In 1995, Michael Marcus and Lukas Horn purchased the assets of the former Camp Greylock for Boys, Inc. "I really think of [Mainwaring] as a killer. "There has been darkness that has been part of my life," Max says. Initially, Nosenko loved what he found. Hittin' me with an umbrella! He wanted the boy to kiss him, and Allinson obliged. But he was neither a professor nor, formally, a counselor. Adrenaline floods his brain. 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. The university manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and it is perennially viewed as one of the nation's top tech schools -- the MIT of the West. Some had spiraled into alcohol, drug or sexual addiction; others had considered suicide. Rachel Bujalski for ESPN. 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. "First," Mainwaring said, "No drinking or drugs. Again, secrecy was mandatory. Mainwaring is charged with sexual battery by fraud in the June 27, 2016, case. "He was very clever, very diabolically clever because he was couching it as nonsexual," Brian says now. He planned to write about the trip on his blog, where he called himself the Renaissance Guy. Andrew Zenoff sought out his reporter friend. Police deemed it a hiking accident. She's fighting back tears. Michael Waxman, Robert Bender and Vernon Sharples describe the lasting damage they say they suffered because of Mainwaring. Most impressively, he was an Olympian. 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. Outside the Lines broke the story of the arrest -- prompting several additional men to contact reporters and describe how Mainwaring had sexually abused them. He had kept the pain mostly to himself all these years, but then he found De Santo's blog and learned that one man who accused Mainwaring of abuse might have been just 12 years old at the time. . Her mother was a hospital secretary, her father a salesman. You weren't following Christ.". Mainwaring left Syracuse in the summer of 1985 for Colgate University, about 40 miles down the road in Hamilton, New York, where he worked in the admissions department. '", He remembers Mainwaring saying, "It's going to stop when you realize what's necessary in your training, and your training isn't there. The world's greatest track athletes have run here through the years, in front of thousands of cheering fans. MARGOLIS-Bert. Finally, she is beginning to get some answers. before enrolling at Columbia Law School, where she became an editor of the Law Review. (Clockwise from top left) Mainwaring accusers David O'Boyle, Vernon Sharples, Michael Waxman, Tym De Santo, Robert Bender and Robert Druger. For that moment, Nisha's analysis sounds detached, more professional than parental. He told Allinson to relax: "You need to be able to focus, and you need to learn how to slow your heartbeat down. That was true for David Allinson, a track star with Olympic ambitions in 1979. had reinvented itself as it expanded through Lower Manhattan. Mainwaring works at Camp Greylock for Boys. Vernon Sharples says Mainwaring molested him in the 1970s. 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. He concluded, "Hundreds of years of history, people, stories and events. Greylock is a place to foster friendships. She raised billions of dollars for the school. All part of the research, he was told. Outside the Lines begins investigating Mainwaring, eventually identifying 41 alleged victims. He was a captivating figure to many of the young men and junior counselors, famous for his participation in the 1976 Montreal Olympics. It reads, in part: "We recently received several complaints that you utilized as an alleged training strategy inappropriate massaging of the genital region of male athletes," which complainants consider "an assault." Senior campers said they were expected to read the New York Times in full each Sunday in order . He looks like an athlete, firm and thin, but he's wearing street clothes. "I have heard a few comments since 2016, [but] to tell the truth, I didn't believe them," he says, adding that he was "fully surprised by the accusations." 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. Those who have accused Mainwaring, now mostly middle-aged men, were interviewed multiple times each and over hundreds of hours in total. www.campgreylock.com. "He was sort of like a hero figure to my brother," Zenoff says. Michael Waxman, shown near his home in Maine, says he was only 13 when Mainwaring molested him at Camp Greylock. The former student says he left immediately. "Speaking of the UK," Stephens wrote, "I have some Conrad Mainwaring gossip for you!". Soon, the coach's lotion-filled hands were under the man's pants and grabbing his penis. He is carrying a large umbrella, which he uses to take occasional swipes at O'Boyle, connecting at least once. ", "Yes, I've struggled with this my whole life," Mainwaring says. 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. 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. In 1921 Andrew II's camp was sold to the Mason family and became Camp Greylock for Girls. O'Boyle can't stay quiet any longer. David O'Boyle says he confronted Mainwaring partly to warn other athletes who were still training with the coach. But then, quickly, she is inside Victor's head and overwhelmed. 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. With Benjamin, the detectives had a shot at bringing a case to the district attorney. 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. 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. It's tranquil and picturesque -- a stark contrast to the dark hole in her life all these years later. The young girls today think differently, and theyre right., Summing up her view, she said: Womens lib is probably correct, but its not my style.. There, according to the indictment . 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 . 