Happy New Year to the class from Lulu and Ben Stewart, carving some ice in Los Angeles, and barely making time to stand for dad's (Andrew) pic!

Go * Green!

The calendar year is drawing nigh and you may be considering philanthropic support for your esteemed list of charitable organizations. Class Captains Schmidt and Knight continue to softly encourage classmates to support Deerfield, to predictably mediocre results. Our New Year's resolution might be to encourage a little harder!

If now is your time to give*, please keep Deerfield on your list. Many of us have already done so and we welcome all "joiners"! So Go Green if you can, whether you go * (Big) or not is your call.

Happy New Year!

Use the online giving link (www.deerfield.edu/give) or mail to PO Box 306, Deerfield, MA 01342 (hey!)

Practicing What I Preach

Took the annual picture with Chris Davey at the Christmas Eve Service at the "Brick Church" in Deerfield. (Taken by a Deerfield alumnus Class of 2005!)

Special

As the parent of an only daughter, who was born on December 25th...five years ago, you can imagine how "special" this time of year can be. You would also correctly surmise that our daughter has an out of perspective sense of her own specialness. She has been waking about 15 minutes earlier each day all week, so santa better get out of the house quickly lest he be discovered!

All that aside, the Class of 1983 is special too. I wish you only the best as the new year approaches with the hope of continued friendships and rekindled old ones. If the blog can help, send photos, comments and news, and tell your classmates to subscribe because its a painless digest email only on those days with a post.

Best for 2011 and beyond.

Wedding Classic

It's those impromptu moments that make life so enjoyable, especially when you're otherwise occupied.

Congrats Brian!

It's official! Brian Steward married Hannah Williams on November 19 in San Antonio. Jim Wareck was on hand to convey the congratulations of the class and Corbin Snow '81 did likewise for his class. I'd say our man in San Antonio has come a long way. Welcome to the Deerfield family Hannah!

















Age 12

Who's your Douggy?

Thanks to Cruikshank and Schmidt for attending the first Flash Buck! They hadn't seen each in a while - always happy to connect classmates!

Flash Buck! Thursday 8 am

The Class of 1983 is invited to a version of a "flash mob", but its a coordinated meet and greet at a Starbucks somewhere in the world, announced only on the blog.

The first one is Thursday, Dec. 9 at 8 am, 425 Madison Avenue. (49th and Madison Avenue). See you there...I'm buying!

Wareck in Washington Post

When working in politics, being mentioned in the Washington Post isnt always a good thing. But Jim Wareck will probably take this press about his new movie and how it reflects the lexcion of DC representations. Sorry that co-writer Brad Weir gets short shrift in this one...(image is a scene from the movie)

Schmidt-ileaks

Its great to have a man in the inside. Doug Schmidt is that for our class. He paces the streets of New York City, cell phone to ear, looking for Deerfield connections, opportunities...and classmates.

He says he "just bumped into" his latest find, Charlie Grace.

Congrats to Charlie on his new job (of about a year) working for FOX, that's Family Office Exchange based in Chicago. See his CEO on SquawkBox in the video below.

Now if we could just get Schmidt (or anyone else in the class) to take a picture when they "bump into" classmates!

Adam Feiges sends family photo...

With thanks to Adam for this lovely family photo. He is with his wife Alyssa and kids Duncan (12) and Isobel (8) and they currently reside in Hinton, Iowa.

Proof positive that the blog is more fun when you send news to me or to DA!