David Neidorf has announced his departure from the position of President at Deep Springs, effective June 30, 2020. David assumed the president’s job in 2008 after serving as Dean and Vice-President 2005-2007. For over a decade before that, David had been periodically in residence at Deep Springs as what he terms a “recidivist visiting faculty […]
This month, the MacArthur Foundation announced the 2017 Class of MacArthur Fellow award winners. Damon Rich DS’93 was among them. Damon is an urban planner and designer in the greater New York City region whose work focuses on creating community engagement and democratic processes for urban planning. He is noted for inventive methods of involving […]
The 2017 shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize was announced today. Misha Hoekstra DS’82 was named to the list for his English translation of Dorte Nohrs’ Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, recently published by Pushkin Press. The shortlist honors just six books and their author/translator ‘teams’ in contention for the final award, which recognizes excellence in translated fiction from […]
The sausage company founded and owned by Charlie Munford DS’00 in Mississippi was recently featured in Gambit: Best of New Orleans. After finishing at Deep Springs, Charlie established Two Run Farm in his home state on land his grandfather had farmed. It was among the very first farms in Mississippi to be certified organic. Charlie then completed his MA […]
Robert Gunn DS’16 My experiences at Deep Springs have proven to modulate something that I already knew before coming here—that there really isn’t the time to do and learn anything and everything that I’d like to, be it in a day, a week, or a lifetime. But rather than just augment that truism, these experiences […]
Lee Talbot DS’48 remains as busy as ever. A roundup of his activities in the previous year includes multiple honors for his lifetime accomplishments: In March of 2016, the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C. bestowed the Powell Award – in honor of founder and eminent explorer John Wesley Powell – on Dr. Talbot because “he preeminently embodies […]
Deep Springs alumni remain busy bringing new books to publication. We have three recent contributions to call your attention to. Check out the links for further information. Roger Seiler DS59 has written a new historical novel titled Master of Alaska – The Saga of Alaska’s First Russian Governor, Aleksandr Boronov. Released by True North Publishing, […]
“Farm” was first described to me as a heroic labour position at Deep Springs. Running through fields of alfalfa with a hammer in hand, banging on pipes and clamps of metal until they meet your will, and occasionally, (or not so occasionally) yelling into the sky or at the irrigation lines whenever they resist compliance. […]
We were deeply saddened to learn that Stefan Sperling DS’92 died on August 10, 2016 after a brief but aggressive illness. He was 45. Stefan had only recently received his law degree from Stanford University in 2013. At the time of his death, he was an attorney with the San Francisco office of Baker & McKenzie, […]
Over the Fourth of July weekend, the college welcomed the new students of Deep Springs Class of 2016. Hailing from across the United States as well as Canada and South Africa, this is the 100th new group of students to arrive in the valley since Deep Springs was established in 1917. (While the first arrivals in […]