Kieve-Wavus News Fall 2013 - Kieve

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the bridge year, page 9
Kieve-Wavus
Education
News
vol. 88 no. 1
A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
FALL 2013
K-W gardens, page 4
next generation campaign,
page 5
veterans camp , page 14
ELSEWHERE IN THIS ISSUE
Wavus camp for girls, page 3
EDUCATORS IN RESIDENCE................ 7
LOYALTY FUND UPDATE....................10
THE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL................ 11
KW WEST.........................................12
9/11 FAMILY CAMP............................13
ALUMNI NOTES................................17
LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
L
ast week our traveling road shows
cranked up. Nancy, Beej and I
were so excited to hop on the direct
flight from Portland to Chicago, get
there 5 hours before the start, go
for a walk, see a few folks including
our beloved son, Sammy, and several
alums, and prepare for our 6:30 event
at the Mullens. About 5 miles from the
airport my phone buzzed a message in
capital letters: FLIGHT CANCELLED,
WE BOOKED YOU ON THE NEXT
FLIGHT ARRIVING AT 9:48 pm. Gulp.
Not good. Portland isn’t exactly a
bustling air hub with a lot of options;
60+ wide-eyed campers and family
members were locked and loaded
to come see us. Beej quickly dialed
United’s 800 number and sweet-talked
(well, ok, maybe not exactly sweet…)
the person on the line into rerouting
us through beautiful Cleveland and
arriving in Chicago just in time to
Maeve Mullen & Sam Kennedy at Wavus last
summer.
Henry & BJ Kennedy
get to the gig if all air and ground
transportation went perfectly. Yeah,
right. As an insurance policy I called
Russ, our computer and photo guru
in the office, who emailed our entire
presentation to Chicago alumnus Ted
“Taft” Cooke. He, Sam Kennedy (a 4th
generation Kiever), and Brooke Mullen
(a pioneer Wavus camper who just
completed Maine Trails and her 8th
summer) were fully prepared to go
on with the show whether or not
the stars aligned for us to get there in
time. Kieve-Wavus save! We ultimately
did sprint through the door to much
fanfare at around 7:20 just as the gang
started the show.
Our urban adventure curve balls were
very similar to what our staff and
kids encounter every day out in the
wilderness. It was a great metaphor for
a camp, and in fact a life experience.
Maybe we hoped to climb Katahdin’s
community connections
What do 9 holes of golf, face paint, aquatic weeds and the Buck
Building have in common?
Kieve-Wavus Community Service! For the second year in a row, community
members gather on the second Friday of the month for Community Climb
Nights in the Buck building. These evenings draw community members of
all ages for an evening of recreation, entertainment and connection. . . but
bringing people to campus is only the beginning of our outreach and service
to the local community. This fall, Kieve-Wavus staff is providing meaningful
service and stewardship in the local region. In partnership with Damariscotta
Lake Watershed Association, Kieve-Wavus is inventorying invasive species.
In support of the Nobleboro Historical Society, Kieve-Wavus is providing
games, activities and the portable climbing wall to AppleFest, a community
fundraiser. And in support of Memorial Middle School’s 6th grade wellness
events (including a 5-day Leadership School program), KW staff spent a
drizzly morning on the golf course. Through our labor, skills, energy and
enthusiasm, Kieve-Wavus is proud to model our mission by making a positive
contribution to our local region.
knife edge but the wind was blowing
60 mph. Maybe we packed spaghetti
for supper but the canoe with that
wannigan flipped in the last rapid of
the day and the noodles turned to a
gluey brick. Although we, of course,
prepare for things to go exactly as
planned, they often do not and we
have to think on our feet. We zig and
zag a little here and there, maintain
our sense of humor, assess the options,
make a new plan, communicate it,
and depend on our instincts and team
to help us execute it. Living these
experiences is the only way to learn
them.
So as I caught my breath and looked
out over the crowd, I was struck by
an eerie sense of déjà vu. Ten years
ago Alicia and Tim Mullen generously
hosted a slide show when their now
college freshman son, Matt, was first
a camper. Never before had many
Chicago kids attended Kieve and
now it’s a huge draw for us thanks
in large part to the Mullen family.
At the slideshow a decade earlier
Matt’s 7-year-old sister, Brooke, sat
in the front row staring wistfully at
the screen. We had just begun our
merger discussions with the Wavus
Foundation and I desperately wanted
them to be successful so that Brooke
and thousands like her could share the
same experiences as their brothers.
Tonight, sitting in exactly the same
chair 10 years later was young Maeve,
the littlest Mullen and a spitting image
of her sister. I vividly remembered
seeing her in her dad’s arms during
the very first Wavus parents’ weekend
8 years earlier. Now Maeve had just
spent her first year at Wavus and her
siblings will soon join us as counselors
and critical role models for the next
generation of leaders. The beat goes
on!
Faithfully yours,
Henry R. Kennedy,
Executive Director
wavus camp for girls
I
t was a routine slideshow and the
first KW reunion I attended as
Director of Wavus. I really wasn’t
expecting anything to come out of
it, maybe a few new campers, but
nothing amazing. As Henry flicked
through the slides, I stood amongst the
crowd, and commented here and there
in the places I thought I might have
something interesting about Wavus to
add to Henry’s narration. We moved
through the pictures, and I started to
watch the girls in attendance. From
the looks on their faces it was clear
to me that something amazing was
happening after all.
Four years have passed since that first
slideshow. Soon Henry and I will be
hitting the road – catching up with
former and current campers and
counselors, and introducing the KieveWavus story to prospective families at
KW reunions throughout the country.
Having spent these many summers
with the girls and women of Wavus,
and subsequent falls traveling with
Henry, I now approach the reunions
with great expectations – I know
they will be a celebration of happy
Celebrating the spirit of Wavus!
times and important moments that
speak to the power of living out
the values of kindness and respect
in a community of accountability
and authenticity. During that first
slideshow, I discovered why the
girls looked so amazed. If you look
hard at them, the slides slowly stop
being images and become deep and
significant memories:
As the first picture materialized on
the wall, of girls coming out of the bus
on day one of camp, with counselors
cheering for them, I remembered
chanting for the campers-to-be, along
with everyone else, “We have campers!”
Clap clap. “We have campers!” The
just-arrived girls looked scared, and
yet excited: they were at Wavus!
Story continued on page kieve camp for boys - The Kieve Bubble
a college sports game on TV without
being bombarded by commercials
that teach us to multiply our wants
and indulge ourselves, that it’s not
complicated, bigger is better.
Graham Abbey, Kieve camper ’02 - ’08 and
counselor ’11 thru ’13 addresses the Kieve
community during Sunday Chapel. Graham is
from San Francisco and currently attends the
University of North Carolina.
T
he Kieve bubble is a funny thing.
In the rest of our year away from
camp at school or work, the messages
we receive seem constantly focused
upon the individual. Separate yourself
from the pack. Make the honor roll.
