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
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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. Our goal in producing HEBRON was to the Hebron of today in a manner accessible to “Deleteriousness” aside, social media is touch all of our audiences. Dave Stonebrak- readers of Hebron past, present and future. here and it is here to stay. Most significantly, er’s tribute to retiring Board Chair Reeve Our recent emphasis on Hebron’s digital the very “customers” that Hebron enrolls Bright ‘66, whose tenure spanned well over a communications raised the question of how identify social platforms as the singular means decade, will relate to readers involved with for information sharing and communicating. the school from the 1960s to today. The cover So how can Hebron Academy, an institution story marks a perfect convergence in our needing to reach audiences ranging in age audiences: prospective students and seasoned from 14 to 104, foster the uses of social alumni, personifying our mission to our entire media while maintaining its academic readership. Old favorites, including rarely integrity as a school rooted in the teaching of seen photos from the Bell-Lipman Archives humanities and sciences? We expanded our and Class Notes, will always have a place in Communications Office to include a position HEBRON. dedicated to photography, video, social Our hope is that this publication will media, and design, a profession fluent in the connect or re-connect you to your Hebron digital conversation. Academy. I welcome feedback on HEBRON Interestingly, it is not only prospective and any other Academy communications A screenshot of HebronToday.org, our news blog that lives on our main website. students who prefer digital channels, as a efforts. Please feel free to call me or send me 2011 Pew Research study revealed. For the an email at [email protected]. Who first time, more than fifty percent of people knows - if I am lucky, perhaps I will receive a ages 50-64 have accounts on social network- good old-fashioned letter. A century ago: ing sites. From where I sit in Communica- Sincerely, A 1914 edition tions, this is a powerful statistic: two seem- of The Hebron Semester, the ingly polar constituencies – adolescents versus school’s original parents/older alumni – actually share more in Liza Tarr, Editor news publication. common than we may have originally Marketing Communications thought. The parallel justifies balancing Manager
2 • hebron • school year 13-14 at the academy
Hebron jets to Asia
Hebron took to the skies, venturing to the Far East to connect with families of pro- spective and current Shanghai Asian students this past November. Direc- tor of Advancement and External Relations Pat Layman, along with Edwin Nuñez, Assistant Director of International Admis- sion, co-hosted recep- tions in Shanghai and Beijing following Mr. Nuñez’ travels to Singapore and South America. Pictured here: Prospective student Kevin Hua (center) with his parents, Edwin Nuñez (second from left) and Pat Layman (second from right) in Beijing. Beijing’s Forbidden City geoff campbell geoff geoff campbell geoff Pink ribbons all around: In October Hebronians united in a showing of solidarity against breast The Middle School Olympiad: In December the Middle School cancer, forming a human pink ribbon on The Bowl. Charlotte Middleton ‘14 involved the Academy tackled a thematic unit based on the Olympic Games. After dividing in Portland radio station Q97.9’s Cans for a Cure can and bottle drive, rallying the community to into three countries, students participated in a variety of themed donate nearly $500 worth of cans and $500 in cash donations to the cause. Proceeds benefited activities, culminating in a thrilling Olympic festival complete with The Maine Cancer Foundation and the Cancer Community Center in South Portland. opening and closing ceremonies, indoor and outdoor competi- tions, and the awarding of medals. Here (L-R), Preston Fultz ‘19, Katya Fons ‘18, Joe Godomsky ’20 and Lily Irish ‘19 of Team Russia engage in a tug ‘o’ war on their final day of competition.
hebrontoday.org • 3 at the academy
artsExpanding arts update enrichment in our own backyard By Julie Middleton, Senior Associate Director of “It is clear that students Admission, Drama Director – and Hebron’s key osting artists and speakers who can audiences – want art impact and inspire Hebron students enrichment. And we’re at Community Meeting is a long- H answering the call.” standing tradition. Hearing alumna Marisa Stewart ’03 discuss how she leveraged her equestrian skills to aid disabled youth and adults at the Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center and being introduced to motivational speaker and luge Olympian Julia Clukey are wonderful examples of relatable and thought-provoking presentations. Sometimes, however, it’s nice to simply sit back and be entertained. Watching celebrat- ed dancer and mime artist Karen Montanaro, local performance artist Michael Menes, or world-ranked juggler Shane Miclon, for example, is pure, stimulating fun. geoff campbell geoff Being in the heart of our beautiful – yet An aerial gymnast from Nimble Arts, a renowned performing troupe based in VT who dazzled Hebron last fall, rural - Pine Tree State presents some hangs effortlessly from cascading silk ribbons challenges in connecting students regularly to live performance. We are extraordinarily host The Mountain Arts Series, consisting of paired with the backing of local arts authority fortunate to have impressive resources like two outstanding, full-length, world-class Mahoosuc Arts Council, the aim of more the music, theater and dance departments of performances open to both our school and the expansive arts enrichment has become a nearby Bates, Bowdoin, Colby and the region. In October, Hebron hosted Nimble reality. Performances in the Mountain Arts University of Southern Maine, and a vibrant Arts’ Ruckus Cirque, a thrilling twin sister act Series are free to Hebron students and all performance art community in Norway as specializing in aerial acrobatics, and we surrounding area students under 17. Tickets well as Portland, but there’s nothing like transformed Androscoggin Theater stage into for all other guests cost just $15. relaxing in our own Androscoggin Theater. a living, breathing circus set [see photo It is clear that students – and Hebron’s key The Cohen Chamber Music Series sponsored above]. The troupe’s résumés boast experience audiences – want art enrichment. The by alumnus and Trustee Emeritus Saul B. Co- in Cirque du Soleil, Broadway and Hollywood. response to the fall Nimble Arts performance hen ’51 brings world-renowned instrumen- On April 21, Hebron brings to campus the was a resounding affirmation. Thanks to a talists to campus each trimester and has laid Makanda Jazz Project, a 13-piece big brass strategic partnership with newfound friends at the foundation for this year’s effort to band comprised of Berklee College of Music Mahoosuc Arts and institutional support, expand our live performance offerings. faculty presenting the works of legendary jazz we’re answering that call by providing Through collaboration with local musician Makanda Ken McIntyre. Broadway-worthy entertainment for what we non-profit Mahoosuc Arts Council, whose Public performance of this nature is a hope will be the long-term. h mission it is to support the arts and contrib- considerable and exciting venture for Hebron Join us on April 21 at 7:00 PM for the Makanda ute cultural enrichment in Western Maine Academy. With Head of School John King’s Jazz Project in Lepage Center for the Arts through a variety of school and community goals for amplified cultural opportunities for (Sargent Gymnasium) Tickets are $15 online at arts programming, Hebron has arranged to Hebron as well as the greater community, mahoosucarts.org/shop or available at the door.
4 • hebron • school year 13-14 at the academy artsupdate geoff campbell geoff Members of the Middle School Orchestra perform at the 2013 Holiday Concert: (L-R) Tyler Swanbeck ‘18, Jaelen Coney ‘18, Charlie Morton ‘19 (not pictured), Leah Bonis ‘19, and Clara Mulvihill ‘19. Calling all wise guys and sassy gals! The Hebron Academy Players Present
debuting on Androscoggin Theater stage on February 21 and 22. Now running more than 11 years strong, Hebron Academy’s All-School Musical is a perennial winter highlight for the entire school community and surrounding area. The show, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21 and Saturday, Feb. 22, in Androscoggin Theater (Sargent geoff campbell geoff Gymnasium) is free and open to the public. Wes Horton ‘16 of Hebron’s Jazz Combo strums out a solo from Eddie Harris’ Cold Duck Time at the 2013 Holiday Concert this winter. Foreground: Cecily Yang ‘17. Doors will open at 7 p.m.
Earlier this fall Hebron’s Hebeegeebees, the select student a capella ensemble headed by Ms. Kelly Caufield (center), were tapped to perform the national anthem prior to faceoff at a Portland Pirates hockey game. From left to right: Ed Son ‘16, Alex Woo-Rainer ’14, Dylan Malia ’14, Jiani He ’15, Shannon Bailey ’15, Victoria Guo ’14, Olivia Grimmer ’15, Charlotte Middleton ’14, Janelle Tardif ’14 and Donita Sharkey ’14.
hebrontoday.org • 5 at the academy Meet Our New Trustees
Jim R. Clements, Robert A. Robert J. Ryan ‘77 welcome Robert Ryan is the Friend Donahue ‘83 Jim Clements was the Robert Donahue joined deputy general counsel Head of School at Tilton Municipal Market for Stallion Oilfield School for 14 years, Advisors, Inc. as a Services, a Houston, where he also taught and managing director, and Texas, based company was an advisor before most recently oversaw which has operations retiring in 2012. Prior to selected new issue and from the North Slope of joining Tilton’s faculty, Mr. Clements was secondary market analysis for municipal bond Alaska to Trinidad and West Africa. Prior to Headmaster of the Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall funds and insurance portfolios. From 2000 to becoming corporate counsel, Mr. Ryan played School in Waltham, MA, where he also served 2010, Mr. Donahue was a portfolio manager a significant role defending products liability, in the capacity of Assistant Headmaster, Dean and analyst at Fidelity Investments’ Fixed toxic tort and asbestos litigation including of Students, teacher, coach, and dorm parent. Income Division, he also spent three years at being appointed regional trial counsel for He is a member of the board of directors of T. Rowe Price Associates. Mr. Donahue is a various defendants, liaison counsel in various the Spaulding Youth Center and the Commis- past president of the Boston Municipal multi-party litigation, and serving on various sion on Independent Schools for the New Analyst Forum and was on the Board of ad hoc committees for the San Francisco England Association of Schools and Colleges. Governors of the National Federation of Superior Court. He served as a California bar Mr. Clements is a graduate of Northfield Municipal Analysts. Previously Mr. Donahue examination reader, pro tem judge and Mount Hermon School and holds a BA from was a teacher, coach and administrator at arbitrator for the San Francisco Superior the University of New Hampshire and an schools in St. Louis, MO and Washington, Courts as well as being a trained mediator. MBA from Plymouth State University. Mr. D.C. and was a special assistant to the CEO Mr. Ryan is a 1981 graduate of Colby College Clements and his wife Bev, both New of the District of Columbia Public Schools. and a 1985 graduate of Pepperdine University Hampshire natives, lived and worked at He also spent time as a consultant at KPMG School of Law where he was a member of the boarding schools for more than three decades. Peat Marwick, LLP. Mr. Donahue earned a Law Review as well as an award-winning They have two daughters and live in Master of Public Administration, State and member of their Vincent Dalsimer moot court Grantham, NH. Local Financial Management, from Syracuse team. Mr. Ryan kindly sponsors Hebron’s Career Connection Seminars, a day of Committees: Admissions and Marketing, University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship networking for seniors and postgraduates Faculty Well Being and School Culture and Public Affairs and a BA from College of the Holy Cross. among alumni and current parents held each March. Committees: Finance and Investment, Faculty Well Being and School Culture Committees: Admissions and Marketing, Felica W. Coney, Development P ‘18 Felica Coney has been a manager at Proctor and Gamble for 19 years and 2013-2014 Hebron Academy currently works as the Board of Trusteess Engineering Plant Manager for Proctor & J. Reeve Bright ’66 Wallace E. Higgins Gamble in Auburn, ME. There, she helped launch the new Flexi-Center that creates Paul S. Goodof ’67 James B. Hill ’90 employment opportunities with people with Scott E. Wilson ’71 Thomas N. Hull III ’64 disabilities. She was born in Portland, OR and Debra Beacham Bloomingdale ’83 Matthew W. Johnson ’93 raised in Delhi, LA. Mrs. Coney attended Richard A. Bennett Kimball L. Kenway ’70 Southern University A & M where she earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering and was a member James R. Clements Robert J. Ryan ’77 of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She is also a Felica W. Coney Judah C. Sommer member of the National Society of Black Robert A. Donahue Heather C. Stephens ’88 Engineers. Mrs. Coney and her husband Clement S. Dwyer, Jr. ’66 Meredith Strang Burgess Kelvin live in Auburn and are parents to Jaelen ’18 and Jahvon ’18, eighth graders at William B. Golden ’66 David J. Williams ’60 Hebron. Committees: Admissions and Marketing, Development n n 6 • hebron • school year 13-14 Upcoming Alumni and Parent Events For additional details, please visit www.hebronacademy.org/events February February 21-22 April 26 All School Musical: Guys and Dolls Cohen Chamber Music Series Concert Wise guys and sassy gals, join us for The Saul B. and Naomi R. Cohen Foundation Broadway classic Guys and Dolls! The is pleased to sponsor this series of chamber Hebron Academy Players are working hard music concerts. These free concerts feature to bring you another rousing production world-renowned instrumentalists and are and keep this annual dramatic tradition open to the public. alive and well. Free and open to the public. 10:15 AM 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7:00) Location: Androscoggin Theater, Lepage Location: Androscoggin Theater, Lepage Center for the Arts (Sargent Gymnasium) Center for the Arts (Sargent Gymnasium) May March May 3 March 28 Spring Parents Day 3rd Annual Robert J. Ryan ’77 A day celebrating Hebron families. Enjoy Career Connection Seminars athletic contests, lawn activities, student A day of networking for seniors and entertainment and good eats. Hosted by the postgrads hosted by alumni and parents. Parents’ Association. Location: Athletic Fields April May 15 April 21 New York City Reception Makanda Jazz Project Eve and Mike Donatelli P ‘15, along with An evening of jazz at Hebron in Head of School John King, will host a collaboration with the Mahoosuc Arts reception at The University Club Council and revered Boston-based Makanda 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Jazz Project. A troupe of more than a dozen May 24 professional brass performers will transform Commencement Androscoggin Theater into a musical hub Join us in the 210th for students, faculty, and the surrounding year of the School’s public to enjoy. Read more about the talent founding to celebrate Hebron has commissioned this year on reunion the next generation of - page 4. homecoming Hebron alumni weekend 7:00 PM and alumnae. Location: Androscoggin Theater, Lepage 10:30 AM Center for the Arts (Sargent Gymnasium) Location: Athletic 2014 Center October 24-25
spring gatherings, may & june
Please join us! Hebron will be in your neighborhood this spring! Alumni and parents are invited to join Head of School John King and friends for drinks and hors d’oeuvres at evening gatherings throughout New England and New York this May and June. Please check Boston online for more details. Contact Colin Griggs at [email protected] or call 207-754-0384 if you have further questions.
Boston, MA Portland, ME n New York, NY (5/15) Portsmouth, NH hebrontoday.org • 7 The Class of 1963 returned for their 50th reunion. reunion- homecoming 2013weekend
Nominate a worthy candidate The Hebron Academy Athletic Hall of Fame honors former student athletes, coaches, administrators and support- ers who have brought distinction to themselves and Hebron through their achievements, contributions, sportsman- ship and/or leadership in athletics. Nominations for 2014 may be made by letter or email to Pat Layman ([email protected], or send to Hebron Advancement Office, P.O. Box 309, Hebron, ME 04238), and are due by April 30, 2014. Please include a brief but thorough summary of the nominee’s accomplishments and why you believe he or she should be inducted into the Hebron Hall of Fame. Self-nominations will not be accepted. Alumnus/a nominee must have graduated at least ten years ago. Visit www.hebronacademy.org/ahof for more eligibility rules. Inductions for 2014 will take place during Reunion- Homecoming Weekend 2014, October 24-25.
8 • hebron • school year 13-14 The Class of 1953 returned for their 60th reunion
hank you to our alumni, friends and visitors for a wonderful The Athletic Hall of Fame honors Reunion-Homecoming Weekend 2013. Your presence–and student athletes, coaches, Tperfect weather–made it truly special. We extend extra administrators and supporters who recognition to the Classes of 1953, 1963, 2003 and 2008 for have brought distinction to themselves notable turnouts on their milestone reunion years. and Hebron Academy through As Board Chair Reeve Bright ‘66 remarked at Alumni Convoca- exemplary achievement, contribution, tion, “We all know it isn’t exactly a hop, skip and a jump to Oxford sportsmanship or leadership. County for most of us. Making your way to the woods of Maine o from all corners of New England and beyond may not have proven 2013 the most navigationally feasible feat, but we appreciate you being thletic all of here. I know I speak not only for myself when I say, it’s worth it. A H Know that your presence and support of the Academy will ensure Fame inductees september 28, 2013 that it remains the place that keeps us all coming home.” Hebron inducted Bessie Fenn ‘07, Alan Kupper ‘48, and longtime o hockey coach and Hebron faculty member Bruce Gardner into the Athletic Hall of Fame at Alumni Convocation on Saturday, Septem- ber 28. (more at right) The Academy also honored former Vice Chair of the Hebron Board of Trustees Stephen B. Jeffries ‘79 with the Volunteer of the Year Award and Board Chair Reeve Bright ‘66 with the Jay L. Woolsey Distinguished Service Award: Steve for his contributions and stewardship over decades as a volunteer to the Academy, and Reeve for his unparalleled dedication and leadership over many years to Hebron, his family, his local community and his country. Both men’s contributions are exemplary and their service to their bessie fenn ‘07 alma mater is deeply felt. Read more about Reeve’s deep connection First woman golf club professional to Hebron in Steady Hand on page 28. Please join us this fall for Reunion-Homecoming 2014, on October 24-25. 4’s and 9’s, you’re up next! h For more photos from Reunion Weekend, visit flickr.com/hebronacademy. To see who attended Homecoming 2013, turn to Class Notes on page 37.
