Pete Kenyon was born 1938 in Chicago. He grew up in Old Greenwich and attended Kent School, Kent, Conn., graduating in 1957. While at Kent, he played varsity football when the coach introduced the single wing formation resulting in an undefeated season in 1955. After injuring his knee playing ice hockey, he went on to serve as a student coach for football, ice hockey, and crew at the league level.
In 1962, he graduated from Columbia University’s School of General Studies with a B.S. degree in International Relations. Prior to attending Columbia, he studied at Brown University, where he was on the varsity swim team and played lacrosse, and attended Mitchell College.
Pete served in the U.S. Navy for almost four years aboard a destroyer based in San Diego that deployed in the western Pacific during the Vietnam War. The ship was assigned a variety of missions, including plane guard duty, shore bombardment, amphibious task force escort duty, SAR (search and rescue), Formosa Patrol and intelligence operations. Released from active duty in 1966, he went to work in the reinsurance business at General Reinsurance Corporation; he continued his reinsurance career at Interemco, Inc., G. L. Hodson & Company, Inc., Guy Carpenter & Co., Inc., and Kenyon Consulting Company. During his working career, he served in the United States Naval Reserve for 18 years and retired as a Commander in 1985.
He and his wife Kathy live in Darien and have four adult children and six grandchildren, most of whom live locally. His interests include swimming, sailing, fishing, and genealogy.
Pete is a member of the Middlesex Genealogy Society, the Navy League of the U.S. where he is a board member of the Connecticut Council, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (Post 6933), the UDT/SEAL Association, and the Military Officers of America Association. He currently serves as XO of the Navy SEAL Recruiting District Assistance Council, an all-volunteer NSW mentoring program. During the 1980s, he served as Moderator of the Darien Representative Town Meeting for six terms, and in the 1990s on the Darien Environmental Commission, the last three months as Chairman.