The Bulletin: Summer 2019

In This Issue

FEATURES

6 Transformative Teaching & Learning

For these alumni, education is more than a career. It’s their passion.

Rodney Glasgow ’97

Embracing Inclusion and Equity

Chip Linehan ’88

Providing Life-Changing Opportunities

David Shapiro ’93

Expanding Mentoring

Karlo Young ’97

Taking Elite Higher Ed Global Class of 1971

How Did One Class Produce so Many Educators?

56 Fond Farewell

A fond farewell to teacher/coaches Gordon Culbertson, Chris Legg, and Don Rogers; staff Annie Hunt, Cathy Morcomb, and Vivian Sawyer; and our long-serving Director of Development Kate Ratcliffe. Catching up with last year’s retirees: Don Abrams, Pam Abruzzo, and Bob Smith. 64 Founders Day 2019

72 In Memoriam

Bill Reese ’73

Bill Crawford ’47

DEPARTMENTS

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Dear Gilman Family,

“What should the students learn?” Whenever posed, this fundamental question of education generates interesting and rich discussions about content mastery, skill development, and the overall purpose of teaching and learning. At Gilman, recent discussions on this topic have led to the articulation of what we have come to call “Gilman Skills.” Put simply, we believe that it is critical for every boy to be able to think, communicate, collaborate, and create.

On first glance, these skills may not appear to be particularly novel or revolutionary, and it is true that critical thinking and communication have long been valued. One could argue, however, that collaboration and creativity have taken on greater importance in the 21st century. What’s more, the fuller expression of what these skills mean at Gilman gives them a sense of purpose that fits squarely with our mission to educate the whole boy in mind, body, and spirit, and to produce men of character who make positive contributions to the world:

• Think critically and expansively about our complex world.

• Communicate effectively with diverse audiences.

• Collaborate to solve problems and affect positive community impact.

• Create works of self-expression that serve and inspire others.

These skills apply to students of all ages and cut across academic and co-curricular disciplines. Gilman boys hone these skills in all school settings, from math class, to a history discussion, to band rehearsal, to a science lab,

to a sports practice, to recess. Of course, the vehicle for developing these skills is content—the body of knowledge that allows our students to be appropriately literate.

The application of knowledge and skills toward a greater purpose forms a solid base for the kind of transformative teaching and learning that marks a Gilman education. In fact, aligning the teaching and development of the Gilman Skills with the character and wellness necessary for a life of purpose lies at the heart of our strategic plan. As we continue to grow and evolve as a school, these essential learning goals will help to drive the kind of experience we strive to create for our boys.

If the featured articles in this edition of the Bulletin are any indication, our ability to think, communicate, collaborate, and create are as critical as ever. Through building relationships, advocating for equity, and expanding educational opportunities, these Gilman alumni are helping to make the world a better place by taking Gilman Skills well beyond Roland Avenue.

I hope that you enjoy these articles and the other interesting stories and updates in the pages that follow. As you will see, our School continues to thrive, and Gilman alumni continue to make positive contributions to our world.

Go Hounds!

Henry P. A. Smyth Headmaster

WE DID IT!

YOU helped put First Things First and raise more than $60 million to support Gilman’s promise and people. Thank you!

Keep an eye out for our Final Campaign Report this fall!

Transformative Teaching & Learning

Fourth grade students, under the tutelage of French teacher Isabelle Giorgis, perform a bilingual puppet show. After reading Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, Language Arts teacher Matt Tully ‘02 guides seventh graders as they hold a mock trial of Mary Surratt, making history come alive. With guidance from art teacher David Anderson, eighth grade artists create insightful selfportraits in an unusual format. In the Upper School, coach Johnnie Foreman inspires promising students to become record-breaking athletes. Seniors in Mike Molina’s Urban Literature class develop games to play with third graders in East Baltimore and at Gilman to engage a cross section of children. Under John Rowell’s direction, students step out of their comfort zone to sing, dance, and even juggle in the spring musical.

These experiences bring to life our belief that transformative teaching and learning is not bound to a classroom. Rather, when disciplines, people, and ideas are connected in ways that deepen the sense of self and the ability to serve the needs of others, our ability to think, communicate, collaborate, and create is expanded.

Critical thinking, clear communication, effective collaboration, and innovative creation are needed, valued, and rewarded in the workplace and in communities. While information is available to students at the click of a mouse, there will forever be a need for skilled, engaged, transformative adults to guide and

inspire young people on their path. In fact, many of our alumni have returned to the field of education so that they may continue the cycle of transformative teaching and learning that they experienced at Gilman. We invite you to get to know a few of them in the pages that follow.

Teaching and learning look very different today than yesterday and, unquestionably, different than they will look tomorrow. It is up to us — students and teachers alike — to continue innovating and providing transformative experiences that will help young people become their best selves and live a life of purpose.

GLASGOW ’97

Embracing Inclusion and Equity

Dr. Rodney M. Glasgow is the head of the Middle School at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School and serves as the School’s chief diversity officer. He is a nationally known speaker, facilitator, trainer, writer, and activist in the areas of diversity, equity, and social justice.

A graduate of Harvard University, with a joint degree in Afro-American Studies and Psychology, Rodney holds his M.A. in Organization and Leadership from Columbia University. In 2018 he earned his Doctorate of Education in Human and Organizational Learning from George Washington University.

Rodney’s current and previous board service includes Call-to-Action, the advisory board to the Vice President of Equity and Justice for NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools), Family Diversity Projects, and the Friendly House in Worcester, Mass. While in Worchester, he received the City’s People of Courage Award. Recently he launched the National Diversity Practitioners Institute, a summer intensive program for diversity practitioners, as well as Diversity in the DMV, a conference for students and educators. Rodney is a featured writer in the book Diversity in Independent Schools , and he wrote the prologue for One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium: LGBT Educators Speak Out About What’s Gotten Better…And What Hasn’t

When did you know that you wanted to be an educator and ‘disrupt’ the educational landscape?

At Gilman, so many of my teachers were transformative. The one who made me an educator was Mr. Spragins. He knew me in a way that few others did. He was the theater director and, in my junior year, co-taught an English/History course with Mr. Harrison. There was a hard moment for me in that class when we studied the civil rights movement. Our class was all about the importance of using primary sources – but all our sources were white men. I refused to take the quiz on civil rights because I was expected to look at it from the perspective of white men. When Mr. Spragins noticed that I wasn’t writing anything he called me out of the class and I thought he would be angry and that I would be punished. But when I explained why I wouldn’t take the quiz he apologized and said, “I see what I did wrong, but I don’t know how to fix it. I need you to help me rewrite the curriculum.” In that moment I became an educator. I felt empowered. And we did rewrite the curriculum for the next year.

I would say I’m more of a transformer than a disrupter but to be a transformer you have to disrupt. I grew up in a world where white men were the educators and they decided on the master narrative. Every day I go into the [St. Andrew’s] Middle School, I disrupt the narrative just by being there, by being who I am. A student told me “I came to the school because of you. I had never seen a black principal before.”

Transformative educators are born in transformative schools. I was steeped in an environment that gave me the confidence to be a disrupter in an intelligent and graceful way.

What is your proudest professional achievement to date?

The work I’ve done with student diversity leadership in NAIS. When I was a student, Bill Greene, Johnnie Foreman, and Joe Duncan dragged me to the NAIS Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC). SDLC is now 25 years old and has served thousands of students. While it existed for two years before I attended, it’s not like it is today. I was one of a small group of students from Baltimore and New York who became the founders of SDLC. And the curriculum from 23 years ago is still in use today.

What do you see as the greatest challenge in education today?

We need to shift from focusing on content to what we need to know and how we learn it. Students have a full world of information available to them on the internet. They can figure out anything by themselves.

The social-emotional piece needs to be at the center of education. Long ago, John Dewey and Paulo Freire talked

TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATORS ARE BORN IN TRANSFORMATIVE SCHOOLS.

about education as social, emotional, and political. That education is a process that isn’t about pouring my knowledge into you but teaching you how to discern knowledge for yourself. What are you making of this knowledge? How is it being employed in your life? We need to educate the human being on the essence of humanity.

What will education look like in the future?

In the U.S. we’re in danger of making just cosmetic changes so that education in 40 years will be much like today. In education today there is a person we call a teacher and a person we call a student. Really, we’re all teachers and we’re all students. Education should be interactive, holistic.

CHIP LINEHAN ’88 Providing life-changing opportunities

Although he spent 20 years in finance, Dr. Charles M. Linehan’s passion has always been education – specifically, creating opportunities to level the playing field for underserved youth.

At New Enterprise Associates, the world’s largest venture capital firm, Chip made investments in start-up companies that today account for more than $8 billion in sales and have created thousands of jobs. He was the youngest person to be made partner in the history of the firm.

In 1997, Chip put his passion to work, founding SMART (Schools, Mentoring, and Resource Team), which provides financially disadvantaged students in the San Francisco area with educational opportunities, personal experiences, and social support services to foster academic excellence and community engagement. More than 90% of SMART students go on to four-year colleges.

Now living in Philadelphia, Chip is the co-founder of Building 21, a non-profit school development organization that “reorients the [school] system to place the learner at the center” by empowering networks of learners to “discover their purpose, connect with their passions, and build agency to impact their world.” High school students come to Building 21 at an average of a fifth-grade level in reading and math. In 2018, 85% of Building 21’s inaugural class graduated, a rate significantly higher than comparable urban high schools, and 98% of these graduates were accepted to college. A recent Forbes profile of the organization noted “a well-crafted network strategy to achieve impact at scale.” The organization currently operates two lab schools and six affiliate schools, serving over 3,000 students across five states.

Chip holds an A.B. in Government and a Ph.D. in Education Leadership from Harvard University. Please tell us about an experience you had with a transformational teacher, class, or activity.

As a 17-year-old high school sports star with nearly a 4.0 GPA, a group of close friends, and a loving family, I had the world by the tail in 1986. Then it all came crashing down. I was caught violating a pledge I had signed as a student-athlete. Gilman took its honor code seriously. Overnight, I had gone from big man on campus to pariah. I felt an overwhelming sense of having disappointed myself and everyone in my life.

Just before lunch, I discovered a letter in my school mailbox from my English teacher, Mr. Downs. Hunched over, with glasses perpetually slipping down his nose, Mr. Downs made up for his lack of physical presence with the sheer force of his intellect and his charismatic teaching style, bringing to life the lyric poetry of the last three thousand years. He was my favorite teacher.

My heart sank at the thought of being chastised by someone I admired so much. His note read:

Dear Chip, Remember Sophocles. I thought of you as an intelligent young man of high character before this happened. I see no reason to change my opinion.

-A.J. Downs

His gesture meant the world to me. This note reminded me that I would be judged more on how I responded to my failure than on the failure itself. Mr. Downs gave me the confidence to get up, dust myself off, and make amends. And this is how I have tried to approach every failure since.

Years later, I came across the note in an old box. I called Mr. Downs to express my gratitude. He remembered writing the note, and, true to character, deflected all the credit to Sophocles. Mr. Downs is still my favorite teacher.

When did you know that you wanted to work in the education industry?

My drive to work with young people was formed during my years at Gilman and in college. My parents ensured that my brothers and I would have access to a top-quality education from kindergarten through 12th grade. This set me up for success in college and launched me into my first career in private equity and venture capital. Along the way, I was often troubled by the sheer inequity of these opportunities. Playing sports in high school and in college was a keen reminder of this, as I had the chance to compete alongside and against athletes from all walks of life.

What is your proudest professional achievement to date?

I’m cheating here, but I have two. While living in San Francisco and working in Silicon Valley I co-founded the SMART Program, which has provided hundreds of low-income students in San Francisco with access to an exceptional education and the skills needed to thrive in college and in life.

The second one is founding Building 21 – we are working hard to bend high school to meet the needs of all learners, in particularly those young people who have historically been underserved by our education system.

What do you see as the greatest challenge in education today?

Equity – simply put, as a society we dedicate the least resources to our highest-need students.

What will education look like in the future?

I am hopeful that it will be more equitable from a resource allocation perspective, providing a more level playing field of opportunity for all young people. I am fairly certain that the school experience will be more personalized, adapting to the individual interests, needs, and strengths of each learner. I am also hopeful that we will place far more emphasis on developing and nurturing the “whole child” by focusing on physical and mental health and social-emotional development just as much as academic test scores.

WE ARE WORKING HARD TO BEND HIGH SCHOOL TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL LEARNERS.

DAVID SHAPIRO ’93 Expanding Mentoring

David B. Shapiro is the president and CEO of MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, a national champion for expanding quality mentoring relationships for young people.

In collaboration with its mentoring affiliates, programs, and volunteer centers in all 50 states, MENTOR incorporates advocacy, raises public awareness, mobilizes grassroots supporters, provides training, and bridges research to practice in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

Under David’s leadership, the organization has been recognized by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Social Impact Exchange, and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations; launched the In Real Life public awareness campaign; and worked extensively with the Obama Administration on the mentoring component of My Brother’s Keeper. In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention selected MENTOR to establish and lead its National Mentoring Resource Center.

David’s board service includes the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, Friends of the Children, Impact, and Association of Fundraising Professionals. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and English from Amherst College.

Please tell us about an experience you had with a transformational teacher, class, or activity.

A play in third grade on slavery throughout history left an indelible mark. I delivered a passage from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. King would become one of the guiding lights of my life and this early eyeopening experience to history’s oppression, oppressors, and

oppressed made a deep imprint. Later, I experienced the masterful teaching and mentoring of so many. I was taught by people who connected dots, had high expectations, and emphasized character and integrity; mentors who knew how to weave relevance and relationships into their teaching. Finally, my sports experience at Gilman in football, wrestling, and baseball was defining: practice, goals, effort, handling results, being resilient, and demonstrating passion. All of these came because of great culture, abounding support at home and school, and teachers supported to do their craft well.

When did you know that you wanted to work in the education industry to ‘disrupt’ the educational landscape?

Starting in college, I began thinking about being an educator and coach – relationships have always been at the center for me, and school and athletic teams were the places where I’d found some of the most influential people and relationships in my life. I found diverse and inclusive spaces in sports. I was lucky on so many counts and wanted to be a part of driving greater equity, either systemically or personally or both.

I didn’t get there right away but started out in that universe, in grant-making for youth development/ sports organizations. I joined the U.S. Golf Association Foundation as they partnered with Tiger Woods, the PGA Tour, and others to make a $50 million commitment to make golf more inclusive and positively impact the lives of economically disadvantaged youth and individuals with disabilities. The job gave me an incredible window into youth development, non-profit management, and grantmaking.

What is your proudest professional achievement to date?

At MENTOR, our partnership with the Obama Administration’s (now Foundation’s) My Brother’s Keeper initiative to improve outcomes for boys and young men of color has been a point of great pride for our organization and has led to lots of new opportunities to expand mentoring and strengthen relationships for boys and young men.

More generally, I have taken on a number of non-profit changemanagement or turnaround situations so they can make progress against societal challenges. We are often more apt to start non-profits than fix existing ones and that frequently leads to inefficiency and false promises. To solve long-term intractable issues, we need a sense of urgency, openness to innovation, and

disruptive solutions, but also a shoulder to the wheel. This requires really talented, diverse people in well-run organizations and the building of a community of partners, donors, board members, volunteers, and public sector leaders who believe and are committed to the mission, vision, and ambition of the organization.

My wife says I love things for what they will be.

What do you see as the greatest challenge in education today?

Funding mechanisms in education are the largest structural challenge, not because money alone is a solution but because of all it represents in broken and inequitable structures. More than 50% of the nation’s public school students are living in poverty. If we keep focusing on tests and ignoring resources, compensation, wraparound supports, community coordination, and the differing needs of schools and students, we will continue to have tremendous inequities. The role of student voice and school empowerment vs. district mandate, and the implementation of a relationships-first approach – these are the greatest opportunities to be disruptors. Technology and the use of data as a predictor and for targeted support will always be a powerful disruptor, but it must be used as a tool rather than as a solution unto itself.

What will education look like in the future?

I hope we will have the will and creativity to make education more personalized, holistic, collaborative, experiential, competencybased, and tied to workforce opportunities. Can we get to the point where education is not a sorting mechanism to determine who belongs, but instead teaches future leaders how to create environments where all can find purpose, belonging, and a chance to thrive? Mentoring is a key ingredient to get to that place.

WE ARE OFTEN MORE APT TO START NON-PROFITS THAN FIX EXISTING ONES.

KARLO YOUNG ’97 Defining Success as More Than a Career

He has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by both NABA and the Living Classrooms Foundation, Diversity MBA Magazine’s “Top 100 Under 50 Emerging Leaders,” Baltimore Business Journal’s “40 Under 40,” and a Kellogg “Young Social Impact Scholar.” Additionally, he was honored as one of Drexel University’s inaugural “40 Under 40 Alumni.”

Please tell us about a transformational educational experience.

Karlo G. Young has forged a unique career at the convergence of finance, strategy, education, and technology.

At Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, and boutique firms, Karlo consulted on technology and business strategy within Fortune 1000, middle market, and startup organizations across multiple industries. Currently he is a vice president at 2U, an education technology firm that makes the graduate programs of elite colleges and universities available to students around the world. He is the general manager of 13 hybrid degree programs (a mix of online and in-person coursework) at Syracuse University. Syracuse is one of the largest of 2U’s university partners, which also include Harvard, Yale, NYU, Vanderbilt, Oxford, Cambridge, Tufts, Georgetown, and USC.

A Gilman trustee, Karlo also serves as president of the board of trustees for B.E.S.T. (Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust) and previously served as president of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Baltimore Chapter. He is the co-director of the Gilman Black Alumni Leadership Institute (GBALI).

Karlo holds a B.S. in computer information systems from Drexel University and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

I attended Roland Park Elementary/Middle School. The Assistant Principal, Betty Williams, targeted me for the gifted and talented track and helped me apply to Gilman. Although the schools were only feet apart, they were two different worlds. Everything about my time at Gilman was transformational.

Tim Holley was my English teacher my first year at Gilman, and he was also a mentor figure. As a young black male it was critical to see myself in teachers and administration. We studied Dickens. The quote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” resonated with my high school experience. If it hadn’t been for Mr. Holley, I may not have stayed at Gilman. He, Joe Duncan, and Bill Greene kept my head on straight.

When did you know that you wanted to work in the education industry?

I did a career assessment survey. I wanted to go to school for engineering but the assessment came up with educator. Although neither of my parents went to college, my grandmother and aunt were teachers in Baltimore City Public Schools.

After college I worked in consulting but always kept my toes in education. While I was involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) I realized that there were tons of opportunities in the industry. Publishing companies were the focus of education M&A 30 to 40 years ago. Now it’s EdTech.

What is your proudest professional achievement to date?

I am proud to have been one of the founders of GBALI, which is a weekly non-academic coeducational leadership program. The foundation is the idea that success is defined by more than a career, and that a career is determined by more than academics. We’re finishing up year 14, so our oldest students are now around 30 We’ve worked with more than 350 students, from 50+ area schools. The impact on someone’s life is exponential. We keep in touch with alums. I’ve been invited to weddings. I’ve helped people negotiate salaries.

What do you see as the greatest challenge in education today?

The challenge has always been that access to education is unequal. I worry about that gap in education at every

level. Talent is equally distributed but access is not. I would not be where I am today if people had not created access for me. In the top 100 to 150 universities only 10% come from lower or lower-middle class backgrounds.

What will education look like in the future?

Kids are accustomed to getting instant information. They have the tools they need but not the experience. The role of teachers will be different. They will take more of a mentor role. Physical classrooms may not be needed as much in 10 years. Education needs to be user friendly, flexible, and customizable to each individual, to how each person learns.

Technology can change the landscape, but humans still need community. Academic institutions have proven their value. Oxford has been around since 1096. Think of everything that’s happened, and yet it’s still here.

TALENT IS EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED BUT ACCESS IS NOT.

EDUCATORS FROM THE CLASS OF 1971

Was there something special in the air during Founders Day in 1971 that led so many to education, as a career or as an avocation?

At least 17 members of the class of 1971 have been, at some point in their careers, teachers. Among this list you will find tenured professors, adjuncts, teachers at all levels, and a headmaster. Here is a brief summary of the service these educators have offered to students and institutions.

Michael Blum: taught English and journalism at Frederick Douglass Senior High, opera at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and video production and editing at Harford Community College.

Bill Brusilow: biochemistry professor at Wayne State University’s School of Medicine.

Frank Davis: professor of landscape ecology and conservation planning at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Charlie Duff: taught Latin for three years at Boys’ Latin.

Bill Gamper: taught history at Boys’ Latin, McDonogh, Glenelg Country School, and Gilman, serving in many capacities at each. His tenure at Gilman is currently 20 years and counting.

John Kopper: professor of Russian and comparative literature at Dartmouth College.

Tom Lynn: taught at The Bryn Mawr School, Boys’ Latin, Waldorf School, Jemicy, Seton Keough, Immaculate Conception, and is now at St. John the Evangelist in Hydes, Md.

Chip Manekin: professor of philosophy at the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland College Park; formerly on the faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Arch Montgomery

After 33 years in education, Archibald Montgomery is retiring. Along with his wife, Phyllis, Arch spent seven years teaching, coaching, and dorm parenting at St. George’s School in Rhode Island before taking the helm at Gilman for nine years as our 11th headmaster. While at Gilman, he served as headmaster during the centennial campaign and celebration. He oversaw the building of Henry Callard Hall (home of the Lower School) and the John M. T. Finney Hall (Gilman’s first Middle School building) and curriculum changes that included introducing technology and expanding arts offerings. Now, after 17 years as the head of Asheville School, Arch is hanging up his mortarboard. We wish him well and look forward to following his post-school adventures.

Bill McLean: teaches at Stevenson University and was a former math teacher at Loyola Blakefield.

Marvin Miller: guest lecturer for Purdue University’s Horticulture Department.

Chris Minkowski: Boden Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Oxford, England; previously at Cornell University.

Fred Nelson: recently retired as assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of South Carolina and adjunct professor of bioengineering at Clemson University.

Nigel Ogilvie: taught chartered financial analyst prep classes for 23 years.

Bill Rich: former lecturer in philosophy and religion at Goucher College and Union Theological Seminary; also taught at Gilman for two years.

Bill Scherlis: director of the Institute for Software Research and doctorate program in software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

Harry Turner: professor of law at Stevenson University.

Larry Wharton: earth science teacher in Loudon County, Va.

We thank members of the Class of 1971 for their enthusiastic assistance in compiling this list. While a great effort has been made to be complete and accurate, we offer an apology to anyone we may have missed.

Dr. Peter O. Kwiterovich, III ’87 is Appointed Assistant Head of School

Peter Kwiterovich is Gilman’s new assistant head of school, succeeding Bart Griffith, who will return to Pittsburgh to serve as president of his alma mater, Shady Side Academy.

For the last 10 years Peter served as the head of the Middle School (MS). Under his leadership, the MS has offered new quarter- and semester-based courses, employed new educational technologies, including iPads and the Novak Innovation Lab, and explored and developed crossand interdisciplinary curricular experiences. He has also helped to lead MS efforts to promote a more inclusive and equitable community of faculty, staff, students, and families. Additionally, he serves on the Student Outcomes Committee of the Board of Trustees.

Gilman Welcomes New Director of Development

Heather Harlan Warnack has been appointed to serve as Gilman’s director of development, succeeding M. Kate Ratcliffe, who has retired after 29 years of service to Gilman.

Heather comes to Gilman from Maryvale Preparatory School in Lutherville, where she served as the assistant head of school for advancement, overseeing all development, alumnae relations, marketing and communications, and external diversity and outreach functions of the school. Prior to becoming assistant head of school, Heather served as director of communications and development, as well as director of communications and marketing. During her five years at Maryvale, the annual fund

Peter earned his bachelor’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University, where he was a four-year letter winner in baseball. Upon graduation, he returned to Gilman, where he spent eight years teaching science in the Middle and Upper Schools; coaching football, wrestling, and baseball; and serving as dean of students in the Upper School. Eager to expand his personal and professional horizons, he then spent the next decade serving in a variety of capacities at Cardigan Mountain School in New Hampshire and Norfolk Academy in Virginia. In 2009, the pull of Gilman proved strong, and he returned to his alma mater as head of Middle School.

Along the way, he completed his doctorate in educational policy, planning, and leadership from William and Mary (having already earned his master’s from what was then Loyola College, now Loyola University Maryland).

Peter’s background and leadership will serve Gilman well as we build on our progress over the last several years and strive to move forward on several fronts: aligning more fully the teaching and development of core skills, knowledge, character, and wellness; engaging a talented and inclusive community of teachers and students; and carefully stewarding our resources.

increased by 70 percent, and the school achieved significant fundraising milestones ahead of schedule under her leadership.

She entered the world of development after an extensive career in communications and journalism. Before joining Maryvale, Heather worked as an independent consultant, using her experience to offer public relations, marketing, and media strategies to clients in an effort to boost fundraising or sales. She spent eleven years at the Baltimore Business Journal, where she was a senior reporter, television correspondent, special projects editor and, most notably, associate editor.

A graduate of Roland Park Country School, Heather earned her Bachelor of Science in journalism from Boston University. Her impressive professional career, extensive connections to the Baltimore community, and deep understanding of the importance of communication and relationships in successful development work made her stand out in a pool of talented candidates. We are fortunate to have her joining our team.

Celebrating Gilman’s First Black Alumni

A weekend that has been 50 years in the making took place in October 2018: the commemoration of the first Black students to graduate from Gilman in 1968, and a celebration of the more than 480 Black alumni who have followed.

A tireless committee, chaired by Marcus Simms ’95 and Karlo Young ’97, began planning almost two years ago for a special weekend commemorating the 50th anniversary of Gilman’s first four Black graduates in the Class of 1968

– David Robinson, Stuart Simms, Willard Wiggins, and the late Greg Emery – and recognizing other trailblazing students, faculty, administrators, and parents.

Friday’s schedule opened with town hall-style assemblies for Middle and Upper School students, the latter featuring a panel discussion emceed by Gerard “Rock” Harrison ’93 and including former Assistant Headmaster Mercer Neale, long-time faculty member Dan Christian, Dave Irwin ’66, former Athletic Director Sherm Bristow ’67, and Simms and Wiggins. That afternoon, current students led alumni

on campus tours. In the evening, more than 225 alumni, faculty members, and guests gathered at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture for a festive welcome reception.

Saturday morning kicked off with a mentoring event, allowing alums to connect with current students in an intimate and productive setting. Sessions included Cool Careers, Entrepreneurship, Managing Your Network, and Drone Camp, and were led by alums including Geoff Berry ’92, Austin Brown ’05, Khalil Uqdah ’06, and Terrance Whitehead ’95

Saturday afternoon brought a varsity football game against Loyola Blakefield. Simms and Wiggins, both former football players themselves, served as honorary captains before the game.

The weekend’s marquee event – a recognition banquet – was held on Saturday night in the Redmond C. S. Finney Athletic Center, which had been transformed into a dazzling venue,

and was filled with a number of touching moments as well as a few tears. A cocktail reception preceded the formal banquet and included a special recognition – and happy birthday song – to Reddy Finney ’47. Harrison again emceed the event, which included the premier of a video documenting the early years of Gilman’s integration and an award presentation to each of the evening’s honorees:

Trailblazing students:

Greg Emery; David Robinson; Stuart Simms; Willard Wiggins

Trailblazing parents:

Anne Emery; Clarence and Louise Simms

Trailblazing teachers, coaches, and administrators: Reddy Finney; Bill Greene; Joe Duncan; Johnnie Foreman; Tim Holley ’ 77

The celebration concluded on Sunday with a church service at Heritage United Church of Christ. Malcolm Ruff ’02 delighted the crowd’s ears with song, and the Reverend Chaz Howard ’96 filled their souls with timely and insightful words of hope and purpose.

Throughout the weekend, more than 160 alumni spanning six decades came from across the country and as far away as Africa and London, returning to campus to reconnect, celebrate, and participate in the festivities.

In conjunction with the weekend, Black alumni, led by Eric Bryant ’88 and Malcolm Ruff, established the William A. Greene, Jr. Endowed Scholarship Fund, in honor of Gilman’s first Black faculty member. It has far exceeded their initial goal of $100,000. The fund has raised more than $240,000 to date. It is not too late to join in!

To contribute, please contact John W. Richardson at 410-323-7178 or jrichardson@gilman.edu

2019 Alumni Weekend

By Nathaniel Badder ‘ 94 , Director of Alumni Relations and Outreach

Over the course of two days in April, more than 600 Gilman alumni, family, and friends returned to campus to celebrate Alumni Weekend 2019 .

Special moments included:

• Gilman Forever attendees enjoying a student preview performance from the spring musical, Crazy for You, seniors leading attendees on a virtual tour of Gilman’s campus, and remarks by Maryland State Senator Chris West ’ 68 ;

• The Pen Pal Program, which connected third grade students to members of the Class of ’69 (learn more about this new addition to the 50th reunion agenda on page 54);

• 200+ alumni and faculty devouring 28 bushels of Chesapeake Bay blue crabs at the Crab Feast;

• Breakfast gatherings for baseball and lacrosse alumni, followed by games against current players (and a comefrom-behind 9-6 win by alumni vs. the JV lacrosse team);

• The Alumni Awards Luncheon, honoring Tim Holley ’77 with the prestigious May Holmes Service Award;

• A beautiful evening for the all-reunion cocktail party and individual class gatherings. Ten class parties were held on campus and three more were held off campus, making it one of the largest celebrations in recent history. Bruce Bower ’ 99 , who flew in from London, earned the award for longest distance traveled.

The Alumni Golf Outing was shut down by Mother Nature. It has been rescheduled for Friday, November 1 — the day of the Bull Roast, with the Gilman-McDonogh football game following on Saturday. Three great reasons to put a hold on those dates in your calendar!

You can see more photos from the weekend, plus a video of what will likely be Dan Christian’s final class, at gilman.edu/aw2019.

Alumni Weekend 2020 will be held next April 24-25 , for class years ending in 0 or 5 (the rest of you are encouraged to join in the fun). We hope you will save the dates and make plans to attend!

Alumni

Class of 1979

Gilman Forever

Class of 1984

Class of 1989

Class of 1999

Class of 2004

Class of 2009

Class of 2014

Founders’ Society Dinner

Nearly 200 Gilman alumni, parents, trustees, and friends convened at the American Visionary Arts Museum on Thursday, October 4 for the annual Founders’ Society Dinner. The night’s featured speakers − Karl J. Connolly, chair of the Upper School visual arts program, and Reverend Charles L. Howard ’96, University of Pennsylvania chaplain − delivered powerful messages about the value of a Gilman education and the variety of passions our alumni pursue. To view their remarks, visit gilman.edu/FoundersSociety The Founders’ Society recognizes Gilman’s leadership donors who contribute a total of $2,500 or more to Gilman in one fiscal year.

BULLETIN

Out and About

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HOSTS GATHERINGS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO CONNECT ALUMNI TO EACH OTHER AND THE SCHOOL. HERE ARE RECAPS OF A FEW OF THEM.

Boston

Gilman alumni spanning four decades convened at the home of Andrew ’91 and Elizabeth Thut on May 6, 2019 for a Boston area alumni reception.

A Path to Follow

Hundreds of Gilman alumni, family, and friends packed into Baltimore’s Senator Theatre on February 5, 2019 for the premiere screening of a documentary about our legendary 10th Headmaster, Redmond C. S. Finney ‘47. Following the premiere, the film was aired on Maryland Public Television. You can view it at gilman.edu/FinneyStory.

Washington, D.C.

More than 50 Gilman men from as far back as 1951 gathered on November 27, 2018 on the rooftop of D.C.’s City Market at O for an alumni reception hosted by Duncan Hutchins ‘10 and Joshua Yang ‘10 . The venue is owned by The Bozzuto Group, whose CEO is Toby Bozzuto ‘92, P‘27

New York City

On November 8, 2018 John Kim ‘94 and Will Shikani ‘06 hosted an alumni reception at The Wayfarer in midtown Manhattan, drawing more than 50 alumni.

Palm Beach

Gilman alumni, family, and friends gathered for a luncheon hosted by Bill Beatson ‘59 on February 20, 2019. The group heard from Headmaster Henry P. A. Smyth, who updated them on the overall strength of the School and the fall opening of the new pre-kindergarten, and led a discussion on the role of the arts at Gilman.

Burgers with Boh

On October 9, 2018 nearly 60 alumni climbed to the eighth floor roof deck of the iconic Natty Boh Tower in Baltimore’s historic Brewers Hill, where Rick Diehl ‘81, David Knipp ‘82, Wells Obrecht ‘82, and Dustin Rogers-Little ‘06 hosted an Alumni Association happy hour.

Alumni Basketball Game

More than 30 alumni from Gilman and GBALI (Gilman Black Alumni Leadership Institute) laced up their shoes and took to the court on December 22, 2018 for the annual Alumni Basketball Game.

Mentoring Events

Throughout the 2018-19 school year, alumni in various fields met and mentored current students.

During the annual Startup Experience workshop, a two-day deep dive into entrepreneurship, 10 alumni plus several parents mentored a group of 25 students as they developed a business concept and judged the teams on their pitches. Many of the students continued their business education and development with the semesterlong Startup course. Our thanks to

Funlayo Alabi P’24; John Avirett ’01; Frank Bonsal ’82 P’25; Robb Lawrence P’28; Josh Levinson ’89, P’19;

Mark Neumann ’81 P’13;

Justin Shelby P’20, ’22;

Hunter Somerville ’00; Eno Umoh ’04;

Terrance Whitehead ’95; and David Zinreich ’94 for giving generously of their time and expertise to help guide Gilman’s next generation of entrepreneurs.

In January more than 50 Gilman men spanning almost 30 years gathered in Centennial Hall to talk about life beyond Roland Avenue. During the Dinner & Networking event seniors connected with alumni to learn about various career paths, be exposed to some of the 8,000+ Gilman network of alumni, and to have the chance to find a potential Senior Encounter opportunity. Thanks to organizers Beau Smith ’99 and Peter Zouck ’09.

Students with an interest in business and finance also connected with alumni during Wall Street 101, a one-day trip to New York to learn

about careers in the finance industry. At Goldman Sachs, Greg Lee ’86 and his colleagues introduced students to the inner workings of an investment bank. From there, the group headed to General Atlantic, where colleagues of Paul Stamas ’00 walked them through a case study, before their final stop at Berkshire Capital, where Bruce Cameron ’74 hosted a panel discussion featuring alumni who have followed different potential career paths. The panel included Chad Burdette ’02, Andy Cohen ’90, Michael Faridi ’02, Jon Jachman ’95, and Arif Joshi ’94.

Alumni Visit Campus

Cotton Lecture

Dan Diamond ’ 98 and Andrew Schapiro ’ 01 presented the 38th Annual H.K. Douglas Cotton Memorial Lecture to the Upper School. They discussed their career paths and options available to current students.

Diamond is a Politico reporter whose investigations of the Trump administration led to the resignation of Health Secretary Tom Price and sparked multiple congressional inquiries. His career started at Gilman, where he was the managing editor of The Gilman News. While discussing careers in journalism, Dan said, “many of you will not be interested in becoming a reporter but you will all be consumers of news.”

Schapiro is the founder of Andrew Schapiro Design and, until recently, served as the creative director for Airbnb, where he oversaw a rebranding campaign and watched the company’s growth from 300 to more than 6,000 employees. Explaining his choice to leave, he said,

“Airbnb had become the navy and I didn’t want to be a captain. I wanted to be a pirate.” He pointed to his work on theater sets at Gilman as a spark to his interest in design, leading to his career.

Sharpening Mental Skills

Arman Taghizadeh, M.D. ’ 95 , an All-American wrestler at Gilman, is a leading expert in the field of Sports Psychiatry. He visited campus several times this spring to lead lacrosse, tennis, and baseball teams through his Mental Skills Training Program. He taught athletes an intentional breathing routine and positive reframing techniques, and provided tips on handling stress and anxiety on the field, in the classroom, and at home. Dr. T also acted as presenter and moderator to a screening of the documentary Angst, on the subject of anxiety in children and adults, to a packed audience of tri-school parents.

Little Things

J.D. Kameen ’10 returned to Gilman to present an assembly that touched on themes from the book Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World, written by Willian H. McRaven, which was the Upper School summer reading selection. A 2015 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Kameen shared two invaluable lessons that he has learned since graduation – embrace your failures and give everyone you encounter a second chance.

Alumni News

Gilman Alumni in the NFL

Over the course of the 2018 football season, Gilman was represented by four alumni: Brandon Copeland ’09 (Jets), Darius Jennings ’11 (Titans), Cyrus Jones ’12 (Patriots, then Ravens), and Micah Kiser ’13 (Rams). After they played each other in December, Copeland and Jennings exchanged jerseys. Making news off the field, Copeland recently gave new meaning to the term scholarathlete when he taught a spring course in financial literacy at his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

Bridge Named for Christopher Coffland

Rain and chilly temperatures could not dampen the spirits of the dozens of friends and family of Christopher Coffland ’84 in November. The group gathered on the side of Baltimore’s Loch Raven Reservoir bridge to participate in a ceremony dedicating the bridge to honor Corporal Coffland, who was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2009. Former Headmaster John Schmick ’67, Willie Franklin ’84, Tom Waxter ’82, and Les Goldsborough ’82 were among those in attendance.

Second Tony for Bradley King

Bradley King ’02 won the 2019 Tony Award for Lighting Design for his work on the musical Hadestown. In 2017, King won the Tony award for his Broadway debut, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. During his 2017 Mountcastle Lecture in the Gilman auditorium, he noted that he got his start in theatre on the very stage on which he was presenting.

Sports Shots

By Russell Wrenn

Director

CROSS COUNTRY

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Coach Joe Duncan’s squad featured a mix of senior veteran runners and young stars in the making. The Hounds set high expectations for the season, and won the Greenspring Valley Invitational with five finishers in the top ten of the varsity race. Seniors Will Dowling, Charlie Edwards, and Morgan Zinn anchored the team all season, while Max McCullough ‘20 and Beck Wittstadt ‘21 provide reason to be excited for the future of Gilman Cross Country. The Hounds took third at the loaded Gunpowder Falls Invitational, and, outside of losses to Calvert Hall and Loyola, dominated MIAA competition. Racing in the MIAA championships at McDaniel, Gilman’s pack ran strong, finishing third. The following week on the same course, Gilman finished the season on a high note, taking home the Private School Championship.

FALL SPORTS

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FOOTBALL

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First year Head Coach Nick Bach brought excitement and energy to a rebuilding year for the Hounds. Senior left tackle Zachary Franks anchored the offense, and will continue the strong Gilman tradition of football scholar-athletes playing at the highest level in college when he enrolls at Northwestern University this fall. Zach “Spanky” Dixon ‘19 earned All-MIAA honors for the second consecutive season, leading the Hounds in tackles and interceptions, while do-it-all captain Hank Bethel ‘19 had an outstanding year at linebacker and offensive guard. Franks and senior WR/DB Khari Jones also received all-MIAA honors. Young Hounds, including leading rusher Jermaine Conyers ‘21, two-way starter Mattheus Carroll ‘ 21, and Keyon Torain ‘22 made an impact, gaining valuable experience that will be crucial in leading Gilman back to excellence on the gridiron.

SOCCER

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The 2018 soccer season was one for the books, as Coach Jon Seal’s Hounds played an exciting brand of team soccer that lead them all the way to the MIAA semifinals, where they dropped a hard-fought 1-0 decision to the McDonogh Eagles. The Hounds played tenacious defense and opportunistic offense all season, earning the third seed in the A conference. Regular season highlights included a 2-1 OT victory over Calvert Hall, featuring two goals off of the foot of Luke Unger ‘20, including the game-winning penalty kick in overtime. Additionally, a Senior Day win over Spalding was capped by a beautiful goal by Michael Brittingham ’19, with a brilliant assist from Avery Merlo ‘19. The Hounds vanquished Mt. St. Joe in the MIAA quarterfinals 2-0 to earn a spot in the semifinals. Senior forward Logan Paff and junior midfielder Unger were named all-MIAA for their efforts. Goalkeeper Grant Farley ‘21 earned all-MIAA honors, and was the only sophomore in Maryland to earn a spot on the All-State team.

VOLLEYBALL

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Oh, what a year for the “VolleyHounds!” After a solid but unspectacular regular season that seemed to suggest an end to Gilman’s recent run of dominance, Gilman peaked in the playoffs and captured the title, the fifth championship in the past six years, and Coach Diego Matoras’ second consecutive crown. Regular season losses to Calvert Hall and Loyola fueled the fire for the Hounds, who dispatched Boys’ Latin handily in the first round of the playoffs to set up a semifinal rematch with the Cardinals. Gilman’s tremendous team defense, led by Tyler Witherspoon ‘19, Cole Philippou ‘19, and middle blocker John McGowan ’19, helped set up kill leaders Cam Alexander ‘19 and Chase Drew ‘19, and Gilman emerged with a 3-1 victory. The championship match against Loyola was the hottest ticket in North Baltimore. Played in front of a packed house at St. Paul’s, the mass of humanity and the thunderstorms outside combined to form a swelteringly humid environment for the match. Like two heavyweight prizefighters, the match went back and forth, Gilman leading 2-1 but trailing in the fourth game until a “no way that just happened” desperation kick-save dig by Matt Smith ‘19 crossed the net and dropped over Loyola’s defenders for a 2322 lead. Gilman finished off the match and the championship.

WATER POLO

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Coach Vaughan Smith’s squad put together a record-setting season that saw the Hounds make it all the way to the A conference championship before falling to perennial powerhouse Loyola. Gilman swept through the regular season with a 9-1 record, which included an upset win over the Dons. The Hounds depth proved too much for most opponents, and four Gilman players earned all-conference recognition: Will Gildea ‘19, Hollis Quasebarth ‘20, Adam Masom ‘20, and Brooks Lebow ‘20 In addition to the strongest MIAA finish in Gilman’s polo history, the Hounds fared well against regional competition, recording wins over regional foes Episcopal, Lawrenceville, and Gonzaga at the Eastern Prep Championships.

BASKETBALL

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While the Hounds came up short of their goal of playing for the MIAA crown, a strong will to compete and good team chemistry helped Gilman survive the difficult A conference schedule, learning and growing as they went. This growth was on display during the end-of-year Maryland Independent School Tournament, where, with Gilman serving as the hosts, the Hounds played their best ball of the season, ripping off consecutive dominant wins over St. Mary’s and Annapolis Area Christian (avenging a Silent Night loss) before falling in the championship game to Glenelg Country School. Senior Jalen Rucker capped off his career as Gilman’s alltime leading scorer, finishing with 1,744 points, nudging past Cyrus Jones on the all-time scoring list. Youngsters Malik Missouri ‘21 and Christian Winborne ‘22 were impact players, and the future looks bright for the Hounds!

ICE HOCKEY

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Coach Zach Collins and his pack of “IceHounds” made history this winter, bringing home the B conference championship trophy. The Hounds were strong all year, playing solid hockey and picking up wins throughout the regular season. However, a pair of regular season losses to Loyola and Curley left Gilman as the underdog entering the playoffs. Led by the steady play of senior captain and defenseman Xander Martin, the Hounds were up for the challenge. Rallying from a 3-0 deficit, Gilman caught fire behind goals by Bear Vandiver ‘20 and Sam King ‘20 and won their semifinal matchup with Curley 5-3. On the other side of the bracket, St. Peter and Paul upset Loyola, setting up a surprise finals pairing. Gilman never let down, finding the net early and pulling away to lead 4-2 after two periods. Freshman Bennett Mosk’s empty net goal removed all doubt in the third, and the Hounds and their rabid fan base celebrated the championship win together.

INDOOR TRACK

Balance was the key to another successful indoor track season for Coach Matt Tully ’02’s squad. Earning points in field events, sprints, hurdles, and distance races proved key to earning another regular season title. The Hounds held their own at the MIAA championship meet as well, finishing second to champion Calvert Hall. Highlights of the championship meet include gold medal performances from the 4x800 relay team of seniors Ryan McMahon, Will Dowling, and Keith Roberts, and junior Max McCullough (8:29.97), senior shot putter Elie Soueid (who threw 47’10”), junior pole vaulter Sal Ricci (who cleared 12’6” to win the pole vault for the second year consecutively), and 800 runner Keith Roberts (2:00.29 to repeat as 800 champion). Sophomore Beck Wittstadt’s 4:26 1600 time ranked nationally for his class. Wittstadt also ran the 800 in the Ocean Breeze Invitational following the season, and took first place in the sophomore race.

