the Gulf of2017 Maine to reach their berth at Falmouth, 38 • and HEBRON SPRING ME, in late July.
Nancy Briggs Marshall says, “‘I have been working with my son Craig, who went to CVA and Colby, on the re-launch of The World Pro Ski Tour—a very exciting venture!”
1979
We offer Mitchell Maidman our condolences on the passing of his father, Richard.
1983 Class Agent: Debra Beacham Bloomingdale dbbloomingdale@yahoo.com
Class Agent: Brian O. Cloherty mnclohertys@earthlink.net
1984
1980
Class Agent: John E. Donahue Sr. jdonahue@plangrid.com & Deborah Cote debscote@yahoo.com
Class Agent: Elizabeth Siekman Graves betsy_graves@hotmail.com
Mark Varnum and Betsy Graves are engaged to be married.
We offer our condolences to Bruce Hartley on the passing of his father John.
We offer Patrick Maidman our condolences on the passing of his father, Richard.
1985
1981 Class Agent: Jane Hepburn Fiore fancyjane@comcast.net
Rebecca Leamon shared, “A group of Hebron classmates gathered at my house this summer—Melinda Scott ‘81, Alex Warren ‘81, Jeanne Kannegeiser ‘82, Karen Holler ‘79, Lynne Holler ‘80 and Barb Holler ‘85. We all agreed that Hebron had a huge impact on our lives. The same realization at my brother’s 50th birthday—John Leamon ‘84 and Henry Sargent ‘84 as well—Hebron was a life changer! So here’s a thank you.”
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We offer Dagny Maidman our condolences on the passing of her father, Richard.
1986 Class Agent: T. Scott Downs suffolkd@aol.com
1987 Class Agent: Kate Thoman Crowley thocro@comcast.net
We love hearing from you! Please send news or contact updates to your class agent or to Amy Connell at aconnell@hebronacademy.org.
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1988
1998
2006
Class Agent: Ann Snyder Mooradian mooradia@comcast.net
Class Agent: Kirsten Ness kirsten_ness@hotmail.com
Class Agent: Allison M. Coombs hebron2006@outlook.com
Bonnie Gregory Buelow writes, “Explored the world and found my mate. Settled in upstate NY, where we grow Christmas trees, and maintain bees. Have two boys —they are a joy. Hope all HA’s are doing great!”
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1989 Class Agent: M. Hayes McCarthy mccarthyvideo@me.com
1990 Class Agent: Andrew M. Haskell andyhaskell22@yahoo.com
1991 Class Agents: Marcus A. De Costa yankeeboynyc@gmail.com & Scott R. Nelson scott.ryan.nelson@me.com
Class Agent: Joseph J. Patry joseph.patry@gmail.com
2000 Class Agent: Erik P. Yingling erikyingling@gmail.com
2001 Class Agent: Jessica Gilpatrick jess.takach@gmail.com
2002 Class Agent: Katherine E. Curtis katherine.curtis@gmail.com
Congratulations to Emily Geismar Murphy on the birth of her daughter Penelope!
2003
1992 BECOME THE AGENT FOR YOUR CLASS!
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1993 Class Agent: Marko I. Radosavljevic mradosav@comcast.net
1994 Class Agent: Erica Litchfield ericalitchfield@yahoo.com
1995 Class Agent: Jessie D. Maher Parker jm4lfclvr@yahoo.com
1996 Class Agent: Devon M. Biondi dmbiondi@gmail.com
1997
Class Agent: Sara Marquis Barker sara.marquis.barker@gmail.com
2004 Class Agent: John W. Slattery john.slattery23@gmail.com
Ruthie Scarpino returned to campus this fall to perform for students. Her theater troupe PantoWHAT? Theater Company performed The Mystery at Ginger Creek. A couple of her classmates returned to watch as well.
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We offer Allison Maidman our condolences on the passing of her grandfather, Richard. Congratulations to Meredith Montgomery on the birth of her son, Maximus Tristan Barber, in October 2016, and her marriage in April 2017!
Rachael Cooper is working for a nonprofit in East Boston to teach young girls the game of soccer while also teaching them confidence, humility, and teamwork. She is waiting to make a decision on medical school and also traveling to Guatemala every few months to lead a service group in rural areas. Mae Maxsimic became a firsttime home owner, buying her first home in Westbrook. It is also notable that she became a first time dog owner adopting her “sweet puppy Ellie!” Kathleen Collins is a medical student at UMass Boston.
2008
Congratulations to Ben Nadeau and his wife, Miriah, on the birth of their daughter Olivia!
