Happy 25th Anniversary Home Education Magazine
and
Publishers Mark and Helen Hegener!
Congratulations, Helen and Mark, on 25 outstanding years! It is an honor and a privilege to work with two people who are as energetic, committed, insightful, and steadfast as you are.
Thank you for all you are doing. You’re there when challenges need to be addressed. You’re there when homeschoolers have questions and need encouragement. You’re there when new technology presents new opportunities and new risks. You can change with the times while staying true to your principles. You understand the importance of family, and learning, and freedom.
Home Education Magazine offers so much. Thoughtful insights. Creative new ideas. Support. Encouragement. Stories. Resources. Recipes. Perspectives. Humor. Photographs.
It’s very difficult to imagine where homeschooling would be today without you two, Home Education Magazine, and all the other things you have done. We’re just glad we don’t have to try to imagine it.
Here’s to the next 25 years!
Susan and Larry Kaseman
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As those of us homeschoolers who have raised up our children to adulthood and have had our lives move into other, albeit related, directions, it is always comfortable to return to homeschoolers. There is shared understanding and interest here. There is a sense of belonging, even when as a parent of young adults, you are sitting with strangers, the age of your own children, who have also chosen homeschooling–a nursing mom or a dad holding his toddler.
But those opportunities, seemingly an everyday, luxurious experience a dozen years ago, now come fewer and further between. (Although the 6-mom, committed-to-unschooling group of friends I made in homeschooling–who are like sisters to me and who together helped raise our collective group of children–still make time to get together for quarterly meals or a wedding or two.)
Because of the ever-going commitment of Home Education Magazine, I recently had the pleasure to reconnect with a library meeting room full of homeschoolers (or homeschool explorers) in the Cleveland area. This one-day HEM-sponsored workshop, meeting some wonderful HEM contributors, was a pure pleasure, well-worth a two-hour drive. Afterwards, not content to end the conversation, a group retired to a near-by restaurant. Eventually, we agreed that if we didn’t leave soon, we’d be asked to as closing time approached.
Thank you, Mark and Helen, for your support of these types of opportunities to keep me grounded, with shared time with homeschoolers. You improved my day that day and the day of many others in the room. And when I can’t have that in person, I always look forward to my latest edition of HEM to still stay connected.
Congratulations on 25 years. May your growth continue to fill a niche that I–and others–treasure. You’ve helped accomplish more than you will ever know.
Peggy Daly-Masternak
Toledo, OH
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Happy 25th Anniversary Mark, Helen and Family,
Thank you for 25 years of empowerment!
Mary, Dave, Aaron and Jacob Nix and Family
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Certain people are visionaries, even if they never intended to lead. As they go through life they listen, think, care and follow their instincts unconstrained by the tides of opinion. They do this by being themselves.
Simply because they have gone their own way they demonstrate the importance of living meaningfully and with as much freedom as possible. And when these people share what they’ve learned, especially if they do so gently, without judgment, they empower others to discover their own paths.
Mark and Helen Hegener are such people. Visionaries, although they’d shun the title. They can’t imagine the paths they have shown so many of us. We can offer nothing more in return than conducting our own lives as meaningfully and as freely as possible. They’d like that. Visionaries are selfless that way.
in gratitude,
Laura Weldon
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Thank you Helen and Mark for paving the way for homeschoolers everywhere!
Kathy Ceceri
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Dear Mark and Helen,
There must be some mistake…how in the world can it be HEM’s 25th anniversary when we all still look the same as the day we met? Actually it was a night - a dark, cold, cold, COLD night in Canton, NY as you were touring the countryside, garnering support for the fledgling National Homeschool Association. The ex tried desperately to talk me out of the drive that night, but too many of us knew how important the organization was to our beloved homeschooling to miss this opportunity. Too bad the Internet was still only a mere glimmer in Al Gore’s eyes back then.
Dan and Harriet Shultis let me choose the member number I wanted on my charter member card; I chose 7. I still have that card in my wallet! We’ve been through so much since then. Most importantly, though, the respect and friendship planted in those early days have grown stronger through challenges, celebrations, sharing, empty nests and beautiful grandchildren. I am privileged to call the two of you my friends, and proud of my association with a most trusted resource in homeschooling’s history.
Thank you for believing in me, thank you for your support through so many years, thank you for the work you continue providing our community. Thank you for being you. May this anniversary year be the best ever!!
