Proctor Magazine | Fall 2021

A PROCTOR ACADEMY PUBLICATION | FALL 2021

WHO WE COULD BECOME

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Featured Articles Transitions & Cultural Anchors: What Makes Us, Us (pg.4) Proctor Off-Campus: Different Look, Same Impact (pg.22) Catching Up with Former Faculty and Staff: Chuck and Sarah Will, Jon Seigel (pg.28) 2

EDITOR AND WRITER

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Scott Allenby

02 Message from the Head of School

CONTRIBUTORS

08 Thanking Those Who Kept Us Running

Chris Bartlett ’86, P’25 Jennifer Fleming, P’11,’12 Ryan Graumann Ben Rulli Brian Thomas Travis Warren ’91, P’18,’19,’22 DESIGN Becky Cassidy

10 Celebrating the Class of 2021 32 Alumni Stories 42 Together while Apart: Alumni Together Series Highlights 46 The Proctor Fund and Campaign for Proctor Updates 56 Alumni Updates

PHOTOGRAPHY Lindsey Allenby 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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Who We Could Become To get to know Proctor deeply and well, it is important to leaf through these pages, as well as other pieces we publish, to understand how we see the world - through images, pictures, stories, words, and people. Our strength as a community comes not just from a sure-footed way of educating generations of students in our care, but from allowing ourselves - adults and students - to practice diving into the muck of learning. We live by our motto “Live to Learn. Learn to Live,” reminding ourselves that we are all on the same journey of “being” and “discerning” and “becoming”, all within the context of the relationships we cultivate with each other and with the world around us.

Like 120 of our students, I am new to Proctor. My time in Andover begins during the school’s 173rd year. As we prepare to write this next chapter of Proctor’s narrative, the stories we tell ourselves today decidedly determine what the school’s future will resemble in another 173 years and all of the years in between. More than the stories and names, the resonance for making sense and meaning of our world while adding value and serving others remains our key motivation for our work together. As I have come to appreciate so deeply during my few short months as Head of School, Proctor is so much more than a school seeking to educate adolescents. We are a powerful experiment in the building and sustaining of community, a community that allows each of us to feel connected, loved, and seen within an incredibly complex world.

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Last year was one of the most challenging on record for schools around the country. The COVID-19 pandemic, threats to environmental sustainability, and the push for racial justice put into sharp relief the pressure points and disparities that we can no longer turn our heads to avoid. We no longer possess the ability to opt out of hard conversations. Instead, our work at Proctor is to look in a clear-eyed way at the challenges around us and pursue solutions. We are builders, doers, makers, and shapers. It is within communities like Proctor’s that the next generation of young people will learn to lead through kindness, compassion, and integrity.

This publication is meant to be more than just a remnant to place in a time capsule. The stories within these pages provide a roadmap for our students, for each of us, to learn to lean into, not away from, the challenges of our time. May you be challenged by, find comfort in, and connect to your Proctor family through the words and images in this publication.

Brian Thomas, Head of School

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Transitions Cultural Anchors

What Makes Us, Us

When major transitions in leadership take place within an organization, sometimes a quiet worry that the school’s mission, or perhaps more precisely, its soul, will change percolates within a community. These unspoken fears that we will evolve away from the “old” Proctor in the rush to build something new are entirely normal and to be expected. New Head of School Brian Thomas and new Chair of the Board of Trustees Travis Warren ‘91, P’18, ‘19, ‘22 share a deep appreciation for Proctor’s history and current strengths, while also believing in who Proctor could be.

This institutional ability to hold both truths at the same time (honoring our past while envisioning our future) is only possible when a community’s cultural anchors extend well beyond its leadership to all members of the organization. This collective stewardship of the Proctor community through a most difficult year is the very foundation on which we will build the Proctor of tomorrow. When each individual understands and embraces their role as stewards of Proctor - some in the classroom, some on the athletic fields, others in the studio, in the dorms, or on the Maintenance, Dining Services, Housekeeping, Health Center teams, or Business Office - our community thrives.

Over the past eighteen months, the Proctor community not only underwent a leadership transition, but also navigated a global pandemic alongside a national reckoning around race and privilege that simultaneously challenged and inspired the school to do its best work. In the midst of the occasional chaos, of that feeling that maybe it would be easier if it all just came undone, we found ourselves doing the exact opposite and drawing closer. Supporting each other. Stepping up and giving just a little bit more to others so they could be sure to have something left in their tank to give to others. This ripple effect of teamwork permeates a workplace. It is felt by the students and parents who enroll here, and it is then perpetuated by new generations of employees who see its fruit blossom each year.

Proctor will continue to evolve in the years to come under Brian Thomas’ leadership, just as our students grow during their time with us, but fundamentally, at its core, Proctor will remain steadfastly anchored by those who believe deeply in the impact this school can have on adolescents and are willing to actively steward Proctor into the future.

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Board of Trustees: New Leadership

By Proctor’s new Chair of the Board of Trustees, Travis Warren ’91, P’18,’19,’22

After seven years of leadership as the Chair of Proctor’s Board of Trustees, Tom Healey’s, P’16,’17,’19,’21 term as Board Chair expired. Throughout his time as Chair, Tom was masterful at creating culture within Proctor’s Board.

He always stressed the importance of good governance and the Board knowing it’s role within the overall operation of the school. He constantly reminded us that it isn’t about us, individually, but always about Proctor and Proctor’s future. He listened, led by example, and gave an incredible amount of time and energy into his leadership of Proctor.

The school is incredibly lucky to have a consistency of leadership at the Board level that mirrors that of the rest of its leadership team.

The next two years will see significant evolution in the composition of our Board as nine individuals rotate off the Board of Trustees, three of whom are currently chairing committees for us. With more women than men on our Board (60% of the Board identify as female), and fourteen Proctor alumni serving on the Board, we are proud of the progress we have made diversifying the voices represented on our Board and engaging alumni in the governance of the school moving forward. We hope to add five new Trustees this fall, and another five the following September as we continue to welcome new voices, new perspectives, and new energy to this critical team.

As I reflect on stepping into this role, I am very fortunate during my 14 years on the Board to watch Tom, Steve Theroux, and Mark Loehr operate as previous Board Chairs. They each possessed a unique style, and I am honored to now have a chance to apply that which I have learned from them in my new role.

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Perspectives on a

Transition in Leadership “Proctor has long been committed to supporting the needs of individual learners and encouraging its students to take a risk to try something new and lean into discomfort in order to grow. As adults, we also benefit from coaching, reflection, and embracing new learning experiences. I look forward to Brian’s dynamic leadership with regard to setting high expectations for our own professional growth as well as helping us capitalize on the creativity we harnessed as a community while teaching during the pandemic. It will be important for us to remain committed to forging strong relationships with our students and their families while also being mindful of the need to further innovate our model and teaching practices as we emerge from the pandemic and seek to prepare our students for the challenges of our world.”

Jennifer Fletcher, P’18, ‘21, ‘21 Learning Skills Department Chair - Appointed 1998

“In 1675, Isaac Newton wrote to fellow scientist Robert Hooke: ‘If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ Since its founding in 1848, many people have made important, lasting contributions to Proctor Academy. Those of us who are fortunate to be stewards of the school now, stand on their shoulders. We recognize Proctor constantly evolves, yet remains true to itself. Our privilege is to engage in the ongoing process of shaping a remarkable community that cultivates individuality while simultaneously embracing shared values and common expectations grounded in respect. Our charge is to ensure that generations from now, others benefit from the opportunity to ‘see further.’”

Gregor Makechnie ‘90, P’17, ‘19, ‘22, ‘25 Director of Athletics - Appointed 1997

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Forty-nine Proctor employees have dedicated more than twenty years of their professional lives to the school. The institutional memory and consistency of leadership allow the school to navigate times of transition with confidence. Veteran faculty members below share perspectives on this time of transition and their optimism for what lies ahead for Proctor.

“Brian is so clearly eager to step in as our ship’s captain.

He recognizes that Proctor’s mission is solid, the community sacred, and our students central to all that we do. Thus, he knows he will not have to steer us in a new direction, but merely guide us gently from within, helping us to refine that which is core to Proctor’s soul and building upon the strong foundation that has served this school for so many generations.”

Annie Mackenzie, P’22, ‘24 Learning Skills - Appointed 1999 “Organizations like individuals need to evolve and change and take the risks associated with change.

It’s in keeping with what we ask of our students and keeping us in a dynamic growth model. As an alum, former Proctor parent and faculty member, I am excited and energized to see the new leadership, vision and initiatives that Brian Thomas will implement and hope that as we move forward, the school can place a much greater emphasis on increasing its endowment so we can provide greater opportunities for students across the socio-economic spectrum to have the incredible learning opportunities that Proctor can provide to young people.”

Brooks Bicknell ‘77, P’11, ‘15 Social Science, Arts, Costa Rica and Ocean Classroom Appointed 1989 “I am so appreciative of the faculty and staff that had been here for decades and help communicate and preserve the Proctor “green” during each transition in leadership. The heart of Proctor is never in jeopardy; it is the very thing that drew Mike and now Brian to Proctor. Our job as keepers of that green flame is to help our leaders REALLY understand our relationships, community and commitment to Proctor’s model of support and togetherness. I am so excited to be one of the ‘several decade’ faculty now and to help Brian and the school during this exciting time.”

Megan Hardie Wellness Director - Appointed 2000

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Thanking Those Who Kept Us Running

Effective organizations have an ability to unify all employees behind a collective vision. For most schools, this presents a challenge as the fundamental tasks of faculty and staff vary considerably, but at Proctor there is a collective understanding that each of our jobs is in support of the development and growth of our students.

Each school year requires countless hours of behind-the-scenes work by staff members to operate smoothly, but never has more been asked of our Health Center, Housekeeping, Dining Services, and Maintenance Teams than was during the 2020-2021 school year. To each of our staff, members of our community who rarely find themselves in the spotlight, but whose work is equally valuable to our collective pursuit of our mission, we say THANK YOU!

Health Center

Director of Health Services: Sue Norris Words cannot adequately articulate the admiration and appreciation our community has for Proctor’s Health Center staff. School nurses are always on the front lines of keeping a school community safe, but rarely are they asked to care for students AND manage the logistics, testing, quarantining, contact tracing, and medical policies that accompany a global pandemic. The only thing more impressive than the work this group of women did over the past year was the positive attitudes and kindness with which they approached each day, no matter how daunting it may have felt.

Back: Michele Stetson, Katrina Allison, Abbey Theroux, Middle: Mindy Bicknell, Sue Norris, Front: Dawn Allaire, Katelyn Churchill, Missing: Jess Adams

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Housekeeping

Director of Housekeeping: Diane Benson Front-line workers across the country received deserving accolades over the past year, and Proctor’s Housekeeping team was daily on the front lines of keeping our community safe and healthy. Added disinfecting procedures, cleaning of quarantine spaces, supervising every single meal in the Brown Dining Commons, and working alongside dorm parents and teachers to keep classrooms clean kept this group of dedicated employees busier than ever.

Jane Walker, Rachel MacDuffie, Jeannette Gerrior-Cartier, Alice Grover, Deb Parkman, Pam Brown, Hazel Platte, Becky Smart, Brenda Brown, Diane Benson, Cindy LaValley. Missing: Evelyn Brownell, Bill Clark, Elaine Rondeau.

Dining Services

Director of Dining Services: Barbara Major Proctor’s Dining Service team not only adjusted their entire service process to meet State of New Hampshire Department of Health COVID-19 guidelines, but also provided “to go” food options for students and employees at each meal to reduce the density of individuals eating in the Brown Dining Commons.

Perhaps most impressive was the Dining Services Team’s ability to shift on a moment’s notice between in-person dining and food delivery to all dorms during Phase 1 Quarantines.

Back to Front: Emilee Shedd, Barbara Major, Mark Seccareccio, Caleb Dunklee, Dararat Mori, Amy Woods, Anjela Carlson, Hannah Munson, Jude Shedd, Kevin Farrington, John Menard, Dylan Carlson. Missing: Jamie Ardine, Kathy Bennett, Barbara McNair, Isaiah Wakeman.

Maintenance

Director of Maintenance: Kurt Meier Whether they were asked to construct a negative pressure room in the Health Center, evaluate and enhance air exchange systems in Proctor’s 43 buildings, or build an outdoor breezeway into the Brown Dining Commons to protect community members from the elements during the winter, Proctor’s Maintenance Team consistently was up to the task. Oh, and they did all of these extra projects on top of all the work required to keep Proctor’s expansive physical plant running effectively.

Back: John Moore, Cody Nixon, Paul Meyerhoefer, Michael Merritt, Dana Newton, Jerome Kramer, Stephen Cline, Front: Todd Goings, Kurt Meier, Tim Braley, Lynn George, Justin Truchon, Jim Hanson, Missing: Duncan Bardwell, Dave Elwell, George Faran, Garry George, Steele Henderson, Mac MacDuffie, Brandon Meier, Clayton Temple.

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Celebrating The Class of 2021 | When Love Grows

When new students arrive at Proctor each fall, we welcome them into our Proctor family (and often our biological families given the nature of boarding school life). In turn our love grows with each new group of students who enter our lives as educators. When our graduates walk across the stage, as the Class of 2021 did on May 29, we experience that same miraculous expansion in our hearts as we make room for this group of young people alongside the thousands of other former students who have impacted our lives.

The Class of 2021 experienced perhaps the coldest and wettest commencement on record, but continued to shine brightly through the rain showers and whipping wind. Just five months ago we were uncertain we would be able to hold an in-person graduation ceremony, but we made it happen. With chairs spaced and limited attendance for each graduate, the Class of 2021 shared in a right of passage that Proctor graduates have enjoyed for the past 173 years.

The moment a graduate walks across the stage represents so many years of support, love, encouragement, and sacrifice. It epitomizes the notion of our love growing. All of the hours of homework, extra help, advising, driving to practices, games and lessons, mentoring, coaching, and guiding led to this moment. Each student’s path to graduation was non-linear (as it is supposed to be), but each has embraced their journey - a journey that has forged a sense of self few 18 year olds in the world possess as they leave high school.

While this chapter of their Proctor experience is complete, the Class of 2021’s relationship with Proctor is just beginning.

Our hope is the Class of 2021 will take that which they have experienced at Proctor - the love, the support, the fun, the laughter, the midnight jumps in the pond, the acceptance of individuals for who they are - and apply it to their next adventure. Just as we learn in an instant as parents that our capacity to love will grow, the Class of 2021 will learn they love Proctor AND their next adventure without compromising either. And that is a beautiful thing.

Thank You, Tom!

Proctor’s 173rd Commencement was not just about celebrating the Class of 2021, but about recognizing outgoing Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Tom Healey P’16, ‘17, ‘19, ‘21. A school’s strength is cultivated by all of its employees, students, parents, and alumni, but a Board Chair plays a unique role in stewarding a school.

For the past seven years, Tom has helped lead Proctor’s governing body through his wisdom, sense of humor, and deep, deep commitment to the school. A volunteer position that requires dozens of hours each week, the Chair of the Board serves a critical role in creating and sustaining a connection within the Board of Trustees, and Tom was masterful in this role. Thank you, Tom, for your years of service!

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The Proctor community is a community in which students stand in front of hundreds and reveal the most personal of stories. A community in which students and faculty alike will, at 10:30 on an unassuming Monday, ridicule themselves in assembly at some random game. It is a community that is much like a spider’s carefully crafted web.

Many separate strands, be it people or ideas, extend out in several different directions. Some quite close, some directly opposed. Yet a common thread travels across these separate strands, spiraling outward, reaching even the furthest ends connecting us all.

We are all woven together in a beautiful tapestry of cultures and ideas, holding strong through even the toughest winds or heaviest of downpours. As such, none of us will ever truly leave Proctor. Traditions may come and go...but our ideas, our greatest and happiest moments will forever permeate the web, intrinsically woven into it, holding the many strands together as we travel off and away...Thank you, Proctor, for weaving me into your web.

