Friday, September 30, 2011

Peter Hindle on Boyden, Calculus and Deerfield on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/m/#/29630547

I'm only mobile this weekend but wanted to post this Legacy Project video of Peter Hindle describing how DA came to teach calculus.

Stories like these are being recorded at reunions. FYI

Best from beautiful Vermont.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Is it good for horse racing too?


New sod arrived this morning and they started on James Smith Field (football) first.  Sod trucks on Albany Road much of the day so far.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Old Dog, New tricks


That's Bob Moorehead, famed architecture teacher at DA.  He had just opened a bubble wrapped package of a newly framed work, "Tsunami", done by him.  It has traditional pen and ink properties but also digital "slices" from photoshop etc.  I thought that was pretty cool...

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Every Blade of Grass


I had lunch with the new CFO today. He told me that due to the flooding caused by Irene and the silt which has covered our 13 fields, every blade of grass on every field will have to be replaced. Every blade.

The picture is of the first field which has been dug up and piled. It's the varsity softball field between the varsity football field and the river. No insurance on grass of course.

I heard once that to replace the grass on the main quad after the reunion tent comes down is around $30,000.

If you have ever wondered what the importance of the Annual Fund is and what specifically it "funds", well, now you know.

Hopefully better pictures will come forth of the complete decimation of the lower level, but this is what I could take with my phone.

Upper Level Practices

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Second Flood




John Knight
Director of Annual Support &
Development Operations
Deerfield Academy

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