Hebron Academy Semester | Fall 2007

Semester H E B R O N

FALL 2007

A C A D E M Y

Building a Legacy: Owner, Architect, Contractor

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departments 2 The Academy 32 Alumni et Alumnae 42 Hebroniana features

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The Owner Hebron athletics from the beginning

by Jennifer F. Adams

The Architect Meet SMRT’s Lynne Holler ’80

by David Inglehart

The Contractor Tour the site

by David W. Stonebraker

The annual Report of Giving begins after page 42

The campus shook this summer as Maine Drilling and Blasting prepared the site of the new athletic center.

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rom my office on the third floor of the Stanley Building, I have a perfect view of the western end of the new athletic center. I am fascinated by the progress, from the sudden vista created when trees were cleared last spring, to the piles of earth created by blasting this summer, to the current “tenting” so work can continue inside in the winter cold. The athletic center is phase one of the campus master plan that will eventually lead to the renovation of Sargent Memorial Gymnasium into a fine arts center, the addition of classroom and laboratory space to Treat Science Building, and the relocation of the student center to the basement of Sturtevant Home.

As this issue took shape, we structured the features to mirror the team in charge of the new building: the owner—Hebron Academy, the architect—SMRT, and the contractor—Warren Construction Group. This is a team in the best sense of the word. Each member spoke highly of the others, of the positive collaboration and problem-solving ethic shared, of simply enjoying their work together. Join us as we look back at 120 years of Hebron athletics, meet SMRT architect Lynne Holler ’80, and tour the construction site with Ken Hough of Warren Construction Group.

This is an exciting time for Hebron Academy; we hope you will celebrate with us at Homecoming in October.

Jennifer F. Adams, Editor jadams@hebronacademy.org

upcoming events F E B R U A RY

MARCH

9—Alumni/Parent hockey game at Robinson Arena, Hebron

1—Cohen Concert Series concert, Androscoggin Theater

9—Upper School Admission Open House 10—Founders Day; Hebron Academy turns 204!

18—Middle School Admission Visit Day 22 & 23—”Suessical,” Androscoggin Theater

29—Upper School Admission Revisit Day

2—Cum Laude Society induction 3—Parents’ Association Auction, Hebron

ON THE COVER

Topping the new athletic center with a beam signed by everyone in the Hebron Academy community.

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

Issue No. 200 MISSION

The Semester magazine’s mission is to continue the Hebron family’s intellectual and emotional engagement with the Academy by conveying news, preserving the heritage and memories of the school and chronicling the accomplishments of its alumni, faculty and students.

EDITOR

Jennifer F. Adams E D I T O R I A L A S S I S TA N C E

David W. Stonebraker CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Susan R. Geismar David Inglehart P R O D U C T I O N A S S I S TA N C E

Ellen L. Augusta ’75 Penny S. Braley Beth Garza Leslie A. Guenther Michael S. Hughes PHOTOGRAPHY

James L. Bisesti Robert M. Caldwell William B. Chase Dennis and Diana Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios, Inc. Christine Hemmings David Inglehart Michael Munhall Robert P. Rich, Jr. ’49 and friends PRINTING AND MAILING

23—Baccalaureate

Maine Printing Company, Portland, Maine.

APRIL

24—Commencement

12—Cohen Concert Series concert, Franco American Heritage Center, Lewiston

OCTOBER

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.

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3 & 4—Homecoming 2008, Reunions for Threes and Eights

TBA—Reception at Portland Country Club

For more information, please call or e-mail Beth Garza at 207-966-5282, bgarza@hebronacademy.org or visit our web site: www.hebronacademy.org

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Topping Off T o those of us who live at school, the State of the Academy and the excitement of progress seem obvious. If you have not been back for a while, you may only remark on the color of our newly refurbished tennis courts. You probably will not notice our new septic system, Halford’s new roof, or the renovated dorm bathrooms; and you may

not find Schiavi House—our new faculty home—nestled in the woods above the school building and Long Cottage. You will recognize the spirit, personality and style of our 260 students, the largest school enrollment in many years, and celebrate our wonderful mix of students from 14 nations and 20 different states including Hawaii, Texas, California and Louisiana.

Of course the big dirt pile and giant trucks on the construction site behind Halford are the most obvious indicators that there is something new going on at Hebron. The first major construction we have undertaken in more than thirty years, the new athletic center is testament to confidence and commitment—of our Board of Trustees, many early and loyal donors, and the financial marketplace—in the stability and health of our Academy. When completed next fall, the multipurpose recreational facility will be a boon to our entire community, and even in con-

struction it has created a buzz of response in the independent school world and marketplace.

The new project is a metaphor for what we do at Hebron. We’ve taken to declaring that “we had a blast” all summer because campus shook daily as the ledge was blasted apart for the new foundation. That’s what we do at Hebron: we shake things up to get to firm bedrock, to the good kid inside each student, so that

each one starts the year on solid ground as we inspire and guide them to reach their individual highest potential in mind, body and spirit. We celebrate our championship football, soccer, hockey and lacrosse opportunities; we declair the Maine state mathematics champions, six Advanced Placement recognized scholars and Honor Scholars, three National Merit Commended students, and our nationally-recognized entrepreneurial studies; but we also champion our writing programs, study skills development and college readiness.

These are the Hebron success stories that so many of you graduates exemplify. Hebron is all about teachers helping students build their own self-confidence.

This fall, Steve Middleton’s Middle School History Detectives researched the school’s history and original documents in the archives to

present views of Hebron “then and now.” My office (the erstwhile library), the Reading Room and the church in a bygone day, all reflect change over decades and centuries.

At Hebron, we dare now to contemplate the next cycle of the Academy when what you see today will be the “Then” part of a future display. As the Board of Trustees affirmed and committed in their September meeting, we have a tremendous amount of work to do, funds to raise, and students to inspire to get there, and we will only be able to do it with your blessing and support.

On November 2 we celebrated another milestone in the evolving history of Hebron Academy. The topping ceremony is a tradition in the construction of a building: to celebrate the

placement of the highest steel at the top of the structure.

Over the last few months, we have watched Warren Construction, K & K Excavation, Sheridan Corporation, Newman Concrete, and many others, blast, dig, pour concrete, and now position steel to form the new athletic center. To see this every day gives us a deep respect for the teamwork and planning it takes to make a building.

Every member of the Hebron community, students, faculty staff and families signed the topmost beam before it was lifted into place, signifying all our parts in this big project. Everyone has helped to make this happen by coming to school here, by teaching and working here, by watching, by dealing with the inconvenience of the con-

struction, and by helping to plan what will be the building.

One year from now we will be taking our first lap on the running track, shooting the first hoop, lifting weights in the new fitness center, trying out the climbing wall, perhaps even playing a game of squash— enjoying the space where our whole community can exercise and play.

And 50 years from now when today’s students return for a reunion they will point to that beam and say, “My name is up there. I am a part of the future and the history of Hebron Academy.” That’s pretty neat!

Our current momentum began three years ago when we celebrated Hebron’s bicentennial. I said then that we were standing on the shoulders of the great people who made the school what it is today—the shoulders of Deacon William Barrows, of Claude Allen, of

Jay Woolsey—who dedicated their lives to the young people and teachers of this school. With their support, and yours, we are strengthening our collective shoulders to build a new threshold for the future generations of Hebron Academy, and we’re doing it on firm bedrock.

You are a vital part of Hebron’s continued success. Together, we are the extended family of the school, the human component of the long tradition that is Hebron Academy and gives context to its future. Thank you for what you have done and are doing to help our great school. GO HEBRON! John King Head of School

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Students Earn Academic Honors Commended Students Head of School John King is pleased to announce that Kayla Chadwick, Silas Leavitt, and Rosa Van Wie, all members of the senior class, were named Commended Students in the 2008 National Merit Scholarship Program. Mr. King presented a Letter of Commendation from the school and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), which conducts the program, to the students.

Recognized for their exceptional academic promise, Kayla, Silas and Rosa placed among the top five percent of more than 1.4

million students who entered the 2008 competition by taking the 2006 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

AP Scholars Named Mr. King also announced that six Hebron students have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level Advanced Placement (AP) program exams.

The College Board’s Advanced Placement program offers students the opportunity to take challenging college-level courses while still in

high school, and to receive college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP exams.

Students took AP exams in May 2007 after completing the courses.

About 18 percent of the more than 1.4 million high school students in more than 16,000 secondary schools worldwide who took AP exams performed at a sufficiently high level to merit the recognition of AP Scholar.

Katherine Cole ’07 and Kelsey Jordan ’07 qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least

3.25 on all AP exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. Katherine is attending Amherst College and Kelsey is at Mount Holyoke.

Four students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP exams, with grades of 3 or higher: Allison Maidman ’07 (now at New York University), Sara Powers ’07 (attending Bowdoin), Tae Hoh Park ’08 and Gabriel Rubinstein ’08.

Did You Know?

• Hebron Academy offers nine Advanced Placement courses • Several students are pursuing Independent Study AP courses • The average size of an AP class at Hebron Academy is nine students.

Be careful out there

Hebron Partners with Sheriff’s Office for Public Safety

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his fall marked a unique collaboration between the Hebron Academy and the Oxford County Sheriff’s Department to address traffic and pedestrian behaviors on Route 119 and Station Road, which pass through campus.

Recognizing the potential for pedestrian injuries in the area,

the Sheriff’s Office has designated Hebron Academy a Strategic Area Focused Enforcement (safe) zone, with plans to enhance signage on the approaches to campus and to conduct regular, periodic enforcement. As part of the initiative, Hebron’s Board of Trustees funded the purchase of an inter-

active sign which displays realtime feedback of vehicle speed.

“We’re very glad of our partnership with the Sheriff’s Office on this,” said Hebron Head of School John King, “and for the chance to address the safety of students throughout the county.”

Plans include a safety initiative focusing on enhanced enforcement and education of student pedestrians. “Teaching our students to be respectful of drivers is very much a part of the safety picture,” added Assistant Head Mike Munhall.

Assistant Head Mike Munhall, Oxford County Sheriff Wayne Gallant, Deputy Sheriff Darrell Tripp, Head of School John King and Assistant Head for Advancement Robert Caldwell during a presentation of the county’s new portable radar speed sign.

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On average, over 350 Hebron students and staff cross Route 119 each day, passing to and from residential, academic and athletic facilities located on either side of the highway.

The new interactive sign includes a radar device that indicates the speed of oncoming traffic in a large digital display, giving drivers immediate feedback on how fast they are going and reminding them of the posted limit. These signs have been shown to have a significant impact on drivers traveling above the speed limit.

Quipped Sheriff Wayne Gallant: “I’m in law enforcement, and even I instinctively back off the pedal whenever I see one.”

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I can see that you’ve got quite a mind for your age!

Why, one Think and you dragged me right onto the stage!

Now, I’m here, there is no telling what may ensue With a Cat such as me, and a Thinker like you!

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o says the mischievous Cat in the Hat at the onset of this fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza. Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie and all of the Whos of Whoville. These classic, colorful tales are tied together by Jojo, a young boy and “thinker of strange and wonderful thinks.”

The score is a Seussian gumbo of musical styles, ranging from Latin to pop, swing to gospel, and R&B to funk. Let your toes tap, your fingers snap, and your imagination run wild!

February 22 and February 23, 2008 Androscoggin Theater at Sargent Memorial Gymnasium

Robinson Arena Public Skating

Every Sunday November 4, 2007–March 9, 2008

2:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Adults: $2.00 Children 12 and under: $1.00 Children must be accompanied by an adult Absolutely no hockey sticks, pucks or other objects are allowed on the ice during this time.

Seventh Graders Rock Out In October, Hebron Academy’s seventh graders took a field trip to Bumpus Mine in Albany Township. Seabury Lyons of Bethel Outdoor Adventure led the two-hour guided tour.

Mr. Lyons began the tour by talking about the geology and mineralogy of the area as he passed out samples to the students.

They all donned hard hats and explored two of the caves where, for years, feldspar was mined. The students were shown how to look for rose quartz, black tourmaline and beryl, which is used for aquamarine. In fact, the largest piece of beryl ever mined was from Bumpus Mine, and it now sits in the Museum of Natural History in New York City. “This field trip was fun and educational from the start,” said science teacher Cynthia Reedy.

“Using simple and understandable analogies, Mr. Lyon clearly explained the complex geological history of the area and enthusiastically described the workings of the Bumpus Mine with memorable anecdotes. The students were so engaged that they didn’t want to leave when it was time to go!”

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Hebron Faculty to Climb Andes Peak

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s if working with teenagers weren’t challenge enough, three Hebron teachers will spend winter break testing their physical and emotional mettle. Jake Leyden ’99, Max Jones and Sarah Bryan are half of a team headed to the high Andes of Argentina to attempt to summit Mt. Aconcagua.

The Independent School Alpine Climbing Society (ISACS) was organized last spring by Jason BreMiller of The Taft School and is composed of six faculty members from four independent schools.

In addition to the three from Hebron, members include Ben Small from Choate Rosemary Hall, Clark Glenn from The Lawrenceville School, and Hebron alumna Kate Belanger ’98 from The Hill School.

(Organizer BreMiller is unable to participate for medical reasons.) ISACS has set aside three weeks to attempt the climb,

making allowances for extreme weather and altitude.

At 22,841 feet, Aconcagua is the tallest peak in the world outside of the Himalaya. It is located in western Chile, at roughly the same latitude as Buenos Aires.The climbers bring various levels of mountaineering experience to the effort, and all have been training for months. Kate joined the Hebron contingent in August to complete a training course with the American Alpine Institute on Mt. Baker in Washington State. There, the group practiced skills such as traversing glaciers, escaping crevasses and climbing with crampons. Training also included regular visits to the gym as well as running and hiking in surrounding mountain ranges.

