Students, faculty, parents, and visitors might have noticed brighter colors fluttering from the flagpole outside the Upper School in the past few weeks. Each morning, one individual might raise it, but many people on campus collaborated to ensure that our new American flag holds special significance to our community. This unique project started with Jane [...]
I ran two marathons. The first was in Warwick, NY and the second in Newport, RI. My first marathon was a part of my “therapy” after my wife, Irene, died in 1992. During her long illness I had time to run and completed races up to 10 k, but I never had time [...]
I will never win an award for “World’s Greatest” husband, dad, administrator, teacher, or runner. However, running teaches me on a daily basis to give my best effort to be the best I can be. I try not to compare myself to others because there are always many others better than me. [...]
I’ve always run to stay in shape and stay fit, but while out running with a couple of colleagues/friends after school back in 2004, we would chat during our runs. So for me, it’s a more question of “who” inspired me to run a full marathon rather than “what”. Erin Varga and Denise Quenault and [...]
I was inspired to run a marathon because I wanted to try something new, challenging and very, very different from my “normal” athletic activities. So much of my athletic has focused on team sports, so the idea of accepting an individual athletic challenge was intriguing. For my first marathon in New York, I followed [...]