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Night after night, walking slowly behind a very short dog, I get to see Proctor as it really is. There is nothing polished about it, rather it is the ordinary, unscripted moments that reveal who we really are. I think that what I see most clearly is teenagers who feel at home, who know they belong, and who have learned to care for this place and for one another. 

Every boarding school requires faculty to wear a number of different hats: teaching, advising, dorm parenting, coaching. Tim Norris wore all of these hats, and many more, with the same comfort, grace, and matter-of-factness that he wore his winter cap with the ear flaps down to protect against the cold wind blowing off the jumps at the Blackwater Ski Area.

On a chilly October morning, the Class of 2030 left their phones behind and hiked a mile and a half to the Proctor Cabin, taking their place in a long line of ninth graders who have walked the Proctor Woodlands in their first fall on campus.

Paralympian Tyler McKenzie '10 returned to Proctor for Community Day and asked students to change their lens on what they, and the people around them, are capable of.

What would surprise your grandparents most about your life at Proctor? On Grandparents and Friends Day, seniors shared stories about how much they've changed since they arrived, and their guests got to see it for themselves.

Becky Field's portraits of New Hampshire's immigrants and refugees join woodblock prints by Kait Armstrong P'23 and Marliese Baer on campus through December 18.

A year ago, Val '28 stepped off a minibus at the end of Wilderness Orientation and found Proctor's student leaders waiting in matching light-green shirts. "Getting off that bus … was pretty intimidating," he reflected. "But they were all super welcoming." In that moment, "all the worries about not fitting in just kind of vanished."