The roots of modern ice hockey at Proctor can be traced to 1955. With Captain Sumner Rulon-Miller leading the way, the Green & White skated on Proctor Pond (in those days more of a flooded bog) between square-edged boards. The photo below shows the pond looking west before the construction of Farrell Fieldhouse and the Fowler Learning Center. The structure on the hill is the remnants of an old brick water tower.

Below is the same perspective, shot this January, after the current rink failed:

In 1973 a new rink was in operation at the northwest corner of campus:

Later, a refrigerated surface was laid at the same site, only to be replaced by a covered, natural ice facility in the early '80s (after the compressor and warming hut for the outdoor facility burned.) Soon we installed another refrigerated floor in the covered facility...the system that failed this winter. This photo depicts the current scene--the rink being demolished--from the same perspective as the photo above:

This evening, at the Greenwich (CT) Boys & Girls Club, more than 300 friends of Proctor and friends of Teddy Maloney '88 are coming together to celebrate the dedication of Proctor's new rink in his name, and to raise the funds for the construction of this 1.8 million dollar facility. A page is turned in the history of Proctor hockey!