Every Sunday around noon, shortly after he starts his shift, security officer Bob Carey climb up a step ladder outside of Reed and changes a brightly colored flag from blue to green or back again.
There are no symbols on the flag, no images or words, but for students and faculty at The Williston Northampton School, the block of color that flies from the Reed Campus Center is an important reminder of the week ahead.
“I haven’t heard anyone say that it has saved them yet, but that’s the hope,” said Associate Head of School Jeff Ketcham. “Whether it will solve anything I don’t know, but it’s got to help.”
“This day was not so much a surprise to those of us who knew her well,” said Peter Gunn as he introduced his former student, Jennifer duBois ’02, author of, A Partial History of Lost Causes and recently named one of the 
He repositioned his feet in front of the camera, adjusted the button in his three-piece suit, and after a couple deep breaths raised his eyes to the camera and spoke.
