"Maine Boarding School Blog"
Competitive Snowboarding: a chat with Gould Academy’s Chris Davies
If you’re high school snowboarder with collegiate or U.S. national aspirations, you might like our latest video interview with Chris Davies, Gould Academy, head snowboarding coach.
Read MoreA Boarding School Learning Skills Program Celebrates a New Home
Kents Hill School has been on the fore of learning differences programs having had a program for 32 years. The Akin Learning Center represents the latest step in the center’s journey from living room, to library, to dedicated, purpose built facility.
Read MoreL.L. Bean and Boarding School
A little trivia as boarding school and preppy icon L.L. Bean celebrates its centennial. Name the two boarding schools that Leon Leonwood Bean attended?
Read MoreHow to Tie a Bow Tie: A prep school tradition
That object of affection, and some joking, the bow tie sporting faculty member (I can say that because I’ve been a bow tie wearing, boarding school faculty member whose headmaster sported bow ties when I was in school), Kent Hill School‘s Jeremy LaCasse offers up this quick instructional video for his fans. Tying a bow [...]
Read MoreA New Head Brings a Great Combination of Boarding School and Maine Roots
New Kents Hill School head Jeremy LaCasse spoke with Kennebec Journal writer Susan McMillan for an interview published in this past Monday’s paper. Reading “Son of Augusta comes back to lead Kents Hill School,” it’s clear LaCasse brings a great combination of boarding school and Maine roots to his new post. The interview covers expected [...]
Read MoreThe Drive of an Elite Athlete Manifest Itself in the Rehab Process
A climbing athlete for Mammut, Wharton, by his own account, Josh Wharton (Gould Academy alumnus) ‘made a silly mistake’ that resulted in his fall. Wharton fell twenty-five feet breaking his back, and both arms. Somewhat still bashful about it, Wharton found himself the youngest person and only male ever in his water aerobics class in [...]
Read More$2.3 Million Donation Supports Kents Hill School Learning Center
Exciting new from our friends at Kents Hill School (Kents Hill, ME). The school will use a $2.3 million donation from the Harold Alfond Foundation to build a new learning center. The Akin Learning Center will support the 40-50 KHS students who receive instruction as part of the school’s learning differences program. The center takes its [...]
Read MoreFrom Gould Academy to Expedition Impossible
Expedition Impossible competitor, and Gould Academy alumnus (2003), Eric Bach spends a few minutes with Peter talking about how one goes from Gould, and Bethel, Maine, to participating in a Mark Burnett produced reality television show in Morocco. Expedition Impossible features thirteen teams of three, racing through ten epic stages, through the Moroccan Sahara; Bach [...]
Read MoreThe Global Family of a Boarding School: Knowing Everyone is Safe
I was so glad and thankful to see them. One by one, our students from Japan returned from March Break this week. When the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11th, Kents Hill School was on March vacation, and many of our Japanese students had returned home. Others were with host families, and we [...]
Read MoreFootball Signing Day: Boarding School Flavor
I can’t find a good, single list of boarding school players who signed today, but I found something close. ESPNBoston has a list of Massachusetts players scheduled to sign today. It lists high school and college with whom they’re signing. It’s missing some of the Western New England schools and looks like it might short [...]
Read MoreFan of the X Games? Gould Academy has been developing great snowboarders and skateboarders since 1995
Dave Bean, director of Gould Academy‘s skateboard program, talks about Gould’s exciting new program, Skate School. For years, Gould’s onSnow program has been a destination for students interested in strong academics and top notch high school snowboarding & skiing opportunities for years. Gould’s Skate School build on this commitment to the sports that make the X [...]
Read MoreTwo Generations at Gould Academy: Community and Lasting Values
Rob ’75 and Stef ’12, father and daughter, find the core of Gould Academy as they sit for an interview during during Rob’s 35th reunion. Stef, of course, finds the idea of her father’s teenage rock stardom pretty funny. But, Rob, thinking out loud and with some years behind him articulates the essence of Gould [...]
Read MoreKents Hill School Names Jeremy LaCasse 18th Head of School
This marks the second head of school appointment this month that we’ve had the privilege to share. Kents Hill School trustees announced the appointment of Jeremy LaCasse to succeed retiring head Rist Bonnefond this coming June. LaCasse brings a career and experiences steeped in boarding schools to Kents Hill. A Berkshire School alumnus, he returned [...]
Read MoreComing Together, Understanding, and Looking Outward
We live in a bubble. Here, up on a beautiful hill in Maine, we at Kents Hill School live in a warm, open community that welcomes students and faculty from all over the world. In classes, on the fields and in the residence halls, we teach our students to embrace differences, to appreciate diversity and [...]
Read More100 Mile Wilderness Run: Gould Academy Faculty Member Tackles an Incredible Challenge
Chris Hayward of Gould Academy (Bethel, ME) teamed with Eli Lazarus (University of Maine) and Nichol Ernst (Summit Achievement) to cover the Hundred Mile Wilderness on a non-stop run. For those of you unfamiliar with the Appalachian Trail, Backpacker Magazine features this description of the 100-Mile Wilderness: “…The extra-burly route stretches from ME 15 in [...]
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