Proctor Magazine | Fall 2019

A PROCTOR ACADEMY PUBLICATION | FALL 2019

SUSTAINABILITY AT PROCTOR

FEATURED ARTICLES A Vision for the Future: Financial Sustainability (pg. 4) Sustaining Proctor’s Culture (pg. 6) Reunion 2019 (pg. 30) Pursuing a Mission: Proctor’s Sustainability Efforts (pg. 20)

EDITOR AND WRITER

SECTIONS

Scott Allenby

02 Message from the Head of School

CONTRIBUTORS

10 Why Families are Choosing Proctor

Mike Henriques P’11,’15

16 Arts: Relationships in the Studio

Chris Bartlett ’86 DESIGN Becky Cassidy PHOTOGRAPHY Lindsey Allenby

18 Athletics: Relationships on the Field 22 A Future for Proctor’s Woodlands 24 Celebrating the Class of 2019 34 50 Years Later: Class of 1969 36 Alumni Stories 48 The Campaign for Proctor Update 50 The Proctor Fund Update

Our Motto “Live to Learn. Learn to Live.”

Our Mission Taking inspiration from our motto, Proctor Academy creates a diverse learning and living community: one that values the individual and recognizes the potential of each member to stretch beyond what had been thought possible.

Balancing academic rigor, structure, and support with the freedom for students to explore, create and define themselves, Proctor encourages students to achieve their optimal growth. A deep commitment to a learning skills program and a strong emphasis on experiential learning is interwoven throughout Proctor’s academic, athletic, artistic, and environmentally conscious programs both on and off campus.

Proctor students graduate understanding the values of honesty, compassion, respect, and responsibility, proceeding with confidence and with strategies to become life-long learners and thoughtful contributors to their communities.

For more information about the school, please visit our website at www.proctoracademy.org.

Proctor’s magazine is published by Proctor Academy. Letters and comments are welcomed and can be sent to Scott Allenby, Director of Communications & Strategic Initiatives, Proctor Academy, P.O. Box 500, Andover, NH 03216; (603)735-6715; communications@proctoracademy.org.

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We’re in the Relationship Building Business We work to help students build relationships within this community, to help them understand what can happen in a healthy, value driven setting. We hope for them to be part of sustainability and solutions as they move out from Proctor, and our relationship building is intentional and deep caring. It takes place within the context of a traditional (and non-traditional) learning environment that starts with the relationships between advisor and student and pushes outward - students and teachers, dorm parents and dorm residents, coaches and athletes. Sometimes the most significant lessons unfold thousands of miles away from our Andover campus on programs like Mountain Classroom, Proctor en Segovia, European Art Classroom, Proctor in Costa Rica, and Ocean Classroom. To share a watch on Ocean, paint and live in the shadow of Cezanne in Aix-en-Provence, or to be the leader of the day on Mountain is to become more aware of the complexity of human geography, not just the geography of place. Proctor is about developing the capacity to understand the different ways of being and of being together, developing an appreciation for the “how” behind community solutions and sustainability.

Sustainability - it operates across a multiplicity of platforms at Proctor. It moves beyond people to the solar installations that have popped up on rooftops across campus, the biomass plant that heats over 60% of our buildings in the winter, the geothermal wells that heat and cool the Brown Dining Commons and Peabody Dorm. Because we see the changes in climate as we travel year after year on our off-campus programs and watch our own 2,500 acres at home, because we live it and study it and know we share this land and climate with others and with other species, we work to expand our consciousness about how we live in a way that honors all. How do we make sure that this landscape - as our ties to the Lakota community reminds us - is here and the climate sustainable for the next seven generations? How do we get over the natural inclination to think within the microcosm of the daily?

It’s a delicate balance. Communities like Proctor, so organic and appearing to be spontaneous, are anything but when you look into them. This school, this mission, requires great stewardship from faculty and staff, from parents and friends, from board members and administrators. The fiscal underpinning of the independent school world, save for a few schools that are so highly endowed as to be almost embarrassing, is more delicate than one might suppose. At Proctor we must work hard to collect and steward resources so that the unfolding of tomorrows, for this institution, is assured.

In this year’s magazine, as you have likely surmised, we look to sustainability as a topic: relationships, environmental, and financial. It’s what it all comes down to in the end, and we hope you enjoy this year’s window into Proctor today. We believe we are having an impact on the world, and our commitment is to keep doing what we have been doing, only better.

It sounds so simple.

Mike Henriques P’11, ’15 Head of School

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Solidifying

Vision

Strategic Initiatives for 2019-2020 Academic Year Four major strategic buckets have been identified by faculty, staff, the Board of Trustees, and administration as priorities for the 2019-2020 academic year. Below are a few of the initiatives toward which Proctor is working:

WELLNESS • Comprehensive Health and Wellness Curriculum Design and implement a coordinated, integrated health and wellness curriculum for the Proctor community targeting substance, technology, mental health, physical health, and connection to each other and the natural world.

ACADEMIC MODEL • Academic Concentrations Program Develop an internal and external plan to elevate awareness of the impact of Proctor’s interdisciplinary academic concentrations program.

• Evaluation of Academic Schedule Create an academic schedule that allows for a healthy intersection of academic concentrations, interdisciplinary courses, experiential learning, integrated academic support, arts, athletics, and wellness initiatives.

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Disruption and vision: two forces that can pull organizations in opposite directions. We work with our Board of Trustees, faculty, staff, and students to develop a vision, a road map for the future, where we design and implement the best version of ourselves, and at the same time, market disruptions can pull us in the opposite direction. We inadvertently compromise vision as we react to disruptions rather than doing the hard work of identifying how the shift can intersect with our vision. This is the hard work Proctor has begun to lean into as we chart our course forward in turbulent waters.

Industry-wide, boarding schools are experiencing a decline in international student applications, tuition rates that continue to outpace wages and inflation, national demographic shifts leading to a decline in domestic high/full-pay families interested in boarding school (especially in the northeast), and ever rising fixed costs associated with our business model. The painful corrections taking place in the higher education market among small liberal arts colleges will soon be mirrored in the boarding school market. Proctor is well-positioned to handle the waves of disruption that are already battering our shores, but we must continually evaluate and recenter ourselves around our core competencies and create a vision for Proctor’s future that simultaneously solves a problem our families want solved (read more about this topic on page 10 from Director of Enrollment, Chris Bartlett ‘86), while holding true to our core beliefs about our educational model.

The core of the independent school value proposition is under threat as society realigns its values. We now understand pure academic rigor may be antithetical to deep, durable learning and student well-being. Technology may have an adverse impact on student learning and well-being, not a positive one. What we believe is “special” about our school is remarkably similar to other great schools out there. In the midst of these challenges, we know the opportunity we have at Proctor to impact young people’s lives is real. We believe Proctor’s intersection of integrated academic support, off-campus programs, and experiential learning within a supportive learning environment changes lives. It is the pursuit of this mission that drives us to develop and implement a strategic plan that will help us navigate market disruptions, while allowing us to remain committed to an educational model we know works.

Throughout the coming months, we will be reaching out to you through a series of surveys to gather insights on your Proctor experience as a student, parent, employee, alum, or friend of the school. We welcome your feedback, and encourage you to participate in these data collection efforts as they roll out. Questions? Reach out to Scott Allenby at allenbysc@proctoracademy.org or 603-735-6715.

PEOPLE • Recruitment and Cultivation of Employees To identify and recruit high value, diverse candidates able to execute Proctor’s educational model at a high level in multiple areas.

• Compensation Model and Structure To create and effectively communicate a compensation model for faculty and staff linking performance, growth, and value.

FINANCIAL VIABILITY • Program Analysis Engage in a detailed analysis of allocation of resources to academic and non-academic programs, weighing costs, benefits, and environmental impact of each program.

• Financial Model Stress Testing Design and conduct stress tests to run against Proctor’s financial model in order to proactively practice making difficult financial decisions.

• Strategic Enrollment Plan Develop a strategic enrollment plan that identifies, cultivates, and yields full/high pay, mission-centric families, as well as talented socioeconomically diverse students who would not otherwise have access to Proctor’s educational model.

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Sustaining

Proctor’s

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Culture

The faces of Proctor evolve over time, but the underlying culture remains constant: supportive, loving, fun, kind, adventurous. How does this happen? How does a school of 370 students and 150 employees hold its cultural rudder straight as we annually navigate the influx of 130 new students and a dozen new employees?

Communities have a tendency to look to certain people as cultural pillars, individuals who have so steadily held our tack for decades, mentors whose effortless wisdom point our compass due north. Over the past year, through pain and tragedy, we were reminded the cultural foundation of a school is the responsibility of the many, not a few.

Each year a handful of faculty and staff retire or move on from Proctor. Some have only been with us for a few years, others have dedicated their entire professional careers to this school. As this natural turnover takes place, we question how we will fill the void of their seemingly irreplaceable personalities and unique ways of connecting with students.

Surely, Proctor will never be the same without Pilla, without the Wills, the Norrises, the Hinkleys, the Schoellers, Edna, Lida, JoAnn, or Lisa - the list could go on and on.

And yet, as students returned for Wilderness Orientation during the first week of September, they were greeted by a community as in touch with its roots as ever before.

The longevity of tenure among Proctor’s faculty and staff is remarkable (42 employees have been at the school at least 20 years), leading to a cultural stability that sustains us through moments of uncertainty. Many experienced hands hold our cultural rudder firm, while dozens of younger hands eagerly step into the community each year.

The hard work of building and sustaining a school’s culture is perhaps the most important time we spend at Proctor.

Daily, we make a decision to lean into, rather than away from, challenging conversations. We set aside our grading and the losing battle of email management to have face to face conversations. We take that extra moment, especially when we are in a hurry, to check in with the player on our team who is struggling, to talk with a colleague about a personal challenge, to sit and process with our advisee after assembly, to ask our dorm residents how their day was, and then take time to listen.

Culture is what happens between the rules. It decides how people will act when no one is telling them what to do, and it can only be built over time. The product of relationships that span generations, our culture is our greatest asset, one that we each, regardless of our role at the school (employee, parent, Board Member, student, alumni), play a critical role in sustaining.

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We asked some of our most experienced faculty:

How do we hold onto the past?

Karl Methven | Dean of Faculty | 1980 The Eslicks, Schoellers, Norrises x4, Wills, Hinkleys, Hand, Fowlers, Carvahlos, and others, the folks who recreated Proctor through the 1970s and early 1980s, taught me how to build teams, what to expect of kids, and how to never give up on adolescents. They taught me to see beyond the nonsense, the inconsistencies and immaturities, and to believe in what was underneath.

It is the informal interactions with each other that sustains our culture: eating with different people at meals, running Project Period with different folks, sitting on committees, talking before and after practice in the locker room. These moments shape who we are, and reinforce our playfulness, willingness to have fun with each other, informality, valuing relationships above outcomes, never taking ourselves too seriously. When we live these priorities in our own lives, we create a culture kids want to be a part of, a culture that is healthy given all the stress and anxiety our kids feel outside of the Proctor bubble.

Jane Walker | Housekeeping | 1981 For the past 39 years, Proctor has been an amazing place to work. Everybody is accepted for who they are and what they believe. I think this is so important now, especially for our students; no matter what background, family life, religion, sexuality - this community embraces each person for who they are and that’s what makes us so strong.

Peter Southworth | English | 1985 Proctor’s culture has been forged over years of long, tedious, emotional (at times) faculty meetings where we stay invested in our values. This feeling of inclusivity, where we are all in it together. From Alice and David offering a summer adventure to Alaska to Lakota Sweat Lodge with Chris Norris, Bubba Parker, and others, to Steve Wilkins mandatory night of faculty camping, to cultural openness through our Native American and diversity programs, to faculty hoops and hockey, we have embraced each other and what makes us unique as individuals and as a community. We have to make sure we stay funky, and to keep our connection to the outdoors and our relationship with each other at our core as we push back on the pressures our students feel from the outside world.

2019-2020: Faculty and Staff with more than 20 Years at Proctor 1980

• Karl Methven, Dean of Faculty • Garry George ’78, Maintenance/ Ski Area Manager

1981

• Jane Walker, Housekeeping

1983

• Douglas Houston, Math

1985

• Arthur Makechnie, Dining Services • Maria Jose Ortega Rokiski, Proctor en Segovia • Peter Southworth, English • Kurt Meier, Director of Maintenance

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1987

1991

1988

• Lynn George, Asst. Dir. of Maintenance

• Keith Barrett ’80, Director of Development • Terry Stoecker, Wellness/ Social Science

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1992

• Patty Pond, Math/Mountain Classroom

• Susan Houston, Science • Michael Koenig, College Counseling

1990

• Rosa Maria Gomez, Proctor en Segovia • Brooks Bicknell ’77, Social Science/ Art/Off-Campus Programs • James Cox, Director Information Services • Heide Johnson, Science

• Kevin Farrington, Dining Services

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• Lynn Cox, Learning Skills

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• Erik Cole-Johnson, World Language • Todd Goings, Maintenance

Patty Pond | Mountain Classroom, Math | 1987 Lee Carvalho, Chris Norris, David Fowler, these were a few of the individuals who shaped my early years at Proctor. They established a common vision, helped us realize it was ok to work hard and play hard. They taught me to love life so deeply, and to thrive on the challenge of working with teenagers as they develop their sense of self, while simultaneously empowering me to embrace my own journey of self-discovery as an adult. I always felt respected and nurtured, qualities that I like to think we offer our students. And, of course, there has been plenty of fun sprinkled in with the challenges.

