Deerfield Scroll: September 10, 2010

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Deerfield Scroll

Vol. LXXXV, No. 3

DEERFIELD ACADEMY, DEERFIELD, MA 01342

September 10, 2010

TO SWEEP AND SCULL

By AUDREY CHO Opinion/Editorial Editor Deerfield rowing is unstoppable. While the boys’ team ended its season with the fourth boat placing second and the first boat placing third at New Englands, the girls’ second boat placed first, an unparalleled feat in school history.

But our rowers didn’t stop there. This summer, seasoned rowers Alex Berner ’11, Tanner Larson ’11, Ellie Parker ’11, and Brad Hakes ’12 tested new waters and turned to sculling.

For Larson, his love for rowing unlocked a curiosity for sculling. “I wanted to scull because I love rowing…it always intrigued me,” he said.

As for Berner, sculling was a way to prepare for the next season.

“I asked a few coaches what was the best preparation for next season, and they all told me to scull over the summer,” said Berner.

For those unfamiliar with rowing, the obvious difference between sweep rowing and sculling is that while sweep rowing uses one oar, sculling requires two. Still, learning how to scull proved to be demanding.

“When I started sculling,” said Larson, “I felt like I was learning to row again. My rowing experience helped me learn faster, but at first it was quite difficult.”

Parker added, “I felt like my sculling technique surpassed my sweep technique this summer just because I needed to clean up my stroke, in order to keep up with the quad or avoid drag in the double...or stay afloat in the single.”

Rowers realized that sculling, especially in a single, came with more responsibility than they were used to.

“The second you lower yourself into the shell, you realize that whatever happens out on the water is your responsibility,” said Larson. “When you succeed you know why; when you fail, you know it’s your fault.”

But the solidarity of single sculling gave rowers a raw connection with the water.

“When you are the only one controlling the boat, you feel much more connection with the water,” Hakes said. “There’s no other movement affecting your sculling.”

Parker felt the same. “Nothing beats the feelings of connection with the water and total liberation

that come with a focused practice in a small boat.”

Although tough to master, the lessons learned from sculling were invaluable.

“You get a great feel for the set of the boat,” said Hakes. “Rowing both sides, you feel exactly how every motion on either side affects the boat.”

Other than technical skills, sculling taught rowers mental discipline. “Racing a single successfully takes plenty of poise and focus,” Parker said, “and lots of courage.”

“It’s a good mental test,” Berner added, “because you’re the only one keeping yourself going. In sweep rowing you feel like you owe it to your teammates and coxswain to keep pulling but in a single if you stop or give up, you’re the only one who loses.”

In fact, Berner believed this mental and physical discipline from sculling prepares rowers for success.

“Establishing the discipline to do pieces and to build into a sprint in the last 300 meters of a Head race completely on your own sets you up to succeed…even in non-rowing related things,” Berner said. “Sculling forces you to be the best you can be,” Larson said.

Berner and Hakes are defending champions of the Head of the Hosmer in Craftsbury, VT.

Tips and Tricks for New Students: The Scroll editorial board offers some advice

Welcome to Deerfield! Every year, approximately one-third of the student body is new. There are many traditions we feel you should discover on your own, but here’s some information you might find helpful as school opens.

Dances: Dances usually occur every other week. Annual dances, ranging from themed to formal, are eagerly anticipated. The major fall dances are: Denunzio Disco: Held the Saturday after the first week of classes, the theme is disco. Wear your most outrageous, bright, and sparkly ’70s attire.

Sadie Hawkins: Proctors traditionally set up their proctees with upperclassmen mystery dates.

Sadie’s takes place near Halloween, so wear a costume!

Buildings: You might hear people referring to buildings by different names than are printed on the campus map or your schedule.

Here are some common abbreviations: MSB: The Main School Building, a.k.a. the Academy Building, houses the deans’ offices, regis-

The MSB is known by several names across campus.

tration, the finance office, history classes, college advising, and more! Make sure to check out the 3rd floor.

The Mem: The Memorial Building, which is home to art classes and all-school meeting, is a popular gathering place.

Meals: Sit-down meals are Mon., Tues., and Fri. lunch and Sun., Tues., and Thurs. dinner. Thursdays are sit-down lunches with your advisor group, and all other meals are walk-through. Check the dining hall website (http:// danet.deerfield.edu/dining/) for menus.

