COMMENCEMENT 2014 SENIOR AWARDS DAY
Distinguished Seniors, Special Recognition
New members of the Cum Laude Society (left to right): Kevin Bradicich, Ashish Ramachandran, Jack Seaton, and Scott DeAngelo.
He remembered how his own two sons played on the sidelines during football practice at Everett Field and were watched over by the legendary Mr. Cosby. Both Harris boys, along with many graduates of the Class of 2014, are among the last Brunswick
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students to spend time with the faENIOR AWARDS DAY has
In an expansive speech that
much of what is good in my own
bled teacher and coach — who died
long been recognized as a
reflected the quirks of high school,
sons came from the folks here at
suddenly in 2004 — and to “shake
friendly rite-of-spring in the
Harris recalled the transformation
Brunswick…big time!” Harris said,
his hand for real.”
Brunswick community, and
in Brunswick facilities in recent de-
nodding to sons Chris ’07 and Peter
cades, and stretched the graduates
’11 in the audience.
this year proved no exception. Held each May just days before the more formal occasion that is
to imagine the future. He promised early to “stick to
Harris remembered Brunswick
“My two boys had it made!” he exclaimed. Harris also remembered when
before King Street, and how back
Everett Field was the main Bruns-
Commencement, the celebration
the shallow end” and then did
then Brunswick boys accomplished
wick athletic field, and the best
sees the Upper School community
anything but.
much on whatever facilities they
seat in the house was on the bow of
had.
the pirate ship in the playground.
gather to cite soon-to-be graduates
“I mean it when I tell ya’ll that
for excellence in everything from
He noted that in 1987, the school
math to history to athletics.
graduated 50. In 2014 that number
But it is also a chance for
has almost doubled, to 93.
a chosen faculty member to
“Now we have an impressive
address Brunswick students, and
array of fields and a number of best
this year that honor was given
seats in the house, a pool with no
with gusto to longtime math
shallow end, a boathouse,” he said.
teacher Michael J. Harris.
“To myself and my colleagues who
Headmaster Thomas W. Philip
have been here to see it all, the
introduced Harris as perhaps
place has gotten big, especially to a
“the” favorite faculty member at
little fella like me!
the Upper School, and praised
“The best part of the school’s
him for 26 years of service to the
growth, at least from the stand-
Brunswick community.
point of a fella who’s only been
Aside from his teaching duties, Harris has coached football and golf and, with his wife, raised two Brunswick boys.
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OF BRUNSWICK • FALL 2014
growin’ out instead of up, is you Senior Award winners (left to right): Tom Morrisroe, Ashim Vaish, Mark Esposito, Kyle Chen, Jackson Reynolds, Anson Mersereau, Henry Hobbs, Henry Haig, Ryan Gilbert, Harry Parsons, Emmet McElwreath, Eric Mertz, and Dylan Wadsworth.
fellas!” Harris told the soon-to-be graduates. “I mean it. The facilities and numbers have changed dramat-