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Annual Report 2008/2009

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Comments Along Albany Road Class Notes In Memoriam First Person: Peter Schulte ‘75 P’10, ‘13 Object Lesson

on our cover: Steven Victor ’11 and Sam Redmond ’11, by Brent M. Hale left: KFC (Koch Friday Concerts) by David Thiel

Change to Spare If you escaped my fall missive on change, I’m sorry to tell you that you can run, but you can’t hide. Change is again in the air with this Winter 2010 issue of Deerfield Magazine, which includes a special Annual Report section. Last year’s Annual Report was released online, yet we printed copies for anyone who requested one—and about 50 (out of 18,000) of you did. Taking that as a mandate, we set ourselves to rethink the model of the Annual Report, and we arrived at the decision to include it as a supplement within an additional issue of Deerfield Magazine, rather than continuing it a separate publication. We also decided to provide a companion website at deerfield.edu/go/annual, which provides complete donor lists, details on endowment funds, lists of volunteers, and even a slideshow of campus photos. So here we are. In this issue, you’ll find reports from Head of School Margarita Curtis (page 4) and Dean of Faculty John Taylor (page 6) captured within our Albany Road section. Then, starting on page 79, you’ll find a special Annual Report supplement which includes comments from Chief Financial Officer (page 80) Joe

Once you’re done reading about Deerfield’s financial strength, you can read about its strength of heart. First, witness the enormous physical strength and determination that propelled alumnus Chris Waddell ’87 to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro (page 20). Second, examine the Academy’s blossoming community service program (page 26); students now engage in projects and service assignments as an integral part of their daily lives. Lastly, you may notice that the page at right, usually entitled “Letters to the Editor” has been updated to the more modern moniker of “Comments”—a reflection of the fact that our readership (including my own mother) often provides feedback through email, Facebook, blog entries, and other new media channels. Whatever your chosen method of communication—be it ink on paper, a Twitter message, a fax, or phone call—we’re eager to

yourclass tie notes, and story ideas hear from you. Comments, are all welcome.

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As we close out Winter Term, the campus awaits spring. I hope you’ll all take the opportunity to visit as the warmer months approach; for those in need of an excuse, you’ll find the Spring Athletic Schedule attached to page 96.

Manory ’80 and Associate Head of School for Alumni Affairs and Development (page 84) David Pond P’92, ’98. Each report provides detail on Deerfield’s current position and our future goals.

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Comments Thanks so much for the fine pictorial review in your fall issue, of the Class of ’49’s 60th Reunion! Yours truly, Harvey Loomis, and Tom Bloomer worked hard to turn out a record number for a 60th, and your follow through was truly the “icing on the cake.” AP Cook ’49

Santa Barbara, California

The Deerfield Magazine redesign is refreshing and user friendly! I really enjoyed the Letter from the Editor about change, coeducation, and perfection. I remember those transition days you capture so nimbly in prose, and I share your enthusiasm for the evolution that has come since. I praise and marvel at the new Deerfield, and yet at the same time you provoked a flicker of nostalgia when you recalled those first clumsy days, weeks, and months. Thank you. George Davis ’90

Essex, New York

online Wow! It’s three thumbs up for the magazine; great cover, nice paper—excellent design and layout. There was a nice balance between nostalgia and fresh approach, celebration and critical examination (gender gap). The photos were lively and the new design shows them to best advantage. The entire magazine shows great thought and painstaking attention to detail (loved the crew term definitions for us uninitiated and the IHL story). There was just too much to mention; I was reading it for hours. Congratulations! Susan Thiel P’91

Weston, Vermont

I just got the most recent issue of Deerfield Magazine, and I congratulate the entire staff of the Communications Department on a fantastic job. In particular, I found the design and layout work to be interesting and highly readable. I’ve been working in Middlebury College’s

Communications Office, producing multimedia content (video, podcast, audio slideshow) and helping strategize for web communications and a site redesign. That said, I loved how the DA magazine, rather than shying away from its online counterpart, embraced internet-influenced graphics, charts, and design. I’m very excited to see what you will come up with. I’ve also had a chance to check out Deerfield’s YouTube channel and the slideshow piece of the heads of school. Evocative and meaningful! The sense of continuity and progress was a great message. I hope this is getting sent out to as many people as possible; I forwarded it along to a bunch of classmates and they all replied with, “More! More! More!” Again, I congratulate you on a great issue of the magazine. Xander Manshel ’05

The first place to go is: deerfield.edu/go/social Your source for all things Deerfield—from school news, to sports scores, to the photo of the day. You will also find direct links to all of our social networking communities.

Show your face on Facebook, where you will find our official fan page. Page Name: Deerfield Academy For green tweets, sign on to Twitter. Look for: Deerfield To link in with other connected professionals, become a member of the Deerfield Alumni Group on LinkedIn. Group name: Deerfield Academy Alumni

Campus snapshots, big events, and other photo-worthy moments are captured on Flickr. Photostream: Deerfield Academy

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Yes, Deerfield has a YouTube page. Watch The Widdies, and more! Channel: Deerfield Academy

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A Report from Head of School Margarita Curtis Four weeks into the 2008-2009 academic year, as we extended an enthusiastic welcome to two hundred and twenty-seven new students and fourteen new faculty members, a worldwide financial crisis rocked the foundations of our economy. All people have been affected, both materially and psychologically. As we ponder the causes and outcomes of the meltdown, I am reminded of Winston Churchill’s words, in reference to another period of crisis close to a century ago: “Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.” Instead of focusing on the complexities of subprime mortgages, derivatives, and the failures of the banking system, it may be more useful now to reflect on the fundamental cause of our predicament. A culture of excessive consumption, self-indulgence, and insidious complacency—a quick-profitsat-all-costs mentality—has not only led to the most serious recession in eighty years, but has also created a moral vacuum and a pervasive feeling of groundlessness. This is the intense simplicity of the situation we now face. This is also why I believe that the world has never needed Deerfield graduates more than it does now.

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Intense Simplicities

In many ways, our mission remains profoundly countercultural. You have heard me say often that societies today equate money with worth, quantity with quality, and pleasure with love, but at Deerfield we strive to teach our students those habits of spirit, mind, and heart that will help them discern and value the difference. Day in and day out—in our classrooms, fields, and dorms, and all places in between—we instill in them the aspiration to look beyond themselves, to make a positive mark in their school community and to become worthy of their heritage as they go out into the world. In their years at Deerfield, we hope students begin to realize that real value can only be created through discipline and hard work, that resilience comes from the ability to learn from mistakes, and self-assurance, from turning challenges into opportunities. I believe that disappointments and failures, when handled appropriately, can be a powerful source of selfdiscovery and growth, and that we must question the growing tendency to overprotect our young people. In addition, while our young people are bombarded incessantly with messages about what they must buy or have, we remind them quietly, yet persistently, that happiness cannot be purchased and that personal fulfillment begins with their readiness to care, not from their capacity to control. Faithful to our academic mission, we urge them to acquire knowledge, to enlighten their spirit, and to ponder beauty, but most of all, to realize that an inspired mind amounts to nothing without love. These are the attributes that define Deerfield, and the reason we will endure in both prosperous and challenging times. In the midst of these turbulent months, Deerfield attracted more applicants than ever before. Our admissions process was the most selective it has ever been in the history of the school, and of the students we accepted, a higher percentage than ever chose to come to Deerfield over competing schools. In fact, we are currently over-enrolled. We will continue to budget based on our target enrollment of 615 in order to avoid creating a financial dependency on a temporarily larger student body. Our plan is to bring the school to its optimal size within the next three years.

year for curricular projects over the summer. Another enriching opportunity that is likely to have an impact on the math curriculum is the Game Theory workshop that was held in the Koch Center last spring for math and other interested teachers. This full-day seminar was taught by University of Massachusetts economics Professor Gerald Freedman, and will continue in six more sessions this academic year. In addition, to train department chairs for their oversight responsibilities, we invited Sally Mixsell, former project director and instructor at the Klingenstein Center of Columbia University, and current head of the Stoneleigh Burnham School, to lead a full-day leadership workshop in mid-June. Three members of Senior Staff—Peter Warsaw, Toby Emerson, Chip Davis—and I also attended a two-day Doug Reeves’ Leadership and Learning Center seminar in Boston in late June, and considered a central question: How do school leaders learn to improve their professional practice and make meaningful change in their schools? Finally, last summer we hosted, for the second year in a row, a three-week program in science and writing for fifty students from educationally underserved areas from all over the country, including Franklin County. This partnership with the KIPP network (Knowledge is Power Program) benefits not only the students who participate but the Deerfield faculty and the public school teachers who collaborate in curriculum planning and teaching. Four of the most talented students who attended the program last summer matriculated at Deerfield this fall. Special community events last year included a forum on the presidential elections, held during School Meeting with three alumni (Sophie Brill ’03, John McGovern ’87, David Rancourt ’84), a parent (Bill Mulrow P’08, ’10, ’12), and author Elizabeth Wurtzel, as our panelists. Two seniors, the editor of the Scroll and the editor of The Deerfield View, prepared questions on the economy and foreign affairs and moderated the discussion. In order to encourage the students to continue informing themselves about the candidates and the issues, and to follow current events on a regular basis, we began providing copies of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal on Sundays at brunch. Students also attended a lecture on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by Jeff

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In spite of our strong admission outcome, Deerfield was not immune to the economic downturn. The scope and abrupt nature of the crisis made this year’s budget process more demanding and time consuming than in the past. As we considered how to adjust to the drop in the value of our endowment, we kept three key principles in mind: Students come first, the fundamental nature of the Deerfield experience must not change, and any cost reduction opportunities must be sustainable, even as we keep the goals of our strategic plan in mind. We feel confident that the adjustments we made (particularly a department-by-department review of costs) will allow Deerfield to get through the lean years successfully. However, given our undercapitalized status compared to our peer schools, I believe that we must continue to pursue savings opportunities and increased efficiencies. The Imagine Deerfield strategic plan, unanimously approved by the Board in January of 2009, is the blueprint that will allow us to make disciplined choices. The plan was the result of two years of thoughtful discussion, introspection, and careful planning —and it was completed before the specter of the global crisis could cloud our judgment. It captures faithfully our highest priorities and aspirations for the school, and it remains our guide for the future. Several committees worked on strategic initiatives throughout the year and presented final proposals at the last faculty meeting in June. The enhancement of our advising system, the development of clear guidelines and expectations for all faculty roles (The Framework for Teaching), the revision of our faculty evaluation program, the new practices advocated by the Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee, and the reconfiguration of our community service program (see Community Service Re-Imagined, page 26)—including the implementation of a 10th grade campus work program last spring—represent tangible progress regarding our long-term interests. Professional development remains a high priority, but faculty requests for grants continue to significantly outpace our funding capacity. Fourteen faculty members received grants last

what they must buy or have, we remind them quietly, yet persistently, that happiness cannot be purchased and that personal fulfillment begins with their readiness to care, not from their capacity to control.”

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A Report from Dean of Faculty John Taylor Our students are cared for and held to high standards; they establish meaningful relationships with faculty and are challenged to work to the best of their ability. We would not be able to strike the right balance between these apparently incompatible goals without hard work and dedication, and the efforts of Deerfield’s faculty during the challenging ’08–’09 school year deserve the highest praise. I believe we have preserved our student body’s joyful spirit, and in fact emerged with a stronger sense of community. As ’08–’09 closed, we bid farewell to Peter Brush, Ann Quinn, and Gabe Temesvari, who retired after a combined 108 years of service! On the other hand, I am thrilled about the quality of the seven faculty members we have appointed. Seventeen faculty members left, seven new faculty were hired and the teaching loads of nine current faculty were adjusted or increased. In most cases, we are teaching larger sections in 2009-2010 and classes are not offered in two disciplines: ceramics and computer science; this is all in an effort to maintain healthy student: teacher ratios and identify significant savings. The unexpected over-enrollment of new students admitted in the spring of 2009 represents an increase of 33 students but the average class size increase has not been dramatic (11.6 in the fall of 2008 to 12.6 in the fall of 2009) and only nine out of 300+ teaching sections currently have more than 15 students (the traditional “cap number” for classes). However, the school is clearly fuller: larger classes (more with 14–15 students), corridors (a few without common rooms), and athletic teams, alongside a more crowded Dining Hall and auditorium. But the impact of the larger

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Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic, and enjoyed a full day visit by Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-inResidence, who discussed his recent film, “Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk.” Late in the spring, Bob Fernholz ’58, lectured on applications of math in the real world. Student ebullience and school spirit continue unabated—despite the economic concerns that marked the past academic year. All classes still mingle in the Greer, “feed” in the dorm, attend games on weekends, spend time with their “littles,” publish their poetry and stories in Albany Road, and rehearse for dance and music performances. Seniors enjoyed special status on campus as they attended the newly established “senior-faculty soirées” in Ephraim Williams, immediately after dinner on Sunday evenings. Special desserts, good music, and a roaring fireplace create a perfect atmosphere for these informal student-faculty interactions. Attendance at alumni and parent events was strong all year, and I was delighted to have the opportunity to connect with all of you, as members of the extended Deerfield family. As David Pond, Board President Phil Greer, and I traveled around the country, we sought to inform you about the financial challenges facing the Academy during these recessionary times, but most importantly, about our commitment to quality and the sustainability of the Deerfield experience. David Pond and members of his staff continue to focus their efforts on Annual Support, while setting the stage for a capital campaign. While it is true that uncertainty and confusion marked last year—locally, nationally, and globally—the crisis has afforded us an unusual opportunity to reaffirm our core values, and to move forward with a renewed awareness of our distinctiveness and our responsibilities to the young people of the world.

Exceptional Faculty and Staff

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student body has been softened by effective planning and organization, especially in the Dining Hall, the auditorium, and the dorms; and by an effort to distribute faculty workloads as evenly as possible. Most of all, the goodwill and spirit of the faculty and staff have eased the burden. The two faculty-related goals articulated in Imagine Deerfield are to “promote faculty excellence by creating more time, opportunity, and structure for collegial collaboration, professional growth, feedback, and evaluation” and to “attract, hire, and retain a diverse blend of exceptional faculty and staff.” To address the first goal we agreed to articulate a set of “Best Practices” and to propose a new evaluation and feedback process for the faculty. Last year we named a committee with representatives from each department, and after regular meetings throughout the year, we developed student questionnaires for teaching (one for each of the seven disciplines), coaching (athletics and community service) and residential life. We also articulated best practices and expectations in a document titled The Framework for Teaching, and explained how the process works in a 25-page manual (now included in the Faculty Handbook, which was also revised over the summer). This year we are carrying out comprehensive evaluations for nine second-year faculty members and one senior faculty member. Half of the faculty will also receive student feedback and meet with their department chairs to develop a two-year professional development plan. Anticipating that the chairs were going to assume additional evaluation responsibilities by providing feedback to all of the colleagues in their departments, Peter Warsaw and I organized two separate one-day retreats with them during the summer. Interestingly, they requested to be reviewed by their peers first, and as a result, we are currently designing a new department chair evaluation process. In all likelihood, we will use the same tools recommended for the new Senior Staff evaluations this year; this will allow the

and spirited new faculty. Even though the following numbers will not reveal much about what each one of the seven new faculty members contribute individually to the community, the following statistics

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leaders of the school to model “good evaluation practices” for the faculty. Some of the initiatives of the Professional Life Task Force to attract a diverse blend of exceptional “triple threat” faculty included attending off-campus job fairs, partnering with alumni to identify potential candidates, and establishing relationships with selected colleges and universities. Our faculty of color (four percent black or Latino) and women faculty (close to 40 percent) are underrepresented. We also find it increasingly difficult to find quality teachers who can coach at a varsity level. I am currently discussing strategies to expand and target our recruiting efforts to find “a diverse blend of exceptional faculty.” Striking the right balance between ensuring that Deerfield emerges on a strong footing from the economic turmoil the country is experiencing and at the same time, caring appropriately for our students and faculty has been and will continue to be our biggest challenge in the foreseeable future. In order to achieve this, we need to communicate clearly and regularly and ensure we recognize faculty for their good work. The school’s ability to respond effectively to difficult challenges at different moments in its history, the vision provided by our strategic plan, and the strength and commitment of our faculty and staff give me the confidence to believe that Deerfield will successfully overcome any challenges that lie ahead.

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Behind the scenes at the Deerfield Dining Hall Photographs by Brent M. Hale

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Diverse Perspectives—Notable Speakers Share Their Knowledge Winter term, the shortest of the school year, nevertheless offered students many opportunities for enrichment outside of the classroom . . . Among the notable visitors to campus were Professor Karen Barkey, nationally recognized speaker Mike Green, and Marine turned author Tyler Boudreau. Students also observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day by focusing on the theme of community and participating in discussions with alumni, spending time doing community service, enjoying performances by students and faculty, and listening to keynote speaker Clifton Taulbert: motivational speaker, author, and president of the Community Building Institute.

The Unmaking of a Marine

Going Back to Constantinople

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How are opposition and dissent, peasant movements, and banditry during the Ottoman Empire relevant to today’s Deerfield students? Columbia University sociology and history Professor Karen Barkey was on hand to explain early in January. Professor Barkey, who has written extensively on the Ottoman Empire in comparison with the French, Habsburg, and Russian Empires, recently published Empire of Difference, a comparative study of the flexibility and longevity of imperial systems. Empire of Difference demonstrates that the flexible techniques by which the Ottomans maintained their legitimacy, the cooperation of their diverse elites both at the center and in the provinces, and control over economic and human resources were responsible for the longevity of this particular “negotiated empire.” As in her book, Professor Barkey spoke to students about important issues of diversity, the role of religion in Ottoman politics, and Islam and the state—particularly the manner in which the Sunni/Shi’a divide operated during the empire; Professor Barkey explained that such topics are still relevant to the contemporary world and the conflicts we experience.

Local author, veteran, and former Marine Tyler Boudreau came to Deerfield to discuss current events in Iraq and his recent book, Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine. After 12 years of active service with the Marines, Mr. Boudreau resigned his commission as captain in November of 2005. Packing Inferno is both memoir and a political statement by Mr. Boudreau, who also traveled to Jordan in the summer of 2008 to investigate the Iraq refugee crisis, and in 2009 bicycled across the US to meet with people and join discussions about the wars of our time. Mr. Boudreau and Deerfield students enjoyed a lively discussion following his presentation, and they seemed to appreciate Mr. Boudreau’s firsthand knowledge and experience—perhaps gaining a new perspective on the ongoing conflict in Iraq. Both fall and winter term speakers were chosen with Imagine Deerfield initiatives in mind, specifically to create “a more coherent and purposeful program for Deerfield students and faculty to engage intellectually and experientially with other peoples, cultures, and global issues.”

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Avoiding the Perils of Abuse Mike Green Over the past 18 years, Mike Green has presented on more than 2000 campuses across the US in an effort to make drug and alcohol awareness and education an integral part of every student’s life; Mr. Green brought his message to Deerfield during a required meeting for all classes. With a strong background in education, athletics, and coaching, Mr. Green has the experience necessary to connect with students, and his firsthand experiences as a recovering alcoholic give him the credibility to honestly relate the dangers drugs and alcohol may pose for many students. A consultant to the student affairs and athletic departments of many universities and colleges, Mr. Green has made it his life’s work to help young people avoid the perils of abuse.

MLK Day Focus: Establishing, Building, Rebuilding, and Supporting Community by Ann-Marie White, PhD, Science Department Faculty and Director of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Our diversity theme this year focuses on all aspects of community. We have held events and projects throughout the year designed to help us better see the strengths that we all have, appreciate our differences, and ultimately pull us closer together. January’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration continued with this theme and was quite successful. MLK Day allows the academy community to suspend its usual routine, dismiss classes, and engage in activities focusing on diversity, social justice, and equity; all members of the Deerfield community are invited to participate in the day’s events. We featured Wilson Fellow Jaed Coffin speaking about community, identity, and what it means to be an individual. Then alumni Rehema Kutua ’03, Paula Bennett ’06, Michael Carter ’07, and Stephanie Gaillou ’08, who came back to participate in a “fishbowl” exercise in front of the whole school, engaged in conversation with each other and seniors Akilah Ffriend ’10 and Elisa Manrique ’10. They spoke about life at Deerfield when they were students, changes they have noticed since graduating, and changes they hope to see in the future. They also advised current students to try and establish relationships with students different from themselves, and they also encouraged everyone to not miss out on valuable opportunities that might easily be overlooked, such as taking advantage of sit down meals to get to know their fellow students. The panel members were surprisingly unanimous in expressing their regret: each said that he or she was sorry to not have done more to get out of his or her homogenous social group. I found it heartening to observe our students when they heard this—it seemed as if the majority of them took the message to heart because it came from recent graduates. Clifton Taulbert, motivational speaker, author of Eight Habits of the Heart, and president of the Community Building Institute, was our keynote speaker. Mr. Taulbert works with schools and businesses to establish, build, rebuild, and support community. He spoke about Dr. King’s sense of community, and reminded us that Dr. King frequently drew on his Baptist heritage and referred to his vision of mankind as the “beloved community.”

clockwise: Author and speaker, Clifton Taulbert; Gaelen LeMelle-Brown ’11 sings; Gabor Gurbacs ‘10, Identity Project participant

In addition to speakers, MLK Day featured: Deerfield’s traditional flag ceremony, in which students from or with close ties to other countries carry their nation’s flag to the stage in the Large Auditorium; several musical performances by students and faculty; a performance by the STEP team; the screening of a video detailing the history of the “Deerfield mosaics” and identity project; the singing of “Star Spangled Banner;” opportunities for community service; discussion groups; dance performances; a spoken word ensemble piece; poetry readings and a poetry “slam;” closing remarks by Head of School Margarita Curtis; and a rousing performance from the faculty band, accompanied by several students. At the end of the day and during breaks, students and faculty were able to view Deerfield’s “identity project,” which lines the walls of the Memorial Building. This project, comprised of photos and expressions of identity, allows us to see members of our community—students, faculty, and staff—in a new light. I think one of the nicest aspects of the project is its ability to bring the richness of our community forward; it has allowed kids to share aspirations, talents, and quirky facts about themselves. It has also allowed faculty and staff, usually only seen in their Deerfield roles of caring for students or the campus or working in offices, to share their hobbies, histories, and love for their families. This year we focus on community. MLK Day, our projects and workshops, and our participation in the NAIS AIM Survey, all help us to focus on, reflect on, and support our vibrant and diverse community.

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Six, Seven, Eight Deerfield Dances the Nights Away— Fall and Winter Showcases Highlight Student Talent Photographs by Jeff Brown  and Gabriel Amadeus Cooney 

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Jan Flaska—Robertson Distinguished Chair in the Teaching of Religion at Deerfield by Sandra Lively In a few short years, Jan Flaska (pronounced Yan), with his modest and understated demeanor, has assumed an indispensable and innovative role as Dean of Spiritual and Ethical Life. His enthusiasm, sincerity, and energy are contagious. In addition to being the first recipient of the Robertson Distinguished Chair in the Teaching of Religion at Deerfield, Jan also serves as assistant dean of students, teaches in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, coaches boys’ varsity soccer and varsity lacrosse, is a regular member of the Look to the Hills (summer institute) faculty, directs the Deerfield Academy Triathlon, and serves as a student advisor. Jan earned his BA in biochemistry from Bowdoin (where he was a four-year varsity letter

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winner in three sports and three-time captain); he holds a graduate certificate in science and religion from the Boston Theological Institute, an MA in educational administration from Boston College, and a Master of Divinity from Boston University School of Theology. A ’92 graduate of Choate, prior to Deerfield Jan taught conceptual physics, astronomy, ethics, algebra, geometry, chemistry, and English. Fluent in his parents’ native Czech and Slovak, Jan was captain of the Slovak National Lacrosse Team. He holds multiple coaching, officiating, and athletic titles, and regularly participates in marathons, triathlons, orienteering, hiking, cycling, skiing, and other men’s league team sports. Last summer, along with Tom Hagamen, Deerfield’s school physician, and Dean of Students Toby Emerson, Jan biked to the Steubenville, OH, campus of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, meeting his mother, an alumna, who was attending her 40th college reunion. He found that 120 miles a day on a bike was “a spiritually uplifting and— at the same time—deflating adventure!”

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An Ecumenical Man

Religion has always held a prominent and important place in Jan’s life. He believes his current role as Deerfield’s spiritual and religious leader is to “remind people of the role that religion plays in our lives.” People must realize that all faiths have “good faith attributes,” which can be self-nurturing and life-directing. His two career pursuits, of spiritual leader and religious scholar, provide Jan with both an external, evolving dialogue with others as to what the role of religion is within our lives and an introspective journey of self discovery. “It is who I am,” he says. “Deerfield works well” for teaching religion, Jan adds; it is the only discipline not strictly held to either a text or standardized tests. Such freedom means that lessons and discussions are often structured in immediate response to campus, local, or global issues or events. Jan finds Deerfield students “open, brave, and receptive;” recognizing the critical implication religion plays in today’s world, they are eager to learn, share, and understand what it means to be a Buddhist, a Jew, a Catholic, or a Muslim. Classroom topics include human fallibility, ethical dilemmas, the enduring “big questions” of human purpose/ death, or various beliefs of the hereafter. Each fall, one of Jan’s first classes is a field trip to the old settler’s cemetery at the end of Albany Road. There, Jan has students read the handcarved, often cryptic, epitaphs and view the primitive, fragile carvings of winged angel heads. These brief records serve as glimpses of the occupants’ time in history, and their beliefs of life, death, and the afterlife. Thus begins the ongoing dialogue and sharing of experiences back in the classroom of the same issues and questions today.

Jan says he is honored to be the initial recipient of the Robertson Distinguished Chair in the Teaching of Religion at Deerfield. The chair, established by Mr. and Mrs. Julian H. Robertson, parents of Spencer ’93 and Alexander ’97, represents the first time in the academy’s history that it has assumed the responsibility for pastoral advocacy within the administration of the school. As chair holder and dean of spiritual and ethical life, Jan oversees and facilitates the opportunity for all students to practice their religions, leads ecumenical services for the school, offers regular interfaith discussions within Deerfield community, and provides speakers on topics of faith and philosophical traditions. Last year Jan used his stipend from the Robertson Chair to help support a ten-week study of Zen Buddhism at a local Zendo and to travel to meet with Father Thomas Keating ’40, 2006 Heritage Award recipient, at St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass, CO. The trip was an opportunity for Jan to learn from Father Keating himself, who teaches “centering prayer”—which is of considerable import in Jan’s daily life. Under Jan’s oversight of the teaching of religion at Deerfield, there has been a significant increase in course offerings on the subject. He also heads IDEA –the Initiative at Deerfield Academy, an enrichment program providing opportunities to explore traditions, cultures, and life beyond one’s own experience. IDEA offers faith services here and throughout local communities, outreach and networking, and scripture study. Additionally, Jan founded and co-directs the Northeastern Independent School Spiritual Council, a group of over 60 independent school educators, members of affiliated organizations, and other citizens interested in the ethical and spiritual welfare of the New England independent school family. As busy as he is, Jan spends as much time as possible with his wife, Jill Mackay, and their year-old son, Stefan, living as Johnson Dormitory residents. Jan considers himself blessed with his family and fortunate that they are able to live a safe, healthy life at Deerfield. He also affirms the common sentiment of so many others before him: “I find a peace here with the land, the environment, the place. I love everything I do and I love the people with whom I work.”

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People must realize that all faiths have “good faith attributes,” which can be self-nurturing and life-directing.

Jan finds Deerfield students “open, brave, and receptive;” recognizing the critical implication religion plays in today’s world, they are eager to learn, share, and understand what it means to be a Buddhist, a Jew, a Catholic, or a Muslim. deerfield.edu

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“Watts” New on Campus: Energy Saving + Producing Upgrades Recent conservation efforts around campus helped Deerfield do better than ever in the 2010 Green Cup Challenge. As a participant in the Northeast Boarding School Region of this nationwide event, Deerfield’s energy consumption dropped by nine percent during the month-long event, and the academy won it’s secondary competition with Northfield Mount Hermon and Choate. In an effort to boost the reduction even more on campus, there was also a competition between dorms, with the top prize being claimed by Bewkes House. Prior to the Green Cup Challenge, it was estimated that the new ice making system in the hockey rink, the lighting retrofits in the East and West Gyms and hockey rink, the solar array on the Koch Center roof, and zoning and heating improvements and the installation of high efficiency windows in two older dorms would save 233,302 kWh, and create a four percent campus-wide reduction in the use of electricity.

