One thing that we do very well at Proctor is start the school year. Yesterday, new students returned from five days of camping in the White Mountains. Experience tells us that--decades from now--many of them will recall this as their most powerful memory of Proctor.
In 1976, when I first went on Orientation, Bert Hinkley started each morning with an inspirational reading from Jerry and Renny Russell's classic On the Loose (Sierra Club). Twenty-eight years later, when his Orientation group unloaded from the bus behind the fieldhouse, one boy asked Bert if he could finish with one final reading.
Mike Walsh and Michael Koenig had a grill fired up so hungry kids could enjoy burgers and dogs for the first time in a week.
It's time to start another school year!
