Volume No. XXXV Fall/Winter 2008 Same name, Visit FA’s New Website great new look! Come see the new and improved Foxcroft Academy website. Alumni, log in on the alumni portal and update your information, parents, check upcoming events and news items. You can also check the athletic FA’s Foreign schedule or apply for admissions to Foxcroft Language Program Academy. To receive your user name and Taking students to places password email Cathy they’ve only imagined p. 8-9 Hall at cathy.hall@ foxcroftacademy.org. Check it out! www.foxcroftacademy.org Non-Profit Foxcroft Academy Organization 975 West Main Street U.S. Postage Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426 PAID Bangor ME Permit No. 46 Change Service Requested A PUBLICATION OF FOXCROFT ACADEMY for ALUMNI & FRIENDS Korean Parent and Alumni Reception Held hanks to the gen- up with Mr. Brennan to erosity of the KIM do a Power Point pres- Greetings T family, Jay Brennan, entation including infor- Associate Head of School mation on the Academy’s for Admissions and Resi- dorm project, academic Alumni, dential Life, was given the programs and a special opportunity to travel to session helping parents Korea for two weeks this understand the applica- Parents, past summer, enabling tion process their him to visit with most of students go through to Foxcroft Academy the Academy’s Korean American universities. and families, students, con- Later that evening, Board of Trustees sultants, and alumni. 11 Korean FA alumni The highlight of the trip came as a result of months of planning gathered informally for the first ever alumni Korean reunion. Friends, President, Peter W. Culley ’61 and preparations by a number of Korean mothers whose children After many meetings and visits to the homes of parents Vice President, Kenneth A. Hews ’65 attend Foxcroft. Led by Soon Hee JEOUNG, these mothers began and students Mr. Brennan commented, “I left Korea being Secretary, Jane Hibbard-Merrill their work in January of 2008 by organizing a parent and student overwhelmed by the hospitality of the Korean people. Parents October 1, 2008 Treasurer, Donna L. Hathaway ’66 reception in Seoul. On July 5th, the mothers hosted the Academy’s were gracious and extended every kindness imaginable. While first Korean Parent and Student Association meeting with 66 happy to arrive back in the sates, I had to admit I left a part of my Susan M. Almy attendees. During the three hour reception, Hae Jin LEE ’08 teamed heart in Korea.” write to express my deepest appreciation to those whose names appear in this report for William C. Bisbee their thoughtful support of Foxcroft Academy over the past year. This was an outstanding Ralph Gabarro Edgar E. Gammon ’47 year with gifts and pledges totaling more than $214,000. I H. Thomas Gerrish ’52 Among them, the William J. Gallion Foundation gave funds to create the William J. SEND US YOUR NEWS Vandy E. Hewett ’75 Gallion Family Academy Aspirations Scholarship Fund in honor of Mary Catherine and June David S. Ruksznis ’65 Gallion. Income from this fund will be used to help pay tuition for a boarding or day student Glenda Brown Smith All Alumni: If you have news or photos, we’d love to pass them along. Send information to: to attend Foxcroft Academy. Kevin L. Stitham ’70 Foxcroft Academy, 975 West Main Street, Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426 OR you may call: (207)564-8664 Everett “Earl” Johnston, his brother Herbert, and sister Carol Johnston Pearl have Richard B. Swett E-Mail address: [email protected] All digital photos e-mailed must be a minimum size of 700KB endowed the Everett & Evelyn Johnston Horizon Scholarship Fund. The Johnstons were John E. Wentworth Fax: (207)564-8394 members of the Foxcroft Academy Class of 1928. Funds from a Horizon Scholarship helped John E. Wiles ’51 Website address: http://www.foxcroftacademy.org one of our students study abroad this past summer. Honorary Trustees Retired Alumni: Be sure to send both your winter/summer addresses. This summer, we welcomed Priscilla Ames Berberian ’48 to the Legacy Circle of donors. Doris G. Coy ’64 Parents: Help us keep track of alumni: notify us of address changes of your children. Her generous estate gift helped create the Ames Consumer and Family Science Lab. William C. Forbes III The Legacy Circle recognizes donors who remember Foxcroft in a will or estate plan. Elizabeth H. Harvey Those gifts are added to the school’s permanent endowment, often in honor of, or to Louis O. Hilton remember a family member or friend. A portion of the interest earned on our endowment Wayne O. Huff Name: supports the gift purpose while additional earnings are reinvested for growth. This allows Frederick E. Hutchinson ’48 our endowment to grow and make distributions each year. Martha G. Rollins ’37 Maiden Name: Class: In honor of their 50th reunion this past summer, the Class of 1958 created an