Class Agent: Andrea J. Hart andrea.hart207@gmail.com & Jennifer A. Duguay duguayjen@gmail.com
2009 Class Agents: Claire E. Cummings claireelizabethcummings@gmail.com & Ye Chen wanchen917@gmail.com
Andrea Hart writes, “ I started the MBA program at Babson in January. I ran my second Boston Marathon in April for Team Arredondo that supports military families. My goal is to achieve a qualifying time for the NYC Marathon next fall.”
2010
Jen Duguay is in California working at Sweet Green living her dream of working at a startup.
Class Agents: Emma L. Leavitt emmalleavitt@gmail.com & Emily R. Powers
Samuel Austin’s parents told us, “Sto got married to a lovely girl (Heather Von Sacken) on July 30, 2016 . The wedding for 200 was held at Tudor and Jim Austin’s, ‘62 in Kittery Point and was a wonderful occasion.”
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2005
Contact Beverly Roy at 207-966-5251 or broy@hebronacademy.org.
Class Agent: Bettina T. Voigt bettina.herrick@gmail.com
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A H EBRON LOVE STO RY
David R. Woods & Kathryn Leyden Woods, Class of 2008 HIS STORY: I was a senior, and Katie was a new, incoming junior at Hebron Academy, a small private school in Hebron, Maine. I don't remember the exact moment I met Katie. I just remember being drawn to Katie instantly. She makes me laugh, she is fun to be with, she is easygoing, she is very smart, she is competitive and athletic, and she is the most beautiful redhead I have ever seen. We spent most of our free time together over the first few months of school. As time went on, I started to realize that I really liked this girl. Now I had to tell her that I liked her, and that was going to be hard for me. The day was November 8, 2006; this was going to be the day. I am just going to say it. How hard can it be? We were just outside The Union, and it was almost time to get back to the dorm for study hall. It was dark and nobody was around; this was my chance. So I stop her and tell her I have something to say to her. This is where things got a little weird. The words were right on the tip of my tongue but I could not get them out! I started getting nervous, which turned into me looking left, then right and then repeated that for about five minutes. At this point I'm sure she knows what I am going to say. Then finally I just spit it out, "I like you." She smiled and quickly said, "I like you too." Phew! I couldn't believe it! Then something even better happened. She said, "Since you did something hard, now it's my turn," and she kissed me! Definitely the best kiss I have ever had. We started walking back towards the dorm together and I was feeling like I was on top of the world. HER STORY: After a lot of consideration, I decided to transfer to Hebron Academy for my junior year of high school, not entirely sure what I was getting myself into. All I know is, at 16 years old, I never anticipated that I would meet the man I would be spending the rest of my life with! Personally, I do not remember specifically when we first met, but the first conversation I remember having with Dave was on the steps of Sturtevant Hall one evening after dinner. As a huge fan of the show Laguna Beach at the time, I couldn’t believe my ears when Dave said he grew up and lived 20 minutes from Laguna Beach! We began hanging out every evening after that. After being in school for two months, he finally plucked up the courage and asked me out on the lone step of the John T. Leyden Student Center. As we were leaving one night, he started acting different and was beginning to creep me out! After a lot of hesitation and nervous glances left and right, he finally managed to blurt out, “I like you.” After he said that we both relaxed immediately. He was proud of himself for getting it off his chest, and I was just glad I knew why he was acting so differently. I told him I liked him too and the rest is history!
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2011 Class Agent: Sophia M. Bartolomeo hebronscribe2011@gmail.com
2012 Class Agent: Maxwell A. Middleton mmiddlet@bowdoin.edu
2013 Class Agent: Kathryn M. Couture kcouture15@yahoo.com
2014 Class Agent: Donita Sharkey donita_sharkey2000@yahoo.com
We offer our condolences to Brittany Myrick on the passing of her mother, Penny.
2015 Class Agent: Rachel Jurek rjurek79@gmail.com
2016 BECOME THE AGENT FOR YOUR CLASS!
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FACULTY NEWS: Congratulations to Katie and Casey Ftorek on the birth of their daughter Bayley!
L to R: Dima Naida '07, Arolyn Lake, Kathy Gerrits-Leyden (current faculty), Jake Leyden ‘99, Liz Leyden, Jazz Webber '07, David Woods ‘08, Katie Leyden Woods ‘08, Eric Rodriguez '09, Bob & Tribou,•Bev Leyden (past faculty), Julie & Jack Leyden (past faculty), Ally Baribault '08, 40Diane • HEBRON SPRING 2017 and Evan Meagher '08
Sustaining an Original Breed OWEN RICHMOND ‘16, AN EXTREME MUSTANG MAKEOVER reprinted and excerpted from the Bethel Citizen; by Amy Wight Chapman
“When you ride an American mustang, you’re riding a piece of history,” Owen Richmond ‘16 said. Owen and Molly, a sleek five-year-old mustang, met as [part of] Extreme Mustang Makeover, a program developed by the Mustang Heritage Foundation to increase awareness of the overpopulation of wild horses in the western U.S. According to a press release issued by the Bureau of Land Management, there are now more than 67,000 wild horses roaming public rangelands. That’s more than twice as many as the BLM estimates can be adequately sustained, and two and a half times as many animals as existed when the Wild and Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act was passed in 1971, charging the BLM with their management and protection In addition, there are more than 48,000 horses confined to stockyards and off-range pastures, and the BLM plans to remove 3,500 more from the range in 2016. The cost of lifetime care for an unadopted animal can approach $50,000. The goal of the Extreme Mustang Makeover program is to facilitate adoptions by demonstrating that the animals can be successfully trained and rehomed. According to the EMM website, the horses in the program have been “virtually untouched by humans.” They are randomly matched with trainers, who have 100 days to gentle, halter break, and saddle train them, a process that entails gradually gaining the horse’s trust and building a relationship that allows horse and trainer to compete together in events designed to showcase the animals’ new skills.
“Mustangs are a perfect example of the raw power and beauty of Mother Nature. The opportunity of befriending an animal that is raw and pure can never be explained.”
Owen and Molly [had] a remarkable level of trust develop between them. “I can do a lot of things I never thought I could do with this horse,” Owen said. Although he is an accomplished rider who has ridden and trained horses for many years, he found that working with an unbroken mustang presented new challenges. “With wild horses, you have to learn to ask for things in a certain way,” he said. “They rely a lot on body language, and you have to be very exact. Having to be that precise with all your cues was hard to learn.” Trainers in the EMM program must complete a thorough application that includes a summary of their prior experience with horses, a map and measurements of the facility where the horse will be kept, details about the feed that will be given and the type of trailer that will be used for transport, and two personal references. Following the competitions, which are held in ten cities across the U.S., the EMM mustangs are then auctioned for adoption to the highest bidder, with the bid price split between the trainer and the EMM program. Before potential buyers can bid on the horses, they must be pre-qualified by the Mustang Heritage Foundation. The program requires them to furnish references and their facilities must meet specific guidelines. Owen [showed] Molly in a competition in Topsfield, MA [after which she was sold to her new owner]. He [did not] bid on her himself, he said. “It [was] hard, but the way I see it, the more horses like this that get out there, the more people will want to own one,” he said. “I see that as a greater calling than just buying her and keeping her at my house.” “Every day [of training] I spent four plus hours with her. She learned many technical maneuvers and we went on many adventures together along the way. Trail riding in the Maine woodland is an experience in itself, but riding a Mustang that you just broke is like teleporting back in time to when northern frontiersmen first rode across this land. As the competition grew closer I began to realize how much this Mustang has done for me. Molly had turned into more than just a summer project. The last two weeks I would spend most of my day with her. Then after dinner I would go down to the barn and hangout with her. Molly had became one of my best friends. The weekend of the competition was an experience that I will never forget. Growing up playing sports, I had expected that the competition was going to be competitive. However, I was pleasantly surprised. It seemed like all the competitors had the same attitude: “I can’t believe that I’m here with a horse that I can ride.” Even though some Mustangs were further along than others, there was still a great level of unspoken respect between the riders. We understood the challenges that we all had overcome in the previous 100 days. Auctioning off Molly was very hard for me. I told myself it was for the best that I did not buy her, but it was still hard. Molly went for a good price and she exceeded my expectations during the competition, scoring 11th overall and missing 10th place by 5 points. Molly gave me a view of horses that I had never [had] before. [Just like my experience at Hebron] she showed me that I can do whatever I want when I put my mind to it. She introduced me to a breed of horse that is unlike any other I have handled. Mustangs are a perfect example of the raw power and beauty of Mother Nature. The opportunity of befriending an animal that is raw and pure can never be explained.”
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OBITUARIES 1942 Norman Cole passed away in the Fall of 2016 from complications from pneumonia.
1943 Sumner B. Goldman passed away on February 3, 2017.
1947 Edward Mooradkanian passed away in 2016.
1952 Robert Carroll passed away February 28, 2016. Carroll proudly served in the US Army during the Korean Conflict. He followed his military service with a 23 year career in the Central Intelligence Agency. Carroll was a proud member of the NRA as well as various VFWs and American Legions.
1957 Walter Glazer passed away on November 15, 2016.
1960 Peter B. Adams passed away on March 4, 2016 after a courageous battle with cancer for almost two decades. Boylston was a graduate of Hebron and Norwich University and a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he served as a helicopter pilot earning numerous medals, including the Bronze Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart with two oak leaf clusters, and the Air Medal with 30 oak leaf clusters. After military service, he obtained his MBA at Boston University and had a successful commercial banking career in Massachusetts.
