HEBRON Magazine Spring 2015

SPRING 2015

homecoming/reunion october 23 - 24, 2015

Lumberjack True.

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EDITORLissa Gumprecht

ASSOCIATE EDITORDave Stonebraker

CONTRIBUTING WRITERSDave StonebrakerEmily Darby

PHOTOGRAPHYLissa GumprechtDennis and Diana Griggs, Tannery Hill Studios Sara Wilmotand friends

DESIGNLissa Gumprecht

ADVANCEMENT OFFICEPatricia Layman, Director of Advancement Beverly Roy, Hebron Annual Fund DirectorJohn Slattery ‘04, Assistant Director of Advancement for Major Gifts and Planned GivingColin Griggs, Events CoordinatorPatricia Hutter, Advancement Assistant Judy Roy, Database Manager

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICELissa Gumprecht, Marketing Communications Manager

Please send address and email changes to Pat Layman at [email protected]

Please send class notes to Beverly Roy at [email protected]

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SPRING 2015

1 from the head of school

2 at the academy

7 FROM OUR LEADERSHIP News from the Board & Introduction to Newest Trustee

8 feature lumberjack true The Makeup of a Hebronian in Mind, Body & Spirit

22 spotlight bio BOBBY BUMPS: Lumberjack Memories

26 homecoming, reunion & parents weekend 2014 pictures, speeches & more

37 class notes

45 obituaries

48 hidden gems

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AT THE ACADEMY From the Head of School

Anatomy of a Lumberjack

“What’s the anatomy of a Lumberjack? Each one is different ... Every success is unique, and every one

meaningful.”

The Anatomy of a Lumberjack – the Anatomy of an entire School of Lumberjacks – we often claim that it’s hard to define and put into words, but we know it when we see it, when we feel it. Sometimes it’s better to use the words of others:

A visiting committee from The New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) spent a number of days in the Fall with us getting to know, understand, and experience Hebron Academy – to get into our “anatomy” as part of the once-a-decade review and reaccreditation process that every independent school undertakes. That Committee, comprised of heads, administrators and teachers from peer schools throughout New England, issued their report on Hebron documenting our strengths, supporting areas for continued improvement, and noting our effectiveness at doing what we say we do to educate young people. In the NEASC standards of excellence, it all comes back to the experience of the students.

In the words of the visiting committee, in their report to NEASC and Hebron:

“From the moment the committee walked onto the Hebron Academy campus, the members of the visiting committee were struck by how happy and engaged the students seemed. …The depth and breadth of the program at Hebron provides a strong foundation from which dedicated faculty and staff can reach the dynamic and diverse student body. It is clear that the school

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Sputs a high value on students’ individuality and the fact that each student is inherently different. Not only does the school strive to see that each student is treated as such in all areas of school life, but in fact, it follows through on this goal in many facets of the student experience.”

There is still much to do to make Hebron even better at inspiring and guiding our students to each reach their highest potential, and we know what those improvements to be made are. The recommendations and areas of focus identified by the NEASC Committee match our own goals: to define and build Hebron’s “clear, focused, authentic academic identity;” to innovate and commit to our specialty programs; to continue to strengthen and reinforce Hebron’s financial sustainability; to undertake a strategic enrollment management initiative to build and distinguish our school; and to improve our communication and data-driven decision making. All necessary underpinnings of the future success of our school.

Yet I can’t help but reflect, as I did in a recent communication to our trustees and school community, that just as Hebron is so much about our young people growing in confidence to stand on their feet, speak and advocate for themselves and control their future, so, too, is it exciting that Hebron as an institution is doing the same!

So what’s the anatomy of a Lumberjack? Each one is different. Our teachers take students on their own terms, individually working with them to build strengths, find new strengths, and overcome challenges. You will read about several, Eric Beaudette, Mary Randall, Sarah Powers, and Ruth Scarpino, who have each differently found

keys to success and accomplishment; who were each changed by Hebron. Every success is unique, and every one meaningful.

Last spring, at Commencement, I presented The Leyden Award to Dylan Malia. This award honors a senior who has grown both as a person and as a student, who has overcome obstacles and whose concern for others and for the Hebron community is exemplary. When Dylan came back to campus to visit this fall, his excitement for his studies in conservation, wildlife care and management at Unity College was inspirational and palpable. He’s on his way – a Hebron Success – a true Lumberjack. Lumberjack true.

Sincerely,

John J. King,Head of School

John King at Alumni Convocation October 2014


AT THE ACADEMY

THE ARTS

This past Fall and Winter, Hebron has had an amazing array of programs and events for the students and community to enjoy. From Grammy Award-winning artist Suzy Bogguss providing our Middle School with a workshop and treating us all to a private concert, to Jason Tardy “The Amazing Juggler” who blends inspirational life coaching with comedy and truly amazing juggling feats, to the annual All School Musical - this year Little Shop of Horrors - we have been engaged, entertained and inspired.

Hebron continues to place a strong emphasis on providing not only quality teaching and guidance in the Arts but also opportunities for students to actively participate in creative work.

Middle Schoolers singing “Red River Valley” with Suzy Bogguss. She would later post their Winter Concert performance of it on her FaceBook page

Suzy Bogguss fans Brian and Tonya Fons P’18/’19 were the driving force in

getting Suzy to perform for Hebron

Music and voice teacher Kelly Caufield shared the spotlight with Suzy and her husband for a wonderful

rendition of “Teach Your Children”

Joe Dunn ‘16 looks on as Jason Tardy balances in preparation for juggling. Tardy’s message was to

take chances, find your passion and pursue it.

Danny Hutchinson ‘15 joins Jason on stage for some satire, silliness and

of course, juggling.

Arianna Pinkham ‘15, Matthieu Marchal ‘15 and Katie Schools ‘15 were inspired enough to meet

Jason and share in a moment after the show.

Lead Zach Abisalih holds his own on stage with his otherworldly carnivorous

co-star.

Seymour (Zach Abisalih ‘15) and Audrey (Katie Schools ‘15) find love

on Skid Row.

Jonathan Carls’s powerful rendition of Orin the sadistic dentist backed up by his lovely hygenists (Olivia Grimmer ‘15, Sara

Thompson ‘15 and Eliza Beaudin ‘18)

Ariana Pinkham ‘15 as Mr. Mushnik, the florist of Skid Row, shares the stage with one of the Ronnettes,

Shannon Bailey ‘15

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COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY & OTHER PROGRAMS FOR GIVING BACK

Hebron prides itself on creating an amazing community for students and faculty to share. But we also are very aware of the many communities surrounding us that are in need. In an effort to inspire our students, from the start, to give back, every Fall our students participate in Community Service Day. Students are formed into teams that are then sent out into the community to build, clean, stack and support important programs and places like Habit for Humanity, Good Shepherd Food Bank, Responsible Pet Care, The Center for Grieving Children and many others. We are laying the groundwork for a life of service, and we happily acknowledge that many are already inspired to lead their own programs throughout the school year.

Helping to move trusses and construct a Habitat for Humanity home in Brunswick, ME.

The team at Good Shepherd Food Bank helped move, stack and inspect enough food to make

over 10,000 meals for Maine families.

Moving in supplies to assist the Norway Rural Community Action Ministry

PINK IN THE RINK

In February, the Girls’ Varsity Hockey Team annually dons pink jerseys, wrap their sticks with pink tape and enlists the help of their

parents to create the Pink in the Rink event. They hold a raffle (in which you can win some

gorgeous Lumberjack cookies) and a bake sale during one weekend’s games to raise

money for the Maine Breast Cancer Coalition. This year, their enthusiastic efforts brought in

more than $1,500 for the cause.

THE GIVING TREE

This year, Director of Student Life Alex Godomsky decided that he would redefine a long standing tradition. In keeping with giving back to our local communities, he reached out to Community Concepts, an organization devoted to helping families in need. And so the Hebron Giving Tree

was created. What started out as a simple advisory activity turned into something quite inspiring. Each and every gift request tag hung on the tree was fulfilled by students, their families and our faculty. Needless to say, it was a moment to be proud of our community for their thoughtfulness

during an important time of the year.

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Lumberjack Athletic HighlightsFall & Winter

CHEER ON THE LUMBERJACKS FROM ANYWHERE! Watch your email and Hebron Academy social media for links to our LIVE STREAMING with full live commentary!Go to the site listed below to watch previously broadcast games & events. Also see what is scheduled for streaming. For the most up-to-date schedule and game times, please visit www.hebronacademy.org/sportscalendar. See you on the sidelines!

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http://thecube.com/cube/hebron-communications

TEAM WINS TIES LOSSESFIELD HOCKEY - MAISAD CHAMPIONS 10 1 3

FOOTBALL 5 0 3

SOCCER - BOYS VARSITY 6 2 6

GIRLS VARSITY 8 3 4

BOYS JV - MAISAD CHAMPIONS 12 0 0

GIRLS JV - MAISAD CHAMPIONS 8 1 3

BOYS THIRDS 9 0 1

GOLF (COED) 2 1 2

SOCCER - MIDDLE SCHOOL (COED) 1 0 3

FALL 2014

TEAM WINS TIES LOSSESHOCKEY - BOYS VARSITY 15 6 13

GIRLS VARSITY 19 0 9

BOYS B 6 2 6

BASKETBALL - BOYS VARSITY 6 0 14

GIRLS VARSITY 1 0 16

BOYS JV 7 0 6

MIDDLE SCHOOL (COED) 1 0 4

WINTER 2015


Alumni & Parent Hockey Game

White vs. GreenBACK ROW L TO R: Eric Rousseau ‘06, Adam Rousseau ‘03, Jacob McLaughlin, Rob Titcomb, Pat Taylor ‘00, James LeBlanc ‘02, Dan Carpenter ‘03, Adam Asselin ‘01, Jacob McLaughlin (friend) and Rob Titcomb (friend)FRONT ROW L TO R: Tiffany Bichrest ‘07, John Slattery ‘04, Mark Sadovnic P’15/‘16, George Dycio ‘78, Trevor Paul (current faculty), Gary Rousseau P ‘03/‘06/‘17, Gary Munzing P’15, Alex Mills ‘12, Sam Kinasewich ‘13

1. George Dycio ‘782. Pat Taylor ‘003. Tiffany Bichrest ‘074. John Slattery ‘04 &

James LeBlanc ‘025. Jacob McLaughlin

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ATHLETIC AWARD WINNERS WINTER 2015

BACK ROW L to R: Andrew Kluge, Colin McKay, Jeff Adegbe, Nick LeBate, Daniel Halloran

MIDDLE ROW L to R: Kiana Melvin, Taylor Fowler, Olivia Grimimer, Justin Lee

FRONT ROW L to R: Alex Loh, Sophie Gibson, Jennifer O’Connell, Jeremie Piche, Hanz Berger, Mathieu Machal, Sam Marceau

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ATHLETIC AWARD WINNERS FALL 2014

BACK ROW L to R: Connor Anderson, Teagan Poliseano, Noah Berkman, Christophe Gagne, Ziyuan Peng, Brendan Sullivan, Colin McKay, Zach Abisalih, Noah LaPointe, Alex Benitos

MIDDLE ROW L to R: Eliott List, Shubhum Bodke, Daniel Halloran

FRONT ROW L to R: Jenn O’Connell, Jay Alex, Olivia Grimmer, Sarah Brouwer, Olivia Berger, Ashley Conrad, Taylor Fowler, Teneal Perry, Mackenzie Telfer

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Reunion-Homecoming Weekend 2015

Come home to Hebron and reconnect, relive and relax with the people

who helped shape your Hebron experience.

REUNIONS FOR CLASS YEARS ENDING IN ‘0 or ‘5

Watch for more details as they are available at: hebronacademy.org/homecoming2015

For more information, please call Colin Griggs at 207-754-0384 or email [email protected].


FROM THE BOARD

J. Matthew Lyness ‘76

Matthew Lyness has been a Senior Managing Director with GE Capital

Markets for more than seven years, and leads the teams that cover Financial Sponsors and TMT. Matthew has been in investment baking for over 30 years, much of which was with JPMorgan prior to joining GE Capital. Matthew began his career working for a defense contractor directly out of college, then helped to run a small business for a year with Tom Costin, his swim coach at Hebron.

Originally from Swampscott, MA, Matthew went to St. John’s Prep for his freshman year before coming to Hebron. His brothers both also graduated from Hebron - Thomas ’77 and Patrick ’75. Matthew graduated from Boston College in 1980 with a degree in English and Economics. He is married (Kathy) with three sons; Sean 26, James 24 and David 21. Two of his sons are active in a micro finance effort in Africa that supplies bicycles and the necessary financing to improve the productivity in remote villages.

Paul S. Goodof ’67Judah C. SommerScott E. Wilson ’71

Debra Beacham Bloomingdale ’83Richard A. Bennett

Devon M. Biondi ’96 James R. Clements

Felica W. Coney

Robert A. Donahue ’83Clement S. Dwyer, Jr. ’66

Wende Fox Lawson William B. Golden ’66

Wallace E. HigginsJames B. Hill ’90

Thomas N. Hull III ’64Matthew W. Johnson ’93

Kimball L. Kenway ’70J. Matthew Lyness ‘76

David S. Prout ’83Robert J. Ryan ’77

Heather C. Stephens ’88Meredith Strang Burgess

Robert E. Waite ’68David J. Williams ’60

2015-2016 Hebron Academy Board of Trustees

Meet Our Newest Trustee

At the winter meeting of Trustees in January, John King announced his intention to retire on June 30, 2016. Details of his announcement, emailed or sent by regular mail to all alumni, parents, students and friends of the Academy, can be found at:

www.hebronacademy.org/headofschool.

