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Our Own Entertainmentsa look at the history of Hebron theaterby Jennifer F. Adams

A Symphony of Spacemaking rooms for art

Seeds of Love and Lightportrait of an organist, pomologist, educatorby David W. Stonebraker

Unconventional Diversityfarewell to the class of 2009by Elijah Hughes ’09 and Claire Cummings ’09

SemesterH E B R O N A C A D E M Y

www.hebronacademy.org Spring 2009

Seung Woo Kim ’10 as Agwe, god of water, in this winter’s production of Once On This Island.Photograph by Tannery Hill Studios, Inc.

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The Academynews, events, arts, athletics, and more

Alumni et Alumnaenotes, unions, new arrivals, obituaries

Hebronianacentennial for Atwood

2009 Reunionsand Homecoming

Friday, October 2 Saturday, October 3

Reunions for Classes of 1959 • 1964 • 1969

1974 • 1979 • 1984 • 1989 1994 • 1999 • 2004

Kids’ Activities • Road Race Rainbow Reunion • Class Dinners

Much more!

ON tHe cOveRRob MacLellan ’11 and his horse in a scene from Hebron Academy’s recent production of Once on This Island. Photo by Dennis Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios.

The Semester is published twice each year by Hebron Academy, PO Box 309, Hebron ME 04238. 207-966-2100.

Issue No. 203

mISSIONThe Semester magazine’s mission is to continue the Hebron family’s intellectual and emotional engagement with the Academy by conveying news, preserving the heritage and memories of the school and chronicling the accomplishments of its alumni, faculty and students.

edItORJennifer F. Adams

edItORIal aSSIStaNceDavid W. Stonebraker

cONtRIbutING wRIteRSSusan R. GeismarLeslie A. GuentherChristine HemmingsDavid Inglehart

PROductION aSSIStaNceEllen L. Augusta ’75Leslie A. GuentherBeverly J. Roy

PHOtOGRaPHyJennifer F. AdamsWilliam B. ChaseDennis and Diana Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios, Inc.

Cynthia Reedyand friends

PRINtING aNd maIlINGMaine Printing Company, Portland, Maine.

Hebron Academy reaffirms its long-standing policy of nondiscriminatory admission of students on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, physi-cal or mental disability, or sexual orientation. We do not discriminate in the administra-tion of our educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs and athletic or other school-administered programs. Hebron Academy is an equal opportunity employer.

© 2009 by Hebron Academy.


editor’s Note: a man with a horse

I knew back in February that I wanted to feature this year’s musical, Once On This Island, on the cover of the spring issue. My favorite photographers, Dennis and Diane Griggs, came to shoot the next-to-last rehearsal with the sole direction from me: I need a cover.

Dennis surprised me, and the actors, by getting right up on stage and into the action. By the end of the day he had taken 300 photographs and I had plenty to choose from.

Why this one? Because I like the angle. Because I like the colors. But most of all because I love that Rob MacLellan, a member of the ensemble, was not Rob MacLellan in this scene. He was a man with a horse.

Ensemble roles can be more difficult than starring ones. Often the ensemble players appear as different people in different scenes. They have to stay in character, even when they have nothing to do, or they will erode the illusion created on stage. A strong ensemble is vital to the success of the whole show.

This spring marks the tenth year of the most recent incarnation of the Semester magazine and my twentieth at Hebron. Every issue has a page that really sings to me. My favorite this time is the seventh graders working together to row a boat on page 8. The students in the foreground are very different from each other—Charlotte is artsy, Brooks is outdoorsy, Margaret is athletic—but they were pulling together and having a lot of fun doing it.

I love putting the magazine together, but I couldn’t do it without the colleagues and friends who make it possible. I am grateful to all of them for making my job easier every day. For me, the images of Rob and the seventh graders epitomize the best of Hebron: ensemble players, working together, to create something magical.

Jennifer F. Adams, Editor

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2 • Hebron Academy Semester • Spring 2009

From the Head of School

bringing the arts to lightHebron Academy has a long, proud tradition of excel-

lence and creativity in the fine and performing arts, so it

may seem ironic to claim that we are bringing the arts to light

in 2009—but in the most literal sense we have done just that.

performances in gallery shows,

concerts, musicals and plays,

dance, college admission to art

and music specialties and profes-

sional accomplishments. In fact,

just during the last two weeks of

the school year Hebron celebrated

the opening of a gallery show by

renowned Maine land and seascape

artist Tom Curry ’76 at a gallery

in York, and the Middle School

traveled to Rockland to tour the

Farnsworth Museum exhibit of work

by photographer Chris Pinchbeck

’87. At each event it was a thrill

hearing the artists speak of their

works and their Hebron experiences.

So what of bringing the arts

to light? We put a focus on

finding more and new ways to give

our arts and artists more visibility,

out of the basements, with the

direction of artistic director, and

now incoming chair of the fine arts

The two most cherished com-

modities on Hebron’s (or any other

boarding school’s) campus are time

and space. There is never enough

of either to adequately serve all the

wonderful activity and inspiration that

percolates at our school. For years

our magicians of creativity, Hebron’s

dedicated art and music teachers,

have inspired their students to create

remarkable artworks and perfor-

mances from their tight classroom

studios, practice and performance

spaces in the basements of Sturtevant

and Atwood dormitories. Perhaps

we have served our graduating arts

students well by conditioning them to

the stereotypic life of “the struggling

artist” working in cramped garret

studio or Spartan warehouse, but that

is not Hebron’s mission—we seek

to inspire and champion the arts!

Hebron arts, artists and art

teachers are extraordinary and

we are proud of their works and

department, Beth Barefoot. Every

Monday morning school meeting

became Musical Monday, featur-

ing a different student or faculty

musician vocalist or group perfor-

mance before announcements.

Oh, what talent we discovered!

Later in the year accomplished

cellist Mary Randall ’09 performed

in a master class with the celebrat-

ed Yo-Yo Ma at Merrill Auditorium

in Portland, and several of our top

musicians shared master class in-

struction from the international per-

formers brought to Hebron through

the Saul ’51 and Naomi Cohen

chamber music concerts. The a cap-

pella Hebeegeebees were reborn,

performing on campus, at alumni

gatherings in Boston and Portland,

and singing the national anthem for

the Portland Seadogs. With inspira-

tion from visiting a cappella groups

from MIT and area schools on cam-

pus, the hills are alive with music.

It is a wonderful irony that it is

athletics—often the competitor

with art activities for students’ time

and attention—which opened the

door for the arts. The much-heralded

new athletic center, with its full-sized

dance and aerobic training room,

gave the arts their new home, The

Lepage Center for the Arts, inside

Sargent Gymnasium. Thanks to

creative design sketches by architects

Lynne Holler ’80 and Paul Lewan-

dowski and the craftsmanship of our

own maintenance artisans, we now

have seven new art studio spaces for

painting, drawing, sculpture, ceram-

ics, photography and middle school

art on the ground level of Sargent.

The bright, airy, big spaces are

illuminated by the floor-to-ceiling

windows looking out to the Bowl,

Allen House and the hills beyond.

With hallway and studio partitions

built of textured wall board, there is

display space throughout for student

art. Competition for rehearsal space

is no more because the erstwhile

basketball court has become the

full-time Androscoggin Theater and

school auditorium, with moveable

seating on the flat floor until more

extensive future renovations are ex-

ecuted. With the Dwyer Room and

the athletic offices converted to mu-

sic classroom spaces there is a new

light on all the fine arts at Hebron,

much sooner than we had expected.

Come for a visit to see and hear

for yourself!

John King, Head of SchoolA scene from this year’s musical production of Once on This Island.

Tree of Life photo illustration by Sophia Chen ’09.

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Hebron Academy Semester • Spring 2009 • 3

Former ambassador Thomas

N. Hull III ’64 spoke at this

year’s Cum Laude Society induc-

tion. Mr. Hull is a graduate of

Dickinson College and served in

the Peace Corps before entering

the foreign service. He is cur-

rently a professor of politics and

international studies at Simmons

College in Boston. During his

talk, he reminded the audience of

the larger challenges of life that

lie beyond academic success.

Congratulations to the new and return-ing members of Hebron Academy’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society. Front row: Sarah Fensore ’09*, Claire Cummings ’09*, Tina Hoelzer ’10, Ambassador Hull ’64, Seok Won Jee ’10 and Jeremy Kleven ’10. Middle row: Mary Randall ’09*, Ashley Waldron ’09*, Lydia Drown ’09*, Emma Leavitt ’10, Emily Powers ’10 and Brett Bisesti ’09. Back row: Yu Zhang ’09, Katya Planson ’09, Emily Minigell ’09 and Brittany Toth ’09. Not pictured: Sang Il Min ’10.

* Elected in 2008.

celebrating academic achievement

Front Row: Yu Zhang ’09, Mengdong Zhuang ’12, Xi Chen ’11, Claire Cummings ’09, Chengmin Dong ’10, Dong Hee Lee ’12, Su Jung Hwang ’09, Seung Hee Lee ’11, Jai Kyeong Kim ’11. Middle Row: Mrs. Shore, Weichi Liu ’09, Weisun Jiang ’10, Jiyeon Ko ’10, Eun Young Sung ’11, Woon Son Kim’10, Seok-Won Jee ’10, Ho Hyung Choi’10, HoIn Na ’10, Mr. Cross. Back Row: Kun Yu Poon ’11, Jie Chen ’12, Albert Hsu ’09, Yi Hai Gu ’12, Seung Woo Kim ’10, Joo Won Jun ’09, Sun Woo Lee ’11, Sung Hyun Choi ’12, Ju Hwan Kim ’11, Joon Sung Lee ’09, Seung Yeon Kang ’11, Sang Il Min ’10. Missing: Xin Wang ’09, Bess Curtis ’10, Huanxi Wu ’11, Sung Hyuk Seo ’11.

math team shinesHebron Academy’s math team

turned in their most

successful season yet, taking the

Class D title and placing seven

students on the all-star state

team.

During the regular season,

schools are allowed to enter as

many 10-person teams as they

wish. Of the 140 teams compet-

ing statewide from October to

March, Hebron finished first in

Class D and a close second to

Class A Bangor High overall. The

team placed first in the Pi Cone

North league, bringing home

eleven of sixteen individual

medals.

At the state meet, held in April

at Bangor Auditorium, each

school may enter only one team

of ten students. Hebron’s team

won the meet, beating 90 other

schools to take home the first

place trophy.

Seven of Hebron’s “mathletes”

finished the regular season in the

top 36 out of nearly 1500

competitors statewide, thus

qualifying them for a place on the

Maine all-star team to compete at

the American Regions Mathemat-

ics League’s national meet.

Because the ARML meet was held

after graduation, seniors Jacky

Chen, Joon Sung Lee, Albert Hsu

and Xin Wang chose not to

compete, but juniors Ho In Na,

Seok Won Jee, and Seung Woo

Kim accompanied the Maine

all-stars to Penn State from May

28–31. Ho In was a member of the

first team, which finished seventh

in the nation in Division B. He also

tied for the second highest score

on the Maine team. Seok Won and

Seung Woo were members of

Maine’s second team.

Merry Shore, advisor

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This spring, Hebron Academy

received funds from a

Efficiency Maine grant to cover

some of upfront costs of reducing

operating and maintenance

expenses in the new athletic

center. The grant provided

incentive for features ranging

from energy-efficient light bulbs

and motion-sensing switches to

variable-speed fans and high-

efficiency boilers, all designed to

limit routine energy consumption.

The funds themselves—some of

which went to architectural firm

SMRT for mandated reports on

energy savings—represent a

net reimbursement of $55,000,

which will go toward the overall

cost of the athletic facility.

In keeping with the campus

master plan, construction of

the athletic center enabled the

initial phase of construction

for the Lepage Center for the

Arts to be located in Sargent

Memorial Gymnasium.

Here too, efficiency was a

hallmark of the construction

process. Hebron Academy’s own

staff planned and completed

the renovation work, and,

according to Michael Hughes,

Director of Building and

Grounds, exercised considerable

ingenuity in the process. Having

compiled a number of ideas

for the renovation of the old

gymnasium, Mr. Hughes worked

up a “paper-bag sketch” a year

ago and ran his ideas by SMRT

architect Paul Lewandowski.

“Paul made a few alterations,”

Mr. Hughes said, “And with the

talent we have on staff, we went

to work as soon as the old gym

was vacated. Brian O’Leary,

our electrician, was in charge

of expanding the fire alarm and

revamping the heating system,

which he started back in June.

Earl Futch, our carpenter,

oversaw the layout, sizing and

construction of the classrooms.

Brad Whittemore had the difficult

job of replumbing a building

with eleven distinct elevations.

“Because this is phase one

of a larger project, we had

to be careful that anything

we did now wasn’t going to

impact the long-term plan for

the building. This meant that

about two thirds of the work

went to updating the building

infrastructure and one third to

actually creating new spaces.”

Mr. Hughes took on the

mission of creating partitions to

divide the old fitness center into

studios; a floor-based heating

system prohibited standard

wall construction techniques.

While searching for construction

materials, he happened upon

a collection of wooden panels

used as hockey boards before

the construction of Robinson

Arena. Now mounted on wheels,

the gently-S-curved panels can

be moved around to create a

variety of flexible studio spaces.

With phase one of the

Sargent-to-Lepage renovation

complete, the former pool

remains to be redesigned. Here,

the challenges of removing

the old pool and converting

three floors of space for use

as additional classrooms are

considerable, which only whets

the appetite of the school’s

inventive buildings manager.

“It’s my favorite building,”

Mr. Hughes said, “One huge

palette for the artist in me.”

David Inglehart

building efficiently makes efficient buildings

School electrician Bryan O’Leary installs conduit in the new Lepage Center for the Arts, located in Sargent Memorial Gymnasium.

The old fitness center is divided into three studios with these moveable panels, recycled out of old hockey boards. The dividers also provide instant gallery space to display work in progress or the final product.

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accident reportIt is a beautiful May morning. Students are listening to a driving safety

presentation at Community Meeting. Suddenly, the stillness is broken—

teachers Sarah Bryan and James LeBlanc ’02 are involved in a head-on

collision on the campus loop. The 911 call goes out to the Oxford County

dispatch center and moments later an ambulance crew is on the scene

along with members of three local fire departments. Horrified students

leave the church in time to witness the process of extricating their teachers

from the car’s twisted wreckage.

As Hebron fire chief Jim Trundy

coordinates the rescue effort,

paramedics from PACE get into the

back of the car to relay information to

the victims and administer first aid.

The Hebron fire department stands

by with hoses, ready to douse any fire

that might start while Paris and

Norway firefighters begin tearing the

car apart with a hydraulic crowbar,

also called the “jaws of life.”

First, the crews cover Ms. Bryan

and Mr. LeBlanc with blankets as they

break the windshield and pull it out

of the car’s frame. Then they use the

jaws to take the doors off the car. Ms.

Bryan, in the passenger seat, is easier

to extricate. Once her door is

removed, the team wraps a cervical

collar around her neck, puts her on a

backboard and carries her away from

the scene. Because Mr. LeBlanc is

pinned under the dash board, the

crew removes the roof of the car

before stabilizing his neck in a

cervical collar and sliding a back-

board down behind him. Working

together, six of them pull him straight

up out of the seat onto the

backboard and carry him away from

the accident. From start to finish, the

rescue takes about 25 minutes.

Ms. Bryan’s injuries are fairly

minor and she is walking moments

after she is pulled from the vehicle.

Although Mr. LeBlanc has a terrible

abdominal wound he is able to eat

lunch about half an hour later.

By now you have probably

figured out that the accident was a

staged training exercise. John

Monahan of the Hebron fire

department coordinated the

simulation. (His wife is Hebron

nurse Arica Powers Monahan ’97.)

Mr. Monahan located a junk car

and worked with PACE and the fire

departments to schedule the

exercise. About a dozen rescue

personnel took part, including

Hebron firefighters Chuck Hall ’80

and trainee Zac Creps ’10.

Jennifer F. Adams

Rescue personnel Derek Tuttle, David Godin, Steve Witham (behind backboard), Darryl Rugg, Sally Lane, Marge Fletcher and Ben Conant work to free James LeBlanc ’02 from the wrecked car.

master classOn February 26, senior mary

Randall faced a dilemma.

that afternoon was dress

rehearsal for the all-school

musical in which she had the

lead. then renowned cellist

yo-yo ma blew into town

for a concert at Portland’s

merrill auditorium, and

mary was one of only three

maine students invited to

participate in a master class

with him that same after-

noon. we’ll let you guess

what she decided to do.

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Students and staff plan 2009 malawi trip

Eight Hebron Academy juniors

will be traveling to the Little

Field Home orphanage in Malawi

for what has become an annual

community service opportunity.

Andy Churchill, Emma Leavitt,

Camreé Thompson, Geoff Bowen,

Charles Evans, Jordan Wade, Seung

Hee Lee, and Mario De La Isla,

accompanied by Academy staffers

Katie Coyne, Ian Cross, Bill Flynn,

Janet Littlefield and Ashley Webb,

will stay at the orphanage for one

month, alongside the 72 children

and 14 workers who live there

permanently. The Hebron group will

conduct health, education and ag-

riculture projects at the orphanage

and with the greater community.

Janet Littlefield, the executive

director of the Home and dorm

parent and coach at Hebron, is

looking forward to seeing the stu-

dents make connections with the

children in Malawi. The students

are expected to work hard at the

Home and live like the Malawians,

with no electricity or plumbing

and few health or educational

resources. The students will teach

the children and will also gain a

great deal of practical experience.