Lynn George | Asst. Director of Maintenance | 1988 Proctor is a special place with special people. It has always felt like home where each person’s work is valued by the community regardless if you are a teaching faculty member, a student, or a member of the maintenance staff. For me, David and Alice Fowler were special people who helped shaped my early years at Proctor. The way they treated people and valued the whole of who we are left a lasting impact on me, and has shaped how I try to interact with others in the community today.

Brooks Bicknell | Ocean Classroom, Proctor in Costa Rica, Arts, Social Science | 1990 When I arrived at Proctor, the Fowlers and Norrises embraced Mindy, me and our family.

Proctor’s deep seeded willingness to innovate, to be different, pulsed through all of our veins.

We have always been a school that is poised to take advantage of our extensive 2,500 acre campus, our off-campus programs, our informal relationships with students and peers. We must continue to embrace these physical attributes as we look to sustaining Proctor into the future.

Terry Stoecker | Wellness, Social Science | 1991 There is this ripple effect that takes place in a community when one person invests wholly in the life of another. When we observe someone care, feel compassion, be of service to, and simply listen to another, we turn and do the same. This is what happens at Proctor. We have the ability to experience really intense, rich relationships with our students, their families, and each other, relationships that allow us to face the “stuff” of life, together. We can laugh and play with our students, and then sit down and have tough, honest conversations with them. Albert White Hat once said to me as we gazed up at the graduation tree outside Holland Auditorium, “This is sacred land.” And it’s true, truly sacred things occur here in people’s hearts, minds, and souls as they grow alongside each other.

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• Chris Bartlett ’86, Director of Enrollment

1999

• Alex Estin ’83, Bookstore/Alumni Relations • Gregor Makechnie ’90, Athletics Director • Bonny Morris, Associate Director of Development

• Greg Allen, Arts • Diane Benson, Director of Housekeeping • Anna-Marie Hanlon, Learning Skills • Michael Littman, Learning Skills • Annie MacKenzie, Learning Skills • Faye Okma, Admissions

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2000

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• Barbara Major, Director Dining Services • Paul Meyerhoefer, Maintenance • David Salathe, USSA/FIS Skiing • Morgan Salathe, English/USSA/FIS Skiing

• Candi Adams, Housekeeping • Drew Donaldson ’92, Dean of Students • Megan Hardie, Science/Wellness • Wendy McLeod, Learning Skills • Sarah McIntyre ’90, Science • Elaine Rondeau, Housekeeping

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Why Families are

Choosing Proctor Enrollment Update from Chris Bartlett ’86, Director of Admissions The anatomy of a single enrollment is fascinating to dissect. Some families rely on deep web research to find the right boarding school for their child, others access school placement officers from independent schools or hire educational consultants to help identify the best school options for their children. However, time after time, I see the power of personal validation that brings the vast majority of families to Proctor. As you ask a family how they found Proctor, their answers take a remarkably similar path: “We first heard about Proctor from a neighbor, then we started talking to a girl with a Proctor jacket while skiing last winter, and when we started asking around we were introduced to a CIT at our summer camp who is a Proctor student and he just gushed about his experience in Segovia, Spain.”

With each incoming student and family there are thousands of vignettes, a web of relationships and interactions among alumni, current and past parents, faculty and staff, and students who share their Proctor experience with those around them.

Stories of grit and perseverance discovered on the decks of an Ocean Classroom or in the desert on Mountain Classroom.

Narratives of a Learning Skills teacher who helped a shaky 9th grade student transform into a confident senior through hundreds of hours of work in the Fowler Learning Center. Sketches of the student who came in a specialist in one sport and left a master of the stage. And, of course, there are the less polished accounts of burnt noodles on Wilderness Orientation, pre-dawn polar swims at Elbow Pond punctuated by Bohemian Rhapsody and donuts, broomball on the Proctor pond, or time spent at breakfast with an advisor.

Collectively, these stories remind us who we are and why Proctor stands out in a crowded market place. As the pool of families considering independent boarding schools continues to shrink and the competition for each student increases, Proctor is well positioned not only because our programmatic offerings are highly differentiated, but because our culture stands out. You cannot manufacture culture overnight. It takes decades to build a cultural foundation that students and employees embrace, and alumni and parents champion to their networks. The programs we choose to run matter. The facilities in which we seek to ignite learning matter. What we do in those classrooms matters. But nothing matters quite as much as how we treat each other and how we cultivate the soul of our community. Prospective families find Proctor because of you - our Proctor Family - so get out there and share your Proctor story!

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ADMISSIONS

By the Numbers

20 Legacy Students Enrolled for the 2019-2020 academic year (listed below), along with a 73 students who are siblings currently enrolled at Proctor. We are truly a Proctor Family!

Ashley Fletcher ’21 / Dana Fletcher ’86 Camden Fletcher ’21 / Dana Fletcher ’86 George Hildner ’22 / Katie Kidder ’91 Frazer Hilliard ’20 / James Hilliard ’80 Brynne Makechnie ’22 / Gregor Makechnie ’90 Chloe Makechnie ’20 / Brendaen Makechnie ’92 Ella Makechnie ’23 / Brendaen Makechnie ’92 Hank McCabe ’22 / Margaret Sova McCabe ’88 Ani McIntyre ’23 / Sarah (Rowe) McIntyre ’90 Lucy Jane McKain ’20 / Amy Westerman McKain ’84 Nate Murawski ’21 / Sarah (Randall ) Murawski ’87 Elliot Norris ’23 / Josh Norris ’92 Birgit Preuss ’21 / Johan Oliver Preuss ’91 William Ragni ’22 / Erick Ragni ’82 Kassia Reynoso ’23 / Pedro Reynoso ’90 Hannah Stowe ’21 / Jeremy Stowe ’92 Ezra Taylor ’21 / Chelsea Taylor ’90 and Lans Taylor ’89 Andy Warren ’23 / Travis Warren ’91 Lucy Werner ’23 / Emma (West) Werner ’85 Teige Wright ’21 / Tim Wright ’83

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Sustaining Learning

Through Connection

We believe in nurturing a Proctor that challenges the scope of an individual’s definition of self in hopes of expanding identity. We never want students to feel locked into a “path”, and are constantly exposed to others who deepen their appreciation for the varied talents, interests, personalities, and backgrounds of others in the community. At the same time, we want students to have an opportunity to dive deep into specific areas of study (read more about Proctor’s Academic Concentrations Program to the right).

We strive to provide an environment where every student is surrounded by adults and peers who understand, appreciate, and value their contribution to this community because of who they are, not because they fit nicely into a prescribed identity sanctioned by society. This cultural obsession with categorizing ourselves encourages others to place us in a box, a binary statement of being one or the other - Red Sox or Yankees, liberal or conservative, artist or athlete - that cripples the fluid development of our own identity. Of course we want students to find their “people”, to feel a part of a group with shared values, interests, or backgrounds. But, never at the cost of their individuality.

Through advisories, dorm assignments, Project Period groups, and a multitude of other multi-age, randomly selected small group learning experiences, students grow outside of the selfselected bubbles that define far too many of our lives.

They learn how they can uniquely contribute to our community, and begin to envision who they could become. This is the power of connection in our classrooms.

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Introducing the Academic Concentrations Program Proctor’s Academic Concentrations Program is a personal and collaborative journey granting all students the opportunity to deeply pursue their intellectual passion.

By intentionally linking academic study, extracurricular pursuits, and off-campus programs, students synthesize the breadth and depth of their Proctor experiences. Over the past four years, students have completed Global Citizenship and Environmental Studies concentrations, and we are excited to expand the offerings to include the following areas of study this year.

Environmental Studies Building on Proctor’s longstanding commitment to environmental stewardship, this concentration links academic, off-campus, and extracurricular environmental offerings in order to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and worldview necessary to confront social and environmental issues.

Global Citizenship Immigration, social and economic inequality, human rights, and globalization issues require an interdisciplinary, nuanced, and culturally-sensitive approach. Complex issues offer few clear-cut solutions, and this concentration helps students understand a multiplicity of perspectives through a synthesis of on- and off-campus experiences.

Social Activism Proctor’s breadth of socially-focused offerings provides students the opportunity to weave the knowledge, experiences, skills, and worldviews necessary to understand and effect change around social and humanitarian issues. This concentration not only facilitates that process, but engages students directly in developing action-based community solutions.

STEM Students who relish the study of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics have the option to enroll in this concentration, an intentional, interdisciplinary program of study whose aim is to foster independent scholarship, problem-solving, and experiential learning in these disciplines, while preparing students for future opportunities in STEM-related fields.

Creative Studies Creativity lies at the heart of all human development and innovation. Students pursuing this concentration come to know the creative process from multiple disciplines through both academic study and the hands-on creation of art. This concentration accommodates students with a wide range of interests in a variety of fields including the arts and literature.

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Global Experiences. Local Connection.

The exposure to new worldviews, cultures, languages, and experiences sit at the heart of Proctor’s five term-long off-campus programs and two summer service trips. However, it is the relationships formed with classmates, host families, and program directors that unlock the true power of these learning experiences. Students return to campus from off-campus programs transformed; as independent learners, in their appreciation for different cultures, and in their understanding of group dynamics. We never take for granted this invaluable role in relationship-building our off-campus programs play in our community. Learn more about Proctor’s off-campus programs at: www.proctoracademy.org/off-campus

MOUNTAIN CLASSROOM

PROCTOR EN SEGOVIA The two months that I have spent in Spain has given me a new perspective on my life.

Sure, things may not have been perfect all the time, but there is a bright future ahead; a future where I get to choose, and where I get to finally live the life I have dreamed of. All I can do right now is enjoy the moment as best as I can. I spend too much of my life at home idle, waiting for something to happen, when I should be out making it happen.

There is no reason to let time slip by. And while it may sound cliché, I believe my experiences in Spain have provided me a new sense of purpose to just get out and have fun. When I return home, I want to make a change in my life, and really try to live it to the fullest, no matter how simple it may be.

Johnny ’20

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Mountain Classroom has quickly resurrected my spirit and replenished all the yummy bits of my soul.

It has reminded me how to be a kid. It is easy to get caught up in demanding schedules or be consumed by stress while glaring down your GPA, but it is most important to protect your liveliness. Remember what it was like to be a “little you” and think about how you can nurture that child so they don’t turn sour from negativity. You are still youthful, whether you are 17 or 70, so stop acting your age and belt it out in the shower from time to time. Everyone deserves to reap the rewards of this amazing life, and while it is a little easier to appreciate this sentiment while snuggling next to close friends under cotton candy sunsets on Mountain Classroom, maintaining your inner child is crucial to our well-being and happiness.

Emily ’20

OCEAN CLASSROOM

PROCTOR IN COSTA RICA

Our journey has been nothing short of incredible. We’ve seen each other at our highest, our lowest, and everywhere in between, thus allowing us to bond and grow as a near perfectly cohesive unit. I have learned to love each and every one of my watch-mates for who I see them as: both their strengths and their observable flaws. Thank you for everything that you have given me on this journey. Thank you for making me what I have become, and building alongside me the best team that I have ever been a part of. I love you all now and forever.

The kindness and selflessness of the people is almost overwhelming at times. The simple act of a hug or a kiss on the cheek to any American would be seen as too close or over personal, but the greeting is becoming just as normal as a handshake or a head nod, it just allows people to feel as though they are seen and recognized. There is no such thing as strangers here, every person is just a human waiting to become a friend.

No one goes through their day alone because it feels as though everyone is with them, it’s a community, and one where everyone knows everyone and family is as broad a term as water or air. The people of Monteverde are life changing and the experience is eye opening. There is nothing so amazing as to feel you are building another home in a country so far away to the original. Pura vida and buen día.

Daniel ’19

Julia ’21

EUROPEAN ART CLASSROOM As I sit here in Vauvenargues listening to French music that Chloe picked, in a house between Picasso’s chateau and Lafayette’s summer house, I don’t feel sad about the ending of this term on Euro. Looking for graduation dresses and listening to Zina prepare her senior speech does not come with a melancholic feeling, but a grateful one instead. I’ve learned that even if I don’t speak with a friend everyday or see them as often as I wish, we still love and care for each other. The ending of Euro doesn’t mean the end of an era, but, instead, all we have learned will always be with us, and the friends we made will always hold a special place in our hearts.

Andrea ’19

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The Arts

Few disciplines thrive through vulnerability like the arts. Our non-artistic pursuits often allow us to fail in private, to practice and then perform. In the arts, failure resides as an inherent part of the creative process, and yet no one enjoys having their unfinished work on display in front of their peers.

This dichotomy requires talented educators to create a learning environment where students feel empowered to create art with the type of inhibition Proctor students do in Slocumb Hall, the Norris Family Theater, and Alan Shepard Boat House. As students enter these spaces, they become free to create, free to express themselves, free to explore new mediums without fear of judgement.

Each term, beautiful work, the result of a creative process that can last years in the case of building a boat, is put on display for the community to enjoy during art shows. Performances by the theater program, jazz/rock ensemble, and dance program remind us of the remarkable talent that lies just under the surface of our students.

Whether it is identifying an untapped talent or helping refine a well-known skill or exploring art history on European Art Classroom, our hope is that the arts at Proctor provide our students the opportunity to develop alongside talented educators and supportive peers. It is through this environment that vulnerability becomes a strength, not a weakness.

