Hebron Academy Semester | Summer 2001

Semester H E B R O N

A C A D E M Y

Hebron, Maine 04238

Summer 2001

features

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departments

Meet John King passion, energy, initiative

Teachers Mark Milestones honoring three remarkable teachers

This Tremendous Place lose yourself in these unusual photographs

A Link of the Chain the senior class takes a bow

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The H Club dialogue, the sports page, philanthropy, reading list and more

Class Notes notes, new arrivals, weddings, obituaries, notable alumni/ae

Hebroniana rogue scholars

www.hebronacademy.org

dialogue Editor’s Note

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iving and working at Hebron Academy can sometimes become all-consuming.

It is a rich, intense experience that tends to focus one’s attentions inward, here, to this little school on a hilltop in Maine. Colleagues turn into family, a dormitory apartment turns into home. It is easy to forget that a big world lies just down the road.

For the last couple of years I have attended the Editors’ Forum, an annual conference sponsored by CASE, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. These conferences require me to travel from the rural quiet of Oxford County, Maine, to exotic urban places like San Francisco and Washington. I venture out from my tiny shop under the eaves of the Stanley Building to hobnob with editors who oversee large staffs and even larger budgets. I journey from the closeness and community of a small independent school to hear about the issues facing vast public universities. Have I learned a lot? You bet!

From Penn Stater editor Tina Hay I learned that CASE really means “Copy And Steal Everything” as she merrily invited us to do just that during her presentation.

From Swarthmore editor Jeff Lott I learned that honesty and integrity are the foundations of an alumni/ae magazine. Dale Keiger of Johns Hopkins and Brian Doyle of the University of (the other) Portland inspired me by their passion for the written word. Middlebury’s Rachel Morton taught me about attention to visual details and to the pace of the magazine. At receptions and dinners I met editors of all flavors whose unfailing humor, kindness and courtesy put me at ease. These simple personal exchanges are one of the most valuable parts of the Forum.

And so you will begin to see some changes and improvements to Hebron’s major alumni/ae publications. Beginning this year the Semester will appear twice-annually, summer and winter. A new department section—“The H Club”—will open each magazine; the remainder will be devoted to feature articles and class notes. The Hebronian will shrink a little, both in page size and page count, but will grow in frequency, coming out in December, March and June. It will focus on campus events, people and issues. The Report of Giving will go out in the fall with coverage of Homecoming in addition to the annual donor report.

I would like to hear from you. Let’s begin with simple personal exchanges. Tell me what you like and don’t like about the magazine. Give me your news or send me a tip on a great story. Let me know if you’d like to write for the magazine. Help me tell the stories of this wonderful place. And please come visit. We are always glad to see you here on our hilltop in Maine.

Jennifer F. Adams jadams@hebronacademy.org

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On the cover: Chaplain Anita White, the Class of 2001 and the faculty.

The Semester is published twice each year, in August and February, by Hebron Academy, PO Box 309, Hebron ME 04238.

Issue No. 189 MISSION

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

EDITOR

Jennifer F. Adams S TA F F W R I T E R

David W. Stonebraker PHOTOGRAPHY

Jennifer F. Adams William B. Chase Skip Churchill/Churchill Photography Hebron Academy Archives Joseph M. Hemmings J. Christopher Pinchbeck ’87 Spectator staff and friends Hebron Academy reaffirms its longstanding policy of nondiscriminatory admission of students on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation. We do not discriminate in the administration of our educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs and athletic or other school-administered programs. Hebron Academy is an equal opportunity employer. © 2001 by Hebron Academy.

dialogue College Athletes in the may 2000 Semester I read your stories of recent Hebron graduates playing college athletics.

Perhaps another person’s experience may be of interest.

Everyone played at sport at Hebron in 1951, and my winter sport was hockey. I had skated almost every winter of my life but was never interested in sports, and such it was at Hebron.

Things changed in college. I did just about everything I could as a freshman: theater, politics, tavern darts, fraternity, soccer and hockey.

Going out for hockey was just something to do one afternoon with a crowd of maybe 100 freshmen. I stood along the boards looking to go out on the ice, but watching closely the tangle going on as a coach had the crowd doing turns and sprints. The man beside me asked if I was going on; I think I told him, “Not until the crowd thins.” As the skaters were told to get off the ice and there were about twenty skating, I swung myself over the boards and started skating by myself, away from the crowd and near another guy.

The man I had been standing beside pointed at the two of us shouted, “Everybody off the ice except you two.” He was the coach. I did not know it, but I had become part of a juggernaut.

I made third string varsity as a freshman. The next year returning players and a few new freshmen made the team about sixteen, mainly sophomores, four Americans and the rest Canadian. That year I skated first string left wing with the two highest scorers on the east coast; the other three lines were equally manned. We took the bronze at the NCHAA tournament.

That year I can remember skating like hell in a game—and there was Ladd MacMillan from Hebron, standing along the boards, smiling.

But as a junior it all fell in on me. I was on the student council and an officer in the fraternity. My grades dropped badly, and I was in trouble; ROTC low grades meant possible draft into the Korean War and the end of college for me.

I literally cried when I did not turn out for soccer my junior year. I stopped everything, including

hockey. That year Rensselaer was national NCHAA champion. It was the beginning of a great coach’s career—Ned Harkness—and a great Rensselaer tradition of champions.

Once in an English class discussion at Hebron, Ned Willard said in context, “Know thyself.” It always worked for me.

As an anecdote, the NCHAA medal has a naked hockey player on it—brrrr!

Richard E. Will ’51 Spokane, Washington

ated with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. While at college I waited table at the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority for four years and was head waiter at a girls’ dorm for two years. My wife of 54 years was a Theta, so she ate well while I waited table. I guess I owe a lot to Hebron’s food service, “Ma” Paige, Hafey Arthur, Mr. “Buster” Hunt, “Nursie” and all the teachers, especially Coach Dwyer, my favorite.

Gordon G. Goodband ’41 Walpole, Massachusetts

Photo ID

Re-Hash [Note: Craig Clark received a lot of requests for his hash recipe (“Ode to Hebron Hash”, February 2001 Hebronian). Here is his response.]

we had a few responses to our request for identification of the young men in this photo. We knew that David Phemister ’62 was second from the left and Dick Forté ’62 was second from the right.

Richard Jolliffe ’60 sent us a note to say that he’s fairly certain that Peter Lindvall ’60 is on the far right. John Thibodeau ’64 tells us that Jonathan Hodges ’62 is in the middle and Don Timpani is behind the counter.

Table Service i arrived at hebron on a rainy afternoon in the fall of 1940—I had never slept away from my own bed before. I had been awarded a scholarship with the stipulation that I wait on table—yes, I was one of the infamous “Cook Gym boys”.

Lunch and dinner were served family style. The waiters lined up in the kitchen entrance in white jacket attire with large aluminum trays as in the photos you showed.

If we talked too loud the chef, a very large man who we thought was a sour puss, would reach up to the rack where the pots and pans were hung, turn an imaginary switch and announce in a gruff voice, “The no-talking lamp is lit.”

Waiting on table at Hebron led me to a far better life. I enrolled at Michigan State College and gradu-

the recipes i use are taken from Fannie Farmer’s Classic Cookbook and the Joy of Cooking. I also like several of the brands of canned hash, Mary Kitchen being at the top of the list.

I am sure Jack and Rupert had a special “formula” they used when they made hash and I have tried many iterations of the recipes above.

As the taste always changed due to the natures of the ingredients, I have gotten close. Additionally, I usually fry my hash, not bake it, so there is a difference in taste. Someday I may go all out and try to replicate the Hebron Hash recipe.

Here’s a recipe I found on the web: 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 onions, chopped 4 potatoes, peeled and chopped 2 (12 fluid ounce) cans corned beef 1 tablespoon ground black pepper 5 tablespoons cider vinegar Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Saute onions and potatoes until slightly browned, then stir in corned beef. Season with pepper and add vinegar 1 tablespoon at a time, cooking for 3 to 5 minutes in between each addition. Partially cover skillet, reduce heat to medium-low and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes or until potatoes are tender.

Hope this helps. If all else fails, Mary Kitchen, Amour and Dinty Moore all make good canned hash.

J. Craig Clark ’70 Rindge, New Hampshire

Events Calendar F R I D AY, O C T O B E R 5 S AT U R D AY, O C T O B E R 6 Homecoming Weekend—Reunions for classes ending in 1 or 6; fun events for the whole family to enjoy; meet John and Marcia King.

S AT U R D AY, D E C E M B E R 1 Alumni/ae Sports Weekend T H U R S D AY, D E C E M B E R 2 7 Potluck Dinner—For our college-aged alumni/ae.

R E G I O N A L G AT H E R I N G S Seacoast New Hampshire—September.

Washington, DC—October.

Chicago—November.

Denver—November.

San Francisco—January.

Los Angleles—January.

Seattle—January.

Florida—February.

Texas—March.

New York—April.

Philadelphia—April.

Boston—May. Portland—May. Lewiston/Auburn—May. OTHER EVENTS Pizza Parties—We are planning informal gatherings at college campuses in Boston, Burlington and Bangor.

For more information, please call or email Beverly Roy. 207-966-2100 ext.

266. broy@hebronacademy.org.

We Welcome Your Letters Send letters to: The Semester Magazine, Hebron Academy, PO Box 309, Hebron ME 04238 or jadams@hebronacademy.org Letters must be signed and may be edited for clarity and length. Please include your address and day telephone or e-mail.

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philanthropy An Open Letter to Professor Sargent Spring 2001 Dear Professor Sargent, of 1901, and I wanted to respond report to the Board of Trustees for June I had occasion this week to read your me which resides today in the n your report in script in a bound volu to some things you said. You set dow oard which will transpose my words to you upon an electronic keyb puter may tranHupper Library Archives. I input my ehow the electronic miracle of my com som that aps, perh , gine ima I . page thoughts to a printed icate with you directly. scend both time and space to commun n of your report, and I was especially struck by the conclusio

I am bold to repeat it:

begin now to prepare for life of the Academy. It is our duty to “We are nearing the 100th year of the ion on a footing that shall ts in the meantime to put the Institut that great day and to direct all our effor history of the first cenndid ficial to the world than even its sple enable it to make a progress more bene ress and strength, prog in g with elasticity of step it can trip alon tury. So to endow it and equip it that we face. task the is e, ol in our State in the century to com the peer and superior to any other scho and generation is marbecause the work that he did in his day “We revere the name of Deacon Barrows our places 100 years fill that those who walk these paths and velous in our eyes. Let our work be such y, or the ignominy glor the , . The responsibility is on us. The duty hence may see something at that time must be ours.” e and continues its mission to Hebron Academy remains in this plac I can assure you, Professor Sargent, that anticipated the Academy’s second the imperatives of our time.” As you “fuse the traditions of its history with you could not know that your trustees Bonney, Dunham and Atwood, century bolstered by the dedication of Board of Trustees in years to per would become the strength of the current students Treat, Halford and Hup me, in 1997, the most extrabeco in his will which would ision prov a e mak ld wou ser Mes ert come, or that Rob ol. ordinary gift in the history of the scho so we today celebrate your memory. con Barrows and the works of his day, your leadership and As you celebrated the memory of Dea t by untimely death, but the legacy of shor cut be ld wou ol scho of head as Your great tenure you influenced a century ago r Sargent, as the bequests of those who ple may also inspire your gifts continues to this day. Professo today, so I would hope that your exam love we that n tutio insti the of on formed the foundati s and traditions of the future. realize in their gifts the power and bond the next generation of patrons who will y today bears the mark of your indeed been realized. Hebron Academ Academy 100 years Professor Sargent, your initial vision has re that those who would direct Hebron ensu to ge char our be will it , said hand. And as you its day steadfast in service to institution meeting the imperatives of from now will look upon a progressive dly for college and for life. young people and preparing them soun school is in good hands.

Rest well, Professor Sargent, for your Yours sincerely, David W. Stonebraker, Archivist

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philanthropy Albert Lepage ’65 Jumpstarts Sargent Gym Plan

Wellness Center Complete

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right. Airy. Clean. Welcoming.

Amazing. First class. All words used to describe Hebron Academy’s brand new Lepage Wellness Center. Funded by a generous gift from Albert Lepage ’65, construction began on the Wellness Center in November and was completed in early March. Outfitted with modern cardiovascular and strength training equipment, the Lepage Center immediately became one of the most popular areas on campus, used by faculty and students alike from early morning to late evening. We are all extremely grateful to Mr. Lepage, whose personal gift to the hebron at 200 campaign funded the entire project. hebron at 200 is a stewardship campaign; its primary goals are to increase Hebron Academy’s endowment and to maintain and improve existing facilities. While a small portion of the overall goal ($1.2 million of $16 million) was set aside for necessary capital projects, most of the funds raised are earmarked for endowment and ongoing operating expenses. Although there is clearly a need for a new gymnasium, building such a facility is also beyond the scope of this campaign.

