IN MEMORIAM

To request a printed copy of full-detail alumni obituaries, call the Advancement Office at 860.963.6129.

The Pomfret community and MLB fans around the world mourned the loss of Roger Angell ’38, a legendary, elegant, and thoughtful baseball writer for The New Yorker. He was considered among the best American sports writers and received the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, the Baseball Hall of Fame’s honor for writers in 2014.

A Community Greenhouse

Pomfret’s Helios Greenhouse is an 850-square-foot passive solar aquaponics Ceres greenhouse built and managed largely by students in Sustainable Engineering: Aquaponics. It is open from September through May for anyone on campus who wants to help in its operation or just visit and enjoy.

How It All Began

The idea to bring aquaponics to campus was born from a project group during the first ever Project: Pomfret in 2013. In 2015, another Project: Pomfret group picked up where the first had left off, and aptly named the endeavor “The Helios Project,” for the Sun god in Greek mythology. A $50,000 grant from the E.E. Ford Foundation made the project possible.