Peer Counselors Chosen Taylor Receives

Vol.70, No. 7 Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass. 01342 APRIL 12, 1996 Peer Counselors Chosen Loomis Coach To Be Eight sophomores, four girls and four boys, have been selected to become Athletic Director Peer Counselors. They include Alec Bardzik, Liz Creelman, Gov Graney,Pete Lindsay Moves To Admissions Heenan, Dwight Ho-Sang, Erin Deerfield very well, first of all. But suc- Kristin Searle McMurray, Ashley Muldoon and cessful admissions work calls upon the Samantha Saffir. They will join the present After a comprehensive search, same kinds of skills that successful coach- juniors, Suzanna Filip, Dave Garonzik, Kathy Robertson of Loomis Chaffee was ing and successful athletic administration Becky Johnson, Adam Lynch, Will named the new athletic director for next call upon." Ouimet,Raphael Tejada,Amy Warren, and year. She is replacing James Lindsay, He will no doubt bring with him Julie Hand, who will be next year's head. long-time athletic director and boys' var- much experience which will offer the ad- photo by Grant Quasha Over sixty sophomores applied to sity hockey coach. He will move to the missions department new insight into the Counselors meet for training be Peer Counselors, each filling out an admissions department as associate dean process of recruiting prospective students. participating in a group where he will be taking over for William Ms. Robertson, who is filling in for Christina Rosenberger application and interview. The selection process is largely in the community, and try to get a sense Tyler, director of admissions, who is leav- Mr. Lindsay, currently works in admis- Every Tuesday night during the the same as it has been in past years. Su- of which kids are perceived by their peers ing Deerfield Academy. sions at Loomis Chaffee and is the head spring term, sixteen sophomores and jun- san Carlson, the faculty advisor for the to be trustworthy. However, this is not a Mr. Lindsay has done a great deal girls' varsity swim coach, a position that iors can be found in the basement of the group, said that "Many things are a factor popularity contest, and that is not the main of work in the admissions office in the she will also fill here. She has been work- Health Center. They are the 1996-1997 in the final decision. Along with the ap- criteria." summertime for many years, and he has ing at Loomis for twenty-three years Peer Counselors. plication and interview, we talk to adults "The interviews were nerve-wrack- always worked side by side with the ad- where she started out as the girls' athletic ing and intimidating, but after the first five missions department in trying to attract director and has coached for several years. minutes, everyone was completely re- talented student-athletes to Deerfield. She will bring to Deerfield a great deal of Taylor Receives laxed," said Saffir. When Mr. Tyler's retirement experience about the many aspects of life Mrs. Carlson also commented that opened up a position in the admissions at an independent school as well as much "this was an incredibly hard process- no office, Mr. Lindsay expressed interest in enthusiasm. Klingenstein Fellowship one is ever completely content. Some of the job, and the administration felt that he Ms.Robertson was first approached the students who were not chosen are just was qualified for the position. He has been by members of the Deerfield community as those who were. We try to Michael Drake tors who,in the end, determine the recipi- as capable working as athletic director for twelve about the school's need for both a new ath- ent of the fellowship. "Only ten to twelve balance things- people's backgrounds, in- years and said of his new position,"It is a letic director and girls' swim coach. She Every year many teachers in the [applicants] actually receive acceptance, terests, etc." chance for me to reinvigorate myself," was well-known by many people at Deer- Deerfield community decide to expand and those are really top caliber teachers," All sixteen of the Peer Counselors adding that he has "always been intrigued field who thought that she would be a their academic horizons by spending a remarked Mr. Taylor. will be going through an intensive twenty- by admissions." qualified person for the job. Mr. Widmer Year abroad. This experience not only The Klingenstein Fellows Program hour training process this spring. They Headmaster Eric Widmer is also said,"Ms. Robertson's candidacy seemed gives teachers time away from the de- was created in 1977 to provide indepen- will meet every Tuesday night through- confident that Mr. Lindsay will thrive in a very positive one." manding Deerfield schedule, but it also dent school teachers and administrators continued on page 5 admissions and said of him, "He knows continued on page 5 allows them to pursue subjects