Even our understanding of evolution
reminds us that “only the strong
survive”. Indeed, we can’t even watch
Then we step back into this bubble,
and not only the message, but the
entire energy is redirected. Whether
it’s kindness and respect, courage,
perseverance and loyalty, or South
Cunningham’s pet phrase everybody
love everybody, we are taught to
understand that cooperation has far
more value to our community than
competition, that separating yourself
from the pack is far less important
than the collective welfare of the
group. In the father of evolution,
Charles Darwin's, book The Descent
of Man, he uses the phrase “survival
of the fittest” only twice, but he used
the word love over a hundred times.
As the Dalai Lama puts it, “the essence
of spirituality is the understanding
that others are at least as important as
yourself.” We are incredibly privileged
to be involved with a community that
is so committed to that understanding
of spirituality, a community that has
already taught us valuable lessons
about ourselves and the mysteries of
life, whether you recognize it yet or
not.
Maybe you’ve been out on the St.
Croix, or the Allagash, or the White
Mountains, and a sudden summer
storm blows over your head. The
temperature drops, you’re soaked,
you’re only wearing cotton, and you
are absolutely miserable. You paddle
or hike your way into camp, set up
a tent, climb in to your sleeping bag
right next to your buddies, and soon
your counselor brings you bowls of
hot rice. All of a sudden, the happiness
Story continued on page Kieve & Wavus FARMS Gardens
environmental and health benefits of organic gardening
and supporting local agriculture, and builds leadership and
teamwork skills by teaching responsibility, cooperation, and
patience. The garden also promotes the values of kindness,
respect, and environmental stewardship.
Boys’ campers harvesting kale and swiss chard for Pasquaney lunch with
FARMS Educator Farmer Abby
T
Campers were quoted as saying, “This was so fun--gardening
is so fun!”, “This was the best activity!”, “I want to sign up for
double period!”, “Is this going to be an activity today? What
about tomorrow?”, “This is so fun. I didn’t really know if
I’d like it but it’s really fun!”, “Now I want to have a garden
at home when I’m an adult.”, “This is the best cauliflower
I have ever tasted and I don’t even like cauliflower.” “I’m
going to tell my mom I want a garden!”, “When I get home,
I am going to have a garden.”
his summer marked the second season of gardening
at Kieve and Wavus! The gardens are run by the local
non-profit Farm to School organization FARMS (Focus on Staff at both camps were an incredible help with the gardens,
Agriculture in Rural Maine Schools). FARMS connects and the program was a success thanks to the collaboration,
classrooms, farms, cafeterias, and communities through enthusiasm, and hard work of many members of the Kievehands-on educational programs. The
Wavus community including staff in
garden program at Kieve-Wavus has
food service, maintenance, education,
been a fun and delicious experience
leadership, administration, and of
for campers in both summer camps
course, campers! One counselor would
as well as the 9/11 Camp and this fall’s
now like to make a career around
Leadership School. Additionally, in the
gardening. Others commented that
spring, Jefferson Village School students
they would like to help with gardening
went on a field trip to help plant six
every day.
raised beds and a large pumpkin
patch at Wavus. The raised beds and
FARMS is also in the process of
the pumpkin patch were ready for
fundraising to build a Community
the campers to maintain, water, weed
Kitchen above the Rising Tide food
and harvest all summer long. The
co-op in Damariscotta. The facility
Jefferson Village School students are
will provide a demonstration kitchen
now incorporating the pumpkins into Happily harvesting veggies at Wavus!
where people of all ages can gather to
their curriculum.
share and learn cooking, gardening and
food preservation skills. It will also have a resource space
Kieve and Wavus campers have grown and tasted a huge with nutrition and gardening information and an office for
variety of crops including tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, FARMS. FMI please contact mefarmsdirector@gmail.com or
zucchini, summer and winter squash, pumpkins, melon, see the FARMS website at http://www.mefarms.org/
peas, beans, carrots, beets, spinach, lettuce, arugula,
cauliflower, eggplant, brussels sprouts, leeks, shallots,
scallions, onions, garlic, herbs, kale, swiss chard, cabbage,
and peppers! All produce has been tasted or grilled right
in the garden, and shared with food service staff who have
done an incredible job serving it to campers, making tasty
dishes like kale chips, soups, roasted root vegetables, and of
course stocking the salad bar with lots of lettuce, tomatoes,
and cucumbers! Produce from the Kieve and Wavus gardens
was also donated this fall to Wiscasset Middle School and
Jefferson Village School.
Campers learned all about maintaining a garden through
hands-on activities such as direct seeding, transplanting,
trellising, pruning, weeding, composting, pest-management,
and harvesting. The garden program educates about the
Wavus campers planting swiss chard
Next Generation Campaign
The Jewell Lodge underwent major construction this past winter to be more
energy efficient, to provide more indoor & outdoor dining areas and to
improve the kitchen and wilderness tripping areas.
We are raising the funds to purchase this beautifully unspoiled land called
“Southover” across from Kieve to keep it forever wild and enjoyed by campers
and families for generations to come. Please help us reach our $3.3
million goal.
Tuition, all programs
$6,180,000
AnnualRolling
Fund
$410,000
Acres, adjacent
to Southover, is a wonderful opportunity for a conservation-minded
Investment Income
$190,000
Lake
near
both
Kieve
and Wavus. Contact us for additional information.
Gifts & Grants
$100,000
Other
$200,000
family to own a fabulous 133-acre property on Damariscotta
KIEVE-WAVUS EDUCATION, INC. REVENUE & EXPENSE budget, 2013
Investment Income $190,000
Revenues
Gifts & Grants $100,000
Other $200,000
Annual Fund
$410,000
Salaries, Wages & Benefits
Program & Operations
Utilities, Insurance, Depreciation,
Taxes
Reserve for Future Capital and
Program Expenditures
Scholarships & Grants
Reserve for Future
Capital and Program
Expenditures
$90,000
$2,605,000
$2,388,500
$1,148,900
$90,000
$847,000
Scholarships
& Grants $847,600
Salaries, Wages
& Benefits
$2,605,000
Salaries, Wages & Benefits
Tuition,Utilities,
all programs
Annual Fund
Insurance,
Investment Income
Depreciation,
Gifts
& Grants
Other Taxes
Program & Operations
Utilities, Insurance, Depreciation, Taxes
Reserve for Future Capital and Program
Expenditures
Scholarships & Grants
$1,148,900
Programs
& Operations
$2,388,500
Tuition, all programs $6,180,000
REVENUES $7,080,000
EXPENSES $7,080,000
Wavus continued from page Everyone’s beaming faces are looking
at and welcoming them.
The next slide: the first council fire.
We are all in a circle, singing and
imagining all that we might do and
create together in the days and weeks
to come. Some girls are homesick;
some are nervous; but all are just
happy to be there – together. The smell
of the council fire is comforting, and
we are grateful to be with each other
at this beautiful place where dreams
come true.
How many campers can you fit into a bathing
cap?
