The depth of his understanding

In high school, you probably don't see the full measure of a classmate, or realize the potential within the brain and heart before you. But each in our own way, we migrate toward some destiny. A few get there sooner than the rest....I saw this video on the World Learning Blog and thought; "Nicely done, Adam".

Table 67 today

Turkey Divan, brown rice, rolls, Ginger snaps and fruit!

Says it all...

Warm greetings to the class from Scott, Isabelle, Pierce and Victor Pryce in Barcelona!

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!

Table 67 today

Roast Beef with mashed potatoes, carrots and gravy, cookies

Thankful

I hope your Thanksgiving holiday exceeded all of your expectations. I'm thankful for the burgeoning interest in the class by the class as evidenced by an uptick in subscribers. Please take a moment to email two classmates that you keep in close touch with and ask them to subscribe if they have not. The more the merrier... Feel free to post a comment if there are topics or people you would like to know more about and the investigative team will swing into action!

Patton envelope pushing

Fred* film workshops co-founders Scott Kinnamon and Ben Patton '83 visited Deerfield on November 16th, to encourage the use of filmmaking for student storytelling and narrative across the curriculum.

Great to see them and to get a better sense of what they are up to. Their work with teens is also leading to interesting opportunities for storytelling films by recent war veterans and other constituencies.

RIP Flip

Philip E Charron Jr., Deerfield Language teacher 1951-1990 just passed away on November 17. Fell free to leave thoughts as comments.

Belcher Wins New Englands, Leads Quartet to All Star Meet

Pictured left to right are Deerfield's top four finishers at New England Championships (held at DA this past weekend). Belcher '11 in sunglasses was the winner, Moreau '11 was 15th, Wood '13 was 8th and Quesada '12 was tenth.

Water Polo NE CHAMPS - 8 min video

thanks to a Deerfield dad for posting this - nice finish to the weekend after tough day at Choate!

Hardie Jackson and Dean Singewald

Hardie and his boys at Choate!

It begins with JV football

#85 surfaces

This online class note just arrived from Hardie Jackson (who wore #85 for the Big Green football team that went 7-1 in our senior year). Great to hear from him - now trying to get an email address and subscribe him to the blog!

"Hello all. I feel bad that I have been out of touch with the DA community for so long. My re-entry has been helped by having two nephews now attending DA: Mac '11 and John '14. My family and I are still in Atlanta. Left the agent world two years ago as my quality of life travelling 200 days a year was not quite what I wanted it to be! Still love the business though and have my hands on a dozen or so MLB players. Presently splitting my time between players, a real estate development company I started (good timing) and a company called Evoshield where I am part owner. Hopefully I will be more involved with DA moving forward. Glad to be back!"

Festival Genius Audience Award: vote for BTB!

Jim and Brad's movie, "Below the Beltway" now being considered for national fan award. With the elections over, you have more time to VOTE!

Festival Genius Audience Award

Chicken and chips

Table 67 today at lunch!

Two dimensional Fridge

Current faculty member Peter Nilsson ran to the rock the other day and mapped his run on "The Fridge Trail". Hard to imagine it will bring back many "fond" memories for those of you who have done it, but runs to the rock are still all the rage!

:: DAnet News :: Debate

The "debate team" is alive and well at DA and once again sending a participant to the World Championships! Here they are in their "indie rock band" photo.

:: DAnet News ::

Read the magazine yet?

Meet the new Vice President

Greenberg promoted to vice president of Government Relations

Josh Greenberg has been promoted to vice president of Government Relations for Children's Hospital Boston. As the hospital accelerates its efforts to build a local and national reputation for delivering cost effective, innovative care, particularly on Beacon Hill and in Washington, the role of Government Relations has become increasingly important. Greenberg has been tasked with leading Children's response to the constantly evolving external environment of health reform and cost containment, as well as continuing to set the hospital's public policy and legislative advocacy agenda that is central to our ability to provide the best care to children in need.Greenberg has been with Children's for eight years, most recently serving as director of Government Relations. In that role, he's led hospital efforts and provided strategy for city, state and federal fiscal and public policy issues, including helping to advance the hospital's agenda on Medicaid/CHIP, pediatric quality, child/public health concerns, research and medical education.Prior to joining Children's, Greenberg served as manager of the Children's Division at Health Care For All, where he was the Massachusetts director for the national Covering Kids Program. His dedication to child advocacy has led him to involvement in numerous projects on health quality, teen health and mental health, including the founding of an innovative legal aid program, now known as the Medical-Legal Partnership, at Boston City Hospital's Department of Pediatrics. Greenberg is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Northeastern University's School of Law.

