The Bulletin: Special Class Notes Edition

SPECIAL EDITION

Class Notes

Editor Jodi Pluznik Director of Communications

Assistant Editors Brooke Blumberg Director of Marketing and Communications

Karaline Johnson Graphic Designer

Writers Debbie Feldman Jones

Contributors M. Kate Ratcliffe Director of Development

Nathaniel Badder ’94 Director of Alumni Relations and Outreach

Alexandra Beiter Director of Annual Giving

Mac Barrett ’67 Alumni Special Projects Coordinator

Design Kevin Zwirble

Printing Mt. Royal Printing

Photography Debbie Feldman Jones Karl Connolly Photography Steve McDaniel ’65 Meir Pluznik Steve Ruark ’96 Whitney Wasson P’21, ’23, ’25 John Zito Cynosure Student Photographers

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FROM ROLAND AVENUE

Dear Fellow Alumni, Motivational speaker Jim Rohn famously said that we are the average of the five people with whom we spend the most time.

If that really is the case, Gilman alumni are in excellent shape!

The litany of impressive and interesting feats, achievements, and milestones tackled by Gilman alumni continues to amaze me.

Just in the past year alone, and in these class notes: • Andy Gantt ’53 planted 53,000 (not a misprint) loblolly pines on a 450-acre parcel of his family’s timber farm in Wingina, Va. (these trees won’t be harvested for 35 years!)

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Norris Cook ’58’s auto dealership, Norris Ford, in Dundalk, Md., celebrated its 100th anniversary. The Norris Auto Group owns 33 dealerships of all makes from Baltimore to South Carolina to Pittsburgh and Ohio.

• Despite a less than stellar snow year in Park City, Utah, Hamilton Easter ’64 and his wife Barb still skied about 30 days.

• Will Baker ’72 received the 2018 William K. Reilly Environmental Leadership Award as well as the National Maritime Historical Society Distinguished Service Award for his work with as the president of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

• Sandy Brown ’81 recently took the reins as the commissioner of Major League Lacrosse, the outdoor professional lacrosse league.

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Jack Shaw ’90 is living in a 200-year-old chalet in the Swiss Alps, running his adventure travel company called Epic Europe, and skiing, biking, and hiking through the mountains of Switzerland, France, and Italy.

• James Wieler ’09 climbed to Uhuru Peak, the highest summit on Kilimanjaro, at a stunning 5,895 m (19,341 ft!).

• The Los Angeles Rams drafted Micah Kiser ’13, who joins four other former Greyhounds on NFL rosters.

This list could go on and on—and it does on the following pages full of many other momentous occasions experienced by alumni— graduations, promotions, retirements, awards, moves, travels, weddings, children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well as, sadly, deaths.

Equally impressive to these accomplishments is our alumni group’s collective commitment to the School and willingness to support it, both with greatly appreciated money and time. Each year, Gilman “employs” hundreds of volunteers to help meet its mission. From the Board of Trustees to the Alumni Association Board of Governors, from reunion class chairs to regional event hosts, we ask a lot of these busy folks, but in every instance, they rise to the occasion and help ensure a great experience for those involved.

This investment of time extends to helping one another. I have seen firsthand the incredible willingness of Gilman alumni to bend over backwards for fellow alums. To fan this flame, we launched The Gilman Network, an online networking platform exclusively of Gilman alumni and for Gilman alumni. On the site, you can view the alumni directory, read recent updates, post and share events and job listings, and re-connect with classmates and friends.

Logging on is quick and easy, but the impact is deep and longlasting. Visit TheGilmanNetwork.com to create your profile today!

Keep up the great work, and keep in touch,

Nathaniel Badder ’94 Director of Alumni Relations & Outreach nbadder@gilman.edu

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1945 Andrew Thomas enjoyed a nice lunch and lacrosse game at Gilman in the spring. He was the only person from the class of 1945 there and hopes many more classmates will join him next year.

1947 Richard L. Cover is loving life on the Eastern Shore. He had to give up golf, but he is still playing and singing in a band.

1948 Guy Hollyday guypamsh@gmail.com Guy Hollyday has been teaching writing for the Safe and Sound program and has been active with Baltimore United in leadership development, in controlling rainwater, and in advocating for education in Baltimore. No trips this past year, but Pam’s sister, Polly, has visited from her home in England. In the near future, Guy and Pam will be moving to Pickersgill in Towson.

“Not much to report, Guy,” writes John Strickland. “Still loving living here in Florida, no snow to shovel and lots of sun. I am still flying and doing most of the things that I have always done. I have one more great-grandchild, making it 12. Fortunately all are healthy and so am I.”

Dick Blue reports, “Teedee and I are ‘hanging in there’!* Grandchildren have finally decided to marry so two weddings last year and two more this summer. Still at Brightwood Retirement Club and liking it very much. Two great-grandchildren and, I guess, more will be coming! Thanks for doing this alum write-up for 70 years!”

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(*Editor’s note: Shortly before this issue went to press, we learned that Dick’s wife, Teedee, has passed away. Our condolences to Dick and the Blue family.)

Tom Fenton reports that he and Simone moved in February to a retirement place in the Battery Park neighborhood of Manhattan, just three blocks from the World Trade Center. “Now that we are living in the U.S., after more than a half century abroad, we hope to see more of our American friends. We will be in our summer home in the south of France from mid-June but will be back in New York on August 16.”

Here is one more note from Holland Wilmer: “Our Christmas dinner is already set up for December 6 at the Maryland Club. I still come in to the office several days a week and work on estate planning and administration and teach it at seminars for other lawyers and professionals.

Lucy and I are well and continue our lives on the farm where we’ve lived for more than 50 years.”

“Mary Ellen and I are thoroughly enjoying watching our three (Gilman) sons follow in our professions,” writes George Thomsen. “I was a lawyer and senior partner in the firm Thomsen and Burke. Mary Ellen was headmistress of St Paul’s School for Girls in Baltimore. Roszel Thomsen ’76 is now the senior partner of Thomsen and Burke; Stewart Thomsen ’79 is head of the history department at Roxbury Latin School in Boston, Mass.; and Laurence Thomsen ’85 is headmaster of Sacramento Country Day School in the Capital of California.

On December 7, the Class of ’48 enjoyed their annual luncheon at the Maryland Club. The meeting was again sponsored by Bill Passano and hosted by Bill and Honey and was well-attended.

Joan and Bob Rich visited their favorite end-of-winter spot, Sanibel Island, spending time at the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge. Bob’s second great-

grandchild, Summer Ruth Burud, was born March 1. She is doing well, as are parents Anita and Shane. Joan recently attended the Clemson University graduation of her granddaughter, Marissa Jennings—summa cum laude, College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences.

Cynthia and Manning Parsons have been busy—some winter time in Naples, Fla., and summer time in Nantucket, Mass., and lots of visits with children and grandchildren.

Sandy Newlin indicates all is well—he is planning a family reunion on their farm and is looking forward to our Gilman ’48 luncheon on December 6.

1950 Haswell M. Franklin 410-377-4520 Here is a very special obituary written by our classmate Charlie Brown shortly before his death. Charlie also made arrangements with the Baltimore Sun to have it published for six consecutive days following his death: “Brown, Charles Coady “Dr. Charles Coady Brown, former Gilman School and Princeton University lacrosse player and noted pathologist, died on April 30, 2018. The cause of his death was heart failure.

Dr. Brown was 85 years old.

“Dr. Brown was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to James Edward Brown, an electrical engineer, and Alice Coady Brown, a homemaker. Dr. Brown was a graduate of the Gilman School where he was named an All-Maryland lacrosse player on the 1950 undefeated team.

He was the recipient of the Fisher Medallion which is Gilman School’s most prestigious award. At Princeton University, Dr. Brown was captain

of both the freshman and the varsity lacrosse teams and a star on the 1953 national championship team.

“He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and trained in pathology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston.

After four years on the staff at the Emory University Medical School, he returned to Baltimore where he practiced at GBMC and later at Union Memorial Hospital. A good and well-regarded pathologist, Dr. Brown was recognized for his knowledge of gynecological pathology.

“Dr. Brown enjoyed Diversion Trips to New York City for lunches with friends and former classmates followed by a variety of Broadway shows, museum visits and an occasional opera.

He also enjoyed BSO concerts and Center Stage presentations.

“He maintained an avid interest in lacrosse, attending numerous Gilman, Princeton and Boys’ Latin games.

“Dr. Brown is survived by his wife of 61 years, the former Jane Ann Buxton, and two children, a son, Peter Dawson Brown of Terrace Park, Ohio, and Naples, Florida, and a daughter, Dr. Coady Brown Schueler, of Park City, Utah. He leaves behind three grandchildren, Dawson Pruett Brown, Coady Garland Brown and Ketch Stephen Schueler.

“As per his request, Dr. Brown was cremated and no memorial service was held.”

Hats off to Charlie! The rest of us are going to find this a difficult act to follow.

Of significant interest is the return of Bruce Lloyd to Baltimore from California shortly after the death of his third wife. I have even fixed him up with an attractive blond whom I met at church.

Dixon Hills attended our reunion luncheon at the Hopkins Club and advised that he has now moved into Blakehurst.

Walter Brewster also attended our luncheon and indicated that he has returned to the dating scene. Additionally, his son is speaking at an art exhibit.

Bill Jarrett advised that he has recently undergone cataract surgery and has also become a new uncle. Our guest for lunch that day was Henry Smyth, Gilman’s present Headmaster, who brought us up-to-date on what is happening at the School.

Tommy Powell indicated that he would soon be leaving on another trip, this time to California. Prominent by his absence from lunch that day was Bruce Grove who did not post but, hopefully, will make the short trip from York soon where he now resides after the passing of his wife.

Hopefully, our other classmates will let me know what is happening in their lives, which I would like to share with you.

Finally, I am working as Chairman Emeritus for my sons’ financial planning firm, which means that I come in to the office when I want, leave when I want, my four sons pay all of the expenses, and my major expense is taking one or more sons out for lunch each day, and even after 60 years, “Dad is still buying.”

1951 Robert Swindell bbncc444@gmail.com The usual info. Most of you haven’t replied to request. Hope to keep hearing from you.

Sad news: we have lost two classmates— Steve Knipp and Griff Morrel, plus two wives—Carol Calloway and Ajax Eastman.

The news is mostly about grandchildren. At least our offspring seem to be doing well.

Tom Offutt writes that his grandson won “the Governor’s award for largest trout caught on a fly rod by a kid under 13.” His grandfather taught him well.

Tom Calloway may be moving back east. Maybe he’ll stop by Baltimore on his way?

Saw Tom Parr recently. Grandchildren doing well in Alaska, Eastern Shore, and Baltimore. He and Jenny are still living in the country and faring well.

Lew Barker drops by occasionally to visit with Dan Moore here at Blakehurst.

Not often enough, however.

Tom Eastman is currently living at Broadmead after many years on Lake Avenue.

Gibby Carey and wife AK still enjoy Cincinnati and the Adirondacks though not as actively as in past years.

This has been an exciting year for Nancy and me. She celebrated her 65th reunion from Bryn Mawr recently. Three grandchildren graduated from UVA and two from Gilman. Wow! Please keep in touch so next year can be more interesting.

1952 Bruce Follmer bf0629@gmail.com Your secretary had a nice response this year from those who still have email addresses or phone numbers. I had names of three or four without a way to notify them.

Expatriate Chipper Hoff and wife, Peggy, have decided there’s no place like home, after all, and plan to move back from their abode in South Carolina to a multi-level retirement complex called Blakehurst on Joppa Road in Riderwood, pending the sale of their house in S.C. The only other news reported by Chipper is the blessings of two

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great-grandsons. He’s looking forward to getting together with Tom Waxter, Bill Blue, Dick Gatchell and the rest of the “Baltimore Mafia” (my words, not his) for their monthly get-together lunches.

George Callard, our class vice president, checked in with a nice long, if somewhat disappointing, note. Still in Cincinnati (since 1972), as a now retired cardiac surgeon, after graduation from Johns Hopkins, residence at Johns Hopkins and UVA. He spent four years in the academic world at the University of Miami School of Medicine, before moving to Cincinnati. In 1989 he suffered a cerebellum stroke and has done pretty well since, except for some balance problems, until recently. His vascular disease has finally caught up to him now, and walking is difficult without support. He’s been using a walker for four years but is now in a wheelchair. This became difficult for Linda, so George has moved into a retirement home, where Linda has been volunteering for years and is on the Board and has been president two times.

They have five children and 10 grandchildren at the moment; two grandchildren are seniors and off to college in September. The oldest, Lucy, is going to Duke on a swimming scholarship. The other senior was volleyball captain, a gymnast and pole-vaulter. Naturally George is very proud. Their oldest grandchild is in the construction business. (The youngest, Susan, is a hospital nurse.)

Son George is the general counsel for the Weather Channel in Atlanta. David is in California running a company that assembles a device that detects very low levels of light. Will is a banker based in Chicago. George says he hears little from Gilman. He thinks he and Gibby Carey are the only alumni in their area.

News from Dick Gatchell is big this year. After serving as a real estate agent for 60 years, he let his license expire last October. Now, at 85, he has produced a disc

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called “It’s All About Love” made up of songs he’s been composing over the last six years. In addition, he is maintaining, with help, a garden which produces color and fragrance from March until frost. He finds life quiet and satisfying. Dick points out that so many friends are no longer with us, creating wonderful memories of times past and making him smile.

Tom Waxter starts off with news that most of you are aware of already, concerning the monthly get-together of Bill Blue, Dick Gatchell, Charlie Obrecht and him, and the likelihood that Chipper Hoff will join them, when he moves back from South Carolina. He reminds us that Bill Dorsey, Bill Campbell, and Rutter O’Rourk were also attendees in past years.

Tom says he attended the Gilman Forever Luncheon during Alumni Weekend, when all who graduated more than 50 years ago are invited. He adds that the school seems strong and well led, so we have a lot to be proud of in Gilman.

Only a short note from Bill Trippe this year. He says he and Edna are still living in the Village of Summerville in South Carolina. Unfortunately, his COPD has him restricted, and he’s on oxygen.

anxiety attack, something completely new to me, and I got my daughter Lynn to take me to the emergency room that evening. Turns out I was very anemic, thanks to some very active diverticula, and needed four units of blood. Along with all the other symptoms, I soon found out I couldn’t urinate, so I’m now wearing a Foley bag for at least another week.

Growing old ain’t what it used to be!

On the way home from the hospital Sunday, my foot started acting up, and the next day I found out I had gout! Lots of Prednisone took care of it almost immediately, I’m glad to say!

My good news for the year entails a wonderful week’s cruise to Bermuda with daughter Lynn in September. I also get to enjoy a weekly night out for dinner with my oldest daughter, Debby. She and Lynn both live within a 15-minute drive of me. A great boon in my life. One of my granddaughters just produced my fifth great grandchild.

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Last, but certainly not least, Bill Blue writes to say that he and Kate moved to a retirement community in Lutherville after more than 50 years in their former home.

All three of their sons graduated from Gilman, as well as UVA, and their daughter also graduated from the university. Bill and Kate have nine grandchildren and are expecting their first great grandson in July. Bill is still practicing law on a limited basis, when he can pull himself away from playing golf.

Pierre Bouscaren pierreb225@gmail.com

I have been exchanging Christmas cards with John Gettier for a few years now, but he has apparently dropped his email address, and a few phone calls to him today just rang and rang.

Our friend Bill Myers out in Fresno, Calif., writes that, although dealing with a number of pretty serious health issues, he still basks in the accomplishments of his talented wife, Caren, overseeing two Lexus dealerships, as well as his grandson, Morgan Myers, who has become an

I have been healthy as a spring colt until this week. Thursday I had an awful

Sad to hear that Bill Eaton’s wife, Louise, lost her battle with Parkinson’s last September. Bill reports that he is keeping busy and involved doing volunteer work at Sibley Hospital and also serving as docent at both The Washington National Cathedral and The Library of Congress, “two of the most beautiful buildings in Washington.”

honest-to-goodness Navy Seal. Anyone in our class driving near Fresno is invited to give Bill a call.

Bill Trimble, always reliable for news, has finally decided to retire from skiing the black diamond slopes of Taos where he has been vacationing each winter for some 63 years. Now it’s back to the pole vault! Children are excelling in their respective chosen professions and grandchildren attending top academic colleges making granddad mighty proud.

Our old time pal Ben Bird sends his perfectly reasonable notice that 500+ miles is too far for him to drive for our 65th reunion but emphasized that he really would miss seeing his ’53 classmates. Ben monitors some 200 egrets in the spring nesting on the inlet outside his back door on Johns Island. He pointedly volunteers that they also have steeplechase events “down South.”

Harry Thomas, the renowned basso profundo, has never stopped singing since the Traveling Men days and checked in to remind us that his considerable musical talents (my description) have been genetically passed to grandchildren who currently sing in their college a capella groups as well as performing in stage musicals and auditioned chorales.

Andy Gantt checked in from Wingina, Va., near Charlottesville, with the news that his 760-acre timber operation is still active and keeps him and Digna plenty busy. They have just planted 53,000 (not a misprint) loblolly pines on a 450-acre parcel to be harvested in 35 years. That’s really planning ahead, but the entire property has already been in the Gantt family for almost 300 years.

Rick Betts writes from the San Francisco Bay area that numerous short side trips around the glorious northwest are the extent of his travel activities, but that a major sojourn is in the offing to Guatemala to visit his wife’s family. He is also working on the seventh edition of

his community college textbook entitled Basic Real Estate Economics with a new co-author, presumably to update the information for the current decade.

Tony Carey and wife Ellie continue to confound Father Time. They have just returned from a ski vacation in Mt. Crested Butte, continuing an annual tradition and celebrating some 50 years of married life together.

John Seiler, class raconteur, is still living in the land of the thoroughbred out in Kentucky. His wife, Harriett, will shortly undergo ankle surgery (no fun!) at Duke Hospital; otherwise, he would surely have joined us for alumni weekend.

Warren (Mixie) Buckler has suddenly waxed loquacious. Life in Valparaiso must be pretty nice. What is a “Hoosier” anyway? Is it like a “Hokie?”

If I can call myself “Pierre” he can call himself “Warren,” and he passes on the news that, in spite of a Michael Jordanstyle pacemaker installation in January, he plans to resume his crusade to help restore and protect the natural flora and fauna of the Moraine Forest whereby he lives with wife Patricia.

We occasionally have a chance to talk with Doug Godine who worked diligently on our 65th reunion plans.

Doug has recently undergone two back surgeries, temporarily interrupting his golf activity. He is more apt to extol the accomplishments of his grandchildren, all of whom are doing big things and, notably two boys are on the Gilman football team.

One of the progeny with the catchy name of Douglas Godine kicked the winning field goal against a heavily favored McDonogh football team this year.

Bert Muecke continues on as president of his condo association up in New Jersey, the only way to control one’s own interpretation of the by-laws, while planning further completion of his (and Tania’s) bucket list.

Recently, the class dinner arranged

by Godine and his conscripted committee of Cary Woodward and aforementioned Tony Carey was a resounding success.

Reports are that Ben Proctor popped up and added mightily to the levity at the Green Spring Club.

As a final note, Sarah and I continue to enjoy life here in Gainesville, Va., outside of our nation’s capital…or is it capitol? Lots of gardening and grass-cutting and very little golf and tennis. Keep those cards and letters coming with news.

1954 David F. Woods dfwoods@comcast.net Sadly my first assignment as successor Class Secretary is to report what you already know—the loss of Tom Burdette and Ralph DeGroff, known universally as “Tiggie”—our secretary for 64 years.

My tribute to Tiggie appeared in the most recent Bulletin. Sadly I was unable to attend Tom’s memorial service just three days after Tiggie’s.

After Tom’s only year at Gilman, in which he starred in football and lacrosse and was a Maryland Scholastic Association wrestling champion, he went on to Princeton where he was a four-year lacrosse goalie and twice a member of its Ivy League championship team.

He loved sports of almost any kind and later was an avid golfer. Extremely bright with a near photographic memory, he loved to discuss books, plays, art, wine, and antiques. He was high energy, loved people, and was a great story teller who loved his stories as much as his audience did.

A former Army paratrooper, he went on to a successful business career owning the oldest tag manufacturer in America.

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He leaves his wife, Carol, four children, and six grandchildren.

I had a great time chatting with so many of you and I am sorry I couldn’t get to all. But here’s the news, severely edited for space reasons.

Scott Sullivan, who serves as the corresponding secretary for his Yale class, is cancer-free and back to his peripatetic lifestyle, visiting friends and relatives in both the U.S. and Europe.

All three children and two grandchildren live in Europe. He promised me that his grandson’s restaurant, L’As des Neiges in Les Gets, a skiing village in Haute Savoie, France, “may be the best in the world.”

He has written seven books, with eight translations, and loves living in his family’s ancestral city, New Orleans.

Another author, Frank Loweree lives in Santa Monica and reports sales of his second book, The Fugitive Messiah, are doing “very well.” He wanted me to be sure to report his gratitude to Tiggie for being “a gift to the class.”

Dave Andrew says “aloha” from his lovely home overlooking the Pacific in Honolulu. He reports possessing many “spare parts” and some “repairs,” but is back playing tennis. He and Bonnie traveled to his 60th Williams College reunion in June and are planning a New Zealand trip next year.

Cliff Harding tragically lost his wife and son earlier this year, both after long illnesses. His daughter and three of his five grandchildren live an hour away and his son is not much further. He attended his 60th Johns Hopkins reunion in June. He and some old buddies continue their summer tradition of heading to Prout’s Neck, Maine, for some golf and just “hangin’ out.”

Dick Fryberger turned his racing car over to his nephew this year. He and Nancy will instead head off to France with friends for a barge trip down the Lot River and some sightseeing in the Alsace Region.

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Larry Wagner and Deedee are still without a permanent home after Hurricane Irma severely damaged their condo in the Florida Keys in the summer of 2017. He says it looks like at least August 2018 before they can return. He remains board chair of the family business and visits Baltimore at least quarterly to attend board meetings and visit old friends.

Bob Greenhill says, “I started Greenhill and Company 20 years ago. It’s doing very well.” He still flies his own airplane and says he is working as actively as ever. In 2017 he and his late wife established the Robert W. Greenhill and Gayle G. Greenhill – Ruth W. Williams Distinguished Teaching Chair for Mathematics. The late Ruth Williams was a beloved Gilman math teacher and was married to our late classmate, McRae W. Williams.

John Sherwood reports he is still sailing the waters of the Chesapeake Bay although no longer as a skipper. John served four years as coach of the Naval Academy’s varsity sailing team. He bowls (duckpins), plays pool, and stays fit by lifting weights and jogging. He and Lisa gather with their two children and two grandchildren at their place on Nantucket every summer.

Gary Carr has retired from a long career mostly with the Rouse Company.

He and Sally live in Lewes, Del., where he voluntarily helps in the management of the community in which they live. They have two children and two grandchildren. I saw him at Tiggie’s memorial service and can report he looks as good as ever.

Jim Keesey is retired in Salem, Ore., where he taught psychology for many years at a small college. He and his wife enjoy their three children and seven grandchildren. He says he plays the piano “with increasing skill having started only 10 years ago.”

Carlton Seitz is an avid family genealogist. I found our conversation quite interesting in large measure because it seems pretty clear that his wife’s Mayflower

ancestry and the Mayflower ancestry of some friends of mine are related. Carlton is now happily retired in Towson.

Luke Marbury practiced law in Baltimore for his entire career. His three sons meant “36 years of Gilman tuitions!”

Those three sons have six children all of whom live within an hour of their grandparents. Although “not too mobile,” he still enjoys summers in Boothbay, Maine.

After 20 years of retirement, Sam Sadtler says he spends “most of his time outdoors” on his 19-acre Douglas fir tree farm in Banks, Ore. After the University of Maryland and a stint in the Army, he and his family moved to California where he worked mostly for Hewlett Packard. They now spend time with their two children and four grandchildren at their house on the Oregon coast.

I saw Charlie O’Donovan at Tiggie’s memorial service and can report that, after some serious health issues, he looked great.

He said he is back playing golf, but with “not quite the same handicap.” One of his two grandchildren is about to get married and he and Katherine are looking forward to the wedding.

Remak Ramsay reports that a slip and fall on some ice last winter had done some pretty serious damage, including a very painful cracked rib and some damage to a bone between his hip and his knee that I can neither spell nor pronounce. But he is faithful to his therapy and optimistic about getting back to that artist’s paradise, Monhegan Island, Maine, in June.

Jim Cox reports that he is struggling with some health issues, but was eager to talk briefly and proudly about his three talented children and seven grandchildren.

We wish you well, Jim.

Evie and I are blessed with good health, four great kids, and eight terrific grandchildren whom we see often at our “camp” on Kezar Lake in Center Lovell, Maine.

1955 Armand Girard delouis55@gmail.com Charles W. Cole Jr. reports he is a member of seven investment committees. He enjoys hiking in Switzerland with the family and playing croquet with Bartie at the Hillsboro Club in Florida.

Beverley Compton says his son Cameron, Class of 2015, is on the dean’s list at Rose Hillman Instititue of Technology in Indiana. He will graduate with a degree in computer/electrical engineering. “As for me,” he says, “Being retired for 17 years— plan to speak at Aeta a week each, January, February, and March. After age 80, you are face of Aeta.”

1956 F. Meriwether (Mert) Fowlkes, Jr. fmfowlkes@aol.com The members of the Class of 1956 have the dubious distinction of becoming octogenarians this year, or at least most of us! How did this happen? There was a TV show many years ago called “Life Begins at 80,” where “old” people in a panel would fuss at each other and reminisce about the olden days. Well, here we are!

Sadly, we have lost one classmate since our last report. Cotton Fite died in August in Evanston, Ill., from a cerebral hemorrhage after a fall at his home. He joined us in the Fourth Form as a boarder from Florida, and was soon involved in many aspects of school life, including being elected secretary of our Sixth Form class.

Bill Zeeveld always came in last in our class (alphabetically!), so he is first in this report. He is a retired engineer living in Hendersonville, N.C., after serving many

years in a U.S. Army construction battalion; U.S. Steel’s American Bridge; and AMOCO Oil/BP. In retirement, he started a small engineering consulting business from his home office in 2000, and he was recently cited in a book about transportation in Western North Carolina for his accomplishments as engineer for the Green River Bridge on I-26.

Spencer Everett continues to enjoy living in Boynton Beach, Fla., and he and Dick Biggs helped Dave Eaton celebrate his 80th birthday in March in Singer Island, Fla. Spencer’s big news is his marriage to Ellen in a small civil ceremony in Delray Beach, Fla., in March. He has shifted his North Carolina home from Wilmington to Raleigh in order to be closer to his children and grandchildren for the summer months.

He has given up golf, but is having a good time learning to play bridge, he says.

Pete Thomas reports from Milford, Conn., that he is still doing Qigong/ Taiji easy classes. He is in the process of revising a book that he wrote 30 years ago which revisits the life of an African Native American, as seen through 21st century eyes. The book reflects on American whiteness, and he states, “Yes, America is a great country if you’re white.”

Sam Smith writes from Lutherville, Md., that he is very involved in the history of the War of 1812, and he recently compiled a record of 3,800 War of 1812 veterans who are buried in Maryland cemeteries. It’s a neverending activity, but he really enjoys it. He and his wife, Judy, spend summers in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, where they built a house in 2010. Sounds great!

Howard Stick continues to be on the go, traveling recently with wife Alyce to cool Alaska and warm Jamaica, while running two rental properties: one in Pennsylvania and one in New Hampshire.

Back home in Gladwyne, Pa., they try to stay young keeping up with two energetic Yorkshire terriers.

Harry Lord and Sarah stay active

traveling and cycling, and still live at Bluff House in Baltimore. They are enthusiastic supporters of the Flowering Tree Trails there.

Nick Penniman reports from Naples, Fla., that he and his son have embarked on a project to fight fake news in journalism. With the backing of several influential partners, they have raised $6 million, with a staff of about twodozen journalists/analysts whose longterm goal is to “encourage and educate web users, and web site developers, to return credibility to the world of online journalism.” Sounds quite impressive! See newsguardtechnologies.com.

Dave Sowell says that he and Judy are still in the house in Owings Mills that they bought 51 years ago, and he plans on “sticking it out.” She has been dealing with chronic lymphocytic leukemia for 25 years, yet he says they are “still kicking.” Their three children are scattered from New York City to Austin, Texas, to Los Angeles, with a total of six grandchildren. All three are very successful in their respective fields.

Phil Briscoe writes from Cockeysville that he has now been retired from his medical practice for five years, but his wife Liz is still working. His four children, three grandchildren, two dogs and three sheep keep him busy, in addition to his “building things in my shop.”

Graham Slaughter continues to enjoy the “Land of Pleasant Living” in Woolford, Md. (near Cambridge), where he and Judy are well-settled. His photography skills recently led to his being asked to decorate the Dorchester County District Court with his pictures of the county. And his gorgeous pictures have also graced recent calendars of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (Graham didn’t mention the calendars, but I saw them!). His two grandchildren are in colleges in New York and Texas.

George Dowell is a retired physician in St. Louis, Mo., and he may get the prize for having the most offspring: six children, 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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I wonder if they have to wear nametags at family reunions! He and wife Jacki travel a lot around the U.S. visiting grandchildren, recently ranging from Santa Monica, Calif., to Portland, Ore., to Florida. He says, “... it doesn’t make for a very exciting rating, but it’s a good life.”

but also has a condominium in Ocean City where he spends as much time as possible.

He has three great-grandchildren.

Leland James reminded us that after the Fourth Form he, along with Bruzz Jory and Dick Watts, transferred to St Andrew’s School for their final two years. Leland had an interesting business career, both in New York City and in Germany, and he retired several years ago to Irvington, Va., where he built a retirement home on his paternal ancestor’s waterfront property.

Sadly, his middle son, Ian, died last year of colon cancer at age 50. He welcomes any classmates who may be in the Irvington area to give him a shout.

Thanks to all who shared news this year, and I hope to hear from even more next time.

Guy Dove seems to be leading the good life in Middleburg, Va., while spending winters in Vero Beach, Fla. Not bad! He was saddened to learn about Cotton Fite, who was his roommate in the Fourth Form.

Victor Bridgman is permanently settled in Colorado Springs, Colo., near his son and family. He keeps up with Dave Eaton, Spencer Everett, and Bruzz Jory.

Bentley Offutt had another luncheon last year at the Maryland Club in honor of Joe Healey, who was visiting from Kenya, where he serves in mission work for the Catholic Church. Those present were Bentley, Joe, Phil Briscoe, Dave Sowell, Nick Penniman, Howard Stick, Dick Biggs and yours truly.

Tom Carroll is well settled in Havre de Grace, Md., with wife Winnie. He and I almost had a visit together recently as I traveled home to Richmond from Philadelphia, but a last-minute mix-up prevented it from happening. Maybe next time!

Tom Claggett has moved to a retirement community in Frederick, Md.,

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I was unable to join Dave Eaton in Florida for his 80th, but Sue and I visited him and Debby a few weeks later, and we had a great time catching up.

1957 Frank Gluck gluck.frank@gmail.com Lots has happened with our class over the past year. To begin, it’s worthwhile recognizing an endowed fund which members of our class initiated near the year of our 50th reunion. It was designed to help support faculty summer sabbaticals and professional development.

It has been enormously successful and has been responsible for many deserving faculty to pursue activities which serve to enrich their teaching activities. Visits to Poland, Cuba, and the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology Annual Conference are illustrative of some of the uses of the fund. Faculty recipients of the fund’s support have been unanimous in their gratitude and praise for the opportunities it has provided them. Those in our class who have contributed to the inception and maintenance of this fund should have a great feeling of pride. It has provided deserved payback to those who have so positively influenced our lives.

I’m sad to report the loss of three former classmates since the last issue of the Bulletin. Price Headley passed away in late November 2017. Price was a boarding student from a prominent horse breeding family in Kentucky. We sat in his family’s box at the Clubhouse Turn for the 1957

Preakness, my only Triple Crown race.

Price was born a “blue baby” and had already received surgery to partially correct his heart defects. Despite the physical limitations his heart condition placed on him, Price was always cheerful and upbeat. He was a good friend. Shortly after graduating from Gilman, he benefited from the newly developed corrective surgery for his problem. He became successful as a stockbroker and manager of a horse farm, a testimony to a fruitful life and advances in cardiac surgery.

Jim Young passed away in late February 2018, and Harvey Clapp left us in late March. Although neither graduated with us, they remained loyal and dedicated to the School and our class. I will never forget Jim’s enthusiasm for arranging our Calvert School 75th birthday party. Many of our Gilman classmates were present. Harvey hosted several class reunion affairs over the years and rarely, if ever, skipped a reunion.

Both leave us fond memories.

On a more cheerful note, 12 classmates attended a luncheon the weekend of the annual school reunion at the Elkridge Club. The efforts of John Lewin are much-appreciated for making the necessary arrangements. Bill Woodward, Jimmy Gieske, Eddie Brown, Elliot Cooper, Hill Michaels, Frank Riggs, Crossan O’Donovan, Chip Offut, Gus Lewis, Millard Firebaugh, and yours truly were in attendance. In addition to several spouses, Anne Barker and Anne Bailliere, were guests. During the event, we payed tribute to several classmates who had left us since our past reunion: Warren Hills, Tom Bailliere, George Barker, Frank Deford, Price Headley, Jimmy Young, and Harvey Clapp. One of the signs of endearing friendship is to reconnect with someone we haven’t seen for decades and have it feel like it was yesterday. That’s the way it was at the luncheon.

Tolly and John Lewin are spending most of their time at their place in Bethany Beach, Del. They have a small

apartment in Baltimore, which they use when they come to visit family and friends. They took a “spectacular” trip to Spain and Portugal last fall to maintain their status as world travelers. Another significant event for them was celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary at The Inn at Little Washington in Northern Virginia.

John was effusive in his praise of the ambiance and cuisine, for which the Inn was appropriately compensated. One of the pleasures for me in assuming the role of class secretary has been the opportunity to work with John in planning the luncheon and sharing memories of the days of yesteryear.

Bill Woodward lives in Oxford, near Easton, where Judi and Jim Gieske have lived all their professional lives. Both enjoy retirement and still keep up with one another. Nice that two friends since Calvert School have that opportunity. It was great seeing Elliott Cooper after a 60year hiatus. He seems to relish the retired life from being a reporter for a Richmond, Va. newspaper. Currently he and spouse live in Charleston, S.C., and would love to see anyone coming through the area.

Hill Michaels and Frank Riggs, partners at RCM&D Insurance, continue to see each other frequently. They miss the lunches they used to have with Harvey Clapp.

Chip Offut has been retired from the insurance business several years. At our 50th reunion in 2007, he said, “I have been very, very lucky. I have been able to do everything I have wanted to do.” That apparently remains the same in 2018.

We were saddened to hear of the death of Gus Lewis’s wife, Mary Ann, earlier this year. He was able to spend several weeks in February with his children and families in Auckland, New Zealand, where his daughter lives, “a wonderful break.”

Millard Firebaugh, our class rear admiral, still lives in Annapolis, where he

is close to family and naval activities. He continues to do part time consulting in technology associated with naval systems.

“Indescribably awesome” is his description of his and wife Barbara’s trip to Idaho in 2017 to view the solar eclipse on their 50th wedding anniversary.

Crossan O’Donovan and wife Brenda will be moving to Winston Salem, N.C., to be close to their son, Ross O’Donovan ’88. They have lived in the same house in Dundalk since returning to Baltimore in the mid 1970s. Crossan started a pediatric practice then, which has evolved to the largest pediatric clinic in the Dundalk area. I can remember when we were medical school roommates, Crossan voicing the desire to practice pediatrics in an underserved area and making a difference. Good job by you, Crossan!! What a legacy!

I enjoyed sitting next to Eddie Brown at the luncheon. He appears to be in the peak of health and leads a robust lifestyle, combining fitness training with golf. Eddie, you look just as fit as you did as a threesport athlete when we were classmates! His son, Edward W. Brown III ’84, PP’18, just finished a term as president of the Alumni Association. “He’s a good man and I’m very proud of him.”

