Hornet's Nest | Vol. 4 | Issue 8 | May 10, 2019

HORNET’S NEST Proctor Academy | May 10, 2019| Vol. 4 | Issue 8

HUMANS OF PROCTOR

Matt Bent

By Samantha Parkman “The most influential person in my life is my dad. Not only is he encouraging and supportive, but he also watches over my back and guides me in making the right decisions. The way I see others treat him with respect makes me want to live the same way. He treats everyone with kindness and fairness which is how I strive to be. Although I don’t want the same profession as my dad, I admire his hard-working ethic which is a quality I strive for.”

Amanda Hinds

By Anna Hollenbaugh “Currently I am working on going to my top choice college and that is Colgate. I got in, but I’m not sure if I can go yet, because I need to earn all these scholarships. Just recently, I got a thing in the mail from the first scholarship that I applied to Oberkotter, which is a scholarship program for a lot of schools in New Hampshire. I just won it. I am proud of myself. I had to write an essay and then fill out a fivepage application. Achieving this makes me feel like I’m on a path that is really meaningful. The essay was about what

I wanted to do in life, it was nice for people who I have never met to endorse me and approve of what I want to do in life.“

Sam McDermott

By Rob Gillis

“The most influential person in my life to this day is my ski coach Jason “Moot” Nelson. Over the last two years at Proctor, I have come to know Moot and his family very closely. From setting a great environment for success on the hill to teaching me how to hold a basketball, he is someone to look up to and has shaped me into who I am today, as a student and an athlete. He always fascinates me with stories from his past career as a forest firefighter in my home state of Colorado. He always remains humble but enjoys a good laugh when he can. Without the help of Moot, [me] and our U16 team would not have had such a successful season. Having a coach that is invested in finding success and is passionate about the sport is really important to me and Moot is one of the most passionate coaches out there.

I look up to him as a coach and mentor in life.”

Oliver Lively

the boat move as fast as possible.

To do this over and over again daily requires dedication to constant improvement, and the determination to never give up (and maybe just a touch of insanity!). For me rowing was the ultimate team experience despite the time, effort and physical pain required to be a fast crew, I always knew that my teammates around me shared the same commitment to hard work and to each other.”

By Scotty Lively

By Ben Daniels

“What’s brings me joy? That’s a hard question because so many things make me happy. Lax is fun, Proctor is amazing, closing all the tabs on my computer is just satisfying. Having an older brother I can go to is relieving at times, Sarah (our younger sister) bring so much into my life and our lives she is truly a bundle of joy. I also like to juggle… the longest I have juggled for is 34 minutes, I am trying to beat the record of 12 hours by the year 2022.”

Kara Baird

By Logan Dunne

Geoff Sahs

By Kaley Farmer “I love how rowing is a combination of poise, power, and persistence; you have to be in control at all times and the concentration required to be in tune with the rhythm of the boat is immense. In addition to mental focus, you have to to be physically working as hard as you can to make

Jack Walker

“The sound when you get on the ice. So in the morning and it’s bright and you want to skate and you go on the ice and you drop the pucks and they make that sound.

Then when you skate the sound of the krsh krsh. Then when you are skating the wind in your face. Just hockey. The feeling of the puck and a good ‘ol toe drag and a snapshot and then if it goes bar down like that brings me the most joy. When you work on something for so long and then you finally see it come to fruition, that’s what gives me the most joy.”

“The thing that brings me the most joy in life, well maybe not the most Joy, but when I’m happiest, is when I’m in the gym because the people that I go to the gym with, ... they know the work that goes into being successful in the gym and lifting big weights and when I’m in the gym that the weights don’t lie and that two plates is always going to be two plates and that the work that I have put in to get to that point in weight lifting has been hard. When I’m lifting it’s painful and torturous but it’s the good kind of painful and torturous because at the end of it I know how I’m going to feel and when I get to the end of it I feel validated and it feels good to be in that pain because you know that you’ve done something correctly. Then at the end of a good workout, like if it’s a leg day and you walk out of the gym and your legs are shaking and your knees are buckling you know you’ve had a good day and you know that you’re going to hurt tomorrow but you’re okay with that.

