Eliza graduated with highest honors from Princeton University, where she concentrated in art history and earned a certificate in creative writing. Her senior thesis on Marcel Duchamp received the Irma S. Seitz Prize in the Field of Modern Art and her collection of poems received an award for Outstanding Work by a Senior from the Program in Creative Writing. While at Princeton, she was editor-in-chief of the Nassau Weekly and led a consent activism group
On Wednesday, the Deerfield community gathered at School Meeting to celebrate the accomplishments and achievements of all the winter co-curriculars and teams. Athletic Director Mr. Howe kicked off the celebration by welcoming the community to the first School Meeting of the spring term. He was followed by Mrs. Hynds, who invited senior students from the winter performances to share the impact of their visual and performing arts experience. A shout out to all of the
alumni awards Alumni Association Deerfield alumni go on to live the values they encountered here. They strive to achieve greatness by embodying goodness. Their accomplishments deserved to be celebrated. The Heritage Award The Ashley Award The Mimi Morsman Award The Heritage Award The Heritage Award was initiated by the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association in 1984 to recognize a Deerfield alumnus/a whose professional and personal achievements represent a special contribution to the betterment of society — someone whose
Jasper ’25 and Juan ’25, learn the importance of being flexible and adapting quickly to unexpected changes.
Jasper ’25 and Juan ’25, learn the importance of being flexible and adapting quickly to unexpected changes.
In the final Wednesday School Meeting of the 2022-2023 school year, the Deerfield community gathered to celebrate our spring co-curriculars and their many achievements. Mr. Howe announced the sub-varsity and varsity award winners for the spring 2023 season. Following, the senior athletic award recipients were announced and last but-not-least Mr. Howe’s Top-10 Poem was brought to life by several students through the below video. Spring 2023 Top-Ten Welcome to another edition of the Spring Term’s
Heading into the Floor Hockey Finals in Worcester, the Special Olympics team that we’re lucky to welcome to Deerfield for their practices, was scheduled in the toughest division and knew they had their work cut out for them. On top of that, according to Coaches Terry, Rey, Kelly, Alina, and Joey, this was a tough year for our athletes. In their own words, here’s how the Finals went… Due to a few injuries, we headed
Phillips Academy hosted 103 wrestlers from 30 different schools to participate in the 9th Annual Phillips Academy Girls Wrestling tournament. Deerfield placed 3rd in the overall team score with 38 points. The day kicked off with a clinic from 7x National Team Member, 2x College National Champion for Menlo College, World University Champion, and 2x Olympic team alternate, Katherine Shai. Congrats to the Big Green’s Josephine Louis for placing 3rd in the 119.9lb group, Sophia
MLK Day Workshops 1: The Power of Erasure Poetry Blackout poetry refers to any poem in which the author covers most of a source text in favor of exposing a handful of words to form a poem. There are many ways to cover the preexisting text; poets paint, collage, scribble with pen and pencil, and crayon over pages of books, newspapers, and other texts. Blackout poetry has the power to respond to, resist, and reform
At School Meeting this week, the Academy welcomed Dr. Adam S. Weinberg ’83 to campus as this year’s recipient of the Heritage Award. The Heritage Award was initiated by the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association in 1984 to recognize a Deerfield alumnus/a whose professional and personal achievements represent a special contribution to the betterment of society — someone whose life exemplifies the Academy’s motto, “Be Worthy of Your Heritage.” Watch the video here!
For our last game of the season, we traveled south along snowy roads to take on Westminster. Both teams started slowly on the offensive end and the first points were hard to come by. We eked out a six point lead after about 6 minutes and through some good defense by us, and unlucky shooting by Westy, we went into the halftime break up 20 – 6. But we knew the game was far from
Emma Wilmott ’24 and Elena Tskhvitaria ’25, describe the process of creating “wearable sculptures.”
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