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Fryeburg Academy SPRING 2016 RYEBURG CADEMY F A MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI, FAMILIES, AND FRIENDS Scenes FA IN FOCUS PROUD TRADITIONS W NEW DIRECTIONS PROUD TRADITIONS, NEW DIRECTIONS Looking Ahead with the FA Community JUNE 10TH AND 11TH, 2016 bout 15 months ago, we at Fryeburg Academy surveyed are most relevant Aour school and area communities as a step in longer-term to the demands of No matter how long ago you graduated from Fryeburg Academy or planning. In a tremendous show of invested interest, 544 people our era and place when you last visited campus, Reunion Weekend is the best time to reconnect responded! Alumni, current and past parents, faculty and staff, and in the world. with your friends and classmates. other friends of the school registered their thinking on FA’s present We’ve determined and its future. I’d like to highlight some of these findings here: that empowering We hope you’ll join us for Reunion at Fryeburg Academy — a time to celebrate lifelong Presented with six school core values and asked to rank them students in this friendships, relive memories, and rediscover the remarkable place that is FA today. in order of significance, respondents emphatically selected these way requires we as most important: 1) Community: Belonging and Contribution, do three things: We look forward to seeing you in June! and 2) Access to Opportunity. Of four chief goals for FA graduates, the following were, by a • offer a curric- Check our website for more information on class gatherings, wide margin, the community’s top priorities: first, that Academy ulum that balances a student’s acquisition of information with lodging, and to register online (preferred). graduates possess the skills needed for 21st century success, and the development of complex, transferable skills, and that heavi- if they have not yet found their passion, that they graduate with ly features real-world performances and problem-solving; www.fryeburgacademy.org/reunion • (207) 935-2001 ext. 3131 the tools to do so; second, that Academy graduates are character- • implement enhanced technical education access and study, ized by integrity and a strong work ethic. including applied technology and career preparation opportu- As a final highlight, of five proposed goals for Fryeburg nities, internships, and expansion of STEM and dual enrollment Academy’s role in providing maximum value to the commu- options; OPENING RECEPTION TO HONOR VETERANS nity, three received very close lead ranking: first, that it remain • integrate outdoor educational study and experiences as sig- a provider of arts and culture; second, that it act as an economic At this year’s reunion, Fryeburg Academy will host a special reception honoring FA alumni nature components of FA’s curriculum, advisory program, and stabilizer and contributor; and third, that it serve as an educa- who are veterans. The event, which kicks off Reunion Weekend, will be held on extracurricular offerings. Friday, June 10th at 6 PM in the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center. tional partner to area businesses. These survey results and other research measures have led to a Much activity is underway in each of these areas. Within a few Are you a veteran or an active member of the military? set of overarching goals for the Academy. Over the next five years months, the entire strategic plan, its timeline, and a full status and beyond, our decision-making will be guided by the following report will be ready for publication. I look forward to sharing it. three aims as FA faculty, staff, and board strive to: First, though, I’d like to offer this issue of Scenes as a frame for thinking about the basis of it all. Few concepts in education • Empower students to succeed in our 21st century world have as instantly gained currency as “21st Century Learning.” • Enhance campus resources in support of program But like any once-fresh buzz-phrase, it is applied broadly, often Please visit our website, www.fryeburgacademy.org/reunion, and fill out a survey by and enrollment needs with no specific definition. In the coming pages, I offer the FA June 1st to help us gather more information and best prepare for the reception. • Sustain Fryeburg Academy amidst demographic challenge community thoughts on what the label signifies as we pursue We would love to see photos of you in uniform, past or present. Goal #1 is Job #1. It is most directly about learning, teaching, the strategic goal of empowering students to succeed in our 21st Mail them to: and school mission, so it is our lead, giving shape to all conse- century reality. Fryeburg Academy quential curricular, facilities, and financial planning before us. Attn: Lakyn Osgood But what does it mean? The Academy has always focused on 745 Main Street