The Trustees have established a search committee, as well as an advisory committee comprised of faculty and administrators, and the search committee will be engaging the services of a consultant to assist in the search within the next month. Our aspiration is for an orderly process that will allow us to announce Mr. King’s successor by late fall this year.

Regular updates on the search process will be posted to the above link, and we encourage all of Hebron’s constituencies to share thoughts in the “Comments & Feedback” link that has been created on the search site.

For the Board of Trustees,

Paul S. Goodof, Chair

The Search Committee

David S. Prout ’83, co-chair Judah Sommer P’08, co-chairDevon M. Biondi ’96 Debra B. Bloomingdale ’83, P’11,’13Clement S. Dwyer, Jr. ’66 Wende Fox-Lawson P’15Wallace E. Higgins David J. Williams ‘60

The Advisory Committee

James Bisesti, Business ManagerEmily Bonis, Dean of FacultyPaul Brouwer, Middle School Head Kathleen Ftorek, PsychologyAlex Godomsky, Director of Student Life Leslie Guenther, Director of Athletics Joseph Hemmings, Assistant Head of School for EnrollmentMaxwell Jones, Dean of StudentsPatricia Layman, Director of Advancement and External RelationsJames Maldonis, Science ChairStephen Middleton, History Chair Daniella Swenton, BiologyEmily Darby, Director of ESL and ELSI

News & Updates


Lumberjack True.

A moniker that just seems to work so well for our teams and community that it’s hard to believe that it hasn’t been around all that long - as you will learn on the next page. However, when you think of all the idioms and truisms of Lumberjacks - strong, resourceful, self-reliant, skilled, hardworking, at ease and at home in the woods of Maine - the definition and characteristics have always been here, part of us all. We just didn’t always have a label for it.

Today, Hebron’s mission states that we are inspiring and guiding students to reach their highest potential in mind, body and spirit. Throughout these next pages, we discuss and illustrate how each of those can be areas of great strength in any Hebron Lumberjack, but one shines especially bright in each of these featured alumni and students.

The Hebron Lumberjacks...


In 2007 the Hebron Semester published a brief piece by Craig Clark, Class of 1970, exploring the

history of the Hebron “Lumberjack.” The roots, Craig reported, were with former Athletic Director Addison Augusta who, late in his tenure at Hebron, had “become dissatisfied with the ‘Big Green’ title - why play third fiddle to Dartmouth and Deerfield? I thought we needed something more particular to the state of Maine, and I could think of nothing more particular than lumberjack.”

Mr. Augusta asked the school’s athletic supplier for some design suggestions, and the result was a rather Bunyanesque figure on sample patches, one of which wound up pinned to Jay Wooley’s bulletin board in the Studies Office, but Ad’s original concept never really caught on.

Moose Curtis picks up the story from his early years of coaching football. In the fall of 1978, Frank Pergolizzi became Hebron’s football coach. A recent graduate and team member at Williams College, as Moose recalls, “Frank definitely had great energy and great plans to revitalize Hebron’s football program. He brought a ‘Power-I’ offense and a 5-man front on defense from his experience in Williamstown,” and perhaps he also brought a bit of distain for Dartmouth associations with ‘Big Green.’ However it was, Frank noted the patch on Jay Woolsey’s board, and Equipment Manager Bob Gagnon had a helmet decal created based upon the concept. The 1979 team loved it, and the Lumberjack became a Hebron Football

tradition.

When Mr. Moose took over the program in 1982, the Lumberjack was established and part of the team’s mojo. The image appeared on team rosters and as letterhead for the

newsletter sent to friends of Hebron football. In 1996, the first version of the “crossed axes” logo appeared on the Lumberjack helmets, and in 2003, when the team

received the gift of new uniforms from parent Benjamin West, his advertising firm updated the ax logo to the form which is used today.

For Moose Curtis, being a ‘lumberjack’ has been part of the team’s culture for more than thirty years. Players will remember ‘lumberjack’ sprints,

a practice ending timing drill in which each letter formed part of the cadence for a burst of energy off the line. “Go, Jacks!” and “Jacks on Three!” have been the cadence triggers for countless teams. For

Moose, the name connotes the spirit of Maine and the qualities of skill, hard work, determination and pride in accomplishment that are as much a part of life as football training. It has always been

personally meaningful, as he says, “for the associations with the work of the woods, of good skills and good people.” The Hebron

Lumberjack also conjures his own affinities for the wild places of Maine and his own times of guiding and exploring on the rivers and in the

forests of the north country.

Any way we look at it, the Lumberjack has become as true to Hebron’s spirit as any mascot could be. We stand proudly and uniquely amongst Huskies, Bulls, Rams and Phoenixes. And while the mascot

began with our athletic programs, it has since grown to encompass every aspect of Hebron life - mind, body and spirit.


Lumberjack Mind.

Mary Randall ‘09

“The Fulbright program pushed me pretty hard,” said Randall. “You have to be organized just enough, be crazy just enough, and be ready to throw yourself into your experience.”

After Randall graduated from Hebron Academy, she found herself furthering her foreign language study in the Department of German and Russian at Colby College. She graduated with a degree in Theater and Dance and with minors in music and German, which led to a Fulbright grant. “It’s an extensive application process,” said Randall. “I thought

no way would I get in.” But she did.

Randall received an assignment to teach young students 20 in Birkenwerder, just outside of Berlin, Germany. Before she could begin her assignment, she had to navigate the German bureaucracy to obtain a residency permit, and then find a place to live for 10 months. But she couldn’t get a place until she got a permit. Randall described the experience as trying to solve a weird logic puzzle. She finally landed in what used to

be East Berlin, and her apartment roommate came from Belarus. The

roommate spoke no English, and Randall spoke no Russian. The two communicated in German, and Mary’s academic German quickly included a colloquial language full of slang, idioms, and jokes.

Mary’s assignment involved preparing 10th-graders for their oral English exams. During the course of these lessons, Mary shared spontaneous, informal cultural awareness lessons. She confirmed or refuted the sometimes humorous stereotypes held about Americans as McDonald’s and freedom-loving, gun-toting, overweight aliens who watch “How I Met Your Mother.” While Randall appreciated the teaching experience, she ultimately realized that teaching was not for her. “I realized that to be a teacher, it has to be in your bones, it has to be in your DNA. But I’m so glad I did it.”

During her personal time in Germany, a 22-year-old Randall returned to her original passion that she had discovered while at Hebron. As a 7 year Lumberjack, Mary performed in the school orchestra and musicals, culminating with the lead in Once on This Island her senior year. “That was my big thing,” she said. “While I was in Germany, I had to find something to do and people to do it with.” Randall joined the Berlin English Drama Society and found herself acting once again, as well as directing the very American play, You Can’t Take It With You.

Three young women grew up in Maine and found intellectual and creative outlets at Hebron Academy. These local students

later ventured into the larger world as members of the prestigious Fulbright Program. The scholarly skills and confidence that germinated at Hebron blossomed into a deeper appreciation for others as alumni. Mary Randall ‘09, Sara Powers ‘07, and Ruthie Scarpino ‘04 continued their studies abroad and remain active with their academic passions today.

The highly competitive Fulbright Program was founded in 1946 by Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and is funded by the US Congress to promote world peace through international education exchanges. The program has expanded over the decades and has become an integral part of the U.S. Department of State’s diplomatic outreach efforts. For Randall, Powers, and Scarpino, the Hebron and Fulbright experiences have contributed to an increased knowledge of self, other cultures, and the world as an integrated network of people who share similar challenges and dreams.

Mary and Friend in Mauer Park with a piece of the Berlin Wall

Mary at the Brandenberg Gate

by Emily Darby


To make the most of the Fulbright experience, Randall forced herself to interact socially with Germans in German as much as possible and not to rely on gravitating toward other Americans. “It’s hard to interact with people in a foreign language,” she said. “There are so many inside jokes that you just don’t get. When I was at Hebron, there were several students from Korea, and some from China and Japan. As a day student, my socializing with them was a little limited. Now, I can imagine how intense that experience of interacting in a completely different culture must have been for them.”

Today, Randall continues to pursue her passion in theater. She currently has a role in The Lonely Soldier, a documentary play about women in war in Iraq, produced by the Holocaust and Human Rights Center at the University of Maine in Augusta. She works at the Lewiston Public Library, where she interacts daily with residents who speak other languages. “I see others getting impatient when some people in the library don’t understand English,” she said. “Knowing what it’s like, I never get annoyed with someone who is trying to communicate.” Mary said her Fulbright experience made her realize how much she can do on her own, and how much she is a part of a much bigger world, an understanding which she can tie back to its roots in her Hebron experience.

Sara Powers ‘07

“I tried to embrace the French culture as much as possible and continued to put myself out there,” said Powers. “It was about not being afraid when things were uncomfortable.”

Sara Powers had always been fascinated with the French language and culture. She had been to France once before with her family and knew she wanted to go back. But she also loved science because it freed

her to think differently. She managed to balance both passions at Hebron and she continued to study French at Bowdoin College while majoring in neuroscience. She parlayed her expertise into a research project through the Fulbright

Program in 2011. Now a second year medical student at Harvard University, Powers credits her Fulbright experience for her confidence in taking on the unknown.

“Fulbright wants you to do everything on your own. It was quite terrifying,” said Powers. “It was hard in the beginning, and I did a lot of things I had never had to before, and all of it in French.”

Sara set out to develop a research project to study the effects of steroid hormones and neuron production on newborns by studying fish. She explained that fish have naturally high steroid levels so were good subjects. She found a lab at the University of Rennes in northwestern France that was interested in her research proposal, and began the process of setting up a residence overseas for 10 months. “It took a few months to feel comfortable,” but she managed to rent an apartment near the university she had found on a French version of Craig’s List. “It was tough to be away from my friends and family. But I would go wherever people invited me -- I would never say no. Time passed quickly as I began doing more things with more people.”

Sara was in charge of the research project, and was expected to write reports and make presentations in English. However, everyone in the lab spoke French, and so Powers forced herself to overcome her hesitancy to speak the language.

“I was speaking French from morning to night. It was challenging and good for me,” said Powers. “Even if I made mistakes, we would just joke about it.” Her lab mates became close friends and introduced her to a France beyond the tourist scenes. She later returned to Rennes to attend the wedding of a lab mate.

Powers wasn’t sure how she managed to lead a research project in a language and country that was foreign to her. Disappointingly, the study with fish and steroids was inconclusive. But she knows she will continue to pursue scientific research and that she will always have a connection to the French. “I never thought I would ever do anything like that,” said Powers. “Hebron gave me a good balance and taught me to pursue my passions. Fulbright allowed it to all fit together.”

Sara tastes the local fare at a market in Rennes

Sara and friend hiking near Rennes


Ruthie Scarpino ‘04

“It’s okay to not know where you’re going,” said Scarpino. “I wanted to be a good person; I wanted to be an artist. Hebron taught me how to advocate for myself, the value of a voice to create change, and the knowledge that I was of value.”

Ruthie Scarpino doesn’t believe in a direct path between point A and point B. In fact, she doesn’t care about destinations at all. She cares about people. Her Fulbright experience in Malaysia five years ago

was just one stop along her journey of achieving humanity. She actually cringes when she thinks of linear steps and prefers to see life experiences coming full circle. “Success is not about Fulbright. In fact, recognition in and of itself is not synonymous with success.” Scarpino remembers struggling to get through Hebron Academy because of math classes. She remains forever grateful to math faculty Merry Shore, Kathy Gerrits-Leyden, and Heather Ferrenbach. Ironically, she developed a trash-fashion program designed to teach algebra and geometry for a nonprofit

organization in Brownsville, a neighborhood of Brooklyn. Currently, she works with The Creative Arts Team at City University and uses Applied Theater to support literacy. “These are first language English speakers who grew up in New York and can’t read.” Besides the patient math faculty at Hebron, theater and art also got Ruthie through high school. Her passion for theater, and social justice took Scarpino to Ireland, England, Germany, Ecuador, Malaysia, Harlem, and now Brooklyn. Scarpino believes that learning is about advocating for yourself and others and carving out an identity. She also believes that the best way to learn is through art and self-expression.

When Ruthie isn’t pouring out her passion in classrooms throughout New York City, she continues to find performing outlets for herself. In 2011, she joined her first off Broadway theater company. She continues to perform professionally and currently focuses on contemporary circus and physical theater.

“I’ve always been a theater kid,” Ruthie, who played Rizzo in Grease her senior year, explained. “Ever since I was little I’ve always been a performer. But when you realize that performance can be about more than personal gratification, when you see young people directing and having the freedom to break and make their own rules, you realize how much possibility lies in the power of devising.”

Scarpino credits Dr. Larch Fidler, former English faculty, and Julie Middleton, drama director, for helping her begin her journey along her self-created path. With encouragement from Dr. Fidler, Ruthie attended Antioch College, graduating in 2008. Her studies and passions eventually led to her 2009 Fulbright grant teaching and researching in Malaysia. But she had found her way around the world before then – first teaching gypsy families in Ireland how to read, then working with the mentally and physically disabled in England, and finally supporting radical nuns in Ecuador who believed that girls deserved an equal right to an education.