Lots of love,
Linda (Dobson)
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What a joy it has been working with the most important, well-read homeschool magazine available anywhere on the planet. It’s been a great inspiration as well to get to know publisher pioneers Mark and Helen Hegener, always ready to question everything, find their own way and honor their children and grandchildren. They are truly role models for all of us.
With deepest respect and gratitude,
Barb Lundgren
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HEM is In the Bag!
Happy Anniversary to Home Education Magazine! Mark and Helen, your magazine has been a part of my family’s homeschooling journey across three states and three widely-spaced childhoods. HEM was there for us when we were beginners looking for new ideas, and it has been there for us as our children grew. Your mix of inspiration and information has provided support we needed. I’ve also appreciated HEM’s sharing some of its articles with homeschool groups and with new homeschoolers searching for information on the internet. Some of the articles would seem likely to have aged a bit (like the rest of us) - but they always communicate important points for new homeschoolers and new homeschool groups, so we don’t have to keep re-inventing the wheel.
I look forward to the continued success of Home Education Magazine, and your leadership in keeping homeschoolers aware of issues affecting home education.
Your magazine has been in my beach bag, my music lessons backpack, my picnic basket, my library bag, my flight bag, my scouts stuff and soccer stuff bags, and my “we’re-going-to-gymnastics/the-grocery-store/ice-skating/the-dentist” errand totes. Our copies of HEM have been read by the sand box in the company of Tonka trucks and as we sprawled in the halls of a university, awaiting piano and guitar lessons. Speckled with sun screen and sand, adorned with kid-added artwork and the occasional strawberry jelly, they eventually come to rest in the magazine rack by the front door of our old Craftsman house, where I can easily grab a few to loan to a new homeschool friend who is wondering how her children can learn art, how federal regulations might affect homeschooling, how teenagers proceed to college and working life, whether her doubts have been experienced by others.
Most of the loaners come back, sometimes with new tea stains, in the tote bags of enthusiastic homeschoolers on their way to park day or haircuts or the vet. “We’re doing okay after all,” they say. Or, “I’m looking into some new ideas for science that I read about in here.” Or, “Do you want to start a robotics club?”
Let me pack a bag for that, I think. Home Education Magazine, of course, will be in it.
Jeanne Faulconer
South Hill, Virginia
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Helen and Mark, Happy 25!
My hubby and I just celebrated our 25th as well and whether it’s a magazine or a marriage, we both know it takes love, time, dedication, determination, passion and plain old stubbornness to make sure you make it and still love each other!
HEM has been a literal lifesaver for us. As we started homeschooling our eldest 18 years ago, we needed a beacon because we were surrounded by a very rigid Christian community and very unhappy family members. Reading the magazine gave us hope and inspiration when we most needed it.
It is one of my greatest honors in my writing career to be part of the HEM family, as both a columnist and author. The chance to give back just a little of what your publications gave to me is such a great reward.
Thanks for being part of our lives–we treasure you and every issue,
Tamra and Joseph Orr
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Congratulations! All these years and nobody arrested you…
Many best wishes from all -
Becky Rupp
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Helen and Mark,
It’s the bright light that arrives in my mailbox every other month–regular and dependable–and has certainly helped me to “keep on-keeping on” over the years. Thank you for your continued dedication that helps provide inspiration for the many shapes and forms of homeschooling and “learning all the time” that happens every day in homes and neighborhoods all around the world. And thanks especially for encouraging and supporting the addition of The Homeschool Kitchen column to the pages of HEM. Here’s to another 25 years!
Congratulations and Best Wishes,
Christine Gable
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When I plunged into homeschooling my nine-year-old son in 1993, I found two authors on the shelves of my local library: Mary Pride and Ted Wade. I culled what little I could from their conservative, authoritarian style of homeschooling, but they didn’t represent my developing ideas about parenting and homeschooling. Then somehow I came across Home Education Magazine. Oh, what a relief that was! I subscribed and I ordered every back issue I could get. HEM became my bible for how to raise my family of homeschool rebels in a loving, relaxed home. Little did I know at that time, Helen and Mark would also offer me the opportunity I’d yearned for most of my life—to be a writer.
There’s no way to count the number of lives the Hegeners have touched and will touch for years to come. So many of us have found friends, support and comfort in the pages of HEM, in online forums, chats and now email lists and blogs. I can only speak for myself though when I say thank you. Thank you for your constant hard work, your dedication to homeschooling and for your support and your friendship. You have truly changed and blessed my life. Thank you.
