Three years ago this month, a page entitled Brochure Quality appeared here, contrasting the near perfection of school magazines and brochures with the realtime webpages. Despite the advantages some see to the latter medium, it's been slow to catch on (which, for Proctor--I suppose--is perfectly fine.) Yesterday, speaking at a conference of Development Officers from schools across northern New England, I observed that digital photography is a numbers game. If you take 200 photographs in a day, some of them will be good enough to use. Today, I want to see what we can do with a bunch of pix taken within a very short period of time. We start in the Wilson Forestry Building, where Dave Pilla is explaining the identifying characteristics distinguishing paper white birch from grey birch.

Then, we head out to Slalom Hill, which was the school's ski area during the 1940s-60s, to put concepts into practice.

At assembly, rock star Matt Nathanson, who graduated from Proctor in 1991, entertained us once again with his extraordinary, soulful style and hilarious, edgy commentary.

Next stop with my Nikon D100 was Shirley Hall, where I found physics guru Brian Kellogg ready for the bright lights of his classroom.

Downstairs in Shirley, I infiltrated a geometry class in which Sarah Whitehead was helping students with a compass project.

In the next room, Johnny was calculating in honors algebra 2.

Crossing over to the bottom floor of the Alan Shepard Boathouse, I stumbled into a jewelry class.

Teandra extracted a piece from "The Pickle," which--she explained--is an acid solution that completes the soldering process.

In the next room, Jeremy worked a lathe in metalshop.

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