Several classmates were unable to make the event for “excusable” reasons. Dick Riggs was with wife Sheila and daughter Caroline in Carmel, Calif., cheering son George as he finished 12th out of 1,400 in his age group in the Big Sur marathon.

Fantastic effort, George! Dick, your priorities were correct. Just wish I were still able to do it.

Tom Garrett was unable to attend because of demands from his position with the California Department of Public Health. We are all relieved that Tom and wife Cappie survived the catastrophic fires in Santa Rosa last fall with only a power outage, as did his son Tom’s winery in Napa Valley. “Many friends were not so lucky, unfortunately,” he says. They plan to spend

their 50th anniversary this year in Italy.

Sam Hopkins was unable to attend because of Parents and Grandparents Weekend at his grandchildren’s school.

Sam has historically been one of our most loyal reunion attendees. He gets a “bye” on this one. He writes, “I invite all my classmates, whether local residents or visiting from out of town, to be my guest for lunch at the now 93-year-old 14 W. Hamilton St. Club and enjoy some great conversation. Beginning next year, I should be fully retired from law and technology for lawyers work. I will continue to run a six-to-eight-event per year educational effort called ‘The Baltimore Green Forum.’

I would like to add you to our email list.

You can learn a lot from just reading some of our event announcements, even if you cannot attend. My best wishes to all.”

Bruce Brian was sorry to miss the reunion. He and Linda continue to divide time between The Villages in central Florida, Colorado, and Priest Lake, Idaho. Ever the racquet enthusiast, Bruce remains active playing beach tennis. “It has a volleyball net and is played on sand.

Good exercise and, most important, safe.”

Pat Mundy continues to teach American history to inmates at the Maine State Prison and mentor inmates at reentry jails before their release. It provides an enormous sense of satisfaction, as it should.

Pat views the inmates he teaches and mentors as motivated a group of students he has ever seen.

Sandy Cochran recently moved back to Alexandria, Va., from New Mexico and had hoped to be able to attend the luncheon, but medical issues intervened.

I’ve seen him provide commentary on the History Channel many times as a military historian. Hope you can get back to Gilman when things settle down, Sandy.

Health issues also kept Nick Adams from coming up from Vero Beach, Fla. He remains close to children and still “enjoys” following the stock market on a daily

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basis. Hope the health stabilizes, Nick.

I received a welcome communication from Butch Khoury, who was in our class for only a short time. His father was in the military, and they relocated when Butch was in his early teens. Eventually, he joined the Navy and was in a sub off the coast of Vietnam in the summer of 1964, where he helped decode the Gulf of Tonkin “attack.” (“I knew it was bogus.”)

He remained in the San Diego area and eventually got his law degree. He practiced criminal law and “never looked back.” He is still working on indigent appelate cases in federal and state courts.

Butch currently lives in Del Mar, just north of San Diego and would love to see any former classmates who are in the area.

We also missed seeing Walter Birge at the reunion. Life appears stable for Walter. He still lives in Concord, Mass. Recently took a “nice sail” in the Grenadines.

Nicholas Adams is pleased to report that his daughter, Elizabeth Adams, recently got married to Robert Williams in Middleton Gardens, Charleston, S.C.

On a personal note, life continues to treat me well. Had a few health issues, which fortunately have resolved. I work out at a local fitness center five to six days a week and continue to participate in teaching conferences in our residency program, as well as volunteer at the local hospice, where I served as a board member for 13 years. Like most Nashvillians, I have become a hockey fanatic. At this writing, the Predators are in the middle of Round #2 of the playoffs, so the outcome for the run to the Stanley Cup is uncertain.

Win or lose, the team has totally won over the town. Very reminiscent of the Colts-Baltimore lovefest when we were at Gilman. In keeping with the celebration of 50th wedding anniversaries, Judy and I will celebrate ours in October at the Auberge du Soleil in the Napa Valley with son Rob and daughter-in-law Ann.

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California is very dear to us. We met in San Diego and spent our first year of married life there. Wishing stable health to everyone. Hoping to report on the same group next year. VOSA!

1958 George Michaels 410.241.3544 Charlie Iliff: I still go to the office to surprise the secretaries and handle a few cases. The firm is Iliff, Meredith, Wildberger & Brennan, P.C. with offices in Pasadena, just off the Ritchie Highway. My son, Chas, Gilman ’92, is an emergency physician at Anne Arundel Medical Center. Alex ’98 is environmental counsel at Verizon at the corporate office in New Jersey. Lucy and I have six grandchildren, three girls and three boys, ages 12 to 2. All is well, or better than well, except I have a boat on the west coast of Florida with a broken transmission and I’m in my office in Maryland.

Norris Cook: Norris Ford in Dundalk celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. Norris Auto Group now owns 33 dealerships of all makes from Baltimore to South Carolina to Pittsburgh and Ohio.

Some dealerships are truck stores and some are Vermeer heavy construction stores, plus eight Carquest parts stores in the middle Atlantic. We are still family owned with the fourth generation working in the business.

John Spilman: Unfortunately, we were in Vero Beach, Fla., until May and therefore could not attend the 60th reunion in April. I am now fully retired from Brown Advisory and am concentrating on my golf game. The Wiz (Norris Cook) and I play a lot of golf.

He shoots his age often and I have done it a few times. Not bad for us old guys!

Mike Cannon: Susie and I regrettably were not able to attend the Gilman reunion activities in April since we are

on an “Around the World” cruise and did not get home until May 5! This trip is to celebrate our 55th wedding anniversary!

Time flies when you’re having fun. Regards to our classmates. I many times regret having left Baltimore in 1978 for a business start-up in Jacksonville; you have to go with the opportunities when they present themselves. We’ve been in “Jax” a long time and love it, but I still think of Gilman often and the wonderful education and great friends it provided me.

Bill Barker: Malla and I live at a warm-hearted retirement community outside Rochester, N.Y., where I spent my career at the University of Rochester as a geriatrician/public health teacher. I am in an independent apartment; Malla is in the Living Center because of the ravages of Alzheimer’s. Happily, she is just a fiveminute journey by electric wheelchair/ scooter (I have had amputations so walking is off bounds). I head over for a most lovable lunch with her every day. She has kept her sunny self in the thick of memory loss...and best of all she retains a love of and memory of much of the music, especially singing, that was her life. In a word, we are doing our best to do what was named in the title of my 1980s monograph “Adding Life to Years.”

At the main place here, every Thursday sees a dinner gathering of the humor-laden left wing caucus to ponder all that’s there to ponder...and to wink at our majority upstate Republican co-retirees, who for the life of themselves cannot refrain from finding alibis for the Republican leadership from the executive right on down.

Relatedly, I send in and have published most of the time (by the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) pointed letters to rebut the balderdash, often thinly veiled racism, that comes in from the right side.

My Gilman training, whether in giving a five-minute speech weekly or in getting thoughts down in writing, has paid off.

Nearby lives the Rossatto family: Our

daughter Maria and her foursome of late teen to early 20s kiddos...Romeo, Precious, Tony, and Luigi. Each of their evolving lives brings stories and adventures back to the grandparental ranch. Speaking of ranch, last year we sold our beloved farm in the Finger Lakes to the son of good friends so we know it’s in good and loving hands.

Our son Joe Barker continues to live in San Antonio with his wife Karin; they pay a treasured visit to Rochester once or twice a year. Brother Randolf travels up for a good visit every two to three months and other sibs come from time to time for endless wallowing in nostalgia.

George Michaels: I retired from PNC Bank (Mercantile) in 2011 and have been living in Rock Hall on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Anyone who wants to go fishing for striped bass/rock fish, please call me—I have a 40' boat, so we fish in comfort.

For a number of summers, Bob Harrison’s (Gilman ’58) son and my godson, Barker Harrison (Gilman ’83), and Barker’s son, Jack Harrison (Gilman 2026), have come to Rock Hall to fish with me, and I look forward to continue fishing with Barker and Jack. So, if you have anyone you want to bring fishing in Rock Hall, please call me.

Randy Barker: Happily, I have retired from the place I spent my entire professional career, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. At that time, I especially enjoyed telling the tale of my days as a generalist and teacher in a talk delivered to the house staff at JH Bayview entitled “From the Lower East Side to the Far Side of the Rainbow”...beginning with internship at Bellevue and ending with visits to the homes of quite a few of my long-time patients as “your friend not your doctor.” I celebrated the latter in a poem “The Gift of Receiving,” which came out in the grand rounds that I presented on those visits—call me if you want this poem. Nowadays I continue my doctoring one half-day per week at the Esperanza Center in Baltimore, which offers free primary care to undocumented

Hispanic immigrants in Baltimore. Marie Claire and I (we celebrated our 50th in 2017) love our days together, nowadays as I like to tell her “together all day every day.” We have savored our roots in France even more in recent years, two months per summer living in the old house where her parents are always “present,” musing over life with her three siblings and their spouses (how nice to refer to one’s in-laws as beaux frères et belles soeurs), and, as I also like to say, having all five senses in play every day. Our three daughters and their spouses and their now 8-year-old (Carmencita), 9-year-old (Will), and 10-year-old twins (Natalie and Solomon) kiddos keep us animated with all their doings (miraculously two of three families in Baltimore, the other not so far away in Philadelphia). My week also includes attending with Marie Claire two rollicking days of courses offered by the JHU Osher program. The chance to bond with new friends is unmatched. Back in the fall of 2016, after lunch with five nonagenarians, one Jerry Downs, now our Osher classmate, I penned a poem “I Love Your Life,” the last part of which is “...I love your life / Because you were there / And / Because you are/ here.” (Call me if you want this poem.) My closing thoughts are well said in a poem, which I will send to you on request, written in 2014 and titled “Never Better”: “The rest is found by telling stories...Until the story is what there is...When what’s seen tells its own story.”

Jeffrey Lawrence retired after 24 years as a Circuit Judge in Cook County, IL. He and Diane were married in April 2014.

They have bought a home in Stuart, FL.

Richard McCauley recently moved to the community of Cocke’s Hope in Easton, MD.

James D. Woodruff, Jr. writes, “Mary is in her 51st year and it’s my 52nd year as an educator, which gives us 103 years before the chalkboard. Is the end in sight?

No, as long as ye olde health holds out. Too much fun. This assumes that Hill continues to allow me to be here.”

William Dame retired in 2010 after career in international banking, with overseas assignments in Japan, Singapore, and Australia. He also spent 17 years in Independent school financial management.

Alex Doyle: After graduating from college, I worked in Baltimore for 12 years for several steel distribution and service companies. I left the steel business and went to work for a manufacturing firm for nine years (five years in West Virginia, four years in St. Louis). In 1984, I decided I wanted to be an entrepreneur again. For my success in buying a company, I must give credit to our Gilman classmate, Skip Frey. At a Gilman reunion, I discussed my goals and criteria with Skip, who was in the merger and acquisition department at Legg Mason, and Skip found a company for me to buy. I sold that company in 2006 and have been happily retired ever since. Being an inveterate night owl, I can emphatically say that the greatest pleasure of retirement is the ability to sleep in the morning. I love it! I have three children, all doing well. Jay works for Baltimore County, Grace works for Hopkins and Tom is president and owner of a marble fabrication company he purchased in 1986.

Back when I was 13 to 14 years old, my first love was Barbara Long. We each moved on to other relationships and marriages, raised families, and ended up single again. Though we had neither seen nor spoken to each other for 57 years, Barbara and I found each other and we’ve been in a wonderful relationship. Looks like this is for the duration. Barbara and I love planning and participating in adventurous annual trips. Recent ones have included China, an Eastern Mediterranean cruise, and a Southwestern U.S. tour (Grand Canyon, Reagan library, Big Sur, Yosemite, and Sonoma Valley). Next on our bucket list are a lower Mississippi riverboat cruise, Canada by rail, Moscow/St. Petersburg riverboat cruise, and who knows what next?

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1959 Rick Uhlig rickuhlig@comcast.net “Thank heaven for retirement—gives time for all the medical appointments and time for energy from what older age does to us,” writes Tyler Gatchell. “So glad to know that our Florida classmates survived the hurricanes!”

Dr. Lawrence T.P. Stifler reports, “I’m down to 1.5 days a week with my company. Our museum in Maine will open in Fall 2018—it includes the world’s largest collection of moon and Mars meteorites.

Many research projects have already been published. Mary and I spend most of our time on Foundation projects—very rewarding.”

Charles Williams, III recently moved his office to Jarrettsville, Md., for a shorter commute.

1960 Fred Knowles feknowles@verizon.net Sadly, we have lost Chick Owens, Eugene O’Brien, and Mike Lewin. Following are their obituaries which appeared in The Baltimore Sun.

Here is Chick’s: “Charles C. Owens, ‘Chick,’ passed away peacefully the afternoon of Friday, March 9, 2018. He was 76. Born in Baltimore, Md., on February 20, 1942 to parents Charles J. Owens and Margaret Ijams Owens, Chick was a lifelong Baltimore resident who attended Calvert and Gilman Schools, graduated from Washington & Lee University in 1964, and received a Master of Business Administration from New York University in 1966. Following graduate school, he served several years in the U.S. Army stationed in San Antonio, Texas.

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“After returning to Baltimore, Chick enjoyed a successful career as a stockbroker with Robert Garrett & Sons and ultimately formed his own entrepreneurial investment advisory and real estate development business with his brother Glynn.

(Robert), his brother Glynn Owens (Jennifer Austin), his son Carey Owens (Leslie), granddaughters Hannah Reneau and Hamilton Owens who loved their “Pop-Pop”, stepson JW Delozier, and numerous nieces and nephews.

“Chick always had a love of adventure, which he avidly pursued through sailing, skiing, steeplechase racing, scuba diving, running marathons, and as a commercial rated private pilot.

Sharing his father’s passion for sailing, he spent his childhood summers at Gibson Island, racing penguins and star boats and coaching younger age groups learning to sail. He also loved racing larger boats up and down the East Coast and Caribbean as well as competing offshore in numerous Annapolis and Newport to Bermuda races.

He also loved cruising on his family’s sailboat, Carib Owl, in the Chesapeake Bay, Florida Keys, and Bahamas with lifelong friends, where he enjoyed fishing and spearing lobsters.

“A service celebrating Chick’s life [was held] April 7 at 10:30 a.m. at St. James Church in Lothian, Md. Memorial donations may be made in Chick’s memory to Gilman School in Baltimore, Md., his granddaughters’ school Heritage Preparatory School in Atlanta, Ga., or the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.”

“Chick was also an avid horseman.

As an amateur steeplechase jockey, he competed for many years, amassing a large collection of trophies and prestigious awards as well as regular trips to the emergency room for stitches and broken bones. When not riding in races, he loved fox hunting with the Green Spring and Elkridge Harford Hunt Clubs.

“Rounding out his love for adventure, Chick would never miss making at least one ski trip a year, with his favorite being several trips heli-skiing in British Columbia.

“For the last 10 years, Chick has been lovingly cared for 24/7 by a trio of brothers Mr. Tyree Blake, Mr. Byron Blake, and Mr. Jonathan Bateman, as well as Mr. Lawrence Daney, through their family’s caregiving service, Essential Care of Atlanta, Ga., to whom Chick’s family give their sincerest thanks.

“Chick will be missed by many and is survived by his sister, Margaret Connor

Gene O’Brien has died. Here is his obituary. “On June 30, 2018, Eugene L. O’Brien, Jr., beloved husband of Suzi; devoted father of Kathleen and Chris; loving grandfather of Charlie and Caroline, passed on. He is also survived by six brothers and sisters, and several nieces and nephews.” A service was held on July 9 at the Church of the Good Shepherd.

Gene’s death is a shock to classmates who have attended the class lunches organized by Richie Evans, who writes that “Gene was always at our Class of ’60 lunches. God bless Gene.” Jim Winn says he will miss Gene, who always made a point of talking with everyone. Mary Ellen Porter (Gilman Development Office) says, “No!!! Oh no. This is terrible news.

I really liked Gene. He was such a nice man. In recent years he’d been coming to all the lunches and local alumni events and I always enjoyed talking to him. I am so sorry. And sad. It’s so sad.” Kate Ratcliffe (Gilman Development Office) says, “I am so sorry to hear this. Very sad.” King Barnes says that Gene was one of his favorites in our class and like so many, he loved talking with him at the lunches too! Like Mike Lewin, he had a wonderful sense of humor not to be missed! Ted Knowles adds, “This is sad beyond words! I got to know him through the class lunches, and have really enjoyed talking with him. He was so unassuming and direct, but never took himself too

seriously, all of which were charming and engaging bits of his personality. Oh my, my, my.” Pete Taylor writes, “This is a shocker! I always had a great time with Gene. He and my sister were good friends also. Sad news indeed.”

And here is Mike’s obituary:

“Richard C. ‘Mike’ Lewin, has died.

He ended his life Wednesday at his Guilford home, according to family. He was 75. In recent years, Mr. Lewin suffered from failing health and depression, according to his brother, John H. Lewin, [’57] of Bethany Beach, Del., a retired Venable LLP lawyer.

“Mike was a Baltimore investment banker who was secretary of Maryland’s Department of Business and Economic Development during the administration of Gov. Parris N. Glendening. ‘We were so fortunate to have had his leadership,’ said former Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. ‘He brought an enormous experience and knowledge of the private sector, and had the energy to get things done. He realized that biotech was the future of Maryland, and he made an enormous effort to attract those businesses with good paying jobs for Marylanders,’ she said.

“Former U.S. Sen. Joseph D. Tydings, who represented Maryland from 1965 to 1971, said he got to know Mr. Lewin in the 1960s through Democratic political activities. ‘We palled around a lot— Nantucket and Ocean City—when I was single. We were very, very close friends,’ said Mr. Tydings, a Monkton resident. ‘He was a very able banker and investor, and did a great deal of public service for the state. He was a very hard worker and very effective.’

“Theodore G. Venetoulis, former Baltimore County executive and businessman, was also a longtime friend. ‘Mike was one of our state’s real characters. He was very smart and witty,’ said Mr. Venetoulis, a Rockland resident.

‘He loved politics and he loved the game.

He had a lot of political insight.’

“Richard Carmichael Lewin was the son of John Henry Lewin, a Venable, Baetjer and Howard attorney, and Janet Gordon Keidel, an artist. He was born in Baltimore and raised in Ruxton. He attended Gilman School and graduated in 1960 from Towson High School. He subsequently attended the University of Maryland and served in the Army National Guard as an artillery fire control specialist, from 1962 to 1968. Mr. Lewin entered Democratic politics in 1962 when he worked as a member of the campaign staff for Clarence D. Long, who was running for the 2nd District congressional seat.

“‘Mike intends to make politics his career,’ The Baltimore Sun reported in a 1963 article. He finds some of his job has ‘lots of boring detail, but that’s what politics is.’ After Mr. Long’s election, Mr. Lewin was appointed to the congressman’s staff as a specialist in legislative research and as a district liaison. He retained those positions until 1964. In 1963, he was elected president of the Maryland Federation of College Young Democrats, succeeding Steny H. Hoyer as head of the 10-college federation.

“Mr. Lewin resigned from that post in 1966 when he became an assistant campaign manager for Carlton R. Sickles, who was running for the Democratic nomination for governor. Mr. Sickles narrowly lost the nomination to George P. Mahoney, who lost the 1966 gubernatorial election to Republican Spiro T. Agnew.

“Mr. Lewin was administrative assistant to state Comptroller Louis L. Goldstein from 1966 until 1969, when he stepped down. Stan Heuisler of Roland Park, a longtime friend, recalled Mr. Lewin’s lifelong commitment to Democratic politics. ‘He cared for the traditional progressive agendas and he was smart about it. He was good organizer, which is one reason he was so successful

in the investment business; the other probably being his wonderful, outgoing personality,’ Mr. Heuisler said. ‘He was a bright and funny guy, and savvy in so many ways.’

“He entered the financial world in Baltimore in 1964 as a program developer for United Planning Organization.

From 1969 to 1971 he was an investment representative for Bache & Co. After that, he served as vice president of Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis from 1971 to 1977, then was senior vice president for Shearson Lehman Brothers from 1977 to 1984.

“He held a similar post, senior vice president, at Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1984 to 1986, then was named a managing director at BT Alex. Brown Inc. from 1987 to 1998.

“‘Mike was a wonderful guy, smart and clever, and had lots of ability,’ said Robert L. ‘Bob’ Oster, an Alex. Brown colleague who is now a portfolio manager at Brown Advisory, and was a close friend. ‘He was a good salesman at Brown and could get to the other side of the table when it came to a sale. That’s what’s called empathy,’ said Mr. Oster, of Lutherville.

“Mr. Lewin joined the Glendening administration in 1998 as secretary of the Department of Business and Economic Development. There, he directed 325 employees and oversaw a budget of $125 million. ‘He had an enormous amount of positive energy and lifted up the department,’ said Ms. Townsend. She said Mr. Lewin ‘made people feel that they had strong, visionary … leadership that got things done. He made it possible for us to recruit people of high caliber to our administration.

Plus, he was fun being around, and he was always telling me, ‘Kathleen, you can do better.’ she said. ‘I really enjoyed his company. I liked and respected Mike.’

“Two years later Mr. Lewin stepped down from the job and announced his intention to return to the investment business after working 14-hour days, seven

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days a week. ‘This gives me a chance to do a couple of things,’ he told The Sun at the time, speaking from his office that overlooked the Inner Harbor. ‘It’s been a tremendous, very fulfilling two years.

At the age of 58, time becomes more precious.’ Nevertheless, Mr. Glendening re-appointed him to serve with the Maryland Economic Development Commission, and he remained on the board of the Maryland Technology Development Corp.

“In 2001, Mr. Lewin joined Legg Mason as a group vice chairman and senior managing director for investment banking. He was liaison between Legg Mason’s analytical and banking teams and growing companies such as those engaged in biotechnology, information technology, e-commerce, financial services, health care, manufacturing, and telecommunications.

“‘His many talents did not come at you directly unless you knew him,’ Mr. Venetoulis said. He retired in 2009.

“Mr. Lewin’s charitable work included the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Fund for American Studies, St. Barts Reforestation Fund and the Echo House Foundation, among others.

“He presided over a vast collection of friends. ‘Mike made friends very quickly because he was fun to be around,’ Mr. Tydings said. ‘He was a great conversationalist,’ Mr. Oster said. ‘He could talk on myriad subjects and he knew everyone. He knew people from all walks of life. I’m really going to miss him.’

“Mr. Lewin was a voracious reader and had a lifelong interest in Winston S. Churchill, the British prime minister and author.

“‘He was, in many ways, a Churchillian figure. He was Mike’s model and he fashioned himself after Churchill,’ his brother said. ‘He had no interest in sports whatsoever, but had a passion for travel,

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and after his divorce [he] took a year off and went around the world. Places that had intrigued him, he returned to. He lived life to the fullest,’ his brother said.

“Mr. Lewin enjoyed collecting ceramic polar bears. He attended the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Ruxton. In addition to his brother, he is survived by a stepsister, Mary Carolyn Mohr of Baltimore; a nephew, John H. Lewin III of Roland Park; and a niece, Janet Todd Lewin of Mill Valley, Calif.

A marriage to Katie O’Hare ended in divorce.”

“After 37 years in the same house, Betsey and I moved to Roland Park Place in the now-trendy Hampden neighborhood,” writes Stan Heuisler.

“Our move has been a significant adjustment and we are still working on that. But our new community has been great—with many old friends and fellow travelers, and new friends— and fortunately most here share our progressive political leanings. A.J. Downs is here in the health care section and we have dinner with him occasionally.

(We reminisce about him at work with Barker, Lipscomb and Armstrong; or, as I call them, “The Four Horsemen of the Apostrophe.”) Timmy Baker runs a truly stellar lecture series so we see him often.

Richard Evans counseled us on our move.

“A year and a half ago I was hit with peripheral neuropathy, causing pesky problems in my hands and lower extremities; and so I am working hard to get back to driving, which will then free us for more weekend visits to our beloved Rehoboth Beach, Del., house. We will spend most of the summers there.

“Our son Alec is now a brewer at Peabody Heights Brewing Company. He and his wife Janine and their son Niko have moved into our old Deepdene Road house. Our daughter Kate is still enjoying life and heading a USAID technology development program in Phnom Penh,

Cambodia. She and her husband and two daughters come back every summer for a visit to the beach. This year the two young girls are coming back early to get a major American history lesson through D.C.’s sites, monuments, and museums.

They have been instructed to ignore the fact that the White House’s new national security advisor is a McDonogh grad.”

“Debby (Bryn Mawr ’60) and I have been married for 50 years. We have two children and four grandchildren. We are fractional owners in Bermuda, and have a summer house on Swan’s Island, Maine.

Mandatory retirement from the Circuit Court bench at age 70 was followed by practicing law part-time. Life is good,” says Ken Boone.

Class Secretary: You and Kent Mullikin both go to Swan’s Island, it seems.

“I’m sorry to hear about Chick and Mike,” writes George Fesus. George is still going between Aspen, Colo. and San Francisco a couple of times a year, and would love to see anyone going through.

Tim Baker reports, “Betsy and I moved back into Baltimore, Roland Park, last summer, after 48 years in Columbia, 41 of which were in the house we built in 1976.”

Richie Evans sends this update: “In the last two years, I have had some exciting things happen to me. My daughter Brooke got married to a nice young man, Stephen Christianson, who comes from a very welladjusted family. A father can’t ask for more than that. Brooke is now pregnant with her first child. Hopefully all goes well with the pregnancy.

“I recently was able to work with Tim and Betsey Baker to find them a home back in Roland Park not far from Pete Taylor’s family home in Lake Falls after 41 years of living in Columbia. By the way, if you know of someone that needs the help of a good Realtor, give me their name and number and I will give them excellent service.

“I have been working diligently on the Forever Gilman Lunch on the Friday of Alumni Weekend. [This is a really good thing. Nostalgia and talking about old times are great, and not to be missed. I’ve found that the way I remember our Gilman days is not necessarily the way others remember them. This allows for sharing multiple unique memories that I would not have known about.

It deepens and broadens my understanding of how others remember Gilman.]

“This is a lunch for all Alumni who graduated more than 50 years ago, since they normally don’t have a specific dinner on Alumni Weekend. Faculty and spouses are also invited to reconnect with a each other on the Gilman campus and share times of yesteryear. The lunch is complimentary in the Centennial Hall (A Study Hall). The first year the guest speaker was David Irwin who did a great job showing slides from back in the ’60s and ’70s and speaking about them. The second year John Schmick showed slides of former faculty members which brought back a lot of fond memories. The alumni got a big kick out of hearing him mention the butter on the ceiling of the dining room, and the Imperials Band at the Athletic Association dance in the dining room.

“Each year everyone who has attended has thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We had 50 attending the first year and more than 70 the second year.

I would like to get more than 100 next year. Please mark your calendar for Friday, April 26, 2019, of Alumni Weekend to attend the lunch.

“As you may know I have been serving on the Alumni Board and working on projects. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to get the Gilman Athletic Hall of Fame up and running yet. Now that we have new athletic directors, maybe they will help since Gilman is the only school in the area that doesn’t have one.

“There is talk about improving the auditorium, and I would like to see an

alumni room and office off the rear of it to receive alumni in their own space when they come on campus.

“I am happy to report that the Gilman Campus has never looked better due to the improvements to the athletic fields (football, baseball, and lacrosse ).

There is tremendous maintenance done by Marc Hoffman and his crew. They do an outstanding job. GO GREYHOUNDS!” John Rouse reports: “We still live in Rome, Italy, and visit the States and Japan about once a year. In 2017, we did however manage to make one short visit Helsinki, Finland, Tallin, Estonia, and St. Petersburg, Russia, but the most interesting visit of the three was St. Petersburg, where the October Revolution started.

“My personal interest in all things Russian actually began way back at Gilman when I decided to write my Sixth Form speech on the Battle of Stalingrad and continued at UVA when I took a fascinating course in Russian history. So much Russian history, art, and culture arose from that magical city. It’s definitely worth a visit.

“In addition to travelling I keep myself busy writing, or should I say trying to write, a new novel on Japan (I’m now on chapter 9 with about 15 more to go, but progressing!); learning how to paint in watercolors (not as easy as I thought!) and continuing to support a non-profit organization (chijnayafoundation.org) doing development work in the altiplano region of southern Peru.

“Also sorry to hear about the passing of two of our classmates Chick Owens and Mike Lewin. They were both memorable characters.”

Snowden Stanley writes: “For the past four years, I have been serving solely as arbitrator or mediator of commercial disputes, leaving all litigation to younger, smarter, and better-looking colleagues, of whom there are many. After 45 years of litigation I have enjoyed the opportunity to

try to resolve disputes in a more efficient and sensible manner.”

“Other than chasing and watching four grandchildren in Richmond and now New York, probably the most enjoyable thing I have been doing is working on a micro-lending project in inner city Baltimore through our Church. Starting with a $15,000 authorization plus $1,000 in unsolicited private donations, we have now issued 12 micro-loans investing more than $37,000 in the inner city creating jobs and helping small businesses in the community.

Every loan is performing in accordance with its terms, so we have not lost a dime.

“Andrew is still coaching and teaching at Collegiate School in Richmond and raising three children. Mike is still a community organizer in inner city New York. He and Dana are having great fun raising their 7-month old daughter.”

“Deb and I moved to Blakehurst last June due primarily to her deteriorating vision as a result of retinitis pigmentosa,” says Ken Bourne. “Lots of Gilman grads here including Tommy Swindell ’55, Bobby Swindell ’51, and Bill Passano ’48. On our way to Florida last fall we visited Mary Lou and Ted Bedford in Vero Beach. While there, we also saw John Spilman and Norris “the Wizard” Cook, both ’58.

Peter Wood says, “Lil and I are doing well in Colorado and managing to stay away from the doctors for now. But Lil’s young brother, now in his fifties, suffered a severe head injury in a climbing accident 30 years ago. He has been in facilities near us here for the last five years, and as his needs increase, so does the time and effort on Lil’s part. We have met lots of kind, skilled, and underpaid caregivers, but too many of the health care functionaries in the byzantine worlds of private insurance and state bureaucracies remain anonymous. They seem unable to communicate with each other effectively, or with those seeking answers. For many, sadly, their primary line of defense is to put callers on indefinite

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hold. I fear my father, a Johns Hopkins doctor, would be deeply dismayed to see such incoherence, ineptitude, and waste within the present U.S. medical system.

[Peter, I think you’re right about the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.

In addition to that, over the years of dealing with the same treatment from those people, I am very cynical, and believe they are sly like a fox, and go out of their way to deny payments.]

“I drove solo across the country last June in an effort to get outside the urban/ academic Blue Bubbles in which I have spent too much of my life. On the way to give talks in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, I managed stops along the way to see old friends and historical spots I had never visited.

[Peter reflects upon his fortunate experiences of learning from great history teachers.] “From the start, I was lucky— maybe privileged is a better word—to have a huge range of terrific teachers who inspired me to study history. In St. Louis, a legendary fifth-grade teacher named Ruth Ferris made life on the Mississippi River central to everything we did. For example, she took us to the St. Louis waterfront (where I first learned about the Dred Scott case in the old Court House Building), and she had us build model steam boats and studying flood control on the Mississippi. One of her students, John Hartford, later became a prominent Nashville musician singing songs about steamboats on the Mississippi!

I moved to Baltimore after the seventh grade, and the next year Ludlow Baldwin, a would-be archaeologist, infused me with his enthusiasm for the ancient Mediterranean world. Another teacher and coach, Nick Schloeder, went out of his way to help me see beyond the narrowness of our small private school, still thoroughly segregated in the 1950s by class, race, and gender.

“At home in Boulder County, I have been working hard with the local public schools to weave more African American history into their curriculum. Last year, I also ran three six-hour Saturday workshops, open

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to all, entitled ‘Slavery Matters.’ It was more like a remedial boot camp—‘things we were never taught in school and never thought to ask about.’ Each meeting drew about 50 people of all ages and backgrounds who were committed enough to turn off their cell phones for a whole day. It confirmed my sense that much that has been learned in the past fifty years has been kept inside the Ivory Tower. Most Americans still know very little African American history in any depth, especially the formative and disastrous early years, and our ignorance continues to cost us dearly. This June I shall be helping to lead a group of local teachers and students on a short trip to Charleston, S.C. [Peter has sent a link, youtu.be/psnFZdsSAUo, in which a teacher talks about her experience in teaching her students about the history and tragedy of slavery.

You will see how Peter’s energy, leadership, expertise, encouragement, and inspiration have been translated into actual classroom teaching at the elementary school level.]

“But there is finally a real willingness on the part of many people to overcome this innocence and denial. [Having made his career as an American Colonial historian focusing on slavery in the deep South at the undergraduate and graduate levels.] Now I am also trying to give back a bit. Last June I had a chance to accompany half a dozen Boulder public school teachers on their first trip to the South Carolina Lowcountry. They are eager to teach more African American history in their school district, so we formed a group called AT LAST: Alliance for Teaching the Legacies of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Luckily for me, they chose to focus on South Carolina [about which Peter has written and lectured widely.]

“Our visit started at Sullivan’s Island overlooking Charleston harbor, where tens of thousands of captured Africans caught their first glimpse of the ‘strange new land’ where they would be forced to work on huge plantations. Thanks to expertise brought from Africa, they would grow rice and indigo in these swampy slave labor camps, contributing generations

of unpaid labor. At the basketry pavilion in nearby Mount Pleasant, we met with Gullah basket makers, still carrying on another tradition tied to Africa, and at Charleston’s Old Slave Mart Museum we gathered information to take back to Colorado. [This is his second career, and he has created it in his “retirement.”]

“A decade into retirement, I still try to grow gourds every summer—much harder in Colorado than in North Carolina—and I continue to research and write historical articles. After lots of paddling, my piece on dugouts will be published this spring in the journal Early American Studies under the title ‘Missing the Boat: Ancient Dugout Canoes in the Mississippi-Missouri Watershed.’

“I put more hope than ever in the under-20 generation to get the country and the planet back on track, and I wish good health to all my classmates.”

King Barnes writes, “This year I am looking forward to a 14-day cruise to New England and Canada in the fall.

I was shocked to learn of our beloved classmate, Mike Lewin, in The Baltimore Sun. Although we were not of the same political persuasion, I can’t think of anyone I would like to be around more than our dear, Mike! Yes we both graduated from different high schools, but as far as I am concerned, Mike was a member of the 1960 class of Gilman!”

Class Secretary: I feel exactly the same way, King.

“Randi and I are still raising and are now legal guardians of our late daughter’s two sons, Jaewon, 14, and Jin, 11, Choi,” says Bucky Buck. “The boys are great, full of fun, lots of friends, reasonably athletic, and next year Jin will join Jaewon at the school where I taught for more than 30 years. It is good, and all we can hope is that it stays that way. Randi and I cannot think of a better way to spend retirement. Raising kids the second time is a lot easier with experience under your belt, cell phones, and the freedom

of not having to go to work. [Retirement is so great with its freedom and lack of interruptions. I call it having the fullness of time to do whatever you like. I myself have never felt so free since I was in kindergarten.

Having gone through the school of hard knocks in raising your children, you now have the opportunity to see your grandchildren growing up through the perspective of your children’s development.]

treatable.]

“My most immediate connection with Gilman, here in Chapel Hill, is the steady stream of lacrosse players who have come from there to play for the Tarheels. When UNC won the national championship in 2016 there were six Gilman graduates on the roster, including one of the cocaptains,” says Kent Mulligan.

“All is well with me and my extended family,” reports Paddy Neilson. “I am still riding the horses, fox hunting three or four days a week, and trying to preserve open space in my township.”

“I was sad to hear of Chick Owens’s death. He was a familiar presence not only at Gilman but at Gibson Island in the summer, where I often saw another much-lamented classmate, Pierce Flanigan. I gather that Chick was incapacitated for the last ten years. May he rest in peace.

“As far as old age is concerned, I faithfully go to the Y every day to try to stay young, but the clock runs only one way. I used to swim a mile at cruising speed in 45 minutes, 40 if I pushed it. Now I have to work hard to break 50, so I tell my friends, ‘I used to swim for just 45 minutes, and now I can keep going for almost an hour.’ I divide my time between Chapel Hill and Maine.

Onward!”

