Andrew Bartlett (’78-2011) is engaged and the wedding is planned for August.   John Britton (’79-’80) has been in New York City for 22 years, working with an investment firm for 16.  He has a 3 year-old girl and a two year-old boy he hopes will make it to Deerwood someday.  John’s brother, Sam Britton, lives in San Francisco and is a partner at Goldman Sachs.  Stephen Carr (2011) did the voice-over for an NBC Sports commercial that aired right after the Super Bowl.  Evan Chriss (2005) is a third year medical student in Baltimore.  Sammy Dettore (’03-’05) is a senior at Bates College and plays on the lacrosse team.  In early March, he traveled to Vermont to play against Middlebury’s team which included senior and captain Peter Jennings (‘01-‘02) and freshman David Murray (‘03).  Bryan Gattis (’04-’10) is “doing special ed. at a charter middle school in East Boston called Excel Academy. The school is only about 8 years old and is one of the top performing middle schools in the state, which makes it a great place for me to improve my teaching skills!  Beans (Sam Poland) lives 3 blocks from me in Cambridge and I see him all the time! Actually, Ben (Coerper), Sam and I have started to play music together and we're on the verge of getting some gigs in the area. We can all thank Deerwood for kick-starting our collaboration!”  Jonathan Holmes (’75-’78) is in Dallas, Texas and works for Caris Life Sciences which specializes in early detection and molecular profiling of cancerous cells and tumors.  He also helps his wife coach the SMU women’s lacrosse team.  From England, Sam Huddart (’97-’99) writes, “my memories of Deerwood are very happy and my wife is pregnant with our third, so there's a chance I may have a son!  I am now a senior anesthetic trainee ('intern anesthesiologist') in south west London. I really like my job, but every summer I wish I had gone into teaching so that I could enjoy another summer at camp!”  Gil Hutzler (’78-’89) wrote that he “enjoyed the first year of having my son Henry as a camper in Chateau. Henry will be back in summer 2012 for a full session. I am hoping all four of my boys will attend camp one day to see if I can break the record for most kids in a single summer. In addition, we spend most of the winter skiing in Canaan valley with Bill Barroll (’78-’82) and his three kids. Between the two of us we have 6 kids on the Timberline race team. We often spend many a chair lift ride talking about Deerwood, the Thomsens and the great memories.  Billy was a camper in the late 70s and a goalie at Denison and played for Tommy in the 80s.”   Ned Kegan (’98-2011) has started teaching history and coaching lacrosse at the Hyde School in Bath, Maine.  Bill Keithler (’96-’98) wrote in: “I'm currently in Singapore working with Deloitte's data analytics business.  More importantly, though, I got engaged in September to my girlfriend of two years, Sam.  She and I met in business school while I was doing an exchange program in India and the wedding will be held later this year at a beach resort in Goa.  We're probably here in Asia for another year or two before heading back to the States.”  Congratulations, Bill!  Bray Malphrus (‘98-2003) was a defenseman and captain on last year’s Virginia lacrosse team that won the NCAA championship.  Dave McCleary (’96-2010) is “getting a graduate degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Texas in Austin. I’m researching energy storage (aka batteries) and plan to start working again after the summer [back at Deerwood]. Having a flexible student schedule, I joined the UT Cycling Club and plan to race against other Big 12 teams this spring. In the early summer I also plan to compete in a half ironman triathlon.”  Kevin Morin (’98-2006) still works for Schneider Electric in New York and hopes to make it back soon for another summer at Deerwood.  As reported by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, “James Morris is world renowned for his performances in opera, concerts, recitals, and on recordings” and recently has been playing the villain role quite well (John Claggart in Billy Budd and Scarpia in Tosca).  Gordon Boyd (’59-’63), Rich Howe (’61-63) and Nathaniel Watson-Donald (’87-’95) all saw “Thunder” sing last year. Eric Newman (’05-’07) and Richie Pisano (2007-2011) are freshmen together at Bucknell University.  Ross Perrot (‘05-‘09) is still teaching Spanish at Northwood School in Lake Placid and coaches the freestyle ski team.  Dan Ragsdale (’84-2011) is teaching and coaching at The Browning School in NYC.  Alec Tarantino (‘04-‘09) is the school president at Gilman this year.  Bruce Wilhelm (’87-2003) and family will be moving to the Cleveland area next year as Bruce was hired as the Head of the Shaker Heights Campus (lower and middle schools) of the University School.  Mac Williams (’96-2005) works for New Mountain Capital in NYC.  Mac plays on a soccer team with John Gallagher (’97-2008) and Jon Gimber (‘07-09).  Mac sent news of his brother, John Williams (’98-2009), who is in Suriname volunteering with the Peace Corps and “living WAY up the river in the middle of the jungle in a village called Ligorio (you have to take 2 separate canoe trips in order to get there - including one portage!)”  John tends a plot of farm land, teaches English and other lessons to local children, fishes for Piranha with sticks and string and is building his own canoe by hand from a single tree.  John’s blog is fascinating and can be viewed online here.

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