Working together under the motto “Strive Higher,” ISACS members hope to conquer the many personal challenges involved in mountaineering, and demonstrate the importance of pursuing excellence, even when it is not easy. In addition to their symbolic efforts, the group is also raising money for Children International’s health and education efforts in a Chilean town about one hundred miles from the base of Aconcagua.

Spanish teachers Sarah Bryan and Jake Leyden ’99 with Latin teacher Max Jones (front) trained on Washington state’s Mount Baker in August.

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EntrePrep Summer Institute Draws 30 Last summer, Hebron Academy hosted the first EntrePrep Summer Institute, an intensive week-long immersion in entrepreneurship for rising high school juniors and seniors. Thirty students from all over the United States were able to take classes from college and university professors, benefit from adult mentors, and team up with fellow students to operate a “business-for-a-day” at the end of the week. The program was conducted by the National Council on Economic Education and funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Below is one participant’s account of his experience.

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very summer, in addition to working part time, I look for an activity outside of my school which will provide me with a unique learning experience. Past programs I have participated in include an AFS student exchange program in Latvia, Europe and the National Young Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C. I am writing to share my most recent summer experience, EntrePrep, a program designed to introduce high school students to entrepreneurial business principles and practices.

Last July I was one of thirty high school students to participate in this pilot program. We were a diverse group who represented many regions. In addition to the New England area, some of the participants came from North Carolina and Texas.

EntrePrep was interesting because it combined classroom theory with real-life application.

In class, we were introduced to the language of business and the

tools used to identify a need and then create a product to meet that need. Some of the concepts included the importance of an environmental scan, cash flow and financing, supply, marketing and sales. We applied these aspects of business by working in small teams to create business models and execute our ideas.

Successful business people served as mentors as the teams developed their business ideas.

The digital photo business created by my team is a great example of how we learned to create an idea and work to carry it through. First, I must admit that the digital photo business was not our original idea. My team wanted to create a coffee and pastry shop, but the start-up costs in addition to the inventory costs seemed too high for what we expected to receive in return.

We decided on the digital photo business because it required a minimal investment in equipment and supplies. We already owned digital cameras and the photo memory chips can be used multiple times. We also anticipated a high demand from our target audience, the students who participated in the EntrePrep program and their parents.

Our plan was not seamless.

We did not schedule adequate time to produce a final product and as a result, we did not have

any photographs to display while trying to sell our product. Parents seemed hesitant to pay for an item when they did not know what the finished product would look like. I am confident that two additional days to prepare a display and presentation would have resulted in us successfully selling our product. Our business was not a complete loss however, because we did sell some pictures and have some great mementos of our time together.

I entered this program with a genuine desire to learn new business concepts. The program successfully introduced me and others to practice the process of business. I look forward to the possibilities of entrepreneurship in the future.

Brooks Schandelmeier ’08

The 2008 EntrePrep Summer Institute will be held at Hebron Academy from July 13–20. For more information, visit www.entreprep.org

Two EntrePrep students try roadside marketing of their frisbee golf business.

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First Soccer Team Captain Returns for 50th Reunion From the 1957 Yearbook:

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ebron’s first Soccer team made Hebron sports history. Under the direction of Mr. West and with high spirit and enthusiasm, the Soccer team was able to record a six win and one loss record.

The drive of the experienced Spanish contingent, consisting of Chris MacPherson, Pat Tracey, Peter Giesemann, Rudi Von der Goltz, and Captain Dieter Nottebohm helped to get the Team under way, and to establish the spirit and desire to play top

notch soccer. By the end of the season this group recorded a total of 23 goals out of the 27 goals scored during the entire season.

After three weeks of hard work and apple eating Hebron opened its soccer history by defeating Kents Hill, 5 to 0, on the rival’s field. The Team dominated this game from start to finish, pouring 4 goals through in the first period.

On its own Greenwood Mountain field, the Big Green showed its power and skill by turning back Fryeburg Academy, Gorham State Teachers College,

Hebron’s first soccer team, with captain Nottebohm at center front. The team finished the season with a record of 6 wins and 1 loss.

and Falmouth High School. In these three games the Hebron booters scored a high total of 15 goals. In the next game at Fryeburg, the Team repeated its earlier victory by the same score of 3 to 0.

While playing perhaps the best game of the year, the Big Green fell to a rugged Colby College Soccer Club, 2 to 1, at Waterville. The Colby squad took an early lead but the Big Green fought back and after many close calls at the Colby goal Captain Nottebohm scored the only goal for Hebron.

Colby’s margin of victory was a successful penalty kick.

In the last game the Big Green closed the season as it had opened it, by defeating Kents Hill again.

Hebron’s first Soccer team was composed of a group of Team captain Dieter Nottebohm ’57 holds the ball commemorating Hebron’s inaugural soccer team.

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enthusiastic boys who loved the sport and worked together closely. The Spanish line with the aid of “Eduardo” Barry always kept up a strong attack, while the versatile Chris MacPherson anchored the defense at center half and kept the pressure on up front.

Flanking him were Jack Dewar and Bruce Ellis, new to soccer, but quick to pick up the game.

Kent Graham and Jim Harberson were two excellent fullbacks and Bob McCoy did a fine job as general utility man and in relief for the injured Harberson later in the season.

Dean Benson performed an excellent job as goal tender, with only 3 goals getting by him during the season.

Soccer’s introductory year at Hebron brought a large turnout, enthusiastic effort, a fine record, and a group of boys who were indeed proud to have been on Hebron’s first Soccer team.

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Fall Athletics

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rom decisive wins to heart-breaking overtime defeats, Hebron teams played deliberately and kept their composure on the field throughout the fall season. Nearly 90% of our student body participated on athletic teams, and the weather was near-perfect for practice and play. For some teams it was a rebuilding season, while for others it was a season of successes, both small and large. Brittany Toth ’09 was impressive on the cross country trail, winning the girls’ maisad championship, and the boys’ JV soccer team repeated as maisad champions. The football team won the Evergreen League Sportsmanship banner, testimony to their fine spirit of play, and the field hockey team’s decisive win over Kents Hill gave them their third maisad title in as many years.

Hebron’s scores are listed first.

Mountain Biking

Cross Country

9/15 9/22 9/29 10/6 10/13 10/20 10/27

9/22 9/29 10/6 10/10 10/13 10/20 10/27 10/31 11/10

Hyde Inv. Hebron Inv. Kents Hill Inv. Elan Relays Gould Inv. Hebron Inv. Hyde Inv. MAISAD C’ship New England C’ship

Boys’ Varsity Soccer

Field Hockey 9/15 9/17 9/22 9/26 9/29 10/5 10/6 10/10 10/13 10/15 10/17 10/20 10/24 10/27 10/31 11/2 11/7

Brewster Jamb.

Skowhegan Brewster Gould Kents Hill Skowhegan Gould New Hampton Holderness Waynflete Kents Hill Holderness Tilton Kimball Union Proctor MAISAD semis—bye MAISAD finals

Camden Inv. Gould Inv. Hebron Inv. CVA Inv. Gould Inv. Kents Hill Inv. Championship

5 0 0 3 7 6 3 0 5 4 1 1 2 2

0 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 3 0 6 0

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0

9/15 9/16 9/22 9/26 9/29 10/3 10/6 10/10 10/13 10/17 10/20 10/26 10/31 11/2 11/5 11/7

Holderness Jamb.

Stanstead Proctor Hyde Kents Hill CVA Brewster Holderness Gould Tilton Gould Berwick Bridgton Winchendon Kents Hill MAISAD semis vs. Gould 11/10 MAISAD finals vs. Kents Hill (OT)

2 2 1 0 4 1 1 6 0 1 0 0 1 0

2 2 1 4 1 2 4 1 2 0 0 9 3 2

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1

1 3 0 1 2 6 4 0 0 1

6 3 5 2 0 0 3 0 0 2

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2 0 2 0 2 7 2

0 8 2 9 7 3 2

1 1 5 1 0 3 2 1

1 4 1 0 0 0 1 2

Boys’ JV Soccer Football 9/15 9/22 9/29 10/6 10/13 10/20 10/27 11/3 11/10

BB&N Tilton Prtsmth Abbey Pingree Proctor Holderness Pomfret Hyde Kents Hill

0 6 21 14 7 28 7 21 14

41 42 48 48 38 63 26 48 28

Golf Kents Hill @ Belgrade Lakes 9/26 Gould @ Poland Spring 10/3 Bridgton @ B’ton Highlands 10/5 Kents Hill @ Poland Spring 10/10 MAISAD Stroke Play 10/17 Bridgton @ Poland Spring 10/25 MAISAD Scramble

11/2

9/19

Mario De La Isla ’10.

9/19 9/26 9/29 10/3 10/6 10/13 10/17 10/20 10/26 10/30 10/31

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Holderness Hyde CVA Kents Hill Hyde Gould Tilton Gould Berwick Kents Hill MAISAD semis vs. Hyde MAISAD finals vs. Gould

Boys’ Thirds Soccer 9/19 9/22 10/3 10/6 10/13 10/17 10/24

Berwick Holderness Kents Hill Gould Holderness Tilton Gould

Girls’ Varsity Soccer 9/19 9/24 9/26 9/29 10/3 10/6 10/13 10/15

Proctor Bates JV Exhibition Hyde CVA Kents Hill Hyde Gould CVA

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the academy New Hampton Gould Tilton Brewster Berwick Kents Hill MAISAD semis vs. Hyde 11/10 MAISAD finals vs. Kents Hill

10/17 10/20 10/24 10/31 11/2 11/5 11/7

3 2 3 1 1 0

1 0 2 3 1 0

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Loss

(2OT and PKs)

Girls’ JV Soccer 9/26 9/27 9/29 10/3 10/10 10/11 10/17 10/19 10/24 11/2

Hyde Buckfield Holderness Hyde Waynflete Buckfield Holderness Kents Hill Proctor Kents Hill

1 1 5 1 2 1 2 1 0 0

0 3 0 1 0 0 3 1 7 0

Coco Coupette ’09

Winter Schedule Boys’ Varsity Basketball Hebron’s core of skilled players should compete for their fifth MAISAD Championship and a spot in the New England Tourney.

11/28 Tilton 4:00 H 12/01 Hoop Mt Tourney 4:30 A 12/02 Hoop Mt Tourney 12:30 A 12/05 Pingree @ Berwick 4:00 A 12/08 BB&N 3:00 A 12/09 St. Andrews 1:00 H 12/12 Kents Hill 2:00 H Lawrence/Groton Tourney 12/14 Opponent TBA TBA A 12/15 Opponent TBA TBA A St. Sebastian’s Tourney 12/27 Opponent TBA 4:00 A 12/28 Opponent TBA TBA A 01/04 St. Mark’s 5:00 A 01/05 Lee Academy 4:30 H 01/09 New Hampton “B” 4:00 H 01/11 St. Andrews 7:00 A 01/12 Marianapolis 2:30 A 01/15 Kents Hill 4:15 A 01/16 Brewster “B” 3:30 H 01/18 Hyde 4:00 H

01/19 01/26 01/30 02/01 02/06 02/08 02/09 02/13 02/16 02/20 02/21

Exeter Marianapolis Brewster “A” Vermont Academy Hyde Vermont Academy Kimball Union Gould Gould Holderness Tilton

3:00 2:30 4:30 7:00 3:00 4:30 1:00 4:30 2:00 4:15 4:30

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3:30 4:00 3:00 5:00 4:30 3:00 2:00 3:00 2:30 4:00 4:30 4:30 4:00

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Boys’ JV Basketball 12/05 12/07 12/08 12/10 01/04 01/09 01/12 01/16 01/19 01/21 01/25 01/26 01/29

Kents Hill Elan BB&N Richmond Buckfield Gould Kents Hill Richmond Hyde Kents Hill Berwick Elan Buckfield

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02/06 Hyde 02/07 Buckfield 02/13 Gould

01/26 01/30 01/31 02/06 02/08 02/09 4:30 4:00 3:00

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Girls’ Basketball The experience of our 6 returning players should help to balance the younger players.

11/28 Winthrop Scrim.

6:30 A 12/07 Elan 5:30 H 12/11 Grtr Prtlnd Chrstn 4:30 H 12/14 Northaven H.S. 6:00 H 12/15 Gould 1:00 A Gorham Tourney 12/27 Opponent TBA TBA A 12/28 Opponent TBA TBA A 12/29 Opponent TBA TBA A 01/04 Buckfield 6:00 A 01/08 Seacoast 4:30 H 01/11 Gould 7:00 H 01/12 Proctor 2:30 H 01/16 Richmond 4:30 A 01/18 Northaven H.S. 7:00 A 01/19 Hyde 2:30 A 01/23 Kents Hill 3:00 A 01/25 NYA 6:00 A

Elan Grtr Prtlnd Chrstn Hyde Kents Hill Seacoast New Hampton

6:00 4:30 4:30 3:00 4:00 4:00

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Boys’ Varsity Hockey This young team has good veteran leadership and should improve for the season-end push.

