Moses Brown, Brown University in partnership to rebuild Edgewood Yacht Club

Posted 10/23/14

Moses Brown School recently announced that it will establish a Sailing and Marine Education Center in Cranston, thanks to a $1.5 million anonymous gift.

The new center will provide a waterfront …

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Moses Brown, Brown University in partnership to rebuild Edgewood Yacht Club

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Moses Brown School recently announced that it will establish a Sailing and Marine Education Center in Cranston, thanks to a $1.5 million anonymous gift.

The new center will provide a waterfront classroom for marine education and a home for the school’s championship sailing team and will accelerate a signature initiative called “MB TRIPs” – Travel, Research and Immersion Programs.

Edgewood Yacht Club has invited Moses Brown and Brown University to become partners in rebuilding the historic club, a jewel of Cranston’s waterfront destroyed by fire in 2011. One of the oldest yacht clubs in America, Edgewood was founded in 1885.

“We couldn’t be happier that this gift will grow MB’s TRIPs and sailing programs,” said Matt Glendinning, Moses Brown’s head of school. “It’s an honor to be asked by Edgewood Yacht Club to join Brown University in rebuilding a club that has been part of Rhode Island’s sailing heritage for more than a century.”

When completed, the center, just 15 minutes from Moses Brown’s Providence campus, will be a free-standing 1,500-square-foot building at Edgewood that will provide a home for the school’s sailing team, a program that includes collegiate All-Americans and Olympians. The main clubhouse, being rebuilt in its historic location, will support the Edgewood Yacht Club and Brown University’s sailing program, coached by Moses Brown alumnus John Mollicone (’94).

This project expands on the summer sailing and maritime education program Moses Brown launched in June, thanks to the gift of the Friendship, a 36-foot Union cutter donated by alumnus Dean Woodman (’46).

“History, marine biology, even poetry come vividly to life on the water,” Glendinning said. “This new center will serve as a classroom for experiential learning right in our own backyard.”

The center will offer anchorage for Friendship and a waterfront classroom for studying biology, environmental science, meteorology, marine history, art and literature – expanding opportunities for transformational travel and exploration of Narragansett Bay for Moses Brown students.

“Travel, whether local or global, broadens perspectives, breaks down stereotypes and presents unforeseen challenges,” Glendinning said. “Travel by sea, in particular, demands improvisational thinking and enhances problem-solving skills, aptitudes that students will need to lead lives of success and purpose in our globally-interconnected world.”

These initiatives build on Moses Brown’s tradition of service and travel education, including these 2014 programs:

In an annual trip founded 11 years ago by alumni, students traveled to the Dominican Republic to help staff medical clinics and provide basic healthcare and school supplies for remote communities.

Building on a long-standing correspondence between lower schoolers and their peers in Kenya, upper school students spent two weeks in Sidikho and Chebuyusi, Kenya, refurbishing schools and observing wildlife.

For the third year in a row, students worked in support of the U.S. Department of Fish & Wildlife and the Nature Conservancy on an environmental science trip to Montana’s Centennial Valley and Yellowstone National Park.

Faculty members initiated plans for exchange programs with schools in Spain and France.

Moses Brown officials announced the plans at a special community gathering on Friday evening called a Meeting for Celebration, part of the school’s annual Expo fall festival and open house.

Founded in 1784, Moses Brown School is an independent, college preparatory school in Providence, Rhode Island, enrolling 775 boys and girls, nursery through grade 12. The school’s founder, an innovative thinker, philanthropist, and entrepreneur named Moses Brown, envisioned a progressive school that defined excellence. Today, his Quaker school continues to help children reach their full potential and to do both well and good in the world.

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