MESSAGE FROM THE
HEADMASTER In Success: Reasons Abound When Reason Prevails
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O VISIT their old teachers. To cheer on
out of school, and facing a criminal inquiry — all
their former teams. Or to set foot, once
because they wanted “the best” for their child
again, on their schoolboy stomping grounds.
and when offered a backdoor to get it, lost sight
Brunswick graduates, young and old,
return to campus in waves throughout the year to keep their close ties to their alma mater alive. They come back for Homecoming. They pop
of the moral imperatives and took the bait. More than anything, I feel horribly for the children involved who, it seems, weren’t even aware of what was being done to get them
in for coffee. They stop by classrooms, practices,
into the school of their dreams: Imagine their
or games to catch up. (And if, by chance, they
anguish and embarrassment.
don’t find us at our desks, they very often leave us notes of good wishes!)
Happily, from my perspective, I have found the college process to involve deeply caring
Of course, we love seeing them and hearing about their burgeoning lives beyond Maher
and professional educators on the college/ university Admission Office side of things,
Avenue and King Street. And, so often, they’re achieving notable successes along whatever paths they’ve chosen — not because of what colleges they attend (or attended) but because of their approaches to life and their studies wherever they go (or went) to college. It seems to me that this last point is especially telling in the
and generally caring and yet
I AM AMAZED AT HOW THE COLLEGE PROCESS AT BRUNSWICK SEEMS (WITH VERY, VERY FEW EXCEPTIONS) TO WORK OUT JUST ABOUT RIGHT.
realistic parents and students on the Brunswick side. There may be exceptions,
ship, and one that suits both their interests and
encountered anything that
abilities — a wonderful staging ground for a
even bordered on fraud
bright future ahead.
and have, on the contrary (and wonderfully), regularly encountered deep wells of love
tell us all about it.
for children and respect for a time-honored process. Most important, I think I have to say that — year in, year
parents caught up in the scandal find themselves now — their families and children with shattered reputations, often out of their job, their child
And, ultimately, we are so happy to welcome them home, when they return to Brunswick to
scandal that has swept across I can’t help but think about where some of the
college or university in which they feel owner-
but I have fortunately never
wake of the college admission our nation.
their parents do so) also tend to matriculate at a
out — I am amazed at how the college process at Brunswick seems (with very, very few exceptions) to work out just about right. Students who overwhelmingly tend to take ownership of the process (rather than having
Thomas W. Philip
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