Tilton Showcase 11/24 Opponent TBA 12:00 A 11/24 Opponent TBA 6:00 A 11/25 Opponent TBA 9:30 A 11/28 Holderness 4:15 H 11/30 Stanstead 8:15 H 12/01 Worcester 6:00 H 12/05 Brewster 3:00 H 12/07 Acad. St. Louis 7:00 H 12/08 Prtsmth Abbey 4:00 A

Alumni Hockey Game Saturday, February 9, 2008 Locker rooms open at 10:30 Game begins at 11:30 Join us for a hearty lunch after the game, then watch the boys take on Berwick at 2:00

the academy St. Mark’s Tourney 12/14 Opponent TBA 7:00 12/15 Opponent TBA TBA BB&N Tourney 12/29 Opponent TBA 9:00 12/30 Opponent TBA TBA 01/05 South Kent @ BU 3:00 01/09 Middlesex 4:45 01/12 Brewster 5:45 01/16 Pingree 4:15 01/19 New Hampton 4:45 01/23 BB&N @ Exeter 4:00 01/25 Hoosac 7:30 01/26 Kents Hill 7:00 01/30 Kents Hill 3:00 02/01 Berwick 5:00 02/06 NYA 5:00 02/09 Berwick 2:00 02/13 New Hampton 4:00 02/15 Brunswick 3:30 02/16 Kingswood Oxford 2:00 02/19 Bridgton 4:15 02/20 NYA 6:00 02/23 Pingree 3:00

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12/15 Holderness 9:00 Northwood Tourney 12/31 Brewster 2:05 01/01 NAHA 11:00 01/01 Gilmore 5:15 01/02 Opponent TBD TBA 01/04 St. Mark’s 5:00 01/05 Stanstead 3:00 01/09 Kents Hill 3:00 01/11 Tabor Academy 6:30 01/12 BB&N 1:00 01/16 NYA 5:00 01/18 NAHA 7:00 01/19 Proctor 7:00 01/23 New Hampton 4:00 01/26 Kents Hill 7:00 01/30 Holderness 4:15 02/01 Middlesex 4:30 02/06 NYA 5:00 02/13 Proctor 4:30 02/16 New Hampton 4:00 02/20 Exeter 4:00 02/23 Kingswood Oxford 1:00

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Who’s Got the Coolest Job on Campus?

Jeanie Littlefield and Brian Creps do! Using Hebron’s new propane-powered Olympia Millennium, Ms. Littlefield (below) and Mr. Creps lay down a smooth, clean sheet of ice before every practice and game at Robinson Arena. Tricked out with board brush, aluminum alloy wheels, custom paint, Lumberjack decals and a pair of fuzzy dice, this is no ordinary ride. Under the hood, the Olympia sports an automatic transmission and four wheel drive. Our thanks to Martha and Clem Dwyer ’66 for their generosity in providing Hebron with this mean machine.

Alpine Skiing Boys’ JV Hockey 12/01 New Hampton 3:30 12/05 Tilton 4:00 12/07 Acad. St. Louis 5:00 12/08 Acad. St. Louis 11:00 12/10 St. Dom’s 4:00 JV Prep School Tourney 12/14 Opponent TBA TBA 12/15 Opponent TBA TBA 01/04 NYA 4:30 01/09 Kents Hill 5:00 01/11 NH Jr Monarchs 4:30 01/12 Maine Renegades 1:00 01/16 Kents Hill 3:00 01/18 Acad. St. Louis 5:00 01/19 Acad. St. Louis 10:00 01/21 Oxford Hills 4:30 01/24 NYA 4:30 01/26 Brewster 6:30 01/30 St. Dom’s 2:45 02/06 Brewster 3:00 02/08 Holderness 4:15 02/11 Oxford Hills 4:30 02/13 Kents Hill 3:00 02/15 NYA 5:45

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Strong returning skiers and new racers hope to build on last year’s success in major events.

01/16 GS @ Shawnee Pk. 2:30 H 01/18 GS @ Sunday Riv. 2:00 A 01/23 SL @ Kents Hill 2:30 A 01/30 GS @ Shawnee Pk. 2:30 H 02/06 SL @ Kents Hill 2:30 A 02/08 SL @ Sunday Riv. 2:00 A 02/13 New Englands 1:00 A 02/15 MAISAD championship SL and GS @ Shawnee Peak 1:00 H

Snowboarding The team will hit the slopes in November to prepare for a tough January MASAID schedule.

01/16 SS @ Sugarloaf 1:30 A 01/18 BA @ Kents Hill 2:00 A 01/23 SS @ Sunday Riv. 2:00 A 01/30 BA @ Kents Hill 2:00 A 02/06 HP @ Sugarloaf 1:30 A 02/08 HP @ Sunday Riv. 2:00 A 02/15 SS/HP @ Sun. Riv. 11:00 A

Girls’ Hockey Talented newcomers backed by solid returning players will make this fast-paced and hard-working team exciting to watch.

11/28 Exeter 4:00 A 11/30 NEWHL 6:00 H 12/01 Pingree 5:00 A 12/05 Governor’s 5:00 H 12/08 Gunnery 5:00 H St. George’s Tourney 12/14 Millbrook 4:00 A 12/14 St. George’s 9:00 A

2007 Post-Season Play New Englands boys’ basketball and boys’ and girls’ ice hockey 2/27, 3/1, 3/2 MPA Playoffs girls’ basketball preliminaries begin 2/12

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Building a Legacy

The Owner

by Jennifer F. Adams

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n 1884, student George Morton hoisted a turned wooden bar to his shoulder and carried it over the hills to Hebron from his home in Paris. Placed on a stand near the Academy building and used for gymnastic exercises, this wooden bar became the school’s first piece of athletic equipment. Or so the story goes. In George Morton’s time, the campus proper consisted only of the Academy building and chapel, both near the current site of the School Building and Treat Science Building. The two buildings faced the sunrise, perched on the northern slope of “the bog” and surrounded by open fields and stone walls. To the east, along the road to Buckfield, were Trustee House and the Old Brick. The school was growing, however, and new principal William Sargent presided over an expansion of land and buildings that still defines Hebron Academy today.

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Horizontal bar. The entire campus, circa 1886, showing the east-facing Academy building and chapel. The famous horizontal bar can be seen at the extreme left. The school was growing and desperately needed larger facilities for instruction and recreation.

The first building boom

When William Sargent came to Hebron Academy in 1885, he found a school small in size but large in spirit. Well over 100 students attended classes in the Academy building and chapel, boarding in houses around the town. They made their own entertainment by holding “sociables” and lyceums. Recreation through sport was informal at best, and limited to occasional “base ball” games against town teams.

With only two recitation rooms available in the Academy, teachers and students alike felt the pinch of too little space for their classes; some were even held at the boarding houses, whose enterprising owners had set space aside for the purpose.

The young principal’s first priority was to raise funds for a new Academy building.

By April 1888, the Semester reported that only $3,135 of the needed $40,000 cost remained, but “not a brick will be laid until the whole sum is secured.” The new building was to face south, permanently reorienting the campus, which was also about to get much larger.

In 1889, Edward Dunham, trustee and descendant of founder William Barrows, donated land encompassing “the bog” and the northern slope above it, providing a “play ground” for organized athletics.

“Through the generous gift of Mr. Edward S. Dunham, the Trustees have acquired title to the bog, so called, together with the land lying between it and the base-ball ground, west of the Trustee House. It is expected also that the campus will be enlarged by the purchase of land on the west of the present grounds. It is the design of the Trustees to remove the stone walls and bushes, to drain the swamp where for generations the complaisant bullfrog has enjoyed much unrestrained freedom, to grade that and the sloping grounds about it, and thus furnish the students with an ample and spacious campus and play ground, extending from the common in front of the church away round to the South Paris road. When this is done and Arbor Day has been suitably observed by adorning the grounds with elms and maples, no academy building in New

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England will be more beautifully located or surrounded.” (Semester, November 1888.)

At the same time, the Trustees bought a parcel of land across the South Paris road and built a house for the principal, which “commands a full view of the Trustee House, new Academy Building, and the enlarged campus.”

Once Sturtevant Hall was complete, the old Academy building was torn down and the chapel turned on its foundation. A bequest from Josiah Cook enabled the trustees to remodel the old chapel, converting it into the school’s first gymnasium.

The large addition and full foundation provided space for music rooms, a meeting room, a baseball cage and bathing facilities for both boys and girls.

Team associations

By 1893, the campus stretched from the former bog north to Sturtevant Hall’s knoll, bordered on the east and south by the Buckfield and South Paris roads. The level field provided for team sports and the students took full advantage.

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Because athletics were not yet a formal part of the school’s program, students formed associations to support the teams.

Among other school organizations, The November 1893 Semester listed the Hebron Academy Foot-Ball Association, the Hebron Academy Athletic Association (what we call track and field today) and the Hebron Academy Base-Ball Association.

An editorial in the same issue urged all students to join the various associations, saying “It is customary everywhere for those who do not play to pay largely toward the expenses of the different teams.”

Meanwhile, campus facilities continued to grow, and by 1910 two dormitories— Atwood Hall to the east and Sturtevant Home to the west—flanked the field.

Twentieth century opens

The playing field acquired a formal name in 1921, when the trustees voted to honor Harold T. Andrews 1914, the first Maine

man and Hebron alumnus to die in the Great War (see page 32 for more about Harold Andrews).

In the early part of the twentieth century, Hebron teams included football, basketball, athletics, tennis and baseball.

Interest ran high enough, that in 1905, Mr. Sargent noted the need for an instructor devoted mostly to athletics. In the fall of 1908, he hired the freshly-graduated Charles Dwyer as coach and teacher.

Although Coach Dwyer preferred to be thought of as a teacher, he did much in the ensuing years to shape Hebron’s overall athletic program.

Hockey made its first appearance in 1922, when Coach Dwyer and interested boys cleared an area on Andrews Field and flooded it to make a rink. By 1925, trustee F.O. Stanley 1873 had funded a covered arena, situated in the hollow between Sturtevant Hall and Sturtevant Home. But as the athletic program grew, the need for a larger gymnasium also grew.

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Sargent Memorial Gymnasium

The school catalog for 1923–1924 lists an athletic requirement for all boys; the school stopped admitting girls in 1922. Fall offerings were football, track and tennis; in winter boys could choose basketball, track, “gymnasium,” hockey and “winter sports.” Spring was devoted to baseball, track and tennis.

Early in 1923, with a capital campaign in the offing, the trustees appointed a committee of alumni to look into the school’s needs and make a report to the board. The committee recommended that the campaign goals should be a new gymnasium dedicated to the memory of William Sargent (who suffered a debilitating stroke in 1921 and died in 1922) and an improved field. Fund raising began, but disagreements about the gymnasium site delayed construction. Meanwhile, Sturtevant Home burned in February 1927, leaving its residents homeless. The trustees were forced to use gymnasium funds to rebuild the dorm before embarking on new construction.

Turnabout. In 1893, following plans drawn up by John Calvin Stevens, the old chapel was turned 90 degrees and set on a new, deep foundaton. A large addition on the end housed three music rooms, bathrooms for the girls and a large parlor used as a meeting room by the girls. Boys’ bathrooms were located in the basement, as was a baseball cage and boiler room, with space reserved for two bowling alleys. This photograph shows the entrance on the southeast corner of the gymnasium. The addition is on the right.

Inset: a specataors’ gallery lined the upper walls of the gymnasium, used for basketball and as a movie theater. In the 1930s, Cook Gym was used as dormitory space for boys on scholarship. It was eventually razed in 1950.

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With the reopening of Sturtevant Home in the fall, the trustees turned their attention back to the gymnasium. The original design called for a monumental south-facing structure sited on the western side of Andrews Field next to the Stanley Building. By 1928, work at this site had progressed to the point of moving Barrows Lodge across the South Paris road and excavating the foundation.

Finally, after much discussion, George Treat 1894 offered to fill the existing hole and dig a new one—buying land and relocating several buildings along the South Paris and Buckfield roads at the same time.

The new building was ready for use in 1929. Its grand front façade was complemented by a similar rear façade with doors opening directly onto the field, unifying the athletic complex for the first time.

Sargent Gymnasium, Andrews Field and the Stanley Arena would serve together as Hebron’s athletic facilities for another 30 years.

Field and team. An early view of Andrews Field, looking down the western side towards the South Paris road.

The principal’s house (now Allen House) can be seen between the high jump uprights. On the far left are buildings that were moved to make room for the eventual construction of Sargent Memorial Gymnasium.

Back door. The original rear façade of Sargent Memorial Gymnasium, showing doors leading out onto Andrews Field. The half columns mimic the full ones on the front façade. The gym included a full basketball court with a balcony for spectators, ample locker rooms, a 25-yard pool, stage and classrooms.

Inset: the main gymnasium floor set up for an assembly or movie. Three holes in the center rear wall allowed movies to be projected onto a screen on the stage. Commencement was held here until the early 1990s, when the ceremony was moved outdoors.

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Moving south. An aerial photograph of Dwyer Fields and the main campus beyond. The trustees purchased a 30-acre parcel and developed ten of them. The field complex includes a football field with a track around it. Two fields are used for soccer, softball and baseball with another for field hockey and lacrosse. The open rink can be seen just above the track. Houses line the South Paris road where Halford Hall would be built in 1967.

The second building boom

When headmaster Claude Allen reopened the school after World War II, he focused first on hiring teachers and finding students. The fall term opened with 125 students and 14 teachers, including Coach Dwyer, who worked and lived in Hebron until the mid-1960s. In that first year, Hebron fielded teams in football, cross country, basketball, skiing, hockey, swimming, baseball, track and tennis.

Soccer was introduced in 1956, but with three football squads sharing Andrews Field, the team was forced to use a field on Greenwood Mountain, five miles from campus.

One field would no longer suffice. Once again, the trustees authorized a fund raising campaign with goals that included a new science building and multiple fields on land to the southwest of the main campus. With this campaign, the campus began a second period of significant change and growth.

In 1952, the Stanley Arena roof had collapsed under the weight of rain-soaked snow. The arena was rebuilt, but collapsed again in 1960, just as the new science building was nearing completion. The trustees acquired three acres at the top of

the hill adjoining the site of the new playing fields, and an outdoor artificial ice rink was installed in 1961. (It remained open until 1993, when three generations of the Robinson family enclosed it, creating a new arena with locker rooms and spectator area.)

