HEBRON – Hebron Academy Head of School John King recently welcomed new members to the academy’s board of trustees. Joining the board are William B. Golden and Dr. Kenneth P. Mortimer, both alumni of the school, Susan A. Gendron and Wallace E. Higgins. They join a group of 20 fellow alumni and parents who are responsible for the governance of the school and oversee programs, personnel and financial operations.

Gendron, the grandmother of two Hebron students, is commissioner of the Maine Department of Education. She was previously superintendent of the Windham School Department and in 2001 received the Maine Superintendents’ Distinguished Educator Award.

In 2002 she was named Maine’s Superintendent of the Year. Gendron was selected in 1985 by the Maine Department of Education to be an instructional support consultant, presenting the Education Reform Act to school systems throughout the state.

She holds a degree in elementary and secondary education and a master’s degree in educational administration from the University of Southern Maine and is a member of the University of Maine System board of trustees. Gendron lives with her husband, Mark, in Raymond and is an active supporter of Hebron Academy athletics.

Golden is an attorney from Boston, Mass., with a practice specializing in environmental and energy law and municipal law. He graduated from Hebron in 1966, where he was awarded the Hebron Cup; from Yale University in 1970; and received his law degree from Boston University in 1974.

He earned his MPA from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government in 1981 and is a former three-term Massachusetts state senator. Golden lives his wife, Kristen, and son on the Nantucket Lightship in Boston and is involved in Hebron alumni activities.

A descendant of the founder of Hebron Academy, Higgins is an organization development consultant from Newton, Mass., specializing in organizational intervention, new business development and new product delivery in the United States and Latin America.

He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from Boston University. During his 23-year career at Polaroid Corp., Higgins contributed to various new business development and technology start-up activities in the role of human resource and organizational professional. He is a member of the Harvard Music Association and chairs the board of directors of Families for Depression Awareness in Massachusetts.

A member of the class of 1956 and Hebron Cup winner, Mortimer graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960 and received his MBA from the Wharton School in 1962. He earned his PhD at the University of California – Berkeley, and holds honorary doctorates from two other institutions, including the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, the only non-Japanese so honored.

He was vice president and vice provost of Pennsylvania State University from 1984-1988, and served as president of Western Washington University for five years and of the University of Hawaii from 1993 to 2001. The author of five books, Mortimer is a consultant with the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems in Seattle, where he lives with his wife, Kay.

For more information on Hebron Academy, visit www.hebronacademy.org or call 966-2100.