In Memoriam

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CHAMPS GARNER SOCCER CUP

CLASS OF ’19 AND ’20 James Sands ’19 and Andres Jasson ’20 took home the Major League Soccer Cup with the New York City Football Club in December 2021, showing that once a Bruin, always a Bruin.

24 Baby Layton, son of Zach Dobbs ’06, holds on tight to his newest friend.

25 Pretty in pink (and blue and white!): Baby Abigail, the daughter of Jon Kaptcianos.

26 Baby Adam, son of Nick Salazar, poses for the camera.

27 Baby Issa, daughter of Emmanuel Saldana, appears comfortable anywhere — including the kitchen floor!

28 Wide-eyed Christopher, son of Joey

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bilateral training of U.S. allies. I’ve been all over the place, primarily working with Japanese forces in the Okinawa jungle and Mount Fuji. I’ll be out here until February 2022 before returning to Camp Lejeune, N.C., to prepare for my next deployment.

“Since leaving Quantico in June 2020, I took command of my platoon and have been all over the United States for training. We’ve executed plenty of urban warfare and open live fire training ops in Camp Lejeune, and spent seven weeks in the Mojave Desert doing the hardest live fire ranges in the U.S. military from March-April.

“I also had the opportunity to be the ground tactical commander for a series of airborne raids with an Army Blackhawk squadron. Prior to deployment, I was asked to do a mountain leadership and tactics course with a bunch of special forces dudes in the Eastern Sierras. We did advanced rock climbs, rappelling, and ice climbing. We even had the opportunity to summit Mount Shasta.

“Hope all is well around ’Wick.” See photo 23.

FACULTY AND STAFF NOTES

Director of Alumni Relations Zach Dobbs ’06 and his wife, Kelsey, welcomed a baby boy, Layton Louis, on July 14, 2021. See photo 24.

Joe Fowler, father of Upper School science teacher Tim Fowler and himself a long-time colleague and friend of many at Brunswick, died after a long illness on May 22, 2021. To read the full obituary, turn to page 77.

Upper School Dean of Student Life Jon Kaptcianos and his wife, Gisele, welcomed Abigail Grace on October 15, 2021. See photo 25.

Upper School Classics teacher Nick Salazar and his wife, Susie, announced the birth of Adam Jude Benedict on Thursday, October 28. This is baby No. 12 for the Salazars! See photo 26.

Emmanuel Saldana, associate director of diversity, equity, inclusion, & belonging, and his wife, Carol Donohue, welcomed Issa Rafaela on July 1, 2021 (and she was born in the back of their car). See photo 27.

Pre and Lower School Counselor Joey Zannino ’03 and his wife, Paige Pedersen (GA ’06), added another boy, Christopher Peer, to their young family on January 13, 2022. He joins his older brother, Tommy (2). See photo 28.

IN MEMORIAM

Alan “Lanny” Bolte ’62, 75, of Santa Monica, Calif., died on January 6, 2020, due to complications from cancer.

Alan lived his early life in Connecticut and was educated at the University of Pittsburgh. He spent his early career in advertising and publishing. He created many television and video shows primarily related to his love for vintage cars and automobile racing. An avid racer himself, he was also a prolific writer, speaker, and public address announcer for many automobile events, including the Vintage Auto Racing Association, for many years.

He also judged many car shows and concourse events throughout the Southland. He was always willing to share his knowledge and great wit in almost all conversations on every subject from cars, boats, food, traveling, and the good life in general.

He is survived by his sisters, Bonnie and Brenda.

Robert “Bob” Eugene Dolderer ’61

— loving husband, father, brother, and grandfather — died at the age of 78 on April 9, 2021.

Bob was born on March 22, 1943, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He grew up in Greenwich. Bob attended Rocky Mountain College between the years 1961–1966, where he earned his teaching degree. He married Carolyn Barrett in June 1966 and took his first teaching job for Great Falls Public Schools. Bob taught at Meadowlark Elementary for 19 years, and taught middle school math for 15 years at both North and East Middle Schools. His reputation as a tough, yet stellar educator resonates still throughout the Great Falls community.

In addition to teaching, he coached various levels of basketball and football throughout his career and was the head golf coach for Great Falls High School. Bob and Carolyn farmed in Chester, Mont., for more than 40 years. They raised two daughters, Pam and Stacy, and enjoyed seven granddaughters, Brenna, Morgan, Jaida, Kyndra, Sydney, Avery, and Amelia.