During the planning stages of the campaign, the Steering

Committee posed the question, “What can we do to Sargent Gymnasium—within the framework of the campaign— to preserve and enhance the existing facility and also plan for its eventual conversion into a fine arts center?” To answer the question, the Academy worked with Orcutt Associates, an architecture firm in Yarmouth, Maine, to develop a series of smaller projects that would fulfill immediate needs while moving toward long term goals.

Orcutt’s final presentation outlined steps by which the major spaces of Sargent Gym

Albert Lepage ’65.

could be enhanced and renovated for use in the short term without impeding the building’s ultimate conversion to an arts center. The space on the lower level at the rear of the building was critical to the plans.

Last fall Albert Lepage offered to initiate the Sargent renovation project by funding a new fitness center to be created in the dirt cage area. At that time, weights and other fitness equipment were housed in the old squash court, a cramped, windowless box of a room. The squash court shared a wall with the dirt cage, an area that had become a bit of a catch-all for unused equipment.

Following the architect’s plan, our construction crew removed the shared wall, opening two small spaces into one large, airy room. They installed new windows, providing plenty of natural light and enhancing

the sense of space. The construction of the fitness center also allowed several infrastructure needs such as a new airhandling system, a new roof and a new sprinkler system to be met.

The result is simply spectacular. Albert Lepage’s generous gift has provided an important addition to the school’s overall program. While one would expect the center to fulfill the school’s mission of promoting lifelong commitment to fitness, it has also become a social center for both adults and students. It is a pleasant, welcoming, first-class facility, one that students, faculty, alumni/ae and Mr. Lepage can be proud of.

Look for photos of the Wellness Center in action as well as plans for the stage area in this fall’s Report of Giving.

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the sports page

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ou will notice a recurring theme in these team reports: interesting “spring” weather. Our students returned from spring break on March 27 to find courts, fields and track covered with three feet of snow. Teams trained in the arena, the lower gym, the pool and the new Lepage Wellness Center. When the snow finally began to melt it went quickly, as did the remaining short weeks of the season. Three cheers to the teams who persevered through adversity!

Baseball: A State of Mind With the unpredictability of Maine winters, no one can say this is truly a baseball state.

During a shortened season, hampered by two feet of snow, and challenged by the need to replace all but one starter, this team persevered. While not able to measure success in wins and losses, for there we struggled, this team demonstrated its gains in learning what competition meant, what its sportsmanship meant, and why we sign up to spend time together every day from 3 to 5. The Fab Five injected humor, good nature, and a lot of great potential into practices and on game day. Seniors Dave Lisnik, Ben Morse, Derek Marquis and Justin MacCurdy led by example. Athletes became baseball players, challenging themselves to play a difficult game. And finally we went out as competitors and played like champions.

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Boys’ Lacrosse: Senior Salute This spring marked the end of an era of Hebron lacrosse. The team was composed of many seniors who developed an affection for lacrosse and who helped set high standards for the team.

There were many successes and two major disappointments this year. The first setback occurred during the first game of the season against Gould.

Defender Nick Planson ’01 reinjured his knee and was lost for the season. Our other disappointment was that we just couldn’t beat Hyde—they gave us our three losses.

Once we could get on the field the seniors became impressive team leaders. We beat New Hampton, Kents Hill twice and Gould three times, in addition to a finalsecond, come-from-behind victory over Tilton. We had an 8–7 lead over Hyde going into the final quarter of our home game against them, but they

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squeezed out a victory. In the MAISAD championship we trailed the eventual New England champs 7–9 in the third quarter, but we just couldn’t close the gap.

Coaches Fallon and Curtis gave each one of the seniors an MVP pin to honor them for all the energies they have given to Hebron lacrosse.

Girls’ Lacrosse: Marked

by Success Overall the girls’ lacrosse team had a very successful season, despite losing to Sanford High School in the first round of the MAISAD tournament. We had a large team this year, with players of widely differing backgrounds.

After a long, snowy April, the team played on a field for the first time at Hyde. After the game we knew that we had a lot to look forward to. Our team had a lot of talent: our forwards had strong shots, the midfielders were determined to do their best on both ends of the field and our defense kept us in close games all season long. Our novice goalies were awesome in net.

We look forward to another strong season next year as we only lost four seniors. We will miss Coach Hinman and Coach Machado a lot—thanks for a great season!

Softball: Snowball With home plate three feet under snow until late April, suffice to say we got a late start to the season. Having only one or two days before our first meeting with Gould, we had a disappointing loss, but nonetheless, a close game. We went on to win the next eight games including our second

meeting with Gould at home, where we “mercy-ruled” them 15–2. This made the MAISAD final all the more poignant as we lost by one run to Gould.

Despite these two hard fought games, a stellar line-up both at bat and in the field ensured a successful season. Seniors Tiffany Harkins and Meg Webster carried the outfield while Emily Garbarini secured second base and Tracy Verrill led the pitching. Junior Danielle Wysomierski guarded home plate and juniors Jana Bugden and Monica MacLellan held first and third respectively. Sophomore Krista Clunie kept any balls coming her way from leaving the infield at shortstop and sophomores Mallory Berman and Jordan Vallarelli rounded out the starting line-up filling in as catcher, third base or right field whenever needed. Bronwyn Hart ’01, I-Chieh Tu ’02 and Heidi Lurvey ’04, Chelsea Lipham ’04 and Beth Cayer ’04 all saw some playing time this season and will bring a lot of skill next season as we say goodbye to our five seniors.

Track and Field: Inclement Weather is Key During the spring of 2000 we fought the rain and cold all season. This year we returned from spring break to a winter wonderland, with snow still shin deep. With only five weeks to go in the season, the track finally cleared. As a consequence, we made extensive use of the fitness center and did whatever specific event training we could. Occasionally we would get out to run the Back Street loop. Meanwhile our future New England competitors to the south were enjoying

the sports page snow-free training for the whole season. In spite of these shortcomings we had a successful season. We only had six meets—including MAISADs and New Englands—and three of these occurred in one week, including the MAISAD championships. The girls finished third in the MAISADs and the boys’ finished second behind a powerful Elan team.

The New England Division III prep school championships were again held at St. George’s in Rhode Island. Last year’s meet weather was dismal with rain, cold and wind. This year’s weather was good. Our team of eight girls finished eighth out of 13 scoring schools. This was an impressive performance given the team sizes of their competitors. The boys team had a very strong season and we knew we had a shot at the title.

We had bested Hyde-Maine on the majority of our previous encounters. As it turned out, they had a surprise for us and our performances, while excellent, didn’t quite congeal into the correct result. Hyde-Maine won, followed by Governor Dummer with Hebron holding onto the number three spot out of 15 scoring schools.

It was nice to see two Maine schools in the top three. I would not advise our competition that the key to success at the New England championships is to have inclement weather, little training time and few meets!

Girls’ Tennis: Doubles Shoveling Teams The girls started the season indoors. Multiple snow storms during March layered the courts with 38 inches of snow.

After a couple of weeks of Lobsta work on the rink, drills

in the gym and conditioning in the Wellness Center, the girls hit the courts with shovels.

After the snow removal, the interscholastic matches came fast and furiously. The girls opened their season with a match against Kents Hill.

Hebron won in a 3–2 match.

Two days later the girls had their second match and their second victory. And so the season went. A string of victories against MAISAD schools resulting in a 6–0 season in the league and this established the team as MAISAD champions.

In post season tournaments Erin Toole ’01 and Sydney

Orne ’03 brought home the gold as doubles champions in the MAISAD league.

Boy’s Tennis: A One-Two Punch In spite of Mother Nature’s lack of cooperation, the 2001 season was a success. Led by co-captains Adam Asselin and Steve Fleck, Hebron accumulated an 8–2 record, capturing the team MASAID co-championship (with Kents Hill). Despite an early setback to Berwick and a later league loss to Kents Hill (both 3–2), Hebron clearly dominated the singles game, advancing each of our players to

the semi-final round of four in the MASAID tournament. In a unique twist, our co-captains met in the final, assuring Hebron a 1–2 finish. The team shows promise as junior Brett Mitchell’s play reached championship level as the season progressed. The delayed start due to snow affected our doubles play early on. However, both doubles teams performed admirably. Equally rewarding was the improved play of several JV players—many of whom are new to the sport. Next year as “pay back,” we look forward to tropical conditions in February for an early start to the season.

Friends and competitors. Adam Asselin ’01 and Steve Fleck ’01 met in the MAISAD singles final.

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around the bowl Summer Reading An informal poll of Hebron’s faculty and staff revealed this list of summer reading choices. From fluff to personal passions to professional development, it’s clear to us that we’re an eclectic bunch!

Lennard Bickel and Edmund Hillary—Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written Pamela Bloom (ed.)—Buddhist Acts of Compassion William G. Bowen and James L. Shulman—The Game of Life Arlene Blum—Annapurna: A Woman’s Place Rick Bragg—Somebody Told Me: the Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg Philip Caputo—The Voyage Patricia Cornwell—The Last Precinct David James Duncan and Forbes Duncan—The River Why Nancy Farmer—A Girl Named Disaster John Feinstein—The Majors Lawrence Ferlinghetti—A Coney Island of the Mind and A Far Rockaway of the Heart Tim Flannery—The Explorers Carlos Fuentes—Terra Nova Ursula Hegi—Stones from the River Adam Hochschild—King Leopold’s Ghost Dan Kindlon and Michael Thomas—Raising Cain Barbara Kingsolver—Prodigal Summer Ardeana Hamlin Knowles—Pink Chimneys: A Novel of Nineteenth Century Maine Kodansha Int’l. Ltd.—Keys to the Japanese Heart and Soul Jean Hanff Korelitz—The Sabbathday River Carol Stock Kranowitz—The Outof-Sync Child Anne Lamott—Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith John Le Carré—The Constant Gardener

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Robert Levine—A Geography of Time Dave Longaberger—Longaberger: An American Success Story Peter Matthiessen—Killing Mister Watson David McCollough—John Adams Alexander McKee—Wreck of the Medusa Sena Jeter Naslund—Ahab’s Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer Tawni O’Dell—Back Roads Nuala O’Faolain—Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman Susan Orlean—The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup Charles Palliser—The Unburied Ellis Peters—the Brother Cadfael series Julie Pickering, ed.—Korean Cultural Heritage: Thought and Religion Robert Pirsig—Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance David Quammen—The Flight of the Iguana Tom Robbins—Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates J. K. Rowling—Harry Potter books Dava Sobel—Galileo’s Daughter Shakespeare—all 37 plays Robert Louis Stevenson—Treasure Island Henry David Thoreau—Wild Fruits Maeve Binchy novels Star Trek novels

Pomp and Circumstance Awards presented during this year’s Baccalaureate and Commencement ceremonies.

Baccalaureate Presentations Friday, May 25, 2001 Diversity Committee Book Prize James Wanvig Fossel ’01 Anaïs Alexandria Wheeler ’01 Katherine Elizabeth Curtis ’02 L. Edward Willard Prize in English Jamie Michelle Fey ’02 Academic Excellence in French Monica Melina MacLellan ’02 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal Barrett Smith Mitchell ’02

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Cum Laude Prize in Geometry Abigail Rachel Burns ’04

Athletic Award Laurent Lanoie

Smith Book Award Jamie Michelle Fey ’02

Bernat Memorial Award James Wanvig Fossel and Arias Wan

Dartmouth Book Award Collin Steward Orcutt ’02

Dr. Louis Friedman Mathematics Prize Michael Steven Grossman

Williams Book Award Barrett Smith Mitchell ’02

Senior Scholarship Prize Jun Sato

Harvard Book Prizes Katherine Elizabeth Curtis ’02 Monica Melina MacLellan ’02 Commencement Awards Saturday, May 26, 2001 Awards for Academic Excellence Art ....................Jonathan Clayton Strout English.....................Erin Elizabeth Toole and Anaïs Alexandria Wheeler History...................James Wanvig Fossel Latin...............Anaïs Alexandria Wheeler Mathematics ..............................Jun Sato Music ..........................................Jun Sato Religion & Ethics..James Wanvig Fossel Sciences ............Daniel McNeil Siekman Spanish .......Meghan Elizabeth Webster Reed Awards Stuart Gordon Hedstrom Meghan Elizabeth Webster Bessie Fenn Award Catherine D. Quinlan

Lorimer Scholarship Prize Daniel McNeil Siekman Regis A. Lepage Scholarship Prize Meghan Elizabeth Webster Edward Tate II Green Key Award Galen Cavender Wall Ernest Sherman Award Catherine D. Quinlan Shepard Wiley Stephenson Charles and Amy Dwyer Memorial Award Robin Charest Milton G. Wheeler Good Fellowship Award Erin Elizabeth Toole Phemister Award Lawrence Abbott Bilodeau Risman Honor Award J. Nicholas Leyden Hebron Academy Cup Anaïs Alexandria Wheeler

College Intentions Members of the Class of 2001 plan to attend the following institutions: Acadia University American International College Assumption College Auburn University Boston University Bowdoin College Columbia University Concordia University Dalhousie University Dartmouth College Dickinson College Drew University Elmira College Emerson College Emory University Fordham University Hartwick College Hawaii Pacific University Jacksonville University Juniata College Lake Forest College Lewis and Clark College Lynchburg College Lynn University McGill University

Northeastern University Ohio State University Old Dominion University Rochester Institute of Technology Roger Williams University Rollins College Saint Michael’s College Salve Regina University Southampton College Union College University of Alaska—Fairbanks University of Kansas University of Maine University of Miami University of New England University of New Haven University of North Carolina— Wilmington University of South Florida University of Southern Maine University of Vermont University of Windsor Wheaton College Worcester Polytechnic Institute

around the bowl W E AT H E R

REPORT

The Iceman Cometh

Changing Hats This summer is a time of transition as many campus folks assume new responsibilities or re-assume old ones! Here is a quick breakdown of some of the changes.

