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4 Master Class Choral students travel and sing abroad. jodi pluznik
14 Treasures Online Gilman joins Digital Maryland, making artifacts accessible.
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2 Message from the Headmaster 58 In Memoriam: Frank Deford ’57
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62 Founders Day 2017 73 Class Notes
Departments 16 School News Gilman joins University of Pennsylvania Independent School Teaching Residency program. 26 Alumni Alumni gatherings around Baltimore and beyond; Alumni Weekend 2017. 38 Athletics Updates on Gilman’s 16 interscholastic sports; Boo Smith ’70 steps down from coaching squash. 54 Development Supporters earn Medallion Society recognition; Dave Allan ’64 plans gift to meet students’ emergency and ancillary financial needs.
Headmaster Henry P. A. Smyth at Founders Day, June 11.
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From the Headmaster
Dear Gilman Family, When prospective families visit Gilman to see if it might be a good school for their sons to attend, I speak to those groups about the relentless pursuit of our mission to educate the whole boy in mind, body, and spirit. Yes, academic excellence is at the core of our program, and I am quick to highlight the strength and rigor of our curriculum. At the same time, we all believe that there is more to being a fully educated person than the three Rs. Character is of the utmost importance and forms the foundation of our being. Physical fitness and the lessons learned through athletics are critical. An appreciation of art and music make us more whole. A commitment to serving others provides purpose and direction in our lives. In all of these things, we challenge the boys to strive for excellence — to be their best selves in the fullest sense of the phrase. This edition of the Bulletin features an article on an extraordinary trip to Europe taken by our choral groups over spring break. Mixing opportunities to soak in sights, work with other students and musicians, and perform an impressive repertoire to various audiences, the trip expanded our students’ horizons and demanded that they bring out their best in every setting. Everyone who went on the trip returned to Gilman gushing with superlatives to describe their experiences, and it is safe to say that they came back as more interesting individuals and a better, more accomplished group. Such trips are invaluable educational opportunities, and Gilman is so fortunate to have teachers who make them happen.
This issue also includes, among other things, pieces on athletic success over the course of the school year, interesting and engaging speakers on campus this spring, and an exciting new partnership with the University of Pennsylvania and other independent schools. In covering such a range of topics and activities, the Bulletin effectively captures, in two important ways, the spirit of our mission to educate the whole boy. First, to educate our students most fully — to challenge them to be their best selves — we must continue to expose them to a variety of fields, pushing the boundaries of their comfort zones and reminding them of the importance of being well rounded men. Second, we must set a high bar for the excellence our boys should aspire to reach, providing them with examples of success and achievement available to them. Taken together, exposure to new and different things and setting the bar high help to teach Gilman boys and men that there is no limit to what is possible. Of course, the Bulletin also serves to keep you connected to the Gilman community, whether or not you have been on campus recently, and I hope that the stories, profiles, and notes contained herein bring you back to Roland Avenue. Furthermore, I hope that they pique your own curiosity and promote a sense of continued learning that helps to make you the best version of yourself. Sincerely,
Henry P. A. Smyth Headmaster
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Middle and Upper School sing their way through Salzburg, Vienna, and Prague, and into the hearts of each other.
Intrepid Gilman travelers pose in Prague’s historic Old Town Square.
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Perhaps the true success of a cross-division trip abroad manifests a few weeks after the boys return home and resume their usual school day routines. Students, appropriately, silo in their divisions, with minimal daily interaction among older and younger boys. An Upper School guy might go through an entire day without seeing a Middle or Lower School guy. Yet this happened, a few weeks after spring break: a teacher witnesses what could have been in a movie, slowmotion, run up, hug each other, howya doing, how’s it been greeting between sophomore Ben Levinson and sixth-grader Brody Schrepfer. Not so long before, the boys were virtual strangers.
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Ben and Brody, along with 41 other boys in grades six through 12, accompanied by six chaperones and led by Elizabeth Sesler-Beckman, Middle School music teacher and choral director, and Robby Ford, Upper School math teacher and choral director, spent eight days singing their way through Salzburg, Vienna, and Prague on a biennial choral trip abroad. There’s no disputing that field trips are a common and widely-accepted educational practice. Gilman seventh-grade boys visit Civil War battlefields. Miss Miller takes her first graders to visit Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Prep-One visits the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore and joins first graders to attend a Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performance. The fifth grade sets off
The full choir sings in St. Nicholas Church, Salzburg, the site of the first performance of “Silent Night� in 1818. The choir shared the concert with Kinderchor der Musikum Oberndorf.
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Clockwise, beginning in upper left hand corner: at Neuschwanstein Castle, a 19th century Romanesque Revival palace in southwest Bavaria, Germany; concert in Perchtoldsdorf Castle, Vienna, shared with Chor des Musischen
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Realgynnasiums; experiencing the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna; touring the magnificent St. Vitus Cathedral in the Prague castle; stunning scenery near Salzburg on the “Sound of Music” tour; final tour performance at the Klementinum in Prague, shared with PORG School.
to study Colonial history at Jamestown. This notion of firsthand witness and immersion expands into experiential learning opportunities, whether outdoor education at Echo Hill or the Mountain Institute, service learning afternoons at Pickersgill, or an Outward Bound Expedition along the Appalachian Trail for the entire freshman class. This trip took experiential learning one step further, exposing 43 boys to the expected outcomes of a study abroad trip — historical and cross-cultural learning — as well as offering elements germane to young musicians — opportunities to perform and practice their craft. And, during a trip that features five performances in eight days, exposure to the frenetic life of a touring musician. What’s particularly unique about the Gilman trip is that different age groups combine. In fact, KIconcerts, the tour and staging company that arranged the trip, hardly sees groups meld ages so successfully. “The interaction across the ages — this was genuine and it was caring and it occurred without teachers needing to encourage it,” wrote Oliver Scofield, the KIconcerts president, in an email to Sesler-Beckman and Ford. “Your students were as good ambassadors for their community and their country that we have ever toured. Individually they were a pleasure for others to meet and as a group they exuded great energy commented on by many in Austria and the Czech Republic.” “It’s a bit awkward at first with the different ages,” says Ford, who directs the Glee Club and the Traveling Men. Travelers are organized into pods of one chaperone and seven boys, mixing younger with older. Along the way, the older boys begin to look out for the younger. Ford recalls the last choral trip, in 2015 to the UK and London. “We instruct the older boys, ‘you have to take care of the younger boys, you have to make sure that they stick with you.’ I can remember Jake Goodwin (’16) picking up one of our younger guys, holding him and just walking him onto the Tube. Finally, the younger boy says, ‘You know, Jake, you could put me down now.’”
“Without us even saying anything this time, the older boys naturally took care of their younger Gilman brothers,” says Sesler-Beckman. Many of the Upper School boys are seasoned performance travelers, as they were part of the UK trip. “In 2015, they were tiny middle schoolers singing soprano and now they’re Traveling Men. I’ve seen them evolve as people and singers through voice parts, and I’ve also seen them go from being the young guys looking up to the older guys to becoming the older guys themselves.” During their travels, importantly, students learn independence and resilience. They learn to overcome tiredness and muster the strength to perform well. They learn flexibility and adaptability since performance logistics, such as how to get on and off the stage, how to stand, what is the concert set list, how to interact with another school’s performers, even how to sing in a church that’s only 50 degrees (apparently, Austrian churches aren’t heated), can be finalized only in the performance space, just a few hours before the concert. They learn to communicate in an environment where not everyone may speak English. For some, this trip may be the first time they have traveled without their parents, or the first time they have been away from home at all. The older teens learn to be patient with the younger guys; the younger guys learn to relax, open up, and assert their sometimes new-found independence. And, like Ben and Brody, they become buddies and brothers. Working with KIconcerts, Ford and Sesler-Beckman designed a trip that would take the boys to places they might not normally travel on family holiday. They also ensured opportunities for the boys to interact with students from the countries and cultures they visited. The tour included sites of particular interest to students of music, and the boys gave four 1.5 hour concerts, plus a mini-concert, during the eight-day period, performing in various types of venues to audiences of varying sizes.
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The Traveling Men draw an audience at an impromptu performance in Prague.
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“We were literally in some of the most music-enriched environments in the world. You cannot walk through the cemetery in Vienna and see Beethoven’s grave and see these landmark places without having a shiver go down your spine,” remarks Sesler-Beckman. “Just walking around these cities shows how much the arts are venerated and permeate every part of the culture.” In contrast to the sort of music appreciation field trips most students take at some point during their school years — for example, that first grade trip to the BSO — instead of consuming music, the boys create it. They rise to the occasion and “up their game” when they sing in spaces, especially churches, with magnificent
acoustics. The performance experience spurs some boys to realize they may want to travel more as singers, which attracts them to college programs where they may have the opportunity to sing. During the trip, the chaperones asked the boys to write daily reflections, which were, in turn, sent home to parents in a group email. The quotes below are taken from the boys’ posts. In Salzburg, the boys visited Mozart’s birthplace, where they saw a lock of his hair and an original score in his handwriting. “As young musicians, I feel that it is very necessary that we make trips like this one to places and landmarks of musical importance, in order to contextualize the lives of those other
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musicians who have come before us,” wrote Barrett Crawford ’18. Their first concert later that day took place at St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf, the site of the first performance of “Silent Night” in 1818. At that point, the group had been in Europe for a little more than 24 hours. The choirs performed in a shared concert with the Jugendensenble Lamprechtshausen vom Musikum Oberndorf. “After an hour long rehearsal to warm up and get back up to speed, the concert began with both groups performing ‘Swing Low,’ followed by the Middle School, and then the Upper School. I was very lucky to be able conduct the Upper School piece ‘Ubi Caritas’ during the performance, and I could not think of a place I would rather have made my conducting debut,” relayed John Ball ’17. When the group reached Vienna, they toured sights from “The Sound of Music,” visiting the house used for the Von Trapp’s home in the 1964 movie, as well as the gazebo where the “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” scene was filmed, and Mondsee Abbey, where Maria was married in the movie. The gazebo visit, recalled Owen Kleis ’20, “resulted in quite a lot of singing.” They also visited Mozart’s “Figaro House,” the only one of Mozart’s residences still in existence. A stop at the city’s Central Cemetery revealed Ludwig van Beethoven’s monument and the graves of Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, and Johann Strauss, among other distinguished composers, musicians, and vocalists. The second performance was a servicelearning outreach concert at Mareinheim Senior Home in Vienna. “It’s always cheering to be reminded of the joy music brings to many people,” remarked Ben Levinson ’19 after the group performed for approximately 40 residents. “Despite having a language barrier with the audience, the residents seemed to have genuinely enjoyed our visit.” The next day, the boys shared a concert with Chor des Musischen Realgymnasiums at Perchtolsdorf Castle, located a half-hour
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outside of Vienna. The Gilman boys and the Austrian teen choir rehearsed and performed “Swinging with the Saints” jointly. “It was truly delightful to see our boys meeting and talking with their Austrian singing counterparts after the concert,” says Sesler-Beckman. “There have been people living continuously where we sang since 6,000 B.C., and the venue was built into a castle that was 1,000 years old. It’s hard for us to comprehend.” The final concert, in Prague the day before leaving Europe, was shared with the Jazz Rock Band from the PORG School, with which Gilman shares an exchange program. PORG is the first independent school founded in the Czech Republic since the fall of communism. Earlier in the day, the boys sang for PORG students in the school’s courtyard. The Gilman boys also met with a PORG English class, allowing for one-on-one interaction with peers. Working in pairs, the Czech students answered open-ended questions (for example, what kinds of music do you like? What would the world be like without music?) in writing. The Gilman students helped correct their answers. “My group had a wonderful conversation about the many differences between our two countries,” remarked Chase Baker ’19. “The trip has been an incredible adventure,” Sesler-Beckman wrote in a final email to parents before departure to the States. “You should be very proud of your sons’ accomplishments and their contributions throughout this trip. We certainly feel privileged to have shared this experience with them.” The Semmes G. (Buck) Walsh Fund at Gilman helped subsidize the cost of the trip. Buck Walsh, past parent and former Traveling Men director, created the fund to support male a cappella singing through a bequest.
The Traveling Men The Traveling Men, an a cappella group founded in 1952 on the model of Yale’s famous “Whiffenpoofs,” are one of Gilman’s proudest institutions. The group’s repertoire includes standard barbershop-style tunes, as well as sacred choral works and popular songs. The group, composed of students from each high school grade selected through auditions each year, performs up to 60 times each year, with most of the performances in the greater community outside Gilman. They are particularly well known for their serenades at the local girls’ schools.
All State Eleven Gilman musicians were selected from among more than 3,000 students who auditioned to participate in the Maryland All State orchestras, bands and choruses. “It is truly an honor to have so many of our music students representing Gilman on the state level,” said Middle School Music Teacher Elizabeth Sesler-Beckman. All State Senior Chorus Barrett Crawford ’18 (tenor) Sean Kim ’19 (bass) All State Junior Chorus Alex DeVito ’20 (bass) Thomas Langston ’20 (tenor) James MacDonald ’21 (tenor) Ben Richardson ’21 (tenor)
Jazz Master The Upper School Jazz Band packed three days of music experiences into a February day trip to New York City. They participated in a workshop at Lincoln Center, toured historic musical sights, and attended a performance of the NY Philharmonic as well as a sound check with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The workshop provided students the opportunity to work directly with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members. The band played “Bemsha Swing” by Thelonious Monk and “Symphony in Riffs” by Benny Carter. String ensemble members and music history students also made the trip. Read more on our blog, Lumen, gilmanschool.wordpress.com.
All State Senior Orchestra Bryan Huang ’18 (violin) Richard Kim ’19 (violoncello) All State Junior Orchestra Ryan Kim ’21 (violoncello) All State Junior Band Jeffrey Li ’20 (percussion) Daniel Yi ’20 (clarinet)
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From the Archives
Treasures Online
Gilman recently joined Digital Maryland, a collaborative, statewide digitization program headquartered at the Maryland State Library Resource Center/ Enoch Pratt Free Library. Archivist Johanna Schein uploaded nearly 500 photographs and images of artifacts to the Gilman School Archives collection. “My goal is to make the Gilman Archives more accessible, to digitize and share our collections widely,” says Schein. “Digital Maryland provides us a platform to share our resources with researchers, genealogists, and historians and allows us to join the community of Maryland historical institutions.” The collection includes photographs documenting the School’s history, from its earliest days as the nation’s first country
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day school through the late 1990s (to date). A visit to the collection offers a virtual stroll through Gilman history: Look for an image of Oliver Assembly Hall, known to some as “A” Study Hall and some others as Centennial Hall, or the Fisher Memorial Reading Room, once the Fisher Memorial Dining Hall. Digitizing and cataloging photographs and adding to the collection are an ongoing project. Ninth-grader Jordan Bonardi ’20 is helping Schein with this effort. In fact, he posted the Class of 1905 photograph published at right. Check out our collection: gilman.edu/ digitalmaryland
Class of 1905 Pictured left to right, members of The Country School for Boys third graduating class: Harry Hardcastle, Hambleton Ober, Albert Ober, Julian Ridgely, and Douglas Ober.
Found in the Gilman School Archives Digital Maryland Collection
Students, 1897 This photograph from 1897 shows five of the first 32 students to attend the Country School for Boys: (left to right) Arunah Brady, John Brady, John Gilman D’Arcy Paul, Stansbury Brady, and Lennox Clemens. Fun fact: John Gilman D’Arcy Paul grew to become passionate about historic preservation, and he led efforts to restore Hampton Mansion in Towson. He also helped create Susquehanna State Park.
1905 Class Pin This 1905 is the earliest pin artifact held by the Archives. Class pins remain an enduring Gilman tradition; each graduating class receives one. The Middle School gives pins its own spin — since the early 2000s, each boy receives a special annual pin on his birthday (or, for boys born during summer break, half-birthdays).
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A Class Act Lana Janian
In a 2005 school admissions marketing video, then first grade classroom teacher Lana Janian’s ethos shines: “Whatever the class comes in as, by the end of the year I love them,” she says with a smile and a shrug. “They become part of my family.”
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Janian’s “family” extends not only to the myriad lucky boys she shepherded through first grade, but also to the family she created for the entire school community with each Lower School acceptance letter. She spent the last decade of her 23-year Gilman career welcoming the young boys who will eventually become 12-year, 13-year, and even 14-year men. Janian did not take this task of creating class cohorts lightly. The boys she accepted as kindergarten, prep-one, or first graders form the nucleus of a Gilman graduating class. In five or six years, they will be joined by boys entering as sixth graders; in three more years, by those entering as Upper School freshman. She held high standards for boys admitted to Gilman, and she was always dedicated to bringing boys of best fit to the School. Her Lower School colleagues describe her as genuine, cultured, kind, hard-working, dedicated, detail-oriented, responsible, approachable, a friend, professional, courteous, classy — in dress, food, travel, and attitude.
“Many of us look up to her and admire her,” remarks fourth grade teacher Jennie Iglehart. “We would go to Lana for advice and sound counsel. She always had time for everyone even at the height of admissions season.” “In my first couple of years here (and in several beyond), I learned a lot about Gilman through Lana’s perspectives and insights,” remarks Adam Herb, a fourth grade homeroom teacher who assists with parts of the admissions process. “It was great to see and I hope to emulate her balanced work in action — from professional, sometimes difficult, conversations with adults to observing her work so patiently and lightly with four year olds.” Janian’s patience with young children belies her core: master teacher. Lower School Assistant Head Lisa Teeling remembers her first visit to Gilman when she was interviewing for a teaching position. “Someone told me that if I had time, as I wandered the school, I should visit Lana’s classroom. It was evident from only minutes, that Lana was the kind of
master teacher that we all seek to emulate — poised and natural, connected to the boys, and classy.” “She is a class act, inside and out,” says French teacher Isabelle Giorgis. Lana Janian joined the Gilman Lower School faculty in 1994. She taught first grade until she became director of Lower School admissions in 2007. Her son Alex is a member of the class of 2005. Her retirement plans include traveling, going to Redeemer pre-school to read to her grandson, long walks, and time with her husband, Haig.
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Retiring Man Albert Harris
Albert Harris retired this June after serving 10 years as the Lower School day porter.
If Albert Harris has a flaw, it may be only that he is a Steelers fan in a Ravens town. “Even though I’m a Baltimore fan, I enjoyed talking football with Albert from time to time,” says Adam Herb. “It’s always fun to hear a Steelers fan grumbling about the Ravens!” In fact, several of Harris’s Lower School co-workers remarked that the only time they ever saw him in a grumpy mood was the day after the Steelers lost to the Ravens. “Albert is a wonderful gentleman,” says Spanish teacher Cecilia Eppler. “He is polite, kind and super, super helpful. Every time I need any help from him he is right there and takes care of everything! He also inspires me not to eat all those sweets from the faculty room!” Harris’s efforts ensured the entire Lower School building remained a safe and supportive learning environment for the boys. He was helpful to his colleagues in reminding them to put in work orders for different room set-ups, and then helping to make those set-ups happen. And, when faculty might lend a hand, he would scold
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them with his smile and laugh because he truly had everything under control. And some tasks were heartbreaking for animal lover Harris, who would regale listeners with stories about his adopted dog, Coco. “I will never forget the moment that I discovered the softer side of Albert, when he handed me a pair of gloves that he brought up to use for the disposal of Mr. X’s pet bunny Samantha,” reflects Lisa Teeling. “No words were exchanged, but I knew that he could not bear removing the rigid bunny from the cage; his heart was too big. We worked as a team. I did the removal, and he left with the remains. It was an unusual kind of bonding experience and one which I will never forget.” His hearty laughter and cheerful smile will be missed in the Lower School hallways. “He was the best day porter I remember in 30 years here,” says Jennie Iglehart. “I sincerely wish him a peaceful, happy retirement.”
Training Aspiring Teachers Gilman joins prestigious University of Pennsylvania Independent School Teaching Residency Gilman is excited to announce it is an inaugural member of the Independent School Teaching Residency (ISTR), an innovative new collaboration between the Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania and a consortium of 10 of the nation’s leading independent day schools. The School will welcome its first two fellows next school year; by the 2018-2019 school year, Gilman will be home to four Penn fellows. Gilman’s two teaching fellowships, the Class of 1955 Henry Callard and the Michael Howard Cooper, are now part of the Penn Fellows. In the initial year, Gilman will welcome Sarah Lloyd as Callard Fellow and Ethan Faust as Cooper Fellow. With an innovative and comprehensive curriculum, the program provides aspiring teachers an opportunity to receive a master’s in science of education (M.S. Ed.) from Penn in concert with the exceptional fellowship program already offered at Gilman. The flexible format is also designed to accommodate the rigorous schedule of the fellows and their host
schools: brief, intensive on-site sessions that rotate between the Penn campus and the campus of each day school, paired with innovative and collaborative distance learning. The two-year teaching residency program will involve summer work at Penn each year, online work with the cohort of fellows from partner schools, one weekend a term at one of the consortium schools with faculty from the schools and from Penn, and coursework with a mentor at Gilman. Fellow consortium schools include Greenwich Academy, Hopkins School, North Shore Country Day School, Princeton Day School, Riverdale Country School, Roxbury Latin School, The Shipley School, St. Anne’s-Belfield, and Trinity School. The ISTR expands the successful Penn Residency Master’s in Teaching, which partners with boarding schools around the nation.
About Our Penn Fellows Sarah Lloyd is a graduate of Kenyon College, where she double majored in history and art history and was awarded the Charles and Elizabeth Battle Scholarship for achieving the highest GPA of any art history major at Kenyon. A two-time NCAA All-American and Academic All-American swimmer, Sarah helped Kenyon win the 2015 NCAA Division III Swimming Championship. A graduate of Peddie School (NJ), Sarah will teach Upper School history and coach swimming and water polo. Ethan Faust is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Davidson College, where he majored in English. A leader in campus life at Davidson, Ethan served as sports editor of The Davidsonian, sang in the college choir, and was voted by his peers as vice-chair of the Davidson’s historic Honor Council. In 2016, Ethan taught English and served as a dorm parent and tennis coach at the Northfield Mount Hermon summer session. A native of Boston and graduate of Roxbury Latin School, Ethan will teach Middle School English and coach a range of sports at Gilman.
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Admissions, Reimagined A new organizational model coordinates efforts to attract, enroll, and retain boys of promise.
More than a year ago, Headmaster Henry Smyth announced his intent to reimagine the structure of Gilman’s admissions and financial aid offices. This decision, in part, came on the heels of Bill Gamper ’71’s decision to step away from overseeing school admissions and return full time to teaching, coaching, and advising. “Admissions is hard and unending work, and Bill oversaw a process that has brought countless boys of great promise to Gilman,” says Headmaster Smyth. “What’s more, very few, if any, admissions officers remain connected to the students after the initial process like Bill does.” The model revision restructures Gilman’s admissions, financial aid, and retention efforts into an expanded and more clearly delineated organizational structure. In late January, Smyth appointed Amy Furlong as director of enrollment, a new position. In this broadened role, Furlong oversees admissions offices in each division, as well as the financial aid office. Additionally, she works closely with the division heads and others to coordinate
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retention and re-enrollment, guiding the strategic vision and planning for Gilman’s efforts to attract, enroll, and retain the boys that make our student body second to none. Furlong’s appointment is the result of a search guided by The Finney Search Group, a Baltimore-based, national search and consulting firm. Amy Furlong is Gilman’s first director of enrollment.
Amy Furlong joined the Gilman staff in 2011 to coordinate our admissions outreach efforts, and she served as the director of admissions and outreach during the 2016-2017 school year. A graduate of St. Paul’s School for Girls and the University of Richmond, she began her independent
school professional career in 1991 at McDonogh School, first in development and then as associate director of admissions for the Lower School. In 2007, St. Paul’s School hired Amy to be director of admissions, a position she held until, after a brief stint out of the workforce, then Headmaster John Schmick ’67 lured her to Gilman. “Amy’s deep experience in admissions, ability to think strategically, tremendous work ethic, attention to detail, collaborative spirit, and knowledge of the Baltimore admissions landscape distinguished her candidacy and make her a perfect fit for this new role,” says Headmaster Smyth. Rounding out the senior admissions team are the director of financial aid and admissions directors dedicated to each division. Kip Digges and Amy Summers continue in their roles as director of financial aid and director of Middle School admissions, respectively. Mary Furrer transitions from the classroom to director of Lower School admissions.
Mary Furrer transitions from her teaching role in prep-one to become our director of Lower School admissions, taking over from Lana Janian, who retired at the end of last school year. Mary has been at Gilman since 2012 working in prep-one and kindergarten. Prior to Gilman, Mary worked at St. Paul’s School for 10 years as a Lower School teacher, program director for the before- and after-school programs, and associate director of admissions, Lower School. Mary has a bachelor’s degree in early education and a master’s degree in administration. She also holds certificates in Project Read, Phono-Graphics, and Orton-Gillingham 1. Mary’s husband Paul is a 1996 graduate of Gilman, and their son, Paul, is a rising second grader.
Owen Daly has been selected as our new director of Upper School admissions. Owen has been at Gilman since 2004. He has served in a variety of roles: Middle School sixth grade chair, social studies teacher, coach of multiple sports at multiple levels, and admissions associate supporting both Middle and Upper School. Owen holds a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton University. He received the Apgar Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009 and the Walter Lord Middle School Teaching Prize in 2015. Owen and Kim’s son, Owen, joins our kindergarten program this fall. Owen Daly leaves the Middle School to become director of Upper School admissions.
Ashley Metzbower joined the team as admissions associate last fall to provide administrative support for Middle and Upper School admissions and financial aid. She came to Gilman from Friends School, where she served as registrar and an administrative assistant. She assumed the position previously held by Danielle Moran, who became the associate director of Lower School Admissions. Wendy Barger and Kelly Van Zile have also joined the admissions team as admissions associates. Longtime teacher Barger leaves the classroom to assist part-time with testing, interviews, and prospective parent visiting mornings. Van Zile will support admissions efforts in all three divisions. Most recently, she served as an administrative assistant at Horace Mann Insurance in Burlington, N.C.
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From Gilman to Broadway and Back Bradley King ’02 and Dave Malloy Deliver 2017 Mountcastle Lecture Tony Award-winner Bradley King ’02, John Rowell, Dave Malloy, and Headmaster Henry Smyth at the 2017 Mountcastle Lecture.
“It’s true that this event is traditionally called the Mountcastle Lecture, though I’m temporarily naming it the Mountcastle Conversation,” said Upper School English teacher John Rowell as he welcomed the 2017 George E. P. Mountcastle Memorial Lecture speakers to the stage. Lighting designer Bradley King ’02 and author, composer, lyricist, orchestrator and original star Dave Malloy are two members of the design team behind the smash hit Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. The play is based on a 70-page sliver of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. The New York Times called The Great Comet “the most innovative and the best new musical to open on Broadway since Hamilton.” The 2017 Tony nominations, announced May 2, corroborate this statement. The Great Comet earned 12 nominations, including Best Lighting Design of a Musical for King and Best Book of a Musical for Malloy. On June 11, King won the Tony Award. King and Malloy sat onstage with Rowell, who posed questions to each guest about their careers, training, and the show’s
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development from concept to Broadway. Both men were novices to Broadway, and still seem amazed at having achieved the level of success that they are now enjoying with The Great Comet. King noted that he got his start in theatre on the very stage on which he was being interviewed. His first lighting designs were on the Gilman stage, and he directed the 2002 spring musical, Prom, an original work written and composed by his classmate Derrick Wang ’02. “I found a family here on the stage,” he said. King learned every nook and cranny of the Gilman stage, and even mentioned that somewhere in its bowels is a hidden box of Prom scripts. King found what he wanted to do in life at Gilman, and he was focused on theatre from that time forward, earning both a BFA in theatre directing and an MFA in design from New York University. He talked about his metamorphosis from actor to director to lighting design. His work deals with the properties of light, finding a visual language to create an environment. Unlike set and costume
designers, who deal in much more tangible outcomes like a table and chair or finished costume, lighting designers deal with specter. “There is no way to see what light is going to look like until it hits something,” he says. “All you are doing is formulating ideas. As masochistic as it is, I have no idea what I am really doing until 40 people are in the theatre staring and me and I turn on the first light.” King has worked in theatre, opera, dance, and corporate media throughout the U.S. and U.K. He received nominations for both the Henry Hewes Design Award and the Lucille Lortel Award for his work on Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. In The Great Comet, lighting design is an integral part of the set. Beyond stage lighting, King’s design includes large chandeliers that are key set pieces, small lights on tables that blink on and off, and, because the show submerges its viewers, lighting in the audience. It’s three lighting designs, at least, in one production. Every light bulb, though, is there with a purpose. “All four of us as a design team created an environment, and everything works as a piece of the environment. It’s not lighting and costumes and scenery; we made a world, and it’s a holistic world, and they all work in concert together.” Dave Malloy started as a musician, jumping from pop to jazz to classical to hip hop. At Ohio University he double majored in music and English. He talked about his transition from performing in bands to composing for theatre. “When I started making theatre, I and my collaborators were self-producing, and creating theatre at tiny, tiny, terrible little theatres for absolutely no money, just because we had to do it, we had to create something. You just have to make the work and accept that you are not going to make any money off of it for many, many, many years.” In addition to his work on The Great Comet, Malloy has written the music for ten other musicals, which have been performed on Off and Off-Off Broadway as well as
across the country. Recognition for his projects have included OBIE Special Citation Award, Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater, and ASCAP New Horizons Award. He has been a guest professor at Princeton University and Vassar College. Malloy and King both talked about the importance of the friendships they have made during their careers and how the web of those relationships continue to take them from project to project. Malloy explained that he “basically said yes to everything” when he started out, mainly to cultivate relationships with others. “The relationships you make are really, really important,” Malloy said. Established by his family and friends in 1970, the Mountcastle Lectureship serves as a memorial to George E.P. Mountcastle ’68, an aspiring writer who passed away in 1969 while a sophomore at Harvard University. The annual event brings to Gilman each year a distinguished writer to give a formal address and to spend a day in informal conversations with students and faculty. Visit Gilman’s YouTube channel for video of the 2017 Mountcastle Lecture.
Collaboration Artist Ajay Kurian ’02 called upon his classmate Bradley King to help him think through the lighting of his installation at the Whitney Biennial. The Whitney curators had asked Kurian whether he would be interested in working in their six-story grand stairwall. “It’s basically a giant vertical exhibition,” Kurian describes. The resulting work was comprised of 12 figures of carved stone with a welded steel body and marble heads placed in five different episodes. “Brad helped quite a bit with the lighting here. I had the design, but I didn’t know how to sync things up, what temperatures would be correct, and talking to Brad was really helpful.” In a coincidence of scheduling, Kurian addressed the Upper School in an assembly the day following the Mountcastle Lecture.
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2017 Cotton Lecture Technology weaves a common thread between the work of Ian M. Miller ’82 and Felipe Albuquerque ’83.
The H.K. Douglas Cotton Memorial Lecture annually features business and career lectures for Gilman students, inviting alumni back to speak about their chosen occupations. Though working in very different careers, the speakers at the 37th iteration of the series held on March 24, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP CIO Ian M. Miller ’82 and neurosurgeon Felipe Albuquerque, MD ’83, share a common thread of technology. Ian Miller describes the path to his position as CIO for a global law firm as “straightforward if not direct.” As chief information officer, Miller has global responsibility to enhance the Weil, Gotshal & Manges practice with information technology and to promote sharing of knowledge and information inside the Firm and with its clients. Weil, Gotshal & Manges, headquartered in New York City, is an American international law firm with more than 1,000 attorneys and offices around the globe. Miller was a boy with interest in the nascent field of computers — keep in mind, when he graduated Gilman in 1982, the
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most accessible state-of-the-art technology was an electric typewriter. As a middle schooler, he liked using the school’s HP mini-computer called Huey. “To tell the truth,” he said to a roomful of teenagers with computers in their pockets, “it looked more like an air conditioner than a computer.” Then he heard that the Upper School had a brand-new Apple II, with 4,000 bytes of memory and a color screen. He was desperate to use it. His math teacher, Ron Culbertson, sent him to speak to Ned Thompson, then the Upper School math chair. He went to the scary Upper School, full of a lot of tall people and a stern Mr. Thompson. He asked to use the computer, and Mr. Thompson let him. “To this day, I think that was the gutsiest thing I’ve ever done,” he says. Yet he believes his career began upon visiting the law firm at which his mother worked, which happened to be Ron Shapiro’s. The firm was having a devil of time getting their new IBM PCs to communicate with their old IBM laser printer. He spent the day reading manuals, buying parts — and he got those PCs to print to the laser printer. Mr. Shapiro was so happy, he presented him with a check, “Not Eddie Murray large, but Ian Miller large.” Ian Miller ’82 leads the information technology efforts for Weil, Gotshal & Manges, an American international law firm with more than 1,000 attorneys worldwide.
Miller’s path was to combine his technology skills with business acumen, and he advised the boys to find their own path, and guideposts along the way. His advice: find something you are passionate about. Be better at it than others, so that others will want you to do it. Find the unmet need. Go straight to grad school. Seek mentors
and take advantage of their support. Seize the opportunity to seize leadership roles. Learn to manage, in all directions. Master public speaking and writing. Be right all the time, because you are willing to change your mind. Make your own breaks; never be the victim of circumstance; and, be joyful. Felipe Albuquerque ’83 is one of only two endovascular surgeons in Phoenix who treat neurovascular diseases of the brain and spinal cords through blood vessels.
For Albuquerque, technology represents not computer hardware and printers and networks and cybersecurity, but the means to cure illnesses and save lives. Recognized as one of the outstanding endovascular neurosurgeons in the Southwestern United States, Felipe Albuquerque practices with Barrow Neurosurgical Associates in Phoenix, Arizona. Albuquerque graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore. He subsequently completed his surgical and neurosurgery training at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he also completed an additional year of endovascular training. Dr. Albuquerque joined Barrow Neurological Institute at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in 1999, where he completed two years of additional training in endovascular neurosurgery and cerebrovascular neurosurgery. “One of the fantastic things about my career is being involved in a field that is so technology driven and constantly changing,” says Albuquerque. “The changes enable us to treat diseases we were not able to treat in the past.” Albuquerque is one of only two endovascular neurosurgeons in Phoenix who treat neurovascular diseases of the brain and spinal cord through blood vessels.
