A busy winter and spring for Nancy and Don Dwight of Boston with real estate transactions and romance. We sold our Beacon Hill apartment and have rented it back until the end of the year. We won’t be homeless then, having bought a small apartment on the waterfront. And construction has begun on a winter home at Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina, very near Savannah. Busy times made busier by the June 16 wedding of
By Bob York When it comes to prep school sports in this neck of the woods, there are no three words that have a nicer ring to them than “New England champs!” After this past winter, however, the Big Green ski teams came up with a close second: “Man-made snow.” “Those snow guns really saved us this winter,” said Deerfield Academy ski coach Jodi Tanguay of a season that saw Mother Nature drop the ball
By Bob York It was a young team to begin with, and then – unexpectedly – got even younger. The remnants of the Deerfield Academy boys hockey team roster should have been plentiful, as it regularly skated three freshmen, five sophomores and six juniors just one winter ago. “Then we lost five kids who we thought would be returning,” said coach Brendan Creagh. And that really put a crimp in what the Big Green
Retired Secretary of the Air Force Releases His First Espionage Novel Thomas C. Reed & Sandy Baker Collaborate on The Tehran Triangle HEALDSBURG, CA –Thomas C. “Tom” Reed, formerly of Deerfield, a graduate of The Deerfield Academy, and a former Secretary of the Air Force with the Gerald R. Ford and James E. “Jimmy” Carter administrations, has published his first thriller novel – The Tehran Triangle – with Sandy Baker.In The Tehran Triangle, Reed, who
The following notes were collected by Art Dwight 1979: Brad Palmer ’79 writes: We are still enjoying living in London with four kids at the American School in London. We are doing a lot of adventure travel over here. I saw Dan Maynard at a Deerfield event in London and made a visit to Deerfield this fall. We will be on Martha’s Vineyard this July and August in case anyone is going to be up
By Bob York Two consecutive championships … four titles in the past five years … five straight tourney appearances. Based on those credentials, it would appear as though Deerfield Academy might be wearing out its welcome at the New England Prep School Boys Water Polo Tournament. Fortunately for the Big Green, however, popularity isn’t a prerequisite for this pool party, talent is. It’s what gets you there and keeps you there. And with nine of
By Bob York After serving as skipper of the Big Green boys crew program for the past three years, Ben Hamilton is abandoning ship and heading to a new port of call in the Boston area. And so, his sailors wanted to come up with an appropriate going-away present—and did. Deerfield’s No. 1 boat finished second at this spring’s New England Interscholastic Rowing Association Regatta. But that’s just the beginning. That second-place finish qualified the
By Bob York Deerfield softball went three-for-eight this season. That wouldn’t be too bad if you were talking about plate appearances, but we’re not. We’re talking about wins and losses. The Big Green (3-5), which saw three of its games lost to snow and rain, saw four other games lost to thunder—from opponents’ bats, as four teams put double figures up on the scoreboard. “We got off to a slow start this season,” said coach
By Bob York The only thing the Deerfield Academy boys lacrosse team lost this spring was its scorebook—and even that reappeared following a three-week hiatus. Its return to coach Chip Davis’s office on June 10, nearly a month after the season had ended, allowed the Big Green skipper to finally put some closure on a campaign that saw his club finish atop the New England rankings and fourth nationally, according to MaxPreps.com. The scorebook was
By Bob York Deerfield vs. Choate: In the athletic arena, it never gets any better than this — especially when it’s for all the marbles. And all the marbles were up for grabs this fall when these two archrivals dove into the drink for the finals of the New England Prep School Athletic Conference Boys Water Polo Tournament.
By Bob York This week, we’ll be reviewing some of the highlights of DA’s fall sports season. Today football takes the spotlight, reflecting on a season that ended with the team narrowly missing a Super Bowl berth. Choate Day didn’t turn out to be Deerfield’s day … not this year, anyway. The Big Green football team saw its hopes of a Super Bowl berth dashed by — of all teams — the archrival Wild Boars.
At first glance, you’d swear the Deerfield Academy boys lacrosse team had chalked up another typical season for itself this spring. The Big Green won 16 of 17 games, “which tied our record for the most wins in a season,” said coach Chip Davis, who is well aware of the win column. His clubs have registered 17 consecutive winning seasons and have amassed a 161-14 record since the turn of the century. Plus, the three
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