John King officially donned his Head of School top hat on July 1.

With a jaunty tilt to his golf cap, Paul Domingue resumed his duties as Assistant Head of School for Advancement, overseeing the school’s fundraising efforts.

and Stayeth

Leslie Guenther passed her Middle School beanie to Kathy Leyden. Kathy will be Acting Director of the Middle School for the coming year; Leslie will continue to wear her Athletic Director’s baseball cap.

David Stonebraker doffed his advancement chapeau and put on two well-worn ten-gallon hats—the dual roles of English Department Chair and Director of Studies.

Jamie Roche ’95 dressed out in the boys’ hockey coach helmet and Sarah Terwilliger snuggled into the outdoor skills polar fleece headwarmer.

And a Tip of the Hat Three cheers to Matt Powers ’03 and Liam Walker ’03 who both earned their Eagle Scout badges this year. And congratulations to math department chair Merry Shore who recently received the 2001 Teacher Recognition award for “sustained excellence.” Ms. Shore came to Hebron last year after working for many years in the Auburn and Poland school systems.

Maine Lore Capping the Lower School’s study of Native American culture, Penobscot Nation Governor Barry Dana visited campus in late May (above).

Mr. Dana showed the students some traditional Indian tools, told stories and also discussed the issue of Indian sovereignty over their land and river here in Maine.

and Weareth Out His Welcome Singin’ A Cappella imagine that once this past winter took hold of Maine it refused to let go. Here are scenes from April in Hebron: the boys’ JV tennis team doing a little “crosstraining” and Skip Churchill’s photograph of Marshall Pond on April 24.

A selection of favorites recorded in April 2000 by the Hebeegeebees, Hebron’s own a cappella group, is now available on CD. Copies are available by mail. Send $10 (please make checks payable to Hebron Academy) to: Hebeegeebees CD Hebron Academy PO Box 309 Hebron ME 04238

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Meet John King

On Hebron We knew a long time ago that we wanted to find a school that I could lead and that Marcia could be a part of. We were looking for a school that had a sense of community, a sense of spirit, of a size (200–400 students) that allowed most of the people to know each other pretty well. We weren’t particularly interested in a situation where we would just take care of things. We were looking for a school where we could make a difference. When Hebron’s Board announced that they were looking, we entertained the idea. We knew the area because for the last 10 or 12 years we’ve had a place up in Bethel and spent a fair amount of time there.

As we got to know the school we were completely taken by the feel of the place, by the spirit of the people and by their commitment to this place, both the faculty and the students. One of the most exciting moments when we were here as a couple to be interviewed—it was my second visit—was our lunch with a dozen or so students. They were so open and eager to find out about us that we left that meeting saying “You know, this school has a wonderful feel.”

I am pleased by and very grateful for the warm welcome I have received from Jack Leyden and Paul Domingue, who worked very hard during a difficult time for Hebron. Their spirit and hopes for the future are inspiring to me as we move forward.

One reason I am so excited about Hebron’s future is because of what happened at the school where I have been for the last seven

years. I have told a lot of people that Hebron Academy today is very similar to what our former school was like a dozen years ago in terms of its operational, financial and facilities needs. That school has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence. Some of it had to do with facilities and with raising funds; some of it had to do with the new and renewed energy of people on campus who focused attention on areas that needed work. And much of it was the energy of the headmaster. I think that’s the kind of opportunity we can have here.

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The following “conversation” with John King, Hebron’s new Head of School, was compiled from his responses to questions posed by the Board of Visitors, during an interview with Evan Bruns ’01 for the school newspaper and during an interview with the Semester. All three sessions covered a variety of topics, from his background to his thoughts on teaching to his own school memories. Here are a few we thought you might find interesting.

On Teaching Teaching is an incredibly important vocation and its rewards go well beyond what you can accomplish in other arenas. The most important thing in education is passion. A teacher with passion excites students about the subject; sharing the passion leads to learning. Personality is a huge part of teaching, so having dynamic teachers is vital. I am very open to passion, to enthusiasm and to initiative. Someone who exhibits that kind of feeling is going to be successful in the classroom. Kids don’t always react to content but they react to the energy that convinces them that the person who is teaching cares about what they are teaching. This will be a place where this will continue to happen.

we were looking for a school where we could make a difference

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On School Life One of Hebron’s signature strengths is that it can have a strong day population within a good residential program.

I received a great education at Milton Academy, but I was one of only four or five day students in my graduating class; day students were a very small minority at the school. One of my great delights was being able to stay overnight. I used to keep a sleeping bag in a friend’s room so I could stay when something was going on. But I still missed most

of the evening and weekend activities because I was commuting about 45 minutes each way to school. I know there are students at Hebron who do that.

A school needs to pay attention to the differences in the life circumstances of commuting students and boarders and mix them more. I think it would be great for day students to spend time understanding boarding life and living at Hebron. And it would be great if we could have some kind of exchange situation where boarders would get to go “home” with day students, during school time, not just for weekends or breaks, and have home cooking and the chance to study in a normal house with a normal routine.

There is no doubt that in the independent school world— whether it’s in the local region that supports our day students or the further region—the word spreads, both the good word and the bad word. We have to be sure that we’re always generating good words about Hebron.

One of the things that attracts me to this job is the fact that every single person has a role in the success of the place, because our success is our kids and it’s always individual experiences that make the difference for a young person. Sometimes it’s one class with one teacher, sometimes it’s one experience on a team or in a cast production. Sometimes it’s one memory of a situation, sometimes it’s one time getting into trouble. All of those things are important.

Everybody makes a difference. The success of this school is based on continuing those individual triumphs and letting them be known.

We have to be active about spreading the word. And it’s not just the admissions people— we all have to be good representatives whenever we go somewhere, whether it’s a team playing an away game or a faculty member on vacation.

It’s important for visitors to see people who are committed to their school, who are enthusiastic and eager, so that we can build our constituency, expand our admissions opportunities, invite people to support the school with their resources and ultimately get for this place and its people what it richly deserves.

every single person has a role in the success of the place

On Business For 13 years I ran increasingly larger business operations in the communications industry. I was the executive in charge of an $80 million budget and 400 employees in 25 cities. I’ve done marketing, budget work, and been responsible for the bottom line. In schools I have been very involved in long-range planning processes, financial analysis and fundraising of a capital campaign.

I think I will be a better leader not only because of my experience with financial management, analysis and decision-making, but also because of my involvement with a wide range of people and expectations. I understand the kinds of bottom-line demands which, rightly or wrongly, are a big part of the business—and it is a business— of an independent school.

On Marketing We have to project a personality as a school. If we continually work to do things as well as possible—taking care of the place, making sure that when people come they see the best of the school and the best of the people—that energy will transmit further and faster than anything we can do strategically in terms of marketing.

On Community Hebron has a better feeling of inclusiveness than any school I’ve been involved with—the kids have different kinds of friends, get along with different kinds of people. There is a closeness, a sense that when you arrive on the campus and walk around that students and faculty are glad you’re here. It’s a very, very good feeling. You can’t demand that kind of feeling, it just happens.

At one of the schools where I was working, a long time ago, they cut down a lot of trees to build some new athletic fields.

The folks who cleared the land left all the timber behind in three-foot logs. Someone came up with the idea that it would be a great school project to help clear the logs and get the new fields going. The way we orchestrated it was just wonderful. We brought the whole school—students, faculty, administrators, the headmaster, everybody—down to this field and formed two lines of people, LISA SHEBLE

On the Board of Trustees I think the current board members are very committed to the school and to improving their relationships on campus. They have revised the bylaws to define a more effective governance and relationship with the head. In all the meetings and communications we’ve had, it is very clear that we all share the same understanding of roles and vision for Hebron. The board’s enthusiasm for that future is inspiring.

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we passed logs and talked and everybody was joking and laughing

side by side, all the way across that field and out to the road where the trucks could go.

And, like a bucket brigade, we passed the logs from one person to the next to the next. We did it for a couple of hours. It was a big project and we moved a ton of wood. It was one of the best days at that school. We passed logs and talked to people and everybody was joking and laughing. Faculty next to kids next to older kids, younger kids, everyone—it was great.

Those kinds of all-school activities are a really special thing. It’s a great rallying point; it’s also a great way to do something for the school and for each other. I intend to look for opportunities like that, for the occasional chance to do something as a whole group, whether it’s something for this school or something for our greater community.

You can’t do these things at a school that isn’t at least partially or significantly residential. It’s a family kind of a thing for children who are away from home and for teachers and staff members who are living in a boarding school environment.

On Passion Sailing, skiing and being in the outdoors are favorite things of mine. But what really stirs my passion is people—seeing people who feel good about what they are doing, whether it’s a teacher or a kid. I like spending time with young people. I like to teach them, I like to coach them, I like to watch them compete in athletics or perform. I get incredibly emotional when I see kids have a success, whether it’s on a stage or in a classroom or on an athletic field. That’s why I’m in this business instead of in cable television or rocket science or something like that.

On the Future I intend to be accessible to students. I like to engage in conversations in the dining room, at games, in e-mails. And I’ll be living right here. A management philosophy I believe in is M.B.W.A.—Management By Walking Around— to just be here. I will be on the road a bit as well, but for the first year or two I will have to deal with issues here and learn the school.

I would like to have a face-to-face impact with prospective families, to maintain an open door with faculty and engage in a mentoring process, to continually evaluate the breadth of our program.

The school should have a cohesive balance of the three divisions with enough connection and room for creativity, but different enough so that Hebron is not a 12-year continuum. We should make sure that our financial situation allows us to reward teachers and recruit new ones. We need to renew classroom, arts and dorm

facilities, and create good new facilities for indoor recreation. And we need to celebrate Hebron’s 200th birthday the right way.

I see myself as a leader and a champion for all the different parts of the school. I am a consensusbuilder, not a dictator, but I will have to make hard decisions which may not always be popular. I want to help others come to the same decision, even if it’s difficult.

On the Role of the Head The job of leading a school is entirely different than it was a decade or two ago, and it is a very different job than was being done by the headmasters that many of our alums remember. More so than ever before, the business of running a school demands attention to financial matters, to fund raising matters, to marketing, legal and regulatory issues. The name “independent school” always implied that you could ignore those things, but in this day and age you can’t.

We also have a more sophisticated clientele now—families are much more demanding of a level of dialogue and input into their children’s education. It all has to do with the increasing social pressures for education, for going to a competitive college. There has to be a good deal of communication and connection with these parents.

There are incredible demands on the administration and leader of a school to be involved in all those things. There’s no denying that a big part of my job will be external to the school—it has to be—so that the school can continue to grow and thrive. Growth will only happen if a spokesperson for the school is representing the school to alums, to the public, to governmental bodies and so forth.

Working with the board, working with potential donors and working with admissions is all important. Some of the best things I can do may be some of the most invisible because they will take me away from school but ultimately will give us the opportunity to do things that we really want to do, to fulfill the dreams of the place.

I have been in the realm where the financial bottom line is sometimes the only bottom line. In that arena the important thing was to balance the human side. In this environment, where the human side is paramount, you have to balance by attention to the bottom line, to the monetary demands and physical demands of the place too.

Balancing those demands with the absolute necessity to be a presence and a champion for the school, to be a part of the school, a personality for the students and the faculty and the families here is the challenge of the job. It’s a juggling act but you have to juggle all of it because it can truly make a difference. It’s why some people say “Who would want that job?” and I say “That’s what makes it so interesting and exciting and that’s why I want to do it.”

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Extraordinary talent, eclectic interests and dedication to Hebron’s students and programs

Elizabeth P. Found

betsy found came to Hebron in 1974 with her husband Bruce and with no intention of teaching—however, when the science department needed help with courses, she stepped in to teach Earth Science and Astronomy & Geology. With their son, Jason ’87, the Founds began Hebron life in Cushman House and balanced teaching, coaching and school activities with the needs of a young child.

Mrs. Found has been a science teacher at Hebron Academy for 27 years, chair of the science department for eleven. She is known most for Biology—honors and Advanced Placement—and recently has also offered courses in Anatomy & Physiology, Genetics and Advanced Topics in Biology. She has been an intern at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory and for many years a reader of the Advanced Placement Biology examination.

