The wind was out of the east on Proctor Pond this morning, foretelling more heavy rain which prompted the cancellation of all games except varsity boys' lax. No matter. We still have warm memories from Tuesday, when Admission Director Chris Bartlett '86 used Steve Wilkins's 50th birthday as an opportunity to educate us to diverse cultural birthday observations. Take, for example, the "Happy Birthday" song. An octet serenaded Steve with a tight, hilarious spin-off in front of the whole school in assembly.
Prior to that, however, Chris called on students from different nationalities to practice their relatively torturous expressions of affection on these special days. We don't have any students from Israel at the moment, but several self-selected chosen ones tossed Steve high overhead.
Other rituals are documented at right. Eventually, Chris cited the American tradition of beautiful women leaping out of birthday cakes. Proctor's beautiful baker, Edna Peters, wheeled one in instead.
Following assembly, Sarah Wilkins made off with the balloons. Notice the blue sky. That was yesterday.
This is today:
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