- Cha Krupka ‘21 Senior Speaker

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Commencement | Awards and Recognition

Fred Elroy Emerson 1886 Award Awarded to Cha Krupka and Max Smith

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 Madeline Semet

Robert J. Livingston Community Service Award Awarded to Saul Chavez Muñoz

Charles A. Jones Outstanding Athlete Award Awarded to Madeline Semet and James Tepper Two most outstanding athletes in the graduating class.

Citizenship Award Awarded to Kingsley Palmer and Sophie Lyras Best all-around citizens in the graduating class.

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

Carl B. Wetherell Award Awarded to Cooper Rice

Faithful and willing performance of all extra curricular responsibilities.

Lyle H. Farrell Award Awarded to Kerri Belguendouz and Grayson Blanchard A senior who has performed outstanding service to the school and to their fellow students.

Philip H. Savage Award Awarded to Nathan Murawski Student who exhibits outstanding leadership qualities.

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

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Class Valedictorian

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Alice S. Fowler Award Awarded to Ashley Fletcher

Danny Loehr ‘09 Commencement Speaker

CA D E EAR Renaissance Teacher Award Awarded to Melanie Maness English and Social Science

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.

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Class of 2021

College Decisions and Matriculation Allegheny College Arizona State Univ.

Assumption College Bates College Baylor University Chapman University City Year Seattle (Gap Year) Clarkson University Colby College College of Holy Cross Colorado College Colorado Mesa University Connecticut College Curry College Dalhousie University Dartmouth College Denison University DigiPen Institute of Tech.

Eckerd College Elon University Fairfield University Furman University

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Nance Patten Barrett Staff Award Awarded to Candi Adams Housekeeping

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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 Lindsay Brown Mathematics

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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The four quarters in my pocket are of little use to me when I go out to a nice meal. But when I bring them to visit a client on death row in Alabama, I can put them in the vending machine and buy my client the best food he’s had in weeks. In order to be useful, we must find out where we are needed.

Hamline University Hobart College Humboldt State University Keene State College MCPHS Univ.

Middlebury College New College of Florida Northeastern University Occidental College Ohio Wesleyan University Plymouth State University Roger Williams University Sacred Heart University Saint Anselm College Saint Joseph’s College Saint Michael’s College Santa Clara University Savannah College of Art and Design Smith College St. Lawrence University Stevenson University

Suffolk University The College of Wooster Trinity College Tulane University Union College University of California-Berkeley University of California-Irvine University of California-San Diego University of Colorado Boulder University of Denver University of Glasgow University of Mass.-Amherst University of Oregon University of Rhode Island University of Vermont University of Victoria University of Washington Wentworth Institute of Tech.

Wesleyan University Worcester Poly. Institute

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Why Proctor for our families?

Understanding Ourselves and Our Impact

By Chris Bartlett ’86, P’25

While the independent school world continues to experience a pandemic-induced demand surge this year, it is Proctor’s strong sense of self and unique market position that have allowed enrollment to remain consistently strong year after year.

This September, Proctor begins another school year fully enrolled with a full complement of 376 students. Over the past decade, we have watched the number of legacies (children of alumni) rise alongside the number of siblings and other family connected students. This year the trend continues with 28 children/grandchildren of alumni, 43 students who have a sibling who graduated from the school, 62 students with a current sibling enrolled and an additional 10 students with another family connection (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc) representing an astounding 37% of the Proctor “Family” being, well, actual family!

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There was a time not long ago when these kinds of numbers simply did not exist. When I first started working at Proctor in 1996, the number of legacies could be counted on one hand. Now the number of conversations I have each year with current families about younger siblings or with alumni about their children is pretty remarkable by comparison.

Which begs the question, why does Proctor work so well for families?

I think part of the magic is that Proctor’s “outcomes” do not live on a college matriculation list, but rather dynamically in our graduates. Because Proctor’s model requires risking failure (a word many have come to fear), students explore new passions and challenge themselves in powerful ways. This happens in the classrooms, on the athletic fields, on off-campus programs, Project Periods, and everywhere in between. We believe when students are failure-deprived they become risk-deprived, and consequently experience-deprived. For each student this journey is different, and Proctor’s breadth of programs allows each student to find their own path through Proctor, regardless of what their brother, sister, mother, father, aunt, uncle, or cousin’s path looked like.

We provide students with the time, space, freedom, experiences, and skills necessary to figure out who they are; not who we want them to be or who their family wants them to be. It is this diversity of pursuits, and the confidence of each student to forge their own path, that enriches the Proctor experience for all of us.

Siblings and Legacies: No Two Paths Through Proctor are the Same

Proctor will enroll 31 pairs of siblings and 43 siblings of alumni during the 2021-2022 school year. While families may find Proctor for a specific reason, it is Proctor’s ability to provide a wholly unique experience for each student that keeps families engaged over time.

The Healey Family

Paris ’16

Jazz/Rock Ensemble Spanish Alpine Skiing Learning Skills Lacrosse Soccer Proctor en Segovia

Eamonn ’17

Soccer Football Basketball Lacrosse Spanish Learning Skills

Declan ’19

Soccer Basketball Tennis French Woodworking Proctor in China

Tahg ’21

Theater Mandarin Baseball Alpine Skiing Proctor in China Ocean Classroom Mountain Classroom

The Bush Family

Nicola ’14

Ocean Classroom Spanish Studio Art Ceramics Soccer Lacrosse

Lucas ’19

Proctor in Costa Rica Mountain Classroom Euro Art Classroom Spanish Learning Skills Soccer Tennis

Anna ’21

Soccer JV Hockey Lacrosse Spanish Learning Skills Euro Art Classroom Ceramics Studio Art

Oscar ’22

Mountain Classroom Football Spanish Skiing

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Relationships at the Core: Reflections from the Classroom Educators across the globe were asked to become far more than teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. As students navigated online classes, isolation, increased restrictions on their freedoms, and the emotional stress associated with family situations, teachers stepped into the void, serving as an integral support system for young people. Throughout the past academic year, Proctor’s faculty were asked to do more to meet the needs of their students through online extra help sessions, tailoring lessons to those students on quarantine, remote, or unable to physically be in the classroom. A disrupted academic experience reinforced to each of our faculty the foundational role relationships with our students play in our work as educators.

Lori Patriacca ‘01 Learning Skills

“At Proctor, we build relationships by knowing one another in the classroom setting, in clubs, on playing fields, and in the dorm. With the back and forth of in-person and virtual teaching and learning, as well as the added responsibilities in dorms and elsewhere on campus, those connections did not grow as naturally.

There is a sweetness in being with people that is palpable now, and I feel lifted up just imagining the energy of a fully populated campus, athletic competitions happening twice a week, and live, in-person performances, and Innovation Nights. We had a taste of this at Expressfest this spring. Being able to show a student your pride or enthusiasm in person is a nourishing exchange of energy.”

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Kyle Connolly Social Science

“What I love about Proctor is how we emphasize our relationships with our students. The face-to-face time with each person in the classroom and the individual and collective personalities that emerge over the course of a full year is what makes teaching so fun and fulfilling.

That was disrupted at points this year and it only reinforced and further emphasized how valuable those relationships are. Keeping kids excited about being present and engaged begins with making sure they know you care that they are there, that they are growing, and that they feel heard. While this year was hard, it came with a powerful reminder that the work we do here is about people, and being around each other is a gift we must never take for granted.”

Bill O’Brien, P’23 Mathematics

Ellie Moore

Social Science “The hybrid model asked us as educators to meet students where they were like never before. It challenged us to be organized and connect with students, emphasizing their journey and asking them to take ownership of their learning.

It was a collaborative effort. I asked students what was working for them and we worked together to make their learning experience the best it could be.

We operated off of a platform of empathy and compassion, and I hope we can take those priorities with us as we head into the 2021-2022 school year with the in-person relationships that make Proctor so special.”

“One way that the dreaded Webex is making the Proctor Mathematics Department better teachers is by allowing us to collaborate in new ways. As teachers, we have talked more at all hours of the day than we have in past years by sharing via Webex. While we look forward to the organic collaboration that occurs by being in the same departmental office space, we recognize that sharing on Webex is somewhere between the formality of email and the spontaneity of an in-person chat. We have been sharing links, questions, ideas, and more this past year, and we look forward to continuing this new form of communication in the coming years.

Furthermore, we found that students were more proactive in Webex, reaching out with questions, sending us screenshots or scans of work, having a quick video chat. Going forward, we anticipate leveraging this extra way of staying in contact with our students.”

Why We Teach and How We Assess | By Derek Nussbaum Wagler, Academic Dean

Over the past year, Proctor has begun to do some deep thinking about what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess our students’ learning. Proctor’s faculty is reading Grading for Equity as a way to open up conversations about how and what we assess. Some of this conversation will force us to think about not only the assessment itself, but the daily and weekly work leading up to our assessments. At the core of both of these conversations is a discussion of what we want students to be able to do and to understand as they move through their time at Proctor and into an increasingly complex world beyond our walls.

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How Proctor Made the Most of a Pandemic Year in Sports

Proctor’s afternoon program (including both athletics and arts offerings) served an integral role within the school community as a normalizing activity. Teams were a source of fun, providing relief from the stressors that accompanied this year of COVID-19 pandemic, as well as crises of racial injustice and political strife. During a year when so many high school athletes around the country were unable to participate in their sports or compete against other teams, the Lakes Region League proved to be the ONLY independent school league in New England to have complete seasons. We owe a debt of gratitude to our Athletic Department, coaches, students, and parents for working together, following protocols, and allowing our students to experience the sheer joy of competition.

Thank You Athletic Department Unless you were behind the scenes for athletic competitions at Proctor this year, you cannot fully appreciate the work, planning, trouble-shooting, and extra effort put forth by Proctor’s Athletic Department in order to ensure our students and coaches were able to play games against Lakes Region teams. If you see this dedicated group around campus, or are connected on social media, say a belated “Thank you!” for making the 2020-2021 season a reality!

Gregor Makechnie ‘90 Director of Athletics Becky Walsh Assistant to the Director of Athletics Trish Austin ’01 Assistant Director of Athletics & Equipment Manager Gabrielle Stone Assistant Equipment Manager

Student Perspectives:

Kelly Griffin-Brown Athletic Training Chris Jones ’04 Athletic Training Ebby Gerry ’09 Livestreaming of Games via Proctor Broadcast Network

The Opportunity to Compete | Cooper Rice ’21 (Rutland, Vermont) “I never played baseball growing up, I was always a lacrosse player. When COVID-19 hit last spring, I missed playing my junior year of lacrosse and I didn’t really love it enough to keep playing. So I switched to baseball and it was the best decision I made this spring. Everyday was fun and we had an awesome group of guys and two unreal coaches. It was the highlight of the long days during COVID - being able to be maskless while we were all throwing around a leather ball and having fun. It’s such a gift to be able to try new sports, and this is the thing I loved most about Proctor - I could just sign up for a sport and give it my all.”

Proctor Athletic Hall of Fame Inductions

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We are excited to announce the induction of four individuals and one team into the Proctor Athletics Hall of Fame. This 2022 induction class will be celebrated during Reunion on June 3-5, 2022. To nominate future inductees, please submit a nomination at www.proctoracademy.org/hof • 2012 Girls’ Hockey Team | First Girls’ NEPSAC Championship • Coach Cliff Gilliespie | Lacrosse, Hockey, and Football Coach • Gary Wright ’72 | Football, Hockey, Baseball, NCAA College Hockey Coach • Anya Reed ’87 | Field Hockey, Girls’ Ice Hockey, Tennis • Christine (Toriello) Walsh ’97 | Cross Country, Dance, US Olympic Committee

Proctor Ski Area: Busier

Than Ever

Always a hub of activity, the Proctor Ski Area completed the busiest season in its history during the 2020-2021 winter. With many local ski resorts unable to host races, Proctor’s Ski Area Staff and snow sport coaches hosted a record number of Alpine and Nordic races, and welcomed high school and college teams from around New England for regular training sessions. The little mountain that could made Proctor proud this winter!

Investing in Proctor’s

SKI JUMPING FUTURE

On June 5, 2021, members of the Proctor and the Andover Outing Club communities joined together at the Proctor Ski Area to celebrate the future installation of ceramic tracks on the Tim Norris Ski Jumps. Through combined fundraising efforts, Proctor and the AOC raised enough money to complete Phase 1 of a track installation that will allow Proctor’s jumping facility to become a year-round training facility, the only one in New Hampshire.

Legendary ski jumping coach Tim Norris was joined by his former jumpers Olympian Nick Fairall ‘07 and Chris Jones ‘04, as well as Head of School Mike Henriques and president of the AOC Bill McCrillis on stage and then on the jumps to lay down the first ceramic piece of track.

Since Norris began the program in the early 1970s, Proctor Academy and the Andover Outing Club have utilized a modest jumping facility with K10, K18, K30/38 jumps to train three Olympic jumpers including Carl Van Loan ‘98 (Salt Lake - 2002 and Turin - 2006), Jed Hinkley ‘99 (Salt Lake - 2002), Fairall ‘07 (Sochi - 2014), and two Olympic Nordic skiers in Kris Freeman (Salt Lake - 2002, Turin 2006, Vancouver - 2010, Sochi - 2014) and Justin Freeman (Turin, 2006). This new investment in the jumping facility continues to distinguish the Proctor Ski Area as one of the finest comprehensive snow sport training facilities in all of New England. Thank you to all those who contributed to this exciting evolution in snow sports at Proctor.

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Proctor Arts

Creatively Solving the Hybrid Dilemma Few departments were as challenged by the sporadic interruptions to in-person learning during the 2020-2021 academic year as Proctor’s Arts Department. Quarantines and interruptions throughout the winter and spring trimesters, combined with a handful of remote students in each class, forced Proctor’s Arts faculty to find creative solutions to teaching and exposing students to the arts.

Modeling the resilience required of students during this COVID-19 year, the Arts Department used their own creativity to focus on solutions: mailing materials home to remote students, modifying schedules, encouraging at-home creativity, and leveraging Webex and other digital platforms for collaboration outside of the classroom.

When theater director Jen Summers began preparing for the Spring Musical: Mamma Mia!, she approached the school’s COVID-19 Task Force and asked what was possible, and then problem-solved the rest. Instrumental Music Director Bill Wightman ‘73 and Vocal Music Director Candace Gatzoulis jumped in to utilize the Proctor Recording Studio to pre-record tracks with backup singers and overcome the challenge of not being able to have a live orchestra for the musical. Students learned to project their voices through their masks, and our ever-ready tech crew made sure families could tune in digitally to the performance. The cast and crew rose to the occasion, producing a fantastic show. Sitting in the theater with a reduced capacity crowd was one of those rare, powerful moments during the past year when we were able to feed off of each other’s energy and see the best of Proctor in action.

Thank you to each student and Arts faculty member for creatively solving the COVID-19 dilemma and making the arts a place our students could feel “normal” during a year that was so far from it.

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Student Voices: The Importance of Arts and My Wellness Taking an arts course was super helpful for me to be able to escape whatever was going on in the world for a chunk of time each day. Whether it was working on my installation in Slocumb or having Thursday night rehearsals in the music studio, there was always a place for me to unwind and relax. Art classes became a time for us all to work on our pieces, but also to be able to express our stressful thoughts to others and discover shared anxieties. For me, art has always been therapeutic and having a block of time in my day set aside for my creativity was really crucial to my success this year. During the final week of school, being able to perform outside for the community and present an installation that I was proud of made all the stresses of COVID and hard work required to navigate this year worthwhile. - Mason Guerster ’22 Art classes were the highlight of my day; a rare moment when you can stop thinking about stressful classes and just relax while you create. - Sophia Fontaine ’22 I have never thought of myself as an artistic person but Digital Art showed me how to appreciate different forms of art as well as taught me the fundamentals of varying styles and eras of art. I found myself working on projects during my free time, something I thought I would never do. Perhaps most importantly, this class helped me ease the stress of everything going on at school this year and really helped clear my mind. - Maks Watton ’23

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PROCTOR OFF-CAMPUS

Different Look, Same Impact

The 2020-2021 school year saw Proctor’s five term-long Off-Campus programs evolve, morph, and, for Proctor en Segovia and Proctor en Monte Verde, lie fallow due to travel restrictions. European Art Classroom reimagined itself as an artist colony in the American Southwest, Mountain Classroom journeyed throughout southern Utah for the Winter Term and much of the Spring Term before making the trek east, while Ocean Classroom ran two successful terms aboard the schooner Roseway (read more on the next page). All five programs are scheduled to run this school year, but our program directors and students learned much from the past year, not the least of which is that it is the core of these programs - the relationships, the time spent outside of comfort zones, adventure, and group dynamics - that remain most powerful.