With Love,
Carol Narigon
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Mark and Helen,
Thank you so very much for introducing me to homeschooling and for providing the information and support I couldn’t find ‘locally,’ which in 1990 meant anywhere in Europe.
I found out about HEM through a listing in the writer’s resource catalogue from the Institute of Children’s Literature. The description of the magazine intrigued me, so I sent for a sample copy. That sample convinced me that I could homeschool my three younger kids (and I did).
My continuing subscriptions to HEM guided me in ways I didn’t know I’d need. I’m sure I could have ‘homeschooled’ by using a boxed curriculum and connecting dot A to dot B, and so on, but the HEM-inspired journey was far more interesting and rewarding than any pre-fab course could have been. That homeschooling was Our Adventure, not someone else’s guided tour.
Thank you so much for finding people willing to share their experiences with all of us.
Valerie Moon
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It’s been about 8 years now since Helen and Mark and I met, and they asked me to do a column about homeschooling and politics. I told them I wanted to do a column where I was allowed to write about anything except homeschooling and politics. They were an easy touch, and they’ve kept their word. Hope they’re satisfied. I am!
Thanks for the gift of a great magazine!
david
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Mark and Helen,
It has been a privilege to read Home Education Magazine for most of my homeschooling journey - 15 + years. >From the early days I saw HEM as the only means to learn what others were doing and to support our choice in homeschooling styles. Later, online support and legislative discussions were my mainstay. Our statewide list, Washington Home Education Network (WHEN) was heavily influenced by your philosophy of open discussion.
I so enjoyed meeting both of you those many years ago. I’ve learned the art of persuasion from you two. I will always be amazed at Helen’s patience and involvement in so many HEM lists.
HEM is a rock in the homeschooling community in which so many others wash up against.
A huge hug and a High Five from a fellow Washingtonian.
em, aka Emilie
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Our family started homeschooling in the mid-90’s.When communication was just starting to happen on the ‘net, but before stories about homeschoolers were coming out on a regular basis. I still felt like an oddball. We had twin toddlin’ boys along with our 2 older kids and didn’t join a support group for a couple of years because it was difficult hauling kids around. I found my support online and upon discovery of the perfect fit, with Home Education Magazine.
Before homeschooling and when I was doing a lot of research on how to homeschool legally in Illinois and what homeschooling was really about, I ran into a lot of different homeschool mags. I had a very vague sort of notion that most homeschoolers were Amish. I love the farm and blue and purples and bicycles, but was relieved to see in Home Education Magazine that there were many who were just like me. Not Amish… not even close, but just like me…different.
Helen Hegener seems to have a wonderful knack of being very open to new ideas and people. I had a serious passion for homeschool advocacy (the love for a homeschooling lifestyle).Helen apparently ‘saw’ that on online forums and allowed mine and many others with the same bug to have their say. Hegeners are truly about grassroots advocacy. I have learned so much from seasoned homeschoolers and other newer homeschoolers with Helen’s seemingly endless number of online group supports. As I could kid her about her addiction to starting up a new group for something like recipes from/for homeschoolers or homeschoolers in community action or missions, it served many with all of our diverse interests. Helen’s purpose seemed to be to keep home education communications open to networking and following that, our protection.
I think Mark and Helen always have a fresh outlook towards the world and our freedoms in our homeschooling community. This might explain their continued success with Home Education Magazine. The wonderful pictures of children (and their family) having fun must help too, because the cover always makes me smile. HEM always makes me think and see many different perspectives. It opens our world and that’ s one of the joys of homeschooling.
Congratulations to Mark and Helen on their 25th anniversary of Home Education Magazine. Through their tireless work, they have provided priceless information to the homeschooling community about many issues of importance. But at the end of the day, it seems that Hegeners have never lost sight of the simple joy of a child’s smile while picking berries with family.
With much respect, love and gratefulness,
Susan Ryan
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I am grateful for the firm leadership in the home education arena shown by Mark and Helen. Their understanding and commitment to the rights and responsibilities of parents to direct the nurture and education of their own children is a shining light in the current climate of many who view parents as the enemies of their own children.
