Senior Fund

Senior Fund

It is a tradition at Brunswick for the Senior Class to provide a meaningful parting gift to the School. This substantial gift from each senior parent commemorates and celebrates the years their son enjoyed at Brunswick. It is an opportunity for senior parents to leave a lasting testimonial to their sons' school.   The classes of 2004 and 2003 both designated their gifts to build faculty homes on the King Street campus. Each class met or exceeded it goal of $750,000 and $650,000 respectively with 100% participation. The Senior Fund committee for the class of 2005 raised $583,210, with 98% of the parents participating.  That money endows an annual lecture or lecture series. The photo at the right is of former President of Poland, Lech Walesa (with Headmaster Tom Philip) who spoke to the Upper School in April 2006.  In the fall 2006 Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager portrayed in  Hotel Rwanda, spoke to the US boys and faculty.  Spring 2007 brought Coaches Herman Boone and Bill Yoast from Remember the Titans to campus and in the fall of 2007 Carl Bernstein spoke to the boys.

The Class of 2006 endowed "The Class of 2006 Award for Program Excellence" and met its Senior Fund goal of $1,000,000.  This award, which is approximately $40,000 a year, will be given to a department for a term of three years.  The purpose is to encourage each department to strive for excellence whether through incorporating new training, courses, equipment or ideas into the curriculum.  The language department is the current beneficiary and the money is being used to start teaching Arabic.  The 2006 Senior Fund Co-Chairs were Charles Paternina, Ted Virtue and Simon Williams.

The Class of 2007 Senior Fund was chaired by Matt DeSalvo and Charles Paternina.  The $1,000,000 goal  was exceeded and the fund reached $1.2 million.  This money will be directed to faculty housing on the Maher Avenue campus.  100% of the senior parents participated. 

The Class of 2008 Senior Fund exceeded their $1,000,000 goal and the atrium entry space in the renovated Upper School will be named for that class.  As of June 2008 over 90% of the parents had participated under the leadership of Joe Gatto and Mark Vallely.

Please remember that gifts to the senior fund may be eligible for matching gift if your employer participates in such a program.  Click here for a list of matching gift participant companies.