Ailments that were once treated through open surgery are now treated through a minimally invasive procedure. Today, Albuquerque can insert a catheter that reaches from the leg to the back of brain. He can reach any part of the brain — making all kinds of hairpin turns in the head along the way. Albuquerque shared the case of a 68-year-old man, treated six hours from suffering a stroke. Scans showed that almost half of his brain was not getting blood. Albuquerque navigated a catheter through the leg, over the heart and into the head to remove the blood clots and restore blood flow. It took four passes through the catheter to clear the blockage, thus opening all the blood vessels in the brain within minutes. The patient left the hospital 24 hours after the procedure in normal neurological condition. “It’s an incredible time in endovascular neurosurgery,” he says. “The technology, the products that we use to treat people weren’t available 15 years ago.” The field is constantly moving forward. Reasonably new technologies include the Pipeline Embolization Device, which enables surgeons to treat very complicated brain embolisms by placing 3mm stents in the brain in succession. There is now a product called Onyx, a liquid embolic agent that, once injected, turns solid, thus blocking tumors and blood vessel malformations and allowing for resection. For Albuquerque, there is nothing more rewarding than the impact in clinical management of critically ill patients — in sort, saving someone’s life. The vibrant practice at Barrow enables him and his colleagues to constantly contribute to the advancement of their field; because they treat so many patients, they are able to see the results of the different techniques they use, which they then share with colleagues around the world with published papers and presentations. “It’s technically challenging work,” he says. “It’s down and dirty stuff. I come home, I have blood on my shoes from the work that I do.”
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Alumni Weekend April 28–29, 2017
More than 650 alumni and guests from 26 states, plus one foreign country, gathered to celebrate Alumni Weekend 2017. The weekend was chock-full of activity: the Alumni Golf Outing on a perfect weather day, an Art Walk, lunch in the dining hall, a lively panel discussion with class of 2017 members, campus tours, interesting classes without quizzes, the ever-popular Alumni Crab Feast, the alumni-varsity baseball and alumni lacrosse games, and varsity baseball
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and lacrosse home field wins. The Gilman Forever affinity group launched with a memorable luncheon. For the second year, reunion celebrants started their evening at a unified reception before the majority of classes dispersed around campus for individual class dinners.
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1. Mark Cornes ‘94 and Brandon Cornes ‘97 pose with lacrosse’s next generation. 2. Jack Cavanaugh ’87, David Clapp ‘87, Doug Godine ‘87, Matt Wyskiel ’87, and Hugh
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Marbury ’87 enjoy truly excellent weather for the 2017 Alumni Golf Outing, held again this year at Woodholme Country Club. 3. An alumnus among faculty: Matt Herman, Justin
Baker, Edwin Merrick ’97, and Aaron Goldman. Herman, Baker, and Goldman teach in the Upper School. 4. Thirty-fifth reunion celebrants Wells Obrecht ’82, Ned Brody ‘82, Jim Cooke ’82,
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and Scott Bortz ’82 won the golf outing. 5. Twenty-three alumni returned to put on Gilman gray and face the varsity in the annual alumni-varsity baseball game.
6. Acting Alumni Head Coach (filling in for 50th reunion celebrant Mac Barrett ’67) Peter Kwiterovich ’87, Russell Wrenn ’96, Leon Newsome ’88, and Andrew Burton ‘12 take in the
game. Despite a 1-0 lead until the bottom of the fourth, the alumni fell to the varsity, 10-3. 7. Tim Holley ’77, Dustin Rogers-Little ’06, and Dustin’s daughter.
8. At the alumni-varsity lacrosse breakfast: Standing, l. to r., Dorsey Hairston ’02, Marc Hoffman, Hal Turner ’05, David Fitzpatrick ’07, Jake Matthai ’12. Seated, Jake Brummett ‘17, Dylan Bird ’17, Austin Hudson ’17, Johnny Shapiro ’17, and Ronald Fisher III ’18. summer 2017
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1. The weekend kicks off Friday evening with Maryland’s favorite food — crabs! 2. Daniel Beirne ’77 and Brison Ellinghaus ’77, who resides in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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3. David Fitzpatrick ’07, Makura Compton ’07, Stephen Salsbury ’07, Patrick Farha ‘07, Omar Brown ’07, Max Brown Jr. ‘07, and Henry Kerins ‘07.
4. Juan Alvarez ’87 and Teddy Hull ’87. Alvarez earns the “came farthest for his reunion” distinction. He lives in Brazil. 5. Adam Janet ’07, Zach Gorn ’07, and J.B. Cooke ’07.
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Alumni Weekend 2017 boasted the first-ever Gilman Art Walk, the brainchild of art teachers Karl Connolly, Dave Anderson, and Trevlin Alexander. The self-guided art walk included mixed-
division displays of paintings, sculptures, woodworking pieces, and much more mounted in Carey Hall, J.M. Finney Hall (middle school), and Henry Callard Hall (lower school).Â
6. An art display in the Lower School lobby. 7. A young artist walks the walk with his parent.
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who have celebrated their 50th reunion and beyond. 1. More than 55 alumni and several retired faculty returned for the Gilman Forever luncheon.
2. The program included presentations from Headmaster Henry Smyth and Dave Irwin ’66.
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3. Claude Edeline and Leith Herrmann ‘64. 4. Bill Gamper ’71 describes Centennial Hall during a campus tour.
5. John Rowell, left, accompanied by lead actors John Ball ’17 and Sophia DeVito (BMS ’18) presents “The Making of a Musical” during Classes Without Quizzes.
6. Richard Evans ’60 and Eddie Brown ’57. 7. Richard Thomas ’43, Andy Thomas ’45, and Duke Lohr ’62.
8. Bill deBuys ’67 chats with Davis Holmes ’17 following the Class of 2017 Panel Discussion Friday afternoon.
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The All Reunion Reception and following class reunions give alumni the opportunity to reconnect with each other, as well as with many faculty who visited Saturday night.
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2. Will Lanahan ’97, Mark Scott ’97, and Krishna Tripuraneni ‘97.
4. Pat Heffernan ‘02, Drew Deloskey ’02, Jon Lang ’02, and Chris Atkins ‘02. 5. Brian Cootauco ’92 and Jason Rothenberg ‘92.
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6. Austin Brown ’05, Shanthi Kumar, Eno Umoh ’04, and Tim Lauer. 7. Seve Llanio ’12, Drew Ghysels ’12, Jim Morrison, Cotter Brown’12,
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8. The Class of 1967 official 50th Reunion photograph. See page 94 for more photos of the celebration.
Alumni Weekend 2018 April 27-28
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Out and About The Alumni Association holds several gatherings to connect alumni to each other and the School.
New York Stephanie and Fred Clark ’91 hosted the May 16 New York Alumni Regional Reception at Findlay Galleries, where Fred Clark is gallery director. Guests enjoyed reconnecting with each other while viewing the exhibits.
Burritos and Trivia College-age alumni, class years 2013–2016, and the senior class of 2017 displayed impressive burrito-eating skills as well as brain power on January 4 during a spirited on-campus event, highlighted by a trivia contest hosted by Charm City Trivia.
Austin Alumni living in Austin, Texas, gathered at the Townsend Bar for happy hour on January 23.
Atlanta Minjae and David Kim ’97 welcomed Atlanta area alumni to their home to visit with Headmaster Henry Smyth on February 23.
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Wall Street 101 Sixteen juniors and seniors spent a spring break day in New York City on March 20 learning about careers in finance from Michael Schaftel ’84 and Michael Fairidi ’02 at Morgan Stanley, Chad Burdette ’02 and Chris Merwin ’03 at Barclays, and David McDonald ’78 and Ambrose Wooden ’03 at Goldman Sachs.
London Calling Ted Sotir ’76 hosted fellow alumni expatriates and travelers for a Gilman dinner in London held at the Royal Automobile Club, March 14.
Boston Intrepid fans braved early spring as they cheered their favorite team (whichever that may be) with Gilman’s top Birds fan Headmaster Henry Smyth at Fenway Park when the Red Sox took on the Baltimore Orioles on May 2.
R. House The Gilman Alumni Baltimore Foodies Group explored the best of R. House on May 10. The feature fare was, of course, assorted wings from BRD, owned by Alex Janian ’05.
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Boo,
By the Numbers Boo Smith ’70 hung up his whistle after the 2017 season, stepping down as varsity squash head coach.
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Volleyball
17-2 Overall, 14-2 Conference We are the champions — again! After losing the MIAA title to Loyola Blakefield in 2015, the Greyhounds recapture the crown with a three to one victory (25-14, 25-23, 22-25, 25-20), the perfect ending to a dominate season. Coach Will Allenbach ’09 earns his first title in his second year at the helm. The Baltimore Sun names Charlie Darby as Boy Athlete of the Week for October 4; the MIAA names five Gilman seniors to the 14-man All-MIAA squad: Darby, Charlie Halpert, Ben Murphy, Alex Bauman, and Jason Moscow.
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Sport Shots 2016–2017 Fall, Winter, and Spring Highlights
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Football
2-9 Overall, 1-5 Conference The Greyhounds met a transitional season with characteristic drive and humility. Head Coach Tim Holley ’77 and a new coaching staff rely on the team’s athleticism and speed to carry on Gilman’s football legacy. Juniors Brandon Madison and Thomas Booker and seniors Drew Ehrlich and Rob Levine earn All-MIAA honors. The Baltimore Touchdown Club recognized Booker and Madison as members of its 20th annual Super 22 Team at a dinner held May 16. The Super 22 honors rising seniors for their athletic and academic prowess.
Cross Country 3-4 Conference
Coach Joe Duncan’s long distance runners finished first in the Georgetown Prep Cross Country Classic and second in the Spike Shoe Invitational. They ran conference wins against Spalding, Curley, and Calvert Hall. Junior Eric Gibson makes the All-MIAA team.
Water Polo
10-12 Overall, 5-3 Conference Upper School boys supported the team and Coach Vaughan Smith at its last match against McDonogh on October 20 when they stormed the pool. Watch video on Gilman’s YouTube channel.
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Soccer
9-7-4 Overall, 7-6-3 Conference In his 25th year as an MIAA coach, Jon Seal’s squad was the first team to play on the beautifully renovated Chandlee Field. On September 21, the team beat McDonogh 2-0 at home for the first time since 1995. They would meet again in the MIAA Quarterfinals, with the Greyhounds losing 3-2
to McDonogh in overtime. The team finishes the season ranked #14 in the final Varsity Sport Network Top 20. Senior Sam Tirone is named All-MIAA again this year.
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Squash
18-0 Overall, 14-0 Conference It’s a perfect 10 for Head Coach Boo Smith ’70’s and Assistant Coach Taylor Tutrone ‘11’s squash team: the squad finishes a tenth consecutive undefeated season with a tenth straight MIAA squash championship, battling McDonogh to a 5-2 victory. Senior Braxton Antill gave Gilman its first victory at the #7 slot with a 3-0 win. Ned Gildea ‘20 (#6) extended that lead with another 3-0 victory. McDonogh got on the board with a 3-0 win against junior Will Dewire (#2), but senior Brad Levin stretched Gilman’s lead to 3-1 with a 3-0 win at the #4 slot. Senior Matt Katz (#5) cemented the match for Gilman with a 3-0 victory. The final two matches were some of the best squash ever played at Meadow Mill at the high school level. McDonogh’s Cullen Little, avenging an earlier loss, outlasted Charlie East ‘19 in an extremely close 3-2 battle. Wiatt Hinton ’17 would win the match of the night, with a hard fought 12-10 victory in the fifth game — a match that featured extensive rallies, amazing digs, and some special shots. The JV squad also won its championship, also defeating a McDonogh team 5-2.
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In the individual tournament, Gilman varsity won five of seven titles. Braxton Antill (#7) won his third individual title with a 3-0 victory over McDonogh’s Samira Chatrathi. Ned Gildea (#6) also won 3-0 over St. Paul’s Will Ford, capping his undefeated freshman season. Matt Katz (#5) also finished an undefeated season, winning his third individual title over McDonogh’s Jeremy Waldman 3-0. Brad Levin (#4) also won his third individual title by beating McDonogh’s Rohan Korn 3-0. Gilman’s #1, Charlie East, defeated McDonogh’s Cullen Little 3-0. The varsity team finished seventh in the National Tournament, competing in Division I against the best teams in the country. Coach Boo Smith ’70 announced he would retire from coaching the squash team, which he had led since the 2006 season. Under his guidance, the squash teams set a Gilman record as the only varsity sport to win ten straight MIAA championships with a perfect MIAA match record of 130-0.
Ice Hockey
7-6 Overall, 4-4 Conference Coach Zack Collins’ squad fell to Loyola 9-1 in the MIAA B conference ice hockey championship, the teams’ second straight title match. See you next year, Dons.
Wrestling
6-4 Overall, 4-5 Conference The team, under the direction of Coach Bryn Holmes, opened its dual meet season with a decisive win over Calvert Hall, winning eight matches, including five pins in a 45-19 victory. Gilman finished sixth in the 2017 MIAA Wrestling Tournament, improving one slot in the standings over the previous year. Andy Weinstein ’20 (106), Drew Franklin ’17 (126), Braeden Aleviatos ’17 (138), Jeremy Cranston ’18 (170), Alex Slodzinski ’18 (182), and Jake Brummett ’17 (195) were seeded in the tournament. Alevizatos, Brummett, and Weinstein competed in the National Preps.
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Indoor Track An excellent season for Head Coach Matt Tully ’02’s indoor team, highlighted by Ayende Watson ‘17’s high-flying performances. Watson swept the competition at the MIAA Indoor Track Championship Meet, winning gold medals in the long, triple, and high jumps. His mark of 6'-2" in the high jump was a personal best and his long jump of 22'-6" set a new MIAA record. To put into perspective Ayende's dominance at the meet, he scored more points by himself than some schools did as a whole. Earlier in the season, Ayende set a new MIAA indoor triple jump record (45'-9") at the Frostbite Invitational. Adero Mandala ’17, Garrett Shriver ’19, D’Angelo Shears ’17, and Tory Young ’17 won gold in 4 x 800. Our 4 x 400 team set a new league record with a time of 3:26.79 in the 1,600 relay. Young captured the 500 in 1:06.51. Mandala’s performance in the 800 and Thomas Booker’s in the shot put won bronze medal finishes. Overall, Gilman ended with 113 points, a close second to winner Mount St. Joe with 120.33 points. For the first time, Gilman was represented at the New Balance National track and field championships. Watson finished second in the Emerging Elite triple jump (45'-7") and 19th in the Emerging Elite long jump (20'-7"). Young finished 22nd in the Emerging Elite 400 meter dash (49.73).
Basketball
8-19 Overall, 1-15 Conference The varsity basketball team, coached by Owen Daly, rallied from a 23-15 deficit to defeat T.C. Williams 63-58 to capture the championship title of our own Sherm Bristow Tip Off Tournament. Daly announced he would step down as head coach, as he was named the director of Upper School admissions. Over his nine years as our head basketball coach, Coach Daly’s varsity teams competed with distinction in the competitive MIAA A and B Conferences, capped by winning the B championship in the 2011-12 season. In the 2013–14 season, Gilman moved to the A Conference for the first time in school history. Under Daly’s leadership, Gilman made the A Conference playoffs in the 2015-16 season, another school first for Gilman basketball. Gilman basketball alumnus Will Bartz ’99 has been named varsity basketball head coach. He arrives at Gilman from Indian Creek School, where he became the school’s first basketball coach. Under his direction, and after playing an independent JV schedule for three years, Indian Creek joined the MIAA C Conference as a varsity program in the 2007-08 school year. The team secured a playoff spot in the 2009-10 season. From 2011-2015, Indian Creek played in five consecutive C Conference championship games, winning three. The team joined the MIAA B Conference in the 2015-16 school year, securing a playoff spot in their inaugural B Conference campaign. In addition to coaching, Bartz will also teach Upper School math. Welcome, coach!
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Swimming
1-5 Overall, 1-4 Conference Aquatics Director Vaughan Smith takes over as head coach, and the Gilman swimming team continues to strengthen. The team placed sixth in the MIAA championship meet. Swimming with Mariner Swim Club, Max Verheyen ’19 was recognized as a Maryland Outstanding Swimmer of the Year in the 15 year age group for the 2016 Long Course
season at the Maryland Swimming Senior Championships held at the Naval Academy the last weekend of February. Max’s age group fields a very strong group of swimmers, and he tied in this category with two other strong swimmers, and MIAA competitors, Will Pelton and Matt Clark, both Loyola Blakefield sophomores. Congrats, Max!
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Track and Field 6-0 Overall, 6-0 Conference
We are the champions! The varsity track and field team took first place in the MIAA A Conference Championship meet, finishing with 155.5 points, merely 4.5 points ahead of Mount St. Joseph. A win in the 1600 relay, the meet’s final race, clinched the win. Alton Machen ’19, Nichi Pandey ’19, Adero Mandala ’17, and anchor Tory Young ’17 (who ran the final 400 in 48.61) won the race in 3:26:12. Young won the 400 and anchored the winning 3,200 relay (7:54.62). Ayende Watson ‘17 won the triple jump (47'-5"). Earlier in the season, Watson broke Gilman’s triple jump record with a 47'-6" leap. An excellent showing for the 13 members of the Varsity Track Team who participated in the prestigious Penn Relays, April 27-29 in Philadelphia: The 4x400 team, Mandala, Pandey, Eric Gibson ’18, and Young, wins its race with a time of 3:21:49; the 4x100 team, Mason Freeman ‘18, Brandon Madison ’18, Darien Lawson ’18, Donald Duncan ’17 and alternate Rob Levine ’17, posts a time of 43 flat and finishes in the top 10; and the 4x800 team, Mandala, Keith Roberts ‘19, Young, Gibson and alternate D’Angelo Shears ’17, ran 7:56.06 and the team ranks third among Maryland teams competing; Watson long jumps to 10th out of 26. The 4x400 first place finish is only the third time in School history for this accomplishment, and first since the late 1990s. The team’s time was the third fastest among Maryland teams. Congratulations to Head Varsity Track Coach Johnnie Foreman, director of community and diversity, and Assistant Coaches Alex DeWeese ‘11, Joe Duncan, Chris Sheridan ’08, and Matt Tully ‘02.
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Golf
7-7 Overall, 6-6 Conference Jairus Gaines ’18 gave Mike Wallace something special to remember about his first year as varsity head coach. Gaines entered the second and final round of the 2017 MIAA Individual Golf Tournament tied for 13th place. He carded an impressive five under par 68 to finish fourth. Jairus was the low score medalist for the second round, and completed his outing with a birdie on 17 and an eagle on 18 to earn the lowest score of the day. The JV golf team, coached by Joe Ciattei, claimed the MIAA JV Championship, prevailing 14-7 over Loyola Blakefield.
Tennis
10-0 Overall, 7-0 Conference Under the leadership of Head Coach Steve Krulevitz, varsity tennis won an unprecedented fourth consecutive MIAA A team championship by defeating Calvert Hall 4-1. The JV team also won its team championship with the same score against the same school. Gilman tennis also took top honors in the MIAA A individual tournament. Derrick Thompson ’18 finished #1 in A Conference singles. Gilman took #1 and #2 in doubles, with Dylan Walters ’20 and Piyush Mavanur ‘20 winning the A Conference #1 and Sam Sobkov ’17 and Nate Shaw ‘17 taking #2.
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Lacrosse
9-7 Overall, 4-5 Conference Brooks Matthews ‘87’s squad narrowly miss a return to the MIAA playoffs. Tied with the St. Mary’s Saints for sixth place at the close of the regular season, the Saints earned the post season spot because they beat the Greyhounds 5-11 on May 9.
Baseball
23-11 Overall, 15-5 Conference After losing to Curley in their first playoff game 2-3, the Greyhounds, under the leadership of coach Larry Sheets, continued in the double-elimination MIAA tournament by defeating John Carroll 2-0 to meet the Calvert Hall Cardinals in game 6. The No. 1 Cardinals ended the No. 3 Greyhounds outstanding season with an 8-1 win.
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US Lacrosse Honors Redmond C. S. Finney ‘47 National Teams Tunnel Named in Tribute
Listed among the School milestones in the school history found on the website: Gilman wins its first Maryland Scholastic Association Lacrosse title. In the championship game against Boys’' Latin, trailing by four with five minutes left, senior mid-fielder Redmond C. S. “Reddy” Finney wins five consecutive face-offs, leading to five unanswered goals and a Gilman victory. In 1968 he is named Gilman Headmaster, a decision that is based on formidable credentials not limited to these late-game heroics. On April 25, 2017, US Lacrosse dedicated the midfield National Teams Tunnel leading out onto William J. Tierney Field in honor of the Gilman boy who led his team to victory in that long-ago game, and the teacher, coach, mentor, advisor, and leader he became, our School’s beloved former Headmaster Redmond C. S. “Reddy” Finney ’47. “US Lacrosse is honored to name the National Teams Tunnel as a tribute to his leadership not only at Gilman School, but in our community at large,” reads a flyer honoring the dedication.
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The National Teams Tunnel leading onto William J. Tierney Field at the US Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Md., now bears the name of Redmond C. S. Finney.
All-MIAA Athletes
College Bound
Cross Country Eric Gibson ’18
Twelve student-athletes from six sports announced their college commitments on Signing Day in February. Each was introduced by his coach. Watch the ceremony on Gilman’s YouTube channel. Others made their college decisions at a later date.
Football Thomas Booker ’18 Drew Ehrlich ’17 Rob Levine ’17 Brandon Madison ’18 Soccer Sam Tirone ’18 Volleyball Of the 14 players on the All-MIAA team, five are from Gilman. Alex Bauman ’17 Charlie Darby ’17 Charlie Halpert ’17 Jason Moscow ’17 Ben Murphy ’17 Water Polo Max Bethel ’17 Nick Polydefkis ’18 Ice Hockey James Cole ’17 Aaron McNabney ’17 Indoor Track Piper Bond ’18 Adero Mandala ’17 D’Angelo Shears ’17 Garrett Shriver ’19 Ayende Watson ’17 Tory Young ’17
Squash Will Dewire ’18 Charlie East ’19 Wiatt Hinton ’17 Matthew Katz ’17 Brad Levin ’17 Baseball Maxwell Costes ’18 Drew Ehrlich ’17
Football Vince Reilly (St. Anselm College) Drew Ehrlich (Villanova University) Antonio DiCerbo (University of Maryland) Rob Levine (Suffield Academy, post-graduate year)
Golf Jarius Gaines ’18 Mac Webster ’18
Soccer Vinay Chandra (Goucher College)
Lacrosse Wade Oursler ’17
Water Polo Max Bethel (Pomona College)
Tennis Nick Boucher ’20 Piyush Mavanur ’20 Derrick Thompson ’18 Dylan Walters ’20
Wrestling Braeden Alevizatos (University of Maryland)
Track and Field Eric Gibson ’18 Alton Machen ’19 Adero Mandala ’17 Nichi Pandey ’19 Keith Roberts ’19 Ayende Watson ’17 Tory Young ’17
Squash Wiatt Hinton (Middlebury College) Matt Katz (University of Virginia) Brad Levin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Lacrosse Dylan Bird (University of Vermont) Wade Oursler (University of Maryland) Woody Kelly (University of Denver) Austin Hudson (Washington & Lee University) Jake Brummett (Hampden-Sydney College) Track Tory Young (Villanova University) Ayende Watson (Naval Academy Prep) Basketball Donald Duncan (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Baseball Drew Ehrlich (Villanova University)
In Other Sports Competing with the Baltimore Rowing Club’s varsity team (aka, the unofficial Gilman team), Jules Ouwerkerk ’18 and John Theodore ’19 held their own against well-oiled crew teams from clubs in New England, reaching the finals in the Mercer Sprints and Cooper’s Cup, even though they have only been rowing together since last fall. A disappointing showing in the Mid-Atlantic Regionals, where they had hoped to qualify for nationals — a Nor’easter caused havoc to the competition and Jules suffered a biceps injury that knocked him out — has not diminished their enthusiasm. They look forward to proving in future seasons they are a force with which to be reckoned.
Athletes of the Week Baltimore Sun names Ayende Watson ‘17 as Boy Athlete of the Week, December 27. WMAR-TV Channel 2 names Drew Ehrlich '17 as their Student Athlete of the Week, March 2.
Coach of the Year Baltimore Sun names Johnnie Foreman as All-Metro boys track and field Coach of the Year, June 23. Coach Foreman has been at the helm of our track program for 33 years.
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Dave Allan ’64 wrote a bequest to help future students meet emergency and ancillary financial costs that enrich the Gilman experience.
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The Grasshopper Society Spotlight: Dave Allan ‘64 Bequest will help future students meet emergency and ancillary financial costs.
Dave Allan ’64 has held most every Gilman role possible. Student: A Calvert boy, he began Gilman as a seventh grader and graduated in 1964. Faculty, twice: Headmaster Reddy Finney hired him as a first-year Spanish teacher in 1968, a position he held until 1979, when he left to work at Alex. Brown. He returned, armed with a counseling degree, as Upper School counselor in 1994, serving until he retired in 2004. Coach (legendary): In two turns as varsity lacrosse head coach, from 1975–1979 and 1999-2004, he amassed a 140-43 combined record. Trustee: During his years away from teaching, Dave served on the Board, from 1987-1993. Parent: Sons Scott and Mike graduated, respectively, in 1992 and 1994. “The association with Gilman has been amazing,” he says. More deeply than most, Dave understands the challenges families face. He remembers his classmate, a public school teacher’s son, who needed financial aid to attend. He remembers the student whose father was incarcerated. He remembers a mother who effectively abandoned her son at age 18, leaving him without tuition money.
These recollections — and a lifetime’s experience — frame Allan’s decision to support future students with a bequest. His lifetime gift will establish the Allan Family Fund, intended to meet emergency and ancillary financial costs that enrich the Gilman experience — think spring break study abroad trips or replacing outgrown cleats or buying textbooks — for students with financial need. “I wanted to pass something along to the future for kids, so if they run into financial difficulties, they can be helped to remain in school,” he says.
Ensuring Gilman’s Future The Grasshopper Society recognizes the generosity of participants in Gilman’s planned giving program. For more information about joining The Grasshopper Society, or to learn about including Gilman in your will, establishing a life-income gift, or other planned giving vehicles, contact Les Goldsborough ’82, director of gift planning, at 410-323-7178 or lgoldsborough@gilman.edu.
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The Medallion Society Welcomes Members A new donor recognition society honors Gilman’s most generous benefactors.
The Medallion Society, launched in November 2015, recently welcomed three more members to its ranks: Duke Lohr ’62, Mary F. Shock, and Charles L. Stout ’49. The Medallion Society recognizes those benefactors who have supported Gilman with cumulative lifetime gifts of $1 million or more. The William A. Fisher Medallion, Gilman’s highest student award, inspires The Medallion Society name. Each Founders Day, the student who “has rendered the highest service that can be rendered to the School by leadership based on the influence of character” receives the award. Now the School’s most prestigious donor recognition society tethers to the its most prestigious award. Duke Lohr ’62, throughout his lifetime relationship with Gilman, is a consistent champion of faculty and students. He served on the Board of Trustees from 1975–1998, which includes a two-year stint as vice-president, and on numerous financial development and aid committees. He’s an ardent supporter of professional development, scholarships, reunion gift efforts, The Gilman Fund, and various capital campaign efforts. 56
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Mary F. (Molly) Shock is a committed supporter of financial aid, and she has created three fully endowed scholarships. Her sons William and Richard graduated in 2004 and 2008 respectively. Richard Shock teaches in the Gilman middle school. Charles L. Stout ’49 left a legacy gift of an unrestricted unitrust to be used at the School’s discretion to meet greatest needs. Lohr, Shock, and Stout join families and foundations familiar to the Gilman community in The Medallion Society. Members are benefactors who have supported Gilman at the highest level and who have raised the charitable sights of our broader constituency. These donors, like our founder, Anne Galbraith Carey, have provided the financial resources to support and reinforce the foundation of our School over several generations.
“If we really want to turn out the best citizens of tomorrow, we have to give them the best education of today.” walter lord ’35
Anonymous ’47 Thomas H. Broadus III ’86 and Anne E. Broadus Andrew M. Brooks ’74 and Cassandra N. Brooks Wm. Polk Carey ’48 and Francis J. Carey ’43 Nicholas D. Cortezi II ’84 and Louise M. Cortezi Donald M. Culver ’43 and Rosalie C. Culver William W.S. Dancy ’42
Jonathon S. Jacobson ’79 and Joanna M. Jacobson Christopher H. Lee and Susan D. Ginkel The Linehan Family Duke Lohr ’62 Walter Lord ’35 William M. Passano, Jr. ’48 and Helen A. Passano William L. Paternotte ’63 and Nancy Paternotte
The France-Merrick Foundation
Francis X. Poggi ’79 and Amelia M. Poggi
The Fenwick Family
James S. and Gail P. Riepe
The Griswold Family
The Shock Family
George B. Hess, Jr. ’55 and Betsy Hess
Theodore T. Sotir ’76 Charles L. Stout ’49
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In Memoriam
Frank Deford ’57 1938–2017
Legendary sportswriter and master storyteller Frank Deford ’57 never forgot his Baltimore roots or Gilman School. “I published a memoir on May 1 (Atlantic Monthly Press),” he wrote in the 2012 Bulletin 1957 class notes. “It is entitled ‘Over Time’ and because it’s very much about the younger part of my life, and because it’s about writing and sports, I’ve dedicated it to Jerry Downs and Nemo Robinson — both of whom are in probably better shape than I am.” Jerry Downs was Deford’s advisor, drama director, and English teacher, and Nemo Robinson, his varsity basketball coach. Always willing to assist his alma mater, whether to speak with students, lend his voice to a video, or sign books, Deford was equally as gracious toward his fellow alumni. “In 2010, after reading another of Frank’s sensational features for Sports Illustrated, I wrote and told him that I
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thought he was as good at what he did as anyone was at what they did . . . anywhere . . . and that I hoped he would continue as long as he wanted,” recalls Mac Barrett ’67, alumni special projects coordinator. “Within a week, I received a warm, handwritten note of appreciation. He told me he was glad that I was working at Gilman. I still have it." Frank Deford also contributed to Gilman Voices 1897–1997, the School’s centennial memoir. Following is an excerpt from “Chapel, Mr. Callard, and a Cherry-red James Dean Jacket.” It seems fitting to permit one of the greatest writers of our time to tell his story. Frank Deford never forgot Gilman, and Gilman will never forget him.
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Frank Deford won the Fisher Medallion at graduation, as well as the Sixth Form Speaking Prize and the Armstrong Prize for Prose. He was a co-recipient of the Class of 1939 Basketball Trophy.
Chapel, Mr. Callard, and a Cherry-red James Dean Jacket By Frank Deford ’57 . . . As it mirrored his personality, Mr. Callard ran a subdued Chapel. Even if he was addressing the whole school, jammed two to a seat, he had a wonderful way of making it sound like an intimate conversation. You had to strain just a tiny little bit to hear him. Sometimes, though, he would talk very frankly — if, for example, he had to kick somebody out, and he wanted to explain his reasons. Other times, there would be homely little anecdotes. One in particular I remember was about honor, and about how honor was not just something you had to attest to at the end of every test and every quiz. Honor was something you had to live up to yourself, within yourself. If anybody else had framed this topic — especially someone from the Christian Association or the Student Council — that’s it, lights out in the minds of everybody in “A” Study Hall. But we all kept listening to Mr. Callard. I know, because we talked about it later on that day. 60
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To illustrate his point, Mr. Callard told us about how, early one morning, he was driving to Penn Station to catch a train, and he knew it was going to be a close call, but still, it wouldn’t be right to exceed the speed limit. And right away, we all nodded. We could see Mr. Callard’s car limping down Roland Avenue at six o’clock in the morning, hardly a car on the road, sticking at 25 miles an hour. Everybody just looked at each other, amazed. But nobody did one of those things where then you had to stare down at your shoes and hold your breath to keep from laughing. Because everybody believed Mr. Callard. Everybody could visualize him, crawling down by the Water Tower at the crack of dawn, not another car in sight. We kept talking about it all day. In awe. Nobody doubted him for a minute. Mr. Callard said he missed the train, too. You see, that was the real point. That was the price of honor you paid to yourself. To be honorable, you had to miss trains and go onto your own personal late schedule in a world that didn’t accept that. So, that was another Chapel I remember vividly. In fact, sometimes I think about that when I speed when nobody else is around. I guess it doesn’t stop me from speeding, but at least I know I’m wrong and I have to deal with that myself. . . .” Frank Deford ’57 died on May 28 in Key West, Florida. His wife Carol, his son Christian, his daughter Scarlet, and two grandchildren survive him. Visit gilman.edu for links to articles about him.
In Memoriam
Gilman remembers those alumni who have died in recent months. May they rest in peace.
Mr. David S. Ridgely, Jr. ’43
Mr. Donald W. Carroll, Jr. ’58
Mr. H. Grant Hathaway ’46
Mr. J. Robert Judkins ’58
Mr. Jervis S. Finney ’49
Mr. Robert B. Harrison, III ’58
Mr. Charles H. Cromwell, III ’50
Mr. Carroll E. Neesemann ’59
Mr. Kirk P. Rodgers ’50
Mr. Stephen F. Turner ’59
Mr. Stephen S. Knipp ’51
Mr. Felix Bendann, III ’60
Mr. Charles S. Myers ’53
Mr. Steven L. Hargrove ’72
Mr. William W. Whitescarver ’53
Mr. Travis C. Emery ’74
Mr. Peter B. Alexander ’54
Mr. James S. Bealmear ’75
Mr. Harris Jones, Jr. ’54
Mr. Herbert M. Egerton ’77
Dr. Robert T. Stone ’56 Mr. Howard C. Wolf, Jr. ’56
Faculty and Staff
Mr. Frank Deford ’57
Mr. Cartan B. Kraft
Deaths reported to Gilman between September 22, 2016, and May 30, 2017.