Pursuing the Arts Beyond Proctor: Class of 2019 Andrea Chavez ’19 | Northeastern University - Architecture and Art Olivia Clark ’19 | University of Colorado at Boulder | Art and Design Caitlin Colgin ’19 | University of Colorado at Boulder | Art and Design Margaret Fair ’19 | Fairleigh Dickinson University | Musical Theater Ivy Lindner ’19 | Savannah College of Art and Design | Painting Matilda Peng ’19 | Tufts University | Photography Sam Wyckoff ’19 | Denison University | Theater

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The art faculty who are masterfully unlocking artistic talent in our students: BILL WIGHTMAN ’73

DEPARTMENT CHAIR, INSTR. MUSIC DIR.

GREG ALLE N

WOODWORKIN G & BOAT BUIL DING

G DAVID FLEMIN

JENNIFER FLEMING

T CLASSROOM EUROPEAN AR R TO CO-DIREC

EUROPEAN ART CLASSROOM CO-DIRECTOR

KATE AUSTIN '01

PHOTOGRAPHY AND CERAMICS

JILL JONES GROTNES

PHOTOGRAPH Y AND STUDIO AR T

ETT '96 GORDON BASS

G AND WOODWORKIN METAL SHOP

BROOKS BICKNELL '77

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN JENNIFER SUMMERS

CORBETT LEITH '92

THEATER ARTS

STUDIO ART AND BLACKSMITHING

Arts this Year by the Numbers:

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Relationships that Sustain: Coaching for Life By: Mike Henriques, Head of School Our coaches. They are some of the strongest voices in our heads. We hear them years later, decades later - their exhortations, their critiques, their praise, their wisdom. They guide through practices and games, but the best of them do more than that. They check grades, check diet, check sleep, check in as role of ancillary advisor. They check life. I see a lot of that at Proctor even as the landscape of sports goes through the rapid evolution of specialization and rising expectations. We know sports isn’t - or shouldn’t be - a field of passion where one hides from the larger landscape of life. But all too often we see this mindset play out around us in secondary schools and colleges.

I call it transactional athletics. In transactional athletics, what’s in the best interest of the participating athlete is often left on the bench: character development, the joy of competition, life skills, life resiliency, healthy balance and perspective.

Transactional athletics, like transactional academics, puts the individual in a tunnel where the journey is disregarded for a distant, misguiding light. We try to be about more than that at Proctor.

The best coaches are those who not only immerse themselves in the craft of their coaching, but also immerse themselves in the craft of life. Like the best teachers, they see their role as more than just teaching the layers of the game. So many Proctor coaches delight in seeing athletes click into that greater life awareness. They see the game within the context of life, and life within the context of the game. That’s as it should be.

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ATHLETICS BY THE NUMBERS:

PROCTOR ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES 2020 Based on alumni nominations, the following individuals and teams will be inducted into Proctor’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

Each has positively shaped Proctor’s rich athletic culture and will be formally inducted into the Hall of Fame at Alumni Reunion 2020. Visit Proctor’s Athletic Hall of Fame website for a list of all members of Proctor’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

Max Corcoran ’90 Field Hockey Hockey Equestrian

Derek Mansell Wrestling Coach 1983 - 1993

Bob Martin ’65 Football Hockey Lacrosse

CC Callaway ’85 Football Basketball Lacrosse

Varsity Softball 2000 Lakes Region Champions

Visit www.proctoracademy.org/halloffame | Nominate your classmates, coaches, or teams for the Proctor Athletic Hall of Fame by completing the online submission form, or mail your nomination to Gregor Makechnie ’90, Proctor Athletics Director, PO Box 500, Andover, NH 03216.

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Proctor’s Environmental Mission Statement

& Sustainability Efforts

Proctor’s long-standing institutional commitment to environmental sustainability is evidenced by these projects over the past decade: 90% of Morton House recycled during demolition process.

Biomass heating facility installed replacing campus steam plant.

This woodchip fed biomass plant has helped Proctor reduce heating oil consumption on campus by more than 65%.

Environmental Mission Statement adopted striving to achieve a carbon neutral campus and guiding institutional decisions for making environmentally responsible choices.

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Student-led Proctor Environmental Action group installs low-flow shower heads in all dorms on campus.

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Institutional ban on purchasing bottled water passed, water bottle refilling stations installed throughout campus.

Completion of Peabody House dormitory utilizing geothermal heating and cooling and repurposed hardwood flooring throughout the building.

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Zero-sort recycling policy instituted on campus.

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’12 Cannon Dining Hall sets and exceeds goal for serving local/organic foods. By 2015 16% of all food served is either local or organic.

Inspired by the acute impacts of a changing climate, costs of fossil fuels, and an understanding that Proctor must serve as a leader among independent schools, Proctor’s students proposed a bold Environmental Mission Statement in 2008 that challenged the school to attain and sustain a carbon-neutral footprint on campus. To achieve this goal, Proctor worked to provide systems and services that encouraged behavior, innovations, and technology in order to reduce our resource consumption, increase the purchasing of goods and services that are ecologically responsible, and augment organic, local, and healthful food choices each year. By empowering current members of the community to be active stewards for an equitable and ecologically healthy earth, we are constantly exploring the social, ecological and economic problems that confront us all, as we work to address those challenges on our campus and in our personal lives each day.

More than a decade after Proctor’s Environmental Mission Statement was adopted by the Board of Trustees in 2008, the school has made significant strides in pursuit of this mission (see timeline below). A lens of sustainability has informed each building project, purchasing decision, and institutional investment, however, the Proctor community must continue to lean into the issue of environmental sustainability as the climate crisis intensifies each day.

As individuals, we can become complacent in our own responsibility when we see an institution making large scale investment in sustainability efforts. Our challenge as a community is to daily live our Environmental Mission Statement - as individuals, as a school, and as a community. We are thrilled to boast thirteen solar arrays, a biomass central steam plant, wood heated dormitories, 2,500 acres of woodlands, an annual Earth Day celebration, and two geothermally heated dormitories, but if our individual behaviors do not change, are we truly living our mission?

The following pages highlight a few individuals within the Proctor family who are living this mission in their own lives.

Please share your stories of sustainability with us by emailing communications@proctoracademy.org.

Increased efficiency of snow guns has reduced 210,000 kWh to 30,000 kWh use and required 50% less time to make snow.

Installation of 273 photovoltaic solar panels on the Wilkins Meeting House generating more than 70,000 kWh of renewable electricity per year.

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Installation of 250,000 kWh of photovoltaic solar panels on four buildings and at the Proctor Ski Area by ReVision Energy bringing Proctor’s solar production on Proctor’s campus to over 320,000 kWh per year.

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Installation of 35 high efficiency Lusio full dimming light fixtures in the Farrell Field House reducing electricity consumption by more than 50,000 kWh while also tripling the available lighting in the facility.

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New Printer System installed to reduce paper consumption by 30% Solar installations on Burbank Dormitories and the Head’s House and Annex bring total solar capacity to 428,200 kWh.

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Completion of net-zero ready Brown Dining Commons, the greenest building ever built on Proctor’s campus utilizing geothermal wells, solar panels, composting food system, and all-electric kitchen.

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Proctor’s ESG Endowment Investment reaches 37% of total endowment.

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Campus path lighting upgraded to reduce light pollution and energy consumption.

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Jack and Jake Bronnenberg a partnership into the future In 2001, Eric Johnson ’88 was harvesting on Proctor’s campus when he convinced a leery Dave Pilla to meet with Jack Bronnenberg about using a feller buncher to harvest pine on the triangle of land south of Elbow Pond. Dave’s conservative approach to mechanized logging shifted after learning about Jack’s approach to sustainable harvesting, and this first meeting laid a foundation for a two decade partnership.

A full-service, sustainable logging company out of Hillsboro, New Hampshire, the Bronnenbergs work only with clients 100% committed to sustainable harvesting. A significant portion of Jack and his son, Jake’s, business each year brings the pair to Proctor’s land. As suppliers of all the woodchips that supply Proctor’s biomass plant each year, the Bronnenbergs have agreed to work Proctor’s land into the future. Jack notes, “I cherish the opportunity to daily put into practice my own personal ethics related to sustainable harvesting, land management, and habitat creation alongside an organization like Proctor who shares those very ethics. Sometimes you work for customers, and feel like you need to stick up for your own beliefs in order to do what’s right. Working with Proctor, I have never felt this way.”

He adds, “Seeing a closed loop of sustainability for Proctor where the heat source is harvested, processed,

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and then utilized on Proctor’s land is a powerful example of sustainability in action.”

Jack and Jake will work with Proctor to implement the land management plan Dave Pilla had in place prior to his passing.

A priority on that plan was gaining access to Philbrook Pasture, a 400 acre plot of land that has long been inaccessible to logging machinery. With the Bronnenberg’s guidance, Proctor has made the decision to build a new woodlands road and harvest Philbrook Pasture in the coming years. Jack notes, “Everything we do, we do through the lens of sustainability and habitat management.” Their work the last few years has been focused on habitat creation with patch cuts near Adder Pond and Elbow Pond, and ten acres of openings in remote locations on the eastern slope of Ragged Mountain near the Bulkhead. This off-sharing work through the Natural Resource Conservation Service has created beautiful habitat for songbirds, bears, and other wildlife. “In my thirty years in business, Proctor has been by far the most rewarding, long-term client I have ever had.

Dave Pilla’s and Proctor’s commitment to the land is a model for others to follow, and I look forward to partnering with Laura in the future as we continue to leverage Proctor’s woodlands as an educational tool.”

Laura Ostrowsky a vision for the future of proctor’s woodlands As an undergraduate English major at Bowdoin College, Laura Ostrowsky always held a deep appreciation for the forest. Spending each summer in the Catskills growing up, the Minnesota native knew her future would intersect with the woods and teaching in some capacity. During her masters program at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Laura experienced the joy of mixing these ingredients as both a student and teacher of undergraduate courses in plant physiology, environmental biology, and conservation ecology. Throughout her coursework at Yale, Laura spent as much time as possible in the northeast corner of Connecticut collecting samples for her thesis, actively managing the woodlands with her classmates, and living on the land camping each summer.

This fall, Laura steps foot onto a new tract of land, and into a new community as a member of the Proctor science faculty, woods team leader, sugaring extraordinaire, and woodlands manager. Laura cannot wait to explore Proctor’s 2,500 acres alongside her students, “My first priority coming to Proctor is simply to get to know the land, to spend time with Jack and Jake Bronnenberg learning from them, to get to know Proctor’s neighbors and their relationship with our

land before I develop my own relationship with this land.”

Laura recognizes the perceived barriers the outdoors can have for many adolescents (and adults), but is committed to keeping access to Proctor’s woodlands a priority, “I am excited to work with my classes and woods team to take inventory on forest health, species, basal health, and to continue to enhance the maps of Proctor’s woodlands. We have such an extraordinary opportunity at Proctor to use our woodlands as an educational tool, to conduct real research with our students and even to partner with universities for research projects.” She adds, “Ultimately, I want to make sure we can do whatever possible to get as many people out enjoying our woodlands as possible. I believe a sense of place is one of the most important components of an adolescent’s identity. Emotionally, it is so helpful to have this grounding, and while I realize some people are intimidated by the woods, being educated about what species surround you, about plant and animal species, helps reduce those barriers and feel comfortable spending time in one of our greatest resources.”

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Proctor’s 171st Commencement

Celebrating our Newest Alumni

Regardless of the school, all graduations feel special, but there is something different about a Proctor Commencement. It’s just informal enough to keep you on your toes, yet serious enough we all cried at least once. The weekend ensures you exercise a complete spectrum of emotions whether you are prepared to or not. Graduation day turns into a family reunion as alumni flock to campus to celebrate their former classmates and parents of the Class of 2019 obtain a final glimpse into our imperfect family before officially becoming parents of alumni.

Adolescents are designed to outgrow their surroundings. We have done our job when they start to spread their wings (and ruffle our feathers). Now that the Class of 2019 has walked across that stage and received their diplomas, they are equipped to fly into whatever adventure awaits them next (college, gap year, or trade school), knowing all the while they have a home at Proctor to which they can safely return whenever they want. The words shared by students during Saturday’s ceremony reaffirmed our belief that this group of young people are ready. They are ready to make decisions on their own, to tackle hardships, and to surround each other with love and support when needed. They are ready to keep growing, to keep learning, and to keep living to learn and learning to live.

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In life, we don’t know what we have until we have to leave it behind. We all like to complain about our current situation, but what Proctor has given me, has given all of us, is a gift. We have been given a place that welcomes us, encourages us to grow outside who we think we are to who we could become.

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From afar it may seem like our high school years are a well laid out four year plan. But, as a person who thrives on being organized, I can assure you our years at Proctor are filled with disruptions. But, these disruptions are by design.

They are intentional, and quickly teach us we cannot do life alone.

They help us realize we need the support of those around us, and teach us to see this community from the perspective of others.

- Ben Charleston ’19 Valedictorian

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- Cat Krupka ’19 Salutatorian

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Commencement | Awards and Recognition

Fred Elroy Emerson 1886 Award Awarded to Anna Hollenbaugh

A graduate who best exemplifies strength of character, personal dedication, and commitment to the Proctor community.

A student who, during the junior and senior years, has shown the greatest development in attaining the ideals of Proctor.

Charles Levy Award Awarded to Benjamin Charleston

Robert J. Livingston Community Service Award Awarded to Lauren Ho

Charles A. Jones Outstanding Athlete Award Awarded to Mikala Eacrett and Terrell Brown

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A student who has made outstanding contributions to the community through volunteer service to others.