At graduation, the class of 1950 had first proposed new fields to honor Coach Dwyer and designated their class gift for that purpose. Other alumni and friends stepped forward over the next few years. Campaign donors made up the rest of the required $150,000 and rough grading began in 1959.

The fields were dedicated in 1963 with Coach Dwyer in attendance and Olympic medalist Jesse Owens as the featured speaker.

Construction of Halford Hall in 1967 and Hupper Library in 1970 rounded out an extraordinary decade of expansion. The campus now straddled the South Paris road with academics clustered on the north side of campus and the residential and athletic facilities spread out on both sides of the road.

Fast forward

The return of girls to Hebron in 1972 again changed the athletic program.

Additional teams were formed in many

sports and new ones introduced. Hebron’s girls are just as skilled and competitive as the boys, and the rich, strong, inclusive athletics program has outgrown venerable Sargent Gymnasium.

The new center—the largest building on campus—will again be a gateway to Hebron athletics, providing ample space for all of our teams, a new fitness center, elevated track, squash courts, meeting rooms and locker rooms, not to mention a new field below. Mr. Sargent and Mr. Allen would be proud.

Did You Know?

Hebron Academy fields teams in 15 different sports with parallel offerings for boys and girls in each season.

Fall: cross country • field hockey • football • golf • mountain biking • soccer Winter: basketball • ice hockey • alpine skiing • snowboarding Spring: baseball • lacrosse • tennis • track and field • softball

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The Architect

by David Inglehart

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year ago, when Hebron Academy put requirements for an athletic center out to bid, there was no telling precisely where the new building would land or who would land it. The need was clear and a funding strategy was in place. It remained for architectural firms throughout the region to vie for the contract. But of the six that presented proposals, one company quickly came to the fore. In addition to a particular knowledge of local resources, SMRT of Portland had a legacy at the academy— company founder John Calvin Stevens had designed many major campus buildings, including Sturtevant Hall (1891), Atwood Hall (1910) and Sturtevant Home (1900 and 1927). Then too, the company’s staff included Hebron alumna Lynne Holler ’80 whose personal and professional experience made her a natural for the role of project architect. additional reporting by Jennifer F. Adams

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and Charlie Cummings ’07, and trustees Paul Goodof, Bill Golden ’66, Jim Hill ’90, Susan Gendron and Deborah Campbell.

The committee’s first step was to send out RFQs (request for qualifications) to several firms, outlining the basic needs of the building: large open space to accommodate winter teams (as well as fall and spring in bad weather), fitness center, multi-purpose room, trainer’s room, a room for the snowboarding, skiing and mountain biking teams, squash courts, ample storage, appropriate locker rooms and, if possible, a climbing wall and elevated track. From the RFQs, they chose six to interview, a process that included campus tours. Detailed proposals followed, narrowing the choices to four. For Leslie Guenther, it was

HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. ROBERT R. ARZOLA, AMY L. DARLING, ELLYN P. GOLDKIND, LYNNE E. HOLLER, DANA L. LOCKETT AND MARK SHARA, 1994.

“Finding the right architect is a matter of personal fit,” said building committee chair Paul Goodof ’67. “As the word of our plans to build an athletic center spread through the independent school world, we started hearing from all manner of architects and builders.” The board of trustees put together a building committee representing many school constituencies from faculty and students to alumni and parents. The members included athletic director Leslie Guenther, long-time coach Moose Curtis, technology director Alex Godomsky, buildings and grounds supervisor Michael Hughes, business manager Jim Bisesti and head of school John King, students Tiffany Bichrest ’07

the final presentations that made the choice clear to her. “SMRT stood out because they really understood that we wanted a building that would serve everyone, not just our athletes,” she said. John King agreed. “SMRT had the best sense of what we were looking for: a practical, effective, impressive building with absolute control of cost.”

Qualifications aside, for the committee there is a certain satisfaction in choosing the legacy firm responsible for many of Hebron’s major buildings—although, ironically, not Sargent Gymnasium—and in having an alumna at the helm.

From field hockey to field house

The Holler family moved around quite a bit when Lynne was growing up. “I started at Hebron in ninth grade, and it was the seventh school I had attended since kindergarten,” she said. “I was a day student, commuting from West Auburn where my parents still live. After so many schools, I finally felt like I belonged, that the community had an interest in me and wanted me to succeed. I was happy to be in a place that valued academics and sports.”

As a teenager playing field hockey at Hebron, Lynne could scarcely have anticipated her role 25 years later. After graduation she attended St. Lawrence University in upstate New York, where she majored in biology with a minor in environmental studies. It was not until she visited Spain during her junior year that she began to take an interest in architecture. Indeed, her experience makes a strong argument for study abroad programs, if not for the underlying principles of liberal arts education.

Lynne chose Spain partly because her sister Karen ’79 had spent time there and loved it. (Her other siblings are also Hebron alumni: David ’78 and Barbara ’85.) As it turned out, she was the only sci-

Highs and lows. Lynne and her Historic American Buildings Survey colleagues covered every inch of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, “from the dirt under the front steps to the top of the dome.” This is one of the plans her team produced using computeraided design—a first for the HABS project. You can find these plans and more at the Library of Congress web site: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/ habs_haer/index.html

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Breaking ground. Project architect Lynne Holler ’80, contractor Peter Warren of Warren Construction Group and Hebron Academy athletic director Leslie Guenther at the groundbreaking in August.

ence major in the Spain program that year.

She lived in Madrid, surrounded by an urban environment for the first time. The program included travel throughout Spain and the culture, art and city life swept her up. “We visited huge Roman aqueducts, countless cathedrals, and country towns of whitewashed stucco. I also studied Spanish art history, which fascinated me.”

Back at St. Lawrence for her senior year, Lynne added art classes to her course load and began thinking about how to combine her science background with a creative way to make a living. After graduation, she moved to Philadelphia and worked for a pharmaceutical company while continuing to take art classes at night. Eventually she began to see architecture as a way to bridge science and art.

Undaunted by architecture’s reputation for academic rigor, Lynne gained admission to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Because she already had an undergraduate degree, she was able to do a seven-semester program intended for students with backgrounds as diverse as literature, finance and art history. “Right from the start, I knew architecture school was the right place for me,” she said. “I was learning to design spaces that play with light, scale, materials and human behavior, and was really enjoying it. Unfortunately, there’s a typical architecture school culture that promotes all-nighters and frenzied hours of design in preparation for blearyeyed charrettes [design reviews]. It was a lot of work. In the end, my thesis was a design for an environmental studies center at Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondacks, completing for me the connection of my two main interests—architecture and environmental science.”

Lynne graduated from RPI in 1989 and took a job in Saratoga Springs. She and a third of her colleagues were laid off when the recession hit and she ended up in Washington, DC, working with the Historic American Buildings Survey

(HABS), a federally-funded program that documents significant historic structures by precisely measuring and drawing them. Her team worked at the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials, recording their dimensions from top to bottom and using a special non-distorting camera to photograph details. This was the first HABS project to use computer-aided design (CAD) for documentation. “The pay was terrible but the work was interesting. I think of it every time I have to do a series of measurements.”

She started working at SMRT five years ago, when her daughter was three and her son was six months old. “I had worked in a residential firm for a year, and then taken some post-baby time off, and I was ready to

go back to commercial architecture,” she said. “Many people like residential work, but what motivates me is creating spaces that benefit the public. Good architecture can inspire and uplift—it can facilitate learning, and it can teach you something as well.”

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Where do you begin with a project like Hebron’s athletic center? SMRT turns to the client, or owner. “We always start by getting to know the owner, their aspirations, needs and budget for the project.”

Lynne said. “We bring our experience and knowledge from other similar projects into these discussions, but there is no one-sizefits-all design just as there is no typical

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Grand entrance. Coming in through the main entrance, a tower that reflects the proportions of the school building clock tower across the Bowl, you will be in a lobby area with seating to your immediate right. Turn left to enter the field house area. Just ahead on your right is the fitness center, which will have spectacular views of the western mountains. Beyond the fitness center are stairs to the lower level. The upper passageway continues across to an elevator lobby that overlooks the climbing wall.

owner, so the first step in the design process is to look at the project from the owner’s unique point of view.”

Using the parameters set out by the building committee, Lynne and SMRT colleague Paul Lewandowski set up focus groups that included athletes and non-athletes, coaches and non-coaches, staff and alumni. Focus group responses helped them understand what kind of building the community had in mind.

Lynne and Paul established a general layout, then put together a design team.

“For this kind of project, we engage a full team of engineers, including electrical, mechanical, structural and civil engineers,

as well as interior designers and landscape architects,” Lynne said. “Sometimes we bring in consultants to provide specialty knowledge of, say, acoustics or industrial kitchen design, whatever is relevant to the project.” As project manager and architect of record, Lynne keeps the design team on track and also stamps and signs each architectural drawing. Paul is the design architect, responsible for collaborating with other team members to bring all the design elements together into a coherent finished product.

“This phase is really dynamic because we’re getting a lot of information from the owner while at the same time formulating

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the schematic layout and look of the building and presenting it to the owner for the first time,” Lynne said. Using a fairly new technology called building information modeling (BIM), SMRT is able to present their concepts in three dimensions, making it easier for the owner to see—and even “fly through”—the building. Head of School John King has become an expert at giving fly-through tours. “The technology is such that we could see the site, understand the entrances and hallways and get a real sense of the effects of the decisions we were making,” he said.

Although BIM was only used through the design phase of Hebron’s athletic

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center—SMRT switched to CAD to create the construction documents—eventually it will be employed throughout the construction process, enabling owner, architect and contractor to use the same data and models from beginning to end.

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program, as Sargent Gymnasium was when Andrews Field was the school’s only playing area. “I know that I learned a lot through my participation in sports at Hebron, and I’m thrilled to be part of this project,” she said. “I hope this building will inspire Hebron’s community spirit, enrich each student’s athletic experience, and provide a place where they can create memories that will last far beyond graduation.”

Architecture, it seems, is a discipline in which form meets function, art meets engineering, microcosm meets macrocosm, and the future meets the past. Lynne’s perspective, at once intimate with respect to Hebron Academy and wide-ranging with respect to the larger world, suggests just such a synthesis, and the school could scarcely ask for better confirmation of its mission than to watch its future emerge under the stewardship of one of its own.

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For owner and architect alike, the greatest challenge of this project is the budget. The school secured bond financing for the initial construction, which means that the budget is fixed. “We began looking for a contractor early in the process,” said Paul Goodof. “It is helpful to have someone assess what is called ‘buildability’ during the design phase. Peter Warren and Warren Construction Group definitely stood out among those we looked at and have turned out to be an excellent choice.”

SMRT also prefers to have the construction manager come into the process early.

Warren Construction Group provided cost estimating and vital advice on economical construction strategies. “Because they were present at design meetings, they fully understand the design intent, which is valuable during the construction phase,” Lynne said.

“SMRT and Peter Warren listened to everything—every wish, every hope,” Leslie Guenther said. “They were determined to find a way to give us what we wanted and we are going to have the best building possible.”

According to Leslie, “With SMRT, we got a professional relationship enhanced by personal experience.” And for Lynne, the project is personal. Throughout the design phase, she drew on her student experiences to provide a unique perspective and knowledge of the institution. She hopes that the center will become a contemporary gateway to Hebron’s present and future athletics

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You are here. This rendering of the new athletic center’s interior shows the elevated track that runs around the perimeter of the building, encircling three basketball courts below. You are standing on the eastern end, with the Halford side of the center to your right. On the far side you can see the doorway to the main entrance lobby area. Beyond that wall is the fitness center with squash courts on the lower level. Locker rooms are on the ground level, below the track on this side of the building.

Offices and meeting spaces line south side of the upper level, on your left in this rendering.

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The Contractor

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en Hough of Warren Construction, site supervisor for Hebron’s athletic center project, surveys his domain—an uneven expanse of pallets and piles of material, interrupted by frozen puddles, parked machinery, loose cables and tight bundles—and smiles. On this cold, calm and sunny afternoon, Ken’s eyes continually scan the skeletal building rising before him, from the foundation forms taking shape in a far corner to the cluster of tradesmen shifting pre-formed roofing panels above. It is Friday afternoon, and everywhere crews push toward the coming dusk and an impending storm, working to complete this day’s tasks, another day in a cycle begun months ago in architectural planning sessions and site preparation activities and now continuing daily and for months to come in the myriad tasks of erecting and forming the massive superstructure of Hebron’s athletic center-to-be.

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Today, Ken has agreed to show the site and work in progress to a small Hebron group, to answer questions about the process of constructing such a building and to describe his role in it. As we begin our conversation and walk-about, the metaphor for the construction and for this issue of the Semester is immediately apparent: the building crew is a team, and Ken Hough its captain, or if one prefers, its coach, offensive coordinator, or manager. Whatever the metaphor, it is clear that Ken sees and knows all that is happening around him, that he sees and knows all that is yet to come. A smile flickers as he takes in the scene.

Moving about the site with Ken, we are impressed with the size and scope of the project. The building site extends from the Old County Road on the east side to the Dwyer fields on the west, and from Halford Hall on the north to the lower margin of the old Collins Farm orchards to the south.

Ken acknowledges that it is probably the largest site that he has supervised. Trees have been removed, top soil stripped and ground broken on roughly 12 1⁄2 acres that will become the new athletic complex: athletic center and field, parking, viewing slopes, buffers and retention pond. The site leveled for the athletic center and parking, an area that complements Robinson Arena, is about 2 1⁄2 acres; the building itself has a footprint of just under an acre—the largest building yet to grace the Hebron campus.

To the uninitiated, it is hard to conceive of the size of the project or its component parts. For months now, men and machinery have been at work blasting, shaping and preparing the ground and the foundation structures for the athletic center.

