Above All Else - Campaign Progress Report, Winter 2013-2014

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Raising the Bar Brunswick’s “Above All Else: Courage, Honor, Truth” Capital Campaign is on track for success, thanks to the extraordinary generosity of our School community.

Our transformative Campaign, the largest in the School’s history, seeks to raise the bar for Brunswick — to build endowment, to enhance and extend faculty support, to establish new resources and facilities, and to ensure the School’s continued excellence in preparing boys and young men for life.

Fifteen months after our launch, results are already taking root. Parents, past parents, alumni, and friends have committed gifts to endow faculty chairs, establish new programs to support faculty and students, construct new facilities, and accomplish several additional Campaign priorities.

With a goal of $100 million, our great community has already designated more than $69 million in gifts and pledges. We want to express our deepest gratitude and

appreciation to all who have helped thus far.

In these pages, we wish to share just a few of the stories that have made the launch of our Campaign such a remarkable and successful community collaboration.

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Endowed Faculty Chairs: Ensuring Excellence Far into the Future The parents of two recent alumni have endowed a Faculty Chair in History, recognizing commitment to excellence in teaching as the core of students’ experience. Here’s what they had to say:

encourage future enhancements. We are pleased that John Booth will be the first department head to hold the endowed Faculty Chair in History.

Why do you view a faculty chair as the most meaningful way to help Brunswick move ahead?

What, if anything, did you know about endowment of faculty chairs at other independent schools or colleges/universities that may have informed your decision to focus your support in this area?

We believe that exceptional teaching lies at the heart of the Brunswick education. Endowed chairs can recognize the work of outstanding teachers who have served the school for many years, and attract new faculty members with distinctive expertise. We see endowed teaching positions as concrete manifestations of the importance of Brunswick’s faculty.

Why a history chair? Is there something about the discipline that sparked your interest or that you felt was especially important?

Brunswick’s history department has tremendous depth and breadth, both in terms of faculty experience and curricular offerings.

We want to celebrate the achievements of this department, and

Many members of our family have attended institutions with faculty chairs, and we are aware of the opportunities they provide.

Faculty chairs are an honor, as well as a powerful recruitment tool; the more positions a school has endowed, the more competitive it is for top teaching candidates.

As past parents, what do you view as particularly special or unique about the Brunswick educational experience? How does this gift relate to those feelings?

Our sons treasured Brunswick’s intimate class size, and the close relationships they developed with faculty members, who also served as their advisers, coaches, and mentors. Very few students today have the opportunity to be known so well The parents of two alumni by their teachers, and to participate have stepped forward with an in such a deeply connected academic community. anonymous gift of $2 million

to endow a Faculty Chair in History, Brunswick’s first fully endowed teaching position.

Department Chair John Booth will be the first holder of the newly endowed Faculty Chair in History.

Anything you want to share that we’ve forgotten to ask?

We hope other families will consider making similar gifts to the “Courage, Honor, Truth” campaign. Endowed chairs are a time-tested way of ensuring faculty excellence far into the future.

Strengthening Endowment and ‘Raising the Bar’ A $10 million gift from a family with a long, strong, and continuing interest in the School was announced in September

by Board Chairman Sanjeev K. Mehra.

“For this extraordinary and truly transformative gift, we are boundlessly thankful,” Mehra said.

Headmaster Thomas W. Philip also expressed profound gratitude. “I’m deeply moved and enormously grateful,” Philip said. “In making this gift, the donor

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A parent/alumni family wishing to remain anonymous has offered a $10 million gift, the largest-ever commitment in the School’s history. family has taken a really inspirational step to ensure Brunswick is secure and that the quality of its programs will grow even stronger in the years ahead.”

In making the gift, the family seeks

permanently to “raise the bar” for Brunswick, inspiring the strongest and broadest possible School community support for excellence in its educational programs.

A grant from the E. E. Ford Foundation, the nation’s leading supporter of trend-setting programs at independent schools, will underwrite detailed planning for Brunswick’s proposed Center for Character & Leadership Education.