[I hope you are in N.C. in the winter and Maine in the summer. I love how you tweaked the facts, showing that as you get older you get stronger! Several times Richie Evans, Ken Bourne, and Jim Winn went to Chick’s apartment for a visit. It meant a lot to him.

For an old man, being in pretty good shape is good news for sure. When I was a teenager death seemed so far in the future I thought it might never come. In middle age I thought an illness would be OK as long as it was curable. Now being quite old all I can hope for is that it will be

Kent: Yes, we have the seasons straight, and when our daffodils bloom in February, I send a photo to Swan’s Island friends, some of them tenth-generation islanders, with the question “How are your daffodils doing?”

They send photos of the snow.

[You and Ken Boone both go to Swan’s Island, it seems.]

Will Baukhages writes, “Susan, my wife of almost 37 years (yes, she hung in) and I have lived in Sun City Hilton Head, which is really in Okatie, but we call it Bluffton, for 10 years. She writes poetry and stays fit, and I try to stay fit so that I can play golf— four times a week. My handicap is 7 and I frequently ‘shoot my age.’ Over the last 20 years, I have had three lower back fusions, not as a result of golf, but as a result of having polio when I was eight years old. Yes, I am extremely fortunate to be as active as I am, but I refuse to ‘give-in’ to the pain and use opiates. I miss my work as an architect but I do small projects for area homeowners when I am asked. Otherwise, the most significant responsibility we have had was Susan’s mother, Kay, who was in our (her) charge, and living in a nearby memory care facility. Perhaps fortunately, she passed away at age 100 years, 7 months, and 10 days last September 27. Since then, we both have been concentrating on putting in maximum effort to stay healthy ‘of mind and body.’”

Jim Constable says, “I am still practicing law, arbitrating U.S. and international disputes, and I’m deep into land preservation, and glowing over the successes of our seven children and 17 grandchildren. I just retired as chair of the Maryland Environmental Trust but am still deeply engaged in several civic ventures, farming, fishing, sailing, and limping around the tennis court. High point of the year was catching a 300 volt electric

eel with a bamboo fishing pole in a creek in Ecuador’s Amazon basin. [Holy moly, Jim. That sounds dangerous. I hope you didn’t find out it had 300 volts the hard way. Say, just how did you find out?]

“I remain in the San Francisco Bay area, retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, writes Steve Ellen. “I stay busy keeping informed, contributing to humanitarian and progressive efforts, and hiking and birding whenever possible.”

“Our four granddaughters will soon be joined by a grandson, due in September. That little boy will be spoiled rotten,” reports Ted Knowles. “Our osprey have returned. The female is sitting on three speckled eggs. They hatch toward the end of May. Gretchen and I have joined Ye Olde Chestertown Bocce Ball League. The 14 teams play each Thursday evening in a park near the river. It is quite a social occasion. I continue helping David in his pie baking business, which is named ‘Lord of the Pies.’ It is my passion in retirement.

When I want to aggravate him, I’ll say, ‘Yes, M’ Lord.’

“In retiring we have passed the baton to younger men and women who will accomplish things that will make our generation look old-fashioned. My parents’ generation seems old-fashioned when I look back. When our grandchildren take the baton, they will continue the age-old tradition of unwittingly making their parents’ generation seem old-fashioned.

When this progression has gone on countless times, we will slip beneath the horizon, into old-fashioned oblivion. Or as the Whiffenpoofs sing, ‘…we’ll pass and be forgotten with the rest.’”

Ned Sullivan says “I just finished year 20 at my winter job as head cashier at Bonnie’s, an on-mountain restaurant in Aspen, followed by another dive trip to Maui.

Lots of bike riding planned for off-season.”

“The Bedfords have been Floridians since February of 2017. Sorry to gloat, but we had a delightful winter,” writes Ted Bedford. “From Class of ’60, Edgie Russell

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and I attended a nice Gilman lunch at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach in February.

Headmaster Henry Smyth brought us expats up to date on all things Gilman. The event was sponsored by Class of ’59 member Bill Beatson. More news as it develops. [I don’t mind at all when you gloat. Because I flat-out envy your living down there. That makes us even. It has given me multiple occasions during the bone-chilling, windy, cloudy days in winter, to growl and grumble about “That Bedford, why does he have all the luck, and I don’t?”

“My wife Jo DeWeese and I are enjoying retirement with good and bad things shared,” says John Lewis.

“The good includes continued travel, albeit with continued increase in travel unpleasantness, particularly at airports. We are soon off to another snorkeling trip to Indonesia, this time on Sulawese.

“We had a great trip this spring to Carriacou (biggest of the Grenadine islands belonging to Grenada). If you can, see documentary movie Vanishing Sail about people on Carriacou who are still building traditional wooden boats, including cutting local trees to get the right wood for the boat’s ribs. (Kent, you would particularly like this movie). We chartered one of these boats for a week; the captain is a boat builder featured in the movie; and we had a great time sailing around the island with some good snorkeling stops.

“The downside includes increasing health issues with necessary multi-doctors.

I am now making good use of spare parts including a hip, two lenses, and some teeth.

“No grandchildren yet. Our 33-year-old twins, Brett and Parke, are still enjoying the pre-marital life.”

“Although I have gone ‘out to pasture’ at the new Miller’s Grant retirement community, I am ready to re-up in the Army to help out! Carol and I are chugging along in Ellicott City. I had a nice winter visit to Naples, Fla., our former home, and I am now planning a trip to the beach this summer.

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the ‘good ole days,’” says Harry Weiskittel.

Eugene O’Brien says he’s still lunching with Rich Evans, Ken Bourne, Tom Beck and several other Gilman alumni and enjoys summer trips to Duck, N.C.

Wilson Barnes is now a proud member of the Sons of Revolution.

At our age, joint replacements have become a popular item of conversation at social gatherings, and an emblem of our old age. I feel our class should claim our fair share of recognition. Here are the results of an informal poll I conducted. I also asked if classmates were listening to, talking to, or seeking advice from Alexa or similar devices.

One study shows that among Americans age 50 or older, 5% have had a hip replacement, and 2% have had a knee.

You can see that our class, for better or worse, has far outstripped the national average. This means that either the study is flawed, or that our joints are more fragile than the country as a whole. More likely, our 15 respondents are not a large enough sample.

Respondents: 15 Replacements • Hips: 10 • Knees: 3 • Shoulder: 1 • Fused Ankle: 1 • Cataracts: 5 • Several New Teeth: 1 • Stents: 1 • 3 Lower Back Fusions: 1 Extraneous and Hilarious: • One classmate reports he’s not had a replacement, though he has three friends with new knees.

• Not yet conversing with machines • Not yet conversing with myself • Swears at his computer now and then • Electronically challenged • No wife replacement • No replacements so far, but I’m afraid it

will be my turn soon • No replacements yet but I probably need a few • Wish I had a new brain • Wish I had a little more memory • Hip replacement scheduled for 2019 • Classmates owning Alexa or a similar device: 2 • Missing a gallbladder • Missing a small part of one finger • Have lost a reasonable amount of hair • Does not have any interaction with Alexis or most other sweet-talking machines • Admits to shouting at some GPS babes and using bad names.

• After having my cataracts done, the first time I opened the oven door, and did not have glasses on to steam up, was a revelation. (*Editor’s note: Shortly before this issue went to press we learned that Gene passed away over the summer.)

1961 Bill Hardy billhardy@comcast.net M. Pope Barrow Jr. is continuing to grow his advisory service for gentlemen of leisure, providing instruction and training in the vital retirement skills of loafing, loitering, goofing off, procrastinating, wasting time, daydreaming, aimless wandering, dawdling, laughing, and malingering. He says, “I turned 75. Still vertical mostly and in good health as long as I don’t see any doctors.

New granddaughter named Katherine Grace Cassin. Takes after her namesake, my mother, aka Katherine the Great. In other words, tyrannical. Still racing sailboats on the West River and Potomac. Sailed in Windward Islands over the winter and prior to that sailed my boat from Annapolis to Martha’s Vineyard and visited friends there.

Otherwise, no news is good news.” His daughter, Isabel, has a new radio show in the D.C.-area providing financial advice.

Taylor Brown reports that he does not have much news except he has downsized from his longtime home on Falls Road Terrace to an apartment on Towsontown Blvd. He is going to let someone else care for the grounds and shovel the snow. Sounds like a good idea!

Bryson Christhilf turned 75 in January.

“Just glad to still be here and only have a few minor medical issues compared with what others are dealing with. It’s tough out there,” he says.

Samuel Dell married Muffin Euander on Feb 25, 2017 with their families in attendance at St. John’s Glyndon.

Jack Emory writes that he has nothing new to report which must mean that he is enjoying retirement and the escape from the Maine winters in Florida.

Scott Faulkner finally retired for good in October 2017. “Katie and I are blessed to have our third granddaughter, now 6 months old, Eliot Clare. Oldest granddaughter, Ellie, completed her first season as a coxswain for the University of Tennessee women’s crew. They compete in the Big 12 conference and finished second in her race (second Varsity 8) only to Texas.

Katie and I will hopefully find a smaller home in the Middle Tennessee area. I was saddened by the passing of Les but hope his family is doing well. Best to all of our classmates in the area and hope to return to Baltimore for a reunion in the not too distant future.”

John Gerhardt and his wife, Ann, continue to enjoy living in the East Lansing, Mich. area, with all of the benefits of the MSU campus. They hold football and men’s and women’s basketball season tickets, and go to as many Broadway productions at the fabulous Wharton Center as possible. “This summer,” he writes, “we will see Jim King again, but this time with grandchildren Kellen and Nari. Kellen is in first grade and continues to show artistic and musical abilities that don’t seem to be inherited from Ann or

me. Nari loves gymnastics, dance, and wearing the tutu. We’re doing well—aren’t grandchildren great!

“Ann and I went to San Antonio for a week during the Final Four,” he says. “Had expected to see the Spartans play, but obviously, that didn’t happen. We sold our tickets, as we couldn’t stand paying that money to watch that other team from Michigan. We had a great time anyway.

This summer we will be going to Traverse City for a week for a family reunion, including grandparents, parents, children, aunts, uncles and cousins from both sides of the family. I’m definitely suffering along with all of you and the Orioles.” He had hoped to make it to Baltimore for a group dinner and the McDonogh game, but that didn’t work out. “I do hope to see one more McDonogh game in the future. It was exciting to see Gilman’s [Henry] Poggi ‘13 in the MSU-UM game and wonderful to see us win for the eighth time in 10 years.

Go Green and go Hounds!”

Cmdr. Joseph Giardina is still living in Springfield, Va., with his wife and in proximity of his children. He reports on his children: “Jamie is now Field Energy Consultant for Solar City, a subsidiary of Tesla Corporation. He and wife Christine welcomed their second child, Lillian Marie, in March, 2018. Matthew graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.” Additionally, he and Diane have been doing a lot of traveling, up and down the Mississippi River between trips to our condo in Pompano Beach, FL, where they escaped any major damage from Hurricane Irma!

Bill Hardy says, “We stayed stateside this year seeing upstate New York and visiting Niagara Falls on my birthday. It is quite a sight to see. Pictures do not capture its grandeur. Our oldest granddaughter entered Penn last fall after doing a year abroad in Moldova. Our grandson will be a senior in the fall looking for the right college, and our youngest granddaughter turned eight in May. We enjoy our monthly

Grumpies dinners with classmates. If you are going to be in town, let me know and we will try to adjust our schedule so you can attend.”

Henry Hopkins provides a rundown of his activities. “Mt. Vernon Place, Clifton Mansion, Jupiter Beach, hip replacements, am proud owner of two new titanium hips and will soon have new left shoulder to round out my surgeries for the year. No more backward running shoulder rolls for me after football practice. Building a small beach cottage on Jupiter Island Florida.

Should be completed by October. All are welcome. Nancy and I have found that cold weather and maturity don’t mix. Am heading up the restoration of Johns Hopkins summer home which is located in Clifton.

The first stage should be completed by the fall. To view an excellent video explaining the restoration, go to: https://vimeo.com/ hartlove/review/266562542/56be09382d.

(Note: Henry has been very involved in the restoration and regrowth of Baltimore.

Besides Clifton Mansion, he has been a driver in the refurbishment of Mt Vernon Place. Go to: https://www.facebook.com/ pg/mountvernonplace/videos for more information about this. Also a NYT article, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/business/ baltimore-real-estate.html, goes into detail of the results on the city.)

Norval King regrets to report that his wife Ginny passed away in July 2017. After 45 years of marriage, his life is different. He spends time at their home in Bethany Beach.

And, he has great family support from his sister, son, daughter, son-in-law and grandsons.

“I am 75 in terrible physical condition,” complains Hugh Long. “Wife in great shape, taking care of horses.

Clarence doing IPOs for Mayer Brown.

Andrew is a very successful radiologist.

Amanda working in NYC. Victoria is a dean at Northwestern. Stephen a marine biologist in South Carolina.”

Liz and Corbin Marr moved into D.C. last spring. “It is a fabulous city and so close

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to my old friends in Baltimore. Accordingly, with help from our classmate, HHH, and others I was elected to the Maryland Club which I so enjoy. If any of you are able, please call and be my guest for lunch, afternoon cocktails or dinner. I want to see you there or in D.C. I have a new D.C. cell: 202.480.5800. Carson, age 20, just finished his sophomore year at my alma mater, U Penn, and has a summer internship at a cybersecurity firm in Tysons Corner. He is working on the logistics of the upcoming 2020 census and keeping such secure from attack. With best wishes to all.”

Bob Manuel (aka: Proud PaPa, Bobby, Joe) writes from his new home near Charlotte (he actually lives in South Carolina south of Charlotte): “The Reverend Linda Eve Hofmann Manuel, known to many of you from her Bryn Mawr days; and I, her consort of 52 years, celebrated our joint birthdays in May. We were surrounded by festive family and friends for the occasion. I turned 75 on May 10. Billy said it’s a milestone to be cherished, but one I’m sure that I share now with most of our class.

“Most of the excitement and joy this year has been on the grandchildren front.

“Katherine, our oldest granddaughter, graduated from Bucknell University on May 20; where, for the last four years she was a voice and opera major. Having spent first semester abroad in France and touring Eastern Europe with an ensemble, she capped off the Bucknell experience with a stellar one-hour senior recital performance to a packed house on April 29. Bravissimo, Katie!

“Libby, Kate’s younger sister, is finishing her freshman studies in childhood and special needs education at Grove City College. She chose her institution well and is loving every minute of it.

“Joshua, our oldest grandson, graduated from Charlotte Latin School on May 25. Joshua’s prep school days have been a joy to behold. Well-rounded in sports, academic rigor, captain of the Latin language team, and community

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service, he’s the complete package. He will start undergraduate studies at Emory University this fall. Emory’s focus is where his primary interests lie in the areas of bio-research and/or medicine. Emory was his choice out of many. He chose well.

Plus Emory has the added advantage in that they say “y’all in Atlanta. Formidable Joshua!

“His siblings, Adam and Ryan, are also following in his footsteps at Charlotte Latin School. They too are thriving at Latin in sports, academics and community services. Can hardly wait to see what life has in store for them.

“Well that’s about all the new news we have. If y’all are ever in the Charlotte, N.C., area, we would love to have you visit.

“I pray this missive finds you in good health and spirit.”

“I think many of you who came to the Gilman 50th reunion met my partner, Tom Coakley,” writes Bruce McKibben. “The big news for this year is that Tom and I married on June 23 in the backyard of our rural home in Lee, N.H. Since we first met about 10 years ago, our commitment to each other has been steadily growing, and it just keeps becoming stronger. With no further reason to delay, it is time we make our commitment permanent. So, as of June 23, 2018, here we go. Wish us happiness, good luck, and continuing love and support for each other as long as we live.”

“After 30 years in a house we built, Sis and I are “downsizing,” i.e., moving into a summer rental; storing, selling, or throwing out all the “stuff,” and looking for a new smaller house,” reports Moby Mudge. “We decided to ‘downsize’ while we are both still healthy, and it took a year and a half to sell the house. My advice: do it sooner than later. Our class photo will not be sold—no one would pay the price— and certainly not thrown out. It will be stuffed into a box this weekend. When I open the box sometime this fall in a new house, there we will all be in our cord

coats and grey flannels standing in the football stand, ready to march to the gym for graduation. I miss Les, who is standing to my right. Best to all.”

(Editor’s notes: With all of the discussion and controversies about public monuments recently, Moby gave testimony in November to the NYC Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers about several statues in Central Park (recall his recent book Alice in Central Park—Statues in Wonderland). His testimony focused on several statues that had been identified as “symbols of hate.” To view his testimony, go to http://diannedurantewriter. com/archives/4702. It is interesting reading and a studied analysis.)

“Not much to report,” writes Ed Muhlenfeld. “Still active as an investment advisor in Scottsdale but in office only about six hours a day. Linda began her 14th year as a wire-haired fox terrier breeder, and we are halfway through an addition to our home to give the business a little more space.”(Editor’s note: The Hardys are lucky to see Ed and Linda on our visits to Phoenix to see our son. It is always good to see them.) Ed’s daughter Stephanie left Nike to become Vice President of Product Design at Evelyn and Bobbie, a startup company in Portland specializing in bras without underwires. Stephanie is nationally known for her expertise, has several products and has previously worked for Victoria’s Secret, Macy’s, and American Eagle Outfitters, where her designs are still sold today.

Richard Ober, Jr. is still getting in 3+ weeks of downhill skiing out west and tries to connect with Ned Sullivan ‘60 who works on the mountain in Aspen, CO. His four grandchildren are sprouting rapidly, and he travelled to New Zealand, France, Costa Rica and Panama last year.

“It is just past 1 p.m., and I haven’t quite finished The New York Times crossword puzzle as I sit on the terrace with my constant poodle companions Dora and Amelia. That’s a fair representation of life

in retirement,” muses Tom O’Neill. “I still dabble in Democratic politics—chairman of the Pennington (population just shy of 2,200 or so) Democratic Committee. Kate and I have two grandchildren who we don’t see as often as we’d like since they live in Salem, Mass. Impressive to think the youngest of them will be graduating from college sometime around 2039. We plan to travel to Europe come fall. And we enjoy making regular trips to Baltimore for dinner with the Class of ’61.”

Mac Passano writes that he does not have much to report. He, like many of us turned 75. He continues to be deeply involved in his family. The hurricane last year disrupted his usual Caribbean vacation.

With a heavy heart, we must report that Les Pierce passed away after a brief battle with cancer. Les retired in 2016 after 42 years practicing nephrology in Washington, D.C. In retirement, he and Eileen moved to their home on the Magothy River. In fall 2017, they took the trip of their lives, spending three months driving across the country, visiting 37 states with no specific itinerary except to arrive in Seattle for the joyous birth of their granddaughter.

In late December, what was previously thought to be an ulcer was diagnosed as gastric cancer. Les leaves behind his wife, Eileen; their two sons and two daughters, granddaughter, Cody Marie, and a wealth of strong friendships that began back at Gilman. Les passed away May 13, 2018.

Classmate Msgr. Carl Cummings presided over his funeral service. We will miss him.

“Ramona and I continue to live in Sequim, Wash., and remain in decent health,” says Tom Salisbury. “We have embarked on a semi-major home remodel which will eventually call for us to be out of the house for three to four months. (I tried to get Tom to visit us back here in the east during that time. He responded that the contractor would probably like that...Baltimore, California, anywhere but Sequim...But he would rather be present to address issues as they come up, which

they will on a weekly or even daily basis.)

In addition, we’ll be doing some of the demolition and hauling to the dump as well as some of the planned upgrades/changes (seismic retrofitting, electrical work, painting, installing hardwood floors, and ‘other duties as assigned.’ Definitely won’t be doing the plumbing or the dry walling.”

Good luck to Tom.

“Mary and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary last November.

Love our Grumpies dinners with fellow classmates! Oldest grandson Jack turned 16 in June. How time flies!” writes John Snead.

Ritchie Solter says, “I looked forward to attending my grandson’s graduation from Gilman in June. Colton Edmunds transferred to Gilman in the 10th grade and spent three great years there. He once told me that Gilman was the perfect school for him. He is also very proud to be our family’s third generation to graduate from Gilman. Needless to say our entire family is very proud of Colton. Ritchie was also selected to serve on the Alumni Association Board of Governors for a three-year term starting last fall.”

“This past year has been more of the same...which is good!” says John Stockbridge. “Anita, our four kids, and seven grandkids all healthy and happy. One of the kids and family are in Switzerland, one in Bermuda, one in New York City, and one in Wilton, Conn. As for me, my history work and nature sanctuary work keep me very busy. Back surgery has kept me off the golf course, and I’m beginning to contemplate what number follows 75!”

Harry Swope reports, “My daughter Alexandra just acquired her own vet hospital in North Hollywood which she has combined with her existing mobile practice for the local homes and hobby farms in northern Los Angeles County.

My son continues in his senior position with the IT department at UVA which is updating all the systems at the University.

His eldest daughter got early acceptance at

Mary Washington University for this fall, and his younger daughter will be studying this summer at a photojournalism course in New York run by The New York Times prior to her senior year in high school. My wife, Libby, recently was coaxed out of retirement to do a pilot for ABC television based on five sisters who are all in the NYPD. I continue my supporting role with the Naturopathic Medicine Institute, which is training young doctors and students in the time-tested ways to cure health problems of all kinds by focusing on true causes of illness, which are often caused by dietary issues.”

“Nothing new to report,” writes T Tall.

“Just began building our 10th Habitat house and learning what it takes to reach Net Zero. By contrast, we have looked at several Middlebury houses, so we can be nearer the College, only to find they were built in the 1930s without insulation!”

David Trussel says “All is well with me, other than an ongoing battle with sciatica. So sorry to hear about Les. He introduced me to Jane all those years ago. Two children by her and two with second and present wife Sally. Seven grandchildren so far, 28 years down to 21 months. Retired October 2015 from 42 years of private dental practice. Back and forth between homes in Maine and South Carolina. Hope to catch up in person one of these days. Regards to all!”

“All things continue to go well in the Peter Wilkes/Dickey Wilson household,” says Peter Wilkes.“We are loving our return to Baltimore and are heavily involved in the local theatre scene. Recent roles for Peter have been in Bertold Brecht’s In Search of Justice, as the Reverend Jeremiah Brown in Inherit the Wind, and in Harvey Fierstein’s most recent effort, Casa Valentina. I appear in drag in the latter role, which is certainly a first for me, and begs the question as to whether it may be a first for anyone in the class of ’61... at least in their ‘retirement’? :-)”

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1962 Gordon Hammann ghammann@sfandc.com

William Barnes reports that all is well in the Barnes family and he was sorry to miss his class’s recent reunion.

Charles Marek, Jr. is proud to report that Charles B. Marek, IV, class of 2030, started at Gilman. He is still living on the Bay in Md., and at Ft. Myers Beach, Fla.

Charles Emmons Jr. and his wife Margie celebrated their 50th anniversary.

Their oldest grandchild, Ellie Lowenstein, is driving - wow! She is a junior. Annabelle is 14 and a freshman. Sam is 11 and growing fast. Woody is six and in first grade. Charlie is four. Time is really speeding by. He and Margie are well and Maine/New Hampshire are agreeing with them. Cheer!!!

Ken Van Durand continues to enjoy every minute of retirement and has turned the Gilman Summer Reading Program into a year-long event. He heard from classmate Ray Robinson, who is now living in San Antonio with Darlene.

1963 Jake Slagle jake@jakeslagle.com Our 55th reunion was great. We engaged 15 of our surviving 39 classmates. Thirteen made it to our class’s main event on Saturday night. Billed as hors d’oeuvres followed by buffet dinner at Lance Bendann’s house, few had anticipated what highlighted the evening. Credit President Terry Ellen for emceeing extemporaneous five-minute presentations by all who were present of whatever they wanted to say about life 55 years later. Terry, now retired from his full-time Unitarian Ministry responsibilities, continues to take part-time

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assignments. His work relating to climate change remains as active as ever.

Edward Supplee Jr. recently made two long trips to Singapore/Malaysia/ Borneo and England, where the food is better than expected! He is still enjoying frequent dinner parties and watching two granddaughters grow up (12 and 15).

He had many trips this year to celebrate family reunions, birthdays, and weddings, and one to bury his mother who died after a long illness. He thinks of her often.

He also lived through their third remodel of their house (bought in 1978) and notes, “You don’t want to move a kitchen!” They made another major trip to Ethiopia where they fed wild hyenas by hand and witnessed a naked bull-jumping ceremony, and saw women with lip plates about 4’’ in diameter. Amazing!

What he describes as a “normal year” also included reading 22 books (best was Evicted); cooking four-course dinners, 26 times for groups of six to eight people; leading a weekly walking group for fourto eight-mile hikes in hills above Palo Alto; and hosting a wine-tasting for 55 people.

John Loeb was no less exuberant. He and Anna Belle love New Orleans for its friendliness, art, music, and their nearly 200-year-old Creole home in the Bywater neighborhood. John particularly enjoys walking biking and cooking. What John most loves is “being free.”

Bill Lamb and Jenny have moved again, this time from San Diego to New Hampshire, just across the bridge from Vermont. Much of Bill’s still endless energy currently goes into writing under the tutelage and mentorship of a 95-year-old teacher.

In addition to his ongoing career of Brown Advisory work with high net worth clients, and deep involvements in several non-profits, William Paternotte continues his close connection to Gilman. He was

named a “lifetime trustee” several years ago and is working on fundraising for the school.

Happily, he has grandchildren in the Lower, Middle, and Upper Schools--a sort of Gilman hat trick! He’s now a trustee emeritus not only for Gilman, but also for The Walters Art Museum.

In January, he and Nan found time to travel to Antarctica aboard a National Geographic ship.

Though Bruce Marston has moved from Port Townsend to Bellingham, Wash., to be closer to his two grandsons, he frequently treks the 60 miles back to Port Townsend. This is where his daughter Virginia and husband Ned own and operate what Thrillist.com referred to as the most popular small bar in the state.

All is well with Tom Chase and his wife Johanna. Tom picked up on some informal chatter about trips to New England and following the reunion was quick to send an email encouraging such trips as a class effort.

Dave Larrabee continues with his outdoor activities and still enjoys restoring motorcycles. What I didn’t know until recently was that for 50 years, Dave has been active in a business auctioning houses, cars, and horses, not to mention motorcycles with a fellow restorer of them.

Jack Nesbitt retired from his medical practice in August 2017, and recently enjoyed time in Florida. Soon he and Patricia will be visiting grandchildren in New Hampshire. Later, they plan to spend time as they have for years with family at Lake Kawartha in Canada. He is staying busy with family activities, including woodworking, model railroads, and volunteering at church…not to mention his five grandchildren!

Ted Rugemer has retired from his teaching duties at Towson University. He and Virginia proudly noted that they look forward their 50th wedding anniversary, which they plan to spend at a rural retreat in northern Maine.

Ted Leach is finishing up his fifth year teaching at the F. H. Netter Medical School at Quinnipiac University. With both daughters now living in Georgia, he and Bonnie rack up air miles to Atlanta.

Lance Bendann, aside from hosting our party, is active with the administration of financial assistance at Gilman and has been busy in an effort to clean up York Road where it has become loitered and littered.

Professionally he consults about and stores art for a clientele that Bendann Galleries established over the course of more than a century.

Though not at Lance’s party, but notably participating in reunion activities was Ward Coe, who had to be in New York, but attended the Gilman Forever Luncheon at Centennial Hall before leaving on Friday.

Also Jimmy Rouse, though committed elsewhere on Friday and Saturday, made it to an impromptu brunch on Sunday morning at Donna’s in Cross Keys. Jimmy currently divides his time between Transit Choices, a nonprofit group he started that advocates for better public transit in Baltimore and painting as well as sculpting in his studio.

I frequently see Bob Dyer, who plays a lot of golf and travels with Paige whenever the opportunity arises. During our reunion weekend and as this is written, Bob and Paige are on a European cruise.

From Danville, Calif., Bob Dobbin writes: “Just trying to stay in the present moment and enjoy time with grandchildren, our family’s rescue dogs, and some volunteer work—all of which, come to think of it, isn’t a bad combination at all.”

George Scarlett writes: “A couple of years ago, I decided to devote the rest of my career to finding ways to contribute to ongoing efforts to connect children and teens to the natural world (a big problem these days) and to contribute to our understanding of what nourishes the development of earth stewards. It’s been an exciting and eye-opening adventure.”

Mitch Miller writes: “Mitch Miller is a new grandfather. Cassidy Jane Miller, daughter of Dan and Kari Miller, brought new light into our dark world on April 8.”

Chuck Newhall writes that he has finished his first two books, Fearful Odds and Brightside Gardens: A Dialog Between The Head and Heart. His third book, Dare Disturb the Universe, is at the editors. Look for them at the Ivy Bookshop.

Robin Baker writes that he is still working at MetaMetrics and that his and Mary’s daughters have moved back to North Carolina. Like the Paternottes, the Bakers took a cruise to Antarctica, but for the sake of contrast, visited the Atacama Desert on the way home.

At some point I’d overlooked that the“@worldwideelvis” email address belonged in my directory of Gilman classmates, and it was only by the graciousness of the Alumni Office that this next to final news gem made it in at the last minute. Worldwide Elvis is the name of the business that for 44 years has been for Paul Dowling a “FULL-TIME JOB—selling Elvis vinyl from more than 64 countries.”

Impressing me yet more were the pictures Paul attached from his wedding (first and only) to his postmistress on June 6, 2015, at Turtle Beach, Fla., where he’s lived for 22 years. They are of a man who appears decades younger and healthier than would have seemed imaginable for anyone else in our class—even 20 years ago.

And finally news from Peter Rodman arrives a year late because of Yours Truly’s ineptitude at filing emails. “Second son Henry was married to Madison Olsen in Oregon. I finished my 54th guitar. Like the rest of us, I’m ready for my 50th college reunion and my college rock band’s ‘50th reunion tour.’ The gig for our reunion dance will probably be the last, starting with Do You Wanna Dance and ending with Satisfaction.

Believe it or not, I’m the “Nick (sic) Jagger surrogate.”

1964 John Redwood jredwood3@gmail.com From A to W, here is the latest. We are more widely spread out geographically than ever, and our center of gravity seems to continue to move westward thanks to Doug Ober, the most recent refugee from the East Coast. Classmate reports highlight (for some strange reason) grandchildren and travel, although good food, wine, golf, hiking, and skiing are also popular subjects, while surgery and other health-related solutions have been on the agenda of some. As Gilman trained us to write so well, I will largely limit myself to quoting from your high-quality and informative submissions.

Bill Anderson reports, “nothing really to report,” then adds “family is doing great—kids and grandkids all healthy and enjoying some success.” He goes on to say that “grandson Kody is in Navy cook’s school and currently serving on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. Five younger grandkids still in school, and two daughters finishing up bachelors’ degrees in nursing.

I am still playing golf, walking, playing poker, and occasionally investing in the football futures market. The market was a little unkind until the Super Bowl, and then everything got much better quickly.

Fly Eagles Fly!”

Tom Beck informs us that “all is well with the Beck household. Cathy still commutes to Philly every day working at Janney Montgomery Scott running their FINRA registration department and running their insurance contracting and licensing as well. We have three grandsons: Carter Beck, 10 years of age and in the fourth grade at Boys Latin School, Sam Beck, 5 years old who will be going to Boys Latin as a kindergartner in the fall of 2018, and last, but not least, Max Beck, who is two years old and driving the world crazy.”

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I didn’t know what FINRA was and had to consult Google, according to which it is the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a private corporation that acts as a selfregulatory organization. Very impressive, not to mention the daily commute to the home of Bill Anderson’s flying Eagles!

Casper Cline retired March 2015 and is enjoying travel and five young grandchildren.

Hamilton Easter notes that “Barb and I are still enjoying Park City, Utah.

This was not a great snow year, but we still got in about 30 days of skiing. My cross-country bike trip got sidelined by knee surgery on August 1, but the trip is rescheduled for next summer. Just to test out the new knee in June, Barb and I are going to cycle across most of Montana with some friends. My younger daughter Katie is engaged with plans for an October wedding, my younger son Jeff finished up another winter of backcountry ski guiding in the north island of Japan and three weeks of guiding in Switzerland. This was a summer of biking and hiking, if anyone is in the area please give me a call.”

Michael Ewing communicates that he and his wife Bambi are “now Florida (Delray Beach) residents although we do maintain a home in Ruxton. Our children are the most interesting news now that we have entered this new chapter of our lives.

Between the two of us, we have five with two daughters in-law, two sons in-law, two grandchildren and a third on the way. Their careers include an executive with a fortune 500 energy company, a development manager for a large solar energy company, a nationally ranked horse trainer, a sports marketing manager for a Fortune 500 company, an acupuncturist, a developer of residential communities, and an aspiring artist in New York. The family gatherings are always full of interesting tales of their escapades. All but one of them have left Baltimore for Florida and Colorado to pursue their careers, but also to be close to their outdoor activities of skiing, hiking,

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fishing, riding, tennis, running, biking, etc. ...it’s exhausting for two 70 year-olds trying to keep up. My company is still going strong, but the sluggish retail market has left plenty of time for Bambi and me to visit children and grandchildren, travel and play some golf. Hope to see you at another alumni gathering and best regards.”

Douglas Green let us know he’s “still practicing antitrust and electric power law full time at Steptoe & Johnson LLP in D.C. and still enjoying my granddaughters in Santa Barbara where my son, Dan, owns and runs the Jaffurs winery.”

Leith Hermann proclaims: “It has been a wonderful year. Everyone in our family remains healthy and active.

Retirement is great—and would be even better if days could be just longer. Last October, Susie and I travelled to Venice, Florence, and Rome for a week. How I appreciated Jack Garver’s art history course! The following week we rented a house in the delightful southeast Italian town of Alberobello with Bob Pine and wife Pascale, John McLean and his wife Grace, Lindsay Hardesty, and Pascale’s cousin Marie-Pierre. Gorgeous weather throughout, lots of delicious food, great wine, and plenty of hilarious Gilman stories! In March, Susie and I skied in Colorado with our daughter Jenny and son Will, a Denver resident. Will’s lovely girlfriend Carly joined us for a couple of days too. The two of them also plan to visit us in Maine in July. I took up golf a year ago—which goes to show that age does not bring greater wisdom! Hope you are well and enjoying life to the fullest!”

Nancy and Fred Kelly are still doing major restoration projects on the Severn River, but have added homes in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and Savannah, Ga. They also report that “our daughter and grandchildren live in Savannah with our son-in-law, Chas, who flies Blackhawk helicopters and helps Fred find the best fishing spots from the air.

Son John is in Steamboat Springs, Colo., about to become a multi-millionaire in the

marijuana business. He produces a product that is particularly good for us old folks and our aches and pains.”

From his home in Phoenix, Ariz., McKee Lundberg writes that “the big event of 2017 was the marriage of our son, Sam, to Angela Raso. They’re living in Lafayette, Ind., until Angela finishes a degree at Purdue. Lissa and I are both retired. We try to stay active in volunteer activities...and I’ll try to hike a few miles in the nearby desert every couple of days.”

Sandy Martin tells us “things are pretty much the same as the last posting.

Chasing 11 grandkids around with the oldest Xander a junior at Gilman playing ice hockey and lacrosse. He is off to Yale after next year. Wife Beaumont still the greatest travel agent in the world!”

Stuart McCarthy shares news of and speaks about—and for—two other classmates by reporting that David Abrahamson, Marty McDonough, he and their significant others “had such an enjoyable meeting up in Salzburg last year that we decided on Ajaccio, Corsica, this year. Had a great time during the last week of March 2018. Good health all around.

Now planning another get-together same time next year. Warm regards to all, Stuart, Marty, David and families.” Perhaps Messrs.

Hermann, McLean, and Pine will want to meet up with them, apparently in Lisbon. I am tempted to do so as well! Finally, he adds that “my kids and grandkids are doing fine.

My mob’s pretty much grown up although my youngest, Sean, is still in college (junior at Cornell next fall).”

Proud papa Jeff Miller states “the big event for our family this year was the March for Science in D.C. My daughter Carrie Miller is a professor of biology at Gallaudet University. She was the speaker at the March representing scientists with disabilities.”