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Class of 2017
All In
Founders Day 2017
The 108 members of the Class of 2017 marked their high school graduation on a sunny and sweltering Sunday, June 11, 2017. There was hardly a cloud in the sky when Gilman families, friends, faculty members, and the graduating class gathered in front of the Old Gym steps for the 120th Founders Day exercises.
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5. Davis Holmes, Jalen Colbert, Alexi Vlahoyiannis, and John Ball perform “The Parting Song” with the Traveling Men. 6. Grant Mutascio and James Cole are off to their future with a high five.
Valedictorian James Clayton Hebert cleverly used his academic forté, mathematics and numbers, to describe Class of 2017 accomplishments and to emphasize how each member contributed to the excellence he believes defines the class. He enumerated several accomplishments, included the number of Greyhound TV broadcasts, Barbecue Club debt relief, track and field records broken, and lines learned, to illustrate the breadth of individual and collective achievement. And, when he added all his digits, they totaled 2017. “When looking at these numbers, I see a commonality among all our different personalities and endeavors,” he said. “What I find is the reckless abandon philosophy Mr. Redmond Finney spoke about in assembly before the 100th Gilman McDonogh game. In other words, it’s the ‘all in’ mentality that our president Matt Tomaselli has preached ever since his election speech. In all that we do, our class has proven to throw doubt aside, and completely commit ourselves to whatever it is that we are trying to accomplish.” Hebert concluded his remarks by predicting that his classmates’ diversity of passions, ingenuity, and “all in” mentality will lead them to great accomplishment. “As the phrase goes, you can take the greyhound out of Gilman, but you can not take Gilman out of the greyhound,” he said. Headmaster Henry P. A. Smyth framed his message to the graduates around a remark once made by author and historian Walter Lord ’35: “If we really want to turn out the best citizens of tomorrow, we have to give them the best education of today.” He pointed out that the statement identifies a simple cause and effect relationship between education and citizenship, education and opportunity, and education and a better world, relating directly to Gilman’s mission of educating the whole boy in mind, body, and spirit. Lord’s remark also presents a time continuum inextricably linking the past to the present to the future.
Though the boys have been challenged to be excellent, to push their limits, to maximize their potential and summon their inner lights to become the best version of their selves during their time at Gilman, the true outcome of their education is yet to be seen. “Gentlemen, wherever you go from here, you will take your Gilman experience with you, the skills you’ve developed, the traits you’ve acquired, the knowledge you’ve gained, the relationships you’ve developed — all of these things are embedded in your fiber now and waiting to be put to good use,” Smyth told the graduates. Board of Trustees President Scott Wieler reminded the boys that they have joined an esteemed group of men who have had the privilege of a Gilman education. “Gilman alumni are community leaders, agents of change, and disrupters,” he said, reminding the boys that their “alumni brothers” achieve success in virtually all fields, men who are “following their dreams and using their talents to create something new.” “Now it is up to you to fulfill your promise,” Wieler said. Before the graduates received their diplomas, several students won awards for scholarship, athletic performance, and community service (see page 66). The Headmaster presented several faculty members with awards and recognized those who had completed 20 and 30 years of service to the School (see page 66). Smyth also recognized two retirees: Lana Janian and Albert Harris. In what has become a tradition, the Traveling Men, featuring four members of the graduating class — John Leland Ball, Jalen Keith Colbert, Davis Eric André Holmes, and Alexios Demetrios Vlahoyiannis — sang “The Parting Song,” a song of departure based on a 17th century Scottish song. To conclude the ceremony, pairs of graduates left the stage with a special handshake, hug, or selfie.
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Apgar Award for Teaching Excellence Trevlin Alexander
William S. Thomas Scholarship Prizes 9th Grade: Justin Bai 10th Grade: William Dowling 11th Grade: Matthew Z. Mu 12th Grade: James Clayton Hebert Valedictorian: James Clayton Hebert
Broadus-Hubbard Award Frank Fitzgibbon Class of 1947 Fund for Meritorious Teaching Ashley Dagenais John K. and Robert F. M. Culver Chair Patrick Malcolm Hastings 2016-2018 James Stith Bolling Spragins 2017-2019 Edward K. Dunn Faculty Fund and Award Lower School: Rakiya Brown Middle School: Jillian R. Anthony Upper School: Beth Knapp Dawson L. Farber, Jr. Award Amy C. Summers May Holmes Service Award Joseph N. Duncan, Jr. Gilman Advisor Fund and Award Lower School: Debbie DeSmit Middle School: Richard J. Shock Upper School: Timothy Lauer Walter Lord Middle School Teaching Prize W. Andre Jones Edward T. Russell Chair Donald L. Abrams 20-Year Recognition Kim Lauren Eddinger Dallas Francis Jacobs III Larry Malkus Francis Whitaker Smith Rosa M. White 30-Year Recognition James Stith Bolling Spragins Marian Sanford Xanders
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William Cabell Bruce, Jr. Athletic Prize Drew Robert Ehrlich Ayende Jelani Watson Edward Fenimore Award Douglas Julian Cooper Zachary Eades Jones Peter Parrott Blanchard Award Nirakar Rai Pandey Redmond C. S. Finney Award Toluwaniyi Andrew Owolabi Andrew Dana Poverman Daniel Baker, Jr. Memorial Award John Leland Ball William A. Fisher Medallion Matthew Gordon Tomaselli
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5. Douglas Cooper and Zachary Jones both receive the Edward Fenimore Award.
6. Proud parents Asheesh and Anuraag Sood, Headmaster Smyth, and newly-minted alumnus Aneesh Sood.
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Class of 2017 College Matriculation
Go Forth: College Choices The 108-member Gilman Class of 2017 will attend 68 institutions from sea to shining sea, with one young man protecting those seas as a U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadet. Fifteen schools welcome two or more incoming freshman from Gilman, with the largest cohorts attending University of Maryland, Wake Forest University, and Washington University in St. Louis; 78% of the class is heading to a most competitive or highly competitive college according to Barron’s scale.
Braeden Aristides Alevizatos University of Maryland
John Peterson Caspari West Virginia University
Braxton Cameron Antill Trinity College
Vinay Kondragunta Chandra Goucher College
John Leland Ball University of Maryland
Michael Cheng* University of Maryland
Julian Thomas Baron Syracuse University
Kang Wook Chung* Johns Hopkins University
Cormac Michael Baroody Skidmore College
Conrad Otto Clemens Bard College
Alexander Robinson Bauman Wake Forest University
Jalen Keith Colbert New York University
Maxwell Alexander Bethel Pomona College
James Butler Cole University of Delaware
Dylan James Bird University of Vermont
Liam Patrick Comen Tulane University
Jesse Aaron Bloomberg University of Maryland
Douglas Julian Cooper* University of Maryland
Robert Garnett Blue, Jr. Wake Forest University
Charles Austin Darby Bucknell University
Davis Haydn Booth* Duke University
Hunter Reynolds Dase Washington College
Jacob Hunter Brummett Hampden-Sydney College
Rhett Jehl Dawson University of Wisconsin
Gustav Edward Brunn Wake Forest University
Victor William Helme de Havenon* Johns Hopkins University
Augustus Billings Caiola University of Wisconsin
Antonio Sebastiano DiCerbo University of Maryland
Taylor Reese Cashman Washington and Lee University
Brian Connor Doak Jr. Franklin & Marshall College
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Donald Eugene Duncan III University of Maryland, Baltimore County Drew Robert Ehrlich Villanova University Andrew Hayes Eller* University of Chicago Isaac Okon Engermann Washington University in St. Louis Jonathan Dryden English St. John’s College in Annapolis Andrew Shriver Franklin Rhodes College Charles London Halpert University of Richmond William Francis Harris University of Mississippi James Clayton Hebert* Yale University Nathan Shane Heinlein Wofford College James Andres Hemker* Stanford University Wiatt Fenner Hinton Middlebury College Davis Eric Andre' Holmes Washington University in St. Louis Benjamin Thomas Holt St. Mary’s College of Maryland Jack Holleran Houley Auburn University
Hamed Kanan Hudhud University of Pittsburgh
Andrew Alexander Morgan Washington and Lee University
Nathaniel Patrick Shaw* Georgetown University
Austin Wallace Hudson* Washington and Lee University
Jason Paradies Moscow* University of California-Berkeley
Michael Cousins Shea* Colgate University
Zachary Eades Jones Undecided
Benjamin Patton Murphy Wake Forest University
D'Angelo Lamar Shears Villanova University
Max Dylan Kahn Bucknell University
Christopher Grant Mutascio Washington University in St. Louis
Aaron Cooper Slutkin Duke University
Matthew Brydon Katz University of Virginia
Brian Robert Nelson United States Coast Guard Academy
Samuel Reed Sobkov* Vanderbilt University
Colton Joseph Keetley University of Delaware Howard Atwood Kelly University of Denver Kyle Michael Kesler Howard University Cody Adam Kupres Purdue University Adrian Chung-Hei Lee* Brown University Matthew Albert Lee* Wake Forest University Bradley Adam Levin* Massachusetts Institute of Technology Robert Levine IV Suffield Academy – Post Graduate Year Nicholas Yoonjae Lim Northwestern University Mercer Nordstrom Lynch Gap Year Adero Mizan Mandala Wake Forest University Charles Nelson Mather* Boston College David Ethan Elkin Mazer Franklin & Marshall College Aaron Joseph McNabney Tulane University Lawrence Ashton Menefee IV* University of Maryland Kenneth Jackson Mills Pennsylvania State University
Hugh Jenkins O'Donovan Tulane University Benjamin William Oliver Wake Forest University John Ackerman Olson III Colby College Franklin Wade Oursler University of Maryland Toluwaniyi Andrew Owolabi Olin College of Engineering Nirakar Rai Pandey Washington University in St. Louis Jackson Lee Payne Lehigh University John George Philippou University of Richmond Andrew Dana Poverman Bard College Daniel Ivan Rachinsky Emory University Teddy Robert Radle Southern Methodist University Lucas Andrianjaka Randrianarivelo Rochester Institute of Technology
Aneesh Sood Washington University in St. Louis Alexander Michael Soong* Dartmouth College Samuel Robert Tirone University of Maryland Matthew Gordon Tomaselli* University of Pennsylvania Naim Hassan Tripp McDaniel College Nicholas Strong Vincent Union College Alexios Demetrios Vlahoyiannis Wake Forest University Thomas Frederick Wagner III Lafayette College William Sharp Washburn* University of Maryland Ayende Jelani Watson Naval Academy Preparatory School Matthew Jordan Weiner Emory University William Holton Weinfeld Bucknell University
Mac Harrison Realo University of Michigan
Luke Pierre Wulff University of North Carolina – Wilmington
Vincent Patrick Reilly St. Anselm College
Jordan Daniel Yaffe* Vanderbilt University
Marcus Alexander Rose Villanova University
Tory Malik Young Villanova University
David Joseph Saiontz Georgia Institute of Technology
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Jonathan David Shapiro Bucknell University
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Family Affair
Front row from left: Haswell Franklin ’50, Bill Blue ’52, John O’Donovan ’79, Alan Brunn ’68, and Adam Morgan ’86. Second row from left: Haswell Franklin ’79, Luke Franklin ’15, Willie Franklin ’84, J. Tyler Blue ’79, Rob Blue ’17,
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Fathers, sons, brothers, grandfathers, grandsons, uncles, nephews — no matter the relationship, all are Gilman men. The Class of 2017 are joined by their alumni relatives for a Gilman family portrait.
Fourth row from left: Mac Franklin ’14, Jeffrey Harris ’77, George Kelly ’79, Victor DeHavenon ’17, Sam Sobkov ’17, Howard Sobkov ’84, Chris Alevizatos ’82, Jenks O’Donovan ’17, Drew Ehrlich ’17, and Wade Oursler ’17.
Fifth row from left: Will Washburn ’17, Tom Washburn ’85, Sean Darby ’79, Charlie Darby ’17, Christopher Lynch ’78, and Mercer Lynch ’17. Back row from left: Jack Harris ’14, Will Harris ’17, Jack Halpert ’15, Charlie Halpert ’17, and Harry Halpert ’85.
Class Notes Summer 2017
1948 Guy Hollyday guypamsh@gmail.com On December 1, the Class of ’48 ushered in the last month of 2016 with another outstanding luncheon at the Maryland Club, courtesy of host and hostess Honey and Bill Passano. In attendance, besides the Passanos, were Valerie and Dick Donley, Guy Hollyday and Pam Fleming, Sandy Newlin and Frieda Kaniuka, Cynthia and Manning Parsons, Joan and Bob Rich, Ronnie and John Strickland, and Mary Ellen and George Thomsen. Among the missing was our festivity’s organizer, Holland Wilmer, who was recovering from a November 2016 operation on his arm. He reports, “Lucy and I continue our fairly humdrum lives on the farm. I come in to the law office part-time several days a week and continue to seek estate planning clients and give seminars.” We missed Dick Blue also, though he assures us that he and the Blue family are very much alive. Grandson Henry, Jr., has married, and two granddaughters will follow suit in May and June of this year. Furthermore, he has a great granddaughter and a great grandson. Way to go, Dick! Porter Hopkins reports near record cold this past winter, good snow days, and enough firewood to spend plenty of time comfortably reading and carving. Wife Patti is a plein-air landscape painter, an avid gardener, and is active in Eastern Shore art, garden, and civic groups. Recently, Porter and Patti gave their vintage decoys to the Ward Museum in Salisbury, Md., “the largest-ever private donation of decoys made to the Ward Museum.” And once again Porter produced a heart-warming dove shoot and day of food, companionship, and friendship for “wounded warriors” from Walter Reed Hospital. Bob and Joan Rich continue to enjoy good health and the blessings of an increasing family. In September, their first great grandchild, Caleb Wendler Dunnigan, grandson of Bob’s daughter and son-in-law, Becky and Paul Wendler, was born. At Christmas-time grandson Homer Rich, Jr., announced his engagement to Kimmy Tretick. Bob and Joan visited Sanibel, Fla., in February and spent a pleasant morning with Ronnie and John Strickland at their lovely home in North Ft. Myers. Joan and daughter-in-law. Debra Rich, spent ten days in Paris in the fall, and Joan and her sister plan to visit Amsterdam after Easter. Tom Fenton, after assignments over the years in Rome, Paris, Israel, Moscow, and now for a second time, London, writes, “An American expat soon learns he represents his country to the rest of the world. It has been rather cool to be an American abroad.” As an example, Tom writes about Bob Simon, saying he was “the brightest and the best — a classic example of why foreign correspondents sometimes say that what they do beats working.” Finally, to be closer to family, Tom and Simone may relocate to the U.S. Classmates wishing to visit them in London better do so soon, before it’s too late.
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From Florida, John Strickland reports that he has only one aircraft now, a Beechcraft Baron twin engine, and says he uses it “to travel back and forth to my office in North Carolina about once a month as I am still actively working part time.” He adds, “Ronnie and I travel back and forth to Maryland about twice a year in it and also use it for some fun trips around the U.S. and the Caribbean.” In conclusion he states, “Sure was good to see all back in December.” Guy Hollyday spends most of his time marketing copies of his oral history of the Baltimore neighborhood of Stone Hill. Meanwhile, he has begun teaching writing to ex-offenders. His wife, Pam Fleming, continues to organize groups and services at Memorial Episcopal Church in Bolton Hill, Baltimore. In November they traveled to Cuba on a trip organized by The Nation magazine. For the past year they have been working with BUILD, Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development, seeking to increase voting and to demand adequate funding of education in the city. Guy’s daughter Jennie continues to teach in Gilman’s lower school. Her son, Idy, a Gilman graduate, is teaching at the Boys Latin School, the school from which his great grandfather graduated in 1910. Guy’s other daughter, Lissie, lives in Bronxville, N.Y. Jack, the oldest of her three boys, will enter Colgate in the fall.
1950 Haswell M. Franklin 9 Gregoria Court Baltimore, MD 21212 410-377-4520 Once again, thanks primarily the efforts of Bill Jarrett, who arranged our Class of ’50’s luncheon at the Hopkins Club, I have at least a little more news to share with you. The day before this luncheon Bill was guest speaker for my Wednesday luncheon club and made a very informative presentation on how five well-known Maryland ladies saved the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution from financial disaster, with part of the solution being Johns Hopkins agreed to accept female applicants into the school. At this luncheon, Charlie Brown, Tommy Powell, Dixon Hills and I all attended. Walter Brewster wanted to attend, but was off that day with a friend to Panama. I did have lunch a few months earlier with Gordon Stick at the Outback Steak House, and he appears well and growing older gracefully. Johnny Boynton was missing from the luncheon, but I understand he has a lot of responsibilities at his Fairhaven Retirement Community in Sykesville. Dixon Hills insists that I share some of his joy with his hole-in-one at the Elkridge Club’s 17th hole. Apparently there was a Club competition that day between Elkridge and Greenspring, and Hillsy had to buy drinks for both teams. The most exciting news from the Class of ’50’s lunch was the news that after 56 years, Bruce Lloyd is moving to Baltimore. In May of last year, his wife,
Ramona, died, and he advises that being solo and retired things have been “pretty slow.” It will be nice to have another friendly face at our Class of ’50’s luncheon. Charlie Brown shared the good news that he and his wife, Jane, are doing better health wise. He told us that David Griswold is still teaching and monitoring other teachers. Thank goodness we still have qualified people like David willing to commit themselves to providing children with a quality education. I was pleased to receive an e-mail from Fletcher Lowe, who is off on a 2-1/2 month trip to Cambodia and Vietnam, on an educational trip sponsored by W&L. Fletch indicates this trip has been on his “bucket list” for quite some time. In addition, I was pleasantly surprised to receive a phone call from Jack Bergland. He has recently returned from a most enjoyable trip to Vienna, where he absorbed much culture and good food. He plays paddle tennis three or four times a week and tennis once a week. He is ready for a championship tennis match against Bill Jarrett. I will be happy to arrange this match at the Baltimore Country Club so they better get in shape. Finally, with mixed emotions I must share with you that with three grandsons graduating from Gilman (the third just this year), my next grandson, Robby, has transferred to Loyola, where he was awarded the Unsung Hero Award on the wrestling team. In closing I would be remiss if l didn’t say farewell to Charlie Cromwell and Kirk Rodgers who departed last fall for the “big prep school in the sky.” Both were good friends to all of us and will be missed.
1951 Robert Swindell bbncc@verizon.net As usual, haven’t heard from many of you. Hope that the absence is lack of new info, and you are in good health. We are interested in how you are doing. Please keep in touch. Carol and Tom Calloway write from California that all is well in the land of fruits and nuts. For the first time in years drought was not the primary subject. So far the West Coast is still attached to the rest of this country. Eileen and Lew Barker travelled to Italy last spring and hope to make that an annual visit. Their grandchildren in Norfolk and Texas are doing well. First time we’ve not learned of his cycling totals, so maybe he is finally slowing down like the rest of us. Saw Jennie and Tom Parr the other day. He is busy trying to keep up with his busy schedule, while adjusting to last year’s health problems. All seems to be well now. Their children are pursuing different occupations — massage therapist, airline pilot, and mission director. Wow! Sandy and Griff Morrel have moved into Blakehurst increasing total number of ’51ers to six (counting widows).
Lucy and Rollin Otto are enjoying their stay here, though summers are still spent down the ocean. Dan Moore is exhibiting his terpsichorean skills whenever we have a dance band to entertain us. Who knew? AK and Gibby Carey are still maintaining their farm outside Cincinnati. Nancy and I are happily ensconced. Hard to believe we’ve been at Blakehurst six years. Grandkids keep us busy cheering their various activities in schools and careers. You all will be happy to know that our class Memorial Scholarship Fund is being used to support two young men this year. Any future donations should be directed to the fund. Look forward to hearing from more of you in the next year.
1953 Pierre Bouscaren pierreb225@gmail.com As I write these notes trying to beat the editor’s deadline and hoping that a few last-minute bits of information come magically drifting in, I feel thankful for the cooperation of so many classmates and sorry that several chose not to share. Enjoy what you can as we approach our 65th reunion year. Warren Buckler, out in Valparaiso, Ind., is fending off Father Time having just completed his first 5K run of the new season, finishing first in his age bracket. Ben Bird on Johns Island, S.C., writes that he is still happily crabbing off his dock, watching egrets fish, feeding his neighborhood deer population and then his visiting raccoon, Randy, at the customary 7:30 dinner bell. John Seiler in Louisville reports that he is recovering well from cataract surgery and contemplating his 60th reunion at Cornell and 55th at Harvard Business School. He and Harriett regularly spend relaxing summer time in Michigan and last winter got away to the Dominican Republic and again to the Bahamas. Nice! John claims to have a 6'-5", 240 lbs., 17 year old, curve-balling lefty grandson who’s almost college recruit material. Rick Betts checked in again from Oakland, Calif., where he is really (this time) trying to “downsize” to simplify life, but dealing with writing of Rotary Club bylaws, editing a college-level appraisal teacher’s manual, and managing computer glitches with no teenagers around push the process lower on the to-do list. Rick’s wife, Laura, is doing the important stuff compiling photo albums of past family trips for grandkids, cousins, and others. That whirling dervish, Bill Myers, sends news that he and Caren moved to Fresno, Calif., where he, in retirement, plays a mean game of golf, and continues to pursue his evangelical and church interests. Caren enjoys enormous business success overseeing two Lexus dealerships.
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Cristobal Bonifaz and his writer-wife Deirdre report they are happily and healthily living on their 26-acre farm in Conway, N.H. A day before I talked to Cristobal, a rogue tornado took much of the roof off their home. He seemed relieved because it demolished the neighbor’s place and his is still habitable. His daughter, Margarita, is a revered elementary school teacher in the Amherst system (for 40 years!) and his son, John, a Harvard Law grad, is an avid political activist (persuasion not discussed). Closer to home, George Urban, in Silver Spring, Md., being a retired and learned doctor, crams his days volunteering for church, community, and drug rehab consults and still finds time to take up painting classes at the local community college, learn chess, and then join a weekly book club. The “Pope” still loves skiing Breckenridge and kayaking from their summer place at Deep Creek Lake. As an added diversion, George likes the Viking River Cruise experience and has “done” Paris and Normandy with one grandson and Panama Canal with another. Andrew (Andy) Gantt and Digna, living in Wingina, Va., vouchsafe that everything is “normal” . . . except that . . . in late March Andy totaled his Caddie and suffered a broken back. As of this writing he is moderately mobile with a back brace. Bert Muecke checked in from Berkley Heights, N.J. He and Tania visited the Czech Republic last summer, enjoying the rich culture of Prague as well as the beautiful mountains of Sudetenland bordering Germany. Being a young 80 year old, Bert then drove over to Lake George and celebrated his 81st by paragliding in order to get “the big picture.” What he saw was The Adirondack Nationals Car Show, thousands of attendees admiring revved up hot rods, antiques, classics and customized autos . . . perfect for a nice quiet vacation. Tom Firor out in Franklin, W.Va., reports that he and Eve are still in good health and stay busy tending to their 200+ acre property. Luckily it is “mostly treed” and some of it he has never had to traverse. Tom also passed on the disturbing news that our stalwart pal, Tom Perkins, has been in a coma for a month in New York City. Bill Eaton in Washington, D.C., was nice enough to respond that he was still putting one foot in front of the other while caring for Louise, who is going through a tough stretch. It seems that many of us are either caregivers or care-receivers at this stage of life. Bill is up for a reunion function if circumstances permit. Talbott Huey, living in Baltimore, has found a new exercise regimen: carting around equipment for his lovely wife, Abhiradi, who has become enamored of ocean kayaking. Talbott . . . not so much. How far away is that ocean anyway? How about Lake Roland? Ben Proctor and wife Susan, having returned from their winter sojourn to Florida, are about to go to work for their daughter. She is living on the old Proctor estate in Darlington, Md., and has a herd of sheep that need to be shorn. Ben puts the hammerlock on ‘em, and they lie quietly while someone else mans the shears. Hard work, but Ben plans to take a nice Viking River Cruise on the Rhine shortly thereafter to ease the pain.
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Sandy Hoff called to say that he and Judy are new guests at Blakehurst, a fine retirement community near Ruxton. He reports that the food is first rate, but he is more enthused about his grandson, Chase Campbell, who is playing varsity lacrosse at UVA. Just like his granddad. Probably knocking a few heads around in the family tradition. Wylie Faw, now the “spittin’ image” of Colonel Sanders, is almost fully recovered from a broken leg in New Bern, N.C. He says he and Martha are planning to make a project of travelling the lower 48 and visiting family spread liberally throughout. In figuring out the itinerary, Wylie says that there aren’t enough country BBQ and catfish joints along the way to suit him. George Oursler, out on his farm in Upperco, Md., is now home with Kitty after a ferocious bout with poor leg circulation and considerable time in a nursing home. He didn’t lose the leg, does need a walker, but sounds as though he could still deliver milk before school every day. Although virtually housebound, he is looking forward to a 65th reunion. Bill Trimble, always a source of much good information, has finally conceded that his longtime tradition of Ski Taos is not appropriate for a man of his advancing years, after all, 63 consecutive years of double-diamond should do it. He still claims to strum a mean five-string banjo . . . maybe at our 65th? Bill and Barbara point with particular pride to their daughter, Marge Kennelly, who has been named the Episcopal chaplain of Harvard University. Son Bill ’83 is equally successful in the business world. Tony Carey and Ellie are my highly successful anchors in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. They recently took a trip to India where I assume the food was spicy. Tony still thinks he should ski and just returned from a week at Park City, Utah, where he amazed them all by not falling off the rope tow. Seriously Tony, stop showing off and slow down when you pass the younger guys. As we would expect, Tony serves on several Boards supporting the art community as well as Johns Hopkins Hospital. Carey Woodward, always on a quest for more learning and a new adventure, tells me that he and Margaret finally took a dream trip on a small cruise ship from Athens, up the Dalmatian Coast, via Greece, and ending in Venice with several stops along the way. Rodney Ortel is content living the good life in Cockeysville and playing some killer golf with his buddies. He did report that he had seen Fred Klaunberg after his fall and injury. Apparently Fred is now at Mays Chapel, suffering some untreatable neurological damage but mentally alert. No computer or email contact. Doug Godine, now fully retired from real estate development, remains very active and engaged, playing regular golf and enjoying the Gilman athletic scene. He especially follows the lacrosse program, naturally, and has two grandsons on the school varsity team. Major college recruiters are already sniffing around. As a final note, yours truly is still chugging along down here in Gainesville, Va. Sarah and I enjoy gardening our home for the last four years and both are active in our picturesque country church, I sing in the choir as well as in a larger community chorale in
Manassas. Sarah volunteers in several charitable events, helps lead a 4-H chapter and keeps tabs on our 11 grandchildren. Signing off for now, Pierre Bouscaren.
1954 Ralph L. DeGroff, Jr. rld2002@att.net Barbara and Cliff Harding are looking forward to enjoying another holiday with their daughter Ginger and family at the Rosewood Mayakoba in Mexico. Barbara is continuing her strength rebuilding efforts for the trip. Cliff will attend a Johns Hopkins alumni reunion in Prouts Neck, Maine. A group of Cliff’s Hopkins friends have gathered for 20 years in Maine in September to play golf and cards, eat lobster, and enjoy each other’s company. “Needless to say, we have also discussed and solved many of the world’s problems,” reports Cliff. Scott Sullivan proudly and joyously announced that he had successfully fought a battle with colon cancer. In celebration he spent the past year traveling and even arranged to swap his New Orleans apartment for an apartment in New York. This summer Scott is looking forward to seeing his granddaughter, Olivia, get married in Trento, Italy. Also, Scott’s grandson, Alexandre, will open his own restaurant in Les Jets in the Haute-Savoie area of France. John Sherwood sold his Etchells Class racing sailboat although he continues to crew for others. Last summer in Nantucket John was awarded the Beacon Trophy for being an active sailor age 80 or above. John felt it was “a very thoughtful gesture by the Nantucket Yacht Club.” Bonnie and Dave Andrew focus on their grandchildren, travel, and part-time work. Three of their grandchildren are in college on the West Coast (Santa Clara, Cal Poly, and the University of San Diego). Last October they rented a villa in Tuscany for two weeks and also trained over to Paris where they had an apartment overlooking the Seine. Bonnie and Dave walked all over Paris even checking out the Hotel St. James and Albany where Harris Jones, Francis Rienhoff ’55, Ralph DeGroff, and Dave stayed in 1957. In March they attended the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament and saw Nadal and Nishikori. Dave still works part time as an administrative medical director at Arcadia Retirement Residence in Honolulu. He says, “It keeps me out of Bonnie’s way.” Deedee and Larry Wagner continue to enjoy life in the Florida Keys. However, they have put their 36 foot Grady White Express on the market. It may be replaced by a somewhat smaller craft. Sam Sadtler reports that all is well on the Sadtler Tree Farm in Banks, Ore. Sam is active with the Oregon Master Gardener Association and the Washington County Small Woodlands Association and serves on the boards of both. Sam reports that he “got to Ocean City last fall for a reunion but had little time in Baltimore.”
On June 18, 2016, Evie and David Woods hosted a birthday party to celebrate their joint 80th birthdays for just family members totaling 54. On September 24 they traveled to Iowa City, Iowa, to observe the first wedding of their eldest son, Brien, to Lisa, who brought two delightful young daughters, ages 25 and 22, to the union. Neil Bouscaren emails that he “remains involuntarily unemployed but keeps my hand in the game by volunteer work on fauna and flora in selected venues in Southern California.” Bob Greenhill is impressively still working and is equally impressively still flying whereas his golf game is “unimproved.” As a fellow investment banker I will always be impressed with the fact that it was Bob, a fellow Gilman classmate, who introduced the computer to the corporate finance area of investment banking. Katherine and Charlie O’Donovan are looking forward to celebrating “ten years of marital bliss” in June 2017 by visiting Philadelphia, Boston, and the tidewater area of Virginia this summer and fall. Charlie continues to recover from his March 2016 stroke and is delighted to be back playing golf. In December he and Katherine had the pleasure of watching their eldest granddaughter Katherine (Kate) O’Donovan graduate from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington with a degree in theater arts. Kate lives in Atlanta, where many movies and TV programs are filmed and produced. Carol and Tom Burdette spent six weeks last winter in sunny Vero Beach, Fla., escaping the cold weather of Baltimore. When they could, they spent some time on the links. Tom is very proud of how good a golfer Carol has become. But just as important as the golf it was nice to have children and grandchildren come down to visit. Sally and Gary Carr’s lives are centered on the younger generations. Grandson Henry, a high school junior in greater Los Angeles, is preparing this summer for college application and visits to a sizable roster of Midwest and East Coast campuses as well as resume building, including his school’s spring musical production. Sally and Gary will travel to the show’s production and visit some western national parks in the process with son Garry as their tour guide. Son Stephen continues his ties with his former Japanese musical associates as he will be in Tokyo in late August and he recently undertook the stage direction of a production of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte in Seoul, Korea. Garry’s wife Daphne, as a CBS producer for “The Talk,” hopes lightning will strike twice and deliver a second Daytime Emmy to accompany the one now gracing her living room bookcase. A conversation with Remak Ramsay was quite hurried as he preparing to take a trip for a week plus to Ireland. In late summer of 2016 Harris Jones and your Class Secretary entered a team senior golf tournament. According to some it may have set a time record clocking in at 6.25 hours. This alleged record was due to the 22 holes it took to complete, the heat, and, perhaps, age of the foursome. The temperature was still 90 degrees at 4 p.m. when the match was concluded. Unfortunately, the Class of 1954 twosome was defeated but we had a great time.
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Jim Cox commented that he sees more doctors today than he used to. He also talks proudly of his two daughters in Valdosta, Ga., and his son in Austin, Texas. Dolly and John Fisher report that all is fundamentally well on their farm in Coatesville, Pa. Son Jack stayed in the family field of horses as a leading steeplechase trainer, son Rush is a spine surgeon, and daughter Katharine (mother of three) spends her free time working in the environmental area. Jim Keesey, our retired college professor of the West, has become fascinated with music and works constantly on his piano talent. When I chatted with him, he had just discovered on YouTube Chiara Massini playing Bach’s Fantasia on the harpsichord and was totally enthralled. As Jim lives in Salem, Ore., he tells me that he still skis when the snow is good. It is with great sadness that I announce the death of Harris Jones, Jr. on April 6, 2017, after a brief illness.
1956 F. Meriwether (Mert) Fowlkes, Jr. fmfowlkes@aol.com The recent plea for news from former AWOL classmates was successful, in that I heard from several who had been silent for way too long. Sadly, I also uncovered news about classmates who have passed on. Bob Stone died in Wilson, N.C., in July, and Howard Wolf passed away in Aiken, S.C., in December. Both were outstanding members of our class. Spencer Everett says he is “still recovering from the death of my second wife to cancer in October 2015. Living mostly in a gated community in Boynton Beach, Fla.” He also is preparing to move from his second home in Wilmington, N.C., to a retirement home in Raleigh to be closer to family, and to the UNC-Chapel Hill, where he is still very involved. He has taken up bridge, and plays every day, he says. Victor Bridgman has kept up with Spencer, and he states, “Spencer has become a talented and expert bridge player, unlike Victor who gave up bridge after he and his wife were beaten by his cousin and his cousin’s dog.” Interpret that any way that you wish! Victor lives in Colorado Springs, Colo., and loves it out there. He and wife Betty recently visited Dave Eaton and Debby, who have moved from Baltimore to Singer Island, Fla., where they are happily settled. Victor keeps up with Bruzz Jory in Eugene, Ore., and he also had a visit in Colorado from Julian Jones and wife Pat. Julian had just completed a great trip to Churchill, Manitoba, on the Hudson Bay, where, once a year, polar bears are allowed to roam the town at will! That’s your trivia lesson for the day! Mike Fisher reports from Black Butte Ranch, Ore., that he and Sue recently had a great trip to Italy, Croatia, and Greece for ten days. They have ended a 30+ year family tradition of traveling to the Bahamas each winter and now will stay in their new home in Rio Verde, Ariz., for their winter escape. Mike experienced a “small stroke requiring surgery to
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clear a partially-blocked artery,” but he is recovering well, he says. Dave Dresser reports from Ovid, N.Y., that “he has not retired, just refired, following advice from his fraternity brother, Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager.” Dave remains active on the Seneca County Board of Supervisors in various capacities, and has received numerous awards for his services. Sadly, he reports that his wife Judy has late-stage Alzheimer’s disease, and he has a full-time job as her caregiver. He reminded me that our class had a slogan (sort of): “Hard as nails, tough as bricks, we’re the Class of Fifty-Six!” Fred Neesemann writes from Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., and he has a situation similar to Dave’s. Trish, his wife of 57 years, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and they will soon be moving to a retirement community with memory care. He is consulting and implementing Oracle ERP computer systems, but is taking more time off these days. He loves having great-grandchildren nearby, but finds it hard to keep up with a two-year-old, he says. Sam Smith stays very busy in retirement in Timonium, Md. He retired from teaching statistics and operations management at Towson University, and completed 34 years of combined military service, during which he worked in the conversion of the Maryland National Guard classrooms into distance learning centers. He is a member of the Society of the War of 1812, and is compiling a database of veterans of that war who are buried in Maryland cemeteries, which is a two-year project. He and wife Judy have a summer house in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, where they have been spending their summers since 2010. Phil Briscoe, a physician, has been retired for three years, and is enjoying good health, and staying busy “building things” in his shop at home in Cockeysville, Md. He and his wife Liz have four children, two grandchildren, a few dogs, and sheep. Sounds interesting! Sandy Dugan and wife Betsy live in rural northern Minnesota. He didn’t mention the name of the town, perhaps because he did not want to encourage lots of us to drop in on him as we pass through the area! He loves the rural life, and his children and grandchildren live on a farm nearby. They spend several weeks of each summer in southern Illinois. Fritz Baukhages retired from his architectural firm in Luray, Va., five years ago. He and wife Ann spend half of each year in Southern Pines, N.C., where they play golf as much as they can. They have two sons, eight grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Ambler Moss reports from Miami, Fla., that he is still working, now in his 34th year teaching international studies at the University of Miami. Teaching is his fourth profession in life so far. Previously, he served in the U.S. Navy (submarines); the diplomatic service (ending as the U. S. Ambassador to Panama under President Carter); and law practice in the U.S. and Brussels. He finds teaching to be the most satisfying of the four. He and wife Serena have an 18-month-old grandson, who is a bundle of energy, he says. Vacationing in Barcelona and the Costa Brava of Spain has become a regular event for them each June.
Guy Dove writes from Middleburg, Va., that he doesn’t see many classmates these days, but did have a visit with Bentley Offutt recently. Both of them attended our 60th Reunion in April 2016. Howard Stick and wife Alyce continue to be very active and traveling extensively. Their travels this year ranged from exploring Glacier National Park in Montana, to horseback riding in the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, to sunning in Grenada. Closer to home in Gladwyne, Pa., they stay involved with many events in the Philadelphia area pertaining to symphony concerts, plays, art museums, and the Geographical Society. Their three sons are scattered from California to Northern Virginia to Baltimore, and they have two grandchildren. Many thanks to everyone who contributed this year — email makes it so easy to communicate!
1957 Frank Gluck gluck.frank@gmail.com Because of the untimely death of George Barker, there has been a two-year gap in our class participation in the class notes. It’s a privilege for me to assume George’s role as class secretary, but I wish it weren’t necessary. George’s enthusiasm and love for Gilman were infectious. Although our paths crossed infrequently over the past 50 years, it felt like we had seen each other our entire lives when we did communicate. We would always place long distance bets when the Ravens and Titans played, and we shared a continuing enthusiasm for the Orioles. I miss him. My biggest news is Judy’s and my return to Nashville as permanent residents. We have sold our place in Sandestin, Fla. Keeping up two places is increasingly challenging, and simplification of our lifestyles is a more important priority. There’s plenty for both of us to do in Nashville. I’m still doing some volunteer teaching in our residency program in internal medicine and am also volunteering at Alive Hospice, where I served as a board member for several years. We both feel very fortunate to enjoy good health and have a successful son and family. Rob, wife Ann, and three active grandchildren live in San Marino, Calif. He and a former college classmate started a very successful consulting business nine years ago. His ability to balance business with being a good father to his children makes Judy and I very proud. While I have never embraced the Ravens, I continue to follow the Orioles religiously. Also have become a big fan of SEC baseball. Great quality. Saw David Price, Pedro Alvarez, and Ryan Flaherty play on the 2007 Vandy team. Eddie Brown, one of George’s closest friends, contributed the following about George and his illness: “When George and Anne returned from a trip last Winter to India, they related that he had lost most of his eyesight from a vascular problem. His condition deteriorated rapidly, and he required abdominal surgery as his disease process progressed. It was unsuccessful, and he was admitted to Gilchrest Hospice in Columbia.
I paid him a visit, but he wasn’t able to communicate. I cried my eyes out the whole way home. He was a tremendous friend, and I miss our classmate terribly.” I think we all feel that. Eddie seems to enjoy retirement, despite the fact that “it’s hard to know which day it is. Playing lots of golf and not letting aches and pains interfere.” Spoken like a true athlete. I’m sad to relate that Tom Bailliere also passed away several months ago. Tom had battled chronic illness for several years. He was a good friend of several classmates. Tom and I were classmates at Calvert, Gilman, and Williams. He is missed. On a more cheerful note, largely through the efforts of Jim Young, our Calvert School class celebrated our 75th birthdays the end of April 2014. Since all but one boy in our graduating class at Calvert attended Gilman, it was really like a Gilman reunion. In addition to Jim and yours truly, Eddie Brown, Harvey Clapp, Frank Riggs, Dick Riggs, Hill Michaels, Peter Thompson, G. B. Gordon, Sam Hopkins, Tom Bailliere, Bill Woodward, Jim Gieske, Sandy Cochran, and Pat Mundy were present. Was a great weekend! Good job by you, Jim! It was gratifying to hear from three former classmates who did not graduate with our class. Oliver Perin writes that he and wife Karen live on the western slope of the Rockies in Colorado, enjoying life at 7,000 feet. He continues to enjoy good health, which allows plenty of hunting, fishing, and occasional horseback riding. He would love to hear from and see any former classmates who are in the area. Ludlow Keeney is retired from a successful law practice in San Diego. He and wife Carol live in Rancho Santa Fe, where he enjoys playing golf, reading nonfiction, and spending time with their two sons, daughter, and grandchildren. He and Sandy Cochran plan to return to Milton Academy for their 60th reunion in May. He sends his best to all fellow Gilmanites. Harvey Clapp and wife Ann are spending far less time in St. Croix and more time in Baltimore and their beach house in Manasquan, N.J. He is currently enjoying good health and has been working with son David as angel investors in mostly “green” projects. He continues to see several former classmates in the Baltimore area and remains well connected with both Gilman and Calvert. I had the opportunity to spend time with Crossan O’Donovan and Jim Gieske in June 2015 at our 50th medical school reunion at Johns Hopkins. Crossan and Brenda were gracious to put me up at their house in Dundalk. He and Brenda have lived in Dundalk since they returned to Baltimore in the early 1970s. Crossan’s pediatric clinic in Dundalk, which he started, is the gold standard for the way primary care pediatrics should be practiced. Along the way, he received several well-deserved recognitions by local and statewide medical societies. Jim and Judi still live in Easton. They remain active in Hopkins alumni affairs and, although retired from practice, keep their involvement in local medical activities. I’m proud to say that eight full or part time members of our class attended medical school, and seven attended schools in Baltimore. One of our M.D.s, Bruce Brian is enjoying retirement, dividing time between The Villages, Fla., and
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Priest Lake, Idaho. Bruce enjoyed a highly successful pulmonary practice in Colorado, and, despite a recent back injury from playing pickle ball, hopes to resume a lifelong tennis career. So many ways for us to mess ourselves up! Hill Michaels continues to enjoy good health. He sees several of our classmates on a regular basis, including Frank Riggs, Eddie Brown, and Harvey Clapp. Enjoyed seeing Hill at our Calvert birthday party. Pat Mundy still resides with his wife, Anna McCoy in Spruce Head, Maine (“It’s cold up here, but it keeps me awake, which I was never able to do in Study Hall!”). He continues to teach American history at the Maine State Prison, a program financed by Doris Buffett (Warren’s sister). He also mentors inmates at reentry jails before their release. Must provide a wonderful sense of fulfillment. Very impressed, Pat!! Nick Adams writes that he continues to enjoy the simple life in Vero Beach, Fla. He enjoys seeing his two grandchildren in Coral Gables. He still follows the stock market on a daily basis, a lifelong venture. Do wish it weren’t so important to us. Tom Garrett resides in Santa Rosa, Calif., and continues to work for the California Department of Public Health. He relates seeing several friends at the celebration of George’s life last spring. Tom and wife, Cappy, get their spirits raised and challenged by seven grandchildren and the GS Warriors. Walter Birge and his wife Susan live in Concord, Mass. He was a dear friend of George’s and, according to Eddie, gave a moving tribute at the memorial celebration. Biggest news was a recent move to a more “senior friendly” house. Sure wish that this weren’t so important. Gus Lewis and spouse Mary Ann live in Charles Village. He spends retirement tutoring students at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in physics and math. It is a downtown school for low-income students, and several of the Gilman faculty helped develop the academic program. In addition, they are able are able to do extensive traveling to see children and grandchildren, who live in Brooklyn and New Zealand. They also spend summers in Martha’s Vineyard sailing. Nice life! Sam Hopkins and wife Genya still live in their Roland Park home, which they purchased in 1969. Both continue to enjoy good health and remain active with children and grandchildren. Sam continues to do a small law practice from home. He continues to keep up an active relationship with our class valedictorian, Millard Firebaugh. Millard continues to be professionally active with consulting gigs in technology generally associated with naval systems. He and wife Barbara have lived in Annapolis for the past several years and are blessed to be close to their children and grandchildren. They plan to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Idaho, where they were married, and witness the solar eclipse with an MIT tour group. Millard says this will rekindle his experiences with the Gilman Astronomy Club. What a way to spend a 50th! Last but certainly not least, John Lewin and Tolly have been able to do extensive traveling over the past two years, including a cruise to Costa Rica and the Panama Canal, Iceland, and an anticipated trip to Spain
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and Portugal this fall. Vasco da Gama had nothing on you, John! In addition to traveling, John continues to do mediations of commercial disputes and is working on his third book on the joys of retirement. I am deeply saddened to report the death of Frank Deford on May 28. Harvey Clapp had told me that Frank was spending winters in Key West and continuing to do his radio show on NPR once a month (first Wednesday). He signed off from NPR on May 3. As most of us know, Frank has received countless awards and recognitions for his writing. I was very pleased to learn from my alma mater that he was bestowed an honorary degree at Williams College in June 2016. In addition, Williams created the “Frank Deford Award” in 1990 which recognizes the top Williams student sports information assistant. It continues to be presented on a yearly basis. I want to express my appreciation to all those who have contributed to these notes. I hope you will feel free to communicate with me any time during the year. In the meantime, I hope the Orioles make the playoffs, the Titans manhandle the Ravens this fall, and, most importantly, we all remain healthy and productive.
1959 J. Richard Uhlig rickuhlig@comcast.net Our spring class lunch was held in May 2016 at Tark’s. Fifteen classmates attended: Bruce Campbell, Ned Clapp, Hobie Fowlkes, Dickie Gibbs, Bo Grimes, Tom Haines, Bill Helfrich, John Hilgenberg, Chip Markell, Don McPherson, Charlie Offutt, John Ramsey, Bill Schmick, Rick Uhlig, and Charles Williams. Our class lunches are typically scheduled in May and December in order to accommodate so many “snow birds” wintering in Florida. Your secretary missed the December 1, 2016, lunch as I was still in Florida so cannot report on the attendance. The list of classmates with Florida residences continues to grow. Last year it was Elaine and Bruce Campbell. This year, Tom Ahern moved from California to Key Largo after September 2016 death of his wife Priscilla. Always active, Tom now enjoys snorkeling, scuba diving, kayaking, and playing pickelball since racquetball and fencing are not available in the Keys. More Florida news includes the continuation of “home and away” golf games between Andy Adelson, Charlie Offutt, and Bill Schmick. In 2016 Charlie and Bill hosted Andy and Bill Spencer-Strong in Naples. In March 2017 Andy hosted Charlie and Bill in Miami. Nobody reported scores or if money changed hands. Dickie Gibbs reports enthusiastically that Irvine Nature Center recently doubled its size, and that he is still involved as trustee emeriti. Bo Grimes reports that he has “downsized,” an activity that many of will be joining in the near future as home maintenance chores become more unpleasant. Ned Clapp has moved from his condo to Broadmead Retirement Community. Perhaps Ned is among the first
but others of us will be making similar decisions in the next few years. Another move is reported by Chip Markell. Chip and Bonnie are moving from a Cross Keys town house to a Towson rancher with room for Chip’s 92 year-old father-in-law and a basement family room for seven grandkids. Chip remains very active with board responsibilities on the Friends of Fort McHenry and the Baltimore City Historical Society. Charles Williams reports that his daughter, Virginia, married Robert Keller on September 9, 2016. Hobie Fowlkes remains one of the more active classmates. He plays occasional golf, keeps his lawn well-trimmed, and flies his Bonanza whenever he can. He still has enough energy to take a European river cruise with Jenny Lee from Paris to Normandy in May 2017. Tom Haines reports that he and Vivienne recently visited daughter Elizabeth and her family in England. Tom still stays busy with his company Perma-Patch and enjoys attending and participating in Concours Car Shows for antique and collectible cars. Six grandkids add to the activity level. Don McPherson has boundless energy as demonstrated by his recent report. “I volunteer at the clinic known as JustAdvice at the University of Maryland School of Law. During the academic year, I, and several other retired lawyers, meet twice a week (Tuesdays at the University’s community center near the Law School, and Thursdays at the District Court near City Hall) with anyone who appears at the sessions. A law student interviews the client, determines the issue, and obtains preliminary facts. Thus I mentor students and provide legal assistance to the clients.” If that isn’t enough, Don is also a director of and serves as legal counsel for the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy, which over the past five years has restored the Washington Monument at Mount Vernon Place. Tyler Gatchell says no more tennis for him, but he has a good pickleball game with plenty of time for all the doctor visits and pill taking. Soon he will be selling the boats and buying an electric Duffy. As for your class secretary, I enjoy living in Florida during fall, winter, and early spring months and Baltimore in the summer. Totally retired now, there is plenty of time for participating in two bicycle clubs, golf, and travel to France in 2016 and this year to Scandinavia. Grandkids in Baltimore keep things interesting. Sad news to report includes the passing of classmate Carroll Neeseman. “Neese” was one of the more popular guys in the 1959 class, a class officer, a terrific lineman on the football team. After his graduation from Princeton he served as a Marine officer in Vietnam and was wounded. During his recuperation while attached to Bethesda Naval Hospital he visited me for a weekend in Virginia Beach where I was still an active duty naval officer. He later attended University of Maryland Law School and moved to New York City where he practiced for many years until Parkinson’s disease forced his early retirement. After his diagnosis in 1999, Carroll began a second career as a tireless advocate for people with Parkinson’s.
He was a key member of the Brooklyn Parkinson Group (BPG) from inception, helping the organization establish its non-profit status. In November 2012 Carroll’s dream of five years came to realization. Having spent many years dancing with the Mark Morris group, Carroll requested that they do a full production. BPG members danced together and alongside Mark Morris dancers in a performance replete with costumes, lighting and live music. Emmy award winner Dave Iverson documented the experience in his film, “Capturing Grace,” which was released in 2014. At our 50th Reunion, he made a very moving appeal to the class to support funding for research into Parkinson’s disease. He faced his disease with courage and grace. We are also saddened to report that Steve Turner died in October 2016 of an aneurism. Steve and his wife Donna had been living in Mexico in recent years. He was one of three classmates who attended Gilman for 13 years including pre-First Form along with Tom Haines and Tyler Gatchell. Also we were saddened to learn of Charlie Balfour’s wife Rosy passing after her battle with cancer. We earlier reported on the passing of Tom Ahern’s wife Priscilla. We encourage all classmates to keep Chip Markell informed of significant events, especially those of you living in other states and countries. If you plan visits to the Baltimore area, let us know so we can schedule an impromptu lunch or coffee meeting. Bill SpencerStrong, Bob Wood, and Tom Andrew have been great about that and we always look forward to seeing them.
1960 Frederick (Ted) Knowles feknowles@verizon.net We have lost Felix “Tuffy” Bendann. Here is his obituary. “On January 24, 2017, Felix Bendann III, beloved son of the late nee Sarah O. Blumberg (whose family nickname was “Michael”) and Felix Bendann, Jr.; devoted brother of Lynn Scott Bendann; former husband of Janet M. Bendann and Barbara LongO’Brien; step-father of George D. O’Brien, Jr. and Patrick R. O’Brien; and step-grandfather of Erin D. O’Brien. A Memorial Gathering will be held at Barrett’s (Hunt Valley) on Sunday, February 26, from 2-5 p.m. Please omit flowers. Memorials in Felix’s name may be made to Irvine Nature Center, 11201 Garrison Forest Road, Owings Mills, MD 21117.” Kent Mullikin wrote a memorial note about Felix for the Princeton Alumni Weekly: “Felix, known to friends as Tuffy, died January 24, 2017, in Sparks Glencoe, Maryland. He went to Princeton, where he majored in religion and wrote a senior thesis titled ‘The Existential Framework: Berdjaev and Tillich.’ He also sang in the University Chapel Choir. He roomed four years with Gilman classmates John Lewis and Kent Mullikin and several other members of Princeton’s class of 1964. His roommates and friends valued Felix’s
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thoughtfulness, sensitivity, and intellectual exuberance. After graduate work at Union Theological Seminary and working with high school dropouts through the Harlem street academies, he returned to Baltimore, where he enjoyed creating and teaching courses for the Johns Hopkins Free University. His lifelong passion for ideas found expression in a book on human creativity, written in the form of a dancelike philosophical dialogue. An avid woodworker, he made fine furniture and decorative pieces.” King Barnes: “I am very proud to report that I have been accepted by The Sons of the Revolution in the State of Maryland. I entered under Captain John Ward Veazey, a good Eastern Shoreman from Cecil County and Army supply officer, who was a cousin to Edward Veazey, who made the ultimate sacrifice to save Washington’s Army retreat to fight another day and was a member of the famous ‘Maryland 400’ at Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. In addition, I will be attending the triennial meeting in Plattsburg, N.Y., as Marshal General for the National Society of the War of 1812 in early September.” Ted Beford: “There has been a big change in my life, as Mary Lou and I have joined that big retirement movement to Florida. As of February 22, 2017, we are no longer Maryland residents, but now residents of Vero Beach, Fla. There seem to be numerous Marylanders in the area and I am looking forward to finding more. Both our children live in the Los Angeles area, but California taxes and traffic are not in our plans. Hoping to make a few Class of ’60 lunches whenever I am in the area.” Are you anywhere near Mar-A-Lago? You could spy on goings on there. (Just kidding.) Jim Constable: “I am still plying my trade as a senior partner at Wright, Constable & Skeen and my avocation as a land preservationist. I am currently chairman of the Maryland Environmental Trust, which is among the top 20 land trusts in the United States. I am also on the boards of the Maryland Historical Society, a local university, and another land trust. Katie and I are coming up on our 30th anniversary and spend free time chasing seven children and 17 grandchildren from Costa Rica to Nova Scotia and other delightful spots around the country. We only have two sons in Baltimore, both of whom are rising to the top of their professions. Other pastimes are farming, untangling fly lines, limping around the tennis court, looking for lost golf balls, and fouling competitors at sailing regattas.” You are the busiest person I know! Makes my head spin. You obviously love all your avocations, and you have the energy to be able to do all of them. George Fesus: “We are still in Colorado winter and summer and in San Francisco spring and fall. I invite anyone to let me know if they are coming in those directions. My email address is gsfesus@aol.com. Aspen is an area that has almost everything: of course, skiing in the winter and the Ideas Festival and the Music Festival in the summer, and first class hiking and biking all year round. I take advantage of all of this. My phone number here is 970-544-9222, if anyone is coming.” The Ideas Festival sounds fascinating. The topics sound interesting and are presented by experts in the field. The selection of topics is broad. Here is a partial list of the
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offerings: “Can Zika Be Contained?”; “Oscar-Nominated Short Films and Discussion”; “The Politics of Poetry: The Intersection of Art and Activism.” Stan Heuisler: “Not too much big news from us as we both have been struggling with substantive health issues but I can happily report both of us on the mend. “We are looking forward to a long summer in our Rehoboth Beach cottage. Our kids and grandkids will be back on holiday from Cambodia in June and will join us there. Our Baltimore kids and grandkid will also join us. This is why we have eight bikes in the garage, right? We are deeply involved in preservationist politics in Rehoboth and a new effort to expand the tree canopy in parts of town that need it. We work in Rehoboth with a wonderfully likeminded bunch of quietly aggressive and drop dead smart folks in coalition. “Betsey and I face our 50th reunion at UPenn this May and just had a four-hour crab cake luncheon with a very good friend from UPenn neither of us had seen for 50 years. Oh, my, the stories! We all should do much more of it.” Gene O’Brien: Gene has been really enjoying driving for Uber. He’s had hundreds of customers and enjoys talking with all of them. He learns a lot about sides of life he would not have known about otherwise. One day a woman got into his car and said, “Take me to Dulles Airport.” Gene says, “So I did.” Ted Knowles: “During the warm spell in February, Karl Mech and I hiked in the Eastern Neck National Refuge in Kent County. Eastern Neck Island (known to the locals as ‘East Neck Island’) is a beautiful place and in winter it is free of flies and mosquitoes. After our hike we went back to my house and had a great time eating sandwiches and discussing where we would like to hike next. Maybe Wye Island? “I turned 75 in March. I tell friends I’ve gone platinum! I continue working twice weekly with my son David in the commercial kitchen in Washington, D.C., where he is a member. He makes pies of all sorts, and has built up quite a number of customers like grocery stores. My skills have improved dramatically. I can roll dough quickly, crimp pie crusts in a jiffy, and generally help him turn out large numbers of pies. “My five-year-old granddaughter, Emmy, is a real force, and she has her own way of putting me in my place. Once I brought a snack up to the second floor, and she said, ‘No food allowed up here, Pop! I will have Nana call the police and they will put you in jail!’ I was back downstairs in a flash.” John Lewis: “I am still a retired physician/ epidemiologist living with my wife Jo DeWeese in various places in Massachusetts, Louisville, Ky., and our home base farm in Kentucky near the Tennessee border (good bourbon country).” Your mentioning living in Kentucky near the Tennessee border reminds me of a story about Andrew Jackson, who lived in Tennessee near the Kentucky border. He was always getting into duels which were not allowed in Tennessee, so he and his opponent dueled over the border up in Kentucky. “Jackson’s home is about a half-hour drive from us, Nashville an hour. Kentucky is still big on individual freedom and resistance to the federal government. ‘Trespassers may be shot; survivors may be shot twice.’
“I reach 75 this week. Jo and I are lucky to be about average or less infirm, so that we can still satisfy our bucket list with many recent snorkeling trips to the doomed coral reefs of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans, and to other traditional tourist destinations. “I was sorry to hear the sad news about Felix Bendann’s death. I have nothing to add to Kent Mullikin’s very nice obituary except some fond memories of knowing him at Princeton, Gilman, and I think Roland Park Public school. Felix marched to a different drummer. “You mentioned Bob Sollod, another friend with whom I had little contact after college. I googled him, and I think the Robert N. Sollod, PhD, who died in Cleveland and had a SSN from Maryland, is the same as our Bob (please correct this if I am mistaken).” You are right John. See below under Bob’s name. John Rouse: “Nothing major to report on my side, except for working on a new mystery novel — this time on Japan — and worrying about the next policy surprise the Trump presidency will deliver to the world at large.” I guess the Democrats among us will agree with you, while the GOPs will think you’re out of your mind. Bob Sollod died in 2005 from chronic kidney disease. He died in Cleveland, where he was on the psychology faculty at Cleveland State University for many years. I met his wife at our 50th reunion, in 2010. She had come in his place, which I thought was a loving thing to do. John Lewis sent me the information about his contributions to the field and his impact on his students and fellow faculty. The following is from the memorial service held by his faculty colleagues. “Bob graduated from Harvard in 1964, cum laude, in psychology. He received a master’s from Duquesne University in 1970, and a PhD from Columbia in 1974, both in clinical psychology. At the time of his death, he was still active as a professor of psychology at Cleveland State University. His CV is extensive. A remembrance of him and his life was held in a faculty meeting at Cleveland State University soon after his death. Excerpts from it appear below. ‘Bob’s textbook on personality theories is a major contribution to the field, and is used in the United States and abroad. He includes theorists who may no longer be in vogue, but who have nevertheless expanded our understanding of personality. He shows the reader how the life experiences of these theorists have influenced their respective theories. He also described how he, as a student, reacted to these theories, as they were presented to him, thereby identifying with his students in their discovery of personality theories. ‘Bob has written several compelling articles relevant to health care policy, based on his own experiences as a dialysis patient. He understood the complex challenges faced by vulnerable individuals, as they have to navigate the often ‘inhospitable’ mazes of health care. As a wonderful conceptualizer and writer, Bob was able to give voice to the plight of patients, in ways that sparked the interest of journalists and policymakers in Washington. But his advocacy did not remain isolated from academic or public advocacy. As a decent and courageous human being, Bob would
regularly intervene on behalf of individual dialysis patients who were not getting the care they needed. He would also teach them how to advocate on their own behalf. His sense of humor, his generosity of spirit and his scholarly temperament will be missed by all of us.’” Bob’s textbook is titled Beneath the Mask: An Introduction to Theories of Personality, 8th Edition. It discusses the important figures in this field, including Freud, Jung, Adler, Anna Freud, Mahler, Rollo May, and others. Interestingly, he compares and contrasts one with another, which I have never seen before. It is widely used in psychology courses, as shown by being in its eighth edition. Ned Sullivan: “I am just finishing up a busy winter; still skiing to work at the mountain restaurant for another two weeks. BIG World Cup (ski races) finals just ended in 60 degree weather but with good snow I volunteered on days off from regular job. Maybe an off-season dive trip, then off to a small-ship cruise along the coasts of Spain and Portugal in June, and back to summer’s fun and work in Aspen. Haven’t I retired yet?” Jim Winn: “At our 50th reunion we established the Class of 1960 Scholarship Fund. Over the last six years we sought to increase its principal to at least the minimum required by the School for such a fund. That has now been accomplished, and this fall the first Class of 1960 Scholarship was awarded to a Gilman student. Since our Fund’s principal is now at the bare minimum, we should continue to direct gifts to the Fund so that it can grow to become a significant part of the School’s scholarship program. In that way we honor ourselves and those members of our class who passed from us. “Elizabeth and I spent February in Belize. Did not see any classmates there but did see lots of bright blue water, colorful birds, and interesting sharks, rays, turtles, lobsters, eels, and fish.” Henry Wheelwright: “Another classmate and my best friend Gary Black Jr. has also just died.” Henry, I am so sorry to hear this. I remember Gary as a focused, friendly classmate. Peter Wood: “As we all know, time is getting short for the class of ’60! I read that the new Tubman Site opened up this week. I am staying healthy and busy in Colorado. My wife Lil Fenn wraps up her term as the history department chair at CU-Boulder this spring, and I continue to write articles and give talks when the chance arises. “Last June, I spent an exciting week in Knoxville at a training session run by the impressive Children’s Defense Fund, talking history with 1,500 young black teachers preparing to conduct six-week summer ‘Freedom Schools’ for middle schoolers in 100 different cities. It was inspiring, and I look forward to taking part again this year. “Equally amazing was a one-week Civil War research trip to West Virginia in September. In present-day Appalachia, I encountered a world that the mainstream urban press had utterly failed to sense, explore, or report. So I sensed right then who was destined to win the fall election. My meager resolution in the face of so much incompetence, malevolence, and disfunction on the national and international scene is that we must all dig in locally and use what individual
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The bonds of friendship are unbreakable among the Class of 1961. The photo is from their 55th Reunion in 2016.
skills we have. In my case, that remains a commitment to understanding and teaching African American history — which is virtually an unknown quantity for many in this neck of the woods. “I had no idea 50 years ago that it would remain an open question in 2017 for millions of Americans as to whether Black Lives Matter. It is hard to undo deep-seated prejudices that go back hundreds of years, but it is certainly possible to try to shine some light where ignorance, not bigotry, is the only barrier. “So I am working with secondary school teachers in the Boulder Valley School District to improve the social studies curriculum between grades 5 and 12 in this regard. In April, I ran several five-hour weekend history workshops (called ‘Slavery Matters’) for interested teachers and parents, on the idea that it is hard to inform the next generation if the adults remain uninformed and/or anxious. After all, what if anything did we learn at Gilman about those 12 generations of unpaid labor from which many of our ancestors benefitted? Who knows if this effort will bear any fruit, but if it does, I hope to expand my efforts. I shall keep you posted. Meanwhile, I hope all my classmates are finding other sensible ways to feel useful and fulfilled.” Peter is the author a number of books related to slavery. Among them are: Black Majority; Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America; and Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer’s Civil War. He is the co-author of a widely used U.S. History survey text entitled Created Equal, and also co-author of Powhatan’s Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast. One of Peter’s talks is entitled, to quote from the flier, “The Harper’s Ferry Five. It traces the roots of John Brown’s actual plan for 1859, and the Southern Black Freedom Fighters who joined
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him.” The flier continues, “John Brown is well-known, but his design for the 1859 Raid at Harper’s Ferry remains largely misunderstood, and the African Americans in his party are virtually unknown. They included Lewis Sheridan Leary (born in Fayetteville), and John Anthony Copeland (born in Raleigh).” In 2011, Peter received the Asher Distinguished Teaching Award of the American Historical Association.
1961 Bill Hardy billhardy@comcast.net 2016 marked our 55th year of graduation from Gilman (or other institutions). We celebrated with a wellattended series of events starting at Edie and Jim Garrett’s on Friday night. Saturday evening Nancy and Henry Hopkins hosted us at the Mt. Vernon Club for dinner, which also included a tour of the newly renovated Washington Monument, and, on Sunday morning, Marque and Steve Cordi provided brunch to those of us who were still around. The passing of Helen Passano in June 2016 saddened us all. Helen was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia in May 2015. She went through a series of treatments at Hopkins, but was unable to develop sufficient immunities to ward off the infection that eventually took her life. Rick Born suggested one item we want to mention before embarking on our updates: That is to highlight our monthly ‘Grumpies’ dinners to which
all are invited. They were initiated I’m guessing 12 years ago at the suggestion of Bill Ewing after a 60th birthday party for Rick and Otts Davis. Bill suggested we should periodically get together in the Valley Inn bar and grump about the state of things. Otts was an active attendee and after a couple of years, Melinda Davis, suffering from FOMO (‘fear of missing out’), recruited a small group of wives to advocate that we all have dinner together there after the husbands finished grumping. That soon simply became a couples’ dinner. All ’61er’s are invited to these now monthly dinners, and we occasionally have out-of-towners join us. The size of our groups ranges from 9 to 24+. Our venues now vary as the Valley Inn has become quite trendy and often overly busy. Always a good time, and we encourage everyone to stay in touch. If you are interested in attending send Bill Hardy a note and you will be added to the distribution list for the dinners. Now, on to individual inputs. Below are notes sent by classmates about events involving themselves over the past year. Thanks to everyone for your updates. John Andrews: “Sorry to report that nothing significant has changed only the inevitable aches and pains of advancing age. Wait a minute; that’s traditional thinking, but very wrong. I am very fortunate and happy to report that the only changes to report are the few additional aches and pains that crop up more frequently than they used to.” Pope Barrow: “I have a new granddaughter. Her name is Katherine Grace Cassin. She will be attending Yale College in about 17 years. I travelled to New Zealand and flew up 4,000 feet on a kite and survived. Usually, I am just wasting time sailing around various places. On the way to the Chesapeake from Charleston in April. Otherwise nothing new or of any significance to report. I take long naps. No books authored. No films directed. No achievements or awards. I am definitely on a downhill slope in those respects. But I am always well rested. Rick Born: Rick says that there is not much new for him to report. He is still working at Herman Born & Sons, but is being helped by his son, Richard, who had joined the firm earlier. He and Elaine are traveling the world looking for the perfect wine, and also to San Francisco to visit their daughter, son-in-law, and grandchild. Jim Boyce: “Just returned from Russia on 12 March, accompanied my son in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Tula (Tolstoy’s farm/school) while he was on break from teaching eight year-olds math, science, and English. It was a great trip.” Pete Brathwaite: “I am happy to report that life for the Brathwaite family has been good since the Class of ’61 gathered for its 55th reunion. My wife, Sally, was able to resume her normal substitute teaching schedule last fall, having completed her recovery from the broken shoulder she suffered the previous fall. Daughters Sara and Beth remain gainfully employed in the field of education, Beth having successfully transitioned into a more suitable teaching position at a middle school in Gaithersburg, Md. As for yours truly, he has spent most of his time in Florida since last June (a) monitoring (from the sidelines) political developments there and on
the national level, (b) continuing his research into several aspects of 19th century Cuban history, (c) serving on a pair of committees (one Cuba-related) at his local church, and (d) keeping up with his daily exercise regimen. Next up: a trip back to Southern Maryland for a family reunion of sorts.” Bryson Christhilf: “Moved 11/17/16. I tried for a year to sell my mother’s house in the Brightwood retirement community. I finally gave up, sold my house, and moved in. To my chagrin, I seem to fit right in. Who knew? Regards to all.” Bryson also spends his winters in Florida while working on his golf game. Steve Cordi: “I can confirm that I have retired after a nine-year stint as D.C. tax commissioner and have settled into a low energy existence here in Roland Park. My previous retirement failure notwithstanding, I have every expectation that this retirement undertaking will succeed.” The foregoing is all true — alternative facts will not be needed. . . . Chris Creed: “Barbara and I have moved from our Hillsborough home of 41 years to a retirement community in Portola Valley, Calif., just west of the Stanford University campus. Downsizing was a dreadful chore, but now that it’s done, we’re glad. I’ve retired from my parish of 11 years; Barbara continues as chair of the board of trustees of the Church Pension Group, a $12B diversified financial services organization serving The Episcopal Church.” Sam Dell: “Married Muffin Evander on 25 February at St. John’s Glyndon. Small ceremony, immediate family only. My brother and his family and all my kids and their families attended as did Muffin’s sisters, brother, and step-children.” Jack Emory: “I retired last June as the president of The Lunder Foundation. The family has graciously put me on the foundation board. If you want to know who the Lunders are, Google the Colby College Museum of Art. After 40 plus winters in Maine, we are riding them out in Vero Beach, Fla. Life continues to be good for our family. We are blessed and grateful. Scott Faulkner: “Still trying to retire and it may come this year. Biggest news for our family is eldest granddaughter’s athletic scholarship to University of Tennessee as a coxswain for the Lady Vol Crew. Not bad for a 5'-1" dynamo. She also competed the last two years in the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston. Katie and I still live in Franklin, Tenn.” Dan Fisher: “My daughter Caitlin is living in Berlin and organizing professional female soccer players into unions to advocate for their receiving equal pay. My other daughter, Lauren, creates new genre art in L.A. and had her work shown at UCLA’s Hammer Museum. My wife Tish is semi-retired from Massachusetts Health Dept., where she headed their occupational and health program. I continue to do mental health advocacy and just published a book. I hope it will revolutionize the field. It is called Heartbeats of Hope. My goal is to bring the hope that everyone can recover a full life after experiencing a severe emotional crisis. Another highlight of my year was picking olives in Tuscany, Italy, and assisting in their converting them to delicious olive oil.”