European/Southwest Art Classroom

Making the Most of a Most Different Year “Abroad”

By Jennifer Fleming, P’11,’12, European Art Classroom Co-Director European Art Classroom, normally based in France, seamlessly blends aesthetic history, exposure to cultures and foreign languages, with the students’ artistic expression. When COVID-19 interrupted our normal plans to create our artist colony in France, we had to pivot our goals for the program.

How would the students “see what they studied” without visiting the Louvre? The Uffizi? How would they learn French without being surrounded by it? What about those charming villages that served as backdrops for plein air painting excursions? And how could we, the program directors, excite the students, knowing all too well that their stateside experience would be different?

We had to find a way to make Southwest Art Classroom rock. We needed those students to join the ranks of the off-campus legacies who not only grew through their experience, but came away fiercely proud of their participation. And in the end we found a way -- our students found a way. When you read the student reflections in the program’s blog posts last year, no where do they hint at disappointment. They met the challenge head-on and were appreciative of the opportunity. There were several lessons that Dave and I learned that we will carry with us as we return to France this year: • Students have built-in creativity: It doesn’t magically brew from exposure to beauty/antiquity/novelty. Sure, those things can inspire their expression, but everyone who thinks, who feels, can create.

• Less is more: We too often abide by the mantra “so much to do, so much to see, so little time”…and yet in Arizona, time seemed to stand still. We were not rushed by the societal limitations of train schedules, opening hours, and hotel reservations. We all got plenty of sleep, had daily siesta time, exercise time, and loads and loads of art time. It turns out, when we dial back the emphasis on doing the maximum, we experience a freedom that affords our mind space to grow and explore.

• Spend time together doing the little things: Make a puzzle, play badminton, create playlists, bake cookies, watch the sunset from the balcony, go for walks, sketch each other’s eyes and noses, take out the garbage. These little moments are when the greatest strides in building community are made.

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Introducing Off-Campus Instructors Ellie and Luis Mendoza have deep ties to Spain and are passionate about Spanish language and culture.

Ellie studied Spanish at Bates College, including a semester abroad in Spain. She remains extremely close to her Spanish host family. Before joining Proctor, she taught Spanish at Waynflete in Portland, ME. Luis earned a BA from Colby College and an MA in Spanish from Middlebury. He most recently taught in a Spanish immersion classroom with Portland Public Schools. Luis and Ellie’s twoyear-old son Fernando loves sports, and they know he will love playing soccer with Proctor students and experiencing Spain from his stroller.

Caroline Feeney brings her passion for the outdoors and community building to Proctor. She earned a BA from Trinity College. Before joining Proctor, she worked at the North Carolina Outward Bound School. She has experience leading backpacking, rock climbing, canoeing, and kayaking trips.

She loves to surf, climb, and slowly check books off her ever-growing reading list.

Before beginning a career in outdoor education, Jeffrey Prado studied geology and environmental studies at Sewanee. Most recently, he worked at The Outdoor Academy in North Carolina teaching mathematics, coordinating the craft program, and leading outdoor trips. As Jeffrey’s students can attest, he is passionate about public lands, geomorphology, woodworking, and trees.

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Ocean Classroom

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Students aboard the Harvey Gamage in 2008

After three decades of successful fall semester at sea programs, Proctor Academy has expanded its Ocean Classroom programs with a new eight week winter program at sea voyaging aboard the iconic Maine Schooner Harvey Gamage. The new program will start January 5th in Charleston, South Carolina and finish eight weeks later in Mobile, Alabama with the academic core of the accredited curriculum exploring the historic roots of these two ports while learning the mathematics of navigation and the written communication required to sail through the Bahamas, Caribbean, Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas.

The 2022 winter program will include a focus on the history of involuntary servitude, inequality, and racism in America while working to deepen the leadership skills and training students will need moving forward as open minded, productive citizens. This new program creates powerful proximity between student experiences and the complex issues of justice, equality, diversity, and inclusion present in communities. In addition to fourteen Proctor students, winter Ocean Classroom will deliberately include nine additional diverse leadership trainees including some from the Charleston and Mobile communities. The twenty- four students will be joined by nine educators and crew members from Harvey Gamage to deliver the curriculum. When the Harvey Gamage arrives in Mobile, the crew hopes to meet with members of the Africatown community, which was founded by descendants of the Slave ship Clotilda, an 86-foot schooner which was the last known slave ship in U.S. history.

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“This new Ocean Classroom program mixes adventure, authentic challenge, hardship, and skill building while being immersed in the study of our watery planet. I am also very excited the program will have a strong historical focus that delves into not only general maritime history, but the exploration of the economic and historical roots of slavery in America.”

- Ocean Classroom Director Brooks Bicknell ‘77

Fall Ocean Classroom 2021

Proctor Academy’s fall Ocean Classroom program will also undergo an evolution as a last minute maintenance issue with the schooner Roseway forced Proctor to shift vessels and instead sail aboard the Harvey Gamage, a tall ship well known by former Proctor Ocean Classroom students, most recently from the 2013 voyage. After seven years of partnering with the World Ocean School, Proctor’s new partnership with Sailing Ships Maine will support the fall program as well as the new winter program. Students will depart from Boston Harbor, travel north for sail training off the coast of Maine before embarking on their southern journey along the eastern seaboard. While crewing the ship to various port stops enroute to its ultimate destination of Puerto Rico, students will study marine biology, maritime literature, navigation, and learn invaluable seamanship skills. Long-time on-ship co-directors and lead educators Matthew Ecklund and Holly Buresh will lead Proctor’s 28th consecutive fall Ocean Classroom program. Learn more about Sailing Ships Maine and Proctor’s new partnership at https://sailingshipsmaine.org/.

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Transitions & Goodbyes For an organization like Proctor Academy, one rich with tradition and with employees who have chosen to make the Town of Andover their home for decades, an incoming Head of School must adopt a long-run view of implementing incremental change. As Mike Henriques stepped into his role of Head of School during the summer of 2005, he inherited a school in need of physical plant upgrades, but an incredibly rich educational community. Over the past 16 years, Mike has served as chief steward of this community, helping the school navigate challenges, tragedy, financial crises, alongside all of the good, good work that happens each year at Proctor.

Running a school can be an incredibly stressful, isolating job, but during the final weeks of the 2020-2021 school year, employees and students had the opportunity to shower Mike and his wife, Betsy, with gratitude and admiration for their collective work leading Proctor. The Class of 2021 dedicated the 2021 Green Lantern yearbook to Mike and Betsy and named a new trail in the Proctor Woodlands “Henriques Run”, while the Board of Trustees honored Mike with an honorary Proctor diploma at Commencement, and revealed the naming of the new outdoor center the “Mike Henriques and Betsy Paine Outdoor Center”.

Of course Mike and Betsy were not let off the hook without a few good roasts by employees at end of year gatherings, along with original songs about Mike’s leadership written and performed by Bill Wightman ‘73 and Kyle Connolly.

The following excerpt comes from the 2021 Green Lantern dedication: Mike and Betsy: Thank you for your steadfast leadership; a leadership that is neither loud nor showy, but rooted in individual relationships that will always lie at the heart of Proctor. Thank you for understanding and appreciating the whole of Proctor, acknowledging each individual’s contribution to the Proctor that sustains all of us. Thank you for patiently, steadily leaving your mark on the Proctor of the future. You have helped us chart a new, exciting course without ever forgetting our past, and that is no easy task for a leader.

Your warmth and unwavering support of our entire community have strengthened Proctor, while allowing us to embrace the imperfections of our individual humanity. It is this faith in the individual that permeates Proctor’s educational model and allows each of us to take risks, fail, stand back up and work to become a better version of ourselves. Thank you for believing in us, believing in Proctor, and all the good this school can and does bring to the world.

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Saying Goodbye to Departing Faculty and Staff When two Proctor alums run into each other on the street, exploring in a National Park, or at a music venue, their shared experiences create an immediate bond that transcends their years spent in Andover. Central to these shared experiences are the faculty and staff who make Proctor, Proctor. While many employees choose to make Proctor their home for their entire career, others spend a chapter of their lives with us, leaving an indelible mark on our community. This year, we bid farewell to the following employees and thank them for their service to Proctor’s mission.

David Salathe (USSA/FIS Skiing) | 1998-2021 Lesley Fisher (Admissions) | 2014-2021 Erica Wheeler ’00 (Student Activities, Wellness, Softball) | 2016-2021 Ashleigh Boulton (USSA/FIS Skiing, Learning Skills) | 2017-2021 Maggie Kennedy (Wellness, Hockey) | 2017-2021

Quinn Harper (Mountain Classroom) | 2019-2021 Erica Hample (Mountain Classroom) | 2019-2021 Ray Summers (Admissions, Lacrosse) | 2019-2021 Connor Tedesco ’14 (Alumni Relations) | 2019-2021 Zach Zavalick (Admissions) | 2020-2021

David

Lesley

Erica

Ashleigh

Maggie

Quinn

Erica

Connor

Ray

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In Loving Memory: Jen Hauser, P’24 (1975-2021) One of the beautiful challenges of living in community at a place like Proctor lies in grieving the loss of one of our Proctor family members. On April 22, 2021, we lost one of Proctor’s kindest, most caring employees as Jen Hauser succumbed to her battle with ovarian cancer. While Jen’s official role at Proctor was in the Business Office, her impact extended to all areas of campus, especially as a fan on the sidelines of her daughter, Delaney’s ‘24, games. Jen leaves a legacy of kindness to all creatures big and small and will be deeply missed in the Proctor community.

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Catching Up with Former Faculty and Staff

Chuck and Sarah Will | 1976-2014 For 38 years, Chuck and Sarah Will served as cornerstones of the Proctor experience. From advising to coaching to teaching to running the school’s communications and admissions efforts, their involvement in all aspects of Proctor during some of the school’s most transformative years helped build the foundation of community on which the school stands today.

Chuck and Sarah continue to remain engaged members of the Andover community since their retirement in 2014. Read more below!

What have been a few highlights of your retirement thus far?

Chuck: I seriously cannot believe that it has been seven years since we retired. Time is accelerating in its passage. We enjoy lots of time with our son Andrew ’00 and daughter Mary ’03 and our grandkids

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- Will is five, and Delia is two (pictured left). They live only a couple of hours away, which is great, but the pandemic brought us all together for most of the year at our home here in Andover, which was amazing. Lots of sledding and good home cooked meals!

Sarah: We’ve enjoyed being spontaneous and having lots of unexpected joys and adventures together and with family. Grandchildren keep us young.

What passions have you been able to explore or pursue?

Sarah: I’ve continued writing poetry, playing piano and other instruments, singing in an a cappella group, volunteering at the elementary school’s second grade with my good friend, tennis, biking and spending time with friends.

Chuck: I’m playing piano more than ever, and I take lessons at Berklee in Boston. Playing in Nick’s Other Band keeps me busy with some of my best friends (including Keith Barrett ’80, Phil Goodnow and Scott King.) We’ll end up playing about 30 gigs this year which is a dream come true. I’ve also become an amateur astronomer, and seem to be acquiring telescopes.

What is one of your favorite Proctor memories?

Sarah: I loved working with Tom Eslick, Suzy and Tim Norris, John Pendleton, Laurie Zimmerman and Nancy Schoeller and others developing and recreating our English Department curriculum. We laughed and debated and shared our love of human nature.

What are you most proud of accomplishing during your time at Proctor?

Chuck: When I started as Director of Admission in 1981, I walked into a great opportunity. The school was so very unique in its mission, style and methodologies but had not really articulated its place in the universe of independent schools. Describing those qualities to visiting families, crafting the right words and concepts, was branding something very special and novel. I was defining a market position that could make the school knowable to the world: educational consultants, other schools and future applicants and their families. It was a fast-moving, exhilarating time in Proctor’s evolution, and I am proud of helping to clarify the school’s niche.

What advice would you share today with faculty/staff who are just beginning their Proctor journey, including Head of School Brian Thomas?

Chuck: We do what we do through relationships that elevate teenagers to feel worthy. It’s much more than classroom instruction. As Chris Norris would say, you want to “catch them doing something right” whenever possible, so that structure is balanced by respect and even love. Proctor will always prosper to the extent that it is unique. Schools that are like other schools struggle. Proctor is not just a great school; it is an important school. It is important because we demonstrate something about education that happens no where else. Stay true to that. That would be my advice.

Dare to be different.

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Catching Up with Former Faculty and Staff

Jon Seigel | Proctor

Arts Department 1979- 1989

Jon taught in Proctor’s Arts Department for a decade alongside his wife, Patrice Martin. Jon currently lives in Wilmot, New Hampshire and continues to teach woodturning. He occasionally is a special guest in Proctor’s art classes.

How did you and Patrice find Proctor and become involved with the school?

I arrived at Proctor by accident. Initially I came for three weeks to oversee a senior project in woodworking with three students.

Of the three students who were doing the senior project, one of them, Bob Gagne ‘76 became my life-long friend until he died in 2014 and one of the other students also became a professional wood worker. The following January (1979) I came back as a temporary fill-in for a teacher who left suddenly. In the spring David Fowler unexpectedly asked me to stay on. Patrice joined me, and a year later she started teaching ceramics. I stayed for ten years, but Patrice taught ceramics and photography for 35 years.

Reflecting on your (collective) time at Proctor, how did your friendships with colleagues shape your experience at the school?

The friends I made at Proctor shaped my whole life. I loved being in an academic community where there were experts on every subject. George Emeny took me under his wing and showed me his vision of what the industrial arts department could be. We resurrected the blacksmithing program that had been dormant for decades and built the forge. George also taught me about the history of machine tools, and how that history is all around us in New England. Today the restoration of antique machine tools is a big part of my life.

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Patrice taught at Proctor for more than 35 years, as her husband and a fellow artist, what was it that kept her inspired to impact students for so many years?

Both Patrice and I felt honored to be teaching at a school that valued the arts so highly. Patrice loved her students and had close relationships with so many of them. In the ceramics studio and the darkroom, Patrice wanted them to thrive and feel relaxed and know they were heard and understood. As a result, they trusted her and valued her advice and calming influence.

After Patrice passed away in 2017, a group of alumni started the Patrice Martin Arts Scholarship. This scholarship is provided to current students each year who have a passion for the arts. What is your vision for this scholarship fund into the future?

It’s my hope that alumni who knew Patrice will feel inspired by the Patrice Martin Scholarship to sustain this fund so the arts will continue to thrive at Proctor. I envision this fund as a magnet for students who are committed to the arts.

Since leaving Proctor, you began your own business as a wood turner and tool creator. Can you tell us a little more about this work and recent projects that have kept you busy?

After leaving Proctor I went back to woodturning full time. I have worked on many architectural restoration projects of historic buildings. To see a sample of my work go to my website www. bigtreeturnings.com, or visit the State House in Concord and look at the bench in Representatives’ Hall. This piece of furniture has fifty-four turnings.

I never stopped teaching and have had numerous students in my shop, regional woodworking schools and symposia. In 1990 I was one of the founders of an organization for woodworking education, The Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers, that started with twelve people and is now approaching 700 members.

