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...swimmers, Merritt singled out team captain Klaussmann for special praise. "He was not only an inspirational leader, but he competed in the freestyle, butterfly, backstroke, and sprints-virtually any event where points were needed." Klaussmann sand his teammates finished the season with a 9-1 record, losing only to Deerfield. In the final meet the Yardlings decisively downed a strong Yale team...
...enough (endowment: nearly $2,500,000) to have a first-rate faculty, an indoor hockey rink and a new $650,000 science center, and to give scholarship aid to 25% of its boys. This week Headmaster Cruikshank, 64, announced his successor: 34-year-old John Gushing Esty Jr., a Deerfield alumnus who went to Amherst ('50) and is now associate dean there. As for Cruikshank, he says with a straight face that his retirement plan is "to operate a gas station in a remote part of Idaho where there isn't much business...
...freshman team lost its first contest of the year to a powerful Deerfield squad...
...freshmen will meet an excellent Deerfield team in an away match on Saturday afternoon. Coach Benn Merritt's squad, also undefeated this year, is an unusually well-balanced team with considerable depth, and real promise for next year...
...boys) Deerfield has the last of the strong headmasters, shaping a school in his own image: Frank L. Boyden, 83. He runs the school without speedup courses or language labs, does not publish a catalogue or even a rule book. The "Little Fellow" (5 ft. 6 in.) calls himself "a country sort of person who likes boys," is famous for second chances: "If a boy needs to be expelled, he needs even more to stay here." Even bigger (630) Lawrenceville, in New Jersey, tackles size with a house system that keeps same-age students together for eating, sleeping, studying. Tuition...