Remember to wear class dress for sit-down meals, don’t start

eating until everyone has been served, and listen carefully to announcements at the end of the meal.

Free Periods: Most students have one or two free periods during the day.

You can use the time to run errands (pick up a package from shipping and receiving, laundry from E&R, a weekend slip, etc.).

If you have an afternoon game, you could also pick up your uniform.

Besides your room or an academic building lobby, there are many places to go during free periods, including: Library: Completing a subject of homework during the day can

make your night less stressful.

There are three floors of carrels.

Koch Cafe: Grab something to eat or drink between classes.

This is also a common place to get work done and/or socialize.

Mem Lobby: While this oftennoisy space isn’t always conducive to studying, it can be a great place to relax.

APs get cleared at the end of every term, and you start fresh with zero APs the next term. If you exceed the limit of eleven, you will get restrictions on weekend nights.

Rumor has it that students who get no APs in their entire Deerfield careers are treated to a private dinner with Dr. Curtis....

Accountability Points: These are commonly known as APs, not to be confused with Advanced Placement classes.

Each term you can receive up to eleven APs. You get four APs for mising class, three APs for missing a co-curricular activity, one AP for missing a sit-down meal, and so on.

DAinfo: You can use this to see pictures of everyone at Deerfield.

Don’t think you are a creep for looking someone up; we all use it! Matching people’s names and faces using DAinfo can help you learn your classmates’ and teachers’ names much faster. You can also see whose birthday it is.

The Koch Cafe is a great place to go during frees.

The Deerfield Scroll

Stephen Baisch ’14 Caroline Baldwin ’14 Andrew Bishop ’14 Camil Blanchet ’14 Lucien Burke ’14 Julia Hamilton ’14 William Kaelin ’14 Tyler Kelleher ’14 Maegen Killeen ’14 Brandon Locke ’14 Tara Murty ’14 Kayla O’Connor ’14 Patrick Ononibaku ’14 Gilbert Roddy ’14 Margaret Shilling ’14 Lauren Stobierski ’14 Peter Stobierski ’14 Querube Suarez-Werlein ’14 Eleanor Volkmann ’14 Ramsay Young ’14

CANADA: Sophie Berube ’12 Wahiakatste Diome ’12 Benjamin Masella ’12 Jean-Françvois Roberts ’12 Anthony Sanniti ’12 Jordan Montour ’13 Jon Victor ’14

UCKY: Beck ’14

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SWEDEN: Henry Asberg ’13 BELGIUM: Aymeric Georges-Picot ’12 UNITED KINGDOM: Christina Sola ’13 SWITZERLAND: Benjamin Turner ’13

VERMONT: Carly Reilly ’12 Adam Ellison ’13 Cameron O’Connell ’13 Elana Van Arnam ’13 Allison Dewey ’14 Adaline Fulton ’14

JAMAICA: Justine Anderson ’12 MEXICO: Kevin Fleishman ’14

JORDAN: Hayat Abu Samra ’11

VENEZUELA: Ana Turco-Rivas ’11 Daniel Blohm ’13

BOLIVIA: Sebastian Kyllmann ’12

MAINE: Josiah Reed ’13 Devon Stockmayer ’14

CHINA: Sha Li ’12 Edric Tam ’12 Ashley So ’13 Annika Trapness ’13 Emily Ng ’14 Isabella Tang ’14 Ashley Yiu ’14

THAILAND: Peera Songkunnatham ’11 Henry Lewis ’12 Wyn Sutuntivorakoon ’14

KENYA: Elvis Ikwa ’11

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KOREA: Hye Sung Kim ’13 Sang Won Lee ’13 De Kim ’14 Sunho Park ’14

SINGAPORE: Claire Chauvel ’13

NIGERIA: Olaoluwakitan Irukera ’13 BOTSWANA: Edward Fashole-Luke ’11

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Kerry Krause ’12 Devinne Cullinane ’14 Peter Erf ’14 Peter Shaw ’14

RHODE ISLAND: Harriet Taylor ’13

HIO: trick Koch ’13 argaret Ellingwood ’14 yssa Moreau ’14

NA: Yin ’12

NEW STUDENTS

VIRGINIA: Gresham Reichert ’14

NEW JERSEY: Katlyn Casey ’11 Jerome Froelich ’11 Jae Hyun Baek ’12 John Thoubboron ’13 Raja Atluri ’14 Maria Martinez ’14 Quinn Morris ’14 DELAWARE: Caroline Ashford ’14