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John Gerhardt: “I truly miss my Baltimore friends, both from Gilman and elsewhere. This past fall I returned to Randolph-Macon for the first time in 50 years. Several longtime ago friends contacted me about attending homecoming. In spite of my apprehensions, it turned out great, and I plan to attend each year as long as I can. It makes me realize that once every five years is too infrequent, and then begin to wonder if there would be interest on our part to organize the same . . . nothing like the five-year deal, but something connected with Gilman, maybe just Friday night and Saturday, perhaps around the McDonogh game. I would make every effort possible to be there. “As is probably the case with most of us, health is becoming more and more of an issue. As of this May, I turn 75, I suppose the first in the class to do so. On a daily basis I feel like I’m doing pretty darn well, but over the past 10 years I’ve dealt with everything from prostate surgery to high blood pressure, diabetes, peripheral neuropathy, blood clots, cystitis, and in the past three months, four instances of pseudo gout (very painful, great pain medication, but no cure). I’m sure there are some of us dealing with a lot worse, but I mention these things only to emphasize that five years is a long time between reunions. “Grandkids are all we could ask for. Kellen, 5, is doing great in kindergarten. He loves to read and his interest is constructive (fabulous original Lego constructions), and artistic (trucks and trains). Ann, a career, retired second grade teacher says his artwork is superior to anything she ever saw. We had a great time with my three-train layout under the tree this past Christmas, and it’s gotten so large we’re going to have to move it to his house in Chicago after next Christmas. He appears to have very little athletic ability, but that’s just fine. Nari, our three-year-old granddaughter, on the other hand, takes swimming and dance lessons and loves to wrestle (she’s more than Kellen can handle), and we joke she’s going to be Chicago’s first high school wrestling champion. We attended the Women’s Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis, and Mo did his usual fabulous job of radio color man. Where he got his knowledge of that sport is beyond me, but there are many who say he should be given that job for the men’s games.” Bill Hardy: “We were among a number of our classmates who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Time goes by quickly, and it gets better as it does. In May, we travelled in Brittany and Normandy touring that part of France where much history was made. We found that both Barrow and O’Neill had been there in the past. Fortunately, they left some fresh oysters. The beaches of Normandy were especially stirring and thought provoking. In August, we toured the western coast of Ireland ending up in Dublin for three nights. Ireland is a lovely country. Our middle son lives in Mesa, Ariz. Our visits there to see him give us the opportunity to see Linda and Ed Muhlenfeld, who live in Scottsdale. In February, we caught them in between surgeries each underwent. Both are doing well. Ed is still working and enjoying it.” Henry Hopkins: “Nancy and I are building a house on Jupiter Island, Fla. Should be completed by
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late next fall. In the meantime we are renting a house down the street. Projects keep me out of trouble. Please visit us. Warm weather and mature bodies are very compatible. Daughter Missy Smith lives with her husband and three kids in Berkshire, Vt. Son Holt lives in Avon, Colo. Good skiing this winter. I’ve hung up my skis a decade ago, but am still skydiving every chance I get.” (The threat of Zika forced Henry to withdraw from the 2016 Rio Olympics Javelin competition.) Hugh Long: “All five children are grown up. All college graduates. All married. Three grandchildren. Insofar as kids are concerned: One lawyer. One doctor. One research boat manager. Gave away massive firearms collection to one kid. Health-wise, I am not getting better. Concentrating on estate building for wife and kids.” Bob Manuel: “Last year Linda and I relocated from the South Carolina Low Country to the Charlotte, N.C., area. The objective was to be close to our youngest son, Tim, and his family plus to right-size for phase II of retirement. Mission accomplished! But, we found that moving at our age seemed to be a lot harder than I remembered from the 12 corporate moves we made when I was working. “Tim’s three sons attend Charlotte Latin School. All are very active in sports and excel academically. Joshua, the oldest, is a junior this year. He just returned from a medical mission trip to Guatemala, and was inducted into the Cum Laude Society yesterday. Our oldest son, Robert, is still living in Sewickley, Pa. His family is thriving also. Kate, the oldest, is a junior at Bucknell and currently on a semester abroad in Tours, France. Libby, the youngest, is graduating from high school in May and is bound for Grove City College in September. “Thanks be to God, we are still in reasonably good health and enjoying life in His service. The Reverend Linda Hofmann Manuel is now in semi-retirement; Anglican priests never really retire. “I am active in a prison ministry, Kairos. That plus online theological studies, sailing model yachts, and the grandkids’ games, matches, and meets keep me going.” Corbin Marr: “My second (and last) wife, Liz Middleton, a proper Charlestonian, and I were married there in 1995. Carson Middleton Marr was born in ’98 and we moved to South Carolina for some 18 idyllic years. I had been in the municipal bonds business first with EF Hutton in Hartford and later, in the ’90s with Lehman Brothers in New York. Carson excelled at Charleston’s Gilman (co-ed equivalent), Porter-Gaud, athletically, academically, and spiritually. Fast forward to late 2015 and Carson is early decision accepted to my alma mater, Penn. We had begun to tire of the Deep South, and his hegira (migration) north facilitated ours to the mid-Atlantic triangle of BaltimoreAnnapolis-D.C. We arrived in D.C. this February on my 74th birthday, Valentine’s Day, for two celebrations! I do hope to see my long-ago classmates at Calvert and Gilman functions, especially our Class of 1961 Grumpies Parties.” Bob Moss: “Marguerite and I are entering our third year living in Raleigh, N.C., where I captured her 45 years ago when I was a Marine at Camp Lejeune.
She is enjoying reconnecting with old childhood friends (who are old) and I am meeting new friends, being introduced by my college roommate who lives here. I am on the faculty at Wake Tech, where international students tell me their extraordinary stories and we write them up as essays. Finally, we visit often here, in D.C. and NYC, with our lovely daughters, their perfect husbands, and their spectacular four children.” Moby Mudge: Moby’s recent book on the Alice in Central Park-Statues in Wonderland is available on Amazon. search “Alice in Central Park.” Ed Muhlenfeld: “New York City grandson, Nicholas, one year old this March celebrated his birthday with us in Scottsdale. February was surgery month for Ed (lower back) and Linda (foot) but both of us are on the mend and taking the family (three daughters, one husband, and two grandchildren) to Jamaica to celebrate our 30th anniversary in April.” Tom O’Neill: “As with several other members of our class, the past year marked 50 years of marriage for Kate and me. We celebrated (after a visit with our son Matt in London) with a safari in South Africa that took us across the width of the country from Capetown in the west to Kruger National Park in the east. We walked amidst migrating cape buffalo, shared the sunset with a leopard as she enjoyed her dinner in a tree a few feet away, and marveled at dramatic landscapes and exotic birds. On our own for a final day Johannesburg, we visited the house in Soweto where Nelson Mandela once lived. More recently we celebrated the birth of our second grandchild, Adelaide. At home, I dabble in Democratic politics. Our class’s regular dinners in Baltimore are a great way to stay in touch.” Mac Passano: “Sadly, Helen lost her battle to leukemia on June 9, 2016. The void left after nearly 45 years of marriage is significant, but the girls and I have the fond memories of her life and love to sustain us. Catherine, Tammy, and Sarah all have three daughters, and Sarah has added one son to the mix. Along with my continuing involvement with several organizations serving the Baltimore and Maryland communities, I have my three daughters, their husbands, and 10 grandchildren to keep my days full!” Les Pierce: “Retired from GWMFA in summer 2016 and granted status as professor emeritus. Eileen is on sabbatical from position as professor of public policy at George Mason University. Son Les III working at Atkins Global Engineering; daughter Elizabeth is senior business education planner at Microsoft, Seattle; daughter Rosalyn is at the U.S. Institute of Peace, U.S. State Department. Son, Stephen, is an analyst at Goldman Sachs.” Walter Reuben: “I had the world premiere of my second feature film, “The Big Raincheck,” in Austin, and there was a subsequent West Coast premiere at the Columbia Gorge Film Festival. “I also have the pleasure to announce that I got married in August to Robert Karlik, and that we are very happily married.” Tom Salisbury: “1. Ramona and I closed our web development business, and she has joined the ranks of the retired. Unsurprisingly, she has found several other
activities to pursue and doesn’t seem to miss, at all, spending the day at her desk developing web sites. “2. Spring has finally come to Olympic Peninsula which means the geese and ducks are dropping by for a quick stop on their way north with some deciding Sequim is far enough north and are busy establishing their summer homesteads on the various ponds in the neighborhood. It’s time to get the vegetable and fruit garden ready for the growing season, so the next few weeks will see a lot of weeding, soil amending, and planting. I’m also building a new fence around the garden area to keep the deer away from enjoying our crops. It’s about 700' in length, so it keeps me from feeling as if I have nothing to do. “3. Summer will be used to take care of some home improvement tasks, watch or listen to the O’s, and continue reading through the seemingly never ending list of books I want to read. “I’ve been lucky. I had successful back surgery a few years ago and then had a successful knee replacement a couple years ago. So I count myself one of the fortunate ones wherein I left surgery significantly better off compared to how I entered the OR. After the knee replacement, I was finally able to kick start my metabolic rate again and lost 50 pounds, being able to put a couple thousand miles on our elliptical since then. . . . So, all in all, I can deal with the relatively minor physical issues that come up. Best wishes, Tom.” Ritchie Solter: “I still enjoy working and spend as much time as possible attending school plays, sporting events, music recitals, and various activities of my nine grandchildren. This spring I will be standing on the hill at Gilman watching as many varsity lacrosse games as possible. My grandson, Colton Edmunds, a junior, is a member of the team which will hopefully be much improved from last year’s dismal performance.” John Snead: “Believe it or not, Mary and I will be celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary in November!” John Stockbridge: “For the past 17 years I have been historian for our town. Out of this interest have come many time consuming, but rewarding activities . . . historic preservation, nature conservancy, historical society. My god wife Anita often asks, ‘Are you home for dinner tonight?’ “Kids are all well and in their 40s (OMG) . . . seven grandkids (six tweeners and a one year old . . . don’t ask). Helping Anita with her gardens, playing mediocre golf and bridge, wrote a little book for our church . . . the usual stuff. All is well. “Thank you, Gilman, I’m a very lucky alum.” Harry Swope: “I am still involved in promoting naturopathic medicine as a better alternative. I am currently leading the change management effort for realigning the payments processing for a nationally recognized cancer research hospital in California. “My wife, Elizabeth Palmer, retired this year after a decades-long career as a costume designer for TV and films. Her last program was two years on CSI Cyber after eight years on CSI NY. She is now doing design and furnishing projects for several of her friends in the TV industry who have bought large new homes in Pasadena and Malibu.
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“This summer we had a month-long visit by our two granddaughters who live in Charlottesville. My son, Forrest, is working for the University as the data stewardship lead in a major overhaul of systems for all parts of the University. My daughter, Alexandra, who is a veterinarian living near us in southern California, has just started a practice as a mobile vet — driving to ranches, farms, and homes of people who have difficulty transporting their animals to an office.” T Tall: “I’m enjoying a six year run as VP of our local Habitat for Humanity and chair of its building committee. An all-volunteer organization, we build one house every two years. Our biggest challenge is to find qualified home owners who aren’t buried in debt, usually unpaid medical bills. Meanwhile, my wife Cy recently was named president of Beau Ties of Vermont, a manufacturer of bow ties, four-in-hand ties, cummerbunds, and other clothing apparel. Both the White House and the U.S. House of Representatives have been clients of theirs, not to mention Gilman’s Headmaster.” Joe (Hank) Townsend: “I was at Gilman for only four years, grades 4–7, but I remember them as the most enjoyable years of my K-16 education, especially the Lower School — Sixth Form (if I remember the terminology correctly). “My father died in an automobile accident in June 1956, at the end of my first year of Upper School (he was 48 years old), and I moved with my mother and two sisters to the San Francisco Bay Area about three weeks after his death. I would have been in the class of ’61 had I continued to live in Baltimore. My birth certificate says Joseph Henry Townsend, which was also my father’s name (and his father, and his father, and his father). My father was called “Joe.” Rather than be called “Little Joe,” I was called Hank. “When my father died in 1956 and his name, Joe, became “available,” my mother asked me as we were driving out to the Bay Area that summer if it was OK with me if I changed my name from Hank to Joe. “I said it was fine with me, so when I started the eighth grade at Piedmont Junior High School, I was called Joe. Little did I know that by assuming his name (which I liked better than Hank), I now became at age 13 ‘the man of the family.’ This brought with it an earlier assumption of adult responsibilities as well as comparisons I made between my abilities and all my father accomplished in his 48 years. “In thinking back on my father's death, there was much I lost — my father, of course, but I also lost my neighborhood friends, my home, my Gilman friends as well as the school experience, lacrosse, and my name . . . It’s no wonder that this was my most life-changing moment. My mother told me that my father wanted me to go to Annapolis, but I wound up going to UC-Berkeley for my undergraduate degree and then on to Cornell for an MBA. I played lacrosse at Gilman, took my new stick to California only to find that no one heard of the sport. So I guess I wasn’t so upset when someone stole the stick from my front porch shortly after we arrived. “I married a high school classmate, Lee Thomson, in 1966. Last year was our 50th wedding anniversary.
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We have four sons ages 35 to 49 who live up and down the East Coast — Brooklyn, northern Virginia, Atlanta, and Miami. Three are married and we have four grandchildren. Lucky me! “I worked for IBM from 1967–2000 — lived in Sacramento, Reno, Los Angeles, and Atlanta since 1983. For my ‘encore’ I was a middle school math and grammar teacher for six years. Lots of fun in both careers.” David Wilson: David and Katherine made a stop in Baltimore in September 2016 to visit with his sister, Dickey, and her husband Peter Wilkes. Several of us got the opportunity to see them at the Wilkes’ to catch up. The Wilsons were on their way back to their home in New Mexico. Part of the evening was spent trying to name all of the teachers at Gilman during our time in the upper school. We did pretty well, but left out Willis Spencer and Bill Ackley. Try to list them yourself for fun. Butch West: “My grandson, Taylor West, is graduating from Calvert School in June and will be entering the ninth grade (Third Form) at Gilman this coming fall. His sister, Ella Kate, is completing her sixth grade at Calvert this June. My youngest grandchild is Camilla. She is in the third grade at school in Scottsdale, Ariz. “After 40 years of officiating lacrosse, I hung it up two years ago. It was a lot of fun and I do miss it, but it was the right time. Having retired from active duty, I have now assumed the role as an ‘observer’ watching games with young referees, grading them, and making recommendations to their assigners as to who deserves advancement to a higher level.” (Butch and Peggy also celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2016.) Peter Wilkes: Peter Wilkes and wife Dickey Wilson (David Wilson’s sister) continue to write together. Their latest — with a bit of assistance from Mark Twain — is the irreverent and satirical Lucifer Eve and Adam: the absolutely true and completely honest story of Creation. Available on Amazon, the book recently received the Seal of Excellence from a non-partisan reviewer panel. When he is not writing, Peter enjoys watching his eldest son, Rex, perform with his Grateful Dead tribute band and anticipates more visits with his younger son, Scott, and the grandkids now that they are back in Richmond.
1963 Jake Slagle jake@jakeslagle.com We labored over our decision to place the sad news first or whether to hold it for last. Bill Oster died at home on June 7, 2016, of brain cancer. It seemed hardly a moment passed in those last months when friends and family were not with him. Bill relished in all the company. Lance Bendann and Bob Dyer showed up almost every day. Terry Ellen ministered at his memorial service. Although Bill didn’t want to die, his spirit and humor
The Class of 1962 marked its 55th Reunion at the home of Rev. Judith Proctor and K. Donald Proctor.
never diminished. One of the last things he shared with Yours Truly was his gratitude for the wonderful life he’d been privileged to enjoy. In other sad news, Anna Belle and John Loeb lost their daughter Anne in August after a 10-year battle with cancer. The Loebs have traveled frequently in recent months to be with family in Minneapolis and Philadelphia. Otherwise they divide their time between two homes: the oldest house in New Orleans’ Bywater neighborhood and a summer house on Caspian Lake in Greensboro, Vt. Ed Supplee’s mother died in February after a long illness. Ed described the ordeal as “a very painful five years.” He and Sally continue to travel. So far this year, they’ve been to Switzerland to celebrate a friend’s 70th birthday and also to Ethiopia. Eddie recently copied me in on an email from him to John Claster. The message was “Claster is famous.” Attached was a scan from a full page ad on page 13 of the Jan. 7–13 issue of The Economist from “Selective Search: Executive Search Meets Personal Matchmaking.” In the middle of the ad was a picture of John and wife Heather with a quote presumably from both stating, “I found a keeper.” Retired after teaching philosophy at Vassar for 40 years, Mitch Miller shared via email a little gem of pertinent hindsight: “The open secret is true,” he wrote. “The teacher owes his own education to his students.” Mitch and wife Chris are now living in New York City, “happily immersing ourselves in its music, theatre, art, and the joys of Central Park.” Tony (Sonny) Marek retired from Cytec Industries in 2012 after 44 years. He and wife Carolyn then moved to Naples, Fla., where both engage actively in community oriented volunteer work. During the summer, they live mostly in New Jersey, traveling often
from there to California. Between those two states, they have two daughters and five grandchildren. Bill Paternotte still specializes in advising high net worth private clients at Brown Advisory here in Baltimore. He finds time to spend with his seven grandchildren as well as to travel with Nan. George Scarlett is enjoying his 17th year as a professor in the Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts. For a fantastic read as to what inspires him, go to http://emerald.tufts.edu/alumni/ magazine/fall2016/create/the-climb.html. George’s cousin Chris Scarlett reports “everything is ok,” except that he’s having both knees replaced in September. Ward Coe, who had both his knees replaced a year ago, continues to practice law at Gallagher, Evelius, and Jones. A major part of his work relates to being chairman of the Maryland Access to Justice Commission. His and Christie’s travel plans for this year include the Galapagos Islands and Myanmar. Robin Baker stays busy at MetaMetrics in North Carolina. As this is written, he is about to or will have run a 5K with his oldest daughter. Ted Leach still teaches at Quinnipiac University’s F.H. Netter Medical School in North Haven, Conn., from which the first class will graduate this year. Ted and Bonnie became grandparents the first time through daughter Kate to baby Emily in October. Ted Mudge and wife Joan also became grandparents for the first time on March 6 through son Tie and his wife Ashley. Edmund Tileston Mudge, VI weighed in at 9 lbs., 12 oz. After the rainiest winter ever in California, Bob Dobbin writes: “At times I felt as if I were setting a world record for most doggy feet dried off in a 90-day period.”
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Alumni travelers: Christy Progge, Marty McDonough 6"' 4, Annie McDonough, Stuart McCarthy, David Abrahamson ’64, Barbara Abrahamson enjoyed a week’s holiday together in Salzburg, Austria.
A nice email from Tom Farley suggests that life for him and Carol is good. They’ve both been involved in local theater for nearly 30 years, and recently appeared in a well-received show, A Nice Family Gathering, at the Barn Theater in Stuart, Fla. Ten years after retiring from Alex Brown when Deutsche Bank purchased it over 10 years ago, Bill Legg remains active with several boards, both corporate and charitable. He and a lady friend of 16 years live in Key Largo, Fla., during the winter and on his small ranch in Montana in the summer. He has a daughter and three grandchildren in Jacksonville, Fla., and another granddaughter with four grandchildren in Baltimore, where he still maintains a house. On a sadder note, he states: “The most distressing events in my life this past couple of years are that my two oldest grandsons have opted to go to McDonogh after Calvert rather than Gilman.” I heard through the grapevine that, while in Baltimore, Bill was seen having dinner with Chuck Newhall. Chuck works with sons Ashton and Adair at Ashton’s venture capital firm, Greenspring Associates. He reports that his first book, Fearful Odds, has sold over 5,000 copies and that a second book will be out soon. Bill Lamb and wife Jenny are heading back to New England from San Diego in June for his 50th Reunion at Dartmouth. From there they continue to France to see family, and from France to Edinburgh to visit son Will and his three kids. With luck we may see him them at their next stop in Maryland during September to attend a nephew’s wedding. One item certain to become more frequent in our news mix is downsizing: So far, the only mention of this
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has been from Tom Chase. He still lives at 3 Sisters Farm, “trying to get out of this 10-room ‘estate’ and into something more affordable and befitting two old folks, i.e., on one floor.” Bruce Marston has already made his move. Bruce reports that he has sold his house in Port Townsend and rented a condominium in Bellingham, Wash., in order to be closer to his two grandsons.
1964 John Redwood III jredwood3@gmail.com Many in the class of 1964 are now retired, but by no means retiring or inactive. I will start with Doug Ober, who I believe speaks for most, if not all, of us when he writes: “There have been some bumps in the road, but life is good.” Doug also informs us that he and Fran continue to split their time between Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Baltimore. They are still skiing, fishing, and hiking out there, but downsizing in Baltimore. A new granddaughter arrived in Baltimore last October, bringing the count up to two (one 21 months, one six months). He is fully retired and enjoying his “free time” although he remains on the Bryn Mawr board after a stint on the Gilman board. He and Fran are also taking up golf, with the advantage that “the ball goes a lot farther at 6,600 ft. of altitude,” and he’s planning to relearn the piano. They are building a new house in Jackson Hole, as their son Kenneth and daughter Carlin are on the West Coast, while new dad Mac is in Baltimore.
Speaking of bumps in the road, our erstwhile regular secretary, Bill Anderson, has, unfortunately, hit a few, but hasn’t lost his sense of humor. He reports: “My recent attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail was unsuccessful due, in large part, to several falls. One of these falls resulted in some additional damage to a right hip already suffering from osteoarthritis. I am currently using steroids to reduce the inflammation and provide some relief. They ain’t working at all. It’s looking more and more like a hip replacement. I can’t wait. You can’t beat a summer spent in rehab while watching soap operas and re-runs of ‘The Price is Right.’ WooHoo. Put me in, Coach!” Continuing with the letter A, David Abrahamson, who is the Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University in Chicago, notes that his wife Barbara celebrated her 10th anniversary of retirement from teaching last summer, shortly before they treated themselves to a getaway in São Paulo and Buenos Aires for their 40th wedding anniversary. Not yet retired, David still teaches long-form journalism, and recently attended scholarly meetings in Galway, Ireland, to speak on “literary journalism” (i.e., journalism as literature) and Sydney, Australia, to keynote an international conference on magazines as a distinct media. Globetrotting appears to be a common element in many of the reports, and David also puts in a cameo appearance in Stuart McCarthy’s latest update. He writes “Christy Progge (my girlfriend), Annie and Marty McDonough, Barbara and David Abrahamson, and I caught up for a week’s holiday in Salzburg, Austria, with the sole intention to buy a hat. The history of the pilgrimage is too long and involved to relate here, except to say ‘Mission Accomplished.’ On completion of the mission, Marty and Annie headed back to Toulouse [where they live], David and Barbara returned to Chicago (hopefully Evanston is one of the peaceful sections), and Christy and I returned to Thailand and Hong Kong.” He adds “as for my own family’s doings, my son Sean is a freshman at Santa Clara University in California (actually a part of San Jose). Michelle, her husband Corky, and my grandkids are now living in Costa Rica, and Samantha is happy and busily helping to build a tech start up in NYC. Warm regards to all.” Getting together with fellow classmates was also a theme in Leith Hermann’s note: “Susie and I continue to enjoy retirement. There are still too few hours in a day to do everything I’d like, and I hope it will stay that way. I enjoy volunteering as a Special Olympics ski coach and helping another group for disabled adults, as well as Habitat for Humanity. In fact, Steve Scott and I worked together on a Habitat house last week. A week earlier, Susie and I visited Pascale and Bob Pine in East Hampton, where we had a delightful time. Pascale is a first class cook, and Bob has great taste in wine! The Pines were our guests at our Maine house last summer, as were Grace and John MacLean a week later. Lots of reminiscing, and John and I stayed up late playing guitar and banjo; fortunately, we are both blessed with tolerant wives! If any classmates happen to pass through the Portland area in the summer, we hope they will take a side trip and spend a day or two with us in Bridgton.
Next October, the Pines, MacLeans, Hermanns, and Lindsey Hardesty are renting a house for a week in Alberobello, Italy. Should be wild! Hope all is well with the rest of the class of ’64.” Hamilton Easter may want to take Leith up on his offer, as he informs us that: “With the abundant snowfall this winter, skiing has been wonderful, and we, fortunately, entertained many house guests between Christmas and March. My daughter, Katie will be getting her master’s degree in hospitality management from Cornell this May. In August I will hopefully begin a cross country bicycle trip from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, a trip that has been in the planning for almost 10 years.” The aforementioned Bob Pine also wrote in, and, once again, both travel and charitable work are in the picture: “Pascale and I have moved full time to East Hampton. We are continuing our world travel with a trip to Italy in the fall and three weeks in Uzbekistan to see the Silk Road. I am working with an organization called Surgeons of Hope Foundation that provides training for local doctors and some open heart surgeries for children in Central and South America.” Jeff Miller is also on the road. He writes: “Not much to report except that Ginny and I are now driving out West on our trip to see the U.S. I took a leave of absence from teaching at Gallaudet this spring so we could take a leisurely trip. We just got in our car and started driving. The idea was to research first some things that we wanted to see, but mostly to stop whenever we discovered something interesting along the way. We have travelled abroad many times, but we have not really seen America. We are thinking of six weeks, and, at first, we were planning to drive all the way to California, but this no longer seems to be in the cards. My son Jeff, class of 95, is now getting a PhD in law at the European University in Florence. He is writing a dissertation on European disability law.” Gally Warfield has also recently received some visiting classmates and shares the following news: “Judy and I continue to live quiet, reflective lives in the shadow of a mountain range east of San Diego. Judy works for a slick foodie publication, Edible San Diego Magazine, and I continue to work on various writing projects while pursuing educational upgrades that may lead to other pursuits and interests. We enjoy our three grandchildren, our rescued cats and birds, and a climate that allows us to putter in our tropical garden year round. I have stated before that we welcome classmates to our area and offer hospitality and a top-notch guided tour. So far, Sherry and Bob Locke, Stu McCarthy, Leslie and John Silverstein, and Ronnie and Tim Wolf have answered the call. I hope to add Tom Revell to that list soon. He is a half-day away, and we plan to hook up in the near future. Send more!” Speaking of Bob Locke, he was so enthusiastic about these notes he made two submissions. First, he wrote: “Having been retired for the last three years I have, 1) written my memoir (360 pages), 2) become a beekeeper, 3) travelled a lot: Asia, South America, Middle East, Europe, 4) gotten involved in microlending in Baltimore, 5) enjoyed my four grandchildren A LOT, and 6) tried to stay out of trouble. But the thing
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that has struck me more than anything is the realization about how incredibly lucky I have been in every aspect of my life. When I was writing my life story I kept saying to myself: ‘Man, were you lucky.’ I know that I am not the only one. For the most part we were ‘born on third base and thought we hit a triple,’ to quote the late Anne Richards speaking about George H. W. Bush.” Then he added in a second email that he was “thoroughly enjoying” retirement, but was “profoundly disappointed that it is still necessary to demonstrate against many of the same issues that I last demonstrated against 50 years ago. It is hard to call this progress!” Different types of bumps in the road! Sandy Martin appears currently to be the winner in the most productive grandfather category with 11 grandchildren, just nosing out, for the moment, Fife Symington, about whom more later. Sandy also reports that he spends most of his time following his grandchildren around to various sporting events and an occasional ballet performance, that his eldest grandson is now a sophomore at Gilman “starting defense like his father,” and that he is still trying to master golf. For some reason, grandchildren are a rather common theme in our updates. Bill Barton, for example, writes that “Jane and I are on the verge of 51 years of an awesome marriage — truly blessed. We have five grandkids, among them two quarter horse riding barrel racers in West Virginia . . . both girls . . . a repeatedly honor roll teenage granddaughter, and two grandsons, one homeschooled, one just two-ish.” He also reports, “I have a strong career in general contracting, started my own firm. Business is good and growing. Our three children all have great families, and we stay as close as our busy lives will allow. It isn’t perfect but we are blessed. Baltimore is good, and we spend the late summers at our oceanfront home in South Jersey . . . imagine a beach town in the mid-Atlantic with 30 blocks of non-lifeguarded beaches, no houses for nine blocks north of us, a narrow barrier island town, where we have beach and bay, sunrise, sunset, just three hours from home on a Monday morning.” He ends with “God Bless, and I am looking forward to Gilman 55th.” Me too! Jim Campbell is another doting grandparent and international traveler. Having just returned from a business meeting in Bern, Switzerland, he informs us: “Last November, Karen and I visited son Chris, 37, and his wife Emiko in Japan for three weeks. Our daughter Hayley, an assistant DA in the Bronx, was able to join us for two of the three weeks. The trip was a celebration of the fact that Chris and family had finally moved closer to home (after four years in Jakarta)! It was also the grandparents’ first chance to meet one-year-old James Tara (the Falcon) Campbell and enjoy again big sister Sophie (now 3). Chris works for a Japanese conglomerate, Sumitomo. Tokyo was nice, but the grandparents are hoping for a move to the West Coast one of these years!” Walter Childs also mentions children and grandkids and traveling, in this case by train and canoe, is likewise on the agenda: “My wife and I are now living in Cape Charles, Va., where we expect to have a wedding of our youngest daughter in our backyard next October. I am trying to be retired from law practice carried on in Annapolis for over 40 years. We now have
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a son living in Denver with his wife and two sons. That younger daughter, an architect, about to be married, lives near Denver. Our older daughter lives in San Jose, Calif., with her husband and three children. My wife and I just returned from a train trip (Amtrak) from D.C. to New Orleans, a fantastic place we had not been to before. In July, my son and I are planning a father-son canoe and camping trip on the Colorado River.” Bill Stafford’s daughter is also about to hear wedding bells. He reports that “2016 and 2017-to-date have been busy for Bonnie and me. As 2015 closed and 2016 opened, we sold our Wisconsin real estate and moved to Exeter, N.H., to be nearer family. It was a busy time. We’ve since been doing our best to get to know our new environs. It’s fun to be in, so-called, ‘seacoast New Hampshire.’ Additionally, as we ‘settled in,’ our daughter, Kate, became engaged and will be married in late June of this year. We’re thrilled for her and will plan to be in Minneapolis, her home, to support her celebration! (It’s pretty wonderful that a 43-year-old and a 47-year-old have found each other, neither has been previously married, and they are making this commitment to each other.) Finally, Bonnie and I would welcome to Exeter any classmates who find themselves traveling through this part of the country (we’re just 40 miles north of Boston). We promise an excellent lunch or dinner should you wish to stop by!” Hamilton Easter and bicycle take note! Closer to home, Fred Kelly also sends in news. He writes, “I am still the Severn Riverkeeper and am happy to announce that the Capital River of the State of Maryland will be fully restored within the next eight to 10 years. Wife Nancy just retired as a chaplain at the local Annapolis hospital. Now we can spend winters in Savannah to enjoy grandchildren and fly around with our son-in-law in his Black Hawk Helicopter. We are celebrating his retirement from Afghanistan and Iraq. Son John is still out in Steamboat Springs, Colo., enjoying recreational marijuana. We will be spending our summers in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, so that we can enjoy time in a blue state.” More trips for the Class of 1964, or at least some of its offspring! Yours truly has also been on the road quite a bit. I retired from the World Bank in 2008, but have been consulting for various international financial organizations on the environment, climate change, and sustainable development pretty much full time ever since. Over the past eight years, this has taken me to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, England, Ghana, Indonesia, Laos, Liberia, Mexico, Morocco, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Thailand, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam. Lúcia, who took early retirement from the Inter-American Development Bank in 2007, and I have also cruised and travelled extensively in various other parts of the world, including, most spectacularly, Antarctica! Son André, who is now 35, is a 2012 Yale PhD in music theory, taught for three years at Notre Dame, spent three months last year at the Sorbonne on a Fulbright Fellowship, and is now finishing a book based on his dissertation on Marin Mersenne that will hopefully be published by Cambridge University Press. Our most important “retirement project,” however, has been helping to raise
Lúcia’s grandniece from São Paulo, who will soon be 13 and has been living with us for the past three years. Thus, no grandchildren to report yet, but we are “parents” again. Having Victoria with us has been a real adventure — girls are very different from boys, as most of you already know, but we have only recently found out — and a great joy and blessing! We also recently hosted a Brazilian feijoada at our home in McLean, Va., for some fellow Washington-based and other classmates and their wives. So, I can testify from first hand-observation, that Messrs. Campbell, Green, Isaacs, Locke, Keidel, and Miller are all in great shape, that (not surprisingly) their/our better halves are in even finer shape, and that, except for a “few” grey hairs (or a considerable lack of hair in some cases), these esteemed former colleagues look exactly the same as they did on our graduation day! It was great to get together and I hope to see more of you soon! Finally, I conclude with Fife Symington, not only because it is great to hear from him after quite a long time, but primarily because, together with his family news, he expresses sentiments that I believe we all share. Fife writes: “Our family continues to expand. We now have 10 grandchildren and one more on the way. At this pace, we will be able to outdo the Russians and pack our precinct. We split our time between Arizona and Santa Barbara, Calif. My professional cooking school, the Arizona Culinary Institute, is in its 16th year and flourishing.” He ends by saying, “I often reflect on the vital role Gilman has played in my life! Miss you all!” I couldn’t say it better myself!
