Thornton Academy Postscripts Alumni Magazine Fall 2010 | Page 6

School News

Q & A WITH LLOYD HUNT

Former Director of Instruction Lloyd Hunt discusses his 38 years working at Thornton Academy. He
began teaching at TA in 1972, and he started working on staff development and curriculum on a parttime basis in 1987 until it became a full-time job in 1992. Over the years he became an expert at tracking
enrollment figures, standardized test scores and graduation rates, what the numbers meant and what they
could never capture. He also helped expand the breadth and depth of TA’s academic offerings and each
year helped schedule more than 1,400 students in their classes. Headmaster Carl J. Stasio, Jr. had this to
say about his longtime service to TA: “With Lloyd Hunt’s retirement after 38 years, Thornton Academy
has lost an unprecedented amount of experience and talent. Lloyd has served Thornton in myriad ways,
from classroom teaching to curriculum development to data analysis to program expansion and more. He
has been a key player in every major school initiative over the past 25 years, and his input will be sorely
missed. We wish him all the best in retirement.”
How did you start working at
Thornton Academy?
I actually student taught
here in 1968, under Dick
Beaumont who was a history
teacher and later became
Guidance Director. This was a
place I wanted to come back
to. I had spent four years in
Fort Kent. Even at that time the
high school in Fort Kent was
very innovative, they had a lot
Lloyd Hunt in 1981 and in 2009
of different ways of teaching
question, I tried to make them see
history an