Hebron Academy Semester | Spring 2010

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A C A D E M Y

Spring 2010

features From Aaaah to Aha! speculating on early campus health services

by David W. Stonebraker

Assignment: Create students talk about their art

by Jennifer F. Adams

Do Extraordinary Things farewell to the class of 2010

by Emily Rose Powers ’10

The Academy 2 Alumni et Alumnae 32 Hebroniana 44 The senior class left a few messages for the rest of us in the week before commencement. The pranks were benign and creative, like these sticky notes adorning the bridge lamp posts and the library.

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the academy Editor’s Note

Bathroom writing

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emember The Big Chill? About a group of friends reuniting at a funeral, it came out in 1983 and starred Glenn Close and Jeff Goldblum, among ­others. A line from that movie tickled my funny bone then and still makes me smile today. I’ll paraphrase what Jeff Goldblum’s character, a writer for People magazine, said about his job: “I write stories that can be read ­during the average bathroom visit.” That notion has stayed with me, and as I put each Semester together, I try to strike a balance between short pieces for quick reads and longer ones for those times when, well, longer is better.

Enthroned in my office this winter, I pored over architectural drawings of the Stanley Building (see story, page 14), and was amused to discover that my space (a.k.a. Room No. 6) used to include a bathroom. Although there has been some remodeling since then, my desk chair is just about where the sink is in the drawing above.

Doesn’t everyone stash reading material in the bathroom? In fact, that’s where my parents kept their copy of this magazine. Thanks, Mom and Dad! (I think.) As I gather stories now, I like to think that my bathroom writing may become your bathroom reading. So go right ahead and keep your Semester in the bathroom. I would consider it an honor.

Jennifer F. Adams, Editor jadams@hebronacademy.org

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2010 Reunions and Homecoming Friday, October 8 Saturday, October 9 Reunions for Classes ending in Five and Zero Kids’ Activities • Road Race • Rainbow Reunion • Convocation • Athletic Hall of Fame Inductions • Distinguished Service Award • Honoring 140 years of service and retirement of Chases and Founds • Class Dinners • Much more!

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on the cover Chengmin “Cindy” Dong using a traditional film camera in her photography class. Photo

by Dennis Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios.

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

Issue No. 205 mission The Semester magazine’s mission is to continue the Hebron family’s intellectual and emotional engagement with the Academy by conveying news, preserving the heritage and memories of the school and chronicling the accomplishments of its alumni, faculty and students. editor Jennifer F. Adams editorial assistance David W. Stonebraker contributing writers Susan R. Geismar Leslie A. Guenther David Inglehart Julie Poland Middleton David W. Stonebraker production assistance Ellen L. Augusta ’75 Leslie A. Guenther Patricia A. Hutter Beverly J. Roy photography Jennifer F. Adams William B. Chase Dennis and Diana Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios, Inc. and friends

Hebron Academy reaffirms its long-standing policy of nondiscriminatory admission of students on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation.

We do not discriminate in the administration of our educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs and athletic or other school-administered programs. Hebron Academy is an equal opportunity employer. © 2010 by Hebron Academy. www.hebronacademy.org

the academy From the Head of School

Your humanity: it’s who you are W

e have spent much time and effort during the 2009–2010 school year trying to catch that je ne sais quoi about Hebron Academy, the “whatever it is” that marks and affects all of us who live and learn and teach at Hebron. With much subjective feedback and objective research from students, parents, graduates and our own community we have coalesced a brand for Hebron which happily utilizes our initials: HA. That brand is Humanity and Achievement. Hebron Academy is where Humanity and Achievement ring true.

In my remarks to the graduating Class of 2010 at Commencement I wanted to reinforce “HA” without overdoing it, as they have been the incubator for these descriptive words. Those remarks are below, and their message also prompts a celebration of humanity and achievement at Hebron in the upcoming school year when we will mark more than 140 years of service to the school.

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think all the folks at graduation will remember Emily Powers’ advice to her classmates. In fact, I wrote down a note about what Emily said. Right after her admonition to “Please mess up,” she said “...so that when the time comes, you’re the person you want to be...”

I have been thinking about the Mr. Hebron Competition a few weeks ago. It took some true courage for those guys to put themselves on the line in front of all their peers. In one humorous moment, the contestants were asked to choose between Humanity and Achievement, those words that we have been using to try to define and brand what happens at Hebron.

Each of the contestants chose Achievement, and several, including Colin and Ian, quipped that they don’t even know what those words mean. None of them used the phrase Je ne sais quoi, but maybe that’s the way it should be: We don’t know how to say it.

It is what it is.

It just happens.

As juniors, many of you read a powerful book called The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien. It is a collection of stories of what happened to men—really boys—in the Vietnam War. O’Brien writes about the characters­—the “buddies”—and their individual characters and emotions. That’s what they “carried.” It wasn’t what they had in their backpacks. It was their stories. That was their “baggage.”

For each of you, it’s what you were when you came to Hebron seven years, or four years, or two, or one just year ago. And it’s what you now “carry” as you head on from Hebron. When you walk

across this stage in a few minutes, we, your parents, your teachers, your friends, will see—and you will know—who you are, who you have become. And we will have a glimpse, as Emily has told you, of who you will be.

What you have done is written on your diploma, and recorded on your transcript, and in the year­book, and displayed in the art gallery and Etchings, and on the sports records.

What you, and your friends and family will most appreciate is who you are. (Dare I say it?) Your humanity shows! In a big city you might be able to keep your anonymity, but not at Hebron.

Mark my words: It shows!

We will sing about that in a few minutes. “....the seeds of love and light, ...and wisdom, truth, and right...” that’s with you as you set out on “...life’s devious road..”

Congratulations to each of you.

Congratulations for your Humanity!

We could not be more proud of you.

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he phenomenon of a school’s culture, its essence, its spirit, its tradition, and personality is a magical thing. It is not something purposeful, it just grows and thrives because of one ingredient: people. The students and teachers who have lived and learned at Hebron Academy have sustained and inspired that spirit and culture by their individual humanness and enthusiasm for young people and this remarkable place.

Next year will be the year-long celebration of the lives and service of four incredible people who have marked the lives of Hebron students for more than thirty-five years. As we honor and celebrate their final year teaching at Hebron

Head of School John King congratulates the senior class on its humanity at Commencement.

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the academy before so well-deserved retirements, we want all of Hebron to celebrate Betsy and Bruce Found and Judy and Bill Chase, not only all they have achieved and inspired with countless Hebron students since the early 1970s, but more vitally, their humanity: what they

have shown and been for so many students by who they are and how they have lived at Hebron.

To mark that set of milestones we will need the help of many people. To record the genealogy of the family of students the Chases have worked with, and to

Left: Nicole ’91, Bill, Judy and Julie ’85 Chase. Above: Betsy and Bruce Found.

Milestones C

ongratulations to the faculty and staff listed below who mark significant milestones this year. Forty percent of Hebron Academy’s full-time employees have been at the school for 10 or more years and 60 percent for five or more.

35 years John “Moose” Curtis Chemistry

25 years Bob Tribou Bus Driver

30 years Brad Whittemore Master Plumber

15 years Mary Anderson Fine Arts Cilla Potter Librarian; Dean of Faculty

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record the genetic trail of the Founds’ science students we will need the reminiscences of decades of Hebron students. Please heed the call, when it comes forth, for your stories of how these four remarkable folks have touched you

and changed your life. Celebrate a combined 140 years of service and humanity shared at Hebron Academy.

10 years David Chisholm Director, Sage Food Service Jeanine Eschenbach Fine Arts; Dean of Students Heather Ferrenbach Mathematics Jeanie Hall Sage Food Service Joe Hemmings Director of Admission Pat Hutter School Receptionist Brian Jurek Assistant Head of School Barbara Martin Sage Food Service

Merry Shore Chair, Mathematics and Computer Studies Department

John King Head of School

5 years Brian Creps Maintenance Donna Inglehart Chair, English Department Janet Littlefield Resident Faculty Carol Malo Accounts Receivable Cheryl Tardif Director, Student Health Center

the academy 2010 Cum Laude Society

Congratulations to the members of the Cum Laude Society. First row: Ho In Na ’10, Jai Kim ’11, Benjamin Blais ’10, Polly Drown ’11. Second row: Weisun Jiang ’10, Yang Tian ’10, Seok Won Jee ’10*, Seung Woo Kim ’10, Jeremy Kleven ’10*, Emma Leavitt ’10*. Third row: speaker Noah Burns ’00, Brian MacDonald ’10, Sang Il Min ’10*, Zachary Torrano ’11, Nicholas Stuer ’10, Thomas Cummings ’11, Emily Powers ’10*, Brent Landry ’10. *elected in 2009

Three to join board

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e are pleased to welcome new and returning members of Hebron Academy’s Board of Trustees. Taking their seats at the fall meeting will be Richard Bennett, Catherine Thoman Crowley ’87 and Clement S. Dwyer, Jr. ’66. Look for more in the fall Semester.

School community keeps quiet

Rainbow-clad seniors Emily Powers, Nick Stuer, Cory O’Brien, Colin Taylor, Emma Leavitt, Jeremy Kleven and Becky Ives in front of a Day of Silence banner signed by members of the community in support of their LGBT classmates and friends.

On April 23, many Hebron students were silent as part of the National Day of Silence, which brings attention to name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools, particularly of students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. At morning meeting, members of the GSA and others read personal statements written by students, faculty and staff describing why they support the Day of Silence.

Students at the University of Virginia organized the first Day of Silence in 1996. It has become the largest student-led action towards creating safer schools for all. The day’s vow of silence is designed to draw attention to the silencing effect of bullying on LGBT students and those perceived to be LGBT.

Strike!

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ebron’s own Lumber Liquidators compete weekly at Hobbs’ Lucky Lanes in South Paris. Organized by John Slattery ’04, the bowling team provides a little off-campus fun for some hardworking faculty. Left to right: Katie Coyne (history), John Slattery ’04 (gift officer), Brian Jurek (assistant head), Max Jones (Latin), Corey Ridley (athletic trainer), Anna Skeele (admissions) and Ian Cross (mathematics).

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Athletic center design recognized C

ongratulations to architecture firm SMRT on a recent Citation Award from the American Institute of Architects for their design of Hebron Academy’s new athletic center. The awards are presented biannually by AIA and were featured in the June issue of Maine Home and Design. A total of 34 Maine projects were presented for consideration for the 2010 AIA Maine design competition.

The Maine Home and Design article quotes Maine architect Bruce Norelius, who presented the local entries to the awards jury, as follows: “The question for us always is, ‘How do we respect the natural and built landscape of Maine?’ Everyone answers that question differently, and it changes all the time, but my sense is that the solutions are becoming more sophisticated, nuanced, and complex, and this year’s entries reflect that brilliantly.”

The individual citation reads: “By carefully controlling views within the building as well as from

the building, the design team connected the design to the bucolic surrounding landscape.

And to enhance the academy’s philosophy of combining athletics and academics, SMRT came up with a design concept that is rich with mathematical references: exterior panels arranged in the numeric sequences of pi, phi, and Euler’s Constant, glazing proportioned to the Fibonacci Series, and a floor plan that also follows the Golden Mean, to name a few.”

One of the award jurors commented: “This space is so inviting, bright, and fresh that

Looking across the main playing floor from the elevated track. The competition basketball court is in the foreground; offices, locker rooms, storage and training rooms are along the back wall.

you’d be drawn to it and look forward to working out! I liked the separation of the entry and administration space from the actual athletic areas and the creative use of a big, simple, inexpensive building to accommodate a large amount of gymnasium and workout space.”

Paul Stevens, head of SMRT, pointed to his firm’s long association with Hebron, an association going back to the work of his great-grandfather, noted architect John Calvin Stevens, who designed many campus structures including the School Building and Sturtevant Home.

Hebron alumna and SMRT project manager Lynne Holler ’80 served as chief architect for the athletic center, which was built

by Warren Construction of South Freeport. SMRT’s Paul Lewandowski did the heavy lifting on the design. The athletic center was completed in 2008 as phase one of a long-range campus master plan.

The main entrance hallway with the Lepage Fitness Center to the right, stairs down to the lower level and squash courts, and a ramp to the track level and offices. The climbing wall can be seen in the background.

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Photos © Sandy Agrafiotis

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Science building turns fifty “We at Hebron feel there is great difference between just studying a subject and living it.”

Treat Science Hall was dedicated in 1960, the first of three major campus buildings erected within a decade (the others were Halford Hall in 1967 and Hupper Library in 1970).

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n October 1960, the first of three major new campus buildings was dedicated (followed by Halford Hall in 1967 and Hupper Library in 1970), marking the start of a mini building boom under Claude Allen’s tenure. The new science building replaced an outmoded and outgrown structure and provided much-needed space for an expansion of science and mathematics instruction at Hebron.

From the winter 1961 Semester: “With the completion of the George Winfield Treat Science Hall, named in memory of George W. Treat 1894, science at Hebron has taken on a new look.

This fine building with its many and varied facilities makes possible the realization of teaching objectives of the highest order.

“A partial statement of these objectives as announced at the dedication ceremonies of the new building on October 22 [1960], is as follows: “To provide a place where the willing and able of Hebron Academy may not only study science and mathematics, but find motivation and opportunity to live them.

“We at Hebron feel there is great difference between just studying a subject and living it.

This building with its library, lecture hall, laboratories, shop laboratories, radio station, astronomical observatory, classrooms, darkroom, etc., was from the very beginning planned by

those who were going to use it, with the above objectives in mind.”

Although the sentiments above are still true 50 years

later, we have reconfigured some of the spaces to accommodate changing needs and new technology. With the advent of digital photography there is no longer a need for a darkroom, and a computer center— unimaginable in 1960—is now housed in the building.

Looking ahead on the long range plan for the campus— step two or three in the future thinking of the school, according to Head of School John King—is an addition to Treat.

The addition would provide new laboratory and prep space, rooms for advanced placement and independent study and allow us to convert some of the existing labs into classrooms.

Treat’s spacious classrooms and wellequipped labs replaced a small and outdated facility shown in this 1920sera photo.

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Tragedy tomorrow…

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hat better prescription for the seemingly endless winter snow than to spend a few hours on the sunny streets of Rome with an engagingly comical cast of characters? This year’s winter musical production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was a welcome respite from the dark and cold and kept the audience laughing from start to finish.

Based on the 2000-year-old plays of Plautus, Forum’s opening number promises “something for everyone” and this production delivered. The show is a merry romp of mistaken identities and uncanny coincidences, abundantly spiced with double entendres and innuendo.

Calvin Moisan ’10 effortlessly portrayed the conniving slave Pseudolus, whose longing to be free drives the action of the play.

Nick Stuer ’10 brought a commanding magnificence to the warrior Miles Gloriosus and sophomore Matt Fensore’s wildly flailing limbs added hilarious dimension to the tightly-wound Hysterium. Max Middleton ’12, as the henpecked Senex, lit up the stage, and Roz Moisan ’13, as his strident wife Domina, was an intensely forceful presence.

