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Ted Hebert ’74 started as a gopher at a swimming pool company at age 14. Today, he owns his own pool company and is a respected community philanthropist.<\/span><\/h3>\n

By Alyssa Haywoode  
\nPhoto by John Lenis<\/p>\n

Ted Hebert \u201974 is made of stories. <\/p>\n

There was the time he had the jitters during a hot air balloon ride and couldn\u2019t find the ring he was sure he had. Running out of flight time, he finally found the ring, mustered his courage,  and proposed to his girlfriend, Barbara. There was the priest he met in Mexico who turned out to be a long-lost relative. There was the time, decades ago, when his mother said she wouldn\u2019t be able to spend much on Christmas, and then she turned around and gave money to someone asking for a donation. \u201cThere are other people,\u201d Hebert recalls her saying, \u201cwho need money more than we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the professional story that starts with 14-year-old Hebert getting a job as a gofer at a swimming pool company and slowly learning the business. In the middle of this story, Hebert is a kid who\u2019s worried about the world\u2019s tolerance for him. He didn\u2019t have a lot of money, and he had a speech disability. <\/p>\n

\u201cI always had dreams,\u201d Hebert said, recalling his childhood, \u201cbut when you stutter, and you can\u2019t talk right, when you\u2019re scared and insecure \u2026\u201d Then it seems like dreams are all you have. <\/p>\n

And while Cinderella had a fairy godmother, the magic that made all the difference for Hebert was working. He delivered newspapers. He washed neighbors\u2019 cars. He mowed lawns and shoveled driveways. At a local diner, he washed dishes and baked muffins. He learned to install pools and earned money doing this work. He saved up $1,600 to buy the car he wanted, a Mustang. But the real payoff was that work was where he could see and feel his own value. <\/p>\n

\u201cWork,\u201d Hebert said, \u201cis health.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an affinity that runs in the family. During the 1950s, Hebert had seen his mother work two jobs. <\/p>\n

Hebert wanted to be a doctor. He started out at Holyoke Community College and Springfield Technical Community College before transferring to Worcester State University to take pre-med courses. Having access to a public university was crucial, Hebert said, because even as hard as he was working, he couldn\u2019t have earned enough to pay a private college\u2019s tuition. Worcester State offered him strong professors who provided the flexibility Hebert needed to keep installing pools on the weekend. <\/p>\n

Add up Hebert\u2019s education and hard work, mix in the connections he made along the way, stir in the fact that he grew out of his stutter, and the result was a young man with a big personality and a swimming pool\u2019s worth of empathy for other people. <\/p>\n

During his final year in college, Hebert applied to 15 medical schools. He was accepted by only one: the University of Southern California.  He\u2019d saved $10,000 to pay for the education, but he was scared of leaving the life he\u2019d built. Then, six days before he was supposed to fly to California, he got a phone call with bad news. His mother had been getting groceries at Stop & Shop when she\u2019d had a mild aneurysm.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom was home the next day. I said, \u2018You know what, I can\u2019t go, I can\u2019t.\u2019 So I got a hardship leave for a year, and I never went to medical school.\u201d <\/p>\n

Instead, Hebert kept living a life full of stories. He traveled, learned to ski, played hockey, kept installing pools, ventured into commercial real estate, and got involved with car racing. \u201cI was even in a play,\u201d he said. \u201cThirty-six shows of The Graduate<\/i>. Hardest thing I ever did in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the professional front, he committed to pools, launching Teddy Bear Pools & Spas in 1975 in his parents\u2019 carport in East Springfield, Mass. The name was his mother\u2019s idea: She said Ted Hebert<\/i>, pronounced as it would be in French (Hebert\u2019s father\u2019s family is French Canadian), sounded like teddy bear<\/i>. Today, Teddy Bear Pools has a bigger home\u2014and a reputation that attracts customers from Western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe blessing of it all is that by keeping my business alive, I\u2019ve been able to accumulate money and give back to my family\u2014who are my employees\u2014by giving them good jobs.\u201d <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s an understatement: He and Barbara, his wife, who said yes to his proposal on that hot air balloon ride, are also busy giving back to their community. And when he tells stories about philanthropy, the ending is mostly the same: Helping is a great way to connect with people, and connecting with people is the best reward.  <\/p>\n

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\u201cI always tell people the most important thing is your happiness\u2014and doing something to make the world better.\u201d   <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Take the story about how the Heberts supported Camp Words Unspoken, a camp in Pittsfield, Mass., for kids who stutter. That was personal. Both Hebert and his wife had stuttered when they were young. So they visited the camp and met the students, then Hebert got up to deliver a speech. He told the kids about his childhood: his stuttering, his low self-esteem, how he didn\u2019t feel good enough. He told them that visiting the camp now made him feel like he was home. <\/p>\n

The unexpected happy ending: \u201cSomehow or another, I almost started bawling. I got my wife to speak,\u201d Hebert said. \u201cAnd I told the kids that Barbara would never speak publicly, that her words were unspoken. But she spoke, and I was totally proud of her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Heberts have also sponsored golf tournaments and sports teams. They are involved with Rotary International. They have supported the Make-a-Wish Foundation; the Chicopee, Ludlow, and West Springfield, Mass., Boys and Girls Clubs; and Junior Achievement of Western Massachusetts. And Hebert\u2019s board service includes being a trustee on the board of Holyoke Community College. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe love animals, so we sponsor the Second Chance shelter,\u201d Hebert added. \u201cThey run clinics for people who can\u2019t afford to pay for things like rabies shots. We\u2019ve supported a couple of clinics.\u201d The Heberts have also donated to the Thomas J. O\u2019Connor Animal Control and Adoption Center and to the Zoo in Forest Park, both in Springfield.  <\/p>\n

In 2022, Roca, a violence intervention and behavioral health program for young people in Chelsea, Mass., named Hebert one of its Difference Makers. The award brought up old feelings of not being worthy enough. But he accepted the award, went to the event, and did what he loves: forged connections with people, in this case Stefan Davis, CEO of I Found Light Against All Odds, an organization that supports at-risk youth\u2014and that Hebert now supports.  <\/p>\n

Hebert is also a history buff and a local cheerleader who wants Western Massachusetts and its residents to be better known, so he tells stories about how George Washington made the Springfield Armory the nation\u2019s first national armory. Ask him why history is so important, and he says: <\/p>\n

\u201cAs human beings, if we look back at what others did\u2014or did not do\u2014we can make it a better world. But somehow or another, people think that this is the first time things have ever happened. If they knew history, we would not be making the same mistakes day in and day out. We\u2019re making the same mistakes, but people don\u2019t want to be bothered with the past. History is so important to human fundamentals.\u201d<\/p>\n

What advice does he give to young people? \u201cI always tell people the most important thing is your happiness\u2014and doing something to make the world better.\u201d   <\/p>\n

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