ENDURING GRATITUDE
How an Athlete Found His True North Scott Meadow ’73, P’02 had a rocky start at Hotchkiss, but he left Lakeville confident in his talents and his future. His teachers and coaches played a crucial role in guiding him along the way. Today, as a professor of entrepreneurial finance and private equity at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he is helping graduate students chart their own paths. B Y W E N DY C A R L S O N
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COTT MEADOW HAD NEVER HEARD
of Hotchkiss when he was growing up in Dayton, OH. As a freshman in high school, he had lackluster grades, and he was struggling to find his true north. His parents offered to send him to a summer camp in Cornwall, CT, near Lakeville, hoping the change might turn him around. He agreed to go, but only if he had access to a facility where he could pursue his passion of weightlifting. The owner of the camp, Howard Greene, secured permission for Meadow to use Monahan Gym at Hotchkiss, a serendipitous turn of events that would prove pivotal for Meadow by summer’s end. As a young boy with no knowledge of private schools, Meadow was impressed with Hotchkiss the moment he set foot on campus. Toward the end of that summer, without even discussing it with his parents, he asked Greene, who was also an educational consultant, if he could arrange interviews for him at boarding schools in the area. Unbeknownst to him, Meadow had already met Peter Adams ’63, Hotchkiss’s admission SPRING 2022
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