Mary Hudzinski
www.phea.net
Advocating freedom for PA home educating families
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We at AERO congratulate Mark and Helen on the 25th anniversary of their work. One cannot overestimate the importance of HEM being a pillar in the field of learner centered education. There are now perhaps ten times as many homeschoolers as there were when they started and their steadfastness has had something important to do with that.
Of course, now the hard part starts as the mainstream begins to realize what we have known all along!
Jerry Mintz
Alternative Education Resource Organization
www.educationrevolution.org
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Special thanks to Mark and Helen. Your efforts in featuring diverse and interesting contributors with enlightening stories and experiences have given HEM it’s unique ability to empower and spark excitement and imagination in countless families.
May your lives be continually filled with as much happiness and support as you have given over the last 25 years.
Lisa Carpenter
Toni Nierman
Tracy Merritt
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“Congratulations to Home Education Magazine, and special thanks to Mark and Helen, on their success in delivering valuable information and support to home educators across the globe over the past 25 years. We send you our very best wishes as you celebrate this important anniversary and wish you continued success for the future. Slainte Mhath!
~ from Schoolhouse, Scotland’s national home education support organisation.”
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Hearty congratulations, Mark and Helen, on 25 years of dedication! You’ll never know how many families whose lives you have touched.
Jan Hunt, Director
Natural Child Project
naturalchild.org
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Happy 25th Anniversary Home Education Magazine.
Thank you for paving the way for families everywhere to embrace family-based learning!
–African-American Unschooling
http://www.AfAmUnschool.com
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Where ever did the years go? Seems like only yesterday. There isn’t enough room on an e-card to list all the favs or the good things one has heard or all the folks who have been helped on their journey.
Keep it up!
Lynda and the Kidlets
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Happy 25th Anniversary!
I’m glad you were there when we began homeschooling 17 years ago and I’m glad you are still here as we homeschool our youngest child’s “senior” year!
Here are wishes for many more years of supporting families as they live and learn together…
Marsha Ransom
Homeschool Mom of 4
Author: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Homeschooling
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Dear Mark, Helen, and the whole HEM team,
Congratulations on 25 years of dedicated, high-quality service to the homeschooling community and to all your friends. HEM is a life-line to many people in both the print and on-line worlds and I’m very honored to be among those we have enjoyed HEM from its first issue. We’ve worked together on many projects, watched our children grow up and start their own families, handled illnesses and deaths, political victories and defeats, and through it all I’m glad to be able to say that we are still good friends.
Love and best wishes for many more years of successful publication!
Pat –
Patrick Farenga Holt Associates/GWS Co-author, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling
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To Mark and Helen,
Congratulations on a quarter century of Home Education. Through the magazine, websites, e-lists, blogs, pamphlets and more, you have provided consistent quality information and support for countless homeschoolers. We are very grateful!
Best,
Milva McDonald
Advocates for Home Education in Massachusetts
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It seems like only yesterday I went to a funky bookstore here in Milpitas and found a copy of Home Education Magazine and a copy of “I Learn Better Teaching Myself” that you had published. We started homeschooling our son that year, in November of 1993. I devoured each issue that came. I don’t think newer internet savvy homeschool parents realize how much we depended on HEM for advice, leads on products to buy, and just support knowing others somewhere were also trying this lifestyle. You spread the seeds for the ideas, mark and Helen, and for that we have so much to think you for.
Ann Zeise
A to Z Home’s Cool
http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com
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Happy Anniversary, Mark and Helen!!!!
I remember the first time I ever saw a copy of HEM. I had joined a group of toddler moms who got together weekly to talk about homeschooling and whether it could possibly work for us. One of the other moms had a subscription to HEM, and we passed the back issues among ourselves like candy, savoring each issue for its guidance and wisdom. After a few months of sharing, I broke down and got a subscription for myself so I wouldn’t have to wait so long!
Fast forward a dozen years or so. With the internet, homeschooling information and support is at our fingertips, and we no longer have to wait by the mailbox for guidance and inspiration. My toddlers have grown into teens and preteens, and my oldest is almost ready to graduate from homeschooling and move on to other things. Yet I still enjoy reading my old friend HEM when it arrives in the mail. It’s great to see my old friend is still inspiring families around the country and the world.
Here’s to the next 25 years!