alan kupper ‘48 Lifelong supporter of youth sports
bruce gardner Longtime hockey coach and faculty member, 1958-1973
hebrontoday.org • 9 at the academy Faculty Voices meet emily tuttle, ma-tesl Director of English as a Second Language (ESL) and the English Language Summer Institute (ELSI)
tudents gather outside for fireworks in celebration of India’s Diwali, awake to Sfind treats in their boots set outside their dorm rooms in honor of Germany’s Nicklaus Day, and feast in fashion for Chinese New
Year celebrations. We are not talking about a campbell geoff United Nations program or institution. These Under Emily Tuttle’s direction, Hebron will continue developing its ESL curriculum to accommodate an increasingly scenes are found regularly at Hebron Academy diverse student body. where nearly one third of the school’s students riety of experiences and perspectives that enrich 2013 and plans an ambitious expansion of the have come to learn English and prepare for the school as a whole. However, challenges also program for the summer of 2014. The summer higher education. come with such a diverse population. How does program emphasizes learning English through About 380 million people speak English as Hebron Academy continue to maintain aca- authentic language experiences and projects. It their first language, and about 250 million demic standards that it’s held for more than 200 is the ideal opportunity to make the world, people claim English as their second language. years as a college preparatory school and still more specifically Maine’s part of the world, a Another billion are learning it, and about a address the range of English proficiency levels living classroom. Because language is a unique- third of the entire world’s population have ex- now found in classrooms? ly human behavior, no amount of vocabulary posure to English. As of this 2013-2014 school year, Hebron lists and worksheets can compare to the effec- Families world-wide understand that Eng- Academy has introduced an assessment pro- tiveness of actual language interactions with lish is the language of international business, cess that provides needed information about native English speakers. politics, diplomacy, computers, and the Inter- students’ English levels. This ensures more ap- As the new director of ESL at Hebron net. While Hebron Academy already attracts propriate placement, more accurate informa- Academy, I am excited to be a part of the students from around the globe, the school is tion to inform instruction and curriculum, and school’s evolution. Having been in the field of poised to accelerate its ESL program to match more objective measurement of student ESL, English, and curriculum-development for the growing demands of an increasingly more achievement in addition to the school’s strong more than a decade, I find the potential and international student body. intuitive sense of students’ strengths. atmosphere of Hebron Academy reenergizing. Currently, students from 15 different coun- In addition, Hebron Academy launched the As someone who comes from a bilingual fam- tries attend Hebron Academy. They bring a va- English Language Summer Institute (ELSI) in ily and has personal experience with the im- portance of learning English, I find the mission of Hebron Academy “to inspire and guide stu- About Emily Tuttle dents to reach their highest potential in mind, body, and spirit” the perfect impetus to propel the ESL program to a higher level. Emily Tuttle was born in Okinawa, Japan and grew up in the US. She spent the past 15 years leading English programs on the Navajo Reservation and Much work lies ahead as the school im- in Portland, ME that served students with more than 24 languages from proves its ESL curriculum, and staff becomes around the world. She earned her Master’s Degree in Teaching English as a familiar with teaching techniques that come She holds Second Language (MA-TESL) from Northern Arizona University. from ESL methodology but actually serves to Maine certificates in secondary English education and administration, and improve learning for all students. With encour- teaches ESL and AP Literature at Hebron. aging and energetic spirit, Hebron Academy’s Before embarking on a career in education, Mrs. Tuttle spent ten years as a daily newspaper reporter after earning a Bachelor of Journalism degree administration, faculty, and support staff have from the University of Missouri. She continues to write for the Lewiston already embraced the changes and challenges Sun Journal. that globalization brings to the school. It truly Mrs. Tuttle is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and TESOL and is also is inspiring. the co-founder and board president of the Youth Orchestra of For more information on Hebron’s English with her Lewiston-Auburn (YOLA). She lives in Minot, ME Language Summer Institute (ELSI), visit www. husband Jonathan, son Jon ’15 and daughter Darby ‘16. hebronacademy.org/summer. h
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How did you arrive at this point, “I want to help build the program committed to the next level of lacrosse? The It’s hard work, really hard work. When I here at Hebron. It’s a point of came to Hebron, I was really motivated to pride for me, playing lacrosse at Next prove myself, especially being from Florida this level at a small New England where lacrosse is less known. I wanted to put school. It’s something kids rarely Level my hometown on the map, and be the best get to experience. ” player I could be. When the opportunity at Bellarmine opened up, I went for it. when I was playing at my former school. He What are you most excited for at encouraged me to push myself academically Bellarmine? and athletically at independent school up To compete at the highest level I possibly north, at Hebron. I have so many people to can. I plan to work my tail off and see what I thank for my progress here, everyone from can do both athletically and academically. It’s my counselors in Academic Guidance helping not just all about lacrosse; it’s about being me develop study habits and write a good Evan Kalish prepared to get a good job after college and essay, to Coach [Kit] Smith who worked with ‘14 reaches building a life for myself. Lacrosse is one step me every day during the 2013 season. I don’t Division I in that process. know where I would be without Hebron’s Tell us about the recruiting process and backing. The people just care. your relationship with Bellarmine. Your native Florida is becoming a hotbed I entered the process a little late and I for lacrosse. What’s it like playing the sport t’s unusual to complete a day at Hebron wasn’t sure if I’d get recruited, but Coach down south versus in the Northeast? without an Evan Kalish encounter. Sure, Burns [Bellarmine Head Coach] and I began It’s a different style of play down south. Iour community is small and we like it communicating, and he saw me play at a We’re seeing more Florida kids play at the that way, but Evan is seemingly ubiquitous, tournament in Florida and encouraged me to Division I level, and colleges are starting to perhaps because he’s rarely spotted without visit. I fell in love with the place immediately follow the trend, too, adding programs to his lacrosse stick in-hand, no matter the and told my mom, “This is it,” and I commit- their athletic departments. It’s becoming really season. A native of Vero Beach, FL, Evan ted verbally. Then I called every single coach I popular because kids can play year-round due joined the Academy as a repeat junior in 2012 knew and thanked them or asked them if they to the warm weather. and has continued to make his mark as an thought that this was the right choice for me. Who do you credit with your success? aspiring Division I athlete. In his first season All of them supported my decision. John Moriarty, my hometown coach who with the ‘Jacks, he had 17 points, 68 ground What was it about Bellarmine that sealed gave me my first lacrosse stick and taught me balls, and 29 forced turnovers in just 16 the deal for you? the game. I also thank my parents and all my games. He earned All-MAISAD and Second It felt like when I stepped on to Hebron’s other coaches, namely Kit Smith, Andrew Team All-New England nods and helped the campus and knew it was the right place for Bolger, and Erick Perez. Green and White defeat Gould and return the me. It’s just a feeling. I remember exactly how What’s it been like playing for the Green MAISAD trophy to Hebron. it happened at Hebron. I was supposed to and White? This past fall, Evan, now a senior, signed visit Bridgton following the Hebron tour, but I’m really excited to play for Coach his official offer sheet to play Division I when my mom asked me if I wanted to keep Bernier [new to Hebron this year]. He’s lacrosse for Bellarmine University (Louisville, that appointment, I said, “No, I’ve made my already attracted some strong players, and KY), which he likens to “a southern college decision.” he’s so committed to our team. I want to help version of Hebron Academy” for its welcom- How did you first hear about Hebron? build the program here at Hebron. It’s a point ing aura and scenic campus. He is the latest Mike Jones [former Hebron faculty of pride for me, playing lacrosse at this level development in the tradition of Hebron member] visited Florida, and we connected at a small New England school. It’s something lacrosse excellence, evidenced recently by kids rarely get to experience, and I feel blessed All-American Pat Shelley, Class of 2013, who to be able to go here. plays at Endicott College, and by twins What are your goals this upcoming season? Cameron and Roman Lao-Gosney, Class of I want to work on fundamentals and make 2007, who co-captained Lehigh University’s sure I’m sound. I want to help our team win back-to-back Patriot League Championship MAISADs and beat Gould. Beat Gould. Mountain Hawks and had success in the Could you please make sure to include that? h MLL. After enjoying some custom BU cake and photo opps with his teammates and coaches, Evan (center) signed his letter of intent to Bellarmine Want to see Evan and the ‘Jacks play this Evan sat down with Hebron to discuss his this fall with coaches Steve Middleton (L) and Joe season? Make sure to check out a spring future as a Knight and reflect on his Lumber- Bernier (R), who will head the program this year. athletics schedule, available later in February, at www.hebronacademy.org/sportscalendar. jack days. hebrontoday.org • 11 Hometown: Alum Spotlight: Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia Occupation: Ben Jessome ’06 Member of the Legislative Assembly, Nova Scotia representing Hammonds Plains-Lucasville
Ben Jessome ’06 today
Ben (L) and teammate Algerson Andre ’06 (R) were a formidable duo on the track.
orn and raised in Nova Scotia, Ben and play sports with. Doing everything “...When you’ve Jessome never thought about together probably becomes the fondest had that Hebron Battending a boarding school in memory I have of Hebron. Also, I was lucky experience and then Maine. However, at an Andrews Hockey in the sense that I always had adults at move on, you realize Showcase in Prince Edward Island, he met Hebron to chat with and share what was that you probably Hebron Boys’ Hockey Head Coach Jamie happening. Ms. [Carnie] Burns was my wouldn’t have had it Roche ’95, and after building a rapport, Ben English teacher, and she became my Hebron could not turn down his offer to come for a mom, so to speak. I think she noticed that I anywhere else.” visit to Hebron. He was hesitant to make such looked up to her, and I learned a lot from her. a drastic change late in his junior year in high What was your favorite subject and why? school, but after some urging by his father he I’d have to say English both because of the agreed to make the transition. Ben’s brother content of the course and how we learned to Jon ’07 also attended Hebron. Ben later respectfully express ourselves. There wasn’t graduated from Acadia University in really anything that we didn’t talk about in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, before successfully class. If you were being respectful of the other running for a seat in the Nova Scotia Legisla- people in the room, then your writing and ture. At age 27, Ben is the youngest Member speech were unencumbered and you became of Nova Scotia’s Legislative Assembly. The free to state your own positions. budding statesman sat down with fellow And your favorite memory? Canadian Geoff Campbell of Hebron’s I’d have to say my favorite memory was Communications Office to reflect on Ben’s winning the New England Championship in Ben and younger brother Jon Jessome ’07 sit proudly Hebron days and how his experience then has hockey in 2006. We had an incredible run. with their New England Championship hockey trophy informed his current life vision. after a highly successful 2005-2006 season. Ben attri- How would you describe your Hebron butes much of his growth at Hebron to his competitive What did you like most about Hebron? experience? athletic experience, which developed leadership and Living in dorms was probably one of the communication skills that were catalyst to his election It initially seemed like a big risk to leave to Nova Scotia legislature. best things about Hebron. It was great to live home for an environment I was unfamiliar with the people who you go to school with with, but taking those steps put me in a
12 • hebron • school year 13-14 position where I had to elevate myself and students’ union, and I can’t ever fully What do you consider your top goals step outside my comfort zone to achieve. That articulate how great an experience that was between now and the next election? Hometown: was Hebron for me at first. It was a situation and how much it contributed to my confi- My main goal is to make the people in my Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia where I didn’t know what to expect at the dence in jumping into provincial politics. A community feel that they have someone they Occupation: time, but it turned out to be one of the lot of students depended on me to make can rely on, someone to inspire faith in Member of the Legislative greatest experiences of my life. It really forced heavy decisions. I was always trying to work government. I plan to urge more young Assembly, Nova Scotia me to grow up in a real way: moving away with my leadership team to find solutions to people to aspire to qualified leadership roles. I representing Hammonds from home and taking on various leadership problems that would make the experience or think that if politics becomes a little more Plains-Lucasville roles with sports and as a student proctor. the way of life in the college community inviting, then these young people would step Being surrounded by student leaders was a better for everyone. I felt compelled to up, and that’s the kind of change I’d like to huge learning experience for me. continue that work at a higher level after I make. h How did Hebron Academy help you graduated. develop as a leader? I was a proctor in my senior year, and that had a lot to do with the crowd I hung out with. My friends were very keen on putting themselves in leadership roles, and we thought that we could really make a differ- ence in the life of the school. I think that that was one of the first experiences I had where I was challenged to look at the greater good and put myself on the line to help other people. When you start at Hebron, you probably don’t know what to expect. At least that is the way it was for me. It’s a vastly different experience from a public high school, but you really build that sense of family, that sense of community and trust, After the 2005 Commencement ceremonies with friends Jordan Krusch ’06 (left) and Danny Perrault ’05 (center). and reliance on others. . . . When you’ve had that Hebron experience and then move on, you realize that you probably wouldn’t have mrs. trundy’s treats had it anywhere else. Looking back, would you have done Baker extraordinaire Mrs. Gail Trundy has anything differently? been delivering sweet, delicious creations At the time I might have liked to pursue a from scratch for more than 25 years in career in sports in the US, and for a little Hebron’s Bake Shoppe, and we were lucky while that dream haunted me; but being enough to snag a recipe for her famed where I am right now, I wouldn’t trade my chocolate chip cookies. Enjoy these bits of Hebron experience at all. It gave me the skills classic goodness during the dreariest days that I needed to make the transition to of winter. university, and my experience at Acadia really Yield: 6 dozen (share them with your gave me the tools and confidence to make a friends, neighbors, cousins, in-laws, difference in the world I’m in now. whomever!) Who would you like to see at Homecoming? ingredients It’s just too hard to name one person, but I ¾ c granulated sugar suppose that’s a good problem to have 1 c c brown sugar (don’t pack 3. add eggs and mix until light and fluffy because that says a lot about the type of down) people who were at Hebron while I was there, 1 stick margarine 4. add vanilla ½ c shortening and who I am sure are like the people at the 5. Combine dry ingredients (flour, 3 eggs baking soda) and add to mixture school today. 1 tsbp vanilla 6. Fold in chocolate chips How did you get from Hebron to the 3½ c cake flour or all-purpose flour 7. Use a table spoon to scoop balls Nova Scotia Legislature? 1tbsp baking soda 1 c chocolate chips onto an ungreased cookie sheet Once high school and my sports career 8. Bake in conventional oven for 12- ended, there was a real emptiness when it preparation 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees 15 minutes or until edges turn gold. came to fulfilling my need for competition, for Fahrenheit 9. enjoy the best chocolate chip challenging myself on a daily basis. For me 2. cream sugars, shortening and creations that Hebron Academy that void was filled by politics at Acadia. At margarine together has to offer! Acadia, I was elected president of the
hebrontoday.org • 13 By the Numbers Hebron and Kents Hill Football by dave stonebraker
Hebron Academy and Kents Hill School have been playing football for more than a century. On the occasion of the 2013 contest, the 105th meeting of the two teams and a fitting conclusion to the 2013 season, it seemed appropriate to look back over the span of the contests to note a few interesting details of the rivalry “by the numbers.” 1893 1993 A game celebrating 100 years of Hebron - Kents Hill football was played at Bates College, commemorating the rivalry Hebron’s first football team, the 1893 squad which began in 1893 when C. K. Brooks The actual number of contests formed the first team, (right) became its On October 6th, the first football that have been played since 1893. captain, and urged the players on with game was contested between Hebron Hebron holds an edge in the series: words which now appear in the home Academy and Kents Hill School. 58 wins, 40 losses, 5 ties; the team locker room, Hebron prevailed in that contest outcome of two contests being unreported by both schools. “And Victory will crown your labors.” with a 10 - 0 shutout. 105
The cover of a 1976 Semester feat. 1933Sixty years earlier, the Coach Moose, John Woods ‘77, and Coach John Connell game was also played at Bates College’s Garcelon Field and coincided with Veteran’s Day, November 11th. That game was celebrated with a trophy (left) The approximate number156 of Home games that Coach “Moose” offered by American Curtis (above) has patrolled the Hebron sideline at Dwyer Field Legion Post 22 of encouraging his team, a tenure second only to the legendary Lewiston. Charles Dwyer, for whom the fields are named and which have served as a premier sporting facility in Maine for 50 years; at the Hebron won 16 – 12. 2013 Reunion Homecoming Weekend Hebron recognized the 50th year anniversary of the 1963 dedication of Dwyer Fields.
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The 1926 football team81 The greatest number of points scored by a Hebron team, in a lopsided contest in 1926. For their part, Kents Hill scored 54 in 2010, besting the Lumberjack team 54 - 34.
Hebron (R) vs. Kents Hill, 1985 1 The smallest margin of victory, 7 - 6, achieved twice, once by Kents 4 Hill in 2003 and The longest “win” streaks achieved in once by Hebron the balanced rivalry: by Hebron from 1968 in 1934. - 1972; and by Kents Hill from 1999 - 2003; also the number of contests - Charles Dwyer, 1902 5 - that have33 ended in a tie.
Believed to be the number of Lumberjack Football players who have gone on to Infinite The memories compete in the NFL: John Frechette ’61; and emotion generated by the Richard Leavitt ’72; Sean Morey ’95 (above); and presently José Gumbs ’07 who contests for all who played in them. plays special teams for the Washington The 2013 team after winning the annual Headmaster’s Chair game vs. Kents Hill Redskins. All but José are members of The Alumni Office would welcome the recol- Hebron’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Should lections and reflections of former players on The winning margin of the 2013 Hebron- there be others from earlier classes, the particular contests from memory, especially Kents Hill game, the 105th game in a series Alumni Office would appreciate receiving from those fortunate enough to play for which began in 1893. Final score: updated information. Moose Curtis. Please contact jslattery@ Hebron 53, Kents Hill 20. (Photo above) hebronacademy.org or call 207-966-2100.
hebrontoday.org • 15 From the Desk of Joe Hemmings, at the academy Assistant Head of School for Enrollment
More Than a Test
Dear Friends, but like many of my colleagues, I believe the Admission to Hebron Over my 13 years school admission process is about finding Academy is about much in the Office of the right fit. Admission at Hebron There are several predictors of a student’s more than a test. It’s about Academy, I have seen potential to be successful in school: teacher achievement, work ethic, numerous graduates recommendations, a commitment to service, aspirations, and believing in return to visit personal goals, grades, extracurricular the potential of young people. Hebron, whether at accomplishments, and leadership qualities to Homecoming or a name a few. A successful experience at quiet summer afternoon. Alumni/ae want to Hebron Academy is one that involves Hebron Academy today is still a place see the classrooms, the theater, the dorms, participation in various aspects of school that emphasizes academic excellence, critical the fields, talk with friends and faculty—a life. If Hebron’s admission process was thinking, communication skills, high walk down memory lane, if you will. I am fixated on standardized testing, I venture to standards of personal character, and often asked, “How’s admission? Have you guess that some of you - incredibly success- enjoyment of physical fitness and visual and admitted a good class?” My answer is ful, dedicated and proud alumni/ae - may performing arts. We provide structure, always, “We have enrolled terrific alumni, not be receiving this magazine. I’ve heard balance, and adult guidance to foster just like you.” That is to say that Hebron’s many stories of how Hebron shaped you independence and allow students to admission process is a comprehensive one; into your current self, how without Hebron transform into the people they were meant it’s not just about one highlight or another, you’re not sure where you would be, how to be. Admission to Hebron Academy is but rather it’s about the whole package. And your closest friends, even today, are the about much more than a test. It’s about it does not hinge on a single “test.” people you met on this campus. Hearing achievement, work ethic, aspirations, and Certainly we require and assess official these expressions of appreciation and believing in the potential of young people. credentials such as transcripts, recommenda- gratitude is why one works in education: to We look forward to welcoming future tions, essays, interviews, and yes, standard- make a difference for others. and current Hebron alumni to campus. The ized testing. However, one of the most Hebron Academy is on an upward doors of Stanley Building are always open. important factors in the admission process is trajectory, and this academic year has seen a person’s drive and potential. Should one as diverse and talented a cohort of students Sincerely, test administered on one particular day as ever. The synergy of every class is unique really determine a young person’s opportu- and evolves as the school year progresses. In nity to gain admission to Hebron or any recent years our college acceptance list has Joe Hemmings, other school? I have yet to meet a student included an impressive array of selective and Assistant Head of School for Enrollment who is defined by a test. This is not to say highly-selective institutions, reflecting the [email protected] that admission to Hebron is not selective, individuality that we value in each student.