Congratulations Josh! The formatting isn't great but I wanted to include the pic with his wife Kate since we haven't had much news from Josh. Spread the word to '83 (only about a third of us subscribed to the blog) that this is the place to keep up with DA '83!

Pride not Prejudice

Eric Peterson has to make important decisions as Head of St. George's School. One of his most recent made it into Frank Deford Commentary on NPR.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130511940&sc=emaf

Morley

David Morley was on campus today with a daughter who is on the Bahamian National Swim Team (shocker...not)!

Sully

That's Lowery Sullivan '85 and his son in my office. Lowery was the third of the four Sullivan brothers at DA in the 80s. They could all fall downhill with great speed!

Cheeseburger?

You might remember the face of the man who ran the "school store" in our day - just saw this notice that he passed away.

October 11, 2010: Turners Falls - Roger Joseph "Rujay" Parenteau Sr., 79, of 9 James Ave., died Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield following a period of declining health.

I have many memories of waiting in line for a cheesebuger after study hall and i still have a check dated 3/3/83 from Mark Rockefeller '85 who needed a little extra cash one night. RIP "Rog".

And Geoff Bennett too!

Hey handsome!

Chris Flagg caught at the Deerfield dinner. He's so happy to be sitting next to JK!

DA dinner in NYC

Big (annual) dinner for Deerfield tonight at Broad Street Ballroom. I'll have one for each of you!

Heritage

William K Zinsser Jr '40 accepting the Heritage Award at Deerfield today with a speech on "Leading an interesting life". (author of On Writing Well)

Good morning!

Trustee PB Weymouth at breakfast for Volunteers Weekend in the refurbished Greer Store.

Bonus!

DA beat Taft 18-15 and then I bumped into Kevin Kenny '85 and his wife Lauren.

Quintessential

DA vs Taft on the Lower Level on a beautiful fall day. Wish you were here!

Welcome back Ed!

Ed Goodson returned to DA with kids in tow doing the admission thing!

Picture of today

12:15 pm between Main School Building and Arms, looking at JW and Barton

Random Visitor

Only at Deerfield does a visitor to the town choose to tour this way! Literally a random pic on way to a meeting.

Turkey divan and sugar cookies

I had the chance to cover table 67 in the dining hall for lunch today and the students were kind enough to stay for a picture. Three of the four classes were represented. You may remember the young man in the middle as the recipient of the Cost Award last May and discussed then on this blog.

What's a freshman to do?

In the recent past Deerfield freshmen were assigned to defend the seal on Choate Day. The arrangement pictured may only be temporary but it made me think a little. Cheers to '83 at the end if the first week of classes!

Educational Film

Ben Patton recently hosted educators at his South Hamilton, MA film camp called FRED. Two Deerfield faculty members (flanked in this photo by Ben and his staff) were able to join him. Started in 2006 as a student summer film camp, FRED is clearly expanding.

Congrats to Ben on the impact he is having with students and faculty alike!

One interesting project that he is exploring with Pingree School is a student-produced film about the school described from their point of view. Last summer several Pingree students attended Fred and collaborated on a film about a Pingree-run tutoring/adventure program for boston inner-city teens. It was produced in less than two weeks.

You can check out that film on our youtube channel "bestoffred" below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_udrb-TFmVw

Eric Suher wins praise at home

Front page article in the Springfield Sunday Republican today on Eric Suher's revival of the Holyoke property known as Mountain Park. Another example of the talent in '83.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/mountain_park_successful_conce.html#comments

Jim Wilmott '82 visit

Jim is on vacation in Vermont from London (and only working 8-10 hrs a day apparently) and took the afternoon to bring his niece Joanna to see campus. He sends his best to '83.

New fitness equipment

Just arrived at work to see fitness equipment loading in to the new fitness center. School store also being renovated. Dining hall has expanded south bubble. Lots going on at DA. Come see it sometime!