Z:be ;3tertielb trott Vol. XXXIX Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass., June 2, 1965 Number 12 Graduation Exercises,Baccalaureate Highlight Final Days Of School Year 0 Dr. Park Addresses Graduates; Senior Officers Lead Students Academy Dinner Honors To Baccalaureate Service Worthy Seniors In Brick Church Diplomas will be awarded today In accordance with tradition, to the 173 members of the senior Deerfield held its last vesper serv- class during the one hundred sixty- ice, sixth annual commencement exer- the annual Baccalaureate, in cises. The four class officers will the Brick Church Sunday night, lead the seniors into the Memorial May 30. An address by Dr. Nathan Building where Mr. Henry Flynt, A. Perilman of Congregation Eman- President of the Board of Trustees, u-El, New York City, highlighted will preside over the ceremonies the service, which also included and present the diplomas. Dr. Wil- hymns, a responsive reading, and The school is lined up on the Common to view Memorial Day liam E. Park, President of Simmons a Scripture lesson. Leading the proceedings. College, will deliver the Commence- student body as it marched into the ment address. A graduate of Wil- church were the four senior class liams College, Union Theological officers. Town Honors Nation's Seminary, and the Harvard Gradu- War Dead ate School for Arts and Sciences, Begins Graduation Di. William E. Park Dr. Park is a recipient of the James The Baccalaureate service mark- In Solemn Memorial Day Service C. Rogerson Cup and Medal, pre- ed the beginning of graduation ex- each year outstanding 0-- sented to an ercises at Deerfield, as at most alumnus of Williams. Cum Laude Speaker colleges and The entire student body and the Mr. Mamarchef Speaks secondary schools. Many parents and friends attend- Band assembled on the Deerfield Mr. James Mamarchef of the General Clay Speaks At Banquet Samuel N. Bogarad ed. Common to join townspeople in a Eaglebrook faculty then addressed Tonight the seniors will gather in Memorial Day tribute, Monday those present. Eulogizing Amer- the New Gymnasium for the Acad- Discusses Minorities Dr. Perilman, who addressed his morning, May 31. ica's war dead, he explained the emy Dinner. Toastmaster at this remarks chiefly to the seniors, has been a distinguished The honoring of the nation's war value of Memorial Day as an occa- annual banquet will be Dr. Herbert Sing speaker Speaker for the Cum Laude So- for many years. After receiving dead was performed in the tradi- sion of remembrance. The assem- Gezork, President of the Andover- a ciety initiation ceremony Tuesday Bachelor of Arts degree tional way, a part of the common blage then sang as the Deerfield Newton Theological School. Dr. at the University of Pittsburgh in heritage of both the Academy and Academy Band played the National Gezork gave the Baccalaureate ser- evening, May 18, was Prof. Samuel 1926, he N. became a Doctor of the village. Mr. Edwin G. Reade, Anthem. After this the contingent mon last year. Featured speaker of Bogarad, Ph. D., current chair- Divinity at Hebrew Union College Jr. of the Deerfield faculty coor- marched down Albany Road to the the evening is General Lucius Clay, man of the English Department in 1932. During 1954 he did graduate dinated the morning's activities. cemetery, where the local Brownie for many years commander of the at the University of Vermont. In work at Columbia An assembly call by the Eaglebrook Troop decorated the graves with American forces in Berlin. his speech Dr. Bogarad stressed University. Well- flowers. Following a rifle volley the minority status of the 19 new known for his work in human re- bugler was followed by the Invoca- Among the awards to be present- members lations, Dr. Perilman tion read by the Rev. Charles fired by a uniformed detachment while praising them for has written ed is the coveted Deerfield Cup. their several books on Judaism. Titsworth. The Deerfield, Eagle- of veterans, an arrangement of taps scholastic accomplishments. His son, This trophy is given to the boy in The James E. Perilman, graduated brook, Bement, and Frontier Re- was executed by trumpeters sta- minority of any collective from Deerfield in gional Bands offered selections tioned on hillsides to the north, the senior class who most exempli- whole, he said, is in a hazardous 1956. position, throughout the ceremony, and the south, east, and west. fies the Deerfield ideal. for while it is responsible for Girl Scouts adorned the ninety- many of the far-reaching and constructive eight-year-old Civil War Memorial ideas to its society, it COMMENCEMENT SCHEDULE Lively Mikado Performances Seniors is also with wreaths. Following a Boy By subject to the strong criti- Scout salute the flag, cism of the majority. to Douglas Revive Commencement Commencement Exercises Clarke of the Deerfield Traditional