Chris Harrick Beat My Mom

For 16 years, my mom Candy (Dana Hall '?, Mount Vernon ?, Mom '76) has honed a "google" ish eye that pinpoints any "Deerfield", in any media, at any time....and FIRST. Could be a score in the fine print of the local sports section, a shiny blonde "notable" in a Sunday Society page photo in the NY Times, or an alum's photo who hits the scandal sheets in any way ...usually before the sun even rises on the west coast. Today, Chris Harrick (Deerfield '94, BC '98, New Dad '05) and his New York Times reading "habit" were up early and "beat my mom" to the Deerfield email chian. (That sounds kind of gross). Anyways, check it out:

March 1, 2006
Jordan Plans to Start Its Own
New England-Style Prep School

DEERFIELD, Mass. — Deerfield Academy, with its brick buildings, blazing maples, jacket and tie requirements and powerful graduates, is the quintessential New England boarding school. Soon, it will see its reflection in an unlikely place, outside Madaba, Jordan .

Deerfield officials are helping to
establish King's Academy, the Middle East's first coeducational boarding school, at the request of King Abdullah II of Jordan, who graduated from Deerfield in 1980.

When we were at Deerfield, we once had a Model United Nations. Now Deerfield has a "Model Deerfield". Read the New York Times story here.

UPDATE: 11 Minutes after posting, this email came in:

From: Candy Glazer

TO: The CHIMP

Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:51 PM

I can't believe Chris beat me to it. I didn't read the NYT until tonight. [ most unusual]
MOM