SOUTH CAROLINA: Micayla Calloway ’14

FLORIDA: Ragnar Oelsner ’14 Lydia Smith ’14

MARYLAND: John Hogan ’11 John O’Donnell ’11

NEW YORK: Margaret Allyn ’11 Adam Hull ’11 Michael Muller ’11 Stephanie Vaughn ’12 Robert Beit ’13 Tora Hallstrom ’13 Cara Kennedy Cuomo ’13 Mariah Kennedy Cuomo ’13 Julian Mastro ’13 Nicholas Rault ’13 Mariella Rutigliano ’13 Elizabeth Sechrest ’13 Emma Witherington ’13 Kayla Ali ’14 Anna Auersperg ’14 Dean Citrino ’14 J. Clayton Cordsen ’14 Joseph Donohue ’14 Tess Donovan ’14 Joseph Fernando ’14 Kate French ’14 Katharine Ginna ’14 Shanya Hopkins ’14 Linda Kengne ’14 John Kennedy ’14 Noah Koeppel ’14 Juliette Lee ’14 Connor McDermott ’14 Anne McLendon ’14 Oliver Merison ’14 Roberto Quinteros ’14 Danielle Rutigliano ’14 Xavier Salvador ’14 Olivia Shehan ’14 Anne Skoczylas ’14 Quinn Smith ’14 Michael Walters ’14 Allison Wilson ’14

Quick Count: 153 new students from 24 U.S. states + 34 new international students from 16 countries 187 new students total Total Deerfield students: 644

Thank you, Mrs. Telega, for your assistance in the production of this map !

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NEW STUDENTS

New students from far and near: Welcome to

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CONNECTICUT: Bradley Plunkett ’12 Vanessa Avalone ’13 Grant Fletcher ’13 Lila King ’13 August Oberbeck ’13 Conor Quinn ’13 Emily Upson ’13 Charlotte Allen ’14 Henry Anderson ’14 Sarah Behringer ’14 Liliana Brown ’14 Albert Caputo ’14 Cameron Carpenter ’14 Ashley Cooper ’14 Elissa DeNunzio ’14 Cameron Dewey ’14 Alexandra Gerber ’14 Blair Johnson ’14 Elizabeth Murray ’14 Tyler O’Neill ’14 Carter Smith-Wellman ’14 Kathryn Swindell ’14

MASSACHUSETTS: Kyle Brenner ’11 Casey Collins ’11 Devin Joyce ’11 Gabe Salzer ’11 Timothy Shea ’11 Stephen Sousa ’11 Ryan Heffernan ’12 Brandon Coulombe ’13 Raymond Horgan ’13 John Deskavich ’13 Anna Lu ’13 William O’Neil ’13 Ethan Peterson-New ’13 Adam Philie ’13 Charlotte Posever ’13 Alexander Smith-Bove ’13 Thomas Sherwood ’13 Taran Weeks ’13 Cody Anderson-Salo ’14

WASHINGTON: Tabata Viso ’14 MINNESOTA: Chandler Cain ’11 Jordan Jancze ’13 OREGON: John Jackson ’14

WISCONSIN: Jade Moon ’13

ILLINOIS: Alexzandria Chalmers ’13 Dudley Fornengo ’14 Grant Louis ’14 Reilly Simmons ’14 CALIFORNIA: Blake Burkhart ’11 Logan Mobley ’11 Elizabeth Jeffrey ’13 Julia Kerbs ’13 Laura Quazzo ’13 Natalie DeMuro ’14 Caroline Dye ’14 Reed Horton ’14 Jin Woo Kim ’14 Cyrus Moghadam ’14 Alexandra Tananbaum ’14

ALASKA: Byers Kadow ’13

OH Pat Ma Aly

INDIAN Mohan Y

KENTU William B

ARIZONA: Sidney Hulburd ’14

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The Deerfield Scroll

VOL. LXXXV, NO. 3

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Editor-in-Chief ELISABETH STRAYER Front Page YUJIN NAM