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16 • hebron • school year 13-14 Slalom on the Ski Hill, circa 1939. Then & Now: The Ski Hill kiing at Hebron enjoys a long tradition, quite literally from the roots of the sport in New England. As early as S1937, the Academy organized a team which competed in a New England Championship. Classmates from the Class of 1939, Al Merrill of Andover and Aurele Legere of Rumford competed for Hebron in alpine, cross-country and jumping before continuing on to become honored competitors and coaches in America. Here are two pictures of the same place on the Hebron campus. The first, from 1939 - the year when Merrill and Legere skied for Hebron, shows an early slalom racer at Hebron’s Ski Jump, as rebuilt in 1950. Winter Carnival. In the upper right corner of the photo, the trestle of Hebron’s first ski jump is visible. The second photo shows the ski jump as rebuilt on the same site in the early 1950’s for Coach George Helwig’s teams. Where were these pictures taken? Do any of our readers have recollections to be shared of skiing on this site? If so, for a current picture of where these images were taken, turn to page 52. please send them to Dave Stonebraker, Hebron Archivist, at [email protected].
hebrontoday.org • 17 18 • hebron • school year 13-14 fresh connections { by dave stonebraker photography by geoff campbell }
Chips off the old block. Branches and roots. New flowers for old stems. Euphemisms abound in schools for the idea that generations of students return to alma mater to follow in the footsteps of proud parents. Publications and promotions emphasize the bonds of tradition and experience shared by parents and children, as if the particular school experience of one generation can be passed intact to the next, that the unique experience of a student at one formative time in life can be replicated. How quaint to think that the experience of Hebron Acad- emy, with its history and traditions spanning more than two centuries, can possibly have universal elements that are for all time. Just as the Hebron Academy of the 1970’s and ‘80’s is absolutely different from the school of today, so are the experiences of the students who are part of the school of today, a vibrant co-educational, multi-cultural community that continues its mission “to inspire and guide students to reach their highest potential in mind, body and spirit.” This year, Hebron can boast of a number of students whose parents and families have shared the experience of the Academy through a span of years, linking back even to the Honorable Hannibal Hamlin, lawyer, statesman of Maine and Vice-President to Abraham Lincoln. During Fall Parents’ Weekend, several alumni parents and their current students shared stories and feelings about watching a child return to the familiar place of their own past or of beginning at the same school where their parent had gone. Their stories suggest that these are hardly the stems or branches, flowers or seeds of previous growth but energetic, independent, creative, varied individuals whose goals for their Hebron Facing page: A convergence of past and present: An old portrait of Hannibal Hamlin, Class of 1827, provides a experience are as singular and dynamic as these literal and figurative context for the current experience students are and hardly the fusty repetition of of great-great-great-great granddaughter Sophie Gibson, Class of 2016. the past.
hebrontoday.org • 19 me—lots of trails for running and biking, a Daughter Sarah’s experience has some truly beautiful place.” She also has a connec- common threads but also significant differ- tion to Maine, where her family has vaca- ences. Beginning in her junior year, Sarah is tioned for generations, a cottage in Somesville finding the work hard, as her mother did, in on Mt. Desert Island being part of a tradition part she says because it seems as if her that binds her family to the past. Another classmates have been here longer, yet she connection is the matter of names. Hannibal reports that she loves all her teachers and and Cyrus, from son and father, have been classes. Typical of a junior, her course of alternated in the family for generations. Thus, study includes American Literature with Ms. Sophie’s grandfather is named Cyrus, and she LeBlanc, also her field hockey coach, Ameri- also has an uncle Cyrus and a brother can History with Mr. Bonis, one of her Hannibal. For Sophie’s mother, Sarah Hamlin, resident faculty in Halford Dormitory, and the decision for her daughter to attend Chemistry with Mr. ‘Moose’ Curtis, who also Hebron was much less about place or family taught her mother and who she finds “awe- Sophie with mom Sarah, who takes pride in her family’s seasoned Maine roots. namesakes than about “the fact that Hebron some.” When Sarah was a sophomore, she offers rigorous academics that are tempered says, she realized that she wasn’t getting the with all of the other amazing activities that I preparation she felt necessary for college and know are so important to Sophie.” Both asked her mother if she might go to Hebron. Sophie and Sarah speculate about what the The admissions process began, and Sarah Sophie Gibson, Class school might have been like in the 19th completed her inquiries and application on of 2016, can boast that she is directly century, Sophie suggesting perhaps that what her own. After a visit-back experience in the descended from Hannibal Hamlin, Class of was important for her forebear might be the spring, she was ready. She had heard lots of 1827, whose own father, Cyrus Hamlin was same things that matter for her: to be true to stories about Hebron from her mother’s one of the original incorporators of the oneself, to set goals and assess the future, to friends and had seen her mother’s yearbook Academy in 1804—a connection spanning the work hard in tough classes and to be in a and pictures, but Sarah’s decision was her entire life of Hebron Academy. Yet, for close, supportive community. own. Laurel had kept in touch with class- Sophie, who is actually the great, great, great, mates Laurie Shaver, Gina Canning and her great granddaughter of the school’s most Unlike Sophie, junior roommate Sue Galos. Indeed, these Hebron famous alumnus, her school is absolutely the friends of her mother’s had seemed more like has found Hebron of today. She notes that one strong Sarah Thompson ‘aunts’ to Sarah than her actual relations. And her way from Florida to Maine through her reason for attending a boarding school was to like her mother’s, Sarah’s Hebron experience mother, Laurel Willey Thompson, Class of experience a new environment. “I love being now includes the challenges of strong academ- 1979. Laurel had come to Hebron for only a outside, so Hebron is a really good setting for ics fostered by the passions of her teachers year, transferring from Bangor High School and the shared experiences of dorm and field for her senior year, one that would leave her hockey, experiences similar to her mother’s with a strong circle of friends who were that may become the beginnings of lifetime influential to her experience. Her father, a friendships. Thinking of Sarah, Laurel notes Sophie [suggests] perhaps that Bowdoin graduate, felt that classmates from that sending a child to prep school is a great independent schools were often ahead, and as what was important to her forbear gift. A legacy gift certainly, but as Laurel education was important to him, he planned might be the same things that thinks of Sarah, it is the repeated experiences for his children to have such an opportunity. of support and friendship that, in this case, matter for her: to be true to oneself, Four attended Hebron—Lloyd, Laurel, Jim make the gift universal. to set goals and assess the future, and Jennifer—and Laurel recalls that her to work hard, and to be in father “never forced any of us to come to Hebron; it was simply something we did.” a supportive community. Like Laurel Willey Like some students arriving in the upper Thompson, John grades, Laurel initially felt unprepared academically. Classes were hard for her, but Donahue, Class of 1984, by the final term of her senior year, Laurel was a one-year student. For him, the decision had earned strong marks due to hard work. to choose Hebron from a number of potential She recalls having Mr. Gunn for math and how his encouraging and patient approach Facing page: Sarah Thompson ’15 likens mother Laurel made an impact on her. She appreciated the Willey Thompson’s close Hebron friends to sisters and one-on-one help and, like others, felt that she expressed a similar desire for community in her decision to attend Hebron. wished she had begun at Hebron earlier.
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boarding destinations was easy. It “The decision to send my kids was the farthest from his home in to Hebron was not an easy Massachusetts, and for a young one. I didn’t think it was athlete seeking further preparation for college realistic at first, financially or otherwise, and and craving independence, farther was better. my wife needed a whole lot of convincing.” “I think people can allow themselves However, the best laid plans are often subject However, looking back at his own experience, to be defined by others, or they can to substantial change, and in John’s case, a motivated perhaps by youthful ambition and season-ending injury dictated a major revision naïveté, he realized that the independence of define themselves. Hebron gave me an of his goals. School was one thing, but the his postgraduate year had helped him to opportunity. I began to think it could opportunity to be out and away was alluring, define himself. “I think people can allow do the same for my children.” and John made the most of being more free to themselves to be defined by others, or they travel on his weekends. He did make the most can define themselves. Hebron gave me an john donahue ’84, father of of his year, gained college admission and upon opportunity. I began to think it could do the meaghan donahue ‘17 graduation put Hebron in his rearview mirror. same for my children.” And yet, at some level, the sense of place, of friendship, of growth that he experienced Above: John Donahue ’84 and daughter Meaghan stuck with him, and when the opportunity Donahue ’17 were both drawn to Hebron’s competitive soccer program, but Meaghan has entered as a freshman, came to join the Board of Visitors, he while her father attended for a single postgraduate year. returned to campus and began to reconnect Facing page: Even though Liberty McKnight ’14 carries with classmates and faculty. Coming back to the torch - mother Aimee Liberty Hunt ’88 (seated) and Hebron was one thing; but sending a child to uncle Steve and aunt Laurie all attended Hebron – the school there was a much greater commitment. decision to come was entirely her own. 22 • hebron • school year 13-14 hebrontoday.org • 23 Left: George Dycio ’78 (center, in goalie pads) retains his original hockey gear and dusts it off each January for the annual Alumni Hockey Game, above. He’s pictured at right, next to Director of Building and Grounds Michael Hughes, in the 2012 game.
Meaghan Donahue, Class of 2017, floats changed for her. She valued her independence through a school day with the energy and but needed to be with family and ultimately optimism of one beginning a grand adventure. made the decision to return home for junior “This is not my father’s school, but I can In her words, classes are “wonderful, and senior years. Now, twenty-eight years see why he liked it.” challenging but good,” with projects and lots later, Aimee’s daughter Liberty is completing larissa dycio ‘17, daughter of george dycio ’78 of opportunity for creativity. “For my her senior year at Hebron, a four-year student Humanities class, I had to become a character who made her own decision to come. Her in the book we were reading, creating a mother’s remembrances as well as the family Facebook page for her and then communicat- stories from Uncle Steve and Aunt Laurie George Dycio, Class of 1978 seems mildly bemused by the fact that ing with other characters as if it was life for were influential, their memories reinforcing his daughter Larissa is in her freshman year at all of us. Sometimes an assignment is hard or her own desires to be away from home, to Hebron. To George, her experience seems confusing, but it is so easy to get help from challenge herself and to live independently. vastly different from the circumstances that my teachers. And dorm life is the best. It is And it has been a very good fit. Aimee led him, an ordinary student completing the great to have a roommate and a group of describes Liberty as a “strong and indepen- eighth grade in Lewiston, to come to Hebron. friends.” And as a soccer player, making the dent young woman who had voiced her desire “My parents were looking for a more Varsity as a freshman midfielder has been a for an independent school opportunity as challenging experience with more individual high point of her experience thus far, an early as fifth grade.” She looked at several support,” he recalls. “I was not at the bottom experience she shares in a certain way with schools, Aimee recalls, but when touring of my eighth grade class, but I was nowhere Dad, even to the joy of seizing the rope of the Hebron, Liberty saw herself in the commu- near the top either. At the end of my freshman Victory Bell and pulling with her teammates nity, and that was it. Now, when considering year at Hebron, I had improved substantially. to celebrate a win. For it was her dad’s class, her college choices, Liberty speaks of finding a I also came for the sports, especially football the Class of 1984, which gave the present bell touch of Hebron in her next destination. The and hockey, and I enjoyed all of it. My wife as their Class Gift. The bell has been refur- lure of Boston and the opportunity to prepare and I never actively thought about Hebron for bished and relocated close to the Athletic for a career in Communications leads her to our daughter Larissa. We came to a few Center, a change since John’s time, but the consider Boston College, Simmons, Emmanu- Alumni Hockey Games when she was tradition of ringing it in celebration remains el and Endicott; and in each, she anticipates younger, and we showed her the campus a bit the same for daughter as it was for father. finding the sort of supportive, close commu- as we drove around. I had told her stories of my time, so I imagine her perceptions were nity in which she has thrived at Hebron. For shaped somewhat by mine. And I had always Aimee Liberty Hunt, Liberty, the decision to attend Hebron came hoped privately, I suppose, that my children without the influence of family. She had Class of 1988, felt strongly the would want to attend Hebron, and I am explored her options and had chosen the influence of her siblings and family in her delighted that the school has helped to make decision to attend Hebron. Following in the Academy for what she saw in the school it happen. I enjoy my new perspective as a footsteps of older brother Steve, Class of today and not simply for the family stories parent, for it adds to my perspective as an 1984, and sister Laurie, Class of 1985, it from the past or for the experience of her alumnus. It is remarkable to see the changes seemed the natural thing to do, and so she mother. Aimee concluded that she feels no to the school through her eyes, and the drive began as a freshman, beginning with classes regret for allowing Liberty to leave home, for to and from becomes a good time to talk with and sports and watching her older sister finish it is the best fit for her. She is delighted that her and to share in ways that I might not her senior year and begin college. Aimee felt Liberty is so happy and feels proud of the fact otherwise.” close to her sister’s senior friends, but as she that Liberty went to Hebron even though she George’s daughter Larissa seems equally began her sophomore year without a sibling herself had struggled when she attended more amused when she imagines her father at at the school, she found the experience had than twenty-five years ago. Hebron. “He was all about hockey. Hockey,
24 • hebron • school year 13-14 hockey, hockey. He was the goalie then, and have the same experiences, but I am a girl and “I enjoy my new perspective as a he still comes to the Alumni Game every year wanted different things.” She is excited about parent, for it adds to my perspective with his original stuff, and he looks a little her opportunities for art and music and to be as an alumnus. It is remarkable to see ridiculous.” George has continued as peren- in the all-school musical this winter. A new nial goalkeeper in the annual Alumni Hockey freshman, Larissa enjoys the creativity of her the changes to the school through Game (on facing page). Larissa notes how core Humanities Course with Mr. Middleton her eyes, and the drive to and from different her own experience with Hebron is. and Ms. Mangham in which she has worked becomes a good time to talk with her “I thought that maybe Dad would want me to with the Chinese novel, To Live, and created and to share in ways that I might not a timeline of culture leading to the Peoples’ otherwise.” Above: Larissa Dycio ’17 gripes that father George Dycio Revolution. “I like how my classes tie in with ’78 was “all about hockey, hockey, hockey” during his the real world and how the teachers are george dycio ’78, father of larissa dycio ‘17 Hebron days. Little has changed, however, and George engaging the students and not lecturing. This remains a reliable presence between the pipes at the is not my father’s school, but I can see why he annual Alumni Hockey Game (photos on facing page). liked it.”
hebrontoday.org • 25 26 • hebron • school year 13-14 Coltan’s father Paul remembers as well is yet another Coltan Downey that becoming a proctor shaped his senior current connection with a Hebron family. The year and made him feel particularly proud of son of Paul Downey, Class of 1981, Coltan Being at Hebron is an amalgam of contributing to the life of the school. Aca- has made his mark with the Class of 2014, demic and athletic experiences are similar as personal experiences which have not replicating in certain ways the experiences of well, though the particular circumstances may been replicated from father to son or his father, yet adding his own unique stamp. change. For Paul the relationship with Mr. From his first time on campus at a Homecom- mother to daughter, but rather shared Stonebraker in his English classroom and on ing weekend, on through admissions visits, he through particular instances of growth the soccer field and with Coach Moose on the felt the school to be a welcoming place, a slopes were formative instances when and change on this campus. place where he would feel comfortable. It was particular academic and physical challenges not his father’s school except in name, and from his arrival on campus, he felt that he led to personal growth, a sense of satisfaction was making his own way. The school seems and a real memory of fun. And although to help students to find out who they are as Coltan has not had the same teachers as his father, the individual response is similar. As individuals, a thought echoed in several of the community remain the touchstones that well, for Paul, there has been particular pride student vignettes. Yet curiously, even as young people and their parents recognize in in watching Coltan perform with the Lumber- current students define their own roles in the what has made Hebron a special place for jack football team as he recalls the presence Academy of today, some experiences seem to them, regardless of the specific time when and influence of Moose Curtis on Hebron be repeated. Coltan speaks of his pride at they were here. athletics. being named a proctor for the school this It is the nature of schools to recreate For Coltan and for others, the changes to year. He is readily visible in this role: conduct- themselves each fall, to promise new pro- Hebron’s physical campus make the school ing morning meeting, giving his “Last Word” grams and opportunities for those who begin seem new for them. They travel familiarly address to the school, becoming a panel with the expectations of growth and change through the Athletic Center, the Lepage member at an Open House event and through the year. Distinct experiences particularly by inciting the Class of 2014 and Center for the Arts, the redesigned Language encountered when one is most receptive often the student body through Lumberjack Day, Department spaces in Sturtevant Home and become fixed, an integral part of personality the Homecoming Spirit Rally and Halloween the refurbished science laboratories in Treat, and memory. For each of these students and Hijinks. facilities unknown to their parents or familiar their parents, their time at Hebron has places then that have now been repurposed. become a unique part of who each is. It is an And yet, for each of these current students, Left: Paul Downey ’81 and son Coltan Downey ’14 both amalgam of personal experiences which have enjoyed rewarding experiences as dorm proctors and simply living and working in a family not been replicated from father to son or note the influence of the great Moose Curtis on their environment with the inspiration and mother to daughter, but rather shared through development as athletes and young adults. Paul and guidance of supportive adults make the school particular instances of growth and change on Coltan are pictured with Coltan’s mother Jaelyn and life shared across the years consistent from this campus. For each, being at Hebron has younger sister Shayne, who expresses strong interest in attending Hebron. Above photo: Paul Downey parent to current student. Particulars may become a fresh connection from one genera- (front row, third from right) credits English teacher change—and should—but the essentials of tion to the next. h and coach Dave Stonebraker (back row, first from left) shared relationships and through the process View this article online with addtional features at with much of his personal growth at Hebron. of growing and changing in the Hebron hebrontoday.org
hebrontoday.org • 27 steady hand Reeve Bright ‘66, retiring board chair, has set a course for hebron for more than a decade.
28 • hebron • school year 13-14 e is a sailor, a fisherman, a true potential and direction in life, recognized the captain and occasional crew. growth that had occurred during their Hebron time By training and vocation a and realized the change that the school had made for lawyer, but by avocation a them. For Reeve, there was another connection just a watchdog of South Florida few hours to the east: the waters off Southwest Harbor politics and champion of and Mt. Desert Island. The family had summered on causes including the Lupus Mt. Desert for generations, his parents and grandpar- Foundation. A graduate of ents enjoying a house in Southwest Harbor that Hobart College at the height remains in the family today. During his Hebron years, of the Vietnam era, he has Reeve recalls that his parents would rent a large house fostered a personal desire to make a difference in the in Manset for their brood and that his summers were world. He is an adventurer, a world traveler but also a spent ruckusing about the area on land and water. Hfifth generation rusticator on Mt. Desert Island. He has Quite easily, Hebron became an extension of those had an audience with the Pope and his picture on the Maine experiences. front page of The New York Times. He is a storyteller Reeve spent four years at Hebron and another four and punster who revels in personal anecdotes of life’s at Hobart College followed by law school at the
“i think my mother knew something of me and had it in mind to temper my effervescent personality, and so she felt Hebron would be good for me.”
Reeve’s 1966 yearbook portrait lessons or the apt quip which reveals true insight. J. Reeve Bright, Class of 1966, is all these things, but at this point in time, he is also the retiring Chairman of the Hebron Academy Board of Trustees, participant in the tradition of Freelan Stanley, Guy Sturgis and Roscoe Hupper, long-tenured leaders of the school’s governing body. Reeve will preside at his final meeting of the Board of Trustees in the coming May. Just a few weeks later he will offer personal congratulations to each member of the Class of 2014, as he has to eleven previous classes, when he awards each the Hebron Diploma signifying successful completion of the Academy’s required course of study. It is the same diploma that he received 48 years ago in 1966. Reeve Bright grew up in Rosmont, Pennsylvania, one of ten children in a family which valued the opportunity of independent education, yet how did a youngster from the Main Line reach Hebron, Maine? Reeve smiles as he recounts his place in the pantheon of Bright children, each of whom would graduate from eastern boarding schools. “I think my mother knew Reeve shares welcoming remarks at last year’s Alumni something of me and had it in mind to temper my Convocation over Homecoming Weekend. effervescent personality, and so she felt Hebron would be good for me.” His story rings of the theme that a University of Miami. When he arrived at Hebron, he number of alumni recount years later in various had never been away from home for an extended iterations: how after being ‘sent’ to Hebron to be period, but he was attracted from the first to the feel of shaped under Mr. Allen’s tutelage they discovered their the place. He uses the word ‘community’ to describe it,
hebrontoday.org • 29 but allows that words fail him for a tight definition. “I asked to run both the mile and the two mile events, a think the key to me then was that I felt nurtured in the very tough pairing. Hebron also had two excellent school, felt ‘raised’ there and felt that I was taught distance runners that year, brothers Ken and Mark ‘life’s lessons,’ and ways to respond to things, in the Cuneo, Classes of 1966 and 1967 (photo at left), and classroom and on the fields certainly, but in life so Coach Augusta took Reeve aside before the meet to generally. It always had a sense of community for me - say “with that stiff upper lip of his, ‘now look, Bright, including some of the things that aren’t done anymore, I think that for us to win this championship, you’re like sitting on the floor after dinner and having Mr. going to have to run two races: the mile and the two Allen give us pearls of wisdom.” mile. It doesn’t matter so much about the two mile Reeve began in Howe Cottage and moved in his because there is a big drop in talent, and you will come sophomore year to Atwood before spending his final in third or fourth in that and get a point or two that years in Sturtevant Home. “We spent a lot of time will help. But in the mile you’re going to need to do together: the long rides to games, the Saturday night well as you can. And honestly, you’re not going to beat movies. We were all here together and had to get along Ken Cuneo, but what matters is that you’ve got to do
“we were all here together and had to get along in all of life. it was just what was done and it made a difference, the shared experience.”
