DEEP SPRINGS COLLEGE
ANNUAL REPORT
For
2011.
Letter from the Chair David Hitz DS’80
Times of great change are complicated. One can feel nostalgic, excited, wistful, and hopeful, all at the same time. I am referring, of course, to our decision to begin accepting young women along with young men. It was odd, during our listening sessions, to hear how differently people interpreted this change. Some felt it was enormous. Larger than any other in the history of the college. Others felt that it was no big deal—a natural evolution that would happen easily. My own view is that it is a big deal, but not unique in our history. Deep Spring today is very different from the Deep Springs of Nunn’s time. My feelings are oddly mixed when I see old black and brown photos of horse-drawn hay rakes, and compare them with today’s automated bailing machines. What have we lost in converting from manual to mechanized? What have we lost in converting from a team toiling in the field together, to one man in a tractor cab? Should we air-condition the cab? And yet, it was not Nunn’s intent for students to labor on an archaic ranch. The ranch, when he founded Deep Springs, was appropriate for its time, just as our ranch is appropriate for our time. We do recognize the value of students working together outdoors, and so we have increased gar- dening even as we’ve decreased baling and bucking. The change in the religious tone of the college may be even bigger. Each time I read the Gray Book I am surprised at the depth of Nunn’s religious feelings, given the scant importance of religion in my own expe- rience at Deep Springs. Nunn says that “Deep Springs is a theistic institution,” and that part of the purpose of Deep Springs is “considering and treating God and his Government as of infinite value.” My time at Deep Springs was entirely secular. I was curious about this change, so in some of my interviews about coeducation, I also asked alumni about religion at Deep Springs. It appears that by the forties, students who showed up as de- vout Christians no longer were when they left, but I couldn’t learn any more about exactly when or how this change occurred. I suspect that it seemed natural, at the time: Deep Springs became secular, just as so many other religious colleges and universities did in the late eighteen- and early nineteen-hundreds The world changes, and—sometimes—Deep Springs changes with it. Which brings us back to coeducation. These stories don’t justify coeducation, but they do provide con- text for change at Deep Springs. The questions that trustees face—the questions that trustees have always faced—are: What is the true purpose of Deep Springs? And how ought we best achieve the purpose, given the world we live in today? It will be up to the courts to determine whether we may make this change. If the courts allow it, it will be up to history to judge the change. I am nostalgic and proud of our past, and hopeful about our future.
Trustees of Deep Springs Cory Myers DS’10 (September, 2011) Tom Hudnut Student Trustee Director, Harvard-Westlake School Maplewood, NJ James Bartolome Los Angeles, CA Professor of Environmental Sciences Ben Shaver DS’10 UC Berkeley Ed Keonjian DS’55 Student Trustee Berkeley, CA Attorney (retired) Upland, CA Portland, OR Sally Carlson Eunice “Beth” Whitney Thomas Managing Partner, Carlson Beck Will Masters DS’79 Judge, Armed Services Board of Appeals Marin, CA Professor of Agricultural Economics Falls Church, VA Tufts University Frank Wu David Hitz DS’80 (Chair) Somerville, MA Vice-President, NetApp Chancellor, Hastings College of Law Sunnyvale, CA Jamie May San Francisco, CA President, Telluride Association Kinch Hoekstra DS’82 Ithaca, NY —Legal Counsel— Professor of Political Science and Law, UC Berkeley Erik Mueggler DS’80 Christopher Campbell DS’73 Berkeley, CA Professor of Anthropology, U. Mich. Attorney Ann Arbor, MI Fresno, CA
2 Letter from the President David Neidorf
Viewed from a distance, there have been a string of major events at Deep Springs over the last year. In November, 2010, Deep Springs submitted a 1,400-page accreditation self-study. In December, Justin Kim turned the Dean’s Office over to Brother Kenneth Cardwell. In January, with support from Rick Stack and the Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation, Farmer Mark Dunn and the students on the farm team began work (completed in April) on a hay shed to shelter our hay crop from the elements, allowing hay sales to be timed for the best market conditions. In March, Deep Springs hosted an eight-person visiting evaluation team for three days, (leading to reaccreditation with commendations in June). In April, with support from the Adele M. Thomas Charitable Foundation, students began work on a flagstone-faced vehicle path (completed in October) to provide truck access to the center of the vegetable garden. We also restored our irrigating capacity by dredg- ing the lower reservoirs with support from the Natural Resources Conservation Service. In May, we hosted an all-college reunion of alumni and friends. In August, Ken and Karen Mitchell announced their departure from Deep Springs after eleven years’ residence in the valley. In September, we held a decade reunion of alumni from the 1990’s. Later in that month, the Trustees of Deep Springs—after studying hundreds of letters from alumni and friends, conducting ten listening sessions around the country, and reading and discussing archival records spanning several feet of shelf space—voted to begin planning for a future transition to coeducation at Deep Springs. In November, 2011, and with support from the Avenir Foundation, student Cory Myers began work to replace the eighteen year-old and rickety telephone extension system with a modern software-based system that provides services like voice-mail and vastly increases the chance that a caller to the college will be connected to the right exten- sion. Viewed from up close, however, these events are background to the daily work of preparing for classes, writing papers, irrigating hay, washing dishes, and the myriad of other tasks that together constitute the texture and formative power of everyday life at Deep Springs. An uncountable number of contributions—many of them monetary, to be sure, but also many of work, care, attention, and devotion—were necessary this past year as they are every year to sustain this remarkable educational experiment. We are grateful to all those both in- side and outside the valley who have put their shoulders to this effort. Thanks to your help, Deep Springs is thriving.
Deep Springs Community (three are absent), Autumn, 2011
3 Letter from the Student Body Matthew Stolz DS’10 - SB President, Terms I & II
Naturally, the first four Throughout the first two Lodge, the 4H club scrutinizing yet months of the academic year were as terms, the student body remained another chapter of Arendt, and the dynamic for the SB as they were for relatively conservative in its newly-minted barbershop quartet Deep Springs on the whole. The experiments with self-governance. crooning its blissful ragtime coeducation vote, sandwiched by the To be sure, we addressed a few melodies in the main room. We announcements that the Mitchell and breach of isolation motions and we certainly don’t have much free time, Dunn families will soon leave the passed a motion regarding rhetorical but we try to make the most of what community, made us all acutely conduct in SB meetings, but that we have. aware of how quickly and drastically represents the extent of the student Although daily life at Deep the valley can change. body’s legislative activities. Instead, Springs still follows a quiet and Understandably, the student body the student body spent much of its (dare I say) normal rhythm, the ended term two exhausted and much meeting time on its annual slate of student body knows that many in need of a break. ideological discussions, addressing changes are brewing and that we But even with the year’s broad-based topics ranging from will all have to put in some extra numerous shake-ups, the day-to-day labor to coeducation. Although we effort in order to bring them about life of a Deep Springs student experimented with a variety of seamlessly. The terms ahead may trudges on as I assume it always has. discussion styles over the course of be difficult, but we are certainly In terms of labor, the larger student the term, the content of the eager for the challenge. body has allowed the LC to discussions remained respectful and introduce a few experimental largely uncontroversial, perhaps positions. Last term, Harper Keehn reflecting the moderate political DS’10 worked to can and preserve leanings of the student body as a much of the fall harvest from the whole. garden, producing everything from But beyond formalities, the applesauce to pickled zucchini. culture of frivolous/serious clubs Next term, Nick Marino DS’11 will and committees continues to thrive organize, clean up, and consolidate at Deep Springs. Although our archives. In addition, next term participation waned a bit in the busy the general labor crew will weeks of the second term, the first undertake a massive fence-building term witnessed RapCom dropping project along the highway. free-style rhymes in the Alpine