I also have two patents on woodworking tools. The second one was obtained in collaboration with my most memorable former student Grinnell More ‘82, whose daughter, Hannah ‘12, later attended Proctor as well.

Any additional thoughts or memories to share with the Proctor family?

One day I sat down to what I thought would be a quiet lunch in the dining hall. Suddenly Eva Mansell (drama director) sat down on one side of me and Paul Silverman (music director) sat down on the other side — and the next thing I knew I agreed to be in the production of Fiddler on the Roof. I had never been in a play before, but found it to be one of the most exciting experiences of my life, especially working with Eva and with Tom Eslick who played the lead role so brilliantly.

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Alumni

Stories

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Bob Martin ’65 A Foundation for Life

Being the youngest of four and having a family that all attended prep schools, it was always in the cards for Bob Martin ‘65 to leave Springfield, Ohio, to attend a New England boarding school. The only uncertainty was which one. Bob had family attend the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, but after considering the size of the school, it was quickly dismissed as an option. As luck would have it, Bob’s math tutor at the time had recommended a small New Hampshire school that seemed like a good option– Holderness School, and that’s where Bob’s journey from an Ohio farm boy to Andover, New Hampshire began.

became an All-American goalie, and won a national championship in 1968. In 2011, Bob was inducted into the Denison Athletic Hall of Fame.

Upon graduating from Denison in 1969, Bob chose to enlist in the Army instead of potentially being drafted for the Vietnam War. “I figured I would rather choose what I got to do than leave it up to someone else, so I enlisted and worked with the Army Corps of Engineers building bridges. After I finished my enlistment, I went to graduate school at Ohio State University, graduating with a natural resources and resource economics degree. I also used the With some additional research, Bob and his family added G.I. Bill to attend the Conway School of Landscape Design.”

Proctor to their list of schools to visit. Bob reflects, “My Bob’s first job post-military led him back to prep school father and I flew to Boston and drove to Andover. I life, where he served as a dormitory parent at Northfield remember walking into Maxwell-Savage and meeting Ernie Mount Hermon School while working full-time for the Sherman. I was so intimidated by his State of New Hampshire Natural Resource demeanor, and left his office in tears after Department. “I was asked to create New “I was blessed to receive I thought I had completely failed the Hampshire’s first Land Use Map. Satellite interview.” Bob’s father would remain with imagery was pretty primitive, and everything such a great education Mr. Sherman as Bob waited patiently to was heat sensored. Dartmouth would make and learn from the likes hear what they had decided. “Mr. Sherman of Cliff Gillispie, Spence these little shapes with the actual ground location was a Navy veteran and someone that did that indicated the degree of heat and take Wright, David Fowler, not give off the ‘Mr. Friendly’-vibe. However, that information to render onto a map to and countless others. once you got past his tough exterior, he really demonstrate what activity was where. It was Proctor changed my life cared about us. After my father met with Mr. Google Maps before Google Maps.”

Sherman he informed me that I would be and made me who I am accepted. The fear of going through another With Bob’s environmental background, he today.” interview like that was enough for me to was one of the first people to work alongside convince my dad to hop in the car and get Proctor students when the school launched back home.”

Mountain Classroom, teaching students resource mapping.

His work led him down the career path of working with From an early age, Bob was active outdoors with athletics natural resources and the environment in Cleveland, always serving a central role in his upbringing. During his Ohio and Kentucky where he wrote environmental impact time at Proctor, he would play football, hockey, and lacrosse, statements on industrial complexes, airports, and railroads, with lacrosse growing into a lifelong passion. “I did not while consulting with coal miners on shale projects and know too much about lacrosse when I arrived, but I knew energy conversions in six different states. Today, Bob lives I wanted to give it a try since all the ‘cool’ guys were in Columbus, Ohio, where he started a new career as a playing it. I chose to try out for goalie, and fortunatestock trader, specializing in commodity trading, working ly, we had an outstanding coach in Cliff Gillispie. Coach with Wells Fargo Advisors. Reflecting on his journey from Gillispie was one of the most remarkable men I have ever Ohio farmboy to Proctor student, and now a 75 year old been around. I was lucky to have played for him for three looking to retire soon, Bob is excited about what the future years before he moved on to St. Paul’s School.” During holds. “If only I were younger, I would love to teach and Bob’s senior year, another young faculty member, David give back like the educators at Proctor did for me during Fowler, joined the Proctor community and would leave my time there. As I near retirement, I still enjoy many of a lasting impact on countless students during the next the things I fell in love with at Proctor, especially writing forty years. After Proctor, Bob matriculated to Denison poetry and being active. Proctor set me up for a successful University where he majored in English and continued life.” his lacrosse career. As captain of the lacrosse team, Bob

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Max Cobb ’83

Applying Lessons Learned at Proctor on the World Stage When Max Cobb ‘83 enrolled at the Carroll School as a 6th grader who had recently been diagnosed with dyslexia, he was barely reading at a 1st grade level. Little did he know that the arduous work during those early years at Carroll would unlock a series of experiences that would define the next forty years of his life, including connections made at Proctor Academy that would lead him to Dartmouth College and a career with US Biathlon.

It was during Carroll School’s Outward Bound program that Max first learned about Proctor Academy while attending a summer camp on Elbow Pond run by Proctor. Max and his family knew he would need additional learning support in high school, and Proctor was a logical choice. “I underwent a rapid progression at Carroll, and it was great and hard and difficult, as it is for all dyslexic kids, but I knew I still needed Learning Skills and Proctor was able to provide that support to me.” With Alice Fowler as his Learning Specialist, Chuck and Sarah Will as dorm parents and Sarah Will as his advisor, Max flourished at Proctor. “Proctor was just wonderful for me. I loved the outdoors and Orientation. I became involved with the Proctor Fire Department, played lacrosse, skied, had the most amazing time on Mountain Classroom. I learned to read and survive, and was surrounded by adults whose relentless enthusiasm and support of us as students permeated the school’s culture.” Max points to his time serving as School Leader and his interactions with Head of School David Fowler as truly transformational, “The lessons I learned from David around consensus building remain just as important to my work today as it was almost forty years ago as a student.”

Academic work at Proctor remained incredibly difficult for Max, however. “Life as a dyslexic was incredibly challenging before the era of personal computers and spell check.” When it came time to apply for college, Max had his sights set on Dartmouth College. “I went in and told Tim Norris, my college counselor and ski coach, that I would like to apply early to Dartmouth and he promptly responded, ‘No you don’t.’ It was a bit disheartening, but when I went back the next day and affirmed my desire to do so, Tim did everything he could to support me and wrote me a wonderful recommendation explaining my learning journey.” While initially deferred during the early-decision process, Max eventually found himself Dartmouth bound after raising his SAT math score more than 200 points, something he credits to Lee Carvalho and her relentless support of her students as an AP Calculus teacher.

Max’s Dartmouth experience mirrored that which he had at Proctor: time in the outdoors leading the Dartmouth Outing

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Club, skiing on the Nordic ski team, and serving as president of the Dartmouth Biathlon club. A job guiding a visually impaired skier named Joe Walsh during the 1986 World Championships gave Max his first taste of international Nordic racing experience, and he was hooked. When a job opportunity to work with US Biathlon opened up in 1989, Max jumped at it. “I remember completing my job interview with US Biathlon over the radio phone at Hurricane Island as I was working there for the summer, and thought it would be a great job for the next year or two before I went back to graduate school. By February 1992 I was marching into the opening ceremonies with the US Olympic Team and realized there is a lot to international sport and maybe I want to stick around. More than thirty years later, I am still with US Biathlon and could not be more excited about our future as an organization.”

As program director, Max launched a new approach to recruit young talent that laid the groundwork for an athlete development program that produced a gold medal at the 1997 Junior World Championships. He went on to become a technical delegate for the International Biathlon Union (IBU) in 1998, helped design and build the biathlon venue in Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, and was chosen to serve as the Competition Chief for the Salt Lake games, an honor he says is still the highlight of his career. With an intense travel schedule, and his first child born in the summer of 1998, Max still found time to help create the Maine Sports Center in 1999, an organization he would work alongside to bring the 2004 Biathlon World Cup to rural Maine. Promoted to Executive Director of US Biathlon in 2006 and President and CEO in 2010, Max’s international sport career has blossomed over the past decade, serving as Chair of the IBU Technical Committee and later on the Executive Board, while also being heavily involved in investigations of the Russian doping scandal that marred the sport and led to new anti-doping laws.

With the IBU’s first strategic plan completed with Max’s leadership, the organization is poised to benefit from new marketing and broadcasting contracts that will drastically improve the athlete and athlete development experience. In parallel to this success, Max has reengaged with Proctor as a member of the Board of Trustees, “It has been really fun to come back as a trustee and see so many of the essential pieces of my Proctor experience - experiential learning, supporting Learning Skills students, and having this open and vibrant dialogue within the community - still alive and well. The essential spirit of Proctor goes on as I remember it and as I had hoped it would.”

“The lessons learned from David Fowler as School Leader around consensus building and managing meetings have been incredibly helpful while chairing international committees with representatives from nine different countries. I used what I learned at Proctor to change the culture, to have more open discussion and benefit from the diversity of opinions and experiences around the table.”

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“It is both luck and hard work. I have come to respect the role of both in one’s life. And luck comes in many forms, including the people you meet and the relationships you have the opportunity to develop along the way. Proctor was a big piece of my ‘luck’ and I remain grateful for the role it played in shaping me and my path through life.”

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“It is both luck and hard work. I have come

to respect the role of both in one’s life. And luck comes in many forms, including the people you meet and the relationships you have the opportunity to develop along the way. Proctor was a big piece of my ‘luck’ and I remain grateful for the role it played in shaping me and my path through life.”

Cristina Berta ’95

Embracing New Opportunities on a Global Scale At the end of every episode of the podcast “How I Built This”, host Guy Raz asks his entrepreneurial guests what roles luck and hard work played in their success. For Cristina Berta ‘95, the answer to that question lies somewhere in between as she reflects on her journey as an exchange student from Romania to Kearsarge Regional High School, Proctor Academy, Middlebury College, and Harvard Business School before launching a global career in business.

When Cristina earned a scholarship from the Soros Open Society Foundation to leave her home country of Romania and study abroad for six months in the United States, she had no idea the path that lay ahead of her. “I was one of four students who earned this opportunity and when I got on the plane, I was asked where I wanted to study in the US. I said ‘New York’ because that sounded interesting. We landed at JFK airport, and then immediately hopped on a smaller plane that landed in Manchester, and I ended up in New London, New Hampshire. Not quite New York, but I had an amazing experience (despite the cold) with the Ensign family as my hosts.” Cristina’s plan to return home to continue her pre-med preparations in Romania before university after six months in the United States was foiled when she was informed her high school credits from the US would not count and she would have to repeat her entire junior year. “I called Steve (Ensign) in a panic not knowing what to do next. He helped me apply to a number of independent schools in the United States, Proctor being one of them, and I was fortunate to receive a financial aid package at Proctor that allowed me to complete my senior year in Andover.”

Cristina made the most of her one year at Proctor earning Salutatorian honors. She credits her English teacher Tom Eslick, psychology teacher Chris Norris, and AP US History teacher Connie Appel for teaching her to love learning, “I was coming from a system where I was just expected to memorize facts, but stepping into a classroom at Proctor where teachers wanted to hear what I had to say, and valued my perspective, shaped the rest of my life. Adults encouraged me to tell them what I think. I have this crystal clear memory of my first English paper I wrote for Tom returned to me all crossed out in red with simple feedback: ‘You’re not telling me what you think.’

Proctor was the first place where I truly was encouraged to express myself and given direct and personal feedback and it changed how I thought and thought of myself.”

Following Proctor, Cristina attended Middlebury College where she studied math and completed a thesis on chaos and game theories. Throughout her years at Proctor and Middlebury,

Cristina remained close with the Ensign family, spending holidays with them and becoming a part of their family.

“What began as simply a host family relationship quickly evolved into a lifelong friendship. I remember so clearly Steve helping me pack my car for my first job out of college and always welcoming me home for Thanksgiving or Christmas as I began my professional journey.”

That professional journey began at the apex of the internet bubble working at a small consulting firm in Washington, DC followed by a tech startup in Boston. After three years in the tech industry, Cristina enrolled at Harvard Business School. “Before the revolution in Romania, my father jokingly told me, ‘If you study hard, when you get into Harvard, I’ll pay for it.’ I don’t think he ever thought it would be a reality.”

Her early experiences laid the groundwork for her career in international business, “I had an amazing boss at IBM who challenged me and encouraged me to learn sales as a foundational skill in business. He pushed me to go to business school, and then told me I had a responsibility after Harvard to go take a ‘real’ job and make a difference in the world.

And that’s what I tried to do.”

Recognizing the role consumer technology would play in the upcoming decade, Cristina identified she wanted that ‘real’ job to be in the mobile phone space. After interviewing with Samsung and Nokia, she took a job at Nokia in corporate development and eventually moved to Mexico City where she managed a $3 billion account from 2006-2010. In 2010, a move to London with Nokia led to an unforeseen career twist when a former colleague asked Cristina to advise a South African fund focused on mobile. Cristina soon found herself managing a portfolio of twelve different investments around the globe. “I was either on the plane finding new deals or representing our firm in an existing deal. It was an amazing seven years of learning and seeing things and experiencing the entrepreneurial excitement from the investor side.”

One of those companies piqued her interest. “I started working with Picnic - an end to end grocery delivery company - in 2019 and fell in love with their story. My family, including my eight year old daughter, Mara, are happy and healthy and loving life in the Netherlands. I still keep a toe in the investing world as an investment scout for Sequoia Capital and as an advisor for a publicly traded company building automated parcel lockers, but I am enjoying learning how to build a company and not just recognize a good one. It is this thrill of building something that has me so excited right now.”

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Christine ( Toriello) Walshe ’97 The Grounding Found Within Community

To step into a community requires you to put the well-being of that community above your own self-interest. For adolescents, it is a nearly impossible task; not because teenagers lack an appreciation for those around them, but because so few have deeply felt the benefits of living and learning in community with others. When Christine (Toriello) Walshe ‘97 stepped into the Proctor community as a repeat sophomore from a small farming community in New Jersey, she never knew how effectively a school community could surround her with the love, support, and the accountability she needed.

As the youngest of four children, Christine struggled to navigate public school and her large class sizes with her severe learning differences. “As a dyslexic with ADHD, school was incredibly hard for me, for any student with my learning profile. You simply get worn down by the effort it takes to get by. My father identified with my learning challenges and told me there were better ways of learning that would capture my strengths and allow me to thrive.”

As good friends with former faculty member Anne Swazye’s cousin, Christine’s father learned about Proctor and they drove the five hours to campus for a visit during her sophomore year. “I fell in love with the brochure of Proctor during my interview with Michele Koenig, but it was not until I arrived on campus for Wilderness Orientation with Susan Eslick that I began to fully understand the power of this place.”

It was the community of friends, teachers, staff, and local families within Andover that provided Christine the support she needed to thrive at Proctor. “I hit a really rough patch of homesickness just before winter break of my first year, but one of my newly made friends, Kelcey Loomer ‘96, invited me to live with her family for the remainder of the year. The hospitality and love that the Loomers expressed was life changing, as was my connection to Cindy and Benny Benson and their family, and others in the local Andover community who allowed me to feel grounded in who I was for the first time.”

Combined with the love and support of teachers like Dave Pilla, Patty Pond, Anne Swayze, the Hinkleys, Terry Stoecker, and Patrice Martin, as well as her Learning Specialist Dale Milne, Christine came to understand herself as a learner, “I couldn’t retain from a flat page, I had to experience something fully in order to connect with it and so Proctor’s educational model allowed me to see the process of learning in a totally new way. Dyslexics are massively strong in 3D learning, and so by building a hope chest in woodworking or throwing a pot in Slocumb I was able to understand in new ways the process of learning.” She adds, “My teachers believed in me, in us. They

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allowed us to run student-directed plays in the theater, to manage budgets and have unfettered access to the costume closet, to take risks, to explore in the woods. At the same time, they were always willing to hold us accountable while supporting us when we needed them most.”