Doug Ober writes “Fran and I finally moved into our newly built home in Jackson, Wyo., in November and sold our

home in Baltimore in January. Baltimore has been abandoned for the Wild West!

Our daughter, Carlin, got engaged in January and will have a white wedding in Jackson next January!

“Between that and the house, I guess the excitement was too much for me, so while we were visiting Carlin in San Francisco in early April, I decided to have a heart attack! One stent in the ‘widowmaker’ and I was good as new.

Thank the Lord we were in San Francisco and could get it done quickly. As my reward, I got a new black lab puppy this week! Heaven forbid a heart attack should slow me down. By the way, I was told in the hospital that we are in the prime age bracket for such things, regardless of good health, smoking, diabetes, etc. For those keeping score of grandkids, I’m still at two, the older one graduating from San Diego State next month and the younger just 18 months old. To relax this summer, I’m going to be focusing on learning golf and the piano. That should be a good combination, don’t you think?” I don’t know. I have been told by some that ‘golf is only a way to spoil a good walk.’ I will let Leith Hermann respond to the advisability of the piano-golf combo, but as I recall he is a primarily guitarist!”

Yours truly continues to hit the road fairly often, managing to get to China, Colombia, Mexico, and the Philippines for work over the past 12 months and heading off to Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam in early May and apparently back to Colombia for a different job in June.

For pleasure, a 14-day Baltic Sea cruise starting and ending in Copenhagen (one of the main highlights being a visit to the ABBA Museum in Stockholm) followed by week at Bethany Beach last summer, then Thanksgiving break in the U.K., Christmas break in Brazil and Uruguay, and spring break in Jamaica, all of which were a lot of fun. My camera always goes with me!

Family is doing well. Son André is teaching this year at the University of Massachusetts

in Amherst while still living in New Haven and has landed a tenure track job in the music department at SUNY Albany starting this fall. Grandniece Victoria, originally from Brazil, who has now been with us for four years, is finishing seventh grade here in McLean, Va., and keeping Lúcia and me on both our proverbial and actual toes.

It was particularly gratifying to hear from Tom Revell, who reports “my wife Kay and I continue to enjoy cruising and visiting Maui (our home for about five years). Most recently, I had open heart surgery to replace/repair three valves and am recovering nicely. I look forward to getting back to a good exercise regime. It is nice to be back in touch with former classmates and I hope to attend our 55th reunion next year.”

Hershey Sollod continues to enjoy working with his psychiatric practice. His youngest daughter Michelle married a brit, Tom Robinson, who teaches in London at The Whitgift School. Michelle works in the London office of JPM Chase. In his free time, Hershey enjoys his kids, skiing, biking and a nice glass of wine! Cheers!

Bill Stafford writes that “Bonnie and I continue to do well in Exeter, N.H. We love the fact that we are very much closer to family and able to visit on a regular basis. We’re looking forward to a week in the Poconos at Memorial Day, which will include an opportunity to get together with our son, Ted, and his family. Then on to New Haven for my 50th college reunion, a get-together that I suspect many of us will be enjoying this spring. Should classmates have reason to be in northern New England in future months, Bonnie and I would be happy to provide coffee or lunch as you’re travelling through. We’re about 40 miles north of Boston and positioned conveniently between I-95 and I-93.”

Fife Symington, who is tied with Sandy Martin for the prestigious Class of 1964 Most Productive Grandfather award, reassures us that “everyone is

well on the Symington front. My five children keep having children. I now have 11 grandchildren, the oldest of whom is 16. My professional cooking school, the Arizona Culinary Institute, is in its 17th year and prospering.”

Last alphabetically but by no means least, Gally Warfield continues to try to make those of us residing elsewhere in the world envious by proclaiming that he is “still living the good life in balmy southern California. Busy with grandkids, gardening, pets, and writing projects. Always open to visitors from the far east (coast) and happy to show them a good time in our little corner of paradise. Best wishes to all. Still basking in the glow of the spectacular 50th.

Memories galore.”

1965 William R. Baker williamrosbaker@gmail.com Wow, another year has slipped by just like that, and we are now launched into our eighth decade. Grandchildren are plentiful and getting older. Temple Grassi will have had his sixth by the time you read these notes, this one from daughter Charlotte. He summers in Northeast Harbor, Maine and has five grandchildren He plays court tennis, tennis, golf, and backgammon, and travels to play these games!

Mary and Bill Groff now have four grandchildren, two for Courtenay and two for BG. That’s a lot of tuition money Bill and Mary will need to come up with! David Winstead reports that he and Page have two, with two more on the way. Your Class Secretary has one granddaughter, Maddie, almost five.

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summer in Italy, where Richard rented a villa for a week in Umbria, about an hour’s drive north of Rome. Several other couples and Richard and Beverly’s daughter, Elizabeth, were part of the crew. We went on daily side trips throughout Umbria to medieval towns such as Assisi, Orvieto, Deruta, and Todi, visiting wineries, a linen factory, and a pottery factory. Cooking lessons at the villa were superb. At the end of the week, the Tilghmans ventured north to Veneto, while the Bakers headed back to Rome for a couple of days. It was truly a magnificent trip.

Steven Thomas still works full-time as an attorney and the managing director and president of Thomas & Libowitz, P.A., a law firm which he helped found in 1975. “Among other activities, I am on the Healthcare Board of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center and am the chair of the Baltimore County Revenue Authority. My wife, Audrey, and I still love to play golf and travel. Our daughter, Anastasia Nardangeli, works for our firm as a corporate attorney. She and her husband, Matthew, have two children, Lyra (4 years old) and Paul (9 months old). Our other daughter, Alexandra Shapiro, is also an attorney. Alex is a healthcare attorney, and she works as general counsel for an early stage healthcare company. She and her husband, Max, work and live in Marina del Rey, Calif. They have one child, Baer, who is two months old. Audrey and I were in California for his birth, and we can’t wait to return to California to be with Max, Alex, and Baer again. Our last child Steven and his wife, Becca, live in Philadelphia, but are moving to Storrs, Conn., this fall, where Becca will be pursuing a doctorate degree in physiology. They do not currently have any children. Steven has written a couple books, and he just successfully completed a graduate program in artificial intelligence programming. He is looking for a career change in the AI area, with a concentration on driverless vehicles,” Steven reports.

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home this year. Really easy commute. Still working for a couple more years.

Nelson Goldberg is still operating four days a week and serves as the Chief of Surgery in Chestertown, Md. He is still married after 42 years, and has four grandchildren. He won the 2017 Homeland Racquet Club for over 70s singles and doubles championships. He still has four motorcycles, including a sidecar for the grandchildren. He is still doing surgery in underserved countries, and his last trip was in November 2017 to Chulucanas, Peru.

This past winter, following six days of golf at Mountain Lake, Nancy and I stopped for dinner with Sarah and Stan Klinefelter at their new winter home in Ocean Ridge, Fla.

1966 Rick Buck rick@ksiinc.com

Capt. H. Conway Zeigler took a twoweek trip up to New England: New York, Providence, R.I., Newport, R.I. (and stayed at New York Yacht Club for the J Boat Races), Norfolk, Mass., Brattleboro,Vt., Northhampton, Mass., and Smith College Art Museum, Turnbridge, Vt., Tappan, N.Y. again, then Princeton, N.J., to visit his old Alma Mater before returning to Falls Church, Va., via Gilman for a short visit with the headmaster and also squeezed in a visit to the Maryland Renaissance Festival near Annapolis with his daughter.

1967 F. Key Kidder k2@keykidder.com News is a little thin on the heels of our 50-year reunion weekend in 2017 that surpassed most expectations. Nearly half the class convened, including a handful that came in from the cold.

Who would have thought that Tony Stanton would attend every reunion event and prove so engaging, or that long gone Jeff Seal would materialize? Tom Bias trekked down from Sparta, N.J., while Neal Cavanaugh and Ed Dana flew in from California to share the long-distance award.

Frank Brooks, natty as ever, checked in after an absence of four decades.

Michael Whedbee’s vow of silence didn’t stop him from submitting a narrative of his trajectory, from classmate to Prior (the second superior) at a Cistercian (“Trappist”) monastery in rural Massachusetts, his home since 1983. Now Prior Dominic, he lives “an intensely communal life wholly ordered to contemplation, characterized by prayer, silence, manual labor, and strict enclosure.”

“Janet and I welcomed another grandchild last year,” reports John Schmick.

Oliver Howard Packett Schmick—“a real gem”—is the newest addition to the burgeoning Schmick brood, grandchild number four and counting. Daughter Carole and husband John are the busy new parents. Son John (Gilman’s dean of student activities) and wife Kate are meanwhile raising their three children—Johnny, Anne Miller, and Bo—with an assist from Janet and John. “We spend a lot of our time grandparenting.”

Enjoying his retirement as Gilman’s headmaster, John is hardly removed from school life. Recently he addressed the school’s Gilman Forever Luncheon for classes that have celebrated their 50th reunions.

“I spoke on how important teachers were to connecting us to the School, and how the School has changed over the years and made it easier for students to connect and form friendships, as well as to achieve.

Had a pretty neat slideshow as well, which the archivist at the School put together.”

Joining John at the luncheon were classmates Brad Peabody, Evan Krometis, Sherm Bristow, and Mac Barrett.

The late John Merrill was an institution of one, a popular and respected faculty stalwart for 34 years who was all things music. Whatever role Merrill assumed—teacher, mentor, Glee Club and Traveling Men impresario—he did it with class.

A celebration of the remarkable career of Gilman’s longtime maestro was held at the school in late April 2018.

Charlie Palmer, Doc Hersberger, and Josh Shoemaker joined other former Glee Club members to gather on stage for a final musical tribute. “Without his kindness and encouragement,” said classmate and celebrated composer Chris Rouse, “I might never have found the fortitude to persevere in my dream of becoming a composer.”

Yours truly enjoyed a recent visit with Bill Edgerton and wife Liza in Charlottesville, Va., where they have lived since the 1970s. An architect and former member of the Albemarle County Planning Commission, Bill is now immersed in philanthropic endeavors. Jan Finney lives in Monkton and absolutely dotes on his children and grandchildren.

Lori Bristow entered the Gilman community upon her marriage to Sherm Bristow, who variously served as Gilman teacher, administrator, and varsity coach.

After some 30 years as an athletic trainer, Lori has now come full circle following her promotion to co-athletic director.

Stephen Pollock was amazed that it was recently his 50th reunion. His son Jeremy ‘03 joined him in practice at St. Joseph Cardiovascular Associates and

Spencer is a litigating attorney with State Farm. “In looking back over these 50 years,” he says, “I know that I stand on the foundation that Gilman gave me.”

Learning about Climate Change: A Framework for Educators. He contributed a chapter on Earth’s Energy Budget.

Andrew Whelan reports that he is happily retired and spending time at homes in Delaware, Florida, and Maryland. After thirty years, he is still sailing his 38ft, cutterrigged Island Packet out of Rock Hall, Maryland. Sailing, tennis, and bicycling are his main activities. They also love traveling and exploring. Books, movies, and national politics are still of great interest.

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1968 Bill Reilly billr52@comcast.net

Allen Kirby, Jr.’s novel, The Master Lovers, is now available on Amazon. He asks, “Please go to that website and buy thousands of copies, write honest and laudatory reviews, and tell everyone you know - and everyone you don’t know - that they should buy the book; that, in fact, they cannot live without it. What is the novel about?

Here is a description by one astute critic: “Romantic, funny, poignant, and ultimately tragic, The Master Lovers is about men and women pursuing love and passion in various venues...”

Prof. Paul Bennett is teaching macroeconomics at New York University and finance at the University of Naples, Italy.

James Snead is now semi-retired from his architecture practice and the firm is in great hands in its transition to its new leaders. Finally, he’s playing a little bit more golf and planning more trips to places he hasn’t seen. All very enjoyable!

Andrew Hirsch is still enjoying teaching and doing research in physics at Purdue University after all these (40!) years.

He and two other colleagues recently edited and contributed to a book - Teaching and

Wally Pinkard wally.pinkard@cassidyturley.com

J. Cletus Baier, Jr. notes, “Retirement still rocks. Kids all thriving. Anne took up accordian (jam sessions at our place monthly). I took up the target pistol. This is the year to finally renovate my barn, which is now 9’ up in the air. Scary! I joined the Board of Concord Feminist Health Center (now Equality Health Center). Check us out online.”

After more than 37 rewarding years in law practice at Moye White LLP in Denver, Jim Burghardt retired from the firm. But he is not completely retiring. A portion of his practice over the past decade has been as a mediator of complex corporate, commercial, real estate, and business disputes. He gradually has come to the realization that serving as a neutral party and trying to help disputants resolve their issues with litigation has become the most intriguing and satisfying aspect of his work.

So, on January 1, 2018, Burghardt Mediation Works (www.bmw-pc.com) was born. As the name implies, the sole focus of his work will be as a mediator. He hopes to work roughly quarter-to half-time compared with his prior life as a lawyer. Over the years, he has conducted mediations in a variety of states (including on both coasts), and hopes to travel some in this new role as well. On a personal note, he and Jackie celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary last summer, and they greatly enjoy spending time with their two sons and three grandchildren. With this change in status, they hope to spend more time at their mountain house at 10,500 feet above sea level, with a fantastic 180-degree view of mountains several thousand feet higher than that. The solar panels on the

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house provide all of the electricity and most of their heat. Some days they are more likely to see deer or moose than a motor vehicle.

They even had a mountain lion visible from the house (and stayed inside!) last summer.

He says, “It’s incredible to be in the middle of that kind of nature less than two hours from our house in metropolitan Denver. We feel very fortunate and grateful.”

Raymond “Chip” Tompkins recently sold his printing company, We think in Ink, to a senior employee and is now semi-retired.

He spends his time consulting with small business owners in Richmond, serving as a mentor to small business startups for SCORE, enjoying his five grandchildren and golfing with friends. He is active in his church (in first year of three-year term on the Vestry). For the last two years, he has served as a business development officer and facilitator for the Business Owner’s Institute.

This consulting firm helps small business owners break through the difficult plateaus in the evolution of a small business in a group setting (much like a board of directors or group therapy or even an AA group for small business owners). He regularly sees Patrick Smithwick, Tom Whedbee, Reed Huppman, and Pearce Johnson.

1970 Howie Baetjer hbaetjer@verizon.net

Michael Russo retired last year after 30+ years in OB/GYN practice up the road in York, Pennsylvania. He is now a volunteer at the local history center in York. Barbra is a full-time volunteer at SPCA. Their son Matt is an engineer in Jupiter, Fla., and their son Edward is an on-air Meteorologist on Fox and CBS in South-Bend, Ind.

John Gilpin has moved full-time to Jo’s farm, but still gets his urban kicks working downtown. They use Airbnb

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if evening events make the commute too much. His grandson loves the farm and “driving” the tractor and feeding the horses carrots. They made their annual pilgrimage to NYC to visit family, museums, and the U.S Tennis Open. They have trips to New Orleans planned for November, and will do two weeks in the Turks & Caicos islands in February.

1971 Tom Lynn tklynn@earthlink.net

William Scherlis is a new empty nester! “Come visit us in Pittsburgh,” he says.

Alfred Nelson, Jr. has started cutting back on his medical practice and will probably throw in the towel in six to nine months. He and Debbie are spending more time at the Sullivans Island house near Charleston, S.C. Both boys are gainfully employed!! Turner is in New York City and Chris is in Charleston.

Nigel Ogilvie is still working at the Fed - fully engaged and enjoying the questions he is asked daily about the banking system. “But,” he says, “As I approach year 38 of federal service, retirement is looking better each week.”

While Trinity searches for its next Rector, Rev. WIlliam Rich is serving as the Interim Rector of the parish. He and Don celebrated 20 years together with a trip to the U.K. and a wonderful return cruise on the Queen Elizabeth.

Harry Turner is pleased to report that his daughter Dani moved back to Baltimore from Brooklyn and is now Artistic Assistant at Center Stage. His son Jeremy graduated from Cornell in May. And, Martha continues as the learning specialist at Calvert Lower School. He still acts as a professor at Stevenson University

while writing about the customary land tenure of 18th century England.

Charlie Duff is proud to be a member of the Merrill Club, the group that gathered regularly at John Merrill’s house before his passing in April. Cary Woodward and Anton Vishio were the Senior Members. Charlie was just a Probationer.

“But,” he reports, “Even that was delightful.

John [couldn’t’] get out but enjoyed the company.” He continued, “Work is huge fun. We - Jubilee Baltimore - built another apartment house for artists in Baltimore’s Station North Arts District. Our 2016 building was named Building of the Year by the Maryland Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. My son, Robert ‘10, is now a senior at Worcester Polytech, where the Boston-based godfather, Bill Rich, can keep an eye on him.”

1972 J. Richard Thomas rthomas@csfllp.com On March 8, Will Baker received the 2018 William K. Reilly Environmental Leadership Award, which recognizes leaders in environmental governance and problemsolving, from the Center for Environmental Policy on the campus of the American University in Washington, D.C.

On April 25, Will was honored with the National Maritime Historical Society Distinguished Service Award at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Senator Ben Cardin presented the award, and additional award recipients that evening included J. W. Marriott, Jr. and Donald T. “Boysie” Bollinger. It was a wonderful evening with past and present senators and congressmen, leaders of the maritime industry, shipbuilders, environmentalists, maritime historians and artists, and others who love the water present.

Charles Carroll reports that he and Bean “are in the process of downsizing in Chicago. We have sold our house and are moving to a 2BR apartment in Evanstown.

What a process! We have been married for 37 years. Brooke Shuster (daughter #1) has been married to Ben Shuster for five years and has two children (Annie, 2½, and Eleanor, 1). Emilie Carter (daughter #2) has been married to Ted Carter for five years and has one child (Tammy, 1). Brooke is in Nashville and Emilie is in Baltimore. Brooke is an educator at Vanderbilt and Emilie is a landscape architect. Charlie (son) married Maggie on December 31, 2016 in Baltimore and we had a great party on New Year’s Eve. It was great to be back. Two children were christened a week later in Baltimore.

Charlie works in military appropriations in Washington, D.C. Bean is active in conservation with the Center for Plan Conversation. She is also restoring an 1830s farmhouse in Upperville, Va., which will be part of a rental business in the Virginia Hunt Country. She also manages the family farm in Delaplane, Va. I am continuing to practice orthopedic and hand surgery at Northwestern University, and am working for North Shore University Healthcare as well. I am approaching 30 years in practice and still going. We are actively involved in our local town in Virginia as well with riding, fishing, hunting, and reading. Life has treated us well. More to come! We enjoyed the Cubs last year but still get to games at Camden. Best to all.”

working in Mantua. When that is finished I hope to wrap up a similar book, on a topic I started almost 30 years ago, about the violin makers of Turin. Last year I authored the essay in a publication about the history of English bows, the year before, a book on American violin making, and a few years before then, several essays in a book on one of the most important violin makers of the late 18th century, G.B. Guadagnini.

“I write from the airport where I am waiting for a flight to Venice,” pens Philip Kass. “For the past 15 years, since I left the Moennig shop, I have been an independent appraiser and expert on old violins but, more importantly, I have been pursuing historical researches into the early Italian makers, something that astonishingly has not been done until now. Next year I am hoping to bring out a book, prepared in conjunction with an Italian colleague and a superb German photographer, that will chronicle the lives and activities of the violin makers

Bruce Rosenberg reports that since our reunion, he was invited to join the board of Central Scholarship Bureau.

“I find this much more interesting than my day job, but then again, I haven’t had a true day job since 2002. When I am home, I prepare various types of appraisals on stringed instruments, including estate and charitable donation appraisals. As a certified appraiser, I am one of a handful of people whose documents are recognized by the IRS. And, I provide expertise services to players and dealers alike, many of whom were former clients from my Moennig days, and also advise the Curtis Institute of Music, where I have the title of curator of the musical instrument collection. Finally, I find myself called upon as a speaker for various national and international violin groups, one of whose events was the reason I missed our 40th reunion.

“Other than that, life has been fairly quiet. I have not remarried since my wife Burgina died in 2003, but stay close to friends and family here and abroad. Alas, I’ll probably miss the next one too, as my calendar for April and May has filled up rapidly.”

“I also enjoyed my annual fall stay in Hungary and Transylvania where I connect with former high school students of 19891991 and help with conversation practice during English classes for middle and high schoolers. Here are links to the schools in Romania: http://salamon.ro and https://vaskertesiskola.ro.

“This spring I will offer occasional wit and wisdom to brother Sandy, who seeks

reelection to District 41 of the MD House of Delegates. Gilman is part of his district.”

“Life in the retired lane continues to suit me,” says John Hargrove. “As a senior judge (my actual title), I hear cases about five to six days a month, which seems just about right. Beth (my wife) retired in June 2017, so we are now both ‘retirees,’ getting in each other’s way around the house. The golf course, and happy hours, seem to help with this. Our daughters are the real stars this year, however. Our oldest, Sydney, graduated from UCLA School of Law in May 2017, took and passed the New York bar, and is currently a member of both the N.Y. and D.C. bars, living and working in Washington, D.C. Taylor, our youngest, who has been doing a post-doctoral fellowship at her alma mater, UNC-Chapel Hill, for the past two years, became Assistant Professor Hargrove (tenure track) there beginning July 1, 2018, in the sociology department.

She has published quite a bit in her field, and I suspect she will be an asset to the UNC community. Finally, my family continues to grieve and come to terms with Steve’s death last year. Fortunately, we are close and have been there for each other.”

Roger Bowie retired from private banking/wealth management in November of last year. He plans on staying in the Bay area to work on his golf game, skiing skills, and physical condition, though not necessarily in that order. He is looking forward to a happy, healthy, and active retirement.

Tuck Washburne still practices law at Venable. He has an 18-year-old daughter who is going to Rhodes. He checks in on his classmates via Facebook, although he never adds any of his own personal information.

He also stays in good contact with Jim Downing.

Mark Fetting became the new president of the Gilman Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2018. He is retired as chairman and CEO of Legg Mason and was very involved in Jim Shea’s gubernatorial

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Bill Kelly sends a family update. “I have hung up my spikes on the employment front, ‘retiring’ on January 5 of this year from PNC Wealth Management in Philly, after a 24-year stint. So, I am hanging out looking for new adventures. My wife of 34 years, Marnie, went a little bit stateside in search of the sun earlier this year. We checked in on John Bremermann (’73) who put us up for a night in South Carolina.

Marnie ‘retired’ at the end of 2016, and is now putting up with me all day. We went on a month-long trip to Tanzania in May.

“Our daughter Mimi and son-in-law Geordie Hayward had our first grandchild, Thompson G. Hayward, who is now 18 months old, and we’ve been spending a good deal of time with them in Bethesda, Md. Our bachelor son, Will, is employed by Barclaycard USA in Wilmington and is still gallivanting around.

“I am caught up with the one and only Mike Karas (’72), Lee Caplan (’73), and Billy Isaacs (’73) at the Orioles game, while our more civic-minded friends Mark Fetting and Guy Warfield (’73) attended a rally to ‘Save Lake Roland’ from high density commercial development in the Bare Hills area. Both groups fought fires—we, to stay warm in left field, and our responsible classmates to inspire community support against intrusive development on the western side of Lake Roland.

“Anyway, best to all my Gilman mates, and if you are ever up in Northern Delaware, look us up!”

As for me, J. Richard Thomas, the last few years have been rather momentous in that Joan (who many of you have known for as long as I have) and I will be celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary with a trip to Africa. If you don’t hear from me again you will know that my skinny legs proved to be a feast to a disappointed African lion or tiger expecting a greater feast!

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Our second son, Stuart, and his wife had twin children—Hadley and Crews— now age 2, and our eldest son, Richard, just recently had his first child—a baby girl named Bennett. Needless to say, the grandmother is very much in demand and they have made it very clear that I am of little help. Our third son, Alex, has recently joined our firm—Cornerstone Financial— and his father loves having him around.

Retirement is not on the forefront of my mind, merely because I don’t know what else I would do with myself other than harassing my classmates to send in information on their comings and goings over the last year.

1973 Steve Parker stevenhparker@msn.com

Alexander Armstrong has been blessed with a grandson (1 1/2 years old) and another on the way. He is visiting Ned Hooper in Roanoke in November for another jam session with some great local musicians (including Dick Washburn). He will also have another jam in Baltimore with Bill Hooper. He is “retired” but still writing and recording all the time.

Classmates attending this year were Jamie Murray, Skip Porter, Bennett Sweren, Clinton Daly, Steve Dembo, Greg Pinkard, Tom Gamper, A.C. George, Doug Rice, Bill Nesbitt, Andy Brooks, Dave Emala, Peter Bowe, and Bill Fritz. Joining us for lunch was Ranger Dean Hughes, who welcomed us to the Park, Tim Casey, secretary of the Maryland State Parks Foundation, and Ross Kimmel, retired DNR historian, who, dressed in period costume, regaled us on the history of the Battle of North Point in the War of 1812. A light snow fell as we left the park, adding to the holiday spirit and the quiet beauty of one of many outstanding Maryland State Parks. Past luncheons have supported the SS John W. Brown/ Project Liberty Ship Inc. (hosted by Jamie Murray), the B&O Railroad Museum (hosted by Greg Pinkard) and Outward Bound, Baltimore (hosted by Clinton Daly, Andy Brooks, and A.C. George). Tom also continues his volunteer work as chairman of Trout Unlimited’s Education and Youth outreach committee, which sponsors an annual Huck Finn Day at Stoney Run Park to showcase restored urban waterways with a fishing experience for children in the Trout in the Classroom school education program.

H. John Bremermann retired on August 1, 2016, and moved to North Carolina.

Doug Nelson volunteered as class chairman for the gilman fund campaign.

Kim Byron and David Seiler joined Doug for the fall Phonathon, and enjoyed talking with classmates far and wide. Doug’s son J.D. married Clinton Daly’s daughter Sophie in September 2017—congratulations!

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Dave Emala enlisted our contributions to benefit SquashWise, a program to support Baltimore City youth from middle school on, as they achieve their educational, athletic, and career goals.

Dave Seiler dseiler4@yahoo.com The Class of ’74 Annual Holiday Luncheon 2017 was hosted by Tom Gamper on December 15 at North Point State Park.

Our philanthropic focus this year was the Maryland State Parks Foundation.

Kim Byron ran an amazing 49th 50-miler ultramarathon on November 21, 2017, in western Maryland. His nephew William Byron drives the #24 Chevrolet Camaro this season in the NASCAR Cup Series. I watched William hold second place for a few laps at the Daytonna 500.

Andrew Brooks was recipient of the 2017 Dictum Meum Pactum Award, given annually by the Security Traders Association to recognize an individual who has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the betterment of the financial services industry. Andy has transitioned from his nearly 30-year role as VP head of U.S. equity trading at T. Rowe Price to VP corporate social responsibility.

Ross Pearce has been active working on the set up and day of the My Lady’s Manor Steeplechase Race in Monkton.

His son Parker Pearce ’19 was, for the second year in a row, on the team that won the United States Polo Association Interscholastic Championship at Cornell University.

Jamie Murray was on the crew of the SS John W. Brown Liberty Ship steaming from the home berth in Canton, Md., up to New York City last fall. Jamie wrote, “I stood the 4 to 8 watch as the documented fireman/watertender. We tied up on the East River, Pier 36 (the old Banana pier), and were open to the public for a week. We conducted a living history cruise out under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge on the last Sunday, and then turned and burned for home, a 36-hour steam!”

Steve Dembo continues as an adjunct professor of photography Community College of Baltimore County, and works as a photographer, dembophotos.com. He is proud to be a recent grandfather, with the birth of Levi Dembo. Mike Cromwell and his wife Tish traveled to Cuba, and Mike enjoys photography as well as the travel, mjcromwelliiiphotos.com.

Chris White has published his fifth book, The Last Lobster: Boom or Bust for Maine’s Fishery? (St. Martin’s Press, ISBN 978-1-250-08085-1). Here is a review by Publishers Weekly: publishersweekly. com/978-1-250-08085-1. I read his most recent book, The Melting World, a fascinating and instructive read about the vanishing glaciers of North America. It’s hard to put

these books down once you start on page one (christopherwhitebooks.com).

A.C. George weighs in with the reflection of how lucky he was to attend Gilman School. Less than five miles away, he has been the head varsity men’s lacrosse coach at Bluford Drew Jemison (BDJ) High School, previously Walbrook High School.

For ten years Ace has thoroughly enjoyed coaching and mentoring team members.

The contrast of Gilman and BDJ, within such close proximity, is extraordinary. Ace is always thinking “how might we better help our 80,000 city youth?” Ace’s family of five is now ten, including two grandchildren.

Gilman sons Pell ’05 and his wife Katherine, and Taz ’08 and Michael live and work in Charlotte and Chicago respectively.

Daughter Ellett and her husband Kevin reside in D.C. with little guys Cole and Reid.

Ace and Kathryn are loving all the family changes.

And where in the world is Jock Whittlesey? He continues as deputy of the environment, science, technology, and health section of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

1976 John Wharton jw213@yahoo.com In the second week in May, as these notes were solicited and compiled, we learned of the sudden death of Kevin Kamenetz, an upperclassman who exemplified the balance of dedication to family, friends and public service, and whose passing at a young age also served as a reminder of the limited time afforded to us for all things, great and small.

Those efforts to be available and involved in a vast array of opportunities were once again reflected in our classmates’ correspondence, as we come ever closer to making new choices for the indeterminate

number of years that lie ahead for each of us. At the moment, it looks like we’re being very helpful, and having fun, too.

Times at Gilman are still fondly remembered by Richard Bampfield, who wrote, “I feel like a gatecrasher in this group as I only attended Gilman for three months in 1975 as a British exchange student, with John Behm, for which I am ever grateful to the Hardie family. I suspect the only impression I made was as a spotty teenager who inadvertently set off the school fire alarm. But I look back on the whole exchange with immense affection; it opened my eyes to a whole new world, most of it illegal at 15, and was undoubtedly a key phase in my growing up.”

Richard added, “I am now a Master of Wine, a swanky title for someone who drinks too much, and live and work mainly in the U.K., fortunate that my work in wine takes me all over the world—though sadly not yet to Maryland. Baltimore came up in conversation recently when I had lunch with a Baltimore resident who I know knows one or two of you, Christopher Goelet. And I am delighted that Thomas Doyle has also stayed in touch, and ambushed my Facebook page. Would be delighted to share a glass and some memories if any of you are over in the U.K.”

Jim Burgunder offered an update on the transitions in his life, writing “My wife, three sons and I have now been in Switzerland for more than 20 years, but I still find reasons to get to the U.S. a few times per year. This year will see two or three visits to see my mom who lives in Roland Park Place, another to visit my youngest son who is in his second year at UCLA, and soon again to L.A. at an event held by my wife’s firm.”

Jim “recently took an early retirement option from Novartis,” he wrote, “and then began working part-time with the CFA Institute running ‘Advocacy’ projects focused on European capital markets.

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have 26-year-old twins: one working for Accenture here, and the other studying and developing his IT skills, also in Switzerland. No daughters-in-law or grandchildren yet.”

Jim seconded Richard’s offer, by adding, “I will complement your invitation to our classmates with an additional offer to share something from my ‘cellar’ with anyone visiting this area.”

S. James Campbell, Jr. is enjoying the good life - always on the lookout for another real estate adventure but never letting it get in the way of: exercise six days a week (two days of weightlifting with a trainer, two days of swimming, and two days of bike riding) plus some hiking tennis, and never enough skiing.

He is lending construction management help to non-profits. Katie (daughter #1) was recently married and is living in her own home in Astoria (New York) working in computers/arts management; Steffani (daughter #2) is in med school at UCSF. Lynda’s focus is competitive tennis several days a week.

Nick Richardson wrote that “The four of us are well. Will, our younger son (Gilman ’14), graduated with a degree in engineering. He’ll be working in D.C., officially off our payroll! Anita and I look forward to 2019, as it will be the first year without a tuition payment since 2001.”

Along the same lines, Randy Kiefer wrote, “Lynn and I continue to enjoy our empty nest, and the return of our kids and their partners for visits and meals. Lynn is kept busy several days a week chasing our soon-to-be 4-year-old granddaughter, Taryn. We did get away for a vacation to Australia in February. My job in academic publishing takes me all over Asia Pacific.

As always, we continue to work on this old house, now in our 36th year.”

Expanding on an established legacy, Andy deMuth wrote that “the deMuth Family finished up 66 combined years at Gilman this spring with the graduation of

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my nephew, Will. That is a combination of my father, Tony, from the famous Class of 1943, my three brothers, my son, and my brother David’s sons. The deMuth brothers attended the hard fought but losing lacrosse game to Boys Latin earlier this spring.

Several of our classmates, [including] Biff Hearn, Eben ‘Dickey’ Finney, and Dave Heubeck, were there. An all-star team of alumni was on hand. Some, like Dave, looked like they could put on the uniform and take down the Lakers.”

Andy added, “My daughter Katie graduated from JMU this past weekend. I paid my last college tuition, but as she wants to be an occupational therapist, she has two years of grad school ahead of her, so she is still on the payroll. Lynne and I are trying to downsize by selling the family house on Somerset, but this next generation does not have as many kids, so we may be in the big house for a while. I finally got one against Ken Volk on the tennis court last fall, and I have been avoiding the rematch ever since.”

Andy also wrote, “Ham Davis was in town as his father passed away a few weeks ago. Ken, Scott Graham, Dickey and I got to spend some quality time with him at the Valley Inn. The main topic of conversation was turning 60, and what changes that brings to our lives.”

The Honorable Sylvester Cox issued an unreported opinion, but clearly a substantiated one, that “I continue to do justice at the Circuit Court, and Judy remains with Red Cross. Lindsey works on Capitol Hill, and Erin works for a home design company. I’m happy to report that they’ve allowed us to remain ‘empty nesters.’”

Henry Jenkins has offered a wonderful venue, and has invited a beverage consultant, for our 2021 gathering, in his remarks that “Annie and I are living in Owings Mills in the house I was nearly born in back on March 20, 1958—how time flies.

Speaking of flying, our two sons have flown the coop. The eldest, Ben, lives in Brooklyn,

N.Y., and works for Tronvig Group. Tim lives in L.A. and works for Harlem Lacrosse.

We get together but not often enough.

Glad to hear from Richard Bampfield. Hope you will come over for a visit. We can have the next reunion at my house, and you can select the wine.”

Charlie Moore’s comments included, “As I write this, the Moore family is enjoying the advent of true spring/summer weather here in Greenspring Valley, with nature abloom with flowers and budding leaves, a bald eagle and several blue herons, multiple fox and coyote prowling for the numerous bunnies and other critters. It reminds us hourly how we’re so blessed.”

Charlie’s parents “are back from Florida having had a wonderfully active winter,” he wrote, “following a really rough health year for them both, beginning with my mom’s month-long scare with pneumonia and my dad’s battle with cancer, chemo, and surgery. They both recovered well and starred on golf course, tennis courts, and social scene. However, my dad’s cancer has reemerged in a couple of small spots and, as I write this, he is being treated with highly targeted radiation to be followed with immunotherapy, if necessary. He’s doing well and shot an 85 at Greenspring last week and has cut the lawn twice! And mom is back in her gardens at 6 a.m. pulling weeds! As they live with us in their own area of our house, we have dinner with them most evenings and are looking forward to getting out on the patio as the weather continues to warm.”

As to the younger generation, Charlie added, “Our son Bryan (Gilman ’12, Harvard ’16) just moved from Auckland, New Zealand, to Shanghai on behalf of his company, Crimson Education, which helps international high school students prepare and position themselves to attend and succeed at top colleges and universities in the U.S. and U.K. The young company was started by one of Bryan’s Harvard classmates when he was just a high schooler in New Zealand and now has offices in most major

capitals around the world. They asked Bryan to help open and grow the 22-million people Shanghai market, but in the last month he’s also spent a week each in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, and Seoul, South Korea, and is headed to Japan soon. He jokes that he’s the only Caucasian in Southeast Asia for Crimson, so they frequently have him on stage pitching to a couple hundred kids and parents, proving they really do have some laowai, gwai lo, gaijin, oeguksaram, tay, farang on the team. In Shanghai everyone under the age of 35 speaks English reasonably well, which is a good thing as Bryan never studied Chinese, much less the many dialects. Thankfully there are apps that help with reading restaurant menus, signs, etc.! Tremendous cultural immersion experience. Bryan’s girlfriend, Na’ama, also works for Crimson and will be re-joining him in Shanghai in a few weeks, right after she has her swearing in as a new American citizen. Although she grew up in L.A. from the age of one and graduated summa from Boston University, she was born in Holland to two Israeli parents who had also never gone through conversion to American citizenship, thus she currently carries an Israeli passport. This makes it hard to work abroad and is especially challenging as some countries do not allow Israelis to even land in their country as a stop on the way to another. The citizenship process has become much longer with the new administration, even for obvious applicants like her. While living in New Zealand, Bryan was invited to help coach the New Zealand National Men’s Lacrosse Team in preparation for the World Games in Israel this summer. Bryan will be traveling with them to Israel in July as a coach, and he and Na’ama will visit her grandparents while there.”

