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Kents Hill School Opens the Bibby and Harold Alfond Dining Commons Cindy and Pat Mcinerney Say Farewell After 25 Years Vision Statement Kents Hill School PO Box 257 KENTS HILL TODAY Kents Hill, Maine 04349-0257 Change service requested Spring/Summer 2017 Kents Hill School Opens the Bibby and Harold Alfond Dining Commons Cindy and Pat McInerney say farewell after 25 years www.kentshill.org Vision Statement Committed to the individual and the potential that lies within, Kents Hill School challenges students to grow into engaged, creative learners, global stewards, Reunion 2017 and compassionate leaders. June 16 - June 18 Statement of Mission www.kentshill.org/reunion At Kents Hill School we educate our students in mind, body, and character to: Prepare for the challenges and opportunities of higher education; Accept and respect themselves and others, and work together for the common good; Be responsible stewards of our natural environment and Kents Hill School’s community heritage; Embody the ideal that one man or woman of principle can always make a difference. Editor Lori Putnam 207-685-1657 [email protected] Assistant Editor Lara M. Cole ’09 207-685-1684 [email protected] P.O. Box 257 Kents Hill, ME 04349-0257 Visit the Kents Hill School website: www.kentshill.org Kents Hill School Board of Trustees 2016-2017 KENTS HILL TODAY Mr. Edward Lane, III P’10, President Mark S. Alcaide, 2nd Vice President Features 2 From the Head of School Theodore B. Alfond ’64, Vice President Parker J. Beverage P’98, ’00 3 A Tribute to Cindy and Pat Taylor Bodman P’08 McInerney William J. Brennan ’70, P’02 6 It’s More than Just Great Food Nancy Colhoun Catherine Eaton-Coakley P’18 9 Making Their Mark Gordon H. Fay P’87 10 Food for Good Thought Debra Gesimondo 11 Finding Himself in Service to Others James R. Hansen ’81 Patricia R. Hatler P’08 13 From Passion to Vocation Josette Huntress Holland 14 It’s About Relationships Jawad Issa ’01 Stephen I. Jeney P’09 16 Recycling as Art Steven Madison P’16 18 New Trustees Alane B. O’Connor ’92 20 Reaching for the Finish Line Richard O’Connor ’64, P’92 Doug Phillips 21 The Future of Kents Hill School David Rhodes ’69 22 200 Years and Counting! Douglas W. Stinson ’84 24 On the Hill Karen Temkin P’15 Jamie Thorsen P’11 27 Alumnus of the Year Alexander J. Wall III P’90,’95 Guy Williams ’68 News & Notes 28 Class Notes Honorary Trustee Frank A. Blethen 40 In Memoriam Honorary Life Trustees Steven P. Akin P’03 Neil R. Austrian P’04 George H. Bass II P’64, GP’92 Abigail Bowers P’10, ’13 3 9 37 John C. Bridges P’87 Richard M. Burston ’42 Kerry R. Courtice P’92 William G. Lindquist GP’01 Joanne Bass O’Connor ’64, P’92 Helen Shedd Reed ’70 Nancy Russell ’57 James S. Stanley ’34 13 27 Cover Photograph: Dean Gyorgy Pat and Cindy Inset Photo: Ron Simons 1 25 Years in Perspective Dear Kents Hill School Community, We have been honored to call this very special community our home for 25 years. Cindy and I interviewed with Rist Bonnefond, Headmaster Emeritus, in the spring of 1992. Our boys Brendan and Chris were six and eight years old; I had a full head of hair and I could easily run the eight-mile P. Ridge Road loop - now I am lucky to bike it! The community we are so blessed to be a part of now is a remarkably different place than it was in 1992. The evolution of Kents Hill throughout these two plus decades is a tribute to the many students, alumni, faculty, staff, trustees, and parents whose dedication, loyalty, and resources have shaped the place we have called home. Cindy and I have taught and coached a diverse group of learners, athletes and artists over the years. Many of them find their way back to Kents Hill School and it has been our great joy spending time with them to hear about their lives, families, and accomplishments. It is especially heartwarming to hear how much this community influenced them and continues to do so many years later. Cindy and I are just one small part of the adult community that is intensely dedicated to the education of these students. Pat McInerney When we arrived at Kents Hill, enrollment was increasing and a close community of talented faculty and staff emerged. With Rist’s vision and a dedicated, determined Board of Trustees, the future of Kents Hill Ted Alfond Athletics Center, Harold Alfond Athletics was bright. The beginning of a comprehensive plan to Fields, Reed Hall, Williams Woodworking Studio, and advance the School through funding for facilities began the Donahue faculty housing neighborhood. The number in earnest in 1998 when the Liz Cross Mellen Lodge of Advanced Placement classes doubled and in 2003 opened at the Joanne and Dick O’Connor Alpine Center- earned the