Layout Editor SARAH KIM

Opinion/Editorial AUDREY CHO

Photo Editor ALEX BERNER

Arts & Entertainment GRACE MURPHY

Photo Associate MALOU FLATO

Features FREDDY ROCKWOOD

Business Manager CASEY BUTLER

Sports EMMETT KNOWLTON

Editorial Associates DANIELLE DALTON ANNA GONZALES THEO LIPSKY ANDREW SLADE LIBBY WHITTON SARAH WOOLF

Online Editor JAKE BARNWELL Online Associate MARLY MORGUS

Advisors SUZANNE HANNAY & JOHN PALMER STAFF REPORTERS: Nastassia Adkins, Mary Banalagay, Delaney Berman, Casey Butler, Jacqueline Colt, Lizzy Gregory, Miles Griffis, Philip Heller, Sonja Holmberg, Ritchey Howe, Claire Hutchins, Jade Kasoff, Stefani Kuo, Eunice Lee, Daniel Litke, Dylan McDermott, Courtney Murray, Hadley Newton, Zoe Perot, Nina Shevzov-Zebrun, Eliot Taft, Elisabeth Yancey, Michael Yang STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS: Megan Cai, Sarah Cox, Clair Fair, Will Fox, Daniel Han, Veronica Houk, Nina Kempner, Susanna Kvam, Louisa Schieffelin, Blair Scott The Deerfield Scroll, established in 1925, is the official student newspaper of Deerfield Academy. The Scroll encourages informed discussion of pertinent issues that concern the Academy and the world. Signed letters to the editor that express legitimate opinions are welcomed. We hold the right to edit for brevity. The Scroll is published eight times yearly. Advertising rates provided upon request.

Opinion articles with contributors’ names attached solely represent the views of the respective writers.

Opinion articles without names represent the consensus views of the editorial staff unless otherwise specified.

By FREDDY ROCKWOOD Features Editor While many students choose to spend their summers as interns, camp counselors, or parttime workers, Courtney Murray ’11 and Danielle Dalton ’12 are giving back in different ways by developing their own not-forprofit charities.

Dalton founded her nonprofit with Neena Patel, a friend from Lemont, Illinois, when they both wanted a way to donate cakes.

“We could not find an existing organization that had a cake program in place,” Dalton said.

Thus, Cakes for a Cause, NFP was born.

Cakes for a Cause, NFP is an organization designed to provide cakes for special occasions to those in need of financial assistance. Clients can place orders through sign-up sheets at local food pantries and must be patrons of the food pantry to qualify.

To have the cakes baked and decorated, Dalton enlists the help of local high school students. This summer, she and Patel ran a camp to teach cake-

decorating skills. These students will continue to help create the cakes so that Cakes for a Cause, NFP may continue donating through the school year.

Murray found her inspiration while on the Florida trip with the Deerfield swim team. The team attended a packing event for Kids Against Hunger, a Minnesotabased organization designed to send meals to families in need in disaster areas.

Upon returning home to Connecticut, Murray discovered KAH operates through satellite organizations across the country.

As there was not a satellite in the northeast, she set out to become the youngest person to be approved for packing.

Kids Against Hunger— Windsor, Inc. held its first packing event on August 14. Over thirty volunteers helped pack twentyone thousand nutritious meals to send to Haiti.

“In the future we hope to hold packing events for Sierra Leone, Nicaragua, or Ghana,” said Murray.

More information on their non-profits can be found at their websites www.cakesforacausenfp.org and www. kahwindsor.org.

VISIT THE SCROLL ONLINE! Find more articles, photos, links, videos, and archives at: www.scroll.deerfield.edu Anticipated release dates: 10/13, 11/10, 12/15, 1/26, 2/23

A collection of the writer’s photographs from the DArts Trip to Paris in June.

DArts Trip to Paris: A Reflection

By SONJA HOLMBERG Staff Writer Minutes after taking SATs, fourteen girls boarded the bus to the airport for Deerfield’s first-ever DArts Visual Arts Trip to Paris. Fine Arts teacher David Dickinson and French teacher Claudia Lyons led the two-week trip.

Needless to say, our initial impressions of Paris were clouded by our jet lag and extreme sleep deprivation. However, the day after we met our host families and rested, we were able to start navigating our way through this beautiful city.