Snatches of praise from her students include the following observations: “Mrs. Found is the coolest person I know;” “Funny, perceptive, incredibly smart and totally

dedicated to her students;” “Humble and unassuming, but always the one behind the scenes who makes things happen.”

Mrs. Found says of herself “I can’t remember ever not being fascinated with natural history, the forms of life. I always wanted to go into science. From my earliest childhood, I was always picking up bugs and rocks and looking at them. In grade school, I would convince kids to join the Science Club so I could spend their dues on the things that really fascinated me.”

Mrs. Found’s particular area for research and study is the intertidal zone; her favorite places the meeting of sea and shore along the rivers, estuaries and islands of the Maine coast.

With her students she happily explores and teaches the ecosystems found in the tidal flats of the Scarborough Marsh, the rocky tide pools at the mouth of the Kennebec and throughout the Calendar Islands of Casco Bay. John Muir’s observation, “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” could well be amended for Betsy Found to read, “In wildness is the preservation of the future, and of wonder, and of learning.”

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Honoring Service: Hebron Teachers Mark Milestones

Clockwise from top left: The Founds in 1974; Mrs. Found’s twenty-five year portrait; coaching nordic skiing in 1991.

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Milestones: John “Moose” Curtis

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john curtis came north to Hebron from the Kingswood-Oxford School in 1975, a young chemistry teacher and coach. Known immediately as “The Moose”, he moved into Sturtevant. He met and married Patricia Masel, an elementary teacher in Norway, and the couple moved into Fogg House, the red home across from the Post Office in Hebron. Now, Moose splits time from coaching his own teams to watching his two daughters, Katie ’02, and Carrie ’04, compete in soccer, swimming and lacrosse.

Always a chemistry teacher at Hebron, Mr. Curtis is associated for many with the spacious laboratory on the left, halfway down the upper corridor of Treat Science Building. From behind the long demonstration table, he measures and explores the wisdom of the atomic table, the mysteries of molar equations and chemical bonding.

There is humor as well in the occasional appearances of the infamous “Mr. Wizard, the Master of Mixology” and his program of “Things that go Bang in the Night.” The opening of the Red Sox season at Fenway was ceremonially marked by “Throwing out the first test tube” for the springtime unit in qualitative analysis. More recently, Mr. Curtis’s Advanced Placement Chemistry students have performed their experimentation and analysis on a much smaller scale, performing “micro-experimentation” assisted by computer models and programs.

Mr. Curtis, dean of northern New England football coaches and a founder of The Evergreen Football League, has coached Hebron’s varsity football team for more than 20 years.

Courage, dedication and fair play are the watch words for his teams. He has a special affection for offensive linemen, perhaps gained from his own experience of playing the line at the Baylor School alongside John Hannah, a teammate who would become a legendary lineman for the

Clockwise from top: Mr. Curtis in 1975; “Mr. Wizard”; twenty-five year portrait.

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New England Patriots. His 1994 Hebron team included Sean Morey, record-setter at Brown University, who also joined the Patriots.

A Maine guide, a former counselor and canoe trips leader at Camp Winona, organizer of the Wilderness Waters Canoe Program at Hebron, and currently director of the state’s Junior Maine Guide Program, Mr. Curtis is at home on the lakes and whitewater rivers of Maine. He owns the only known “giant-slalom” kayak designed especially to accommodate a “moose-sized” paddler.

With a springer-spaniel—once Allagash and now Machias—in the bow of a tripping canoe, the Moose is

most in his element in the north Maine woods, canoeing the West Branch of the Penobscot, the St. John or the Allagash.

Diverse of interests, absolutely dedicated to classroom and field, with abiding affection for the woods and wilds of Maine, John “Moose” Curtis embodies an enduring strength of Hebron Academy.

quintessential mathematics teacher for twenty-six years, Bob Gunn has presented the entire Hebron mathematics curriculum: Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, Trigonometry and the Advanced Placement curricula for the AB and BC courses as well as elective courses in Statistics, Computer Programming and Physics.

He notes, “And I was also once a student of Latin here!”

With his wife Sharron, Hebron’s horticulturalist and “plant supervisor,” Mr. Gunn supervised Halford Dormitory for many years, and their two children, Ryan ’87 and Heather ’90 grew up with the companionship of the dormitory as well as the supervision of their parents. The Gunns now live in Glover House.

Mr. Gunn is the “triple threat” of the fine arts department. He plays, sings and acts. Always a member of Hebron’s orchestra as cellist, pianist and occasional bassist, he is equally at home with jazz and classical pieces, and he will occasionally branch out to perform folk music and classical compositions on guitar. He favors the Maine songs of Gordon Bok. An ardent supporter of Hebron’s fine arts programs, Mr. Gunn sings in the Hebron chorus, the Hebeegeebees a cappella group and often with individual student performers. He was an original member of The Hebron

Experience barbershop quartet formed by French teacher Ed Lundergan and subsequently became the leader of that group. He sang lead, baritone and tenor, and he would probably have sung bass, too, had Spike Veayo, Hebron’s legendary bassman ever needed a substitute.

Beyond the Hebron community, Mr. Gunn lifts his voice with many groups. For many years a member of the Hillsmen Chorus of the NorwaySouth Paris area, he has been that group’s music director for fourteen years and a featured member of The County Chords quartet. He is a participant and instructor for SPEBSQSA, a.k.a. the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America and recently received his BBH degree (Bachelor of Barbershop Harmony) from the Harmony College of the national organization.

Completing his artistic hat trick, Mr. Gunn is resident director for upper and middle school drama. He speaks of how John Leyden began this part of his Hebron experience by asking him to take on a light production as a way to lift the school’s spirits in the dark winter months. He has directed drama, comedy and musicals including recent middle school productions, “Dorothy & the Wizard of Oz,” “The Phantom Toll Booth” and “Stuart Little.” Upper School credits include two productions of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” (one which featured Ned Willard as Snoopy), “The Little Shop of Horrors,” “The Compleat Wks of Wm. Shakespeare—Abridged,” “The Princess Bride,” “The Odd Couple” and “Boarding School Blues” (written by Jon Spence ‘89).

Where thought, music and laughter abound, there will be Bob Gunn, Hebron’s original math man,”music man” and punster.

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Milestones: Robert L. Gunn

Clockwise from top: Mr. Gunn in 1975; his twenty-five year portrait; with colleague Spike Veayo during Festival ’82.

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This Tremendous

It is early morning. Sharp indigo peaks loom over rocky foothi primeval, timeless, still. s The desert is flat, sere, harsh. Curv nic ground. A woman watches curiously from the front seat of autumn field. s Lupins dance in the summer sun. s Sunflo to Chris Pinchbeck’s glorious pinhole photographs, we are in Sierra Nevada or at the White Sands National Monument in A

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Place

Sierra Nevada in Winter Snow. Lone Pine, California, 1999.

ills. There is a dusting of snow. The mountains are everlasting, ved metal shells provide relief from the sun and wind at a picf a nearby camper. s Pumpkins glow from the stubble of an wers nod their heads in the breeze. s Where are we? Thanks n Hebron Academy’s Hupper Gallery and also far away in the Alamagordo or in the fields and gardens of midcoast Maine. s Hebron Academy Summer 2001 • Semester

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Time’s Wingèd Chariot Rural Maine would seem to be removed from the hurlyburly of modern life, and to some extent it is, but at Hebron we live our lives in staccato bursts. We move from class to class, commitment to commitment, with very little time to reflect on the world around us. We begin the school year with endless months stretching before us and at Commencement we wonder where the time went.

This winter was no exception. It was cold and dark and the snowbanks grew higher and higher. Short days grew shorter as we crammmed in projects, papers and exams. The opening of a show of photographs by Chris Pinchbeck ’87 was delayed a day because of snow, conflicting with our monthly all-staff meeting.

A cry of protest rose from the faculty—we knew we had to meet, but we wanted to see Chris as well. So, at the last minute, we pushed the opening up fifteen minutes and the meeting back fifteen minutes. We hurried from class to practice to supper, rushed through the meal and dashed through the darkness to the gallery.

And were halted by the jaw-dropping glory of Chris’s pinhole photographs.

the darkroom and showed him how to process and print his own film. Although he wasn’t shooting specifically for the yearbook, many of the photos in the 1987 Spectator are his.

After graduating from Hebron, Chris earned degrees in commercial photography from the Brooks Institute of Photography and in environmental conservation from the University of New Hampshire. His love and respect for the out-of-doors started early—his parents owned and operated a plant nursery. He is happiest when he is out in the wilderness, hiking, climbing or photographing.

Chris says he is an “ecophotographer”, using traditional methods coupled with newer technologies to produce photographs with exciting, adventurous overtones.

Most of his work is carried by a stock photography house, but you may have seen his photos in Down East, Hooked on the Outdoors and Bird World magazines, among others.

Rockport Harbor in Autumn. Rockport, Maine, 1998.

“A pinhole image is made upside-down and backwards. It takes a while to imagine this as Rockport Harbor because the image we see is reversed. The boats gently sway on their moorings as do the leaves on the trees, creating a ghostly effect. I find that water is captured quite beautifully with such a long exposure; in this case just over an hour.”

First of all, they are huge. Each one is about six feet wide and two-and-a-half to three feet tall.

They are engaging. The lenseless pinhole method means that every part of the image is in “focus”, providing infinite depth and detail.

And they are beautiful. Even Chris didn’t realize the impact a group of them would have until they were framed and hung together.

Where the Wild Things Are Chris got his first camera at the age of ten—a gift from his parents—but his interest in photography expanded when Hebron classmate Paul Emerson pulled him into

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Simple Beauty About three years ago Chris began to feel overwhelmed by the daily technical and mechanical aspects of modern commercial photography. He wanted to simplify his vision.

“It’s difficult to show people the simple beauty in this world in its absolute form while using a technology-driven, mechanical, human-made medium like today’s modern camera.” he said. “So why not allow the very thing I’m trying to share with the world—light—via the simplest form of photography—a hole—do the storytelling? In order to make my message more absolute, I felt the medium in which it was created had to be closest in form to my message and what I was sharing.”

“I remain excited about losing myself in the depths of this image, a result I had not expected upon making it. I have fond memories of kayaking this expansive lake, and I enjoy reminiscing when wandering from inlet to inlet along this print’s horizon line.”

An inveterate tinkerer, Chris decided to build a pinhole camera on wheels. He drilled a hole “about the size of my smallest drill bit” in a piece of metal and mounted it on the side of a trailer. Then he started thinking about the various kinds of photographic mediums he could use.

He played around with traditional negatives and then hit on direct positives. He tested the idea with small 8"x10" sheets, liked the results, and ordered a roll of large paper to try making large scale prints.

Beautifully Simple These photographs are the antithesis of today’s disposable digital images—there is a considerable investment of emotion, time and money in each and every image.

After years of professional experience, Chris no longer has to think about light and composition. The largescale pinhole method forces him to slow down, to really think about and experience what he is photographing.

Because the direct positive medium gathers light very slowly, each one of these photographs requires an exposure time of one to three hours. Chris frames his shot, hauls the trailer into position and jacks it up to keep it still. He crawls inside to put the paper up, gets back out and waits. Interestingly, the long exposures capture a sense of motion and change in a still image.

The paper comes on 100' rolls which cost hundreds of dollars each. Chris doesn’t process the photographs himself—“it’s a very toxic and exacting procedure, some-

Portrait of the artist. Chris Pinchbeck ’87, who said he would really rather be on the other side of the lens, in front of his 1999 photograph of Lake Powell and Navajo Mountain, Page, Arizona.

thing I couldn’t do with the size of my prints unless I went out and bought kid’s swimming pools and filled them with the various chemicals”—the exposed sheets are put into light-tight tubes and shipped to California.

This exacting process means that each image is a part of him, and one could imagine that it would be hard to part with even one. Chris agrees. “Selling a photo means I can eat, yet it is hard to see them go. The one I sold at the Maine Coast Artist’s show was the very first one I had ever done—and in my opinion, the most beautiful one I’ve created to date. I’m glad that it’s out there and someone or many people are enjoying it. The photos are made for my sharing, so in that sense I’m glad they go to other eyes and hearts, helping others feel a sense and part of this tremendous place we live in.”

Aspen Trees. Cedar Breaks, Utah, 1999.

“I’ve had a desire to photograph these trees high in the hills for years, but for various reasons have not been able to stop. Finally, upon making this image, I was at first disappointed to see the various carvings on the trees. Now I find them amusing.

This is truly a lovely location in the often parched southwest landscape.”

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Pinhole Photography: How It Works One of the unique attributes of a “lensless” camera is that depth-of-field, a byproduct of optics, is non-existent.

Therefore, the image projected onto the light sensitive material is “focused” from zero to infinity relative to the craftsmanship of the actual pinhole.

The smaller and cleaner the pinhole, the sharper the image. However, as light travels, it loses intensity. Light shining from a tiny hole traveling five feet will have less intensity than light pouring through a larger hole traveling the same distance. The larger hole allows in more sporadic light rays and therefore the image is more “out-of-focus”, to use a term foreign to lens-less cameras.