Winter Sports

SWIMMING

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Gilman posted strong results in the pool this winter, earning a third place finish for the varsity and a second place for the JV, both Gilman records. The 200 Medley Relay (Seniors Max Verheyen, Nathan Hedgecock, and Wade Perry, and junior Philip Morgan) bettered their record time from 1:39.26 to 1:38.20. In the 200 Individual Medley, Verheyen set a new School record of 1:50.95 Verheyen, with the lead off leg of the 4 x 100 freestyle relay, also set a School record of 47.54 for the 100 freestyle, bettering the previous mark held of 47.80, which has stood since 1985. The 4 x 100 freestyle relay team (Verheyen, Hedgecock, Eric Zhang ’21, and Bryce Lloyd ‘22) set a School record of 3:16.24

SQUASH

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While the Hounds fell short to rival McDonogh in the championship, the season proved successful, and the team continued the great tradition of dominant Gilman squash, improving over the course of the season. Gilman earned a ninth place finish in Division II at the High School Squash National Championships in Connecticut. Other than the rival Eagles, Gilman handled the rest of the MIAA with ease, defeating St. Paul’s 7-0 in the semifinals to set up a rematch with McDonogh for the MIAA crown. The finals proved closer than the regular season, as the Hounds pulled off two wins and played each match close before falling to the eventual champions.

WRESTLING

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The Hounds battled through the challenge of the A conference wrestling schedule, notching dominant wins over Boys’ Latin and John Carroll in the conference and notable victories over Gonzaga and Episcopal out of conference. Gilman finished eighth out of 17 teams in the MIAA. Impressive, Andy Weinstein ‘20 placed fourth, Kevonte Beard ‘19 placed fourth, and Mattheus Carroll ‘21 placed third. The team placed 11th out of 30 for the Maryland Independent State Tournament, with five individual place finishers. William Bressner ‘ 22 and Cam Ward ‘19 finished eighth, while Weinstein, Beard, and Carroll all took fifth. Three Hounds qualified for National Preps (Weinstein, Beard, Carroll) and all got wins at Lehigh. Carroll finished one win shy of All-American status at 220 pounds.

GOLF

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The Hounds missed the A Conference playoff by mere percentage points. A dominant 14.56.5 win over Spalding gave Gilman life going into the final week of team competition, but a loss to St. Paul’s in the final team match of the year sealed the Hounds’ fate. Another season highlight was Gilman’s upset win over Calvert Hall. A day after losing to the Cardinals at Elkridge, the Hounds traveled to the Country Club of Maryland, where John Hay Matthai ’20 and Teddy Conover ‘21 won 6.5 out of 7 points to secure the victory. Evan Gilbert ‘19 and Charlie Klein ’20 were named to the all-MIAA A Conference team.

BASEBALL

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For the second consecutive year, Gilman made the MIAA finals. This year, the team came up just short to number one seed Calvert Hall, losing 4-2 in an exciting final contest. Senior Pierce Bennett led the offense, hitting .426 and leading the team in RBI and stolen bases. Junior Tripp Myers (.358) and senior Tyler Martinez (.346) were major offensive contributors as well. Gilman boasted the deepest pitching staff in the conference, led by junior Danny Rosenfield, and sophomores Matt Leikus and Peter Heubeck. Highlights of the successful season included a spring break southern swing through Atlanta and North Carolina and earning the second seed in the MIAA playoffs. Bennett, Heubeck, and Leikus were named to the All-MIAA team.

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What a year for the tennis program! While honing their play against area rivals like Potomac and Sidwell Friends, Gilman traveled to Corona del Mar, California over spring break to compete in a national tournament. The Hounds finished eleventh, a strong finish for this young group. Notably, Gilman recorded their first team win at this tournament in its three years of participation, over San Francisco University High School.

The tennis team finished off an undefeated conference regular season with a team championship, defeating Calvert Hall in convincing fashion 5-0. The win marked the sixth team championship in Coach Krulevitz’s eight seasons at the helm. The Hounds also dominated the individual tournament as well, winning all but one available title. Amazingly, all seven of Gilman’s varsity players were named to the All-MIAA team. Congratulations to Nick Boucher ‘20, Dylan Walters ‘20, Piyush Mavanur ‘20, Noah Jun ‘19, Mikey Haire ‘21, Saijai Kaushal ‘20, and Rohan Milak ‘22.

Spring Sports

LACROSSE

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The Gilman squad was great fun to watch; while Sam King ’20 led the team in points with 30 goals and 15 assists, the attack was balanced, as 19 different players scored at least two goals, and 50% of the goals scored were assisted. Midfielder Will Godine ‘19 played two-ways, and still managed 23 goals and nine assists. Face-off specialist Nick Tussing ‘20, who won 64% of his matchups, and collected 76 ground balls, had a standout year. Between the pipes, Noah Klein ‘19 was a bright spot all season for Gilman. His 55% save rate is the highest recorded by a Hounds goalie in recent years.

TRACK AND FIELD

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Gilman finished off another historic track season by capturing the regular season championship and winning the championship meet for the third consecutive year. Season highlights included a 78-68 dual meet win over Calvert Hall, the only close meet of the year. Nigel Parker ’21 and Nico Gonzalez-Reed ’20 finished one and two in the 200-meter dash, Josh Green ‘21 won the triple jump, and Sal Ricci ‘20 won the pole vault.

A dominant 98-48 win over Mount Saint Joseph to close out the regular season left no doubt who the best track team in the MIAA is. Gus Cortezi ‘20 continued his 300-meter hurdle dominance, and Donnie Young ‘22 won the triple jump.

A large contingent of Hounds competed in the Penn relays, where the 4x100 relay team finished third and the 4x400 team finished second. The team’s depth carried over to the championship meet, where our athletes scored points throughout the various events to capture the threepeat and maintain the Gilman track dynasty.

Lacrosse News

Brooks Matthews ‘87 has stepped down as the varsity lacrosse coach. During his 15-year tenure, the Greyhounds posted an overall record of 140-89 for a 61% winning percentage, including two MIAA Championships and, in 2009, a #1 national ranking. His passion, dedication, and commitment to the School will be long cherished by the hundreds of young men who have had the privilege of calling him “Coach,” and we are very fortunate that Brooks will remain a teacher and coach at the School. No one wears blue and gray with more pride than Brooks Matthews.

It is with great pleasure and excitement that we welcome John Nostrant as our next varsity lacrosse head coach, concluding a search that began last fall. Teachers, coaches, players, alumni, and parents provided invaluable input during the search.

John comes to Gilman from Haverford School, an independent boys’ school in Pennsylvania, where he has served as the varsity lacrosse head coach since 1991. Additionally, John was the director of athletics at Haverford for 22 years. Before Haverford, John served as the head lacrosse coach at St. Albans School. He also served as an assistant coach for the USA U-19 world team, which won the gold medal in 2008. He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Washington College.

John’s record of success is impressive. On the field, his teams have won more than 450 games and earned 13 Inter-Academic League (Inter-Ac) regular-season championships, four Inter-Ac tournament titles, and two state championships (2000 and 2005). Two of John’s Haverford teams (2011 and 2015) finished their seasons undefeated and ranked #1 nationally, and he was named National High School Coach of the Year in 2015. Along the way, John has coached 36 high school All-Americans.

Beyond the records and accolades, John has won the hearts of his players and the respect of his peers and colleagues. No stranger to boys’ education, he is committed to supporting Gilman’s mission to educate the whole boy in mind, body, and spirit, using lacrosse as a vehicle to that end.

John holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Washington College, where he was an All-American lacrosse player and team captain. He earned a Master’s in Education/Principal Certification from Cabrini University.

We look forward to welcoming John and his family to Gilman this summer.

Signing Day

Congratulations to these members of the Class of 2019, who will soon be playing their sport on/in collegiate fields, courts, rivers, or pools.

BASEBALL

Pierce Bennett, Wake Forest University

Tyler Martinez, San Francisco University

BASKETBALL

Jalen Rucker, United States Military Academy at West Point

CREW

John Theodore, Columbia University

FOOTBALL

Kevonte Beard, Franklin & Marshall College

Zachary Dixon, Long Island University

Zachary Franks, Northwestern University

James Schloeder, Rhodes College (also lacrosse)

LACROSSE

Hank Bethel, Bucknell University

Jed Brummett, Colorado Mesa University

Duncan Dietrick, Rhodes College

Signing Day By the Numbers:

20 Student-Athletes

LACROSSE ( continued )

William Godine, Georgetown University

Noah Klein, Boston University

Xander Martin, Yale University

Logan Paff, Brown University

James Schloeder, Rhodes College (also football)

SQUASH

Charles East, Dartmouth College

SWIMMING

Max Verheyen, Loyola University Maryland

TRACK AND FIELD

Nichi Pandey, Johns Hopkins University

Keith Roberts, Case Western Reserve University

WATER POLO

William Gildea, Bucknell University

18 Schools from Maryland to California

9 Sports

1 School with a Gilman player in two sports

Gilman School Launches Pre-Kindergarten Program

The Gilman community is excited to welcome its newest –and youngest – Greyhounds this fall with the launch of its new pre-kindergarten program. The inaugural class of boys will be part of the School’s Early Childhood Program, which is comprised of pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, prep-one, and first grade.

Channeling their innate energy, pre-k boys will learn through doing, exploring, engaging, and spending time outdoors. They will use a hands-on, project based, investigative process that will allow for exploration and discovery as a way of learning about topics that are relevant to each boy’s everyday experiences and curiosity.

Embodying joy, happiness, and positivity, lessons taught will promote exploration, imagination, discovery, and play, resulting in a lifelong spirit of inquiry and learning.

The curriculum, including reading, writing, and math readiness, will encompass developmentally appropriate practices for the youngest Greyhounds and provide an integrated experience that will lay the foundation for academic success and personal growth throughout their school years. Additional subjects will include music, art, library, science, makerspace, and Spanish and French cultures.

If you know a family that may be interested in Gilman’s 2020-21 pre-kindergarten class or would like to learn more about our Early Childhood Program, please refer them to Director of Lower School Admissions Mary Furrer at 410.323.7284 or mfurrer@gilman.edu.

Visitors Add to the Student Experience

Each year Gilman brings exceptional guests to campus to enrich the student experience. The 2018-19 school year included visitors who sparked the interest and imagination of boys of all ages, and special events that included parents and alumni.

History, culture, and arts performances in Lower School assemblies included an Indian classical dancer, a Native American storyteller, a Russian folk music group, and the Smithsonian Discovery Theater, which put on a performance about Black explorers and adventurers. Dom Flemons, cofounder of the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, introduced the boys to unusual instruments and traced a quintessential American instrument, the banjo, back to its beginnings in Africa, demonstrating the evolution of music brought to the new world by slaves to contemporary styles.

Don Flemons

Writers and illustrators whose books spanned age groups from Lower to Middle School included:

• Nathan Hale, author of Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, an award-winning graphic novel series that showcases historic events and individuals, brought history to life and held a cartooning workshop.

• Stuart Gibbs, author of best-selling series Funjungle, Spy School, and Moon Base Alpha, held writing workshops for boys from fourth through eighth grades, sharing how he combines his love of biology, animals, aerospace, and James Bond movies into his books.

• Game designer, writer, and composer Russell Ginns presented his Samantha Spinner series in a fun,

interactive presentation, taking third- through fifthgraders on a virtual trip around the world.

• Caldecott Award-winning author and illustrator Jason Chin visited both divisions as well. In books including Grand Canyon and Island: A Story of the Galápagos, Chin combines imaginative storytelling with intriguing science.

• Best-selling author Chris Grabenstein, whose fun, fast-paced books include the series Lemoncello and Max Einstein, presented an assembly in the Gilman auditorium to more than 300 fourth- and fifth-grade students from six independent schools.

Nathan Hale

Prakriti, Indian Dance

Stuart Gibbs

Russell Ginns

Jason Chin

Chris Grabenstein

The Writers at Work series brought in Courtney Lamar Charleston, author of Telepathologies, and poet Anders Carlson-Wee, author of The Low Passions. Both addressed the Upper School during assemblies and visited classes and faculty. Additional visitors included social justice educator Jen Fry and motivational speaker Courtney Ferrell.

Upper School students were also invited to join several community-wide events. A book club sponsored by the Parents Association and Gilman’s Office of Community, Inclusion, and Equity (C.I.E.) featured Antero Pietila, author of Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City. He was interviewed by alumnus Rodney Glasgow ’97, who also moderated the discussion.

C.I.E. also sponsored an appearance by Robert Wilkins, who discussed his book Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture; and Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.

Robert Wilkins

Antero Pietila

Richard Rothstein

Inaugural Penn Fellows Complete Program

Gilman’s first Penn Fellows, Ethan Faust and Sarah Lloyd, graduated this spring from the University of Pennsylvania with their Masters in Education. Each served as teacher/ coach at Gilman for two years as part of the Penn GSE Independent School Teaching Residency. Sarah taught history in the Upper School and coached swimming and water polo. She will remain at Gilman next year, where she will continue to teach history with an emphasis on gender equity – something she says is particularly important at an all-boys school. Ethan taught language arts in the Middle School and coached football, basketball, and track. He hopes to break into the educational broadcasting industry.

Inaugural Mini-College Fairs

In addition to individual college visits that Gilman hosts on campus each year, the School also held mini-college fairs for the first time. Schools represented at the three fairs included Colgate University; Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Lewis & Clark College; Rice University; Trinity College; University of California, San Diego; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of Maryland, College Park; The University of the South: Sewanee; and Williams College. In all, Gilman hosted nearly 180 colleges and universities during the 2018-19 school year.

The Social Institute

A social media expert with a fresh perspective visited campus with a positive message about “how to win at social.” During her two-day visit, Laura Tierney, founder of The Social Institute, held sessions with student leaders, parents, and the entire Upper and Middle Schools. She challenged students to establish standards in their online presence, including conveying their core values, protecting their privacy, and using their mic for good.

Gilman News Redesign

With input from a team of student editors and faculty advisors, Editor-in-Chief Ibbe Ashruf ’20 has redesigned the Gilman News template. Taking inspiration from The Wall Street Journal and The Harvard Crimson, the new look will complement the articles and issues will include more color than has been used in the past. The new layout was unveiled in the Founders Day issue that was distributed at graduation.

Community Commitment

As part of a broad initiative started by the Middle School Diversity Council to open dialogues and bring groups of varying ethnicities and backgrounds closer, students developed key tenets to interacting with one another. The resulting principles included: help rather than hurt; be strong in our commitment to kindness; empathize; think before we speak; avoid generalizations; confront mistreatment while honoring one another’s humanity; share the air; and listen to understand and strive to learn from one another. Setting the tone for the school year, the Middle School held a ceremony — appropriately, on September 11 — to affirm their joint commitment to their community. Dressed in their best, students and faculty signed the Community-Living Pledge.

MLK Convocation

Morgan State University President David Wilson was the keynote speaker at Gilman’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation on January 17. Wilson, the first person in his family to finish high school, holds four degrees, including an Ed.M. and Ed.D. from Harvard University. In his inspirational address, Wilson challenged Gilman boys to be “difference makers.”

Bible Study Group Expands

Gilman’s vibrant weekly bible study group has grown to more than 60 boys. This voluntary, nondenominational Christian fellowship meets weekly over lunch and, over the winter, held a weekend retreat on the Chesapeake Bay. Participants, including 35 ninth through twelfth grade students, plus faculty and staff, escaped the daily distractions of life to immerse themselves in prayer, reflection, and fun.

Crazy for You

The Upper School’s spring musical comedy, Crazy for You, featuring a cast of 36 students from the tri-school community plus St. Paul’s School for Girls, broke attendance records, selling out all four shows. The production was the 15 th show directed by Upper School Teacher John Rowell, with set design by Audio-Visual Coordinator Chris Flint ’ 07

Young Vic Returns to Gilman

The Young Victorian Theatre Company was founded in 1971 by an enthusiastic group of Gilman and Bryn Mawr students and has evolved into an acclaimed and full-fledged performing arts organization. Since 1989 they have performed at either Bryn Mawr School or Roland Park Country School. This summer Young Vic returned to its roots with From London to Baltimore: A Salute to Gilbert & Sullivan, which was performed on Gilman’s campus in mid-July. The company’s general manager is Brian Goodman ’75

Art Teachers are Honored

Middle School art teacher Dave Anderson (above) was named the state’s middle level art educator by the Maryland Art Education Association (MAEA). Anderson taught in Howard County before he arrived at Gilman 16 years ago.

Upper School art teacher Karl Connolly (right) was a finalist in visual arts for the 2019 Baker Artist Awards. He was one of 38 artists who were selected from more than 900 visual, video/film, literary, music, and performance artists because they “exemplify excellence in three areas: mastery of craft, artistic excellence, and a unique vision.”

Making a Home for Monarchs

When the Lower School’s Greenhounds, an environmental club, learned that the Monarch butterfly population has decreased almost 90% in the past two decades, they created a milkweed and wild flower garden.

Now six years old, the project has been embraced by the entire division. The Monarchs and their annual migration to Mexico have been incorporated into the Lower School curriculum at all levels. Last fall, after boys documented the garden and submitted the information to the Monarch Watch Foundation, it was certified as an official Monarch Waystation.

From the Archives: Pen Pals Bridge Generations of Gilman Men

By Johanna Schein, School Archivist

During the past five years, third graders have made regular visits to the Gilman Archives to learn about the School’s history as well as develop research skills. With the Class of 1969 returning to campus this spring for their 50th reunion, third grade teachers Jen Reiter, Becky Stevens, and Ellen Rizzuto, and archivist Johanna Schein developed a unique educational experience for the Gilman Class of 2028: The Pen Pal Project.

First, the boys studied primary sources from the 1960s, including the 1969 Cynosure yearbook and the Gilman News. Then, students were paired with a member of the Class of ‘69. The boys learned how to compose a letter in which they introduced themselves, explained what has changed at Gilman, and posed questions to their pen pals. Students mailed the letters in January, and excitement built as replies came in. During Alumni Weekend, the pen pals met face to face. Alumni visited third graders in their homerooms, the boys sang the School song and Bill Merrill’s Gilman Five song, and all shared more about their Gilman experiences.

Plans are in the works for this project to be repeated next year for a new group of boys and the next group of alumni to celebrate their 50th reunion.

…IF YOU CAN CONVINCE SOME TEACHER TO TAKE YOU UP INTO THE ATTIC OF THE SCIENCE BUILDING, YOU MAY SEE A LONG WIRE STRUNG ACROSS THE CEILING THAT WAS THE ANTENNA THAT THE [HAM RADIO] CLUB USED FOR TRANSMITTING…

J. C. (CLETE) BAIER, JR.

… YOU ARE RIGHT; MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE I WAS IN THE THIRD GRADE. WE HAD NO CELL PHONES, … TELEVISIONS WERE MUCH SMALLER AND HAD ONLY BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES. WHAT HAS NOT CHANGED IS GILMAN’S TEACHING OF GOOD READING AND WRITING SKILLS, AS SHOWN BY YOUR EXCELLENT LETTER…

EDWARD (PHIL) FRANKE, III

High Impact

By Mary Ellen Porter, Director of Major Gifts

Judging by the picture (top right), Kate Ratcliffe was barely out of teenage-hood in 1990 when Headmaster Reddy Finney and Director of Development Nicholas Koas persuaded her to leave her position at the Baltimore Museum of Art to join Gilman’s development team. Now, 29 years later, she is retiring to great accolades after a long and highly successful career at the School.

Koas wrote that he and Mr. Finney “had a tough time convincing Kate to come to Gilman in 1990. At the time, she was leading an energetic group of volunteers and benefactors at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Everyone at the BMA loved Kate and didn’t want her to leave. When she accepted our invitation, Annual Giving was $660,140. Last year, The Gilman Fund totaled $2,358,509. She’s raised tens of millions of dollars for capital improvements, scholarships, faculty development, and more. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Kate has garnered more philanthropic support for a single school than any independent day school development director in the country.”

The alumni, parents, friends, and colleagues who have worked with Kate would certainly agree. During her tenure, she has had an immeasurable impact on the School, directing three capital campaigns, overseeing the renovations of Carey Hall and the athletic fields, working with five different headmasters, and mentoring numerous former staff who have gone on to lead

their own development offices. Perhaps most important of all, she developed and nurtured strong relationships between alumni and the School. Former Headmaster Arch Montgomery ’71 said, “I was lucky that Kate was willing to take on the director job when I was looking for a leader. Kate knows Baltimore and knows the Gilman constituency. And they love her, as they should.”

The oldest of six children, Kate is a natural leader. She was a three-sport athlete at Maryvale Prep, playing varsity field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse. Her competitive nature and experience as a team leader positioned her well for her role as Gilman’s director of development, where she raised over $160 million for financial aid, faculty support, new programs, and capital improvements.

Her accomplishments at Gilman are unparalleled, and we wish her well in her retirement. To honor Kate, a special gift effort raised more than $500,000 to name the development office, which is now the M. Kate Ratcliffe Office of Development and Alumni Relations.

Kate epitomizes what I would describe as a “Great Gilman Citizen” ... For the last three decades – as headmasters, faculty, staff, students, parents, and trustees have changed – Kate has been the ‘constant’ for literally thousands of members of the Gilman family ... Gilman is indeed fortunate that it has had such a fine and impactful representative of the School, who has given so much of herself to Gilman...and done so with grace, humor, and sincerity.

- Past Board of Trustees President Jim Riepe ’68

Kate has poured her heart and soul into Gilman. In terms of dollars raised for and donors connected to Gilman, the numbers under Kate’s leadership are astounding. Behind those numbers is a woman whose deep love for and commitment to Gilman have driven her work.

Kate is a consummate professional. I worked with her closely when I was head. She became a mentor and a friend to me and Janet. When something goes wrong, her perspective is that “it was a good learning experience,” and then she moves on. Kate is level headed, has a great sense of humor, and is always optimistic.

~Former Gilman Headmaster

John E. Schmick ’67, served as headmaster from 2007-2013

Kate Ratcliffe’s Career By the Numbers:

• $160 million raised

• 13,500 + donors

• 3 capital campaigns

• 300 + events

• 5 headmasters

• 10 + former staff members who now lead development offices

Kate is a relentless worker and a fast learner. She has real charm. Absent her efforts we would not have built new Middle and Lower School facilities. We would not have expanded the Auditorium and the Science Building, or renovated Carey Hall. Any success we had during my tenure at Gilman with regard to fundraising was due in significant measure to Kate’s efforts.

~Former Gilman Headmaster Arch Montgomery, ’71, served as headmaster from 1992-2001

I don’t know of anyone who personifies The Gilman Five more than Kate. She’s performed in a way that embodies all that we love at Gilman and she’s had one success after another. Kate has gone out of her way to engage so many people. So much volunteer leadership comes out of the development office. It all starts there.

~ Chairman of the First Things First Campaign and past Board of Trustees President Charlie Fenwick ’66

Kate truly shaped my professional path. Her greatest strength is that she mentors her team. The proof is in the sheer number of development professionals she has seen come through her shop [who are now in leadership positions in schools and non-profits].

~ Friends School Director of Development

Ashley Principe

Kate taught me everything about development and volunteer management. Her ability to stay at the forefront of our industry is incredible. Even though we have not worked together for close to 20 years, I still look to Kate for her guidance and appreciate her support and mentorship. She has transformed Gilman as much as anyone in Gilman’s history.

~ Sheppard Pratt Health System Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving

Julie Marshall

I always admired Kate for her strength and her business savvy. She was a woman working in a man’s world. Kate had to find her voice and use it and she did that so well. She will leave a legacy of being a strong, confident woman, who has been a role model for so many boys and men at Gilman.

~ McDonogh School Director of Development

Kerry Johnston

Kate really knows how to handle all the different leadership styles. She taught me how to run a board meeting. She taught me how to handle tough situations, anticipate challenges, and come up with solutions. I learned from her how to get volunteers to work for me, but, more importantly, for Gilman.

~ Middle Grades Partnership Director of Development

Stephanie Felton

~Gilman Headmaster Henry P. A. Smyth

Gordon Culbertson

Middle School Math

33 years at Gilman

By Ron Culbertson, Middle School Head from 1986 - 2009

The room is hushed. They focus in on his whispered words. The intensity is palpable. They want to hear his every idea and capture each gem. There is magic in the air; they hold their breath to be part of it. Five minutes later, they howl in laughter and Mr. C fills the room with his distinctive guffaw — a source of imitation for all aspiring mimics. Mr. C is holding court for his students. And that is the way they feel. They are indeed students of mathematics, striving for exact vocabulary, asking pertinent questions, and anticipating the complex connections to past and future concepts. They are developing a relationship with numbers and they have an expert to guide them.

Perhaps no teacher has had a more profound influence on his colleagues as has Gordon Culbertson. He shares his ideas and wisdom generously and without a moment’s hesitation. “Come into my class and see the boys at the board,” he says. “Observe how this child reacts in class.” “Come in and play this game with us.” He shares his techniques; he visits their classrooms; he works one-on-one with them.

For Mr. C, however, the most important element of the learning process is the caring. He wants them to succeed. Details are important, but equally important is failing, getting back up, and trying again. There are high expectations, but also a safety net for when those heights are not met. To watch in the early morning as students gather around the table in the math office to struggle together and then leave with new confidence and strength: this is to understand how essential Mr. C has been to the boys.

Yes, there are iconic G.C. memories: Halloween costumes, auctioneering the Mardi Gras, “Mr. C Says,” dramatic assembly programs, weekly lotteries, and more. Yet it is in all the spaces between — homeroom, the fields and courts, lunchtime, and passing hallway conversations — where Mr. C has distinguished himself as a teacher, advisor, mentor, and coach. After 50 years of teaching (32 at Gilman and 18 in Baltimore County Public Schools) Gordon will retire having had an amazingly positive influence on hundreds of young men and dozens of teachers and administrators. Thank you Mr. Culbertson, sir.

Annie Hunt Upper School Library Assistant

18 years at Gilman

By Diane Fuller, Director of Libraries

I think I’m in denial that Annie is retiring. I haven’t known a day at Gilman without her. She’s been such a part of Gilman for me, a live example of what it is to Be Gilman — humble, kind, thoughtful.

Proofreading the classified ads were part of the responsibilities Annie Hunt had as customer service representative for The Baltimore Sun in 2001 when she saw the posting for a Library/Clerical Assistant at Gilman School. With a B.A. from the State University College at Buffalo, New York, and library experience from Canisius College, Annie was a great fit. She has worked with three Upper School librarians, helped train numerous library assistants across divisions, and processed or repaired innumerable books.

Everyone enjoys Annie’s attention-getting bulletin board displays for various topics and themes. Johnnie Foreman, Director of Community, Inclusion, and Equity said, “What Annie would produce on the bulletin board has been a mystery and a joy. She is clever, artistic, and extremely creative. I will miss her and her work.”

Annie has supported the boys in so many ways. Anthony Ferguson ’10 recalls that “Ms. Hunt was never just a librarian. She was a source of inspiration, motivation, and a familiar face that provided comfort during my days at Gilman. Whether it was recommending a new book, helping with research, or simply being a listening ear, I could always count on her. She changed the culture and raised the bar on what a library could be, and for that I am forever grateful.”

Annie knows the collection as well as she knows the students. Librarians joke about patrons coming in and asking for a book they saw by its color; how are we supposed to know what color a book is? Yet, more than once, when someone described a book by the color of its cover, Annie has been able to find the book. It amazed me each time.

Chris Legg ’67 Middle School Language Arts 37 years at Gilman

By Bo Grimes ‘59, retired Middle School Language Arts Teacher

No, this is not an obituary— thank heaven! It is an affectionate acknowledgment that my good friend and long-time colleague has at last passed on from the pedagogical sphere of the archetypal absent-minded professor – about which there are certifiable tales that will not be repeated here—to the Elysian Fields of a new yoga-inspired career as an in-home massage therapist, for which this hands-on educator has been assiduously preparing for several years.

Mark Twain, author of that stalwart of the sixth grade curriculum, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, was called “Youth” by his wife. Chris could lay claim to inherit that moniker. Since his days as a wrestling champion at Gilman and then at Yale, Chris has kept himself in remarkably fine physical and mental shape, playing games and exercising wisely, all of which augurs well for a long and healthy retirement.

As a coach in football, wrestling, and lacrosse, Chris has never been one to sit on the sidelines and observe passively. Likewise, his classroom has always been a hive of purposeful and often uninhibited activity in the process of educating young men. My own favorite image of Chris in action is his demonstration of acting technique on Parents Night for seventh grade drama: standing on his desk, he portrayed a hen laying an egg and triumphantly announcing success with flapping wings and appropriate sound effects. He really got into the character!

The Middle School may well be a quieter place next fall, but Chris himself will be as active and fully engaged as ever in his new endeavors. Thanks to Chris for all he has done for Gilman students, teachers, coaches, advisors, and friends!

Cathy Morcomb Middle School Administrative Assistant 23 years at Gilman

By Peter Kwiterovich ‘ 87 , former Middle School Head; now Assistant Head

of

School

During her time at Gilman School, Cathy Morcomb touched countless lives through her joyful spirit and selfless commitment to each and every student, not to mention her patient counsel to thousands of parents during their sons’ journey through the Middle School. A surprise luncheon for Cathy brought many of her past and present colleagues together on campus. Many spoke about her love for Gilman and her deep devotion to the School’s mission. Cathy made her decision to retire in order to spend more time with her daughters, Hollis and Dakota; her three (soon to be four) grandchildren, Aja, Micah, and Charlie; and her father, Ross.

Cathy will be remembered most for her incredible sense of fun (best exemplified by her initiating the first Ugly Sweater Contest), her unmatchable multitasking ability (she had an uncanny ability to keep herself organized as well as everyone around her), and her unwavering positive regard for each and every student, faculty, and staff member who walked the halls of the Middle School. The stories from people who know her well always focus on the time that she placed their needs above her own and ensured that no matter the situation, she was there to make it better.

Besides her family, her other two passions, gardening and baking, benefitted all of us. There were many times when she would bake the perfect granola bar containing the blueberries she had picked the weekend before, or she would excitedly bring in a new recipe for people to try. On many occasions, Cathy would design landscaping for the homes of colleagues. It is no surprise that her creativity in baking and passion for floral arrangements reflect the care and nurturing she provided everyone at Gilman.

Don Rogers

Upper and Middle School Math Teacher 39 years at Gilman

By Ian Brooks, Math Teacher

I first met Don when I began teaching about 30 years ago. During my first year, I observed a variety of teachers and was impressed by the passion and enthusiasm that he brought to the classroom. After 14 years in the Middle School, he moved to the Upper School, where he has been for the past 25 years. We have shared classes through the years and it has been a wonderful learning experience. Students appreciate the humor that he brings to the classroom. What they do not see, and what I have come to appreciate so much, is Don’s thoughtful approach to teaching. He is keenly interested in presenting the material in a memorable way and in crafting a sequence of questions that get the kids thinking deeply.

Over the past several years, Don has become interested in working with teachers, and he is moving on from Gilman to share his expertise in classroom management and student engagement with teachers. We will miss him but his passion and enthusiasm for mentoring younger teachers will continue to leave its mark on the next generation and will be his enduring legacy.

By Mike Wallace, Science Teacher

I have learned quite a bit about coaching from Donnie. Deeper than that, instinct tells me that someday, when I will have forgotten the specifics of what happened during any given season we worked together, I will still remember the good times that we had with our golf teams. Having fun while learning matters, and Donnie got that. Not only did he personify the “teacher-coach model,” but he lived it. Coach Rog loved the kids, and they loved him in return; thus, they were willing to work even harder for him.

Vivian Sawyer College Counseling & AP Coordinator

47 years at Gilman

By John Schmick ‘ 67 , former Gilman Headmaster and Iva Turner, former Head of Upper School

Over the years Vivian has played a key role in several important offices–Upward Bound, Community and Diversity, College Counseling. And now, after 47 remarkable years at Gilman, she has retired. Smart, quick on the uptake, and focused, Vivian mastered the needs of every office. She adapted agreeably to every change. Whatever was required by the work at hand, Vivian got it done, accurately and seamlessly. Everyone loved working with her because of her skill level but also because of her positivity, work ethic, and cheerfulness. She shared her wisdom and experience, and always maintained a professional demeanor that was a model to all. Vivian also demonstrated the importance of commitment to the Gilman community. Her goal every day was to support and serve, and we were the grateful beneficiaries of her dedication. Faculty, students, and parents found Vivian a welcoming and trustworthy presence. She made everyone feel comfortable and quickly assessed what was needed, be it information, help with a process, a chat, or candy from the alwaysfilled bowl on her desk. Vivian was particularly alert to the boys and faculty members who needed a safe place and an understanding ear. No matter what was going on, she never made you feel as though you were disturbing her. Gilman was so fortunate to have such a skilled, caring, compassionate person for so many years. We are truly blessed to have worked with this outstanding professional and friend.

In retirement Vivian is looking forward to more time with family –helping care for her parents and spending time with her grandchildren. After she finishes her current projects, she will have time for traveling abroad, volunteering at a library, reading, taking classes, joining a garden club, and taking on new hobbies. We wish her well in all of her new endeavors.

Marian Xanders

Lower School Teacher

35 years at Gilman

By Leith Herrmann, former Head of Lower School

When I first became head of the Lower School, I noticed that Marian, whose official role at that time was curriculum coordinator, did infinitely more than her title suggested. In addition to overseeing the curriculum, she taught a hefty course load, created and managed the Lower School schedule, ordered all books, assigned and monitored faculty duties, and helped with admissions testing. In those days we had no learning specialist, reading specialist, or counselor, so Marian covered those bases too. As she juggled all these balls, she simultaneously raised four sons.

The word “no” was absent from Marian’s vocabulary. One chilly Family Day, the fifth-grade dunk booth was short on volunteer victims for the “splash seat.” Marian stepped in. After a few soakings, poor Marian looked hypothermic. Wearing our blue and gray school colors is one thing – but turning them is quite another! We quickly replaced her, whereupon Marian apologized through chattering teeth for not completing her stint.

Marian’s chemistry with kids was lovely. She adored them. She championed the underdogs and spent extra hours assisting them. After school, she provided free tutoring to children whose parents could not afford outside help.

In addition to being a consummate professional, Marian Xanders is a wonderful person: kind, thoughtful, compassionate, loyal, supportive, and upbeat. She would help anyone without expectation of a returned favor. Even during the summer months, she would alert the whole faculty each time a colleague celebrated a birthday.

May retirement reward her with as much meaningful time for herself as she selflessly gave to us.

Where Are They Now?

These three long-serving faculty members retired last summer. We asked each of them to tell us what they’ve been up to in their first year of leisure.

Don Abrams

Coordinator

of

Middle School Instructional Technology, 46 years at Gilman

A jester once observed, “Retirement is a field of clover, but by the time you reach it, you’re too old to climb the fence.” While that may be true for some, I have been fortunate to spend my days scaling new fences, and marveling at the fields of clover all around me.

My days are filled with hobbies, exercise, time with friends and family, travel, and continuing learning. Shortly after my departure from school, my wife, Riselle, and I embarked on a river cruise along the Seine, which was a delight at every turn.

Photography continues to be a passion. Visits to Fallingwater, Rehoboth, and the Cherry Blossom Festival have provided marvelous opportunities to refine my craft. By the time you read this, I will have returned from a 14-day trip to China.

A woodworking class at Open Works rekindled my long-standing interest in fine woodworking. I have created a well-equipped woodshop in my basement and have built custom jigs, gift boxes, cutting boards, and cabinets.

As teachers, we hope to instill in our students the joy of life-long learning. Online courses in film production, speed-reading, and programming apps are now my classrooms. Additionally, we have attended provocative lectures through the Stevenson University Speaker Series, which was a wonderful parting gift from Gilman, and has opened new horizons.

My leisurely days provide many opportunities to spend quality time with our six grandchildren and with life-long friends. Pickleball and solo walks along the paths “less-traveled” round out days filled with purpose.

I am reminded that each day is a special gift with endless possibility and promise, and so, with each new sunrise, I set out to climb new fences and to bask in the clover of the fragrant fields that stretch before me.

Pam Abruzzo

Middle School Modern Language Coordinator, 20 years at Gilman

I always thought you had to have a plan before you retired. When people asked me, “What are you going to do?” I didn’t have an answer. I had trouble imagining what life would be like after Gilman! I had fulfilled my dreams and aspirations in my teaching career, and it was now time to move on to new challenges and opportunities. I knew that I would have to give myself some time and understand that this would be a process. The first step on this new journey was to make a list of what I wanted to do. Here it is:

• Spend more time with family: I can more easily attend my grandchildren’s school and sporting activities. My husband, Ray, and I attended the Anne Arundel County Spelling Bee to see our grandson finish in 2nd place! We cheered our granddaughter during her school rock ‘n’ roll show, where she had three solos!

• Exercise: I joined the Jewish Community Center and have taken Zumba classes.

• Volunteer: I found the perfect volunteer opportunity at the Irvine Nature Center (directed by Brooks Paternotte ’90), where I assist the teachers in the preschool several days a week. I am very happy to be back in the classroom.

• Maintain friendships: I have visited the Middle School at least once a month, helping with the Festival of Languages and French trip.

• Travel: Last summer, we had a fabulous vacation in Maui. I recently traveled to California to attend my great nephew’s baptism. This summer we will watch our grandson play in an invitational Baseball Hall of Fame tournament in Cooperstown. And my entire family will visit the Mediterranean.

• Discover new hobbies: Through cooking classes at the Baltimore Chef Shop I learned to make French crêpes and macarons.

• Attend special events: Thanks to Gilman’s generous retirement gift, we have attended several productions at the Hippodrome.

Retirement can be active while still being relaxing and enjoyable. I suspect this new journey may change several times as I try to keep myself open to life’s possibilities, but I have faith in the process.

Assistant Director of Athletics, 46 years at Gilman

Since I retired my days have not changed much. I guess the habit of getting up at 5:30 a.m. to get ready and leave for school are hard to break, although I have found that occasionally sleeping in does feel really great.

My sister planned a family reunion last summer, which became a retirement party for me. Her three grown children and their families, as well as my two sons and their families, all converged in Vermont for a family gathering. We rented a large farmhouse for the week when everyone was there. Over the holidays we traveled to Connecticut to visit with Bryan and his family.

Right now we are in the process of putting our house on the market, with plans to move to South Carolina as soon as it sells, which, by the time this article appears, may have happened.

I still have a cruising sailboat that we sail during the season on the bay. It takes up a good portion of my free time with maintenance and upkeep, but I really enjoy this work and the time while on board.

The most unusual thing I’ve found is that I have much more time to read for pleasure. I have read more than 20 books since retiring. When I was working full time the only chance for this was during long vacations, so having unlimited free time has greatly increased my reading time.

Future plans include a trip this summer back to New Hampshire to help celebrate the 75th anniversary of Camp Deerwood, where I worked for 29 summers. I am also hopeful we will be able to get out to California to visit Lorne and crew in the year ahead.

Bob Smith

Onward: Gilman Class of 2019 Graduation

The 116 members of the Class of 2019 marked the end of their time at Gilman on a beautiful Saturday, June 8 , while families, friends, and faculty members cheered them on during the 122 nd Founders Day exercises. It was a day not only for celebration, but for acknowledgment of the support received from the entire Gilman community, preparing the graduates for this day.

Headmaster Henry P. A. Smyth began his address by referencing last summer’s reading selection, Admiral William H. McRaven’s Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World. Smyth said, “You cannot paddle the boat alone. This crowd is a manifestation of that truth.”

Rather than offering “sage advice that will propel you toward much success and happiness,” Smyth told the graduating class, “you have already heard what you need

to hear. You have heard it from your teachers, coaches, and advisors; from your classmates, teammates, and schoolmates; from your parents, grandparents, guardians, and mentors.” He reviewed the wisdom that these people had already conveyed to the graduates over time:

· Work hard.

· Play fair.

· Be your best self.

· Recognize that you are part of something larger than yourself.

· Be a good person.

· Treat others with respect.

· Practice the Gilman Five.

· Say hey (the “Power of Hello”).

Smyth also cited several events from the school year, including Baccalaureate remarks from Lower School Teacher Nick Schloeder ’85, the Cotton Lecture presentation by Politico Reporter Dan Diamond ’98 and Art Director Andrew Schapiro ’01, and assembly speakers throughout the year. Collectively, he noted, these speakers

captured the importance of awareness, observation, and discernment. To summarize, Smyth issued this charge to the graduates: Be attentive. He explained, “If you are going to fulfill Gilman’s mission by being men of character and integrity who have the skills and ability to make positive contributions to the communities in which you live and work — in other words, if you are going to make the world a better place — you need to notice it.”

Smyth concluded with the Latin phrase finis origine pendet, translating to “the end depends on the beginning.” Building on that concept, he told graduates, “Whatever your destination, take your beginning with you. Go from here with the confidence that you will always have your Gilman experience — and your Gilman brothers — to support you.”

Valedictorian Noah Jun thanked faculty, administration, and staff for “the compassion and attention [students] receive daily on this campus.” He said, “it has been clear that Mr. Smyth, Mr. Foreman, and many others have worked thoughtfully to diversify every aspect of Gilman,

making sure we are prepared and well-versed for the complex world we are about to enter. Teachers … have gone beyond their designated subjects, encouraging us to engage difficult issues with critical thinking and civil discourse so that we can make meaningful contributions to society in the future. We have felt the light of every adult member of the Gilman community as they served us in one way or another. Through your examples, we see the light of what it means to support those around us for a larger cause.” Jun, who, in addition to being the valedictorian, also won the 12TH grade William S. Thomas Scholarship Prize, went on to acknowledge the support of family as well as the many contributions made to one another by classmates. Turning his attention to the future, he exhorted the graduates to “shine our light by using what we have learned here to become men for others.”

2019 Founders Day Awards

Faculty/Staff Awards

Apgar Award for Teaching Excellence

Lynn Nichols

Broadus-Hubbard Award

Erica Hudson

Class of 1947 Fund for Meritorious Teaching

Jennifer Reiter

John K. and Robert F. M. Culver Chair

Kelsey Carper 2019-2021

Elizabeth Knapp 2018-2020

Edward K. Dunn Faculty Fund and Award

Lower School: Anthony Jordan

Middle School: David Menard

Upper School: Ismael Leon

Dawson L. Farber, Jr. Award

John Layman

Robert F. Greenhill ’54 and

Gayle G. Greenhill-Ruth W. Williams

Distinguished Teaching Chair for Mathematics

Ian Brooks

Before the graduates received their diplomas, several students won awards for scholarship, community service, and athletic performance. Faculty members received awards as well. The headmaster also recognized faculty and staff who had completed 20 or 30 years of service.

In what has become a tradition, the Traveling Men performed “The Parting Song,” a song of departure based on a 17th-century Scottish song, which featured 10 members of the graduating class: Quinn Beagle, Ehren Dietrick, Aidan Holmgren, Saad Jalisi, Sean Kim, Alex Lawson, Steven Li, Matt Meittinis, Luke Sabracos, Noah Seth. With so many featured seniors, the group incorporated nine new singers, who will be joining the T-Men in the fall.

To conclude the ceremony, pairs of graduates left the stage with a special handshake, hug, selfie, confetti, or other creative flourish.

May Holmes Service Award

Timothy Holley, Jr.

Gilman Advisor Fund and Award

Lower School: Kaitlin Rogers

Middle School: Eric Marner

Upper School: Matthew Zealand

Walter Lord Middle School Teaching Prize

Mark Lemon

Edward T. Russell Chair

Linda Trapp

20 -Year Recognition

William Gamper

Andrew Holt

Cheri McElroy

Paul-Gerhard Otto

30-Year Recognition

A.J. Howard, Jr.

Riepe Sabbatical

Larry Malkus, Jr.

Student Awards

William S. Thomas Scholarship Prizes and Valedictorian

9 th Grade: Jacob Doub

10 th Grade: Charles Nuermberger

Heath Otenasek (tie)

11 th Grade: Justin Bai

12 th Grade: Noah Jun

Valedictorian: Noah Jun

William Cabell Bruce, Jr. Athletic Prize

Keith Roberts

The Edward Fenimore Award

Kevonte Beard

The Peter Parrott Blanchard Award

Quinn Beagle

Andrew Diehl

The Redmond C. Finney Award

Saad Jalisi

Nischal Pandey

The Daniel Baker, Jr. Memorial Award

Noah Seth

The William A. Fisher Medallion

Benjamin Levinson

Go Forth: College Choices

The 116-member Gilman Class of 2019 will attend 65 institutions across the nation. Twenty-eight schools will welcome two or more incoming freshmen from Gilman, with the largest cohorts attending schools including: Bucknell, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, University of Maryland, and UVA. Eighty-two percent of the class is heading to a most or highly competitive college according to Barron’s scale. Seven of the eight Ivy League colleges will include Gilman graduates in their firstyear classes, with Brown welcoming the most, at four.

