It's snowing.

 
School life proceeds. More snow is coming. Much, much more snow. Life goes on.

 

Classes proceed in warm, secure environments.

 

We boast of a 4:1 student to teacher ratio, but the fact is that the great majority of Proctor employees (more than 100) never teach in classrooms. They make our student to employee ratio 2:1, and they are as key to the school's success as any teacher. While we're factoring equations, diagramming mitosis, exercising the Spanish subjunctive mode and debating causal factors of the Civil War, these people are cleaning bathrooms in twenty dormitories, preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner, and maintaining an immense physical plant.

 

So it's snowing, and it's not going to stop for a couple of days.... This means that the Maintenance Team has to remove existing snowbanks, anticipating the need for new space for plows to fill.

Here's a hero: Director of Buildings & Grounds Will Ames.

 

Most students know the names of only a few of the men and women who make Proctor work. The B&G crew is: David Elwell, Garry George, Lynn George, Todd Goings, Ken Guanceri, Roger Leach, Kurt Meier, Brandon Meier, Paul Meyerhofer, Dana Newton, Gary Peters, Jeff Sweet and Armand Truchon. Their names include seven of sons, mothers and fathers of Proctor employees and students.

 

Whatever happens during the next snowstorm, we know we'll be very well fed! The kitchen crew is highly appreciated by students: Deb Bartz, Nancy Cahill, Leslie Florence, Brandon King, Steve Koerner, Art Makechnie, Nate Mazur, Erin Maneely, Edna Peters, Alicia Shedd, and--below--Kevin Farrington and Barbara Major.

 

More invisible perhaps, but certainly just as critical, are the women who comprise the Housekeeping staff. These ladies are immediately involved in student quality-of-life matters. Their work is not easy, and they are never acknowledged sufficiently. But I can name them here: Candi Adams, Diane Benson, Marisa Carter, Audrey Ford, Brenda Jurta, Cindy Labrice, Helga Menger, Deborah Parkman, Elaine Rondeau, Lynda Underhill and Jane Walker.

Many more deserve recognition, but this is a start, prompted by a big snow storm. Lots of people work very hard to make those of us who are working with students do our jobs at a level that makes Proctor the school that it is.