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Fanning Hearon, Palm Beach Day

Fanning Hearon

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Fanning Hearon currently serves as Palm Beach Day Academy’s Head of School. Before moving to Palm Beach in 2019, Mr. Hearon served as the Head of School at Maple Street School in Manchester, Vermont and was the Assistant Head of School and Academic Dean at Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vermont. The biggest chapter of Fanning’s academic career was spent at the Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he was an AP Spanish teacher, Senior Class Dean, Chair of the Modern Languages Department, and coached lacrosse. Fanning began his 33-year career in independent school education at his alma mater, the Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, where he served as a teacher, coach, dorm parent, Director of the WFS Summer School in Spain program, and Assistant Director of Admissions.

Fanning is the proud parent of two adult sons, Miles and Aicher.

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