"They will be working col-

laboratively with the Malawians

on projects to help alleviate

poverty in the area and they will

return to Maine global citizens

with a better perspective. I ap-

preciate the work they do for

the community and orphans over

there, but as an educator to see

these kids thinking and acting

globally is fantastic! I hope what

they learn will help shape their

future," said Ms. Littlefield.

The students will conduct

workshops on HIV/AIDS and

malaria, two diseases that are

rampant throughout Sub-Saharan

Africa. Malawi has over one

million orphans and most of the

population, especially in the

district the orphanage is located

in, is under 14 years of age.

One major project the

students will participate in is

building a sustainable farm at

Little Field Home. Malawians rely

on their short rainy season to

harvest their crops for the year.

To help in this effort, students

hosted a Walk-a-thon in May to

raise funds to install a borehole/

well and solar-powered irrigation

system at the Home. The project

costs $14,000 and will allow crops

to grow year round with multiple

harvests and a high food produc-

tion. This project will help reduce

hunger in the area and create em-

ployment for the local Malawians.

If sufficient funds are raised, the

Maine students will help install

this system at the Home in July.

Susan R. Geismar

Hebron Academy faculty and students traveling to the Little Field Home in Malawi are: Ms. Katie Coyne, Mr. Ian Cross, Mario De La Isla (Texas), Geoff Bowen (Massachu-setts), Camreé Thompson (York), Andy Churchill (Harrison), Charles Evans (Connecticut), Jordan Wade (New Hampshire), Emma Leavitt (Gray), Seung Hee Lee (Korea), Mr. Bill Flynn, Ms. Ashley Webb, and Ms. Janet Littlefield, Executive Director of the Little Field Home.

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Early on a May morning, the seventh graders headed

to Rockland, beginning their day with a visit to

Station Maine, an organization of community members

dedicated to offering boating opportunities to youth in

mid-coast Maine.

The middle schoolers rowed as a

team in an eight-person pulling

boat, and also learned some

traditional knot-tying and navigation

skills. Station Maine’s mission, in

part, is to encourage and stimulate

teamwork, leadership, perseverance

and self-reliance. As Station Maine

director Muriel Curtis said, “The

pulling boat is such a good

educational vehicle. There are no

committee meetings or discussions

of how to proceed. Pull together

and we go places. Don’t pull

together and the oars clunk.”

After lunch at the Rockland

Café, the seventh graders visited

the Farnsworth Museum to see

the exhibit “Four in Maine” which

featured the work of four Maine

artists, including Hebron alumnus

Chris Pinchbeck ’87. Mr. Pinch-

beck is a photographer of note,

and joined the Hebron group for

discussion and a guided tour of

his works. The Farnsworth exhibit

displayed Mr. Pinchbeck’s large

format pinhole camera images.

“The power of pinhole photogra-

phy allowed me to capture nature

in a way modern photography is

incapable of doing,” he said.

“Long exposure times (sometimes

as much as six hours) and large

print size, combined with

sharpness unlimited by optics

provides for a unique presence

and layering. This medium is now

a part of photographic history as

the advent of digital photography

has made the paper, chemicals

and machines used to process it

obsolete.” His images are the

world’s largest, one-of-a-kind

direct positive pinhole images

ever to be made.

The class finished off their day

with a walk on the Rockland

breakwater and a stop for ice

cream before returning to

campus.

Leslie Guenther

Seventh graders pull together

Visiting with photographer Chris Pinchbeck. Front: Jenny Walker, Kelcey Robichaud, Mr. Pinchbeck, Lindsey Keith and Paige Kenison. Back: Margaret Fogarty, Sam Wheeler, Sawyer Harkins, Ms. Guenther, Josh Theriault, Janelle Tardif, Brooks Layman, Charlotte Middleton, Jake Sclar and Julia Schneider

Under the guidance of a Station Maine staffer (furthest away), Charlotte Middleton, Brooks Layman, Jake Sclar, Kelcey Robichaud, Sawyer Harkins and Margaret Fogarty try rowing together in an eight-person pulling boat.

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clock tower Planes

Jack Bayley, sixth grade

Walking up the small staircase

With a bunch of holes in the wall

Makes it feel like the 1900s

By the time you're at the top

Of the clock

You can hear the shivers of sixth graders

The damp rain coming from every direction

The angry wind blows at a fast pace

12 colorful planes fly off the 3rd storey

Big bird

My plane soared into the clock

and has been there ever since.

What else is there to do on a cold, rainy spring day than fly paper

airplanes outside? That’s exactly what Steve Middleton’s sixth

grade English class did recently. Mr. Middleton is teaching his sixth

graders how to write poetry using all their senses. He started off the class

by reading the poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by

Wallace Stevens. Concentrating on the smell, taste and feel of a piece of

broccoli, each student wrote a stanza for a class poem naming it “Twelve

Ways to Look at a Piece of Broccoli.”

At the end of class, the sixth graders made brightly colored paper

airplanes and climbed the school building’s open clock tower. As with the

broccoli, Mr. Middleton asked them to focus on what they were feeling and

hearing. Then they flew the planes off the tower. The colors contrasted

beautifully with the gray, gloomy day, and the kids whooped with pleasure.

Their final task was to write a poem based on that experience.

Christine Hemmings

Sixth graders in the clock tower: Jack Bayley, Austin Smith, Sarah Brouwer, Caitlin Shelley, Mr. Middleton, Rachel Jurek, McCaela Prentice, Sabrina Maamouri-Cortez and Will Kannegieser.

eighth grade leadership

Working together to cross the river, eighth graders Adria Hughes, Roz Moisan, Sydney Randall, Sam Futch, Kolby Robichaud, Brad Geismar, Quinn Fogarty and Pat Shelley take part in a team-building game.

For his contribution to the “eighth grade reads” program, Pat Shelley

reads Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” under the watchful eye of Hebron alumnus Hannibal Hamlin,

Lincoln’s first vice president.

This year the Middle School

faculty debuted a new eighth

grade leadership program,

mirroring the leadership training

now done with upper schoolers.

“We started the leadership

program with the goal of having

the eighth grade students take

more of a leadership role in all

aspects of their middle school

lives” said Middle School Director

Paul Brouwer.

The eighth graders came for a

day of team-building games and

activities before the rest of the

students. They also learned about

the qualities of effective leaders,

including honesty, tolerance and

respect. Throughout the year, the

students have used their advisory

period time to learn about

famous leaders and discuss what

contributed to their success.

These students have used

their leadership skills to run

morning meeting and plan middle

school dances and events. This

spring, as an introduction to

public speaking, each member of

the class read a favorite poem or

story in front of the student body.

“We are very pleased with

how well these students have

responded to the added

responsibility that has been given

to them,” said eighth grade

advisor Steve Middleton. “We

look forward to this program

helping to build confidence and

self-esteem in the years to come.”

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entrepreneurship challenges students

Former Red Sox minority

partner and vice president Les

Otten spoke to students during

Community Meeting on April

22. Mr. Otten quoted former

Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling to

inspire students to think “why

not me” when imagining their

own success. As a Maine-based

entrepreneur, he challenged

them to have a winning attitude

and to build a strong and

prosperous future right here in

the Pine Tree State.

The 2009 edition of Hebron Academy’s Entrepreneurship

Program came to a close on Thursday, April 30, when four

teams of student entrepreneurs presented their businesses

to a panel of judges. Throughout the year, students heard stories of

success—and failure—from alumni, parents and friends who served

as guest speakers and mentors. This spring they started their own

campus-based businesses, responsible for planning, marketing, selling,

and ultimately presenting their results. The judges chose the win-

ning teams based on most profit, best plan and best presentation.

most Profitablemerit Genesissor (Seok Won Jee

’10, Jai Kim ’11, Seung Woo Kim

’10, Seung Hee Lee ’11, Sang

Min ’10 and Hoin Na ’10) who

sold anion bracelets. Popular-

ized by Team Korea in the World

Baseball Classic, the bracelets—

said to improve health and sports

ability —were a big seller. The

team, each of whose members

will receive $500, plans to donate

part of the profits to a church

and part to the sophomore class.

As for the team name, it was an

original coinage of the group.

best business Plant&N enterprises (Taylor

Theriault ’11 and Natalia Peña

’11), who sold custom T-shirts

in two styles, one listing the

senior class. Taylor and Nata-

lia will receive $250 each.

best PresentationPrestige enterprises (Andrew

Burgess ’11, Kees van Haas-

teren ’09, Tom Pagnozzi ’11,

Erika Thomas ’11, Jeff Morgan

’09), sellers of Andrew Bur-

gess’s original music CDs. Team

members will each receive $200.

most FunJackie chen enterprises (Yu

Zhang ’09 and Kai Chen ’09), who

sold “fun” foods to dorm resi-

dents. The team will receive $100.

Hebron Academy trustees Bob

Rich ’49 and Scott Nelson ’91,

and local businessman Daryel

Duhaime served as judges for the

event, which marked the end of a

year-long program involving sev-

eral guest speakers and regular

Monday night sessions through-

out the winter and spring led by

faculty adviser Bob MacLellan.

“Despite interruptions in the

form of three snow days,” said

Mr. MacLellan, “The students

did an amazing job, and I’m very

proud of their accomplishments.”

David Inglehart

entrepreneurship begins at home

Seok Won Jee ’10, Jai Kim ’11, Seung Woo Kim ’10, Seung Hee Lee ’11, Sang Min ’10 and Hoin Na ’10, as Merit Genesissor, sold anion bracelets and garnered top honors as the most profitable business.

Best Presentation honors went to Prestige Enterprises (Tom Pagnozzi ’11,

Andrew Burgess ’11, Kees van Haasteren ’09 and Erika Thomas ’11) who marketed and sold CDs of Andrew’s original music.

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allen Field dedicated

Stephanie Allen, board chair Reeve Bright ’66, John McGonagle ’61, Jane Allen Smith, David Smith, Peter Allen and Head of School John King by the boulder marking the Eleanor D. and Claude L. Allen, Jr. Field.

Head of School John King addressed a crowd of students, alumni, parents and friends on the slope just above the field.

On Saturday, May 2, a group of students, trustees, faculty

and alumni gathered for the dedication of Hebron’s new athletic field. Alumnus John McGonagle ’61 recommended that the field be named for Claude L. and Eleanor D. Allen, in honor of their 27 years of service to the school.

In 1945, Claude Allen was hired by Hebron’s board of trustees to reopen the school, which had been closed dur-ing World War II. He and Mrs. Allen moved to campus and spent a year coordinating building repair, hiring teachers and finding students. Hebron Academy reopened in the fall of 1946 with fourteen teachers and 125 boys.

The Allens retired in 1972 and moved to South Paris where they kept up a lively correspon-dence with former “Hebron boys” and visited campus for special events. Mr. Allen died in 1982 and Mrs. Allen eventually

moved to Kennebunk to be closer to her daughter, Jane. She died the day after the field was dedicated (see page 43).

Dedication speakers included Head of School John King, Board Chair Reeve Bright ’66, Jane Allen Smith and John McGonagle. All the speakers talked about Claude Allen’s outsized personality, Eleanor

Allen’s tempering influence and the commitment of both to the school. Together, the Allens touched a generation of students and built a strong and lasting foundation for Hebron Academy.

Situated on cleared land below the new athletic center, Allen Field doubles as a boys’ lacrosse field. At 120 yards by

75 yards the playing surface is the optimum size for soccer as recommended by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It also provides a large playing space for lacrosse, with ample overplay areas (i.e., the field is more than 20 yards longer and about 15 yards wider than required for lacrosse).

“Allen Field complements Dwyer Fields and gives some much-needed practice and play space for our six soccer teams who had been sharing two ‘real’ fields plus the Bowl,” said ath-letic director Leslie Guenther. “It completes our complex of fields and is sited wonderfully.”

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winter sports roundup

Hebron’s scores are listed first

boys’ varsity basketball12/5 Richmond 65 4212/6 Gould 64 4912/10 Kents Hill 67 4112/13 St. Andrews 55 80Lawrence/Groton Tournament12/19 Holderness 57 5412/19 Groton 73 7512/20 Cushing 40 651/8 Hyde 57 641/9 St. Mark’s 37 831/14 New Hampton “B” 70 461/16 St. Andrews 61 941/17 Marianapolis 46 1141/21 Brewster “B” 77 351/23 Putnam Sci. Acad. 1/24 Lee Academy 52 1031/30 Exeter 81 991/31 Brimmer & May 56 742/4 Brewster “B” 65 502/13 Vermont 86 912/14 KUA 74 872/18 Kents Hill 75 572/25 Holderness 45 812/26 Tilton

boys’ Jv basketball12/9 Elan 37 4812/10 Buckfield 43 2812/13 Gould 27 351/8 Richmond 42 45

1/10 Hyde 38 311/14 Merriconeag 9th

Grade 27 251/16 Richmond 44 481/19 Kents Hill 31 301/24 Hyde 27 471/30 Berwick 42 331/31 Richmond 33 392/3 Elan 35 412/4 Merriconeag 9th

Grade 34 262/5 Kents Hill 35 342/11 Gould

Girls’ varsity basketball12/5 Richmond 14 3812/8 Buckfield 16 4312/9 Elan 54 1112/13 Gould 22 231/6 NYA 22 481/10 Hyde 22 571/13 Seacoast 32 341/14 Gould 23 441/15 Grtr Prtlnd Chrstn 30 331/17 Proctor 25 241/19 Kents Hill 20 351/23 Seacoast 33 361/26 Hyde 22 431/30 Grtr Prtlnd Chrstn 34 381/31 Richmond 38 552/3 Elan 55 72/5 Kents Hill 48 30

boys’ varsity HockeyAtlanta Showcase11/28 Opponent TBA 11/29 Opponent TBA 11/30 Opponent TBA 12/3 Holderness 8 012/7 Worcester 7 112/12 Acad. St. Louis 11 212/13 Prtsmth Abbey 5 0BB&N Tournament12/30 Proctor 4 212/31 Wllstn-Nrthmptn 6 512/31 Roxbury Latin 4 01/5 Boston Bulldogs 2 61/10 South Kent @BU 5 61/14 Proctor 6 41/16 Stanstead 2 41/17 Kents Hill 3 01/21 Pingree 10 11/24 Holderness 4 51/30 Hoosac 9 21/31 Brewster 6 12/4 NYA 7 32/5 Bridgton 4 52/6 Berwick 5 22/11 Berwick 7 0

2/13 Brunswick 5 32/18 New Hampton 5 32/20 Bstn Jr. Rangers 6 22/21 Kngswd Oxfrd 3 02/25 NYA 2 32/28 Holt Conf. playoff

vs. Worcester 8 0New England Tournament3/4 Vermont 6 03/7 NYA 5 23/8 New Hampton 2 3

Congratulations to Chad Goodwin ’09 who was named to the NEPSIHA DII All-Star team. Chad and teammate Chris Gacsy ’10 were also named to the Holt Tournament first team, and Bryan Felice ’10 to the second team.

boys’ Jv Hockey12/6 New Hampton 6 012/10 Berwick 6 212/12 Acad. St. Louis 3 312/13 Acad. St. Louis 0 2JV Prep School Tournament @NYA

Winter 2008–2009 was another good season. Hebron skiers and snowboarders were able to hit the slopes regularly, and the weather rarely affected other teams’

schedules and travel plans. The ski team hosted the New England Class B Championship meet at Shawnee Peak in February, an event which included 150 racers from 15 different schools, and was wonderfully successful thanks to the tremendous support of Hebron faculty, staff and parents.

Though small in number, the girls’ hockey team experienced good success again this winter, winning the St. George’s Christmas tournament early in the season and earning their sixth New England tournament bid since the program began in 1999.

The boys’ junior varsity hockey team continued their fine play as well, finishing with an overall record of 14–6–1 and following up their inaugural win with a second JV Prep Tourney title in December.

Following suit, the boys’ varsity hockey team had one of its strongest seasons in recent years, winning the Holt Conference Championship and earning the #1 seed to the New England tournament where they had convincing wins in both the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds before falling one goal short in the championship game.

Captain Eric Rodriguez ’09 at a face off.

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alumni/Parent hockey game draws crowdIn January, nearly 30 players

laced up their skates and joined

the fun at the annual Alumni/

Parent Hockey game. The non-

hitting, medium-paced play

resulted in a well-fought tie.

Front: Dima Naida ’07, Dan Carpentier ’03, Laurent Marmo ’02, Chris Dyer ’02, Mike Hughes, George Dycio ’78, Rick Rigazio ’71, Craig Clark ’70, Marc Roy ’78 and Michael Blais.

Back: Jay Keough, Costa Tsitouras ’08, Matt St. Pierre ’07, Dave Woods ’08, Jason Goodman ’08, Jake Leyden ’99, James LeBlanc ’02, Kevin Osborne ’01, Pat Taylor ’00, Chris Nadeau ’04, Brendan Densmore ’00, Geoff Newitt ’08, Randy Morin ’04, John Slattery ’04, a mystery man and Bruce Canty.

