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Look Both WaysBrian Walker ’83 came back to Bethel earlier this year to talk with english students about writing, his experience at Gould, and why it was important for him to write Black Boy White School.

THE GAZETTEGOULD ACADEMY M A G A Z I N E SPR ING 2012

HEAD OF SCHOOLMatt Ruby

EDITOR Tucker Kimball

PHOTOGRAPHYM. Dirk MacKnight

DESIGNGreg Gilman

CLASS NOTES COORDINATORBecky Cummings

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Wendy E. Penley, PresidentCharles A. Jacobs ’66 P ’03, Vice PresidentChristine S. Teague ’66, SecretaryBrian E. Blake ’73Chris L. Brooks ’99Dr. Donald M. Christie, Jr. ’60C. Conway Felton III P ’99, ’02, ’05Betsey B. Fitzgerald P ’03, ’06Mary D. Gale P ’01, ’03Johann H. GouwsDeborah F. Hammond ’61Dr. Frank D. Lee P ’10Dr. Glen W. McLaughlin ’88Stephanie W. Montgomery P ’00Richard H. Packard ’66 GP ’10, ’11, ’13Marsha G. Planting P ’03Richard H. Ramage ’61Hope Schroy P ’04, ’07Jan L. Skelton ’84Sarah S. Taymore P ’09, ’11Dr. John R. Vinton ’59

The GAzette is published twice a year by the Communications Office at Gould Academy. We welcome your letters, story ideas and photos.

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ON THE COVER: Dan Kunkle in the newly reno-vated Sanborn Family Library in Hanscom Hall.

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Interview with Dan KunkleThe GAzette sat down with newly retired

Head of School Dan Kunkle to talk about his

tenure at Gould, the school’s challenges and

opportunities, and his plan for July 1, 2012.

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Around Campus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Class Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-25

In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Just Like Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Hearts of Gold at Gould . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Dear Gould Community,

When Richard Packard ’66, the board of trustees president at the time, called me in

September to offer the head of school position, I had no hesitation in accepting. After

months of research, two very intense and compelling visits, and meeting a host of great

people, I was convinced. Kathy and I had seen all the pieces and accomplishments

of this great school, but even that wasn’t the clincher. It’s something in the air of this

place that Kathy described beautifully after our second visit: “Why do I feel homesick

for a place I’ve never lived?”

What drew me to Gould initially were its humane spirit, innovative programs, academic

strength, and natural beauty. The people, though, settled it. The students were bright,

funny, caring, and passionate about their school. The faculty and staff were thoughtful,

engaging, and clearly committed to Gould’s success. There is a ubiquitous enthusiasm

about the community and its mission of educating “independent-minded, ethical citizens

who will lead lives of purpose, action, excellence, and compassion in a dynamic world.”

Simply put, the school has the energy, talent, and resources to be a leader in responding to education’s 21st century challenges. Gould Acad-

emy has already developed advanced skills in helping students combine their pursuit of comprehensive and high level academic success with

great accomplishment in sports and the arts. These skills in combination with Gould’s manifold human and natural resources present great

opportunity for the long-term success of our students and the Academy.

Since I was selected in September, I’ve had the privilege of attending board of trustee meetings, working with faculty, staff, and administra-

tion on plans for 2012-13, and working closely with Dan Kunkle in hiring our new Director of Advancement Jeff Candura. In the coming

year I will focus on developing relationships, understanding the school’s operations and culture, and building a common vision.

Meeting and listening to members of the Gould community plays a central role in this work. In addition to one-on-one meetings

with faculty, staff, and trustees, we will host small gatherings on campus and in other cities where I will learn from alumni, parents,

Bethel community members, and friends of Gould. I know your insights will prove invaluable. And, if you’re coming through Bethel,

stop by for a cup of coffee!

Finally, it is a privilege to follow Dan Kunkle in this work. As I join the Gould community, I hope to honor his leadership and the

legacy of the many talented leaders of the last 176 years.

Sincerely,

Matt Ruby Head of School

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1. Dan and Kathy Kunkle lead the ribbon cutting ceremony for the first phase of the Hanscom Renovation. | 2. English teacher Dave Bean and trustee Marsha Planting P ’03 3. Former Head of School Bill Clough | 4. Eric Ritter ’95 | 5. Head of School Matt Ruby with Susan Mason P ’12, Board of Trustees Vice President Charlie Jacobs ’66 P ’03 and artist George Mason P ’12 | 6. The ribbon cutting reception in Sanborn Family Library. | 7. Paul Maguire stands in front of the new classroom named in his honor in the Sanborn Family Library. | 8. Architect Scott Simons with trustee Dr. Frank Lee P ’10 and Carol Hall P ’10 in the new Samuel Bigelow Faculty Lounge | 9. Dan Kunkle and trustee Debby Hammond ’61

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Gould formally dedicated the newly renovated first floor of Hanscom Hall on Saturday, May 5. The renova-tion included a reimagined Sanborn Family Library, a new faculty lounge, and updated administrative offices.

COMMENCEMENTGould presented diplomas to 79 seniors at its 176th Commencement on Saturday, May 26. Valedictorian Molly Siegel ’12 of Bethel, ME

addressed her classmates under the tent. “We have spent the last four years of our lives being groomed to go out in the world and be suc-cessful, but I challenge you to define success in terms of your impact on the world,” she said. Siegel will attend Dartmouth College in the fall.

GOING GREENERScience Teacher Pete Hedden and his advisees mounted solar panels on the roof of the McLaughlin Science Center during Gould’s Earth Day celebration. Jaime Frailey’s geometry class helped design the rack, which allows for the panels to tilt seasonally. The panels will find their way into the science curriculum as a solar energy feasibility study.

around campus

gouldacademy.org/news-blogsKeep up to date on all things Gould at:

Left to Right: Damian Dryjas ’12, Tutu Ekpebor ’12, Evan Fitzgerald ’12, and Matt Falconer ’12

Left to Right: Alec Manning ’14, Sawyer Harkins ’14, Pete Hedden, Jeb Clarke ’12

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Boys’ Varsity LacrosseThe varsity boys’ lacrosse team beat Hebron Acad-emy 15-3 to earn its third MAISAD title in a row. The boys then made an impressive run in the New England Small School Lacrosse Tournament, losing in the semi-finals 15-10 to a strong Dexter School team of Brookline, MA.