Early on, Bob developed a deep love and respect for the outdoors during his summers at Camp Mohican, in the southern Adirondack Mountains. There he learned marksmanship, archery, wilderness survival, camp cooking, fishing, and navigating waterways. At Brunswick, he was the basketball and baseball team captain and quarterback for the football team. His daughters loved hearing stories about debutante parties and dances with the sister school.

He headed to Montana for college and never looked back. In college, he continued in athletics until sustaining knee injuries. Bob took one year off of college and worked in the oil fields and construction in Glendive, Mont. After one year as a laborer, he returned to RMC where he met Carolyn, a farm girl, and soon married the farmer’s daughter.

Bob and Carolyn were married almost 55 years, and shared a love for gardening, travel, and family fun. As a sports enthusiast, he continued his involvement with many athletics in Great Falls. Bob was on the Club Cigar softball team, bowled in an Elks Club league, played racquetball, and spent more than 50 years golfing many beautiful courses throughout the U.S. Bob continued his outdoor adventures, hunting, camping, fishing, rafting, canoeing, and paddle boarding Montana waterways throughout the rest of his life.

Bob was funny, kind, smart, active, generous, and enjoyed topping his “girls” at cribbage and gin rummy. He proudly shared his wealth of knowledge and humor with his daughters and granddaughters.

Bob was preceded in death by his parents, Leon and Blanche Dolderer. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn; two children, Pam (Dan) Gabriel and Stacy (Tony) Dolderer; brother, Gary; seven granddaughters, Brenna, Morgan, Jaida, Kyndra, Sydney, Avery, and Amelia; and his dog, Shadrach.

Joseph M. Fowler of White Lake, N.Y., formerly of Walden, died on May 22, 2021, at home surrounded by family. He was 88.

The son of the late C. Fred Fowler and Ethel Clineman Fowler, he was born June 19, 1932, in Goshen, N.Y.

After attending Hope College (B.S. Physics) and Louisiana State University, he and family returned to Walden, where he assumed leadership of Walden Insuring Agency from his father. He earned an M.S. in Physics from the State University of New York, New Paltz, and worked toward a Ph.D. in Physics from New York University. The business was sold in 1985 and he enjoyed a second career teaching physics at Brunswick.

In retirement, he moved to White Lake, N.Y.

He was a member of the Walden Reformed Church, the Bethel Presbyterian Church, the Walden Rotary Club, the Bethel Lyons Club, the Josephine-Louise Public Library Board, the Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library Board, and Board of the Delaware Highlands Land Trust, among many other public service commitments.

Survivors include his wife of nearly 67 years, Bernice; daughter, Aleta (David); son, Nicholas (Sheila); daughter, Jane (Denise); and son, Timothy (Suzanne); grandchildren, Laura (Nicholas), Mary (Sean), Garrett, and Eli ’19; and great-grandchildren, Madelyn, Andrew, Danielle, and Kylie.

Dr. Byrne Richard Marston ’47 died peacefully on January 29, 2022. He was born in New York City in 1931 to William Moulton Marston and Olive Byrne Richard. He grew up in Rye, N.Y., and attended Brunswick, then Harvard University, where he earned a Bachelor’s in psychology in 1951.

He completed his medical degree at University of Virginia in 1955 and moved to Cleveland to start an internship at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals. That year, he met and later married the love of his life, Audrey, of Beaver, Pa., to whom he was married for more than 65 years. They raised four children; John, William, Edward, and Virginia.

After completing his internship, Byrne entered the Air Force, and the newlyweds were stationed in Japan while Byrne served as a flight surgeon. After his discharge from the Air Force, he resumed his medical training in Cleveland, completing a residency in obstetrics/ gynecology. He eventually settled in Tampa in 1964, joining the OB/GYN practice of Drs. Ingram, Withers, and Qualey, later expanded with Drs. McCammon, Yelverton, and Lerner. During his 36-year career, he provided care to women and delivered thousands of Tampa’s babies.

He was dedicated to the improvement of patient care, serving on numerous hospital committees at St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital and was an associate professor at USF Medical School. He also volunteered his time at the Judeo-Christian Health Clinic and vigorously supported its mission.

