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Safety First
5/11/2006

A community of this size benefits from a critical mass of safety conscious folks, and Phil Hackmann is the captain of our safety team. His wilderness medicine class has been responding to role-play "emergencies" across campus in recent days. Pictured below, they work on Assistant Dean of Students Nancy Schoeller, who is pretending to have fallen hard due to a hypoglycemic episode.

With all that goes on in a high school environment, risk management has to be a concern. When rules stipulated that girls must wear eye protection in lacrosse, the question was whether this would make defenders' play more aggressive--and dangerous. This is the JV bench during Wednesday's win over Holderness.

Meanwhile, the forestry team is splitting and stacking dozens of cords of firewood for use in dormitory furnaces next winter. This wood is for Eco-dorm.

Then there's the PATCC--Proctor Academy Tree Climbing Club--which boasts four members, and enjoys lunches in the maples along Fieldhouse Lane.

Most of us will never know the thrill of flipping a skateboard in this stunt, but it must be terrific, because those who can, work on it constantly.

Eben gave Santiago a lift after assembly today. Will the backpack on the front act as an airbag?

It looked like Nick Green might get injured receiving congratulations on his 310-foot home run against Tilton.

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Captain Safety, Phil Hackmann tapes an ankle in the school's well-staffed and well-appointed training room.
Sam stablizes Nancy's neck while Lia checks vital signs.
Equipment Manager Jake Johnson role plays a highly medicated, delusional wall climber who has sustained hideous injuries.
Work is fast; an evacuation helicopter is expected in three minutes.
Eye protection has presumeably made girls' lacrosse safer.
Don't twist an ankle, Scott.
Some of us can't do this maneuver.
Haley's suffering from multi-rotational instability. Not good.
Nick takes advantage of the new fence 300 feet from home plate.