Word: ashburn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great Center City high schools. (I must admit, however, that early on my geography had gotten the best of me, I wasn't sure if I was supposed to root for my home town or home state team. But my parents settled that matter by giving me a Richie Ashburn mit, instead of the Clemente model I requested...
True, with 245 students, Brooks had grown too large for Ashburn to continue to bid each student good night with a handshake. His age, too, forced changes. In recent years, he no longer keynoted the "spring cabaret," an annual variety show, with an original poem which included rhyming reference to every student and teacher. Nor could he pitch the slow curves that once mystified batters at student-faculty baseball games. Yet Ashburn preserved what to him mattered most...
...Army medical officer, Ashburn was educated at Groton and Yale. He founded Brooks to produce "cultured citizens," which to him means inculcating compassion as well as taste. "When a boy comes here," he says, "I think he's joining a new family and treat him that...
...family" has grown to capacity -even though Brooks has refused to follow many other private schools and go coed. This year it had 220 applicants for 80 places and ran no deficit. With the close of the Ashburn years this spring, the era of legendary Eastern boarding-school headmasters comes to an end. The others-men like "Black Jack" Crocker of Groton and Frank Boyden of Deerfield-are long gone...
Brooks, however, has chosen to retain as much of the Ashburn tradition as possible. As his successor, the school picked 35-year-old Peter Aitkens, a former physics teacher at England's Eton College, precisely because he was committed to Ashburn's concept of a small, select boarding school...