Edna Peters is one of many non-teaching staff at Proctor who are beloved by students. Her title is baker, and her cookies are so popular and famous that we mail them to recent graduates at their colleges, but Edna is many other things: a tough, funny, loving grandmother to hundreds...and a rabid Jimmy Buffett fan. Students came to the dining room for breakfast yesterday to the strains of Cheeseburgers In Paradise and Volcano. Here, Chris serves up a breakfast cheeseburger with fries:
It was Edna who set up beach chairs, beach balls and an umbrella for Matt and Jake's comfort in the dining room.
Most seniors begin Senior Projects Monday, which means that today's classes were the final high school academic classes for many. For a senior English section that has enjoyed itself greatly this year, this calls for celebration: a cookout at their teacher's home, followed by a bonfire (Christmas tree burning).
Indeed, this is a time of transition and acceleration toward the end. This morning in assembly, in the continuation of tradition, six new members were inducted into the Allan Bursaw Chapter of the National Honor Society.