PREVIOUS SPREAD Jack Wendell ’27 and his father, Jon, represent the best of Homecoming 2014.
01 Fireworks capped off Friday nightʼs festivities. 02 Matt Marvin ’15
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03 Jeff Marvin P ’15, ’17, ’19, and Chris Day ’81 04 Jack Knight ’15 05 Jay Helmer ’84 and his son, Henry 06 Demetri Day ’78, Michael Gorman ’82, Chris Day ’81, and Peter Gorman ’82 gear up for the day on the links. THIS PAGE
07 O.K., we’re officially stumped! If you can identify this boy, please email Libby Edwards (ledwards@ brunswickschool.org). 08 Jon Harty ’15, Jamie Pollak ’15, and Alex Montinaro ’15 lead their team onto the field.
Soccer beat The Gunnery, 2–1, while football outdid rival The Taft School on Cosby Field, 53–14. 08
Brunswick spirit has never been so high! Record crowds flocked to Brunswick for a weekend of Homecoming celebrations that ventured into every corner of the ’Wick community.
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and the “9s,” after Saturday’s games, alumni fanned out to gatherings across Greenwich to reminisce and reconnect. Overall, Homecoming 2014 drew the largest gathering of alumni, ever, in the history of the School. But the weekend provided fun for ’Wick community members from every quarter and of every age. A pep rally complete with a roaring bonfire and soaring fireworks set the stage for a Middle School dance on
N THE heels of trium-
who appeared stunned as Headmaster
Friday evening, while on Saturday the
phant festivities in 2013,
Thomas W. Philip awarded him the 2014
annual Bear Fair at Burke Field House
Homecoming 2014
Distinguished Alumni Award for his tire-
drew hundreds of young Bruins for fun
featured a record-breaking
less work on behalf of his alma mater.
and games.
turnout under the brightest sunshine, as
Ryckman was one of the founding
For those who missed all the merri-
’Wick Bruins again swept the weekend
directors of the Brunswick Alumni
ment at Homecoming 2014, please know
with decisive victories.
Association in 2010.
that we missed you.
Alumni kicked off the festivities on
In sports, Bruins dominated play,
We take this early opportunity to
Friday with the annual golf outing at the
winning in football, water polo, and
extend a heartfelt invitation to next
Griffith E. Harris Golf Course.
soccer.
year’s events.
By evening, almost a hundred guests
Playing their first Homecoming games
packed the Upper School Atrium for the
ever in their new natatorium, water polo
5th Annual Alumni Association Party.
swam past Loomis Chaffee, 17-3, and
Among them was Jon Ryckman ’88,
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In a reunion year for both the “4s”
Suffield Academy, 17–8.
Please join us! For more photos, visit bwick.org/ tob_winter2015
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