“I was passionate about the work I was doing,” Ruthie says. “I was shocked by the symbiosis between performance and education and realized that Applied Theater created an avenue to do performance work that was not about me. We forget that there are people who can’t read and write. It’s amazing to watch someone start to value their own ideas and discover that they’re an intelligent human being.” After Malaysia, Scarpino moved to Brooklyn and hired on with The Harlem Children’s Zone. She earned a master’s degree from The Rhode Island School of Design. She sees a very real possibility of returning to Maine to continue work with literacy, art, and performance in rural communities. “As a kid, you doubt the power of yourself,” Ruthie says. “Then you find Hebron, a place where kids are reinforced constantly with that power of self. There’s no path that doesn’t end in some beacon of success if you define success as being a humanitarian.”

Ruthie’s “comedic head shot”

Ruthie wearing one of her “Trash Fashion” ensembles with one of her students


Ou sont les neiges d’autre temps? Most will remember at least one epic snow from their time at Hebron. Here Claude Allen encourages students “digging out” faculty cars marooned in front of Sturtevant Home, 1952. Can anyone identify this lad up to his waist near Sargent Gymnasium, perhaps after the same storm?

Socials of Winter - Always a feature of Winter Carnival, Dances in Sturtevant Home or Sargent Gymnasium were a time for “putting on some moves.” Here “doin’ the Bop,” circa 1956; or perhaps this of the Halford Girls steppin’ to “Cotton-Eyed Joe” at this year’s “Fall Ball.”

‘Jacks of Winter


Lumberjack Body.Last November Hebron was honored

to be a feature story for the New England Soccer Journal. The author did a fantastic job in illustrating how our boy’s varsity soccer team this year was a great mix of personalities and nationalities. We felt it was a great story of the Hebron community at large, as well, since we always consider everyone to be unique and yet a proud member of the Lumberjack Nation.

We were further honored when the article was selected by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America for Best Feature Story for 2014. Here you can read the story in its entirety, courtesy of the New England Soccer Journal.

Featured Varsity Team Members, L to R: Subham Bodke ‘16 (India), Toni Villalonga ‘15 (Brazil), Max Borchardt ‘16 (Germany), Myles Horn ‘15 (US), Felipe Sabino ‘16 (Brazil) and Justin Bell ‘17 (Bermuda).


Shubham Bodke, a junior who’s in his second season on the Hebron Academy soccer team since coming to the United States from his native India, was asked about the toughest adjustment he faced during the transition.

Was it the language barrier? The academic program? Time management?

“Do you want me to be honest?” he asked.

Yes, he was assured.

“Eating food with a fork and knife,” he said.

Any way you slice it, the boys that make up the program at Hebron are a diverse group, and not just in the way they play soccer. There are players from nine different countries on the varsity — Brazil, Germany, India, Spain, the Czech Republic, Mexico and Bermuda, in addition to the United States and Canada. On the junior-varsity team, China, the British Virgin Islands, Korea, Finland and Jamaica also are represented.

The program is not just a melting pot of soccer styles, but one of cultures, too. And as teammates spend their days together, attending some of the same classes, eating together in the dining hall, practicing and playing soccer, and sharing ideas in study halls, they get an education that’s not part of the official curriculum.

“As the world becomes a smaller place, you’re seeing it more and more,” Hebron coach Kurt Swanbeck said. “We’re a melting pot of international cultures. All prep schools are nowadays.”

The Lumberjacks stood 5-2-2 in late October, again one of the top teams in the Maine Association of Independent Schools (MAISAD) Conference. In each of the past two years, they’ve been selected for the New England Class C tournament and reached the semi-finals, last year upsetting top-seeded Beaver Country Day along the way.

But that doesn’t mean all Swanbeck has to do is throw a ball out and watch the different styles mesh. There are cultural differences on the field bred through decades of national tendencies and pride. Introducing a Spanish player, who grew up at the altar of tiki-taka and short passing, to the physical nature of the American style, can be athletic culture shock.

That wasn’t the only adjustment Bodke faced. He came from a school in India where there were 60 kids in a class. When he wanted to, he could hang in the back, stay quiet and blend into the background.

“Here, the teacher’s talking directly to me,” he said. “If I do something wrong, she knows.”

Customs in parts of India allow only forks and knives to be used in the kitchen not during meals. Also, cows are considered sacred animals, not to be eaten, and at times beef was the only source of protein Bodke could find at his new school.

But he adjusted. He’s in better athletic shape this year after losing weight in the offseason, more comfortable with American customs, more confident to ask for things he wants

Players from all over the world — 14 different countries in all — turn Hebron Academy into a melting pot of culture — and soccer styles

Story by Mike ZhePhotos by Mike Gridley

Junior Shubham Bodke

Coach Swanbeck addresses the team.


in the dining hall.

“The only thing I’m afraid of now,” Bodke said, “is playing in the cold.”

Swanbeck grew up in homogenous Franklin, MA, but played his college soccer in New York City at Columbia, where he got his first taste of how international the beautiful game could be.

He didn’t see it as much when he coached at Army, but he certainly does at Hebron, where he also works as the associate director of admissions. When an applicant mentions a soccer background, that’s when he takes a greater interest in the process.

Located about 15 miles north of Lewiston in central Maine, Hebron soccer’s strong international flavor was Canadian when Swanbeck arrived five years ago, like many New England prep schools that offer hockey.

“I’ve sort of followed that model because I had so much of that in college,” said Swanbeck, who’s coached college soccer for more than 30 years and also been the head coach at Clark (MA) University and Barry (FL) University. “I’ve enjoyed that flavor of the game that comes from players from different worlds.”

Today, Marco Kloster is a key midfielder on a Siena College team that was in first place in its Division 1 conference in late October. But flash back three years and he was struggling to adjust as a sophomore at Hebron after coming from his native Brazil.

There was a language barrier he had to overcome. Plus homesickness (he wouldn’t return to Brazil until the following March). Plus meshing his soccer skills with that of his teammates.

“The way Brazilians play and Americans play,” Kloster said, “is real different. It’s a lot more physical here, a lot more

running. … It was a difficult transition. There was some leadership required from the captains and Coach Swanbeck.

The Lumberjacks favor a game played on the flanks with crosses, not over-the-top or short passing. By the time he was a senior, Kloster had settled into his role as a leader, both on the soccer pitch and off.

“At the beginning of the season, the preseason, you have your different players playing their different ways,” he said. “Some want to possess more. Some want to attack more. But we had a coach and he set up the way he wanted us to play.”

Kloster has seen action in nine of the first 14 games for Siena, which stood 9-5 at press time. One of his teammates is Italian-born midfielder Tommaso Centemero, who played with him last year as a postgraduate at Hebron, leading the team with 15 goals.

It was an adjustment at first, but a great experience looking back. “Living in a boarding school, it helped a lot with the bonding,” Kloster said. “Some of the players had to go through hard times and didn’t have their families around, just teammates. The friendships … it was something special. And in the games, you were playing for the guys that you love.”

For many international student-athletes, it’s an opportunity too good to pass up: a chance for a superb American education and athletic opportunities, while living a year or more on a beautiful campus far removed from poverty and crime.

It’s during the first week of school that reality sets in.

“In the admissions process, they can’t wait to be away from home and live in a dorm,” Swanbeck said. “Then they get here.”

One of the first things the coach does with his team each season is hold a “heart-to-heart” team meeting. This year, it was in a meeting room by the cafeteria, where players were encouraged to open up to one another. Swanbeck started by talking about the toughest moment in his childhood, how he was devastated when his father passed away.

Coach Swanbeck

Sophomore Justin Bell


Players shared their homesickness. Their worries. Their fears (some feared for their families after recent news came that Russia was violating a no-fly zone). “That meeting this year turned into an incredible experience, people sharing deep things about their lives,” Swanbeck said. “There were some of them beyond tears.”

“Their families oversees could be going through rough times,” senior goalie Myles Horn said, “whether it’s parents going through divorces or a brother in a gang. That exercise really helps us come together as a team.”

Horn (Bourne, Mass.) is in his fourth year at Hebron and his third year as a full-timer on the varsity, where he serves as team captain. Soccer isn’t his best sport — he verbally committed to play college lacrosse at Div. 1 Hartford last month — but he can appreciate how the team is able to gel as the season goes along.

Also how diverse it is.

“We have a kid from Mexico who’s trying to learn Chinese,” he noted.

There are players such as Antoni Luis (“Toni”) Villalonga, a postgrad from Spain who may be good enough to play in Div. 1. Striker Felipe Sabino of Brazil has had the scoring touch of late.

Forward Justin Bell, a big talent as a sophomore, came from the Bermuda U-15 national team. Junior midfielder Max Borchardt from Germany is a superb player who prefers moving the ball to shooting but scored his first goal last month against Gould — on a rebound, of course.

Bodke wasn’t good enough to start last year as a sophomore even if the skill was there. But he focused his

offseason on fitness, dropped more than 40 pounds and has become a model of fitness, so much that Swanbeck’s son — Tyler, a freshman on the varsity — routinely seeks him out as a partner in drills to push his own conditioning.

“You could see him change so much,” Horn said. “He lost weight and is in great shape. And he’s deadly with his speed and the way he crosses the ball.”He’s come to appreciate the dining hall options, salad bars and sandwiches and chicken, and has better communication with the food preparers. The school has nights throughout the year that reflect the international makeup of the student body, serving native dishes. “They’ll actually sit with the kids, find out what to serve and go over the recipes,” Swanbeck said.What’s on the menu down the road for Bodke? He is aiming to play Div. 1 college soccer, but wherever he ends up he wants to study business. But for now, he’s part of a special — and incredibly diverse — soccer family.

“It’s interesting,” Horn said. “When we were on the field at the start of the year, we used to say, ‘’Jacks on three.’

“Now we say, ‘Family on three.’”

Postgraduate Toni Villalonga

Junior Max Borchardt

Senior Myles Horn


‘Jacks of WinterHebron was among the first schools in New England to partici-pate in prep school ski competitions. The New England Ski Mu-seum notes that the 1930 Eastern Interscholastic Prep School Meet held in Brattleboro, VT, included Cushing Academy, Eagle-brook School, Hebron Academy, New Hampton School and St. Johnsbury Academy. Here is Hebron’s ski team from 1939. The tall fellow in the back, fourth from the left, would make his mark as a four-event skier at the University of New Hampshire, be-come a celebrated coach at Dartmouth College, lead the United States Olympic Ski Team twice and be inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame and Hebron’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Who is he?

Here is another Ski Team, this the first Girls’ Alpine Team, from 1977. Can anyone identi-fy these intrepid alpiners, turned out in fast Levis and the Marker turntables of the day?

“Vorlage” - Otto Lang’s early instructional book, Downhill Ski-ing (1946), includes a description of “vorlage,” the forward lean of skiing, then an innovative departure from crouching. Lang described it as “standing on your skis (with) the mind and body always ahead of the skis. The faster you go, and the steeper the slope becomes, the more vorlage you need.” Here is a photo of George Helwig, Hebron’s ski coach, demon-strating expert technique in 1948 on the slopes of Streaked Mountain, the venue for early competitions. At that time, all “earned their turns” by climbing.

(answer) Charles Allison Merrill, Class of 1939, of Andover, Maine, familiarly known as “Al Merrill.”

(answer L to R) Cricket Corwin ’78, Alice Canning ’78, Margaret Sayres ’77, Jane McKay (Morrill) ’77, Ginny Goodwin ’79, Sue Hanson ’78 and Beth Hanson ’77.


Winter comes early and stays late, a full season in Hebron, and through the years, students and faculty have embraced “Old Man Winter” with sport and activity which make the most of the snow and the season.

Winter sports are organized at Hebron in the early 1920’s, the 1926 Green Parrot featuring a “Winter Sports Team” of skaters, snowshoers, jumpers and skiers. The team competed in Winter Carnival weekends organized by

towns such as Andover, Wilton, Farmington, Auburn and Bethel.

Above is the team of 1934 and in the center of the page is the trophy won in Andover for the Northern New England Prep Meet by the team of 1936.

Soon Hebron would host its own Winter Carnival featuring ice hockey, ski jumping, snowshoeing and Nordic races on the Andrews Field, snow sculptures and a Carnival Dance featuring a Carnival Queen and music by the Carl Lee Orchestra.

Above is the Carnival Queen of 1942, and below a snow sculpture of that year with William Davis, Class of

1942 and “Manny” Plavin, Class of 1943, posed with the Liberty

Bell.


Lumberjack Spirit.We Lumberjacks can proudly name some very special people

as alumni of Hebron – people who have left our campus and gone on to do very important, very amazing, very public things – becoming Vice President of the United States (Hannibal Hamlin), becoming a professional athlete (Eddie Jeremiah of the Boston Bruins, Danny MacFayden of the Red Sox, or Sean Morey of the NE Patriots) or becoming Fulbright scholars (as you read in previous pages). But it’s not so much the fame of what they’ve done that is important to our theme here. It is why they did it, following a passion that was no doubt partially if not fully ignited during their time at Hebron.

The count of “not quite famous” or “yet to be famous” Hebron alumni is far greater, but there is no doubt their passions are just as strong. Within this illustrious group, we find the essential elements of the Hebron Spirit, equally alive and well. One such alumnus who embodies this passion is Eric Beaudette, Class of 2012.

Eric was introduced to Hebron Academy by friends enrolling at the time with students who promoted Hebron for exactly what he was looking for: a community. Eric originally chose Hebron based on his welcoming tour and the beautiful campus, pointing out the excitement produced when seeing the athletic center. Here he would find a community without judgment from peers, and where inspiration and support from faculty and friends would be found in every hallway and classroom.