G-swim was next. Counselors are
seeing how many campers can fit
inside a bathing cap, and everyone is
laughing. We splash and swim in the
cool water. The whistle blows for a
buddy check. The sun is shining and
we can’t imagine being anywhere else
but here.
Having fun with challenge by choice on the
ropes course.
The adventure course was next. The
campers had their red helmets tightly
fitted; harnesses were strapped on,
and they were walking on the high
wires. One of them was scared to go
on. “You can do it!” the other girls said,
“We believe in you!”
A tripping image popped up. The
Maine Trails cabin had just summited
Mount Katahdin, and posed for the
camera. They were proud to finish
the Wavus trips, even though it meant
their last time as campers.The girls
feel wiser, more confident and when
they get back to camp it is their intent
to share with the rest of us what they
now understand about themselves.
Then, there was the final council fire
- the last night of camp. The mood
was pensive and sad, camp was almost
over. All the girls who arrived weeks
ago were now young women who
had learned important things about
themselves at Wavus and grown
responsible for one another. Every
cabin received a ray of the totem – an
aspiration they had mastered – and
encouragement to keep growing in
that direction. To keep from sobbing,
we sang a song together: One final
time as all of us; one final time this
way. Reminded to honor our summer
together by living our lessons “out
there,” we promised to see each other
next year if we could and to keep alive
the spirit of Wavus regardless.
The first frost of the season and the
last call of the loon signal to me that
the summer is over. I am glad to have
the reunions to look forward to. They
keep alive the memories of Wavus 2013
and hint at the great things that will
surely be ours to experience next year.
Gathered around the projector with
good food and great friends, I relive a
whole summer of scaling mountains,
paddling rivers and seas, laughing
loudly, and thinking deeply – another
summer where life-long friendships
were forged, lessons learned, truths
discovered, and love shared. I hope to
see you on the road.
After that, there was the sunscape
during lunchtime, one of my favorite
times. Girls were eating lots of fruits
and vegetables, but also smiley fries
and ribs. One girl is laughing at the
sauce on her face; another making
smiles out of watermelon rinds. A
counselor reads aloud the “qual”
recipients, everyone cheers for them.
Ellie LaCasse and Lauren Walsh making smiles
under the sunscape.
A rite of passage for the Session II Long Voyage cabin.
Turning the Tide Retreat
T
his fall, the Kennedy Learning
Center hosted the 2nd “Turning
the Tide” retreat, a week for Ovarian
Cancer survivors. This retreat is for
women currently undergoing or
having completed treatment for ovarian
cancer. The women are primarily
from Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire and Vermont. A couple of
years ago a series of meetings provided
the opportunity to gather energy and
resources to make this retreat a reality.
When Anne Tonachel completed her
ovarian cancer treatment in 2006 she
began thinking that she wanted to
be a part of creating a special place
for women with this disease. In 2011
Anne and her husband Dick became
Hospitality Home hosts to Robin Bray
and her husband Tom while Robin
was undergoing a trial treatment for
her Ovarian Cancer. Robin shared
with Anne her desire to have a
retreat available in New England for
women with ovarian cancer. The two
women were hopeful it might happen,
someday!
Eight months later, Robin met Henry
Kennedy over a Camp Kieve breakfast,
where she spoke with him of the two
women’s desire to have this event.
Henry immediately offered to sponsor
such a retreat at the Camp Kieve
campus. It is a cause dear to his
heart; a founder of this lovely facility,
Harriet Walker Kennedy, Henry’s
grandmother, died of ovarian cancer
much too early in her remarkable life.
This retreat is a way to honor Harriet
Walker Kennedy and her legacy.
Henry, along with staff at KieveWavus, is making the Turning the Tide
Retreat a reality for us all.
Aunt Harriet at the Kieve waterfront in the
early 1930’s
Educators in Residence
A
fter a successful pilot in 2013,
we are looking forward to not
only repeating but expanding the
Educator in Residence (EIR) program
January-March 2014. This winter,
The Leadership School (TLS) will
place Educators in seven schools to
support teachers and students in
reinforcing the messages, learning
style and relationships cultivated
d u r i n g re s i d e n t i a l L e a d e rs h i p
School programs. While the work
at each school is varied to meet the
specific needs and goals of the school
community, they share a common
vision. Each school is committed to
broadening and deepening the impact
of their TLS residential experience.
Each Educator in Residence is
committed to becoming a member of a
school community as a representative
of Kieve-Wavus. They each carry
with them a depth of organizational
understanding developed through
multiple years of engagement with
the organization and participation
that ranges from their early years
as campers to leadership during
camp, Veterans Camp and in the
TLS regular season. The Educators
who will represent Kieve-Wavus at
the EIR schools will not only make
incredible contributions to their
school communities, they will bring
a number of assets back to TLS: a new
depth of understanding of their school;
new ideas for creative application of
TLS activities, theories and resources;
and most importantly, a renewed
appreciation for the opportunities
and strengths that exist in meaningful
relationships with young people and
the adults who impact them.
The 2014 EIR Schools and their EIR
Middle School of the Kennebunks
(new!) – Michelle Cote
Memorial Middle School – Mims
Montgomery
K i n g M i d d l e S c h o o l s – Ro s c o e
Wetlaufer
Loranger Middle School – Tyler Hill
Boothbay Region Elementary School
– Hannah Lovejoy
Bristol Consolidated School – Erik
Phelan
Nobleboro Central School – Cam Miller
and Kayleigh MacFarlane
This fall, the Kennedy Learning Center hosted
the 2nd Turning the Tide retreat for Ovarian
Cancer survivors.
Contribution through
will/trust
Please keep Kieve-Wavus in mind
when working on your legacy
planning ideas. Including KieveWavus in a codicil to your will
helps our organization and can
help your estate planning process.
See our website for the news and events at Kieve-Wavus.
www.kieve.org
kieve, Harvard and Lots of Joe
Former camper and counselor Joe Holliday (Kieve ’95-’99 and Staff ‘02’04) returned to Kieve with his classmates from Harvard Business School Class of
2015’s Section H to spend a beautiful October weekend at Damariscotta Lake. After a round of team building and leadership exercises, the group enjoyed
canoeing on the lake, touring the ropes course, great meals at Pasquaney, and even a bonfire at Westcott Point, before heading back to Boston to continue
their studies. (Joe is lower left with baseball hat on.)
The Kieve Bubble continued from page returns. In fact, you can’t resist joking
and laughing and being happy with
your friends, and although it wasn’t
much, it was a good shelter and some
hot food that made the difference. This
is something that Kieve, if it hasn’t
yet, will teach all of us, but outside of
the Kieve bubble this lesson is sorely
misunderstood.
Too often, our society teaches us
that the more you have, the more
successful, satisfied and happy you are.
