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Endurance One Man, One Mountain, One Revolution 20

Service Community Service Re-Imagined 26

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Annual Report 2008/2009 79

departmentsComments 3Along Albany Road 4Class Notes 32In Memoriam 78First Person: Peter Schulte ‘75 P’10, ‘13 94Object Lesson 97

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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 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.

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

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.

Director of Communications

David ThielManaging Editor

Jessica DayProduction Coordinator

Danae DiNicolaDesigner

Brent M. Hale

Editorial and Business Office: Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA 01342. Telephone: 413-774-1860, [email protected] Office: The Lane Press, Burlington, VT 05402. Third class postage paid at Deerfield, Massachusetts, and additional mailing office.

Deerfield Magazine is published in the fall, winter, and summer.

Deerfield Academy admits students of any race, color, creed, handicap, sexual orientation or national origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or available to students at the academy. The academy does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, handicap, sexual orientation or national origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship, or any other programs administered by the academy. Copyright © The Trustees of Deerfield Academy (all rights reserved)

Change to Spare

—David Thiel ’91

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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

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 men-tion; I was reading it for hours. Congratulations!

Susan Thiel P’91Weston, 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, pro-ducing multimedia content (video, podcast, audio slide-show) 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, em-braced 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 Burlington, Vermont

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Intense SimplicitiesA 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 focus-ing 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-indul-gence, and insidious complacency—a quick-profits-at-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.

In many ways, our mission remains profound-ly 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 cre-ated 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 self-discovery 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 be-gins 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. Jim

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dIn 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 oppor-tunities 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-depart-ment 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, introspec-tion, 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 initia-tives throughout the year and presented final proposals at the last faculty meeting in June. The enhancement of our advising system, the devel-opment 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—rep-resent 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

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 cur-riculum 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 dur-ing 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 candi-dates 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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Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic, and enjoyed a full day visit by Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-in- Residence, 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 mem-bers 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 confu-sion 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 StaffA Report from Dean of Faculty John TaylorOur students are cared for and held to high standards; they establish meaningful relation-ships 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 appar-ently 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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student body has been softened by effective plan-ning 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 excel-lence 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 excep-tional 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 comprehen-sive evaluations for nine second-year faculty members and one senior faculty member. Half of the faculty will also receive student feed-back 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

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 fore-seeable 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.

The “Average” New Faculty Member: We’re fortunate to be able to attract such a talented

and spirited new faculty. Even though the following

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POT SHOTSBehind the scenes at the Deerfield Dining Hall

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Going Back to ConstantinopleProfessor Karen Barkey

How are opposition and dissent, peas-ant movements, and banditry during the Ottoman Empire relevant to today’s Deerfield students? Columbia Univer-sity 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, re-cently 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 impor-tant issues of diversity, the role of reli-gion 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 rel-evant to the contemporary world and the conflicts we experience.

Avoiding the Perils of AbuseMike 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 recover-ing 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 universi-ties and colleges, Mr. Green has made it his life’s work to help young people avoid the perils of abuse.

The Unmaking of a MarineTyler Boudreau

Local author, veteran, and former Ma-rine 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 discus-sions 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 experien-tially with other peoples, cultures, and global issues.”

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.


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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 mem-bers 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.”

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;” oppor-tunities 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.

MLK Day Focus:Establishing, Building, Rebuilding, and Supporting Community by Ann-Marie White, PhD, Science Department Faculty and Director of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs

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Six, Seven, EightDeerfield Dances the Nights Away— Fall and Winter Showcases Highlight Student Talent

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An Ecumenical Man

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

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, orien-teering, 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!” Br

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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, evolv-ing 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 hand- carved, 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 recipi-ent 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, repre-sents 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 commu-nity, and provides speakers on topics of faith and philosophical traditions. Last year Jan used his stipend from the Robertson Chair to help sup-port 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 commu-nities, 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 indepen-dent 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 Dormi-tory 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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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 East & West Gyms and Hockey Rink

Action: Replaced HID and miscellaneous lighting with T-5 low mercury, high efficiency lights

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

New Ice-Making SystemHockey Rink (above)

Action: Installed a self-contained high efficiency refrigeration system to produce ice in the rink; also has the ability to send “waste heat” to be used within the facility

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

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

Solar Array (Photovoltaic System) on the Koch Center Roof

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

Qualitative: Students analyze electricity use and production in connection with weather conditions (buildingdashboard.com/clients/Deerfield/)

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

Total Estimated Savings of Electricity = 233,302 kWh

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Which Water Rules?Blind Taste-Test Reveals Interesting ResultsStudents 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 con-cerned 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 dispos-able 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 wasteful-ness 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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d All-Star Status and Olympic DreamsTwo Extraordinary Senior Athletes: Luigia Goodman ’10 and Oliver Lee ’10 by Bob York

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.

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 gold-medal winning 200 freestyle relay and 200 med-ley relay. And his times in the 50 (a New England record 20.69) as well as in both relays, earned

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

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.

Current sports schedules and scores at deerfield.edu/athletics

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-a-body 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 come-from-behind effort was that the win turned the meet in favor of the Big Green. It turned a six-point 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 out-standing 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 swim-ming 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.

LO O K I N G A H E A D >>>>>>>>>>>>>

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.

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 base-ball 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, respec-tively, 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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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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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 disabili-ties 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 under-stood 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?

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used, my success was started by the opportuni-ties 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.

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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?

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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.

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 pos-sible. To that end I’m planning to take it on the

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.


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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 WorkToday 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 com-munity 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.

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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 PerspectiveLast spring, under the direction of Assistant Dean of Students Amie Creagh, another new service initiative was launched; entitled the Deerfield Academy Perspectives Program (“DAPP” for short), the program was specifically created for sophomores, all of whom participate in one

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.

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Golden Pencils and Golden RulesIn 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 consis-tency 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 Com-munity 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

SERVICE SHORT LIST:

Rake and clean-up at Burnham Cemetery in Turners Falls

Clean-up along Mill Village Road in Deerfield

Coach Greenfield Pee Wee Soccer teams

Check crossword puzzle clues for Deerfield Magazine

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

Rake and clean-up at the Montague Water Pollution Control Facility

Landscape at Greenfield Energy Park

Help with office work at the Fuel Assistance Program

Clean glass at the Koch Center and Boyden Library

Proofread the newsletter Deerfield Today

Move files to a storage area at the Montague Town Hall . . .

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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 equip-ment, 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 lift-ing 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 locker-room and instructed him not to let anyone through that door. He confided to me, “All the confiscated drug para-

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.

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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 com-bined 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?

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


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Work with the Academy’s Phys Plant crew

Teach a tennis clinic for children

Glean vegetables at Riverland Farm in Sunderland

Clean at the Rock

Do chores at Hawks Farm in Shelburne

Clean barns at the 4-H Riding Center in Bernardston

Fundraise for breast cancer

Paint fences

“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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C. Edgar Phreaner writes, “At age 95 I am fortunate to have lived 20 years in Naples, FL, at Bentley Village, a first-class retirement commu-nity for golden oldies. Also, I remember that Deerfield has always been a very great experience in my life.”

1934John 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.”

1935Robert 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; de-voted father of Jean D. Kofol, Milan and Boston, MA, Susan M. Day, Alpharetta, GA, and

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 dedi-cated 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 much-crumpled clipping about me (with the wrong middle initial) on which I had writ-ten 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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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 devo-

tion 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 disap-

pointment at Amherst was his failure to make the Glee Club—he

served as manager to at least be a part of the organization. Some

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.



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

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

with the Psi Upsilon National Fraternity, an association he continued

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

a fraternity experience could provide college students, and spent

countless hours in various chapters, with alumni associations and

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

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

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

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

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

Episcopal Church.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dad was consistently president until I expelled him for taking extensions.

As he aged, he became increasingly attached to the church and

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

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

years. Unable to participate significantly in the outside world,

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

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

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

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

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

marriage was a great loss.

After Dad was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, my two sisters

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

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

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

Sunday afternoon when his breathing became more labored, I held

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

on ahead.” And, soon after, he did.

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

church to draw attention and subsequently invitations to join the

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

family to tone it down.

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

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

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

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

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

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

began his career as an educator.

Dad served as assistant to the headmaster until 1951 when, like

so many Deerfield-trained masters before and after him, he left to

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

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

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

young enough to absorb the dramatic culture change with only a

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

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

students themselves.