Lighting Retrofits

New Ice-Making System

Solar Array (Photovoltaic System)

Action: Replaced HID and miscellaneous

Action: Installed a self-contained high

lighting with T-5 low mercury, high efficiency lights

efficiency refrigeration system to produce ice in the rink; also has the ability to send “waste heat” to be used within the facility

Action: Student-initiated project that placed 100 solar panels on the Koch Center roof to produce renewable energy for the building

East & West Gyms and Hockey Rink

Qualitative Result: Improved the lighting quality in each facility; switching options now allow for selective lighting when games are not being played Quantitative Result: a conservative estimate is a savings of 87,000 kWh per year, which represents a 49% reduction

Hockey Rink (above)

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Qualitative: Students analyze electricity Qualitative: Infrared sensor ensures ice is maintained at an ideal temperature

Quantitative: estimated savings: 122,214 kWh per year, which represents a 42% reduction

use and production in connection with weather conditions (buildingdashboard.com /clients/Deerfield/)

Quantitative: the array is projected to produce 24,088 kWh per year

Additional Actions: Bewkes and McAlister: new, high-efficiency windows Field and McAlister: new zoning and heating improvement

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233,302 kWh

And of the plastic containers,

Blind Taste-Test Reveals Interesting Results Students in the Environmental Club, members of the academy’s Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee, and two Environmental Studies classes joined forces to promote a recycling campaign this past fall, which is now morphing into a “return to tap” campaign. Bins were set up outside the Dining Hall to hold recyclable containers collected from recycling bins campus-wide over the course of a week, in an effort to demonstrate to students, faculty, and staff how much the Deerfield community consumes in a week, as well as the relative percentage which is unnecessary, such as plastic water bottles. Teacher Brendan Creagh and his Environmental Studies classes provided the results by material at the end of the week. (left) Environmental and Sustainability Coordinator Kristan Bakker said, “No one argues that plastic for sports drinks, sodas, and the like is easily avoidable. You can’t get Gatorade out of the tap; but with the quality of tap water we have here at Deerfield and the availability of reusable water bottles, all of the plastic from bottled water and the energy consumed to produce it is avoidable.” Subsequently, the Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee conducted a blind water taste-test, in which over 150 people participated. Students, faculty, and staff rated the taste of Dasani, Poland Springs, tap water, and filtered tap water. To the ESAC’s delight, the clear preference was for filtered tap water. Ms. Bakker commented, “This is big news for those concerned with the overuse of resource-consuming disposable plastic water bottles. According to the Pacific Institute, each liter of bottled water uses three times that amount of water and approximately ¼ liter of oil to produce and transport.” Efforts are in the works to encourage a shift away from bottled water, much like the way in which free disposable hot drink containers were eliminated from campus. These efforts have included a slide show loop shown in the Starfield of the Koch Center, which detailed the wastefulness of disposable water bottles, and a survey of students, faculty, and staff to learn more about the Deerfield community’s water-drinking habits.

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40% were disposable water bottles

Which Water Rules?

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80% plastic 11% metal 9% glass

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All-Star Status and Olympic Dreams Two Extraordinary Senior Athletes: Luigia Goodman ’10 and Oliver Lee ’10 by Bob York

GOODMAN NO.

Junior Year Averages Per Game:

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Whether it’s by addition or subtraction, Goodman and Lee have become the faces of their respective winter sports—girls basketball and boys swimming—at Deerfield over the past four years. Although their sports are very different, this dynamic duo has risen in the ranks in similar fashion. Both made an immediate impact as freshmen and from there have earned the respect of their peers to be elected team captains and have been decorated with laurels ranging from All-League . . . to All-New England . . . to All American. “I wasn’t sure of what to expect as an athlete when I came to Deerfield four years ago,” said Goodman, who will take her basketball talents to Williams College next year, “but I was happily surprised when I made the starting team as a freshman.” Goodman, who hails from Manhattan, averaged 10 points and eight rebounds per game that rookie season. The 6-2 center, who earned All-New England honors as a sophomore, averaged 15 points and 10 rebounds her junior year to help lead the Big Green back to the playoffs for the first time in quite a while. A splash in postseason waters has become a rite of winter, whether you’re a contender or a pretender in the New England prep school swimming ranks. But Lee, who will be swimming at Harvard next year, has played a key role in putting the Big Green atop the final standings the past two years. He comes as close to a “sure thing” as you can find when there’s a trophy up for grabs at the other end of the pool. Last year, he captured both the 50 and 100 freestyle races, as well as swimming the anchor leg of the goldmedal winning 200 freestyle relay and 200 medley relay. And his times in the 50 (a New England record 20.69) as well as in both relays, earned

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Like all athletes, the goal Luigia Goodman and Oliver Lee strive for is identical: victory. The paths they take to achieve it, however, are completely different. Goodman puts points on the scoreboard, while Lee takes time off the clock.

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ALL-AMERICAN SWIMMER

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New England 50 M Freestyle Record

Next on tap for the Big Green is the spring season, and it will be hard pressed to match the success it met with last year.

20.69 sec him All-American status. It was Lee’s victory in the 50 free relay as a sophomore, however, that Coach John Burke remembers best. “Oliver was swimming the anchor leg,” remembered Burke, “and by the time he dove into the pool, he had to make up at least a half-abody length to secure the win—and that’s a lot to make up in that short a distance . . . but he did it.” What Burke also remembers about the comefrom-behind effort was that the win turned the meet in favor of the Big Green. It turned a sixpoint deficit into a four-point lead that the team would never relinquish. “After Oliver’s performance that day,” said Burke, “I remember thinking that this kid was going to be something special . . . and he certainly has been.” Goodman has been pretty special, too. According Big Green girls basketball coach Darnel Barnes, “Luigia’s been a perfect fit for this team. She’s our leading scorer and our leading rebounder. But more importantly, she’s an outstanding leader. She has a genuine interest in her teammates and really enjoys taking the younger kids under her wing and helping them along.” Goodman’s athletic talents aren’t limited to the basketball court, either, as she plays volleyball in the fall and rows crew in the spring. And she’s coming off back-to-back award-winning seasons. Last spring, as a member of the Big Green’s No. 3 boat, Goodman and her crewmates capped off

an undefeated season by winning a New England championship. Then, this fall, she earned a berth on the New England Volleyball All-Star team. And if that’s not enough to fill out her resume, there’s more—away from the athletic arena. Goodman sings with the a cappella RhapsoDs as well as the academy’s chorus. Plus, she serves as a dorm proctor. Lee, who hails from Cold Spring Harbor, NY, spent the autumns of his sophomore and junior years tuning up for swimming by playing water polo—where he helped capture two more New England championships to give him four in two years. But Lee’s aquatic goals transcend his prep school days. “I’m hoping I can give the 2012 or 2016 Olympics a shot,” he said. And it’s not just a pipe dream; Lee headed into his senior season at Deerfield ranked second in the country in the 50-free in the 18-and-under age bracket. “So, I’d like to give it a shot and see what happens.” In fact, Lee’s goal of making the Olympics played a big role in his choice to attend Harvard. He was recruited by both Auburn and Texas, which have the No. 1 and No. 2 collegiate swimming programs in the country, respectively, “but in addition to getting an outstanding education, I felt Harvard’s schedule would allow me more time to train for the Olympics,” said Lee. “Plus, my decision to go to Harvard made my parents very happy,” he quipped.

Current sports schedules and scores at deerfield.edu/athletics

Both the girls and boys crew teams finished second at the New England regatta, with the girls posting a pair of gold medals. The boys meanwhile posted a pair of silver medals. Both boys lacrosse and baseball captured league titles, as girls track, girls tennis, girls water polo and cycling all wound up third in their respective postseason action. Boys track finished seventh at its championship meet, while golf was 11th. Boys tennis concluded at 11-4, girls lacrosse 10-5, and softball 2-10. Deerfield’s fall season saw its boys water polo team (12-9) place fourth in its tourney and fall short in its bid for a third straight New England crown; while field hockey (8-6-1) and volleyball (9-7) were bumped in first-round playoff action. Boys and girls cross country wound up fifth and sixth at their championships, respectively, as boys soccer finished at 10-6-1, girls soccer was 6-5-5, and football closed out at 3-5.

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ONE MAN ONE MOUNTAIN ONE REVOLUTION An interview with Chris Waddell, by Jessica Day : Photographs by Mike Stoner

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For over twenty years Chris Waddell ’87 has been proving what the poet William Blake wrote: Great things are done when men and mountains meet . . .

Only two years after a devastating ski accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down, Chris began conquering mountains both literally and figuratively as a Paralympic skier and marathoner. When he retired in 2004 he had earned twelve medals in alpine skiing (including a gold-medal sweep of all four monoski events at the 1994 Lillehammer Paralympic Winter Games), and a silver medal in the 200 meter push-rim wheelchair event at the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games. As impressive as these achievements were, Chris wasn’t willing to rest on his laurels after retirement. It wasn’t long before he was searching for a new goal, which turned out to involve yet another mountain—19,341-foot Mount Kilimanjaro. On September 30, 2009, Chris achieved something amazing—he reached Kilimanjaro’s summit under his own power. Family, friends, and a multitude of supporters shared in Chris’ trek to the summit on his “Bomba” via the Marangu Route, as he eloquently blogged throughout his journey (one-revolution.com/blog), which was also covered by a film crew and photographer. His ultimate goal, other than the obvious, was to draw as much attention as possible to the “disabled” community; before the climb he commented: “I’m climbing this mountain and making this film because the world doesn’t usually see me and other people like me . . . It doesn’t see our potential— only our limitations . . . >>

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The only way that I can think to say thank you is to give opportunities to people who might not have had many or any at all.

I will climb to the top of the highest mountain in Africa to metaphorically shout out, ‘Notice me. Notice us!’” Even before his historic climb, Chris was noticed by many people for his work with the Paralympics and the International Paralympic Committee, his success as a motivational speaker, and for the not-for-profit organizations he helped to found, such as the Perfect Turn Ski Camps, which introduce children with disabilities to the joys of skiing. Chris has also been featured on numerous television shows, including Dateline and Oprah, and in many publications, such as People Magazine and National Geographic Explorer. Most recently he took the time to answer a few questions for Deerfield Magazine. DM: If we could please begin at the “end,” September 30, 2009: describe how you felt as you reached the summit of Kilimanjaro . . . what did you see? How did you feel, both mentally and physically? CW: The glacier, which looked like a skull cap days ago as I exited the rainforest, stood stories high off to my left—a mélange of white, aqua blue, grey and black. On my right, clouds billowed out of the crater. I saw our camera crew set up on a ridge and I asked if I’d be able to see the summit from there—letting go of the temptation to ask if we were almost there. The guide said that I’d be able to see the summit; he neglected to mention that it was a mere 300 yards away! With a dip in the crater rim before the summit, I shifted out of first gear for the first time in three days. At the top I felt awed. I didn’t conquer this mountain. I existed on it. I learned from it over the past six and a half days. It taught me that my desire to ascend unassisted was isolating and frivolous, but I was still worried. This was the top but it wasn’t the end, it was the beginning. My team and I wanted to create social change—to break down the barriers between the able-bodied and disabled worlds, and I worried that when my team had to carry me for a mere 100-200 feet that I might have lost the leverage of the climb to create that change. Then I saw Tajiri, a former porter who had lost his leg in a rockslide on the mountain. We’d bought him a prosthetic leg, with which he’d been able to summit not just with us but the day before as well. I realized that we’d

already started a change—that Tajiri would become famous in Tanzania and that he would help to break down barriers. DM: What made you decide to attempt to climb Kilimanjaro? CW: The idea to climb Kilimanjaro bubbled out of my subconscious one day as I climbed a mountain near my house. The thought jumped into my head, “I should climb Kilimanjaro.” I didn’t know where it came from, but I understood why. Climbing Kilimanjaro would be a continuation of my efforts as a competitive athlete. By setting out on the journey and reaching the top, I hoped to force people to look at me, and people like me, differently. DM: You trained for two years before you attempted Kilimanjaro; what and/or who kept you motivated? Was it during this time that you came up with the concept of “One Revolution?” CW: I was motivated by a goal that was bigger than me. It might sound strange, but in many ways I have been lucky in spite of my accident. I have been successful as an athlete and achieved some acclaim in the public eye. I wanted to use my history and my minor celebrity to give a voice to a group, the disabled community, which I believe is often invisible to most people. For hikers at altitude, it’s literally one step and catch their breath. For me that’s “one revolution” and catch my breath. I liked the idea that something so small could lead to the top of the mountain. I also liked that it was our ‘One Revolution’— our attempt at change. DM: Tell me about the One Revolution Foundation and its relationship to Mobility Revolution and Mobility Care . . . I particularly like the phrase “opportunity through mobility . . . ” can you explain what that means to you? And what you hope it will mean to those who receive wheelchairs and hand-cycles? CW: I think that we are all products of our opportunities. That’s not to say that we aren’t responsible for our success—totally to the contrary, but we need opportunities to create those successes. From friends and family to the people who designed the racing chairs and monoskis that I

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Approx. distance traveled in one revolution

For hikers at altitude, it’s literally one step and catch their breath. For me that’s “one revolution” and catch my breath. I liked the idea that something so small could lead to the top of the mountain.

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on Chris’ Kubwa

Photograph by Liz Parker P’08, ’11

(you do the math)

At the top I felt awed. I didn’t conquer this mountain. I existed on it.

used, my success was started by the opportunities that they gave me. The only way that I can think to say thank you is to give opportunities to people who might not have had many or any at all. Mobility Revolution is the wheelchair and handcycle donation arm of One Revolution. Our goal is to help people get off the ground—and if we can accomplish that, who knows where they will go from there? Our partner in Tanzania is Mobility Care, which is a company that makes custom fitted wheelchairs. DM: Please describe your team on the climb— both the people and the “Bomba,” as well as the boards and winch you used in conjunction with the Bomba. CW: Including me, there were eight people on my team: Dave Penney, my guide and the designer of Bomba, (the rig), Nate Bryan, our doctor and a friend from Middlebury, Bob More, president of the One Revolution Board, and our production team: Director Amanda Stoddard, Cinematographers Patrick Reddish and Mike Stoner, and our Media Manager Ryan Gass. In addition to my team we had 61 porters, who carried everything from our bags to the food and tents and my wheelchair. A select team of porters laid eight-foot long 2x8 boards as a bridge for me to roll over when I couldn’t maintain traction. Bomba means ‘cooler than cool’ in Swahili— 24

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or at least that’s what our drivers told us. Bomba was our original vehicle; the one I summated with was the supersized version, with four-inch wide tires. We called it ‘Kubwa,’ which means huge. DM: Explain your reasons for the climb, beyond the personal challenge. You achieved your goal and reached the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro—are the other goals you hoped to achieve through the endeavor being reached? CW: I started out thinking that I would use the climb to help other people. I approached it totally selflessly, but then I realized that it was my journey too—that I had to learn that the idea of being unassisted could be just as isolating as the separation that I was trying to eliminate. I also had to realize that I was an average person attempting the potentially impossible and in that I was representative of all of us who strive for something greater. DM: In addition to the One Revolution Foundation, you started the Nametags Program. What is it and what you hope to achieve through it? CW: In school it’s so easy to spend your time trying to fit in—trying to look cool. I know I did it, but the problem is that we can reach graduation and not know who we are. ‘Nametags’ helps students to look at our differences as indications

of potential genius, as opposed to reasons to be separate. I hope to spread doubt; I ask people to doubt what they think they know, and in the process give and receive permission to use our unique voices. I think in a lot of ways we’re bound by the labels we put on others and ourselves; labels are ways of keeping us all separate. I’d like to break down the barriers between the able-bodied and disabled worlds, but I don’t think I can do that by forcing you to accept or respect me. That cry for recognition can be just as isolating because no one wants to be told what to do. My goal is to try to see you for who you are and maybe you can return the favor. So, labels don’t mean much compared to the intention.

road for probably a ten-month tour, during which we will do Nametags presentations in a city and then show the film at night or on the weekends. DM: Is there anything in particular that you learned at Deerfield or anyone in particular who you met or were taught by at Deerfield that helped you after your accident or during your life in general as you train, work, etc . . . ? CW: Deerfield challenged me more than any place I’ve ever been. During my three years there, I was surrounded by the most intelligent people of my life. I saw greatness in my teachers and my peers. More than anything, Deerfield taught me that dreams can become reality.

DM: You have done so much in your life thus far . . . champion athlete, spokesman, model, actor, motivational speaker, etc . . . ! What are you focusing on now? What’s next? CW: Right now I need to finish this project. Climbing the mountain was just the start. We have 200 hours of film footage that we need to turn into a feature-length documentary. The documentary will be our vehicle to create that change. At the moment I’m trying to figure out how to raise the money for post-production. I intend to get as many eyes on our film as possible. To that end I’m planning to take it on the deerfield.edu

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COMMUNITY SERVICE

RE-IMAGINED

Natural Roots program 2009 | Potato harvesting in the 1940s

“JV girls soccer went to Riverland Farm in Sunderland, which is one of our co-curricular sites, a local organic farm that donates a lot of produce to the Food Bank of Western MA; our girls went there in October, after the harvest, gleaned the fields, and collected 350 pounds of carrots that were donated to the local Food Bank. We also work with Clarkdale Orchards, and they donate a lot of produce, and we work with Natural Roots in Conway for the same reasons; we’re trying to be involved locally with farms and farmers who are committed to good organic practices and who share their bounty with those who need it in Franklin County.” Director of Community Service Bernie Baker—2009

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The farmers of the valley were still short of help and farm work remained a large part of the afternoon program. The potato crop received most of the boys’’ attention with some time being spent on corn and carrots . . . Mr. Sullivan was his capable self as straw boss, and under his guidance the boys earned $800. Already $250 of this amount has been given to the United War Fund, and $500 will be given to the Red Cross when it makes its annual appeal . . . The Cum Laude Society . . . conducted a book drive which has as its object the gathering of books to be sent overseas by the YMCA to our soldiers who are prisoners of war in Germany. More than 1000 books were contributed by the boys and faculty. The Deerfield Alumni Journal – Circa 1944

With a work ethic founded in his Yankee values and sensibilities, Mr. Boyden immediately put his boys to work when he became headmaster of Deerfield Academy and Dickinson High School. Students cut trees for the Academy’s lockers and showers, among other tasks. Mr. Boyden also offered the school’s facilities (as limited as they were in the early years) to Deerfield residents— drawing them into the school community. When local farmers needed additional hands to harvest their crops, Mr. Boyden’s students were there to help. Everyone did their part on campus, too: from waiting on tables in the Dining Hall to working on demolition crews when it was time to make way for new facilities. Organically, as part of daily life, Mr. Boyden created Deerfield’s tradition of community service. In his 2002 Convocation speech, former Trustee Brian Rosborough ’58 noted, “Before it was called community service, Deerfield students bagged potatoes to help the farmers. Mr. Boyden knew what it meant to be a good neighbor, bagging 30 acres of potatoes . . . ”

An Ethic of Service at Work

Today the Academy’s approach to service may be more deliberate but the ideals remain the same— that a strong, well-rounded education includes an awareness of others and a willingness to help. When Imagine Deerfield, the school’s strategic plan, was approved by the Board of Trustees, it directly addressed “character, community, and service” and included initiatives to bolster community service overall, to foster a greater sense of responsibility for the immediate Deerfield community, and to restructure and enhance the Academy’s service to the Franklin County area. “We are trying to create habits of mind and deerfield.edu

heart,” said Director of Community Service Bernie Baker. An additional goal is to instill the idea that engaging in a lifelong commitment to community service is what a responsible person does in his or her life, and to emphasize that an ethic of service is still part and parcel of what it means to be at Deerfield. One successful approach has been to utilize the existing co-curricular structure, and have all athletic teams and organizations that meet in the afternoon participate in one community service project per group, per term, and this past fall that translated into 53 projects. Each coach felt that they could give up one practice, and some found that service projects can even build team cohesion. Additional benefits have included the opportunity for older students to mentor younger students, and the fact that service projects provide another opportunity for faculty to interact with students in a meaningful way.

Gaining Perspective

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way or another. The program was expanded this year and two sessions were implemented over the fall and winter terms. DAPP serves a two-pronged purpose: to have every sophomore complete meaningful work on campus and thereby gain an appreciation for what it takes to keep the Academy in running order, and to present an opportunity to build relationships between students and staff. At its heart, DAPP is an on-campus work program for sophomores, and “DAPP-ers” give up one free period a week to work with Physical Plant staff, in administrative offices, and in the Dining Hall. “The result is that they learn a lot about what goes into making the school run,” said Ms. Creagh. “Some also learn new skills, and gain an appreciation for the spectrum of work that is done on campus and for the people who do it. “It was a little difficult at first to get some students, who are already extremely busy, to invest in jobs they don’t see as their purview, but then the program gained momentum, and overall, students had positive comments after fall term.” In fact, the program is so successful that Ms. Creagh and her team are considering expanding it to run all three terms next year. “We’re trying to instill the idea that everyone

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“ We are trying to create habits of mind and heart, we want to instill the idea that this is what a responsible person does in his or her life.”

SERVICE SHORT LIST: Rake and clean-up at Burnham Cemetery in Turners Falls

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Clean-up along Mill Village Road in Deerfield

needs to pitch in when there’s work to be done, and that a community is not a community if we compartmentalize,” said Ms. Creagh.

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Golden Pencils and Golden Rules

In addition to new community service programs such as DAPP and team-based projects, the student-run, co-curricular Community Service Board continues to fulfill the important mission it has for many years. Led by senior Lucy Phillips, the board consists of thirteen students who arrange student and faculty workers for Second Helpings meals, coordinate weekend projects, recruit volunteers for Special Olympics, and more. This co-curricular program is built on consistency and relationships, and most of the service projects the board tackles are ongoing from year to year. Sophomores apply to join the board as juniors, and the juniors who become board members are mentored by their senior counterparts. Mr. Baker described one way in which the Community Service Board facilitated a local project this fall: “Community Action in Greenfield recommended that we talk to the Literacy Project (also in Greenfield), to see if they needed any student volunteers. They were not equipped to handle one of our large service teams, so I asked: ‘What do you need?’” Due to the fact the Project’s state-funded

Coach Greenfield Pee Wee Soccer teams

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Check crossword puzzle clues for Deerfield Magazine

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Clean and pack items at the Women in Action organization in Greenfield

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Rake and clean-up at the Montague Water Pollution Control Facility Landscape at Greenfield Energy Park

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Proofread the newsletter Deerfield Today Move files to a storage area at the Montague Town Hall . . .

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Help with office work at the Fuel Assistance Program Clean glass at the Koch Center and Boyden Library

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by Frank Henry ’69 P’08, ‘11

English Teacher and Soccer Coach

Instead of spending another October afternoon on our field in the South Division, Jay Morsman and I drove our Junior B soccer team across the Connecticut twice (a considerable topic of explanation in the van) to the Montague Town Hall in Turners Falls. Like many other teams and co-curricular groups, we were contributing our day of community service. Even the slow drive down Turners Falls’ main street provoked questions, “Who lives here?” “What do people who live here do?” The abandoned knife factory and red brick

company row housing raised more questions. The town had recently built a public safety building, so we were clearing the old police station before a state agency moved in. The fellow who met us was surprised at the size of the team, 21 young boys, and clearly had misestimated their capacity. Our swarm of locusts stripped the old headquarters, only momentarily distracted by the holding cells and wondering if they could lock up one of their own, the old dispatcher’s office with its antiquated radio equipment, a few forgotten but full biohazard safes, and the files of minor criminals left behind in a cabinet. Despite no experience with handcarts and proper lifting technique, the boys finished the job in twenty minutes, while

Morsman and I shook our heads as we watched and listened to the boys figure out how to move large rectangular solids through narrow doorways. Our supervisor scrambled to find more work! He turned the boys loose on clearing the patrolmen’s locker room. Even as he did so, he regretted it, as overturned lockers spilled shotgun shells and bullets, a couple Kevlar vests, some fireworks, and canisters of pepper spray. While scurrying to pick up the live ammunition and sky-rockets, he suddenly remembered to assign our burliest teammate to stand in front of a door in the lockerroom and instructed him not to let anyone through that door. He confided to me, “All the confiscated drug para-

budget had been almost completely slashed, the short answer was: supplies. Deerfield’s Community Service Board pulled together a fundraiser that generated $1200, and board members also solicited Hitchcock House, which donated boxes of notebooks, pens, pencils, and other supplies. “When we delivered everything to the Literacy Project, the director was in tears,” said Mr. Baker. “We managed to fill their storage shelves, which were almost bare. For our students, it was eye-opening—to see a Literacy Project student smile at the sight of a pencil and comment, ‘Pencils are like gold.’” “The local connection is very important,” said Miss Phillips. “The immediate effect we were able to have was amazing.” She added that as head of the Community Service Board, she is thankful for the dedicated group of students she works with, who remain committed to service projects week after week. “There is no 30

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phernalia is in there!” By now the supervisor was snagging smaller groups to go upstairs into municipal offices where furniture needed moving and carpeting pulled up. The remainder dedicated themselves to sweeping out garages with last winter’s sand still on the floor. In just an hour, the boys did the work that a few city workers would have needed days to accomplish. At the end of that hour, we drove back over the Connecticut twice, still a mystery to some; a day in which the boys exerted a lot of effort but which they regarded as effortless. They knew a little bit about a small town, about working in unfamiliar surroundings, and about how helping a neighbor can be easy.

shortage of need,” Miss Phillips commented. “But sometimes there is a shortage of help.” At Deerfield, the opportunities to help are varied and plentiful; in addition to DAPP and co-curricular projects, there are blood drives, clothing drives, outdoor clean-up projects, and more. Many students are ongoing volunteers as Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and sometimes service projects even take students as far away as the Dominican Republic, where they have teamed up with local people to build houses. Both on and off campus, students embrace the idea that service is not necessarily something to do for others but something to do with others, and that the combined efforts of many people build a community. As president of the Community Service Board, Lucy Phillips is no stranger to service projects, but she also fulfills her on-campus obligations, such as working on the Dining Hall dish crew. Her thoughts on the job?

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Practicing Service

SERVICE LIST continued Work with the Academy’s Phys Plant crew Teach a tennis clinic for children

Gabriel Amadeus Cooney (pumpkins); Julie Cullen (raking); David Thiel (tennis); Brent M. Hale (painting)

Glean vegetables at Riverland Farm in Sunderland

“It was so fun!” Miss Phillips isn’t the only student to have grasped the concept that working for the Deerfield community can be energizing, enjoyable, and fulfilling. A whole brigade of students works in areas that don’t technically fall under the guise of “service,” including peer counselors, tutors, and tour guides, and they all contribute to the spirit of community on campus. Last spring at the final School Meeting of the year, Bernie Baker asked all Big Brothers/Big Sisters to stand up; he asked anyone who had participated in co-curricular service to stand up; he asked those who had donated blood to stand up; and on and on. By the time he was done, there were only about fifteen people not standing. “I think that shows the strength of our community and our service program,” he said. ✔

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Class Captain R. Paul Higgins Jr. C. Edgar Phreaner writes, “At age 95 I am fortunate to have lived 20 years in Naples, FL, at Bentley Village, a firstclass retirement community for golden oldies. Also, I remember that Deerfield has always been a very great experience in my life.”

1934 John Jeppson reports, “I’m not sure if this type of news is frowned upon or not, but I’m happy to report that at age 90 I have published my first book. Titled Making Hay, it consists of 36 short stories related to farming in the first quarter of the 20th century, where horsepower and manpower were the only means of getting anything done. I’m proud of being able to turn out a successful book at an age when I should be pushing up daisies. A DVD of this book and a second book are on the way.”

1935 Robert McClelland Day, MD, of Vero Beach, FL, formerly of New York City and Buck Hill Falls, died peacefully at home on October 28, 2009, at the age of 92. He was the beloved husband for 53 years of Barbara Brush Day; devoted father of Jean D. Kofol, Milan and Boston, MA, Susan M. Day, Alpharetta, GA, and

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Robert B. Day, Las Vegas, NV. He is also survived by four grandchildren, Timothy, Christopher, Michael, and Caroline Kofol; and his sister, Barbara D. Dugan. Born on August 21, 1917 in East Orange, NJ, he was the son of Meta McClelland and Louis DeVoursney Day. He grew up in Summit, NJ, and after Deerfield graduated from Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He was a veteran of WWII, and served in the US Army Medical Corps. Robert was a dedicated ophthalmologist and longtime professor and staff member at The Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He was also a member of the St. Andrew’s Society, NY, The Union Club, NY, and the John’s Island Club, FL. He was admired, respected, and loved by his family and will be remembered by them and his many friends and patients for his integrity and unwavering positive attitude towards life.

1936 “While weeding through my files, I came across a muchcrumpled clipping about me (with the wrong middle initial) on which I had written the date of 1936. On the back is a headline ‘Deerfield Booters Down Berkshire 4-2’. Soccer? It would have been fall, from some Deerfield newspaper, no doubt. This has spurred me to send more modern information,” writes

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Henry Poor ’35 and Mr. Boyden converse over tomato juice and bacon.

Henry Poor ’35 P’61 G’95, ’97 Former faculty member Henry Poor ’35 P’61 G’95,’97 died on September 27, 2009. With his passing, Mr. Poor’s family lost a beloved patriarch, and Deerfield lost a stalwart supporter of many years. Mr. Poor’s son, Thomas Poor ’61 P’95,’97, wrote the following remembrance of his father.

My father was born on December 31, 1917, (he always felt that birth date cheated him of presents) in Passaic, NJ. He was the third of four children with two older brothers and a much younger sister. Being the youngest of three brothers imbued him with a competitive spirit that was evident in many facets of his life. When it came time to follow his brothers to Deerfield Academy, my grandfather wrote to Frank Boyden to say that his business was failing and that it would not be possible to send Henry. Mr. Boyden wrote back, “Send him anyway,” and there followed a lifelong devotion to Deerfield. Dad also followed his brothers to Amherst and the Psi Upsilon fraternity, where he filled several positions, including president. At Amherst, as at Deerfield, he continued his squash prowess—playing #1 and being chosen as captain his senior year. Although he was not able to play often following college, his love for the game and the people who played it remained strong. Perhaps his greatest disappointment at Amherst was his failure to make the Glee Club—he served as manager to at least be a part of the organization. Some

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say he tried to atone for this failure by singing loudly enough in

Thankfully, after six months, he married Mary Kellar, acquired five

church to draw attention and subsequently invitations to join the

stepchildren, and moved into his own house. He also began working

choir. He declined, just as he declined whispered entreaties from his

with the Psi Upsilon National Fraternity, an association he continued

family to tone it down.

for the rest of his life. He believed strongly in the positive values

After college he joined Bankers Trust in New York as a trainee and

a fraternity experience could provide college students, and spent

moved with his new wife, Tink (Mount Holyoke ’39) to the city. That

countless hours in various chapters, with alumni associations and

move was short-lived due to a call he received from Mr. Boyden,

in negotiations for new chapters. He served 14 years as executive

“Henry, I need you.” When Tink asked him what his duties would be,

director, then as director of the Ambassador Program, while remain-

where they would live, how much he would be paid, etc., he replied,

ing on the board. He was also active in the Fraternity Executives

“I don’t know, but Mr. Boyden needs me.” And at that point he

Association, the Amherst chapter of Psi Upsilon, the Council for

began his career as an educator.

