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respect and encouragement. Why then, are we so to school to advertise the Black Otter Pack Trip.
intent on finding the trivial things that separate us, For those of you who don’t know Mr. Doolittle,
rather than the things that bring us together? he is a soft-spoken and secretly funny man, which I
Over the next few months, I challenge each and quickly learned on the ride back to his house from
every one of you to strike up a conversation with the airport in Bozeman. He is much older than I,
someone unfamiliar, someone outside your usual and when it comes to fly fishing, much more expe-
circle of friends. It does not matter whether they rienced. Nowadays, the Yellowstone is where he
are a fellow student or a teacher, so long as you spends many of his evenings, tracing his fly over
know next to nothing about them. Now I can’t green waters rich in meaning. The river has
guarantee that you will hit it off five minutes after become an integral part of his life, something that
meeting—what I can guarantee however, is that if he shared with me this summer through our time
you search hard enough, you will find more simi- together. It is true that during his time at St.
larities than differences between one another. George’s Mr. Doolittle was director of admission,
Maybe it is something particularly significant that English teacher and hockey coach, though that was
has the effect of bringing you together—the recent not what brought us together. Instead it was a
death of a loved one, a personal success—or per- simple and mutual appreciation for the sport of
haps it is something much simpler. Perhaps you are fishing. On that evening Mr. Doolittle was nothing
brought together by something as basic as a shared more than a fisherman, waders strapped over his
passion, say a love for fishing—which brings me shoulders and fly rod in tow. He taught me some-
back to that opening narrative. thing only one fisherman can teach another. He
This past summer I made a trip out to Mon- had passed on to me everything he knew—from
tana, to visit retired St. George’s School Admission nail knots to barrel knots, fly patterns to wrist
Recent graduates
Director and teacher Jay Doolittle ’56, and hope- action—all in the hope that I would understand.
Bennett Byrd, fully learn a few things about fly fishing. Up until I That final cast, under the growing shade of the
Devin O’Rourke, made that trip, I think it is important to point out canyon, was my way of saying, “Yes, I understand.”
Peter Hahn,
that I had never had Mr. Doolittle as a teacher, a His love for fly fishing now lives in me.
Nick Carrellas and
coach, or an advisor. I never really even had a
Whit Curtain at
chance to strike up a conversation with Mr. Doolit- Nick Carrellas ’08 heads to Colby College this fall.
the SG senior picnic
last fall.
tle until the spring of junior year, when he returned He can be reached at mcarrellas@aol.com.
24 ST. GEORGE’S 2008 SUMMER BULLETIN
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