Andrew Burgess ’11 was strong and sure as the lovestruck Hero and Polly Drown ’12 was sweet but not saccharine as the lovely, but dim, Philia. Ninth grader Sydney Randall took on the usually male role of Lycus, the purveyor of “brides for hire” with grace and humor. “Marvel”ous Seung Woo Kim ’10 added fun and flair with his eloquent singing and magnetic facial expressions.

Camreé Thompson ’10, Sam Futch ’13, Becky Ives ’10, Emma Leavitt ’10, Emily Powers ’10, Erika Thomas ’11 and Abbie Small ’12 imbued each courtesan with a

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Clockwise from top: Senex and Domina; Marcia Lycus; Marcia Lycus and the courtesans; Hero and Philia.

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Clockwise from top left: Pseudolus convinces Hysterium that “You’re Lovely;” Miles Gloriosus and his band of soldiers; Marvel, Pseudolus, Hysterium and Senex in “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid,” the company; Pseudolus, the eunuchs, Hero and Philia in “Pretty Little Picture.”

distinct personality and were overseen by Courtesan Keepers Noelle Giguere ’13 and Haley Grimmer ’13, along with Eunuch Magnus Rob MacLellan ’11.

Although traditional casting calls for just three additional actors to play everything from citizens and soldiers to sailors and slaves, directors Julie Middleton and Cynthia Reedy instead expanded the cast into distinct groups. The eunuchs— played by faculty members, were an audience favorite—and the solid support provided by students playing soldiers, slaves and virgins added to the depth and breadth of the production.

The set, designed by Delian Valeriani ’00 and built by Delian and parent Earl Futch, was perfect for the many entrances and exits from various doors and balconies. The bright and beautiful costumes underscored the sheer exuberance and humor of the show.

As wonderful as all the individual players were, they shone even more brightly together. The chemistry among those playing the major roles was evident, no matter which actors were on the stage. They owned their parts, were fearless in their delivery and relished each other’s joyful participation.

Forum would never be called subtle or deep, but sometimes a good belly laugh is all you really need, and this show delivered.

Job well done.

…comedy tonight!

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Winter athletics

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ebron teams enjoyed a productive winter athletic season.

The boys’ JV basketball team had a successful season which began with an opening game thriller, a triple overtime win over host Richmond High School. The boys’ varsity basketball team had good season as well, going undefeated in maisad play to become maisad champion for the first time since 2007. The girls’ varsity basketball team was maisad champion as well and made their third appearance in the past four years in the MPA Class D tournament where they fell just short in their quarterfinal game, losing to eventual tournament champion Greenville High School.

Moving from the hardwood to the ice, Hebron team successes continued. Both the boys’ JV and the girls’ varsity hockey teams completed their seasons with winning records, and the boys’ varsity team was selected to the nepsac Division I Small Schools tourney, making their fifth consecutive appearance in post-season play where they advanced to the semifinal round.

And, in a first for both schools, students from Kents Hill and Hebron enrolled in our personal fitness programs matched up in two “personal fitness challenges” which included events ranging from the timed mile to a dead-lift competition.

Hebron’s scores are listed first.

Girls’ Varsity Basketball champions and selected to the MPA Class D tournament

maisad

Hyde/Roman Tournament 12/4 Kents Hill 12/5 Hyde 12/10 OOB 12/12 Pine Tree Acad.

12/16 Kents Hill 12/18 Buckfield 1/6 Pine Tree Acad.

1/8 Hyde

37 41 28 41 49 44 42 44

24 35 36 15 39 20 24 34

1/9 Traip Academy 1/11 Richmond 1/13 Grtr Prtlnd Chrstn 1/16 NYA 1/19 Buckfield 1/20 Waynflete 1/23 Seacoast 1/26 Seacoast 1/27 Sacopee 1/30 NYA 2/1 Grtr Prtlnd Chrstn 2/4 Kents Hill 2/15 MPA Tournament vs. Greenville HS

27 26 38 35 45 32 46 40 31 43 33 29

45 36 26 44 29 59 29 26 18 48 40 32

45 52

Boys’ Varsity Basketball maisad

champions

11/30 NYA (scrim) 12/2 Tilton Hyde/Roman Tournament 12/4 Kents Hill 12/5 Hyde 12/10 Putnam Sci. Acad.

57 91 54 36 62 49 56 78

Along with winning the maisad title, the girls’ basketball team was selected to the MPA Class D tournament. They lost a close quarterfinal game “on the hardwood” at the Augusta Civic Center to eventual state champion Greenville High School. Seen here are Emma Leavitt ’10, Emily Powers ’10 and Malorie Johnson ’11 at a home game on the competition court.

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12/12 St. Andrews 24 12/16 Kents Hill 62 Lawrence/Groton Tournament 12/18 Cushing 52 12/19 Lawrence 36 1/7 NYA 46 1/11 Hyde 48 1/13 New Hampton “B” 47 1/15 St. Andrews 47 1/16 Marianapolis 48 1/20 Brewster “B” 64 1/22 Tilton 46 1/30 Brimmer and May 47 2/3 Brewster “B” 74 2/10 Berwick 63 2/12 Vermont Acad.

54 2/13 Kimball Union 37 2/17 Kents Hill 69 2/24 Holderness 55

79 53 78 72 32 45 62 68 63 56 77 69 46 54 47 66 55 68

Boys’ JV Basketball 12/7 12/12 1/11 1/13 1/16 1/20 1/29 2/3 2/11 2/13

Richmond Gould Richmond Hyde Kents Hill Gould Berwick Richmond Hyde Kents Hill

51 53 44 31 38 48 54 43 57 39

50 29 34 41 28 25 44 45 49 28

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4 2 7 0 3

2 5 4 1 5 2 2 9 3 3 0 1 2 4 3 7 3 0 0 4 4 4

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

Girls’ Varsity Hockey 12/2 Tilton 12/4 NEWHL 12/5 Governor’s Acad.

12/12 Gunnery 12/13 Gunnery (OT) St. George’s Tournament 12/18 Greenwich 12/18 St. George’s 12/19 Thayer (OT) 1/8 BB&N 1/9 Pingree 1/13 Kents Hill 1/16 Stanstead 1/22 Capitals 1/23 Proctor 1/27 New Hampton 1/29 Exeter 1/30 Brewster 2/1 NYA 2/3 Holderness 2/5 Middlesex 2/10 Berwick 2/13 Canterbury 2/14 Winchendon 2/17 Proctor 2/19 Kents Hill 2/20 New Hampton 2/27 NYA

Co-captain Bryan Felice ’10 helped lead the boys’ hockey team to a semifinal berth in the nepsac Division I Small School Tournament.

Boys’ Varsity Hockey 11/24 Exeter 1 11/30 Lawrence (scrim) 12/2 Holderness 3 12/4 Bridgton 6 12/11 Acad. St. Louis 3 12/12 Pingree 5 Exeter Showcase 12/18 South Kent 7 12/19 Stanstead 7 12/19 Wyoming Sem. 9 Belmont Hill Tournament 12/28 Belmont Hill 2 12/28 KUA 1 12/29 Ridley College 4 12/30 Milbrook 3 1/4 Boston Bulldogs 1 1/6 New Hampton 1 1/9 South Kent 3 1/10 South Kent 1 1/13 Berwick (OT) 3 1/15 Stanstead 9 1/16 Kents Hill 11 1/20 Bridgton 6 1/23 Holderness 5 1/27 Vermont @Exeter 10 1/29 Hoosac 5 1/30 Brewster 6 2/3 NYA 7 2/10 Berwick 2 2/13 Governor’s Acad.

2 2/17 New Hampton 7 2/19 Cushing 2 2/20 Tilton 3 2/24 NYA 9 2/27 Kents Hill 5 New England Tournament 5 3/3 Brewster (OT) 3/6 Dexter 0

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the academy HAMS rule the slopes

For the first time in several years, Hebron skiers and snowboarders enjoyed great conditions for their training and racing. Seen here is Polly Drown ’11, who received the coaches’ award this year.

Boys’ JV Hockey

Alpine Skiing

12/3 St. Dom’s 4 3 12/5 NYA 4 1 12/11 Acad. St. Louis 0 4 12/12 Acad. St. Louis 0 4 JV Prep School Tournament @NYA 12/18 Berwick 5 2 12/18 Kents Hill 1 1 12/19 NYA 5 1 12/19 Kents Hill 4 1 1/6 St. Dom’s 4 0 1/8 Casco Bay 4 1 1/13 New Hampton 4 3 1/16 Kents Hill 5 1 1/20 Brewster 1 2 1/23 Kents Hill 2 2 1/27 Tilton 3 3 1/29 NYA 3 1 1/30 Maine Pre-Preps 3 1 2/3 Brewster 2 0 2/12 Holderness 5 0 2/17 Kents Hill 4 0 2/20 New Hampton 6 7

1/13 GS @Shawnee 1/20 GS @Sunday Riv. 1/22 SL @Kents Hill 1/27 SL @Sunday Riv. 2/3 GS @Shawnee 2/5 SL @Kents Hill 2/10 New Englands 2/12 maisad C’ship @Shawnee

Snowboarding 1/13 SS @Sunday Riv. 1/20 BA @Kents Hill 1/22 SS @Sunday Riv. 1/27 BA @Kents Hill 1/29 SS @Sunday Riv. 2/3 HP @Sunday Riv. 2/10 maisad Boarder Cross @Sun. Riv. 2/2 maisad BA@Kents Hill

He’ll do the heavy lifting for you Nick Stuer ’10 participated in the 2010 Maine Games State Power lifting championship, held March 26–27 at Brewer Auditorium. The competition, now in its sixth year, brings together the strongest lifters in the state. Nick finished third overall and won his age and weight class with a dead-lift of 529 pounds.

HAMS Victorious! Kneeling: Chase Harkins ’16 and Will Kannegieser 15. Standing: Walter Rasmussen ’15, Brooks Layman ’14, Sawyer Harkins ’14, Des Donisi ’14, Caitlin Shelley ’15, Coach Leslie Guenther, Izzy Layman ’16, Julia Schneider ’14 and Janelle Tardif ’14.

The Middle School boys ski team took first place in both slalom and giant slalom in the Maine Middle School Ski League Class B state meet at Shawnee Peak in February, sweeping three of the top seven places in slalom, and three of the top ten in giant slalom to win the overall by a stunning 52 points.

Will Kannegeiser ’15 took first place in slalom and fifth in giant slalom while Brooks Layman ’14 finished second in GS and third in slalom. Sawyer Harkins ’14 took seventh in slalom and tenth in GS. Other finishers for the boys were Chase Harkins ’16, Des Donisi ’14 and Walter Rasmussen ’15.

The Hebron girls team tied for fourth overall, led by Izzy Layman ’16 (9th GS, 14th SL), Julia Schneider ’14 (14th GS, 20th SL), and Janelle Tardif ’14 (25th GS, 27th SL), and followed by Alana Chipman ’15, Caitlin Shelley ’15, Sarah Brouwer ’15, Paige Kenison ’14 and Lindsey Kenison 16.

Hebron Athletic Director Leslie Guenther said: “What a great day we all had: from perfect weather and good snow to great parent support and successful results for everyone. Every single middle school skier completed all four runs and we had some great individual and team successes.”

Congratulations, Middle School Lumberjacks!

The boys savor their title: Walter Rasmussen ’15, Sawyer Harkins ’14, Chase Harkins ’16, Brooks Layman ’14, Will Kannegieser ’15 and Des Donisi ’14.

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Spring athletics

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aturday, May 15—maisad day—dawned sunny and warm.

Hebron’s athletic fields were lush and green and ready for play.

By early afternoon visiting teams had arrived, along with bus loads of fans from Hyde, Gould and Kents Hill. By game time, there was cheering, the sound of horns and drums, and an air of excitement around the Dwyer and Allen Fields.

Just as the games were set to begin, a parent asked innocently enough, “So where are all the student fans from Hebron?” This prompted our proud reply that we had so few student fans because all of our teams were, instead, participating in these championship games.

Hebron was fortunate enough to host three home lacrosse games and a baseball game that day, while our softball and tennis teams were on the road for their championship events. And while the final outcomes were not all in our favor, we Lumberjacks were proud to be the only maisad school to boast having a team in each championship game.

Hebron’s scores are listed first.

Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse

Baseball

Four seniors—Eric Banash, Kyle Cordaro, Charles Evans and Cory O’Brien—were named to the AllStar team along with coach Jay Keough.

Senior Nate Dupere’s walk-off grand slam gave Hebron the win in the annual “Golden Ball” game against Kents Hill.

4/3 Berwick 4/8 Bridgton 4/10 Proctor 4/13 Winthrop (scrim) 4/16 Kents Hill 4/21 Gould 5/1 Kents Hill 5/5 Gould 5/7 Kents Hill 5/12 MAISAD semifinal vs. Kents Hill

5 12 5 17 8 9 10 6 10 3 25 4 11 1 4 6 7 6

4/3 4/5 4/10 4/14 4/16 4/19

PHS Play Date St. Dom’s (scrim) Proctor Holderness Gould Kents Hill

12 15

JV Baseball 4/14 4/21 4/23 4/24 4/30 5/5 5/14

Kents Hill Gould NYA Kents Hill Berwick New Hampton Kents Hill

15 29 2 7 4 0 4

6 0 21 5 13 16 14

Nate Dupere ’10 was named athlete of the week when he hit a grand-slam home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to give Hebron the 7–6 “walkoff” win over rival Kents Hill in the annual Golden Ball game on May 7.

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4/21 New Hampton 4/23 Kents Hill 4/24 Brewster 4/28 Tilton 4/30 Hyde 5/1 Gould 5/5 Hyde 5/7 Berwick (OT) 5/12 maisad semifinal vs. Hyde 5/15 maisad final vs. Gould 5/19 NE quarterfinal vs. Landmark 5/21 NE semifinal vs. Pingree

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Hard work and improved play over the season led to a maisad title for this young team.

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Although they only played nine games because of weatherrelated cancellations, the softball team turned in a 5–3–0 record for the season.

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★ ★ ★ League Recognition The MAISAD Academic All-Conference Team is comprised of varsity impact players who are juniors or seniors and who have distinguished themselves both academically and athletically throughout the school year. Honored at Hebron for 2009–2010 are: Mason Lopez ’10, Emma Valli ’10, Emma Leavitt ’10 and Nick Stuer ’10.

★ ★ ★ MVP Camreé Thompson ’10 takes a penalty shot during Hebron’s 11–9 win over Gould in the MAISAD semifinal on May 12.

Boys’ Varsity Tennis 4/10 4/12 4/14 4/19 4/21 5/1 5/3 5/5 5/12 5/15

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Congratulations to these top finishers at the New England meet: Emma Leavitt ’10 (fifth in 200m dash, third in long jump, first in 400m dash), Aaron Paiton ’10 (fifth in high jump), Jeremy Kleven ’10 (sixth in pole vault) and Nick Stuer ’10 (first in discus). The girls finished eighth out of 16 teams and the boys 12th our of 18.

Singles titleist Alessandra Hankinson ’10 was undefeated in maisad play. She received Hebron’s David A. Lewis award in recognition of her fine play and dedication.