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. But then the detectives caught a break. He refused comment, other than to accuse the reporter of harassment. The former UCLA runner allegedly molested in 2016 contacts an ESPN reporter and later meets with LAPD investigators. "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. This rating has improved by 2% over the last 12 months. "He knows the score, basically.". Mainwaring allegedly molests a runner at his student apartment on the UCLA campus. She contributed to the civil rights movement as a lawyer, then found a second career as chief fund-raiser at New York University. But by the time he posted about the England trip -- more than three decades later -- De Santo thought he had buried that past. Ability to do so is an indication of high testosterone, Mainwaring says. Ms. Levine in the 1970s greeting David Ben-Gurion, the former prime minister of Israel, on an American Jewish Congress trip to Tel Aviv. The Official Camp Greylock Instagram Celebrating 106 years of the #G-G-R-E-Y-L-O-C-C-K!. They say their coach used his Olympic credentials, coaching achievements, relationships with accomplished athletes and expertise in psychology and physiology to persuade them to train with him, often at no charge. 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. The article said that Mainwaring's job would make him "available for more one-to-one interactions with the students.". Today, she is showing a reporter some old photos of Victor. had a meager endowment and, with its crumbling campus buildings and drab dormitories, was struggling to attract students. Mainwaring forms a "squad," including several high school students, while working at Syracuse University. 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. 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. 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. By this point, religion had become a central part of the young man's life. Born in Antigua as Conrad Avondale Montgomery Mainwarren. The next day, Victor left on a camping trip to California's Yosemite National Park with a friend he had met at a Grateful Dead show. Good luck processing and understanding how much you've hurt young men.". We would always say Victor had a certain sense of loving and being kind to people. It was stupid, it was wrong," Mainwaring tells Max. He's into music. He points off camera toward what appear to be some of his squad members and suggests he is going to time them. How do you do it? But at least two things Mainwaring told Max were lies. 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 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. 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. Camp Greylock is a boys' summer camp located in Becket, Massachusetts, United States. Later, as an adult, Allinson says he contemplated suicide. IT'S EARLY EVENING, June 27, 2016, and Mainwaring is giving Benjamin a ride to his student apartment after a workout at Drake Stadium. Oh, and one more thing, Mainwaring added: Before you come to the field, brush your teeth. Survived by daughter, Carol Rosenbaum . But, as she told it, she was rejected after taking an oral exam because she had a lisp. We offer a structured program and an unparalleled facility with nearly 300 acres on a beautiful lakefront campus. Additional timeline photos provided by Vernon Sharples, Robert Bender, Getty Images, Rachel Bujalski, Susannah Ireland, LAPD. Squad members visited from the East Coast, and they were impressed by his two-story digs, which had access to a swimming pool. Greylock is the Northeast's preeminent residential summer sports camp for boys. This camp must comply with regulations of the MDPH & be licensed by the LBOH. As they go back and forth, Max lays out the devastation he suffered, including thoughts of killing himself. ", The coach said the boy needed to give him a hug. So Johnson and Menifee continued chasing down men whose accounts bolstered their case. And soon, he would be in America to stay. The first mention linking Mainwaring to abuse wouldn't appear on the blog until 2013. Asked if Caltech took any actions to warn other potential employers about Mainwaring, the spokesperson said the school had no further information. But Nosenko says that Mainwaring's apartment near UCLA -- the same one he has lived in since 1990, according to public records -- was a regular destination for many of the athletes who trained with Coach Avondale. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Joan Kiddon. 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. He had a word for messing around with members of the opposite sex: wenching. 67% of employees would recommend working at Camp Greylock for Boys to a friend and 66% have a positive outlook for the business. "'Coffee' was masturbation, and 'tea' was a wet dream. It wouldn't be easy. PRICE: $11,850. Look in that camera. 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. 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. Before long, Mainwaring taught Nosenko about mental strength and began discussing testosterone levels, the purported connection between erections and athletic performance, and the importance of abstaining from masturbation. 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. The Camp Greylock, located in Ferrisburgh, VT, is a childcare facility that supervises and cares for children. ", "It was a rape of the brain in that sense because it wasn't just an abuse of the body," she says. It occurs to Benjamin that he actually doesn't know his coach's full name. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Joan Kiddon. He gathers his stuff and walks off the track, trying to process the stranger's words: He molested me at UCLA. Additional research by Adrian Gatton in London. He was on his own -- not on the UCLA track team but hoping to get there. Greylock offers a structured program that combines instruction and game play in . They walked and talked a bit, did a few exercises. The men who ran the camp when Mainwaring worked there are dead. The fieldwork, Mainwaring told the teenager, involved masturbation habits. Nosenko says he never discussed this part of the training with Sanchez or other members of the squad. In all, seven men told Outside the Lines they were sexually abused by Mainwaring when they were campers or junior counselors at Camp Greylock in the mid-to-late 1970s. Jim's grandfather and his two brothers, George, Lou, and "Doc" Mason, are the founders of Greylock and ran the camp from 1916 . Bender and six other former Syracuse students say Mainwaring used his veil of secrecy to molest them in the dorms, using virtually identical tactics. Max writes that he felt pity for Mainwaring because he was "infected with a sickness and then infected others." Zenoff grabs his cellphone. The network of men accusing Mainwaring jelled. First, Mainwaring hadn't voluntarily left education -- at least not at Caltech -- as he had suggested. 