Deep Springs Student Body 2011-2012
Brendan Bashin-Sullivan Ezra Leslie Zachary Stout Felix Froms Orinda, CA Katmandu, Nepal Roseville, MN Bollnas, Sweden
Andrew Crawford Cyril Malle-Barlow Scott Wang Caleb Hoffman Dallas, GA Minneapolis, MN Toronto, ON, Canada Kearney, MO
Noah Harris Cory Myers David Atkinson Keenan Lantz Langley, WA Maplewood, NJ Chevy Chase, MD Burlington, VT
Eamon Heberlein Edward Pimentel Bennet Bergman Daniel Leibovitz Viroqua, WI Jacksonville, FL Chicago, IL Toronto, ON, Canada
Timothy Henderson Benjamin Shaver Michael Byars Nicholas Marino Buffalo, NY Upland, CA Parker, CO Cold Springs, NY
Henrik Herb Matthew Siciliano Rhys Dubin Matthew Marsico Middlebury, VT Ithaca, NY Los Angeles, CA Charlotte, NC
Harper Keehn Matthew Stolz Ralph Flanders Isaac Stafstrom New Paltz, NY Charlotte, NC Mt. Pleasant, MI Madison, WI
4 Class of 2010
Top Row: Tim Henderson, Matthew Stolz, Second Row: Andrew Crawford, Ezra Leslie, Ben Shaver, Matthew Siliciano, Henrik Herb, Third Row: Harper Keehn, Eamon Heberlein, Scott Wang, Zack Stout, Edward Pimentel, Bottom Row: Noah Harris, Cyril Malle-Barlow, Brendan Bashin-Sullivan, Cory Myers
Class of 2011
Standing: Caleb Hoffman, Felix Froms, Matthew Marsico, Nick Marino, David Atkinson, Bennet Bergman. Kneeling: Daniel Leibovitz, Isaac Staffstrom. Seated: Michael Byars, Rhys Dubin, Ralph Flanders, Keenan Lantz
5 Faculty and Academic Calendar 2010-2011
Amity Wilczek Summer Seminar, 2010 Amity Wilczek The Natural History of Islands People and Plants David Gutterman, Keally McBride, Ecology James Martell, David Neidorf, Quantitative Reasoning
John Zarobell Joel Schlosser Nature & Politics (Interdisciplinary Spring Withrow Chair Tragedy and Politics Seminar) Freedom & the State Philip Gourevitch Journalist & Author. Fall, 2010 Former editor, The Paris Review. Winter, 2011 Contributing Editor, New Yorker Kenneth Cardwell Magazine Voice of the Desert Kenneth Cardwell Introduction to New Testament Greek Dan Fahey Public Speaking Spring, 2011 War and Peace in the Congo Padraic MacLeish Charles Grimes Justin Kim Public Speaking Introduction to Acting Painting Jennifer Rapp Adnan Husain Padraic MacLeish Sacred Sources & Religious Movement Islam & Social Science: Introduction to Automotive Technology The Senses, Passions and The World & Thought of Ibn Khaldun Public Speaking Being in the World Erik Mueggler Ken Mitchell Joel Schlosser Anthropology Horsemanship Political Theory After Marx David Neidorf Justice Among Nations in Public Speaking Thucydides and Herodotus
Jennifer Rapp Jonathan Thirkield Tolstoy & Kafka The Sonnet
Ethics Seminar: The Task of Seeing
Deep Springs Staff 2010-2011
Nick Baefsky Michael Harris David Welle Senior Cowboy Fish Lake Cowboy Vice-President / Brother Kenneth Cardwell Fundraising Director Padraic MacLeish Dean Maintenance Manager. Linda Williams Kerrie Coborn Executive Assistant Karen Mitchell Librarian to President Garden Manager
Dick Dawson Ken Mitchell Music Instruction Ranch Manager Jonathan “Dewey” David Neidorf DeWeese President Cook & BH Manager Iris Pope Mark Dunn Bookkeeper Farm Manager
Jacob Goldstone Junior Cowboy Eamon Heberlein DS’10 leads his horse to roundup at the lake corrals
6 Graduating from SB to Alumnus, 2011
Some alumni have asked about the “new” tradition (it student is publically eulogized by a member of the first-year dates from the mid-Nineties) of a formal graduation ceremony at class. Deep Springs. Both students and community members have found Originally, families and their guests were invited, but at that the ceremony plays a significant role in saying goodbye and the initiative of the student body, the event is now limited to com- moving on from the intense sense of community that has been munity members. This allows the students to spend their last few built up for both staff and second years over the previous two hours in the valley saying goodbye to each other and the desert, years. rather than having to concentrate on the logistics of entertaining Typically, the community gathers at a place out in the guests. More importantly, it relieves the speeches of the need to desert with a good view of the valley, and often of the ranch itself address a general public unfamiliar with life at Deep Springs, in the distance. Folding chairs and hay bales provide seating; the and allows these last formal speeches to be more personal than podium from the Main Room provides a focus. Typically there they otherwise would be. are speeches of farewell from a staff member, a faculty member, What follows is an edited version of President David and the president, followed by the main event: each departing Neidorf’s remarks to the graduating students on June 25, 2011:
I’m sorry to see the class of 2009 buy, but what you are able to do as you nature of life at Deep Springs is both a sign go. Deep Springs is complicated enough respond to the needs and pressures of life and a pedagogical pre-condition of a life in that you must have complicated feelings in this valley. This is one reason Deep the sometimes harsh natural light of a about leaving. But for me, the day that you Springs may be hard to explain; the actual weightier reality. This is why the full leave has come too fast. worth of your time here can’t be translated scholarship for all students is so important In his farewell speech last night, into abstract common denominators like to the work we all do here. You had to get Carter said that the end of your second money, course credits, or skill sets on used to living this way, and now—once year may be a watershed day for you, but resumes. But only if this is true will what you’ve exhausted the small and brief for us who work here things will cycle on, you have done here have had real worth. pseudo-reassurances of all those special as always. That’s only half true. For those Little of what we have and do treats and unlimited internet streaming that of us who remain here, it’s only half true here together can be bought. (Note, we all think we crave—you’ll have to get because people can’t put their hearts into however that in a real sense it has already used to missing it. living and working together for two years been bought for you, by the supporters of The second reason your next without leaving a mark on those around Deep Springs; the translation of human semester may be a rough one is that you’ll them. So you’d be wrong if you thought goods into money can mislead us, but a suffer the weightlessness of having few we’d forget you, or that we don’t want to serious life still requires having it and real responsibilities. At a traditional hear from you and see you in the future. having the wherewithal to use it well.) At college it won’t really matter much to For you, it’s a half-truth because Deep Springs we don’t suffer scarcity, but others what you do or don’t do. That part your Deep Springs experience isn’t over in we do live in material isolation, and this of you that’s adult and capable, and the any strong sense. Over the next few years, isolation is a pre-condition for a salutary strengths and virtues that go along with “Deep Springs” will take a variety of authenticity. It removes us from the this part of you, won’t be in play. If all shapes as something you’ll learn to carry it attention-sucking preoccupation with stuff goes well there are, eventually, intellectual with you. that, if we’re not careful, can become compensations. But overall this mode of Some of you will have rotten first central to our social status, our sense of life can be depressing. In fact, I’d be semesters at your next college. Don’t panic security, and even to our sense of well- disappointed if you didn’t find it at least a if you do, and know that it will pass. being. This is one thing I believe the little depressing. Remember how some of you had difficult fabled voice of the desert teaches always, Thirdly, you’ll be entering an first semesters here. and probably before all else. A sense of academic world where the coin of the Your first semester in “normal” real worth and the guidance it can lend realm is writing, where the private college may be uncomfortable for at least requires that at any time needful you can production of papers and projects is three reasons. First of all, you have been shift your glance past the prosaic world emphasized instead of discussion. This living at Deep Springs within a cashless that fills the foreground of life, and to look means that compared to Deep Springs it community. That means that social status instead with a distant, still, and unsparing will take longer and be harder to find your can’t be measured by income level or desert gaze, a sharpened detachment from way to those few teachers and fellow consumer goods. Instead, ideally you the confusion of worth and well-being with students who will be your new intellectual appear to others here in the light of what the goods of economic consumption and community. In sum, you will possibly feel you have done and become during your the pre-packaged social roles they signal. both invisible and lonely for a while. Just time here. What counts is not what you can For these reasons the cashless know that this period will pass.