Camera mobila. Chris’s pinhole camera on wheels. The cutout on the left side of the trailer is where the pinhole and focusing hole are located. Sheets of light-sensitive paper cut from a 100' roll are attached to the opposite inside wall. A baffle system (not shown) allows Chris to get in and out of the trailer without letting in extra light.

Camera Obscura A pinhole camera uses no lenses or modern technology. The first artistically intended pinholes were used in the fifteenth century by artists who called their black boxes camera obscura. The artist sat inside a light-tight box and traced the image produced by light projecting from a tiny hole on the opposing wall. In the 1800s pinhole cameras evolved into modern cameras which use lenses to “gather” light more quickly than their tiny predecessors.

The Trailer Camera These original, non-replicable images were created using a road trailer as a pinhole camera. The trailer is outfitted with a pinhole (about 1⁄16" in diameter) and a focusing hole (about 1⁄2" in diameter).

As with all photography, the pinhole image is affected by movement. An image requiring hours of exposure time will pick up any movement the world produces, such as wind in trees, running water, tidal changes, and so forth. It will also pick up any movement of the actual camera during the exposure, effectively blurring the image. The trailer—on leaf springs and moved by the forces of nature—needs to be stabilized for an image to remain sharp.

Direct Positive These images were made not by enlarging a negative, as is common practice in photography, but by exposing large sheets of light-sensitive paper. The medium is a direct positive, meaning it sees the image and records it directly onto its light sensitive source. This medium “gathers and records” light very slowly. If not enough light is used in a short period of time, reciprocity failure occurs: a light gathering medium’s inability to capture light to produce an aesthetically pleasing image.

This is the largest pinhole, direct positive imagery in existence today.

Recommended Resources Enthusiasts make pinhole cameras out of almost any kind of light-tight box.

While researching this article, we discovered many web sites devoted to pinhole photography. A few are listed below.

Pinchbeck Photography www.pinchbeckphoto.com—see Chris’s photos in beautiful color.

Pinhole Visions www.pinhole.com—the art of pinhole photography.

Pinhole Photography Pointer Page www.skypoint.com/members/escargo/ ppp.html—loads of links to other pinhole photography pages.

Pattison Trees. Lincolnville Beach, Maine, 1998.

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Pattison Trees was the first large-scale image I created with the trailer. It was taken in the early afternoon light and the exposure time was cut short. Length of exposure, reciprocity failure, and the movement of the sun softens the light.

It is further affected by the gentle wind blowing the flowers during the exposure. The results were exhilarating.

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Class of 2001

A Link of the Chain

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lassmates and Friends…

There came a point in

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working on this speech when I had to shake myself out of my reverie, and realize that hundreds of pages of geometrical designs, daisies, and unfinished drawings were probably never

Words of wisdom.

Class president Anaïs Wheeler addresses her classmates.

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going to translate to fifteen minutes of actually speaking in front of people. ❦ At this point, I had to change my goals. Instead of waiting and doodling, knowing the perfect idea was about to

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sneak up on me, I had to take action. Instead of finding those ideal words, I would have to settle for the ones I knew, the ones that were already there. I was going to have to simply begin and

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continue. ❦ To come to this realization requires, in my mind, two preliminaries. First, you have to accept that what you do is good enough. Ideals can be reached only by revision or by prac-

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tice. Second, you need some element of determination. To put these things in the simplest terms, you must know you’ll get it done, and that the finished product will be just fine.

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Arias Wan

Mischa Blackman

or four years, this class has prepared for the decisions and events that have happened all in the last few months. Each of the 72 graduates that sit here today has applied to college. We’ve accepted our rejections and reveled in our acceptances; we’ve narrowed down our choices, and, finally, sucked in a deep breath and committed ourselves; we’ve had to start to say goodbye to Hebron, but simultaneously concentrate on following through to the end, and preparing ourselves for the next step.

To do all this, our class has had to make a few changes. This is the class that raised a total of 25 cents our freshman year when someone tossed a quarter to Shy during a class meeting, the class that’s had our treasury stolen from our secretary’s car on a hectic Saturday night, the class in which Grossman belongs, running in just a few minutes late, and the class that, after four years, still can’t meet dress code. Somehow, each of us has formed a post-Hebron plan.

When I asked for one word to describe us, someone, without seeming to hesitate, replied, “nonchalance.” I agreed, but it must be noted that Mr. Toole would not be impressed as “nonchalance” is actually not a descriptive word. The adjective form is nonchalant, which Webster’s defines as “apparently unconcerned or indifferent,” and then advises us to “see cool.”

As a member of the class of 2001, I take the implications of “see cool,” but do not actually flip to the Cs. Is our attitude one of apparent unconcern, calm, cool, or are we just apathetic? …And at what point did it begin to yield results?

Chronicling Aught-One in terms of class meetings begins to reveal some answers. As freshmen, taking our break period to gather us all in one room was foolhardy—chaos would ensue. We could not be contained. The boys would fall over each other with laughter as someone yelled out something really witty Banner day. Junior class officers Maren Worley and Jamie Fey carry the senior class banner.

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Nick Claxton

Maryse Simard

Scottie Hersom

and original… “Hey, Leif, I saved you a seat,” someone would call, pointing across the Lecture Hall, “Over there.”

At that time, the lines were clear: guys vs. girls, middle schoolers vs. newcomers, boarding vs. day. Each of us tended to stay in the group with which we felt most comfortable.

Over the next two years, things changed, but at a slow pace. Lines were crossed, and new friendships were made. The separation between Hebron Middle Schoolers and new students became superficial as freshman year melted into the past, and middle school faded away.

uring our Sophomore year, these meetings were only slightly different, but by junior year, the original core of day students and boarders from Maine and Mass, or Tokyo and Seoul, was supplemented by kids from Maryland and Montreal, from Berlin and the Bronx. Our growing diversity highlighted our differences, and we started to recognize each person’s strengths. Stu took his place as our steadfast treasurer year after year; we started

Verena Ganske

Cathie Quinlan

Jeff Quinlan

Do Hyung No

Bob Zarella

Dong-Wan Suh

Joo-Hwan Jung

Curley Gilmore

Iain Bean

Arden Manning

Running the gauntlet. Hebron tradition allows the senior class and their teachers to exchange greetings during the academic procession. At two points during the procession the lines part to form a gauntlet, first of teachers, then of seniors. Here is a view from within the procession, taken by Bill Chase from his vantage point at the head of the line. The faculty is preceded by members of the Board of Trustees.

to appreciate Tracy’s sarcasm, Siekman’s bizarre sense of humor, Leif’s playful morbidity, and John Strout’s enduring silence. We discovered Dwayne’s skill with hair clippers, Miyuki’s artistic nail painting, and Andria’s magic massages. We found that Jared “SillyboyJones” can make us laugh, while Shauna’s singing voice can make us cry.

We learned about Meg’s karate classes, Larry’s Junior Maine Guide Certification, and Michele’s dancing. Still seemingly indifferent, we heard about Sid’s band, went to Charlie’s family’s orchards, and noticed Justin’s perpetual weight lifting. We silently took note of Joel’s artwork, the way that Evan always wants to tell a story, and noticed Asselin and Fleck’s ongoing tennis competition.

We were impressed by Shep’s hard work, Emily’s nononsense attitude, Bradley’s willingness to lend a hand, and Jess, Erin and Arias’s ability to amuse themselves (if no one else).

As we walked around campus, we expected to hear the sound of Mischa’s stereo blasting out his window, or the deep bass bumping on Claxton’s car; and to see Maryse and a silent Scottie holding hands while Maryse did all the talking. In the girl’s dorm, we expected to see

Verena and Cathie at two a.m. chatting as a break from writing a paper, while in the guy’s dorm, they expected Jeff and Do-Hyung at the same time, not working, but hanging from the rafters. Bob and Donny were expected to be calm and cool, and we got used to both Joo-Hwan’s commonly quizzical look and Curley’s strange comments, followed by his signature slow guffaw.

Iain and Arden could habitually be found deep in the woods (chest-deep in mud on one occasion), and Jun always in the practice rooms.

It is, perhaps, a less-known fact that Liz Patry was JV Soccer’s premier Spice Girl, but more were aware of Nick Leyden’s cross-dressing tendencies, and everybody had heard about Tiff’s harrowing experiences behind the wheel.

In our class, Aki’s always the kid that dresses well, Derek and Jake the ones that are perpetually smiling, and Gilbert’s always into a computer game. Ben Marsh, when he finally talks, is full of dry humor, Jim full of passion for politics and Planson full of criticism for them. We found that Jen is attentive and observant, and Lisnik mellow and competitive.

Jun Sato

Liz Patry

Nick Leyden

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Susie Smith

Dave Lisnik

Jen Orne

Nick Planson

Jim Fossel

Ben Marsh

Chris Gilbert

Galen Wall

Amy Bolger

Jay Calderbank

rom junior year, we took away observations, storing them for later use, which ended up being the following autumn. We came into our senior year ready to utilize our strengths as a class. Suddenly, our class meetings seemed organized. The white noise didn’t disappear entirely, but decreased when someone spoke, and was supplemented by helpful comments from once non-participatory students.

During Orientation, we were already utilizing the facts we had gathered when Dwayne exhibited his competence with a razor. As the entire upper school looked on, he wielded his tools well in order to widen Mr. Leyden’s bald spot. He couldn’t help a toothy giggle as he watched the Assistant Headmaster run his hands over his newly-shaved skull. All this Mr. Leyden had to endure, and all for being a few minutes late. The student body got the message, and was highly entertained. It was going to be a good year.

Only days later, as the Proctors announced the new Dorm Visitation policy, we again dug into our wealth of information concerning our fellow seniors. Part of our skit required a girl hidden in a hockey bag, and who better to play the part but the transvested Nick Leyden.

With very little coaxing, he donned his favorite apparel and hopped in the bag.

Our new seniors must have wondered what they were getting into. With the combination of a bald administration, the early onset of dorm fever, and Hebron standards like Ms. Reedy singing “I Love Trash” in morning meeting, boarding school life was a jolt. Luckily, our new classmates brought their own odd senses of humor, their own idiosyncrasies.

To begin the year, our class hopped on two school buses, missing a day of classes, and headed to the beach.

For many of us, this was the first chance we’d had to get to know our new classmates. However, the people who were new to Hebron weren’t having any trouble infiltrat-

Nourah Al-Hassoun

Robin Charest

Mike Grasso

ing our familiar groups: the same class that had been skeptical of freshman newcomers was now accustomed to the flow of Hebron from year to year. Like a river, as we flowed down from the mountains to the sea that day, we accepted our many new tributaries.

Accustomed to the flow, we were ready to embrace Susie, with her fur coats, her gold bangles and her spunk, Galen, prepped out when the rest of us were in sweat pants, and always with something nice to say, Amy, with her stubborn inability to go to class, and always with something to say, and Jay, with his slow drawl and mellow appreciation for life.

Nourah bought us a new cultural perspective, and her own quiet strength; Robin his honest openness, and many stories to our collection. With Grasso and Morse, we became a 3-hockey goalie class, and gained guys good-natured enough to be called Guido and Jammin’.

We gained McCourt’s unworried presence; Bronwyn, with her seeming innocence; Matthias, known in Sturtevant as the German Connection; and Andy Sloat, Hebron’s own strong-man and track champ.

On that day at the beach in September, we left Ossy and Benoit, Max, Lanoie and François in class, for only later were we to gain their pride, joviality, athleticism and quiet assurance. The group that did come began to unmask for each other. At the same time that we told stories from other times, we took account of the stories that we would tell later.

till taking ourselves less-than-seriously, our determination to begin and continue came at the point when we started to use each other, in the most positive sense of the phrase; for our strengths as a class are the same personal strengths that I’ve already mentioned. This is a class made up of individuals, within a school made up of individuals. Our class’s strengths are a link of the chain that makes up Hebron’s

Jake Bissonnette

Derek Marquis

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Nick Planson and his mom.

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Nourah Al-Hassoun and her parents.

Aki Negishi wore Japanese traditional dress.

Ben Morse

Jon McCourt

Bronwyn Hart

strengths. Our chapter is just one in a book of stories, which are connected by the themes we know so well: Young people coming to the woods with no intention of “living deliberately,” complaining about the cold, about the snow, and about running the 4-mile loop for the 32nd time… about the food, about their teachers, about their work, about their boredom and their lack of freedom.

However, during a unique and shining moment, these complaints can be torn away to reveal the process going on at this school way-up-in-Maine. We are learning to live deliberately. We come to appreciate the closeness of people rather than our activities with them. We come to appreciate our families when we go home to them, and learn a little more about ourselves every time we get frustrated. We learn to think through our actions, for we do have effect. Living in a dorm, we learn to overlook the differences between us, and compromise on the small things… our shower time, the length of our phone conversations or sharing our possessions. As day students, because we have different nationalities in our classrooms, we must explain ourselves in clearer English and think through what we’re trying to say a little more effectively.

As international students, we learn to stretch our patience when the phone is being used for a local call, when we have to find the English words, when people don’t like us to speak our own languages.

