Prove it! By Eddy D...

This you gotta see my friends. The shy and retiring boy from NJ we knew in high school is an internet sensation with the Big Blue Bus and the Pepsi Max / Gizmodo tailgating challenge

We all knew he had it in him, just most of us never got to see it until now...

http://gizmodo.com/5354918/whats-your-maximum-tailgating-gadget

and that's eddyd@gizmodo.com for contest entries!

Charlie Cost '83 pays it forward every year

Two stories here. First, you should bookmark the new online presence of the Deerfield Scroll, the student newspaper. Always a few chuckles to be found there.

In this first Scroll release of the school year (classes start Monday, Sept. 14) we are reminded of classmate Charlie Cost through a description of the community service awards used this summer including the one his family started in his honor.

Deerfield Students Doing Summer Service Worldwide
By The Scroll
Published: September 12, 2009
Supported by the Cost and Workman families, Deerfield students pursue various community service activities during the summer.

Andy Harris ’10 won Deerfield’s Cost Award to run a theatre camp.

Eliot Taft '11 worked in an orphanage in Uruguay

Sixteen other students were awarded Workman Grants from the Academy for a maximum of $1,000 each.

Click on students’ names to read their journals and view pictures of their projects. The sixteen include:Alaina Belanger ’12, Amanda Bennett ’10, Cecelia Buerkle ’10, Arleen Chien ’10, Audrey Cho ’11, Lucy Cobbs ’10, Jacqui Colt ’11, Flora Donovan ’12, TaoTao Holmes ’10, Andy Kang ’10, Alex Kim ’10, James Kim ’11, Maddie Lane ’12, Ellen Shin ’10, Eliot Taft ’11, Deidre Yiu ’11