1966 Maine Cham- in all of life. It was just what was done and it made a enough to get a point or two. You don’t have to beat pionship Mile: Reeve difference, the shared experience. And so many of him, you just have to stay with him and be ahead of Bright, a Maine Cen- tral Institute runner those common experiences haven’t really changed - the others. Then you can come back and run the two (foreground), and learning to live together, to get up and do your work, mile and get a point, and that’s going to be what we Ken Cuneo break from the start. to be a friend, to face up to the tough stuff, to be a part need to win. Both those boys are going to win those of something bigger than yourself. These things do races, so Bright, you just get in there and muck it up seem to be the constant, then and now. Today, this is and get a few points and everything will be fine.’” not the Hebron of my time, but I do hope that the Reeve continues the story for the class, re-creating students who leave here today feel as I did then.” the race from his own perspective as the graduates Reeve admired many of the men who were respon- listen, enthralled. “I don’t know what happened, but I sible for his experience at Hebron and speaks fondly must have gotten so fired up and gone out so fast that and occasionally humorously of them - Mr. Allen after the first lap, I’m looking ahead and there’s no one certainly, but also Barney Williams, Ned Willard and there - nobody from Fryeburg, nobody from Maine Addison Augusta. Reeve is a natural raconteur, and it is Central, nobody at all. So I just keep going. I’m feeling his custom to tell a story at Commencement, taking a pretty good, and on the second and third laps I’m still few moments before the presentation of diplomas to out in front or next to the front. I think there was a share a bit of personal experience and wisdom with the Fryeburg runner with me, but Cuneo wasn’t there. And graduating class. In 2013, Reeve’s story touched on Ad I’m still feeling pretty good, and it’s still open in front. Augusta and a track experience in his senior year. It I’m liking the view, and still there’s no one with me. was the Maine Championship for schools, Reeve The runner from Fryeburg had drifted back, and finally recalled, and in the manner of most track coaches, on the back stretch of the fourth lap, here comes Augusta had performed the calculus of personal bests Cuneo, and I thought I better cut my pace to let him and potential points to determine that Reeve would be get in front of me. Then I figured to get a little to the
30 • hebron • school year 13-14 tannery hill studios hill tannery Reeve delivers his yearly Commencement address each May, always a rousing - and delightfully unpredictable - event that leaves audience members with a lesson learned.
hebrontoday.org • 31 tannery hill studios hill tannery outside so nobody else could get by and just watch him to captain a boat or to sail with them, and then it burn it through to the finish. So I did just that, slowed would be foggy and we couldn’t go anywhere. But I just a little so he could carry on and do his thing. would still get paid. He didn’t understand that. He Cuneo goes by and then he cuts his speed, and I’m thought that when it was foggy, your wages should be there with him but can’t get by him. Then we go on cut by a day a week. It drove him nuts. He was not a down the stretch. It seems like he’s just gliding in, and water person.” Reeve definitely is a water person, and I’m right on his shoulder at the finish. Ultimately the friendship of boats and the lessons of the water are nobody else came up, and we finished one-two. He not lost on him. The water and the weather are good beat me, and I got the points I was supposed to, but teachers. One has to know what the weather will allow, I’ve always wondered what might have happened if I’d how much one can push a tack, how the feel of the boat just kept at it, if I hadn’t heard Ad Augusta’s voice in working against the water reveals how close a course is my head saying that Cuneo was going to finish first, possible, or how the push of the wind dictates when to that we were going to be in a dogfight with other let off a bit with the tiller and when to hold firm. runners, and that I just needed to hang in there and Yet there is also room for a good time. On another finish second. It didn’t happen that way.” occasion, Reeve recounts the story of sharing a water As Reeve draws out the story, building the suspense excursion with a close friend and their two sons. The and laughing at himself a bit while still holding the trip started as speculation one winter - what would it class mesmerized with an incident that touches what be like to take an open boat from Florida to Maine, to many have experienced in their Hebron time, he leave from Delray Beach and head for Northeast pauses. Looking out at the class, he delivers the punch Harbor? The idea took hold, and when June came, the line, “Never sell yourself short. Whatever it is you are foursome left Reeve’s Florida home in a Boston Whaler up against, give it your best shot and see what happens. with little more than a set of charts and an open plan You never know how life is going to treat you, for an adventure on the Intracoastal Waterway. They whatever the situation, and it just may be that no one planned to run as much as conditions would allow, is going to come up on your tail to overtake you. You stopping only for fuel and when night overtook them, don’t have to settle for the expectations of others; do it seizing the chance to make offshore passages if possible for yourself!” The applause is long and enthusiastic. to shorten the 1,800-mile journey to Maine. Equipped For many in the class, it must be hard to imagine that with minimal supplies in an essentially bare boat, the the trim man draped in splendid doctoral robes of foursome ran the Florida shoreline northward, joining Captain Bright, Varsity Soccer, 1965 Miami orange and blue once pushed himself on the the Intracoastal Waterway at St. Augustine, and then Dwyer Field track to gain a point for Hebron. following the passage inshore on river and bay, For Reeve, whose summers in Southwest Harbor northward through Georgia and the Carolinas. were spent mainly on the water, sailing was always part The Whaler, a 25’ Outrage, sported a pair of of the experience. The first boats were “Bullseyes,” a high-performance outboards that were generally either one design class of 15’ sloops which originated on off or flat-out and could power them northward at 40 Cape Cod from a Herreshoff design. They were sturdy miles an hour if conditions permitted and allow them boats with a small keel yet nimble and fun to sail and to cover as much as 500 miles on a long June day. race, sporting 140 square feet of sails and a spinnaker. Reeve’s eyes start to twinkle as he recalls that they Reeve recalls, “We learned to sail at Jim Willis’s in a would do everything possible to keep the boat powered fleet of Bullseyes, and my parents bought one, # 5 of up, to time their arrivals at the many lift bridges along the first fiberglass models. It is still in the family. My the waterway in order speed through without throttling brother owns it and still races it.” down to wait for an operator to raise the bridge. Continuing from Hebron to Hobart, Reeve remem- Apparently on one occasion, the foursome gave the bers the good things of school and life, school in season bridge operator a cheeky salute on the way through, and summers on the water sailing and racing. “My their own interpretation of a “bare boat” as they sped father made us all have summer jobs. I got started on their way. The operator was less than amused, and racing sailboats, and people were interested in me the next bridge to the north stayed firmly closed as the crewing for them or skippering their boats. Then I Captains Outrageous were forced to explain themselves started getting paid to be on sailboats as crew or to the marine patrol. skipper. It drove my dad nuts that people would hire me The trip took just over a week with significant open
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maine end: northeast harbor
• New York City by the numbers 1,800 miles from delray beach, fl to northeast harbor, me 1 25’ Boston Whaler 4 brave sailors Reeve in his element: sailing in the Mediterranean. Reeve’s eyes start to twinkle as he • St. Augustine 40 average recalls that they would do everything miles per possible to keep the boat powered up, hour florida to time their arrivals at the many lift start: delray beach bridges along the waterway in order speed 6 through without throttling down to wait Days for an operator to raise the bridge. water passages from the Jersey Shore to New York across the Gulf of Maine to Mt. Desert. “The water was where they circled Manhattan in style and then tied up like a pond that day,” Reeve recalls, “and we just to the then infamous “Garbage Barge” moored in the bombed along, seeing whales on the way, and reaching outer harbor. Like erstwhile Huck Finns, the foursome Northeast in five hours.” When asked why he did it, clambered aboard, climbed to the top of the refuse pile Reeve pauses. One might imagine that the sons, along and posed for a team picture with garbage in the with their fathers, gained some of the “life lessons” foreground and the Statue of Liberty and the iconic Reeve speaks of through the shared experience of simply lower Manhattan skyline in the background. From The being together in the wind and the spray on that special Big Apple, they raced the length of Long Island Sound to trip north. Overtones of Hebron resurface. “It was Montauk and then made the open water passage to the special just to be together,” he says, “facing the same Cape Cod Canal. On their final day, they piloted things - whether the difficult, the funny or the funky.” through the Cape Cod Canal and then charted a beeline Storytelling is part of Reeve’s nature. As varied and
hebrontoday.org • 33 ”I hope that one day I will get to do a lot of things that I haven’t done yet, and in some small way, I hope that I might still have my hand on the rope at Hebron as well.”
Reeve (L) with wife Anne (center), Head of School John King (R) and the Jay L. Woolsey Distin- effervescent as the man, the guished Service Award. Reeve was a fitting recipient of the school’s highest honor, awarded stories touch moments in life at Alumni Convocation over Homecoming Weekend 2013. and life’s lessons, usually with humor and the unexpected. At another Hebron Commencement, Reeve drew on his whenever he is on campus, and some of those brief law school experiences to recount a time when a relationships have extended over a span of years. He University of Miami law professor delivered an found it especially fulfilling this past year to greet his unforgettable message with an unexpected question. ‘lunch buddy’ of three years, A’Nyce Munroe ’13, on “What is the name of the woman who cleans this the graduation stage and present her diploma. When lecture hall?,” was Question 10 on a brief quiz in opened, her diploma contained a brief greeting from Contract Law. The response of Reeve’s second year law the Chair, a small memento to one his life has touched. classmates was immediate and vocal. “It’s not fair. You Reeve also adds a note to the Hebron Diploma when it have never asked a question like this before. This is not happens that there is a graduate matriculating at his part of the course. You can’t expect us to know that.” alma mater, Hobart College. Connecting personally Reeve chuckles as he looks over the Hebron graduates, with all he encounters, remembering to keep things in many of whom have likely invoked similar protests perspective, sharing openly and honestly with those with their teachers. During the review of the quiz, around him - these are touchstones for Reeve as he Professor Manette listened patiently for a time before approaches any circumstance as a lawyer, a Hebron launching into her own opinion of the situation and board member, a friend. His is a steady hand, an her students. “Not fair?” she demanded, “Is life fair? Is approach that he has exercised as he has overseen the it right that you sit here in air-conditioned comfort, life of the Academy during his 16 years of service to haggling over an inconsequential quiz and contemplat- Hebron’s Board. ing your rank in the class and place on the Law Reeve joined the Board of Trustees in 1998 after Review, while all around you others are cutting the having kept up an active conversation for several years grass on the fields outside and polishing the halls of with Paul Domingue, then Director of Advancement. this building to support you and the University in the When interviewed in 1999, he shared a bit of personal manner to which you are accustomed? Is that fair?” As philosophy that “one must give back a little. My Reeve tells the story, he brightens and chuckles, academic success in life is attributable to what I learned concluding the story with a summary of Professor at Hebron, and I learned a lot that went way beyond Manette’s harangue to her students. “Maria is the the academic. I think that my life was changed by the answer to Question 10, and you need to be aware, now teachers and coaches that I had here. I did a lot after and going forward in your careers, just who you serve Hebron, but I never had the interactions in college that and why. You’ve got to remember the people who’ve I had here. It is easy to want to give back now, and I’m helped you to be what you are to get where you are.” happy to do it.” Connecting with people, remembering people and Reeve served directly with Judy Ryan as Vice-Chair enjoying the company of others are qualities that Reeve beginning in 2001 and became Chair of the Board in shares with Hebron’s graduates and all who he 2003 as Hebron anticipated its Bicentennial Celebra- encounters. tion and John King settled into his tenure as the new Reeve has made it his practice not just to tell Head of School. Together, they have marked significant personal stories to the graduates at Commencement, points in the school’s development: creating the but to connect with them in other ways. He relishes the Athletic Center and the Lepage Center for the Arts, opportunity to “do lunch” with a student companion enlarging boarding enrollment and enhancing faculty
34 • hebron • school year 13-14 benefits, stimulating new student programs in Commu- talk through things first one way and then another nity Life and Academic Guidance, and more recently, until we’ve come to a decision.” Typical of sailors, refurbishing and enhancing teaching and laboratory theirs has been a working relationship built upon an spaces for the sciences and languages. When asked for understanding of what circumstance may allow, what his role in the changes, Reeve is quick to deflect praise, intermediate courses of action may be necessary and suggesting that when he began with the Board, he how final outcomes are subject to forces beyond their listened closely to colleagues Phillips Smith, Class of immediate control. 1949 and Robert McCormack, Class of 1962, who As Reeve anticipates the conclusion of his service to often repeated the simple dictums that the strength of Hebron’s Board of Trustees, knowing that term limits the faculty was critical to the school’s health and that created during his tenure dictate that he must step board members needed to listen first to the recommen- away, he does not see this as ending his relationship, dations of the school’s leadership before applying its but simply setting it on a new course. Speaking of shaping hand to the course of things. Good advice for Commencement and gaveling his last board meeting, the one who would become the Board’s leader, helping he noted, “I think it will be an emotional time, to put behind several unsettled years and begin a probably more emotional for me than for the class, but decade of growth and achievement through a strong I’ve just got to soldier through.” There will be a story working relationship with Head of School John King. to be told and the effervescent personality will remain, On the east wall of John’s office in Sturtevant Hall for sure; but one may also surmise that there will be hangs a framed chart documenting a twenty-day new adventures to be undertaken and new lessons to be transatlantic voyage by the yacht Grafin from Oster- shared. Among items on his personal bucket list, Reeve ville, Massachusetts, to Oban, Scotland in 1977. The lists the pending marriage of his son, a possible trek to passage eastward is noted by penciled marks upon the Kilimanjaro and perhaps crewing on an offshore racing great circle route. Among the crew was a young John yacht. “Right now, Anne and I haven’t got anything King, then making the journey of a lifetime as a specific in mind. I hope that one day I will get to do a deep-water sailor. Some 26 years later, as John became lot of things that I haven’t done yet, and in some small Head of School and Reeve assumed leadership of way, I hope that I might still have my hand on the rope Hebron’s Board in 2003, the map would become a at Hebron as well.” pleasant distraction when the two would meet to work This has seemed a fitting time to mark some on the school’s business. Asked to summarize their points on Reeve Bright’s personal chart of growth and relationship, Reeve becomes soft-spoken and pauses accomplishment extending from his time as a student before responding, “I think that the key to the relation- at Hebron to his subsequent 16 years of service to ship that John and I have had is that it has been honest Hebron’s Board of Trustees. His dedication to the and straight-forward. We may not have seen the Academy has been incalculable, and while Reeve’s outcome of everything we worked on from the life compass may now point in a new direction, beginning, but we have always worked through to a one may know that his steady hand upon the tiller conclusion without real disagreement, often having to will continue. h an enduring partnership
“It is written everywhere in education philosophy that the most important relationship for the health of a school is that between the Head of School and the Board Chair. I met Reeve more than 13 years ago when he served on the search committee for Hebron’s next Head, and I was be- Head of School John King (L) and Board Chair Reeve Bright ‘66 (R) ing grilled for candidacy. Three years later, Reeve became have adhered to their weekly Tuesday Chair of the Board and we cemented that all-important morning call for more alliance. Reeve and I have talked through issues, anxiet- than a decade. ies, challenges, frustrations, laughs, and some things you wouldn’t believe every Tuesday morning, since 2003. Reeve is always there; he’s ready to get on a plane and come whenever. He is a problem solver, a stress diffuser, he has the ability to get ideas to percolate and to explore a voice of calm and reason, and at the same time, Nike’s directions. Then he has led with the determination to follow ideal, a “just do it” kind of man. When I think of the through on those plans, to seek consensus and to achieve school as a whole and his leadership, I think that the consensus with a very strong Board that works cohesively. On most critical factor is Reeve’s ability to guide, to develop behalf of the entire extended Hebron family, we thank Reeve strategic consensus. In the five or six strategic planning for his unwavering leadership and service. The school could sessions that I’ve shared with him, it is most obvious that not have thrived without him.” – John J. King, Head of School
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1925 1941 1947 Bob Rich writes, “From Hebron, classnotesI went to UMO, majoring in Class Agent Needed! Viola Jasper (honorary member) Class Agent Needed! agricultural sciences. Managed writes, “On October 4, 2013, Find out how you can get involved Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail with your class. Call or e-mail a dairy farm until Uncle Sam I celebrated my 105th birthday Beverly Roy: 207-966-5251, called! Got an MBA and started with friends and family at the Beverly Roy: 207-966-5251, [email protected] [email protected] my corporate career climb in East Eliot United Methodist agriculture, marketing and Church. My daughter Mary and 1948 international business. Retired in niece Heather live with me at my 1942 1985, then had a second career home in Eliot, Maine and are Class Agent: Norm Cole Class Agent Needed! as the Va. Dept. of Agriculture’s Find out how you can get involved very special. My husband Rufus [email protected] Director of International Mar- Jasper ’25 is deceased.” with your class. Call or e-mail Robert Preti writes, “Being alive Beverly Roy: 207-966-5251, keting for eleven more years, and able to respond to Class of [email protected] retiring again in 2000. Served th ’42 “Notes” is a privilege denied as chair of the Hebron Advisory writes, “A unit 1939 many!!! My luck is having reason- Amory Houghton Council and for five years on HA 75reunion in our condo community blew up Class Agent Needed! ably good health, a wonderful Board of Trustees. Had three due to a propane leak- four units Find out how you can get involved wife, children, grandchildren kids, eight grandchildren and two were destroyed including ours. with your class. Call or e-mail (ten), great grandchildren (two)!! wives. Now live on our farm near Beverly Roy: 207-966-5251, Since the blast Joan and I are in Life is so much better than the Richmond, Va. Upon reflection, [email protected] our third temporary home. Our “alternative”!! (Yup, still down- my corporate career competitive rebuild has not started, so many Time for our reunion! hill skiing a little, but not well!!)” advantage was due to the untiring Make plans to be at Hebron legal road blocks, so much dam- efforts of Ned Willard getting me on October 24-25 for our 75th Seen at Homecoming: Kenneth age. We’ll get through it, in time.” to write better than many.” The Hendy reunion. If you plan to come Congratulations to Alan Kupper, Class of 1949 will be celebrating let us know! inducted into Hebron’s Athletic its 65th at the 2014 Homecoming. 1943 Hall of Fame at Reunion-Home- Hopefully I’ll be there with some coming Weekend 2013. Alan of the other ’49ers. Class Agent: Gene Smith was recognized for his contribu- [email protected] Colleen Quinn writes, “We have tions to youth and professional moved to the Hillcrest Retirement sports, namely basketball. Over Community in Scarborough, his fifty-plus year career, Alan Maine to be nearer some of our worked with Boston Celtics play- children. Joe is in his tenth year ers, minor league baseball team of Alzheimer’s but is still happy the Nashua Hawks, and famous and good natured.” announcer Johnny Most and directed the Boys and Girls Club Seen at Homecoming: Bob Rich of Nashua, NH. See more photos from the induction ceremony on page 11. 1950 Seen at Homecoming: Alan Class Agent Needed! Kupper Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Beverly Roy: 207-966-5251, [email protected] 1949 th Class Agent: Bob Rich 65reunion 1951 [email protected] Class Agent: Ted Ruegg Time for our reunion! [email protected] Make plans to be at Hebron on October 24-25 for our 65th geoff campbell geoff reunion. If you plan to come Alan Kupper ’48 (L) was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame during Reunion Weekend 2013. Alan lettered in basketball and baseball at Hebron and was a lifelong let us know! supporter of youth sports.