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MVP Kyle Cordaro ’10 and teammates Charles Evans ’10, Cory O’Brien ’10 and Eric Banash ’10 were all named to the New England All-Star team; Hebron’s own Jay Keough was selected to coach.

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The original architectural drawing of the first floor of the Stanley Infirmary, designed by Albert Dow and built in 1929. The office and “operating room� are now the Office of Admission reception area; the other rooms are offices.

From aaaaah to aha!

Speculating on early campus health services

by David W. Stonebraker

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ecently the Bell-Lipman Archives received a gift of the original drawings of the Stanley Infirmary which, when completed in 1929, was in part the gift of Freelan O. Stanley, then the President of Hebron’s Board of Trustees. The plans were found in the mid-coast area when a contractor, himself the son of a succession of owners of a business, was cleaning corporate storage in anticipation of his retirement. Mr. Hovey had no knowledge that his father or others in the company had been involved in building Hebron’s infirmary but allowed that materials often passed from firm to firm through sales. The plans themselves answered one lingering question but raised others. Who was the architect for the Stanley Infirmary? Some observers of the campus had thought that the building might have been designed by a member of the firm of John Calvin Stevens but not by the principal himself. Others felt that the Infirmary was the design of another person because features of the building, particularly window and door treatments, were quite different from the styles displayed in other Stevens buildings on the campus: Sturtevant Hall, Sturtevant Home, Allen House, Long Cottage and Atwood.

With the return of the original drawings, the first question was answered; Albert Dow of Boston was the architect of record.

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Who was Albert Dow? What sorts of commissions did he undertake? Why, in 1928, was he commissioned to design an Infirmary for Hebron Academy? If readers will forgive the rather speculative nature of the notes which follow, I would like to piece together a tale of the Stanley Infirmary and health facilities at Hebron. Some points are admittedly unresearched and themselves the subjects of questions for the future; however, like many aspects of Hebron’s buildings and campus, the creation of Stanley Infirmary as a center for health services suggests that those directing the school had then, as now, answered first to necessity, adapting and shaping resources to best serve the evolving needs of the Academy.

Let’s begin with a general question, “What happened if a student became ill at Hebron at the close of the 19th century?” Hebron had no dormitories; students “boarded round” in the rooming houses of the day: Trustee House,

What happened if a student Packard House composed of two or Bailey Block. rectangular units became ill at Hebron at the From diaries and offset from each close of the 19th century? letters of the time, other: a two story we learn that main house and a Mrs. Howe or Ma second similarly Bailey would have given care to a sized but slightly smaller unit of a student confined to his or her room, story and half for a small barn and but if one were truly ill, one went storage. When Barrows sold the home. Nellie Day, Class of 1893, building in 1883, it was remodeled notes in her diary that for illness and to serve as a boarding house, and poor travel conditions, she stayed Nellie Day’s diary suggests that home in Turner for nearly three weeks of the the upstairs of the main house housed girls winter term. For Nellie, living in Bailey Block while rooms in the enlarged portion above at the time, being sick at Hebron was not the carriage house served for several boys. really an option. The problem surely worried Ma Bailey’s apartment was on the ground Principal Sargent as well. floor. So configured, Bailey Block served as a Bailey Block itself plays a pivotal role in boarding house for about twenty years until the development of the campus. Sited with a it was moved to make room for a proposed pleasing southern exposure facing the Paris gymnasium.

Road, the original house was the home of As William Sargent set about to create Joseph Barrows from 1836 to 1872, It was a cohesive campus for Hebron Academy, he

Labeled simply “Infirmary, 1927,” this photograph is likely a room in Barrows Lodge, newly remodeled to provide ward rooms for students who were too ill to go home, and the first step toward providing health services on campus.

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Memories of Bailey House, a.k.a. Barrows Lodge

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think that, without a doubt, this is a picture of what was then known as the Bailey House [above]. We went to Hebron in 1886. We lived about a year in the Brick, then moved to Miss Bailey’s to allow Uncle George and Lonnie to have the Brick. I seem to remember a stable and perhaps it had been partially remodeled when this picture was taken. Miss Bailey was an eccentric, who was something of a naturalist. She was also something of a musician and used to gather us children Sunday afternoon in the summer and get us to sing.

Her brother was Dudley Bailey who had some connection with the Academy and for whom there is a memorial window in the church, I think. The buildings were

on the right side of the road as one goes to Paris.

They then came into the hands of the Academy, were thoroughly redone and named Barrows Lodge. That was the era of the postcard [right] which I am enclosing

and which I do not want returned. The front house was later moved to the other side of the road, still called Barrows Lodge, and, in its turn, soon to be razed.

Hazel Donham Higgins May 6, 1966

The image at top was most likely taken from the Paris Road side. The postcard at right shows Bailey House as seen from Sturtevant Home.

Andrews Field is at the left. Bailey House was moved across the road in 1928 as part of the preparation for Sargent Gymnasium, which was originally planned for this site. The board later relocated the gym to the other side of Andrews Field, leaving this area open.

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become the Academy’s first infirmary but not until a subsequent renovation in the 1920s. A brief article in the winter Hebronian of 1924 announces plans to convert the western portion of Barrows Lodge into an infirmary which would have reception area, dispensary and nurse’s room on the ground floor and two ward rooms above. According to the Hebronian, this modest facility was completed in 1926, and an early photograph from the Archives labeled simply “Infirmary, 1927,” suggests what a ward room of the day was like.

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The Stanley Infirmary was well-equipped to take care of boys in a rural boarding school. We think this X-ray machine was located in Room 1, now the office of Admission Counselor Anna Skeele.

first created Sturtevant Home as a dormitory for girls in 1900. Fires which had destroyed Trustee House and Belleview House in close succession at the turn of the century underscored the Academy’s need for proper dormitories. Cook Gymnasium offered rooms for boys, and Atwood Dormitory had been completed in 1910.

With the school assuming a greater role in residential life, the problem of becoming ill while at school would become more critical.

While Sturtevant Home employed a matron to attend to the young women, the plans for the original building show no rooms dedicated to an infirmary. Bailey Block was about to assume a new role.

The Academy bought Bailey Block in 1903, renamed it Barrows Lodge, and renovated it once again to serve as housing for boys. The western ell, or former carriage house, underwent extensive renovation, as a post card from the period suggests.

The building now contained two units of roughly equal size, rooms for students occupying the eastern portion and a faculty apartment and two student rooms the western ell. A passing reference in The History of Hebron Academy suggests that this western portion of Barrows Lodge would

hat prompted the school to create the Barrows Lodge health facility and how long did it function? There is no direct evidence, but events of the day might have played a role. Surely the influenza epidemic which struck the nation in 1917–1918 might have underscored the need for a permanent health facility on the campus. One can only speculate about how school leaders responded to the outbreak, but the recent example of the H1N1 outbreak in 2009 suggest that many students would have been at home or ill in their dormitory rooms. School life must certainly have been disrupted. Perhaps these are the circumstances to which William

Sargent and Freelan Stanley responded. But why was Stanley built, and why was it sited where it is?

In the 1920s, Principal Ralph Hunt and Freelan Stanley consolidated the campus into the generally circular shape so familiar today. As well, Mr. Stanley had dramatic plans to improve the Academy’s athletic programs. Andrews Field, what most affectionately know as “The Bowl,” had become a viable athletic field. Under the direction of Charlie Dwyer, boards would be installed and a portion of the field flooded in 1922 to inaugurate ice hockey at Hebron. Mr. Stanley would move immediately to begin a capital campaign for athletics, first to create in 1924 an indoor natural ice arena for a school, the Stanley Arena, and then further to create a new gymnasium.

While this discussion appears to be moving far away from health services, a series of decisions between 1924 and 1928 will suggest how the school’s leaders at the time pragmatically answered multiple needs simultaneously. With Stanley Arena completed and ice hockey launched at Hebron, the Board of Trustees planned for the new gymnasium. The site chosen would be on the west side of the campus, fronting the

Influenza in 1918

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hen it came to the last of the term everyone thought that Hebron was going to get through without having Influenza. There had been but one case early in the term, but, owing to quick action it had not spread at all.

The Friday before the finals there was a sudden dropping out at classes and at the table. Instead of these colds (as they were then thought to be) getting better, they grew worse and others caught them. Sunday Dr. Bartlett was called and with the help of Miss Hodsdon and Miss Poor they worked with the sick all day. Things began to look serious.

Monday morning several boys were sent home, but all those who were well enough started to take their finals. By noon everyone was excited, and when Professor Sargent announced that a case of “Flu” had been found and those who could were to leave that afternoon, none were surprised.

All who were able left that afternoon, but some of the sick had to stay even two weeks longer. All who were sick were taken to Atwood Hall and there Mrs. Field took charge until Thursday, when she, too, became ill. Saturday all those who were still sick were brought over to Sturtevant Home.

The ones who had the “Flu” at Hebron were Dorothy Chadwick, Cornelia Herrington, Frank Herrington, Cornelius and Lawrence Hagarthy, Donald Sprague, Fred Moore, Jose Quirch, Roy Burroughs, Arthur Hawkes, Philip Marsh, Thomas White, Ralph Kilday and George Lane.

“School Notes,” Hebron Semester, February, 1919

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Paris Road and below the Sturtevant Home, a site which would allow direct access from its lower level onto the Andrews Field. To accommodate the design, Barrows Lodge had to go. The decision was reached to move the building across the Paris Road, turning it 90° in the process to take its place next to the Parsonage and Howe Cottage, a group of frame buildings familiar to pre-Halford Hall alumni who remember them as dormitories. While an infirmary remained in Barrows Lodge as a suite of rooms, the facility was likely inadequate to the needs of a growing school.

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nter Albert Dow. It may be that Mr. Stanley, then a resident of Newton, would have known of Dow’s architecture firm through his Boston circle. It may be that Stanley had seen Dow’s work in the large Woodbourne project, now the

Woodbourne that would replace Mr. Stanley’s foresight Historic the facility from District, Barrows Lodge provided facilities that in adjacent and would be served the school for more appropriately sited Jamaica Plain, a development down the slope than of the affordable from Sturtevant fifty housing of the day, single and Home and across the campus drive multi-family residential units of from the proposed gymnasium. years. manageable size. Albert Dow’s However, fate intervened and firm, Dow, Harlow and Kimball, several incidents occurred in were involved in the project rapid succession which shaped the during its later years, perhaps modern campus and challenged the between 1920 and 1929. Indeed, one of resources of the school. the designs in the Woodbourne project, a Sturtevant Home burned in February home of “foursquare” design intended for a of 1927. The Academy’s resources were single family, looks surprisingly similar in immediately pledged to its reconstrucoutward appearance to a scaled down version tion, completed within a year. Only a year of Stanley Building. However it happened, later, at their February meeting, the Board Dow earned a commission to design an voted to construct the gymnasium and an infirmary for Hebron Academy, a building infirmary building simultaneously. Further,

The just-completed Stanley Infirmary in 1929. This battered photograph was retouched to add grass around the building, which looks forlorn without the landscaping that surrounds it today. Also note the open fire escape on the end of Sturtevant Home!

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The 21st century Hebron community Freelan Stanley remembrances of pledged to make the health proretains the close-knit up any overage viders who served village environment in the cost if the the students. buildings might Indeed, alumni of the be begun immethrough the ’50s 19th. diately. Thus, construction on the and ’60s share similar memories Stanley Infirmary commenced in of time spent above floors in the early spring on the west side of the spacious ward rooms of Stanley. campus drive; however, the site for But a facility projected to serve as the proposed gymnasium proved many as fourteen ill students— unsatisfactory, and in sudden perhaps as much as 15–20 percent decisions by the Board of Trustees in June of the student population—was more a of 1928, site preparation was halted on the luxury than a necessity. Besides, the resident sloping western site for the gym, land was nurse—on duty nearly perpetually—had purchased on the eastern side of the Bowl, been replaced by a nursing staff, supported and the Board approved Albert Dow’s draw- by health professionals, with regular onings for a building on that site. It appears to duty and on-call hours. be Dow’s only commission for a sports facily the late 1980s, the need for more ity, his principal public commissions being classroom and office space in the libraries and courthouses. The building, main buildings of the campus prompted the when completed in 1929, contained innovative facilities that would distinguish Hebron decision to convert the Stanley Infirmary into the Stanley Administration Building, among northern New England schools a facility for the Admissions, Advancefor generations: two court spaces, indoor ment and Publications Offices, while a new baseball and training area, swimming pool and squash court. In addition, Mr. Stanley’s generosity and foresight had provided the Academy with athletic and health facilities that would serve the school for more than fifty years. The History of Hebron Academy describes the health facility as having “on the first floor a suite of four rooms: consultation office, reception room, bedroom and kitchenette; on the second floor four bedrooms and on the top floor a special ward for contagious diseases.” Interestingly, the building had no provision for access to the basement, and the “contagious ward” would soon become rooms for the resident nurses who served the school until the 1970s.

Photos of the Stanley Infirmary, taken upon completion, show a well-equipped examining room, or “operating room,” and even a portable X-ray machine in what is presently Ms. Skeele’s admissions office. Among the many little “treasures” of the Bell-Lipman Archives, is a series of senior portraits from the 1930s and early 1940s, each inscribed “To Nursie,” and bearing thanks and

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This is most likely the “Operating Room” shown on the Stanley Infirmary plans on page 14 (note the terrazzo tile floor). This area is now where Admission receptionist Judy Chase greets prospective students and their families.

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Health Center was created in what had been the guest rooms of the Academy in the southeast ground floor wing of Sturtevant Home. Designed mainly as an outpatient clinic, Hebron’s present Health Center offers the same facilities as Stanley: reception area, offices, dispensary, examining room, and ward rooms—only in a smaller configuration. This facility efficiently answers the daily needs of a thriving boarding community; however, as in the 19th century, when a current student is likely to be confined or recuperative for a substantial period, home is the best place for extended care. And, as was the case with the outbreak of the H1N1 influenza in 2009, when the immediate and short-term need surpassed the ward space available, the campus community responded in supportive and creative ways. In a certain way, the 21st century Hebron community retains the close-knit village environment of the 19th, serving and nurturing all its members. Mr. Hunt and Mr. Stanley would likely approve.

Assignment:

Create Advanced Placement art student Alessandra Hankinson ’10 works on the potter’s wheel.

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Curriculum Design is the foundation course for further studio work in the arts. In it, students explore concepts of two dimensional design and develop a basic awareness of color theory through work in a variety of media.

Drawing is the foundation for all advanced studio work. Students are introduced to line, gesture, tone and perspective. Subjects include still life, landscape and the figure.

The course involves a traditional and academic approach to drawing, including research and written assignments, visual aids and drawing outside of the classroom.

Painting allows a student the opportunity to work in watercolors, pastels, oil and acrylic media to develop fundamental technique and basic awareness of color theory.

Photography presents students with the basic elements of black and white photography involving knowledge of a 35 mm non-automatic camera and developing and printing technique. In Advanced Photography, students will further develop skills learned in the first year of Photography, but will use Adobe Photoshop to digitally develop and display photographs. They will refine and build upon their photographic skills while learning how digital imaging software can be implemented to express their creatity.