Every day, we learn something new, and discover again and again that each one of our lives is an adventure. Having finished with the Hebron chapter for now, we venture out of the Maine woods, carrying what we have learned from this place and from each other.

I fear that some of what I have said today may lack a common theme. I worry that some of it may be imprecise, and that some of what I have said may not be in the ideal words. But all of what I have said comes from a genuine feeling, sometimes an almost physical sensation of what it has meant to be a part of this class, and of this community.

I have written these words drifting in and out of sleep, during snatches of time taken out of my day, and

Larry Bilodeau and Elizabeth Patry.

Tias Walter

Andy Sloat

Kevin Osborne

Benoit Morasse-Welsh

in the back seat of a classmate’s car in Minot thirteen minutes before study hall on a Sunday night.

Max Isabel

hese words have been written in the midst of a Hebron life, just as the fuel that feeds these thoughts comes in the midst of that life. To begin and continue requires a focus beyond that created by arranging a desktop or campaigning for silence. The focus is not apparent. It hides behind our indifference and finds a place in our humor.

It is a force that connects the aspects of our lives, and enables us to create a full circle, collecting the themes and organizing them into a cohesive group. The focus is the unity of all the aspects of our selves, as well as the unity of those around us.

Living in this community, we have learned to make connections. No one here is simply an athlete, simply a scholar or simply an outdoorsman. In the same way, no one here has a class of students they don’t know, or a teacher who doesn’t know them. Both personally and socially, we have learned to connect. We have learned to develop every side of ourselves: to begin at the beginning and continue beyond our expectations. Silently, our class has advanced ourselves… and suddenly we have continued to a point when we have accomplished a milestone.

Today, we are at the widest point in the river, and tomorrow we will go beyond the mouth, leaving our quantifiable flow for the over and undercurrents of the sea. I leave you now with the notion that each of has the ability to form a unified whole within the vastness of what we are moving into. Each of us will carry this ability away from Hebron with apparent unconcern, ready to add our undulations to the whole of the ocean.

Thank you and congratulations to my class, the Class of 2001.

Anaïs Alexandria Wheeler President, Class of 2001

Ms. Robinson ’95 and Shauna Laliberté.

Mr. Domingue and Cup winner Anaïs Wheeler.

Laurent Lanoie

François Laviolette

Michael Grossman

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eginning with this issue, the Semester will appear twice each year, summer and winter. We hope that this new publication schedule will help us expand our Class Notes section. You can help by sending us your news! Drop us a note, send an e-mail or pick up the phone. Send your news to: Beverly Roy Alumni/ae Secretary Hebron Academy PO Box 309 Hebron ME 04238 207-966-2100 ext. 266 broy@hebronacademy.org

From California, Cornelia Herrington Trudeau writes, “I wish my magic carpet wasn’t so tattered and torn—so I could fly in for a visit.”

1931 SEVENTIETH

1933 Class Agent: Newell F. Varney HCR#64, Box 900, Brooklin ME 04616 207-359-2162 wynvarney@hypernet.com Gordon Young writes, “Lest we forget James F. Dow from the County was the first Army Air Corps pilot to die in World War II. Bangor’s Dow Field (now Bangor International Airport) was named for him.

Bless him.”

1935

Looking Back Looking Forward Friday, October 5 Saturday, October 6 Sunday, October 7

A celebration of friendship and the Academy.

Reunions for the Classes of:

1921 • 1926 • 1931 • 1936 • 1941 • 1946 • 1951 • 1956 • 1961 • 1966 • 1971 • 1976 • 1981 • 1986 • 1991 • 1996 Please plan to join us. www.hebronacademy.org

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Harold Pearl writes, “Happy and healthy in retirement—seven months in Naples, five months in Quincy, MA.”

1936 S I X T Y- F I F T H

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Class Agent: Robert R. Ward PO Box 77, Moody ME 04054 207-646-7464 rbward@cybertours.com

1937

retired publisher of The Bridgton News came from Bridgton, ME; and William C. Tannebring, a retired dentist came from Beverly, MA.”

movie Series 7: The Contenders. You may have seen her in the 1991 movie The Silence of the Lambs; she was the girl in the pit.

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1947

Class Agent: David Christison 7116 Cypress Creek Lane Charlotte NC 28210 704-556-7622 dciabsh@aol.com

Class Agent needed!

To volunteer, call Ellen Augusta, Director of Annual Giving, at 207-9662100, ext. 231, or e-mail her at eaugusta@hebronacademy.org

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1948

Class Agent: Ed Simonds 4 Cammock Road Scarborough ME 04074 207-883-5834

Class Agent: Amory Houghton 34 Gables Drive, Yarmouth ME 04096 207-846-8942

1940 Class Agent: Gerald M. Tabenken 77 Arrowhead Cir., Ashland MA 01721 508-881-0600

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1949 Class Agent: Herbert Black 102 Cornell Drive, PO Box 1432 Dennisport MA 02639 508-394-8321 hablack2@capecod.net

Class Agent: Norman A. Cole PO Box 116, Sebago Lake ME 04075 207-787-3525 ncolseba@aol.com

Bob Rich writes, “During the course of my business career I had been to some 45 countries but never to South Africa, which was still on my list of places to visit. Aside from riding the luxury Blue Train, we visited the world-reknowned Kirstenbosch Botannical Gardens in Cape Town, went on a game viewing safari seeing elephants, rhinos, hippos, giraffes, buffaloes, lions and leopards in their natural surroundings and finished up by horseback riding for three days in the bush. Great country and nice people, notwithstanding the social and economic problems still prevalent and left over from apartheid.”

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Class Agent: John A. MacDonald, Jr. 121 Eben Hill Rd., Yarmouth ME 04096 207-846-3583 • judymacd@aol.com

1942

Class Agent needed!

To volunteer, call Ellen Augusta, Director of Annual Giving, at 207-9662100, ext. 231, or e-mail her at eaugusta@hebronacademy.org

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1950

Class Agent: Gene Smith 7 Kingswood Drive Orangeburg NY 10962 914-359-7454 • zachplum@aol.com

Class Agent: Richard H. Lancaster 68 Columbia Avenue Brunswick ME 04011 207-725-6075

We recently received the following note from Henry Shorey: “Eighteen members of the Class of 1937 entered Bowdoin College the following September. Nearly all were from New England, primarily Maine and Massachusetts, indicating how little consideration was given to ‘diversity’ in those days.

Five from that number were in attendance for the 60th Reunion of the [Bowdoin] Class of 1941 held in Brunswick, May 30–June 3, 2001. Clinton (Freemont) Merrow, a retired senior investigator for the State of New York came from Bradenton, FL; Robert G. Page, a retired executive of Leesona Corp came from Carefree, AZ; E. Harold Pottle, Jr., a retired executive of Olin Corp. came from Overland Park, KS; Henry A. Shorey,

David Cates writes, “Jan and I have just returned from a cruise to the western Caribbean on the Holland America line.

The ports visited were: Playa del Carmen/Cozumel, Mexico; Georgetown (Grand Cayman Islands); Ocho Rios, Jamaica; and Half Moon Cay. Very enjoyable cruise.” ■ Joseph Holman writes, “I commenced my law practice in Farmington, joining my father, Currier C. Holman, in 1951, and I am still here full time. However, I will try to get more fly fishing in this year if I can. I often recall the wonderful year I had at Hebron 1942–1943, and feel grateful I was able to go there.” ■ Gene Smith’s daughter Brooke has been in the news lately. She’s starring in the

1951

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Class Agent: Edward L. Ruegg PO Box 242, North Haven ME 04853 207-867-4472 rueggnh@midcoast.com October to May: PO Box 3111, Carefree AZ 85377 602-488-5004 rueggcarefree@worldnet.att.net Jim Good writes, “See you at the Reunion!”

class notes 1952 Class Agent: Philip H. Montgomery 14 Ragged Mountain Road Camden ME 04843 207-236-8406 yodeler2@email.msn.com Richard Robbins writes, “Currently serving as president and CEO of the Woodmont Country Club, Inc. Woodmont is a 1250member private country club with two 18hole golf courses and 20 har-true tennis courts. We have three restaurants, swimming pool and 36,000 square foot clubhouse. Also currently serving on the Tamarac Board of Adjustment.”

1953 Class Agent: Dean E. Ridlon 225 Nehoiden Street Needham MA 02494 781-444-5736 Bernard Miller writes, “Nothing has changed—just getting older by the minute.

Nine healthy grandchildren—four children and spouses. Parents Abe (93+) and Frieda (88+) still on this earth and enjoying it.”

1954 Class Agent: Bruce J. Spaulding 14215 Kellywood Lane Houston TX 77079 713-493-6663 bjay42635@aol.com

1955 Class Agent: Richard J. Parker 2 Vision Drive, Natick MA 01760 rparker@mtra.com William Thompson writes, “Daughter Julie is back in Maine in my place—at Bowdoin College where she’ll likely be class of ’03.”

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Class Agent: Paul F. Drouin Remax, 104 Pleasant Street Hyannis MA 02601 508-790-7900 Richard Cutter writes, “I am now in my fourth year living in Exeter and I am very happy here. I am also in my second year as president of the American Independence Museum (volunteer). This center is primarily an education center but the museum complex is great. Come visit us this summer!” ■ Kenneth Mortimer will become

a senior scholar at the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems after he retires from his current post as president of the University of Hawai’i.

1957 Class Agent: S. Mason Pratt, Jr. 3 Storer Street, Portland ME 04102 207-774-0079 mpratt@PierceAtwood.com

1958 Class Agent: Leonard C. Lee 3450 Marigold Dr., Prescott AZ 86305 520-778-4631 leel@pr.erau.edu Norman Farrar writes, “Still retired, for those of you who have not, I highly recommend it. Major problem is too many things to do and not enough time. My wife, Sandy, died last year from a rare bone marrow cancer. Very sad to lose her. Still playing ice hockey; broke 2 more ribs this year.”

1959 Class Agent: Bernard L. Helm 1502 West Thomas Street Rocky Mount NC 27804 252-985-7601 Hebron59@aol.com Paul Dahlquist writes, “In February I retired from my position as president and executive director of the Lyman Museum.

Charlene and I then went on a safari to East Africa. Now I am relaxing, catching up on all those things long left undone, and playing a lot of golf.”

1960 Class Agent: John H. Halford, III 472 High Rock Street Needham MA 02494 781-444-1852 sfhalf@aol.com Joseph Godard writes, “Have joined the staff of Stanly Memorial Hospital (Albemarle NC) as a full time/part time radiologist, working every third week and loving it!”

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Class Agent needed!

To volunteer, call Ellen Augusta, Director of Annual Giving, at 207-9662100, ext. 231, or e-mail her at eaugusta@hebronacademy.org

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1962 Class Agent: Gordon M. Gillies, Esq. Hebron Academy Hebron ME 04238 207-966-3131

Board of Visitors Meets in April

Shell Evans was recently honored at a dinner celebrating his retirement after 17 years as CEO of Crane Co. His accomplishments included significantly outperforming the S&P 500, a genius for corporate leadership and financial acumen. He will continue as chairman of Crane.

1963

Board of Visitors chair Phil Smith ’49 ran the meeting.

Class Agent: Will Harding 41 Mitchell Hill Road, Lyme CT 06371 860-434-1418 Winter Residence: 4500 Clear Lake Dr., Gainesville, FL 32607 352-378-2540

1964 Class Agent: John R. Giger 152 Whiley Road, Groton MA 01450 978-448-9628 (before 9:00 p.m.) john.giger@ascend.com

Gerry Tabenken ’40 and trustee Molly Turlish tour the campus with Seth Conger ’02 and Nina Vrana ’02

Tom Hull was recently back in the USA for the graduation of his daughter Kirsten from Dickinson College. He has moved to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he is deputy chief of mission of the American Embassy.

1965 Class Agent: Greg Boardman 697 Union St., Duxbury MA 02332 781-837-1925 gpbboardman@cs.com

1966 T H I R T Y- F I F T H

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The new Lepage Wellness Center was a highlight of the campus tour.

Seen here are tour guides Jamie Fey ’02 and Kyle Van Dingstee ’02 with Sharon Lake-Post ’83, Bep Morse ’39 and Bernard Helm ’59.

Class Agent: Harvey L. Lowd 3004 Redford Drive Greensboro NC 27408 336-545-3422 hlowd@ksallc.com John Buschmann is looking forward to the 35th reunion at Homecoming this fall. He reports that skiing and snowshoeing were the best this winter and kept him in shape for the American Lung Association of Maine’s bike trek across Maine in June.

This was John’s fifth bike trek since 1991.

Another highlight of the day was this student panel composed of members of the junior class. From left to right: Brittany Coward, Collin Orcutt, Emily Geismar, Tim Valenti, Byron Bouchard and Chris Dyer.

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Marriages 1979 Laurie Shaver and Andy Correll in October 2000.

1994 Jasmine Tamaya and Ben Bratter on August 6, 2000, in Viña del Mar, Chile.

New Arrivals

Class Agent needed!