Back in Baltimore, Charlie wrote, “Laura and I continue to run our technology start-up, DinnerTime, that we started eight years ago based on her inspiration that emerging AI technology could solve the question ‘What’s for dinner?’ that plagues most families each night. DinnerTime.com

is provided as a free wellness benefit by large employers and health plans and now by grocers as a free shopper benefit. We are indisputably the premier technology on the market, powering user experiences translating to millions of meals per month.

More meals than Blue Apron, etc. We are hopefully getting closer to the stage where a strategic transaction may allow us more free time to travel to faraway lands like China!”

On the Gilman front, Charlie noted, “a year ago I enjoyed watching Bryan on the sideline coaching the JV lacrosse team to a victorious season, prior to his departure to the other side of the world. For the past four years, I’ve volunteered as a mentor with the Gilman Start-up Experience. This is an incredibly intensive two 10-hour days in the late fall, in which teams of students conceive, test, pivot, and finally present start-up ideas to a group of experienced VC investors. The students learn a huge amount in a very short period of time about thinking about risk and reward, business drivers, and entrepreneurship. These lessons can translate to their future lives in many ways beyond whether they ever start a company.

Indeed, they are encouraged see their own lives as a ‘start-up’ in which ‘failing fast,’ learning, and growing, are the best path to fulfillment. Pretty darn cool. Gilman is experimenting with and refining a spring elective in entrepreneurship that provides an opportunity to further develop these concepts.

Charlie is “now in my 15th year of serving as a trustee of ICJS, recently renamed as the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, as we incorporated Islam into our mission to foster learning communities that embrace difference as a powerful force for good. I feel very blessed to be able to serve with so many incredibly bright and passionate scholars and fellow trustees. ICJS is recognized around the world as a leader in this field.”

A wedding was on John Purnell’s calendar, as he wrote “The Purnell family

reports that daughter Mary will marry Paul Hearding on Memorial Day in Telluride, Colo. The event is under a tent in a horse pasture overlooking the San Juan mountains and the Colorado Rockies. Should be lovely… if it doesn’t snow. Daughter Elizabeth has just returned home from a Fordham University semester in London.

She found a great group of pub-mates in Maida Valle and they won £800 in the pubquiz finals. Scholastic achievement is on par with the pub-quiz success.”

As to the two young women’s parents, John added, “Claire continues her leadership in Annapolis as May Day Chair, a very high position in Ye Olde Garden Club of Annapolis for a person with no garden whatsoever. We enjoy our luxury condo life at Park Place and are both still working.

John’s return to the stage continues with a performance of Warner Purcell in Bullets Over Broadway at the Annapolis Summer Garden Theater. Well into rehearsals at this point, and we open May 24th and play through June 16th. John has learned to tap dance for this show. Yes, my major medical is paid up!”

Tom Doyle wrote, “All things are stable on the traditional battle fronts, [including] still making marble at Hilgartner Natural Stone, still here in Baltimore. Tom Jr. is still single, still in Baltimore and still doing well, [and] Mom is still in Baltimore and still doing well.”

Like the rest of us, Tom is reckoning with “the new battleground—the impending ‘60,’ and contemplating what to do in the coming decade or two that I am finding surprisingly frightening. I don’t remember being this intimidated since just before the arrival of Tom Jr.!”

The last 12 months have included more visits to Baltimore, more Sundays in church, and more encounters with Gilman classmates than your Southern Maryland correspondent has experienced in decades.

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the Blakehurst retirement community near Towson, where other family members have taken on the vast majority of the work in his continuing transition into appropriate living quarters. Meeting him as he gets off the Blakehurst bus as it arrives at the Church of Redeemer, and traveling with him afterward to the grocer or out for a meal, has afforded us a lot of time together, and has included exchanging greetings with Nick Richardson and Dixon Harvey at church, and Angus Finney and Ken Volk at Blakehurst as they visit their parents.

A summer internship almost four decades ago on the Eastern Shore led to a sustainable career with small newspapers in small towns, including 33 years and counting with The Enterprise in St. Mary’s County. Linda, who still takes and teaches art classes, and my hammock along the banks of Kingston Creek both inspire me into contemplating what Tom aptly called that “new battleground,” one that could mean a switch to pursuing other productive interests in the years ahead. And then a Social Security estimated-benefits letter arrives, with an obvious between-the-lines message of “stay healthy, and keep working.”

Having a choice to make is a beautiful gift in itself.

1978 Charles Herndon caherndon3@gmail.com So there we were, many fat and mostly happy, sitting down to a catered meal in the same fine, wood-paneled room where, half a century earlier, we recoiled at hearing Mr. Menzies insist that we at least try the deepred beets in the bowl before us.

Instead of stomaching earlier-era vats of “Mississippi Mud” (chocolate pudding) and turkey croquettes—likely the first exposure any of us ever had to that word— we dined on herbed chicken, salmon, craft

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beer, and wine.

And where once we experienced cheap thrills by surreptitiously flinging pads of butter at the ceiling, hoping at least one would stick, the thrills this time around were deeper and more profound—joy at seeing the same smiles on older faces, pleasure at hearing about the college experiences and graduations of classmates’ children, frissons of excitement at learning that some of us are—gulp!—retiring!

So it was for those of us who were able to gather at Gilman for the 40th reunion of the Class of 1978, a lovely, nostalgia-tinged amble between then and now. Planners put us in the old dining room, now the library at the north end of Carey Hall, and treated us to complimentary lapel pins, car magnets, “Gilman Alumni” baseball caps, and open bars. But the real treat was seeing friends we hadn’t seen in years, and in the few moments we had to traverse four decades, and in knowing—indeed, there was general agreement among those 35 or so of us who attended—that as a class, we were all looking pretty good under the circumstances.

Picking up where he left off, class president emeritus Patrick Cranley convened the faithful to order and intoned the names of those incorrigibles among us who were unable to attend. Some, like Ken Menzies, who inexplicably allowed his son’s wedding to occur on the same day as our reunion, were granted passes.

The rest of you—and you know who you are—will be expected to attend 45 or at least 50. No excuses. No passes. We—or at least Mr. Cranley—will be taking names.

Patrick—who was recognized earlier in the day as the alumnus who traveled farthest for the reunion (from Shanghai!)—also memorialized those who have moved on: Page Hearn, Jay Booze, Dave Kingston, Mike Davis, and even some MIAs who passed through our class like Raymond Van Der Loos. We were reminded, too, of the sad transience of life

by the news that Kenny Holley recently and suddenly lost his wife, Heather, a celebrated journalist and amazing wife and mother to the twins. Kenny—who was instrumental in getting the reunion class together—came from Atlanta to be with us that night, though, again making us laugh and accepting our hugs and love. We were—and are—with him, too, always.

Mostly, though, the event was a celebration of having made it this far, and glimpsing the hints of what has yet to come. Kraig Holt, still looking impossibly buff and eternally youthful, regaled us with tales of his recent exodus from the working world at IBM. He’s filled his yawning days with bungee-jumping in New Zealand, among other pursuits. He swore he was nervous about the bungeejumping, but he said it with a big grin, so none of us believed him.

It was fantastic seeing Jim Wetzel and Mark Minkowski at our soiree. I hadn’t seen Jim since Gilman, I think, and the post-graduation road trip a group of us took to his folks’ place at the Seven Springs Resort in Pennsylvania.

As the philosophy department chair at Villanova University and Augustinian Endowed Chair, Professor Jim spends his days pondering moral psychology, the metaphysics of evil, and the incorporation of mythology into modern literature, movies, and popular culture, a discipline called mythopoiesis. No kidding.

Mark went transcontinental to make our reunion, coming from his longtime West Coast home to spend the day haunting his old Tuxedo Park/Colorado Avenue neighborhood and even running into John McDaniel at Eddie’s, who altered his plans to join us anyway at the reunion class cocktail hour. I run into John and Barbara at the 32nd Street Farmers Market occasionally, and he reports life is good.

Mark, meanwhile, is in Santa Clara and thriving as a civil engineer and principal of a consulting group there.

Nate Butler didn’t come quite as far—from Olney, Md.—but it was great to see him. Charlie Roveti and his lovely bride made the trek over the Bay Bridge and joined us from the Eastern Shore, and Mike Sotir and Joe Finnerty looked fit and great and distinguished—Joe was rocking an erudite salt-and-pepper beard, I noticed.

Charlie Wright and John Gephart seem to have only become taller in the intervening years, though with our class’s customary thatch of silver hair on top, seeing them standing together was vaguely reminiscent of a distant alpine mountain range. Speaking of the mountains, Charlie is a year or so away from retiring (there’s that word again) to the rolling ranges of western North Carolina, settling in a sylvan setting not far from the intriguing towns of Bat Cave, Chimney Rock, and Lake Lure.

Speaking of North Carolina (I know— when have I not?), Vernon Roberts says he may be heading for the gracious Tar Heel coast near Wilmington when he retires from his banking career in Charlotte. He assured me he has seen the light regarding N.C.— there’s nowhere else he’d rather live, he says.

Wise man, that Mr. Roberts.

I saw Tia and Lou Close exiting the reunion just before dinner, so I didn’t get a chance to catch up, but he looked jolly and is still practicing the law in Towson, I believe, as is Bob Taylor, who was in good humor despite having several close friends and associates pass recently. Fortunately, he’d just returned from a memorable trip to Ireland with his daughter, so that helped to dispel some of the clouds. Hang in there, Bobby.

Phil Cuffey joined us from Georgia, where he is has been enjoying Isaiah’s senior year, among other things. Phil is executive director of that Zoeza Institute, a Philadelphia-based organization that works with young people to provide them with the skills, knowledge, and experiences needed for future career success. That’s truly blessed work, Phil, and I know it must be rewarding.

Thank you!

I hope Erwin Hosono was able to trade notes with Phil; Erwin, fresh off a flight from his home in Palo Alto, is a board member and treasurer of Future Problem Solving Program, International, an organization that uses a curriculum that promotes critical and creative thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills among young people. I think. It’s all very Greek to me, but it’s obvious Erwin has a solid hold on this scientific stuff.

T.J. “Tolly” Albert and Wendy also brightened our reunion evening; they recently celebrated the graduation of their youngest, Eleanor, from High Point University, and stay busy here at home, too. Congrats to the Albert family. Charlie Albert also joined the party at Gilman and continues his consulting work with Synergy Benefits.

It was also great to catch up with Jeff Himeles, who helps innumerable couples, families, and individuals as a New Jerseybased psychotherapist. He admits he’s not on the tennis court as much—for those of us who remember his epic match against then prep-phenom Pam Shriver—but he’s content and enjoyed visiting the distant past with his Tech classmates.

Mitchell Brown, Dan Evans, and Rick Sunderland were all in attendance and well pleased. Mitchell’s still keeping us on our toes, financially speaking, with his sound advice, while Rick and Cheryl are enjoying their own empty nest/quasi-retirement, or is it a full retirement by now, folks? Dan and spouse Julie recently welcomed first-born Austin back home (temporarily, I trust) from backpacking around the world. They’re still hearing about all his adventures.

I wish I’d had more time—I didn’t get enough to catch up with Rob Moxley, Chris Lynch, Tim Eastman, Murray DeMuth, Chris Bowen, and Marc Paul—whose UNC-covered smartphone, by the way, was very smart indeed. I did enjoy hearing about Garrett Pfeiffer’s many adventures

from his leisurely life, and stories from the old days, too. I also wondered where J.D. Wells, Ward Classen, and Mike Bernstein were at the reunion, for they made it to an impromptu gathering at the Valley Inn the night before—it looks like that was a blast, too, gents.

We missed so many of you, but know you’re doing fine, too. Bill Bramble recently made the transition with Sally to the Pittsburgh environs, where you can find him—maybe—deep and quiet in the woods getting just the perfect picture of a still barred owl or a passel of rambunctious fox kits. I know you’re having fun, Bill, and doing some marvelous photography.

So there we were, 40 years on and only a little worn around the edges. Thanks to all who put together the reunion; Neaville and I had a lovely time, and she re-learned just how persistent my North Carolina obsession has been. It’s still there—our youngest, Charles IV (Cal), graduated this year and headed to East Carolina University in the fall. Our eldest, Shelby, began her final year at Virginia Commonwealth University after having spent a semester studying abroad in Scotland; she’s still passionate about fashion design and recently placed among the 20 top young designers internationally selected for a Levi’s brand competition. So now that the kids are nearing independence (we pray), our thoughts are turning south towards a little half acre we have on the Carolina coast with an ocean view. For now, though, I’m still at Baltimore County schools, still churning, still afloat. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, I apologize for anyone I missed or whose life details I fumbled; the wine was good and the memory not so much anymore, and I chose reunion night to forgo playing reporter and just enjoy myself. That’s also an invitation to the rest of you to stay in touch and let us know what you’ve been up to, how things have been, and what’s new in your life. We can’t have one of these 40th reunions just any old year, you know. Let me know your “deets” via Facebook or at either cherndon3@

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aol.com or caherndon3@gmail.com. I’ll try to get some updates from some of our missing brethren next time. And we’ll see you at the 45th! No passes.

1979 Has Franklin Has@franklin-group.com This is what I received from Rick Watts: “Retired from my commercial appraisal practice in 2016. Enjoy road biking and was appointed by the county executive to the AA County Bicycle Advisory Commission, working to improve bicycle infrastructure and safety in AA county. I’ve also been volunteering with the Refugee Youth Project in Baltimore City, helping kids from Myanmar, Syria, and Sudan adapt to new lives here. Do a lot of travelling with Roberta Bair Watts (BMS ’80) and our black lab, Skipper, around the USA in our motorhome, and we also love taking long-distance walks of two to five weeks in Europe each fall. Hiked the Camino de Santiago twice (from France and Portugal), and walked through central-southern France last fall on the Robert Louis Stevenson Trail. We travel lightly with 10 kg packs and stay in hostels along the way, meeting lots of great people from around the globe. Daughter Darcy just graduated from Duke with a degree in biomedical engineering, and son Dean lives in NYC where he works as the lead software developer with a Fintech start-up. Sadly, Roberta and I both lost our parents in the last two years but enjoyed helping them age at home until the end. We are looking forward to spending the winter of 2019 in Ann and Sam Hillers’s old neighborhood— San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; come visit!

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school in California at the Claremont College Consortium.”

Sean Darby and I have also ridden a couple of times on the Baltimore and Annapolis Bike Trail with Rick. Sean’s daughter Julia graduated from RPCS and is headed to Tulane. His son Charlie studied in London this summer and continues his studies at Bucknell in the fall. His wife, Patty, runs the special learning division for the School of the Cathedral. Sean runs a very successful elevator inspection and consulting firm where Carter Buxbaum consults with all his business knowledge learned at The Darden Business School at The University of Virginia. Carter and his family still make their home in Richmond, Va. He is just starting the college process with his children as his daughter is starting her junior year of high school. Sean also informed me that Rick Snyder is now a three-star admiral running the air defense for North America.

George Kelly is all over the country traveling for business and with his family.

With his daughter, Louisa, now attending college in Denver, all of his children are now in Colorado. George and Marietta also followed the Denver lacrosse team.

Hopefully, next season Woody will be completely recovered from his injuries and get some playing time for this nationally ranked lacrosse team. Speaking of lacrosse, I heard that Marc Dubick’s youngest son, Elliott, is a top prospect for his age group.

Marc is still developing real estate in the D.C. area, where I bumped into Tyler Blue, a successful commercial real estate loan broker. Tyler recently opened The Berkadia Commercial Real Estate office in Chevy Chase, Md. He has more than 50 real estate professionals providing financial solutions for all types of income-generating commercial real estate projects. I saw Tyler in the airport heading to Florida to close a large deal. I know he has been to Baltimore to visit with John O’Donovan. John’s youngest son, Henry, graduated from Gilman this year and is headed to Alabama

to continue his education. Joe Carroll is another classmate that gets to town and visits with John. Joe looks like he could still put on his uniform and play today. Two other classmates had sons graduate this year, Dave Willis and Tom Booker. Dave’s son, Mike, is going to Georgetown to play baseball and Tom’s son, Thomas, will play football at Stanford. Additionally, they both have daughters that accomplished big things this past year. Dave’s daughter Katy graduated from Gettysburg and played on two national champion lacrosse teams.

Tom’s daughter, Sydney, graduated from Duke Law and will work for a major New York law firm.

Jim Wilkerson is busy coaching his boys in all their recreation/club sports.

His oldest son will be in seventh grade at Gilman and his youngest boy is in fifth grade at Boys’ Latin. Biff Poggi became a grandfather this year. His youngest son, Henry, signed a contract to play football for the Raiders. He is coaching high school football with his two other sons at St. Frances Academy with several other Gilman alumni on the staff. The team was ranked in the top ten in the USA Today National High School Poll.

Louise and Bill Senft have been blessed as well as have done a lot of hard work to get their son, Archer, to attend the University of Pennsylvania for his freshman year. I had a drink with Jon Jacobson in Boston. He and his family are doing well. Since his children are out of the house, he now lives in the city for a social life with Mom that is now just walking distance from the front door.

We learned belatedly that Mark Hendrix died on November 13, 2017 after a fight with pancreatic cancer. Condolences to his family.

My son, Mac, graduated from Dickinson College this May. He has that youthful gleam in his eyes as he begins the next part of his journey looking for a career. I still have two boys in college and

a daughter living/working in Richmond.

Ellen and I are getting used to being empty nesters. I know there is more information out there. Please be better at sharing information with your classmates. Now that I am biking with Rick Watts and Sean Darby, you can get information to me through them.

1980 James Franklin jim@franklin-group.com Sadly, we had another classmate pass away this year: Roger Hawes on May 5, 2017.

A big thank you to Hans Wittich and Roland MacKenzie for connecting me with a variety of classmates. Most of Hans’s connections revolved around beer for some unknown reason. Ham Hackney was nice enough to remind him that membership in the QKC was a lifetime membership. Hans continues to change the world through Solar Gaines. Jay Hergenroeder tells me how much money he is making each summer and it is not insignificant.

Speaking of Hergy, he and Kate are celebrating with a trip to Scotland for their 25th anniversary. Congrats! Hergy also tells me his mom is 99 and living on her own still. Fantastic.

Steve Plunkert’s son Zachary is getting married in December this year.

Zachary is a cyber security analyst with Raytheon. Steve is busy exploring opportunities in the fitness/health industry that may involve boutique training and nutritional advice. He is also passionately leading a men’s group through a 36-week series called 33: Authentic Manhood (a vision of manhood as exemplified by Christ’s 33 years on Earth). He is being led to adapt that series to a younger male demographic, ages

18-30, and, perhaps, combine it with a physical fitness platform to reach younger men in need of mentorship.

Ham Hackney, after a nearly 30-year law firm practice, will join Harvard’s Office of General Counsel to work on their Allston campus development project on the other side of the Charles. This will double the size of their campus. His bride, Susan, also started working for Harvard, helping them expand their professional development programs in the Extension School. Their son Scott is finishing his freshman year at Villanova, studying chemical engineering. Congrats to the ’Nova Nation on their hoop title! Their second son, Jamie, is finishing his high school junior year.

Jenkins Marshall bumped into Hans Wittich at Colgate recently. Hans’s son plays lacrosse while Jenkins’s son plays hockey. Jenks’s baby girl is playing lacrosse at his alma mater, following in dad’s footsteps. His oldest graduates from Georgetown this spring. Jenkins tells me he is getting his mojo back.

Will Griffith says he sent Tolly Merrick a snail mail letter recently and that Tolly is doing well living in Charlottesville. Will says nothing new for him. Still surfing and tooling around in his 1968 VW bus. His son is finishing his freshman year at Princeton and having a blast on the east coast. It was nice to reminisce with Will about our little league football triumphs as he told me found a trophy from our Ruxton Rhino days. I am happy to say this was pre-participation awards for everyone days so it was earned.

Bill Atkins was also instrumental in getting some additional class notes.

He and his wife, Lesley, have three sons in D.C. The oldest is a freshman at W&L playing goalie. The other two, ages 17 and 13, attend Landon School. Bill’s patent and trademark practice continues to provide interesting mayhem on a daily basis. He is working on the fourth edition of a book

explaining the ever changing case law and procedures of a patent court within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is also the co-editor of a 2,000-page patent litigation strategies book, which requires annual updates. Bill is also on his firm’s managing board. The third edition of his PTAB Handbook was just published by Bloomberg BNA. It is hardcore patent procedure if you are into that area of the law.

Steph Jackson is a director of research, North America, in the equity division of T. Rowe Price. Steph is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. He is a member of the equity research advisory, equity steering, and risk management oversight committees. Additionally, Steph is the chair of MOSAIC, which identifies issues and opportunities relevant to talent, business practices, and culture in support of the firm’s diversity and inclusion strategy. Steph has 29 years of investment experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2007, he was a senior portfolio manager and a managing director with Brown Capital Management, where he managed mid-cap and large-cap growth portfolios.

Steph also was employed by NCM Capital Management as a growth portfolio manager and director of equity research.

Steph was a Morehead Scholar and earned a B.S. in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Steph also has earned the chartered financial analyst designation. He is a member of the investment committee of the FranceMerrick Foundation, an executive board member of the Baltimore Community Foundation, and a member of the Abell Foundation Board. He was previously the chairman of the investment committee of the Gilman School and member of the advisory board of Bridges. Most importantly, married to Debra for 27 years, one daughter (junior at Spelman

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College) and two nephews (Occidental College, Williams) and a niece (University of Richmond). In his spare time, Steph is conquering golf courses across the country.

With seven kids between Elizabeth and Paul Danko, Sr., they always have a lot going on. Paul, Jr. is working in Baltimore; Molly in New York. They like to watch Bridget play lacrosse at Marquette, and Elizabeth’s son Barrett at Penn State. “It is fun keeping up with all of the kids,” he says.

One of our classmates that I reconnected with thanks to Bill Atkins is Geoff Gurtner. Geoff went to Dartmouth with Tim Codd and has done some amazing things since then, including getting his MD from University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine. He completed a general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, a plastic surgery residency at NYU School of Medicine, and received advanced training in microsurgery at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is board certified in both general surgery and plastic surgery and an author of over 180 peer-reviewed publications. He is also an editor for two major textbooks in the field: Grabb & Smith’s Plastic Surgery and Plastic Surgery (Third Edition). He is currently the Johnson & Johnson Professor of Surgery at Stanford. His specialty is plastic and reconstructive surgery and he also runs the Gurtner Lab at Stanford (gurtnerlab.stanford. edu).

Bill also filled me in on Storrs Hoen.

He is currently a master scientist/engineer at Apple. He did this after getting a materials science degree from Vanderbilt, then a physics and philosophy degree from Oxford, then a Ph.D. in physics from Berkeley. His name is on dozens of incredibly complex patents for HP, Agilent, and Apple, and he kindly shared stories about some of the wonderful projects he had worked on. I still remember his incredible ability to know Pi to the nth number, and I am glad to see him using it so well.

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Mark Hillman is still enjoys managing money at Hillman Capital Management. He launched a new hedge fund on April 1, 2017.

His wife is enjoying life as a credit portfolio manager at SunTrust, helping not-for-profit organizations with their financing needs.

Mark is still sailing, but not nearly enough.

He recently won another J24 East Coast Championship and also the Corinthian J70 class at the St. Petersburg NOOD regatta.

Their daughter, Marley, is a freshman at Tufts and, wouldn’t you know it, she is on the sailing team with the same coach Mark and Melba had.

Alan Livsey has returned to London proper after 13 years in the countryside. He is enjoying writing at the Financial Times for a popular column known as Lex. He recently had dinner with Randy Brown.

Randy enjoys his new role as CIO at Sun Life Investment Management. Randy is living in Boston and commuting to Toronto.

The first round of the Stanley Cup was particularly tough on Randy as Boston beat Toronto in seven games. Alan also spoke to Jeff Salkin recently and said Jeff’s daughter will be moving to London for a brief time.

Alan said anyone passing through London should look him up.

Shockey Gillet was in charge of the race committee at the Hunt Cup this year.

My daughters tell me it was a huge success.

Joey Davies, an accomplished steeplechase trainer and retired jockey, had his horse, Senior Senator, win the event. Awesome!!

Steve Snyder is now an adjunct professor at Regent University, teaching undergraduate business and leadership classes. Along with his wife Kameo, they continue to work on their start-up nutrition education business (cookinupfitness.com).

After 30 years of service, Steve has finally retired from the Navy, but continues to do defense consulting (NATO last year and U.S. Navy this year). Thank you, Steve, for your service!!

Roger Levin is still living in Hershey, Pa., with his wife, Diann. He is working in

an ENT group for the past 20 years and his specialty is head and neck tumor surgery.

He had been president of the medical staff at Pinnacle Health Systems but finished that tenure four years ago. Their son Harry works for Deloitte in Philadelphia. Sam is a teacher in Burlington, Vt., where he occasionally bumps into Paul Bierman.

Millie is graduating from Maryland this year and will be working in a program for autistic children. Their youngest, Anna, is a junior at Hershey High and has joined Roger on three medical missions (Haiti, India, and the Philippines). Roger remains passionate about the piano and is currently studying with an amazing Taiwanese concert pianist, Ya-Ting Chang.

Paul Bierman is still teaching and doing research at UVM. He travelled to Iceland recently and headed to Mexico, both for meetings about the future of the Greenland Ice Sheet, a focus of his work lately. He is sending his first child to college next year.

Paul Hazlehurst is leaving the Office of the Federal Public Defenders to go into private practice again. We hooked up for dinner with a McDonogh alum, Joe Jeppi, to watch Kansas beat Duke in the Elite Eight.

It was really fun to watch with a UNC and an NC State alum rooting hard for KU.

Gerard Woel, where are you? Please contact with your whereabouts as soon as possible. And if you see Robert Abramson, tell him to get in touch as well.

Will Griffith is still surfing. Every day.

Bill Trimble’s older son Will is at Duke and younger son Barton is headed to row at UC Berkeley. Bill is running Easterly Government Properties in D.C. It is a publicly traded REIT that leases mission critical buildings to the U.S. government.

The second of David deMuth’s two boys, Will, graduated from Gilman in May 2018. At the moment, he is the last in a long line of deMuths to graduate from Gilman, wrapping up a legacy of 66 cumulative years:

Howard ’43, Andy ’76, Manny ’78, David ’80, Robbie ’12, Charlie ’15, and Will ’18. There are no others in the pipeline as of now.

David’s son Charlie is a junior at Dickinson playing lacrosse. Lindsay graduated from W&L last spring and is currently in New Zealand until Christmas 2018.

Geoff Carey is still toiling away as partner and portfolio manager at Brown Advisory. He is three doors down from Eddie Dunn. Geoff’s daughter, Charlotte, is attending Colgate and son Grant is a Junior at Gilman playing golf. His index is finally below his dad’s, which has prompted Geoff to get new clubs.

Grif Morrel has been very busy the past few months. Twin daughters married in April; his dad sadly passed away; Grif and Elizabeth are anxiously awaiting their first grandchild; and, their second set of twins graduated from UNC. Condolences on the passing of your dad and congrats on becoming a grandparent.

Roland MacKenzie’s 13-year-old daughter is at St Paul’s and has her father driving her all over the city. Roland, it gets worse when they can drive themselves! He has also started golfing again after a twoyear hiatus. While his dad shot 72, Roland posted a respectable 81. He is currently working on family real estate partnerships as VP of MacKenzie Investment Corp.

And I appreciate your help with the notes this year.

I bumped into Alan Macksey leaving Earth, Wood & Fire recently. Alan tells me his daughter enjoyed her freshman year at Princeton and is doing well.

I had the pleasure of seeing my alma mater play against Notre Dame this past fall and was able to hook up with Alex Montague. We had a terrific tailgate, where I met his awesome wife Maria. Maria could be a more passionate Miami fan than me, but I don’t think she drives an orange car.

The game was great, and the good guys won 41-8. Alex sends his best to all.

John Zentz was in town in June 2017 for my member-guest golf tournament. We had a blast and won the event for the second time. Now if we could only win his event!!

John is doing great in St Louis. His wife, Julie, just had a hip replacement and is doing great. Son Johnny is in Chicago working for Enterprise, while daughter Allison is attending TCU. And from the pictures I have seen, she seems to be enjoying Texas.

1981 William H. (Willy) Moore, V wmoore@southwaybuilders.com Sorry for neglecting my duties last year, but free time is starting to feel a bit like a rare commodity.

Tim Codd tells me his daughter is finishing her junior year and she is doing well. Tim is still “top doc” when it comes to shoulders. He also told me he was doing a nice golf trip to England in the fall. He also played a new course in South Carolina named Congaree and it is apparently insanely good. Looks like I need to make a visit.

So there are two years of details to catch up on, so we will start with a sighting of John DeLeon and Tom Fusting at Rob Hopkins’ surprise birthday bash back in early June of 2016. Back then, John was an electrical engineer for a company that makes high speed digital data storage devices.

Their products are used for everything from governmental research labs, to film studios who do a lot of CGI special effects.

Tom Schermerhorn’s son, Janse, will be entering medical school next fall at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS), following his sister’s and father’s footsteps to pursue a medical career in the Navy. He will be commissioned as an ensign this summer.

John shared that he had started playing the guitar again, after a break for far too many years. I asked if he was ready for a reunion concert at the Gilman auditorium with Jim Cavanaugh, Tom Snider, and yours truly, and he politely declined.

My beautiful wife continues to work at St Joe’s in their pediatric department. My oldest daughter went to the University of Kansas for the first semester, but transferred back home for the second. Quite frankly I am glad she did. I missed her. My middle child, Mackenzie, is a junior in high school.

She has been told she has two choices for college, Towson and UMBC. I can’t drop her off too far away. My youngest, Garrett, is in seventh grade and is on his school’s robotics team. He really enjoys it and that makes dad happy. As for me, nothing much has changed. Still working with my brothers in Baltimore and playing golf. Please email me with any updates (jim@franklin-group.com), especially if you are local and want to get in on our lunches, or if you are in town and want to golf (Tom Brodie, Bill Trimble…).

In October of 2016, I had the great pleasure to run into Michael Hess, at an art show in Bolton Hill. Michael’s brother David (’82) is a three dimensional artist who manages to build magnificent works out of scrap metals, and his fabrications are on display throughout the City. David and his son had a joint show at a private residence, and Michael was there to show support for his brother and nephew.

Michael looked great, and shared that after teaching at Gilman for the first nine years after college, he moved to the Baltimore County school system, where he has been acting as a counselor ever since.

In early December of 2016, Todd Stokes retired after working 25 years with the U.S. District Court of Maryland, where he was working in pre-trial services. As you may recall, Todd is the proud father of a child under five years old, so with the prospect of college tuition looming in his distant future, Todd presumably

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decided that he needed more money in the 529 plan, and opted to go back to work.

According to his Facebook page, Todd is now listed as a senior U.S. probation officer/location monitoring specialist at the U.S. Probation Office for the District of Maryland.

In early February of 2017, Hal Burnett shared that he had a pleasant surprise at church on Christmas Eve. When the Pastor asked all to pass the peace, Hal turned to the pew behind him, and was greeted by John Donkervoet!

John’s son lives in Winston-Salem, and out of pure coincidence, John happened to attend the one Christmas service in all of Winston-Salem, which had his classmate of 13 years (between Calvert and Gilman).

John has spent the last several decades in Hawaii, and has just moved to Asheville, N.C., presumably to be closer to his son.

According to Google, John has a practice in clinical psychology in Asheville.

In March of 2017, Jim Cavanaugh shared, “It’s been an eventful year for us.

Our daughter, Katie (23), graduated from Wake Forest University last May and has since spent a year teaching English to Spanish children in Spain. She returned this summer to begin a master’s degree program at North Carolina State University in Hispanic linguistics. Our son, Ben (26), married his longtime girlfriend, Amanda, in August. They live in Charlotte, N.C., where he is a speech language pathologist.

As for Deb and I, we’ve hunkered down as usual through the Maine winter this year.

Nothing a working snow blower couldn’t handle. I’m celebrating my 10th year here in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of New England, continuing with my teaching and scholarship responsibilities. Deb continues to keep her hand in a variety of teaching and community service activities.”

Around the same time, Tom Finney contributed, “For me life continues to move along with great speed! All is well.

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contributed, “I just finished my eighth year with Bank of America. After 25 years in the trust side of the business, and after much consideration, I decided to join a Merrill Lynch team in Hunt Valley. I am very excited about the opportunities and what life will bring next. My daughter Georgie finished up her sophomore year at University of Delaware and is loving every minute of her experience. My son Tom graduated from Gilman this year and committed to the Blue Hens of the University of Delaware. My wife Virginia and I will celebrate 27 years of marriage this October. I really do not know where the time went! I am very thankful and blessed.

Much happiness and good health to all.”

In April 2017, Bill Thomas added, “Sally and I are enjoying St. Louis, where I am president of Wedgewood Partners, a $7B investment management firm. Despite being a San Francisco Giants fan stuck in Cardinal Nation, we seem to be doing just fine. With the move here, we are closer to our children, who are both off the payroll. Charlotte is acting in Chicago and our youngest Brooke is working on her next academic steps post college in Denver. We are also closer to Squirrel Island, Maine, which is where our family calls home.”

That same month, Sandy Brown shared, “We sold ONE World Sports just over a month ago, which was a big win in this environment. Now looking for another sports network to run.” It did not take Sandy long to find that next network to run, because in October 2017 he was named COO and group president of Rural Media Group, where according to Multichannel News, he “will lead the company’s operating businesses, focusing on RFD-TV, The Cowboy Channel and Rural Radio on Sirius XM.” Then in March 2018, Bobby Greenfeld shared an article from Inside Lacrosse, which suggested Sandy was named as the new commissioner of Major League Lacrosse (MLL)! The article said, “Brown joins the MLL at a pivotal time, as the league is recovering from a

rocky 2017 season and will need to adjust to several star players’ focus shifting to the FIL World Championships in Netanya, Israel, during the 2018 MLL campaign.

Additionally, Brown’s arrival marks the second commissioner change in men’s pro lacrosse in just over two years after the MLL hired Nick Sakiewicz in December 2015.”

More recently, Sandy added, “Relocated to Boston to take over as commissioner of Major League Lacrosse. Daughter, Kendall, just finished her freshman year at Trinity College, where she started on the field hockey team that reached the Elite Eight in the NCAAs last year. She headed to the London School of Economics this summer.

Son, Alex, finished up his sophomore year at Taft, playing varsity lacrosse.” When I asked Sandy why the MLL was in Massachusetts, which is certainly not a lacrosse mecca like Maryland, he replied, “Jim Davis, the founder of New Balance, which is headquartered in Boston, has been a major benefactor of the league, and he owns four of our teams.” I suggested he fix that situation, and move the MLL to Baltimore (home of the Lacrosse Hall of Fame), but he would not bite.

On Christmas Eve 2017, Joe Morelos had me in stitches with a long note that contained the following snippet: “I’m not really a traveler, but I did go to the disastrous London game to see the Ravens play. Except for the game, London is GREAT! Kate Winslet was on my flight back to the U.S., and she didn’t have to go through customs, which is unfair! What if she’s an ISIS sympathizer?!? Anyway, my favorite story of the trip was that I wanted to buy something expensive to prove that I really went to London, instead of just a bunch of T-shirts and shot glasses, LOL! So I go into a boutique store and see a gorgeous leather jacket made of ostrich skin on top of a 10foot shelf. I say to the owner, or whatever he was, ‘I’d like to buy that jacket—how much is it?’ And he says, ‘$18,000.’ Without flinching, since my bowels had just loosened with hearing the price, I say, ‘uh, pounds

or U.S. dollars?’ Needless to say, I did not purchase the jacket, nor the alternative Game of Thrones-type leather jacket next to it for a mere $6,000.”