Pottery is an introduction to working with clay by exploring various techniques of hand-building, wheel-throwing, glazing and firing. Students work through a series of problems, creating a sequence of finished objects for assessment.

Sculpture allows students to begin the study of 3-D design by experiments with paper, clay and wire. Special attention is given to discussing the elements of art and assessing the procedures and finished works. As the year continues, students have the opportunity to explore traditional methods of work with wax, plaster and clay as well as wood and stone carving.

Advanced Placement Studio Art allows interested and qualified students to spend a year preparing a portfolio in a specific aspect of studio art for adjudication by the AP Program. Successful students may be granted college credit or placement.

Departmental approval is required.

Let’s talk art

by Jennifр F. Adams

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he next time you’re on campus, take a walk through the Lepage Center for the Arts in the former Sargent Memorial Gymnasium. You will see brilliant color on every wall and tables full of drying pottery. You will

smell ink, acrylics, glazes. You might hear shattering glass or the click of camera shutters. Underlying it all is murmur of teachers and students working, learning and creating together.

Every time I visit the art center I am amazed by the quality and quantity of work produced by Hebron’s art students and I wanted to know more. This spring I sat down with a few of them to talk about recent assignments and how they went about creating the pieces they were telling me about. The depth and breadth of Hebron’s course offering is shown in the column at left.

The following pages will introduce you to a few students and showcase their work. This group includes students new to art and students who have been painting and drawing for years. For some, English is not their first language, others are native speakers. For all, I tried to stay true to their words, while editing for clarity. Although they come from different places and different backgrounds, they are learning to express themselves confidently and articulately through their artwork and photography.

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Chang Xu ’11 Wenzhou, China

Ms. Anderson, Painting—For this assignment, I asked students to combine painting with three dimensional design. They studied Frank Stella’s relief sculptures for inspiration and received an introduction to 3-D design which could lead them to pursuing sculpture next year!

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he assignment is to do three dimensions, to stand out from the wall. It is totally different from painting. It uses the painting skills to make it more real.

This year I did all the projects with buildings, so I wanted to continue doing this and also I find that some buildings can push three dimensions very quickly and well, so I decided to do that. I remember it and I do some painting before when I was a child, so I wanted to redo it into something new. This part and this part, there are waves, the ocean and the mountains behind. It’s not really true, but it’s what I think is a city. I remember these paintings that

always have curved lines not straight lines, so I used that to shape it. It’s different from the truth.

I used these colors to show lights. This is the sea and it’s dark blue and then [the lights] are this yellow. Those are waves. I tried to shape it similar to [a piece by Frank Stella]. I wanted to push it out so I added some mountains.

I cut the pieces first and then painted them and assembled them.

[This technique] is novel. I didn’t do it before. It’s very magic.

Chang worked with Ms. Burns, Mr. Middleton and Ms. Anderson to present a workshop on Chinese calligraphy to the ninth grade humanities class in the fall and then to the sixth grade in the spring. She plans to take Advanced Placement Studio Art next year.

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Kendrew Poon ’11 Hong Kong, China

Mr. Traficonte, Drawing—For this assignment I explained the process of stippling [using small dots to create shadow, shape and texture] and asked students to complete a project using the process. Kendrew’s piece was inspired by Market Place in Pontoise by Camille Pissarro.

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have been drawing for maybe 5 years. I did painting last year and I wanted to try something new. I like it all. This assignment was stippling; use the dots to show dark and the light. He [the figure on the left] is the focus so he is a little bit clearer.

It was a pretty hard challenge for me. I never did it before. I don’t like stipple; it’s so hard and it took me so long. I had to think about how to show what I wanted, but I do like how it came out.

After school, Kendrew can be found playing soccer, basketball and tennis.

Abby Small ’12 Swanville, Maine

Mr. Traficonte, Drawing—I asked students to combine perspective—one point or two point—with the inclusion of something from the mind’s eye. They created a realistic composition of a room or space, following the principles of perspective, while including a scene that unfolded within that space.

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or this assignment we had to create a room and we had to have a point that everything was going to go to, and I didn’t know what else I wanted in the room so I decided to put more geometric shapes in it. For me this was actually quite difficult because I’m not good at having everything go to one point. But once I started it, it was flowing really easily. I drew it out and then put pastels over it. It took a while. I like how I did the colors.

Now I’m doing stippling, which I really like. You have to concentrate a lot on it, really focus on the details.

Abby also plays soccer and tennis and was an audience favorite as Gymnasia in the Hebron Players production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum this year.

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Grace Tian ’10 Beijing, China

Miss Eschenbach, Advanced Placement Studio Art—Concept: Metamorphosis. Take a closer look at common objects surrounding us and view them in a new light. Your next step will be to transform them, in stages, into something quite different and unexpected. It is your goal to encourage the viewer to “see” things in a way they never have before.

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he funny thing [about this assignment] is I had just read the story [“The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka] in my English IV class so then the project came to me. I tried to find something to transform.

Brian Gage ’10 Berea, Ohio

To be an artist you should always see something different from others. I love drawing but I haven’t done it for a long time. I started when I was seven years old [but] just gave up. I’ve done a lot of photography as well.

An all-around strong student, Yang “Grace” Tian received the senior scholarship prize at Commencement. Next year she will attend Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, where she plans to study interior design and architecture.

Mr. Traficonte, Photography—Brian had no specific assignment; he is more of an independent study student. His interest in creating this image led him to experiment with Photoshop and extend his understanding of the software.

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his is a piece that I did digital. I’m kind of conservative, so I got this quote from Thomas Jefferson. I’m a McCain/Palin fan so I put them in there, and and a quote about socialism from this guy [figure at bottom], and then I Photoshopped myself in there shaking hands with George Bush. It started out as kind of a fun little piece, almost a joke, throwing images on there, and turned into something pretty nice. I started in the darkroom and then about halfway through the year I decided to give [digital] a shot and liked it.

A three-year senior, Brian is headed to Garrett College in Maryland next year, where he says he may or may not expand his Photoshop skills.

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Alessandra Hankinson ’10 Phippsburg, Maine

is beautiful? But once you start cutting them… I really had to be more careful, I had to make the inside a lot smoother, then when I cut them apart it was always, “What am I going to find inside?”

Although Alessandra isn’t planning to build a career around pottery, she looks forward to continued exploration of the medium. She will attend the University of Vermont next year.

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here are three sections of the AP portfolio: breadth, concentration and quality. For the concentration you basically have to pick whether you’re going to do 2-D or 3-D and then you have to pick a subcategory in that to make your own concentration.

I chose manipulating wheel forms and altering them. I love the wheel. I don’t like hand building. I love being able to center and how perfect you can get it on the wheel and then cutting it away. I started last year with Miss Esch’s junior pottery course and I really fell in love with it.

I used to struggle—centering is really hard—but as I got more comfortable on the wheel and my abilities progressed it became second nature and it got more fun.

After you’ve made so many forms you start thinking what else can I make? That’s what happened this year. I sat down with Miss Esch and we were talking about concentration pieces. She wanted to know what my concentration was going to be and I said I loved to throw. She said that the AP people see beautiful forms all the time, so you need to figure out a way to be more creative with your work.

So when I started cutting them it became much more interesting.

The first piece I ever cut was the blue one [above]. I remember I had these two nice perfect bowls and [Miss Eschenbach] said, “You just have to do it, just cut it.” Once I did it, it was wonderful. I found a whole world of beauty inside the piece that I didn’t even know was there. I had ones that were like this [basic pots] but inside they had these beautiful lines. They are gorgeous I think.

With quilting, the back has to be as beautiful as the front, even though people don’t really see it. It’s the same with this.

Who knows what kind of mess is in there as long as the outside

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Class of 2010:

Do Extraordinary Things

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spent a lot of time sitting on my bed, thinking about what to say to you all today. This exact moment has been in the back of my mind through the crisp fall, the not-alwayspleasant winter and the newly arrived spring. I’ve lived through at least a year of morning meetings and sit-down dinners and study halls with all of you. For some of you out there, it’s been four years of laying out in the sunshine during free periods, driving ourselves crazy over ten-page papers and trying to memorize the schedule every time they change it on us.

And yet, I know that Hebron has been and meant different things to each of us. We have all experienced different versions of Hebron Academy, from what fields or courts we practice on to what windows we stare out of during class to what floor we live on in the dorm.

There is one thing that we have in common though, one thing that we regularly overlook and take for granted. Since David Eggers verbalizes it much better than I do, I’ll let him do the honors: “We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It’s almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”

So I’ll try my best to keep this attempt at a meaningful and heartfelt graduation speech short and just a little awkward. I won’t talk about a long and twisting journey or preach about turning a new page or dwell on the dawning of golden opportunities. Parents, you may want to block your ears for this next bit of wisdom, but I will not stand here before you students and tell you that there is nothing more important than your education. Yes, education has been incredibly important and our pursuit of knowledge will no doubt play a role in our successes, but there have been and will be other pursuits that we cannot afford to discredit or ignore, other pursuits that ensure that our futures will be nothing short of brilliant.

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Now, I’m not saying that the education we have gotten from Hebron is not immensely valuable. Between the support we get from our advisors and the attention we get from each of our teachers, Hebron could not have prepared us any better for the world into which we are about to be launched. Each of you has made connections with different aspects of education and different mentors, whether it be Bio with the Founds or History with Mr. Chase. Tell those teachers, coaches, and administrators what they mean to you before you leave here today, because they have given everything to see you walk across this stage.

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ut how many of you, parents included, remember the exact details of meiosis from freshman Genetics and Evolution or the vocabulary you memorized for the entry level language courses?

In all honesty, who even remembers all the names of the main characters of the English books you read (or Sparknoted) this year?

I’m willing to bet that there is a minimal number of people who do remember that stuff. But let’s try this again, a little differently. Who remembers the stupid questions that always seemed to come up in G and E, the intense games of pictionary that always developed in French class, or the lac operons

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that you spent a whole AP Bio period making out of Play-Doh? Who remembers the Mountain Days where we not only skied down Shawnee Peak, but climbed up it too? Who remembers that one afternoon where Mr. Jurek canceled classes simply because it was too hot to do anything but mess around on a Slip-n-Slide?

Most importantly, who remembers all the nonspecific times when you were just goofing off with your friends, whether it was in your rooms or in the Bowl or down at the fields? When you sunbathed on the track mats before practice. When you opened up all-out snowball warfare outside the Union in the middle of the night. When you sprinted down the senior path because you were late for class... on a daily basis. When your friends made you laugh so hard that you couldn’t keep from crying.

Everyone. Everyone remembers those times, and those will be the times that not only mean something later on, but make us the people we are. It is obvious that we have gained a certain knowledge from Hebron, but not all knowledge is developed in the classroom. Outside the doors of the Science

Building and the School Building and Sturtevant and Lepage, we have used Hebron to develop who we have become—through falling on the ice that covers campus in mid-January and moving the clocks in the classrooms ahead ten minutes and refusing to act responsibly. We blast music through open windows and flood the campus with noise and chaos. We sprint to the dining hall on chicken patty day just to beat the line. We slap pucks and pound basketballs and sprint as hard as we can. All of that, what some people may call distraction or just a product of our naïve youth, is exactly what we need to take advantage of. We have four more years to build on ourselves, to fail epically, to get second chances, to be wrong and boisterous, and have it be chalked up to our youth. And after that we take on responsibilities that start to box us in, to provide less room for error.

I guess what I’m saying, against all the advice that we’ve grown up with, against what I’m sure your parents are thinking right now, is this: please mess up. Please take what you’ve learned from Hebron about yourself, and refine it, shape it, mold it, so that when

noise, even if you do so in

utter silence.

The class dedicated the yearbook to teachers Bruce and Betsy Found.

the time comes, you’re the person you want to be, no excuses, no resignation. Get dirty from everything you can get your hands on.

We only get so long before we can’t really fool around anymore, when we start to really have something to lose. Don’t waste this time being afraid to live. Gather stories of the things you’ve done, whether it be repeatedly failing your drivers test or Ms. Shore’s Honors Algebra II tests; whether it was winning a game that you were supposed to lose or losing a game you were supposed to win. Get really really lost or have your heart really really broken. Contradict yourself. When all the odds are against you, revel in your defiance of assumptions. Make a lot of noise, even if you do so in utter silence. Decline to wait or let things slow you down. Create some risk. And from there, realize that everyone makes mistakes. It’s how you deal with those mistakes after the fact that reflects the kind of person you are.

Hebron has given us the necessary instruments to become the type of young adults that we can be, but we need to shake it up, to test it, to make sure that it sticks with us past this morning. In order Clockwise from top left: art teacher Mary Anderson and her daughter, 12-year senior Rachel Rogers; Cory O’Brien and Kyle Cordaro; Camreé Thompson, Courtney Vallee and Emma Valli. Courtney competed in the Miss Maine pageant in June.

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Clockwise from left: class president Emily Powers delivers the Commencement address; Dylan Lyons with sisters Belinda and Daniella ’06; Ben Clegg and English teacher Ashley Webb.

to develop into the people that we want to be, we’ve got to pursue life in every form that we can. We must pursue knowledge in terms of failure and happiness and complete irrationality. Hebron has started us by crossing lines, football players dancing in the school play, awkward bookworms being elected class president, each of us stepping out of our preconceived roles. So keep it going. Refuse to settle for what’s expected of you, because we all know that’s just no fun at all.

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ronically, even now, as I stand up here on this stage and advocate for what you should be doing, how you should be choosing experience in tandem with education, you won’t remember what I’ve said a month from now, even a week from now. In a year, I won’t even remember what I said.

But I will remember talking to you today and how nervous I was that nothing I said would actually mean anything, that the translation from the thoughts in my brain to this paper in front of me didn’t quite make it. And I will remember looking at everyone

in their white dresses and their jackets and ties and thinking I really was a part of something here. Whether I wanted to be or not, whether I always enjoyed it or had my doubts at times, whether being stuck in the middle-of-nowhere Maine was a blessing or a curse, I will always be a member of this senior class. We will always be the Hebron Academy Class of 2010. From here, we must understand that we have got to do extraordinary things. It would be absurd not to.

Emily Rose Powers President, Class of 2010

Valediction

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Emma Leavitt received the Hebron Cup, the school’s highest honor.

et’s breathe. Let’s remember ourselves in kindergarten. Let’s remember our first shoe-tying, our first school bus, our first real friend. Let’s remember the pride that comes with having your very own gameboy, the pride in teaching yourself your multiplication tables. Flashback to every bad haircut, every love you were convinced was for forever. Let’s remember, and let’s stretch our minds imperceptibly forward.

Let’s begin. We’re together now, but we’ll shift, we’ll drift, we are our own personal Pangea. We’re sitting, but let’s dance in our heads. Let’s scream. Let’s feel the moment down to the threads in our shoes, because it’s all we have left to do. Dr. Seuss once said “There’s no limit to how much you’ll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.” Let’s commence.