To volunteer, call Ellen Augusta, Director of Annual Giving, at 207-9662100, ext. 231, or e-mail her at eaugusta@hebronacademy.org Colonel John Baker writes, “Two sons have followed me into the Army: 1st Lieutenant Andrew Baker (USMA ’99) and 2nd Lieutenant Ted Baker (University of Virginia ’01). Daughter Molly rowed for Virginia in the 2001 NCAA crew championship regatta.”

1968

1973 To Megan Shea and Cy Cook, a son, Eben Shea Cook, born June 20, 2000.

1981 To Margaret Schoeller and Kate Perkins, a son, Jackson Schoeller Perkins, on June 19, 2000.

Class Agent: Robert L. Lowenthal, Jr. 107 Knickerbocker Rd. Pittsford NY 14534 716-586-8528 blowenthal@cnbank.com klowent1@rochester.rr.com

1969

1985 To Megan and Jack McIntyre, a son, Jackson, on February 13, 2001.

Class Agent: Jonathan G. Moll 536 Bair Road, Berwyn PA 19312 610-296-9749 caribjon@aol.com

1987

1970

To David and Ann Snyder Mooradian, a daughter, Sarah Mae, on December 21, 2000.

1989 To Kim and Charlie Seefried, a son, Cameron Boyce Seefried, born May 31, 2001.

1990 To Christopher and Cathy Fritz Cook, a son, Trevor Allen Cook, on November 3, 2000.

To Clayton and Sybil Newton King, a son, Willem Davis King, born November 23, 2000.

1994 To Marie Quirk, a son, Anthony, on December 5, 1999.

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1972 Class Agent: Stephen R. Gates 44 Cutler Road, Andover MA 01810 978-470-1547 StephenRGates@msn.com Kenneth Childs writes, “I’m preparing to return to work after a two-month sabbatical, most of which I spent traveling through Nepal and India with my youngest stepson.” ■ Rebecca Webber presented a four-hour seminar on employment law to the central Maine Human Resources Association in March. The seminar covered subjects such as wage and hour issues, reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, unemployment and the Maine Human Rights commission process.

1973 Class Agent: G.M. Nicholas Carter 59 Wesskum Wood Road Riverside CT 06878 203-698-1420 nick521@aol.com

Class Agent: J. Craig Clark, Jr. PO Box 209, Rindge NH 03461 603-899-6103 nx1g@top.monad.net

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1974

1988

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Class Agent: Harvey A. Lipman Orb Management 421 Hudson St., New York NY 10014 212-243-1320 ext. 248 harveylipman@hotmail.com Douglas Gordon writes, “I changed firms early in 2000 and started to commute into NYC. The new firm is larger with headquarters in San Francisco, CA, and offices in three other countries. The work (architecture) is similar but the exposure and support much broader.” Douglas and his wife are hoping to make the trip to Hebron for the Class of 1971’s 30th reunion at Homecoming this fall. ■ Harvey Lipman is looking forward to the 30th reunion at Homecoming. He is now working for Orb Management, Ltd., a venture capital company in New York city. He reports that his job takes him all over, most recently to China. He is now working on a tuna farm project in Mexico and squeezing in spare

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Cy Cook writes, “I am still teaching English and, after a two year break, will be returning to the dean’s office at Choate Rosemary Hall.” ■ Bob Thompson is a pilot with Delta Air Lines and lives with his two sons (12 and 15) and fiancée in Melbourne, FL.

To Laurie and Michael Callahan, a son, Thomas James, on July 17, 2000.

To Paul and Tracy Jenkins Spizzuoco, a daughter, Sarah Anne, on March 4, 2001.

time interests such as amateur radio, barbershop singing and hiking the Appalachian Trail.

Class Agent: Alan G. Norris 7515 Collins Meade Way Kingstowne VA 22315 703-922-0141 AGNorris@LMUS.LeggNason.com

1975 Class Agent: Ellen L. Augusta Hebron Academy, Hebron ME 04238 207-966-2100 eaugusta@hebronacademy.org Jessica Feeley writes, “Time surely does march on. Our 25th Reunion last fall was great. Sorry so many didn’t make it. Not only did that event mark my age, but son Pat graduated from high school in June. So now we have him in college while Micaela starts high school. It’s scary, but inevitable.”

■ Michael Geiger was recently promoted to vice president of sales of the promotional products group at Geiger.

REUNION

Class Agent: C. Reed Chapman 83 Zion-Wertsville Rd. Skillman NJ 08558 609-333-0302 reed.chapman@bms.com Reed Chapman writes, “Looking forward to our 25th Reunion over Columbus Day weekend.”

1977 Class Agent: Carolyn E. Adams 75 Baynard Cove Road Hilton Head Island SC 29928 803-363-6720 cadams@hargray.com

1978 Class Agent: Geoff Clark 79 Bramhall St. 2A, Portland ME 04102 207-772-8005 gjclark@email.msn.com Congratulations to Nancy Briggs Marshall and Marshall Communications Inc., recently named the recipient of the 2000 Margaret Chase Smith Maine State Quality Award for Level I, Commitment. Nancy accepted the award on behalf of the company at the 10th annual Margaret Chase Smith Maine State Quality Award Celebration in Augusta. ■ Forbes MacVane and his family have left the United Kingdom and returned to the United States where Forbes is now the commanding officer at the Naval Security Group Activity in Sugar Grove, WV. He reports that the base is about 600 acres and borders the George Washington National Forest.

1979 Class Agent: B. Tucker Thompson 749 Princes Point Road Yarmouth ME 04096 207-846-4175 tuckerthompson@compuserve.com Laurie Shaver Correll reports that she has been working at Wildware Outfitters for over 13 years. She has been in touch with Laurie Willey Thompson and Charlie Watters over the past year, “thanks to the wonder of e-mail. Burns and Skiff: are you out there?” ■ Brag Shields writes, “I am currently practicing architecture in a small firm in Seattle. The San Juan Islands remind us a great deal of Maine. Our two year old daughter Parlin is wonderful!”

class notes 1980 Class Agent: Judith Hill Whalen 443 MacKenzie Way, Franklin TN 37064 615-599-2644 jjwhalen@bellsouth.net Lynne Holler reports that living in South Portland is great. She is working at Whitten Architects, a firm that does high-end residential work. ■ Marty McLellan writes, “Currently employed at MaineGeneral Health in Augusta and Waterville as integration manager. Wife Michell works at L.L. Bean. Have two boys: Terrance, age 9, and Patric, age 12. Both boys play football, basketball and lacrosse. I am also online at wmclellan@mainegeneral.org.

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Class Agent: Mark L. Stevens 215 Melrose Street Auburndale MA 02466 617-969-7431 mstevens@LocateUs.com

hoping to help his wife Ronda expand her pottery business, also in Denville. ■ Rachel Stephenson Tribuzio writes, “I’m an athome mobther who works two days a week as a children’s therapist in Bangor. This seems to be a great balance. When I am home with Lauren (4 1⁄2), Michael (2 1⁄2) and Megan (2 1⁄2) I am always on the go and always tired at night. Motherhood has been my most challenging job yet—one that I’m not even sure Hebron prepared me for!

Hello to all my classmates, especially Karen Thorburn.”

1983 Class Agent: Debra Beacham Bloomingdale 2 Haddow Road, Rockport MA 01966 978-546-9123 ad_bloom_2000@yahoo.com Anna Ader writes, “Still working as a teacher of the blind and visually impaired.

I took a leave of absence from my job at Questar III BOCES and got my masters within 8 months at Western Michigan, located in Kalamazoo. I loved the midwest and the Blind Rehabilitation Department at WMU. Greetings to everyone!”

Kevin and Dawn Phillips Cyr have four sons: Jesse, Calen, Thomas and Nathaniel.

Kevin works for L.L. Bean. ■ Kate Perkins says work is going great. You can check out the latest at www.mcd.org by selecting “domestic programs”, “turning point” and then “Public Health Improvement Plan.” ■ Alexandra Warren writes, “Greetings to fellow classmates! Husband David Martin and I are enjoying life with our almost-twoyear-old daughter, Rebecca. We are hoping to make it to the 20th reunion and hoping to see some old friends there.”

Class Agent: Deborah Schiavi Cote 18 Little Androscoggin Drive Auburn ME 04210 207-784-1590 debscote@yahoo.com

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Class Agent: Eric T. Shediac 20 Grove Street, Apt. 33 Somerville MA 02144 617-623-4719 shediachouse@aol.com

Class Agent: Joy Dubin Grossman c/o D&T Spinning, Inc. PO Box 467, Ludlow VT 05149 802-228-2925 jshalom@sover.net Tucker Cutler reports, “My wife Gina and I still reside in Charlestown, NH. I am pursuing a special educator’s certification. Mike Wolfe gave me a call; we have some catching up to do. And I look forward to 2002 to catch up with the rest of the class of 1982.”

■ Joy Dubin Grossman writes, “The Grossman family is well and quite busy these days. We visit with the Mackenzie family quite often. Our children—Hallie, Caroline and Eli—look forward to visiting Hebron for our 20th. Hope all is well for everybody. I received a call from Karen Harding. She is well and looking forward to visiting for our reunion.” ■ Bob Greaves recently started a new position in emergency medicine with St. Clare’s Health Services in Denville, NJ, and is

1984

1985

Be sure to tune in to “Jeopardy” on September 17 to catch Julie Chase in action! ■ Nat Harris was promoted to senior marketing representative at Maine Mutual Fire Insurance Co.

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Class Agent: Carl Engel 7 Gerring Road, Gloucester MA 01930 978-283-1201 drcarl@nschiro.com Tony Cox reports that all is going well with his house renovation in Topsham. He is still in human resources at L.L. Bean and looking forward to seeing everyone at the 15th reunion!

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Looking Back

Class Agent: Catherine Thoman Crowley 91 Central Park West #13F New York NY 10023 212-580-0465 rcrowley@nyc.rr.com Chris Pinchbeck was recently featured on the Maine PBS show “True North.” The show aired on June 30; Hebronians in the viewing area should check their television listings for the rerun! And one of Chris’s photos (see the feature on page 16) will be part of an exhibit from November 15, 2001 through January 18, 2002, at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.

1988 Class Agent: Matt McDonough Hebron Academy, Hebron ME 04238 207-966-2145 mcdonoughm@hebronacademy.org Kevin and Trisha Millett Fletcher recently received the Top Team award for their production in closed sales for 2000 from Coldwell Banker Millett Potvin Realty. ■ Torsten Heldt sends greetings to Paul Emerson ’87, Tom Murphy, the family Campbell and Mr. Stonebraker. ■ Ann Snyder Mooradian reports that she and her family will be moving to Maryland in June. ■ Meredith Tarr writes, “If any local (CT) alumni/ae like live music, I would love to see folks at any of the events I produce: my “LIve at the House O’Muzak” living room concert series in New Haven (www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html) or Ectofest in Danbury (www.ectofest.org), which will be on August 25 this year. The latter is a benefit for the Danbury Women’s Center.

Would love to hear from Deb DionKirschner and Sarah Wagner!”

1989 Class Agent: M. Hayes McCarthy PO Box 1412, North Falmouth MA 02556 508-564-6877 hayesmvp@capecod.net Jim Jenkins graduated from the MBA program at the University of Montana in May.

1990 Class Agent: Jim Hill 300 N. Ashland Avenue Park Ridge IL 60068 847-698-0560 Laurie Huntress is graduating from a family practice residency in Bangor and mov-

Looking Forward Friday, October 5 Saturday, October 6 Sunday, October 7

A celebration of friendship and the Academy.

Reunions for the Classes of:

1921 • 1926 • 1931 • 1936 • 1941 • 1946 • 1951 • 1956 • 1961 • 1966 • 1971 • 1976 • 1981 • 1986 • 1991 • 1996 Please plan to join us. www.hebronacademy.org

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eginning with this issue, the Semester will appear twice each year, summer and winter. We hope that this new publication schedule will help us expand our Class Notes section. You can help by sending us your news! Drop us a note, send an e-mail or pick up the phone. Send your news to: Beverly Roy Alumni/ae Secretary Hebron Academy PO Box 309 Hebron ME 04238 207-966-2100 ext. 266 broy@hebronacademy.org

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H A Letter from the Black Sea Editor’s Note: Every so often we get a long letter from Barbara Zewe ’97, who was an exchange student at Hebron during the 1995–1996 school year.

After returning to Germany and finishing school Barbara entered a maritime training program and has been living and working at sea for several years now. Barbara recently heard from Josh Burnell ’98 who is in Germany, and hopes that Tracy Verrill ’01 will be able to visit in August. (The Verrills were Barbara’s host family during her year at Hebron.) Here are some excerpts from a recent letter.

I am back on the Reefer vessel White Sun. I’m on a six month contract in the rank of officer assistant but I’m actually doing the work of a third mate. Right now we are on the way from Norway to Ukraine to discharge 3500 tons of frozen fish. Since we are in the tramp business nobody knows where we are going after this voyage. I just hope our charterer from New York city will send us to a warmer place like South America. Our Filipinos turn to ice cubes as soon as we reach the 32° mark.