There followed two years in Amherst College’s Development

Office, then a new headmastership at Montclair Academy in New

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

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

he was competitive…I remember those Montclair days when he

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

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

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

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

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

In the late ’60s he moved to the Philadelphia area and joined the

development office of Episcopal Academy, where I was a young

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

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

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

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

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

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Ralph Williams Ball ’36 P’74 G’09On October 11, 2009 Deerfield lost one of its most ardent supporters, long-time Class Agent and Captain Ralph Ball ’36 P’74 G’09. In addition to his unwavering support of Deerfield, Mr. Ball was also known for the interesting and widely varied class notes and photos he sent in to the Alumni Office over the years, which often reflected his adventures while traveling.

David Frey, a freelance journalist and neighbor of Mr. Ball’s, wrote the following tribute to his friend. It originally appeared in the December 9, 2009 edition of the Snowmass (Colorado) Sun, and is reprinted here with Mr. Frey’s permission.

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 Carbondale home to clean out his gutter, pedal his bike to the supermarket and beat his old buddies at tennis and golf.

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 private slalom course. He was fit and fast, leaving this telemark skier, about half a century his junior, winded trying to keep up with him. He would occasionally stop, though, to look at the mountains 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 glasses, looking into the mountains. He was known as Gus then, and his old friends still called him that to his death.

Several years ago, I asked Ralph to tell me about his 10th Mountain Division days. He opened up to me over pulling weeds, then opened up his photo album from his days at Camp Hale and Italy.

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

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 Matterhorn and Grand Teton. He ran the Grand Canyon with friends in the fifties, surviving a dangerous mishap in Lava Falls that capsized his raft and left him stranded overnight without food or gear on the opposite side of the river from his party. Ralph visited Europe more than 35 times, and recently traveled to Australia and China with his wife Marilyn.

When I talked to him, he would still shed tears over soldiers with whom he had served who never made it home. He teared up again when he recalled the announcement on the ship that brought him home. After victory in Europe, the troops were 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 at Deerfield Academy and Williams College. When he learned of the newly-formed 10th Mountain Division, spearheaded to counter Nazi ski troops, he had little doubt where he would aim to enlist.

“That December day, 1941, we were playing touch football on the fraternity house lawn,” he recalled. “One of our classmates came down and said, ‘Hey boys, don’t worry about what you’re going to do next year. We’re going to be in the Army. We just attacked Japan.’”

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 with Colorado and came back to work as an attorney. He left Denver for Aspen, a town he never stopped loving. Ralph loved the music festival, the Aspen Chapel, hiking around Maroon Lake and skiing Snowmass. He would visit these spots year after year, knowing each time could be his last.

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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 retire-ment 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 contribu-tion to the life of our retire-ment 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 Har-risburg 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

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 dimin-ish, we have done less, but happily live on. As a one-year Deerfield student coming from education in the Ameri-can 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 Ameri-can, culture.”

Pidge Dowley reports that with a good deal of plan-ning 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 identify-ing 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 foxhunt-ers 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 Univer-sity 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 giv-ing 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 memorabil-ia, 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 Rich-mond in 1992. He was an avid golfer for most of his life and president of the Oconomo-woc Golf Club from 1955-1960. 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 sur-vived 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 Will-inger of Humansville, MS. He has three great-grandchil-dren: Savannah, Naomi, and Liam Markham Willinger. He is also survived by his step-children: 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.”

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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 grandchil-dren. 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) tu-nics on bicycles. When we got to the center of the city, there were thousands—an astonish-ing site in itself—but when we emerged from our minibus, we were dumbfounded to step into a complete silence. Ex-cept for a low whirring noise, a complete, enormous silence. We didn’t know it at the time, but this will not be experi-enced 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

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!”

1937Paul Eckley reported, “This morning I read an email from Deerfield about being online. I wanted to thank those that forwarded so much informa-tion 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 apart-ment one day and sat him down in front of my com-puter and dialed up Google Earth for him to see an up-to-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 experi-enced 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 multi-tasking gains currency, I stick to single-tasking (aka mono-tasking) as urged, I’ve heard, in a Mesopotamian cuneiform inscription, which is translat-ed 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 im-mediate 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…try-ing 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 ten-nis, 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 Deer-field will always remain as one of the highlights in my life.”


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1938Brandon 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 Septem-ber 22, 2009, at his home in Newcastle, ME, after a long illness. He was 88 years old.

Hedley served as presi-dent 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 bach-elor’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 Univer-sity. 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 Middle-bury for 18 years, becoming head of the history depart-ment and dean of men in 1957, and dean of the college seven years later. Hedley became Bates’ fifth president in January 1967.

1939John Andrews reports, “After serving in WWII, I had a ca-reer in medicine: anesthesia, general practice, and obstet-rics, 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.”

1940Class Captains David H. Bradley William C. Lane

Robert Carlisle died in Chatham, MA, on Novem-ber 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 metal-lurgical engineer for the In-ternational Nickel Company, and attended law school at

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-in-law, and grandson.

1941The Alumni Office was recently informed that Buck Hollaman passed away on November 3, 2009. He was incorrectly reported as suf-fering from Alzheimer’s in a past issue of Deerfield Maga-zine; 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 great-grandchildren.

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

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.

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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 wheel-chair, 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.

1942Class 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!”

1943Class 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 Novem-ber 6, 2008.

Alan Davis Mitchell, be-loved Alameda, CA, pediatri-cian, 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 Kennebunk-port, ME. After Deerfield he graduated from Williams College and Boston Univer-sity School of Medicine. Dur-ing 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 grand-children: Alan III, Arthur, Stephen, Taylor, Hunter, Maureen, Morgan, and Madi-son. 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; Al-ameda Commuters historian; First Presbyterian Church elder; Founder of the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at Children’s Hospital; and was a mem-ber 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 Al-ameda 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

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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 Bos-ton 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 Lon-don 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 mov-ies 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 ten-nis 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, defeat-ing the celebrated Paki-

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 oper-ated 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 hos-pital 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, Mon-mouth, 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 Eng-lish Department of Collegiate School in New York City. Two years later, he took a leave of absence to become the asso-ciate 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 Po-mona College as among the most outstanding teachers in the US. In 1988, his alma mater (Monmouth Col-lege) 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 Egyp-tology.

“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.”

1944Class 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 found-ers 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 3000-pipe 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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1945Barrett 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 antipo-des were of great fascina-tion, 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 enthusias-tic 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, limit-ing 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

right eye. After a few surpris-ingly ‘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 exper-tise. 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.”

1947Class 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 Busi-ness 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.”

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

1949Class 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.”

1950Class 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 Gla-cier National Park, was spec-tacular; and the excellent Carrileufu Valley Lodge was

all that arm-weary fisher-men 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 destina-tion not to be missed.”

“I attended the June ’09 reunion…no other ’50 class-mate 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 Her-mon at the end of the school year and how Mr. Boyden parlayed it into his accep-tance 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, unencum-bered life in small town America (New Bern, NC), enjoying being near the ocean and travelling fre-quently. Have visited Deer-field 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



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 water-man 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 fly-ing in the Naval Reserve for 17 more years, retiring as a commander. He also taught flying privately and wrote extensively about the sub-ject. Sherwood formed and headed Harris Associates, which contracted with Time-Life Books to produce and publish several books annu-ally. 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 maga-zine. Sherwood’s published works include: The First to Fly: Aviation Pioneer Days (1970); Great Flying Adven-tures (1973); The Teacher’s Almanac with Lorna Har-ris (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.

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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 Bicenten-nial homecoming captain; during his school years Sherwood served as president of his class.

1951Class 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 Thanks-giving 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

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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, prin-cipally the Charles Darwin Foundation. The principal problems facing the Galapa-gos are excess tourism and excess immigration. These activities disturb the habitat of the animals and the veg-etation. For more on what we are doing visit our website.”

1952Class Captains Richard F. Boyden Renwick D. Dimond

1953Class 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 kid-ney makes my participation possible!”


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1954Class 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.”

1955Class 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 Muse-um of the Marine Corps. The chapel opened just in time to celebrate the 234th National Birthday of the Marine Corps on November 10. The nonde-nominational chapel, located in Semper Fidelis Memorial Park, will serve as a contem-plative space where Marines and all visitors can remem-

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 benedic-tion 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 remem-brance 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 Char-lotte. 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 accumu-lated 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!

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He stays fit by playing tennis and basketball and by main-taining 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 occa-sions, up there in the North Country. Al and Janie have two playmates, grandchil-dren 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 pneumo-nia 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.

