BEYOND the BOOKS
A Welcome Addition
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S ’WICK nears fulfillment of its capital campaign and
embarks on implementation of its strategic plan for 2015–2020, the School is pleased to announce that Ross Smith has joined the Alumni and Development Office as Director of Leadership Giving.
Folktales To Broaden Horizons
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a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business. “The boys were very attentive, seemed to enjoy the story, laughed at the appropriate
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times, and joined in at the end
staff got into the act
when the peddler chants, ‘Caps
at Horizons at Brunswick,
for sale, caps for sale, fifty cents
State University in 1986, Ross
volunteering to read timeless
a cap!’” Petrelli said.
embarked on a career in the tennis
folktales and children’s stories
industry — with stops in Darien,
to students during two of
Other classics, including
Conn., as the head tennis pro at Wee
the program’s six Saturday
The Rescuers and Lyle, Lyle,
Burn Country Club from 1992–98,
sessions.
Crocodile, were among the
After graduating from Michigan
and in New Haven, as the assistant
Athletic coordinator Susan
“It was really fun!”
TOP Athletic coordinator Susan Petrelli had the Horizons’ boys all ears — with arms raised in the air — during storytime.
selections — and gave readers
coach for the men’s varsity tennis
Petrelli took her turn, front
the chance to flashback to
will begin its third summer,
team at Yale from 1996–98.
and center, to share one of
those special bedtime hours
with more than 60 students
her all-time favorite picture
with their own children.
at the Kindergarten through
Ross joined Yale’s Development Office in 1998 and worked in both
books, Caps for Sale: A Tale of
Horizons at Brunswick
3rd-grade levels, in June.
the annual fund and major gift departments before moving on to Connecticut College in 2002, where he served as Director of Leadership Giving and helped guide the College to successful completion of the largest capital campaign in its history in 2013. “I’m looking forward to a new challenge,” Ross said, “and to building relationships with Brunswick’s wonderful community of families, former families, and alumni.”
New Review for Worldly Opinions Editor-in-chief Gordon Kamer ’18 (left), managing editor Diego Jasson ’18, and faculty advisor Mikel Berrier stand with their prized possession, The Review, Brunswick’s new publication fulfilling students’ needs for a medium to express their worldly opinions in the written form. The magazine joined the ranks of The Chronicle and The Oracle with its first issue in December.
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