But somehow, I feel like he killed Victor's spirit. He details the impact Mainwaring has had on his life. 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. Ms. Levine became its chief fund-raiser. 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. For that moment, Nisha's analysis sounds detached, more professional than parental. Greylock is the Northeast's preeminent traditional residential summer camp for boys, entering its Marching across the infield, he can see young men stretching, and he spots Mainwaring. Many said they had little or no previous sexual experience when they met him. before enrolling at Columbia Law School, where she became an editor of the Law Review. 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. Mainwaring asked. Greylock is a proud member of the Berkshire Summer Camp Association. LAPD Detective Sharlene Johnson says it was difficult to find any cases against Mainwaring that fell within the statute of limitations until Benjamin stepped forward. "The pain of thinking what he must have gone through internally, holding a secret like that," she says. Divided equally between junior and senior campers, Greylock features a varied program of arts and adventure, land sports, and watersports. Before long, Bender was part of Mainwaring's squad, lured more by his presence and attitude than by any of the physical training. Although O'Boyle's confrontation led to a small victory for those who have accused Mainwaring, none of them believed he would give up coaching. Camp History. The athletic fields at Camp Greylock were surrounded by woods, as seen in this map from a camp yearbook. 's note: Emphasis is in the original.] Robert Bender, a lanky freshman, met Mainwaring on his first day at Syracuse. Eventually, O'Boyle is done. 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. "He knows the score, basically.". Sometimes, squad members were at the apartment at the same time. IN MAY 2018, a phone rings at the Marin County, California, office of Andrew Zenoff, an entrepreneur who initially struck it big two decades ago by selling a pillow for nursing mothers. Sharples files a police statement in England, alleging he was abused in the 1970s. I think that one was in Mexico. Widow of Randolph R. Rosenbaum, former owner/ director of Camp Greylock for Boys. He writes a letter to UCLA's athletic department, demanding an investigation and insisting Mainwaring be banned from the track. Brian was 18 when he arrived at Colgate in the fall of 1987, a jazz guitarist and successful high school athlete who had struggled with motivation. She gained greater visibility when she was appointed executive director of the American Jewish Congress in 1972, becoming, by all accounts, the first woman to lead such a Jewish organization. He has an early workout the next day at Drake. Mainwaring said he had a fix, though, and invited the freshman to his house. By the beginning of the 21st century, N.Y.U. had a meager endowment and, with its crumbling campus buildings and drab dormitories, was struggling to attract students. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. He wrote on the blog that he and his mother traveled to England, where the De Santo family had lived for a year when Tym was young. Allinson admired the way Mainwaring carried himself and how he tried to be a father figure, something Allinson says he lacked at home. "I couldn't even think. Other than a couple of 1976 clippings from the local Leicester newspaper that touted Mainwaring's spot in the Olympics, searches of old papers unearthed nothing unusual. A reporter approached, with a TV crew in tow. Outside the Lines spoke with 14 men who trained under Mainwaring at Drake Stadium or in the Los Angeles area from the mid-1990s to 2016 and say they were abused near campus, usually at Mainwaring's apartment. Last summer over sixty boys were Seniors at Greylock, and the friendships are the reason . "First," Mainwaring said, "No drinking or drugs. His mom parked outside his dorm and the two were unloading boxes to take up to his room when Mainwaring approached, offering to help. After his confrontation, David O'Boyle wrote the letter that got Mainwaring banned from UCLA. ", She sifts through the shots and smiles. A school spokesperson confirmed that Mainwaring worked for two years in the admissions department but provided no details about why he left. Then the strangest thing happened: A childhood friend of De Santo's named Glenn Stephens chimed in under the comments section, using an alias. Posts Videos Tagged "I think our hearts were so broken that the most we could do was grieve his death," she says. Nosenko says he never discussed this part of the training with Sanchez or other members of the squad. Finally, Benjamin goes to bed. 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. His latest squad was a mix of students attending the university and younger athletes he had met at local track meets while working as a counselor at a nearby high school. I don't know what to do about that. As startling as the sheer number of accusations was the fact that for years Mainwaring -- who rejected repeated interview requests -- remained a cipher, a man with almost no public footprint who was able to stay one step ahead of the allegations and the law. Our instructional teaching program is second to none. He had partied heavily in high school and was in emotional upheaval when he got to college. Inside the apartment, Mainwaring has Benjamin lie on his back. PRICE: $11,850. Parents. He had a very powerful way of pulling you in.". It's over for you. "His name is Conrad Montgomery Avondale Mainwaring. 