FBI Director Christopher Wray was in a rock band in high school and is remembered by his Phillips Academy classmates for wearing — and wearing out — one particular brown sweater.
In the class notes section of the Andover, Mass., school’s alumni magazine, Pamela Paresky, class of ’85, says Wray, who played guitar, “is apparently too busy to get the band back together” since he replaced James Comey in August.
“Chris was a wonderful guy at Andover — kind, helpful, smart,” Paresky told me. “Although we didn’t really keep in touch after [graduation], high school is not generally when we are our best selves, so it’s hard to imagine that he isn’t still a really good guy — and probably even better.”
Wray’s recent visit to the Arizona area of the Navajo Nation reservation — the first ever by an FBI director — sparked rumors that he is part Native American and a cousin of legendary rock guitarist Link Wray, who was Shawnee.
The FBI had no comment.