All are invited to join in Deerfield Academy Zen Study on Monday, January 17, 6-7:30pm in the Deerfield Room. Classes are taught by Mr. Daikan Bastien and will include study of the Heart Sutra and the practice of Zazen. Please contact Mr. Flaska with questions.

The group that went to Uruguay summer ’09 will sell croissants during the morning break of our MLK celebration. All proceeds will benefit the orphanage where they did community service while there.  Come help the children!

The schedule for Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day activities is posted below. A morning of student presentations and community break-out sessions is followed by a performance by a highly regarded troupe of musicians and actors from Denver, CO, who will take the audience on a multimedia journey through the civil rights movement.

We are opening application for the Deerfield Scroll 2011-2012 editorial board. Again this year, we will work with a smaller board and six-page issues. We are aiming again for a closer, more cohesive, more focused group, with closer ties to all members of the Scroll and more enjoyable extra-curricular experience.

To continue the exhilarating spirit of this week’s school meeting, library staff invite you to visit the American Song online database.

This is just a reminder for everyone participating in my Fruits & Veggies Challenge to keep up the good work!! There’s only one more week left of the challenge! Forms should be either e-mailed or dropped in the box that will be available outside the Parker Room by Tuesday, January 18th. Thank you for your [...]

The January 4 school meeting included an inspiring presentation by Mrs. Loftus on the importance of a proper night’s sleep.  Among the library’s bounty of information on this subject are the Teen Health & Wellness database and the library’s informative circulating collection. Visit our library – in person OR online – to read about the [...]

It is with great pleasure that I invite you all to the first Schuler Concert Series event of the year.  The Synergy Brass Quintet performs more concerts than anyone in classical music today, averaging nearly 300 engagements per year.  They have cultivated a uniquely exuberant style of presentation that has been called a “rock star [...]

The winners of the Cafe Louis Holiday Candy Contest are Kate Anderson, Ryan Logie, Emory Buck, Libby Whitton, and Dean Citrino. There were 187 pieces of candy in the jar. Congratulations to the winners! They can collect their prize at the Cafe.

You’re standing near the front of the line in the Koch Cafe and you see a fellow student approach the first person in line.  After a short exchange and a flash of some laminated card the student pulled from his pocket, that student steps to the front of the line.  Asking the person next to [...]