12/19 KUA 4 112/19 NYA 2 012/20 Kents Hill 3 112/20 NYA 5 01/9 St. Dom’s 6 11/10 Tilton 6 01/14 Kents Hill 8 21/17 ME Moose Elite 4 51/23 Acad. St. Louis 1 21/24 Acad. St. Louis 1 21/30 NYA 2 31/31 Maine Pre Preps 5 32/4 Brewster 2 02/5 St. Dom’s 4 02/13 Holderness 4 22/18 Kents Hill 6 22/20 NYA 2 3

Girls’ varsity Hockey11/21 NEWHL 6 012/10 Governor’s Acad. 3 512/13 Gunnery 3 2St. George’s Tournament12/19 St. George’s 3 112/20 Holderness 2 1Northwood Tournament1/2 Northwood 4 31/3 Ont. Hock. Acad. 1 91/4 NJ Colonials 4 11/4 Boston Shamrocks 2 51/9 St. Mark’s 3 61/10 Stanstead 5 21/14 Kents Hill 2 01/16 BB&N 0 51/21 NYA 0 21/24 Proctor 8 21/30 Exeter 1 51/31 Brewster 2 8

2/4 Holderness 3 22/6 Middlesex 6 32/7 Rivers 1 82/14 Canterbury 3 22/15 Winchendon 3 62/18 Proctor 4 42/21 New Hampton 3 02/28 NYA 5 2New England Tournament3/4 Dexter Southfield 0 1

alpine Skiing1/9 GS @Sunday Riv. 1/14 GS @Shawnee Pk 1/16 SL @Sunday Riv. 1/21 SL @Kents Hill 2/4 GS @Shawnee Pk 2/5 SL @Kents Hill 2/11 NE C’ship

@Shawnee Pk. 2/16 MAISAD C’ship

SL and GS @Kents Hill

Snowboarding1/23 SS @Sunday Riv. 1/21 SS @Sunday Riv. 2/4 HP @Sunday Riv. 2/6 HP @Sunday Riv. 2/11 BA @Kents Hill 2/18 BA @Kents Hill

Kaitlyn Paiton ’11 takes the ball while Emily Powers ’10 (#14), Laura Dow ’11

(#21) and Emma Leavitt ’10 (#20) follow.

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Hebron’s scores are listed first

baseball4/9 Bridgton 3 234/11 Proctor 15 54/14 Winthrop 5 14/15 Berwick 6 64/17 Telstar 8 04/23 Gould 11 04/28 Bridgton 1 34/29 New Hampton 14 65/1 Kents Hill 15 55/6 Gould 17 1

5/8 Kents Hill 11 15/13 MAISAD semifinal5/16 MAISAD c’ship

vs. Gould 6 1

Jv baseball4/11 Gould 9 164/15 Kents Hill 7 44/25 Kents Hill 16 144/29 Gould 2 125/11 Buckfield 3 2

Spring sports roundupKate Mingle ’10 and Claire Cummings ’09 lead a pack of runners at a Hebron track meet.

The weather cooperated again for much of the spring season, and when it didn’t, our athletic center provided wonderful indoor practice spaces for many of our teams. Outdoors, our

track, tennis courts, and field complex supported all of our teams well; we are fortunate to have such fine facilities. Congratulations to the varsity baseball team who capped off a 9–2–1 regular season with a solid win in the maisad championship game, and to the girls’ tennis team who are the maisad team champions for the first time since 2000. Congratulations, as well, to the track team as well on their fine showing in the New England Class C Championship meet. The boys’ team finished a respectable 12th out of 19 teams, while the girls team (only five strong!) finished a remarkable 6th out of 19 teams.

boys’ lacrosseCongratulations to USA Lacrosse New England All-Star Derek Gilbreth ’09

4/4 Winchendon @ Gould 3 6

4/11 Proctor 2 164/15 Holderness 1 134/17 Gould 7 154/18 Kents Hill 0 84/21 NYA 8 74/22 New Hampton 7 44/24 Kents Hill 2 104/25 Brewster 3 164/29 Tilton 3 165/2 Gould 8 165/6 Hyde 8 35/7 Hyde 4 85/8 Berwick 0 145/13 MAISAD semifinal

vs. Gould 10 21

boys’ Jv lacrosse4/11 Proctor 6 164/16 Hyde 6 114/18 Kents Hill 8 24/22 Gould 7 84/25 Kents Hill 7 85/1 Berwick 4 2

5/2 Gould 7 65/6 Hyde 5 145/13 MAISAD semifinal

vs. Gould 13 75/16 MAISAD c’ship

vs. Hyde 2 12

Girls’ lacrosseCongratulations to USA Lacrosse New England All-Stars Maisie Metcalfe ’09 and Sarah Markey ’11

4/4 Hyde @ Bowdoin 8 104/11 Gould 14 134/15 Proctor 7 64/22 New Hampton 4 144/24 NYA 14 44/25 Kents Hill 5 94/29 Tilton 7 65/2 Gould 8 95/6 Hyde 6 75/8 Kents Hill 7 105/9 Berwick 9 105/13 MAISAD semifinal

vs. Kents Hill 3 8

Softball4/14 Winthrop 1 154/15 Kents Hill 6 74/17 Telstar 4 114/18 Proctor 6 164/22 Exeter 5 144/24 Gould 17 04/29 Kents Hill 8 45/2 Kents Hill 12 135/9 Gould 16 25/13 MAISAD semifinal5/16 MAISAD c’ship

vs. Kents Hill 8 12

2008–2009 maISad team championships

Field HockeyBoys’ JV Soccer

Boys’ Varsity SoccerBaseball

Girls’ Tennis

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boys’ varsity tennis4/11 Hyde 2 34/13 Bridgton 0 54/15 Gould 1 44/20 Bridgton 3 24/22 Kents Hill 3 24/29 Kents Hill 2 35/2 Gould 2 35/6 Hyde 2 35/9 Exeter JV 1 55/13 MAISAD singles5/16 MAISAD doubles

boys’ Jv tennis4/15 Berwick 4 14/22 Gould 3 24/24 Kents Hill 3 24/29 Berwick 4 15/4 Kents Hill 3 25/6 Gould 3 2

Girls’ varsity tennis4/8 Gould 1 44/15 Kents Hill 3 24/22 Gould 3 24/25 Kents Hill 1 44/29 Berwick 0 55/1 Kents Hill 4 15/9 Gould 3 25/13 MAISAD singles5/16 MAISAD doubles

Girls’ Jv tennis4/15 Kents Hill 5 04/20 Oxford Hills4/22 Kents Hill 3 24/29 Berwick5/4 Oxford Hills5/6 Berwick 1 55/8 Kents Hill 2 3

Geoff Bowen ’10.

track and Field4/11 Exeter Invitational4/18 Hebron Invitational4/25 Hyde Invitational5/9 MAISADs5/16 New Englands

Congratulations to the track team on their terrific showing at the New England Championship meet. Highlights listed below:

Girls’ team: Finished 6th of 19 teams; only 4 points out of 4th place

For the girls:

Emma Leavitt ’10 —1st in the 400m; 2nd in the 200m; 2nd in the long jump

Claire Cummings ’09—2nd in 1500m

Kate Mingle ’10—6th in the High Jump

Girls 4X400 relay (Jenna Bosse ’12, Kate Mingle ’10, Claire Cummings ’09, Emma Leavitt ’10)—5th place

Boys’ team: Finished a respectable 12th of 19 teams.

For the boys:

Colin Taylor ’10—6th in the 100m; 5th in the 200m

Aaron Paiton ’10—3rd in the high jump

Nick Stuer ’10—4th in the discus

April showers couldn’t deter our spring athletes. Here, the tennis teams practice on the athletic center floor while runners train on the track above.

maISad academic all conference team

This distinction recognizes varsity impact players

who are juniors or seniors and who have

distinguished themselves both academically and athletically throughout

the school year.

2009 Hebron recipientsMaisie Metcalfe ’09

Kailey Bubier ’09Brian McDonald ’10

Emma Valli ’10

Boys 4X100 relay (Aaron Paiton ’10, Seung Hee Lee ’11, Eric Rodriguez ’09, Colin Taylor ’10)—4th place

Boys 4X400 relay (Colin Taylor ’10, Andrew Bettencourt ’10, Andrew Churchill ’10, Eric Rodriguez ’09)—3rd place

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This is one of the oldest documents in Hebron Academy’s Bell-Lipman Archives. The exhibition was probably sponsored by the Tyrocinic Adelphi Society, formed in 1802 by the town’s (male) schoolteachers. The Tyrocinic Adelphi became part of the Academy a few years later and eventually admitted women, for library privileges only.


Our Own Entertainments

by Jennifer F. Adams

Human beings are storytellers. We tell stories to explain mysteriesbeyond our comprehension or to point out great truths or to make each other laugh. In ancient times, storytellers were travelers, bringing tales of farawaylands, of gods and goddesses and of human nature to those who could not journey. Theater grew out of

simple storytelling, and groups of actors took to the stage, engaging and entertaining their audiences.In Hebron Academy’s earliest days, students and teachers alike took part in the honored tradition of storytelling and

performance, “making their own entertainments” as isolated populations have always done. The Bell-Lipman Archives at Hebron

are filled with ephemera relating to these entertainments, from “exhibitions” and prize speaking competitions to the literary

societies that flourished in the late nineteenth century and the full theatrical productions of the twentieth and twenty-first.

The Hebron Academy Lyceum Association grew out of the Tyrocinic Adelphi and was open to both boys and girls. The association held public lyceums—programs of music, declamations, readings and other entertainments—as well as serving a social function for its members.


In 1802, before the school’s founding, the young male teachers in the town formed the Tyrocinic Adelphi Society, for the purpose of “introducing a uniformity of books and manners into their schools—and improving each other in pronunciation; English grammar and correct reading and speaking” (excerpt from a letter of William Barrows, Jr., North Yarmouth, dated March 1, 1815). The Tyrocinic began admitting Academy students in 1806 and was soon part of the school. They started a library and began admitting women, but for library privileges only. The Society organized annual “exhibitions” in addition to weekly debates and was the principal source of entertainment for many years.

The 1824 schedule of exercises shown on page 16 was probably arranged by the Tyrocinic Adelphi. Although we know the story of William Tell, we can only specu-late about the subjects of the other named “dialogues” or the topics of the addresses. It is interesting to note that both boys and girls took part in the group numbers but it appears that only the boys orated.

In the 1860s the male-only Tyrocinic was dropped in favor of the Hebron Academy Lyceum Association, open to both boys and girls. The program from the public lyceum of 1886, shown on page 17, includes musical numbers, readings and a debate, framed as “Discussion of Question: Resolved: That a College is better than a Business Education for an American Citizen.”

By the mid-1890s, the Lyceum had turned back into the Tyrocinic Adelphi, and was now the parent literary and forensic body of the Bellevue Debating Society,

formed by the boys living in the Bellevue boarding house, and the Percival Bonney Literary Society, named for a trustee. The two groups met weekly to prepare for public debates sponsored by the Tyrocinic.

Meanwhile the girls formed their own club, the Alpha Literary Society, which met bi-weekly in the girls’ parlor in Cook Gym-nasium. The two programs shown above are charming examples from the Alpha Receptions of 1908 and 1909, both held in Sturtevant Home. The 1908 program included an orchestra, “statue posing” and

a reading, followed by a banquet. The 1909 program also featured music, toasts and a banquet of sandwiches, salted nuts, olives, fancy crackers, candy, punch and ice cream.

The two Alpha Literary Society programs shown above, from 1908 and 1909, are among the most charming objects in the Archives. The printed pieces are hand-embellished with flowers and tied with ribbon.

The piece at left is from the prize speaking exhibi-tion, held in 1912. The judges were Perley H. Ford, principal of Mechanic Falls High School; Ella J. Dwinal of Mechanic Falls; and Dr. W. M. Garrison, from the Maine Sanatorium in Hebron. John Mat-thews won first prize for the boys and Ralph Goodrich finished second. Girls’ honors went to Kathryne Sturte-vant and Florence Adams.


The early years of the twentieth century show how much Hebron Academy had grown during its first century. Principal William Sargent, who came to Hebron in 1885, transformed the Academy from a rural town school into a more formal educational institution. He oversaw the first real building boom, erecting Sturtevant Hall in 1891 and Sturtevant Home in 1900; Atwood Hall followed in 1909.

Prof. Sargent also worked diligently to upgrade the curriculum and provide wholesome social functions for the students. In 1905 he hired Harold C. Newton to teach English. Mr. Newton had a passion for debate. Building on the foundations of the literary societies, he strengthened the students’ debate skills, leading eventually to interscholastic competitions under the guidance of Ernest C. Marriner who took over in 1912.

The program on page 18 shows the prize speaking exhibition of March 16, 1912, held in the Baptist Church. The speakers are divided almost evenly between boys and girls; several of the boys went on to regional contests. As in 1824, most of the selections are now obscure, wth the possible exception of Daniel Webster’s second Bunker Hill Address.

With the untimely death of Prof. Sargent in 1921, the school underwent another fundamental change, becoming boys-only. Athletics grew in importance and the same competitive spirit took hold in performance opportunities. By the 1930s, the debate team competed against other high schools

and a thriving drama club entered one act competitions. The new Sargent Memorial Gymnasium included a stage, providing a real theater for the drama club’s shows. In 1933, the club’s production of “Submerged” won the one act competition preliminaries and finished second in the state finals. They went on to the New England contest, finishing third.

Although theater was thriving in the 1940s—the seniors mounted another production of “Submerged” in 1941—the Great Depression was putting pressure on the school’s finances. More and more masters and students were enlisting to fight in the war, and the trustees reluctantly concluded that the school should close for the duration.

When Claude Allen reopened the school in the fall of 1946, he chose to focus at first on academics and athletics. The arts were completely extra-curricular, with many musical groups complemented by art and book fairs.

According to the Winter 1962 Semester, “the art of the legitimate stage was effectively revived” when the Dramatics Club, under the direction of Dick Stratton, presented “Twelve Angry Men” in December 1961. The play was well-received and the group presented an equally fine production of “Stalag 17” in the spring. Drama was back.

The 1933 production of “Submerged” in which a submarine officer and five men are trapped on the ocean floor. Drawing lots to see who will be shot through the torpedo tube to attract the attention of rescuers, the hysterical cowardice of one of the men leads to the noble self-sacrifice of another.

A student-directed production of Bill Johnson’s melodrama Dirty Work at the Crossroads; or Tempted, Tried and True featuring Kim Kenway ’70 as Ida Rheingold, Peter Kimball ’70 as Nellie Lovelace, Doug Endreson ’72 as Widow Lovelace and Donald Baumer ’70 as Mookie Maguggins.

Over the next few years Mr. Stratton and others directed a variety of serious plays, such as Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, St. Joan, by George Bernard Shaw and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, leavened by an occasional lighter offer-ing such as Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring.

In 1970, students staged a classic of a completely different kind: Bill Johnson’s melodrama Dirty Work at the Crossroads; or Tried, Tempted and True. A 1942 recreation of a classic melodrama, Dirty Work featured a mustachioed villain and pure-hearted (although thickheaded) hero among other standard characters.

Nineteen seventy-two brought another paradigm shift. Claude Allen retired and once again Hebron began to admit girls. Although athletics and arts stayed strong, theater went on hiatus for a few years, com-ing back to the fore when English teacher Nick Durso directed a production of Neil Simon’s The Good Doctor in 1978. The suc-cess of that production inspired Mr. Durso to expand Hebron’s theater offerings and The Good Doctor was followed by extremely suc-cessful presentations of Godspell and Pippin and a staging of the difficult Equus.

From the seventies on, many shows were performed on the smaller stage of the 80-seat Lepage Lecture Hall in the Treat Science Building. Although “backstage”


space had to be carved out of the lobby for each perfor-mance, smaller crews found the intimate lecture hall space to be more appropriate for smaller shows.

After piloting a run of intense productions, the char-ismatic but controversial Durso moved on from Hebron. Several faculty members stepped in to direct one or two shows a year, ranging from simple one acts to musicals like Little Shop of Hor-rors and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; from small casts to large; from drama to comedy. In 1983, Shakespeare returned to the Hebron boards when Helen Davidson directed The Taming of the Shrew. Seven-teen years later, in 2000, senior Elizabeth Rozeboom did what she had always wanted to do, and directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, played to standing-room-only crowds in the lecture hall.

The newest chapter in Hebron drama began in 2001, when renovations to the stage house and upper gym, made pos-sible by trustee emeritus Albert Lepage ’65, created the Androscoggin Theater. New curtains and light-ing brought the unused theater space back to life, and with the arrival of Admission staffer Julie Middleton, a bright and vibrant life indeed.

Ms. Middleton had directed large musicals at her former school and decided that the Hebron community could rise to that challenge as well. From

her first production, Working, chosen in large part because its vignette structure made schedul-ing easier, to this year’s beautiful yet heart-breakingly sad Once On This Island, Ms. Midd’s shows have increased in scope with each presentation.

Performance, by its very nature, is ephemeral. These printed programs and pho-tographs cannot capture the excitement of live debate or theater. While we can only imagine what the perfor-mances of the nineteenth century were like, we do

know this: some of the participants loved it, some were taking a chance on trying something new, and all of them learned from the experience. Ultimately, our own entertainments are the ones we remember in the stories we tell.

Left: John Philbrick ’80 and John Benbow ’78 in Godspell, one of a series of plays produced in the late 1970s that revitalized Hebron drama.

Top: Steve Baker ’88 (Seymour), Nicole Chase ’91 (Audrey) and Rob Burns ’89 (Mr. Mushnik) in the 1988 production of Little Shop of Horrors.

Right: storytellers Andrew Burgess ’11, Lydia Drown ’09, Sarah Fensore ’09 (hidden), Leah Schultz ’09, Kim Vigneau ’11, Jiyeon Ko ’11, Abbie Small ’12, Sophia Chen ’09 and Candace Woods ’10 surround Mary Randall ’09 (kneeling) and Bobby Morrill ’10 in a scene from Once On This Island.


A Symphony of Space


Fine arts have a long history at Hebron Academy. Students have been drawing, painting, sculpting and performing for as long as the school has been in existence. For many years co-curricular, the arts became part of the curriculum in the late 1960s. From basement studios in Atwood, the School Building, and, more recently, Sturtevant Home, the arts faculty have been creative forces, training a generation of students in the techniques of visual and performance arts. In the last decade, rising numbers of students involved in arts put increasing pressure on the available space. Clearly, the arts department needed a home of its own.