Byrne had numerous interests outside of medicine. Having competed in crew during college, he rediscovered rowing later in life through the Tampa Rowing Club. He enjoyed rowing on the Hillsborough River and in Tampa Bay and competed in numerous rowing regattas. He was an enthusiastic sailor and always enjoyed being on or near the water, particularly in Tampa and on Cape Cod.

An avid artist throughout his life, Byrne enjoyed workshops with noted artists and honed his craft of plein air painting, capturing the light and landscapes of Florida, Cape Cod, and France. His watercolor and oil paintings have been exhibited in galleries in Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Cape Cod.

Byrne was dedicated to his family as well as his patients. He was known for his humility, dry wit, and his ability to listen with curiosity and empathy. He was a mentor to many, a friend and a counselor whose advice was thoughtfully dispensed. Above all, he had the unique ability to make people feel appreciated and valued.

He is survived by his wife Audrey;

four children, John (Catherine), William (Laurie), Edward (Beate), Virginia Justicz (Dan); and seven grandchildren, Bette Canter (Brian), Byrne Marston (Lauren), Thompson Marston, Rachel Marston, Ted Justicz, Helena Justicz, and Caroline Justicz.

Nell Duncan Wall Otto was born on October 6, 1951, the cherished daughter of May Howard Wall and Edwin Craig Wall, in Conway, S.C. She lost her valiant battle with cancer surrounded by family on November 3, 2021.

She is survived by her husband of 46 years, John Francis Otto, Jr. ’66 of Greenwich, twin daughters Blair Otto Bijou (Craig) and Sarah Otto Kohart (Brett), both of Darien, and son John (Jay) Russell Otto ’05 of New York City; grandchildren Maisie and Armstrong Bijou, Campbell and Nell Kohart; her sister, Harriet Wall Martin (D.G.) of Chapel Hill, N.C.; sisters-in-law Suzie Otto and Diane Otto and Karen Otto of Greenwich, plus numerous adoring nieces and nephews, all entertained and buoyed by her vibrant and loving presence. Nell was predeceased by her brother, Edwin Craig Wall, Jr.; and her sister, May Ervin Wall. Nell also was devoted to her longtime aide, Luz, a devoted caregiver and friend.

After an idyllic childhood in Conway and on the beach in South Carolina, Nell went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude/Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was also president of Delta Delta Delta. After graduation, Nell moved to New York City, where she began her family. After the birth of her third child, she moved to Greenwich, where she expanded her magnetic presence and gift of entertaining. She served on Brunswick’s Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2005.

Nell spearheaded and chaired many events throughout the years in Greenwich, as well as in Nantucket and Palm Beach. She dazzled everyone with her attention to detail and infused all of her events with her sense of fun. Nell could turn any ordinary occasion into a magical experience. She had a gift of disarming anyone around her by dropping an “off color” remark or story at exactly the right moment or making a joke at her own expense. Her self-deprecation was as outrageous and joyful as her competitiveness was spirited and contagious, with no one enjoying her own foibles more than Nell herself! She was especially accomplished at writing and delivering witty, commemorative poems and toasts.

She was an expert at entertaining and party favors, sophisticated in her décor style, nearly encyclopedic in her knowledge of books and grammar and a virtual authority on bridge. She shared her knowledge of bridge through teaching and tournament play complete with an admirable accumulation of Master points. Her extensive roster of “best friends” will miss her expertise and advice on all things and will treasure her memory for years to come.

Stuart Wing Ray ’62 of Jupiter Island, Fla., and Dark Harbor, Maine, died on February 25, 2019, from complications from cancer. He attended Brunswick before graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1962, and tried to follow this ethic throughout his life: Non sibi (not for self).

Stuart was born August 22, 1944, in New York City, to Kenneth Ray, a lawyer and chemical engineer, and Deborah Ray, a model and, in later years, a college professor. He grew up in Greenwich. In 1965, upon his graduation from Harvard College, he joined the U.S. Army, serving as an intelligence officer first in Europe, then Vietnam, where he earned a Bronze Star.

After he returned from Vietnam, he entered Harvard Business School, and received an MBA in 1970. That same year he married Robin Tompkins. After graduation, Stuart worked as a securities analyst at State Street Research and Management Company, Boston, until 1977. He then moved to Washington, D.C., where he joined President Carter’s newly formed Department of Energy.