Emma Larkin Leavitt ’10

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Baccalaureate Awards American Classical League and National Junior Classical League, Cum Laude certificates ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Abigail Ellen Small ’12 and Erika Lee Thomas ’11 GLSEN certificates ������������������������������������������������������� Emma Larkin Leavitt ’10, Emily Rose Powers ’10 and Nicholas James Stuer ’10 Charlotte R. Stonebraker Community Scholarships ���������������������������������������������������Natalia Shanice Peña ’11 and A’Nyce Munroe ’13 Compton Prize in Languages ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Martina Tampir ’11 L. Edward Willard Prize in English �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Zachary Augustus Torrano ’11 Dr. Louis Friedman Mathematics Prize ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������Weisun Jiang ’10 and Seung Yeon Kang ’11 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Thomas Cordell Cummings ’11 Colby Book Award ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Taylor Michael Theriault ’11 Middlebury Book Award ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Erika Lee Thomas ’11 Dartmouth Book Award ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Zachary Augustus Torrano ’11 Williams Book Award....................... �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Thomas Cordell Cummings ’11 Harvard Book Prize ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Polly Holman Drown ’11 and Jai Kyeong Kim ’11

Commencement Awards Academic Excellence in Art ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Alessandra Valentina Hankinson Academic Excellence in English �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Emma Larkin Leavitt and Emily Rose Powers Academic Excellence in French �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Emma Larkin Leavitt Academic Excellence in History ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Emily Rose Powers Academic Excellence in Latin �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Benjamin Michael Blais Academic Excellence in Mathematics ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ho In Na Academic Excellence in Music ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Seung Woo Kim Academic Excellence in Religion and Ethics ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Benjamin Paris Clegg Academic Excellence in the Sciences ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Seok Won Jee Academic Excellence in Spanish ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Andrew Jamison Churchill Senior Scholarship Prize ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Yang Tian Excellence in Drama ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Calvin James Moisan Outdoor Leadership Prize ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Brent Coy Landry Richard W. Tyler Scholarship �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Brent Coy Landry Bernat Memorial Award ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Mario Alberto De La Isla Lorimer Scholarship Prize Regis A. Lepage Scholarship Prize ������������������������������������������������������������� Rachel Beverly Anderson Rogers Reed Awards ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Bryan C. Felice and Courtney Jo Vallee Bessie Fenn Award ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Emma Larkin Leavitt Athletic Award ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Vladyslav Maksymovich Gavrik Leyden Award �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Clebert Louis Marcelin, Jr. Edward Tate II Green Key Award ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Seung Woo Kim Ernest Sherman Award ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Jeremy Ryan Kleven Charles and Amy Dwyer Memorial Award �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Benjamin Michael Blais Milton G. Wheeler Good Fellowship Award �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Nathaniel Thomas Dupere Phemister Award ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Nicholas James Stuer Risman Honor Award ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Emily Rose Powers Hebron Academy Cup ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Emma Larkin Leavitt

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alumni et alumnae

2010 Reunions & Homecoming Friday, October 8 Saturday, October 9

Reunions for 1935 • 1940 • 1950 1955 • 1960 • 1965 • 1970 1975 • 1980 • 1985 • 1990 1995 • 2000 • 2005 convocation athletic hall of fame induction Arthur W. Cooper ’49, Robert J. O’Connor ’55, Tracy M. Harlor ’85 (posthumous) and Alan A. Switzer, Jr., Coach 1955–1962

distinguished service award The Ven. Robert A. Bryan ’50

campus tours road race and fun run athletic competitions • Catch up with classmates and old friends • Celebrate 140 years of service and the retirement of the Founds and Chases • Cheer on Hebron’s teams • Take part in activities for the whole ­family For more information, please call or e-mail Danielle Plante at 207-966-5266, dplante@hebronacademy.org or visit our web site: www.hebronacademy.org 32 • Hebron Academy Semester • Spring 2010

alumni et alumnae

Class Notes 1907

1948

See page 40 for an article about Bessie Fenn, who will be inducted into the Maine Golf Hall of Fame in September.

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

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org

1941 Class Agent: John MacDonald judymacd@aol.com

1942 Class Agent: Norm Cole ncolseba@aol.com

1943 Class Agent: Gene Smith zachplum@aol.com Lester Bradford writes, “A bit slower than a decade ago but still got in some skiing in February. Expect to continue trail maintenance this summer.” n John Lawry reports, “Still struggling to play tennis once a week with 10 other 80-year-olds, but it gets harder to ‘rush the net!’ Keeping the brain going by playing duplicate bridge twice a week.”

1947 Class Agent: Ernest Rodrigues maryannrodrigues@yahoo.com

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

1950 sixtieth reunion

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

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org Peter Goodhue retired in January and reports that he’s now helping send his four grandchildren to private school!

1951 Class Agent: Ted Ruegg rueggnh@midcoast.com Ted Ruegg writes, “We now have four children and 7 1⁄2 grandchildren all living in the northeast, so we are moving from Carefree, AZ, to Falmouth, MA. We will be closer to all the kids and to Hebron!” n Frederick Stavis is looking forward to his 55th reunion at Brown this year.

Class Agent: Ken Boyle revken60@aol.com

1953 Class Agent: Dean Ridlon deridlon@msn.com

1954

The Ven. Robert A. Bryan ’50 will be honored at Alumni Convocation on Saturday, October 9

Friday, October 8 • Saturday, October 9

1949

1952 2010 Distinguished Service Award

Reunions & Homecoming 2010

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

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org

1955 fifty-fifth reunion

Class Agent: Richard Parker rparker@promedicacrc.com

Reunions for Fives & Zeros • Kids’ Activities • Road Race • Rainbow Reunion • ­Convocation • Class Dinners • Athletic Hall of Fame Induction of Arthur W. Cooper ’49 and Robert J. O’Connor ’55

1956 Class Agent: Kenneth Mortimer 360-527-3584 kmortimer5@gmail.com Joseph Federico recently released his second poetry chapbook, Songs of the Umpqua, poems inspired by the lands in and around the Umpqua National Forest in southwest Oregon. See the Alumni Bookshelf on page 41 for more information. n Thomas Foster writes, “Enjoying retirement, grandchildren, skiing, riding my Harley and traveling.”

1960 fiftieth reunion

Class Agent: Dave Williams david.j2.williams@ columbiamanagement.com

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

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org

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

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org

1958 Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class.

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org Andrew Berry writes, “We plan on spending much of the warmer months cruising the Maine coast as far as New Brunswick.

Last year we did Nova Scotia.”

1959 Class Agent: Bernard Helm hebron59@aol.com Fernando Pruna (right) visited with classmate Barry Schwartz ’55 in Miami, Florida, last December.

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alumni et alumnae 1967 Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class.

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org

1968 Class Agent: Robert Lowenthal rlowenth@rochester.rr.com Our thoughts are with Robert Cooper on the death of his father in January. n Chris Sample recently started El Cheapo Limo, offering airport transport service to Portland, Boston and Manchester as well as further-flung locations. n Our sympathies go to Nat Warren-White on the loss of his father in April.

Will Harding ’63 writes, “This is what I did on my spring vacation—led a race at Daytona and tried to lead a triathlon. Think of all those slow guys who aren’t even in the picture yet!”

1969 Class Agent: Jonathan Moll

1962

1964

Class Agent: Dick Forté rsforte@mac.com

Class Agent: John Giger john@cybergiger.com

Bill Burke writes, “Finishing my 20th year as headmaster of St. Sebastian’s School, from which our four sons graduated. All are out of college; two are married. Patty (a psychologist who runs her own business) and I have a five-year-old grandson and a two-year-old granddaughter.”

1965

1970

forty-fifth reunion

fortieth reunion

Class Agent: Allen Kennedy akennedy@dalton.org

Class Agent: Craig Clark jcclark@radiusnorth.net

Jon Marvel and his efforts to preserve Idaho grasslands were the subject of a recent feature in the University of Chicago alumni magazine (http://magazine.uchicago.edu/ 1002/features/marvel.shtml).

Our thoughts are with Joe Poges on the loss of his wife in April. n George Powers writes, “Winter came to the northern plains in October this year. We are more

Rick Reder reports, “I have been living in New York City since 1962. I am a wealth management advisor with Northwestern Mutual and I oversee its investments operations department at a branch office. My family includes Jack, my companion for 24 years; our two children, and two grandchildren. Life is good and interesting.”

1963 Class Agent: Will Harding 2ww@bellsouth.net In 2009 Michael Bergamini retired from Alcon Laboratories as vice presdient, glaucoma development R&D. He is now director of clinical trials and adjunct professor of pharmacology and neuroscience at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. He says he’s having a ball! n Our thoughts are with Peter Rubin on the loss of his mother in May.

than ready for spring. I am still practicing law and supporting children through college. Two down (U. Chicago 2008 and Georgetown 2010) and one to go (Swarthmore 2013). I see the Red Sox are coming to Denver to play the Rockies in June and hope that my wife and I can find time to spend a night in the bleachers.”

1971 Class Agent: Harvey Lipman harveylipman@hotmail.com Arthur Pease reports, “As of July of 2010 I will have been with Siemens AG for 25 years. My work continues to be as fascinating and invigorating as ever. I am executive editor and publisher of the company’s international magazine, Pictures of the Futurem www.siemens.com/pof, which has a circulation of 100,000. The publication, which focuses on research, development, and high-end applications of advanced technologies, is distributed to government ministries, international research organizations, universities, media organizations, customers, and top management and R&D people throughout Siemens worldwide.

It’s also a winning recruiting tool—not insignificant for a company that has 430,000 employees! Recently, our magazine won highest honors in a competition sponsored by the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication.

With regard to my family, my son is now a freshman at the University of Edinburgh, where he is majoring in biochemistry.

My daughter is a senior at the European School, here in Munich. She too plans to go to college in the UK. My wife is an architect. We have a lovely home in Munich.

Whenever I have a little time, I like to read history books and science magazines or watch documentaries along these lines.”

1966 Class Agent: Harvey Lowd hlowd@ksallc.com We are pleased to welcome Clem Dwyer back to Hebron’s board of trustees. A former trustee, Clem will rejoin the board at the September meeting. n Our sympathies go to Bill Golden on the loss of his mother in March.

Dick Forté 62 reports, “Classmates gathered to celebrate the installation of a bench on Blackstone Boulevard (Providence, Rhode Island) in memory of Fred Friedman’s wife Sheryl.” Left to right: Fred Friedman, Mariele Forté, Dick Forté, Margie Bates, Bill Allen, Don Bates, Shirley Martin.”

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Reunions & Homecoming 2010 Friday, October 8 • Saturday, October 9

Reunions for Fives & Zeros • Kids’ Activities • Road Race • Rainbow Reunion • ­Convocation • Class Dinners • Athletic Hall of Fame Induction of Coach Alan A. Switzer, Jr.

alumni et alumnae On the road: Hebron, North Dakota

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he article in the last Semester about other Hebrons around the United States brought back great memories of a trip Gary and I took through North Dakota in 2004.

Gary’s daughter Amanda was getting married in Red Lodge, Montana, on July 9.

Gary and I flew into Fargo, North Dakota, on July 4, planning to drive across North Dakota and into Montana in time for the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner on July 8.

As we left Bismarck on the morning of July 6 on our way to Medora at the western border of the state, I saw Hebron on the map and I knew we had to stop. We did, and we found a neat and tidy little town, flat with a few streets running in a criss-cross pattern. In no way would I have ever described it as a city, but there was the water tower looming above the

1972 Class Agent: Steve Gates stephenrgates@msn.com Bradford Parsons reports, “Our second son, Cameron, will graduate from Milton Academy in June and will join his brother, Spencer, at Brown University in the fall.” n The Rev. Jefferson Scott is “Still pastoring and ‘mining souls’ at the Creede Community Church, UCC, in Creede, CO, an awesome place to minister in the southern San Juans. Wife Hilda is a public health nurse for the county. Any alums please look us up! Creede is the only town in Mineral County, so we’re easy to find!”

1973 Class Agent: Gregory Burns gregmburns@aol.com Our sympathies go to James Cooper on the loss of his father in January.

town, “Hebron–The Brick City.”

Gary took my picture in front of the post office, much to the amusement of a few locals.

There wasn’t much to see after driving around the town— sorry, “city”—in about 10 minutes. It was well worth the detour, but it didn’t take us long, and soon we were back on the highway and on to our next adventure.

Jane Harris Ash ’79

1974 Class Agent: Scott Fraser oil2vstar@yahoo.com

1975 thirty-fifth reunion

Class Agent: Ellen Augusta eaugusta@msn.com Jessica Feeley writes, “Keeping busy: food pantry, sexual assault services victim advocate, Nylander Museum trustee. My latest insanity? Democratic candidate, District 4, Maine House of Representatives.”

1976 Class Agent: Reed Chapman creedclark@yahoo.com

1977

Did you miss the original story in the Fall/Winter issue of the Semester? Find it online at www.issuu.com/Hebron_Academy.

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

1980 thirtieth reunion

Class Agent: Betsy Siekman Graves betsy_graves@hotmail.com

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

1982 Class Agent: Tucker Cutler tandgcutler@myfairpoint.net

1983

Class Agent: Bob Hernon rhernon@gmail.com

Class Agent: Debbie Beacham Bloomingdale dbbloomingdale@yahoo.com

1978

See next page for an article about the memorial bench placed at North Auburn Cemetery by the family of Jeb Shields.

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

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org Top: Jane Harris Ash ’79 in front of the water tower in Hebron, North Dakota, in 2004; and at the post office (bottom). Jane and her husband visited zip code 58638 during a trip out west in 2004.

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George Dycio was recently named to Hebron’s advisory council.

1979 Class Agent: Brian Cloherty mnclohertys@earthlink.net

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

1985 twenty-fifth reunion

Class Agent: Eric Shediac shediachouse@comcast.net

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alumni et alumnae Notable Alumnus: Lt. j.g. James B. Shields ’83

Parents memorialize fallen son Almost two decades after their son James died in a military plane crash, Thomas and Bethel Shields wanted something more to mark his existence.

“There was no place to show this man was ever on the Earth,” Bethel said.

Some longtime friends don’t know the local couple had a third son. A marker at North Auburn Cemetery with the name James Bryant Shields sits atop an empty plot. His body was never recovered from the 1991 mid-air collision that occurred 10 miles off the San Diego coast.

“In our case, there was nothing tangible.” Bethel said. “He was a part of this community.”

On [May 29, 2010]—as Lewiston-Auburn remembered its fallen soldiers at Veterans Memorial Park—the Shieldses unveiled a public reminder of their son that’s written in stone. A granite bench engraved with James’ full name and the logos of the Navy and his P-3 Orion squadron now sits in the public park.