In 2001, trustee emeritus Albert R. Lepage ’65 initiated the first step of what would eventually become the Lepage Center for the Arts. His generous gift made possible renovations to the stage house and theater

The art is everywhere. Finished sketches,

paintings and photographs line the walls.

Works in progress cover the drawing

tables like snowdrifts. Sculpture fills every flat

surface (and some vertical ones). Carts of glazed

pottery wait to be fired and tables groan from

the weight of finished pieces. And all of the

activity comes with a soundtrack of student

ensembles and soloists.


space in Sargent Memorial Gymnasium, creating the Androscoggin Theater. Mr. Lepage came forward again in 2005, designating funds to convert the gym into a fine arts center when the time was right.

The time was right in December 2008 when the new athletic center opened, freeing Sargent gymnasium for remodeling. The school’s own buildings and grounds staff swung into action. They upgraded infrastructure, reconfigured existing facilities, built new walls and creatively reused materials. With construction complete in March, the arts faculty moved into their new home over spring break, stretching out into a wealth of studio, classroom, practice and performance space, and filling the building with vivid color and joyous song.

Join us for a tour.

We meet Beth Barefoot, incoming chair of the fine arts department, in the

Dwyer Room. Until recently, the Dwyer Room was a meeting and gathering place with a large conference table, couches and armchairs, and a couple of display cases. It is now a student-friendly music classroom outfitted with desks, bookshelves, music files and, unexpectedly, a Smartboard.

“I use a lot of YouTube in my general music classes,” Ms. Barefoot said. “We can

project it right up there so everyone can see. The Smartboard software includes ‘music teacher tools’ which allow us to put up music staves and either draw notes freehand or drag what we need from the toolbox. [Instrumental music teacher] John Lawson is much more of a master of it than I am, but I love it and the kids love it too.”

Along with the stage, the Dwyer Room is used as a teaching studio for voice and instrumental music. The old girls’ locker room next to the stage is outfitted with a piano and whiteboard and although the room is long and narrow it works well for ensemble voice rehearsals.

“We do need more practice room space.” Ms. Barefoot said as we entered the lobby. “Fortunately, Maintenance is wonderful and they made a new practice room at the top of the stairs on the end of the balcony. It’s carpeted and has an electronic piano.”

Church pews and artwork transform the lobby into a welcoming space before entering the Androscoggin Theater. The theater chairs can be left in place now that the basketball court is no longer needed daily, and the entire main floor looks more and more like a performance space.

Opposite: the lobby sports artwork and pews from the old fine arts center (more pews line the downstairs hallway).

Above: acting department chair Beth Barefoot teaches middle school music in the Dwyer Room, now a music classroom.

Left: in a practice room located in the old girls’ basketball locker room, Mary Randall ’09 and Michael Zielski ’09 prepare an original composition of Michael’s for its premier at Baccalaureate.


We head down the main staircase and onto the ramp to the old lower gym.

Aside from a major refit of the bathrooms and artwork on the walls, this part of the building hasn’t changed much.

“I don’t want to wipe out all memory of the gym here,” Ms. Barefoot said. “It was a gym for 80 years and that history is important. I went to brand-new schools for

elementary, middle school and high school and I love the classic architecture and the arches in this building.”

The area in front of the trainer’s room-turned-kitchenette is now a student lounge. Art students in the class of 2009 painted the floor as a farewell gift and there are plans for a mural on the wall. More practice rooms will be tucked into the storage areas around the lounge.

As we turn the corner into the old lower gym we find the biggest, brightest

changes made in the building. New walls divide the area into four huge studio spaces and create a corridor around them. The walls go about three-quarters of the way to the ceiling, allowing natural light from the western windows to flood the space, and are covered with student work in an ever-changing kaleidoscope of images and colors. More church pews, and more artwork, line the old brick walls on the other side of the new corridor.

The first room is a bright and happy middle school art classroom with plenty of space for both instruction and display. A corner inset from the hallway is the perfect place for teacher Mary Anderson to project slides and presentations on the wall. Next in line is a photography room, divided into a digital studio and traditional darkroom.

Beyond photography is sculpture and finally pottery, with plenty of room for a kiln, six wheels, worktables and storage.

We continue around the far corner into the entrance to the old fitness center. This soaring space is home to three studios, separated from each other by moveable partitions recycled out of hockey rink boards and flats from past drama productions. The large northwest-facing windows let in plenty of natural light for the drawing, painting, photography and design classes held here.

We thank Ms. Barefoot for the tour and go on our way, envying the students who are drawing, sculpting, singing and playing, just like they always have, in a new home just for them.

Top left: Alessandra Hankinson ’10 works on one of six wheels in a pottery studio three times larger than the old one.

Bottom left: Erika Thomas ’11 and Polly Drown ’11 tweak a floor painting done by members of the class of 2009 in the student lounge.

Above: Nat Blackford ’12 works on a drawing in one of three sudios located in the old fitness center area.


The hands move quietly, wrists gently arched, fingers softly extended and spread, their knuckles contracting slightly as the tips touch

down to the keys, lift and move aside. Lifting from the wrists, fingers brushing back, the hands move to the right, fingers extending again to a higher range, brushing downward, pausing, extending, drifting, sliding onward, as the soft flow of notes gradually ascends. Beneath, obscured from immediate view, the shoes, soleless, worn from black to a faded gray, mirror the fingers above, rolling to the edge of the sole against a pedal, inclining backward on a heel to touch down one pedal to the right, pause, press, and now lift to roll again, back and forth, touching leather to worn wooden bars, first one soft press and then another. Forest Perkins, hands and feet in gentle motion, plays a prelude of English plainsong on the Baldwin organ in the loft above the Hebron Community Church.

It is Friday of Baccalaureate. Another senior class is about to enter the church for a final time together, to gather as class and school-mates for a last meeting of the year. Above incidental noise below—the rustling of pro-grams, the soft creak of wood as the pews accommodate students, faculty, parents and friends, the slight bump of prizes and chairs being readied at the podium, the light fluttering chatter of small conversations in the aisle—drifting notes of plainsong rise in the air, hover for a moment in an upper register, diminish and recede, the sequence of elevated notes replaced for a time by a strong, vibrating bass, sustained and rumbling before the treble begins again, walking, pausing, quietly posing variations upon a simple melody line.

The moment has arrived. A rustle greets the Head of School as he steps to the platform. In the loft above, the left hand and a foot sustain a final chord, while with the right, a series of stops is bumped up or down to set the mood and tone for the coming procession. A final pause as a plainsong note lingers in the air, and then the burst of sound as hands and feet move together to form the opening chord and arpeggio of Jeremiah Clarke’s “Trumpet Voluntary”—known as the “Prince of Denmark’s March”—the opening

Seeds of Love and Light

by David W. Stonebraker


processional on this day as it has been for over twenty-five years. Looking down, Forest Perkins sets the joyous mood for the entrance of the class with a tune that a generation of Hebron graduates would recognize, if not exactly remember. The seniors take their places in the front pews, the ceremony begins, and Forest shifts from the organ bench to a seat at the back of the loft, unseen but surveying and enjoying quietly all that happens on the floor below.

Most know the punch line to that quintessential Maine story about the

rustic accosted by the stuffy from away who asks, “Lived here all your life?” Asked that question about his home in Hebron, Forest Perkins twinkles as he quips, “Well, almost, but not quite.” For Forest arrived in Hebron when he was just four years old, moving from South Paris into the Melchor Cottage on the Station Road, the small cape that had been shifted from west to east in 1928 across the gravel road to make room for the construction of Sargent Gymnasium. He is rooted there still, in the family homestead where he has had a window on the com-ings and goings of the village for more than half a century, and where he now tends to his youthful apple trees, a selection of scions representing traditional, yet forgotten New England varieties—a Black Oxford, a Wolf River renowned as a baking apple, a traditional Northern Spy and its tart cousin, the Quebec Belle, a Red Astrakan, an English Russet—specimens all that Forest describes with enthusiasm, extolling the best proper-ties of each, but noting as well that they will never produce marketable fruit, just the fine taste of a time gone by.

As a child, Forest went to school in the building recently renovated to be Hebron’s Town Office at a time when that struc-ture comprised just one classroom, the domain of teacher Lucy Eurydice Sturtevant, together with dual outhouses for the chil-dren and an ample woodshed to provide fuel for the stove. Forest made up one half of his graduating class.

The necessity of working with skills for multiple grade levels in a single classroom meant that Ms. Sturtevant pressed the older students into service to tutor the younger

ones. Forest recalls that this practice meant that what was learned one year was reviewed the next and tutored a third, insuring mas-tery of a traditional curriculum of English, mathematics, history, geography, spell-ing and skills not often included today as standing routine: practice in singing and in cursive—the Palmer Method—to develop a pleasing hand.

When asked when he first remembers playing the organ, he pushes the question aside, “I can’t ever remember not play-ing one. I think I started as soon as I could reach the pedals. Many homes in the area had a pump organ in the front parlor.” But clearly, Forest was play-ing by the time he came to Hebron. His entry in the 1955 Spectator states briefly: Vespers Organist, 3; Church Organist, 4. Ms. Sturtevant, “Aunt Dicie” to her students, was responsible for sending Forest to Hebron. At the time, he might have attended high school in either Mechanic Falls or South Paris. School con-solidation with attendant School Admin-istrative Districts would not change the educational landscape of Maine for another decade. However, Aunt Dicie, herself a 1910 graduate of Hebron, would prevail with Mr.

Allen to allow talented local boys to attend the Academy, and Forest

welcomed the opportunity. “I was like any regular

freshie boy that first fall, being required to study each evening in Howe Cottage under the watch-ful eye of Mr. Willard. We attended church twice

on Sundays and meetings most evenings,” a regimen

that many alumni of the time recall, “but I got to play the

organ each Sunday and to have prac-tice time for method. Like most organists,

I started with piano, but loved to play organ whenever I could.”

His Hebron experience led Forest to Gordon College in Massachusetts, where he was admitted as a music major, one of three for organ, and to his first experiences with a master teacher and traditional repertory. His roots of repertoire began with the organ method of Sir John Stainer, a traditional

English method, then to the more expansive method of Harold Gleason as taught by his Gordon College mentor, Professor Nutting. Early study pieces were a selection of the preludes and fugues of Bach and Beethoven followed by training in the nineteenth century English masters and then on further to the early twentieth century French composers.

During this time, Forest first studied the compositions of

Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell, composers who pay a call each May on the occasion of the Baccalaureate. Always, when setting the program for the Baccalaureate, I will ask Forest if Henry and Jeremiah might be available,

and, invariably, he will respond, “Yes, I think they

may be persuaded once again.” And so it is that the processional

“Prince of Denmark’s March” of Jeremiah Clarke and the recessional

“Trumpet Tune in D” of Henry Purcell appear each year on the Baccalaureate program to bracket the ceremony, stirring voluntaries from Forest’s early training at Gordon.

Following college, Forest worked for a time as a retailer, employed by the

Electronic Organ Company in Portland as salesman and installer of many different instruments large and small, those intended for the home as well as substantial installations in churches and auditoriums. Such work added to his foundation in both repertoire and the practical mechanics of the instruments. He would describe or demonstrate the capabilities of the instruments in the showroom and then could be called upon to do the installation or, with larger pieces, to work with the company craftsmen who did. Occasionally, as part of a network of organists, he would be asked by the companies he represented to play concerts on their instruments, and so periods of travel from Maine to Florida and west to heartlands became part of the sales routine.

“Concertizing,” as Forest calls it, was not his heart’s delight, but it did serve to broaden his repertoire, for to truly demonstrate the power and versatility of an instrument required pieces that would highlight the particular capabilities of the model. Traditional pieces such as “Melody


for Organ,” a piece by Charles Dawes written in the time of Lincoln’s presidency, and “Dreams,” by Hugh McAnnis, would be typical of a demonstration concert, but also show tunes from “The Sound of Music” and the Irish standard, “Danny Boy,” could find their way into a demonstration program.

“It would depend in part on the audience and the instrument,” Forest says. “I would always play something from Bach’s Preludes and Fugues, and often an organ treatment of a familiar cantata. You had to be nimble, to have a lot of things under the fingers.”

Forest has been getting tunes under his fingers for decades. When he played a presen-tation concert for the Estes reed organ upon its installation at the Community Church, the program included “Fantasy on the Battle Hymn of the Republic,” a tour de force of melody and variation by American composer David Weir. The piece is in three parts with a concluding toccata that Forest describes as “fiendishly difficult, but what a showpiece!”

The flamboyant qualities remembered from the showpieces of exhibition concerts come, in part, from the particular stops present in some organs that are not typically used in ordinary playing. Forest calls such stops the “toy counter” of an instrument, and he will speak of esoteric stops included in the instruments he has played, the auxiliary manuals that contain the controls for the spe-cial sound effects these instruments can pro-duce. Such stops are particularly associated with theater organs, instruments originally designed to accompany silent movies, but

now more commonly associated with concert venues such as Merrill Auditorium or Radio City Music Hall. Here, at the right hand, are the controls for exotic and most un-organ-like sounds: sleigh bells, tambourines, whistles, chimes, klaxon horns, timpani, glockenspiel, horses’ hooves, car horn, even the Acme Siren, a panoply of noisy effects.

Forest has concertized on the lovely Wurlitzer theater organ at North Yarmouth Academy, a small instrument “but a true theater organ full of sound effects and ‘gizmos,’ but usually when I play theater music, originally the sound tracks for films, the music itself is more likely to be softer, melodic, with lush themes but also the ever present ‘sound effects’ so often associated with these instruments. I had a great time once with the theater organ in the Strand Theater in Portland, before its restoration in the sixties. Now that is an instrument! The whole console was mounted on a lift so that when you began to play, the whole instru-ment rose up out of the orchestra pit!”

It would be a sight to test the limits of the imagination: Hebron’s beloved Mr. Perkins, adorned in a sequined dinner jacket, riding the keyboard console upward at the Strand, like Sir Elton John himself or perhaps the elusive Phantom, to appear high above the audience, stage right, head inclined to the keys, the right hand flicking to the “toy counter” for yet a more exotic combination of sounds. Now, that would be something!

Concertizing was balanced by installa-tions, another branch of the art of the

organ. During the Portland years, Forest recalls, “I was lucky to be able to talk with and work with technicians on many sorts of instruments.” Always the instrument must be matched to its space, its installa-tion taking into account the capabilities of the instrument together with an acoustic study and understanding of the geometry and angles of deflection present in the hall. Installing a new organ becomes a marriage of sorts between the instrument and the physical space, and the master installer will understand intuitively the union of both in the sound produced.

For an installation in Bath, Maine, early in his career, Forest planned for the massive speaker box of a large electronic organ to be suspended from the ceiling, an unusual solution that ultimately provided an unpar-alleled sound to delight. More recently, he was instrumental in locating and installing a “new” organ for Christ Church in Norway. The instrument, located through a national search, was an exemplary Wicks, an exqui-site pipe organ from a traditional family company in Highland, IL. The instrument was located in Michigan, in a nunnery where it served as the instrument for the nuns’ private chapel, an ancillary function to the main church complex.

Forest notes that today, rededicating and rebuilding older instruments is as important as creating new instruments and installations. It is a mission of sorts: to protect older instruments from being destroyed as churches and halls where they were originally installed are put to other uses, to preserve instruments no longer in active use from deteriorating and to seek patronage such that an instrument no longer wanted in one location may find a new voice and a new audience somewhere else. Such was case with the Wicks from Michigan. Available and able to be saved from dismantling, the organ was purchased by Christ Church, disassembled and crated by representatives of the Wicks Company, transported to Norway, Maine, and there reassembled and voiced under Forest’s eye and ear. It is the perfect instrument for the space, “three extended ranks. It feels like it

Opposite page: Forest’s photo in the 1955 Spectator and Lucy Eurydice “Aunt Dicie” Sturtevant in 1910.

This page: Forest played for Hebron Academy’s 175th celebration in 1979.


has always been there. Its voice is wonderful in the space. It is as if it has a new life.”

Even after the physical installation, “voicing” the instrument is what finally allows the instrument to perform at its finest in a particular space. Imagine the pennywhistle of a child. Blow through its mouthpiece. The sound produced is depen-dent on the volume and pressure of your breath and the particular physical geometry of the orifice through which the air passes. Vary the pressure or the hole, or both, and the pitch and tonal quality of the sound will change. Simple. At the heart, an organ “voicer” does just that.

Like our penny-whistle, any given pipe in an organ delivered from its manufacturer will have a particu-lar pitch and tone as determined by the size, thickness and materi-als of the pipe itself, the size and geometry of the hole, or “flute,” in the pipe and the constant pressure of the air provided to the reservoir of the instrument to serve it. An organ voicer may make subtle adjustments to the pipe by altering, however slightly, the flute of the pipe, or, in the case of a reed pipe, by altering the thickness or shape of the metal reed within the pipe. Air to a given pipe cannot be changed because the pressure in the reservoir remains constant for all. In this way, by “voicing the pipes,” the installer creates the unique sound of the instrument balanced for its space and thus, truly, “gives voice” to the instrument. Forest modestly acknowledges that while he has worked occasionally to voice individual pipes of an instrument under repair, he has not had call to voice an entire instrument nor would he feel confident to do so, for even a modest instrument may contain several hundred pipes and a large church or concert installa-tion thousands.