A 21st-Century Commitment to Building Character As Brunswick seeks to remain strong in the 21st century, the School must respond to increasing stresses on its longstanding commitment to character development. Young adults are now buffeted constantly by conflicting messages that challenge our School and our faculty as we seek to instill positive and lasting values through educational experiences.

In a key Campaign objective, the Brunswick community has dedicated itself to an unprecedented initiative to preserve and strengthen its educational program through creation of the new Center for Character and Leadership Education (CCLE).

The Center’s initiatives will underscore our time-honored commitment to fostering personal integrity, tolerance, and ethical behavior, as well as individual responsibility and accountability.

One of the very few leadership centers in the U.S. focused exclusively on elementary- and secondary-school students, the CCLE will help to prepare our graduates for success in an increasingly global and diverse world.

To move this initiative forward, Brunswick will engage and work closely with outside experts and also seek input from faculty, staff, and student leaders.

The Edward E. Ford Foundation’s award, announced in November, will help to complete this essential next step, supporting

engagement of a project coordinator, as well as visiting experts, faculty workshops, and administrative planning seminars.

The result will be a comprehensive “blueprint” that reaffirms Brunswick’s core commitment to building character and provides a clear and decisive roadmap to ensuring the School’s program remains strong as the 21st century progresses.

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The Development Committee of the Board of Trustees is responsible for advising and directing the fundraising activities of the School. The Committee consists of Trustees, as well as non-Trustees who are invited to join the Committee for a three-year term.

The Committee meets regularly to review fundraising activities and ongoing strategy.

Committee Co-Chairs Thomas D. O’Malley, Jr. ’85 Managing Director, Horse Island Asset Management, LLC

Michael A. Troy Lecturer, Cornell University

Committee Members Nancy M. Better Todd L. Boehly President, Guggenheim Partners, LLC

Ian B. MacTaggart ’85

David R. Salomon

Managing Partner, Brynwood Partners

Co-founder & Managing Partner, East End Advisors, LLC

Philip F. P. Pierce Managing Director, Chatsworth Group, LLC

Stephen R. Pierce

William A. Schneider ’72 Founder, Managing Partner, North Lake Investment Group

Partner, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Tyler J. Wolfram

Edward O’Reilly

Partner, Oak Hill Capital

Ex-Officio Sanjeev K. Mehra Partner, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Thomas G. Murray Executive Director of Development

Thomas W. Philip Headmaster

Partner, Capula Investment US LP

Gregory Rogers President & Founder, Raylign Advisory

Emeritus A. Macdonald Caputo Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley

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McKinnon Foreign Language Immersion (FLIP): Key to Global Citizenship Set to launch in the summer of 2014, FLIP will ensure that every Brunswick boy has access to the kinds of powerful experiences that can help foster fluency in a foreign language and understanding of other people and cultures.

To that end, FLIP will enhance the Upper School Modern Language curriculum — which includes instruction in Arabic, Chinese, French, Italian, and Spanish — by offering study abroad opportunities to every Upper School student regardless of financial need.

Jaime González-Ocaña, chair of the Modern Language Department, said FLIP will give students valuable opportunities to “live” a second language. He added that these kinds of immersion experiences offer ’Wick boys much more than just a lesson in linguistics.

Our new Foreign Language Immersion Program is now fully endowed, thanks to the extraordinary generosity of ’Wick parents D. Ian and Sonnet McKinnon (P ’18).

Indeed, the program holds tremendous promise for a School that prides itself on educating the “whole boy.”

“We have found that through travel, overseas stays, and handson academic exploration, students can make great strides not just in their fluency, but in their overall academic and social confidence,” González-Ocaña said. “Moreover, the personal growth that comes out from these experiences is often invaluable.”

The McKinnons, parents of an 8th grader, are thrilled to play a role in bringing language immersion to Brunswick students.

“We believe there’s no substitute for such programs to really learn a language,” said Ian McKinnon, a Brunswick trustee. Both Ian and his wife were raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

For Middle-Income Families, A Gateway to Excellence The Goergen Foundation has generously stepped forward to help fill a gap in financial aid, renewing a $250,000 matching gift to provide scholarships to boys of moderate family means for the next five years.