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Alice S. Fowler Award Awarded to Nelson Makechnie

Most outstanding male and female athlete in the graduating class.

Lyle H. Farrell Award Awarded to Pape Diallo

Citizenship Award Awarded to Zina Asante and Samuel Wyckoff

A senior who has performed outstanding service to the school and to his/her fellow students.

Best all-around male and female citizens in the graduating class.

Philip H. Savage Award Awarded to Lucas Bush

Allan S. Bursaw ’67 Award Awarded to Eleanor Richardson Student who exemplifies high effort and citizenship.

Carl B. Wetherell Award Awarded to Logan Dunne

Faithful and willing performance of all extra curricular responsibilities.

Student who exhibits outstanding leadership qualities.

Andover Service Club Award Awarded to Amanda Hinds, Hailey Makechnie and Samantha Parkman

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The past three months on European Art Classroom allowed me to learn without feeling like I was being taught. I was able to experience Proctor’s motto in action: Live to Learn, Learn to Live.

The definition of a student has no age requirement, yet as a society, we too often forget age and ability do not matter, forget that the whole point of this thing called life is to grow. We must never allow ourselves to stop learning, to stop pushing ourselves to master something new.

- Zina Asante ’19 Senior Speaker

CA D E EAR Renaissance Teacher Award Awarded to Alan McIntyre Science Department

Recognizes a Proctor faculty or staff member who has gone above and beyond to make the experiences of students at Proctor more meaningful through their encouragement and support.

Arizona State University Auburn University Babson College Belmont University Bentley University Boston College Boston University Brigham Young University California Poly. State Univ.

Central Connecticut State Univ.

Colby College Colgate University College of Charleston College of the Holy Cross Colorado College Curry College Dartmouth College Denison University Eckerd College Emmanuel College Endicott College Fairfield University Fairleigh Dickinson Univ.

Gettysburg College Hamilton College

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This award recognizes extra-ordinary service to the Proctor Community by a non-faculty member and heightens awareness of the dedication, hard work, and loyalty of all its employees which makes possible the smooth operation of this institution.

John O’Connor ’79 Award for Excellence in Teaching Awarded to Melanie Maness English and Social Science Departments

Alumni two and five years out of Proctor vote for the individual among the current faculty who in their opinion is most deserving of this Excellence in Teaching Award.

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College Decisions and Matriculation

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Nance Patten Barrett Staff Award Awarded to Barbara Major Dining Services

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Hartwick College Sewanee: Univ. of the South Hobart & Wm. Smith Colleges Sierra Nevada College John Cabot University St. Lawrence University Johnson & Wales University Stonehill College Kalamazoo College Suffolk University Lake Forest College Texas Christian University Lehigh University Trinity College Louisiana State University Tufts University Merrimack College Unity College Middlebury College Univ. of Colorado at Boulder Montana State Univ., Bozeman Univ. of Mass., Amherst Muhlenberg College Univ. of Montana, Missoula New England College Univ. of Southern California New York University University of Denver Northeastern University University of New Hampshire Pennsylvania State University University of Puget Sound Plymouth State University University of Utah Quinnipiac University University of Vermont Rhodes College University of Victoria Roanoke College Utica College Robert Morris University Wesleyan University Rollins College Westfield State University Sacred Heart University Wheaton College, MA Saint Joseph’s College, ME Wittenberg University Savannah College of Art & Design

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Being able to share the football field and basketball court with my brother for two years. - Henry Bechok

Going undefeated and winning the Lakes Region Championship for baseball in 2017.

- Myles Powers and Renny Matthes-Theriault

CLASS OF 2019:

What is your Favorite Proctor Memory?

Feeling the support and love from the audience in assembly as I got a standing ovation after my Pete Talk about sexual assault. - Jada Eisenbud

Every game day with the basketball team.

Ski trips with the Proctor USSA/FIS ski team.

Jumping off of the swinging bridge for the first time my freshman spring. - Amanda Hinds

- Ben Charleston

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- Terrell Brown

Sitting on the stone wall in front of the pond with my friends on warm spring nights. - Annie Kittell

Kayaking in Baja on Mountain Classroom.

- Lucas Bush

Freshman year biology extra help where we would spend hours with Alan drinking tea and always taking a video as our note back to our dorm.

- Mikala Eacrett

Running to Elbow Pond and swimming with my soccer team during sports camp.

- Hailey Makechnie

Getting water thrown on me by a man in Spain during a midnight street soccer game. -Nelson Makechnie

Dancing in San Juan, Puerto Rico after spending 11 days at sea on Roseway.

Everything about Ocean Classroom.

It’s such a unique experience.

- Neal Shivakumar

- Alex Muromcew

Finding the rope swing at the river.

Meeting my best friend at Jakes.

-Sam Crocker

- Aidan Doherty and Caitlin Colgin

Going on Proctor En Segovia winter of my junior year. - Mikel Timm

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REUNION ’19

A Great Weekend to be a Hornet!

Senator Angus King P’09 reminded us during his commencement address to prioritize spending time with our family and friends because when life gets hard, they are all we have. More than 200 attendees followed King’s advice and returned to campus to spend time with their Proctor family during Alumni Reunion 2019 from June 2-4. Everyone comes back to Alumni Reunion for a different reason: to hang out with friends, to show their own children the place they spent their high school years, to gather together to remember classmates who have passed, or simply to rock out to Nick’s Other Band in the Wise Center. But, what unites everyone’s experience is a commitment to nurturing the relationships that have shaped their lives.

We are all busy, all going a million different directions with competing priorities with our families, jobs, community responsibilities, expenses. Valid excuses abound for why we cannot attend events like Alumni Reunion, but time and time again, the value of Senator King’s advice comes into focus during Reunion Weekend. Feeding our roots requires intentionality, and as we nurture the relationships closest to us, we create a safety net that will sustain us when life gets tough. Too often we gather with those we love at weddings and funerals.

That’s not enough, and that is why Reunion Weekend is so important to the lifeblood of Proctor. Thank you to each of our alumni for showing us what it means to prioritize friends and family in your life, and we hope each and every one of our Proctor alumni return to campus in the near future. We miss you!

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See You Next Year!

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Bill Davis ’69

Bill Bolton ’69 & Kit Norris

Class of 2009: Glenna Ledoux, Ebby Gerry, Kristen Turpin, Olivia Shure, Spencer Wood, Rosemary Sullivan, Annabelle Gray, Kat Copeland, Rosie Loring, Ashley Perkins, Kayleigh Lutz

Class of 1994: Mike Parenteau, Rinear Thatcher Coulter ’93, Bob Culver, Robie Holland, Seth Waleryszak, Michael Woo, Tom Lytle, Joe Kahle, Caroline Metsch, Ryan Bowse, Abby Landry Chau, Winnett Ordway, DJ Hanlon, Karyn Ames, Katrina Roski, Lindsay Brock Grow

Lynn Bartlett, Paige Lytle

Kate St. Clair ’10, Braiden Daly ’11

George Frick ’79, Marie Frick, Kristen Turpin ’09, Kayleigh Lutz ’09, Olivia Shure ’09, Chris Bartlett ’86, Ashley Perkins ’09, Annabelle Gray ’09, Rosie Loring ’09, Kat Copeland ’09

Bill Bolton ’69, Bill Davis ’69

Class of 1989: Rinear Thatcher Coulter ’93, Bobby Kaynor, Roby Holland

Katie Kidder ’91

Class of 1969: Kurt Schrepel, Tom Canfield, Diane Fowler ’80, Alan McLean, David Fowler, Andy Chadwick, Robert McClintic, Bill Bolton, Phil Kernan, David LeDuc, Bill Ethan Vandermarlk ’04, Grant Davis, Jim Hoyt, John Van Siclen, Frank Near Wheeler ’04, Chris Jones ’04

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Corby Leith ’92, Knox Turner ’67

Annabelle Gray ’09, Rosie Loring ’09, George Dyment ’09, Ashley Perkins ’09, Kat Copeland ’09

Christian Langendal ’99, Sonja Free-Bernt ’99, Chris Dale ’10, Alan McIntyre, Jed Hinkley ’99

Class of 2004: John Pellett, Grant Wheeler, Nora McElroy, John Fowler, Joe Lloyd

Class of 1979: Bill Pierce & Daniel Hart

Back Row: Mercy Paine ‘14, Kate Pattison ‘14, Michelle Asch’14, Nicola Bush’14, Craig Chalifour’14, Speight Drummond’14 Front Row: Laura Christie’14, Liam Howard’14, Connor Hollenbaugh’14, Ian Starkey’14, Jonathan Goodnow’14

Proctor Hornet with Phil Kernan ’69

Class of 1999: Christian Langendal, Taylor Fox, Jed Hinkley, Sonja Free-bernt, Scott Hamann, Mariah Keagy

Class of 1984: Bob Sutherland & David Pirtle

Keith Barrett ’80, Emily Jacobson ’14

Alex Estin ’83, Reilly Walsh ’17, Jordan Moore ’14, Nika Paulin ’14, Merrick Madsen ’13, Connor Tedesco ’14, Sam Jaxtimer ’14, Joey Mitchell ’14

Sonia Free-Bernt ’99

Kristen Turpin ’09, Olivia Shure ’09

Nicola Bush ’14, Emily Morison ’14

Walter Perry ’73, Proctor Hornet

Meaghan Sheehy ’14, Cortland Begor ’14, Julia Sargent’ 14

Connor Tedesco ’14, Nika Paulin ’14, Jacob Lloyd ’14

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CLASS OF 1969 Celebrating 50 Years

Throughout Reunion Weekend, members of the Class of 1969 shared stories from a bygone era in Proctor’s history, an era when the late Spence Wright threw shoes and chalk at students to wake them up in class and boys simply could not find enough layers to combat sub-zero temperatures during outdoor hockey games on the pond. Longtime Trustee Bill Bolton ‘69 shared about the turbulent times that framed their Proctor experience - the Vietnam War, social unrest, the Civil Rights movement, counter culture rebellion against the traditional boarding school model - and while these experiences impacted the relationships these boys (Proctor was an all-boys school until 1971) had with their teachers, the core of their relationship with Proctor remains remarkably consistent with that of our most recent graduates.

The emotion that surfaced as these men said ‘thank you’ to their former teachers, coaches, and dorm parents, like Chris and Kit Norris, Tim Norris, and David Fowler, fifty years after they last saw them was powerful. Neither words nor images do these moments justice, but we all noticed. We all saw the power of enduring relationships, and took heart in the lasting impact of prioritizing the time we spend with those we love.

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2019 Proctor

Alumni Awards The Proctor Alumni Association recognized two alumni for their outstanding contributions to their communities with the 2019 Proctor Alumni Awards. Eric Johnson ’88 was recognized posthumously as his wife, Heide, and children Annika ’17 and Britta ’19 received the award on his behalf. Travis Warren ’91 was also recognized by Proctor Alumni Association president, Walter Perry ’73. Read more about Eric ’88 and Travis’ ’91 contributions to Proctor and their local communities at: proctoracademy.org/2019alumniawards

2019 Proctor Athletic Hall of Fame Inductions

During Reunion 2019, we celebrated the athletic accomplishments of four individuals and one team with an induction into the Proctor Athletics Hall of Fame. The 2020 Proctor Athletic Hall of Fame inductees can be found on Page 21 of this publication. To read more about this past year’s inductees, visit: www.proctoracademy.org/2019hof

Jesse Putney ’53

Stephanie Clarke ’92

Sarah Will P’00, ‘03

Football | Skiing | Baseball

Soccer | Hockey | Basketball | Lacrosse

Teacher, Coach, Advisor (1979-2014)

Dick Bellefeuille

1981 Boys’ Soccer Team

Athletic Trainer, Teacher, and Coach (1968-1999)

11-1-1 Record | Back-to-Back Lakes Region Champions

*Awarded posthumously

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Alumni

Stories

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Charles Callaway ’85

Blazing A Sustainable Path Through Building Relationships The average population density of the United States is roughly 87 people per square mile, but in New York City that number jumps to an astonishing 27,012 people per square mile. A rapidly changing climate will impact the 82% of US population living in cities more acutely than those living in suburban and rural areas as the urban heat island effect raises average annual temperatures by as much as 5 °F in cities. For Charles (CC) Callaway ‘85, a native New Yorker, he saw an opportunity to work at WE ACT for Environmental Justice as a way to address multiple needs in his neighborhood: climate education, environmental health, and the production of good jobs to meet a changing demand in the workforce.

the importance of good, sustainable jobs in creating a healthy community. “Everyone is talking about the Green New Deal, a model for transforming our economy to a more sustainable and equitable one, and that’s what I have been doing on a local scale here in Harlem, helping to reduce our community’s dependence on fossil fuels while creating renewable energy jobs for residents.”

