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field pride. My four-year-old daughter is awfully happy to have a lucite ‘trophy’ on display in her room. Next stop: Atlanta for the Piedmont Driving Club Invitational in mid-March.”
’83 1984 “Hi!” writes Rick Cunningham. “I thought I would share that I am now a US Ski Team physician. Last fall, I travelled with the US Women’s Alpine Ski Team to Valle Nevado, Chile, for training camp.”
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1985
Class Captains Charles B. Berwick Sydney M. Williams Boyden Society Captain Christopher J. Tierney
’85 Whit Sheppard ’83 and his daughter Emily pose with “her” first squash trophy. | Deerfield parents and alumni met for dinner this past spring in Bangkok. l to r: Somsook Sertthin P’13,’15, Niti Osathanugrah ’92, Billy Tejapaibul ’80, Samart Suepiantham ’79, Kalin Sarasin ’80, Stanford Kuo ’80 P’13,’16, Stephen Briones ’84 P’16 | George Larkin ’85 (left) and a group of his students had the opportunity to visit Ted Ullyot ’85 at Facebook headquarters in CA.
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Frederick Ilchman’s tips for visiting Venice were recently featured in the Boston Globe. To read the interview, go to bostonglobe.com and search “Frederick Ilchman.” “So I’m taking a midday lunchbreak from skiing with my kids at Northstar, and who walks by? Woody Thompson,” reports Ted Ullyot. “Awesome impromptu DA ’85 reunion! Doing our best to be worthy.” “Hey, folks,” says George Larkin. “I’m doing a PhD in film and media at Berkeley, and Ted Ullyot graciously hosted a group of my students for a visit to Facebook. It was an incredible trip to an amazing place and a DA meet-up after a long break. Thanks, Ted!”
1986
Class Captains Henri R. Cattier Michael W. Chorske Boyden Society Captain Todd H. Eckler “Derek Hutton ’89 and I met in Alta, WY, for a day of skiing at Grand Targhee in March of 2013,” reports Chris Martin. “We both lived in John Williams together (under Mike Bois, as freshman and proctor), and we were both once stock brokers. Good reasons to get together and stay in touch.”
1987
Class Captains John D. Amorosi Andrew P. Bonanno “I’ve always had an urge to draw and paint, but after I left Deerfield and Hodo’s great art classes, it actually took two decades of job experimentation (as a programmer, math teacher, securities lawyer, head of M&A) before I finally decided to banish any thought of a retirement plan out of my head, and instead focus completely on painting a few years ago,” says Ralf Hoffmann. “Having a family and two children didn’t really make this an easy decision, but so far I don’t regret a single day. Currently I’m working on a series of paintings—(actual and imaginary) Twitter portraits—that is based on the profile pics people use on Twitter and plays with the notions of identity, privacy, and anonymity. The series comprises 14 paintings so