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Edward argued that since the seven members of Brunswick Fund had participated in many projects as a team, this was just a natural extension. Edward suggested that Lenny could encourage other members of the class to form a similar fund. After the presentation and as the class dismissed, Lenny sought out other class members to join with him in establishing a similar fund. He had no takers.
     
    Father. Parent, mentor, teacher and friend. Ruler, tyrant, despot and adult. Coach. Disciplinarian. Fathers came in all dimensions. The seven Brunswick brothers had seven fathers, each different and different in their differences. Each of the boys was the only child in their family, and as they grew older, their relationships with their fathers shaped them.
    Sebastian Ball Sr. was very similar in style to Arthur Trout. They were exceptionally close to their sons and trusted them the way you trust your best friend—without hesitation. They had each made their sons partners with full authority in their businesses. The Ball, Trout differences? Ball trusted and loved his son Sebastian from the outside. Trout wanted to know what made Winston tick. When Winston was young, Arthur was fascinated that he had helped create such a wonderful, small human being. He knew and loved Winston from the inside. The Balls listened intently to each other and allowed the other full support. But before the listening, they had not a thought of what the other was thinking. Each Trout knew the other intently; they knew what the other wanted to do and would do. They allowed each other that freedom.
    Of the seven brothers, it was Parker Barnes who was most troubled in his relationship with his father. Jonathan Barnes insisted that Parker make his own mark in the world through his own efforts, something that the father had not been required to do. Resentment grew in Parker as he found his father distant, dictatorial and condescending. There was an oppression that grew daily in Parker distancing him from fatherly love.
    Nothing could have been more opposite than the relationship of Admiral Johnson and his boy Traynor. The support system a frequently absent admiral had in place for Tray was a regimen of self-reliance skills that Tray would carry into adulthood.
    Tragedy was the commonality in the lives of the Moiras and Wheelwrights. Captain Kim Moira, hero of the 1971 war with Pakistan, left India for the US after the death of Kishenlal’s mother. Kish’s mother suffered a painful death due to malaria, and it was a terrible sadness for the boy without the mother who loved him so dearly. However, no less dearly than Cynthia Wheelwright loved her only son as she died young at fifty-eight due to pancreatic cancer. The Wheelwrights’ tragedy was compounded by the personal economic collapse of the family fortune, lost by Mark Wheelwright as he kept 90 percent of his fortune in Ocean Bank stock. When the great recession struck, Mark was nearly wiped out. While all seven boys were close at Brunswick, Kish Moira and Edward Wheelwright were among the closest. Later, they both attended Harvard’s College and Business School. And from the time they were seventeen, they managed the Brunswick Fund, very successfully, applying lessons learned along the way. It was the best form of education—take what you learn and apply the very day you learn it.
    Gideon Bridge was raised mostly by his grandfather, the head of the family law firm. Gideon’s father, George, would drift in and out of the boy’s life on holidays. Grandfather Roy Bridge and his wife took their daughter-in-law and grandson to live with them after George Bridge divorced his wife for a young woman and became the playboy of Greenwich, spending every waking hour in the company of whichever sports star living in town was not actively playing. In the spring he hung out with a linebacker for the NY Giants, in the summer it was a wing on the Rangers and in the fall and winter it was a pitcher on the Mets. The pitcher