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Men and machines. A busy September day as workers build forms for the concrete foundation walls on the Halford side of the building. The green structure in the background is Hebron’s maintenance building, just across the Old County Road.

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the ground and among towering piles of material. Trucks upon trucks moved load upon load of gravel, sand, crushed rock and debris. Then, in the dark of an October evening, a convoy of heavy transports rumbled up Route 119 bringing the stacked, coded beams of the building’s frame. Cranes arrived. Materials were marshaled into columns and rows, tagged for future handling. How does one make sense of such a project, catalog its component parts or imagine the construction sequence? General contractors Peter Warren and Ken Hough of Warren Construction not only know the scope and sequence and bring engineering and construction knowledge to the site each day, but they also bring a practical understanding of people, of schools, of Maine and Mother Nature.

Ken’s eyes are moving again as a utility truck bounces through the gate and onto the site, a pallet sheathed in weatherproof plastic in the bed. Excusing himself for a moment as if this were a chance encounter of friends on the street, he moves to talk briefly with the driver, then climbs into the cab of a nearby tractor forklift, starts and positions it, and then gently lifts the pallet from the truck and deposits the sheathed bundle among a rank of similar bundles destined for the ongoing foundation work at the west end of the site. It is a moment only, a small task completed, and then he returns to continue our tour. We step between vertical beams where the front doors of the building will eventually be located and walk under the suspended beams of what will become an elevated track. Above, pneumatic wrenches ratchet, driving the bolts fastening another panel of roofing. Ken’s eyes move.

In the beginning

“The building began there, with that ‘brace bay,’” Ken says, pointing toward the far northwest corner. I don’t see the structure at first. In early October, the campus community watched as first one upright then another lifted from the ground to be joined by massive roof beams spanning the

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Sorting pile. Stacks of material ready for installation in early November.

open space. “The first and second legs in that corner were lifted and held while those diagonal braces were installed to stiffen the first bay,” Ken continues, and I can now recognize that first sub-assembly completed. “Once those units were erected on each side, then three cranes, working together began to lift the roof steel.”

Nowhere is the sense of team more evident than in the synchronized motion of the steel beams comprising the framework of the building rising from the ground and being fastened, beam on beam, into the

rigid skeleton of the athletic center. The Sheridan Corporation erected the steel, their team consisting of a ‘lead foreman,’ crane operators, ironworkers and laborers who met each day to plan the sequence of the day’s pieces, then to prepare them, lift them and bolt them in place.

Throughout October, the sloping arms of the cranes floated in the sky above Halford, picking up a coded beam from the east part of the site, rotating to transport it to position while another operator attached a stabilizing cable; and then the two

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together lifted, adjusted and positioned the piece while ironworkers perched upon the beams themselves or stationed in lifts waited to take the massive beams in hand and bolt them together. The upright legs approach twenty feet in height while the main roof beams are comprised of two sections, each forty feet in length and bolted together at mid-span. Erecting these great beams epitomized the sense of teamwork as operators at the crane controls, laborers on the ground and ironworkers aloft hoisted

the massive steel beams upward, leveling, turning, lifting and positioning each while at the final moment hands guided flanges and holes into alignment to receive bolts as big as a table leg. Bay followed upon completed bay until nine great spans arched toward westward November sunsets.

Topping celebration

The Hebron community and construction workers celebrated by “topping off” the building on November 2. At the morning

break, students and faculty toasted success as the final and topmost beam was lifted into place accompanied by cheers and fireworks. That final “C” beam, some 25 1⁄2 feet in length and nearly one in height, rested on stands for a day by the Leyden Student Center, and many members of the Hebron community signed names and greetings onto the steel, leaving their marks for the future, something to look up to, to point to with pride. This afternoon we look for the signature beam, straining

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to spy sophomore Calvin Moisan’s name, the largest impression on a beam that appears from below as a piece streaked with the merest impressions of random color. We know the names are there and recall the sentiment of the finale of Studs Terkel’s musical Working (Julie Middleton’s first Hebron production in 2003) when the cast sang: Look what I did; see what I’ve done.

I did the job; I was the one.

Everyone should have something to point to Some way to be tall in the crowd.

We all stood tall that day and looked up with wonder, sharing a moment of pride with the building team who builds the building for Hebron’s teams.

Closing in

After the topping, the next major phase began: to complete the shell before the full onset of winter, enclosing the frame with roof and sides so that work might progress uninterrupted through the cold and dark of the coming months. From a spot adjacent to Robinson Arena, we watch with Ken as a team of metalworkers carries and positions insulation and metal panels of roofing onto the framework of rafters carried above the arched frames of the building.

Nine tradesmen are at work, moving independently of each other or in pairs and groups, while on a lift at the roofline a foreman coordinates all with quick hand signals and calls. All is movement, and the analogy might be to a dance or martial arts routine, activities planned for the eventual multipurpose room below. Here two workers unroll the insulating batts from above while a third checks for voids. To the west side, four put the next roof panel—forty feet in length—in hand, flexing it vertically to their thighs in unison, then walking forward over just completed roofing to position this new piece over the next opening.

Opposite, a single worker steps across the open raftering, preparing the bolts and making a final check. Now the foreman signals, the panel flops down, and workers scramble on all sides to fit the piece to final position as two mates with pneumatic tools drive fasteners at the edges. And the task repeats while we watch from below: insulation moving down, panels moving across, lift moving up, bolts moving down. The routine continues eastward toward the final panel of the roof. Colored wall panels will follow, their architectural sequence of colored bands replicating a Fibonacci sequence

Up on the roof. The roofing crew, hard at work on a chilly November afternoon, trying to get ahead of the first winter storm of the season.

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across the southern face of the center.

Nearer at hand, Ken’s eyes flicker approvingly over the progress.

Cold steel

It is a colorful scene in the chill of a relatively calm November afternoon. One might imagine the romance of a steelworker aloft amid the grand view to the west of the Maine hills leading off to the heights of Mt. Washington. That image fades immediately to the reality of cold wind and colder steel.

Ken speaks of an ever present concern for safety. High steel work is inherently dangerous, large tasks to be completed with large machines and large tools in an often difficult environment. Around the edge of the roof is a temporary structure of bracing and cable marked with colorful flags delineating the edge, a slight handhold to a steel man working on the margin of the roof. Seen from a low angle, the flagged cables suggest strings of Tibetan prayer flags fluttering against a mountain horizon beyond. Workers on the roof who must move among the open rafters wear colorful safety harnesses of orange or red and clip themselves to retaining cables above as they move about their tasks. The panel workers move on the new roofing without safety lines, their feet, the flagged cable below and the presence of their coworkers as safety back up. Ken explains that any worker performing a task or moving on an open structure is required to wear a harness and to be “clipped in” to safety rigging. Further, “sky web”— knotted nylon mesh rigged across the openings for the clerestory windows at the top and around the perimeter of the roof—provides additional security for the workers and also prevents any objects, small or large, from falling to the ground from any part of the roof, protection for those working above and those below.

As we now move toward the east along the Halford side of the building, Ken speaks of his own introduction to the building trades. Graduated from the University of Maine at Farmington with a degree in business, he recalls going to work for Sunday River as a construction worker building condominium units through the winter months, encountering the same rush as at Hebron to complete a frame and shell

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it so that inside work might go on through the winter. Later he would move to Connecticut and then to West Virginia, moving up the chain of command at the job site: from laborer and carpenter, to equipment operator, to job estimator and now site manager for Warren Construction.

He has built or supervised condominium projects in Maine, commercial buildings and bridges in Connecticut, landscape design, roads and park infrastructure in West Virginia.

Making a list

While our tour of the building is moving toward its conclusion, Ken’s day will continue for several hours more. He admits that he is often not the first to arrive at the job site, but he says he typically arrives by 6:30 a.m. to begin the day. Asked what is “job one,” the answer is surprising: “boot up”—the computer that is, and not the feet. Next, he will develop the daily log of the day’s activity, answer e-mail, and yes, pour the first cup of coffee. Outside, motors grumble into an idle, the warm-up period for man and machine; and by the time the crews assemble for the day’s planning session, Ken is well into the routine of looking ahead: setting the game plan for the day and week, the large and small projects to come and what resources each will require. Like a quarterback at the line of scrimmage, Ken calls signals for the day.

With the work day underway and with crews scattered about the site engaged in their individual tasks, Ken turns to his particular materials and tools: the rack of construction blueprints from the SMRT architectural team, his cell phone and his computer. Communication is key, and much of Ken’s activity focuses on “SI’s” and “RFI’s”—“Supplemental Instructions” for particular tasks in the project or “Requests for Information,” questions for the architects on how to proceed. He describes the process simply as “asking questions and chasing answers,” the process of moving ahead, clarifying details, identifying problems and finding solutions.

These are often the small things that workers need to remain in motion, for stoppage is a waste of time, energy and resources.

Ken’s cell phone rings; he excuses himself. A flip-pad notebook appears from his pocket, and he scribbles briefly, an RFI

becoming an SI. “I keep my flip-pad with me all the time,” Ken notes. “I manage information constantly. Sometimes I will even write a note in the bathroom or during the night. The drive in and the drive home are often times when I figure things out.”

Together with the flip-pad, Ken scrupulously maintains a daily log. Itemized and summarized here are regular details of the project: who was on site and what they were doing; what were the weather conditions; what irregularities, if any, occurred; and critically, what percent of daily tasks were completed along with what percentage of larger sub-structures and of the task itself are complete upon this day. Like the statistics of yardage gained on a football team’s offensive plays, completion records suggest the ebb and flow of the larger tasks as the project moves forward, and the percentage-completed statistics mount in relation to time—to days, weeks and months.

Percentage completed also suggests the weather.

The contractor’s lament

The unpredictable opponent for Ken Hough’s team must be Mother Nature. “It is the ‘contractor’s lament,’” Ken muses, “The weather is always a factor, both for and against.” Sun, wind, rain, snow, clouds, wind, rain, sun, snow are always cycling, always a challenge and sometimes a blessing. “Last week when the wind was from the east, the crews couldn’t work on roof panels simply because they could not carry panels into the wind.” Today’s light breezes from the west, not so strong to be pushy but enough to be like an extra hand, speed the crew as they place panel after panel toward the eastern edge of the roof.

Much of the fall has been particularly conducive to the work, but now weather promises to be more of a factor as December brings early snows and harsher working conditions. Ken points to the rough ground where clusters of piping poke up at intervals through a gray covering along the south side of the building where the locker facilities will be. “We

The knuckle. Workers build forms for the foundation and walls of the west end’s “knuckle”—the angled entrance to the building that will also house the fitness center, squash courts and climbing wall.

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have matted the area with ‘cover insulation’ so that hopefully we can keep the frost at bay. If we can keep the frost out of the area and can enclose the building, then we will be able to pour floors in that part of the building in early January. So far it is looking good.”

Ken looks ahead. The daily log leads to projections: where the project should be “one day out,” “one week out” and on into longer increments anticipating the ultimate completion of the athletic center at

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the close of 2008. Now seems the opening period. Ken, as the play-caller, works on the first sequences; offensive coordinators monitor from Portland offices, making adjustments to the game plan, revising the sequences that will lead to a successful drive to completion.

Day’s end

Our visit with Ken comes to an end. The sun has dropped below the edge of the roof, and shadows lengthen. Another roof panel is

fastened to the frame; another course of foundation forms rises at the west end of the site. Ken’s eyes survey the site again as we part company in front of the Warren Construction field office. Inside, construction sheets are arrayed on the work table. A computer’s in-basket holds a fresh sequence of SI’s and RFI’s. His notepad contains pages to be transcribed. The log of the day will be completed, its list of assemblies completed growing ever longer, the percentage of the project completed a little

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larger than yesterday. And in the dark of this November afternoon, Ken will eventually close the door to the field office and lock the gate to the site, taking time, perhaps, on the drive home to anticipate the sequences that will keep tasks progressing and Mother Nature at bay.

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Barrett Nichols was inducted into the Maine Golf Hall of Fame in September.

Class Agent: Ernest Rodrigues marod@attglobal.net

1935 Harold Pearl is 92 and still remembers his four years at Hebron.

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n the 203-year history of Hebron Academy hundreds of graduates have served in war. Of all the people who served, one Hebron Academy graduate stands out from the rest. This veteran served in World War I. He is among many Hebron alumni who took part in what is also known as the Great War.

This man’s name was Harold Taylor Andrews. He was born in Portland, Maine, in November 1894. He attended Butler Grammar School and Portland High School before coming to Hebron Academy in his junior year.

At Hebron, Harold Andrews was a football player, a track athlete and was also on the debating team. We learned from the archives that he was an average student, and we found the evidence in his report card in which he earned straight Cs. In articles written about him, his classmates say that he was funny, kind, trusting, and that he could also always be counted on, which shows that grades aren’t everything. He graduated from Hebron in 1914.

Harold Andrews enlisted in the army in 1917 only a month after the United States entered the war. In July he went overseas with the first American troops to set foot on European soil.

Harold Andrews was part of Company B, 11th Regiment of the New York Engineers. In November 1917 the Germans attacked the city of Cambrai in France where his regiment was building roads and bridges. As the U.S. and British forces retreated he stopped, manned a machine gun battery, and continued to battle. Tragically, Harold Andrews died that day. He was the first Maine man and first Hebron graduate to die in the war.

At Hebron Academy there is a space dedicated to him. Many of you know it simply as “The Bowl.” In 1921 the athletic field was dedicated to him to honor his memory and the positive qualities that he embodied.

Hebron Academy has a storied history full of accomplishments, but over the years the Harold Andrews Memorial Field has been forgotten. For almost seventy years Andrews Field hosted all of the Academy’s athletic events. Upon the completion of the new Dwyer Fields in 1963 the action moved from Andrews Field up Paris Road to the Dwyer Fields.

