Summer science conferences start next week, and alumni return tomorrow. Faculty meetings are done, grades are in, and the school's human dimension is largely missing. This is a time of change--of transition. Defining Proctor in human terms, as we tend to do, the school is always evolving, always changing. From a distance, things may look the same....
...but the school that alumni visit Saturday is not the same one they attended. It's core values and stated mission may endure, but the people change over time.
Dozens of alumni will be back for their tenth reunion. The Class of 1995 was the first to know the Alice and David Fowler Learning Center.
Old-timers will look for the Proctor Academy Fire Department at Carriage House, and find Eco-dorm in its place.
Change can be hard, even for current students, who repeatedly said, "We have to keep Proctor Proctor" this spring. In the late '70s, a student said to me, "The problem with this place is that it's changing!" He was right, of course, but we have to risk change to grow and improve.
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