At that point, he says, the Zenoffs were too devastated to tell anyone else what Victor had confided to his mother. Until recently, Druger says, he compartmentalized the darker parts of the relationship while crediting Mainwaring with helping to improve his life in some ways. Greylock offers a structured program that combines instruction and game play in . Many had endured pervasive shame. He was happy. In addition to her daughter, Ms. Levine is survived by two granddaughters and a great-granddaughter. In 1995, Michael Marcus and Lukas Horn purchased the assets of the former Camp Greylock for Boys, Inc. The department declined comment to Outside the Lines, citing confidentiality. "Naturally I expect you to keep my address to yourself [Ed. She decided to pursue law instead. Mainwaring refused to answer questions and did not respond to several subsequent interview attempts. Mainwaring is charged with sexual battery by fraud in the June 27, 2016, case. Sharples doesn't remember why Mainwaring stopped, but he says, "When it did stop, I remember feeling almost rejected.". "For what? 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. 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. He worked a series of random jobs and continued to coach athletes, sometimes in an official capacity. Still, there wasn't much the detectives could do. In later years the property was divided into smaller camps. Our winter office is located in NYC. A sympathetic friend said he just had to meet Conrad Mainwaring. 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. Several staff members from that time period and one former camper who is now a staffer told Outside the Lines they couldn't recall anyone matching Mainwaring's description. Anyone who knows the generative forces that took N.Y.U. The man comes into focus: early 30s, flowing blond hair, piercing blue eyes. The coach preached sobriety and celibacy, citing booze and girls as obstacles to athletic success. I have flashes of it." The stranger approaches Benjamin; he nods in the direction of an older man in a track jacket and white Adidas cap, perched on a folding chair about 10 feet away. "My Brest Friend," he called his invention. He's a serial child molester, and he molested me when I was at UCLA. Nosenko came from athletic cloth. By then, the summer of 1978, Mainwaring was well on his way to establishing a dramatic legacy at Greylock. Mainwaring coaches in the Los Angeles area. A school spokesperson confirmed that Mainwaring worked for two years in the admissions department but provided no details about why he left. 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. In the lawsuit and in . The men now range in age from 22 to 59. They walked and talked a bit, did a few exercises. Many invited Mainwaring into their homes to meet their parents, who were equally enamored of him. The coach then masturbated the boy to climax. CAMP GREYLOCK FOR GIRLS 1921-1971. "He said I couldn't talk to anyone about it. 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?" Always.". It was pitch-black, surrounded by trees. He's into sports. His boss, Robert Oliver, would note that Mainwaring was "very charming, but he didn't volunteer very much information, so I had to get most of what I needed to know by kind of dragging it out of him." "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. Founded in 1916, it is one of the oldest privately owned, all-boys camps in the nation. He told Allinson to relax: "You need to be able to focus, and you need to learn how to slow your heartbeat down. MARGOLIS-Bert. The call lasts 44 minutes, and Max immediately records everything he can remember in his journal, which he provided to Outside the Lines. You can contact us year round or request info online. A tribunal in England substantiates Sharples' claim of abuse. The men who ran the camp when Mainwaring worked there are dead. DURATION: 7 weeks. The athletic fields at Camp Greylock were surrounded by woods, as seen in this map from a camp yearbook. ", "Yes, I've struggled with this my whole life," Mainwaring says. At Camp Greylock on Raquette Lake, senior girls were expected to study their copies of the Sunday New York Times and be prepared to discuss current events in the evening. There, Victor developed a close relationship with a certain counselor, a man whose distinctive qualities drew campers to him. 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. It lasted several weeks, during which time Sharples says the coach asked about frequency, timing, duration and other aspects of self-gratification. It's Brian. 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. Everything I was doing was about control.". Mainwaring insisted the squad train in secret. He details the impact Mainwaring has had on his life. Now, they had found a support system. Now an eye surgeon and aikido instructor in Syracuse, Druger, 56, says he visited Mainwaring for "sessions" in dorms where Mainwaring worked. Ms. Levine became its chief fund-raiser. All of the cases were too old. If you stop, I won't coach you.'". In recent years, several men banded together to raise $13,000 to help pay for Mainwaring's hip replacement. ", "I don't know how to answer that question. Rachel Bujalski for ESPN. She's fighting back tears. 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 . Robert Oliver, who oversaw student housing at Caltech, said in an oral history that Mainwaring was secretive about his counseling sessions with students. "He just kept on saying that I'm this amazing guy kind of showering me with compliments," Sharples says. Five other local high school students say they were molested by Mainwaring during the same time period. DRAKE STADIUM'S NINE dark azure lanes make up one of the most recognizable surfaces in track. 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 . So Johnson and Menifee continued chasing down men whose accounts bolstered their case. Last summer over sixty boys were Seniors at Greylock, and the friendships are the reason . Brian knows this isn't true because of what he's learned through the network. 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. 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. And so it was that Brian found himself in Mainwaring's office one day, challenged to attain greatness through a mental strength and therapy session. He's totally different," the friend said. Greylock is a place to foster friendships. Yuri Nosenko (not pictured) met Mainwaring at UCLA in 2001. He says Mainwaring once "tried a bad touch on me" during a post-workout massage, at which point Stephens cut the cord. MARGOLIS-Bert. Nosenko says he never discussed this part of the training with Sanchez or other members of the squad. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Joan Kiddon. Druger wanted Mainwaring brought to justice, but it wasn't looking good. Parents. 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. I think a lot of that has to do with society being more open to what is and is not a crime when it comes to all spectrums of sexual assault.". UCLA runner David O'Boyle is allegedly abused. 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. ", "I trusted this guy, I thought it was OK, but what he did to me f---ed me up for the next 10 years.". "I noticed a reference here to Conrad Mainwaring, who also goes by the alias Avondale Mainwaring," Brian wrote. Benjamin feels uneasy, but he is oddly pleased when Mainwaring says, "Good, good, you're getting percentage quite quickly. Naomi Levine in an undated photo. 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. De Santo was a niche celebrity. Outside the Lines begins investigating Mainwaring, eventually identifying 41 alleged victims. ", More than 40 years later, Sharples can't recall how long the alleged abuse lasted. July 15, 2023. Divided equally between junior and senior campers, Greylock features a varied program of arts and adventure, land sports, and watersports. Druger spoke to LAPD Detective Danetta Menifee, relaying his experience and putting her and her partner, Detective Sharlene Johnson, in touch with others who said Mainwaring abused them. 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. Camp Greylock, located in Becket, is described on the camp's website as "the Northeast's preeminent traditional residential summer camp for boys, entering its 100th summer on Center Lake, in . Michael and Lukas immediately started rebuilding the camp's infrastructure and improving the facility. 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. Visiting Day. 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.". "He was sort of like a hero figure to my brother," Zenoff says. But Allinson says the relationship took a dramatic turn that summer at Greylock. It is currently the oldest continuously operating, private, all-boys' summer camp in Massachusetts. I'm calling you to see if you repented for molesting young men and boys. Nor did the stranger realize that he had just pulled a thread that would begin unraveling the mystery and misdeeds of Conrad Mainwaring, a former Olympian who coached Olympic-level athletes, including a two-time gold medalist. 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 Benjamin, in a state of fatigue and despair, goes back to his apartment. Before long, Bender was part of Mainwaring's squad, lured more by his presence and attitude than by any of the physical training. Ms. Levine, who grew up in the Bronx in the 1930s, first aspired to become a public-school teacher. When he wasn't working as an assistant at a sporting goods store, he was smoking cigarettes and pilfering alcohol from his parents, who he says weren't very attentive. There's not gonna be any more boys. Ms. Levine in 2004, the year she retired from N.Y.U. IT'S EARLY EVENING, June 27, 2016, and Mainwaring is giving Benjamin a ride to his student apartment after a workout at Drake Stadium. The network of men accusing Mainwaring jelled. As one said, "He was like a virus, a contagion.". Tripp Lake Camp. "I'm more sorry that you turned around and perpetrated it on others. It is unclear how many new squad members Mainwaring began training in the 1990s. It wouldn't be easy. "Like cults use the Bible, he used it in a way that he knew had pull with me. Get Ready for Camp. David O'Boyle says he confronted Mainwaring partly to warn other athletes who were still training with the coach. He is carrying a large umbrella, which he uses to take occasional swipes at O'Boyle, connecting at least once. Bender and six other former Syracuse students say Mainwaring used his veil of secrecy to molest them in the dorms, using virtually identical tactics. 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. Mainwaring allegedly molests a runner at his student apartment on the UCLA campus. Look in that camera. It's over for you. 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. How do you get these boys to believe in you so much? Robert Bender, who met Mainwaring on his first day at Syracuse, says the coach had a "powerful way of pulling you in.". 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 is not on the Bruins' track team, but he is training toward his dream of making his home country's national squad. Camp Greylock for Boys has an overall rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on over 19 reviews left anonymously by employees. He and Brian had connected through the survivor network and spent hours sharing their stories and feelings. 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. Brian wants clarity. Founded in 1916, it is one of the oldest privately owned, all-boys camps in the nation. This camp must comply with regulations of the MDPH & be licensed by the LBOH. Sharples files a police statement in England, alleging he was abused in the 1970s. David O'Boyle describes his feelings as he prepared to confront Mainwaring in 2016. Citing employee privacy policies, a spokesperson for USC declined to say whether the school had known about Mainwaring's dismissal from Caltech or comment on why he left. He had a very powerful way of pulling you in.". One time, he rolled his car and nearly killed himself. Senior campers said they were expected to read the New York Times in full each Sunday in order . ", After workouts, Mainwaring gave Sharples and other squad members massages; he called it "physiotherapy." 67% of employees would recommend working at Camp Greylock for Boys to a friend and 66% have a positive outlook for the business. There's not gonna be any more molesting. Robert Druger says he was sexually abused by Mainwaring while he attended high school in Syracuse, New York, and later when he was at Syracuse University. About two weeks later, Benjamin works up the nerve to tell his parents, who encourage him to file a report with authorities. "He was very clever, very diabolically clever because he was couching it as nonsexual," Brian says now. 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. But Victor changed over three summers at camp. Besides, maybe Victor was Mainwaring's only victim. Efforts were made to corroborate their stories, including speaking with family members, friends and spouses they had confided in over the years, as well as reviewing letters, journals, photos, official documents and news articles. Later, as an adult, Allinson says he contemplated suicide. We would always say Victor had a certain sense of loving and being kind to people. He says his parents left him alone in Antigua until he was 9 and that "some sort of molestation took place. All part of the research, he was told. Thank you Mom and thank you England!". IN THE SUMMER of 1975, the textile hub of Leicester, England, a gloomy, downtrodden city 100 miles north of London, had little to offer 15-year-old Vernon Sharples. The man lays into the coach for what seems like forever. 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.". 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. We offer a structured program and an unparalleled facility with nearly 300 acres on a beautiful lakefront campus. There was a way to call him to schedule a therapy session. ", "I was abused for several years by this despicable predator. He wanted the boy to kiss him, and Allinson obliged. Squad members visited from the East Coast, and they were impressed by his two-story digs, which had access to a swimming pool. Here's how he remembers it: After a few rings, Mainwaring, now 61, picks up. Oh, and one more thing, Mainwaring added: Before you come to the field, brush your teeth. She raised billions of dollars for the school. He had a word for messing around with members of the opposite sex: wenching. "There were several times when I watched him give my peers hand jobs," he says. David Allinson (not pictured) says Mainwaring promised him greatness if he followed his direction. Greylock is a proud member of the Berkshire Summer Camp Association. When Sharples turned 18, Mainwaring invited him to cross the Atlantic and work as a counselor at Camp Greylock for Boys in Massachusetts. 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. Victor was easygoing and affable. Nobody," says Bender, now 57. Benjamin doesn't know what to believe, but he writes a detailed account of what happened in his apartment.

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