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10/30/2008
It's easy to chuckle about a ghost scare in an old dormitory, but several residents of Mary Lowell Stone House are truly spooked by recent phenomena, including sightings, unexplainable drafts, noises and apparent telekinesis. I got a tour of the dorm by some boys who are genuinely intrigued.


We even delved into the basement.....the first time students have been in that dark, dank former root cellar in decades. We examined a  mysterious chair supporting a mysterious, stained rag.....



Meanwhile, a New Hampshire branch of Homeland Security conducted a drill on campus, simulating an emergency response to a horrific explosion. Students--with hideously graphic wounds painted and applied to their bodies--writhed and groaned in front of Peabody House as the responders assessed each individual case.


I'm saying Oliver's good for about twenty minutes, max.

Emergency responders work with probabilities: survivability, for example. We offer a course on probability! They're playing poker. This looks like a pretty good hand to me.

Maintaining a straight face is key. It's great that we are teaching skills that have real, significant life-long benefits.


Over in the boatshop, Evan is working on his sailing skiff.

Downstairs, Dave works on his sea kayak.


In science, these girls have created bead chains that represent complex proteins.

A ghost appeared here.....
Chubbs points out where "she" peered through a wall.
Toomey's room had a fan fall over, a lamp fall and a roll of hockey tape show up on a laptop. My question: Is any of that out of the ordinary?
"It only hurts when I laugh."
Ouch.
Sam has nasty wounds, and is trying not to smile.
In addition to a hideous facial gash, Nick has a pencil (eraser end) sticking out of his neck.
Cam sanding a leg. No, not a femur.... It's the leg of an elegant Queen Anne's table he is building.
The macabre hand painted by Proctor's great art instructor until 1985, Dorothy Perloff, on display in Lovejoy Library.