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POMFRET --- After 18 years as headmaster, Bradford Hastings will be leaving Pomfret School July 1, 2011, and the Board of Trustees has hired a Maine firm to find a new head of school.
In a letter in April to the Board, Hastings, a 1968 Pomfret School graduate, said "I have always felt that serving Pomfret has been a privilege for me --- as well as for Betsy --- and it will be bittersweet for us to leave the Hilltop in 14 months," He added, "I loved my four years as a student and it was the generosity of Pomfret that afforded this minister's son's tuition. Then, engaged to be married, I was offered a faculty position to start right after graduating from college. For the next six years, I was given opportunities at Pomfret to be an admissions officer, teacher, coach, dorm parent and athletic director."
Hastings said, "From my first day as headmaster (July 1, 1993), the trustees have been supportive of me and, over those years, I have enjoyed working with excellent boards and their presidents. Few heads of school enjoy the type of relationship with their respective boards that I have had and continue to have today. You have trusted my judgment and allowed me a great deal of license in making decisions about the direction of the school. Never did I feel that I worked for you, but rather I worked with you as we strived to make Pomfret School better and better. And we have done that."
"In closing, I humbly offer my gratitude for what has been entrusted to me and I will always be grateful for being a part of this remarkable school community," he said.
The board has hired Gregory Floyd & Associates, Inc. of Kennebunk, Maine, to search for a new head of school. The application deadline is Aug. 13.