Volume No. XXXVII Fall/Winter 2009 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 Alumnus Named Class of 2009 Head Football Coach College Destinations See article on page 1 Of the 78 members of the Class of 2009 who submitted plans before graduation, twelve elected to attend one of the several colleges in the University of Maine system. Many other colleges were represented in the class selections including Husson University, the University of Arizona, Syracuse University, Colby-Sawyer College, Wellesley, Bates, Bowdoin, Boston, and Colby Colleges, the Rochester Institute of Technology, Maine Maritime Academy, the University of Arkansas, Wentworth Institute, Rutgers, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Vermont, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, McGill, SUNY Buffalo, and Indiana University. With 109 members in the Class of 2009, this represents a rate of more than 75% who chose to attend two and four-year colleges after graduation. www.foxcroftacademy.org A PUBLICATION OF FOXCROFT ACADEMY for ALUMNI & FRIENDS ALUMNI WEEKEND 2009 REPORT ore than 260 alumni Forty classmates and and friends were in at- their guests attended M tendance at the 109th the 1959 50th reunion Annual Alumni Banquet held organized by class agents at Foxcroft Academy Satur- Steve Howard and Blaine day, August 1, 2009. Rideout. Other reunions Emcee Bob White ’66 included 1979 organized by Dear Friends announced award winner Peter Chase and Anthony Gary Wakeland who was Phillips, 1969 organized by honored as the recipient of Tinker Shepardson, Mary and Alumni, the Tillson D. Thomas Award Ellen Bouley Eastman, and Foxcroft Academy given to a former faculty Janet Green Hayes, and member as chosen by alum- 1964 organized by Betty Board of Trustees Class of ‘59 arly last summer, I was appointed Head of School while the trustees conduct a formal ni ballot. Dr. Arthur “Skip” Jane Stanhope Meader. search for a permanent Head. Having served in this capacity once before, I am pleased President, Peter W. Culley ’61 Hanson ’62 received the Dr. Mary Chandler Lowell Award given to Preceding the Alumni Banquet on Friday night was an open E to be able to help again. Foxcroft Academy has always been a special place to me. Vice President, Kenneth A. Hews ’65 an outstanding alumnus in their chosen profession. house at the Academy’s newest residence hall with more than I had three children attend the Academy, been a trustee and a student here myself. I am Secretary, Jane Hibbard-Merrill A record number of alumni and friends played in the Alumni 150 people from Dover-Foxcroft and the region touring the new looking forward to helping this year in any way that I can. Treasurer, Donna L. Hathaway ’66 Golf Scramble held at the Foxcroft Golf Club on Saturday facility. The Foxcroft Academy Jazz Combo, under the direction of The 2009-10 school year got off to a great start. We have 440 students, 82 of whom are afternoon and 85 runners competed in the annual 5K Road Race Shane Ellis, entertained guests during the open house. The new boarding students from Europe, Asia and South America. They add a remarkable dimension Susan M. Almy Saturday morning. facility will house 48 students and six faculty families. to the educational experience at Foxcroft Academy and mark the beginning of a 24-hour William C. Bisbee seven-day-a-week program on campus with the opening of the new residence hall on the Ralph Gabarro Edgar E. Gammon ’47 hill. Day program enrollment has declined to levels not seen since 1997. So, as the boarding H. Thomas Gerrish ’52 SEND US YOUR NEWS program grows, the Academy is able to sustain the breadth and depth of our offerings in Jane Hibbard-Merrill spite of the decline in local tuition support. Thomas K. Lizotte All Alumni: If you have news or photos, we’d love to pass them along. Send information to: Adding to our strength are the gifts from our alumni and friends highlighted in this David S. Ruksznis ’65 Foxcroft Academy, 975 West Main Street, Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426 OR you may call: (207)564-8664 report. Last year, 456 contributed more than $235,000 to the endowment, operations, and Glenda Brown Smith E-Mail address: [email protected] All digital photos e-mailed must be a minimum size of 700KB special funds of the Academy. This is a remarkable sum. I cannot thank our alumni and Kevin L. Stitham ’70 Fax: (207)564-8394 friends enough for helping to provide the resources necessary to support the learning Richard B. Swett Website address: http://www.foxcroftacademy.org experience here at Foxcroft Academy. John E. Wentworth I especially look forward to using my experience as a financial officer with our family John E. Wiles ’51 Retired Alumni: Be sure to send both your