Showing posts with label brother. Show all posts
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Monday, February 5, 2024

Jay Kranis: A Mowglis Brother by Choice and A Keystone of Mowglis

 


Jay Kranis:  A Mowglis Brother by Choice and A Keystone of Mowglis

It is said that we humans have two families, those into which we are born and those we choose. Holiday tables are filled with the families we choose and who choose us. They express the power of belonging and camaraderie borne of our free will and affections. Oftentimes, these members of our families are the ones for whom we have the greatest affection. Jay Kranis is just such a Mowglis brother. He is a brother of our choosing - and of his own choice.


Jay first heard about Mowglis from John Sprung, whose boys Jason and Larry had come to Mowglis through their mutual friend, Mowglis icon Donald Cummings. Jay's own sons, Andrew and Jordan, were Mowglis campers, and today, are a great source of pride for him. Andrew is a celebrated architect and preservationist, teacher and tour guide in Italy and Jordan is an Emmy-winning producer who from time to time runs with the same crowd as Mowglis brother Benji Ringe.


Jay was a member of the Holt-Elwell Board of Trustees at the critical time in the later 1990s and early 2000s when Mowglis' future was very much in doubt, though he is quick to say that the members of the board themselves were never in doubt. Thankfully, their determination saw Mowglis through that period, and today, he and the other members of those boards can take great pride in the vigor of Mowglis's life. We are all fortunate for the gift of his time and talents that helped to bring us to this place.





Andrew Kranis:  https://www.romefromhometours.com/

Jordan Kranis:  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Perfect+Upset



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Sunday, October 8, 2023

EP 101 Adrian West: from Red Racing Crew to Henley and beyond!



Watch on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/8Y5MTvnc5Hs


Adrian West came to Mowglis in 1985 in Cubs and remained through the Den in 1980 and was staff one year in 1981. His grandfather Charles Bird had attended in the mid-1930s where he had been friends with Wah Pah Nah Yah - W Richard West Sr. His uncle Matt Bird was also a member of the Staff having graduated from Mowglis as well.

He spent his first summer under the watchful gaze of Cub mother Virginia Valace

He has fond memories of Mr. Bob Bengton and Rick Bengton as well as the Merrill brothers, Richard Morgan. He remembers being read to by Pete St John - who read the Jungle Book and the Don Fendler adventure "Lost on a Mountain in Maine".  

Mowglis introduced him to rowing and he would go on to row at the Head of the Charles and Henley on the acclaimed Trinity College Crew. In his first year at Trinity they won every race, just as he had done in his Mowglis crew days.

He made inner circle in his 3rd year at Mowglis and would ultimately get 8 ribbons. 

Thoman Yeatman and the members of the Gutheridge family - among others were memorable dorm members, including a Spanish and Basque contingent who taught him to swear in Spanish (names withheld to protect the guilty) !

Mowglis crew coach Jim Washburn was his college roommate.


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