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THE LOUISE LEHRMAN VISITING SENIOR FELLOWSHIP
Next to Courage, ‘Great Heartedness’ BY KATHERINE OGDEN
Brunswick welcomed American educator Lt. Gen. Josiah Bunting III to Baker Theater in December, launching the newly-endowed Louise Lehrman Visiting Senior Fellowship with a call to service and a lesson in how great leaders are made.
A
gift from The Lehrman
The study of history in particular
Institute, the new fellowship
continues to offer exceptional lessons
seeks to instill a greater
in character, Bunting told the boys.
understanding of the rights,
Bunting said next to courage, one
privileges, and duties of American
of the greatest human virtues is what
citizenship.
Winston Churchill called “magnanim-
In the inaugural lecture at the
ity.” It’s a kind of “great heartedness,”
Upper School, Bunting had high praise
and it can take root when young
for Brunswick.
minds immerse themselves in the
He told students gathered for an all-school assembly that many great
great people and moments of history. “Those are the kind of virtues
leaders in American history were
inculcated in young people who
educated in the Brunswick tradition.
study history and study it deeply,”
These were men who shepherded the country through World War II,
Bunting said. A Rhodes Scholar who served in
Bunting said, and they were “benefi-
Vietnam and later went on to serve as
ciaries of the kind of education many
superintendent of the Virginia Military
of you are receiving at Brunswick.”
Institute, Bunting asked the boys to
An “astonishing” number of military generals of that era spent their
consider service to their country in their future plans.
early childhood on farms, he said, and
“To whom the most has been
then went on to study at great Ameri-
given, the most must be expected,”
can military academies like West Point
he said, echoing what he called the
“You immersed yourself in history,
“biblical injunction.”
in particular you studied heroic lives,”
“Think seriously about giving
he said. “Studying that way gives you
the U.S. a couple years of your lives,”
something to build on for the rest of
he said.
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your lives.”
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