Bethel Shields, Ford Shields, Leslie Shields Thayer (mother of TJ ’06 and Ross ’08) and Tom Shields with the bench in memory “It’s been 19 years, but it’s of LT. j.g. James B. “Jeb” Shields ’83. Jeb’s other siblings are and Dana Shields Hubbell ’78 and T. Bragdon Shields ’79. Photo

by Jose Leiva/Sun Journal. still painful,” said Thomas Shields, a retired physician and a The Navy has never disclosed what went wrong. A mostly former member of the Maine Legislature. redacted report would be released months later. Sometime during James, nicknamed “Jeb,” was the youngest of the Shields’ five the early morning hours of March 21, James’ plane collided with kids of two girls and three boys. He was well-liked, smart and busy. another P-3. Despite searches by several Navy ships—including He attended Hebron Academy and followed his father and grandfathe carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln—no one was ever found. All 27 ther to Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., graduating in 1987. men aboard the two aircraft died. All that was ever recovered was Jeb was going to be a stockbroker, but he learned to fly, eventually a pilot’s helmet and a black box, Bethel said. Memorials with all joining the Navy and attending flight school in Pensacola. As an 27 names sit at the now-closed Moffett Naval Air Station and at aviator, he wanted to fly fighters. Instead, the Navy sent him to P-3 Arlington National Cemetery.

Orions. His oldest sister hoped he would be safer in the slow-moving After all of these years, she minds her grief by reaching out to propeller-driven planes, Bethel said. other mothers of servicemen and women who have died. She leads Lt. j. g. Shields had been serving as a navigator aboard P-3s for the Maine chapter of American Gold Star Mothers. And she tells her at least a year when the accident happened. A nighttime training story, even to people she has known for a decade or more. mission took his plane, with its crew of 14, past San Diego and out “If you weren’t there at the time, if you didn’t happen to see the over the Pacific. It should have been a safe, familiar place for the newspaper that day, you may not have made the connection between maritime patrol plane and its crew, whose primary job back then Jeb and us,” she said. was hunting for submarines.

Daniel Hartill Reprinted with permission of the Lewiston Sun Journal.

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help strangers. Victims cried as they gave us thanks or started to cry when they saw people show up to help. The stories that came back from the volunteer work crews were astonishing.”

1990 twentieth reunion

Class Agent: Andy Haskell Our thoughts are with Sally Littlefield McGuigan on the death of her father Jim ’62 in June.

Unions 1988

Anne Sage and Jesse Sgro, on September 12, 2009.

1999

Christy Webster and Edward Dunn, on November 7, 2009, in New York City.

2004

Cindy Lebel and John Tipping, May 29, 2010 (below).

1991 Reunions for Fives & Zeros • Kids’ Activities • Road Race • Rainbow Reunion • ­Convocation • Class Dinners • Honoring retiring Chases and Foundse • Athletic Hall of Fame Induction of Tracy M. Harlor ’85 (posthumous)

Class Agents: Marcus De Costa marcus.decosta@trinityschoolnyc.org Scott Nelson scott.ryan.nelson@mac.com

1992 Class Agent: Jennifer Berthiaume Quimby

1986

1988

Class Agent: Scott Downs suffolkd@aol.com

Class Agent: Ann Snyder Mooradian mooradia@comcast.net

1993

Tony Cox writes, “It was great to catch up with Harper Ingram Wong, Fern Seiden, Hester Wilkinson Miskin, Jon Crane and Peter Fallon at a get-together in Bowdoinham in 2009. I have two girls—Anna, age 7, and Olivia, age 5—and my wife Heather and I continue to manage our own business, Casco Bay Frames and Gallery, in Portland.” n Harper Ingram Wong chimes in to say: “It was great to see friends from ’86 last August at Tony Cox’s house! I only wish we could do it more often. Homecoming ’11—25 years?!”

Anne Sage writes, “I continue to work in the field of philanthropy and fund raising.

We live on Bristol Harbor, RI, with an animal family. I am very much in touch with Bonnie Gregory Buelow and Jenn Willey Algieri and look forward to summer visits with both families.”

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

1987 Class Agent: Kate Thoman Crowley thocro@comast.net Bill Becker was campaign manager for Maine gubernatorial candidate Matt Jacobson. n We are pleased to welcome Kate Thoman Crowley to Hebron’s board of trustees. Kate will come aboard in September.

1989 Class Agent: Hayes McCarthy hayes@mccarthyvideo.com Reed Claiborne writes, “I was in Nashville when the rain started to fall this spring and was stranded for a day as the little town I was in turned into an island. A few weeks later I went back to the town of Kingston Springs (20 miles west of Nashville) and helped in a clean-up effort. The volunteer effort from this little community was unbelievable. No one asked questions as they worked, they just did it. And it was incredible how all these people came together to

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

1994 Class Agent: Erica Litchfield ericalitchfield@yahoo.com

1995 fifteenth reunion

Class Agent: Jessie Maher jm4lfclvr@yahoo.com Sean Morey recently signed a multi-year contract with the Seattle Seahawks and will be a punt and kickoff coverage specialist.

1996 Class Agent: Devon Biondi dmbiondi@gmail.com Andy Stephenson, his father-in-law and another partner recently bought Pepino’s, a Mexican restaurant in Bangor.

Our thoughts are with Andy and his family on the death of his father in June. n Our thoughts are with Jason Vachon on the loss of his father in February.

New Arrivals 1985

To Dagny Maidman and Molly Wood, a son, Ezra Wood Maidman, on February 5, 2010.

1991

To Josephine and Scott Nelson, a son, Zev, on May 20, 2010.

1997

To Donna and Darren Roche, a son, Coady Donald James, born July 8, 2010.

1999

To Corey and Jenny Agnew Ridley, two sons, Mason Parker and Keegan Gage, on July 6, 2010.

2002

To Kari and Janna Bugden Sigurdsson, a daughter, Kirsten Elizabeth, on May 20, 2010.

2004

To Beth Potvin and Richard Goyette, a daughter, Avery Elizabeth Goyette, on March 18, 2010.

Faculty and Staff

To Corey and Jenny Agnew Ridley, two sons, Mason Parker and Keegan Gage, on July 6, 2010.

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Dr. Noah Burns ’00, an organic chemist, returned to Hebron in May to deliver the Cum Laude address to the school community. In his humorous but thoughtful speech, he urged students to “keep searching” for knowledge.

1997

2000

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

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org Our condolences go to Ryan Vachon on the death of his father in February.

1998 Class Agent: Kirsten Ness kirsten_ness@hotmail.com Kirsten Ness and Karen Sanborn Cashman were recently named to Hebron’s advisory council.

1999 Class Agent: Joe Patry joseph.patry@gmail.com Nick ’01 and Jake Leyden went to South Africa to see the World Cup in June.

tenth reunion

Class Agent: Cori Hartman-Frey corinnahf@gmail.com Two of Marc Angelone’s apps were recently listed on the Chicago Tribune’s 50 best “green” iPhone apps list. His “Cruelty-Free” (an app to help you find cruelty-free cosmetics, household and personal care products) came in at number 4. At number 1 is “Animal-Free,” a guide to common and hidden animal ingredients. n Newly-minted PhD Alima Bucciantini is still in Edinburgh, looking for a job in academia. n Noah Burns returned to campus in April to speak at this year’s Cum Laude Society induction. Dr. Burns is an organic chemist. n Zach Cayer is living in Montana. n Craig Betts was featured recently in a Brunswick Times Transcript article about the Moncton Mets. A centerfielder, Craig is the longest-serving member of the team, which is part of the New Brunswick Senior Baseball League.

Reunions for Fives & Zeros • Kids’ Activities • Road Race • Rainbow Reunion • ­Alumni Convocation • Class Dinners • Honoring retiring Founds and Chases

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

Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-9665236, playman@hebronacademy.org In June, Nick Leyden traveled from Portugal to South Africa to see the soccer World Cup with brother Jake ’99.

2002 Class Agent: Katie Curtis katie.curtis@gmail.com

2003 Class Agent: Sara Marquis saramarquis@hotmail.com Sara Marquis was recently named to Hebron’s advisory council. n Laura Meyer is an RN on a stroke/rehab floor in Rochester NY. n Check out Arlee Woodworth’s paintings at her blog: arleewoodworth. blogspot.com

2004 Find Hebron online Become a fan of Hebron Academy on Facebook (facebook.com/ HebronAcademy), network with other alumni and friends through our LinkedIn group (www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1892134), keep up with campus happenings by following us on Twitter (twitter.com/ HebronAcademy), check out the videos at YouTube (www.youtube. com/hebronacademy1804) and see the Semester online at www. issuu.com/Hebron_Academy

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Class Agent: John Slattery jslattery@hebronacademy.org Brittany Crush reports, “I am currently working as a pediatric ICU nurse at Children’s Hospital Boston and got the opportunity to go to Haiti in April. I went with a group of 20 nurses, doctors and pharmacists to work in a field hospital. The hospital was located in Port-au-Prince near the airport and the best way I can describe it is like a MASH unit. We were working out of tents with our patients on cots and

were the only pediatric ICU in the country. Since my return to Boston I have been given the opportunity to go back for three months to help develop the first pediatric ICU ever to be put into place in Haiti. I will be returning with the same organization— Project Medishare—which has now moved into a building, and will be doing patient care, organizing and giving structure to the PICU as well as teaching Haitian nurses.

This will be a three-month volunteer experience. I am really excited and looking forward to helping the people of Haiti.” n In June, Carrie Curtis will begin graduate school in social work at Smith. n Chris Nadeau graduated from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. n For the last two years, Bo Warrick has been an assistant language teacher with the JET Programme at two senior high schools in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Bo reports, “I have enjoyed my time here, traveling to many places in Japan from Kyoto to Tokyo and eating all kinds of things, from Japanese pizza with seaweed and corn toppings to fried octopus (which, believe it or not, is quite delicious, you just have to put a lot of mayonnaise on it).”

2005 fifth reunion

Class Agent: Tina Voigt tinafish33@aol.com Louise Roy will join the faculty at Hebron in the fall, teaching science, working in Admissions and coaching. Welcome back, Louise! n Ashley Sterling ’04 was recently featured in an article by Lura DeSorbo about the importance of music in Ashley’s life.

alumni et alumnae Advisory Council meets, celebrates tenth year Past Members

Advisory Council members at the spring meeting on May 7 (left to right): Katie Curtis ’02, Sara Marquis ’03, Jamie Rea ’62, Carl Engel ’86, Michael Britt ’81, Craig Clark ’70, Scott Downs ’86, John Donahue ’84, Henry Harding ’70, local businessman Daryel Duhaime and George Dycio ’78.

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he Hebron Academy Advisory Council is a volunteer group whose purpose is to engage alumni and friends as informed and enthusiastic advocates of Hebron Academy. Advisory

Council members assist Hebron Academy in building strong and supportive networks of alumni and friends. In their advisory role, the Council works with the Academy’s trustees and administration on alumni relations matters and strategic issues.

Originally formed in 2000 as the Hebron Academy Board of Visitors, in 2004 the school refocused the group and changed its name to the Hebron Academy Advisory Council.

The group meets two times each year (fall and spring) to plan and assist with events and alumni communications that actively connect the school with its alumni and student bodies.

Unlike the Board of Trustees, the Advisory Council has no role, either statutory or informal, in the governance of Hebron Academy.

The Council is composed of 20–25 alumni, parents and friends. Candidates’ names are submitted to the Executive Committee for consideration throughout the year. New members are selected at the fall meeting and seated at the spring meeting. Members serve a threeyear term and may be appointed for a second three-year term.

Subsequent service must be after a lapse of one year. Terms begin at the spring meeting and end at the fall meeting.

The 2009 members are: John Donahue ’84 (chair)*, Michael

Britt ’81 (vice chair), Devon M. Biondi ’96, Ruthann Boyd ’81, Megan Brooks ’89, Craig Clark ’70*, Katie Curtis ’02, Scott Downs ’86*, Daryel Duhaime, Carl Engel ’86, Henry Harding ’70*, Jane Harris Ash ’79*, Bob Hernon ’77, Peter Jeffries ’52*, Matt Johnson ’93, Steve Lane ’62*, Jamie Rea ’62*, Rick Rigazio ’71 and Bo Warrick ’04. New members for 2010 include: George Dycio ’78, Kirsten Ness ’98, Karen Sanborn Cashman’ 98 and Sara Marquis ’03.

Gordon Higgins ’31* William MacVane ’33 William Hagblom ’39 Carlton “Bep” Morse ’39 Edward Simonds ’39 Gerald Tabenken ’40* Norm Cole ’42 Herbert Black ’49 Arthur Cooper ’49 Robert Rich ’49 Phillips Smith ’49 James Ahlquist ’51 Richard Maidman ’51 Russell Brace ’52 Bruce Spaulding ’54 Robert Bird ’55 William Dockser ’55 Norman Farrar ’58 Bernard Helm ’59 John Frechette ’61 Robert Hanks ’62 William Harding ’63 Henry Rines ’65 Peter Scholnick ’67 Gary Miller ’68 Daniel Steinway ’68 Daniel Lyman ’69 Jonathan Moll ’69 David Birtwistle ’71 Michael Bergstein ’73 Nick Carter ’73 Cyrus Cook ’73 Alan Norris ’74 Ellen Augusta ’75 Jessica Feeley ’75 Edward Birk ’76 Carolyn Adams ’77 Debra Salisbury Johns ’79 Daniel Ryan ’79 Mark Stevens ’81 Robert Donahue ’83 Sharon Lake Post ’83 Laurie Pinchbeck Whitsel ’83 Stephen Ray ’84 Eric Shediac ’85 Tracy Jenkins Spizzuoco ’87 Robert Thompson ’87 Trisha Millett Fletcher ’88 William Guidera ’88 Meredith Tarr ’88 Stephen Collins ’89 Duke Lovetere ’89 Douglas Sandner ’89 Charles Hedrick ’91 John Robinson ’91 Jennifer Agnew Ridley ’99 Richard Bennett, fr Judith Fossel, ap Robert Gardner, ap Robert Masson, ap Jay Woolsey, fr * ap

*Concluding second term.

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= parent of alumna/us = friend * deceased

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alumni et alumnae 2007 Class Agent: Noah Love nlove88@gmail.com

Reunions & Homecoming 2010 Friday, October 8 • Saturday, October 9

Tiffany Bichrest was named Utica athlete of the week in February.

2008 The Brink family at Jack’s graduation from Trinity Preparatory School in Florida: Charlotte Brink ’07, Jack Brink ’10, Bear Brink, Jill Rundle (past trustee), Chris Brink. Charlotte will graduate from the University of Florida next year, Jack is a member of the class of 2014.

2006 Class Agent: Allison Coombs mustangsally2010@hotmail.com On the dean’s list: Daniella Lyons at Saint Anselm; Kelley Hilton at Norwich University. n Mike Turk has joined New York Life as an agent located in Hyannis, MA. Mike graduated from Providence College with a BS in finance.

Class Agents: Jen Duguay duguay@neu.edu Annie Hart On the dean’s list: Jen Duguay and Katherine Stewart, both from Northeastern.

KJ Forand was named to the 2010 Commonwealth Coast Con­ference honorable mention lacrosse team. n Melanie Kleven was named to the fall dean’s list at Clark University.