When listening to Forest discuss organs and the craftsmen and

artisans who build and maintain them, one begins to sense a large group, unseen but ever-present, standing behind, beside and within the instrument, responsible for its

metal work, its cabinet work, its fine work, and ultimately its installation and sound. It is an organization of sorts, a brotherhood, a fraternity, a guild, even perhaps an odd-fellows society. It is all of these, but without emblem or a sign on the street, no sash, lapel pin or plume on the cap to distinguish its members or their rank. Yet the network exists, and as an ad for a current wireless telephone service suggests, when one is in the network and needs advice on an organ, “You’re good!”

There had been a call to Forest earlier in the spring from states away concerning an

organ and the means to repair it, the need of a recommendation, perhaps, of a person capable. And the net-work hummed as the conversation touched first one colleague and then another. A consul-tation with the Register followed. Forest opens it to show me: David Fox. Guide to North American Organ Builders. 1991. Bound in sturdy red cloth, it might be a social register for Phila-delphia or a family reg-

istry of a distinguished scion of America. But this guide is for organ people, and here they are listed: the brotherhood, mainly, and fam-ily lines of the great organ builders, Hook, Wicks or Skinner, their companies, their craftsmen, the “voicers” and repairers. And there is a listing, a brief one—Forest Perkins, Hebron, ME, SOP, CR—the abbreviations for “supplier of parts, capable of repair.”

The Register of North American Organ Build-ers may comprise the family tree of American organ, its history and genealogy; but the tra-ditional companies themselves surely are the main limbs and branches. Like the uncommon apple trees in Forest’s yard, the names them-selves evoke sound and history: Aeolian, Aus-tin, Baldwin, Estes, E. & G. Hook, Hutchins, Johnson, Mathias Moeller, Rogers, Ernest M. Skinner, W. Wicks—these the craftsmen and their brands.

When Forest speaks of the positions that he has held, he remembers them by the instrument as well as the institution. His first position was at St. Lawrence in Port-land, an Austin, followed by St. Peters, also in Portland, an Ernest M. Skinner. There

then followed ten years playing a three man-ual Rogers electronic at the Church of the Nazarene in South Portland and a stint with another Rogers at Christ Church, Norway. Next Forest spent eleven years at the bench of a classic E. & G. Hook organ at the Court Street Baptist Church in Auburn and, more recently, ten years with a wonderful M. P. Moeller instrument at the First Universalist Church, South Paris. And always, since the mid-1960’s, Forest has played for Wednes-day Chapel, now Community Meeting, at the Hebron Community Church, his instru-ments an electronic Baldwin and a very fine Estes reed instrument, the gift of former trustee Mary Rea in memory of her husband Jim and daughter Charlotte.

Like the children of a family, Forest remembers each of the instruments fondly, appreciative of their various voices, but unwilling to distinguish any above the others —fine traditional apples all and each distinctive in size, texture and taste.

The speeches and prize giving of the Bac-calaureate celebration nearing conclu-

sion, Forest slips back to the bench, settles himself, and begins to follow the ceremony. Two more organ pieces remain, Samuel Smith’s “Hebron Hymn” and Purcell’s “Trumpet Tune in D.” Samuel Smith, a retired professor at Colby wrote the hymn in response to a request from Percival Bonney for a song for the occasion of the dedication of Sturtevant Hall in 1891.

“The Hymn was written at a time when voices were different,” Forest remarks, “When singing was more universal and voices were accustomed to a higher range.” Now, he pitches the hymn down a fourth from the B-flat key of the traditional tune, “Webb,” so that it may be more easily sung by students and faculty.

Forest has been on the Hebron faculty since 1982, the year that John Leyden approached him to replace then departing Fine Arts Chair, Tony Mollica. At that time, the arts were split between spaces in the basement of Atwood Hall and the lower level of Treat Science Building. The Atwood space hummed with activity as the ensemble groups rehearsed in the space that has more recently been devoted to Ms. Anderson’s art classes, and individual players found practice areas in the remaining nooks and crannies of the building.

A move to the lower level of Sturtevant Home soon followed, realizing Forest’s goal


to bring studio arts and performance music together in the collection of rooms assembled from the expansive undercroft of the big dorm. Always, Forest has presided behind a simple desk in his office or teaching space with students arrayed around him, his man-ner seemingly unhurried by the detail of class preparation, quietly at the ready to reinforce points made in the conversation around him or to pose a question for reflection. The method has not changed, apparently, from Aunt Dicie’s gradual reinforcement through successive practice and tutoring.

Forest has taught Hebron’s music cur-riculum for more than twenty-five years: “Introduction to Music,” always, but elec-tives as well in Theory and Composition, History of Music and Classic Jazz. There is always music playing in the office, a never ending variety of styles and periods—Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky to be balanced by Ray Lynch, George Benson, George Harrison, Bessie Smith, Winton Marsalis, George Winston.

“The music of the office is inclusive to all,” a student remarks, “but he has asked us to refrain from music with four letter words.” Another recalls, “He leans back when he begins to speak and closes his eyes before the words begin to flow. He clasps his hands on the desk in front of him, and flexes his thumbs skyward. Best of all, he needs no prompting to speak—you can sit and simply listen to his slow deliberate words.” A third extends the thought, “He is so calm; he always seems to just sit and listen and rarely comments on anything, but you know he hears every word of the students. When he does speak, it always seems deliberate, as though he knows exactly what he wants to say and is encouraging you to slow down for a moment and think as well.” Playing and teaching seem to become one.

The Baccalaureate address concluded, Mr. King calls for the traditional “first

and third” verses of the Academy Hymn. Forest’s hands press a solid chord then move through a preliminary suggestion of the melody. A pause, leaning back, hands raised, and then the familiar tune begins, “Sow ye beside all waters, the seeds of love and light.”

How many times has Forest played these familiar notes, eyes closed, hearing Samuel Smith’s words flowing through his fingers? Hundreds? More? Upward of a thousand would approximate the renditions of this most familiar tune that has been absolutely under his fingers. Forest’s music and his presence have sown the “seeds of love and light” for a generation of Hebron students, and he has modeled, steadfastly, a love of values and tradition, a genuineness with stu-dents that makes friends of many, a life of constancy and service to his calling as musi-cian. “And train your sons and daughters to wisdom, truth and right.”

Baccalaureate is ending. Closing words offer up the future to the graduates this day. The doors at the rear of the Chapel open. Forest taps a sequence of stops to set the tone for the trumpets to follow, leans back a bit, hands poised, awaiting the final words.

Then a pause and it is come, the climax: Dum, dum, dum. . . Da dum, Da dum, Da dum, Dum. . . The transcendent opening notes of Henry Purcell once again fill the hall as the seniors, arm in arm, together, step off toward the door and toward the future to music measured triumphantly from the loft above.

The tune complete, Mr. Perkins will close the stops and the console, change from organ slippers to street shoes and descend the stairs to greet students and colleagues on the steps of the church.

“I always love seeing him walk across the campus, slowly, deliberately, with his black, worn, briefcase hanging from his hand, the oversized tan coat, making his solitary way across the campus. I love his suspenders and the moment of reflection he takes before every sentence.” Mr. Perkins he may be to his students, but in this community he is a very special apple indeed—organist, mentor, Yoda, a Hebron original—with tang and taste unique but never marketable.

Forest Perkins retires at the close of this year, but there is much music still to be played. “I have two new repertoire books at home awaiting me, and an organ that I would like to work on, a lovely piece to be preserved for the future.”

Opposite page: from the 1984 yearbook.

This page: Center of the arts: Katherine Cole ’07, Brian Knopp ’06, Kelsey Jordan ’07, Sam Chandler ’06, Jon Phillips ’06, Mr. Perkins, Diamond Duryea

’07, Silas Leavitt ’08, Allison Maidman ’07, Morgan Browne ’05, Dave Patriquin ’06 (standing), Michael

Simms ’08 and Elizabeth Cole ’05.


Farewell, Class of 2009

Unconventional DiversityElijah M. Hughes ’09, president

Claire E. Cummings ’09, vice president

As class officers representing the Class of 2009, we stand before you, together, to explore the relationship between diversity

and conventionality, or in the case of our class, unconventionality. The Class of 2009 utilized such qualities to enrich and define themselves during their time at Hebron Academy. It is the purpose of this speech to recognize the diversity of successes and the unconventional accomplishments of the graduating students before you.

school experience. While we undoubtedly associate with a certain group of friends, we do not succumb to the fickle nature of clubs and cliques that can often undermine a cohesive community. There is no ladder of social success; but rather an endless road upon which the Class of 2009 has walked, run, meandered, and scootered; catching up to friends, waiting for classmates, talking, laughing, and involving themselves in one another’s lives. We celebrate that which is surprising and unexpected in each individual: the hockey player’s love of classical music and the artist’s love for solving Rubik’s cube hold equal importance.

The variation of interests surpasses the conventions of high school because it creates a glue which binds us all together; rather than dividing us up into predetermined norms of what achieves popularity and social success. Similar to the concept of “Six

Diverse. Composed of distinct or unlike elements or qualities. The Class of 2009 embodies diversity. We have a diversity in motive, a diversity in ambition, a diversity in experi-ence. Brought together in a great place of learning, we cultivate each other’s abilities. Like any strong team, we have different people performing in different roles. There are the artists, whose physical works and live performances exhibit natural creativ-ity and skill. There are the athletes: strong, competitive, and professionally exceptional in all regards. And then there are the academics, who take Advanced Placement courses as if they were medicine. Together we cover all the bases.

But our tight-knit group is worth more than our collective competence in the many disciplines. By being a diverse group, albeit small, we share our knowledge with each other. In a short time the artist learns, the

athlete creates, and the academic competes. An equilibrium of opportunity is estab-lished in which an honors student can play first line and a varsity team can perform in the school musical.

This is the structure of the Class of 2009. This is the structure of Hebron. By having this diversity, we have each as individuals learned to live our lives in a very well rounded way. The variety of qualities that we represent have made us stronger, now more ready than ever to move into the outside world.

Conventional. “According with, sanctioned by, or based on convention; lacking originality or individuality; ordinary, commonplace” The Class of 2009 exemplifies the antithesis of conventionality. With such a diverse group of individuals, it is virtually impossible to uphold the conventions of the typical high


baccalaureate awardsAmerican Classical League

and National Junior Classical League

Cum Laude certificates Rachel Beverly Anderson Rogers ’10, Latin I

Candace Marie Woods ’10, Latin I Ashley Lauren Waldron ’09, Latin IV

Magna Cum Laude certificate Abigail Ellen Small ’12, Latin I

Maxima Cum Laude certificates and silver medals

Scott Edward Higgins ’10, Latin I Seung Hee Lee ’11, Latin I

Erika Lee Thomas ’11, Latin I Corrie Hansen Van Haasteren ’12, Latin I

Lydia LaChapelle Drown ’09, Latin V

Charlotte R. Stonebraker Community Scholarships Natalia Shanice Peña ’11

Brent Coy Landry ’10 Clebert Louis Marcelin, Jr. ’10

Robert Andrew Morrill ’10

Compton Prize in Languages Martina Sophia Hoelzer ’10

L. Edward Willard Prize in English Emma Larkin Leavitt ’10 Emily Rose Powers ’10

Academic Excellence in History Brent Coy Landry ’10

Cum Laude Prize in Geometry Allyson Janet Strachan ’12

Dr. Louis Friedman Mathematics Prize Ho In Na ’10

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal Yang Tian ’10

Colby Book Award Nicholas James Stuer ’10

Middlebury Book Award Seung Woo Kim ’10

Dartmouth Book Award Christopher James Gacsy ’10

Williams Book Award Emily Rose Powers ’10

Harvard Book Prizes Emma Larkin Leavitt ’10

Sang Il Min ’10

Right: Four children and twenty-seven years of tuition later, Hebron supermom Connie Justice

and big sister Alisa celebrate with Katya Planson ’09 and siblings Vika ’07, Nina ’05 and Nick ’01.

Far right: Hebron’s newly-minted alumni ring the victory bell for the last time.

Degrees of Separation,” we are each bound to the others through shared experiences. The predisposition to judge peers based on their activities and interests does not exist within the web of this class, because for someone to judge another for a particular interest would be an instance of hypocrisy as that person may be con-nected to that very inter-est through their web of connections. To emphasize this point: imagine a line dividing the Bowl into two distinct sides. On one side, there is a list of all that is socially acceptable at Hebron Academy. On the other, a list of what is not. The Class of 2009 must now divide themselves based on the activities they pursue and the interests they harbor. But herein lies the problem. Each and every student would be straddling the line, their varying interests and achieve-ments conflicting. For that is what makes the Class of 2009 so remarkable. No one seated before you associates with one and only one interest. Their lives may be guided by a particular pursuit, but they always provide room for unexpected experiences and surprising results.

Hebron is the kind of place where a person can do stuff. With complete impunity a student at Hebron Academy can try their hand at a new art or sport or subject. This experience teaches to a person a great deal about how to do things, but also what it is they want to do in the first place. To relate

a personal story I will tell a little bit about my introduction to Architecture. Like any freshman I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. In fact I didn’t really know what I was going to do with my high school career. So I decided try what interested me most and that was architecture. At that

time there was a class for architecture here and I learned not only the subject matter of the art but the mindset of the art. I learned about the many connections between architecture and society, such as design, technology, and social behavior. I was in an environment where, despite being in a class of primarily juniors and seniors, I excelled. From that launching point, from that first blind attempt, I eventually concluded that architecture was what I wanted to study in university. And all I did was try.

A further example of attempting some-thing new were the spring 2009 student-directed one act plays performed just a few weeks ago. Both Claire and I came out to participate and the stage was filled with many other first-time actors. According to veterans of the One Act plays, this group of amateurs formed the strongest cast in memory. This is the kind of community in which our class has prospered. The risks we have taken while at Hebron have been quickly and easily rewarded. We have been

we celebrate that which is surprising and unexpected in each individual


commencement awardsAcademic Excellence

in Art Claire E. Cummings

in English Mary McRae Randall

Michael Joseph Zielski III

in French Sarah Carolyn Fensore

in Latin Ashley Lauren Waldron

in Mathematics Kai Chen

in Music Mary McRae Randall

in Religion and Ethics Elijah Michael Hughes

in the Sciences Yu Zhang

in Spanish Katharine Judith Planson

Senior Scholarship Prize Mary McRae Randall

Excellence in Drama Sarah Carolyn Fensore

Outdoor Leadership Prize Michael Joseph Zielski III

Richard W. Tyler Scholarship Joshua Michael Mosher

Bernat Memorial Award Michael Joseph Zielski III

Lorimer Scholarship Prize Katharine Judith Planson

Regis A. Lepage Scholarship Prize Lydia LaChapelle Drown

Reed Awards Kelly C. Phillips

Yu Zhang

Bessie Fenn Award Meghan Elliott Munro

Athletic Award Eric Rodriguez

Leyden Award Timothy Laurence Smith

Edward Tate II Green Key Award Mary McRae Randall

Ernest Sherman Award Ye Chen

Charles and Amy Dwyer Memorial Award Katharine Judith Planson

Milton G. Wheeler Good Fellowship Award Brett Anthony Bisesti

Phemister Award Elijah Michael Hughes

Risman Honor Award Brittany Margarethe Toth

Hebron Academy Cup Claire E. Cummings

able to enrich our experiences by trying our hands at new things.

These experiences broaden our horizons. They enrich our lives and open our eyes to the possibilities which life holds. During our time at Hebron we have found that interests require dedication and tenac-ity. Each new experience is a seed which we plant hoping that in time success will blossom. We have found that it takes time, patience, and perseverance to cultivate these new talents. You can’t pick up a violin one day and assume you can immediately play a concerto just as you can’t walk into calculus class in September and expect to do a triple integration in cylindrical coordinates. Such pursuits take time. It takes time to write a 10-point lab report. It takes patience to build a fire in the rain. And it takes perse-verance to condition a championship team.

When we reap the fruits of our labor, we find that these new interests have grown to

become just as important as those that pre-ceded them. Instead of feeling torn between old loves and new, our class has been able to embrace a myriad of interests. We are not driven by a single pursuit, our goal being instead to establish firm ground in multiple disciplines. We have generated success in numerous ways, elevating our talents and

ambitions to new heights. The successes of our class have branched out and entwined themselves in each and every one of us, cre-ating a richer, fuller, more complete group of individuals, a group not encumbered by social conventions.

The typical high school experience has never applied to the Class of 2009. For example there stand before you two speakers, speak-ing in tandem, who are working together in an attempt to best represent the diversity of this class: for this is what our class is made of. It is a widely diverse group, each member with specific strengths and ambitions. From the classroom, to the fields, to the bright lights of the stage we play off each other’s strengths and aid each other in overcom-ing our weaknesses. We have athletes who danced across the stage in our winter musi-cal and artists who helped capture the state math championship. In his speech at the Cum Laude ceremony held three weeks ago,

the inspiringly successful Ambassador Hull joked that during his time at Hebron he tended to “wallow in medocrity.” Observing this

graduating class, we would never use those words. Each and every person who will cross this stage is an achiever, impressed with a Hebron mindset. Far from the notion of wallowing in mediocrity, these people flour-ish in exceptionality, independently and as part of the group, and today we mark that achievement.

the artist learns, the athlete creates, the academic competes


2009 Reunions & Homecoming

Friday, October 2Saturday, October 3

Reunions for1934 • 1939 • 1944 • 1949 1954 • 1959 • 1964 • 1969 1974 • 1979 • 1984 • 1989

1994 • 1999 • 2004

athletic center open house

campus tours

rainbow reunion

road race and fun run

convocation

athletic competitions

lepage center for the arts open house

• Catch up with classmates and old friends

• Cheer on Hebron’s teams

• Take part in activities for the whole family

For more information, please call or e-mail Danielle Proto at 207-966-5266,

[email protected] or visit our web site:


a l u m n i e t a l u m n a e


Reflections from the 1951 Hebron cup Recipient

Saul b. cohen ’51

At Commencement 1951, I was awarded the Hebron Cup and —in truth—it was a commencement, for adult life started

that day. I was stepping out of the intimate nurturing environ-ment of Hebron and into mainstream life: well launched and equipped to cope.