“I looked for a school that could challenge me as a student, artist, and athlete,” Eric said at the beginning of our interview. “What I didn’t expect was the passion of the teachers and mentors, and how invested they were for our development as students and athletes, but also, as teenagers who would soon become adults. That was something I realized early on in my time at Hebron.”

Eric also liked the small, inclusive community for just that, its size. “At Hebron, when you walk in the halls or on the campus you know everyone. That leads to a comfort that allows you to take risks, try new things and grow as a person. The environment, the community, fosters that growth.”

He credits the entire Lumberjack community with helping him reach this level of comfort over his two years at Hebron, but there are a few people who stand out in his memories.

“The student body at Hebron Academy was extremely diverse, but Mr. King went above and beyond to help everyone feel supported, and as much a part of the community as anyone else.” Eric talked about the benefit of having great exposure to international students

and how much he valued this going into a college setting. “Some of my best friends at Hebron came from all over the world, which is an experience I would not have had at public school.” That exposure to different cultures further underlines the concept of trying, learning and accepting new things as part of the overall development of spirit at Hebron.

“Ms. Esch (Jeanine Eschenbach, Chair of the Visual and Performing Arts Department) became a true mentor and friend to me. She was the one who encouraged me to explore my passions alongside each other. With that push, I first started to look at apparel design through the lens of other disciplines, which gave me a unique perspective.” He spent part of his senior year doing an independent study in apparel design and construction.

“From my perspective, the amazing teachers and faculty were the major contributors for the student’s success and the supportive community. My junior year, which was my first year at Hebron, Ms. Skeele (Anna Skeele) helped me secure an internship for the upcoming summer at Cole Haan. As a high school student, I was beyond excited.” This initial work experience was a crucial start to Eric’s professional

Here he would find a community without judgment from peers, and where inspiration

and support from faculty and friends would be found in every hallway and

classroom.

Beaudette at the YMA Fashion Scholarship Awards.

by Lissa Gumprecht


Eric and his team’s Wearable Technology collection for the Cornell Fashion Collective in April 2014. Top and lower left show garments utilizing LEDs to illuminate a lasercut design inspired by circuitry. The Thermochromic piece (lower right) was also shown at the 2014 runway show. These garments have

a pigment that changes color with set temperatures.

development, for which he gives all the credit to the support of faculty, “From the first day I walked on campus as a Lumberjack, I felt the support everywhere.”

Eric has gone on to Cornell University where he is now immersed in earning his degree in Fiber Science and Apparel Design. This is a cutting edge field, focused on the art of fashion and the science of textiles. In this discipline, he concentrates on designing functional apparel, like clothing that helps to monitor biometrics of the wearer – an integration of functional apparel design and engineering that has attracted a lot of attention in the last decade. He has been awarded a scholarship from the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund, for promising fashion designers and entrepreneurs; and won the Innovation Award in a student group from Cornell’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering for an interdisciplinary invention from a collaboration between research labs. And he doesn’t plan to stop there. Aside from his studies at Cornell, he is currently serving as a Research Assistant for Performance Apparel Lab under Assistant Professor Huiju Park, where he assists in various research studies focused on functional design through all different areas – mobility, thermoregulation, material composition and innovative design.

But it all started with a spark of innovation, fanned by the opportunity to take that risk without recrimination and bolstered by the support of his schoolmates and teachers here at Hebron. Eric says a powerful realization for him here at Hebron came when he began applying to colleges, and he was able to see just how far he’d come from those early days of being a one-dimensional student. “And then when I started to receive acceptance letters, I said to myself ‘Oh my gosh, I did it!’ and realized that I was going to be able to keep doing it because of what I was given here.”

That spark, that “realization” lurks in everyone we welcome onto campus and into our community. Eric’s story is powerful, but it is not so unique among our Lumberjacks. The heart of that spark is the fact that we all walk the halls together, eat meals together, stroll the paths of campus together and, as Eric so aptly pointed out, we know and are friends with everyone we see. The Spirit of a Lumberjack becomes a powerful, life-changing thing – breaking down the boundaries that are usually formed in high school and sustaining a community that extends well beyond the physical campus.

Once a Lumberjack, always a Lumberjack.


Bobbi

Bumps

Catching Up with ...

by David Stonebraker

On a cold, bright morning in January, Bobbi sits to “catch up” with me and share some of her memories of the Hebron community over the past three decades.

“You know how I hate this,” she begins, “there is nothing special about me, but I did bring in a few things for you to see.”

And so it begins, her hands shuffling a collection of cards and letters, items which trigger a memory of a person or a time for her. There are ‘thank-you’ notes from students now grown and married, from parents remembering a kindness, from groups who visited the campus for a game or an event and shared a meal in the Leyden Center, or from service people and organizations that she has touched.

Bobbi began working at Hebron in 1977, hired by newly minted Headmaster John T. Leyden Jr. to work for Annette Clough in the housekeeping department.

“I began in Atwood when it was the first girls’ dorm. The girls always had questions and things on their minds, and I helped them when I could.”

The fingers move through the cards again, remembering an international student, so lonely at first, who found a caring ear for her anxiety and eventually a lasting confidence that extended on through college and into life.

“I’ve known so many; I wish I could list them all, but I know I would forget someone! In those early days there were Maura Chernick ‘82 and Debbie Beacham ‘83, then later Tracie Jenkins ‘87 and Jenn Willey ‘88, Barbie Rasco ‘92 and Shannon Connolly ‘95. I have loved it that students have kept in touch. It’s wonderful to hear of their accomplishments, and the weddings and children.”

“When I was housekeeping in the dorms, I was also working for the Leydens. I would be in Allen House twice a week, arriving just about the time that Mr. Leyden was leaving to walk across the Bowl to his office. He always called me something funny. It would be ‘How are you today, B-Bumps?’ or How’s the morning going, Ms. B?’ Always something; for you knew that he knew us all like family.” And, he did.

Soon enough Bobbi moved from Housekeeping to follow “Pop” and Jean Leavitt as the manager of the school store, then known as the Hebron Trading Company. “It was a great place, just one big room and we sold absolutely everything! We were open all day, and I would come back for the kids after study hall as well. Frappes and sodas were big, and we cooked all the burgers to order. There were no french fries or pizza at that point because we had no fry-o-lator or pizza oven. The old store was a very social space. . . and we hired students each year to help. There was Jenn Walker ‘90, Matt Arsenault ‘92 and Joyce Pasqual ‘92, Irakly Arishidze’96, Haruya Morita ‘97 and Erik Mulkhey ’99. They were such fun to be around and such good workers. I always had the best people from the community too - Hope Allen and Edie

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Pierson, Julie Bryant and Pauline Veayo. I loved every minute of it.”

In time, the store would move to the new Leyden Center under the Halford dormitory. “It was a grand space,” Bobbi remembers, “and allowed us to do so much more. It was different, though, and had a different feel. There was much more room for air hockey, pool and a big old-style pinball machine with all the lights and bells; more room as well for socializing with the big TV, and we had a much more extended menu, now with pizza and fries. Barbie Rasco ‘92 and Nate Bertland ‘92 were my first customers. They came in every day to the old store, and when we moved, they wanted to be my ‘first customers’ in the new digs. Sean Morey ‘94 would come in every day for a double cheeseburger. Whatever else he had at the dining room, he always came in for his ‘double.’ It was so special when he was back on campus to speak to the kids and came in to see me, Super Bowl ring and all. I thought for sure he’d order a double!”

The larger space and larger kitchen capacity made the Leyden Center then, as it is now, a great spot for group gatherings. “There are so many groups we had and events that we did, and people always appreciated being together there. We had birthday parties, cast parties for the winter plays, and athletic teams ‘from away.’ We had late night socials at Winter Carnival and an end-of-the-year party for the Lower School. Every year, I helped with the flowers for the graduating class just before Commencement. And we did things like ‘Exam Bags’ with parents and a Diversity Committee fund-raiser when we made over 150 pizzas all at once for the group.”

And in some years, Bobbi touched a larger community as well. In December of 1990, Bobbi and the store crew joined with Scott Bennett, food service manager, baker Gail Trundy and Hebron’s kitchen staff to create Operation “Dessert Shield”. It was one small part of a combined effort of schools and colleges represented by Seiler’s Corporation to send holiday cookies to American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf. In a single evening, students and staff, led by Bobbi, created and baked sheet after sheet of Gail’s famous gingersnap and sugar cookies, wrapping and packing over 4,000 Hebron treats to add to a nationwide effort that delivered over five million cookies that year for Christmas in the Gulf. Bobbi would say that it was just “what we do at Hebron,” but a newspaper clipping of the time noted how Bobbi provided participants with bakers’ caps with the Academy logo and helped to set the spirit of the evening for all involved. “I love to laugh,” she says, “and it was such fun to get into the spirit of an event with decorations and all. I loved that part of all the events we did at the Union.”

Bobbi might take her part in such a fun event as the “cookie caper” in stride, but the Ice Storm of 1998 was a different matter. Then, with the school closed for nearly three weeks and Halford Dormitory and the Leyden Center declared a state emergency shelter, because it was one of the few places in Hebron with a generator, Bobbi turned her grill into a full-service kitchen. She helped serve those who remained to look after the campus and keep the Academy functioning, the townspeople who came to

campus for emergency shelter and the line crews from as far away as Virginia who were at work in the area.

“It was something else,” she says, understated as usual, “yet people were so kind and so appreciative, especially the emergency workers who would come in after long hours in the cold working for us. It was easy to do, not easy exactly at the time, but the right thing, the way we are as a community.” And there, among the cards, are the notes from those she served.

When asked about retirement, she laughs. “It was time, I suppose. We bought a camp on South Pond, near Jay Woolsey, and I wanted to spend more time there, not just summers but other times as well. In 2009, I took the whole year off. We traveled a bit and just lived it up. But I suppose the school is in my blood; I can’t seem to stay away. But it is so fun now just to have a hand in a little bit - to do catering at Trustee events and especially at Homecoming. To see the kids come back and hear all that they have been up to. It is as if they are family.”

In a way, they are, for Bobbi’s family seems to include most all the Hebron community, for thirty years and more. “And I think, in a way, I have come full circle. I walk with Bev Leyden most mornings in the Athletic Center, and that picture you have of me

has me back in the Leyden home (Allen House) again. It’s all one. I am proud of being Hebron.”

And Hebron is proud of you. Thank you, Bobbi.

HEBRON would welcome hearing reminiscences from alumni about Bobbi on campus and as Hebron’s ‘storekeeper.’ - send them to [email protected]

Bobby manning the counter at the student union of today.


‘Jacks of Winter

Rites of Winter - the Fanny Farmer Cookbook from 1952 directs “mix corned beef, chopped boiled potatoes, beets, and onion, stock, butter, salt and pepper. Spread in heavy cast skillet and cook slowly until browned on the bottom.” Flannel Hash, a.k.a “Hebron Hash,” a staple of the winter breakfast.

Ernest H. “Jack” Sherman was the ‘Chef-Steward’ for the Academy from 1951 – 1968, his flannel hash the stuff of memory.

Can anyone supply the proportions for Hebron’s flannel hash or perhaps a memory of it? (send them to [email protected])

Stanley Arena - “Score!” Hockey action in Stanley Arena, circa 1928. The Rink was the gift of Freelan Stanley, then Chair of the Board of Trustees, who engineered the design of the truss roof himself. Charles Dwyer, the “Ice Man,” for many years tended the ice himself, layering fresh water on the natural surface in the wee hours of the night. When built in 1926, the Arena had the distinction of being the first covered ice arena for a school in the country. Here is a picture taken by Ned Willard in 1962 of Charlie Dwyer watching a hockey game. What is the unique circumstance behind this picture of hockey action?

Here is a group of hockey players from Nat Harris’s 1980 team. One is Hebron’s current “Ice Man,” in charge of the surface in Robinson Arena. Which one is he? (answer below)

‘Jacks of Winter(answer) The game is being played outdoors on natural ice on the site of the second Stan-

ley Arena which collapsed in 1961. The school’s first artificial rink would be completed for

the following season on the familiar site south of Rt. 119.

(answer) 4th from left, Chuck Hall, Class of 1980.


We started the Homecoming-Reunion Weekend 2014 on Friday evening with

a reception at the Lepage Center for the Arts. Here alums and friends mingled with parents,

faculty, and staff. The vibe in the room was palpable ... everyone sharing stories of Hebron

from yesterday and today. We even shared a special cocktail with attendees that we call Hebron Ties. A concoction discovered by the Alumni Office Team while

on a departmental retreat this Summer, we felt it’s green and white presentation was just right for a special Hebron

occasion.

If you were there that night and enjoyed a taste of Hebron Ties, or are simply curious and would like to try these at home, here’s the basic recipe. Adjust to your taste.

• 2 parts premium vodka• 1 part St. Germaine elderberry liquer• Fresh squeezed lemon juice• Muddled mint

HEBRON TIES

Mix these ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake until well mixed, Pour over ice and cut with plain seltzer, again to your taste. Garnish with whole mint leaves and a slice of lemon. Enjoy!


REUNION 2014 &Homecoming

Friday Night Reception

John Leamon ‘84, John King, Head of School,

John Suitor ‘84 and Larry Sparks ‘84

Deb Beacham Bloomingdale ‘83, Bobbi Bumps and AJ Bloomingdale ‘11

Three generations of Leydens ...