2009 Class Agents: Claire Cummings claireelizabethcummings@gmail.com Sophia Chen sophia_chen917@hotmail.com Our thoughts are with Lydia Drown on the death of her father in June. n On the

Notable Alumna: Bessie Fenn 1907

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n September, Bessie Fenn 1907 will be posthumously inducted into the Maine Golf Hall of Fame. Hailing from South Poland, Miss Fenn grew up playing golf at Poland Spring where her father was the pro.

She competed at the national level and twice won the Florida state title. In 1926 she became the first woman golf professional in charge of a golf club in America, when she succeeded her father at the Palm Beach Golf Club. She died in 1963.

From the fall 1956 Semester: Miss Fenn’s personality is revealed through an anecdote as told in an article on Miss Fenn which appeared in the New York Times of Saturday, January 28, 1956: “Over the years, Miss Fenn has been a stickler for the rule book. Two noted women players were participating in a championship at Palm Beach a few years ago. They were in a consolation division. After nine holes, the women reported to Miss Fenn: ‘We have decided to quit after nine.’ Somewhat exasperated, Miss Fenn admonished them, “You go right out and finish; this is a tournament and yours is an eighteen-hole match. Play the rules.’”

Apparently a traditionalist, Miss Fenn scorns auto carts on the links, insists that everyone engage a caddie, refuses to accept “winter rules” and argues that a ball be played where it lies, and has posted near the first tee a sign, “Mulligans Not Permitted.”

One of Hebron Academy’s top athletic awards is named for Miss Fenn and is given for superior performance in the field of athletics, outstanding cooperation, leadership and fair play.

Other Hebron connections in the Maine Golf Hall of Fame include Barrett Nichols ’21 (inducted in 2007) and Al Biondi (inducted in 1995), father of Devon Biondi ’96. Miss Fenn’s father was inducted in 1993; they are believed to be the only father-daughter pair so honored.

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dean’s list: Kelly Phillips at UVM, Brett Bisesti at Bentley and Brianna Bisesti at UNE.

Faculty and Staff

Former Faculty and Staff

At press time, math teacher Merry Shore was in the middle of an epic trip to China, visiting many of her current and former students. We hope to have more on Ms. Shore’s journey in the fall issue.

Our thoughts are with Susan and Andy Stephenson on the loss of Andy’s father in June.

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Obituaries 1921

The newest members of the Hebron campus community: Keegan Gage Ridley and Mason Parker Ridley, born July 6 to athletic trainer Corey Ridley and his wife, Jenny Agnew Ridley ’99.

Alumni and Faculty Bookshelf Joseph Federico ’56 Songs of the Umpqua M&M Printers, November 2009

Thirty-four all Umpqua poems inspired by outdoor scenes from the greater Douglas County area—three day rains, fire-burned hillsides, moving morning mists, Banana Belt snow shields, changing colors on North Umpqua river surfaces and more. The songs of the title are love poems to the natural beauties of the Umpqua watershed, poems that sing the Umpqua’s praises in a down-to-earth style that mirrors the subject matter.

The author, Roseburg resident Joseph Federico, has one previous book of poetry in print. His work has won numerous prizes and has appeared in national and international journals.

Donna Walsh Inglehart, faculty Grindstone Troubadour Interactive, 2010

Leaving Ireland in the devastating aftermath of the Famine, Anya MacGregor finds refuge in an island realm far from the violence of the Civil War, only to discover that she cannot escape its dark undercurrents. For Jonathan Douglas, a Confederate spy, the islands provide temporary sanctuary but soon become as dangerous as the battle front. Irresistably drawn to each other, they are pulled into a web of espionage that threatens to destroy them both. Lyrical and profoundly moving, Grindstone is historical fiction at its best, a haunting story that will inspire readers even as it shapes their understanding of the most violent period in American history.

Written a book? Released an album?

Let us know and we’ll feature it here on our Alumni Bookshelf.

Send your announcement to Semester editor Jenny Adams at jadams@hebronacademy.org

Hebron Academy’s oldest alumnus, Barrett C. Nichols, died on June 11 at the age of 108. With cards and cigars, golf was his passion, and since his retirement 40 years ago he played nearly 300 rounds annually and got six holes-in-one, the last at the Portland Country Club at the age of 90. Mr. Nichols was the son of Frank B. Nichols of Round Pond, Maine, and Ella Nickels of Cherryfield, Maine. He grew up in Bath, where his father owned the Bath Daily Times and, later, the Brunswick Record. He went to Samuel Morse High School and then Philips Andover Academy. He left Andover prematurely, owing to a matter of smoking in his room. “Dumbest thing I ever did in my life,” he said much later. After graduating from Hebron he went to Bowdoin College where he ran track, played baseball, and majored in ballroom and bridge. His Bowdoin yearbook description reads: “He has a line and a manner that would thaw the coldest and most forlorn person—a dance that he misses is an unimportant one indeed.” In a bridge game shortly after leaving Brunswick he made an aggressive four spade bid which prompted his opponent to offer him a job in the investment company of Merrill Oldham. Later, trading government bonds in New York City, he supplemented his income with Saturday afternoon cards. On a winning day he would call his wife, Lovis Sawyer, whom he had married in 1929, and say: “Get on your duds, Lovis. We are out on the town tonight.” In 1933, at the height of the depression, a Bowdoin friend introduced Mr. Nichols to the FDIC. Within a short time he was installed as president of the Peoples’ National Bank of Barre, Vermont, where he spent 16 years. On Sunday afternoons in non-golfing weather, Mr. Nichols sometimes drove his children over the green hills in the bank coupe to visit clients, sometimes just to check on their wellbeing, other times to join in their sugaring.

He took a personal interest in their progress. He developed a fine intuition about character when making loans. When questioned by the state banking inspectors as to why he made an unsecured loan, Mr. Nichols replied: “I believe in that young man, he will pay it back.” As he had expected, those loans were invariably repaid. In Barre he indulged in his two favorite avocations: golf and bridge. Dashing down the fairway late in the summer afternoon, he would hit two balls, perfecting the breakneck speed with which he would later annoy golfing partners. Mr. Nichols left Vermont to lead the Maine Savings Bank in 1950 and remained there until his retirement in 1970. When it was announced that he was leaving Barre, the family would awake to find “tributes” on the back porch: a freshly killed turkey, a gallon of maple syrup, a case of homecanned food. He always knew the identity of the giver. Grateful clients sent goodbye notes to his office which he would read and toss into the wastepaper basket. His

secretary would ferret them out at the end of the day and surreptitiously bring them home to his wife. All his life, Mr. Nichols was uncomfortable with receiving praise but generous in dispensing it to others. After retiring from the Maine Saving Bank, he lived happily for many years on the shore of Falmouth Foreside, hosting family holiday gatherings, complete with lobster races on the living room floor. He would sail with friends, play cards and billiards, and most importantly, golf. With his son Barry he won the Meadows’ Member Guest Tournament in a shoot-out at 100 years of age. He shot his age hundreds of times, was twice winner of the Maine Seniors, thrice of the Portland CC senior tourney. Two senior championships are named for him, one at the Meadows Country Club in Sarasota, Florida, where he winter golfed for over 25 years, and the other, the New England Senior Golfers July Tournament. Not surprisingly, many referred to him as “a legend in his own time.” Relatives called him “the Coach.” Two years ago he was inducted into the Maine Golf Hall of Fame. A sentimental man, one could observe large gumball tears form in his eyes when beholding his extended family at a holiday celebration. A Down-Easter to the core, he did not articulate his feelings of affection, and often appeared gruff. But his immense generosity stunned and embarrassed his then young son-in-law. Particularly in later years, he was overwhelmingly generous to others but miserly with himself. Mr. Nichols had a sense of joy in the world, breaking into “Oh What a Beautiful Morning, Oh What a Beautiful Day” when he saw a clear blue sky or the sun-sparkled Casco Bay. Even in the last dark weeks, he would make a comment and laugh, though no one could understand his words. Perhaps his goodhumored attitude spread to his health: he never had a major illness, and he lived independently until well past 100. Only at 106, after a case of the shingles and with increasing ill-balance did he need assistance in living. “Fruit,” he said, “lots of fruit,” and of course, constant activity. His parting advice to a very elderly neighbor was “Keep it moving, Betty.” Or it may have been the whiskey sours at lunch: “And I don’t mean lemonade” he would say to the waitress. To one neighbor he said “Only an ounce and a half, but if your fingers should slip a little, that’s ok.” His first wife, Lovis, died in 1975, and his second wife, Katharine Graves Phillips Nichols died in 1998. He is survived by his daughter Sukey Nichols Wagner, and his son Barry Nichols; by four grandchildren; and by ten great-grandchildren.

1930

★ Cyrus I. Wardwell died on February 22, 2010, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was born in 1910, in West Paris, Maine, a son of the late Herman H. and Mary Irish Wardwell. After graduating from Hebron, where he excelled in track and field, he

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alumni et alumnae went to work in his father’s die block mill, Irish Brothers in Buckfield, Maine.

Mr. Wardwell served in the US Navy during World War II. He moved to Kensington and worked at General Mills, Exeter Manufacturing Company, and later on was a union carpenter and welder. He was an avid golfer and could often be seen riding his motorcycle to the Exeter Country Club. He had many hobbies: hunting, fishing, cribbage, bridge, gardening, travel and reading. After their retirement he and his wife, Edna, enjoyed their yearly drive to Apache Junction, Arizona. Survivors include daughters Carolyn Dow and Annette Carter; son Gordon Wardwell; 14 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife of 78 years, Edna Richardson Wardwell; their daughter, Joan W. Clement; and two grandchildren.

1933

★ Gordon S. “Doc” Young Sr. died on January 24, 2010, in Bar Harbor. He was born in 1914 on Pemaquid Point, the son of George Washington and Alitha Wells Hanna Young. Doc was proud to have graduated from Hebron Academy, Colby College and Harvard Dental School. He retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Air National Guard and served in the US Army during World War II and the Korean War. Doc had a dental practice in Bar Harbor for more than 40 years and had served as president of the Maine Dental Association.

He was on the vestry of St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church, was a member of American Legion and Masonic Lodge of Bar Harbor, and past president of Mount Desert Island Lions Club. He was active in town activities, serving on the town council and planning board for several years. He coached Little League for several years and recently had the scoreboard at the softball field dedicated to him. Even in his 90s, Doc enjoyed biking around town, gardening and entertaining tourists at the pier with his storytelling. Doc is survived by a brother, Craig Young; his daughter, Suzanne Sylvia Wooster; a son, Gordon S. “Tyke” Young Jr.; two grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

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★ H. Foster Little died on December 20, 2009. A competitive swimmer at Hebron, he went on to Norwich University. He left Norwich to join the Naval Air Cadet Program during World War II and became a fighter pilot. He is survived by his wife Rosemary, two children and three grandchildren.

1939

George S. Hosmer died on April 11, 2010, in Naples, Florida. He was born in 1919, a son of the George and Ada Hosmer. Mr. Hosmer was retired from Retail Credit Co. He was a member of various Masonic organizations, the Charles River Country Club (Newton, Massachusetts) and the Imperial Golf Club of Naples. He is survived

by his wife, Betty Oliphant Hosmer; two daughters, Susan Wenham and Deborah Hosmer; stepchildren Kay Sherrard, Janice Hedrick and Lee Oliphant; four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his daughter Joanne Marshall.

★ William P. Power, of Westborough and formerly of Worcester, died February 25, 2010, at his home. Mr. Power was one of the most accomplished tennis players in New England history. He started playing at age 9, and at age 11 made the final round of the Worcester Parks under 19 division in his first tournament. He won the state high school singles championship twice. He went on to be ranked nationally in the top 10 in four different categories, and first in 14 different New England tennis divisions during his long and illustrious tennis career.

He won more than 600 tournaments in his lifetime, including 12 All-Worcester men’s singles titles, the last in 1971 at age 51. Mr. Power played some of the greatest tennis players of his era, including Rod Laver, Vic Seixas, Bobby Riggs, Pancho Segura, Billy Talbert and Gardner Mulloy. He played exhibition matches with Don Budge, Bjorn Borg, Billie Jean King and Wendy Overton.

He competed on the Wimbledon courts while stationed in England during World War II. With his longtime doubles partner Nick Sharry, he won countless New England championships. He won three Massachusetts state titles. Mr. Power and his son Billy Jr. played in father-son doubles competitions for years and were for a time ranked fourth nationally. He was part of the 1991 inaugural group of inductees into the New England Tennis Hall of Fame. His wife of 61 years, Dorothy Northridge Power, died in 2004. They also partnered in tennis, winning many mixed doubles tournaments. Mr. Power leaves four children: Nancy Gill, William P. Power Jr., Ellen Barry and Susan Tanner; 10 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a sister, Gertrude M. Dean; and many nieces and nephews. His dear companion, Mary Jean Ashton, died in February. He was born in Worcester, one of eleven children of Patrick M. and Elizabeth C. McCann Power. He attended the College of the Holy Cross for two years before entering the Army Air Corps.

He was a World War II veteran, and participated in the Normandy invasion before advancing through France into Belgium and Germany. From 1956 through 1967, Mr. Power promoted the game of tennis in clinics and demonstrations throughout the Northeast for the Spalding sporting goods company. He later joined the Bancroft Sporting Goods Co., a leading racquet manufacturer. He was a sales and marketing representative for the company for more than 20 years, retiring in 1989.

Bill was a member of the Worcester Tennis Club for 75 years. He served as its teaching pro in the early 1950s. Many of the players he instructed achieved notable success in tennis. Each summer, the club hosts the Worcester County Open Tennis Championships to honor Bill & Dottie Power, who were both former presidents of the club.

Bill was also the tennis coach at Worcester Academy from 1952 until 1967. He was

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a member of the U.S. Professional Tennis Association for 60 years.

1940

★ George M. Chrisenton, Jr. died March 17, 2010, after an extended illness, at his home in Alton, New Hampshire. He was born in in 1922 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, to George M. Chrisenton, Sr. and Blanche W. Sunman Chrisenton.

A World War II veteran, Mr. Chrisenton served in the army in Europe from 1943 to 1945, and earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star during his years of service. He was discharged from Camp Swift, Texas, from A Company, 9th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Indian Head Division. He was employed at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard from 1941 until 1973. He retired in 1973 as a supervisory mechanical engineer. Mr. Chrisenton began his second career as a licensed land surveyor in New Hampshire and Maine from 1979 to present. He was predeceased by his wife of 55 years, Eleanor Chrisenton in 1999 and a grandson in 1975. Family members include his son, Thomas; daughters Gail Jordan and Tracy Chrisenton-Lionetta; six grandchildren; and a great-grandson. Mr. Christon enjoyed restoring WWII jeeps, being active outdoors, attending the theatre and symphony, and was an avid reader. He will be missed for his dry sense of humor.