Since his time at Proctor, CC always knew he wanted to pursue a career related to sustainability, and moved back to New York in 2007 after a period of time working in the northeast (including a year at Proctor in 1997-1998 where he taught math, history, and coached football and basketball). A self-de“Proctor taught me to be a good For the past thirteen years, CC has scribed inner-city kid, CC took part in neighbor. A healthy community held a variety of positions with WE the Dome Project which helped him ACT, most recently serving as director of land at Proctor 1981. Dyslexic and nurtures everybody, and Proctor job training where he prepares people wanting to find a path out of the intaught me the importance of of all ages to get the experience and ner-city, Proctor was the perfect fit for how to empower those around certifications needed to install solar him. “Proctor taught me to be a good me to be their best selves.” panels (he has trained 80 people to neighbor. I’ve always felt my calling is date, 20 of whom have already landed to be an organizer, to enter into coma job with solar companies installing munities, figure out how they work panels in New York City). WE ACT works predominantly and make a positive impact. A healthy community nurtures with low-income people of color, but their impact expands everybody, and Proctor taught me that valuable lesson.” well beyond their immediate community as they helped introduce Bill 1253 in New York City that passed on April A three sport standout at Proctor in football, basketball, 18, 2019 with the explicit goal of reducing building carbon and lacrosse, CC pursued football at the collegiate level and emissions rates 80% by 2050. The bill is aimed at buildings helped lead Ithaca College to the 1989 National Champiwith 25,000 SF of floor area and larger, which represents a onship. He credits his success in college to the foundational majority of greenhouse gas emissions produced by buildings relationships developed at Proctor. “I was influenced by so in NYC. many people at Proctor: my Learning Skills teacher Ellen (Yenawine), my advisor Eva (Mansell), Coach Schoeller, Bob With less than 1% of the solar industry comprised of Livingston, Dick Beaullefille, and Mrs. Giampaolo. She was low-income people of color, CC and WE ACT see a the smile of the community. Every time you walked by her tremendous opportunity to empower those people who will office and said hello, she smiled and at that moment, I knew be impacted most by climate change to take action. Their I was OK. She was there for all of us, and sometimes those next major project will form a solar collaborative among the little moments mean the most to a kid who feels far away owners of low-income housing units in the West Harlem from home.” community, many of whom are seniors living on fixed income with energy costs as their single largest expense. CC and his Today, CC provides that same smile to countless people in team recognize the opportunity that exists to provide his community. Whether it is through his work with WE meaningful jobs to young people, dislocated workers, and ACT, the customers of his small scarf business Peter Charles previously incarcerated individuals while helping reduce energy Savvy (he designs and makes each scarf), or the volunteer costs for fixed-income seniors in the community. basketball program he has run at his church for the last 17 years, he centers those around him, helps provide a path While not everyone recognizes the link between job training forward, and inspires action. and protecting the environment, CC has long understood

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Ann Luskey ’85 Sustainability as a Lifestyle

We have a tendency to look back at our lives and search for the pivotal moment, a specific point in time when our trajectory changed or our perspective shifted. This narrative of singularly transformative experiences romanticized for centuries in literature rarely mirrors our reality as humans.

Instead, our identities are shaped through the sum of our experiences, through the relationships we forge with others during our lifetimes. Who we are evolves as we evolve. For Ann Luskey ’85, her early experiences at Proctor laid a foundation for a life committed to sustainability, but it has been her continued encounters with organizations and individuals committed to environmental sustainability, some intentional others happenstance, over the past thirty-five years that have shaped her identity.

bins, the founder of the Smithsonian African Art Museum.

It was working with Robbins that she accidentally discovered an interest in design. After returning to design school at Marymount University, she started her own interior design business and grew increasingly interested in sustainable design. (Fun fact: Ann designed and owns the first LEED Platinum Certified residential home in Maryland.)

In parallel to her career as an interior designer and mother of three, Ann’s lens of sustainability carried over to her work as an activist and philanthropist. Whether it is through her involvement in The Plastic Pollution Coalition, The Beagle Foundation, Oceana, The Sylvia Earle Alliance, The Ocean Foundation, City Kids Wilderness Project (her brother Randy’s nonprofit providing outdoor experiences to urban youth), or serving as commodore for the Kollegewidgwok Yacht Club “Sustainability must be a practice where she organized and hosted the - just like lacrosse, or yoga, or acting largest one design ‘clean’ regattas in you must practice it daily. Some steps Maine, Ann has used her passion for outdoor education, ocean conserare going to require very little effort, vation, and sustainability to impact others are going to seem monumenreal change in the world. tal. What is important is taking the

Arriving at Proctor as a sophomore, Ann found herself in David Pilla’s advisory and immediately internalized his deep appreciation for the environment. “David was the first person who taught me to love and appreciate nature. My indoctrination began with him. He was this custodian of the Earth - in his classes, with first step, incorporating it into your our advisory, in his work stewarding This change does not come easily, daily life and in this way you turn Proctor’s land - and he helped me see but Ann uses the analogy of climbyour beliefs into action.” life through the lens of the natural ing a ladder to teach others about world.” She adds, “When combined sustainability. “Instituting change in with my Wilderness Orientation one’s life can feel overwhelming. If experience with David Fowler and George Emeny, I was we view the adoption of sustainability practices in the same immediately surrounded at Proctor with individuals who way we envision climbing a ladder we turn daunting into understood the value in being connected to the outdoors. reality. We are not going to jump to the top rung overnight.

Each morning Chopper asked, ‘Have you hugged your birch We need to take small steps. Start taking your own bags to today?’ I should have made a tee-shirt. That intentional conthe grocery store, research which companies use as little sinnection has stuck with me all these years later.” gle-use plastics in packaging as possible, shop for produce locally. Embrace those small steps, and overtime, you will The culmination of these moments at Proctor - daily conlook back and realize you are half-way up the ladder. And versations with David Pilla, regular service days, studying on the top is a perfect platform for passing along your wisdom.”

Mountain Classroom, a trip to Rosebud, South Dakota as a member of Proctor’s Board of Trustees - fostered a deep deAnn believes the need for sustainability education is amplisire to keep environmental issues at the forefront of her cafied in the boarding school world where there is an inherent reer path forward. Ann notes, “Proctor, by far, was the most concentration of wealth, and often an assumption that life influential part of my education around sustainability and should be comfortable. “We have a trajectory of consumpthe environment; it was the spark that continues to burn tion in our world that is totally unsustainable, and we must and govern my life.” talk to our kids about environmental stewardship. We have to change our behavior patterns, we have to become comA graduate of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill fortable with the uncomfortable. Living a sustainable life as an African Studies and Psychology Major, Ann taught in means you are going to make sacrifices, and that can be a Tanzania for a year before working alongside Warren Robchallenging, yet critical, message for us to hear.”

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Ann Luskey ’85 and her family

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Kyle Parsons ’96

A Problem. A Solution. A Future in Sustainability.

We all have a story, an explanation for how we arrived where we are today. Our journeys are rarely linear, but when we look in our rearview mirrors, we begin to make sense of all the twists and turns along the way. For Kyle Parsons ‘96 his path to founding Indosole, the most environmentally sustainable footwear company in the world, leads back to a foundation of sustainability built during his time at Proctor.

Upon his return home to San Francisco, Kyle eagerly showed his friends his new pair of sandals, and quickly solidified his vision for Indosole: a brand that would help reduce pollution in Indonesia, would responsibly employ skilled artisans in an impoverished region, recycle pollutants (tires), and provide a sustainable footwear product to the masses around the globe.

He reflects, “Indosole became a hybrid of my life’s experiences. It married that early exposure to recycling by Nelson Lebo at Proctor to my work in a recycling center and at a surf shop in Nantucket during college to my experience in retail as a sales rep to my deep love for the people, beaches, and environment of Bali.”

A native of New Castle, New Hampshire, Kyle arrived at Proctor Academy in the fall of 1994 for his final two years of high school.

The environment at Proctor - a unique dichotomy of newfound freedom and increased accountability - challenged him to evaluate who he was and who he believed he could become, “My teachers at Proctor influenced me deeply, not just in how they taught, but Three trips across the globe and four years later, Kyle came in how they lived their lives.” He adds, “Dave Pilla’s wildlife ecolto the realization that Indosole might be more than simply ogy class opened me up to a purity of nature, an almost spiritual a good idea. He quit his job (admittedly a bit prematurely), experience, where I began to understand my place within the secured a $10,000 loan from his roommate, and was off and greater landscape of the natural world. Dale Milne helped me running with his first shipment of 500 sandals. Indosole’s understand myself as a learner. Nelson growth trajectory has been far from linLebo introduced me to the concepts of ear, however, and in 2016, Kyle made compost and recycling, however, it was the difficult decision to halt all deliv“If you’re not aware of an issue, Karl Methven who was the most influeries in order to completely overhaul you’re simply not aware of it. ential adult during my adolescence. He his production line. Timeliness and Thankfully, Proctor created an was my advisor, my hockey coach, and consistency issues with product hinawareness of the natural world, my soccer coach, and I had such great dered his ability to scale, so he found pollution, and recycling for me that respect for the way he talked to us and a new production facility, developed a conducted himself. It inspired me to new manufacturing process (grinding has shaped the rest of my life.” simply be a better person.” down tires instead of using fixed pieces of tread), and created new technologies Fast forward to the summer between that would enhance the final product his sophomore and junior years at Plymouth State University and production process. Indosole continues to partner with and Kyle found himself working at a waste facility on Nantucka group of forty artisans to create custom lines of sandals et where he encountered one of the most advanced recycling (around 5,000 pairs of sandals a year), but the new facility has systems in the world. “I became intimately acquainted with the a capacity to produce as many as 10,000 pairs per day and has waste stream and have never looked at a piece of plastic the same been largely responsible for increased sales from 7,000 pairs since. This experience combined with my work at a surf shop in 2016 to 47,000 in 2018 to 120,000 pairs in 2019 through selling sandals the following summer planted the seed for what dozens of joint ventures around the globe. would become Indosole.”

Since its inception, Indosole sought to achieve an elusive His love for retail would eventually lead him into a career as a sales triple-bottom line of sustainability: profits for the company, representative in the snowboard industry. However, it was not unpositive environmental impact, and reduced costs for anothtil his flip flop broke while on a trip to Bali that he considered er company by recycling tires through their partnership with creating sustainable footwear. “I was blindsided by what would Bridgestone Tires. As a certified B Corp, Indosole meets the ultimately become my career when I wandered into a small sanstrict standards of environmental and social practices required dal store in Bali with a broken flip flop. The woman running the by the non-profit B-Lab and employs an ethos of sustainability storefront sold me a pair of sandals whose tread was constructed Kyle first encountered as a student at Proctor nearly 25 years of an old motorbike tire. Immediately I saw an opportunity. The ago. Learn more about Indosole and their positive impact on more I researched pollution in Indonesia, and the waste created the environment at: www.indosole.com. by the 1.5 billion tires used each year, the more I realized I needed to do my small part to work toward a solution.”

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Becca Newhall ’95

Understanding the Complexity of Communities The more we learn about the natural world, the more we see how the interconnectedness of ecosystems mirrors that of human communities. Becca Newhall ‘95 finds herself at the intersection of both the natural world and the layers of relationships that comprise community in her work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s (NOAA) Office for Coastal Management. By supporting states as they work to implement coastal management programs, Becca partners with state agencies on projects ranging from ocean uses like wind farms to resiliency issues like locating marshes for restoration, identifying vulnerable infrastructure, developing habitat maps, and supporting marine debris cleanups. She notes, “Our work at NOAA supports both sustainable ecosystems and communities.

My office provides data and tools to help communities make important decisions, like where to build infrastructure so it will not regularly flood in 20 years.”

versation with her older sister, a rising senior at Colgate, that would sharpen her focus further. “She told me I had to take oceanography. From that moment on, I fell in love with the ocean and knew I wanted to pursue a career in the field. Even though I grew up on the ocean, I didn’t fully appreciate its complexity until I took an array of ocean focused courses and spent a semester at sea in college.”

With newfound focus, Becca went on to complete her masters in Coastal Environmental Management at Duke University, and took a job at NOAA using remote sensing to map coral reefs where she realized her skill set and passions were not well suited for an isolated job, “I quickly found out I am much more of a collaborator, and struggle to work in isolation. This was a critical recognition for me, and I encourage young alumni to be willing to really analyze how well their passions, skill sets, and personalities align with a given career path.” After A native of Boston’s north shore, Becca’s circuitous journey transitioning to projects focused on marine protected areas, to Gloucester, MA to work for NOAA saw her spend her NOAA’s disaster relief and budgeting, Becca spent a period of high school years at Proctor Academy before matriculating to time in Africa, becoming certified as a field guide before movColgate University. “From the moment I heard about Procing to Albany, New York, and eventually winding her way back tor from Caroline Heatley ‘91 as a teenager, I was attracted to the North Shore to work, again, for NOAA. She reflects to the theme of togetherness. Sarah Will as my advisor, Lee on her work today, “My job is to be a connector and to help Carvalho as what seemed like my secmake sure coastal programs have the reond advisor, Robin Asbury as my varsisources needed to do their jobs. Underty lacrosse coach and art teacher, Terry standing the complexity of relationships “It was at Proctor that I was Stoecker as the director of the musical among individuals and communities is first exposed to the complexity my senior year; each of these individuals absolutely essential, and my varied expeof environmental management, took a risk on me, they believed in me riences at Proctor with different groups and my eyes were opened to and who I could become.” Becca adds, of students and faculty certainly laid a the realities of the world, while “Proctor has this uncanny ability to meet foundation for my ability to navigate my students where they are, to provide expeprofessional relationships today.” simultaneously appreciating the riences that encourage you to discover simple quietness of nature. ” yourself without ever compromising the More than 25 years after stepping into direction of the school. Where else can the Proctor community, Becca admires you drop into the art studio at 10:00 PM from afar Proctor’s continued commiton a Saturday night to throw a pot in order to center yourment to sustainability, “I love that Proctor has integrated enviself before re-entering the social scene of adolescence, or play ronmental awareness into every aspect of the school. Students hockey even though you’ve never skated before, or head off leave with a strong sense of their place in the natural world, for a term abroad in Segovia as the worst Spanish student ever which mixed with Proctors theme of Togetherness, sets up and return somewhat fluent. I was constantly encouraged to the next generation of environmental stewards and managlive outside my comfort zone, and through those moments I ers to embrace the tough conversations, and invite different gained confidence in myself and my ability to navigate groups, perspectives. There are always five sides to a story, maybe cultures, and new experiences.” more. When we look at a singular issue like off-shore wind, it becomes multifaceted as we balance tribal interests, fisheries Becca graduated from Proctor with a deep appreciation for concerns, and shipping - to name a few. No issue has a onethe natural world, and specifically the ocean on which she size fits all solution. The more young people can learn from grew up. When she arrived at Colgate University she knew an early age how complex our world is, the better prepared we she wanted to study the natural sciences, but it was a conwill be to tackle the critical environmental issues of our time.”