After terms on Ocean Classroom and Mountain Classroom, Christine recognized what she needed out of her future college experience: a community where adults cared about her, knew her, and were willing to hold her accountable. That place was Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. “I initially pursued a wildlife science major because Dave Pilla changed my life through his teaching and I wanted to be just like him, but quickly pivoted to the humanities and a dual major marrying art history and religion - the ‘Patrice’ route.

I think I had such a transformative experience at Warren Wilson because I already knew the value of wholly investing myself in a place and its people based on my time at Proctor.”

Following graduation at Warren Wilson, Christine headed to Atlanta to interview for an internship with the High Museum of Art. Late to the interview process, the only available internship was within the Museum’s development office.

That internship quickly led to a full-time role as an executive assistant at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. This early exposure to fundraising evolved into a nearly twenty year career in the industry, first with U.S. Ski and Snowboard and since 2004 working with the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. In her current role, Christine serves as the Chief Development Officer of the USOPC and the President of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation (USOPF). As a hands-on fundraiser, Christine also oversees a staff of 30 and helps lead the USOPF in its $30M in annual fundraising among the 55 national governing bodies that make up the Olympic and Paralympic movements in the United States. Christine is committed to the mission and envisions leading the Foundation through the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games when the country will celebrate thirty years since it last hosted a Summer Games.

As Christine and her husband Andy raise their ten year old identical twin girls, they are keenly aware of the communities into which their children step. “As my girls grow older, I want them to always have adults in their life who look them in the eye and not only believe in them and their unique potential, but hold them accountable to the community that surrounds them. It is the greatest gift Proctor gave me, and I know the greatest gift I can give them as a parent.”

“If given the opportunity, you learn that your learning differences are actually super powers.

They never go away, but they allow you to find alternative ways to do things. You learn to be really, really comfortable being different. But you cannot embrace your differences without the tools to succeed, and Proctor gives young people with learning differences the tools they need to succeed.”

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Willis Brown ’07

Coming Full Circle: Sustainability and Business A review of the water cycle taught in introductory biology classes reminds us that while molecules change states, each eventually returns to its origins. While the water cycle is often depicted in a nice, circular graphic, the actual path of each molecule is far from linear, just as our paths through life weave in unpredictable ways. For Willis Brown ‘07, a childhood spent on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean morphed into a career freestyle skiing, teaching surfing, and helping run a brewery before he was once again drawn to the cold Atlantic waters and a new beginning with the launch of his company Seagreen, a kelp based daily supplement routine.

endeavor, “I woke up one day with this powerful realization that what I was doing was counter to all I believed in. I quit that job, and drove around Canada for a year skiing until I suffered a serious injury in February 2020 that ended my ski career and forced/allowed me to start fresh and really think about what my next adventure would be.”

The perfect storm of COVID-19 and his ankle injury canceled two planned ski and surf videos for Outside TV that would have focused on the hydrocycle, but Willis and two friends quickly pivoted and pitched a sailing and surfing adventure along the Maine coast to Outside TV. “We called an audible, scraped together sponsorships A Manchester, Massachusetts native, Willis initially found from Yeti, Goal Zero, and Badfish, and planned a whole Proctor because of its fledgling freestyle ski program, but trip only powered by the solar panels on our small sailboat. it was the entirety of his experience in Andover that left We surfed and sailed and met with local aquaculturists, the biggest impact on him. “When small farmers, restaurateurs, and I think about Proctor and my time “One of the most powerful things I have sailed in and out of remote islands there, I think about the friendships throughout Maine’s coast. Along learned is that if you just explore and I made, the faculty like Matt and the way I fell in love with kelp as have fun and try to adventure around Annie Mackenzie and Dave Pilla this amazing collagen superfood of the world, but are friendly and kind and the sea and wanted to figure out who connected with me and guided me, and the school’s willingness to how to share this discovery with stay connected to the people you meet, be itself.” He adds, “Before it was cool others.” those relationships come full circle.” to do so, Proctor unabashedly cared about the environment even if it Willis went from drying kelp on the gave off a more hippy-vibe to our more athletically-minded life rails of the boat for sustenance to brainstorming how peer schools. Proctor said to us as students, ‘We want you this remarkably regenerative plant could become part of doing Woods Team, playing in the pond, going on Orientation, people’s daily routine while also improving the coastal going off-campus on Ocean Classroom and Mountain ecosystems in which it grew. “I quickly learned the majority Classroom because those experiences connect you to the of people do not want to eat kelp outright, but if there natural world, and that is the most important thing we could be a vessel that combined kelp with other healthy can do as a school for our students.’” ingredients, I might be onto something.” Willis’ ingenuity and persistence led to the development of a daily dietary Weekend surf trips to the coast and a Senior Project supplement called Seagreen. Working with a partner shaping surfboards under the watchful eye of Dave Pilla kelp farm in Freeport, Maine, Seagreen plants ten kelp with classmate Chris Landers ‘07 complemented winters seedlings for each unit sold, Seagreen officially launched spent traveling the country skiing competitively in Willis’ in April 2021, and immediately saw a powerful response own seasonal water cycle that would continue through his from potential customers. “People all have a morning college years. His ski career continued as a student at the routine, and Seagreen is finding its way into more and University of Colorado-Boulder, skiing on the national more people’s routines. People are putting it in their stage each winter trimester, while working towards his degree coffee and smoothies, and I am excited to see where we in International Affairs and Marketing. Following college, can grow from here.” Willis adds, “This product, this Willis embraced stints teaching surfing in San Diego and company, is a full circle representation of the impact Hawaii, before returning to Aspen, Colorado where he Proctor had in my life - surfing, skiing, relationships, the helped run The Aspen Brewing Company and continued water cycle, a deep care for the environment, and a to ski. A return to the east coast in 2018 landed Willis willingness to take risks with confidence. It’s been quite at a bottled water startup called Essential Water, but his the ride that I hope continues.” environmental conscience soon drew him away from this

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Together while Apart Who we are today is not who we will be forever, regardless of our age. We tell this to our students each year, and try to live it out ourselves as educators. But the core of who we are, the mark left by experiences we have had, the relationships we have cultivated during our lives, the sense of place created when living and learning at a place like Proctor - that core never goes away.

Over the past year, Proctor’s Alumni Office in partnership with the Alumni Association hosted virtual engagement opportunities of “Together Series” events. These Zoom meetings connected alumni with specific faculty, staff, and former employees for open conversations about Proctor, life, and days gone by. Beyond the obvious goal of keeping alumni connected, they have served as a beautiful reminder of how we can celebrate evolving identities, while remaining rooted in common ground.

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PROCTOR

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The “Together Series” strives to bring alumni together both broadly and around core Proctor experiences. This year we held more than 25 virtual gatherings with the following themes:

Class Gatherings

Cocktail Gathering

Ocean Classroom

Football

Mountain Classroom

Java Hut

Cooking

Hockey

Yoga

Stories from the Sugar Shack

Stories from the Stage

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Together while Apart

PROCTOR

For the second straight year, the Proctor Alumni Association was forced to postpone an in-person 2021 Alumni Reunion and held a virtual reunion gathering. Building off of the highly successful “Back To Your Roots” virtual gatherings throughout the spring, Proctor’s 2021 Virtual Reunion provided opportunities for classes to gather in virtual spaces, a chance to “meet” new Head of School Brian Thomas, engage in a virtual tour of campus updates, and recognition of both the 2021 Alumni Service Award and the 2020 and 2021 Athletic Hall of Fame inductions. Be sure to visit Proctor’s Alumni webpage to rewatch virtual events and check out highlights from the weekend.

REUNION WEEKEND

Behind the Scenes: Virtual Reunion 2021

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Visit proctoracademy.org/reunion for Virtual Reunion 2021 content and updates about Reunion 2022!

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Alumni on the #ROADTOREUNION

Classes engaged in a little friendly competition on the Road to Reunion as they earned “badges” for participation in different events and activities throughout the year. Congratulations to the Class of 1991 on having more than 10% of their class earn a badge.

Check out a complete list of class participation here: www.proctoracademy.org/reunion

Winners:

Class of 1991

Class of 1971 Class of 1996

Save the Date!

PROCTOR

reunion 2022 JUNE 3-5 | ANDOVER, NH

Reunion 2022: A Gathering for the Ages

Proctor’s Alumni Office is planning the biggest (and best) Alumni Reunion to date from June 3-5, 2022 celebrating the graduating classes, that have reached their 5th Reunion, ending in O’s, 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 6’s, and 7’s.

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Six Years of Incredible Investment in Proctor In 2015, Proctor embarked on its boldest capital campaign in the school’s history, The Campaign for Proctor. With the goal to raise $30 million to support the construction and renovation of campus facilities, grow the endowment, and strengthen and enrich educational programs central to Proctor’s holistic approach, The Campaign for Proctor has transformed the campus footprint, supported academic programs, wellness initiatives, and the long-term financial sustainability of the school. Most of all, this campaign has impacted not only the lives of students currently at Proctor, but those of future students and families who have yet to find our community.

A capital campaign of this magnitude is not possible without the work of so many and the support of a community that believes in the educational mission and transformative experience Proctor provides. Thank you to the current co-chairs of the campaign Liz Blodgett-Smith ’81, P’13 and Katie Kidder ’91, P’16,’19,’22, and former chair Oliver Schwab ‘02, for their leadership, wisdom, and passion for Proctor. And to the over one-third of Proctor constituents who helped us not only reach our goal but surpass it by raising $45 million - Thank you!

The Campaign for Proctor Timeline & Highlights

Brown Dining Commons • Net-zero ready • All-electric appliances • 40 Geothermal Wells • The heart of the Proctor community

The Campaign for Proctor Launched

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West End Dormitory • 11 student beds and 1 faculty apartment • Modular, eco-friendly construction

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Farrell Fieldhouse Phase I & II • Gym floor & Space Redesign • Weight room • Athletic Training Area

Farrell Fieldhouse Phase III • Entrance and Athletic Offices • Classrooms • Student Wellness Area

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2019

$4,734,949 Invested in Proctor’s Endowment | Additional

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As an alum, current parent, and parent of alumni, I am so proud of the accomplishments of the Campaign for Proctor. The love and passion we each experience through our shared connection to Proctor will sustain well into the future because of this campaign.

I cannot thank every supporter enough for their willingness to invest in Proctor and its future.

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- Katie Kidder ’91, P’16,’19,’22, Co-chair, The Campaign for Proctor

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I am in awe every time I am at Proctor seeing the tangible benefits the campaign has had on the campus. What is most impactful is we all walk away with lifelong relationships, a strong sense of self, growth personally and academically, and a desire to make our own difference in the world. My sincere thanks to every donor for giving us all the opportunity to leave our unique imprint at Proctor and beyond. - Elizabeth Blodgett Smith ’81, P’13, Co-chair, The Campaign for Proctor

Mike Henriques and Betsy Paine Outdoor Center • Locker Rooms & Storage for athletes and coaches • Indoor Climbing Facility • Tuning and workshop for snow sports

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Farrell Fieldhouse Phase IV • Equipment Room • Locker Rooms • Laundry Facility

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Woodlands Center • Gateway to Proctor’s 2,500 acres • Two Classrooms • Common Space • Attached Greenhouse

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When Dreams Become Reality:

The Proctor Woodlands Center Stewarding the 2,500 acres of land that Proctor calls home requires a deep commitment to ethical, sustainable land management. Integrating students into this stewardship work has long been central to Proctor’s work. Through the generous donations of alumni, parents, employees, and friends of the school, Proctor will soon have a new gateway to accessing, maintaining, studying, and unlocking the magic that lives within the Proctor woodlands.

With construction set to be complete by the summer of 2022, the Proctor Woodlands Center will include both wet and dry lab classroom space and space to house courses from other departments desiring to connect with the outdoors, as well as an attached greenhouse. Funds have been secured to construct and endow this timber frame building that will provide unmatched educational, recreational, and community opportunities to engage with the Proctor woodlands.

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We go into the woods almost every day and study tree identification, leaf structure and function, plant physiology, autumn leaf color, ecological observation, and field skills. Students create professional herbarium mounts of leaf presses, take six weeks of pigmentation data and analyze leaf color change on campus and in the woods, and do extensive research into their individual tree species. I am thrilled we will soon have a building dedicated to courses like this and a place to improve the learning experience for our students.

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- Laura Ostrowsky, Woodlands Manager and Science Faculty

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Dedication of the Mike Henriques and Betsy Paine Outdoor Center

At the core of each Proctor student’s experience lies a connection to the outdoors. Kindled on Wilderness Orientation and flamed through afternoon activities like mountain biking, skiing, cycling, kayaking, and rock climbing and off-campus programs like Mountain Classroom, the inextricable bond between person and place pulses through each member of the Proctor community.

The dedication of the Outdoor Center to Mike Henriques and Betsy Paine honors their work as educators who believe wholeheartedly in the ability of the outdoors to serve as Proctor’s most powerful classroom. Throughout Mike Henriques’ sixteen years as Head of School, both he and his partner in leadership, Betsy Paine, have been champions of the role outdoor activities can and should play in students’ lives. They understand the lessons that can only be taught in the backcountry, exploring Proctor’s extensive trail system by foot, bike, or skis, careening through slalom gates down the Burden Trail or through the rapids of the Blackwater River that bisects Proctor’s campus. It is in these moments of connection to a sense of place, a sense of place far deeper than a physical structure could ever evoke, that we do some of our finest work as educators. This Outdoor Center ensures future generations of Proctor students will have the opportunity to access and enjoy the great outdoors and all the lessons it provides. Thank you to all who helped this project come to fruition!

Phase IV of Farrell Field House Renovations

By the end of December, the Farrell Field House will have received the final upgrades to a four year, $13M overhaul that has transformed student life on campus. Phase IV of renovations include new locker rooms, athletic equipment and laundry facilities, and much-needed storage areas. Photos cannot capture the impact this project will have on athletic department operations. Athletic Director Gregor Makechnie ‘90 notes, “Phase IV Farrell Field House Renovation provides sorely needed locker room space for male athletes (we were able to provide new locker space for female athletes and coaches in Phase III), as well as visiting teams and officials. The renovation also provides upgraded equipment storage (the quantity of equipment necessary to support our teams is staggering!) and laundry capacity. An additional Phase IV benefit could be a photovoltaic solar array on the Field House roof that has the potential to double the school’s solar energy production from 25% to 50% of total use. With such capacity, charging stations become a possibility at the Field House and we could incorporate electric vehicles in our transportation fleet.”

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Bridging the gap between net tuition income and Proctor’s operating expenses that accompany our educational model annually is no easy task. Through the generosity and dedication of donors supporting The Proctor Fund, Proctor is able to remain a leader in brain-based learning methods and experiential learning, and to serve as a place where adolescents can become better versions of themselves. The 2020-2021 Proctor Fund goal of $1,550,000 was exceeded through the generous gifts from more than 1,000 members of the Proctor community. Learn more about who contributes to The Proctor Fund and how they make a difference at Proctor.

Where does the money go?

HEAD’S UNRESTRICTED

Addresses immediate needs allowing the school to achieve its unique mission with confidence and strength.

PEOPLE

Ensures financial aid, competitive salaries and professional development opportunities.

PROGRAMS

Supports Learnings Skills, Athletics, Arts, and off campus Experiential Programs.

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Provides for Student Activities, Residential Life, and care of our Buildings and Grounds.

Thank You!

$1,611,905 Raised BY 1,135 TOTAL DONORS DONORS FROM

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GIFTS MADE ONLINE

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CLASS LEADER BOARD BY PARTICIPATION: TOP 5 1991 (54%) | 1971 (28%) | 2014 (26%) | 1981 (24%) | 2001 (22%)

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*Preliminary audit numbers. The official audit will be voted on by the Board of Trustees in October 2021.

