SCHOOL YEAR 13-14 INSIDE Fresh Connections Current students and their Hebronian parents 18 Steady Hand The leadership and legacy of J. Reeve Bright ‘66, Retiring Board Chair 28 4 8 SCHOOL YEAR 2013-2014 EDITOR Liza Tarr ASSOCIATE EDITOR Dave Stonebraker CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Geoff Campbell Joe Hemmings Julie Middleton Emily Tuttle PHOTOGRAPHY Geoff Campbell 14 18 28 Dennis and Diana Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios Liza Tarr Sara Wilmot and friends DESIGN Dianne Lewis Design COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE Liza Tarr, Marketing Communications Manager Geoff Campbell, Digital Communications Coordinator ADVANCEMENT OFFICE Patricia Layman, Director of Advancement Beverly Roy, Director of the Hebron Annual Fund John Slattery ‘04, Assistant Director Patricia Hutter, Advancement Assistant Judy Roy, Database Manager Please send address and email changes to Judy Roy at [email protected] 1 from the head of school Please send class notes to Beverly Roy at 49 [email protected] 2 editor’s note 3 at the academy 7 upcoming events 8 reunion-homecoming 2013 HEBRON is published by the Hebron Academy Communications and Advancement Offices. 12 alum spotlight: ben jessome ‘06 Letters and corrections are welcome from alumni, parents and friends of the Academy. Please 14 hebron football by the numbers send your feedback to Liza Tarr, Editor, at ltarr@ hebronacademy.org 18 fresh connections Alumni and their children, current students Hebron Academy affirms its longstanding policy of nondiscriminatory admission of students steady hand on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, 28 age, ancestry, national origin, physical or A profile of retiring Board Chair J. Reeve Bright ‘66 mental disability, or sexual orientation. We do not discriminate in the administration of our 37 class notes educational policies, admissions practices, scholarship programs and athletic or other 49 obituaries school-administered programs. Hebron Academy is an equal opportunity employer. Remembering Judy Chase Copyright 2014 by Hebron Academy 56 hidden gems www.hebronacademy.org | hebrontoday.org cover photo: geoff campbell Coltan Downey ’14 and father Paul Downey ’81 explore parallels in their Hebron experiences in “Fresh Connections” on page 18. Hebron Academy inspires and guides students to reach their highest potential in mind, body and spirit. 2 • HEBRON • SCHOOL YEAR 13-14 AT THE ACADEMY From the Head of School Hebron Rings! Dear Friends, Welcome to HEBRON—the magazine. In Emily Tuttle’s description of her refocused a time when the news of the Academy is International Program. instantly available through our weekly You may also measure the annual rings e-letters, social media links, the myHebron represented in the stories of alumni whose platform and our recently launched Hebron- children are presently making their mark Today mini-site, we recognize the value and upon the school today. Those children, connection represented in the familiar printed grandchildren and descendants of Hebron record of the life of the school. Thus, it is so grads represent the continuity and enduring right that our newly expanded magazine be tradition of the Hebron experience. This titled, simply, HEBRON. We hope that you inaugural issue of HEBRON also notes recent will read it, return to it and keep it to show to students who are contributing actively to their others, because it marks our story, our college communities and beyond: Hannah history, and our aims. Welcome to HEBRON! Hearn, Class of 2013, competing at Colby We did, however, have much discussion College, and Ben Jessome, Class of 2006, about the name for this new edition. My recently elected to provincial office. These tannery hill studios hill tannery personal nomination for the magazine title alumni continue the cycles of growth and was Hebron Rings, a metaphoric reference to change so central to the school’s mission. We the growth rings of a healthy tree in the also look back to events from the past: the forest. When the tree is felled, the lumberjack tradition of the Kents Hill football rivalry, the Growth, humanness, may review the annual rings on the stump evolution of skiing on our campus and the triumph and confidence. that show the health, growth and history of great “Ice Storm” of 1998. All ring out at Hebron and the timber. What better way to see and know “Rings” have another clear meaning in the the growth and change of Hebron Academy become the measure of the life and story of Hebron Academy today. than to read the story of its rings. (That’s the beauty of a really good play on annual cycle of growth and Growth and change are at the core of what words.) We have branded Hebron’s essence as change in our school. Hebron is about: “inspiring and guiding each the school where Humanity and Achievement student to reach his or her highest potential.” Ring