Tim Braddock ‘70, Bill Weary ‘60 and Kim Kenway ‘70 (Trustee)

Wallace Higgins, Trustee

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The Hebron Academy

ATHLETIC HALL OF FAMEpierre lucien robert legendre ‘18Track & Field Olympian

• Attended Hebron for a postgraduate year, making the most of his opportunity to prepare for Georgetown University. He was a key player as right tackle for Hebron’s football team and pitcher for the baseball team.

• At Georgetown, became a member of the Student Army Training Corps. and outstanding track and field athlete. Won the National and World Pentathlon Championships in 1919 and the pentathlon at the Penn Relays in 1920. Set an NCAA long jump record of 24 feet 4 and ¾ inches at the BAA (Boston Athletic Association) meet in 1921. Competed on the record-setting NAAU medley relay team

• Became a member of the US Olympic Team of 1920 (Belgium) and 1924 (Paris). Set an unofficial world record for the long jump of 25 feet 5 and 5/8 inches in 1924 while competing in the pentathlon competition. The record was not officially recognized because it did not occur in the single event competition. However, the record stood until beaten in the 1936 Berlin Games by legendary track athlete, Jesse Owens.

• The only Maine native to be selected for the Helms Foundation’s American Athlete Hall of Fame.

Alumni Convocation

Leslie Guenther (Athletic Director), Martha Tucker (Legendre’s Granddaughter) and John King (Head of School)

Tom Hull ‘64 and John King, Head of School


The Hebron Academy

ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

john “moose” curtisLongtime Coach & Faculty Member, 1975-2015

• Arrived at Hebron Academy in 1975 as a young ‘triple-threat’ faculty member to teach chemistry, coach football and live with seniors on the second floor of the Sturtevant Home. Earned the moniker “Moose” in honor of his stature and admiration for Maine’s state animal.

• Hebron’s longest-tenured athletic coach – with 110 seasons served, surpassing even the legendary Charles Dwyer. Coached Football, commanding the Lumberjack gridiron sideline for more than 300 games; Alpine Skiing, assisting alpine racers and jumpers on the slopes for 37 years; and Lacrosse, assisting on the field for 34 years.

• A founder of the Evergreen Football League, a NEPSAC (New England Prep School Athletic Conference) conference which seeks to promote fair and sportsmanlike competition among its members. Moose’s football teams have been exemplary whether in victory or defeat for their courage, dedication and fair play. His team won a NEPSAC Championship in 1994 and were Runner-Up twice (2005 & 2006).

• As a youth, learned the game of football in youth leagues in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and played the line at the Baylor School alongside John Hannah who would become a legendary all-pro offensive lineman for the New England Patriots.

• A life-long outdoorsman, has been a counselor and canoe trips leader for Camp Winona, organizer of the Wilderness Waters Canoe Program at Hebron, the Director of Maine’s Junior Maine Guide Program and a long time participant and leader of whitewater canoeing and kayaking activities for Hebron’s Outing Club.

margaret muller ‘99Track & Field Record Holder

• Earned 12 varsity letters in her four years at Hebron Academy while serving as captain in five seasons for Soccer, Swimming and Track. Earned five Most Valuable Player recognitions in Swimming and Track. Was awarded both the Bessie Fenn Award for the outstanding female athlete and the Charles and Amy Dwyer Award as the outstanding scholar-athlete for the Class of 1999.

• As a Hebron track athlete, was undefeated for four years in High Hurdles, Intermediate Hurdles and High Jump, establishing school and NEPSAC (New England Prep School Athletic Conference) records. Her 100 meter High Hurdles, High Jump and 300 meter Intermediate Hurdles still stand today. Led the Hebron Track team to three consecutive NEPSAC Track Championships.

• At the age of 14, she was a multi-event track competitor, placing 3rd in the nation in the pentathlon and holding 12 team records for the Poland Panthers youth track club. Held Maine Junior Olympic records for the 200 and 400 meter races.

• While at the University of Maine, won the America East Conference Indoor High Jump Championship as a freshman, becoming Maine’s track & field Rookie of the Year. Earned the 3rd fastest University of Maine 400 meter Intermediate Hurdle time and top 10 All-time Performance List rankings in five separate events.

Leslie Guenther (Athletic Director), Meg Muller ‘99 and Gino Valeriani (Past Faculty and Coach)

Leslie Guenther (Athletic Director), Andy Stephenson ‘96, Moose Cur-tis, John King and Paul Goodof (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)


An excerpt from Tom Hull’s remarks at Alumni Convocation 2014

Thank you for this award. I am honored, humbled, and astonished to be the recipient.

Honored because the award reflects the caring spirit of one of Hebron’s most revered educators, Jay Woolsey.

Honored also because of what the award represents, namely the commitment to giving back. In accepting this award I would like to say a few words about giving back to Hebron Academy even though in this church with this audience this may sound like preaching to the choir.

My classmates who are here for our 50th reunion will remember the admonitions of our headmaster, the legendary Claude L. Allen, Jr., who resuscitated this academy after World War II. Claude would tell us again and again that our responsibility to Hebron Academy would not end with our graduation.

When we left we took with us a diploma and also the Hebron education that it represented. Hebron Academy is and has always been a preparatory school, a prep school, with a mission to prepare its students not only for college immediately ahead, but also for life beyond.

A Hebron education does not come cheap. Parents have always sacrificed to give their children the best education that they can afford, and we Trustees and the Academy’s educators are appreciative of your sacrifice and mindful of our obligation to you in return. What parents pay, however, has never covered the full cost of a Hebron education, which makes contributions from our donors absolutely essential.

Our alumni are Hebron’s most significant benefactors. Your generous donations not only defray the cost of a Hebron education, but also invest in Hebron Academy’s future. We need to renovate the Treat Science Building which was new 50 years ago; improve salaries and housing to retain our marvelous faculty and staff; upgrade dormitories for a growing student body; support the arts, sports, and other activities that complement education in the classroom; and maintain the information technology and buildings at the core of this institution.

Back about 1972, I took my young wife on a summer trip to meet the man who had so influenced me, Claude Allen, and the school and environment that had molded me, so that she could understand me a little better...As Mr. Allen reminisced with us about the Class of ’64, I remember him commenting, more in disappointment than in bitterness, about a classmate from an extremely wealthy family. “I wet-nursed that boy for four years,” he said, “and he has never given this school anything.” His comment was less about money than about giving back.

Claude Allen’s concern remains a valid concern today. We need our students of today to understand that in studying at Hebron they are incurring a lifelong obligation to Hebron Academy. And our young alumni need to develop a habit of engaging with Hebron beyond the fond memories of your school days...

...We all applaud the accomplishments of the best students, but there are many more like me who are or were far from the top of their class. Nevertheless, every Hebron Academy student, regardless of academic achievement, leaves this school with critical intellectual skills and values. Those values include the concept of service that is at the heart of the Humanity and Achievement philosophy that Hebron Academy teaches. Whether you are an American or from another part of the world, you are part of a Hebron Academy extended family that has an obligation to nurture the school that nurtured us while also fulfilling your broader responsibilities in life.

Hebron Academy is an intrinsic part of me as it is a part of you. I have tried to be of service to this school while also contributing to our greater society through diplomacy and education. I am just one of innumerable Hebronians who deserve recognition for giving back and making a difference over the years, as today’s students will do when they become the stewards of this Academy for future generations of Hebron students.

“Our alumni are Hebron’s most significant benefactors. Your generous donations ... invest in Hebron Academy’s future.”

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Distinguished Service Thomas N. Hull III ‘64 The Honorable


Rededication of Andrews Field(aka “The Bowl”; event inspired by the 100th anniversary of WWI)

REUNION 2014 &Homecoming

Kathy Gerrits-Leyden, Jenny Agnew Ridley ‘99and Andy Stephenson ‘96

Brian Cloherty ‘79, Marcia Clark and Jane Harris Ash ‘79

Jaelyn and Paul Downey ‘81 with daughterShayne

Judy and John Giger ‘64

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Returning Reunion Classes

Class of 1984 The Givers of the Victory Bell

Brian Cloherty, Laurel Willey Thompson, B. Tucker

Thompson and Jane Harris Ash

FRONT: John Donahue, Craig Bilodeau, Larry Sparks, Debra Schiavi CoteMIDDLE: Ned Sullivan ‘85, Gaelynn Cobb LimogesBACK: John Thompson, Greg Prescott, John Leamon, Dave Teckham, John Daigle ‘85, Jocelyn Tucker, Chris Woolson, Lincoln Taylor , Dave Hathaway

Omar Garcia, Julia West, Margaret Muller, Megan Laflamme (Boyd), Edwin Van Bibber-Orr, Jennifer (Agnew) Ridley, Jake Leyden, Ben DaeSoon Acker.

Mark Jorgenson, Helen Jones (Stewart), Roger Clark, David Snider


Commemorative Dinner

Edwin Van Bibber-Orr ‘99, DaeSoon (Ben)

Acker ‘99 and Omar Garcia ‘99

Gino Valeriani,Past Faculty

NikolayUvarov ‘14

The Curtis Family

The Stonebraker Clan

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Moose, Dave & Gino

Andrea Hart ‘08

Bruce Found, Past Faculty

Tim Cassidy ‘89, Jim Jenkins’89, Scott Downes ‘86, Stephen Collins ‘89, Bill Wallace PF

Betsy Found, Bruce Found, Shirley Savage, and Bobbi Bumps

Ashley Waldron ‘09, Mary Randall ‘09 and Sarah Fensore ‘09


More Reunion MomentsThe Peterson Project

David Stonebraker, Elizabeth Davis ‘94,

Matt Haskell ‘94 and Keith Hovey ‘94

Emily Thompson, Emma Timberlake-Knapp, Max

Middleton, ‘12, Julie Middleton, Gordon Smith

‘57, Kayla Chadwick ‘08, Win Durgin ‘57, Wally

Higgins, Trustee, Arthur Davey, Abby Small ‘12

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Class of 1984+, L to R: Larry Sparks, John Daigle ‘85, Chris Woolson, John Thompson, Lincoln Taylor, Jocelyn Tucker, Gaelynn Cobb Limoges, Greg Prescott, Debra Schiavi Cote, Ned Sullivan ‘85, Craig Bilodeau, John Donahue, John Leaman, Dave Hathaway, and Dave Peckham.


Ray Bradford ‘64 and

Andy Stephenson ‘96

Harvey Lipman ‘71 and Ray Bradford ‘64

Bill Weary ‘60, David Stonebraker and Chris Buschman ‘66

Devon Biondi ‘96 with son Milo


franklin society

“ For many years I have supported Hebron

Academy through the Annual Fund. In

addition I have a scholarship fund which

helps to defray the cost of attending this fine

school. My estate plan contains a provision

to add funds to the scholarship. By doing so

I will continue providing a student with the

“Hebron Experience” - Dean Ridlon ‘53

Including Hebron Academy in your charitable estate planning is one of the most personal ways to express your philanthropy. We

are forever grateful for this commitment, and we honor those who remember the Academy in this way by recognizing them as

members of The Franklin Society.

The society was named to celebrate Dr. Benjamin Franklin’s qualities of foresight, prudent financial management and

intellectual achievement. Dr. Franklin serves as a symbol of building up on the past for the benefit of the future.

For more information about how you can become a member of the Franklin Society, contact:

John Slattery ’04Assistant Director of Advancement for

Major Gifts & Planned Giving207-966-5259

[email protected]


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We love hearing from you! Please send news or contact updates to your class agent or to Beverly Roy at [email protected].

1939Richard A. Field writes, “Still breathiing and placing one foot in front of the other. At 94 years!”

1942Class Agent: Norman A. [email protected]

1943Class Agent: Eugene J. [email protected]

1949Class Agent: Robert P. Rich, [email protected]

1950BECOME THE AGENT FOR YOUR CLASS! Contact Bev Roy at 207-966-5251 or [email protected].

1951Class Agent: Edward L. [email protected]

1952Class Agent: Rev. Kenneth A. Boyle [email protected]

Peter F. Jeffries writes, “Retired in 1995 in good health. This fall we took a day sail out of Falmouth Foreside after over 50 years away from salt water. It was great!”

1953Class Agent: Dean E. [email protected]

1954Class Agent: Michael [email protected] W. Jasper is still in Utah with one wife, five

children, 17 grandkids; writing as “Perspycasious” on www.hubpares.com with nearly 800 articles, poems, etc. - thanks to Mr. Willard.”

Llewellyn G. Ross writes that he is still working full-time, “which I suspect will continue for the forseeable future, but enjoyiing it and wondering what I will do if I stop! Life is good at the moment which will hopefully continue.”

1955Class Agent: Richard J. Parker [email protected] B. Thompson reports that his third grandchild arrived in February. They’re the best!

Charles G. Sprague is enjoying Florida except in season. Too crowded, lines everywhere, traffic insane. Headed to Costa Rica, much more laid back. Kids, children, grand-kids join me there for a few days-great fishing-great food-zip Lines (not for me) go to town of Juco surfer paradise. Hope to be at the reunion.

Samuel A. Dibbins writes, “I wish I could attend our 60th event in Sept. I need to be at the US PTA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, during that time ‘Teaching Tennis 25-30 hrs/wk and love it. Warmest Regards to All.”

Michael R. Estachy writes, “Fernando Pruna and I finally met up in Miami this past May after 59 years. Best regards, Mike” Mob France: +33 6 74 82 92 64 Email: [email protected]

1956Class Agent: Dr. Kenneth P. [email protected]

C. T. Van Alen is a retired employee of the Social Security department. He worked for the Federal government his entire 40 plus year career. Tom’s great passion is travel and one of his great mentors at Hebron was George Frieday who encouraged Tom to travel.