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Alumni Giving | The Hornet’s Nest Thank you to the 645 alumni who made 1,122 gifts totaling $1,521,435 during the 2020-2021 fiscal year. Your loyal support of Proctor’s educational mission is vital to our continued success as a school!

1923 Tom Bryant ~* 1940 John Merriam~ 1942 Dave Colt * 1944 Stu Brewster * Bruce Nicholas * 1945 John Pearson ~* 1950 Mark Claff Bill Suydam ~ 1951 Peter Parker Kip Snow ~* 1953 David Coffin * Peter Elbow # Bruce Fourcher Jesse Putney # 1954 John German # Jerry Lester # 1955 Ed Darna # Quin Munson # 1956 Mike Nash * Tim Purdy 1957 Charlie Forsberg # Everett Jones *

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1958 Mike Boyd # Dick Clemence * Robert Kvalnes # Dan Lincoln ~ David Norman 1959 Jim Levy * Paul Rogers * 1960 Laurie Cannon # Peter Kroll George Morosani * Dave Wilson 1961 Len Elden * Dino Giamatti Bill Lerchen Chris Whittaker # 1962 Bill Donovan Dave Lunger Frank Robinson # 1963 Dana Bent # Nat Cheney # Charles Hall * Scott Hughes * Peter Kappel # Tiger Maguire ~ 1964 Jim Putnam Mike Rosenthal # Sears Wullschleger # 1965 Art Cox * Robert Fisher ~ Tom Geibel * Bill Hood Steve Stoner Bob Warner

1966 Guy Kelley # Kirby Whyte 1967 Scott Bartlett Joel Becker # Bob Bristol John Bueche John Burke Woody Comstock Richard Harris Andy Hatt # Bob Hawes George Henschel Tomp Litchfield Jim Morris # Knox Turner # 1968 Jim Bird # George Brengle Charlie Flammer John Gary # Russ Materne Chris Morris Jon Randall Park Smith Courtenay Taplin 1969 Doug Armstrong # Bill Bolton # Tom Canfield Bill Davis Gordie Harper # Jim Hoyt * Ted Levering # Alan McLean # Marc Munsill Dave Schrepel Steve Shapiro * John Van Siclen 1970 Dave Boyd Bill Finley

Pete Hoagland Sandy Marsters David Moulton * Tom Rudkin Bill Stetson John Welsh # 1971 Tim Brown # Bill Buchsbaum Robert Geyer Frank Gibney * Kevin Gillespie * George Hoffer Charles Howard Pete Rolfe * Greg Samaha # Jack Simonds Jim Summers Rich Wind 1972 Jon Bursaw Jay Fisher * Bill Levandowski Doug Rendall # Gary Wright 1973 John Hellman ~# Walter Perry # David Walker Reed Zars 1974 John Deas # Henry Vaughan * Don Woodbury # 1975 AJ Johnstone # Bob Murchie # Mike Rudkin Andrew Sheppe Jean (Tierney) Tarrant

1976 Betsy (Kalat) Harvey John Keuper Dan Zussman 1977 Ned Harvey Carl Jelleme 1978 Jeff Abramson Bob Anderson Louis Berns Dave Deschamps Paul Hiltz Allan Johnson # Ed Lynch Chris Mitchell Dan Murphy # Jeff Power Heidi Schmidt Ingrid (Josephson)Viventi 1979 Eric Benoit # Bill Faulkner Dan Hart # Ken Lifton * John O’Connor * Bill Pierce 1980 Keith Barrett # Linda Diskin John Halsted # Kevin Hannaway Dave Moore 1981 Liz Blodgett Smith # Joe Carrara Scott Dow David Eberhart Rich Farquhar Chris Hadley # Kristin Hand Mitch Horton Doug Kingman Deb Kirchwey Stu Neft Justine (Alston) Payne Carolyn (Reynolds) Peach JJ Pirtle Hannah (Sayre) Smith Ann Thayer

Dave Tillotson Lizabeth Tompkins Birdie Walker 1982 Tom Colby David Oakes Andrew Parker # Lucy (Polese) Rohner Bredt Stanley Ayres Stockly # Emily (Montag) Vaughan 1983 Kassie (McCamic) Barker Max Cobb Chris Edwards Alex Estin * Susan (Trice) Gentry Will Hamill # Edward Johnson # Alex (Perry) Jump Bob Manning Travis Mathis # Dan Mori # Dan Morse Nan (Battles) Reap Sam Reeves # Tim Wright # 1984 Elizabeth Bauman * Sarah (Rome) Douglas # Leigh Griswold-Boudreau David Gunn Rob Logan # Amy (Westerman) McKain # Claudia (Douglass) Williams 1985 Dana Berenson Frank Buckley Kay (Beyer) Childs # Carlotta (Segars) Cunningham Carl Douglass Patrick Keegan David Laflam Ann Luskey Amy (Emeny) Pattison Emma (West) Werner 1986 Chris Bartlett # Wendy (Chambers) Brown # Johnny Buck #

Zander Collins Dana Fletcher # Cole Horn Larry Madeira Jean Molloy Jen (Ballou) Vogt # Tripp Wyckoff # 1987 Malon Courts Jed Dickman * Seth Downs Tom Eaton Steve Fasciana Trevor Foster # Anya (Reed) Goodridge Sarah (Randle) Murawski # Jennifer (Swift) Wilson # 1988 Nicole Bagley # Beth (Carpenter) Bartlett Rhys Brooks # Margaret (Sova) McCabe Will McCurtin # Joe Pellerin # Tom Spang # 1989 Will Boyd Richard Courts Chris Durell # Matt Hauptly Bob Kaynor # Karyn (Gerschel) Lamb # David Lapham # Trask Pfeifle Adam Rohner Lans Taylor * Brett Wagenbach # Jeff Ziter 1990 Brad Andrews Mollie Burns Digger Clarke Jessica (Filoon) Cornell Bill Feinberg # Jess Foz Rob Hutchins # Gregor Makechnie # M.C. Malboeuf Mark Maloney # Sarah (Rowe) McIntyre # Pedro Reynoso

Chelsea (Kittell) Taylor * John Turner # Dan Valenti Pete Whitehead 1991 Ian Altman Elliot Anderson Cat (Ehlen) Breeden Chris Bremer Jennifer (Allen) Bryant Erica (Doyle) Calder Kate (Ferris) Carter Guy Cocuzzo Brad Courts # Darryl Daniel Josh Dunne Julia (Perry) Elliott # Dan Ephraim Liz (Webb) Green Tony Hadzima Stephen Haycock Caroline Heatley Gretchen Hemberger Brooks Holmes Julia Huggins Katie Kidder * Nathaniel Leach Natalie Leventhal Brian Levy Katie Lorentzen Roth Martin # John Matthews Erik Mayo Curt Millington Meghan (McSheffrey) Morin Rachael Narins Matt Nathanson # Ben Naylor Eugenie Niven Kim (Eason) Nubel Allan Parker Oliver Preuss Jen Putney Andy Ratrie Terence Reaves Matt Richter Tony Robinson Jess Sarkisian Birch Shambaugh Devon (Woods) Simmons Kate (Shaughnessey) Smith Kitter Spater Andy Taylor Jimmy Thatcher

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Mario Triay # Suzanne (Rapp) Troyer Alissa Van Nort Travis Warren # Sean Webber David Whitlock 1992 Steph Clarke Drew Donaldson # Elizabeth (Taylor) Eckhardt Peter Farrow Spencer Harman Corby Leith Brendaen Makechnie Josh Norris Hadley (Kasnet) Scully Jeremy Stowe # Sam Thompson # 1993 Ryan Bowse # Clay Courts Tom Dodge # Stu Green Jin Hayashida # Willow (Rheault) Kreibich Maxwell (Boehme) Love # Alex MacInnes Brady Miller Alex Perkins Tim Stillman Liv Vogel-Eck Mark Wyatt 1994 Karyn Ames D.J. Hanlon Emily White Hat 1995 Ty Anderson Anonymous Cassie (Heaton) Bowse # Craig Churchill Seth Currier Andrea (Cafritz) Hamor Brian Hamor Jonah Horowitz Jordan Matheson Chris Rogers 1996 Gordon Bassett Sparky Brooks

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Jeanne Gosselin Andy Klein Kelcey Loomer Lorna (Macdonald) Newman Jeff Nowlan Lindsey Schust Mitzi Tolino # Abby Usen-Berner # 1997 Abby (Smith) Buccella Kim (Guzman) Cheever Simon Etherington Erin (Hinkley) Shaffer Mark Johnson # John Kiaer # Chris Knapp # Clare McCarthy Courtney Monteiro # Chris Sanborn # 1998 George Blair Bob Downey David Lejuez # Leo Waterston 1999 Brooke Donaldson # Chris Donaldson # Jed Hinkley Phoebe (Rideout) Lambert Christiana Makinde Spencer Martin # 2000 Laura Anker # Paul Behnke Sarah (Hamor) Greenshields Abbi Stern # Melissa (Butler) Tuckerman # J.R. White Hat 2001 Andrew Abendshein # Kate (Smith) Austin # Trish Austin # Liz (Harrison) Bouchard-Hall Lindsay Brown Hunter Churchill Taylor Cullen Malcolm de Sieyes # Lyndsay DeVore Justin Donaldson # Edwin Fowler

Greg Gagne Doug Park Stuart Rudkin 2002 Anonymous Brad Cabot # Lins (Hume) Clements Chris Cloutier Nancy Heyl Grace Kumetat Rebecca (Barban) Leavitt Meredith Leoni # Megan (Manning) Cairncross Jed Prescott Colleen (Watson) Prossner Larkin (Williams) Richards Sarena Stern # Garrett Thompson 2003 Jake Fitzpatrick Sean Leavitt Sonz Morosani Greg Stetson Jackson Tufts Stephanie Williams Adam Wolf Sarah Wood # Joe Zeitler # 2004 Chris Jones Michael Murphy Dan Risotti 2005 Kaedi Butterfield # Matt Carpenter Sean Covert Alex Felton Christine Frazier Alicia Hager Katharine Heyl Sara (Murphy) Howard Sarah Jordan Dave Schleyer # 2006 Eddy Benoit Erin Brady Georgia (Gomez) Bristol Nick Brown # Erin Davey Brittany King

Laura Lebourdais Ainslie (Fagan) Mintz Ty Morris # Evan Procknow # Kate (Lanphier) Schmidt # Zach Szymanski Merry Yasek 2007 Ali Berman Sara (Whipple) Froman # John Goheen Will McCue Matt Milley # Daniel Pendleton Harrison Smith Heidi Whitman 2008 Joanna de Pena # Hillary (Creed) Kinney Alex Milley # Becca O’Connor # Marissa Ray # Brooks Whitehouse Charlie Willauer 2009 Robert Baxter Kat Copeland Max Ettenborough Ebby Gerry Jaguar Sasmito Charley Stern Trenny (Smith) Steuert Cam Webster 2010 Ben Bartoldus Chris Dale Dylan Evans Jenny Galligan Hannah (Frantz) Goumas Thomas Jennings Gardner Kelley Andrew Landers Haley (Gerber) Miller David Murphy Abbie (Webb) Pederson Eliza Perry Megan Phippen Andrew Romer Maggie Shine # Cody Sienkiewicz Tommy Slothower-Miner

Marion Smith Peter Wade # William Whipple # Emily White # 2011 Sam Brown David Cho Truman Fleming Jessy (Lee) Foley Evan Gaskin Maddie (Koenig) Gaskin Jake Hines John Howard # Jamie Jaxtimer Zach Lee Ali Mitchell Lily Munsill Ian O’Connor Brian Perry # Haley Peters Stephen Sample # Henry Smith 2012 Tucker Andrews Evan Anthony Courtney Birch Eli Clare Sam Corman Penzel Breanna Davis # Peter Durkin # Rylee Norton Hannah Webster 2013 Nicole Adee Tim Braley Jake Dombroski # Emily Fairbank Jamie Gaines Ryan Glantz Harry Hause Blake Joppy Moriah Keat Morgan Koenig John Martin Will Moss Anne Neylon # Madison Powers Emmy Ribet Patrick Shine Connor Simon Tori Smith #

2014 Michelle Asch Sam Barrett # Cortland Begor Nicola Bush Elizabeth Cameron Craig Chalifour Gerry Craig Baird Davis Angie Duke Kelly Fisher Axel Getz Connor Hollenbaugh Sam Jaxtimer Abby Landers Joey Mitchell Jordan Moore Kate Pattison Nika Paulin Tucker Peters # Eli Pier # Meg Sheehy Ian Starkey Connor Tedesco Maddie Trefethen Mark White Hat 2015 Fallon Adair David Bamforth Kelsie Berry Ethan Butterworth Beau Collins Catie Craig Gabbi Griffin D’Amiano Liv Henriques Calvin Johnstone Frances O’Gorman Will Reynolds # Abbie Young 2016 Max Barrett # Allie Clarke Keith Davis # Taylor Drewniak Andrew Edwards Paris Healey Burke Hildner Maddie Humphrey Wari Isaac Henry Johnstone Sophie King Avery Melville Haley Schorer Annie Sheehy

2017 Katie Ball Grey Bechok Cat Doheny Logan Drewniak Caroline Ellis Tyler Gamble Crowley Gentile Cope Makechnie JoJo McDonald Sydney Minnehan Jacqui Morris # Jay Pier Eva Wagner Alex Wyckoff Kelly Yu 2018 Trixie Barker Ian Barnes Megan Casey Sage Fletcher Liv Ginchereau Kiara Vazquez Siri Warren 2019 Myles Abbate Henry Bechok Ben Charleston Andrew Harrell Chad Hildner Anna Hollenbaugh Lulu Larkin Hailey Makechnie Marina Mirabella Andrew Rusis Ben Warren Sam Wyckoff 2020 Kaley Farmer Campbell Franz Hitch Graham Tommy Harrell Sarah Hearns Blaine Hinds PJ Shaw Sean Slick 2021 John Gower Tahg Healey Blake Licata Sophie Lyras Cooper Rice

In Honor Of 25th Reunion All Faculty Bridget’s Proctor Experience Chris Bartlett ‘86, Director of Admission Grey Bechok ‘17 and Henry Bechok ‘19 Brooks and Mindy Bicknell Robert A. Bristol, Jr. ‘67 Bud Burbank Class of 1968 Class of 1969 Class of 1970 Class of 1978 Class of 1980 Class of 1981 Class of 1983 Class of 1987 Class of 1989 Class of 1991 Class of 1992 Class of 1993 Class of 1996 Class of 1997 Class of 1998 Class of 2001 Class of 2002 Class of 2006 Class of 2010 Class of 2012 Class of 2013 Class of 2014 Class of 2015 Class of 2018 Class of 2020 Class of 2021 Class of 2023 The Carvalho’s Marie Fox Cenedella Ben Charleston ‘19 John and Nancy Schoeller Mark M Claff ‘50 Max Cobb ‘83 Tom Deluca ‘99 Dylan Evans ‘10 Jane Ellis ‘20 David Fowler Johnna Joy Fieldman ‘09 Jamie Gaines ‘13 Nina Garbarino ‘23 Jennifer Galligan ‘10 Mike Henriques Mike Henriques & Betsy Paine Nils Holland ‘20

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Will Hotz ‘23 and Alex Hotz ‘21 Caleb Ihegihu ‘23 Blake Joppy ‘13 Chloe Knowles ‘19 and Lexie Knowles ‘21 Avery Montgomery ‘17 and Lila Montgomery ‘20 Samantha Madison ‘22 Jake McElroy ‘20 Harold and Eleanor Morris Johnnie Mutkoski ‘22 Kim Eason Nubel ‘91 Proctor Students Annika Regan ‘24 Maggie Royal ‘16, Sam Royal ‘18 and Julia Royal ‘19 Shantanu Sanyal ‘10 Paul Scull ‘22 PJ ‘20 and Gretl Shaw ‘23 Cody Sienkiewicz ‘10 Pete Southworth Griffin Stewart ‘24 Noah Sweet ‘18 Arthur Tang ‘21 Connor Tedesco ‘14 MacLean Tiffany ‘03 Scott King and Shauna Turnbull Bob Wilson Frances Alcorn Webster ‘23 Oliver Weiss ‘21 Lucien Wiener ‘17 In Memory Of Rob Blair ‘90 Williard Sparks Cannon ‘66 Todd Chamberlain ‘90 Mike Damien ‘14 Joe D’Amore ‘78 George Emeny Tom Eslick Eric Johnson ‘88 Raymond F. Murphy Jr. Patrice Martin Pat Medeiros ‘06 David Pilla Scott Pond Ryan Whelan ‘93

Reunion Giving # 5 or More Consecutive Years of Giving * 20 or More Consecutive Years of Giving Member of The James L. Dunbar ’49 Legacy Society

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Alumni Updates The Proctor Alumni Association saw remarkable engagement during this past year through our Back to Your Roots, Together Series, and other virtual events. Throughout these events, we heard stories from generations of Proctor alumni, each living out our school’s mission in their own corners of the globe. We shared laughs, tears, and memories of Proctor that remain deeply rooted in who we are and how we live our lives. As we anticipate the return of in-person alumni events beginning once again this year, we look forward to catching up face-to-face in the near future. Until then, enjoy these updates from your classmates in this year’s Alumni Notes.

