"If you're going to get to college and be a decathlete or get to the Olympics, you need flexibility, so we need to do this drill tonight," the coach said. ON THE WESTERN edge of Massachusetts, in the heart of the Berkshire Mountains, is a summer camp where boys have gone to play for more than a century. California Institute of Technology Archives, Michael Waxman, Robert Bender and Vernon Sharples, Photos by Rachel Bujalski and Susannah Ireland (Sharples portrait) for ESPN, Michigan State secrets extend far beyond Larry Nassar case, Nassar surrounded by adults who enabled his behavior, The short, unhappy life of the Alliance of American Football, A new threat for the NFL and all of football. In December, a former training partner of Benjamin's had encouraged him to reach out to Outside the Lines. Many described a Faustian bargain driven by their desire for athletic success, combined with a sense that Mainwaring was truly their friend, their mentor, their guide on a journey toward a better life. In 1980, just shy of his 18th birthday, Victor Zenoff told his mother he'd been sexually abused by Conrad Mainwaring years earlier. Anyone who knows the generative forces that took N.Y.U. The university manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and it is perennially viewed as one of the nation's top tech schools -- the MIT of the West. In the lawsuit and in . Ms. Levine became the organizations executive director in 1972. Ms. Levine in 2004, the year she retired from N.Y.U. That influenced my thinking., Naomi Levine, Lawyer Who Helped Transform N.Y.U., Dies at 97, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/07/nyregion/naomi-levine-dead.html. Rachel Bujalski for ESPN. Rachel Bujalski for ESPN. The Camp Greylock, located in Ferrisburgh, VT, is a childcare facility that supervises and cares for children. ", "The Eastern European athletes and coaches do this all the time," Mainwaring tells him. Inside the apartment, Mainwaring has Benjamin lie on his back. '", He remembers Mainwaring saying, "It's going to stop when you realize what's necessary in your training, and your training isn't there. Other comments trickled in over the next few years, until the fall of 2017, when the #MeToo movement was changing the national dialogue on sexual abuse and more people found De Santo's blog and shared their experiences. It's Brian. Oh, and one more thing, Mainwaring added: Before you come to the field, brush your teeth. Tripp Lake Camp. Mainwaring is charged with sexual battery by fraud in the June 27, 2016, case. Victor was the youngest, just 12. "For what? The first to speak up, in 2013, was Brian, the man who says he was molested by Mainwaring when he was an 18-year-old freshman at Colgate. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Joan Kiddon. Seven men now say he molested them there, including Michael Waxman (above, right), shown with the coach in a yearbook image. The man comes into focus: early 30s, flowing blond hair, piercing blue eyes. Caltech fired Mainwaring on July 5, 1988, less than a year after he arrived, "following an internal investigation related to a student complaint," a school spokesperson wrote in an email. "You are a false teacher," Brian says. Bethany Mollenkof for ESPN. He had a word for messing around with members of the opposite sex: wenching. Ex-Olympian and long-time track coach pleads NOT GUILTY to charges he sexually assaulted boys while a counselor at a Massachusetts sports camp in the 1970s after more then 50 men accused him of abuse Ms. Levine hoped one day to show the 1933 film version of Little Women. In 2016 she told The Palm Beach Daily News that Katharine Hepburns headstrong portrayal of the main character, Jo March, had inspired her when she saw the movie as a girl. One female athlete said he coached women for a time at Santa Monica College, and a school spokesperson confirmed that Mainwaring was employed part time as a track coach during the spring of 1996. I don't know what to do about that. At one point, Sharples says, Mainwaring told him to see how long he could go without indulging. He remembers it this way: Soon after Allinson arrived in Becket, Mainwaring summoned him to the soccer field to work on a special athletic feat the coach liked to show off. Benjamin doesn't know what to believe, but he writes a detailed account of what happened in his apartment. Ms. Levine became its chief fund-raiser. Robert Bender, a lanky freshman, met Mainwaring on his first day at Syracuse. UCLA runner David O'Boyle is allegedly abused. Many invited Mainwaring into their homes to meet their parents, who were equally enamored of him. First, Mainwaring hadn't voluntarily left education -- at least not at Caltech -- as