Noah Benjamin Abrams* Vanderbilt University

Brandon Thomas Ahearn Southern Methodist University

Cameron David Alexander Morehouse College

Frederick Abbott Allner Southern Methodist University

Brooks Carson Amiot University of Wisconsin, Madison

William Francis Andrews, III University of Georgia

Jefferson Finnbarr Arthur* University of Virginia

Chase Whitfield Baker College of William & Mary

Quinn Messina Beagle Bucknell University

Kevonte Ajani Beard Franklin & Marshall College

Pierce Ronayne Bennett Wake Forest University

Henry Brooks Bethel Bucknell University

Samuel Benjamin Bloomberg Bucknell University

Michael Patrick Brittingham Wake Forest University

Jedidiah Wolf Brummett Colorado Mesa University

Aaron Christropher Chan University of Delaware

Asher Daniel Cordish University of Pennsylvania

Maxwell Thomas Cortezi New York University

Quinn Murphy Craig Duquesne University

Edgar Hugh Dannielle Cos de Leon Towson University

Jacob Luis Diaz* Cornell University

Andrew William Diehl St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Duncan Alexander Dietrick Rhodes College

Ehren Matthew Dietrick Rochester Institute of Technology

Gregory Oliver Diette* Tufts University

Zachary Carlyle Dixon, II Long Island University, Brooklyn

Clark Patrick Dowling* University of Pennsylvania

William Carrington Dowling* Dartmouth College

Chase Ryan Drew University of Oregon

Alexander Jordan Duh College of William & Mary

Charles McClain East* Dartmouth College

Frederic Grant Emry IV Indiana University at Bloomington

Joshua Harris Ettlinger University of Maryland, College Park

Zachary David Franks Northwestern University

Robert Joseph Fuchs Washington University in St. Louis

Matthew Paul Gallo College of William & Mary

Evan Stuart Gilbert Elon University

William Joseph Gildea IV Bucknell University

William Halsey Godine Georgetown University

Seth Elan-Thomas Hardy University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Jonathan William Haywood Morehouse College

Nathan David Hedgecock* Carleton College

Grant Matthew André Holmes Case Western Reserve University

Aidan Barron Holmgren Hamilton College

Ethan Ross Greenidge Hoskins Brown University

Cole Frazier Iampieri Elon University

Ikenna Chinedum Obioma Ihenatu* Brown University

Saad Hasan Jalisi University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Keyshon Terrell Jones Southern Methodist University

Khari D’angelo Jones Wagner College

Noah Alexander Jun* Harvard College

Karson Bryce Kamenetz University of Maryland, College Park

Dong Yeob Paul Kang Babson College

Richard Casey Kim Johns Hopkins University

Sean Sehyun Kim Bucknell University

Ye June Kim Northwestern University

Noah Zeke Klein* Boston University

Oluwafolahanmi Ayobami Koleosho Johns Hopkins University

Christopher Alexis Kulik Tulane University

Alexander David Lawson Yale University

Isaac Junhee Lee Pennsylvania State University

Benjamin McCuen Levinson The George Washington University

Siyuan Steven Li* Washington University in St. Louis

Yiyang Li* Johns Hopkins University

Robert Davis Liddell Georgia Institute of Technology

Varun Maheshwari Davidson College

Kendal Kolbe Manns Post Graduate Year

John Nicholas Maragakis* Brown University

Alexander Byers Martin III* Yale University

Tyler Anthony Martinez University of San Francisco

Joseph Fuhrman Mather University of Maryland, College Park

Patrick Christopher McCormick Wake Forest University

John David McGowan Vanderbilt University

Francis Conley McGurkin* University of Notre Dame

Ryan Patrick McMahon University of Delaware

Mason Matthew Meittinis Tulane University

Avery McLearen Merlo Boston College

Michael Robert Mintiens Goucher College

Leo James Morton* Georgetown University

Joseph Thomas Mullan Muhly Southern Methodist University

Arsene William Ngongang Wake Forest University

Brandon Robert Hoan Nguyen University of Maryland, College Park

Zachary Joseph Oddo Roanoke College

Colin Daniel O’Neill University of Notre Dame

Logan Alejandro Paff Brown University

Nischal Rai Pandey* Johns Hopkins University

Simeon Malcolm Parker The George Washington University

Parker Campbell Pearce* University of Virginia

Garretson Wade Perry Tufts University

Nicolas George Philippou University of Miami

Aidan Scott Radinsky Rochester Institute of Technology

Keith Jerome Roberts Case Western Reserve University

Jalen Anthony Rucker United States Military Academy at West Point

Luke Spencer Sabracos Ithaca College

James Maxwell Schloeder Rhodes College

Noah Matthew Seth Northwestern University

Garrett Simon Shriver Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Matthew Louis Smith* University of Virginia

Elie Nassif Soueid Fordham University

John Nicholas Theodore Columbia University

Charles Everett Tini

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Lucas Todd Unger University of Richmond

John Eric VanderHeyden Lehigh University

Maximilian Wilhelm Verheyen Loyola University Maryland

Alan Tang Wang United States Naval Academy

Cameron Jamal Ward Drexel University

Simon Tyler Veit Warfield* Cornell University

Calvin Coolidge Watkins III Stevenson University

Kofi Elijah Whitehead Rhodes College

Edward Ira Wight III Bucknell University

Jekhai Amari Wilson Morehouse College

Tyler Thomas Witherspoon* Dartmouth College

Nicholas Joseph Gérard-Marie Woel-Nogueira Northwestern University

Lucas Dong Hyuk Yim* University of Maryland, College Park

Jonathan Andrew Zheng University of Illinois at Urbana –Champaign

Morgan Matthew Zinn* University of Virginia

By Mac Barrett ’67 , P’03 , Alumni Special Projects Coordinator

Antiquarian Expert

William S. Reese ’73

With the passing of Bill Reese on June 4, 2018, Gilman School lost one of its most distinguished graduates. The cause was prostate cancer. He was 62

According to the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, he was “universally acknowledged to be the greatest American antiquarian bookseller of his generation, known for his expertise in Americana, color plate books, natural history, exploration, literature, and the history of the book, and also widely celebrated as a man of uncommon graciousness, generosity, humor, and decency.”

Born in Havre de Grace, Md., Bill entered Gilman in 1965. He was co-captain of the varsity track team and a member of the varsity cross country team, a member of the political and debating clubs, and president of his senior class. At graduation in 1973, he received the William A. Fisher Medallion, the Elizabeth Woolsey Gilman Prize, the Mrs. J. Crossan Cooper Debating Cup, the Dr. John M. T. Finney, Sr. Debating Prize, and the Cameron Debating Medallion.

Prior to his death and his 45th Reunion, Bill was passionate about the Class of 1973 Alfred H. Weems Jr. Memorial Award, a scholarship to assist a rising senior who exemplifies academic and athletic excellence. Classmate David Tickner commented, “Bill’s support of the Alfred Weems Jr. Award will always remind me of his strong will and quiet leadership.”

He donated the Library of America Book Catalog, 301 volumes of American authors, to the Gilman library. The Reese Collection is in the process of being made available to the Gilman community.

Before Bill graduated from Yale in 1977 he was already a partner in a rare book firm, Frontier Americana. In 1979, he founded the William Reese Company in New Haven. An obituary in The New York Times stated, “For nearly 40 years, from his treasure house of a by-appointment-only store on a quiet block, Mr. Reese shaped tastes, cultivated collectors, advised museums and libraries, and made and moved markets. Many of the nation’s leading collections of Americana bear his stamp.”

According to classmate Steve Green, “Bill’s underlying appreciation of history was second to none.” He was the author of many articles and books in the fields of American historical bibliography and book collecting, and a frequent speaker on those and related subjects. William Reese Company, one of the leading firms in the world dealing in rare books and manuscripts, continues under the ownership and management of Bill’s wife, Dorothy Hurt.

As evidence of Bill’s lighter side, classmate John Bremermann recalled, “Any recollection of Bill’s life is not complete without mentioning the finest moment of insurrection I ever witnessed at Gilman. ‘Hooter’ (faculty member Meredith Reese) asked Bill to say grace at lunch one day, back when a hot lunch was prepared for us, and he uttered to the entire assembled student body the now famous words, ‘God bless this food. It needs it.’ Hooter immediately led Bill, by his ear, to Headmaster Baldwin’s office where Bill discovered that truth is NOT an absolute defense,” adding, “Intellectually, he was without equal. The topic didn’t matter. He seemed to know something about everything. He left a positive mark on all who knew him. The world is now a lesser place.”

Lacrosse Innovator

William C. Crawford, Jr. ’47

On February 5, 2019, the Class of 1947 lost one of its most respected members. Bill Crawford, Jr., affectionately known to many as “Toba,” was a leader and gifted athlete. He died of natural causes at 90, leaving no immediate survivors.

Bill entered Gilman in 1938. As a senior, he served as vice president of both the class and the student council and president of the athletic association. A three-sport athlete in football, wrestling, and baseball, he was football captain in 1946 and baseball captain in 1947. He was also a member of the Areopagus debating club and the dance committee.

An All-American lacrosse goalie at the University of Virginia, Bill’s exceptional ability impressed Mt. Washington coach Kid Norris who remarked, “Crawford’s goal tending is one of the best I’ve ever witnessed.”

Bill entered the Navy and became a carrier pilot during the Korean War. He was on the aircraft carrier Bennington when a below deck explosion occurred, and numerous sailors were killed. He would leave the Navy due to serious family health issues.

During a visit at Gilchrist Hospice with friends Warren Magruder ’46 and Buck Marshall ’72, Bill shared the challenges he faced in a “Downed Pilot’s Escape and Evasion Course” on the Island of Corsica.

He taught and coached at Gilman 1956-1961. At STX with classmates Dick Tucker and Fielding Lewis, he pursued a lifelong desire to design and build a better lacrosse stick, other lacrosse

equipment, exercise devices, and even fishing lures. He was always thinking about how an item could be improved. Creating the best possible lacrosse stick was his forte. He had 13 U.S., Great Britain, Canadian, and Australian patents in his name for lacrosse heads as well as mesh and protective devices. His patents also included golf club heads, hockey sticks, and kayak shirt skirts.

Bill loved the water and the Chesapeake Bay. At one time he operated a sailboat rental business in Ocean City, Md. He enjoyed fishing on the Bay with Warren Magruder and classmates Graeme Menzies and Cub Harvey. Bill, Graeme, and Warren often played golf together. He loved his many sailing trips on the Bay with classmate Dick Nash and especially appreciated the Nash family hospitality at their homes in Baltimore and Naples, Fl.

In later years, after he had lost his eyesight, two of his closest friends, Warren Magruder and Fielding Lewis, would regularly highlight on the phone for Bill high school sports articles pertaining to Gilman and lacrosse.

Warren said it best with this tribute: “Bill Crawford was the best friend a person could have.”

IN MEMORIAM

WE REMEMBER ALUMNI WHO HAVE DIED RECENTLY. MAY THEY REST IN PEACE.

Class of 1934

Mr. Nathaniel W. James, III

Class of 1943

Mr. Robert O. Bonnell, Jr.

Mr. Martin L. Millspaugh, Jr.

Mr. W. James Price, IV

Class of 1945

Mr. John G. Wharton

Class of 1947

Mr. William C. Crawford

Class of 1948

Mr. Philip N. Powell

Class of 1949

Mr. Rufus M. G. Williams

Class of 1950

Mr. Austin M. Taliaferro

Class of 1951

The Hon. John C. Eldridge

Mr. Henry A. G. King

Mr. Thomas D. R. Parr

Class of 1952

Col. William R. Trippe, III

Class of 1954

Dr. James S. Cox, Jr.

Class of 1955

Dr. M. Pitkin Johnson, Jr.

Class of 1956

Mr. Anthony L. Brennan

Class of 1957

Mr. Nicholas F. Adams, III

Class of 1958

Mr. George C. Doub, Jr.

Mr. James M. Merrick

Class of 1959

Mr. M. Tyler Gatchell

Dr. C. Parke Scarborough, III

Class of 1960

Mr. C. Graham Arnold, Jr.

Dr. Charles A. Dunning, Jr.

Mr. Eugene L. O’Brien, Jr.

Mr. Harry C. Weiskittel III

Class of 1961

Mr. J. Robert Manuel, III

Class of 1963

Dr. R. Craig Woodward

Class of 1964

Mr. Paul T. Duvivier

Class of 1966

Mr. David Collier Anderson

Class of 1968

Dr. Lawrence W. Kenny

Class of 1969

Mr. Steven C. Baker

Mr. David M. Speed

Class of 1973

Mr. William S. Reese

Class of 1977

Mr. Christian E. Murray

Class of 1982

Mr. Charlton Wilder

Class of 2007

Mr. Adam P. Janet

Class of 2011

Mr. Elliott Loring Wakefield

Class of 2013

Mr. Robert B. Keigler

Deaths reported to Gilman between May 16, 2018 and May 30, 2019

Around Campus

McBride Family Grandstand is Dedicated

Last year former Board President Paul McBride, his wife, Chris, and their sons Paul ’06, Greg ’09, Thomas ’13, and William ’14, attended the dedication of the McBride Family Grandstand, which the McBrides funded through a family gift. The grandstand, located on the hill overlooking Chandlee Field, is appreciated by soccer and lacrosse fans and has been used for convocations and other special events.

Just as their sons made incredible contributions to the life of the School as student athletes, Paul and Chris McBride contributed to Gilman as dedicated parents known for their active volunteerism, generous gifts, inspirational leadership, and long-range vision. Even though the McBride boys have graduated, the family’s legacy at Gilman will continue for years to come, thanks to this remarkable contribution to the School’s athletic program.

Novaks Visit the Innovation Lab

In February Roger ’66 and KathyNovak visited the Novak Family Innovation Lab that was made possible by their generous gift. The lab boasts 3D printing machines, a laser cutting machine, drone technology, Arduinos (an open source electronics platform), “plug and play” circuitry and electronics components, LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robotics, and a green screen wall for filmmaking. After observing the boys in action in the Lab, they joined students and faculty in the library for a special lunch held in their honor. As a result of the Novaks’ vision and support, more than 200 Middle School boys now have the opportunity to learn science and math with state-of-the-art technology.

The Novaks are tied to Gilman in a myriad of ways. Their sons, Ned ’01 and Alex ’09, are the third generation of Novak men to attend Gilman. Roger’s father, Edmund R. Novak, was a member of the Class of ’34. Kathy Novak taught in the Lower School in the ’70s through 1982

Walter Lord’s Enduring Legacy

A novel way to write history. A gift that keeps on giving.

By Les Goldsborough ’ 82

So much has been written about Walter Lord ’35, one of our most accomplished, beloved, and loyal alumni. Signs of Walter and his muse, the Titanic, can be found all over Gilman, in particular the Middle School library that bears his name and holds a unique collection of ephemera, including the box of 276 pencils he used to write the famed A Night to Remember. With millions of copies sold via multiple printings, it was this book that, in 1955,

launched both his full-time writing career and the world’s longstanding fascination with the ship’s 1912 sinking.

Something not widely known is that Walter bequeathed to Gilman under his will the legal rights to A Night to Remember and his other publications, with the intent that the bequest “be used for the general purposes of said School.” Because of the lasting appeal of Walter’s

13 bestselling books, this thoughtful act of generosity has proven to be an unimaginable boon. Since Walter’s death, at age 84 , in May 2002 , Gilman has received royalties totaling more than $ 1 million.

Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. (SLL), manages Walter’s publications on Gilman’s behalf – fielding ongoing international inquiries for republication in digital, print, and audio formats. Renowned literary agent Sterling Lord (no relation to Walter), now in his 90s, is still actively representing Gilman’s interests. Sterling is also the agent for other notable writers including Jack Kerouac, Gloria Naylor, Jimmy Breslin, and another shining Gilman star, the late Frank DeFord ’ 57 .

In addition to printings in English-speaking countries, Walter’s titles have been published in translation in China, Taiwan, Hungary, Brazil, Denmark, France, and Germany. Because Gilman’s name appears on the multimedia

publications these contracts produce, the School vicariously enjoys a global circulation.

Recently an excerpt of A Night to Remember was included in a special Neiman Reports edition celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Neiman Reports, which has worldwide distribution, recognized Gilman in the credits for the excerpt. The accompanying article by 2011 Neiman Fellow Joshua Prager said:

Lord did not report so much as recreate. He was a tireless researcher (he interviewed, for example, 63 survivors of the doomed ship), and employed, as one reviewer put it, “a kind of literary pointillism, the arrangement of contrasting bits of facts and emotion in such a fashion that a vividly real impression of the event is conveyed to the reader.”

In recreating history, according to Mr. Prager, Walter “helped his reader understand it.”

The ongoing demand for Walter’s works stems in large part from this innovative mix of writing and teaching, a unique blend of intensive research and narrative that employs many of the techniques used by novelists. With his focus on the humanity of ordinary men and women caught up in public events and facing impossible odds, Walter made history come alive. When he died, he received public accolades from historians such as David McCullough and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Walter’s personal approach was not limited to writing. He lived most of his adult life in New York City but stayed connected to Gilman and Baltimore. He was a trustee for a number of years, served on the Gilman Centennial Book Committee, maintained close ties with Gilman families, and hired alumni as research assistants, including Scott Supplee ’ 72 and Randy Beehler ’ 71 . Gilman’s Alumni Special Projects Coordinator Mac Barrett ’ 67 fondly recalls Walter’s many visits with his family. For Mac,

Walter Lord’s Enduring Legacy

Walter was “not only one of Gilman’s most distinguished graduates; he brightened the lives of countless people.”

Giving back to Gilman began for Walter shortly after graduation. As a freshman at Princeton in the spring of 1936, he established the Herbert E. Pickett History Prize, the first prize to be given by Gilman’s History Department. Walter wanted to honor Mr. Pickett, the teacher whom he credited with fostering his love of history. The prize is still given today.

In addition to his bequest of royalties to Gilman, Walter’s success enabled him to leave more than $1.4 million to establish the Walter Lord Faculty Development and Sabbatical Fund. This endowed fund underwrites a variety of annual professional development opportunities for faculty members. He also left his book collections, scrapbooks, photographs and journals to the School. The Walter Lord Collection is accessible via Gilman’s archives.

Walter’s devotion to the School inspired others to make their own gifts in his name after his death. His friend and attorney Jonathan M. Hornblower established the Walter Lord Middle School Teaching Prize, and past Gilman parents Christopher H. Lee and Susan D. Ginkel created the Walter Lord Scholarship.

When Gilman’s Medallion Society was established in 2015, Walter was inducted posthumously as an inaugural member. The Society recognizes those who have given $1 million or more to the School. Their names are displayed in Gilman’s Centennial Hall along with the following advice from Walter himself: “If we really want to turn out the best citizens of tomorrow, we have to give them the best education of today.”

Walter was particularly drawn as a writer to “a raw physical courage – facing physical peril and surmounting it and

not surmounting it. I like to watch ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances and see how they react.” As he told a spellbound English class at Gilman in 1998, “A disaster brings out the best and the worst in people.” Battling Parkinson’s disease and confined to a wheelchair the final years of his life, Walter exhibited the very courage he studied. He truly embodied Ad Astra per Aspera (To the Stars through Difficulties), the long version of the adage in Gilman’s shield.

At Walter’s June 2002 Memorial Service in the Gilman auditorium, Patrick Smithwick ’69, editor of Gilman Voices 1897-1997, alluded to the ship that captivated the life of his friend when describing Walter’s perseverance, stoicism, and unsinkable joie de vivre:

I never saw anyone love life as much as Walter, love every minute of it, even when the hull of his body was battered and springing leaks and the airtight compartments weren’t working and the engines were sputtering and it looked like it had to stand straight up and sink to the bottom. But Walter was made better than some ships, and he kept the band playing, and the pumps going, and his interests fired; he celebrated life until the last second.

Patrick’s thoughts echoed the dedication in Gilman Voices five years earlier: “to the Gilman boy, to the Gilman boy in the Gilman man, and to Walter Lord ’35, a Gilman boy forever.”

To create your own enduring legacy and learn more about tax-efficient and strategic planned gifts that benefit both you and the School, please contact Mary Ellen Porter at 410-323-7178 or meporter@gilman.edu

“IF WE REALLY WANT TO TURN OUT THE BEST CITIZENS OF TOMORROW, WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM THE BEST EDUCATION OF TODAY.”

WALTER LORD

Class Notes

1946

Warren Magruder 410.255.7465

Please send your notes for next time.

1947

If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Director of Alumni Relations and Outreach Nathaniel Badder ’94 at nbadder@gilman.edu

Please send us your notes for next time.

1948

Guy Hollyday guypamsh@gmail.com

Your secretary continues to cut down paper mulberry trees along Stony Run in Wyman Park, and has begun planting trees in the same area. He is still doing zero balancing on Pennsylvania Avenue and engaging in activities at the Samaritan Center of Memorial Episcopal Church in Baltimore. His wife, Pam Fleming, is on the Board of the Center and is a leader in the healing ministry at the church. Guy has once more planted vegetables in his little garden in the back yard and is traveling to California to celebrate the birthday of his zero-balance instructor.

After many years abroad, Tom Fenton has returned to the US and reports: “Our new home in the USA brings more of culture shock than most of our moves in the half century we lived in Italy, France, Israel, Moscow and London. One of the surprises was how kind and helpful New Yorkers can be with strangers, especially elderly strangers. Another was how fundamentally dysfunctional the American healthcare system can be. It is more expensive, more complicated and more difficult to use than anything we experienced in England and France, where access to health care is a basic right rather than a privilege, and available to all. On the other hand, the current American political scene made us feel right at home. We left an England that is split by a nasty quarrel over Brexit; and our summer home in France, which is experiencing a similar breakdown in government. I regret that I am no longer reporting the news. We live in interesting times.”

From his Baltimore County farm, Manning Parsons writes: “Cynthia and I continue to enjoy our children and grandchildren.

Two of my grandsons, children of my older daughter, Isabelle Loring, play on the Harvard lacrosse team and we enjoy going to their games. I also have a grandson at the University of Pittsburg and two granddaughters at the University of Vermont. That keeps us busy, traveling to New England and western Pennsylvania.”

From another Baltimore County farm Holland Wilmer reports he continues part-time law practice and with Lucie enjoys the country living.

Dick Blue reports the loss last August of his wife of 65 years, Teedee. He continues to live at Brightwood and with his family living in the area, he visits them often. During the season he follows the race horses. Dick and Valery Donley and George and Mary Ellen Thomsen send their greetings.

Porter Hopkins advises, from his Stoney Ridge, Cambridge farm, not much to report. During the past year, he and his family have been assembling bits of information and history into a Hopkins family genealogy. This long overdue undertaking was fun, informative and productive. The recent hunting season produced fewer doves but more geese. Porter and Patti continue to actively share the farm, its beauty and hospitality with Wounded Warriors service personnel and others. He says these times spent with the disabled veterans have been uplifting and inspiring experiences. Porter enjoyed seeing The Reddy Finney Story and highly recommends this film [gilman.edu/FinneyStory] and its portrayal of a great headmaster and person. As to plans, weather permitting, the farm will again be planted in field corn, soybeans and sunflowers, and the Hopkinses look forward to staying in touch with and being visited by family and friends.

Bill Passano: Dividing his time between his Towson apartment and his Gibson Island home, he has also returned, with members of his family, to Casuarina Cottage on Spanish Wells. Bill’s son, Will, continues the yachting tradition. He skippered his 37’ sloop, Carina, in the 2018 Newport to Bermuda race. Bill celebrated his 90th on February 2. A dinner party with about 150 friends on hand was given by his children, in honor of their father, at the Gibson Island Club. Bill was overwhelmed. Future plans? Bill’s four children and ten grandchildren keep him occupied, busy and enjoying life. Next up for the grandchildren: two weddings and one college graduation.

Bob Rich and his wife Joan are enjoying a beautiful, if occasionally wet, spring and report that all combined family members – five children, eight grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren – are well and happy. The senior Riches again enjoyed their annual winter getaway on Sanibel Island, Florida, where they were joined by Robert, Jr., and his wife Debra and visited by Joan’s sister and brother-in-law. Happily, the Gulf

Coast’s red tide had dissipated, and they saw many interesting birds and several manatees. More recently, Bob’s heart required medical intervention, first for an emergency angioplasty and stent procedure and later another similar procedure on another artery, this time non-emergency. Both procedures were successful, and cardiac rehab is in his near future. Joan continues her volunteer work at their church and through her breast cancer support group.

John Strickland is enjoying life in sunny Florida. He is still flying and commuting to his office in North Carolina about once a month. Health is good and looking forward to our class get together in December.

Gough Thompson: “The past year has been one of transition for Irene and me moving to a one-floor condo facing a golf course and Bill Gates’ show horse farm on the other side of the golf course. I have enough patio and entrance space to pursue container gardening with bird feeders and plants to bring a variety of birds and butterflies to our doorstep. Gardening continues to be my major hobby. The move was not easy as we continue to downsize and needed much help in that effort. Finally, we are settled and love the location and manageable size of the condo. Irene continues to be active in her field of family therapy with a private practice and adjunct professor teaching at Alliant University here in San Diego. I turned 90 in May. It is hard to believe that the good times we had at Gilman and growing up in Baltimore are so long ago and still some of us are still here.”

Holland Wilmer: On December 6, 2018, our class gathered at the Maryland Club for our annual Christmas luncheon. Attending were: Guy T. Hollyday, William S. Newlin, Jr., I. Manning Parsons III, William M. Passano, Jr., Robert L. Rich, John W. Strickland, George E. Thomsen, and Wm. Holland Wilmer II.

Clapham Murray: Since I retired I have written three books, and am presently working on a fourth. The third book, O’Reilly’s Porch, is set mainly in Oklahoma, a young soldier, a recent college graduate, becomes involved with an off-base theatre company, is almost seduced by the leading lady, has an affair with the prop, ends up in graduate school in Boston.

1950

Haswell Franklin haswell@franklin-group.com

Thank you, thank you and thank you. For the first time since I assumed the responsibility as our Class Secretary, you have provided me with sufficient input to write a productive article for our alumni bulletin.

Even now, Bartow Van Ness, my old First Presbyterian Church Sunday School classmate, has come out of Eastern Shore hibernation long enough to provide me with some helpful information.

Bill Jarrett continues to open the door for an interchange of information in what is happening in our lives, which is helpful and very much appreciated.

Walter Brewster, Tommy Powell, Bruce Lloyd, Dixon Hills and I had a most enjoyable luncheon at the Hopkins Club, with little or no news of interest, but at least they cared enough to post.

And speaking of posting, Tommy and Gordon Stick joined me at the Gilman Forever luncheon at the School for 50+ year alumni. Good food and good friendship plus excellent entertainment, including a showing of the Reddy Finney documentary [gilman. edu/FinneyStory].

If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Director of Alumni Relations and Outreach Nathaniel Badder ’94 at nbadder@gilman.edu

Alan Hoblitzell: Hard to believe we graduated 70 years ago with a class of great success and comradery. After four years in college, then three years in Army, two in Korea, enjoyed long hours and years working in Baltimore. Have retired to Florida and Cape Cod. Two of older children are in Baltimore area and the other is in Florida. Two younger children, 31 and 29, got married last year and live in Boston and New York. Miss our classmates and feel lucky to be enjoying our 70th.

Johnny Boynton and Bruce Grove were among the missing, but I understand that Johnny is busy taking care of Diane, with whom I fixed him up many years ago, and Bruce sustained a fall which has put him “on the shelf” for at least a short while.

In years past, Charlie Brown would have been with us, but the good Lord called him and his wife’s numbers; so they were up in heaven looking down and making certain that we are upholding the rich tradition of our Class. I received a very much-appreciated letter from his son Peter who lives in Ohio, expressing his appreciation for the condolence letter I sent him.

Bruce advises that his grandson Michael was the 68th person selected in the 2018 major league baseball draft, but he doesn’t

have his grandfather’s balance, since Bruce recently sustained a fall that prevented him from attending the luncheon at Hopkins.

Speaking of grandsons who do not take after their grandfathers, Bill Jarrett’s #2 grandson is about to graduate from the University of Richmond was a walk-on on the football field having never played football before but ended up as a starting defensive back. Billy’s #1 grandson graduates this spring from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene & Public Health (the Bloomberg School) and will start medical school at Tulane this fall, thereby failing to make the Jarrrett family a third generation Hopkins Medical School item.

Johnny Hurst advises that he now has a fifth grandchild joining the three girls and one boy with whom he was blessed 20 years earlier.

Dixon Hills writes that he saw the Reddy Finney documentary [gilman.edu/FinneyStory] and would not be attending the alumni luncheon. At least he thought enough to advise me, which I appreciated.

It’s hard to believe, but David Griswold is still active at the Greenwich Country Day School, copy-editing materials that go out to parents and acting as a co-editor for the faculty literary magazine. He still makes frequent trips to New York to attend lectures at One Day University and, on occasion, to attend concerts at the Lincoln Center and select museums.

News from Fairhaven is that Johnny Boynton is singing in the glee club and also playing in the bell choir. Those years in the Gilman glee club and singing in the octet are finally paying dividends. Johnny is also running a three-hole golf course for the members of the organization.

News from Richmond, Virginia from Fletcher Lowe is that all four of Fletcher’s grandchildren are lacrosse players. Apparently, they have Mary Fran’s genes as Fletcher’s youngest granddaughter is the leading scorer on her University of California Santa Barbara team while his younger grandson was voted the best defenseman in the Ashville, North Carolina Empire League. He and Mary Fran are about to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary and just think, they said this marriage would never last.

My old First Presbyterian Church Sunday School classmate, Bartow Van Ness writes that his body is falling apart, but at least he’s still here. For some reason, he is not receiving alumni notes from the School, but I am solving this problem promptly. He wants to know how many classmates are still with us. I am having this list sent to him, but we have now slipped below the 50% figure and, therefore, it behooves each of us to do something of positive value every day.

Tommy Powell continues to attend Billy Jarrett’s Hopkins Club Gilman Class of 50’s luncheon and to show his subtle wit, which some appreciate and others do not.

Our Class still has one athlete who continues to perform at a high level and that is Doug Green, who writes that he is still in good health, eating well, sleeping well, has a very positive attitude, keeps constantly moving and plays 18 holes of golf two or three times a week, which confirms that he married the right girl, Betty, 52 years ago. Without her, he would have undoubtedly ended up like me, a spectator.

Bruce Lloyd has now made a successful transition from California back to Baltimore. He has survived three marriages and is still looking for ‘action.’ I fixed him up with one carefree divorceé that I know, but he seems reluctant to move forward; at least there’s still hope.

Although I didn’t hear from him directly, Bruce Turnbull’s nephew advises me that Bruce has recovered from the loss of his dedicated wife Gerry. Hopefully, Bruce will be able to travel north next year for the 70th anniversary of our graduation.

Although the responses that I received from everyone this year were better than ever, I still would like to know what is happening in the lives of Fred Whitridge, Baldy, Peter Griffin and Carroll Waters

Finally, I am pleased to advise that I, a poor little Presbyterian, am being buried in a sea of Catholicism, one Catholic wife, eight Catholic children and 22 Catholic grandchildren. I still work from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. five days a week followed by a nap, with my four sons serving as managing principals of my firm and myself as Chairman Emeritus. I am blessed with a wife, Madgie, to whom I have been married for over 61 years. Although it is a year away, our 70th anniversary will soon be here. I would like to schedule our celebration for the last weekend in April when the School has its special reunion celebration for all graduates of 50+ years. The special luncheon is on Friday so we could then have our own dinner Saturday evening. There are also a number of other special events at the School designed to bring back many fond memories. Finally, if I fall by the wayside any time soon, I want all of you to know that I love you, and I thank the Lord for making you a part of my life. Peace and love, Haswell

P.S. With the departure of Deac Miller for the ‘big law school in the sky,’ Bruce Grove is now officially the Class of 50’s ‘legal eagle.’ By a copy of this article, I am asking Bruce to find out the whereabouts of Glen Treslar. The last knowledge that I had of Glen was that he was in the Baltimore City Jail, having been accused of murdering his wife and pet dog.

Bob Swindell bbncc444@gmail.com

Sadly, the class is slowly dwindling down. We lost two more this year – Henry King and Tom Parr. Please keep me posted on any contacts you might have. Here is the most updated info I have.

Bill Burgan lives in Washington and gets to Baltimore occasionally for lunch at the Hopkins Club.

Tom Eastman is now living at Symphony Manor on Roland Avenue. Henderson Dorsey is a Florida resident, but was in town recently (unfortunately for funerals).

Roland Devries drifts between Florida and the Eastern Shore. He keeps busy sandblasting a rusty trailer and building a stone wall... far more than most of us are doing. Good job!

Tom Calloway writes that he has moved back to the East Coast and is living at a retirement community in Augusta, GA. He says to call him at any time except during Masters week.

Gibby Carey still resides just outside of Cincinnati. Bill Merrick keeps busy reading and watching golf on TV.

Rollin Otto is here at Blakehurst keeping active.

Tom Offutt maintains his horse farm outside Cleveland.

Lew Barker came over from Chevy Chase for the old guys reunion. He still looks to be in pretty good shape, though he is no longer bike riding.

Dan Moore is at Blakehurst keeping tabs on what’s happening.

Bob Swindell: Most of my time is spent watching grandchildren grow older. The oldest is married and living in Denver. Others are working in Baltimore, New York and Washington, and some are in college. The youngest goes into Upper School at Gilman this fall.

These are the only members of our class still active. If you know of others, please let me know.

Bruce Follmer bfo629@gmail.com

I made a point of trying to contact any classmates for whom I had either a phone number or e-mail address this year. Apparently, a few have either passed away or gone into retirement homes and left no contact info. By my count there are eleven of us still extant, for sure.

Of those I was able to contact, or who contacted me, the first I heard from was Dick Gatchell, who has moved to the same retirement home on Joppa Road that Chipper Hoff and wife, Peggy, are now living in.

I also received an e-mail from George Callard’s wife, telling me that George has had several strokes in recent years and is currently in a long-term care facility for incurable neurological diagnosis. He had a life-threatening fall five years ago and, though cognizant, is confined to a wheel chair.

Bill Blue wrote to say that Chipper has joined Charlie Obrecht, Gatch, Tom Waxter and him in their monthly luncheon gettogethers. He now has a great-grandson, William F. Blue IV.

Nick Probst has just finished making the sequel to The Shining in Atlanta (which, he explained, is now considered the East Coast Hollywood.) He plays the kid from The Shining, grown to an old man, who is dying.

I had a nice long chat with Chipper, whom I’ve known since first grade. Chipper commented on the fact that, even though I lived across the street from the school, I was always the last one to arrive. What I remembered was the fact that I left that school a year early, very jealous of Chipper’s crewcut, because the teacher used to sneak up on me and yank on my hair for day-dreaming. I still day-dream, by the way. After he left Princeton, Chipper went into banking, first in Baltimore, moving to Frederick, where he eventually became president, and, after 41 years in the business, remained on as chairman for 10 more years. He met Peggy playing tennis. Soon they were playing doubles partners, and then decided to play partners for life, and have been married for 52 years. They have five kids, 13 grand-children and two greats. Eventually, after retirement, they moved to an island near Beaufort, South Carolina, where they lived for 15 years before moving back to Baltimore. Chipper expressed regrets that a bad back keeps him from playing tennis and golf anymore.

Your secretary is still in an apartment in Crozet, Virginia, only a few miles from two of his daughters and their families. Other than a weekly Meals on Wheels delivery and calling Bingo at a nearby retirement home once a week, I vegetate.

Cristobal Bonifaz claims to still be alive and well in Conway, NH. He is transitioning from lawyer to book publisher, so be on the lookout for a novel with some distinctly Gilman overtones entitled The Curse of Eleuterio Rodriguez. He is also working on other books which are expected to include some very rare photos, some more than 100 years old, taken by his grandfather who was actually in Europe before, after and I surmise, during the siege of Sarajevo.

Pierre Bouscaren pierreb225@gmail.com

Sitting down on a rainy Sunday afternoon to write these notes, I am surprised at how disinclined so many retired and normally loquacious gentlemen are to send information. Having been in direct sales for many years myself, I am fully aware of how poorly constant haranguing is received. I do hereby resolve to stop all badgering for the year as of this writing.

In his normal cooperative way, Bill Trimble grabbed his iPad and confessed that the rocks and trees along the expert ski trails of the Rockies coupled with the natural, albeit gradual, balance loss have convinced him to retire from that great sport. (I quit 25 years ago.) Bill did mention that his youngest grandchild, an advancing sophomore at Cal/Berkley (hippie heaven), is in the very fine rowing program, requiring five hours a day in addition to academics. No time for the anarchists!

I saw Cary Woodward from afar at the annual Gilman Forever luncheon in late April and he looks just as ever. Cary wrote to tell me that he and wife Peggy still live in Baltimore but spend summers on an island in Maine with, you guessed it, children and grandchildren.

John Seiler, of the Louisville Seilers, is still getting the latest Derby squared away. His three children are successfully: editor-in-waiting at the Albany NY Times-Union, professor of American Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., editor of an upscale (of course) magazine in Portland, Or. John also enthuses about his 6’7’, 275 lb. grandson, Ben, who is a left-handed all-star pitcher at Sienna College in Albany. Only a freshman, but John is looking for an agent to negotiate the major league contract.

Doug Godine still hangs out in the Towson area but he and Ellen seem to use it only as a base from which to send progeny out to play lacrosse. A grandson going to Georgetown next year on a lacrosse scholarship, another on the Denison varsity championship team, and a granddaughter is the starting attack man (or should we say attack person) as a freshman on the #1 high school girl’s lacrosse team in the country … McDonogh! Two other grandkids are making their respective marks, a girl working in DC and her brother a rising junior at Stanford.

Ben Proctor and Sue still live in Towson and enjoy regular trips to the Proctor Family Farm in Harford County where they can re-live the joys of driving the tractor to mow the pastures, mend fences and feed the livestock. Other spare time involves some form of travel and taking educational courses at the Other Institute at Towson University. Mostly, though, they hop in the RV and spend three months of winter in Florida. Arriba!

Tony Carey and Ellie are still lending their respective gravitas to, and living in, the bustling Inner Harbor of Baltimore. Having survived their recent ski trip to Snowmass, I understand that the inevitable resultant aches and pains are causing serious second thoughts about a repeat performance. Not one to become sedentary, Tony is actively involved in an underseas electric transmission project in the Caribbean as well as real estate around beautiful Taos, NM. Incidentally, the Careys and the Woodwards are often spotted dining together so anyone requiring a suggestion for a good restaurant need only look them up.

Wylie Faw writes that he and Martha are healthy and enjoying the many special benefits of living in beautiful New Bern, NC. Wylie absolutely loves where he lives, but does break away, as any great granddad should, to visit his still growing family in far-flung parts of the country. Interestingly, although personally precious to him, Wylie has decided to donate his ‘53 Cynosure, class ring and certain other memorabilia to Gilman for their archives.

Speaking of loving where you live, Ben Bird, at home on Johns Island, SC, is still communing with nature, flora, and fauna that abounds in his coastal surroundings. Knowing Ben, regular trips to nearby Charleston must also be on the schedule to enjoy the cultural and dining scene along with regular festivals and, perhaps, a few potables.

Talbott Huey, living in Baltimore with wife, Abhirada, assures us that he is not living a life of wild partying and generally creating a disturbance in the neighborhood. That is good, because when I lived on Lake Avenue and John Jarrett was my next-door neighbor, loud noises were not allowed. As of this writing, Talbo has lost a good friend, his dog, and has not won the lottery to compensate.

George Urban and wife Alicia are still ensconced in Silver Spring. George is recovering fast from a hip replacement, but not fast

enough for ‘the Pope.’ George and Alicia are into rescuing greyhounds, dogs that would otherwise be euthanized having outlived their racing usefulness. They recently ‘lost’ two animals but are ready to rescue others soon. Much like many of us, they are also riding herd on grand and great-grandchildren. Our generation is the one to do it, too.

Harry Thomas and wife Karen have been really busy and passed on a ton of information. As usual, shepherding a growing family is taking a good deal of cheerfully given time and effort. But...there is this trip to the Baltic. The trip through Latvia energized them both because Karen’s grandfather, a distinguished linguist, spent considerable time there between wars, rebellions and purges. On to Russia where the Hermitage was duly spectacular and the impressionist painting collection ‘superb’ according to Harry. Just to boost his spirits, Harry was recently feted for his years of service to his Reformed Church of America (originally Dutch). Next thing you know they will rename the Tappan Zee in his honor...when it is finished. As one might expect, Harry and Karen also participate in, count ’em, four reading groups.

Bert Muecke and Tania are always doing interesting stuff. Recently took a trip to Tanglewood, MA in the Berkshires to hear the Boston Symphony. That was good, but they also found time to tour the nearby Norman Rockwell Museum and visit the beautiful gardens and contemporary artwork at the Mount, Edith Wharton’s former mansion.

Andrew Gantt still has his big timber operation going in Wingina, Va. He and Digna are doing their part to provide renewable and sustainable resources to the construction trades.

1954

Dave Woods

dfwoods@comcast.net

I don’t remember much about Graduation Day, 1954. I know I didn’t win any awards, which came as no surprise since, while I wasn’t at the bottom of the class, I was sure closer to the bottom than to the top. There were 39 of us. Some were my good friends, others were friends I was pretty sure I’d never see again. All were white.

None was Jewish. Reddy Finney and his teardown of the walls of exclusion at Gilman was still a decade in the future. Most of our small band went on to live very distinguished lives, each in our own way. One was a Rhodes Scholar, several received their Doctorates. Many received their Masters. Most of us graduated from some of the finest colleges and universities in the nation. The next stop was almost always a couple of years in the military before going on to start our careers and a family. A few, like me, took their time for one reason or another. In my case it took 10 years, three different colleges and three years flying jet fighters in the Air Force before I got a BA in Economics. Some lives were cut short much too soon, one never even made it to his second year of college. Our class produced college and university presidents. One was a member of the Cabinet of the President of the United States. Most of us became successful business people, investment bankers, sales people, entrepreneurs, authors, journalists, actors, doctors, lawyers, engineers, artists, teachers, professors, ministers, philanthropists, husbands, fathers, bachelors. Some became CEOs of large corporations, others owned their own companies. Some headed nonprofit organizations. Some achieved great wealth. Most lived at least modest upper middle class lives. Collectively we represented the kind of honorable and successful human beings Gilman has always produced. As I walked out of the gym that sunny, hot and humid June day in 1954 I could not have foreseen that 65 years later I would be responsible for gathering the remnants of the parade of blue blazers in front of me (as a ‘W’ I was next to last in line followed only by Bill Woody) for a reunion at Liz Jones’s beautiful home in Baltimore (Harris Jones), not far from Gilman.

From left, Carol Burdette, Evie Woods, Marion DeGroff, Carlton Seitz, Cliff Harding, John Sherwood, Charlie O’Donovan, Sam Merrick, Scott Sullivan, Dave Woods, Gary Carr, Sally Carr, Francis Rienhoff, Lisa Sherwood, Liz Jones, Annie Rienhoff.

But sure enough, gathered on a sunny late April afternoon were members of the Class of 1954 who graduated with us as well as a couple who had been members of our class, but graduated with the Class of 1955 and identified with ours. Also with us were several widows of classmates.

Many who were not there wrote their regrets and best wishes: Frank Loweree in California said, with a degree of irony, that he doubted he could ‘even make it to LAX.’

Dave Andrew in Hawaii said he and Bonnie were headed to New Zealand.

Sam Sadtler and Jim Keesey each sent greetings and apologies from different parts of the ‘northwest.’

Larry Wagner said he and Dedi were in the final stages of moving back into their condo in the Florida Keys a year and a half after it was blasted by Hurricane Irma.

Bob Greenhill sent his regrets and best wishes.

Remak Ramsay sent his well wishes explaining he was in Ireland for a month.

Neil Bouscaren in California said regretfully that his ‘eyes, ears, and limbs betray me.’

Gary Carr brought us sad news that his Princeton roommate and our classmate Jim Cox had passed away last Fall. Jim earned his Ph.D. in Theological Studies from Florida State University and was, in Gary’s words, a ‘traveling preacher.’ He explained that from time to time Jim covered three different congregations at the same time. He leaves his wife, Juanita, three children and seven grandchildren. I recall Jim as a kind and gentle soul.

The wives of Hal Whitaker (Dedi), Phil Heuisler (Annie), Gus Widhelm (Lee), and Truitt Smith (Sallilynch) all sent greetings and regrets.

And finally, we were honored to have Gilman’s Director of Gift Planning Les Goldsborough ’82 with us. Les gave us an upbeat update. Gilman is very much a 21st Century School, but with the same core values we all learned and absorbed 65 years ago. It was a memorable evening commemorating the remarkable Class of 1954’s 65 years. We have all sought to live lives of meaning and consequence and to do so with ‘honor as gentlemen.’ I have no doubt Mr. Callard will still be standing by on the next cloud nodding and smiling as one by one we each make our own final exit from that young, eager and excited line of sunlit blue blazers from that hot June day of so long ago.”

If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Director of Alumni Relations and Outreach Nathaniel Badder ’94 at nbadder@gilman.edu

Bowdoin Davis: Wrote book on Duchamp, but am now retired as an art historian/professor, from the Maryland Institute College of Art. My current focus is upon painting watercolors—mostly of the Northwest U.S., where I reside with my family.

Ted McKeldin, Jr.: I have finally retired at age 82 – it was time...56 years as a lawyer was enough. I must now find some volunteer work to keep busy. I really enjoy Gilman events and our class luncheons and look forward to them. My children and two grandchildren live within one mile from me and that is great.

Tom Swindell: Pattsy and I have moved to the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. Mac Plant and Carey Martien are also residents there so we are in good company. We spend most of our winters in Boynton Beach, Florida in a country club community known as Quail Ridge, which has two championship golf courses, 15 tennis and pickle ball courts, a fitness center and all of the other country club amenities. I am still coordinating class lunches, most recently June 15th at the L’Hirondelle Club in Ruxton.

