Volume XXIV No. II Fall/Winter 2002 You can... Boost your Income and Cut your Taxes while Supporting Foxcroft Academy with a Foxcroft Academy Charitable Gift Annuity oxcroft Academy began offering charitable gift annuities to alumni and friends Calculations for a $10,000 of the Academy in July of 1997. Since then, alumni like Muriel Philpot Watson Single Life Annuity* F’25 and Priscilla Berberian ‘48 have made gifts ranging from $8,000 to $130,000 in gift annuity contracts. A Foxcroft Academy annuity is a wonderful opportunity ($5,000 minimum investment) to receive a generous fixed income for life, cut taxes, and help students at Foxcroft Rate of Annual Tax-Free T a x a b l e Academy as well. To date, the Academy has received over $370,000 in gifts which Charitable have been given through a gift annuity. Age Return Payment Portion Portion Deduction A Foxcroft Academy Gift Annuity provides you with a generous income for life. 55 6.0 $600 $255 $ 3 4 5 The payment rate on gift annuities is established by the American Council on $2,735 Gift Annuities. 60 6.4 $640 $294 $ 3 5 6 ! $2,916 65 6.7 $670 $334 $ 3 3 6 I am interested in receiving, at no obligation, calculations showing the $3,346 income and tax benefits of a Foxcroft Academy gift annuity. Please base the calculations on a potential agreement in the amount of $ * The Academy also offers two life annuities. Charitable deductions vary month to month based upon federal interest rate formulas. Please First Life (Date of Birth): Month Day Year: consult your attorney or tax advisor for professional counsel. For more information, please contact Jay Brennan, Associate Headmaster, Second Life (Date of Birth): Month Day Year: Foxcroft Academy, 975 West Main St., Dover-Foxcroft, ME, 04426. Name: Telephone: (207) 564-8664. E-Mail: jbrennan@foxcroftacademy. org. Or complete the form on the left and mail to the Development Office at Foxcroft Academy. You may also access the Academy’s Address: planned giving website at www.foxcroftacademy.org City: State: Zip: 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 In this Issue: Mapping the Future pg. 1 Modern & Classical Languages pg. 7 Arts Alive pg. 8 Welcome to our New Headmaster A Call For Nominations his year at Foxcroft Academy, Trustees, faculty, and students began the new school Alumni Awards year by welcoming Mr. Robert Coffill as the Academy’s new headmaster. In addition, the TTrustees also elected a new President of their Board, Mrs. Vandy Ellis Hewett ’75, who The Alumni Advisory Board, made up of class representatives from each of the classes, will meet next year to nominate, and later vote on, the replaces Judge Kevin Stitham, the Board’s President since 1991. 2003 recipients of the Dr. Mary Chandler Lowell Award and the Tillson D. Thomas Award. These two awards are presented each year at the Alumni Mr. Coffill was first a principal in his 20’s and since then has served as a superintendent of Banquet. (The Trustees also present the Oakes Family Award and the James S. Holmes Award.) four different school districts in four different states. Most recently he has served as a consultant to Nominees for the Dr. Mary Chandler Lowell Award should be an alumnus of Foxcroft Academy who has distinguished him/herself in their schools and educators as well as teaching education and leadership courses at Salem State College. particular vocational field. Include with your nominations a little information on the accomplishments of your nominee so that the Alumni Advisory He and his wife Patricia and their son Michael have lived in Andover, MA, for the last several years. Board has some background information upon which to make their selection. Patricia is also an educator working with elementary age children. Their son Michael is in his sophomore year of high school. Foxcroft Academy The Tillson D. Thomas Award recognizes a past faculty or staff member who, in the opinion of their former students, has served the students of Mr. Coffill, or as the students call him, Mr. “C”, has brought with him an infectious Foxcroft Academy with the highest degree of professionalism. Nominees to the Tillson Thomas Award need not be an alumnus, but they must have enthusiasm for life, learning, and empowering students. His love of kids matched with his high Board of Trustees been a member of the Foxcroft Academy faculty or staff at one time. energy level frequently finds him with students at the YMCA as early as 6:30 in the morning and Please use the Send Us Your News form below to submit your nominations. President visiting with parents and students in their homes as late as 10:00 P.M. His commitment to “leave , Vandy E. Hewett ’75 Vice President, Douglas M. Smith ’65 no child behind” and the special place in his heart he holds for those students who sometimes Secretary, Lois W. Reynolds ’54 You can read class