Varsity BaseballThe Gould Academy varsity baseball team reclaimed the MAISAD title after nine years, beating Hebron Academy 12-2.

TennisThe boys’ varsity tennis team tied Kents Hill for the MAISAD championship, while Ron Ruiz ’12 and Yannick Voland ’13 took the MAISAD doubles title, beating teammates Michael Young ’12 and Brooks Layman ’14.

Laura Laguia Garcia ’14 and Usua Larribau Aramburu ’14 took the MAISAD doubles title for the girls’ varsity tennis team, beating teammates Carolina Rodriguez ’13 and Maddie Whittier ’14.

CyclingThe Gould cycling team wrapped up its 2012 season by bringing home the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) trophy.

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Dan Kunkle first visited western Maine by canoe, nearly

thirty years before he would become head of school at

Gould Academy. The canoe trip left an indelible mark.

“I instantly became enchanted by the beauty and serenity

of the Maine woods, mountains, and lakes,” he’d later

write in 2000 in his acceptance letter to Board of Trustees

President and alumus Al Ordway ’58. “I have journeyed

far and wide since that time, but the images from that

visit remain strong. It will be wonderful to return for a

longer stay.”

Eleven years after that letter, Dan Kunkle is retiring from

Gould and from a nearly 40-year career in independent

boarding school education.

The GAzette sat down with him to talk about life as the

head of school at Gould, the school’s challenges and op-

portunities, and his plan for July 1, 2012.

What are the top three moments that you are most proud of as Gould’s head of school?

I think that it’s always difficult to choose three not

because there aren’t 100 to choose from. To commit to

what’s most important is really hard.

Kathy and I have always felt very good about the school

that we found here when we arrived - the school that

Bill and Ki left here after 18 years. Anything that I think

we’ve done to improve the place is building on that really

important work that they did for almost two decades.

One place I would point to where I have felt a great deal

of progress over 10 years is just in the increasingly more

effective work that we’ve done to support students and

challenge students.

We’ve instituted quite a few procedures, systems, means

for review to watch after students in the academic program

and advising program, and I feel very proud of the job that

we do delivering to one student at a time. To me that prob-

ably stands out above all else. That value was certainly here

when we arrived, and I think it has only grown.

Everything I can point to has an awful lot to do with put-

ting the right person in the right place. One of the most

satisfying pieces of my work as a head of school for 20

years has been the work of finding the right people. I’ve

really enjoyed that part of the experience.

We’ve really advanced the sustainability of the school as

an institution through the last capital campaign and other

efforts over the last 10 years. We have a school that has

consistently experienced stronger enrollment profiles.

We’ve raised money to completely retire our capital debt,

which is something that was hard to imagine 10 years

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Saddam Husseinis captured in Tikrit.

ago. We’ve weathered two very big storms financially - the

months following 9/11 and the months following the 2008

recession. So, it wasn’t the most propitious decade in many

ways to work on sustainability, but we’ve done that anyway.

The third would be the work over the last 10 years to

fully develop and integrate our On-Snow program into

the school. I realize that sounds a little foolish because

we’re not done yet; we’re not there yet. But we’ve made

tremendous strides.

We are on a great trajectory in terms of that program

and not just in the competition area, given the fact that

we’ve got a couple hundred kids at the mountain every

afternoon in the winter, and given the publicity that we’ve

seen recently with the Rugrats program and our work

with Maine Adaptive Sport. (The On-Snow program)

is a big broad program that involves 200 Gould kids and

another 250 or more kids that are part of the weekend

program, which we manage for Sunday River. Obviously,

that’s a really complex undertaking to take something

that big and integrate it into what is a pretty traditional

independent boarding school model. I’m extremely happy

with where it is, and I’m excited with where it can go.

Any moments over the last 11 years that you care not to relive?

I’m not going to answer that question. (Laughs.)

I don’t know about “care not to relive.” There are with

this job a lot of very difficult moments and a lot of

big challenges.

Just within this community that’s immediate, there are

350 to 400 lives when you include all faculty. There’s a big

piece of human drama going on almost every day. Often

times when the head of school is asked to be involved in

that drama whatever it is, it’s challenging, and it’s painful,

and sometimes it’s sad, or there’s a lot of anger or what-

ever in terms of negative emotions. That’s always hard;

that’s very hard, and I’m ready to not have that responsi-

bility now. But, rather than saying I regret having those

The ability to deliver that care for kids on a one at a time basis is going to continue to be very important.

OVER THE YEARS

Gould begins plans to sendits ninth grade class to China in 2008.

A newstrategic plan is published focus-ing on individual learning, rich experiential programming, faculty compensation and professional development, and long-range financial sustainability.

The Campaign for Gould Academy’s Future comes to a close after the formal dedication of the newly constructed

McLaughlin Science Center.

Using U.S. airliners, terrorists attack the

World Trade Center inNew York City and thePentagon in WashingtonD.C. on September 11.

The first public version of web

browser Mozilla Firefox is released.

GoogleintroducesGmail tothe public.

Liquid water is discovered on

Enceladus, the sixth largest moon

of Saturn.

HurricaneKatrina ravages

the Gulfof Mexico.

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Dan Kunklefollows Bill Clough as the 48th head of school atGouldAcademy.

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experiences, I should say that I feel privileged to have

been invited into other people’s lives in that way.

What do you see as the single biggest challenge facing Gould in the next 10 years?

I think it’s got to be the financial challenge, continuing to

strive toward true sustainability.

There are a lot of inherit things that make it hard and

there a number of things that give you great hope too.