1956

Mert Fowlkes, Jr. fmfowlkes@aol.com

Once again the notes for the year start off with news of the loss of one more classmate. Tony Brennan passed away in October at his home in Towson. He was a well-respected attorney in Baltimore for many years.

Guy Dove reports from Middleburg, Va., that he still spends winters in Vero Beach, Fla., and rarely gets back to Baltimore for visits. This may soon change, however, as he is now in a syndicate with Jay Griswold ‘60 with six steeplechase horses.

Charlie Webb recently moved from Maryland’s Eastern Shore to a splendid retirement community called Bishop Gadsden in Charleston, S.C. Before heading south, he helped Graham Slaughter celebrate his 81st birthday, and then Charlie celebrated his own 81st a month later with a delicious Smith Island chocolate cake!

Bentley Offutt hosted Father Joe Healey at a home mass. Joe continues his dedicated mission outreach work in Kenya, and

plans a return trip to the States mid-year 2019. Bentley hopes to have another group rendezvous with Joe this summer in Baltimore, as he has done in the past.

Phil Briscoe continues to stay active in his retirement in Cockeysville, and he still “makes and repairs things in wood, brass, glass, leather, or whatever.” He enjoys having three grandchildren nearby.

Harry Lord and Sarah enjoyed a bird watching expedition in Arizona in January, but he didn’t mention spotting the Road Runner! Harry may be the youngest member of our class, having just turned 80 in early January. I never realized that we had such an age spread in the class – maybe 15 months or so.

Spencer Everett reports from Boynton Beach, Fla., that he has remarried, after losing two terrific wives to cancer. The new bride is a former Florida neighbor and his bridge teacher, and the two have become very involved in the game. It’s his new passion, he says. He keeps up with Victor Bridgman, Dick Biggs, Don Loweree (occasionally!) and Dave Eaton, as well as Tommy Swindell ’55, his neighbor. And speaking of Dick and Dave, I was able to be with them in Baltimore in March for the wedding of Dave’s son, and we had a great time catching up. Dave keeps up with Cooper Graham and Julian Jones.

When I sent out a message last year to all of our classmates stating that henceforth Class Notes were to be published online, and were only available in printed form by special request, I received the following response from Nick Penniman: “As a retired newspaper publisher, I must agree with my Luddite classmates. Enough already of the hand-held gadgets. Stay with paper and ink.” Nick resides in Naples, Fla.

Pete Thomas (a.k.a. Lamont) reports from Milford, Conn., that he has never been much of a groupie, and so probably have been dismissed by classmates as having passed on to another world. His recent activities, however, certainly belie that speculation, since he spent the month of February in Ghana, two weeks as a volunteer middle school teacher, and two weeks traveling and researching his latest book, Black Navigator, Paul Cuffe’s America and Atlantic World. Pete is interested in learning anything about Ashanti slaves brought to the Americas in the 1740s.

Bill Zeeveld continues to do engineering consulting from his home office in Hendersonville, N.C.

Sam Smith is still working on a long-term project documenting all of the Maryland War of 1812 veterans who are buried in Maryland cemeteries. To date he has documented well over 4,200. He lives in Lutherville.

Howard Stick and Alyce are enjoying good health, and they stay on the move, with travels this year ranging from Nevis (their third visit in 27 years), to an extensive driving tour of Italy in May, and numerous visits to their homes in Bucks County, Pa., and New Hampshire. And they stay involved with numerous cultural activities closer to home in Gladwyne, Pa.

Mike Fisher reports from his primary home in Black Butte Ranch, Ore., that life is good, although he had a battle with complicated diverticulitis about 18 months ago, and he and Sue had to cancel several plans as a result. His recovery has been complete, and they spent four winter months in their second home in Arizona, as is their custom. In September they traveled to China for 15 days seeing “the usual tourist places” and are now planning another trip (somewhere!) while they still can.

Thanks again to all who contributed news this time.

1957

Frank Gluck gluck.frank@gmail.com

I thought it would be appropriate to include George Barker’s wife, Anne, in this year’s class notes. Those of us have known Anne and George through the years recognize their collective role in the affairs of our class. Many of us got to see her at our class luncheon last Spring. Anne relates “George’s love of lacrosse is showing up in his grandsons: one on the Williams varsity, one in middle school in San Diego, and one in the 6+ age, wearing the gear so proudly.” I also had breakfast with Susan and Walter Birge while visiting friends in Concord, Mass. Walter is full of energy, involved with this and that, and looks great. On yet another note, after two years plus, of a life filled with sadness, I am now enjoying a relationship with a friend of George’s from Columbia Law School. So laughter is replacing tears.”

Bruce Brian continues to divide time between Priest Lake, Idaho and The Villages in central Florida, enjoying the best of both worlds. He recently had a nice talk with Bill Woodward Bill continues to live in Oxford, Maryland and apparently thoroughly enjoying the small town life.

Eddie Brown relates that turning 80, other than being a milestone, has its challenges. Too many little things become uncomfortable, and maintaining one’s balance becomes something that requires concentration. I guess most of us should be thankful that we can still concentrate.

Sandy Cochran has moved back to Alexandria, VA after living in Albuquerque, NM for over twelve years. “This is our third time in Alexandria, after numerous moves associated with U.S. government service, both on active duty and then Civil Service. My last teaching experience was at the University of New Mexico, where I fully retired from the profession.” Sandy and wife Ally recently celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary. I still remember fondly watching the NFC championship game between the Colts and Browns at Sandy and Ally’s house in San Diego along with Ludlow Keeney. Unfortunately, Super Bowl #3 followed an impressive Colts win. Sandy, Ludlow, and cousin Eddie Brown still keep up.”

Millard Firebaugh and wife Barbara have spent the majority of the winter near Naples, Florida. They had a nice visit with Genya and Sam Hopkins, keeping up a friendship they have had for years. Never ones to stay still, they will be sailing on the QM2 to the UK with Barbara’s choral group, Encore, in the late Spring.

Tommy Garrett continues to work with the California Dept. of Public Health and has decided not to retire yet. After narrowly escaping the fires which destroyed a significant number of homes in Santa Rosa in October, his family home and winery suffered severe flooding from the rains this past March. Other than a fall in early January resulting in a broken right hip, things are good. “I needed a new hip anyway and have decided not to fall down again.” It’s always something!

Frank Gluck: The highlight event of the year was the celebration of our 50th wedding anniversary in the Napa Valley with son, Rob, and daughter-in-law, Ann, last October. The trip was highlighted with a visit with Tommy Garrett at his son Tom’s winery, Dakota Shy. Tommy and Tom, Jr. were gracious hosts, and it was wonderful catching up. Tom Jr. enjoys the reputation of being one of the premier vintners in the region, and we continue to savor the wine that we purchased. I’d highly recommend it to all the wine connoisseurs in our class. It’s rarely distributed, but can be ordered through their web site. After visiting the wine country, we returned to San Diego, where we met and spent the first year of our married life. Memorable trip! Still following the Orioles, but I wish I recognized the players. Right now, I’m living vicariously through the major league stars with Nashville or Vanderbilt ties (David Price, Walker Buehler, Mookie Betts, to name a few). Looking forward to keeping up with everyone in the future!

Ludlow Keeny is fully retired from a very successful law practice in the San Diego area. He and wife, Carol, seem to be enjoying it immensely. They still reside in Rancho Santa Fe and recently enjoyed a trip to Montreal and the Northeast. Although he has not been back to Baltimore for many years, he continues to enjoy keeping up with for former classmates and friends in the Baltimore area. (If I lived in San Diego, I’d opt to stay there too.)

Butch Khoury: “It was the fifth grade end of the day in the little white cottage and Mr. Goodwin startled us all by bringing a book out and reading aloud to us. It had to be 70 years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday. It was The Jungle Book and the story of Riki Tiki Tavi, the mongoose and the cobra. I was entranced. I have seven children and read aloud to each of them usually at night. It was an incredible experience and they all remember it. After a while I ran out of Newberry Award books and started make-up stories, which I had to think about when I was driving home from criminal court in San Diego after some awful battle with a DA over someone’s life. I looked forward to those bedtimes soooo much.”

John Lewin and wife, Tolly, continue to be active, supervising major renovations to their house in Bethany while continuing to paint watercolors and oils. “A great pastime.” Daughter Janet was admitted to the motion picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, while son Jack travels extensively through the U.S. doing financing for health care institutions. All six grandchildren excel in sports. Nice job in disseminating the gene pool, John!

Hill Michaels continues to work at RCM&D, his same company, for over 50 years! He remains active, playing golf regularly and having regular lunches with Frank and Dick Riggs. May’s a busy and eventful month, with a hunting trip to Argentina planned with friends and family. In addition, he is the first recipient of the Calvert School Distinguished Alumni Award for his “incredible commitment and outstanding leadership in Alumni activities.” I can remember over the years of Hill’s tireless dedication to the school. A richly deserved award, Hill!!!

Brenda and Crossan O’Donovan have moved to Raleigh, NC to be closer to family. This concludes a 47-year residence in Dundalk, where he and Brenda started and maintained a highly successful pediatric practice, which continues to thrive. After the obligatory hassles of moving, life appears to stabilizing. “We keep perking along with the knowledge that if something doesn’t hurt, it probably doesn’t work at all.”

Ever efficient with words, Chip Offut writes: “No updates, and that is good news these days.” Amen.

Jim Young passed away on February 18, 2018. He attended Calvert School before matriculating into Gilman. He attended Gilman from First Form until Third Form, after which he attended the Lawrenceville School. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University, Jim began his career as a journalist, working at Life magazine in New York, WBAL-TV and radio and WJZ-TV. While continuing to reside in Baltimore, Jim transitioned to working in Washington, initially in the office of Senator Charles ‘Mac’ Mathias. He spent the last 28 years of his professional career as

an associate covering federal public works and transit legislation at Linton, Mields, Reisler & Cottone and Carmen Group, both Washington government relations firms. In 2003, Jim retired with his partner Mimi Ward to Ocean Pines. He was involved in many initiatives in the Parke at Ocean Pines community and at the Ocean Pines library, where he was first a volunteer and then a part-time employee until shortly before his passing. He will be remembered by friends and family for his lifelong passion for jazz, intellectual curiosity and warm heart.

1958

George Michaels

georgemichaels611@gmail.com

Norris Cook: Living in Vero Beach. Enjoyed the 60th reunion last year.

Bill Kable: I can report feeling relatively healthy, wealthy enough, and wise enough, I guess, as we tick off the years toward oblivion. We are still living in Manhattan, where we enjoy lots of classical music and off-Broadway theater and watching the passing parade. We escape to a beach in North Carolina for periodic recharges, crab cakes, and off-the-boat-fresh shrimp. I’m always ticked off when the New York Times violates the grammatical rules Roy Barker et al. hammered into us.

George Michaels: For our 60th last April the following gathered for dinner: Dick McCauley, Alex Doyle, Woody Woodward, Alan Yarbro, Jim Stone, Norris Cook and George Michaels. We were grateful that the ladies joined us, including Kitty Harrison. Also, Norris Cook, John Spilman and George Michaels did get together for lunch, and at another lunch, George Michaels, Ken Marty, Alex Doyle, Woody Woodward, Jim Stone and Randy Barker telephoned Bill Doolittle and Bill Barker — it was great talking to them after so many years. We are going to try to get together for dinner this summer, so stay tuned.

1959

Chip Markell

c.b.markell@comcast.net

On the 60th reunion of our Gilman graduation, I would like to thank Hobie Fowlkes and Andy Adelson on behalf of the class for the wonderful party, enjoyed by all, a rare opportunity to see so many classmates, great company, elegant surroundings, superb food. The returning alumni included Ahern, Callard, Edelen, Gans, Grimes, Haines, Gibbs, Hardy, Helfrich, Hilgenberg, Luetkemeyer, MacKenzie, Markell, Ramsay, Pine, Schmick, Larry Stifler, all with spouses, Don McPherson, Herb Tinley, Rick Uhlig, Eric Schmidt with Elaine Campbell, and Ellen Stifler, as all class widows were welcome. We had the annual fall class lunch on November 30 at the Valley Inn. In attendance were Rick Uhlig, Dickie Gibbs, George Hardy, Don McPherson, John Hilgenberg, Clark MacKenzie, John Ramsay, John Edelen — all the way up from Charlottesville — Tom Haines, Ted Gans, Hobie Fowlkes, Bill Helfrich, and yours truly.

Among our most adventuresome and transforming stories comes from Tom Ahern, moving from California coast to coast as a widower, settling in the Florida Keys, finding a new spouse. “My wife of 27 years, Priscilla, passed away in 2016 after a long illness. I was unhappy with the increasing crowdedness of California, its political direction, and high state income taxes, so I sold our home in Newport Beach. Years before, I had visited a cousin who lived in the Florida Keys and came to love the Keys, the warm evenings, warm water, friendly people, and no state income tax. So I repotted myself to Key Largo, the first of the Keys. It was a challenge to move to a place 3000 miles away where I knew nobody. To keep busy, I edited a doctor’s memoir and started flipping houses, buying them at auction and renovating them. The fourth will go on the market in June. The final piece of the puzzle fell into place last year, when I met Nancy. In Philadelphia, she had been a reading specialist, realtor, computer sales rep, life coach, and a producer of documentaries for PBS. Nancy repotted herself to Miami in 2017 to escape the cold Pennsylvania winters. We were married on the beach (literally – we were barefoot in the sand) at Key Biscayne late last year. We enjoy both the vibrant Miami scene from our condo there and the laid-back Keys, where we snorkel, kayak, and paddleboard off our dock several times a week.”

Jane and George Hardy are no pikers as to adventure, managed some great travel over the last year, with more on the docket this year. “In February, we made a quick trip to Panama just so I could see the Canal. A bucket list item. In the summer we were

in Scandinavia for three weeks. Oddly, it was extremely hot and completely without A/C. An interesting note: We were in four countries, all with different currencies, but never, not once, did we have any cash in our pockets. Everything was by credit card or other digital means. Cashlessness was close to national policy. This meant no currency exchange at borders or hotel desks. Very nice. 2019 travel: Going to Russia this summer. St. Petersburg and Moscow with a group tour/cruise, then staying over in Moscow for some extra time with an old friend. In September Jane and I will treat ourselves to a week on Nantucket for our 50th anniversary. We spent our first anniversary there long ago. Time flies!”

Tom Andrew reports no travel adventure but a major change in lifestyle. “I am now fully retired but am diligently pursuing my apprenticeship in grandparenting. The pay sucks but the fringes are spectacular. I plan to be in Baltimore during September and hope to catch up with a few of the guys for lunch.”

Andy and Clark MacKenzie have recently moved into Clark’s popular senior development, Brightwood, which he developed just off Falls Road south of the Beltway. Clark has recently opened an impressive and enjoyable golf exhibit, which he calls the Golf Room, in a house just south of the Valley Inn at 10547 Falls Road, containing family golf memorabilia going back several generations, including those of his dad, a Walker Cup competitor, and his great granddad, who opened the Oakmont Country Club. Clark sold the neighboring property to the Maryland State Golf Association. Clark also keeps a home at beautiful Jackson Hole, WY in the Snake River Valley with all of its splendors, and like a number of our classmates he and Andy also spend time in Florida as well, in the Del Ray Beach area.

Bob Wood and Debbie also have a home in Jackson Hole, where they recently moved full time, having owned the place for a number of years, and where Woody can enjoy his favorite pastime, fishing. Their home sits up on a bluff behind the town of Jackson Hole with a spectacular view of the Grand Tetons and the whole Snake River Valley.

Don McPherson continues on with his running and swimming every morning, probably in the top 1% of our age group for conditioning. He and his wife, Ann Teaff, have also done some interesting travel including a trip to the Middle East. He continues to volunteer at the low-income clinic known as JustAdvice at the University of Maryland School of Law mentoring students and providing legal advice to persons who visit the clinic. He also serves on the board of directors of the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy, Inc. He is responsible for the legal matters for that organization in its program of restoration of Mount Vernon Place, the historic square in downtown Baltimore, and for The Roland Park Community Foundation, Inc. in its restoration of the Roland

Water Tower. Don and several of our classmates attend the senior education courses managed by Tim Baker ’60, mostly at Roland Park Place: excellent courses with excellent lecturers in art, music, literature, and history. Those attending include Don, Bill Schmick, John Hilgenberg, Don Hooker, John Ramsay, and myself, Chip Markell. Don and Ann continue as enthusiastic bicyclists. In September, 2018 they did a week-long cycling trip on the San Juan Islands off the coast of the State of Washington followed in October by a week-long cycling trip in Puglia in the southern part of Italy.

Vivienne and Tom Haines have recently bought a home in Delray Beach, FL, on the Intracoastal Waterway, where they can enjoy the warmer Florida winter weather and access to a number of our friends and classmates who are snowbirds there, or permanent residents. Tom continues his avid interest in antique cars and attends a number of car shows around the east where he shows his prize rare 1936 Cord convertible, beautifully restored. He also has a few other cars in his stable including a ‘67’s Jaguar E Series convertible, a ‘63 Corvette convertible, and a ‘37 Ford woodie wagon.

Those of our class with places in Florida include full timers, Vera and Bill Spencer-Strong, at the Villages, north west of Orlando, and Tom and Nancy Ahern, see above. The Schmicks and Offutts have places in Naples. Charlie has become a member of the establishment there where he has joined a Naples retirement board. The Salisburys also have a place there. The Hainses and the MacKenzies spend their time in Delray Beach. The Emorys have a home in neighboring Boynton Beach where they pursue a sixmonths-and-a-day plan. Betty and Herb Tinley live full time in Cape Corale where they have been for many years and both work planning and selling cruise trips at Cruise Everything in Fort Myers, where they have the advantage of leading a number of the cruises. Bill Beatson splits his time between Annapolis and Palm Beach where he is active in charitable efforts.

Frank Pine has bought a place at Cross Keys so he and Lorraine can split their time between Long Lake, NY and here.

Timothy Callard and his wife, after spending a number of years in the D.C. area, where they were both educators, have retired to Northhampton, MA, near one of their daughters.

Eve and John Hilgenberg have moved to Blakehurst, as has Elaine Campbell.

Bill Schmick, who keeps in touch with Vicki Grose, reports that Bob Grose is doing well. His transition into a memory care center close to their home in Chicago went smoothly, Vicki says — not least of all because the center includes a putting green and a ping-

pong table! If you have a moment, Vicki would love to hear from you (tel. 443-386-7959).

We much regret that we lost four former classmates during 2018, Bruce Campbell, Jim Franklin, Park Scarborough, and Tyler Gatchell

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Ted Knowles

feknowles@verizon.net

Graham Arnold passed away on May 7, 2019. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Jacki Arnold (nee Thomas), three children and seven grandchildren.

Harry C. Weiskittel, III, founder of Marshy Point Nursery, died on May 5. From his obituary: “A graduate of the University of Maryland, he enlisted in the Army and served as a counterintelligence officer, assigned to Berlin, from 1966 to 1969. Upon his return he earned a law degree from the University of Baltimore in 1974. As a distraction from his law studies, he began hybridizing plants on a ping-pong table in his home. Before long he established the wholesale nursery business on the family’s historic hunting property in Middle River.”

Our 60th reunion will be in one year. Nathaniel Badder sent me this note: “Next year’s Alumni Weekend is tentatively scheduled for April 24-25, 2020. You and your classmates will be encouraged to join fellow alumni for a variety of events on campus (Gilman Forever Luncheon, Crab Feast, etc.), and to organize a class party off-campus on Saturday night. This year, the 55th, 60th, and 65th reunions are all doing so (two in private homes, one at Elkridge Country Club). We can help make arrangements, promotion, and track registration, but will need significant help from you and others. And, like all reunion parties, there would be a fee for attendance to cover the costs of the event.” Stan Heuisler is pushing for a small group to meet, plan, and organize events. He says, “It should be a memorable time. See you all in 2020. Mary Ellen Porter and Nathaniel will help us get an ‘all hands save the weekend’ alert put out to the out-of-towners as well as in-towners. I was thinking it might be some fun to get the ‘immortals’ we grew up with, like Brooks Robinson and Lenny Moore, to attend one of the events. I remember Lenny at a crab feast a few years ago and each of us getting up and saying hello.”

Stan Heuisler: Betsey and I are living at Roland Park Place, in the newly glamorous Hampden neighborhood. We spend sporadic off-season weekends and the entire Summer at our house in ‘The

Pines’ at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, a ten-minute walk from the beach. Moving to a seventh-floor apartment in a retirement community takes some adjustment, but we are now friends with a lot of folks here with diverse and interesting life experiences and backgrounds. So many have experience with or a relationship to Hopkins U. and Hopkins Medicine and Hopkins research, that some call us ‘Hopkins North.’ We had dinner with AJ Downs and his daughter, Jennifer, who has been my acupuncturist of 35 years. Mr. Downs lives here in Assisted Living at Roland Park Place, as we do. We always revisit old classroom memories. One ongoing debate we continue is my insistence, then and to this day, that Jane Austin is boring. ‘You were wrong then,’ he states in the stentorian tones of a Gilman Master, ‘and you are wrong now.’ Another thing we discuss is how students treated Charlie Gamper with traditional Masters’ respect in the main building and quacking anarchistic disharmony in the gym. [*Class Sec.: And the way he responded to gym goofiness with his nasal, deadpan, ‘Drop dead, son,’ which only elicited more wild laughter and craziness.] Sen. Paul Sarbanes is now here and when at dinner we often reminisce about the singular, maybe unique qualities of Nick Schloeder, who advised him politically for years. Betsey (she as returning faculty) and I just returned from the Gilman Forever luncheon in the old A Study Hall, with over 200 alums, faculty, students and staff. It is part of Alumni Weekend and we were delighted to see and greet old faculty, staff and former student friends. Classmates from 1960 Winn, Cockey, and Evans also attended, with Richard receiving a well-deserved award for all he does for alumni energizing. On the screen at the event, as part of a cavalcade of past photos, was a picture of Evans guarding Timmy Baker in lacrosse, where they were co-captains. A warm stir of memories, and one I recommend for all those attending our 60th reunion next year.

Timmy Baker recently received, most deservedly, a standing ovation from a capacity crowd in the Roland Park Place auditorium for a lecture on his role as one of the four U.S. Attorneys whose corruption investigation led to the downfall of Spiro Agnew. Timmy was precise, fair, and occasionally humorous in his insight and analysis. His storytelling skills created vivid anecdotal narratives of the drama. It was a Sixth Form speech on steroids.

Our old house in Roland Park is now occupied by son Alec, lead brewer at Peabody Heights in Baltimore (try his Old Oriole Park Bohemian Lager), wife Janine, and two grands. New granddaughter Carmela, four months as I write, is our latest excuse for grandparents to melt in doddering joy. Daughter Kate still heads a USAID technology lab in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She and her husband and two daughters will be back for two weeks in June. Our current project is to reopen Betsey’s thousand square foot studio in a Hampden industrial building, re-discovering

luscious old paintings and sketches. This is in response to requests from hundreds of her prior, and prospective, collectors. The aim is to create an online ‘retrospective’ show sometime in the Fall. I am rediscovering the joy of writing, compiling memories of life here and abroad. Civilization has now resumed since the Baltimore Mayor resigned. In fashion recently among the trend observers is the mordantly named Swedish term ‘death cleaning,’ which actually means a thoughtful decluttering of life and possessions. Recent articles and TED talks online have taken a more positive look at this process as a way to transmit ‘stories,’ heritage and tradition to children, grandchildren, etc. To wit, a cracked old mixing bowl suddenly comes alive with the addition of family recipes and stories of the people who used it and their times. One such memory object for our family is a large 3x4’ watercolor, which hangs in one of our RPP bedrooms. It is of the Potala, the Lhasa, Tibet palace from which the Dalai Llama fled in 1958. I spent about a month in 1975 with my watercolors copying it from the wall mural in a Tibetan restaurant attached to the famous Kathmandu Guest House, recovering from a leg injury incurred while trekking. The stories involved with the painting have helped us tell kids and grandkids about life on the famous ‘hippie trail’ of the times, enlightenment and discovery in the 60s in its many forms, what I still contend was the most innovative era of popular music in US history, how refreshing it can be to live a largely uncluttered existence, the civil rights/environmental/antiwar activism of the times, and what we now view today as a less complicated and more peaceful world. The Kathmandu Guest House was one of the major points on the famous ‘hippie trail,’ aka ‘overland,’ which began in Europe and meandered through Istanbul, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and on to India and Nepal. Lucky travelers made it on to Bali. Hippies, as they were called then, used to be called ‘beatniks’ in the 50s. With muses from Jack Kerouac to the Beatles, tens of thousands of people made this journey in the late 60s and early 70s. Americans and Canadians and Europeans headed east from Europe. Australians and Japanese and New Zealanders traveled west from Asia. People hitchhiked, rode in Volkswagens, and on trains and buses. This social movement created a network which buzzed with ideas, experiences, and travel tips each night at hotels and campgrounds along the way. People travelled for stunningly beautiful vistas and the sense of adventure, to discover new cultures and religions, to escape what were viewed as stifling social and political restrictions, and, yes, for a bit of cheap weed. It should be noted this illicit substance is now, 44 years later, legal for recreational use in 10 U.S. States, and for medicinal use in 33. Betsey and I quit perfectly good jobs in Baltimore in the summer of 1971, stored our household belongings, flew to Amsterdam, and bought a tax-free Volkswagen station wagon. We slept on an air mattress in the back, fashioned curtains and window screens, had one small butane gas stove, one pot and teapot, and plates, cups and bowls for two. We preferred to call ourselves ‘world travelers.’ We found employment in U.S. Embassy-related jobs along the way:

nine months doing cultural programming with college students in Morocco and two years as a Fulbright Professor/art teacher duo in Kabul. We sold our Volkswagen and left our work in Afghanistan early in 1975. Which brings us to Kathmandu and the Summer of 1975. The Kathmandu Guest House was, at the time, 17 rooms filled with travelers, writers and mountaineers. The attached Tashi Tagye Restaurant was a warm, smoky, buzzing place from breakfast through dinner. A Tibetan family fixed a few western dishes but the highlights were momos, chicken and veggie dumplings; thukpa, a nourishing mutton or yak meat-based noodle soup; wonderful bread and yoghurt; and tsampa, roasted barley flour in buttery Tibetan green tea. The parade of characters each day, and the conversations, were singular. An intense one of our close friends there was Annie Pema, an American woman turned Tibetan Bhuddist nun. A British travel writer came to dinner each evening wearing an ascot and toting a bottle of Scotch Whiskey. And there was Phil Mathews, who had been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in Pittsburgh and was making it around the world as long as he could. Four months later we walked into our lodging in Bali, and there was Phil, sniffing the wild orchids which grew in the trees. It often went that way, we’d meet and hang out with people in one spot on the map and could never be sure where and if they’d turn up later. The muscular mountaineer types in the restaurant convinced us to take the Annapurna Base Camp Trek in Western Nepal, six days walking up through villages and terraced rice paddies and rhododendron forests to a snow-filled bowl at 13,550 feet, to stand surrounded by the vista of seven mountains of at least 22,000 feet. On the way we became tangled in the residue of an avalanche and a dislodged, watermelon-sized rock whacked my left ankle. We made it six days down, but the U.N. doctor in Kathmandu advised three weeks bed rest. So after a few days, and gazing at the wall-sized Potala mural in the restaurant, I decided to copy it. Betsey somehow found a large piece of watercolor paper in the bazaar, and the Tibetan family running the restaurant, happy with the idea, set up a large work table, and supplied me with free food and a constant stream of hot tea. This work in progress attracted ever more colorful comments, personal histories, and gifts. And, as there are well over three hundred windows in the painting, it all took a bit of time. Tashi Tagye, the name of the restaurant, stands for the eight auspicious spiritual symbols of Tibetan Bhuddism, so Tibetans and Nepalis attached qualities of veneration to my making the painting. I was given a thaka, or ceremonial white scarf, to wear.) We went on to live the Summer of 1975 in Ladakh, the Tibetan part of India, study meditation in an ashram, got to Bali, and made it home to Baltimore by Christmas. We had set out to circumnavigate the globe in one year, and it took us five, visiting or living and working in 36 countries. With the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Shah in Iran, both in 1979, the ‘hippie trail’ was shut down. We ‘world travelers’ had already returned seamlessly to establishment jobs

and lives in a Roland Park house with a dog and cat in the yard, and private school bills for a son and daughter soon to appear in the mail. Sic transit gloria mundi. [*Class Secretary: Thanks so much for these reminiscences of your exploration of the world. During those years I was finishing up my psychiatric residency, and going into the Air Force as a psychiatrist from 1972-1974. Pretty dull stuff compared to your exciting adventures.]

Jim Winn: I missed Stan after the Gilman Forever lunch. I got into a discussion with Sam Hopkins about when civilization is to end. The rain finally drove us to our separate automobiles. There may not be a charge for the class dinner. [*Class Secretary: But don’t leave us hanging. When will civilization end? I have plans to make, and I need to prepare for the end!] Elizabeth and I went to Texas in May to attend our son’s graduation from graduate school at Sul Ross State University. Don Hebb, John Zouck and I (with wives) caught up with each other at Don’s home before the Grand National hunt races. There are actually two more of us, but Edgie Russell is in Florida until the weather improves in Maryland, and Jay Griswold was out and about.

John Zouck: I have finally come to terms with my being what’s termed a ‘lurker’ in social media circles, so, breaking the cycle, I’ll try to think of something to say. [*Class Secretary: Thanks for introducing us to the lingo of the millennials. I’ve found there are scads of new words describing aspects of social relationships. One is ‘ghosting.’ It refers to an ex-significant other who still hangs around on the periphery, ie: ‘Man things are tough. I’m being ghosted by my ex.’] Judy and I spend half our time, the warmer periods, in New Hampshire and the other half in Maryland. I work infrequently at JHU APL. I wrote test software for the computer aboard the Messenger and New Horizons spacecraft back in 2004 and 2005, and was pleased to see that later mission achieve a flyby of the Kuiper belt object Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day this year. It was the first mission to an outer solar system body, after it did a flyby of Pluto in 2015. Judy and I traveled to Spain and Portugal last fall, visiting the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, the Alhambra, while enjoying reading Washington Irving’s book on its history and his stay there around 1832. We visited several South American countries last spring, from Peru to Argentina, sailing through Chile’s picturesque Tierra del Fuego archipelago via the Beagle passage. Son John, Gilman ’85, and wife Stacey, and grandchildren Allie and Colin live in Williston, Vermont, where Allie has been heavily involved in ballet, hoping to attend the Bolshoi School in Moscow. The evercompetitive Colin plays hockey and lacrosse among other sports and built a computer for gaming, under my loose and mostly ignored supervision. John is with Global Foundries, which acquired his previous employer, the IBM foundry in Williston. Stacey is with an IBM group managing their federal business operations.

Ned Sullivan: I worked again this winter, for the 21st year, as head cashier for a restaurant 3/4 of the way up Aspen Mt. requiring me to ski to and from the job. I have one more shift before it closes for the season on April 13, and then I can free ski for another two weeks before heading to Maui for a week of SCUBA, salt water, and sandy beaches. Lots of snow in Aspen this winter, so it might be a long time melting, with high rivers replacing the wildfires of last summer. I regularly run into George Fesus and his wife in town and on the mountain, but have seen no other classmates for years since the 20th class reunion. No wife now, never any children or grandchildren, so no funny stories. [*Class Secretary: Are you still on the ski patrol?]

John Lewis: Eventful year here for me and my wife Jo. Nine weeks ago, I could not walk, thanks to osteoarthritis and other stuff at S1. I survived emergency low back surgery including multiple fusions, spent a week in hospital, 2 weeks inpatient rehab, and six weeks of gradual, steady improvement, to the point that I can walk without a cane at home, with cane in the real world, and I love those motorized baskets in grocery stores. [*Class Sec.: Man! These old-age ailments are dreadful!] Our six-month target is being able in October to struggle through several airports to go sailing for 10 days in Grenada, Carriacou, and the other Grenadines. (Bosun’s chair, anyone?) I feel very lucky, even though I am not doing as well as Tiger Woods post-op, but then again, he is 43 years old. [*Class Sec.: I love your spirit of optimism, John. Sailing is a great goal to shoot for.] Jo and I are struggling with not being able to do as much as in the past (can you believe it???), and trying to downsize a little. We need fewer houses with all the stuff and work they entail. We have some time left to travel, less necessity for too many doctors, and perhaps some place warmer in winter. Our 34-year-old twins, Brett and Parke, are doing well. No grandchildren yet, but one custody battle over a dog named Goldie Hawn. What is the world coming to? They are not married, no children, but a full-fledged custody battle.

King Barnes: My granddaughter, Morgan McManamon Barnes, celebrated her First Communion at St. Margaret’s School in Bel Air, Maryland on May 11, 2019. Your humble servant will be attending The General Society, War of 1812 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Mayflower Hotel, in August as Vice President General from Maryland.

Peter Wood: Greetings to all my friends in the class of ’60. I’m so proud that our classmate, Tim Baker, is finally getting the recognition he deserves for helping to root out corruption in the White House in the 1970s. I only wish some younger Gilman grad could step into the breach these days. For now, I remain healthy, enjoying life in Colorado, and glad to still be able to practice my lifetime craft in some small way. One nice thing about being a

historian is that all the people you learn and write about (though not those you talk to and teach) are far older than you! When not shoveling snow, cutting the grass, or growing gourds, I continue to write essays, give talks, and assist impressive younger scholars and friends with their research and writing. On Labor Day, I even had a chance to address a rally for racial justice that took place on the steps of the Old Court House in St. Louis. After the ship of state sprung a huge leak in 2016, I decided to devote what time I have left to working hard at what I can do best, shining light on the deep original causes of the country’s abiding racism. The recent despicable arson at the interracial Highlander Education Center, where I once chaired the board, keeps me motivated. I have given all-day seminars, called ‘Slavery Matters,’ and worked with eager fifth graders studying the transatlantic slave trade. It’s rewarding, though for years I wished the culture would outgrow its racist ways, so I could move on to helping young people address climate change. A breakthrough came this winter when I read David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth. (Spoiler: It’s later than we think.) So now I am toying with how to teach American history in new ways that help explain the scope and background of our environmental crisis... and what to do next.

Ted Knowles: We have welcomed a little grandson (Lucas) into the family. He is now seven months old, and he is the only boy among 4 granddaughters. He takes us back to when our boys were that age. Emmy (7) has taken occasional rides on Gretchen’s horse. She said, “Nana, I don’t like to dance, sing, or act like Katie (9) does. I love animals.” Now her mother has signed her up for riding lessons at a farm near their house. She loves it. She has learned to post and canter, words I didn’t even know. But Gretchen explained them to me. Several years ago, I went to a half-day group class given by a local wood worker. He makes exquisite tables, chairs, and other items. He explained his machines and how he works the wood. He asked if anyone had questions, and I asked, “How do you clean up?” He looked at me for a long moment, and some eyes rolled. I have no idea why I asked that question. Then he told a most interesting story. He said, “When I clean up with this push broom, I walk around this table to see if there are any imperfections that I want to correct.” That restored some of my confidence in asking silly questions. I have joined the ranks of those who have torn shoulder tendons. Recently we attended a party and I was wearing my sling. Some guests asked what happened as they walked by. Others made a bee line for me to ask what happened, and wanted to know all the little details. They were the ones who had had similar problems. They said things like, “I tore two tendons myself, and boy did it hurt. The post-op pain was even worse, but after PT my arm works great, back to normal.” Then they would wave their arms all around, like they were shooing away flies, to show how well they had recovered. One woman had to endure severe pain for five weeks, because she could not take Percocet. I could see the pain etched in her face as she recalled her

suffering. She spoke as if she had to tell me, like she was seeking relief from the memory of the pain. From her I learned more than I ever will about my own experience. Gilman memories:

1) Each day after lunch when the galloping herd came thundering down the hall, someone would wiggle-waggle their fingers through the mail slot in Mr. Dresser’s trigonometry class. It became so aggravating that Mr. Dresser stopped teaching, and stood by the door, waiting. When the fingers came through the slot, he grabbed them and opened the door, to find they belonged to none other than Mr. Russell. Dresser was stunned and so was Russell. They just stood staring at each other. Meanwhile, the class was laughing hysterically.

2) Another time, in Mr. Dresser’s class, someone on the second floor lowered on a rope a basketball with a smiley face drawn on it. Then the basketball slowly rose out of sight, only to come back down again. The class roared with laughter. Dresser whirled around saying, ‘What was that?’ but the ball had risen. The laughter quieted down, only to erupt again when the ball slowly came into view. This pattern repeated itself three or four times, and Mr. Dresser never knew what had happened.

3) The third memory is when Mr Callard returned from his year teaching at the Tunbridge School in England. With the glee club on the stage, Mr. Woodworth called Mr. Callard to the front of the auditorium. Then the glee club sang ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,’ all four verses. Feeling very embarrassed, Mr. Callard stood there, with his arm over his head, as if he was scratching his other ear.

4) The last memory is of Walter Birge at lunch reading announcements. They all ended with, “This message takes precedence over all others.” He had the creative imagination to say pre-CED-dence. The lunch room exploded in laughter.

We had Chestertown’s Gay Pride Day in the town park. Surprisingly the Town Council was split on whether to grant it a permit. The vote was 3 for it and 2 against it. One of the dissenters said, “Well why don’t they rent a hall and perform for their own kind?” There was a lot of support for the festivities. A lot of people turned out. It was fun.

George Fesus: Greetings from Aspen and San Francisco. I had a great winter of skiing in Colorado and now am happy to be back in sunny California. We are going on a trip down the Danube with my daughter Katie, her husband Aaron, and our granddaughter Ellery this June. Katie had a bad ski accident two years ago destroying her knee, but after four surgeries and a stem cell treatment in the Cayman Islands she is doing much better. Katie is teaching English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Sierra

Nevada College, and Aaron is a fireman at Northstar. Ellery, aged nine, loves ballet, gymnastics, and acting, and I love to ski with her. We took a Baltic Sea cruise with Lissa and her significant other, Andy Docken, last September, and especially enjoyed our time in St. Petersburg. Lissa is an independent contractor and works mostly with the Aspen Institute, where she is the Curator and Art Registrar; she is currently working on a huge Bauhaus 100th Anniversary celebration. I’m playing tennis three times a week and in good health. Susan is taking good care of me since my ski accident three years ago.

Ted Bedford: All is well in South Florida. I attended a Gilman luncheon in Palm Beach back in March, about a dozen alumni attended, but I was the only Class of ‘60 attendee. Vero Beach seems to be a popular retirement destination as we have several Gilmanites (younger) buying in our area in the past year. Anybody visiting Vero Beach, be sure to give me a call. [*Class Sec.: Thanks, Ted. We all may descend upon you at once someday.]

Kent Mullikin: Miriam and I continue to enjoy life both in Chapel Hill and Maine. I’ve been reading a lot of history, which on the one hand takes my thoughts off the present, but on the other reminds me that no age was golden, not even our years together at Gilman, though in retrospect they look pretty good. Best wishes to you and all other surviving members of the class of 1960.

Karl Mech: I am enjoying life at my home of more than 40 years in northern Baltimore County. I am able to be outdoors every day, in the woods, working and roaming around this lovely area. I am active in my church where I sing in the choir, play in the handbell ensemble, and do what I can to keep our 177-year-old congregation moving forward. I am maintaining my farm, most of which has now mostly been converted to timber production, and am involved in work to restore the chestnut tree to our lovely Eastern forest. I feel very grateful for this time of my life.

News from Vicki (Bill) Dorsey: Having become a mother relatively late in life (age 42 for son 1 and 48 for son 2) I’m proud to announce that I am now a Granny. Long wait, but worth every minute.

John Rouse: Can’t think of anything new that I’ve been doing this past year that others might be interested in. I continue to live in Rome, continue my work with a group of returned Peace Corps Volunteers in promoting rural development activities in the southern altiplano region of Peru, and continue to work on a mystery novel that links New England’s whaling past with Japan’s geopolitical present and the sub-region’s future. [*Class Sec.: Sounds very interesting to me, John.] My Peru PC experience had a big impact on my life. We were 30, all trained in urban community development, but I was much more interested in rural areas, I

guess because it seemed more adventuristic and challenging to me coming from my boring and predictable life in the suburbs. I ended up working in a small town of 200 people in a remote mountain valley no electricity, no winter, no heating, no plumbing in southern Peru, tough living situation, school construction, water tanks, silos, helped start an alpaca wool marketing coop. I left in October 1968 just at the start of the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla movement but much more confident in my own potential. It was then I decided that my future career would be in Intl. rural development. I went back to grad school. Got an MA in development planning. Then returned to PC as staff member supporting rural PCVs in mountains of southern Ecuador, then in Dominican Republic. But I knew that if I was serious about pursuing a career in international rural development I needed to get a higher level agricultural degree. So I went back to grad school and agricultural economics. My first job was working with World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) as ag economist primarily in Latin America supporting small farmer production credit programs there. Then a career in rural cooperative development in FAO. Never had a chance to return to Peru. Spent next 20 years working in Africa and Asia on small farmer development. In 2004 we had the first reunion of our PCV training group after 38 years and there I got to know other members of my training group and was then that I decided that I must return to Peru to see what had happened since my departure. Once I retired from FAO, I decided I had the time and money to write a book about my Peru PC experience. A lot had changed. There was lots of development but still smoldering anger due to the brutal suppression of the guerrilla movement which had culminated in Japanese Embassy hostage crisis 8 years before in December 1996. I got involved initially directly supporting initiatives in the town where I had worked as a PCV. During that period I made a second visit to the valley where I had worked and began working with an NGO Chijnaya Foundation now focusing in nearby altiplano region near Puno, Peru. I renewed my Peruvian contacts and am now working on This Book project. I self-published Sendero in 2012 based mostly on my PC experience. I’m still involved in supporting Chijnaya Foundation activities in Peru as a donor and as VP and will return again in January 2020.

Snowden Stanley sends his warm regards and well wishes to everyone in the class.

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Bill Hardy billhardy@comcast.net

One classmate, Bob (Joe) Manuel, passed away, and Ormond Hammond lost his wife. Most of us are in good health for our age and are traveling and enjoying life and family. The results show our continued interest in each other and our support for the school. A group of classmates, the Grumpies, with wives and honorary class members, etc. continue to meet for dinner each month, a tradition started by Bill Ewing after Rick Born’s and Ott’s 60th birthday party. Everyone is invited. Just let Bill Hardy know and your name will be added to the email list. Here is the collection of notes sent in from members of our class. No redactions were made and very few edits. Thank you everyone who participated.

Pope Barrow: My days now consist of lengthy periods of procrastination, interrupted by brief spurts of activity. Occasionally, I hang out with my daughters and grandkids. I still go sailing once in a while, most recently this winter in the southern Bahamas. Lots of medical issues and various medical treatments mess with all my plans. The Grim Reaper is chasing me around the block, but so far, he has missed catching me. Meanwhile, I am making no progress towards the betterment of mankind.

Rick Born: Elaine and I are enjoying my semi-retirement made possible by having our son, Richard (class of ‘00), working in the family business. Would you believe he’s the 6th generation there? This allows us to travel to San Francisco frequently and visit our daughter, Hedy, and our three grandchildren.

Steve Cordi: I’ve been working right hard, with some success, to stay as unproductive in retirement as possible. I have been roped into being an awards judge each year for state tax presentations and have been invited to attend the national organization’s 2019 annual meeting in Indianapolis in June. It was Nashville last year. They never seem to go to Hawaii or Las Vegas.

Carl Cummings: Carl is still the pastor at Saint Jane Frances De Chantal Catholic Church and Saint Jane Frances School, a Catholic STEM School for Pre K–Grade 8. When he is not involved with his pastoral duties, he gets some travelling in and joins us at our Grumpies gatherings.

Bryson Christhilf: Nothing much new here. Still at Brightwood. Spent some time in Florida. Staying alive. Lots of people seem to have trouble doing that lately.

Sam Dell: Sam reports no news of note.

Jack Emory: Jack still calls Maine his home but, having retired, he no longer has to endure winter cold. So he, sensibly, is spending his winter in Vero Beach, Fl. where he was visited by Ritchie Solter.

Scott Faulkner: For the past year little has changed except that Katie and I have moved further south but still in Franklin, TN. The daily joys still revolve around grandchildren (ages 19, 16, 7, and 1). Katie’s mom and dad have reached their late 80s. The rest of my daylight hours are spent with genealogy research. I did the DNA through Ancestry.com and now correspond with six new distant relatives I never knew about. (sneak preview—there may even be a ‘Tall’ in there). Always enjoy hearing about classmates.

Dan Fisher: Well not much has changed for us. My older daughter, Caitlin, is living in Berlin, Germany. She organizes and advocates for the rights of professional soccer players worldwide. She also is part of an experimental dance company. Our younger daughter, Lauren, lives in Altadena, California, with her partner where she makes new genre art. She also works on rehabbing a house in the desert near Joshua Tree, Ca. My wife Tish is trying to retire from her job of 36 years heading a health and safety program for Mass. I have been calling it her graduation to lessen the impact of such a change. I have not retired, and continue to run the National Empowerment Center, through which I carry out Emotional CPR training around the world, so I can see my daughters. I also wrote a book on recovery from mental health conditions called heartbeats of hope (I am sure Roy Barker would mark it up because of the weak grammar, nonetheless it is available on Amazon). Tish and I live in the same house we moved into 43 years ago in Cambridge, Mass. We just cannot think of another place we would rather be. Come visit us. Note: If you are friends with Dan on Facebook, it is like Where’s Mario. He travels all over the world with his National Empowerment Center.