Love,
Celeste Land
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Thanks for being there for homeschoolers. You have had a profound effect on my family with the wisdom contained within Home Ed Magazine and with with HEM Networking list that allows such freedom of thought. I first heard about homeschooling about 15 years ago when I was pregnant with my first child. Although it is not something I would have thought to do totally on my own, once I learned about it I realized it absolutely was the way I wanted to go. So, an even bigger thanks for blazing the trail for people like me and the biggest thanks of all from my four children who are living lives of freedom thanks to you and the many others who made it clear that homeschooling is a legal and valid choice for all children.
Best wishes,
Susan Smylie
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Congratulations, Mark and Helen, on Home Education Magazine’s 25 years of uplifting, informative, progressive and inspiring homeschool support and guidance. HEM is the first magazine I picked up when I wanted to learn about homeschooling almost 15 years ago, and the one I still recommend to others today. You’ve created more than a magazine in a quarter century of publishing and homeschooling support; you’ve created a community where homeschoolers of all philosophies, interests, backgrounds and goals can connect and learn from one another. Even as the face of homeschooling has changed over time, homeschoolers the world over know they can rely on Home Education Magazine and the Hegener family as stalwart, supportive friends. Here’s to another 25 years!
Warmly,
Terri Willingham
President, Learning is for Everyone, Inc.
www.learningis4everyone.org
HomeEdPower http://homeedpower.blogspot.com
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~Deborah Stevenson
~Judy Aron
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Thanks so much for being my homeschool support in the mailbox!
Silvia Barrett, in Virginia
Homeschooling from the beginning–in our 6th year now!
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Helen and Mark, you and your work are a keystone in the homeschool community.
Without you and what you have done, the homeschool world would be markedly
different, and seriously lacking.
Not only have you made the connection between numerous voices and a diverse
audience, you have stood bravely in the crosshairs of those who would tear our
community apart.
Personally, you have been a model of courage and creating community, and a valuable
source of support for my growth as a writer, as you certainly have been for numerous
others.
The positive marks you have made on homeschooling- and in homeschoolers’ hearts will
remain for many, many years to come.
All The Best,
Shay Seaborne
www.SynergyField.com
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Congratulations for 25 years! Many homeschool publications have come and gone but
HEM has always offered practical advice and not been afraid to examine the hard
issues. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve passed on links to HEM articles.
Best wishes to Mark and Helen and HEM. More than just a magazine, a real community.
Thanks for being there, still reading since 1994.
Best wishes for many more years to come!
Susan Frederick
Taffie - Texas Advocates for Freedom in Education
http://www.jsoft.com/archive/taffie/
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Thank you HEM for your wonderful publication. You inspired me when I was researching
homeschooling when my oldest was just 6 months old. He is ten now and he and his
younger brother have never been to preschool or school.
I am a subscriber and I recommend your publication to every new homeschooler I meet
and to anyone who is looking for a good homeschooling magazine.
Thanks so much.
ChristineMM of
thethinkingmother.blogspot.com
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Mark and Helen and all associated with HEM: Nobody does it like you and nobody does
it better than you!
Congratulations on a quarter of a century of hard work, organizing, navigating an
at-times perilous course amongst such diverse individuals, groups, and institutions,
and doing it all brilliantly! Thank you for your steadfastness, integrity and
compassion. And thank you for being my friends. Sniff.
You are the best!
Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff
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Wow! Has it REALLY been that long?? I still have indelibly marked in my mind where
I was sitting, and exactly what I was doing, the first time I spoke on the phone
with Mark and Helen. It was approximately 15 years ago and I was (in appropriate hs
style) sitting on my bed in my jammies. You both gave me a start doing something I
loved, and had confidence in me when I was not even sure I had it in myself. The
years doing software reviews and, HEAVENS all the years working together at AOL,
seem like another life time already. They are some of my sweetest homeschooling
memories, however. I, like others, can echo the feeling that, ” the day the new
magazine shows up it is still like getting a visit from old friends.” So many of us
are living our second and third “lives” already, but the steadfast friendships are
always there. You have done such a good thing. Our son got his name written up in
Forbes magazine as a direct result of the confidence you put in me. But, it is
still the photo of our daughter that made it to the cover of HEM that pulls at my
heart-strings. That is akin to the cover of the Rolling Stone of course! 
Congratulations on work well done. Keep it going. You will always be a part of our
hearts and homes.
Much, much love and virtual hugs.
Juline Lambert
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Four years ago, I came across an HEM article (Our Non-directed Support Organization
written by Earl Gary Stevens) that inspired me to create a similar group in my area.