Spiritual and Ethical Education, Rotary, and especially St. David’s

Dad served as assistant to the headmaster until 1951 when, like so many Deerfield-trained masters before and after him, he left to

Episcopal Church. My Dad’s major problem was time. As a perfectionist he was

become headmaster of his own school. Fountain Valley in Colo-

reluctant to complete any task, send a letter or finish any document

rado Springs was a liberal, western secondary school to which Dad

unless it was just right. This character trait pushed him up against

brought many of the Deerfield ways. His family of four children was

many deadlines. Some deadlines were flexible, others were not. In

young enough to absorb the dramatic culture change with only a

the latter category was the IRS. Dad and I were members of our

few bumps. During his seven-year tenure, he would say that his

own club, where you were in good standing if you postmarked your

most lasting contribution was the initiation of a chapel, built by the

return on April 15; you became an officer with a postmark between

students themselves.

6-11 PM and president if the postmark was between 11-midnight.

There followed two years in Amherst College’s Development Office, then a new headmastership at Montclair Academy in New

Dad was consistently president until I expelled him for taking extensions. As he aged, he became increasingly attached to the church and

Jersey. During his six years there, he led the campaign for a new

his religion. The major impetus for his belief was my older sister

campus, which led to a renaissance of the school; I mentioned that

Judy, who was born and remained handicapped for her life of 54

he was competitive…I remember those Montclair days when he

years. Unable to participate significantly in the outside world,

would come home late at night and say, “Shall we go downstairs?”

she had a penetrating belief in God and the after life. Through St.

Downstairs was a ping pong (always table tennis to him) table. Dur-

David’s, Dad was active in the homeless outreach, prison ministry,

ing our five-game epics, the most extreme word I heard from him

foreign missions, and many other aspects of the church. Mary was

was “Damn.” My own profanity (uttered under my breath because,

just as involved, if not more so, teaching Sunday school and volun-

after all, he was my dad) was much more colorful.

teering for many other activities. Her death in 2008 after 41 years of

In the late ’60s he moved to the Philadelphia area and joined the development office of Episcopal Academy, where I was a young

marriage was a great loss. After Dad was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, my two sisters

teacher. Needing a place to live, he moved in with me in a garage

and I spent more time with him at his home and in the hospital. I

apartment on campus. Now, as a young, single, male near Bryn

was able to handle much of his finances and other issues as he de-

Mawr College for Women, having your dad live with you—let’s just

clined, and was with him for his last two weeks. On that September

say our interests were a bit different. However, we agreed that I

Sunday afternoon when his breathing became more labored, I held

would cook and he would wash all dishes, so we had lots of ham-

his hand and said, “It’s OK Dad, I’ll take care of things here. You go

burger and chicken dinners with all the pots and pans I could use.

on ahead.” And, soon after, he did.

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Ralph knew how fortunate he had been. He had lived a long, full life. He saw the ranks of 10th Mountain Division veterans dwindle each year. He knew he was lucky just to make it back alive from the war, let alone live the full life he had enjoyed. Ralph had climbed all of Colorado’s 14ers. He’d summited the

On October 11, 2009 Deerfield lost one of its most ardent supporters,

Matterhorn and Grand Teton. He ran the Grand Canyon with

long-time Class Agent and Captain Ralph Ball ’36 P’74 G’09. In addition

friends in the fifties, surviving a dangerous mishap in Lava Falls

to his unwavering support of Deerfield, Mr. Ball was also known for

that capsized his raft and left him stranded overnight without

the interesting and widely varied class notes and photos he sent in to

food or gear on the opposite side of the river from his party.

the Alumni Office over the years, which often reflected his adventures

Ralph visited Europe more than 35 times, and recently traveled

while traveling.

to Australia and China with his wife Marilyn.

David Frey, a freelance journalist and neighbor of Mr. Ball’s, wrote

When I talked to him, he would still shed tears over soldiers

the following tribute to his friend. It originally appeared in the December

with whom he had served who never made it home. He teared

9, 2009 edition of the Snowmass (Colorado) Sun, and is reprinted here

up again when he recalled the announcement on the ship that

with Mr. Frey’s permission.

brought him home. After victory in Europe, the troops were

I just learned of the death of a man I was proud to call my friend. Count Ralph Ball one less of the surviving members of the legendary 10th Mountain Division. I knew Ralph as a neighbor, who, in his 80s, was the model of strength and health. He would scramble onto the roof of his

bound for the Panama Canal and the Pacific Front. “Now hear this,” the ship announcement said. “Watch the shadow of the ship as it heads toward the mainland of the U.S. and not the Panama Canal.” Born in Deerfield, MA, Ralph had been captain of the ski team

Carbondale home to clean out his gutter, pedal his bike to the

at Deerfield Academy and Williams College. When he learned of

supermarket and beat his old buddies at tennis and golf.

the newly-formed 10th Mountain Division, spearheaded to counter

He loved skiing at Snowmass more than just about anything on Earth. He’d zigzag between the trees on the Big Burn like his own

Nazi ski troops, he had little doubt where he would aim to enlist. “That December day, 1941, we were playing touch football on the

private slalom course. He was fit and fast, leaving this telemark

fraternity house lawn,” he recalled. “One of our classmates came

skier, about half a century his junior, winded trying to keep up with

down and said, ‘Hey boys, don’t worry about what you’re going to do

him. He would occasionally stop, though, to look at the mountains

next year. We’re going to be in the Army. We just attacked Japan.’”

surrounding him and be glad he lived where he did. Ralph embraced life like almost no one else I’ve ever known. He loved this valley. He loved the outdoors. He loved the mountains. He lived his life fully until at 90, he died last October after a battle with melanoma. Some battles you can’t win. Ralph had donated some of his old 10th Mountain Division ski gear and photos to the Ullrhof restaurant’s tribute to the ski troops. My favorite was a photo of him, young and brash, sporting glacier

After graduation, Ralph ended up at Fort Lewis in Washington, where the newly-formed ski troops were full of familiar faces: young men Ralph knew from the ski racing circuit of Northeastern colleges. He was part of an amphibious assault to reclaim the remote Aleutian island of Kiska. In Italy, he was assigned to the signal corps, running dangerous nighttime Jeep runs, headlights out. He counted himself lucky. He saw little enemy fire and never fired a shot. Stationed at Camp Hale near Leadville, Ralph had fallen in love

glasses, looking into the mountains. He was known as Gus then,

with Colorado and came back to work as an attorney. He left Denver

and his old friends still called him that to his death.

for Aspen, a town he never stopped loving. Ralph loved the music

Several years ago, I asked Ralph to tell me about his 10th

festival, the Aspen Chapel, hiking around Maroon Lake and skiing

Mountain Division days. He opened up to me over pulling weeds,

Snowmass. He would visit these spots year after year, knowing each

then opened up his photo album from his days at Camp Hale

time could be his last.

and Italy. “If I were to die tonight, I wouldn’t say I’ve been gypped,” he told me then.

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Ralph Williams Ball ’36 P’74 G’09

It was never a somber experience. Ralph cherished the life he had lived, and taught me to do the same. These mountains he loved won’t be the same without him. ♦♦

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Donald Byerly. “When my wife Kathryn and I were both sick at the same time, we decided it was time to move into the Hickman, a retirement home, where we have lived since February 1999, with meals and housekeeping provided. Our older daughter, Margaret, retired as a literacy specialist in Maine schools, devoting her active hours to helping under-achieving students to improve the balance between the left and right parts of the brain. Son Christopher, having moved with wife Ann to Bloomsburg PA, has given up jewelry making and spends much time painting (in oils) and maintaining their historic house. Daughter Ann, now married, still plays flute and saxophone, but her primary interest is the double bass, her trio, and the old-time band of a dozen or more members that she directs and in both of which she plays. We used to visit our children, but as we age, they visit us instead. My main contribution to the life of our retirement home for the past ten years has been as scribe for our Legislative Committee, gathering the varying ideas of its eight or so members in coherent, approvable prose. This ultimately became the basis of our reports to our state government in Harrisburg on legislation it had proposed concerning organizations caring for the elderly. Kathryn, meanwhile, was teaching English to some of our foreign-born staff members, which allowed

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two of them to become US citizens. We were pictured on the cover of the 2004 annual report, with a description of what we had done. More recently, as ou strengths and abilities diminish, we have done less, but happily live on. As a one-year Deerfield student coming from education in the American Community School in Beirut, Lebanon, I felt largely a fish out of water, though I played soccer, basketball, and track, sang in the Glee Club and the Gondoliers, and passed all my courses. In retrospect, I am very grateful for Deerfield’s acceptance of me during that time and for helping me to adjust from my different, though still American, culture.” Pidge Dowley reports that with a good deal of planning and help he was able to take his wife, Marnie, to her 70th Vassar reunion in June. A driver, private room and bath, and all meals at the Vassar Alumnae House made it work. Golf carts provided transportation to the events. “Marnie wished to go but there’s no question, however, that that was our last trip.” “Thank you for identifying the old-time athletes mentioned in my recent ’36 class notes,” Myron Hager writes. “But there is need for one correction: I don’t know how you could have known, but from among the many Deerfield Rays, ‘Mutt’, the prominent football back, was Carl Ray ’33. ’Mutt’ later became widely known as the All American-caliber center

on Dartmouth’s powerhouse gridiron club of the mid-30s.” George F. Markham Jr., 93, died on November 23, 2009, at his home in Oconomowoc, WI. He was the son of the late George F. Markham Sr. and Ruby Chandler Markham. He was predeceased by his wife, Marianne “Biddy” Elser; a daughter, Virginia Chandler Markham; a son, George Andrew Markham; and a sister, Virginia Markham Harbour. George was born and raised in Oconomowoc, with memories of the days when farmers plowed with horses and local foxhunters were once called upon to track down a marauding wolf. In addition to Deerfield he attended First Summit School, Milwaukee Country Day School, and the University of Virginia. George left college to join the US Navy to train as a naval aviator. He was assigned to the Pacific Theater, flew in the critical battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, and was sunk off the carriers USS Yorktown and USS Lexington. As the war was coming to a close, he was assigned to flying with failing pilots and giving them one last chance to prove themselves. He retired with the rank of lieutenant commander. As a young man, he excelled at horseback riding, track and field events, ice-skating, and ski jumping. George had an abiding love of history. He was a collector of Civil War books, artifacts, maps, and other memorabilia, and assembled one of the finest private collections in

Wisconsin. He donated this collection of more than 3000 volumes to the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond in 1992. He was an avid golfer for most of his life and president of the Oconomowoc Golf Club from 19551960. He enjoyed watching any sport, but especially golf and his beloved Green Bay Packers. George was an avid Rotarian for more than 55 years and twice served as district governor. He is survived by his beloved wife of 14 wonderful years, Virginia Burbage Markham; a brother, John Grigsby Markham; a daughter, Beth Markham Nicholson and her husband, Philip, of Boulder, CO; and by three granddaughters, Virginia Nicholson of New York City, Noelle Nicholson of Boulder, and Melina Willinger of Humansville, MS. He has three great-grandchildren: Savannah, Naomi, and Liam Markham Willinger. He is also survived by his stepchildren: Kirk, Keith, and Chad Burbage, and Patrice Burbage Lehmann; as well as three step-grandchildren: Ginny, John Charles, and Ian. When we last heard from William Peloskey he wrote, “Just got back from two trips, one to Washington, DC, visiting mostly WWII monuments, and the other to a grand-niece’s wedding in Norfolk, VA. Ellie and I plan to attend the annual local holiday gathering at Deerfield. We still enjoy good health.” Howard Smith reports that all goes well. He keeps

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Basketball stands, 1945-46

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work as well as we’d like, we have no reason to complain. We gave up our winter refuge in the Florida Keys after 25 years, to return fulltime to MI. Our family wanted us closer, we found keeping two homes arduous, and I wanted to be closer to my dentist!”

1937 Paul Eckley reported, “This morning I read an email from Deerfield about being online. I wanted to thank those that forwarded so much information online; I really enjoyed it. I am residing at Regency Oaks, a retirement campus in Clearwater, FL. There are two five-story buildings housing about 500 people all on the up side of 75 years of age, and all enjoying the good life. One of my very good friends here is John ‘Pete’ Peterson ’32. Pete is also in his nineties and in failing health, and since he does not have access to a computer, I wheeled him to my apartment one day and sat him down in front of my computer and dialed up Google Earth for him to see an upto-date aerial of the Deerfield campus and Main Street. He was so excited to see all the growth, particularly the playing fields. I will have to get him back here again to see the virtual tour of the campus that is on your website that shows all the dorms, etc. Thanks for the few moments of academia that I experienced this morning.” James Fowle wrote, “What could be ‘noteworthy’ from

a ’37 hanger-on after our century closed up on us a few years ago? I tried email but found that I hit keys twice or not at all—digital dysfunction, I have to admit. While multitasking gains currency, I stick to single-tasking (aka monotasking) as urged, I’ve heard, in a Mesopotamian cuneiform inscription, which is translated as ‘Do one thing at a time.’ Yet many an erstwhile ‘one thing,’ such as getting out of bed, is now (for us hangers-on) a series of distinct sub-actions that must be done in the right order or else! Still able to live alone where neighborhood, house, yard, and views are rich in immediate realities as well as memories and the vegetable garden is faithful in produce. Ticket is in hand to go, as for 20-odd years past, to Siracusa, Sicily, in January and to return in May.” Donald Reuter commented, “Nothing new with us…trying to master my computer. Amazing story—that I go to bed at night and wake up each morning. Profession: retired from law practice many years ago, about 30. But life on a beautiful lake is fantastic, even if I don’t swim, fish, canoe, or windsurf any more. Have many visits from our four children, 13 grands, and two ‘greats’. After many years of activity, I no longer play tennis, golf, ski, bike, or hike. One worry is all the chatter about the booming gas ‘scare’ in PA and NY that could louse up this paradise! My two years at Deerfield will always remain as one of the highlights in my life.”

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reasonably fit with a lot of golf and workouts in the spa. Traveling is rather limited, save to attend the marriages of his wife Bobbie’s grandchildren. He says that living in Tides Point on Hilton Head Island is very compatible and fun, and adds that his second marriage (to Bobbie) is “just wonderful”—he doesn’t know how he got so lucky. Win Todd wrote to Pidge Dowley: “Having been a history major at Williams, I tend toward instances of significance in that area, and lord knows our generation has experienced no shortage of those. But here’s one that is, in my judgment, unique. My business required foreign travel, particularly in the Far East. In 1983 Mary Lou and I made our first trip to China, and driving into Beijing from the airport we encountered increasing hordes of Chinese in their GI blue (Maoist) tunics on bicycles. When we got to the center of the city, there were thousands—an astonishing site in itself—but when we emerged from our minibus, we were dumbfounded to step into a complete silence. Except for a low whirring noise, a complete, enormous silence. We didn’t know it at the time, but this will not be experienced again by anyone, for China was on the cusp of the enormous changes we have all seen—the automobile and the arrival of another age— witness the Beijing Olympics. It was a tipping point and we ‘heard’ it!” Win continued, “We are chugging along, and except for knees that don’t

“Boys must be busy.”

Snowbuilding, 1949-1950

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’40 l to r: David Bradley, Bill Lane, and Bill Erskine ’39 had a great time at a Deerfield reception at the Weston Golf Club, which was hosted by Dave and his wife Barbara.

1938 Brandon Caswell reports, “A book about my life entitled The Fiddlerman is being published by Author House. Every detail of my life is included: my time at Deerfield, then time spent in the Pacific on a destroyer for the Navy during WWII. That is followed by a career as country music fiddler, a period where I was a skid row derelict, followed by recovery and success in the real estate business, to my present retirement.” As reported in an article published on bates.edu, T. Hedley Reynolds, known for nearly three decades of transformational leadership at two Maine educational institutions, died on September 22, 2009, at his home in Newcastle, ME, after a long illness. He was 88 years old. Hedley served as president of Bates College from 1967 through 1989, and as president of the University of New England from 1990 to 1995. Born on November 23, 1920, in New York, the son of

Wallace and Helen (Hedley) Reynolds, Hedley attended The Browning School in New York City prior to Deerfield. In 1942 he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science at Williams College. With America embroiled in WWII, Hedley enlisted in the US Army and served as a unit commander in a tank battalion that fought in North Africa and Italy. He earned the Army’s Bronze Star and the French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star. After the war, Hedley earned a master’s degree in 1947 and a doctorate in history in 1953, both from Columbia University. After teaching at Hunter College and serving as staff historian for the American Red Cross in Washington, DC, Hedley joined the history faculty at Middlebury College in 1949. He remained at Middlebury for 18 years, becoming head of the history department and dean of men in 1957, and dean of the college seven years later. Hedley became Bates’ fifth president in January 1967.

John Andrews reports, “After serving in WWII, I had a career in medicine: anesthesia, general practice, and obstetrics, during which I delivered about 900 babies, including three of my own! Received a pilot’s license in 1968, and also sing in a barbershop chorus and quartet.”

night. After graduating from Rutgers University School of Law, George continued to work for INCO in NYC as a patent attorney. In 1989, after retiring, he moved to Tellico Village with his wife, Marcene Shipe Ziegler. He is survived by Marcene, his wife of 55 years, a daughter, son, daughter-inlaw, and grandson.

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Class Captains David H. Bradley William C. Lane Robert Carlisle died in Chatham, MA, on November 19, 2009. Robert had a diversified career in the media, served in the Army twice, found time to sit on not-for-profit boards for an aggregate of more than 50 years and, on leaving his job at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in March 1973, moved on to write a series of more than 28 books, government texts, and narrative poems. George Nesbitt Ziegler, age 86, of Tellico Village, Loudon, TN passed away on February 9, 2009. Born on May 9, 1922, George spent most of his life in Illinois before his family moved to Massachusetts and he graduated from Deerfield. During WWII, George was a pilot of P51s for the US Army Air Corps. After the war, he graduated with a degree in engineering from MIT. George worked as a metallurgical engineer for the International Nickel Company, and attended law school at

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The Alumni Office was recently informed that Buck Hollaman passed away on November 3, 2009. He was incorrectly reported as suffering from Alzheimer’s in a past issue of Deerfield Magazine; in fact, he suffered from Parkinson’s. The magazine apologizes for this error. His wife Sally reports that he had “many, many fond Deerfield memories.” Buck served in the Army during WWII as a first lieutenant, field artillery, during the Battle of the Bulge, and was awarded a Purple Heart. He was a long-time board member and past board president and chairman of the East Side House Settlement in Bronx, NY. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, sons, a daughter, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren. Bayley Buchanan reports, “News is scarce these days— I heard from Art Christy that he is alive but Bucky Hollaman has passed away. My wife Agnes is fading due to Alzheimer’s disease and my health is failing under Parkinson’s. I regret not

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’43 Henri Salaun (front), 2007 being able to collect class notes after 13 years. Maybe some other class agent can collect cheerful news.” “Although now pretty much confined to a wheelchair, I did, thanks to my son Rhett as chauffer of my car (2008 BMW 750LI with ‘Amherst’ plate), manage to attend Reunion weekend,” wrote Waldo Dodge when we last heard from him. He added, “The food and program were very good.” C. William Drake, who passed away on September 18, 2000, was recently interred in Arlington National Cemetery due to his WWII service as an ace pilot. William was also a recipient of the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross, and Air Medal.

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Class Captains Theodore F. T. Crolius William W. Dunn Andrew Hunter writes, “This year I’ve had two knee replacements—successful as of today. I promise I’ll write again before my 90th!”

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Class Captain Walter L. Fisher The Alumni Office recently learned of the passing of two classmates: W. Eugene Geier on November 23, 2009, and Richard Hornbeck on November 6, 2008. Alan Davis Mitchell, beloved Alameda, CA, pediatrician, passed away peacefully at age 84 on November 17, 2009. He died at home with his wife of 58 years and

family members by his side. Alan was born December 22, 1924 in Manchester, NH, to Ralph and Emma Mitchell. He was raised in Kennebunkport, ME. After Deerfield he graduated from Williams College and Boston University School of Medicine. During medical school he met, and later married, the love of his life, Dr. Dorothy Tucker. Alan proudly served in the US Navy during World War II and the US Air Force during the Korean War. He will be deeply missed by his sons, Alan Jr., Douglas (Deborah), and George, and by his grandchildren: Alan III, Arthur, Stephen, Taylor, Hunter, Maureen, Morgan, and Madison. An active member of the community, Dr. Alan served as president of the medical staff of Alameda Hospital and Children’s Hospital; was

founder of Alameda Meals on Wheels; president of the Alameda Kiwanis Club; Alameda Commuters historian; First Presbyterian Church elder; Founder of the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at Children’s Hospital; and was a member of the Alameda library and hospital boards. Alan received the 1978 Bronze Bambino for his dedication and devotion to Children’s Hospital, was honored as grand marshal of the 1995 Alameda Fourth of July Parade, and was Alameda County Community Hero in 2004. Henri Salaun sent in a “salute” to Henry Poor ’35, who died this past fall. “As a French émigré who came to the United States in the early days of World War II, coming to Deerfield and meeting Henry Poor, who became my mentor in many ways, was

stani player Hashim Khan, winning four US nationals and six Canadian nationals, and being ranked number one 30 times through the age brackets. Only rotator cuff surgery now inhibits competitive squash and tennis. I have been president of the MA Squash Racquets Association, director and life member of the US Squash Association, represented the Bancroft Racquet Company, General Sportcraft, and with a partner, owned and operated several indoor tennis complexes in Eastern MA, before establishing my own sporting goods company, Henri Salaun Sports, based in Portsmouth, NH. For all of this, it was Henry Poor who made it possible. I am sure there are many other sons of Deerfield who would echo my sentiments and gratitude.” James Christie Shields, former English teacher and department head at Collegiate School, died on September 20, 2009 at Riddle Hospital in Media, PA. James was the son of Presbyterian missionaries. He was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, grew up in Khartoum, the Sudan, and went to school at the Schutz American School in Alexandria and Assiut, Egypt. He returned to the US in 1942, and after Deerfield, he joined the US Naval Reserves for the duration of World War II. He served as a hospital corpsman with the US Marine Third Division in the Pacific Theater, taking part in the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns and the Guam

battle aftermath. Honorably discharged in 1946, he went on to earn a BS degree from Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL, and then worked as a news reporter for the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. He also earned an MA from the University of Pittsburgh, and studied at Yale University for three years. He held the post of instructor in English for two years at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, and for six years at Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT. In 1963, James joined the English Department of Collegiate School in New York City. Two years later, he took a leave of absence to become the associate director of professional and public education for the New York City division of the American Cancer Society. He returned to Collegiate in 1968. In addition to teaching, he became faculty advisor for student publications and director of curriculum and chairman of the Curriculum Committee. 1n 1971 he was named head of the English Department, a position he held for the next 18 years, stepping down in 1989 and retiring in 1991 after 25 years of service to the school. In 1987, Mr. Shields was one of 30 teachers named by Pomona College as among the most outstanding teachers in the US. In 1988, his alma mater (Monmouth College) conferred on him the degree of doctor of humane letters for his distinguished career as a teacher. In that same year, Collegiate School awarded him the prestigious

title of Adam Roelantsen Fellow. Since his retirement, James had been studying and writing in the field of Egyptology. “Happily retired from a fine 30-year career with the CIA and enjoying an active life in the beautiful Pioneer Valley of western MA,” Edward Toole reports. “Occasional walks in Historic Deerfield stimulate warm memories of academy days.”

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an encouraging first step into a rewarding life for me. I am most grateful. He has long deserved the credit for what he gave me and many other Deerfield students. My mother and I were able to flee from France to England on a French minesweeper, thanks to the sponsorship of a Boston lawyer who had served in the World War I Ambulance Corps with my grandfather. Anyone fleeing Europe had to be sponsored—either by friends or organizations. My mother and I stayed in London for several days and then sailed to Halifax, Canada, and went by train to Boston, where my mother secured a position at the French Consulate. I went to the movies by day to learn English. Shortly after our arrival, I went to live with a relative of the late Richard Bigelow ’30, who decided Deerfield was for me, as did Mr. Boyden. My best coach at Deerfield was Henry Poor, the tennis coach, who introduced me to the game of squash; it turned out to be the game for me. In two weeks time, I was the best player on the team. With Henry Poor’s tutelage and encouragement, even as time went by and I had entered Wesleyan University and soon after was drafted into the army, he was always there with advice. By his help, I was able to establish a national and international reputation as a top-ranked squash and tennis player, winning the first US Open Squash Tournament, defeating the celebrated Paki-

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Class Captain Robert S. Erskine Jr. John Clapp writes, “We live at The Landings on Skidaway Island, Savannah, GA. Our club membership includes six championship golf courses, a large fitness center, 34 tennis courts, two marinas, and 30 miles of walking trails. Tough life! Mary and I are both hale and hearty, each play golf three times a week. We are founders of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church where Mary is junior warden and I am a chorister and Sunday school teacher. The church has been the focus of our retirement, Mary having been its first treasurer and an important member of the design and building committees. My labor of love was chairing the group that provided St. Peter’s with a magnificent, almost 3000pipe organ. We continue to be blessed with good health and vigor. We are in our 62nd year of marriage, good friends, and still in love.”

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1945 Barrett Emmert wrote, “Last year’s journey to New Zealand and Australia is the most recent, long distance travel for the Emmerts. The aboriginal forbears and unique wildlife of the antipodes were of great fascination, while cities and their current incumbents were too similar to us and ours to rank with earlier, more humbling Asiatic destinations. On the other hand, their lamb chops and grape juice, red and white, evoked our enthusiastic endorsement. Short trips to North Carolina’s cooling western mountains and to its eastern Outer Banks have sufficed to feed our wanderlust. Your deponent has had limited mobility due to two back surgeries, the latter having fused three vertebrae with a generous helping of titanium. Pain gone, but muscular stiffness and soreness remain, limiting outdoor strolling. Last year’s family addition, a Blue Merle Sheltie called Bellamy, continues to draw rations; but leaves each room I enter, and refuses my efforts to touch him. His total devotion is lavished on wife Gerry, to whom he responds without hesitation to her slightest command. All the best to you of ‘45.” “All is relatively well in Sandy Spring, MD, with Peggy and me,” reports John Fogarty. “A recent trip to the eye doctor for new glasses ended up with me scheduling surgery for a cataract in my

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right eye. After a few surprisingly ‘bumpy’ days the eye is better and we look forward to a healthy 2010.” David Gredler reports that he has completed a book of haiku and tanka poetry—a project he worked on while ill, during which he learned and appreciated much about the medical world’s expertise. He has also finished an anthology of the melodies he composed to accompany poetry of the ages. When we last heard from him, Raymond King wrote, “I’m preparing, with my family, a recording of me singing old songs. It should be ready late December of ‘09. Happy Holidays!” M. Cass Lightner wrote, “I’m sure that I am last in line, but next spring I will become a great-grandfather.”

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Class Captain Gordon B. McWilliams Robert Demuth passed away on February 15, 2009 at home. He graduated from Deerfield, Yale, and HBS, and served in the Air Force prior to a career in finance. Hugh Patrick writes, “I continue to work full time as director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School because it is fun, intellectually stimulating, and involves me with a range of academic, business, and professional people, and enables me to make trips to Asia several times a year. I am lucky to be in good health,

have reasonable energy, and still have lots to learn. It’s a good life.”

1948 Laird Barber reports, “Two good trips abroad this year: one to Australia in March— saw all the big cities except Melbourne; two long, luxurious train rides to Ayers Rock, the other to Lucca, Italy this fall. Lucca’s old city is surrounded by walls (walkable on top) and has fine churches and good restaurants.”

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Class Captain Addison P. Cook III Harvey B. Loomis George Bass comments, “I am still working at our farm, The Country Hen, which produces organic eggs. We were the first big organic egg producer in the US.”

