SEPTEMBER
’Wick’s 120th B-Day: The Very Best of ‘To Be’
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OWER SCHOOL boys kicked off the year by combining an extra-special “B-Day” — Brunswick’s 120th birthday — with a brand-new theme for the 2022–23 school year: Be. Lower School Head Katie Signer said thinking about ways “To Be” is a great way to begin a new school year. She introduced the theme by asking boys to think it through for themselves. “Who or what should Brunswick boys be?” she queried. “What qualities and traits should they embody?” To answer these questions, and in celebration of the big birthday, Brunswick’s very own Cake Boss, Chef Patrick, baked a giant cake. Boys created 120 “candles” adorned with thoughts about how they want to feel and how they aspire to be this year: Courageous,
120TH B-DAY Lower Schoolers celebrated Brunswick’s 120th birthday by answering the questions: “Who or what should Brunswick boys be?” and “What qualities or traits should they embody?”
Honorable, Truthful, to be sure — but also qualities such as “safe,” “kind,” “polite,” “proud,” and “welcoming.”
‘Under One Roof,’ Community Reunites
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NOTHER TRADITION resumed: The Brunswick community gathered for its Annual Meeting & Dinner — the first traditional, opening-of-school meeting of parents and faculty held in person and under one roof since 2019. Chairman of the Board of Trustees W. Robert Berkley, Jr. ’91 (P ’21, ’23) thanked
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