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Comments To English teacher and department chair-holder Mark Ott: I have read your “The Lens of Memory” (Fall ’11) article several times. While I have not read Moveable Feast, I will. However, your/ Hemingway’s thoughts on memory moved me to reflect on many things. My way of recall is to look at pictures I have taken in various places. My sisters have been pushing me to “get them out” for all to see. Thanks to you and them, I now have. I was tempted to go the easy way out with the title of the exhibition and call it, “The Lens of Memory” but of course fought that to the ground. I came up with “Eye Recall.” My 30-year-old daughter and I were sitting around one night and I asked her what she was reading . . . she said she needed a suggestion. Sitting on the floor of the room scanning my bookshelves, I produced The Old Man and the Sea. She looked at it . . . at me . . . at it . . . and said, (as you mentioned in the article) “Heard of him, and the book. Haven’t read it. I’ll let you know how it is!” Wow . . . the Twitter generation is in for a surprise. Thank you for the article.
Don McLean ’60 Boulder, Colorado
While I was thrilled to see the boys water polo team featured on the cover of the most recent Deerfield Magazine, I was disappointed to see water polo’s heritage completely neglected in the article. Boys water polo began in 1963 with a generous gift from the Zuckerman family, which provided goals, balls, caps, and their son, Ken ’63, a California native. We came together around Andre Fogarasi ’63, an experienced player who escaped from Hungary during the 1956 revolution. An essential part of the glue was also the Australian Max Humphreys ’63, also a swimmer. Tony Wilson ’63, a swim captain, Ned Daly ’63, and I, the “All Americans,” swam rings around the competition.
We had no coach, only a faculty sponsor. We had pool time. We created shots and plays that never previously existed. We learned to function as a unit, taking advantage of our unique swimming and ball-handling skills. As regards our band of brothers, we left not only our blood, sweat, and tears, but a winning heritage. If we hadn’t won, the sport wouldn’t have attracted more participants the second year, and thereafter. And if that hadn’t happened, I wonder what would have been featured on the most recent copy of Deerfield Magazine.
David L. Hoof ’64 Washington, District of Columbia
Correction: Faculty member Becca Melvoin holds the Distinguished Young Teacher’s Chair, given by Julian H. Robertson P’93, ’97; not the Robert E. Kaufmann Distinguished Young Teacher’s Chair, as it was mistakenly labeled in a headline in the Winter ’12 issue of Deerfield Magazine.
Good News! Recently, Deerfield Magazine was presented with a Gold Medal from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, District I, for Independent School Publications, followed by a Silver Medal for “best writing” and a Bronze Medal for “best overall” magazine. In the competition for the latter two medals, Deerfield Magazine was bested only by publications from Tufts University and the Rhode Island School of Design.
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