Kents Hill School - Yearbook (Kents Hill, ME)

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STAFF 35 'ft 1' aff' M Miss Sabrina Stevens, R. N., Resident Nurse, with Miss Mildred A. Russell,Librarian, with students patients Harry Knight and Robert Peary. Robert Pinkham and Aron Silverman. Mr. Cyrus Snell, Heating Plantg Mr. Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Lane, The Chefs, Mr. Walter Akers, Maintenance. 7

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Do you suppose it'll work? It's snowing... Mr. Broomhall, Mr. Goldthwait, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Boyden. Here goes! After Dunklee resigned in the spring of 1952 to enter private business, Charlie Broomhall of the skiing Broomhalls of Rumford, Maine, took over the Kents Hill ski program in the fall of 1952. Slim Broomhall is a nationally known skier, was a member of the Tenth Mountain Ski Troops during World War II, and for three years captained the Uni- versity of Maine ski team. Mr. Broomhall found that the momentum necessary for a ski tow was already under way and with the assistance of Leigh Van Etten of the Faculty and a willing group of boys proceeded to construct the tow. Fund raising had been carried out by astudent committee. Parents, friends, alumni, and students themselves con- tributed. The Outing Club itself ave up their 1952 annual banquet and appropriated S100 toward the ski tow. One roup of workers did tee annual job of clearin the trails of underbrushg another group started on the tow. Twenty-fgve foot cedar poles were stripped. Holes four get deep were dug by hand for the solid anchorage of the poles. A foundation for the motor's housing was du and poured. A bulldozer cleared an area and poles were put in place. The house went up. The wheels were put up, sae rope strung, and snow was the only commodity lackin . Kents Hill has produced some fine skiers. In recent years Ernie Tin Pentheny has become a professionaq and is now at Sun Valley. Dee Caldwell and Charlie Barr became members of ski teams at Bowdoin and Maine. Keith Brown, now a student, is a very promising skier. The girls, too,have a well-developed skl program. Miss Vlrginla Parker, a University of New Hampshire graduate, was girls' ski coach from 1946 to 1950, and Ric ard H. Leavitt, son of Vermont Academy Headmaster, Laurence G. Leavitt, headed the girls' program in 1951 and provided the initiative necessary to get the tow project underway. This year Mrs. Charles Broomhall, the former Ruth Hansen of Auburn, Maine, an accomplished skier in her own right, has taken over the girls' program. Skiing is now a major sport at Kents Hill. Of one hundred and fifty-five students enrolled this year, twenty-five boys and twenty-three girls are skiers and others joined the group for recreational skiing. Kents Hill will continue to play host to the Maine Preparatory School Winter Carnival, and the Girls' School Winter Carnival but from this year on with the assurance that the Carnivals will be held on one of the finest ski facilities in Maine. g ,,,,, ,W Keith Brown making the first ascent. Trustee Boyden accepting tow for the school from the Outing Club. Success! 6

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A , 5 'I M4 'R ir? f U mf' IRENE ELIZABETH ADELL ABRAM NYE BEMIS Readfield, Maine 12 Charles St. I Orono, Maine ..Nye.. RICHARD H. BERRY EMILY P. BOILEY 377 Pococh Road Mount Vernon Westwood, New Jersey Maine Dick Em 1 F 1 I 1 f fo 8 j:ie