We’re not in an area of the country that’s experiencing

any kind of strong demographic trends, so that means we

have to work harder by going outside of the immediate

region to continue to generate interest among families

coming to Gould.

We have a challenge with a respect to location. A lot

of schools that families look at when they’re looking at

Gould are schools that lie along the I93 corridor in New

Hampshire, and it’s just much easier sell to a Boston

family in terms of the ease of travel and the frequency of

getting up to school to see their kids play in games and

stuff like that. So, we’ve got a location challenge, and we

have a demographic challenge.

The third piece of challenge, and this is all about the

sustainability challenge, is the idea that boarding school

in our culture and in our society has not been something

that’s been growing or gaining popularity for several

generations if ever. It’s not a growth industry in that way.

I don’t know that it’s really declining either among the

segment of our society that has always considered it, but

there’s no indication that there’s going to be some kind of

cultural change that’s going to make it easier.

So, you combine those things and you realize that we’re

going to have to continue to work very hard to find

students, to find families to participate in this. But, at the

same time we are doing some things, and I’ve alluded to

them before, that really give you hope that we’re going to

meet that challenge and meet it very successfully.

I think in this day and age that the ability to deliver that

care for kids in all respect to their lives on a one at a time

basis is going to continue to be very important, very sought

after, also very expensive, and the expensive part is another

piece of the challenge. I think that the demand for that will

always be there if we protect it and keep it strong.

What’s the greatest opportunity for Gould?

It’s hard to think about one overriding opportunity for

Gould, and I think in a funny way that’s been one of our

challenges for more than the past 10 years. We see op-

portunity in several big chunks, and so we do more than

one thing; we do several things and doing several things

well really stretches us.

Boyne Resorts purchases Gould’s “second campus” Sunday River Ski Resort.

Gould’s ninth grade travels to China for the Four Point Program for the first time.

After kicking off in 2008, Gould’s second comprehensive capital campaign, True Blue: The Campaign for a Greater Gould, raises $10 million in its first year.

Gould introduces its one-to-one laptop program where every student and faculty member receives an Apple MacBook.

Gould celebrates its 175th anniversary.

Matt Ruby follows Dan Kunkle as the 49th head of school at Gould Academy.

Barack Obama iselected the 44th

President of the United States, the first African-American President inthe country’s history.

The H1N1 virus, or “Swine Flu,” is given pandemic status by the World Health

Organization.

The largest oil spill in the history

of the United States occurs when a

British Petroleum deep-water rig

explodes in the Gulf of Mexico.

FormerApple CEO Steve Jobs announces

the iPhone.

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Al-Queda leader Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. Navy Seals in his hideout

in Pakistan. EncyclopediaBritannica discon-tinues its printed

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The opportunities continue to be providing a really great

program, providing great attention to kids individu-

ally, and looking for new opportunities that perhaps we

haven't thought of or developed seriously that can help do

these things, while at the same time balancing cost and

complexity. Maybe part of the opportunity lies in ceasing

to do some things that are not as attractive anymore in

exchange for new things that really are. And, it’s not up to

me to say what those are.

How has your thinking as a head of school evolved since your first year at Gould?

I thought of the role of head of the school as the sort of

traditional headmaster role, the head teacher, the head

of the faculty, one very much focused on the internal life

of the school.

It did not take long at all (Pauses.); 9/11 occurred on my sec-

ond day of classes at Gould, and the financial challenges and

the drop in enrollment began to occur shortly thereafter. My

attention very quickly went from being primarily internally

focused to thinking about enrollment, student recruitment

and admissions. That was a huge piece of a challenge that

had to be addressed immediately and effectively.

That is related to a bigger change in a concept that is true

everywhere now. You hear people talking about it every-

where. There are no longer headmasters; they’re all heads

of school; they’re all CEOs. They’re all involved in the

internal life of the school and trying to be good leaders in-

ternally, but they also have to be business leaders; they have

to really understand the financial structure of the school;

they have to understand the student recruitment part; they

have to understand fund development and fund raising,

and they have to understand communications. Those are

the big operating pieces of it. The biggest of which, but

only one of which, is the internal life of the school, which

used to be almost the entire focus. It used to be easy. No,

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What is your first order of business on July 1?

I am trying to grow a wild flower meadow right next to

our house. We already have a really great view, but to have

an even greater view out our living room window, I’ll

probably be working on that.

Any last thoughts?

This has been a really wonderful 11 years for (Kathy and

I). We’re really grateful to have had the opportunity. We

have huge admiration for this school, for the faculty, for

the students, for the trustees. It’s just a very wonderful

place, and I know it’s going to continue to be so and will

get even better.

Any advice for the new guy?

No! And, if you want to publish that question and my

answer it’s okay. (Laughs.)

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encourages learning and growth in every aspect of life.

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Tomi Chipman ’10 was sitting in an anthropology class at Bates College in Lewiston, on a pre-med track, and realized

she’d rather be out in the field with her dad.

By last fall, she’d made up her mind.

When she graduates, Chipman wants to be a farmer.

Story byKathryn Skelton

Reprinted with permission ofThe Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal

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Lots of people farm. Her decision holds a little more

history. Chipman will be the eighth generation and the

first woman to carry on a family tradition that goes back

to farmer Ben Chipman in 1781.

Her parents are stunned. But happy.

"Even last week, Mom said, ’You sure you don’t want to be

a doctor?’" Chipman said. "’No, Mom, I want to farm.’"

Tomi’s father, Doug, said he didn’t remember a de-

finitive, "I-want-to-be-a-farmer" moment. His father,

Ellsworth, had a few cows. He still hays.

"Before I got out of high school I started growing

vegetables and supplying other farm stands," said Doug

Chipman, 51. "The end run was just to grow the farm

and make it stronger."

It’s worked.

"We’re one of the bigger farms in southern Maine for

what we do," he said.

Ben Chipman’s original 1700s acreage, on Range Hill

Road, is still in the family. He’s buried in the family

graveyard between the Chipman house and Doug’s

parents.

