We’re halfway done with the 2012 Green Cup Challenge, where dorms compete for a month to reduce their electricity consumption compared to an early January baseline value. This is a competition where everyone wins – the school saves money, the mountains in West Virginia don’t get blasted away to extract coal, students learn how to [...]

In celebration of Black History Month, the Deerfield Black Student Alliance (DBSA) is collaborating with the staff of the Boyden Library to create weekly questions that will focus upon significant figures who improved the life for blacks in America.  Our contest begins with this question: Best known today for his autobiography, his legacy “remains a [...]

Here is the bus schedule for Long Winter Weekend.  Departure and return times and locations.

Basketball BV     East Gym   7:00 – 8:30pm GV     West Gym 7:00 – 8:30pm   Hockey Boys Stick Time       3:30 – 5:00pm BV Practice              6:15 – 7:45pm GV Practice         7:55 – 9:25pm   Squash No practice   Swimming No Practice Wrestling No Practice

Congratulations to Elissa M. DeNunzio, winner of our January Library Question of the Month! The Question: This DA alumnus stars in the Dark Knight movie series and the Ringer television series. He was also a featured player in Lost. Who is he? The Answer:  Nestor Carabonell, Class of 1986  We received 21 correct answers and selected [...]

Stephen Briones ’84 is busy leading and managing ING Bank’s commercial and investment banking business in Thailand.  He’s also having fun telling his kids, Natalia (14) and Nicholas (10) about his great times at Deerfield. He recently wrote the following book review, published in the Bangkok Post:  http://www.bangkokpost.com/arts-and-culture/book/268088/around-the-world-after-a-spending-craze

The article below was published in the Catholic Review: http://www.catholicreview.org/article/faith/parish-news/bishop-skurla-named-to-head-byzantine-archeparchy-of-pittsburgh Bishop Skurla named to head Byzantine Archeparchy of Pittsburgh WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop William C. Skurla of the Byzantine Eparchy of Passaic, N.J., as archbishop of the Byzantine Archeparchy of Pittsburgh. Archbishop Skurla, 55, will succeed Archbishop Basil M. Schott, who [...]

I recently released a new, live-in-studio, solo acoustic record titled “A Thing Or Three” that is now available on iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon, and several other online retailers. I have been touring to support the release and am scheduled to perform in San Diego, CA this evening for my next stop before heading up to [...]

I am just finishing a new traveling exhibit for the MythBusters that will open up in March of this year and travel around the US and eventually Europe. Working with Jamie, Adam, Tory, Kari and Grant has been incredible and I can’t wait to see the exhibit open here in Chicago at the Museum of [...]

Hi, I recently came across former Deerfield teacher Peter Brush’s Yale University dissertation, ‘Cicero’s Poetry’, and wanted to share part of his preface, dated August, 1970. It ends with a kind word and a joke: ‘Special warm thanks belong to my friends and students at Deerfield Academy, who have provided a congenial place to work [...]