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Trustee Spotlight

Sam Prouty 

Sam Prouty is beginning his third year on Northwood’s Board. Currently, Director of Admissions at Middlebury College, his substantial experience at prep schools and in college admissions allows him to offer highly informed perspectives as Northwood plans its future.  

After graduating from Swarthmore with a BA in 2000, he was an English teacher and college counselor at Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One highlight of his teaching career was chaperoning a school… continue reading

Some Memories of Football at Northwood 

By Stephen Reed

 The Lake Placid Club School (precursor of Northwood) was fielding eleven-man teams by at least 1926. Six-man football was added later. The ’26 squad began with fifteen players, and finished 1-1-1, scored two touchdowns, both by end Relmond Kyle, who was also president of the junior class that year and weighed 134 pounds (no player exceeded 170).  The team was down to twelve players after the second game since “Phillips dislocated his shoulder, Kenney hurt his knee, and Jessup left school.”

Forty-… continue reading

Trustee Spotlight: Raul Jacinto Valdes-Fauli 

Northwood is pleased to present its second Pathways offering of this school year on Nov. 17th at 8:00. The career focus for this event is Nursing. 

Reno’ s Northwood Faculty Hall of Fame