That same Christmas day, Joe decided to pay an unannounced late night visit to Frank DeCosta, whom he had not seen in 20+ years. Frank and Donna were apparently a bit startled, not only by the surprise visitor, but by the fact their guest looked a bit like a walking dead character from a movie. Seems Joe had unknowingly cut himself shaving, and had been walking around all day with a large patch of dried blood on his face. After Frank resuscitated his wife from fainting, the three had a nice visit. (Okay, the fainting bit may be a bit of artistic license.)

Caroline and I were hanging out with Jess and Anthony Morgan in their incredible A-frame getaway house in Vermont, when reading The Baltimore Sun online, I stumbled upon a nice article titled, “Five Minutes With Leonard Frenkil.” The April 6, 2018 article by Colin Campbell shared the following, “Leonard Frenkil, Jr. learned the business of real estate from his grandfather, Victor Frenkil.

“The politically connected contractor built several local landmarks, including the Royal Farms Arena, the Herbert R. O’Conor State Office Building in State Center and the Poly-Western high schools complex on West Cold Spring Lane.

“‘My grandfather would tell me every day, ‘You learn how little you know,’ Frenkil said, ‘words I didn’t understand when I first heard; now I tell everybody that works for me and with me. There is a lifetime of new things to learn, a lifetime of new things we just don’t know.’

“Frenkil, now 55, is president of multifamily real estate at WPM Real Estate Management, which develops and manages 19,000 residential units in the Baltimore region and southern Pennsylvania.

“The Baltimore native graduated from the Gilman School and then dropped out of

the University of Maryland, College Park to work at his grandfather’s firm, Baltimore Contractors Inc. He left there after about 13 years for a job at the Time Group, a Baltimore-based real estate investment firm. Three years later, he helped found Washington Place Management, which merged with another company in 2005 to become WPM Real Estate Management.

“In running the company’s property management arm, Frenkil said, he relies on his nearly two decades as a volunteer firefighter and paramedic to keep a cool head in stressful situations. He joined the Owings Mills Volunteer Fire Department at 16 and worked as a firefighter, paramedic and officer there for 18 years.

“‘It’s just an amazing laboratory for learning for leadership,’ Frenkil said. ‘You get faced with having to make critical decisions every single day.’

“WPM’s recent projects in Baltimore include the 520 Park Avenue apartments and Mount Vernon Marketplace, and the Fox Building, set to open in the spring.

“Frenkil now lives in Charleston, S.C., to be closer to his grandchildren but owns a home in Owings Mills and commutes to Baltimore for work. But he said he and his colleagues are as enthusiastic about their hometown and its neighborhoods as ever.

“Baltimore is where all of us grew up, it’s where we went to school and raised our families,’ he said. ‘We want to give back and make it a better place.”

When I shared this article with my class email list, Leonard chimed in with, “I will add that my wife and I celebrated 25 years together on Friday and her version of ‘five minutes with’ me sounds radically different when prompted!”

In February, Gilman hosted an alumni event in Florida, and Rich Eyring was in attendance. About the event he said, “The Gilman staff put together a luncheon that was spectacular. Henry Smyth, John Schmick and Les Goldsborough (’82) to

name a few were in attendance. It really made me appreciate being a graduate of our alma mater. It was a local alum get together. Maybe 20 of us. It was cool, older graduates that have retired here. Terry’s and Cotton’s uncle and wife were there. It really made my day.”

That same month I started archiving old photos, with a new Christmas present that changes old negatives into digital images. I came across a funny old picture of Terry Swindell getting jumped from behind by who I presumed was Bobby Blue. After sharing the image via email, Bobby quickly disassociated himself from the image, and so my next guess was Billy Slaughter. Billy also denied culpability, and all claiming innocence suggested it was almost certainly Robby Russell. I haven’t any means to contact Robby, so if anyone happens to have his email address, please share it with me.

Frank DeCosta mentioned, “I had dinner with Steve Belgrad in Boston a few weeks ago and learned about his recent appointment as the CEO of BrightSphere Investment Group (formerly OMAM).

Those of us remembering that Steve has been doing his homework on legal pads since fourth grade are not surprised by this well-deserved recognition and elevation to the elite club of CEOs of publicly traded companies.” Frank also provided a link with details of the announcement that also listed the following as Steve’s bio details: “In addition to serving as Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Belgrad is a member of OMAM’s Executive Management Team, and he sits on the board of managers of a number of our Affiliates. Prior to joining OMAM, from 2008 to 2011, Mr. Belgrad was chief financial officer of HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited, a publicly listed alternative investment vehicle. Mr. Belgrad previously was a vice president in the new investments group at Affiliated Managers Group, and prior to that, senior vice president and treasurer at Janus Capital Group. He began his career at Morgan Stanley & Co., where, over the course

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of 15 years, he held various positions in investment banking, corporate strategy and Morgan Stanley’s asset management division. Mr. Belgrad received a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.” Way to go Steve!

Some months ago, I was surfing through Facebook, and saw an advertisement for a book written by noted author and classmate Tom McHale.

I swiftly executed on the purchase, and days later was the proud owner of The Constitution, A Revolutionary Story.

The Historically Accurate and Decidedly Entertaining Owner’s Manual. While this book is in my reading queue, and has not been read as of this writing, I can say that I look forward to the combination of Tom’s wit being married with his love of history.

Marcus Ranum recently added, “Have been studying sword-smithing [author’s note: yes, that is SWORD-smithing with an S, not wordsmithing] in the Japanese style, and have been gearing up a fairly respectable metal-shop. Trying not to set myself on fire is a big part of it.” Marcus also shared a blog post that went into greater detail about this project, and from what I found, “It has been a lifelong dream to be able to do hot metal forging and finally I decided, ‘why not?’ It seems like knife making has become a popular thing lately, but I don’t care—I just like the pretty sharp things and the problem solving. I probably like the problem-solving more than all the rest of it put together.”

Marcus has a full metal fabricating shop with a pink 16-ton metal forging press, a commercial grade steel band saw, large anvil, and a massive vintage Bridgeport milling machine.

Mark Neuman contributed, “Hard to believe, but our youngest is about to graduate from high school, which means we are on the verge of empty-nesterhood.

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going to be operating on a school schedule.

We plan to do some traveling and spend even more time in Bethany. I continue to be involved in venture capital work, but my true love is working at my restaurant in Bethany, the Penguin. So stop by if you are in the neighborhood! And don’t worry, I don’t do the cooking.”

Skip Cerf reported that since the third quarter of 2017, he has a new position as the general manager of the Sheraton Baltimore North Hotel, in Towson.

George Calvert says, “My new information is that I no longer feel new…or even lightly used.”

I spoke with Ted Xanders a few days ago, and he is enjoying life out in L.A. He is still doing appellate law work, and his wife Julie is chief legal counsel for the L.A. Times newspaper. Teddy’s daughter Rory is a rising senior in high school, and she is a three-season athlete and star student, who is looking at colleges everywhere but California. Ted’s son Conor is a rising junior at University of Connecticut, and he will be studying in Denmark first semester next year. Ted is NOT looking forward to being an empty nester, so he is spending as much time with Rory at all of her sporting events, as his career will allow.

In the small world compartment, Ted ran into former classmate Bill Underwood, while doing some business in Carmel County. Apparently Bill and his wife, Angie, were vacationing there, and Ted ran into them in a café during lunch. According to Ted, Bill is no longer working in geology, and is now selling medical devices to support enterostomal therapists; there’s a mouthful! Anyway, given the resort where they were staying, Ted was sure that business was going very well for Bill.

Tom Hoblitzell wrote, “I am still working in the insurance business with Jim Urquhart and living my life vicariously through my two sons. Tyler, Gilman class of 2009, graduated from The University of South Carolina and then from University

of Maryland Law and is currently working for the Maryland Insurance Administration. Alec, Gilman class of 2011, graduated from Skidmore College and is living in Virginia and is a consultant with Accenture. He was married this summer.”

With the pending marriage of Tom’s son, I inquired if he was getting adjusted to the thought of being a grandparent sometime in the future, and I received a swift and emphatic, “NO!”

Former classmate Richard Lebovitz emailed, “Last time we connected, I was living in Moscow. Since then, I’ve returned to the U.S., been divorced, left California, and returned to Moscow where I spent a fine couple of years to be discussed over beers, and then moved to Washington, D.C., where I am currently living. I met and married a wonderful lady from Novosibirsk (Russia…, Siberia…) named Svetlana. She is the light of my life. I’m currently looking for work around here, but if I don’t find anything will likely move either someplace warmer, or substantially colder (sure you know where)! In the meantime, it would be awesome to visit Baltimore at some point and get together with you fellow Gilmaners.”

I asked Richard what kind of work he has been doing, and he clarified, “I’ve been doing mostly management consulting the past year or so, working contracts. I did some work for Microsoft and Cisco helping them with professional services pricing strategy, and am working with my team on another project. But it’s not very consistent, and it’s all travel, so I’ve been looking for full-time project management jobs here, which seem to be more in demand.”

Mark Carroll added this short and significant remark, “Preparing to remarry in July!” Congrats from us all!

Doug Hoffman, our class spiritual advisor, shared, “My family and I continue to persevere out here in West Virginia. I remain busy with a very active church, First United Methodist Church, here in Berkeley

Springs, while my wife has concentrated her efforts at managing the improvements on our fixer-upper home. Both are going well, but it’s been exhausting. I am very proud of our work and ministry at the church. I was appointed to a church with both many blessings and many challenges.

We are meeting them with tremendous faith, and I am most honored to be leading the ministry. Our home has been a true labor of love. It’s a three-bedroom, twobath, 1930s cross between a colonial and a farmhouse…with a two-story small stucco cottage also on the property. It’s a great intown property that had been neglected for years. It has been cool see its renaissance, though, and to behold its transformation from eyesore to humble gem. It’s also a very cool place to live, which is why we took the leap, believing in its potential. We enjoy all the comments from neighbors who love the transformation. The main house is just about done. We hope to work on finishing the cottage next, as funds allow. My son Cory turns 16 in a week, and my daughter Calleigh just turned 12. They’re both making us very proud, and it’s a wonder to watch them grow. We’re enjoying their middle and high school years, and the ability we collectively have to dive into deep family discussions. My wife, Donna, and I are doing well, celebrating our 22nd anniversary this September.

Donna has truly done a remarkable job ‘making our home’ by staying on top of the professionals who are doing our work.

She has been doing a ton of finishes herself in the interior and exterior, including homemade shutters and window flower boxes. I look forward to our next reunion.

They’ve all been so well done and wellattended. I’ve enjoyed being in touch recently with Ron Godsey, Rob Harrell, and Todd Stokes. I’ve also enjoyed getting together with Michael Sarbanes (’82).

I’m hopeful that I’ll make more time for more of you guys in the coming months.

I really enjoyed the piece Willy sent out about Leonard Frenkil, and the news of Mark Carroll’s marriage. Way to go ‘Hawk’

and Leonard! Proud of you guys. We have something very special in our Gilman connection. Let’s do all we can to nourish it! Until next time, take good care, and God bless you all!”

Chavis Patterson also chimed in with, “It has been about 10 years, so I guess it is time to update my class notes. In my last entry, I was married, raising a child, and living in Philadelphia. I don’t remember where I was working? Currently, I am still married, still working, and have a 13-year-old son (unlike Leonard, I started a little late). I am working at the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia as a psychologist in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. On my off time, I try to stay young by playing sports with my son. In order to hang out with him, I have taken up golf and ultimate Frisbee, with a side of ibuprofen. It is amazing what youth can do.”

Just as I was preparing these notes, I was rewarded with a great story in The Baltimore Sun about Mac Ford’s great accomplishment in coaching the Notre Dame Prep Varsity A squad girls lacrosse team to the MIAA A Conference Championship! And while that is a significant milestone by itself, the even more amazing feat was that his team of girls beat the McDonogh Eagles team that had been previously undefeated for 198 consecutive games; a national record in high school lacrosse! So along with his place in the Lacrosse Hall of Fame, Mac and his girls will go down in history as the team that beat the unbeatable! Well done Mac.

Now I do need to get back to Jess and Anthony Morgan… As previously mentioned, Caroline and I had a blast spending a long weekend with Ant and Jes in Vermont. What deserves mention is that their vacation A-frame home has been completely rebuilt by just the two of them. Jes did all the flooring and ceramic tile installation, while Ant did all the casework and furniture building. And this is no simple pallet style furniture, rather he has handmade all the cabinetry,

beds, side tables, etc., all out of locally harvested ash and black walnut, and he has included clever ski themed inlays throughout the house. He even hand-built a custom spiral staircase in the workshop in the backyard of his Connecticut home, and transported and assembled it in the A-frame in Vermont. None of these are preengineered kits, rather everything has been custom-designed and built by Anthony.

I was blown away by the quality of his craftsmanship, particularly since he was never one of the regular crew members that lived in Fred Brune’s industrial arts shop at Gilman. It should be no surprise that Anthony is looking forward to retirement from his podiatry practice, as he hopes to spend his time making more furniture.

As for me and my gang—my older son Henry is out of college and loves working as a data analyst for Flywheel Communications, whose offices are in a building that Caroline developed almost 20 years ago, and happens to be only three short blocks from my office. Our younger son Ben (Gilman ’15), spent the last semester of his junior year of Colgate University in Budapest. He was very fortunate to be selected to spend this summer with an internship with Morgan Stanley’s mergers and acquisitions group in New York City. As for Caroline, she started taking up longdistance bicycle road trips to satisfy her athletic cravings. In June 2017 she biked 555 miles in seven days with 2,500 other riders from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I flew out to meet her at the finish line, and we both then stayed a few days with Julie and Ted Xanders at their beautiful hillside home in L.A. I am now in my third year as president of Southway Builders, and we continue to grow and build some of the coolest projects in and around Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia.

With our kids having spent time overseas for work and college, Caroline and I have been spoiled with trips to visit and vacation with them in France, Germany, Austria, Stockholm, and most recently to Budapest

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and Prague. I just hit the big and wonderful age of 55, and will celebrate my 28th wedding anniversary with the girl of my dreams in about a week. Life is beautiful!

I do genuinely enjoy being your Classless Secretary, and I look forward to hearing from each and every one of you.

So if you are reading this, and your name has not been highlighted, please reach out anytime and let me know what you are up to; I know everyone else will enjoy reading about your escapades! Email me at willy@southwaybuilders.com. All the best to all of you.

1982 A. Brian C. Doud abcdoud@bellsouth.net It has been too long for which I apologize.

No excuses—I hope you forgive me for failing to submit Class Notes the past two years.

Chris Alevizatos continues practice urology in Baltimore. I believe his eldest son Braeden graduated from the Tech in 2017. Dirck Bartlett continues to serve on the Talbot County Council while doing day work as director of business development for ILEX Construction.

Frank Bonsal is the director of venture creation at Towson University. Under Frank’s leadership, the TU Incubator focuses on education technology and support of entrepreneurs in a new unit called Venture Creation. This unit implements a program called Student Launch Pad, an entrepreneurship program focused on student experiential learning that is now part of Towson’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The TU Incubator has grown into the largest hub of edtech companies in Maryland in one of the top education innovation clusters in the country. Since inception, TU Incubator has

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supported more than 80 companies, which induced more than 1,000 new jobs, $30 million outside capital, and $150 million in economic impact; these companies utilized more than 150 student interns and dozens of mentors and advisors. Frank continues as a Tech trustee along with Wells Obrecht and Tom Waxter, ensuring the Class of 1982 retains its position of power and influence at 5407 Roland Avenue. Frank’s son, Frank IV, is a sixth grader at Gilman.

Nick Brader continues in his role as director of engineering at St. John Properties, which develops, constructs, and owns office, flex/research and development, retail and warehouse space with clients in Maryland, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

I understand Toni and Ned Brody are Dirck’s Talbot County neighbors. Since our last published Class Notes, Ned has left Yahoo where he was head of the Americas and is now with Foundry.ai, a technology studio he and other partners founded focused on data science.

Ken Brown is back in Baltimore where he is one of the owners of Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, a worker cooperative/bookstore/vegetarian restaurant and a space for public events.

Aaron Bryant continues in his role as the Mellon curator of photography at the Smithsonian National Museum of AfricanAmerican History and Culture.

Taylor Classen has finished his service on the Gilman Board of Trustees. He is a partner for Delbert Adams Construction Group in Baltimore. His son Taylor is a member of the Class of 2020.

Jim Cooke continues to work at Network Media Partners which specializes in customized media sales, design, event planning and management, and marketing services. Jim is the chief information officer and director of accounting for the company.

He became a grandfather on March 9, 2017

to twin girls, Sarah and Elizabeth.

John Danko continues with the family business as president and CEO of Danko Arlington which specializes in military and commercial aluminum and bronze sand castings, 3-D sand, and 3-D plastic printing of rapid prototypes and production parts. John sent in the following: “Hope all is well with you and your family! Are you getting ready for quiet living? I can’t imagine it as things are so crazy at my home and work.

For the record, my family is well and our three kids, Daniel, Peter, and Mary, are graduating from eighth, fifth, and third grades in western Howard County schools. Daniel, age 13, is the quite accomplished musician and plays trumpet in Howard County Middle School GT Band and Orchestra plus school jazz bands. Mr. Bange should be very proud.

My wife Janine (CDR USN) is the deputy director of medicine at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda. Danko Arlington was recently honored by the American Foundry Society as Metalcaster of the Year—recognized for 3-D printing, hiring diversity, and outreach. Fellow Gilman alum, Willy Moore ’81 (Southway Builders), and I cochair the Mayor’s Business Engagement Committee while serving on the Baltimore Workforce Development Board…so humbling to share our Gilman values within our community.”

Van Dorsey continues in his role as principal counsel for the Maryland Insurance Administration. George Doub is an attorney in private practice in Baltimore. I believe his youngest son is a 2017 Tech graduate. Charlie Eck is a marketing specialist with Ashley Furniture in Baltimore.

Mitch Ford continues in his role as senior vice president and senior portfolio manager for Morgan Stanley. Like Taylor Classen, Mitch has ended his service on the Gilman Board of Trustees. I believe Mitch’s son Shane graduated from the

Tech in 2017 also. Erstwhile classmate Tom Gaines is president of Hencken & Gaines construction firm.

Since the last Class Notes, Les Goldsborough wins the prize for the most interesting developments since the last Class Notes. He changed jobs, leaving the Institute of Christian and Jewish Studies to join the Alumni and Development Office for Gilman School, where he is the director for gift planning. He married Anne Powell in the fall of 2016. And, in April 2018, he and Anne welcomed a newborn son, Adger Bear Goldsborough, into the world.

Congratulations, Les and Anne!

Jay Goldstein is now Dr. Jay Goldstein, Ph.D. He continues in his role as a lecturer at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health and at George Washington University on facilitating growth, learning, understanding and application of the “biopsychosocial aspects of children in sports” and management of youth fitness, sports, and educational programs.”

John Harrison continues in his role as a physician in internal medicine at the University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Institute.

Jamey Hebb sent in the following: “I’m working as a consultant in the FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) Digital Dealer program helping targeted dealerships improve on their overall effectiveness generating and responding to leads in the digital space. It is work I enjoy. My wife, Loury, and I live in Lutherville with our sons Jack, 11, and Jamey, 10, who keep both of us busy and active with their school, sports, and other interests.

My daughter Lucy (now 25) is living and working in Manhattan, making a name for herself in the ad agency world. I see Jim Cooke regularly throughout the summer at Roland Run Club. We both play tennis there, and our kids are on the swim team together. Jim is an outstanding tennis player, so don’t let him bet you any money

out on the courts! Out and about town, over recent months I’ve enjoyed seeing Geary Stonesifer, Chris Alevizatos, Mitch Ford, Tim Krongard, Bill Thomas ’81, Jay Schmidt ’83, and a handful of others from our era at different locales—The Valley Inn is a very good place to run into old friends from The Tech if you’re so inspired. I spend my free time coaching LTRC boys lacrosse, serving on the vestry at Good Shepherd, serving as men’s tennis chair at RRC, and serving on my HOA board. Life is good as 55 approaches rapidly! I hope and trust that everyone is well. I looking forward to reading your updates, and hope we have a monster turnout for our 40th—which will be here before you know it.”

David Hess continues his magnificent work in public art and sculpture, with recent additions added to Gilman’s new sculpture garden.

Tom Hoen is the vice president of enterprise engineering at Network for Good, a company providing vision and management to help organizations maximize their information technology investments.

I heard a rumor that Will Howard has left the desert of New Mexico and returned to Baltimore.

I spoke to Bill Jarrett ’50—Les Goldsborough’s brother-in-law and uncle to our former classmate Danny Jarrett. Bill tells me Danny is doing well and sells insurance in Towson for Insurance Partners LLC.

David Knipp continues his role as a vice president of Obrecht Commercial Real Estate.

Nick Kouwenhoven is now president and COO of vibeffect, a full-service, tailored and turn-key SaaS solution that improves student and institution outcomes for yield and retention.

Dr. Michael Kapiloff was recruited to Stanford in July 2017 in a joint effort by the Department of Ophthalmology and

the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute in recognition of his work in both fields.

I received a bounce back email from Tim Krongard informing that he is no longer with QuestMark Partners—what’s the new gig, Tim?

Glenn Lacher writes, “Kelley and I have moved back to Baltimore County. We are living in Lutherville and happy to be back. I am still with Long and Foster and don’t miss that commute from Severna Park.

Hope all is well!!”

Shawn Larson continues in private practice as an attorney in Baltimore.

Last fall, I saw Bill Mathews at BWI with his family as they were heading for their plane to Orlando to visit Disney. We chatted for a few moments catching up, and Bill’s finals words to me were, “Publish the Class Notes this year!” Bill also mentioned he has renovated his parents’ home in Ruxton and recently moved in. Dr. Mathews continues his research work at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Herb May is now a partner and managing director at DH Capital, where he is responsible for business development and sponsor coverage.

John Morrel continues in his role as a principal with Marshall Craft Associates, an architecture and interior design firm in Baltimore. John has a concentration in educational buildings. John and his wife Tanya live in Roland Park.

Simon Najar is the purchasing manager for DTLR, where he manages procurement and contract negotiation for goods and services for an 85-store national retail operation, manages daily operations of a 30,000-square foot headquarters building, and coordinates operations of a 100,000-square-foot distribution center in Hanover, Md.

Tim Naylor continues in his role as president of Naylor Antiques. Tim’s company concentrates primarily on period American furniture and decorative arts,

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with a special interest in those articles from the mid-Atlantic region.

As a member of the Gilman Board of Trustees, Wells Obrecht is prevented from passing on stories, innuendo and lies as in the past. His term ended in June, which should mean more amusing content in this section of The Bulletin.

Wells continues in his role as president of Obrecht Commercial Real Estate.

Pat O’Brien continues as owner of O’Brien Fine Art. Check out Pat’s work at www.mytownart.com.

Mark Peeler is a vascular surgeon with Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. Does anyone know where Sam Rhee is? Any truth to the rumor he is doing clandestine work on the Korean Peninsula?

Doug Riley sent in the following: “Brother Brian! I hope all has been well my friend! Here are a few of my highlights. I married the wonderful Ms. Choya Franklin last July with Tim Robinson as my best man and Dr. Rob Harrell ’81 as one of my groomsmen. I needed to have some ‘pretty’ in the wedding party! LOL! I am currently working for Carter-Lambert Divisions, LLC as information technology director and project leader. On the side, I continue to operate Silver Hill Technology, Inc. developing software applications. I also play bass guitar in a couple of bands (any one organizing a jam session, let me know as I need to learn all I can!). You still don’t wanna play, son!”

Tim Robinson is a fellow engineer for Northrup Grumman overseeing systems integration and system testing on multiple tactical platforms for the defense industry.

Tim Rule continues in his role as chief of the Nutrient and Bacteria TMDL Division for the Maryland Department of the Environment where he oversees the development of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) analyses for impaired waters of Maryland.

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Michael Sarbanes is the executive director for partnerships, communications, and community engagement for Baltimore City Schools.

Joseph Seivoid reports, “All is well here in Tampa!”

Geary Stonesifer is executive director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Washington where he and his team advise clients on public and private investments, credit and liquidity needs, sophisticated income and tax planning including trust, estate, and charitable planning, as well as everyday cash management. Geary also writes: “I got engaged last year to Hannah McFarland of Philadelphia. We are working toward merging our households, but that is requiring more work than I expected!”

Eddie Villamater sent me the following: “Hey Brian, there is not much new as I am still ‘passing gas for a living’ in good old charm city. As a result, I am fortunate to see plenty of our fellow alums from the Class of 1982 out and about. I recently attended the Gilman Bull Roast and caught up with Les Goldsborough, Tommy Waxter and John Morrel. I often see Mitch Ford around the squash courts at BCC. I had a few cocktails with Taylor Classen and Tim Krongard at the Elkridge Pre-Masters Dinner this spring. I also had the pleasure of participating in the Gilman phonation this year with Dirck Bartlett who chaired the event for our class... thanks Dirck! It was great to catch up with everyone that took my call! My daughter graduated from the Bryn Mawr School and attends college at Penn. My son is in ninth grade at Gilman.

Ned Wagner is a realtor for Berkshire Hathaway Penfed Realty. Ned and his wife Gay live in Riderwood. Rhett Waldman writes: “I have a granddaughter. All is well.”

Tom Waxter sent in the following: “I think you covered in the past that the Class of 1982 won the Alumni Golf Tournament reunion cup. The foursome was Scott Bortz, Ned Brody, Wells Obrecht, and Jim

Cooke (I think). I became president of the Gilman Alumni Association in July 2018. I am also on the Gilman Board of Trustees. I see Les Goldsborough and his wife, Anne, out walking regularly with their new kid. The Waxters have moved into their neighborhood which is a very short walk from Gilman’s lovely campus. I am still playing squash with Wells Obrecht, David Knipp, and Nick Kouwenhoven a couple times a month. For the record, David and I are still undefeated as a team. I missed you in Charlotte this spring when the Rhodes Lynx lacrosse team played the Denison Big Red lacrosse team with Jake Waxter playing for Denison and Patrick Doud playing for Rhodes. [Writer’s Note: the game was won by Denison 12-8 with Jack Waxter scoring the key goal to put Denison up by three with under two minutes to go.]

I see Tim Naylor frequently and he and Libby are doing very well as empty nesters.

Van Dorsey’s daughter is injured but was busy playing both soccer and lacrosse at arch rival McDonogh. She is an early commit to UNC where she intends to play both for The Heels.”

Peter Wilson is a principal and director of business development for Waldon Studio Architects and Planners in Baltimore focusing on projects in the senior living, healthcare, hospitality, and educational channels.

After 28 years at CSX, Rob Yarlott is now vice president of business development with Cryotrans, which manufactures, supplies, and leases refrigerated railcars and boxcars to the food processing sector. Rob, his wife Linda, and sons Jay and Will reside in Ellicott City.

My sources tell me that Bobby Bone has moved from Port St. Lucie, Fla., to Jensen Beach, Fla. While not a great distance away, it is a bit closer to the beach—you up for visitors, Bobby?

Scott Bortz continues his career as a partner for Tribek Properties in Charlotte,

N.C., which focuses on specialty retailers such as Walgreens, Family Dollar, Starbucks, Vitamin Shoppe, and Harris Teeter.

Scott Bowerman and his wife Tiffany live in Rome, Ga., with their sons Brenden and Will and their daughter Brielle. Scott is an orthopedic surgeon focusing on joint replacement of the hip and knee as well as general orthopedics. Scott runs Rome Orthopedic Center which provides a wide range of orthopedic subspecialties and is the only practice in Rome with an on-site Ambulatory Surgery Center.

Jake Callard and his wife Jenni continue to live in Lewes, Del. After directing you to YouTube videos of Jake in our last published Notes, I notice Jake is now flying under the radar with no more published videos or even photos, particularly those of him sporting that thick moustache!

Hank Donnelly is a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Va.

My sources tell me Jay Dugan has relocated to sunnier climates in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Doug Eyring continues to do brilliant work as an art director for The Richards Group, an advertising agency based in Dallas, Texas. I was hoping to get the opportunity to work with Doug as part of a joint venture that was considering various advertising agencies, including the Richards Group. I told them if we chose Richards Group, Doug had to be on the creative team! Unfortunately my colleagues outvoted me and chose a different agency.

Steve Grandea is an application engineer at First Data outside of Atlanta and, I believe, he continues to coach youth soccer.

He, his wife, Nickey, and their four children live in Fayetteville, Ga.

Since our last Class Notes, Jose Maisog has left Glotech and joined Blue Health Intelligence as a senior informatics scientist. Blue Health assist companies in

the processing, modeling, and analysis of insurance claims data, using SAS and SQL.

Bill Martien is living and working in Bethesda and, from what I understand, still playing with his band Star FK Radium.

Having most recently served as deputy director of the U.S. Office of Senate Security on Capitol Hill, Romeo McClarry is now the principal consultant and owner of Swing Space, LLC, a technical security company providing services to the residential, business, and federal government communities.

Romeo’s experience includes: Chief of the Physical Security Branch at FEMA, COO/ Program Manager at TSCM Security Services in Upper Marlboro, MD; Technical Security Specialist in the Technical Countermeasures Division, Security Services Bureau of the U.S. Capitol Police; Technical Consultant and TSCM Branch Chief, NCI Information Systems, Inc., Reston, Va., where he functioned as the Chief of the Technical Surveillance Countermeasures Branch at the Interagency Training Center (ITC).

Greg Montague is enjoying retirement in Punta Gorda, Fla.

Leigh Panlilio is a highly published research doctor in the Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch—National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.

Wendell Phillips continues in his role as chief of staff at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., where he is charged with providing strategic leadership as a senior advisor on all operational and managerial aspects of the university.

Ransone Price continues his work as an actuary at Genworth Financial in Richmond, Va.

Craig Rocklin is the principal of a new consulting firm, Maybe it is Rocket Science!, that helps organizations become better at fundraising.

Bill Rush continues in his role as vice president of Payment Cycle Solutions at Ingenix.

John Sanders is the manager for international trade at David J. Joseph Company, one of the world’s leaders in scrap metal brokerage, ferrous and nonferrous metal recycling and transportation services.

John and his wife Kathy live outside of Charleston, S.C.

Jeb Saunders writes: “Hey Brian, thanks as always for doing this. Molly and I continue to enjoy living in Chapel Hill. Our oldest daughter is in the ninth grade. She runs track and rides horses. Our youngest daughter is in the sixth grade and has blue and purple hair. I am now in my seventh year in the Consumer Protection Division of the North Carolina Department of Justice, where I direct an elder fraud unit.

Speaking of which, I’m happy to speak with classmates if they have concerns about how to protect their parents from the many scams that victimize senior citizens. I’ll stop there. I hope you and all of our classmates are well.”

Joe Seivold continues in his role as Headmaster at Berkeley Prep in Tampa, Fla.

Geordie Walker has left Cantor Fitzgerald and joined Wells Fargo in Charlotte, N.C.

Randy Wilgis continues in his role as chief solutions officer at Resource Environmental Solutions which specializes in assessing unavoidable habitat impacts, accelerating permitting processes and proactively managing risk from operations in environmentally sensitive areas.

Peter Williams continues in his role as director of business development for Baker Roofing Company, one of the nation’s largest roofing contractors. I can hear Peter singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from North Carolina as he prepares for his Liverpool Football Club to play Real Madrid in the Champions League Final.

Alberto Zapata is senior counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. He writes, “Chris and I operate a chauffeur service. Our oldest

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daughter Emilia, 14, participates in crew so we spend a lot of time shuttling her to regattas and practice on the Potomac. With the little free time we have left, we drive my youngest daughter Sophia, 8, to swimming, gymnastics, and soccer events as well as piano practice and recitals.”

of Salt Lake. I am looking forward to lots of skiing and fun summer activities with the kids. I hope that the rest of our class is doing well. Take care!”

Chris Cebra continues in his role as the department chair for clinical sciences in the Department of Veterinary Medicine at Oregon State University. Dr. Cebra specializes in large animal internal medicine with specific research on gastrointestinal disorders of ruminants and camelids and production-related disorders of cattle.

Ben Kim continues in his role as deputy chief counsel for The Walt Disney Company.

Rick Friedman continues in his role as president of Anilix, a leading authority on telecommunications cost management, an innovative approach for significantly reducing communications expense. He sent in the following: “Doud, here is my story! I have shipped my twin girls off to college this past year (Seattle University and Whitman College) where they are doing great. My 16-year-old daughter, a sophomore in high school, is all that is keeping me from being an empty nester. Work goes well, with a new president hired to kick my ass. I finally have my percent body fat down to about 85% or so it seems, based on how my clothes fit. I am still working out, and enjoy skiing, hiking, mountain biking, and counteracting all of that with a few Manhattans every now and again. I saw Cathy and Scott Bortz when they came through San Francisco earlier this year. I continue to absolutely dominate and humiliate two generations of Brennans (Jay Brennan and his son, Tyler) at fantasy baseball. Genetics and/or karma seems to have caught up with me, as one of my college girls recently asked me if I was going to celebrate 4/20 while the other one told me about trying to sneak beers past her RA. As members of the Tribe would say, ‘Oy Vey! I need this like I need a lukh in kup.’

[Translation for the goyim: ‘Holy Mackerel!

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Hilary Gans is a manager at South Bayside Waste Management Authority in San Carlos, Calif.

TR Levin is chief of gastroenterology for the Permanente Medical Group in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Stephan Miller is director of clinical development at SANIFIT, a biopharmaceutical company focused on treatments for calcification disorders.

Crawford Parr is a pilot with RAVN Aviation in Alaska.

Arch Peregoff is an investment advisor with Seabird Financial in San Diego, Calif.

Charlie Price and his lovely wife Leta continue to reside in the paradise of Honolulu, Hawaii. I contacted Charlie when I learned of the volcanoes tearing through the island of Oahu in the spring of 2018 and he assured me he was fine.

Charlie is a partner at the law firm of Koshiba Price Gruebner & Mau.

Mark Sherman is managing partner at Telstra Ventures, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco that invests in market leading, high growth companies.

A few summers ago, Joel Getz and I met up in New Haven after my son visited Yale. We caught up with Joe Shin and his wife who were in New Haven visiting Joe’s sister!

Wallace Simpson is now senior technical program manager with Amazon Web Services.

Ross Taylor and his lovely wife Kathleen live in Palo Alto with the triplets, Lachlan, Matthew, and Nathaniel. Ross’s only remark was, “I’m

tired…all the time.” Ross is CFO with Abaxis in Union City, Calif., a medical products company manufacturing pointof-care instruments and consumables for the medical, research, and veterinary markets worldwide and a provider of reference lab services to the veterinary and research markets in the United States.

Bill Heller continues in his role as an orthopedic surgeon with Midland Orthopedic Associates in Chicago. Bill specializes in conditions of the hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder.

Andy Owens is now on Year 6 of his renewed streak of his annual practice of sending me absolutely nothing for the Class Notes. Since I get a Christmas card each year and call him on his birthday, I do know The Commissioner and his wife Michele continue to live in Chicago with their twins, Justin and Hayley. Andy is a senior software engineer with A. Finkl & Sons, the world’s leading supplier of forging die steels, plastic mold steels, die casting tool steels, and custom open-die forgings.

Owen Perkins continues to stay involved with Democratic Party politics in Colorado. His website mentioned Owen’s involvement with former Vice President Al Gore’s climate reality leadership training in connection with Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth.

Gary Raab continues in his role as vice president of flavor creations at WILD Flavors in Cincinnati, Ohio.

David Reahl tells me all is well in Chicago where he is a managing director at USAA Real Estate Company.

About a year or so ago, Joel Getz informed me he had dinner with Michael Berkowitz in New York. Since 2005, Mike has been a history teacher at the Trinity School in New York, N.Y.

Terry Booker continues his work as vice president and head of corporate

development and Innovation for Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia.