Practice Old Gram- Comparing the purpose of the Memorial Building 10:00 a.m. mar School delivered a recitation minority in politics to that of Parents' Luncheon of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. by Teri Towe Yum, while Ko-Ko has to marry groups such as the Cum Laude So- Dining Hall 12:00 noon Katisha, literally to save himself. ciety in education, Dr. Bogarad The senior class, in cooperation Varsity Baseball vs. Cushing with warned the new members of a po- Meeting Of Headmasters the Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill Soloists Are Excellent Upper Level 2:30 p.m. tential resistance to any of their School for Girls, presented the Gil- The singing by the soloists was Preparatory intellectual ideas, but reinstated Academy Dinner Of Schools bert and Sullivan operetta, The magnificent. Mike Milburn was es- his theory of the fundamental im- Gymnasium 7:00 p.m. Convenes Here Mikado, or The Town of Titipu, pecially effective as the Mikado. In June portance of a curious liberality on Thursday, June 3: Monday and Tuesday evenings. The Roy Hitchings was an excellent both the student and the faculty School Breakfast 7:00 a.m. fine performances were under the Ko-Ko, playing the part with a will level. Deerfield have the privilege musical direction of Dr. J. Clement splendid, vivacious candor, especial- of being host to about 30 prep Schuler and the stage direction of ly in the solos "They'll None Of Mr. school headmasters on June 22 and Thomas Herlihy. Them Be Missed!" and "Tit-Wil- low." Nanki-Poo was sung with 23. All of these men are either The story begins as Nanki-Poo, fervor by Mr. Broughan, who por- alumni or former Deerfield faculty the minstrel (Mr. John Broughan trayed Nanki-Poo's plight admir- members. At the meeting they will '60) wanders into the town of Titi- ably in "A Wandering Minstrel", discuss current problems at inde- pu. He is in love with Yum-Yum and his love for Yum-Yum in the pendent secondary schools. Acting (Miss Barbara Moore), who is at- beautiful duet he sings with her. Miss as chairman will be Mr. Prentice tended by two school friends, Pit- Moore possesses a voice of singular beauty and operatic qual- Home '37, a former member of ti-Sing and Peep-Bo (Adrienne Ar- ity. Hitchings and Miss Butter- Deerfield's faculty and the present nott, Beth Born). However, as worth in the role of Katisha sang headmaster of the Wardlaw Coun- Pooh-Bah, Lord High Everything superbly in the duet "There Is try Day School. Guest speaker for Else (Tim Wolfe) explains, Ko-Ko, Beauty In The Bellow Of The the occasion will be Mr. Ellis Phil- Lord High Executioner (Roy Blast." The incidental roles of lips, Jr. '38. Hitchings), is also in love with Pish-Tush, Pitti-Sing, Peep-Bo, and This annual headmasters' meet- Yum-Yum and is to be married to Pooh-Bah were well-acted, and they ing has been successful through the her that day. At this point Nanki- contributed immeasurably to the years in establishing a closer rap- Poo's plight seems hopeless. The overall effectiveness of the oper- port among prep schools. Mr. Mikado of Japan (Mike Milburn), etta. William S. Piper of Worcester who turns out to be Nanki-Poo's Academy and Mr. H. Bruce Mc- father, arrives, accompanied by Non-Soloists Form Chorus Clellan of Lawrenceville School are Pish-Tish, a courtier (Kim Mors- The chorus of approximately 100 among the alumni who will be pres- man), looking for his son whom he members gave excellent support ent. Former faculty members Al- wants to marry to Katisha (Miss throughout the entire production. bert W. Olsen of Hotchkiss School Priscilla Butterworth). Confusion The Finale to Act II was sung with gusto, as was the chorus "Behold! and James W. Wickenden of Tabor reigns, and in the happy denoue- Mr. Herlihy heads the stage direction of the principals in a recent (Continued on Page 8) Academy will also attend. ment Nanki-Poo marries Yum- rehearsal of "The Mikado." —photo by Percy, M. 2 THE DEERFIELD SCROLL June 2, 1965 Pride Or Premium? An Overview A resolute spirit of competetiveness in this There is a new progressivism in education country has put a premium on accomplishment, whose adherents would like to replace traditional and no one in his age group is more acutely aware education with completely permissive, informal of this fact than the prep school student. We in schooling conducted basically by the students schools like Deerfield are competing with our con- themselves. The new progressivists believe the temporaries across the nation; our goal is the op- days of traditional education are numbered. They portunity for higher education in the college of are mistaken. correctly believe showing evi- our choice. We that Traditional education will have its accomplishment in will en- mettle dence of prep school tested in the decades to come, but it will opportunity.