Jim Garrett: I guess our biggest news will be that, come fall, we’ll have three grandsons at Gilman: Wyatt in 8th, Robert in 3rd, and Dodge in Pre-First. Jim is still very involved with various organizations around town. He is on the board of the Baltimore Chesapeake Outward Bound. He is involved with the Johns Hopkins University Museums watching over the interests of the Evergreen Museum & Library.

John Gerhardt: I had a most unusual and startling Valentine’s Day. Went in for a scheduled doctor’s appointment, one hour later I was in the hospital, the next morning had a port put in my chest, and that afternoon was getting my first four-hour dialysis. I had third stage kidney disease for several years, and my blood test on the 12th showed I’d dropped to stage 5, below 13% function. Of course, I was shocked and depressed for several days, until my

doctor gave me probably the best piece of advice I’ve had in years. She looked me in the eyes and said, “John, you can look at this in two ways: your life has been ruined and nothing will ever be the same, or modern medicine and technology have saved your life and given you years when you can be productive and enjoy your family and friends.” That changed my perspective pretty quickly. Now I look at four hours, three times a week, as an opportunity to read or get a couple extra hours of sleep. Family and friends have been wonderfully supportive. I am doing great, mentally and physically. No need for sympathy!

Ormond Hammond writes “It is with a heavy heart that I report to you the death of my dear wife, Lesley, on September 22, 2018. Those of you who met Lesley, if even briefly, will remember her kindness, intelligence, strength, and beauty. I miss her smile, but the wonderful memories and her spirit will always be with us. Aloha pumehana, Ormond.” Our thoughts are with you.

Bill Hardy: Lin and I are still living in Timonium and enjoying seeing all our Baltimore friends. Our monthly dinner with Gilman classmates and wives/partners are a treat. Last summer, we spent eleven days in Scotland. It was hot but beautiful. In February, we go out to Phoenix to visit our second son and to warm up a little. Usually we get to see the Muhlenfelds, but this time Linda was coping with two litters of puppies. So, we were out prioritized. In March, we spent a long weekend in Iceland and accomplished our goal of seeing the northern lights. One granddaughter is a sophomore at Penn, our grandson graduates from Friends School in June and will attend Pitzer College in Ca., and the youngest granddaughter is nine.

Henry Hopkins reports, “Have moved into our new house on Jupiter Island. We welcome you all to visit us at 67 South Beach Road, Hobe Sound, Fl. 33455 on Jupiter Island. Still working on restoring Clifton Mansion, Johns Hopkins’ summer home located in Clifton Park. Also continuing work with the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy to restore the four squares. The Washington Monument has been completely restored and is open for tours and ascents to the top. But you better be in shape. No elevator!!!!” Henry is also moving along toward his quest to become the bionic man. Last September, he had a pacemaker implanted, and over the winter he replaced both shoulder joints.

Hugh Long is still living in Warrenton, Va. and sends this update on his five accomplished children: Clarence IV- Does Initial Public Offerings for Mayer Brown, a top 20 law firm; AndrewRadiologist- a Lot of Money; Amanda- Art History; VictoriaCollege Professor-Northwestern; Stephen- Marine Biologist for South Carolina.

Corbin Marr and Liz have so enjoyed moving back North to DC; and visiting with other Classmates at the monthly Grumpies dinners. “We took a Western Mediterranean cruise out of Barcelona last spring and a Rhine (and wine) Cruise from Frankfurt to Amsterdam last Fall. Next year I have my 55th reunion from Dear Olde Penn (2020) on the very same weekend as Carson graduates. Carson has a cybersecurity summer job with a government contractor this Summer AND the same job with RSM after graduation. It doesn’t get any better than that. Best wishes to you all.”

Bob Manuel, III died on June 15, 2018 after waging a valiant fight against metastatic lung cancer and receiving the best care and treatment at the Levine Cancer Institute. After graduating from the University of Maryland, He worked for Westinghouse and Eaton for 40 years and was an International Marketing Manager. He sailed, sang in choirs, had many ministries especially prison ministry called Kairos. He and his wife Linda had moved to South Carolina to be near some of their family.

David Wilson sent the following report about Bruce McKibben: Katherine and I had the great pleasure of attending the wedding of Bruce McKibben and his partner of 10 years, Tom Coakley. They put on a smashing weekend at their home in New Hampshire. It was a joyous occasion, and we were thrilled to be there. I, of course, have known Bruce longer than anyone there (1st Form Upper plus four years at Harvard), except, of course, his sister, who also attended.

Sis and Moby Mudge have migrated to New England but do not occupy the entire area. They ‘downsized’ to Sharon, CT and made the mistake of ‘upsizing’ their new house. Moby reports that there are four MORES to any renovation. One does more than one planned. It costs more. It takes more time. Finally, it is much more frustrating than one ever imagined. After living with construction for seven months, the burly men (carpenters and plumbers) are now out of the house. The new coordinates are G. A. Mudge, 36 Hooperfields Drive, Sharon, Ct. 06069.

Ed Muhlenfeld: Linda had a titanium rod installed in her left femur after a break last August and this March a similar procedure repaired a crack in her right femur as a result, according to Mayo, of an osteoporosis drug she had been taking. In happier news, daughter Vanessa had her third child, a girl. I still work and now play the bass guitar.

Bob Moss: In March T Tall and his lovely spouse dropped in on us at home in Raleigh. We had a delightful chat and covered a lot in a short time.

Carol and Rick Ober will be back from a Natural Habitat tour of Nepal, Tibet and Dubai when you read this. Iceland in September. Recovered from a herniated disc while sitting twin seven-year-olds and four-year-old grandchildren in West Virginia in November in time to ski at Jackson Hole, Vail, Tahoe and Sun Valley this spring and play tennis. Working as volunteer Legal Analyst at Princeton Gerrymandering Project.

Tom O’Neill: Kate and I have enjoyed a quiet winter, enlivened by a couple of Gilman dinners in Baltimore and comforted by the continuation of the American Republic despite the disturbing activities of the Trump administration.

Mac Passano: Had a marvelous trip to Scotland/England in June, 2018 with six granddaughters, two daughters and their spouses. Started in Edinburgh, traveled through the Highlands, ended in London before departing for home. Spent July and August in Groton Long Point, CT. and returned to the usual fall activities in Baltimore. Returned to our place in St. Maarten in January 2019 to check on the Island’s hurricane recovery, and enjoy the equal air and water temperatures we have come to appreciate during Baltimore winters.

Tom Salisbury is still living in Sequim, Wa. on the Olympic peninsula. He is in the process of remodeling his house. He says “Ramona are I are still in full remodel mode with framing changes in full swing as we replace the deck while adding a carport and new front entry, followed shortly thereafter with a new steel roof. The interior work still plods on with the electrical work more than half completed, as we look forward to finally getting a county inspection framing approval so we can begin to put the house back together again (insulation, sheetrock, floors, cabinets, etc.). We hope to move back in by late summer or early fall, so hopefully, no major snags await us. Trips to visit us by my brother and by my son and his family are in the works for the fall, so an early completion date would be much appreciated.”

John Sigler: nothing too much has changed except he is moving a lot more slowly. He is semi-retired and just trying to carry on.

Ritchie Solter: Still working, still living in the same place, still see several classmates at various school and class functions, and still spend time with my children and grandchildren. It is great fun watching the young ones grow up. Ritchie also relates that he visited Jack Emory this past winter in Vero Beach.

John Snead: Enjoyed wonderful trip to Saint Bart’s in April and annual vacation in Bethany Beach with family in June. Rick Born hosted our March Grumpies dinner at the Elkridge Club. Terrific crowd of 28, about double our normal turnout! Great dinner and time to catch up with each other. John Stockbridge traveled all the way from Connecticut to join us!

John Stockbridge: Last August Anita and I had a once in a lifetime trip to Umbria with the whole family (four kids, seven grandkids and one dog). We rented a wonderful house amidst an olive grove overlooking the historic town of Todi. Absolutely fabulous. I continue to spend most of my time working on our town’s history. Currently I have a project working on 19th century schools, and another on the Bedford Farmers Club, which dates from 1852. Historical societies and museums, and local nature conservancies take up time, but I very much enjoy these activities. Anita has been spending a lot of time working with the local garden clubs as well as with the Garden Club of America. She has also become quite the photographer. As for the kids, they are all healthy and doing well....one family in Switzerland, one in Bermuda, one in New York City and one in Wilton, Conn. I was proud to have traveled to Baltimore for a fabulous Grumpies dinner at the Elkridge Club. Certainly a highlight of this year.

Harry Swope: Our daughter, Alexandra, has completed the first year running her own veterinary hospital. Our youngest granddaughter, Sally, is graduating from high school in May and her sister, Stella, has completed her first year at Mary Washington. My wife, Libby, is doing consulting in interior design, which she really enjoys. I remain active on the board of the Naturopathic Medicine Institute which will be launching a ‘Nutrition for Kids’ program and which continues to provide post-doctoral education in how to use traditional naturopathic medicine to cure any chronic disease.

T Tall: Just completed a three-week, 4,200-mile journey through 12 states (and DC) to visit 35 old friends (including Bob Moss) and innumerable Civil and Revolutionary War sites. Amazed by how little I know. Andersonville stood out. Built for 10,000 prisoners, it held some 33,000 Union soldiers at its peak. Its commandant was the only Confederate executed for war crimes. His defense: “I was only following orders!” Remind you of a later war in which many of our classmates fought?

Dave Trussell: All is well with me other than an ongoing battle with sciatica. So sorry to hear about Les. He introduced me to Jane all those years ago. Two children by her and two with second and present wife Sally. Seven grandchildren so far, 28 years down to 21 months. Retired October 2015 from 42-year private dental practice. Back and forth between homes in Maine and South Carolina. Hope to catch up in person one of these days. Regards to all! Spent first winter in South Carolina near oldest daughter Mollie. Dodging Maine ice and snow. Everyone happy and healthy. Headed home to Maine in early May. Spending all my time playing guitar and singing. Kids spread from SC to Hawaii. Don’t miss work in the least.

Butch West: Peggy and I just celebrated our 53rd anniversary on April 30. Last summer, our newest grandchild, Mia West, was born, bringing our total to one grandson, Taylor, and three granddaughters, Ella Kate, Cammy, and Mia. My son, Jay, and I just expanded our law practice and is now known as West, Edwards and Aitken. We still have our tickets to the Orioles and Ravens and are enjoying more time in Amelia Island.

Peter Wilkes continues his acting endeavors in the local, Baltimore theatre scene with recent roles in the English farce Charley’s Aunt, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, the Arthur Miller classic The Crucible, and in glorious drag as Terry Farmer in Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina. In his spare time, he is also using his acting talents to work as a Standardized Patient (SP) at both Johns Hopkins Hospital and The University of Maryland Medical School. SPs act out specific ailments/emotional issues/bereavement or bad news situations with pharma, nursing, and/or medical students before they go out into the real world. Following each encounter, we evaluate each student’s performance on how well they relate to the patient; i.e. their bedside manner, and that evaluation becomes part of their final grade. Fun Work and a few extra $$. He and Dickey (Wilson) continue to be happy, relatively healthy, and are enjoying their return to Baltimore immensely.

David Wilson: Last fall we moved 20 miles from Placitas, NM to Albuquerque, giving up an unnecessarily larger house for a mostly worry-free condo. Loving it. I am still running occasional races (half marathon last October after I turned 75), singing with Opera Southwest, and dragging our camper and hiking all over the place. Last summer Katherine and I attended the wedding in New Hampshire of Bruce McKibben and his old (but younger) buddy Tom Coakley. It was a special event, they are extremely happy, and we are likewise happy for them.”

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Gordon Hammann

ghammann@sfandc.com

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Jake Slagle jake@jakeslagle.com

Not only was Craig Woodward exemplary as an athlete, scholar, and gentle leader, he was living testament to The Gilman Five:

Honor, Integrity, Respect, Humility, and Excellence. Craig died in Atlanta on May 1, of complications from cancer. The sad news reached me via email from Bob Dyer shortly after I first sat down to write these class notes.

Lance Bendann describes his life as “healthy, active, and purposeful.” He particularly enjoys walks from his Homeland neighborhood that frequently extend to the Gilman campus. There he occasionally encounters an athletic event or at least runs into fellow alumni or current faculty members. Among the latter is his son Chris (Class of 2003), who not only teaches in the Middle School, but is now also an admissions coordinator. Shortly before Christmas, Lance, Ted Rugemer, and Yours Truly were the guests of Jack Nesbitt at his and Patricia’s home for a delicious lunch of grilled cheese sandwiches. We then viewed Jack’s extensive electric train configuration in their basement. The towns, attractions, and activities Jack had created along the tracks for the train to pass were major highlights. Naturally, we found ourselves talking about hobbies. Jack seems to be developing a new one. In response to one of my later Class Notes solicitations, he mentioned how he’d (later) “made a trip to the Jake Slagle Mineral Museum, which got me interested in Geology.”

Bob Dobbin: Life has remained pretty stable out here over the past twelve months. That said, we did have two new grandboys and one new grandpuppy recently arrive on the scene, all of whom have injected a very enjoyable sense of energy into our family’s otherwise relatively calm existence. On another note: many thanks for all the time and effort you have invested – and continue to invest – in the class notes. I always look forward to reading them, and I’m sure I have a lot of company in that regard.

Paul Dowling: Moved from Baltimore to Siesta Key, Fl. in 1996 and I love it here. I am still selling collectable Elvis Presley records from around the world. I started this mail order business in 1974 and 45 years later I still do it. My web site is worldwideelvis.com. I got married for the first time on June 6, 2015 on Turtle Beach where I lived at the time. My wife’s name is Sharlene and she is a

postmaster at a local post office. Not much else to say now. I hope to go to a reunion one of these years!”

Ted Leach: I am in my sixth year teaching first and second year med students at Frank H. Netter Medical School at Quinnipiac University. Bonnie having retired from the local pharmacy is freer to zip down to Atlanta to help out with 2.5-year-old granddaughter Emily. Daughter Kate still very busy with her vet work at Zoo Atlanta, a research paper and a recent side trip to Madagascar to save endangered tortoises. Daughter Beth finished her vet surgery residency at Cornell and now is in a vet small animal surgery in Greenville, S.C.

Bill Paternotte: Life is good. I continue to work at Brown Advisory, advising clients on their investments. The clients are stimulating, successful high achievers and keep me on my toes. Over 40% of my colleagues are under 35, so they are really fun to work with and mentor. I think I’d be bored if I didn’t work. Nan loves to travel, so we squeeze in as many trips as we can (and she goes on her own when I can’t). Recent ones included Antarctica, Portugal and Spain, and Patagonia. I continue to stay close to Gilman as a Lifetime Trustee and as grandfather to three Gilman students — Jack (4th grade), Truman (8th) and Miles (10th) Paternotte. My health is good and I get to play as much golf as I want!

David Robinson: Still working, but with lots of flexibility for travel. Susan and I just finished a 40-day trip to Asia, which was an amazing experience.

Terry Ellen reports that son Daniel is getting married and finishing up a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy at the New School in NYC.

Craig Cutter plans to retire in about a year as corporate director at Maryland Treatment Centers to live full time in “slower Lower Delaware.” He and Sue continue to travel, most recently to Israel, Jordan, Antigua, and Norway.

Ed Supplee and Sally: “Traveled to Cuba, Germany, Portugal and Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean all independently (no tours). Cuba was tough...transportation terrible, food below average and few spoke English. Favorite islands in Caribbean are Terre de Haut and Bequia. Been to about 130 countries so far. Granddaughters now 16 and 14. They want to become an actress and an artist respectively. I hope they don’t starve. Look forward to class news.” Ed, in town while Sally attended her 50th Reunion at Bryn Mawr, joined Nina and me for a Saturday lunch at Artifact in Hampden as guests of Jimmy Rouse and his muse/partner Ava. Afterwards, we visited Jimmy’s enormous studio in a newly converted mill nearby to view decades of his paintings, sculpture, and other artistic media. No longer on display were numerous works he sold during a recent month-long showing at the Creative Alliance.

Ward Coe reports, ‘I still claim to work when I’m not vacationing.’ He and Christie just returned from Ireland and plan soon to visit Uganda and Rwanda. Ward admits to futility in catching up with the globetrotting achievements of Ed and Sally.

Tom Farley writes that he and Carol plan to sell their house in Florida, and move back to Baltimore. ‘It will be good to reconnect with a lot of the old gang,’ he says, promising to keep us apprised of their progress.

With no plans to retire, Robin Baker is still director of psychometric services at Metrometrix. Mary continues to advocate for neglected and abused children in court.

John Loeb reiterates his and Anna Belle’s love of New Orleans, the food of course, and festivities ranging from Mardi Gras to the Louisiana Philharmonic performing in City Park. Currently, the couple is actively working to prevent the environmental damage that another cruise ship terminal could do not only to their Bywater neighborhood, but the entire city. They escape the New Orleans summer heat with an annual three-month trek to Vermont. This year they plan to spend two of those weeks in Ireland, where Anna Belle will be painting.

Bruce Marston has become an avid birder. He has staked out a wetland and visits it each day, posting his sightings on ebird. Before heading to Baltimore later in the summer to visit family, Bruce looks forward to hosting Tom Chase and Johanna in Bellingham for a June visit. Totally in character, Tom recently shot off an email to encourage a possible regional reunion type gathering of fellow New England based classmates. One would be George Scarlett, who still teaches full time at Tufts. Otherwise, George works to enhance the child-nature connection and has launched an online magazine on that subject.

From New Hampshire, Bill Lamb writes that he has no news, which surely many of us will consider to be news in itself.

Just as uncharacteristically, Pete Rodman responded similarly: “Nothing has changed; nothing to report,” says our former Mick Jagger stand-in.

From classmates who left Gilman for other schools, we received just one response. It was from Chuck Newhall. He now works with his two sons, Adair and Ashton, at the latter’s venture capital firm Greenspring Associates, with $10 billion under management. Chuck expects publication of his third book; Dare to Disturb the Universe, in early 2020.

John Redwood III jredwood3@gmail.com

A good number of classmates provided updates on what they and their families have been up to, and others were able to attend our 55th reunion dinner at Elkridge Club on April 27. In the order of the submissions received, the news was as follows.

Gally Warfield and his wife Judy continue living in “beautiful Southern California near San Diego.” They had a close call with a fire last summer, which came within a block of their home, but survived with no damage except for some frayed nerves. He continues to work on several creative projects, and they continue “to pop out grandchildren... last count: six... four boys and two girls ages 17 to one month. Life is good, and we welcome any and all classmates who venture out this way to get together.”

Bob Pine reports “no real news except we are enjoying life in East Hampton.” In February, he and Pascale travelled to Egypt, Oman, and Bahrain. Having lived in Bahrain from 1979-81, they were “thrilled” to go back and found Egypt, where they took a boat down the Nile from Aswan to Luxor, “fascinating and seemingly very secure.” They will go back to France in the fall to see family and plan to visit Les Vosges in Eastern France.

Leith Hermann can hardly believe that he is already in his fifth year of retirement from Gilman, “perhaps because time flies when one is having fun.” His volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity, Special Olympics, and “another organization for developmentally disabled citizens” continues to be rewarding. He also notes that, “as in previous years, skiing with my son and his girlfriend in Colorado was wonderful. It snowed 49 inches in five days...more than I have ever seen before.” In his spare time, he picks banjo and guitar tunes in a bluegrass meet-up group, and now in his third year of golf, can finally keep up with his partners. He and wife Susie spent nine weeks at their Maine house last summer and “had a delightful day hiking in the White Mountains with Grace and John MacLean.” Lastly, he wants to know if any of you are headed to southwest Maine, as “we love visitors!”

Tom Revell writes that he and Kay enjoy living in Henderson, Nevada, as Las Vegas is just minutes away, so they can enjoy shows and some top entertainers. Their two sons still live in California, and they make trips back there to visit and see grandkids. He also reports that they continue to travel, cruising with Seabourn or visiting the beautiful island of Maui where we lived for several years. However, he laments that Tom Beck’s favorite hockey team

won the Stanley Cup last year, but he still cheers for his Vegas Golden Knights!

David Allan is still helping (hopefully) the lacrosse team at our alma mater. His son Scott has recently opened a private psychiatric practice outside of Burlington, VT, and son Michael lives in Santa Barbara, CA with his wife Katie, daughter Hattie and son Crosby. He coaches the UCSB lacrosse team. Wife Bonnie is busier than when she taught in the Middle School teaching yoga, on the board of Outward Bound Chesapeake, and creating art.

Fred Kelly was one of those who were sorry to miss the reunion but was in Savannah with grandchildren. He and Nancy have four grandchildren and son John is becoming a multi-millionaire producing CBD in Colorado, which has become “the new land of milk and honey.” He is still building restoration projects on the Severn River to stop the storm water runoff that is polluting the river. He adds that “my science advisor is long-time NIH and continues to relay the scientific information regarding climate change. Most agree we have passed the tipping point and bemoan our legacy to our grandchildren. Most unfortunate.”

Fife Symington informs that his oldest son, Fife IV, was having his 50th birthday at the time of our 55th and he couldn’t miss it! He also observed that “it seems I’m celebrating lots of birthdays” and “the Symington census runs like this: five children, 11 grandchildren (six girls and five boys). Life is good. My professional cooking school, the Arizona Culinary Institute, is in its 18th year and prospering” and he looks forward to seeing us at the next reunion!

Stuart McCarthy also regrets that he could not attend this time but sent his best regards to all.

Walt Childs is living in Cape Charles, near Norfolk, VA, but due to a scheduling conflict would also miss seeing old friends at the reunion. He is now fully retired and loving life, staying busy with Yacht Club activities, volunteer civic & environmental activities, and some travel. In June he and his wife, Randy, are heading to Oregon for several days, then stopping on the way back to see three grandchildren in San Jose. He also reports that the whole family may visit in late June/early July for their 50th wedding anniversary. In late August they may go to Denver to spend time with two other married children and two more grandchildren. Even though he states that “travel is not always like this,” in December they fly to Buenos Aires and cruise west through the Beagle Channel to Santiago, Chile. In the meantime, he would try to find the documentary on Reddy Finney. [Learn more and view the film here: gilman.edu/FinneyStory].

Bob Locke responded to Walt by saying that he and his wife, Sherry, took the trip from Buenos Aires to Santiago in January 2016 and that it was “one of our absolute favorites.” I can second this as Lúcia and I also cruised the same route in 2011, the highlight being three days dodging icebergs near the Antarctic Peninsula and seeing what seemed like millions of penguins! Bob also later wrote that “speaking for myself only, I am starting to feel my age, but then again I am about one year older than most of my classmates. Sherry and I just spent a terrific four days with John MacLean and John Silverstein, plus spouses, in Asheville. The occasion was a mini-reunion of Colgate buddies. Old friends mean more and more to me with each passing day.”

Bill Anderson claims “not much to report from God’s waiting room. Still playing golf, weekly poker games, walking my 10,000 steps every day, and investing in the football futures market.” He adds that the entire family is healthy and successful with exception of one grandson who is struggling right now but they hope to get him up and around real soon. Sadly, he “lost more than a few friends this year. I guess at our age, it’s to be expected, but that does not make it any easier.” He too observed that he “could not make #55 — too many plans I am unable to change [but] I will be there for #60.”

Rick Reese also was unable to attend the reunion due to health issues, but likewise looks forward to the next one. He broke his left ankle about three years ago and needed surgery to repair the damage. Over time that repair has been breaking down, so he is now preparing for a second complex surgical procedure to fuse the ankle to his left leg, which would occur in late April or early May. In the interim, his mobility is limited. He and Linda remain in Atlanta in a house they purchased a year and a half ago. Son Rick is also there and is still the base player with several bands, one of which played in Austin earlier this year in SXSW (South by Southwest). When not on stage, Rick and a partner run a robust home improvement business in Georgia. Daughter Ashley is a sales executive for Sales Force based in Atlanta, but with extensive travel throughout the U.S. Her husband, Mark Carman, is a software sales executive with SAP, and likewise has a heavy travel schedule. Ashley’s and Mark’s children continue to grow older. Grandson Parker is a now junior in high school and a good athlete in varsity football and wrestling, while Granddaughter Sammi is a sophomore, a cheer leader for varsity football, and dating the team quarterback. Rick “can’t believe how fast they both grew up, despite the fact that Linda and I are ageless.” His sister Beth is still in Clearwater, FL with her psychotherapy practice.

Michael Ewing writes that he and Bambi are now Florida (Delray Beach) residents, although they maintain a home in Ruxton. And as is the case with many of us, his children are the most interesting news, as they have four grandchildren with a fifth on the way.

The children are well into their careers with solar energy, private wealth management, home construction, a nationally ranked horse trainer, a sports marketing manager for a Fortune 500 company, an acupuncturist, a developer of residential communities, and an aspiring artist. The family gatherings are always full of interesting tales of their escapades. All but one of them have left Baltimore for Florida, Brooklyn and Colorado to pursue their careers, but also to be close to their outdoor activities. He adds that “it’s exhausting for two seventy-year-olds trying to keep up” and that he is still active in the retail real estate business, “but the sluggish retail market has left plenty of time for us to visit children and grandchildren, travel and play some golf.”

Bill Buckingham offered thanks for reaching out to him “as an honorary Gilmanite.” He retired several years ago after forty some years in banking and finance, with a brief detour as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. He now spends most of his time on Siesta Key in Sarasota, while still maintaining a summer home in Alexandria, VA. Like others, he observes that “retirement is great” and he enjoys sailing, travel, tennis and golf – “usual retirement stuff. What a life!” He also maintains some board affiliations and does some volunteer work. Finally, he notes that “I often think of all my Gilman classmates and am sorry I can’t make the Eldridge dinner — but hoping to catch up with you wonderful guys at some future event.”

Bill Barton reports that he and Jane are celebrating their 53rd anniversary in May. Their oldest son Bill is 52, Matthew is 48, and daughter Rieman is 40. They have five grandchildren ages four to 16, with the three oldest being girls and the two youngest boys. They reside in “the beautiful horse country of northwest Baltimore County, adjacent to world famous Sagamore Farm. Charlie Fenwick and father have a couple of beautiful horse farms several miles as the crow flies, Hunt Cup course three miles, which will always be Horse Country.” They also own “a wonderful home on the beach and bay in South Jersey, Sea Isle City to be exact. Just three hours from Baltimore.” He adds that “they say if you love what you do it’s not work. Thus, I have continued my career in construction by starting my own general contracting firm, William C. Barton & Associates, Inc. The company is growing nicely, and I work with a select group of negotiated clients. We are all healthy, happy, and blessed.” He is also on the board of a Carroll County nonprofit, Marriage and Relationship Education Center, which promotes marriage and family values, as well as serving on the leadership board of a large nondenominational multi-campus Christian church in the Carroll County area.

Sandy Martin affirms, “Great to hear about so many Class of 64 mates. Update from Martin clan; four kids, 11 grandkids, oldest grandson Xander graduating from Gilman this spring and heading

to Yale. He is captain of Gilman ice hockey and lacrosse teams (No doubt where his genes came from). Rest of grands spread all over MIAA schools plus Odyssey and Stoneleigh. Much better half Beaumont is still the world’s greatest travel agent. Yours truly mostly retired, trying to figure out why golf balls don’t go as far as used to. (Equipment?) Also, Uber driver for all grandkids to schools and games. So fortunate all children live in Baltimore.”

Doug Green is still working full time as a senior partner in antitrust at Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C. His son Dan operates Jaffurs winery in Santa Barbara, which according to Doug, offers the “best California Syrah in the country.” His stepson Sam Kesaris has become CEO of Amethyst Recovery Center, with operations in Port St. Lucie, Fl. and Rockville, Md., and stepson Peter is a junior executive with Knoll Furniture in the Big Apple. Like others who wrote in, he was “very chagrined to miss the reunion.”

Jim Campbell indicates that he “very much enjoyed the bits and pieces of news from all who have responded. For me, the image of Mike Ewing that really sticks in my mind, is a slim, calm, well bundled fellow on Fife Symington’s pond across Seminary Road. I expect he is a little older now and that frozen ponds are not so common in Florida (nor in Lutherville these days).” While he really enjoyed the 50th, he was very sorry to not be able to make it to the 55th. But he had a good excuse: “my son and his family (two grandchildren, Sophie, 5, and Jamie, 3) are in Japan, and we have been seeing them only once a year for the last several years — when they come here for some time at the beach. This year Karen insisted we must go there too, and the only plausible time slot begins next week, “Golden Week” in Japan, because Chris and wife Emiko are both off work. So, we will be in Tokyo.” As for other news, “Karen and I will hit 40 years together in June. Fortunately, we are both chugging along without major complaints.” Their son Chris has been working for a big Japanese company, Sumitomo, flying all over Asia and other places looking for or monitoring fintech investments. But, after a decade, he is ready to move on from Japanese corporate culture, and Jim and Karen are ready for him to return to the US. (If anyone has a job idea in the US, he’d love to hear it!)

Daughter Hayley is an attorney working for the Attorney General of New York. She is very excited right now to be buying her first apartment (albeit with a little help), in an amazing old building called The Cherokee on the upper east side. Jim and Karen are still living in Potomac, Md. (outside D.C.) and he is working as an outside consultant with FedEx and UPS on international postal and related issues. According to Jim, “the big news in this little world is that it looks like the Trump administration will pull the U.S. out of the Universal Postal Union on October 17. The UPU, founded in 1875 (with the US as a founding member), is the second oldest intergovernmental organization. It coordinates

the exchange of mail between countries. A great idea when it started, the UPU has become an anti-competitive cartel that abuses public authority. Whatever the failings the Trump administration in other areas, they are right in this case. I am much involved up these developments, mostly behind the scenes.”

Hamilton Easter notes that he and Barbara had an uneventful year even though they had over 400 inches of snow this winter. They are still in Park City and loving the skiing, hiking and road biking. Katie, their youngest, is working for Vale and moving up the corporate ladder. She got married in November and had a wonderful wedding at a venue on a mountain ranch outside Park City. The other three are also all doing well. Wishing us all the best, he ended by saying that “this summer we plan to cycle in Normandy, France, which should be fun and informative.”

John Redwood and his wife are also celebrating 40 years of matrimony in May and will do so with a trip to the Galapagos Quito, and elsewhere in Ecuador with a couple of good friends from England in late June and early July. Son André, 37, is now an assistant professor in the Music Department at SUNY Albany, where he teaches music theory. Grandniece Victoria, 14, will graduate from middle school in June and attend Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, VA in the fall. She continues to excel in both soccer, as an attacking center midfielder, and basketball, as a high scoring point guard. “I continue to do international consulting, mainly on environment, natural resource management, and climate change but also some on agriculture and rural development and urban development, most recently in Myanmar, thus completing my recent work in East and Southeast Asia for the Manila-based Asian Development Bank, but I also got back to Colombia and Brazil last year for the World Bank, which continues to be my primary employer during ‘retirement.’”

Finally, our 55th class reunion dinner this past April was attended by Messrs. and Ms. Baldwin, Beck, Locke, MacLean (who is still performing his own music and launched a second CD), Pine, Redwood, Rich, and Weiskittel, Messrs. Hermann, Sollod (still a practicing psychiatrist in Denver and the classmate who traveled farthest to participate in the reunion), Schweitzer, and Winstead, and Ms. Hardesty. A good time was had by all, but we missed the rest of you! Several months earlier Jeff Miller hosted a group of us (Campbell, Green, Isaacs, Keidel, Locke, yours truly, Scott, and Wolf) and our wives from the greater Baltimore-Washington area for a Mediterranean dinner at their home on Capitol Hill, which was also a wonderful occasion. So mini-reunions don’t have to wait another five years!

1965

William Baker williamrosbaker@gmail.com

The Class of 1965 outdid themselves with numerous responses to my request for information!! Thanks for the response.

John Helfrich became a grandfather for the second time. John also spent the entire summer season at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, but was back at home to play Santa Claus in his church’s Christmas pageant.

Ridge Trimble visited Clay Primrose in San Miguel de Allenda. Ridge reports Clay is enjoying the life as an expat in Mexico. More from Clay later.

Stan Klinefelter retired from Brown Advisory late last year, so he was able to take care of Sarah, who was very ill in December and January. Sarah is improving slowly, and they have been able to spend a couple of months in Florida, where they are moving from near Delray to Vero Beach. Their five grandchildren are all doing well.

George Ward reports a mini-reunion near the Delaware beaches over Labor Day for the past two years. Attending were George, Rip Zink, David Winstead, George Brown, Alex Yearley, and King Carter (see photo below). George says all are welcome if you are in the area this coming September.

Geoff LeBoutillier writes from Nova Scotia that he spends most of his time doing political organizing and advocating for stronger measures to save the planet. He says a recent interview with Chomsky sums it up, “We are schizo.” Front pages report shocking amounts of climate change, horrendous weather events, mass migrations and the exploitation of people by corporations with no moral conscience. Then we flip to the business section to check on our stocks, the price of oil, the future of fracking and offshore drilling.

Fred Whelan retired from teaching four years ago due to declining eyesight, but he finished his last book, a text on democracy. Fred is enjoying concerts, plays, audiobooks, playing the banjo, following the Pirates, and visiting six grandchildren.

Jack Turnbull is enjoying retirement as well, with two trips to Europe, one to Switzerland and one to England. Jack reports occasional lunches with Mort Foster, Rob Harwood, Steve Redd, Tony Whitman, Doug Mitchell, George Brown and Charlie Slaughter, usually when Les Rumsey is in town.

I also heard from Nelson Goldberg. He and Marcia split their time among Chestertown, Cockeysville, and Provendenciales on Turks and Caicos. Nelson is still doing surgery “since it’s fun and help lots of patients.” He has four grandchildren in Annapolis and McLean, VA. Nelson says he just reread Orwell’s 1984 and says today it sounds like a pretty good place.

Another email came from Alex Fisher, who reports he is still working in the investment business with Marquette Associates. He is also busy with helping non-profit endeavors, the most

exciting of which in BMoreAg, whose mission is to use urban agriculture as a revitalization strategy in Baltimore City. He says to check this out at: www.bmoreag.com. He reports all his kids and three grandchildren are well. Lastly, he reports struggling at being early 70s. That’s hard to believe from someone who literally looks like he’s no older than 45!!

We also have some news from a classmate that may not have been in the Class Notes before, Dawson Farber. Dawson still lives on Cape Cod, having retired two years ago from Nauset Marine, which he owned and ran for many years in Orleans on the Cape. Dawson lost Lynn, his wife of 47 years, to cancer, but has two sons and six grandchildren. Dawson reports that now he spends winters on Sarasota Bay in Florida and summers on the Cape. Traveling has included trips to Africa, Italy, Greece, and cruises to Alaska and the Caribbean.

Tom Webster checks in, reporting that he is retired as well after thirty years with VF Corporation as a Factory Safety/Compliance Auditor, first in Mexico, Central America and South America, then in the US and Canada. Web gets to play some golf and travel to their beach house.

Gordy Allen is still in Portland, OR, retired, and doing volunteer tutoring and coaching for disadvantaged children. Gordy’s daughter, Rebecca, is a neuropsychiatrist in Seattle with two sons, and his son, Ben, is here in Baltimore, working for Catholic Relief Services, with a daughter expected in June.

Steve Thomas is working and going strong! His daughter, Anastasia, works for Tome’s law firm and has two children, both of whom attend Calvert School. Tome’s other daughter, Alexandra, lives in the Los Angeles area and has a son, Baer, who was born in March, 2018. Tome’s son, Steven, is in the San Francisco area, working as a Systems Engineer for Engine ML, which builds and creates artificial intelligence protocols for driverless cars. Steven’s wife, Becca, is working in autism research and seeking a PH.D. in Clinical Psychology.

Now back to Clay Primrose, who says that we’re in the proverbial 4th Quarter rather than the 1st Quarter, when we were all at Gilman. Soon we will all be in the ‘showers,’ and he wonders if Mr. Gamper will be there. So, Clay says, it’s time to put some final scores on the board, which begs the question of what is ‘scoring’ now? Clay says his future scores would include: doing whatever he can to make his wife Jennifer’s life great (19 years and counting); creating what is likely to be the final house for them; keeping up with the grandchildren; organizing a winter season in a ski town; spending time in the South of France; doing great professional work and creating companies; going to different places and just living there; and staying in good enough physical shape to enjoy life and adventures. Clay also reports changes over the last,

having traded: bad hips for new bomb-proof titanium ones, geographically fixed income for portable; business for consulting; martial arts for meditation; single life for happy marriage; USA for Mexico (the fun side of the Wall); running for walking/spin biking/weights; and living in Centro for living in the country. Clay finishes his note with several things that have remained constant for him: high value on his marriage; high value on his friends and staying in touch with them; loving his daughter Asher; doing work that is of service and helps out folks; never stopping learning; and focusing on spiritual development.

I also heard from Al Gundry, who is still in the yacht brokerage business in Annapolis, fifty years now, with intentions to keep going for a while. Al’s wife, Dibby, will retire in June after teaching pre-school for 35 years. Son, Fred, is a film maker and producer in DC, and daughter, Didi, is a social worker in Anne Arundel County, helping Medicaid patients.

Tony Whitman sends an email that says he is winding down his law career in maritime law. Tony and Susan took a pre-retirement trip last fall to Ecuador, Peru and the Galapagos Islands. They have one daughter, Miles, whose family lives in Northern Virginia, and another daughter, Hannah, who lives in Baltimore. That means grandchildren close by and time spent on the Gilman Lower School playground.

1966

Rick Buck rick@ksiinc.com

Bruce Michelson: Four grand-kids keep us busy now: two of them local (as their parents are University of Illinois faculty), and two in Madison, WI (tech-and-kayak capital of ‘Up North’). A one-act comedy I wrote for fun last year, about Mark Twain, his daughter Susy, and Claude Monet (no, they never met) has been picked up for staged readings at two Mark Twain centers (Hartford and Elmira) and we’re having fun with that, along with standard emeritus-prof and pensioner amusements. With the Clemenceau translations published, I’m into other writing projects and doing outreach now and then for the Fulbright program. Theresa and I had great trip to Vietnam and Cambodia this past winter — and Theresa has more exploits of this sort in the planning stages. So when does retirement actually start?

Fred Sachs: Our daughter loves living in Baltimore and teaching art at Garrison Forest School. We traveled for ten weeks in our fifth wheel trailer last summer, spent four months with it in Florida this winter,

and will take it to Maine for a month this summer. Mobile living at its best. Being home in the mountains of Virginia for Spring and Fall round out a very pleasant annual routine. Our Tesla makes the roads much safer with me in it as its vision and reflexes are better than mine!

1967

Key Kidder keykidder@gmail.com

Please send your notes for next time.

1968

Bill Reilly billr52@comcast.net

Please send your notes for next time.

1969

Wally Pinkard wally.Pinkard@cushwake.com

These notes are incredibly abbreviated since we just celebrated in person at our 50th reunion. The personal reflections by those in attendance were more than my notes could convey. I am told by Gilman that we had a great turnout, but as Page Boyce reminded me, the Class of 1969 should do better. So we are planning an October gathering that will include Bruce Rice, who missed the reunion because he was attending a family wedding in Europe. As we all know, Bruce has been the heart and soul of our class as well as our historian and keeper of memorabilia. Nonetheless, we did have a healthy turnout. I think I got all of the names, but I apologize for any that I may have missed. My recollection of attendees that weekend was: Richard Bacharach, Clete Baier, Woods Bennett, David Biggers, Page Boyce, Brooks Bradley, Jim Burghardt, Doug Carroll, Dave Clinnin, Rob Deford, Bruce Danzer, George Duncan, Tom Duquette, Phil Franke, Lee Gaines, Dick Gamper, Blake Goldsmith, John Gontrum, Jack Harvey, Richard Hayman, Michael Houck, Chris Hunt, Richard Jones, Larry Koppelman, Mitch Koppelman, Hank Lambert, Craig Landauer, Jack Machen, John Magladery, John Minkowski, Paul Offit, David Pines, Wally Pinkard, Teddy Rouse, Arthur Rudo, Patrick Smithwick, Bill Somerville, John Stalfort, Lewis Strauss, Trey Sunderland, Todd Taylor, Chip Tompkins, Rex Wheeler, and

Kin Yellott. I won’t give a detailed overview of our wonderful reunion weekend but will hit a few highlights.

The pen pal relationship and meeting with the third graders was an unexpected and fun event on Friday. The highlight was when one of the kids asked us if we wrote with pencils or quills in the old days. That evening’s cocktail reception was special when Bart Harvey brought his brother, Jack Harvey, to be with his classmates. We all enjoyed the chance to reminisce with Jack. The next day’s lunch at the headmaster’s house was an intimate event that allowed us to gather in his living room for an enlightened and open conversation that brought us up to date on today’s Gilman. It was clear from that session that the values are still there but the opportunities and challenges are quite different from those we experienced fifty years ago. That evening’s class dinner was a special opportunity for most of our attendees to share a memory or two with the group. My final takeaway from the whole weekend was that many of our class certainly had “married up.” What an engaging group of women! I took notes from conversations with a number of you but it appears that I somehow lost two of my three pages, so you will have to refresh my memory by email.

I thought coming into the weekend that my five grandchildren were quite a number, but my family was quickly put into perspective by John Minkowski’s and Woods Bennett’s seven. Woods’s seven range in age from 10 months to 12 years, with one now matriculating at Gilman and John has moved to St. Simons Island, Georgia, for a more inviting location for his seven.

Speaking of the Gilman connection, Craig Landauer’s daughter and son-in-law are both teaching in Gilman’s Middle School.

John Gontrum continues to flourish in his law practice at Whiteford Taylor Preston, LLP, where he is co-chair of the Real Estate Practice. He too is enjoying spending time with his three grandchildren

One catch-up that I do remember from reunion is the remarkable journey of Bruce Danzer’s architectural career. While he is a principal at Boston’s Lab (3.2) Architecture, where he has spent the last 17 years, his extensive career has included four years in Baltimore, 14 in D.C., six in London, as well as stints in Beirut and Guadalajara.

On a last note, I have sad news to report. Steve Baker passed away the day after our 50th reunion ended. I remember Steve first as a member of our football team’s splinter squad, but he was much more than that. He played lacrosse and was an officer of the class in the third and fourth forms. Active in many clubs, his most notable were the Glee Club and the T-Men. Steve will

surely be missed. After seeing so many at reunion, I remain struck by the theme that we all need to remain connected more. Maybe some of that can happen in October, but please do not be hesitant to share your news with me and your classmates.

Finally, I would like to thank our 50th reunion committee, who worked hard to make our reunion such a special occasion: Co-chairs Woods Bennett and Dick Gamper, and committee members Phil Franke, Lee Gaines, Richard Jones, Jack Machen, Bruce Rice, and John Stalfort. Great job, guys!

Patrick Smithwick: Visit Gilman’s blog, Lumen, to read Patrick’s tribute to his English teacher, Alex Armstrong, and other influential Gilman figures from the perspective of 50 years later: gilman.edu/Smithwick.

John Magladery looks back at his years as a Gilman lacrosse player during the waning days of wood sticks, stiff leather gloves, and face masks of dubious value in another Lumen essay. You can read it here: gilman.edu/Magladery

1970

Howard Baetjer hbaetjer@towson.edu

Here’s our news as we close in on 50 years (!) since graduation.