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★ Roger C. Quinn Sr. died peacefully on January 24, 2010, in Hilton Head, South Carolina, with family at his side. He was 87 years old and maintained his extraordinary sense of humor and love of family, books, politics and sports to the end. Mr. Quinn, known affectionately as “Paddy,” was born in Westbrook in 1922, to Joseph and Hazel Reed Quinn. He attended local schools and graduated from Westbrook High School in 1941 where he was a stand-out athlete in football and All Telegram League in baseball. At Hebron, he was all Maine Prep in football. Mr. Quinn declined to sign a contract with the Detroit Tigers and enlisted instead with the Army Air Corps, serving in the north Pacific during World War II. Upon returning home, he married Dorothy Reardon and settled in Portland. In 1984, he retired as a paper machine foreman at S.D. Warren Paper Company after 42 years of service. He was an avid sports fan and enjoyed both local and professional sports and teams. Mr. Quinn was ecstatic when his beloved Red Sox clinched the 2004 Word Series. His family and his grandchildren were his pride and joys. His wife, Dorothy, died last January. He is survived by his son Roger. C. Quinn Jr.; his daughters Mary Quinn and Patricia A. Roberts; six grandchildren; and a sister, Patricia Quinn-Bailey.

His other sisters, Phyllis Quinn and Carolyn Fenney, predeceased him. Mr. Quinn and his family thank life-long friends Victoria ‘Queenie’ Thayer, her son Sammie Thayer, Marion Thayer and Shirley Thayer Fawcett for the care and friendship they provided to Mr. Quinn, especially during the year following Dorothy’s death.

1944

Leonard N. Plavin, a prominent Lewiston merchant for more than 50 years, died at the Hospice House on April 15, 2010. A son of Abraham and Ethel Plavin, he was born in Lewiston in 1927. He went to Governor Dummer Academy after Hebron closed in 1943, then attended the University of Maine at Orono, majoring in economics. He threw the hammer for the track team, played football, and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in 1948. Upon graduation, he went to work for New England Furniture Co., Maine’s largest home furnishers.

Founded by his father, New England Furniture had stores in six Maine cities, with the headquarters in Lewiston. He and his brother, Manuel ‘43, ran the company together for 40 years. The two of them also started a contract furniture business, NEFCO Contract Distributors, which remained active until 2004. Mr. Plavin had a lifelong passion for architecture, skiing, golf and photography. He was a vibrant member of the Bates College community, where his wife, Marcy, directed the dance program for 40 years. During Marcy’s tenure, he took more than 10,000 pictures of the Bates College Modern Dance Co. He was active in the University of Maine Alumni Council and executive committee. He served as president of the Lewiston-Auburn Jewish Federation, sat on the board of directors for the City of Lewiston Arts Commission, L/A Arts, and Holocaust Human Rights of Maine. He was a member of the board at the University of Maine Farmington, a member of the dance panel for National Endowment of the Arts and served on the committee for a medical school for Maine. He also served as president/chairman of the board of Beth Jacob Synagogue and president of Martindale Country Club. Along with his wife of 56 years, Marcy, Mr. Plavin is survived by his brother, Manuel; sister, Shirley; children, David, Lynda and Stephen; and five grandsons.

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★ William L. Deyoe Sr. died Jan. 22, 2010, at his home surrounded by his loving family. He was born in 1930 in Medford, Massachusetts, and grew up in Somerville, summering in Freedom. He was the son of the late Ralph and Idella Conner Deyoe. He lived in Melrose from 1957 to 1992 when he and his wife retired to their home in Freedom. He graduated in 1951 from Boston University, earning his associate in arts degree, and his bachelor of science degree in public relations in 1954. He served in the US Air Force during the Korean War. Mr. Deyoe worked for the Raytheon Corporation for 18 years as a purchasing manager. He was a 50-year member of the King Solomon Masonic Lodge; past patron (1957-1958) of the Friendship Chapter Order of Eastern Star No. 58, member of the American Legion Post No 19, a past president of the Freedom Club of Boston, past Dad advisor for the Melrose Chapter, Order of DeMolay.

He also served as Scoutmaster of the Melrose Highlands Congregational Church Troop No. 603 and was Little League

alumni et alumnae coach in Melrose for many years, as well as earning his second degree in Reiki. He was a member of the Freedom Cemetery Committee and First Christian Church of Freedom. Family members include his wife of 57 years, June Deyoe of Freedom; children William Deyoe Jr., Wayne Deyoe, Mark Deyoe and Susan Deyoe; nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

1950

Brian Simm died in October 2006. He enjoyed a 35 year career as district forester for the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development.

He was also an accomplished water color artist and exhibited widely in New Hampshire. His water colors reflected his love of nature in the scenery of New England including the Maine Coast and its magnificent light houses. Mr. Simm was honored at Fox State Forest where he based his work with a boardwalk to a lovely bog with a bird and wildlife blind which was built by his Sigma Chi fraternity brothers.

A bronze plaque on a nearby boulder recognizes his work as a dedicated forester at Fox State Forest.

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★ Retired Army Col. Ralph William Parsons died February 15, 2010, at his home, surrounded by his family. He was born in 1934, in Leverett, Massachusetts, and was reared in Athol by James H. and Anne McIntosh. In 1957 he joined the US Army to see the world and serve his country. His service brought him to Fort Benning, Georgia, where he married his wife, Janice, in 1962. Col. Parsons served in the Army for 26 years, including tours in Korea and Vietnam. During his military service, he earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree from Central Michigan University. In all aspects of his life, he found ways to help others.

After military retirement, he developed a successful management consulting business. He retired again, but never stopped learning new things and sharing them with his family and friends. After his second retirement, Col. Parsons discovered the joy of RVing and he and Janice explored the country in their “home on wheels.” During the winter months they made their home in Naples, Florida, and enjoyed being snowbirds. He was a dedicated Sunday school teacher and church leader. He demonstrated his love for the Lord throughout his life. Ralph died the way he lived, with the Lord by his side. He will always be remembered as a man of integrity, faith and strength. Most of all, he loved the Lord and he loved his family. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Janice; two beloved daughters, Karen Parsons and Amy Parsons Hall; two grandchildren; two sisters, Thelma Parsons Fox and Vera Parsons Woods; his brother, Gerald Parsons; and his mother-in-law, brother-in-law, a niece and a nephew.

1955

Return Jonathan Meigs died June 30, 2010, in Amesbury, Massachusetts, after an extended period of illness. Mr. Meigs was born in Boston in 1936, the son of Hildreth and Elizabeth Cuendet Meigs. He grew up in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and summered in Rye Beach, New Hampshire. He was a travel photojournalist all of his life.

An alumnus of the University of Virginia, Mr. Meigs began his career as marketing director for the Island Government of Bermuda, based in New York. He was also a freelance writer and photographer in Washington, D.C., and Colonial Williamsburg, and was a tour guide in Hawaii and Mexico in his younger years. He belonged to Trinity Church in Boston and was a member of The Country Club at Chestnut Hill.

He is survived by his sister, Martha Meigs of Hampton. Mr. Meigs was the originator/author of the term “cultural tourism.”

His vision was for developing new tourism markets and bringing peace to a troubled world through his concept of The Cultural Highway, where by learning to share our similarities we can begin to heal our differences. He gave lectures on culture and tourism and attended tourism conferences around the world. He presented a series of speeches in Jerusalem, Amman, New Delhi, Dubai, Vancouver, Montreal, Glasgow, and Washington, D.C. World leaders, presidents and corporate dignitaries praised his work. Besides traveling across America, some of his worldwide stops were Geneva, Vilamoura, Qatar, Dubai, Guinea, Cameroon, Zanzibar, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean. One of his favorite locations was Africa, especially during a recent African safari adventure. His work on The Cultural Highway created a lifestyle that was a journey of self-discovery with an appreciation of all cultures. An eccentric who loved politics, his booming voice and smile were often combined with stories from his travels. Mr. Meigs attended many Olympics, PGA tournaments, and Sail Boston events. He belonged to Partners for Livable Places in Washington, D.C. He also enjoyed researching his family history of Revolutionary War and Civil War heroes and medical doctors. He loved walks on the beach, sailing on tall ships, taking his beloved mother for drives up the coast, and visiting his sister, Martha.

1957

Appreciations: Frank Waterman Thumbing through the Fall 2009 edition of the Hebron Academy Semester I was very saddened to see the simple one line entry for Hebron hockey teammate Frank Waterman under “other deaths.” Having Frank leaving in the “other” category just does not seem appropriate, so here is an attempt to frame Frank’s life in Hebron terms. In late fall 1956, newly-arrived hockey “hot shots” gathered for a first outing on skates. The rink was not ready so we were on black pond ice. The “new boys” were from various New England high schools and we all had some rough social edges. Frank had the roughest and

his perpetual five o’clock shadow just added to the menacing appearance. The first day Frank was determined to show us his expertise in stick handling, so bang, bang, bang went stick and puck at a very high decimal. We all looked at each other with the expression “who does this guy think he is?” Fortunately, Coach Ladd MacMillan had a unique way to communicate with each of us. I don’t know what Mr. Mac said to Frank, but it didn’t take long for Frank to calm down and become an integral part of a very successful team. In the end there was no single superstar, just a real team.

Over the years I would see Frank at Hebron alumni hockey games and marveled at how mature and calm he had become while being a successful small business man and family man (wife Harriett, four children, and eight grandchildren.) I felt Frank was such a great example of what Hebron, under Headmaster Claude Allen, did in just one year for many rough edged “hot shots.” Bob McCoy ’58 I remember two things about Frank Waterman: his toughness and his kindness towards me. In the late fall of 1956, when I went to practice shooting at the rink, I watched Frank’s slap shot tear apart the pine boards with ease. He did not hesitate to teach me how to take a good slap shot and using his basics I worked hard to duplicate his great shot. I can remember how Frank’s shot made other goalies duck and have gloves pulled from their hands by his shots. When we beat Melrose, it was his slap shot that created a rebound Jack Dewar converted into the game-winning goal.

I am forever grateful to Frank for teaching me a simple skill that over my hockey career made me a valuable player at Hebron and New Hampshire despite marginal skating ability. Jim Harberson ’59

HERE, has served him well. He welcomed with warmth and grace the thousands of guests drawn to the Oakland House over his innkeeping career. He treated guests like they were from HERE and not from AWAY. Many call Oakland House Seaside Resort HOME. Mr. Littlefield was an active Brooksville community member. He served many years as a volunteer fireman for the Volunteer Fire Department, trustee and president of the Brooksville Free Public Library Board, chairman of the Brooksville Budget and Advisory Committee, and chairman of the Brooksville Appeals Board.

As a young parent he became increasingly involved with the elementary school’s Olympics of the Mind. He stepped up to further leadership positions with Odyssey of the Mind, co-directing Eastern Maine and State tournaments and serving on the State board for many years. He, like his father before him, became active in the East Penobscot Bay Resort Association, taking a leadership roll in the region’s hospitality industry. He was an active member in Maine Innkeepers Association, served on their Legislative Committee, and was a member of Maine Restaurant Association.

The Blue Hill Peninsula Region Chamber of Commerce awarded him “Business Person of the Year” in 2008. The Maine Innkeepers Association gave him their Hall of Fame Award in 2009. Mr. Littlefield is survived by his wife, Sally Middleton Littlefield; daughter Sally L. McGuigan ’90; son Timothy Littlefield; stepson James C. Whitehead; and stepson Bryan S. Whitehead. A wealth of close and more distant relatives includes his brothers Herrick B. Littlefield and John F. Littlefield; his sister, Nancy L. Stine; and his cousins, Janet B. Canfield and Barbara Pluff.

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James R. Littlefield died peacefully on June 25, 2010, at a Bangor Hospital following a 3 1⁄2 year campaign against multiple myeloma. His “cup was totally full.” He lived every day to the fullest without complaint even though his illness created conditions intolerable to most. He was always amidst friends and relatives who loved him dearly. While not from AWAY and not from HERE Mr. Littlefield was born in Boston in 1944. Three days later he accompanied his mother to his family’s ancestral home in Brooksville, Maine. He attended grammar schools in Brooksville, Maine and Winter Park, Florida. By the age of 14, when his father Elmir died, Mr. Littlefield was heavily involved with the day-to-day operation of his family’s business, the Oakland House. He attended Hebron Academy and graduated in 1962. There he honed a wide range of creative skills and nurtured a group of fellow classmates who remained steadfastly loyal to the needs and creative problem-solving necessary to operate the coastal resort. Through his college years at Worcester Polytechnical Institute he commuted back and forth to attend engineering classes and help his mother Katrina with the running of the business.

Not being from AWAY, yet not being from

Gregory B. Fales died February 9, 2010.

He was born in New York, the son of Henry and Dorothy Fales. He graduated from Lehigh University, where he began his lifelong interest in art and journalism. He was the editor and publisher of 3G Publishing and writer and artist of The Studio at Ballantyne, both based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Fales is survived by two daughters, Hilary and Elizabeth; a son, Gregory; and a sister, Melanie Davis.

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John Hellman died on January 7, 2010, from a heart attack while under treatment for lymphoma. He leaves his wife, Marlene, and son, Parker. Mr. Hellman was a retired employee of the East Bay Regional Park District in Oakland, California.

Other deaths

Charles Crockett ‘32, on December 11, 2004.

Ted Russem ‘32 Robert Lyden Clark ’51, June 2009.

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thirteen ways of looking at an apple

ach year, Mr. Middleton and his sixth grade English class write a group poem about a familiar, everyday object.

Using Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” as inspiration, each member of the class contributes a verse. Mr. Middleton asks students to focus on communicating the experience of the senses in writing this last assignment for their poetry unit.

I The skin looks like the midnight sky Red with white stars Flickering in the moon light.

II Cradled in my hand Green round shiny Hard crunchy sweet Sweet essence of spring.

III Green as it smiles at me It blushes Inviting me to take a bite I sink my teeth in Crunchy and tart.

IV My son once climbed An orchard ladder His hand extended to the perfect apple.

They both fell into my arms.

V Take a bite Juicy but not hard It leaves my lips sticky With apple juice

VI An apple protects its babies With its own body Giving up a life For a chance to survive.

VII Red apple full of purity Delectable in my hand All the spots look like stars In the night sky Red as Mr. Mid’s tie.

VIII The apple’s sweet Crunchy flavor Touches my tongue Luscious and full Of Life I bite Crunch Crunch Crunch.

IX You know when it’s the best It makes a loud crunch When you sink your teeth into Its red shiny skin When the juice runs down your chin It drips and drips.

X When I bit it The apple was squishy and rotten I think........

XI Unique Sweet Gleaming Red An apple.

XII The apple standing alone So bright on a limb As I bite The skin crunches under my teeth A juicy piece of apple falls So succulent So pleasing to the senses.

XIII A red meteorite Shooting down from the sky Finally landing We see it Dripping with water.

Owen Richmond, Izzy Layman, Faraz Sanal, Maddie Prentice, Cam Rothwell, Olivia Berger, Mat Futch, J.D. Hodgdon, Riley Hemmings, Lindsey Kenison, Nathaniel Bennett, Mr. Mid, Chase Harkins 44 • Hebron Academy Semester • Spring 2010

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Congratulations to the Class of 2010

Silas Leavitt ’08 and Charlie Cummings ’07 listen to class president Emily Powers address her classmates at Commencement on May 29, 2010. For more photos and Emily’s speech, please see page 27.