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Class Captain David B. Findlay Jr. In a note that we neglected to include in the last issue of Deerfield Magazine, Don Grosset wrote, “This past January ’09, John Bell ’51 and I fished the fabled Carrileufu River in the Patagonia Andes region of Argentina. The fly fishing for exceptionally large brook, brown, and rainbow trout in the crystal-clear river was superb; the Andean scenery, reminiscent of Glacier National Park, was spectacular; and the excellent Carrileufu Valley Lodge was

all that arm-weary fishermen could want at the end of fish-filled days. We finished up strong each evening with some of Argentina’s great Malbec and Torrontes wines. For classmates who enjoy casting flies, this is a destination not to be missed.” “I attended the June ’09 reunion…no other ’50 classmate was there,” says Edgar Parker. “However, the Class of ’49 who were celebrating their 60th let me join them; I had a great time. Soccer goalie Bob Rosenman’49 informed me that he was not in goal when Taft scored the only goal against them on the last game of the season. John McPhee ’49 insisted that all the geology he ever knew came from ‘Rocks’ Conklin. John Beard ’49 reviewed his no-hitter against Mount Hermon at the end of the school year and how Mr. Boyden parlayed it into his acceptance at Williams. I hope all the members of ’50 who are in good health come to our 60th. You will have as good a time as the Class of ’49 did!” Richard Shelley writes, “Living a quiet, unencumbered life in small town America (New Bern, NC), enjoying being near the ocean and travelling frequently. Have visited Deerfield twice in recent years and I’m amazed at its growth and improvements—still one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Deerfield: still a very real and alive part of me. How blessed I was to have attended!” Sherwood Harris died on

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September 7, 2009. He was born in New York City, and spent his early years on the eastern shore of Maryland, where his grandfather was a Chesapeake Bay waterman and then in Beaufort, SC, where his father owned The Harris Crab Company. After Deerfield he graduated from Princeton University; Sherwood and Lorna Briggs were married prior to his senior year there. He also graduated from the Navy Officers’ Training School in Newport, RI, and the Navy’s Flight School in Pensacola, FL. On active duty, he flew as a bomber carrier pilot on the USS Roosevelt and other carriers. He continued flying in the Naval Reserve for 17 more years, retiring as a commander. He also taught flying privately and wrote extensively about the subject. Sherwood formed and headed Harris Associates, which contracted with TimeLife Books to produce and publish several books annually. Previously, he had been with The Readers’ Digest, the

US Information Agency as deputy editor of the Russian and Polish language editions of the magazine Amerika. He began his career with The Saturday Evening Post and did extensive freelance work for numerous publications. He and his family lived briefly in Philadelphia, then Alexandria, VA, until moving to Westchester County, NY, when he joined The Readers’ Digest. He returned to the Washington area in mid-1994 where he worked for the Washington National Cathedral as publications manager and editor of the quarterly magazine. Sherwood’s published works include: The First to Fly: Aviation Pioneer Days (1970); Great Flying Adventures (1973); The Teacher’s Almanac with Lorna Harris (1986-87); Mastering Instrument Flying with Henry Solomon (1989); Where and How to Look It Up (NY Public Library 1991); Mastering GPS Flying with Phil Dixon (2005). He is survived by his second wife, Elizabeth, son Michael Harris, daughters

clockwise: Ted Rowe ’52, Betsy Rowe, and Dick Boyden ’52 had a great time catching up at a recent Deerfield reception in Weston, MA. A recent photo of Judy and John Herdeg, relaxing at home. Al Hobart ’55 enjoying a run at Mad River Glen.

Sue Wilkinson and Kathy Harris, all of New York, and stepdaughter Lela Shiver of Oxford. He also leaves eight grandchildren and two step-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife Lorna and their daughter Maggie Miner. At Deerfield, Sherwood served as a class agent and Bicentennial homecoming captain; during his school years Sherwood served as president of his class.

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Class Captain John R. Allen “Coach Jim Smith and I have put the golf clubs away for this year,” commented Victor Russo when we last heard from him. “His drives are getting a little shorter, but he keeps on swinging! Just got back from CO and Thanksgiving with our daughter and getting ready for the holidays, and down to FL in January. Happy holidays to all . . .” Jon Stufflebeem noted, “I am in my second year of membership on the Board of Directors of the Galapagos Conservancy (galapagos. org). Currently, I serve as treasurer and chair of the Finance Committee. The Conservancy is a US NGO dedicated to preserving the

ecology of the Galapagos Archipelago. These islands, some 60 miles off the coast of Ecuador, are part of Ecuador. We work with agencies of the government of Ecuador and other organizations who are active in the islands, principally the Charles Darwin Foundation. The principal problems facing the Galapagos are excess tourism and excess immigration. These activities disturb the habitat of the animals and the vegetation. For more on what we are doing visit our website.”

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Class Captains Richard F. Boyden Renwick D. Dimond

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Class Captains Philip R. Chase Jr. Hugh Smith David Foster says, “Susan and I are enjoying Hilton Head full time. Occasional trips back to NJ and we love living in one place. I’m feeling great after my wonderful son Scott ’89 donated a kidney to me two years ago. Since I am still on the rolls, I would like to propose him as an honorary member of ’53 since his kidney makes my participation possible!”

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’55 top, clockwise: Tim Day ’55 (right) and Marine Corps Commandant General James T. Conway at the Semper Fidelis Memorial Chapel Dedication on October 22, 2009. Mr. Day was a multi-million dollar supporter of the project.

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Class Captains Philip R. Chase Jr. Whitney Evans wrote, “Just finishing a very rewarding three years as president of the Sonoma Valley Fund, our local community foundation. The fund partnered with 12 local nonprofits to promote legacy giving.”

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Class Agent Michael D. Grant Jr. The Alumni Office received the following notice: “Timothy T. Day, chairman and CEO of Bar-S Foods Company and former Marine captain, has donated $5 million to the construction of the Semper Fidelis Memorial Chapel at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. The chapel opened just in time to celebrate the 234th National Birthday of the Marine Corps on November 10. The nondenominational chapel, located in Semper Fidelis Memorial Park, will serve as a contemplative space where Marines and all visitors can remem-

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ber the service and sacrifices of those who have served our nation. ‘I have always been very proud of my service as a Marine,’ Day said. ‘My wife Sandy and I are honored to have been able to assist the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation fulfill its mission of preserving the history, traditions, and culture of the Marine Corps.’ Designed by Denver-based Fentress Architects, architects of The National Museum of the Marine Corps., the chapel’s structure evokes images of improvised field chapels familiar to all combat Marines. The timber, glass, and stone structure includes an eight-foot etched glass iconic image of a Marine kneeling in prayer, and a reflecting pool. The chapel is adjacent to the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Semper Fidelis Memorial Park. The National Museum has welcomed more than 1.5 million visitors since opening three years ago. The addtion of the chapel in Semper Fidelis Memorial Park continues the expansion of the Marine Corps Heritage

Center. The park is situated on 23.2 acres of high ground and plays an important part in the museum visitor’s experience. Highlights of the reflective dedication ceremony included a Navy bell ringing ceremony with students of the Marine Corps University, and the playing of Taps by a Marine Corps Band bugler followed by a 21-gun salute. Rear Admiral Mark L. Tidd, chaplain of the Marine Corps, provided the benediction and a ribbon cutting officially opened the chapel to the public. ‘It is my belief that as our Semper Fidelis Memorial Chapel takes its place within this Marine Corps Heritage Center, it will soon serve as a welcoming sanctuary, a place of remembrance and reflection to all Marines, past and present,’ said Lieutenant General Ron Christmas, president and CEO of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.” “I thought we would never do it: buy a place in Florida,” wrote Bradford Frost. “Riverwood is in Port Charlotte. We enjoy company with Jerry Tipper, two houses

away. A new hip this year, another in January will keep me off the tennis court for six more months. For those who come to MT, we are dividing our time between Bozeman and FL about 50/50—anyone nearby give us a call.” Louis Greer reports, “Peter Esty and I were elected class officers of the Amherst Class of 1959, Peter as president and me as class secretary. Since my marriage in CA last September (which Peter and my brother Phil ’53 attended), Dee and I have been doing a lot of traveling. I ran the high school lacrosse championship tournament of SC, my swan song as I have just retired as an active official. I am also a member of the advisory board of the Greenville Technical College Business Department, hopefully lending some of the expertise I have accumulated over 45 plus years in business.” Tom L’Esperance reported: “Don Jenkins is well and resides in Bronxville, NY, nowadays. Don is the proud parent of three sons who all graduated from Deerfield!

John is a ‘self-employed’ lawyer and allocates his time as he wishes while enjoying the four seasons in their 18th century house in Mendenhall, PA. Wayne Fillback is enjoying retirement in Andover, MA, and the company of Mary Ellen, his wife of 45 years, and four grandsons who live nearby. They live in a house that was built in 1840 and its upkeep has become a persistent hobby. Wayne also keeps active as a Massachusetts Track and Field official and works about 30 high school meets indoors in the winter and quite a few in the spring. He also plays the guitar, and perhaps we’ll hear some good guitar pickin’ between him and Brady Coleman at our 55th Reunion. Lenny Holzer has survived pretty much all the hi-jinks that Manhattan has to offer. He ‘shifted course in midstream’ about 20 years ago and is now a practicing psychotherapist and psychologist and engages in crisis intervention work. Bill (Wheldon) Jenkins lives ‘downeast’ on the coast in Maine with his wife, Julie. He is another member of the Married 45 Years Club. Bill, who loves boating, worked many years as the purchasing agent for The Henry R. Hinkley (Yacht) Company. Henry’s sons, Bob Hinckley ’54, and Bud Hinkley were former presidents of the company. Spike Hamilton lives in East Dummerston, VT, and shares the same phone book with Moose Morton who lives just ‘over

the hill’ in Stratton. They’re right in the middle of ski country. Doug lost his wife Susan in April, and now lives with his two dogs on ten acres in his self-built house, which is accessed via a twomile dirt road. Albie Smith is his brother-in-law. Spike’s son, Douglas ’85, also graduated from Deerfield. Spike still works two days a week in town as a property tax assessor, which he says ‘keeps me out of trouble.’” Bruce McEwan writes, “I greatly miss my good friend and classmate, Bob Darling, who passed away on October 20, 2009. We had some great times over the last 15 or so years in FL, at Gators football games, in RI, Cape Cod, etc. I still stay in touch with Terry Fuller, Ted Robinson, and some others and hope we all get together at our 55th Reunion next June. I will be there for sure.” On October 18, 2009 Joseph Verner Reed was honored with a Roots of Peace Global Citizen Award at the Roots of Peace “Harvest of Hope” dinner in Greenwich, CT. Ambassador Reed served as ambassador to Morocco, representative of the US to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations as deputy permanent representative of the United States Mission, under-secretary-general of the United Nations for Political and General Assembly Affairs, and as chief of protocol under the first President Bush. In 1992, UN Secretary-General Dr. Boutros-Ghali appointed

Ambassador Reed under-secretary-general of the United Nations; in January 2005 and February 2007 Ambassador Reed was reappointed by both Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Secretary General BAN Ki-moon as under-secretary-general and special advisor. He continues to serve in the distinguished “Parliament of Man.” “Peg and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in October,” reported Albert Smith. “Time flies when you’re having fun. We are very proud of our five grandchildren, who seem to keep us busy (active) in following their many activities. Now in my fourth year as senior vice president for Institutional Advancement at Husson University.”

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He stays fit by playing tennis and basketball and by maintaining a healthy diet. Don enjoys preparing his own meals and advises us to never eat anything out of a can. Al Hobart happily engages fulltime in nature’s splendor where he lives amidst the Green Mountains of Vermont near the Mad River Glen Ski Resort. Al and Janie have run into Essie Esselstyn and Mike Mayor on occasions, up there in the North Country. Al and Janie have two playmates, grandchildren Ethan and Lydia, who live nearby. And we agree that re-reading Pocumtuck Revisited, Terry Blanchard’s masterful compendium of our 50th Class Reunion bios, is still very ‘interesting and moving’. Tom Hindle was waging a bout with pneumonia when we chatted at his home in Gardner, MA. He was being very well attended to by his wife Deenie, a retired nurse. Tom said that we’ll particularly relate to the articles ‘Boyden’s Girls’ and ‘A Life Well Lived’ about Dick McKelvey in the fall issue of Deerfield Magazine. Tom was very close to Dick and their children grew up together. John Herdeg says of our last 54 years: ‘Time passes by too quickly when you’re having fun!’ Judy and John have lots of fun sharing their interests and visions with friends, especially in American fine arts and old architecture. John serves on the board of Historic Deerfield. They’re now heavily into outdoor landscaping and gardening.

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Class Captain Joseph B. Twichell Peter Ness and Carolyn Savage attended a gracious memorial service for Bill Tripp on November 12, 2009 at the Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, MA. Bill had been active in the Episcopal community in Boston, and the bishop of Massachusetts spoke of his many contributions toward helping children in the community. Jim Tripp ’57 recounted the cross country race Bill’s senior year on Choate Day, when Bill lost a racing shoe early, did not stop, and finished the race in his usual determined and successful way. At the

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evening meeting, Mr. Boyden noted that Bill had “finished up strong.” Peter added, “We communicated to Bobbi Tripp the condolences from all his Deerfield classmates.” Joe Twichell wrote, “It is with great sadness that we report the deaths of Herb Maurer and Bill Tripp. Dennis Furbush continues his exploration of industrial archaeological sites and canal cruising. Hans Wurster and his wife MJ usually row in the Head of the Charles Regatta each fall but went “down under” this year to row in Australia and camp in New Zealand. “The New Zealand experience was great,” Hans reported. “The place is one huge self-sufficient farm. If they develop a good electric car, New Zealand can remove itself from the rest of the world completely. We were glad not to be at the Charles this year. Several people in our age groups developed hypothermia. Let’s hope for a warmer 2010!” Charlie Weymouth has continued his “military” exploits, returning to the beaches of Normandy and beyond. “To gaze across the cemeteries and realize that those graves represented boys the same as we were when we graduated from Deerfield, and to know that they never had the chance at life given to us, through their sacrifice, was very sobering,” he commented.

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1957 Kirk Knight wrote, “I’ve been out of touch with all my old Class of ’57 classmates for the last quarter century since I was struck with a massive stroke in December of 1984. My two kids were ages one and three when it happened. Fast forward to 2009. My 28-year-old son Rodney graduated from Duke University and just earned his MBA from Stanford. My 25-year-old daughter Kristina graduated from Brown University and has a budding career in theatre playwriting. I may be moving to Maui soon.”

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Class Captains John H. Hayward Jr. Jeremy Jones Erwin Miller commented, “Time flies. My last update was in March, 2008. Since then much has happened, including: our 50th Reunion, well attended, substantive and meaningful. Attendance, as a 40th anniversary present to my dear wife Margi, at the Beijing Olympics, including the stunning and unforgettable Opening Ceremony in the ‘Birds Nest.’ A second visit to Mongolia with our guide and friend, Tuvshin. Loss of my mother and subsequent occupancy of her home (next door to ours) by a newly divorced daughter with our four grandchildren (lots of energy there). The worst ice storm in memory to hit Worcester—much damage and no power for a

week. My appointment as the representative of the Massachusetts and Northern New England Boys and Girls Clubs Area Councils to the National Area Council Committee of Boys and Girls Clubs of America in Atlanta, GA.” Hilltop Press of Huddersfield, England, recently published a collection of Steve Sneyd’s poetry entitled Mistaking the Nature of the Posthuman. Fellow poet, journalist, playwright, and broadcaster Ian McMillan has described Steve as “the best science-fiction poet in the land.” Steve’s writing has appeared in well over a thousand magazines and anthologies, on the Internet, and has been broadcast on various radio stations. He has read at many venues, including various festivals, sci-fi conventions, and two planetaria. His many published articles include several on aspects of science fiction poetry and its history, among other topics. Since 1991 he has edited the genre poetry newsletter Data Dump, and has been a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association since its foundation.

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50th Reunion

Reunion Chair Nathaniel F. Emmons David Hirth, a wildlife biologist at the University of Vermont, was quoted in a October 5, 2009 New York Times article regarding the concern of spreading chronic wasting disease in captive elk populations in Vermont.

The full article is available at nytimes.com. Frank Hotchkiss, a newly elected city council member in Santa Barbara, CA, was featured in an article in the Santa Barbara Independent in October of 2009. Go to independent.com and search on “Frank Hotchkiss.”

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Class Captains Jon W. Barker Thomas M. Poor Please send us your news and notes! See page 76.

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Class Captains Howard Coonley II Mark C. Garrison “In early October, on my way down the Connecticut River, I got to spend a few moments with ‘Mr. Morsman.’ (Jay ’55). I am pleased to report that Jay looks good, sounds good, and seems very happy, but then who wouldn’t be happy if they were lucky enough to marry Mimi!” wrote David Morine when we last heard from him. Samuel Rea commented, “Former longtime Deerfield faculty member Robert Perkins and I were among those performing in Nagasaki, Japan in September 2009 with the Harvard Glee Club Alumni Chorus. The concert was part of the city’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of the opening of Japan to

The Last of His Mind Joe Thorndike ’60 | Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2009

Caring for the Last of His Mind | “Dentist appointment;” “Today is Saturday;” “I have eaten breakfast . . .” are just three examples of the hundreds of notes on 3x5 cards that John Thorndike ’60 discovered in his father’s house. “No dates, just hundreds of these cards stuffed into the pockets of his shirts and spilling onto his dining room table. Reading them was like a glimpse into chaos. That’s when I started thinking that someone had to take care of him,” said Mr. Thorndike, who began caring for his father in 2005. For a year, in a house filled with file cabinets, photos, and letters, Mr. Thorndike explored his father’s mind, his parents’ divorce, and his mother’s secrets; he also began keeping a journal, which eventually became the memoir, The Last of His Mind: A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2009). Joe Thorndike was managing editor of Life magazine at the height of its popularity immediately following World War II. He was also the founder of American Heritage and Horizon magazines, the author of three books, and the editor of a dozen more; prior to that, he edited and wrote for the Harvard Crimson while a student at the university. For the majority of his life, words and writing came as naturally to Joe Thorndike as breathing—but towards the end of his life they slipped away from him as Alzheimer’s disease took its toll. In fulfilling the one wish his father had clearly expressed, to not be placed in a nursing home, Mr. Thorndike witnessed firsthand the ravages of Alzheimer’s. The Last of His Mind not only documents Joe Thorndike’s final year, but also John Thorndike’s search for answers regarding his parents’ failed marriage, the details of which had haunted him for years. As Mr. Thorndike cared for his father’s every need, his attempts to learn more about the past were thwarted by Joe Thorndike’s unwillingness or inability to retrieve those memories. Left with a series of increasing quiet, uneventful days, Mr. Thorndike pored through boxes of letters and photographs, watched home movies, and tried to make sense of what happened. But in the end, his need for details was unmet, and ultimately Mr. Thorndike came to accept things as they were—noting that this kind of acceptance was actually one of his father’s defining and honorable traits. From knowing almost nothing about Alzheimer’s to being at his father’s side when his heart stopped beating, The Last of His Mind details the journey of not one but two men—father and son. Henry Shukman, author of The Lost City commented, “The frankness of this haunting memoir is totally disarming. Thorndike addresses the banalities and small tragedies that attend the great event of a lifetime with an unblinking eye. Told in his luminously clear prose, the plain story of the unraveling of a mind and a life find its way into the heart like our own blood. An important, beautiful book.” In December of 2009, The Washington Post chose The Last of His Mind for inclusion in their Best Books of 2009 list. Mr. Thorndike has also written two novels and an earlier memoir, Another Way Home, which explores the onset of his wife’s schizophrenia and the years he spent raising their son alone. Visit johnthorndike.com for excerpts from Mr. Thorndike’s books and additional information. Mr. Thorndike will be on campus this coming June to celebrate his 50th Reunion, and will be featured in a Reunion Program entitled “A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s.”

After a silent confused day, Dad sits down at the dining room table and starts talking as coherently as a year ago. “This president,” he tells me, “has no sense of economic reality.We cannot continue with this trade imbalance. No country can keep this up. No country ever has.” Yet only 90 minutes later he lies in his room with his sweater off and his shirt unbuttoned. He wants me to do something at the foot of the bed, but he can’t remember what it is—or perhaps he can’t put it into words. When I spread his jacket over his chest he jerks his arms and says “No, no, no.” His eyes are wide open, he’s bewildered and afraid, and doesn’t look like my father at all. It hardly seems possible that only a month ago he was living on his own.

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Ken & Bruce ZUCKERMAN

scholars &

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Revolutionary techniques...

the US, Middle East, and Europe, despite objections

Almost everyone has heard the old adage: “A picture

losing control over rare objects.

is worth a thousand words,” which aptly describes

“What the West Semitic Research Project did was

the work of brothers Ken ’63 and Bruce ’65

create a collection of photos of inscriptions that were

Zuckerman. Using revolutionary techniques that

unlike anything that had been done before,” said

they designed, the Zuckermans are literally and

Wayne Pitard, a religion professor at the University of

figuratively shedding new light on ancient artifacts,

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who has collaborated

including a Dead Sea Scroll that discusses a buried

with the brothers. “It’s just astonishing,” he added.

treasure in modern-day Israel, four-thousand-year-

The Zuckermans’ custom-built equipment takes

old tablets, and inscriptions that pre-date the birth of

up two floors of an academic building at USC, and

Jesus by five centuries.

includes “the Twister,” which takes pictures of ancient

Bruce Zuckerman, a University of Southern

The Light Dome creates a composite that allows combinations of light and shadow to show different details of objects.

from some museum curators and scholars who feared

“cylinder seals.” The seals, which have pictures and

California religion professor, founded the West

symbols that once served as a form of personal iden-

Semitic Research Project in the early 80s, when his

tification, are mounted on a turntable and slowly moved

frustration over the poor quality of archaeological

in a circle, while the camera takes shot after shot,

photos boiled over. In an interview conducted by

which are eventually combined into one large image.

Duke Helfand of the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Zuckerman explained, “Museum photographers often missed important details because they lacked

“The picture is better than holding it in your hands,” Bruce Zuckerman said. Other gadgetry includes the Light Dome, which

scholarly expertise. Biblical researchers, meanwhile,

resembles a round scuba helmet and contains 32 light

typically did not have enough experience with pho-

bulbs in addition to space for an artifact. A camera

tography to produce compelling images.” Mr. Zucker-

inside the dome takes pictures from many differ-

man wanted to bridge the gap, and enlisted the help

ent angles, and then a computer program creates a

of his older brother, Ken, a self-taught photographer

composite that “allows you to create combinations

and former Caltech engineer. Together, the brothers

of light and shadow that show you different details

have come up with a remarkable body of machinery

of the objects,” said Marilyn Lundberg, the project’s

and images.

associate director.

Over the last three decades, the USC project has produced thousands of crisp images of inscrip-

The “Gizmo,” a larger version of the dome, features spider-like arms with lights attached to the ends, and

tions and other artifacts from biblical Israel

is still in the experimental stages. But according to

and other Near Eastern countries. In

Duke Helfand, it is only a matter of time before the

addition to their unique technology, the Zuckermans have provided scholars as well as the general public with access

Zuckermans integrate the large piece of equipment into their repertoire. “They are cutting edge,” said Andrew Vaughn,

to their database of photos in an

executive director of the American Schools of Ori-

online archive, InscriptiFact.com.

ental Research at Boston University. “They want to

The Zuckermans brought their new techniques to museums throughout

create a resource to pass on to generations, and that is so vital for what the scholarly society needs.”

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’62 clockwise fom l: Samuel Rea ’62 (left) and former longtime Deerfield

faculty member Robert Perkins were among those performing in Nagasaki, Japan, with the Harvard Glee Club Alumni Chorus this past fall.

Tom Kelly, Ted Zeller, and Doug Abercrombie had a visit during

Ted and Doug’s eighth annual summer motorcycle journey. They visited classmate John Miller’s widow and daughter in Baltimore, MD. l to r: Doug Abercrombie ’62, Susan Miller, Mary Miller, and Ted Zeller ’62

the West. The occasion also offered a chance to reflect on the atomic bomb because the venue was the Urakami Cathedral, which is only 500 meters from the hypocenter of the blast. The current cathedral was built in 1959 to replace the one destroyed in 1944.” Ted Zeller writes, “Doug Abercrombie and I took our eighth annual motorcycle journey this past summer. This year we decided to do more sight seeing and less long-distance traveling, so we pretty much stayed in the East. Outside of the awesome late summer riding, some landmark highlights were the inner harbor in Baltimore, including a Yankees/Orioles game at Camden Yards, a tour of the battlefields in Gettysburg, PA, and a visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. More importantly, we got to have afternoon drinks with John Miller’s widow, Mary, and his daughter, Susan. It was won-

derful to sit down with them and share some memories of John. We also stopped by Housatonic, MA, for a visit with Tom Kelly and his wife, Memrie. Neither of us had seen Tom in probably over 40 years, so it was terrific to do a lot of catching up and to reunite part of the ‘Prize.’ The ninth annual is just around the corner, so any destination suggestions are welcome, and we always welcome riding companions.”

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Class Captains Timothy J. Balch David D. Sicher “Mary and I are spending about half our time in our home in Crested Butte, CO, as I ease out of my law practice in Washington, DC,” Richard Allen reported. “Our third grandson, Calvin Broughton, was born in May and is growing fast in Boulder, CO, with our daughter Amy and her husband, Obie.

The other two boys live in Toronto with our daughter Betsy and her husband, Ian, both lawyers.” At the time Richard added, “Mary and I just returned from a great three-week trip to Turkey with old friends.”

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Class Captains John L. Heath Robert S. Lyle II Jonathan (“Josh”) Rogers Carlisle, 62, of Lewisville, NC, died August 18, 2009 at Forsyth Medical Center, Winston-Salem. NC, of coronary artery disease and multiple organ failure. Jonathan, known throughout his life as “Josh,” was born in New York, NY, on November 17, 1946 to John William and Lee Stephenson Carlisle. He is survived by one sister, Candy Carlisle, and her husband Rich Hamilton of Northampton, MA, his nephew Eric Rasmussen of Francestown, NH, and niece

Lise Simring of Arlington, MA; wife Donna Runner Carlisle, of Lewisville, NC, daughter Sally Carlisle Bodford of Clemmons, NC, and two grandchildren, Kathleen Morris and Jonathan Bodford. In addition to Deerfield, Josh attended The Green Vale School, and graduated in 1969 with a double major in history and journalism from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He had a long and successful career in advertising as a writer, producer, and creative director for agencies including Young & Rubicam, New York and Detroit; McCann Erickson, Los Angeles; Henderson Advertising, Greenville SC; Long, Haymes and Carr, Winston-Salem NC; and Tatum Toomey and Whicker, High Point, NC. Over the course of his advertising career, he won 600 Advertising and Marketing Awards of Excellence, including seven Clios and an Emmy. Later in his life he switched careers to

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left: Frances Meyer, John Meyer ’65, Ed Flickinger ’65,

and Karen Flickinger got together on August 29, 2009, at Blue Ginger in Wellesley, MA. John and Ed reminisced and made plans for the Class of ’65’s 45th Reunion in June of 2010.

become an instructor in the Adult High School, GED program and Get Real program for at-risk youth at Davidson County Community College, in Lexington, NC. He had just begun to enjoy early retirement as of January, 2009. Josh enjoyed writing, composing music on his computer, and studied and taught Chinese martial sciences. He was a beloved teacher to many students, and will be sorely missed as a creative spirit, inspiring teacher, and beloved husband, father, and grandfather.

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Reunion Chair Edward G. Flickinger Ed Flickinger wrote, “David Moyer ’64 and his wife Caroline are vacationing in New England this fall. They are quite the mountain hikers. They spent a recent evening with us here in the Mt.

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Washington Valley. We had lots of fun reminiscing about DA during the mid-60s! Dave practices medicine within the Kaiser Permanente system in Oakland, CA, while I still practice surgery here in NH. We have all the answers to health care reform . . . but don’t know if the President is listening!” “My wife Margaret and I were thrilled by the wedding of daughter Mollie ’95 on September 25, 2009 at Columbia Square in Savannah, GA,” writes Joseph Latham. “Mollie is now Mrs. Jamey Timmerman and continues her career as a mechanical engineer in the Augusta area. She and husband Jamey live in Edgefield, SC, on a plantation occupied by their numerous ferocious dogs. I was re-elected in November 2008 to another ten-year term as Steuben County and family court judge in Steuben County, NY. I am grateful for

all the support and encouragement received from Deerfield classmates during that first election in 1998!” Philip Steppello reports, “I am enjoying my retirement in Ormond Beach, FL. The ever-present sunshine, warm weather, and the scenic ocean are exuberant. My oldest grandson graduated from the University of Florida as a business major. I have nine grandchildren. I met Frank Shorter and Bill Rogers in the Boilermaker road race in Utica, NY. I ran against Frank Shorter from Mount Hermon in a cross-country meet in 1965. Frank went on to win Olympic gold and silver medals in the marathon. He did remember me, and I got him to sign my Deerfield yearbook cross-country picture. What a thrill meeting him and Bill Rogers—the New York Yankees are my favorite baseball team.” “I am on the renal trans-

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HAROLD W. & JAMES C. ’29 SMITH ’67

bankers

Banking on it... In the midst of the Great Depression, when more than 9000 banks had failed, Harold W. Smith ’29 defied the odds by starting a bank. According to an article in the New Haven Register by Angela Carter, Mr. Smith borrowed $25,000 from family and $75,000 from the government to form First Federal Savings of Waterbury; a little over 80 years later, James C. Smith ’67, Harold Smith’s son, sits at the helm of the company now called Webster Financial Corporation, which runs the modern-day First Federal, renamed Webster Bank in honor of his dad. “Dad started the bank at age 24 in our living room at home with Mom,” said Mr. Smith. “He spent his career here thereafter.” Harold Smith served as CEO until 1987 and as chairman of the board until 1995, when First Federal was renamed using his middle name— Webster—to honor him as the founder. James Smith became the bank’s second CEO in 1987 and was subsequently elected chairman when his father retired in 1995. He remains in that position and has been credited with leading the franchise through what has been nicknamed the “Great Recession.” Webster’s stock price was indeed battered by the recession and loans outside of the Connecticut market that were exposed to the subprime lending crisis, but Webster also launched a loan modification program to avoid foreclosures, raised capital through an exchange of common stock, received $400 million under the federal government’s TARP (Trouble Asset Relief Program), and worked out a deal for $115 million from the private equity firm Warbus Pincus in exchange for stock. James Smith commented that his company has more flexibility to offer loan modifications because it kept almost all of its residential loans within its portfolio, instead of selling them off into the secondary mortgage market. He also said, “The job isn’t to figure out what to do when you get weak. It’s to make sure you don’t.” He cited three rules from his father: Remember you’re always in the business of taking risks, never take a risk you can’t afford, and make sure you know the difference between the first two rules. After Harold Smith died in 1997, the Webster banking family ran an advertisement asking what someone who started a bank during the Depression should be called…the answer? “Dad.”

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plant list at University of Washington and hope to volunteer with patients facing dialysis,” says Paul Wodlinger.