1965 William R. Baker WilliamRosBaker@gmail.com As we all either have celebrated (?) or are approaching our seventieth birthdays, many of us will pause to remember the great start in life that we received at Gilman School. Page and David Winstead report two granddaughters, one named Palmer born to daughter Schuyler and one named Rosie born to son Trevor. Although living in Washington, David gets up to Baltimore to play a little golf and to visit his parents, Tom and Marian, who are doing well. Doug Mitchell says he “got himself mixed up with a new non-profit aimed at keeping 24/7 bluegrass radio from going off the air (and web) when the station was being dumped by American University. The group was successful, and now they are learning the finances of listener-supported radio firsthand.” From Oregon, Gordy Allen writes that his son, Ben, age 37, moved from D.C. to Baltimore in November to work for Catholic Relief Services to help evaluate programs managed by CRS. Ben has been sent to Zambia, Uganda, and Tanzania, with trips planned to Ecuador, Guatemala, and India. Gordy’s daughter, Rebecca, age 35, is moving from Boston to Seattle to practice medicine as a neuropsychiatrist. Gordy and wife Jan are retired from the practice of law and are involved
in volunteer work and travel, and are headed off to Colombia just after he wrote. Another frequent traveler is Richard Tilghman, having been with wife Beverly to Iceland/Greenland, Baja California, and on a river cruise with the Bakers down the Seine River to Normandy, which was great. I got a quick note from Tom Webster reporting his retirement after thirty years from VF Corporation. Tom will now have time to enjoy golf, the beach, and not traveling to all parts of the world on business. Fred Whelan is in the second year of his retirement, but it doesn’t sound like it as his last academic book is still in the works. Fred says his health is good except for failing eyesight. He spends a lot of time playing old-time banjo music. Fred’s children and grandchildren live in Nashville, New Orleans, and Mexico City (as a WSJ reporter), all of which makes for a lot of good travel. Geoff Leboutillier reports that he excited about turning 70 (beats the alternative), and is looking forward to a gathering this summer, which will include son Jonathan (named after classmate Jon Stebbins), his wife Karen, and their three children, Geoff’s sisters Francie Rivoire and Kate O’Neill, both Bryn Mawrtyrs (now called Bryn Mawrtians), Kate’s husband, Tom ’61 and their son, Tim, a linguist and his wife and two children, not to mention what Geoff calls “various other odds and sods with no Balto. links.” All this is to enjoy Geoff’s new pizza oven, which he reports is still (like our lives) under construction. Tony Whitman reports that as of this past January 1, his old firm, Ober Kaler, merged into the Baker, Donelson firm, which has offices throughout the southeastern U.S. In November Tony and Susan celebrated the birth of their second grandchild, Clara Lee Clark, who lives a short walk down the hill from them in Roland Park with her parents, Hannah and Matt Clark. Reporting in from snowy Boston is Sandy Harris (I know he goes by Neal now, but to me he will always be Sandy). Sandy and Ann are already ready for summer as they are headed to the Deschutes River in Oregon for some trout fishing. Sandy will then join his bike group for a ride up Mt. Rainier, then down to Mt. Bachelor in Bend, Ore., then over to Crater Lake. Sandy and Ann will then spend the rest of the summer in New London, N.H., with family visits from son Chris and his brood from Hanover, and from son Jeff from Newton, Mass. Sandy and Ann have four grandchildren now: Eliza, 7, James Carroll, 4, Fiona Grey, 3, and Ian Christopher, 1. Needless to say, Sandy and Ann enjoy spending lots of time with all of them. Mac Lewis sends word from New Mexico that, “After turning 70 last week, I am continuing to try with only limited success to ease into retirement, and to wonder why I never went to law school. Most recently (not as employment but as concerned citizen with years of experience in the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division) I conceived of a driver’s license (process simplification) bill, drafted it, sold the idea to a State Senator, got it introduced as Senate Bill 427, served as the senator’s ‘Expert Witness’ through three successful committee hearings, and lobbied successfully for a modicum of bipartisan support before the bill died, as so many do, in the last day of the Legislature. It was an
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amazing experience that I suspect will be repeated in some way in the future. I’m calling it ‘My Amazing Legislative Adventure.’” George Ward writes that all is quiet in Milton, Del., but would love to connect with any classmates who find themselves at Delaware beaches. “At this moment I would very much like to be able to report on my first grandson (two adorable granddaughters already). Young Jack Fisher has not arrived though is expected any day,” wrote Alex Fisher. Alex continues his investment consulting role as managing partner with Marquette Associates of Chicago. He recently established BMoreAg LLC with a partner to develop urban agriculture centers in Baltimore. “Those of you who remember me as the hayseed from Butler can see why I might have come to this at this stage in life. With global food production constrained going forward, urban farms will take on a more significant role, especially with advances in hydroponics and aquaculture. Baltimore hopes to take a leading role in urban agriculture, and as a revitalization model this has exceptional potential,” he says. Check it out at www.bmoreag.com. Alex also serves on the board of Baltimore Tree Trust (simple mission of planting trees in Baltimore City) and is investment and planned giving chair of Church of the Good Shepherd in Ruxton. Lastly, your Secretary reports his retirement from insurance conglomerate Willis Towers Watson after 37 years and several firm acquisitions. I get to play lots of golf with Richard Tilghman, Stan Klinefelter, David Winstead, Billy Groff, and Temple Grassi. Nancy and I will also get to spend more time on the Eastern Shore and enjoy our granddaughter, Maddie, 3.
1969 Wally Pinkard Wally.Pinkard@cushwake.com I see Blake Goldsmith fairly regularly around town and while we chat in passing, it was great to get the following update from him: “I find I have become more, rather than less, connected to Gilman over the years. One of my regular late afternoon walks is to head up the Stony Run trail, which ends at Gilman. The open space of the campus is in direct contrast to the wooded path. I enjoy seeing the athletes out their practicing around sunset. “I am still playing tennis and squash. George Duncan and John Minkowski both did a great job with cataract surgery on my eyes. Lee Gaines had recommended George and maybe now I might be able to win a tennis set from Lee. Hope springs eternal. Still working with my special event business. We are doing a big event for Special Olympics and others next year. “I enjoyed Nick Schloeder’s tribute very much and thought that Mac Barrett was a great MC. What an all-star cast of Senators and Governors to honor him. Dave Irwin’s stories of Nick were dramatic and humorous. Like many others, I would go to lunch with Nick over the years and his stories and outlook on life
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were one of a kind. John Schmick’s retirement party was a hoot with David Whitman doing his best Saturday night live impression of John in front of almost 1,000 guests. “Staying in touch with Bruce Rice, Brooks Bradley, Page Boyce, Kenny Marshall, and others.” I have the chance to see Brooks fairly regularly. He hasn’t lost one ounce of that enthusiasm that drove him at Gilman, athletically, academically, and in personal relationships. I invite you to visit his business website (www.thebradleycompany.us) to get the reinforcement of the principled deep commitment that we all know embodies Brooks. A lot of us stay in touch with Bruce, or to state it correctly, he stays in touch with us. What a fantastic ambassador for our class. Recently I had the pleasure of attending a Gilman football game with Bruce and three other Class of 1969ers. We were the largest alumni contingent and so noted by one of the other classes. Some pretty good pictures too. Perhaps you will see them in Gilman alumni materials. Bill Somerville reports that he is now retired, having spent 33 years on the legal staff of the Maryland Legislature. He now has time to enjoy his hobbies, most particularly traveling in general and backpacking in the Rockies specifically. I had a brief chat with Lewis Strauss at a Johns Hopkins University event honoring his mother. He semi-promised to communicate more in the future. He has been quite busy, and I look forward to getting a more complete update than the notes scribbled on the back of my napkin that I could not decipher the next morning because they washed out. Tom Duquette received a good bit of press coverage after recording his 500th victory at the helm of Norfolk Academy’s lacrosse team, which he did with a 22-2 victory. Congrats, Tom! After his hugely successful business career, Walter Herlihy has turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits, including efforts through his Brace Cove Foundation. The foundation’s focus is as stated: “Our Mission is the enrichment of the lives of children, individuals and families on Cape Ann, Massachusetts through partnerships with nonprofit organizations who are providing essential social services and educational opportunities.” Check out their website. It is fascinating. It will be interesting to observe John Stalfort’s leadership of innovative financing structures with the changes in the White House. While few of us know how things will turn out, John’s expertise in tax increment financing and local community development authorities could prove quite valuable to his clients. We haven’t had much of an update from Richard Bacharach other than knowing about his many years as a practicing psychiatrist in Columbia, Md., with a specialty in child psychiatry. How about some more info from you, Richard, for the next edition of these notes? For those of you who have not connected with Bruce Bortz recently, you will find he has had quite a run at Bancroft Press since taking over in 1992. In his own words, he describes his journey as:
“I have a deep passion for books. I have a restless, inquisitive mind. I’m a hard-worker. I’m aggressive. I’m a calculated risk-taker. And I attained all this success: • in Baltimore (hardly the book capital of the world) • while working with very little capital, • in an impossibly challenging field as a general interest trade publisher, • lacking big media clout.” I suggest that classmates should check out Bancroft Press! I see Jack Dunn regularly due to our service on the Board of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Jack also serves on the board of the utility company Pepco. What an interesting time to have a front row seat in the utility industry and what a great tribute to Jack’s business acumen to be selected for such a role. Another regular whom I see in multiple spots around town is Dick Gamper. On the civic front, Dick serves on the Board of Center Stage, which just completed a major capital campaign and beautiful renovation of its impressive facilities. The Board really stepped up! I also have the pleasure of regularly seeing Jack Machen since we serve together on the Stulman Foundation Board. It has been fun to collaborate on doing civic good. On the personal front, Jack is spending more time in Wyoming, where he professes that he is becoming a “farmer and a rancher.” I put those in quotations because I urge you to delve into what becoming a farmer and a rancher means when you run into Jack. He and Louise are also in the process of building a dream house on their beautiful property in Wyoming. Should be finished within two years, and I am told they would welcome guests. I am also told that they will never abandon Baltimore, so we will have the chance to stay in touch. Trying to get good information on the activities of Trip Maumenee has been a bit challenging, but I have pieced together a few facts. Perhaps one of our classmates, or Trip himself, can amplify or correct. Trip is still in Alabama and is president of Mar Coat International, Inc. His company offers a diversity of fashion ware, including blazers, tuxedos, and jeans. Looking at his website, it appears that his company has some rather cool offerings. We look forward to filling out the picture on Trip in the next edition of these notes. I suggested in a prior edition of these notes that classmates look at Paul Offit’s profile on the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia website. However, recognizing that not everyone will take such initiative when reading these notes, this time I will cite a perspective on Paul’s most recent book (Bad Faith) from Robert M. Goldberg, vice president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. He comments: “Bad Faith is a haunting account of how and why people use faith to ignore medical science, even when doing so kills children and spreads disease. It completes what is Paul Offit’s trilogy of books (along with Do You Believe in Magic? and Autism’s False Prophets) that examines how the human desire to believe in or defend something greater is expressed in an attack on science and reason. It is hard to read this book and
not conclude that the most virulent threat to human existence is that part of our imagination that equates rejection of medical progress with achieving Heaven on Earth. It is Offit’s best book yet.” Pretty heady stuff, Paul! You make us all proud to call you a classmate. Tom Buck continues to impact students at Friends School. I encourage people to check out Tom’s reviews on the ratemyteachers.com website. A vast majority of his students rave about him, which in today’s environment is a great testament. Not surprisingly, Teddy Rouse continues his entrepreneurial activities. His real estate redevelopments contribute much to the vibrancy of our city and his initiation of Big City Farms a few years back provides city residents with a fresh vegetable option grown in the city. It is impressive that Big City’s vegetables have even graced the menu of the Gertrude’s, the highly acclaimed restaurant housed in the BMA. Arthur Rudo continues his internal medicine practice in Westminster and his wife, Kathryn, also has a Westminster-based practice in dermatology. Not surprising to anyone, George Stamas continues his varied legal, sports, and business activities. Check out his Business Week Executive Profile and you will find 20 other affiliations beyond the lengthy description of his career history. It is a wonder how he ever finds time to sleep. Perhaps the most interesting of his endeavors is his ownership in Monumental Sports, which I understand is a collective effort to maximize the impact of Washington, D.C.’s professional teams on their community. Maybe George can give us a more cogent perspective on this enterprise for the next edition of these notes. On the personal front, non-profit activities have taken over the time freed up from a slowdown at work. I have somehow added chairmanship of the United Way’s Tocqueville Campaign next year to an already full plate. The four grandchildren continue to be a huge delight. And our newest baby is a two-week-old thoroughbred born to our award-winning steeplechase mare. I am finishing these notes at my desk on St. Helena Island overlooking a beautiful spring day and the calm Severn River. We welcome visitors if you are up for an island tour. I could say to keep the information coming but “keep” would be an exaggeration. Nevertheless, any updates are appreciated. My email is wally.pinkard@ cushwake.com.
1970 Howard Baetjer hbaetjer@verizon.net I missed the deadline for these notes but got a three-day extension from the folks in the alumni office. That was time enough to ask for and receive by email the following news: Bob Cole says, “I have no news of interest to my classmates, but I enjoyed the reunion that Harry Shaw hosted two years ago. It was great to meet the grown-up
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The Class of 1972 reunites for its 45th Reunion.
versions of us; we were terrific rebels back in 1970, but we’re a lot more complicated and interesting today. I’m looking forward to the 50th Reunion. Given the nature of our class, perhaps we should consider something WAY off-site as a venue.” Interesting idea. I’ll take suggestions any of us might have and put them in next year’s notes. From Jade Tippett: “Retired after 21 years in public education. Bought a run-down 92-year-old house in the former lumber mill town of Fort Bragg, on the Pacific coast. Houses like mine were called ‘lunchbox’ houses because they were built with whatever the mill workers brought home with their lunch boxes, long before building codes. Ran out of money in December and had to move in. Still working on the house, local political efforts, the Science March, etc. If you are taking a tour of Northern California, stop in.” From Kevin Glover: “My news is that: • We started KGRW & Associates LLC in 2009 to provide development, planning, architecture, and interiors services, and at seven years plus we are growing and doing interesting projects in the U.S. and China. • Becky and I have three beautiful grandkids and are loving life. I look forward to seeing everyone at the next reunion, which I hope doesn’t come too fast.” Warren Marcus says he is “in my 24th year at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; now focusing on programs with military groups—USNA plebes, foreign officers, mid-level officers from all branches, etc., www.ushmm.org/military, but still sometimes working with the public, teachers, and students. If you’re in D.C. and want to visit the Museum, give me a little notice and it’s easily arranged; hopefully I can say hello, also.”
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From John Gilpin: “First grandchild born 1/4/16. Terry is a very happy, intelligent toddler keeping my daughter on her toes — maybe Gilman material? Only if anyone wants to help me pay for it! Best to all.” Last but maybe most welcome, because we have not heard from him in so long, is this great message from Scott Campbell: “Well, Howdie Baetjer. “Somehow I got on Gilman’s email list, and after a hiatus of decades I get dribs and drabs of news from the old school. Good to hear from you. “You may recall I went to Cornell. There I found my climate, both meteorological and non-metropolitan. I’ve called New York / New England home ever since. I’m now living in (the republic of) Vermont, in a rural town called Saint Johnsbury. “I’ve been married for 30 years, have three above-average kids, and have been working in energy-efficiency and building design since college. Pretty good at it; no PhD though, and still getting nonprofit salary managing programs. “Oldest boy is in San Fran, spinning up his second Silicon Valley start-up, robotizing excavation equipment. Middle girl taking post-grad courses in Burlington prepping for nurse-midwifery school somewhere. Youngest boy is finishing Stanford in June (finally!). Wife is a medical doc, which fortunately pays for lavish education expenses. “That’s pretty much it — 47 years after high school, all in all a very happy life. “Side note: Ran for legislature last year, lost by 79 votes; likely try again next year. Our big issue, like rural areas everywhere, is figuring out how to sustain a rural economy and society in a world of outsourcing, automation, and climate change. I’m all for aligning
incentives to harness the power of the market, but I fear we may differ in how much faith to have that markets are ever actually ‘free.’ [Editor’s note: That last is evidently addressed to me on account of my book’s title, Free Our Markets, in my email signature.] “I think of Gilman with great fondness. It was the pinnacle of my educational experience, and I realized when my own children were that age that high school is the most important time for most people. (My oldest went to Phillips Exeter, like his mother, about which I was and am not thrilled. Youngest two went to St. Johnsbury Academy, which was great — very like Gilman but less elitist.) “Ok that’s really it! Regards to all those 18-year-olds I wouldn’t recognize anymore — and who wouldn’t recognize my platinum-blond head either.”
1974 Dave Seiler dseiler4@yahoo.com The Class of ’74 annual holiday luncheon, now a tradition shepparded by AC George and Jamie Murray, continued this year at the B&O Railroad Museum. Hosted by Greg Pinkard, who has been an active member of the Board of Directors for some time, we had a tour of the Roundhouse and lunch in the Governor’s retired Rail Car. Enjoying all of this were Dave Rich, Bill Nesbitt, Skip Porter, Tom Gamper, Clinton Daly, Ross Pearce, Steve Secor, AC George, Bill Baker, Doug Nelson, Bill Fritz, Mike Cromwell, Dave Emala, John Rice, Court Jenkins, Kim Byron, Jamie Murray, Andy Murray, Andy Brooks, and David Seiler. The executive director presented an overview of the current activities and future plans. I took visitors there just recently! While still an architect, Tom Gamper is busy as the youth education coordinator of Maryland Trout Unlimited. That group sponsors many programs to raise awareness of the importance of clean water and a healthy Chesapeake Bay. Tom and MDTU released 400 trout to stock Stony Run (just downstream from Gilman) recently to then demonstrate fly fishing, with catch and release, of course. Rick Curtis has been the director of the outdoor action program at Princeton University for 35 years, and celebrates that much of the funding for it is now a budget item for the University. He has been the driving force to have OA integrated into the University, and is proud of this milestone reached. He continues to develop OutdoorEd.com, a website for outdoor education and risk management, with a unique incident report database. He took time for trekking in Patagonia last February. Congratulations to Courtenay Jenkins, who was promoted to senior director at Cushman & Wakefield, and was integral in the consolidation of three offices to one new location on Pratt Street in the Inner Harbor. George Murnahan is enjoying la vida loca in Lexington, Mass. His daughter Grace is a freshman at
Bates and rowing for the Bobcats team, a perennial D3 power. Sons Luke and Jamie are in third grade and just finished their ice hockey season and are now playing a funny game with native origins, also with sticks and much body-armor, only on turf. His wife Beth is engaged with local schools promoting environmental sustainability, and George continues his volunteer work with Lex Eat Together (www.lexeattogether.org), a non-profit he and several others started 18 months ago to offer a free healthy meal once a week to anyone in the area who would benefit from a nutritious meal and companionship. They served over 2,500 meals last year! Mac Finney writes that he continues to chase down bad guys for WBAL TV and that his wife Molly continues playing in the dirt at Radebaugh’s. They recently downsized to a tenant house on Shockey Gillet, Jr.’s (Class of 80) beautiful horse farm off Mantua Mill Road. Henry Blue is proud that his oldest son Henry Jr. got married last October, and he is confident his next two, Peter and Liza, are not far behind. He is involved in several family businesses and remains in Butler, Md. Bench continues playing competitive golf on the senior level, and this summer is playing in an international match for the United States Senior Golf Association vs. Canada and Great Britain. A tradition started in 1927, Henry is one of 22 U.S. players on the team. Greg Pinkard has the great benefit of running Pinkard Properties with his oldest daughter Katherine as president; she was recently included in the Daily Record’s Maryland’s Top 100 Women. His second daughter Charlotte is a merchant with Ann Taylor in NYC at Times Square, and his wife Mary is shooting the lights out at Brick Bodies as a group exercise instructor and developing new classes. When not enjoying the locomotives at the B&O Railroad Museum, Greg can be seen driving around in a restored 1956 Willys Pickup that tops out at 50 mph. It is a poster child for a farm truck — solid and powerful, much like Greg! Peter Bowe writes from Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he is “flogging dredges as I have been doing for the last few decades, here and elsewhere.” He and wife Barbara are stimulated by his many opportunities to travel, typically a dozen countries a year, and by the political engagement entailed with representing Ellicott Dredges as the CEO. Barbara is the executive director of the Bowe-Stewart Foundation, to promote job creation and employee development. One area of focus is the Emerging and Developing Global Executives, or EDGE, Program, providing training for mid-level managers and run by Baltimore’s nonprofit World Trade Center Institute. And yes, he still finds time for sailboat racing. Kim Bryon writes that he is working on his fourth home renovation in western Maryland, a hobby he started after his retirement from the United States Air Force in 2004. He is happy to report the 1880 house he purchased after much of it burned down in Thurmont, Md., has just passed final occupancy inspection by Frederick County. So all is good at the edge of the Western Front, and if anyone wants to hike in the Catoctin Mountains, the house is just 200 yards from the National Park just down from Camp David.
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Dave Emala is happy college tuition payments end soon, noting that his youngest child graduates this year, but will miss the countless sideline appearances of grandfather and former headmaster Finney cheering for the home team. Ross Pearce continues serving as the Maryland Racing Commission steward at Laurel, Pimlico, and Timonium race tracks, and supporting his wife Holly with her promotional business, Midlantic LTD. His daughter Jessica graduates with a MBA from the London School of Business this spring, and daughter Elizabeth, the nurse practitioner, just started a new job at The University of Maryland Hospital. Ross’s son Parker (class of 2019) won the U.S. Polo Association Regional Polo Tournament and heads to Cornell for the national tournament; he also made the Gilman varsity golf team as a sophomore this spring. Mike Cromwell continues working with Outcome Capital as one of the founders of this 19 year old firm; their focus is on healthcare and IT markets with offices in Reston, Va., Boston, and London. He and his wife Tish are now in Great Falls, Va., since the spring of 2015. He writes they have enjoyed travel to Kenya, Patagonia, South Africa, and Costa Rica over the past several years on small group photo trips. He also went trekking in the Himalayas (Bhutan and Nepal) about two years ago with two friends, and was lucky enough to be in Nepal before the big earthquake, which has devastated the country. Over the past 12 years or so, Mike has rekindled a passion for photography and has a website at mjcromwelliiiphotos.com to share with family and friends. His son Michael received a MBA degree from Wharton last year, and is working for the largest concierge medicine company in the U.S., named MDVIP, based in Boca Raton, Fla. His daughter Virginia works for a large public relations firm named Weber Shandwick in NYC. She lives in Brooklyn. I’m saddened to report that Travis Emery died in May 2016. A number of us were able to attend a gathering of friends and a memorial service at the Heritage United Church of Christ. Our sincere condolences to his family. David Seiler recently completed a three-year role as general manager of a specialty manufacturing company here in Baltimore. He is focusing on family real estate management for the near term before seeking his next challenge. So, where in world is Jock Whittlesey? He and family reside in China, continuing his work in the State Department at the environment section of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
1976 John Wharton jw213@yahoo.com What a year it’s been since we gathered last spring on our turf, literally, along the football field, and then
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walked over to the Headmaster’s House for a fine feast under the tent, to celebrate our 40th reunion. A spell-bounding summer ended in a crushing defeat in the fall. I’m talking, of course, about the Orioles. Their return in 2017 began by winning this season’s Opening Day contest as the deadline neared to submit this latest collection of updates from our classmates. Most of the contributors already saw these comments via our real-time email thread during the harvesting process. All ’76ers are implored to send me their email address so we can make this exchange more inclusive. While most of us arguably are closer to our retirements than our apprenticeships, many in our ranks continue to soar higher in their chosen fields, as certainly exemplified by Kirk Smith. He recently announced the upcoming release of his CD, “American Expressions,” wherein he conducts the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra in Olomouc, of the Czech Republic. “It will be handled by Centaur Records and dedicated to John Merrill, our beloved music teacher,” Kirk wrote, later adding that as his own teaching career has concluded, “my conducting career is my primary pursuit for as long as I can ascend the podium. My daughter Yvonne has finished two viola performance degrees from Rice University and is subbing with the Houston Grand Opera.” John Purnell was busy relocating while also remaining very much within the workforce. “Claire and I did the big empty-nester downsize in October,” John wrote, “and moved out of the house and into a condo in Park Place. I dragged all the lawn gear, snow shovels, and anything with a gas engine onto the front lawn and gave it all to the neighbors. We are now free from all those chores and live in luxury in downtown Annapolis. I encourage all of you to do the same before we are too old to empty the attic.” He added, “Claire refers to ‘John 2.0’ as a new software revision. While I am still operating Inspired Data Solutions, I have rekindled my Gilman-era theater passion in the off hours. I played Colonel Mustard in “Clue — The Musical” last summer, and have been involved in lighting at Colonial Players, Annapolis Summer Garden Theater, and Compass Rose Theater over the past year. Claire is still doing requirements analysis for Claire 2.0, but I am pretty sure it will still involve baking.” As to their children, John noted, “Mary, 23, is teaching in Telluride, Colo. We went to visit her and Paul in January. Lizzie, 20, is a sophomore at Fordham University in NYC. She is studying business marketing and would love to hear from any ’76er who can take a summer intern.” Dixon Harvey wrote, “Our big news is that son Bob and fiancée Steph get married in June. She is awesome, and we are really happy that our Denver couple is tying the knot. Daughter Annie remains in NYC where we think she will always be. She loves the city and her work in online finance.” Dixon’s wife, Janet, “has officially retired from Irvine Nature Center and has the time needed to take care of her folks in Pittsburgh,” he wrote, noting a shift in his own productivity. “Work at Black Oak is
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slow and intentionally slowing down for me but still a lot of fun. More engaged in non profit orgs focused on early childhood development, dementia care, and interfaith relations.” He added, “We will move from our country farm house of 34 years and move into where I grew up; that will be different. Hopefully, a lot of you guys remember some fun high school parties there. Distinct memories [include] Mike Austin helping me deal with crashers there one night — my reasoning seems to get cleared when Mike was standing behind me. Throwing it out there as a future reunion spot. We can do a back-to-thefuture theme.” Dixon also noted that he “got some good early season turns in” with Mark Caplan, and has “enjoyed seeing a good bit” of Frank Rosenberg and Laurey Millspaugh last winter, along with Henry Thomas and also a glance of Charlie Moore, once or twice. “Frank R. is working on a new career in nursing,” Dixon wrote. Also on the move, Angus Finney wrote that he and Allyson “bought a place in Romney, W.Va., renovated and expanded it over the last year, and can now enjoy it with our blended family of eight kids, spouses [and] grandkids. No neighbors, beautiful view, trout stream, and a perfect place for retirement. The town even has a few stores Allyson loves!” Ben Cripps’ update began with a lament that “I am so bummed that I missed the reunion last year. I was set to come, but the vagaries of real estate and family conspired against it.” Ben added, “We are doing well. Maddie, our oldest, is graduating from Cornell in June. Thus far she has been accepted into Columbia, Brown, and Johns Hopkins for grad school. Waiting to hear from
Michigan. Good choices to have. Ali and her dance school placed in a completion in Pittsburgh back in January. That puts them in the finals at Lincoln Center in NYC in April. She is amazing to watch! She is excelling at school, just like her sister. I assume that all comes from Susan, [whose] practice continues to thrive. I am loving real estate. As much as I enjoyed marketing and the world of medical devices, real estate is fun! I wish I had done this years ago.” Andy Wright wrote that “my big news is that after a 30-year career in the federal government doing national security and homeland security stuff, and another almost five years at MITRE, I retired from the government at the end of July 2016. And after taking some time off to catch my breath, and work off some of the ‘honey-do’ list, I will be starting a second — or is it third or fourth? — career, this time leading some advanced data analytics work at the consulting firm ICF, [located online at] www.icf.com. The work looks fascinating, and their office is about eight minutes from our house, making it the second-shortest commute I’ve had.” Andy added, “Family here are all doing well, as are my folks who are still living in the same house in Roland Park I grew up in!” Andy deMuth checked in with an update on financial eligibility, long-term athleticism, and his own version of downsizing. “I can’t believe that we are approaching our 60th birthdays and are able to take penalty-free withdrawals from our IRAs. Have we gotten any older since 1976? I feel fortunate to still feel good and upon occasion revert to teenage behavior. I most certainly must be losing my faculties as I am now responsible for four properties.
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We are selling the big house on Somerset, another site of class and Gilman parties, as we are downsizing or at least trying to. We bought such a fixer upper in Ruxton that we have decided to deconstruct and build new. I rented a house for the transition. And then there is the condo in Bethany that we share with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law. Hopefully, everything will fall into place and life will be back to normal in a year plus.” Normal for Andy includes “I have been talked into running the Charlottesville half marathon on April 1. The first goal is to finish the race; the second goal is two hours. I agreed to do this because race day coincides with the beginning of tennis season, and the ever optimistic side of me is convinced that this is the year that I take Ken Volk down on the tennis court. By the way, he is the Maryland State 50 and over champion. So if I get him, I am going to request he hand over the trophy.” “As for the kids,” Andy wrote, “Robbie has settled in Arlington, Va., after graduating from UVA last spring, and is working for Appian in Reston. And Katie is studying kinesiology at James Madison.” Henry Jenkins proffered a solid alibi for missing last year’s gathering, as he wrote “Annie and I were out in Colorado visiting our youngest son Timmy, who played lax for Colorado College. We got to know Colorado pretty well during his four-year stay. He’s been hired by Harlem Lacrosse and is moving out to LA and will work at a school in Compton.” Henry added, “We also have spent a few weekends in NYC with our eldest son Ben, who lives and works in Brooklyn for a branding/marketing company. I must be honest I prefer the country life, but it’s fun to visit the big city. Like Andy W. I am living where I grew up, and feel very fortunate to call Baltimore home.” Biff Hearn now is “Poppy,” his wife Bonnie wrote, in that “our first grandchild was born on New Year’s Eve — Caroline Page Kameen. Her father Stewart is ’04. Biff melts every time he sees her.” Bob Thomas wrote that “we’re all doing more or less OK. Knee replacement surgery one month away, [from] too much tennis trying to get to Ken’s level. Polly’s mom passed away at 79 just two weeks ago. Life just keeps happening, and here we are almost 60. Am I the only one who finds that number absurd, impossible, unacceptable? On the other hand, I’m 21 years cancer free, and Polly is two years cancer free, so seeing 60 on the horizon has some satisfying aspects as well!” The Thomas family visited New Zealand for two weeks in December, enjoying hiking through “an amazing place,” Bob wrote, also adding some perspective on his employment outlook. “No retirement plans just yet. There are still fraudsters to chase, and public health needs to fill, in Polly’s case. One more year of college tuition to go. Eliza will be a senior at Carleton in the fall, as a geology major, and older sister Emma will be taking a year off after three great years teaching at a private school in Rhode Island.” Tiger Cromwell checked in from Venezuela, where he and his wife continue to live and dedicate themselves to bringing some humanity to an often inhumane environment.
