Charles Twiggs Myers ’52

Twiggs, the son of Charles 1909, graduated from the Haverford School. At Princeton he majored in history, joined Colonial Club, and roomed with Andy Deiss.

Twiggs spent a year at Harvard Law School before heading to Sheffield, Mass., and the Berkshire School, where he found his vocation and a lifetime of happiness and satisfaction as history schoolmaster and track and field coach. He founded the school’s cross-country program, which racked up 200 victories when he coached.

Memorials written upon his death June 14, 2014, express the affection and respect he received from his students and colleagues at Berkshire, where he was elected as a trustee in 2001. Head of School Pieter Mulder wrote that Twiggs was a “legendary schoolmaster, someone who touched the lives of countless members of our community.” Twiggs also was a director of the Sheffield Land Trust and of the Crater Club in Essex, N.Y., where he spent his summers. He served as Berkshire’s archivist after retiring from the faculty.

The class offers its condolences to Twiggs’ sister, Eliza Miller.