Monday's Professional Day explored models for student work programs. Steve assembled a panel of students and program coordinators from various schools: Putney, Holderness, Northfield-Mount Hermon, Sterling College. It's complicated, because we currently have so many volunteer service programs: Big Brother/Big Sister, Bread & Roses Soup Kitchen, etc. Things were simpler when Halsey Gulick was Head (1932-1952) because we were desperate; students worked building the boats they'd sail on Highland Lake. This pic shows a young man finishing the boat on the right in front of an elm-studded campus before construction of Holland Auditorium (1958).
When it was time to build the original ski area to the north of Leonard Field, the Improvement Squad went to work! Here we see students skiing from Gannett across the football field, with the rope tow trail cutting diagonally to the left.
And when Bob Wilson found and purchased the T-bar lift (in Michigan) for the new Blackwater Ski Area, the blasting and cutting were the chores of students. It seems tougher to find the role of mandatory work at a school suffering--as we are today--from prosperity.
