Given minutes ago at the final school meeting to Ross, a sophomore from San Francisco. Congrats!
from my iPhone
Friday, May 27, 2011
Charles Piper Cost '83 Award
Given minutes ago at the final school meeting to Ross, a sophomore from San Francisco. Congrats!
from my iPhone
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Deerfield Academy vs Salisbury lacrosse highlight video (May 18, 2011)
Highlights of the league title game!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swx92GRCzNo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Son, here are the keys. Please be careful.
This blog has a loyal following of 60+. Wish it were more. It often contains news of classmates and sometimes (too often for some) contains more general academy news.
You can change the ratio by copying this email address into your smartphone etc.
jgknight83.da1983@blogger.com
You now have the keys to posting to this blog. Any text, image etc. should post to this site if you email it to the address. It will post immediately and appear in the nightly digest currently set for 7 pm eastern.
While I may be the most interested to share news of the class, I am not the only one. This occurred to me when after the Whit Hagerman post, Pete Crow and John Munro realized they both had kids at Brooks School and vowed to connect at Parents Weekend. That would make a great picture and post for this blog, but they would need the keys to make it simple.
It's a big responsibility, but I know you can handle it. Save the address, take a pic and post it.
You can change the ratio by copying this email address into your smartphone etc.
jgknight83.da1983@blogger.com
You now have the keys to posting to this blog. Any text, image etc. should post to this site if you email it to the address. It will post immediately and appear in the nightly digest currently set for 7 pm eastern.
While I may be the most interested to share news of the class, I am not the only one. This occurred to me when after the Whit Hagerman post, Pete Crow and John Munro realized they both had kids at Brooks School and vowed to connect at Parents Weekend. That would make a great picture and post for this blog, but they would need the keys to make it simple.
It's a big responsibility, but I know you can handle it. Save the address, take a pic and post it.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Hilarious Guesses and One Right Answer...
Guesses on yesterday's photo quiz were received from Schmidt, Munro,Zales, Sheppard and Nourse. Answers ranged from: "your daughter" to "Helen Childs Boyden" to "the daughter of a classmate" to "Craig Pattee" - but the right answer (from Munro and a fellow McAlister Dorm resident in 1981-1982): "A Hagerman, Whittaker I think."
The background for his answer is not the McAlister Dorm connection, since Whittaker wasn't born yet, but I did think it a nice hint...John's daughter attends Brooks School and her advisor is Casey Hagerman, the oldest of the four Hagerman daughters. Kully (daughter #2) coaches lax at Babson, Jamison (DA '99) works at Groton and Whit has just started her new job in the Admission Office at Choate! A great school family. (We all have to start our careers somewhere.....) Thanks for the guesses!
The background for his answer is not the McAlister Dorm connection, since Whittaker wasn't born yet, but I did think it a nice hint...John's daughter attends Brooks School and her advisor is Casey Hagerman, the oldest of the four Hagerman daughters. Kully (daughter #2) coaches lax at Babson, Jamison (DA '99) works at Groton and Whit has just started her new job in the Admission Office at Choate! A great school family. (We all have to start our careers somewhere.....) Thanks for the guesses!
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Any guesses?
Any guesses who I'm pictured with in front on McAlister dorm today?
John Knight
Director of Annual Support &
Development Operations
Deerfield Academy
from my iPhone
Saturday, May 7, 2011
'83 earns $15K as Most Improved! Way to go!
Results of the April Donor Challenge at DA are in and congratulations are in order. Thank you so much for responding to the outreach of your class agents: Blain, Clark, Feiges, Fitzpatrick, Flagg, Knight, Singewald, Sullivan, Townsend, Weymouth and Wolf, who were led by the enthusiastic Doug Schmidt...
What a rally - with a week to go we had 20 april donors and the class of '74 had 27. In the last week we added 17 donors and they only added 3!
The team will bask in the glory for a week or two, then its back to the phones to rally the rest of the class to make a gift by June 30 to help DA garner >50% alumni participation for the first time in 6 years...
The official announcement:
Class of 1983 Surprises, Class of 1979 Repeats!!
What a rally - with a week to go we had 20 april donors and the class of '74 had 27. In the last week we added 17 donors and they only added 3!
The team will bask in the glory for a week or two, then its back to the phones to rally the rest of the class to make a gift by June 30 to help DA garner >50% alumni participation for the first time in 6 years...
The official announcement:
Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 April Donor Challenge!
Most Donors in April
Class of 1979 with 113 donors, 1st place $15,000
Class of 1964 with 84 donors, 2nd place $8,000
Class of 1983 44 donors*
Class of 1974 38 donors*
Class of 1966 with 32 donors, 3rd place $1,797
Most Improved April 2011 Donors Compared to April 2010
Class of 1983 +37 donors, 1st place $15,000
Class of 1974 +30 donors, 2nd place $8,000
Class of 1966 +20 donors*
Class of 1964 +16 donors*
Class of 1977 +10 donors, 3rd place tie $898.50
Class of 2009 +10 donors, 3rd place tie $898.50
*Challenge rules stipulate a class may only win in one category.
To view complete results, go to deerfield.edu/go/aprildonorchallenge
The April Donor Challenge brought in 894 gifts and $585,595 in revenue, greatly helping us toward our year-end goals of 50% participation and $5,000,000 in revenue.
Thanks to everyone who made a gift in April!
When you're right, you're right...
As a follow up to a story reported in October 2010, when Eric Peterson wouldn't allow his St. George's School football team to play against a MUCH bigger Lawrence Academy team for safety reasons, it turns out Eric was on to something.
Boston news outlets are reporting a series of sanctions imposed on LA by their league (ISL) for improper financial aid packages to athletes (my summary) and the school has had to vacate their two previous league titles and faces other restrictions for three years.
Eric is not the gloating kind, but kudos to him for doing what's right at the time, and being vindicated later. (Frank DeFord's NPR commentary did support Eric at the time, but many others considered him a quitter).
It's hard to have ideals these days, but we're glad Eric has them and defends them...
Boston news outlets are reporting a series of sanctions imposed on LA by their league (ISL) for improper financial aid packages to athletes (my summary) and the school has had to vacate their two previous league titles and faces other restrictions for three years.
Eric is not the gloating kind, but kudos to him for doing what's right at the time, and being vindicated later. (Frank DeFord's NPR commentary did support Eric at the time, but many others considered him a quitter).
It's hard to have ideals these days, but we're glad Eric has them and defends them...
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