The gym is also a place where I’m respected because of the work that I put in and the results that I see.

I found that I’m able to surround myself with like-minded people who build me up and who I’m willing to build up in return. When we all succeed I find that it’s a very supporting community.”

George Hildner

By Mikel Timm

“My grandfather is the most influential person in my life. He taught me and my brothers how to be honest, respect our peers, and to give back to our communities. He is always very kind and respectful to everybody whether he knows them personally or not, that is one of the things that he preached to my brother’s and me. My grandfather not only preaches these things, but he also lives by them. He … often donates what he has to other people who need it more. He has shown me the true differences between right and wrong, and I will carry the lessons I have learned from him along with me for the rest of my life.

cause they’re all so fun and supportive. I have three brothers and it’s just super fun to hang out with them.

My oldest brother is named Jimmy and he is 20, my second brother is Charlie or Cha and he is 16, and my youngest brother is named Alex and he just turned 13. We love to ski together, my whole family skis.

We also play Catan sometimes. We also play with my dog, named Seba.

He is a mini golden doodle. We go dirt biking,...we spend a lot of time outside ...we joke around. A couple of weekends ago I went to a race at Burke with my older brother and I got to ski and be with him, it was super fun.”

By Ronan Walsh

Cat Krupka

By Ellie Richardson “The thing that gives me the most joy in life is being with my family be-

Nadia Nevells

By TJ Beaver

Conor Joslin

Cat with her brothers Alex, Jimmy, and Cha

away it would be much harder to get through the year. I think that my whole family would agree with me on that one.”

“What makes me happiest is going to Lake Winnipesaukee in the summer with my family and friends. It is a time where we all can relax and forget about all of the things that we have to worry about. I love the feeling of being at the lake and in the water more than anything. I especially like it there because it takes my mind off some of the stresses that high school life brings me.

Not having to worry about school is probably what makes me most relaxed. Without this time to get

“I used to think I’d never be one of those people, those people you hear about that appeal, that smoke when they’re bored, that get caught.

I never thought I’d be one of those people until I was. This past February I received a Major Violation, I made the wrong choice and I was drug tested. My test came back positive with weed. That was the day I realized I am one of those people but that the stereotypes that went with such a violation had nothing to do with the person. Many of my teachers, friends, and peers were surprised to hear of this news but it happened and at first, I felt embarrassed and stupid. But after time I realized that this one incident does not change who I am as a person; I am still the energetic, loud, and enthusiastic girl I was before all this. The only difference is now I have a memory that will stay with me forever and show me that I have low points but that I can come back from these lows and become even stronger from these problems. So yes I have a Major Violation, but it happened, I can’t change it, and I will grow from it.”

Kyle Connolly

By Hitch Graham

“One of the greatest stresses is feeling like nothing is ever done and that there’s always more you can do. In a community like this where we work and live so close together, it is so easy to compare yourself to everyone else all the time and your always looking at someone else and thinking they’ve done something better. And you have that drive to do something better and so you’re always trying to keep up. It creates

a need to keep working and working and that builds the stress. It’s important to realize it is easy get sucked into a world where you are thinking that there’s always more you can do with your advisory, with your classes, and with the exploration of everything we have around here. It’s a destructive place to be. It is important to step back sometimes and remember that we are all working through our own stuff and managing our stress in our own way.”

Hailey Makechnie

By Julia Royal

“Before I came to Proctor I went to a huge public school in Massachusetts. There, my identity simply consisted of being an athlete, I had other passions, but I felt like I had to live within that box. But, when I came to Proctor I felt so supported and encouraged to reach outside my comfort zone, try new things, and be involved in so much more. I became part of the jazz rock ensemble, president of the business club, big sisters program, and admissions office tour guides. I would have never, never run for School Leader and made a speech at my old school. I mean, I really would never ever have done any of that stuff, and probably would not of had the interest to. I think I credit that to the support of my advisor, Patty Pond, my parents, teachers, coaches. With them, I felt like I could accomplish so much more.”