Yesterday we were passing Istanbul and the Bosporus. It was the first and only warm day since I have been on the vessel. Of course there was no chance of wearing shorts in the drydock of Gdansk, Poland. And the temperatures in Norway reminded me several times of the cross-country skiing season 1995–1996 in Hebron when we were close to freezing our toes off several times.

With the crew I’m going along fairly well, even though I’m the only German (and only woman) on board.

The German captain had just left for a three month vacation when I joined.

Now we have a Polish captain, two Croatians and a lot of Filipinos. Of course we only talk in English.

I’m on watch again from 8:00 p.m. until midnight but this won’t be it.

We’ll be alongside at 3:00 a.m. if we are lucky and then we’ll have customs and immigration come on board. Our agent told us they expect us to start discharging at 6:00 a.m. This means a 20-hour working day again.

I hope we’ll get to the U.S. during the next five months. Chances are pretty good. This vessel has been to Wilmington, Philadelphia, Miami or some port in California several times.

Barbara Zewe ’97 March 2001

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ing to North Conway, NH, to join a practice there.

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Class Agent: Meredith L. Robinson Hebron Academy Hebron ME 04238 207-966-2100 mrobinson@hebronacademy.org

Class Agent: Brian Toole Class of 2003 PO Box 11052 Annapolis MD 21412

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Class Agent: Steven W. Williams 48 River Bank Terrace Billerica MA 01821 978-663-3926 Glenn Louisor is working for AT&T Solutions as a DBA and information protection manager. ■ Seguin Alison Spear writes, “Our law collective is extremely busy—we’re deluged with requests but haven’t had time to get revenue streams in order yet!”

1992 Class Agent: Matthew A. Arsenault 1036B NW 25th Street Corvallis OR 97331 marsenau@oce.orst.edu Margaret Murray is working for an organization called Women Waging Peace, a global network of women peacebuilders from over 25 areas of conflict, based at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (although Margaret works for Hunt Alternatives, a private foundation that is the major sponsor and organizer of the initiative). She says it is incredibly exciting work that has taken her all over the world, most recently to Paris, Guatemala and Asia. At press time she was organizing a conference in Kathmandu for 20 people from the region.

1993 Class Agent: Marko I. Radosavljevic 224 Somerset Lane Marlton NJ 08053 856-810-9011 mradosav@sol1.lrsm.upenn.edu Congratulations to Marko Radosavljevic who is finishing up his Ph.D. and will be relocating to Westchester County, NY, to work at IBM Research.

1994 Class Agent: Daniel C. Rausch 20 Summer Street, 1202N Malden MA 02148 781-388-0715 drausc01@emerald.tufts.edu Beth Norton is attending graduate school at the University of Maryland and living in Washington.

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We hear from his sister Margaret ’92 that Michael Murray will be starting medical school at his father’s alma mater, the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland. He recently spent a month traveling in Bangladesh and is now doing finish work at a wooden boat yard before heading off to school. ■ Krista Pfitzner Thurlow writes, “My husband and I live on Thompson Lake at Agassiz Village in Poland. We are caretakers of the camp; I am the office manager in the summer and working towards a B.S. in business at USM. Son Bradley is 4.”

1996 FIFTH

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Class Agent: Irakly Areshidze 345 Mt. Pleasant Street, N.W. Washington DC 20001 202-387-5914 irakly@alumni.middlebury.edu Matt Harmon and his wife are living in Philadelphia. Matt is pursuing his M.Div. at Westminster Seminary; Rebecca is working on her doctorate in French at UPenn. ■ Sarah Kutzen is living and working in New York city where she is a marketing coordinator at a “brand communications” agency.

1997 Class Agent needed!

To volunteer, call Ellen Augusta, Director of Annual Giving, at 207-9662100, ext. 231, or e-mail her at eaugusta@hebronacademy.org Congratulations to Audrey Barriault and Nick Bournakel who graduated from Bates College in early June and to Remy Maguire who earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of the South. ■ Geo Maher was named to the dean’s list at St. Lawrence University. ■ Michael Weingarten is a senior at George Washington University in Washington, DC, with a major in criminal justice.

Martin Bruno was named to the dean’s list at Tufts University. ■ Josh Burnell will be returning to the United States this summer after spending two years in Germany. He will be going to Fort Hood in Texas. ■ Tony Coates is at the University of Southern Maine and finding his accounting classes challenging and interesting. ■ Kirsten Ness will be a senior at Colby in the fall. She is majoring in biology and says she’s having a great time.

1999 Class Agent: Joe Patry 2201 Virginia Avenue Riverside Towers 904 Washington DC 20037 joepatry@gwu.edu John Gluek is attending Hobart and William Smith Colleges where he is playing on the Statesmen, Hobart’s varsity hockey team.

2000 Class Agent: Cori Hartman-Frey 483 Plains Road, Hollis ME 207-727-5283 mooksbear@hotmail.com We hear that James Corrigan completed his first year at Eugene Lang College in New York city. He is focusing his attention on creative writing and enjoying the New York arts scene. He and Noah Burns saw each other quite a bit during the year. ■ Gina Jacques was a member of the Wheaton College varsity softball team. ■ Amanda Murphy was named to the dean’s list at Hamilton College.

Former Faculty David Rice writes, “Dino is busy teaching early childhood music for Head Start, Triple E and local day cares. I am busy with teaching, planning commission, our daughter Becca’s 14 horses, and Susan’s son, Chris.

Dino and I play great gigs on harpsichord and harmonica.” ■ Charles Tranfield writes, “Except for the snow all well in lower NH. Work some math tutoring into our tennis, bridge and other goodies schedule.”

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Obituaries 1930

1937

Dr. Earle W. Pulsifer died May 22, 2001.

He was born in Abington, Massachusetts, a son of Dr. Walter H. and Edna Marden Pulsifer and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During World War II he served as assistant estimator for Bath Iron Works and damage control officer for the Atlantic seaboard. After the war, he returned to medical school, earning a dental degree from Tufts University, leading his class academically during three of his four years there. Dr. Pulsifer served as president of the Maine Dental Association during 1976 and 1977 and was secretary of the Mid-Coast Dental Society for 12 years. A member of the Academy of General Dentistry and the Pierre Fauchard Academy, he also was a member of the original group of professionals that set up the dental hygienist training program at Westbrook College.

Dr. Pulsifer was a co-founder of the Damariscotta Lake Association and the Congress of Lakes Association. He was a member of the Casco Bay and Wawenock Power Squadrons and the Masons, who presented him with a medal for 50 years of service. Dr. Pulsifer is survived by his wife of 60 years, Barbara Bailey Pulsifer; a son, Earle W. Pulsifer of Damariscotta; and a daughter, Judith Hunt of Newcastle.

Roy E. Carpenter of North Clarendon, Vermont, died April 3, 2001, in Edmond, Oklahoma, while visiting his daughter and son-in-law. He was born in Medford, Massachusetts, the son of Roy E. and Blanche Hamilton Carpenter.

Mr. Carpenter served his country for 24 years in the Army Air Corps and the Army Reserves, retiring in 1978 as a master sergeant. He worked in the engineering department of the New England Tel and Tel, and retired after 33 years of service. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Rutland, Vermont, and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Burlington when he lived in Colchester, from 1968–1983. He was a member of the Rutland Lodge #79, F & AM, for 58 years, a member of the Telephone Pioneers, an RSVP volunteer in Burlington, a 16-gallon Red Cross blood donor, and a member of the Green Mountain Boys. He enjoyed reading, fishing, hunting, boating, hiking, biking, campign and square dancing with the Rutland Squares and the Small City Steppers. Mr. Carpenter is survived by his wife of 60 years, Genevieve Arnesen Carpenter; a son, Roy E. Carpenter of Rutland; three daughters, Carolee Ferguson of Cuttingsville, Vermont, Susan Arquette of Syracuse, New York, and Lynne Benson of Edmond, Oklahoma; eleven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and a cousin, Helen Blow of Ellenburg, New York. He was predeceased by a brother, Neal, and sisters, Gertrude and Ruth.

1931 Newell J. Wilson died June 10, 2001. He was born in Bath and graduated from Morse High School before attending Hebron. In 1935 he earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Maine. In 1941, Mr. Wilson married Faye Jerome. He worked for Lincoln Electric Co., New York city, as a manufacturing sales representative for six months before volunteering for the Navy in 1942. After his commissioning, Mr. Wilson took charge of ship repair at Staten Island and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He left the Navy with the rank of lieutenant junior grade. He and his wife lived in Hillsdale, New Jersey, and he returned to work at Lincoln Electric and earned his M.B.A. at Fairleigh Dickinson.

The Wilsons purchased the historic Capt.

Cyrus McKown house on McKown Hill in Boothbay Harbor and turned it into the Topside Inn, which they owned for 37 years.

Mr. Wilson enjoyed sailing. He and his wife traveled to Europe, South America and the Caribbean. He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Linda Whynman of Bullville, New York; a half-brother, Hilton Mitchell of Cape Neddick; and three grandchildren.

1941 John W. “Bill” Peppard died March 2, 2001. A son of John Tufts and Mildred Collins Peppard, he spent his childhood on Vinalhaven Island. He graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in zoology and a master’s degree in wildlife management. In 1942 Mr. Peppard enlisted with the Marines. He served three years in the South Pacific as a platoon sergeant. He was in the initial landing of U.S. troops on Guam. He worked as a wildlife biologist for the Maine Fish and Game Department, where he was responsible for eastern Penobscot, Hancock and Washington counties. He became the department’s migratory game bird resarch leader in 1968, a job he held until 1972. Mr. Peppard was deputy commissioner of the department from 1972 until his retirement in 1982, and served as acting commissioner for three months in 1979. He was a member of

the Eddington school and planning boards, an original member and founder of the Eddington Volunteer Fire Department and a supporter of the East Eddington Community Church, where he served as a trustee. Mr. Peppard was a mason and belonged to the East Lodge in Old Town.

He was a member of the Penobscot County Conservation Association, the Penobscot Salmon Club and the Eddington Salmon Club. He was a member of the Eddington Grange, where he was past master. His pastimes were hunting and fishing, especially for Atlantic salmon, and gardening, cutting firewood and mowing his fields. He enjoyed spending time at his camp on Mopang Lake. Mr. Peppard is survived by his wife, Virginia “Ginny” Hager Peppard, to whom he was married for 54 years; two sons, Joshua and David; two daughters, Helen Dougherty and Martha Smith; and grandchildren.

Former

Giddings of Richmond; three brothers-inlaw; a sister-in-law; 15 grandchildren; seven step-grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; 16 step-great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Her husband, a brother-in-law, and two sisters who died at very young ages, predeceased her.

Other

Deaths

C. Gordon Higgins ’31, on May 17, 2001.

John T. Singer ’33 on February 4, 2000.

Norman G. Tardiff ’36 on February 24, 2001.

The Hon. Eben H. Lewis ’38 on October 26, 2000.

Dr. Caroll Ross ’40 on December 10, 2000.

William C. Blood ’41 on July 4, 2000.

Bruce R. Benson ’52 on March 20, 2001.

Staff

Helen Geneva Hatch Trundy died June 1, 2001, at her son’s home in Rumford. She was born in Minot, the daughter of Judson Merrill and Edith Wentworth Verrill Hatch.

She attended Minot schools, graduated from Buckfield High School in 1935 and attended Bates College. She married Wendall Trundy in 1936. In addition to caring for her husband and growing family, Mrs. Trundy helped run Hatch and Trundy Store in West Minot with her husband and father. She also worked at Portland Packing Co., West Minot, and at A.L. Stewart and Sons in South Paris. Her family largely grown, she worked in the administrative offices at Hebron Academy where she was responsible for maintaining the alumni/ae mailing list long before the days of computers. Mrs. Trundy was a member of the 4H and was a 4-H leader, and was active in the West Minot Grange #42, being the first Matron of the Junior Grange, the East Hebron Extension Group and the West Minot Sewing Circle. She was a member of the West Minot Union Church for almost 70 years. She loved fishing with her husband and gardening. She also enjoyed knitting and developed a tradition of crocheting an afghan for family wedding presents. She enjoyed traveling throughout the state, doing jigsaw and crossword puzzles and collecting stamps. Mrs. Trundy is survived by her daughter Barbara Durgin of Minot; five sons, Gerald Trundy of Unity, David Trundy of Gray, Walter Trundy of Hebron, Gregory Trundy of Rumford and James Trundy of Hebron; two sisters, Wilma Leighton of West Minot and Bernice

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Rogue Scholars

You’d better look out when these bad boys roar through the Hebron hills.

Like legendary headmaster Claude Allen before them, Paul “Born to be Mild” Brouwer, David “Easy Writer” Stonebraker and Gino “Leader of the Pack” Valeriani can often be seen rolling across campus raising their own brand of heck. Trust us, you don’t want to skip class or turn your homework in late when these three are on the loose!

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