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2 Soccer Boys Varsity continued from page 1 Soccer Girls Varsity Girls Varsity Soccer battled to a 4-0 win over Hyde in this Homecoming weekend matchup. Hebron was up 2-0 at the half, thanks to goals from Sarah Markey and Emily Wyman. The second half brought Soccer Boys JV On the sunny morning of May 29th 2010, seventyone Hebron graduates marched along the faculty-bordered senior path to attend Commencement, celebrated in the Hebron Athletic Center. The graduates were led to their seats by Piper and Hebron alumni J. Christopher Pinchbeck `87. Seniors Colin Taylor and Ian Canty shared the Salutation. Then the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Reeve Bright,’66, spoke to the assembly of his deep commitment to Hebron. Emily Rose Powers, the President of the Class of 2010, gave the graduation oration. The speech included personal anecdotes of school memories, the pictograms in French class and which continued to play to the final whistle. Jock Cooperrider scored for Hebron off an unassisted boot from 35 yards out. Then after four unanswered goals from Brewster, Tom Cummings put the ball in the net off a throughpass from Cooperrider. Despite the tough offensive pressure from the Brewster strikers, Alex Berry played well, recording seven saves. goals from Kaitlyn Paiton, assisted by Talya Bent and Catherine Byrne off a nice free kick, securing the score at 4-0. Olivia Brown stopped two shots in the game, recording the shutout. Boys JV Soccer faced Hyde this Homecoming and proved to be the superior team. Javier Lopez scored all four goals while Corrie Van Haasteren and Scott Grenier combined for eight saves, securing the win. Colin Morissey and Zach Nauert both recorded assists and helped their team to a Homecoming victory. Commencement 2010 by Sunwoo Lee ‘11 Mr. Jurek’s cancelling the school for an afternoon of Slip ‘n’ Slide because of the heat. She closed by emphasizing the need to be willing to risk failure—in order to “do extraordinary things in our young lives.” “We have four more years to build on ourselves, to fail epically, to get second chances, to be wrong and boisterous, and have it chalked up to our youth, and after that, we take on responsibilities that start to box it in, to provide less room for error. I guess what I’m saying, against all the advice that we’ve grown up with, against what I’m sure our parents are thinking right now, is this: Please mess up.” Awards for excellence were then presented in various fields. The most prestigious Red Cross Blood Drive by Soo Yeon Kim ‘12 Staff Writer Hebron Academy hosted its annual blood drive held in the Lepage Fine Arts Center on Monday October 18, 2010. Ms. Ferrenbach arranged the blood drive with the Red Cross and successfully hosted the event. She put strenuous effort into gathering donors to give blood and volunteers to help out with the donation. Fifty-six students, faculty, and staff members signed up to donate blood, contributing nine pints more than the previous year. There were many first time donors, easy to spot by their nervous award, The Hebron Academy Cup, was awarded to Valedictorian Emma Larkin Leavitt, who closed the ceremony. “We’re together now, but we’ll shift, we’ll drift; we are our own personal panacea, we’re sitting, but let’s dance in our heads. Let’s scream. Let’s feel the moment down to the threads in our shoes, because it’s all we have left to do.” In her closing statement, Emma referred to Doctor Seuss. “There’s no limit to how much you’ll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go. Let’s commence.” Departmental Prizes: Art, Alexandra Valentina Hankinson; English, Emma Larkin Leavitt and Emily Rose Powers; French, Emma Larkin Leavitt; History, Emily Rose Powers; Latin, Benjamin Michael Blais; Mathematics, Ho In Na; Music, Seung Woo Kim; Religion and Ethics, Benjamin Paris Clegg; Science, Seok Won Jee; Spanish, Andrew Jamison Churchill. The Senior Scholarship Prize :Yang Tian; The Dr. Louis Friedman Mathematics Prize: Weisun Jiang; Excellence in Drama: Calvin photo by Soo Yeon Kim ‘12 faces among people lined up to give blood. The actual donation process took only about ten minutes but contributors were required to stay for fifteen minutes after the donation to get some snacks and refreshments in order to bring their sugar level back to normal. Some people could not meet the donation requirements and were unfortunately not able to participate in the donation. The requirements are that donors must be healthy and over seventeen years of age, or sixteen with parental consent, and weigh a minimum weight of 110 pounds. For next year’s blood drive, Health Services recommend keeping your iron up, staying hydrated, and having a healthy meal prior to donating (don’t forget to bring an ID). This years donors deserve a commendation. Those who participated in the blood drive felt good about their pint of blood being able to save the lives of three people. Jo Vallee and Bryan C. Felice; the Bessie Fenn Prize: Emma Larkin Leavitt; the Athletic Award: Vladyslav Maksymovich Gavrik; the Leyden Prize: Clebert Louis Marcelin, Jr; the Edward Tate II Green Key Prize: Seung Woo photo by Seung Yeon Kang ‘11 Kim; the Ernest Sherman James Moisan; the Outdoor Leadership Prize: Jeremy Ryan Kleven; the Prize: Brent Coy Charles and Amy Landry; the Richard Dwyer Memorial W. Tyler Schol- Prize: Benjamin arship: Brent Coy Landry; the Bernat Memorial Award: Mario Alberto De La Isla; the Lorimer Michael Blais; the Milton G. Wheeler Good Fellowship Prize: Nathaniel Thomas Dupere; Scholarship Prize: the Phemister Rebecca Leah Ives; Prize: Nicholas the Regis A. Lepage Scholarship: Rachel Beverly Anderson Rogers; the Reed James Stuer; and the Risman Honor Prize: Emily Rose Powers. Awards: Courtney