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Class Captain David H. Bradley Jr. In a CNYcentral.com article, it was reported that US military veteran and Syracuse University football letter-winner Bill Coghill was honored posthumously with the 2009 Zunic Award on September 4, 2009. This award recognizes friends of SU football who exhibit the courage and spirit of Mike and Judy Zunic and have overcome some of “life’s tough plays.” The Zunic Award was established in May of 2001 to honor Mike ’81 and Judy Zunic who died tragically on July 19, 1989 when a United Airlines flight crashed in Sioux City, Iowa. Responding to the pilot’s request for strong-armed volunteers to sit on the exit doors in anticipation of a crash landing, Mike and Judy gave up their seats in first class to sit on the exit door to assist other passengers upon the landing. Mike and Judy died in the crash and those seated in the Zunic’s original seating area survived. A veteran of the US Marine Corp, Bill served in Vietnam from 1968 to 1970 as a medic, where he received two purple hearts. Following his injures and fulfilling his education, he went on to play professional football with the British Columbia

lowed me to travel extensively and continue to practice medicine for employees. After the sale to P&G I ‘retired.’ I am currently working in Boston at the South End Community Health Center. The patient population is 70 percent Latino. My Spanish is coming along slowly! I am very happily remarried and enjoying two grandkids! Just had dinner with Sandy Rose here in Boston. Great to catch up.”

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Class Captains John R. Bass II Douglas F. Allen Jr. George W. Lee Jr. Paul Bendheim has written a new book: The Brain Training Revolution: A Proven Workout for Healthy Brain Aging. It offers many study-proven strategies to keep one’s memory sharp. Paul is an internationallyrecognized neurologist with 25 years of academic neuroscience research and industry-related drug development in Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases of the brain. He is CEO and chief medical officer of BrainSavers, LLC, and chairman of the Clinical Advisory Board, Intellect Neurosciences, Inc. His father, a psychiatrist, died of Alzheimer’s disease. Paul lives in Phoenix, AZ. Eight paintings by Jim Burns were included in the International Meeting of Surreal Culture “The Threshold Secret” in Chile. The two month long event,

which opened November 1, 2009 was held at El Museo de Santiago and La Universidad de Chile, as well as other venues throughout the city. Jim exhibited two individual works and six that are called “Collective Automatic Painting.” The collective works were painted in Amsterdam by as many as six artists painting on the same canvas simultaneously. Jim was the student of sculptor Homer Gunn and was also the New England Interscholastic Diving Champion in ’66 and ’67. He has lived and painted in Minneapolis, New Orleans, San Diego, and Seattle. “My work follows the tradition of the New York School: Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Clifford Still and Robert Motherwell,” said Jim. In 1997, he opened Artbeat Gallery on Spiegelgracht 36 with the exhibition “Automatism, Collective Automatism” in Amsterdam. In 1999 he moved to Los Angeles and opened a gallery at 646 Spring Street with the exhibition “Collective Automatic Painting Amsterdam” (the opening reception of this exhibition is documented on film). Jim moved to Seattle in 2001 and continues to visit Amsterdam once a year to paint collectively with Freddy Flores Knistoff and other painters. Edward Higgins wrote, “I continue to practice vascular and general surgery in Kansas City. Just returned from a vascular surgery mission trip to the Dominican Republic, training surgeons. Off to Ghana in

January for another surgical mission trip. Go Big Green!” Jeff Marshall retired in 2008 after eight years as editor-in-chief of Financial Executive magazine and 34 years in journalism. He continues to contribute to the magazine and has just brought out his first volume of poetry, River Ice, which will be published by Outskirts Press. It’s a collection of poems compiled over many years, going back to the 70s. Meanwhile, Jeff and wife Judy divide their time between Scottsdale, AZ, and Toms River, NJ, where he is active playing tennis and golf. Jeff also notes with great sadness the passing of his younger brother, John ’72. John died of a heart attack in December 2008, and Jeff heard from a number of John’s friends from Deerfield in the weeks following his death. “After six years of socialpolitical crisis in the Cote d’Ivoire, the cumulative effects of stress caught up with me during the 2007-08 school year,” wrote Robert Walbridge, who recently retired as director from ICSA located in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. “My body was telling me enough was enough, so, by mutual agreement with my school board, I retired in July 2008. I was 59 years old and had served the school for 25 years—successively as lower school principal, deputy director, director of business affairs, and director. Now, in retirement, I’m enjoying the tropical sunshine, swimming a lot,

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Lions. Bill rescued a child named Ty from a Vietnam war zone and then had him moved from the combat area to a school, which Bill paid for personally. He also fed the village children with his left over c-rations and candy he purchased. After a while he became a favorite with the village children and they affectionately referred to Bill as “Kim-shee water-boo,” which roughly translates to “Dr. Water Buffalo.” Bill was a defensive lineman who earned a letter in 1967 as a sophomore and went off to war after the season. He returned to Syracuse and rejoined the team for the 1970 and 1971 seasons. After graduation, he worked as a field archeologist in the western United States and South America before returning to Albany to work with his family in the contracting business. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University in anthropology and a master’s degree from the University of Denver. In addition to his loving wife Cynthia and mother Genevieve, he is survived by his four sons; Daniel (Mariko) Pollock, William Kent, Michael and Daniel Coghill, his sisters; Catherine (Nick) Nicholas and Cynthia (William) Garwig, his niece, two nephews, and many friends. J. Brooks Watt writes, “After a productive career as a gastroenterologist I entered the corporate world as medical director of The Gillette Company. This al-

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listening to jazz and classical music, and reflecting on what to do next. Perhaps I will write a book or two?”

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Class Captain John R. Clementi

Patrick Murphy ’69 was quite

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pleased when he was presented with an honorary lifetime membership in the Colorado Native Plant Society.

Please send us your news and notes! See page 76.

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Class Captain Thomas A. Ehrgood Jr. When we last heard from him, Patrick Murphy reported, “I am a happy botanist/plant ecologist based in Boulder, CO. I am just ending my 2009 field season and really regret that I couldn’t make the 40th Reunion. My big project this summer was vegetation mapping on segments of Boulder County Open Space. This area is off limits to the public as a wildlife sanctuary, and my first sample point included a face-to-face with a black bear. It got within 75 feet by the time I grabbed the bear spray, stood up, and yelled ‘back off.’ It wheeled around and ran off . . . good bear. The hiking was steep, rocky, and I just had arthroscopic knee surgery in May. Perhaps this phase of my career is coming to an end. I have developed software that collects vegetation sample data, and wetland delineation data, and runs on the Windows PDA. I also have a desktop version of the wetland delineation software. It helps pay the

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mortgage over the winter. In many ways, a botanist is a well-paid migrant laborer and the winters can be quite slow. I found the love of my life (actually she found me), Maria, through Internet dating. The seventh anniversary of our first meeting was in October. I was awarded an honorary lifetime membership in the Colorado Native Plant Society. Just a little award, but it made me silly happy. I used to ski all the time, but now I save my vacation money to snorkel in warm blue water. My modest home is near downtown Boulder, I have a guest room, and you are invited to stay. Stay healthy, it is hard to hear about class members who have died. I will especially miss Gus Palmer. We had some shared misadventures that I would have loved to reminisce about with him.”

1970

40th Reunion

Reunion Chair G. Kent Kahle “My wife Carol and I and our dog Lacey visited the campus in October,” wrote Mark Lovell. “It was good to see the school after so many years. I have been a licensed architect in NJ for 24 years and have had a solo practice for the past 15 years. Carol and I have been married for 27 years, living in a home we designed a block and a half from the Delaware Bay. We enjoy kayaking the various waterways of southern NJ and have kayaked with dolphins several times.”

1971

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1972

Class Captain Paul R. Barkus “Since graduating from Brown in ’77, I have been working as a musician, playing guitar, and pedal steel as both sideman and leader,” reports Jonathan Gregg. “With my own band, the Lonesome Debonaires, I released three critically acclaimed CDs in the ’90s. I currently play steel with NY-based country and Cajun band The Doc Marshalls, among others, and do recording sessions. Over the past year, I have played Boston, Austin, and points in between, and I look forward to touring Europe next summer. I have been a freelance copy editor and occasional writer for the past 25 years, and an e-commuter for the past eight, which allows me to happily divide my time between NYC, Madison, CT, and the road. Married, no kids,

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left: Syd Williams ’85, Lee Hansen ’85, Stephen Hannock ’70, Douglas Arnstein ’69, and Steve Katz ’70 were on hand

to salute Steve Hannock’s show, “New Work,” on opening night at the John Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco, November 5, 2009. above: Peter De Gorter ’76 and family welcomed

granddaughter Denise Imani De Gorter on October 17, 2009. I consider myself very lucky to be doing what I love. News from old friends welcome. Contact info at jagtunes.com.” Todd Jorn reports, “I have just joined Madison Westbridge, an investment bank in NYC as partner. Chelsey graduated from Virginia Commonwealth in June. Alexandra is enjoying her semester abroad from Duke in Florence, and Eliza (15) continues her travel team ice hockey and may be on her way to DA next year.”

1973

Class Captains Lawrence C. Jerome Peter D. Van Oot “I am still living in sunny AZ, as are my mother and most of my siblings (except sister Pam and her husband, who are stubbornly refusing to come West from Freeport, ME),” reports Robert Beane. “While between jobs, I somehow managed to get elected

president of the Coalition of Arizona Bicyclists. So we’ll see if we can make the roads a bit more safe and fun for humans on two wheels during the next two years. I was thrilled to find out that Deerfield started a cycling team last year! Here’s an open invitation to do a little off-season riding in El Tour de Tucson (century) each November. I am wondering about the ‘Poc III’ group of my junior year and my XC and hockey teammates, and what they are doing these days. Phoenix is a long way from Albany Road and The Street, and I don’t get back to the Valley very often.” Pete Van Oot sent this update: “Dan Johnson was featured in the September/ October 2009 Vermont Magazine for his energy-efficient design of a contemporary home in Norwich, VT. Dan’s design received the highest possible rating from the Efficiency Vermont ‘Energy Star Homes’ program (five

plus stars) as well as a 2008 Honor Award from the Vermont chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Larry Jerome has joined The Angeletti Group as a senior vice president. The Angeletti Group provides philanthropic counsel to educational, healthcare and communitybuilding organizations.”

1974

Class Captain Geoffrey A. Gordon Please send us your news and notes! See page 76.

1975

35th Reunion

Reunion Chairs Ralph Earle III Dwight R. Hilson James L. Kempner Peter M. Schulte In the “small world” category, Dwight Hilson recently ran into Dick Leggat ’44 in Gasparilla, FL.

1976

Class Captains Marshall F. Campbell III David R. DeCamp David Bennett writes, “I’ve seen Bob DeBlois, Rick Rorick, and Graeme Howard. Graeme and I love to play golf and I want to make sure the whole class knows that I am better than Graeme.” “OK, I know I’m getting up there now. My first grandchild. First in the class to get married, first to have children and now . . . Am I in the lead again in the grandchild department?” Peter De Gorter asked recently. Denise Imani De Gorter was born in Asheville, NC, on October 17, 2009 and weighed 8 lbs., 6 oz. “I am in the Foreign Service, living in Santiago, Chile,” says Michael Mansfield. “I joined the State Department in ’99 and this is my fourth assignment. I started out in Mexico City, next was Quito, then Bogota,

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and now Santiago. I have one more year left here and I’m in the process of bidding on my next assignment. It’s kind of a strange lifestyle. Just when you get a place dialed in you have to make plans to leave it. I enjoy the work, travel, and living overseas, but find I really am looking forward to eventually returning home. The more time I spend overseas, the more I miss the US.”

1978

1977

Class Captains Paul J. S. Haigney Stephen R. Quazzo

Michael Carboy is writing a blog titled “Green Dumplings” at carboy.typepad. com/beijing, chronicling his adventures and observations during his six (“maybe more...”) months in Beijing. “I continue the Deerfield tradition of lifelong learning with my enrollment in an intensive Mandarin language program at Beijing Language and Cultural University. I combine this time at school with my work in the ‘cleantech’ space. I would certainly like to hear from Deerfield classmates and friends.” William Gram wrote, “My son Nicky’s team from Pingree School attended a soccer camp at Camp Cedar (Casco, ME), which is owned and operated by my old pal Jeff Hacker. I had not visited Cedar since I was a counselor there after graduating DA. Great to see Hacks, who is still in great shape.”

“I am still practicing rural veterinary medicine in north Texas. Backpacked 76 miles in New Mexico this past summer,” wrote Arn Anderson when we last heard from him. Anthony Edwards reports, “After selling The Amazing Brownie Company in 2007, I took on a position as Southeastern claims manager for GAB Robins, NA. My twin girls (Holly and Heather) are both sophomores at the University of North Carolina. I enjoy sailing in the Atlantic most weekends. Very happily married, and heading off to Maui for my tenth anniversary next year.” “Doing fine and living in the scenic city of Norwich, CT,” says Charles Jones “I have a great job bagging groceries at a local Big Y supermarket. I’d like to hear from classmates.” David Wallace recently started ILIT Management Group located in San Antonio, TX. He was recently employed at Jefferson Bank as chief investment officer. “Finally

Class Captains John C. Buckley James P. MacPherson Jr. Wayne W. Wall Jr.

Tom Susman reports, “All is well in West Virginia, I see Mike Graney ’78 from time to time, and he is doing well, I was just appointed to the Board of Governors of West Virginia State University by WV Governor Manchin. Still operating my PR business: TSG Consulting, LLC.”

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found an idea worth leaving the security of a boring bank job for,” he commented. “Hoping that it works out. Meanwhile, it’s fun being your own boss!”

1979

Class Captain Arthur R. Dwight Daniel C. Pryor Art Dwight reported, “Postreunion, Lou Lehrman hosted a group of ’79-ers at his home in northwest DC. San Francisco-based Adam Reeves was in town for a wedding. Coincidentally, Bob Lee and Paul Kunkel were staying at Lou’s for the weekend.”

1980

30th Reunion

Reunion Chairs Stephen M. Casey Joseph P. Manory Please send us your news and notes! See page 76.

1981

Class Captains Michael M. Boardman Andrew A. Cohen Peter R. Dinneen

1982

Class Captain Frank H. Reichel III Michael Sojka, of Sunderland, died November 27, 2009 at the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester at age 45. He leaves his mother, with whom he resided, brother Patrick ’77, a sister, and two nephews.

clockwise tl: Jeff Hacker ’77, Bill Gram ’77 and Nicky Gram

at the soccer camp Jeff owns and operates in Casco, ME.

Seven members of the Class of ’78 : John Stobierski, Jay Wheatley, Bill Grennon, Jack Scott, Allen Damon, Peter Phelan, and Devin Murphy got together at the

Deerfield Inn during the ’09 Fall Parents’ Weekend for a Class of ’78 reunion. Three other members of the class currently have children at Deerfield but were unable to join them that evening.

Adam Reeves, Paul Kunkel, Lou Lehrman, Bob Lee and Art Dwight, all Class of ’79, gathered at

Lou’s house after Deerfield’s Reunion Weekend last year.

Frank Reichel, Mike Flynn, and John Metaxas, all from the Class of ’82, posed for a

picture at Mike’s wedding to Elizabeth Bagley. The festivities were held in Ashville, NC.

Classmates Alan Roy, John Lubin, Ben Greenblott, and Amy and Mark Rutkowski of the Class of ’80 all had a great time catching up at a Deerfield reception in Weston, MA.

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Not wanting to dampen Ramsay’s newfound enthusiasm, I didn’t tell him I had no intention of begging, borrowing, and

David Morine ’62 | Globe Pequot Press, 2009

“Two Coots” provide Lots of Hoots and Lessons | The April 4, 2003 press release from the Connecticut River Watershed stated: Starting at the Canadian boarder in late May, two 60-yearold optimists will climb into a canoe and begin the 400+ mile trek down the Connecticut River to Old

dealing my way down

Saybrook, CT. Having no interest in carrying any equipment and sleeping outdoors, these carefree

the Connecticut River.

canoers plan to paddle ashore each evening to seek food, drink, and shelter from “the kindness of

The strangers we’d be staying with weren’t

strangers . . .” So began the adventure of David Morine ’62 and his University of Virginia classmate, Ramsay Peard, the details of which Mr. Morine later wove together in his book, Two Coots in a Canoe: An Unusual Story of Friendship (Globe Pequot Press, 2009).

going to be strangers

In a style reminiscent of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, Mr. Morine’s book is by turns humorous,

at all. They’d be people

informative, and heart-warming. As Mr. Morine and Mr. Peard worked their way downriver, they were

I’d met through Deerfield, Amherst, and working thirty years in conservation. Sure, there’d be nights we couldn’t find anybody, but when that happened,

treated to an insider’s feel for the areas they passed through, as well as a firsthand look at many of the issues confronting the people who live along the Connecticut: the demise of farming, the growth of the health care industry, the loss of manufacturing, the boom in higher education, gay rights, Native American rights, Wal-Mart vs Main Street, and an issue particularly dear to Mr. Morine—the river itself and the conservation efforts to protect it. Mr. Peard and Mr. Morine were also able to delve into the lives of complete strangers, but perhaps at the price of not discovering enough about each other, until it was too late. Two Coots in a Canoe is not Mr. Morine’s first book; he has been writing since retiring from The Nature

we’d pull out some plastic

Conservancy, where he was head of land acquisition for 18 years. Good Dirt: Confessions of a Conservationist

and check into the nearest

was published in 1990, followed by The Class Choregus; Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street’s Champion Trader;

motel, hotel, or reputable bed-and-breakfast. Nothing begs, borrows or deals better than an American Express card, and I wasn’t leaving home without it.

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Vacationland: A Half Century of Summering in Maine; and Small Claims: My Little Trials in Life. Mr. Morine has also written several articles and short stories for various publications, including Sports Illustrated and Reader’s Digest. The New York Times once described Mr. Morine’s stories as “embarrassing, hilarious, and unpredictable”—these adjectives provide an apt description for Two Coots. Bil Gilbert, fellow author and winner of the National Magazine Award commented: “Two Coots in a Canoe is—nearly to the end—a book of laughter, an account of the comic misadventures of two old friends . . . And then come the final pages: the two friends’ dark destination will surprise and shock all readers, even those with the wits of a wood tick. This remarkable book should be bought and read. Those who do will remember it for a long time.”

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PETER intern BERNARD ’07 By the (really old) books Peter Bernard ’07 achieved minor celebrity status in Japan this past summer as the first-ever intern at the 106-year-old Isseido Booksellers in the Kanda-Jimbocho district of Tokyo. As noted in The Yomiuri Shimbun, it is not unusual for foreign university students to work as interns at firms in Japan, but it is quite rare that such students choose to do an internship at a secondhand bookstore.

above: Peter Bernard (center) with the staff of Isseido Booksellers. r: a sampling of Isseido’s rare books.

Mr. Bernard is currently a junior at Harvard University and is majoring in East Asian Studies. Of the 80 or so undergraduates with that major, he is the only one

which is considered to be the oldest printed material

studying Japanese literature. He said, “By working

in Japan, and a copy of “The Tale of Genji” that was

at a place such as Isseido, one really comes to under-

produced in the 12th century, among other items.

stand that literature is still a living thing—that its life-

Since Mr. Bernard is particularly fond of the work of

blood still flows strong between today’s readers and

the novelist Kyoka Izumi, and plans to write his gradu-

the authors of the past . . . ” Thanks to a sponsorship

ation thesis on Izumi’s work, Mr. Sakai also shared

from the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at

with him some of the author’s manuscripts and first

Harvard, Mr. Bernard was able to immerse himself in

editions of his published works.

work at Isseido for two months. Isseido President Takehiko Sakai, whose family

In an interview with The Japan Times Mr. Sakai commented, “We buy and sell books as a business,

has run the antiquarian bookstore for three genera-

but working with someone who is going to be a

tions, was happy to help Mr. Bernard in his quest for

scholar and seeing how he absorbed new knowledge

knowledge. “We wanted to be of help to someone

is actually very inspiring, and I thought, we need to

who will become a scholar of Japanese literature,” Mr.

learn from his attitude.” For his part, Mr. Bernard said

Sakai said. He decided the best way to accomplish

(in fluent Japanese), “Throughout the course of work-

this was to treat Mr. Bernard as an employee while

ing at Isseido, I have come to feel even more strongly

showing him how the business is run. Consequently,

that, without a doubt, in the future I want to study

Mr. Bernard shipped orders to overseas customers,

and research Japanese literature in Japan, where the

followed Isseido employees to the old book market

links to the authors and the works themselves are,

in Jinbocho to see what was available and to learn

of course, the strongest.” Mr. Bernard added that his

about the bidding process for old works, and worked

dream is to one day teach Japanese literature at a

as a salesclerk in the store.

university in Japan.

Mr. Sakai also wanted to show Mr. Bernard the history of Japanese books, including the transformation of the bindings and the printing. He shared with him a sutra called “Hyakumanto” from the eighth century,

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posed with a special green towel on Tonel Beach in Portugal this past fall.

Pryce and Compagnos in Garraf Alex Compagno ’83 and his wife Angelica visited Scott Pryce ’83 in Spain. They posed for a picture at a restaurant near Scott’s house. Cameron Chalmers ’83

was on hand for the (soggy) Choate Day games in November

Classmates Peter Townsend, and Kevin Bresnahan (both ’83) ran into each other at a Deerfield reception in Boston, MA. John Knight ’83, Jack Crow, Peter Crow ’83, and Eric Suher ’83 had their picture taken

together when Peter and his son were on campus for a tour.

Mark Czuj ’83 and his family came to Deerfield for a tour because his eldest daughter is planning on applying for admission. John Brown ’83 and his son William toured Deerfield this past fall.

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Class Captains John G. Knight J. Douglas Schmidt Geoffrey Bennett writes, “Still focused on Japan and East Asia in my work, but now as a part of a larger fund I travel to NYC monthly. Saw Doug Schmidt, Drew Schiff, and PB Weymouth at the 1797 Dinner in October and hope to catch up with more classmates on future visits.” John Brown reported, “I had a chance to take the official tour of Deerfield with my son William. The entire family was on hand for the 12:30 pm tour and at 4:45 pm the family vehicle was STILL parked in front of the Main School Building! This was the sixth school visit (saving the best for last) and DA did not disappoint . . . even though the students were dressed in Halloween costumes instead of class dress. That would not have been allowed in our day, right? I’m at TimeWarner in NYC and run both the ‘This Old House’ business as well as ‘Health’.” Cameron Chalmers writes, “Hadn’t been to campus lately, then checked out Choate Day games with my wife and two kids. I keep informed through the class blog at da1983.blogspot.com but since most of VT is still on dial-up it’s a challenge! These days I’m operating a design/ landscape firm with my wife, Mary Ogden. (ogdenchalmers.com/projectshome). Best to the class.”

Peter Crow said, “It was a weird but wonderful feeling to be back on campus taking an admissions tour with my wife and eighth grade son. Glad to have John Knight and Eric Suher on hand to ease the transition!” “Recently brought the family to campus as our oldest daughter is looking at DA,” reported Mark Czuj. “Fingers crossed! I subscribed to the class blog after the visit and hope you’ll do the same at da1983.blogspot.com.” Leigh Guyer had a gueststarring role on TNT’s Leverage. “They filmed the entire second season here in Portland, and scuttlebutt says they’ll be back next year! You can watch the video at da1983.blogspot.com (thanks JK),” Leigh commented. Johannes Mortier wrote, “Went surfing with son Sebastian and wife Angelique at Tonel Beach near Sagres/ Algarve/Portugal in October. Since the 25th Reunion we always travel with the Deerfield towel!” Scott Pryce writes, “Alex Compagno and his wife Angelica, came over for a visit in September 2009. It was great to have them and we explored some places outside Barcelona. The picture (at left) is at a Gaudi-designed restaurant near our house. Classmates Andrew Witherspoon and Hank Lemieux also visited last fall! On another note, I was recently on my way to Kiev from London for work and ran into

Andy Bain ’82 on the plane. We had a great time catching up about DA and comparing notes on our work experiences in the Ukraine and Marine Corps. Andy even invited me to his company Christmas party. Nothing like Deerfield connections!” Paul Schlickmann and Kristin Meyer are happy to announce their engagement. Peter Townsend wrote, “Great to bump into John Knight and Kevin Bresnahan at the Deerfield in Boston reception. I took a break from commercial real estate development and left Skanska USA, then worked diligently on my golf game all summer. Dr. Kevin is rising up the ladder at Cape Cod Hospital as deputy chief of staff after having been the chief of Emergency Medicine. John Knight is working at Deerfield.” David Ziccardi writes, “Here is a link to a slideshow of this summer’s 450 plus mile adventure in northwest Montana, BC, and Alberta, including the west slope of Going to the Sun Road: facebook.com/#/video/video. php?v=1255719603578 While the shots are high res, if you watch full screen something about the Facebook format might make them look not as crisp as they are. My apologies to REO Speedwagon, but getting back to this way of life, even if only for a week, was a needed change.”

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clockwise: Mortier Sebastian and Johannes Mortier ’83

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Christopher Rawson writes, “I’m an attorney in Providence, RI, with a wife, Jennifer, and two boys, Matthew, 11, and Michael, eight. It was a pleasure to see my classmates at our 25th Reunion last June and to share it with my dad (Chris Rawson ’59) who was celebrating his 50th. Though I was only at DA for a PG year, everyone was warm and friendly all weekend.”

Class Captain Andrew P. Bonanno

1985

Class Captains Gustave K. Lipman Edward S. Williams

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Reunion Chairs Charles B. Berwick Sydney M. Williams IV Russ Wall’s artwork was featured in a skateboard art auction to benefit autism research. The auction, entitled All Decks on Hand, took place at the After Hours Gallery in Phoenix, AZ.

1986 “Life is very rewarding up here in quiet, rural northeastern CT,” says Andre Bessette. “My wife Donna and I are blessed with three wonderful children: Nathalie, 11; Yvonne, seven; and Henri, three. I am keeping busy with my practice as a child psychologist/consultant, and I’m continuing to sing/play with my two bands, and keeping fit with triathlons, adventure racing, and cyclo-cross. Looking forward to our 25th Reunion!”

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1988

Class Captains Oscar K. Anderson III David F. Willis Jr. Please send us your news and notes! See page 76.

1989

Paul Mayo said, “Living in Lyme, NH, with two lads and a lass; laboring as 3L; loving our lot in life.”

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Reunion Chair Jeb S. Armstrong Brooks Addington and Chie are proud to announce the birth of a baby boy, Brooks Masa Addington. He was born on April 16, 2009. Robert McCarthy wrote, “Working at the hedge fund UBS O’Connor as a portfolio manager investing in industrial stocks. Still keep in touch with classmates Curry Ford, Matt Ripperger and Bill Nook. All are doing well, and like me, are looking forward to our 20th Reunion!” Rob Wasinger, a Republican congressional candidate from Cottonwood Falls, KS, was featured in a news story in the Hutchinson News; he was endorsed by Senator John McCain. To learn

top: Ray Ramos ’87, Michael Scherotter ’88, Daniel Scherotter ’87, Keao Caindec ’87; (top, l to r): Dewey Wilmot ’87, Raf Ortega ’87, and Jon Murchison ’87

celebrated Daniel’s 40th birthday with a black tie casino bash/fundraiser for the San Francisco Food Bank on April 4, 2009. right: Erroin Martin ’92 and his fiancé Susanne PK Barth, MD, are to be married this coming summer. more, visit hutchnews.com and perform a site search on “Wasinger.”

1991

Class Captain Timothy B. Weymouth

1992

Class Captains Thomas R. Appleton II William J. Willis Thomas Appleton and his wife Monique have been busy growing their family, and are now trying to juggle “four under four.” Their eldest, Kai (3 ¾), along with 15-month-old twins (Mele and Nalu), recently welcomed the newest addition,

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Keola (“familiarly known as ‘Oops!’”), to their “expanding circus.” We were told that Thomas has been formally banished to the guest room due to his flunking a recently attended “Family Planning Workshop,” and the Appleton Clan is probably done expanding for now. Hardy Watts’ third child, Burke, was born hours before Thomas’ fourth. Playdates with the Watts Family are wonderful and pure chaos. Robert Lovett and his one-year-old son, Robert “Robin” Lovett, watch in amusement. Erroin Martin recently launched his own business: the Von Gehr Consulting Group, LLC, located in Branford, CT. Previously

Gabriel

Samantha

Thomas

Gabriel Bryce Scherotter at six days old; he is the son of Nina and Daniel Scherotter ’87 and was born on September 13, 2009 in San Francisco, CA, and weighed 7 lbs., 15 oz. Elizabeth and Ed Berzin ‘91 are pleased to announce the birth of Samantha Rachael Berzin, born at 8:29 a.m. on February 1, 2010. She weighs 6 pounds 13 ounces and is 19 ¾ inches long. She is healthy and doing well. Benjamin, Isabelle and Jacqueline are excited to have a new little sister and are looking forward to having her come home soon.

Madeleine

Tom Bloomer ’98 and his wife Amy are proud to announce the birth of a baby boy, Thomas Rocco. He was born on October 29, 2009 and weighed 7 lbs., 12 oz.