Today the Middle School plays soccer games and has PE class out on the Andrews Athletic Field.

In 1924 when the Academy was raising money to build Sargent Memorial Gymnasium, money was to also be raised to build a stone entrance to the Andrews Athletic Field. Unfortunately this never happened because within the same year Sturtevant Home burned and money was redirected to help the rebuilding effort.

We, the class of 2014, follow one hundred years after Harold Andrews. It is only fitting that our class finds a way to educate the rest of the Hebron Academy community about this important person. As we continue in the middle school, we hope to raise money to build a sign to mark the proper name of this historic field.

Adapted from a Veterans Day presentation by sixth graders Jake Sclar, Janelle Tardif, Charlotte Middleton, Paige Kenison and Josh Theriault.

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1941 Class Agent: John MacDonald judymacd@aol.com

1942 Class Agent: Norm Cole ncolseba@aol.com

1943 S I X T Y- F I F T H

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1949 Class Agent: Bob Rich rprich@erlanger-inc.com

1950 Class Agent Needed!

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Alumni representative. Former board chair Payson Perkins ’53 signed the athletic center beam at the topping ceremony on November 2.

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Class of 1957. John McIlwain, Bill Wahtola, Bart Marcy, Brownie Swartwood, Rich Rimbach, John Draper, Win Durgin, Gordon Smith, Peter Schiot, Mason Pratt, Alex Kant, Walter Glazer, Chris Blackstone, D.D. Zaug, Bruce McFarland, Dieter Nottebohm and Mike Mentuck.

1951 Class Agent: Ted Ruegg rueggnh@midcoast.com

1952 Class Agent: Ken Boyle revken60@aol.com

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Alan Boone retired in June.

1955 Class Agent: Richard Parker rparker@promedicacrc.com

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Bill Dockser was recently appointed Commissioner of the Maryland Port Commission by governor Martin O’ Malley. The commission oversees the Port of Baltimore and parts of Chesapeake Bay.

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1956

Lennie Lee writes, “I’m hanging in there.

Rooted for the Red Sox and Patriots; don’t get to see the Bruins. Hope to get back for homecoming in 2008.”

Class Agent: Kenneth Mortimer 360-527-3584 kmortimer5@comcast.net Richard Cutter writes, “I am enjoying retirement and am very active with Seacoast Hospice here in New Hampshire. We completed the Hospice House project in March.”

1959 Class Agent: Bernard Helm hebron59@aol.com

Reunions & Homecoming 2008 Friday, October 3 • Saturday, October 4 Correction. In the last issue of the Semester, we mis-identified the youngest man in this photograph. Seen here are three generations of the Maidman family at Commencement: Mitchel ’82, Richard ’51, Allison ’07, Patrick ’80, and Patrick’s son Jonathan. We sincerely regret the error.

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alumni et alumnae Class of 1962. Don Bates, Shel Evans, Robert Hanks, Steve Lane, Bill Allen and Dick Forté.

1969 Class Agent: Jonathan Moll caribjon@aol.com

1970 Class Agent: Craig Clark jcclark@wildblue.net

1971 1960 Class Agent: Dave Williams david_williams@ustrust.com It was mini Hebron reunion when David Driscoll ’59, Eric Malm ’59, Robert Hanks ’62 and Eric Morse ’68 gathered to celebrate the wedding of Cynthia Ruffner and Michael Malm in August.

1961 Acting Class Agent: Bernard Helm ’59 hebron59@aol.com Roger Stacey was featured in the summer 2007 issue of The BB&N Bulletin, with comments from many colleagues and students.

Roger retired from teaching this year.

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1966 Class Agent: Harvey Lowd hlowd@ksallc.com

Class Agent: Will Harding

1964 Class Agent: John Giger john@cybergiger.com John Giger, who works for the French company Alcatel-Lucent, was recently elected to a three year term on the Planning Board of his home town, Groton, MA. ■ Tom Hull is the new Warburg chair in international relations at Simmons.

1967 Class Agent Needed!

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1968 FORTIETH

1965 Class Agent: Allen Kennedy allen_kennedy@dalton.org

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

Class Agent: Harvey Lipman harveylipman@hotmail.com Doug Gordon writes, “Our first son, Andrew, is off to college this year at the University of Rochester. He really wanted to return to the northeast. Life is hectic out here in Oregon with major building projects in California for both my wife and me. In addition, I have had two articles published and made three national conference appearances this year.”

1972 Class Agent: Steve Gates stephenrgates@msn.com

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Class Agent: Gregory Burns gregmburns@aol.com Our thoughts are with Edward Glover on the death of his mother in July.

Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Beth Garza: 207-966-5282, bgarza@hebronacademy.org Dr. Frederic Friedman, Director of Behavioral Health for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, became the first corrections professional to be presented with a Heroes in the Fight award by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (Rhode Island) in September.

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Rainbow Reunion at Homecoming. Clockwise from center front: Leah Hedstrom ’02, Gordon Smith ’57, Fred Clow ’60, Bart Marcy ’57, Win Durgin ’57, Hebron librarian Cilla Potter, trustee Wally Higgins and student GSA advisor Julie Middleton.

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2007 Distinguished Service Award Honors Shell Evans ’62

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obel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer once said, “You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it’s a little thing, do something for others—something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”

Shell Evans, Class of 1962, along your life’s journey from Chairman of Hebron’s smoking room to Chairman of the Crane Company, you exemplify Schweitzer’s advice in your support of so many worthy endeavors over the years, and particularly in the ways you have supported young people at this school and others.

Many years ago, you wrote a letter to Claude Allen in which you remarked that, though you did not always enjoy the school when you were here, you later understood that Hebron helped you develop self discipline and values that served you well through life. You saw and expressed value in that gift that was given you and you went about seeing that others were afforded the same opportunities.

Your friends describe you as a “can do guy” who moves things forward. You don’t get bogged down in fear or in process, you go straight to your goals. You have always invested in talent and helping make possible those things that might not otherwise be possible.

As far back as in 1971 you answered a letter from Claude and silently supported part of a sophomore student’s tuition—a student who was the highest academically ranking boy in the school, but whose family’s financial position would not allow him to continue at Hebron. Ned Willard considered your scholar to “be one of the

most exciting, challenging students he had ever taught,” and he was glad to see him stay at the Academy through his senior year.

The values of education and service are so much a part of your spirit that in 1990 you made annual scholarship awards possible from the Crane Fund for Widows and Children designated to help students from largely single family circumstances where there are inadequate means of financial support. In memory of your good friend and classmate, you and Susan established The Robert Andrew McCormack Leadership Scholar Award in 2004, a scholarship that now supports four students annually.

Your commitment to providing scholarship support to nearly 50 students has helped make dreams come true.

Beyond just scholarship support, my predecessors and I, as well as the heads and presidents of schools and universities where you and Susan have led boards, are the appreciative recipients of an enduring and wise counsel, steady encouragement and careful stewardship over the years. You have supported the school through tough times and good times. Shell, there is no question that you have been a catalyst to the positive changes now underway.

Outside of Hebron, you and Susan invest significantly of your

time, talent and treasures in education by serving on the boards of your schools and leading them through successful campaigns, strengthening each institution for a promising future. You are sanguine enough to know why we schools want your involvement and you are headstrong enough to prod for change and redirection when you get involved. You have been recognized for your outstanding corporate leadership and management, and you are known as a genius for your business leadership and financial accomplishments.

Your passion to help where help is needed is exemplified in your quiet commitment to The Afghanistan-America Foundation— an organization working with Afghan expatriates and the people of Afghanistan to help build a new Afghanistan through reconstruction projects. Your work has resulted in the construction of hundreds of homes to replace those destroyed by the Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

But perhaps my favorite example of your compassion is a story of a

lobster feed on Bill Allen’s island.

Before the feast was ready, you took one of the biggest lobsters, sprinted down the beach and released the creature back into the sea. When your friends questioned your sanity, you replied, “There’s got to be hope in this world!”

Shell Evans, you are a fine example of the kind of citizen Hebron Academy seeks to develop.

You exemplify success in business, community life, and family life. And because you have involved your life with Hebron, this Academy is itself a more successful enterprise than we ever could have been without you. You inspire that hope.

Today we recognize your lifetime of service to Hebron Academy. This, the Academy’s highest award, was established 20 years ago to honor a person whose contributions to the Academy and/or society in general are felt to be exemplary. On behalf of the Academy and the Board of Trustees I am honored to present to you the 2007 Distinguished Service Award.

John King, Head of School

Distinguished service. Board chair Reeve Bright ’66, Shell Evans ’62 and Head of School John King.

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1975 Class Agent: Ellen Augusta eaugusta@msn.com Our thoughts are with Jessica Feeley on the loss of her father in November.

1976 Class Agent: Reed Chapman creedclark@yahoo.com Our sympathies go to Lisa Cushman on the death of her father in July.

1977 Class Agent: Carolyn Adams cadams@hargray.com

November. ■ Third-generation Maine car dealer Adam Lee won the Maine League of Conservation Voters’ 2007 Environmental Leadership Award in October. For several years, Adam has promoted fuelefficient “clean” cars through his business, which includes 11 dealerships statewide representing Chrysler, General Motors, Honda, Nissan, and Toyota. He has also emerged as a spokesman at the state and national level for vehicle fuel efficiency, testifying to legislative agencies and committees in Augusta and Washington, D.C., and participating in advocacy and educational events where he has urged American automakers to “pick up the pace” in producing more fuel-efficient cars. ■ Kirby Nadeau writes, “I have changed jobs and am now teaching and coaching at Bishop’s College School in Lennoxville, Quebec. Often I think of those excellent days competing at Hebron, especially our senior year when we had an undefeated soccer season.

There was unbelievable dedication from all players and coaches. What a terrific experience! Best of luck to all Hebron teams on Homecoming Weekend. I will listen for the sounds of the victory bell.”

Our condolences to Jennifer Feeley Cappuccio on the loss of her father in

An Open Letter from the Hebron Alumni Gay/Straight Alliance Dear Alumni: For the past few years, Hebron Academy’s Student Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA) has led the Hebron community in observing A Day of Silence, an international event designed to recognize the “silence” in which most gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning people live.

As you know, Hebron Academy is an independent school where each individual is valued as a learner and as a human being.

Admittedly, sexual identity is not an easy issue—for the Academy, its staff and faculty, or students. Many religious and personal beliefs challenge the openness with which sexual orientation can be addressed. Our role, then, is to support the Hebron community’s efforts to maintain an environment of respectful listening.

An earlier start was made by Gordon Smith ‘57, whose “Diary of a Gay Man” was published in the Spring 2005 Semester.

Subsequently, the Alumni Gay/Straight Alliance was born to let the already-formed student GSA know they were not alone.

Hebron trustees Gene Whitman ’54 and Wally Higgins supported the nascent effort of students, faculty and alumni. We are asking you to consider joining the Alumni Gay/Straight Alliance so that we can make a difference and honor Gene’s passion to support Hebron as a place that welcomes everyone. Gene, who died in January 2007, was adamant in urging that Hebron stand out among other independent schools by proudly providing an open and affirming community for all students.

To help us gauge alumni/ae support, we are asking each of you to Speak Out by filling out an online survey. We hope to add many names to ours, from classes young and old, including both men and women. Just a few from each class would be a great start.

The Alumni GSA’s proposed mission statement is below. A link to the survey can be found in the alumni section of Hebron’s web site, or visit http://tinyurl.com/yohjg8. We hope many of you will participate.

By Speaking Out, perhaps we can erase the need for a Day of Silence. Thank you.

Fred Clow ‘60 Win Durgin ‘57 Dr. Fil Lewitt ‘58 Bruce McFarland ‘57 Dr. Ed Proffitt ‘57 Gordon Smith ‘57

Nathan Draper ‘87 Alex Dukas ‘93 Dr. Larch Fidler Leah Hedstrom ‘02 Noah Love ‘07 Bart Marcy ‘57 Mike Mentuck ‘57 Otis Perry ‘58 Peter Schiot ‘57 Dr. Robert Scholnick ‘58 Bill Wahtola ‘57 Frank Waterman ‘57

Hebron Alumni GSA Proposed Mission Statement

EntrePreppers. Scott Wilson ’71 working with a student during the EntrePrep Summer Institute at Hebron Academy in July.

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To promote understanding and respect for issues of orientation and gender identity by connecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered alumni with each other and with the broader spectrum of the Hebron community.

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Class of 1982. Kneeling: Amy Tchao, Jeanne Kannegieser, Marc Ducharme, Ian Smith and Chris Popoff. Standing: Andres Pruna, Michael Silvius, Jeff Haney, Tucker Cutler, John York, Anne Hornberger Cannon, Hannah McCarthy, Mitch Maidman and Neal Manchester.

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Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Beth Garza: 207-966-5282, bgarza@hebronacademy.org Nancy Briggs Marshall writes, “My son Craig is a sophomore at Carrabassett Valley Academy where he is doing great in alpine skiing. Jamie is at Stratton (ME) Middle School and will attend CVA in 9th grade.”

1979 Class Agent: Brian Cloherty mnclohertys@earthlink.net John Zarchen writes, “Nicole, Nicholas (12), Matthew (10) and I swapped our house for a month with a French family in Fontaines Saint Martin (outside Lyon) this August. What a trip! I’m sorry Brian Cloherty got struck by lightning, but prairie living sounds like it agrees with him!”

1980 Class Agent Needed!

Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Beth Garza: 207-966-5282, bgarza@hebronacademy.org

1981 Class Agent: Jane Hepburn Fiore fancyjane@comcast.net Our thoughts are with Gary Savignano on the death of his mother in July.