True, where game-changing, life-affecting We show our growth as a school in enroll- growth happens for students. We celebrate the ment, diversity, and excellence to inspire Victory Bell with all hands on the rope, ringing change in each student and to attract and for the triumph of teams and individuals. serve students and families with the unique Growth, humanness, triumph and opportunities of our campus and program. confidence. All ring out at Hebron and In this first issue of HEBRON, we present become the measure of the annual cycle of a figurative slice of Hebron Academy and growth and change in our school. But review the growth of our students and school. fundamentally, a ring is a circle that wraps Enjoy the stories and recognize within them and includes all, just as the latest growth ring the annual rings represented by more than a engirdles the trunk of a tree, incorporating all decade of Reeve Bright’s leadership of the its life. So, too, each period, each epoch at Hebron Academy Board of Trustees. Hebron encircles and incorporates the As you read of his tenure, you’ll recognize traditions of the past as the medium to foster his pride in the gains of the Academy in the growth of the future. Like Reeve Bright enrollment, in college success, and the sustain- and others chronicled here, all have their ing strength of Hebron’s faculty who have led stories, their legacy of leadership and their the way since Reeve’s time as a student—Wil- unique impact on our school. Past…present… lard, Woolsey, Chase, Found—and even future…HEBRON Rings! current icons like Moose Curtis and Dave Sincerely, Stonebraker. The dynamic teachers leading today’s school demonstrate the vitality of Hebron’s ongoing commitment to excellence in teaching, as you will find documented in John King, Head of School HEBRONTODAY.ORG • 1 AT THE ACADEMY From the Editor Pages or Pixels? Dear HEBRON reader, best to allocate our resources: how do we pro- I am proud to duce a worthy print publication while Where do we direct our attention: unveil the inaugural furthering our efforts on the digital front? Do edition of our alumni we have to choose one over the other? Much the printed page or the pixelated magazine. HEBRON of my role in managing Hebron’s marketing screen? It need not be a choice. has been a labor of communications illuminates this dilemma of love months in the where to direct our attention: the printed page attention to print and digital channels: we making and would not or the pixelated screen? My theory? It need must therefore continue to produce a thought- exist without the not be a choice. The two forms should create ful alumni magazine and boost our commit- thoughtful insight and careful editing of my synergy. Print is not dead, and social media is ment to electronic segments. A bridging of the colleagues. I am incredibly grateful for their not a unilateral mouthpiece. two forms, HEBRON’s digital counterpart is contributions and have come to understand Speaking from a millennial born in the HebronToday.org, a news blog offering how “all hands on the rope,” a fitting image 80s, there is no question that my generation additional content in this magazine as well as taken from the story of our Victory Bell, has opted for the digital medium, and often to current news and features appealing to both could not ring more true in the creation of our detriment. The nuances of language have adolescents and adults. See lower left for a HEBRON. devolved into messages packaged as 50-char- preview of what HebronToday.org looks like. When it came time to discuss the future of acter text messages and tweets. A handwritten As you can see via HEBRON, we will the magazine, we convened a cross-section of letter – to many of my peers – is a relic of continue to invest in and update our publica- Hebron staff, faculty and friends to analyze another era, something we can only stomach tions to reflect the Academy’s growth and the elements of a successful publication that during the holidays when it comes time to pen change, themes explored in John King’s Letter would resonate with you, our current a thank-you note. And it was my generation from the Head of School on the previous audience. We held monthly round tables and that coined the term “selfie,” which went on page. It is only fitting that Hebron’s graphic developed an editorial strategy centered on to become Oxford Dictionaries’ 2013 Word identity mirror its evolution as a 21st century feedback and evaluation. We realized that the of the Year, a term that aptly summarizes the institution maintaining its mission of “inspir- success of this piece would depend on the “deleterious effects of social media,” accord- ing and guiding students to reach their highest collaboration of many, and most importantly, ing to NPR’s Geoff Nunberg, linguist potential in mind, body and spirit.” we knew that the magazine needed to reflect contributor on Fresh Air.