John is a ‘self-employed’ lawyer and allocates his time as he wishes while enjoying the four seasons in their 18th century house in Menden-hall, 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 persis-tent 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 Manhat-tan 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 purchas-ing 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 two-mile dirt road. Albie Smith is his brother-in-law. Spike’s son, Douglas ’85, also gradu-ated 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-sec-retary-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-sec-retary-general of the United Nations; in January 2005 and February 2007 Ambas-sador 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 grand-children, 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.”

1956Class CaptainJoseph B. Twichell

Peter Ness and Carolyn Savage attended a gra-cious 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.

1957Kirk 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 Kris-tina graduated from Brown University and has a budding career in theatre playwriting. I may be moving to Maui soon.”

1958Class CaptainsJohn 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 unforget-table 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 Massa-chusetts 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 Hud-dersfield, 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 thou-sand magazines and antholo-gies, on the Internet, and has been broadcast on various radio stations. He has read at many venues, including vari-ous festivals, sci-fi conven-tions, 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 mem-ber of the Science Fiction Poetry Association since its foundation.

1960Reunion ChairNathaniel 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 toindependent.com and search on “Frank Hotchkiss.”

1961Class Captains Jon W. Barker Thomas M. Poor

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

1962Class CaptainsHoward 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 Per-kins 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 celebra-tion of the 150th anniversary of the opening of Japan to

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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 remem-ber 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.


The Last of His MindJoe 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 dis-

ease 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.”


Almost everyone has heard the old adage: “A picture

is worth a thousand words,” which aptly describes

the work of brothers Ken ’63 and Bruce ’65 Zuckerman. Using revolutionary techniques that

they designed, the Zuckermans are literally and

figuratively shedding new light on ancient artifacts,

including a Dead Sea Scroll that discusses a buried

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

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

Jesus by five centuries.

Bruce Zuckerman, a University of Southern

California religion professor, founded the West

Semitic Research Project in the early 80s, when his

frustration over the poor quality of archaeological

photos boiled over. In an interview conducted by

Duke Helfand of the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Zucker-

man explained, “Museum photographers often

missed important details because they lacked

scholarly expertise. Biblical researchers, meanwhile,

typically did not have enough experience with pho-

tography to produce compelling images.” Mr. Zucker-

man wanted to bridge the gap, and enlisted the help

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

and former Caltech engineer. Together, the brothers

have come up with a remarkable body of machinery

and images.

Over the last three decades, the USC project has

produced thousands of crisp images of inscrip-

tions and other artifacts from biblical Israel

and other Near Eastern countries. In

addition to their unique technology, the

Zuckermans have provided scholars as

well as the general public with access

to their database of photos in an

online archive, InscriptiFact.com.

The Zuckermans brought their new

techniques to museums throughout

Revolutionary techniques...

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the US, Middle East, and Europe, despite objections

from some museum curators and scholars who feared

losing control over rare objects.

“What the West Semitic Research Project did was

create a collection of photos of inscriptions that were

unlike anything that had been done before,” said

Wayne Pitard, a religion professor at the University of

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who has collaborated

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

The Zuckermans’ custom-built equipment takes

up two floors of an academic building at USC, and

includes “the Twister,” which takes pictures of ancient

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

symbols that once served as a form of personal iden-

tification, are mounted on a turntable and slowly moved

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

which are eventually combined into one large image.

“The picture is better than holding it in your

hands,” Bruce Zuckerman said.

Other gadgetry includes the Light Dome, which

resembles a round scuba helmet and contains 32 light

bulbs in addition to space for an artifact. A camera

inside the dome takes pictures from many differ-

ent angles, and then a computer program creates a

composite that “allows you to create combinations

of light and shadow that show you different details

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

associate director.

The “Gizmo,” a larger version of the dome, features

spider-like arms with lights attached to the ends, and

is still in the experimental stages. But according to

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

Zuckermans integrate the large piece of equipment

into their repertoire.

“They are cutting edge,” said Andrew Vaughn,

executive director of the American Schools of Ori-

ental Research at Boston University. “They want to

create a resource to pass on to generations, and that

is so vital for what the scholarly society needs.”

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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 wel-come riding companions.”

1963Class CaptainsTimothy 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 Boul-der, 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.”

1964Class Captains John L. Heath Robert S. Lyle II

Jonathan (“Josh”) Rogers Carlisle, 62, of Lewisville, NC, died August 18, 2009 at Forsyth Medical Cen-ter, 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 Bod-ford of Clemmons, NC, and two grandchildren, Kathleen Morris and Jonathan Bod-ford. 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 Caro-lina, Chapel Hill. He had a long and successful career in advertising as a writer, pro-ducer, 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 Advertis-ing and Marketing Awards of Excellence, including seven Clios and an Emmy. Later in his life he switched careers to

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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


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become an instructor in the Adult High School, GED pro-gram and Get Real program for at-risk youth at Davidson County Community Col-lege, in Lexington, NC. He had just begun to enjoy early retirement as of January, 2009. Josh enjoyed writing, composing music on his com-puter, 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.

1965Reunion ChairEdward G. Flickinger

Ed Flickinger wrote, “David Moyer ’64 and his wife Caro-line are vacationing in New England this fall. They are quite the mountain hikers. They spent a recent eve-ning with us here in the Mt.

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 Co-lumbia 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 encour-agement received from Deerfield classmates during that first election in 1998!”

Philip Steppello reports, “I am enjoying my retire-ment in Ormond Beach, FL. The ever-present sunshine, warm weather, and the scenic ocean are exuberant. My old-est 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 med-als in the marathon. He did remember me, and I got him to sign my Deerfield year-book 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-

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.

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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 modi-

fication 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.”

Banking on it...

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

1966Class CaptainDavid 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. Respond-ing to the pilot’s request for strong-armed volunteers to sit on the exit doors in an-ticipation 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. Follow-ing his injures and fulfilling his education, he went on to play professional football with the British Columbia

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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 line-man who earned a letter in 1967 as a sophomore and went off to war after the sea-son. He returned to Syracuse and rejoined the team for the 1970 and 1971 seasons.

After graduation, he worked as a field archeolo-gist in the western United States and South America before returning to Albany to work with his family in the contracting business.

He earned his bach-elor’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 Gen-evieve, he is survived by his four sons; Daniel (Mariko) Pollock, William Kent, Michael and Daniel Coghill, his sisters; Catherine (Nick) Nicholas and Cynthia (Wil-liam) 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-

lowed me to travel extensively and continue to practice medicine for employees. After the sale to P&G I ‘re-tired.’ 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.”

1967Class CaptainsJohn 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 internationally-recognized neurologist with 25 years of academic neuroscience research and industry-related drug devel-opment in Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases of the brain. He is CEO and chief medical officer of Brain-Savers, 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 Meet-ing 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 Universi-dad de Chile, as well as other venues throughout the city. Jim exhibited two individual works and six that are called “Collective Automatic Paint-ing.” 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 Div-ing 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 Art-beat Gallery on Spiegelgracht 36 with the exhibition “Au-tomatism, Collective Automa-tism” in Amsterdam. In 1999 he moved to Los Angeles and opened a gallery at 646 Spring Street with the exhibition “Collective Automatic Paint-ing 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 vas-cular surgery mission trip to the Dominican Republic, train-ing 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 com-piled 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 social-political 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 tell-ing 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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listening to jazz and classical music, and reflecting on what to do next. Perhaps I will write a book or two?”

1968Class CaptainJohn R. Clementi


1969Class CaptainThomas 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 map-ping on segments of Boulder County Open Space. This area is off limits to the public as a wildlife sanctuary, and my first sample point includ-ed 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 com-ing to an end. I have devel-oped 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

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 dat-ing. The seventh anniversary of our first meeting was in October. I was awarded an honorary lifetime member-ship 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 mod-est 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.”

1970Reunion 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 dol-phins several times.”

1971Class CaptainK. C. Ramsay John L. Reed


1972Class CaptainPaul 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 sum-mer. 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 be-tween 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 West-bridge, an investment bank in NYC as partner. Chelsey graduated from Virginia Com-monwealth in June. Alexan-dra is enjoying her semester abroad from Duke in Flor-ence, and Eliza (15) continues her travel team ice hockey and may be on her way to DA next year.”

1973Class CaptainsLawrence 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 some-how 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 No-vember. 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 Maga-zine for his energy-efficient design of a contemporary home in Norwich, VT. Dan’s design received the highest possible rating from the Ef-ficiency Vermont ‘Energy Star Homes’ program (five

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plus stars) as well as a 2008 Honor Award from the Vermont chapter of the Ameri-can Institute of Architects. Larry Jerome has joined The Angeletti Group as a senior vice president. The Angeletti Group provides philanthrop-ic counsel to educational, healthcare and community-building organizations.”