The next steps were a BA from Harvard College, followed closely by travel abroad and then an MBA from Harvard Business School, marriage, the first job, and children. Thereafter, a career in real estate started; I built two major companies and sold them—the second one to GMAC—and most recently bought it back again for probably one final fling at large scale creativity before I let my garden take over my energies and focus.

Through all this, Hebron’s impact was huge. The experience still resonates more than 50 years later in ways small and large. Claude Allen and his faculty remain a constant presence in my mind: their coaching, their expectations, and their confidence in me remain something I must live up to. The vision of what excellence looks like and the drive and skill to pursue it were nurtured at Hebron. Here intellectual curiosity was given wings and the passion to find far horizons was born. Lastly, friendships were formed which have lasted some sixty years and which bring the comfort of continuity.

In that microcosm of life which Hebron was, I learned to walk and how not to do it alone. The debt to Hebron is without limit, for Hebron made the man. At age 76, I am still one of Claude Allen’s boys.

class NotesWith this issue we continue our Hebron Cup mini-feature. We asked Hebron Cup recipi-ents to reflect on the role that Hebron Academy played in their lives and will share a few of these reminiscences in upcoming issues of the Semester.

1935Harold Pearl writes, “Still pleasant memo-ries of my four years at Hebron! At 93 still play some golf. Sixty-seven years married to same great lady.” n The Hebron Acad-emy community mourns the loss of marjo-rie Powell on April 16, 2009. Although not an alumna, Marge was a great friend and supporter of Hebron Academy. Until his death in 2000, she and her husband Jack were frequent campus visitors and strong advocates for Hebron hockey.

1939seventieth reunion

Paul Kerr enjoyed a recent visit from As-sistant Head Tom Fogarty. Paul still plays a lot of golf and scores below his age (89) many times.

1941Class Agent: John MacDonald

[email protected]

1942Class Agent: Norm Cole

[email protected]

1943Class Agent: Gene Smith

[email protected]

lester bradford writes, “Still enjoying a number of volunteer activities such as Habitat for Humanity and two or three for-estry projects—and teaching math to GED prospects—this includes Algebra I learned from profs. Kitchen and Hollis at He-bron.” n In the last issue of the Semester we mistakenly noted that Francis chiros was an Air Force bombardier during World War II. Francis writes that although he was working to become a bombardier, the war ended before he completed his advanced training. We regret the error.

1947Class Agent: Ernest Rodrigues [email protected]

days of yore

In June, alumnus Horace

“Hockey” Field ’31 visited

campus and regaled Steve

Middleton’s eighth grade history

class with stories of his Hebron

days.

The students were fascinated

by his tales of travel to and from

Hebron and the various forms of

entertainment available to the

boys at the time.

After talking with students,

Mr. Field toured the new athletic

center. Interestingly, Sargent

Gymnasium was brand new

during his time at Hebron,

eighty years ago.



1948Class Agent Needed! Find out how

you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-966-5236, [email protected]

John monks writes, “Retired from bank-ing. My wife Linda (second marriage) and I have done extensive traveling. Three chil-dren and five granchildren. Still play a lot of tennis and paddle tennis. Enjoy life but not this economy!”

1949sixtieth reunion

Class Agent: Bob Rich [email protected]



1951Class Agent: Ted Ruegg [email protected]

Saul cohen writes, “Back at it, again, bucking the trend: just bought Hammond Residential Real Estate back after selling it to GMAC nine years ago.” n Norbert lachmann reports, “Getting older is a bit of a nuisance—I can’t believe it actually happened—but my Hebron memories put the focus on youth. I have to say, we were good in those days! And now, looking around, most of us have turned out pretty well, and that’s a very nice thing.”

1952Class Agent: Ken Boyle

[email protected]

Margaret and alan booth’s daughter Grace will be attending Smith College in the fall. n Jim Kelley writes, “We visited Hebron for the Class of 2008 graduation when a relative received her diploma and again in September when we visited with our son who saw the school for the first time. Having grown up at Northfield Mount Hermon where I was on the faculty for 10 years, and graduated from Blair Academy (NJ) where I was headmaster for 13 years, he was duly impressed with Hebron!”

1953Class Agent: Dean Ridlon

[email protected]

Our thoughts are with bernard miller on the loss of his mother in March.

1954fifty-fifth reunion

Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-966-5236, [email protected]

dick Jasper writes, “October in Maine for Viola Jasper’s 100th birthday bash. My mom and dad (Rufus G. Jasper ’25) are staunch supporters of Hebron (dad passed away at 92). Great to see New England in the fall—though our Utah looks great now, too. Five children, 18 grandchildren, and still working full time for K-TEC/Blendtec, a $36 million company. Best to all.”

1955Class Agent: Richard Parker [email protected]

Robert Raymond writes, “We have en-joyed the gatherings in Boston. I have had two papers published by the Aircraft En-gine Historical Society.”

1956Class Agent: Kenneth Mortimer

360-527-3584 [email protected]

John Hales is enjoying his six grandchil-dren!



Congratulations to brownie Swartwood who was recently appointed to the Mas-sachusetts State Ethics Commission by Governor Deval Patrick. Brownie, former Chief Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court, will serve as Chair of the Commis-sion.

1958Class Agent: Lennie Lee

[email protected]

Sue and Ken crane enjoyed the fiftieth at Hebron and Sunday River.

1959fiftieth reunion

Class Agent: Bernard Helm [email protected]

edward caplan writes, “Retired from ca-reer in finance mainly at Polaroid. Wife Diana and I will be married 45 years and have two sons. Andy, a lawyer at Burns &

Find Hebron onlineBecome a fan of Hebron Academy on Facebook (tinyurl.com/

HebronFacebook), network with other alumni and friends through our

linkedIn group (www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1892134), keep up

with campus happenings by following us on twitter (twitter.com/

HebronAcademy), or check out the videos at youtube (www.youtube.

com/hebronacademy1804).

Reflections from the 1960 Hebron cup Recipient

william a. weary ’60Hebron has given me great appreciation for:

• The nature of good teaching. Hebron’s faculty knew what I could do, and they didn’t leave me alone until I provided it. Their consistent and insistent demands have been, for me, the basis of sound education. As professor, upper school head, and consultant (schools, universities and other nonprofits) I’ve tried to provide the same for the many kinds of “student” I’ve served.

• New England mountains (a trip up Mt. Chocorua Al Watson led for a group of us one glorious October Sunday).

• Western Maine (the Magic Mountain-esque sanatorium and view-filled soccer field up top).

• France (Bruce Gardner and George Freiday took special care of Mike Malm and me).

• History and the nature of institutional structure (Evan West).

• The transformative power of effective leadership in indepen-dent schools (Claude Allen, of course).

• A now-long-disappeared generation of crusty, idiosyncratic independent school teachers (frequently bachelors and once common throughout the country).

• The benefits and challenges of single-sex education (the research and literature on both boys’ and girls’ schools had yet to appear).

• The culture and inner workings of a small educational community off by itself.

• Nice machinery (Bill Keller’s Mercedes 300 four-door convert-ible, Al Watson’s Borgward Isabella, Chuck “The Big Eater” Achilles’ corn-popper Saab, Claude Allen’s BMW motorcycle). The pleasure I took in these vehicles built on one of my earli-est interests.

• The hard discipline of athletic training (Al Switzer’s swim team).

• The pleasures of physical labor that yields results (work squad).

• The way Hebron alumni once formed a hidden infrastructure among Maine’s professional, civic and business leaders.

• The beneficial consequences of being one’s self.

• The enduring context of friends and colleagues.

All remain valued parts of my life.



Levinson, Boston, is married to Melissa and has two daughters. Son David is mar-ried to Ana and is a professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan. He is author of two books, Questions of Possibility and Poetic Form: An Introduction.” n Liberty Hotel owner dick Friedman and designer Alexandra Champalimaud recently received two Gold Key Awards for excellence in hospi-tality design. n John Redmond says he’ll be attending the 50th reunion in October.

1960Class Agent: Dave Williams david.j2.williams@columbia

management.com



1962Class Agent: Dick Forté [email protected]

william Stocker writes, “After 4 years of retirement I returned to part time derma-tology practice. Blessed with 3 grandchil-dren. Great to see squash courts in new gym! I have been playing for 40+ years. Voted best sport for fitness by Forbes magazine.” n George ugarte reports, “We live between Spain, Austin TX, Mexico and California. We also visit our 10 grandchildren throughout the US and overseas. As I write this, I’m optimistic that better times are around the corner.”

1963Class Agent: Will Harding

[email protected]

1964forty-fifth reunion

Class Agent: John Giger [email protected]

After 30 years with the Albany Medical College Department of Psychiatry, John thibodeau has moved to Orlando FL to begin working as a senior psychologist for the Florida Department of Corrections.

1965Class Agent: Allen Kennedy [email protected]

Jeff laughlin reports that he has retired after 25 years of teaching. He is reading, volunteering and golfing in Naples, FL, and southern Maine. Jeff sees Jim Cassidy frequently.

1966Class Agent: Harvey Lowd

[email protected]

chris buschmann writes, “Celebrated 60 years by riding a bicycle across the USA in 2008. Started in redwoods of northern California, crossed Oregon, southeastern corner of Washington, into Idaho and then north in Montana to US Route 2. Just east of Rugby, ND, mechanical failure of a bi-cycle accessory led to a violent and very quick end to my trek, 2000 miles ridden, not quite half way home! Bike and I ready for 2009 Lung Association Trek Across Maine over Fathers Day weekend.”



Our thoughts are with Skip wood on the death of his mother in October.

1968Class Agent: Robert Lowenthal

[email protected]

1969fortieth reunion

Class Agent: Jonathan Moll [email protected]

Jim brown writes, “Had a good time at Hebron’s new athletic center. Played some hoop with the basketball coach and play-ers. Nice visit with craig clark ’70 and tim braddock ’70. Hope others from ’69 make it to the reunion in October. Be blessed out there. Look me up on Facebook.”

Reunions & Homecoming 2009Friday, October 2 • Saturday, October 3

Reunions for Fours & Nines • Kids’ Activities • Road Race • Rainbow Reunion • Class Dinners • Much more!

1970Class Agent: Craig Clark

[email protected]

Peter bancroft reports, “Daughter #1 graduated last week from John Scam-man’s college. You would think that in 373 years they would figure out how to conduct a more efficient ceremony. It took three days. As always, hats off to craig clark for his unceasing efforts on behalf of the class and school.” n Jim Strathern writes, “I recently retired from HSBC af-ter 32 years of service. HSBC is the third largest bank in the world with offices in 83 countries worldwide and is headquartered in London. One of the benefits of working for a multi-national corporation was that I’ve had the opportunity to travel to Lon-don. I’m now spending my time watching my two sons compete in high school track and gymnastics. My youngest son was ranked 30th in the nation in the all around competition at last years Junior Olympic Gymnastics Championships. I visited He-bron last summer and had the opportunity to see the new gymnasium. Too bad it wasn’t around when we were there.”

1971Class Agent: Harvey Lipman [email protected]

Peter Hoople writes, “As a public educa-tor I am continually and significantly im-pressed by the quality of the education I received at Hebron.” n doug Gordon is busy with one son in his second year of college at the University of Rochester and the second leaving for college next year.

1972Class Agent: Steve Gates [email protected]

brad Parsons visited campus this fall and reports, “I was extremely impressed by the Athletic Center. It epitomizes the great progress Hebron has made in the last decade towards recovering from the challenging years of the late seventies and eighties. Viewing the center evoked feel-ings of both pride and optimism for He-bron’s future. Such a first class facility will maintain Hebron’s claim as a top ranking prep school and will certainly attract top academic and athletic talent.” Brad’s old-est son, Spencer, was recently accepted at Brown. Sons Cameron and Colby attend Milton Academy.

Tom Curry ’76 with an exhibit of his work at the George Marshall Store Gallery in York, Maine. Photo by Henry Harding ’70, who, with his wife Mary, hosted a Hebron reception at the gallery in June.





Find Hebron onlineBecome a fan of Hebron

Academy on Facebook (tinyurl.

com/HebronFacebook),

network with other alumni and

friends through our linkedIn

group (www.linkedin.com/

groups?gid=1892134), keep

up with campus happenings by

following us on twitter (twitter.

com/HebronAcademy), or

check out the videos at

youtube (www.youtube.com/

hebronacademy1804).

1973Class Agent: Gregory Burns

[email protected]

Our thoughts are with mark mitchell on the loss of his mother in December and with Greg Burns on the death of his moth-er in January. n Rob thompson’s oldest son was commissioned an ensign in the US Navy last May and is currently in flight training. He is the third generation naval aviator in the family. Rob has completed 10 years of flying for Delta Air Lines after retiring from the Navy in 1997. n Captain Stephen wagner recently took command of NOAA Ship Delaware II in Woods Hole. He is also master of NOAA Ship Albatross IV; the ships are not at sea concurrently.

1974thirty-fifth reunion

Class Agent Needed! Find out how you can get involved with your class. Call or e-mail Pat Layman: 207-966-5236, [email protected]

Our thoughts are with Roger clark on the death of his father in February. Roger’s youngest son, Thomas, is a ninth grader at Hebron this year. n alan Norris is liv-ing in New Zealand. He works as an events support manager and will be handling the

2010 World Rugby Cup. n Our sympa-thies go to david Pitt on the loss of his father in June.

1975Class Agent: Ellen Augusta

[email protected]

1976Class Agent: Reed Chapman

[email protected]

An exhibit of work by tom curry at George Marshall Store Gallery in York opened in June. n mel Nadeau reports, “Enjoyed a great visit from Bev Leyden last summer. What a trouper she is to fly fish on a difficult river. Denise and I had the pleasure of visiting Bar Harbor and stopping to visit Hebron also. Great place, great memories, great people.” n Rebec-ca webber writes, “I am still a civil rights lawyer in Maine, with an office in Auburn. I remarried in August 2007 and now have four kids! I love the noise and energy. My big thrill this year was doing the opening speech for Anita Hill when she spoke at Bowdoin College in November.” Rebecca says she sees dan thayer a fair amount, doing community work and at Maine Track

Club events. She notes, “I’m a much better runner than when I was at Hebron, where I had to be on the boys’ team because there was no girls’ team back in those days…”

1977Class Agent: Bob Hernon

[email protected]



Nancy briggs marshall writes, “Still doing PR for Maine Office of Tourism and other clients through my agency, Nancy Marshall Communications in Augusta. Son Craig was Maine Alpine Racing Association champion this year and went to JII nation-al championships in Aspen, CO.” n dana Shields Hubbell’s artwork was recently featured at Cafe Zoë in Menlo Park, CA.

1979thirtieth reunion

Class Agent: Brian Cloherty [email protected]

The Hebron Academy community joins martin Küchler in mourning the loss of Gerry Lapierre, father of classmate Gerry who was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1981. n charlie watters reports that he’s moved around a lot in the last few years: Washington, California, Japan, Virginia and New Jersey. He has three children—20, 18 and 12—and would love to hear from classmates.

1980Class Agent: Betsy Siekman Graves

[email protected]

1981Class Agent: Jane Hepburn Fiore

[email protected]

1982Class Agent: Tucker Cutler

[email protected]

1983Class Agent:

Debbie Beacham Bloomingdale [email protected]

Judy Harris Osojnicki enjoyed the 25th and says it was great to see the people who came.

1984twenty-fifth reunion

Class Agent: Deb Schiavi Cote [email protected]

1985Class Agent: Eric Shediac

[email protected]

Congratulations to Sean elias, who re-cently successfully defended his PhD dissertation and will be teaching at Utah State University next year. n Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Bern (SC) re-cently announced that amanda williams Norwood has been chosen to receive the President’s Award for the Coastal Wom-en’s Forum for outstanding service to her community.

1986Class Agent: Scott Downs

[email protected]

1987Class Agent: Kate Thoman Crowley

[email protected]

Nathan draper still enjoys living in San Francisco and teaching 7th grade science at an inner city school there. n Susan Hendrickson Walton lives in Marblehead MA with her husband and two daughters. She works as a staff attorney at Bar/Bri Bar Review in Boston.

1988Class Agent: Ann Snyder Mooradian

[email protected]

Summer StockQuite a few current and former Hebron thespians are in area community theater productions this summer. If you’re in Maine, keep an eye open for:• Calvin Moisan ’10 in Blood Brothers at Biddeford’s City Theater

(July). citytheater.org

• Mary Randall ’09 as Sandy in Community Little Theater’s

production of Grease at the Lewiston Middle School auditorium

(August). www.laclt.com

• Brooks Schandelmeier ’08 in Once Upon a Pandora’s Box at the

First Universalist Church in Auburn (August). www.auburnuu.org

• Kees van Haasteren ’09 and erika thomas ’11 in a Shakespeare pro-

duction at Schoolhouse Arts Center in Standish. schoolhousearts.org

• Max Middleton ’12 in a constructed musical based on the Acts of the

Apostles at Camp Mechuwana in Winthrop. www.mechuwana.org



lost your yearbook?

You may be in luck.

Yearbook advisor Bill

Chase has some back

issues available for $95.

