Richard Crutchfield Gave Part of His Charitable Remainder Trust to Benefit Loomis’ Future

“All my life I’ve heard my father’s stories of Loomis. He considered his experience there to be among the most valuable and defining of his life, and he spoke often of the teachers and mentors there who started him out on what became a journey of lifelong learning, intellectual curiosity, and civic engagement. Over the course of my own education, I was continually astonished to find the books I was studying—works of philosophy, literature, and the social sciences—already on his bookshelves and full of his marginalia from classes he’d taken at Loomis. Clearly, he received an excellent education there in the humanistic tradition. He knew this as well; and his feelings of gratitude toward the school and toward his parents for sending him there continued to grow, even to the very end of his life.

“It was my great honor to accompany him to Loomis about fifteen years ago for his 50th Class Reunion. We stayed in one of the dormitories and took many opportunities to wander around the campus together. It moved Dad deeply to be there again and to see that, while much had changed, much had remained the same. It was still very much the school that had nurtured him intellectually as a young man. And for me, too, it was moving to see the place I’d heard so much about. At the memorial celebration we held after Dad died, I said a few words about what a truly wonderful life he’d had; and I know that, for him, Loomis was an indelible part of it. I hope Dad’s gift will in some small way help Loomis continue to be for future generations of young people what it was for him.”

—John Crutchfield, son of Richard Crutchfield ’53

Richard, who passed away in the summer of 2018, gifted Loomis Chaffee a percentage of his charitable remainder trust from which the school will benefit tremendously.