The family moved again in 1980 to Nassau in the Bahamas, where Stuart headed the YOM Oil Company. In 1982, the family moved to Manhattan, where Stuart became a founding member of James D. Wolfensohn Incorporated, a newly formed investment banking firm. In 1996, Wolfensohn merged with Banker’s Trust, and Stuart moved to Houston, Texas, to manage that company’s Houston Office.

In 2000, Stuart officially retired and returned to Nassau. There, in spite of his new status as a man of leisure, he continued to work at close to his old pace, holding directorships at a number of public and private companies, including Sonenshine Partners, a newly formed investment banking boutique. With his longtime friend Philip Eisenberg, he helped to form Urban American Housing, a real estate company that provides work force housing in the New York metropolitan area.

Stuart was active in a number of clubs, including the Owl Club at Harvard; The Harvard Club of New York City; the Somerset Club, Boston; the Metropolitan Club, New York; the Tarratine Club, Dark Harbor, Maine; the Lyford Cay Club, Nassau; and the Jupiter Island Club, Fla.

In addition to his spouse, Robin, he leaves a sister, Eloise Ray Johnson; two children, Christie and Oliver; and three grandchildren, Buzby and Huxley Robb and Olivia Ray.

Richard D. “Dick” Webb ’46, loving husband, father of two, and grandfather of three, died peacefully at age 95 on February 6, 2022.

Dick was born on January 15, 1927, in Yonkers, N.Y., to thenBritish citizens Richard and Lydia Webb. Dick attended high school at Brunswick School and went on to graduate from Duke University in 1949 with a B.A. in political science. On January 16, 1954, he married Anne Braitmayer. They began their married life sharing time between Greenwich and Southern Pines, N.C. They began summering in Marion, Mass., in the mid 1960s. After retirement, Marion replaced Greenwich, and eventually became their only residence. They were together until Anne passed away on October 6, 2021. After college, Dick went to work for his father in the New York offices of the British W.D. Bush Company, an essential oils business. He was a natural salesman and entrepreneur, which guided his business story through purchasing the American assets of the Bush company, and later selling them, while creating joint ventures around lemon and lime oils. In 1962 he joined the A. M. Todd Group of Kalamazoo, Mich., as a vice president and an investor, adding the citrus business to what had historically been a business

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focused upon peppermint and spearmint. Dick retired as a director from the A.M. Todd Group in 2002.

Gregarious and outgoing, Dick loved politics, horses, and sailing. He most often acted in politics behind the scenes as the campaign manager for Lowell Weicker’s successive and successful bids for Greenwich first selectman, Connecticut state representative, U.S. congress, and U.S. senator for the state of Connecticut. Dick subsequently ran and was elected as second selectman in Greenwich.

Dick’s lifelong passion for horseback riding began in his youth when he competed in open jumping classes on his beloved horse, Tops’l. In his late teens, Dick competed with Tops’l at the National Horse Show in Madison Square Garden, earning reserve champion. While a student at Duke, Dick discovered the equestrian community in Southern Pines, where his love for foxhunting was cemented under the wing of Virginia (Ginny) Walthour Moss. In 1964, he became a Joint Master of the Moore County Hounds with Ginny and her husband W. O. (Pappy) Moss. Dick was active nationally in support of foxhunting, and eventually served as President of the Master of Foxhounds Association of North America. Dick and Anne traveled extensively. At the start of their marriage, there were annual visits to England for business, which were accomplished by sea. Dick had a love of the old Queen Mary, on which he traveled as an 8-year-old for her maiden New York-to-London passage. Anne and Dick explored the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and elsewhere in a variety of modes from canal trips to cruises, to equestrian tours.

They also shared a love of the sea. There was a succession of sailboats named Andic, with the nominal homeport of Anne’s hometown of Marion. They cruised and day-sailed in both Connecticut and Massachusetts. Dick enjoyed offshore sailing and participated in nine successive Marion to Bermuda races beginning with the inaugural race in 1977. Dick believed in giving back to the things he loved. In addition to the Master of Foxhounds Association of North America, he served as president of Brunswick’s Board from 1971–1974 (and as a trustee from 1968–1974) and president of the board of the Walthour-Moss Foundation. Dick was preceded in death by his wife, Anne. He is survived by his son, R. Davis Webb, Jr. ’75 (Jennifer); his daughter, Nancy Webb Corkery (David); his three grandchildren, Kevin Corkery (Lucie), Kyle Corkery, and Audrey Webb; and his great grandson, William Corkery.