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Chase Goodrich ’03 Closed Loop Systems & Farm Power

For five generations the Goodrich family has farmed the land of Vermont’s lowlands east of Lake Champlain in Salisbury, Vermont. Growing up on the family farm, Chase ‘03 eventually longed to see the world beyond milk jugs, corn fields, and the next chore. An avid hockey player, he found himself at Proctor Academy for his final two years of high school pursuing an opportunity to play hockey in college. “I desperately wanted to expand my horizons, and Proctor was the perfect place for me to do so while staying connected to my rural roots. I always felt a little bit at home in Dave Pilla’s wildlife science and forestry classes, working with the Woods Team, and during any other class that took me outside allowing the farm boy in me to shine.” He adds, “I do regret not spending a term off-campus, but am so thankful for my Proctor experience and the adults who impacted me during those two transformative years. Karl Methven was my advisor, and he was my rock. I know everybody has their own rock in their life at Proctor, but I honestly am not sure what I would have done without him by my side.”

broken on the project in early August, Chase reflects, “The past ten years have seen a rollercoaster of emotions as we navigated an incredibly complicated permitting and financing process to make this project a reality. I am thrilled to see our collective dream become a reality as we partner with Middlebury, Vermont Gas, and Vanguard Renewables to move us all forward toward a more sustainable future.”

Vanguard Renewables of Wellesley, MA will own and operate the digester that will produce 140,000 Mcf (1,000 cubic feet of renewable natural gas) per year. Middlebury College will buy 100,000 Mcf of the gas from Vanguard, and Vermont Gas will purchase the remainder. The closed loop system will pump methane from the digester directly into a Vermont Gas pipeline to Middlebury College, strengthening the College’s position of carbon neutrality they achieved in 2016. Chase believes the ancillary benefits of the project are as important as the methane produced, “With Act 148 (the Universal Recycling Law banning “Ultimately, all we want is to When Chase returned to the family dairy all Vermonters from putting organic be good stewards of our land farm in 2009 after playing hockey at Salve food waste into landfills) going into and to keep people drinking Regina University, he and his sister recogeffect on January 1, 2020, a seemingly milk.

In order to achieve nized the need to diversify their dairy opsimple task for most households is gothese goals, we have to think eration in order to develop a sustainable ing to present a real challenge to large future for their family. Since 1956, the food producers across the state. The creatively about the role of farm gradually grew from Chase’s grandbackend of breweries, cheese manufacfarms in our communities.” father, Wilbur, having a few cows in a tie turers, and other producers will need stall to the current operation of 900 dairy to partner with farms like ours who can cows and 700 young stock. With 600 help process food waste on a large scale. acres of corn ground and 2,000 acres of hay ground needed While capital intensive up front, digesters like ours are a to feed the animals, Chase knew the farm simply could not win, win, win for this community as we not only create keep growing, “My sister and I saw the need to become more a renewable energy source and a solution for food waste, efficient. Over the past decades, our neighbors’ farms have but create byproducts of phosphorus and digestate that we slowly gone under, and we acquired their cows. Our operation can resell as fertilizer and repurpose on our own land to grew to the point where we knew we had to look to diversify enhance nitrogen levels on our farm without the use of beyond simply selling milk if we were going to stay viable as a commercial fertilizers.” family farm.” He adds, “Water quality issues for Lake Champlain have targeted Vermont farmers as a major environmenFive generations after his great-great grandfather began subtal issue, and our vision for this farm had to center around sistence farming just up the road, Chase sees the wisdom in sustainable farming and creating a positive change on the enNew England’s early farmers where diversification equalled vironmental factors impacting our region.” sustainability, “I hope our vision for our farm will serve as an example for our fellow farmers across Vermont and When Middlebury College approached the family with a prothe region. Partnering with Middlebury College to have a posal to build an anaerobic digester on their property that classroom on our farm and exposing young people to the would process food waste from the College and other venues hard work, science, and love that goes into every stick of in town and manure from the farm into natural gas, Chase butter or glass of milk they consume will prove a powerful jumped at the opportunity to operate his farm more efficientlesson in sustainability. I’m thankful we get to share our ly, while continuing to educate the local community about work with others and help blaze a new path forward for the importance of sustainable farming practices. With ground family farms like ours.”

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Catching Up with Former Faculty

Nelson and Dani Lebo Living an Environmental Mission: Teaching Sustainability Proctor’s ethos of environmental stewardship dates back more than 130 years when Head of School James Francis Morton built a network of trails behind his residence (the old Morton House). Roland Burbank stewarded Proctor’s land throughout the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Bob Wilson, Patrice Martin, Lee Carvalho, Dave Pilla, and countless others worked tirelessly throughout the 1970s and 1980s to sustain the community’s connection to the natural world, however, few individuals lived Proctor’s environmental mission with the same commitment as Nelson Lebo did throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

and began our internship program. Today, we find ourselves with a farm full of animals, three children, and a nightly dinner table of about ten (give or take) based on the number of visitors we have on the farm.”

At the ECO School, Dani and Nelson provide accessible sustainability education, working to break down barriers and show people that being ‘green’ does not have to be hard or expensive. The Eco School currently offers an eight week work-study Permaculture Design Course for adults, runs a forest school program for children ages 0-18, and partners with local community groups and organizations to run a variety of other sustainability-based workshops. A deep belief in permaculture has proven a useful way of approaching land design and community design as Dani and Nelson use the lens of permaculture to teach there is no one magic solution, that each sustainability project has different goals, constraints, and resources available, and the perfect green action in one circumstance may not work in another.

Arriving at Proctor in the fall of 1991, Nelson served as Proctor’s first environmental coordinator, taught in the Science Department, founded Eco Dorm in Carriage House, and coached wrestling and football. After leaving Proctor full-time in 2005, Nelson remained deeply involved in the Andover and Proctor communities, teaching Mountain Classroom, coaching mountain biking for Proctor and restoring a 1700s off-the-grid farm house in East Andover. Nelson and fellow Proctor faculty member Dani Lejnieks (Spanish teacher) left Proctor in Based on their 14-acre mixed-use permaculture farm in 2008 with a dream of starting an Eco School that would Whanganui, New Zealand, Dani believes their work is provide affordable community-based sustainability eduimpacting their family as much as their family is impacting cation. After moving to New Zealand, they committed those attending, “Nothing teaches you more about eduthe next few years to their own educational pursuits cation than being a parent. Our children have taught us as Nelson completed his Ph.D an immense amount about powin Sustainability Education and er-sharing and student-led learn“Actions don’t become habits unless Dani a Masters in International ing. You can be the greenest, most they are self-led. Rather than focusing Education while living in a house brilliant scientist in the world, but on specific projects or actions, schools truck along an amazing surf break. if you cannot engage people in need to be looking at habits of the understanding sustainability, the In 2010, they married, bought brilliance of your work is irrelemind. Do we have graduates who use a cheap house in a “bad” neighvant. Academic institutions are critical thinking and problem-solving? borhood and launched a project beautiful thinking spaces where Do we have graduates who show called Eco-Thrifty Renovation we sometimes get blinded by our empathy and stand up for what’s where they ran community workown good intentions. We must right? Do we have graduates who feel shops while creating an affordable continue to recognize that there eco-house with recycled parts. are many types of expertise in the a deep and real connection to the Shortly after their daughter, Verworld, and that solutions only earth? If so, then we are a school ti, was born, they bought a small work when they take into account working towards sustainability.” farm and Nelson began work as an people’s personal circumstances Eco Design Advisor for a nearby and lived experience.” She adds, town, and began taking tangible steps toward their Eco “To paraphrase David Orr, the biggest vandals of the School Project. “We became foster parents, began slowly earth are some of the most highly educated people on accruing a collection of useful (and non-useful) animals, the planet. We need to be sure we are not just teaching

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students how to be better participants in a broken system. It is interesting to think about what the report card would look like for a school fully committed to sustainability...on what would we assess students?”

The move to New Zealand eleven years ago not only shifted time zones for Nelson and Dani, but also perspectives. They acknowledge perhaps the biggest shift for them was confronting their role as colonizers of an indigenous land. Dani notes, “Here in New Zealand, white people are called Europeans. I struggled with this at first, but have come to realize how removed most Americans are from their role as colonizers. This per-

spective has informed our approach to conservation, sustainability as our ‘expertise’ may not always be what is needed or helpful from a cultural perspective. Sustainability and equity are intertwined, and we must find ways of addressing both simultaneously, or our efforts are in vain. When people find themselves in desperate circumstances, they are unable to prioritize environmental decision-making.”

Dani and Nelson employee a small number of interns on their farm each year, and if anyone in the Proctor family is interested, they should reach out at TheECOschool@gmail.com.

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Investing in Proctor’s Future: The Campaign for Proctor Update

Five years ago, Proctor’s Board of Trustees voted to launch a capital campaign that would raise more than $5M toward endowment, while boldly addressing three of the school’s largest infrastructure needs ever tackled: a new dining hall, renovation of the Farrell Field House, and reconstruction of Maxwell Savage Hall. As we approach the five-year mark of The Campaign for Proctor: The Time is Now, we are thrilled to announce we have raised over $25,000,000, including $3,978,813 toward endowment.

As is the case with any long-term capital campaign, projects evolve, morph, and unexpected needs enter the picture. Thoreau House burned down in 2016, vaulting a new dormitory ahead on the timeline of projects. The sudden passing of David Pilla in July 2018 ignited a passion among alumni and parents to begin planning a new center for environmental education, while an incredibly generous (and unexpected) anonymous gift to construct a new Proctor Outdoor Center before the end of the calendar year has shifted our focus over the past twelve months.

The original documentation for The Campaign for Proctor targeted five years to raise $30,000,000, but our Board of Trustees recognizes the end goal (both in terms of timeline and total money raised) must adjust given additional projects and rising construction costs. Proctor’s physical plant has been transformed over the past twenty years as the school has invested almost $70,000,000 into its physical plant and endowment (now valued at $29,000,000).

Securing Proctor’s Financial Future:

20 Years of Capital and Endowment Investment “150th Campaign” 1998-2003 Total Raised: $26,940,00

“Building Proctor’s Future, Today” 2006-2013 Total Raised: $16,775,145

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“The Campaign for Proctor” 2015-Present Total Raised to Date: $25,517,000

Invested in ESG* Funds:

Endowment Value | 2019

$29,000,000

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*Environmental, Social, Governance

Farrell Field House Renovations | Phases 3 and 4 Update The largest capital project in Proctor Academy’s history, the complete renovation of the Farrell Field House has entered its final phase as fundraising continues for Phase 4 construction. In February 2019, Proctor’s Social Science, English, Counseling, and Athletic Departments moved into the new academic and wellness space created in Phase 3 of renovations. The seven new classrooms, office spaces, lobby space, and locker rooms immediately transformed the flow of students and adults through campus. Whether it is watching basketball games from the second or third floor lobbies, taking advantage of midday yoga and fitness classes, doing homework in the shared lobby areas, or attending an extra help session in one of the state of the art classrooms, the completion of Phase 3 has impacted every student and adult in the community.

Roughly $3M in funds needs to be raised in order to complete Phase 4 of the Field House Renovations. The overhaul of the west-side corridor of the building will include new boys’ and men’s coaches locker rooms, athletic equipment storage and laundry room, and visitor locker rooms. With the completion of Phase 4 Renovations, Proctor will wrap up a decade of investment in the west end of campus and be able to shift attention to the reconstruction of Maxwell Savage Hall.

Proctor Outdoor Center | To-Be Completed January 2020 Catalyzed by a $3M anonymous gift, construction of a new Proctor Outdoor Center is well underway. The 10,000+ square foot building tucked between the Teddy Maloney ‘88 Rink and tennis courts on the site of the old fire/bike shed will provide state of the art tuning rooms for ski teams and mountain biking/cycling teams, as well as a much needed home for the kayaking, rock climbing, and Wilderness Orientation programs.

An indoor climbing wall, office space for outdoor program leaders, and expansive storage for equipment of all kinds make this building a centerpiece of Proctor’s long-standing commitment to outdoor education and the impact these experiences have on our students.

Maxwell Savage | Completion Date TBD The visual heart of Proctor’s campus, Maxwell Savage Hall enters the 2019-2020 school year in dire need of renovation. A comprehensive cost analysis during the 2018-2019 academic year revealed the cost of renovation significantly outpaced the cost of reconstruction, thus shifting the school’s approach to this project. Revised plans to completely rebuild Maxwell Savage are underway, focusing on new classrooms for the World Language Department, new Student Life and Administrative Offices, as well as flexible classrooms to house Freshman and Sophomore Seminar courses. Estimated costs of this project range from $10M-$12M. The final project in The Campaign for Proctor, Maxwell Savage Hall will be a fundraising priority during the next 18 months.