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Seen at Homecoming: Bill Llewellyn Ross is still working at Abbuhl, Hugh Kirkpatrick, Merrill Lynch. I thank Claude Al- Leonard Mintz, Payson Perkins, len and Hebron for the guidance Dean Ridlon, Nick Sewall, provided in 1953-54. Charlie Whittier th 1955 60union 1954 re Class Agent: Richard Parker Class Agent: Seen at Homecoming: Goody Michael Maher Gilman [email protected] Time for our reunion! Make plans to be at Hebron 1956 on October 24-25 for our 60th Class Agent: Kenneth Mortimer liza tarr liza reunion. If you plan to come [email protected] (L-R): John Slattery ’04 of Hebron’s Alumni Office with Roz and Goody Gilman ’55 at let us know! Homecoming last fall. Dick Cutter writes, “After more Michael Maher says that his trip than two decades of years living to Hebron in 2009 was great and in Exeter, NH I am downsizing 1952 1953 brought back lots of memories. 50 miles to the west with my Class Agent: Ken Boyle Class Agent: Dean Ridlon close friend Suzanne. I moved [email protected] [email protected] here when we opened up the New Hampshire Market for Cambridge Trust Co. It went Robert Bryan ‘50 very well. Upon retirement I took on Chair of Seacoast Museum and Tim Sample ’69 Hospice and American Indepen- launch BERT AND I... dence Museum Boards. Both were great experiences. I am other- REBOOTED wise healthy but somewhat less ert and I, the fictional wealthy.” Maine lobstermen Bwho first brought dry Downeast humor to the nation 1957 over 50 years ago, are back! Class Agents: The new CD, BERT AND I... Michael A. Mentuck Rebooted, by Robert Bryan [email protected] ’50 and Tim Sample ’69 was Charles B. Swartwood
released in October 2013. It is studios hill tannery [email protected] the first recording of new Bert Beloved Maine humorists Tim Sample ’69 (L) and Bob Bryan ’50 (R) at Homecom- Hervey Connell writes, “Retired and I material in more than 30 ing 2010. from Manhattan to a swell village years. on Long Island’s south shore. My Bob Bryan, now 82, and the Kuralt. He produced several and other stores in Maine and wife of nearly 30 years is enjoying late Marshall Dodge released recordings for the Bert and I label throughout New England. a calm and community-oriented their groundbreaking album of in the 1980’s, and since then has life with me.” Maine stories, BERT AND I...and released many CDs, DVDs and Alex Kant reports, “I have been Other Stories from Down East books through his own company, retired since 2007. I am active in in 1958. Three more albums The Maine Humor Store. Tim the support of the state of Israel, by the duo over the next 20 performs widely in as well as the support of a num- years, and live performances New England and beyond. ber of doctors.” by Marshall from Maine to BERT AND I... Rebooted is California made “Bert and I” the first album Tim and Bob Mike Mentuck writes: “Kudos to the epitome of Maine humor have made together since their our class for winning the 1804 everywhere. now- classic How to Talk Yankee: Award for achieving the highest Maine native Tim Sample, A Downeast Foreign Language percentage of participation in the today’s best-known Downeast Course came out in 1983. Annual Fund. Let’s do it again next year. Now, here is some news storyteller, developed a BERT AND I... Rebooted can Bob Bryan ’50 and Tim Sample ‘69’s about some of our classmates.” nationwide audience in the be purchased online at www. new CD, BERT AND I...Rebooted, 1990’s for his “Postcards from bertandi.ME, and at Sherman’s released last fall, is the first recording Maine” segments on CBS News Bookstores, Bull Moose Outlets, of new Bert and I material in more than 30 years. Sunday Morning with Charles Longfellow Books in Portland,
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Lester (Squint) Moran is alive Bruce McFarland and his wife door, including Thomas, age 11, and well in Dallas, Texas. The Sonja are still selling kites near and jazzing it up on his drum kit. 1958 question presented is how does a Charleston, South Carolina. Not I am still doing some sailing and Class Agent Needed! guy from Millinocket Maine end bad for a guy with a Bachelor’s Find out how you can get involved motor rallying and my son Geoff with your class. Call or e-mail up in Dallas, Texas? For Squint, from Trinity and a Master’s and I share ownership of a 30-ft Beverly Roy: 207-966-5251, it was easy. He worked in NYC from Cornell. Bruce and Sonja fast motor cruiser. Suzanne and I [email protected] for Bloomingdales for 25+ years, recently completed a fantastic continue travelling, mostly enjoy- was sent to Dallas to open a new trip to Alaska.They traveled by ing small ship cruising - Ganges, Seen at Homecoming: Norman Bloomingdales’ store, while there, first class train from Toronto to Alaska, Central America, Japan, Farrar the company was sold and the Vancouver through the Canadian Sumatra. I am not over-enthused new store was abandoned. Since Rockies where they were able to with airports as my metal hip th Squint and family liked living hop on and off to visit and stay in always rings the alarm bells and I 1959 55reunion in Dallas, he quit Bloomingda- such places as Banff, Lake Louise have to submit to a groping! Had Class Agent: les and at age 50, started his and Jasper. From Vancouver they great day fishing in Costa Rica Bernard Helm own personnel testing and drug took a ferry and stayed some time last year - raised 23 sailfish and [email protected] screening business. Squint is now exploring Victoria Island; a fast got 15 to the boat (all tag and re- Time for our reunion! semi-retired (plays golf 5 days a ferry to Seattle and then a plane lease). Hopefully, I will be around Make plans to be at Hebron week); his wife runs the business; to Fairbanks. Once in Alaska, for the 60th reunion in four years’ on October 24-25 for our 55th and in a year or so, their daughter their explorations took them to time. Keep up the good work! reunion. If you plan to come and son will take over the busi- Coldfeet, north of the Arctic Cir- let us know! ness. For vacations, Squint and cle, a small plane ride around the Seen at Homecoming: Will family have a house in the North top of Mt. McKinley, a visit to Durgin, Gordon Smith and Tycho von Rosenvinge writes, “I th Carolina Mountains. Squint is the Denali area to see wildlife and Arthur Davey just celebrated my 50 reunion th up for attending our next class a small ship through the Inside at Amherst College, so my 55 reunion. Passage back to Seattle. While in Hebron reunion is just around the Seattle, they had dinner with Rich corner! Hard to believe. In Febru- reports that he is Rich Rimbach and Diane Rimbach and on their ary 2013, my wife and I were in semi-retired, working part time as way home through San Francisco, Taksim Square in Istanbul and a substitute teacher in high school they had dinner with D.D. and saw peaceful marchers. Watchful and is in good health with a new Charlotte Zaug. soldiers with machine guns were hip and knee. In November, Rich nearby. I’m glad we were there and Diane fly to Capetown, South Chris Blackstone writes, I am when Istanbul was still peaceful Africa where they have rented a working on the same accoun- and we could enjoy the both its condo for two weeks. They plan tancy jobs as I was six years rich history and its transition to to rendezvous with their son Jon, ago. I am presently sitting in my becoming a modern city.” Chris Blackstone ‘57 (R) shows off a sail- who with his wife and four kids, home office, overlooking the fish he caught in Costa Rica in 2012. ranging in age from 9 to 13, are sea on a typically cloudy Jersey taking a year off home schooling November morning. I can hear 1960 their kids while traveling around the grandchildren carousing next Class Agent: Dave Williams the world. [email protected] Hebron is proud to welcome new trustee Dave Williams, who joined the Hebron Board of Trustees in 2013. Many thanks to Dave for his work as a Class Agent and good luck in his new position on the Board. Seen at Homecoming: Bill Weary, Dave Williams
1961 Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Beverly Roy: 207-966-5251, [email protected] Seen at Homecoming: John
sara wilmot sara McGonagle The Class of 1963 at their 50th reunion last fall (L-R): Gordie Trevette, Craig Adelman, Peter Rubin, Al Howlett, Alex Dean, Ken Sweezey, Mike Nickerson, Ric Burton and Will Harding.
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Seen at Homecoming: Craig Adelman, Ric Burton, Alex A Note from Class Agent John Giger ’64 Dean, Gordon Trevette, Will Harding, Al Howlett, Mike am looking forward member for the Groton-Dunstable Regional School Nickerson, Peter Rubin, Ken to seeing all of my District; chairman of the Groton Planning Board; Sweezey Iclassmates at our 50th and serving on a number of Town committees. My reunion on October 24-25 this wife, Judy, works at the Groton Public Library, so I th fall. After 50 years this will be think we are pretty well integrated into our small 1964 50reunion a great opportunity to renew community. Recreation wise, we have a seasonal Class Agent: John Giger friendships, see how the cottage on a pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts, [email protected] campus and school have changed, and catch up on were we are entertained by a few grandnieces and Time for our reunion! the various endeavors we’ve each perused since grandnephews that join us each year for most of Make plans to be at Hebron graduation. More information on the logistics of July from Texas and Georgia. Judy and I get away on October 24-25 for our 50th our reunion will be sent along as we progress into from the snow and cold each winter with a sailing reunion. If you plan to come the spring. Here is a quick update on me: adventure somewhere warm, most recently on let us know! I retired in 2008 from Alcatel-Lucent, a French the Sea of Abaco in the Bahamas. This is enough telecommunications company, after many years about me for now. Do start making plans to return Henry Ullman writes, “I plan to of employment in the high-technology industry. to Hebron next fall. If you have ideas for reunion attend the 50th reunion of our I have also retired from active involvement with activities or would like to help out by personally class and am looking forward to the US Army after 30-plus years of service. I contacting classmates, please let me know via seeing my old classmates.” still keep quite busy being a school committee e-mail at [email protected]. All the best to you! Seen at Homecoming: Ray Bradford, Ed Gottlieb, Tom Hull
we saw our pal. Pharmacology at Neuroscience. 1965 1962 Nickerson “lineman” Mike Cycling and swimming for fun- Class Agent: Dick Forté ready for the next hike. not competitively-rode my age in Class Agent: Allen Kennedy [email protected] [email protected] To Rubin, Peter miles last birthday. Occasional George Ugarte writes, “Hey a class leader. odd jobs at the stable that my Jeffrey Laughlin thanks Al Dick, (Dick Forté) If the good Our Ken Sweezey, wife manages. Life is good!” Kennedy for his work as Class Lord willing and the creek don’t not old and wheezy. Agent. writes, rise I’ll see you at the 55th. Best And Gord the Trevett, Joesph B. Hodgkins, II “Ann and I have been retired for James Morrill writes, “With the regards, George.” what he›s got he›ll give it. over ten years and enjoy travel- birth of a new grandson in May William Stocker writes that he is Handshakes, hugs, and smiles; ing abroad frequently. We are 2013 we now have a total of six “working part-time as a derma- far too many miles both active in our local Episcopal grandchildren, four grandsons tologist, has four grandchildren, not to do again church where I am a Eucharis- and two granddaughters. Lots to and wants to play squash at with all our friends. tic Minister and member of the do in retirement!!” Hebron.” finance committee. I have been Ken Sweezey writes to his He- a Mason for over thirty years Seen at Homecoming: Bill Allen bron classmates of 1963, “Nine and have become more involved 1966 of the 56 graduates traveled back since retirement. I am treasurer to Hebron for our 50th reunion Class Agent: Harvey Lowd of my local lodge as well as being [email protected] 1963 on September 28th. The renewal active in other York Rite bodies of old friendships was nearly Seen at Homecoming: Reeve Class Agent: Will Harding including Royal Arch Masons instantaneous and the attention Bright, Chris Buschmann, Clem [email protected] and Knights Templar. Some of my from the Hebron staff was warm Dwyer A poem by Will Harding: other interests are cigars, reading and sincere. The nine of us who and handgun, target shooting.” CLASSMATES participated in our 50th reunion Reunited now, we, agreed to return for our 55th re- Alex Dean encourages classmates 1967 to check out Hebron Academy the Mighty ’63, union in 2018. We also agreed to Class Agent Needed! know 50, far too long, reach out to everyone else in our photos at the school’s Flickr page, Find out how you can get involved though now we›re strong. class to make the 55th reunion especially those from Reunion with your class. Call or e-mail even more special.” 2013: www.flickr.com/photos/ Beverly Roy: 207-966-5251, Craig “the racket” Adelman hebronacademy, noting, “It’s [email protected] writes, still no players can handle him. Michael Bergamini not the way it was back in our “Couldn’t make it to our 50th Matthew Fox writes, “Despite Rocket Man Ric Burton, day!” He also urges 1963-ers to (still have kids competing in Claude L. Allen’s feelings that young for certain. “please let me know if you have sports). Enjoying working part my only hope for a future was And Alex Dean contact with other classmates so time at the University of North the military, I will contribute to made the scene. we can expand our email list. We Texas Health Science Center Hebron’s future. My best to all With Will “the thrill” also talked about those in our Department of Orthopedic Sur- of my 1967 classmates, I am alive Harding, running still. group who have passed on.” Plus, Howlett, Howling Al, gery and as Adjunct Professor of and well and retired in Florida.
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I never made it into the military. parents on our floor in Sturtevant Graduate school and real estate 1970 1971 Hall in 1974. What treasures they became my vocation.” Class Agent: Craig Clark Class Agent: Harvey Lipman were!” [email protected] [email protected] Seen at Homecoming: Paul Craig Clark writes that he regrets Seen at Homecoming: Harvey Goodof that he wasn’t able to make the Lipman 1975 annual 2013 hockey tournaments Class Agent: Ellen Augusta in December, as he was visiting [email protected] 1968 his daughter Helen’04, in Spain. 1972 Erik C. Bateman writes, “So Class Agent: Bob Lowenthal He was delighted to see everyone Class Agent: Steve Gates [email protected] at the annual alumni hockey happy Hebron is doing well. Will [email protected] try to make it back for my 40th Our condolences to Peter game on January 18. Jeff Scott reports that he is “still in 2015.” Goodrich on the death of his After 32 years Henry Harding is pastoring at Creede Community father in October. still traveling the country seeing Church, UCC in Creede, CO. If Seen at Homecoming: Ellen Augusta Sam Stafford writes, “I wish customers in the semi-conductor any Hebron alums are within a to thank our Class Agent, Bob industry for Fujifilm Electronic stone’s throw please give me a call Lowenthal, as he does such a Materials. Henry enjoyed taking and connect. Otherwise great to great job keeping all the members in many Hebron hockey games hear from any classmates and we 1976 of the class of 1968 aware of the with classmates last season. may be in New England around Class Agent: Reed Chapman happenings at Hebron Academy. Homecoming. Empty nest parents [email protected] Jim Strathern writes, “We have Thank you.” of five now.” been doing a lot of traveling to Our sympathies to Kim Kavana- Seen at Homecoming: Bob Big 10 gymnastics meets. Our son Seen at Homecoming: Steve ugh on the death of her mother. Lowenthal Michael completed his sophomore Gates Brig. Gen. Hugh Van Roosen year at the University of Michigan writes, “My new job has me th where he is a member of the designing and building a group 1969 Michigan gymnastics team. We 45reunion 1973 tasked with conducting military Class Agent: were recently in State College Class Agent Needed! government in occupied ter- Jonathan Moll Pennsylvania for the NCAA men’s Find out how you can get involved ritories in accordance with The [email protected] gymnastics championship held with your class. Call or e-mail Hague Convention of 1907. I Time for our reunion! at Penn State University. I am Beverly Roy: 207-966-5251, have 570 positions and am part- [email protected] Make plans to be at Hebron pleased to say that the Michigan nering with the Smithsonian, a on October 24-25 for our 45th Wolverines won the 2013 Many thanks to Greg Burns who variety of universities, and with reunion. If you plan to come NCAA national championship, has just finished up his second State. I sincerely hope that I am let us know! outdistancing the second place tour as class agent. His great never called upon to be a military Sooners from the University work is very much appreciated. governor, but I will be ready, if of Oklahoma. It was the 5th needed. I’m off to Stanford right - national championship in school Our condolences to Bill now to chair a workgroup on reunion history for the University of Rodrigues on the death of his Rule of Law. This should keep me homecoming Michigan. Go Blue!” father in April 2013. busy until I retire or am promot- weekend Seen at Homecoming: Kim Seen at Homecoming: Cyrus ed. My sailboat is calling me very Kenway Cook, Nathaniel Corwin, strongly now to start my two-year 2014 Richard Potvin, Stephen Wagner voyage. “ October 24-25 1974 th 1977 40reunion Class Agent: Class Agent: Bob Hernon Roger Clark [email protected] [email protected] Susan Shaver Loyd Turner writes, Time for our reunion! “I was married in 2012 to John Make plans to be at Hebron Turner. John retired from teach- on October 24-25 for our 40th ing at Bowdoin College in 2011 reunion. If you plan to come and moved to Connecticut where let us know! I am still teaching at Westover School. We summer in Maine and Our thoughts are with Mark spent a weekend this past summer Letorney on the loss of his father. with Sarah Hughes Sigel ’76 and William Linnell reports that he her family. My daughter Carrie “reconnected with some Hebron (26) is in Atlanta and son Colin family at Bob Seikman’s service. (21) will graduate from Spring- liza tarr liza Bob and Margo were the house field College in May 2014. All are Richard Potvin ‘73 (center) with daughter Beth ’04 and son Michael at Homecoming well!” last fall.
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1983 Class Agent: Debbie Beacham Bloomingdale [email protected] Congrats to Deb and her business partner on their new venture, Fudge Everything! Read more on page 43. Bob Donahue joined Hebron’s Board of Trustees last year and is looking forward to advising on finance and faculty wellbeing. Read more about Bob on page 8. Seen at Homecoming: Deb Bloomingdale, Lesli Brisson, Bob Donahue, Sean McLellan, Cheryl Moody, Judy Osojnicki, David Prout th 1984 30reunion Class Agents: Deb Schiavi Cote
geoff campbell geoff [email protected] Paul Downey ’81 (right) supported son Coltan ’14 (second from right) with his wife Jaelyn and students Makoto Watanabe ’14 John Donahue and Jonathan Carls ’15 on Homecoming Weekend last fall. Read more about the Downey family’s longstanding relationship with [email protected] Hebron in Fresh Connections on page 18. Time for our reunion! Make plans to be at Hebron Congratulations to Bob Ryan, MacVane, Stillman Rockefeller, forward to more adventures with who just joined Hebron’s Board Marc Roy family, travel and Studebakers.” on October 24-25 for our 30th of Trustees last fall and will reunion. If you plan to come Seen at Homecoming: Jane advise on admissions, marketing let us know! th Harris Ash, Stephen Jeffries and development. In 2013 Bob of- 1979 35reunion Seen at Homecoming: John fered to sponsor Hebron’s annual Class Agent: Donahue Career Connection Seminars, an Brian Cloherty afternoon of networking and dis- [email protected] 1980 cussion opportunities hosted by Class Agent: Betsy Siekman Time for our reunion! 1985 alumni and parents for Hebron Graves Make plans to be at Hebron Class Agent Needed! seniors and postgraduates. Read [email protected] on October 24-25 for our 35th Find out how you can get involved more about Bob on page 6. Our sympathies to reunion. If you plan to come Troy with your class. Call or e-mail Kavanaugh on the death of his Beverly Roy: 207-966-5251, Seen at Homecoming: Edward let us know! mother. [email protected] Rochester, Bob Ryan Jane Harris Ash writes that she Our condolences to Julie Chase “left Bristol Community College Seen at Homecoming: Greg and her family on the death of after more than eight years in the Urlwin, Chuck Hall her mother and beloved Hebron 1978 Resource Development office. faculty member . Read Class Agent: George Dycio She finished up her time in the Judy Chase [email protected] alumni, fundraising and special 1981 more about Judy on page 49. Many thanks to George for events role with her final BCC Class Agent: Jane Hepburn Fiore volunteering as Class Agent for Foundation Golf Tournament on [email protected] the class of 1978. In addition to May 14. What a great surprise to Seen at Homecoming: Paul 1986 his duties as net minder for the findEric Shediac ’86 playing for Downey, Nat Harris Class Agent: Scott Downs alumni hockey game, George is one of the foursomes! Nat Harris [email protected] also the proud parent of Lar- ’81 also played in the tourna- Scott Downs writes, “Carl Engle issa Dycio’17! Read more about ment, but he made sure to make 1982 and I had our daughters play a George and Larissa in our Fresh himself scarce when the photog- U-12 soccer game against each Connections feature article by rapher took the picture to send in Class Agent: Tucker Cutler [email protected] other last spring in Rockport, Dave Stonebraker. to Hebron. Jane and her husband MA. Our teams were seeded dif- Gary will continue to run their Seen at Homecoming: James ferently later in the tournament, consulting business, Castle Brook so we didn’t play again in 2013.” Allen, George Dycio, Forbes Corporation, and they look
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Alex Woodruff writes, “I will be moving to Outrigger Energy as Vice President of Business Fudge Everything! Development.” Deb Bloomingdale Seen at Homecoming: T. Scott ‘83 shares a recipe for Downs, Rob Kinasewich success, remarks on all roads leading to Hebron 1987 year ago Deb Beacham Class Agent: Bloomingdale’83 never Kate Thoman Crowley A dreamed she would be [email protected] presenting at Hebron’s 2014 Career Connection Seminars (CCS), a day of networking 1988 and career exchange among Class Agent: Ann Snyder seniors, postgraduates, current Mooradian parents and alumni. A year ago [email protected] she did not have a business Seen at Homecoming: Carlito to present, but she did love Cabelin, Heather Stephens, making hot fudge. Today Deb Daphne White (Rea), Ken Young has March 28, 2014 marked on her calendar, ready to share her th new venture with the Hebron 1989 25reunion Academy Class of 2014 and the Class Agent: rest of the world. So, how did Hayes McCarthy she go from proud Hebron past [email protected] parent, alumna and trustee to Time for our reunion! small business owner in less laura poussard photography laura poussard Make plans to be at Hebron than a year? Deb Bloomingdale ’83 (R ) and her business partner Anne Girian (L) recently on October 24-25 for our 25th First, a little background: launched Fudge Everything!, a delicious line of homemade fudge sauces. reunion. If you plan to come For years Deb has been making let us know! fudge sauce for her friends and includes a few Hebron friends magazine, a glossy lifestyle Seen at Homecoming: Tim family. She’d whip up a batch along the way. publication geared toward Cassidy for a sticky summer sundae, Of course there was plenty families living on the northern Christmas gift, or whenever a of research and hours of con- coast of Massachusetts, where craving arose for something versation surrounding this new Deb resides today. Hugh knew 1990 sweet and simple. Over time endeavor, one of which led Deb instantly that Fudge Everything! Class Agent: Andy Haskell individual batches gave way to to Greg Willoughby. Greg was a would be a perfect fit for the [email protected] multiplying the recipe and mak- Hebron student with Deb back magazine. Fast forward to the ing enough to share with her in the 80’s and now heads Lukas December 2013 issue, and Jim Hill and wife Lisa welcomed Foods in Biddeford, ME. Greg, a Fudge Everything! boasts a fea- James Warren Hill II in children’s teachers, tennis part- September 2013. Mom and baby ners and neighbors. Time and food industry veteran, was happy ture spread with Deb and Anne. are doing well. again people would say “You to share his knowledge with a fel- Holiday sales were strong, in should really do something low Hebronian. According to Deb, no small part to the exposure in with this stuff – it’s fantastic!” “His business acumen and advice Northshore. Fast forward to April 2013, have been invaluable. Greg knows With a website, Facebook and meet Fudge Everything! his stuff.” Fudge Everything! page, retail contracts and good Last spring Deb and her long- launched at a small fair in Groton, old-fashioned word-of-mouth time tennis partner Anne Girian MA last fall. That same day in advertising, Fudge Everything! became business partners. Groton, another Hebron alumnus is gaining grassroots momen- With a deep breath and a Kick- approached Deb. tum. Members of the Class of starter campaign, they took the Hugh Malone ’82 came to the 2014 will learn more about plunge into the specialty food Academy from Newton, MA as a Deb’s success and how to industry. “It just seemed to junior, lettering in football, bas- leverage their Hebron connec- happen so fast, but I’m having ketball and tennis. Thirty years tions – like Deb has – to ad- a ball!” Deb confesses. Manag- later the two serendipitously vance their careers. The annual ing everything from production crossed paths in a small suburb Senior Dinner will serve hot costs to marketing efforts, of Boston. Hugh is the Executive fudge sundaes with none other website updates and inventory Vice President for RMS Media than Fudge Everything! James Warren Hill II, born last reports, their recipe for success Group, which owns Northshore to top it all off. September.
