Posted on February 8, 2012 12:46 pm
By Alumni Office
I am now a Senior Program Manager for Snapfish by HP and we operate the Walgreens Photo site. On a recent business trip to Walgreens I connected with Bob Friedman who lives minutes away from their headquarters in Chicago. Was just like old times (except we’re both over 50 now!) and great to re-connect. Ralph [...]
Posted on February 8, 2012 12:45 pm
By Dickson, Betsey
Arthur teaches two ten-week courses each year, is on a few boards, is working on an exhibition for the Grolier Club for 2015 and says, unconvincingly, that he is a “man of leisure.” He writes that next to his Vivat Rex exhibition, the Grolier exhibit will be a “minimum opus.” Three generations of the Schwarz family visited [...]
Posted on February 8, 2012 11:07 am
By Dickson, Betsey
Bucky Buckwalter ’52 writes “Casey and I just watched Forks Over Knives on DVD. ‘Focusing on the research of two food scientists, this earnest documentary reveals that despite broad advances in medical technology, the popularity of modern processed foods has led to epidemic rates of obesity, diabetes, and other diseases.’ One of those scientists is [...]
Posted on February 8, 2012 10:50 am
By Dickson, Betsey
Macmillan published Hard Knocks, Howie Carr’s first novel in January. Howie’s website describes the book as “a gritty noir mystery about the intertwining worlds of crime and politics in Boston”, a subject he previously has explored in two non-fiction works. John Mills retired in 2011 after nearly 32 years of government service and formed Patent [...]
Posted on February 8, 2012 10:46 am
By Dickson, Betsey
Ran into Brad Palmer ’79 at DA last fall. His daughter and my son were interviewing. We’ll see what happens. While visiting I saw Nick Albertson and had a few laughs when we recalled Jake Murphy’s (’81) announcement at the Thursday school meeting when Mac Jackson ’79 and I were his proctors. I would give more details to those [...]
Posted on February 8, 2012 10:34 am
By Dickson, Betsey
Steve Schmidt and his wife Lisa are working on a startup in Silicon Valley called High Energy Audits, helping homeowners save energy through online analysis of their energy use. Part of their inspiration came from visiting Chris Hunt’s (’79) leaky old home in Marin. See attached picture of Chris and Steve mountain biking in Chris’ [...]
Posted on February 8, 2012 10:23 am
By Dickson, Betsey
Bob Keenan ’71 of Bigfork MT, a former State Senate President, was picked by Corey Stapleton to be his running mate in Stapleton’s bid for Governor of Montana: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/stapleton-picks-keenan-for-running-mate/article_c10702e7-f084-5225-979d-69807eddfd24.html?oCampaign=hottopics
Posted on February 8, 2012 10:14 am
By Dickson, Betsey
Hello Deerfield! I have had an exhilarating and exhausting year and a half in the film industry, working on the set and in the production office of four feature films made in New York City. I began on the Whit Stillman film “Damsels in Distress”—his first in 13 years, and in which I have a [...]
Posted on February 8, 2012 9:58 am
By Alumni Office
Art is correct; I started a new sales job with a Pittsburgh-based firm: Access Data. We’re a division of Broadridge. Our firm transforms data from asset management firms into valuable business information. Still playing water polo; with a group of guys largely based on the East Coast ( former Bucknell, Brown, Fordham and NYAC “athletes”). [...]
Posted on February 8, 2012 8:49 am
By Heise, Karinne
Great victories over St. George’s and Baldwin School earn Deerfield girls squash a place in the Championship Finals.