Doug and wife Elaine farm 60 acres in Poland, Minot,

New Gloucester and Gray. The Chipmans have six

greenhouses (with heat) and 11 hoop houses (without).

After classes let out at Bates, Tomi spent April planting

3,000 tomatoes and 1,000 cucumbers, along with beets,

lettuce, zucchini and other vegetables.

Doug Chipman stands with his daughter, Tomi, in one of their greenhouses in Poland. Tomi, a student at Bates College, plans to follow in her father’s footsteps and be a farmer. |Photo by Jose Leiva / Sun Journal

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She used to join Doug in the vegetable fields when she

was as young as a year old.

"We’d go out picking peas," he said. "I’d have her sitting

in front of me in the bushels."

Tomi, 20, was an alpine racer when she attended

Gould Academy in Bethel, graduating in 2010. She’s

now president of Bates’ Competitive Ski Team, a club

sport. She picked the college for its intimate feel, like

Gould, and started two years ago thinking she’d go into

physical therapy.

"It wasn’t clear-cut that I wanted to farm until I went to

college last year," she said. "It dawned on me ... I don’t

want to be a physical therapist."

The great outdoors, and the chance to work with dad,

beckoned. A junior at Bates this fall, she plans to finish

her degree in biology.

"We’re definitely a team and I really, really like that,"

Tomi Chipman said. "We really need each other to

get things done around here. He’s taught me how to

work hard, just watching him. He has built it up over

30 years; I don’t want to see that go to waste with what

he’s done."

Doug Chipman is still marveling a bit.

"Seven generations of ignorance — we figured we’d

educate the eighth and she still wants to be a farmer,"

he said.

But there’s pride in his voice.

Maine Agriculture Commissioner Walter Whitcomb

said it’s rare to hit eight generations, though he has

heard of 10.

Maine has roughly 8,000 family farms, a number that’s

been growing recently.

"It takes continually reinvesting, to spend money on

land and new equipment," Whitcomb said. The field

is so capital-intensive that it makes sense to pass on to

family, "but it means that you all have to get along with

each other."

That can be work, he said.

Tomi has seen firsthand, and Doug has warned, that

farming is hard. There are long days from April to Oc-

tober. There’s more pressure on land every year.

"We get the winters off. Nothing grows in the winter;

I’ve tried," Doug Chipman said. "We’re better off resting

and we give it hell when things warm up again."

He also skis and ski races. Tomi’s name came from a

cover model on a ski magazine. She has a younger sister,

Alana, who will not be farming.

"My sister calls me crazy all the time," Tomi Chipman

said. The last time, "all I could do is laugh at her."

The Chipmans have farm stands in Poland on Carpen-

ter Road, on Route 26 in Gray and on Route 302 in

Raymond, and have a field of pick-your-own straw-

berries on Goodwin Road in Minot that Tomi will

start staffing this weekend. The family sold its popular

Pumpkin Land to Harvest Hill Farms three years ago.

"This farm’s constantly changed over seven generations,"

Doug Chipman said. "She’s going to have to find her

niche."

For the first time this year, the Chipmans started a com-

munity-supported agriculture program, selling shares of

vegetables and calling it the Friends of the Farmer Club.

Tomi said she’s trying to think creatively for the future.

"I am determined to prove to people that small fam-

ily farms are not a dying breed, that local and fresh are

where it’s at," she said.

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The Gould Girls Ride team finished their inaugural run in the 2012 Trek Across Maine on June 17. The annual three

day, 180 mile bike event takes teams from the western mountains of Sunday River to the Maine coast in Belfast.

Thanks in part to a fundraising event thrown by Allison Stevens ’99 at the Thirsty Pig (Portland, ME) in May, the

team raised $3,585 for the American Lung Association. For information on how you can join the team or make a

donation for next year’s Trek, contact Jorie Ohlson ’06 at jorie.ohlson@gmail.com or (603)986-5812.

The Gould Girls Ride team from right to left: Heather Hayward, Meredith Gadd ’04, Lauren Head, Rebecca Andreozzi, Molly Fitzgerald ’06, and Jorie Ohlson ’06

www.give.gouldacademy.org

Chris Brooks Class of ’99Why do I give to Gould?

GRATITUDE.I support the Annual Fund, and I volunteer as the alumni

representative to the board of trustees, because I am grateful to Gould for giving me so much more than just an education.

INSPIRATION. SCHOLARSHIP. GRATITUDE. OPTIMISM. PAYING IT FORWARD. PAYING IT BACK.

RESPECT. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

Why will YOU give to this year’s Annual Fund?

Please make your gift today.

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Lookboth ways

It is not difficult to see the parallels between Gould Academy alumnus Brian F. Walker ’83 and Anthony “Ant” Jones, the protagonist in Walker’s new book Black Boy White School.

Like Walker, Ant Jones is an African-American, born and raised in Cleve-land, Ohio. As a young teen, Ant leaves Cleveland to attend the fictitious Belton Academy, a small, predominantly white private boarding school in rural Maine.

The young adult novel explores race relations and cultural identity through Ant’s navigation of two selves – “Ant” from Cleveland and “Tony” as he is called at Belton.

The identity conflict for Ant is a subject of concern for Walker, who has spent 17 years working in independent schools, including three at Gould, and has seen African-American and Latino boys struggle with their iden-tities amidst the prep school experience.

Walker came back to Bethel and vis-ited Gould earlier this year to talk with students about writing, about his expe-rience at Gould, and why it was impor-tant for him to write Black Boy White School.

The GAzette caught up with him for a brief interview between classes.

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When did you know you wanted to be a writer?

From the time that I was very little I always wrote stories.

Like, when I would get grounded or something at home,

I would write these long letters to my parents why per-

haps I should be lifted from being grounded a week early.

So, writing has always been something I’ve done.

I’m not just saying this because I’m here, but I never

thought about being a published writer until I came to

Gould. Bonnie Pooley was

the first teacher who told

me, “hey, you can write.”

