We begin the year out of doors. Brooks Bicknell, who coordinates Wilderness Orientation, stands on top of a brick wall and welcomes approximately one hundred new students and their families. We'll do it again on September 5. In the weeks and months that follow, we come together for almost two hundred whole-school meetings at which anyone is welcome to say anything he or she wishes. Assemblies define our character. So it was wholly appropriate that we held the final assembly of the year outdoors.....like the first.
Proctor is a student-centered community, so we'll focus on students again on this page. Here's what we look like on a hot, early June afternoon:
Swayz ran the show, and students and teachers came forward as usual, to make announcements. The arrival of a cooler full of popsicle sticks disrupted things for only a moment.
These guys tried to bribe me with Reese's Peanutbutter Cups if I would post this image, but I refused on ethical grounds, and post it now anyway.
Many seniors spend their final weeks concentrating on Senior Projects, rather than continuing with classes. Jim Terrill has finished a boat started by Drew Kensinger '04. He has made significant changes, and looks forward to sailing it on Lake Sunapee.
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