Please share updates from your life with your Class Chair and learn how you can get involved with the Proctor Alumni Association by connecting via email at alumni@proctoracademy.org or over the phone at 603-735-6720.

Bruce Nourie ’58 Lakewood Ranch, FL Bruce reports that he and Wilma are doing well and, as of communicating with the Alumni office, they had no issues with COVID-19. He remained active during the pandemic, serving as President of a 186 boat marina on the Intracoastal Waterway and Treasurer of his large homeowners association.

They still travel north to Bristol, R.I. each summer and are looking forward to traveling abroad again. Bruce looks forward to hearing from other classmates from the class of ‘58!

Bruce Gasque ’65 West Wardsboro, VT It is with deep sadness that Bruce writes of the passing of his good friend and Boston University roommate, Richard Kimball. Bruce celebrated his 75th birthday in December of 2020 and remains in great shape, exercising daily during all four seasons. He has more hobbies than he has time for! He is hoping to reconnect with classmates from the class of ‘65 Chris Morris ’68 Paoli, PA Chris Morris is happily retired and he and his wife Karen are approaching their 50th wedding anniversary. They enjoy spending time with their three children and eleven grandchildren. He still returns to New Hampshire several times every year and marvels at the transformation of the campus.

He is always interested in hearing from classmates!

Bill Bolton ’69 Bel Air, MD Bill checks in with this story of two Proctor alums connecting over a shared on-campus experience in Andover, NH. “After Proctor I did some sailing on the Chesapeake Bay. I got picked up by a guy for an early spring overnight race and we were talking about how cold we had been in our life. He told the story about going to high school where the ice rink was outside and it got so cold that they put a jockstrap over each ear for practice to keep warm. I just yelled at him, ‘you went to Proctor Academy.’ And he had!

We sailed that one race and I never saw him again and haven’t a clue as to his name.”

Gordie Harper ’69 Atlanta, GA Gordie reports that he recently retired after 45 years in the publishing and advertising industry. He enjoys spending time with his seven grandchildren - five girls and two twin three-year-old boys - playing golf and croquet, hiking, fishing, and wing shooting.

He decided to avoid traveling during the pandemic.

Gordie shared this reflection: “Gents, while this picture of Proctor is beautiful, I hope it was taken in early November. This looks like the ice pond outside the old gym, an outdoor rink with lights. I remember many nights going up and down that ice with a stick in my gloves and no pads -- and no cup. I think we were playing pick-up hockey and “rinky-dink” hockey on this ice before the Christmas holiday. It made me laugh thinking about the Barnstable boys and how they would still check you over the boards in a pick-up game. Especially Tommy. Then he would stop, say he was sorry, and do it to someone else. Thank goodness for snow banks.”

Jim Hoyt ’69 Chagrin Falls, OH Jim sends his best wishes to the Proctor alumni community, and he hopes that 2021 has been less complicated than 2020 for Proctor alumni. 2020 was an extremely tough year for everyone in his close circle.

David LeDuc ’69 Willow Spring, NC David writes that he is “simply trying to keep the proverbial chin up in face of old age, COVID-19, and the decline of the democracy experiment.” He is still working as a roofing contractor, by his estimation one of a few with a master’s degree. He perhaps works more now than he did 20 years ago. Despite being busy and his “rapidly deteriorating knees,” David still rides his bicycle. After taking bass guitar lessons a few

years ago, he formed an adult (with the exception of the bass player!) band that has not played together during the pandemic. He is grateful to have his job and his health. At the time of writing his wife Margaret was working as an RN on a hospital Med/Surg floor, at high risk of contracting COVID-19. David was eagerly awaiting his turn to get vaccinated. He had a great time at his fiftieth reunion and hopes that in-person reunions will resume! David sends his best to the class of ‘69.

Bob McClintic ’69 Pittsburgh, PA Bob sends this rallying cry to the Proctor community: “Onward and upward to all!”

Frank Neer ’69 Cohasset, MA Frank writed that he enjoyed seeing his classmates at their 50th!

Dave Roper ’69 Marblehead, MA Dave checks in with these memories of playing hockey at Proctor: “I remember the boards sinking so much that I sometimes thought of hopping over them in the event I was going to get checked. I remember Spence, on the coldest of days, out there with very little clothing, seemingly immune to the cold. I remember playing a whole game at Cardigan Mountain with zero feeling in my hands. I remember the antics of Stuey Richardson on defense. I remember playing Westmount High in Canada. They were so fast and we were so slow that when coming down ice with the puck, when they’d fake right and go left, we’d still be left -- and they’d crash back into us! I remember having used Tack skates with half the rivets out between blade and sole. I remember playing four years and never getting a goal. I remember...well, that’s enough.”

Chris White ’69 Sandpoint, ID Chris shares that while he is avoiding heavy lifting, he is still fishing salmon commercially in Alaska, driving the boat, and working with a great crew. He recently became a grandfather, his two children live nearby, and he “[has] a wonderful sweetheart for a girlfriend.”

Despite the “age thing, life remains sweet.” He sends his best to everyone in the Proctor community. Chris also shares this memory from the Proctor vs. Westmount hockey game, a matchup that was “always a slaughter”: “I was skating down the ice with one small defensemen between me and the goal. I decided the best tactic was to bowl him over with my superior size. He easily stepped aside and gave me a hip check

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that practically landed me upside down in the goal.

Also, like Mel Gibson in “Lethal Weapon,” John Gary kept dislocating his shoulder playing defense. His dad was a doc and would snap it back in the middle of the rink…weird. Saturday night pick-up hockey was so darn fun!”

Tom Rudkin ’70 Sarasota, FL Tom reports that he had a great Zoom class call with Pete Carney, who joined from “down under,” Joe Coakley, John Welsh, Ben Beale, Ben Fairless, Dave Moulton, Jeff Haas, and Chis Olsen. They spoke for almost two hours, sharing stories and catching up.

He finds it amazing that this group of Proctor friends can simply pick up where they left off. All are looking forward to their reunion in June 2022.

Bill Buchsbaum ’71 Southport, NC Bill writes that he has lived in Colorado for most of his adult life expecting that he would retire on the coast. He first moved to North Carolina, and, shortly after he retired in 2018, he and his wife bought a house in Maine. They spend about six months of the year there Bill hopes to visit Proctor for the next in-person reunion. He stays in touch with Proctor friends from his class and the class of 1970.

Gary Wright ’72 Middlebury, VT Gary expresses his thanks to the Development team for sending a great picture of Alumni Hockey. He also recalls “Yes, and if you were checked by Tom Tripp after a February thaw, you might fly even higher [than] and over the semi-sunken boards. Whether you were a player, a member of the ‘Elite Engineers’ ice crew, or skated in those chaotic all-campus Saturday night pickup games, the Proctor pond/rink was a pretty special place.” He adds that his father kept his loud cheering voice well into his nineties, and he was a regular at Middlebury College men’s and women’s hockey games.

Dan Murphy ’78 Putnam, CT Dan is proud to report that Daniel Murphy received his JD this month from Georgetown Law and is officially a “Hoyalawya”! After preparing for the bar exam this summer, he will begin his career in Boston this October at Ropes and Gray. Daniel’s twin brother and sister Jacob and Anna turned 21 on May 22. Anna is working as a restaurant manager on Nantucket this season and is entering her senior year at Elon University.

Jacob is living and working in his hometown of Woodstock,

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CT. Dan spent significant time in Florida during the winter of 2020-21 and enjoyed seeing classmate Lee Ross ’78 in Greensboro, NC on the route south.

Scott Dow ’81 Mount Pleasant, SC Scott checks in with the update that he had a nice dinner with Emily ‘82 and Jeff Vaughan in Charleston.

Patty-Ann Lattimer ’81 Goshen, NY Patty Ann writes that she has retired from teaching for medical reasons. She taught at a private day school on Long Island, NY. She currently lives in Goshen, NY, but she is hoping to relocate to Windsor, CT as soon as she and her husband are able to sell their home. Patty-Ann has been married to her husband, Frank, for 26 years, and they are still best friends.

She credits her Proctor advisor, teacher and friend, Tom Eslick, with having the greatest impact on her teaching and advising of students. She also recalls Mr. Livingston and Doc Hand as instrumental to her development as a teacher. As a Day Student her closest friends were Tom Colby ’82, Anne Thayer ‘81, and Bob Murphy ’81. She recalls her time at Proctor with fondness, including basketball and athletic training, Headmaster Holidays, skiing at Cannon Mountain, playing basketball, learning to rock climb, going on the first fall Mountain Classroom ever, dish duty, and all the fabulous plays that her fellow classmates performed in. Patty-Ann makes cards with rubber stamps and watercolor on various media.

Scott Likly ’81 Pittsford, NY Current Science Department Chair Buz Morison was excited to meet Scott Likly ‘81 when he went looking for a new tire in Scott’s bike store, Towpath Bike, in Pittsford, NY. Scott has many wonderful memories of Proctor and especially of some influential faculty.

Those include Garry George ’78 his ski coach and Richard Parker his dorm parent. Scott still credits his

ability to build and run a successful business to his experience on Mountain Classroom and the lasting influence of Tim Miner. Buz and Scott hope to get together for some skiing adventures this winter, hopefully on the Proctor Nordic Trails!

Steve Gallagher ’82 Newport, NH Steve and his wife Heather recently purchased the Crows Nest RV Campground in Newport, NH, about 25 miles west of Proctor. Their two black labs, Lexi and Kizzy, love the surrounding fields. If you are in the area, pay them a visit at 529 S Main St., Newport NH 03773, call them at 603-863-6170, or visit them online at www.crowsnestcampground.com Wendy Chambers Brown ’86 Westford, MA Wendy writes that one of the highlights of the pandemic has been connecting with classmates over Zoom. She has shared laughs and virtual cocktails with Jen Ballou Vogt ’86, Kym Brown O’Brien ’86, Stephanie Nichols ’86, Erin Hogle Taylor’ 86, Mitzie Wood Laidlaw ’86, Julie Garside ’86, Sarah Blodgett ’86 and Kari England ’88. At the time of writing she was hoping to set up more Zoom calls with Proctor classmates.

Jeff Pensiero ’87 Nelson, BC, Canada Jeff is in disbelief that his oldest daughter has graduated high school! He recently acquired a second backcountry snowboarding and skiing operation in Nelson, BC and would love to see more Hornets come out for a visit! You can find him at: www.baldface.com Mollie Burns ’90 Valley Village, CA Mollie has been living in Los Angeles, CA for the past 22 years. After graduating from Proctor, Molly attended NYU and then lived in Hong Kong, New York City, and Los Angeles, working as a gemologist/ jewelry expert for Christie’s Auction House. She left Christie’s in 2000 to begin ventures of her own, but has remained very much involved in all aspects of the LA jewelry industry. Mollie is excited to report that her daughter, Campbell, entered Proctor as a freshman this fall. She thinks Proctor will be a great fit for her “super smart, open-minded, and adventurous daughter who has a fantastic singing voice and an eye for art and adventure.” Mollie is also the proud mother of a 19 year-old autistic son. While this diagnosis has brought with it many challenges, Mollie notes that there have been moments of incredible growth along the way. She writes that one of her son’s biggest joys

and talents was Pixar, and that he became really quite a great computer animator. Stemming from her son’s passion for animation, Mollie and her father along with other parents of autistic children, started a non-profit vocational school called Exceptional Minds. In partnership with a L.A. studio, the school teaches computer animation to young adults in the region. Mollie is still on the board, and she encourages the Proctor community to follow their work at https:// exceptional-minds.org and consider supporting this important organization.

Like many of her classmates, Mollie celebrated her 50th birthday this past year. She celebrated with friends and family, but it was particularly special this year because she became engaged to a sweet man, Jesse Johnson, whom she met through Tony Kurz ‘89.

They will be blending their two families, and Mollie soon will have four kids! She is thankful for so many things: memories and wisdom gained at Proctor, her two beautiful children, her supportive parents, sister and brother, and to have reconnected with her future husband.

Max Corcoran ’90 Ocala, FL Max wishes she were planning another big party for Proctor alumni at her house. Because of the pandemic, party planning is on hold and she has been reconnecting with classmates via Zoom. Max writes, “As much as social media can be the enemy, Facebook has helped me stay connected to quite a few friends and keep up a bit on life happenings.” Max lives in Ocala, FL and continues to find career success and pursue her passions of working with horses and eventing. Max feels incredibly lucky to travel to national and international championships looking after horses. She has also begun organizing competitions herself. Finally, at the time of writing, Max was excited about the opportunity to work at the Summer 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

She is grateful and honored for the invitation. Max’s common law husband is a professional show jumper and rides internationally for Australia. You can read more about Max in this blog post in the Proctor Buzz: http://blogs.proctoracademy.org/proctor-alumni-maxcorcoran-90-and-tokyo-olympics Emmett Dunbar ’90 South Londonderry, VT Emmett enjoyed hearing from Max recently but misses her smile. He is hoping for a reunion in the near future in Lake Sunapee! Emmett still works on his farm in southern Vermont, and he recently started a joint venture with other local growers and herbalists called, The Four Farmers Herbalist Collective. They

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have created a “community supported apothecary,” or another form of CSA! Emmett is grateful for his supportive team on the farm after the physical wear and tear of more than 20 years “living the dream” on a farm. He still is thankful for lessons learned at Proctor, more than three decades later. Emmett’s daughter, Anisha, was accepted at Proctor but will attend Northfield Mount Hermon. He is excited for Anisha to begin her own independent school journey, and has been impressed by how New England boarding school culture has evolved to become more inclusive. Emmett cannot wait for the next Proctor reunion and sends his love!

Aaron Hirsch ’90 Weston, MA Aaron writes, “I’m not a fan of ‘reply all,’ but I’m breaking my own rules!” He has found it great to connect with other alumni recently, and he is looking forward to gathering in person soon. Aaron is currently finishing his 17th year at The Cambridge School of Weston (MA), where he lives on campus with his family and serves as the Dean of Student Life. Kristin, Aaron’s wife of almost 20 years, is also an educator and they have two daughters, Sarah (15) and Amelia (11). Sarah attends Pingree school in South Hamilton, MA, where Kristin works. Amelia is navigating her first year of middle school in Weston.

Aaron jokes that if he wasn’t already busy enough, the “void” in his mornings and evenings has recently been filled by a “COVID puppy” named Bernadoodle (the girls call him Bader). They spend summers on Plum Island, and, at the time of writing, Aaron was looking forward to summer 2021 more than any before! He would love to hear from Proctor alumni in the Boston area or the North Shore.