I’d always wanted to

write, but she was the first

teacher to say you’ve got

something there. I didn’t

really believe her. But then,

when Debbie Dohrmann

came along and picked up

on what Bonnie Pooley

told me, I was like, wow,

these are two teachers in

a row who have said this.

Maybe I’ll put some more

time and energy into it

and try to make it happen.

That must have been a great feeling.

It was great, because I got to tell you, (Pauses.) I

remember sitting at my dining room table crying,

bawling, because I was afraid that I was going to have

to be put into special education classes, because of the

stereotype that I was bringing with me. I’m going to

a private school? I’m going away to a school that was

predominantly white? They’re all going to be smarter

than me. I am going to be behind. This was all the

stuff that I was thinking about coming into Gould. So,

then I came here and saw that there were white kids

who were pretty damn smart, but then there were some

who had to struggle in the same ways that I had to

struggle, and that made me feel good. And then on top

of that, to have a couple teachers who said, you could

actually do this; you could actually be a writer, that

made me feel great. So, I was not afraid anymore.

So, why this book? Where did the idea come from?

One of the things I’ve noticed at different prep schools

is that particularly African-American and Latino boys,

for whatever reasons, are not doing so well.

I was a student at Gould, then I

taught at Gould, and now I’m in

Massachusetts where you can’t go

a block without tripping over a

prep school. I’ve coached basket-

ball and made a lot of friends at

different prep schools and have

visited a lot of campuses. Even

though these are preparatory

schools, a number of these kids

who have gone to these schools,

not only did they not get their

college degrees, but some of them

even wound up in prison. So,

what are we missing?

I think about this book Best Inten-

tions: The Education and Killing

of Edmund Perry. It’s about this kid who graduated from

Phillips Exeter. He was an African-American from

Harlem. When he was at the prep school, he became

“Eddie from the city.” He became this stereotype, this

caricature. They expected him to be a good basketball

player. Because he was from the city, they expected him to

know how to get drugs or this that or the other thing. So

he tried to learn how to do it, but it really wasn’t who he

was. He wound up being this really, very angry dude. So,

after graduation he got a full ride to Stanford, and then

in the summer he’s out in New York with his brother and

they’ve got a lot of anger in them. Here comes along this

white dude, and they attack him. It turns out the white

dude is an undercover cop who shoots and kills Eddie.

Even though these

are preparatory schools,

a number of these kids

who have gone to these

schools, not only

did they not get their

college degrees, but

some of them even wound

up in prison. So, what

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So, I’m thinking about that; I’m thinking about dudes

who I know who went to prep school that wound up

in prison. For economic reasons many of us had been

given financial aid, so I’m thinking there’s still this price

that folks have to pay with their identity, their cultural

identity. Even though fiscally you’re taken care of, there’s

still a price that has to be paid. All of those things came

into my thinking in trying to write this book.

What was the process of getting this book published?

I wrote it and got an agent because of it, but my agent

told me that the market at the time was not good

for young adult, so she wanted to know if there was

something else that I could work on. So, my mater-

nal grandmother was a teacher in Cleveland. She was

murdered when I was in ninth grade. I was in Davidson

Hall when I got the phone call. I’ll never forget that. We

never found out who did it. Somebody shot her in the

back. (Pauses.) I forgot where I was going with that; that

memory was kind of messing with me.

You were talking about the process of getting

the book published.

So, I started writing about my grandmother but

fictionalizing it. But by the time I was just about done

with that, my agent called me up and said, “Hey, re-

member that thing that you did? The market is right for

it now.” By this time five to six years had gone by, so I

had to revise it and make it more contemporary.

Wow, I’m sorry hear that about your grand-mother. That must be a tough memory while you are on campus.

Yeah, it is. But at the same time that calendar year my

grandmother got murdered, another friend of mine got

shot and killed in front of us, and another three friends

of mine were shot and killed by their father while they

were sleeping. Then, that summer – ironically as a “this

has been a tough year for everybody, let’s all go out and

have a celebration” – we all went out to an area called

Metro Parks in Cleveland, where we played football.

Two of my friends wound up drowning. I was the only

one there who knew how to swim, and I tried to save

them, and I got cramps and almost drowned myself. It

was crazy. So, when I think about my grandmother all of

these other things come up too.

That’s where a lot of this stuff…(Pauses.) I know it’s

harsh - the guy Mookie smacking the girl in the begin-

Brian Walker ’83 talks to senior English students.

ning (of the book), a lot of the language like dropping

the n-word everywhere - but it’s a reality. You know

what I mean? It’s like, how do I depict this? How can I

be realistic but not overly graphic? And, I don’t know if I

was able to pull that off or not, but I just wanted folks to

understand where this kid was coming from.

A lot of the folks who work in these independent

schools, a lot of us – because I am one of them - don’t

really know where some of these kids come from. We

make the mistake sometimes of assuming that ’oh here’s

a kid of color, they come from the inner city and their

mom smoke’s crack.’ No. No. It’s not a monolithic

group. It’s like not every white guy you see is rich. It

doesn’t work that way. So, the same is true for both

sides. So, for this particular story I wanted to make sure

I was as close to reality or the truth as possible.

A lot of people ask me about the scene where Mookie

gets killed. Is that real? No, but I’ve seen so many people

who have been shot. I have family members who have

shot people. I’ve got friends who have killed people. I

have friends who have been killed. Two of my cousins,

one 16 the other six, this was maybe 10 years ago, they

were murdered. I had to clean my six year-old cousin’s

brains up off the floor at my Aunt’s house.

I hate to say this, but this is Cleveland. It’s not a glam-

our city. If you say stuff like this is happening in Boston,

Chicago, New York, or L.A., people are like, “oh, yeah,

yeah.” But when you say Cleveland, they say, “What?”

They don’t even think about it. I don’t want to give too

much away, but the kid has a real identity issue at Belton

Academy because everyone thinks he’s from New York.

They won’t even say he’s from Cleveland.

What was the publishing process like?