With the help of our host families, each of us located important destinations set on the itinerary, including la Grande Chaumière, the atelier where we took our drawing courses.

At la Grande Chaumière, we practiced figure drawing from the live nude using a variety of mediums, including ink, watercolor, pastel, and graphite. For many of us, this was our first experience working from a nude model, and these classes proved incredibly beneficial in helping us develop our knowledge of the human form.

In addition to the course we took at la Grande

Chaumière, Mr. Dickinson and Ms. Lyons organized a different activity for each day. These activities ranged from museum visits at the Louvre, le Musée de Rodin, le Musée de l’Orangerie, and the Pompidou Center (to name a few), to a fashion show at la Gallerie Lafayette. A weekend boat trip to Rouen and Monet’s garden in Giverney were also highlights of our trip.

We also took a sculpting course in a small private studio near Versailles, where we learned how to sculpt clay models from the live nude.

Working with a three-dimensional medium was a constructive exercise, forcing us to take every contour of the human form into consideration.

Although the trip had its small frustrations and glitches, overall things ran smoothly and all of us learned a lot. Not only did these two weeks help us develop our college portfolios and skills as young artists, but also our abilities to navigate a foreign country—of the fourteen of us, only a few had taken French and could speak it among our host families.

From figuring out the metro system to learning new artistic techniques, Deerfield’s first art trip was “un succès incroyable!”

Leanne Conway ’11 Travels to Jordan

By ANNA GONZALES Editorial Associate

This fall, while Deerfield seniors begin their final year of high school and fill out their college applications, Leanne Conway ’11 will do the exact same thing—only at King’s Academy in Jordan, founded in 2007 by King Abdullah II of Jordan, who started the sister school in appreciation of the education he received from Deerfield.

To prepare for her year abroad, Conway took Arabic for three years and attended an intensive Arabic program at the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy for the month of July. She had 240 hours of class time and 110 hours of informal learning, sworn to the Language Pledge the entire time.

Conway and the other program members signed the pledge on their first night, cementing their commitment to only speak Arabic for the entire month.

“They were extremely strict about the pledge,” Conway said, “and an entire month without English enhanced my level of Arabic immensely.”

Conway does not anticipate that the year will be without cultural differences and challenges.

She expects that King’s will have a Middle Eastern culture, as many of the faculty and a high percentage of the student body are Middle Eastern, a major

difference from the Deerfield community.

Despite this difference, Conway said that the biggest challenge would be arriving as a new senior.

“I know from starting Deerfield as a freshman that after four years of the same environment you grow extremely close with one another and have very strong friendships,” she said.

Conway also expects that the college application process will be more difficult. Once she goes to Jordan, she will not have the opportunity to make any more college visits, and will need to work through a major time difference. But Conway remained optimistic, saying, “With mostly everything online these days I don’t suspect it will be a huge issue.”

Without question, Conway said she will miss the people at Deerfield the most.

“I have amazing friends from all grades that I will miss dearly,” Conway said. “Everyone that I have met at Deerfield has touched my experience there one way or another and certain faculty members have without a doubt changed my life.”

Conway has attended Deerfield since she was a freshman, and hails from West Springfield, Massachusetts. In her decision to go to Jordan, Conway acted upon her instincts.

“This could be the opportunity of a lifetime and I couldn’t

imagine passing that up,” said Conway, who is confident that going to King’s will be “a lifechanging experience.”

She hopes to be as involved in the community at King’s as she was at Deerfield, where she ran track and cross country, played ice hockey her freshman and sophomore year, and was a member of Round Square, Debate Team, and the Arabic club. Conway looks forward to participating in new activities she has never tried before.

“You have to be willing to put everything you have into it,” she said of her coming year.

Another of Conway’s goals is to make lifelong friends at King’s, just as she has at Deerfield. She also aspires to immerse herself in Jordanian culture.

Conway also cherishes Deerfield’s traditions. “A fall without Disco, Choate Day, or even Sadie’s will simply not be the same,” she declared.

At the same time, what Conway will miss most about Deerfield is what she is most excited for at King’s: making new friends and meeting new people.

In the spring, Conway is excited to graduate from both King’s and Deerfield, receiving two diplomas.

“All in all,” Conway said, “I am extremely excited to enjoy the short time I have there—if I have learned anything from Deerfield, it’s to cherish every day, because time really does fly.”