The gift addresses a key goal of the “Above All Else” Campaign — to provide greater financial assistance to more middle-income families.

Currently, only a modest amount of aid is devoted to such purposes. Full scholarship awards prevail among the 16 percent of Brunswick students who receive aid, meaning that the School does a good job providing assistance to families that most need it.

But rising demand for aid — financial aid assistance has tripled in the last decade to $5 million — has left families of moderate means struggling to consider Brunswick a viable option.

Now, thanks to the renewed commitment from The Goergen Foundation, the gift of a Brunswick education will remain available

to middle-income families who would not otherwise be able to afford it.

The Goergen Foundation was formed in 1986 by Robert B. and Pamela M. Goergen, parents of Robert B. Goergen, Jr. ’88 and Todd A. Goergen ’90.

With a mission to promote local and national education programs that foster leadership skills, individual responsibility and personal development, the Foundation is pleased to support Brunswick’s continuing effort to ensure that education of the highest quality is achievable for families of moderate means.

Todd Goergen commented on his family’s gift: “In renewing its multi-year grant for middle income students, The Goergen Foundation addresses a gap as scholarship support expands at Brunswick, to assure that families across the income spectrum are able to consider a Brunswick education for their children.”

The Goergen Foundation has generously stepped forward to help in financial aid, making a $250,000 matching gift to the School to provide scholarships to boys of moderate family means for the next five years.

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The Brunswick Teacher Institute will hold its first session in 2014, thanks to a 2013 Senior Class Gift devoted entirely to

Institute to Support Excellence in Teaching

Led by a $500,000 challenge gift from an anonymous donor, parents of members of the Class of 2013 dedicated their Senior Gift to creating and endowing the Brunswick Teacher Institute, a major goal of the “Above All Else” Campaign.

The group raised $1.6 million to establish the program, which will focus on best practices in teaching during five days of workshops and seminars to take place annually in June.

The first session, under the direction of Brunswick faculty

this key Campaign goal.

members Brendan Gilsenan and Sue Das, will take place in 2014.

The Class of 2013 Senior Gift initiative was chaired by Nancy Better (P ’11,’13) and Philip F. “Skip” Pierce (P ’13, ’18).

The goal is to offer ’Wick faculty members an exceedingly rare opportunity: Time to reflect on their craft.

“We all know how hard Brunswick faculty work,” Better said.

“They teach, they coach, they advise. There isn’t a lot of time in the academic calendar to pursue their professional enrichment. That will change, beginning in 2014.”

The Institute will also feature national experts in teaching and learning, professionals who will work intensively with a small group of Brunswick faculty, chosen annually on a rotating basis.

“Skip and I found that parents of the Class of 2013 were excited to support this initiative, because it focuses on Brunswick’s great faculty,” Better said. “For many families, great faculty is the defining aspect of a Brunswick education.”

Young Alum’s Gift Signifies ‘Gratitude, Indebtedness’ “Brunswick has done so much for me,” said Barrett J. “Brett” Stephens ’94, son of longtime Middle School math teacher James Stephens. “I feel a great deal of gratitude and indebtedness to help the School in any way I can.”

In this case, gratitude is a two-way street. As a “thank you” for Stephens’ wonderful generosity, Brunswick will place his name above a locker at the School’s state-of-the-art Hartong Rink.

Stephens is one of 16 Bruin hockey players to make similar gifts, and each has had his name, class year, and leadership role noted on a plaque above a locker at Brunswick’s renowned hockey venue.

For Stephens, the plaque serves as an especially meaningful tribute — this particular Bruin played varsity hockey all through high school and served as captain his senior year, but never once had the opportunity to play on home ice.

Just four years old when his father first took him out to the Mianus River for skating lessons, Stephens grew up playing hockey at the Greenwich Skating Club and with the Mid-Fairfield Youth Hockey Association.

By the time Hartong Rink opened in 2000 on the new Edwards Campus, Stephens was long gone, having served as captain of the University of Virginia hockey team after Brunswick.