JOHN C. ANDREWS, JR. ‘48 John Andrews passed away on March 21, 2017. John was educated in the Augusta, ME, school system, graduating from Cony High School in 1947. This was followed by a post-graduate year at Hebron before proudly entering Brown University. After two years at Brown, Andrews was drafted into the US Army Medical Corp, serving at Lettermen Hospital in San Francisco and in Germany operating hospital trains. He was a proud member of the 325th Hospital Train. Upon release from active duty, John was employed by Dunn and Bradstreet, first in Providence, RI, and later in Portland, ME. In 1955, Andrews went into the insurance industry, working for the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company in Worcester, MA for 33 years. Upon retirement from Paul Revere, John joined Unum in Portland, and then retired from there in 1994. Andrews was a firm believer in living life to the fullest and having “quality of life.” He encouraged all his friends and neighbors to live this way, too. Anyone who was lucky enough to know him was touched by his immense desire to live independently and to enjoy each day for what it brought to him. Because of this strong spirit and independence, he was able to live in his own home until the last week of his life, which made him both very proud and happy. Of note: The indoor running track of the Hebron Athletic Center now bears the name of John Andrews in memory of his support of the school.
RICHARD H.C. MAIDMAN ‘51 With great sadness, the Maidman family announces the passing of Richard Maidman. He was the Chairman of Townhouse Management Company and of counsel to Maidman and Mittelman, LLP. He was one of New York City's leading real-estate builders and owners. He was also a dedicated and generous philanthropist. Maidman loved his family and New York and he carried on a family tradition in business and public service. Richard was born on November, 17, 1933, and passed away peacefully in his 84th year on December 9, 2016. He attended Hebron Academy, Williams College and Yale Law School. He was a distinguished member of the New York and Florida Bar. He was a unique character whose vision greatly influenced his perspective as a business leader, and had a profound impact on all he touched. His intelligence, hard work, and dedication were great assets to the family business and to the City of New York. Richard was the widower of the late Gail Ann Lowe Maidman and is survived by his brother David, sister Bonnie, and his children, Dr. Patrick (Jacqueline, deceased) Maidman, Mitchel (Arlene) Maidman, Dagny (Molly) Maidman; stepchildren Evan (Regina) Haymes; Starr (Jacques) Kempin. Devoted Papa Richard of Allison, Beatrice, Harrison, Julia, Jonathan, Ezra, Sage, and Cassidy Maidman. Adored steppapa Richard of Esme, Theodore Haymes, and Sterling Kempin. Formerly married to Lynne Maidman Manning. Of note: The reception area of the Hebron Athletic Center now bears the name of Richard Maidman in memory of his support of the school.
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Hidden Gems FROM THE BELL-LIPMAN ARCHIVES
THE LEVI LINCOLN COLLECTION For many years, among the unidentified photographs in the Bell-Lipman Archives collection was this interesting composition of a group of rough and tumble young men with picks and shovels gathered around several carts with oxen. It seemed clear that the man in the bowler hat seated on one of the carts was principal William Sargent, but what was the context for the photo and where was it taken? Those questions were answered this year when the archives received from Roger Lincoln, grandson of Levi Lincoln, Class of 1895, a gift of mounted photographs taken in that year. What is unique about the images is that young Levi, charged to be the “photographer’s assistant” during a documentary photo-shoot of the Hebron campus, carefully wrote descriptions on the back of each photo. The context for the oxcart image became clear as William Sargent and “the boys” worked by hand to quarry fill to prepare Hebron’s first sports field. In the words of Levi Lincoln:
The students at Hebron Academy turned out en masse and graded the new baseball diamond in the spring of 1894. This picture is taken where they are grading the road to the gravel pit back of the Academy. The large man in the black sweater sitting on the cart is Prof. Sargent. In 1894, William Sargent was in his tenth year as Hebron’s Principal and was nearing his 40th birthday, a school man with his sleeves rolled up and ready to work side by side with his students to enhance the Academy’s program. Another image from the series shows a number of students arranged by their teams on the new field created by their work together—groups for tennis, baseball, track and cycling—a tribute to Hebron’s support of organized athletics from an early time. Lincoln identified himself with the baseball players, third from the left. A reader curious about the entire sequence of Levi Lincoln’s images may now explore them in the online collection of the Bell-Lipman Archives. “Virtual Exhibits” allow materials from the electronic collection to be organized and presented to highlight special subjects, such as these unique images.
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MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1966 AT THEIR 50 TH REUNION LUNCHEON AT ALLEN HOUSE.
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