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T WAS a trip into the past, a
journey down memory lane. Last summer, I ventured into the
Brunswick Archives, where I worked to help organize records, photos, and
At the Intersection of Past & Future By Keshav Raghavan ’17
any other materials. Throughout my time there, I realized that Brunswick is, in no small way, a product of its past. As I looked at a photo of bystanders
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the Brunswick in the here and now. One important example of this was a short parable written by Brunswick’s founder, George Carmichael, as a model for young Brunswick boys, entitled “Dick’s Tackle.”
century copy of the Psalms of David. There were football helmets from
The story follows a young Brunswick boy, who, despite his
eons ago and varsity soccer jackets
nervousness and apprehension,
from the 1980s. There was a student
makes the game-winning tackle in the
at a homecoming football game in
record from the 1920s listing parents’
big game of the season. Dick’s qual-
the 1910s, dressed down in Brunswick
professions: Amidst the traditional
ities of courage and perseverance in
apparel, I had to convince myself that
mix of managers, accountants, and
the face of hardship define Brunswick.
it wasn’t a black-and-white version of
store owners, one individual’s listed
Brunswick stands, ultimately, for
a photo from this past year.
job title was “Prince,” with no further
Courage, Honor, Truth — a motto that
elaboration.
has stood since the beginning of the
Course catalogues from the 1920s featured classes that would
These items — as differentiated
School’s history, coined in a speech to
be familiar to many a Brunswick
as they were by the years separating
the Board of Trustees, and a mindset
student of this generation: History,
them — were startlingly similar to
that I found within the photographs,
Mathematics, Latin, Spanish.
things you would find around School
documents, and objects of the past.
I came across laboratory slides from the 1960s; correspondence with
today. But, most important, the Brunswick
That speech’s original text remains, undisturbed, in the Archives. Perhaps
local high schools dating back to the
of the past was in every regard a place
some things, for the better, never
1920s; and an early-20th or 19th-
that espoused the same core values of
change.
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Throughout his summer in the Archives, Keshav Raghavan ‘17 sifted through records, photos, and School artifacts, including (from top to bottom) an allSchool photo, a School newspaper, and postcards and telegrams from proud alumni.