Dodge-Ball Tournament by Mike Bouchard ‘11 Staff Writer Recently Community Life put on a school-wide single elimination dodge-ball tournament to benefit the Little Field Home. The heavy favorite in the tournament was the Real Reeb Squad, a team consisting of seniors and post graduates. After a first round by, the Real Reeb Squad took on the Poutine Team from Canada and handily dominated the match. Poutine Team, having just come of a big win against Team Ford, was not ready for the speed and strength of their new opponent. Real Reeb Squad faced Da Above Average Moes, and in an intense battle, the underdog went against all odds to defeat the heavy favorite to win it all and beat Real Reeb Squad. On the other side of the bracket, Smash Their Ballz and the Faculty Team dominated the pack and faced each other in the semifinals. Smash Their Ballz won and advanced to the championship to face Da Above Average Moes, where the latter team won the best of three series and took home the title. Over sixty dollars was raised for the Little Field Home as well. The New Schedule by Kaitlyn Paiton ‘11 Staff Writer This year there have been significant adjustments to the schedule. The primary change is that the academic school day now begins at 8:30 a.m. The change was made so that students would be more awake and more focused during the first class and throughout the school day. Community meeting is now held in the middle of the morning, whereas in previous years, it began the school day at 7:45 a.m. Lunch break is now an hour long, creating a more ASSIST (Studying Abroad) by Johanna Haunold ‘12 Staff Writer “Would you like to spend a year in the U.S?” It was with this sentence, printed on an inconspicuous information sheet, that my adventure “living and studying a year abroad” began. ASSIST (Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer) is an organization which provides one-year scholarships to American independent secondary schools in the U.S for students all over the world. This school year 146 students from twenty-one countries are attending eightyseven schools. Hebron hosts two students every year. This year Mar Bartolomé Narbón, from Spain, and I, from Austria, were given this unique opportunity. After two informational evenings, long internal debates with myself about whether I really wanted to do this, and a summer spent with writing my application essay, a process full of forms and documents began. ASSIST required two essays, a detailed questionnaire, an English test, and an interview. When the photos by Jai Kyeong Kim ‘11 leisurely pace and time for such activities as the school newspaper. Because Performing Arts are now scheduled for 7:45 a.m., participation in choir and orchestra has dramatically increased. The end of the academic day is now 3:15 p.m., whereas in previous years, it was 3:00 p.m. Although most students like the later start to school and mid- morning meeting, some complain that they get hungry by 10:00 a.m. Morning meeting takes up most of their break, when they used to get food at the snack bar. Most returning students of Hebron Academy recognize this schedule change increases their focus level and they are more alert and awake during school hours. long and certainly not easy application process was over, the waiting started. From the middle of January until March, I was waiting for an answer. Finally on March first I got a letter stating that I had won the scholarship. Then the waiting continued. Until the middle of May I wondered all the “Here I can do every activity I mentioned in my application...” time about which school I would be sent to, what it would like, and whether I would be happy there. One day I received Community service at Hebron Station Elementary School by Mengdong Zhuang ‘12 Staff Writer This is Hebron Academy’s sixth year of participating in community service at the Hebron Station Elementary School. On most Tuesday afternoons, Mrs. Inglehart drives a van containing fourteen volunteers to the local school. There, the volunteers both mentor and play with the children from kindergarten to sixth grade. photo by Mengdong Zhuang ‘12 For the first hour, volunteers play soccer and basketball, build sand castles, play on the Trustees Weekend by Erika Thomas ‘11 Thursday, October 7th, kicked off Homecoming Weekend 2010 at Hebron Academy. Trustees arrived that afternoon for three days of meetings, focusing on such aspects as campus life and school finances. At lunch on Friday, the trustees got an inside view of school life from a select group of students. The deans had picked two or three students with various backgrounds and interests to eat lunch with each of the trustees. Often the same students are with the same trustee throughout their years at Hebron. The trustees see the students twice a year, in the fall and in an information package from Hebron Academy and, understanding that this was the school I had been placed in, I immediately fell in love with it just from looking at the photographs. It has turned out that Hebron Academy really is the perfect school for me. Here I can do every activity I mentioned in my application. Hebron offers many sports I wanted, as well as the opportunities to play music, and there are many clubs and activities I want to join. I found many new swings, having fun with the children. The kids love to play with Hebron students. On a recent trip, for example, Phyllis Wang built a winding road and a castle in the sandbox with five of the youngest children. Together they used scoops and rocks to dig deep into the sand. She told the children that when she was a child, she loved building all kinds of sand castles with her cousins. This story brought her and the American children together. After the play session, the groups shift indoor, and the volunteers help the children with their homework, reading and math, and with various arts and crafts projects. They have created posters and Halloween decorations. The Community Service Program is designed to provide mentors for the children who need help, and to offer Hebron students an opportunity to connect with the larger community. It is also a good way for the student volunteers to refresh themselves from the stress of school. the spring. They become interested in and familiar with the students’ lives, asking about sports and thoughts of the future. Special bonds form between the trustees and their students that sometimes last after graduation. This part of Trustees Weekend is a great way for students to create ties with important people involved in the school, many of whom are alumni. It gives the trustees an opportunity to see the school from the students’ perspectives, as they make decisions which will affect Hebron students for generations to come. friends from all over the world, and I am enjoying every single minute of my adventure. I am so grateful that ASSIST and Hebron Academy made this possible for me. In the two months I have been in the U.S., many of my perspectives have already changed. I am learning much about American culture, and sometimes I even catch myself adapting some of the American manners. With this scholarship I struck a new path which has already begun to change my life. 3
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