Private planes, expensive clothing and
jewelry, third and fourth homes, these
things are supposed to make us more
and more happy. But we all know
through Kieve that what truly makes
us happy, satisfied, and successful
is a simple element; love. Love for
cabinmates, counselors, directors, or
love for the spectacular simplicity of
nature. As easy as it is to be obsessed
with or infatuated by material things,
you can’t love a TV, car, or iPad. True
love is reserved for our fellow man and
for the miraculous interconnection of
all of God’s creation.
As a national and global community
this is the most important realization
we could achieve. Because really we
run our human society more like a big,
hungry machine than what it actually
is, a species of animals who rely on
this planet for survival. And if you
need proof of that, you can look at the
receding sea ice in the Arctic Circle,
or the swiftly rising greenhouse gas
levels in the atmosphere.
In any case, each of you should take
great satisfaction from the love that
you bring to this place. You can have
absolutely no idea of how different this
community would be if your beating
heart were not a part of it. You should
also be happy to know that coming
here, and pouring yourself into this
community is the best exercise that
your heart could have, and that you
are leaving this place a more spiritual
person than when you arrived.
So this is my challenge to you. Don’t
leave the Kieve bubble. Don’t be
content to feel this good for three and
a half weeks a year, and then go back
to a system that doesn’t make sense.
Instead, bring the Kieve bubble with
you wherever you go. No matter
where you are, or what they are trying
to tell you, remember that spirituality
is the understanding that others are
at least as important as yourself, and
remember the place that taught you
that lesson as you spread your joy and
love across the earth.
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The Bridge Year
T
his summer, after describing Kieve-Wavus’ new boarding
school for rising 9th graders, The Bridge Year, to my
98 year old grandfather, he handed Thomas and me a small
book to read. The pamphlet, entitled “Time out for Mental
Digestion” was published in 1949 by Executive Development
Press. My grandfather, a chemical engineer, had picked it up
in search of words of wisdom when his job responsibilities
changed from managing the equipment in his company’s
plants to managing the people in the plants.
The 41-page manual calls for providing time and
opportunities, in stages, for mental digestion. Just as we
need multiple processes and a sequence of digestive processes
to turn our food into useful energy for our bodies, we also
need time and process to change new
ideas, information and inspirations into
personal belief systems, responsibility
and action. It’s a simple concept, and
not at all revolutionary, but it does stand
in contradiction to our cultural endless
motion, ideas of progress and concept
of success. Allowing time for mental
digestion allows a person to take personal responsibility and
absorb and assimilate information or ideas and make them
their own, putting the information to use in a new way.
This pamphlet, my grandfather’s quiet offering and
reflection to The Bridge Year, illuminates the Bridge Year
in two very powerful ways.
In the first, the concept of mental digestion shines a light
on the key driving concept behind the Bridge Year. We
have called it “the gift of time” – an opportunity to mature
physically, socially and emotionally in an intentional
boarding school environment. We have called it “the bridge”
– an opportunity to bridge individual awareness of personal
and social, wilderness and culture, and intellectual and
physical through student-designed projects that are informed
by community partnerships, field studies and a low student
to faculty ratio. The Bridge Year is an opportunity for mental
digestion not for a singular challenging concept, but on
a life-sized scale — to encourage personal responsibility,
self-awareness and a life of intentional action. Kieve-Wavus
Advisory Board member Rev. Frank Strasburger calls it a
“time-out” and challenges parents and students to think
hard about the benefits of providing students with time
for mental digestion: What if you could call a time-out, pull
them out of the lock-step system, and give them some kind
of transformative experience to make them come alive? An
experience designed to awaken their passion intellectually,
physically, and emotionally; to help them overcome their
fear of failure and discover their reservoirs of resilience; to
guide them in understanding how all those fragments of
their education go together; to get a sense of how they fit into
the world and what they have to contribute to it; to build a
talent for empathy and know how to be a friend; to find a
sense of direction and begin to know and value what about
them is distinctive? The Bridge Year is that experience. And
as you wonder whether your kids can afford to “take a year
off,” ask yourself at the same time whether they can afford
not to.
The second way that the concept of mental digestion reflects
back to The Bridge Year is on our emergence into the world
of education. The Bridge Year is the first of its kind, but
will not be the last. Educators and parents alike remark
immediately that they wish that there had been a Bridge
Year option when they were young and everyone knows
a child who would thrive given the opportunity to have a
bridge year.
The academic foundations of The
Bridge Year are developed from the best
practices of a generation of educators
striving to infuse core academic content
with meaning and rigor. Borrowing
foundations of student direction and
curriculum integration from John Dewey,
Ted Sizer and James Beane, and overlaying Kieve-Wavus’
nearly 90 year history of promoting the values of kindness,
respect for others and environmental stewardship, The
Bridge Year emerges fully ready to fill a space left void in
the current educational landscape. While The Bridge Year
is a new program for Kieve-Wavus and a new concept for
the world of education, for hundreds of years, educators,
parents and students have felt and seen the need for a
program like The Bridge Year. Ralph Sneeden, Author and
Instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy, recently
remarked on the long-noted need for The Bridge Year and
celebrated its arrival:
While laboring on his masterwork, The Prelude, a little more
than two hundred years ago, William Wordsworth, the British
Romantic poet, realized and articulated something important
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Living our learning throughout three seasons at The Bridge Year, the Kennedy
Learning Center houses staff and student learning spaces, dorm rooms,
kitchen, dining & living rooms all under one roof.
Loyalty Fund Update
I
t was another great summer at Kieve
and thanks to our supportive alumni
and friends, our four scholarship
campers had an amazing time. We’d
like to share with you some letters
we received about our scholarship
camper’s experience.
One of the parents writes:
“Dear Kieve Alumni,
I have no idea how to begin to thank
you for our son’s incredible adventures
these past three summers at Kieve.
From a shaking 10-year-old en route
to catch the Philly bus in 2011 to his
confident walk off the airplane he
caught from Portland this summer,
he has grown and matured in ways
immeasurable. As the middle child, a
peacemaker, our easy-going one who
rarely asks for anything, he claims the
Kieve experience as uniquely his own.
He pours through Kieve yearbooks
and his computer is adorned with
Kieve bumper stickers. As you know
boys aren’t usually overflowing with
details, but camp stories unfold in
bits and pieces as the school year
progresses. We have been so blessed by
your incredibly generous gift. I am not
sure how, but I do know we will try to
pay it forward in years to come. “
One of our campers writes:
“I am writing to you to tell you
about the great month I had at Kieve.
I loved the HS Swing and the beauty of
Maine. What I am really trying to say
is I wish that I can go to Kieve every
year because it makes you learn about
friendship and how to be a group, and
helping each other to have fun. “
Another writes:
“I am writing this letter to tell you
how fun and exciting Kieve was to me,
and what I learned at Kieve during
the month. The thing that I liked
best at Kieve was all the activities. I
learned “frolf”, how to canoe for our
big trip, and four square was one of
my favorite activities. I want to thank
you for making it possible for me and
my brother to go to Kieve and have so
much fun.”