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.". (Clockwise from top left) Mainwaring accusers David O'Boyle, Vernon Sharples, Michael Waxman, Tym De Santo, Robert Bender and Robert Druger. At the time, N.Y.U. Collectively, they rendered a detailed and consistent picture of a con man so skilled that he often conducted the abuse without his victims even realizing they were used as tools of his perversion. Ms. Levine moved to West Palm Beach a few years ago and began writing a memoir tentatively called History and Me. She also started a book and film club at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, where members discussed social issues. ", "He was much too secretive about the operations," Oliver says. He tells Mainwaring that if he is to truly repent, he needs to make a "wholesale confession" to all the men he wronged. Camp Greylock spreads across 300 acres near the town of Becket, a bucolic setting of top-flight sports facilities -- 15 tennis courts, five baseball fields, three soccer fields, two 100-yard flag football fields, an in-line hockey rink, a nine-hole golf course, a climbing wall, a zip line, a lake and a weight room -- and cabins nestled amid abundant forest. Nobody," says Bender, now 57. What did you do?" ", "I don't know how to answer that question. 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. 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. 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. Rachel Bujalski for ESPN. Fourteen men, including Robert Bender (above), now allege they were molested during this time. Mainwaring began incorporating a new facet into his teachings with Brian: God. Mainwaring stumbles through, at once self-critical -- "There is total hypocrisy in my life because I'm still teaching young people." MARGOLIS-Bert. He and his mop of blond hair appeared on the inaugural season of HGTV's "Design Star," where he got his nickname because of his varied talents: designer, singer-songwriter, sculptor, photographer, mountain biker, former professional ski racer. The camp was founded in 1916 by three brothers, who sold it to a group of former campers in the late 1940s. O'Boyle later said UCLA police informed him that the umbrella strikes didn't merit criminal charges and that the statute of limitations had expired on his claims of sexual abuse. Anyone can read what you share. Dates & Fees. Michael Waxman, shown near his home in Maine, says he was only 13 when Mainwaring molested him at Camp Greylock. Druger wanted Mainwaring brought to justice, but it wasn't looking good. Andrew says he never had Mainwaring as a counselor and was never approached by him, and he didn't learn of the alleged abuse until after Victor's death. He was on his own -- not on the UCLA track team but hoping to get there. Mainwaring wouldn't charge Nosenko for his services, but there were three requirements. It was about 8:30 on the East Coast -- but he had designs on waking up Conrad Mainwaring three time zones to the west, using a number he found online. Asked if Caltech took any actions to warn other potential employers about Mainwaring, the spokesperson said the school had no further information. "It's like finding out the Wizard of Oz is only this guy behind the curtain, and instead of getting courage, a heart or a brain, you found out he was a child predator and abused you 40 years ago," he says. It's a friend -- a reporter -- following up on an earlier conversation: "That guy you told me about -- the one you said molested your brother back in the '70s what's his name again?" In the lawsuit and in . After that, his parents bought him a used highway patrol car, thinking it would be "a safe tank," but he was pulled over driving faster than 100 mph. Senior campers said they were expected to read the New York Times in full each Sunday in order . In addition to the latest podcast from ESPN Investigates, here's where to find ESPN's Emmy-winning TV documentary and latest updates on the Mainwaring investigation. Outside the Lines begins investigating Mainwaring, eventually identifying 41 alleged victims. He is not on the Bruins' track team, but he is training toward his dream of making his home country's national squad. Vernon Sharples says Mainwaring molested him in the 1970s. Mainwaring said he noticed that Nosenko seemed serious about training, and he invited the young man to join his current squad. 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. ", "I understand. 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. He pleads not guilty. He gathers his stuff and walks off the track, trying to process the stranger's words: He molested me at UCLA. He takes out a note pad and starts writing. He points off camera toward what appear to be some of his squad members and suggests he is going to time them. 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. The directors visit every new family in their home in the fall, and the camp boasts a return rate of 95 percent. CAMP GREYLOCK FOR GIRLS 1921-1971. Often, talk turned to Mainwaring's international squad in America. She raised billions of dollars for the school. 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. "Good, this has been a big test for you, and I'm happy to say you passed it and you are on your way to the Olympics," Mainwaring said. Mainwaring refused to answer questions and did not respond to several subsequent interview attempts. She attended Columbia Law School, where among the other students in the 1940s were such soon-to-be-prominent women as the politician Bella Abzug, the labor lawyer Judith Vladeck and the federal judge Constance Baker Motley. DURATION: 7 weeks. Many invited Mainwaring into their homes to meet their parents, who were equally enamored of him. 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. It's Brian. Mainwaring helps coach Felix Sanchez to Olympic gold in the 400m hurdles in Athens. He says he and a counselor he's been seeing "are pretty sure I experienced an event while I was young. To remove the additional barrier of transportation, helping ensure access to the healthy meals, learning opportunities and physical activity at Camp Greylock, the Y runs a free bus service each . One man, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, competed for the UCLA track team from 2010 to 2013 and says he was coerced so artfully that a session occurred inside Mainwaring's apartment as the two men watched TV coverage of the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal. In total, 14 men told Outside the Lines they were abused by Mainwaring in the Syracuse area. In the decade after his departure from USC, Mainwaring kept an even lower profile than he had in the past -- back when he was telling Vernon Sharples to keep his whereabouts a secret. Initially, Nosenko loved what he found. The land was purchased in the fall of 1915, and its opening summer was 1916. Look in that camera. 