he had suggested. Before long, Bender was part of Mainwaring's squad, lured more by his presence and attitude than by any of the physical training. "And so I just went along with it. He pleaded not guilty and was released on bail a few days later. The spokesperson declined to provide details about the nature of the complaint and added, "The student was not a minor, and did not want to report the alleged incident to law enforcement." Yuri Nosenko (not pictured) met Mainwaring at UCLA in 2001. ", "I was abused for several years by this despicable predator. Naomi Ruth Bronheim was born on April 15, 1923, in the Bronx to Nathan and Malvina (Mermelstein) Bronheim. In 1948 she married Leonard Levine, an accountant who had fought in the third wave at Normandy; he died in 2001. In total, three men told Outside the Lines they were sexually abused by Mainwaring while he was at Caltech. from its nadir, which is at the advent of her arrival, to where it was in 2000 and beyond, knows that she was one of the key generators of those forces.. "And the Greeks used to do this. Two thousand miles away, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a man named Tym De Santo was just back from vacation in March 2010. ", More than 40 years later, Sharples can't recall how long the alleged abuse lasted. It is currently the oldest continuously operating, private, all-boys' summer camp in Massachusetts. "I noticed a reference here to Conrad Mainwaring, who also goes by the alias Avondale Mainwaring," Brian wrote. These were things, Mainwaring said, that would dampen Bender's development as an athlete. He's a serial child molester, and he molested me when I was at UCLA. Jim Mason. The department declined comment to Outside the Lines, citing confidentiality. But deputizing this person was "a bad thing at the same time, because I wasn't totally aware of all the things that were going on. And soon, he would be in America to stay. They say their coach used his Olympic credentials, coaching achievements, relationships with accomplished athletes and expertise in psychology and physiology to persuade them to train with him, often at no charge. Ms. Levine in the 1970s greeting David Ben-Gurion, the former prime minister of Israel, on an American Jewish Congress trip to Tel Aviv. Upon arrival, the man says, Mainwaring directed him to lie down on the couch. "My Brest Friend," he called his invention. Often in partnership with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, she wrote briefs in decisive Supreme Court cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, which dismantled segregation in public schools, and Sweatt v. Painter, which successfully challenged the separate but equal doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson. Naomi attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan and graduated from Hunter College with a B.A. At that point, he says, the Zenoffs were too devastated to tell anyone else what Victor had confided to his mother. He was hired as the associate master of student housing, essentially the No. Mainwaring's name is mentioned in a comment on an obscure blog written by Tym De Santo (above). Victor was easygoing and affable. Now, they had found a support system. There's not gonna be any more boys. (Clockwise from top left) Mainwaring accusers David O'Boyle, Vernon Sharples, Michael Waxman, Tym De Santo, Robert Bender and Robert Druger. He had that dimple. Zenoff grabs his cellphone. The tip led to a 13-month reporting effort that uncovered scores of allegations spanning five decades and two continents -- and sparked a police investigation that resulted in Mainwaring's recent arrest. Outside the Lines found no evidence of Mainwaring having trouble with the law in the United Kingdom, though criminal records there are not available to the public. She remained on the board of the schools Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life and also advised the Taub Center for Israel Studies. had reinvented itself as it expanded through Lower Manhattan. The letter also notes that UCLA police spoke with Mainwaring and that he "acknowledged the nature of this physical contact on more than one occasion" but "indicated it may have been inadvertent." It was overcast, and the rush of Exposition Boulevard traffic was audible from a hundred yards off. Through the years, the camp has catered to the children of wealth -- the sons of entertainers and sports executives, politicians and architects. Allinson had been introduced to the coach the previous summer and had trained with him thereafter. He was a captivating figure to many of the young men and junior counselors, famous for his participation in the 1976 Montreal Olympics. But