Well, 42 years after arriving in the valley, it appears my run is at an end. My son, Thomas, graduated with the class of 2012 last month, following his sister, Elizabeth, who was in the class of 2010. The past six years have been almost as much fun as the first four so long ago. [...]

Life goes on after the 50th. Samantha survived her freshman year at Deerfield – grades were excellent, started on the varsity soccer team, played #3 on the varsity squash team which finished second in the nation and JV lacrosse. Maddie finished 7th grade and continued upwards in soccer ands squash. Jessie leads her radiology group [...]

Kevin Sheehan ’55 continues to display his 2 ton Dutch Street Organ that he hauls to rallies on weekends throughout the Northeast. A delightful video was made at the annual Mountainview Woodies Boat Show in Naples, ME, in 2008. To see Kevin hand crank a tune on the organ, go to YouTube and query (Q) [...]

Ed Flickinger ’65 is thrilled to report that his daughter Carrie, a former Asst. Dir. of Alumni Relations at Deerfield, was married to Matt Diana at the Greenvale Vineyard outside of Newport, RI, the first weekend of June.

Jimmy Maguire, my brother in law, was asking me for several days prior to my arrival in Newport, RI, “Do you wanna go fishing?” The trip he proposed was to the canyons 95 miles due south from Newport and about the same due East from Toms River, NJ. We would leave on Sunday morning August [...]

Syd Williams ’85 was thrilled to have classmate George Knight ’85 participate in a book signing event for his wife’s debut novel OVERSEAS. They were joined by surprise guest John Knight ’83 at Madison, CT bookseller R.J. Julia. Sydney Williams Class of 1985

Jeff and I have bought a house in Charlotte, VT and will be moving in July — we’re thrilled! Business is going well and I’m looking forward to photographing two Deerfield weddings this summer and one already in 2013 – it’s so fun to re-connect with people in that way. Amanda Herzberger Class of 2000

We finally cut ties with Boston and moved to the burbs last summer. If anyone finds themself in Marblehead (a destination not on the way to anywhere), give me a shout. Good for the kids, but the commute is killing me – looking for helicopter owners in need of company. Alex Arnold Class of 1991

Deerfield Academy’s Spring production, The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney is a mosaic of 18 vignettes—some funny, some touching, some rueful—which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP. From the story of an unfaithful wife caught red-handed by her son, to one of a woman’s faded memory at her [...]

Arthur French Clarke II, 90, died in New London, NH on May 17, 2012 at his residence in Woodcrest Village Assisted Living. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1922, to Hermann Frederick Clarke and Dorothy Johnson Clarke. He attended Dexter School and Rivers and later graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1941. He attended Union [...]