1957Class Agents: Michael A. [email protected]& Charles B. Swartwood [email protected]


1959Class Agent: Bernard L. [email protected]

James C. Harberson writes, “I am enjoying retirement after 26 years as a New York State Judge. My grandchildren, Max, Sophie and Dorothy are great kids. My son Justin, is a Gastroenterologist in Lancaster, PA. .My son Jim, is writing Screen Plays.”

Tycho T. von Rosenvinge writes , “This summer my son Tycho and his son Tycho and I visited the island where Tycho Brabe had his astronomical observatory in the late 1500’s. Who knows? Maybe this is the first time that there were so many Tycho’s on the island. We also visited the Rosenvinge house in Malino; built in 1534. Sorry to not have made the reunion. I’m still working! Maybe next time.”

1960Class Agent: David J. [email protected]


American-Canadian Tour founder and president and Thunder Road International Speedbowl co-owner Thomas M. Curley was named as an inductee to the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame for 2014. Curley will be enshrined as the David Hakins Memorial Award inductee, which “honors as business leader or an organization for exceptional promotion and development of sports, athletics, and recreation in the State of Vermont.” Curley served as NASCAR North director from 1979 to 1985 and then founded the American-Canadian Tour in 1986, after a split with NASCAR. He became a co-owner of Barre’s Thunder Road after he entered into a partnership with 2012 Vermont Sports Hall of Fame inductee Ken Squier. Curley has overseen and managed three generations of stock car racing in the northeast. He was inducted into the New England Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2009 and was honored as Promoter of the Year in 2004 by Racing Promotion Monthly (RPM). He has also received Northeast Promoter of the year by RPM three times, Charlotte Motor Speedway’s National Short Track Promoter of the Year in 2003, and Promoter of the Year in 1992 by Trackside Magazine. Curley received ACT’s top honor in 1991 with the Don MacTavish Award.

1962Class Agent: Richard S. [email protected]

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1963Class Agent: William C. Harding, [email protected]

1964Class Agent: John R. [email protected]

Thomas N. Hull wrote to David Stonebraker, Hebron Archivist, “David, we once discussed a Hebron memento from the May 16, 1963 dedication ceremony for the Charles C. Dwyer Playing Fields which you thought the archive did not have. The memento is a commemorative envelope autographed by the ceremony’s speaker, the legendary Olympian Jesse Owens. The envelope also has a Dominican Republic stamp portraying his gold medal performance that debunked Adolph Hitler’s claim of Aryan superiority at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. On the envelope is also a drawing of Hebronians participating in five sports with the school building in the background. I recently found my commemorative envelope, and would like to donate it to the Hebron Archive if you would like to have it for the collection.”

David P. Stromeyer writes, “It has been an eventful winter. We have a big trip arranged to Death Valley then on to Hawaii. Hope you will soon be seeing signs of Spring in Hebron.”

1965Class Agent: Allen C. [email protected]

James A. Morrill writes “Enjoying my 6 grandchildren! Hard to believe we are coming up on 50 years since graduation.”

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1969Tim Sample (excerpted from his syndicated column “Stories I Never Told You”)

My 45th reunion (Class of 1969) was held recently on an autumn weekend amid the ivy-shrouded classrooms and storied playing fields of that venerable institution, Hebron Academy. I’d received plenty of information ahead of time. I’d even decided to post my “Class of ‘69” save-the-date reminder from the school’s highly motivated alumni office at eye level on my refrigerator door. The fact that the announcement was secured by a tiny magnetized replica of that timeless icon of American gastronomic excellence - Spam - speaks volumes. (I acquired it several years ago whilst browsing through the gift shop at the no doubt frequently “bucket listed” Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota.)

If only at some vague subliminal level, it seems clear to me now that a part of me had been debating whether or not to show up for the festivities at my alma mater. Alas, the gods of commerce ultimately prevailed. I managed to resist the tug of “Old School Ties” and the prospect of hobnobbing with a gaggle of long lost chums and wound up spending that weekend motoring through foliage strewn mountain passes on my way to and from a couple of solid, income-generating gigs in nearby New Hampshire.

Don’t misunderstand me. There’s no way I’d want my decision to skip the reunion to leave the impression that I’ve forgotten, or heaven forbid even forsaken my old school, the people I encountered during my days there, or the many important life changing events that transpired within those hallowed halls. But right about now, some of you will have found my self-identification as a member of the Hebron Academy class of ‘69 rather baffling. I don’t blame you. It’s perfectly understandable considering that on several occasions I’ve represented myself as a genuine, diploma-toting member of the Boothbay Region High School Class of ‘69. If that’s true how does Hebron Academy fit in? Have I changed my story entirely? Am I suddenly claiming to have earned two distinct and separate degrees from two totally unrelated institutions during the exact same four-year time frame? Is that even possible? Could I have been in two places at once for several years without anybody ever noticing it? Was there maybe a doppelganger involved?

Well let’s see, taking those questions in the order in which they were posed, my answers would be as follows: No. Not exactly. Sort of. No. And no again. Welcome to the weird, eclectic, never-a-dull

moment reality of my scholastic career. In the interest of brevity, let’s try the streamlined approach. I’ll supply the basic facts. After that, however you decide to interpret them will be strictly up to you. OK? Ready? Set? Here goes.

Back in 1964, at the tender age of 13 and suffering from an as-yet-undiagnosed learning disability, I commenced my secondary school career at Hebron Academy. When I signed on as a dues paying member of the class of 1969, nobody (least of all moi) had the slightest inkling that I was headed for an academic train wreck of truly epic proportions. Let me stipulate for the record that my freshman year at Hebron was an unrelenting, anxiety ridden nightmare; a blackboard jungle crawling with predators, from which I emerged the following spring having produced what may well be the worst academic record in the academy’s history. Needless to say I was (in the vernacular of the day) “Not Asked to Return.” Eventually I did manage to scrape together (barely) enough academic credits to earn that BRHS diploma-circa 1969.

So how does that extra degree from Hebron Academy come into it? I’m glad you asked. In October of 2004, Hebron Academy celebrated its 200th anniversary, and the aforementioned alumni office lined up two keynote speakers for the event. (As a side note, apparently even if you’re “Not Asked To Return” once the date upon which you would have graduated has passed, presto! You’re automatically granted retroactive alumni status.) Anyway, the first speaker was a celebrated U.S. senator. The second? That would be yours truly. Ayuh, Mr. N.A.T.R. himself. To call it a magical evening would be a massive understatement. Following my remarks, Headmaster John King approached the podium, gestured for the crowd to settle down - and handed me my diploma. I was literally struck speechless as he explained that mine was the only such honorary degree to have been awarded in the school’s history. So in a way I really did earn two diplomas from two different schools at the same. It just took 35 years for one of them to arrive.

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Giving Back Spotlight Regis Lepage ‘72

“Hebron is a huge part of my life. I developed deep-rooted friendships here that have lasted throughout my life. I wanted to give back to a place that has such meaning with something that makes a difference.”

Hebron Parents in the Local CommunityStephen & Claire Dick P’93, Owners of Rails Restaurant in Lewiston, ME

What inspired you to open Rails? Born and raised in Lewiston, our career-life has taken us all over the world, as we raised our family of four children. It’s a dream come true to come home to Lewiston, to be a part of industrial Maine’s cultural renaissance driven by our local farms, craft artisans, and culinary venues. Rails is the perfect extension of our love for good food, our appreciation for Maine’s bounty, and our pride in our home town.

How did your travels influence the restaurant concept? While we’ve developed a taste for culinary adventure and world flavors, it’s the made-from-scratch, family favorite traditions of North America that we find most fulfilling. We’re excited to bring a fusion of comfort and adventure to Rails diners.

What is your vision for the restaurant beyond the food? We’re honored to be a part of the evolution of the historic Grand Trunk Rail Station ~ its revitalization as a vibrant community hub, a trend-setting venue for local farmers and culinary artisans, and a destination point for adventurous diners from near and far.

Late last Summer, Pat Layman, Director of Advancement and External Affairs, and John King, Head of School, sat down with an alumnus to discuss a significant gift to the school. This gift came about as a result of a desire to give back to a place that had significant impact on the molding and guidance towards adult life of one grateful man - Regis Lepage ‘72.

“Hebron is a huge part of my life. I developed deep-rooted friendships here that have lasted throughout my life. I wanted to give back to a place that has such meaning with something that makes a difference.”

Regis Lepage comes from a family who holds philanthropy in high regard. They are generous patrons of many meaningful programs and serve as board members for organizations around the state of Maine that provide support to people across a multitude of therapies and interests. When Regis was considering his gift to Hebron, he gave serious thought to what he felt most passionate about - not just from his time spent here on campus, but also throughout his life after he graduated.

His wife Carolyn and he are passionate proponents of mental healthcare initiatives and programs at St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston. “To me, it seemed natural that we support Hebron’s efforts to provide the right kind of support to students in need. There isn’t a family that hasn’t been touched by mental health issues in some way at some point, and there is a real need to illuminate and illustrate that fact, and in doing so, help remove the stigma that is still so strongly associated with it.”

The Lepage gift to Hebron will serve to enhance mental health services for students in need and provide for faculty training. Lepage believes that in building a better understanding in the faculty, the Hebron community as a whole will benefit. “Providing time, effort and advice for young people is just as, if not more, valuable than direct financial support when it comes to mental health. I see it as nuturing a person in mind, body and spirit, to teach young people about navigating through life beyond academics.”

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1966Class Agent: Harvey L. [email protected]

1967Class Agent: Loring Coes, [email protected] E. Baker writes “My wife, Lynn, and I are spending the summer in Castine. We are both retired and spend the rest of the year in Charlottesville, VA, near our three children. No grandchildren yet but we’re keeping our fingers crossed.“

William W. Seaward writes, “Hi Terry, Thanks for the wonderful set of photos - very enjoyable since I haven’t returned since graduation day. Every scene evokes memories - for some reason I still recall Sturtevant Hall through a memory of waiting on tables - standing there in a parade of large trays of hot food, behind the closed kitchen doors, waiting for the prayer to finish out in the main room, looking at Jack Sherman and waiting for him to say ‘Let it rip Rupe !’. And I’m sure we each recall what it was like when it was our turn to wait on the Headmaster’s table... Of course there are classroom and friendship memories too, that have been in the background for a long, long time suddenly triggered by the photo gallery. Thank-you for your thoughtful effort and good luck with your photography endeavors! My final year I stayed in Stearns House I believe it was called - I don’t see it on the Hebron website map - where I was fortunate that Mr Clunie was our leader. That’s another whole set of rich memories. I’ve been in Lexington, MA for the last 30 years, where we raised our family. Am still enjoying high-tech challenges, now as part of the IBM worldwide acquisitions team - certainly Hebron helped prepare me for a high-tech career even though that career did not even exist when we were students. Lastly, its great to hear from those of you who have also responded with your reflections generated by Terry’s photo gallery ! --Regards, Bill Seaward”

1968Class Agent: Robert L. Lowenthal, [email protected]

1969Class Agent: Jonathan G. [email protected]

1970Class Agent: Craig [email protected] W. Braddock writes, “Kenway (Kim) and I played in a band-The Colliders-in September. Who stops by but Peter Bancroft. Looking forward to Homecoming.”

Kingsley N. Meyer is still working at the University of Rio Grande as the Chief Technology Officer. He is also promoting broadbase access to rural areas; enjoying raised bed gardening (eat local and eat fresh); and has a tree farm on 70 acres Appalachian hardwoods/Wildlife Management. Married 20 years to Pat; daughter, Kristin lives in Stamford, CT.

1971Class Agent: Harvey A. [email protected]

1972Class Agent: Stephen R. [email protected]


G. M. N. Carter writes, “I am participating in a year-long fellowship at Stanford University with my wife Sue. The purpose of the fellowship, interestingly, is

to facilitate next steps in careers of folks who may have left their primary careers but wish to continue working, perhaps on a new path. For me this means a deeper dive into songwriting and performance. So no hammock for me for a long time to come. Maybe next year I’ll have some interesting perspectives to share, that might also be of interest to Hebron’s students.

1974Class Agent: Roger T. [email protected]

1975Class Agent: Ellen L. [email protected]

Cathy Potvin Bouquet is now living in Big Pine Key, FL.

1976Class Agent: C. Reed [email protected]

Rebecca S. Webber is an attorney now at Skelton, Taintor & Abbott. “The people here are fabulous. I do almost all employment law now. Hoping our class members join our Facebook page. We’ll have room to stay next year if someone is visiting in Maine: four in college!”

Michael R. Arel writes, “My Best to All---Classmates, Faculty, & Staff! You helped make Hebron, and my time there, become some of

my fondest memories. A special salute to Reed Chapman for his timeless & entertaining efforts.”

1977Class Agent: Robert M. [email protected]

William Zelman’s updated biography states: Physician, lifelong entrepreneur, and developer of one of the first commercial computerized medical record systems for doctors back in the early 90’s. Over the years I’ve embraced the life of a dedicated Maine suburban homesteader. My current focus is raising our young boy right while identifying and developing affordable solutions that improve home energy efficiency, and working to bring together local artists, craftsmen, and technology to develop and market a new line of integrated art and lighting products. Our website is: Hot-Tubes.com

1978Class Agent: George M. [email protected]

1979Class Agent: Brian O. [email protected]

1980Class Agent: Elizabeth Siekman Graves‘[email protected]

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TOP OF POWDER MOUNTAIN UTAHNed Hutchinson ‘86, Matt Cassidy ‘88, Peter Fallon’86, Steve Arnett, Hal Hutchin-son, Tony Cox ‘86, and Jon Crane ‘86.