The best class note we have had for these notes in all those years came from Jade Tippett: Emails circulating about the 50th Year Reunion of Gilman School Class of 1970 awaken memories long shuttered. Some may wonder at the name, Jade, I now use. A few memories and a little history, by way of catching up. “Tippett, Tippett, J. R., First Form, Section D,” echoed off the high-ceilinged hallways: my First Form reality, a daily gauntlet of bullying and derision. Day one the following year in Mr. Vishio’s Latin class, several of our number hung that moniker around my neck like a scarlet letter that remained for the balance of my time at Gilman. The experience left me with a lifelong loathing for the tyranny of affluence and entitlement and the cowardly silence that assents to it, as well as a deep compassion for the bullied and victimized. By Fifth Form, college became a looming question. Sufficiently dispirited, between Gilman and a difficult home life, I wasn’t interested in college. I knew the Vietnam War was morally and legally wrong, but if the government was going to suck young men of our age up and spit them out in body bags, I would volunteer for combat duty, replacing someone who had more to look forward to in his life. Fortunately, a couple of our number took me to the New Mobe against the war in Washington D.C. and got me thoroughly

wasted on some really quality Lebanese hashish. Patterns, colors, the experience of joy in beauty that had long escaped me, all of a sudden made my mind an interesting place to hang out, and my life worth living. I guess you could say drugs saved my life. It took five years and seven semesters to graduate from Cornell. My major, a hybrid social sciences program, allowed me to write research papers applying second wave feminist analysis to the sociology and psychology of being male, long before the term “patriarchy” entered common parlance. Sometime in my sophomore year, a compassionate friend lifted “JR” from my heart and shoulders, renaming me “Jim,” during a moment of emotional catharsis. I wore “Jim” for a couple of years until I put the East Coast in the rear view mirror, vowing never to return. I needed a hard break from my past. Green had been my favorite color for as long as I could remember. I had a Tibetan jade ring that spoke to me somehow, so I took “Jade” as a road name, making up a different last name for anyone that asked. Made the UPS guy nuts! Spent the balance of the winter in a three-sided barn on a gay men’s commune in Southern Oregon before heading to Seattle, joining a wholesale organic produce collective – a revolutionary thing to do at the time – and organizing on the side against nuclear power and nuclear weapons. In the process of getting a drivers’ license for work, I discovered the State of Washington had a “Miracle on 34th Street” law: if the US Postal Service delivered mail to you in a name, that was considered a legal alias. A couple pieces of mail delivered to me as simply “Jade” convinced the DMV clerk to lose the “Royall” and “III,” put “Jade” in the middle, et voila! That worked for almost 40 years. A few months ago, I had to pay $600 and go to court and get my name legally changed to…my same name, for the new “Real ID” drivers’ license. Homeland Insecurity!! Seattle lasted a couple of years. Itching for adventure, I set out in mid-winter for Missoula, Montana to take in the last total solar eclipse to cross the U.S. in the 20th Century, and wound up being seduced by a blond goddess on the front bunk of a converted 1947 Greyhound bus belonging to a venerable old counterculture assemblage known as the Hog Farm. The blond goddess didn’t last long, but that led to growing organic grapes in the Southern California desert, answering phones for the family business, an answering service in Berkeley called Babylon (“An elephant’s memory for peanuts a day”), promoting outlaw music events in People’s Park, selling t-shirts and doing child care for the Grateful Dead, and organizing to halt the removal of 10,000 elderly Navajo Indians from their ancestral lands to make way for Peabody Coal’s mine expansion…I think I did a video interview with Harry Shaw for another reunion, recounting some of these adventures. Somewhere in the early 80’s, the Hog Farm acquired a patch of land in Laytonville, a one gas station town (three then) on US 101, and I moved to Mendocino County where I have been ever since. Ironically, Laytonville is one of the towns Bob Tickner and I drove through in 1970, tripping on peyote tea we’d accidentally imbibed in San Francisco that morning. “If the highway is going

in the windshield and out the rear-view mirror, we’re fine.” Ask Bob. Mid-80s with my first child on the way, I made the decision one Halloween night to clean up my act, pack up the dope, get a job and do the father-provider thing. Starting out cleaning up a gas station at night. After a year or two as a line mechanic, I hired on with the Laytonville school district as their diesel mechanic. Six years later, tired of the grease, iron and cold concrete, and finding I liked working with students more than machinery, I shifted gears and spent a year getting a teaching credential. People ask me what I taught. There were subjects, but it was never about the subjects. It was who I taught. I specialized in wounded kids. One of the gifts of my time at Gilman, my time on the street, the way I had lived my life was that I knew pain, could see pain and was not intimidated by it. This let me create a safe space in my classroom where kids in pain could heal. This was never easy. Even in California, schools are much more interested in getting affluent entitled kids into college than they are in helping wounded kids recover enough to live happy, successful lives. Twenty or so years later, with the settlement from my mother’s estate, I was able to put the down payment on a run-down 92-year-old house in the old lumber mill town of Fort Bragg on the Mendocino Coast. I retired in June of 2016, spent the summer and fall rehabbing my house, ran out of money and moved in. So here, I sit and write, the evening sun twinkling through the slatted blinds and the spring winds out of the north gusting at the windows. Life is basically good. My pension provides modest comfort, provided I don’t spend too much on dental care or some other extravagance, like traveling cross-country for a reunion. I am living my one real “bucket list” item: owning my own home, so I’m satisfied.

If you all are considering doing something different for the 50th Reunion, consider putting on a benefit of some kind for kids who will never cross the threshold of schools like Gilman, kids who have been victimized by life, by the people who they should have been able to trust. Gilman is more than well endowed. Wounded kids are the ones in real need, and with the current administration in Washington, money to help them is in short supply. And if you’re still reading, thanks for the few minutes of your time. If you ever get to the Northern California coast, look me up.

This wonderful message elicited appreciative, supportive, and sometimes apologetic responses from Andy Quartner, Mark Morrill, Thayer Simmons, Doug Warner, Rob Brown, Ed Sutton, Mike Russo, and George Baetjer

George Baetjer adds: I headed for the left coast after getting my B.A. at Johns Hopkins, and settled in Oregon after briefly touching down in Marin County. I completed an M.A.T. program at Reed College in 1978 and have lived in the Portland metro area ever since. At various times I have been a freelance nature photographer

and travel writer, wedding photographer, photography instructor, and naturalist & hiking/tour guide. I have also been active as a volunteer educator, contributing over 6,000 hours to the Audubon Society of Portland and the Oregon Zoo, mostly as a team leader for the latter conducting live animal outreach programs in Pre-K through 2nd Grade classrooms. Too bad the [reunion] weekend is in April. If it were June I’d suggest a Beach Weekend to commemorate our post-graduation party at the Stowaway.

Other greetings and news:

From George Richards: “Boys, if I make it back to the reunion, I’ll tell you how in the barrios of South LA and on the mean streets of Compton, CA, I got the moniker The Big Nasty. You know how it works: My phone rings...It’s the UnderBoss on the line.... And shortly after, people start disappearing!”

From G.E. Atterbury, after we finally located him: “Looks like my efforts to stay off the grid have failed! Currently living in Plymouth, Taxachussetts, also known as ‘America’s Home Town,’ where we have a Rock that will be celebrating its 400th anniversary next year. Regarding the 50th in 2020, I will have to check my calendar!”

From Bruce Beehler: I am currently [April 2019] in the lower Rio Grande, camped at the edge of Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge looking at birds and looking for Ocelots and Javelinas ... Spent some time birding right along the wall this morning ... I am out for six weeks, traveling from south Texas to Churchill, Manitoba, chasing birds, of course! ... This is the first of three field trips over the next two years that will take me to the Arctic Ocean and also to western Alaska. Should be fun! Plan to see a lot of new things ... Currently in the WalMart in Los Fresnos, which provides free wifi.

From Derrick Matthews: Hello everyone! I am hailing from Tanzania, East Africa. I have been a Lutheran missionary doctor in Arusha, Tanzania since December 2007. Happy to hear from those of you who have replied. I do not think I will be much help from here [about the reunion], but I remain curious and interested.

From Hugh Reinhoff: I find it amusing that I left Gilman after 7th grade (I was politely not invited back as if 8th grade was a party) and went to five more schools before graduating from Poly. So by some accounts (the development offices) I am an alum of six schools. This set a pattern for the next 20 years, where I took courses from at least as many colleges and universities spending the most amount of time at Williams and Hopkins. And like many others who live in the start-up world of the SF Bay area, I have founded four companies in the last 20 years with my share of spectacular failures. Is there a lesson? Fail early and often, and with some

practice and luck, occasionally get something right? I don’t know. But I have, for the most part, enjoyed the long strange trip.

From Michael Farber: I continue to research the theory that the Pilgrims used Cape Cod as a natural compass rose to survey the first towns down cape in the 1630s. We’re working on cracking the nut by 2020!

From Scott Libbey: Hi Guys, you probably don’t remember me, but I remember you. Have a great reunion and thanks for putting me on the list. All the best. [We do remember you, Scott!]

From Chad Pistell: I am looking forward to catching up with classmates at our 50th next year. I stay in touch with Bob Tickner and Duane Chase on a regular basis. Jan and I still live in Galesburg, Illinois, and we are both retired. We try to come to Baltimore once a year to see my family and some of our friends. We enjoy riding trains on short-line tourist railroads.

From Warren Marcus: I retired after 25 years at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and 17 years in the classroom. I live in Potomac, Md., with my wife Lisa. We recently celebrated our 31st anniversary. We have two children, Ally and Joey, in their late 20s. I’m looking forward to the next milestone reunion. I’ll be working for the museum part-time and doing some charity work in food distribution and refugee resettlement. Instead of re-typing, I’ll be lazy and present most of the museum’s announcement about my retirement:

After 25 years with the Museum, Warren Marcus, a long-time educator, retired on April 26, 2019. During his tenure at the Museum, Warren has had a hand in the creation and development of many of the Museum’s foundational outreach programs and essential resources for students and teachers that are still used today. In 1994, Warren joined the newly-formed Education Department to lead school and adult programs. Working under the Director of Education, he created approaches for training teachers to teach about the Holocaust in their classrooms. Warren supervised the development of teacher training workshops including the Belfer Conference, the Museum’s flagship training program for educators new to teaching the subject, and he developed and led teacher workshops across the country. He also developed and facilitated on-site classes for docents, Bringing the Lessons Home for students (local D.C. and Md.), and programs for visiting schools. Many of the classroom and online resources still used by educators and students bear the imprint of Warren’s work and refinement, including Question Cards, a resource for students as they visited the Permanent Exhibition; an online, filmed version of a teacher workshop, one of the Museum’s first ventures in online learning; and the newly revised Holocaust Encyclopedia, for which Warren was part of the core team making the articles more

student-and educator-friendly, including the addition of key facts, critical thinking questions, and other formatting suggestions for each of the over 800 articles. Over the years, Warren’s extensive knowledge and engaging presentations meant he was called upon to represent the Museum at hundreds of conferences, workshops, and trainings, often in support of partnerships with outside organizations. In 2014, Warren joined the Leadership Programs division to facilitate programming and outreach to the Museum’s military audiences, which included working with foreign military officers from countries as diverse as Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Somalia. He has given tours of the Permanent Exhibition for countless VIPs and other Museum stakeholders and was a key presenter for the Museum’s 20th Anniversary programming. [Way to go, Warren; what a contribution.]

From Bill Johnson: I’ve had a major health crisis over the past 8 months, having developed a serious bone marrow cancer called multiple myeloma, which causes bone lesions and pain. I spent January at the Mayo Clinic for a bone marrow transplant and have recently started on a new chemo regimen to suppress the remaining malignant stem cells. It seems to be working pretty well as I can once again ride my bike on the local trails and work in my gardens. I have decided to retire from medicine/psychiatry to focus on my health and on community projects that I’ve been involved in over the years here in Santa Fe. My wife, Denise, has been a stalwart caregiver and companion through all this and we’re happy to see our kids in healthy relationships (but no grandkids as yet!). [Whew. We’re pulling for you, Bill, for grandchildren, too.]

From Duane Chase: Girls, some of this will be a review for Tick, but at his age, repeating is not a bad idea. I spend November through March in Boulder, CO with my wife, Joyce. I live in one of our cottages on Cape Cod April through October. Joyce hates the Cape, so I am here by myself. I rent the other two cottages. I have a website: smithheightscottages.com, if anyone wants to take a peek. I retired in March 2017 from my 30+ year sales job selling spectrometers at PerkinElmer. I could bore you with more stuff, but that sums up the vitals. Looking forward to the 50th. Yours in retirement bliss, Duane.

From Scott Campbell: Classmates, my update is that I was elected to the state legislature last fall. The first session, January to midMay, has been quite an education. Right now [May 5] it’s reaching a fever pitch and I don’t have time to write more. But I have been following the postings on this email string [as classmates sent news]. Jade, Bob Brown and others certainly have raised the level of the conversation well beyond the usual hail-fellow-wellmet. Occurs to me that more musings of that tenor from more of us would give the reunion next year far more meaning than

it otherwise would have. I don’t know whether I can make it to the reunion itself, but I will write something in that vein after the session.

From Mike Russo: I am living in York, PA. I retired in 2016 from 38 years practicing OB/GYN. I am wonderfully married for 41 years, have two sons and two grandchildren. Life is good up here in Southcentral Pennsylvania. We have been able to volunteer in the community and travel quite a bit. If you are able but have not tried retirement yet, don’t wait too long.

From John Gilpin: After 45 years in the financial services industry, I am retiring from U.S. Trust Company, Bank of America’s private bank at the end of June this year for a “gap” year while deciding the next chapter of my professional life either in law or philanthropy. I hope to spend more time with my daughters in Baltimore and Philadelphia and my two grandsons. I will need to avoid being put to work by my wife, Joanna Kelly (Bryn Mawr ’78) in either her horse breeding or landscaping and installation businesses. Mucking stalls and carrying mulch is not in my future. We have a farm in Jarrettsville and a pied-a-terre on Mount Vernon Place. After graduating UVA and UB Law School, I went into the estate and trust world at the old First National Bank of Maryland – now on its fifth name and third owner – and I have been at it ever since.

I have played so much tennis and squash over the last four decades that I don’t think my back or knees can take it anymore, so I’ll be taking golf lessons during my gap year to break 100. Billy and Bob, I may need to seek your help soon for relief with your tiny needles.

Joanna and I have spent most of February the last few years on Turks and Caicos, which I recommend if you like beautiful, uncrowded beaches, turquoise water, and relaxing times. Scuba diving and snorkeling are a favorite pastime of ours there.

My 13 years at Gilman had many ups and down. After my first horrible painting of a tree in first grade that even my parents hated, and a failed career as a flutist in the Gilman band, I never trusted my artistic side, yet my daughter Caroline has a MFA from PA Academy of the Arts (her work can be purchased on her website carolinegilpin. com) and I am on the board of trustees of the Baltimore Museum of Art and on committees at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and The Walters Art Museum. So did I learn appreciation, if not competence? I was a middle of the pack student, but I still remember Mr. Pine asking me, “Mr. Gilpin, how did you do it?” when I aced the AP History exam. Some have said seeking invisibility was a goal and I would agree, even though Reddy Finney had to tell me three times to get a haircut or he was going to cut it for me. (I cut it myself just enough to keep it from sticking out of my football helmet.) One of my favorite memories is Anton Vishio (my advisor) smacking me on the head with the textbook – I really saw stars – when I said I wasn’t taking Latin the next year. And when he asked Jonathan Goldberg (I

think) how much of Jane Fonda’s boobs he could see in Barbarella after an illicit trip to NYC.

From Kevin Glover: I have really enjoyed the discourse and hearing from so many names from the distant past! Lots of food for reflection and thought. For my part, after a 25-year corporate career developing and designing communities for older adults (“You think we’re talking about someone else” - Frank Zappa), I started a development services/architecture firm, nine years and counting, to continue my passion for creating environments that embrace wellness, social interaction, caregiving, and beauty. Pretty mainstream but very satisfying. I look forward to seeing you guys at whatever our reunion turns out to be!

From Boo Smith: Update by numbers; I never did anything for a short time:

5 years: UVA undergraduate degree major art history, minor history, and a Master’s in education.

46 years: married high school sweetheart (Susan Senft) – two daughters (38 and 35) – two granddaughters (4.5 and 11 months) and another granddaughter coming in October.

22 years: taught history, art history and was dean of students at John Carroll School.

19 years: head lacrosse coach at JCS – won 10 MSA/MIAA “B” conference championships.

23 years: art history teacher at Gilman School.

16 years: dean of students at Gilman School.

18 years: varsity squash coach at Gilman – won 10 consecutive Championships with a 130-0 league record.

Two interesting notes: When we moved closer to Gilman in 2003 (I was living in Bel Air), I was able to purchase the property that ran along the southern border of the house I grew up in. Mom and my sister were living in the main house – I was cheap labor. So I am now sandwiched between the farm and Jimmy O’Donnell’s old house. Mr. O’Donnell might have been a great car salesman, but he could not find his golf balls. And 16 years later, I am still surfacing strays.

When I returned to Gilman, the headmaster (Arch Montgomery), put me in charge of 4th Form Study Hall. I had come full circle and was doing exactly what I was doing 37 years before – there is progress for you.

From Jeff Putterman: Gents, after hearing from so many of you I feel inspired to join in the “50 year after” conversation. First, it

is a blessing that most of us have made it this far. Well done! As a lifelong music educator I have regularly witnessed young people (like their adult role models) play out all the best and worst of our human nature... including bullying, racism, social exclusion, hate and violence. Many have to medicate themselves to get through, and a few have taken their own lives at a painfully early age. That said, it is a great opportunity to bring children into the world ... to encourage them to love and to learn, and to explore their talents and their genius. We all graduated together and then became the stewards to help guide the next generation along the way to adulthood, and I wouldn’t trade that experience with my students, my own children and now grandchildren. Gilman was a real challenge for me ... academically, socially, and psychologically. But I feel sure that it was easier than my immigrant grandfather had it as a teenage orphan in a strange country with no home, family, money, or command of the language. Like him, I learned to be stoic and carry on and find some daylight. So I have some fond memories of the Gilman years and of you my classmates, despite all the unpleasantries (in no particular order): carpooling with Chad and Randy Brown and Frank Davis; my wrestling teammates and coaches; being welcome in so many of your homes (Skip Case, Bob Tickner, Bob Siems, Jimmy Hecht, George Baetjer...to name only a few); road trips to the Cape with Mike Farber; our post-graduation Ocean City beach retreat; playing music in Father Larry’s ordination into the priesthood; travelling the U.S. with G.E ; living in a commune with Pete Whedbee only a few miles from where I later settled and raised my family here in Oregon. I still visualize many of you, whom I have not seen since 1970, and you are still 18 years old. I hope that you have nurtured the child in the man and will continue to do so as I have, for years to come. All the best, Jeff

From Bill Mueller: I am living in Watertown, MA and still practicing acupuncture in Cambridge. This is my 40th year of practice. I am co-director of Cambridge Health Associates, a complementary health center we started in 1984. I still love my work although I am happy to work a little less than I used to. I am very close to my son Matthew, who graduated from the acting program at Syracuse a year ago. He is living and working in NYC and deepening his skills. I have in the last ten years become much more active and physically fit, shaking off some of the punishing vibe of athletics as I knew it back in the day. I have also developed a special knowledge and appreciation for wine, especially French wine. This all started at the Cross Keys Inn when I got trained as a waiter and bartender in 1974. I am very much looking forward to our Fiftieth Reunion, and I hope many of us will attend.

From Thayer Simmons: After Gilman, I was fortunate to be accepted at Harvard (peabrain goes to Harvard) and shared four years with Bill Johnson, Allen Moore, and Bob Cole. Following that, I worked for two years in a lab in Boston, taking night

courses and reapplying to med school after failing to be accepted my senior year. Those were a good two years where I met my wife Barbara. Four years at University of Cincinnati (a year behind John Eppler) and three years at Hopkins delivered me as a radiologist. I worked for two years at NIH before taking a position at St. Joseph Hospital in Towson. Our small group merged with others to be the goliath Advanced Radiology which is now almost 100 radiologists over the Baltimore/Annapolis area. I interpret CT, MRI, and ultrasound studies, and perform a few minor procedures. I still enjoy the work and hope to continue full time until at least 70, then throttle back for a few years, assuming good health and brain function. Barbara and I have four children, two daughters and two sons. They have been slow to marry, and they are in their mid to late thirties, so whether we will have grandchildren is not clear. I can understand not wanting to bring in a new generation with the potentially gloomy future of overpopulation and global warming, as well as increasing automation of jobs and artificial intelligence. Our class was fortunate to be baby boomers, where there were no world wars or great depression, no plagues or conflagration. Most (all?) of us were not sent to Vietnam. We have lived through dramatic social upheavals and racial tensions. We have been the bridge between our parents’ prejudices and our children’s greater openness and acceptance. I look forward to our reunion and have been impressed with the openness and reflections that have been posted so far. We have come a long way.

From Gene Childs: Thanks to Bob Cole for locating me recently. We had a great conversation yesterday and he brought me upto-date on the emails. Reading the notes brought back a flood of memories and wrenching gut reactions. As a boarder — along with G.E , Michael Bowe, Andy Mulitz, Tim Zouck (and briefly Ken Seal, Pete Whedbee — and maybe Skip Case?) I felt relatively invisible. And as the smallest member of the class (did I really fit into one of the small lockers and wrestle Duane on stage in the Revue?) I managed to keep a literal low profile. Boarders were an odd lot — we were not there on weekends to be included in anything and during the week our movement was relatively restricted, at least until Atterbury got his GTO. So, somewhat invisible…at least I was.

My first three years as a boarder were horrible. The older boys were often cruel (e.g. Ken Seal as the recipient of occasional swirlies) with comments, distain and actual physical abuse of the younger boys. The last three years as a boarder were perhaps tolerable, but by then most of us had cars and had learned how to keep that low profile.

And we were cruel as well. Remember Mr. Strawhorn? I may not have been overt in his torture, but I was certainly complicit.

My earliest recollection: the Saturday morning entrance exam conducted in A Study Hall — that would have been in sixth grade — I was looking around me at all the other boys trying for admission and I was blinded by that huge grin on the face of Jeff Putterman. Talk about insulated privilege: a moment frozen in time for me is during the 1968 race riots in Baltimore. I think the school closed for a time, but the boarders remained. On one of those warm April afternoons several of us climbed out on the roof of the main building over A Study Hall and lay in the sun while we watched the smoke rising from the fires downtown. Totally removed. Oblivious.

A brief recap: I did undergrad at UVA with a degree in studio art (painting - thanks, Mr. Riley) — saw Eppler on the grounds occasionally, and avoided the above referenced upperclassmen from Gilman as much as I could. Learned a trade at Maryland National Bank downtown for four years before returning to C’ville for B-school where Ken Seal, as a study group teammate, helped get me through accounting. After Darden, more banking in North Carolina then Virginia. There was a seven-year stint at Oracle as a nontechnical project manager, then back to banking until retirement last summer. My days now are spent creating oil paintings (landscapes, mainly) and helping out with two grandchildren. Not sure I will be able to overcome the force field / gut feelings to return to Roland Avenue. My wife of 40 years will likely insist. I stopped by the school several years ago and the grounds remain spectacular, but the ghosts also remain.

From Bob Tickner: I am now semi-retired. I worked for the Baltimore City Jail for many years as the Director of Work Release. I still do consultant work in criminal justice. For several years I was the primary caregiver for my mother, Eleanor. She lived at my home until she passed away in July 2015. I live in the same house that I bought in January, 1981 on Gittings Avenue in Baltimore. I was glad to assist Howdie Baetjer with these Class Notes.

From Howdie Baetjer: I’m still teaching economics at Towson University. I’m lucky still to enjoy it greatly. I like the interaction with the students, and the ideas I help them learn about are important. I’m proud of having written three books over my career; made a bunch of instructional videos, including a whole little course at libertarianism.org; and written some articles and blog posts that I think are useful. My main regret in life is not having any kids – Susan and I got started too late. I’m grateful to all of you who have poured so much good stuff into these notes. Thanks! I look forward to seeing many of us at the reunion.

From Page West: Unfortunately, during our 50th reunion I will be teaching abroad for Wake Forest. I’m taking 20 juniors to Venice to live there for 4+ months and teaching them global trade and corporate strategy. So, unfortunate for me that I won’t be able to attend (really sorry about that), but fortunate because of the

awesome experience this will be. I am about to enter my final year at Wake Forest, and when I gracefully exit a year from May, it will have been 25 years. Looking forward to morning coffee with Linda, more travel, doing more family genealogy research and finishing off a couple of academic papers.

Here’s a story our class will appreciate — maybe especially Bucky Rulon-Miller. Remember the Frank Robinson home run in ‘66 and the “HERE” flag placed at that spot in Memorial Stadium? I read a story in the Sun which mentioned that the “HERE” flag was given away to a fan who now lives in Fort Worth when the stadium was torn down in the early 90s. I contacted him and he agreed to let me come to his house to see the flag. So in April 2019 Linda and I flew into Kansas City, picked up a friend of ours who is an intense Orioles fan (unfortunately he’s a McDonogh grad), and then drove to Texas (photo above). Stellar experience!

Steve Peck writes that he is “definitely planning on being at the 50th,” and I saw Carl Sexton while walking on Roland Avenue. Carlton left Gilman to go to Taft, as some recall; he is well and plans to come to the reunion, also.

Speaking of our 50th Reunion, which we believe is scheduled for April 25, 2020, if all goes well, Bill Mueller, John Gilpin, Harry Shaw, Bob Tickner, John (Skip) Hebb, Julien Hecht, Chad Pistell, Bob Seims, Bob Cole, and Howdie Baetjer will have had a June planning meeting over dinner by the time these notes appear.

Let’s finish with a couple of excerpts from emails going around to set up that meeting. They catch one of the various flavors of our class:

From Harry Shaw: “Gilman might want events on campus, but that doesn’t prevent us from doing something else, as well. We might need to canvas the class. I can put together a survey, but we better find out “the rules” from Gilman first. Only then will we know which ones to break.”

From John Gilpin: “Does anyone want to take the lead to see what Gilman has in mind for us? Then we can dissuade them of its plan and insert our own.”

sustainable organization to preserve this historic property and its surrounds. We currently offer Whitehall for interested historic and architectural group tours, as a wedding venue and for horse boarding. Lori and I are healthy (if not wealthy or wise) and we continue to love hiking, biking, gardening and adventure travel, and (when Pete W. comes to town) the occasional rock concert. Cheers to you all!

Tom Lynn tklynn610@gmail.com

Since I have been MIA for the last Bulletin or two, I’m hoping to have made the deadline for this one. I will still be lazy though and, where I can, just take the exact message from each contributor and slap some quotes around it. Heck, I’ve just realized I’m not even going to alphabetize the names! But remember, by the time you read this, it will likely be either old news or older news. Additionally, due to the time frame of messaging, composing, and publishing, the verb tenses might — in a somewhat Vonnegutesque manner — either bounce around or be incorrect — or both. Those caveats in order, let’s commence.

Charlie Scarlett: Lori and I are about to have our fifth grandchild – a girl! We will have three girls and two boys from three of Lori’s kids. Fortunately, they all live in St Louis! They were all at our home on the beautiful Easter day for brunch, an egg hunt in the back yard and threatened ‘loop de loops’ in the hammock. We had a blast and grandpa was loving it! Business is good. Lori and I run a private duty home care company taking care of about a hundred clients (kids to seniors) in their homes and/or facilities. We have nurses and caregivers and offer independence and dignity for all levels of complexity. It’s a very satisfying if challenging business and it’s a far cry from my shipping, helicopter and cruising days past. I miss the travel, but life is still very good. We are in the process of downsizing and have our home on the market. It is too big for just the two of us and I would love to live on a lake where I can skull again in the mornings. We still want to stay close to St Louis for work and family. My two sons, Will and Jes, live in New York City. Will’s finishing his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the New School, and Jes, having graduated from UC Boulder two years ago with art history and studio art degrees, is learning to be a starving artist. I wish I saw them more, but they seem to be happy. We (extended family) are managing our family foundation, which includes Whitehall in Annapolis. We are trying to build a

Bruce Abel: Well, I am not sure I have ever written in before [You actually have, Bruce!], perhaps a reflection of my aging brain. I am very happily retired and still living in Eugene, Oregon. Spring has finally arrived and I am putting in a large garden and tending to my bees, hoping to catch a couple of swarms. I am extremely content with life, am grateful for family and friends, and I am still very happily married to Gail. I have many interests: gourmet cooking, bread making, ukulele playing, bee keeping, ham radio, meditation. Oregon is a beautiful state with access to ocean, mountains, desert, rivers, and wilderness and we like to get out as much as we can. I am involved in a group helping Eugene become a “City of Kindness” and have organized a gathering of six conservatives and six liberals to have a “bridging the gap” discussion.

Buck Baker: Tom, thanks for your note (and for all the work you’re doing to help us still feel connected.) My notes are that in December I retired from Yazaki. Retirement so far is pretty great. Christie and I took a long-deferred trip to Vietnam and Cambodia that was a highlight for both of us. My other highlight was coming to Baltimore for the screening of the Reddy Finney movie [gilman.edu/FinneyStory], and catching up with you, Bill, Charlie Duff, Michael Blum, Frank Fiske, Charlie Piven, Bill McLean and others for the first time in a long time. And, frankly, even when I’m not travelling and not much is happening, I love the free time.

Mid Walsh: Wow, thanks for persisting! I guess I have racked up a slew of email addresses over the years. All of which are now defunct, except for this one: mmidwalsh@gmail.com. Did you say two years till our 50th? Impossible. But I’ll be there anyway, for sure. I watched the Reddy Finney documentary last week. It made me realize the extent to which we were surrounded by giants in that place. Gilman had a durable and invaluable imprint on me, and Reddy and his crew were a huge part of that. They live on in each of us... Take care, and keep those missives coming.

Steve Young: Just when I thought I was out you pull me back in! Little to report. Since Nancy’s stroke in January 2018, our lives consist of medical appointments, therapy sessions and programs at places like Loyola and Towson universities. We are both perforce retired — Nancy as an assistant attorney general for Md., me as politics editor at The Baltimore Sun. Not the way we expected to bow out of the workforce. She misses her job more

than I miss mine. We work a lot at home — Nancy, who was the best writer at her office, has had to relearn the alphabet. She has made extraordinary progress, physically and mentally. But we have a way to go. Had lunch with Middy Walsh in mid-April and got caught up. (He now is also retired.) Unfortunately, he clued us into the diet he’s on (must work, because he looks the same as he did in 1971), my wife was intrigued, and between his goddamn regimen and those of our daughters, it looks like we’ll be consigned to eating cardboard for the rest of our lives.

Marvin Miller: Good to hear from you. Nothing to report really. Still living and breathing in Chicagoland and working for Ball Horticultural Company.

Michael Blum: Michael and Annette (St. Tim’s 1971) are hard at work redoing “Joshua’s Meadows” (JM) into which they finally moved in December 2018, just in time for their 41st wedding anniversary. Built originally c. 1750 or so, JM last saw a major renovation in the 1930s, by Annette’s grandparents. Not a straight line or secure window or door in the place; in strong winds, the whole place rattles and clatters and you could sail a ship down the hallway. We’re trying not to disturb Esteban and Doreen, a pair of nesting vultures who have seniority (and 5-foot wingspans). The radiators don’t work, except when they do, and groundhogs have thoroughly destroyed the foundation. Who said being senior citizens meant kicking back and relaxing??? Meanwhile, Michael directed Lysistrata at Baltimore’s Spotlighters Theatre in September and will be directing Elton John & Tim Rice’s Aida in the same theatre in March 2020. He’s got a thing for ancient drama, perhaps.

Frank Davis: Hi Tom, you found me :) Thanks for your persistence. Hope all is well with you and yours. [Frank Davis brings conservation science and geographical analysis to bear in land use planning and the conservation of wild species. Davis heads the Biogeography Lab at the Bren School, and his research focuses on the landscape ecology of California plant communities, the design of protected-area network, rangeland and farmland conservation, and the biological implications of regional climate change. – From UCSB website, located by M. Blum.]

I saw a good number of classmates at the Senator Theatre for the premier of the Reddy Finney documentary. Afterwards most of us convened at Zen West for further conviviality. In the mix were Mike Blum, Frank Fiske, Charlie Duff, Bill Gamper, Bill McLean, Charlie and Kathy Piven, and even Edwin Merryman! But the true guest of honor was Buck Baker who, I heard, had traveled from the Detroit area for the occasion! Dick Councill attended the movie but couldn’t join us later. At the gathering John Scherlis stood in for brother Bill. A good time was had by all.

Through social media I saw that John Danzer, founder of Munder-Skiles Garden Furniture, was a featured speaker for the Garden Conservancy in New York in May 2019. His talk was “Take a Seat in the World of Garden Exteriors.”

Similarly, word came from Mike Hilliard on Facebook that “Randy Beehler has been confirmed as the assistant secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment.” Congrats, Randy!

Your secretary continues to keep a hand in teaching and, as of this writing, is teaching middle school math at a small Catholic school in Hydes, Md. I hope to keep teaching, at least part-time, in almost any school that will have me! It’s too enjoyable to give up completely. I am still managing to get up to my beloved lake Otsego and Cooperstown every summer – where I occasionally meet up with other former Hyde Bay Camp alums. Stuff I think I know, might know, or tried to imagine... Let me know if I’m wrong or if you have anything to add:

Peter Andrews is retired and enjoying life in Mauritius.

Bert Berney is still doctoring in Portland on the left side.

Tyler Campbell still resides in land of Pleasant Living (Eastern Shore).

Dwight (Tad) Douglass has made a very good recovery from a winter car accident. Glad to hear it!

Bill Floweree appears to be enjoying the musician’s life in Nashville.

George Gephart is mostly relocated from the Philly area to the historical house he and Pooh have revitalized in Charleston, SC. George hosted a nice dinner early in 2019 at the Maryland Club where he was joined by Bill Gamper, Steve Young, and your secretary.

Ned Grassi continues to reside part of the year in the lowlands of SC. Taylor McLean has been absolutely promised as a ‘get’ by his cousin Bill for the 50th. Fred Nelson enjoys retirement in SC.

Nigel Ogilvie continues to work with the Fed in D.C.

Mark Wilson continues to reside in the Rockville area, I believe.

Pete Stamas continues to try to host weekly poker games. Contact him to reserve a seat.

Pete Waxter continues to travel far and wide for concerts –and he now seems to have found a full time roady to make the travelling a lot more enjoyable.

Larry Wharton continues to teach in Northern Virginia and be successful with a flourishing photography business on the side.

Mark Whittlesey has a brother, Jock, whom I saw at his 40th reunion.

Classmates whose whereabouts are likely known, but haven’t been in touch lately include Ray Bank, Mark Bond, Bill Brusilow, Tom Casey, John Deford, Karl Doerre, Ben DuBois, Aubrey Jarrett, Harold Jones, John Kopper, David Morgan (formerly Lehenky), Kirk Levedahl , Chip Manekin, Hugh McCormick, Pete Menzies, Bob Pinkard, Bill Rich, Joe Sandler, Bill Scherlis, and Alvin Thompson.

Classmates whose whereabouts are likely known, but haven’t been in touch for a long, long time include Dan Finney, Geordie French, Steve Haley, Scott Howe, Bob Isaacs, Chris Minkowski, Pete Stamas, and Pete Spragins.

Classmates whose whereabouts are largely unknown and, obviously, have not been in touch for many years include Ed Bell, Jon Ehrlich, Lloyd Felton, Alex Gardiner, Chris Green, Bill Hoatson, Taylor McLean, Chris Miller, Rick Munford, Will Ruff, Mark Wallace, Mark Whittlesey, and Phil Wiswell. If you have contact with any of them, please try to encourage them to join up with us once again.

That’s about it for now (May 2019). I sincerely hope that we will be seeing nearly all of the Class of 1971 back for our 50th Reunion during the last week in April 2021. Who knows what the future holds. So let’s try to do everything we can do to stay in touch and stay close. We’re a good group. (Don’t forget to visit our Gilman School Class of 1971 Facebook page – or join if you’re not already in it!)

I am opening a new practice of hand and orthopedic surgery in Middleburg, VA. I will be in Baltimore visiting family and my grandson and my daughter Emilie and her husband Ted Carter in Northern Baltimore County. We have a son Charlie and his wife Maggie in Washington as well. We will travel to Nashville frequently to see our two granddaughters and my daughter Brooke and her husband Ben. Bean and I hit 39 years of marriage in June. It seems like just yesterday that we were married. She remains busy managing the family office and her work in conservation. We will be attending Orioles games again as I have the same tickets in Camden as we have had at Wrigley under cover on the third base line. We send our best to all and look forward to reconnecting. We have had a good ride and look forward to our next phase in Virginia. Our best to all.

David Cross: I just returned from a trip to Yosemite National Park to celebrate my 35th wedding anniversary and 65th birthday. I have never seen the waterfalls so full! I just wrapped up playing the sugar daddy Abner Dillon in the musical 42nd Street, which was a lot of fun. I was so inspired I took a tap dancing class. My work as an attorney for the California Labor Commissioner continues to be rewarding. My family is doing well and life is good.

Mark Fetting: All is well with the Fetting-Smith clan...Georgie and I split time between Baltimore and Squam Lake, NH. Conor & Kevin in LA, Carey & Steve and Margaret, Francie, and #3 girl (due 4/21) in Balt., Noel & Julie soon to be in London for twoyear assignment. I am in the midst of my first year as President of Gilman’s BOT and very much enjoying this “calling.” Highlights have included the 50th Anniversary of African American graduates and A Path to Follow, a film on Reddy Finney which premiered at The Senator with over 700 people attending [gilman.edu/FinneyStory]. Alan Kaufmann organizes lunch at The Dizz with Cary Woodward and many classmates. The service for John Merrill was exceptional and 1972 was one of top classes represented. Encourage all to visit!!

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Charlie Carroll: I (we) am (are) moving back the Mid-Atlantic States in May 2019 after 32 years in Chicago and one year in Indianapolis doing my hand surgery fellowship. Bean and I have a home in Delaplane, Va. we moved out of our home in Winnetka in 2017 and I have been in an apartment in Evanston since then and Bean led the charge to Virginia. I am finishing a long standing practice in orthopedics and hand surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Northwestern University. I have had a great career and am moving to the next phase. Rather than retire,

Jonathan Hyde: Just returned from a four-month sail in the Eastern Caribbean and Bahamas. Celebrated our third anniversary with Lauren last month. Moving my knifemaker son, Henry, into a Station North studio later this month. Looking forward to whatever turns in the road beckon. Wouldn’t mind if an old classmate walks with me or I with them for a bit of it.

Bruce Rosenberg: Each fall, I volunteer as an English conversation aide for middle and high schoolers in Gyergyoszentmiklos (Transylvania), Romania. Tom Carr started me on this enjoyable path in 1989 by introducing me to a Hungarian high school teacher at Gilman for a year. It was

fascinating to teach at a Hungarian high school as communism ebbed. Some students coped with or liked my spontaneous “lessons,” so durable friendships started. I am pleased to fund scholarships at several Baltimore schools. Local, national, and international politics are a source of dismay. Yet some students I work with inspire hope for the future. My challenge is to motivate them to show an interest in recent history.

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The tradition of our annual December Holiday Luncheon continued this year with Peter Bowe hosting our group at the Center for Urban Families in West Baltimore. Having lunch and listening to the founder and CEO Joseph Jones present the history and current activities of CFUF were Clinton Daly, Peter Bowe, Andy Brooks, Bill Fritz, Steve Dembo, Andy Murray, Tom Gamper, Bennett Sweren, John Rice, David Seiler, Doug Nelson, AC George, and Courtenay Jenkins. Celebrating twenty years of service, the core mission of CFUF is to strengthen challenged communities by helping fathers and families achieve stability and economic success. Having grown to be a 40-person multi-service organization, they had 365 graduates of their programs last year, promoting responsible fatherhood, job readiness training, and helping returning citizens reintegrate into their communities. Board Chair Henry Kahn ’73 also attended, and we collectively made a nice contribution to the CFUF.

I recommend Christopher White’s The Last Lobster as he follows three lobster captains—Frank, Jason, and Julie (one the few female skippers in Maine)—as they haul and set thousands of traps. Chris explores various theories for the lobster harvest glut. The Maine lobstering towns are among the first American communities to confront global warming, and the survival of the Maine Coast depends upon their efforts.

Ross Pearce continues as state steward for the Maryland Racing Commission, senior steward for the National Steeplechase Association, and contributes effort for the April steeplechase

races, including co-chair of the My Lady’s Manor Race. His son Parker just completed his senior year at Gilman. Parker was inducted into the Cum Laude Society, is skillful on golf and polo teams, and has exhibited his artwork. Ross is very proud to be a grandfather — his daughter Elizabeth recently gave birth to daughter Dabney.

George Murnaghan reports life is good in Lexington, MA. His daughter, Grace, is a junior at Bates College, competing for the rowing team as it pursues a third consecutive NCAA title in D3. His sons, Luke and Jamie, are finishing fifth grade and busy with their sports (hockey, baseball, and lacrosse). The nonprofit he helped found, lexeattogether.org, which provides a free nutritious meal and companionship to those in need celebrated its 10,000th meal served in February 2019.

Dave Liu continues teaching as Professor of Sociology at the Harrisburg Area Community College system, and chairs the Honors Program there. He enjoys agility training with his border collie, and has taken up riding on his wife’s horse.

Rick Curtis is celebrating the 45th year of the Outdoor Action Program at Princeton University, which he has been running for almost as long. It’s a very popular activity for 630 incoming students and 180 leaders to form bonds with each other in the great outdoors. Rick led an alumni trip to hike the Mont Blanc Circuit trail in the Alps last summer- 107 miles through alpine meadows with 2,000 ascents and descents each day.

Andy Felser joined the law firm Glade Voogt Lord & Smith as Special Counsel, and remains in Denver.

We had an enjoyable gathering of 24 classmates for our 45th Reunion at Gilman. Many thanks to Tom Gamper and Jim Lynn, who co-chaired the reunion committee, and to committee members Andy Brooks, AC George, Court Jenkins, Peter Bowe, Andy Murray, and Mac Finney. Our dinner was held in the Carey main building library, formerly the dining hall back in our day. I’m happy to note no pats of butter fell from the ceiling, and no bowls of soup were spilled on any teachers, especially Mr. Cary Woodward, who joined us for dinner. He remembers us well, and shared a few stories from the early 70s.

Classmates present were Bear Thompson, Andy Brooks, Dave Albright, Jock Whittlesey, AC George, John Rice, Julian Chisolm, Mike Fischer, Doug Antaya, Doug Nelson, Kim Byron, Jamie Murray, Dave Emala, Bill Nesbitt, Dave Rich, Skip Porter, Jack Gray, Marty Himeles, Mac Finney, Tom Gamper, Jim Lynn, Peter Bowe, David Seiler, and Greg Pinkard.

Bear Thompson and Julian Chilsolm were presented Gilman

ties for traveling the farthest to attend the event. Bear has retired from veterinarian medicine, continues long distance bicycling, and has a new interest in wood working. Skip Porter offered to give long distance guidance with that, as Skip has had a well-equipped workshop for many years and has the furniture he built as a legacy. Julian continues his nursing career, and made the wise decision to end his medivac role and remain on the ground.

Tom Gamper is in his 17th year at SM+P Architects, and keeping active in Trout Unlimited’s Trout in the Classroom Program as the Baltimore area liaison. They have 15 schools in the local program with over 100 participating schools statewide. One event is the annual Huck Finn Day at Stony Run in Roland Park, as children are shown how to fly fish and bond with trout fingerlings that are released that day.

Jim Lynn took an early retirement package from McCormick after a 27-year career in corporate communications, and did contract work for McCormick and GM. He recently joined Baltimorebased engineering firm RK&K as its first communications head in the nearly 100-year history of the firm. His wife Deb and three daughters are doing very well, with oldest daughter Kate due to deliver their first grandchild in November 2019. He was happy to have both Bear and Julian fly such great distances to be with us for the reunion.

Bill Baker missed the reunion because of an unfortunate traffic accident when someone hit his car on his way to Gilman. Thankfully, no serious damage to Bill or Mariss but his favorite car is likely totaled. Bill’s son Chase ’19 was the only Gilman student to have a painting put in the annual Walters Art gallery student show, and was also on the cover of the Sotheby’s booklet. Chase is headed to William & Mary for college, and second son Ian, a rising senior at Gilman, is an amazing artist also.

Peter Bowe retired as CEO of Ellicott Dredges, and is now publisher of DredgeWire, a news source for the maritime and dredging industries. He is also a founder of the Bowe Stewart foundation, which has the goal of helping individuals improve their lives and communities, and as noted above, is on the board of CFUF.

David Rich is working as Senior Recruiter for the executive search firm Korn Ferry.

David Albright sold his law practice in December, 2017, and since then has been writing a book (with a few Gilman anecdotes). He continues to operate a new solo law practice, and runs a title company.

AC George remains active serving on two boards, and continues as a head varsity lacrosse coach in the Baltimore City Public

School league. He played a significant behind the scenes role and thoroughly enjoyed his involvement in the recent documentary about Mr. Finney. AC and his wife Kathryn travel frequently to Chicago, Charlotte, and D.C. to visit their sons Taz ’07, Pell ’05, and daughter Ellett and their families, and spend time in low country South Carolina and high-country U.S. National Parks.

For a 50th time, Kim Byron ran the JFK 50 Mile Ultramarathon last November, and this time with his son Philip. Kim is one of only two people who have finished the event in all six decades it’s been run. Kim continues to pilot Airbus A320 planes for American Airlines, and recently crewed an American Airlines Honor Flight for war veterans.

Marty Himeles continues his legal career as managing partner at Zuckerman Spaeder in Baltimore, and is co-chair of the Health Care Fraud Substantive Committee of the American Bar Association, among his many volunteer activities.

Doug Antaya works for Blackberry, which transitioned from being a manufacturer of mobile devices to being an enterprise software company. Doug is involved with the sales strategy and planning activities.

Jack Gray remains in New York City, and is happy that both his son and daughter have graduated from college and are working in New York.

Mike Fischer plans to ease into full retirement this summer after selling his business. He and his wife, Honey, recently returned from a Panama Canal cruise and look forward to spending more time traveling and time with their grandchildren in Delaware and Kenya.

Mac Finney enjoys his role for WBAL TV as an on-the-scene cameraman, and, thankfully, no longer hangs out the open door of the helicopter filming action below.