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Class Agent: Debbie Beacham Bloomingdale debbiedale@adelphia.net Debbie Beacham Bloomingdale writes, “Wow! I can’t believe I have a child old enough to be at Hebron! AJ is a freshman and loving his Hebron experience. Molly is still in middle school with another year to decide if Hebron is for her. Next year is our 25th, people—mark your calendars now for 2008!”

1982 Class Agent Needed!

Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Beth Garza: 207-966-5282, bgarza@hebronacademy.org Bill Witter writes, “Regards to classmates.

Life in lovely Boulder, CO, remains active and delightful.”

Alumni Hockey Game Saturday, February 9, 2008 Locker rooms open at 10:30 Game begins at 11:30

Red Sox nation. Members of the class of 1986 gathered to cheer on the Red Sox this fall. Left to right: Jeff Callahan (friend of Hebron), Pat Kersey, Jon Crane with True Crane, Rob Kinasewich, Tony Cox, Sammy Kinasewich, Tyler Hinrichs and Peter Fallon.

Join us for a hearty lunch after the game, then watch the boys take on Berwick at 2:00

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alumni et alumnae Unions 1960

Cynthia Ruffner and Michael Malm, on August 11, 2007, aboard their boat, Alamo, in Provincetown harbor.

1990 Sarah Ann Schmidt and Benjamin Lee Grant on June 3, 2006.

1996 Laura Greenwood and Zachary Hughes, on June 29, 2007.

1998 Karen Sanborn and Daniel Cashman, on August 4, 2007, in Hebron.

1999

Class of 1987. Front: Fred Williams, Emily Epstein and Galen Crane. Middle: Leslie Breton (former faculty), Kristy Walker, Ayumi Horie, Kate Thoman Crowley, Hilary Weinberg, Michele Leong and Kate Littlefield Keizler. Back: Rick Thomas, Camella Grimmo, Bill Becker, Chris Bilodeau and Mike LaCombe.

1984 Class Agent: Deb Schiavi Cote debscote@yahoo.com

1985 Class Agent: Eric Shediac shediachouse@comcast.net Julia West and Aaron Bentley, on July 1, 2007.

2002 Jamie Lynn Turcotte and Kai Becksvoort, on June 30, 2007, in New Gloucester.

New Arrivals 1990 To Sarah and Benjamin Lee Grant, a son, Oliver Keen Grant, on March 27, 2007.

1992 To Heather and Matt Arsenault, a daughter, Olivia Grace, on September 19, 2007.

1996 To Susan and Andy Stephenson, a son, Robinson Edward “Teddy” Stephenson, on August 10, 2007.

1997 To John and Arica Powers Monahan, a son, Avery Michael Monahan, on October 19, 2007.

1998 & 2000 To Brandon and Aubrey Pratte Russell, a daughter, Cassidy Russell, on October 9, 2007.

1986 Class Agent: Carl Engel carlengel85@msn.com

1987 Class Agent: Kate Thoman Crowley thocro@comast.net

■ Beth Hackett Sutherland writes, “Living in Portland for the past 2 years with my partner Pat and two children (Sarah, 9, and Padraic, 2 1⁄2). Still working as an at-home Mom (though I’m rarely just ‘at home’!), and looking forward to returning to school for massage therapy next year. I keep in regular touch with Amie Goodwin Guindon and have heard from Nicole Drouin Salemi in the past year. Would love to hear from Terry Malloy and Cricket Damon ’89!”

1989 Class Agent: Hayes McCarthy hayes@bonvisagegroup.com

1990 Class Agent: Jim Hill james.hill@hillmech.com

Beginning January 1, Bill Becker will serve as president of the board of directors of the Maine Heritage Policy Center. He has also accepted a position as a financial adviser for Edward Jones.

Sally Littlefield McGuigan writes, “My husband and I are living in New Hampshire full time now. I’m working at Loon Mountain in Lincoln, NH.”

1988

1991

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Class Agent Needed!

Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Beth Garza: 207-966-5282, bgarza@hebronacademy.org Trisha Millett Fletcher was recently elected chair of the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce board of directors.

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Class Agent Needed!

Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Beth Garza: 207-966-5282, bgarza@hebronacademy.org

1992 Class Agent Needed!

Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Beth Garza: 207-966-5282, bgarza@hebronacademy.org

1993 FIFTEENTH

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

1994 Class Agent Needed!

Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Beth Garza: 207-966-5282, bgarza@hebronacademy.org

Alumni Hockey Game Saturday, February 9, 2008 Locker rooms open at 10:30 Game begins at 11:30 Join us for a hearty lunch after the game, then watch the boys take on Berwick at 2:00

alumni et alumnae 2008 Reunions & Homecoming Friday, October 3 Saturday, October 4 Reunions for Threes & Eights Alumni Convocation Athletic Competitions Kids’ Activities • Much more!

1995 Class Agent: Jessie Maher jm4lfclvr@yahoo.com

1996 Class Agent: Devon Biondi dmbiondi@gmail.com

1997 Class Agent: Matt Fournier mfournie@bowdoin.edu Congratulations to Nick Bournakel, who earned his juris doctor from the University of Maine Law School in May.

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Class Agent: Janna Rearick jannarearick@gmail.com

Class of 1997: Alec Muller, Jess Garneau Violette, Mary Coulombe, Nicole Plante, Arica Powers Monahan and Austin Stonebraker.

in Auburn. ■ Karen Sanborn Cashman writes, “Married Daniel Cashman on August 4 in Hebron! Kate Belanger was maid of honor. Mr. Forest Perkins ’55 was the organist. Kirsten Ness was a reader during the ceremony. I was very honored to have my Hebron family as part of the wedding.”

Karen is a senior communication specialist wtih Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems.

1999 Class Agent: Joe Patry joseph.patry@gmail.com

2000 Class Agent: Cori Hartman-Frey corinnahf@gmail.com Congratulations to Aubrey Pratte Russell, who earned her juris doctor from the University of Maine Law School in May.

2001 Class Agent: Nick Leyden nick_leyden@hotmail.com Andria Helm missed Homecoming because she had a gig—with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She made her professional debut singing “The Bridge of Khazaddum” in the orchestra’s performance of “The Lord of the Rings Symphony.” ■ Jessica Takach recently received a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation to travel to Hungary and finish her novel.

Brandon Russell is a chief mate for US Shipping LLC. He and Aubrey ’00 are living

Striving higher. Jake Leyden ’99 and Kate Belanger ’98 take a break during a training climb on Mount Baker in August. Jake and Kate are part of a team that will climb the Andean mountain Aconcagua in December (see page 6).

Notable Alumnus: Seth Conger ’02

S

eth Conger spent this past winter doing promo work for ESPN during NFL Monday Night Football games, hopping from game to game, state to state, talking TVs, camera angles, programs, players, guys’ guy stuff. The 2002 Hebron Academy graduate is doing that same thing for NASCAR now; he’s in Phoenix for a race today. In August, it’ll be back to football.

At each event, Conger works out of an ESPN semi-truck decked out with goodies that include a desk that fans can sit behind and pretend to host Sports Center. “I interact with the crowd, bring people in,” he said. “(At) ESPN, our goal is (to be)...the world’s biggest sports fans.”

Name: Seth Conger Age: 23 Lives: Lewiston Married, single, relationship?

Single Best thing about life on the road?

Seeing the country and having the freedom to have wild experiences every day of the week.

Worst? Leaving a great city after I finally get comfortable and get my bearings.

Ever tallied how many different states your work has brought you?

I have worked in 18 states, but have traveled through every state but Oregon, because of work.

Something learned about NASCAR or the NFL that few people watching at home would know: For a NASCAR race or NFL game it takes ESPN at least three days prior to the event to get all the equipment up and running correctly so that people at home can enjoy four hours of quality sports programming.

How to pump up a crowd before a live shot: As soon as you tell peo-

ple they are going to be on live TV around the country, you really don’t have to say much more.

Better sports-watching snack: chocolate, licorice, corn dogs? Corn dogs...especially for NASCAR. Most unusual compliment or complaint ever received? “Without ESPN, I would have no reason left to live.” (80-year-old male at the Jacksonville Monday Night Football Game on 11/20/06) Last movie watched in a theater: “Blades of Glory.” I’m a huge Will Ferrell fan.

Bit of advice you wished someone had given you sooner? Two quotes from Henry Ford: “Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” And: “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

Long-term career plan? Working in Boston for either the Red Sox or the Patriots, in the marketing and sales department.

Reprinted with permission of the Sun Journal, Lewiston. First appeared on April 22, 2007.

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alumni et alumnae 2005

Seen at Homecoming: Leah Hedstrom ’02, Nate Harmon ’03, Sara Marquis ’03 and Kevin DeSorbo ’03.

list. ■ Marissa Stewart graduated from the University of Vermont in May. ■ Françoise Villedrouin graduated from Saint Michael’s College in May. She was named to the spring deans list.

Class Agent: Tina Voigt tinafish33@aol.com Greg Cox was named to the All-Little East first soccer team. ■ Megan Irving was named a captian of the USM women’s hockey team. ■ Tina Voigt was named to the spring deans list at the University of Maine.

2006

2004 Class Agent: John Slattery jwslat04@stlawu.edu Chris Mosley was named captain of the men’s basketball team at Connecticut College. ■ Connor Rasmussen was named to the spring deans list at McDaniel College.

2002 Class Agents: Katie Curtis katie.curtis@dartmouth.edu

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Class Agent: Sara Marquis saramarquis@gmail.com Lee Barker was named to the spring deans list at the University of Maine. ■ Sara Marquis is an underwriting assistant for HCC Specialty Underwriters. She is living in Lowell, MA. ■ Adam Rousseau graduated from Saint Michael’s College in May, and was named to the spring deans

Obituaries 1930 Sumner Quincy Newcomb died on June 30, 2007, in Brewster. He was born in Frankfort, Maine, in 1911, the son of Charles and Fannie Freemen Quincy Newcomb. He was a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. He began his career as a pharmacist in Belmont, Massachusetts, where he worked for Batson’s Pharmacy. In 1947 he moved to Dennisport and was employed as a pharmacist in Maloney’s Drug Store.

Later he managed Maloney’s Drug Store in Harwichport. Mr. Newcomb finished his career with Denmark’s Pharmacy which bought out Maloney’s. He was 77 when he retired. Mr. Newcomb served on various committees in the Town of Dennis and was a member of the Planning Board in the 1960s. In the late 1950s he and his late wife Hazel taught square and ballroom dancing to children in Dennis, Harwich

Allison Coombs was named to the spring president’s list at Bentley College. ■ Kelley Hilton was named to the spring deans list at the University of New England. ■ Brian Knopp was named to the spring deans list at the University of Maine.

into its fourth volume—I will be in number 5.)” Matt recently moved to Portland, OR. ■ This fall, Katie Curtis spent about a month visiting national parks out west as a teaching assistant for Dartmouth’s undergraduate earth science camp.

Emily Geismar emily.geismar@gmail.com Matthew Bernier writes, “I graduated from The School of Visual arts in May 2006 with high honors and a departmental award. I’m currently working on a large book for the comic publisher First Second (www.firstsecondbooks.com), working collaboratively with writer JT Petty. I’m also working on smaller projects for Random House, Dark Horse Presents, Ballyhoo Magazine, and the renowned Flight anthology (an invitation-only comics anthology that has seen overwhelming popularity and is already

Class Agent: Allison Coombs mustangsally2010@hotmail.com

and Orleans. He was a world traveler, and had visited six continents. Mr. Newcomb’s father was a station agent for the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in Maine, so Mr. Newcomb grew up with a love of trains.

When he retired he became a conductor for the Cape Cod Railroad. His picture was featured in an advertisement for the railroad in the late 1980’s. Survivors include two daughters, Susan Rock (Alvah) and Lynn Foren; a sister, Dorothy Waterman; six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife of 48 years, Hazel J. Newcomb. He was also predeceased by wives Elizabeth L. Newcomb and Dorotha K. Newcomb.

1932 Joseph Howard Laing, Sr. died March 8, 2007, in Camden. He was born in Passadumkeag in 1912, son of Joseph and Sada Taylor Laing. Mr. Laing worked for

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Fan club. Cindy Lebel ’04 and Daniella Lyons ’06 had their own personal cheering section at a recent St. Anselm’s game. Charlotte Middleton ’14, Steve Middleton, Cindy, Dillon Lyons ’10, Daniella, Julie Middleton and Max Middleton ’12.

Eastern Fine Paper and Packaging, and Great Northern mills for many years. He and his father were well known and trusted scalers in the state of Maine. He enjoyed hunting and fishing, and especially spending time at his camp on Nicatous Lake. Mr. Laing was a member of St. Andrews Lodge No. 83. He was raised November 3, 1933, received his 50-year medal in 1984, and completed 73 years in this brotherhood.Mr. Laing is survived by his daughter, Jane Laing Grohs; a brother, Edmond Laing; four grandchildren; five greatgrandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his wife, Alice Turner Laing; his son, Joseph Howard Laing III; and his brother, Gerold Laing.

1935 ★ Maynard Monroe Irish died August 24, 2007, in Bath. He was born in Rumford in 1916, the son of Lewis and Julia Jones Irish.

He graduated from Colby College and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Irish served in the US Army at Ft. Meade, Maryland, from 1943 to 1946. He married Shirley Woolaver in 1943 at Ft. Meade. Dr. Irish practiced dentistry in Springfield,

Massachusetts, for a year before moving to Brunswick in 1947, where he practiced until his retirement in 1983. He served on the board of the Jessie Albert Memorial Dental Clinic in Bath and was a life member of the American Dental Association and the Maine Dental Association. Dr. Irish was a member of the First Parish Church and served on the boards of the Brunswick Savings Institution and the Cumberland County Selective Service System in Portland. He was a longtime member of Brunswick Rotary. He had a lifelong passion for baseball, skiing and sailing, and was an avid gardner. Dr. Irish is survived by his wife; two sons, Allen and Norman; a daughter, Margaret; five grandchildren and two great-granddaughters. His brothers, Benjamin and Horace, predeceased him.