We always struggle with how to
quantify the impact that you all are
having, but hopefully these letters
give you a sense of all the good you
are doing. Thank you again for all
your support in helping to provide
these experiences for our Loyalty Fund
campers!
Jason, Matt and Tom
Loyalty Fund Founders
Damariscotta Lake Writers’ Conference
I
n August, the Damariscotta Lake
Writers’ Conference hosted (for its
second year!) teachers from secondary
schools around New England, and
from Washington DC, NYC, and
London. This year’s Hog Island
Lecturer, the prolific Julianna Baggott,
ran a spirited interactive workshop
on brainstorming the architecture of
stories. And that same evening, she
read from Lizzy Borden In Love: Poems
in Women’s Voices, and from Fuse, the
second book in her acclaimed post-
With perfect weather all week, DLWC participants
made good use of the fire-pit for readings, music,
and informal gatherings.
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Todd Hearon leads a poetry workshop on the
Kennedy Learning Center deck.
apocalyptic trilogy, Pure (film rights
sold, keep an eye out for the movie).
In afternoon classes at the Kennedy
Learning Center, poet Todd Hearon
(Strange Land) led participants in
exercises to consider varieties of rhyme
and meaningful uses of rhyme. The
group then turned to rhyming stanzas
to see how form generates content
(even as it places limitations on a poet’s
choices). Writing Workshops led by
faculty John Casteen (For the Mountain
Laurel, Free Union) and Director Ralph
Sneeden (Evidence of the Journey)
encouraged participants to share new
work in a constructive forum. As
far as the gift of time to write in the
mornings, Maine poet and participant,
Darcy Shargo said of her momentum,
“I have written 15 new poems in the
last four weeks, and the conference
was the spark that made that possible!
"The Conference is poised to begin
accepting applications for Summer
2014, so if you know teachers who
write, send them our way!
Hog Island Lecturer, novelist and poet, Julianna
Baggott begins her interactive class after the
gang is ferried from Bremen on the Snowgoose
III.
Leadership School Educators
I
first arrived at Camp Kieve as a
college sophomore in 1983. As a
psychology major at Bates College,
I was interested in working with
children and heard great things about
the camp and a new program called the
Leadership Decisions Institute (LDI).
What I found was an organization that
was dedicated to making a difference
in the lives of young people. I knew
after the first week that this was a
place I wanted to call home.
The world has changed a great deal
since 1983. In 1983 the computer
mouse was invented, the term anorexia
was first used and the must-have gift
was a Cabbage Patch doll. But the
challenges of growing up remain the
same. Now (and then) adolescents
face a world of challenging choices
and conflicting messages about their
health and their futures. While LDI
was renamed the Leadership School
(TLS) and the buildings have changed,
the mission of the Leadership School
remains the same: to empower young
people and the adults who affect them
to contribute positively to society.
Our approach remains the same too.
At The Leadership School, we provide
students with safe opportunities to
take positive risks, set meaningful
goals, make healthy decisions and
work with peers and mentors to
become supportive team members and
strong leaders for themselves and for
their communities.
The success and impact of the program
hinges on the support, encouragement
and guidance from thoughtful,
Online Newsletter
Once again we have an incredible Leadership School staff back for the ’13-‘14 season! Thanks for all
that you do for KWE!
intelligent, committed young adults
who make up our Educational staff.
Our Educators come from across
the country and from all academic
disciplines of study. As a group, they
bring a passion for healthy living, a
wish to make the world a better place
and a commitment to supporting
young people in the challenging
task of growing up in health and
responsibility.
As individuals, Leadership School
Educators come from across the country
and a number of leading colleges and
universities including Grinnell College
(3), Hamilton College (2), Lesley College
and Vassar University. They bring rich
experiences from cultural immersions
in South America, Asia and Europe.
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online if you would like to “save a tree”
or forward it on to a family who might
be interested in camp. Go to the “News
& Events” section at kieve.org and click
on the link.
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They have experienced the challenges
and rewards of deep commitments
in collegiate athletics like soccer,
cross country and rowing. Their
commitments to service have led them
to roundtable discussions on gender
and identity with middle school girls,
to bike across the country building
homes for Habitat for Humanity,
and to lead dance workshops in
elementary schools. Leadership School
Educators play the guitar, ukulele and
harmonica and can sing, tell jokes,
instigate games or create laughter at
any time. They are attentive, caring
and compassionate.
Quite simply, Leadership School
Educators are talented, diverse and
deeply committed to making a positive
contribution in the lives of the students
they work with. They work hard
together, ask tough questions, provide
challenging feedback, struggle through
challenges, and share successes. As a
team of Educators, and a family of
co-workers, they model a community
in which kindness and respect really
do guide our actions and I couldn’t be
more proud to work with them.
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KW West
W
riting about a Kieve-Wavus trip always poses a
challenge. For those of you who have done it, you
know what I mean. How is it possible to capture all of the
amazing things that happened? How can you do justice to
all of the inside jokes, those moments which, to someone
who wasn’t there, would seem at best sort of weird and,
more than likely, downright strange? How can you describe
the growth that takes place in the high places and in the
deep forests, in the early hours of the morning or late at
night around a cracking fire that banishes the chill of five
days worth of rain? To be honest, I don’t think you really
can. When it comes to writing about what happened this
summer on Kieve-Wavus West, I would say it’s even more
difficult, so wonderful was the experience.
Instead of writing about what happened then, I’ll write
about what I felt afterwards, and will leave the telling of
the many remarkable stories from this summer to those
twenty young men and women who gave Griff and me
what we both regard as the best eight weeks of our lives.
If you have a chance, ask them what happened- you might
not understand, but you won’t be disappointed.
Casey Ross kayaking in the San Juan Islands
KW West’s Emma Howard and Meghan Miller jumping into the Stehekin
River near the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area in the Cascade
Mountain of Washington State.
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KW West Session I climbers on the summit of Mt. Adams with Mt. Rainier
in the background.
At the heart of what I’m feeling now is a profound sense
of hope. I have never been more hopeful for the future of
Kieve-Wavus. Every day I spent with those young people
I learned a lesson. Every day someone inspired me to be a
better tripper, a better leader and, above all, a better person.
So much so that Griff and I rarely felt like we were in chargeindeed, we were the ones learning throughout it all. And
that’s why I’m hopeful- because in a little less than a year
many of these young people are going to become counselors
at Kieve or Wavus, and in so doing will, I am sure, raise up
and inspire an entire generation of campers.
I also feel truly thankful, and I must say that this part is for
those of you who were out there with us. On the plane ride
back to the east Griff and I laughed and cried with the joyous
remembering of it all. I think the people on the plane were
annoyed and confused, but oh well. And then, as we were
touching down, both of us were struck by an overwhelming
feeling of gratitude. Each and everyone of you changed our
lives, and we will be forever grateful for it. From the bottom
of both our hearts, thank you a thousand, thousand times
over. We’ll never forget it.