E-mail him at wchase@

hebronacademy.org to

see if he has a copy of

your year.

unions1997Nadia Jerraf and Riad akkar, on March 21, 2009, in Casablanca, Morocco.

Former Faculty

liz Fey and Ivan Adames, on July 20, 2009, in Baltimore.

New arrivals1981To Nicole and ed Stebbins, a daugh-ter, Sarah Ann Stebbins, on June 1, 2009.

1985To Kathryn Gardner and Michael Newsom, a daughter, Olivia Grace Gardner Newsom, on April 21, 2009.

1988To Sarah and matt mcdonough, a son, Luke James McDonough, on May 18, 2009.

1996To Zachary and laura Greenwood Hughes, a son, Luke Arthur Hughes, on December 6, 2008.

Former FacultyTo Kathryn Gardner and michael Newsom, a daughter, Olivia Grace Gardner Newsom, on April 21, 2009.

To Sarah terwilliger mcdonough and matt mcdonough, a son, Luke James McDonough, on May 18, 2009.

1996Class Agent: Devon Biondi

[email protected]

lydia Pottle currie and her family have relocated to South Carolina. They enjoyed a recent visit from amanda Ring, who was escaping Washington’s inauguration chaos.



1998Class Agent: Kirsten Ness [email protected]

Kirsten Ness spoke at the Women’s Lit-erary Union Garden Club in Auburn in March.

1999tenth reunion

Class Agent: Joe Patry [email protected]

Jake leyden is headed to graduate school in Miami next year.

2000Class Agent: Cori Hartman-Frey

[email protected]

Sara Simard is the asistant women’s hock-ey coach at the University of Maine and will be trying out for the Swiss national team in July.



Nick bradley is in graduate school at Dal-housie, specializing in physiotherapy, and is also assistant lacrosse coach. n Nick leyden will be teaching in Portugal next year. n Suzan tug has finished her cancer therapy studies. She traveled to New York in March and met up with Katie curtis ‘02 there.

2002Class Agent: Katie Curtis [email protected]

chris dyer graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in December.

1989twentieth reunion

Class Agent: Hayes McCarthy [email protected]

mark desgrosseilliers recently joined the law firm Womble Carlyle in Wilmington, DE.

1990Class Agent: Jim Hill

[email protected]

1991Class Agents: Scott Nelson [email protected]

Marcus De Costa [email protected]



1993Class Agent: Marko Radosavljevic

[email protected]

1994fifteenth reunion

Class Agent: Erica Litchfield [email protected]

1995Class Agent: Jessie Maher

[email protected]

Isabelle Steimer lives in Frankfurt and works in the field of development coop-eration.

2003Class Agent: Sara Marquis [email protected]

Sara marquis is working for Spirit Prod-ucts in Haverhill, MA.

2004fifth reunion

Class Agent: John Slattery [email protected]

Ryan close graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Decem-ber. n lisa lundstrom was named to the spring deans list at the University of New England, where she is majoring in occupa-tional therapy and taking graduate classes as well. n Philipp Quante is studying in Karlsruhe. n Ruth Scarpino is studying in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship this

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ In November 2008, the Hebron community marked Veter-

ans Day with a special program, “A Call to Remember.” Program coordi-

nator Cynthia Reedy would like to invite a veteran who recently graduated

from Hebron (classes of 1990–2008) to address the student body on Vet-

erans Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2009. It would be a meaningful

experience for our students to hear about service in today’s military from

a fellow Hebronian. If you are interested, please call or e-mail Ms. Reedy

at 207-966-5246, [email protected]. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★



year. n Kate turner graduated magna cum laude from USM in 2008. She earned a BS in health sciences with a minor in in-tegrative and holistic health. She plans to eventually become a physician’s assistant but first will be in a surgical technology program to gain patient care experience. She is still biking and running as well as rid-ing and owning horses. n Helen unger-clark is teaching in Cantabria, Spain, near the Basque country.

2005Class Agent: Tina Voigt

[email protected]

liz cole graduated from Vassar this spring. n Jamie Frederick earned rec-ognition as a Cowles Honor Scholar at Elmira College and was also named to the dean’s list. n Seth Hedstrom recent-ly joined the management information services group of Berry Dunn McNeil & Parker in Portland. n Jodie Simms gradu-ated from Amherst and will be working in Alabama. n tina voigt graduated from UMO.

2006Class Agent: Allison Coombs

[email protected]

Julia Nyitray is trying her feet at a new sport—crashed ice—a combination of hockey, downhill skiing and boarder-

cross. n uta Schulz writes, “Last summer I came back from France to Germany. During the summer vacation I moved to Freiburg that is a city close to the Black Forest in the south of Germany. It is also not very far from Switzerland and France. We call it the border triangle. Freiburg is a real student city with a lot of young peo-ple. I am attending the vocational college for socials, which means I visit the College for two days and the other days of the week I work in the Hospital. It is a lot of fun but working shifts can make you very tired as well and it is a really full time job.”

2007Class Agent: Noah Love

[email protected]

Congratulations to Sara Powers who was named a Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar at Bowdoin College. n miriam Scarpino finished her sophomore year at Hofstra where she is studying creative writing.

2008Class Agents: Jen Duguay

[email protected]

Annie Hart

Congratulations to cJ estes who was named Empire 8 League rookie of the year.

CJ is playing lacrosse at Nazareth. n And congratulations to KJ Forand, who was named women’s lacrosse rookie of the year for The Commonwealth Coast Con-ference. n marty Gallipeau participated in the Division I club national champion-ships in Denver. Marty plays lacrosse at Florida State University. n ben Nadeau was named to the fall dean’s list at Went-worth. n brooks Schandelmeier will ap-pear in a production of Once Upon a Pan-dora’s Box at the First Universalist Church in Auburn in August.

2009Class Agents:

Claire Cummings

Sophia Chen [email protected]

mary Randall will play Sandy in Auburn’s Community Little Theatre production of Grease in August. n Kees van Haasteren

Find Hebron onlineBecome a fan of Hebron Academy on Facebook (tinyurl.com/

HebronFacebook), network with other alumni and friends through our

linkedIn group (www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1892134), keep up

with campus happenings by following us on twitter (twitter.com/

HebronAcademy), or check out the videos at youtube (www.youtube.

com/hebronacademy1804).

Katie Curtis ’02, Verena Ganske ’01 and Suzan Tug ’01 in Cologne.

Kevin DeSorbo ’03 at the Golden Gate Bridge in California. Kevin took a whirlwind solo tour of the United States early this summer, putting several thousand miles on his motorcycle and visiting friends along the way.

will be in a Shakespeare production at Schoolhouse Arts Center in Standish, also in August.

Former Faculty and Staffbetsy loyd is living in Bethlehem, NH and working on her PhD dissertation. She also works at Garnet Hill, the catalog compa-ny. n Paul Nemetz-carlson is back at Yale as assistant coach for the women’s hockey team. n Congratulations to Richard Strat-ton who will return to Nichols School (Buf-falo, NY) in 2009–2010 for his 50th year of prep school teaching (13 at Hebron, 37 at Nichols).





alumni (and Friends) bookshelfFrances Hartgen (mother of Stephen Hartgen ’62 and david Hartgen ’62)A Maine Passage: Two Memoirs

January 2006

From the book: Frances Caroline Hartgen’s life has spanned most of the 20th century and now into the 21st. Often less visible than her

Orono artist and professor husband, Vincent Hartgen, Frances has been a creative person in her own right. These two memoirs, written in 1977 and 2003, show a gift for description, a love of Maine and a wealth of insights and wisdom.

Susie yovic Hoeller (sister of James yovic ‘76)Impasse: Border Walls or “Welcome the Stranger”

Booklocker.com, Inc., June 2008From Booklocker.com: IMPASSE: Border Walls or “Welcome the Stranger” is a book targeted for policymakers and citizens who wish to repair our broken immigration system. Unlike many others

writing on immigration issues, the author rejects the extremist and divisive rhetoric which has helped sustain the policy impasse in Congress. Ms. Hoeller presents an innovative twelve step program for immigration reform and she analyzes the issues logically, holistically and with Christian empathy.

Kelly doughty mcKinnon ‘86Social Skills Solutions, a hands-on guide

for treating children with autism

DRL Books, July 2005

From the author: Social Skills Solutions is the result of working with children for many years and searching for a tool that assesses and provides baseline social skills that meet all of the specific social skills needs for children with autism, as well as providing teaching strategies in a comprehensive process. The Social Skills Checklist (assessment tool) and module system (teaching methods) were developed with feedback from parents, children and school professionals. Without their help, this manual would not have been possible. After I finished it, I sent a copy to Dr. Davidson, to thank him for his inspiration.

alan brightman ‘65DisabilityLand

Select Books (NY) (March 2008)

From Amazon.com: DisabilityLand is the place where people with disabilities live, work, play, fret, hope and succeed. Or not. And where everyone else may or may not know—or

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Obituaries1922esther mitchell cutter died on December 28, 2008, in New Hampshire. She was born Brunswick to Wilmot Brookings and Alice (Merrill) Mitchell. She was a resident of Nashua since the 1930s, when she moved here with her late husband. She was the widow of Charles Nelson Cutter, who died in 1971. Mrs. Cutter had been a homemak-er. She is remembered as a loving and de-voted wife, mother and grandmother. She was a member of the King’s Daughters, the Nashua Historical Society and the Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Auxiliary. She attended Wheaton College and The Boston Museum School. She was a mem-ber of the First Church (Congregational) U.C.C. in Nashua. Mrs. Cutter is survived by two daughters, Joann Van Stone and Priscilla Lynch; a son, Richard M. Cutter ‘56; nine grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

1933★ Dr. Robert marston (bob) Porter died on January 14, 2009, at his home. He was born in North Anson in 1915, the son of the late Gould and Mary Porter. He obtained a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College, a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in education from Trinity College. He was captain of the Bowdoin track team and the best one-mile runner in New England. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was an intern in the office of Congressman Ralph Brewster in Washington, D.C. Dr. Porter served in the U.S. Army as First Lieutenant from 1945 to 1946 in the Military Intelligence Service at the Pentagon in Virginia and Tokyo, Japan. In 1955, he married Mary C. Walker. Dr. Porter taught at Germantown Academy in Philadelphia for eight years and then moved to Oneonta, where he was a professor at State University College at Oneonta for 30 years (1955 to 1985). He organized the Sat-urday seminars at SUNY Oneonta in chemis-try, computers and psychology. High school students took these classes voluntarily. He wrote for the Daily Mail newspaper, giving a course on how to write well. Dr. Porter visited 30 countries; the largest being Canada and the smallest being the Vatican, and climbed a 13,000-foot mountain in Japan. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and was asked to give a Sunday sermon. He was predeceased by his wife and his daugh-ter, Mary (Molly) Finley-Porter Bennett.

1936★ earle a. Kimball died June 27, 2008. He was born in Augusta in 1916, the son of Earle C. and Beulah A. Kimball. He was a life-long member of the Green Street United Methodist Church, but his alle-giance was to the Manchester Community Church. He was employed by the M.U.C.

Commission prior to accepting employ-ment as an IBM business machine operator for the Social Security office in Baltimore. He returned home to accept a position with the Augusta Post Office, retiring in 1976. Mr. Kimball enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was an avid brook fisherman, a member of the Maine Biggest Buck Club, charter member of the West Gardiner Rod and Gun Club, and a former member of the Massachusetts Striped Bass As-sociation. He was charter member #3 of the Maine-A-Bagos, a club for the owners of Winnebago-Itaska motor homes, and twice past president of the Maine State Club. He was a WWII Navy veteran, serv-ing as a First Class Petty Officer aboard P.T. Boat #78 of the M.T.B. Squadron 13, stationed in the South Pacific. He was also a life member of the V.F.W. post 14000. Mr. Kimball was predeceased by a brother Arnold A. Kimball and his life partner El-loween E. “Pat” Piper. He is survived by a son Deane C. Kimball; daughters Sheila E. Kimball and Nancy Bonenfant; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

★ Kenneth m. leighton died January 11, 2007 from natural causes. He served in the Navy from 1942–1948. He was the be-loved husband of the late Barbara (Brown) Leighton; dear father of Marty Schilling, Kenneth B. Leighton and Deborah Leigh-ton; loving grandfather 8 grandchildren and a great-granchild. One grandson pre-deceased him.

1938★ Richard Z. cottrill died on November 29, 2008 at home with his loving family at his side. Mr. Cottrill was born in Hampden, Connecticut, in 1919, the son of Melville and Mae (Talcott) Cottrill. As a captain in the US Army Air Corps, he served in World War II with the 97th Bomb Group in Eng-land, North Africa and Italy. He retired from the Air Reserve in 1979 as a major. He was an avid alumnus of Saint Lawrence University, and attended his 65th reunion last year. While at St. Lawrence, he was captain of the Saints hockey team. A life-long lover of all things sports, he sailed, skied and played tennis. Until age 83, he played ice hockey with the Rhody Oldies. He proudly subscribed to Brown football for 51 seasons and was a member of the Brown Sports Foundation. During his pro-fessional career he was associated with General Insulated Wire Works, Plastic Wire and Cable and the Gerard Forman Co. He was a member of Trinity Church in Pawtuxet Village. He is survived by his wife Patricia (O’Neil) Cottrill with whom he celebrated sixty years of marriage last May, their four children, Patricia Jacobs, Nancy Cottrill, Richard Cottrill and Sara Cottrill; five grandchildren; a brother, John T. Cottrill and a nephew.

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1940★ Dr. George w. banton, D.M.D. died on March 28, 2009, in Dade City, Fla. He was born in Bangor in 1921, to Dr. Leon and Mrs. Lyda Banton and they moved to Island Falls that same year. Dr. Banton received his early education at Island Falls High School and Hebron Academy. He then went on to the University of Maine at Orono, before attending Tufts Dental School, graduating in 1945. He married his wife, Marie E. Martin that same year. Dr. Banton served in the U.S. Navy as a dentist and was honorably discharged at the end of World War II. After the comple-tion of his time in the Navy, he opened his dental practice in Island Falls and Patten in 1946, where he practiced for 37 years. He retired in 1983 and spent his winters in Zephyrhills, Fla. Dr. Banton greatly en-joyed his time outdoors. He spent many hours on the golf course and especially enjoyed time spent at his hunting camp surrounded by friends and family. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Marie Banton; a sister, Gail Banton Sleeper; a son, Craig; two daughters, Martha Murray and Suzanne Cates; two granddaughters; three great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

1942★ LCDR charles (chuck) P. Hurley died on March 20, 2009, in Augusta. He was born to Jeremiah Francis Hurley and Au-gusta Louise Hanouseck Hurley in 1923. He had a close relationship with his sister Margaret Hurley Bailey who passed away five days earlier. He was married to Mar-jorie May Grey Hurley for 58 years; he was widowed in 2003. After graduating from Hebron, Mr. Hurley volunteered to assist in the efforts of World War II. He joined the Navy and was deployed to Japan with VT88 aboard the Yorktown, where he pi-loted torpedo bombers. After the war ended he continued his military service with tours of naval duty both as a carrier pilot and an intelligence officer. Through the mid 1960s, he was the Basic Courses Branch Chief at the U.S. Armed Forces Air Intelligence Training Center. His last duty station was Brunswick Naval Air Base were he was the Wing Intelligence Officer until he retired in 1969 as a Lieutenant Com-mander. The last plane he flew during the last mission of World War II was used in the Inaugural Parade for President George H.W. Bush. His awards and decorations include the Air Medal, Presidential Unit Ci-tation, Navy Unit Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and the WWII Victory Medal, and the Asiatic-Pa-cific Theater Medal. In 1970, LCDR Hurley became the vice president of administra-tive services for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine. He retired in 1979 in order to pursue his true passion of sailing. He and his wife enjoyed cruising up and down the Maine coast. He earned the prestigious title of vice commodore of the Mere Point Yacht Club. On April 3, 2009, he was to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award is-sued by the governor. He is survived by his daughter Debbie Hurley Wright, his son

Charles (Gus) Hurley Jr.; a granddaughter; a grandson; and two great-grandchildren. He is also survived by loved nieces, neph-ews and extended family.

★ Frederick “ted” l. Rolfe died March 20, 2009 in Northborough, Massachusetts, af-ter a long illness. He was born in Marlbor-ough, son of Frederick L. and Mary (Cutler) Rolfe, Sr. Mr. Rolfe graduated from Boston University in 1953. He was best known as head coach of the Northborough and Mar-lborough American Legion baseball teams from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s. Over that time he developed a reputa-tion as a strong competitor and respected coach. He was also one of the founding members of the Marlboro Youth Hockey program and coached several hockey teams from the 1950s through the 1980s. He was a veteran of the US Coast Guard and served during World War II. Mr. Rolfe is survived by his wife of 63 years, Elaine (Alden) Rolfe and leaves five children, Priscilla Madden, Stephen Rolfe, Susan Howes, Nancy Proctor and Peter Rolfe; ten grandchildren; two great-grandsons; and several nieces and nephews.