7 But it would be sad if it passed This emphasis on course credit is This substantial weight of real merely because you forgot the alternative a mistake. It might appear that offering being is not always easy to locate in ways of walking the earth that you’ve credit for more and more activities is a way college or in life, but now that you have cultivated here. of recognizing their worth, but if you think felt it, it can serve as a touchstone for the So I wonder if there is anything I about it, the opposite is true. The process real that won’t be lost when you leave can say to you on our last day together that tends to make experiences, endeavors, Deep Springs. Plato’s so-called ‘ideal will help to guard against this. When books, conversations, efforts of all kinds, forms’ can seem nutty if you take them too teaching a class I try to make sure that the appear to be worthless in themselves, and literally, but they describe an utterly last day of the class is as close as possible worthy only in terms of this bizarre familiar reality. Any situation you find to any other day. I do that because I’m abstraction “credit.” Credit makes the yourself in will point past itself, to what certain that if the work we have been doing things themselves seem less real, while more it might be or should be, provided during the term has been worth doing, then suckering us into thinking that if you get your desert-trained vision can see it in the it’s still worth doing on the very last day. “credit,” the thing has greater weight and right perspective and light. Having a feel This is true even though more reality. This weightless shadow- for the needs of the situation in front of according to crude calculations like how world of false worth—which assigns you is one of our few means of access to much “credit” the experience is “worth,” quantitative value, in various forms, to any what L.L. Nunn called the “moral order of that one last day is probably worthless. number of human enterprises—oppresses the universe.” If you can care about One of my pet peeves about current us. And I am happy to say that the work something being done right, if you respond fashions in the educational world is this students do at Deep Springs can and should to the claims of a situation with an crazy notion that anything worth doing has be nothing less than a liberation from this abundance of heart that doesn’t always to be sanctified by the awarding of this oppression. Laboring with a little stop to balance the checkbook or calculate strange abstraction we call “credit.” This dedication, attention, and dignity can help how much credit you’re going to get later, notion is motivated by a pressure to justify form your soul towards whatever work you you will be a weightier and more the worth of everything that goes on in do in the world. To make something—to substantial person. college to a society grown suspicious of raise a crop, take care of some person or You already know this: you the value and costs of college. animal, make a meal, build a fence— wouldn’t have come to Deep Springs without being animated by some such intuition, and you’ve followed that up with what you’ve done here. I hope your time here has given you the ability to sustain that view on the place you see next, and some confidence in the dedication of heart and strength that it takes to respond to what you see. In this light the work of the world increases your satisfaction because it ennobles your life. That hay shed some of you built this year didn’t have to run absolutely true to line. The garden road didn’t have to be faced with flagstone hauled down from Westgard Pass. Karen’s table service at our dinner last night didn’t have to be carefully decorated, the guest toilets in the valley don’t have to be kept clean to perform their function. So when I say a good job of work ennobles your life, I mean it stands as a glorious gesture of defiance towards the vast official consumer -based and credit-granting forces in the Members of the community gather on the main circle for Christmas caroling and spiced world, forces that want you to measure cider, December 2010 your worth in alien terms, and to husband your energies so you can get your outcome But as often happens, we tend to exercises your strength in a way that gives cheap. internalize our own rhetoric and end up you a dignified weight on the earth. This is Let me apply these comments feeling that some kind of official sanction true even, or even especially, for the least briefly to student body governance. I know is necessary to signal the worth or cash productive labor, the rote washing, that you have been involved, even more value of our attention and effort. A sign cleaning, and straightening that merely than usual, with strife between the that this creeps into our perceptions is the stave off the entropic chaos of our common communitarians and libertarians among oft-expressed claim that a reading group space for just one more day, so that we can you. By ‘communitarians’ I mean those will be taken more seriously if it’s set up as live together with our heads held high for a who seek fulfillment through membership a credit-earning activity. few hours longer. in a common endeavor, and embrace the
8 The class of 2009 at graduation, June 2011: Jacob Goldstone, Kevin Morrell, Michael Harris, Will Stoutin, Carter West, Christian Cain, Tyler Bourgoise, Tim McGinnis, Thomas Mathews sacrifices of individual whim and interest communities. Together, these tensions believe that Deep Springs has given you a required by membership. By furnish us with a decent job to take on: the feel for the work and a running start on ‘libertarian’ I mean those who assert work and the sacrifice communities the experience. Beyond that, I can only above all their right to be free of any require, and the need to artfully skirt their wish you luck. constraints that don’t seem fruitful to dangers, lends weight and significance to It helps, I hope, to know that them as private individuals. Living within much of what would otherwise be your efforts here have had real worth. this tension is an ever-present challenge oppressive in life. This is one reason why Imagine, for a moment, that political that the life we live sets to our maturity. no good would come of resolving this discourse in our country was subject to It’s good training for wrestling with the tension; life is better off within it. the habits of intellectual honesty that at world beyond Deep Springs, since the But like any job, you can do this our best we demand of each other in a entire social world, except perhaps within one gracefully and well, or you can make a classroom or a meeting. Imagine a theocratic or fascistic totalitarianism, is sloppy mess of it. When these two whatever it is that made you want to build suffused with this tension. We should stop positions harden and press their claims by hay sheds and garden roads without being to ask ourselves, then, what it means to do disparaging those on the other side, then stingy with your care and effort, that a good job of it. you know that abundance of heart and doesn’t want the thing merely to shed Communitarians usually generosity of spirit are lacking, that the water or hold trucks out of the mud, but to complain that the libertarians are jerks weak among us have taken over and are run true or to lend an elegance to the who live in selfish and childish denial of making a mess of things. Then garden. Now imagine that whatever that is the responsibilities imposed by the communitarians are right to suspect the were more present in the hearts of our demands of human life in common. libertarians of using theory to disguise the bureaucrats, police, teachers, and Libertarians usually complain that fact that they feel too weak or just can’t be politicians. communitarians are control freaks, who bothered to care about the quality of lives Imagining this should be easy. want to use the authority of “community” lived together, and libertarians are right to It’s something like what second-years at to organize and dictate everyone’s suspect communitarians of trying to Deep Springs feel when they work hard behavior. Both sides can marshal diminish the scope of other people’s lives on projects or committees whose fruits evidence, because given our so as to undermine competition and they won’t reap, to build the college for imperfections, there are plenty of times ambition. What both sides have in subsequent generations. You have all when both these complaints are correct. common, at this point, is a sloppy done that work—work the worth of Libertarians are right that there resentment towards the job presented by which, all too soon, those living here in are human virtues that are not civic the tensions of reality. later years won’t even know to credit you virtues, that a community comprising You already know that this job— for having done. I trust that once in a merely good citizens would be a beehive, the leadership and service to humanity that while, you will remind one another of something sub-human. But Deep Springs holds up as an animating that. In the meantime, I want to thank you communitarians are also right that almost aim—can’t ever be done perfectly. Doing and congratulate you for having done it. any redeeming possibility in human life, it well, responding to whatever claim is not to mention a good deal of its beauty, made by the world around you, takes hard comes to be only in and through work, experience, and luck. I hope and
9 FY2010 Opera ng Revenue FY2011 Opera ng Revenue
Endowment 48.5% Endowment 48.5%
Other 1.1% Other 1.7% Ranch 3.7% Ranch 6.6% Family & Friends Family & Friends 15.8% 9.9% Founda ons 17.5% Founda ons 15.4% Alumni 13.4% Alumni 17.9%
FY2010 Opera ng Expenses FY2011 Opera ng Expenses
Boarding House 9% Ins tu onal Boarding House 9% Ins tu onal Support 31% Support 31%
Ranch & Farm 20% Ranch & Farm 20%
Opera ons & Academic Opera ons & Academic Maintenance 18% Program 22% Maintenance 16% Program 24%
10 Deep Springs Investment Policy The Trustees of Deep Springs maintain an investment policy that is conservative com- pared to the typical standards of college en- dowments: 60% equities and 40% domestic fixed income securities.
This chart shows the sub-groups of stocks and bonds established by the policy. Alloca- tions are rebalanced quarterly. Funds are held and managed in accordance with TDS policy by State Street Global Advisors, under the direction of the investment committee estab- lished by the trustees.
The goal of the TDS Investment Policy is to maximize both overall return and available operating funds, while maintaining prudent levels of risk and preserving the purchasing power of endowment income in perpetuity. Investment decisions are made using a long- term planning horizon of 25 years.
