People new to Proctor remark at the number of balls we juggle (programs offered) at the same time. The faculty is large (83 actual teachers) for a student body of 334, which is expensive, but the deliverables are very real. They'be been easy to witness in recent days. On Friday, varsity football won its playoff game at Pomfret. The way this team finished this season speaks of coach Chuck Reid's successful leadership. The cross-country team excelled at the Championships in Millbrook, NY, and alpine skiers just arrived at Tignes, France. Then there was Lost In Yonkers (check link at right,) which knocked crowds out Friday and Saturday. Performance only escalated Sunday. Alex and Ethan climbed Mt. Washington with Matt Mackenzie and Brooks Bicknell...

More than thirty parent volunteers arrived at midday to pull off a Mexican Fiesta that attracted at least two-thirds of the student body to the Community Center. Chuck and Joe enjoyed enchiladas, bean burritos, Mountain Dew and maracas:

At two o'clock, a crowd filled the newly-reopened stone chapel for a concert by the Alice Fowler Singers, and the "Stingers," a student-driven a capella group that belted out Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'."

Then the jazz/rock band, coached by Bill Wightman, set up for its second concert of the afternoon in the Community Center.

At 4:30, Julie Larsen's dance team wowed more than one hundred students, faculty, parents and friends in the Norris Family Theater.

It is true that hundreds of students achieved much in recent days. It is important to recognize the extended team of adults that made it possible.