These days, Stephens is happy to sharpen his skates for play during alumni hockey games, and also to support the School he loves as it provides opportunities for a new generation of Bruins.

Only a few naming opportunities remain for lockers at Hartong Rink, and Stephens hopes his generosity will inspire others.

“If it helps get things going, I’m happy to help,” said Stephens, a Darien resident who serves as chief operating officer and managing director of Greenwich-based RSR Partners. “I hope others will join me in the locker program.

Grateful for the gift of a Brunswick education, a 1994 Bruin has stepped forward to make a gift to the School at this critical moment its history.

Thanks to the generosity of a caring community, Brunswick’s distinctive Classics program enjoys a promising

Classics: Honoring, Anchoring, Strengthening Parents, friends and alumni have come together to work to create an endowed chair in honor of Father Richard G. Cipolla, who retired in May from a role he has cherished for the past 15 years — sharing an ancient language with young minds.

“The best years of my long teaching career have been at Brunswick,” said Cipolla, a Catholic priest who spent most of his career teaching chemistry, physics, and calculus at other schools.

“I was a very good science teacher, but my heart has always been in Classics.”

“Brunswick is one of the signature schools in the country to teach all levels Latin and three levels of Greek,” he noted.

But if Cipolla treasured his days teaching Latin to ’Wick boys, the teacher was also cherished by the community he helped to create, and that community has come together to endow and name the Fr. Richard G. Cipolla Chair in Classics.

The goal is two-fold — first, to remember and honor one of Brunswick’s incredible teachers, and second, to fund Brunswick’s unique Classics program in perpetuity.

Scholarship in classical languages holds incredible promise for students. Not only do they explore the texts of antiquity in the

future even as it says farewell to one of its greatest champions.

language in which the texts were written, but they also learn that challenging lessons can bring great rewards.

There is a saying in Latin: Ad Astra Per Aspera. It means “to the stars through difficulty.”

“That’s a good lesson to learn about life,” Cipolla said. “The boys not only learn Latin,” he said. “They learn to think rationally, to unpack things and put them back together.

“Latin trains the mind,” he said.

Innovative Gift Aims to Secure Brunswick’s Future will generate a much larger gift for Brunswick. To be more precise, the Carangelos’ initial gift will double several times over, eventually helping to ensure a Brunswick education will remain available for many students.

For Brunswick, such planned, unrestricted giving is a gift to the future School, providing resources that can be counted on as the institution moves through its second century.

For the Carangelos, such giving helps the family support the School in the greatest possible way.

“My wife and I are very happy with Brunswick,” said Rob Carangelo, a Trustee. “We wanted to give the maximum, to ensure that Brunswick remains a thriving, viable organization.”

“It’s an amazing school,” he said. “It really does prepare the boys for life.”

Carangelo said his family was happy to make an unrestricted One ’Wick family has discovered a gift, which gives the School the smart way to grow a gift for Brunswick flexibility it needs to provide the best possible education to future is to think long term.

Brunswick boys.

One ’Wick family has recently discovered that a smart way to grow a gift for Brunswick is to think long-term.

With two boys at Brunswick, Robert and Cathy Carangelo (P ’17, ’21) have pledged generously to the Campaign for the next five years.

But instead of making an outright cash donation, the Carangelos have made a gift of life insurance to the School.

Down the road, this careful approach

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Pool Construction: Expanded Fitness, Winter Sports Opportunities Construction of our new natatorium on the Edwards Campus on King Street, scheduled for completion in August 2014, is well under . On the day following the close of School in June, construction workers started to prepare and secure the site, located just behind the Middle School. When work on the below ground complex is finished, a new ground-level playing field will be the only visible change to the landscape.

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Endowing Faculty Chairs

Endowing Fellowships and Internships

Faculty Housing: Acquisition and Renewal

Enhancing the Curriculum

$16 million

$8 million

$10 million

$8 million

Endowing Faculty Continuing Education and Renewal

Endowing Financial Aid

Center for Character and Leadership Education

Facilities: Team Sports and Fitness

$20 million

$9 million

$20 million

$9 million

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