Thornton Academy Postscripts Alumni Magazine Spring 2010 | Page 10

Bicentennial
What you can do
RIGHT NOW!
R Mark your calendars.

When they do the 300th,
make sure your name
shows up as being at 200th
events. Keep informed via
TA website and Facebook.

R Scout your attics.

Loan or give your TA special artifacts for historical
displays.

R Scour your photos.

Make sure history records
your TA years and friends.

R Become a fan.

Keep up to date and hear
history facts. See next page.

R Volunteer for one of
the anchor events.

Whatever your skill or talent
or time, you can make a difference.

R Become a reader.

Uncover TA history by reading in your own home and
taking notes.

R Work on alumni play.

Mr. Queally needs actors,
set builders, costume makers for alumni Bicentennial
Shakespeare play.

R Help organize a club

Year-long celebration planned
The Thornton Academy Bicentennial Steering
Committee would like to announce the
FOUR ANCHOR EVENTS of the 2011 Bicentennial.

1. Opening Celebration Set for February 2011
February 12, 2011, will officially
kick off the Bicentennial year, celebrating the 200th anniversary of
Thornton’s founding in Feb. 1811.
As befitting a winter founding,
the Opening Committee is planning many winter-oriented outdoor
activities­ Maine weather cooperat—
ing—such as ice skating, sledding,
snowshoeing and sleigh riding.

Indoors will be displays, ceremonies, videos, singing, food
courts, and more.
As evening approaches, the
campus should be awash in lights—
from spotlights to window displays
to luminaries throughout campus.
If plans work out, a bonfire will
end the day along with fireworks.
Hail to Thee, Our Alma Mater!

2. TA Community
Summer Celebration

3. Homecoming

A cross between a country fair
and a block party, this 2011 event
plans to have something for everyone—games and entertainment for
all age groups in Thornton’s sending communities with an emphasis
on celebrating Thornton’s place in
area history. Co-chairs Vangel Cotsis ’85 and Todd Davis ’81 are in
the process of recruiting committee
members to begin nailing down the
summer 2011 date and details.

or sport reunion.

Make sure your group
doesn’t miss out at Homecoming 2011.

R Contribute an idea.

Got a neat idea? Don’t keep
it to yourself.

R Call/Email right now.

To get involved, call Cathy
Coffman at 207-282-3361,
ext. 235 or e-mail at cathy.
coffman@thorntonacademy.
org.

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Steering Committee

4. Closing Ceremonies
The last two anchor events will
take place in Fall 2011 and December 2011, and committees for these
events will not begin until the Fall
of 2010. Steering Committee plans
for Homecoming involve class, club
and sport reunions with expanded
activities running all the week before. The Closing promises to be an
inspiring look to the future as well
as a rousing close to the year.
First Row: Bekah Giacomantonio ’11,
Lori Roth Smith ’88, Caron Smith Pelletier ’98, Mary Nasse. Second row:
Martha Gagne, Lisa Morin, Lori Irving,
Christina Dolby O’Brien ’86, James
Nelson ’67. Third row: Vangel Cotsis
’85, Todd Davis ’81, Josh Fearon ’98.
Kirk Purvis ’93, Bill Kany ’77, Committee co-chair Eric Purvis ’81, Phil
Levecque ’11. Missing: Co-Chair
David LePauloue ’84, Bernice Fournier
Wood ’75, Carl Stasio, Cathy Coffman. New committee co-chairs will
join the Steering Committee in 2010.