College professors and history teachers will not be the only presences behind a podium at this year's Round Square Conference. In addition to the three adult speakers in the program, four young Deerfield alumni will wrap up the conference on Saturday morning with a panel discussion called "Voices from the Frontier." The four alumni will discuss the paths that they have taken following their graduation from Deerfield and the ways in which they have used their educations to pursue careers and opportunities that relate to some or all of the Round Square guiding pillars.

"Our hope is that our young panelists will inspire our delegates and help them think about directions for their futures which incorporate Round Square ideals," said Associate Head Martha Lyman, Deerfield's Round Square representative.

Tiffany Franke '02, a sophomore at Yale, whom many seniors will remember from their early days at Deerfield, recently returned from a gap year in Peru where she spent time at the Nuevo Amanecero Andino (New Dawn of the Andes) center for domestically abused women and their families. She will be speaking about her work at the center and her other service contributions in Peru.

Lisa Pinsley graduated in 1993 with the first fully coed senior class. She has recently returned from Afghanistan where she was working for the United Nations in its efforts to disarm Afghani warlords and soldiers. Along with her contributions to the United Nations, Pinsley will be discussing the ways in which she used her B.A. in mathematics and M.A. in literature to propel her into the field of foreign affairs.

Third on the agenda is Steven Porter '93 who recently graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and received one of the university's most prestigious undergraduate awards. While at Princeton, Porter studied at the University of Cape Town in South Africa where he was active in AIDS research and awareness advocacy. Since graduating, he has returned to Cape Town to continue his AIDS work and he will focus his panel discussions on this issue.

The final panelist will be Peter Ellis '93, a forest ecologist working for the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Like the other three panelists, Ellis has spent time abroad, in his case, working for the Peace Corp in Africa. He will speak primarily about his current work with domestic environmental issues.

The panel will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday in the Large Auditorium.