Burke

Keola

Avery Alice

The daughter of Alex Kollock ’93, Madeleine Elizabeth Kollock, born June 13, 2009 Hilary and Hardy Watts ’92

are proud to announce the birth of a baby boy, Burke Phillips. He was born on September 9, 2009. Keola Appleton, daughter of Monique and Thomas Appleton ’92 Gregory Quebec ’96 and his wife Meredith are proud to announce the birth of a baby girl, Avery Alice. She was born on June 19, 2009 and weighed 7 lbs., 5 oz. classnotes@deerfield.edu

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Erroin was employed at Mystic Management Systems, Inc., as vice president, sales, and commented, “I have launched a business and medical practice coaching and consultant service in July 2009. It is exciting to be coaching small business owners and working with physicians.” Erroin Martin and Susanne PK Barth, MD, of Munich, Germany, are happy to announce their engagement on Christmas 2008. The wedding ceremony will take place in summer 2010 in Munich. “We will be holding a wedding in the Alps in 2010. Frau Miles would be happy to know that her German classes helped me win the heart of an amazing woman.” AM Munk-Harvey wrote, “I woke up the morning of the November 15, 2009 Bay to Bay 2KM Open Water Swim and said to my husband Marc that I was so annoyed I was not swim fit or well, as I had a real chance of winning the race today, because two of my teammates were away, so in their absence, I could win. However, I had not been doing a lot of swimming and I also had a bit of a cold. So, having resigned myself to the fact that perhaps today was not the day, the plan was to draft and just swim a steady race. After 1km into the race when nobody in the 250-strong field was doing anything about taking a decisive lead, I decided to go for it! Of course, once I went for it, a pack of guys decided to go with me. I literally

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dragged about ten guys with me for about 600m until I slowly started to pull away. I had to work really hard to keep them at bay, so I was very pleased with the overall win. Nothing like beating all the boys, too! And what did I get from it? A pair of goggles and yet another photo op with some Amazonians to prove I am still short!”

1993

Class Captains Richard D. Hillenbrand II Charlotte York Matthews Colby D. Schwartz

their honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas, and currently reside in Dorchester, MA. There was a solid showing for DA in their wedding party: Mark Warcup, Zac Sweetland, Jon Holstein, Adrian Marshall, Greg Hayes, Brian Coakley, and Clinton Textor, were all part of it.

1996

Class Captains Farah-France P. Marcel Burke Trenton M. Smith

1997

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Class Captains Margot M. Pfohl Amy E. Sodha

1994

Peter Cambor stars in the new CBS drama “NCIS: Los Angeles” which premiered on September 22, 2009. Previously he starred in “Notes from the Underbelly.” The timely book launch of Wushu Moon Magic with this year’s full harvest moon marks Julie Hand’s fiction debut. Drawing upon Julie’s personal experience studying Chinese festivals around the world on a post-college Watson Fellowship, Wushu Moon Magic is available online and at The Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT. To learn more about the book, please visit wushumoonmagic.com or turn to page 72. Hannah Pittard reported, “I’ve recently sold my novel, The Fates Will Find Their Way, to HarperCollins/Ecco. We’re expecting a publication date of early spring 2011.”

Class Captain Daniel B. Garrison

1995

15th Reunion

Reunion Chair Daniel D. Meyer Zorana Ivankovic and Filippo Colombo are happy to announce their marriage on May 16, 2009 in Belgrade. They currently reside in Rome, Italy. Mollie Latham Timmerman and Jamey Timmerman are happy to announce their marriage on September 25, 2009 at Columbia Square in Savannah, GA. They currently reside in Edgefield, SC. Matthew Smith and Christy Lefebvre are happy to announce their marriage on September 13, 2008 at the Woodstock Inn. They spent

1998

Class Captain Thomas D. Bloomer Jr. Jon Harris has co-authored a new book, We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion, available at amazon.com and elsewhere. Turn to page 72 for more details. Andrea (Espie) Landers and Ryan Landers are happy to announce their marriage on July 3, 2009. They currently reside in Atlanta, GA. Maggie Stone, Emily Comer, and Courtney Johnson were in attendance. Kim Oelman sent in updates about her classmates: Brandon Cobb is moving to London; Samantha Saffir is expecting a child; and Scott MacArthur is designing his own clothing line.

1999 Koji Masutani said, “My film, Virtual JFK, was released on DVD on September 5, 2009. For more information go to virtualjfk.com.” Reed Weeden and Paul Stephen Minor Jr. were married Saturday evening, October 31, 2009 at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in New York. The Reverend Andrew C. Mead, the church’s rector, performed the ceremony, with the Reverend C. Hugh Hildesley, also an Episcopal priest and a cousin of the bride, taking part. Until June 2008 Reed an English teacher at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, VA, where she was also a 10th-grade dean. She

clockwise: Deerfield was well represented at Jill (Carmody) Garrison ’99 and Dan Garrison ’94’s October 24,

2009 wedding at Deerfield. l to r: Bink Garrison ’66, Tom Mann ’65, Nick Garrison ’00, Mark Garrison ’62, Jill (Carmody) Garrison ’99, Peter Drake ’66, Dan Garrison ’94, Emily Blanchard ’99, Drew Mowery ’96, Kim Mowery ’94, Tyler Walsh ’94, Laura (Scott) Caputo ’93, Andy Donaldson ’95, Jamie Stone ’05, and

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The Class of ’95 was well represented at the Deerfield reception in Weston, MA, on November 10, 2009. Attendees included Dan Meyer ’95, Leslie Yeransian ’96, Zeke Adkins ’95, Jo Lipstadt Swani ’95, Matt Hyde ’95, and Lauren Carlucci. AM Munk-Harvey ’92

(center) happily posed for this picture after winning the 2009 Bay to Bay 2KM Open Water Swim this past November.

Ben Clark ’96 and Lori Holmes

are happy to announce their engagement. The wedding ceremony will take place in May 2010 in Deerfield.

Jill ’99 and Dan ’94 Garrison

posed in front of the Deerfield Door on their wedding day, October 24, 2009.

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Wushu Moon Magic Julie Hand ’97 | Shires Press, 2009

By the Light of the Moon | “When I returned home to my roots in Vermont, my intention was to write a nonfiction book about a long walk,” said Julie Hand ’97. “What I wrote was irrevocably not that book, yet as I was reminded recently—

We Feel Fine Jonathan Harris ’98 and Sep Kamvar | Scribner, 2009

No Ordinary Book | Jonathan Harris ’98, whose work has been

life, and from my first 48 hours at home, it was clear that fiction was bound to be my fodder.” One false start and three rough drafts later,

featured by CNN, BBC, NPR, and Wired, among others, along with Sep Kamvar,

Ms. Hand’s fiction debut, Wushu Moon

created an award-winning website in 2005. In December of 2009, the fascinat-

Magic, was launched this past fall.

ing book We Feel Fine – An Almanac of Human Emotion (Scribner, 2009) was

Drawing on her personal experiences

released to rave reviews. We Feel Fine is no ordinary publication—with thou-

while studying Chinese festivals around the

sands of authors from all over the world sharing their uncensored emotions,

world on a post-college Watson Fellowship,

it represents a radical experiment in mass authorship, merging the online and

Ms. Hand’s fictional tale is about a female

offline worlds to in effect create a handbook for anyone interested in what it’s

photographer named Byrd, who is told by her

like to be human.

boss that her work is getting stale. Provided

Using custom computer programs, wefeelfine.org searches the world’s new

with one final assignment and her boss’

Internet blog posts literally every minute, scanning for the phrases “I feel” and “I

vague clues, Byrd sets out to prove she can

am feeling.” When such a phrase is found, it records the full sentence, up to the

still capture a fresh view. She travels into the

period, and also identifies the “feeling” in the sentence (sad, happy, depressed,

underbelly of the overseas Chinese Diaspora,

etc). If an image is found in the post, it is also saved with the sentence, and the

first tracking down Hungry Ghost festivals

image is said to represent one person who feels the feeling expressed in the

in Vietnam and Malaysia, then to Singapore

sentence. Blogs are usually structured in standard ways, so the age, gender,

and the Mooncake Festival. The magical

and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved

journey is a tapestry of tantalizingly

along with the sentence, in addition to local weather conditions at the time the

beautiful and chillingly raw landscapes, and

sentence was written.

an amalgamation of historical fact and

The result of all this is a remarkable database of several million human feelings, which increases by 15,000 to 20,000 new feelings every day. Mr. Harris

fictitious characters. Since her graduation from Middlebury

and Mr. Kamvar have used the information their programs have gathered to

College in 2002, Ms. Hand has worked in

construct a vast and deep portrait of the human race’s collective emotional

publishing, and has written articles for the

landscape. We Feel Fine is packed with personal photos, scientific observations,

international editions of National Geographic,

statistical infographics, and multitudes of candid comments from ordinary

Stratton Magazine, Middlebury Magazine, and

people. Equal parts pop culture and psychology, computer science and concep-

others. Prior to Wushu Moon Magic, most

tual art, sociology and storytelling, We Feel Fine explores human emotion from

of her writing focused on wellness, since

multiple angles, and truly reflects on what is in our blogs, minds, and hearts.

she earned degrees in fitness and nutrition

Mr. Harris studied computer science at Princeton University and received a

nothing is a coincidence in

since graduating from Middlebury. Learn

Fabrica fellowship in 2004. He won two Webby Awards in 2005, and has been

more about the book and the author at

recognized by AIGA, Ars Electronica, ID Magazine, and the state of Vermont.

wushumoonmagic.com.

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graduated from Brown, and received a master’s degree in education from Harvard. Stephen is an associate at Torch Hill Investment Partners, a firm in Washington that invests in midsized companies in various industries. He graduated from Vanderbilt and is studying for an MBA at Georgetown.

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Reunion Chair Emily J. Dawson “After a few years in consulting, I have returned to school to get my master’s of Public Health at Columbia University, and will graduate in May,” wrote Emily Dawson when we last heard from her. “It has been great to be in New York and be able to catch up with many classmates. I look forward to seeing everyone in June!” Katie Fay reported, “After five years in finance in New York and London, I decided that what I really wanted was to be back in a school environment. I left finance in June to take a job at Princeton Day School. I am loving being at a school, living in Princeton, coaching sports, etc. Looking forward to seeing everyone at reunions!” Jonathan Nuger and Ali Levine (Dartmouth ’07) are happy to announce their engagement. “We live together in San Francisco, where I recently started a new job with an Internet startup after working for a private equity firm for two years.

We will be getting married next June in New Jersey. We’re both looking forward to making the trip to Deerfield for our tenth this coming summer.”

2001

Class Captain Sara E. di Bonaventura “On October 1 my Deerfield sweetheart, Constanza Ontaneda ’04, and I fell back in love,” reported Ethan Howe when we last heard from him. “I am now happily living half of my time in Peru, where she’s creating her new fashion line, and I’m telecommuting to my job at AMD in Silicon Valley as a design software engineer. Over the past year, I’ve also reignited my other love from DA by avidly pursuing dance in classes and pretty much anywhere there’s a dance floor.” Kate (Murphy) Tremain and Dale Tremain are happy to announce their marriage on August 22, 2009 on Chappaquiddick, MA.

2002

Class Captains W. Malcolm Dorson David B. Smith Malcolm Dorson wrote, “I was recently up at school for Volunteers Weekend and Deerfield looked beautiful as ever (the food is also still delicious)! I’m living in New York and working at Citigroup in the Private Bank. I saw many DA friends at the US Open event in August and look forward to seeing more

of you soon.” “I’m living on Kauai, HI, and would love to hear from any Deerfield friends,” says Rafey Epstein. Call me at 808.828.0325!” Lizzie Reifenheiser is living in New York City and working for a new executive search firm called Amity Search Partners. “We got started up in January of 2009 and focus on placing investment professionals into private equity firms and hedge funds,” she says. “I am having a great time in New York and I’m constantly surrounded by Deerfield friends, including my three roommates Carter Kahle, Victoria Lika, and Serena Tufo.”

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2003

Class Captain Amanda J. Kessler Here is a classic Deerfield story . . . enjoy! May 2003: Alex Leydon took Outdoor Skills while he was at Deerfield. He spent his afternoons crossing or canoeing the Deerfield River and hiking through the woods—learning the survival skills of the region. One afternoon, during the spring term of his senior year, two of his friends decided they wanted to hang by the river and work on their tans. Upon arriving, they spotted a small strip of land in the middle of the river. Since the water was low that day, they decided to wade across and hang out on the little “island.” An hour later, Alex arrived, hoping to join his friends on the

top: Molly (Nicol) Lewis ’00 and Robert Kay Lewis III

(Rob) were recently married. They live in Lexington KY. bottom: Lisa Hilberg ’00

and Christopher Craig are happy to announce their engagement. The wedding ceremony will take place on Nantucket in June (“The week before Reunions, which I’ll definitely attend!” Lisa added). Laura Jacque ’01 and Emily Jacque ’00 will serve as bridesmaids.

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clockwise: Gator Hunter Nina Delano ’04 l to r: Deerfield representatives at the

wedding of Glynis Cumming ’05 and Tyler Adam Armentrout included: Meghan Downie ’04, Laura Eberly ’05, Mollie Bensen ’05, Spencer Gregson ’05, Bob Jacque ’05, Glynis (Cumming) Armentrout ’05, Ailsa (Cumming) Duda ’99, Jason Viadero ’05, Caitlin Dufraine ’05, and Julia McIlvaine ’05.”

l to r: 2005 classmates John Dema, Jessica Jauw, Rachel Cohen, Kevin O’Rourke, Kayla Burke, Michael Zapas, Meredith Olson, Phil Baity, Rachel Makson, and Killian Clarke

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recently got together in New York City.

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Subject: Found your wallet in the Deerfield River Really! We were kayaking near DA a couple of days ago and found your wallet, full of sand and a Deerfield student ID card . . . Alex replied immediately:

FOR REAL?! WOW, that brings back so many memories . . .

friendship, my romance with Ethan Howe ’01 has begun all over again. I recently graduated from Cornell and In July of 2007, Phyllis and I’m currently working and Peter Jeswald—parents of Liza living in Peru. I will soon Jeswald ’00—were kayaking be launching an eco-luxury on the Deerfield River. As they women’s-wear brand named paddled downstream, Peter, Bernales & Goretti targeted an avid nature-spotter with at successful women over finely honed vision, spied 35 years old. I am currently something in the sand on the hosting poet Joshua Krugman side of the river. The couple ’09 in his gap year here in stopped their kayaks and Lima. I will probably receive climbed out onto the bank, some of my proctees, such as which happened to run along Rashiida Richardson ’07, Kim the outer edge of Deerfield’s Shastid ’07, and Elena White playing fields. They dug the ’07 here in the near future.” object out of the sand; it was a wallet. Waterlogged and 5th Reunion full of sand, it contained a Reunion Chairs Deerfield Academy student H. Jett Fein ID belonging to Alexander Bentley J. Rubinstein Leydon. There was no cash or Torey A. Van Oot credit cards, just the Deerfield ID and a Pennsylvania state “Hey everyone! I graduated junior driver’s license. The from Georgia Tech in May Jeswalds assumed it had been 2009 with a BS in Biomedical stolen, emptied, and tossed Engineering and I’m now at into the river. Phyllis stowed Tulane working on my MS in the wallet in her kayak, and Human Genetics,” reported when they got home, she Saira Ahmed when we last turned on her computer and heard from her. “If anyone began to search. She was able is ever in New Orleans just to track down an Alex Leydon let me know!” who had just graduated from Glynis Cumming ArmenBrown. Her niece, also a trout was happily married recent graduate of Brown, on October 3, 2009 in Mt. suggested a likely email Sterling, OH, to Tyler Adam address for Alex, and Phyllis Armentrout, a chef at The tried it . . . Blackwell Inn in Columbus, OH. “We own a house in Grove City, OH, which we purchased in February of Class Captains 2009. I am the food and bevNicholas Zachary Hammerschlag erage supervisor at The UniCaroline C. Whitton versity Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in Columbus, Constanza Ontaneda writes, OH, a fulltime position I was “I am overjoyed to be able to offered a week after graduatsay that after eight years of

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ing with my bachelor’s in Hospitality Management from Ohio State University! My husband graduated from Columbus State Community College with his degree in Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts in September. He is also a certified sous chef through the American Culinary Federation of America. “Since graduating from Babson College this past May, I have launched a business providing a new advertising service for businesses targeting hotel guests,” said Nicholas Horvath when we last heard from him. “We are launching the service in hotels throughout Manhattan on January 1, 2010. We have acquired many customers in the NYC area including, NY Water Taxi, The Intrepid, Museum of Natural History, Limores, Coach USA, and Madame Tussauds. Feel free to check out our website at www.ivdmedia.com.” Monserrat Huerta writes, “Hey everyone, since graduating this past May, I have moved back home to Chicago after I was accepted into the Future Leaders Program at Starcom Mediavest Group and now work as a media buyer for Tapestry Partners, the multicultural media agency of the company. At Tapestry, I am a part of the Proctor and Gamble AOR. I manage the advertising strategy and investment for national broadcast and digital campaigns for brands like Pampers, Olay, Always, and CoverGirl for the US

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island. He stepped off the embankment and into the water, and was nearly swept away. The dam upstream had released at some point that afternoon, and conditions on the river had changed. The water level was high now, and the current was strong. Alex called to his friends, who tried, unsuccessfully, to cross back over to the bank, slipping on the algae-covered rocks and yelping fearfully. Using his newly acquired outdoor skills, Alex planted his feet carefully and was able to make his way into the middle of the river where he linked arms with his friends and pulled them across. Happily back on dry land, Alex discovered that his pockets were empty. Bracing himself, he stepped back into the water and waded along the edge looking for his missing wallet, but it was long gone, swept down stream, who knows how far. Alex eventually replaced all his ID cards and bought a new wallet. He didn’t give the old one a second thought, until four years later, when, upon returning from a weekend visiting with DA friends, he received an unexpected message in his inbox:

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Hispanic Market. I look forward to seeing and catching up with everyone at our fifth year!” Jackson Kern reported, “After a stint playing water polo in California, I am now home in Red Lodge, MT, for the winter. While writing law school applications I keep busy plowing snow and building rustic furniture with my uncle at Rocky Fork Juniper. Take a look at our latest pieces on the web: rockyforkjuniper.com.” “2009 was a fantastic year for me,” wrote Patrick O’Rourke when we last heard from him. After graduating from Middlebury with a degree in molecular biology and biochemistry, he made the transition to a research position at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He also submitted his thesis to the Journal of Bacteriology, where it was accepted for publication. “The lab I work in is filled with people who are as excited as I am to study the unknown molecular causes of cancer,” Patrick said. “The research has a real impact on the future of cancer medicine. Specifically, my project will discover new proteins that cancer cells require to survive but are nonessential to normal cells, making those proteins perfect targets for drug design. However, I have begun to realize how hard this research is and how much work is left. This has inspired me to find other ways to contribute to the battle against cancer. With that, I applied to and

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was invited to join the DanaFarber Marathon Challenge Team, which means I will be running in the 2010 Boston Marathon!” Patrick hopes to raise $8000 for the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Basic Innovative Research (dana-farber.org/how/danafarber/Claudia-adams-barrprogram/). “So I am asking for your help,” he continued. “One hundred percent of the money you donate will be directed towards research. With your donation, if you want me to wear a ribbon with a name on it, I would be honored to run that ribbon all 26.2 miles to the finish line. The name can be of anyone who you would like your donation to be in honor or memory of, and I will proudly wear it on my jersey in April.” For more information or to make a donation, go to: runDFMC.org/2010/kevino. Glenn Wong was the 2009 recipient of the Eugene Wilson Award at Amherst College, presented by the Athletic Department. Glenn is currently playing professional basketball for the UL Eagles in the Super League in Ireland.

lunch. We had a nice time reminiscing about our times at DA and also spoke of our future plans. Most of us had stories of unexpectedly seeing Deerfield grads in Miami, Chapel Hill, San Jose, and other cities throughout the world. The Deerfield bond is strong at Duke. We wish the Class of 2006 all the best.” Meredith Kotowski and her father Ken won the 2009 Massachusetts Father and Daughter Golf Championship held on Cape Cod. In a story in the Cape Cod Times, it was reported that Meredith and her father had also won the title in 2007. She is now a senior and on the golf team at UPenn.

2006

Class Captain Nicholas W. Squires

Class Captains Patrick C. Hines Ashley R. Laporte Chinwe Atkinson reported, “Chinwe Atkinson, Robert Bewkes, Sunjay Jalaj, Charlie McSpadden, and Steve O’Malley met on November 20, 2009 for a Class of ’06

2007

Class Captains Matthew M. Carney Elizabeth Conover Cowan Please send us your news and notes! See page 76.

2008

Class Captain Taro Funabashi

2009

Corey DeMedeiros was the keynote speaker at the Nativity Preparatory School of New Bedford’s commencement ceremony. Corey, a Nativity alumnus, is continuing his education at Bucknell University.

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The personal interest that the faculty demonstrates

with students is central to the Deerfield experience. Deerfield creates the environment for teacher-student interactions, both in and out of the classroom. Class size is just one way of fostering these relationships— it’s also sit down meals and many other opportunities during the day for ‘talking moments;’ it’s all about these interactions.” —Todd Eckler ’86

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The Frank L. & Helen Childs Boyden Society Deerfield Academy established the Frank L. and Helen Childs Boyden Society to honor and recognize those individuals who have made planned gifts to Deerfield .

By including Deerfield in their estate plans, the Eckler family is making

2008-2009 Boyden Society Activity

an investment in Deerfield’s future and providing future students with

Realized Bequests Annuities Pooled Income Fund Additions Charitable Lead Trust Payments Charitable Remainder Trusts

$936,192 $285,970 $16,350 $48,716 $649,652 $1,936,880

trust, annuity, pooled income fund, retirement account, life insurance

TOTAL New Boyden Society Members

or other deferred gift.

Total Membership

the opportunity to benefit from the Deerfield Experience. Thank you to all of the members of the Boyden Society who have made similar commitments by designating Deerfield as a beneficiary of a will,

27 490

Contact Linda Minoff, Director of Planned Giving 413.774.1872 or lminoff@deerfield.edu deerfield.edu/go/boyden

in memoriam 1935

1940

1944

1963

Robert McClelland Day* October 28, 2009

Robert Dix Benson Carlisle* November 19, 2009

John Cleveland Metcalf October 7, 2009

Jeremy Fuller Frith December 8, 2009

Henry Benjamin Poor September 27, 2009

Robert Merriam Heath November 21, 2009

1946

1964

1936

George Francis Markham, Jr.* November 23, 2009

1937

James Albert Vaughan, Jr. November 30, 2009

1938

Ralph Williams Ball October 11, 2009 Thomas Hedley Reynolds September 22, 2009

1939

John Lawrence Birmingham September 10, 2009 John Willcox Donaldson, Jr. October 8, 2009 Edward Allison Johnson June 21, 2009 John Robert Watson Pollock October 31, 2009 Robert Kenneth Wood May 31, 2009

George Nesbitt Ziegler February 10, 2009

1941

Richard Buchanan Hollaman November 3, 2009 Junior Streeter Wiemers May 20, 2009

1942

Frederick N. Schoeffler October 1, 2009

1943

Walter E. Geier* November 23, 2009 Frank Carter Henry October 5, 2009 Richard Irving Hornbeck November 6, 2008 John Ewing Lincoln August 1, 2009 Alan David Mitchell November 17, 2009 James Christie Shields September 20, 2009 John McReynolds Wozencraft August 31, 2009

John Norbert DeGorter September 16, 2009 John Allen Torrey, Jr. October 20, 2009

1947

George VanDuesen Hutton, Jr. August 15, 2008

1950

Sherwood Harris September 7, 2009

1952

Wallace E. Rich April 19, 2007

1955

Robert Ensign Darling, Jr.* October 19, 2009

1956

William Vandervoort Tripp, 3rd November 7, 2009

1959

Robert Mead Murdock October 8, 2009

1960

George Burnett, III September 12, 2000

Jonathan Rogers Carlisle August 18, 2009

1965

Whitney Woodruff June 26, 2009

1970

Cameron A. Thompson September 29, 2008

1977

Ernest Reed Wilbur October 6, 2009

1982

Michael Joseph Sojka November 27, 2009 * Boyden Society Member

80 Statement of Financial Position ............................ 82 Statement of Activities ............................................ 83 Report from the Chief Financial Officer ..............

Report from the Associate Head of School for Alumni Affairs and Development ...................

84 Gifts to Deerfield........................................................ 85 1797 Societies ............................................................. 86 Participation Graph . ................................................ 88 90

Campaign to Honor the Class of 1959...................

Campaign to Honor the Class of 1984....................

92 In Memoriam Gifts.................................................... 93 First Person: Peter Schulte ’75 P ’10, ’13 . ............. 94 Campaign to Honor the Class of 2009 .................

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Prudent Management and Thoughtful Choices

Our 212th year was another terrific one, when seen through the eyes of our students and their experiences at Deerfield. However, for the adults, 2008â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2009 was one of the most challenging years in our collective memory as financial issues associated with the global economic crisis were added to our conversation.

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As a result of the most difficult economy since the Great Depression, in the fall of 2008, we developed a financial objective to “reposition” or “re-baseline” our ongoing operating expenses —the politic way of saying we needed to reduce our ongoing costs to our estimate of expected resources. This effort was not about across the board expense reduction but a more thoughtful exercise that was anchored by the long term goals of our strategic plan and an imperative to ensure the quality education and student experience for which Deerfield is known were not impacted; by June of 2009 we were successful in achieving these goals. As Dr. Curtis shared in her June ’09 letter, we sustainably reduced our operating expenses through a targeted review of expenditures, contract renegotiations, and process improvements, as well as instituting a one-year salary freeze and lowering staffing levels through retirements, attrition, and layoffs. The primary focus was the Academy’s support operations and underlying all of the decisions made was an in-depth department by department review, in some cases in consultation with third party experts, of how work can get done, at lower cost, while maintaining quality services to our community. Our ongoing expenses were reduced by over $5 million or ~ 10% of the school’s cost base. Our support operations, judging by the results delivered in the fall of 2009, continue to deliver quality services to our community, at materially lower cost. This result was not only due to thoughtful planning but to the dedication of our departmental leaders and their employees, who made the changes in how we work virtually unnoticed by the community. Finally, we acheived our imperative— the Academy’s program, which includes our academic, co-curricular and residential activities, experiences, and our many traditions, was unaffected. For the year ended August 31, 2009 the Academy’s operations were balanced with revenues and expenses of ~ $51 million. Total assets declined to ~ $487 million, while net assets were reduced to ~ $426 million, principally due to the decline in the endowment. Our cash flow provided some funding for necessary investments. Excluded from this discussion was the financial impact from the favorable settlement of a litigation matter, and these funds were reserved for future use. Please see the attached summary financial statements for more details. Deerfield’s endowment, at August 31, 2009, had market value of ~ $306 million and returned a negative ~ 11% for the year. This compares unfavorably to market values of $367 million and a negative return of ~ 3% in 2008 and a market

value of $386 million and a positive return of ~ 17% in 2007. While the portfolio performed very well in an unprecedented environment and rallied substantially from the lows of March 2009, the absolute decline in the endowment’s value remains material to the Academy. This past summer we completed several needed capital projects. The first floor of Bewkes was converted into student housing, while necessary maintenance was performed on McAlister, John Williams, and Ashley dormitories. We improved faculty housing in the old village at Husted, Wells #2 and Herilihy Houses. The ice-making equipment in the hockey rink was replaced and the lighting systems in the east and west gyms as well as the hockey rink were upgraded. Inherent in all of these projects is our effort to make our facilities more energy efficient. For example, we expect that the new ice making equipment and lighting systems will reduce our total electrical consumption between 2 % and 2½ %, further reducing our operating expenses. Information Technology successfully planned our transition for the fall of 2009 introduction to MacBooks for the student laptop program. In addition to being a popular move with students, we anticipated less expensive support costs for these computers. This assumption has proven accurate as help desk requests were lower for the new machines in the fall. The full benefit of lower support needs will be realized as we complete the transition to MacBooks over the next several years. Finally, the dispute with the architect of the science, math, and technology facility was successfully resolved last August, and in 2008 we favorably settled with the construction manager. This unfortunate dispute is now behind us. Most importantly, the Koch Center continues to prove itself as an outstanding place for students and teachers to explore the wonders and possibilities of math, science, and technology As we look ahead, like all endowed institutions, the Academy remains dependent on positive returns from our endowment in an environment where we remain cautious on both the economic recovery and the recent strength in the financial markets. We do not anticipate the endowment returning to past or, more importantly, desired levels any time in the near future without the help and generosity of our benefactors. However, the actions taken in 2008–2009, combined with continued prudent management of expenses and thoughtful choices of how we deploy our resources, provides the foundation for us to navigate this most challenging economy—all while our students continue to enjoy an experience best summarized as, Deerfield.