Stephens' blog comment would prove to be a beacon for anyone typing in Mainwaring's name. ", The coach said the boy needed to give him a hug. So Johnson and Menifee continued chasing down men whose accounts bolstered their case. Outside the Lines was unable to review the investigative files, which are protected under state law. A few days later, a man who asked to be referred to as Max is about to take a walk when his phone rings. "I think our hearts were so broken that the most we could do was grieve his death," she says. School district officials told Outside the Lines they found no records that Mainwaring was ever a staff member or a sanctioned volunteer. While the LAPD was building its case against Mainwaring, Outside the Lines spotted him at a local track meet and learned he was still coaching young athletes at Rancho Cienega Sports Complex, a public facility in South Los Angeles. He fumbles with a stopwatch. "I really think of [Mainwaring] as a killer. recognized her with a Presidential Medal in 2005. As he stretches, Benjamin (who asked that his real name not be used) sees a figure walking stiffly and deliberately toward him across the infield. The campus sits on 300 acres of land. "He said I couldn't talk to anyone about it. "My time in UK was so pleasant and inspiring!" But he was neither a professor nor, formally, a counselor. Benjamin tries to focus on his workout, but it's no use. Widow of Randolph R. Rosenbaum, former owner/ director of Camp Greylock for Boys. Later, as an adult, Allinson says he contemplated suicide. Everybody seemed to like him, and he excelled in most sports -- basketball, baseball, tennis, soccer. Greylock is the Northeast's preeminent traditional residential summer camp for boys, entering its Brian knows this isn't true because of what he's learned through the network. Any sexual contact, they say, would be seen as consensual. His bar mitzvah conversation led to a call with a federal agent in New York, which led to a call with the FBI in Los Angeles. The alleged crimes occurred in the mid-to-late 1970s, when Mainwaring worked as a counselor at Camp Greylock for Boys, a summer sports camp in the Berkshires. Marching across the infield, he can see young men stretching, and he spots Mainwaring. They proceeded to reorganize the camp with a new vision - one that focused upon individual care, instruction, and fun. The freshman was struck by how Mainwaring would "alternate between being really smiley, laughy and exuberant," then turn on this "dead-on kind of expression [that looked] like he's kind of burrowing in to you psychologically, he's penetrating you psychologically. He carried an aura of authority and spoke in a proper British accent. He was nervous and called out for Mainwaring. "I have heard a few comments since 2016, [but] to tell the truth, I didn't believe them," he says, adding that he was "fully surprised by the accusations." The first mention linking Mainwaring to abuse wouldn't appear on the blog until 2013. CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY is a school for geniuses, a science and engineering powerhouse in Pasadena, just a few miles down the road from the Rose Bowl. Over two decades she raised more than $2 billion for the university and as much as $300 million a year toward the end of her tenure. Is that when it happened to you? "'Coffee' was masturbation, and 'tea' was a wet dream. Often, talk turned to Mainwaring's international squad in America. How do you get them to trust you? "Conrad, do you know who this is? "I've been in therapy since 2002.". DECADES AFTER HER eldest son confided that he had been molested by Conrad Mainwaring and then died a few days later in a hiking accident, 78-year-old Nisha Zenoff sits on a couch in her Northern California home. O'Boyle asks. Camp Greylock for Boys has an overall rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on over 19 reviews left anonymously by employees. Initially, Nosenko loved what he found. One former Caltech student, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, told Outside the Lines that Mainwaring quickly earned a reputation for providing informal couples counseling to students and, inevitably, urging the couples to break up. Until recently, Druger says, he compartmentalized the darker parts of the relationship while crediting Mainwaring with helping to improve his life in some ways. He and Brian had connected through the survivor network and spent hours sharing their stories and feelings. He has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of sexual battery by fraud and is free on bail pending the outcome of his case. He enjoyed the training regimen, and Mainwaring was clearly legit: To Nosenko's surprise, the squad's standout member was Felix Sanchez, the Dominican American hurdler and then-Olympic hopeful. 