Frederick Lincoln Wonham ’83, died of cancer at home in Springfield, Oregon (outside Eugene), on February 3, 2022. He was surrounded by friends, including his devoted brother Harry ’79, now a dean at the University of Oregon; sister-in-law Connie; and Jenna Matthews, whom Linc had wed the previous day. He leaves two sons in their 20s, Jack and Cal, plus his sister, Stapley Wonham Emberling. He was 56.

Linc was a “lifer,” starting in first grade and going all the way until he moved on to the University of Colorado. Though the Class of 1983 had many characters, wordsmiths, and athletes, one of the traits that made Linc so beloved was his humbleness — though he might not have argued too much if you called him the best baseball player in our class. That was obvious after just a few innings watching him at shortstop, third base, or especially on the mound. The field behind the Upper School may now be a parking lot, but anyone who saw him crush a ball into the tennis courts in left field will not forget his hitting ability, or his trademark blowing out his cheeks with every swing.

His mother, Ann, a gifted athlete and top-ranked paddle tennis player, was a fixture at most of Linc’s games in a wide-brimmed hat, sitting in a folding chair with their dog, Mookie. She also watched from the soccer field, where Linc was a superb fullback. As in baseball, he was All-FAA and Brunswick co-captain. Alex Williams ’83 and every other goalie was thankful to have Linc as protector.

If he was at his house in Stamford when you called needing a fourth for paddle, your side was guaranteed to win. A member of the Greenwich Blues youth hockey team, Linc played goalie for Brunswick’s Middle School team. He gave up the ice in high school, but he donned pads again for club hockey at Colorado with good results. He prized nature, fishing, racquet sports, golf, Wiffle ball, and the Grateful Dead — not necessarily in that order.

Linc had a charm and ease few from any class could match. It was obvious that he would not follow his father, Fred Sr., to U.S. Trust or any bank. Like Alex Williams and me, Linc went into journalism after college. He was a talented writer, a gifted editor, and possessed the right demeanor for the ups and downs of life as a professional scribe. He covered the CU football team during his waning years at Boulder, just as the Buffaloes developed into a national power. From there he pivoted to newspaper jobs in the Chicago area, where he settled after Boulder and married CU grad Hilary Lane. Linc later married Catherine Pugh (GA ’83).

Linc served as sports editor at a daily paper in Vineland, N.J., before eventually moving on to book publishing. He specialized in the tricky business of producing sports “insta-books,” which would come out mere days after a team won a national title. It was a laborious, detailed, and rapid process that could not begin in earnest until the final game ended. In a few days, the book would be available at bookstores, train stations, and airports all over the country. He later served as a remote editor for several companies.

During his time at Triumph Books in Chicago, Linc recommended me for a book planned on his muchloved New York Mets. I wound up writing seven more titles on the Mets, among other books. Predictably, Linc downplayed his role in any success by his former Bruins double-play partner. It was far from the first time Linc helped me. When I developed a plan in March 1986 that had me move to Boulder mid-semester from Roanoke, Va., Linc lauded the debatable plan. He arranged for me to lease the basement apartment in the house he rented on — naturally, Lincoln Street.

Dan Durkin ’83 next door. Fellow alumnus John Salerno ’83 arrived that summer to take a class at CU and live in a vacated room in the Lincoln Street house. With Jody Kingery (GA ’84) living a few streets away, Boulder felt a little like Brunswick West.

Circumstance brought me back to Boulder after graduation in 1988. Linc still provided, getting me a spot where he worked: Overnight watchmen at Colorado Security Systems. (Don’t worry; we were only armed with paperbacks to pass the hours.) By then both of us had large black dogs in tow.

Pagosa, the first of Linc’s many dogs post-Stamford, was memorialized in a simple frame at his house in Oregon. After Linc passed, the smiling eyes of the old Lab seemed to say, “Now I’ve finally got him back.” That’s the bright side, as Linc would surely see it. — Matthew Silverman ’83