1974Class CaptainGeoffrey A. Gordon


1975Reunion ChairsRalph 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.

1976Class CaptainsMarshall 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 get-ting 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 grand-child 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 Man-sfield. “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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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 mem-bers 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.

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 look-ing forward to eventually returning home. The more time I spend overseas, the more I miss the US.”

1977Class CaptainsJohn C. Buckley James P. MacPherson Jr. Wayne W. Wall Jr.

Michael Carboy is writing a blog titled “Green Dump-lings” at carboy.typepad.com/beijing, chronicling his adventures and observa-tions 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 ‘clean-tech’ 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.”

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.”

1978Class CaptainsPaul J. S. Haigney Stephen R. Quazzo

“I am still practicing rural veterinary medicine in north Texas. Backpacked 76 miles in New Mexico this past sum-mer,” 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 South-eastern 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 anniver-sary 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 su-permarket. 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

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!”

1979Class CaptainArthur R. DwightDaniel C. Pryor

Art Dwight reported, “Post-reunion, Lou Lehrman hosted a group of ’79-ers at his home in northwest DC. San Fran-cisco-based Adam Reeves was in town for a wedding. Coincidentally, Bob Lee and Paul Kunkel were staying at Lou’s for the weekend.”

1980Reunion ChairsStephen M. Casey Joseph P. Manory


1981Class Captains Michael M. Boardman Andrew A. Cohen Peter R. Dinneen

1982Class CaptainFrank H. Reichel III

Michael Sojka, of Sunder-land, 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.

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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 dealing my way down

the Connecticut River. The strangers we’d be

staying with weren’t going to be strangers

at all. They’d be people 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, we’d pull out some plastic and check into the nearest 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.

Two Coots in a CanoeDavid 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-year-

old optimists will climb into a canoe and begin the 400+ mile trek down the Connecticut River to Old

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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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Recognition

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The1797Society

President's Circle

$100,000 and above

Headmasters Associates

$50,000 to $99,999

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$25,000 to $49,999

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$10,000 to $24,999

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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-Jimbo-

cho 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.

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

studying Japanese literature. He said, “By working

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

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

blood still flows strong between today’s readers and

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

from the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at

Harvard, Mr. Bernard was able to immerse himself in

work at Isseido for two months.

Isseido President Takehiko Sakai, whose family

has run the antiquarian bookstore for three genera-

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

knowledge. “We wanted to be of help to someone

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

Sakai said. He decided the best way to accomplish

this was to treat Mr. Bernard as an employee while

showing him how the business is run. Consequently,

Mr. Bernard shipped orders to overseas customers,

followed Isseido employees to the old book market

in Jinbocho to see what was available and to learn

about the bidding process for old works, and worked

as a salesclerk in the store.

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,

By the (really old) books

intern PETER BERNARD ’07

which is considered to be the oldest printed material

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

produced in the 12th century, among other items.

Since Mr. Bernard is particularly fond of the work of

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

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

with him some of the author’s manuscripts and first

editions of his published works.

In an interview with The Japan Times Mr. Sakai

commented, “We buy and sell books as a business,

but working with someone who is going to be a

scholar and seeing how he absorbed new knowledge

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

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

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

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

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

and research Japanese literature in Japan, where the

links to the authors and the works themselves are,

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

dream is to one day teach Japanese literature at a

university in Japan.

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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.


1983Class CaptainsJohn 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 of-ficial 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/projects-home). 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 sub-scribed to the class blog after the visit and hope you’ll do the same at da1983.blogspot.com.”

Leigh Guyer had a guest-starring 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 An-gelica, 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 Wither-spoon 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 experienc-es 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 re-ception. I took a break from commercial real estate de-velopment 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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1984Christopher Rawson writes, “I’m an attorney in Provi-dence, RI, with a wife, Jen-nifer, and two boys, Matthew, 11, and Michael, eight. It was a pleasure to see my class-mates 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.”

1985Reunion ChairsCharles 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 north-eastern CT,” says Andre Bessette. “My wife Donna and I are blessed with three wonderful children: Na-thalie, 11; Yvonne, seven; and Henri, three. I am keeping busy with my practice as a child psychologist/consul-tant, and I’m continuing to sing/play with my two bands, and keeping fit with triath-lons, adventure racing, and cyclo-cross. Looking forward to our 25th Reunion!”

1987Class CaptainAndrew P. Bonanno

1988Class CaptainsOscar K. Anderson III David F. Willis Jr.


1989Class CaptainsGustave K. Lipman Edward S. Williams

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

1990 20th ReunionReunion ChairJeb 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 port-folio 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 Republi-can congressional candidate from Cottonwood Falls, KS, was featured in a news story in the Hutchinson News; he was endorsed by Sena-tor John McCain. To learn

more, visit hutchnews.com and perform a site search on “Wasinger.”

1991Class CaptainTimothy B. Weymouth

1992Class CaptainsThomas 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 wel-comed the newest addition,

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 Apple-ton Clan is probably done expanding for now. Hardy Watts’ third child, Burke, was born hours before Thomas’ fourth. Playdates with the Watts Family are wonder-ful 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 Consult-ing Group, LLC, located in Branford, CT. Previously

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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.

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.

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 Mo-nique 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.

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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!”

1993Class CaptainsRichard D. Hillenbrand II Charlotte York Matthews Colby D. Schwartz


1994Class CaptainDaniel B. Garrison

1995 15th Reunion

Reunion Chair Daniel D. Meyer

Zorana Ivankovic and Filippo Colombo are happy to an-nounce their marriage on May 16, 2009 in Belgrade. They currently reside in Rome, Italy.

Mollie Latham Timmer-man and Jamey Timmerman are happy to announce their marriage on September 25, 2009 at Columbia Square in Savannah, GA. They current-ly 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

Erroin was employed at Mys-tic 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 an-nounce 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 class-es 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

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 Sweet-land, Jon Holstein, Adrian Marshall, Greg Hayes, Brian Coakley, and Clinton Textor, were all part of it.

1996Class CaptainsFarah-France P. Marcel Burke Trenton M. Smith

1997Class CaptainsMargot M. Pfohl Amy E. Sodha

Peter Cambor stars in the new CBS drama “NCIS: Los Angeles” which premiered on September 22, 2009. Pre-viously 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 Wat-son 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.”

1998Class 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 cur-rently reside in Atlanta, GA. Maggie Stone, Emily Comer, and Courtney Johnson were in attendance.

Kim Oelman sent in up-dates about her classmates: Brandon Cobb is moving to London; Samantha Saffir is expecting a child; and Scott MacArthur is designing his own clothing line.

1999Koji 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 cer-emony, 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


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The Class of ’95 was well repre-sented 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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No Ordinary Book | Jonathan Harris ’98, whose work has been

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

like to be human.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

sentence was written.

The result of all this is a remarkable database of several million human feel-

ings, which increases by 15,000 to 20,000 new feelings every day. Mr. Harris

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

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

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

statistical infographics, and multitudes of candid comments from ordinary

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

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

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

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

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

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

We Feel FineJonathan Harris ’98 and Sep Kamvar | Scribner, 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 irrevoca-

bly not that book, yet as I

was reminded recently—

nothing is a coincidence in

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,

Ms. Hand’s fiction debut, Wushu Moon

Magic, was launched this past fall.

Drawing on her personal experiences

while studying Chinese festivals around the

world on a post-college Watson Fellowship,

Ms. Hand’s fictional tale is about a female

photographer named Byrd, who is told by her

boss that her work is getting stale. Provided

with one final assignment and her boss’

vague clues, Byrd sets out to prove she can

still capture a fresh view. She travels into the

underbelly of the overseas Chinese Diaspora,

first tracking down Hungry Ghost festivals

in Vietnam and Malaysia, then to Singapore

and the Mooncake Festival. The magical

journey is a tapestry of tantalizingly

beautiful and chillingly raw landscapes, and

an amalgamation of historical fact and

fictitious characters.

Since her graduation from Middlebury

College in 2002, Ms. Hand has worked in

publishing, and has written articles for the

international editions of National Geographic,

Stratton Magazine, Middlebury Magazine, and

others. Prior to Wushu Moon Magic, most

of her writing focused on wellness, since

she earned degrees in fitness and nutrition

since graduating from Middlebury. Learn

more about the book and the author at

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 Part-ners, a firm in Washington that invests in midsized com-panies in various industries. He graduated from Vander-bilt and is studying for an MBA at Georgetown.