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. But within weeks of Brian arriving at Colgate, Mainwaring was leaving for his next job. Reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada confronts Mainwaring outside the public track where the coach was training athletes earlier this year. New York's criminal statute of limitations on Druger's allegations was long expired, and there was no evidence that Mainwaring committed a federal crime, so the FBI forwarded the case to the Los Angeles Police Department. Girls have their . It is unclear how many new squad members Mainwaring began training in the 1990s. Zenoff, now 54, recounts the tragically short life of his older brother, Victor: They grew up on the East Coast in the 1970s. ", "The Eastern European athletes and coaches do this all the time," Mainwaring tells him. Mainwaring's athletic accomplishments interested Sharples, but he was most taken by the attention the track star heaped on him at the store. He worked a series of random jobs and continued to coach athletes, sometimes in an official capacity. After talking with reporters, Benjamin learned about the LAPD investigation and contacted officers, sharing his own experience. Shapiro's lawsuit also names Camp Greylock, Inc., a summer camp for boys in Becket, Massachusetts. "Conrad, do you know who this is? 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. Outside the Lines pieced together the details of Conrad Mainwaring's life and identified allegations against him that span from England in the 1970s to Los Angeles in 2016. 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. ", Some of the longest and most detailed comments came from Vernon Sharples, in the U.K. "I've had a long time to process everything," he wrote. "He said I couldn't talk to anyone about it. There was a way to call him to schedule a therapy session. Two men now allege they were molested during this time. Nisha is a psychotherapist, with a specialty in grief and marriage counseling. Later, Outside the Lines attempted to contact Mainwaring by email, phone and a letter left at his apartment. Here's how he remembers it: After a few rings, Mainwaring, now 61, picks up. A tribunal in England substantiates Sharples' claim of abuse. "Everybody loved Victor. Anyone who Googled him found little. 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. 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. expressed perhaps most personally at Camp Greylock, the all-girls summer camp in the Adirondacks that she ran from 1955 to 1971. . A reporter approached, with a TV crew in tow. The stranger keeps talking, but the words are mostly a blur to Benjamin. In the lawsuit and in . Sharples didn't need much persuading; he felt honored. Mainwaring refused to answer questions and did not respond to several subsequent interview attempts. Rachel Bujalski for ESPN. Neither replied. Early on June 19, Los Angeles police arrested Mainwaring on one felony count of sexual battery by fraud, punishable by up to four years in prison. His name was Conrad Mainwaring. 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. David Allinson (not pictured) says Mainwaring promised him greatness if he followed his direction. Max asks whether the sexual part of the "training" served any legitimate purpose. I mean, that's pretty strong because I don't think he's killed anybody. "You're deluded. He had partied heavily in high school and was in emotional upheaval when he got to college. The call lasts about 15 minutes. 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. Outside the Lines spoke with several other men who say they trained with Mainwaring and had only positive experiences. What are you, 7 years old? The more they connected privately through emails and phone calls, the more they discovered the similarity of their experiences -- and the more emboldened they became to take action. Most notably, he allegedly hadn't stopped abusing young athletes. Sharples says he can't recall why Mainwaring wanted to keep a low profile. "He just kept on saying that I'm this amazing guy kind of showering me with compliments," Sharples says. If you stop, I won't coach you.'". BY 1980, MAINWARING was 28, had landed at Syracuse University in upstate New York and was pursuing a master's degree in counseling and guidance. "He had code words for all these things," Nosenko says. By the beginning of the 21st century, N.Y.U. When Naomi was a girl, she helped prepare a pot of flanken cholent stew on Friday nights in preparation for the Sabbath, and her mother sewed clothes for the family. the reporter asks. 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. Max writes down what he wished he had said: "Good luck as you proceed down a path for good rather than one of destruction. Mainwaring later got him a job as a junior counselor at Camp Greylock in the late 1970s. Many had endured pervasive shame. ", He then suggested Allinson think up an erection. And O'Boyle makes the 45-minute drive to UCLA. 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 York City . 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. "There was no logic to any of it. ", Mainwaring, 67, attends a July 10 court hearing in Los Angeles. Others considered more direct routes to get at Mainwaring. But Stephens' blog comment would prove to be a beacon for anyone typing in Mainwaring's name. Is that when it happened to you? ", More than 40 years later, Sharples can't recall how long the alleged abuse lasted. Max says Mainwaring molested him starting when he was in high school in Syracuse in the early 1980s. He details the impact Mainwaring has had on his life. ", "That must be painful. Mainwaring's name is mentioned in a comment on an obscure blog written by Tym De Santo (above). The call lasts 44 minutes, and Max immediately records everything he can remember in his journal, which he provided to Outside the Lines. Thank you Mom and thank you England!". 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. After Nosenko had finished his workout one day, Conrad Mainwaring walked up and introduced himself as "Coach Av."
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