Near the top of Mt. McGregor at around 8,000’, KW West campers Conor
Stevens, Alexandra O’Bryan, Max Lasser, Emma Howard, Hannah Schott,
Meghan Miller and Dayla Pascador enjoy the view looking toward the North
Cascades.
9/11 family camp
We had another wonderful week at 9/11 Family Camp this past August. The weather was great, food plentiful and
delicious, and spending time with great friends along the shores of Damariscotta Lake, priceless. Thanks to our staff and
volunteers who always make this week so memorable. Special thanks to Lee Giberson and her staff in the PQ kitchen for
all of their wonderful meals, friendly smiles and unwavering hospitality. In addition to an evening show by “Two: High
Energy Juggling”, Bruce Marshall had the PQ house rockin with songs of his own and lots of sing-along favorites for his
12th year in a row! A big thanks to Mike and Darcy Knof from Country Coach Charters who donated their trolleys to
transport everyone to the 12th annual delicious lobster bake at the Pemaquid Fisherman’s Co-op!
The Bridge Year continued from page about the influence of the natural world throughout his life,
especially the origins of intellect, imagination, and morality
in childhood. But he was in despair, writing: ‘How little that
to which alone we give the name of education has to do with
real feeling…’
The Bridge Year to 24 pioneering students this September.
Applications for Fall 2014 are now being accepted. If you
are interested, please apply early. Contact us at kwbridge@
kieve.org to set up an interview.
The timing, increments and structure of education are finally
changing, thank goodness. We’ve certainly seen a more
human, more patient pace evolving in higher education.
But now, with The Bridge Year, it’s happening where young
people might need it most. Truthfully, I’ve never had any
pangs to return to those years just before high school, most
likely because I was terrified and sensed that a new life,
something enormous and strange, was coming…and it didn’t
understand me one bit. In some ways, it was a more abrupt
and less welcoming crossing than the leap to college. Finally,
here’s a program that meets kids where they are—in an
active, all senses-engaged intellectual experience that helps
them “bridge” the conceptual and the environmental. With
minds and bodies engaged in the field, and the cage of the
traditional classroom thrown wide open, how can you miss?
This is education with soul, and by its design and timing,
stands a better chance of firing-up if not transforming young
lives. First, I want to dial the time machine to 1805 and tell
Wordsworth that his lament is finally obsolete. Then, if I
could only take The Bridge Year back with me, I want to dial
it back to 1973.
While we can’t go back to 1973 and offer Ralph an
opportunity to apply to The Bridge Year, we can offer
Intentional opportunities for reflection throughout the year deepen and
personalize learning opportunities at The Bridge Year.
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Kieve Veterans Camp
A
s we enter our fifth season of Veterans Camp there’s no
denying the life-changing impact our simple gesture of
thanks to veterans and their families has made. We’ve heard
from many who simply can’t believe the transformative
effect of a few short days in Maine, embraced by the
kindness and respect of Veterans Camp staff. Frequently
we are approached by those we’ve served as Veterans Camp
campers who want to give back to the program.
Earlier this year, Vietnam Veteran Les Verrill made a custom
fireplace screen for the Innisfree hearth. Les, a resident
of Bowdoinham, Maine attended our very first Vietnam
Veterans camp. The beautiful screen made entirely by hand
fits the hearth perfectly. Adorned with flowers, leaves and a
placard embossed with a quote, it’s a wonderful gift that will
be enjoyed by thousands of campers for years to come.
Les also teamed up with Steve Spooner this year to coordinate
the 3rd Annual Burgers, Bikes and Rods rally to benefit
Veterans Camp. Over 80 bikes and a dozen cars started the
day at L-A Harley-Davidson in Lewiston. After a scenic
ride through the Maine countryside they rolled down the
entrance road at Wavus through a flag-waving gauntlet
of Wavus girls and Kieve boys. It was a bright, sunny July
day and after a few words from Henry, Steve, and Nancy,
everyone chowed down on hotdogs and burgers right off the
grill with all the fixin’s. Thanks so much to the good folks
at L-A Harley for the launch point, Tim Horton’s mobile
coffee shop for the pre-ride coffee and doughnuts, and a big
THANK YOU to Steve, Les, and CVMA Chapter 17-1 whose
efforts raised over $4,000 to support Veterans Camp!
Last month brought the 2nd Annual, “Tee It Up Fore A
Veteran,” golf scramble at the Falmouth Country Club.
Wise words and intricate
screen handmade and
Camp camper Les
detail of the Innisfree hearth
donated by Veterans
Verrill.
Nancy, Henry, and Steve Spooner smile for the camera during the 3rd annual
Burgers, Bikes, and Rods benefit rally at Wavus this summer
Although the day started with clouds and overcast skies,
nothing could dampen the spirits of over 150 golfers as
they hacked, err… drove, long and straight through 18
holes of golf on a beautiful course. The sun came out during
afternoon play and the day finished up with a comedy
show, dinner, and a raffle in the clubhouse. All totaled, the
event raised over $15,000 for our Veterans Camp program.
Many thanks to event organizer Joe Hansen and his wife
Kelly, the Sons of the Legion and American Legion – Post
86 in Grey, Maine and all those who volunteered their time
and resources. For a complete list of sponsors check out
americanlegionpost86.org/tee-it-up-fore-a-veteran.
Finally, I wanted to share part of a letter that one of our
steadfast volunteers, Jen, wrote to her boss.As she thanked
him for the opportunity to volunteer at Veterans Camp, she
wrote in part:
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Vietnam Vet Les Verrill, proudly shows off the screen he made and donated
to KW for the Innisfree hearth while Nancy happily warms herself by the
fire.
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Steve Spooner navigates a red, white, and blue gauntlet of flags and cheering
campers as Veterans and supporters arrive at the entrance to Wavus.
Veterans continued from page 14
Thank you for sending me to volunteer
Kieve Veterans Camp! My life has been
forever changed by the experience. It is
an amazing place with a healing power
for the veterans and their families.
I have seen the magic happen when
these military families become reconnected and reach out in friendship
to other families. They know they are
not alone.
Community Climb Night
Kieve’s recipe for success is so simple;
they show genuine kindness, friendship,
and love…only wanting to say, “thank
you,” to these veterans for their service.
At Kieve these families are afforded
opportunities to play together, relax,
and laugh. As a result [they} leave
renewed and reconnected with fond
memories of camp. They are able to go
back into the world as a strong, whole
unit…My heart is always so grateful
when I leave Kieve. Now I am part of
Kieve’s family and will continue to
volunteer and support their Veterans
Camps.
Thank you Jen for all of your time
and hard work and thank you to all
who continue to support our Nation’s
veterans through Kieve’s Veterans
Camp.
The Boys of Summer
Amory Dujardin, Jake & Andy Hartenstein and
Ricky Nix – you think these little guys will be
ready for camp in 2020??
Back by popular demand we have a number of nights open to the public this fall and winter in
the Buck Building on our awesome climbing wall.
the paddle tradition
The following Kieve and Wavus campers received their custom engraved Kieve or
Wavus Paddle by having been a camper for at least 5 years and having completed
at least one of the long trips.
