“I know words, I have the best words. I have the best, but there is no better word than stupid.”
Donald Trump I think a moment must be taken to acknowledge the fact that one Frederick Claus August Wehlen, grandson to Charles A. Brigham, has today, completed more time at Phillips Exeter Academy than anyone since his great grandfather, Henry Hanna Brigham. F wanted to know the exact date he passed the mark, and I said we really didn't write down kick out days. He thought we should have- you know, so we could send a card.
The Brigham/Wehlen clan is feeling a bit cocky now, and thus will be sending more kids Exeter's way: more impressionable minds; more cold nights with non huggers and bad food; more dreamers; more chemistry (CMB and F will be in the same AP class next year- you heard me: those two playing together with chemicals); more hockey; more crew: more more more.
Today is the day Covfefe withdrew from the Paris climate accords. But it also an exquisitely beautiful full circle moment for our family; a quiet redemption; a day that makes us think ghosts just might walk among us.
Oh! It is also National Book Day! And under Trump, learning might be the most subversive, reactionary, revolutionary act you can do. As Phillips said: .."WHEN we reflect upon the grand design of the great Parent of the Universe in the creation of mankind, and the improvements of which the mind is capable, both in knowledge and virtue, as well as upon the prevalence of ignorance and vice, disorder and wickedness, and upon the direct tendency and certain issue of such a course of things, such reflections must occasion in thoughtful minds an earnest solicitude to find the source of those evils and their remedy." So get on it my thoughtful minded people. Find those sources of evil and their remedy- won't you? xx  |
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| The only autograph in my father's yearbook: "Brig- we never did have our own little celebration, did we? Brick." Ok first-nice punctuation Brick! in a yearbook, no less! second: that sounds ominous. I don't think Brick was referring to chess. |
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| Ok this makes me laugh so hard! Could you have made this guy up??? Man most likely to have "German" relatives. I didn't say Nazi. You thought it, but I didn't say it. |
2 comments:
Just to correct a few facts. Charlie Brigham entered Exeter as a lower. At Thanksgiving time (his senior year) he needed to reach his father who had not sent him the fare to take the train to be with cousins in Washington D C. Charlie used a plug nickel to make the call (coin telephones then) and that broke a big rule. The Academy was very sensitive about breaking rules that involved the city (or whatever) If the truth be told Charlie might have been on thin ice with the Academy so that ended his Exeter career but not his lifelong love of the Academy.
I am sure he knows that his 3 grandchildren will be there next year. He will enjoy the ride wherever he is,
thanks Nana! alls well that ends well I say....
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