preparing its students for life after graduation and on expanding Fryeburg, ME 04037 their opportunities. What we want to do now is build on that sturdy foundation, ensuring that our graduates are powerfully ERIN P. MAYO Head of School or email as an attachment to Lakyn at [email protected]. competent, knowledgeable, practiced, and ethical in ways that If you do mail photos, please write your name on the back so we can return them to you at the reunion! WE HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON! FRYEBURG A C A DEMY S CENE S 1 HANDS ON: Chris Strahler (left), Physics Teacher, and Ann Chappell, English and ESOL Teacher, lean over one section of the CONTENTS SPRING 2016 timber frame built by students as a May Term class to shelter an outdoor pizza oven on campus. Read more: May Term page 8. 1 LETTER FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL Chris Strahler’s NHS Speech page 12. Looking Ahead with the FA Community 4 FA ACADEMICS 21st Century Learning by Erin P. Mayo Preparing our children to thrive in an ever- transforming, complex, and exciting world. May Term at Fryeburg Academy A closer look at the course variety and inten sive experiences available during FA’s sixth May Term. 10 FA NEWS Model UN by Greg Huang-Dale Q&A: Mark Strange Retires You Must Do Something to Make the World More Beautiful by Chris Strahler FA Vocal Jazz Ensemble Wins Championship 15 FA ATHLETICS Unified Basketball Comes to FA by Charlie Tryder One of the Gems: Anna Lastra ’16 by Charlie Tryder 18 FA ARTS Pace Galleries by Cynthia Watkins Melendy, Ph.D Visiting FA’s First Exhibition from Its Permanent Collection. 19 FA ALUMNI FA Teachers Collaborate to Begin a New Tradition Casey Sherman ’88 The best-selling co-author of The Finest Hours returns to FA. Alumni Ski Race Eric Jordan ’03 Returns to the FA Stage Class News BOARD OF TRUSTEES TRUSTEES EMERITI CONTRIBUTORS In Memoriam FRYEBURG ACADEMY Joe Shaffner ’81: The Courage to Make Change 745 Main St, Fryeburg, ME 04037 Christopher M. Gordon ’81, President Alan D. Bennett ’60 ‘Thank you’ to the contributors of Scenes Magazine. Steven P. Cote ’85, Vice President Richard R. Cote Your words and your pictures help tell our shared Fryeburg www.fryeburgacademy.org Shannon D. McKeen ’81, Treasurer John A. Dunn, Jr. Academy stories: stories of our students, teachers, parents, CORRECTIONS Brenda Thibodeau, Secretary James H. Dutton ’68 The following loyal supporters Peter Hathaway ’52 Roy E. Andrews ’56 William A. Findeisen ’71 alumni, friends, and staff...our community. SENIOR LEADERSHIP TEAM were omitted inadvertently from Margaret Homans and John Chandler ’78 T. Scott Gamwell — Dan Lounsbury | Scenes Editor since 2015 the Honor Roll of Giving in the Fall Harrison Homans ’46 Head of School: Erin P. Mayo John M. Day ’67 June W. Hammond ’54 2015 edition of Scenes. We thank Cooper Campbell Jackson ’85 and Assistant Head of School for Academics: Joseph Manning Communications and Marketing Coordinator Samuel P. Harding Nancy S. Hogan, RN, Ph.D. ’56 them sincerely for their 10 or more Hayes Jackson Chief Financial Officer:Jeremy Angell ’99 David R. Hastings III ’68 James A. Osgood ’56 Cover Photo by: John McKeith; father of Trevor ’10 and Colin ’15 consecutive years of giving to Carol Kelly Director of Admission: Michelle Cote Punyu Ho ’95 Asa O. Pike, IV ’57 Fryeburg Academy, with apologies Henry Latkin Director of Advancement and Alumni Relations: Kristen Crean ’88 Table of Contents Photo by: Mike Dana Cooper Campbell Jackson ’85 Henry T. Raymond, III for the previous omission. Agnes Leach and Oliver Leach ’63 Dean of Student Life: Charlie Tryder Bradford Littlefield ’80 Thomas D. Shaffner Scott Leach ’71 Director, Center for International Students: Tracy Weitz Remainder of photography by: Jennifer Stacy Bartlett ’93; Peter J. Malia, Jr., Esq. B. Dean Stearns ’58 John L. Atwood ’71 Diane Legendre and James Webb ’85 Mike Dana; Greg Huang-Dale; Cynthia Watkins Melendy Ph.D.; Bradley B. Nelson ’65 Carol S. Sudduth Elizabeth F. Bowles and Betty Mathieson Masse ’47 Andrea Smith Osgood ’86 Lakyn Osgood ’12; Bill Reilly; Joel Rhymer; and others. David A. Bowles ’53 Roberta Pingree and Ellen Pope ’68 Katherine Coddington Dolan ’61 Charles Pingree ’56 Design by: Marianne Matte, Steep Falls, ME David Rohde ’85 Susan Sudduth Hammond ’93 and Nancy Stuart Willis ’64 and Bretton D. Russell ’56 Thomas S. Hammond II ’93 Robert Willis Elaine Weeks Trueblood ’67 Michael Harwood ’61 2 S PRING 2016 FRYEBURG A C A DEMY S CENE S 3 FA ACADEMICS 21st Century Learning BY ERIN P. MAYO HEAD OF SCHOOL hen my son Gunnar was a little over three years old, having recently watched his dad put in the garden, he We adults need to get out of came inside one spring weekend and asked for a shovel: W“Just a little one for my hand,” he said.
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