11 A survey of recent alumni on lives of service Matt Mandelkern DS’07
“Gentlemen: for what came ye into the wilderness? Not for conventional scholastic training; not for ranch life; not to become proficient in pursuit of material gain. You came to prepare for a life of service, with the understanding that superior ability and generous purpose would be expected of you…” —L.L. Nunn, February 17, 1923
What do we mean when we say and Schisgall now serves on the board of cy reform; and works with architects, in our mission statement that "leadership an NGO that works to end commercial engineers, and developers to build af- and enlightened service are the aims of sexual exploitation of underage prosti- fordable housing projects. Deep Springs”? For our students and tutes and to help empower former prosti- Like Mangin, Sunshine Mathon younger alumni, this is a practical prob- tutes. Schisgall says that Deep Springs DS’91 works to provide affordable hous- lem of the utmost importance: what does directed him along this service-oriented ing to low-income constituencies through it mean for our lives to be lives of ser- path. “Service wasn’t the reason I went the nonprofit Foundation Communities in vice? How can we so fashion them? to Deep Springs, but the save-the-world Austin, Texas. Mathon both manages In attempting to answer this piece gets fit in with the glorious-freaky- new construction projects and also works question more concretely, we’ve been outsider-elitist piece; it’s part and parcel at the policy level city and state wide. talking to alumni from the last thirty of all that in a really good way.” years at Deep Springs about how they Joshua Kim DS’95 pursued a Serving the Environment have lived, and are living, lives of ser- law degree after his BA, and now heads Mathon’s work manifests a fo- vice. While alumni have found a wide the legal department for A New Way of cus that shows up repeatedly in our con- variety of ways to answer this question in Life Reentry Project in South Los Ange- versations with alumni: sustainability. He practice, their lives also have certain fea- les. The organization helps people with builds green affordable housing projects tures in common, as you’ll see below. prior convictions clean up their criminal and works on policies that incentivize Initially, we chose to survey records, and works to protect them from green building. recent alumni out of a desire to substanti- unfair and illegal housing or employment Several alumni spoke of the ate the recent accomplishments of Deep discrimination. importance of helping communities tran- Springs College in order to aid current When Josh Kamensky DS’92 sition to more sustainable structures. Da- fundraising and development efforts. The attended Yale, he participated in student vid Gregory DS’93 came to Deep results have inspired us to continue our activism in support of striking union Springs “with an ideal of service…but survey even further back. We encourage workers. He stayed involved in labor became confused about how to fulfill the other alumni from previous generations organizing after leaving New Haven, mission” while a student in the valley. to tell us their experience and interpreta- learning Spanish and moving to Los An- He remembers a time characterized by tion of living L.L. Nunn’s life of service. geles, where he worked in communica- “rampant cynicism, malaise, and disen- tions and research for unions and non- gagement,” in part at least thanks to the Serving Communities profit groups and on labor issues for a coed debates of the early 90s. One element that stands out Los Angeles City Councilmember. Ka- After finishing his BS in Land- among alumni is attention to the needs of mensky attributes his labor activism, in scape Architecture at Rutgers, working their communities, particularly to under- part, to “Deep-Springs-shaped beliefs for a few years, and completing Master’s served constituencies. Daniel Fulwiler about the importance of labor in commu- at UC Berkeley in both Architecture and DS’85 has worked to provide health care nity.” City and Regional Planning, Gregory to two typically underserved groups: Other alumni point out how went to China, taking a job in an archi- first, as an administrator at a health cen- Deep Springs taught them an ethic which tectural firm in Guangzhou. He now ter serving the gay and lesbian communi- helps them focus on their community’s works for an international NGO focused ty in Chicago, and now as the CEO of a needs. “I feel an obligation to be helping on sustainable and equitable urban trans- health center serving Mexican American out in my community, and I think that is portation. As the “Urban Development immigrants on Chicago’s southwest side. at least partially attributable to the ethos Program Manager,” he currently leads a David Schisgall DS’86 has a at Deep Springs when I was there of project to advise a rapidly growing se- similar focus. Now a commercial screen- making sure you do your share, that oth- cond-tier interior Chinese city on re- writer, he made films for twenty years ers aren’t doing work you should be do- developing its public transportation sys- about the “real world,” covering such ing,” says John Mangin DS’96. Mangin tem. topics as the Iraq war and the West Bank. now works as an affordable housing de- Gregory notes that his new job His muckraking documentary “Very veloper in the Philadelphia area. He liti- “has me less beholden to private clients Young Girls,” about underage prostitutes gates against municipalities that exclude whose values I may not share, has a in New York City, helped change laws low-income people; supports the creation strong environmental and socially ethical concerning prostitution in New York, of affordable housing through state poli- charter, and has me reading more deeply
12 about things that actually affect people’s transitioned to work building and rehabil- lives. Though I'm probably naively opti- itating affordable housing. Now he at- mistic about how much I can steer the tends law school in San Francisco, in- juggernaut that is the Chinese economy, tending to become a land use attorney for the time being I'll take naive opti- and return to Eureka to help stew- mism over existential pessimism. We do ard sustainable development in Hum- real-world demonstration projects boldt County over the next 40 years. (appealing to my practical, ‘labor’ side), Likewise, Sunshine Mathon has but also work on policy (‘academics’).” pursued service in multiple ways. Before John Fort DS’99 has also fo- dedicating himself to working in afforda- cused his career on working to balance ble green housing, he returned to a Quak- human needs with environmental stew- er summer camp he had attended in order ardship. Fort is currently training as a to work as a counselor and then as a di- mediator with a special focus on conflicts rector of the camp for several years, at the intersection of economic develop- “teaching non-violence, simple living, ment and environmental conservation. respect for the self, participation in the Fort believes the most important aspect community and love of the natural of career-related service is not what you world.” do but how you do it. “When I think of service I think of sacrifice, doing some- Classic Service Paths thing that is a loss to you in order to ben- Other alumni have pursued efit a greater cause. There are some jobs ‘classic’ service paths. Doug Pascover Tim McGinnis DS’09 prepares another which seem to provide great opportuni- DS’85 directs an agency that helps adults concrete pour for the new hay barn. ties to do this. However, I always re- with developmental disabilities to live member Jack Newell saying that it independently. Random Turner-Jones tion, and intends to work on math teacher doesn’t matter what your job is as long as DS’85 works as a nurse with develop- development programs in developing you find a way to be of service doing that mentally disabled adults, and also adults countries in West Africa. “I believe that job.” and children with psychiatric problems. access to a quality education should be a Brendan Taaffe DS’91 is one of Turner-Jones chose to go into nursing human right,” says Thoms: “not just be- several alumni dedicated to sustainable rather than become a physician because cause this access in theory gets you a living in part by running a small-scale nursing has given him a broader practice better job but also because education has organic vegetable farm. Organic farming and wider set of experiences and “the the potential to alter the way that you contains an element of service in that it is opportunity to address many more kinds observe the world and interact in it for “an important part of the society I want of needs out in the world for other people the better.” to see: to have a source of affordable than I think doctoring would have.” Thoms notes that it can be hard quality organic produce and to be a re- Oliver Morrison DS’00 repre- to find ways to be of service. “I have sponsible land steward. I wanted to play sents another ‘service profession’ com- seen both the benefits and limitations of my role, had a vision of how I thought mon among Deep Springs alumni: sec- direct service. Especially abroad, direct society could and can be, and wanted to ondary education. For the past four years, service can be extremely frustrating and plug myself in in a healthy way,” says he has been teaching in a charter school you often feel like you are accomplishing Taaffe. Like many Deep Springers with with low income minority students in very little.” John Fort expressed similar an interest in food, farming, and the envi- West Helena, Arkansas. Morrison was at sentiments about his time in the Peace ronment, Taaffe traces his interest in part Deep Springs during the 9/11 attacks, Corps: “To say that I did the Peace Corps to his time at Deep Springs—in particu- and he expressed how it impacted his doesn’t tell us that much about whether lar to a directed study on environmental experience here. The attacks “made a lot or not I was doing service to humanity; I ethics. “I was totally burned out on Hork- of us think about trying to be more con- met a range of volunteers, some of whom heimer and Adorno, and Wendell Berry crete about how what we were doing at were doing service and benefiting a was a breath of fresh air. I was totally Deep Springs was going to ultimately broader human world, and some of convinced.” help us in living lives of service. It re- whom were not. The most successful minded us that was the purpose of our volunteers listened skillfully to those in Pursuing Service Along Various time at Deep Springs and gave us a re- need and responded compassionately Routes newed focus. Deep Springs does a good while maintaining an awareness of their Alumni demonstrate openness job of trying to get you to think about own needs and boundaries." to pursuing service along a variety of service in a more holistic sense. By the paths. Neal Latt DS’85 was an organic nature of the institution, every job and Service through International Aid and farmer for 15 years, producing 80 tons of every person has the potential to do a lot Consulting mixed vegetables annually in Humboldt for the world if they do it well and with Eric Vandenbrink DS’02 found County, providing healthy food for his care.” that two years at Deep Springs helped community and helping to build farmers Michael Thoms DS’98 also pur- him focus on determinate educational markets. During the housing boom, when sues service through teaching. Thoms is goals: in his case, international develop- housing prices tripled in his area, Latt now a doctoral student in math educa-
