Executive
UPDATE
FROM HEAD OF SCHOOL TOM PHILIP Winter 2022
GREETINGS FROM BRUNSWICK!
Brunswick Executive Update provides former trustees and other especially dedicated members of the school community with a snapshot of our continuing progress.
O’Malley Middle School Named to Honor Dedication & Commitment
An immaculate Brown & Gold plaque now adorns the front entrance of the Middle School on 1275 King Street: O’Malley Middle School.
“This is an appropriate token of our appreciation for all that the O’Malley family has done for Brunswick since joining our community, more than 30 years ago.”
The building has been named in honor of Lili and Tom O’Malley ’85 for their boundless contributions and years of dedicated commitment to Brunswick. “Tom has served loyally on the Board of Trustees for two decades, including as Chairman from 2019–2021, and he worked tirelessly as the school worked to acquire our new Middle School campus and transform it into a stateof-the-art, expansive, and interactive space for learning,” Head of School Thomas W. Philip said.
Tom O’Malley ’85
COVID Challenge: Keeping Our Boys Safe & Healthy
As the year has progressed, we have carefully and cautiously returned most aspects of the school experience to normal. It has been so reaffirming to see how openly grateful our boys are for the small things we all missed last year but that we have (thankfully), thus far, been able to revert to this year: More traditional classroom settings, a full athletic schedule, more normal dining, senior greeting — all things in ways large and small that serve to make Brunswick what it is.
For Newest Alumni, Great Destinations
And now, as of March 1, the encouraging progression of the pandemic and recent steps taken by the Governor, the State Legislature, and the Greenwich Department of Education have allowed Brunswick to institute a “maskoptional” policy in all school divisions.
individual to individual and that we must all be prepared to accept and respect the choices that individuals make in this regard.
It is important that all members of our community recognize that comfort levels with the wearing (or not) of masks will vary from
At Brunswick School, we will enthusiastically respect either choice.
Members of the Class of 2021 are attending the following colleges and universities: 5 – Bucknell, Duke, U. Michigan, U. Penn; 4 – Princeton, Trinity, U. Chicago, UVA, Yale; 3 – Brown, Dartmouth, SMU, U. Miami, Wake Forest; 2 – BU, Colby, Georgetown, Indiana U, U. Richmond, USC, U. Wisconsin; 1 – Amherst, BC, Colgate,
Some members of our community will most certainly choose to wear masks for their own personal reasons while others, for their own personal reasons, will not.
CT College, Cornell, Denison, Elon, Hamilton, Lehigh, Middlebury, Northeastern, Notre Dame, Quinnipiac, RISD, St. Lawrence, Stanford, Syracuse, TCU, Tufts, Tulane, UC Berkeley, UConn, U. Denver, US Naval Academy, Villanova
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‘Village’ Takes Shape on Vermont Campus
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W I N T E R 2022
Construction is well under way in Randolph, Vermont, as 10 bunkhouse cottages and a bathroom and shower facility will soon be completed as the centerpiece of our 650-acre campus in the Green Mountain State. The Class of 2021 Senior Fund raised more than $1.5 million to underwrite this important initiative, which will allow the school’s permanent off-campus wildernesseducation and applied-classroom-learning programming to expand to include Lower and Middle Schoolers, as well as Upper School athletic teams and larger groups of Brunswick community members.
Enhanced Focus on Health & Wellness
No question: Our careful stewardship of the future of our boys has called for a heightened, intense, sustained, and comprehensive focus on Health & Wellness — one of the four pillars of The Brunswick Trust and one of particular relevance and concern for us all at this time. Consequently, Brunswick is very much engaged in the planning stages of new, exciting, and much-needed Health & Wellness initiatives — many of which we hope to begin to implement in September 2022.
Looking Ahead: Campus Master Planning
To ensure Brunswick’s campuses and facilities remain “state of the art” in every quarter, as its resources have recently grown to include the new Middle School and Vermont campuses, the school has initiated a comprehensive Master Planning assessment, now in progress. Objectives include:
❖ Analysis of existing facilities, including recommendations for renovations to existing spaces and/or possible new construction
❖ Competitive facilities analysis, providing assessment of space and facilities in comparison to peer schools
Our ambition here is to ensure that every Brunswick boy, at every grade level, possesses the tools, habits, and character traits to navigate successfully the varied challenges of growing up and growing stronger in this new and anxious age of ubiquitous technology and all its attendant stresses and distraction — not to mention the very real impact of the crisis and challenge of the last few years. Greater detail will be forthcoming as our planning progresses. Stay tuned!
❖ Landscape utilization and landscape strategy, with the goal of creating permanent gathering and teaching spaces as well as improving traffic flow
❖ Evaluation of school-owned faculty housing, including assessment of opportunities to increase faculty housing on campus Results of this Master Planning assessment will inform and focus our future capital plans. Once again, the objective is to ensure Brunswick’s campuses are and will remain “state of the art.”
Our boys, faculty and staff, parents, and alumni all rely upon the tenets of Courage, Honor, and Truth to persevere and get the most out of every day we are together. All who are associated with Brunswick should be very proud. I wish you and your family all the best for a happy and healthy 2022!