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1981Class Agent: Jane Hepburn [email protected]

1982Class Agent: Tucker [email protected]

1983Class Agent: Debra Beacham [email protected]

1984Class Agent: John E. Donahue [email protected]

We would like to extend our condolences to Ian J. Ormon who lost his dad, Ian B. Ormon November 25, 2014.

John H. Suitor is now Head of School at Boulder Country Day. He has his framed Hebron diploma displayed on the wall in his office. He has a daughter who’s a freshman at St. Johnsbury Academy and he and his wife are always looking for reasons to come East. His father currently lives in FL..


1986Class Agent: T. Scott [email protected]

Harper I. Wong writes: Looking forward to seeing the Class of ‘86 for Reunion #30!

1987Class Agent: Kate Thoman [email protected]

1988Class Agent: Ann Snyder [email protected]

AUDRA SHERMAN ‘98 ANNOUNCED AS HEAD SOCCER COACH OF ELITE GIRLS ACADEMY

In September 2014, Fury FC Technical Director Phillip Dos Santos announced the appointment of Audra Sherman as the Head Soccer Coach of the Elite Girls Academy. Sherman, who holds a National B License, joined Fury FC in 2013 after spending six years as the Girls Head Technical Coach with Ottawa South United. In addition to her time coaching in the Fury FC Academy, Sherman also served as Assistant Coach to Alex McNutt with the Carleton University Women’s soccer team and an OSA Provincial Staff Coach, holding both positions since 2011.

An NCAA scholarship student/athlete, Sherman began her collegiate career with Clemson University before concluding at Hofstra University. After graduating, Sherman turned to the W-League playing five seasons split between the Laval Comets, New York Magic and Western Mass Pioneers.

“Audra is a great addition to our coaching staff, she brings knowledge and experience to the Ottawa Fury FC Elite Girls Academy,” said Fury FC Technical Director Phillip Dos Santos. “For us it was important to involve someone who’s passionate, motivated and ambitious. Someone that would relate to all the female players entering our program, be a role model and transmit her passion. Audra’s involvement with the provincial program will also be beneficial for the girls and the Club.”

1989Class Agent: M. Hayes [email protected]

1990Class Agent: Andrew M. [email protected]

1991Class Agents: Marcus A. De [email protected] &Scott R. [email protected]


Sonja Gehlhaar writes, “I work in a kindergarten, teaching English and Music!”

1993Class Agent: Marko I. [email protected]

Matthew W. Johnson writes “Another child is due any day now.”


1995Class Agent: Jessie D. Maher [email protected]

Jeb Fisher writes “I wanted to share my new bling with my alma mater! Hebron was an incredibly influential place for me. When I was throwing curveballs for the Lumberjacks, I never dreamed I’d be given an actual World Series ring. Thanks Hebron!”

Simon Parent ‘05, Drew Laurie ‘05, Kris Houle 05, Luke MacDonald ‘05, Jamie Roche ‘05, and Ben Jessom ‘06 in Montreal last Summer.

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Marburg is an old university city on the Lahn River in Germany, about an hour north of Frankfurt, and even with a castle perched atop one of the surrounding hills. Besides the famous University and the Castle, there is a beautiful old church dedicated many long years ago to the memory of a young widow Elisabeth who after the death of her husband, dedicated her life to the care and welfare of Marburg’s less fortunate citizens – children and families alike. It is here that my very good friend Rosi Stroop (an exchange student my senior year at Northfield School for Girls) has lived for many years and I love visiting her and this beautiful city – so many things to see and do, listening to the church bells ring each hour. This year we also planned a luncheon with Hebron Academy German alumni/ae. My good friends and neighbors, Michelle and Scott Bourget, parents of Lilly ’12, traveled with me, their first trip to Germany! They were able to explore Marburg with Rosi’s good suggestions, even had a guided tour – in English! – and the three of us climbed all the way to the Castle on cobblestones and stairs! Thank goodness for my walking every day in Hebron’s new gym or else the two-three mile trip would have left me finished for the rest of the week!! What a pleasure to greet my good friends on Saturday September 20 at a lovely old family restaurant; Sonja Reckling Gehlhaar ‘92, her two daughters Fiona (11) and Lisa (9) and Sonja’s mother Germaid Reckling; Doris Wiegand Rohde ‘99 and her husband Dirk; and Uta Schulz ‘06. Sonja had spent quite a bit of time at my house when she was a student at HA, her parents came and stayed with me at the end of Sonja’s year, and I have spent time with the Recklings in their home in Altensteig in the south, and later with Sonja in Hamburg. Dosi (Doris) had made the trip with Dirk (before they were married) to Rosi’s house one other year to see me and I am so pleased they both came again this year. Uta had also made the climb to the Castle before she came to lunch so you know she is in good fitness condition!! She seems so happy with her studies and her life. It was a delicious lunch with non-stop conversation, questions about Hebron today, much laughing, and even gentle neck massages for all of us from Lisa. Sad to see them all leave. On the following Monday Marcus Baumann ‘85 drove from Berlin to spend the day and evening with us, again much laughing and catching up to do; Marcus treated us all to dinner that evening, our wiener schnitzel night!! What delicious food!! Marcus brought us greetings from Martin Kuchler ‘78 in South Africa and Marcus and I toasted Martin on his birthday. Each one of these people traveled four to five hours – each way! – to come to Marburg and see us; I can’t tell you how much that means to me. I am now eagerly waiting for their trips to Hebron. Student exchange programs! Traveling in a country other than one’s own! So much to learn and enjoy! How can we measure the joy, the friendships, the special time shared? My “inhabited garden” is so full of people like these and so many others – what a wonderful world!

- Bev Leyden

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit – this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

L to R: Lisa Gehlhaar (9) , Sonja Reckling Gehlhaar ‘92, Fiona Gehlhaar (12), Marcus Bauman, Sonja’s mother, Bev Leyden

Bev and Uta Schultz ‘06

Doris Wiegand Rohde ‘99, Bev and Doris’s husband Dirk


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1996Class Agent: Devon M. [email protected]


Ghali (4) and Mamoun (2) Akkar, sons of Riad Akkar.

1998Class Agent: Kirsten L. [email protected]

Audra B. Sherman was named head coach of Fury FC’s Elite Girls Academy. See previous page for details.

1999Class Agent: Joseph J. [email protected]

Doris A. Rohde is working at University Hospital in Erlangen as an anaesthesiologist, married to Dirk, living in Erlangen, going climbing, skiing, mountaineering in her spare time.

Jake Leyden and his wife Liz welcomed a son on March 18. Meet Benjamin Thomas Leyden, the world’s newest Lumberjack.

2000Class Agent: Erik P. [email protected]

Corey Fleischer owns his own power washing company and for the past 5 years, he’s made it his mission to get rid of as many hate crime messages in Montreal as he can. “I have the equipment and the know-how to get rid of everything,” Fleischer told Global News. Sometimes the city doesn’t react fast enough so they often rely on Fleischer to take care of it. He doesn’t only get rid of anti-Semitic symbols, he tries to get rid of all hate messages in general and he said he’s pretty much seen it all. “It affects the Holocaust survivors and families of survivors who dread bringing up those horrible memories and it also affects young children in school areas where they are exposed to it,” he explained. His efforts to help eradicate the graffitti gained internationl exposure earlier this year when his story went viral on social media.

2001Class Agent: Galen C. [email protected]

2002Class Agent: Katherine E. [email protected]

2003Class Agent: Sara Marquis [email protected]

Sarah Marquis writes, “So many wonderful things happening for many of us! I got married March 15, 2015 in Portsmouth, NH - it was a small, intimate affair with just immediate family and our closest friends. Rachel Sukeforth was in attendance. We headed off to the Sandals Resort in the Bahamas for our honeymoon. Next up : starting the process to buy a home!

Also, a big congrats to the other newlywed, Adam Rousseau and his new wife Lauren - Married March 7, 2015 in Texas and honeymooned in Puerto Vallarta!”

The wedding of Emily Adele Geismar and Phillip Hall Murphy was held on July 27, 2014 at Point Lookout in Northport, ME.

Troy Bryan ‘03 and his daughter Ashton

2004Class Agent: John W. [email protected]

Helen L. Unger-Clark writes, “My husband is Iñaki Lozares Carpintero. We got married in the States on August 12, 2011 and in Spain on October 15, 2011. The official legal anniversary is the Spanish date. Hope all is well at Hebron! I wore my field hockey sweatshirt last night. Gosh, I miss it! Take care, and hello to everyone!”

2005Class Agent: Bettina T. [email protected]

2006Class Agent: Allison M. [email protected]

Samuel K. Chandler is running for District 36 in Portland. He currently works at The Children’s House Day Care Center in his district but worked at Sweetser for several years. He also plays in several bands in the Portland area. www.gp.org/sam-chandler

2007Class Agent: Noah S. T. [email protected]

Kainani L. Stevens has been a sports anchor and reporter for WGGB-TV: ABC40 in Springfield, MA since 2012. Before that she was research assistant and blogger for NESN, where she also operated the sports ticker. She cut her teeth on sports reporting as an intern at WEEI in Boston as well as ESPN Radio.

2008Class Agent: Andrea J. [email protected]

Daniel P. Sommer is in his first semester of law school at American University. He is enjoying his law school work and attributes that to the foundation he picked up at Hebron. He enrolled in law school after a year of working for the NY State Gaming lobby. He said that he enjoyed the work as a lobbyist but not so much lobbying for the gaming industry. Dan has an apartment in Virginia and spends some time at his parents country house in Virginia.

2009Class Agents: Jennifer A. [email protected] &Ye [email protected]

2010Class Agents: Emma L. Leavitt [email protected] & Emily R. Powers

BMSM Peter Buckley ‘08US Navy

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rally, making a speech to the entire school, movie nights in the dorm and that moment when being homesick gives way to the understanding that coming to Hebron was the best decision of your life.

Please consider a gift to the Hebron Annual Fund today. You do make a difference.

Emma L. Leavitt emailed “My art project “The Color Exchange” was selected to travel to a peace conference in Cyprus this April! The conference is the Build Peace Symposium, and the art project is an interactive, public mural installation. My collaborator and I are running an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for transportation.It would be cool to let people know! http://igg.me/p/the-color-exchange--2/x/10093347

2011Class Agent: Sophia M. [email protected]

Our condolences to AJ Bloomingdale and Molly Bloomingdale ‘13 and their family on the passing of their father, Andrew Bloomingdale ‘82.

2012Class Agent: Maxwell A. [email protected]


The NAHL named Bismarck Bobcats goalie Alex Bitsakis as Goalie of the Month for October 2014. In seven appearances,

Bitsakis posted three wins, a shutout of the Austin Bruins and 191 saves. “I think we have a really good team here in Bismarck,” expressed Bitsakis. “The NAHL has so many skilled players.” The Montreal, QC, native sits fourth in the league in both goals against average and save percentage. Though 2014-15 is his first year with the Bobcats, it is not Bitsakis’ first go-round at the junior level: last season he was the starter for the Elliot Lake Bobcats in the NOJHL. “Alex gave us a chance to win every night and that type of consistency is what we look for in our goalies,” said Bobcats head coach and GM Layne Sedevie. “The opportunities have been there for him to perform and he answered the bell.”


Joshua Boylan writes to Coach Kurt Swanbeck, “Sir, I just wanted to thank you and the Hebron family for allowing me to achieve the dream of being at West Point. Tomorrow I get the chance to take the field for my first ARMY vs Navy game wearing the number 66. I know that this is a blessing I wouldn’t have without the love and support I received from my time at Hebron! Thank you so much for what you did for me, and please extend my thanks to the community. Go ARMY, Beat Navy!!!”

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obituariesPast FacultyMargery L. MacMillan

Margery MacMillan died in Duxbury, MA at 95 on December 27, 2014. Like so many others, she and her late husband Ladd first went to Duxbury for the summer, before retiring there in 1973. Over the next 43 years Mrs. MacMillan was a constant bundle of energy, well known at the Brockton Food Pantry, Jordan Hospital, delivering Meals on Wheels ... and a very long et cetera.

Her husband, Ladd MacMillan was a distinguished teacher and hockey coach at Hebron Academy and later at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, MA.

Mrs. MacMillan once remarked that her two daughters, Gerry Hamlen and Susan Arensberg, were so smart partly because they got their start in a one-room school house in Hebron, Maine. A lesson for a generation with a school edifice complex.

Though seemingly a constant presence in Duxbury Mrs. MacMillan also traveled the world. At her memorial Susan Arensberg described her mother’s last trip last year, to the White House - arranged by a granddaughter working for CBS News.

At 94 and having recently stopped driving, Mrs. MacMillan had no use for an ID, but she needed one to get into the White House. An exception was made, and when she arrived the Secret Service said, “We’ve been expecting you, Mrs. MacMillan!”

To President Obama she said, “I’m from the great Democratic state of Massachusetts” - not mentioning she was a lifelong Republican. Then she said, “I’m your angel grandmother.” Mr. Obama, who lost his own grandmother shortly before becoming president, gently kissed Mrs. MacMillan on both cheeks.