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“The criminals in power here egregiously flaunt all legal and moral norms, not to mention failing to maintain any human decency at all,” Tiger wrote. “I only mention this in the off chance that someone who reads this may have contacts in the halls of power — since the more light shown on this tragedy, and the more international pressure put on these thugs, the better chance that those who live here can get out from under the boots of these really bad actors. On the slim chance, anyone wants more info . . . well, there’s the internet.” Tiger added, “On the personal side, thank God, not too much has changed in a year. My parents continue to enjoy good health for their ages in Sparks. With six siblings stateside, I have more peace when I think of my folks. My father retired two years ago at 84, so that’s a good benchmark for us as we approach 60, and think about slowing down. I continue to teach English, and try to get ever more involved at the local church. My wife Isa continues to enjoy her accounting career, with all clients stateside — and her family close by. Son Ben continues working in IT, living in Catonsville with his wife Christy. Son Jon lives only about two minutes from Ben and continues working in electrical sales, and is now fluent in American Sign Language thanks to the love of his life. Who knew that at 58 I’d be starting to study a new language, but for the sake of Jon’s belle, that is what I am doing.” Bill Matthai’s family news included some changes in career choices, at the doctor’s expense. “After a few years at a non-profit in Baltimore — Boys Hope, Girls Hope — my oldest, Alice, has decided she wants to go to medical school,” Bill wrote, “and so she is in the post bachelor’s program at Penn to take the courses she did not take as an undergrad. If she makes it, she will start med school in 2019. My younger daughter, Charlotte, will graduate from Penn this year with a double major in art history and poly sci. Unfortunately, she has decided she is really interested in architecture and urban studies. With only a few more courses, she can apply for a dual master’s program that only takes four years and would start in 2018! So, for all of you thinking retirement, I am not quite there yet. And one of the courses that Charlotte will be taking is in Cuba — can I be reborn as my daughters?” And while Bill mulled that turn of events from home, he added, “Jan, my wife, is on a girls’ golf trip to Bermuda. I keep wondering what I am doing wrong. I am still an interventional cardiologist at Penn, and those emergencies at 3:30 a.m. are not quite as easy as they were a few years ago. I have taken a larger role in the medical school and in medical education, and I really enjoy that addition to what, overall, is a great job.” Baltimore City Circuit Judge Sylvester Cox wrote “I’m about to conclude my second year on the alumni board, and it’s been a pleasure to serve. Gilman continues to honor its commitment of turning boys into upstanding young men. It was great to see all of those who attended last year’s reunion.” In a break from the bench, Sylvester added, that “last August, Judy and I vacationed in Martha’s Vineyard. Good food, good drink, good parties, good swimming, and we saw the President up close a couple of times.” Back closer to home, he noted, “Judy
continues her work with the Red Cross; she’s been with them for 27 years. We’re still empty nested. Lindsey is an event planner in D.C.’s Capitol Hill. Erin is a counselor for a juvenile diagnostic center in Towson. And after a two-year assignment in the Juvenile Court, I am back in adult court, dispensing ‘truth, justice and the American way.’” Nick Richardson wrote about his enjoyment in meeting classmates at our reunion, and elsewhere. “Living in Baltimore,” Nick wrote, “I’m lucky to bump into many of you that live here, over the course of each year, but for those that I don't see and others living out of town, these glimpses [through the email thread] into what everyone has been up to are much appreciated.” Nick added, “There’s not much change in Anita’s and my lives. We’re still trying to get a handle on this empty nest lifestyle. I’m still in banking, working for M&T as a commercial lender and occasionally running across classmates in the course of work. Anita’s still with the FDA; Matthew is living in Fed Hill and is working as a chemist for a government contractor, and somehow managing to play in four different soccer leagues; Will’s in his third year of civil engineering and loving every minute. He has five classmates at UVA that he was graduated from Gilman with, four of whom he has gone to school with since he was five!” As to the reunion weekend, Nick wrote, “one of its highlights, for me, was playing music with Ham Davis and Phil Scott, until 2:30 a.m., after the reunion event. It was great fun and, while it likely confirmed we made the correct career choices, it firmly established that Ham’s wife, KiKi, is the World’s Greatest Good Sport. KiKi hung in there, playing the congas, until the end. When you guys are next in town, please plan on dropping by! There is always a place to stay, cold IPAs in the refrigerator, and music to play! Let’s not wait another five years!” While drafting his remarks, Nick mentioned another contact with a classmate as it happened. “I just got off the phone with Ken. We had a dog emergency this morning. Ken squeezed us in and just called me with a post-procedural status update. I very seldom see Ken and Margot, except when they are wearing their white coats. Days like today, they are a particularly welcome sight. While I’m happy to hear that Ken has kept his tennis game competitive, I’m even more happy that he and Margot’s diagnostic and surgical skills also deserve top Maryland ranking. Thanks, again, Ken and Margot!” Bill Spragins sent his greetings from Denver. “With the global warming, we had a brief ski season this year,” Bill wrote. “We received no snow until mid-December, forcing cancellation of the World Cup races at Beaver Creek for the first time ever in early December. But then it unleashed big-time, cranking up the snowpack to 155 percent of normal, fueled by the much needed heavy rains in California that made it to the mountains of Colorado in January. Then it all stopped in mid-February. I did get a chance to ski with Ted Sotir and Thea, and their two sons Harrison and Tarquin, who came over from London for their annual trip to Vail. Brother Michael Sotir joined as well. The
storm track finally changed last week so we are looking forward to some great April skiing before things shut down around Easter and more importantly should ease concerns about an early fire season in Colorado.” In his own travels, Bill added, “My girlfriend Barbara, who many of you met last April, and I spent two weeks in Croatia last summer. We spent a week on the mainland visiting national parks that were just packed with amazing waterfalls, and then on the second week joined approximately 20 friends from Denver on a newly commissioned boat, moving from island to island in the Adriatic Sea and road biking on each island. The one common denominator between the islands and the mainland is that the water is crystal clear turquoise blue wherever you go, whether it be fresh or salt water. A great place to visit! We spent Christmas week on Sanibel Island on the southwest coast of Florida with an impressive array of birds and gators. We had to avoid a 12-foot gator on the third hole of a golf course. They called him “Champ” because about six months ago he had chomped down and swallowed a six-foot gator and was cruising around with it in his mouth for several days: we are looking for that segment on Planet Earth II.” Bill wrote that he is still working at FMI Corporation, “specializing in implementing a business pragmatic form of teambuilding on major heavy civil projects around the country — which means we are setting up processes to get the inevitable issues resolved before they become claims [and] litigation. Have several projects between NYC and Washington, D.C., so frequently traveling through the area when not on the West Coast working with some major rail projects in L.A. and the Bay Area.” Mark Caplan wrote in part of the benefits of being close to campus. “My wife of now 25-plus years, Linda, and I live mostly in Baltimore. Having commuted to Gilman from Howard County for our upper school years, I now live in Homeland right next door, a much easier commute when I want to run around the fields,” Mark wrote. “We have three daughters, two living in NYC; Molly working in fashion, and Eliza in finance. Our youngest, Alice, is a senior at Bryn Mawr and off to Hobart/ William Smith in the fall. We did have some practice living on our own when she took a semester away at an outdoor school in Idaho, and think we will be fine with the freedom.” From a business perspective, Mark added, “I continue to invest primarily in multi-family real estate and financing for businesses. The organizations have grown and I am increasingly surrounded by younger and more energetic people. They do not come to me too much for sage advice, but I am not completely ignored. For those who are coming to Baltimore, we recently completely a renovation in Mount Vernon. The largest component of the project was residential, but we have a section known as The Mount Vernon Market — think Cross Street in its heyday, or Eataly in NYC. The millennials seem to like it and it's a lot of fun, worth a visit. While we may not be, Baltimore is somewhat hip these days. From a nonprofit perspective, I am increasing the amount of guest teaching on business I do, as well as spending more time on educational
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opportunity for the next generation — a little attention paid, and it is amazing how far they go.” In conclusion, Mark offered, “I would be remiss if I did not mention how nice it is to see many of you around town, sometimes just for fun and other times as part of making our environment better. Gilman did well for us. We came from many different backgrounds and were thrown together in a not always user friendly mix. A lot was expected and concessions were not always made. We are better for the experience. Part of what I believe we took a way was an obligation to participate in the world around us and in our own ways leave it better for our presence. Still an optimist and inspired to read of our life adventures.” Eb Finney, who could be spotted in late April by viewers of a “60 Minutes” segment about the Hunt Cup, wrote that he counts himself “lucky to be on duty as a fence judge for the Hunt Cup for more than a decade now. Still one of the best Maryland Traditions.” After a 20-minute walk watching the sun rise over the Patuxent River, and about a half-hour at the breakfast table, there’s just enough time for a quick outdoor shower before the daily 10-mile ride to check out the docket at the St. Mary’s courthouse in Leonardtown. With new ownership and an increased web presence at The Enterprise, the work week is frontloaded to the point where your Southern Maryland Correspondent, still an hourly employee after all these years, gets to visit friends in Charles County most Thursday afternoons, and meet up with his godson after school lets out on Friday. Linda now is teaching art to two groups in her home studio, and taking classes on two other weekdays in Old Town Alexandria, but we’re both home by supper time every evening. Our recent travels included a trip to Florida for the 90th birthday of the secretary for the Class of 1945, also attended by the two younger Wharton brothers and other family members including our high-spirited niece and nephews. As of this writing, Linda was packing her brushes for a plane trip overseas with her artist friends, leaving me with an opportunity to head south with a former coworker to watch the Braves play at their new stadium outside of Atlanta. That’s just a warm up for summer nights in Camden Yards, where 2-and-0 is a nice start.
1978 Charles Herndon cherndon3@aol.com Forty years. Let that sink in a moment, gentlemen. Forty. Years. Put another way, that’s 480 months. Or 2,080 weeks. Or 14,560 days. Or 349,440 hours. Maybe you get the message. Here we are, on the cusp of our 40th reunion, and we should be at the top of our game — captains of industry and commerce, our progeny taking higher education and the world by storm, missions and milestones reached, ahead only a good stiff drink, loving partner and family by our sides, stereotypical labs or
setters at our knees and gazing adoringly into our happy faces, and the joy of jobs well done and golden years to come swelling our collective breasts. But, no! As I peer inside my computer inboxes, I see only cavernous, empty space. Windblown, digital tumbleweeds. An occasional, sad come-on for the latest miracle pill to cure male dysfunction, or a seedy entreaty from the suddenly wealthy widow of a slain, third-world banking executive. But of my Gilman compatriots, there’s no trace. It’s like we never existed. Hardly a message or update. Not a note to be read, reported, and recorded. Nothing. Crickets. We’re better than this, Class of 1978! I know we’re made of sterner stuff. Let’s get those emails a-coming. Take a few moments today and, in honor of our 40th anniversary, dash off a quick note to cherndon3@aol.com or caherndon3@gmail.com. Roar your accomplishments, gents! Exclaim your pride! Recount the days of your lives for your classmates, for your friends and family, for history itself! I need to hear from you all! To be honest, there were a few trusty pillars of rectitude and responsibility who notified us of their doings. I tip my hat first and foremost to “The Cufster,” as he’s apparently known as now — Phil Cuffey — who has moved to Hot ’Lanta and is making life good. He’s 10 years retired from the corporate world and enjoying work now as a community-based real estate investor. And he has more time for his real passion — mentoring high school students and young adults, as fine a use of time and talent as anything you can do, folks. Wife Constance is now the deputy chief counsel at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and daughter Sana has completed her first year at Clark Atlanta U, while son Isaiah should be finishing up at Decatur High soon. Well done, all. Oh, and The Cufster says he and Kenney Holley get together to break bread and share good times every so often — is there anyone else in the mid-Georgia area from our class? If so, you know where to find friends and fun. Look them up! Ran into honorary classmate Peter Keyser at a neighborhood event recently and we caught up; he’s working hard as the owner and manager of two UPS stores in the Towson area and enjoying life. So if you have any printing needs, you know where to head. As of this writing, Bill Bramble was facing some big life changes — Sally earned a big promotion so the happy couple was working on a move to her new offices in Pittsburgh. Bill’s not happy about leaving his cache of secret wilderness photo spots at places like Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore or Bombay Hook National Wildlife Reserve in Jersey, but we’re sure he’ll find plenty of fine birding areas in and around the Pittsburgh area. Lots of great places to observe pigeons, grackles, starlings, sparrows — Bill, you’ll have a blast! By now, John Gephart should be up and around after gutting it through knee surgery, and if you’re out and about on the highways and byways of our fair state, chances are you may run into John McDaniel out for some early morning biking. Well, not run into John, actually; I mean, stop and say hello. Without incident. Safely.
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On a far sadder note, I also want to report the passing of a wonderful classmate, loving husband and father, and all-around great guy, Jay Booze. For those of you who hadn’t heard, Jay passed in September 2016 of cancer, leaving behind Patricia and two sons, Jason and Robert. We remember him as a warm, funny, big-hearted classmate and friend, and he will be missed. Keep Jay and his family in your hearts, prayers, and thoughts. Not much from this quarter, I’m afraid. One kid still in college, and another on the verge. I hope to hear from you all — seriously — as we celebrate 40 years of life after Gilman, and I hope each of you has a great rest of 2017 and 2018. Take care, everyone!
1979 Has Franklin Has@franklin-group.com This is the information that I was able to obtain during the past year. Mac Cover recently teamed up with 1976 alum, Bob Thomas, in an effort to open a Beacon Academy in Baltimore, which is modeled after the immensely successful Beacon Academy in Boston. See the website at http://www.beaconacademy.org. Topher Russo moved to a “money pit” in Green Spring Valley. It is an old mansion in need of repair. He hopes it will be lots of fun fixing it up. He is looking forward to our 2019 reunion. Ace Smith’s son William just completed the Gilman eighth grade. Carter Buxbaum has started his own consulting firm where he gives clients his insight on how to grow their business. Guy Davis is still working in the area of bankruptcy. Both he and Carter still live in Richmond, Va. Tom Booker’s son with the same name (Thomas) is going to be a senior at Gilman this upcoming fall. He will be a leader on the football team playing both ways. Plus, his mother will make sure that he is also a leader in the classroom. The following information is all from our classmate Kevin Connor: He reports that his youngest daughter, Julia, will be a freshman at Belmont in Nashville, Tenn., this upcoming fall. His oldest daughter, Carolyn, lives in Philadelphia and works as a textile manager for a large fabric company. Kevin still plays lots of squash locally. He tells me that Alex Montague is still in the commercial real estate business and that one of his daughters, Isabelle, is in the Nashville ballet. He reports that Gordon Simpson still lives in Roland Park and still runs his woodwork/carpentry business. For the first time in over two decades, Biff Poggi did not coach football at Gilman. He was the associate head coach for the University of Michigan helping Jim Harbaugh bring the “Big Blue” back to prominence. Louise and Bill Senft have seen tremendous progress with their son, Archer, during this past year. He has been accepted at the University of Pennsylvania for the upcoming school year as a freshman. I know
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everyone keep Bill and his family in their thoughts and prayers on a regular basis. Jen and Jim Wilkerson are the newest Roland Park neighbors. This will make Jim’s life easier as he transports his two boys to school at Gilman and Boys’ Latin. He spends most his time these days coaching his sons in lacrosse. His former Maryland Terrapins teammate, Marc Dubick, has a son (Louis) playing lacrosse for the University of Maryland currently. As of this writing, their Terps will be playing in the national semi-finals against the University of Denver. Marc is still running his successful real estate development firm. Joe Carroll’s daughter, Hannah, graduated from UNC last spring. He is still running his importing/ exporting business with China. Joe gets to Asia on a regular basis. I know Jon Jacobson still runs his fund. However, we were not able to get together when I was last in Boston. Maybe, Sean Darby and I will see Jake when we do our 150-mile charity bike ride from Boston to Provincetown. Rick Watts lives in Anne Arundel County. I am going to try and get him to join me on a bike ride when I am on the B&A Trail next. I understand that Rick Snyder is still on active duty with the Navy as a two-star admiral. I heard that Sam Hillers is Mr. San Diego. He is hoping that some of us will make the trip out West and visit with him and his family. George Kelly was able to celebrate Sam’s birthday with him and says that Sam has not lost a step in the social arena yet. John O’Donovan, George Kelly, Sean Darby, and myself all watched our boys graduate from Gilman this June, exactly 38 years later to the day that we all graduated in 1979. John’s son Jenks will attend Tulane. John has one more son to get through Gilman. George is sending Woody (last boy of three to graduate from Gilman) to Denver to play lacrosse. To be able to watch as many games as possible, he and Marietta bought a place out in Colorado. We now have another classmate to visit out West. However, George will still be based in Baltimore. Sean’s son, Charlie, will attend Bucknell next year. He was a three-sport athlete like his father, and he led the volleyball team to the championship. Lastly, my son Drew will attend Rhodes College in Memphis. Drew and his brothers have thanked Ellen and me many numerous times for sending them to Gilman. Just like I did 38 years ago, they made friends to last a lifetime and that makes Gilman a special place. Remember, the notes at only as good as the information received.
1980 James Franklin Jim@franklin-group.com I am writing our annual class notes this year from the beach in Puerto Rico. Alex Montague is cruising from Miami past Puerto Rico in a yacht through the Caribbean, and I told him to blast his horn as he passed by the El Conquistador’s private island.
The Class of 1982 held its 35th Reunion dinner on the Carey Hall North Terrace, overlooking the fields.
Randy Brown has moved from London to Boston and is now CIO of Sun Life Financial. He travels mostly between Boston and Toronto with trips to Asia three times a year. His wife Margaret has started an antiques business. She imports from London and sells via a shop in Maine. Check out her site at www.theartofantiquing. com. His children are all well. The oldest daughter graduates in May with a master’s from Bloomberg School of Public Health at Hopkins. His son is a senior at Cornell looking to go into real estate while his youngest daughter is a sophomore at Cornell studying fashion. Joey Davies had a great year. His kids are healthy, and he trained the winner of the 2016 Maryland Hunt Cup Steeplechase, Senior Senator. Nice job! Scott Berman is running the hotel consulting business for PWC from South Florida and still playing a lot of tennis. Alan Livsey has retired from the money management business and is a writer for the Financial Times. He has been working on the Lex column for the past three years and loves it. Any classmates passing through London should give Alan a call. Bill Hall still lives on the Upper West Side of New York and is editing for the Peacock division of NBC News. Peacock functions as an independent production company, which means that Bill works for a variety of clients inside and outside of the NBC family. Bill has cut shows for History, Reelz, TLC, and Discovery as well as a pilot for NBC itself. He may also be doing something with Michael Phelps for Shark Week. Bill also plays bass in several bands the most active of which is Creative Juice. He is still single, no kids, and living a quiet life (aside from his music).
David deMuth’s oldest child, Lindsay, is a senior and playing lacrosse at W&L. Charlie is a sophomore at Dickinson and also playing lacrosse while Will is a junior at Gilman, and you guessed it, playing tennis. Just kidding, he is also to be found on the lacrosse field following in his family’s footsteps. On a down note, David’s father Tony, Gilman class of 1943, passed away at age 90 last May. He had a nice run. Our fearless resident, Steph Jackson, is doing quite well. We bump into each other periodically at Five Farms, and it is always great to see him. His daughter, Clarke, is a sophomore at Spelman while his niece, Leah, is teaching English in South Korea before she starts medical school. His nephew Avery is working for T Rowe Price in Colorado. Steph is an empty nester and enjoying it. Paul Danko has had quite an eventful year. Besides having his knee replaced, he has daughter Molly graduating from Denver, Bridget starting at Marquette, and he got engaged to Elizabeth Sutley (nee Spencer) on Thanksgiving. And his girls played lacrosse against each other for the first as I am writing this. Please call Paul to see who won. Mark Hillman says 2016 was another banner year for Hillman Capital Management. His Advantage Equity Strategy outperformed the S&P 500 yet again. They are significantly beating their benchmark over one, three, five, 10, and 21 (inception) year periods. Mark’s daughter will attend Tufts like her parents. Will Griffith is still surfing. Owen Callard is still surfing too. Only Owen is doing it on the East Coast along with his son Ben. Nothing better than that.
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Tom Brodie has been seen on Facebook traveling to some very warm locales. I hope he is preparing for our golf match this summer when he comes to town for a visit. Please don’t forget, Tom! Mark Licht bought a new home with his longtime friend/girlfriend/fiancée (?) Karis Cox. I know most everyone is pulling for Mark to pop the question so we can have a big party. C’mon Mark, take one for the team! John Zentz was in town briefly at the end of 2016 with his son to do a little hunting. John is very busy with Hunter Engineering and doing really well. His son graduates from the Kelly Business School in May. His daughter, Allison, is a freshman at TCU. And John, Charlie O’Donovan says to call him next time to go skeet shooting with him. He has 14 trap machines ready and waiting. Paul Hazlehurst is busy with the Federal Public Defender’s office as well as coaching in the Carroll Manor rec lacrosse league. Rumor has it that he is a nightmare on the referees. Just kidding Paul, we know you have mellowed over the years. Tim Codd and Geoff Carey were seen having dinner with David deMuth. David tells me they have very expensive wine palettes. We had a mini reunion lunch with Steve Plunkert, Jay Hergenroeder, David deMuth, and Hans Wittich recently. If anyone else is around town and wants to join in the fun, please let me know. TJ Woel was invited but again, the food was not good enough to get him to come down from Philadelphia. One day, TJ, one day. And speaking of Hans Wittich, he is busy working with Solar Gaines. If you are interested in making your home or office green, give him a call. Jay was raving about the money he was getting back on his electric bill during the summer. Dave Mason left Franklin Financial Group recently to take a job teaching high school English. Rumor has it that he is also coaching the girls’ lacrosse team. As for me, my oldest child graduates from Maryvale this spring and was lead prosecutor on her mock trial team. My middle daughter is currently a sophomore and enjoying the beach next to me. My eleven-year-old-son is back playing baseball. We had to get him new spikes this year. Size eleven!! He is going to be a big one. My beautiful bride is busy with her new career as a nurse. I can’t tell you how proud I am of her hard work and dedication. I am still playing as much golf as I can and trying to finish the Top 100. One more to go. . . .
1983 Andrew Buerger Andrew@bmoreorganic.com I’ve had the good fortune of visiting with many of my classmates this year. It was an honor to attend the Cotton Lecture where Felipe Albuquerque, a.k.a. Pepe, raptured the
Upper School boys with his tales of being an endovascular neurosurgeon at Barrow Neurosurgical Associates in Phoenix, Ariz. Pepe is a brain surgeon! Felipe and his wife Ruth, also a neurosurgeon specializing in pediatrics, were spending the rest of his two boys’ spring break driving from Baltimore to North Carolina and back . . . in an RV! Haftan Eckholdt made the trek down from NYC to B’more to attend the Cotton Lecture. Haftan is now at Plated, which is best explained by their tag line, “Everything you need to cook great dinners, delivered.” He loves it because he’s able to combine his training in data analytics with his passion for food. While in town, Haftan (and Felipe) made their usual pilgrimage to a Tony Foreman restaurant. This trip was to Bar Vasquez, the space Tony transformed from the former Pazo. I ran into Gino Freeman at another of Tony’s restaurants, Johnny’s. It’s in the former Roland Park Deli space. Great spot. Dr. Freeman still looks great — fit from his triathlon training and refined eating habits. He was nice enough to send his updates while vacationing in San Diego. “I have to confess forgetting to show up for a phone bank night — I’ll make up for it this year.” Gino makes his first Gilman-related mistake in 40 years. When I saw Richard Gatchell, his daughter at RPCS has convinced him to let her trek in Europe for the summer. Now that my daughter is at Odyssey, I’m able to see John Linehan more often. John and his wife have played a key role in creating an amazingly powerful institution helping educate children with dyslexia. The still humble guy is a fund manager at T. Rowe Price. Mark Kaufman and I had a lunch with Gideon Brower over Thanksgiving. Gideon normally resides in L.A., where he’s developed a niche creating content for NPR. Not surprisingly, Gideon has won several awards, including one for his program on mobster Whitey Bulger. Kaufman recently finished up work at the U.S. Treasury in the Obama administration. Richard Jacobs was kind enough to let me sleep on his couch in Orange County for three nights while I attended the Natural Products show out there. He had me up at 6 a.m. every morning to hit the gym or run in the foothills. Glad I trained for that visit. Richard is the COO of a Colorado-based phone card business. Richard noted about my visit and his life: “We were delighted to have Andy Buerger come for a few days in March. Even better, he brought many B’More organic smoothies to share. The big (OK only) changes over the past year were that my son grew taller and I became fatter.” Jay Schmidt says, “I’m still at Legg Mason. Henry, 21, is a junior at Ole Miss and loving it. Caroline, 13, is in eighth grade at Garrison Forest, and likes playing lacrosse and squash. And . . . Georgia, 11, is in fifth grade at Garrison Forest, where she enjoys equestrian activities.” Peter Ratcliffe must be very busy doing design work for Royal Farms. Only received a quick note from him: “No change here. Four kids in b’more. Architect. Yada yada.” David Watts noted, “I moved my architectural office (MCA Architecture) to the Assembly building across the street from Woodberry Kitchen in Clipper
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Mill this past fall and am enjoying everything that the community has to offer. Other than that, as my daughter Grace is finishing her junior year at RPCS, much of my time will be spent helping her visit colleges and navigate those choices.” Michael Eng lives in Maine. He left pathology and is mostly working in medical cannabis and addition medicine. And he, in his words, “became a runner this year.” His youngest leaves for college in September, and he is facing the empty nest. Michael added, “Maybe lonely, maybe awesome . . . we’ll see. Professionally I’m transitioning to drug treatment for opiate addiction. Big problem in Maine. Plus, marijuana went legal in 2017, so that work is fading. Health is still good — running almost daily, and I’m almost at high school weight.” Wayne Farley says “My eldest child, Madison, is graduating from Bucknell and is going to work for The Educe Group, a business consulting firm in Bethesda. My other daughter Brooks is a sophomore at Elon. My son, Grant, is in eighth grade at Gilman and Culbertson is his math teacher. Besides the kid thing I am still managing my family’s real estate portfolio and continue to be very happily married to my wife Diana for going on 24 years.” Alan Fleischmann has been expanding his CEO advisory firm, Laurel Strategies, globally and hiring top talent and growing his company’s board, business advisory, and strategic communications practices. He has also been authoring regular pieces for Fortune and Forbes magazines on leadership and the “CEO Statesman.” He and his wife Dafna remain active in community work in D.C. and Baltimore. They have two daughters (my nieces): Laura Julia, 13, and Natalia, 10. They live in Chevy Chase. I made the mistake of asking Joel Cohn to email me his update: “Things are quiet. Alex is currently a junior in college. Hannah’s a freshman. Enjoying being at home without kids. Dog is still alive. (Biggest question is if I get another one.) The sad thing is that I cannot think of anything that has happened or changed. This email is causing me an existential crisis!” Unlike Joel, we did lose our beloved family dog, Mt. Shasta, this year. Very sad, and I am trying to use those hours of dog-walking time to hit the gym. Otherwise, life is good. Jennifer and I will be celebrating our 10th anniversary in September. She keeps busy with her psychotherapy practice. Oh, and she also chases our six year-olds around. Our son Bronsten is in first grade at Roland Park Elementary. And, our daughter Joss loves her first year at the Odyssey School. We’re hosting a Chinese student, Candy, who attends tenth grade at RPCS. That allows me to see a lot of other guys in our class at school events including Watts and Gatchell. Last summer our climbing organization ran an expedition on Mt. Rainier. We were greeted by 50 mph winds, trapping us in our tents for 30+ hours. Hoping to back there this summer.
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1985 Ted Winstead tedwinstead@gmail.com Richard Ginsburg wrote the book on how to help your children get the most out of sports. And for two decades, the co-author of “Whose Game Is It, Anyway?” has been advising parents of young athletes. So you can imagine his embarrassment and shock when a teenage referee at his fourth-grade daughter’s soccer game said to him, “Sir, you are going to have to leave.” After a long pause, Richard replied, “Okay,” and retreated to his car, according to a blog post he wrote called “I Got Thrown Out of My Daughter’s Soccer Game.” In his account, Richard, who co-directs the Massachusetts General Hospital PACES Institute of Sport Psychology, noted that it took six weeks “to garner the courage and humility to write about getting tossed” from the game. “Fortunately for me, I have a chance to redeem myself through better sideline behavior,” Richard continued. “While I admit, I am not quite there yet, I now know that if I feel my mouth start to take control without my brain, it may be time for me to check my cell phone, go to the bathroom, or simply watch the game from afar.” Nick Schloeder just finished his 20th year as the offensive line coach at Johns Hopkins. “We posted another great season finishing 11–1,” he writes. “My son Nicholas is completing his first year at the University of Delaware, and James continues to play three sports as a sophomore at Gilman.” Nick shared a good sports story about his father and James: “My father (‘Grancoach’ to James) was the head football coach during Gilman’s worst loss to McDonogh in the history of the school. The score was 42–0. Last fall, in the final seconds of the GilmanMcDonogh game, James caught a touchdown pass to make the score 42-6 and, in doing so, preserved Grancoach’s dubious record.” But the really big news, he continued, is that “I am engaged to the beautiful Melissa Deleon of Encinitas, Calif. We will continue our bi-coastal relationship for the near future as our kids finish up school, but rest assured I will remain a lukewarm Padres fan at best. Go O’s!” On many Friday mornings, Ed Rosemond is at the pool by 6:30 a.m. His daughter, Rayven Custis, is a junior Olympian, and “in February she was the fastest 11-year-old in the 50 free in the entire United States of America,” writes Ed’s wife, Ebony. Bernie Rhee sees Dan Kim regularly. “Even though Dan’s family lives in Virginia, his son is in the ninth grade at Gilman,” Bernie writes. “Dan and his wife take turns staying up in Baltimore with their son during the week. Their daughter is a senior in high school and is headed to University of Pennsylvania in the fall.” J.B. Harlan is a retina specialist at Katzen Eye Group in Baltimore. His wife, Sarah, is an assistant attorney general for the State Department of Labor. Their oldest daughter, Callie, is a freshman at the
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University of Maryland in the School of Engineering. Grace, 15, is in ninth grade at Bryn Mawr. Benson, 14, is in eighth grade at Gilman. Jon Watts teaches international students in Japan. He is a board member of the International Network of Engaged Buddhist (INEB), and editor of various volumes on socially engaged Buddhism, including “Lotus in the Nuclear Sea: Fukushima and the Promise of Buddhism in the Nuclear Age” and “Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved.” “It’s been a long strange trip from Gilman,” writes Jon, who has lived in Japan for the past 20 years with his Japanese wife, Naomi. Their daughter, Aruna, is 17. After majoring in religious studies at Princeton, “I bailed immediately for Asia (Indonesia and Thailand) to experience Buddhism up close. I discovered the International Network of Engaged Buddhists, which combines nonviolent social activism with Buddhist principles,” Jon writes. His most recent work has focused on suicide prevention counseling and the development of anti-nuclear clean energy from the base of the Buddhist temple. “My mom still lives in Roland Park, and I get to visit occasionally,” Jon added. “I usually hit the Gilman gym in the summer when I’m free.” “I decided to go for it,” David Treadwell wrote in an email to friends and colleagues explaining his decision to join Amazon after working at Microsoft for 27 years. “As sometimes happens in life, an opportunity unexpectedly came up to pursue a different but compelling agenda in a different tech problem space than I’ve done at Microsoft.” Not long after, David posted pictures from a work trip to Hyderabad, India. He also shared an insight from
his new job: “Nearly every time you click something on amazon.com, literally thousands of computers spring into action to satisfy parts of your request.” On a recent summer day, veteran sailing instructor Pragathi Katta set out from Baltimore’s Downtown Sailing Center with four young individuals who were blind. “The kids were amazing. They peppered me with questions because they were working on building their own model boat to explore the nature of boat design and the variables involved,” he writes. The crew chatted about hull shapes and the forces that make one design preferable to another depending on a boat’s purpose. “We also talked about living in rough neighborhoods where gunshots were not uncommon, the smell of sugar being processed at the nearby Domino Sugar factory, and the sounds of water taxis going by,” Pragathi writes. “Seeing their faces shine with excitement and with curiosity and intellectual power as they pondered new possibilities was a privilege. One that I won’t ever take for granted.” Writing in the Baltimore Sun last fall, columnist Peter Schmuck noted that Mark Shapiro had a hand in the success of both of the teams vying to win the American League Championship Series. “When the Toronto Blue Jays open the series against the Cleveland Indians on Friday night, there will be no issue of mixed loyalty for Baltimore native and Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro, but it certainly is an emotionally complicated situation,” wrote Schmuck, noting that Mark had been the president of the Indians a year earlier. Michael Mitchell’s daughter, Evan, graduated from Johns Hopkins and is studying public health at Columbia University in New York. Her graduation party
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1987 Michael Ordonez, Paul Garcia, Rob Mockard, Tripp Burgunder Tim Oursler ’86, Brooks Matthews, John Spilman ’86, Charlie Moore ’86, Alex Martin ’89 Standing: Peter Kwiterovich, Scott Kurlander. Seated: Andy Cameron, Will Gould
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was attended by Mark Agent and your class secretary, among others. Mark is coaching football and mentoring students at Franklin High School. In 2016, the Indians won the Baltimore County Division I championship, reached the 3A state final and finished 11–2. Mark might be most proud, however, of his young son. Mark showed me a photo on his phone of a young football player sitting on the bench with the name “Agent” printed across the back. “Yes, I’m pretty proud of him,” he told me. When my son, Wyatt, who is in the fifth grade at Roland Park Elementary, decided to play football, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to take pictures of football again — for the first time since Gilman. I printed out 8x10 pictures for each of the players on the team. Now that it’s spring, I am taking lacrosse pictures of our daughter, Maggie, who is in seventh grade at Bryn Mawr. Thanks to everyone at our last reunion who expressed appreciation for my old black-and-white photos. You inspired me to try to capture some memories that some kids might hold onto for a long time. Most of us will have hit the half-century mark by now. Tommy Horst celebrated with a trip to Germany. Doug Schmidt also crossed the Atlantic, ending up dressed for dinner at Highclere Castle, which is the real Downton Abbey. But many of us celebrated at home. After turning 50 and receiving mail from AARP, Joseph Jennings posted a lovely note that seemed to capture the moment: “Thank you everyone for the birthday love. I am deeply humbled and honored by your affection. Fifty years are in the book, and now I’m going for another 50.”