of interest with the means to pursue academic enrich- and to gain new insight into their fields of ment. Participants travel to Teachers Col- education. lege at Columbia University to take spe- Steven Brill to Speak at One such person is Spanish teacher cialized courses and study independently John Taylor, who was accepted in the Jo- on a desired topic. Since its inception, the seph Klingenstein Fellows Program and Fellows Program has achieved widespread Will spend the '96- '97 school year study- respect and recognition from the educa- Commencement ing at Columbia University. tional community. Mr. Brill is also the founder, Mr. Brill continued his work in Mr. Taylor became seriously inter- At Columbia, Mr. Taylor hopes to president, CEO, and editor-in-chief writing and later wrote a book titled The ested in the program during a seminar held take a variety of courses, but he plans to of Courtroom Television Network, Teamsters, a novel about Jimmy Hoffa, at Deerfield during the summer of 1995. concentrate on genre studies in a foreign a twenty-four hour basic cable tele- which was published in 1978 and was on After talking with teachers who had pre- language classroom. This includes the vision channel that began operations the New York Times and Publisher's viously received the fellowship, he de- integration of literature in a foreign lan- across the country in July 1991. Weekly best sellers lists during that same cided to apply. "Most of the people I guage environment to facilitate mastery of Mr. Brill has led a distin- year. He later worked as a law columnist talked to said it was the best year of their that language. The year will also give him guished life. After graduating from and writer for Esquire Magazine. life," said Mr.Taylor. "About sixty to sev- a break from teaching, so that he may re- Deerfield he went to Yale College In the words of long time friend as enty teachers apply annually for the fel- charge his intellectual batteries. where he graduated Summa Cum well as distinguished former Deerfield fac- lowship. Of that group, twenty-five are Mr. Taylor is not the first Deer- Laude in 1972. He then continued ulty member, Bryce Lambert, "Mr. Brill invited to New York City to visit the cam- field teacher to be granted a fellowship at photo courtesy of Mr Brill on to Yale Law School, from which has stirred up the cosmic dust in the legal Pus." the Klingenstein Center. Michael Cary, he graduated in 1975. profession, and he is absolutely brilliant." During the visit, each applicant is Antonia Woods,and Mark Scandling have Deerfield graduate and Court TV After his graduation from col- Mr. Lambert said that he is greatly interviewed by a panel of five administra- continued on page 5 founder Steven Brill lege until January, 1974, Mr. Brill was the impressed by the "rigid policy on correct- assistant to the Mayor of the City of New ing errors and insuring accuracy" that Mr. Ethan Meers York. Then in 1974 he worked as a con- Brill maintains in his leadership of The East Campus Plans sultant for the Police Foundation in Wash- American Lawyer magazine. Steven Brill '68 will speak May 26 ington, D.C. During this time he wrote a Mr. Lambert went on to describe at Deerfield's Commencement Weekend. book titled Firearms Control, A Research Mr. Brill as "an awfully sharp fellow" who NEW DORMS TO REPLACE CHAPIN Mr. Brill founded The American and Policy Report which was published is "strongly ethical and wants to do what's of architecture which are found on the Lawyer magazine in 1978. As current by the Police Foundation in 1976. Dur- right." Sean Slive Deerfield campus. editor-in-chief, Mr. Brill also controls nine ing this year Mr. Brill also received the In 1984 The American Lawyer Chapin has long been known among The students are not the true archi- related regional legal and business publi- John Hancock award for Business Jour- magazine won the National Magazine students as one of, if not the, worst dorm tects of the buildings. Their designs will cations. nalism. continued on page 5 on campus. As a result, the Academy is simply be presented to the actual archi- Planning to build new dormitories to tects, whom the school has yet to choose. Place it. However, the site planner, Chan Kreiger Juniors to Attend Youth Medicine Program term & Associates, has already been chosen Since the beginning of winter hand experience," remarked Flood. "To be nominated was a great honor," said this year, Ar- from a field of three such • George Pence Mr. Moorhead's Advanced candidates. Antonia Novello, the former Sur- Hood. chitecture been cre- Chan Krieger & Associates was Tutorial class has A certified letter postmarked Wash- geon General of the United States,founded Sacks plans to attend the Boston ating possible designs for the new dormi- chosen by Mr.

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