prestigious Siemens Foundation Award our first new building on campus in over a decade. for Advanced Placement Programs. During this past decade, the endowment has grown to more than $24 By 2000, enrollment was more than 200 students million and we have been blessed by the construction and over the next decade was coupled with the or renovation of many major facilities on campus, most transformational support and vision of the Harold Alfond notably the Bibby and Harold Alfond Dining Commons, Foundation and many grateful parents, alumni, and Akin Learning Center, Bodman Performing Arts Center, Trustees, resulting in the construction of the Harold and Alcaide Studio, Bass Art Studio, and Deering Chapel. The future of Kents Hill School is bright. After a for her grace, effusive personality, love of students, thorough search, the Board of Trustees unanimously and unwavering support. We will always be a part of elected Christopher Cheney as the 20th Head of the Kents Hill community and plan to return often School. Chris is an experienced leader who impressed to reunions, games, and other events so that we can us all with his enthusiasm for joining and leading our reconnect with the generations of students that we have community. His wife, Lisa, and their daughters, Shea been blessed to know over the years. and Zoe, will certainly become an integral part of the fabric of this institution. Sincerely, It has been an honor and a privilege to serve the Kents Hill School community as a teacher, coach, Associate Head of School, and Head of School. Cindy has been an extraordinary ambassador to hundreds of people in the last four years, and I owe her a debt of gratitude Pat McInerney A Tribute to Cindy andBy Rist Bonnefond, Headmaster,Pat 1990-2011 McInerney I first met Pat McInerney in 1992 at the NAIS immediately plunged into the life of the school. Before Conference in San Francisco. I was looking for a new becoming Head of School in his own right in 2014, Assistant Headmaster. Pat and I hit it off immediately. Pat had already fulfilled at various times the following After interviewing other candidates it became clear functions while continuing as Assistant/Associate to me that he was the right man for the job. This was Headmaster: Dean of Faculty, Dean of Students, not a one-way negotiation, however. He and Cindy Director of Financial Aid, dorm parent, advisor, needed to be sure they would be making the right weekend duty team head, and coach of soccer, skiing, decision in coming to Kents Hill. On a chilly day in snowboading and tennis. He was a truly gifted coach, April the McInerneys came to visit. The faculty, staff, taking the soccer team to seven NEPSAC tournaments. and students they met made them feel more than He was also spectacularly successful in tennis where his welcome, and a few days later Pat became the Assistant teams went 123-12 over the past ten years and went Headmaster of Kents Hill School. undefeated for an unprecedented six years! My initial assessment of Pat’s ability and readiness to Throughout our 19-year collaboration, Pat’s most help me lead Kents Hill proved to be on target. Pat important contribution to the school was to provide me 3 Pat and Cindy McInerney with a colleague upon whom I could rely absolutely, was essential to the success Kents Hill enjoyed in its both in judgment and discretion. Every Head of School advancement efforts. Following my retirement in 2011, is always full of ideas: some of them good, some not Pat continued to serve as Associate Headmaster under so good. He or she needs an Assistant Head who is not my successor, Jeremy LaCasse, then was asked by the afraid to speak plainly about why a given initiative might Board of Trustees to serve as Interim Head of School not be in the school’s best interests. At the same time, before being appointed Head of School in 2014. it is essential that the Assistant Head be someone who will stand by the Head once a topic goes public. Pat and Cindy McInerney will be leaving Kents Hill this June after a quarter century devoted to the school, its As I began to devote more time to fundraising Pat faculty and students. There is not a single aspect of the was promoted to Associate Headmaster and took on life of the school they have not touched and improved, increasing responsibility for the day to day operation of and their influence will be felt for many years to come. the school. Not having to be concerned about the way We are all indebted to them. the school community was being led in my absence “From my very first meeting with Pat at the NAIS conference to my first visit to Kents Hill, Pat and Cindy were the welcoming face of Kents Hill School.
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