Bill Nesbitt continues as a project manager at the Applied Physics Laboratory of JHU. He recently traveled to the Azores for a yoga retreat, and sings in choirs and concerts.

Jamie Murray continues managing the family farm in Butler, Md., and beagling around Greenspring Valley. He remains involved with the SS John W. Brown Liberty ship (one of only two still operational), and heli-ski adventures in the winter.

Andy Brooks officially retired from T. Rowe Price after an impressive 35-year career there, is active on boards in the Baltimore area, and active in volunteer roles. He also has more time to spend with his teenage sons.

David Seiler is the senior consultant for a specialty manufacturing company in Baltimore, continues managing rental property, and is playing more tennis doubles.

And where in the world is Jock Whittlesey? The expat is now a pat! Jock retired from the State Department in September 2018, and is enjoying retired life in Falls Church, Va. He’s given a few talks to students (Hopkins, Penn State, National War College) on international environmental issues and China, and remains active in other events related to those topics. He and his wife, Monique, travel a fair amount, including a cruise from Seattle to Sydney via Hawaii, and to the South Pacific. His son, Philip, is in his junior year at the Coast Guard Academy, and will be splitting his time between a Coast Guard air station and a Coast Guard cutter based in Charleston this summer.

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About six decades into life, more or less, our classmates continue to adjust to and welcome the inevitable changes that come at home, work and play. Retirement can mean just switching from full time at one job to part time at another, as Jim Bergunder wrote from Rheinfelden, Switzerland, “We are doing well in our now 23rd year living in Switzerland, and this has now become our likely endpoint. This is for me an inconceivable destiny when we were all together at Gilman over 40 years ago. After being pushed/enticed into an early retirement from Novartis at the end of 2016, I have been working about 20% [of the time] on a project sponsored by the CFA Institute. I will omit the details, but my biased ‘net’ is that Europe is focused on emulating the U.S.’s advantages of centralized government and centralized financial regulation, and my project is a little tiny step pushing Europe in this direction… The other 80% is in, not in order, 1) spousal support of my wife’s role as the global

lead of Banking and Securities for Deloitte, 2) der Hausmann, the male version of a housewife, and as 3) a touchpoint for our three sons, who I consider to be constructively struggling with finding their place in the world. Early retirement is OK for me.” As to his children’s progress in that struggle, Jim noted that “one will begin at Insead Business School in August, another continues working for an HR IT firm in Basel, and the youngest is continuing toward his major in computational mathematics at UCLA.” Jim also extended a “welcome [to] any visitors who might find that they may be in my neighborhood.”

Garrett Waters wrote from Sunnyvale, California, at his seminary dormitory at America Chinese Evangelical Seminary, that he has “been working on a Master of Biblical Studies for a long time, but, recently, I have not taken courses. However, I have come to realize that being a faithful believer is not so much about head knowledge but about faithfully following the Lord on a daily basis. I am an evangelist and have preached in transit stations, shopping malls, schools, churches, homes, and other places. I have led fellowship groups, participated in shortterm missions, and many years ago taught ESL at a technical institute in the People’s Republic of China. I have also done odd jobs such as being an after-school teacher; church ESL teacher; painter; custodial work; temporary church evangelistic outreach; gardening; homeless shelter Bible study leader, preacher, and volunteer, etc.” Last summer, Garrett “worked full-time with a Hispanic construction crew on a townhome construction site in Milpitas, California. This was one of the most exciting jobs I have had. At least two of my co-workers confessed faith in Christ for the first time. I learned some Spanish, and I am able to witness for Christ in Spanish at present. This is beneficial, as much of San Francisco is Spanish-speaking. San Francisco is one of my primary witnessing areas. Recently, I have evangelized some Hispanics in Sunnyvale in connection with a Korean Assemblies of God church. One of the Hispanic guys has been ‘born again’ and intends, with the help of the church, to return to his wife in Guatemala after a fifteen-year hiatus. He may have already returned. When I saw him again after his stay in El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, I did not recognize him. He was happy; his face was beaming; and he had a suit on. God is still alive! My main focus in ministry has been the Chinese people, and I have served Chinese churches as a kind of paid volunteer, not as a regular employee. In serving other people, one finds out a lot about oneself and how one must change to be a better Christian. I have had to correct a lot of my own faults; yet this cannot be done without God’s help.”

Bobby Thomas wrote that it’s still “status quo for me from Boston. I’m still saying ‘yes’ to too many things and not quite managing to retire from my law practice, despite some serious

interest in doing so, or at least going to a reduced schedule. David Heubeck’s recent retirement is an inspiration for me! Perhaps this time next year I will have some news and/or progress on that front. All that other stuff I say ‘yes’ to is part of the reason that I need to make some adjustments: I’m on the ACLU Board of Massachusetts at a rather amazing time to be involved with that organization, given the state of the world, and I now teach two courses at BU Law School, one on Health Care Fraud and Abuse, going on ten years, and soon another one on Whistleblower Law and Practice. I find teaching these highly motivated people in their twenties to be a source of real joy and inspiration. I also teach a mini course on Financial Literacy at Beacon Academy, a school that raises up promising ninth graders from the city’s public schools. My tennis passion continues to grab a lot of my time and mental energy; I may add a little coaching to the mix in my next chapter, as I’ve discovered that I enjoy teaching the sport almost as much as playing it… One of our two daughters will soon be moving to Baltimore, so I may have more opportunity to see any of you still living in or near Charm City, which would be delightful. Polly and I had a great time visiting Ann and Frank Rosenberg at their vacation spot in Anguilla in February, along with Dave and Debbie Campbell and Dixon and Janet Harvey. Definitely a high spot in the year so far.”

Still working but securing a warmer habitat for the future, Tom Doyle wrote that it’s “much the same for me here in Baltimore. The Marble shop, HILGARTNER, is still plugging along, and each year we get to work on more-and-more interesting projects. This past year, I had the opportunity to climb around the dinosaurs as we refurbished the Smithsonian’s Natural History display, as well as participate in the state’s statue merry-go-round as monuments were constantly in relocation mode.” The Doyles “did make the big plunge in preparation for the next life phase, selling our waterfront home on Rock Creek in Pasadena, and investing in a ‘palace’ down in the warmer climes of Florida. I can’t get over the difference in pricing, and I certainly hope that health holds out to allow me to actually live there! My son continues to develop as a top drawer Marble Mason, but has not developed the desire for a family of his own – so I read these annual updates becoming ever so envious as I hear about those of you enjoying the grandchildren. They sound like much more fun, and far fewer headaches than their parents.”

Also not far from Baltimore, Randy Kiefer wrote, “Lynn and I continue to live out in Reisterstown, and I work from home for the American Institute of Physics covering Asia Pacific. Lynn spends time with our granddaughter, Taryn, three to four days a week. Taryn will start kindergarten in the fall, so there will be more free time – maybe. Our daughter, Bethany, continues working at the Owings Mills branch of the Baltimore County Library, while her husband, Jason, works for SECU. Rob, our

youngest son, got engaged in Peru during the Christmas holiday, and he and Tessy plan to get married in August 2020. Rob works for a start-up, TimeScale, in NYC and Tessy works as a bilingual counselor at a school in the Bronx. Matt and his partner, James, live in Baltimore City. Matt is a librarian at the Cockeysville branch, and James works for a Sprint franchise. It is wonderful to watch the lives of our kids roll out in front of them. For us, we having been working in a few trips, between this old house and garden projects. Last year it was Australia. We just returned from a vacation to Rome, the Vatican, and Amsterdam. The tulip gardens at Keukenhof are amazing.” Acknowledging the uncertainty of life, Randy added, “This past week, a close friend died unexpectedly. It was a sober reminder of how precious our time with everyone is. We wish everyone the best for this year and years to come.”

From downsizing to curtains rising, John Purnell wrote that he and Claire “sold the Murray Hill house and live more modestly in a full service condo, which I refer to as the last step before assisted living – or maybe the first step of assisted living! No yard, no roof, and 24-hour front-desk service. Ahhh! Our oldest, Mary, married Paul Hearding last May at 9,000 feet in a horse pasture in Telluride, Colorado. The pot luck wedding was one of many firsts for the Purnells. They both teach at the Telluride Mountain School. Elizabeth graduates from Fordham University in four weeks. She is a business major with a minor in sustainability. Please send job offers. Claire continues her graphic design work for the 26th year specializing more and more in fine museum books. She is also busy with the Garden Club of Olde Annapolis Towne, which sponsors the May Day flower arrangement contest. I continue to run Inspired Data Solutions without the common sense to retire like so many of you are doing. My off-hours theater work has been quite busy. A New Brain opened at Colonial Players to excellent reviews of our lighting work. In the fall was The Babylon Line, which also did very well. I performed the role of Officer Welch in Neil Simon’s Rumors in September. Going forward I will be lighting Mamma Mia! for Annapolis Summer Garden Theater in August and have two shows at Colonial in the hopper for 2020.”

From Houston, Kirk Smith wrote, “I am still conducting. I’m scheduled for work in Prague this summer. I would enjoy more work in the U.S., but alas, no control over that. Some of you know that I am involved in the growing CBD industry. The funds from this are assisting with the distribution of my most recent CD which was recorded in Olomouc. My daughter is a professional violist in the Houston area. She was a Baltimore School of the Arts grad, with two music degrees from Rice University.” Kirk’s travels aboard included “a lovely time with Jim Burgunder near Zurich. He hasn’t aged a day!”

Working in the Southwest and vacationing in the Northeast, Frank Vecella wrote that he and Pam “married off both kids last year. Slowing down at work; haven’t figured out how to retire yet, but I can see it on the horizon. My wife Pam and I bought a lake house a few years ago on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, and we now spend our summer months there – a great way to avoid the oppressive heat here in Texas! Still enjoying golf, tennis and lots of travel. Life is good!”

Dixon Harvey and Janet now are grandparents, and he wrote that it “doesn’t get any better, as lots of you know. Our little buddy Dix, who was born March 1, and his folks live in Denver; so any opportunity, and we are there. Our daughter Annie and her husband James tied the knot in September and live in Brooklyn, New York. They came down for Easter, which was great. She is with Brookfield and travels a lot, as she is on their publicly traded securities side. James is in real estate development in NYC and is making a transition to work with David Robinson at Admiral Capital, which he is excited about. Janet is retired, taking care of her mom in Pittsburgh, so excited to be a grandma and looking forward to working together on something impactful, replicable, and, hopefully, scalable in Baltimore.” Dixon’s business, Black Oak, “is still a lot of fun for me, but takes maybe a third of my time as my younger, smarter, faster partner does all the heavy lifting, reducing my board load from 10 to 3 to focus on our city. In spite of continuing murder, public safety, political, and a host of other issues [I remain] hopeful, especially buoyed by some of the incredible work being done. We are drawn to Johnston Square and the multifaceted efforts there. Stay tuned.”

Steering clear of the ‘R’ word, Andy deMuth wrote, “As opposed to many of you, I am still hard at work at Morgan Stanley and enjoy it as much as I ever have. The market has been good which makes the work even better. I am not thinking of retiring anytime soon and there are no grandchildren in the foreseeable future.” On the sporting side, however, “I am on the DL now, as too many serves over four decades of trying to beat Ken Volk took a toll on my shoulder. I had surgery Labor Day weekend to repair my biceps – I know I don’t have any. I should be back on the court in June playing at a low ladies’ level. While I was in pre-op, Lynne broke her foot in the waiting room and was on crutches for 3 months. We could only laugh as I was taking care of her left handed. She would do almost anything to not take care of me, as I am a bad patient. We tried to sell the big house on Somerset, but the next generation just does not want what we have. Big center hall colonials in the city are not in demand by millennials. I like living there, so not all bad, (but) we were trying to downsize before we end up at Blakehurst. As for the kids, Robbie is at Appian, a high tech firm in Reston, Virginia, and doing incredibly well, and Katie was just accepted to USC to get her master’s in occupational therapy. She

still has some hoops to jump through to finalize, but if all goes well, we plan on spending Thanksgiving in California.”

Still working while swapping out homes, Bill Matthai responded to Andy with “I guess the Philly suburbs are a better home market than Baltimore, because we are making the downsize step – the big, old house in Merion for a new construction townhome in Narberth, about a mile away. The new house won’t be ready for a few months, so we are cooling our heels in a 750 square-foot apartment. Quite the squeeze! I am not in the retirement chute yet, but I still love being an interventional cardiologist at Penn – love the medicine, hate the business of medicine. I have picked up a bit more time teaching in the medical school, which I enjoy. Alice, 26, will be heading to med school in the fall, school TBD right now. Charlotte, 23, is in the first of 3 ½ years at the MIT Masters of Architecture program. Jan has completely retired and is living the good life, constantly reminding me what I am missing.”

Traveling for work, family and fun, Frank Rosenberg wrote, “Like Andy, I am still hard at work at Rosemore, the family gig, and am also enjoying my work immensely. Just about two years ago, Rosemore merged the majority of its assets with a publicly-listed, ‘blank check’ cash-only company to create Rosehill Resources. This keeps me busy and headed to Houston a handful of times a year. Rosemore’s primary other asset is an endowment-style investment portfolio. Ann, my wife, quit work for good 33 years ago, soon after marriage, as our first child was on the way. Amanda, our second child, is on the UX team at Fitbit out in San Fran, paying a fortune for a one bed walkup in Noe Valley, a cool re-gentrified neighborhood nicknamed Stroller Town. However, Amanda has not ventured into wedlock nor stroller-ville, but has been with a very cool, likeable, thoughtful and considerate subcontinent Indian boyfriend. Of course, Ann and I enjoy visiting Amanda and the bay area. As for travel, that is a passion for Ann and me. Ann spends a few months a year in Anguilla, with about two to four weeks of accompaniment by me and friends, as noted. Anguilla is great, but I desire variety; thus, Ann and I travel elsewhere, usually a trip to Europe and other countries surrounding the Med, (including) Turkey and Morocco, thus far.” Forever true to our school, Frank noted that “I am back on the board at Gilman; thus, if you have any comments for the board/ administration or questions, feel free to direct them my way.”

Suber Huang’s remarks began with sharing thoughts about our classmates, some who we lost early in life, and others who we haven’t heard from. “Perhaps it’s just the passage of time, notes of retirement, downsizing, or the uncertain state of world events but I am thinking first of lost classmates. I especially remember Alex Brusilow, who was as full of life as anyone we know, and

his father, a noted pediatrician, for whom it must have been shatteringly painful. I wonder about Andy Shapiro, John Ward –my chess buddies, along with Scott Graham – and remember great times in D.C. at the United States Junior Open Chess Tournament. I think about Jean-Luc, our exchange student in eighth grade whose last name was Besson, which is the name of the incredible action film director. Could it be the same guy? For missing friends out there, I would love to hear how you’re doing.” On the family front, Suber wrote, “Cindy and I are fine, in good health, in our same house which, thanks to our kids, is not over-improved. Cindy continues in solo dermatology practice and is looking enviously at the ‘Big R.’ Our youngest, Dan, is in San Francisco working as an analyst for real estate underwriting giant, EastDil Secured. He was named to the Ferry Building, FB, and Apple HQ commercial team and is soaring up that ladder. Jennifer finished Step 1 of the National Boards, will start her clinical rotations in June, and aspires to be an ophthalmologist. She is enjoying her last block vacation for many years by visiting Miami, Paris, Avignon, Lecate –the kite surfing capital of France – along with Spain, San Francisco and Half Moon Bay, for more kite surfing, and to visit friends at Stanford, before landing briefly in the CLE. Her significant other has a major position in the autonomous car division at Google. Our eldest, David, is set to graduate medical school in June. He will stay in NYC for internal medicine and will pursue oncology as his career. He has a wonderful significant other who was a classmate at Hopkins and is a star at McKinsey. Good people, away from the dock, safely launched – all credit to Cindy!” As to the great rewards from his hard work, Suber added, “It gets a little tricky here, because so many good things have come my way. I am sharing in the hopes that a big bunch of good fortune will find its way to you, too. I continue to be a busy retina surgeon-scientist in an academic private practice. Last year, I was elected to the Retina Hall of Fame, received the Jose Rizal Medal, the highest honor of the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, Highest Honors form the Chinese Ocular Fundus Society, and was nominated for the world’s highest award for ophthalmic education in 2020. I continue as Chair of the National Eye Health Education Program of the National Eye Institute/NIH and am Past-President and Emeritus Board member of the American Society of Retina Specialists. I have active research in clinical trials of artificial retina and cortical brain implants, stem cells and gene therapy for macular degeneration, electrophysiology and trials of a novel drug for diabetic retinopathy, and a trial of a new treatment for onchocerciasis/lymphatic filariasis, a Gatesfunded project and one of the biggest in the world. I am turning down more and more invited lectures but no question it’s been an incredible joy to meet new friends in Seoul, Bangkok, Chaing Mai, Scottsdale, NYC, Florence, Maceio, Porto Allegre, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Chicago, Shanghai, Xiamen — all this year. I will be in Baltimore on May 31 to give the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute Distinguished Alumni Lecture. My parents are still active

there, and together they have 106 years of continuous service on the faculty, a record. They are frail now, but we are grateful for their incredible lives. [I am] hugely gratified to see the success of the Retina Image Bank, imagebank.asrs.org, which has become the world’s largest, most comprehensive, open access platform for ‘all things retina.’ It took 3.5 years to garner a million page views, 19 months to hit two million, and is projected to hit three million in just nine additional months. It’s been fun. Eight micro nations in the Pacific, Chad, Eritrea, Congo, the Vatican and North Korea are the only countries in the world not to use it. Participating countries represent 99.2% of the world’s population. I am sending Dennis Rodman to meet with KJI to see what he can do in North Korea, [and] praying for the Pope to join.” Suber also is working on a first ever comprehensive online Retina Atlas as editor in chief. “Thank goodness for the over one hundred section editors and an amazing staff. We recently closed a partnership for an additional 70,000 pathology images. We launch in 2020. Fingers crossed. This year I co-founded the Future Vision Foundation to inspire and celebrate breakthroughs in vision research through powerful documentaries of discovery, impact and hope. We aspire to be the McArthur Prize of Vision Research. It’s been fun to become an executive producer of these documentary films, to meet the world’s greatest, and to combine visual arts and visual science, [including adding] Christopher Nolan, Sundance, and so many new friends and documentarians to my vocabulary. Check out the trailers and movies on the website futurevisionfound. org Seven Years of Darkness won best documentary short…. I continue to be involved in singing and joined the Board of the Cleveland Chamber Choir. Each member is a professional in music with an extensive performance, touring and academic history. Helping them to become the ‘Apollo’s Fire’ of Choral Music [involves] another side of the brain entirely. I am a Life Trustee at University School and the inaugural bioscience advisor to the Anderson Scholars Program.” Among Suber’s recreational pursuits, ‘I actually caught fish this year. I remember learning at Whit Harvey’s farm and at Loch Raven. Our golden retriever, Halsted, is a love and fetches the paper every morning no matter the weather. But tennis, tennis gives me purest joy every week to compete and see improvement over 20 years… I rekindled a passion for photography and competitive chess. I may not be smelling the roses, but at least I am taking pictures. Check them out on Facebook at Suber Huang and on Instagram at subers_ pix…. make sure you savor every second for everyone who ever meant anything to you. Remember, life’s a game, and sometimes you get a second serve.”

Transitioning from one workplace to another, his own, Bill Spragins wrote, “After 32 years, my employer, FMI, and I amicably parted ways on January 1, and I opened my own entity, Bill Spragins Consulting LLC. I know, it’s a really catchy name, but

in my work, name recognition is key. Under this arrangement, I will still be working with major design and construction projects nationwide, but I will be able to pick and choose what I work on, and how much I work. So, consider this an interim stepping stone to retirement, as I still gotta pay some bills on this end… given that it was around a dozen of our classmates that attended Washington & Lee, I thought you would be interested to know that my niece, Elizabeth, taught foreign languages at W&L for this school year after getting her PH.D. in Spanish/Arabic at Stanford. She is heading north to Holy Cross starting next academic year.” As to his own travels, Bill added, “I’ve been spending a lot time in the East Bay, California, area visiting my significant other, Barbara, who moved back there last year to be with her son, who just entered ninth grade. While everyone was raving about the great snow conditions in Colorado this ski season, the best in five years, we were able to ski on a ridiculous 230-inch base at Squaw Valley in Lake Tahoe after nonstop storms moved through after the new year. More to come on the California front.”

Your Southern Maryland correspondent will leave it someone else to confirm if last year’s passing of the Secretary for the Class of 1945 ended the longest running father-and-son class secretary pairing at Gilman, during which we received tremendous support from our respective classmates. Dad lived the last year of his life at Blakehurst in Towson, where my visits on Sunday afternoon afforded brief chats with Angus Finney and Ken Volk, and with younger schoolmates who also provided valuable insights on that transition. Attending services with my father at nearby Church of the Redeemer also allowed me to talk a couple times with Dixon Harvey and Nick Richardson. Before we arrived at Gilman to begin fourth grade, Nick and I met in kindergarten at Bluebird School in Ruxton, also joined by Tom Doyle. I remember my father stopping along Bellona Avenue some mornings on the way to Bluebird, after multiplication drills throughout the ride in from Chatolanee, so he and I could watch a train go by on what is now a light-rail track. Forty years after the start of my first summer internship with a once-a-week feature newspaper on the Eastern Shore, followed by a southern migration that included three years with a daily paper in Eastern North Carolina, as of this writing in early May, I am just a couple weeks away from retiring from 34 years of covering crime, courts and a little politics for The Enterprise in St. Mary’s County. I have filled the top sheet of a sticky-note pad with ideas, interests and errands to keep me busy, and look forward to sharing with all of you what follows, in print or in person. Come by anytime to the fifth house on the left at Patuxent Lane, or tie up at the pier with the green canoe on Kingston Creek. But in the meantime, if you see an old white convertible pulling up outside your home or workplace, please turn on the coffee pot.”

1977

Hap Cooper hap@prospectsc.com

Timothy Holley Jr.: Taking a turn in my Gilman journey. In the spring of 2018, I went on sabbatical to travel and retired as athletic director. In the fall, I returned to Gilman to serve the school as director of external relations. My wife and I celebrated our 36th anniversary. Our children, Deniece (RPCS ‘06), Tammy (RPCS ‘10), and Camille (Portsmouth Abbey ‘20, RI) are well. Deniece’s son (our grandson), Brooks (Gilman 2034), was three in June. Our family is well!

1978

Charles Herndon caherndon3@gmail.com

Seeing as how we all must be so busy as we stagger into our seventh decade, our lives overflowing with achievements and appointments and amusements, indeed, our lives so full that we couldn’t scratch out a few words of update for your forlorn class correspondent to share, well, a short missive this time around, gents, will have to do. I do not mean to scold, dear classmates, but our class notes have been so scant as to be non-existent. Surely this was but an oversight for a class so accomplished as ours. Therefore, adopting a position of ignorant bliss, I shall assume this was an anomaly, a mere glitch of priorities, never to be duplicated lest your faithful class secretary, bereft of news and abandoned of hope, shall repair to some desolate crofter’s hut in the Outer Hebrides, never again to put pen to paper, fingertip to keyboard. So. Write. Please. Yet, news will out.

In recent days, among those who have come into view is Murray DeMuth, with whom I shared a pleasant lunch not long ago at Alonso’s. While not exactly a man of leisure, Murray is certainly doing what he loves as owner, operator, and captain of the new TWT Fishing Charters, LLC out of Grasonville. He’s having a blast fishing and exploring the coves and tributaries of the Eastern Shore, and he’d be happy to hear from any classmates who may be looking for a little nirvana on the back of a boat, casting a line or two and hoping for a nice striper.

Bill Bramble has been spending plenty of time outdoors lately, too, following his move to western Pennsylvania and Steelers country. If you follow his photography, you know Bill has been channeling

John James Audubon in recent years, capturing on film everything from a pensive Great Blue Heron to a brood of inquisitive fox kits. We’re waiting for the coffee-table book and calendar, Bill, not to mention plenty of stories about your exploits in the wild.

I bump into John McDaniel at the 32nd Street Market occasionally, and thanks to Facebook I am fascinated regularly by the musical and artistic talents of Rob Miller, who is performing and turning out beautiful artwork in California these days. Similarly, I can keep up with Chris Bowen as he takes in the lights of Broadway or jets about to exotic locales like Marrakesh and Buenos Aires, and that’s just this year so far. Happy trails, Chris!

I must take a moment, too, to recommend a truly rewarding cinematic treat. Not long ago, I set aside an hour to watch the Maryland Public Television documentary, A Path to Follow: The Reddy Finney Story, and I can recommend it highly. Not only does it remind us of the incredible legacy and lessons left by Mr. Finney, it also served for me as a bracing tonic against the troubled times in which we live. Concepts like honesty, civility, compassion, honor, and integrity weren’t just some lofty goals to be revered in Reddy’s world; they were standards to be lived, and truths to be shared and expected of those generations of Gilman men who knew and learned from Mr. Finney – all of us included. You can access the broadcast here: gilman.edu/FinneyStory. I encourage you to take the time to revisit Mr. Finney’s familiar world, and to remember how good it was and continues to be.

Your correspondent continues to slouch forward, a daughter freshly graduated from Virginia Commonwealth with a degree in fashion design and a son preparing for his sophomore year at East Carolina U. I’m very nearly an empty nester now, with plenty of time on my hands, so email me and let me know the latest. I’d much rather contemplate retirement on the Outer Banks than in the Outer Hebrides, so let me know how you are doing and stay in touch. Enjoy the rest of 2019, everyone!

Has

Franklin has@franklin-group.com

This past year our class celebrated our 40 th Reunion at Gilman. The turnout was 25 for the dinner. However, a couple of classmates were able to make some of the festive weekend and not stay for our class dinner.

Kevin Saunders made it to the Saturday afternoon and early evening cocktail party. He took lots of pictures that I am hoping will be shared with everyone. Kevin has an engineering degree as well as a J.D. He lives in Ashburn, VA and works in D.C. for the SEC.

Patrick Edeline lives five minutes from Kevin and hopes to maintain regular contact. Patrick is also very involved in some humanity projects in his family’s native country of Haiti while maintaining his local business career.

McLane Cover was there on Friday to represent our class in the Golf Outing that was postponed due to weather. He is still a successful money manager.

Other members of the team were Dave Willis , Dave Portnoy & Kevin Connor. Dave Willis’s youngest son, Michael, is attending Georgetown University where he plays on the baseball team. Dave Portnoy is still in the education world and moving to a school in Las Vegas to become their headmaster. Kevin still lives in Baltimore where he works in the mortgage business. He has two daughters.

Tom Booker’s son (Thomas Booker IV ’18) is a starting football player on Stanford’s football team and his daughter is a practicing attorney in New York. He and Ava spend plenty of time traveling from coast to coast seeing their children.

Many of our classmates living in the Boston Area posted. Chris Baldwin is semi-retired managing his own affairs. He lives in Beacon Hill and does a lot of woodworking. He was sporting an injury from his last project. All his children have successfully left the nest.

Todd Campbell , Stewart Thompson , and Phil Gray all made the trip down as well too. Stewart still loves teaching history. Phil is an architect and Todd is retired and fully recreating on Squam Lake in New Hampshire.

Gordon Simpson is a high-end carpenter. He lives in Sparks. Maybe Chris should touch base with Gordon to avoid future accidents.

Ace Smith currently has a son at Gilman. I believe that he still is involved with racing.

Alex Montague is still involved in the commercial real estate business. His three daughters have all left the nest.

Carville Collins is still lobbying in Annapolis and Mary Lou is still practicing medicine.

Rick Watts is retired from real estate consulting. He is working diligently to improve bike infrastructure in Anne Arundel County. He is also participating this summer in the Cape Cod Getaway for MS awareness.

Michael Cobb is a regional sales manager for Pella.

Craig Russell has retired from the federal government. He owns an Olive Farm in Spain that Rick and Roberta plan to visit in the fall.

Topher Russo is currently restoring a house on Old Court Road.

Bart Classen is still practicing medicine and doing his medical research.

Alan Taylor is an energy consultant in Boulder, CO.

Scott Nesbitt is in Cincinnati and is keeping up with his singing/ acting by participating in local theater productions.

George and Marietta Kelly are living in multiple locations. Most of their time is spent between Denver and Baltimore. All their children are now in Colorado either for school or working.

Rick Snyder is the inspector general for the Navy and lives in DC. Only eight officers are higher ranked than Rick now. Most the people must salute him these days.

Joe Carroll is engaged to get married and living still in Greensboro, NC.

David Williams lives in Philly and is a business consultant.

Our class is very fortunate to have a master brewer in our class, Alex Puchner. For our next reunion, we need to get him to arrange for a beer tasting. He wins the award for the farthest traveler, as he lives in Los Angeles.

Richmond is home to many of our classmates with Guy Davis being the only one in attendance. Guy is still a bankruptcy CPA, with one of his sons heading to college next year. He sees Kurt Heissel and David Mulholland and says both are doing well.

Carter Buxbaum is a business consultant with one of his clients being Sean Darby’s elevator inspection firm. Carter’s daughter is getting ready to graduate from high school soon. Sean has both of his children in college currently.

Bill and Louise Senft are extremely busy helping Archer navigate University of Pennsylvania while maintaining professional careers.

Biff Poggi is enjoying life as a grandparent with Amy. He continues to help many young men get into college while building a national power in football at St. Frances in downtown Baltimore.

John O’Donovan was represented by Lisa, as he was not feeling well that evening. Both of their boys are off to college leaving them as empty nesters for most of the year. They spend much of their free time at Bethany Beach.

Marc Dubick is busy following his oldest son, Louis, around the country playing lacrosse for Maryland. He scored the winning goal against Towson in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Jim Wilkerson lives in Roland Park, making the job of getting his boys to Gilman and Boys’ Latin for school much easier. He spends much of his time on the sidelines coaching his sons, who play various sports.

Ted Millspaugh is still practicing law. He and Faith have moved downtown to Federal Hill and have become elevator clients of Sean Darby. Your best chance to see Ted is at a Ravens home Football Game where is always hosting one of the best tailgates in Lot C at the stadium.

Everyone has an open invitation to visit David Parker if ever in the White Plains, NY Area. My understanding from one of Dave’s good friends in Baltimore, Brad Glaser, that he is the best lacrosse player in his club.

I saw Kevin Holley’s brother, Ken, and he told me that Kevin was doing well.

Sam Hillers and family have moved to the L.A. area. Maybe he can connect with Alex to become a beer taster for BJ’s to help Alex perfect his craft.

Raffaele Zanoli was unable to attend this time, but he did say that he has a room for people to stay if visiting Italy. I believe he is still in education.

I am getting ready for my third child, Luke, to graduate from Susquehanna University. He is getting ready to enter the adult world with his older brother and sister. Mac is working for Yelp

in D.C. while Leslie is with Rutherford Supply in Richmond. My youngest, Drew, is at Rhodes College in Memphis. This fall he is studying in Barcelona, Spain. Ellen and I are preparing for our life as empty nesters soon.

Lastly, a moment of silence was had for our classmates that have passed. We remember each one them fondly. Rick Siegel, Bill Sharp, Kevin Ray, Bill Reischfeld, Dwayne Lovick and Mark Hendricks

I tried to get as much information as possible into the notes for this year. It is easier when you send information in to be published. Hopefully, we can all stay in touch regularly, so we will have another strong turnout for our 45th Reunion in five years.

in NYC. His wife, Margaret, continues to grow her antiques business and is launching an online store.

Randy also got together Scott Berman in Florida. Scott’s youngest son has followed his footsteps to the hotel school at Cornell. His oldest, also a hotellie from Cornell, is working in consulting in DC.

Roger Levin will be an empty-nester come this fall, as his youngest starts as a Georgia Bulldog. Despite both Roger and his wife, Diann, going to the small school Trinity College, all his children went to big universities. Roger is still practicing head and neck surgery in Harrisburg and playing piano in his spare time.

David deMuth has his right knee replaced in early April. Their youngest child graduated from Gilman last spring. No more deMuths in the queue (for now).

Jimmy Franklin jim@franklin-group.com

This will unfortunately be a fairly Spartan version of the class notes. At least our 40th is coming up next year so, hopefully, I will have more to share.

TJ Woel is still AWOL. We actually have spoken a few times, but we have yet to get him to make an appearance in Baltimore. One day, my friend, you will make an appearance.

Our fearless president, Steph Jackson, is in London leading the research effort at T. Rowe Price’s European Equity team. While in London, Steph connected with Alan Livsey. Alan has been overseas now for most of his life. He is currently writing for the Financial Times. Steph and Debra’s youngest child is graduating from Spelman this year.

Mark Licht bought a place in Phoenix with Karis Cox. So far, so good. Mark is back with Perdue as an independent contractor managing a Windows 10 upgrade to all their desktop and laptops around the country. If anyone ventures down to the Salisbury area during the next 18 months, give Mark a call.

Bill Trimble is living in Georgetown and running Easterly Government Properties, which they took public back in 2015. His oldest son, Will, is graduating from Duke in May, while the youngest son, Barton, is a freshman varsity rower at Cal.

Randy Brown is still in Boston and hooked up with Hammy Hackney. They connected through LinkedIn. Randy tells me Hammy is doing great and looks 40. Randy’s youngest graduates shortly and will start at a Saks Fifth Avenue training program

John Zentz is doing great in St. Louis. He is now head of global sales at Hunter Engineering. He has traveled all over the globe the past 12 months. His son has taken a position with Enterprise in Chicago while his daughter with be finishing at TCU shortly. John has a big pool match in Baltimore coming up. I will post his results in next year’s notes.

Charlie O’Donovan is officially done with college tuition as Eliza just graduated from JMU. He is currently managing the construction of a new sanctuary and support building for his church. Charlie is back to shooting sporting clays after being healed of an elbow injury by none other than Tim Codd. Last time I saw Tim was when he was holding court after a recent round of golf at the Baltimore Country Club.

Paul Danko has been traveling a lot for work. He and Elizabeth are trying to keep up with seven children. The spring was busy with Marquette women and Penn state men.

Will Griffith spent some time snowboarding this winter, which cut into his surfing. Will told me that Jenkins Marshall’s daughter Claire plays lacrosse for Dartmouth. And, together with the Princeton Lacrosse team, raised $50K for multiple myeloma in advance of their April game. Well done, Claire, I know your dad is proud.

Paul Hazlehurst is still Paul Hazlehurst, which is a good thing. When asked what was new, he said he would get back to me. Still waiting….

It looks like George Parker is going to be a grandfather soon. Congrats George!

I have been trying to grab Brian Lyles for dinner at my favorite restaurant, Cypriana. One day soon…

As for me, my oldest is back from Kansas and got her CNA license. She is working part-time in the emergency room at St. Joe’s while going to school for her nursing degree. My middle daughter is headed to Coastal Carolina in the fall. Looks like there are a few golf courses I can play when I visit. My son is going to be a freshman in high school and is one of three incoming freshmen to be invited to be on the school’s robotics team. My beautiful bride continues to follow her passion and is an awesome nurse. I had a great fall going to see Metallica a couple of times. One of the times was on the rail in Milwaukee and even made it on the video they produced for Facebook. If it’s too loud, you’re too old.

1981

Willy Moore wmoore@southwaybuilders.com

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1982

Brian Doud abcdoud@bellsouth.net

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1983

Andy Buerger abuerger@mac.com

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1984

If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Director of Alumni Relations and Outreach Nathaniel Badder ’94 at nbadder@gilman.edu

Douglas Becker: So sorry to have missed our 35th anniversary, but looking forward to 40! Family and I have been living in Aspen, CO for the past year, in a house that had previously been our summer home. It’s been a great experience living in the mountains, and Aspen has a really nice small town feel despite its flashier image. Erin (still on Gilman board) and I are doing great. Daughter Rose is about to graduate from Aspen High School and heads to Georgetown. Son EJ is in seventh grade at a local private school and is still very close to his Gilman buddies from his K-5 experience. I stepped away from Laureate (FKA Sylvan) and I am starting a new education company. Hope you are all well!

Arthur Gleckler: Our daughter is almost finished kindergarten, and the three of us are having a great time with school, family visits, and lots of playground time. I still enjoy writing as much software as possible. A few big projects are keeping me busy and happy. We had a tiny class reunion this year, but I had a great time catching up with classmates. I hope you can all make it to the 40-year reunion!

Chase Sanders: Hope everyone is well. All good on my end. I moved to the investment banking firm Robert W. Baird four years ago and it has worked out well. After a highly interesting stint in the Trump White House, Jen is now lobbying on K St. We now have a rising tenth, eighth, and fifth grader in the Montgomery Co. schools. Drop a line if you’re passing through Bethesda / Potomac.

EJ, Erin, Rose, and Doug Becker

Ted Winstead tedwinstead@gmail.com

In 1973, Keefe Clemons came to Gilman on a scholarship, leaving his zoned elementary school in Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood. The transition would lead to a “tremendous dichotomy” in his life, as Keefe explains in A Path to Follow: The Reddy Finney Story [gilman.edu/FinneyStory].

“Gilman was a beautiful place, which was one of the reasons I really loved it,” Keefe says early in the film. “Every night I came home to West Baltimore, and while I had some great experiences there, it was a challenging community to grow up in.

“There were a lot of drugs and violence in my community. Gilman was really a safe haven—you didn’t have to stop to think about your safety the way I did in my neighborhood when I was walking around.” Throughout the film, Keefe shares stories of his Gilman experience, including his first impression of Mr. Finney. “He carried himself in a way that was easy for young men to want to emulate,” Keefe observes. Later in the film, Keefe describes an incident involving students in our class who cheated on a quiz and another boy who reported them. “There was some blowback from his peers, and we were summoned to the study hall area, where Mr. Finney addressed the entire class. I remember very clearly how emotional Mr. Finney was about the whole situation. I don’t think there was a person who came out of that room and did not feel the disappointment and shame that they’d fallen short.

Keefe, who is a vice president at Verizon (and general counsel for state regulatory affairs for the East region), mentions our class again later in the film—this time in a more flattering light. “It was important to Mr. Finney that we would give back to our communities, having received the benefits of our Gilman education. And I’m fairly confident in saying that many of my classmates do model that behavior.” Asked about his participation in the film, Keefe writes, “It was a great opportunity to pay tribute to Mr. Finney, who has truly served as a great role model for generations of Gilman students.”

Keefe also attended the 50th Anniversary Black Alumni Celebration Gilman. He was “inspired” by how many alumni and faculty returned for the event, including alumni from the graduating class of 1968, the first to include African-American students. Having entered the school myself in 1973, it was great to celebrate the diversity that Gilman has been able to achieve over the years, with the leadership and support of people like Reddy

Finney, Bill Greene, and others—and the talent, determination, and contributions of the African-American students that have had the opportunity to attend Gilman. I look forward to following the school’s ongoing efforts to lead in the areas of academic and athletic excellence, diversity, and inclusion in the future.

Keefe still runs and hopes to complete a few 5Ks or 10Ks this year.

Dan Kim, whose son, Andrew, is a rising senior at Gilman, met Bernie Rhee and Julian Meyer for dinner before the premiere. Julian is the head of the math department at Severn in Annapolis and has children approaching college age. Last December, Dan and Bernie joined some Finney-Greene Scholars for a dinner, where they talked about their personal journeys before, during, and after Gilman. “We told them that Dan was a pretty serious student and that I was at the other end of the spectrum,” Bernie writes. “But Gilman prepared me for college, and I actually make a living working with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, which is something I would never have imagined at Gilman.”

Bernie and Dan also told the students that they had become good friends through sports. “We wrestled, and were about the same weight class,” Bernie writes. “So, we spent a lot of time working out together, trying to perfect our wrestling moves.” Bernie’s son, Joey, still plays ice hockey but has dropped baseball for fencing. “He really likes it, but it’s another sport my wife and I know almost nothing about. It’s probably better for him that way.”

Phil Koh is living in Northern Virginia. His oldest child, Sophie, is a freshman at Amherst.

Nick Schloeder’s son, Nicholas, is a junior at Delaware, and James just completed his senior year at Gilman. In the fall, James will attend Rhodes College, where he will play football and lacrosse. “When football starts in the fall, I will become the longest tenured assistant coach in Johns Hopkins history,” writes Nick, who is still teaching at Gilman. “Hopkins made it to the national semi-finals for the first time in school history and earned our first top-five ranking.”

Three sons of members of the Class of 1985 played for the Gilman varsity lacrosse team this season. “Although the season didn’t go as planned, Wallace Halpert (junior long-stick midfielder), James Schloeder (senior midfielder) and Pierce Washburn (junior midfielder) gave it their all!” writes Tom Washburn

Jay Davidson has been learning Portuguese. “In October, I got married to a Brasielera in Brazil,” he writes. “Tom Horst and David Rody were nice enough to come down to enjoy a few caipirinhas. My wife, Erica, and I bought a house near Fort Lauderdale, though

I am up in Baltimore frequently to see my daughter, Caroline, and my parents.”

Ben Miller is working in the financial services sector in London. He and his wife, Naomi, have twin sons, Kai and Andrew, who are 11 years old.

William ‘Willy’ Calvert is a partner and creative consultant for Thindown, an Italian company that invented the world’s first and only down fabric.

Bill Barroll is the senior vice president at Corporate Office Properties Trust in Columbia, Maryland. Bill works with data centers and defense industry clients.

Bruce Taylor is now a corporate development officer for The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Director of Alumni Relations and Outreach Nathaniel Badder ’94 at nbadder@gilman.edu.

David Norton: I am excited to announce I have a book coming out about marketing, analytics and org dynamics called The High Roller Experience. Available on Amazon now and bookstores soon.

Paul Garcia is an influence marketing leader at PerkinElmer, Inc. in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Ned Carroll is now the senior managing director, Chief Data Officer at TIAA and based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Cal Rogers is a regional account manager at Zonar Systems in the Seattle area. Zonar Systems runs a smart fleet management system.

Andy Barker is now the project director for the Burlington City and Lake Semester, a place-based program for students in the Burlington, Vermont School District.

Tripp Burgunder hb3@pklaw.com

Brooks Matthews stepped down as head lacrosse coach at Gilman after 15 seasons [see more on page 44]. His run included A Conference championships in 2009 and 2011. Brooks will continue teaching history and social studies at Gilman.

Hugh Marbury is now a member at Cozen O’Connor in Washington, D.C. after 21 years at DLA Piper and its predecessors. Hugh still practices law in the fields of business and intellectual property litigation.

Juan Alvarez is the general manager - Brazil for iCAABS, a consulting firm that helps international companies expand into the Brazilian market. If anyone is ever in Brazil, please contact Juan.

In 2018, Todd Crandell won re-election as the Baltimore County councilman for the 7th District.

Tom Annau is the senior director - AI and Advanced Architectures at Microsoft in Sunnyvale, California.

Jack Cavanaugh is now the head of Baltimore Private Client at Brown Advisory.

Liam Culman is now a partner at Third Seven Capital in New York City. Liam holds Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Rich Weinstein is now the managing director at Arts & Letters Creative Co. in Richmond, Virginia.

David Morales is director of congenital heart surgery at the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He also is the Clark-Helmsworth Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery.

Ken Turnbull is a partner at King & Spaulding in Washington, D.C. Ken is in the professional liability practice where he defends accounting firms and their professionals in some of their most significant matters, including securities class actions, trustee litigation, arbitrations, and regulatory investigations and proceedings.

Stuart McCaughey is now a Research Specialist at University of Pennsylvania. He was previously an assistant professor of

neuroscience at Indiana University School of Medicine Muncie at Ball State University.

Alex Hoehn-Saric is now the chief counsel of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee for the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Alex was previously the senior vice president of government affairs at Charter Communications.

Donald Bruce ‘D.B.’ Hebb practices internal medicine and is affiliated with Kent Hospital in Coventry, Rhode Island.

Van Durrer is a partner, corporate restructuring at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLC in Los Angeles, California.

Clark Wight is the head of preparatory school at the Guildford Grammar School in Perth Australia. Clark was a presenter at the Raising Gorgeous Boys to Become Good Men conference in Sydney, Australia. He is a leadership consultant for schools and businesses, and as a conscious parenting advocate and presenter through his Our Boys and Conscious Parenting seminars.

Mark Cooper is a doctor in the field of family medicine in Scottsboro, Alabama and is affiliated with Highlands Medical Center.

Ned Gans is the owner of Millbrook Antiques & Prints and of baltimoreantiques.com. Ned’s areas of concentration include antique Chinese porcelain and textiles, 18th-20th C. Japanese woodblocks and other prints, and vintage jewelry, silver, and collectables.

Justin Bloom has his own law firm in Sarasota, Florida where he practices in the fields of pharmaceutical and environmental injury.

Stockton ‘Stocky’ Williams is now the executive director of the National Council of State Housing Agencies in Washington, D.C.

Tripp Burgunder practices real estate law as a partner at Pessin Katz in Towson, Maryland. His oldest child is a sophomore at Cornell University.

1988

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1989 Jay West jay.west@westandwestllc.com

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1990

Kent Chan kchanster@aol.com

Henry Cha: It’s all about the kids right now. Gabby, the oldest is getting her masters from Towson in marketing data science. Second son, Xavier, graduates high school and headed to UMd in the scholars program and studying comp-sci. Esprit, the youngest, will be a junior at SPSG. As for Zan and me, we are working hard to pay for it all!