The process was just awful. I went to a conference in

Philadelphia and there was a dude named Wes Moore

who wrote a book called The Other Wes Moore. What he

was saying at the conference was that he had no say in

the cover, in the title – none of that stuff. That’s exactly

what my experience was.

I wanted to call the book Look Both Ways. I thought it

was a loaded kind of title. Look both ways, because the

kid has to dress differently at the school so he has to

look differently. Look both ways as a cautionary tale, so

if you’re thinking about prep school you better look both

ways, because even though you might get financial aid

there’s a sacrifice you make. Look both ways; look at it

from both sides of the issue. Anthony faced some ste-

reotyping, but he brought in some of his own prejudices

and stuff too.

(The publishers) were like, “Black Boy, White School.”

I thought, No! That’s awful! They said, “Trust us we’re

going to market this to young adults.” I said, “I teach

kids right now. I asked them what they thought of the

title, and they liked Look Both Ways better than Black

Boy, White School.” They said, “That’s great input. No.”

So, it was the same thing with the cover. I didn’t like

the cover, although I like the cover now. It’s grown on

me. The way they explained it to me is that you get four

to eight seconds. That’s all you get to grab somebody

at the bookstore. Unless they’re looking for your book,

something about the title, something about the cover

has got to grab them even if it disturbs them. And Look

Both Ways, the way they explained it me, people would

have looked past it. So, I just got to trust them on that.

I can’t stand the fact that I had to pare the book down

as much as I did. There were lots of things that I had

in there that I think were important and should have

stayed, but admittedly, things that might not have made

prep schools very happy with me.

If I’m fortunate enough to ever get on the Oprah Book

List it would give me an opportunity talk about this one

issue that I have with prep schools in general. It’s not

that I have a problem with them, it’s just that I’d like to

make sure that folks are made aware of the cultural price

that some kids have to pay when they go to any of these

schools. But, at the same time in doing so I could talk

about this place. (Smiles.) This place was great - Gould

Academy in Bethel, Maine.

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Gould Academy in the White Mountains has inspired young skiers since it was formed in 1836. Its ski instructor program, started a quarter of a century ago, is new by comparison. But it has taught thousands of elementary school children in surrounding communities to ski.

Enthusiastic, energetic student instructors at the

academy have given lessons in the Rugrats program

to many children who would not otherwise have the

opportunity to try skiing.

And this year for the second winter, the Rugrats have

helped athletes with disabilities at the Maine Adaptive

Sport program, formerly Maine Handicapped Skiing.

Of the 230 full-time students at Gould this year, 40

help the Rugrats program, teaching 230 elementary

school students. It’s a situation where they get more

than they give.

“Because we ski every day, we don’t appreciate what we

have. We don’t realize how lucky we are to get to ski.

But each week when we teach the students, we see their

excitement,” said Gould senior Mirina Sato of Tokyo.

“That makes me realize some kids don’t get to ski. This

is the only way many of them can ski.”

Last year the folks at Maine Adaptive Sport looked

at the high-energy high school skiers leading parades

of youth around the mountain and considered the

Liam Gillis ’13 helps instruct a visually

impaired skier at Sunday River. Gillis helped

Gould Academy set up the portion of its ski

instructor program that works with Maine

Adaptive Sport. Gould’s ski instructor program

has taught local children for 25 years.

Hearts of Gold at GouldStory and Photography byDeirdre Fleming

Reprinted with permission ofThe Maine Sunday Telegram

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possibilities. Since they’re on the mountain every

day anyway, why not recruit them to help instruct

athletes with disabilities?

The Gould students were intrigued. Last year,

five signed up. This year, nine are helping Maine

Adaptive, including three who returned.

“It’s awesome. The work is physically demanding.

These young students are fit and better skiers.

And having the high schoolers lends an air of

credibility. They’re a breath of fresh air, a burst

of energy,” said Maine Adaptive Sport Outreach

Director Eric Topper.

Liam Gillis of Boston tried helping in the

more challenging program last year, and as a

sophomore became a champion for the cause.

He started a Facebook page to invite other

Gould students to the new program, and now

plans to get certified as an adaptive instructor through

the Professional Ski Instructors Association. “It’s fun

coming up here every day, and the people show you

how much you help them. I love spreading the word to

the whole Gould community,” Gillis said.

Margaret Adams of Anchorage, Alaska, is another who

tried adaptive ski coaching last year. She plans to do her

senior project this spring on the same program offered

in Alaska. She believes the adaptive culture at Gould

will grow. “I think this is intimidating to some kids. It

requires a little more responsibility and some kids are

nervous about that. But at Maine Adaptive, they’re all

really happy we’re here,” Adams said.

It’s an extension of a program that has spread winter

smiles for decades. For 25 years, the Rugrats program

has taught third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at no charge,

while Sunday River also has provided rental equipment

and ski passes for free. Three years ago Sunday River

expanded its role, offering free lessons and rentals to area

school kids from kindergarten through second grade.

“A lot of these kids, this is the only time they get to ski.

Some of them have never ever been here before and they

live right at the doorstep of the mountain,” said Sunday

River ski instructor Meredith Harrop of Newport, R.I.

Gould senior Eliana Rowe knows how much the

Rugrats program means to local kids. She’s from Tampa,

Florida, and only learned to ski when she came to

Gould.

“The kids always, always want to ski. It makes me

more excited to ski, even in the cold days. If the kids

are happy, then you’re happy,” Rowe said as she rode the

chair lift with two fifth graders.

Carol Rodriguez also is new to skiing, having grown up

in Madrid. In her second year skiing, she wanted to give

back the same way Rowe did.

“I like seeing the kids with that smile on their faces

while they learn something new. They love it, you can

tell,” Rodriguez said.

The take-home message to the Gould students? They

are lucky mountain people. “The majority of these kids

would not be able to ski. This is their only chance,” said

Gould senior Nick Schwarz.

Max Thorman of Crescent Park Elementary School is held by Robyn Kanter

as Margaret Adams ’12 provides instruction.