13 ment and aid. He pursued this interest vices providing emergency assistance to cies,” says Gossen. “I am a firm believer after leaving the valley for Yale, in aca- farmers affected by the 2010 floods. that government plays an essential role in demics and working as a research assis- Nick Gossen DS’98, like Van- promoting opportunity, equality and well tant studying how government organiza- denbrink, works in part with non-profits, -being in our society. But it usually plays tional schemes—particularly in south- both in the US and abroad. After Deep that role quite poorly.” Gossen recently east Asia—can lead to “less than ideal Springs, he went to Bosnia for a year, worked with the head of the New York developmental outcomes.” working with the International Rescue City Housing Authority, landlord to After graduating, Van- Committee to rebuild houses and com- 180,000 low-income families, to develop denbrink returned to Cambodia to put his munities destroyed during the 1992-5 a plan to finance building rehabilitation education to use. He began as a freelance war. “This was a fairly literal approach to and improve living conditions for resi- consultant, helping NGOs involve local ‘service,’” says Gossen, “but one that dents. people in designing, planning and evalu- ultimately felt quite hollow. We were Gossen’s career path is another ating rural development projects. This helping individuals, to be sure, but the illustration of the fact that many alumni evolved into the management of agricul- decisions about who to help, and how, commented on: ideals of service must be ture and natural resource management were being made by governments in tempered by experience. “My view of projects with international NGOs like Washington and Brussels.” what ‘service to humanity’ means in the CARE and Catholic Relief Services. As Gossen decided that he could context of my professional life has ever, community involvement and local have a greater impact doing policy work. evolved considerably. It would be fair to say that a good portion of my career has been spent trying to square the service imperative imparted by Deep Springs with the reality of how things get done in the world and what I find personally mo- tivating on a daily basis.” But Gossen says that one simple metric has helped him make decisions: “As I have made many career decisions over the course of the past decade, one of the simplest and most compelling heuris- tics I have used has been a simple ques- tion: will my fellow Deep Springers re- spect this decision and believe that it constitutes service to humanity? For me, Nunn’s mandate to serve—embodied in the judgment of my fellow alums— serves as a bearing for where I should be heading.” Ben Shaver DS’10 and Harper Keehn DS’10 build forms for the stone & mortar road- David Galbraith DS’90 was way in the garden. drawn to international issues after leav- ing Deep Springs, and is now a Foreign governance was at the core. For instance, After earning a BA from Harvard, he Service Officer. He serves as a diplomat one project helped shrimp farmers to worked on John Kerry’s campaign for abroad and as a State Department official better manage their grounds, keeping president. “I wrote policy positions and at home. “How I serve ranges from the income the same without destroying pored over polling data. It was exciting mundane to the fascinating,” says Gal- mangroves and other sensitive habitats. to think that some idea of mine might braith, who has worked as an immigrant “The tools and methods someday make up some small portion of visa officer in Cairo, a political officer in in this work have a lot of overlap with American policy. But the further I got Baghdad, and an advisor in Venezuela what you learn in self governance: how into it, the more I realized that there is developing a public diplomacy strategy to lead a discussion, how to make deci- always some person or issue higher up to explain U.S. economic interests. sions, how to try to negotiate between the food chain who can push your work Galbraith is now the Director competing claims for the same resources, aside in a moment. The only way to as- for Gulf States on the National Security how to get people to learn how to talk sure your issues get heard is to accumu- Staff, prepared in part by a stint in Saudi about their ideas and be sensitive to what late power and go into battle for your Arabia. “It is an honor to represent the people are or aren’t comfortable saying. cause. And the pursuit of power has a United States overseas, yet one I try to The self governance aspect of Deep tendency to become the goal in itself.” approach with a deep sense of humility. Springs made me a much better listener, Caught in this bind, Gossen As proud as I am of being an American, a lot more open to hearing other people: decided to leave politics altogether. He we have our own struggles and flaws like what they wanted to say but also what now works as a consultant to companies any other people. If stamping visas was they couldn’t say but really thought.” and government agencies in the US and mundane at times, so was washing dishes After Cambodia, Vandenbrink ran a pro- the Middle East. “I am most passionate in the BH, and better to do it well and gram in Pakistan for Catholic Relief Ser- about my work for public sector agen- cheerfully than poorly and sulki-
14 ly. Whatever my particular role overseas, sit down every week, figure out what the produced in conjunction with a civil I know that part of my job is being re- problems were and how to address them, rights organization called Advancement spectful to whomever I meet and helping and work toward a resolution. In the non- Project. Before moving to LA, Woo American citizens whenever the oppor- profit world, there’s no end: there are worked with fellow Deep Springer Da- tunity arises. Finally, I am well aware always more problems and challenges, mon Rich DS’93 to found and direct an that my profession is but one of many you’ll always be outspent by the bad organization called the Center for Urban types and models of service, including guys many times over; so it’s been an Pedagogy, “a nonprofit organization that others that I try to practice as a husband, adjustment to try reconciling that with uses design and art to improve public father, and American and global citizen.” feeling like I’m not doing enough, not participation in shaping the places where making the difference I want to make.” we all live…by creating visually-based Service Through Non-Profit Work Leamy’s day-to-day life com- educational tools that demystify urban Nathan Leamy DS’02 finished prises a mix of tasks, including work in policy and planning issues.” his BA at Oberlin then received a Watson human resources, operations, finances, “To my mind,” says Woo, Fellowship to study how the green revo- legal affairs, and strategic planning. “I “being able to say that I am trying to lution and agricultural policy in the US learned at Deep Springs the ethic that serve something greater than myself is affects how people eat bread and grains you’ve got to do whatever needs to get identical to saying that my life has mean- around the world. In his travels—which done and that the good of the group is ing. So, I feel lucky that I've been able to took him to Mexico, India, France, Italy, most important; I definitely didn’t leave structure my life around service. The and Egypt—Leamy worked with several college planning on doing human re- hard part for me was finding a place that non-profits, including Slow Food. Slow source and operations work but that was I trusted—where I felt confident about Food is a grassroots organization begun the need here and it was something I was who and what I wanted to serve and what in Italy on the idea that the food which is good at.” kinds of work I was suited for. Deep best for growers, our health and the plan- Like Leamy, Rosten Woo Springs helped me figure out both of et, is also something to enjoy, celebrate, DS’95 works with non-profits to put into those. Somewhere in my twenties, I and build a community out of. practice his vision for a better world. As stopped worrying about whether what I After returning to the U.S., a consultant living in Los Angeles, he was doing was the most service, or the Leamy became an Associate Director at works on a remarkable variety of pro- most use I could make of my life. I just Slow Food. He works in the national jects. “Almost everything I work on is snapped into a sense that I’d found my headquarters of the organization, helping about helping non-experts understand calling. I knew what I had to offer the local chapters celebrate local food tradi- and participate in shaping the places they world. Service is…the main thread of my tions, fight fast food, and support sustain- live,” says Woo. “I design and write but life, fully integrated with my feelings of able agriculture. “To me food was my more than either of those things I organ- self-worth and happiness. I believe that if driver to get involved simply because I ize and facilitate collaborations between you do what you love to do, work hard love to eat. It’s something that has a lot advocates, educators, designers, artists, and work on things that you think you’ll of potential for everybody to connect to: and writers.” be proud of, you’re unlikely to end up in everyone eats food and the way we eat Among other projects, Woo a different situation.” has enormous implications for the envi- recently developed a training series as ronment and the world at large.” part of a “people's planning school.” The We invite you to share insights and sto- Working in nonprofits can be a project sought to educate organizers in ries from your own lives—how have you mixed bag, says Leamy. “It sometimes low-income, primarily Latino neighbor- lived a life of service? How did your feels like I’m doing great service, but it hoods about local land-use politics. Woo time at Deep Springs play a role in shap- can also feel aggravating. My time at has also worked on an outreach cam- ing that life? Write in to Deep Springs was a time when I learned paign and educational website about re- [email protected]. how to get things done: we were able to districting issues in California, which he
Deep Springs received a generous grant from The Hugh & Hazel Darling Foundation for a shed to protect our abundant hay crop from snow and rain. The funds allowed students to build the entire structure with Mark Dunn DS’99 who designed and engineered the project. We’re grateful to Richard Stack, trustee of the foundation, for making this possible.
15 Robert Gatje DS’44 Receives Deep Springs Medal
At the Memorial Day alumni re- union in Deep Springs Valley, the Board of Trustees awarded Robert Gatje DS’44 with the Deep Springs Medal, the col- lege’s highest honor. The award goes to alumni whose lives exemplify the ideals of selfless service and visionary leadership that LL Nunn sought to advance when he founded the college in 1917. Bob served as both SB President and SB Trustee while a student in the val- ley. On leaving Deep Springs in 1946, he volunteered to serve in the United States Army, and then attended Cornell Universi- ty’s College of Architecture, where he received his Bachelor’s degree with high- est honors and was a Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Scholar as well as a Telluride Scholar. He continued his architectural studies in London as a Fulbright Scholar. After returning from London, Bob joined the acclaimed architectural Bob Gatje DS’44 with previous honorees Bill Allen DS’42 (far left) and Jack Newell firm of Marcel Breuer where his career DS’56 (far right), and TDS Vice-Chair Beth Thomas following the award ceremony at flourished and he eventually rose to full the 94th annual alumni reunion at Deep Springs over Memorial Day. partner. As co-designer with Breuer, Bob built many prize-winning building. He continued the design and development of Museum. Board of Trustees from 1974-1982. He an entire French ski resort plus major He became a trustee of the Roo- chaired the Withrow Commission from the manufacturing and research centers for sevelt Institute in 1996. Bill vanden Heu- late 1980s to 2004 and also the all- leading corporations. vel DS’46 said of his service: “Bob’s important Building Committee during the Throughout his career, Bob Gatje sense of civic purpose has been shown Campaign for Deep Springs which saw the has served both his profession and the time and again. He is now my close asso- reconstruction of virtually the entire cam- larger society. He held positions of leader- ciate in working to build the Franklin D. pus at the turn of the 21st Century. ship and honor in the American Institute of Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roose- Bob has volunteered his time for Architects at both the local and national velt Island in the East River of New many years as the fundraising chair of the levels, including the presidency of the York—fulfilling a design by the late Louis 1940s alumni, and his diligent work shows New York Chapter. He has served as a Kahn that will give New York and our in the overwhelmingly generous support member of the alumni council of the Cor- country an architectural treasure.” that decade has given to Deep Springs. His nell College of Architecture, a member of Bob served as Telluride’s presi- classmate Mel Kohn DS’44 said, “From the Junior Council of the Museum of Mod- dent from 1953-55, and founded and long Day 1, Bob was the walking incarnation of ern Art, and a trustee of the New York ran ADSTA, the Alumni of Deep Springs what LL and the faculty of Deep Springs Hall of Science, and chaired the ultimately and Telluride Association. He was a high- would have wanted us all to be, and what successful Committee to Save the Whitney ly-regarded member of Deep Springs’ the rest of us aspired to be.”