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are enjoying the grey weather 1991 that’s standard this time of year, Jenny Ridley (Agnew) ‘99 joins Office of Class Agents: spending lots of time inside reno- Admission Marcus De Costa vating our house. On December [email protected] 1, 2013 we welcomed our newest Scott Nelson addition: a baby girl named Ellery [email protected] Tate.” writes, “Life in the Scott Nelson Ellen (St. Cyr) May and her family San Francisco Bay Area is great! relocated across the country this We live in San Jose and work in year as well and are thoroughly Palo Alto. The only down side of enjoying CA. things is being so far from Maine. It makes visits back to Hebron Bethanne (Robinson) Graustein more infrequent than I would writes, “Still living in North Con- like. If there are any Hebron way (NH) and enjoying all the people in the Bay Area, shoot me area has to offer. Kids are grow- an email.” ing up too fast. Hope everyone is having a happy New Year!” Our condolences to Nicole Chase and her family on the death of Meredith (Robinson) Hanby her mother and beloved Hebron shared, “After 14 years of faculty member Judy Chase. Read teaching, I decided to funnel my more about Judy on page 49. energies into my other passion. geoff campbell geoff Last March I became a certified enny Ridley (Agnew) ‘99 her house over the summer with Seen at Homecoming: Emily Rea strength coach and last July, I returned to Hebron in a field hockey stick to encour- opened Rohan Strength & Fit- JDecember 2013 to join age her interest in the sport, as ness, a full-service gym in Wind- the Admissions Office team well as the first day of 6th grade 1992 ham, ME.” as an Assistant Director of wandering the Hebron woods Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved Jessie urges the Class of 1995: “I Admission. From 2003-2006 and campus with Ms. Reedy with your class. Call or e-mail know more of you have had some Jenny taught Science in both performing tree identifications Beverly Roy: 207-966-5251, changes this year .. Let’s hear the Hebron Middle School and for science class. Throughout [email protected] them! Feel free to send me an Upper School in addition to her time at Hebron, Jenny was email at [email protected] or being resident dorm faculty a member of the Field Hockey connect on Facebook by search- and coach for field hockey, ice team, Girls’ Lacrosse team and 1993 ing for Hebron Academy Class of hockey and lacrosse. Hebron’s inaugural Girls’ Ice Class Agent: Marko Radosavljevic 1995.” Since 2006, Jenny earned an Hockey team. [email protected] M.S. in Physical Education and Of her new role at the Acad- Seen at Homecoming: Matt Health from Bridgewater State emy Jenny notes, “It’s exciting Johnson 1996 College and went on to work as to re-join the Hebron faculty Class Agent: Devon Biondi a Health Coach at Occupational and staff, to be meeting new th [email protected] Medical Consulting, LLC where and prospective families and 1994 20reunion Amanda Ring Milochick is a pro- in 2010 she transitioned into welcoming them to our com- Class Agent: gram manager at the Henry M. the role of Sales & Marketing munity.” She continues, “I’m Erica Litchfield Jackson Foundation, a division of Director, leading efforts to build particularly looking forward [email protected] the Department of Defense. worksite wellness programs to getting more involved in Time for our reunion! Congratulations to Sherry Whit- in corporations and hospi- working with alumni to be liai- Make plans to be at Hebron tals throughout the U.S. and sons between the school and temore Greenwald, who recently on October 24-25 for our 20th earned her Master’s in education- Internationally. She received families, as well as supporting reunion. If you plan to come al leadership from the University her Bachelors of Science from efforts to encourage more and let us know! of Southern Maine. the University of Vermont in more females to consider the Nutrition and Food Sciences boarding school opportunities Seen at Homecoming: Jamie with a concentration in Exercise that Hebron offers – athleti- 1995 Pitcher, Andy Stephenson Science and was a four-year cally, academically and artisti- Class Agent: Jessie Maher Parker member of UVM’s Women’s Ice cally.” [email protected] Hockey team. Jenny lives on the Hebron Jessie Parker writes, “This past 1997 Jenny is a graduate of both campus with her husband year was a huge year of change Class Agent Needed! the Hebron Middle School Corey Ridley, Hebron’s As- for me and my family .. we Find out how you can get involved and Upper School (Class of sistant Athletic Director and added my step-son full time and with your class. Call or e-mail Beverly Roy: 207-966-5251, 1999), and has many wonderful Athletic Trainer, and their young relocated the whole family across [email protected] Hebron memories including the twin boys Keegan and Mason. country to Sammamish, WA (a day that Ms. Guenther drove to Welcome back, Jenny! little town east of Seattle), so we
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Congratulations to Austin Stone- th braker and former Hebron arts 1999 15reunion 2000 faculty member Jen Lonergan who Class Agent: Class Agent: Erik Yingling were married in August 2013. Joe Patry [email protected] [email protected] Congratulations to Sara Simard Seen at Homecoming: Arica Time for our reunion! and Richard Reichenbach who Monahan Make plans to be at Hebron were married in October 2013. on October 24-25 for our 15th Read more about Sara’s USM reunion. If you plan to come coaching experience at left. 1998 let us know! Class Agent: Kirsten Ness Seen at Homecoming: Ben [email protected] Seen at Homecoming: Jenny Krauter Ridley Seen at Homecoming: Kate Belanger, Karen Cashman, Kirsten Ness 2001 Mallory Berman ‘03 (L) and Katie Curtis Class Agents: ‘02 (R) celebrate with newlywed Maren Jessica Takach Gilpatrick Worley ‘02 (center) at her wedding last [email protected] fall. Galen Wall Sara Simard ‘00 enjoying life as a head [email protected] coach and newlywed Jeff Quinlan and his wife Lesley welcomed their third child Con- hey met, appropriately, Professional Hockey League. nor Jeffrey in October. They are on their first recruiting They share the coaching already parents to Aiden and Ben Ttrip as assistant coach- responsibilities, including the and are living in St. John’s. es at their new schools. Richard recruiting. “If [an idea] pops up Emily (Garbarini) Petersen writes, Reichenbach was an assistant in the middle of the night, I’ll “Baby girl Emery Petersen joined coach for the SUNY-Cortland say, ‘What about this?” noted the Petersen family in May 2013, women’s ice hockey team and Sara, who played at Hebron and welcomed by her mom, dad and Sara Simard ‘00 was in her first appeared in two Frozen Fours in big sister Violet.” season at Dartmouth College. her four years at St. Lawrence Sara and Richard established University before playing a year Nick Bradley is living in Toronto an immediate connection over of pro hockey in Switzerland and working as a physiotherapist their shared love of hockey trying out for the Swiss National and is the offensive coordinator Maren Worley ‘02 (R ) and Ian Catolico and, after dating long-distance, team. with University of Toronto men’s wed last fall on the beach. joined each other at the Univer- Sara works with the forwards lacrosse team. sity of Maine (Orono). The two and Richard handles the defen- Our condolences to Larry 2003 began coaching together for the semen and goalies. But they will Bilodeau on the death of his Class Agent: Sara Marquis current season, were engaged also switch off. “We’re really father last June. [email protected] in September 2013, and mar- lucky. There’s no ego involved Congratulations to Kevin ried in October in what Richard between the two of us. I never DeSorbo and Hebron faculty claims was “the calmest wed- feel she’s stepping on my toes. 2002 member Renee Parry who were ding ever.” After the departure If she tells me she thinks I’m Class Agent: Katie Curtis married last June. of Head Coach Maria Lewis in wrong, I’m OK with it because I [email protected] Our condolences to Beth late October, Sara and Richard know she’s doing what she feels Maren Worley writes, “Things Bilodeau on the death of her became co-head coaches of the is best for the program,” admits have been great, but wow does father in June. UMaine women’s ice hockey Richard. time fly by! I finished my Master’s program. “We really push each other,” and did intelligence training for Seen at Homecoming: Karl They admit that they bring said Sara. “He’s not only my the military down in Texas, so it’s Augustin, Krista Clunie, Kevin their work home, but that’s husband, he’s one of the best been a whirlwind settling back in DeSorbo, Danielle Gagne, Nate fine by them. “We’ve always coaches I’ve ever worked with.” at home in North Carolina. I got Harmon, Sara Marquis, Rachel talked hockey. We have a deep Of her team she stated, “We en- married last fall at the beach to Sukeforth, Jordan Vallarelli passion for it. It has been a joy being around each other and Ian Catolico. It was great having big part of our lives since we we are growing and developing. Mallory Berman ’03 and Katie were young,” said Richard, who We’re going full steam ahead.” Curtis there. I saw Suzan Tug ’01 reunion captained the Hamilton College last year in Germany, and next - summer I will head there to see homecoming (N.Y.) hockey team and played A longer version of this article was her wedding. Hope everyone is weekend a year of professional hockey originally published in the November doing great.” for Richmond in the Southern 28 edition of the Bangor Daily News. Seen at Homecoming: James 2014 LeBlanc October 24-25
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the Lower US, CA); completed a solo winter Presidential traverse and a moonlight Presidential Rachael Cooper ‘08 conducts research in traverse (summer). We’re pretty impressed! Guatemala Jeff Sloat and wife Liisa achael Cooper ‘08, a founding member of Framingham welcomed baby Althea in August State University’s Aspiring Health Professionals Club, just 2013. It was great seeing the R graduated in January 2014 with minors in Neuroscience whole family at Homecoming last and Spanish. Her most significant achievement occurred last sum- fall! mer, when she traveled to Guatemala to conduct a professional research project approved and funded by the University. Seen at Homecoming: Randy “I learned not only scientific method, but also what goes on Morin, Beth Potvin, John behind the scenes of professional research,” Rachael says of her Slattery, Jeff Sloat experience developing the research grant proposal. “It’s been an invaluable experience.” Rachael’s summer-long research focused Kevin DeSorbo ‘03 wed Renee Parry, an on the prevalence of intestinal parasites and the effectiveness art teacher at the Middle School, last 2005 of an oral treatment. She worked with a non-profit organization June in Maine Class Agent: Tina Voigt called Partners in Development, who she interned with during [email protected] th summer 2012 after learning that they were building a lab in Gua- Seen at Homecoming: Kris temala. 10reunion 2004 Houle, Drew Laurie, Luke During her first trip to the country, Rachael met another stu- Class Agent: MacDonald, Simon Parent, dent from Yale University. The pair developed a close friendship John Slattery Louise Roy and collaborated on the research project when they returned this [email protected] past summer. Time for our reunion! Rachael says about 500 people from three different villages Make plans to be at Hebron 2006 participated in her research project. She analyzed levels of infec- on October 24-25 for our 10th Class Agent: Allison Coombs tion from a soil-transmitted parasitic worm, the prevalence of reunion. If you plan to come [email protected] infection and how people responded to treatment. Her project let us know! Molly Curtis is currently in required her to get approvals from the Guatemalan Ministry of John Slattery just celebrated his medical school at Tufts Univer- Health, local schools and parents. “It was the busiest summer four-year work anniversary as a sity School of Medicine/Maine I’ve ever had, squeezing all this research into three months,” she Major Gifts Officer for Hebron in Medical Center with an expected asserts. December. He’s looking forward graduation of May 2016. Way to Her results were presented at the University’s annual Biology to rallying classmates for their go, Molly! Conference in December. Rachael plans to attend medical school 10-year reunion this fall. Ben Jessome was recently elected and hopes to go into family medicine. She is also applying for a Carolyn Curtis writes, “I to the Nova Scotia Legislative Fulbright award, enabling her to perform more research. graduated from Smith School of Assembly, representing Ham- This article was originally published by Framingham State University Social Work with my MSW and monds Plains-Lucasville. Be sure Communications on December 11, 2013 now work at the Grove School, to read more about Ben in “Alum a therapeutic boarding school in Spotlight” on page 12. Madison, CT.” Seen at Homecoming: Kelley Dmytriy Naida stopped by campus to say hello while he picked up 2008 Dan McGinness urges his Hilton, Erik Rousseau Class Agents: classmates to check out his blog his brother, Pavel, a member of the Hebron class of 2014. Jen Duguay at DMOutdoors.blogspot.com. [email protected] He writes that he has “kept busy Dima will be in the Portland 2007 Annie Hart both winter and summer in the area representing Toyota sewing Class Agent: Noah Love machines as the manager of Feya [email protected] mountains of Maine and New [email protected] Hampshire. If you are interested Group. Jason Goodman After two years in Hebron’s [email protected] in trail information, my blog is Office of Admission, Seen at Homecoming: Dima Noah Congratulations to Rachael the place to find it.” Dan has kept moved to New York City Naida Love Cooper on her recent graduation busy hiking and mountaineering, last summer to work for eBay. accomplishing the following from Framingham State Univer- He’s living in Brooklyn with his sity. Read more about Rachael’s feats: completed NH’s 48 faithful dog Jack. 4,000-footers (3 Rounds since academic research above. Jan 9, 2011); completed NH’s 48 Sara Powers is enrolled at We love hearing from you! Please send news or contact updates to Seen at Homecoming: Rachael 4,000-footers in a single winter Harvard Medical School after Cooper, Ally Baribault, Jen season in 2012-2013; climbed finishing up a Fulbright year in your class agent or to Beverly Roy at [email protected]. Duguay, Andrea Hart, Charles Mt. Washington 16 times, 5 times France. Hiller, Katie Leyden, Shelly in winter; climbed Mt. Whitney March (Bolduc), Elizabeth (at 14,505’ it’s the highest peak in Weisberg, David Woods
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th 2009 Congratulations to Mary Randall, 2010 the boarding school experience. reunion5 who will be spending a year Chapters include content on Class Agents: teaching English in Germany Class Agents: Emma Leavitt specific topics pertaining to Claire Cummings [email protected] courtesy of the Fulbright the boarding school experience claireelizabethcummings@gmail. Emily Powers com Foundation. that are then addressed through [email protected] personal anecdotes, tips, Seen at Homecoming: Briana Sophia Chen Congratulations to Emily Powers suggestions, experiences, and Bisesti, Brett Bisesti, Kailey [email protected] on the success of Short Stories words of wisdom from current Bubier, Claire Cummings, Derek Time for our reunion! From My Hometown, which she or recently graduated boarding Gilbreth, Joshua Mosher Make plans to be at Hebron published at Bowdoin. Read more school students. Hundreds of on October 24-25 for our 5th on page 48. students from boarding schools reunion. If you plan to come across America submitted let us know! chapters for this book, and 2011 twenty-five were selected. Alicia’s Class Agent: Sophie Bartolomeo chapter is about what to pack for [email protected] boarding school. Congrats on a Maine native and Bowdoin senior terrific job. Seen at Homecoming: Andrew Emily Powers ‘10 pens Short Stories Burgess, Taylor Theriault Shane Hearn is in the midst of his From My Hometown sophomore season with the West Point Black Knights men’s hockey hat does it mean to live in Maine? Emily Powers ‘10, 2012 team. Recently Shane matched a currently a senior at Bowdoin College, explored that Class Agent: Max Middleton career-high two goals as Army question in a very personal way last summer as she [email protected] blanked Canisius, 2-0. Shane W was named MVP of the Hebron crafted a collection of short stories about Lewiston-Auburn, Eric Beaudette and his Cornell where she grew up. University classmates recently de- varsity squad his senior season. Powers’ Short Stories From My Hometown consists of fictional veloped an “electric vest – embed- Seen at Homecoming: Pier- works rooted in real-life local culture. For example, one of her ded with piezoelectric cells and Michel Lapointe, Max stories centers around recent fires that displaced many of the So- tiny motors – that gently massag- Middleton, Abby Small mali refugees who have increasingly sought asylum in Lewiston- es the back and shoulders, mim- Auburn. She also plans to write about the long-standing Franco- icking a human touch,” as part of American community that first settled in Lewiston-Auburn to work a project in his Fiber Science and 2013 Apparel Design program. in textile mills in the late 1800s. Class Agent: Katie Couture According to the Septem- The close coexistence of diverse groups in the area has [email protected] pushed Powers to think about “what constitutes being a Mainer,” ber 2013 feature article in the Cornell Chronicle, “Beaudette Terrific Homecoming 2013 turn- she said, versus someone “from away.” Another focal point of her and his teammate created another out – it’s as if they never left! project is representing a sense of place through writing. In her prototype [of the vest] using a story of a family trapped in an ice storm, for example, she builds a Roommates Mike Kelly and Sam combination of elastic and rigid Kinasewich not only lived togeth- narrative around Maine’s cold winter landscape. fabrics to better accommodate Moving beyond written resources and her own experiences as er in their senior year but also body movement and a wide range played together for six seasons as a Mainer, Powers has been carrying out original research, inter- of sizes. A built-in neoprene panel golfers, hockey and baseball play- viewing community members to hear their personal perspectives muffles motor noise and acts as ers. Both have continued in col- on living in Maine. When asking people to delve into their pasts, a buffer against chafing from lege. Sam played his way onto the she is careful to balance her quest for information with sensitivity. technical parts.” University of New England team When interviewing officials, on the other hand, she has learned The ground-breaking garment where he posted the low team the importance of pushing past standard responses focused on earned Eric and his peers one score on three occasions. Sam numbers and logistics. of two $10,000 Innovation was at the glass at the UNE arena Working with Bowdoin Professor of English Brock Clarke, Pow- Awards from Cornell’s School to watch his Hebron roomie Mike ers is funded by a Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Research of Electrical and Computer play in his first game for Norwich Fellowship. Though the stories she is writing are fictional, Emily Engineering last spring. University earlier this winter. feels that the distinction is blurred between fiction and one’s own Congratulations, Eric! Mike scored his first collegiate experiences. Alicia Schultz contributed a piece goal to break a second period tie “Even if you’re writing stories about families that have no rela- to the Boarding School Survival and help Norwich to continue an tion to your own, you’re still writing about characters who are bits Guide. The Guide seeks to help early undefeated record. Con- and pieces of people you know, about places you can describe students better understand and gratulations to both! and things that you find interesting or meaningful,” She says. “All navigate boarding school. The We were thrilled to see Thiago of that has to do with your personal life and your perspective. My book is written by students Tose, Ryan Hallice, Dan Warner writing is an intertwined mesh of me and outside sources.” for students to help future and and several other young alums This article was originally published by the Bowdoin Daily Sun on August current boarding school students come support the boys’ varsity 8, 2013 better understand and navigate soccer team this past season in