Woodlands Education Center Update

Generations of alumni have pursued careers in the natural sciences based on their relationship with Proctor’s actively managed woodlands. Some of our alumni most impacted by our woodlands have catalyzed a building project that will construct a Woodlands Education building near the site of the former Wilson Building. The planning for this new academic resource is underway with the following framework in place: • Home for academic classes and afternoon programs utilizing the woodlands.

• Planned timber frame construction will use timbers harvested on Proctor’s woodlands.

• Wet and dry lab capabilities.

Conceptual • A community barn-raising will take place in the spring/summer 2020 (exact date TBD). Rendering 05/31/2019 WOODLANDSPROGRAM AT PROCTOR ACADEMY

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The Importance of Annual Giving to Proctor’s Financial Model: Proctor Fund Update As a not-for-profit 501(c)3, Proctor Academy relies on contributions from generous donors to help bridge the gap between operating expenses and revenues. With an annual goal of $1,550,000, The Proctor Fund ensures each student has access to the resources they need to optimize their learning experience.

Over the past decade, Proctor’s Development team led by Director of Development Keith Barrett ’80, P’14, ’16 and Director of The Proctor Fund and Associate Director of Development Bonny Morris P’06, ’17 have grown Proctor’s donor base by 93%, and have more than doubled alumni giving participation to 13%. Relationships with our donors span decades (Proctor has more than 25 donors who have given to the school for 30+ consecutive years!), and we continue to build our donor base through giving challenges like Project 370 and our annual Alumni: Together campaign. We invite every alum, parent (past and present), grandparent, and friend of Proctor to join us in supporting The Proctor Fund during the 2019-2020 fiscal year.

Thank you to all 1,116 donors who gave to The Proctor Fund this past year!

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DONOR BREAKDOWN CLASS LEADER BOARD

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Class of 1969 (45%) Class of 2014 (34%) Class of 1956 (25%) Class of 1955& 58 (24%) Class of 1991 (23%)

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Alumni Giving | The Hornet’s Nest

Thank you to the 583 alumni donors who made 953 gifts totaling $1,045,507 during the 2018-2019 fiscal year. Your support of Proctor’s educational mission is critical to our continued success as a school!

1941 Reed Stevens 1942 Dave Colt # 1944 Stu Brewster # Bruce Nicholas * 1949 Jim Dunbar # Walt Wright 1951 Kip Snow * Dave Thompson 1953 David Coffin # Peter Elbow # Jesse Putney # John Wright 1954 John German Jerry Lester 1955 Ed Darna Jim Graves John Herbert Quin Munson Driz Prior 1956 Toby Farrel Paul Haus * Mike Nash * Tim Purdy 1957 Charlie Forsberg Everett Jones * 1958 Mike Boyd # Dick Clemence Robert Kvalnes # David Norman 1959 Jim Levy # John Neubauer Paul Rogers 1960 Laurie Cannon # Fred King Peter Kroll George Morosani # Dave Norris

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1961 Len Elden # Dino Giamatti Chris Whittaker # 1962 Dave Lunger Geoff Morris # Frank Robinson * 1963 Dana Bent Nat Cheney # Charles Hall * Scott Hughes * Peter Kappel

Ted Levering # Bob McClintic Alan McLean Frank Neer Dave Schrepel Steve Shapiro * John Van Siclen

Reed Dewey David Emerick George Frick Dan Hart Ken Lifton # John O’Connor # Bill Pierce

Zander Collins Dana Fletcher # Kym O’Brien # Will Peabody Jen Vogt # Tina Walker Tripp Wyckoff

1970 David Boyd David Moulton # Chris Olson Tom Rudkin John Welsh

1980 Keith Barrett # Linda Diskin John Halsted # Jamie Hilliard # John Reid

1987 Anonymous Anonymous Liam Donoghue # Trevor Foster Anya Goodridge Oakes Hunnewell Sarah Murawski Loren Tripp # Jennifer Wilson

1971 Tim Brown # Robert Geyer 1964 Frank Gibney Mike Rosenthal Sears Wullschleger # Kevin Gillespie * Pete Rolfe * Greg Samaha # 1965 Andy Verven Art Cox # Doug Windsor Tom Geibel * Bill Hood 1972 Stu Lipp # Jon Bursaw Steve Stoner Jay Fisher * Doug Rendall 1966 George Craft 1973 Guy Kelley John Hellman # Emory Robotham Bob Johnson # Kirby Whyte Walter Perry David Walker 1967 Scott Bartlett 1974 Joel Becker # John Deas # Andy Hatt Russ Mawn Bob Hawes Henry Vaughan * Jim Morris Don Woodbury Knox Turner 1968 Crocker Bennett Dave Biddle Jim Bird Charlie Flammer John Gary Jon Randall Park Smith Courtenay Taplin Richard Wallace 1969 Doug Armstrong Bill Bolton # Tom Canfield Andy Chadwick Bill Davis Gordie Harper Jim Hoyt # Phil Kernan David LeDuc

1975 Charlie Altmiller AJ Johnstone # Robert Murchie Andrew Sheppe # 1977 Brooks Bicknell Ned Harvey Carl Jelleme Ken Krauss David Powers Charlie Willauer 1978 Garry George Allan Johnson # Chris Mitchell Dan Murphy # 1979 Eric Benoit

1981 Liz Blodgett Smith # Scott Dow Chris Hadley # Jane Hoffman Justine Payne Dawn Stevens 1982 Steve Gallagher Grinnell More Andrew Parker Bredt Stanley Ayres Stockly # 1983 Max Cobb Chris Edwards Alex Estin Will Hamill # Edward Johnson Alex Jump Travis Mathis Kassie McCamic Dan Mori Gina Pettengill # Sam Reeves # Tim Wright # Andy Wright 1984 Elizabeth Bauman # Sarah Douglas Rob Logan # Amy McKain # Dave Pirtle Bob Sutherland 1985 Kay Childs Carlotta Cunningham David Laflam Amy Pattison John Pendleton 1986 Chris Bartlett Wendy Brown # Johnny Buck

1988 Nicole Bagley Beth Bartlett # Rhys Brooks Mike Brown Jeff Marshall Margaret McCabe Will McCurtin # Mark McGhie Charlie Mercier Joe Pellerin # Adrienne Perry Tariq Sheikh Tom Spang # 1989 Anonymous Chris Durell Matt Hauptly Roby Holland Bob Kaynor # Karyn Lamb David Lapham Trask Pfeifle Adam Rohner # Daphne Scalamandre Matlock Schlumberger Tricia Smith Lans Taylor # Virginia Townsend Brett Wagenbach Jeff Ziter # 1990 Brad Andrews Bill Feinberg # Rob Hutchins # Gregor Makechnie Mark Maloney Dan McCabe Sarah McIntyre Allan Porter Vin Purpura Jesse Schust Chelsea Taylor #

John Turner # Pete Whitehead 1991 Anonymous Jennifer Bryant Kate Carter Brad Courts Julia Elliott Dan Ephraim Liz Green Caroline Heatley Katie Kidder # Nathaniel Leach Roth Martin Meghan Morin Matt Nathanson Oliver Preuss Jen Putney Jess Sarkisian Mark Schwartz Kitter Spater Mario Triay Suzanne Troyer Travis Warren # 1992 Drew Donaldson # Jeremy Green Brendaen Makechnie Josh Norris Whit Sowles # Jeremy Stowe # Sam Thompson Chris Todd Sam Vineyard 1993 Ryan Bowse Rinear Coulter Clay Courts Tom Dodge Jin Hayashida Maxwell Love Alex MacInnes 1994 Karyn Ames Abby Chau Bob Culver D.J. Hanlon Robbie Holland Tom Lytle Caroline Metsch Winnett Ordway Mike Parenteau Kat Roski Pearl Andrew Sandoe Seth Waleryszak Emily White Hat Michael Woo

1995 Anonymous Cassie Bowse Lindsay Brock Craig Churchill Ali El Ayadi Joe Kahle Jordan Matheson Sean Venus 1996 Anonymous Gordon Bassett Jeanne Gosselin Andy Klein Jeff Nowlan Booth Platt Lindsey Schust Brian Suiter Mitzi Tolino Abby Usen-Berner 1997 Abby Buccella Owen Foster Mark Johnson # John Kiaer # Chris Knapp Jorie McCann Courtney Monteiro # Abby Preston Chris Sanborn Christine Walshe 1998 Rana Abodeely George Blair Jon Cotton Kat Darling Bob Downey Rachel Golden Kirscht David Lejuez # Sarah Taylor Shane Wadleigh 1999 Brooke Donaldson Chris Donaldson Taylor Fox Sonja Free-Bernt Scott Hamann Jed Hinkley Christian Langendal Christiana Makinde Spencer Martin 2000 Laura Anker # Paul Behnke Will Fenton-Hathaway Tom Fletcher Abbi Stern Mika Toth Melissa Tuckerman Erica Wheeler 2001 Anonymous Andrew Abendshein Trish Austin Kate Austin

Hunter Churchill Taylor Cullen Malcolm de Sieyes Lyndsay Devore Justin Donaldson Benny LeCompte Lori Patriacca 2002 Meredith Amenkhienan Robin Bartlett Rissi Liz Brier-Rosenfield Brad Cabot Chris Cloutier Bobby Dunbar Rebecca Leavitt Meredith Leoni Oliver Schwab Sarena Stern Nick Wilkins 2003 Chris Cave Liz Ferriero Jake Fitzpatrick Tim Frazier Lloyd French Annie Kaup Sean Leavitt Greg Stetson Jackson Tufts Sarah Wood 2004 John Fowler Joe Lloyd Nora McElroy Michael Murphy Sean O’Connell John Pellett Dan Risotti Ethan Vandermark Grant Wheeler 2005 Gracia Acheson Kaedi Butterfield Christine Frazier Carolina Gonzalez Sara Howard Dave Schleyer 2006 Anonymous Chris Bishop Nick Brown Erin Davey Laura Lebourdais Ty Morris Evan Procknow # Katie Richardson Kate Schmidt # Forrest Schwab 2007 Ali Berman Nate Blouin Emily Bouchard Betsy Corbin Haley Creed Sara Froman

John Goheen Nick Green Matt Milley Daniel Pendleton 2008 Joanna de Peña Becca Freyman-Bucchieri Wilson Land Thayer Maclay Alex Milley Becca O’Connor Britt Plante Marissa Ray # Charlie Willauer 2009 Saam Aiken Robert Baxter Alison Brown Will Compton Kat Copeland Spencer Corkran George Dyment Ebby Gerry Annabelle Gray Glenna Ledoux Rosie Loring Kayleigh Lutz Ashley Perkins Jaguar Sasmito Olivia Shure Trenny Steuert Rosemary Sullivan Kristen Turpin 2010 Grace Beah Chris Dale Tuckerman Ferris Ilyena Kozain Andrew Landers David Murphy Maggie Shine Kate St. Clair Zoe Von Zweck Peter Wade William Whipple Emily White Amanda Will 2011 Jackson Bicknell Sam Brown Evan Gaskin Maddie Gaskin Elliott Hays-Wehle Jake Hines John Howard Zach Lee Frankie McCormick Ali Mitchell Ian O’Connor Brian Perry Haley Peters Stephen Sample # Spencer Schwenk Kelsey Taylor

2012 Tucker Andrews Evan Anthony Courtney Birch Warren Davis Breanna Davis Peter Durkin Ned Pressman Brad Prevel Maddie Sullivan 2013 Tim Braley Ben Cox Jake Dombroski Morgan Koenig Merrick Madsen Anne Neylon Nick Pascucci Andrew Pehl Tuck Phippen Madison Powers Patrick Shine Connor Simon Tori Smith Cheka Ventura Alex Weissman 2014 Michelle Asch Sam Barrett Cortland Begor Nicola Bush Craig Chalifour Laura Christie Austin Cohen Speight Drummond Angie Duke Kelly Fisher Axel Getz Jonathan Goodnow Connor Hollenbaugh Liam Howard Emily Jacobson Sam Jaxtimer Jacob Lloyd Joey Mitchell Jordan Moore Emi Morison Mercy Paine Kate Pattison Nika Paulin Tucker Peters Eli Pier Julia Sargent Meg Sheehy Nick Solley Ian Starkey Connor Tedesco Maddie Trefethen Jackson Wheeler Mark White Hat 2015 Joost Aalmans Stiles Alpeter David Bamforth

Noah Barehmi Kelsie Berry Thaddeus Bicknell Liv Henriques Delia Holland Lulu Orne Will Reynolds Ian Wood 2016 Max Barrett Allie Clarke Will Cox Keith Davis Taylor Drewniak Andrew Edwards Burke Hildner Haley Schorer Annie Sheehy Lexi Tilton 2017 Katie Ball Grey Bechok Tyler Chaffee Drew Childs Logan Drewniak Lilah Hilliard Sydney Minnehan Jacqui Morris Liza Orne Jay Pier Evan Wicenski William Wiener 2018 Trixie Barker Megan Casey Lance Crate Sage Fletcher Anna Krajewski Connor Timbrell Siri Warren Danielle Xu 2019 Myles Abbate Jesse Aguilar Henry Bechok Matt Bent Jada Eisenbud Andrew Harrell Cat Krupka Lulu Larkin Hailey Makechnie Jack Newton Eliza Patterson Caitlyn Reid Ellie Richardson Andrew Rusis Neal Shivakumar Sophie Weintraub Asher Whittemore Frances Whyte Ian Wicenski

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Alumni Updates We saw record engagement from the Proctor Alumni Association during this past year. Regional events in San Francisco, Boston, Portsmouth, Portland, and New York, as well as on-campus events in Andover including Reunion 2019, connected alumni of all ages to each other and to the school they love. We look forward to continuing to engage more alumni this coming year as we welcome new Director of Alumni Relations Connor Tedesco ’14 to our team. Do not hesitate to reach out to Connor (alumni@proctoracademy.org / 603-735-6720) if you would like to find ways to get involved with the Alumni Association.