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." Mainwaring, a 69-year-old Los Angeles resident and United Kingdom national, molested campers from 1975 to 1979 while working as a counselor at Camp Greylock in Becket, prosecutors alleged. Early on the morning of March 21 of this year, reporters found Mainwaring sitting at the track alone, waiting for his athletes to show up. In 1980, just shy of his 18th birthday, Victor Zenoff told his mother he'd been sexually abused by Conrad Mainwaring years earlier. Good luck processing and understanding how much you've hurt young men.". His dad was once one of the Soviet Union's top 400-meter runners, and his mom was among that country's best women's tennis players. We offer a structured program and an unparalleled facility with nearly 300 acres on a beautiful lakefront campus. The position came with a house near campus. It was overcast, and the rush of Exposition Boulevard traffic was audible from a hundred yards off. Andrew Zenoff sought out his reporter friend. Everything I was doing was about control.". And if I kept my mouth shut about it, I could get an awful lot done.. He says his actions were "Hitler-like. Camp Greylock is a boys' summer camp located in Becket, Massachusetts, United States. 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." Here's how he remembers it: After a few rings, Mainwaring, now 61, picks up. But by the time he posted about the England trip -- more than three decades later -- De Santo thought he had buried that past. Mainwaring works in the admissions office at Colgate University. He was happy. Benjamin doesn't know what to believe, but he writes a detailed account of what happened in his apartment. He and Brian had connected through the survivor network and spent hours sharing their stories and feelings. You don't want anybody to know, and he relies on that horror that his victim will be equally invested in keeping it a secret as he wants it to be a secret. In an effort to increase their chances of getting a felony filed, the detectives sought to show prosecutors that the alleged offense was part of a pattern -- in this case dating back to the 1970s. In another letter to Sharples, he wrote, "I trust that you will not tell anyone where I am or what I am doing, as for the first time I can be away from the newspaper and wagging tongues and people I cannot tolerate.". Mainwaring's name is mentioned in a comment on an obscure blog written by Tym De Santo (above). He says the abuse went on for several years. His name was Conrad Mainwaring. Mainwaring was an avid reader and classical music aficionado who seemed, at least to a kid from Leicester, to know everything. Naomi attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan and graduated from Hunter College with a B.A. 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. Mainwaring, a resident of Los Angeles, worked at Camp Greylock for Boys in Becket, Massachusetts when he allegedly committed the crimes. Her son Andrew had helped set the wheels in motion by speaking with his reporter friend, and now Nisha was hearing about what Outside the Lines had unearthed about Conrad Mainwaring: There are at least 41 men who have accused Mainwaring of abusing them. Mainwaring works at the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech. Mainwaring told Brian he was headed to California for a new job, gave the young man his new number and said he could call collect anytime. 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. 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. After a Title IX investigation spurred by O'Boyle, UCLA bans Mainwaring from Drake Stadium and the university. Stephens had briefly trained with Mainwaring decades earlier after being introduced by De Santo. UCLA police took this report from Benjamin about two weeks after the runner witnessed David O'Boyle's confrontation with Mainwaring. "He was very clever, very diabolically clever because he was couching it as nonsexual," Brian says now. Again, secrecy was mandatory. With a new deputy, there was someone else to handle middle-of-the-night calls to the dorms. Benjamin, in a state of fatigue and despair, goes back to his apartment. Says the man, who also earned a law degree from UCLA: "It didn't even cross my mind that this was the same thing, that he was doing this for his own pleasure.". Reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada confronts Mainwaring outside the public track where the coach was training athletes earlier this year. A Syracuse University spokesperson told Outside the Lines that Mainwaring completed a master's degree in guidance and counseling and began working toward a doctorate, which he didn't complete. Bender says he pulled away after just a few experiences but couldn't bring himself to talk about it at the time, bowed by shame and the force of Mainwaring's message -- secrecy. But, as she told it, she was rejected after taking an oral exam because she had a lisp. 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 coach pushed his mental training, and he was adamant there should be no girlfriends and no sex. In total, three men told Outside the Lines they were sexually abused by Mainwaring while he was at Caltech. She thrived in a profession where she found herself mostly surrounded by men, taking on leadership roles and helping to turn New York University into a top-tier institution. You're not doing this anymore.

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