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Trustees of Deerfield Academy Statement of Financial Position A u g u s t 3 1 , 2 0 0 9 W i t h C o m p a r a t i v e To t a l s a s o f A u g u s t 3 1 , 2 0 0 8

Assets Cash and Cash Equivalents Restricted Cash Receivables: Student loans and accounts receivable, net of allowance of $224,820 in 2009 and $172,957 in 2008 Investment interest and dividends Due from brokers Other Receivables Contributions receivable, net Charitable remainder unitrusts and other deferred gifts Inventories Prepaid Expenses Investments, at fair value Beneficial interest in perpetual trust Land, buildings and equipment, net Deferred Expenses Total Assets

2009

2008

$21,423,086 1,197,021

$ 9,517,729 1,199,461

126,787

163,417

346,896 907,942 593,539 17,296,465

611,981 864,035 32,492 22,204,722

3,885,170 1,289,550 630,657 292,618,423 13,371,348 132,865,638 466,454

2,425,274 1,268,324 803,149 362,605,691 15,854,495 131,762,951 488,342

$487,018,976

$549,802,063

Liabilities and Net Assets

Liabilities Accounts payable and accrued liabilities Contracts payable Due to brokers Life income obligations Bonds payable Bond interest payable Deferred income Total Liabilities Net Assets Unrestricted Temporarily restricted Permanently restricted Total Net Assets

$3,487,121 43,753 903,417 3,153,851 42,942,197 780,680 10,039,662 61,350,681

$5,363,890 883,290 12,629,086 3,141,177 44,021,697 791,688 8,599,891 75,430,719

179,506,458 117,331,850 128,829,987 425,668,295

188,610,672 156,896,256 128,864,416 474,371,344

Total Liabilities and Net Assets

$487,018,976

$549,802,063

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Trustees of Deerfield Academy Statement of Activities A u g u s t 3 1 , 2 0 0 9 W i t h C o m p a r a t i v e To t a l s a s o f A u g u s t 3 1 , 2 0 0 8

Revenues, Gains and Other Support Student income: Tuition and fees Less financial aid Net tuition and fees School Store Net Student Income Interest and dividends Net realized and unrealized losses Other income Gifts and bequests Total revenues, gains, and other support

2009

2008

$ 23,795,932 (6,390,539) 17,405,393 769,280 18,174,673 4,830,440 (42,082,232) 3,242,417 11,872,152 (3,962,550)

$ 22,482,168 (6,058,170) 16,423,998 717,666 17,141,664 6,230,775 (16,149,313) 632,971 17,632,075 25,488,172

Net assets released from Restrictions Expenditures

Instruction Student support Summer programs Operation and maintenance of Physical Plant General administration General institutional Disposal of fixed asset Depreciation and amortization Total expenditures

Change in Net Assets Net Assets – Beginning of Year

7,764,154 3,833,041 534,756 6,980,761 7,034,908 13,475,582 1,515,971 4,741,698 45,880,871

(48,703,049)

(20,392,699)

474,371,344

494,764,043

$425,668,295

$474,371,344

Photograph by Liz Parker P’08, ’11

Net Assets – End of Year

7,681,923 3,705,782 524,266 7,159,015 7,042,884 14,005,098 — 4,621,531 44,740,499

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Blessed by a High Level of Support

for Alumni Affairs and Development David G. Pond P’92, ’98 The roller coaster ride seen in the worldwide financial markets had a major impact on our 2008-2009 year. The dramatic decline in the markets (September 2008-February 2009) followed by their rapid rise after early March, 2009, forced us to adapt quickly to changes in reception locations, budgets, and messages, as you will see summarized below. Alumni and parent outreach programs are the backbones on which all of our activities and initiatives are built. Mimi Morsman has led our alumni programs for the last 12 years and we believe that when it is compared with any comprehensive school or college program, ours is the best. Attendance figures at last year’s events were phenomenal. Some might say that it was because more people had more time to attend functions. I believe that it was because our events are high quality and because, in times of stress and anxiety, Deerfield is one of the constants in the lives of many alumni and parents. Each year, we are the beneficiaries of gifts in support of our ongoing programs (Annual Support), capital needs (including facilities and endowment), and future programs (planned and deferred gifts through Boyden Society). During ’08-’09 we realized $14,075,087 for current and future needs; all of the different forms of support are essential to the long-term health of the Academy. Thanks to our Board of Trustees’ leadership, we had a highly successful Annual Support year. Overall, giving was essentially flat (compared to ’07 -’08) in an extremely challenging climate. Over $5.5MM was raised from 47% of our alumni and 80% of our current parents in support of our operating budget. We are blessed by a high level of support from those who are also paying tuition. Total giving from all current parents exceeded $2MM from 80% of our current parents; that total includes both Annual Support and capital support gifts. In an attempt to respond to several requests from parents for more regular engagement with the Academy, a Parents’ Council (comprised of our volunteer parent leaders) has been formed. The group will gather three times a year to learn more about new on-campus initiatives and to share parental concerns with Margarita Curtis and her Senior Staff. For the last two and a half years, we have received gifts and pledges in support of a new fitness center and an expansion of the adjoining Greer Store. Thanks to the generous support of the parents of the Classes of 2008 and 2009, our trustees, and additional alumni, the funding for the new facilities is now

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in place. Construction work will begin this March, and we anticipate completion of the entire project in the early fall. We pride ourselves on having a strong sense of community spirit, and this new facility is expected to enhance that sense of community for our students, faculty, and staff. I cannot stress enough that in order to maintain a program that is affordable for all qualified candidates, a strong endowment is vital. Additional endowment gifts to a variety of programs have helped us begin to replenish our endowment back to the levels we realized a short 18 months ago. The recent changes in financial circumstances for most individuals have focused more attention on planned giving programs. Over time, these kinds of programs can account for as much as 15-20% of gift totals. Founded in 1984 to recognize those who have included Deerfield in their estate plans, The Boyden Society has about 500 members, and thanks to them, last year’s gifts provided over $1.2MM to our endowment and to other capital projects. If you would like to learn more about how you can include Deerfield in your estate plans, please contact Linda Minoff at lminoff@deerfield.edu. Finally, the recently completed strategic planning process, Imagine Deerfield, which involved all members of the Deerfield family, helped us identify our educational needs for the next decade. The objectives we identified are extremely ambitious and provide for enormous potential growth in several key areas—faculty and staff professional development, accessibility for all qualified candidates, encouraging global awareness, and, where necessary, a refreshing of our campus— and underlying it all, the ultimate goal of strengthening our educational programs for students. In an effort to prioritize our objectives, we are seeking the advice of alumni and parents at focus groups (and with individual meetings) around the world. When we have completed those meetings, we will set our fundraising agenda for the years ahead. If you would like more information about our feasibility process, please let us know. These are, indeed, challenging economic times for everyone and the needs at all non-profit organizations are considerable. Therefore, our students, faculty, and staff thank our 5607 alumni, parents, grandparents, and other friends who chose to support Deerfield’s programs last year.

Annual Support Giving Highlights Trustees leadership giving: increased by Leadership giving to 1797: a total of

100%.

351 alumni, parents, and grandparents contributed

$4,319,900 or 77% of the total raised.

Alumni participation: in an effort to reverse a recent decline in participation seen by all schools and colleges, we instituted two challenges with Choate (to the ten youngest classes) and Hotchkiss (to all alumni). They were highly successful and we prevailed in both cases.

Over 45% of our alumni supported Deerfield last year.

We are also exploring ways in which online communities can be helpful as we reach out to our alumni and parents.

Gifts to Deerfield (Cash Only) Fiscal Year 2009

I. Annual Support A. Unrestricted

1. Alumni $ 3,225,931 2. Current Parents 983,573 3. Parents of Alumni 411,692 4. Grandparents 21,920 5. Friends 90,165 B. Restricted for current use 846,690 C. Annual Support Subtotal

II. Capital Gifts A. Endowment 2,211,253 B. Building 2,058,947 C. Other Capital 3,922,596 D. Deferred 302,320 E. Capital Subtotal III. Total Gifts Annual & Capital

$5,579,971

8,495,116 14,075,087

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RECOGNITION SOCIETIES

1797

Named in honor of the year in which Deerfield Academy was founded, the society has five levels that recognize those who contribute $1,797 or more: Presidents Circle donors of $100,000+ Headmasters Associates donors of $50,000 to $99,000 Heritage Associates donors of $25,000 to $49,999 Founders Associates donors of $10,000 to $24,999 Members donors of $3,500 to $9,999 or alumni donors of $1,797 to $9,999 who have not yet celebrated their 20th reunion.

As a means of recognizing those donors who have been consistent givers over the last five consecutive fiscal years, their names appear in bold. A complete list of all 2008-2009 donors is available online at deerfield.edu/go/annual. Every effort has been made to include accurate and complete information, and we apologize in advance for any inadvertent errors. Please notify the Communications Office of any mistakes.

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Gifts to Deerfield Presidents Circle

Capital Funds

Annual Support

Mr. & Mrs. Franz H. Burda P '07, '09 Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Fair '81 P '10, '12 Craig W. Fanning '53* Charles P. Goss '32* (dec.) Mr. & Mrs. Michael C. Huebsch P '11, '12 Purdy C. Jordan '47 P '78, '80* Morton Family Foundation Brian E. Peierls '65 E. Jeffrey Peierls '59 Mr. & Mrs. John L. Scott P '06, '09 Luther L. Terry Jr. '63 Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Witmer Jr. P '08, '10

Samuel Bronfman II '71 Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Cashin P '03, '07 Matthew S. Grossman '94 Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Hale Jr. '84 Mr. & Mrs. John P. Havens P '02, '10 Mr. & Mrs. John B. Hess P '05, '07, '12 Alexander T. Robertson '97 J. Spencer Robertson '93

Capital Funds Anonymous Donor Mrs. Martha Anthony W'42 P'72, '74* (dec.) Mr. Charles Baldwin F* (dec.) Mr. E. Garrett Bewkes Jr. '44 P '68, '70,'74 G’00, '02, '06, '09, '12 Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Cashin P '03, '07 Fredric B. Garonzik '60 P '97, '99 Philip Greer '53 P '94, G'13 Matthew S. Grossman '94 Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Hale Jr. '84 Mr. & Mrs. John B. Hess P '05, '07, '12 Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Ingrassia P '09, '13 James L. Kempner '75 P'03, '05, '11 David H. Koch '58 Mr. & Mrs. Marcus C. Rowland P '07 Sabin C. Streeter ’59 Tanoto Foundation Andre Tanoto '00 Belinda Tanoto '03 Imelda Tanoto '01 Mr. & Mrs. Sukanto Tanoto P '00, '01, '03, '07 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Walker III P '10, '12 Peter K. Woerner '61*

Headmasters Associates Annual Support Mr. & Mrs. Kunho Cho P '03, '05 Mr. & Mrs. Mike Donatelli P '12 Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Fisher G'13 Mr. & Mrs. Randall A. Hack '65 P '01, '03 George S. Loening '84 Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey McDermott P '11 Mrs. Courtney J. McEniry P '07, '10 Roger S. McEniry '74 P '07, '10 Mr. Si Hoon Ryu & Ms Ji Hyun Nam P '09 Mr. & Mrs. Steven F. Strandberg P '10, '12

Heritage Associates King Abdullah II ’80 Alexander G. Auersperg ’78 Eduard H. Beit ’79 Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Bradford Briggs P’68 Mrs. Nicholas Bright P’06 Mr. & Mrs. H. Rodgin Cohen ’61 P ’99 Timothy T. Day ’55 Mr. & Mrs. David A. DeNunzio ’74 P ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher di Bonaventura P ’01, ’05, ’08 Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Field ’59 P ’93, ’95 Richard S. Flaherty ’81 Mr. & Mrs. Neal S. Garonzik ’64 P ’03, ’05 Francis A. Harrington Jr. ’54 Robert G. Hetherington ’59 Jay C. Huffard ’59 P ’87, ’88* Mrs. Carol Jacobs P’69 Neil H. Jacobs ’69 Michael M. Kellen ’62 Mr. & Mrs. John Klingenstein ’46 P ’72, ’76, G ’06 William N. Mathis ’84 Patrick M. McCarthy ’53* Mr. & Mrs. Lorne Michaels P’10, ’13 Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Morgenthau P’08, ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Mosley P’11, ’13 Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Nolan Jr. P’97, ’01, ’10 Mr. & Mrs. John M. Roth P’08, P’10 Mr. & Mrs. Brian Simmons P’12 Douglas W. Squires ’69, P’09 Mr. & Mrs. Charles Sutphin P’11, ’13 David C. Thompson ’53* Peter C. Thompson ’51 David T. Uehling ’51* Ms Susan Unterberg F’48 Thomas I. Unterberg ’48* J. Jeffrey Urstadt ’58 P’99 John L. Weinberg ’43 P ’75 Mrs. Suzanne R. Weiss P ’08

Mr. Karl G. Wellner & Ms Deborah A. Norville P ’09, ’13 Mr. & Mrs. Philip B. Weymouth Jr. '53* P’83, P’91 Gordon H. Woodward ’87*

Founders Associates Anonymous Donor (5) Mr. & Mrs. James L. Alexandre P ’06, ’08, ’11, ’13 Elizabeth Greer Anderson ’94 Mr. & Mrs. James H. Averill Jr. ’65 P ’94 Frank L. Babbott Jr. '38* (dec.) Douglas J. Baird ’80 T. Westray Battle III ’94 Mr. & Mrs. Francis Beidler III P ’94, ’97, ’01 Mr. & Mrs. Eric L. Berg P ’04, ’09 Monroe E. Berkman ’57 Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Bewkes Sr. ’74 P ’06, ’09, ’12 Andrew M. Blau ’81 P ’10, ’13 Thomas O. Boucher Jr. ’76 Carrie F. Braddock ’92 Edson L. Bridges II ’49* Wm. Bradford Briggs ’39 P ’68* (dec.) Gregory W. Brown ’85 Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Brown P ’11 Mr. & Mrs. Kevin H. Burns P ’07, ’10, ’13 Herbert L. Camp ’57* A. Macdonald Caputo ’59* Mr. John Chalsty F ’49 Mr. Chang Soo Chi & Ms Jin Hee Kim G ’11 Dr. & Mrs. Kyungho Cho P ’08, ’11 Mr. & Mrs. John R. Clementi ’68 P ’98, ’01, ’05 Mr. & Mrs. John T. J. Coe P’09 Charles P. Coleman III ’93 Mr. & Mrs. J. Jeffers Cox P ’10, ’12 Richard W. Daniels ’40* (dec.) Frederick C. Darling ’87 Jacques de Saint Phalle ’78 Mr. & Mrs. Bradley M. Dewey P ’11 Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Dewey Jr. ’49 P ’77, G ’11, ’12* Waldo E. Dodge ’41* Paul A. Downey ’57 Mr. & Mrs. Cree A. Edwards ’75 P ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Samuel H. Ellis P ’97 Nathaniel F. Emmons ’60 Michael P. Falcone ’80 P ’10 E. Robert Fernholz ’58 Edmund B. Fitzgerald ’43* Ryan M. FitzSimons ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Edsel B. Ford II P’10 Robert G. Goelet ’97 H. Irving Grousbeck ’52 Mr. & Mrs. Roy D. Grossman P '03, '06 William Alexander Guthrie ’43

* Denotes Boyden Society Member

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Hakes P ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Mark K. Hammerschlag P ’93, ’04 David M. Haviland ’82 P ’11 & Ms Catherine M. Haviland P '11 Dwight R. Hilson ’75 P ’09 Andrew R. Hough ’89 Mr. Kenneth W. Hubbard & Ms Tori Dauphinot P '97, '10 Mr. Sung-Bai Hwang & Ms Youn-hee Chang P’09 Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Jackson P ’08 Joseph A. Jeffrey Jr. ’53* Mr. & Mrs. Marc V. Johnson ’74 P ’08, ’11 William D. Ju ’74 Mr. Dongsoo Kim & Ms Yoonhee Jeon P ’09, ’11 Inho Kim ’81 & Mrs. Yoon Jung Cho-Kim P '08, '11 Yong Hyun Kim ’85 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher D. Kirsten ’74 P ’11 Andrew D. Klingenstein ’76 Thomas D. Klingenstein ’72 Fred Koch ’64 David J. Koeppel ’76 Mr. & Mrs. Francis A. L’Esperance III ’75 P ’13 Mr. William Lamb & Ms Claudia Holz P ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Michael Lanahan P ’04 Robert W. Lasher ’84 Mr. Wisanggeni Lauw & Ms Evi Carolina Tjandinegara P '10, '11 Mr. & Mrs. William Laverack Jr. P ’11 Mr. & Mrs. L. Peter Lawrence P ’08 Junwoo J. Lee ’88 Terry T. Lee ’84 Gustave K. Lipman ’89 Joseph P. Lotuff III ’82 Dr. & Mrs. Herbert J. Louis ’46 P ’69, ’73, ’80, ’82, G ’97, ’99, ’01, ’05, ’07, ’10, ’12 J. Jeffry Louis ’81 Mrs. John J. Louis Jr. ’43 P ’81, G ’06, ’11 Dr. & Mrs. Steven S. Louis ’80 P ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher K. Malfitano P ’11 Mr. & Mrs. H. Stanley Mansfield Jr. ’53 G ’03* Dean W. Mathey ’46* Mr. & Mrs. T. Stuart Meloy ’76 P ’10 Andrew J. Merin ’66* Mr. David Scott Moore F’49 John P. B. Moran ’58 Robert K. Moses Jr. ’58 Mr. & Mrs. William J. Mulrow P ’08, ’10, ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Christopher G. Mumford ’64 P ’01* Mr. Gerald L. Nudo & Ms Anne B. Voshel P '10 Mr. & Mrs. Bradford C. Oelman ’56 P ’98 Niti Osathanugrah ’92 Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Pasciucco P ’10, ’13 Mr. & Mrs. Steven Quamme P ’11 Mr. & Mrs. Peter W. Quesada '71 P '12 Stewart Reid ’68

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Rockefeller ’47 P ’77 Nelson A. Rockefeller Jr. ’82 Henry M. Rowan ’41* David B. Rubin ’75 Andrew N. Schiff ’83 Peter M. Schulte ’75 & Ms Katherine R. Carpenter P '10, '13 Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Sethness ’64 P’02, ’07 Mr. & Mrs. Steven R. Sheresky '69 P '08 Mr. Doo Young Shin & Ms Ji Yeon Lee P '10 Edward C. Simmons III ’56 Frederick M. R. Smith ’59* Robert B. Starbuck ’80 Mr. Murry K. Stegelmann & The Rev. Dawn M. Stegelmann P ’09, ’11 Richard J. Sterne ’64 Robert L. Stone ’40 P ’72, ’73* (dec.) Dylan C. Tornay ’94 Richard A. van den Broek ’84 Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. von Arentschildt P ’10 Mr. & Mrs. David P. Wagener P ’10 Mr. & Mrs. Keith S. Wellin P ’73, G ’11 Philip B. Weymouth III ’83* Mr. & Mrs. John R. Whitton III P ’01, ’04, ’09, ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Charles Wilson P’10, ’12 Mr. Youngdoo Yoon & Ms Sung Lim Chi P ’11

Members Anonymous Donor (4) Donald G. Abbey ’66 Peter A. Acly ’63 Alexander D. Acquavella ’99 Nicholas W. Acquavella ’96 John D. Amorosi ’87 Placido Arango Jr. ’77 A. Alexander Arnold IV ’91 Andrew K. Bain ’82 William D. Baird ’88 John B. Baldwin ’73 Hilton H. Ball ’93 Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Barkus ’72 P ’05 Robert P. Baynard Jr. ’80 Mr. & Mrs. Michael Beaumont P ’09, ’11 Dorrance R. Belin ’56 Geoffrey S. Bennett ’83 Stephen L. Berkman ’57 Jeffrey L. Berkowitz ’66 Mr. & Mrs. Anthony R. Berner P ’08, ’11 Richard B. Berner ’64 Mr. & Mrs. E. Garrett Bewkes III ’68 P ’00, ’02, ’06 Jeffrey L. Bewkes ’70 James R. Billingsley Jr. ’80 Mr. Paul S. Bird & Ms Amy Parsons P ’09, ’12 Hugh B. Bolton ’89

Chesley P. Booth ’57 Tantivy G. Bostwick ’95 Dr. & Mrs. Peter H. Bradshaw ’74 P ’06 David A. Brauner ’59 Mr. & Mrs. Babert V. Brooks ’43 P ’72, ’75* Kenton R. Brown ’94 Preston G. Brown ’94 Mr. & Mrs. Leonard J. Buck ’81 P ’11, ’13 Van Vechten Burger Jr. ’57 Miles E. Buttery II ’73 James A. Butz ’80 Mr. & Mrs. James R. Byrne P '06, '08, '12 William N. Callender ’91 Mr. Richard J. Canty & Ms Hope B. Woodhouse P ’08 Mr. & Mrs. George W. Carmany III ’58 P ’91, ’93 Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Carpenter P ’07, ’11 Macauley Carter Jr. ’59 Inwoo P. Chang ’90 Mr. Kaukab N. Chaudhry & Ms Nancy A. Rochford P ’09 Richard W. Cheek ’64 Clement Chen III ’73 Mr. & Mrs. Andrew R. Cherna P ’08, ’12 Mr. & Mrs. S. J. Paul Chien P ’10 Donald R. Clark Jr. ’59* Andrew A. Cohen ’81 Mr. & Mrs. William S. Colwell ’69 P ’97 Mr. & Mrs. Martin Cornelson P ’09 Rory J. Cowan ’71 P ’07, ’08, ’13 & Dr. Charlotte C. Cowan P'07, '08, '13 Mrs. Jean Cox P’87 Mr. & Mrs. Owen S. Crihfield P ’09, ’12 Douglas A. Cruikshank ’83 Mr. & Mrs. Eliot R. Cutler ’64 P ’99 Delphine & Allen F. Damon ’78 P ’13 Mr. & Mrs. Aaron M. Daniels ’53 P ’84* Alexander M. Daniels ’84 Mr. & Mrs. David R. DeCamp ’76 P ’13 Mr. & Mrs. Patrick M. Delaney P ’08 Dr. & Mrs. Steven C. Dennis P ’08, ’09 Mr. & Mrs. Ralph D. DeNunzio P ’74, ’77, ’80, G ’11, ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. DeNunzio ’80 P ’11, ’12 William E. DeRose ’61 Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Dewey III ’77 P ’12* Sara E. di Bonaventura ’01 Edison W. Dick ’55* Deane M. Dray ’76 P ’08 Mr. & Mrs. James D. Dunning Jr. ’66 P ’01, ’04* James D. Dunning III ’01 E. Bradford duPont Jr. ’82 Todd H. Eckler ’86* Robert A. Engel ’82 William W. Ettelson ’84

Robert L. Evans ’75 Nathaniel M. Ewing ’99 Katherine T. Farmer ’92 George L. Faux ’80 John C. Fedor-Cunningham ’84 Adam J. Feiges ’83 George M. Feldman ’64 Luis J. Fernandez Jr. ’77 Luke E. Fichthorn IV ’88 Mr. & Mrs. Augustus B. Field IV ’80 P ’11, ’13 Jamee C. Field ’93 Mr. & Mrs. David B. Findlay Jr. ’51 P ’76, G ’03, ’05, ’08* Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Flato ’73 P ’10, ’12 Thomas J. Fleisch ’74 William J. Florence III ’79 Mr. & Mrs. Henry N. Flynt Jr. ’40 P ’71 G ’04* Mr. & Mrs. Tod M. Fobare P ’09 Cornelius S. Franckle Jr. ’59* M. Dozier Gardner ’51* Daniel B. Garrison ’94 Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Garrison ’66 P’94, ’00* Tomas M. Gilmore ’84 Mr. & Mrs. O. Renaud Goltra ’62 P ’97, ’98 Mr. & Mrs. Peter W. Gonzalez ’62* P ’94, ’97 Peter W. Gonzalez Jr. ’94 Eugene W. Goodwillie Jr. ’59* Leila S. Govi ’93 Ulrich A. C. Graebner ’84 Edwin H. Grant Jr. ’49* Mr. J. Douglas Gray P’08, ’11 Mrs. Karen Z. Gray P’08, ’11 Gregory R. Greene ’84 Joshua A. S. Greenhill ’96 Jonathan H. Grenzke ’94 Bruce D. Grinnell ’58 Mr. & Mrs. Steven C. Guggenheimer P’09 Ms Seung Yeon Ha & Mr. Ho Cheol Lee P '10 Mark A. Hadley ’76 Paul J. S. Haigney ’78 Christopher P. Halpin ’94 Alexander Kyle Hammerschlag ’04 Nicholas Zachary Hammerschlag ’04 Dr. Sung Hee Han & Ms Min Su Lee P ’09* Scott M. Hand ’60 Stephen W. Hannock ’70 Robert Hardman Jr. ’66 Stephen J. Harrick ’89 Jonathan Harwell ’57* Sophie Brown Hawkins ’92 Gates H. Hawn ’66* Mr. & Mrs. Henry C. Heller P ’10, ’12 Robert B. Hiden Jr. ’51* Mrs. Harriet Hight P ’58, ’60* (dec.) Thomas Higley ’52*

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Members continued Richard D. Hillenbrand II ’93 B. Barrett Hinckley III ’84 Harvey D. Hinman ’58 Ms Leslie F. Hodges P ’10, ’13 Hudson Holland III ’84 Ms Diane M. Hood P’81* (dec.) Mr. & Mrs. David Y. Howe P ’12 Robert B. Hrabchak ’81 Murray C. Huneke ’78 Mr. & Mrs. Douglas R. Jamieson P ’08 John A. Jensen Jr. ’66 Mr. & Mrs. H. Rust Johnston II ’68 P’03 Jeremy Jones ’59* Mr. & Mrs. W. Randall Jones P ’12 Colebrooke Jordan ’78 Mr. & Mrs. G. Kent Kahle ’70 P ’02, ’04, ’07 Mary Helen Keebler ’04 Dr. & Mrs. John S. Keebler P ’04 Silas Keehn ’48

Mr. & Mrs. Philip S. Kemp, Jr. P ’07, ’09 Mr. Thomas L. Kempner, Jr. & Ms Katheryn C. Patterson P '01 Allan Y. Kim ’84 Donald K. King ’91 Alexander Mark Kleiner ’04 Mr. Fred S. Kleiner & Mrs. Diana E.E. Kleiner P '04 Mr. & Mrs. Gordon R. Knight ’54 G ’03* Caleb D. Koeppel ’74 Olav B. Kollevoll Jr. ’70 Orin S. Kramer ’63* Kevin B. Kroeger ’87 Scott J. La Shelle ’80 Mark T. Laflamme ’83 Mr. William Lamb & Ms Claudia Holz P ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Alex Lee P ’09 Mr. Ho Cheol Lee & Ms Seung Yeon Ha P '10 R. David Lenoue ’53* Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lewisohn III ’60 P ’88* Mr. & Mrs. R. Scott Logie P ’10, ’13 John G. Long Jr. ’56* Mr. Robert D. Long & Mrs. Susan Biondo Long P’11

Timothy C. Louis ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Y. T. Lu P’09 Annie C. Lukowski ’97 Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Lyle II ’64 P ’91, ’95 Mrs. Marilyn MacLeod ’45* Mr. Rocco Maggiotto & Ms Kathleen M. Fisher P '08 Mr. & Mrs. Merrill L. Magowan ’56 P ’88 G ’09* Mr. & Mrs. James F. Manning III ’47 P ’76, ’77 Joseph P. Manory ’80 Frank A. Markus ’62* Mr. & Mrs. Michael C. Marsh P ’07 Mr. & Mrs. Macdonald Mathey ’47 P ’91, ’94* Allen I. Maurer ’59 P ’03 Elizabeth F. McCusker-Concannon ’94 D. Bruce McDonald ’78 John E. McGovern III ’87 Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin McGrath P ’12 Dana G. Mead Jr. ’78 Peter A. B. Melhado ’75 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Merrill P ’06, ’11 Edwin H. Metcalf '54*

David B. Middleton ’74* John A. Millard ’59 David J. Miller ’97 Erwin H. Miller ’58* Dr. & Mrs. James E. Miller P ’97, ’01, ’02, ’09, ’12 Tilford D. Miller ’40 R. King Milling ’58 Vincent Monte-Sano II ’59 Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Morris P ’10 Thomas W. Morss ’77 William G. Morton Jr. ’55* Mr. & Mrs. Devin I. Murphy ’78 P ’06, ’10 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Murphy Jr. P ’11 Ian P. Murray ’82 Stephen E. Nauss ’68 Mr. & Mrs. Gordon L. Nelson Jr. P ’10, ’12 Nicholas M. Nelson ’46* Allan P. Newell ’64 Dr. Nicole Noyes & Mr. William McLaughry P ’11 James F. O’Brien ’84 Peter L. O’Brien ’87 Frank T. O’Keefe ’77

Participation

Class Year

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* Denotes Boyden Society Member

Mr. & Mrs. Edmond Opler Jr. ’51* P ’73, ’74, ’89 Mr. & Mrs. R. Ward Osgood P ’11, ’13 Dr. & Mrs. David F. Panno P ’09 Mr. & Mrs. Willis O. Pember P ’11 Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Phelan ’78 P ’11 Michael C. Phillips ’68 Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Proctor III P ’09, ’11 Scott J. Quigg ’82 Mr. & Mrs. John F. Rand ’65 P ’09, ’13 Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Reed ’82 P ’10 W. Casey Reed ’69* Hal W. Reynolds ’76 James S. Richard ’90 Mr. & Mrs. Peter Richardson P ’07 Mr. & Mrs. H. Marvin Riddle III ’47 P ’76 William M. Riegel ’46* Mr. & Mrs. Bruce R. Rippey ’56 P ’79* Mr. & Mrs. Todd Robbins P’11 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Robinson ’60 P ’97, ’01 Richard Royce ’84 Willis H. Sanburn ’37* Thomas J. Sanford Jr. ’86

Justin G. Sautter ’91 Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Schlacks P ’13 Mr. & Mrs. Bryant W. Seaman III P ’11 Appleton H. Seaverns ’35 Mr. & Mrs. Garrett P. Shumway ’78 P ’12 Mr. & Mrs. W. Reed Simmons ’63 P ’08* Eric H. Simon ’92 Carter Brooks Simonds ’95 Mr. & Mrs.Charles M. Sincerbeaux ’71 P ’04, ’06 Jackson W. Smart III ’79 Mr. & Mrs. McKelden Smith P ’05, ’08 Stephen M. Snyder ’77 Amy E. Sodha ’97* Matthew J. Stewart ’94 Mr. & Mrs. John J. Stobierski ’78 P ’12 Mr. & Mrs. Donald Stone ’42 P ’69 Mr. & Mrs. David B. Straut P ’05, ’07, ’11 Seth D. Strickland ’56 Eric S. Suher ’83 Edward T. Susanto ’92 Hamburg Tang Jr. ’84 David A. Thiel ’91*

Henry D. Tiffany III ’58 & Ms Ginette Dachelet P '91 Richard M. Timms Jr. ’59* Walter S. Tomenson III ’95 Mr. & Mrs. Michael K. Tooke ’62 P ’94* Mr. & Mrs. Rolf H. Towe ’55 P ’94 Ms Susan E. Trees P ’11 Mr. & Mrs. Denis M. Turko ’56 P ’85* Mr. & Mrs. William C. Ughetta Jr. P ’07 Michael A. Uihlein ’54* Charles B. Updike ’57* Mr. & Mrs. Scott W. Vallar ’78 P ’12 Erskine B. van Houten Jr. ’43* Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Warren ’63 P ’98 Mark Wasserberger ’85 Steven W. Wayne ’84 Mr. & Mrs. James G. Webster III 51 P ’76, ’79, ’81 C. Douglas Weeden ’02 Reed Weeden ’99 John S. Weinberg ’75 Mr. & Mrs. Sidney J. Weinberg Jr. ’41 P ’75 G ’04, ’08

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Weller, Jr. P ’10 Mr. & Mrs. George M. Wheatley III ’78 P ’11 Avery B. Whidden ’95 Laurence F. Whittemore III ’84 Eric Widmer ’57 H ’54, ’06* Mr. Michael B. Wieczorek & Ms Lynette Prescott P '10, '11 Mr. & Mrs. Alexander H. Williams III ’57 P ’89 James M. Wilmott ’82 Mrs. Robert W. Wilson ’26* Mr. & Mrs. Louis S. Wolfe P ’93, ’96 Whitney G. Wolfe ’96 Prof. Glenn M. Wong & Dr. Paula M. Nassif P ’05, ’08 Peter I. Workman ’56 Kenneth B. Worthington ’90 Scott A. Yeager ’82 William R. Ziglar ’82 P ’13 Mr. & Mrs. John R. Zurlo P’10

Total Cash Received In FY09 9/1/08 to 8/31/09

(Please note that this graph reflects cash contributions only; multi-year pledges to the Academy are not included. To see the extraordinary multi-year commitments of the Class of ’59 and the ’09 Senior Parents, see pages 90 and 92.)