2000Reunion ChairEmily J. Dawson

“After a few years in con-sulting, I have returned to school to get my master’s of Public Health at Columbia University, and will gradu-ate 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 for-ward to seeing everyone at reunions!”

Jonathan Nuger and Ali Levine (Dartmouth ’07) are happy to announce their en-gagement. “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 for-ward to making the trip to Deerfield for our tenth this coming summer.”

2001Class CaptainSara E. di Bonaventura

“On October 1 my Deerfield sweetheart, Constanza On-taneda ’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 fash-ion line, and I’m telecom-muting 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 av-idly 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 Chap-paquiddick, MA.

2002Class CaptainsW. 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 Citi-group 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 sur-rounded by Deerfield friends, including my three room-mates Carter Kahle, Victoria Lika, and Serena Tufo.”

2003Class Captain Amanda J. Kessler

Here is a classic Deerfield story . . . enjoy! May 2003: Alex Leydon took Outdoor Skills while he was at Deer-field. He spent his afternoons crossing or canoeing the Deerfield River and hiking through the woods—learn-ing 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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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 recently got together in New York City.

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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. Hap-pily 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 eventu-ally replaced all his ID cards and bought a new wallet. He didn’t give the old one a sec-ond thought, until four years later, when, upon returning from a weekend visiting with DA friends, he received an unexpected message in his inbox:

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 . . .

In July of 2007, Phyllis and Peter Jeswald—parents of Liza Jeswald ’00—were kayaking on the Deerfield River. As they paddled downstream, Peter, an avid nature-spotter with finely honed vision, spied something in the sand on the side of the river. The couple stopped their kayaks and climbed out onto the bank, which happened to run along the outer edge of Deerfield’s playing fields. They dug the object out of the sand; it was a wallet. Waterlogged and full of sand, it contained a Deerfield Academy student ID belonging to Alexander Leydon. There was no cash or credit cards, just the Deerfield ID and a Pennsylvania state junior driver’s license. The Jeswalds assumed it had been stolen, emptied, and tossed into the river. Phyllis stowed the wallet in her kayak, and when they got home, she turned on her computer and began to search. She was able to track down an Alex Leydon who had just graduated from Brown. Her niece, also a recent graduate of Brown, suggested a likely email address for Alex, and Phyllis tried it . . .

2004Class CaptainsNicholas Zachary Hammerschlag Caroline C. Whitton

Constanza Ontaneda writes, “I am overjoyed to be able to say that after eight years of

friendship, my romance with Ethan Howe ’01 has begun all over again. I recently graduated from Cornell and I’m currently working and living in Peru. I will soon be launching an eco-luxury women’s-wear brand named Bernales & Goretti targeted at successful women over 35 years old. I am currently hosting poet Joshua Krugman ’09 in his gap year here in Lima. I will probably receive some of my proctees, such as Rashiida Richardson ’07, Kim Shastid ’07, and Elena White ’07 here in the near future.”

2005Reunion ChairsH. Jett Fein Bentley J. Rubinstein Torey A. Van Oot

“Hey everyone! I graduated from Georgia Tech in May 2009 with a BS in Biomedical Engineering and I’m now at Tulane working on my MS in Human Genetics,” reported Saira Ahmed when we last heard from her. “If anyone is ever in New Orleans just let me know!”

Glynis Cumming Armen-trout was happily married on October 3, 2009 in Mt. Sterling, OH, to Tyler Adam Armentrout, a chef at The Blackwell Inn in Columbus, OH. “We own a house in Grove City, OH, which we purchased in February of 2009. I am the food and bev-erage supervisor at The Uni-versity Plaza Hotel and Con-ference Center in Columbus, OH, a fulltime position I was offered a week after graduat-

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 busi-ness providing a new adver-tising 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 gradu-ating 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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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 graduat-ing 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 per-fect targets for drug design. However, I have begun to re-alize 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

was invited to join the Dana-Farber 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/dana-farber/Claudia-adams-barr-program/). “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.

2006Class CaptainsPatrick 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

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 see-ing 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 Champion-ship 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.

2007Class CaptainsMatthew M. Carney Elizabeth Conover Cowan


2008Class CaptainTaro Funabashi

2009Class CaptainNicholas W. Squires

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.


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

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

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

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,

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

or other deferred gift.

2008-2009 Boyden Society ActivityRealized Bequests $936,192Annuities $285,970Pooled Income Fund Additions $16,350Charitable Lead Trust Payments $48,716Charitable Remainder Trusts $649,652

TOTAL $1,936,880 New Boyden Society Members 27

Total Membership 490

Contact Linda Minoff, Director of Planned Giving 413.774.1872 or [email protected] deerfield.edu/go/boyden

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

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in memoriam

1935Robert McClelland Day*October 28, 2009

Henry Benjamin PoorSeptember 27, 2009

1936George Francis Markham, Jr.*November 23, 2009

1937James Albert Vaughan, Jr.November 30, 2009

1938Ralph Williams BallOctober 11, 2009

Thomas Hedley ReynoldsSeptember 22, 2009

1939John Lawrence BirminghamSeptember 10, 2009

John Willcox Donaldson, Jr.October 8, 2009

Edward Allison JohnsonJune 21, 2009

John Robert Watson PollockOctober 31, 2009

Robert Kenneth WoodMay 31, 2009

1940Robert Dix Benson Carlisle*November 19, 2009

Robert Merriam HeathNovember 21, 2009

George Nesbitt ZieglerFebruary 10, 2009

1941Richard Buchanan HollamanNovember 3, 2009

Junior Streeter WiemersMay 20, 2009

1942Frederick N. SchoefflerOctober 1, 2009

1943Walter E. Geier*November 23, 2009

Frank Carter HenryOctober 5, 2009

Richard Irving HornbeckNovember 6, 2008

John Ewing LincolnAugust 1, 2009

Alan David MitchellNovember 17, 2009

James Christie ShieldsSeptember 20, 2009

John McReynolds WozencraftAugust 31, 2009

1944John Cleveland MetcalfOctober 7, 2009

1946John Norbert DeGorterSeptember 16, 2009

John Allen Torrey, Jr.October 20, 2009

1947George VanDuesen Hutton, Jr.August 15, 2008

1950Sherwood HarrisSeptember 7, 2009

1952Wallace E. RichApril 19, 2007

1955Robert Ensign Darling, Jr.*October 19, 2009

1956William Vandervoort Tripp, 3rdNovember 7, 2009

1959Robert Mead MurdockOctober 8, 2009

1960George Burnett, IIISeptember 12, 2000

1963Jeremy Fuller FrithDecember 8, 2009

1964Jonathan Rogers CarlisleAugust 18, 2009

1965Whitney WoodruffJune 26, 2009

1970Cameron A. ThompsonSeptember 29, 2008

1977Ernest Reed WilburOctober 6, 2009

1982Michael Joseph SojkaNovember 27, 2009

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Report from the Chief Financial Officer .............80Statement of Financial Position ...........................82Statement of Activities ...........................................83Report from the Associate Head of School for Alumni Affairs and Development ...................84Gifts to Deerfield .......................................................851797 Societies ............................................................86Participation Graph .................................................88Campaign to Honor the Class of 1959 ..................90Campaign to Honor the Class of 1984 ...................91Campaign to Honor the Class of 2009 .................92In Memoriam Gifts ...................................................93First Person: Peter Schulte ’75 P ’10, ’13 ..............94

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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 improve-ments, as well as instituting a one-year salary freeze and low-ering 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 construc-tion 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 Acad-emy remains dependent on positive returns from our endow-ment 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 summa-rized as, Deerfield.