918 Oregon Turnpike . Max says Mainwaring molested him starting when he was in high school in Syracuse in the early 1980s. The details were vague, but they began to lay bare the path of destruction -- from England to Greylock to Syracuse to Colgate to Southern California. We stress the importance of citizenship, sportsmanship, fair play, and friendship. Ms. Levines commitment to social issues remained a through line in her career, expressed perhaps most personally at Camp Greylock, the all-girls summer camp in the Adirondacks that she ran from 1955 to 1971. Several others write letters of support. "He was very clever, very diabolically clever because he was couching it as nonsexual," Brian says now. Stephens had briefly trained with Mainwaring decades earlier after being introduced by De Santo. The men now range in age from 22 to 59. He's into sports. Mainwaring coaches in the Los Angeles area. That something happened with my cousins. On Center Lake in the heart of the beautiful Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts our camp is the home of 350 boys. Outside the Lines spoke with several other men who say they trained with Mainwaring and had only positive experiences. "I couldn't even think. The men told virtually identical stories -- of being charmed, groomed, coached and sexually molested by Mainwaring for weeks, months or years under the auspices of sports training, mental training, spiritual guidance or some combination of the three. Although communication diminished, the conversations were meaningful, he says. "You're going to f---ing jail!" ", After workouts, Mainwaring gave Sharples and other squad members massages; he called it "physiotherapy." Asked if Caltech took any actions to warn other potential employers about Mainwaring, the spokesperson said the school had no further information. He was happy. Some old members continued to visit him and stay in contact, but Outside the Lines spoke with only one accuser who says he met the coach during that time. It's over for you. If other students there were molested by him on or near campus, they hadn't sought justice; the Pasadena Police Department said it has no records of any complaints against Mainwaring. In the spring of 1990, 18 months after he was fired from Caltech, Mainwaring was hired by the University of Southern California to work in its Disability Services and Programs office. A tribunal in England substantiates Sharples' claim of abuse. Besides, maybe Victor was Mainwaring's only victim. Second, no messing around with girls. ", "He was much too secretive about the operations," Oliver says. De Santo's talk of England, it turns out, had triggered Stephens to remember he had seen Mainwaring several years earlier working with a group of young men at UCLA's Drake Stadium. Divided equally between junior and senior campers, Greylock features a varied program of arts and adventure, land sports, and watersports. Places to Stay. And by finishing the call by saying, "Good luck." www.campgreylock.com. I knew I deserved to be there because I was as smart as, and often smarter than, everyone else in the room, she once said. Ability to do so is an indication of high testosterone, Mainwaring says. He lasted just over a year. He wanted the boy to kiss him, and Allinson obliged. The coach pushed his mental training, and he was adamant there should be no girlfriends and no sex. DRAKE STADIUM'S NINE dark azure lanes make up one of the most recognizable surfaces in track. Mainwaring began incorporating a new facet into his teachings with Brian: God. With cameras rolling and the reporter asking about the many men who accused him of sexual abuse, Mainwaring beelined across the parking lot. Thank you Mom and thank you England!". He has to do something. One man told Outside the Lines he was 14 when Mainwaring took him from a night activity (A) to an athletic field (B), where he was molested. During one of their conversations, Mainwaring explained that he was doing research in psychology and wanted Sharples to be one of his subjects. The spokesperson says the school wasn't made aware of any allegations against Mainwaring until this past February, at which point law enforcement authorities were notified and the school began a review of Mainwaring's time on campus. Some of the fastest humans have run there, from Jackie Joyner-Kersee to Maurice Greene. Nobody," says Bender, now 57. CAMP GREYLOCK FOR GIRLS 1921-1971. But then the detectives caught a break. Citizens in Camp Greylock, Massachusetts should be aware of illegal activities surrounding police brutality among their police departments and take actions against them. "He got me and my good friend at Camp Greylock in 1977. But at least two things Mainwaring told Max were lies. De Santo described a "truly magical evening" visit to Cambridge, where he "sat in front of a long row of colleges, sipping on a cappuccino" under the "deepest indigo blue" sky he had ever seen. "He knows the score, basically.". Those men would operate Camp Greylock for Boys for the next 50 years, until it was sold again in 1994 to a new generation of former Greylock employees. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Joan Kiddon. 2 spot in the department that oversees student living at Caltech. Around the same time, about 30 miles away, in the L.A. suburb of Agoura Hills, 31-year-old UCLA alum David O'Boyle is steeling himself for the next morning. It's unclear how or exactly when Mainwaring arrived at Greylock, but he was a stalwart for at least five summers. Anyone can read what you share. Her condo overlooks Richardson Bay in affluent Tiburon. In June 2018, Outside the Lines began investigating a tip that Mainwaring allegedly had molested a 12-year-old boy in the 1970s and might have continued such activity to the present day. He takes out a note pad and starts writing. The former student says that during a session with his then-girlfriend in the spring of 1988, Mainwaring said the couple's relationship was stalled because the man's sex drive wasn't strong enough. He smiled a lot. Greylock parent Nate has had a simply spectacular experience - from how the boys treat one another, to the focus on skill building, (including the tremendous growth I've seen in my own son in certain sports as well as in his leadership), to the tremendous camp spirit, the sensitive and supportive way Mike handled a death in the family, to . It was stupid, it was wrong," Mainwaring tells Max. The first and third didn't seem like huge deals to Nosenko, and he didn't have a girlfriend at that point, so he agreed. Sharples says he can't recall why Mainwaring wanted to keep a low profile. The headline of a 2001 article in The New York Times called Ms. Levine, who was then a senior vice president, the Dynamo at the Heart of N.Y.U.s Fund-Raising. By then the expression Clear it with Naomi had become commonplace within the universitys administration. Mainwaring calls him later that day, he says, and insists O'Boyle is a disgruntled former athlete. From 1955-1971 Greylock was owned and operated by Naomi Levine. De Santo was a niche celebrity. He says Mainwaring once "tried a bad touch on me" during a post-workout massage, at which point Stephens cut the cord. Mainwaring stumbles through, at once self-critical -- "There is total hypocrisy in my life because I'm still teaching young people." Mainwaring worked there as a counselor for several years in the 1970s. Five other local high school students say they were molested by Mainwaring during the same time period. After several unsuccessful attempts to reach the camp's current owners, Outside the Lines received an email from an attorney who said the latest iteration of the camp has never had any "affiliation whatsoever with Mainwaring." The stranger keeps talking, but the words are mostly a blur to Benjamin. How do you get these boys to believe in you so much? In an effort both to learn about Mainwaring's family history and to address his claims of abuse as a boy in Antigua, Outside the Lines reached out to his brother in England and sister in New Zealand. It's tranquil and picturesque -- a stark contrast to the dark hole in her life all these years later. "Oh, this is a good one. "He has abused many boys and young men, some of whom are my friends. Soon, the coach's lotion-filled hands were under the man's pants and grabbing his penis. The report arrived just six months before expiration of California's three-year statute of limitations on sexual battery by fraud -- touching the genitals under false pretenses. He worked for the school in student housing. David Allinson (not pictured) says Mainwaring promised him greatness if he followed his direction. Another gave Mainwaring tens of thousands of dollars over the years; that man recently found himself crying alone in his car in the wake of the coach's arrest. If you are the victim of sexual assault, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800-656-4673 or go to https://www.rainn.org, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. It's a quiet, early morning at UCLA's Drake Stadium, the sun still low. Michael Waxman, Robert Bender and Vernon Sharples describe the lasting damage they say they suffered because of Mainwaring. He's totally different," the friend said. Above all else, he just wanted to make the UCLA team. Parents. Naomi