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Fundraising Report 2011 Centennial Campaign David Welle DS’80 The news for giving to Deep gifts to the endowment topped over $1 Springs in fiscal 2011 was a mixed bag. million. Whether based on pledges or on Target for December 31, 2012: The good news is that we surpassed our bequests, friends and alumni continue to $15,000,000 fundraising goals for contributions from bear the long-range health of Deep alumni to the annual operations fund. At Springs in mind. The endowment is now the beginning of the year we set a target at its strongest level ever (see next page) $12,409,370 of $220,000 from alumni and by year’s and every single contributor deserves end they contributed over $265,000. We thanks. FY2011 Capital must thank the efforts of our class chair Two individuals this year bear and Program Gifts volunteers for offering encouragement special mention. We are particularly $ 435,593 to their fellows in this effort. grateful to Erik Pell who contributed a At the same time however, the six-figure gift for the endowment in FY2011 Contributions number of alumni making contributions addition to his regular annual operations to Annual Operations actually declined from 250 in the previ- gift. And, while saddened to learn of $ 652,846 ous year to only 226 in FY2011. Which Charles Christenson’s death, we were means, of course, that those making overwhelmed with gratitude to learn contributions increased the size of their that he bequeathed nearly a million dol- FY2011 Bequests average gift. For this, we are very grate- lars to the Deep Springs endowment for Received to Endowment ful and can only express our wish that the benefit of future students. $ 975,389 others will join them in doing so during The college owes its continued this current year. To this end, we have a vitality and success to the commitment FY2011 Contributions gift match challenge to encourage alum- of friends and alumni like these, as well to Endowment ni (see page 21). as to the many others who contribute in $ 215,002 With regards to individual gifts both large and small ways. As the graph from family and friends, participation at right shows, the Campaign launched dropped from 226 individuals in the in 2006 continues to bear fruit and we Outstanding Pledges record year FY2010 to 209 in FY2011, are within striking range of success. It is To Endowment and total gifts received came to just shy crucial that we maintain momentum for $ 71,480 of $150,000. the next year. The net result: we exceeded A report on fundraising would our goals for individual giving, but a not be complete without mentioning the smaller number of individuals are carry- efforts of staff and students here in the ing the load. It may be that many are valley. Improving the balance sheet is waiting out the recession before contin- not just a matter of raising funds; saving uing with their support, and it’s clear on costs helps as well. In the past year Contributions how crucial every single individual is to we traded two tons of potatoes from our FY2006—FY2010 helping Deep Springs thrive. garden for other produce in town, there- $10,059,060 The most disappointing news by saving money in the BH; we now is also related directly to the state of the haul our own trash, which will mean economy. Foundation gifts to annual savings of over $5,000/year going for- operations continued to drop substan- ward; targeted gifts for BH equipment tially as some of our long-standing sup- from parents Barry & Lee Ann McGin- porters have had to curtail their giving nis and alumnus Paul Starrs have made due to stressed endowments. On the it possible for us to more efficiently use bright side, we did receive substantial our own DS livestock and produce. gifts from both The Adele M. Thomas On the market side, our calf Foundation and The Sahan Daywi crop increased over previous years and Foundation. Each organization has done the farm sold over $50,000 worth of a great deal to sustain Deep Springs alfalfa for the first time ever. In a myri- over the past decade and we remain ad of ways, those of us here in the val- grateful for their commitment. Further, ley continue our efforts to improve the The Hitz Family Foundation provided a operations of the college while also $200,000 matching gift in response to maintaining the unique caliber of the increased individual gifts mentioned Nunnian education. We remain mindful above. of all those individuals outside the val- Other good news concerns the ley who give so much to make it possi- endowment. For the third straight year, ble—and thankful to all. Campaign Kickoff 2006
17 Contributors to the Endowment 2010-2011
We’re grateful to everyone who contributed this year, and we particularly want to acknowledge the generosity of those who thought of Deep Springs in their estate planning, assuring the college would continue after their own passing.
Robert B. Aird Humanities Professorship Polly Aird
Unrestricted Endowment The Adele M. Thomas Charitable Foundation John Bennett
Charles Christenson *
Erik Cota-Robles Henry & Ta-yun Fang Brian & Denise Galvin Bruce Hamilton & Susan Barretta James & Elizabeth Hayden Harry Heitkamp
Kenneth Hovey *
Annette Howard Kenneth Pursley David & Carol Scrivner IMO Sherwin W. Howard Peter Rolnick Susan Scrivner Loren & Diane Ihle Gerard Saucier Bernard & Else Wolf Frank & Loretta Young Jarrod Millman William Scandling Trust David Neidorf Erik Pell Craig W. Scrivner * - Bequest received
18 Contributors to Annual Operations 7/1/10—6/30/11
IHO—In Honor Of IMO—In Memory Of **—Deceased ##—Employer match gift Alumni Class Chairs are highlighted in bold Charles Abbott Jane Campbell Duncan Fordyce Rich & Elaine Abbott James Chapman John Fort Ira Abrams IMO Wendell Williams Roger Fraser DS’62 & Patricia Fraser Vivek Agrawala Marilou Chapman Dan Fulwiler Abiola Akinyemi Joyce & Bill Chesnut Alan & Sarah Galbraith Bruce & Eileen Aird Robert Davison Clark David Galbraith Ron Alexander Joel & Meredith Coble Melinda Gandara Thomas Allen Ralph & Joanne Comer Brian & Denise Galvin William Allen Adam & Suzanne Condron Newton Garver Ben Altman & Cynthia Bowman Richard Cooluris Robert Gatje DS’44 John Ames & Janet Boggia Clark Copelin Mathews George John Anderson Cornelison Family Trust Jessica Giambruno Anonymous Erik Cota-Robles James Gibbs & Dick Page Anonymous William Cowan DS’43 & Lisa Gibson Eli Goldman-Armstrong Anonymous Darrel Cowan Richard & Diana Goodman Anonymous Philip Craven DS’60 & Karen Craven Google ## Anonymous Edwin Cronk James Gorman Michael & Laurie Armstrong H.A. Cummings Patricia Gorsline Monte & Phillis Baggs Jared Daar Andrew Granato IMO Diane Seidenverg Eric & Judith Daar Lindsey Grant Bruce Bailey Vergilia Dakin Paul Greenberg John Baird Hugh & Hazel Darling Foundation Robert Gregg Donald Baker Noah Dauber IHO Carter Gregg Ball Corporation ## Paul Davis Howard & Judith Ann Griggs Bruce Barkley Robert Davis Peter Guth & Mary Haselton James & Adrienne Bartolome Louis & Juliet DeLong Robert & Jane Hall Brendon Bass John Dewis Caroline Ham Ronald & Kathleen Beck John Deymonaz Bruce Hamilton & Susan Barretta Travis Beck Jacob & Janis Dickinson Philip Hanawalt & Graciela Spivak Henry Bennett Norton Dodge ** Craig Harris & Beverly Allen John Bennett Ashley Doherty Nickoline Hathaway Catherine Bergel James Downing James Hayden IMO Kurt Bergel L. Thomas & Jo Ann Downing James & Elizabeth Hayden Richard Berliner & Jessica Radloff Migue Dozier Henry & Marjorie Hayes Noah Beyeler Rev. Benjamin Dueholm & Richard & Rebecca Haynie J. Andrew Billipp Kerry Waller John Hays DS’54 & Judith Hays IHO Eunice Whitney David & Barbara Dueholm Matthew Healey Stephen Birdlebough & Sara Davis Stephen & Karen Dunn Mark & Kathleen Heberlein Nathaniel Birdsall Robert & Nancy Earnest Helen Heckman Blue Oak Foundation Brad Edmondson DS’76 Tim & Maureen Henderson Boeing Corporation ## Michael & Betty Eigen Frank & Saundra Herre Henderson Booth Alan Eisner James Herre Dr. and Mrs. James Bostwick Sean Eldridge & Chris Hughes Jerre & Nancy Hitz Fred & Theresa Bourgoise Leif & Sharon Erickson Hitz Family Foundation Stephen Brain Miles & Nanette Everett Kinch Hoekstra Christopher & Jane Breiseth Dan Fahey IMO Norman Williams Eric Breitbart Gene Fang Misha Hoekstra Stephen & Metta Brown Benjamin & Elvia Farnham Tim Hoekstra Kenneth & Lisa Brownstein Mark & Katherine Farrell John Holt Richard Bruisma Jacob & Claire Feldman John & Marilee Hoskins Michael Burroughs Miles & Pauline Fellows Hans & Linda Houshower Steven Buyske & Ann Jurecic Michael Fields Kenneth Hovey Estate ** California Community Foundation Mac Finley Tom Hudgens & Eric Luna California Council for the Humanities Gareth and Maura Fisher Raymond Huey
19 Contributors to Annual Operations 7/1/10—6/30/11
Silas Hundt Ed Lindgren Robin Myers Mitchell Hunter Mark Livingston David Neidorf Lynn Huntsinger William & Karen Longley L. Jackson & Linda Newell Adnan Husain Richard Loomis George Newtown Michael & Mary Ann Huston IMO Mary Loomis Don Noel Thomas Hutchins David Lopez Thomas & Kathleen Noland IBM Corporation ## Mary Lowrey Stephen Noll Loren Ihle & Diane Decker-Ihle IHO Robert Gatje Rodney North John Iverson Philip & Candace Lowry Northrup Grumman Foundation ## Doug Jackson-Smith Robert & Nancy Lowthorp Patricia Novelli Jay & Julie Jacobson John & Susan Ludden Tyke Nunez IHO Aaron, Stacy & Elijah Earl & Kathleen Ludman Susan Nuni Leon & Judith Jacobson Julian “Pete” MacDonald Linda L. Nunn Henry Jameson Bruce & Patricia MacLeish Michael O’Connor & Raymond Jeanloz & Jennie Romero Nicholas Macri Tanya Wodinsky Richard & Margot Jerrard Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mahon Kenneth Odell IMO Wendell Williams Ken & Anna Mahony Phil Ogden & Brenda Patrick Herman & Helene John Joshua Malbin Jean & Howard Osborn Doug Johnson Margaret & Stanley Manatt IMO Wendell Williams Jeff & Glo Johnson Harvey & Delba Mansfield Thomas “Pete” Palfrey Peter Johnson Dr. Roger Masters James Pearson & Melanie Jacobson Robert Jones Will & Diane Masters IHO Sage Pearson Brian Judge Sunshine & Emily Mathon Robert & Nancy Pease Steve Kaplan Jeffrey Mayer Donald Pederson Curtis Karplus DS’48 Robert & Marjorie McCarthy Erik Pell DS’41 Alan Kaufman Michael & Joan McCloskey Vernon Penner DS57 & Dorothy Penner Glen & Chris Kaufman IMO Wendell Williams Robert & Cyvia Peters Kenneth Kaufman Andrew McCreary F. Ross & Kay Peterson William Kaufman Barry & Lee Ann McGinnis Ronald Peterson Francis & Jeanne Kearney Charles & Shirley McGinnis William Pezick Neil Kearney Hugh McGuire & Matthew Pflantzbaum Daniel Kellogg Christina Gray McGuire Phi Beta Kappa Society Ed Keonjian DS’55 Kenneth McGuire Steven & Elizabeth Phillips Gordon Kiddoo Seth Merritt Rev. William Porter Herbert Kincey Jon & Linda Michaelson Hale & Nancy Prather Thomas Kinney Paul Michelsen Kenneth & Betsy Pursley Mark Kirby Zach Mider Martin Quigley Jeffrey Klahn & Elisabeth Swain John & Anne Miller Patrick & Mary Ragen Chris & Carol Kleps IMO Wendell Williams William Ragen DS’74 Melvin Kohn Donn & Margaret Miller & Barbara Shulman William Kralovec James & Mary Miller Justin Raikes DS’01 Donald Krummel Thomas Miller Susan Rakley Mihir Kshirsagar Frederick & Audrey Mohn Barry & Wendy Rapp Matthew Kwatinetz IMO Wendell Williams Donald & Hilary Read Michael & Michelle Kwatinetz Heide Moore Ellen Richter Betty LaCourse Morgan Stanley Company John Riebesell IMO Diane Seidenverg IMO of Mordecai Finkelstein Dr. and Mrs. Jules Riskin Bronte Sutherland Lamm John Moriarty Peter Rock & Ella Vining Lander Veterinary John & Sue Morita David & Mary Jane Rogne Sam Laney Oliver Morrison DS’00 Christian & Estelle Rondestvedt Lex Larsen Erik Mueggler Mindy Roseman Jeffery & Lisa Laske Charles Munford Louise Rosenblum Neal Latt & Karen Pawlyk Luther & Virginia Munford IHO of Peter, Warren & Noah Bruce Laverty IMO Sims & Virginia Munford Warren Rosenblum & Nicole Blumner William & Julie Layton Ian Murphy Michael Rowe & Jennifer Burroughs Lawrence Lee John Murphy Linda Rudolph Judy Levinson William & Virginia Myer Bob & Carla Rugeroni
20 Contributors to Annual Operations 7/1/10—6/30/11
Sahan Daywi Foundation John Tate, Jr. Linda Williams Arthur Saint-Aubin Bruce & Jana Taylor Robley Williams Robert Sayre Ph.D George & Marilee Taylor Dorothy Williams Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Schaal Hoyt Taylor & Mary Ellen Sweeney IMO Wendell Williams DS’46 Rob Schechter & Alison Matsunaga Mark Taylor Susan Witter Kenneth & Sue Schechter Adele M. Thomas Charitable Foundation Richard Wolgast David Schisgall John Thomas & Alan Wright Eric Schneidewind & Eunice “Beth” Whitney Thomas Frank Wu & Carol Izumi Ann Radelet Schneidewind Sandra Thompson Lars Wulff Adam Schwartz & Sarah Levine IMO Ed Loomis Shintaro Yamaguchi Eric Scigliano Steve Thompson & Kerrie Byrne Frank & Loretta Young Craig Scrivner John & Judith Thoms Stokes & Erin Young Susan Scrivner Frank Tikalsky Michael Zaletel Seay Foundation Armando & Marti Travelli Robert & Mary Zaletel Daniel & Judy Segal Carolyn Turner Yair Zwick Diane Seidenverg ** IMO Diane Seidenverg Scott Seidenverg James Turnure IMO Diane Seidenverg Richard & Joyce Unger Roger & Sara Seiler Zachary Unger DS’91 Mark Sexton University of Illinois Mohammed & Aisha Shaikh IMO Wendell Williams Jahan Sharifi & Pauline Yoo Gitendra Uswatte Robert Shaver Jamie Van Arsdall Donald & Mary Shaw IMO Condit Van Arsdall Cole & Caryn Sheckler Robert & Bonnie Van Duyne Daniel Shu William & Melinda vanden Heuvel John & Rosanne Mayer Siliciano Eric Vandenbrink John & Beverly Sinning Jim & Gay Ver Steeg Hitz Family Foundation Juraj & Julie Slavik Steve Viavant offers new gift match Dr. and Mrs. Charles Smith Brendan Visser H.L.R. & Shelley Smith Jan Vleck challenge to DS alumni Shepard Smith Doug von Qualen Steven Smith Gregory Votaw & After a successful gift match challenge Steve Solga & Lisa Spacek Carmine Delgado Votaw last year which netted the college an addi- David Spring IMO Wendell Williams tional $200,000 in contributions, The Hitz Terry Spitz William & Jacquelyn Waina Family Foundation has offered a special Paul Starrs Torrey Wall gift match challenge this year directed to Gilbert Stayner & Teri Fox Stayner Colin Wambsgans & alumni of Deep Springs. James Stearns & Kim Hopper Dorothy Fortenberry On average, 38% of alumni con- Judith Stearns Andrew & Anna Ward tribute to Deep Springs in any given year, Daniel Stegman Elizabeth Ward but over 60% of alumni give in any three Thomas Stolz David & Barbara Webb year period. In order to improve the year- Lyndal & Sherry Stoutin David Weiss & Ute Muh ly percentage, The Hitz Foundation will Estelle Stryker David Welle match 4-to-1 every dollar contributed by Michael Stryker DS’64 IHO Justin Kim a given class (i.e. 1953 or 1971 or 1987, & Barbara Poetter Dave Werdegar DS’47 etc.) that is above that class’ three-year Anthony Sung & Kathryn Werdegar average as a group. Tamara Sussman Edwin Wesely DS’45 We’re encouraging all alumni to IHO Josh Malbin & Rachel Specter & Marcy Brownson join their classmates in giving every year Abe Sutherland Kevin West to Deep Springs. Doing so will improve Eric Swanson DS’65 & Devon Hodges Keith & Lea White our ability to plan operating revenue from Andrew Swartz Allen & Alice Whiting year to year and help assure stability in Bryden Sweeney-Taylor Eunice Whitney the college’s finances. We greatly appre- Gary & Therese Swisher Dr. Simon Whitney ciate the Hitz Foundation’s continuing Lee & Martha Talbot Paul Wiener & Ann Roggenbuck commitment to supporting individual Nathan & Susan Tarcov Ann Spring Williams gifts to Deep Springs. Vijay & Mona Tata IMO John & Katherine Suhr Spring