That original group has grown into a network of 13 local groups serving hundreds of
families in three states.
If it weren’t for HEM and this article, I never would have had the inspiration or
courage to start that first PEAK group. I often send the link to new members and
reread it for motivation.
Thank you to the Hegeners for blazing a trail and providing Home Education Magazine
to inspire and inform the next generation of homeschoolers. - Natalie Criss
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Congratulations Mark, Helen and Family,
Thank you for your warm support for many years!
with much love
Kyoko Aizawa
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Dear Helen and Mark,
Anniversaries always come as a shock to me. How can it be 25 years already? I still have my first HEMs, and always will. Remember when they were printed on newsprint? I’m so proud to have known you all these years. Remember when we used to worry, just a bit, about our kids? We didn’t need to worry, but we didn’t know that at the time! Homeschoolers have the world at their fingertips.
It’s been wonderful to watch your kids grow up over the years, and although we’ve been separated by all those miles (whether Washington or Alaska) with NO INTERNET, I feel we’ve spent a lot of cozy time together, thanks to your letters and your magazines.
Thanks for it all.
Cheers!
Pam ,Craig, Jeremiah and Serena Gingold (Homeschoolers for Peace&Justice)
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in 1992. I had felt so alone here in PA. Thank you Mark & Helen for being the
catalyst for so many of my friendships. And for your council and advice throughout
the years.
My world has been brighter with you in it!
Love,
Norma Young
www.phea.net
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It takes a great deal of dedication and committment to stick with anything
for 25-years. Never let it be said that homeschoolers aren’t passionate
about their choices. The homeschooling community would certainly be worse
off if it were not for the efforts of Mark and Helen Hegener and HEM
Magazine. Can we count on you for another 25-years?
Thank you for giving of yourselves to enrich our lives.
Shawn and Annette Hall
Twain Harte, CA
http://www.LocalHomeschool.com
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Mark and Helen – a big warm congratulations – and a hug! - for you both. Thank you for twenty-five years of service through Home Education Magazine to homeschoolers around the world.
Particularly:
- Thank you for sharing your steadfast vision of families enjoying a full and rewarding lifestyle through homeschooling;
- Thank you for including your own wise musings along with the writings of many talented writers in Home Education Magazine;
- Thank you for taking a stand for homeschoolers and homeschooling time and time again, and for always taking the high road even when it would have been easier to settle for less;
- Thank you for sharing your knowledge so selflessly in support of the work of individuals and groups who offer support to homeschoolers;
- And on a personal note, thank you for allowing me to work on the magazine with you for several years. That was a high point for me and I treasure the knowledge gained and good memories of the time I spent working with you.
Here’s to another 25 years!
Ann Lahrson Fisher
Author, Fundamentals of Homeschooling
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Twenty-five Years with HEM
Twenty-five years ago my kids were not even school age , but I already figured
I d be homeschooling; it just seemed natural to me!
The first time I remember meeting Mark and Helen Hegener was about two years
later at her cousin s wedding. Our toddler and theirs hit it off immediately
and spent a happy afternoon crushing pop cans together. (See picture.Whoops -
can’t figure this out. Check upcoming photo gallery in print magazine.)
A few years later they moved right across the valley from us and we became
what we think of as neighbors in our extremely rural community.
I think both my girls worked for the magazine before I did - they used to pay
the kids to sort and label large mailings. Later several of their kids and one
of mine worked in the mailroom on a more regular basis.
I read the magazine of course, and took inspiration from their example, and
from their attitude that everyone finds their OWN right way to homeschool.
Our kids, and sometimes our whole families, did lots of stuff together over the
years - overnights, horse rides, dance and tumbling classes, days at the lake,
and trips to town and further away.
I started working at HEM in 1998 when their family spent most of the year in
Alaska with the grandparents and they needed someone to collect mail and keep
things running at the Washington place - and here I am still!
The kids have grown up, and some of theirs have kids too now. I m still amazed
at how much they (and the magazine) have done, and how many lives have been
touched. They have stayed focused always on family, but have also been quick to
recognize worthwhile change. I remember Mark telling me that the old fashioned
mail order catalog business would all be changing and going on line - long
before most people had even heard of Amazon.com!
What s to come in the next quarter century? Who know s - but I m sure there
will be plenty of family and plenty of learning.
Stacy Gleason, office manager Home Education Magazine
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