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1940John (Jack) Stanton Tewhey, 93, died April 17, 2014 at Avita of Stroudwater in Westbook. Jack attended Hebron Academy and later accepted a football scholarship at the University of Idaho. He left college to serve with the Marine Corps during World War II. He served in the South Pacific in the Solomon Islands. Throughout his life he enjoyed hiking and mountain climbing and had climbed almost all of the mountains over 4000 feet in New England.

1942Wendell Rowe Wilson, 91, of Queensbury passed away November 20, 2014, at Glens Falls Hospital, following a short illness. Wendell graduated from Glens Falls High School and attended Hebron Academy. He was a proud veteran of World War II serving in the U.S. Navy on the USS Tuna submarine. He was a member of the U.S. Submarine Veterans World War II organization.

1948John Lawrence Hanlon, 87, of Medway, formerly of Franklin, died March 7th, 2015. John graduated from Edward Little High School where he was an outstanding member of the football and baseball teams. He did one year of post high school education at Hebron Academy, then went on to American International College in Springfield, MA. John proudly serve in the Army during the Korean War.

1950Ernest A. Caliendo Jr. died February 18, 2015 at a Bangor area nursing facility. Ernie was educated at Phillips Andover Academy, graduated from Hebron Academy then graduated from Boston University. He also served with the United States Army Signal Corp at Fort Benjamin in Indiana. .

1951 Daniel R. Beggs, III of Vashon, WA, formerly of Wilmington, DE passed away September 23, 2014. Dan attended Hebron Academy, and served in the U.S. Air Force for four years during the Korean War. Dan was an original Wilmington Wheel at the Skating Club of Wilmington, where he played and coached ice hockey for decades. James K. Ahlquist, 82, of Lancaster, passed away on January 25, 2014 in Mount Joy, PA.

Douglas M. Harlor died on February 4, 2014.

1953Eugene Chandler, 81, formerly of Mechanic Falls, died March 2, 2015 at Stephens Memorial Hospital. He was a graduate of Madison High School in 1952, a graduate of Hebron Academy in 1953 and attended the University of Maine. Mr. Chandler was one of the original trustees of the Elm Street School and a trustee of the Community Health Center in Poland.

1954Radcliffe G. Mitchell, Jr., 79, passed away on Feb. 19, 2015, at Gosnell House in Scarborough. Radcliffe graduated from Edward Little High School in 1953, Hebron Academy in 1954, and Norwich University in 1958. Radcliffe entered the army in 1958, and retired a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve in 1982. During this period, he had assignments all around the U.S. and two tours in Vietnam. He received two Bronze Star Medals, Meritorious Service Medal, three Army Commendation Medals, Korean Honor Medal First Class, Order of Military Merit, Staff Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and Vietnam Campaign Medal with 11 campaigns. Burial will be in the spring with Army Honor Guard in attendance in Auburn, ME.

1957Hervey Andre Connell, 74, of Bayport, LI, died on August 29, 2014. Mr. Connell was educated at both the Loyola School and the Browning School in Manhattan, before graduating from Hebron Academy. He went on to the College of the Holy Cross.

Paul R. Hotz passed away on August 15, 2014 after a long illness.

1966On October 13, 2014, Richard Stephen Spill, left this world. For the last 10 years he fought a valiant fight against a brain tumor and more severe complications. After graduating close to the top of his class at Hebron Academy, he attended Bowdoin College. Rick coauthored one of the first

DOL monographs on competency based training, and wrote the majority of succeeding DOL documents intended to teach people how to design and operate such programs.

1971Martin H. Jewett, age 61, formerly of Buxton and a resident of Hiram, ME, died suddenly on December 29, 2014 in North Carolina where he lived during the winter months. He graduated from Hebron Academy and from Dickinson College. He later earned an M.A. Degree in History from the University of New Hampshire.

Michael W. Bucken, 62, of Milford, ME passed away on October 25, 2014. He was a news editor for Computerworld for the past 10 years.

1982Andrew B. Bloomingdale 51, husband of Debra (Beacham ‘83) Bloomingdale passed away after a prolonged illness on August 30, 2014, at the Kaplan Family Hospice House. Andy and Deb met while they were both attending Hebron Academy. He later went on to attend several culinary academies including The New England Culinary Institute and the Culinary Institute of America and additionally studied in France. He had worked as a chef at several well known restaurants including the Bostonian, Locke-Ober’s, The Waldorf Astoria and the Plaza Dining Room, mainly working as a pastry chef. He also worked at the Peg Leg Restaurant in Rockport. In his spare time, Andy was a passionate car enthusiast of both old and new models and also loved his motorcycles. He is also survived by his two children, Andrew Butter (AJ) Bloomingdale ‘11 and Molly Mills Bloomingdale ‘13.

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‘Past Faculty Jacqueline (Campbell) Lumbard, 90, of Auburn, passed away peacefully on December 8, 2014 at her home. She was born in Lewiston on Oct. 19, 1924. Raised in Mechanic Falls and on Tripp Lake in Poland, Jackie was an athlete, an adventurer and a musician, playing tympani for the Edward Little High School band, furthering her training at the New England Music Camp and performing as early as 12 with the New England Music Festival band. After attending Lasell College in Auburndale, Mass., Jackie became one of the nation’s first flight attendants, working for American Airlines (flying their inaugural nonstop transcontinental flight in 1953) and attending the troops in the Korean air-lift. In 1957, she married Henry Griffith Lumbard Jr., “Griff,” and moved to Auburn. She became an accomplished fundraiser for Central Maine Medical Center’s Women’s Hospital Association, serving as president for two terms.

David Alexander Fulmer, 49, passed away on October 17, 2014. with his family by his side at St. Elizabeth Hospice in Edgewood, KY. David’s life passion was teaching and counseling. He taught history and psychology at Hebron, was a coach of football, basketball and track, a camp counselor at Timanous, and recently an employee of Kroger.

Robert J. McCoubrie passed away December 30, 2014 at the age of 85, the result of a serious fall. He had battled Parkinson’s Disease for over 18 years. Robert taught Math and Biology at Hebron from 1956 to 1961. He was a skilled canoeist in the Canadian far North.

Mathilde Kingsland Burnett, 88, a longtime resident of Longmeadow, Mass., died on March 20 at Riverwoods at Exeter following a period of declining health. She attended the Lawrence School and later graduated from Chatham Hall in Virginia. In 1951 she married Charles Lowell Burnett. She and Charles were founding members of the Field Club of Longmeadow and were host parents for the ABC program. She was a generous supporter of many charities.

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The Bell-Lipman Archives at Hebron has received an extraordinary gift of a copy book that was the record of activities of the Tyrocenic Adelphi Society at Hebron, 1806 -1810. The book came from John Marriner of North Aurora, IL, the grandson of Dr. Ernest Marriner, who came to Hebron upon his graduation from Colby College in 1913 to teach English and who remained until 1921, serving in that year as the Acting Principal for the ailing William Sargent. He then returned to Colby as Librarian and later English instructor, dean and historian for the College. Mr. Marriner also wrote a History of the Sargent Era in 1927, the author’s manuscript of which was included in the recent gift.

The copy book, titled “The Archives of the Tyrocenic Adelphi,” becomes the oldest written record of activity at Hebron, and the first entry is a transcript of an oration delivered at Hebron by William Barrows, Jr., on the occasion of the first anniversary of the school, November 19th, 1806. His speech begins in philosophical speculation, continues as a commentary on philosophical positions of the day in reference to the human potential to comprehend through reason and science the complexities of the physical world and natural life. The speech concludes with a charge to the students who, presumably after a year’s study, would be moving on from Hebron to higher callings.

The excerpts of the document that follow represent but a small part of the total manuscript; however, they do suggest something of the thought present in the school in 1806, the rhetorical style presented to students, and the progressive beliefs present in the instruction of the time. The oration begins:

From the nature of our situation in this world, and the imperfections of human intellect, our knowledge must be forever circumscribed. The planet we inhabit being but a speck in the Universe, smaller in comparison with the great whole, that a grain of sand, compared with our globe, it is rational to conclude that man, formed of the same dust in which he treads, tho’ animated with the breath of God, should be limited in his conception, groveling in his desires, & at an awful distance, in point of purity of wisdom from the hand that formed him. He cannot, like Diety, take a simultaneous view of nature, see his whole design, and yet examine the minutest particle and observe the particular subserviency of each the harmony of the great mechanism. No, his organs are imperfect - his mind is incompetent to the view. Thousands of objects are too small for his conception - thousands too vast for his comprehension. It becomes us, then, since we are not placed in a higher grace of existence - since we have not the acuteness of a seraph or angel of light, to moderate our desires to our conditions - to think as men, never attempt inexplicable phenomena, while

The Academy’s Bell-Lipman Archives host two centuries-worth of nostalgia. In “Hidden Gems,” school archivist and longtime Hebron faculty member Dave Stonebraker

shares rare images and memorabilia that are important gifts to the archive.

The Archives of theTyrocenic Adelphi

“Hebroniana”Archives of the Tyrocenic Adelphi, 1806 - 1810Gift of John Marriner, North Aurora, Illinois


every object that surrounds us is capable of affording pleasing and profitable inspection.

The position of this opening seems to be a traditional presentation of the limits of human inquiry, the belief that human knowledge is necessarily limited by an inability to comprehend fully the divine creation or divinity itself. However, as Barrows moves into a discussion of current philosophy, he begins to argue that the capacity of humankind for rational inquiry into physical nature and human intellect provides to humankind, as Emerson and others of the mid-century would suggest, the potential to know the world and divine spirit through personal experience, through individual inquiry into the surrounding phenomena of nature. In a later passage of his oration, Barrows declares:

Since our duties to our Creator ourselves and fellow men are made plain before we can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of a rational mind, why should we, whose object in the world should be a preparation for the future, wander the wilds of hypotheses to the neglect of duties positively enjoined and easily practicable. The absurdity of such, as influence our moral conduct against positive injunctions, cannot be doubted. Nor will the friend of science attribute its progress to this source. He will set down five discoveries to theory unsupported by evidence. We are told indeed of its great utility by those who have too much imagination to be confined to the solid ground of reason and principle, and wonderful are the facts they relate to its performance. It is, say they, a spur to enterprise and experiment - and even the new world owes its discovery to an unfounded hypothesis. The idle notions of the philosopher’s stone, perpetual motion, the quadrature of a circle, things utterly confounded in nature have prompted to many discoveries in the natural world. All this is very true; but it is likewise true that quacks in the medical department have discovered some of the most efficacious remedies while they have often administered a fatal draught and sent thousands to their graves “unanointed, unannealed, with all their imperfections in their heads.” Such, for the most part, has been the effect of unfounded theory in relation to sciences for, should we take from the discoveries to which it has led, the detriment it has caused, the obstacles it has thrown in the way of others, perhaps of greater importance, it is feared our theorists would find little cause for boasting. On the whole we may conclude, that accident and experiment, assisted by genius, have effected most of the improvements in science and that hypothesis can come in for a small share of praise. It has never stretched nature on the rack of torture, strained its nerves and dislocated its bones to force a confession of the truth. Nor as well might we attempt to split the Andes with a pin or draw the Allegany from its base with a spider’s thread, as to investigate the mysteries of nature by vague conjectures and idle theories.

Rounding to conclusion, Barrows takes a moment to consider the occasion and the implied prospect of those students departing the Academy. He exhorts them to continued inquiry and scholarship, and just perhaps we may hear in these words the present mission of the Academy to “inspire and guide each student to reach the highest potential in mind, body and spirit” as Barrows continues:

My brothers of the Tyrocenic Adelphi, I congratulate you on our first anniversary. A society of this nature, you are sensible, is a novelty in this part of the country; you will not therefore deem it improper for me to explain in your presence and that of the assembly, what I can of its object and intentions, consistent with our obligation of secrecy. Suffice it to say the object of our society is improvement - to lead young minds into the first and most obvious paths of science - to give it relish for the road that hereafter it may with delight pursue the journey and travel to immortality. And now my brothers, let me exhort you to avail yourselves of the advantages with which you are here presented. How know we but we nurture in the bosom of our society some Franklin or Washington, who will hereafter become the ornament or savior of his country? How know we, but some Milton is catching the first tastes of science in our fraternity or some young divine, who shall sound the glad tidings of peace to guilty men? How know we what powers of mind we possess ‘till we put them to exercise?

As the oration closes, Barrows becomes personal in his farewell to the students, urging them to take stock of their growth through their time at Hebron, to hold fast to the friendships formed in their community and to seek tirelessly after truth and knowledge. And finally, as Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet gave advice to his son Laertes, Barrows challenges his charges to conduct themselves honorably, forming positive habits for the future. However quaint may seem the language of centuries past, the message is no less poignant as will be Mr. King’s charge to the Class of 2015 when he bids them farewell in May:

And now, my dear youth, a word with respect to conduct and I have done. A scholar should ever support an unblemished character, and I beseech you, as you value your own lives and happiness not to be unmindful in this important particular. You are now forming habits for life - choose then the good part and as you could shun your own destruction, avoid the evil. You are young - the most of you in the morning of life, but your horizon is beckoning, - you covene with hopes - you are blessed with the blossoms of genius. May they never be blasted by bad conduct - but come to full maturity, so shall your heads be considered a crown of glory, formed in the ways of righteousness. - Farewell.


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The Class of 1964 at their 50th reunion luncheon last fall. FRONT L TO R: Thomas Hull, John Thibodeau, James DeRevere; BACK L TO R: Henry Holste, David Stromeyer, Gordon Close, Karl Borden, Axel Magnuson, Edward Gottlieb, Henry Ulman, Raymond Bradford, Robert Dreyfus, Terry Mace, John Giger.

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