Scarsdale

He grew up in the affluent New York suburb of Scarsdale, where he discovered his passion for theater in high school.

The seeds for the most anticipated matchup of this women’s college basketball season were planted decades earlier, in the halls of Scarsdale High School in New York, where Geno Auriemma was hot on the trail of one of the sport’s most coveted recruits.

A native of Scarsdale, N.Y., he had climbed all 46 peaks of the Adirondacks four separate times, according to his father, Peter Zurkow.

At the homicide trial of school head Jean Harris, accused of murdering “Scarsdale Diet” Dr. Herman Tarnower, Wecht testified unsuccessfully for the defense.

The campaign took long enough that one of its original instigators, a centenarian from Scarsdale, New York, did not live to see it through.