1988 Greg Carter greg_carter@me.com I’ll start with the happiest news first: Jamie Griffith announced that he and Jill Fisher (nee Pfrommer, Bryn Mawr ’88) married on New Year’s Eve 2016. They’re living, happily and in close quarters, in Rogers Forge with their three girls, aged eight, ten, and fourteen. Jamie seems beside himself, admitting, “If I start to go into any detail at all, it will go on forever.” George Liebmann is trying to sell 200 acres and a lake house in Vermont, where the market has not recovered much since 2008. “I want to move somewhere warmer with more sun!” George says. He has been working in mergers and acquisitions of commercial real estate and energy spaces since moving on from Permafresh. George forwarded a scan of a picture of the guys who went on the fourth-grade Woodlands trip, which led to my sending our Lower School graduation picture. It’s all navy blazers, gray pants, and face nervous about doing the diploma handoff shake with Mr. Finney. Jeff Tannebaum explained the gesture he was doing with his hand as the shutter snapped: “That’s the old Dolphin Club hand signal. I need to start that gang back
up.” Lots of reply-to-all ensued (I apologize) as George, Jamie, Andy Gross, David Carroll, and I named as many of the “dearly departed” who did not graduate with us as we could. David won this round with 13, but I bet someone oust him. Natasha and I have been professors at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for ten years. Adoptions of my book, The United States of the United Races, keep me up to date with Apple gear—some years a new iPad, some years only a new silicone case. I ran into a former Gilman teacher, Kip Jacobs, while touring schools for our daughter, Nina. It turns out he’s been at University School of Milwaukee since 1987, teaching middle school science. Looking at schools, I constantly wondered how they compared to Gilman, so it was great to have someone who could precisely say how. Going through old boxes in his parents’ attic, Ethan Graham shared my second-grade contribution to Primary Pennings. My daughter tells better stories than I did, and she’s younger. But no one could draw a better Obi-Wan Kenobi, Stormtrooper, or Darth Vader than Ethan could in 1977! Still finding his private practice challenging and fulfilling, Ethan recently co-launched a new couples therapy training program at the William Alanson White Institute. He’s looking forward to the inaugural year starting in the fall. Ethan’s son has become a raging Ravens fan, so his dad finally has someone in the family who shares that interest. His daughter enjoys dissecting things, and his wife continues to work at Avaaz.org, an online advocacy group campaigning on human rights and climate issues. Larry Park, winner of The Most Changed in Appearance badge at our 25th reunion, joined in the photo-scanning spree. “I don’t have kids, but here a picture of me as a kid,” he said, attaching a baby pic, his Cynosure page, and a recent snapshot of himself between Scarlett Johansson and her brother, Hunter. Marc Aquino laughed when I threatened to include his latest Facebook status: “Watched Power Rangers dressed as a Power Ranger. Achievement unlocked.” Other classmates sharing innocuous things on Facebook include John Stinson (“Son Volt killed it at the old folks’ home tonight!”); Justin Brown (“Spring training with ’dem Birds in Sarasota!”); and Andy Fenselau, who forwards all his tweets about freeing “#Enterprise customers from traditional #data storage. #hybridcloud” to the less hashtag-gy social network. Charlie Cahn is still headmaster at Suffield Academy. His daughter, Peyton, is a junior and his family is starting to look at colleges with her. “We have Gilman alums doing postgraduate years at Suffield this year and next year,” Charlie adds, “and not surprisingly they are really impressive young men.” Still living in Southern California, Sue-Joe Shin’s kids are now six and four, and he spends most of his time chasing them around. “I managed to have dinner with Matt Gordon right before his second kid was born, as he is also living in SoCal.” If anyone is passing through the L.A. area, drop Sue-Joe a line. In the East Bay area, Steve Kang is now working with Sanford Healthcare as director of cardiac electrophysiology at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. Steve, Gail, their three kids, and three dogs are all doing
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well. He hopes to get back east sometime soon, perhaps for our 30th (can you believe it?) reunion. Paul Bosky recently switched technologies, from I.T. to something “a bit older.” He started a business called El Guia that teaches meditation as a transformative practice. “Yeah yeah,” Paul confesses, “it must be a Bay Area thing.” Sadly, Paul’s mother passed away recently, but spending time with Marc Aquino, Andy Gross and his wife Jill, and Brad Johnson (’90) helped a lot. As one of those people who promised to leave the country if Trump won, Geoff Kinsey recently left his position in the Solar Energy Technologies Office at the U.S. Department of Energy. He’s heading to Delhi, India, where he’ll be working to develop new, utility-scale solar projects in the region. “Summers are amazing here in Seattle,” Scott Anson claims. “But we cope with the drizzle by getting out of town as much as possible.” He’s working as an engineering manager downtown. His son and daughter are at University of Washington and Seattle University, respectively. After four years together, he and Amy Holland are getting married this August. “Being married is getting better all the time,” John Alexander offers after his and Taylor’s 22nd anniversary. Their daughter Natalie is a Grateful Duck sophomore in Eugene, and their son Henry is a high school freshman thriving in the theater. John drew on his 25 years of Klamath Bird Observatory research to inform Obama’s science-based expansion of Cascade Siskiyou National Monument. John recently got to share Voodoo Dead with Rex Wilkes and other dear Baltimore friends he had not seen for decades, and he offers a hint for visiting southern Oregon: “See Rex’s band Better Off Dead sooner and — keep alive!” In the last year, Andy Gross has developed an addiction to genealogy. He even discovered he’s distantly related on both sides by marriage to Andrew Monfried (’92), who got the genealogy bug quite some time ago. Jill and Andy’s eldest, Abigail, got the lead in her school’s eighth grade play, Aladdin: The Musical. “It’s performed all in Hebrew!” Andy brags. He’s still active in a fantasy football league with Justin Brown, Kirby von Kessler, and Jamie Hamilton (’89). “Both Brownie and Kirby are much more on top of league activity than I am,” he admits, praising their ability to respond to trade requests almost instantaneously. “Oddly enough, when I needed help moving some furniture to our new house,” Andy observes, “I think that must have been the weekend Brownie’s phone died or something like that!”
1990 Kent Chan kchanster@aol.com Our Gilman Class of 1990 consists of men in various stages of life — some single, some recently married, and some with growing families. All of us have spread across various parts of the world — and a few below have taken the time out to bring us a little bit closer. 114
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I have essentially tried to use each classmate’s own words — and included a few folks that did not graduate with us in 1990 — but will always have a little bit of Gilman in them. And now — in no particular order. . . . Brett Garfinkel has been a media revenue and strategy executive for over the past 20 years for both established and start-up organizations — specifically in the digital video space. Most recently, he has been a co-founder/CEO of a media tech startup company called SYLO — they measure influencer marketing/social media video across all major platforms such as YouTube/ Facebook/Instagram/Twitter. He still resides in NYC (the best city in the world), in Union Square, and much to the chagrin of his parents in Baltimore . . . still has no kids, never married, nor engaged. Before judging — single life in NYC is still freakin’ exciting (thank you dating apps!) and being so even at this old creepy age . . . in the city it’s quite common. ;) Michael Schwartz got married July 2017 to his fiancée, Janet. He currently lives in Catonsville, Md., with his wife and two step-kids, as well as his two dogs. He has a dental practice in Catonsville as well. Brooks Paternotte and his wife Elizabeth VonEiff Paternotte (RCPS ’91) live on their small farm in Owings Mills, Md., with children Jack, 8, and Emma, 7, as well as dogs, cats, chickens, horses, bees, a three-legged rabbit, and a donkey named Pedro. After many years as a teacher and head of the Middle School at Boys’ Latin, Brooks became the executive director of Irvine Nature Center in 2013 combining his experience in education with his love for the outdoors. Elizabeth is an equine veterinarian practicing acupuncture and chiropractic medicine on performance horses. Jack joins his two cousins, Miles and Truman Paternotte, at Gilman and is currently in second grade. Greg Friedman is still enjoying living with his wife and two children just down the street from Gilman. His oldest is finishing eighth grade and his youngest is in seventh grade. Both are at Friends School. His wife has built a great interior design business, and he has the fun of working with Doug Kaufman on a daily basis in the commercial real estate world. They have been lucky to get to travel a good amount, and are looking forward to a trip to Alaska this summer. In August 2016, Doug Kaufman and his wife welcomed his first child into the world. Malcolm is a happy kid who has made his parents extremely happy. They live downtown in Upper Fells Point close to Patterson Park and are always open to a visit from a classmate. Perry Offutt, his wife, and two children (ages 8 and 10) continue to live in New York City. Professionally, he is focused on investing long-term equity capital in U.S. infrastructure assets at Macquarie. Things are going well in Baltimore for Doug Hoffberger. His oldest daughter Olivia is in her junior year at Brewster Academy, a New Hampshire boarding school, following in her mother’s and father's footsteps, who went to St. Andrews and Peddie respectively. His middle daughter Charlotte is a sophomore at Bryn Mawr, where she has resided for almost 13 years so far. Henry is in the sixth grade at Gilman and just got back from a school trip to Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, where he sang with his middle and upper
To celebrate their 25th Reunion, classmates from 1992 gather at the Headmaster’s Home.
school brethren. It reminds him of his trip to France with Mr. Schwanke during mini-week of ’85. He is happy he gets to see Brooks Paternotte occasionally, as well Neal Smith who works near him. Eric David and his wife Sarah are living in downtown Raleigh with our two boys, Jed, 8, and Macon, 6. He is enjoying life as an attorney practicing First Amendment and business litigation. He is still a Tar Heel fan and Dook hater — some things will never change. Look him up if you are ever in town! Ryan Jordan is completing his third year in Tampa, Fla., serving as the upper division director at the Berkeley Preparatory School, pre K-12, co-ed day school with over 1,300 students. His daughter and son are in sixth and fourth grade respectively, and they all love living in Tampa. His mom is still in Baltimore, so they go back often, and he stays in touch with a few folks still working at Gilman. Aaron Sorensen has added two baby boys to his family. He still lives right near the Villanova campus on the outskirts of Philly. In 2014, he was commuting into the city to go to work at Temple University; now he works at home, telecommuting every day. His wife, Susan, does the same thing, and so they both work out of the very same room with “His” and “Her” desks only one foot apart from each other. Finally, since Aaron suggested nickname updates from everyone, he can say that on the Bryn Mawr campus in the late ’80s he used to be known as “Air-Sor,” while as an adult, the only person who has really given him a nickname is Sebastian Seiguer who refers to him as “Arrondissment.” Sam Knowles is still living in Northern Virginia and is a partner at DLA Piper in the firm’s D.C. office. Last August he and wife Aida welcomed a daughter,
Sofia Teresa Knowles. He says he’s an old dude to be just getting in the game, but no complaints. Andrew Cohen, his wife Suzi, and his sons, Louis and Edgar, are all well. The boys attend Collegiate School in Manhattan, an all-boys school that reminds him of Gilman. Allen Hsiao, his wife Joyce, his 12-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter currently live near New Haven, Conn. Every year around January he wonders why he still leaves in the Northeast, seriously contemplates moving, and then spring comes. It’s also because he is too busy enduring verbal abuse from physicians as the Chief Apology Officer (a.k.a. chief medical information officer) for the school and system. Despite training and being on faculty in pediatrics and emergency medicine, he has found most of his time is spent worrying about computers and the doctors that use them. When your medical information from one hospital is electronically available at another, or when your physician is able to run analytics to predict the best therapy for you, you have geek doctors like Allen to thank. When things are missing or don’t work, it’s someone else’s fault. Tom O’Neil and his wife Ashley have been living in Seattle for the last 2 ½ years, after a 2 year stint in L.A., and 11 years in NYC. He is working at Tableau Software, and his wife is at Microsoft, so they are both knee deep in the growing tech scene there. Their first child, Victoria, will be two years old this September, and they are enjoying the Pacific Northwest quite a bit! Coming from the Northeast, the weather there isn’t nearly as bad as people think, and they love being surrounded by so much water and having the mountains so close. Not to mention the excellent local beer!
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1992 William Intner, Matt Hodson, Jason Rothenberg Ben Temchine, Gus Kohilas, Mike Anvari, Aaron Jensen Jason Goldman, Michael Breman, Cheo Hurley
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Peter Niemeyer thinks he may have hit that place called midlife. He bought a scrapped 1974 Honda CB360 motorcycle and is learning how to rebuild it to run; he has dipped his toe back into college and is taking a programming course to build on his self-taught web-design skills, as he is introducing a new computer science course at his high school. He continues to teach world history and newspaper production, but has been hoping for more variety in his schedule. He has resumed running a little more than a year ago after a 25-year hiatus, and finds that he is far slower than his high school self would like to remember. As his delightfully fun, kind, and smart kids (16 and 13) continue to bring him joy, he worries the karma police is waiting in the wings to pay him back for his teenage tomfoolery. But so far, so good. By the way, speaking of nicknames as Aaron Sorensen brought up — he has not been called “Oatmeal” since college (Perry Offutt was responsible in giving him that name by comparing his brain to a bowl of solidified breakfast grain), but Mr. Schmick’s name for him, “Nemo,” has continued to be on his firefighting gear since 2001, and now seems to be used by many of his students who wish to be less formal with him. Oh, also — he seems to be losing his hair. Andrew Gerle is living in NYC with his husband of two years, working in music and musical theatre. He continues to write musicals, working on a couple commissions right now. One of his proudest shows was a recent electronica/world music adaptation of “The Tempest” with legendary Broadway lyricist Tom Jones (“The Fantasticks”). He also enjoys teaching composition and performance at the Manhattan School of Music and Yale, and he is finishing a music theory textbook for musical theatre performers. This spring, he stepped in after one rehearsal to play and conduct the Off-Broadway production of “Sweeney Todd,” where he will be on and off until the new year, so if you’re in New York, come see the show; he might be playing! Jack Shaw has been living in Bruson, Switzerland, for eight years now, running Epic Europe, an experiential adventure travel company that he founded with his partner Susanna. They are based in the southwest corner of the Swiss Alps, only about 45 minutes from both Italy and France, and operate throughout the mountain regions of all three countries, offering custom hiking, biking, and ski trips as well as cultural, food and wine, and family trips. They love the expat life, and the many challenges of a start-up business in another country always keep things interesting. He gets over to London quite frequently, and sees a lot of Andrew Dausch and Casey Gordon, who also both bring their families over there to ski with them from time to time as well. He also gets to catch up with Stephen Linaweaver and Ethan Ewing out on the West Coast about once a year, too. He never imagined while in school that he would live somewhere that he would be speaking French full-time, so a grand merci to all of the Gilman language teachers! Please look him up if you find yourself anywhere near the Alps. Nick Romagnoli met up with Duane Holloway for lunch in March 2017. They have their hair, are at their college weights, and agreed they both look great. He felt it was great seeing each other and he would
love to catch up with others. Nick is still in New Jersey but about to be minus one — kind of — since his daughter, Christina, is off to Middlebury College in fall 2017, where she will be a pitcher on the softball team. Bittersweet for his ninth grader Alyssa, who will have the bathroom to herself, but realized he and his wife will only be focused on her now. Matthew Horwitz is living the dream in sunny South Florida working for Under Armour. He is happily married, a full-time dad and part-time soccer coach. He also wishes to be a little more like Tim Tadder every day. Neal Smith is planning for Stephen Linaweaver’s bachelor party in Austin, Texas. Stephen is engaged to be married to Ms. Laurel Peacock of Tuscon, Ariz., on August 5, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif. Stephen is a lucky man. He and his soon-to-be wife met through our work in sustainability four years ago and live in Oakland. She is from Arizona and Montana and amazingly puts up with the fact that people still call him by his high school nickname. He is leading a lab for a brownfield real-estate developer, bringing sustainable innovations to a large property in San Francisco called Parkmerced. John Rybock was in Florida with the Ritz back in early 2014. His time with the Ritz was great — started in Laguna Nigel, Calif., opened up the Dallas, Texas, property, then Dove Mountain (Tucson), Ariz., then moved to Amelia Island, Fla. Moving every year or two is a young man’s game, so he decided to return to Baltimore to be closer to family. He was executive sous chef at the Hilton down by the stadium. He then tried a few other jobs trying to find something satisfying, and found it at Rouge Catering out in Hunt Valley, back to cooking rather than being a paper chef. Daniel Langenthal has been living in Cambridge, Mass., for the last four years. He is the director of experiential learning and teaching at Brandeis University, which means he is an in-house consultant for the faculty to help make their teaching more engaging for their students using active and reflective teaching pedagogy. He went to Boston after living in Israel for 11 years, where he started and ran a non-profit called Mabat that facilitated semester-long programs focusing on intercultural awareness training for Israeli university and college students. Conor Brennan is enjoying life out in Spokane, Wash., with his wife and three boys. He flies cargo around the world for FedEx. Evan Davis is living in Baltimore with his wife of 15 years, Debbie. They have two girls, Morgan and Molly. He has been with Legg Mason for 19 years. Right now, he is in a national accounts role focused on the 401k space. He is his company's team captain in the Polar Bear Plunge that benefits Special Olympics Maryland, and they just recently finished their third year of jumping in the Chesapeake Bay in January to raise money for the athletes of Special Olympics Maryland. Ryan Rippin has been living in Iowa for the past 13 years. He works in IT at Principal Financial. He has two kids (16 and 13) and has been married now for close to 22 years. All is great in the Midwest! Duane Holloway, after more than a decade in Las Vegas/SoCal, moved to the NYC area with his wife
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and twins to be the EVP and general counsel at Ascena, the largest women’s specialty retailer in the country owning brands like Ann Taylor, LOFT, Justice, and Lane Bryant. He saw Doug Hoffberger at the Gilman/ McDonogh blowout football game last fall. Bong Lee has had the same job for the past 10 years as a finance manager for Toyota. He got married for the first time ever four years ago and his daughter was born three years ago . . . of course with the best name . . . Olivia! He currently lives in West Friendship, Md., and bought his dream home there. He loves cars, saltwater fishing, and, of course, guns! Jonathan Busky has been at CafeMedia for the past seven years, heading up strategy and business development. They run a number of web properties as well as a network of leading blog sites — reaching many people every month. His wife, Galen Sherwin, is very busy these days as an attorney at the ACLU. Their kids, Julia, 7, and Milo, 4, keep them busy but entertained. And they love life in beautiful Park Slope, Brooklyn! Bill Guyton, after graduating from Rice, stayed in Houston working for Shell, using high-performance computing to evaluate subsurface for likely oil deposits. He is happily married to a fellow Rice grad, and chasing after their three kids. As for me, Kent Chan, I’m continuing to practice gynecologic oncology at NYU. My wife, who’s a dentist, and I, with three kids of various ages, can be found trying to stay out of trouble, if not in NYC, perhaps in Water Mill or Miami. Twenty-seven years is a long time—and I’m sure we are all looking forward to the next 27 years of news. . . .
1996 Lee Kowarski kowarski@gmail.com I’m light on updates this year — perhaps because we all caught up last year at our reunion. Kevin Frank and his wife, Rebecca, live in Dallas and wrote in to say that they really enjoyed seeing everyone who made it to the reunion. Kevin is still practicing energy law in-house for Atmos Energy Corporation and is wrapping up an MBA and MS in finance this fall at the University of Texas at Dallas. John Raiti and his wife, Ami, remain in Seattle and had their first child, Natalia, on July 12, 2016. John is still the senior research engineer for Applied Dexterity, doing amazing robotics work. Brandon Croxton welcomed his second child, Evelyn Veronica, in February. As of press time for these Class Notes, Tommy Knowles was expecting a baby girl that was due in April. Evan Kreitzer, his wife, Keren, and sons still live in Owings Mills, where Evan is a senior mortgage banker at Howard Bank. Evan reports that Coby and Sam share his love of soccer and play as much as they possibly can. Chris Tully is still an attorney at Tydings and Rosenberg and lives in Baltimore with his wife, Jodi, and
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their daughter, Emerson. They continue to dedicate a lot of their energy to the charity that they started in honor of their late daughter, The Spencer Grace Foundation: www.thespencergracefoundation.org. As for me, no major news . . . still working for DST Systems following its acquisition of the firm that I co-founded, kasina, still serving as a member of the programming committee for the James Beard Foundation, and still serving as president of the kasina Youth Foundation for Financial Literacy. My wife, Melinda, and I are heading to Sicily in June. Social media has been a great way to stay in touch with everyone — for example, since Akram Annous joined Instagram (@akznoose), I know WAY more about what he is up to in Dubai. Charles Howard’s Twitter profile (@chaz_howard) is inspiring and educational. Jason Mersey’s Instagram (@jhm_5) is a fun mix of glamorous food/wine and not-so-glamorous work travel. If we aren’t already connected, you can find me on Twitter or Instagram at @kowarski, as well as on Facebook. As always, it has been fun to meet up with classmates over the past year. Speaking of Jason Mersey, Melinda and I see him and his wife, Rachel, whenever we visit Chicago, including an amazing meal at Alinea in November. Jason continues to work for AQR and recently moved to an amazing new apartment. John Boyle, who lives in Columbia with his wife, Tara, and son, Johnny, joined me in New Orleans for Jazz Fest in April. I’ve seen Eric Holloway a few times in NYC where he bartends at some top restaurants — most recently, Estela. Before Gaurab Bansal finished his time as the deputy cabinet secretary for President Obama, he was kind enough to show me and my wife around the West Wing, which was truly amazing! Post-Obama Administration, Gaurab has moved back to Seattle and is taking some well-deserved time off as he explores next steps. And I had a chance to meet up with Jason Haas in Boston recently — luckily he found time while finishing his PhD dissertation at MIT’s Media Lab and raising his two-year-old twins, Hannah and William, with his wife, Jessica. Here’s hoping to see many more of you over the coming year!
1998 Chad Prather prather.chad@gmail.com It’s crazy that Gilman’s most attractive class is nearly 20 years out. Gentlemen, if you’re reading this and want to be represented next year, then please email me. I will add you to a distribution list and touch base in the spring when I begin to gather updates. I promise to make you look good (but not braggy). Here’s the news for now: Marshall Johnson [this is too glorious to edit] “spends most of his time driving a car on the NJ Turnpike between NYC and Philadelphia. When not in a car he works on films. In October [2016] he married a totally real, non-imaginary woman named
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Angeline in his mom’s barn. A handful of Gilman alumni (who have requested anonymity) were present. Marshall hopes to learn the art of speaking in the first person in 2017.” Matthew VanDyke continues to work on behalf of vulnerable populations struggling against oppression, terrorism, and insurgency. His organization, Sons of Liberty International, has been training, advising, and supplying Iraqi militias in the fight against ISIS since 2014. Matthew and his team have trained hundreds of fighters and are now working in Mosul and in other areas of Iraq. Mark Stamidis continues to work for CareFirst in its procurement department as a sourcing manager for IT buys. He and wife Kathy travelled to Greece in the summer of ’16 for a wedding on the island of Santorini, then enjoyed a side-trip by way of Athens up into the northern parts of the country. Once more, they are planning a killer garden! Speaking of travel (36 countries and counting), Darby Butts is currently living in Medellin, Colombia. From October 2015 to October 2016, he lived at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, serving as the on-scene commander for all South Pole emergencies and leading the emergency response first responders’ team. Darby became the 1,459th person to endure a South Pole winter, and at the peak of that winter he became part of the only team in history (!!!) to build and live in an igloo for 24 continuous hours. [There are amazing images and articles about Darby’s experiences in Antarctica. I encourage folks to check them out.] Back in warmer temps, Darby is preparing to open a craft brewery and gastropub in Medellin with Todd Morrill. Todd is part of the 20Mission community
in Medellin (visit 20mission.com). Congrats to Todd on the happy expectation of his first child! Others deserving kid-gratulations: Brian Mir (married in July 2016, joyfully expecting a son in August 2017); Stuart Cherry (Stu and wife Stephanie welcomed their third child — but first daughter, Jordana Rose — in March 2017); and Landis Kauffman (Landis, wife Keren, and son Gideon are looking forward to the arrival of boy #2 in April 2017). Landis is still living in Brooklyn. In the past year he opened two new retail concepts for Louis Vuitton and is deep into several projects for ’17. Busy but “couldn’t be happier.” Work-related congratulations go out to Pat Gill on the occasion of his making partner at the law firm of Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler. Pat and wife Emily have a two-year-old daughter, Penelope, and live in Rodgers Forge. Will Spencer, wife Katie, and five-year-old son Alex are living in South Jersey (Tabernacle). Will is working as a geologist for a geotechnical consulting firm, and Katie is a physical therapist. Alex will begin kindergarten this fall at Moorestown Friends School, a private Quaker school in Moorestown, N.J. In spare moments Will attends car shows, drives his Alfa Romeo, and flies RC helicopters. He and the fam are looking forward to visiting with Sudhir Desai and wife Sofía in Carolina over the Easter weekend. (Suds, what are you driving these days? Any chance we can bring #vanlife back, chitty-chitty-bang-bang style, for our 20th? Just a thought. But I digress. Back to updates . . .) Scott Homa and wife Jess have two kids and live in Georgetown. They procured their home with the assistance of Randy Resnik, who served as their loan officer. Scotty is senior VP and director of research at
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JLL, a commercial real estate company. (By happenstance, he reconnected for a while with Jon Manekin at JLL.) In the spring of ’16, Scott added a side-hustle, teaching a master’s course at Georgetown called Foundations of Real Estate Markets. More personally (and, tenderly, I’d say), Scott reports that he has not been the same since the departure of his longtime Tuesday night yoga buddy, Steve Burns, from the D.C. area. The post-class burritos just don’t taste the same. Steve relocated to Richmond, Va., and continues to practice law, focusing on special needs planning, estate planning, elder law, and guardianship/conservatorship work. His wife, Suzanne, operates a yoga studio downtown. In September ’16 the Burnses welcomed baby Holt, their first child (kid-gratulations to you guys as well!). Like Steve, Tom Prevas also continues to practice law, working with Saul Ewing in Baltimore, primarily litigating matters related to real estate and environment. He is also taking domestic violence cases pro bono as a new board member with the House of Ruth Maryland. Beyond the courtroom Tom is part of a development team working to revitalize Charles Village, and he still plays goalie in the Maryland Majors Soccer League. As for the rest of the Prevas household, Emily is serving as a first-grade class mom, Lily is attending Bryn Mawr, and Valerie, 2, supervises all things. Unexpectedly, Nick Funk saw Tommy just a few minutes ago [on April 5]. Gentle razzing and happy times. I heart Nick. He is my spirit animal. Another thing worth loving: Dan Diamond’s reporting for POLITICO. In case you aren’t aware, Donald Trump became POTUS and there has been much ado about health care. Dan’s writing on the subject and on-screen reporting has been bangin’! When not becoming increasingly famous, Dan hangs in D.C. He bought a place with his partner, Alicia, and says he was smart enough to let her decorate. He sometimes gets on text-message chains with Randy and Calvin Oung. (Surely Jon Markham is involved, yes?) Elsewhere, Kevin Culbertson continues to enjoy the illusion that he makes important decisions. In fact Kevin does manage his very own crafting corner: “The Land of Kevicraft.” He scrapbooks about his good-hero-friend Chad and carves small waiflike peoples out of Lucky Charm marshmallows. Tyler and Zoe stay close to Tina. The ever-virtuous Justin Short is now teaching history at the Calvert School. His passion for 1950s childrearing is noteworthy. When not blossoming the young minds, he dons his “poetry cloak” and writes bedtime ditties for Annie and sons (less for Annie, more for sons). “Urchin, urchin, why you lurchin’?” is popular these days. As for me (Chad Prather), joy runneth over. Katie is steadfast in her commitment to improve me. Lucy, 3, can touch her nose with her tongue. And Sam, 6, is playing baseball, albeit as a member of the East Nashville Sadness, I mean Red Sox (no doubt developing empathy for those in the low places). Per law and morality, his Sox hat sits on the floor under the crushing weight of our family’s Buck Showalter garden gnome, and during every postgame “Go, Red Sox!” cheer Sammy is required to wink at me (a sign that he harbors nothing but ill will and loathing for the actual Red Sox).
Whenever he forgets to wink, I burn one of his toys. And that’s that. Much love, guys. Be well, stay safe, and “Get outside — it’s where the good stuff is happening.” (Tip of the cap to you, Eric Klimt.)
1999 Bill Miller bmilleriv@gmail.com It is with heavy hearts that we begin this year’s Class Notes mourning the passing of fellow ’99er Jon Hock. Jon was a 12-year man, a talented engineer, and a friend to all that knew him. I will personally always remember Jon for being the first person to put me on Mr. Merrick’s class meeting “agenda” in fourth grade, which was long overdue at the time. Jon loved Gilman and his classmates, and we will miss him. Jeff Abraham lives in Reading, Mass., just north of Boston with his wife, Rachel, and two little girls, Charlotte, 4, and Isabelle, 1. He just began working as the director of market access for a digital health startup called Akili Interactive Labs, which produces software for disease treatment. Evan Bedford published a photojournalism book called “Cuba” based on his time there. For all the freeloaders, the photos are available on his website, evanmcquaidbedford.com. For those of us who appreciate art and have a conscience, he is selling the book directly; it is also available for a substantial mark-up through some sophisticated L.A. bookshops. Jason Bruns recently celebrated his daughter Chloe’s first birthday by smashing cake on his face. He moved to the Lake Walker area last summer and is working for Merrill Edge as an investment consultant. Bruns is looking to hit a few Gilman lacrosse games this year, and he wanted me to ask if any of our classmates has a George Foreman Grill he could borrow to use for pre-gaming in the lower lots? Jack Dietrich is living life in Charleston, S.C. His family just welcomed their second daughter, Reese, into the world on Valentine’s Day. He keeps busy by operating and growing Fount, a digital design and development studio that he co-founded a few years ago. Tom Fenton lives in Dallas with his wife, Sara, and three-year-old son, Samuel. They are excited for baby boy Fenton #2 in August, as it means the ten-gallon hats and handmade boots will get used again. Jamison Hodges and wife Lexie welcomed daughter McKenzie Reynolds Hodges into the world last May. They recently bought a house in the Chapelgate community. Jamie launched a start-up company called Hodges Industrial, which manufacturers a product that he patented for the loading dock equipment industry. Jamie is partnering with The Foundery, Kevin Plank’s machine shop in Port Covington, to manufacture the product. He recently came back to Gilman as a guest speaker in Amy Mussen’s Engineering 101 class.
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2007 Grady Lincalis, John Prevas, Whit Johnson, Zach Parkinson, Andreas Kaikis Adam Janet, J.B. Cooke Max Brown, Gabrielle Jackson, Makura Compton, Jasmine Hughes, Omar Brown, Rakiya Brown
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Darryl Jordan married Linda Jordan (of Brooklyn) in May 2016, and they welcomed their newest addition, Darryl Bashir Jordan, on February 1, 2017, in New York City. They now reside with their three children in Brooklyn, N.Y.! Most recently, Darryl conducted an Off-Broadway production of West Side Story with Nyack College, where he is an adjunct professor of music. Jesse Kohler brings us a big upside surprise this year, as he is engaged. He and his fiancée, Erin, have a chocolate lab named Gracie. Jared Kohn and his wife welcomed their second child into the world: a happy, healthy, giggly, and joyful little boy named Adam. He opened his Edward Jones Investments office in Tampa (Jared did, not Adam, though that would be impressive) to expand a healthy and growing practice, and Jared currently sits on the board of directors of two small organizations. Jared and Amanda will celebrate 12 years of marriage in July. Martin W. Lotz III and wife Sara are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year. They have three daughters — Isabella, 7, Katherine, 5, and Sophia, 4 — and they live in Potomac, Md., where Martin is the director of facilities at Glenstone Museum. Bill Miller IV manages money at Miller Value Partners, which is now independent from Legg Mason. He is currently sporting a grizzled beard that has far too much salt and not enough pepper, which his kids — Natalie, 3, and Five, 1, — will not let him shave. His search for the elusive class secretary replacement appears poised to continue until kingdom come. Brendan Mulligan sold his start-up, LaunchKit, to Google last year and now leads the next generation of Hangouts Chat, Google’s enterprise messaging tool. He also got married last year and still lives in the Bay area. Rumor has it that Brendan will receive one million shares of Google if he sticks around through July 2018. Bryan Preston is the director of the Writing Center at Coppin State University. In his free time, he performs standup comedy all along the east coast. We will make sure everyone gets an announcement if his agent can come to terms with RoFo Arena. Henry Russell became head coach at St. Frances Academy in Baltimore. St. Frances was 1–10 in 2015 and 0–6 in the MIAA conference. With the help of several Gilman graduates on the coaching staff (Shaun Woodland, David Payne, Keith Kormanik, Ben Eaton, Sam Poggi, Jim Poggi, Rick Bowie, and Joey Ehrmann), HZR and company turned around the struggling program and finished as the number-one ranked team in the Baltimore Sun. The team finished 10–2 and 6–0 in the MIAA A, winning the conference championship. Ten seniors signed with Division I schools on Signing Day worth over $3 million dollars of scholarship money. Some of the colleges included West Point, Syracuse, Arizona, Maryland, Kent State, Towson, Connecticut, Maine, and Morgan State. In recognition of the success, Henry was named Marine Corps Semper Fi Coach of the Year in Maryland! When asked for an update, Del Schmidt only responded, “If you can wait like three more weeks I’ll have a name for my third-born child.” And wait I did, submitting my class notes late — Del’s son, Emmett
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Fitzgerald Schmidt, was born on April 15. If these class notes don’t make it to print, YOU’RE WELCOME, DEL. “Beau Gilman” Smith can’t stay away from his alma mater. He is remodeling a house that is less than a mile, as the crow flies, from the Tech. He led the alumni board’s involvement on this year’s Bull Roast, which was the craziest one yet. When Beau is not busy enhancing Gilman, he spends his spare time with wife Becca and kids Reid, 3, and Milly, 1. Shields Sullivan just started in April as a project manager at the Penhall Company out of Dallas, where he manages highway/bridge projects nationwide. He moved in July 2016 to Lexington, S.C., where Beth’s parents help keep an eye on Bridget, 4, Henry Jr., 2, and little Sally, 1. While Shields subscribes to MLB At Bat to watch the Birds play from whatever bridge he's under, he plans on making it back to Baltimore this summer to catch a game and hang with friends. Charles L. Wagandt III and wife Lauren are expecting Baby Boy Wagandt this spring, who will join sister Molly, 3, under the Wagandt roof. No word yet on whether roman numerals will be involved, but bookmakers are setting the odds at 50%.
2010 Christian Moscardi moscardi79@gmail.com Cooper Jackson is an engineer working in Los Angeles. Cabel Alfriend reports: “Finishing up the beginning of my teaching career at The Odyssey School. Moving to New York in June to continue my glorious occupation as an educator while fiercely advocating for higher teacher pay.” Brendan King is a first year medical student at Drexel University College of Medicine. “I am currently working in investing for a private equity fund in New York City,” writes Pat Shikani. “I have lived and worked here for three years since college.” Khalil Al-Talib is living in Baltimore and finishing up his master’s degree in health administration from the University of Maryland. Jack Silberstein is starting his PhD at Stanford University School of Medicine this fall. “Hoping to develop and improve treatments that manipulate the immune system to target various cancers,” he says. Nick Posterli: “I’m currently Living in Baltimore and working at/learning how to run the family business (Maryland Fence) my grandfather started and father currently runs.” R Adams Cowley is a first-year medical student at Georgetown. Jamey McElroy started Dirty Bourbon Screen Printing; he is a full-time musician, booking agent, and event consultant for Transcendent Events. He lives in Baltimore. Christian Moscardi is living in NYC, working as Director of Technology at a data science company.
2012 Bosley Jarrett, Eli Katz, Kevin Chen, Harrison Ebeling Aaron Goldblum, Daniel Yue, Andrew Burton, Jeff Loube, Stephen Koteen Peter Dewire, Theo Donnay, Alec Tarantino
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The Class of 2002 returns to campus to celebrate its 15th Reunion. It’s a decade done for the Class of 2007. The Class of 2012 gathers for its first alumni five-year reunion.
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