notes online now at: www.foxcroftacademy.org/classnews.htm struggle at being successful in school, finds him tutoring students early in the morning in the Treasurer, Donna L. Hathaway ’66 You can submit class notes online at: www.foxcroftacademy.org/classsnotes_form.htm Pride Student Center, eating lunch with special education students in the dining hall, finding Eric L. Annis ’74 jobs in the community for students who need work, and counseling and encouraging students William C. Bisbee as they drop by his office. Peter W. Culley ’61 Rebecca Rowe Engdahl ’52 As Mr. “C” makes his way to attend a soccer or field hockey game, it’s not uncommon to SEND US YO UR NEWS Edgar E. Gammon ’47 find an entourage of students escorting him. He has quickly become the “pied piper” of Foxcroft H. Thomas Gerrish ’52 All Alumni: If you have news or photos, we’d love to pass them along (photos will be returned if requested). Academy. Local community leaders have appreciated his hands-on approach to working with Wayne O. Huff Send information to: Foxcroft Academy Alumni Magazine, 975 West Main Street, Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426 students of all levels and his involvement in the community. Most recently, Mr. Coffill has been Frederick E. Hutchinson ’48 (207)564-8664 E-Mail address: [email protected] Fax: (207)564-8394 Alumni E-Mail Directory http://www.foxcroftacademy.org asked to serve on the board of the YMCA, an opportunity he graciously accepted. Frank T. Knaut ’70 New Alumni: Send school addresses. After graduation, let us know where you are. Administrators and faculty have found Mr. Coffill’s style of leadership to be very focused David R. Perkins Glenda Brown Smith Retired Alumni: Be sure to send both your winter/summer addresses. and empowering. Under Mr. Coffill’s guidance, fellow administrators are assessing and Richard B. Swett Parents: Help us keep track of alumni; notify us of address changes. collaborating on curriculum and standards work, the current semester scheduling, alternative John E. Wentworth education program for students, addition- John E. Wiles ’51 al student services, and more effective Name: teacher evaluation tools. In addition, all Honorary Trustees Philip S. Annis ’41 Maiden Name: Class: administrators have been given a role in Doris G. Coy ’64 working with Trustees in developing a William C. Forbes III Address: long range strategic plan for the school. Elizabeth H. Harvey Mrs. Hewett has served as a member Louis O. Hilton Telephone: Spouse’s Name: Woodrow E. Page # of the Board of Trustees since 1990. Dur- Children’s Names and Ages: ing the past eleven years she has served Martha G. Rollins ’37 Murray M. Stanhope ’37 E-Mail Address: as Secretary and since 1997 as Vice-Presi- Helen D. Stitham dent of the Board. Most of her professional Kevin L. Stitham ’70 career has been with Pride Manufacturing Muriel P. Watson ’25 NEWS/COMMENTS (names of children, grandchildren, place of work, hobbies, travel adventures, births, deaths, marriages, Co., where she most recently had served accomplishments, awards etc.): as their Chief Financial Officer. Mrs. Hewett Foxcroft Volume No. XXIV is married to Russell Hewett ’73 and they Fall/ Winter 2002 have three children. Mr. Coffill becomes the 68th head- Editor: Jay Brennan, master to serve the Academy since its Associate Headmaster founding in 1823 and Mrs. Hewett be- Associate Editor: Cathy Hall NOMINATIONS FOR AWARDS: comes the 36th Board President. To- The Foxcroft is published two times each year for gether they look forward to many years alumni and friends of Foxcroft Academy. If you are of serving the Academy and its students. receiving duplicate copies of the Foxcroft or have a change of address, please contact the Foxcroft Academy Alumni/Development Office at 975 W. Main St., Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426. You may read the Foxcroft online at: www.foxcroftacademy.org/magazine.html Please send me a copy of Effective Year End Tax Planning o Foxcroft News Mapping the Future of Foxcroft Academy ill dorms or some form of an expand- ed boarding program return to Foxcroft WAcademy? Will the state create a vouch- er system making the Academy more accessible to students from neighboring towns? In light of the state’s projections of a declining school age population in Maine and the projected loss in tuition revenue for the Academy, can the school’s relatively small endowment support the current breadth of educational programming? In January of 2002 the Board of Trustees launched a long range strategic planning pro- cess to examine these and a host of other issues, ranging from how we can help all students meet the higher academic standards of the Academy to how we maintain and improve the manage- Alumni who gathered in Portland to kick off the strategic planning process ment of our facilities.