Assets 2009 2008

CashandCashEquivalents $21,423,086 $9,517,729RestrictedCash 1,197,021 1,199,461Receivables:Studentloansandaccountsreceivable,netofallowanceof$224,820in2009 126,787 163,417and$172,957in2008Investmentinterestanddividends 346,896 611,981Duefrombrokers 907,942 864,035OtherReceivables 593,539 32,492Contributionsreceivable,net 17,296,465 22,204,722Charitableremainderunitrustsandotherdeferredgifts 3,885,170 2,425,274Inventories 1,289,550 1,268,324PrepaidExpenses 630,657 803,149Investments,atfairvalue 292,618,423 362,605,691Beneficialinterestinperpetualtrust 13,371,348 15,854,495Land,buildingsandequipment,net 132,865,638 131,762,951DeferredExpenses 466,454 488,342

TotalAssets $487,018,976 $549,802,063

LiabilitiesandNetAssets

Liabilities Accountspayableandaccruedliabilities $3,487,121 $5,363,890 Contractspayable 43,753 883,290 Duetobrokers 903,417 12,629,086 Lifeincomeobligations 3,153,851 3,141,177 Bondspayable 42,942,197 44,021,697 Bondinterestpayable 780,680 791,688 Deferredincome 10,039,662 8,599,891 TotalLiabilities 61,350,681 75,430,719Net Assets Unrestricted 179,506,458 188,610,672 Temporarilyrestricted 117,331,850 156,896,256 Permanentlyrestricted 128,829,987 128,864,416 TotalNetAssets 425,668,295 474,371,344

TotalLiabilitiesandNetAssets $487,018,976 $549,802,063

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Revenues, Gains and Other Support 2009 2008 Student income: Tuition and fees $ 23,795,932 $ 22,482,168 Less financial aid (6,390,539) (6,058,170) Net tuition and fees 17,405,393 16,423,998 School Store 769,280 717,666 Net Student Income 18,174,673 17,141,664 Interest and dividends 4,830,440 6,230,775 Net realized and unrealized losses (42,082,232) (16,149,313) Other income 3,242,417 632,971 Gifts and bequests 11,872,152 17,632,075 Total revenues, gains, and other support (3,962,550) 25,488,172

Net assets released from Restrictions

ExpendituresInstruction 7,681,923 7,764,154Student support 3,705,782 3,833,041Summer programs 524,266 534,756Operation and maintenance of Physical Plant 7,159,015 6,980,761General administration 7,042,884 7,034,908General institutional 14,005,098 13,475,582Disposal of fixed asset — 1,515,971Depreciation and amortization 4,621,531 4,741,698 Total expenditures 44,740,499 45,880,871

Change in Net Assets (48,703,049) (20,392,699)

Net Assets – Beginning of Year 474,371,344 494,764,043

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The roller coaster ride seen in the worldwide financial mar-kets 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 comprehen-sive 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 func-tions. 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

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 [email protected].

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.

Blessed by a High Level of SupportA Report from the Associate Head of School for Alumni Affairs and Development David G. Pond P’92, ’98



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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 $5,579,971 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 8,495,116 III. Total Gifts Annual & Capital 14,075,087

Annual Support Giving Highlights

Trustees leadership giving: increased by 100%.

Leadership giving to 1797: a total of 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.



GiftstoDeerfield RECOGNITION SOCIETIES

1797NamedinhonoroftheyearinwhichDeerfieldAcademywasfounded,thesocietyhasfive levelsthatrecognizethosewhocontribute$1,797ormore:

Presidents Circledonorsof$100,000+

Headmasters Associatesdonorsof$50,000to$99,000

Heritage Associatesdonorsof$25,000to$49,999

Founders Associates donorsof$10,000to$24,999

Membersdonorsof$3,500to$9,999oralumnidonorsof$1,797to$9,999whohavenotyetcelebratedtheir20threunion.

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.

Presidents Circle

Annual Support

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

Capital Funds

Anonymous DonorMrs. 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, '12Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Cashin P '03, '07Fredric B. Garonzik '60 P '97, '99Philip Greer '53 P '94, G'13Matthew S. Grossman '94Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Hale Jr. '84Mr. & Mrs. John B. Hess P '05, '07, '12Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Ingrassia P '09, '13James L. Kempner '75 P'03, '05, '11David H. Koch '58Mr. & Mrs. Marcus C. Rowland P '07Sabin C. Streeter ’59Tanoto Foundation

Andre Tanoto '00Belinda Tanoto '03Imelda Tanoto '01Mr. & Mrs. Sukanto Tanoto P '00, '01, '03, '07

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Walker III P '10, '12Peter K. Woerner '61*

Headmasters Associates

Annual Support

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

Capital Funds

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

Heritage Associates

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

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

Founders Associates

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

* Denotes Boyden Society Member

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

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

Members

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

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

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


Members continued

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

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

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

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

ClassYear

Participation

|58|$2,626,736

88 DeerfieldAnnualReport * Denotes Boyden Society Member


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

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

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

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

TotalCashReceivedInFY099/1/08to8/31/09

(Pleasenotethatthisgraphreflectscashcontributionsonly;multi-yearpledgestotheAcademyarenotincluded.Toseetheextraordinarymulti-yearcommitmentsoftheClassof’59andthe’09SeniorParents,seepages90and92.)

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Class of 195950th ReunionIn 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 ’59 Memorial Fund, which was established to promote commu-nity 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: $1,013,970Bequests $517,50050th Reunion Total: $1,532,311.61Contributors: 84Percent Participation: 77.36%

$100,000+A. Macdonald Caputo*Frederick C. Copeland Jr.Eugene W. Goodwillie Jr.*Jay C. Huffard*E. Jeffrey PeierlsFrederick M. R. Smith*Sabin C. StreeterWilliam J. Zisson*

$50,000 to $99,999John W. Arata*Beaumont B. BianchiMarshall FieldAllen I. Maurer

$25,000 to $49,999Robert G. HetheringtonJeremy JonesRobert H. Mattoon Jr.*

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

$3,500 to $9,999Anonymous DonorDavid A. BraunerMacauley Carter Jr.Donald R. Clark Jr.*Cornelius S. Franckle Jr.*John F. Kikoski Jr.*John A. MillardVincent Monte-Sano II

$1000 to $3,499Anonymous DonorChristopher B. CerfGeorge A. FondaMichael K. FrithCharles W. Greenleaf Jr.Peter L. Grose*Edward C. HallLloyd R. HardyC. Richard HawleyRobert W. Lennon*Robert M. MurdockChristopher C. H. RawsonDouglas J. RowePeter D. Simpson

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

Under $1000John D. BarnardHartman E. BlanchardWilliam M. Boyd IIDaniel A. BullardJohn P. ChalmersStephen E. ChalmersJohn R. ColeWilliam W. Conde IIIR. Thompson Crane IIIRobert G. CrockerHenry E. Dahlberg Jr.Albert H. DietrichKoichiro FujikuraE. Brooks GoddardCharles J. Goldthwaite Jr.H. Camp GordinierThomas W. GrantS. Braley Gray IIITimothy GrieserRobert J. Guerin Jr.Stirlin HarrisRichard M. HermanAlbert C. HillsJames W. HindsEdward R. HinesJames K. Irvin Jr.John W. JohnstonPeter C. LillieRobert B. LowPeter B. LowryClinton Tucker MeneelyDavid C. MillikenG. Glennwood OsgoodbyJames W. PalmerJohn B. PayneDennis R. ReddingPhilip S. ReynoldsGlenn F. RodgersStephen J. RoseJohn G. Talcott IIIJohn M. Watts Jr.Jeremiah W. Whitney




Class of 198425th Reunion$100,000+Robert T. Hale Jr.George S. Loening

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

$10,000 to $24,999Robert W. LasherTerry T. LeeRichard A. van den Broek

$3,500 to $9,999Alexander M. DanielsWilliam W. EttelsonJohn C. Fedor-CunninghamTomas M. GilmoreUlrich A. C. GraebnerGregory R. GreeneB. Barrett Hinckley IIIHudson Holland IIIAllan Y. KimJames F. O'BrienRichard RoyceHamburg Tang Jr.Steven W. WayneLaurence F. Whittemore III

$1000 to $3,499Morgan L. BinswangerAdam J. BrauerScott F. FrodymaStuart D. Hallagan IIIJonathan K. E. HochwaldT. Spencer Knight IIIDavid P. KreislerDanny W. L. LeeChristopher S. MillerM/M William A. PetzoldThomas T. Petzold IIDavid A. RancourtGeoffrey S. SefertRichard M. Sincerbeaux Jr.M/M H. William Smith Jr.Michael J. UccelliniChris WaldorfBrett R. West

under $1000Mrs. Barbara L. BarenblattJ. Alexander BatesColin F. BellM/M Howard E. BellMs Marian BinghamDavid H. BloomerStephen T. BrionesPatrick H. BrophyChristopher R. CloneyD/M Gerard P. CloneyRichard B. Cunningham Jr.Thomas I. DeckerPatrick A. DevlinRobert F. Downing Jr.M/M Charles M. FedorEdward S. Gillette IIGeoffrey W. GilsonDavid B. GulliverMrs. Judith B. HaleWilliam B. Hetzel IIIHugh R. Jones IIIMitchell H. KatzR'ykandar S. Korra'tiM/M Michael N. KreislerJoseph T. LardnerChristopher B. LippincottMichael P. McGonigleD/M Merlin G. MillerRoy Scott T. Parker IVJason A. PhippsAlden C. Purrington IIIGlen P. RandallRoland R. Randall IIIKristian T. SimsarianHorace E. Six-MeansChristopher M. SmithStuart B. Strong Jr.D/M John F. TulenkoPeter N. WhiteVictor L. WrightJohn W. Wyatt

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*

Gifts in Kind



Campaign to Honor the Class of 2009Deerfield Fitness Center and Greer Store RenovationThe 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 trans-form 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 accom-plishments of the Great Class of 2009. Listed below are the names of the senior class parents and grand-parents who contributed to the campaign as well as other Academy needs.