1943★ John anderson Pidgeon died May 12, 2008. He was born in 1924 in Lawrence, Mas-sachussetts, the son of Nora Regan Pidgeon and Alfred Pidgeon. Mr. Pidgeon graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was decorated for service and injuries incurred in the North Atlantic. At Bowdoin, he graduated with a degree in German and earned a chance to participate in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials. Upon his graduation from Bowdoin, he served for a short time with U.S. Steel Corporation but left a lucrative position to pursue teach-ing—a career that became his passion and entire life. His first teaching position was at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, where he taught German and Latin and coached swimming and football. He eventually was named assistant headmaster. In 1957, he was appointed headmaster of Kiski School in Saltsburg. He served in that position for forty-seven years until his retirement in 2004. During that time the school’s physical plant and reputation grew significantly, but he al-ways felt his greatest reward was the growth of his students. While serving as headmas-ter, he continued to teach senior English and coach various sports. He was instrumental in establishing the Interstate Prep School League, which allowed students at private preparatory schools in several states to com-pete against each other. From the late 1970s through the 1990s, he coached numerous All-American swimmers. In 1993, a newly constructed library at Kiski was named in his honor. Students who had his class remem-ber writing thousand-word themes, reading Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays and novels by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mr. Pidgeon received honorary doctoral de-grees from Bethany College and Washing-ton and Jefferson College. After retirement, he moved to Indiana and spent several years as a volunteer coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and assisted with the establish-

ment of a club team for younger swimmers. He established the first scholarship for swim-mers at the university. He was inducted as an honorary member of the IUP Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005. Mr. Pidgeon is survived by his wife of 22 years, Barbara Hafer; his sons, John A. Pidgeon Jr. and Kelly C. Pidgeon; his daughters, Regan Houser and Beth Ha-fer; and four grandchildren.

1949★ carl John Swenson Jr. died May 4, 2009, in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was born in Cambridge in 1930 to Carl and Elinor (Pot-ter) Swenson, and raised in Wellesley. He attended Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y. and Northeastern University in Boston. He was a corporal in the Army, having served in Korea. He was actively involved in the 1st district North Regional, Division III, Flotilla 7 of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary for approximately 25 years. He was a long-time and active member of First Congre-gational Church in Hamilton, and member of Crossroads Baptist Church in Pelham, N.H. He enjoyed involvement in church choirs over the years, golfing, and an avid Red Sox fan. Mr. Swenson is survived by Rosemary (Meehan) Swenson, his wife of 48 years; one sister, Jean Thorkildsen; three children, Kristin Lyons, Karen Guay and Carl Swenson III; five grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

1950Robert earle cleaves III died on Febru-ary 26, 2009, in Portland after a brief ill-ness. He was born in Portland in 1931, the son of Robert Earle Cleaves Jr. and Mary Stearns Cleaves. He was introduced early to the lumber business, working summers grading and piling lumber for his father’s lumber company, R.E. Cleaves & Son Co., lumber wholesalers. Upon graduation from Bowdoin College in 1954, he entered the business full time and became president upon the death of his father in 1966 and enjoyed a successful career for many years. Mr. Cleaves was a director of the Northeast Lumber Manufacturers Association and the New England Lumbermens’ Association. He was also a member of the North American Wholesale Lumber Association. During his career in the lumber industry, he owned the Stillwater Lumber Company in Stillwater, and a lumber distribution yard in Watertown, N.Y. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and was especially proud of his 50 years of member-ship in the Shrine. His greatest pleasure was sponsoring children who needed orthope-dic care at the Shriner’s Hospital and seeing the miraculous impact the hospital has on its young patients’ lives. He enjoyed skiing and spending weekends at the family’s lodge in Naples with his family. Music was a central part of his life. One of the highlights of his music career was performing at the Bohe-mian Grove in California. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Helen; and his three children and their spouses, Pamela Cleaves Devine, Robert E. Cleaves IV and Harry J. Cleaves; his sister Dorothy Jordan; and five grandchildren. He was predeceased by his sister Bernice Lovejoy.

1951charles Shelton mulhern died peacefully at home on October 15, 2008, with his wife of 53 years by his side. His passing marks the end of a long, bravely fought battle with chronic occlusive pulmonary disease dur-ing which he defied medical predictions by living a productive, joy-filled five years past the time his doctors had expected. This he always attributed to the love and devoted care he received from his wife, Alice, the constant and loving presence of three gen-erations of his family, and the unflagging support of his friends in the community who brought the world to him. Mr. Mulhern was born and raised on the East Coast, but his greatest joy was the summers he spent in Nova Scotia on the remote family farm with his grandmother, Mary Ann, and Uncle Huey. He majored in Greek classics and drama at Tufts University where he met his wife, Alice. They were married shortly after graduation in 1955. Mr. Mulhern made a career in sales, relocating to the West Coast in 1960 to take over management of the western states for Starkist Tuna. In later years, he partnered with his father-in-law to run a distributor-ship for Meguiar’s, later taking over the business and setting new records for sales with the company. An intensely intelligent, passionate and involved man, his primary concern was always his family. His love was unconditional and constant, and he offered support, wisdom, and guidance whenever it was needed. He is survived by his wife Alice Hodge Mulhern; his daughter, Shelley Kath-ryn Mulhern; a grandson; and two great-granddaughters. He is also survived by his older brother, Dr. John Edward Mulhern, Jr. and three nieces and nephews.

★ Normand donald St. Hilaire died May 21, 2009, in West Columbia, South Caro-lina, following a long illness. He was born to Robert St. Hilaire and Laura Daniel St. Hilaire in Auburn. Mr. St. Hilaire was a sergeant in the United States Army from 1953 to 1962, serving overseas, and was decorated with the Korean Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Metal and the United Nations Service Medal. He shared his great love of the outdoors and enjoyed spending time with family and friends ski-ing, boating, catching catfish at night and bonfires. He followed his father’s footsteps and was a craftsman in the masonry and roofing business, having restored many historical buildings throughout the Central Maine area. Mr. St. Hilaire was married to his childhood sweetheart, Joanne Boulay St. Hilaire, who passed away in 2005. They were happily married for 53 years and were long-time residents of the Twin Cities. The last four years Normand resided in Zephy-rhills, Fla., where he worked for Busch Gardens. He will be lovingly remembered for his warm and generous heart. He was a loving and devoted husband and father who opened his home and life to many. He was a good friend and role model. Mr. St. Hilaire is survived by his brother, Robert St. Hilaire; five children, Lorrie Young, Cheryl Dubois, Deborah St. Hilaire, Normand C. “Chuck” St. Hilaire and Cathy Bridgers. He has 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren who brought him much joy.



1953John young loungway died on Febru-ary 25, 2009, in Napa, California. He was born in Boston in 1935, to the Reverend Ferdinand and Margaret Loungway, Mr. Loungway received his bachelor of science degree in business from Boston University. His work career spanned several decades in the field of insurance, specializing in work-ers’ compensation, reinsurance and medical malpractice. He is survived by his wife, Lorna Danford Loungway; children Deirdre Loung-way and Patrick Loungway; three grand-children; a brother Duncan Loungway; and several nieces and nephews. Mr. Loungway will be remembered by his family as a man of integrity with a sharp wit and a love of jazz and classical music, gardening and tennis.

1956Pierre e. Provost Iv, M.D.died suddenly at home in Westwood, Massachusetts, on June 2, 2009. He was born in Boston in 1937, the son of Pierre E. Provost III, MD, and Helen Cur-tis Provost, MD. He graduated from Cornell University in 1960. After receiving his medi-cal degree from Boston University School of Medicine, class of 1964, he practiced otolar-yngology at the Lahey Clinic in Boston and in 1975 joined ENT Specialists Inc. in Dedham and Brockton, practicing otolaryngology and head and neck surgery. He retired in 1999. Dedicated to medical education, he served as assistant clinical professor of otolaryngol-ogy at Boston University School of Medicine

from 1973 until 1999. Dr. Provost’s military appointments included serving as Director of the Rosebud Indian Health Hospital on the Sioux Indian reservation in the Division of In-dian Health in Rosebud, S.D. from 1966 until 1968 and serving as attending physician for the U.S. Coast Guard. He was elected a Fel-low of the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, and the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery. He was also elected to the Boston Surgical Society. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the National Board of Medical Examiners, the Massachusetts Med-ico-Legal Society, and he served as chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Medi-co-Legal Investigation from 1985–1990. He also served as the medical examiner for Nor-folk County. He was a longstanding member of the Dedham Country and Polo Club and the Norfolk Trout Club. A man of many inter-ests and pursuits, Pierre Provost had great love for his family and was deeply committed to the environment. Dr. Provost is survived by his wife of 38 years, Lura McCready Swift Provost and three sons, Pierre E. Provost V, N. Thomas Provost, and Paul R. Provost.

1963edwin Hall Green III died on January 29, 2009, after a long illness. He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1944. He was predeceased by his parents, Edwin Hall Green Jr. and Mardianne Dinkey Green,

eleanor davy allen died on May 3, 2009, at The Barron Center in Portland. Her family had recently celebrated her 100th birthday with her. She was the daughter of Josephine Hutchins Davy and Harry George Davy, and the wife of Claude L. Allen Jr., who was headmaster of Hebron Academy from 1945 to 1972. She was the mother of Connie Allen Eastburn, Peter Allen and Jane Allen Smith. She was the sister of Constance Davy and Harry G. Davy Jr., who died in World War II. She was the grandmother to 13 grandchildren, 26 great-grand-children and three great-great grandchildren. Mrs. Allen attended The Buckingham School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harcum Junior College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and Wheelock College in Brookline, Massa-chussets. On June 28, 1933, she married Claude and spent 12 years in Deerfield, Massaschusetts, where he was on the faculty of Deerfield Academy and she be-came actively involved in the role of faculty wife. In 1945, they moved to Hebron, where Claude was given one year to reopen Hebron Academy, which had been closed during World War II. It happened with Mrs. Allen’s participation in many ways in spite of the loss of her brother in April of that year and the birth of her youngest child in July. She was an outstanding headmaster's wife who was involved in many facets of the school. She had a very comfortable relationship with the students. One graduate of Hebron shared publicly at her honorary induction into the Hebron Academy Board of Trustees that he had lost his mother just prior to his entering the school, and she had served as a surrogate mother to him—a sentiment echoing the personal feelings of many young men and a witness to her warmth and compassion. For the 27 years that Mr. Allen was headmaster, she was expected to have dinner every night with the students and gladly did. For many of those years of her tenure in Hebron, she was the librarian of Hebron Academy which was a position that she enjoyed immensely. Mrs. Allen enjoyed many hobbies and activities throughout her life. She gardened with enthusiasm, read widely and was particularly fond of non-fiction, appreciated music and theater, and took many trips with her sister and friends. She accomplished extensive research into the genealo-gies of both the Allen and Davy families. She was also very adept at needlepoint. She truly loved animals great and small, especially dogs. She was a skilled and avid bridge player into her late 80s as well as a tireless volunteer for the Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway. She was a member of the Hebron Baptist Church for more than 50 years.

and his sister, Virginia Green. Mr. Green was an avid sailor and lived for several years on his sailboat in South Portland and Mystic, Conn. He was an accomplished skier and pianist. During his years at Hebron Acad-emy, he was a successful ski jumper. He graduated from Columbia University and taught math at a private high school before running Bullock Marine Sales in Brookfield, Connecticut with his father. He was a kind, gentle person who loved animals and al-ways had a dog by his side. He cherished his daughters, Rachael and Jessica. He will be dearly missed by his family. Mr. Green is survived by his beloved daughters Jessica Green and Rachael Justis; four grandsons; two sisters, Helen Hurgin and Mardi Reed; and a brother, George Green.

Former Faculty and StaffPatty mcKenzie-baril died unexpectedly on March 16, 2009, with her family by her side. She was born in Lewiston in 1962, the daughter of Robert E. and Ethel (Dyer) McKenzie Sr. She attended Auburn schools, and was a 1980 graduate of Edward Little High School. She then went on to further her education at Mid-State College. She was a financial administrator at Hebron Academy. In 2006, she became a self-em-ployed personal administrator and ran her own business: “Monhegan Moment” which was an online sales company of her art and keepsakes representing her great love for Monhegan Island. The No. 1 focus of her life was her daughter, Samantha ‘06, who recently finished her junior year at Pace University. Ms. McKenzie-Baril is survived by her mother, Ethel McKenzie; her daugh-ter, Samantha Baril; two brothers, Jeff McK-enzie and Rodney McKenzie; three sisters, Cindy Jordan, Sheila Morrison and Pam Cyr; and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her father, Robert E. McKenzie Sr.; and two brothers, Robert E. McKenzie Jr. and Timothy McKenzie Sr.

★ mary margaret timpany died July 1, 2007, in Lewiston. She was born in Boston in 1923, a daughter of John J. and Marga-ret Shorther Hynes. She attended Bangor schools and graduated from Bangor High School. She married Donald R. Timpany in 1946. He passed in 1990. Mrs. Timpany served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps dur-ing World War II as a surgical technician. She received an honorable discharge in 1946. Later, she and her husband ran the Hebron Academy Store. After working for Pineland Hospital for 20 years, she retired in 1984. She was a member of St. Gregory Church in Gray, the Maine Crafting Guild, the Ameri-can Legion Post in Gray, and the American Red Cross. She enjoyed camping, doing crafts, and gardening. She had a passion for reading, crossword puzzles and crochet-ing. Most of all, she enjoyed spending time with her family and friends. Mrs. Timpany is survived by a son, Donald M. Timpany; two granddaughters; a great-grandson; and her brothers, John, Joseph and Michael Hynes.

★ evan R. west died March 16, 2009 at home. He was the husband of Sally Ann (Burtch) West. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, a son of the late Roscoe and Edith (Richard-

son) West, Mr. West graduated from Brown University after serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was a member of Delta Phi at Brown. He received a master’s degree in teaching from Harvard in 1948 and spent the first 17 years of his professional ca-reer as a teacher, coach, and administrator at Hebron Academy. In 1965 he became head-master at Providence Country Day School. During his twenty years at PCD, enrollment steadily increased and a new campus was built on the east side of Pawtucket Avenue—an academic building, a library and a field house, the latter named for him. He was a member of the Headmasters Association and the Country Day School Headmasters As-sociation of the United States, serving as its treasurer for five years. After his retirement, he became an associate director of admission at Brown for four years. In 1993 he became the founding director of Brown’s Alumni Col-lege Advising Program. He was active in the affairs of the Brown class of 1945, serving at various times as its president, treasurer, and reunion chair. He received the Brown Alumni Service Award in 2000. A member of Central Congregational Church, Mr. West was a deacon and past chairman of the per-manent Deaconate. He was a past chairman of the Lifetime Learning program for seniors based at the church and a past member of the Board of Directors of the Genesis Center and The Rhode Island Lung Association. In addition to his wife, Sally West, he leaves two daughters, Elizabeth West and Ann West; a brother, Richard West; a sister, Janet Williams; and three grandchildren.

trustee emeritaBettina Wyman Emmons died June 12, 2009, in Exeter, New Hampshire. She was born in 1918, in Fairmont, West Virginia, the daugh-ter of Ernest and Ola Lee Bell. Mrs. Em-mons attended Sweet Briar College for two years and graduated from Duke University and The Katherine Gibbs School in Boston. She worked for TIME, Inc. in both Boston and New York. She was active in the Junior League of Boston, the Vincent Club and the Junior League Garden Club. She was mar-ried in 1942 to Richard M. Wyman Jr. ‘35. They lived in Wellesley, Massachusetts, for many years, and summered at Wings Neck on Cape Cod for more than 30 years. Mr. Wyman died in 1976, and in 1984, she mar-ried J. Grey Emmons. He died in 1985. Mrs. Emmons moved to the New Hampshire Sea-coast area in 1988. She is survived by three daughters, Annie Wyman, Sally Graves and Jane Wyman; and three grandchildren, in-cluding Nathan Bertland ’92.

Other deathswatner bracken ‘37, on January 6, 2009.

Howard “Howie” c. barber, Jr. ‘41.

edward a. Johnson ‘49 on February 6, 2009.

bruce murray ‘59, on March 8, 2009.

eve wood, former staff, on October 21, 2008.

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hebronianaHappy birthday, atwood!

On Sunday, May 17, Atwood Hall faculty and students celebrated the building’s centennial with a cookout. Dormitory supervisor Kathy Gerrits-

Leyden and resident faculty members Eliza Tobin, Nate Twichell and Jon Pritchard also recognized Atwood’s four proctors who graduated in May.

Designed by John Calvin Stevens, architect of many campus buildings, Atwood was completed in the fall of 1909 and dedicated at commencement in 1910. It was named for William H. Atwood, a former trustee of the school and father of George M. Atwood, class of 1883. Although 63 boys lived in Atwood during that first year, interior remodeling to expand a faculty apartment, create

a third apartment and provide storage reduced the dorm’s capacity to its current maximum of 26.

The smallest of Hebron’s three residence halls, Atwood has served several purposes during its first century. Although most often home to boys, it housed senior girls and freshman boys for a brief time in the early 1980s when large numbers of boarding students led to a space crunch. Atwood closed briefly when boarding enrollment declined sharply ten years later, then reopened for use as classroom space and administrative offices.

In the early 1990s, the fine arts center relocated from Atwood’s basement to Sturtevant Home, freeing the area for the Lower School. An expanding boarding population began moving back into the dorm in the late-1990s with the closure of the Lower School. Today, in the “Rat’s” second century, boys again fill the rooms and clatter up and down the stairs.

If the boys of 1909 were to return to Hebron today they would find that Atwood Hall is virtually unchanged, at least on the outside. This photo

from Atwood’s first decade shows dark shutters (they are now white) and a different rooftop ventilator. The interior layout now includes faculty

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Scenes from the first commencement held in the new athletic center. Clockwise from bottom left: piper Chris Pinchbeck ’87 leads the graduates out; WenHao Li, Joo Won Jun and Tatsumi Watanabe; the exchange of greetings between seniors and faculty on the elevated track; Hebron Cup winner Claire Cummings; graduates Brianna and Brett Bisesti with their mother, Nancy; Sarah Fensore and English teacher Carnie Burns.

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