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At the Head of the Class Two alumni are among those joining the Gilman faculty.
deborah de smit kindergarten lower school Working at Gilman is all in the family for Deborah DeSmit as her son Dan is a Gilman senior this year and her husband Doug teaches Lower School physical education. She has been a preschool teacher since 2004 and served as a director of ESF Camp at Gilman this past summer.
alex de weese ‘11 henry callard fellow science upper school omar brown ’07 michael howard cooper fellow language arts middle school Alumnus Omar Brown returns to his alma mater as the Cooper Fellow to teach language arts, Talk 1, and coach three seasons. A 2011 graduate of McDaniel College, Brown taught previously at St. Ignatious Loyola Academy for three years before moving to Pittsburgh, where he worked with non-profit organizations to faciliate placements of minority students in independent schools as well as build leadership opportunities for those students.
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Alex DeWeese is a 2011 graduate of Gilman and a recent graduate of Lafayette College where he received his B.S. in Chemistry. He will coach cross country and track.
chris garland history upper school Chris Garland, who holds degrees from Hampden-Sydney and Georgetown, taught previously at The Blake School in Minnesota and more recently at St. Paul’s. Garland will assist with JV basketball and varsity lacrosse.
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