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

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

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

$10,000 to $24,999Anonymous DonorM/M Robert D. Bewkes Sr.Mr. Paul S. Bird & Ms Amy ParsonsM/M John T. J. CoeM/M Dwight R. HilsonMr. Sung-Bai Hwang & Ms Youn-hee ChangMr. Dongsoo Kim & Ms Yoonhee JeonM/M Alex Lee

D/M James E. MillerM/M Norman R. Prouty Jr.M/M Douglas W. SquiresMr. Murry K. Stegelmann & The Rev. Dawn M. Stegelmann

$3,500 to $9,999M/M Michael BeaumontMr. Kaukab N. Chaudhry & Ms Nancy A. RochfordM/M Martin CornelsonM/M Owen S. CrihfieldD/M Steven C. DennisM/M Tod M. FobareM/M Steven C. GuggenheimerDr. Sung Hee Han & Ms Min Su Lee*M/M Philip S. Kemp Jr.M/M Charles T. LennonM/M Merrill L. Magowan*D/M David F. PannoM/M Robert A. Proctor IIIM/M John F. Rand

$1000 to $3,499M/M Roger C. AmatoM/M James B. ArdreyM/M Frank G. Binswanger Jr.M/M Frank G. Binswanger IIIM/M John D. BlackM/M James C. BlairM/M David M. CarverM/M Robert CasteloM/M William H. ChamberlainM/M William J. Civitillo Sr.M/M Lammot CopelandD/M Thomas W. DugdaleD/M David D. EvansM/M Walter A. ForbesM/M Berdine GroelMr. Harry A. Hanson III & Ms Ann HollingsworthM/M Steven M. HebertDr. William F. Hickey & Ms Lauri-Annis S. RichMr. Bernard JammetMr. Carl S. Kaplan & Ms Pamela H. MendelsDr. Daeki Kim & Ms Soojeong LeeD/M Yong Sik KimM/M Clement K. M. KwokM/M Per Arne LorentzenM/M Thomas C. MagowanM/M Kevin McKennaM/M Paul M. MorrisMs Suzanne B. NicholsonM/M Peter NitzeMr. Gregory M. OlchowskiMr. Edward G. Philie & Ms Phyllis A. Powers-PhilieM/M John W. PotterM/M E. Scott ReedM/M Ted SkinnerM/M Stuart B. Upson Jr.M/M Thomas H. Wilson

Under $1000M/M Nils P. AhbelM/M Frank AndreaMr. Paul W. Ashley & Ms O'Rene D. Nation-AshleyMs Lynne BahngM/M Jeffrey A. BallMrs. Marilyn BallM/M Ralph W. BallM/M Douglas A. BeimfohrM/M Arthur E. Belanger Jr.M/M Charles Bell Jr.M/M William J. Bell

Mr. Robert H. BlackM/M Terence BlackwoodMr. James M. BolgerMrs. Jean M. BolgerM/M Larry W. BrowneMr. Malcolm M. Carley & Ms Hellie SwartwoodMrs. Edward P. ChristianM/M R. Noel ClinardM/M Peter C. ColtD/M Joseph L. Conway Jr.Mr. James Cook & Ms H. Caroline WillisMs Diane CummingsMs Hannah DavisM/M Palmer R. DavisM/M Robert DobiasD/M Mladen DragicevicMs Sharon Dunn & Mr. John J. ClaytonMs Antoinette M. EmersM/M John C. ForreyMs Barbara FosterMs Valerie GhitelmanM/M Randolph C. GuggenheimerM/M Zahi N. HaddadMr. R. Taber HandM/M Harry A. Hanson Jr.Mr. Russell Harrington & Ms Natalie ChamberlainM/M Michael HawkinsMr. Stephen HearttMr. Julian Hecht & Ms Deborah MowatM/M Alan HessM/M Steven D. HillMs Caroline J. HollingsworthM/M Alexander C. HoytDr. Alan Hymanson & Dr. Patricia LocuratoloMr. Pierre R. JacquetM/M Andrew W. JamisonM/M William K. JenkinsM/M J. Evan JohnsonM/M Hongjoon JungMrs. Kirsten KapteynMr. Hossein Kazemi & Ms Mahnaz MahdaviMr. Arn Krugman & Ms Margaret M. Fisher-KrugmanM/M Martin KundlM/M Michel LaganiereMs Chris C. LaporteM/M Pei-Fen LeeM/M Pierre Lessard

Dr. Jane S. LymanMrs. Richard A. LymanD/M Anthony S. Y. MakM/M Paul MazurM/M Richard T. MilianteCapt/M August V. MillardM/M Bruce MillerM/M Keith A. MinoffM/M Pierre P. MoncionM/M David E. NicholsMr. Chester V. Pielock Jr. & Dr. Adele M. ChecchiM/M Stephen J. PielockD/M Lawrence PizzitolaMr. Michael Posever & Ms Anne-Marie DemetzD/M Donald R. ReisfieldM/M Scott G. ReisfieldM/M John H. RileyMr. Juan A. Ripoll & Ms Aixa M. Cruz-FaluM/M John B. RobbieM/M J. Jeffery RoldM/M Philip SachsDr. C. P. Haun SaussyM/M Timothy P. SchieffelinMr. Allan P. Shope & Mrs. Julie Flicker ShopeM/M Timothy SimmondsM/M Gary J. StokarskiMrs. Cynthia Busbee SullivanM/M John K. Sullivan*Mr. William H. Thomas IIIM/M William B. ThompsonM/M Omar V. TiongsonM/M Stephen TomiM/M Timothy A. UmbachM/M Peter D. Van OotM/M Andrew R. WardwellMs Carla S. WarrenM/M Steven WeinsteinM/M George H. Welles Jr.M/M John R. Whitton Jr.Ms Jane R. Williams & Mr. John H. CieslukM/M William C. WoodM/M David C. WoodwardMr. Daniel Workman & The Hon. Dina FeinM/M Lawrence A. WrisleyM/M Rodman J. Zilenziger Jr.




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

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.

Dr. Mary V. Andrianopoulos & Dr. Roderic A. GrupenMr. Joseph T. Bartlett Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. Judd H. BlainMr. and Mrs. Louis CiabattoniConcerto Foods, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry DagrosaMr. and Mrs. Charles O. DemersDr. Thomas S. EcheverriaMr. and Mrs. Peter R. ElliottEpiscopal Diocese of RochesterMr. and Mrs. G. Alan FrakerMr. and Mrs. John F. GraneyMr. and Mrs. John L. HarrisMr. and Mrs. Leonard J. LubinskyMr. Anthony V. Manory Jr. Mr. Kevin M. McKelveyMr. and Mrs. Gerald MillerMs Susan J. MonahanMr. and Mrs. John C. O’BrienMs Dorothy O’ReillyMr. and Mrs. William E. StarkeyMr. Norman TherienMr. and Mrs. Robert A. VeidemanMr. and Mrs. C.S. WallerMr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Whitaker

GIFTS GIVEN IN MEMORY OF MR. MICHAEL D. BOIS

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

Mr. Francis Beidler IVMr. Stephen T. EngleMr. Ryan M. FitzSimonsDonald I. Flickinger Ph.D.Mr. Joshua A. S. GreenhillMr. Richard D. Hillenbrand, IIMr. John F. HollandMr. and Mrs. Jotham JohnsonMs Margaret KabaniecMr. and Mrs. David R. KellerMr. Sean D. KellerMr. Paul B. K. KusserowMs Suzanne KusserowMr. and Mrs. Dennis G. LivelyMr. Grant McCargo IIIMr. Robert G. McCollum Jr.Mr. Grant T. MurrayMr. A. David Niles IIMr. Kolia J. B. F. O’ConnorMr. Niti OsathanugrahMr. Michael B. PercyMr. Kevin D. PsonakMr. Derek R. ReisfieldDr. and Mrs. Donald R. ReisfieldMr. Charles B. RouseReynolds M. Salerno Ph.DMr. and Mrs. Brian A. SicholMr. James I. SwindenMr. Christopher T. TollDr. Giles D. TollDr. and Mrs. Anthony S. Tornay Jr.Mr. Dylan C. TornayMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. WhiteMr. Ben C. Wileman IIIMs Leslie M. Wileman