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1944Class Agent: Carol Robertson LeClairSpring came early here. Our desert in southern Arizona is beautiful with colorful wildflowers…courtier lupine, Mexican gold poppies, owl clover, desert globe mal-low, Indian paintbrush, and many more.

Alice Pierce Keddy and I had a nice tele-phone visit recently. She is fine and busy with the family and volunteer work. I am saddened to report the death of Beatrice Forbes Lowell’s husband, Frank, who died in early February. Our sympathy to Bea and her family.

I recently chatted with Dave Hawkins and his wife, Nancy. They are well and looking forward to a visit soon from their son and family who live in Germany.

Let me hear from you! My email is gilcarlec@cox.net.

1946Class Agent: Ruth AultBarbro Freese Morrison is doing fine in South Florida and is looking foward to her 85th birthday in August. Plans are to have a family and friend reunion around August 9, 2012. All friends are welcome to attend. If you are willing and able to attend, please contact her son, Gordon, at gordonm110@att.net.

1948Class Agent: Evelyn Vinton BeliveauEd and Ruth ( Judkins) Bailey have lived in Florida for ten years. Ruth’s cur-rent project is visiting nursing homes to interview residents about their lives. After writing up a life history, Ruth gives a copy to the resident to give to his/her descendants. Most of their travel is to Iowa to visit their son (retired military) and his family.

Martha (Hezzie) Crocker Dobrowol-ski is still in New Haven, CT. She has grandchildren living in Seattle, Texas, and Chicago.

Ed Swain and his wife, Eleanor, are still living at Lake Keowee in the northwest corner of South Carolina. Ed plays golf about twice a week and Eleanor plays tennis almost every day. They still enjoy summers at their camp on Mooselook-meguntic Lake near Rangeley. Ed kayaks and sails regularly and enjoys gardening, hiking, and picking berries. Ed is looking forward to his 65th class reunion and would love to see classmates at home or in Maine in the summer.

1952Class Agent: Janice Lord MottWarner “Skip” Chandler has settled into his new home with his daughter and son-in-law, who have provided an “in-law” unit. He writes: “ I am very sorry to see the losses of some students that we shared going to school with but I guess that’s life. I am fortunte to have 10 grandchildren and also three great-grandies. They all are doing very well – job wise and educational. I am retired from the Foxboro Water Department since 1998, but see the men and vehicles every day as I live on the roadway corner to the main pumping station. I walked to work for 33 years on the same street only five minutes away from the house where I now live again. I hope and plan to see you all this fall.”

I want give you a general picture of events for our 60th reunion. Reunion weekend is September 28, 29 and 30. Friday 6 p.m., Alumni Reception/Din-ner - Saturday 11:45a.m., Parade of Classes/Alumni Luncheon/Class Photo ~ Saturday, a bus tour of the Bethel area - Saturday 5:30p.m., 1952 gathering at Rooster Roadhouse for drinks and social-izing - Saturday 7:00p.m., party/catered dinner at Kathy and Don Bennett’s - Sunday 9:30a.m. - 12:15p.m., Farewell Brunch at Gould.

Sandra Stowell Seaver is planning the dinner at Bennett’s, and it’s only a quarter mile from the Rooster Roadhouse. At our 55th we had a wonderful time there and had a chance to visit and catch up on all those years! There are many other things

to do on campus or in town while you are there. You won’t find an easier airport to fly into than Portland; and renting a car is a snap. I have done it several times and enjoyed the drive to Bethel. You will receive the reunion information and registration form from Gould later in the year, and you must register and sign up for the meals (which are $5 cheaper if you get your form returned by a certain date).

As far as the class dinner on Saturday night I will let you know that cost in my next card, as well as the names of places to rent a room. Let me know the number of people planning to attend the dinner when you respond to me about whether or not you plan to attend Reunion. The Reunion weekend is the 5th weekend in September so the foliage should be good. There traditionally have been at least 22 of the class returning. Given we were a class of 59, and sadly lost 15, that leaves about 22 more to make the return for this very special reunion. So your job is to: 1. Let me know if you A: plan to attend, B: are hoping to attend or C: definitely won’t attend. 2. Are you attending the class dinner & how many? 3. Bring high school artifacts/treasures/photos to show and share. 4. Be sure to fill out the reunion form when it arrives. My address is: 104 Hoy Ct., Cary, NC 27511. My email is jmaine4321@gmail.com. Phone: 919-467-2001. I look forward to getting your responses. Please respond!

1956Class Agent: Ann Hastings MortonAlan Lamson’s love of skiing continues as he volunteers regularly with Maine Handicapped Skiing at Sunday River.

Martha Daland Bergen and I met for lunch last spring in NYC. Ann was pre-paring to walk with her team, the Dairy Heirs, in the Revlon Run/Walk. When she goes this year for the fifth time, she and Martha hope to meet again. They are catching up on 55 years of news!

Howard West is enjoying improved health this winter. He has volunteered to

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host another ’56 gathering at his home this summer.

Peg and David Willard plan their July trip to Maine around Mollyockett Day and the Music Without Borders piano festival at Gould. A class of ’56 mini-reunion is always held during their visit.

Merle and Gloria Wilson White revel in their warm winters in Arizona, where they both enjoy golf. They return to Bethel for the summer months...the best of both worlds!

1958Class Agent: Michael S. StowellAfter 25 years of RVing during the summer months Kaye Blake Blossey and husband Otto have now taken up traveling by car since they have traveled to all 50 states - 49 of them in their mo-torhome. They also have visited Australia where Kaye made connections with her pen pal whom she had for over 62 years. Bethel is where they now have spent the past 10 summers seeing and visiting with former classmates, friends, and family. Kaye finds it hard to believe next year it will have been 55 years since her class graduated. Where have those years gone?

