Alumni should be forgiven if--wandering onto campus for the first time in a while--they misread the situation completely. If that visit came on a Friday, they might be heard lamenting, "Oh, no...not this...the new Head of School has changed the dress code...." These are ninth graders:
No, Proctor's simple "neat & clean" dress code hasn't changed, and there is no interest anywhere to change it. What has happened is this: when you have an informal dress code, students want to dress up, and they've chosen Fridays as the time to do it (although sports teams often dress up on game days). Our visiting alumni might encounter dozens of students and teachers yielding to the pressure (expressed in assemblies) to sport formal attire in classes and beyond....like Alex, shown heading back to his dorm after lunch:
On closer inspection, however, one sees the majority still maintaining a casual mode. Like Kenz and Geordie, shown here observing pea sprouts as part of a cell theory lab in biology:
Or, witness these enterprising lads involved in a hunt for wildlife in the relatively fetid Proctor Pond:
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