I can hear Hollyday Compton also singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from Massachusetts as he prepares for his Liverpool Football Club to play Real Madrid in the Champions League Final.

Hollyday has a new role as vice president of sales for SecqureOne Inc.

Alex Gavis continues in his role as senior vice president and deputy general counsel for Fidelity Investments where he is a group head leader, managing a team of attorneys and professionals responsible for providing legal services to the firm’s retail brokerage, college savings, stock-plan, and workplace retirement businesses. He also oversees and manages legal services for Fidelity’s businesses involved in electronic and mobile commerce, start-up innovation, advertising, and social media.

Joel Getz continues in his role as the senior associate dean for development and alumni relations at the Yale School of Management, travelling around the globe raising funds for Yale. Joel has been appointed as an independent director to public boards and he even got a chance through one to be a part of the Opening Bell Ringing Ceremony on the New York Stock Exchange.

Vincent Hom is a systems administrator for Draper Laboratory in Boston.

Mike Liebson continues in his role as the director of product strategy, supply chain planning cloud at Oracle. Mike is always a featured speaker on supply chain management at Oracle events.

JP Migeon lives in Shelburne Falls, Mass., and is a design /structural contractor for Pioneer Valley Design Group.

Ian Miller continues in his role as CIO at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a law firm based in New York. In the spring of 2017, Ian spoke at the Upper School assembly

as part of the 37th annual H.K. Douglas Cotton Memorial Lecture. The Cotton Lecture series, established by Baltimore businessman Henry Kyd Douglas Cotton, annually features business and career lectures for Gilman students. As chief information officer, Ian 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 over 1,000 attorneys and offices around the globe. Ian, did you open with, “Mr. Finney, Mr. Callard, members of the faculty, fellow students?”

Jeff Mulholland is an orthopedic surgeon in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Michael Phillips continues in his role as the director of the infection prevention and control unit at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan.

Erstwhile classmate David Rothschild continues in his role as CEO and chief investment officer of Rothschild Capital Partners, LLC in New York.

Tim Rumberger is the interim dean of students and world languages department chair for Mashpee Public School in Mashpee, Mass.

Jon Thaler continues in his role as president of When I’m Mobile, which provides revenue and engagement impacts from digital and social campaigns for both profit and non-profit organizations.

Former classmate Scott Weaver continues in his role as president and CEO of APR Supply Company, a full-service distributor of plumbing, heating and cooling supplies based in Lebanon, Pa.

Former classmate David Wright continues to work as a correspondent for ABC News.

After leaving McKinsey and Company, Jared Braiterman founded Social Models, where he is a design advisor with clients

in Tokyo and San Francisco, including leading companies and innovative startups.

In 2017, Jared advised Google teams in Tokyo and San Francisco on accessibility and inclusion, mobile payments, and international product design.

Michael Jeffrey is still living “down under” where he is a writer living in Perth on the west coast of Australia.

Amatsia Spigler sent in the following: “We are in Israel. I am now working more as a freelance financial consultant. My wife is back working in the field of epidemiology (her background). Our oldest daughter is in her first year of post high school studies (not sure yet what she wants to do), the others are in middle and high school. Other than that, not much new. Not too many Gilman alumni out here :). I hope all is well with you and our classmates.”

Bill Mathews sent in the following: “My father Burke, class of 1944, passed away in June 2014. That set in motion a lot of changes in my life. I found myself acting as the executer of not one, but two estates simultaneously. Not being a lawyer, it became a full-time job for almost two years.

I’m still working as a PET radiochemist at Johns Hopkins and passed the 25-year mark in October 2017. Michaela and I have both cut our work hours back to spend more time with the kids. Lukas is 17 now and Lisa is 13. We’ve started the college search and will probably be doing a lot of driving this summer to visit schools.

Lisa has one more year of middle school at Maryvale, and even though she loves it, she’s talking about going to Towson High.

It’s the diversity thing. Michaela and I took on a major renovation of my parents’ house over the course of 2015-2016. We had a lot of expert architectural help from Peter Wilson and the finished project turned out really nice. It’s been great to reconnect with Peter again. This year we narrowly escaped the great Perryville condo fire on Easter Sunday. Even though we weren’t home at the time, seeing 18 of our neighbors homes burn to the ground left

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its mark. We’ve since moved on to Avalon, N.J., where we just settled on our dream beach house. The mortgage is through the roof so I guess we’ll be working a few years longer than anticipated. Cheers!”

As for your class secretary, my wife Leigh and I have now been in Mountain Brook, a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., for eight years. I am CMO of Thompson Tractor, the exclusive provider of Caterpillar equipment in Alabama and northwest Florida, and Hyundai Forklifts in Georgia. My eldest Patrick is a sophomore at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., where some of our Gilman contemporaries—Haswell Franklin ’79 and Teddy Waters ’84—have children enrolled as students. Patrick is a defenseman on the Rhodes lacrosse team, which made it to the Sweet Sixteen in the Division III Lacrosse Tournament this year. My son Sean plays lacrosse for Mountain Brook High School where he is a two-time US Lacrosse AllAmerican defenseman and three-time All-State selection. He is graduating from high school this year and will attend the University of Georgia. Your class secretary coached his final game as head coach with the Mountain Brook varsity lacrosse team winning the state championship and finishing undefeated. It was a nice way to end a 28-year coaching career.

Thank you again for making this class secretary job so much fun—I always look forward to catching up with each of you.

As always, if you would like to be included in next year’s notes, please feel free to send me an email (abcdoud@bellsouth.net) or call me directly (205-420-1727) and I will make sure you are “published” in the next issue.

1983 Andy Buerger abuerger@mac.com Rudiger Breitenecker writes, “All is well.

Weathering the storms around us these days.”

Lee W. G. Sterne notes that his son Andrew is at Harvard University and is rowing lightweight crew. His son Nathan is graduating from Lexington High School and attending Colgate University.

Willie DeVeas reports that Michelina graduated from Carver Center for Arts and Technology and is studying at Salisbury University…and doing great! Walter in is 11th grade at Gilman - “lots of work!” Both he and Diana graduated from dental school 25+ years ago and have been in their own practice in Towson for more than 16 years and are still enjoying it immensely. Willie joined the Gilman Alumni Association Board of Governors beginning in the 201819 school year.

Felipe Albuquerque reports, “It was great going back for the Cotton Lecture [last] year! The School looks fantastic, and Ruth and I enjoyed talking with the students and faculty. Our boys, Lucas and Oscar, are 11 and eight and loving school.” He was planning to come back for the class’s 35th Reunion… “as depressing as that sounds!”

1984 Willie Franklin willie@franklin-group.com

Todd Taylor’s daughter is entering her senior year of high school - where does the time go? She just got her driver’s license, full-fledged, and has to drive every day!!!! They just opened a ROTH IRA for her, she has her first, “out of the house” job, so she is now learning to retire comfortably (and, hopefully early). She

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funded it, KICKING AND SCREAMING, but she funded it. Each paycheck will be a minimum of $25. She also has a solid ACT score.... approaching 30, and they will get their 2017/2018 dates locked in now. Still a Varsity volleyballer, and he hopes she will change her mind about playing in college.

Todd is eating smarter, so that has led to some weight loss. Business is going strong. “Interestingly,” he reports, “I recently met a friend of a college roommate and she said, ‘Hey, I know you. You are the guy with the really creative real estate ads.’ It made me smile. My wife entered self-employment recently after being “reduced in farce,” and has launched her own accounting business (let me know if you need an accountant). BTW, her old company reached out to her to come back.

Oooppps. Their loss. Go Tech!!”

1985 Ted Winstead tedwinstead@gmail.com Joel Price is out to change the game of golf. He has designed gloves that could finally put an end to the practice of players continuously donning and removing their gloves on the links. In January, Joel’s company, Mokom Gloves, unveiled the high-tech leather gloves at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla.

“I had long wondered why golfers are constantly removing their gloves when they approach the green,” Joel explained.

“The answer, in a word, is ‘touch.’ So, I set out to design a golf glove that mirrors natural touch.” Mokom gloves provide the optimal balance between sensitive natural touch and an improved high-tech grip on the club, he noted.

The trademarked name “Mokom” is a fictitious palindrome—a word that

reads the same backward as forward—or, “as we prefer, balanced,” Joel said. Large, laser-cut holes in the golf gloves are what distinguishes Mokom from other products, and the multiple circles (“o”) in the name echo this design feature.

Joel filed his first patent on a glove in 2005, but then moved on to other endeavors. When new technologies emerged a few years ago, he began to work with various glove manufacturers to design a better laser-cut, sewn version of a more durable sports grip glove.

One type of Mokom glove has 138 precision laser-cut round holes of various sizes on three black fabric patterned sections, as well as two soft white Cabretta leather patterns that anchor the stretchable material for a proper snug fit. And golf is just the start—Mokom is moving into other sports as well. You can check out all of the products at mokomgloves.com.

At Gilman, Joel always wanted to have an “under glove” (rather than a batting glove) for baseball. Years later, his former Gilman baseball coach David Emala would help with some of the field testing of Mokom glove prototypes.

When he is not on the links wearing Mokom gloves, Joel enjoys life in Chevy Chase, Md., with his wife, Elizabeth. Their children are Brittany, 27, Kendall, 18, and Foster, 14.

John Brush played golf with Bill Buchanan and Kieran Fox at a Calvert outing in the fall, although the trio did not say which brand of gloves they used. “Tom Washburn was supposed to join us, but he had to inspect a shipment of adult malted beverages from Belgium,” John writes.

John’s son, Myles, and Doug Schmidt’s daughter, Lila, are in the same class at Calvert with Bernie Rhee’s son, Joey.

Doug’s boys are at Gilman—Spencer is in ninth grade this fall and Bennett is in sixth.

Dan Kim’s son, Andrew, is in

the eleventh grade at Gilman, and his daughter, Elizabeth, is a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania. “Andrew just finished a strong swimming season,” Bernie reports. “I stopped by the pool and was happy to see Bill Stratton’s name and a few of his records still on the wall.”

Bernie’s son started playing ice hockey recently. “He loves it, but my wife and I don’t even know how to skate,” Bernie writes. At the Bull Roast, Bernie caught up with some classmates, including Nick Schloeder and Keefe Clemons, who made the trip down from New York City.

David Levy is the Chief Librarian at Touro College Libraries in New York.

He has published a number of articles in recent years. He and his wife, Ariella, had their first child—a daughter who is named for David’s mother, Ruth, reports Alex Kaufman.

Darin Hall and his family have been in Cincinnati for six years. Darin is the executive vice president of the Greater Cincinnati Redevelopment Authority, formerly known as the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority.

“My family is in full graduation mode as we prepare for my oldest daughter’s graduation from high school in a few weeks,” Darin writes. “Grace will decide whether to attend Wellesley College in Boston or Spelman College in Atlanta.

She would like to eventually attend law school, and both of those schools would prepare well her for that.”

hunting pheasant, Charlie commutes into New York City and manages equities at Hamlin Capital Management.

1986 Jon Kagan kagan@kaganlawgroup.com In November 2016, Andrew Layton’s company (Student Quarters) was recapitalized by Australian Alternative Investment Fund, Blue Sky. Since that occured, they have completed two big acquisitions: 1) 200 Edgewood (Georgia State University) and 2) Lookout at Cragmor (Univ. of Colorado-Colorado Springs). His two boys are playing a lot of soccer. He ends up traveling up and down the east coast with their teams from New Hampshire to North Carolina.

1987 Trip Burgunder hb3@hb3law.com Simon Hamilton is enjoying living in D.C. ‘burbs and partnering a money management and financial planning team.

“I’m enjoying watching youth soccer on the side, and trying to stay afloat with three daughters.”

Darin saw Rory Muhammad on a recent trip to Baltimore.

“All’s well here,” writes Charlie Garland from Rye, N.Y. “Young Charlie, 15, and I enjoyed a pheasant shoot last month with Walker Jones and Si Jones, 13. It was great to be with Walker, who remains in the education fundraising business and appears healthy and happy.”

Charlie’s daughter, Ellie, is a sophomore in college. When he is not

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1990 Kent Chan kchanster@aol.com As we approach almost 28 years since our 1990 Gilman graduation, I am happy to say that the response to our annual class notes continues to be strong and there appears to be even more enthusiasm each year. And now, in no particular order and in your own words...

Walter Lohr lives in the mountains in Southern California and enjoys time outdoors with family and friends. He works in the skateboarding business and is slowly becoming a better surfer.

Chris Malaisrie lives in Chicago with his wife and three kids (boy, 17, boy, 14, girl, 10). He is a cardiac surgeon at Northwestern.

Doug Hoffberger still lives in Baltimore with his wife (Catherine) and three kids. “Our oldest daughter Olivia is attending Colorado College this fall and will be playing lacrosse for the Tigers.

Charlotte is a senior at Bryn Mawr, and Henry is an eighth grader at Gilman.”

Doug’s currently laid up recovering from his second open heart procedure to repair his mitral valve. He is fortunate to have a incredible caregiver in his wife, who even left her job at US Lacrosse to take care of him. While his valve needed the repair, he otherwise feels great and was able to ski at Snowbird and lose in the finals of the U.S. National squash doubles tournament for the fifth time a couple weeks before surgery. His first real outing since surgery was a dinner ceremony in April inducting him into the Maryland State Squash Hall of Fame. He would love to see any classmates passing thru Baltimore this summer.

After several years of soaking up the sun in South Florida, “MATTY HO-WITZ” (Matthew Horowitz) has returned to his place of birth, Baltimore, settling in

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historic Rodgers Forge just across from the famous “TOT-LOT” with his wife Jen and their two kids. Reconnecting with old friends and classmates in “The Land of Pleasant Living” has been great. “It’s good to be home.”

Peter Neimeyer still lives in Western Massachusetts with his two kids parttime, and continues to teach social studies, although he is dipping his toes into computer science, and wishes his old friend Chris would offer him a digital-commuting job working on video game development.

Peter is also aware that his English teaching friends might be aware of his use of the third person and run on sentences as evidence that he was not really tuned-in to Mr. Tickner’s grammar lessons back in the day. This past few years he has been learning how to turn a wrench on engines (1974 Honda motorcycle), teaching himself website work (for his school district), and trying to figure out what he needs to learn to get that side job he referenced above.

Christopher Clark lives in Franklin, Mass., with his wife, three kids, two dogs, and one cat. He works in the software industry for a company that makes video games.

Bill Guyton is neck deep in highperformance computing at Shell, based in Houston not too far from his brother Nat. He has very little time for anything while he chases after his three kids along with his wife, Tracy, whom he met at Rice.

Michael Lentz (still) lives in Baltimore with his wife, and (still) practices law, mostly representing small businesses and the people who own them. Given the state of the offseason, he’s contemplating trying to walk on at tight end for the Ravens. Free time that used to be devoted to the twin pillars of poker and good whiskey now gets devoted to his two (step) grandchildren, Louisa, 3, and Alex, 1. Yes, grandchildren.

Okay, quick poll...who, 27 years ago, had Lentz as the first to become a grandfather?

Not quite UMBC over Virginia, but not

far off, as upsets go. Nonetheless, he highly recommends grandchildren, as both a wonderful way to spend free time, and a near universal improvement on children.

Evan Davis is still in Baltimore. Kids are just older, and he has been at the same job longer.

Craig Dates lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife and their three sons Alex, 12, Nate, 10, and Max, 8. He is a full-time traveling emergency physician working as far west as Nevada.

Daniel Langenthal lives in Cambridge, Mass. He is the director of the Leadership Development Institute at the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston. Essentially that means he is an organizational consultant to Jewish organizations in the Boston area, helping them with such issues as conflict resolution, board development, visioning work, and change management.

He is on the boards of MABAT (the non-profit he founded in Israel) and City Sprouts, which incorporates urban gardening in local public school education.

He volunteers with the local Hevra Kadisha, which ritually cleanses deceased Jewish people before they are buried. He spends his free time hanging out with friends, seeing live music, and playing outdoors.

Tom O’Neil lives in Seattle with his wife and two little girls (2½ and 4 months).

He works on cloud architecture and software design at Tableau Software, and spends most of his time enjoying Seattle’s craft beer and soccer scene, not complaining about the weather (“it’s really not that bad”), and trying to convince his two little girls to become Ravens and Orioles fans.

Sam Knowles is living in northern Virginia with his wife, Aida, and their daughter, Sofia. He’s a government contracts lawyer with DLA Piper in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Sam keeps a pair of running shoes in his office and enjoys jogging on the Mall when time permits. He also tries to keep tabs on Big Ten wrestling since Maryland joined

the conference. He recently went to see Maryland vs. Iowa in College Park with Mark Harbold, among others.

Jack Shaw is still living in a 200-yearold barn/chalet in the Swiss Alps, running his adventure travel company Epic Europe, and skiing, biking, and hiking through the mountains of Switzerland, France, and Italy.

He was fortunate to catch up with several old Gilman classmates at the wedding of Stephen “Lino” Linaweaver last August in the Berkeley (California) hills. Otherwise, he frequently sees other Greyhounds back in Baltimore or in London. He encourages anyone who finds themselves headed to the Alps to look him up.

Perry Offutt and his wife, Ellen, still live in New York City, raising two children (James, 11, and Caroline, 9). However, most of his time this winter was at various hockey rinks within an hour of the city for his son’s travel team...at some point, he hopes to get his weekends back.

Jon Meredith has been working in independent schools since college and is currently the Middle School Director at Durham Academy in Durham, N.C. His wife is also an educator and they have two beautiful kids (15 and 12) and two dogs. Jon coaches youth lacrosse and likes the whole “farm to table” food scene in Durham a little too much.

Andrew Gerle is still playing the piano and creating theatrical mischief, teaching at the Manhattan School of Music and Yale. He is juggling a few different musical writing projects, including an immersive electro-swing speakeasy show (he doesn’t quite know what that means, either), and his second book will be published this summer, a textbook that tries to help actors read music better so they stop wasting his time at rehearsals. He lives with his husband, Joe, in Queens, N.Y., with their new 1-year-old cat, Nora.

A year and a half ago, John Rybock said “what the hell” and Facebook-friended a girl he’d liked back in his college days.

Now, he lives in Chelsea, Mich., with his new fiancée and soon-to-be stepdaughter.

He runs a kitchen in Ann Arbor just a mile from one of his favorite spots, The Big House, but, given his choice of career, is still forced to watch Wolverine football on the DVR.

Tim Tadder is still freakishly tall and is considering helping Lebron out in Cleveland since the Deandre Jordan trade fell through. He is no longer interested obtaining an Oscar as he filled the space on his bookshelf with a nice snow globe from Nebraska. If basketball does not work out, he has his eyes set on the 2022 Olympics in Beijing for curling, cause he has a nice outfit already picked out.

Eric David still lives in Raleigh, practicing business and First Amendment litigation at a firm there. He and Sarah have two boys, almost 10 and 7. The oldest is honoring his Baltimore roots by playing lacrosse this spring.

Stephen Linaweaver’s big news is that he got married this summer to Laurel Peacock, a fantastic woman born in Montana and raised in Tucson. She is as passionate as he is about the outdoors and protecting wild places, and even has the patience to teach him how to fly fish. The two spent their honeymoon on an epic trip to the Alps, where they were fortunate to spend time with Jack Shaw and Susanna Magruder. Stephen and Laurel live in Oakland, Calif.

Jamie Schapiro lives outside of Newport, R.I., home of the bomb cyclone.

It was a windy one that day. He has lived there for 13 years with his wife and growing three boys (ages 8, 10, 12). Three boys keep him on his toes at all times.

After spending more than two decades of successfully driving the development, launch, and growth of differentiated consumer goods at industry-leading startups and mature companies, he’s exploring options for the next chapter in his professional life. He’s in the networking

stage, so he welcomes anyone to contact him with any leads. Hint, hint.

Andy Cohen lives in Manhattan with his wife, Suzi, and two sons. Eight years ago, he started the family office and private investing firm for the founder of the hedge fund where he worked for a number of years. Still playing tennis, but spending more time trying to learn to golf. If ever in N.Y.C., please let him know!

Nicholas Judson lives in Cambridge, Mass., and has succeeded like the monster.com ads encouraged us to, by achieving the rank of middle management.

He helps lead the energy systems group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he directs teams of engineers and researchers to increase the energy resilience of power systems that serve critical Department of Defense missions and the nation. He has been late to the party of having offspring, but is very excited to have his two-year old daughter fill his spare time.

Gordon Griffith lives in Seattle with his wife and two boys (Jack and Eli). He is a cog in the corporate wheel that is Amazon, specifically running finance for Amazon Prime and marketing activities. In his spare time, he coaches youth lacrosse which is growing in popularity, and skis as much as his aching bones will allow. He looks forward to Tim Tadder’s Oscar acceptance speech.

Sebastian Seiguer lives in Baltimore and is lucky to have five great kids (Nick, Robert, Jack, Grace, Luke) and an amazing wife, Eileen. Sebastian is founder and CEO of emocha Mobile Health, a Hopkins spin-out technology that makes sure that patients take their medication. Sebastian will...[ETHAN EWING—put output from prediction machine here; if you need further inputs throw in keywords “vasectomy” and “IPO”].

Allen Hsiao still lives in Connecticut (where he planned to spend only three years for residency) with his lovely wife Joyce and their two tweenagers. He’s on faculty at the

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School of Medicine there and serves as the physician lead for information technology.

Allen is surprised Henry Cha hasn’t tried to sell his health system or something yet.

Ryan Jordan is in his fourth year living in Tampa, Fla., and serving as Upper Division director at Berkeley Preparatory School. He is blessed to have his two kids attend the same school, and they all love Tampa. He has had the pleasure of having Mr. Tim Holley visit him and his school, and he saw Casey Gordon while he was visiting his father from London. Visitors are always welcome!

Brett Garfinkel still lives in New York City (Union Square), and is CEO, co-founder of SYLO, the standard measurement and third-party verification source for the influencer marketing space. He hasn’t settled down yet (close once), and still enjoys re-enacting the following scene from Goodfellas with his Jewish ma. [BRETT’S MOM: Why don’t you get yourself a nice girl? BRETT: I get a nice one almost every night, Ma. BRETT’S MOM: Yeah, but get yourself a girl so you can settle down.

BRETT: I settle down almost every night, but then in the morning, I’m free.]

Greg Friedman continues to work in the commercial real estate field alongside Doug Kaufman. He tries to work as little as possible, while trying to find people who will play hooky with him and ski in the winter (U.S.-based classmates feel free to join.) (John Schmick continues to leave small notes in his mailbox any day he does not go into the office.) Wife, two kids in eighth and ninth grade, and a dog. He still lives in Baltimore.

Ethan Ewing lives in the Bay area with his wife Ann and two daughters.

He’s building a business to predict what you’re going to do next. Mr. Schmick did the same thing 30 years ago, but never commercialized it.

Brooks Paternotte enjoys his work at Irvine Nature Center in Owing Mills. His son Jack is in fourth grade at Gilman and

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loves playing squash; daughter Emma is in third grade at Garrison Forest School and has passions for dance and horseback riding.

His wife, Elizabeth (RPCS ’91), continues to work with the region’s top performance horses administering chiropractic and acupuncture treatments as a DVM.

Justin Brown is a physician in Charlotte, N.C. He is happily married and has six children, ages 24 to 3. He gets back to Baltimore a couple times a year to visit family. He took a walk around the Gilman campus last summer for the first time since 1990 and was very impressed with the improvements. Look him up if you’re ever in Charlotte.

Henry Hyuk Cha lives in Ellicott City and is currently running a venture-backed healthcare IT company. He’s looking for great investors in a B series raise for his awesome products in an exploding industry!

He is happily married to his high school sweetheart from BMS, Alexandra, and has three kids.

As for me, Kent Chan, N.Y.C. is still home. When not working as a gynecologic oncologist at NYU, I am hiding out still in Miami or Water Mill with my family. One of the major highlights of 2018 was the completion of a house in Water Mill that was years in the making. I look forward to getting in touch with all of you again next year, and I hope even more past classmates. Be well.

1993 Matthew Tucker mtucker@metacoastal.com The Class of 1993 celebrated its 25th reunion on April 28 at Headmaster Henry Smyth’s home. We had close to 50 classmates in attendance including at least three classmates who left prior to graduation, Ruffin Bell, Matt Meredith,

and Chris ‘Critter’ Paternotte. A great time was had by all. In the lead-up to the reunion, many of our classmates sent updates via a chain email, making my job easy. The highlights are below, with reunion chairs Matt Dent and Peter McGill and the reunion committee of Matt Baum, John DeLong, Charlie Fenwick, Rock Harrison, Tobin Kim, Dave Lapides, Nelson Oster, and David Powell listed first, followed by the rest of the class in alphabetical order.

Matt Dent lives in Baltimore with his wife Dulaney and their three kids, Gray (in the seventh grade at Gilman), Charlotte, and Maddie. When he isn’t running sub threehour marathons, he bides his time as the president of DF Dent & Co., the investment firm founded by his father more than 40 years ago. On behalf of the entire class, I’d like to thank Matt for his work organizing the class reunion and reconnecting our class—it was an amazing event.

Peter McGill also lives in town with his wife Carroll and their children. Pete is a senior director at Cushman Wakefield and when he isn’t working or on the links, he can be found roaming the sidelines coaching girls’ lacrosse.

One of two classmates whom I had the pleasure of carpooling to Gilman with, Matt Baum, lives in Baltimore with his wife Deb and two children, Beatrice and Max. Matt is the head of the Gilman Upper School History Department and also coaches basketball. In his spare time, Matt is Alabama football’s #1 fan—ROLL TIDE ROLL.

Charlie Fenwick also lives in town and works with Cushman Wakefield, where he is a senior director. Peter writes that he and his wife Muffy seem to be Uber drivers taking their two kids, Charlie and Annie, to lacrosse, social events, tournaments, etc.

Charlie has always been and will always be one of the most dedicated and integral members of our class even if he noted that he “may not have graduated in 1993”

(Editor’s note: he had a pretty good excuse).

Tobin Kim lives in Westfield, N.J., with his wife Dustyn and children Mason and Lyla. He works at Bloomberg LP as a global product manager leading Bloomberg’s automated data insights effort. His spare time—to the extent he has any—is spent golfing and smoking as much meat as possible on the Big Green Egg.

Dave Lapides also checks in from Baltimore where he works for his own company owning and leasing commercial and multi-family spaces in Baltimore, mostly historical buildings. He also serves on the boards of several non-profits managing grant-based placemaking projects in Midtown Baltimore—particularly Station North—where he is currently planning to renovate the medians along North Avenue.

Nelson Oster also lives in town with his wife Megan and their two daughters.

He’s currently a principal at HMS Insurance Associates, and I’ve had the privilege of seeing his acumen and dedication to his clients in action. In his spare time, Nel has apparently taken his Class of ’93 Senior Poll title as “most likely to be an alum” to heart, working hard supporting Gilman, its students and teachers in countless ways.

I can also confirm that he predicted the Trump presidency in 1987, maybe earlier.

David Powell lives in—you guessed it—Baltimore with his wife, Kate, and their two daughters. Dave works as the portfolio manager of the Large-Cap Sustainable Growth strategy at Brown Advisory. He and his co-manager appeared in the December 26, 2017, edition of Forbes entitled “Green is Good, For Returns.”

Reid Armbruster travelled from Manhattan for the reunion with his wife, Cecilia, and their 5-week old twin girls, Carolina and Isadora (who sadly were with Reid’s parents during the reunion).

Reid reported that after graduating from Princeton, he spent a disastrous year in L.A. trying to make it in show biz (been there, done that), then made a beeline back

to New York, where he worked in various advertising and creative agencies and got an MBA at NYU before going over to the client (i.e., “the dark”) side four years ago.

Reid is currently the senior director of marketing for original and exclusive releases at Audible, the audiobook arm of Amazon.

Greg Bader is currently the VP of communications and marketing for the Baltimore Orioles, and this is his 25th season in the organization. He started with an internship in PR after his freshman year in college, thanks to Lou Kousouris’s father, who gave him his first shot and continued to bring him back in various capacities each summer he was in school. Upon graduating from Trinity, Greg landed a full-time gig at the O’s and has never left. Greg moved into the city almost three years ago, and lives with his husband John and their 8-year old pug Parker at Silo Point in Locust Point. Greg says that city living absolutely agrees with him, and he encourages anyone thinking of moving into or back into Baltimore to take the plunge (and he isn’t just saying that because of his role on the board for Visit Baltimore).

After 15 years in NYC and three years in Minneapolis, Brice Baradel followed his role model Brandon Walsh of 90210 fame and moved to L.A., where he is a principal at a $500 million private equity fund called Highview Capital that is part of a family office that manages money for a L.A.-based billionaire. Brice lives in Manhattan Beach with his wife of seven years and two sons, 2 and 4.5.

Mosi Bennett traveled to the reunion from Minneapolis, where he lives with wife Vickie and four sons ranging in age from 9 years to 3 months. Mosi is a heart failure and transplant cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute, where he has been for about five years.

After college and med school, Bill Boonn moved to Philadelphia for residency and stayed on staff at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as a

cardiovascular radiologist. Bill currently lives in the Philly suburbs with his wife, Dollie, and their three kids, Lily, 9, Ella, 7, and Will, 4. Bill caught the entrepreneurial bug a few years ago and started his own software company, Montage Healthcare Solutions, which was acquired about a year and a half ago by Nuance Communications where Bill works as CMIO. Bill also updated the class on two other classmates, Steve Gibson and Ken Lin. Steve currently lives in Oklahoma City working as an anesthesiologist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and runs half-marathons around the country. Ken lives in Dallas, Texas, and is curing cancer at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Sean Bose traveled to the reunion from Austin, Texas, where he has lived for 17 years. Sean met his wife, Taylor, at Bowdoin and they have three children (ages 12, 9, and 2). Sean operates and invests in early stage web, watches his kids grow, and travels as life allows. He recently took the family on a spring break trip to Chile that included hiking the volcanoes, fly fishing, and taking the kiddos to Pearl Jam at Lollapalooza in Santiago.

Ned Bourne also lives in Baltimore with his wife Lori and two daughters, Emily and Whitney. Ned works at Legg Mason and enjoys spending time with the family and playing golf and tennis. I see Ned frequently, especially this past winter when he was Emily’s and my daughter Sally’s rec basketball coach. I don’t think he stunted their basketball skills too much, and they should be back on track in a few years.

Matt Buck has been the head of the Middle School at Calvert for the last 10 years, where he returned after spending the beginning of his teaching career at Gilman.

Matt has been instrumental in continuing Calvert’s success; the school has never been in better shape from its record enrollment to its outstanding financial condition. Matt has two kids—Abby, 13, and Teddy, 10, both

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After time in San Francisco, Austin, Texas, and then Marin County, Rob Carr currently lives in Truckee, Calif., with his wife Colleen and their son Macklin.

Rob is the director of client solutions for Simple Energy, develops software allowing utility companies to analyze customers’ electric and gas consumption and give them tips and recommendations on how to save energy. Rob reports that Truckee is an outdoor paradise, which allows him to put the lessons learned as a member of the Outdoor Awareness Club to good use.

Benjamin Corotis traveled to the reunion from the Bay area, where he’s lived since grad school at Cal. After getting degrees in architecture and engineering, Ben married an architect and eventually started his own architecture and engineering office about four years ago.

Ben reports that it’s been busy and exciting starting the practice with his wife and raising their five-year-old daughter.

Ned Dukehart traveled to the reunion from the Eastern Shore where he lives with his wife and three kids. Ned works in the healthcare and employee benefit sector, and is currently president at Allegeant Accountable Care Solutions. Ned remains an avid hockey fan and coaches his sons in his spare time. Charlie Fenwick also reported that Ned remains a huge baseball fan and they attended a game last year with Greg Bader, during which time Ned pestered Greg with a ton of baseball questions (this is apparently the biggest downside to Greg’s job—more on that below in Trey Winstead’s note).

Shelton Frazier attended the reunion. Shelton reported that he has spent the last five years in healthcare IT after 15 previous years in healthcare administration. He is also the father of a lovely 20-year-old college sophomore, remains a diehard Orioles fan, and has still never had a cup of coffee in his life.

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Northern Virginia, where he lives with his wife Cara and their three-year old. He reports that he has had a pretty varied career—first, he got undergrad and master’s degrees in engineering, then switched gears and went to law school when he couldn’t shake the political/policy bug (which should come as no surprise to anyone) and took classes in grad school on science policy. After clerking in Houston, Mike spent the first 10 years of his career focusing on export controls and economic sanctions law in D.C. (lots of business lately) and then switched gears again to become the lead counsel for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. DARPA for the IC. Finally, he returned to the private sector in 2017 as VP and deputy general counsel for CACI International Inc, a midsize defense contractor in D.C. Mike reports that his son has a great throwing arm, can identify the Raven bird and the Oriole bird, and his latest favorite word is “Harbs.” Congrats on a job well done in that regard, Mike. Much better than Rob Schapiro (see below).

Jon Githens-Mazer traveled all the way from England to the reunion. G-M reports that he has become a fully confirmed tea and warm beer drinker after 20 years of living in U.K.. He earned his PhD at the London School of Economics, then spent time in London and Cornwall, before moving to the beach on the South Devon coast in Teignmouth, not far from Exeter, where he lives with wife Gayle and children Lilly, 12, Nathaniel, 9, and Gabriel, 7. G-M works in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, and also spends time doing consultancy up in London and out in North Africa. In his spare time, G-M can be found logging miles and wearing out running shoes throughout England.

Andy Goodman checked in from Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife Jessica in Silverlake. Andy began his career after college in the “bowels of TV and

film production,” during which time he occasionally bumped into Greg Lessans on the lot and briefly worked with both the future Mrs. Matt Tucker and Mrs. Reid Armbruster (editor’s note: those are two separate people). Andy then moved to NYC to get his MBA at Columbia before being lured back west, where he’s spent the past decade working at AT&T / DIRECTV, where he oversees apps and digital streaming negotiations with TV networks.

Jason Griswold lives in Concord, Mass., with his wife, AJ, and their four kids (two boys and two girls, all of whom play ice hockey like their mom and dad).

The whole family recently traveled to Pyeongchang, Korea for the Winter Olympics to support AJ as she announced all the USA Women’s Ice Hockey Games (she won gold and silver herself at Nagano and Park City, respectively). Jason started a firm called Brown Aviation Lease which owns and leases training aircraft to colleges and universities for flight training programs. More recently, Jason co-founded an IT company called Rein, Inc., where he serves as the COO. In his spare time he bought and rebuilt an old school bus that he travels around with his family to hockey tournaments. In 2013, in an effort to share his entrepreneurial passion with Gilman, he initiated Gilman’s Start-Up Experience with classmate Nick Owsley.

Jon Hamman checked in from Rural Retreat, Va., where he and his wife, Chelsea, somehow find the time to raise five kids (ranging in age from high school senior to 5), run a medical practice, minister to four to six Lutheran Churches, and Jon serves as an internship supervisor most years. If that isn’t enough to keep them busy, they also live on a 50+ acre farm where they raise milk goats. I’m stressed out just writing all of that and tip my hat to Jon for his hard work and dedication.

Chris Hlubb has endured one of the most varied careers anyone could imagine. After college, he worked in a genetics research lab at the Kennedy

Krieger Institute, then moved over to the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins, working on the expansion of neurophysiologic monitoring tech. He then worked for two biomedical companies in the same sector, during which time he met his wife, Carola. In 2004, Chris moved to Chile and ended up picking grapes on a 6,000-acre vineyard cooperative owned by his wife’s family, which led to him becoming an advisor to a pro-trade group on the U.S. retail market and product development for the food and beverage sector. Chris then helped run a food industry conglomerate, which had some interesting international government relations issues, before ultimately relocating back to Maryland in March with his wife and daughters Heidi and Gretel, with stepdaughter Nicole nearby in college at Hopkins (editor’s note: I’m exhausted just typing all of that).

Amit Joshi has been appointed Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Surgery at Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia.

He has been at Einstein since 2010, and has served as Residency Program Director since 2013. He is an associate Professor of Surgery at the Sidney Kimmel College of Thomas Jefferson University. Amit is a general surgeon, with an interest in laparoscopic hernia repair. He is also Vice Chair of the SCORE Advisory Board and a member of the ERAS Advisory Council.