Kent Chan: My family and I continue to call Manhattan home. Work is at NYU Langone. Play is in Miami. All is well after 29 years.

Christopher Clark: lives in Franklin, MA with his wife, three kids, two dogs, one cat, one bird, and an axolotl. He works in the software industry for a company that makes videogames.

Ethan Ewing: Hunkered down in the Bay Area, proud of my two girls and lovely wife Ann.

Gregory Friedman: Big news for 2019 — the reality of middle age is setting in. More back hair, less head hair. Still own a small commercial real estate firm along with one of my partners, Doug Kaufman. Perhaps most notable for 2019 is how athletic I have been. I got a lot of skiing in over the winter, but most notably, I have been as dominant in my old man basketball league as I ever was in the Gilman gym (which is to say, not much). Best to all until the next update!

Duane Holloway: left the New York City area and moved to Pittsburgh in early 2018 to join U. S. Steel as its SVP, general counsel, chief ethics & compliance officer and corporate secretary. His wife, Shelby, and their twins are enjoying being four of the seven diehard Ravens fans in Steel City. Duane is still basking in the glow from being at the Final Four to watch his Virginia Cavaliers win the NCAA basketball championship...the four letters UMBC no longer mean anything to him. Duane remains a proud ambassador of The Tech and, to the likely annoyance of many, touts Gilman, in some way, in every one of his public speaking engagements.

Allen Hsiao: Not much new to report career-wise, still keeping busy bridging the medical and IT and informatics worlds in my role as the Chief Apology Officer (apologizing to all the Yale doctors for the extra clicks the EHR; it’ll be interesting what we can do with all the data one day though). I’m very proud of my wife Joyce as she now directs cardiology for one of our hospitals. Somehow, we both now have two teenagers; Timothy just entered high school and taking up crew this spring, brings back memories of rowing through a hailstorm into a rainbow with my Gilman brothers! Working on convincing Jackie to become a coxswain next year; should fit her penchant of bossing people around and desire to avoid strenuous activity! Also had a great time catching up with Kent and Andrew Gerle last summer at Kent’s beautiful home, hope to do so with them and others again soon. Anyone in or passing through CT, please drop me a line!

Sam Knowles: I am living in northern Virginia and working in Washington, D.C. at DLA Piper. My wife (Aida) and I are in the thick of parenting young kids – Sofia (two) and Lucas (six months). We had the help of a surrogate to get across the line to parenthood and feel very fortunate. In my free time, I enjoy jogging with a local running club. That and parenting duties do a great job of keeping me humble.

Brett Garfinkel: CEO, co-founder of Sylo (meetSylo.com), a software analytics company providing third-party measurement and fraud detection for the fast-growing Influencer Marketing Industry.

Tom O’Neil: Tom has been living in Seattle for the past five years, working at local company Tableau. He lives by Lake Washington with his wife and two daughters (age one and three), and is looking forward to the Ravens actually playing in Seattle next season.

1991

Jared Spahn jspahn@5304dorsey.com

I am sorry to announce that after twenty-six years of service our Class Secretary, Andrew Stanley, has passed on the baton to someone else. ‘Stan the Man’ kept us up to date and informed for a very long time, and I know that we all appreciate his hard work and dedication. Stan is currently the associate athletic director at the Collegiate School in Richmond, Virginia. He and his wife Meaghan have three beautiful children.

On the subject of children, not a day goes by during this year’s lacrosse season that I don’t see Athan Sunderland’s freshman phenom son, Truitt, being posted on the box score of Calvert Hall’s lacrosse program. My oldest son, Carter, had the opportunity to play travel soccer with Truitt in Lower School and you could see Truitt’s special abilities even at that age. I loved seeing their telepathic communication from the sidelines.

Trent Zivkovich is making a name for himself as one of the top environmental lawyers in Maryland. Trent and his wife Margaret, spend their free time chasing their two children, Charlie and Anna, from place to place.

I recently heard from John Fishman, who is living on the West Coast in Mountain View, CA, where his home now includes his wife, two boys, his mother, and now his sister, who recently relocated from New York City. John works as a chaplain for the Veterans Administration.

Mike Weinfeld is the first of our class, that I know of, to have a child in college. His eldest son, Will, is currently at Bucknell and his daughter, Maddie, is a senior at Bryn Mawr at the time of this writing. Little brother, Ben, has some big shoes to follow.

Greg Levin wrote to me from Charlotte, NC where he works for NBC News as a national feed producer. Greg was able to work his third Olympic Games.

David Varner and his wife, Carla, are raising their daughter Lucia in Western Colorado. David reported that he is taking advantage of proximal mountains, rivers, and deserts, working for RiversEdge West, a river restoration NGO.

As for me, I continue to live in Guilford and commute to my office in Columbia. I keep telling my boys that it is just the reverse loop I did while at Gilman. My oldest son, Carter, is a member of Gilman’s Class of 2021 and so we are soon on the

college search. My youngest, Mason, is finishing seventh grade at Calvert and is looking forward to high school. My wife, Francie, and I had told Mason he can go anywhere he wants within a fivemile radius of our home that starts with a G and ends with an N. I have learned you really need to give kids choices these days. I am looking forward to hearing from more of you for our next class notes.

1992

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David Olsen: The Olsen family welcomed our newest addition, our son, Elliot, in December 2017. After completing two years of battalion command at Fort Bliss, Texas last summer, we moved to Fort Eustis in Virginia’s Tidewater, where I am overseeing combat vehicle modernization programs for Army Futures Command. In July, we will be relocating again to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where I will attend the U.S. Army War College. My wife, Heather, was recently promoted to a position as a global sales manager for Hyatt Hotels.

1993

Matthew Tucker matthewallentucker@gmail.com

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1994

Boyne Kim boyne.kim@gmail.com

Mark Cornes moved his family to PA — where his wife, Molly, is from —- in August 2017. Feeling burned out from software/ IT, he decided to try something new — first home improvement and then coaching lacrosse (coaching three teams and providing individual training sessions for kids). Recently, he was hired by a local software/app development company, knowing he’d have to leave work at 2:30 p.m. every day for practices/games. Now, after a hiatus from tech and great inflection, he’s back where he spent most of his last 15 years, in database programming, digital marketing and web/mobile app development sales. He finally feels like he has a place in PA where he can be himself and hasn’t felt this way since 2013.

After some soul searching and a few failed job searches, Peter Bogue is going to take some time off and be a stay at home dad to his three boys (ages nine, almost seven, and three). His wife, Jenny, is an employment law plaintiffs’ attorney and her work takes her to NYC almost weekly. After six years in Raleigh, where he had been the head of Upper School at Ravenscroft School, he is ‘retiring’ at the end of the school year. The family is moving to Fairfield, CT where Jenny can commute to NYC in 75 minutes on the train. It will mean less time away from the family and more time for the boys’ busy schedules. He considers himself incredibly privileged to be able to do this with his boys and looks forward to this next chapter. One day he’ll return to education, but likely not in an administrative role. He is excited that this new role does not tie him to a school calendar and will allow him to be present at many more reunions down the road.

After some wild international adventures, Chris Niemeyer settled in Philadelphia, where he served as the lead network/onsite engineer at an Apple Specialist store before taking a job at Penn’s Engineering School as a senior IT support specialist. He has completed more than half of his work in a master’s program in computer science. The most interesting project he is still working on is to use machine learning to help detect opioid mortality,

David, Claire (5), Abigail (7), Heather, and Elliot (1) on the day that he relinquished command of Third Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment at Fort Bliss, Texas

based on Medicaid prescribing practices across counties nationally. He and Tom Coleman have also shared some great times kayaking the rapids.

Randy Michels left a cushy law firm job back in 2015 to start a trademark-focused, online law firm with a few other guys. After a slow start, they found their footing in 2016, and have spent the last few years working their way up the trademark filing rankings. Top 20 nationally and climbing. He has been married to his college girlfriend for 17 years (!), and they have two kids. Their son, James, just turned eight, and their daughter, Mae, is four. He is still playing some tennis and got his son to play lacrosse, like a good Baltimore boy.

Matt Wise lives in the Fairfax district of LA near West Hollywood with two sons, Henry ‘Hank’ and Eddie, and his fiancee, Ceeca. Matt and Ceeca have been meaning to get married but keep making little roommates instead. Hank was named after his great grandfather, Henry Larson, and Eddie was named after Eddie Murray, Eddie Vedder, and Eddie Rosenberg. They are four-and-a-half years and seven months old, respectively. Matt recently accepted a new job as the GM of a restaurant called Crossroads on Melrose, run by noted chef Tal Ronnen. He is still making music, and has been DJing four to seven gigs per month for about six years and also producing music on Logic. LACMA as an ongoing client of several years!

Dan Pollard reports that life is crazy but fun up in Bellingham, WA. He has been a professor in the Biology Department at Western Washington University for the last four years. He teaches genetics, genomics, and biostatistics, and his lab researches why different individuals make more or less protein using baker’s and brewer’s yeast as a model system. His wife, Suzanne, is also a professor at WWU. They have a two-year-old son name Milo, who is both pure joy and terror, as a two-year-old should be. Dan still runs, but not competitively. He’s not in a band at the moment but his son’s demands for punk rock versions of children’s songs has been keeping his guitar chops fresh.

Trey Fitzpatrick met a great woman that is somehow still with him after 20+ years and five kids! He has been mostly in New York since he got out of school, and has enjoyed seeing a bunch of Gilman guys over the years there. He has been working at different hedge funds for most of the time, doing a mix of quant, trading, and programming. It has been a bumpy ride at times in the business, but he’s still around.

Tronster Hartley is in the process of pursuing an MBA through the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business. For the past 10 years, he has been working at Firaxis Games in Sparks, Md., where he currently leads a team of four other user interface (UI) engineers on games which have been put out on PC, XBOX,

Playstation, iOS, and the Nintendo Switch. Hartley loves house music. And, he recently started a YouTube series to promote Bmore: seemorebmore.com. They live in Rogers Forge with two cats. In March, he and his wife, Caroline, had their son, Edward McCormick. The ‘McCormick’ in Edward’s name is to honor our deceased classmate, Kevin McCormick. In the fall, when Kevin’s parents were in town, they came over to Tronster’s house for lunch so they could meet Edward and catch up. They informed him that the year after Kevin passed away, they went out to Burning Man to scatter his ashes.

Avniel Ghuman married a wonderful woman named Sapna in 2004. She designs database systems for drug trials for pharmaceutical companies. After getting his Ph.D. in 2007, they moved to Rockville, MD for his postdoc at the NIH and had their first daughter there in 2010. They now are up to three astounding daughters aged four, six, and eight. In 2011, they moved to Pittsburgh, where he joined the faculty of the Neurosurgery Department at the University of Pittsburgh and runs a lab that studies how we recognize things in our visual environment.

Arif Joshi wrote in while sitting in a beat-up van that’s traveling from the airport in Lagos, Nigeria to the city, having just finished paying a $20 bribe to the customs agent and accompanied by a military escort with a loaded rifle sitting in the front seat. He has been in New York City for 17 years and works in the asset management industry (and travels to wild places for it!). They have three daughters (ages six, four, and one) and live in Chelsea. He spends about 1/3 of his time working in NY, 1/3 parenting, and 1/3 traveling to emerging market countries to meet with government officials. In the week he wrote, he had been to Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and, finally, Nigeria.

In 2012, with two small kids (Luke, 11, and Claire, seven) and one patient wife (Jenn) in tow, Jake Beverage moved back to San Diego to co-found a drug discovery company called Sirenas, which has developed a computational metabolomics platform to find promising drug leads from biome collections in nature. In layspeak: they use computers to find hidden molecules in nature’s hack stack and turn them into drugs. They focus on cancer and autoimmune disease and have done some great work with the Gates Foundation in anti-malaria drug discovery. He works, spends time with his family — including Roxie, a boxer — and surfs a few times a week near their home in La Jolla.

Mark Wertheimer lives in a small a town of 900 people in Northwest Colorado called Oak Creek — 20 minutes south of the “big city of Steamboat Springs.” He has spent most of the last 25 in Colorado working in the not-for-profit youth-serving and outdoor leadership world. He boasts of his badass wife of eight years, Kim, and kids Alice (five) and Henry (eight), who are amazing. He has

been working at Rocky Mountain Youth Corps for the last 13 years. They engage several hundred young people each year in meaningful outdoor service experiences on public lands in the Rockies and mix locals with out-of-state peeps in our summer Conservation Corps program.

John Vargas owns two dental practices, one in Manhattan and one in Westchester, NY. He has been married since 2006 to a girl he first met in 1995 and has a son (Harper, eight) and a daughter (Emi, three). They currently live in Scarsdale, NY.

Early in the 2000s, Red Bull noticed that Prem Kumta was producing events and hired him to produce events as marketing material. It was the beginning of his agency, Flavor Group. He kept producing crazy events but got into technology, product development, and social media as well, and has another VC-backed business called Up All Night that is mobile first subscription service for nightlife events, in SF and LA. He and his wife have been together since 1999, and have three awesome kids — Sabina (eight), Rajan (five), Ishaan (four). He has been trying to learn how to dance since his first rave and has been training Capoeira since 2002.

Boyne Kim just turned 43 and spotted a gray hair. He has been married now for over eight years to his wife, Amy, who is a dentist, practicing in the suburbs, and splits time taking care of the kids — Evander ‘Van’ (six) and Vivienne ‘Viv’ (four). They moved to a suburb of Chicago called Deer Park (like the water). Since 2006, he has been selling everything IT-related, from telephony to Wall St. firms to contact center software to analytics and now network infrastructure. Last year, he helped some friends start a beverage company — Kalena Sparkling Coconut Water — and even coerced Brad Mowbray to invest. He still calls himself skinny fat and worries that going to a yoga class would probably make him pass out.

Art Swartwout enjoyed his annual gathering with Mark Cornes, Josh Noppenberger, Victor Fox, Allen West, and others at Brewer’s Art a few days before Christmas. Having returned to Baltimore from his service in the Army, Art lives in Federal Hill and is looking for a full-time job while also working a side hustle as a private party bartender.

Tom Coleman lives in Haddonfield, NJ and is a partner in a small commercial defense group in Philadelphia but admits that he is neither saving the world nor lighting it on fire professionally (unlike some of our classmates!). His family consists of a much better half — a physician, professor, and runs a unit at a local university hospital — and three boys (Andrew, nine, Dylan, six, and Chris, three). He works hard to be a better-than-average father, making time for Cub Scouts, lacrosse coaching, wrestling, campfires in the backyard, and climbing the tree fort! He still enjoys athletics, but had to stop running long distance because his hip gave out. It was replaced at the

Cleveland Clinic this year with a metal-on-metal one, making for lots of fun over the winter (lots of swimming). He’s gotten on the bike again recently and been kayaking too with Chris Niemeyer, which has been great (another new, good friend).

Mike Allan coached the Uganda Lacrosse leading up to and through the 2018 FIL World Lacrosse Championship and reports that the experience was incredible and kept shaking his head thinking ‘how am I coaching in Uganda?!?’ There were a bunch of kids that would walk 5-10k from the roughest parts of Kampala to watch the team practice because they knew it was a safe place to run around and play and they could get a meal. For Mike, it was incredibly humbling and offered a big perspective shift. They also finished 40th out of 46 countries (not last!), and that was a great experience as well. He is still out in CA coaching at U.C. Santa Barbara — unfortunately for them, but lucky for us, the Gauchos got bounced prematurely from the playoffs, and Mike was able to get a last-minute ticket to join our 25th reunion celebrations.

Brian Malone’s story really isn’t all that interesting as he has stayed in the ‘Ville for most of his life. He did, however, recently changed careers and decided to knock on random doors in Baltimore County for a 70% pay cut. If you haven’t actually performed this task, know that you experience bucket loads of rejection and disrespect. So, he wanted to thank every last one of us. “There is absolutely no chance I would have been able to get through it without going to school with you!”

Kevin Robbins is still married to Kate (Katie DiPentima, Bryn Mawr ’94), has two sons — Tucker (11) and Grady (9) as well as one gregarious black lab (Osborne’s Black Bull ‘Ozzie’), splits his time between two houses (McLean, VA and Delaplane, VA — heart of VA wine country) and two jobs (Blue Delta Capital Partners and Wolf Den Associates), and has no hair. He never did get to run L.L. Bean or follow the Dead like the 1994 Cynosure predicted but still loves jam bands and recently completed a six-year term on the Board of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts as a way to stay plugged into the music scene while giving back a little. He still loves to ski but peaked in ’98, requires a lot more preparation and recovery time now, and has had the boys both on skis since before they could walk.

After a variety of positions in DC, including an exciting but blood-pressure boiling stint at the Associated Press, Stewart Macon and his wife Fei (Bryn Mawr ’93) moved back to Baltimore. Fei still works in D.C. at a large law firm, and Stewart is happy working for Franklin Financial Group as a financial planner and insurance producer (with other Gilman alums - the Franklins and Rock Harrison ’93). They have two kids and a oneyear old yellow lab named Badger. Farah is in third grade with

Brett Rogers’s daughter, Anna, at Bryn Mawr. Oliver is four and planning to start kindergarten at Gilman next fall. He stays active, playing a lot of doubles squash and strength training quite a bit.

Sebastian Jerez moved to Oakland in 2007. His wife, Rebecca, is now the general counsel of her company. Sebastian has been at Visa since 2009, first supporting their Latin American region (thanks for teaching me Spanish mom and dad!) and more recently supporting their North America business. They have three kids — Sasha (10), and 7-year-old twins, Naomi and Dylan — that they love being with. He coaches Sasha’s soccer team and will probably end up coaching Dylan and/or Naomi’s teams as well at some point. He has tried to teach the kids music and piano with some limited success and he still plays piano too! Prem Kumta and his children actually got to see Sebastian play a recital in October.

Than’l Badder is wrapping up his second school year at ye olde Gilman School. He thoroughly enjoyed working this year’s two marquee events — the October celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Gilman’s First Black Alumni and April’s Alumni Weekend, which coincided with our 25th Reunion, also a real personal highlight of the year. He continues to do custom #photoletterart installations (@36Letters) and run half-marathons (Asheville 2019), and recently added a puppy to his brood — a chocolate lab mix named Coop.

Jason Finkelstein: After two years as chief revenue officer at Baltimore-based HR tech company, Traitify, I joined San Franciscobased marketing/ad tech company, AdRoll, as SVP Marketing in

May 2019. I am glad to remain connected to Traitify as a formal strategic advisor. I am still living in Marin County outside San Francisco with my wife Marla, son Ethan (nine), daughter Stella (six) and 80 lb St. Berdoodle Luna (three).

1995

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Spencer Finney: lives in St. Louis with his wife and four daughters. He is a partner at Sage Capital, a private equity firm focusing on the lower middle market. He currently serves as the Board Chair at Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School.

Lorne Smith: is living in Lafayette CA outside of SF, where I moved after college in 1999. Married to Ashley Battersby, who grew up in Lafayette, and have two girls Mozelle (six) and June (four). Working at True Temper Sports as Global Sales Manager for their TRUE lacrosse brand, building the next great lacrosse brand! Also teaching local kids to play through lornesmithlacrosse.com, and creating some of my own products at firethreads.com.

1996

Lee Kowarski kowarski@gmail.com

My company was acquired by SS&C Technologies, where I am now overseeing our data management and analytics offerings, our data science team, our research, and our consulting practice, all focused on the asset and wealth management space.

Andy Cohen and his wife, Hanna, welcomed their third son, Erik Jacob Cohen, on 3/29/2019.

Kevin Frank and his wife, Rebecca, welcomed their first child, Eleanor Rose Frank, on 4/23/2019.

Old friends (Mitchell Whiteman, Jason Finkelstein, Ryan Isaac) united the clans! We got together with our families in the summer of 2017. The odds of getting all kids smiling and looking at the camera at the same time were not good—this is the best we could do after eight takes.

Will Lanahan will@vineyardvines.com

Class of 1997, this is 40!

Noah Bengur is flying for Delta, enforcing the Second Amendment and keeping America safe as a major in the USMC Reserves; Noah has completed seven tours overseas for the beloved Corps. He is living in Atlanta with his bride Carmen, daughter Chloe, and his clinically insane short-term memory pack of wild dogs.

Brooks Marshall is a recent dog owner himself and is working with his honey bunny Kami to take over kids clothing worldwide with Jolly Boy. They are launching their ‘Campership’ program this summer that will send three underprivileged children to camp in the Sequoias.

Mark Scott and his wife took a trip down to New York for his 40th, while there he caught up with ‘97 classmates Alex Davis and Stanton Jones. He is deep into the final phase of design for a new $200 million research science complex for the University of Connecticut. Still a resident in the Boston area and would be thrilled to host Gilman visitors.

Brian Nottingham is also now over the hill and playing in a +40 lax league, where he loves getting punished with balls. He had his third child, Wade, this year and is still dominating sales in Maryland.

Brian Whitesell completed his first Ironman in August of 2018 in Mont Tremblant, Canada and plans for a repeat this year. Whitesell and Nottingham are often seen training together.

Jay Sullivan lives in the Big Apple and with his wife Sara and kids Virginia and James. He works for a hedge fund during the week and smacks the little white ball around on the weekends, but oddly enough, I have never gotten a call to play golf with him. Jay is also the only person I know of who supports the New Green Deal.

Alex Davis is stocking the pond with kids, has a three- and five-year-old. He also landed a new gig as head of business development. He is strongly considering running for POTUS.

Scott Sussman is a hospitalist and the senior medical director of Clinical Operations for Yale New Haven. Scott’s wife Lindsey is VP of client management for OptimRx. They are proud parents

to girls, Abby the dancer and Maddy the swimmer, who dyed her hair pink, purple and blue for her birthday.

Will Stewart, our Centennial Scholarship founder, is excited to announce the scholarship will be honoring its first recipient in the Fall of 2019! Like Wooderson in Dazed and Confused, Will is living his best life down in Austin, TX, filled with college football, music festivals and BBQ. He went skiing for the first time this winter and will be embarking on a golf trip to Scotland this Summer to celebrate Milestone birthdays with his Uncle Bob and Cousin George! Alright, alright, alright!

Dave Chalmers celebrated his 40th this winter by dragging 20 friends and family to the Canadian Rockies for his dream vacation. He partook in all winter sportsman activities like skating, skiing and even cross-country snowshoed over Lake Louise and Banff — in record time I am sure!

Matt Barnett celebrated 17 years of marital bliss with his bride and has two little girls, four and seven. He is working as a director for Ramsey Solutions in Franklin, TN, opened a small fitness company, and still loves writing and performing music.

Aaron Hunter and his wife Kristen live in Cockeysville and keep very busy with their two boys and all their sports, no doubt getting ready to dominate the playing field at Gilman, hopefully soon. Mrs. Hunter takes care of the lads at home during the day while Aaron works at a Baltimore consulting firm; clients include Under Armour and Exelon.

J.V. Scott, III celebrated 15 years as admissions director and dean at St. Ignatius Loyola Academy, “JV luv da kids!” JV’s daughter is starting kindergarten next school year and he has nothing but amazing things to say about the daycare system, for instance, “Daycare is a racket!” When not dealing with his own child, JV often takes care of John Allen and James Bentley and keeps them out of trouble.

Eric Gillman welcomed their second son, Spencer, finally fulfilling their dream of extended sleep deprivation. When Eric is not saving the environment as a steward of the Golden State’s water resources, you can find him taking a nap.

Ben Lucas sold it all and is now living in a van.

Trent Stone is a proud father to his 18-month-old son who has taken over as president of his daycare class. It’s mandatory that each child gives a fist bump to Little Stone when they see him each morning.

Chuck Baker is president of the Short Line Railroad Association. For those of you not familiar with Short Line it’s between Chance

and Pennsylvania Avenue on your Monopoly boards! Chuck’s six-year-old, Nora, is a yellow belt in Karate and we are pretty sure his wife is a spy. So, to summarize, Chuck plays with trains and his daughter and wife are in Fight Club.

Matt Garrity is now at Silicon Valley Bank, giving money to startup companies. He says it’s not too late for class of ‘97 members to become Internet pioneers. It’s also not too late to bring back the eyebrow piercing Matt.

Erik Atas has been a legal wrecking ball in Baltimore. He has been honored several times for donating hundreds of hours of his time to do pro bono legal work for over 600 people. Honors have included The Community Quarterback Award from the Baltimore Ravens and T. Rowe Price; The Award for Advancement of Public Understanding of the Law from the Maryland Bar Foundation; and The Civil Justice Award from the Maryland Association for Justice. Karma then worked its magic on Erik as he got car jacked in April, happy to report his car is fine.

Geoff Greenblatt went back to school in 2016 and graduated with his MBA while working full time, which was a professional accomplishment. A personal accomplishment that Geoff reported was the time Bobby Moran tried to get bossy with him and he put him in his place and made him cry apologetically.

Davis Noell is living in Atlanta with his wife and three kids and doing an epic job staying involved with Gilman. When not working and taking care of his kids, Davis can still be found sitting courtside at UNC basketball games.

Alan Woods, IV is proud of his eight-year-old twins. Both are excelling in baseball, exhibiting athletic prowess hereto unforeseen in the Woods household. Alan has hopes that they may even grow to be taller than 5'6", while Alan admits that he is not, himself, 5'6", he uses that as a bench mark of something he would like to one day reach.

Gene de Juan is still running a medical distribution business and staying active with mountain biking, climbing, surfing and of course fly-fishing. Gene is also taking prerequisites for medical school, he says it’s never too late, especially after training doctors for 12 years, to become one! On top of his prerequisites he is watching loads of “Grey’s Anatomy” and re-runs of “Chicago Hope” as part of his studies.

John Comly was recently honored by Orlando Business Journal as one of Central Florida’s CEOs of the Year. John and yours truly ran into each other at this year’s Masters, where he stole my beer right out of my hand.

Andrew Wooten is living well in New Orleans. Andrew’s house is filled with girls, dolls and pink toys. It’s karma for his four-year

single-sex education and feels Gilman is to blame. Kidding aside, he loves it, living with his wife, Elizabeth, and three daughters: Ellie (six), Isabel (six), and Lachlan (three). He is still in a consulting role with PwC, travels often, and occasionally bumps into fellow classmates at the airport (eg., his fellow travel-weary southerner, Davis Noell).

John Steele, other than keeping two kids fed and clothed, is also playing competitive tennis; he won the Sherwood Forrest Men’s Doubles Tennis Championship. I did some research and found out John and his partner beat two 84-year-old men. Congrats John!

Stanton Jones last year won the landmark partisan gerrymander lawsuit, successfully challenging Pennsylvania’s congressional map as unconstitutionally biased toward Republicans, and they secured a new, fair map for the 2018 elections. Take that, Keystone State! Based on their creative strategy in the case, they were awarded the Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyers Award for the Rule of Law and Access to Justice.

Ben Stevens, one of our other esquires, has started a new law firm as of January 2019 named Rutledge & Stevens, LLC. He lives in the Baltimore area with his wife and three children. Ben has finally stepped into the social media and technology world and now has an account on MySpace and a brand-new flip phone.

Danny Mooney is very proud to be an Assistant Coach under Head Coach Jordan Angell for the Kelly Post 5-6-year-old boy’s lacrosse team! Jordan and Danny can be seen regularly together after games, strategizing for their next opponent with Kelly Post legend Stuart Wyeth at the local pub before heading home to the wives!

Kabir Kamboh, after taking a hiatus from the world of entertainment, has now gotten back into the voiceover business in his spare time. Kabir’s voice work is no longer in the video game space, but instead he can be heard now narrating corporate advertising and documentaries. If you couldn’t tell by now, Kabir is really showing his age and must also be 40!

Morgan Salmon is living in the Amazon, believe it or not .... oh, wait, I am sorry, he works for Amazon, my bad. He splits time between Seattle, NYC, and Philly, helping enable payments for Amazon. Nerd alert! Morgan and Sarah are raising three little Salmons, nine, four and two. Morgan basically owns a hotel in Philly and said all visitors are welcome!

David Sandler got married this year at the Peabody Library in Baltimore, started a new job directing the content protection and anti-piracy efforts for Warner Music Group, and he and his bride

are expecting their first kiddo in September. Dave already knows it is a boy and is open to all name suggestions; I vote Adam!

Brian Margerum has been summering and wintering in his Towson home. Typically, he can be found in the evenings in his inflatable hot tub. This spring he plans on trying his green thumb on growing cannabis (for medical reasons only, which I assume would be for his kidney stone outbreaks twice a year). His wife and kids are doing fine, even though they live with a lunatic!

Billy Buppert is still slinging chocolate and making people fat and happy. He has got to be careful though; if he ever runs for president he wants to make sure he doesn’t get the Kavanaugh treatment.

Clayton Apgar and his wife Kate are still living the LA life! Sunshine, traffic and coconut kale smoothies. On the horizon they are preparing for their first baby boy in August; I am sure his penmanship and tennis skills will be off the chain!

Brendan Callahan is still running fast, but mainly after three kids, Beckett (seven), Caden (four) and Audrey (one). He is still doing the commercial real estate thing in Austin, TX. He went back to Maryland to celebrate his 40th with the family.

Tom Hale owns a debt settlement company in NYC, with an office next to Grand Central. He lives on the upper west side with his girlfriend and their pitbull, Chicken Wing. Tom has a yard and an above ground pool that Chicken Wing often can be found in during the Summer!

Krishna Tripuraneni celebrated his 10th anniversary with his bride Sangeetha. They are enjoying little league baseball with their children and often wonder if the Orioles could even beat their kids’ team!

Patrick Yeoman is working for an educational non-profit in Los Angeles. He is creating educational programming for public school districts around southern California. Pat, always being super creative and authentic, actually designed and implemented a Shakespeare program, of which he is very proud!

Parijat Didolkar currently is in the process of moving back to Baltimore to be a cardiac surgeon at Sinai hospital. He currently lives in Knoxville, TN as a cardiothoracic surgeon. His wife, Mandy is a pediatrician and they have three children. JP (seven), Lainey (five), and Ella (two).

Mark Holloway recently purchased a home in Kentucky, where his family plans to live. The home is actually serving as a pit stop for Mark as he travels between NY and LA. Mark is working on a couple of startups and is at Discovery Education.

Tyler Brawner is now wrangling two kids, Charlotte and Henry, who play very well together until Charlotte decides to steal Hank’s toys and then all hell breaks loose.

Kenrick McNish finished his Masters of Sports Leadership a few summers ago and is looking to make a move to athletic director. He celebrated seven years of marriage and his 16th year in education!

Michael Stanley is living in Astoria, Queens. He and his wife Dana love being parents to Sara, who is a little over 1 ½ and thinks she should be in charge of every situation. He is organizing with the IAF to help improve public housing and mental health care in NYC.

Roderick Arz is still an attorney in NYC. He, his wife, and their two boys are moving north out of the city to Westchester this summer.

John Schmick continues to enjoy teaching and coaching at Gilman. Luvin and his family recently moved to campus. His son, Johnny, is in first grade with Karlo Young’s son, Chidi. Please stop by and see him if you are on campus.

Ajay Bhatia is working hard to help rebuild the Heart Center at the Children’s Hospital of New Orleans. He rode in his first Mardi Gras parade this year in his father’s refurbished yellow 1990 Honda CRX, Hail Bacchus!

Willy Yonkers moved to Rochester, NY last summer. Sold a board game idea to Mattel (Chess Unbound) and is now working for a tech startup founded by a bunch of RIT grads.

Alec Riepe is currently running his family business and doesn’t have time to fill in his class notes because he is ‘soooo busy.’ He may have had a second daughter last year.

James Bentley II has now served two mayors of Baltimore City as their press secretary. (JV, I thought you said you were keeping James out of trouble?) James handles the daily media and interview requests for the mayor.

Hadi Annous in January of 2019 joined Social Solutions International, a USG contractor based in Rockville, as their VP of finance and accounting. He still lives in Northern VA with his wife and three kids.

Karlo Young is currently VP and general manager at 2U, Inc., a global EdTech company and serves as board president of the Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust (B.E.S.T.). He’s excited that he continues to have a close connection to Gilman as co-director of the Gilman Black Alumni Leadership Institute

(GBALI) and as a member of the Gilman Board of Trustees. He and his wife Ngozi are busy as they recently had their third child. Their son Chidi is finishing up first grade at Gilman and he’s having a blast.

Nishant Merchant is all good! Kids are getting bigger, two and four. Still trying to “fix the broken people” of Hartford as his son puts it. Also, Nishant is tossing it out there and I would also like to know “if anyone has any financial advice on early retirement, please let us know.”

Brian Ransdell celebrated his 40th this year with his babylove Marybeth. They rented a VW Bug and hopped around Europe wearing berets. They drank beer in Germany, saw the Schwarzenegger museum in Austria, visited a false teeth manufacturer in Liechtenstein, and wore lederhosen in the Swiss Alps while singing, “The Hills are Alive.” Brian told me his six years of intensive French language study apparently evaporated from his brain, Je suis desole Monsieur Demule.

Danny Coyle is still living in DC and is preparing for the Senior PGA Tour by playing cash games in the Tristate area. If he actually does get beaten his opponents are too scared to collect their winnings.

Wally Aughenbaugh has also been practicing and chipping in his yard. He yearns to get out on the golf course more often, maybe a match soon with Coyle.

Brandon Cornes — or I should say CDR Brandon Cornes — is the executive officer onboard USS Tulsa and recently commissioned his brand-new warship in San Francisco. He’s also been in and out of homeport San Diego, finishing a four-month testing period of Tulsa’s engineering and combat systems to include reaching speeds of 40+ knots, firing missiles and shooting the 57mm gun. He is set to deploy as the captain next year in the Western Pacific, defending our freedom. Thanks Brandon, I now feel inadequate; my toughest decision today was whether or not I wanted flaxseed in my Berry Garcia Smoothie!

David Kim joined a non-profit teen literary magazine, Teen Ink, as its co-executive director.

Josh Hrebiniak was last seen on Rose Street in the Canton neighborhood back in 2015. He is believed to be 5´5˝, striking blue eyes and fluctuates between 180 and 220 lbs. Mysteriously his work email address changed due to the notorious silent ‘H’ which has always been an annoyance for anyone asking, “Can you spell that for me sir?” There have been reports of his sightings in the D.C., and NYC areas and in various socialistic European countries. If found: probably best to ignore.

Bobby Moran and his wife bought a new house in Washington, D.C. where they live with their dog, Kunu. And after eight+ years at POLITICO, Bobby will be leaving his role as chief revenue officer to take on the similar role at an education technology company based in D.C. called EverFi. In his spare time, Bobby has been tutoring Geoff Greenblatt, helping him to get his MBA.

John Allen Sykes is in medical sales, lives in Northeast Baltimore and has three daughters. His oldest Kya finished up her freshman year at St. Johns University in New York.

Edwin Merrick, since leaving a big law life, has enjoyed coaching his seven-year-old’s basketball team to consecutive third and fifth place finishes in their league. Hmmm, maybe time to get back to the office Edwin, onward and upward!

Joe Vargas is a dentist in Crofton and has a wife, Lucy, and three kids. He continues to volunteer with the southern Maryland community through their Mission of Mercy. This program provides free dental care to underserved populations, who would otherwise be unable to receive dental care. When not practicing dentistry, he and Sykes can be found at the local World Gym spotting each other on the bench press!

Keith Baker lives on the water in Severna Park, has a boat, a smoking hot blonde wife and a sick tan. He has two boys with flowing locks that can rip upper 90s with both hands. The only furniture in Bake’s house are foldable beach chairs.

As for me, Will Lanahan, I apologize for taking a few years off since our 20th reunion. I figured the year we all turned 40 would be a good time to collect class notes. I just celebrated my 16th year at Vineyard Vines. My wife, Shannon, and I live in Greenwich, CT and get back to Baltimore and Annapolis quite often. Looking forward to our 25th in a couple of years. Be well, stay safe and keep doing amazing things Centennial Class of 1997. Peace, Love, and Remembrances to Paul Mullan and Scott Carter

Chad Prather prather.chad@gmail.com

Hello, darlings. Here be yon updates:

Darby Butts is a Partner and the COO of 20Mission Cerveza in Medellin, Colombia, the fourth largest craft brewery in the country and the largest privately owned one at that. 20Mission Cerveza includes a restaurant, bar, and event space that can hold up to 900 people (25th reunion tour, Gilman???), and its beer is sold in over 75 locations throughout Medellin. When not working on expansion plans, Darby continues to travel, most recently to Bolivia. He is also doing non-profit work with a local orphanage, so far raising over $25,000.

Jonathan Cooper has been spending quite a bit of time on Gilman’s campus, mentoring underclassmen in the Startup Experience elective. He lives in Mt. Washington with wife Sarah (BMS ’98), son Ben (Gilman ’24), daughter Emma (BMS ’27), and dog Dory (Puppy Class ’18). It is noted, as well, that Jon enjoys watching Tom Prevas gobble the crabs at alumni events.

Viraj Mehta wonders if the people wish to know that he, Katie, and the girls have moved from Perry Hall to Phoenix/Jacksonville, Md. The reply is yes. (Stalking on the Facebook, the people also wish to know more about Super Viraj’s harrowing rescue of a scantily clad man from an overturned vehicle in early May.)

News from Brian Mir is that his graphic design company is now officially — this is awesome — the Fresh Prints on Belair.

Will Spencer lives in the woods somewhere in South Jersey. He and Katie are elated to announce the birth of Charlotte Anne Spencer, who arrived back in January 2019. Big brother Alex (seven), also living in said woods, is attending the Moorestown Friends Quaker School in Moorestown, NJ.

Also welcoming a new human, Mark Stamidis and wife Kathy share that Christian Panos Stamidis was born on July 27, 2018. The Stamidis family remains in Parkville, Mark working for CareFirst and Kathy eradicating polio from the planet (travelling to Africa and India).

Mike Tully continues to raise money for the fight against cancer on behalf of the Spencer Grace Foundation. Established in memory of Mike’s niece, the organization funds cutting-edge research and treatments; it also provides support to patients and their families. The SGF mobilizes 100% of all donations to

combat pediatric cancer. [Mike did not make this request… but I am urging all members of the ’98 family to contribute at thespencergracefoundation.org.]

Now turning to the updates I usually make up, I’ll simply say that some of this is true, and some is less true. Tom Prevas (he of the aforementioned crab-gobbling) was honored in the Baltimore Business Journal’s 2018 class of “40 Baltimoreans under 40.”

Tom and Justin Short are in the early stages of a collaborative pudding-mural about the disappointing journey of a eucalyptus leaf through the non-fermenting hindgut of a baby koala.

Also taken by a love of marsupials, Nick Funk is framing out a new podcast entitled How a Kangaroo Do. He says it is for the youth.

Not passionate about marsupials but about human feet, Kevin Culbertson is trying to convince Tina to let him open a Scrubby-Scrubby Toe Salon in Owings Mills.

As for me (Chad Prather), I’m just sitting here in Nashville drinking fair-trade coffee, keeping the family pinworm-free, and working on my music.

1999

Bill Miller bmilleriv@gmail.com

Del Schmidt: Excited to announce the merger of my family business, Chase Fitzgerald & Co with another locally owned firm with multiple generations of roots in the real estate industry, O’Conor & Mooney (they’re both Loyola guys but we won’t hold it against them.) We are now known as O’Conor Mooney & Fitzgerald.

Beau Smith: Very excited that our son, Reid, will be starting kindergarten in the fall!

2000

Charlie Ring

charlie.Ring@gmail.com

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2001

Joe Hong

joe.hong@post.harvard.edu

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2002

Chris Atkins catkins135@yahoo.com

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2003

John Mooney jhmooney@gmail.com

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2004

Alex Cole alexander.w.cole@gmail.com

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2005

Tyler Hoffberger wthoffberger@gmail.com

Paul Huber: My wife and I welcomed our first child, Madeline Pearl Huber, in November 2017. We live in sunny Santa Monica (Los Angeles area) and are finally getting a little more sleep (and drinking a lot more coffee). I work for a private investment firm and focus primarily on software and technology investments.

2006

Adam Kovars askovars@gmail.com

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2007

Whit Johnson

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At press time we learned that Adam Janet, a 12-year man, passed away on June 29. He leaves behind a wife, Corinne, and daughter, Ricki. Adam will be remembered for his gentle nature, kind spirit, intelligence, and commitment to his family and friends.

After Gilman, Adam attended Northwestern University and the University of Maryland Law School, where he earned Magna Cum Laude and the Order of the Coif. As a partner at Janet, Janet, & Suggs, he was recognized as a 2019 Rising Star by Super Lawyers.

At his funeral service, the rabbi read a moving letter that Adam had written to him several months ago. In it, he called Gilman an “incredibly wonderful institution,” and recognized the School for teaching him how to be a gentleman (even if, he admitted, he may have not acted as one all the time). He credited Gilman as the place where his closest friendships developed and were nurtured.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory may be made to The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins; or The Adam Janet Memorial Fund of Tau Delta Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi at Northwestern University.

Matt Chriss: married Elizabeth Cortlandt Rosebro (Libby) in Richmond, VA on December 22, 2018. Evan Chriss (’04), Peter Fallon (’07), Teddy Hart (’07), Stephen Salsbury (’07) and Alex Thomas (’07) were members of the wedding party. Greyhounds from the classes of ’68 through ’11 were represented as well and enjoyed cheering on the Baltimore Ravens during their regular season victory over the Los Angeles Chargers.

David Fitzpatrick: married Meredith McClatchy on October 27, 2018 in Annapolis, Md. They were accompanied by a host of hounds, including 2007 classmates Andrew Hansen, Andrew Blomquist, Peter Fallon, Stephen Salsbury, Patrick Farha, Alex Thomas, Brooks Hauf, and Matt Chriss, as well as Brendan Simmons ’08. David and Meredith first met at Gilman’s Senior Prom before attending Williams College together!

Lyons George: is pursuing his juris doctor degree at Stanford Law School. He credits an interest in white-collar defense to his later years at Gilman, and looks forward to eventually besting David Shea in court.

2008

Kevin Niparko kevin.j.niparko@gmail.com

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2009

Eli Kahn ebkahn25@gmail.com

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2010

Christian Moscardi moscardi79@gmail.com

Cabel Alfriend: Teaching eighth grade English and social studies in NYC!

2011

Austin Dase ahdase@gmail.com

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2012

Evan King eking110@vt.edu

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2013 Quinn Flaks quflaks@gmail.com

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2014

Kyle Tarantino katarantino@gmail.com

Greg Alspaugh gralspaugh@davidson.edu

Fitzhugh Lee: is a junior at the United States Air Force Academy, and was inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi for being in the top 7% academically of his class.

Weimin Li: I will be joining the Chinese tech giant Tecent’s Investment and M&A team in Beijing after graduation from University of Chicago.

Wylie Rice: Graduated from Johns Hopkins University from the school of Arts and Sciences in May and will start at AXA Advisors in July.

Alex Witherspoon: I am graduating from Dartmouth in June and moving to San Francisco in August. Let me know if you will be in the area!

2015

If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Director of Alumni Relations and Outreach Nathaniel Badder ’94 at nbadder@gilman.edu.

Nick Johnson: After graduating from Davidson College, I’ll be heading to Trinity College Dublin to enroll in a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature.

2016

If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Director of Alumni Relations and Outreach Nathaniel Badder ’94 at nbadder@gilman.edu

Frederick Leatherbury: Elected president of my chapter of Kappa Alpha Order.

2017

If you would like to serve as class secretary, please contact Director of Alumni Relations and Outreach Nathaniel Badder ’94 at nbadder@gilman.edu.

Jordan Yaffe: I have founded a new organization called Focus, dedicated to mental health, and in the fall, we are launching our first program, called Momentum, specifically designed for college students. Momentum is a fifteen-week program completed together by specialized teams of four college students; throughout the fifteen weeks, teams are challenged to master their emotions, build positive habits, expand their mental and physical zones of comfort, and prioritize what matters, all while investigating the most profound aspects of human nature and the future of our species. There are 54 spots available in this Fall 2019 program. The application is available on our website: focus-mentalhealth.com. We will officially close the application process by September 1; however, we are submitting applicants on a rolling basis, so the 54 spots will likely fill up before then. Please apply if you are interested in this organization; it would

be really cool to have any of you be in the program. Once you complete the program, you will have the opportunity to lead a team in the spring and to also join our business team. Please follow us on Instagram @focusmentalhealth

Piper Bond

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It is bizarre to think that it has been 11 months since I graduated from Gilman, but school and life have been going well so far. I am currently attending college at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pa. I like Penn and think it’s a great fit, as I like the campus and I’ve met a lot of interesting and nice people from all over the country. I am playing lacrosse and we are currently ranked #7 in the country and #1 in the Ivy League, with two games left in the regular season (as of 4/14)! I am still undecided on a major, but am potentially leaning towards Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). This summer I considered getting an internship in Baltimore or Philadelphia, but I decided to put that off until next summer. Instead, I want to travel some, and I plan to live and work at the beach in Ocean City, Md. I also look forward to coming back to Baltimore/Gilman over the summer and seeing lots of guys from high school in the coming months!

UPenn #54 Piper Bond clearing the ball in a 16-15 win against Cornell.