Brad Dellenbaugh '72 Brown University '76 Sailing Director, New York Yacht Club, Newport, RI Chief Umpire, America's Cup After graduating from Brown, I was at Hotchkiss for four years. I taught art and architecture and coached soccer, skiing and sailing. I had planned to go from there to architecture school, but at that time the field was pretty depressed. Instead I got involved with Dave Perry in a sailing campaign aiming at the 1984 Olympics and started coaching the sailing team at Brown, while also running sailing clinics and doing a lot of freelance artwork. After 10 years at Brown and two more Olympic campaigns, I went to Annapolis to coach the offshore sailing team at the U.S. Naval Academy, sort of following my wife-to-be who was working in D.C. We were there for 13 years.  My racing and coaching fed my interest in the rules of sailing and I am now one of the world's leading experts, having become an international judge and umpire in the 1990’s. Umpiring in sailing started in 1987 after the America's Cup in Australia was crippled by protests that took all night to resolve. The umpire boat follows the boats closely as they race to make direct rulings on the water when rules incidents happen. I was an umpire at the 31st America's Cup in New Zealand for six months during the challenge series and finals in 2002-2003 (and even got to ride on the back of the boats in some of the races) and became the Chief Umpire in Spain in 2006-2007. I came to the New York Yacht Club (working at the Newport, RI club house) in 2005 and although I have a regatta to run in Newport nearly every weekend from late spring to early fall, I still get to travel around the world a bit with my umpiring. I did not start sailing until I was fourteen as my brother David was such a star, and I wanted to find my own interests. But as soon as I began, I got the bug. It's great that GFA has such a strong sailing team now. It wasn't an option when I was a student. I was in the first GFA class to graduate boys. It was fun being such a small group -- the graduating class was just 21 students. I remember scoring two goals with a taped ankle in my first game on the soccer team and jumped in to learn lacrosse (and play attack) in the spring. In the winter, I raced a couple of times with the ski team, but probably the most fun was playing center on the basketball team (at 5’10”!).  Ed Denes had a great sense of gamesmanship. He used each of us on the basketball team very strategically.  None of us was a great player (well, except for Dawson and Bronco) but we did remarkably well as a team because of Ed's tactics. I learned from him that there are different ways to approach things, different ways to handle situations--and I don't just mean sports. I learned to appreciate the importance of tactics from Ed Denes. The way people solve and even anticipate problems really defines who they are. So as a person and as a professional, I still feel like I owe a lot to Ed Denes. My wife Lissy and I live in Portsmouth R.I. with our two children. Spencer is ten and Clara is five and they are both gradually getting into sailing.