Eric Widmer

Eric Widmer

male
Dr. Eric Widmer (born 1940 in Beirut) is an American scholar and educator. He was educated at Deerfield, Williams, and Harvard. After finishing his...

Frank Boyden

male
Frank Learoyd Boyden (1879-1972) was headmaster of Deerfield Academy from 1902 to 1968.
John McPhee

John McPhee

male, 78 years old
John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is a writer widely considered one of the pioneers of creative nonfiction. Like Tom Wolfe and Hunter...
David H. Koch

David H. Koch

male, 69 years old
David Hamilton Koch (born 1940) is one of the billionaire co-owners (with older brother Charles) and an executive vice president of Koch...

George Sheldon

male, deceased (1916)
George Sheldon (1818-1916) led one of the first historic preservation societies in the United States. He was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts,...
Edward Hitchcock

Edward Hitchcock

male, deceased (1864)
Edward Hitchcock was a noted American geologist and the third President of Amherst College (1845–1854). Born to poor parents, he attended ne...
Johnny Gunther

Johnny Gunther

male, deceased (1947)
John Gunther, Jr. (1929- June 30, 1947), was the son of the American author John Gunther and is the central figure in John Gunther's book, "Death...
Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg

male, 95 years old
Budd Schulberg was born in New York City, New York on March 27, 1914. His father, Benjamin P. Schulberg , a producer in the newly erected...

Margarita O'Byrne Curtis

female, 61 years old
Margarita O'Byrne Curtis was named Deerfield Academy's 55th Head of School in July of 2006. She had been a member of the faculty at Phillips...
John Chafee

John Chafee

male, deceased (1999)
John Lester Hubbard Chafee (October 22 1922 - October 24 1999) was an American politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine...