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. What are you, 7 years old? So when Mainwaring invited Sharples to train with what he called his "squad" of athletes at Saffron Lane Athletics Stadium in Leicester, the boy leaped at the chance. Widow of Randolph R. Rosenbaum, former owner/ director of Camp Greylock for Boys. The call lasts about 15 minutes. 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." He says he and a counselor he's been seeing "are pretty sure I experienced an event while I was young. Eventually, Bender says, the training turned physical, with the coach conducting "physiotherapy" that led to inappropriate touching. Two thousand miles away, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a man named Tym De Santo was just back from vacation in March 2010. Sharples didn't need much persuading; he felt honored. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Joan Kiddon. She wanted to free herself from being an ordinary woman, Ms. Levine said. Mainwaring wouldn't charge Nosenko for his services, but there were three requirements. He worked a series of random jobs and continued to coach athletes, sometimes in an official capacity. had a meager endowment and, with its crumbling campus buildings and drab dormitories, was struggling to attract students. Ms. Levine left the American Jewish Congress in 1978 and accepted a position at N.Y.U., hired to help it become a top-tier university. It's over for you. "What are you willing to do for it, how much mental energy are you prepared to give? A handful of the men say they tried to bring Mainwaring to justice in England and the United States, only to be met with shrugs or hindered by statutes of limitations. 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. Camp Greylock for Boys has an overall rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on over 19 reviews left anonymously by employees. He goes directly to UCLA police, where he tells an officer everything, from the alleged abuse a decade ago to the confrontation that day and Mainwaring hitting him with the umbrella. David O'Boyle describes his feelings as he prepared to confront Mainwaring in 2016. Among the Nottingham students was Robert Druger, who later attended Syracuse University and ran on the track team. We were all used and abused by Conrad. If you stop, I won't coach you.'". Tym De Santo's random blog post about a vacation improbably became a hub for Mainwaring's alleged victims. Mainwaring worked with hundreds of boys at Camp Greylock, as shown in this photo from a camp yearbook. Dates & Fees. Victor was the youngest, just 12. David Allinson (not pictured) says Mainwaring promised him greatness if he followed his direction. "But for me, it was always an unfinished piece of business. They proceeded to reorganize the camp with a new vision - one that focused upon individual care, instruction, and fun. Mainwaring works in the admissions office at Colgate University. 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. Listen: The Running Man, a four-episode podcast, "No, he can f--- himself," comes the reply. Greylock is the Northeast's preeminent traditional residential summer camp for boys, entering its By this point, religion had become a central part of the young man's life. He had partied heavily in high school and was in emotional upheaval when he got to college. Born in Antigua as Conrad Avondale Montgomery Mainwarren. The campus sits on 300 acres of land. The network of men accusing Mainwaring jelled. Again, secrecy was mandatory. Sometimes, squad members were at the apartment at the same time. After his confrontation, David O'Boyle wrote the letter that got Mainwaring banned from UCLA. He goes to his computer and searches for any information on performance and masturbation and testosterone levels. 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. July 15, 2023. Often, talk turned to Mainwaring's international squad in America. About two weeks later, Benjamin works up the nerve to tell his parents, who encourage him to file a report with authorities. Three men now allege they were molested during this time. 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. He had that dimple. He says his actions were "Hitler-like. The lawyer did not respond to repeated emails seeking additional comment. They walked and talked a bit, did a few exercises. 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. In 1980, just shy of his 18th birthday, Victor Zenoff told his mother he'd been sexually abused by Conrad Mainwaring years earlier. In 1995, Michael Marcus and Lukas Horn purchased the assets of the former Camp Greylock for Boys, Inc. had reinvented itself as it expanded through Lower Manhattan. Mainwaring said he had a fix, though, and invited the freshman to his house. I hope you know that I'm genuinely sorry. After talking with reporters, Benjamin learned about the LAPD investigation and contacted officers, sharing his own experience. 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. During his time in Syracuse, Mainwaring also kept office hours as a counselor at nearby Nottingham High School, according to two men who say they were minors when he abused them there. He looks like an athlete, firm and thin, but he's wearing street clothes. Reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada confronts Mainwaring outside the public track where the coach was training athletes earlier this year. That was true for David Allinson, a track star with Olympic ambitions in 1979. Greylock offers a structured program that combines instruction and game play in . 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. It's over for you. He not only stole our bodies but he stole our minds, too.". Sharples files a police statement in England, alleging he was abused in the 1970s. By the beginning of the 21st century, N.Y.U. He concluded, "Hundreds of years of history, people, stories and events. Founded in 1916, it is one of the oldest privately owned, all-boys camps in the nation. His mom parked outside his dorm and the two were unloading boxes to take up to his room when Mainwaring approached, offering to help. "Indeed, I am told that he asked the people he was counseling not to divulge information about what was going on in their counseling sessions.". 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. He fumbles with a stopwatch. he wrote. In fact, to this day, some of the men report feeling wildly conflicted -- angry and tortured by the abuse yet convinced that some of their achievements would not have been possible without him. But as Nisha's anger became consumed by grief, she says, her sense of urgency for justice was pushed to the background. ", Mainwaring, an avid letter writer, emphasized the need for secrecy in correspondence with Vernon Sharples in the early 1980s. With Benjamin, the detectives had a shot at bringing a case to the district attorney. Adrenaline floods his brain. 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. Andrew Zenoff sought out his reporter friend. 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. 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. The campus sits on 300 acres of land, high in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts. And by finishing the call by saying, "Good luck." "I noticed a reference here to Conrad Mainwaring, who also goes by the alias Avondale Mainwaring," Brian wrote. Thank you Mom and thank you England!". According to their accounts -- 15 on the record -- Mainwaring carried out his abuse across two continents and four states, often while employed at prestigious institutions. He smiled a lot. "Naturally I expect you to keep my address to yourself [Ed. 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. In 1921 Andrew II's camp was sold to the Mason family and became Camp Greylock for Girls. 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. There's not gonna be any more molesting. 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. "First," Mainwaring said, "No drinking or drugs. 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. How do you get them to trust you? Besides, maybe Victor was Mainwaring's only victim. Benjamin, in a state of fatigue and despair, goes back to his apartment. "Do you train with this man?" 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. A school spokesperson confirmed that Mainwaring worked for two years in the admissions department but provided no details about why he left. Mainwaring said he noticed that Nosenko seemed serious about training, and he invited the young man to join his current squad. 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. He pleads not guilty. Yes this is what summer camp should look like smiles from ear to ear! ", The coach said the boy needed to give him a hug. All of the cases were too old. Marching across the infield, he can see young men stretching, and he spots Mainwaring. And then third, you've got to come to church with me once.". With a new deputy, there was someone else to handle middle-of-the-night calls to the dorms. Initially, Nosenko loved what he found. He tells Mainwaring that if he is to truly repent, he needs to make a "wholesale confession" to all the men he wronged. Fourteen men, including Robert Bender (above), now allege they were molested during this time. Parents. "Shhh, keep your voice down," the coach said, waving a flashlight. A decade-long $1 billion fund-raising campaign begun in 1985 was hailed as one of the most ambitious ever in higher education. Nobody," says Bender, now 57. From 1955-1971 Greylock was owned and operated by Naomi Levine. Later, Outside the Lines attempted to contact Mainwaring by email, phone and a letter left at his apartment. "He got me and my good friend at Camp Greylock in 1977. The university gave her a Presidential Medal. The former Olympian, who served as a camp counselor at Camp Greylock located in the Berkshire County town of Becket, is facing nine counts of indecent assault and battery on a child over the age . It's tranquil and picturesque -- a stark contrast to the dark hole in her life all these years later. He just wants something -- anything -- done. Several Syracuse squad members would visit him at Colgate, and new members joined. We offer a structured program and an unparalleled facility with nearly 300 acres on a beautiful lakefront campus. In December, a former training partner of Benjamin's had encouraged him to reach out to Outside the Lines. 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 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. 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. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Joan Kiddon. Because the allegation did not include a claim of penetration, the sexual battery was what is referred to as a "wobbler," meaning it might not be charged by prosecutors as a felony. "I looked at him like a Christian disciple because he would intersperse his weird, whacked-out teaching with Bible aphorisms here and there," says Brian, who has a master's degree from Yale Divinity School. ", More than 40 years later, Sharples can't recall how long the alleged abuse lasted. There wasn't a single mention of Conrad Mainwaring, whom De Santo met when he lived in England. Sharples doesn't remember why Mainwaring stopped, but he says, "When it did stop, I remember feeling almost rejected.". A tribunal in England substantiates Sharples' claim of abuse. Ms. Levine joined the American Jewish Congress in the 1950s as a lawyer on its Commission on Law and Social Action. 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. Until recently, Druger says, he compartmentalized the darker parts of the relationship while crediting Mainwaring with helping to improve his life in some ways. Outside the Lines begins investigating Mainwaring, eventually identifying 41 alleged victims. As they go back and forth, Max lays out the devastation he suffered, including thoughts of killing himself. At the time that Stephens made his 2011 remark on De Santo's blog, Mainwaring was mostly invisible on the internet, despite having been an Olympian who coached Sanchez to a gold medal in 2004. The article said that Mainwaring's job would make him "available for more one-to-one interactions with the students.". By 15, he was consumed by drugs and risky behavior, and the family had moved to the West Coast. WHILE MAINWARING WAS busy coaching at the UCLA track, his past was beginning to catch up. Divided equally between junior and senior campers, Greylock features a varied program of arts and adventure, land sports, and watersports. MARGOLIS-Bert. Mainwaring began incorporating a new facet into his teachings with Brian: God. There, according to the indictment . One time, he rolled his car and nearly killed himself. 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. He pleaded not guilty and was released on bail a few days later. "Oh, this is a good one. ", But things soon unraveled for Mainwaring at Caltech. "I'll find parking," Mainwaring tells Benjamin. 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. 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. The coach pushed his mental training, and he was adamant there should be no girlfriends and no sex. Some of the members were UCLA students, some were not and some were Olympic-level athletes who had finished college. In total, three men told Outside the Lines they were sexually abused by Mainwaring while he was at Caltech. 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. Mainwaring is charged with sexual battery by fraud in the June 27, 2016, case. Allinson admired the way Mainwaring carried himself and how he tried to be a father figure, something Allinson says he lacked at home. 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. Above all else, he just wanted to make the UCLA team. And if I kept my mouth shut about it, I could get an awful lot done.. "It was a little disheartening, listening to the victims, how they were affected back then, how they're still affected, and knowing that [we] couldn't do anything," Johnson told Outside the Lines. Anyone who knows the generative forces that took N.Y.U. Inside the apartment, Mainwaring has Benjamin lie on his back. 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. Places to Stay. Andrew Zenoff says his older brother, Victor, spun into a life of drugs and risky behavior after his alleged abuse by Conrad Mainwaring. In total, 14 men told Outside the Lines they were abused by Mainwaring in the Syracuse area. He takes out a note pad and starts writing. 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. As Nisha absorbs the breadth of the accusations and Mainwaring's lasting impact, she distills his influence to a "manipulation of the brain. Outside the Lines was unable to review the investigative files, which are protected under state law. Sitting on the back deck of his home outside Syracuse last fall, Druger says the full gravity of the abuse didn't hit him until the past few years. 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. 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. Most notably, he allegedly hadn't stopped abusing young athletes. 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. A few days later, officers knocked on Nisha Zenoff's front door. He has an early workout the next day at Drake. The men now range in age from 22 to 59. "And the Greeks used to do this. After watching To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), they talked about racism in America; after Adams Rib (1942), they shared their views on sexism and gender inequality. The man lays into the coach for what seems like forever. Michael Waxman, Robert Bender and Vernon Sharples describe the lasting damage they say they suffered because of Mainwaring. It is unclear how many new squad members Mainwaring began training in the 1990s. He never replied. The directors visit every new family in their home in the fall, and the camp boasts a return rate of 95 percent. ", Mainwaring works his hands under Benjamin's underwear: "To get the deep muscles, I need direct contact with the skin.". At the time, he didn't think of it as abuse; Mainwaring used clinical language, never sexualizing the "physiotherapy." 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. 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." before enrolling at Columbia Law School, where she became an editor of the Law Review. The coach then masturbated the boy to climax. 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. In 1948 she married Leonard Levine, an accountant who had fought in the third wave at Normandy; he died in 2001. She decided to pursue law instead. Now an eye surgeon and aikido instructor in Syracuse, Druger, 56, says he visited Mainwaring for "sessions" in dorms where Mainwaring worked. Oliver is now dead, but in an audio oral history recorded in 1988, he clearly was describing Mainwaring when he talked about hiring an associate master of student housing who was "doing a dissertation at Syracuse. Ms. Levine, second from left, in the 1950s at an American Jewish Congress Womens Division event, with Eleanor Roosevelt at her left. Druger wanted Mainwaring brought to justice, but it wasn't looking good. Allinson, now a corporate executive living with his wife and children in Northern California, says after that night, "I knew my life had completely changed. A sympathetic friend said he just had to meet Conrad Mainwaring. You can contact us year round or request info online. He is carrying a large umbrella, which he uses to take occasional swipes at O'Boyle, connecting at least once. He writes a letter to UCLA's athletic department, demanding an investigation and insisting Mainwaring be banned from the track. 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. 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 . Ability to do so is an indication of high testosterone, Mainwaring says. ", He then suggested Allinson think up an erection. 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. It was overcast, and the rush of Exposition Boulevard traffic was audible from a hundred yards off. "His name is Conrad Montgomery Avondale Mainwaring. MARGOLIS-Bert. Sharples says he can't recall why Mainwaring wanted to keep a low profile. He had a word for messing around with members of the opposite sex: wenching. "I'm more sorry that you turned around and perpetrated it on others. Mainwaring meets Vernon Sharples (above), his earliest known accuser, in a Leicester sporting goods store. ", On one hand, Oliver said, it was a smart staffing decision to hire Mainwaring, whose name he didn't use on the recording. David O'Boyle says he confronted Mainwaring partly to warn other athletes who were still training with the coach. He was on his own -- not on the UCLA track team but hoping to get there. "The goal is to get from zero to 100," he says. Soon, the coach's lotion-filled hands were under the man's pants and grabbing his penis. He was nervous and called out for Mainwaring. There's not gonna be any more boys. He and Brian had connected through the survivor network and spent hours sharing their stories and feelings. ", Mainwaring, 67, attends a July 10 court hearing in Los Angeles. Brian came out from Colgate, and after a workout, Mainwaring gave him a massage and masturbated him, again couched as part of mental training. ", "Yes, I've struggled with this my whole life," Mainwaring says. 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. 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. The athletic fields at Camp Greylock were surrounded by woods, as seen in this map from a camp yearbook. She contributed to the civil rights movement as a lawyer, then found a second career as chief fund-raiser at New York University. 67% of employees would recommend working at Camp Greylock for Boys to a friend and 66% have a positive outlook for the business. He says Mainwaring once "tried a bad touch on me" during a post-workout massage, at which point Stephens cut the cord. Druger had buried his abuse for decades; he hadn't told anyone about it -- not even his family -- until he found De Santo's blog, linked up with others who have accused Mainwaring and contacted Outside the Lines to give his account. 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. Over the past several months of training with Mainwaring, Benjamin has become a believer. Associate Director and Director of Athletics Jim Mason has been coming to Greylock since 1975. One man still credits Mainwaring for his becoming a doctor. She raised billions of dollars for the school. ", She sifts through the shots and smiles. Sharples says this happened a few times before the sessions went to a new level: "He would rub my penis over my shorts until I ejaculated. The department declined comment to Outside the Lines, citing confidentiality. Upon arrival, the man says, Mainwaring directed him to lie down on the couch. BRIAN WAS AT his office in southern Connecticut early one morning in April 2013. But he was neither a professor nor, formally, a counselor. He gathers his stuff and walks off the track, trying to process the stranger's words: He molested me at UCLA. He refused comment, other than to accuse the reporter of harassment. "This is about showing me you have the mental ability to control your body.". Then Max feels angry and worried that he failed to convey "how much sorrow, shame and demoralization I felt over 30 years." The coach preached sobriety and celibacy, citing booze and girls as obstacles to athletic success. 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