He and his wife, Nikki, a radiologist, live in Moorestown, NJ with their two children, Layla (8) and Vikram (7).

Jason Klaitman traveled to the reunion from Chapel Hill, N.C., where he got his MBA. He lives with his wife, Alison, two daughters, Abby, 11, and Liza, 9, and a healthy gaggle of pets, which is par for the course when you are married to a veterinarian. Save for three years working in middle market investment banking in Boston, Jason has spent his entire career working in real estate; first in senior housing development, then corporate real estate for a multinational, and for the last 12 years,

for a private real estate investment firm in Raleigh where he manages a portfolio of apartment complexes and develops and manages self-storage facilities. In his spare time, Jason spends as much time as possible in the woods on his mountain bike training for Xterras.

Damon Krieger lives in Baltimore with his wife and two sons, Nathaniel, 9, and Wesley, 12, both of whom attend Gilman.

After law school at Maryland, a Federal clerkship, six years at DLA Piper, and a stint in the in-house legal department of a public coal mining company, Damon currently works as associate general counsel at Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, where he’s been for eight years. Unfortunately, Damon couldn’t attend the reunion because he was coaching his son Wesley’s baseball team at a weekend tournament in Hershey, Pa. However, Damon reported that he keeps in contact with John Goodell, Amit Joshi, and Greg Lessans, who his family visited over spring break in California.

Mike Kunzelman checked in from Louisiana to report that he was moving back to Maryland. Mike is an Associated Press reporter who met his wife, Laura, in New Orleans after the AP sent him down to cover Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath in 2006; she worked for the Times-Picayune. In 2010, the AP let Mike take a short break from covering BP’s Gulf oil spill to marry Laura.

They had their first (and last) kid in 2012, Augie, who starts first grade in the fall.

Greg Lessans has been living in L.A. for more than 20 years and has been married to his wife Alexis for 16. They have three kids, Samuel, 13, Amelia, 11, and Asher, 7. Greg reported that he has had quite an adventure as a producer/writer in Hollywood, developing the musical Wicked and the Legally Blonde movies, producing My Best Friend’s Girl, “starting a film company” for Dr. Dre (in quotes because in actuality he claims to have done nothing for a year… but what a year), and writing a couple of animated movies for Fox which may or may not ever get made. Greg is now running a

production company at Paramount, working on movies and TV shows of every shape and size—from Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six to a period drama called The Three Year Swim Club, based on an amazing book by our former teacher Julie Checkoway! Greg also noted that he’s has the opportunity to hang out with Mark Lord a bunch over the years.

Jeremy Levy lives in Arlington, Va., with his wife, Allison, and twin boys Adam and Brooks, who Jeremy reports have about an hour of decent behavior each day between the two of them. Jeremy has been working in corporate finance for a few different software companies over the past 10 or so years. In his spare time, he coaches little league and maintains total allegiance to Baltimore sports; he has been an O’s season ticket holder for 19 years now and attends all of the Ravens home games.

After spending his post-college years in New York and more recently Los Angeles, Mark Lord recently moved back to Charm City. After an accomplished screenwriting career, Mark is now pursuing a career in photography. His work is nothing short of breathtaking and can be found online at markvlordphotography.com.

I ran into Will Marbury a few times this spring at Friends, where he teaches math and coaches basketball, and where my kids have lacrosse practice. Coincidentally, one afternoon last spring Will was coaching baseball and had to ask a few people playing catch to get off his field, only to discover the people were Mark Lord and his niece—Smalltimore indeed.

Will is married with two kids, and when he isn’t teaching, coaching, or fathering, he finds time to stay involved in social action, participating in demonstrations and helping with legislative work.

Tim MacColl checked in from Haverford, Pa., where he lives with his wife and kids (ages 11, 9, and 5). After college, Tim moved to NYC and worked in banking and private equity. In 2005, frustrated with bosses and wanting to do

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something entrepreneurial, he quit his job and looked for a business to buy and grow.

Tim ended up starting a private equity fund with one of his college roommates and has been growing that ever since. He has also been able to play golf and catch up over the years with Charlie Fenwick, Chris Carroll, and Ned Dukehart, and bumped into Matt Dent while we were all dropping off and picking up our kids at camp in New Hampshire.

Blake McCallister checks in from Menlo Park, Calif., where he has lived for the past three years with his wife and children after stints in L.A. and NYC. Blake currently works for a software startup in Palo Alto, Calif. He gets up to San Francisco when he can, and recently caught up with Matt Buck when he was visiting there. He also traveled with Matt Buck, Matt Baum, Nick Owsley, Mike Kunzelman, and David Powell for the LSU/ Alabama game in Baton Rouge in the fall of 2016, which he described as a pretty spectacular experience. Other than family and work, Blake plays in a couple of soccer leagues each week in an effort to see if he can beat back time a little.

Steve McIntire lives in Baltimore with his wife and two children (although unlike the rest of us boring homebodies he spent a large part of the last 10 years living in the Middle East). Steve is running for state delegate in Baltimore County to serve Towson residents. To read more about his campaign, please visit stevemcintire.org.

Mike McWilliams and his wife, Christine, travelled from Boston to attend the reunion. Mike and Christine have two kids, Aidan, 8, and Isabel, 5, and live in Jamaica Plain just a few blocks away from Dave Shapiro and family. Mike is a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, where he does research on our dysfunctional health care system, teaches some, and practices general internal medicine part-time. Like about 75% of our classmates, Mike echoed his love for the Orioles in his update, noting that he has

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narrowly escaped injury at Fenway Park on multiple occasions wearing the orange and black.

Tony Nguyen was unable to make it to the reunion, but he had a good excuse: he was married in early April to his partner of four years, Jessica Wang, and had a family gathering to celebrate in California on the same weekend as the reunion. Tony works as an advanced practice pharmacist at a health clinic in the Tenderloin in San Fran. He notes that he sees some really sick, indigent, unstable, and medically complex individuals, often in the throes of addiction or mental illness, but that he works with an incredible group of health providers and is grateful for the opportunity to collaborate and help others in need. When he isn’t working, Tony can be found climbing the wonderful granite walls of California and many other places.

David Olsson checked in from London, where he has lived since 2007, after brief stints in documentary film production and at a think tank, followed by a career on Wall St. He currently works in wealth management at Credit Suisse. Doobs met his wife at a dinner party in London and she coincidentally grew up in Columbia, Md., of all places. They have two children, ages 2.5 years and 3 months. Dave reported that he recently attended a Gilman event in London hosted by Henry Smyth and thoroughly enjoyed meeting Mr. Smyth and connecting with other alums.

Nick Owsley lives and works in Cambridge, Mass. He’s married with two daughters (ages 4 and 2) and tries to find time once a month to exercise. Nick has been involved in web-based startups over the years and helped develop Gilman’s Start-Up Experience with Jason Griswold. Currently, Nick is part of a small media business that owns and operates a few digital brands, with the biggest being TipHero. TipHero’s largest following comes from within Facebook and Instagram, and the content is focused on tips and hacks for in/around the home (and

very little fake news!).

Chris (Critter) Paternotte lives in town and attended the reunion. He is embedded in the Gilman community where his two sons, Miles and Truman, are both students (in tenth and seventh grades, respectively) and his dad (’63) is heavily involved. After graduating college and then culinary school, Critter was in the restaurant business around N.Y. and Baltimore from ’97-’09.

He then got burned out and tired of the restaurant shenanigans and horrible hours and turned to the more mellow coffee industry, where he now works in business development for Baltimore Coffee and Tea Company.

Tom Pinit checked in from Portland, Ore., where he’s lived since 2000 with his wife, Kirstin, being joined more recently by two boys, Casey and Griffin. Tom has spent his career in the environmental field and currently works for The Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit working at the intersection of environmental conservation and economic development. Tom also finds time to play mandolin in a couple Brazilian bands and the Oregon Mandolin Orchestra, who unfortunately traveled to Germany in May to play in a world music festival, causing him to miss our reunion.

Lastly, Tom noted that he has run into Mark Shavers and Damian Crowder recently, both of whom also live in Portland.

Ted Russell travelled all the way to the reunion from Lutherville, where he lives with his wife and two daughters (ages 8 and 4). After spending the early part of his career underwriting and structuring commercial mortgage back securities, Ted joined what was at the time a small start-up private commercial real estate development company focusing primarily on life science and technology developments around university campuses. After going through multiple M&A transactions the last several years—being acquired by a public REIT, then by Blackstone, in 2016 Ted and his partners were able to successfully purchase the company back and now the team is

starting anew with the goal of doing it all over again. Ted reports that aside from his career and family, one of his biggest accomplishments is that to this day, he has still never logged onto, or even viewed, Facebook.

Rob Schapiro checks in from Houston, Texas, where he is currently the innovation manager for exploration at ExxonMobil. When he isn’t spending time with his wife, Robyn, and sons, Ethan and Simon, he can be found rooting for the Astros, having abandoned the Orioles in true turncoat fashion.

Eric Schline lives a stone’s throw from Gilman with his wife, Danielle, son Jackson, 7, and daughter, Maya, 5. Eric practices corporate and real estate law at The Law Offices of Eric R. Schline. He spends most weekends in the summer at the beach and as much time as possible in the ocean fishing on his boat.

Kevin Scott lives in Philadelphia where he’s currently enjoying an early (and temporary) second retirement playing the role of Mr. Mom taking care of his and his wife Brandy’s 8-month-old daughter Jessie, along with sister Rohen, 5, and brothers Austin, 18, and Charlie, 6. After working as a family physician in Philadelphia at Jefferson and at a federally qualified health center while also working to improve access to quality care for individuals with experiences of homelessness and recently resettled refugees, Kevin is also finishing up a public health program while looking for ways to help contribute to the next generation of health care delivery.

David Shapiro checks in from Boston, where he works as the CEO of MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, working to advance the quantity and quality of mentoring relationships available to the nation’s young people with thousands of programs and 25 state affiliates. He said MENTOR recently launched in Maryland, and Louie Kousouris and Charlie Fenwick went to

some of the meetings/events about it.

David is married with two sons. He coaches both boys in Little League which he enjoys tremendously and protects that time from the demands of work as much as possible.

His wife, Kristin, is a college access/ affordability advisor in Boston Public Schools.

Joe Short checked in from Concord, N.H., where he has lived since 2004 and is the vice president of an organization called the Northern Forest Center, which works on forest conservation and rural economic development across the forests of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and upstate New York. On the family side, Joe met his wife Liz at the University of Michigan while Joe was in grad school; they married in 2005 and have two daughters, 9 and 6. In his spare time, Joe enjoys New England in all its seasons—skiing in winter and hiking, camping and paddling in the rest of the year.

Alex Slagle lives in San Francisco with his wife Angela and their two daughters.

When he isn’t competing in working as an equity research analyst covering the restaurant industry, he spends his time participating in tea parties for stuffed animals, watching ballet performances, biking (both on trails and commuting to work), and home brewing.

Bryan Smith checked in from Darien, Conn., where he lives with his wife Kristen and daughters Marley, 4, and Reagan, 1.

Bryan leads a team at U.S. Trust, inside the private bank at Bank of America. Bryan noted that after 46 years, his father retired at the end of the school year. He worked with Tim Holley as assistant AD for the last 10 years.

Adam Spivak wasn’t able to attend the reunion, but he had a pretty solid excuse— Adam and his wife Emily welcomed their daughter Lillie to the world a few weeks prior to the reunion. The Spivaks, who also have two older daughters, live in Salt Lake City, where Adam and Emily both work at the University of Utah as infectious disease

physicians. Adam also teaches in the medical school and does some lab-based research on HIV infection. In their spare time, they hike, bike, camp, and ski as much as possible.

Josh Steinitz checked in from Seattle, where he moved in 2016 with his wife Sylvia after 17 years in San Fran where he worked in the online travel industry at a series of tech startups. He now works in the corporate development team at Amazon, where he runs the “strategic business development” team focused on the company’s worldwide logistics business.

Now instead of thinking about travel and hotels, Josh spends his days thinking about cargo airplanes, autonomous and electric vehicles, trucks, ocean shipping and ports, warehouse robotics, and how Amazon can best get billions of items from wherever they start in the world to your front door.

In his free time, Josh races bikes for a local team, snowboards in the northwest, and climbs mountains in the Cascades, and just generally tries to spend as much time outdoors when he isn’t at the office or traveling for work.

Rahul Swani travelled to the reunion from Boston, where he lives with his wife (who happens to be best friends with Shawn Bose’s wife from boarding school) and their two boys, ages 4 and 7. Like every single classmate (except Rob Schapiro), Rahul reported that he’s raising his children to be die-hard Ravens and Orioles fans. After stints at an environmental policy consulting firm, a small strategy consulting firm, business school at MIT Sloan, and a large investment banking firm, Rahul now works at a technology-focused M&A firm called Aeris Partners, which he helped found. Lastly, Rahul was very happy and proud to point out that his childhood home on the northeast corner of Northern Parkway and Roland Avenue is now part of the Gilman campus, the “Swani House”— named in remembrance of his father who passed away several years ago.

Chris van Bergen checked in from N.Y.C., where he runs a nonprofit

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organization alongside his wife called Nest (www.buildanest.org). They work with artisan and handcraft businesses across 70+ countries, helping provide business capacity training and support to those businesses as well as working with brands such as Target, West Elm, and Eileen Fisher on their sourcing strategy and on improving the transparency and ethical compliance of the artisan supply chain, which primarily operates within the informal economy.

Chris is also the happy father of a threeyear-old boy and five-year-old girl, and just finished up an executive MBA at NYU.

Trey Winstead lives in Baltimore and works as a project manager for Whiting Turner, where he is currently heading their efforts to build Towson University’s new Science Complex, a 320,000-square foot academic and research space to be located along York Road near historic Stephens Hall (and near even more historic Bill Bateman’s). In his spare time, Trey can be found holding court at the Admiral’s Cup in Fells Point or the treehouse he recently built (think house in a tree, not what you played in as a kid). Trey attended the reunion and spent the majority of his time harassing Greg Bader and Lou Kousouris in the hopes of being named the next manager of the Orioles (apparently unaware that Buck is still in the position).

As for me, I live in town and am the general counsel of a group of affiliated companies in the travel/tourism sector based in Anne Arundel County, where I’ve been for about seven years. Outside of my career, I’m currently working on starting a non-profit boys and girls club modeled after the Lancers, with the goal of getting off the ground in 2019. I have two kids, Felix, 10, who goes to BL (the horror!), and Sally, 7. Living in Baltimore, I see our classmates who live in the area all the time which is great. In fact, I saw Eric Schline roughly seven times during the week of the reunion at carpool, lax practice, and, finally, at Mr. Smyth’s house (although for the record we only had drinks at the reunion).

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Lastly, the Class of 1993 also lost a member this past year. Bryan Berg passed away in January while living in Florida.

I’ll remember Bryan for his infectious positive attitude, welcoming smile, and world-renowned Vanilla Ice impersonation.

Bryan was a great son, brother, friend, and classmate, and he will be sorely missed.

1994 Boyne Kim boyne.kim@gmail.com Tom Coleman and his wife, Ashley, an internist, have three wonderful, lively boys: Andrew (8), Dylan (5), and Chris (2). “If only we lived in Baltimore, they would be at Gilman scheming like their father. Dr. Ashley Coleman and I are partners at Lucas and Cavalier, and are otherwise well.”

Than’l Badder just kicked off his second year as the Director of Alumni Relations at Gilman… and is still shocked that they let him back in the front door of Carey Hall. He recently joined the Board of Directors at Genesee Valley Outdoor Learning Center, keeps his photo letter art business (www.36Letters.com) going on the side, and gets outside to run and hike as much as possible. He lives in Homeland with his dog, Earvin Magic Johnson.

P.S. This spring marks our 25th reunion this year! The Class of 1993 had a great showing last April and set a high bar for participation. We hope you’re already making plans to come back to campus April 26-27, 2019.

1995 Interested in serving as your class secretary? Please email Nathaniel Badder at nbadder@alumni.edu.

Last summer, Matthew Woodard moved back to Maryland after being away for nine years. He joined his best friend in practice, and we both practice Oral & Maxillofacial surgery in Columbia and Germantown. He says, “It’s good to be back in Maryland and closer to friends and family.”

1996 Lee Kowarski kowarski@kasina.com As most of our classmates celebrate their 40th birthday this year, there is not a ton of news—everyone seems to be fairly stable with their job and family these days. At John Boyle’s 40th, a bunch of us went back in time and played laser tag in Columbia, Md. (where John lives with his wife, Tara, and son, Johnny). It was great to see David Boyd (who is a veterinarian living in Virginia with his wife, Carrie, and three children), Kevin Frank and his wife, Rebecca (who live in Dallas, where Kevin practices energy law in-house for Atmos Energy Corporation and completed his MBA and MS in finance at the University of Texas at Dallas), and Jason Haas (who is finishing his PhD dissertation at MIT’s Media Lab and raising his threeyear-old twins, Hannah and William, with his wife, Jessica).

Jason Yang, who spent his 40th in New Orleans, continues to work as a butcher at the amazing Fleishers Craft Butchery. My wife and I are excited to take a butchery class from him over the summer.

George Brown, who still runs a residential construction company in Baltimore, checked in to note that his

daughter, Rosa, is 7 and is in first grade at Timonium Elementary, and his son, George Augustus Brown III, is now four.

George has been hanging out with Cliff Athey regularly and was happy to see Gaurab Bansal recently (although under sad circumstances—Mr. Merrill’s memorial service). Noah Gallico, who lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two boys, now has five animals (which seems like way too many to me) and plans to redo his backyard this summer.

Tommy Knowles, who works at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, is loving life as the father of one year old Masie. Similarly, John Raiti is having fun raising Natalia, who is nearly two, in Seattle where John is the senior research engineer for Applied Dexterity, a robotics company.

I had the pleasure of meeting up with James Davis for an Orioles-Yankees spring training game when my flight home from Tampa was canceled. Outside of his work at the Laser Spine Institute, James is engaged to be married, an excellent photographer, and recently got his pilot’s license.

Chaz Howard continues to inspire us all with his amazing work as university chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania.

He uses his position to be an important voice for change in our world.

Eric Holloway is one of our few classmates on the move. He left the East Coast this year to move to Boulder, Colo., as he seeks to nurture a mind-body connection.

With this move, he also switched from working front of house to back of house— last I heard, he was working the garde manger at Black Cat several nights a week, as well as part time prep cook at OAK @ 14 St. He was also spending some time working on Black Cat’s organic farm.

Jason Mersey continues to work for AQR Capital Management out of Chicago, where he and his wife Rachel just moved into a gorgeous new apartment. Speaking of apartments, my wife and I recently completed renovations on an apartment in

New York (which is not something that I would recommend) and are excited to move in. On top of that craziness, the company that I work for was recently acquired by another firm, so we’ll see how that goes.

Other than that, I still serve as a member of the programming committee for the James Beard Foundation and as president of the kasina Youth Foundation for Financial Literacy.

If we aren’t already connected, you can find me on Twitter or Instagram at @ kowarski, as well as on Facebook. I welcome your updates!

In 2016, Joshua Kohn founded Silkworth Capital Partners, (www. silkworthcapital.com), an investment management firm focused on the infrastructure sector.

1997 Will Lanahan will@vineyardvines.com David Chalmers is hoping for plenty of snow this winter to enjoy skiing with his family.

1998 Chad Prather prather.chad@gmail.com Not a whole lot to report this year from Gilman’s most attractive class, likely because a good number of us shared updates in person at the reunion. I will say this, though: We’re even finer to look at now than we were in the ’90s. I’m not quite sure where it all turned for our neighboring cohorts. It’s sad to see ’97 and ’99 slouch so lumpishly toward 40. But ’98, man! We’re cheetahstallions! I know this because I stared at us during the reunion party. To

Alex Bushel, Sasank Chary, Jon Cooper, Bart DeLuca, Sudhir Desai, Nick Funk, Adam Greeff, Palden Hamilton, Justin Harper, Marshall Johnson, Jack Linehan, Joe Logan, Steve Margerum, Viraj Mehta, Wally Pinkard, Tom Prevas, Matt Ragsdale, Randy Resnik, Graham Savage, Evan Shay, Justin Short, Will Spencer, Mark Stamidis, Mike Steelman, Rob Stockman, Butch Trusty, Ali Zamani: I can testify objectively and reliably that in body and countenance you are stunningly beautiful men, each befitting a write-up in Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier. Truly, it was great to see you all at the reunion! And I’ll say this to those who could not be present in April: PLEASE come for the 25th. Real talk, in five years we’ll be 43 or such, which is positively grotesque. There won’t be anything on our social calendars except for colonoscopies (perhaps we can all get those together before the crab feast; find a groupon or something).

Seriously, come out. The 20th was great, and the 25th will be even better with more of us there! So that’s my pitch. For now you’ll have to content yourselves with my efforts to embellish and share your news.

So here they are, the few but mighty updates of 2018: Stuart Cherry continues to serve as deputy legal counsel to Governor Larry Hogan. He and wife Stephanie live in Pikesville with their three kids: Nate, 9, Jared, 4, and Jordana, 1.

Alex “Sandy” London has a new young adult novel due out in the fall. One review by a NYT-bestselling author declares that Black Wings Beating is full of “epic thrills, heart-punching romance, and a marvel of a hero.” As exciting as this professional news may be, even better news is that Sandy and husband Tim are overyjoyed by their daughter, Madeleine, who was born in August and “she’s doing great!”

More baby news: Mark Stamidis and wife Kathy have happily welcomed their first child as well, a son, born in August.

Sticking with family news, the class congratulates newlyweds Dan Diamond

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and Alicia Daugherty. Dan and Alicia were married last May in D.C. The attendance of Calvin Oung, Randy Resnik, Mike Steelman, and Jon Markham no doubt added [fill in the blank] to the occasion.

(It is said that Markham spoke with the breathtaking charm of 1,000 baby hamsters.) When not getting married, Dan continues to crush it at POLITICO, kept ever-busy by the ways of the current administration.

Also very busy, Justin Short. Justin is very busy doing all of the things. He is like a bee. A big yellow bee in the grass.

He tells me often, “There is a lot of grass.”

Other absolutely true news: Tom Prevas is raising live chickens in his basement.

Kevin Culbertson is raising dead chickens in his basement. Nick Funk: “still the same OG, but he’s been low-key, hated on by most these players with no cheese, no deals and no G’s.”

As for yours truly (Chad Prather), nothing new to report except that Lucy, 5, has started talking about her desire for a husband. Sam, 7, believes that marriage is the most gruesome of all compacts.

He recently advised Lucy never to marry “because when you are married your husband cuts your tummy open and puts a baby inside.” Lucy looked at me with doubt and concern. “He’s right,” I said.

1999 Bill Miller bmilleriv@gmail.com SOMEWHERE WARMER Tom Fenton is still living in Dallas. Sarah, Samuel, 4, and Tom welcomed Silas into the family in August 2017.

Kittu Rao is finishing his intern year in general surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Fla. He just came back from India and London, where he saw Bruce

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Bower. Twin Mark Bower lives on the beach in Miami, where he owns the club scene.

Tim Webb welcomed his third daughter, Mason Elizabeth, in March.

Older sisters Avery, 4, and Georgia, 2, love helping care for Mason. Kiran George and his wife, Cassie, added Theodora “Teddy” Ann George on August 15 at a petite 6 lbs even. As if a new baby wasn’t enough to take on, Kiran also started a new job as a digital product manager at Carmax in November.

Jack Dietrich writes, “Just trying to live the high life in the Lowcountry. I have been busy expanding my digital product design and development studio, Fount.

Ellen and I are enjoying raising our two young daughters, Emily and Reese, down in Charleston.”

Brenden Mulligan lives with his wife, Heather, in the San Francisco Bay area.

Brenden works for Google, which bought his company two years ago.

SEXY GIGS Shaun Woodland is making moves acting and auditioning. He played his first lead in a feature film called The Meek, newly available on Amazon Prime. It will also appear at a few film festivals this year.

Shaun also got a small role in the new Purge film in theaters July 4th.

Will Miton is now the proud father of Oliver Miton, who is a little over 18 months now and makes the family laugh everyday.

They live in Brooklyn but are considering a move. Will is still at Southwest Airlines, where he expects to become a captain in the fall. He has also been volunteering at an air museum on Long Island and getting into warbirds.

Jason Johnson, aka “the ’99er formerly known as ‘JJ,’” is married to Brianne and has three kids: Luke, Scarlett, and Sawyer.

They live in Chester Springs, Pa., where he runs Diplomat Demolition. Jason enjoys watching his kids play ice hockey and lacrosse.

BMORE DREAMIN Del Schmidt gets his soul crushed daily but loves every minute of it with Rory, 6, Piper, 3, and Emmett, 1. “Yes I named my kids after a golfer, a Phish song, and a character from back to the future,” Del explains. He also wants everyone to know that he won the alumni weekend golf tourney with newlywed Andy Faraone as well as ’00 peers Sam Crystal and Dan Baker. When he’s not polishing his swing, Del said he “grinds” the Baltimore residential real estate game with his newly merged firm, O’Conor, Mooney & Fitzgerald (some things, like Del’s grinding, never change). He and Meghan reside in their Ruxton money pit.

Beau Smith continues to be a big contributor to the Alumni Association.

“Happy to see strong participation from the class of 1999, led by Del Schmidt, whose years of involvement are nearing a baker’s dozen,” Beau says. “My wife, Becca, and I are starting to look at schools for Reid, 4, and I very much hope he ends up at the Tech!”

If Reid winds up a ’Hound, he may have the privilege of learning algebra or geometry from Will Bartz. Will also coaches varsity hoops. The team looks very strong and played in summer leagues at St. Paul’s. Send Will a note if you want to see a game or get more involved.

Pat Mooney teaches English at Severn School, though he keeps it real in Locust Point. P-Moons also coaches JV lax and middle school hoops; no word on the extent to which he funnels talent to Will Bartz.

Tim Hurley switched law firms, starting the new Baltimore office of Nelson Mullins.

Charles Wagandt is hot on Del’s tail for Gilman involvement feats, closing in on a decade on the alumni board and three years on the Board of Trustees. He lives in Baltimore County with Lauren and his kids, Molly, 4, and Chase, 1.

Bill Miller and Becky live in Ruxton with Natalie, 4, and Five, 2. He runs the

Miller Income Fund for Miller Value Partners. Bill has recently taken up golf and hopes to make Del’s championship squad one day.

Jamie Hodges and Lexie live with daughter, McKenzie, 2, and are expecting another baby in November! “I’ve been spending a lot of time at The Foundery, Sagamore’s makerspace in Port Covington, designing and patenting technologies for various startup companies,” Jamie writes.

“I recently took over full ownership of the family business, Charles H. Hodges & Son, Inc.” Jamie represents the fourth generation spanning over 85 years.

Jeff Hossfeld is still in Fells Point working as a project manager at WhitingTurner Contracting Co., where he is starting on a new project managing the construction of a new laboratory building at Anne Arundel Community College.

Craig Bennett teaches history and coaches lacrosse at Calvert. He recently had a daughter, Eloise.

Bill Hildebrandt and Kara live in Locust Point with Liam, 3, and twins Hailey and Hayden, 4 months. He trades equipment portfolios for SunTrust.

2000 Charlie Ring Charlie.Ring@gmail.com After 10 years at Disney Channel Worldwide, Gerard Raiti left the Walt Disney Co. to pursue an exciting opportunity at Warner Bros. There, he will be working at DC Entertainment where he will be responsible for the content strategy for their forthcoming direct to consumer OTT service. DC is home to Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, among numerous others.

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Joe Hong joe.hong@post.harvard.edu

Alex Cole alexander.w.cole@gmail.com

Saravuth Lerkaram is in Vet School! Class of 2020 at VMCVM (Virginia Tech).

Following clerkships at the federal district courts in Baltimore, Michael Brown joined the Commercial & Business Litigation group of Miles & Stockbridge, PC.

2002

After four years at Twitter, Jeff Seibert left to spend nine months traveling with Cheri. They recently got back to San Francisco after eating and photographing their way through New Zealand, Japan, Italy, Costa Rica, Croatia, Austria, Botswana, and the Seychelles, among others. He writes, “Now we’re psyched to refocus, and I’m in the early stages of starting a new tech company. More soon!”

Chris Atkins christopher.atkins135@gmail.com After marrying his girlfriend Irene of seven years, Dylan Salmon opened the doors to a new oyster bar, Dylan’s Oyster House, on The Avenue in Hampden. He writes, “The past year has been very trying, to say the least, as we embarked down the road of business ownership in one of the toughest industries. Yet we have persevered and received many accolades and reviews, which prove our ideas and hard work are being noticed and are paying off. It is my intention this year to focus on how our restaurant can give back to the land that feeds us and the people who brave the sea to bring us the oysters. Happy Shucking!”

2003 John Mooney jhmooney@gmail.com Jeremy Pollock graduated from his cardiology fellowship and joined St. Joseph’s Cardiovascular Associates. His daughter recently started at Kiddie Calvert.

Matt Pope often sees classmates Evan Rice and Nick Calvin, typically over a game of Catan. Evan, the self proclaimed “sheep king” has never won a match. Evan has also admitted that Bran Stark is his favorite character in Game of Thrones.

David Donahoo is now a National Account Manager at T. Rowe Price in Baltimore.

Henry Shikani is now a Technical Specialist/Patent agent at Finnegan in Arlington, Va.

Douglas Scott is now an Emergency Room Physician in New Hope, Penn.

Ryan Farha is now an Associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco.

Eno Attenoukon is now a Broker Delivery Manager at ConnectYourCare in San Francisco.

David Snead is now living in San Diego.

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broadband constellation into low-Earth orbit with a little help from Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX.

2008

Tyler Hoffberger wthoffberger@gmail.com

Pearson Hill recently went full time pursuing his Baltimore start-up, txtVentures 610-10, building custom text messaging solutions.

Kevin Niparko kevin.j.niparko@gmail.com

John Thompson became engaged last year and is getting married in October. He’s finishing his fifth of six years of residency in orthopaedic surgery at Johns Hopkins and then will do a fellowship at Union Memorial in foot and ankle surgery the following year.

Marcus Singleton just finished his first year at Columbia Business School. He spent the summer in the Bay Area working at Google on one of their finance teams.

Marcus currently lives in Harlem, N.Y., to finish up year two and decide what’s next!

In August 2017, Red Farha married Demitra Sourlis (BMS ’06), and they just bought their first home together in Charlotte. Demitra is an attorney at Duke Energy and Red still works on the investment banking team for Fifth Third.

Demitra and Red just recently enjoyed their honeymoon in Spain and Greece.

Thomas Rogers got married last September and moved to Greenwich, Conn., with his wife Allie. Allie is an analyst at K2 Advisors, and Thomas is head of commodity sales, North America at Bloomberg LP.

Fun fact: Tyler Hoffberger was married the same day as Thomas. The two friends neglected to check with each other before planning their weddings.

Tyler and his wife Vanessa live in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where Tyler leads NBC’s social marketing efforts for late night and alternative programming in New York.

Britton Nyce is finishing what he started in the eighth grade and is marrying Erin Durbin (RPCS ’05). They recently moved from San Francisco to northern Virginia and said “I do” in June 2018. Britton is now working in Tysons at a satellite communications company called Iridium, which is in the midst of launching a new

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Chachu Wu currently lives in Manhattan, working in the digital innovation group at Amex. He’s looking forward to getting back together with everyone more regularly in the fall to watch our elite QB lead the Ravens back to the playoffs.

Matthew Councill and his wife, Paxton, welcomed their son, John Foster Council, into the family in November 2016.

Both mom and son are happy and healthy.

2006 Adam Kovars askovars@gmail.com John Black married his wife, Jennifer, in November, 2014, and the couple welcomed their daughter, Lillian K. Black, into the world in March, 2017.

2007 Whitney Johnson wwj6s@virginia.edu Adam Janet became a named partner at Janet, Janet and Suggs, LLC.

Ted Hart lives in Baltimore and recently purchased a house in the Canton neighborhood. He is an equity analyst at Tufton Capital Management (formerly Hardesty Capital Management), founded

by Jim Hardesty ’64 in 1996.

Jacob Tunney started a band with classmate Sam Frank ‘08. The band is known as the Cornhuskers and is syndicated

by Entropy Capital, an alternative Investment vehicle. In 2016, Sam started his first company, a real estate business in Baltimore specializing in development and construction. Sam lives in Hampden and is active in the community, serving as a leader at Thread Baltimore, a mentoring program for high schoolers at Frederick Douglass High School.

2009 Eli Kahn ebkahn25@gmail.com Lenwood Williams welcomed a son, Kingston Slater Williams, in October, 2014.

His son is now enrolled at Bryn Mawr Little School. Lenwood opened his first business, Soho Nails & Spa, in March 2016, located in Pikesville, Md.

Trevor Hoffberger is currently enrolled at the University of Maryland School of Law.

2010 Christian Moscardi moscardi79@gmail.com Christian Moscardi is finishing a graduate program in tech x cities at NYU. He started a fellowship in D.C.—at the U.S. Census Bureau—this summer.

Khalil Altalib graduated with his masters in health administration from

University of Maryland last May and now works for MedStar Health as a planning analyst for their Physician and Ambulatory Care Planning Team. He lives Baltimore with Kevin Haus. “Got engaged on New Year’s Eve to my girlfriend of five years, wedding in September 2019!,” he writes.

Evan Tarantino is into “web and video production in New York, cooking, eating, watching movies, making watches.”

R Adams Cowley says he is wrapping up his second year of medical school at Georgetown University.

Jack Silberstein is a PhD student at Stanford University School of Medicine.

He is working to develop therapies that use the immune system to treat cancer.

J.D. Kameen writes, “Last week I was notified by the Pentagon IT department that I can no longer use variations of ‘Gouline123’ as secure passwords, so I’ve been really busy. Happily married and finishing up my time in the Marines; hope everyone is doing well!”

Matt Berger is working on private equity investments for a single family office in New York and living in the East Village in Manhattan.

Alex Merkle reports, “I’m currently living in Los Angeles, working as the West Coast sales manager for a Virginia based wine importer, Kysela pere et Fils. When I’m not busy traveling up and down the coast seeing accounts, I’m having fun exploring my new home in SoCal. Lots of hiking, biking, and time at the beach. I’ve recently started drawing and painting again in my spare time.”

Scott Johnson is now developing thesis/dissertation research topic. He is also coaching/playing volleyball.

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James Williams finished his junior year at Colgate University and is playing on the lacrosse team.

Austin Dase ahdase@gmail.com

Amanze Udebiuwa is currently senior at Cornell University.

Benjamin Hearn is living out in Chicago with two Crusaders…and would prefer two Hounds! He is also wishing the lacrosse team a strong run late in the spring.

2012 Evan King eking110@vt.edu Thomas Riley graduated from Elon University December 2016 with BA in applied Math and Chemistry. He is currently working in Australia.

2014 Greg Alspaugh gralspaugh@davidson.edu Meldons DeMontè Dickens II is a 2018 graduate of Howard University College of Arts and Sciences with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in philosophy with a journalism minor, magna cum laude.

2015 Interested in serving as your class secretary? Please email Nathaniel Badder at nbadder@alumni.edu.

2016 Interested in serving as your class secretary? Please email Nathaniel Badder at nbadder@alumni.edu.

Christopher Williams just started his junior year at Tufts University, where he is on the lacrosse team.

Jack C. Sibel is a junior at the University of Michigan

2017 Interested in serving as your class secretary? Please email Nathaniel Badder at nbadder@alumni.edu.

Jalen Keith Colbert is attending New York University, studying urban design and architecture.

Daniel Rachinsky just finished his freshman year at Emory University and plans to study Biology and Business. His email is dirachinsky@gmail.com, phone is 410-504-9281. He continues to work as an IT Department trainee at John Hopkins University (remotely).

Marcus Rose just finished his freshman year at Villanova University.

Michael Perry made the Dean’s List at the University of Chicago for his first and second years. A member of the class of 2019, he serves as the Sports Editor of Chicago Maroon, the student newspaper.

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Blue-Gray Weekend 2018

Alumni Weekend 2019

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103rd Gilman-McDonogh Football Classic

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