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Austin Stonebraker ’97 and Jen Lonergan were married in August 2013 in Maine. Jake Leyden and Liz (Yale-Loehr) Leyden welcomed a daughter Madeline Alexandra, born in September 2013. And yes, that makes Mrs. Beverly Leyden a great-grandmother! Peter Crumlish was named ex- Baby Oriza was born last August to Dr. ecutive director of Dwight Hall Daniella Swenton of the Science Depart- at Yale University, a center for ment and her husband Travis Brennan. public service and social justice. Dwight Hall’s focus is on foster- ing civic-minded student lead- Thiago Tose ’13 (L ) and Ryan Hallice ’13 (R) support Marco Kloster ’14 (center) last fall at the varsity boys’ soccer New England semifinal in Worcester, MA. ers and promoting service and activism. George Helwig (1948-1959) writes of the 2013 Homecoming- Reunion Weekend, “One of my reasons for coming was to see Bruce Gardner, who was inducted into Hebron’s Athletic Hall of Fame. What a great choice! He took over ice hockey when Ladd MacMillan went to St. Marks and did a fine job…also taught French. I believe he had been on an Olympic Ice Hockey team. His wife, Audrey, had the forethought to start Hebron’s post-war (L-R): Pat Shelley ’13, Sam Kinasewich ’13 and Mike Kelly ’13 stopped by on Home- coming Weekend 2013 to cheer on the ‘Jacks. reopening first art classes in a couple of dank basement rooms in the School Building. I recall my the New England semifinal vs. Current Faculty five-year-old daughter (now 60!) Millbrook (photo above), their “sitting” for her budding stu- and third consecutive NEPSAC tour- Kevin Desorbo’03 Renee dents.” See photos from the 2013 nament appearance under Head Parry were married last June in Athletic Hall of Fame Ceremony Coach Kurt Swanbeck. Maine. on page 9. Hannah Hearn is having a terrific Katie Coyne and Casey Ftorek Frank Pergolizzi is enjoying his freshman year at Colby and re- were married last August in New Jenni Flynn (photo above) joined Bill role as new Athletic Director cently finished her rookie season Hampshire. Flynn and Janet Littlefield’s family at Husson University (Bangor), with the Women’s Field Hockey last summer from Malawi. Bill and Janet co-direct the Academic Guidance where Elijah Moreshead ’13, Ray team. Read more about Hannah’s Center. They also welcomed baby Eli last Rawls ’13 and Obie Christmas success on page 55. November. ’13 are playing football. Frank’s first teaching and coaching job Seen at Homecoming: Robbie Daniella Swenton and hus- out of college was at Hebron, Berube, Haley Bisson, Molly band Travis Brennan welcomed Bloomingdale, Matt Bouchard, where he was the head football daughter Oriza Zofia Brennan in and basketball coach. Congratu- Obie Christmas, Ryan Hallice, August 2013. Josh Hews, Mike Kelly, Sam lations, Frank! Kinasewich, Abby Kinens, Kale Bill Flynn and Janet Littlefield Seen at Homecoming: Annette Johnstone, Elijah Moreshead, had a very busy 2013. They wel- Clough, Bruce Gardner, Bev Sydney Randall, Ray Rawls, Pat comed six-year-old Jenni Flynn Leyden, Jack Leyden, Julie Shelley, Brad Spurr, Tiago Tose, into their growing family last Leyden, Susan Stephenson, Dan Warner summer from Malawi, and son Dwight Wilder Eli Alexander Flynn was born in Friends November 2013. Seen at Homecoming: Dr. Lawrence Murch We love hearing from you! Please Faculty members Katie Ftorek (Coyne, L) send news or contact updates to and Casey Ftorek (R), who met at Hebron, Trustees your class agent or to Beverly Roy wed last August in New Hampshire. The Past Faculty Seen at Homecoming: Rick at [email protected]. two teach in the history and psychology Amy Briesch and Christopher Bennett, Wally Higgins departments and coach hockey. Ayers were married in July 2013 Former Students in New Mexico. Seen at Homecoming: Kali Flaherty ‘16, Josh Griffin ‘16 48 • hebron • school year 13-14 reunion-homecoming weekend 2014 is october 24-25! alumni et alumnae obituaries
Remembering Judy Chase By Dave Stonebraker
or Judy Chase, family was the center. She came to tea with Eleanor Allen, discussing town and school happen- Hebron in 1972, a young mother setting out to make ings and perhaps planning an activity for the Ladies’ Circle of Fa home with her devoted husband and new history the Community Church. She remained active with the Ladies’ teacher Bill and to make herself useful in the close Hebron Circle for years, fostering their commitment to “looking out” community. While there may not have been the intent to make for others in the community. They embodied for her the “es- a professional career of the Academy, Judy quietly touched sence of the town,” independent and professional women who the lives of many through her work as administrative assis- also looked after the Academy students. At a time when formal tant, through her support of the Hebron Community Church international programs had yet to begin, the Ladies’ Circle took and its programs, through her children Julie, Class of 1985, the Academy’s international students under their broad and and Nicole, Class of 1991, during their school years, and most mothering wings. Judy continued to support the community recently through her welcoming presence as the receptionist church throughout her time at Hebron, proud of her efforts of the Admissions Office. Judy succumbed to cancer this past to shepherd critical grants for important renovations. While December, a loss to all of the Hebron family. she worked quietly and behind the scenes to create a stable Judy first remembered becoming the corresponding sec- financial foundation for the church, she also loved the holiday retary for retired Headmaster Claude Allen, handling his season, the time when the chancel was softly lit with candles dictated correspondence on campus, taking it to Paris Hill for and banked with firs, and the pews filled with family and signatures, then sitting to begin another round of Mr. Allen’s friends. Then, two focuses of her life were realized in the joyful dictation. She remembered Mr. Allen as a most energetic cor- music of the season from a choir including her daughters and respondent who kept in touch with so many young men over in the shared presence of her family. the years. After a session of correspondence, Judy would have For more than twenty years, Judy served the Academy as the receptionist for the Admissions Office. There she greeted each new student and family visiting the school, making each feel a part of her family. She recalled that the best part was meeting the young people and making a first impression with her own personal touch. Colleagues, enrolled students, and visitors - not only families considering Hebron for admission - will point to Judy’s characteristic warmth, a personification of the Academy environment as a whole. In 2011, Judy and Bill were celebrated by their friends and colleagues, and they happily anticipated retirement to their lakefront home in West Gardner, Maine. There they pictured the possibility of a new life of church and civic groups, volun- teering and travel. Their life focus of family and service would find a new locale with new opportunities. But such was not to be, and fighting disease became their new focus. Still, with Bill at her side, Judy remained positive about the future, main- tained contact with her Hebron friends and contemplated a long-deferred river trip on the Danube. tannery hill studios hill tannery th Judy (center) with daughters Nicole ’91 and Julie ’85 at the 2010 retirement Judy succumbed to cancer on December 19 . Hers was the celebration for the Chases and Founds. joy of family, and her family included us all.
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Vincent G. Fitzpatrick ’32 passed to thank everyone at Hibbard Henry “Harry” C. McKee ‘41 of tions, he served as chairman away peacefully on Tuesday, July Nursing Home, especially the West Harwich, MA and formerly of the Board of Finance for the 23, 2013 at the Epoch Assisted special care unit. of Hingham, MA died Monday, City of Lewiston, member of the Living in Norton, MA. Born in November 4, 2013. He was the Board of Trustees for the Lewis- of Dover, Walpole, MA in 1911, he was a Joseph R. Wallace ’39 devoted husband of Virginia ton Public Library, chairman of died on October 19, 2013 in lifelong resident until 2007. Vin- (Haley) McKee. Harry was born the Maine State Commission on Natick, MA. He was 92 years cent celebrated his 102nd Birth- in Hingham, September 28, 1921. the Arts and Humanities, Maine old. Mr. Wallace was born in day July 11, 2013 with mental He attended Hingham schools representative to the National New Haven, CT. He was a faculties intact. After graduating and graduated from Hebron Assembly of State Arts Agen- graduate of Hebron Academy and from Dartmouth College in 1936, Academy before enlisting in the cies and member of the Federal Colby College. He was elected he started what would be his life’s Navy in April, 1939. During Study Committee to the National captain of the 1943 Colby hockey career at the Kendall Company World War II, Henry was a naval Endowment for the Arts. and golf teams. In his junior year in Walpole, MA. Beloved hus- aviator assigned to the TMB-3E In a distinguished legal career he was named captain of the band of the late Barbara (Cole) Avenger aircraft as a bomber lasting more than 60 years, Phil All-New England Intercollegiate Fitzpatrick, he is survived by two pilot. Following service for his worked in private practice in League Hockey Team, the year he daughters, one son, six grandchil- country, Henry attended Suf- Lewiston. After graduating law set a new league scoring record, dren, twelve great-grandchildren, folk University. He later joined school in 1950, he joined his previously shared by Ray Chais- and one great-great grandchild. the family business in Hingham, father in the firm of Isaacson & son of Boston College and John McKees Moving and Storage, and Isaacson, later renamed Isaacson, , 94, the Chambers of Boston University. C. Eastman Sawyer ’37 remained its president until his Hark & Epstein, and worked husband of Roberta (Curran) He served two years in the U.S. retirement to Cape Cod. Henry from 1986 until his death at the Sawyer, died peacefully April 20, Army Signal Corps during World was predeceased by his first wife, successor firm of Isaacson & 2013, at Hibbard Nursing Home, War II. Mr. Wallace was a Senior Patricia (McHugh) McKee. He Raymond. Although he had a Dover-Foxcroft, after an ex- Vice President, Partner and leaves three sons, Mark and wife broad knowledge of the law and tended illness. He was born Nov. Director of Harold Cabot & Co., Barbara, Gregory and wife Elise, represented clients from all walks 29, 1918, in Corinth, the son of Inc. He served a term as Director Richard and wife Mary. Henry of life, he concentrated his prac- Walter and Gertrude (Yeaton) of the American Association of was a grandfather to Colin and tice in business, and real estate Sawyer. Advertising Agencies. He had a wife Annie, John Henry and transactions and estate planning. He attended Hebron Academy great interest in golf. Mr. Wallace wife Lindsey, Nicholas, Gaelen, He traveled extensively, visit- and Husson College and then has been a member of Charles Mikala, Brendon, Conor and ing places as Mali, Nepal, Iran found employment in the Penta- River Country Club since 1953 Caitlin. and Pakistan, as well as dozens of gon. At the start of World War II and served as president of Charles more commonly visited destina- he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air River in 1968 and 1969. He was passed away Philip Isaacson ’42 tions. He loved spending time in Corps and was stationed in India a member of the Massachusetts on June 20, 2013 at the age of 89. the mountains, both skiing and for two years flying supplies to Golf Association Executive Com- Phil was born June 16, 1924, in hiking. Sugarloaf, Sunday River, China. On returning home, he mittee from 1986-1997. He was Lewiston, ME, to Harris Meyer Aspen and Vail were favorite became credit manager at Eastern particularly proud of shooting Isaacson and Goldie Resnick destinations, and he celebrated Maine General Hospital where his age for the first time during Isaacson. He graduated from his 85th birthday by climbing he was employed for 25 years. He his 71st year. Mr. Wallace’s wife Hebron Academy, Bates College Mt. Washington with 11 family was an avid golfer and a mem- and the love of his life, Jacquelyn (Phi Beta Kappa), and Harvard members. He also trekked to the ber of Kenduskeag Valley Golf (Nerney) Wallace, passed away in Law School, and he served as an base of Mt. Everest and climbed Course for more than 40 years. 1992. He leaves his three beloved officer in the U.S. Navy during Mount Rainier. He was a 30-year member of daughters, Jacey MacAlpine of World War II. He received honor- In 1952, he married the former Corinth Lion’s Club and a trustee Yarmouthport, Tara Wallace ary doctorates from Bates College Deborah Rosen, who predeceased of East Corinth Academy. Follow- Steen of Walpole and J.W. of Do- and Bowdoin College. him. Survivors include his very ing his retirement in 1979 he and ver, five grandchildren, and five He was a prolific photogra- dear friend, Mary Hatch; his his wife spent the next 28 years great-grandchildren. He is also pher, primarily of architecture, children, Elizabeth Isaacson and wintering in Zephyrhills, FL., and survived by his sister-in-law, Pa- and wrote three well-regarded her husband, Steven Triedman, returning summers to their camp tricia McKay of Fort Myers, FL. books on art and architecture, Thomas Isaacson and his partner, on Big Pushaw Lake. While in two of which featured his pho- , age 91 of Anne Watson, and John Isaacson Florida, Eastman was very active Robert Sanders ‘41 tographs: The American Eagle; Glen Ellyn, IL passed away on and his wife, Linda Isaacson; his in the Bet Mar Community. Round Buildings, Square Build- October 12, 2013. He was the grandchildren, Andrew Lefebvre, Surviving in addition to his ings, and Buildings that Wiggle beloved husband of the late Janis Sarah Lefebvre, Julia Isaacson wife of 64 years; are daughter, Ja- Like a Fish; and A Walk Around M. nee Paecht and loving father and Jacob Isaacson; his sister, net Sawyer and husband, Dwain the Pyramids and Through the of Patricia Ann Sanders, Jeffrey Marilyn I. Simonds; three nieces; Allen, of Dover-Foxcroft; son, World of Art. He was devoted to L. (Karen) Sanders, Leslie E. and two nephews. Thomas Sawyer and wife, Angel, supporting the arts community (Richard) Rheingruber and the of Corinth; three grandchildren, in Maine and authored a regular Ernest “Rod” W. Rodrigues ’47, late Michael Sanders. He was the Michelle Sawyer-Houle and column in the Maine Sunday 84, passed away Tuesday, April proud grandfather of 6 and great husband, Patrick, of Morrisville, Telegram reviewing Maine art 23, 2013. Rod was born July 26, grandfather of 2. Memorials in Vt., John Sawyer of Gardiner exhibits. The Maine Times named 1928 in Mount Kisco, New York. Robert’s name may be addressed and Matthew Sawyer of Corinth; him Maine’s most cultured man. He graduated from the University to Hebron Academy Class of and great-grandson, Desmond Phil was committed to public of Miami in 1953. In September 1941, Hebron Annual Fund, P.O. Sawyer-Houle. The family wishes service. Among his many posi- 1953, Rod married Mary Ann Box 309 Hebron, Maine 04238 . 50 • hebron • school year 13-14 alumni et alumnae
Varga. In 2013 they were going Jim went on to practice law in Gary Umphrey ‘50 of Singer He was always a source of to celebrate their 60th wedding association with several local Island, FL, went to be with his warmth, peace, reassurance, anniversary. Rod served in the attorneys, including Robert C. Heavenly Father and Savior on and interest in his beloved fam- U.S. Air Force as a Crypto Secu- Robinson with whom he founded November 14, 2013 after a long ily which survive him. They rity Officer 5th Air Force during the firm Robinson, Kriger & Mc- battle with multiple sclerosis. include his sister, the Rev. Mary the Korean War. He had been Callum along with John McCal- He was born in Washburn, ME B. Johnstone and brother-in- employed by the Reader’s Digest lum. In his practice Jim traveled and attended Hebron Academy law Robert L. Johnstone, III of in Pleasantville, NY. He became frequently to Aroostook County and the University of Miami. He Newport RI, and three nephews: the president of a unit of General and became close friends with served in the United States Army. Stuart, Drake and Peter John- Signal Corporation and left there many of the County attorneys. He was an avid athlete and he stone along with three great to form his own company, Deci- He enjoyed canoe trips on the loved books. He worked as a nephews, Nick, Hunter & Ford sion Concepts Information Inc, Allagash, ski trips to Quebec builder and real estate broker. He Johnstone and a great niece, India a management consultant firm and the annual Aroostook Bar is survived by his devoted wife Johnstone. He will be missed by which he ran until his retirement. picnic. He was made an honor- of 57 years Kathryn, son Kevin, many good friends. Rod was a member of the Met- ary member of that group and daughter-in-law Cindy, grand- ropolitan Club, New York City, had always considered himself a daughter Kitty, brother Jasper, Moselem Golf Club, Fleetwood, “County boy.” Jim was a member and many nieces and nephews. PA, and Marsh Landing Country of Temple Beth El, the Maine Bar Chisolm C. McAvoy ’50 - Farewell, Club, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, and Association and a volunteer with a former member of Whippoor- Chisolm McAvoy, intellectual, ad- Pine Tree Legal and volunteered venturer, El Toro sailor, Wednes- will Country Club in Armonk, at St. Vincent’s soup kitchen NY. He is survived by his loving day Group bicycler, Washington along with his friend and partner Canoe Club kayaker and loyal wife of more than 60 years years, Bob Robinson. Mary Ann Rodrigues, his son, Washington DC sports fan with Jim is survived by Barbara, his and a deep love of people from all William E. Rodrigues ’73 wife of 58 years; his three sons, predeceased by his son, walks of life whom he was privi- David M. Andrew of Cape Elizabeth, Samu- Rodrigues ’75. leged to meet driving his Yellow el and his wife, Karen, of Norway, Cab. Born in New York City in James “Jim” S. Kriger ’49 died and David of Tallahassee, FL. 1932, Chisholm was the son of unexpectedly at Southern Maine He is also survived by his loving New York City mayoral candi- Medical Center on Friday, Oc- grandchildren, Lindsey, Shannon, date, Clifford T. McAvoy, and tober 18, 2013. He had been a William, Rachel, and Jared; and WGMS “Capitol Shopping Time” Lt. Col. William “Bill” H. Dunning resident at the Monarch Center his sister, Irma Volk of New York host, Frances Boardman Chisolm ’54 (photo above) was born in in Saco since June 2013. Jim was and her children, Shelley and Jeff. Land. A resident of Washington March, 1935 in Gorham, ME and born March 9, 1931, in Portland, DC for more than 70 years, he died August 3, 2013 in New- , of Hanover, ME, the son of the late Lewis Richard Fowler ‘50 died at home September 25, 2013, castle, ME. NH, died at his home on May 10, H. Kriger and Gertrude Seiger watched over by his faithful pug He is survived by his wife of 2013, at the age of 81 from colon Kriger. dog Coco. After attending Wood- more than 55 years, Carol Adams cancer. He was born in Boston Jim went to Deering High in 1931, and educated at The row Wilson HS, Hebron Academy Dunning; daughters, Christina School for his senior year and Roxbury Latin School, Hebron and Wesleyan University, he grad- D. Morrill and Sarah D. Buck; graduated in 1948. He then went Academy, and Dartmouth Col- uated in the Class of 1956 from sons, William H. Dunning Jr. and to Hebron Academy for a year lege, Class of 1954. He ran the George Washington University. Raymond M. Dunning II; grand- before entering the University Dartmouth Co-operative Society, He later survived a plane crash in children, Sarah Morrill, Benjamin of Maine at Orono, from which a family business in Hanover, and the South China Sea while travel- Dunning, Erin Dunning, Tyler he graduated with a business enjoyed summers at his home at ing around the world. Buck, Emily Buck; and his sisters, degree in 1953. Immediately upon Little Boar’s Head, NH and Lake Nephew Peter said it best, Donna Mendoza and Gloria graduation he was drafted into Fairlee, VT. He leaves his wife “Always quick with a smile, al- Brown. the U.S. Army and was stationed Barbara H. Veghte of Piermont, ways kind and gentle, his sense of After graduating from the at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C. NH, whom he married in 1989, exploration, and fun are lifelong United States Military Academy While there he was introduced and her children Bill Veghte and lessons that I will never forget. at West Point, Bill joined the U.S. by a mutual friend to Barbara Elizabeth Veghte MaCaffray and “Uncle Chis” could light up any Air Force and attended the Office Karesh, a local resident. A year their families, both of California. day and any activity and turn it of Special Investigations School after they met, they were married He also leaves three daughters into an ‘adventure’, whether days and then the Defense Language in Columbia on June 12, 1955, as from his first marriage, Ann on a sailboat, hiking remote parts Institute. With his language skills, soon as he was discharged from Stevens of Freeport, ME, Joan of Little Cranberry or Bakers his assignments rotated between the service. On their return to Sullivan of Basking Ridge, NJ, Island, a climb up Sargent Moun- Turkey and Washington, D.C. Maine from their honeymoon, and Lucy Fowler Williams of tain, or early mornings as ‘stern His assignments were interrupted they settled in South Portland, Havertown, PA, and their fami- men’ on local lobster boats. In only by a 1970 tour in Vietnam, where they have lived since. Jim lies, as well as his first wife, Joan his late 60’s, we double-trapezed during which he was awarded the went into business with his father Piane Fowler, of Hanover, whom on a 14 foot sailing dinghy while Bronze Star. Ending his 22-year on Portland Pier and decided to he married in 1954, and two sis- setting an asymmetric spinnaker. military career in Ankara, Tur- go to law school at the University ters, Clara Mixter of Exeter, NH, In his 70’s he wanted to sail the key, he then worked in security of Maine, School of Law and and Susan Boies, of Little Boar’s 18HT catamaran and with both and labor relations for Boeing graduated from there in 1963. Head, NH. of us on the wire, pitch-poled.” Services.