endowed Lois Ward Reynolds ’54 Douglas M. Smith ’65 fund dedicated to the instructional needs of our students. The 2007-2008 Annual Giving Address: Murray M. Stanhope ’37 Campaign raised over $75,000 to support faculty and students. Helen D. Stitham Each gift in this report represents a commitment to Foxcroft Academy for which we are Telephone: Spouse’s Name: sincerely grateful. Gifts make our education special by providing additional resources which we invest directly in our students. Thank you for helping make these investments possible. Foxcroft Children’s Names and Ages: Fall/Winter 2008 E-Mail Address: Sincerely, Editor: Ted Randall Director of Development NEWS/COMMENTS (names of children, grandchildren, place of work, hobbies, travel adventures, births, deaths, marriages, Associate Editor: Cathy Hall accomplishments, awards, etc.) Raymond P. Webb Ph.D. Assistant Director of Development Head of School Marketing & Communications Jay Brennan The Foxcroft is published twice a year for alumni and friends of Foxcroft Academy. If you are receiving duplicate copies of the Your Nomination for the Dr. Mary Chandler Lowell Award Foxcroft or have a change of address, please contact the Foxcroft Academy Alumni/Development Office at Your Nomination for the Tillson D. Thomas Award 975 W. Main St., Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426. Faculty News Welcome New Faculty and Staff Chinese Teacher Director of Development Admissions Office Bo Zhu Ted Randall Assistant Ruby Canning Bo Zhu is from Ted comes to Last year, Ruby Huangshi City in Foxcroft Academy donated countless Hebei Province, after having hours to our in central China. served in fund school year in a He was teaching development and variety of places: at the Huangshi alumni relations Admissions Office, Institute of at independent Library, Develop- Technology when schools including ment Office and he was chosen to St. Paul’s (NH), with our residential come to Maine Pinkerton program, to note as part of the Chinese Guest Teacher Academy, Francis W. Parker (CA), and The only a partial list. We are pleased that Program, under which guest teachers Gow School (NY). He served as Director of Ruby has agreed to join us in an official work at schools in the US for a period of The Tufts Fund at Tufts University, Chief capacity and will be working part-time one to three years. In addition to teaching Advancement Officer at Maine Maritime in our Admissions and Residential Life the Chinese language, he will be working Academy, as a development officer at the Office. Ruby and her husband Robert, ESL to raise our awareness of Chinese culture University of Rhode Island, and, prior to teacher, will also serve as host parents to and history. Bo is married and leaving his arrival at Foxcroft, as Associate Vice six of our dormitory students. home and family for at least a year to President for Institutional Advancement come here and enhance our educational at Heidelberg College in Ohio. He has Assistant Head of School’s program at FA. He was one of a number of been a presenter for the Association Office Tammy Smith teachers chosen from a much wider pool of Fund Raising Professionals (AFP), of candidates, based on his outstanding Council for the Advancement and Support Tammy Smith, personal qualities and teaching skills. He of Education (CASE), the Independent a 1979 graduate considers it an honor to come here. It is an College Advancement Association (ICAA), of Nokomis High honor that we can host him, as well. and Maine Association of Nonprofits School in Newport, (MANP). Ted holds the B.A. and M.A. ME. is the new degrees in English from Wittenberg assistant to Mrs. Muriel P. Watson Library Postlewaite, the Tina Taggart University and the University of New Hampshire. He retired from the U.S. Naval Assistant Head of Tina grew up in Reserve with the rank of Commander. Ted School. Tammy Pennsylvania and his wife Jo-Anne are the parents of worked in the and moved to three children: Ellen, Tim, and Tristan. banking industry for nine years prior to Maine to attend coming to Foxcroft Academy. She has been the University married 24 years and has three children - of Maine at In Grateful Appreciation for the youngest is in the Air Force stationed Orono where she Service to Foxcroft Academy in England, whom she visited this summer. She also has five grandchildren. completed Seven Faculty Members Represent her B.A. degree. More Than 200 Years of Service to FA In addition, last year she completed her Master’s Degree Seven members of the faculty as a group have devoted more than 200 years of in Library Science from the University of service to teaching at Foxcroft Academy. South Carolina. For the past six years Tina Going back to 1977, Gary Worthing, biology, and Gene Philpot, physical education and has worked in the library at Hermon High field hockey coach, have been at Foxcroft for 31 years.