21 Contributing to Deep Springs There are multiple ways to assure the and follow the “Network For Good” link Bequests and Planned Giving financial health of the college as we ap- to establish automated monthly credit Consider naming Deep Springs as a bene- proach our Centennial Anniversary in card gifts. ficiary in your will, trust, or life insurance 2017. Contributing to Deep Springs is an policy. We welcome and appreciate such investment in progressive education. Stock and Securities Gifts remembrances. Please contact our office There are four broad categories wherein We accept direct transfers of stocks and and we will provide you with the neces- we look for funding: securities. Please contact us first with sary documentation to record the bequest. details of your intended gift. We can then Annual Operations—contribution goes provide your brokerage firm or financial Bring a Friend directly to pay salaries and expenses in institution with the necessary account Over the years, numerous individuals the current fiscal year. information. We need to go through these have given financially to Deep Springs Endowment—provides stable long-term steps in order to properly track and ac- even though they’ve never set foot in the fund that generates income for college count for your gift. valley. If there is someone you think we operations should get to know, please give us a call Capital Expenditures—provides for Matching Gifts or bring them to one of our regional specific one-time expenditures on large Please ask your company or organization events. ticket items like vehicles and facility for information on matching gift eligibil- equipment. ity and program limitations. Questions? Program Enhancements—provides for expenditures to enhance short-term and Pledges David Welle at 760-872-2000 ext. 27 occasional educational programs. If you feel unable to make a substantial [email protected] gift today, you can also pledge now for Main Office at 760-872-2000 ext. 33 Cash Gifts gift payments in the future. This is a great Write your check payable to “Deep [email protected] way to establish future funding for the Springs College” and mail to our office. college. Download a pledge form at Deep Springs College
www.deepsprings.edu/contribute/giving. HC 72 Box 45001 Credit Card Gifts Dyer, NV 89010 Visit www.deepsprings.edu/contribute
Special Thanks to those who have contributed every year for the past ten years!
ALUMNI Michael Huston ‘68 Eric Schneidewind ‘62 Saundra & Frank Herre Charles Abbott ‘84 Loren Ihle ‘76 Adam Schwartz ‘87 Michael & Michelle Kwatinetz William Allen ‘42 Henry Jameson ‘43 Craig Scrivner ‘84 Bronte Lamm John Ames ‘54 Herman John, ‘42 Cole Sheckler ‘66 Jon & Linda Michaelson Stephen Birdlebough ‘53 Curt Karplus ‘48 John Sinning ‘48 Luther & Ginnie Munford Christopher Campbell ‘73 Ed Keonjian ‘55 Juraj Slavik ‘48 Nancy & Robert Pease Joel Coble ‘65 Melvin Kohn ‘44 Michael Stryker ‘64 David & Carol Scrivner Ralph Comer ‘44 Bruce Laverty ‘43 Eric Swanson ‘65 Joyce & Richard Unger Richard Cooluris ‘91 Richard Loomis ‘43 Lee Talbot ‘48 William Cowan ‘43 Kenneth Mahony ‘43 George Taylor ‘75 FRIENDS Philip Craven ‘60 Charles McGinnis ‘44 Zac Unger ‘91 Polly Aird Edwin Cronk ‘36 Jack Newell ‘56 William vanden Heuvel ‘46 Nickoline Hathaway Brad Edmondson ‘76 Thomas “Pete” Palfrey ‘43 David Weiss ‘79 Henry Hayes Miles Everett ‘49 James Pearson ‘72 David Werdegar ‘47 Philip Lowry Mark Farrell ‘66 Erik Pell ‘41 Edwin Wesely ‘45 Peggy & Donn Miller Jacob Feldman ‘43 Robert Peters ‘44 Keith White ‘48 Kay & F. Ross Peterson Miles Fellows ‘34 Steven Phillips ‘47 Allen Whiting ‘44 Beth & John Thomas Brian Galvin ‘65 Hale Prather ‘59 Alan Wright ‘63 Robert Gatje ‘44 Kenneth Pursley ‘57 Frank Young ‘45 FOUNDATIONS Lindsey Grant ‘43 Donald Read ‘59 Sahan Daywi Foundation Bruce Hamilton ‘71 Jules Riskin ‘44 PARENTS Adele M. Thomas Foundation Philip Hanawalt ‘49 Peter Rock ‘86 Ron & Kathleen Beck David Hitz ‘80 Robert Rugeroni ‘60 Leif & Sharon Erickson Raymond Huey ‘61 Rob Schechter ‘80 Sarah & Alan Galbraith
22 The L.L. Nunn Society
The L.L. Nunn Society, established to honor the founder of Deep Springs, recognizes and thanks those alumni, family and friends who have provided for the college in their will or estate plans. With a gift of cash or securities, donors benefit Deep Springs directly while receiving a variety of tax benefits. Other types of gifts are also welcome. The gift of a home, ranch/land or business can pro- vide immediate tax benefits to the donor as well as the opportunity to support Deep Springs.
The L.L. Nunn Society serves as an inspiring reminder that Nunn’s most personally prized legacy—Deep Springs College—deserves to endure as our legacy as well. If you are interested in joining or have already committed but have not provided supporting docu- mentation to Deep Springs, please call, email or write to the college office. Please notify us if you are a member and are not listed below.
Ronald Alexander DS’64 Robert H. Peters DS’44 William Allen DS’42 Ruth Randall John W. Ames DS’54 Jules L. Riskin DS’44 Jeanette Begg C.S. Rondestvedt Catherine “Kitty” Bergel Nathan Sayre DS’87 Peter Bergel Robert Sayre Minerva Brownstein Juraj L.J. and Julie Slavik DS’48 Joyce Chestnut Robert L. and Mary Sproull DS’35 William W. Cowan DS’43 Robert Van Duyne DS’45 Martha Diggle William J. vanden Heuvel DS’46 Mrs. Chester (Merle) Dunn Alice Dodge Wallace Brad Edmondson DS’76 Kevin West DS’88 Henry and Ta-yun Fang Dennis Farr Newton Garver DS’43 Robert Gatje DS’44 Lindsey Grant DS’43 DECEASED MEMBERS: Bruce Hamilton DS’71 Robert B. Aird DS’21 Mrs. Ralph (Patricia) Kleps Hok Joan Allen Kenneth A. Hovey DS’62 John A. Hoskins DS’61 Frederick E. Balderston DS’40 William C. Layton DS’26 Raymond B. Huey DS’61 Kurt and Alice Bergel Andrew Linehan DS’73 Jeff Johnson DS’55 Robert L. Bull DS’48 James S. Mansfield DS’26 Curtis Karplus DS’48 Elizabeth Mason Butterworth Eliot Marr DS’29 Michael Kearney DS’69 Barney Childs DS’43 Gene Newman Melvin Kohn DS’44 Walter Clark H.R. Newman DS’35 Robert C. Leonard Donald E. Claudy DS’44 James R. Olin DS’38 Julian F. “Pete” MacDonald DS’43 Richard C. Cornelison DS’43 Roy Pierce Gary and Emily Mahannah DS’70 Charles Christenson - former Trustee Roger Randall DS’36 Joyce M.N. McDermott Hugh W. Davy DS’28 Herbert J. Reich DS’17 Kenneth Mahony DS’43 John deBeers DS’32 Edwin Rust DS’29 L. Jackson Newell DS’56 Raymond Diggle DS’60 George B. Sabine DS’29 Mrs. Don (Patricia) Novelli Ward J. Fellows DS’31 William F. Scandling - former Trustee Phyllis Olin James Haughey DS’30 Charles “Chuck” Thompson Thomas “Pete” Palfrey DS’43 Stephen N. Hay DS’42 Paul H. Todd - former Trustee Donald P. Pederson DS’43 Mrs. Robert (Dora J.) Henderson James B. Tucker DS’38 Erik M. Pell DS’41
23 Deep Springs College HC 72 Box 45001 via Dyer, NV 89010
Students & community members prepare for graduation of DS 2009 on Gilbert Pass overlooking Deep Springs College