Kieve Campers
KW West Campers
Alex Armour, Bill Bliss, Tristan Chaix,
Lexi Kemp, Ben Wheeler, Elliott
Chase Clarke, Jeff Coote, Noah Daniel,
Murphy, Liddy Ambler, Max Lasser,
Robert Dettmann, Ben Dixon, Parker
Conor Stevens, Christian Krauss
Dotson, Thomas Dougherty, Harry
Ellsworth, Leighton Galvin, Matthew
O Henry
Harrison, Brandon Hawley, Gordon
Johnson, George Johnston, Jack
Kilgallon, Peter Lavieri, Nathaniel
Lyons, Mac Muller, Sam Pinsky, Nate
Stuart, Matty Sullivan.
Nick Baker, Jeremy Batchelder, Jules
Cook, Pete Cooke, Billy Dietze, Jake
Donaldson, Matt Donaldson, Ben Fox,
Dylan Gaffney, Bruce Haywood, Will
Kaback, Tim Kennedy, Francesco
Merlo Pich, Nick Speranza, Ben
Weaver, Avery Weiss, Sam Zintl.
The Oh Henry bar continues to be found in
various nooks and crannies around the Kieve
Wavus Campers
Campus during summer camp. What started
Emma Cusano, Camille Falezan, Livia
out as a way to commemorate Henry Kennedy’s
Fries, Honor Paine, Charlotte Phillips,
milestone birthday (guess which one!) has become
Allie Riker, Abby Tanen, Emma
a fun, periodic, scavenger hunt throughout the
summer.
Cusano
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wavus – Then & Now
The concept is the same from the summer of 1931 to the summer of 2013 – let Mother Nature help as you explore and work your way through northern
Maine’s lakes and ponds on your incredible Long Voyage trip at Wavus Camp for Girls.
Kieve – Then & Now
From 1930 to 2013 things don’t really change much… Young boys enthusiastically await a summer of fun and exploration with soon to be life-long friends
led by incredible counselors and role models. Not seeing any runners in the 1930 pic, you?…
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KIEVE-WAVUS ALUMNI NOTES FROM ALL OVER
9/11 Family Camp friends Maria
Zeitlin (Family Camp ’03-’13), Susan
Wallace (Family Camp ’02-’13) &
Denise McDonald (Family Camp
’02-’13) meeting up for lunch in New
York. It was great to see them back
at Kieve’s 9/11 Family Camp this past
August!
Allen Burton (Kieve ’84-’87; Kieve
Council ’92-’95, ’97; Advisory Board
’03-Present), Hardy Royal (Kieve ’79’81, ’83-’85) and GJ Mennen (Kieve
’83-’86) enjoy Parents' Weekend at
The KLC while picking up their sons
Tommy (Kieve ’13), Patten (Kieve ’13)
and George (Kieve ’10-’13).
Pietro Barbieri (Camper ’09, Kieve
Council ’11-‘13) sporting the Kieve
colors hiking in the hills of Italy.
PADDLE & THISTLE SOCIETY
T
he friends listed here have all made arrangements to leave a lasting gift to
Kieve-Wavus. Deferred gifts, whether simple bequests, paid-up insurance
policies, IRAs or trusts, ensure that Kieve-Wavus’ mission will continue to be
fulfilled beyond our lifetimes. (The Kieve seal denotes deceased)
David & Louise Abbot
Carl & Gail Meier
Frances M. Abbott
Marion C. Moller
Anonymous (2)
Walter F. Morris
Marjorie W. Berry
Gardner M. Mundy
Bob & Sally Bishop
Caroline C. Newcomb
Evy Blum
Elizabeth W. Parker
Stephen & Kathryn Brackett
Oliver & Barbara Parker
Alexander K. Buck, Sr.
John & Meg Peacock
Alexander K. Buck, Jr.
Devereaux & Deborah Phelps
Jay W. Cooper
Robert G. Preston
Charles A. Dana
Ency S. Richardson
Jon & Mary Davis
Hugh C. Riddleberger &
Louise W. McIlhenny
Denny Emory
Hill & Susan Ferguson
Mark & Eleanor Robinson
David & Carol Ann Fulmer
Cliff & Susan Russell
Matthew Gault
Frank Saunders
Joan Gedney
Sheila G. Shorr
Daren T. Hudson
Carol H. Stout
Al R. Ireton
Muffy D. Stuart
William W. Jessup
Douglas O. Tawse
Ruth M. Keans
Charles C. Townsend
Anne S. Kennedy
Thomas P. Townsend
Betty J. Kennedy
Robert M. Trippe
Henry R. Kennedy
Stuart K. Van Durand
Richard C. Kennedy
David M. & Kathryn L. Villano
Mary H. Lansing
William M. Walker
Bain S. Lee
Charles W. Whinery
Ernest C. Marriner
Betty B. Willey
Just a reminder that if you have made provisions in your estate plan
for Kieve-Wavus, please be sure they incorporate our non-profit
corporation name Kieve-Wavus Education, Inc.
The Richardsons after they played
lax against each other. Chris (Kieve
’03-’09) on left plays for Franklin and
Marshall. Andrew (Kieve ’03-’09)
plays at Gettysburg College.
C r i s s m a n c l a n - 7 fa m i l y
members are connected to Kieve:
3 worked at Kieve - Sally (Science
Camp Founder ’97 &’98), Sarah
(LDI ’91 and Science Camp’92);
Charlie (Kieve ’81-’82, ’85, ’86),
Will (Kieve ’86, Kieve Council ’99,
Boys Camp Co-Director ’04-’08);
5 Kieve campers (Charlie Crissman,
Will Crissman, Charlie Hollington
(Kieve ’09 & ’13), John Hollington (Kieve
’09-’13), Dickie Hollington (Kieve ‘12)
Chair full of girls waiting for Wavus.
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Woody Davis (Kieve ’86-’90 & ’92-’94,
Kieve Council ’96-’04) and his wife
Robin and ‘2020 JK camper Harrison
visited Maine and Kieve this past
summer. Great to have Woody back
on East Coast soil!
Miles Dickson (Kieve ’97-’01, Kieve
Council -03-’08) married Erin Anderson
in Sundance, Utah October 12. Fellow
Kieve friends include from left: Jack
Reis (Kieve ’03-’04, Kieve West ’06,
Kieve Council ’07-’12), Will Salisbury
(Kieve ’99-’05, Kieve Council ’08-’09),
Ben Hauber (Kieve ’99-’05, Kieve
West ‘06, Kieve Council ’07-’11), (Miles)
and Phillip Schuepbach (Kieve ’95’01, Kieve Council ’03-’04)
Chris Dougherty (Kieve ’80-’82,
Kieve Council ’86-’90, Advisory Board
’01-Present) and ’13 JK Loyalty Cabin
Camper son Frazier (Kieve ’13) on
Parents' Day with mom Kolleen.