winter/summer addresses. business, Pride Manufacturing, for more than 20 years. My first priority this year is to Honorary Trustees Parents: Help us keep track of alumni: notify us of address changes of your children. support our outstanding faculty and programs. I hope to reach this goal through the Doris G. Coy ’64 prudent deployment of our resources, by developing programs that will generate income for William C. Forbes III the Academy and serve the needs of our community, by seeking secure investments for our Elizabeth H. Harvey Name: endowment, and encouraging individuals to contribute to the growth of the endowment to Louis O. Hilton Wayne O. Huff ensure its permanence and the quality of our programs and facilities. Maiden Name: Class: These being no small challenges, I encourage alumni to consider including Foxcroft Frederick E. Hutchinson ’48 Martha G. Rollins ’37 Academy in their will, or other estate plans. If you need any help with this, please let me Lois W. Reynolds ’54 Address: know. And I hope everyone will begin or continue to give to the annual appeal. Much of what Douglas M. Smith ’65 we have today was funded by the generous gifts of our founders. I do hope that spirit of Murray M. Stanhope ’37 Telephone: Spouse’s Name: generosity continues into, and well beyond the 21st century. Helen D. Stitham Please do not hesitate to contact me with your own thoughts and memories. I would be Children’s Names and Ages: pleased to hear from you. I can be reached at [email protected] Foxcroft Until then, to all those who sent their support this year, thank you for your gifts. In a Fall/Winter 2009 E-Mail Address: year marked by financial turmoil, we are honored that you chose and were able to give to Editor: Ted Randall Foxcroft Academy. Director of Development NEWS/COMMENTS (names of children, grandchildren, place of work, hobbies, travel adventures, births, deaths, marriages, accomplishments, awards, etc.) Sincerely, Associate Editor: Cathy Hall Assistant Director of Development/Alumni Relations Vandy Ellis Hewett ’75 The Foxcroft is published twice a year Head of School for alumni and friends of Foxcroft Academy. If you are receiving duplicate copies of the Foxcroft or have a change of address, Your Nomination for the Dr. Mary Chandler Lowell Award On the cover: FA Ponies undefeated through first half of season. Pictured is a team captain please contact the Foxcroft Academy Alumni/Development Office at Ryan Stroud ’10. 975 W. Main St., Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426. Your Nomination for the Tillson D. Thomas Award Faculty News Faculty News and Pursuits Mrs. Jamie on student learning. She also participated Gaudion attended in a lab demonstrating how various metals WHITE NAMED PONIES the Frost Place Con- react to stress. HEAD FOOTBALL COACH ference on Poetry Mark and Danny White ’03 hails and Teaching held Stephanie Chevalier from a family of talented in Franconia, NH. joined the Foxcroft athletes. His grandfather was The Frost family Academy faculty the first to score 1,000 car- farm, located deep this fall. Mark holds eer points in the late 1930’s. Uncles David and Trey within the White bachelor’s and Anderson along with his Jamie Gaudion Mountains National master’s degrees father Jere White ’72 played Forest, is on the historic national register. from Bowdoin, football. His brother David, who graduated Attending the conference were poets and Boston University from FA in 2007, was also a football player. fellow teachers from throughout the Mark Chevalier and Fatih University So when the Academy needed a football coach this fall, White was a natural. country, all with the common goal of (Istanbul) in English, Danny was a stand-out in football, fostering writing in the classroom and Economics and basketball and baseball at FA. As he said, sharing teaching techniques to literature. Journalism. He will “I started playing football in 6th grade.” “It was a week of intensive listening, be teaching in the He went on to play baseball at Husson sharing and writing, rounded out with English department. University, graduating in 2007 with a degree in business administration. evening lectures by professional writers.” Stephanie has been He has served as assistant basketball I am grateful to the Horizon Scholarship teaching English as coach at FA for three years and was Program for encouraging and making it a Second Language assistant football coach last year. This possible for both students and teachers (ESL) for seven helped prepare him for the head coach to participate in opportunities beyond Stephanie Chevalier years both overseas spot he stepped into this fall. Of his style, he says it’s all about getting the classroom.” in South Korea, Spain, and Turkey and in the best out of his team.