1939 ★ William L. White died July 6, 2007, in Megansett. He was the husband of Carol Dunbar (Strange) White, who predeceased him in 1995. Born in Taunton in 1921, Mr. White came to love the Cape during visits to Pocasset at the cottage of his grandfather, Judge Lloyd White of the

alumni et alumnae Massachusetts Superior Court, on Patuisset Island. He went to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied economics at the Wharton School of Business and graduated in 1943. Mr. White was drafted upon graduation and served in the Army Air Forces as an armorer, working on the eight 50 calibers of the P-47 fighter bomber. His outfit, the 464th Fighter Squadron, was shipped off to Ie Shima in the Ryukyu Islands chain of Japan. The 464th was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for combat conducted on August 13, 1945, the last day of the war, for downing 20 enemy aircraft in the air over Keijo, Korea, in what was a 1,580 mile round trip consisting of eight hours in the air in P47N’s. When Mr. White returned home in 1946, he went to work for his great uncle Howard White at the Cadillac/Oldsmobile dealership in Taunton, which he later ran after his uncle died in 1951. He sold the business in 1959 and went to work for the U.S. Post Office until he retired in 1982.

When his wife died in 1995, Mr. White continued on and led an independent life, thinking of her often and enjoying the same things they enjoyed together, summer on the Cape and the Keys in the winter. He is survived by a son, William L. Jr.; a stepdaughter, Richalie Williams; a stepson, Roger White; two stepgranddaughters; and two stepgreat-grandchildren.

1940 ★ Richard Stewart Putnam died on August 14, 2007. Mr. Putnam was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the son of Karl and Marion (Stewart) Putnam. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and received a masters degree in electrical engineering from the Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Delta Tau Delta. Mr. Putnam was a veteran of World War II. He served in the 8th Air Force in the European Theater of Operations. He was employed by the Radio Corp. of America (RCA) for 30 years in the Moorestown, New Jersey, and Meadowlands, Pennsylvania, locations. After retiring, he served the Boy Scouts of America for 13 years as a district scout executive with the Allegheny Trails Council in Pennsylvania and the Daniel Webster Council in New Hampshire. Throughout his life, Mr. Putnam was an active volunteer in the communities where his family resided.

He was the BSA Scoutmaster in Haddon Heights, New Jersey, and Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He was an elder in the Southminster Presbyterian Church in Mount Lebanon, and in the Congregational Church in Conway, New Hampshire. He was a trustee of the Conway Public Library and a member of the Conway Historical Society.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Marion L. (Tucker) Putnam; his son, Stewart C. Putnam; three daughters, Betsy Buell, Peggy Majane and Ann Dobson; seven grandchildren; and a greatgrandson.

1941 ★ Stanley Adams Lawry, Jr. died September 22, 2007, in Loma Linda, California, after a courageous battle with cancer. He

was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1923, oldest child of Stanley and Ann Blair Lawry. Mr. Lawry graduated from Bowdoin College and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He served in the Army during World War II, in the European Theater.

He was on the front lines in the Battle for Casino. He was wounded in Germany and spent to months in a Paris hospital before returning to battle. Mr. Lawry loved sports and played tennis for Bowdoin and won the Maine State tennis championship.

Later he turned to golf and was a strong supporter of the Boston Red Sox. Mr. Lawry worked for Atlantic Richfield Company for 36 years. He was an avid reader, did the LA Times crossword puzzle every day and was an enthusiastic bridge and poker player. Mr. Lawry is survived by Sara Elaine McLean Lawry, his wife of 57 years; a daughter, Leslie; a son, Stanley; a sister, Eva; a brother, Gordon; five granchildren and many nieces and nephews.

1952 The Reverend Norman A.”Doc” Levinson died July 19, 2007, in Osterville, Massachusetts. He was born in North Dighton, Massachusetts, the son of the Henry and Hazel Levinson. He was a graduate of the Bangor Theological Seminary.

He was ordained in 1960, serving churches in Maine, Massachusetts, California, Connecticut and Florida. He also worked as a bereavement counselor at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut, and as a chaplain for the VNA Hospice of Connecticut. In his retirement, he worked as a cast member at Walt Disney World. He was a member of the Sequin Masonic Lodge 140 of Newington, Connecticut, and a chaplain for the Scottish Rite. He loved kung fu and tai chi. Besides his wife of 52 years, Katherine Reidell Levinson, he leaves a daughter, Kathy S. Post; and two sons, Thor E. Levinson and Gregg S. Levinson; and seven grandchildren.

1957 ★ Paul W. Hyatt died August 24, 2007, at his home in Lincolnville after an extended period of declining health. He was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, a son of Harold J. and Gladys L. Young Hyatt. Throughout his youth, he enjoyed spending summers at his family’s homestead in Youngstown in Lincolnville and always considered Lincolnville his home. For a brief period, he attended Babson College before enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1958. He served in the Presidential Honor Guard 8th and I, the oldest active Marine Barracks located in Washington, D.C., at the corner of 8th and I streets. During that time, he served at Camp David with Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. He later served with the 3rd Battalion in the Caribbean.

Returning to civilian life upon honorable discharge, he returned to Babson College, earning a degree in business administration. Mr. Hyatt was first employed with Burroughs Business Machine Corp. in Burlington, Vt., and later with Depositors Trust Co. in Augusta. Returning to his

Lincolnville home in Youngstown, he worked a brief time as a carpenter with George Winslow. He married Julianne R. Oliver in Lincolnville in 1982. For more than 20 years, Mr. Hyatt was employed as superintendent at the Northport Golf Course. Although his career found him constantly on the golf course, he was an avid golfer and achieved two holes in one at the Northport course. A longtime Corvette buff, he was particularly proud of his 1999 blue Corvette, which he often drove in local parades. As a member of the Midcoast Detachment No. 637, Marine Corps League, he drove the car in this month’s Lobster Festival parade, chauffeuring Margaret Lie-Nielsen, Marine Corps League chaplain. Other than the Marine Corps League, he was a member of the Liberty Lodge of Masons No. 111 in Liberty and the Belfast Shrine Club. He was predeceased by his daughter, Kristen Hyatt Edwards, in 1985. Mr. Hyatt is survived by his wife; three daughters, Karen J. Heal, Kathy J. Mills, and Ruth Dodd; 12 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.

1960 ★ Allan Stephen Creighton died November 30, 2007, in Yarmouth, after a long and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, son of Charles and Ada Shapiro Creighton. He graduated from Tufts University in 1964 with a BA in sociology. While in college, Mr. Creighton was a member of ROTC and joined the Air Force after graduation. He was stationed in Labrador for two years. In 1969 he moved to Auburn with his wife Linda and joined his father at Creighton Shoe. From 1969 to 1981, he expanded the business to five stores. After his marriage ended he left the shoe business and began a career in real estate. He worked for ERA Worden, Century 21, Coldwell Banker and Keller Williams. While battling his disease, he continued to work almost every day, making him a source of courage in inspiration to his colleagues at Keller Williams. Mr. Creighton’s favorite hobby was humor and he delighted in collecting funny stories to share with friends. Another passion was travel, and he and his partner Rae traveled to many countries. He was devoted to his family and was never happier than when visiting and sharing a good meal with his children, his relatives or his friends. Mr. Creighton is survived by Rae Garcelon, his loving partner of 13 years; his parents; a daughter, Leigh; a son, Eric; Rae’s children Emmet and Suzannah; and many cousins.

1974 David Osborne “Butts” Butler of East Boston has died. He is survived by three brothers, Nathaniel, Colin and Stephen.

Butts spent three years at Governor Dummer Academy before a youthful indiscretion prompted his move to Hebron in the fall of 1973. He was the basketball team manager and played lacrosse in the spring. Butts spent several days with a broom and shovel beautifying the Hebron campus, as penance for his late return

from senior skip day. Butts attended Franklin and Marshall College where he earned a degree in history with attention paid to late evenings. He was a child of the wild blue yonder belonging to no one in particular and everyone in general. He is survived by countless kindnesses and a host of friends who are wondering how to go on in a world suddenly infinitely less fun. Butts worked in the Purchasing Department at several colleges, including Babson, Pine Manor, Boston University and Radcliffe Institute in Cambridge, all carefully chosen within commuting distance to Fenway Park. The Red Sox won the World Series. The Patriots won the SuperBowl. His work was done. He will be sorely missed. A Viking funeral is planned.

Rob Reach ‘74

1978 Robert Whitney “Buddy” Barnard died September 24, 2007, after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was the beloved husband of Tracy Hale Barnard and loving son of Delena and Robert W. Barnard of Marblehead. Mr. Barnard received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

During his working career, he earned a MBA from Pepperdine University. Mr. Barnard held various management positions with several of the major automobile companies. His present position was as a senior executive with Mercedes Benz at its headquarters in Montvale, New Jersey. As a member of the National Freight and Transportation Association, he traveled extensively throughout the states and overseas. Mr. Barnard was a gifted athlete, a member of the Marblehead JCC swim team, a winner of the President’s Cup at the Swampscott Beach Club and an experienced skier. A true “outdoorsman,” he surfed the California coast, fished in the Florida Keys, scuba dived in the Caribbean, skied in the New England mountains, rode his Harley to Yellowstone Park, golfed at the Rockland Country, but most of all loved cruising the waters of Lake Winnipesaukee on his custom century boat from his family’s compound on the lake. He is survived by his devoted brothers, Dana Barnard and Richard Barnard, and their families.

Other Deaths Donald W. Manchester ‘39, on July 7, 2007.

Edwin N. Hyde ‘43.

Blair O. Bennett ‘52, on July 11, 2007.

Robert H. Schroeder ‘63, on August 11, 2007, in Effingham, New Hampshire.

Correction In the last issue of the Semester we noted the death of LTC Edward G. Thorp, Jr. He was a member of the class of 1952, not the class of 1962. We regret the error.

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hebroniana Whither the Lumberjack?

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icknames and mascots are a wonderful way to build team spirit and affinity. Our sports culture has plenty of examples. Lions, Tigers and Bears are very popular. One team is known as the Battle’in Beavers. There are warriors: Fighting Scots, Vikings, Trojans, Spartans and Titans but no Athenians. There are bugs: Hornets, Wasps and Yellow Jackets.

There is even weather: Cyclones, Lightning and Hurricanes.

Some mascots are less typical and even obscure. My university, Alfred, uses the Saxons and “Little Alf” as tribute to King Alfred. Amherst is the “Lord Jeffs” after Lord Jeffery Amherst and Williams is the Ephes in honor of the founder Ephraim Williams.

The Mount Hermon teams are known as the “Hoggers” from the piggery they ran as part of their agricultural heritage.

Even colors have limited use such as the Stanford Cardinal (color, not bird). They are mostly used to describe something else like Blue Devils or Red Raiders. I could only find two “Big Greens” however: Dartmouth College and Deerfield Academy.

I had long supposed that the nickname for Hebron’s teams came from some sort of loose affiliation with Dartmouth or from Claude Allen’s connection to Deerfield Academy. I can’t even ascertain how long Hebron teams were known as “Big Green.”

I do remember the term “Hebronians” was often used, but neither “Big Green” nor “Hebronians” is something to latch on to and put your arms around.

As part of my quest, I e-mailed Ellen Augusta ‘75 and she posted a note to her father, former athletic director Addison Augusta. And all became clear: In the search for the origin of the lumberjack nickname, the buck will have to stop with me. A few years before I left Hebron, I became dissatisfied with the “Big Green” title—why play third fiddle to Dartmouth and Deerfield? I thought we needed something more particular to the state of Maine, and I could think of nothing more particular than lumberjack. As far as I could learn, no one else was using it. I contacted our athletic letter supplier, described what I wanted, and asked if their artists could design something suitable. They sent back a few patches, which I thought it were just right. I showed them around to some of the coaches, and their reactions varied from indifferent to outright rejection. When I left the school a couple of years later, I left several of those patches in the athletic office closet, hoping that our successors would see things differently.

Apparently, they did.

Enter the Lumberjack

While Hebron does not have a direct tie to the forest industry, honoring our “Pine Tree State” heritage and the men and women who work in the woods is not too much of a stretch. A member of the Class of 2004 has worked with her father in the woods driving his skidder, so we have at least one “lumberjack” in the Hebron fold. I am sure that going back in history there are many others who have spent time in the woods.

Florida retirement home and he remembers quite clearly the lumberjack logo and idea.

He spoke with pride of the boys on the football team adopting the mascot and making it their own. Moose Curtis recalls that after Frank Pergolizzi left and Brian Fales came on board, they continued using the lumberjack mascot.

Eventually other teams adopted the Lumberjack, and it is now a well-accepted facet of Hebron’s athletic program and a mascot that the Hebron family can take pride in.

Final twist

So now we move to the mid-1970s when Frank Pergolizzi, the new football coach hired by John Leyden, noticed the lumberjack patch in Jay Woolsey’s office.

Mr. Pergolizzi and equipment manager Bob Gagnon had Paul Bunyan “look-alike” decals made and put them on the football helmets. I called Mr. G. at his

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In an ironic twist, Katie Curtis ’02, now a graduate student at Dartmouth, reports that a recent article in The Dartmouth suggested that the college do away with “Big Green” and become—you guessed it—the Lumberjacks!

J. Craig Clark ’70

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The athletic center as seen from Dwyer Fields on November 10, 2007. Photo by William B. Chase.

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