Jeff MacLellan ’90 North Reading, MA Jeff’s immediate family had COVID-19 over the holiday season, but they have since been healthy. His oldest daughter completed her freshman year at Lehigh, another daughter is touring colleges and completed her junior year of high school, and the twins are about to enter high school. Jeff hopes that everyone is beginning to “come out of hibernation.” He stays in touch with Max Corcoran ‘90 but has not seen her in person since a lunch date with her and ​​Caroline Heatley ‘91 in summer 2019. Jeff’s family has been lucky enough to spend time through the years with Wendy (Casey) Rolfe ‘89 at her place in Sugarloaf.

Wendy often visits Jeff and family in Wolfeboro in the summers. Jeff spent a couple of powder days “playing hooky” with Chris Bremer ‘91 in Stowe and another day clearing forest land on Brooks Holmes’

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‘91 property. He thinks Dave Pilla would have been happy with the results. Jeff is happy and grateful to be healthy, he is hopeful for the future, and he hopes Proctor alumni are healthy!

John Matijevic ’90 Miami, FL John is fully vaccinated, and, at the time of writing, his life in Florida was beginning to return to some semblance of normalcy. He has transitioned into retirement, and he is living his best life everyday!

John is scheduled to compete in an Ironman 70.3 on December 12. As lounges and restaurants opened up, Jeff was enjoying going out again. He hopes everyone is well and asks that alumni living in or traveling through Miami or Florida get in touch.

Josh May ’90 Lewis, CO Josh is still living out west, currently in Salt Lake City, UT. He knows that Chelsea ‘90 and Lans Taylor ‘89 are also in Salt Lake City, but he has yet to see them. During his travels in the summer of 2020, he saw Mike Wilmerding ’90 and Katie Lorentzen ’91.

Also, when living in Dolores, Colorado, he ran into Jorie McCann ‘97. Josh follows other classmates and Proctor friends on Facebook. He is working as an outdoor, experiential educator, a career (and educational model) not unfamiliar to the Proctor community!

He supports other staff members who lead trips for troubled teenage boys. To recharge, Josh enjoys spending time in the wilderness in the Four Corners region. He wishes everyone in the Proctor alumni community well and hopes they are remembering to “take it easy.” He would love to connect with alumni traveling to Utah to ski or raft and show them around his beautiful state.

Holly Parker ’90 New York, NY Holly recently wrote and published, “Back on the Market: A Realtor’s Guide to Love and Life,” available now on Amazon. She is also an award-winning real estate broker: “Broker #1 2020 on Team Nationwide 2020.”

Susie Schlichting Runge ’90 Aurora, IL Susie and her husband are high school science teachers in Aurora, Illinois. During a particularly challenging year for all teachers, a highlight for Susie were the smaller class sizes at her school. She said teaching ten students reminded her of classes at Proctor. Her average normal class size is 26 students. Susie reports that teachers in Illinois were lucky to get vaccines early, in February. Her husband was able to coach a very

short football season this spring, and her oldest son finished his sophomore year remotely at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Susie’s youngest son finished virtual driver’s education and recently got his license. Unfortunately, they lost their ten-year-old golden retriever last year, but they brought home a new pup last fall. Susie heard that Gregor Makechnie ’90 got a new pup as well! This summer was Susie’s first in six years without graduate work, and she was looking forward to reading a book of her own choice.

She loves to read updates from classmates and friends and she thanks the community for sharing. She wishes everyone a safe and happy rest of the year!

Christopher Spitzmiller ’90 New York, NY Christopher recently wrote a book titled, “A Year at Clove Brook Farm,” about a year on his farm in the Hudson River Valley. In this “how-to” book, Christopher encourages others to do some of the same activities that he does in his home and on his farm in Rizzoli, NY such as entertaining, gardening, tending flocks and bees and more. The forward was written by Christopher’s friend, Martha Stewart.

After a first printing of 13,000 copies, a second run began on the day of the release. Christopher’s fiancé, landscape architect Anthony Bellomo, opened a store in Millbrook where he sells all sorts of unusual plants, topiary, tropicals and things for the home, including Christopher’s work (Christopher is also a talented ceramicist). Here is link to the New York Times write-up about the book: https://www.nytimes. com/2021/05/13/fashion/is-he-the-next-marthastewart-not-so-fast-says-martha.html. Signed copies are available through Christopher’s website and Instagram: @christopherspitzmiller.

Chelsea Kittell Taylor ’90 Salt Lake City, UT Chelsea reports that she and Lans Taylor ‘89 are doing well. The last few years Lans has been teaching courses and leading field trips for geology professionals. This work stopped during the pandemic, and they hope the courses will restart soon. In the meantime, Lans has occupied himself with skiing every day, all season long!

Chelsea got her Master’s in Social Work last year, and she has been working as a social worker at the local cancer hospital where she loves her work. Their oldest son is attending the University of Utah, and their younger son, Ezra, graduated from Proctor in the class of 2021. He enjoyed his time at Proctor, and, at the time of writing, Chelsea expected it would be bittersweet watching him graduate. She misses the Proctor alumni community and looks forward to the next in-person reunion!

John Turner ’90 Ipswich, MA John is living in Ipswich on the North Shore of Massachusetts. He loves staying in touch with many alumni on Facebook and shares, “for some reason you all seem to be a lot older than I remember?” To John, a few people don’t seem to age, Max, Amy, and Darryl being just a few examples. John stays in touch with Proctor alumni Zach Volpicelli ‘90 and Alissa Van Nort ‘91. He also has found older alumni and even parents of current students on the North Shore.

Dave Lloyd ‘76 runs the local grocer, and John loves hearing his stories about Proctor in the ‘70s. John has had a varied professional career, first running the IT department at Brandeis University for 17 years and then working for tech companies in the commercial world. Most recently, he was part of a small Palo Alto startup that was purchased by VMware just in time for COVID! His three girls are growing fast.

His oldest is a sophomore at Miss Porters, his middle daughter will be a freshman at St. Timothy’s school in Maryland this fall, and his youngest is starting sixth grade at Brookwood in Manchester, MA. For fun the family spends as much time as possible on the water or at the beach, and they head north in the winter to ski. John cannot wait to see more alumni in person!

Liz Webb Green ’91 and Amy Poulin ’90 Needham, MA and Franklin, NH Liz and Amy enjoyed a lazy July afternoon at the Proctor Pond, an annual tradition. Liz reports, “It was great to be back home together at Proctor and, as always, it was so beautiful! We even saw Sarah (Rowe) McIntyre’s ‘90 husband and kiddo. We will next meet at the ski night, another annual tradition.”

Katie Lorentzen ’91 Grand Junction, CO Katie writes, “holy mackerel-cow 30th,” and shares that she has had many moments to reflect during the pandemic, and many of them included “you,” her fellow Proctor alumni.

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Jeremy Stowe ’92 North Kingstown, RI Jeremy is already looking forward to his next reunion.

He has been fortunate to be able to visit campus over the past four years as his youngest daughter continued the family Proctor tradition, graduating in the class of 2021. He writes, “she will carry the PA torch for our family for another generation.” While Jeremy was sad to see her time at Proctor come to a close, he still plans to visit regularly. It was a true gift to reconnect with classmates who work on campus, as well as with other alumni who are Proctor parents. To those of you he has not seen for a long time, know that he thinks of you often and that your names come up in conversations with other alumni from the late ‘80’s and early ‘90’s.

Again, he hopes his classmates will consider returning to campus for reunion season 2022. And, if you are visiting Rhode Island, Jeremy encourages alumni to contact him.

Ted Hudson ’96 Westminster, CO Ted Hudson ‘96 and wife Allie Newell welcomed a baby boy, Hendrik Adler Hudson, into their family on November 5, 2020. He writes, “We are thrilled to announce the birth of our son. He is born into a peaceful family, a healing nation, and into a world that we know holds promise for all of humanity.”

Erin Hinkley Shaffer ’97 Bellingham, WA Erin sends her greetings from the Pacific Northwest where life in Bellingham, WA has been busy. Her son is now twelve and her daughter is ten. Erin’s husband is a middle school librarian, so all four family members have been working from home and attending school remotely. As a high school counselor, Erin’s work during the pandemic has been challenging, with only one two-week in-person period, but she shares a few recent highlights. This summer Erin saw her parents, Dani and Bert Hinkley, and her brother Jed ‘99 during a camping trip in Utah. Everyone is healthy and has remained busy. Erin tries to spend as much time outside as possible, and she loves staying in touch with her Proctor friends via Zoom calls. Erin would love to connect with anyone who would like to meet up!

Molly Lauridsen ’00 Stowe, VT Molly welcomed baby Laurids “Lars” Van Santvoord Lauridsen on May 3, 2021 at 11:45 am and shares, “his cuteness is overwhelming us.”

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Aretha Witham Taylor ’00 Chilmark, MA Aretha and Jonathan shared the news of the arrival of a new member of their family, their beautiful daughter Vivian Marie Romano. She was born on September 24, 2020, weighing 9 lbs 13 oz at birth. They are completely in love!

Trish ’01 and Kate ’01 Austin Andover, NH Trish and Kate were thrilled to announce the long-awaited arrival of Hazel James Austin on December 17, 2021. She was (and is) absolutely perfect in every way.

Sarah Williams ’02 Louisville, CO Sarah writes, “On May, 2021 we welcome the sweetest soul into our family. Please welcome Landyn Paul Ragsdale Brookens to the world. We love you Landyn more than words!”

Tim Frazier ’03 Portsmouth, NH Tim Frazier and Kate Erstling were married August 7 in Newport RI. In addition to his sister Christine ‘05 and best man James Tautkus ‘03, Chase Goodrich ‘03, Jason Robinson ‘03, and Sarah ‘03, Anna ‘04, and Spencer Wood ’09 were among the many alumni in attendance.

Elliot Rossbach ’03 Philadelphia, PA Silvia and Elliot welcomed baby girl Isabelle on March 8, 2021.

Joe Chase ’05 Portsmouth, NH Joe is excited to announce the birth of Rigby Jane Chase and writes, “You entered the world at 5:51pm on April 8, 2021 weighing 8 lbs, 3 oz and 20 inches long. We love you more than we could have ever imagined.”

Jenny Kramer Moran ’05 Tappan, NY Welcomed her second child in January 2021.

Regina Wilson ’05 Shrewsbury, MA Regina reports that they are officially a family of four with the arrival of Presley Kendal on March 28, 2021.

Prentiss is in love with his baby sister.

Georgia Gomez Bristol ’06 New York, NY Georgia and husband Sam welcomed a new baby named Penelope “Nellie” Bristol in September 2020.

extra time in the NICU, but at the time of writing he was “already showing us what it means to be parents.”

Annie Weisberg Fedele ’09 San Clemente, CA Chase Eliot Fedele was born on February 20, 2021, and it was well worth the extra week of waiting for his arrival!

Hannah Frantz Goumas ’10 Long Beach, New York Hannah and husband Kevin welcomed baby boy Brixton Nash Goumas on July 31, 2021.

He was 5 lbs, 10 oz and 18.5 inches long at birth. At the time of writing the family was doing well, although the dog was a bit unsure about Brixton. The ongoing debate, however, is whether the newest member of the family will be a New England Patriots or NY Giants fan.

Hannah works for Össur, an orthotics and prosthetics company but was taking maternity leave. She is still on track to finish her certification by summer 2022 to become a Therapeutic Horseback Riding Instructor through the HorseAbility program in Westbury, NY.

Nick Brown ’06 Warner, NH Nick welcomed a new baby named Maggie Brown in May 2021.

Sara Whipple Froman ’07 Lake Forest, IL Jack Conrad Froman was born on November 1, 2020 at 11:17 AM, weighing 7 lbs, and measuring 19.5 inches. Sara writes that it is nice to have something positive to share with the community and reports that big sister Campbell loves him!

Spencer Schwenk ’11 Woodstock, VT When Keith Barrett ‘80 spoke with Spencer in March he was thrilled to report he and Liz welcomed a baby boy, Harold Spencer Schwenk IV, earlier this spring in March 2021.

Andrew Young ’12 and Kelsey Wilcox ’12 Littleton, CO Andrew and Kelsey were married in New Hampshire on August 7, 2021. They were high school sweethearts and have been together since their time at Proctor.

Laura Richins Sapper ’07 Charleston, SC Colson Michael Sapper’s early arrival on December 28, 2020 caused him and his parents to spend some

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Samuel Corman Penzel ’12 Brookline, MA Samuel just finished his first year of a Masters in Social Work program, a particularly challenging year to begin a graduate program. He is trying to balance papers with playing in several bands.

FACULTY/STAFF Updates Duncan Bardwell, Staff Duncan and Olivia Bardwell welcomed their daughter, Aubrey, on May 30, 2021.

Jon Beard, Faculty Jon Beard welcomed Rowan Evan Culler Beard, 8 lbs 14 oz, on September 22, 2020.

John Martin ’13 Gorham, ME John was married in South Berwick, ME during the early summer of 2021. This photo of John alongside Connor Darby ‘13, Spencer Wood ‘09, and Calvin Johnstone ‘14 was shared with the Proctor alumni office.

Delia Holland ’15 Cambridge, MA Delia is living and working in Cambridge, MA. After graduating from Simmons College in 2018, she became the executive assistant to Gail Roberts, Ed Feijo & Team. She lives outside of Harvard Square with her black lab puppy Edith and enjoys keeping up with all things Proctor.

Lindsay Richardson ’15 Carpinteria, CA Lindsay is currently obtaining a Master’s in Food Agriculture Law and Policy from Vermont Law School. She hopes to use her degree to promote and grow sustainable food systems that reduce waste and provide equitable access to nutrition.

Hailey Makechnie ’19 Andover, NH Hailey recently completed a virtual internship with a hotel in Spain and is excited to report that she has decided to major in Spanish and International Business. She credits the Proctor en Segovia program for allowing her to discover her passion for the Spanish language and culture.

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Ryan and Mikaela Bolduc-Graumann, Faculty Ryan and Mikaela welcomed Theo Owen Graumann on August 26, 2020. Lucia is, for the most part, thrilled to have a little brother.

Adam Jones, Faculty Stella Moon Jones was born August 22, 2021 under the brilliance of a full moon and gusty winds from the northeast. Leo, Finn and Chip are pumped to be big brothers.

Maggie Kennedy, Former Faculty Maggie Kennedy welcomed perfect baby boy Flynn Wilder on January 22, 2021 weighing 9.6 lbs and measuring 20.5 inches.

Hannah Munson, Staff Hannah welcomed Jeremiah Henry Lugo born August 4, 2021 at 8lbs 10oz 20 inches long.

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.

Alexander (Zandy) Bard ’08 Francis (Frank) Chase ’42 Robert (Fish) Fisher ’65 Paul Ford ’73 Clifford Gillespie, Faculty Lawre Goodnow, Faculty John Graves ’48

Jen Hauser, Staff John Hellman ’73 Ann Shively Kalbach ’41 Daniel (Dan) Lincoln ’58 Olin Potter ’43 Emery (Driz) C. Prior ’55 John Red ’69

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UPCOMING PROCTOR EVENTS

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Thursday | October 7 31st Annual Golf Tournament Lake Sunapee Country Club, New London NH

Saturday | November 13 Teddy Maloney 20th Anniversary Hockey Game Proctor Campus

Fall 2021 - Date TBA Alumni Gathering Portland, ME

January 2022 - Date TBA Alumni Gathering Boulder/Denver, CO

Fall 2021 - Date TBA Alumni Gathering Portsmouth, NH

Saturday | February 5 Ski Area Event Proctor Ski Area

Fall 2021 - Date TBA Alumni Gathering Burlington, VT

Saturday | May 28 Commencement Proctor Campus

Thursday | November 4 Virtual Wine Tasting with John O’Connor ‘79 of Balboa Winery

June 3-5 Alumni Reunion 2022 Proctor Campus, Andover, NH

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