This past summer I was a coach for the US Sailing Team at the 2012 London Olympics. The sailing events were held in Weymouth which is a couple hours southwest of London. Dave Perry (’72) was also there as the US Sailing Team rules advisor, so we spent a bunch of time together. I coached [...]

Our 3-letter man, Dudley Ferrari ’55, and his wife, Kathy, now enjoy living in Naples, FL, near the Big Cypress National Preserve, where he can work on his golf game year round. He wishes, however, that his golf handicap would “go down as quickly as the days go by”. Dudley and Kathy enjoy visiting with [...]

I chatted with Eddie Dick ’55, our Boyden Society Captain, this afternoon, 9/25/2012. He had just returned from a meeting with Terry O’Toole ’02, Deerfield’s 50th Reunion Capital Gifts Officer. The Frank L. and Helen Childs Boyden Society honors and recognizes those individuals who provide for Deerfield through bequests, trusts, or other planned gifts. Eddie [...]

In late July, I drove my wife and some long time friends down “Memory Lane” through Deerfield and then stopped to see our Classmate Ed Yazwinski ’45, who unfortunately suffered a stroke last fall at the time of the big flood that submerged the lower level and most all of his families’ corn fields. They [...]

Joe Bete ’55 says that he leads a pretty ordinary life. Not! He lives in Deerfield and was at the helm of The Channing Bete Company for 28 years between 1967 and 1995. The company is located in South Deerfield, and currently employs 230 employees in the community. Two of his sons, Michael ’79, and [...]

The LanyardThe other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano, from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor, when I found myself in the L section of the dictionary where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.No cookie nibbled by a [...]