Handling with care

Here's Spence Brown cradling the newly adopted daughter of Brian Tenenbaum - looks like it might be in a secret location to keep the paparazzi away...
Regardless, congratulations to Brian!!!

More than a book

I had the chance to hear the author of a debut novel, Beatriz Williams, while also seeing old friends Syd Williams '85 and George Knight '85 in Madison, CT.  Good people...and no doubt "Overseas" will be a good summer read.  How did those guys get taller than me?

Harris Family helps Deerfield Remember

At today's Memorial Day gathering in Old Deerfield, the three local schools participated in a moving ceremony of remembrance.  Thanks to Bement School and Eaglebrook School and Deerfield Academy students...here pictured leaving the cemetery.

It was heart wrenching to hear from a Gold Star Mother and Deerfield resident whose son was lost in Iraq in 2003.  Freedom is indeed not free...

What made it even more special was the Address by Commander Shane G. Harris, brother of our own classmate Chris, here pictured in the Caswell Library with their mom who is Deerfield Academy Class of 1941!

David Howell - Final Class after 43 years

Memorial Day Message - from a Patton

Ben shared his timely Op-Ed from the Huffington Post.  Our Deerfield Days weren't as traumatic, but we're still a band of brothers...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-patton/this-memorial-day-listen_b_1540745.html

Ziccardi looking out for Philly

From FB: Last night, while riding to dinner, I noticed a guy passed out in his car that he had started to pull out into traffic. I went back tried to wake, him, but couldn't, so I called 9-1-1. His head was back and he was having trouble breathing. Then I noticed needle marks on his arms. Sure enough, he had ODed. The medics gave him a shot of something up his nose and he finally woke up. The cops told me I likely saved his life and maybe others since the a-hole was going to hit the streets. 

Additional Comment: One passerby told the cops he had seen him 30 min. before in the same state. The lights were on, his feet were on the pedals and he had clearly tried to pull away from the curb, but the hood was cool, suggesting that it had stalled out (manual trans) some time ago. The cops found prescription painkillers in his car with his name on the bottles but no illegal drugs so they didn't arrest him. Medics were going to take him to the hospital. Eileen and I wondered why he had gone out in a t-shirt with all those needle marks. While we were waiting for the cops, his phone rang. It showed the name of Jess. We tried calling her back in case he had a true medical condition like epilepsy, but the phone was locked. In the car the cops found an envelope with the name Jessica on it. Probably his girlfriend. Wonder if he was on his way to pick her up from somewhere and didn't expect to be seen by many/anyone. Since he had apparently been passed out for some time she had probably called wondering where he was.

It seemed worthy to this editor...

DA Boys Track - First NE Championship!

Congrats to the 4th seeded track team for "finishing up strong" to defeat Loomis Chaffee by two points and taking the NE championship - our first in 73 years!

http://deerfield.edu/2012/05/deerfield-boys-track-new-england-champions/

Field Notes

It was raining on the way home today so I stopped by Nourse Farm to see how Nate was doing. He said business was good, having suffered none of the ill effects of the hurricane and flood waters last fall, the effects of the Halloween snow storm or any of the freezes of budding fruit plants of this spring.  The center of the country has not been so fortunate he says (pictured) and there will be a lack of local apples and peaches especially in the Great Lakes region.

From the Ministry of Silly Walks...

Hank LeMieux is a winner!

Click to see BloomReach's Hunger Games 

"Tortilla Head" Champion

in action on Facebook....