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Music for a Winter’s Evening: Sunday December 15
The Deerfield Academy Visual and Performing Arts Department presents “Music for a Winter’s Evening” on Sunday, December 15 at 4PM in the First Church of Deerfield (71 Old Main Street, Deerfield). The event is free and open to the public. Vivaldi: Gloria Vivaldi: Concerto in F minor, Op. 8, No. 4 (“Winter”...
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Deerfield Wins Choate Challenge 363-354!
Each fall, Deerfield Academy and Choate Rosemary Hall go head to head in an Annual Fund challenge. Whomever has the most donors from the youngest ten classes (2004-2013) is the victor! The Choate Challenge 2013 has officially come to an end…. With a Deerfield victory! Many thanks to our green-blooded volunteers...
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Girls Varsity Cross Country – New England Champions, Again!
They did it! The pressure was on this fall as the girls in green looked to defend their title from 2012. Indeed, the competition was stiff this year but the Big Green Machine managed to narrowly defeat a powerful third place Andover by 30 points and a surging second...
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Happy Halloween!
The costumes and atmosphere were great this year! Stay tuned to the Daily Bulletin for more of the Koch Center Halloween photo booth.
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Bass guitar found
A bass guitar has been found in the Koch center. If you are missing your guitar come by room 109 to claim.
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DA Dining Hall wins “Golden Carrot” Award
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a national nonprofit with more than 10,000 doctor members, named Deerfield as one of 2 grand prize winners of the 2013 “Golden Carrot Award” this week. The award goes to schools that offer healthy plant-based menu options. The award came with a $2500...
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A Good Run
Read about girls cross country’s success yesterday and check out results from other recent competitions as well…
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Round Square Conference Highlights and Reflections: Part 1
Throughout the conference, keynote speakers inspired Round Square members to aspire for change with examples of past developments as well as prompts for future innovation. The Kielburgers, Mark and Craig, provide underprivileged children with the five pillars for sustainability: clean water and sanitation, health, alternative income and livelihood, agriculture...
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Round Square Conference Day 4
On October 10th, 2013, we, Roundsquare delegates and adult representatives, began our morning by attending an address from the Kielburger brothers. Mark began his humanitarian activity at the age of eighteen, impelled by shoeless street children in a medical ward in Thailand. Craig, at the age of twelve, reached...
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Round Square Conference Day 2: Kiva
On Tuesday morning, we attended an incredible presentation by Jessica Jackley, the founder of kiva.org. I don’t want this blog to get too long, so I will simplify the story a little bit, but hopefully I can convey her moral. As a child, Jessica struggled with the idea of...
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An Epic Squash Battle
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Day 1 at the Round Square Conference!
Today the Deerfield delegation had our first day at the 2013 International Round Square Conference.We arrived in Florida late last night and had our first night with our host families who were all extremely welcoming and drove us to the St. Andrew’s School this morning. After arriving on campus...
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IDEALS in Action: Reflections from Eleuthera
Round Square is an International network of 97 schools that share the core values of Kurt Hahn’s educational philosophy: Internationalism, Democracy, Environment, Adventure, Leadership, and Service. With two other Round Square schools, the Deerfield delegation traveled to Eleuthera in the Bahamas to try to live out some of those...
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DA Round Square Delegation on our first conference day!
Photo taken by Ruygi Yamaguchi, Deerfield class of ’99 and Round Square rep at King’s Academy, Jordan.
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Wins for Girls Cross Country
The girls cross country team defeated Taft, NMH, Loomis, and Hotchkiss on Saturday. Read more about it–and see other team scores from the weekend–here.
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Round Square: Welcome To The Island School!
We arrived at The Island School in the late afternoon on Wednesday. After moving in to the Cape Eleuthera Institute dorms and a quick orientation meeting, the seventeen students from the three different schools, Deerfield Academy, Glenlyon Norfolk School, and Collingwood School, walked over to the dining hall where...
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Can one person make a difference?
Bottle-filling stations in New Dorm keep track of how much water they process, and display the amount roughly as “disposable plastic bottles eliminated”. In the first year of use (2012 to 2013), the two stations in New Dorm recorded savings of 15,000 bottles. Averaged over the 30 students that lived...
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Round Square Study Hall in the Ft. Lauderdale Airport
Students (and Mr. Kelly) using as much of the travel day as they can to get ahead with Deerfield work.
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The Round Square 2013 Deerfield Delegation at our final prep meeting!
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Deerfield Magazine Fall 2013
The Fall 2013 Deerfield Magazine features stories about Mrs. Boyden’s letters, specialization in athletics, and Arts Center fundraising. Read the fall issue online. Magazine Features: Woman of Letters: A reflection on Mrs. Boyden, as revealed through her letters. Line of Scrimmage: As competition for colleges intensifies, Deerfield must balance its...
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DA @ ALA ~ Finale
DAY THREE ~ Sunday, June 30 ~ ~ The American Library Association Conference has been very informative and will serve as an inspiration for a number of upcoming library projects. Highlights of today’s final day at ALA include the following: APPS, APPS, AND MORE APPS ~ A showcase of...
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DA @ ALA ~ Day Two
DAY TWO ~ Saturday, July 29 ~ One of my challenges for this year’s ALA convention is to master the tablet. I humbly report that I have a way to go. I observed many librarians using their smart phones and iPads to take notes. Initially, I tried this method,...
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DA @ ALA ~ Day One
DAY ONE ~ Friday, June 28 ~ Today, the American Library Association (ALA) opened the annual conference with an entertaining presentation by Steven Levitt, author of “Freakonomics” followed by the grand opening of the Exhibits. There were more exhibits than I could manage to see in the 2 hour time...
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Alumni Lacrosse
A good time was had by all at this weekend’s Deerfield Alumni Lacrosse game. See a gallery of photos.
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Deerfield Magazine Spring 2013
The Spring 2013 Deerfield Magazine features stories about an important new capstone course, alumna Janie Merkel ’91 and her role as a biology researcher, and the development of our new Arts Center. Read the spring issue online. Magazine Features: Critical Elements: Students in Deerfield’s new capstone course, Global H20 American Currents,...
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Deerfield Magazine Winter 2013
The Winter 2013 Deerfield Magazine features stories about the value of the Visual Arts, alumni Stephan Drake ’94 and his journey to build the perfect ski, and off-campus science research. Read the winter issue online. Magazine Features: Skeleton Key: The role of the Visual Arts curriculum as a vital...