Levine, who as executive director of the American Jewish Congress in the 1970s was the first woman to lead a major Jewish advocacy organization, and who later became instrumental in New York Universitys expansion into a top-tier institution, died on Jan. 14 at her home in West Palm Beach, Fla. She was 97. Eventually, O'Boyle is done. ", Mainwaring works his hands under Benjamin's underwear: "To get the deep muscles, I need direct contact with the skin.". Associate Director and Director of Athletics Jim Mason has been coming to Greylock since 1975. His efforts to walk on to the UCLA track team haven't worked out, but under Mainwaring, his running times have improved, buoying his goal of making his country's national team. About Greylock. Mainwaring competes for Antigua-Barbuda in the 110m and 400m hurdles during the Montreal Summer Olympics. In a letter dated Aug. 15, 2016, UCLA notifies Mainwaring he has been banned from campus and from working with UCLA athletes. He gathers his stuff and walks off the track, trying to process the stranger's words: He molested me at UCLA. All while being touched inappropriately. New York's criminal statute of limitations on Druger's allegations was long expired, and there was no evidence that Mainwaring committed a federal crime, so the FBI forwarded the case to the Los Angeles Police Department. The power of the track was not lost on Yuri Nosenko, newly 18 and a freshman when he was training at Drake on a fall afternoon in 2001. By the end of September 1987, Mainwaring had, indeed, landed at Caltech. He framed it so well as training like, this is training, it's not sex.". MARGOLIS-Bert. It wouldn't be easy. Two men now allege they were molested during this time. AGE: 7 to 15 years old. The Camp Greylock Directors, Staff, Alumni, and Community mourn the passing of one of its most beloved and longest serving Directors who passed away February 19, 2002 at his home in New This contradicts California law, which states, in part, that if "the perpetrator fraudulently represented that the touching served a professional purpose, [he] is guilty of sexual battery," regardless of the age of the victim. BRIAN WAS AT his office in southern Connecticut early one morning in April 2013. "Naturally I expect you to keep my address to yourself [Ed. With Mainwaring. I still feel somewhat guilty when I spend too much time away from home, and if my daughter got sick I would stay home and care for her I wouldnt expect my husband to, she said. The Camp Greylock Directors, Staff, Alumni, and Community mourn the passing of one of its most beloved and longest serving Directors who passed away February 19, 2002 at his home in New York City . The coach then masturbated the boy to climax. Mainwaring refused to answer questions and did not respond to several subsequent interview attempts. The Official Camp Greylock Instagram Celebrating 106 years of the #G-G-R-E-Y-L-O-C-C-K!. Police deemed it a hiking accident. Additional research by Adrian Gatton in London. Even if the campers knew he had finished last in his preliminary heats in the 400- and 110-meter hurdles, it didn't seem to matter. The call lasts about 15 minutes. "Then I'll come up and give you the full treatment.". He decides to warn the athletes before doing anything else; he wants to do for them what nobody did for him, so he approaches the group. Max asks whether the sexual part of the "training" served any legitimate purpose. Ring once, hang up. The fieldwork, Mainwaring told the teenager, involved masturbation habits. ", "Do you remember me? ", Mainwaring says that he has been in therapy for years, that he left education, that he wasn't sexually abusive anymore. A decade-long $1 billion fund-raising campaign begun in 1985 was hailed as one of the most ambitious ever in higher education. Brian wants clarity. "Everybody loved Victor. In a letter to another squad member during that time, Mainwaring wrote that he was leaving for "California Institute of Technology for my new position as Counseling Psychologist and Professor of Psychology.". I remember getting emotional and saying, 'When is this going to stop? Over the past several months of training with Mainwaring, Benjamin has become a believer. Divided equally between junior and senior campers, Greylock features a varied program of arts and adventure, land sports, and watersports. ", Mainwaring, 67, attends a July 10 court hearing in Los Angeles. In 1963 Ms. Levine helped in the writing of The Issue Is Silence, a speech expressing solidarity with the civil rights movement, which Rabbi Joachim Prinz delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial moments before the Rev.
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