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

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

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bomann, Jr.Mr. Kevin T. BottomleyMr. and Mrs. Ronald J. CarlsonMr. and Mrs. Robert C. DaumMr. and Mrs. Edward F. Day, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. DunnanMr. and Mrs. William L. FarrellMr. and Mrs. Eric C. FastMr. and Mrs. Roy D. GrossmanMr. and Mrs. Robert W. HawleyMr. Charles T. HaydockMr. John M. HennessyMr. B. Thomas HenryMrs. Courtney Lesko HollandMr. and Mrs. George T. HubbardMr. and Mrs. Nicholas HughesMr. and Mrs. J. Hayes KavanaghMr. and Mrs. Dennis J. KeeganMr. Thomas L. Kempner Jr. & Ms Katheryn C. PattersonMr. Gary W. KlingnerDr. and Mrs. Horacio G. LardoMr. Lincoln P. LymanMr. and Mrs. Richard MahmarianMr. and Mrs. Peter MatthyMcCarthy Fingar, LLPMr. Frank McGrathMr. and Mrs. James E. MooreMr. and Mrs. Jeremiah P. MurphyMr. Peter B. NevilleMr. and Mrs. Richard L. NovakMs Arabelle M. RoweMr. Steven R. ShereskyMs Anna Bain SlaterMr. and Mrs. John L. Townsend, IIIMr. David A. WellerMs Peggy Whitlock

GIFTS IN MEMORY OFDR. GEORGE GIBSON WILLIS ’35

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

Mr. Salvatore V. BonannoDr. Bruce R. Brown*Ms Ellen M.BrownMr. and Mrs. Phil deGozzaldiMr. Gardner M. EdgartonMr. Stanton T. FittsMr. and Mrs. Stephen FittsMrs. George V. HansonMr. and Mrs. George C. HarringtonMr. and Mrs. Dana N. JostDr. and Mrs. David W. MooreRussell, Brier & Co., LLPMr. and Mrs. Joel SaldingerTrustees of Edgell Grove CemeteryMr. and Mrs. George R. TurmailMr. and Mrs. James W. WalcknerMrs. Mark S. WellingtonMr. and Mrs. David O. WhittemoreMr. and Mrs. John R. Willis


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ItwasearlySeptember1971,andabout590boysmadetheirwaytotheswathofgreenbetweentheRiverandtheRock,topursueapathlaiddownbyFLBsome70yearsbefore–andwhichcontinuesinanunbentmannertoday,nearly40yearslater.Formanyofusitwouldbeourfirstexposuretotheritesofpassagewewouldexperienceovertheensuingfouryears—the“enforcementofrespect”byJimSmithonMatherIorlearningto“DineatTable49”withBryceV.Lambert,amongothertraditions—eachexperienceindividualandyetcollectivelysimilar.

WhatarethedifferencesbetweenDeerfield“then”andDeerfield“today?”Thevery“mod-ern”Deerfield—theDAwithasmanygirlsasboys,outstandingacademics,teacherswhocareaboutandactually“know”thestudents,greatsportsandartsprograms,themostdesirableschooltoattendintermsofadmissionfigures—theschoolknownasthe“hottest”amongapplicantsandtheirparents—areallpartofDeerfieldin2010.Andyet,evenwiththesemodern“differences”—andtheyaregreat—

thedynamicthathasbeenmaintainednotonlysetsthestandardatthecuttingedgeofacademicleadership,butdoessowithoutcompromisingtheintegrityofDA’sprogram,culture,andschoollifethathavebeenthesignatureoftheDeerfieldExperiencesinceitsinception.

IbelieveDeerfieldisabetterschooltodaythanwhenIwasastudent.Considerthatthenumberofteachersandstaffhasincreaseddramatically,buttheschool’sfootprinthasnot.Thenumberofstudentsiswithinaboutfivepercentofitshistor-icenrollmentof40yearsago,butthecourseof-feringshaveincreasedsignificantly.ThenumberofsportsofferedhasexpandedabitandbecomesignificantlymorecomplextoorganizebecauseDAoperatesata“timestwo”factor—duetohavingaroughlyequalnumberofgirls’andboys’teams.Thenumberofdeanshasbeenincreasedandthisimprovementreflectstheimportanceplacedonallaspectsofschoollife,includingeachclass,academics,andextracurricularlife.

InthedecadesbeforecoeducationgirlswouldbeimportedonSaturdaynightsfromMissPorters,EmmaWillard,andotherschools.BoyswaitednearthebusdropoffonAlbanyRoad,butnotquiteinfrontofthedoors—tryingtoseeiftheycouldgetupthecouragetospeaktoapos-sibledatebeforetheopportunitywouldbelost.Occasionally,wewouldbetreatedtodropoffsintimeforthefootballgameonSaturday,followedbydinnerandadanceintheOldGym;onthoseweekendsthecampuswaselectrified!Theonlyteenagegirlsoncampusfulltimeintheearly70swerethedaughtersofDA’sministerandtheathletictrainer,andeventhoughtheirfatherskeptthesetwofemalesatadistance,whentheystrolledthroughtheDiningHallonweekends,theywerefullyawareof590headsturningastheyenteredthedoubledoors.Anentiresocio-logicalstudycouldbedoneabouttheelementsofweekendsociallifeandSaturdaynightdancesthatchangedduetocoeducation.Today,boysknowwithcertaintythegirlswhoaregoingtobeatdances,andtheyknowtheirnames!Theboysnowdealwithgirlsaspeers—inclassrooms,onathleticfields,andintheperformingarts.

Studentlife“oversight”wasabitontheloosesidewhenIwasastudent(butmuchischangedforthebettertoday).Fromtheadministration’sviewpoint,itseemedthatalimitedamountof

WhenMagicComesTogetherBetweentheRiverandtheRockBy Peter Schulte ’75 P ’10, ’13

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trouble could be had in the Pocumtuck Valley —all boys, deep in countryside, little communica-tion 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 communica-tion 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 consequent-ly 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 campus-based 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 [cur-rent 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.


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ACROSS1. Deerfield ____3. Jests5. Body of teachers8. Anger10. School icon in brass11. DA’s local rival12. Not hers15. Barely get, with “out”17. “____ on Down the Road”21. A runner of sorts23. It is mined24. Cashless deal27. DeNunzio ____29. Service accolades, established in 201031. Newswoman Shriver33. Literary riddle35. City in Tornado Alley37. Monroe’s successor38. “Vict’ry for ____ we choose”39. One way to be taken42. “____ of the Black Pearl”46. Student publication50. “Thus ____ the Lord”52. Reunion organizer

55. Bouncing off the walls57. Romantic interlude58. Not part of DA dress code59. Sometimes it’s candied61. Algebra or trig62. Blue hue63. ____ Room (in Ephraim Williams)65. Attila was one69. 40 winks70. ____-Wan Kenobi71. One engaged in learning72. Contest73. Be victorious

DOWN1. Deep-seated2. “Uh-uh”3. ____ Center4. Be in session5. Presidents’ Day mo.6. Incite7. Big ___ Conference9. Athletic director13. “What it ____”14. Reggae precursor15. “... ___ he drove out of sight”

16. Antsy, with “up”18. Hopefully it’s true19. Admissions test20. Almond22. An end to creation?23. Aged24. Move in water25. Tail motions26. Branch28. Its seeds are used to make soap30. Word from a word32. In the manner34. Tinkers36. “___ on life’s field . . .”39. Great multitude40. Be hopping mad41. Many race against it43. Not them44. Thailand, once45. “Empedocles on ___” (Matthew Arnold poem)47. Massenet’s “Le ___”48. Cleopatra’s means of death49. ____ student51. Strike53. Narrow beam54. The war there ended in ‘7556. Bewkes, formerly60. Dfld., ____62. Germ64. Home ____66. After expenses67. Container for flowers68. ____ Green69. Fresh

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