Jonathan McCall (Kieve ’84-’87)
with Charlie Richardson when he
dropped off his son Alex (Kieve ’12-’13)
for 2nd Session.
Katie Moulton (Kieve West Co-Leader
’02-’04, Wavus Staff ’04-’05)
Steve Kaback (Kieve Council ’85-’89
& ’91-’92) & John Ledyard (Kieve ’80’83, ’85; Kieve Council ’88-’89) while
delivering their sons Will (Kieve ’09’13) and Henry (Kieve ’13) to Kieve this
past summer.
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Alumni & Friends Forrest Mehlhorn
(Kieve ’01, Kieve West ’03; Kieve
Wavus West Tripping Director; Kieve
Assistant Tripping Director ’09-’10;
Girls Camp Staff ’05; Kieve Council
’05-’08; Kieve Wavus West Council ’08
& ’10; The Leadership School ’10) and
Charlie Harding (Kieve ’96-’01; Kieve
West ’03; Girls Camp Staff ’05; Kieve
Council ’06-’08) met up at camp this
summer.
From husband Jason: Katie woke up
about 3:45 am today and said she
thought she was having contractions.
We left for the hospital about 6:10 and
Katie climbed three flights of stairs
to arrive at the maternity wing at
6:30. Katie began cursing at the top
of her lungs moments later and at
6:53 an extremely dark purple girl
was delivered by a solo attendant.
Obgyn and pediatrician arrived 30
minutes later and said everything was
fine. Hailey Moulton Straziuso born
9/13/13 in Nairobi, Kenya was 2.945
kgs, that’s 6.5 pounds, and 49cm/19
inches long.
Tyler Brown (Camper ‘94 – ‘96;
Counselor ‘01 – ‘03) and his wife, JaneGarnet, were blessed with the birth of
their beloved son, Carter Diggs Brown,
on September 26, 2013 at Lenox Hill
Hospital in New York City. According
to Tyler, “One of the first few thoughts
I had when we realized we were
having a son, ‘Tiger, Tiger, Tiger, sis,
sis, sis, boom, boom, boom…ba!’” The
Browns eagerly await their first trip
with Carter to West Neck Road.
C.J Richardson (on left) (Kieve ’02’10; Kieve Council ’12-’13) enjoying
S ewa n e e ’ s S o u t h e r n A t h l e t i c
Association’s 2013 LAX win!
KIEVE-WAVUS ADVISORY BOARD
Robert F. Abbey
Maxwell O. Abbott
Barry Atwood
Adam M. Blatt
Robert W. Bower
Stephen M. Brackett
Charles C. Brown
James D. Brown
James D. Brown, IV
Frank T. Brown
Allen W. Burton
Henry M. Chance
Thomas K. Dorman
Christopher T. Dougherty
Jesse N. Dougherty
Kelly Dun
Tench C. Forbes
Stephen T. Fulmer
William H. Gano
William T. Georgi
Heidi Gifford
Samuel F. Glidden
Lucy P. Grogan
Melissa A. Haynes
Joseph L. Holliday
Jennifer T. Ireland
Anne O. Jackson
Jacqueline E. Jones
Thomas L. Kalaris
David H. Keeley
Blair W. Kennedy
Samuel S. Kennedy
MacKenzie W. King
John H. Lawrence
Robert H. Linker
J. Spencer Mallozzi
Cara Martin-Tetreault
Michael E. Mesrobian
Cheryl Miller
Sharon Morrison
Jason J. Nahra
Andrew P. Palmer
David A. Patch
Andrew C. Perry
Page T. Riley
Andrew P. Roberts
James C. Roberts
Elizabeth G. Roberts
Sarah C. Robinson
Jared R. Schott
Frank C. Schroeder
Timothy O. Shenton
Nicholas W. Stevens
Gary E. Stone
Frank C. Strasburger
James H. Stuart
KIEVE-WAVUS TRUSTEES
Thomas G. Auchincloss, Jr.
John E. Burns, Sr.
W. Morgan Churchman, III
Leslie A. Del Col
Candace E. Dyal
Matthew R. Earley
John W. Geismar
Daren T. Hudson
Donald A. Keyser
William A. Knowlton
Margaret W. Lyne
Christopher J. Maguire
Louise W. McIlhenny
Matthew J. McKenna
Clifford E. Muller
Marshall D. Murphy
Oliver A. Parker, Chair
James C. Rea
Thomas R. Riley, Jr.
Mark K. J. Robinson
Susan R. Russell
Sheila G. Shorr
R. Dixon Thayer
Kathleen Wilson
Emeriti
Alexander K. Buck, Jr.
Thomas W. Haas
Richard C. Kennedy
Michael N. Westcott
Lowell S. Thomas
Kirstie A. Truluck
Charles W. Whinery
George S. Wills
DECEASED Alumni
and FRIENDS
Charles Bell, Wavus Alumni ’39-’41
Arlie C. Bryant, Parent, Grandparent
Arthur Castraberti, Grandparent
Bill Clark, Parent, Grandparent
Cully Connely, Kieve Staff ’37, ’39, ’40,
’43, ’48
William C. Cox, Jr., Kieve Grandfather
Charles Cunningham, Parent
Bud Day, Grandparent
Janet L. Dorman, Grandparent
Parker S. Dorman, Wavus ’34-’41,
Parent, Grandparent
Betty Eck, Parent
Margaret Ernst, Parent
Joan Gedney, Wavus ’37-’42
Bud Guild, Parent
Rhys Harriman, Wavus ’74
Adele Jenney, Grandparent
Celina Kellogg, Parent
Robert Latousek, Grandparent
Zachary J. Lopian, Kieve ’00-’03
Ted MacDonald, Staff ’66-’65, Parent
Blair May, Grandparent
Donal O’Brien, Grandparent
Al Ordway, Owner Winona Camp
for Boys
Thorpe Richards, Kieve ’33-’34,
parent, grandparent
Anne Robinson, Parent, Grandparent
Patricia Scull
Paul Soros, Wavus Grandfather
Nina Strawbridge
Barbara Uhrig, Parent
Neil Ward
Lloyd Wells
Alumni Notes continued from page 22
Elise Lindsey (Leadership School
Staff ‘09, Wavus Staff ’08-’09) married
Gerard Klomp on January 5, 2013 in
Salt Lake City. Congrats!
This past summer 2nd Session Allagash I, II and III spent a day helping the Central Lincoln County
YMCA cut, blaze and clean new hiking trails behind the Y in Damariscotta that are now being used
for hiking and cross-country running trails. Another great example of Kieve-Wavus helping out our
local community.
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• Boat with engine to carry 12 or more people for
Wavus
• Dump truck
• SUV or Minivan
• Lacrosse sticks
• Tennis rackets
• Furniture in good condition
• Exercise equipment for Wavus: stationary bike,
stair climber, treadmill, bench/weights
• Lawn games - badminton, Bocce, croquet,
horseshoes (complete sets please)