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Upon returning to the U.S., he make a new friend and always William R. Davis ’74, age 57, Nancy was a wonderful wife, settled in his hometown of New- seemed to find that hidden gem passed away October 31, 2013. loving mother, supportive sister castle, where he became active or restaurant we had to visit. William - Bill to his many friends, and an exemplary daughter. She in local politics. He participated Rick was a foodie-always know- Billy to family - was born March was also a successful entrepre- in numerous town committees, ing about all the new restaurant 5, 1956, to Richard and Christina neur. Nancy owned several busi- served as Newcastle’s First Select- openings in town, wanting to be Davis in Boston, MA; played nesses in the auto, housing, and man from 1985 to 1992, was one of the first to check it out for football, hockey and lacrosse for gardening industries. former Lincoln County Repub- himself-and make friends with Hebron Academy; grabbed an op- Nancy is survived by her lov- lican Chairman during the late the staff. He was San Rafael’s portunity to work on the Trans- ing husband Stewart and devoted 1990s and was active with the unofficial mayor and an avid Cal Alaska pipeline; and then settled sons Parker and Dylan, her father Newcastle Historical Society. He Bears football fan. With Rick, it and worked for most of his adult Frank, and her brothers Scott and was a member of The Knights was always “Movember.” Loyal life in southern New Hampshire, Mark and the niece and nephews of Columbus. Most gratifying to a fault, ever generous, and a including most recently at Budel she adored, Demetri, Emily, and to him were his 20-plus years par- good friend. Rick was a Bay Area Construction. Bill loved to fish, Devon. She will be greatly missed ticipating in The People to People boy, born in San Francisco, CA enjoyed carpentry and (like his by her many friends and especial- Thanksgiving Day Baskets. Bill on March 14, 1946, the only son father) was an avid gardener and ly her pets: Maggie, Rex, Bucket, was an avid “catch and release” of Luci and Dick Bronson. He cook. Minni, Whirley, and Juliette. She fisherman and enjoyed many graduated from Town School as Survivors include his beloved was predeceased by her mother hours on both Damariscotta Lake a boy, then Hebron Academy, daughter Madeleine Davis, of Ep- Joan, sister Susan, aunt Blanche, and Big Lake. Occidental College, and Hast- som; his mother Christina Davis; sister-in-law Mary and many ings College of the Law. Rick is father and stepmother Richard beloved pets. Nancy illuminated
Richard “Rick” Bronson ’65 survived by his daughter Sylvia and Jean Davis; wife, Julie Davis; every life she touched. passed away in October 2013. He Mason, son-in-law David Mason two sisters, Elizabeth Davis of was a generous, fun-loving and and granddaughter Lucy Mason. Dover and Barbara Davis (hus- Michael Edward Given ‘88, 43, of gregarious man and a wonderful They live in his old stomping band Tom Starnes) of Washing- Bath, ME passed away unexpect- friend and father. We laughed grounds of San Rafael, CA. He ton, D.C.; and many nieces, neph- edly while traveling in Yoko- (a lot) together, we cried, we is much loved and will always be ews and cousins, all of whom will hama, Japan. told stories and sat late into the remembered by his friends and miss him very much. Born in Lewiston on June 27, night. Rick lived life to the full- family. 1970, he attended Lewiston High est, giving himself over to each Nancy Galos Safford ’81, age 49, School and graduated from He- moment as a student of life-with James E. Creighton II ’73, age 58, of Fort Myers, FL and Ken- bron Academy. Michael contin- lots of questions and conversa- passed away on August 22, 2012, nebunk, ME passed away unex- ued on to receive his B.S. degree tion, attention and gusto. We at his home in Webster, MA. He pectedly on September 1, 2013. in business from the University of will miss him a lot, our friend leaves his wife of more than 30 Nancy was born on September Maine at Orono, where he was Rick, because above all he was a years, Dorothy I. (Guerin) Creigh- 25, 1963 in Portland, ME. It is active in the fraternity Tau Kappa human being. Rick was a student ton of Webster; a son, James in Maine where she developed Epsilon. He graduated in 1995. of life-he had infinite curiosity E. Creighton III of Lubbock, her love for the ocean, the lakes, During this time, he spent sum- about history, current events, and Texas; several uncles and cousins. and the woods. She graduated mers working in Bar Harbor, and most of all-people. He adored James was born in Maine, son of from Hebron Academy and then hiked and biked most of the trails traveling to foreign countries, the late James E. and Gertrude received a Bachelor of Science at Acadia National Park. sampling the delights, and find- (McKinnon) Creighton and lived degree in communications from For a short time, he worked ing a place to settle in and get to in North Oxford before moving the University of Denver. in the family video distribution know the locals. He was a true to Webster twenty-five years ago. Her joy came from the family business. Michael enjoyed work- storyteller, building trust almost He was self-employed, own- she created with Stewart. She ing with his hands and spent the immediately, and getting to know ing and operating Coordinated adored her children and relished majority of his career as a skilled us better than we knew ourselves, Control Systems. He was an avid their time together doing every- carpenter, including building but without judgment. He would boater. thing from home work to water several homes in the Portland skiing. Nancy was kind – to area, building the family house You Guessed It everyone. Her smile exuded light on Range Pond and renovating and love. Her words were always his own home in Bath. Michael caring and meaningful. She loved spent two years in Spain teaching her family, her friends and the English to professionals. water. She was the first person to He began traveling while in high hop on a jet ski or suggest a day school, spending two summers at the beach. She found her peace exploring countries throughout in Bokeelia and at the lake house Europe with the family’s former on Sebago. Danish exchange student. Later, Nancy was known for her he traveled with family or friends compassionate heart. She was throughout the United States, a founding member of the Fort Iceland, Europe, Africa, Canada, Myers Animal Refuge Center. Bermuda and New Zealand to From Then and Now: The Ski Hill (page 17) Helping abandoned animals was hike, ski and meet new friends. her passion. Site of the Ski Hill and Jump today, on the East Hebron Road, just east of the Hebron Community Church.
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He was a lifelong outdoor on Thursday, December 19, 2013. Admissions. George was very proud of enthusiast and an Eagle Scout. He Judy was Hebron’s beloved Drawn by a deep attachment his five years of service to our played baseball and soccer in his Admissions Office Manager for to Maine’s people and natural country during World War II as a youth, and continued his love of more than three decades and was beauty, Bob and his wife Margot Classifying & Assigning person- sports as an avid New England an active member of the Hebron moved in 1973 to Hebron, where nel specialist. Bowdoin College sports fan and World Cup soccer. Community Baptist Church. Her they taught at Hebron Academy. was his next adventure where He hiked along the Appalachian generosity of time and spirit, her During the 1990s he worked he completed a four-year college Trail, canoed on the Allagash energy, her wise counsel and her as an organic chemist at the degree in two years graduating and kayaked along the coast of abundance of love will be sorely Foundation for Blood Research in cum laude with a BS in Philoso- Maine. He was a great, young ski missed by her former colleagues Scarborough and at Binax, Inc. in phy. While at Bowdoin College, racer and later enjoyed ski trips and her family. Portland, before forming his own George also had the responsibility throughout the United States. She was predeceased by her consultancy, Synthetic Colloids, and pleasure of being the college He was the beloved uncle of parents, Rosario G. Cloutier Sr. LLC. organist. He was self-employed as his two nieces, who adored him and Juliette Vigue Cloutier, and He is survived by his wife of a teacher of piano and organ and and he could bring a smile and is survived by her husband of 48 44 years, Margot Siekman (nee also spent many years teaching at laughter that no one else could. years, William B. Chase, longtime Butterfield); daughter Elizabeth USM in Gorham and at Hebron He created room makeovers for Hebron History Department ‘Betsy’ Graves of Portland, son Academy. them with his carpentry and de- chair and yearbook editor; broth- Robert Matthew ‘Matt’ Siekman George was greatly respected sign skills, and most importantly ers, Norman Cloutier, Rosario and his partner Andrea Bento of by his fellow peers for his knowl- shared time with them, keeping Cloutier Jr. and Paul Cloutier; Portland, ME son Daniel Mc- edge and skills as an organist and up on all their current activities daughters, Juliet “Julie” Chase Neil Siekman of Beijing, China; choir director. Every day in the and creating an everlasting bond. Bailey ’85 and Nicole Chase ‘91, sister and brother-in-law, Ann Whitney household was enjoyed Michael will be lovingly re- both graduates of Hebron Acad- Siekman and Roger Crockett of by George sharing his passion membered by his parents, Edward emy; and granddaughter, Sophia Hebron, ME, sister and brother- and professionalism in the area and Madelyn Given of Poland; his Chase Bailey. Read more about in-law Jane and Phillip Spencer of of classical music. He was church sister, Heather G. Bell; brother- Judy’s tremendous contributions Cassopolis, MI.; and two grand- organist at numerous churches in-law, Scott Bell; and his beloved to the Hebron community in a children, Jackson and Benjamin. in the area over the years includ- nieces, Morgan, 10, and Madi- tribute by Dave Stonebraker on ing Trinity Episcopal Church in son, 7, of Newton, N.H. Michael page 49. George L. Whitney, 96, of Port- Portland, St. Mary’s the Virgin in will also be forever remembered In lieu of flowers, the family land, ME was called home by our Falmouth, State Street Church in by his many dear friends. asks for donations to the Massa- Lord unexpectedly on August Portland, Holy Martyrs Church chusetts General Hospital Cancer 9, 2013 with his family by his in Falmouth and Holy Family Care Center, 55 Fruit Street, side. He was born July 25, 1917 Church in Lisbon Falls. He was Past Faculty Boston, MA 02114. the son of Albert and Mildred predeceased by a brother, General Fuller Whitney, of Revere Street, Edwin F. Whitney, and a sister, Robert “Bob” William Siekman, Portland. George met the love of Barbara Anne Whitney. Surviving an organic chemist and chemistry his life at St. Mary’s Church in are his loving wife of more than teacher, died at his home in Buck- Falmouth where he was organist. 60 years, Dorothy Whitney; sons, field, ME on Friday, October 5, At the time Dorothy Merrill sang Timothy Whitney and Thomas 2012, at age 74, following a long in the church choir, and the two Whitney; grandson, Alexan- illness. The cause was pulmonary married in 1951. der Whitney and wife Shaunna fibrosis. Over the years George made Whitney; and nephew Kenneth C. Born in South Bend, IN on numerous appearances at the Whitney and wife Judith Harper January 13, 1938, he gradu- Merrill Auditorium as the fea- of New York. ated from South Bend Central tured artist performing on the High School in 1956 and from Kotzschmar organ. Two books the University of Pennsylvania written on the history on this fa- Please send edits or corrections in 1960. In 1965, he earned a mous organ recognized his contri- to [email protected]. We Ph.D. in organic chemistry from butions as a gifted musician. He apologize for any misinformation. the Massachusetts Institute was a member of the American of Technology, where he then Guild of Organists where he had
tannery hill studios hill tannery worked as a postdoctoral fellow. a stage presence in Denver, CO In 1966 he joined the faculty of at the AGO national convention. Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon His higher education included Judith Amanda Chase, née University as Assistant Professor Guimond Organ School in New Cloutier, of West Gardiner, ME of Organic Chemistry. He later York City where he graduated passed away at Massachusetts served as Carnegie Mellon’s Dean 2nd in his class. Upon graduating, General Hospital in Boston, MA of Freshmen and as Director of he was drafted into the army.
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54 • hebron • school year 13-14 summer workout for field hockey six days a week. Every other day, I was in the Hebron Athletic Center working with Mr. Ridley, Hebron’s Athletic Trainer. I had never lifted before, but Mr. Ridley was able to help me to learn the technique and tactics. We worked on tempo exercises and plyometrics to build up my stamina for fall testing. I was nervous that I wasn’t going to be able to compete with my new teammates, but thanks to the workouts, I stepping made it.” “Living in the dorm a few nights a week at Hebron last year as proctor helped me to adjust to Up college. I learned to balance my Hannah Hearn ’13, time with homework and practice plays at Colby College at Hebron. Field hockey has definitely helped me to manage my time well and has forced me not to procrastinate.”
Such would be expected of Hannah. The work ethic that made her successful at Hebron, winner of the Risman Honor Award to distinguish a member of the Senior Class “for diligence of academic accomplishment and determination in athletic endeavor,” Hannah was co-captain of the Hebron field hockey team and earned All-League nods her senior season in 2012. would carry on to Colby. She is taking a balance of science and humanities courses and planning to major in either Spanish or hen we caught up with Hannah Latin American Studies with an eventual Hearn ‘13 at a Colby-Bowdoin goal of training to become a physician’s Wfield hockey game last fall, the assistant. For Hannah, learning at Hebron to color of her kilt had changed from green to balance the demands of school and sport has blue, but the tenacious play and broad smile been key to success at Colby. “Living in the continued as strong as ever. Hannah’s team dorm a few nights a week at Hebron last year would fall to a strong Bowdoin team that day as proctor helped me to adjust to college. I but would close out its season in the next learned to balance my time with homework game, defeating Bates 2 - 1 in overtime and and practice at Hebron. Field hockey has securing its first NESCAC Tournament bid in definitely helped me to manage my time well five years. Hannah, a freshman midfielder for and has forced me not to procrastinate.” the Mules, talked about field hockey, Hebron And for Hannah, there is much to look and the transition to college sport. forward to. A starter and goal scorer on this “Since middle school, I had it in mind that year’s team which advanced to the NESCAC I wanted to go to a NESCAC, but the choice tournament, Hannah’s disciplined approach was open. In high school, making the grades to training and tactics may help her to take was job one. It was hard to choose between her team toward a regional championship and Bates, Bowdoin and Colby. In the end, it national play in the future. She commented really came down to the field hockey environ- that her Hebron coach, Ms. Ashley Leblanc, ment and the confidence I had in the coach.” had first convinced her that she could play Sport was only one part of the equation field hockey at the college level, and while the for Hannah. Grades, scores and opportunities roster of the Colby team contains a number of Hannah worked hard to earn play- for exposure all contributed to gaining players from premier independent schools, the ing time her freshman season and helped propel the Mules to their first admission to Colby. Hannah picks up the experience and hard work gained at Hebron NESCAC tourney appearance in five story: have helped her to win a place and compete at years. “Once I was accepted to Colby, I had a the next level. h
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The Academy’s Archives host two centuries-worth of nostalgia, only a handful of which has been seen by living eyes. In “Hidden Gems,” school archivist and longtime Hebron faculty member Dave Stonebraker unearths rare – and starkly beautiful – images and memorabilia that have never before been published. Fearful Beauty The ice storm of 1998 eginning quietly on the evening of January 7th and lengthy closure for the Academy and major disruption for the promising an unexpected respite from the routine of remainder of the year, it has never really been recalled, and yet Bclasses, the freezing rain clung to surfaces throughout some of the photos collected at the time are absolutely incred- the campus, inexorably building layer upon impenetrable layer ible, both for documenting the destruction as well as recording of ice. After nightfall, branches began to splinter and fall, then rare beauty,” Dave Stonebraker notes. larger and larger limbs until whole trees ruptured with tremen- Looking back from the perspective of fifteen years, it is hard dous explosions. By morning, the campus would be still. to imagine the nineteen days of forced closure, the longest since Students, faculty and staff were dismissed to their homes, and the school closed in 1943 for the duration of the Second World boarding students traveled south to escape the reach of the War. Few saw the immediate aftermath of the destruction or storm. With power gone, the school would be shuttered as the experienced the fearful beauty of the campus bathed in irides- maintenance staff made heroic efforts to drain pipes and protect cence yet devoid of its normal life. Hebron’s historic campus until the emergency passed and the Collected here are previously unpublished pictures of the campus brought back to life on January 26th. aftermath of the great Ice Storm of 1998, images of utter “Because the Ice Storm was so unexpected and caused such a destruction and stark beauty. jenny adams jenny Birches bent to breaking in the rhododendron garden of Old Brick jenny adams jenny Sturtevant Hall - The century oak would lose major stems but would survive. . .
The HEBRON staff would welcome reminiscences from alumni of their personal experiences with the storm. Please jenny adams jenny Sturtevant Home - Sun and clouds highlight the destruction. The century oak flanking send your remarks to [email protected]. the campus drive would be lost.
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My husband Ted and I “currently support Hebron Academy not just because my late brother James C. Yovic graduated from Including Hebron Academy in your charitable estate Hebron in 1976. planning is one of the most personal ways to express your philanthropy. We are forever grateful for this commitment, Hebron will receive the and we honor those who remember the Academy in this largest charitable gift way by recognizing them as members of the Franklin in our estate plans even Society. though we also support our own alma maters and The society was named to celebrate Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s other organizations. qualities of foresight, prudent financial management and intellectual achievement. Dr. Franklin serves as a symbol of We put Hebron Academy first because Hebron building up on the past for the benefit of the future. teaches young people the timeless values of integrity For more information about how you can become a and service. Hebron’s positive influence extends well member of the Franklin Society, contact: beyond Maine – the Academy’s alumni, faculty, staff, Pat Layman families,and friends have a global reach. Director of Advancement and External Relations 207-966-5236 susie” yovic hoeller [email protected] land o’lakes, florida
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JOIN US! reunion- October 24-25 homecoming 2014weekend 64 6974 7984 8994 Reunions will be celebrated for classes ending in 4 and 9 For more information please contact the Alumni Office at207-966-5236