Stanley Fuller sends the following news. “I’ve been in the hospital but am do-ing fine now. I’ve been really busy with church: Our Holiday Harvest Fair and Silent Auction brought in nearly $7,000, $3,000 of which was from the Silent Auction. I was also in charge of putting on a Sacred Music Concert with four other churches involved - a great success. The holidays were wonderful with our two year old grandson, Greyson. He is such a joy! The year 2012 is shaping up to being a very busy year. We will have a huge Tag Sale at church; doing a church cook book, and another Sacred Music Concert in December. Twelve other churches have been invited to participate. That’s all for now.”

Brewster Jordan sent the following news: “Best news - everyone is back to work!! We are enjoying computer-chair travel to England as our granddaughter and her family recently moved there. Between their Facebook photos, Skype, and Google Earth, we are right there with them.”

I had a stroke in november which casued temporary blindness and some minor personality changes. After extensive test-ing, i've been prounounced well with no physical impairment, no loss of memory or mental acuity. I am back to my old charming Mike personality. I spent a week over Christmas with my son, Michael, daughter, Suzanne and family in Weymouth, Massachusetts.

Andrea Jean and I left for Australia on February 12th where we visited Perth, Broome and Geraldton, Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Darwin, Cairns (where we snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef ), Brisbane and Sydney, Australia. From Sydney we cruised to the Society Islands, i.e., Tahiti, Bora Bora, Moorea, and other French Polynesian Islands. We also spent a week on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu before returning to Florida on April 1. My book of Frank Newton’s diaries has been published and finally available for distribution. I hope to see many Gould-ies and friends when I visit Bethel for two months this summer mid-June to mid-August.

1983Class Agent: Tom ColePaul Fuller has been busy making music with his sons, rappers ’A-Lex’ and Tavy-boy and a third son, Producer King H.

Brian Walker has written a book called Black Boy White School published in 2012 by HarperTeen an imprint of Harp-erCollins Publishers. Brian’s book is inspiring. Brian is teaching, coaching basketball and is an admissions officer at The Cambridge School of Weston, MA. He visited Gould in February for a book signing. It was well attended by current students, Brian’s former classmates and his Gould teachers.

I recently merged my real estate office in Brunswick, Maine with the Maine Real Estate Network. My wife, Gina, and I now live in Topsham, Maine with our four chil-dren Alisha, Emily, Hannah, and Thomas."

1994Class Agent NeededBill and Ki Clough visited Ola Melin re-cently in Sweden. Ola is a master gardener and head of all parks in the city of Malmo.

1996Class Agent NeededJarrod S. Crockett was admitted to federal court in the District of Maine. Crockett is one of several attorneys in the law firm of Hanley & Associates who is a member of the federal bar. Congratula-tions, Jarrod!

1997Class Agent NeededShelley MacQuinn Jacobs and her husband Brian welcomed Reid Alden into the family on January 22, 2012. Reid was a healthy 8 lb 3 oz and was 20 inches long. Everyone, including Reid’s big sister, Miah, are doing well.

2001Class Agent NeededMeg Favreau just published her first book, Little Old Lady Recipes: Comfort Food and Kitchen Table Wisdom. It’s a col-lection of grandma comfort-food recipes and sassy old lady advice, published by Quirk Books. She is currently living in Los Angeles, where she writes and per-forms comedy and serves as the Senior Editor of the frugal living and personal finance website, wisebread.com.

While on a recent trip to Sweden, Bill and Ki Clough caught up with Daniel Bodenfors, who works at the Photo-graphic Museum in Stockholm.

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IN MEMORIAMAlumni/ae

Margaret Bennett Baker ’39 11/8/2011

Mary Clough Keniston ’39 3/11/2012

Albert W. Buck ’43 3/24/2012

Rachel Gordon Mayer ’43 4/18/2012

Nora Chipman Schaible ’43 3/21/2012

Betty Burton Reid ’44 1/2/2012

Phyllis Morrill Bancroft ’45 1/18/2012

Richard Kimball ’46 6/14/2012

Albert C. Smith ’46 4/6/2012

Frank A. Gibson ’48 1/25/2012

Letitia-Joy Smith Gilbank ’51 4/18/2012

Joan Conner Swallow ’54 11/13/2011

Peter T. Haines ’58 1/13/2012

Donald L. Rice ’61 5/21/2012

Nelson O. Smith ’62 2/3/2012

Gordon R. Manuel ’65 3/2/2012

Craig Davis ’71 5/22/2012

Stephen A. Maclin ’72 5/1/2012

2003Class Agent NeededKaitlyn T. McElroy is currently living, working and training at the Oklahoma City National High Performance Center. She joined the Sprint Kayak World Cup circuit last year and paddled away with a bronze medal at the second world cup in the K2 1000m. Later in the season she got to compete at the Pan American Games in the K2 500m and came away with a Bronze medal. While she is competing on the National Team she is also going back to school at Oklahoma City University.

2004Class Agent: Katie Reed KnappCharlie Edwards is living the dream in western Massachusetts renovating his par-ents’ house and organizing lacrosse events year round. This spring he will once again coach the sport at Deerfield Academy and then directing U15 teams over the course

of the summer for Team IAS. He has been happy to see the Gould program develop as it is apparently a great day to be a husky. (CC: Will Graham!)

2005Class Agent NeededKim Tremblay Randall and her hus-band, Jason, welcomed their daughter, Mia Grace, into the world on Tuesday, March 27. She was born at 2:55 a.m., weighed 7lb 10oz and was 19 inches long. Congratulations to Kim and Jason, and welcome Mia!

2008Class Agent: Kathleen LaniganCongratulations to all the members of the class of 2008 who are graduating this spring. Let us know what your plans are, job, more school, travel or ???

2011Class Agent: Ashley SwanJake Dorval-Hall performed with Matisyahu last November at the Boul-der Theatre in Boulder, CO. The two performed a version of Matisyahu’s single Miracle that Jake was asked to remix by the artist for a new EP that was released before the tour.

Mia Grace Randall ’30

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HEADS UPGould Heads of School: Bill Clough 1983-2001, Dan Kunkle 2001-2012, and Matt Ruby 2012