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Class of 1959 50th Reunion In honor of their 50th Reunion, The Great Class of 1959 raised a total of $1,532,311.61 in gifts, pledges and deferred gifts. Seventy-seven percent of the class participated in the fundraising effort. Of the amount raised, $1,079,304.95 will be used to establish The Class of 1959 Endowed Fund in Support of Ethical, Global and Environmental Education. $230,397.33 will go to other endowed funds including The Grant Wheeler â&#x20AC;&#x2122;59 Memorial Fund, which was established to promote community service as an integral part of the Deerfield experience, and to ensure that community service opportunities, including service-related travel programs, are available to all students regardless of their financial background. Finally, $222,609.33 is designated for Annual Support. 50th Reunion Committee Co-Chairs: The Rev. Can. Robert G. Hetherington, Jay C. Huffard and Robert (Skip) Mattoon; Committee Members: John W. Arata, Beaumont (Beau) B. Bianchi, A. Macdonald (Mac) Caputo, Macauley Carter Jr., Frederick (Rick) C. Copeland Jr., Bruce C. Farrell, Michael Frith, Eugene (Gene) W. Goodwillie Jr., E. Brooks Goddard, Jeremy Jones, John F. Kikoski Jr., Robert (Bob) W. Lennon, Allen (Al) I. Maurer, Vincent (Bizzy) Monte-Sano II, Frederick (Fred) M.R. Smith, Phillips (Phil) Stevens Jr., Sabin C. Streeter, Richard (Rick) M. Timms Jr., Grant W. Wheeler (dec.11/08), William (Bill) J. Zisson

Gifts and Pledges: Bequests 50th Reunion Total: Contributors: Percent Participation:

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$1,013,970 $517,500 $1,532,311.61 84 77.36%

$100,000+

A. Macdonald Caputo* Frederick C. Copeland Jr. Eugene W. Goodwillie Jr.* Jay C. Huffard* E. Jeffrey Peierls Frederick M. R. Smith* Sabin C. Streeter William J. Zisson*

$50,000 to $99,999 John W. Arata* Beaumont B. Bianchi Marshall Field Allen I. Maurer

$25,000 to $49,999 Robert G. Hetherington Jeremy Jones Robert H. Mattoon Jr.*

$10,000 to $24,999 William H. Boardman Jr.* Richard M. Timms Jr.*

$3,500 to $9,999 Anonymous Donor David A. Brauner Macauley Carter Jr. Donald R. Clark Jr.* Cornelius S. Franckle Jr.* John F. Kikoski Jr.* John A. Millard Vincent Monte-Sano II

$1000 to $3,499

Anonymous Donor Christopher B. Cerf George A. Fonda Michael K. Frith Charles W. Greenleaf Jr. Peter L. Grose* Edward C. Hall Lloyd R. Hardy C. Richard Hawley Robert W. Lennon* Robert M. Murdock Christopher C. H. Rawson Douglas J. Rowe Peter D. Simpson

Phillips Stevens Jr. Geoffrey A. Thompson Guido F. Verbeck III* Grant W. Wheeler

Under $1000

John D. Barnard Hartman E. Blanchard William M. Boyd II Daniel A. Bullard John P. Chalmers Stephen E. Chalmers John R. Cole William W. Conde III R. Thompson Crane III Robert G. Crocker Henry E. Dahlberg Jr. Albert H. Dietrich Koichiro Fujikura E. Brooks Goddard Charles J. Goldthwaite Jr. H. Camp Gordinier Thomas W. Grant S. Braley Gray III Timothy Grieser Robert J. Guerin Jr. Stirlin Harris Richard M. Herman Albert C. Hills James W. Hinds Edward R. Hines James K. Irvin Jr. John W. Johnston Peter C. Lillie Robert B. Low Peter B. Lowry Clinton Tucker Meneely David C. Milliken G. Glennwood Osgoodby James W. Palmer John B. Payne Dennis R. Redding Philip S. Reynolds Glenn F. Rodgers Stephen J. Rose John G. Talcott III John M. Watts Jr. Jeremiah W. Whitney

* Denotes Boyden Society Member

Class of 1984 25th Reunion $100,000+ Robert T. Hale Jr. George S. Loening

$25,000 to $49,999 William N. Mathis

$10,000 to $24,999 Robert W. Lasher Terry T. Lee Richard A. van den Broek

$3,500 to $9,999 Alexander M. Daniels William W. Ettelson John C. Fedor-Cunningham Tomas M. Gilmore Ulrich A. C. Graebner Gregory R. Greene B. Barrett Hinckley III Hudson Holland III Allan Y. Kim James F. O'Brien Richard Royce Hamburg Tang Jr. Steven W. Wayne Laurence F. Whittemore III

$1000 to $3,499 Morgan L. Binswanger Adam J. Brauer Scott F. Frodyma Stuart D. Hallagan III Jonathan K. E. Hochwald T. Spencer Knight III David P. Kreisler Danny W. L. Lee Christopher S. Miller M/M William A. Petzold Thomas T. Petzold II David A. Rancourt Geoffrey S. Sefert Richard M. Sincerbeaux Jr. M/M H. William Smith Jr. Michael J. Uccellini Chris Waldorf Brett R. West

under $1000 Mrs. Barbara L. Barenblatt J. Alexander Bates Colin F. Bell M/M Howard E. Bell Ms Marian Bingham David H. Bloomer Stephen T. Briones Patrick H. Brophy Christopher R. Cloney D/M Gerard P. Cloney Richard B. Cunningham Jr. Thomas I. Decker Patrick A. Devlin Robert F. Downing Jr. M/M Charles M. Fedor Edward S. Gillette II Geoffrey W. Gilson David B. Gulliver Mrs. Judith B. Hale William B. Hetzel III Hugh R. Jones III Mitchell H. Katz R'ykandar S. Korra'ti M/M Michael N. Kreisler Joseph T. Lardner Christopher B. Lippincott Michael P. McGonigle D/M Merlin G. Miller Roy Scott T. Parker IV Jason A. Phipps Alden C. Purrington III Glen P. Randall Roland R. Randall III Kristian T. Simsarian Horace E. Six-Means Christopher M. Smith Stuart B. Strong Jr. D/M John F. Tulenko Peter N. White Victor L. Wright John W. Wyatt

Gifts in Kind Anonymous Donor E. Garrett Bewkes III ’68 P’00, ’02, ’06 Ms Ann G.R. Bognolo F Mr. Kenneth L. Brown F Thomas G. Clark ’67 P’94, 96 Mr. Bayard S. Cutcliffe F Peter F. Dessauer ’67 Beau Fraser ’75 Stirlin Harris ’59 Thurston Holt ’37 David L. Hoof ’64 William B. Hubbell Jr. ’52 P’84* Ms Patricia M. Kelly F Ashley R. Laporte '06 Dr. & Mrs. Alexander C. McLeod P’91 Mr. & Mrs. Robert Moorhead F Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Nolan Jr. P’97, ’01, ’10 Christopher R. Obetz '85 Ms Suvasini Patel F Frank J. Philbrick '97 Mr. & Mrs. W. Barry Piekos P’04, ’07 Mr. Edward Ragg F Mr. Ramesh J. Rajballie F John Shelton Reed Jr. ’60 Nathaniel P. Reed ’51 P’84* B. Justin F. Reich ’95 Mr. Carroll Rikert Jr. F Mr. Mark W. Scandling F Mr. Jaswant Singh F Mr. & Mrs. Jared Stamell P’12 Mr. & Mrs. Gabor I. Temesvari P’92 Ms Susan K. van de Ven F Philip B. Weymouth III ’83*

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Campaign to Honor the Class of 2009 Deerfield Fitness Center and Greer Store Renovation

The Senior Parents Campaign to Honor the Class of 2009 combined with the Class of 2008 and other key individuals in an $11 million program that will transform two core areas of campus life: the expansion of the Greer Store and the creation of a state-of-the-art Fitness Center. The ’09 Senior Parents Campaign was co-chaired by Doug ’69 and Maggie Squires P’09 and was supported by a committee of more than 40 senior parent volunteers. This year's special capital campaign achieved $1,074,437 in gifts and pleadges and 80% participation in recognition of the accomplishments of the Great Class of 2009. Listed below are the names of the senior class parents and grandparents who contributed to the campaign as well as other Academy needs.

$100,000+ Mr. E. Garrett Bewkes Jr. M/M Franz H. Burda M/M Timothy J. Ingrassia M/M John L. Scott Mr. Karl G. Wellner & Ms Deborah A. Norville

$50,000 to $99,999 M/M Eric L. Berg Mr. Si Hoon Ryu & Ms Ji Hyun Nam

$25,000 to $49,999 M/M Jeremy Y. T. Lu M/M John R. Whitton III

$10,000 to $24,999 Anonymous Donor M/M Robert D. Bewkes Sr. Mr. Paul S. Bird & Ms Amy Parsons M/M John T. J. Coe M/M Dwight R. Hilson Mr. Sung-Bai Hwang & Ms Youn-hee Chang Mr. Dongsoo Kim & Ms Yoonhee Jeon M/M Alex Lee

D/M James E. Miller M/M Norman R. Prouty Jr. M/M Douglas W. Squires Mr. Murry K. Stegelmann & The Rev. Dawn M. Stegelmann

$3,500 to $9,999 M/M Michael Beaumont Mr. Kaukab N. Chaudhry & Ms Nancy A. Rochford M/M Martin Cornelson M/M Owen S. Crihfield D/M Steven C. Dennis M/M Tod M. Fobare M/M Steven C. Guggenheimer Dr. Sung Hee Han & Ms Min Su Lee* M/M Philip S. Kemp Jr. M/M Charles T. Lennon M/M Merrill L. Magowan* D/M David F. Panno M/M Robert A. Proctor III M/M John F. Rand

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$1000 to $3,499 M/M Roger C. Amato M/M James B. Ardrey M/M Frank G. Binswanger Jr. M/M Frank G. Binswanger III M/M John D. Black M/M James C. Blair M/M David M. Carver M/M Robert Castelo M/M William H. Chamberlain M/M William J. Civitillo Sr. M/M Lammot Copeland D/M Thomas W. Dugdale D/M David D. Evans M/M Walter A. Forbes M/M Berdine Groel Mr. Harry A. Hanson III & Ms Ann Hollingsworth M/M Steven M. Hebert Dr. William F. Hickey & Ms Lauri-Annis S. Rich Mr. Bernard Jammet Mr. Carl S. Kaplan & Ms Pamela H. Mendels Dr. Daeki Kim & Ms Soojeong Lee D/M Yong Sik Kim M/M Clement K. M. Kwok M/M Per Arne Lorentzen M/M Thomas C. Magowan M/M Kevin McKenna M/M Paul M. Morris Ms Suzanne B. Nicholson M/M Peter Nitze Mr. Gregory M. Olchowski Mr. Edward G. Philie & Ms Phyllis A. Powers-Philie M/M John W. Potter M/M E. Scott Reed M/M Ted Skinner M/M Stuart B. Upson Jr. M/M Thomas H. Wilson

Under $1000 M/M Nils P. Ahbel M/M Frank Andrea Mr. Paul W. Ashley & Ms O'Rene D. Nation-Ashley Ms Lynne Bahng M/M Jeffrey A. Ball Mrs. Marilyn Ball M/M Ralph W. Ball M/M Douglas A. Beimfohr M/M Arthur E. Belanger Jr. M/M Charles Bell Jr. M/M William J. Bell

Mr. Robert H. Black M/M Terence Blackwood Mr. James M. Bolger Mrs. Jean M. Bolger M/M Larry W. Browne Mr. Malcolm M. Carley & Ms Hellie Swartwood Mrs. Edward P. Christian M/M R. Noel Clinard M/M Peter C. Colt D/M Joseph L. Conway Jr. Mr. James Cook & Ms H. Caroline Willis Ms Diane Cummings Ms Hannah Davis M/M Palmer R. Davis M/M Robert Dobias D/M Mladen Dragicevic Ms Sharon Dunn & Mr. John J. Clayton Ms Antoinette M. Emers M/M John C. Forrey Ms Barbara Foster Ms Valerie Ghitelman M/M Randolph C. Guggenheimer M/M Zahi N. Haddad Mr. R. Taber Hand M/M Harry A. Hanson Jr. Mr. Russell Harrington & Ms Natalie Chamberlain M/M Michael Hawkins Mr. Stephen Heartt Mr. Julian Hecht & Ms Deborah Mowat M/M Alan Hess M/M Steven D. Hill Ms Caroline J. Hollingsworth M/M Alexander C. Hoyt Dr. Alan Hymanson & Dr. Patricia Locuratolo Mr. Pierre R. Jacquet M/M Andrew W. Jamison M/M William K. Jenkins M/M J. Evan Johnson M/M Hongjoon Jung Mrs. Kirsten Kapteyn Mr. Hossein Kazemi & Ms Mahnaz Mahdavi Mr. Arn Krugman & Ms Margaret M. Fisher-Krugman M/M Martin Kundl M/M Michel Laganiere Ms Chris C. Laporte M/M Pei-Fen Lee M/M Pierre Lessard

Dr. Jane S. Lyman Mrs. Richard A. Lyman D/M Anthony S. Y. Mak M/M Paul Mazur M/M Richard T. Miliante Capt/M August V. Millard M/M Bruce Miller M/M Keith A. Minoff M/M Pierre P. Moncion M/M David E. Nichols Mr. Chester V. Pielock Jr. & Dr. Adele M. Checchi M/M Stephen J. Pielock D/M Lawrence Pizzitola Mr. Michael Posever & Ms Anne-Marie Demetz D/M Donald R. Reisfield M/M Scott G. Reisfield M/M John H. Riley Mr. Juan A. Ripoll & Ms Aixa M. Cruz-Falu M/M John B. Robbie M/M J. Jeffery Rold M/M Philip Sachs Dr. C. P. Haun Saussy M/M Timothy P. Schieffelin Mr. Allan P. Shope & Mrs. Julie Flicker Shope M/M Timothy Simmonds M/M Gary J. Stokarski Mrs. Cynthia Busbee Sullivan M/M John K. Sullivan* Mr. William H. Thomas III M/M William B. Thompson M/M Omar V. Tiongson M/M Stephen Tomi M/M Timothy A. Umbach M/M Peter D. Van Oot M/M Andrew R. Wardwell Ms Carla S. Warren M/M Steven Weinstein M/M George H. Welles Jr. M/M John R. Whitton Jr. Ms Jane R. Williams & Mr. John H. Ciesluk M/M William C. Wood M/M David C. Woodward Mr. Daniel Workman & The Hon. Dina Fein M/M Lawrence A. Wrisley M/M Rodman J. Zilenziger Jr.

* Denotes Boyden Society Member

GIFTS IN MEMORY OF REV. G. RICHARD MCKELVEY P’77, ’79, ’81, P’83 G’10, ’13

GIFTS GIVEN IN MEMORY OF MR. MICHAEL D. BOIS

GIFTS IN MEMORY OF MR. DAVID CHALMERS OLSON ’77, P’02,’05

GIFTS IN MEMORY OF DR. GEORGE GIBSON WILLIS ’35

The following individuals made gifts to the Rev. G. Richard & Joan Miller McKelvey Counseling & Human Services Fund in memory of G. Richard McKelvey who died July 7, 2009.

The following individuals made gifts to the Michael D. Bois Memorial Fund in memory of Mr. Michael D. Bois who died December 10, 2008.

The following individuals made gifts to the David C. Olson ’77 Memorial Fund in memory of David Chalmers Olson who died February 15, 2009.

The following individuals made gifts to the George G. Willis ’35 Memorial Fund in memory of George Gibson Willis who died July 3, 2009.

Dr. Mary V. Andrianopoulos & Dr. Roderic A. Grupen Mr. Joseph T. Bartlett Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. Judd H. Blain Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ciabattoni Concerto Foods, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Dagrosa Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Demers Dr. Thomas S. Echeverria Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Elliott Episcopal Diocese of Rochester Mr. and Mrs. G. Alan Fraker Mr. and Mrs. John F. Graney Mr. and Mrs. John L. Harris Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Lubinsky Mr. Anthony V. Manory Jr. Mr. Kevin M. McKelvey Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Miller Ms Susan J. Monahan Mr. and Mrs. John C. O’Brien Ms Dorothy O’Reilly Mr. and Mrs. William E. Starkey Mr. Norman Therien Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Veideman Mr. and Mrs. C.S. Waller Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Whitaker

Mr. Francis Beidler IV Mr. Stephen T. Engle Mr. Ryan M. FitzSimons Donald I. Flickinger Ph.D. Mr. Joshua A. S. Greenhill Mr. Richard D. Hillenbrand, II Mr. John F. Holland Mr. and Mrs. Jotham Johnson Ms Margaret Kabaniec Mr. and Mrs. David R. Keller Mr. Sean D. Keller Mr. Paul B. K. Kusserow Ms Suzanne Kusserow Mr. and Mrs. Dennis G. Lively Mr. Grant McCargo III Mr. Robert G. McCollum Jr. Mr. Grant T. Murray Mr. A. David Niles II Mr. Kolia J. B. F. O’Connor Mr. Niti Osathanugrah Mr. Michael B. Percy Mr. Kevin D. Psonak Mr. Derek R. Reisfield Dr. and Mrs. Donald R. Reisfield Mr. Charles B. Rouse Reynolds M. Salerno Ph.D Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Sichol Mr. James I. Swinden Mr. Christopher T. Toll Dr. Giles D. Toll Dr. and Mrs. Anthony S. Tornay Jr. Mr. Dylan C. Tornay Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. White Mr. Ben C. Wileman III Ms Leslie M. Wileman

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bomann, Jr. Mr. Kevin T. Bottomley Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Carlson Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Daum Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Day, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Dunnan Mr. and Mrs. William L. Farrell Mr. and Mrs. Eric C. Fast Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Grossman Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hawley Mr. Charles T. Haydock Mr. John M. Hennessy Mr. B. Thomas Henry Mrs. Courtney Lesko Holland Mr. and Mrs. George T. Hubbard Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Hughes Mr. and Mrs. J. Hayes Kavanagh Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Keegan Mr. Thomas L. Kempner Jr. & Ms Katheryn C. Patterson Mr. Gary W. Klingner Dr. and Mrs. Horacio G. Lardo Mr. Lincoln P. Lyman Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mahmarian Mr. and Mrs. Peter Matthy McCarthy Fingar, LLP Mr. Frank McGrath Mr. and Mrs. James E. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah P. Murphy Mr. Peter B. Neville Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Novak Ms Arabelle M. Rowe Mr. Steven R. Sheresky Ms Anna Bain Slater Mr. and Mrs. John L. Townsend, III Mr. David A. Weller Ms Peggy Whitlock

Mr. Salvatore V. Bonanno Dr. Bruce R. Brown* Ms Ellen M.Brown Mr. and Mrs. Phil deGozzaldi Mr. Gardner M. Edgarton Mr. Stanton T. Fitts Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Fitts Mrs. George V. Hanson Mr. and Mrs. George C. Harrington Mr. and Mrs. Dana N. Jost Dr. and Mrs. David W. Moore Russell, Brier & Co., LLP Mr. and Mrs. Joel Saldinger Trustees of Edgell Grove Cemetery Mr. and Mrs. George R. Turmail Mr. and Mrs. James W. Walckner Mrs. Mark S. Wellington Mr. and Mrs. David O. Whittemore Mr. and Mrs. John R. Willis

Deerfield Annual Report

Peter Schulte, senior year

When Magic Comes Together Between the River and the Rock By Peter Schulte ’75 P ’10, ’13

It was early September 1971, and about 590 boys made their way to the swath of green between the River and the Rock, to pursue a path laid down by FLB some 70 years before – and which continues in an unbent manner today, nearly 40 years later. For many of us it would be our first exposure to the rites of passage we would experience over the ensuing four years—the “enforcement of respect” by Jim Smith on Mather I or learning to “Dine at Table 49” with Bryce V. Lambert, among other traditions—each experience individual and yet collectively similar. What are the differences between Deerfield “then” and Deerfield “today?” The very “modern” Deerfield—the DA with as many girls as boys, outstanding academics, teachers who care about and actually “know” the students, great sports and arts programs, the most desirable school to attend in terms of admission figures — the school known as the “hottest” among applicants and their parents—are all part of Deerfield in 2010. And yet, even with these modern “differences”—and they are great—

the dynamic that has been maintained not only sets the standard at the cutting edge of academic leadership, but does so without compromising the integrity of DA’s program, culture, and school life that have been the signature of the Deerfield Experience since its inception. I believe Deerfield is a better school today than when I was a student. Consider that the number of teachers and staff has increased dramatically, but the school’s footprint has not. The number of students is within about five percent of its historic enrollment of 40 years ago, but the course offerings have increased significantly. The number of sports offered has expanded a bit and become significantly more complex to organize because DA operates at a “times two” factor—due to having a roughly equal number of girls’ and boys’ teams. The number of deans has been increased and this improvement reflects the importance placed on all aspects of school life, including each class, academics, and extracurricular life. In the decades before coeducation girls would be imported on Saturday nights from Miss Porters, Emma Willard, and other schools. Boys waited near the bus drop off on Albany Road, but not quite in front of the doors— trying to see if they could get up the courage to speak to a possible date before the opportunity would be lost. Occasionally, we would be treated to drop offs in time for the football game on Saturday, followed by dinner and a dance in the Old Gym; on those weekends the campus was electrified! The only teenage girls on campus fulltime in the early 70s were the daughters of DA’s minister and the athletic trainer, and even though their fathers kept these two females at a distance, when they strolled through the Dining Hall on weekends, they were fully aware of 590 heads turning as they entered the double doors. An entire sociological study could be done about the elements of weekend social life and Saturday night dances that changed due to coeducation. Today, boys know with certainty the girls who are going to be at dances, and they know their names! The boys now deal with girls as peers—in classrooms, on athletic fields, and in the performing arts. Student life “oversight” was a bit on the loose side when I was a student (but much is changed for the better today). From the administration’s viewpoint, it seemed that a limited amount of

trouble could be had in the Pocumtuck Valley —all boys, deep in countryside, little communication with the outside world—what could really go wrong? The drinking age in Massachusetts was 18 at the time, and, as incredible as it seems, there was a period of time when students who were 18 (this covered many PGs) were permitted to drink at the Deerfield Inn and return to campus on weekend nights. Curfew was not enforced at times: such as a likely apocryphal story of “scores” of students (there were about 200, actually) reported to have been seen up on Shack Hill after 11 PM one Saturday night in the spring of 1974 . . . Our entire world was the campus, from the River to the Rock. Our social world was our dorm, dining table, and sports team. We basically lived in a bubble, and we were certainly carefree. Our only means of communication—other than a shout down the hallway, was what information we could trade at the school store, which was only open in the afternoon after sports and on weekends. External exposure and communication were limited to the phone at the end of the hall outside the dorm master’s residence, and this translated into maybe a brief call home once a week, generally scheduled on Sunday night. Some students didn’t speak to their families for a month or more (probably how my daughters would like it today). Our friends and our lives were contained entirely on campus, and happily so. Today, Deerfield has had to manage the world that has intruded into our kids’ lives at DA in a much more significant way, both socially and academically. Kids today are both much more distracted socially and also more concerned about college and their futures, and consequently feel greater pressure to perform and compete. Deerfield has handled this situation well: dealing with and balancing these issues, while keeping students engaged in a high-quality campusbased life. And, Deerfield continues to evolve; in the last decade, DA took big steps forward under Headmaster Eric Widmer, with a focus on enhancing students’ education and experience, culturally, spiritually, and community-wise. Under Head of School Margarita Curtis, the focus has been weighted toward enhancing academic aspects of the program, while not losing “the touch” that is Deerfield. This is an

exciting period for DA, and all positive aspects of our preeminent school are increasingly apparent. What makes all of these changes both highly effective and not “disturbing” is that the very essence of Deerfield does not change, particularly the positive, close community that exists at DA. It is the faculty, who truly care for the students and are on top of them 24/7, who are a mainstay of residential life. An example is the English teacher who knows how a student is doing academically across the board, not just in his English class, or a coach who knows who may be struggling off the field; this level of concern isn’t commonly found at most other schools. This is how Deerfield takes hold of its students (and alumni) so firmly, and doesn’t let go for a lifetime. As I reflected on this fact, it also became apparent to me why we continue to support DA—to volunteer and contribute, with significant effect—in order to make our experiences available to others, and allow Deerfield to carry on in the same manner that has had such a profound effect on thousands of developing teenage minds over better than a century. It is a combination of the academy’s location, history, and leadership: the protection of our Valley, bound by the River on one side and the Hill on the other. It is the heritage and attitude on which the school was built; the culture that is established and perpetuated here (my elder daughter talks about how students from other schools often find Deerfield students “over the top” in terms of their school spirit, but WE [current students and alumni] actually believe we’re different from students and schools elsewhere). So, why are we inclined to be so involved in the support of Deerfield and how do our efforts relate to my personal memories? Without our support for the school community, Margarita Curtis can’t: hire faculty, fund financial aid, and expand the performing arts and cultural programs, to name just a few items. For parents the reward is immediate: real-time effect and improvement of the programs that benefit our kids. For alumni the reward is lasting: knowledge that we are perpetuating the Deerfield Experience for generations of students. Thank you for all you do for Deerfield and your support in the future. We are all very fortunate to be part of the Experience.

The dynamic that has been maintained not only sets the standard at the cutting edge of academic leadership, but does so without compromising the integrity of DA’s program, culture, and school life that have been the signature of the Deerfield Experience since its inception.

Final Exam by Danae DiNicola

ACROSS 1. Deerfield ____ 3. Jests 5. Body of teachers 8. Anger 10. School icon in brass 11. DA’s local rival 12. Not hers 15. Barely get, with “out” 17. “____ on Down the Road” 21. A runner of sorts 23. It is mined 24. Cashless deal 27. DeNunzio ____ 29. Service accolades, established in 2010 31. Newswoman Shriver 33. Literary riddle 35. City in Tornado Alley 37. Monroe’s successor 38. “Vict’ry for ____ we choose” 39. One way to be taken 42. “____ of the Black Pearl” 46. Student publication 50. “Thus ____ the Lord” 52. Reunion organizer

Winter 2010

55. Bouncing off the walls 57. Romantic interlude 58. Not part of DA dress code 59. Sometimes it’s candied 61. Algebra or trig 62. Blue hue 63. ____ Room (in Ephraim Williams) 65. Attila was one 69. 40 winks 70. ____-Wan Kenobi 71. One engaged in learning 72. Contest 73. Be victorious

16. Antsy, with “up” 18. Hopefully it’s true 19. Admissions test 20. Almond 22. An end to creation? 23. Aged 24. Move in water 25. Tail motions 26. Branch 28. Its seeds are used to make soap 30. Word from a word 32. In the manner 34. Tinkers 36. “___ on life’s field . . .” 39. Great multitude 40. Be hopping mad 41. Many race against it 43. Not them 44. Thailand, once 45. “Empedocles on ___” (Matthew Arnold poem) 47. Massenet’s “Le ___” 48. Cleopatra’s means of death 49. ____ student 51. Strike 53. Narrow beam 54. The war there ended in ‘75 56. Bewkes, formerly 60. Dfld., ____ 62. Germ 64. Home ____ 66. After expenses 67. Container for flowers 68. ____ Green 69. Fresh

Answers for the Fall 2009 puzzle:

DOWN 1. Deep-seated 2. “Uh-uh” 3. ____ Center 4. Be in session 5. Presidents’ Day mo. 6. Incite 7. Big ___ Conference 9. Athletic director 13. “What it ____” 14. Reggae precursor 15. “... ___ he drove out of sight”

Answers for the Winter 2010 puzzle: deerfield.edu/go/puzzle

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1929 Ledger An accounts ledger from 1927-1930. In January of 1929, nine months before â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;?, Deerfield Academy launched its first major fundraising drive. While the country was in the throes of the Great Depression, Deerfield managed a $1,500,000 campaign that produced the present day gymnasium and Main School Building.

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