We hope you enjoy this Class Notes section and reading about the life events and updates from fellow alumni. Many of our classes now have a Class Chair. If you would like to hear more about the role of Class Chair, let us know! We hope to see you at an event soon and remember, it’s always a great day to be a Hornet!

Jim Dunbar ’49 (1) Hunt Valley, MD Jim ’49 opened his new museum in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The museum features the history of his family’s armored car/security business. Founded in 1956, Dunbar Armored became the largest independently owned company of its type in the US, until being acquired

by The Brinks Co. in 2018. Jim’s excited to share the story of his company with fellow alums. Stop by if you’re in the area!

Jane Hubbard ’88 & Son, Jake ’14 (2) Andover, NH Jake ’14 and his wife Beth welcomed daughter Eva Rose on July 21. His mother Jane Lockwood Hubbard ’88 and her husband Jay are thrilled and proud grandparents. Jake will also join the Andover, New Hampshire Police as a full-time officer this year.

Trask Pfeifle ’88 (3) Darien, CT Trask ’88’s son Henri wearing Teddy Maloney 88’s refurbished goalie helmet while playing goal for his hockey team earlier this year. Trask and Teddy continued playing hockey for the Rye Roadrunners in NY before Teddy died in 9/11.

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Mark Maloney ’90 (4) Fairfield, CT Mark’s ’90 daughter, Finley, wears a special jersey for “jersey day” at school, honoring her uncle, Teddy ’88.

Jin Hayashida ’93 and DJ Hanlon ’93 (5) Tokyo, Japan Jin ’93 and DJ ’93, and their families, visited with each other last summer in California, enjoying this special lunch together in Los Angeles.

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Cassie (Heaton) Bowse ’95 (6) San Fancisco, CA Cassie ’95 met Harriott (Lumpkin) Parker ’95 and Sarah (Leith) Bahn ’95 for a mini Proctor Reunion in Jackson Hole back in May including hiking, fishing, and lots of kid free down time!

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Andy Klein ’96 (7) Westport, CT Andy ’96 and his wife, Ashleigh, welcomed their son Lockwood “Archer” Klein in April.

Booth Platt ’96 (8) Huntington Woods, MI Booth ’96 stayed dry with his Proctor golf umbrella while watching soccer last fall. Booth lives with his wife and three sons in Huntington Woods, MI.

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Amanda (Jurta) Farrell ’01 (9) Australia Amanda ’01 published her first book, Pawprints On My Heart, a spiritual memoir which just released as an audiobook, as well.

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Brad Cabot ’03 and Meredith Leoni ’03 (10) Conway, NH Brad ’03 and Meredith ’03 welcomed a baby girl, Heidi, and she loves her bib!

Chris Jones ’04 (11) Andover, NH Chris ’04 and his wife, Lindsay, welcomed a baby girl, Adaline, on June 24th.

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Haley Creed ’07 (12) Horn Lake, MS Haley ’07 was recently married and had six Proctor alumni in her wedding party. The close and loving relationships as well as experiences she had at Proctor were on full display on her big day and even recognized by the guests and photographers.

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Joanna de Peña ’08 (13) Lawrence, MA Joanna ’08 published her first book Success Shield: How To Protect Your Mind, Career and Destiny Using Proven Leadership Strategies in March. Success Shield focuses on how to think, grow and develop towards success & peak performance.

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Grace Beah ’10 (14) North Hampton, MA Grace ’10 celebrated her graduation from Smith College with fellow alums Teandra Clarke ’08 and Alden (Carvahlo) Paye ’92. Grace also got engaged this summer and will be moving with her fiance to Iowa.

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Hannah (Frantz) Goumas ’10 (15) Andover, NH Hannah ’10 and her husband, Kevin, celebrated their summer wedding at Labelle Winery, in Amherst, New Hampshire with several Proctor Alumni in the bridal party. From left to right; Hannah, Jennifer Galligan ’10, Sayre Limburg ’10, Eliza Perry ’10, Allie O’Sullivan ’12, Emily White ’10, and Kerstin Middleton ’10. Hannah’s brother, Caleb ’12 (4th from the left) was also in the wedding party.

Matt Lohan ’10 (16) Maplewood, NJ Matt ’10 toured with his band Dyado this summer and has a number of East Coast dates this fall. Learn more about his music and upcoming shows at www.dyadotheband.com.

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Bruno Courchesne ’11 (17) Quebec, Canada Bruno ’11 proposed to his future wife, Audrey-Ann, in the spring of 2019 at Disney World and will be getting married in 2020.

Chris & Kristen Farrell (Faculty) (18) Andover, NH Chris and Kristen welcomed their son, Martin Landon Farrell, born on June 26th.

Lake Dunmore, VT | August 15 (19) A gathering to celebrate the life of long time faculty member and coach Spence Wright served as a reunion for this group of alums. Featured in this picture left to right: Nancy Means Wright, Donald Wright ’75, Curt Peterson ’62, John Noble ’79, Peter Williams ’62, Knox Turner ’67, Tom Canfield ’69, Crocker Bennett ’68, Howard Bleakie ’66, Gary Wright ’72 Kneeling in Front: Greg Samaha ’71, Bill Bolton ’69

In Memoriam While many of the alumni updates we receive are filled with exciting news highlighting the joyful moments in life, we also received news of the passing of the following members of the Proctor family. We recognize this list is likely incomplete, and appreciate your passing along any other information of which we should be aware.

ClassChairs Curt Peterson ’62 Richard Harris ’67 Tomp Litchfield ’67 Knox Turner ’67 Crocker Bennett ’68 John Gary ’68 Courtenay Taplin ’68 Bill Bolton ’69 Tom Canfield ’69 Jim Hoyt ’69 John Van Siclen ’69 Tom Rudkin ’70 Greg Samaha ’71 Sara Martenis-Cheeseman ’76 Charlie Willauer ’77 Allan Johnson ’78 Dan Murphy ’78 Chris Zanghi ’79 Liz Blodgett Smith ’81

Raymond E. Alie ’47 Robert Barr ’60 Randolph O. Bray ’82 John W. Burgess ’97 Joseph K. D’Amore ’78 Merritt Eddy ’92 Richard ‘Bart’ Foster ’77 John M. Ireland ’51

Alfred F. King ’60 Vaughan Lee ’47 Arthur R. Lewis ’39 James Locke ’65 Robert W. Merriam ’41 Ranne J. Miller ’54 Geoffrey S. Morris ’62 Robert B. Nichols ’50

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Rollins ‘Jack’ Reading Jr. ’54 Robert H. Rohrer ’54 David H. Russell ’55 Kathryn Shirley-Davidson ’96 Jeffrey W. Skelskie ‘66 Jeffie (Wilkins) Chapin ’05 Charles Collier, Former Faculty

alumni@proctoracademy.org Scott Dow ’81 Chris Hadley ’81 Steve Gallagher ’82 Ayres Stockly ’82 Alex Estin ’83 Dan Mori ’83 Tim Wright ’83 Chris Bartlett ’86 Wendy Chambers-Brown ’86 Kym Brown-O’Brien ’86 Tripp Wyckoff ’86 Beckner Bryan ’87 John Duke ’87 Heather Moore ’87 Rhys Brooks ’88 Bob Kaynor ’89 Liz Webb-Green ’91 Caroline Heatley ’91 Meghan McSheffrey-Morin ’91

Kate Shaughnessey-Smith ’91 Andrew Scott ’92 Whit Hill-Sowles ’92 Jeremy Stowe ’92 Sam Thompson ’92 Maxwell Boehme-Love ’93 Will Loring ’96 Lorna Macdonald-Newman ’96 Abby Usen-Berner ’96 Biff Baker ’97 Jessie Damroth ’97 Erin Hinkley-Shaffer ’97 Sarah Eldred-Taylor ’98 Hunter Churchill ’01 Lori Patriacca ’01 Liz Brier-Rosenfield ’02 Megan Manning-Cairncross ’02 Sarena Stern ’02 Anna Wood-McKeown ’04

Dan Risotti ’04 Evan Cross ’06 Erin Davey ’06 Brittany King ’06 Ali Berman ’07 Emily Summers-Bouchard ’07 Chris Landers ’07 Christian Yemga ’07 Marissa Ray ’08 Spencer Wood ’09 Gardner Kelley ’10 Maggie Shine ’10 Breanna Davis ’12 Warren Davis ’12 Anne Neylon ’13 Tori Smith ’13 Michelle Asch ’14 Cortland Begor ’14

Don’t see a Class Chair for your class?

Get in touch with the Alumni Office! As we continue to build this program, we’d love your help in finding a Class Chair for every year!

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Saying Goodbye To Retiring Faculty and Staff

Michele Koenig P’11,’13

Lisa Scarry P’97,’01

Susan Rochon P’00,’04

College Counseling | 1987-2019

Student Life Coordinator | 1989-2019

Math Dept. Chair | 2000-2019

Hired in Proctor’s Admissions Office in 1987, Michele Koenig served the school in a myriad of different roles during her 32 years. From Director of Admissions to Senior Project Coordinator to field hockey coach to advisor to Associate Director of College Counseling to parent of two Proctor graduates (Madison ‘11 and Morgan ‘13), the constant theme throughout her time at Proctor lay in the strength of her voice and the care with which she guided her students. Michele’s insights into the independent school world and willingness to respectfully challenge the status quo consistently pushed our community to be a better place, while her organizational ability and attention to detail were invaluable to each department in which she worked.

Few individuals embody the soul of Proctor more than Lisa Scarry. Her unique ability to make students (and adults) feel safe, welcomed, and confident empowered generations of Proctor community members to be their best selves.

Whether it was working in the Health Center, planning International Student programming, running King House or Elbow Pond Dorm, organizing vacation travel for hundreds of students each term, or working alongside her advisory group, Lisa daily lived Proctor’s core values of honesty, compassion, respect and responsibility. As one parent shared about Lisa, “A strong and beautiful woman, inside and out.

Thank you for loving our children as your own.

We could not have asked for a more perfect role model to be with our kids when we could not.

The unconditional love, support, and guidance you provided to each and every student you worked with is appreciated beyond measure.”

Adolescents thrive on consistency. While they may not always know how to ask for structure and discipline in their lives, they possess a deep appreciation for those adults who hold them accountable. As long-time “Points Fairy” and Math Department Chair, Susan Rochon understood the needs of her students even when they did not. A master-teacher, Susan was able to teach every math course in the department, and nurtured a love of math among an incredibly diverse body of learners. Hundreds of alumni learned to quilt in her Project Period each spring, and nearly every student over the past decade received an email from her notifying them of an attendance point earned. Proctor can only thrive when individuals like Susan lead by example, and she did that with a quiet grace and consistency that will be sorely missed.

Best Wishes to Additional Departing Faculty and Staff!

Nina Kozain P’08,’10,’12 | Learning Skills | ’08 -’19 Tim Denoncour| Social Science/Maintenance | ’14 - ’19 Fiona Mills | Social Science/Multicultural | ’14 - ’19 Ty Morris ’06 | Dining Services | ’14 - ’19

Kate Newick | Development | ’14 - ’19 Ilyena Kozain ’10 | Admissions | ’15 - ’19 Chloe Duchesne | Alumni Relations | ’16 - ’19 Laura Powers P’13,’15,’19 | Dining Services | ’16 - ’19

Kate Sabo | Mtn. Classroom | ’17 - ’19 Nora Hefner | Science | ’18 - ’19 Jeff Hudkins | Wise Center | ’18 - ’19 John Miller P’20 | Social Science | ’18 - ’19

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UPCOMING PROCTOR EVENTS Friday | September 20 | 4:30-7:00pm Ocean Classroom Send-Off Event The Exchange, Boston, MA

February Naples and Vero Beach, FL Events Exact Details TBA

June 5-7 Alumni Reunion 2020 Proctor Campus, Andover, NH

Friday | September 20 | 7:00-9:00pm Boston Alumni Gathering The Loft, Seaport Hotel, Boston, MA

February 8 Ski Area Event Proctor Ski Area

Questions?

Contact Debbie Krebs at (603)735-6721 or events@proctoracademy.org

Wednesday | September 25 | 6:30-8:30pm Ohio Proctor Gathering Hosted by Courtenay Taplin ’68 and Jim Hoyt ’69 Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, Gates Mills, OH

March Boulder, CO Event Exact Details TBA

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April New York City, NY Event Exact Details TBA

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Thursday | October 17 | 11:30am 29th Annual Golf Tournament Lake Sunapee Country Club Thursday | December 12 | 6:30-8:30pm Proctor Holiday Gathering Lake Sunapee Country Club January Washington DC Event Exact Details TBA

Sunday | May 24 Alumni Games Proctor Campus, Andover, NH Saturday | May 30 Commencement Proctor Campus

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